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31 Walker Avenue, Suite 110
Pikesville, MD 21208
Dr. Brenda Faulk is a trusted Pikesville area veneers dentist. Our professional team is dedicated to providing you with quality results in a comfortable and pleasant atmosphere.
You won't have to feel embarrassed any longer by crooked, chipped or discolored teeth. With your new dental veneers, you'll be thrilled to show off your healthy teeth and beautiful smile.
If you're concerned about dental treatments, soothing nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is one of a number of options available at Faulk Dental Associtates PA to help reduce your dental anxiety. Pikesville, Maryland, area dentist, Dr. Faulk, wants your dental visit to be as comfortable as possible.
Faulk Dental Associtates PA is a trusted Pikesville area provider of Invisalign® for teens provider. We know that as a parent, the oral health and happiness of your teenager is important.
We're here to serve your family's needs, and ensure that your teens get the best results from their Invisalign® clear braces. You'll be thrilled with your teenager's straight teeth and confident smile.
Distinguished Pikesville area mini dental implants dentist Brenda Faulk, D.D.S. can provide you with the highest quality results. At Faulk Dental Associtates PA, we use state-of-the-art materials and techniques that make them less invasive and more affordable.
You deserve the best treatment available to replace missing teeth. Whether you're missing a single tooth or experiencing pain from slipping dentures, mini dental implants can be a faster way to regain your beautiful smile.
Brenda Faulk, D.D.S. is proud to be a trusted Pikesville area Zoom!® teeth whitening dentist. Our patients love the short amount of time the tooth whitening treatment takes as much as they love the results.
You'll be able to relax in our comfortable surroundings. In just about an hour, you'll have a sparkling white smile!
3201 Rogers Avenue, Suite 201
Ellicott City, MD 21043
With sedation dentistry, you'll feel like you slept through your appointment with Ellicott City area sedation dentist Dr. Teresa Adams. You'll likely remember absolutely nothing about your treatment, except waking up to your successful results. Dr. Adams commonly hears her patients say, "I remember taking a pill and the next thing I remember is waking up with my teeth fixed."
Don't let untreated dental problems get you down. Rebuild your confidence with a beautiful new smile. From simple treatments that make a big difference, to more extensive work, unveiling the smile you were meant to have can have profound life-changing effects. Serving the Ellicott City, MD area and offering dental implants, Dr. Adams can help you develop an affordable treatment plan you'll feel good about.
At Soft Touch Dental Care, serving the Ellicott City, MD area, Dr. Teresa Adams offers Electronic Dental Anesthesia (EDA) to help greatly reduce the sensation of an injection. The EDA is a battery-operated device that sends mild electrical impulses through a finger pad that Dr. Adams holds against the tissue surrounding your tooth. This produces a pulsating, tingling sensation which effectively masks the discomfort of an injection.
Most major credit cards are accepted at Soft Touch Dental Care in the Ellicott City area. Types of cards accepted include Visa, MasterCard, and Discover Card.
A negative self image can be detrimental to many facets of your life. Ellicott City area dentist Dr. Teresa Adams understands the positive life-changing power that a healthy and beautiful smile can bring to you. Here at Soft Touch Dental Care, we don't want you to be embarrassed any longer. Why not take your smile - and even your life - to a new level of self-confidence and beauty?
8503 Greenbelt Rd, Suite T4
Greenbelt, MD 20770
If you're looking for dentures that look great and last, look no further than Zebrowski Dental Care located in the Greenbelt, MD area. Robert Zebrowski, D.D.S. will assess your needs and fit you with durable, comfortable, natural-looking dentures - at a price you can afford.
Dr. Robert Zebrowski at his Greenbelt area dental implants practice offers extensive experience restoring your dental implant crown.
Our dedicated team uses state-of-the-art materials and techniques for stability and longevity. You'll enjoy the comfort and confidence of natural-looking teeth.
If you're interested in natural-looking bridges and dentures, look no further than Robert Zebrowski, D.D.S. who practices in the Greenbelt, Maryland area. Using modern materials and techniques, Dr. Zebrowski can achieve the natural look you seek. You will be very pleased with the comfortable, long-lasting results.
Dr. Robert Zebrowski has a gentle touch and provides comfortable cleaning for a whiter smile. Offering dental implants in the Greenbelt, Maryland area, Dr. Zebrowski assures you that a bright, healthy smile is the result of regular, preventative, professional dental cleanings.
Greenbelt area restorative dentistry at Zebrowski Dental Care can produce natural-looking results. If you have a damaged or missing tooth, we can help.
Our highly skilled team will assess your need for a crown, bridge, implant or other procedure to restore or improve your smile. Our goal is to provide quality dental care for your life-long oral health.
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
6701 N Charles St Suite 1603
Baltimore, MD, 21204
Anagnostopoulo, Fotini D.D.S.
1001 Fleet St # R
Baltimore, MD, 21202-4371
Richardson, Brenda K D.D.S.
515 E Joppa Rd # 106
Baltimore, MD, 21286-1804
Klein, Stanley H D.D.S.
1190 W Northern Pkwy # 107
Baltimore, MD, 21210-1432
If you have lost a tooth, it is likely that one of your options is to replace it with a dental implant. Before you decide a course of action, you should consider asking your implant dentist some simple questions:
A dental implant is a titanium metal replacement for a root of a tooth that is surgically implanted in the jawbone by a specially trained implant dentist or oral surgeon. As the body heals for approximately two to six months after the surgery, the bone around the implant fuses to the implant through a process called osseointegration. After the healing phase is complete, the implants are used to anchor crowns, bridges, or dentures. Dental implants are the most natural replacement for a missing tooth.
