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On this day in 1829, John Livingston Nevius was born on a small farm in Western New York. The small son of a little-known father with few opportunities in life, he probably never imagined that one day, he would be traveling the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
At the age of 24, John and his wife, Helen, set sail for China under the American Presbyterian Mission. For six harsh months, they were confined to the space of the ship and their small cabin. When they finally arrived on their promised shore of China, the young couple was absolutely thrilled. They both immediately set about learning the language and culture. John took a special interest in the culture, learning as much as he could so he could connect with those he would be working under.
It wasn't long before John was traveling all over his area, preaching and establishing missions. But the more time he spent doing the ministry among the Chinese people, the more he realized that he shouldn't be doing it! They didn't need some stranger leading their church. They needed their own men to step forward and do it.
He began to study the writings of men like Henry Venn and Rufus Anderson, 19th-century home-office leaders. These men both argued that native churches should be self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating (The three-selfs). John took these principles and developed what became known as the Nevius Plan. Nevius called for discarding old-style missions and the adoption of his new plan to foster an independent, self-supporting local church. He criticized the missionaries' practice of paying national workers out of mission funds, believing the healthy local church should be able to support its own local workers. His goal was to build independent, local churches. The basic ideas of the plan were:
- Christians should continue to live in their neighborhoods and pursue their occupations, being self-supporting and witnessing to their co-workers and neighbors.
- Missions should only develop programs and institutions that the national church desired and could support.
- The national churches should call out and support their own pastors.
- Churches should be built in the native style with money and materials given by the church members.
- Intensive biblical and doctrinal instruction should be provided for church leaders every year.
John was rejected by most of the other missionaries he was working with in China and they continued to do things in their old way. But when younger missionaries arrived in Korea to begin working, they begged John to spend a few weeks helping them get started. In 1890, he spent two weeks in Korea, teaching the new missionaries how to built truly "three -self" churches. As a result, these missionaries sought to create independent, indigenous churches from the beginning, stressing especially the importance of self-support. The churches in Korea grew strong and today, these churches are sending their own Korean missionaries around the world.
On this day in 1711, Matthew Stach was born in Mankendorf, Moravia.
Matthew's father, Christain Stach, was a strong man who had a deep love for the Lord. Matthew tells of one instance where, as a young boy, he was unable to get some cake the other kids were eating. Angry and bitter, the boy stalked over to the corner and began to weep loudly, hoping to gain sympathy from his parents. Instead, his father sat down next to him and said, "Ah my son could I but once see thee weep as earnestly on account of thy sins."
Many of their neighbors considered Christian a heretic, because he believed contray to the teaching of the Catholic Church. His son, however, just considered his father to be weird. That religious stuff wasn't for Matthew. As soon as he could, he moved away from home and was living in sin and lasciviousness. The Lord was still protecting and leading this young man and, through circumstances, kept him close to his family.
After his father was arrested by the Catholic priest and escaped, the family became fugatives. They soon fled to Herrnhut, the Moravian refuge. It was there that Matthew tired to gain his salvation. He did everything he could. He worked for it, denied himself for it. But it never came. He wrote:
Wherever I was, I was wretched and miserable and that I could not procure peace of by any other means, I disclosed my situation to a confidential friend for advice. His answer was "If thou art hungry, eat. If thirsty, drink. All things are prepared for thee. I thought his advice very unsatisfactory, expecting that he dictate to me a greater exertion of denial upon which at that time I rested my hopes. Thus my distress remained and I spent a whole night in tears and prayers to the Lord for his help and direction humbling myself before him as a poor undone sinner. In the morning meeting the next day, I can say with truth that our Savior granted me such confidence towards him as my strength and shield and such a firm reliance on his merits and death that all my doubts and fears vanished and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost took place within my heart.
After his salvation, he joined the church at Herrnhut and began to grow rapidly. One day, while he was out with some friends, an incident occurred that helped to direct this young man's life:
Once, as we were passing by the house of the late count Zinzendorf, he was just stepping out with Dr Schac fer, a Lutheran divine then on a visit to Hernnhut. On seeing us, he addressed the Doctor "Here sir you see future missionaries among the heathen". I was much struck at hearing these words and a desire which I had felt for some time to preach the Gospel to the heathen began to increase within me.
In just a few years, Matthew would be leading the Moravian missionaries to the Island of Greenland, where a great would be be done for many years!


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Welcome to Geek Fights, a show where the minutia that geeks love to discuss becomes center stage in a March Madness style bracketed showdown to determine the ultimate winner.
In this new episode, the topic is Best Wizard. Join co-hosts Damon Shaw, Mike Ortiz and Devrim Turak, along with their special guests Peter Lucas, and the Head Geek himself, Teras Cassidy, as they battle to determine which is our favourite.
As discussed in the episode, the brackets can be found at this link.
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A few miles from where I live, the Findhorn River passes through a steep, rocky gorge at a place called Sluie. For a distance of 500 metres or so, the dark, peat-stained water flows between 50 metre-high cliffs in a course it has carved out of the surrounding landscape over eons of time. Over the years I've made many visits to Sluie, especially to a place where it's possible to scramble down the steep slope to the water itself. There, on a bend in the river, is the closest to an experience of wilderness I know of in Scotland. Looking around, all that's visible is the tumult of the water as it flows between the jumbled mass of boulders; the seemingly-random pattern of trees, growing wherever they've been able to find some soil; and beyond them the towering cliffs and the sky above. The spirit, beauty and power of wild nature is palpably present for me there. Amidst the landscape of Scotland which has been so altered by people, that one place at least still seems to be as it has been for millennia.
