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The scariest thing about working for yourself is having no idea whether anybody wants what you're making.
When you work for a boss, you know that someone, at least, wants your work. It might be on its way to failure with the general public, but at least that boss -- the one who signs your paycheck -- wants the thing you're producing. Even in the worst case, if your product was a complete failure on the market, you still drew a salary or commission from it. Your boss wanted it, and so you got something out of it (albeit ephemeral).
When you work for yourself, it's all too easy to believe you are literally the only person alive who cares what you're working on. After all, nobody's asked you to do this; you just took it upon yourself, because it's something you wanted to see added to the world. Maybe you're wildly out-of-touch, or crazy, or stupefyingly arrogant. And so it's easy to convince yourself your work has no value, and to take as evidence the absence of hype, of throngs of fans flooding your social network, of excited previews and adoring reviews.
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Average Weather May in Akureyri (North Iceland), Iceland
The average minimum temperature (usually the minimum temperature is noted during the night) in Akureyri in May is 2.0°C (35.6°F).
May is a dry month with an average of 19mm (0.7in) rain.
May is the driest month of the year.
This month is known as a chilly month.
The average maximum temperature lies around 9.0°C (48.2°F).
During the night it can cool down as well.
With a water temperature of around 5.0°C (41°F),
this is not the best month to swim.
You will see the sun sometimes in this month, it has 174 hours of sun.
So what to wear in May? Bring a rain jacket just in case since it will be raining a few days this month. Also bring some warm cloths.
Do these climate conditions match with when you want to go to Akureyri? Find out where to stay here.
For other monthly weather averages and what to do in May look at the numbers below.
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More Climate Information For Akureyri
Weather and Climate offers all the information you need to know about the climate in Akureyri.
We collected past weather data from many thousand weather stations around the world. So find on this website the historical weather averages in other cities in Iceland and climate and forecast data for all other countries in the world.

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Recogizer Group GmbH – artificial intelligence for commercial real estate
Recogizer Group GmbH is a leading provider of predictive analytics to the industrial and energy sectors. The company's innovative analytics applications permanently enhance building energy efficiency and help avoid air conditioning malfunctions.
EnergyControl supplements heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems by looking ahead. When fully automated, the systems can cut their energy consumption more than 20 percent. To achieve this, a bespoke control strategy is developed which permanently accounts for weather conditions, customer frequency and opening hours. At the same time, the forward-looking control system guarantees a pleasant and stable indoor climate.
The Bonn-based company works with smart algorithms and artificial intelligence methods. Together with strategic partners and its own international team, Recogizer is a flexible company that operates successfully in the market and is continually growing. It supports operators of commercial properties, office complexes and public buildings to achieve permanent savings in their energy consumption.
MVV Enamic has held a 40.7 percent stake in Recogizer Group GmbH since February 2018.


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Legacy Shotguns
Weatherby has been a manufacture of premiere products for over 75 years. Our product line will continue to push forward into new trends and styles. As the 75 years have past, we hold a proud product history of reliable shotguns that are used everyday at the range and in the field. Legacy Models can still be found at various retailers, and online. Never hesitate to purchase a model and trust its consistency and performance.


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Bible Road Trip™ Bible Curriculum Annual Giveaway
If you've ever longed for a comprehensive way to take your kids through the entire Bible, look no further. We've found a wonderful solution. Don't miss two exciting giveaways and an offer from Thinking Kids Press.
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Danika Cooley of Thinking Kids Press designed Bible Road Trip™ as a way to take her children through the Bible as a family, with reading, discussion, memorization, notebooking, praying for the nations–even crafts! Over the past seven years she's shared this resource with families just like yours and many have taken the challenge to journey through the Bible together.
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What started out as my blog for Dr. John Strange's EDM 310 Class at the University of South Alabama...now a soapbox for all my musings on Common Core, Reading Instruction, and the state of Education in our society
Monday, May 30, 2011
Yay for EDM310!
I am very excited to now be a part of the EDM310 team! This was one of the most enjoyable and rewarding classes I have taken at South, and it really made me realize just how much I care about education. I was sad for the semester to end because I was enjoying this class! I feel honored to be working with Dr. Strange, Anthony, Allie, Steven, and Jacey-Blaire! I look forward to helping future students of EDM310 :D
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We've all seen them, those would-be gorgeous homes whose beauty is taken away because of the lack of landscaping and poor structural maintenance. First impressions are everything. A lack of curb appeal can spell disasters for investors. Fortunately, there are several simple, yet necessary ways that rehabbers can fix this all-too-common problem and add curb appeal to any home.
Create a Renovation Checklist
You may want to start by coming up with a checklist of all the things that you need to do and then estimate the cost of each item. Consider the basics: a new paint job, power washing the exterior and the porch, fixing or installing a new roof, painting or replacing the shutters, etc. After you have figured out what needs to be done to the exterior of the home itself, move on and take a look at the landscaping and other things such as the mail box and the drive way.
Improving Your Property's Exterior
Let's start with the exterior of the home. In order to figure out which main points of the house to focus on, think about how potential buyers will see the pictures of the listing online. Since the pictures online are fairly small, you need to start by figuring out which part of the house will take up the most space in the picture and begin from there. It seems so simple, but often times we simplify it so much that we overlook the most basic ways to improve the overall look of a home. Here's a few ways to create a great exterior:
- Upgrade the hardware. Things like outdated locks, and dingy house numbers are often overlooked but can become point of interest if updated.
- Paint the front door. A bright, colorful door draws attention to a house. If you think about it, the front door is sort of the main focal point of the exterior of a house. An attractive front door adds massive curb appeal and gives a house more character.
- Create symmetry. Creating symmetry is easy to do and pleasing to look at. You can create symmetry in all sorts of ways such as placing identical plants or light fixtures on each side of the front door; this will create an inviting feeling when potential buyers walk in the door.
The Landscape
Now let's take a look at the landscaping. Studies show that a well-maintained landscape can increase the value of a house by up to 10 percent. So other than making sure the grass is green and the trees aren't dead, what else can you do to improve the landscaping to make the house more attractive to potential buyers?
- Add some color. Planting colorful flowers like tulips or morning glories can make a huge difference in the way people perceive the house.
- Trim the bushes. Big overgrown bushes are distracting, unsightly and take away from the overall exterior of a home. Try adding a variety of different bushes and shrubs that are easy to maintain like the ones seen in the picture above.
- Get new mulch. Adding new mulch to your beds makes everything around it pop by adding some extra color to enhance color contrast. Plus, it's cheap and it looks great!
Great curb appeal is an important aspect to selling any house you invest in. Following these tips to creating great curb appeal will not only make your house look better but also increase the value and make potential buyers feel more at home.


