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Lafayette Neurology specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases. We provide the latest in diagnostic testing and treatment planning individualized for the unique needs of each patient.
Your experience at Lafayette Neurology is very important to us. We care about treating you well, not just making you well. Your comfort and privacy are important to us and we pledge to treat you with compassion and courtesy. This is what sets us apart from our competition and the reason our patient satisfaction scores are consistently high.
Office Phone: 765.446.5220
Office Fax: 765.446.5221
These seven core values are the guiding principles of everything we do at Lafayette Neurology.
To schedule an appointment, please call 765.446.5220 or fill out our appointment request form (link)
Office Phone: 765.446.5220
Office Fax: 765.446.5221
Billing Questions: 765.449.2732 or 888.449.2732
For your convenience, we are in the office, Monday through Friday: 8 am – 5 pm
If you have a medical issue or concern after hours and you're an established Unity Healthcare patient, call your physician for further direction. All others, visit Unity Immediate Care Center or seek emergency medical assistance as needed at a local hospital.
We have offices in Lafayette, Logansport, and Rensselaer. Our goal is to provide you with the highest quality and most compassionate care.
975 Mezzanine Drive, Suite C
Lafayette, IN 47905
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Lafayette Neurology Appointment Request
Please fill out the information below. When you are finished, click the submit button. Someone from our office will call you to schedule an appointment. Before your first appointment, please print and complete the New Patient Forms and bring them with you to your first appointment.
We offer the latest testing to diagnose and treat your neurological disorder. We will work together to determine the best course of care for you. There are more than 600 neurological disorders, yet some are more common and well-known than others.
ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.
Back Pain is one of the most common reasons people go to the doctor and a leading cause of disability worldwide. There are measures to prevent or relieve most back pain episodes.
Carpel Tunnel Syndrome is numbness, tingling, weakness, and other problems in your hand due to pressure on the median nerve of your wrist.
Cephalic Disorders are congenital conditions that stem from damage to, or abnormal development of, the budding nervous system while the baby is in utero.
Cerebral Palsy is caused by a non-progressive brain injury or malformation that occurs while the child's brain is under development, which primarily affects body movement and muscle coordination.
Chronic Pain is pain that lasts 3-6 months or more. The feeling of pain comes from a series of messages that go through your nervous system and continue to fire even after you've healed.
Dementias including Alzheimer's disease is a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long-term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember that is great enough to affect a person's daily functioning
Epilepsy affects people of all ages, is characterized by unpredictable seizures, and can cause other health problems.
Guillain-Barre Syndrome is a rare disorder in which your body's immune system attacks your nerves. Weakness and tingling in your extremities are usually the first symptoms.
Headache can be a sign of stress or emotional distress, or it can result from a medical disorder, such as migraine or high blood pressure, anxiety, or depression.
Huntington's Disease is a genetic disorder that causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain. It deteriorates a person's physical and mental abilities during their prime working years and has no cure.
Insomnia is difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep and can be caused by many factors, but it also may also be caused by certain neurotransmitters in the brain that are known to be involved with sleep and wakefulness
Migraines is a primary headache disorder characterized by recurrent headaches that are moderate to severe. Typically, the headaches affect one half of the head, are pulsating in nature, and last from two to 72 hours.
Movement Disorders including Tics/Tourette's Syndrome are clinical syndromes with either an excess of movement or small voluntary and involuntary movements, unrelated to weakness or spasticity.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord in which the immune system attacks the protective sheath that covers nerve fibers and causes communication problems between your brain and the rest of your body.
Myasthenia Gravis is caused by a breakdown in the normal communication between nerves and muscles and is characterized by weakness and rapid fatigue of any of the muscles under your voluntary control.
Myopathies are neuromuscular disorders in which the primary symptom is muscle weakness due to dysfunction of muscle fiber
Neuropathy is a result of damage to the nerves most often found in the Peripheral Nervous System that controls the motor, sensory, or autonomic nerves required to transmit voluntary and involuntary messages to the brain.
Parkinson's Disease is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms generally come on slowly over time.
Seizures occur because of sudden, abnormal electrical activity in the brain. There are many types of seizures and some have mild symptoms while others cause convulsions.
Spinal Cord Injury is damage to any part of the spinal cord or nerves at the end of the spinal canal and often causes permanent changes in strength, sensation and other body functions below the site of the injury.
Stroke is a disease that affects the arteries leading to and within the brain.
Tremor is an unintentional, rhythmic muscle movement involving to-and-fro movements of one or more parts of the body. It can affect the hands, arms, head, face, voice, trunk, and legs. Most tremors occur in the hands
Tumors of the Nervous System is a disease in which abnormal cells form in the tissues of the brain and/or spinal cord.
Vertigo is a sense of rotation, rocking, or the world spinning, experienced even when someone is perfectly still.
Botox can block certain chemical signals from your nerves, causing temporary paralysis of your muscles and can be used to treat chronic migraines, dystonia, and spasticity.
EMG/NCV Studies are electrodiagnostic tests performed to measure the electrical activity of muscles and nerves
EEG is an electrophysiological monitoring method to record electrical activity of the brain. Electrodes are placed along the scalp to measure voltage fluctuations.
Lumbar Puncture is a procedure to collect and look at the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
We are so pleased you have chosen Lafayette Neurology for your care.
New Patients: Please fill out, print and sign these three forms and bring them to your first appointment. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you soon.
Lafayette Neurology Appointment Request
Please fill out the information below. When you are finished, click the submit button. Someone from our office will call you to schedule an appointment. Before your first appointment, please print and complete the New Patient Forms and bring them with you to your first appointment.
Our providers treats a wide range of neurological conditions, some of which we are able to immediately overcome and other more chronic conditions may require more ongoing care. Regardless of where you are on your journey, we want you to have a positive experience while you are a part of our practice. This allows you to be at ease about your caregivers so that you can focus on moving forward and getting better.
Here is what you can expect from us:
Manage Your Health Online
Lafayette Neurology is pleased to offer our patients the latest tool in personal health care management.
Follow My Health is an electronic medical record that provides you with a secure and convenient way to manage your personal health care online. This free self-service health management tool can improve interactions with your doctor's office, document important health care information, and allow you to make more informed decisions about your own health.
Thank you for your referral.
In order to better serve your patient, please fill out the form below and fax with your patient's previous notes and/or test results to our office. We will contact your patient within 24 hours. If confirmation of appointment is needed, please provide a secure email address or secure fax number in the comment section and we will send a confirmation email or fax that will include the date and time of the appointment.
Office Phone: 765.446.5220
Office Fax: 765.446.5221
Lafayette Neurology Appointment Request
Please fill out the information below. When you are finished, click the submit button. Someone from our office will call you to schedule an appointment. Before your first appointment, please print and complete the New Patient Forms and bring them with you to your first appointment.
Thank you Dr. Hagen for your years of service to both the community and to Unity Healthcare. We wish you the best with your retirement.Read More
Thank you Dr. Hagen for your years of service to both the community and to Unity Healthcare. We wish you the best with your retirement.Read More
January 25, 2019– Lafayette Cancer Care has received re-certification by the QOPI® Certification Program LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Inc. (ASCO®). The QOPI® Certification Program builds on ASCO's Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI®), providing a three-year certification for outpatient hematology-oncology practices that meet nationally recognized standards for quality […]Read More
February 22, 2018, Lafayette, Indiana –Today at the YWCA, Unity Healthcare and Franciscan Health presented a check for $46,877.49 to the YWCA Greater Lafayette Women's Cancer Program. The money was raised at the Annual Ultimate Pink Party hosted by Unity Healthcare and Franciscan Health. The event was held on October 20, 2017 at the Purdue Memorial Union […]Read More


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Get a Concerto for yourself because Music is your life and you can scream all of the lyrics to your favorite songs.
1. Wireless Bluetooth range up to 60 ft.
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3. Answer your call with built in Mic & speakerphone.
