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Securities and Public Company Matters – We serve as U.S. securities counsel for many China-based life sciences companies and have advised these companies on a number of initial public offerings, follow-on offerings and other strategic transactions.
Fund Formation – We routinely review limited partnership agreements and serve as fund counsel to life sciences-focused investment funds.
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- Zai Lab Limited in its $173 million initial public offering. Ropes & Gray has represented Zai Lab since its inception, including advising the company on its Series A, B and C preferred equity financings in which Zai Lab raised an aggregate of $165 million.
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- Two leading international private equity funds in a $100 million control investment in a China-based medical equipment manufacturer.
- TPG in its participation in the ShangPharma going-private transaction, one of the largest private equity backed going-private transactions to be completed in the China life sciences industry.
- MedImmune LLC, the biologics arm of leading U.K.-based global life sciences company AstraZeneca PLC, in the structuring and establishment of its equity joint venture with WuXi AppTec and the out-licensing of a biologic candidate to the joint venture for clinical development and commercialization in China.
- Kleiner Perkins China in its Series C preferred equity investment in Kindstar GlobalGene, a leading lab research company based in China.
- Hutchison MediPharma in the out-licensing of Volitinib (HMPL-504) to AstraZeneca for global co-development and commercialization in the field of cancer.
- Ironwood Pharmaceuticals in the out-licensing of its linaclotide IBS candidate for development in China and other Asia markets by AstraZeneca.
- Global pharmaceutical manufacturers in developing a regulatory strategy related to accelerating market access of innovative assets in China.
- Essex Woodlands in its senior secured convertible debt investment in VenturePharma, a China based pharmaceutical company.
- Hutchison MediPharma in the first drug discovery collaboration between a major multinational pharmaceutical company (Eli Lilly & Company) and a China-based biotechnology company (Hutchison MediPharma).
- Leading medical device manufacturers in drafting a market access regulatory filing and post-approval compliance strategies in China.
- HAO Capital in its pre-IPO investment in Buchang Pharmaceuticals, one of the largest privately owned pharmaceutical companies in China.
- Cathay Industrial Biotech in one of the largest private equity financings of a China-based biotechnology company.


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The hotly contested Junior Girls' Photography Competition has been won by Emma Arnison from Year 4. This year's theme was "Nature" and, as ever, the girls showed off their photographic capabilities through a wide range of stunning images. Charged with the difficult task of judging this year's competition was School photographer Mark Power of Karl Kramer Photography. Picking out the winning entry, he said: "The overall winner is taken from what I thought was the strongest section (Year 4) and is a straightforward, easy to understand, 'nice' picture. The use of colour is good, too, with the red ladybird contrasting starkly with - and therefore standing out from - the various greens of the foliage around it. The focus point of the image is perfect, right on the insect and the photographer has avoided any particularly bright highlights in the frame. Well done!"
Emma received a canvas of her photograph and there were also canvases for individual year group winners – Rosie Heywood from Year 3, Grace Houghton from Year 4, Anisha Pahade from Year 5 and Anna Wiggets of Year 6.
Remarking on the year group winners, Mark said: "The Year 3 winner is also a fairly simple image, often the best kind to enter into competitions. The roundness of the flower contrasts nicely with the rectangular frame and the slight offset from centre adds to the image. The Year 4 winner was one of several entries that could have come first on another day. The frolicking horse is well captured and exposed, although my suggestion for next time would be to hold the camera to get a horizontal shot rather than vertical, which leaves the horse quite close to the edge of the frame and maybe just a little too much foreground. The Year 5 winner was probably the closest to the sort of image that I would take for such a competition. Once again, a very simple image featuring nice textures and subdued colours. The wetness of the subject adds to the final image and the texture of the foreground is fantastic. Finally, the Year 6 winner was a lovely example of flower photography. The flower itself was very red and pristine, with no damage whatsoever to any of the petals. Again, a fairly simple shot which I would have simplified even further by zooming right into the centre of the flower itself, taking advantage of the soft lighting and shadows and making the whole frame just red petals - thereby removing the slight distraction of the various parts of the background around the flower head. Well done to all the winning photographers and congratulations to the whole school on both the number and standard of the entries."
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Outpatient diagnostic services are provided in approved facilities in both community and hospital settings. A diagnostic facility is defined as "a facility, place or office principally equipped for prescribed diagnostic services, studies or procedures, and includes any branches of a diagnostic facility."
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Diagnostic Facilities Administration
Diagnostic Facilities Administration supports the application process for new, expansion and relocation of publicly-owned and privately-owned outpatient diagnostic facilities through the Advisory Committee on Diagnostic Facilities (ACDF), a committee of the Medical Services Commission (MSC).
