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A craftsman, visionary, and warrior, Shef has risen from slavery to become king of a mighty Viking nation. But his growing kingdom menaces all of Europe, and he has made many powerful enemies.
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Wisconsin and Calumet Railroad
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|Madison, Wisconsin
The Wisconsin and Calumet Railroad (reporting mark WICT) was a Class III shortline railroad that operated in the southern portion of Wisconsin and northern portion of Illinois from 1985 until 1997.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, financial difficulties forced the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad to abandon much of its trackage in southern Wisconsin, including lines from Prairie du Chien to Madison, Madison to Janesville, and Janesville to Fox Lake, Illinois. At the same time, the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad abandoned its line from Madison to Freeport, Illinois. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation formed the Wisconsin River Rail Transit Commission (WRRTC) in March 1980 in the interest of preserving rail service on these lines. Two short line operators, Wisconsin Western Railroad (WIWR) and the affiliated Central Wisconsin Railroad (CWRC), were contracted to operate on the Prairie du Chien-Madison and Madison-Freeport lines.
These two operators filed for bankruptcy in December 1984, leaving WRRTC to find another operator. The Wisconsin and Calumet Railroad (WICT) was formed on January 1, 1985. WICT would eventually operate all of the above-mentioned rail lines, as well as lines from Janesville to Waukesha, and Janesville to Monroe. In 1989, the first Wisconsin & Calumet trains ran from Janesville to Fox Lake on the route known during the MILW era as the "J-Line". Shortly thereafter, WICT reopened the line between Janesville and Madison; bringing rail service back to Milton, Edgerton, Stoughton and McFarland.
The Wisconsin & Calumet was purchased by the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad in 1992, but it continued to operate as a subsidiary until it was officially merged into the WSOR in 1997.
- 1985: Wisconsin and Calumet Railroad is formed.
- 1989: Wisconsin and Calumet begins operating the rail lines from Janesville to Fox Lake and Janesville to Madison, restoring the entire railroad connection from Chicago to the Mississippi River via southern Wisconsin.
- 1992: Wisconsin and Calumet Railroad is acquired by Wisconsin and Southern Railroad
- 1993: Former Illinois Central Railroad line from Madison, Wisconsin, to Freeport, Illinois, is embargoed and placed out of service by WICT due to unsafe conditions. Despite initial plans to restore rail service to the line, it sat abandoned and was eventually removed to make way for a bike trail in 1999.
- 1997: WICT is officially merged into the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad and ceases to exist as an employer, as ruled by the United States Railroad Retirement Board.
The route today[edit]
Most of the rail lines operated by the Wisconsin & Calumet remain in service today under the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad, with the notable exception of the line from Madison to Freeport which was removed in 1999. The Badger State Trail currently occupies the old road bed.
Equipment & Preservation[edit]
The Wisconsin & Calumet's motive power primarily consisted of early generation GM-EMD diesel-electric locomotives, including the GP7, GP9, and F7. Many of these locomotives originally belonged to the Milwaukee Road. Others, including the F units, were privately owned by an individual named Glen Monhart. WICT followed the (by then relatively unusual) practice of naming their locomotives. Several WICT locomotives were named after the counties the railroad served, such as Dane County, Rock County, Walworth County, etc.
WICT EMD FP7 #96A was later repainted and renumbered to WSOR #71A and currently operates on the Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad in Michigan and northern Wisconsin as their #600. Several other ex-WICT F-units are stored on ELS property at Wells, Michigan. WICT caboose #529 (ex-AT&SF) can be found at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom.
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- 1995 Status Report on Railroad Operations in Dane County, includes information about the WICT
- WICT employer status determination by the USRRB; December, 1997
- History of the Wisconsin River Rail Transit Commission
- Photo gallery of WICT predecessors WIWR and CWRC locomotives in Madison in the 1980s.
- Madison WMTV Ch. 15 news video of WICT's first run on Janesville-Fox Lake line in 1989.
- 1998 letter from WisDOT regarding decision to remove the Madison-Freeport line


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Would you like to learn a new craft or are you already a lover of Parchment Craft? This is a fun and easy to learn craft.
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How to Paint Cleanly
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You can transform a room with a simple paint job, but painting can be messy and leave stains. Careful preparations can help you avoid spillage and paint splatter. If you want to paint cleanly, follow these tips.