4. Standalone MP3 Player with built in SD card reader slot.
5. Pair and play from your phone, tablet or any Bluetooth enabled device.
6. Comes in 3 colors Black, Blue, Pink, Red & White
7. Runs on rechargeable Lithium ion batteries for 6 hours of music.
8. Small footprint, easy to carry.
9. Works with Bluetooth enabled remote control as well.
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Shop worry free! If you're not 100% happy with your purchase, you can return this item within 14 days of receiving it.

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Under our 30-day returns guarantee, if for any reason you're unhappy with your purchase, you can return it to us in its original condition within 30 days of the date you received the item. If you have changed your mind, we will refund the purchase price, deducting any postage costs we have incurred. ProtectaPet Cat Containment Systems are guaranteed to meet their specification, without defect, at the time of delivery. In the unlikely event of your receiving a defective or damaged product, please send us photographic evidence to firstname.lastname@example.com We can then advise you on whether to return the defective part and how we will replace this component. We reserve the right to replace defective parts or refund the purchase price. If we ask you to return the goods, we recommend that you use a recorded delivery service. If you are returning an item because of an error on our part or it is defective, we will refund your costs in returning it to us provided that you receive prior agreement with us in respect of the cost, prior to dispatch.
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A very heavy duty post with pre-made fixing points for the short bracket and for the net holders. Actually the holes are not quite correctly spaced If, like me, you swap the short brackets for extended brackets but these are really well made components.
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Montreal is a beautiful city. I think it would even be nicer without dirt covered snowbanks and the like. We rented bikes and took an adventuresome ride around the town…we got a bit lost, so we got a tour of part of the "industrial" area. Don't worry, it's actually really close to the old town, which is the touristy section. My favorite part was watching Harry ride on what they call the "giraffe" which is a bike extension that hooks on the larger bike. He wasn't sure at first, but after a minute or so he just kept saying over and over how fun it was to ride! I pulled Wyatt in a trailer. I was exhausted after trying to bike really fast (which was not really fast for me- I'm out of biking shape for sure!) to try to get back so we wouldn't have to pay extra. David surprised me with ice cream after and it made it all better If you want a little taste of France, go to Montreal. Pretty much everyone can speak English, but I love to hear the French conversations floating through the air. On the way out of town we tried Poutine from a little diner. It is basically french fries with fresh cheese curd and brown gravy. Personally, it looked fairly unappetizing but was quite good! It is a common dish in Canada.
Whole lot a makeup in the gutter.
We went into a market for just a jiffy
The only picture I got of the "giraffe" – while we were unloading.


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sshumake needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 38 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
Hydra Integration Platform
We have designed a backend technology system that acts as a single point connection where users can access many disparate systems. The name Hydra was given because the many connections do other systems are like the many heads and necks of the mythical beast Hydra.
I really like the cartooney look like the ones above I selected in the inspiration section.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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First Cash Puts Customers First with XO Managed Interactive Voice Response Solution
First Cash and XO worked together to craft a solution for inbound Interactive Voice Response (IVR).
Carly Sherman, Corporate Marketing and Communications Manager, said "The XO team really listened to our needs and recommended the right setup." The solution was a state-of-the-art Voice XML platform with proven industry leadership. "The transition to the new system was very smooth."
The Managed Inbound IVR solution from XO offered all of the features and benefits that First Cash and its customers needed.
With the new solution, First Cash callers gained:
- The option, when dialing in, to choose among First Cash store locations
- The ability to learn the location of the three nearest stores based on ZIP code
- Dynamic routing functionality that allowed callers to choose the store they wished to connect to
First Cash gained:
- Easy, self-administered management of store locations in the system
- Valuable tracking and reporting on system usage, which provided intelligence that First Cash could use to optimize the customer experience


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2016 MJW Chardonnay
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Attractive aromas of citrus fruit and pear mingle with delicate floral nuances and underlying flinty notes.
The tightly wound palate displays layers of vibrant sweet citrus fruits and dried pear with subtle hints of spice. The wine displays exceptional purity with a fine texture and an attractive savoury element, which contributes complexity to the palate, finishing with a clean saline mineral edge.
Food Match
Line-Caught Fish, Squid, Cassava, Coastal Plants
Cellar PotentialUp to 15 yearsWinemaking NotesThe perfect ripening conditions for Chardonnay in 2016 has produced a pinnacle wine for our portfolio, the first Chardonnay ever produced under the MJW label. The wine displays the hallmark concentrated citrus fruit flavours from the Gin Gin clone seamlessley balanced with the minerality and texture of Clone 95. Hand-harvesting, wild yeast fermentation, grape solids and French oak selection have all contributed texture, complexity and balance to the wine.


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What's Purity Worth?
This month our theme has been: Things That Really Matter
Work – Keep it in perspective
Wealth – Keep it in perspective
Human Life – God gives it, so value it
Character – It's who you really are and it comes from the heart.
And this Sunday was: Sexual Purity
What's Purity Worth?
Gen. 2:18, 21-25, Proverbs 5, Romans 13:11-14
How can Christians resist the pressure to become sexually active before marriage?
Let's look at why God created man and woman.
Gen. 2:18, 21-25
The only thing God created that He said was not good was for man to be alone, so He created a helper for Adam. The Lord brought her to man – in a sense conducting the first wedding ceremony. She was the Lord's gift to man.
The Bible says that man is to leave father and mother and cleave to (bond with) his wife. Among the Hebrews, it was typical for the sons to live with or near their parents after the marriage.
The primary relationship before marriage is with parents, but after marriage it is with one's spouse. The Hebrew term for bond means "to cling, to join together". It means making a commitment to hold on to no matter what, allowing nothing and no one to come between.
The two shall become one flesh includes the sexual intimacy of marriage but it also means more than that. Paul states in Eph. 5:28 – 29 being one flesh means spouses are committed to care as much for each other as themselves. God's gift of sexual pleasure is to enhance and enrich the bond between husband and wife as well as procreation.
He says be fruitful and multiply.
Adam and Eve's relationship was to be physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual; completing one another.
Proverbs 5
The first part of the chapter is about relationships outside of God's boundaries.
The second part is about relationships within God's boundaries.
We have rules in place not to harm us but to protect us; ex. Don't touch the stove when it's hot; it will burn you.
It is the same with God and His rules. God says stay within my boundaries and you can enjoy all I've given you to enjoy. Touch the things outside my boundaries and you will get burned.
Romans 13:11-14
Paul was reminding the Romans that their salvation was nearer than they first believed. He was talking about the return of Christ. Paul lived each day in the light of Christ's return. Be ready to meet God by putting on the armor of light – time to put away darkness and put on the armor of light. He even tells some ways to do that.
Walk (way of life) with decency– as in the daylight
Make your nightlife the way you would want it in the daylight when all can see.
· Not carousing and drunkenness
· Not in sexual impurity and promiscuity
· Not in quarreling and jealousy
Put on the Lord Jesus Christ – make no plans to satisfy the fleshly desires.
I read about a wedding that had the bride and her attendants at the front of the church and they were waiting for the groom to come from the back to meet her. Kind of like the 10 virgin women in the Bible who were supposed to keep the oil in their lamps ready for when the Groom came to get them. (5 did, 5 didn't)
You may be single now, but if you are a Christian, you are the Bride of Christ. The Church is His bride. He is coming back one day to claim His bride. How will He find us?
Will we be ready? Will we be pure?
The one thing I hope you will remember from this month's lessons is: to be a person of Godly character – we must guard our heart!!!! For out of the heart come the issues of life!!!! (last week's lesson).
Are you committed to do all you can to enjoy the pleasures that God has planned for you. Don't give away the most sacred thing you have to someone who is not your help meet.
What if it's too late? It's never too late to start over with a commitment that you will wait for the marriage commitment to your spouse and to God before giving yourself away again.
Guard your heart by guarding your eyes, ears, hands, feet.
Not putting yourself in compromising situations is a good start in guarding your heart.


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About us
Twickenham Fine Ales is London's oldest micro-brewery.
Founded by Steve Brown in 2004, Twickenham has been at the forefront of the resurgence of breweries in London. Using global hops from a early stage, and only the purest of ingredients, Twickenham produces a fine range of well hopped, award winning beers.
The Beginning
Twickenham Fine Ales was the first brewery in Twickenham since Cole's Brewery closed in 1906.