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Cigarettes, alcohol, candy. If something's bad for you, then you have to stop doing it, end of story—right? It's actually more subtle than that: You've got to understand your vice before you can kick it.
A new study has discovered the best moves for working the abdominals.
What four months of exercise did for women and their breasts.
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Multi Cap Mutual Funds are funds which invest in various stocks with diverse market capitalization. The main idea here is to boost the investor's return. These funds invest in all market capitalization like large cap, mid cap, and small cap. Diverse capitalization reduces the risk and makes these funds popular among low-risk investors. If you are looking for Best Multi-Cap Mutual Funds for Investment in 2019 here is something interesting for you. In this post, I will share detail about How Multi-Cap Mutual Funds Works? What to consider while investing in Multi-Cap Funds? In the end, I will also share 5 Best Multi-Cap Mutual Funds for Investment 2019.
How Multi Cap Mutual Funds Works?
Multi-Cap Mutual Funds change market capitalization and allocation based on market performance. If you are able to spot smart and intelligent fund manager you can put your money in multi-cap fund. A fund manager plays a crucial role in multi-cap fund. The task for a fund manager is to rebalance the portfolio to earn a better return. Markets are cyclical in nature sometimes large cap does well, sometime mid-cap and sometimes small cap. The task of a fund manager is to diversify and maintain a balance between multiple caps.
The investor with moderate risk appetite can think of investing in multi-cap funds.
Also Read – 5 Best ELSS Mutual Funds for Investment 2019
What to consider while investing in Multi Cap Funds?
Factors for the selection of good multi-cap funds are given below.
Fund Objective – You should check the fund objective first. Most of the multi cap funds are intended to generate wealth by diversification. You should verify that the fund objective is meeting with your financial goal or not.
Fund Performance – The second factor you can consider is fund performance history. You should see performance history of the last five years. The fund returns should be seen with respect to the benchmark. The fund should have beaten their benchmark index constantly.
Fund Manager Credential – A fund manager plays a crucial role in the selection. One should look at fund manager experience and knowledge carefully. The fund manager has to take a crucial decision of switching stocks and market caps.
A reputation of Fund House – You should look at the reputation of Asset Management Company. The fund house should have a good business history of at least 5 years.
Financial Ratios – Financial ratio is another crucial factor for the selection of fund. One should look at expense ratio and sharp ratio while selecting a multi-cap fund. The sharp ratio indicates a risk-adjusted return. The sharp ratio should be higher.
Financial Goal – Multi-Cap funds are usually purchased for the long term. If you are planning for the short term you should avoid these funds.
Top 5 Best Multi Cap Mutual Funds for Investment 2019
Advantages of Multi Cap Funds
1. Diversification helps an investor to reduce the risk.
2. You can get the benefit of low volatility of large-cap and higher growth potential of mid cap, small caps.
3. Fund manager gets the freedom to manage multiple caps based on the market conditions.
4. Beating average return posted by large-cap funds.
Disadvantages of Multi Cap Funds
1. A wrong decision of fund manager may adversely affect the returns.
2. An Investor needs to be cautious while selecting these funds.
3. Generally suitable for an investor with a long-term horizon.


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And now, the final leg of our Norway trip!
…well, really, more like the middle.
Today, I am recapping the center part of our trip: the Flåm Railway and the Sognefjord cruise.
After our afternoon in Oslo, we boarded a train to Myrdal, where we would switch over the the Flåm Railway. This train is one of the steepest in the world on regular track lines, making a 863 meter (2831 ft!) climb /decent in the span of one hour. It passes through over 20 tunnels and offers many view points over waterfalls and spectacular valleys. For this reason, it is considered one of the most beautiful rail passages in the world. And, therefore, we had to take it.
And it was beautiful! Even the train from Oslo was amazing-following river beds that looked as if they housed lurking trolls as well as lakes and pastoral landscapes. But the Flåm line was even more astounding. We couldn't stop pointing and ooh-ing and aahh-ing the whole time. It even made a stop over by a waterfall for a photo op (but the spray made a a photo impossible).
The whole trip from Oslo to Bergen took us 6 hours (6 hours of stunning landscapes!) but we did not arrive in Flåm until 9pm. Although it is a a major tourist destination, most people do not stay the night, which means that there are few places to eat and even fewer places to stay. We planned our trip just a few weeks before going and we got one of the last rooms available in one of the only hostels in town. All the hotels were booked and, when we arrived, so were the hostels and camp grounds. Even the trains from Oslo to Bergen were completely full on all 3 departures that day (what I am saying is: do not go to Norway and "wing it").
BUT arriving in Flåm late in the evening, we had but one option for some grub around our hostel: the local food truck. You know you are in a small town when one of the 4 options for food on Foursquare is the local food truck. So we stopped on the way to our hostel, which was a ten minute walk from the station, and sat at a picnic table with some local beers while we waited for our reindeer skewers to cook.
Our hostel was odd- little houses broken into rooms and doorms, each with communal kitchens and bathrooms. Jimmy and I had the main floor room and we think we had a family in the rest of the house -not that we ever saw them in our short time there. But it was clean and comfortable and we woke up to some incredible views!
The next morning, we rented bikes from the hostel (after much finagling with the cleaning lady, who was the only staff person on site that day and was determined to finish cleaning before helping any one). We rode through the little town, which is situated by the river that lets into the fjord. They faced terrible flooding this fall the knocked out entire buildings and river banks, so a lot of reconstruction projects were underway. We happend across an old mill and a rock bed with dozens of rock stacks (where we also left our mark) before continuing on to the mouth of the fjord. We stopped to take in the view with coffee, fjord-farmed apple juice and small pastries at a darling hillside cafe before returning our bikes and picking up our bags. We had some time to kill in town before our boat, so we found our way to the "Viking Restaurant" where you can -literally- eat like Vikings. They serve ridiculously massive portions inspired by Viking cuisine and using only local goods. However, I think they dressed it up a bit for us! Either way, it was very good, very hearty food accompanied by great local beer in a hilariously hoaky but awesome setting.
After lunch, we set off on out 5 hour fjord cruise. We opted for the 5 hour express boat tour straight into Bergen to get the most out of our trip as opposed to the 2 hour short tour and bus into the city. I mean, the fjords are why you go there, so you should be there as much as possible! AS with everything else in Norway, the ship was at full capacity (though I did see two cute backpacking girls flirt their way aboard) and the line to get on started backing up 45 minutes before boarding! Which was reasonable, considering you had to elbow and fight for a spot by either a window or a railing.
We managed to snag a great spot on the corner back railing, which gave us incredible views down the fjord as we left. As you will see, I was on the wrong side of a Norwegian flag for a lot of the photos, so I ended up with some very Norwegian-patriotic pictures.
We spent almost the entire 5 hours outside on the decks, despite the fact that is was fairly chilly, rained a little, and was windy (they weren't kidding about express!) and it was entirely worth it (as you can see!).
Also. 5 hours = a lot of photos. So…..enjoy!
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text: Share SHARE PRINT JLT Re Appoints Francesca Marc-Antonio as Global Head of Client Relationship Mgmt 01 June 2016 Appointment supports JLT Re's growing National and Global Accounts | New role emphasises focus on deep client relationships JLT Re, the global provider of reinsurance broking and consultancy, has appointed Francesca Marc-Antonio as Global Head of Client Relationship Management. This new role will see Francesca become a member of the JLT Re Global Executive Committee, working closely with her senior colleagues to coordinate relationships and service offerings with JLT Re's Global and National clients. Francesca will join JLT Re as soon as she has completed her contractual obligations with Swiss Re and will be based in the New York office reporting to Mike Reynolds, Global CEO of JLT Re. Commenting on the appointment Mike Reynolds, said, "Francesca brings a different perspective to our business combined with an excellent market reputation and a dynamic focus on creating the right opportunities and responding to changing client needs. Her ambition and drive will help us to continue to bring the right solutions to our Global and National clients." Francesca joins from Swiss Re where she was SVP Head of US P&C Broker Marketing and Head of the Global Broker Group. In that role, she was responsible for fostering the ongoing strategic development and monitoring of Swiss Re's relationships and growth with global brokers. Prior to joining Swiss Re in 2000, Francesca worked at a number of global brokers, most recently Guy Carpenter. Francesca Marc-Antonio said, "This is an exciting new opportunity, and I am enthused by the team at JLT Re and its proposition. I look forward to supporting deep client relationships so we can offer the right services in a way that helps clients meet their business objectives." - ENDS - ENQUIRIES: JLT Re Isabella Gaster | T: (+44) 20 7558 3387/ (+44) 7920 586 032 | E: firstname.lastname@example.com NOTES TO EDITORS: About JLT Re JLT Re's trusted team of 700 colleagues worldwide combines market leading expertise and proprietary analytical tools with the freedom to challenge conventions. Deep specialist knowledge and extensive experience of both the reinsurance market and clients' own industries and sectors enables JLT Re to ask smarter questions, innovate and deliver better results tailored to meet client needs. JLT Re is part of the Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc. www.jltre.com About Jardine Lloyd Thompson Jardine Lloyd Thompson is one of the world's leading providers of insurance, reinsurance and employee benefits related advice, brokerage and associated services. JLT's client proposition is built upon its deep specialist knowledge, client advocacy, tailored advice and service excellence. JLT is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and owns offices in 40 territories with more than 10,600 employees. Supported by the JLT International Network, it offers risk management and employee benefit solutions in 135 countries. For further information about JLT, please visit our website www.jlt.com.