As of May 1, 2018, responsibility for the complete Assignment of Payment (AOP) process for outpatient diagnostic medicine facilities will be moving to Health Insurance BC. The AOP process links medical practitioners to an MSC/ACDF approved facility, for the purpose of billing BC's Medical Services Plan for outpatient diagnostic services. For more information, please see Assignment Of Payment page for further details.
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The following modalities, within the Medical Services Commission's Payment Schedule, have been deemed 'restricted.' Any facility that wishes to provide and bill BC's Medical Services Plan for these services requires approval from the Advisory Committee on Diagnostic Facilities or the Medical Services Commission. The restricted diagnostic modalities include:
- diagnostic radiology
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For information on laboratory services including the Laboratory Services Payment Schedule; Schedules of Benefits for Referring Practitioners; Facility Approval Applications; and Operator Payment Administration forms, please see: www.gov.bc.ca/laboratoryservices.
Advisory Committee on Diagnostic Facilities
The Advisory Committee on Diagnostic Facilities is a committee of the Medical Services Commission that provides advice, assistance, and recommendations to support the Medical Services Commission's powers, duties, and functions in relation to outpatient diagnostic services and facilities.
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August 04, 2014 (PRLEAP.COM) Health NewsAugust 4, 2014 - Petaluma, CA - To help patients access important dental health information online, Dr. Himmelstein has made his practice's website a valuable resource for learning about the many preventive, restorative, and cosmetic treatments available.
As a cosmetic and family dentist for the Bay Area community, Louis H. Himmelstein DDS has announced the launch of a new, patient-focused website that is loaded with important up-to-date knowledge to help everyone achieve improved oral health. The website includes a links page with informative dental resources, as well as a frequently asked questions page, to address common concerns on topics ranging from oral hygiene to complex dental procedures.
Dr. Himmelstein explains, "An informative website allows patients to not only educate themselves about dental concerns or treatments, but also informs them about the benefits of having personalized dental care in our Petaluma office. We know that educated patients are those who most often have optimal oral health. Our website serves as a resource for both the patients we are currently helping to achieve their best dental health and those in our community who are seeking information or care from us for the first time."
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Steel pipe terminology
(1) General terms
① delivery status
Refers to the final plastic deformation of the delivery product or the final heat treatment state. It is said that the heat treatment is not heat-treated or it is called hot-rolled or cold-drawn (rolled) state or manufacturing state. The heat treatment is heat-treated, or it is said to be normalized (normalized), quenched and tempered, status. When ordering, delivery status should be indicated in the contract.
② deliver by actual weight or according to the theoretical weight
Actual weight - when delivered, the weight of the product is delivered by weight (weighing)
Theoretical weight - When delivered, the weight of the product is calculated from the nominal size of the steel. The formula is as follows (required by the theoretical weight of the delivery, need to specify in the contract):
The theoretical weight of steel per meter (steel density of 7.85kg / dm3) formula:
Where: W - steel theoretical weight per meter, kg / m;
D - nominal diameter of steel pipe, mm;
S - nominal wall thickness of pipe, mm.
③ guarantee conditions
According to the provisions of the current standard items to test and ensure that meet the standards, called the guarantee conditions. The guarantee conditions are divided into:
A, the basic guarantee conditions (also known as the necessary conditions). Regardless of whether the customer is stated in the contract. Shall be subject to the provisions of the standard inspection, and to ensure that the test results meet the standard requirements. Such as chemical composition, mechanical properties, size deviation, surface quality and flaw detection, water pressure test or flattening or flaring and other process performance experiments are essential conditions.
B, the agreement to ensure that the conditions: the standard in addition to the basic guarantee conditions, there are "according to the demand side, by the supply and demand sides, and in the contract Note" or "when the demand side ... ..., (Such as composition, mechanical properties, size deviation, etc.) or by increasing the inspection items (such as steel pipe oval, uneven wall thickness.) The above terms and requirements, the requirements of the standard, In the order, by the supply and demand sides to negotiate, signed the supply technology agreement and specify in the contract.Therefore, these conditions, also known as the agreement to ensure the conditions of the agreement to ensure that the conditions of the products are generally to increase the price.
④ batch
The "batch" in the standard refers to an inspection unit, that is, inspection lot. If the delivery unit group approved, said the delivery batch. When the delivery quantity is large, a delivery lot may include several inspection lots; when the delivery quantity is small, an inspection lot can be divided into several delivery lots.
The composition of the "batches" usually has the following provisions (see the relevant standards):
A, each batch should be the same grade (steel grade), the same furnace (tank) or the same furnace number, the same specifications and the same heat treatment system (furnace) of the steel pipe composition.
B, for high-quality carbon steel structure pipe, fluid pipe, can be different furnace (tank) the same grade, the same specifications and the same heat treatment system (furnace) of the steel pipe composition.