In the beginning there was a 10 barrel plant which was installed in a small unit opposite a Greggs Bakery factory – pint and a pasty seeming natural bedfellows.
The early days of experimentation and trial settled down with the arrival of Tom Madeiros, as Brewer, in 2005. Being American the use of American hops seemed a natural path and Twickenham became an early adopter of the now popular and more common place hops used in many beers today.
The variety of hops grew and Twickenham now uses hops from countries including: England, Germany, Slovenia, USA, Australia and New Zealand.
The quality of Twickenham's beers was recognised on a national level in 2007 when Sundancer won silver in the national Champion Beer of Britain at the GBBF. Unusual then for having such citrusy hops, especially in a lower strength beer (3.7%ABV), it is a wonderful pint giving as much satisfaction to drinkers today as at any time.
However, with growth came the problem of space and so a search started to find another site to house a larger brewery. Unfortunately, Twickenham is not awash with industrial sites and it took two years to find somewhere suitable. The best part of another year was then spent building the new brewery until it was ready for it's first brew in December 2012.
The brewery now has a custom made 25BBL kit and six fermenters, so can brew over 50,000 pints a week.
With the new kit came the need to refresh how the beers were seen too, so a great new brand look was done for the brewery by Springetts, a London design agency. This gave the beers the presence on the bar they deserved and makes it easier for the drinker to find the beers – critical I'm sure you'll agree.
Twickenham now brew 20 beers a year – 3 regulars, 4 seasonals and 12 monthly specials – and they can be found across London and some surrounding areas.
Our products have now been bottled too. The increased capacity of the brewery now means enough can be produced to allow bottling too and, so far, Naked Ladies, Sundancer, Grandstand, Redhead and Honey Dark have been bottled. Various ones of these can be found in the likes of Oddbins, M&S and Waitrose.
Twickenham also brew Kew Garden's Golden Ale & Kew Honey Dark, for Kew Gardens and Kew Steam Ale, for the London Water and Steam Museum, which can be bought in bottles at the respective venues.
10th Anniversary
Having celebrated our tenth anniversary with a hugely popular IPA, called Decade, and equally popular celebratory party, Twickenham is now heading for its next stage of expansion – with a fifth fermenter on its way and a keg product – Tusk – now launched, and our beers can now be enjoyed at the brewery too through tours, the brewery shop, or the bar which opens for England Internationals and Harlequins Saturday games.
The Future
We're going to keep doing what we're doing to more places, but if there's something you'd like us to do or places you'd like to be able to get our beers then please let us know.


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Haryana Gramin Bank (HGB), formed in the year 2005 is the leading regional rural banks (RRB) in the state of Haryana.Sponsored by Punjab national bank, HGB has announced its recruitment of officers & office assistants.The RRB having head office in Rohtak currently provides banking services through 250+ branches across 16 districts with 1000+ employees.
IBPS is yet to issue scorecards for qualifiers of RRB common exam 2012 but HGB has started its recruitment activities.So candidates can hope to receive their scorecards in the coming weeks or before the interviews begin.
To Note:
Online registrations from November 23 to December 8, 2012
Interview dates shall be intimated later
Openings – Payscale:
Office assistant – 216 posts
Officer (scale I) – 115; scale II & III – 14
The monthly salary shall be approx.Rs.13,212 (OA), Rs.26,535 (scI), Rs.35,502 (scII) & Rs.47,031 (scIII)
Who are eligible:
If you wish to apply for Haryana gramin bank, possessing the following eligibility criteria is necessary,
- Agelimit: 18 - 28 yrs for assistants & scale I officers, 21 – 32 yrs for scale II & below 40 yrs for scale III, as on 1.06.2012 (max age +5yrs for sc/st, +3 for obc)
- Must posses degree in any discipline from a recognized university
- Should have passed Hindi language in matric/std.X & also be proficient in the state`s official lang.
- Candidates from any state are eligible as domicile restrictions are not specified
In addition to the above, you ought to have the following minimum scores in the IBPS RRB common exams 2012,
Selection process
The procedure is not any different & is the same that was practiced for recruitment in public banks.
Based on the TWS score of applicants, HGB will shortlist candidates in the ratio of 1:3 for personal interviews to held in Rohtak (haryana) for 30 marks.
From the final scores, a merit list shall be prepared under each category & they would be offered appointment in the bank.
Ready for Applying:
The application fee is fixed at Rs.100 (Gen/OBC/) & Rs.20 (SC/ST) which must be paid in cash at any branch of Haryana gramin bank or Punjab national bank using the given challans before December 8.
After collecting the payment receipt, proceed to apply online by visiting the application form at www.hgb.co.in, fill the required field & press 'submit' to complete.
If you satisfy the above conditions & want to apply for the Haryana gramin bank 2012 recruitment, make sure to download the advertisement from their website here


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New York [USA], Mar 6 (ANI): In an effort to more deeply integrate Google's search engine on iOS devices, the technology giant on Tuesday announced that its Search app for iOS has added an iMessage extension.
This update will allow iPhone and iPad users to search the web, and then quickly add those search results to their iMessage conversations.
According to TechCrunch, the extension is inspired by Google's experiments with Gboard, Google's own third-party keyboard app for iOS devices, and comes at a time when the popularity of alternative iOS keyboards seems to be declining.
With Google's iMessage extension, users can type a query in the search box, or tap a button below for a specific type of search - like Weather, Food, Nearby (venues/businesses), Trending (news), or Videos; all extremely similar to Gboard.
Further, each search result includes a "Share" button that, when tapped, adds the item directly into an iMessage conversation as a card.
When the recipient taps on the card, they'll go to the Google search result.
In addition, Google's iMessage app offers a GIF search engine.
This is available by tapping on the "GIF" button to the right of the search box, which will immediately load a selection of GIFs from sites like Giphy and Tenor, which you can then filter further by performing a search.
The upgrade gives Google another way to reach users on iOS, even when they're not in Google's app itself.
This is important because Google's traffic acquisition costs have been climbing due to the shift to mobile devices, where apps and assistants like Apple's Siri serve up many of the answers users once turned to Google for, when on desktop.
The company also has to pay Apple billions to be the default search engine on iOS.
The iMessage extension is currently only available in U.S. (ANI)


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|BDC Community Events
Chamber Services coordinates many of the City's large events that draw in visitors from the metropolitan area. The BDC is committed to improve the overall climate for local businesses and residents and continually strives to develop new programs, services and events that promote Berwyn businesses and the community.
Click here to download a complete listing of BDC events.
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|Chronic treatment of enbrel in rats with isoproterenol-induced congestive heart failure limits left ventricular dysfunction and remodeling.