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CHL On Demand has served the state of Texas and our community for 30 years.
I'm a licensed Texas Concealed Handgun Instructor based in Sugar Land, serving Sugar Land, Missouri City, Stafford, Richmond, Rosenberg and Houston.
Wheather your goal is learning basic firearm safety, advancing your shooting skills,
or training your mind and body in self-defense, success starts here.
We believe that the right to use and bear firearms comes
with a serious responsibility to be educated and safe.
CHL On Demands owner, Mark Giordonello, has served the state of Texas and our community for 30 years. He is a licensed Texas Concealed Handgun Instructor based in Sugar Land, serving Sugar Land, Missouri City, Stafford, Richmond, Rosenberg and Houston. His has an extensive background including serving 30 years with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice while being trained in weapons and defensive tactics. He has also been teaching this License To Carry Course (formerly known as CHL - Concealed Handgun License) for 10 years.
CHL ON DEMAND is owned and operated by Mark (Mr. G) Giordonello.
Learn about our 6 step process to get your License To Carry (formerly known as CHL).
Classes held seven days a week for your convenience.
30 years with Texas Department of Criminal Justice, trained in weapons and defensive tactics.
CHL On Demand offers License To Carry Classes (formerly known as CHL - Concealed Handgun License) by Texas certified instructor Mark (Mr. G) Giordonello. We conduct each course in a manner that is easy to understand, interesting and engaging. We teach what you must know to fulfill the State requirements, and we teach you those things you should know to be a responsible gun owner. A primary source of students for our classes are individuals referred to us by satisfied students that enjoyed their experience with us. Students leave our class with a comfortable understanding of the laws addressing the use of force and concealed handgun carry.
We believe that the right to keep and bear firearms comes with a serious responsibility to be educated and safe. With a highly experienced instructor, unmatched training technologies, and a learning environment where all skill levels are welcome, our training classes lay the foundation for the CHL On Demand experience—it's knowledge and training you can carry with you to the range and the real world.
Wide range of classes covering topics from basic gun safety to the most advanced self defense classes.
Many classes offered 7 days a week for your convenience including LTC (formally known as CHL), NRA, Self Defense and Defensive Tactics classes.
You will have access to the most advanced hand gun training technologies available.
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Starting & Leading a Chapter or Parent Group
If your area does not have a local chapter or parent group and you are interested in starting one, read the info in the files below to see what this involves. Then contact the MCGT office at [email protected] for more information.
MCGT Chapters and Parent Groups: How To Get Started (pdf)
Starting a Chapter Handbook (pdf)
Chapter Essentials Handbook (pdf)
Annual Chapter Update and Financial Report (pdf)
FAQs for Leaders
The MCGT office has created an online submission form to help chapters publicize their events. When you complete the event submission form, the information goes to the Outlook editor and the MCGT office. We will then share your event on our website, in our newsletter, and on our public Facebook page.
Submit an Event for Posting to MCGT.net (form)
MCGT Printable Resources
Ideas for Activities
1. Conference sponsorships for educators The Rosemount-Eagan-Apple Valley (RAVE) chapter leadership committee recently decided to invite all the elementary and middle school principals in our district to attend the annual MCGT conference as our guests. We also decided to invite other educators instrumental in implementing and supervising GT services. In our school district, this involves the directors of elementary and secondary curriculum, a director of "teaching and learning", two GT coordinators and two coordinators of ECFE. With the goal of allowing chapters to sponsor educators in their district, chapters may send educators to the annual conference at the members rate. Please contact the MCGT office for more details about this.
2. Gift MCGT Outlook subscriptions Additionally, the committee decided to send a gift newsletter subscription to everyone listed above and will also include the superintendent. (Superintendents have been invited to attend the conference guests of the MCGT Board of Directors.) The letter announcing our gift subscription will be mailed at the end of July and the subscription will begin with the September/October issue, which highlights the upcoming annual conference. We will also be including a sheet listing the upcoming MCGT events for the fall.
Help from NAGC
NAGC's Free Guide to Starting and Sustaining a Parent Group
If you are an NAGC member, log in with your last name and use your member number as a password (unless you have changed either of those fields). If you are not yet a member, you still have free access to the e-Guide. Click the Non-Members Login "Enter Here" button and tell us a little about yourself. Hit "Submit" and then select "Download the e-Guide Starting and Sustaining a Parent Group to Support Gifted Children." A browser window will then open with the PDF document. You may view and read the PDF in a browser window, save the document, or print.


