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Three weeks into January… need an excuse to indulge since you've been so good with your diet resolutions? Yeah, we thought so. You're in luck! National Pie Day, brought to you by the American Pie Council, is on January 23 and a wonderful reminder of America's pie heritage and expression of the country's love affair with pies. (I can taste the chocolate cream already!)
National Pie Day - Survey Results
National Pie Day Activities
It's 'pie'-ty time!
Whether at the office or at home, host a pie party. Banana cream, key lime, chocolate, apple, mixed berries...the list can go on and on. And don't forget a fun toppings bar: whipped cream, ice cream, fruit compote... If you're really adventurous, go try a slice at The Humble Pie Restaurant in Santa Rosa, California where they host the annual Strange Pie Contest.
Get social with #NationalPieDay
You don't need to stuff your face (though who wouldn't). If you are really going to keep to your diet resolution, you can still enjoy everyone's pie creativity by following the hashtag #NationalPieDay. Or check out footage of the World Pie Eating Championship at Harry's Bar in Wigan, U.K. Just make sure you're not competing against Lard Ass.
Watch "Cherry Pie" music video
Check out Warrant's incredible "Cherry Pie" music video. No, this band was not a parody, and yes, this song was really a Top 10 hit. Kids, your dad actually dressed like that in the 90s and still would if he still had hair. Interestingly, the model/actress in the video, Bobbie Brown, eventually married Warrant's lead singer after breaking off her engagement with Motley Crue's Tommy Lee…clearly she had a type. (Don't feel bad for Tommy Lee, four days after Bobbie dumped him, he married Pamela Anderson, and we all know how that turned out.)
Why We Love National Pie Day
Every culture has its own pie tradition
Ancient Egyptians used to make pie. Romans had pie in their feasts. And even America's beloved apple pie came to us via the Dutch! Savory or sweet, there's something special about baking delicious goodness in a crust. According to the American Pie Council, the first pies were made by the ancient Romans, and the very first published recipe was for a rye-crusted goat cheese and honey pie (sounds just like something you'd find at a hipster pie shop in Brooklyn today). Since then pies have come a long way and have contained everything from Doritos to eels to well… you know.
A 'pie' says love
Cake is so every day. But pie, pie—there's the thought that goes into the crust, into the filling, and any toppings beyond that. Pies take dedication and patience. Legend has it that the "motherhood and apple pie" phrase originated in WWII when journalists asked American G.I.s what they were fighting for.
Pies are a masterpiece of art and science
Pie sounds simple enough to make. They are made of crust and filling. But do you know how difficult it is to create the *perfect* flaky crust? And which fat do you use—butter, lard or vegetable shortening? With the filling, do you go savory or sweet, and the endless variations from there?!
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Farmers are a conservative lot. My former boss, employing a great talent for turns of phrase, would say" they are in a race to be first to be third." What makes them so bearish? The weather.
Let's compare them to you. It's sunny and creeping up on 80F today here in DC. You've thrown off your parka for shorts and a t-shirt while planning Saturday's visit to the farm market in search of radishes and asparagus. You will then, of course, head to your neighborhood biergarten (yay Dacha!) for a few brews and the first sunburn of the season.
While good, cold beer will satisfy, the asparagus and radishes will leave you sorely disappointed. Even in the warmest weather, asparagus is just not going to send up tender, sweet shoots for a few more weeks and no farmer will wasting valuable labor and seed only to get hit with a late frost. Unlike you, me and the beers, farmers don't get to plan their days around the weather they find upon waking in the morning.
What to do? Go right ahead and visit your winter farm market this weekend Do what I'll be doing April 1st when I return to Eastern Market for my first cooking demonstration of the season: grab some winter vegetables, like delicious beets*, and do your darnedest to make them taste like spring. You'll give those rightly conservative farmers a few more dollars for the lean weeks of winter and it'll get you through to those first radishes. And then? Enjoy a beer (or three) for me!
*My husband is having the divorce papers drawn up as I write this.
Orange Glazed Beets
Serves 6
For salad:
- 3 large beets, peeled and cut into a 1/2" dice
- 2 blood oranges, finely zested and juiced (about 1/3 cup)
- 1 tbs honey
- 1 tbs olive oil
- 2 tbs toasted fennel seeds*
- White pepper
- 1/2 crumbled Queso Fresco or mild Feta cheese
- 1 head Butter lettuce
For vinaigrette:
- 1 shallot, peeled and minced
- 1/3 cup Sherry vinegar
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- 2/3 cup olive oil – the good stuff!
*Toast fennel seeds in a dry skillet over medium heat. When they become fragrant and just begin to change color immediately remove them from the pan so they do not burn.
- Fill a saucepan with about 1″ water and 1 tbs orange zest. Place a steamer basket into the pan and add the beets. Steam beets, covered, over high heat until just tender, 15-20 min, adding additional water if needed. Reserve.
- Make vinaigrette: In medium bowl, whisk together shallot, vinegar and mustard. Season with salt and pepper. While whisking, add oil in a thin stream to form a creamy emulsion.
- Separate lettuce leaves and place in large bowl. Dress lightly with vinaigrette.
- Warm 1 tbs olive oil in a 12" skillet over med heat. Add beets and cook 2 min. Whisk together orange juice and honey and add to pan. Increase heat to med-high and cook until liquid reduces to glazes beets. Season with white pepper and salt.
Toss beets with fennel seeds, cheese and remaining zest, and serve over dressed lettuce leaves.

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Dairy Milk vs. Almond Milk and Milk AlternativesRead more
The Differences Between Goat Milk vs. Cow Milk
When it comes to these two beverages, there are two distinctions between goat's milk and cow's milk: cost and availability. While there are many options available in your grocer's refrigerator case, dairy milk is the most readily available — from the corner convenience store to the superstore.
This simple drink, found in 96 percent of Americans' refrigerators, is one of the original farm to table beverages and is a bargain as well. For about a quarter per 8-ounce glass, cow milk offers more nutritional value than just about any other beverage you can buy at this price. Goat milk is nearly five times more expensive, ringing up for $1.24 per 8-ounce glass.
Do the Health Benefits of Goat Milk Differ from Traditional Dairy Milk?
Dairy milk offers a range of health benefits, backed by decades of research. Studies repeatedly show the many benefits of having two to three servings of milk or milk products a day. The nutrients in milk help to build and maintain bone strength, and they have been found to boost muscle growth and support healthy weight.
Some people believe one of goat milk's benefits is that it contains less lactose per serving, meaning it could be a solution for those who are lactose intolerant. However, there's good news for milk lovers; There are many options for people who are lactose intolerant, but want to keep nutrient-rich milk on the table. Some experts suggest drinking milk with meals or snacks instead of on an empty stomach to reduce or eliminate symptoms. The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans also encourage people to try lower-lactose or lactose-free milk and milk products to ensure they get the important nutrients found in these products. Lactose-free milk is also an affordable option — an 8-ounce serving is less than 50 cents.
Many people are surprised to learn that lactose-free milk provides the same nine essential nutrients, such as calcium, protein and vitamin D, as all other types of dairy milk. Lactose-free milk is real cow's milk. What is removed is lactose, a natural sugar found in milk.
Do Cow Milk Alternatives Like Goat Milk Have Protein?
While there is protein in cow milk alternatives like goat milk, cow milk is the more affordable protein option than most other protein foods. Penny for penny, ounce for ounce, cow milk delivers 32 grams of protein per dollar. Compare this budget-friendly, high-quality protein source to goat milk, and you'll only get 7 grams of protein per dollar. When you drink real dairy milk, you get more protein bang for your buck.