1Protect the area you want to paint. Preparation is an important part of your plan to paint cleanly. You should take certain steps each time you paint to reduce the chance of mishaps.
- Spread heavy drop cloths over the entire floor area. Don't substitute plastic covering to protect floors; it tends to bunch up when walked on.
- Move lighter furniture out of the room you're painting.
- Move heavy furniture to the center of the room and cover it completely with plastic covering.
- Remove all wall decorations and area rugs.
- Take down curtains and curtain rods.
- Use masking tape to protect the trim and windows, door frames and baseboards. Also tape off fixtures that you can't remove.
- Remove wall plates from electrical outlets and light switches.
- Keep the area around the surface you're painting clear of all obstructions.
2Paint with care. You can take steps to greatly reduce the number of accidental spills. These steps differ depending on the method you use to paint.
- Roll off excess paint on the roller grid. Drops of paint can go unnoticed and set in on surfaces.
- Don't allow the roller to spin after each stroke. Spinning rollers often splatter paint in all directions.
- Use a can roller grid instead of a separate pan. Grids that attach inside the paint can reduce paint splatter and also eliminate the need for pans. Pans tip over easily and people may accidentally step in them.
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1Use care when painting near ceilings or windows. Airless sprayers don't use compressors. A pump forces the paint through a high-pressure hose and out the nozzle. Although they produce less overspray than a compressed air sprayer, an airless sprayer will produce paint mist that can travel on air currents to areas you don't want to paint.
2Reduce spillage.
- Use a nail to punch a hole in the rim of the paint can. Paint tends to collect on the rim of the can after it's been poured. When the lid is closed, paint seeps outside the can. Creating the hole in the rim allows the paint drip back into the can.
- Place the lid back on the paint can, drape a cloth over the can and tap the lid down with a hammer. This keeps excess paint from splattering as you tightly close the lid.
3Clean up paint spills immediately. Accidents will happen, but their effects can be ameliorated if you act quickly.
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1Hard floor and carpets.
- Spill on hard floor: Dampen paper towels with mineral spirits and blot the spill before it dries.
- Spill on carpeting: Use the same method as you would use on a hard floor. It is important to have mineral spirits or paint thinner available beforehand when working with oil-based paints.
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- Spill on hard floor: Use damp paper towels to sop up the spill.
- Spill on carpeting: Position paper towels around the spill. Drench the stain with water and soak up the mixture with clean paper towels. Continue to douse and blot the stained area until the towels show no sign of color. Consider using a carpet-cleaning product to remove the last remnants of paint.
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Though an old gardener, I am but a young blogger. The humor and added alliteration are free.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Mums The Word
Her latest gardening question though, struck a nerve, as did her suggestion later that I should write about it and call it "Mums The Word" (she loves really bad puns). She had just asked via email if I thought that "mums" would do well under a large shade tree that borders her property. I calmly replied that mums wouldn't do well in the constant dry shade that I knew her spot had, and that she needed to plant them where they'd get six hours of sun or more.
That's not what I wanted to say, though. She doesn't know that I hate mums, or more properly Chrysanthemum sp. with a passion second only to my distaste for spireas. Spireas are a special case with me as readers of Garden Musings (the book) know, but mums are about as worthless in the garden in my estimation. Yes, they provide us some nice fall color, if you just want flowers, but they provide nothing interesting in the way of decent foliage contrast or shape variation for Fall, and the rest of the year they're either just a slowly-growing blob that sits there like a green turd in your landscape or else they are just dead stems that break with the first snowfall. To add insult to injury, although mums are a perennial elsewhere, they're really an annual in Kansas, weakening in at most a year or two likely because of the dry hot Kansas summers and drier cold Flint Hills winters. I'd really sooner have my friend plant ragweed in her yard than a border of mums.
Look, for instance, at the picture above of the current landscaping (taken this morning) around some KSU apartments that stand opposite the exit I use every night from work. Let me repeat that; I'm forced to look at this landscaping debacle every night. What insanity overtook the K-State groundsmen that they thought these alternating yellow and orange mums would make a wise display? K-State colors, guys and gals, are purple and white. Now it's true that the most common colors of mums put up for sale seem to be yellows and oranges and russets, probably because the fall colors sell best in what people think of as fall flowers, but mums do actually exist in purple and white. I've seen them. If we must have round balls of color alternating in our college landscape, perhaps purple and white might have been a better choice, here at a stone's throw from the KSU football stadium. Luckily these were just planted this year; I'm betting they don't survive till next year and thus we'll have a chance to get something better.