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Village Builders
The Village Builders are PlaceMakers and Artists, Activists and Community Builders.
We have hosted many events surrounding building community and creative placemaking in Sonoma County. Our largest events to date have been the 10 day long Sebastopol Village Building Convergences (VBC). In the VBC process people brainstorm ideas to improve the places they live as well as the common spaces that we collectively inhabit. We help individuals and organizations develop their designs and get permits and approvals if necessary, then the community comes out as a fun work party and transforms the space into a special place.
We are passionate about all forms of community building and are always looking forward to the next project!


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نوع مقاله: مقاله پژوهشی
1 استادیار، گروه علوم خاک، دانشکده کشاورزی، دانشگاه ارومیه، ارومیه، ایران
2 دانشآموخته کارشناسی ارشد گروه زمینشناسی، دانشکده علوم، دانشگاه ارومیه، ارومیه، ایران
3 دانشیار، گروه زمینشناسی، دانشکده علوم، دانشگاه ارومیه، ارومیه، ایران
4 استاد، گروه شیمی، دانشکده علوم، دانشگاه ارومیه، ارومیه، ایران
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The presence of chromium in drinking water and the entry of industrial wastewater into groundwater resources endangers human health and the environment. This study was done to investigate the effect of leonardite to remove Cr+6, Cr+3 from aqueous environments. The optimal values of factors were determined by the surface response model and the central composite design. Adsorption data were fitted with the pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order kinetic models. In addition, the effects of interfering cations and anions on chromium adsorption were determined. The results showed that the contact time, amount of leonardite and pH significantly affect chromium sorption. Chromium kinetic data were well fitted (R2=0.995) to the pseudo second order equation. The capacity (qe) and adsorption coefficient (Kads) parameters for Cr3+ were higher than Cr6+. As a large amount of Cr3+ was adsorbed by leonardite in a short time. Fe3+ and SO42- as interfering ions reduced the removal of Cr3+ and Cr6+ by leonardite respectively. It is concluded that Leonardite, as a biodegradable adsorbent, is suitable for remove of chromium from contaminated waters.
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Rengaraj, S., Moon, S.-H., Sivabalan, R., Arabindoo, B. & Murugesan, V. 2002. Agricultural solid waste for the removal of organics: Adsorption of phenol from water and wastewater by palm seed coat activated carbon. Waste Management, 22, 543-548.
Şahin, Y. & Öztürk, A. 2005. Biosorption of chromium (VI) ions from aqueous solution by the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis. Process Biochemistry, 40, 1895-1901.
Solé, M., Casas, J. M. & Lao, C. 2003. Removal of Zn from aqueous solutions by low-rank coal. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 144, 57-65.
Sounthararajah, D. P., Loganathan, P., Kandasamy, J. & Vigneswaran, S. 2015. Effects of humic acid and suspended solids on the removal of heavy metals from water by adsorption onto granular activated carbon. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 12, 10475-10489.
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WTF? Cristiano Ronaldo Pays A Stylist To Brush His Wax Figure's Hair
Even for Ronaldo, this seems going a bit too far. Granted, he is the man who stands on his tippy toes to appear taller than his teammates during pre-game photos.
And, I guess his is the guy who made sure he had a bulge on his bronze statue outside of a museum dedicated to him.
And when you think about it, he did have that cringeworthy commercial for that "face-exercising" product in Japan...
You know what, this actually makes a lot of sense.
According to The Independent, Ronaldo sends a hairstylist to Portugal once a month to tend to the hair of this wax figure made in his image:
Entrevista G.Presa, @MuseoCeraMadrid "Cristiano manda a su peluquero a arreglar su estatua" http://t.co/yBqXiZggpTpic.twitter.com/SmMOJNG6OB — Què t'hi jugues! (@QTJsercat) March 3, 2015
Gonzalo Presa, reported as the former communications director at the Museo de Cera in Madrid, is the one who outed the Real Madrid star.
Presa told a Spanish radio station (translated by The Independent):
He sent his own hairstylist to brush his figure once a month. Cristiano's hair is natural. It is not a wig and it comes from India.
For any other athlete in this world, this would sound too good dumb to be true. But hey, it's Ronaldo.
Citations: Real Madrid superstar sends his hair stylist to look after his waxwork once a month (The Independent)