The process should begin with a thorough evaluation of the patient's medical and dental history, and a full clinical examination of the entire mouth and missing tooth area by your dentist. The clinical exam should also include specific X-rays. After assessing the patient, a comprehensive treatment plan can be devised. From that point, implants are surgically placed in the jawbone under local anesthesia. The length of the healing time is based on the quality and quantity of bone, as well as the type of implant placed. After adequate healing is allowed to occur, the implant can be used to support a crown, bridge, or denture.
If an implant fails to bond to bone, another implant can immediately be put in its place, usually of a slightly larger diameter. In situations where another implant cannot be immediately placed, the area is allowed to heal for a few months and then another one can be put in the same place.
This is a question that should be determined during the treatment plan. A good rule-of-thumb is to place one implant for each tooth replaced. Other decisive factors for the number of dental implants needed for success is the quality and quantity of the patient's bone. Equally as important are the existing anatomy of the bone and the financial resources of the patient.
Placing enough implants to restore teeth is vitally important to the long-term success of the restoration. Simply stated, the most costly mistake is to have an implant fail because not enough implants are placed to support the teeth. If the number of implants is limited due to financial constraints of the patient, then the implant treatment should be avoided or the type of restoration must be altered.
When you are more knowledgeable about your implant treatment, you will be able to have more input to give your dentist and better your chances of a successful treatment outcome.
By Benjamin O. Watkins, III, DDS
The art and science of implant dentistry has advanced rapidly during recent years and new techniques and materials have greatly improved our ability to replace missing tissues with functional and natural-looking artificial prostheses called dentures implants. However, it must be remembered from the outset that no prosthesis or artificial substitute will ever function as well as the original living tissues. Research has shown that the chewing efficiency of experienced denture patients is, at best, less than 20% as efficient as the average chewing efficiency of patients with natural teeth.
Both upper and lower dentures are retained in the mouth by an intimately close fit of the plastic denture base to the gums. The intimately close fit is achieved by a combination of muscle control and suction. Mastering the function of the lower denture is more difficult than learning to use an upper complete denture. By comparison, the lower denture has less stable tissue with which to rest on than the upper denture. The lower denture stays in place largely due to the ability of the denture wearer to control their tongue well enough to hold the denture down while they speak and chew. Therefore, lack of tongue coordination in a lower complete denture wearer can severely affect the patient's ability to wear a lower complete denture.
For various reasons, teeth have to be removed. After tooth removal, the residual bone that is used to support the teeth will then shrink away quite rapidly over the first year because the body knows that the residual bone is no longer needed. The greatest amount of shrinkage occurs during the first year after tooth removal. Research has shown that wearing dentures will accelerate jawbone shrinkage. As the shrinkage of the jawbone support progresses over time, new dentures will need to be fabricated in approximately six to ten years. Because each denture wearer is unique, sometimes the internal surface of the denture needs to be readapted to the gum tissues. This procedure is called a reline.
Some patients are never able to adapt to functioning day-to-day with their complete dentures. Many of these patients do not have adequate bone to stabilize a lower denture. Others never develop enough muscle coordination to learn to chew with their dentures. For many years, dentistry had nothing more to offer patients other than a denture adhesive. Today, such problems can often be managed through the use of implant dentistry. Even with as few as two dental implants, the retention and stability of a lower denture can be greatly increased with denture implants. In fact, the chewing efficiency can also be greatly increased. Some patients have estimated that they regained up to 70% of their original chewing capacity. Overall, patients feel more confident when they are in public because they no longer fear that their dentures will slip or cause them embarrassment with denture implants.
By Benjamin O. Watkins, III, DDS
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Anthem Blue Cross opens new campus in Wallingford (video)
WALLINGFORD -- A little more than two years after Anthem Blue Cross announced plans to relocate from North Haven to the sprawling, 300,000-square-foot Campus at Greenhill off Route 68 here, the health insurer and some of the state's top political leaders celebrated completion of the move Thursday.
Waiters in black tie served Anthem executives and employees, as well as political luminaries such as U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3, and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, at the celebration. Anthem occupies 217,000 square feet of the building and has a 10 year-lease on the space, where 1,300 are employed.
The cost of the building has been estimated at $20 million, but company officials weren't immediately able to say what the final cost was, only that the project was completed under budget.
The first phase of the move, which involved 350 to 500 Anthem employees, took place during summer 2011, said Sarah Yeager, a company spokeswoman. The remaining employees relocated to Wallingford this past summer, with the 6-mile move up Interstate 91 being completed last month.
David Fusco, Anthem's president, said the move from the company's former North Haven location, on Basett Road, meant "a couple of years of living out of boxes." But he said it put to rest rumors that the insurer was pulling out of Connecticut entirely.
"We've reaffirmed that we're a vital part of Connecticut's health care community and the state's economy," said Fusco, who started working for the company 28 years ago as an analyst.
Fusco said the state-of-the art building, which has received national certification for green building practices and operation, was built largely by local construction workers .
"I'm very proud of them because we share the same values, the same commitment to getting the job done right," Fusco said.
He also that he was proud that the company "executed a transition that did not strand (the North Haven) property."
Anthem's former North Haven headquarters was acquired by Quinnipiac University, which is developing a campus to launch its medical school.
Wyman said the building's focus on energy efficiency "is an example of what state buildings should be like."
Anthem is sharing the 104-acre corporate campus with the Burns & McDonnell engineering and architectural firm, as well as a high technology company that hasn't announced its relocation plans yet, said Carl Seaholm, an executive vice president with Gale International, which owns the Campus at Greenhill.
The property was developed by a Michigan company, Workstage, which Gale International was a partner in developing. The building was to have been the headquarters for Mortgage Lenders Network. But the sub-prime mortgage lender shut down in 2007 and filed for bankruptcy. The building sat vacant for several years.