I have no chrysanthemums at all in my garden, just as I have no spireas. The closest thing I'll allow is the wonderful Shasta Daisy, which blooms during the height of summer and used to be classified as a chrysanthemum, but today has been wisely moved to the Leucanthemum x superbum taxonomic group. Please, everyone, let's not whisper the word "mum" around me again; it plays havoc with my blood pressure, as you can now attest to.
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Mum. Mum.... MUM! ;-)ReplyDelete
I have no passionate feelings toward mums. However! Don't even get me started on Hostas... argh.
I must agree with you regarding Mums ... but add an 'm' and its good to drink in the garden. I do have a single daisy like mum blooming now and into November if we do not have a hard frost. It is a mystery mum to me... name wise but a great feeder for the honeybees and any late butterflies. You might even like it... pale pinky lavender in color... looks like a daisy and the foliage is paler green. It is too bad about your view! Glad to have found your blog over at Blotanical. ;>)ReplyDelete
I must admit those colors clash. You mentioned that they are annuals so very soon you don't have to tolerate them anymore. Good thing that they don't last long, right? I didn't mention 'the' word. Hope your blood pressure is back to normal.ReplyDelete
I must agree with your assessment of the KSU display. Being a Okie State graduate I do appreciate the orange! Go pokes! Anyways, as many younger people say today, I'm glad to read about someone gardening in the flint hills. I too garden on the "shallow facade of clay overlying the chert and limestone bedrock" in Winfield, Kansas. I worked for a nursery as a designer in El Dorado and the Andover areas, these were by far the worst soils I have ever dealt with in my gardening endeavors. Oh, I have four varieties of mums, I will send you some photos. Lol.ReplyDelete
I love a passionate opinion, even if I do not wholly agree. I laughed when I read your description "landscape debacle". Certainly the yellow and orange front garden display is rather tasteless.ReplyDelete
I am afraid that I do find a temporary, limited time use for the mums in my front garden. ( all of them one color, a deep burgundy-red). I agree that their foliage is nothing to write home about and so I dispose of them after the first frost. Its into the compost bin in late fall.
I also happen to like Spirea. I think it is how they are most often used in commercial landscaping that gives them their "common" reputation.
You know what the ultimate insult is? ORANGE MUMS. Take a hideous plant and mate it with a hideous color, and you get Home Depot specials. Enjoying your blog. I'm just north of you in Nebraska. Mumless.ReplyDelete
Thank you for your interest in my blog. I like to meet friends via my blog, so I try to respond if you comment from a valid email address rather than the anonymous firstname.lastname@example.com. And thanks again for reading!


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So many good features it's hard to say.
Just to list a few major ones I like.
Skill Gem / Link system
Passive Skill Tree
Massive amounts of League/Ranked Events
Those 4 things are major aspects that make the game so fun, and they are done so well.
I would agree Path of Exile was best game in it's sub-genre this year but it's not the PC Game of The Year IMO.I'd rate Gone Home,The Stanley Parable,Gunpoint,Starcraft:Heart of the Swarm and Outlast above it and some of those weren't even listed as contenders,which to me shows that Gamespot has a limited view of PC gaming.
But even if it's a limited view it is an opinion from that limited view and as valid as others.
The fact that this game was GOTY PC goes to show how bad of a year it was.
Let's hope Wildstar, EQN/L, and some of the other revive PC gaming from its life support status.
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They are nuts. Wasn't even the best MMO of the year.
I think that title is reserved for MMOs.


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Lesson #501:
Kindergarten + Playground = Education
Choing-chong-dong-dung! Choing-chong-chung-chong!
My classmates are jumping around in and out of my face, in a dancing, clown-like way. They're all laughing and pulling at the corners of their eyes.
I crinkle my nose and squint my eyes, as I pull my head back, and wonder to myself, What are they doing? They look and sound so silly.
I look behind me. I look around me. I feel confused. Why are they doing that?
I feel something in my chest sink. Something about this hurts, but I'm only five years old, and I can't make sense of it.
So, I just laugh. Not because I think they're funny, but because I guess that maybe I should laugh, too, so that I at least look like I get the joke, even though I have no idea what's going on.
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Once I get home from school, I race to the bathroom, because I've been holding it since afternoon naptime.