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Late on Monday night, the Pirates signed their top two draft picks -- Gerrit Cole and Josh Bell, spending $17 million dollars in bonuses to do so. These bonuses put the Pirates in front of every other team in terms of spending on the draft and, in the Neal Huntington era, they have spent about $47 million on the draft, the most of any club in MLB.
Not to cheerlead for the Pirates, but can we stop saying that they're too cheap? Or not trying anymore? Just because they may fail, just because this particular team hit a losing streak of bibilical proportions (I was expecting a plague of locusts to descend upon the clubhouse any second), just because Pedro Alvarez is positively painful to watch at the plate, doesn't mean they aren't actually trying to win.
I get it. I understand the frustration. I was one of those who said, 'they don't want to win.' To be honest, if they weren't actually using the script from 'Major League' as a 'how to' guide, they just didn't care about winning or if they did, they didn't care enough to hire people who actually understood what it would take to win.
It's hard to think otherwise, given all the awful managers, salary dumps, the moronic veteran signings, the mis-handling of Rule 5 drafts [shivers], and steering clear of top draft picks, particularly those represented by Scott Boras or Drew Rosenhaus. [Both of those guys are scumbags of the lowest order and I cannot figure that neither of them has an entry at Dickipedia. But still no excuse for Daniel Moskos over Matt Weiters. Really? Really?! ] Basically, at best it was a half-assed effort by the Pirates organization. Yeah. Ugh. Moving on.
In the last couple of years that draft timidity is gone. Or at least mostly gone. What I'm saying is not that they've drafted perfectly but they are trying to draft well. We all know about Alvarez' struggles, but everybody with a brain involved in MLB said he was the guy to draft. The Pirates drafted him anyway, knowing he'd come with a huge price tag and knowing that they'd have to deal with the ultra-noxious Scott Boras. It is to the Pirates credit that they drafted Alvarez (the best player available by everybody's estimation), and then signed him. If Pedro really does flame out over the next couple of years, I can't hold Huntington, et al responsible for that. That's on Pedro himself. Period.
[Which reminds me -- I believe Scott Boras is the No. 1 reason that Pittsburgh fans turned on Alvarez faster than a meth 'ho can turn a trick. All small market fans and civilized people hate Boras with the heat of 1,000 suns. As they should. The guy is a creep. But if you think I'm exaggerating the Boras Effect -- read this from ESPN's Jerry Crasnick from September, 2008.]
[Which reminds me -- I believe Scott Boras is the No. 1 reason that Pittsburgh fans turned on Alvarez faster than a meth 'ho can turn a trick. All small market fans and civilized people hate Boras with the heat of 1,000 suns. As they should. The guy is a creep. But if you think I'm exaggerating the Boras Effect -- read this from ESPN's Jerry Crasnick from September, 2008.]
Fast forward to this year. Knowing that, once again, Boras was in the picture, the Pirates first selected Gerrit Cole and took masher Josh Bell with their second pick. Some MLB analysts felt that Bell could have gone as high as the ninth or tenth player taken overall, but he had stated his desire to go to the University of Texas. Some clubs stayed away. But the Pirates didn't. They took a chance that they could get him, knowing that they would get a compensatory pick (one spot lower than he was taken) next year. It was a good risk to take, the kind of risk they had shied away from in previous seasons.
Here's what I know about anything in life: if you apply yourself, if you work hard, if you have a plan and execute it, if you devote yourself towards attaining a goal ... you still may fail. That's the sad truth.
But if you don't try, you will always fail. Guaranteed.
But if you don't try, you will always fail. Guaranteed.
Happily, I believe these Pirates are actually trying to put together a winning club. With zero guarantee of success.
Meanwhile, in other big Bucco News:
Meanwhile, in other big Bucco News:
home plate umpire Jerry Meals when Garrett Jones launched an 11th inning home run that cleared the right field seats altogether, bounced once on the riverwalk and landed in the drink. It was a great game from the Pirates, full of the kinds of things they were doing throughout May and June that had the city a-buzz:
-- another solid start from Jeff Karstens. Not as sparkling a start as we've seen from him in the past, but still, a start good enough to put his team in a position to win.
-- it's wonderful to have Jose Tabata back in the leadoff spot. Man, did they miss that guy.
-- a huge three-run dinger from Andrew McCutchen. It all works for the Pirates when Cutch is racking up RBI's.
-- great glovework from Ronny Cedeno, starting a spectacular double play in the 7th inning.
-- tremendous fielding and speed in the outfield with Xavier Paul robbing Yadier Molina of a sure line-drive double to lead off the 11th, and then McCutchen committing felonious theft of Albert Pujols' shot to the gap to end the 11th.
-- another solid outing from the bullpen. Especially stalwart were Jason Grilli (getting the Pirates out of the 6th inning jam) and Chris Resop who took them through the 10th and 11th. The bullpen has been all hands on deck all year, but last night was one of the very few times we've seen Joel Hanrahan stumble, so it was nice to see Grilli, Resop and Jose Veras pick him up.
-- a clutch hit from Neil Walker. In these two games against the RedBirds, he's gone 5 for 8 with 2 RBI and 3 runs scored. More to the point, he's hitting the ball with authority, right on the button, just about every time up to the plate. I think we can state, officially, that the slump is over.
-- and the homer from Jones. I have to wonder what Jones' numbers might be like had he gotten more starts, both in right field and at 1st. I know they wanted Matt Diaz to face left-handed pitching rather than Jones .... and I know they got Lyle Overbay to be the everyday 1st baseman. But still ... it's worth thinking about.
Later in the week, I'm going to take a look at what went wrong for this Pirates team after the All-Star break and ruminate on what they have to do to make this season a success, even now that the playoffs are out of reach. But today is a day for pleasant thoughts. So today I'm just going to enjoy the afterglow of last night's victory over the Cards.


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Argentine tenor Javier Rodrígues shines in Misa Criolla in Groningen
On Friday 30th November Huygens Music present 'Musica Celestial' in the Aa Church. A programme of heavenly choral music as a prelude to the light of Christmas. The Huygens Vocal Ensemble and tenor Javier Rodrígues, directed by Hans Tijssen, will be accompanied by multi-instrumentalists Fana Martinez and Daniel Morcos.
The Misa Criolla by Ariel Ramíres is the best known piece on tonight's programme. It is full of Argentinian instruments and rhythms and the participation of tenor Rodrígues, who was the composer's preferred soloist and has performed the Misa Criolla countless times, is sure to give this performance an authentic sound.
Although the Misa Criolla is a religious piece it has much in common with secular music. With its chorus, percussion, piano, guitar, Argentinian quena (Andes flute), bombo and charango it could be categorized as world music. It is music that appeals to a wide audience. Also on the programme are South American and European Advent music. An exuberant South American evening in which classical music meets Argentine folklore
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H.G. Wood Building, Cleveland, Ohio
Addition and renovation of 87,000 square feet of biomedical research laboratories and NMR facility.
Project Challenge: To provide basement access into the new Tower which houses four Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Magnets (NMR's).
Krill Case Study Solution: The Krill Co., Inc collaborated with the University and Architect during conceptual and schematic drawing stages to develop an approach to relocate the entire seven floor biomedical research laboratory . It was decided to move the building approximately 200 yards so that a lower level basement could be constructed which was unobstructed by buried utility tunnels and utility services.
Capitalizing on the University's need for additional space, the relocation of the building also created accessibility opportunities from the adjoining structures. To avoid the excessive costs that accompany expansion shale removal and replacement, Krill's project management and field staff found an alternate point of access to the basement level behind an existing stair tower, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars and excessive building coordination of utilities.


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Also on Thursday: Gedas Mitkus, VistaDraft; Dr. Philipp Plog, Fieldfisher https://t.co/v5HnNwxf6x— CodeX Stanford (@CodeXStanford) February 6, 2018
Dear Phi, Aki (and R),
I followed you both here from 3 of my Twitters - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch and Languages-World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod and https://twitter.com/HarbinBook. Is this your correct Twitter, Aki?
Here's the beginning law school (in English) -
And, as examples, and templates, here are other online:
Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)
Afghanistan Law School at WUaS:
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Afghanistan_Law_School_at_WUaS
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Afghanistan_Law_School_at_WUaS
Brazil Law School at WUaS:
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Brazil_Law_School_at_WUaS
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Brazil_Law_School_at_WUaS
China Law School at WUaS:
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS
Egypt Law School at WUaS:
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Egypt_Law_School_at_WUaS
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Egypt_Law_School_at_WUaS
India Law School at WUaS:
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India_Law_School_at_WUaS
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/India_Law_School_at_WUaS
Jamaica Law School at WUaS:
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Jamaica_Law_School_at_WUaS
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Jamaica_Law_School_at_WUaS
Mexico Law School at WUaS:
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaS
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaS
World University Law School:
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School
- http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School
All of these will emerge in our new wiki here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - with Wikidata/Wikibase in 299 languages+ as "back end" structured knowledge database.
And Stanford has between 5-10 international law projects - Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, Iraq and Rwanda, and I think there might be law projects in Mexico and Brail, too (so, the Afghanistan Legal Education Project, Bhutan Law and Policy Project, The China Project, Iraq Legal Education Initiative, Rwanda Legal Development Project, Timor-Leste Legal Education Project)
... https://law.stanford.edu/areas_of_interest/international-comparative-law/#slsnav-programs-and-centers - which WUaS would love to explore "HOUSING" in our online WUaS Law Schools, in which we'd like to offer online CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-like law degrees, in these countries' official and main languages.
If any of you are interested next week, there's a law school event happening at 5:45 pm next Monday -
Litigating Free Speech on Campus
A Constitutional Conversation with Harmeet K. Dhillon
Monday, February 12, 2018 at Stanford Law School, Room 190