Call Luther Turmelle at 203-789-5706. Follow him on Twitter @lutherturmelle.

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Popular travel writer and guest on 'What a Trip', Susan Guillory, recently enjoyed a girls' getaway at the Empress Hotel in picturesque La Jolla, California. She was impressed by the boutique hotel's integration of technology and art, featuring its Daylighted SmArt Gallery and KEYPR in-room tablet:
"Beyond the typical functions of a tablet, I saw that you could command a whole host of hotel-related functions, like report a leaky toilet, order extra pillows, or get room service...I always hate calling the front desk or room service (chalk it up to me being Gen X and much more comfortable texting), so this idea was appealing."
Click here to read more about the Empress Hotel's SmArt Gallery (with prints for purchase), unique services and ideal location.


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June 23, 2017
Student Life Goes to the Mariners!
It wouldn't be a summer in Seattle without some good old fashioned baseball with your Student Life squad! Join the Division of Student Life for a Husky night out at the ball park to watch the Mariners take on the LA Angels on Thursday, August 10th at 7:10 p.m.
Please complete the below form by Wednesday, July 20th (7/20/17) to reserve your spot at the game with the Student Life crew!
Once the tickets have arrived, you can have them delivered to you via Campus Mail or you can come to the Division of Student Life front desk to pick them up. We'll see you at the ballpark!


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The Story of 'Soldier, Rest! The Last of the Light Horsemen'
Soldier, Rest! The Last of the Light Horsemen Pencil on board
600mm x 1800mm
When I was a kid, I remember reading a quote from a poem by Sir Walter Scott called 'Soldier, Rest! Thy Warfare o'er." Another was the last verse from the Eric Bogle song 'And the band played Waltzing Matilda,' which also drifted through my thoughts over many years. It told of the ponderings of a returned serviceman from Gallipoli who lost both his legs during the fighting and his musings at his fate.
Both haunted me and when I was older and started undertaking art, decided to do an image of an old Light Horseman - the last of the Light Horsemen - astride his Waler, thinking about the mates he'd lost. It seemed fitting that both those passages should accompany the image and so when I created prints of it, I sought and obtained permission from Larrikin Music to use the Eric Bogle lyrics which I coupled with the Scott poem. I added both passages to the print that I created of my drawing.
Here they are in full. I hope you find that they both go well with the image of the Last of the Light Horsemen.
SOLDIER, rest! thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking; Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. (Sir Walter Scott)
"And now every April I sit on my porch, and I watch the parade pass before me.
And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march, reviving old dreams and past glories.
And the old men march slowly, all bone-stiff and sore.
They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war.
And the young people ask: 'What are they marching for?'
And I ask myself the same question.
And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men still answer the call.
But year after year...
More old men disappear...
Some day no-one will march there at all.
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, who'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me?
And their ghosts may be heard as they march by that billabong...
'Who'll come a Wlaltzing Matilda with me?'"
(Eric Bogle)


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Mahogany refers to a group of related tree species within the family Meliaceae that all produce a hard, reddish-brown wood. The genus Swietenia comprises three species termed "genuine mahogany" found in the Americas: Swietenia macrophylla, Swietenia mahagoni, and Swietenia humilis. Other genus-species within the Meliaceae family that produce similar timber are considered "true mahogany" trees, such as the Chinaberry Tree (Melia azedarach) native to India, Asia, and the Middle East.[1]
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Mahogany is capable of producing wand quality wood, and was utilised by the wandmaker Garrick Ollivander.[2] James Potter's wand was crafted from mahogany. His wand was described by Ollivander as "pliable and excellent for transfiguration," also having "a little more power" than Lily Evans's wand.[2]
The handle of the Nimbus 2000 broomstick was made of mahogany.
Mahogany wand owners
Behind the scenes
- While Garrick Ollivander was known to use mahogany (as evidenced by the fact that he created James Potter's wand), a description of mahogany wand wood was not included in his notes on Pottermore.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (Disc 2 Mention)
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Base Station Processors
Providing high system capacity and per-user data rates (critical requirements for a 5G network) will require a densification of the radio access network or the deployment of additional network nodes. As radio networks increasingly use higher frequency bands, the demand for high output, high user count micro cells with full macro BTS capabilities at significantly lower cost of deployment has increased dramatically. Marvell® OCTEON™ processors are targeted for multi-sector macro BTS, micro BTS and intelligent remote radio heads as well as enterprise and microcell LTE base station designs.
OCTEON Fusion-M Processor Family
OCTEON™ Fusion-M® processors are single chip solutions for multi-sector macro BTS, micro BTS and Intelligent Remote Radio Heads that target 2G, 3G and LTE radio networks. For LTE, OCTEON Fusion-M processors support up to 3GPP LTE Release 13. Key features include highly optimized full custom processor cores, a highly efficient caching subsystem, high memory bandwidth as well as a flexible and high performance PHY.Learn more
OCTEON Small Cell Processor Family
OCTEON™ small-cell processors are targeted for enterprise and microcell LTE base station designs. Combining the OCTEON multi-core architecture with purpose-built baseband DSP cores and LTE hardware accelerators in a single chip, they support up to 3GPP release 9. In combination with our cost-aware manufacturable indoor eNodeB reference design and integrated LTE stack area available to shorten the time to market.Learn more


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Before leaving leaving NYC for a few weeks and heading to Madrid, my friend Ryan and I went around the LES to bare the cold and find inspiration. While his hands got frozen, and so did my face & smile, I think we found the perfect spot to go back during summer.
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I want to discuss some of the issues involved in seller financing.