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After five short years of living, a kind of harsh light began to crawl out from underneath its rock.
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When I got home from school that day, the light had followed me home. It hit the mirror, and for the first time in my life I became uncomfortably aware that somehow I was never going to be like all the other kids.
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DARREN BARNARD admitted Wales had not contemplated defeat ahead of last night's play-off clash.
The Grimsby Town defender, who featured in Wales' last three Euro 2004 games, cut a sad figure as he reflected on the "devastating" 1-0 upset against Russia.
And Barnard said the pain of defeat was all the stronger given Wales had blanked out the thought of losing the Millennium Stadium second leg.
"Everyone is devastated because, to be honest, no one expected this," said the left-back.
"The boys are gutted. It's awful after we worked so hard in the qualifying campaign.
"To fall at the final hurdle like this is terrible."
Portugal 2004 may have represented the last chance for a number of Wales' elder statesmen to play at a major finals.
But Barnard said, "It doesn't matter how old you are - everyone wants to play at the highest level.
"I don't know whether it was the last chance for some, but everyone - young or old - wanted to get there.
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"Mark (Hughes) was gutted in the changing rooms, but then everyone was. We're all feeling low."
Hughes' men will have little time to dwell on the disappointment as they will return to their respective clubs this morning for weekend matches.
But Barnard, who was recalled for the Serbia-2004.
Montenegro clash last month and held onto his place for the two play-off games, admitted it would take some time for he and his colleagues to get over the upset.
"It's going to take the lads a couple of games to get it out of their system, and even then it will obviously hurt," he said.
"We've got to get on with things, but it's going to be difficult to pick ourselves up."


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For many years now, Fraunhofer IPA has been concerned with the development of mobile robots which use sensors to recognize the environment, thus enabling them to navigate autonomously. We are implementing these technologies more and more in the automotive sector.
Our main focus is on prediction-based systems capable of planning their own navigation on the basis of information from other mobile systems. In robotics, information can either be exchanged directly and locally between two systems or, in the future, via a central control unit. This unit will bundle information from all the systems to create an overall image. For road vehicles, this is known as Car2Car or Car2X.
Both in robotics and in the automotive sector, similar problems need to be solved. These include self-localization, reconstruction of the environment by merging sensor data, as well as path-planning and path control according to the information analyzed. We see predictive methods as being a key technology not only for autonomous systems but also for driver assistance systems and autonomous driving.
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Archive for August, 2008
Riley's Cardiac Cath. has been scheduled for next Friday the 5th. He will do pre-testing on Thurs. Chest X-Ray, lab work, and an EKG. We will find out Thurs. wait time the Cath. is scheduled for. Everythings the same as before. Crazy, though, that it wasn't that long ago that we were doing this. Things have to get better! Pray!
Ok…so we are doing the Cardiac Cath. next. Sometime within the next wk or two. Dr. Spray doesn't believe he will be attempting to repair the veins again after the cath. The thought being that they were just repaired a month ago, and are already obstructed. This will, probably, continue to happen. HORRIBLE!!! Dr. Szwast believes he will most likely end up being listed for a heart transplant. SCARY!!! We will do whatever it takes to keep our little Riley with us! Of course nothing is set in stone. Things can always change.
Until later……please pray!!!!!!
So…we just got home from CHOP. We are back where we were in the beginning of July. Riley's Pulmonary veins appear to be obstructed…AGAIN! I am waiting for Dr. Szwast to call me. She was waiting to talk to Dr. Spray about the next step. She believes it will be a Cardiac Cath., but then what? He may need surgery, again, on his veins, or he may get listed for a transplant. Another wait and see! Just can't believe there is obstruction again…so soon. More scar tissue!!
On another note….his BP was 116/72, wgt. 10 lbs 14 oz., hgt. 22.5 in. His pulse ox is down in the low 70's because of his obstruction.
I'll update after I know more!
Today Riley had a weight check. It was rather disappointing. He only gained an ounce, and even that is pushing it. He is barely even on the chart when it comes to percentiles.
So now we wait and see what happens next wk when we go back to CHOP. His meds. may be altered, may move up to the 27 calorie diet, from 24, may be admitted. Not to mention we have the Echo next wk, too. So…yeah, I have a little anxiety about Wednesday. Keep you fingers crossed that the Echo is ok, and that we able to do something, at home, to help him gain weight. The first thing that needs to be done is stopping the throwing up. The big question is how is that going to be done. We have already tried multiply things.