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Quote:What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
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Title - The Good Sisters
Author - Helen Phifer
Publication Date - October 31st 2016
Publisher - Carina UK
Format - Kindle Edition (Provided by publisher via NetGalley)
Pages - 249
1933. Mother Superior Agnes offers sanctuary to a desperate young woman fleeing for her life. Only to wake in the morning to discover a terrible fate has befallen one of the Sisters - in a room locked from the inside. Agnes can't help fear that she has allowed a great evil to enter the convent, but she has no idea how far reaching the consequences of that one fateful night will be...
Over 80 years later, Kate Parker, divorced, alcoholic, and broke, moves into the dilapidated old convent she dreams of turning into a bed and breakfast, whilst changing her life. Although the locals refuse to go near the place at night, Kate is determined to stay while the renovations take place. But when she starts to hear strange noises at night, and the crucifixes she had removed reappear on the walls, Kate starts to suspect she is not entirely alone in her new home.
As much as I utterly adore romantic fiction, I have always, for as long as I can remember, had a soft spot for all things spooky and unusual, and Helen Phifer's The Good Sisters falls into that category perfectly. As soon as the details for this frightening novel were released, I knew that I absolutely had to read it. It sounded right up my street and I just couldn't wait to get started on what sounded like one hell of a creepy story, slotting seamlessly into Halloween season.
Readers are introduced to Kate Parker first. Battling a powerful addiction and still grieving the loss of her very best friend, Kate's about to put her all into the renovation of an old and abandoned convent in order to turn it into the bed and breakfast of her dreams. It's going to be a tough job but, in an unexplainable way, Kate feels connected to the place, and she's desperate to make it her own. Kate's character was one that I admired in a number of ways. Stronger than she gave herself credit for, determined and ready for change, she was the type of woman who had been through a lot yet continued to soldier on despite the pain her past had delivered. Simply moving into the convent and overseeing the work was a feat in itself, but even from the beginning, something wasn't quite right about the place. Put aside the fact that it's old and probably has a few stories of its own to tell, something sinister seemed to linger in the rooms and corridors within. Phifer's descriptions sent one too many chills running down my spine and it was impossible to ignore the effects it had on me as the reader. With every page turn, I was readying myself for whatever was waiting around the corner.
Once the foundations of Kate's life are set and the plot is ready to move forward, Phifer takes us back to the past, to 1933 to be precise, over eighty years prior to Kate taking the building for her own, where we meet the women who had once inhabited the very same convent she's about to turn into a bed and breakfast. This was where the chills really set in for me and Phifer shifts brilliantly into a time before my own. As the events unfold and the three sisters face their darkest fears, I couldn't help but to wonder how this would impact Kate's life in the present day. The circumstances that arose for Mother Superior Agnes and sisters Mary and Edith were gruesome and frightening to say the least. The author's descriptions were vivid and set the scene perfectly for a spooky tale to unfold, which it most certainly did in my opinion. I felt a sense of foreboding in regards to what was to come for Kate, without her even realising what had happened in the walls of the convent. The poor woman had no idea and I felt awfully worried for her.
I absolutely loved how the plot began to build, and the things which Kate was witness to were truly terrifying. If I had been in her position, I would have run screaming from the place immediately. As the strangeness began to increase and the occurrences began to become more regular, the pace certainly picked up, and I couldn't wait to see how Kate would deal with yet another challenge thrown her way, only this time of the supernatural variety. Phifer continues to go back and forth between the two time periods, heightening excitement and terror in equal measure. It was thrilling in the most unnerving of ways and a story to have you switching on the lights before stepping into any dark room.
Becca's Books is awarding The Good Sisters by Helen Phifer with four of my bookish cupcakes. A truly terrifying read with a perfectly executed history of horror and tragedy. It was dark, chilling and full of twists and turns that made only made it more exciting. I loved it.