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|PMID: 12215284 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of chronic treatment of enbrel (EB), a TNF-alpha antagonist, in a well defined congestive heart failure (CHF) rat model and test the hypothesis that chronic treatment of EB in CHF rats may limit the progression of Left ventricular (LV) dysfunction and structure remodeling and decrease cardiac IL-1beta levels. METHODS: We measured cardiac conformation, contractile performance and cytokines level in 8 age-matched normal adult rats (control group) and 8 rats with isoproterenol (ISO)-induced Heart failure (ISO group) and 8 rats with ISO-induced lesion but received EB treatment (EB group). RESULTS: LV end diastolic diameter and LV end systolic diameter in EB group were significantly less and LV fractional shortening was significantly larger than ISO group (9.2 +/- 0.3 mm vs 9.5 +/- 0.2 mm, 5.8 +/- 0.5 mm vs 6.5 +/- 0.3 mm, 0.37 +/- 0.03 vs 0.31 +/- 0.02, P < 0.05, P < 0.01, P < 0.01 respectively , but there was no significant difference of LV posterior wall thickness at end diastole between the two groups; LV end systolic pressure (P(ES)) dp/dt(max) in EB group were significantly greater than ISO group (104.8 +/- 4.6 mm Hg vs 98.4 +/- 4.9 mm Hg, 8395 +/- 940 mm Hg/s vs 6898 +/- 612 mm Hg, P < 0.05 P < 0.01 respectively), and LV end diastolic pressure (P(ED)) dp/dt(min), time constant of LV relaxation were significantly lower than ISO group (3.8 +/- 0.6 mm Hg vs 7.1 +/- 0.8 mm Hg, -5963 +/- 475 mm Hg/s vs-5030 +/- 316 mm Hg/s,15.4 +/- 0.8 ms vs 21.3 +/- 1.4 ms, P < 0.01, respectively . Although cardiac contractile performance in the EB group was greatly improved, there still was a big gap when compared with the control group. The ratio of LV weight to body weight in the EB group was significantly higher than control group 2.82 +/- 0.07 mg/g vs 2.28 +/- 0.08 mg/g, P < 0.01 but there was no significant difference when compared with the ISO group. There was no significant difference between the serum level of TNF-alpha in EB group and ISO group the it could not be detected in control group. TNF-alpha levels in LV of EB group was significantly higher than control group, 757.6 +/- 46.8 pg/g vs 367.5 +/- 22.7 pg/g, P < 0.01 but there was no significant difference when compared with ISO group. The IL-1beta level in LV of EB group was significantly lower than ISO group 356.2 +/- 28.5 pg/g vs 518.4 +/- 32.5 pg/g, P < 0.05 and it could not be detected in control group. The serum level of IL-1beta could not be detected in any rats. CONCLUSION: EB administered as soon as possible when ISO induced myocardial necrosis occurs can greatly improve cardiac contraction, and the improvement may be partly due to a decrease in the IL-1beta level in LV, besides the direct blocking effect of EB on TNF-alpha. EB can alleviate cardiac remodeling by its effect on LVEDD.
|Weimin Li; Runtao Gan; Guifang Sun
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|Title: Chinese medical journal Volume: 115 ISSN: 0366-6999 ISO Abbreviation: Chin. Med. J. Publication Date: 2002 Aug
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Both these works feature a famous aria for solo soprano: the 'Agnus Dei' in the Coronation Mass, its melody – a precursor of the Countess's 'Dove sono' from The Marriage of Figaro – delicately accompanied by muted violins and pizzicato basses; and in the Vespers, K339, the gently lilting 'Laudate Dominum'. Both were probably composed for Maria Magdalena Lipp, a court singer in Salzburg who was the wife of Haydn's younger brother, Michael. The arias are attractively sung on this new recording by Sandrine Piau.
Mozart once complained that although his employer, the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, liked to keep his Masses on the short side, they still had to be composed for full orchestra, including 'war-like' trumpets and drums. Alas, the music's dramatic quality is lacking in these performances. That may partly be due to the chorus being rather distantly balanced, but Laurence Equilbey hardly seems to respond to the essential character of these pieces. When Mozart begins his Vespers by having the chorus come in on the very first beat with the words 'Dixit Dominus', we expect something much more imposing than the feeble sound we're offered here. Even less satisfactory is the same work's 'Laudate pueri' – an austere fugue in the solemn key of D minor which looks forward to the 'Kyrie' from Mozart's Requiem. You'd never guess from this performance that the marking is forte, and that the chorus is supported by a trio of trombones.
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This past weekend was jam-packed as we celebrated Regional Animal Shelter's 6th Birthday! We are so thankful and blessed.
What a fabulous birthday weekend!
On Saturday, we had 45 people join us for our double header Paint 'n Sip sessions at Bottles and Brushes at Core Fit in Mayfield. Thank you to everyone who attended – we hope you enjoyed painting and sipping with us. Thank you to Kristin for opening your doors and welcoming us to your unique & fun space. Thank you to Kath for instructing and leading this paint session. We think everyone's masterpieces turned out amazing!
On Sunday, we made the journey to Helderberg Mountain Brewing Company in East Berne to celebrate in Mike and Chris' beautiful taproom. Thank you to everyone who attended, made a donation, purchased raffle tickets, or drank some very good beer, wine & cider.
Between both events we were able to raise over $1,650 and a pile of very generous donations that will go directly to the care of the animals!
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Grant horror stories serve as reminder: To increase funding chances, apply ahead of schedule
You've heard it your entire life, "If you're early, you're on time. If you're on time, you're late."
Internalizing this quote by Lik Hock Yap Ivan has the ability to not only provide serenity, but also success in the grant arena.
Most grant applications have a specific deadline specifying the date and time by time zone the application is due. These are firm deadlines. Do not assume otherwise.
As you're planning your schedule, plan to submit the grant at least 24-36 hours before the deadline. While it's not our intention to give you nightmares, here are some of the unexpected delays we've experienced at TheGrantHelpers.com. Without planning to be early, we could have easily missed these deadlines.
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Working remotely with a client often requires us to complete documents, scan them and send them to the client for signature. Several years ago, we were working with three different clients who were applying for non-competitive engineering grants from the same funding source. The deadline was 5 p.m. Try as we might to get documents ahead of time, the completed packages weren't ready to scan and send for signatures and transmittals until mid-morning. We scanned the documents and were planning to go to lunch after sending the packets to the clients.
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Our solution was to contact a local business who agreed to let us use their scanner. The applications were submitted just shy of two hours before the deadline and, happily, all three were funded.
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Telling a story that inspires funders to think of the possibilities as they read a grant application is one way we help our clients stand out. We were confident we'd captured the right balance in an education grant for a client on the east coast.
We had completed the package and planned to spend the next day printing and shipping the original and 12 copies. Reviewing the morning's paper prior to the work day, we saw a story about an unexpected blizzard that had completely paralyzed the east coast. The grant requirements clearly stated the package had to arrive by 5 p.m. on the designated day. Calls to various shipping services confirmed our fears. They couldn't guarantee delivery given the weather.
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We believe that everyone can get involved with Shakespeare. Thousands of people across the country have taken part in our participatory projects, which often take place in public to give people the chance to take part actively or watch and listen. Everyone gets to be involved in some way!
HAND IN HAND - a video montage for Shakespeare Week 2019.
Between 18 and 24 March 2019, we asked primary schools and families to send us photos, videos and images inspired by the following quote:
"Let's go hand in hand, not one before another"
: Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
Our learning coordinator Jamie Brown collected the responses and brought them together in this lovely video, which celebrates togetherness.
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Creative workshops in dementia care homes and hospital wards.
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Supreme Court: Veteran Can't Be Forced To Indemnify Ex-Spouse When Electing Benefits
A retired Air Force Veteran's divorce decree awarded his ex-wife 50 percent of the veteran's future Air Force retirement pay, but thirteen years after the divorce, the veteran was found partially disabled due to an earlier service-related injury, and elected to give up an equal amount ($250 monthly) of retirement pay in order to receive disability pay – thereby reducing the value of his ex-wife's 50 percent share by 50 percent of $250.
An Arizona family court held that the veteran's ex-wife was entitled to the pre-waiver amount and ordered the veteran to ensure she received the full 50 percent without regard for the disability election. The Arizona Supreme Court affirmed, finding that the federal law requiring the veteran to make an election of benefits payments did not pre-empt the family court's order. On May 15, 2017, the United States Supreme Court (noting that it granted certiorari because different state courts had come to different conclusions on the matter) reversed the decision of the Arizona court, and held that a state court "may not order a veteran to indemnify a divorced spouse for the loss in the divorced spouse's portion of the veteran's retirement pay caused by the veteran's waiver of retirement pay to receive service-related disability benefits."
In reaching its unanimous decision to reverse the Arizona court's holding, the United States Supreme Court recited the history of judicial precedent and Congressional legislation addressing the issue of whether a veteran's retirement pay could be considered community property (and therefore divisible between spouses) in a divorce proceeding or divorce decree. After the Court ruled in 1981 that states could not consider any of a veteran's retirement pay to be a form of community property in McCarty v. McCarty, 453 U.S. 210, 211-215 (1981), Congress passed the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act, 10 U.S.C. § 1408 ("Act"), which states that a State may treat veterans' "disposable retired pay" as divisible between spouses upon divorce. But as the Court noted in its decision in this case, 10 U.S.C. § 1408(a)(4)(A)(ii) "expressly excluded from its definition of 'disposable retired pay' amounts deducted from that pay 'as a result of a waiver…required by law in order to receive' disability benefits."