I'll update you later!
Today Riley had a weight check. He is now 10lbs. 10oz. Not much of a gain, but it's a gain all the same.
Just to let you know what kind of wk it's been. Our AC hasn't worked since last Thursday, and out dishwasher motor needs to be replaced, again. The AC guy came yesterday, and I won't even get into what that cost. Know what, though, these things would have had me freaking out before April 4, but now they are minor. As long as Riley is here, and growing, the rest doesn't matter anymore!
Also…I want to thank everyone who has been signing Chris's petition for the Extreme Makeover. The thought of that happening is unreal! It would eliminate alot of worrys, though, and would let us focus more on Riley then our living situation. Thank you!


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There are addition fuctions that can be done to a table created with SQL vs a PF created with DDS.
IBM statement of direction is there are no plans to add function to DDS in the future.
Here is a link to a web page that has a link on it to hear a pod case SQL vs DDS.
IMO, the major difference between the two is that data is verified a write-time for a SQL table and at read-time for a DDS PF. There are various other differences (e.g., you cannot add new members to a SQL table), but data integrity has to be at the top of the list. You aren't allowed to write invalid dates to date fields, you won't find non-numeric values showing up in numeric fields, etc.
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Home, Away From Home
Just got Hamachi working on my home linux box - which serves up all my documents as smb shares. 'tis nice, now I can get to them all no matter where I am.
Was at GRC today and ran across Hamachi. Looks pretty cool - I'm listening to Gibson talk about Hamachi right now.
Check it out.
Got Malled
Spent a few hours singing songs from the CD at a mall in Pottsville (not sure where that is? that's okay). Mostly sang in the center area of the mall - but a couple of stores invited us in too.
In a few hours we'll be at Haven Baptist's Christmas dinner, then it's back home to get some sleep, maybe work on AO, and tomorrow get ready to do the cantata again.
And next week is looking pretty busy too. I'm sure it'll go pretty fast.
But the week after - now that's what I'm waiting for.
Now Hear This
For those wanting to podcast - and who don't have the software tools, or who are looking for an all-in-one program to simplfy their work flow - propaganda looks pretty nice.
RAM Is Cool
Tried out the DVD-RAM functions of my tablet's optical drive today. Not as fast as a hard drive to hard drive copy, but still pretty nice.
And the DVDs look really really cool.
And For My Next Trick
Well, looks like harry won the domain name contest with:
absoluteorigin.comI also really liked:
1nt3ll1g3ntd3s1gn.comSo congratulations harry - you get yourself a free CD.
For everyone still wanting a free CD (or two free CDs), here's how you can get one. Get me 10 (that's not even a dozen folks) cups from Wendys - the ones with the AirTran offer on the side - and you'll get yourself a free CD.
Wow, I am pathetic aren't I. (sigh) What I won't do just to publicize the CD.
A Name By Any Other...
I letting the 'pick a domain' contest run 'till December, then I'll pick the 'winning' domain.
So try to win a free CD.
Power, Muwhahah
Wow, Tablet PC power toys are so cool.
Wish I had one.
Oh, wait...
What's In A Name
Looking for a good creation/intelligent design domain name. Things like intelligentdesign.com are already taken.
I'll give a copy of "Come & Worship" to whoever comes up with the name that I choose.
Gabe Can Stop Now
Yeah, Gabe's been checking back here every day, looking for the sample audio.
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By practice I am a social worker. But social work, specifically, Lighthouse Therapeutic Community Outreach, LLC is much more than just therapy for children and families.
Since opening my private practice I have served the Topeka community as:
President of the Kansas African American Foster Care/Adoption Coalition (KAAFCAC);
Coordinator for CarePortal;
Board member for the Community Resources Council, Kansas Action for Children and the Shawnee County Suicide Prevention Coalition;
Member of the Shawnee County Social Service Advisory Committee;
Participant in the Kansas Diligent Recruitment Planning Group, and a
Member of the Governor's Child Welfare System Task Force Protective Services and Family Preservation Working Group, the Kansas Citizen Review Custody to Transition Panel and the National Association of Social Worker's Social Economic Justice and Peace Section Committee.