We begin our discussion with the sales contract. It is important for sellers to realize that when they sign a contract to sell a property and agree to provide seller financing, they are, in effect, signing two contracts: one to sell real estate and one to provide financing.
Any terms a seller wants to include in the seller financing documents must be specified in the sales contract. For instance, if the seller wants a late payment penalty, a "due on sale" provision (a due on sale provision gives a note holder the right to call the loan due if the collateral is sold without the consent of the note holder), or an escrow account for taxes and insurance, they have to be contracted in the sales contract. If they are not, the seller has no right to insist upon their inclusion in the final loan documents.
The TREC addendum for seller financing provides for a late fee of 5% of the amount past due for more than 10 days, and has options for requiring a "due on sale" provision as well as escrows for taxes and insurance. If an owner's title insurance policy is provided, the TREC contract also requires the buyer to provide the seller with a mortgagee's title insurance policy insuring the validity and priority of the mortgage securing the note received by the seller.
The most common question asked by sellers is whether a loan to a buyer of their property is "safe". That is difficult to answer. What seems safe to me might not seem so safe to you. Perhaps the best way to address the issue is to say that hundreds of very conservative banks and other commercial lenders make thousands of real estate loans every day. If the loan is properly documented, the risks to any lender, including a seller, are very manageable. To make the loan as safe as possible, Sellers need to understand the risks and how to minimize those risks.
To properly document a loan, a seller will need to have a promissory note and a deed of trust (a mortgage) prepared to create a lien against the property being sold. The property sold will be the collateral for the loan and, upon default by the buyer, the property is subject to foreclosure by the seller.
As long as a seller retains a lien against the property sold as collateral and the value of the collateral is equal to or greater than the unpaid balance of the seller's note, the risk to the seller is minimal. If the seller loses his lien against the property or if there is a decease in the value of the property, the risk that the seller will suffer a major loss from the loan increase dramatically. Loss of a lien or a decrease in collateral value does not mean that a seller will suffer loss; only that the chance of loss is substantially higher. Even without a lien, the debt of the buyer to the seller is still there. But with no collateral, to collect the debt, a seller will have to sue the buyer, recover a judgment, and locate property which can be taken from the buyer to satisfy the judgment. As long as the seller's lien is in place and the value of the collateral is greater than the note balance, the seller can foreclose his liens, regain title to the collateral, and resell the property.
If the seller's note is secured by a valid first lien against the property, the primary way the seller can lose his lien is to allow ad valorem taxes to go unpaid resulting in a tax sale of the property. A tax sale, even if taxes accrued after the date of a seller's loan, can terminate the lien securing the seller's note. Consequently, it is very important for a seller who provides financing to monitor ad valorem taxes to make certain they are paid. The TREC Seller Financing Addendum has two options concerning ad valorem taxes. The seller can require the buyer to provide annual evidence that taxes have been paid or the seller can require that the buyer make monthly deposits with the seller to allow the seller to accumulate funds to pay the taxes when they are due.
Loss of value of the collateral can also increase the risk to the seller providing financing. There are two primary ways to lose collateral value: one, a loss of economic value due to market conditions, such as we experienced in the mid 1980s or an uninsured casualty.
A seller's primary defense against falling property values is to keep the loan to value ratio conservative. If a seller loans only 80% of the value of the property, the seller will not suffer increased risk of loss unless the value of the collateral deceases by more than 20%. With a loan of 100% of the purchase price, any drop in value increases the risk of loss to the seller.
A major casualty with no insurance coverage can result in substantial loss of collateral value and greatly increase a seller's risk. It is therefore extremely important for a seller to monitor insurance on the collateral property to make certain that the seller is listed as a mortgagee and that insurance coverage is not allowed to lapse.
If a seller is listed as a mortgagee on an insurance policy, the insurance company is required to give the seller notice before terminating a policy. The loan documents will give the seller the right to secure insurance on the property and charge the cost back to the buyer.
If a seller agrees to provide secondary financing and accept a note from the seller secured by a second lien, the risk to the seller is greater. The increased risk results from the fact that there is a primary first lender whose lien is superior to the second lien retained by the seller. Consequently, in addition to risks associated with a first lien, the seller assumes the risk that the note secured by a superior lien will be paid. If it is not and the first lender forecloses, the seller will lose the collateral and be left with an unsecured note.
To summarize, the risks of providing financing secured by a first lien are very manageable. The risks can be greatly reduced, but never completely eliminated, by keeping the loan to value ratio conservative, making sure ad valorem taxes are paid prior to delinquency, and monitoring insurance to make sure there is no lapse of coverage. If second lien financing is provided, the risks are greater to a seller because of the potential loss of collateral if the note secured by a superior lien is not paid when due.


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Platte County Toastmasters Club
- Club meets:
- 4th Thursday, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Platte County Toastmasters Club
- Club Number:
- 06924438, District 26, Area N4
- Charter Date:
- Jan. 3, 2019
Meeting Times: 4th Thursday 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Phone: +1 307-322-7066
Location: Laramie River Station
347 Grayrocks Road/Box 489 Wheatland, WY 82201 United States
347 Grayrocks Road/Box 489 Wheatland, WY 82201 United States
Membership Restriction: None; the club is open to all interested parties.
Visiting for the First Time?
Visiting a club is the exciting first step to building a better you. While you do not have to contact a club before you attend a meeting, we recommend letting them know to expect you. Attending a meeting as a guest is free and there's no pressure to participate until you are ready and comfortable. And since every club is unique, we recommend visiting several clubs to make sure you find the club that's right for you!