C, welded steel pipe each batch should be the same grade (steel), the same specifications of the steel pipe composition.
⑤ high quality steel and high quality steel
In GB / T699-1999 and GB / T3077-1999 standard, its grades followed by "A" word, for the high-quality steel, and vice versa for the general high-quality steel.
High-quality steel in the following part or all better than high-quality steel:
A, narrow the content range;
B, reduce the harmful elements (such as sulfur, phosphorus, copper) content;
C, to ensure high purity (requires non-metallic inclusions less);
D, to ensure high mechanical properties and process performance.
⑥ vertical and horizontal
Standard refers to the vertical direction is the direction of processing (that is, along the direction of processing); horizontal refers to the vertical direction with the processing (the direction of the steel pipe).
When the impact work is done, the fracture of the longitudinal specimen is perpendicular to the machining direction. So that transverse fracture; transverse specimen fracture and processing direction parallel, so that the vertical fracture.
(2) steel pipe shape, size terms
① nominal size and actual size
A, nominal size: the standard size specified in the standard, the user and the manufacturer want to get the ideal size, but also the contract specified in the order size.
B, the actual size: the actual size of the production process, the size is often greater than or less than the nominal size. This phenomenon is greater or less than the nominal size of the phenomenon known as the deviation.
② deviation and tolerance
A, Deviation: In the production process, because the actual size is difficult to achieve nominal size requirements, that is often greater or less than the nominal size, so the standard specifies the actual size and nominal size allows a difference between. The difference is positive for the positive deviation, the difference is negative for the negative deviation.
B, tolerance: standard provides positive and negative deviation of the absolute value of the sum called the tolerance, also known as "tolerance zone." The deviation is directional, that is, "positive" or "negative"; tolerance is no direction, therefore, the deviation of the value of "positive tolerance" or "negative tolerance" is wrong.
③ delivery length
Delivery length, also known as the length of the user requirements or contract length. There are several rules for the length of the delivery:
A, usually length (also known as non-length length): Where the length of the standard length of the provisions and no fixed length requirements, are called the usual length. For example, structural pipe standard: hot (extrusion, expansion) steel pipe 3000mm ~ 12000mm; cold drawn
(Rolling) steel pipe 2000mmm ~ 10500mm.
B, length of length: length should be within the length of the length of the contract is required in a fixed length of the size. But the actual operation are cut out the absolute length of the length is not possible, so the standard length of the specified length of the allowable positive deviation. It is not possible to cut out the absolute length of the length, so the allowable positive deviation is specified for the length of the scale.
The structural pipe standard is:
Production length of the length of the pipe than the usual length of the pipe into the rate of decline is greater, the production enterprises to raise the price requirements are reasonable. Increase the rate of the enterprise is not consistent, generally based on the base price increase of about 10%.
C, the length of the length: the length of the length should be within the normal length range, the contract should be marked with a single length and the length of the total length of the composition (for example, 3000mm × 3, that is, 3000mm 3 times the total length of 9000mm). In practice, should be based on the total length of the base
Plus the allowable positive deviation of 20mm, plus the length of each monogon should stay incision margin. To structural tube, for example, to set the incision
Balance: Outer diameter ≤159mm is 5 ~ 10mm; diameter> 159mm is 10 ~ 15mm.
If the length of the standard without the length of the deviation and cut the provisions of the provisions of the supply and demand sides should be negotiated and specified in the contract. Times the length of the same length with the length of the production will bring a significant reduction in production rate, so the production enterprises to raise the price is reasonable, the rate of increase with the length of the increase in the length of the same.
D, the length of the range: the length of the range in the normal length range, when the user requires a fixed range of length, the need to specify in the contract.
For example: usually length of 3000 ~ 12000mm, and the length of the length of 6000 ~ 8000mm or 8000 ~
10000mm. It can be seen that the length of the length is longer than the length and length of the length requirements, but much more than the usual length, but also to the production enterprises to bring the yield reduction. Therefore, the production enterprises to raise the price is justified, the increase in the price increase in the base price of about 4%.
④ uneven wall thickness
Steel pipe wall thickness can not be the same everywhere, in its cross-section and vertical pipe body on the objective of the existence of wall thickness, that is, uneven wall thickness. In order to control this non-uniformity, in some steel pipe standards in the provisions of the wall thickness of the allowable indicators, the general provisions of not more than 80% of wall thickness tolerance (after consultation between the supply and demand sides to implement).
⑤ ellipticity
In the cross section of the circular steel pipe there is a phenomenon in which the outer diameter is not equal, that is, there is not necessarily perpendicular to each other, the maximum outer diameter and the minimum outer diameter, the difference between the maximum outer diameter and the minimum outer diameter is ellipticity Roundness). In order to control the ellipticity, some steel pipe standard provides the allowable index of ellipticity, the general provisions of not more than 80% of the outer diameter tolerance (after consultation between the supply and demand sides).