I have also served as a case manager and Certified Marketplace Navigator (coordinated by the Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved) assisting individuals and businesses with enrolling for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Years of working with individuals, especially those connected to the child welfare system revealed an extreme lack of education and understanding of the unique belief systems and practices held by Kansas families. This lack of cultural appreciation has resulted in a significant number of children being removed from their homes and placed into adoptive or foster care situations. These experiences often lead to a vicious and unnecessary cycle of childhood trauma that damages children and their families for generations.
Serving as a broker, facilitator, mediator, researcher and community change agent allows me to be a voice for those who have yet to discover their own.


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Community weight loss challenges
Community-based social support for physical activity
Build, strengthen, and maintain social networks that provide supportive relationships for behavior change through walking groups or other community-based interventions
Community-wide physical activity campaigns
Engage a variety of partners in a highly visible, multi-component effort to increase physical activity, often with efforts to address cardiovascular disease risk factors
Family-based physical activity interventions
Increase family members' support for physical activity, often via educational sessions on health, goal-setting, problem-solving, or family behavioral management
Individually-adapted physical activity programs
Teach behavioral skills that can help individuals incorporate physical activity into their daily routines
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Maximum air flow and heating are the strong points of the RH-25 and the RH-35 Console Vented Room Heaters. Delivering atmospheric warmth to your medium-sized rooms, each unit is designed for style and efficiency. The heat can be further enhanced with an optional internal blower for added circulation.
Ideal for medium to large rooms, each unit vents with standard vent pipe. Housed in durable, textured cabinetry with a beige color finish, these room heaters will add endless comfort to any room.
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Shizuoka Station
[Suruga Hinagu]
A plethora of elegant little implements which are just like the real things
The reconstruction of Tosho-gu Shrine at Mt. Kuno by the second shogun Hidetada and of Sengen Shrine by the third shogun Iemitsu saw highly skilled craftsmen gather from all over the country, and when the work was completed, those who remained in Suruga began to produce wood and lacquer handicrafts. Using skills developed through those crafts, full-scale production of hinagu (implements and accessories for the "hinaningyo" dolls displayed as part of the traditional Girl's Day celebration) began in Suruga in around 1882, and Suruga hinagu currently enjoy a majority-share of the national market. The hinagu are made according to the same process as the real things. They have every last detail, and yet are small enough to sit in the palm of your hand. Their gorgeous "maki-e" lacquer decoration is further proof of just how skillful the craftsmen who make them are.
Stores where you can purchase Suruga hinagu
|● Sunpu Rakuichi Shizuoka Station Asty store
|47 Kurogane-cho, Aoi Ward, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka
|+81-54-251-1147 (Japanese only)
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|9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
|January 1st
|Alight at "Shizuoka Station" of JR Tokaido Shinkansen.
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|Local Industry Unit, Industrial Promotion Section, Shizuoka City
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Another amazing guitar from Josh Grove at Protocaster Guitars, Josh has been getting a lot of attention lately for his amazing period correct refinishes, guitar makeovers, restoration and of course his guitars!!! with Josh's amazing feeling hand carved necks,and attention to every detail really make these guitars look and sound like the amazing old guitars from the golden era.
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Further milestone for JUVORA dental disc: US FDA clears PEEK polymer CAD/CAM dental device for long-term implant borne prosthetics
Thornton Cleveleys, United Kingdom, 22 March 2017
Thornton Cleveleys (UK), March 22, 2017 – A major innovation in dental prosthetics for comfort, durability and precision, the JUVORATM dental disc, has received the US Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for expanded indications. Indications for use in the United States now include the manufacture of full and partial removable dentures and implant overdentures, as well as copings, substructures (cemented or uncemented), and frameworks for permanent and transitional anterior or posterior crowns and bridgework. JUVORA implant prosthetic frameworks can be tailor-made to patients´ specific needs, using CAD/CAM workflows, and result in reduced treatment times and better treatment outcomes.
Following its successful CE mark approval in Europe and introduction onto the European dental market in 2012, the JUVORA dental disc received initial FDA 510(k) clearance for purchase and use throughout the US in 2014. With this latest clearance, the FDA has cleared a CAD/CAM device made of PEEK polymer for the manufacture of long-term implant-borne prosthetic frameworks, compatible for use with fixed rehabilitation systems including the ALL-ON-42 treatment concept and, the STRAUMANN3 PRO ARCH system.
This proven alternative to metal prosthetic devices is made from PEEK-OPTIMATM high performance polymer. The biomaterial with more than 15 years of proven clinical efficacy is sourced exclusively from Juvora´s parent company Invibio Ltd. It offers a superior combination of strength, natural bone-like flex and toughness, with more than five million PEEK-OPTIMA-based devices now implanted worldwide.