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Marina Hopcroft is a postgraduate trained violinist and teacher (BMus (Hons), GDipEd). Gaining her education from around Australia - Charles Darwin University, University of Melbourne and University of Newcastle, Marina has played in a variety of orchestras, chamber groups and contemporary collaborations over the last 20 years.
As an undergraduate, Marina played in the Darwin Symphony Orchestra (DSO) and was also a member of a string quartet chosen as part of a cultural delegation to play for the Sultan of Brunei. Marina graduated as DSO player of the year before moving to Melbourne to complete a Graduate Diploma in Education.
Marina completed further postgraduate study in Newcastle, playing as a founding member of Christchurch Camerata, Newcastle Festival Opera, Lake Macquarie Orchestra and the Metropolitan Players at the Civic Theatre with shows such as 'Phantom of the Opera', 'The Mikado' and 'Annie - The Musical'. Marina also featured as solo violin in shows, 'The Last Five Years' and 'I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change'.
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The Tour's fifth stage from Amiens in the Somme to Chartres southwest of Paris was a corker that saw a breakaway group of five work together to put twelve and a half minutes between themselves and the chasing peloton. The ensuing flurry of attacks at the finish saw Australian Stuart O'Grady (Cofidis) take stage victory and a new yellow jersey in French Champion Thomas Voeckler (Brioches La Boulangere).
A rush of attacks right from the off on Thursday's stage led to the group of five, composing Stuart O'Grady (Cofidis), Thomas Voeckler (La Boulangère), Jakob Piil (CSC), Sandy Casar (FDJeux.com) and Magnus Backstedt (Alessio), pulling half a minute clear by the 21km mark.
Posing little threat to the general classification there was no rush to draw them back in and the breakaway steadily increased their lead, riding into the driving wind and rain: By the 86km mark the gap had opened up to 15.05.
The chasing peloton behind never really looked much like actually chasing although leaders US Postal did pick up the pace around the 100km mark.
For the breakaway bunch, having worked so hard together for so long, it wasn't until the final twelve kilometres that the attacks, nine in all, began
with O'Grady eventually emerging victorious followed by Piil, Casar, Voeckler and Basckstedt.
O'Grady dedicated his win to his banned team mate and good friend, British cyclist David Millar. He said: "I'd decided if I won a stage, when I won a stage, it would be for two really good friends of mine, Dave Millar and Matt White, but also everyone at Cofidis because it has been one hell of a ride."
Notable incidents were: a 12-man crash just after 100km that took down four US Postal riders and the decision shortly afterwards by Australian Brad McGee (Fdjeux.com) to abandon after struggling along a minute off the back with back pain.
Unconnected to the stage, Lance Armstrong confirmed that he won't be competing in the year's Olympics saying that he wanted to spend more time with his children and didn't want to the take the place of someone who might be better motivated to compete.
Today's stage is the flat 196km from Bonneval to Angers which could see high speeds depending on what the wind's up to.


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I heard from dozens of you today regarding Alan Ashby's firing. You're upset. You think he got a raw deal.
Don't tell me. Tell the Astros.
Drayton McLane is unlikely to change his mind about the matter, but the only chance is for him to hear from you in large numbers.
Nothing I write will make a difference. They don't care what I think. They see me as a nuisance, someone who is always nit-picking.
If hundreds of you write, it might make a difference. I doubt it, but it might.
McLane said this morning on the radio he hasn't received many e-mails. Maybe he doesn't know how to check his e-mail. He should come to the Chronicle and go through our e-mail files. We've been flooded.
(He also said recently that money hasn't been an object in this off-season's lack of action. If I'd been standing near him when he said that, I would have ducked for cover. You know, the thing about lightning striking when you fib. Oh never mind.)
(Things are getting weird out there. Johnny Damon's dad compared his son's move from the Red Sox to the Yankees to Babe Ruth's. Let's see… Johnny Damon or Babe Ruth? Babe Ruth or Johnny Damon? Yeah, works for me.)
My guess is that McLane, Pam Gardner, etc., saw Ashby as too low-key, too objective. I'm guessing they want a shrieking homer, someone who'll scream louder, see no wrong on the field and sell as many tickets as possible.
I could be totally wrong about the two kids who've been hired. They may be terrific.
But with all play-by-play men and no real analysts in the booth, the broadcasts can't have as much insight as they had before. When Ashby spoke, he spoke from a position of authority. He'd actually been down there.
These new kids can't have a frame of reference. What are they going to reflect on? That great 2002 Pawtucket team?
The Astros are McLane's business, and he's doing what he thinks is best for business. Only your opinion has any chance of swaying him in another direction.
I thought Milo and Alan were a terrific team. They played off one another. Alan corrected Milo, gently. He worked the clubhouse. He seemed like a genuinely nice guy. Maybe he should have screamed more.
From the e-mail bag…
No Rocket, No Ashby, Milo must babysit new recruits, and no run producer in the middle of the order. Please don't tell me there is a lot of excitement over there on Crawford St. because of the World Series. The bloom has already fallen. It is possible that the other general managers around the league have pulled the curtain closed on Tim Purpura. You would think just by dumb luck he would have fallen into a free agent signing or a minor trade by now.
Purpura can only do what his owner allows him to do.
I am an extremely devoted fan, but I did boycott the Astros from the time that the previous owner let Nolan Ryan go until the day (McLane) bought the team. Since then I have been as fanatical and loyal as any fan can be. Maybe (McLane thinks) that off-the-field moves won't affect the fans much, but you are wrong. Alan Ashby had it all. Hhe was great on the air (just like Dierker was), he had a player's insight and he was a fan favorite. What else are you looking for? Did he do something to upset you? I haven't decided whether to boycott again (not that you much care about one fan) and I would love to hear your rationale before I decide.
I'll bet you hear from Drayton.
I'm really going to miss his calling it like he saw it with the Astros, even if he came across as negative at times.
Lots of people agree with you.
I was shocked to hear that the Astros had dismissed Alan Ashby. No
matter what words I use, they cannot convey completely how I really feel
about this. Some printable ones would be: disgusting; revolting. I thought
Drayton wanted good (in terms of both personal character and professional)
people. They hire two minor league nobodies. This now leaves no analyst who played the game. I loved hearing Ash go into the details of what a player did right/wrong and how it should be done. And he was great at interviewing players. They knew he had credibility
and had been through it all himself. It is just unbelievable that they would take the good vibes and PR from reaching the World Series and try to destroy it with moves like this.
They've indicated they didn't think Alan would accept a No. 2 role to one of the new guys. But they never asked.
I just love this. The Astros haven't made a single move this season except firing Alan Ashby. Absolutely ridiculous. Do they try this hard to upset their fans?
You have to write Drayton and tell him. No one else matters.