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See todays Mathribhoomi Front Page. The article written by Renjith, the famous film director - the director I love most after Padmarajan
I met the lead charter in the article of Renjith at the stage of Town hall , Palakkad -- the venue for HS and HSS drama Competition in Youth Festival - Time at around 1.30 am two days back. The Town hall, not acoustically designed, compounded by the inexperience of the light and sound contractor --- was witnessing noisy scenes that led to the arrest of Sasi the Famous film director-- just because of the bad acoustics. The dialouges were not at all audible. And the drama lovers has almost forced us to stop the drama competition altogether, in its midst. I visited the venue on 20th Jan, Monday - the first day and found that it was really not possible to conduct any drama competition there. The first two days, problems were averted , thanks to the efforts of Superindent of Police and a man of practical wisdom , Sh.Somasekhar IPS, who forsaw the brewing trouble and took stern actions in controlling the crowd.
What other alternative? Every venue is full with programme upt to 10 or 11 pm every day. Sivakumar, the leading camera man of C-DIT, my right hand man , in this crisis hours and in the establishment of VICTERS channel in 2005, when I was the Executive Director of IT@SCHOOL, was there doing all permutations and combinations on the mike system during the night of 20th. On 21st, it was Sanskrit Drama - with lesser audiance and much lesser people understanding the dialogues. But I got feed back from Mathew, the Pathanamthitta Deputy Director of Education, the Stage Manager, who met me on 21st evening and warned about the possibility of disruption of Drama competion for HSS on the next day -22nd, a more serious one for the drama lovers. The special branch also warned me. I discussed the crisis with my collegues in the department and the organising committee on 21st evening, during our daily review meeting. After discussion, I prepared myself to go to the venue on 22nd morning in case of disruption, with our PLAN B , to announce that the Drama will be shifted to Main stage and some times it may start only at 12 midnight and run through the morning of the next day. Or we will award A Grade to all and cancel the event - much to the disappointment of good audiance of Palakkad.
Sivakumar and I went to town hall by 1 am on 21st night (22nd morning hours, when the HSS Drama is scheduled to commence by 9.30 am), after the Sanskrit drama was finished.I saw there a group of youngsters making all kind of trial and error with their proeprties for performing the drama the next day. Sivakumar called the Light and sound guy. We replaced the sound mixer unit, changed positions of the speakers, cut some big speakers. I asked the man who was leading a team on the stage--- arranging the stage--- for next day's competition, to deliver some dialogues. He delivered. I stood in the hall at various locations and listened. We found that the mike (a highly sensitive "Shure" one ) is not picking up at distances. We tried to add more mikes. Then came more or less an abuse, but a gentle abuse by any standrads, from the leading man on the stage, against me , directly to me. It was apparent that he knew that I was some one, some way connected with the conduct of the Youth Festival, and seemed to have appreciated that two persons took the pains to come and inspect the stage at this wee hours. The gang might have appreciated our sincereity or our helplessness also.
The man on stage gave some valuble inputs on how to arrange a stage for Drama. He informed , the standrad dimensions for a drama stage are 24 X 12 feet, but here is a stage with 40 Ft width . This creates problems in the timimg of entry of the actors and that more the actors move farther away from hanging mike, the sound become inaudible. He gave me so many technical lessons in the next one hour. I remembered the days when we designed the VICTERS studio in 2005, with the help of professionals from Asianet, who gave such inputs. All such information were valuble to me. I understood the reasons why director Sasi and Priyananadan, protested. I understood the frustruation of students who were practicing for 3-4 months and protesting spontaneously after seeing their efforts turn futile, because of unscientific organisation for the event. Finally I asked, "what should I do". And he said, Can you reduce this to 24 X 12 ft size, the standard for these kind of ametuer drama. I said I will arrange. Frankly, till that time I thought that it is all a protest by an intoxicated crowd.
I called Dinakaran Mash, the Pandal Committee convener, who came within 10 minutes along with son of Yusaf, the contractor. I enquired them wether they can make the modifications needed by the man on the stage. Every one was aware of the problem. They said, they can arrange the materials, but not have enough man power at this hour. The man said, "no problem -- we will help them". The stage witnessed a great team work in the next four hours. Sivakumar forced me to go back to my room and I left by 230 am. He stood thorugh out, with out a wink of an eye , for me - on my behalf. It was a real real team work.
The morning, I received a message from an unknown number
" Sir we have finished the setting of the stage by early morning. I will never forget you in my life as your intiative supported us a lot" It was from the man on the stage, to whom I shared the number before I left. He confided to me when I left that he never knew that he was speaking to the DPI and said sorry for the harsh words, he spoke.
On 22nd Morning, I called Mathew the DDE, and asked me to give a feed back after the first drama is over. It was by 9.40 am when Mathew told me" Sir it is going smooth, so far no problems". The crowd can hear the dialogues. I called Mathew every hour till noon, till I got myself convinced that every thing is on track.
Today by 11 am , the man on stage called me. He was very excited to inform me that he got grades much above the first prize winners from Kollam district and that too after his team coming here on the basis of an order from court, after being denied an appeal by the department. He was so excited and was profusely thanking me . I told him I should thank you man, because you saved me from a major emabarressment. And I asked him a favour-- to be my technical director, when I arrange a stage for the next years drama competition, and he readily agreed. I told him that I will be saving his number and we need to discuss on preparing the guidelines for stage arrangement, before next season.
I have never seen one who is so passionate about the drama or for me , in any kind of art. I asked him" Hey man , what is your back ground. He advised me to read todays Mathrubhoomi and the article wriiten by Renjith- who know him for quite some time. I read the paper by 4 pm today. I smsed him
" Great. Just read it"
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- foodfeud said...
What a beautiful view and an adorable cat! Things sound good for sure. And the fresh coconut water!
I can't believe you didn't see the place in person before moving! did mr. SV go check it out at least? Tres ballsy.
- June 30, 2015 at 7:39 PM
- Abby Bean said...