⑥ bending degree
Steel pipe in the length of the direction of a curve, with the number that the curvature of the curvature that is called. The curvature specified in the standard is generally divided into the following two types:
A, local bending degree: with a meter long ruler by the maximum bending in the steel pipe, measuring the chord height (mm), that is, local bending value, the unit is mm / m, that method such as 2.5mm / m The This method also applies to the curvature of the pipe end.
B, the total length of the total curvature: with a string, from the tube at both ends of tension, measuring the maximum bending height of steel pipe (mm), and then converted into length (in meters) percentage, The length of the curvature.
For example: steel pipe length of 8m, measured the maximum string height 30mm, then the tube full length of curvature should be:
0.03 ÷ 8 m x 100% = 0.375%
⑦ size tolerance
Size tolerance or size of the standard deviation beyond the standard. The "size" here refers mainly to the outer diameter and wall thickness of the pipe. Often it is the size of the tolerance is called "tolerance outrageous", this deviation and tolerance is equivalent to the name is not tight, should be called "deviation". Where the deviation may be "positive", it may be "negative", rarely in the same batch of steel pipe in the "positive, negative" deviation are out of the phenomenon.
(3) Chemical analysis terminology
The chemical composition of steel is one of the important factors in the quality and end use performance of steel, and the main basis for the preparation of steel and even the final product heat treatment system. Therefore, in the technical requirements of the steel standard part, often the first item on the provisions of the steel grades (steel grade) and its chemical composition, and in tabular form included in the standard, is the production enterprises and customers acceptance of steel and steel chemical composition The important basis.
① steel smelting ingredients
The chemical composition specified in the general standard refers to the melting component. It refers to the steel smelting finished, pouring the middle of the chemical composition. In order to make it a representative, that is, the average composition of the furnace or tank, in the sampling standard method provides that the molten steel in the mold into the ingot, in which to dig or drill shrimp, according to the provisions of the standard Method (GB / T223) for analysis, the results must meet the standard chemical composition range, but also the basis for customer acceptance.
② finished ingredients
(GB / T222) is obtained from the finished product (GB / T222), and the chemical composition is analyzed according to the standard method (GB / T223). In the plastic and later plastic deformation of steel, due to the uneven distribution of alloying elements in the steel (segregation), thus allowing the finished product composition and the standard composition range (melting composition) between the existence of partial
Poor, the deviation should be consistent with the provisions of GB / T222.
The finished product composition of steel is mainly for the use of departments or quality inspection departments to accept the quality of steel use, the production enterprises generally do not do product analysis (except for user requirements), but should ensure that the finished product analysis in line with standards.
③ arbitration analysis
As the two laboratories analyzed the results of the same sample with significant differences and exceeded the allowable analytical errors of the two laboratories, or when the production and use departments, the demand side and the supplier had different opinions on the same sample or the finished product analysis of the same batch of steel , Which may be reanalyzed by an authoritative unit with a rich analytical experience from a third party (such as the China Iron and Steel Research Institute or the inspection department with a commodity inspection qualification), which is called arbitration analysis. The result of arbitration is the final judgment basis.
(4) mechanical properties
The mechanical properties of steel are important indicators to ensure the ultimate use of steel (mechanical properties), which depends on the chemical composition of steel and heat treatment system. In the steel pipe standard, according to different requirements, the tensile properties (tensile strength, yield strength or yield point, elongation) and hardness, toughness indicators, as well as the user requirements of high and low temperature performance.
① Tensile strength (σb)
The maximum force (Fb) of the specimen during the drawing process is the tensile strength (σb), expressed in terms of the stress (σ) of the original cross-sectional area (So) N / mm2 (MPa). It means that the metal material under the action of resistance to break
Bad the greatest ability. The formula is: where: Fb - the maximum force that the specimen is pulled off, N (Newton); So - the original cross-sectional area of the specimen, mm2.
② yield point (σs)
With the yield phenomenon of metal materials, the specimen in the tensile process does not increase (to maintain a constant) can continue to stretch the stress, called the yield point. If the force falls, it should distinguish between the upper and lower yield points. The unit of yield point is N / mm2 (MPa). (Σs): the maximum stress in the yield phase when the initial instantaneous effect is not counted.
The yield point is calculated as:
Where: Fs - the tensile strength of the sample during the test (constant), N (Newton); So - the original sample cross-sectional area, mm2.