That new language, the Court observed, was interpreted in Mansell v. Mansell, 490 U.S. 581 (1989). In Mansell, a veteran divorced, and entered into a settlement with his ex-spouse which provided that the veteran would pay 50 percent of his total military retirement pay, including the portion he waived to receive disability benefits. When the divorce decree issued, it incorporated this term. The veteran later moved to modify the decree to omit the portion of the retirement pay from divisibility that he had waived to receive disability benefits, but the California courts refused to do so before the Supreme Court reversed, holding that "federal law forbade" California from "treating the waived portion as community property divisible at divorce." In Mansell, Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote that federal law "completely pre-empted the application of state community property law to military retirement pay," and observed that Congress could neutralize that pre-emption by "enacting an affirmative grant of authority giving the States the power to treat military retirement pay as community property." The Act had done this, the Court observed, but only "to a limited extent" that excluded the "disability-related waived portion of military retirement pay."
The Court was not convinced by the Arizona Supreme Court distinguishing Mansell on the basis that the waiver had occurred many years after the divorce proceedings, rather than prior to the divorce proceedings in Mansell. The Court stated that "the temporal difference highlights only that [the veteran's] military retirement pay at the time it came to [the ex-spouse] was subject to later reduction (should [the veteran exercise a waiver to receive disability benefits to which he is entitled)." According to the Court, the "existence of that contingency meant that the value of [the ex-spouse's] share of military retirement pay was possibly worth less – perhaps less than [the ex-spouse] and others thought – at the time of the divorce." The Court compared this phenomenon with an ownership interest in property being worth less if it is subject to defeasance or termination upon the occurrence of a later event.
The Court also dismissed the argument made by the ex-spouse and the state Solicitor General that the State could avoid the Mansell precedent by describing the family court order as an order requiring a veteran to "reimburse" or to "indemnify" an ex-spouse, rather than an order requiring a veteran to divide property, describing the difference as "semantic and nothing more."
For the above stated reasons, the United States Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the Supreme Court of Arizona, and remanded the case for further proceedings.
Read the full case: Howell v. Howell
This case law update was written by Conor D. Dirks, associate attorney, Shaw Bransford & Roth, PC.
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Lars Rood is a friend of mine, a fellow Presbyterian, and what I call a "master youth pastor." He has done a ton of deep thinking about youth ministry, the character of a youth pastor, the expectations churches place on youth pastors and youth ministries, and so on and so forth. Recently he has posted a series on "youth ministry falsehoods." I recommend the entire series - it's brilliant. Here are a few of my favorite sections:
A few months back I did an interview with Adam S. McHugh [that's me!] for his blog the Introverted Church. In the interview I pretty much outed myself as not being an extrovert. This came as a surprise to a lot of people who have interacted with me over the years. Many of them were surprised because I clearly don't come across all the time as an introvert. But, it's true. I don't get energy from being around people and I need a lot of alone time to recuperate after an event. I call myself a "Functional Extrovert" which in general just means I can "fake" it really well.
This doesn't mean I don't like people. I love people and being around people. I find myself at conference, camps and events sleeping very little because I don't want to miss anything. At times I do this really well. But, you should see me in the few days after those events. I'm a wreck and really wiped out.
One of the dominate beliefs since the early days of youth ministry is that youth workers needed big outgoing dynamic personalities. The paradigm was that youth workers needed to be Outgoing Extroverts who "drew" students to them like the Pied Piper. And in many cases this model of youth ministry worked really well. The "superstar" youth worker was the leader who received all the praise, had some of the largest ministries and was invited to speak at all the conferences, retreats and events. But, this model also worked pretty horribly when that Youth Worker left, fell apart or had a life transition.
It used to be that Introverts didn't have much place in our ministries. It was difficult to figure out what to do with someone if they weren't a dynamic outgoing personality. But, I think things have changed.
One thing I've seen happen in the last 5 years is an explosion of new ways in which introverts can have larger roles. With the rise in new media we've had a whole bunch of people who blog, tweet, e-mail, text, Facebook etc. all of the sudden how find a place where their voices are being heard by many people yet they are not forced to try to fit into big upfront roles. It used to be that the youth workers who wrote books were only those who were also speaking, teaching at conferences and big events. Now that's not the case. A whole bunch of new voices of youth workers are starting to write and publish amazing content independent of having to be those upfront voices or major extroverts. I think this is a great thing (says the guy who is sitting alone in his office) because it gives a voice and a place for introverts. Now we should be able to approach people in our church who might not be the stereotypical youth workers and find great meaningful roles for them to be a part of.
My challenge is to churches to really think about what the needs are for their students and ministries. I think a lot of churches think they are "one hire" away from having a great dynamic youth ministry program. In general a lot of people have still bought into the Extrovert model and believe that if they can just find that right person things will be great. But, it might be that hiring a behind the scenes master planner, organizer and thinker might actually be a better fit/need for the longer term success of the ministry.
So if you are not an extrovert you are fine. You can do great youth ministry. My advice is to do what I do and make sure to set your self up for success and have great trips, activities and retreats that you can go on and love and care for students but also make sure you have some downtime to be able to recharge in the midst of it.
This post may seem slightly similar to my last post but I think there are enough differences that I decided to write it separately. I do a lot of consulting with churches and youth workers who all have decided that they need the same things. Many churches just feel like a great "Up front" dynamic presence who is a master communicator and story teller will likely draw students into the ministry and then they can feel successful about their youth ministry. Youth Workers in general have bought into this belief too and the most highly prized ones are those who are the most visibly gifted up front.
But the truth is this is hurting our field. Think about it for a second. How many of us have sat in a seminar or a youth ministry event and listened to a super engaging up front communicator tell story after story without really saying anything. I've fallen into this trap too. There was a joke at a church I worked a few years ago that I couldn't teach without telling some sort of story about the Island I grew up on. I was really good at telling stories and keeping students attention. But, I was really bad about doing what I was supposed to do which was teach the Bible.
When we overemphasize the role of the upfront communicator we put that person in a position where they start becoming as important as the content/message/Bible they are supposed to be teaching. Think about some of these dynamic communicators. What has happened when they left? Is the Youth Ministry teaching time about Jesus or is about their communication style? Did we make the youth ministry about entertainment and keeping their attention or did we fail at promoting a real concept of what following Jesus will look like. It's hard.
Now if you know me then you know I am a good communicator. It's something I do value and for whatever reason God gifted me in it. If I wanted too though I could not study, prepare or plan a message and just get up and teach from the seat of my pants. And students would like it and keep coming back. So maybe this post is my way of telling myself to be careful.
But, I also think there are a ton of great youth workers who feel like they are constantly out of place because the expectation is that they will be great up front communicators and they just don't know how to do that. Have we decided incorrectly that any gift is more important than others in the youth ministry world?
So if you are a youth worker who doesn't feel like you can be up front, if you feel like you aren't valued because you aren't dynamic, if you feel marginalized because your church (or places you've interviewed) don't value your gifts. Please know that you are valuable.
Youth Ministry Falsehood - You must be a wild and crazy kid magnet
I've been told over the years that I have a bit of craziness in me. It comes out in general on trips when I have an large amount of free time and am spending a ton of extended time with students. There are appropriate times for this kind of ministry. We do an event every year for our 5-6th graders which basically ends in a huge shaving cream war. A similar thing happens on a Middle School event. Come to think of it most of our fun events seem to end with me covered in shaving cream.
But there is a lot more to ministry than just being wild and crazy. In fact sometimes being crazy is what hurts your ministry the most. I'm a parent of three kids. I want my kids to have fun at church and I appreciate leaders with energy but I'm also a bit leery of leaders who sometimes clearly don't know how to shut it down. Like I said above there are appropriate times for it but sometimes it gets in the way.
Being a kid magnet is sometimes a great thing and helpful in ministry. Who doesn't want to feel like kids want to hang out with you and without trying to hard they come to you. But, there is also a great place in ministry for the man or woman who is consistent, regular and prepared. For someone who week in and week out has proved that they will always be there and students know that they can always turn to them.