It was Henry David Thoreau who wrote: " … in Wildness is the preservation of the World." He recognised that wilderness is essential for the continued existence and evolution of the biosphere, and as a home for the millions of species of plants, animals, insects and micro-organisms which share this planet with us. However, there is another important function which wilderness serves — as a place where humans can connect with the primordial power of nature, the raw pulse of the life-force of the universe.
I go to Sluie for my own personal, local experience of this — to refresh and nourish myself, and to re-experience my connection with all life. In recent years I've also spent several weeks annually in the tropical rainforests, and there, too, it's the experience of wildness which is meaningful for me. I've walked in awe amongst the bromeliad-covered buttresses of giant trees, I've waded chest deep in water through the tangled, stilt roots of mangrove forests and I've discovered the beauty of a rainforest canopy garden growing on the 40 metre-high branches of an emergent tree. The profuse and diverse beauty of exuberant life in wild forests such as these makes my heart sing, and provides the inspiration for much of my work. It is there that I feel myself most fully alive.
I consider myself privileged to visit those wild places, because in our world today few people are able to do so. This is especially true in a country like Scotland, where the landscape has been shaped by humans for centuries, and all the wildness, except for tiny places such as Sluie, has long since been tamed and domesticated. The majority of people, in Scotland and throughout the western world, now live in cities, and although urban parks offer a welcome sanctuary of green amongst the concrete and tarmac, they are no substitute for a wild forest.
However, it is from amidst the sterility and uniformity of our human-created urban environment that people are rediscovering the need for a wilderness experience as a source of richness and nourishment in their lives. In recent years there has been a veritable proliferation of companies offering trips to wild places such as East Africa and the Amazon Basin, as a casual glance through the advertisement pages of any conservation magazine will show. Increasing numbers of visitors are being drawn to those wild places, where Nature has free expression, outside of human control. However, this is happening simultaneously with the rapid loss of wilderness on every continent. The expansionist drive in human culture is leading us to claim more and more of the Earth's surface for our own ends, with little thought for the other species and ecosystems whose places we are usurping in the process.
What hope is there, then, for the future of wilderness on our planet? With acid rain and depletion of the ozone layer now worldwide phenomena, and where even the most isolated island beaches have plastic rubbish washed up on them, it is debatable whether there are any truly untouched wild places left on Earth. However, if we step back from an absolute, purist position, and adopt a definition of wilderness such as that in the US Wilderness Act, which characterises land as wilderness if it "generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable.", then there is still much we can save. Indeed, most current conservation campaigns are focussed on protecting the best of the wild areas which remain in the world, and the next decade or so represents the last chance to save them. Those of us alive today will decide their fate.
Beyond that, however, we need to take steps to actively restore wilderness to areas which have already been degraded and impoverished. This is what I and my colleagues are seeking to do with the Trees for Life project to regenerate the Caledonian Forest in the Highlands of Scotland. Utilising the techniques of ecological restoration, we aim to return an area of over 1,500 sq. km. to a wild forest condition, where the forces of nature have free rein once more. Our primary motivation in doing this is to provide a habitat for the whole range of species which formerly lived in Scotland, and which make up the living, biological community of the forest.
Thus, we are concerned not only with the Scots pines which are characteristic of the Caledonian Forest, but also with the fungi which live in mutualistic symbiosis with the trees, with the wood ants which protect the trees from defoliating caterpillars, and with the top predators such as the wolf and brown bear, which are essential to maintain the overall balance of the complex food web that comprises the forest ecosystem. Only with the full spectrum of species present will the forest be able to function properly in a wild sense, and will the course of natural evolution continue unhampered.
Our commitment to restoring a wild forest, from which nothing will be harvested, comes as a surprise to some people as it runs directly counter to the materialistic, 'maximum resource exploitation' perspective of our industrial culture. However, the forest is more than just a collection of trees which can be 'sustainably managed' to 'look natural'. We need the wolf and bear, and the other intrinsic components of the ecosystem, if we want a Caledonian Forest, rather than just a few Caledonian pine groves. If we can't bring the wolf back to the remote parts of the Scottish Highlands, what hope is there for the wolf in the rest of its former range throughout the Europe, or, for that matter, for the tiger in India?
In fact, if we can put all the pieces back in place, by getting the forest trees regenerating and expanding again, and by reintroducing the extirpated species such as the wolf and bear, the Caledonian Forest ecosystem will take care of itself perfectly well, as it did for millennia in the past. The only need for management then, to ensure the future of the wild forest, will be in managing humans, to ensure that our lives and technology do not impinge adversely on the forest.
Additionally, if we want the wild forest to survive and be restored, we have to be willing as individuals and as a species to step back from all that we can do with our power and technology – to say no to new roads through places such as Oxleas Wood in London; to say no to patterns of agriculture which result in ever greater areas of land being cultivated; to say no on an individual, personal basis to a lifestyle which demands that we enslave more and more of the planet for our own materialistic ends. By taming our greed, and our need to dominate all other life, we can ensure that the wildness of nature still has a place on this planet; we can ensure that there will be many places like Sluie for our great-grandchildren and all their contemporaries to enjoy and draw inspiration from.
Alan Watson Featherstone
(This article featured as the introductory essay in the 1995 edition of the Trees for Life Calendar)
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There's a noticeable crowd gathered at Robinson's Midtown Wing Atrium today (June 15, 2019) for the launch of the limited edition Oreo Spider-man Far From Home packs.
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Smokies to Damascus: Thoughts up to Mile 470
From the site of Trail Days, a major in-season destination, I'm comfortably writing from Woodchuck hostel and about to spend my first night sleeping in a teepee. Here are some collected thoughts since leaving the Smokies.