③ elongation after breaking (σ)
In the tensile test, the length of the gauge length after the specimen is pulled off is the percentage of the length of the original gauge length, called the elongation. Expressed in σ, in%. The formula is:
Where: L1 - after the specimen cut off the length of the gauge length, mm; L0 - the original sample length length, mm.
④ section shrinkage (ψ)
In the tensile test, the maximum reduction of the cross-sectional area at the reduced diameter and the percentage of the original cross-sectional area after the specimen is broken is called the section shrinkage. Expressed in ψ, in%. The formula is as follows: Where: S0 - the original cross-sectional area of the sample, mm2;
S1 - the minimum cross-sectional area of the specimen after the specimen is broken, mm2.
⑤ hardness indicators
The ability of a metal material to resist a hard object's crushing surface is called hardness. According to the test method and the scope of application, the hardness can be divided into Brinell hardness, Rockwell hardness, Vickers hardness, Shore hardness, micro hardness and high temperature hardness. For the pipe commonly used are Brinell, Rockwell, Vickers hardness of three.
A, Brinell hardness (HB)
(F) is pressed against the pattern surface with a predetermined test force (F) with a certain diameter ball or carbide ball, and the test force is removed after the specified holding time. The indentation diameter (L) of the sample surface is measured. Brinell hardness values are calculated by dividing the test force by the indentation spherical surface area. Expressed in HBS (steel ball), the unit is N / mm2 (MPa).
The formula is:
Where: F - the test force on the surface of the metal sample, N;
D - test ball diameter, mm;
d - indentation average diameter, mm.
Determination of Brinell hardness is more accurate and reliable, but the general HBS only applies to 450N / mm2 (MPa) the following metal materials, for hard steel or thin plate is not applicable. In the steel pipe standard, Brinell hardness is the most widely used, often with indentation diameter d to represent the hardness of the material, both intuitive and convenient.
Example: 120HBS10 / 1000130: indicates a Brinell hardness value of 120 N / mm2 (MPa) measured for 30 seconds (seconds) under a test force of 1000 Kgf (9.807 KN) with a diameter of 10 mm.
B, Rockwell Hardness (HK)
Rockwell hardness test with the Brinell hardness test, are indentation test method. The difference is that it is the depth of the indentation measured. That is, under the influence of the initial test force (Fo) and the total test force (F), the indenter (gold steel cone or steel ball) is pressed into the surface of the specimen, and after the specified holding time, The test force is calculated using the measured residual indentation depth increment (e). Its value is an unknown number, expressed in symbol HR,


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Michelle Obama Hilariously Breaks Down Why Melania Trump's Inauguration Gift Exchange Appeared So Awkward
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
The House Ethics Committee announced Wednesday that California Rep. Maxine Waters' due process rights were not violated during its investigation into whether she used her role on the Financial Services Committee to improperly intervene on behalf of OneUnited Bank on whose board her husband served and owned stock in.
The case has been on hold since 2010 after it was revealed that two of the committee's staff attorneys had mishandled evidence by sharing evidence with the panel's Republican House members and staff and leaking information to the media. Last summer, the ethics committee hired prominent African-American attorney Billy Martin to investigate the committee's conduct and determine whether the case could move forward, which Waters argued violated her due process rights.
The committee acknowledged in a letter to Waters informing her of its decision that while mistakes may have been made that may even give the appearance of partisanship, "even when the allegations are considered in their totality, there is still no violation of the process which you are due, and the committee is entitled to continue its consideration of your matter." It also said Waters isn't entitled to a Sixth Amendment right to a "speedy trial" as a criminal defendant would be.
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Waters declined to respond to the news until she's had more time to review the letter she received from the committee.
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On the ear we find a small map of the whole body and with a simple clothespin fasten in the corresponding organ area, we can get rid of the unpleasant pain.
Phil Mutz praise the effects of this technique practiced in China and ancient Egypt, arguing that pressure applied on certain ear points can remove pain instantly.
Rear shoulder area
It is the area that connects shoulders and back. Mutz recommends that this process to be tested several times a day for optimum results. The clothespin is applied for one minute. Internal organs
If you have a persistent pain in the abdominal area, you should see a doctor immediately, but to decrease the discomfort intensity, fasten the clothespin in the area no. 2.
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Applying pressure to the area shown in the picture no.4, in the lower region of the external ear, will help reduce tension in your sinuses.
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The Peace & Social Concerns Committee has a threefold purpose:
- To work on issues which are pressing and relevant to the social concerns of the Meeting;
- To be a resource for the Meeting to provide people power on specific issues;
- To provide information on peace and social concern issues.
The annual report for the year August 2015 – August 2016 is available here, as are the minutes of the committee back several years.
The committee conducts a monthly letter-writing session in which Friends write letters to Congress or the President, and sometimes recommends that the Meeting approve letters to public officials and/or the media.It maintains a current listing of contact information for Congress and the President to encourage Friends to write. (Instructions for letter-writing overseers are here.)