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Creating a Flash Game Distribution Package
Want to learn how to create a flash game distribution package?
Flash game distribution packages can be essential when emailing you game to portals. It gives the portal all the information they need in one convenient place. This gives your flash game a greater chance to be included on their site, since you have already given the portal owner all the files they need to add your game to their site.
Now that you've decided you want tocreate a flash game distribution package for your emails, it's time to start making it. The first thing you'll want to do is create a new .zip file on your hard drive. To do this, right click on your desktop and select New>WinRAR Archive. The name may be different depending on the program you use for zip files.
Once you've created your zip file, you'll need to name it. I named mine myGame Distribution Package.
Once you've given it a name, it's time to start adding the files that a game portal will need to the zip file. Here are a couple things you will want to include:
1. A text file. You can create this in NotePad. Here are some options of what to include in your text file:
- The name of your game.
- The name of whoever developed you game, and your site url if you have one.
- Short description of your game.
- Long description of your game.
- Instructions to your game.
- Category your game belongs in. (action, adventure, etc.)
- Width of your flash game.
- Height of your flash game.
- Tags for the game.
- How well your game did on major portals. If your game got a good rating on one of the top portals (Kongregate, Newgrounds, or Nonoba) be sure to mention this. It makes your game sound better to a portal owner.
- Other information. Here you can include things such as the high score system your game uses or if your game contains ads.
2. Your game swf.
3. Thumbnails of your game. Group them into a folder named thumbnails to make it easier for the portal owner separate between the numerous files. You'll want to include a lot of different sizes to accommodate various portal owners. You may want to include JPG, PNG and GIF file types since some portals only support one. Here are some commonly used sizes.
- 125×125
- 120×90
- 100×100
- 75×75
- 50×50
- 81×67
- 80×60
- 70×60
- 46×46
- 300×200
- 100×75
- 60×60
When you are done setting up the files you'll need, all you have to do is drag the files or folders you have into the .zip file. Once you've done that, your flash game distribution package is done, and the only thing you have left to do is start emailing those portal owners. Good luck!
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2008 Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon Penfolds
Red | Ready, but will keep | Code: 7681 | 2008 | Australia > South Australia | Cab.Sauvignon | Medium-Full Bodied, Dry | 14.5 % alcohol
First produced in 1964, this is Penfolds' finest Cabernet Sauvignon, and is again
amongst the very best that Australia can produce. The wine is deliberately "largescale",
with the ripest and best fruit selected from Coonawarra, Barossa Valley and
There is an effortless class to Bin 707 that always leaves me in awe. Of course the
fruit is intense and yes, there is a generous lick of oak (16 months in american barrels)
on the nose and palate, yet the overall feel is of restrained brilliance. The quality of
the fruit is sumptuous - loaded with cassis and cream, but it's the balance of the wine
that leaves you wanting more. Not at all heavy, rather a wine with great lift and
energy, and with wonderful persistence on the palate. Give it 8 -10 years, then rejoice
in having made a brilliant buying decision.
Philip Moulin, Berrys' Fine Wine Advisor
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The Wine Advocate - Matured in 100% new American oak, the 2008 Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon gives pronounced notes of creme de cassis, cedar and blackberry preserves over a fragrant undercurrent of crushed mint, eucalypt, violets and forest floor. Very concentrated, rich and structured in the mouth, it has a firm level of chewy tannins, crisp acid and a long oaky finish with some spiciness coming through. It really needs time for the oak to integrate and should drink best 2014 to 2024+.
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Other - The second of two Penfolds wines to be classified 'Exceptional' in Langton's Classification V, Penfolds Bin 707 is one of Australia's most important Cabernet Sauvignons. Peter Gago says, "Bin 707 is a Penfolds Cabernet Sauvignon reflection of Bin 95 Grange.
The selection process is as complicated as Grange, with stylistic fruit profile, weight and tannin structures, it's like laying down a mosaic". The 2008 Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon may well be remembered as one of the finest ever.
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The Grape
The most famous red wine grape in the world and one of the most widely planted.
It is adaptable to a wide range of soils, although it performs particularly well on well-drained, low-fertile soils. It has small, dusty, black-blue berries with thick skins that produce deeply coloured, full-bodied wines with notable tannins. Its spiritual home is the Médoc and Graves regions of Bordeaux where it thrives on the well-drained gravel-rich soils producing tannic wines with piercing blackcurrant fruits that develop complex cedarwood and cigar box nuances when fully mature.
The grape is widely planted in California where Cabernet Sauvignon based wines are distinguished by their rich mixture of cassis, mint, eucalyptus and vanilla oak. It is planted across Australia and with particular success in Coonawarra where it is suited to the famed Terra Rossa soil. In Italy barrique aged Cabernet Sauvignon is a key component in Super Tuscans such as Tignanello and Sassicaia, either on its own or as part of a blend with Sangiovese.
The Region
At 72,000 hectares, South Australia is the engine room of the country's wine industry, responsible for 43 percent of its vineyards and encompassing some of Australia's most famous fine wine regions.
One of the most important areas in qualitative terms is the Barossa Valley, beginning 50km north-east of Adelaide, and famous for its full-bodied Shiraz, as well as for its Grenache and Mourvèdre. To the east, the cool Eden Valley is home to some really fine Riesling and top-class Shiraz, such as that made by Henschke. To the north of Barossa is the Clare Valley, also a source of good Riesling but home to well-structured reds as well.
South-east of Adelaide lies the delightful vineyard area of the Adelaide Hills, where fine Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Riesling and Pinot Noir are produced by wineries such as Petaluma and Llangibby Estate. Langhorne Creek to the east of Adelaide has earned a reputation for its Cabernet Sauvignon, Verdelho and Shiraz while, between Adelaide and the sea, McLaren Vale is a noted area for red wines.
The unique vineyard region of Coonawarra lies 400km south-east in an area of pure limestone topped by a loose, red topsoil. Cool enough to resemble Bordeaux, this area produces great Cabernets and Merlots and is much in demand. Slightly to the north and to the west lie the regions of Padthaway and Mount Benson respectively, which enjoy similar success as sources of great white wines, especially Chardonnay. Wrattonbully however is known for its fresh, varietally-pure Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
However it's the less-distinguished Riverland region that accounts for 50 percent of the state's wine production.
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Artist behind Nazi-themed Donald Trump billboard gets death threats
The owner of a Phoenix billboard depicting President Donald Trump amid mushroom clouds and dollar signs fashioned after Nazi swastikas told KPNX her sign would stay up so long as Trump remains in office.
"I think a lot of people are feeling this way and I'm just trying to express what I think is on a lot of people's minds these days," billboard designer and California artist Karen Fiorito told KPNX. "I tried to put a little bit of humor in things that are really dark and hard to take."
After completing the billboard Friday, Fiorito posted on Facebook that she was "still awaiting the backlash, death threats and the like" and that she wished she "had time to drive to Phoenix to see the reactions of people on the street!"
According to the Arizona Republic, the sign sits at the intersection of Grand Avenue and Taylor Street in downtown Phoenix and was commissioned by art gallery La Melgosa.
In an interview with KPNX, arts patron Beatrice Moore — the owner of the sign — said "some of these issues are so important you can't not speak out."
The Hill reported Sunday that Fiorito had begun receiving death threats.
"I've been called a communist, a Satan worshiper," Fiorito told the Hill. "I've been told I'm a 'very, very sick person.' I'm not sure what that means. I haven't been answering the phone. My husband has because he's not afraid to talk to anyone, but he told me he received a couple death threats this morning. ... He said, 'They were coming to get us with their boys.'"


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Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) are by far one of the most commonly prescribed and used drugs. Their worldwide consumption can be counted in hundreds or even thousands of tones per year. In addition to their undeniable benefits, these drugs have many side effects, in some cases even life-threatening. Therefore, it is necessary to have more information about basic representatives of NSAID.
NSAID drugs include a variety of preparations that are able to block the function of an enzyme known as cyclooxygenase (COX). Cyclooxygenase is responsible for formation of substances that are necessary for successful inflammatory response, including increased body temperature and feeling of pain. Although these inflammatory reactions are absolutely natural defensive measures of our organism, we consider them uncomfortable and we want to dampen their symptoms. Suppression of symptoms of inflammation is the main goal of NSAID medicines. Therefore, these drugs do not cure; they "only" relieve the manifestation.
The specific effects of individual drugs are somewhat variable, but in general we can say that they reduce pain, suppress inflammation, decrease the elevated temperature and by negative affection of certain platelet functions they also reduce blood clotting.
Used substances
There are a number of active substances that are contained in hundreds of different preparations. I would like to mention the most commonly used substances – acetylsalicylic acid, diclofenac, ibuprofen, indomethacin, ketoprofen, meloxicam, metamizole, nimesulide and piroxicam.
Most drugs are used to relieve acute or chronic pain, they are effective painkillers. We can use them in orthopedic types of pain (acute gout, inflammation of tendons and joints, backache, rheumatic diseases, conditions after injuries, etc.), in headaches, migraine, menstrual abdominal discomfort and toothache. Some preparations are effective in reduction of fever and drugs containing the acetylsalicylic acid may be in small doses used to decrease blood clotting (i.e. a less strong form of anticoagulant drugs).
NSAID medications have a large number of side effects that usually occur, when the drugs are used chronically. Fairly typical are digestive problems including stomach inflammation, increased risk of bleeding into the digestive tract and development of peptic ulcers. The drugs can also damage kidneys and impair kidney functions, cause increase of liver tests, headaches and allergic reactions. Some drugs may cause non-infectious liver inflammation; others significantly increase the general risk of bleeding, when combined with other anticoagulants. For this reason, it is important to realize that these drugs should be used as little as possible and ideally only when recommended by the physician. Of course, this does not happen in reality.
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STRIKE!, Prism, 1971
Prism was the Borough of Manhattan Community College's annual yearbook. This 35 page chapter from the 1971 edition details the student strike that, in May 1970, temporarily shut down the college and resulted in 58 arrests. Filled with photos, [...]
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Amazing Footage Shows Whale Protect Diver From Shark, , Lifts Her Out Of The Water Entirely
In the given clip, one can clearly see the diver swimming next to the mammal, safely, away from the tiger shark. "I wasn't sure what the whale was up to when he approached me, and it didn't stop pushing me around for over 10 minutes. It seemed like hours. I was a bit bruised up." said Nan, reports LadBible.
The incident occurred back in October, and Hauser said that initially she didn't realize a shark was in her vicinity and thought it was another whale coming to play. She said being rescued by the 63-year-old humpback was like being saved by a fireman willing to sacrifice his life by running into a burning house.