Being Comfortable = Managing Discomfort
Today I spoke with one brother from the Whitewalkers, a duo hiking NoBo with two white huskies, about how we slept last night in this really clean, homey and warm hostel. Terribly. In fact, last night tucked in clean sheets and memory foam was the worst sleep so far, below the water dripping on my face from Iron Mountain shelter's nail-holed roof while a mouse scraped open my food bag. Why? I've managed discomfort to the point where dripping water is the norm, it's the expectation, it's the lullaby. Nothing about winter hiking has been a comfort, whether it be putting on frozen clothing and starting the day's hike with only a base layer on in 20 degree temps because you know one hour in you'd have to take your mid layer off from beginning to sweat. Every day starts with a metaphorical cold shower and ends with a steam bath to dry clothes by sleeping in musty gear. During the first month, these were discomforts, times I didn't look forward to. Now, they feel like part of life, times a depend on to bring a sense of normalcy to my daily routine. A week goes by without taking off my undergarments; I feel cleaner at the end of this time then I do after putting on a washed set, knowing I'm starting the cycle all over again. All said, I've grown to take comfort in the cold and humidity. It wouldn't feel normal without them. Thus, the damp teepee rug floor tonight rather than the mattress. I take this as the other-bodily equivalent of "getting my trail legs" and I know I have more discomfort to manage as the weather warms up and I can't rely on the insulation that snow provides my feet from the cold, nor the security I feel knowing ice won't slowly seep into my gear.
The Only Option is to Move or Die
Sounds dramatic. It is, yet it's also true: I've learned that I constantly need to be in motion or I simply loose energy to maintain body heat while at rest. It happens quickly so I need to act quickly, minimizing gloves-off time and keeping a constant pace to keep blood flowing pedictably. This helps me avoid spikes and dips in my respiration, allowing me to keep a constant exhale and release of water vapor, and stay just warm enough to not be cold and cool enough not to sweat. Either end leads to more energy being used to cool or heat myself, respectively, and needing to drink more water and eat more food, affecting my hike from carrying more or becoming sluggish. It's just how it is – the same in warm weather, yet my reality that I dwell on throughout the whole day. My fellow hikers and I agree: our perfect day is 25 degrees, no wind and sunny. We've grown to love the cold for how it helps us.
Everything has a Point
I've replayed the quotes I've read or heard about "pointless ups and downs" and generally wishing the terrain or weather would be more favorable. I get why we think these things; expressing them to others is an instant way to connect and bond with fellow hikers. Much of the time I spend is alone and I've said these wishes to myself in the past. I may well do so again in the future. I've found, though, that I'm simply not happy when I wish where I am or what I'm facing needs to be different. About 200 miles ago I started saying to myself, "Cole, if you could choose for something to be easier or harder, what would you always choose?" I don't think many of us believe thru-hiking is going to be easy, and I answer, " I always want it to be harder." Everything has a point on the trail simply because the trail is itself, its what I decided to walk, stay dry and warm on, sleep on, eat on. In making that decision, every step has a point regardless of the incline, camber or conditions. I get stressed, frustrated, and upset when the shelter faces the wind just like everyone else. And I accept it because that's the way the trail is and I decided to be here – I then move to what I'm going to do to train through the situation and make discomfort a new comfort. Binding with other hikers about how to manage these times have been the single most satisfying times because we show one another our staying power, our will, and our determination to live up to our decisions.
My first 22 mile day was huge. Any day that I hike 21.9 miles or more makes my dinner taste that much better. That day, I completed 1% or more of the entire AT. I was addicted from that first day and, unsurprisingly, the discomforts of that mileage in the first month become comforts. While I've been conscious enough to start the days ascending out of towns with a full food bag at lower mileage, the days since 1% haven't felt the same. I became too comfortable with the expectation that I'd need to make that mileage regardless of the conditions. Else, dinner wouldn't taste that amazing no matter the amount of hot sauce and butter. Enter snow and post holing, two factors that bring me down to 1-2 mph and keep me looking at the ground all day. Talk about focusing on the fact that I'm going slower than I'd like. Two days ago, though, I made a resolution. 17 miles through snow requires the energy of at least a 1% day, no less for the amount of mental energy needed to keep positive. Being flexible and being the best self means seeing that I was able to walk 17 miles in snow, remain healthy, and make it to the shelter and enjoy said hot sauce and butter – if I were to have better conditions, I'd be rolling 25's. Today, then, is a training day for the day when the trail is clear. Just wait until that happens, I tell myself. Feet become wings. I know that I'm achieving a training effect (and physically this is what's going on) and my sleep will be that much more helpful because I'm forcing recovery earlier. Now dinner has a larger purpose. Extra chicken tonight? Yes. And extra butter. Of course. Oh, its dripping water on my head again? No matter, I'm back out tomorrow stronger – thank you, snow. See you shortly.
Vision for Virginia
I'm still new to the philosophy of 1% and have some work to do in truly living up to my resolution. Add in wet feet and the calculus will change. Add in hiking partners and the equation will change. I still have a lot of exploration to hone into a flow, so what better state than VA to do so. In nearly every shelter entry from SoBos at Abigdon Shelter, the first in TN after VA, they write with glee about leaving VA. (The only one that didn't mention VA were two zero-day SoBos who together named 120 Pokemon – highly impressive.). I know full well I have a lot in store for me that I have yet to even identify. I welcome this because I know it will be discomforting. I know I'll need to see it all as training. It will all have a point. So, my vision for VA is to continue living 1% as a lens to my challenges. Not as a conpetitive urge, which can spark up when I hear others talk about making serious mileage after the relatively hilly GA/TN/NC sections. I'm setting out to minimize that – I want to live 1% out physically, mentally and emotionally and report back. I won't set benchmarks for how many days I hit 22 or how many times I need to feel grateful. I do, though, commit to developing an awareness of this for my own self, my learning and my improvement as a hiker, person and person among people to come. I can't imagine this hike as a solo endeavor, much to that reality these days, and must prepare for the times when I'm in some sort of a proper bubble. Living 1%, as an introvert who recharges in the company of one or none, may help me create the person I hope to be on the northern end of this whole journey. It's just as important to me as moving as opposed to dying, just as important as believing in the point of discomfort, just as important as spending the night sleeping in a teepee. Off to set out my sleep system and start VA with a vision.