I have never been in a body of water, outside of a pool, that was clear. Blogger meetup!!!
- June 30, 2015 at 9:45 PM
- Unknown said...
Banana daquari?? Didn't know there was such a thing! Sounds perfect (well if i were a banana kinda person)
Now THAT is coconut water!! The only kind worth drinking.
The swim sounds wonderful, hopefully the sunshiney island vibes have helped you decompress from the moving ordeal.
I can't believe you bought a freaking house sight unseen.
Did you bring over a car? Or is everything walkable from the house?
- June 30, 2015 at 9:49 PM
- Hillary said...
I always wanted to swim in clear water! Your new home sounds amazing! After tomorrow morning, we can be in the cat house with our cats together, because mine are already irritated because things are moved, and gone, and a carpet cleaner has been used! I'm hitting the road in the morning! Hipsters here I come!!
- June 30, 2015 at 10:38 PM
- Sarah said...
Oh my gosh!!! I'm so glad that things are calming down and you are able to enjoy the beauty that is now your life! Can you believe that this is life and not vacation? I'm not going to lie, I'm looking at these pictures with a bit of jealousy… from the blue waters and white sand, the freshly cracked coconut and the adorable kitty… It looks amazing! That is a very expensive drink but I hope that it was good! I'm so excited for you and I know that you'll enjoy it more and more as you settle in :)
- July 1, 2015 at 9:51 AM
- Ingrid said...
I applaud you for taking the leap of faith! I bet you'll end up really loving it. I can only imagine how awesome it would be to have that view from my house!!
Did you tell your colleagues, and did they freak out?!
I can't wait to see Vegan in the VI eats!
- July 1, 2015 at 12:21 PM
- Vegan In The VI said...
Hey Now!!!!
FF, yes, Mr. SV was down here in February and looked at the houses I had researched on Realtor.Com. He says he did warn me about the road to the house and the roads here in general but I apparently didnt grasp the extremes of it. Now that things are settling down here 'ballsy' and 'leap of faith' are seeming like acceptable ways to describe the move. 'Insane In The Membrane' would be how I would have described it up till yesterday.
Abby, 89 would really look adorable in the crystal clear waters of the Caribbean. Just sayin...
Unknown, I am so glad I dont have the Banana issues that you and Mr. SV have. Yes, there are all kinds of frozen fruit Daiquiris. A Papaya Daiquiri is also delicious. Things are getting better daily. I no longer am thinking of hightailing it back home, Mr. SV did see the house in February, but I am the one who purchased it. From researching online, it appears people who buy houses sight unseen are usually pleased with the results. We had a home inspection and all that. Still, the house being on such a steep incline is a concern. Mr. SV bought a Jeep Wrangler here because shipping a car down sounded like too much hassle. Nothing is walkable from the house.The street to/from the house is at an almost 45 degree angle.
VP, why would they clean the carpets before you and the cats moved out? Oh well, I hope you are really on your way now.
Sarah, it was an outrageously expensive drink (and it was the 'small'). The tourists from the cruise ships are bussed up to the Mountain Top for the view, souvenier shopping and the Banana Daquiris. So now that one is crossed off my list of things to do.
Ingrid, calling it 'a leap of faith' sounds nice. I will have to start using that one. One colleague now knows I am down here and they did indeed freak out. There is gorgeous grub down here. Havent missed Loving Hut or TFK yet.
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Could I have chosen a title with less meaning and greater hype? I seriously doubt it.
We have all heard that you can gauge how important a thing or concept is to a community by the number of names and terms used to describe that thing (the cliche is Eskimos and ice) - and I proposed a corollary; you can gauge how poorly a community understands a thing or concept by how heavily it overloads multiple meanings onto a single name or term. ...and "analytics," "platform," and even "application" all fall into this latter category.
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- Employs OS and device-specific flavors of all of the above ensuring that – even with injection post-compile – every possible step is taken to ensure that PreEmptive Analytics' system and network footprint remains negligible.
What about the PreEmptive Analytics "desired" cross platform feature set? (The features that make analytics worth doing) As I've already said, this list is literally an endless one – If I were to list only the categories (let alone the features in each category), this would make an already long post into very very long post. So, the desired feature discussion will have to come later…
What's the bottom Line for "Cross Platform Application Analytics?"
Be consistent – make sure your application analytics technology and practice are aligned with your definition of what an application actually is – and this is especially true when evaluating "cross-platform" architectures and semantics. A mismatch here will likely wipe out any chance of a lasting analytics solution, increase the cost of application analytics over time, and add to your technical debt.
Separate "needs" from "wants" – take every action possible to ensure that your application analytics implementation does no harm to the applications being measured and monitored either directly (performance, quality, …) or indirectly (security, reputation, compliance).
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My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Hex on the Beach was my Facebook book club selection for June. It was my first time reading author Gina LaManna.
This was an absolutely entertaining book to read! When things take a dive for Lily, a couple of unknown eccentric aunts come to the rescue. They take Lily off to a hidden magical island, but is it a magical paradise or will it be the end of Lily? With island residents like the mysterious, handsome Ranger X, cousins as entertaining as their mothers, a cantankerous mixology teacher and a kooky grandmother Lily has a lot of support. Support she will need after the murder of first customer and jealous contenders for her job making island life difficult.
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The topic is an increasingly widespread issue; namely, the ratio of 'non-working' marketing spend vs 'working' marketing spend. The basic premise is that anything that goes towards direct consumer communication (such as the creation of ads or the purchase of media space) is 'working' and therefore good, whilst any other spend is, by default, 'non-working' and therefore bad (this could include everything from agency fees to data, research and analysis).