Significant improvement for dental prosthetic patients
In addition to receiving endorsements from a growing number of dental labs and dental practitioners, the feedback from patients has been extremely positive. An overwhelming 99% of patients rated JUVORA prosthetics high for comfort and 97% rated them high for overall satisfaction.4
"Patients have told us their JUVORA prosthetics feel like having their natural teeth back. This is not to mention a reduction in weight, and superior comfort through tailored fit because the prosthetic has been made with precision through CAD/CAM workflows", noted Lynne Todd, Head of Invibio Dental and Juvora.
What sets the JUVORA dental disc apart are the outstanding properties of PEEK-OPTIMA™ Natural, the world's first implantable PEEK polymer which is widely recognized within the spinal interbody fusion market and frequently used. The unique feature-set of the biomaterial, and accordingly the JUVORA dental disc, includes a bone-like modulus which gives the JUVORA implant prosthetic framework the potential to react in a more natural way to the stresses and forces it encounters.5
A new era in the precision design of advanced dental prostheses
1. B. Siewert (2017), PEEK in Dental Prosthetics (PEEK in der zahnärztlichen Prothetik Warum? Wann? Wie?), Podium Presentation, SSO Dental Meeting, 11 February 2017
2. The "ALL-ON-4" treatment concept is a trademark and property of Nobel Biocare Services AG
3. The "STRAUMANN" name is a trademark of Straumann Holding AG.
4. Patient feedback from 92 cases July 2013 – March 2015
5. Bone Regeneration Based on Tissue Engineering Conceptions —A 21st Century Perspective Jan Henkel, Maria A. Woodruff, Devakara R. Epari, Roland Steck, VaidaGlatt, Ian C. Dickinson, Peter F. M. Choong, Michael A. Schuetz & Dietmar W. Hutmacher, Bone Research (2013) 1, 216–248


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Eight years after starting medical school and four after being drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is going to become a doctor on May 29, when his class graduates from Montreal's McGill University.
He will allow himself to attend the ceremony and spend a few hours afterward with friends and family, but the celebration won't last long. He needs to return to Kansas City to rejoin his teammates for offseason practice.
"It's been eight years that I've been working for that moment," Duvernay-Tardif said. "Since the day I got drafted, I promised myself I was going to finish my studies and get that M.D. while I was still playing. It's one of those life projects that you promise yourself you're going to accomplish, and I'm on the verge of doing it, so I'm pretty excited.
"But right now, football is my main priority. I want to focus and see how good I can be. I'm putting medicine on hold in order to really maximize my opportunity in the NFL. I love playing football. For all of those who sometimes doubt that I really want to be here because I've got a medical degree, having a really strong Plan B and still playing football shows how much I really love the game. I love being out there with the guys. I love the chemistry we have in the locker room. Being out there is a privilege."
In this respect, at least, nothing has changed for the Chiefs' starting right guard. He has gone back and forth between playing football and studying medicine since he was drafted by the Chiefs in the sixth round in 2014.
Now he's on the verge of achieving the rarity of earning his medical degree while playing in the NFL.
"Getting drafted into the NFL was way more intense," he said. "When you get drafted, it almost feels like a surprise. You don't know which team you're going to, so it's really intense and really emotional at that specific moment. With regards to medicine, it's more like a marathon. I've been doing it for the past eight years, and it was always that vision. Every time the season was over and I was driving back to Montreal and I was getting back into medical school while everybody else was enjoying their offseason, I was motivating myself with the thought of pushing through because it's going to be worth it in the end.
"Nobody can take that from me. When I graduate, I'm going to be a doctor for life. I'm proud to be in the NFL, and it's been an incredible journey to get here, but being able to combine medical school at the same time, this is the accomplishment I'm proudest about, to be able to combine both. So many times I heard people tell me I'd have to make a choice."
The Chiefs have encouraged Duvernay-Tardif to pursue his medical passion since he met with team officials before the 2014 draft. He skipped the start of the offseason conditioning program every season to tend to his studies, with permission from the Chiefs. The workouts are voluntary, but Duvernay-Tardif still asked for the approval of coach Andy Reid.
Duvernay-Tardif has no way of knowing how accommodating of his academic schedule other teams might have been. He said he suspects that at least some wouldn't have been as receptive as the Chiefs, based on other predraft interviews.