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By Edwina Dueñas, Communications Associate
The 2016 TechWomen Emerging Leader application is now open! TechWomen will accept applications from women professionals in (science, technology, engineering and math) STEM fields from program countries in Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East (listed below).
To apply, applicants must
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Apply now to become a 2016 Emerging Leader and to join our network of more than 330 TechWomen fellows. The deadline to apply is February 1, 2016.


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Sandy Bodecker — a Westport native who rose to some of the highest and most influential positions at Nike — has died. He was 65.
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Of all of the endeavors that he pioneered for the Swoosh, none is as game-changing as Nike Skateboarding, a renegade division the he presided over since 2002. It was his vision that allowed the skate community to open up to the industry giant, and from there, the rest is history.
His take on the classic Dunk, reinvented with fat tongues and Zoom Air cushioning, paved the way for collaborations with Supreme and Zoo York as well as colorways by the pros, all of which sparked a niche that played one of the biggest roles in the creation of sneaker culture as we know it today.
It's no coincidence that Sandy's roles at Nike coincide with the success of that respective concentration. Originally a product tester, Bodecker went on to lead the brand's first Global Football business and later started the Action Sports category while serving as its first head of Global Design.
His most recent hallmark is BREAKING2 and the mission to complete a sub-2 hour marathon; he's been obsessed with it for years as he has 1:59:59 tattooed on the inside of his left wrist. From the BREAKING2 initiative came the brand's current arsenal of Vaporfly and Zoom Fly running footwear.
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He joined the sportswear giant in 1982, and rose to drive "product innovation and built strong relationships and brand credibility with skate retailers, athletes and consumers," the brand shared in a past statement on his influence.
"From 1994 to 2001, Bodecker led Nike's soccer business, building Nike … from virtually nothing to one of the company's top categories and helping to establish global brand leadership in the sport," Nike previously said of his experience.
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On the way to catch the sunset after Kailua Beach we stopped off at Lanai Lookout which has amazing views the rocks and ocean. Where the ocean hit the rocks and swirls it produced were mesmerising.
The hill behind you can see the lava flows now taken over by nature. These lava flows continue to the rock in less quicker flowing layers. More like the end of the flow when it speed slowed down the lava spread out to be curved edges or perhaps it's more where the ocean and wind has shaped the rocks. Signs are up saying no crossing beyond this point, but who obeys signs when the views are something else?
I didn't know the exact location. All I know that after Kailau beach we went along coast road back to Honolulu. Every location I took few mobile photos to have the location stored, however in this occasion I didn't. Thanks to Google Maps, Images and a little searching, it's Lanai Lookout, a great whale watching spot. We didn't see any and I didn't have my glasses so I wouldn't have been able to see anything but blue sea and sky. We didn't stop long as we had that sunset to catch!
That sunset in next week's travel post!


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Office Depot has partnered with Xerox to develop a training program called the Xerox Certified Print Specialist program, which certifies Office Depot associates as experts in the area of digital imaging and printing.
Participating associates will learn about topics such as wide-format printing, color analysis and more. Those associates who complete the program will wear a badge identifying them as "Xerox Certified Print Specialists" so that customers can recognize them as print experts.
"This arrangement between Xerox and Office Depot builds on a longstanding relationship between the two companies," said Mike Brannigan, president, United States solutions group, Xerox. "This program provides another point of value to ensure customers get a professional printing experience and a guaranteed level of quality with each and every order."
Office Depot said that its Design, Print and Ship Depot offering provides a variety of products and services including print on demand, design services, custom imprinting and promotional products. Print jobs and promotional product orders can be submitted in store or online, and customers can pick them up or have them delivered directly to their home or office.


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Conveyor Upgrades Improve Efficiency, Material Containment and Safety
Published: July 14th 2017
The Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizer plant in Kansas has adopted innovative belt cleaning, alignment and modular chute technology to resolve tracking, spillage and dust problems on two conveyors transporting petroleum coke (petcoke). Martin Engineering redesigned the system with belt stabilization and chute sealing technology, sensitive belt tracking equipment and heavy-duty primary and secondary belt cleaners. Operators report considerably less carryback, no tracking issues and a significant reduction in fugitive dust and spillage. As a result, the only plant in North America to utilize petcoke gasification to produce hydrogen -- a key ingredient in the manufacturing of ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) fertilizers -- estimates that the facility is saving more than $14,000 USD per month in labor costs alone.
A wholly-owned subsidiary of CVR Partners LP, the facility produces about 388,900 tons of ammonia and 963,700 tons of UAN each year. One of the primary issues Operations Technical Superintendent Marc Gilbertson wanted to address was material containment, to reduce the amount of dust and spillage that escaped from conveyors 19A and 19B, each 300 feet long with a 24-inch wide belt. Traveling at 400 FPM (~2 MPS), the belts carry an estimated 1400 TPD (3080 kilos) of petcoke to an entrained flow gasifier.
We were seeing waist-deep piles accumulating each day, which required an average of about 90 man-hours per week to safely clean," Gilbertson explained. In addition, the operation invested another 16 hours of equipment maintenance time each week.
Stabilizing and Sealing
The company's proposal included upgrading both 19A and 19B transfer points to eliminate belt sag, provide effective sealing and improve belt cleaning, as well as alignment systems to deliver continuous adjustment and maintain a consistent belt path. Technicians first installed three Martin® Impact Cradles, located under the belt in the loading zones. The cradle design features a bed of steel angles lined by energy-absorbing impact bars with a top layer of low friction, ultra-high molecular weight (UHMW) plastic.