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"Let's do the math", as they say in the States. Imagine a business spends $8m a year on 'working' marketing, as defined by the accountants, and $2m on 'non-working'; thereby passing the '80:20' test and receiving the accountants' seal of approval.
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Oh sure, there are probably a bunch of different routes that could win the prize of being the most overserved these days, but I think there's one in particular that deserves the win. Surprisingly, it doesn't even have that many flights, but even one flight is too many. It's a route that former President Bush might call the Axis of Evil Express. Any guesses?
That's right. It's Caracas, Venezuela to Tehran, Iran. And it's about to get even more service.
The Chavez to Ahmadinejad connection is 7,315 miles long. That's only 150 miles shorter than LA to Sydney, in comparison. While they're both oil countries, it would seem that the biggest reason for operating this flight is because almost nobody else outside of Cuba wants to be their political friends. Having demand for the flight appears to be optional.
The flight first launched in 2007 and today it's operated weekly by Conviasa, the national airline of Venezuela, on an early model (1993 vintage) A340-200. It's also codeshared with Iran Air. You might wonder how an A340 can make a flight that far, right? Well I'd think they'd have a shot at making it since there are probably only two people on every flight, but they don't take the chance. It stops.
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Back in the early days, one flight number would usually have one airplane the whole way. Heck, it was more likely for the airplane to stay the same than the actual airline!
Don't get too excited. I didn't actually get to fly on one. But I did get invited to come take a tour of a 787 while it was on the ground here in Long Beach as part of a tour around North America. Of course, I was thrilled to do it.
As I mentioned yesterday, the big buzz at the APEX expo last week was around wireless entertainment.
It's a busy week here at the Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) 2011 Expo
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Laura's Pen explains why she would love her friends to watch the film Unrest…
Unrest is a documentary about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, the disease that has stolen the last five years of my life and several previously in my teens.
I was a Kickstarter backer of this film, and so got my copy before its general release. It has taken me two months to build up the courage to watch it.
The reason why is perhaps summed up best by a section of the film itself. The director and main subject of the documentary, Jen Brea, and her husband, Omar, have just been interacting with friends.
Omar says that their life seems so normal to them, but looking at it through someone else's eyes makes you realise how not normal it is.
This is why I couldn't watch it. The way I, and the millions of others suffering with this disease cope is by ignoring how hard this life actually is. Looking at someone else suffering and putting my thoughts into words makes me look at how truly difficult my life is and, honestIy, I don't know how to cope with that.
I am lucky to have friends who believe in my illness and care about me. But I know how hard it is to understand something you have not experienced.
While Jen is much more ill than me when the film begins (although she ends up somewhere near my level) there are so many things that mirror my experience exactly.
I too was initially diagnosed with a conversion disorder. I too pushed myself too hard because of this and made myself irreparably ill. I too have wondered at the point of my existence when it is spent inside the four walls of my house.
I too disappeared from my life.
I am lucky that I can see my friends sometimes. That I can occasionally do fun things, although I suffer for it afterwards.
But the reason I want people to see this is to see what the rest of my life is like and how hard it is emotionally to cope with.
And most importantly, I want you to be as outraged as I am that we are ignored and stigmatised by the various Governments, by the medical profession and by society.
I want you to see the people unable to move from their beds so you can see just how awful this disease can be.
I want you to see how many of us suffer and how little funding goes into solving our disease.
I want you to know that every single thought expressed in this film is one I have had.
And I want you to realise that things need to change. The more people who watch and talk about this film, the more the view of our disease will change. And if public perception changes it will put pressure on Governments to face up to this very real and devastating disease.
I was 14-years-old when I was diagnosed with ME. I am now 30. Nothing has changed in that time.
It is time for change. It is time for Unrest.
"What terrifies me is that you can disappear because someone's telling the wrong story about you." – Jen Brea
Unrest is available on iTunes and has been shortlisted for an Academy Award.
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During the past 2 years more and more staff are confronted by verbal abuse on the telephone by patients. We have introduced a new protocol which now states that staff should inform a patient who is becoming verbal and shouting on the phone that the call is now "going to end" - Our staff are not prepared to be shouted at or verbally abused like what often happening when the staff can not give the patient answers to the patient request.
These are isolated cases as nearly all our patients understand the pressure that currently the NHS is going through with the very high demand for appointment.
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Five-year-old girl died after GP refused to see her as she was 'a few minutes late' for her appointment
A young girl suffering from asthma died hours after a GP refused to see her because she turned up "a few minutes late" for an emergency appointment.
Ellie-May Clark, five, died of an asthma attack after Dr Joanne Rowe allegedly refused to see her, the Mail on Sunday reported, despite having previously been warned the girl was at risk of having a life-threatening seizure.
According to the child's mother, Shanice, they were just four minutes late for the appointment.
An official report stated they were eight minutes late, but she insists this was incorrect, claiming she checked the time on her mobile phone when she arrived.
They were sent home and told to return in the morning, but the girl had an asthma attack later than night, following which she died.
The doctor is still practising after escaping with a "slap on the wrist". She had her registration suspended by the local health authority for six months on full pay after Ellie-May's death in Newport, South Wales, in January 2015. She was then issued with a warning by the General Medical Council following an investigation.
The report concluded that the "root cause" of the girl's death was Dr Rowe's refusal to see her. It said the GP turned Ellie-May away without asking a single question about the girl's condition.
Just months earlier, a paediatrician had written to Dr Rowe warning that Ellie-May was "at risk of another life-threatening asthma attack".
It added that staff were "fearful" of questioning Dr Rowe because of her "repeated angry outbursts" and "volatile" nature.
Dr Rowe claimed to have been "in the middle" of seeing a patient when Ellie-May arrived, but the surgery's computer system showed that was not the case.