The committee has been providing leadership for a monthly discussion of race and class in our lives, Mt. Toby, and wider Quaker circles. Materials used in that discussion include those listed here.
The committee sends notices over the Peace and Social Concerns email listserve to notify those interested in promoting pending legislation and in supporting local Peace and Social Concerns events .It may suggest actions for the Meeting as a whole, or ask for moral or other support for actions of conscience by Meeting members.
The committee has responsibility for the organizations in a portion of the meeting's budget – discerning whether they should be recommended for financial support, and if so arranging presentations in the meeting for business and other ways to inform meeting members about them. The process for communicating about these organizations is described here.
Annual reports and other information about P&SC are on the committee's external web page, though the page may not be quite up to date. An archive of the committee's minutes back to 2005 is maintained though a password is required to access minutes through 2012. Since 2013, they are publicly available.
The committee's meetings are open to all, and attendance by all Friends is encouraged. Currently these meetings are at 7pm on the first Monday of each month except August.
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First, what virus did you find on your system? Although the fact that a virus was found and now you are encountering issues re-loading your OS may be related, this may also be purely coincidental.
Next, when you state that "it stops copying files", where does this halt take place (at what point in the installation does it fail)? Does it fail/stop/hang at the same point every time? Are you receiving an error message or STOP screen (blue screen)? If you are blue screening, what is the STOP error (including the 0x00 code)?
It is possible that your installation media may be bad (CD's and DVD's do eventually fail…): have you tried a different installation source?
You state that you have tried a different drive: I assume (what a nasty word) that you mean hard drive? Please clarify… If you've tried a different hard drive, was it a new drive, a known good used drive (tested / no issues found) or just another drive you have available?
The failure may also be related to memory: what type of RAM is in your system. Gateway made two versions of the 700X: one used DDR memory and the other used RDRAM. If possible try swapping memory modules. If you have RDRAM, try switching the modules around (put the module in slot 0 into slot 1 and the one in slot 1 into slot 0).
Clean out your system (blow out the dust) and make sure that any and all cooling fans (case, CPU and Power Supply) are operational: this symptom may be caused by over temp. conditions
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This happen to me not too long ago and it happen to be the media I was using.
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Optical Outlet Direct endeavours to give the best service and quality product at the lowest price possible. We offer a wide range of services to cater each individuals as per their needs.
We provide comprehensive eye examinations, contact lens consultations, and assessments for various eye conditions. Children's vision testing and Prescription safety eye wear are specialty services that are also available at Optical Outlet Direct.
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Chili's Buffalo Chicken Ranch Sandwich
Chili's used to be about the only "box" restaurant I loved because the food was good, and the atmosphere was right. Today, it's been turned into a family restaurant with mostly crappy food and obnoxious decor. However, the chili, and this sandwich: Chili's Buffalo Chicken Ranch Sandwich, still gives me a reason to go. I mean, why do people go to a restaurant called Chili's and not eat chili? So give me one of these, and a bowl of chili, and let me enjoy.
I love this sandwich because it combines the heat of buffalo chicken wings with creamy ranch sauce, together on a thrilling sandwich. You can also use this recipe to make wing style boneless chicken.
Make it even healthier by skipping the breading all together, and you'll realize the breading is more of a texture than a taste.
House-Autry brand chicken breader
boneless skinless chicken breasts or strips
Frank's original hot sauce
hamburger buns
lettuce and tomatoes
ranch dressing
1. Take a freezer size zippered plastic bags. Fill one with breader.
2. Butterfly cut chicken (or slice for wing style), if necessary wet, then place in bag, shake, and bread.
3. Fry on stove top until golden brown.
4. Bake chicken on cooking sheet for about 25 minutes at 350° F or until cooked thoroughly.
5. Remove from oven, and dip in bowl of hot sauce.
6. Place on bun top with tomato and lettuce, spread ranch on top of bun.


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Mark March 21, 2009, as the day pigs flew and hell froze over: the shamelessly liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman actually criticized the Obama administration.
I kid you not.
Unfortunately, he did so at his blog at the New York Times website, which means far fewer people will see his critique than if it had been published in print.
But as it seems foolish to look a gift horse in the mouth on such an auspicious occasion, let us be thankful for small mercies (h/t Hot Air headlines):
The Geithner plan has now been leaked in detail. It's exactly the plan that was widely analyzed — and found wanting — a couple of weeks ago. The zombie ideas have won.
The Obama administration is now completely wedded to the idea that there's nothing fundamentally wrong with the financial system — that what we're facing is the equivalent of a run on an essentially sound bank. [...]