After the impact zone, a series of 16 Martin Engineering Slider Cradles were installed on each conveyor to stabilize the belt line and eliminate bounce. Designed for conveyor speeds up to 700 fpm (3.5 m/sec) and belt lengths of more than 50 feet (15.2 m), the units offer a flat and stable belt surface throughout the settling zone, reducing fugitive material and extending belt life.
Following the cradles, 20 Trac-Mount™ Idlers were installed on each conveyor. These rugged idlers have sliding frames on a stationary base that fits in tight spaces between belt support cradles for easy installation and service.
Dust Management
The system upgrade also included 90 feet of modular chute wall. The pre-fabricated components make it easy to design and install transfer points and stilling zones to manage air flow and keep airborne dust inside. The components simply bolt together to reduce installation labor and replacement time.
To further improve containment, the Martin technicians also installed 184 feet of the company's ApronSeal™ Skirting System, which provides dual-seal efficiency with a single, one-piece sealing strip to prevent the escape of fines and dust. It incorporates a primary seal clamped to the steel skirtboard to keep lumps on the belt and a secondary or "outrigger" strip to capture any fines or dust particles.
The mis-tracking belt issue was addressed with a Martin® Tracker™ system to deliver immediate, precise adjustment of wandering belts. Utilizing innovative multiple-pivot, torque-multiplying technology, it detects slight misalignments initiated by unbalanced loads and fouled rollers, using the force of the belt to immediately adjust its position and realign the path. The tracker keeps the belt in alignment with automatic corrections to reduce edge damage, prevent spillage and maintain belt health.
To address the issue of carryback, technicians installed a two-stage belt cleaning system. The primary unit is the QC1 Cleaner HD blade. Engineered for head pulley diameters from 12-24 inches (~305-600 mm), the QC1 HD is suited for belts from 18-96 inches wide (~400-2400 mm) and speeds up to 900 FPM (4.6 m/sec). The unit's patented "CARP" Constant Angle Radial Pressure design maintains cleaning performance through all stages of blade life, and the rugged 3/8-in. (95 mm) steel tubing main frame holds the cleaner snugly in place.
Mounted directly after the primary cleaner, the Martin® SQC2S™ secondary cleaner features individually cushioned tungsten carbide blades for effective cleaning without risk to the belt or splices. Patented rubber buffers maintain the cleaning pressure throughout blade life. Like the QC1, blade removal and replacement is a simple operation by removing the lock pin and sliding out the cartridge.
Plant officials are extremely pleased with the outcome, which has drastically reduced the amount of dust and spillage, and with it the unproductive labor time to deal with the
consequences. Gilbertson estimated that the total maintenance time to manage fugitive material on both conveyors is now down to about eight hours per week, with belts and other components no longer showing signs of premature wear. In addition to the estimated $14,000 USD per month labor savings, longer service life from belts and components are expected to further increase the benefit. Moreover, company personnel spend less time working in close proximity to the moving conveyor, reducing potential risk, and the manpower savings can be applied to more productive activities.
"We're very happy with the results," Gilbertson said. "What used to be a huge maintenance task is now just occasional sweeping." The Coffeyville facility is already considering proposals to upgrade additional conveyors, as well as future training and service agreements.


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Much like Audiosurf and Beat Hazard before it, Symphony is music-driven shooter employing blazingly bright colors and visual trickery as a backdrop while utilizing your music library as the set piece. Symphony in the strictest and most relatable definition is: "anything characterized by a harmonious combination of elements, especially an effective combination of colors". And in that, it mostly succeeds.
Symphony starts you off on the very easy difficulty setting while you use songs from the soundtrack or choose to import songs into the game. You playing as the ship must shoot enemies dropped in, Galaga-style. Once killed they drop notes that must be collected in order to get a score. Using your mouse you can fire your weapons manually or set them to auto-fire. Without accuracy being a part of the scoring at the end of the song, you'd be remiss to not turn that option on.
As your music plays, depending on genre, length, and other factors the game will analyze what to make intense and what not to. There is a minimum length that can be loaded, set at 1 minute and 30 seconds. I have not tried using comedy albums or podcasts to confuse the game or break it in anyway. I would be confident that most of the "game" would be boring with moments of intensity. The game's pretty good about incorporating the intensity of the song with a visual identifier to accompany the look. Blue is for mellow, purple for a challenge, and red for the most intense – and enemies spit out from every direction, except from behind. If you like house music or dubstep, you're guaranteed to see red through the entire song and in for a challenge.
Oh, there's a story to this whole thing too. It's pretty simple but interesting: There's a music demon in your computer wanting to corrupt your music and so you have to destroy them all to save your music from being lost. There is no literal danger to your precious music files. But it does make things personal by putting your music at risk. It's a neat touch and increases the longevity of the game giving you a sense of progression.
When a demon has been slayed, it'll give you a piece of The Symphony of Souls. Once a full page has been collected, a new difficulty is unlocked. There are an unhealthy amount of difficulties to the game. Depending on the song choice, can feel nearly impossible and you'll regret your difficulty choice.
Empty Clip Studios included a plethora of different weapons to choose from to keep the look of shooting guns cool, such as the subwoofer, cannon, rockets, lasers, and an upgrade system for every weapon type. You can even orientate the direction of the four weapons mounted to your ship. The best thing for me was to set the two wing weapons to the sides and leave two weapons pointing forward. It reduced my deaths. Mixing and matching weapons are okay but you're likely to keep what you like and not experiment too often other than to see how the new weapon you unlocked works. The weaker the weapon, the higher your multiplier is for scoring purposes.