Last night campaigners said the current system puts patients at risk. Sir Donald Irvine, a former president of the GMC, warned the watchdog needed "urgent reform".
He said: "The GMC is there to protect the public, not for the convenience of doctors." While the GMC's closed inquiry was ongoing, Dr Rowe secured a job in another surgery in nearby Cardiff, where she works today.
Dr James Davies, a Welsh Conservative MP and qualified GP, said he would urgently raise the matter with the GMC "in the interests of transparency".
Dr Rowe declined to respond to the health board's report.


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Microsoft could be preparing for social games with Xbox.com update
Since this is Xbox Live, we'll make an educated guess that these games will have more use to you than just a few minutes of play time. It wouldn't make much sense for achievements and Gamerscore tracking not to find their way into these new games. And if FarmVille has already been confirmed for Windows Phone 7, who's to say other social games won't their way onto either platform? If you were in any doubt that Microsoft was serious about making Xbox Live a fully-featured social ecosystem for their devices, then we'll see tomorrow just what these "web games" will mean for the network.
[Source: Major Nelson's Blog]
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Despite the White House's Orwellian call for YouTube to "review" its policy (a veiled threat amounting to censorship, in my opinions), we can score one for free speech and the First Amendment today...
(Politico) Google will leave a controversial video clip about the Islamic prophet Muhammad on YouTube despite a White House request that the company review it under its own policies, the company said Friday.
The White House confirmed Friday that it asked Google to review whether the clip violated its policies and should be taken down. Google decided that the video does not violate its policies.


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Shortlist for Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year announced
The powers that be have announced the shortlist for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. The award is brought to us by T&R Theakston Ltd, WHSmith, and Radio Times.
THE FACTS OF LIFE AND DEATH by Belinda Bauer, Transworld
THE AXEMAN'S JAZZ by Ray Celestin, Mantle/ Pan Macmillan
THE OUTCAST DEAD by Elly Griffiths, Quercus
SOMEONE ELSE'S SKIN by Sarah Hilary, Headline
THE DEVIL IN THE MARSHALSEA by Antonia Hodgson, Hodder & Stoughton
ENTRY ISLAND by Peter May, Quercus
The winner will be decided by the panel of Judges, which this year comprises of Executive Director of T&R Theakston Ltd. and title sponsor Simon Theakston, Festival Chair Ann Cleeves, Radio Times' TV Editor Alison Graham, Head of Fiction at WHSmith, Sandra Bradley and Producer of the Radio 2 Book Club, Joe Haddow, as well as members of the public. The public vote opens on 1 July and closes 13 July at www.theakstons.co.uk
Previous winners of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award include Denise Mina, Lee Child, Val McDermid, and Mark Billingham.
The winner of the prize will be announced by title sponsor Simon Theakston at an award ceremony hosted by broadcaster and Festival regular Mark Lawson on 16 July on the opening night of the 13th annual Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate. The winner will receive a £3,000 cash prize, as well as a handmade, engraved beer barrel provided by Theakstons Old Peculier.
In addition, Sara Paretsky, will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award. Sara was one of the first to write a female P.I. protagonist, having tremendous success in what had previously been a sort guy's club, with most female characters being a dames in distress or femme-fatale. Past winners include Lynda La Plante, Ruth Rendell, PD James, Colin Dexter and Reginald Hill.


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Most plumbers who worked during the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s were extensively exposed to asbestos dust and fibre while working on domestic, industrial and commercial sites.
Domestic plumbers came into contact with asbestos cement fibro building products while installing gutters, flu pipes and working on roofs, in bathrooms and in laundries.
Plumbers also came into contact with asbestos insulation materials used on hot water and steam pipes while working on domestic hot water systems and on industrial and commercial sites including factories, power stations and on board ships.
Plumbers also used asbestos blankets and wore asbestos gloves while carrying out welding work.
Plumbers were also often exposed to asbestos while working on site along side carpenters, laggers, boilermakers and others using asbestos materials.
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Mr Harriot emigrated from England to Australia in 1954, settling in Mount Gambier. He was a qualified plumber and worked initially at the Mt Gambier Hospital and then for a number of plumbers doing residential and commercial work.
Mr Harriot came into contact with asbestos lagged hot water and steam pipes. He installed and removed the insulation, both pre-formed asbestos pipe sections and loose asbestos powder, which he mixed with water to make a slurry. He also cut through Deep Six corrugated fibro sheets, gutters and ridge capping when installing vent pipes or flashing pipes and cut holes in asbestos fibro flat sheets when installing vent and flu pipes.
Forty years later Mr Harriot was diagnosed with mesothelioma. He instructed Turner Freeman who brought proceedings on his behalf against the manufacturers of the asbestos cement and insulation products. Mr Harriot's matter ran to judgment and he was awarded damages in the sum of $326,395.96 plus costs.
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Mr. R worked as a plumber on industrial and commercial sites from the time he was an apprentice. Over the years he worked extensively with asbestos cement fibro sheets (flat sheets, corrugated sheets and compressed sheets) which he cut through to install pipes.
While installing box gutters he worked alongside roofers installing Deep Six sheets. He also worked with asbestos insulation products (asbestos rope, asbestos blankets, asbestos powder, pre-formed pipe sections and asbestos gloves). He used asbestos gloves and blankets as heat protection while welding. He used the asbestos rope, powder and pre-formed pipe sections to insulate hot water pipes chased to the wall.
At the age of 57 Mr. R was diagnosed with mesothelioma. He instructed Turner Freeman who brought proceedings on his behalf against the manufacturers of the asbestos cement and insulation products. Mr. R's condition deteriorated rapidly and his evidence was recorded on Boxing Day. He died a few days later. His claim was continued by his widow and settled out of court for a confidential sum.


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