This plan will produce big gains for banks that didn't actually need any help; it will, however, do little to reassure the public about banks that are seriously undercapitalized. And I fear that when the plan fails, as it almost surely will, the administration will have shot its bolt: it won't be able to come back to Congress for a plan that might actually work.
What an awful mess.
Wow. Somebody pinch me.


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How is it, then, that we can talk about talking? If you are willing to assume the existence of basic perceptual and cognitive capacities, a relatively simple answer follows immediately. The sounds of talk are, after all, sounds like any other sounds. We can perceive them in the same way we perceive the sound of a waterfall or a bird's song, a thunderclap or the rustling of leaves in the wind, a cricket's chirp or the breaking of waves on a beach. All are things we can hear, easily and naturally, and so it is with the sound of the human voice.
Roman Jakobson famously theorized that language has six functions: referential, emotive, poetic, conative, phatic, and the metalingual function. That's the function we're interested in, our capacity to speak about speech. Jakobson talked of the metalingual function as an orientation toward the language code, which seems just a bit grand. For I'm led to believe that many languages lack terms for explicitly talking about the 'code.' Thus, in The Singer of Tales (Atheneum 1973, orig. Harvard 1960), Albert Lord attests (p. 25):
Man without writing thinks in terms of sound groups and not in words, and the two do not necessarily coincide. When asked what a word is, he will reply that he does not know, or he will give a sound group which may vary in length from what we call a word to an entire line of poetry, or even an entire song. [Remember, Lord is writing about oral narrative.] The word for "word" means an "utterance." When the singer is pressed then to way what a line is, he, whose chief claim to fame is that he traffics in lines of poetry, will be entirely baffled by the question; or he will say that since he has been dictating and has seen his utterances being written down, he has discovered what a line is, although he did not know it as such before, because he had never gone to school.
While I'm willing to entertain doubts about the full generality of this statement – "man without writing" – I assume the it is an accurate report about the Yugoslavian peasants among whom Milman Parry and Albert Lord conducted their fieldwork and that it also applies to other preliterate peoples, though not necessarily to all.
Given those caveats, the paragraph is worth re-reading. Before doing so, recall how casually we have come to see language as a window on the workings of the mind in the Chomskyian and post-Chomskyian eras. If that is the case, then what can one see through a window that lacks even a word for words, that fails to distinguish between words and utterances? And what of the poets who don't know what a line is? The lack of such knowledge does not stand in the way of the poeticizing, no more than the lack of knowledge of generative grammar precludes the ability to talk intelligently on a vast range of subjects.
What do we make of the apparent fact that watching Lord (or Parry) transcribe their songs into lines allows the poet to understand what a line is? Could it be that the centuries-long process of inventing and using writing systems forced our ancestors to think about language in new ways, to develop new concepts? In Information Ages (Johns Hopkins 1988) Michael Hobart and Zachary Schiffman the lists found in an Assyrian collection of cuneiform tables from the seventh century BCE (p. 45):
Of the seven hundred extant cuneiform tablets in the royal library, the largest group consists of three hundred "omen texts." These lists consist of short, conditional statements correlating various phenomena with predicted outcomes, such as "If a man's chest-hair curls upwards he will become a slave." The next largest group, two hundred tablets, comprises sign and word lists organized according to a wide variety of principles, largely to aid Akkadian-speaking scribes in mastering Sumerian, a dead language early in the second-millennium. A related group of one hundred tablets provide interlinear translations of Sumerian incantations and prayers. Finally, some one hundred tablets contain assorted conjurations, proverbs, and fables, of which only about forty record epics, like the famous story of Gilgamesh.
What does one have to think about, explicitly, in order to make such lists? And what might one discover by reading through collections of such lists? In particular, how must one think about language in order to do that? In so thinking about language those ancients were, in the Chomskyian and post-Chomskyian view, indirectly thinking about their own minds.
What I have in mind in all this as that the metalingual function of language has, over time, functioned as a bootstrap mechanism through which we have been able to create ever more powerful conceptual systems, including systems of thought about thinking. Over time those new systems of thought will themselves become objects of scrutiny, and so on. And yet, at no point in this process have been ever been in a position to directly observe the inner mechanisms of language, or of thought.
We certainly aren't in such a position now. Chomsky conjoined the notion of grammar with the workings of metamathematical proof theory and produced: 1) a family of new models for syntax, 2) a new way of thinking about the innateness of language, and 3) a new way of arguing about psychological theories (which he employed against behaviorism). But at no point did he ever observe language mechanisms themselves. Nor, of course, did he make such a foolish claim.