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Maria Lisitsyna
Project Manager for Legal Remedies for Torture in Central Asia, Open Society Justice Initiative (New York), and Founder of the Independent Human Rights Group and Youth Human Rights Group, Bishkek
Masha is Project Manager on Central Asia for the Open Society Justice Initiative. Lisitsyna recently served as a Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch focusing on civil and political rights in Turkmenistan, the rights of Uzbek refugees, and the rights of migrant workers in Russia and Kazakhstan. She has researched and written reports on issues of discrimination in Russia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
The Open Society Justice Initiative uses law to protect and empower people around the world. Through litigation, advocacy, research, and technical assistance, the Justice Initiative promotes human rights and builds legal capacity for open societies.
Prior to her work at Human Rights Watch, Maria co-founded and served for more than ten years as the Executive Director of the Youth Human Rights Group, one of the main human rights NGOs in Kyrgyzstan. While at YHRG, she developed a human rights monitoring program focused on custodial institutions including orphanages, detention centers, and mental health institutions; conducted advocacy at the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and the European Union; and ran human rights training for lawyers, teachers, and NGO activists.
Lisitsyna is also the founder of the Independent Human Rights Group, an NGO specializing in legal protection of human rights, juvenile justice, and freedom of information. In 2005, she served as a member of Kyrgyzstan's Constitutional Council, the body convened to work on constitutional amendments. Lisitsyna holds a JD from Kyrgyz-Russian Academy of Education.


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The Flavour of India is ideally located for residents of the area, Zurich City, Winterthur and neighbouring areas; arriving and departing travellers and or groups. It is the only restaurant offering AUTHENTIC INDIAN CUISINE in the area of Kloten, a location, merely a 5 minute drive from Zurich Airport, to Hotels: Hilton, Mövenpick (Airport), Renaissance, Dorint, Kameha Grand, NH, Airport and the Novotel. It is a 5 minute walk from the Swiss Star Apartments, Hotels Welcome Inn, Allegra, Flyaway and various important commercial centres located in Kloten and the surrounding areas.
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Dr. Thomas Tweed is currently a professor and Harold and Martha Welch endowed chair in American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. In 2015, he served as the president of the American Academy of Religion. Dr. Tweed became a Pluralism Project affiliate in 1999 while a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During that time, Dr. Tweed and UNC Chapel Hill students, as part of a first year seminar course, sought to document Buddhist communities in North Carolina. The course was part of the first year seminar program, founded by Dr. Tweed, which was offered to students beginning in 1999.
Selected Links and Publications
- Faculty webpage: Dr. Thomas Tweed
- Article: "First Year Seminar Explores State's Buddhist Temples," UNC News Service (November 13, 2000)
- Book: Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), 2006.
- Book: The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent (Chapel Hill: UNC Press), 2000.


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Every day in 2008, about 1000 women died due to complications of pregnancy and child birth, including severe bleeding after childbirth, infections, hypertensive disorders, and unsafe abortions. Out of the 1000, 560 deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa and 300 in South Asia, compared to five in high-income countries. The risk of a woman in a developing country dying from a pregnancy-related cause during her lifetime is about 36 times higher compared to a woman living in a developed country. Maternal mortality is a health indicator that shows very wide gaps between rich and poor, both between countries and within them.
The number of women dying due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth has decreased by 34% from an estimated 546 000 in 1990 to 358 000 in 2008. The progress is notable, but the annual rate of decline is less than half of what is needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of reducing the maternal mortality ratio by 75% between 1990 and 2015. This will require an annual decline of 5.5%. The 34% decline since 1990 translates into an average annual decline of just 2.3%.


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So I've decided I'm going with a top-hat after all. Just Azusa's hair - she's hardcore cosplaying Mio now. No concessions. (Or so I tell myself.)
Yesterday I went down to Fabricland to pick up some black satin to make the top hat and ruffles for my Mio cosplay. Picked up one yard of the fabric, which I deemed to be sufficient and it was about $12 with my membership discount.
Today, I came home from school and went (almost) straight to work on my teeny top hat. I made use of the same tutorial I used when I made my first mini top hat. It's a very handy little tutorial and I highly recommend it for the millinery challenged. But today, it was definitely a tiny top hat that needed to be made!
Still on my to-do list is the neck/halter strap and the front ruffles. I figure I can probably get through most of that tomorrow evening.