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The results of the REMOVAL study were presented at the 2017 European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Lisbon
While the main data was presented at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions back in June of this year, new information was presented at EASD, consisting of new data, particularly renal [function] data, biomarker data, and subgroup analysis results that are relevant to the updated guidelines about metformin in type 1 diabetes.
Metformin might reduce insulin requirement and improve glycaemia in patients with type 1 diabetes, but whether it has cardiovascular benefits is unknown. The researchers aimed to investigate whether metformin treatment (added to titrated insulin therapy) reduced atherosclerosis, as measured by progression of common carotid artery intima-media thickness (cIMT), in adults with type 1 diabetes at increased risk for cardiovascular disease.
REMOVAL was a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial undertaken at 23 hospital diabetes clinics in five countries. Adults aged 40 years and older with type 1 diabetes of at least 5 years' duration and at least three of ten specific cardiovascular risk factors were randomly assigned to oral metformin 1000 mg twice daily or placebo. Participants and site staff were masked to treatment allocation. The primary outcome was averaged mean far-wall cIMT, quantified annually for 3 years, analyzed in a modified intention-to-treat population. Secondary outcomes were HbA1c, LDL cholesterol, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), incident microalbuminuria (not reported), incident retinopathy, bodyweight, insulin dose, and endothelial function, also analyzed in all participants with post-randomization data available for the outcome of interest at any given timepoint.
Of 428 randomly assigned patients, 219 were allocated to metformin and 209 to placebo. HbA1c (mean 8·1% for metformin and 8·0% for placebo at baseline) was reduced on average over 3 years by metformin., but this was accounted for by a reduction at the 3-month timepoint that was not sustained thereafter. Bodyweight and LDL cholesterol were reduced with metformin over 3 years of treatment, and eGFR was increased. Insulin requirement was not reduced on average over 3 years, but there was a significant visit-by-treatment interaction.. There was no effect on endothelial function, or on retinopathy. Discontinuation of treatment in 59 (27%) participants on metformin versus 26 (12%) on placebo was mainly due to an excess of gastrointestinal adverse effects, and there was no increase in hypoglycemia with metformin. Five deaths occurred among patients allocated to metformin and two occurred among those allocated to placebo; none were judged by site principal investigators to be related to study medication.
Metformin is currently recommended by the ADA and other bodies in type 1 diabetes for obese people in order to try to control A1c and reduce insulin requirement. The findings of REMOVAL originally cast doubt upon that recommendation but did show some effects on body weight, LDL cholesterol, and on atherosclerosis progression by a tertiary endpoint.
The newer data is showing that metformin actually reduces the attenuation of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) that you normally see in type 1 diabetes, with an effect size of about 1 mL/min/year of eGFR measured by cystatin C, not just by creatinine.
This is a robust finding. It also showed a strong trend in the reduction of microalbuminuria as a categorical variable.
Peter Rossing presented a report on the renal data from REMOVAL:
We looked at the biomarkers. We found a reduction in tissue plasminogen activator of about 20%, a reduction in C-reactive protein of about 16%, LDL reduction, apolipoprotein B reduction, and that high-sensitivity troponin-T was unaffected. We have looked in more detail at B12 deficiency, which is in the guidelines for metformin and type 1 diabetes in that B12 does go down in long-term treatment. In REMOVAL, the effects of hemoglobin were very minimal and probably not mediated by B12 deficiency because mean corpuscular volume was unaffected.
From the results it was concluded that this data does not support use of metformin to improve glycemic control in adults with long-standing type 1 diabetes as suggested by current guidelines, but suggests that it might have a wider role in cardiovascular risk management.
Finally, Helen Colhoun talked about the subgroup analysis:
We found no evidence for a threshold at which metformin is more or less effective above or below a body mass index (BMI) of 30, as claimed by the guidelines. The small effects in cholesterol, renal [function], and weight are really quite consistent across the board. If anything, people with a higher BMI have a lower A1c by 0.2% because they are on more insulin rather than less insulin.
Practice Pearls:
- Data does not support use of metformin to improve glycemic control in adults with long-standing type 1 diabetes as suggested by current guidelines, but suggest that it might have a wider role in cardiovascular risk management.
- A reduction in tissue plasminogen activator of about 20%, a reduction in C-reactive protein of about 16%, and LDL reduction, apolipoprotein B reduction.
- Metformin actually reduces the attenuation of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR).
Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2017; 5(8):597-609 (ISSN: 2213-8595); Petrie JR, Chaturvedi N, Ford I, et al. Cardiovascular and metabolic effects of metformin in patients with type 1 diabetes (REMOVAL): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2017;5:597-609. Abstract


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KUALA LUMPUR: Six foreigners and a Malaysian were picked up in the city and Selangor, between Feb 21 and 26, over suspected terrorism-related activities.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said the first two men, an Indonesian man and a Malaysian man, were arrested ln Kepong, here.
The men, aged 28 and 41 respectively, were picked up on Feb 21. The Malaysian is a factory technician, while the Indonesian is a farmer.
The duo is believed to have received an order from Mohamad Wanndy Mohamad Jedi to launch a big-scale attack in the country using a Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (car bomb).
Khalid said the men had planned to flee and join the Islamic State group in Syria after the attack. It is learnt that the Indonesian man had been deported by Turkish authorities after he tried to enter Syria via Turkey.
On Feb 23, a 37-year-old man from an unnamed country in East Asia was arrested in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Khalid said the man is a member of a militant group in East Asia which uses Malaysia as a transit point to other countries.
The man has been in the country since 2011 under the pretext of studying at a public university in the Klang Valley using a fake student ID.
Khalid said on Feb 26, the Special Branch's Counter-Terrorism Division had also arrested four Yemeni men in Serdang and Cyberjaya, Selangor.
Khalid said the men are suspected of having joined a rebel group in Yemen.
Preliminary investigation revealed that they had also been involved in a syndicate forging travel documents.
Police seized various international passports and RM270,000 in cash in several currencies. The money is believed to have been destined for transfer to the rebel group.


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|May 22, 1842
|Aug. 26, 1938
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|Andrew (Wahoo)
|2nd Iowa Infantry, Company G
Private Nathan B. Tharp
Company G, 2nd Iowa Infantry
Tharp was born in Savannah (Davis County), Iowa on May 22, 1842. He was residing in Bloomfield (Davis County), Iowa when he enlisted and mustered in the regiment on August 16, 1861. Tharp served over 3 years with the regiment and was mustered out on May 30, 1865.
The 2nd Iowa Infantry was organized and mustered at Keokuk on May 27, 1861. During Tharp's enlistment, the regiment was in many major battles and campaigns. A partial list includes:
Capture of Fort Donelson (TN) (February 14-16, 1862). Regimental losses were 32 killed and 166 wounded.
Battle of Shiloh (TN) (April 6-7, 1862).
Battle of Corinth (MS) (October 3-4, 1862). Regimental losses 15 killed, 65 wounded, and 4 were captured.
Atlanta Campaign (GA) (May 1-September 8, 1864).
Siege of Atlanta (GA) (July 22-August 25, 1864).
General Sherman's "March to the Sea) (GA) (November 15-December 10, 1864).
Siege of Savannah (GA) (December 10-21, 1864).
Campaign of the Carolinas (NC/SC) (January-April 1865).
Battle of Bentonville (NC) (March 20-21, 1865).
At the Bennett House (Raleigh NC) when General Johnston surrendered the Army of Tennessee.
Grand Review of the Troops (Washington DC) (May 24, 1865).
Tharp died on August 26, 1938 at the age of 96 years. He is buried in the Sunrise Cemetery in Wahoo (Saunders County), Nebraska. He was the last member of the Andrew Post (#90) of the Grand Army of the Republic in Wahoo.
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Note: Veteran bios were compiled and written by Dean Podoll.