Taking damage breaks your ship apart into pieces. The very same notes you collect for score also repair your ship. You must be aware of your damage as you will lose any one of your weapons and likely get yourself killed. You have infinite lives per song, so there is no way to fail, but you lose 2500pts per death and that can add up pretty quick if you're not making more than that between lives.
Symphony is good, just not great. Some of the enemy deployment seems to be out of sync with the musical intensity of the song it scanned in for you. But playing in a dark room with headphones provides an immersive visual splendor as you are driven by the very music you listen to as you extinguish all the enemies on the screen. The only person to blame about the game's soundtrack, is you.
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Merriam-Webster's website has a feature I just discovered, called Time Traveler.
They promote it as a way to see all the words used for the first time in a given year. So for example, in 1880. I stumbled across this because I wondered when the verb stonewall first came into use.
Before you dissolve into puddles of delight, there are some issues to consider. A word may be widely used in a community before it ever finds its way into print, so this kind of dating is restricted in its usefulness. Example: On the 1880 page you'll find the word handwoven. I can guarantee that this was not a new usage in 1880. How they should come to this conclusion is hard to imagine.
The bigger problem: there's no detailed information on the etymology. In fact the Etymology Dictionary disagrees with Merriam-Webster on the verb stonewall:
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Yum sticks to growth forecast despite slow China recovery
(Reuters) - KFC and Pizza Hut owner Yum Brands Inc stuck to its profit growth target for the year despite a slower-than-expected recovery in its Chinese business, which was hit by allegations of a supplier using expired meat last year.
Shares of Yum, which reported another decline in quarterly sales on Tuesday, recovered some of their earlier losses but were still down 2.6 percent.
The company will need nearly 30 percent earnings growth in the second half of the year to meet its 10 percent EPS growth target, Chief Financial Officer Pat Grismer said in a post-earnings conference call on Wednesday.
"We believe this is achievable," Grismer said, noting that Yum typically makes 60 percent of its profit in China in the second half of the year.
Analysts on average expect earnings to grow 12.6 percent this year.
To stem the decline in sales, Yum has launched a slew of measures in China that range from new menu items to testing an upmarket diner aimed at customers tired of fried chicken.
The company has added eight new items to its KFC menus for lunch and dinner, including healthier options such as herbal tea and seafood, Chief Executive Greg Creed said on the call.
Yum has also revamped its breakfast menu and rolled out premium coffee at over 2,000 stores in China.
KFC is Yum's biggest brand in China, accounting for 4,889 of Yum's 6,853 restaurants in the country at the end of the second quarter.
The initiatives are bearing fruit - same-store sales in China fell 10 percent in the second quarter, compared with a 12 percent decline in the previous quarter.
In the same period last year, comparable sales rose 15 percent, before local TV reports alleged improper meat handling at one of Yum's suppliers.
Grismer said he expects full-year same-store sales growth in China to be in the low-single digit percentage range. He continues to expect foreign exchange to reduce full-year earnings per share by about 5 percent.
Jefferies analyst Andy Barish, however, is sceptical on Yum exceeding its EPS target for the year.
"Given cost challenges, foreign-exchange headwinds and negative China same-store sales, we believe significant upside to 10 percent growth is unlikely," he wrote in a note.
(Reporting by Subrat Patnaik and Yashaswini Swamynathan in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)


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It is now a considerable time since I had the the honeer to treate with a Committe of your Lordsps chosen from among yorselves conserning the setling of a Colony at Cape Feare, and although there was no absolute accord and fineall agremt yet severall consessions were then offered by the sd Committee, and by me dispatched to the Barbados to the Adventurers there who did intrust me, who imediately retorned aswer that they would accept them and accordingly gave me power to conclude with your Honers. But in the Interim comes one Mr now Sir Jno Yeamens and by his sonne offers other and contrary Articles to wt the Adventurers did desire and made such spetious pretences that your Honers made an absolute agreemt with him and refused to confirme those concessions formerly offered me, though I then foresaw and also tould your Honrs there was no likelihood he should performe his covenant notwithstanding he had entred into a penall bond of 1000£ to accomplish it. Now may it pleasers it is so fallenout as I foretould that no matereall part of the sd covenant is performed but on the contrary the Adventures and present planters highly dissatisfied that they should not have those concessions at least which were tendred and upon which they went, confirmed unto them they thought those concessions hard enough, but those other Intolerable, Wherefore what I humbly request is that I may have the Honr of one speedy Conference more with as many of you Lordsps as may be. that I may put a fineall end to my negotiation and I cannot but hope for a good one since I am resolved to propound nothing but what shall be as well for your Honrs Interest as that of the Colony The reason why I humbly desire this meeting may be so speedy, is, because many in England New England Barbados yea and those that are actually uppon the place do wait for the Isue of this my last address which if good I do promise with Gods leave, and your Honrs favour to set fourth a good ship with men and provisions imediately for Cape Feare and and also manefest to your Honre the likelyhood of severall other ships to follow in the Spring but it is high time that those that go this yeare shall be making ready: if the success of this my last addresse shold be unsuccessfull (which God forbid) all those that have entrusted me though they may have begun a plantation and some are actually uppon the place, have advised me that they will draw of and quite giver over the designe. And then it will be seen whether they be the Major pte yea or no: But I feare not but if I have but time and opportunity I shall manefest the Necessity of graunting those things I shall humbly offer in order to the estableshing a Colony that may thrive and prosper under your Honrs governm̄t which that it may do under your Honr and your successor from Generation to Generation is the prayer of


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|There are some great tools to help relieve stress, pain, anxiety, trauma, and other symptoms. One of these tools is quite simple to use. Tapping–not on your tabletop or by donning tap shoes–can provide relief from these symptoms as well as other negative emotions.
|Tapping is the term used to indicate Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or Thought Field Therapy (TFT). It works on key energy points along meridians in your body. Meridians are a complex system of energy pathways that flow throughout the human body. They deliver essential energy or 'chi' to each of our organs, including our nervous, circulatory, respiratory, immune, skeletal, muscular, and digestive systems.