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Glow Curve @ Little Bar
Chinese Rock. Support: 48V. RMB40 (Students RMB30). Starts at 8 p.m. Friday, September 2
Box Jams @ Lan Town
House&Electro with DJ Marco. Free entrance. Starts at 10 p.m.
Wonderful Day @ Little Bar
Chinese Indie Pop. Support: Ok Sandwich. RMB50. Starts at 8 p.m.
Hollow Shadow 2011 @ Burton Bar
Chinese indie. RMB40. Starts at 9 p.m.
Giving Hand/Heifer China Charity Luncheon @ Holiday Inn Express
Live auction of Chinese liquor & art. RMB68 incl. Chinese buffet & 2 drinks. 11.30 a.m. - 2 p.m. RSVP with elias [AT] givinghand [DOT] net
Reggae Night @ Hemp House
with DJ Fiete & VJ Chafei. RMB20. Starts at 9.30 p.m.
Rphasody of my mother @ Elephant Bar
Local indi docu. Free entrance. Starts at 3 p.m.
I beat tiger when I was young @ Eight and a Half Bar
Indie movie Night. Free entrance. Starts at 2.30 p.m.
Lisa Ono @ Sichuan Provincial Gymnasium
Japanese-Brazilian Bossa Nova. RMB288-2500. Starts at 7.30 p.m.
Hollow Shadow @ Hemp House
Chinese folk. RMB30 (incl. 1 drink). Starts at 9.30 p.m.
Mirror of Emptiness @ Redstar 35
Movie about the Tibetans at the highest temple in Sichuan and China. Free entrance. Starts at 3 p.m.
Auchan Wine Fair @ Auchan Jinniu Store
25% off on 400 different reds, white wines & champagne. September 3-4
8th Annual Paulaner Munich Octoberfest 2011 @ Paulaner
Bavarian Buffet & live music. RMB258+15% surcharge. Starts at 7.30 p.m. September 5-9
10 Nights in Summer @ Chengdu Art House (inside Huanhuaxi Park)
Exhibition of ten Chinese artists. Free entrance. August 6 till September 6
Wild Wonders of Europe @ Yanlord 2F (1 Renminnanlu South Sect.1)
Nature photography exhibition. Free entrance. August 28 - September 8
Landscape Art Exhibition @ West Village
Free entrance. August 13 - September 12
Uninhibited Scenery @ A Thousand Plateaus
Tu Hongtao and Qi Lan painting exhibition. Free entrance. July 30 - September 20
All hair cuts 50% off @ Lain Guy Paris
Opening special till September 18
Guiness Special @ Lazy Pug
RMB38. All month long
Frankenstyle @ Acai Bar (Jiuyanqiao/ 808 Siguanlu bar Street)
Punk from Austria. RMB40. Starts at 7 p.m. Monday, September 5
Whiskey Club @ Bookworm
7.30 p.m. Thursday September 8
Menshengband @ Little Bar
Hongkong Hardcore. Support: Raving Jokes. RMB40 (Students RMB30). Starts at 8 p.m. Friday, September 9
Rakasasa @ Little Bar
Chinese hardcore/thrash-metal. Support: Meltsskull. RMB40 (Students RMB30). Starts at 8 p.m. Saturday, September 10
Six Years Hemphouse @ Hemp House
with Gramaphonetics & DJs AndyMac, D.Bassman & Cvalda. Starts at 9 p.m. Saturday, September 10
Wall Lords 2011 Chengdu @ Luxehills
China Stage graffiti battle. Free entrance. Free shuttle buses will run directly to the venue every 30 minutes between noon and 7 p.m. from Metro Line 1 Century City Station Exit B.
Charity concert @ Machu Picchu
Various folk artists. RMB30. Starts at 9 p.m. Saturday, September 10
Rock Diva @ Little Bar
Local Rock with The Sound and the fury, Soulmate, S-MUD, Qiangxing, Live in Film & Ok Sandwich. RMB40 (Students RMB30). Starts at 8 p.m. Sunday, September 11
Six Years Hemphouse @ Hemp House
with Proximity Butterfly & DJs Geezer, Thomas & Fiete. Starts at 9 p.m.Sunday, September 11
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I-94 eastbound at Miller Park opens following earlier crash
Semi-truck, cargo separated in Stadium Interchange
An accident that closed the eastbound lanes of Interstate 94 near Miller Park for hours has been cleared.
The Department of Transportation said the crash blocked all eastbound lanes near the Highway 41/Stadium Interchange starting around 9:30 a.m.
The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office said a semi-truck hit the bridge at Mitchell Boulevard.
Video from NewsChopper 12 shows a truck that apparently lost its rear box just underneath the Stadium Interchange.
The driver was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The left lane of traffic was opened around noon and all lanes were opened to traffic at 12:38 p.m.
The Sheriff's Office said the bridge was inspected by DOT inspectors and is safe.
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Prize pool at Netent slots
Let's try to find out how the "big winning", is formed and what it depends on. From where software is taking money to pay a huge win to a player? How is software collecting money? We need to consider such data, as "the prize pool" in the machines, current bet, RTP, the dispersion (volatility), the cycle's length of the selected slot and the number of players in the chosen online casino.
On this article, you will learn that how the "prize pool" for "big winning" in online casino slots is formed, what does it depend on and what variables should be considered while calculating it? Below is a link with a comparative table with all related online casinos. It shows the affiliation of the casino to one or another network and the approximate number of players in each of them. The meaning of "big winning" is, "hit" and get more than 200x (200x total bets: with a stake of €10, we win €2000 or more).
Please note, that if an online casino is new and there are no players in it, "prize pool" for winning is empty and you gonna lose until (to fill it up). Only after this process, it comes a moment to "hit" a big win. Usually, it will be around 90-95% of all your deposits to this online casino in the current session.
Pyramid principle
Netent online slots use the pyramid principle's method. The part of the pool for "big winning" via low stakes is reserved for winning in prize pool via next step of bets (between small and medium bets), and like this up to prize pool via high-rolling. More active players are in an online casino, the bigger is "the total prize pool". In fact, "the pyramid principle" can be compared to a lottery with several denominations of tickets. Each group has its own "prize pool" (jackpots).
The prize pool conception is a kind of lottery
- The cheapest tickets (the bets from €0.25 to €5). At these limits is an overwhelming number of players so the chance of a "big winning" will be much higher. Most likely that some part of current "prize pool" is taken to form the "big winning" at higher stakes in the next steps. This data may reach up to 10% of the pool. So, the casino motivates players to gamble via higher stakes and collect more money to pay-out the "big winning".
- Inexpensive tickets (€5 to €10 stakes). Fewer people are playing via these stakes (comparing to the previous group). A lot of bonus hunters are trying to increase the dispersion by playing at the maximum allowed bets (usually maximum is from €5 to €10). Their goal is to complete the wagering requirements of the bonus money. This fact significantly increases the activity at these limits, and forms a large "prize pool."
- The tickets of medium value (from €10 to €50 stakes). This is the most profitable limit for players. At these limits, there are much fewer players than above, but here are collecting money from previous limits (the bets from €0.25 to €10), and are much less participant in the "drawing". It seems that the personal statistics (balance of winning/losses) and the player's group have a significant influence on the results.
- The expensive tickets (stakes are from €50 to a maximum) - this is the most profitable/unprofitable situation simultaneously to get a "big winning" in an online casino. The big winning at these bets will be huge (in a money equivalent), but there are not so many players, most of the money is moving to previous limits and the current "the prize pool" is filling up slowly. Here the player's account history will play a decisive role: win/losses, the denominations of bets, the number of deposits /withdrawals and current balance. Gambling at this level is very risky.
What is the prize pool?
The prize pool is the sum of all players' bets, minus winning in one online casino (or network). So, for example, if 100 people play for €1 per spin and win €20 in total, the total "prize pool" will be €80.
- Depending on the chosen slot, from 1% to 10% of this fund will go to the casino (see all percentages of payments of the slots from Netent).
- Depending on the length of the cycle and the dispersion of the selected slot machine, from 5% to 90% will be paid to winners. The remains will be collected for the next drawings. It's good to know that the higher the dispersion and cycle's length are, the more money will be collected for the next lottery (just a few players will receive the winning amount more than their bets).
- From 1% to 10% will go to the higher stakes' pool for the big winning.
Note that each casino has its own "prize pool". For example, if you play in a new casino where there are no players, then you will simply not have the chances to win an amount much higher than your starting balance. At best (if you selected a bet from the calculation 200+ bets on the balance) you will accumulate your prize pool and successfully win almost the entire amount of your deposit back. In the worst case, you will run out of money before this moment.
Where to play
- Play Fortuna casino offer players 20 Starburst No deposit big spins. The Wager is on the offer of 20x.
- If you are lucky enough to get a big winning at TTR casino, then you will receive money on any payment system or a bank card within a few minutes after the order.


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JV baseball wins three in a row
After losing six in a row, South Tahoe's JV baseball team seems to be turning its season around by winning three straight games, for a 4-6 record overall and 3-3 in the league.
"The boys have really focused on batting practice and you can see it in the scores," said head coach Kevin Higgins.
The Vikings hosted Dayton on Tuesday afternoon and came away with the 11-1 win.
Offensively, Zach Shearer led the team going three for four with four RBIs. Justin Cain went two for four with two RBIs, Chaz Ross went two for four with a triple and Caleb Russel also went two for four.
"The boys have really worked hard on their swings and it really shows," said Higgins.
Moises Cuevas started on the mound, earning the win with four strikeouts, one walk and three hits. Ross replaced Cuevas after four innings and went on to strike out two batters and gave up only one hit.
"I hope to see a continued strong pitching effort," said Higgins. " And we are going to stay aggressive on hitting."
On Saturday, the Vikings host Truckee for a double-header where they hope to continue their winning streak.


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About 400 volunteers have signed up to count Oahu's homeless population next week, and the organizer of the annual homeless census said she believes that's enough people to get a good picture.
"I am hopeful that we will get a good volunteer turnout and a good head count this year," said Jen Stasch, the new director of Partners in Care, which is coordinating this year's Point in Time Count.
In some areas of Oahu where the homeless "population is too hard-core," they will rely on trained social service outreach workers backed by Honolulu police to tally their numbers, Stasch said.
Areas requiring more skilled outreach workers include the entire Windward side, the North Shore, "definitely Wahiawa" and downtown Honolulu, Stasch said. People who volunteered to count the homeless in those areas might be asked if they would be willing to work in a different community, she said.
A lack of coordination and shortage of volunteers led to frustrations during last year's Oahu count, in which 37 more homeless people were counted overall compared with the year before — representing a gain of less than 1 percent.
Overall, Oahu's homeless head count grew from 4,903 in 2015 to 4,940 in 2016.
Each community's homeless numbers play a factor in how much funding they might receive through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which last year awarded a $9.4 million grant for Oahu's homeless efforts.