I had a volunteer who was a part our ministry early on in California. I haven't worked with him in 13 years. But, every year without fail he calls us on our anniversary. This year I happened to post that on Facebook and a whole bunch of people commented that he does the same thing for them. That's an amazing testimony to commitment.
There are times in ministry that all of us need to break free of our comfort zone. For me I have to "gear up" and get ready for events. It's literally almost like a locker room talk that I give myself before an event. I mentally think through how I need to act and the energy I need to have in order to make sure that students have a good time. Of course afterwards I'm a wreck and tired but generally it's worth it.


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I've seen the Lidar Lite go through glass. Depends on the attenuation coefficient for water at the wavelength, but in general it's not 100% for near ir. I would go with sonar for measuring water level. You could also float a reflector of appropriate material on the surface of the water if you want to use ir or are concerned about the wide beam angle from sonar.
With respect to problem number 2, something that worked for me to point a solar panel at the sun was to do only two sweeps, one pan, one tilt, then put the servos at each of the found maximums. That puts it at least in the general range of the correct angle. Then follow that with a seeking behavior by looking one degree (or half degree or what have you) up, one degree down, left, right, and center, measuring the intensity at each. Then pick the one with the highest intensity to be the new center, and repeat until the same center is picked x times in a row.
The two sweep method is crude but works for solar because there is only one maximum (the sun). I'm guessing WiFi will have multiple maximums (peaks and valleys, reflections), but if you're already in the ballpark the seeking behavior could be a great way to dial in the angle. It could be used to correct for small movements or bumps. With sufficient speed maybe the seeking behavior could maintain a track while it's moving.
I had the same error among others. I am using the Arduino IDE on Windows 10 per the instructions on Git. Uploading works by holding down the Pin0 button (or use a switch) until the flashing begins (may be difficult to tell exactly when that is). Then let go (or unswitch) and it should be fine until it's done flashing.
There appears to be a typo on the graphical datasheet with GPIO2 labeled as GPIO21.
Agreed. In the Magjack, there are pairs of pins that are connected through inductor coils ("shorts"). Trying to use those pins for TTL would not work. Magjack is for Ethernet communication only to my understanding.
This item does not, but mated with the breakout board you can get it onto a breadboard.
Having success so far using two SN754410 quad half-h drivers and powering with a 2000 mAh single cell LiPo.
Bummer, but understandable until you have built your giant glass dome... hey what about miniaturizing the whole thing??? Rules for quads not larger than 5 inches across and have the whole course inside a bullet proof lexan half dome about 10 feet high... that's no problem right?
...also missing an end quote above the RROD pic.
So, I know quadcopters are old news, but I was thinking about placing IR reflection sensors under my propellers to quickly detect the failure of prop saver rubber bands. Although now that I think about it, keeping an eye on the current would be more reliable. It's interesting the conversations about why or why not to build in failure detection. I guess if you're sending people into space or building medical devices you think about that kind of thing. If you're making... whatever that stuff we buy over and over again is called... hmmm. I guess it makes more money if it breaks?
Actually it does work. The LED setup is a little odd to me in that you provide a ground for LED instead of an LED power pin. I'm currently wiring one of these switches to my PC power supply converted to bench supply and the way to go was to wire the green "on" wire to the + symbol, the ground to the 'lamp' symbol, and -12v to the LED ground. That way, when you close the switch, green gets connected to ground, and the power supply turns on and provides -12v to the LED ground and it lights up.
So if you are going to use this as a low-side switch you will need to come up with a negative voltage to drive the LED. Question about this: is there any danger of going above 12v on the LED from the load being switched to ground "raising the ground"???
If you are using this as a high-side switch (as obviously intended), then you simply put your load on the 'lamp' symbol, your positive voltage on the + symbol, and ground on the LED ground, and it should do the same thing and light up when switched on only.
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World Cup Group A Betting and Fixtures
World Cup Group A Betting Preview: Having the host nations in the competition for as long as possible, always adds that extra special feeling to a World Cup. Sadly, the historic 2010 FIFA World Cup, which is being held on the African continent for the first time, looks set to lose their hosts in the group stages.
Group A World Cup Teams: South Africa, Mexico, Uruguay, France
South Africa have not shown any signs that they can cause an upset or be a surprise package through the tournament, and that will be a shame. Maybe playing in front of their home crowd will inspire them to better things, but certainly in terms of odds judgement at the best World Cup Bookmakers, the apparent signs are not there. For Mexico, who go up against South Africa in the opening match of the 2010 World Cup on June 11th, will be taking a relatively young side to the tournament. Mexico finished second behind the USA in the CONCACAF qualification zone, and make their fifth consecutive appearance. Being so young they will be full of vim and vigour, and should play quite open attacking football. France will be favourites to win the group, even though the European side seem a big disjointed and lacking direction at the moment. Coach Raymond Domenech is one of the controversial figures, and you are never sure what you are going to get from him or his team. They clinched their World Cup spot in a play-off against Ireland with the famous Thierry Henry handball incident. In contrast to Mexico, France are full of experience and age. Not a great team when stood up alongside some of Europe's other entrants, but should get through the group. South America is represented by Uruguay in Group A, and they also needed a playoff to reach South Africa 2010. Much in the vein of Mexico, Uruguay have a core of youngsters that will represent them at the tournament in June. Looking at the Group A World Cup Fixtures, it appears as if their game against Mexico which could decide second place in the group.
Group A Head to Head Betting Info:
South Africa: Lost in their only World Cup match against France. Have not played Mexico or Uruguay at the World Cup.
Mexico: Failed to beat France in three World Cup matches, losing twice and drawing once. Have not played South Africa before. Drew 0-0 with Uruguay at the 1966 World Cup.
France: Beat South Africa 3-0 in World Cup 1998. Have lost once and drawn once against Uruguay. Beaten Mexico twice and drawn against them once in World Cup History.
Uruguay: Never lost to France at the World Cup, beating them once and drawing against them. Produced a scoreless draw in their only World Cup match against Mexico. Will be the first World Cup match against South Africa.
World Cup Group A - Table
|Matches / Points
|3 Matches / 7 Points
|3 Matches / 4 Points
|South Africa
|3 Matches / 4 Points
|3 Matches / 1 Point
World Cup Betting at Bwin for Outright Winner of Group A, has hosts South Africa at 7/1, Mexico are at 62/17, Uruguay 62/17 and France are favourites at 4/5 (and 16/1 to Win the World Cup Outright).


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The Camaro's design continues to turn heads. The look is polarizing, no doubt, and outrageous in almost every inch of its sheetmetal, from the too-low roofline to the squared-off haunches. It's an attention-getter, even if the styling gives it some of the worst outward vision of any volume vehicle we've driven. But owners aren't likely to care about that….Very cool Car…Check it out!
i must say this car is pretty freakin sweet!!! Somethin about a blower stickin out of the hood takes this car to another level...along with the Black paint and wheels.


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Dataprep is an interactive web application in which users define the data preparation rules by interacting with a sample of their data. Use of the application is free. Once a data preparation flow has been defined, the sample can be exported for free or the flow can be executed as a Dataprep job (using Google Dataflow) over the original dataset.
Pricing before March 15, 2019
Each Dataprep job is billed as a multiple of the execution cost (Cloud Dataprep Units) of the Dataflow job that performs the data transformation.
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Dataprep jobs are charged for execution units, which are composed of Memory, vCPU, Storage, etc.
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When you submit a job to Dataprep, it is executed by Dataflow workers. Starting on March 15, 2019, Dataprep will be billed according to the number of Dataflow worker virtual CPUs (vCPUs) that are needed to process a job and the time that the vCPUs are used.
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The Member Spotlight program will feature a new work of art every quarter, created by members of THELMA, which will be displayed alongside pieces from the permanent collection.
Submissions will be juried by our THELMA curator, with submissions accepted quarterly.
THELMA welcomes and encourages its members to show off their talents for the Member Spotlight regardless of artistic experience. Artists and non-artists are invited to submit work in various forms of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, woodwork, glasswork, jewelry and more. Artists must be age 16 and up.
Submissions for the fourth quarter of 2018 will be accepted via email (firstname.lastname@example.com) or mail. Registration form and display protocols can be found in the documents below.