Small blockages or imbalances of energy can occur throughout the body, which if left untreated has the potential to result in unpleasant symptoms depending on the location of the blockage. The idea is that specific energy points may be blocked, leading to negative emotions and symptoms. You may be aware that acupressure and acupuncture also work through energy points. Using tapping can unblock where energy is stuck and negative emotions keep circling. The process is quite simple.
How does one get started tapping? As a tapping (EFT/TFT) practitioner, I help people learn how to tap, so that they can do this on their own. A practitioner can help guide people to become more specific on phrases that may be helpful for them as they tap to release negative emotions. As you become more comfortable with tapping, you may realize other specific areas of your life where you may be stuck and create new phrases where you can use tapping. There are also apps that are available to help people learn how to tap.
The reality is that you cannot feel gratitude and emotions at the same time. So, if you want to try something to complement or substitute other common practices to address negative thoughts and emotions such as meditation, yoga, journaling, try tapping. Tapping can be part of your health coaching program to unlock negative emotions and help you focus on moving forward with your health goals. Below are services included in my coaching package which includes both coaching and training to learn EFT. If you want to learn more, sign up for a free discovery call.
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The physical and spiritual benefits of the ancient oriental practice of yoga have been known for many years but, for many Americans, it remains a kind of mystery. Cinthya V. (Alvarez) Baron is a …
The physical and spiritual benefits of the ancient oriental practice of yoga have been known for many years but, for many Americans, it remains a kind of mystery. Cinthya V. (Alvarez) Baron is a believer, and she hopes to make you one, too.Cinthya Baron and her "yogis" help each other master their bodies and bring balance to their lives. (submitted photo)[/caption]
Cinthya came to LaBelle from Mexico in 1992 and graduated from LHS in 2000. She and her husband have three free-spirited daughters who have already made yoga part of their personal practice and help their mother practice daily. Cinthya works full time and shares her love for yoga with her community in the evenings.
Cinthya found her way to a better life through yoga after suffering a back injury that added to the normal stress that comes from life. Faced with only surgery or taking narcotics for the rest of her life to alleviate her pain, Cinthya found yoga at the suggestion of local chiropractor Dr. Joshua Parrish. In just two weeks, she said she found the relief that had eluded her.
With no local source of information, she checked out books from the library to find appropriate poses for her problem and practiced them.
Eventually she found a class, but had to go to Fort Myers to learn the in-depth techniques she sought. The drive and the cost of trips to Fort Myers made learning more difficult, but she needed more than the books and videos she could manage at home.
At that time, her cousin Zaiden Shannon was earning her yoga instructor certification and that opened her mind to bringing a yoga class to her hometown. She trained in Hatha Yoga through the Yoga Institute and became an instructor herself. She is grateful to her mother for helping her embark on her yoga certification journey, and also her husband Urbin's support.
Hatha Yoga focuses on basic poses at a comfortable pace for all levels and that is Cinthya's gift to LaBelle residents. She and her cousin Zaiden's yoga instruction, Cinbar Yoga, found a home at Physique Fitness, 13 S. Missouri Street.
The studio is a "no judgment zone," Cinthya said, where you can come as you are. Their mission is to provide yoga at an affordable cost to bring health, happiness and well being to her community. Just come and connect with others
Classes begin with centering and breathing exercises, followed by a flow of asanas (poses). Every class ends with relaxation. The school is open Monday 7 p.m., Wednesday, 6 p.m. and Thursday 7 p.m. Cinthya also holds private classes.
Cinthya said she thinks of herself as a yoga guide - not a teacher - because she said she is not an expert or master. Her goal is to guide others through the poses.
"It is important to me to share with my yogis (as she calls her students) that each time we step onto our mats we should come with a beginner's mind, ready to learn the lesson our practice has for us that day. If your mind is cluttered then we don't leave room for growth. Also, we leave ego at the door. I like to say "your ego is not your amigo" We don't aim to mimic the pose on the magazine cover, we don't aim to look like the person practicing beside us. Your yoga is your yoga and as long as you are careful with your positioning and alignment, you listen to your body and allow yourself to experience your practice, you are doing it right. If you can breathe, you can yoga!"
Some of Cinthya's student yogis have wonderful experiences:
"I had never tried yoga and was so excited when Cinbar Yoga opened. I was hooked at the first practice! I have gained flexibility and love the mind, body and spiritual awareness that I experience with each class. Cinthya shows such support for all of us, she is a wonderful instructor with such a soothing voice. I sleep so much better after our practice! Sad it took me over 50 years to try, but thankful I found such a wonderful class to grow with". ~Sherill Overberg
"Yoga has helped me with flexibility and balance. However, the greatest benefit is the relaxation aspect of yoga" ~Cindi Beer
"I started yoga with Cinbar Yoga in February of 2015. I suffered a head injury years ago and since then I have suffered from chronic pain, migraines, depression, and dizzy spells. I overheard someone talking about yoga and I attended a class. It was hard but I enjoyed it. I hardly ever miss a class. There are positions I will never be able to do due to my injuries but I have grown in my practice significantly since my first class. We are all different shapes, ages, and sizes but there is no judgment, only encouragement. I have greatly benefited from Cinthya's classes. I only wish I could practice yoga every single day and that I had joined sooner". ~Charlotte
Check out a Cinbar Yoga class or call Cinthya at 239-634-0837.