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Day 2: My Journey Towards Finding Inner Peace
Yesterday, I found that I was fidgeting quite a bit. I may have fidgeted on day 1, I just did not notice. I was fidgeting because my neck was beginning to feel stiff from sitting in one position for an extended period of time. That broke my rhythm just as I was beginning to get […]More


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If you search in my Archives, you'll see that I wrote an article on a strange-looking motorbike called as 'Electric Uno Bike'. As a strong believer in free-style creativity, I was very attracted and amazed by this new invention crafted by canadian, Ben Gulak. Till then, I'm constantly keeping an eye on the evolution of this project and I got some news. It seems that the electric uno bike is progressing – that's super cool. They even have their websites – UnoCylce – BPG-Technologies.
Uno Bike Talked On Press
Uno Bike was listed and mentioned in the following Press:
1) Chicago Tribune
2) Popular Science
3) Motorcycle Mojo
Uno Bike Acclaimed Awards
The sensational unicycle motorbike won the following awards:
1) Invention of the Year (Popular Science Magazine)
2) Best Engineering (National Motorcycle Show)
3) Best in Category (Toronto Motorcycle Supershow)
4) Best Engineering (Toronto Motorcycle Supershow)
The New Future MotorBike?
I still believe they will make it. Ben Gulak is a motivated guy who is fully convinced of his creativity. What do you think? Is there any chance?


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Warhol, Andy. A. A Novel by Andy Warhol.
: Grove Press, 1968. New York
8vo.; black cloth stamped in white; illustrated dust-jacket. Fine.
First edition, first printing. The "A" stands for amphetamine, as this novel is the story of the A-men. A is an un-edited transcript of non-stop talk recorded in 1965 over the course of 24 hours spent in the company of Ondine, a brilliant talker and "Pope" of the amphetamine scene that coalesced around Warhol in the Silver Factory years. Brigid Berlin (The Duchess), Billy Name, Rotten Rita (The Mayor) and many others make appearances throughout the long day and night of chemically-fuelled chatter, argument, insult, and anecdote. All of this, recorded and transcribed, became Warhol's intentionally boring, bad, unreadable "novel" which, no surprise, wasn't well received by literary critics. Times critic Sally Beauman panned it, writing, "it's frightening to think one can be bored by this sort of willful self-destruction, but one can." As for the characters, "they lose all identity, they all sound alike, they evoke nothing, not even compassion." Exactly. It is uninflected and non-expressive, a machine-made novel, not written but simply recorded. Warhol had abandoned usual definitions of artistry and instead identified totally with the processes of contemporary media; that coldness was the point. A may well be a bad, boring and unreadable novel, but it is a masterpiece of Pop art nonetheless. This copy is in near perfect condition.


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10:00 am
Senate: Legislative Session
Legislative Session Call to Order: Senate President Myron D. Jackson Invocation: Pastor Anthems: National and Virgin Islands Anthems Roll Call: Senator Jean A. Forde, Legislative Secretary Agenda: Committee Reports: Chairpersons of Committees CONSIDERATION OF FLOOR AGENDA: CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS: Bill No. 32-0264 – An Act honoring and commending William Bolhlke Jr. for his assistance in […]Find out more »
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Boards of Elections to Meet
The Board of Elections has scheduled a meeting via videoconference. It will take place at Elections Systems offices of the Virgin Islands: ESVI St. Croix office: Sunny Isle Annex Unit 4, 93A ESVI St. Thomas office: Lockhart Gardens Shopping Center (above Banco Popular)Find out more »


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Uber continued to shrink its losses in the first quarter of 2018, according to financial documents the company shared with Axios. It also is launching a stock tender offer for early employees and investors, at an implied valuation of $62 billion.
Why it matters: Uber wants to go public in 2019, so getting at least close to profitability is of paramount importance.


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We've been amazed with it because its own introduction. Who can not bear in mind the address supplied by Steve Jobs of Apple when he introduced the most radical i-phone? Who wasn't amazed at the device that has been effective at browsing the web, shooting pictures, listening to audio and of class putting and receiving calls?
Nothing brand new, right?
Just as the iPhone was released, hackers across the united states began to dig what causes this tick. The key cause was supposed to unlock the telephone in order that you simply didn't have to sign-up with AT&T but using any carrier that supported that the tech. But would there me more nefarious reasons to hack on the iPhone?
Qualified hackers could today take their mobile on almost any provider, however more importantly they can make and enable custom ringtones (with no to pay for buying ring tones), enable custom wallpapers and more.
In procedure for hacking into the i-phone, many tid bits were gleaned – such as the fact the software on the iPhone functions as"origin" – at the Unix universe this fundamentally provides you total and total accessibility into the system. You could bring entire servers down and possibly even chains of servers if you might have ROOT access to your Unix machine.
So just how can this affect one personally, the most average consumer of the Apple iPhone that is not planning on hacking into their mobile phone? Well some one might need to hack into your mobile and so they now have the blueprint to complete it.
Though Apple is working hard to use and prevent hacking on playing cat and mouse game, then it's going to always be considered a cat and mouse game. If you happen to navigate to a questionable website which comes about to download applications to your iPhone you may end up in a whole heap of difficulty.
In a post from the New York Times engineering section from July 2-3, 2007, an i-phone defect was first utilized to allow hackers takeover the i-phone. Keep in mind that most folks store lives in their own digital assistants (whether it's really a Smart Phone, the iPhone and maybe a PDA). They keep names, addressesand cell phone numbersand email addresses on them. And of course say passwords, bank details (such as bank accounts numbers) and also digital images taken from the built-in camera.
Now think about if a hacker has access to this info.
The safety firm, impartial safety Advisors found that through common defects (and without actually hacking on the telephone ) that they could gain unauthorized accessibility into the contents of the phone by way of a wi fi link or by simply tricking consumers into visiting web sites that insert malicious code onto the phone iphoneattunlock.
The hack enabled the firm to put on a wealth of personal advice that the phone contained.
Dr. Miller, who was a previous worker from the National Security company also demonstrated the hack at a site of his own style and design, inserting some malicious code onto the phone and then proceeding to have the device transmit data into the assaulting computer. He proceeded onto say that the assault can possibly be utilised to program the device to make calls thereby running the device expenses of this user as well as the telephone could be utilized to spy on the individual by turning it to some mobile apparatus gadget – keep in mind , it does have a built-in camera.
How would you defend yourself? Much like absolutely any device, ordinary sense should prevail. Don't open e-mails from men and women that you do not understand – if you open them, and then there are attachments stay away from opening up the attachments or visiting the websites under consideration.


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Five Star Building Maintenance is strategically located to provide services in the Lower Mainland and throughout British Columbia. You demand exceptional standard of service that is measured by high quality outcomes. Five Star is able to achieve exceptional standard of service through a well organized and structured team. This commitment to quality is evidenced by our high client retention rate and the quality profiles which we deliver.
Five Star Building Maintenance is fully insured, bonded and covered by WorkSafeBC. We are members in good standing of BCCCA, the British Columbia Contract Cleaners Association, and PAMA, the Professional Association of Managing Agents.


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The Supreme Court Justice nominee is Judge Neil Gorsuch!
Solid. Serious scholar, excellent writer. He's been wrong occasionally (i.e., disagreed with me), but usually logics his way from sound principles to a correct conclusion.
The Dems would be wise to keep their powder dry, allow a vote, and save their ammo for a real wackaloon in the future.
The Democ-rats are holding up the vote for Sessions just because they can. What's the sense in that? Chances are they'll do the same with Gorsuch. Just because they can.
Somebody should remind them that 'revenge is a dish better served cold'.
Watch live: President Trump announces Supreme Court pick
The Supreme Court Justice nominee is Judge Neil Gorsuch!