Current Member Spotlight:
Chris Dolan – Beanfield in Autumn
Medium: Oil on canvas
Laura Schneider – Medieval Paris
Medium: Giclee
Nancy Donohue – Hard Edge
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Ancient Survivors
Featuring sturgeon artwork, artifacts, and history. The exhibit also includes decoys, audio and articles related to the culture and science surrounding sturgeon. These elements have been collected from across Wisconsin and the Midwest and will be the first time these will all be together in one place for display. This exhibition comes to THELMA in collaboration with The UW Sea Grant Institute, UW Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Minnesota Duluth Fine Art Department, Oshkosh Public Museum and Sturgeon for Tomorrow.
Exhibition Dates: January 10 – March 2
The Member Spotlight program will feature a new work of art every quarter, created by members of THELMA, which will be displayed alongside pieces from the permanent collection.
Submissions will be juried by our THELMA curator, with submissions accepted quarterly.
THELMA welcomes and encourages its members to show off their talents for the Member Spotlight regardless of artistic experience. Artists and non-artists are invited to submit work in various forms of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, woodwork, glasswork, jewelry and more. Artists must be age 16 and up.
Submissions for the fourth quarter of 2018 will be accepted via email (firstname.lastname@example.com) or mail. Registration form and display protocols can be found in the documents below.
Current Member Spotlight:
Chris Dolan – Beanfield in Autumn
Medium: Oil on canvas
Laura Schneider – Medieval Paris
Medium: Giclee
Nancy Donohue – Hard Edge
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Departures by Emmet Sandberg
Exhibition Dates: March 7 – April 20
These "Departures" examine how I process experience and make sense of the world. The act of redacting reveals how the sorting and organizing of experience allows us to explore the references and associations used to create the narratives that situate us in our time and place. – Emmet Sandberg
200 Days: A Life in the Quotidian
Exhibition Dates: March 7 – April 20
"When Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts first approached me for this solo exhibit over a year ago, I knew I wanted to "go small" but didn't quite know which medium to showcase. I also wanted to make a ridiculous quantity of pieces. Enter drypoint! And tininess! And watercolor! I wanted to challenge myself and create very tiny prints – each of the prints measures only 1.5×2". Every one of them is a drypoint print first, and probably 95% of them are enhanced with watercolor.
Beginning on April 1, 2018 and ending on October 20 of that year, I created a drypoint print a day. That's 200 days (give or take three days, because I just forgot). Each piece began with a photo I took that day, and I gave myself rules – no going out of your way to get a photo; no "cheating" and taking a week's worth of photos in one day; and try not to "pose".
Because I had no idea what was going to happen on any given day, this project was a complete surprise to create. I couldn't plan for anything! It was so exciting to see how my prints turned out once I had created the drypoint print from the photo, and again after applying the watercolor.
This exhibit is site-specific; I purposely made 200 pieces for the exhibit and the size they are to fit the gallery. The only thing I knew immediately was that I wanted the prints to be framed identically and to be hung in a straight line, like a "timeline" or journal of my days.
I hope you enjoy the exhibit as much as I enjoyed creating it for this beautiful space! Approximately 1500 hours went into the creation of these little friends, and it is most certainly my magnum opus at this point in my career.
But something else happened along this 200-day journey – I fell in love with my work again. I would catch myself tearing up with happiness when creating these small friends, because I realized just how lucky I am to be able to do this. It was the most important thing to come from this exhibit." – Mel Kolstad
Price list for artwork is available in our lobby at our front desk. Call 920-921-5410 for artwork inquiries or stop in Monday through Friday 10 – 5 pm or Saturday 11 – 3 pm.
Artist of The Year: 2013, 2014
Blues Band Of The Year: 2012-2014
Jimmy Voegeli (Hammond Organ/ keys/ vocals)
Perry Weber (guitar/ vocals)
John Wartenweiler (electric and upright bass)
Pete Ross (Saxaphones)
Mike Boman (Trumpet)
Derek Hendrickson (Drums)
Chris Sandoval (Drums)
WAMI Awards:
2013, 2015 Keyboardist Of The Year
MAMA Awards:
2013-2014 Artist Of The Year
2011-2015 Keyboardist Of The Year
2013-2015 Brass Instrumentalist of The Year
2012-2013, 2015 Saxophonist Of The Year
2013, 2015 Blues Performer Of The Year
2014 Blues Song Of The Year
2014 Blues Album Of The Year
Cropping to Circles by Kendall McMinimy
Exhibition will be on view from April 25 – June 8, 2019
Cropping to Circles
"A mechanical marvel, Central Pivot Irrigation Systems deliver water to otherwise dry lands and food to an otherwise hungry planet. With outstretched steel arms, these wheeled giants twirl slow-motion pirouettes of simulated rainfall pumping atomized sprays from groundwater reserves far below the surface.
As an outgrowth of the "Green Revolution," center pivot irrigation is a system that encircles multiple conflicting truths—a worldwide revolution in food production is also complicit in the depletion of groundwater; humanitarian aid aligns with hegemonic order; global market forces allow and deny local economies; a system simultaneously produces and diminishes.
These structures, chasing their own tails, morph into lumbering memento mori and echo our own existence rotating through the repetitive rhythms and cycles of life. The images serve as reminders of a reality that is tethered to an ever-increasing detailed, ubiquitous, and immediate ease of technological and satellite surveillance.
Minimal signifiers amplify ambiguities, create associations, and stretch the legibility of representation. Vacillating between the familiar and the fictitious, the work reveals little of the subject's true spatial immensity, nor the monumental investment represented.
Viewed through the particulars of place, this project is an inquiry into circular arguments, the fluidity of truths encircled by a framework, and the cyclical acceptance and rejection of those truths. It is also an invitation to consider the "in between," the budding potential revealed in the voids and blanks of the prints. Shifting with time, these breaks from conformity illuminate the continual shifts in the topographies of possibilities."
Kendall McMinimy
Kendall McMinimy uses photography, digital art, printmaking and sculpture to explore structure and ideology as filtered through place.
Stretching the legibility of representation, his work vacillates between the familiar and the fictitious, amplifying ambiguities and associations to allow for continual shifts in the topographies of possibilities.
Notable awards and exhibits include: "Critical Mass 50, " GuatePhoto International Photography Festival, Guatemala City, Guatemala (2015); "Process," Photo Center NW Gallery, Seattle (2014); The Print Center's 88th Annual International Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia (2014); and Review/CENTER, Santa Fe. He has participated in numerous solo and group shows around the United States, and "Cropping to Circles" was published in Harpers Magazine (March 2014).
McMinimy holds an MA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Born and raised in the High Plains of Kansas, he has resided in Wisconsin since 1998. He is a frequent guest lecturer and teaches Digital Arts at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, and Photography at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Exhibition will be on view from April 25 – June 8, 2019
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 25, 6 – 8 pm
Free admission and open to the public, meet the artist as you view her work. Cash bar and snacks available.
Artist's Exchange: Thursday, May 30, 6 – 8 pm
Free admission and open to the public, listen to a Q&A talk and learn about her process, inspiration, and execution of her work. Cash bar and snacks available.
Sharon Garrison is an artist who specializes in portrait. She works intuitively as did Alice Neel and Lucien Freud, two of her sources of inspiration. A professor once compared her work to that of Soutine. She was not aware of Soutine at the time and headed straight to the library to look up the artist. She did not see a similarity but others have also made the comparison. Shape and value are of primary importance. Her colors tend to be realistic, even somewhat monochromatic in nature.
Although never one for drawing, her recent work is a series of portraits entitled "Friends & Family plus passing acquaintances and me", made with Sharpie markers. These drawings are a combination of realism and caricature applied to images of acquaintances, family and friends. She often enhances memory of past relationships to create what she surmises a contemporary version of the past might look like and vice versa.
She is presently exploring cattle markers and cold wax and oil as mediums, using a trial and error approach. Her work in general is based upon trial and error methodology. Although the portraits seem to be classical in nature, there is often an edgy quality to them.