"Not all the coaches saw my second career with that same optimism," he said. "Some coaches asked me, 'How do we really know you want to play football?' Coach Reid never asked me that question. With him, it's always been, 'We know you want to play football because you're here.' He trusts me. That's one thing I respect and admire about him.
"He told me that he was going to do anything he could to help me succeed. It's been four years now, and Coach Reid has stood by that plan. Every year when we end the season, we have our exit meeting with coach Reid, and he's always asking me where I am in school and what the plan is for the offseason."
Reid is known as a player's coach, but it turns out that his mother, Elizabeth, graduated from medical school, also at McGill.
"They took women, and a lot of med schools back then didn't take women," Reid said.
With regard to Duvernay-Tardif and the offseason time afforded him to tend to his medical studies, Reid said, "We're always talking about players and their life after football, which we encourage that you work on. So if you're going to be a doctor, you're going to have to spend a little extra time doing that. Then, hopefully you're driven enough when you come back to the football that you catch up and get where you need to be in order to play."
Since the end of last season, Duvernay-Tardif allowed himself a two-week break to attend the Winter Olympics in South Korea, where he worked as a feature reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
Otherwise, he was preparing for his medical school finals, which he took earlier in May. He said he rented a place two hours outside of Montreal for the purpose of studying.
"Coach Reid always says to eliminate distractions," he said. "That was my main objective.
"I just tried to crush my studying. Every day, I would wake up at 6:30 and started at 7. I took an hour break at noon and then went back to it for another eight, nine hours."
Next on Duvernay-Tardif's medical journey is residency, the step where he's a doctor under the supervision of another physician. He said he's planning to do his residency in emergency medicine.
Residency will have to wait because, for the time being, at least, football is the priority.
"I don't know exactly how that is going to happen," he said. "I'm not sure it's easy to do part-time residency. I'm in the process of finding out what my options are. Whether it's medical school at the residency level or another school project like an MBA, I'm going to stay in school throughout the course of my football career. It's a good balance to have between football, which is very physical, and the classroom or the hospital, which is more intellectual. I like the balance."


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Intensive Modern Calligraphy Workshop for Beginners - various dates
Designed for complete beginners, or those wanting to refresh their skills, this intensive course is a jam-packed day of creativity in the surroundings of studio/shop. The day will be relaxed and fun, focused on learning an amazing life skill in great company.
10am - 4pm (various dates available)
37 Amwell Street, London EC1R 1UR
- We start from the beginning, learning about your kit of materials, then put this to use as you learn modern calligraphy, starting with basic exercises before moving on to letter forms and joining them together to make words. There will be plenty of time to practice, gain confidence and see improvement, with lots of one-to-one time with the tutor. You'll be taught to develop your own unique modern calligraphy style by understanding how to use your creativity to treat modern calligraphy in a very different way to your handwriting (so don't worry if your handwriting is a modern day scrawl!) You'll also be introduced to metallic ink.
- You'll work on a written quote or phrase, which will allow you to put all of your skills acquired throughout the day to the test. We hope that the day will inspire you and leave you brimming with ideas as to how you can put your new skills into practice.
- We provide tea and coffee through the day and for lunch you are very welcome to explore Exmouth Market or Islington where there are some really lovely places to eat. We are happy to provide directions and recommendations.
- As always, all your materials will be provided for you to keep and take home, as well as your final framed piece you will have worked on towards the end of the day.
We look forward to welcoming you!
PLEASE NOTE: Tickets are strictly non-refundable and non-transferable. By purchasing a ticket you agree to these terms and conditions. This does not affect your statutory rights.
This is an e-ticket, nothing will be posted - please bring with you the email confirmation to show us on your phone. The ink is waterproof and will not come out of clothes - please dress accordingly! Please refer to our FAQs for more info.


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Good Nutrition
Protein Foods - A Comparison of Protein Foods
The table below compares the nutrient content of major protein foods within the New Zealand diet. New Zealanders obtain the greatest amount of protein from beef and lamb, but less than 10% fat. Beef and lamb are also the most commonly eaten sources of zinc and vitamin B12 and contribute a significant amount of more easily used haem iron.
Sources of haem iron
Sources of non-haem iron:
Reference: The Concise New Zealand Food Composition Tables, 8th edition, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9864540-1-1
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