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At Our Lady of Lourdes we are passionate about enquiry-led learning and have therefore been developing an enquiry-led curriculum with an emphasis on mastery of the subjects. This means that the children are following a line-of-enquiry in order to answer a specific question, for example, 'What is snow?'. Enquiries may have a specific subject focus such as Science or History but provide rich cross-curricular opportunities within them.
All enquiries start with a 'Wow' experience to engage the children and end with a challenge. The children then work through three stages:
Try it - This is where they are immersed in the required skills and knowledge needed to complete the challenge;
Use it - The children are then given the opportunity to have a go at applying the skills and knowledge they have learned in different activities;
Prove it - Finally the children put everything together to complete the challenge.
As the challenge is shared with the children at the beginning of an enquiry, their learning is always purposeful and with clear direction. Our enquiry challenges have been carefully chosen to ensure breadth across the school and so that they are particularly relevant to the children at Our Lady of Lourdes.
Every enquiry starts with a 'wow'. This is to engage and excite the children as well as providing them with a rich life experience. The 'wow' may involve a trip out of school, visitors coming into school, or an activity set up by the class teacher. Examples of 'wow's' include Year 5 visiting Bristol Zoo as part of the enquiry 'Can I help to save the Amazon Rainforest?', Year 3 learning magic tricks as part of their enquiry 'What is the place between?', Years 1 and 2 taking part in a rocket workshop as part of their enquiry 'How do astronauts travel into space?' and Year 6 being visited by Bombardier Evans as part of their enquiry 'How were the people of Britain affected by World War One'
Try It !
At the 'Try It' stage, the children are immersed in the skills and knowledge they will need to achieve the challenge. This may involve the teacher modelling certain skills and then teaching the specific knowledge the children need.
Use it!
The children are then given the opportunity to put their skills and knowledge into practice during the 'Use It' phase of the enquiry; this is a trial run of the challenge and allows the children to make any changes before the final thing.
Prove It!
The 'Prove It!' is the culmination of the enquiry and what the children have been working towards for the duration and comes in the form of a challenge which is shared with them at the start of the enquiry. It provides the children with the opportunity to use all the skills and knowledge they have acquired to achieve something real and rewarding. The 'Prove It!' should also lead to the children being able to answer their enquiry question for example, ' How can we send a Christmas card home?', 'Why and how did Ancient Egyptians make mummies?' and 'How do offspring inherit characteristics?'


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Cooperative management between the managing agent, the client, the lessees, and the service providers, is the key to successful block management. We focus on relationship building and communication, recognising that with any group of people, there are likely to be competing interests and possible tensions.
Maunder Taylor offer a management service for all types of commercial property, from stand-alone shops to retail parades, industrial estates and multi-storey office buildings.


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First, I started with a good online resource that shows instructional videos and allows the learner to work through sample files. I'm using Lynda.com which has turned out to be a great way to learn most of the Adobe products. The instructor shows the very basics but also some of the shortcuts and best practices for using the tool itself. This has been a great way to get started.
One thing I realized from the Lynda.com videos is that programming in Flash is really broken up into two parts: Flash animation and ActionScript. So far ActionScript seems very familar since I am used to object based programming languages and scripting languages like JavaScript. I feel very comfortable with that and I think that once I know the Flash object model (or have access to a reference) I'll be good to go.
Flash animation is the big brain buster for me. I'm familiar with editing images, photos, and interactive web sites. However, dealing with animations is proving to be the key concept I'm going to have to learn to master Flash. So I'm learning tweens, shapes and key frames but it's not all gelling yet. The first project I wanted to do in Flash has proven that I'll need more than just Lynda.com to master the animation portion.
I'm at the level now where I can do an interactive Flash animation using simple shapes, symbols, buttons, and action script. However I'm not yet at the point where I can do a complex animation. For example, a scene where you see someone using a computer from behind the person's back and then zoom in to show the monitor full screen. I'm still working on that one.
Next, I'm going to order a few books from Amazon.com to try to push myself to the next level. I'll also need to start doing some small projects in Flash because this seems to be one of those things that requires a lot of practice. Any thoughts from those of you who have been down this road before?


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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Are we deranged? Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? Ghosh examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.
The extreme nature of today's climate events makes them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictions and counterintuitive elements.
Amitav Ghosh is an acclaimed author whose novels include the Ibis Trilogy (Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire), The Glass Palace, and The Shadow Lines. The Great Derangement is his first major work of nonfiction since In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale.
The Washington History Seminar is co-chaired by Eric Arnesen (George Washington University) and Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center) and is sponsored jointly by the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program. It meets weekly during the academic year. The seminar thanks the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the George Washington University History Department for their support.
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Three Myths of Fraud Detection
October 25, 2016
As technology evolves, so does the sophistication of attack methods deployed by fraudsters.
Never before have there been so many tools, technologies and opinions about how to best to combat today's threats. It can be both overwhelming and confusing for fraud managers to see beyond trendy buzzwords, outdated conventional wisdom and blanket statements about the effectiveness of new technologies. To help provide some clarity, we are dispelling three common myths.
1. Machine learning has replaced rules and negative lists
Machine learning scales risk scoring over large quantities of data. ML algorithms can uncover trends that may be overlooked by the human eye. Machine learning is a powerful way to tell you "what" happened, but its Achilles heel is being unable to explain "why." By relying only on machine learning, you miss a chance to assess the data with fraud rules derived from human insights. For example, a new product added to your ecommerce website is data-less; it has no history, good or bad. Based on experience, however, a human may know the likelihood of how attractive it is to fraudsters from the price point and level of demand that increase its resell value. In a similar way, the sometimes-maligned negative list (when properly maintained) helps you find repeat fraudsters who otherwise evade detection by algorithms. Machine learning is thus complementary to, not a replacement for, rules and negative lists. By combining domain expertise with machine learning, you can achieve a balanced approach to fraud risk management.
2. Manual reviews are no longer necessary
Manual review for fraud is commonly dismissed as expensive and disruptive to the customer experience. While automation does help to reduce customer friction and operating expenses, there is still value in having a manual review process. In many cases, manual review is necessary to improve your fraud management strategy and customer experience. Manual review allows for Intelligence Gathering, where fraud analysts uncover trends before chargebacks start rolling in. The fraud operations team is on the front lines interacting with customers. This team receives important feedback around false positives which can be leveraged before a larger problem occurs. The Customer Service aspect of manual review is often overlooked; in some cases, a merchant may be the first to inform the card holder that their information has been compromised. This experience leaves a positive impact on your brand. As a Safety Net, manual review provides you with peace of mind that the riskiest of transactions can receive additional scrutiny for an added layer of protection. These benefits should be strongly considered when deciding whether or not to deploy a manual review team as part of your fraud management process.
3. Data types previously used for detection are obsolete
Data types previously used for fraud detection may seem to have lost value – but are not necessarily obsolete. For example, IP Address often looked at as outdated because it is so easily spoofed through VPNs and proxies. This myth of obsolescence ignores that a VPN itself is a unique and useful signal. It also discounts the value in a good customer's repeated use of the same IP network. To use an analogy, when DNA technology emerged as useful in physical crime investigations, law enforcement did not discontinue the use of fingerprints. New technology and data types combined with existing data types help to paint a richer view of the transaction. Your strategy for fraud detection will achieve better results by using data types (even older ones) to complement existing tools and technology.
When evaluating new tools and technology we encourage you to approach bold claims with a sense of healthy skepticism. Don't allow these and other myths to negatively impact your business.
About the Author
Coby is a Product Manager at Accertify focused on enhancing Accertify's fraud platform and reporting offering. When he's not at work thinking of ways to help merchants combat fraud, he's at home being bossed around by two tiny humans forcing him to play My Little Pony and Monster Trucks while fetching them Strawberry Kiwi Capri-Suns and Cheez-Its.


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Welcome to Street Pastors Kingston, Caring for, Listening to and Helping the night time users of Kingston Town Centre on Friday and Saturday nights.
We are glad you have found us and hope that you have met us in the past. Please feel free to browse our pages, send us feedback and comments or even pictures of your interaction with our team.
If you are interested in finding out more about our work, or are interested in becoming a Street Pastor, please contact us using the details on this page.
Street Pastors Kingston are very excited to be sharing our brand new video, which will give you an idea about the work we do in Kingston town centre, every Friday and Saturday night.
The video was filmed and produced by Luke, one of our Street Pastors and includes contributions from some of our current Street Pastor and Prayer Pastor volunteers, as well as people we have met on the streets of Kingston.
What is a Street Pastor?
A question we get asked time and time again. Our usual answer is a local Christian, Caring for, listening to and helping his or her local community.
This is the place where the pictures you send in will be posted as well as some from us.
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Don't you love getting new craft tools?! I spent most of my birthday money this year at the craft stores on some fun stuff........like a 3 1/2 inch scallop flower paper punch. It's awesome and it's inspiring all kinds of crafty projects for spring!
Large flower or scallop paper punch
Tissue Paper
1. Fold one piece of tissue paper in half, then in half again two more times so that you end up with 8 thicknesses of paper.
2. Along the folded edge, slide the paper into your punch all the way back and press down firmly to cut out some flower shapes.
3. With all 8 tissue flower shapes in a neat pile, staple them together a couple of times in the center.
4. Scrunch each layer of tissue from the center out to create a ruffled flower.