Sharon feels that the artist's work is complete when she deems the piece finished. It is then time for a dialogue between the viewer and the artwork. With this sequence of events the work takes on a new life with each different onlooker, creating an expanded continuum. For this reason, she does not attempt to explain her work. If the work is successful, there should be no need for explanation. However, the life experiences of the viewer melding with the art work facilitates a fresh dialogue between the viewer and artist, often resulting in a mutually beneficial understanding of the piece.
She earned an Associate Degree from UW Fond du Lac and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
She has shown in many venues around the state:
2018 Wisconsin Visual Artists Biennial, Mowa
Neville Public Museum
Union at the University of Wisconsin Madison
Gail Steinhilber Gallery, UWO
Frank Juarez Gallery, Sheboygan
1996 Faculty Alumni Show, Priebe Gallery UWO
Two person show UW Fond du Lac
Solo show Langdon Divers Gallery, Fond du Lac
Solo show Riverwalk Art Center Fond du Lac
Many Alive in the Arts juried shows, Plymouth Art Center
Invitational show Trista Holz Studios, Fond du Lac
THELMA member shows
Mowa member shows
Ecological Show, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire art gallery
Signage for Prairie Theater, UW Fond du Lac
Mowa Members Show Director's Award 2017
Merit Award Plymouth Alive in the Arts 2018
First place Plymouth Members show 2018
Three meritorious designations and inclusion the the gallery books for Jack Richeson International Art Competitions
A featured artist in three Frank Juarez Artdose Guides
1994 Designer of the Year, UWO
Many Wisconsin Regional Artists awards
Part of the "soul-revival" movement with their own style of Memphis flavored soul, roots, and blues!
2019 WAMI nominee for R&B/Soul Artist, Tweed has appeared at some of the top festivals and blues rooms in the Midwest, South, and Northeast. In 2018, Tweed successfully toured Europe performing shows in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Austria, and Slovakia. Another tour of Europe is currently being assembled for fall of 2019.
Kyle Megna and the Monsoons (2018 WAMI Alternative Rock/Rock Artist of the Year) and (2017 WAMI Alternative Rock/Rock Artist of the year) is an original Wisconsin band with an ever-growing following locally and beyond. The band has shared the stage with acts such as Toto, Rusted Root, Jack Russell's Great White, and Here Come The Mummies. Touring the Mid-West and South-East the Monsoons are a tight-knit group of accomplished, charismatic musicians with diverse backgrounds, these guys know how to have fun while always keeping it professional. Best seen live, they feed off the vibe of the crowd as well as each other.
Their "dark-indie-blues-folk-rock feel" is a magnetic force that's ever-charged with surges of creativity and artistic experimentation. Fused with a healthy dose of spontaneity and humor, Kyle Megna and the Monsoons channel can't-get-enough energy that's good for the soul.
Vocals and guitar are done by Kyle Megna (2018 WAMI Male Vocalist of the Year). Aaron Zepplin on lead guitar. Fred Velpel is on bass and is nominated for the 2018 Award for Bass. Mike Underwood is on drums. Ross Catterton is on saxophone. Kurt Shipe is on trumpet and is nominated for 2018 Reeds/Brass Award. Noah Harmon is on keys


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Get started with creating your insights engine with data visualization
A picture is worth a thousand words. Until recently, companies with compound supply chains spread across diverse geographies were not able to realize the true potential of the statement. Data analytics and visualization has made it possible for retailers and distributors to gather and analyze hundreds of data points to identify revenue trends.
Take an Asia-based major consumer appliance manufacturer for instance, that approached our Google Cloud technology team recently. The volume of data had grown exponentially for the company, and they were looking forward to more sophisticated data analytics and visualization algorithms to clearly understand geography-wise revenue trends. The company, when approached us, were capturing only a fraction of the massive potential value from their existing business data and analytics.
There are thousands of other businesses struggling with similar issues. The companies have access to huge amount of data but they lack effective business decision making owing to lack of resources to make sense out of their large volumes of data, or they lack tools and technologies to run powerful performance analysis with data visualization. These organizations are in a dire need to completely digitize their operations in order to capture more relevant data from their customer interactions, supply chains, equipment, and internal processes.
The bottleneck in the process is usually the hesitation to switch from legacy data systems to a more flexible architecture to store and leverage big data. Where, digital native organizations are built on the foundation of analytics, legacy companies are usually seen toiling around transforming their entire existing systems. Consequences of neglecting analytics can potentially leave an organization exposed to the perils of being disrupted.
Performance / revenue analysis with data visualization
In their quest to get an unfiltered, clear visualization of their own data, MediaAgility built a map based web application which provides comprehensive insights about the company's performance across all territories. The web app is capable of filtering results by region, sales rep, retailer etc. Data visualization is performed on Google Maps while analytics are run by Google BigQuery.


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Queen of the Gods, and the goddess of marriage and motherhood. Symbols are the peacock and the cow. Daughter of Kronus and Rhea. Wife and sister of Zeus.
|Tenedos is mentioned in both the Iliad and the Aeneid, in the latter as the island where the Greeks hid their fleet near the end of the Trojan War in order to trick the Trojans into believing the war was over and into taking the Trojan Horse within their city walls. The island was important throughout classical antiquity despite its small size due to its strategic location at the entrance of the Dardanelles. In the following centuries, the island came under the control of a succession of regional powers, including the Persian Empire, the Delian League, Alexander the Great, the Kingdom of Pergamon, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, and the Republic of Venice. As a result of the War of Chioggia (1381) between Genoa and Venice the entire population was evacuated and the town was demolished. The Ottoman Empire established control over the deserted island in 1455. During Ottoman rule, it was resettled by both Greeks and Turks. In 1807, the island was temporarily invaded by the Russians. During this invasion, the town was burnt down and many Turkish residents left the island.
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Key Economic Questions Are Unresolved
It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm David Greene.
Later this week, on Friday morning just before 8:30 Eastern Time, investors, traders, and many economists around the world will stop what they're doing and tune in to hear the answer to the big question facing the economy right now. That's when the Labor Department tells us how many jobs were gained or lost across the country in March. Recent months have seen stronger job growth, but there's been a lot of concern in recent weeks over whether that can last. NPR's Chris Arnold reports.
CHRIS ARNOLD, BYLINE: Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, has been making people nervous lately. Last week at a big economics conference in Washington, Bernanke said yes, the unemployment rate has been falling recently and that's good, but...
BEN BERNANKE: At the same time some key questions are unresolved. For example, the better jobs numbers seem somewhat out of sync with the overall pace of economic expansion.
ARNOLD: In other words, overall economic growth may be slowing. So the worry is that these more solid job gains could disappear. More than once recently Bernanke has said this...
BERNANKE: Despite the recent improvement, the job market remains far from normal.
ARNOLD: The unemployment rate has fallen to 8.3 percent. For that decline to continue, though, Bernanke says it will likely need to have faster growth. And that's what many analysts and economists are thinking about right now. Gus Faucher is an economist with PNC Financial Services Group.
GUS FAUCHER: Yeah, that is the big question. It appears that GDP growth has weakened a bit in the first quarter.
ARNOLD: So that might mean that this next jobs report could be a big disappointment. Still, some analysts are optimistic. John Ryding is the chief economist of RDQ Economics in New York.
JOHN RYDING: Well, I think Chairman Bernanke has been playing down a little bit the performance of the economy because he wants to keep interest rates on hold through late 2014 in an attempt to try and further encourage growth. Our own view is the economy has been doing fundamentally a bit better than that.
ARNOLD: Ryding says some alternative measures of growth suggest a more robust recovery. Also, consumer confidence has been improving. On Friday the Commerce Department reported the biggest gain in consumer spending since July.
RYDING: So it may be the drop in unemployment has been more fundamental and maybe it will be continued at a faster pace than the Federal Reserve is currently anticipating.
ARNOLD: The economy needs to gain upwards of 200,000 jobs every month to make much headway against unemployment. We'll get that latest monthly number on Friday.
RYDING: And I expect to see job creation once again in excess of 200,000. And that will be very encouraging for the economy.
ARNOLD: Of course that's a prediction. We'll have to wait a few more days to find out.
Chris Arnold, NPR News.
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