Even as he was writing his dissertation and then pamphleting it in Syntactic Structures, other groups of thinkers had taken upon themselves the task of using computers to translate from one language to another – my teacher, David G. Hays, was among them. They developed other formal models and checked their consistency and usefulness by running computer programs that embodied those models. But whether or not any of those models embodies the mechanisms that we humans use, that's another matter. If you wish to assert that, you need to provide additional arguments.
And so it goes with neural observations and models. We can make crude observations about how the brain deals with language. No doubt we will be able to make better observations in the future – higher spatial and temporal resolution, more naturalistic conditions of observation. But those observations require quite a bit of interpretation before we can see mental mechanisms in them. We will not be 'seeing' those mechanisms as directly as we can hear the sound of our own voice. And yet basic perceptual capacity is at the root of the long process of cultural evolution that has led us to this point and that will, with a bit of luck, take us beyond it, to a world of concepts that will come easily and naturally to our grandchildren, but will seem strange a forbidding to us.
Cross posted at New Savanna.


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Barcelona boss Ernesto Valverde is set to have a fully fit squad to choose from for the upcoming clashes against Eibar (17 February) and Chelsea (20 February) after the club confirmed that all Ousmane Dembele, Thomas Vermaelen and Paco Alcacer were back in training on Thursday 15 February.
Dembele returned to action during the second half of the Catalan's goalless draw with Getafe on Sunday (11 February) having recovered from a hamstring injury which had kept him on the sidelines for four weeks.
However, on Monday (12 February) Barcelona revealed that the France starlet had been unable to take part of the recovery training session with the rest of his teammates due to an upset stomach.
Vermaelen has been out of action since suffering a hamstring injury during the 5-0 win over Real Betis on 21 January.
Barcelona then ruled him out for only two weeks but the centre-back has missed six games since then, with Valverde opting to take no risks given his injury record.
Meanwhile, Alcacer started Barcelona's disappointing draw with Getafe but he was given special permission to miss the session with his wife about to give birth to their son.
But Barcelona have revealed that the three players were back in training on Thursday [15 February] with Lionel Messi and Co also resuming their activity after enjoying two days off.
The rest has paid off with Valverde now set to have an almost fully fit squad for a crucial week in which the Catalans visit Eibar on Saturday (17 February) three before travelling to Chelsea for the first leg of the Champions League last 16.
"Thomas Vermaelen and Ousmane Dembélé were out on the practice field Thursday, as was Barça B's Carles Aleñá," Barcelona confirmed on the club website.
"The session also produced a tender moment for striker Paco Alcácer, who was congratulated by his teammates on the birth of his first child — it's a girl! — the day before."
The trip to Eibar may still come to early for Vermalen but the news is still as a boost ahead of a busy run of fixtures which will also include a crucial La Liga clash with second-place Atletico Madrid on 4 March.
The Barcelona boss may rest some players in the upcoming clash with Eibar in order to be able to name his strongest line-up when the Catalans visit Chelsea next week.
Samuel Umtiti will also be back to face the Basque side after missing the draw with Getafe due to suspension while it is uncertain whether Gerard Pique will return to the line-up.
The Spaniard was rested at weekend due to an ongoing problem in his knee and Valverde may opt to use Yerry Mina instead against Eibar to have him fully fit for the clash with Chelsea.


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The goal of UW2020 is to stimulate and support highly innovative and groundbreaking research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison over the next five years.This initiative seeks to fund research projects that have the potential to fundamentally transform a field of study as well as projects that require significant development prior to the submission of applications for external funding. This initiative seeks to support collaborative, multidisciplinary, multi-investigator research projects that are high-risk, high-impact, and transformative as well as those that require the acquisition of shared instruments or equipment that will open new avenues for innovative and significant research.
UW2020 is supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) with combined funding from other sources.
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There's a lot of hype on the market about "detox programs" and "cleanses". Although many of these programs are touted as "natural", most of them decidedly are not.
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INTEGRAL MEMORY USB 2.0 Flash Drive Black 8GB
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Brand Integral Memory
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- Depth: 8 mm
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Daily & weekly activities...
All residents are presented and encouraged to take part in numerous activities. Activities are tailored to challenge and maintain mental stimulation. Activities go beyond mere craft based 'time passing', therefore Rosebank benefits from the services of many external companies. These include, home safari, play and theatre groups, musical groups to name but a few. A daily and weekly activity programme ensure residents as well as their relatives are fully aware of what is planned.
The Rosebank social calendar is very busy with a themed evening / day on a monthly basis. Some themed events include; St Patricks Day, fireworks night, halloween and summer fetes. All Rosebank residents and staff thoroughly enjoy these special occassions!
Weekly day trips out allow all of our residents to enjoy the luxury of Rosebank's very own minibus. The minibus is used on a planned basis every Saturday and Sunday, and allows us to visit many local and regional attractions. We can't remember life at Rosebank before the minibus!
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