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All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
If you have a not so powerful mining rig or and ASIC and you want to be able to effectively mine on multiple pools that use variable difficulty instead of a fixed one it might be a bit of an issue. Usually on vardiff pools you start with a lower difficulty that might be right for the hashrate of your mining hardware, but the pool starts to increase the difficulty over time making it hard for your miner to keep up to its maximum performance, especially if using multipool that switches coins or solves blocks quickly. CGminer and the other alternative mining software products do come with strategies for effectively utilizing multipool scenarios, you just make sure you use the right one depending on your situation. By default the multipool strategy used by the mining software is set to failover, meaning that if the first pool stops responding the miner will move on the next one in the list until the higher priority pool is back online.
Obviously the above default scenario does not work for vardiff pools to keep your miner at the recommended lower difficulty level, so you need to use one of the different strategies in order to be able to do that. The right strategy for using multiple vardiff pools is the rotate strategy where the miner will automatically switch between the list of pools based on a user set time interval. So checking what time it requires for the pool to switch from the initial difficulty of lets say 128 to 256 and then to move to 512 will give you an idea on how many minutes you need to set for the rotate rounds. 128 and 256 difficulty is OK for Bitcoin ASIC miners that are in the range of 150-200 GHS for example, so setting lets say 5 minutes for the rotation interval should prevent the pool to go higher than 256 difficulty. What the miner will do is move to the next vardiff pool in the list for 5 minutes and then get back to the first pool for 5 more minutes and so on, keeping a difficulty of 128-256 on both pools. This is a great strategy for using with NieHash and WestHash for selling your SHA256 hashrate for example if you have a not so powerful ASIC miner.
Changing the multipool strategies is possible from within the already running cgminer or another miner forked from it or with support for the same options, but this will not be permanent – it will function until the restart of the miner. You can also set the rotate mode to be activated with a startup parameter of the miner by adding this to the command line
--rotate 5, the example is for 5 minute rotation between the list of pools.
We got a request for an up to date windows binary of the latest official sgminer 4.2.1 (source), so here it is. Do note that this is the standard version of sgminer that in intended for Scrypt mining and does not support a lot of alternative crypto algorithms, for that you will need to get sph-sgminer, a fork based on an older version of the official sgminer, namely sgminer 4.1.0. From the link below you can download the latest sgminer 4.2.1 Scrypt GPU miner for windows.
– You can download sgminer 4.2.1 with Scrypt GPU support for Windows OS here…
It seems that many users are having trouble understanding what is the actual hashrate they get from their 5-chip Gridseed ASIC miners, the reason for that is partly related to how the Gridseeds are handles in different miner software and the difference in what is being reported. We are starting with the bfgminer 3.10.0 with Gridseed support running a single unit – see the screenshot above as the example that we are going to talk about. Note that the bfgminer has just been started and there are 11 accepted shares, 2 rejected and 0 hardware errors. The first number showing 361.2 KHS is the local hashrate of the miner (running at 850 MHz), this is calculated based on the frequency the miner is running at and is the hashrate that you should be getting in ideal conditions, however normally the conditions differ. The actual hashrate you are getting is the third number, the one we have marked in red, so that you can clearly see what we are talking about. That third number shows the actual hashrate based on the number of accepted shares and their difficulty, it takes into account the rejected shares and the hardware errors you get. The number is calculated as an average since you have started the miner software. The question that you are probably going to ask is why if in ideal conditions we should be getting 361.2 KHS here we have 426.7 KHS as actual hashrate. The reason for that lies in the fact that we just had 11 shares accepted and we had luck so that their difficulty was below the average, so the reported hashrate is averaged over a very short period of time and is not what we should be getting in the long run. You need to leave the miner run for a longer time in order to have a better representation of the actual hashrate you will be getting, but in the long run you are most likely going to get a result that is a bit lower than the optimal value of 361.2 KHS.
In the second example we are going to be looking at cgminer 3.7.2 modified to support Gridseed. In the example above we have a single miner overclocked to run at 950 MHz and the software miner has been running for a few hours already. Again the first number that shows 404.3 KHS is the theoretical hashrate in ideal conditions that is based on the operating frequency of the miner. The second number that we have marked with red is the actual hashrate that we are getting with this ASIC device running cgminer. The second number takes into account the time the miner is running, the number of accepted shares and their difficulty, the number of rejected shares and the hardware errors the device is getting. So instead of 404.3 KHS the actual hashrate we are getting is 401.5 KHS in this case and this is the result we are getting with the cgminer running for 4 hours.
If we take a look at the hashrate reported by the pool for the Gridseed ASIC miner using the cgminer example above we can see that the pool reports 398.46 KHS and not 401.5 KHS. The number of submitted shares and rejected ones reported by the pool is also different. The reason for that is that the pool statistics has been reset about 8 hours before starting the miner and the statistics in cgminer is for about 4 hours only. The reported actual hashrate of cgminer is based on 4 hours of running, however the reported hashrate by the pool is based only on the shares submitted in the past 1 hour. Different mining pools base their average hashrate on the number of shares submitted in the last X minutes and that period can vary between 1 minute to 1 hour or even more. And as with the software miners not being able to report very adequate hashrate in just a minute or two, if the pool reports hashrate based on the shares submitted over a short period of time it might be reporting lower or higher values that are not close to the real one. Looking at the right number in bfgminer or cgminer should give you a pretty good idea on the actual hashrate you are getting, also pools that average hashrate over a longer period of time such as at least 5 or 10 minutes can be used to give you a good idea.
The first miner available with support for the Gridseed ASIC devices was a modified version of cpuminer that however does not report local or actual hashrate as that software miner does not keep statistics for the number of accepted and rejected shares, neither does take into account the hardware errors produced by the device. So it reports a hashrate of 0 all of the time, even though it is actually working, the only way to find what is the actual hashrate if using cpuminer is to look at the hashrate reported by the pool.


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As Arizona Football fans drive toward the stadium on Enke Drive for home games this fall, they will notice a new 15,000-square-foot building south of McKale Center, near completion in October.
The new C.A.T.S. Academic Center, dedicated to providing academic and life skills for student-athletes, was made possible by several donations, including a $2.5 million leadership gift from University of Arizona alumni Andrew and Kirsten Braccia and a $1 million gift from David Lapan and his family.
"We're honored that the Braccias and the Lapans have provided this significant level of support for Arizona Athletics," says UA Director of Athletics Greg Byrne. "This group's generosity will go a long way in helping us deliver a first-class experience for our student-athletes."
Alumna swimmer Bonnie Brandon '16, named First Team PaC-12 All-Academic and the UA's 2016 Senior Female Athlete of the Year, says chemistry tutoring with the support of C.A.T.S. Academics helped her understand complicated concepts and save time for practice.
"We are so privileged at Arizona to have academic and life skills help," she says. Brandon graduated with a bachelor's degree in nutritional sciences and plans to become a nurse.
The facility boasts a computer lab, a tutorial area and study rooms and will house 14 full-time staff members, including six academic counselors, four learning specialists and administrative staff.
C.A.T.S. Academics Director John Mosbach says the dedicated space that brings academics and life skills together under one roof will improve the level of service his staff can provide to guide student-athletes toward graduation and provide skills for life after college.
"We want to make sure when you see the basketball team out on the court, they're not just elite national contenders, but also elite academically," Mosbach says. "The new center will help us with that mission."
Nearly 500 student-athletes compete in 20 sports at the UA. Mosbach says the C.A.T.S. program impacts each student at some point during their time at the UA and more than half make use of tutoring services.


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