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6 Ways to Use Branding Photos
Branding photos are an integral part of your business strategy. Let's not mince words about this, they are so important because people buy things moreso because of their emotions than being practical. I mean, let's discuss my latest Amazon purchase! When I get into my Internet rabbit hole and I am convinced to purchase something, you bet your butt photography played a part in convincing me to buy something! In fact, the last two online purchases I made were because a sponsored post came up on Instagram that resonated with me and I decided to buy it! The images used to lure me in were clean, crisp, showed off exactly what the item could do for me and their site felt professional. All this to say that imagery for your business and brand plays a huge part in that buying emotion!! Thus branding photos for your business can have a huge impact on your income.
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I just talked about this–social media is the bestest place for these amazing photos! Let us count the places: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter are a start!! And depending on your ideal client and where they hang out, your strategy for posting these images and their frequency will play a factor. In fact, posts that include an image receive 120% – 180% more eyes on it and people engage with the post more. That's HUGE!! Further to the point, Facebook posts with images have close to 40% more interaction. And when you think about how much the algorithm tries to stifle your posts so you will pay for advertising, this number resonates even more. (more…)


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At the age of 17, Marianne Palka moved to the United States, alone and with just 100 dollars to her name. Fifteen years later, she enters a hospital with the very same degree of courage to find out whether she has the hereditary Huntington's disease. Even undergoing the tests was an act of bravery: her father has the disease, so Palka has a 50 percent chance of also bearing the gene associated with this terrible condition, sometimes referred to as "Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and ALS in one." The evening before the results are due, Marianne invites her best friends over and they share this last evening of not knowing. "If the results are positive," Marianne says, "it's a death sentence. If the results are negative, I'm just like everyone else." The title of the film is taken from the poem Bob Dylan wrote after a visit to fellow folk singer Woody Guthrie, who died of the disease.
Lucy Walker is a British film director who has twice been nominated for an Academy Award. Her films include feature documentaries The Crash Reel (2013, screened at 2014 ZagrebDox), Waste Land (2010, winner of Audience Award at 2011 ZagrebDox), Countdown to Zero (2010, screened at 2011 ZagrebDox), Blindsight (2006), Devil's Playground (2002) and short films notably The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (2011, screened at 2013 ZagrebDox) and The Lion's Mouth Opens (2014, in this year's ZagrebDox program). Her films have also been nominated for seven Emmys, an Independent Spirit Award, a DGA Award and a Gotham Award and have won over eighty other film awards.
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Avon, $7.99, ISBN 978-0-06-238861-2
Historical Romance, 2015
It really is supposed to The Match of the Century. Gavin Whitridge, the Duke of Baynton, will marry Miss Elin Morris. He's very handsome, very respectable, and, of course, very much a duke. She is a wealthy heiress, beautiful to boot. There is rarely a couple so well-matched, and it is just right that their parents practically paired them up from the time Elin was born. Well, all is splendid… except for the fact that Elin is in love with Benedict, Gavin's younger brother.
Ben and Elin grew up together, they were infatuated with one another, and Elin gave him her virginity when she was sixteen, only to have him vamoose the day after to become a soldier. She believes her mother when that woman told Elin that Ben was jealous of Gavin, so he slept with Elin to get back at Gavin. Of course, he was pressed into joining the military after being beaten by his father when the man realized that he and Elin were sweet on one another, and he nursed a chip on his shoulder ever since.
The fun begins on the day when Gavin, just as he is about to marry Elin, has Ben's bosses relieve Ben of his military duties and summons that man to come home. Gavin's other brother Jack is AWOL, you see, and until he has an heir with Elin, he wants Ben out of harm's way. In case there is a need for the spare, you see. Ben is not happy at all, and coming back only sees him bumping into Elin again. Just as she is about to be his sister-in-law. Oh boy.
I have not read Cathy Maxwell's books in a long time – I missed two trilogies as a result – but after reading The Match of the Century, I remember why I am always intrigued by the author's efforts. You see, the author doesn't shy away from formulaic tropes, but when she puts them into her stories, more often than not she just spins and twirls them around until they are hers and only hers. In the first few chapters of this book, the story is a familiar one, but at the same time, nothing feels overused or tired.
Elin and her mother are very close, and despite the mother pushing her into this advantageous marriage, Elin doesn't harbor the usual black-and-white "I am not marrying for love, so I will die now!" hysteria in her heart. In fact, she has given much thought to what could have happened between herself and Ben, and she reasonably concluded that, given that Ben never wrote or tried to see her in the eight years since, maybe people were right and he was just using her. That hurt, but she is determined to move on. The only doubt she feels when the story opens is whether she should tell Gavin that she had slept with Ben, to be fair to that man. And her mother's advice to her on that matter is refreshingly pragmatic and sensible. There are no clear-cut stereotypes and labels in this story – everyone, even Gavin, feels like well-rounded characters.
And when Ben shows up, Elin doesn't crumple or acts delirious with the need for shagging. To my delight, she holds her ground when he acts like everything is her fault, and I love how she tells him reasonably that, if he really did care like he claimed to be, he could have tried harder to get in touch with her in the last few years. She doesn't allow the hero to be unfair to her or treat her like dirt, and I like her even more than ever.
Then, out of the blue, people start trying to kill Elin and the story then switches gears from what was starting out to be an intense internal conflict-driven tale into a standard historical romance with cartoon villains that are on the incompetent side playing Wile E Coyote to our couple.
One of my issues with this development is how abrupt this bullets-and-buffoons drama shows up. If I was given any clues earlier as to such a development taking place earlier, I'd be less taken aback. As it is, the whole thing feels like the author starting out on one track only to abruptly say "Screw it!" and just switch track without any ado right after. More importantly, the switch to a more action-oriented story forces any emotional drama to the sidelines. Hence, the story becomes another rather standard story of the hero coming to the heroine's rescue, and I will always wonder whether the rekindled romance is just a result of adrenaline rush rather than a genuine reawakening of finer feelings.
Hence, The Match of the Century will always remain a "Oh, what could have been!" kind of story. The potential for it to be a grand love story is there, but the author for some reason chooses instead of turn the whole thing into a more generic kind of story. I am very disappointed, and by right, this book is the epitome of a three-oogie read.
But I'm giving it an extra oogie anyway, because of the cheerfully subversive properties of this story. One thing I always respect about the author is that she is not only aware of her characters' weaknesses and failings, she is also not afraid to skewer them if they are being silly. For example, Ben fits the definition of a sullen hero with a chip on his shoulder, but he doesn't get any break here. His own mother points out right to his face that Elin deserves more than someone who is only good at brooding, and she's not the only one to do that. The author does this in a playful manner that never makes me feel like she is mocking her own characters or inviting me to ridicule them – she just knows how to wink at me, so to speak, and let me know that, yes, her characters at being silly, but they would grow up soon, you bet on that.
At the end of the day, I want to love this book for what it could have been, but I suppose some things just aren't meant to be. Still, I can't deny that this one entertains me all the same, so I'm alright with it.


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During today's World Wide Developer Conference, Apple unveiled an updated version of the MacBook Pro, which now comes with a high-res Retina display similar to what the iPad and iPhone already use. The display enables users to look at the screen without seeing pixels, and many applications will soon be updated to take advantage of it.
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These are exciting moments in the life of the Czech Republic, which honored the will of its people by creating a free and democratic society. Prague has always been a multicultural city where people meet, study, and work regardless of their origins and beliefs. The totalitarian part of the twentieth century was not favorable to this tradition, but the Velvet Revolution has returned these inspirations to the Czech Republic. Moreover, the Czech Republic is now a full member of the European Union and held the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2009. President Obama visited Prague twice in 2009 and 2010; in both cases, he chose Prague in which to present his policies on peace and disarmament.


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