Cinthya is also putting on a special Affirm Love Workshop November 7 noon-4 with Cinthya Baron and Zaiden with two yoga classes, guided meditation and special events. Register at www.treehouse.cm/events or call the number above for more information.


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Community members and visitors (adults and children) are invited to join the Chico Creek Nature Center and Chico Area Recreation and Card District for a free leisurely hike in Lower Bidwell Park to explore nighttime animals, some of their unique adaptations, and the beautiful evening sky. Rain or Shine!
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Chelsea: Through September, Klee Brasserie serves a weekend brunch dish of oven-baked scrambled ostrich egg with a rotating selection of ingredients. This weekend's scramble, $15, includes organic Romano tomatoes and escarole. [Grub Street]
Cobble Hill: A spot called Pronto Pizza replaces India House at 139 Court Street. [Pardon Me for Asking]
Ditmas Park: Catskill Bagel plans to open the week after Labor Day. [Ditmas Park Blog]
Café Vox Pop is officially closed after a long battle with money woes and Marshall's office seizures. [Fork in the Road/VV]
East Village: The Red Mango at 19–23 St. Marks Place is closed. [East Village Feed]
Fort Greene: A 7-Eleven will open soon at 395 Flatbush Avenue Extension, right near the Applebee's. [Brownstoner]
Greenwich Village: Magnolia Bakery offers a limited-edition devil's food cupcake with meringue icing during Fashion's Night Out on September 10. Priced at $3.25 each, $.50 from each cupcake goes to the NYC AIDS fund. [Zagat Buzz]
Midtown: The Grand Central Oyster Bar hosts its Annual 'Oyster Frenzy' on September 25 at noon. The event includes eating competitions, chef demos, and seminars. Admission is free, with reservations recommended. [Grub Street]
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Britain's biggest car-maker, Jaguar Land Rover, is testing software which will reward drivers for sharing data. With 'smart wallet' technology installed in their vehicles, drivers will earn the IOTA cryptocurrency for automatically reporting traffic and road data.
Monetize Your Driving
According to the New York Times, the company is testing the software at one of its facilities in Ireland. Engineers have fitted 'smart wallets' to vehicles including the Jaguar F-PACE and Range Rover Velar. By enabling automatic data-sharing, the driver can receive IOTA reward credits whilst going about their everyday driving.
As well as reporting useful information such as traffic conditions and potholes to satnav companies and local authorities, drivers could also earn credits for participating in ride-sharing schemes.
Drivers will be able to use the rewards to pay for coffee, road tolls, parking, and electric charging stations, according to Jaguar. This connected, data sharing ecosystem is part of the company's 'Destination Zero' vision: zero accidents, zero congestion, zero emissions.
Jaguar Land Rover said it currently has no timetable for a commercial roll-out of this technology to its vehicle line-up.
Banking For The Internet Of Things
IOTA bills itself (and names itself) as a decentralized token for the Internet of Things. As more devices are connected and communicate with each other, there becomes a need for payment providers. IOTA aims to be the standardized settlement system for IoT machine to machine (m2m) payments.
Rather than a blockchain, IOTA utilizes a distributed ledger technology called 'the Tangle'. This overcomes some of the inefficiencies of traditional blockchains and enables the fee-less transfer of tokens and/or data.
IOTA co-founder, Dominik Schiener, explained that the smart wallet technology could easily be adapted into all new vehicles:
IOTA wants to enable interoperability with all these different players. So there is no Jaguar coin, no BMW coin, but one universal token for this machine economy.
The IOTA price jumped 15 percent following Jaguar Land Rover's announcement, from around $0.27 to $0.31.
What do you think about Jaguar Land Rover's plans to reward drivers with IOTA? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
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Intel Corporation Might Be Bringing a Revolutionary Technology at 10-Nanometers
Back in 2011, former Intel CEO Paul Otellini teased on a conference call that it would be making a game-changing announcement. That announcement, which came in May 2011, turned out to be that Intel would be implementing FinFET transistors in its 22-nanometer manufacturing technology.
FinFETs allowed Intel to get a significant jump on the competition, delivering what microprocessor expert David Kanter suggested was a two-generation leap in transistor performance. Intel began mass production of its 22-nanometer technology in late 2011, and the first products based on this technology -- known as Ivy Bridge -- hit the shelves in early 2012.
According to Kanter, Intel may be on the verge of another FinFET-like breakthrough at the 10-nanometer technology node.
QWFETs!Kanter, after spending considerable effort following Intel's published research, suggests that for Intel's 10-nanometer chips, the chip giant will implement what are known as Quantum Well (Field Effect Transistors) or QWFETs.
This technology, according to Kanter, should allow for "excellent transistor performance at nominal operating voltages around 0.5V." This, says Kanter, is compared to "roughly 0.7V for FinFETs."
In other words, this technology should allow Intel to deliver faster, lower power chips.
Intel adopts at 10-nanometer, while the rest of the industry follows at 7-nanometerKanter believes that it is very likely "given the timing of the research and Intel's historical cadence of new manufacturing technologies," that Intel will adopt this technology at the 10-nanometer node rather than wait for the 7-nanometer node.
Kanter also thinks that Intel's competition will "wait until the 7nm node to use [Quantum Well Field Effect Transistors]."
Could this be why Intel is so quiet on 10-nanometers?Intel has been extremely quiet about the timing and the details of its 10-nanometer manufacturing technology. The company has said that it plans to continue to very aggressively scale the size of its transistors and interconnects at the 10-nanometer node in order to deliver the typical generational cost-per-transistor benefits.
If Intel is planning on doing such aggressive chip area scaling and moving to a radically new technology, then it's no wonder that the company is being silent on the timing of its 10-nanometer ramp. Getting a technology with so many improvements on so many fronts into high volume manufacturing is likely incredibly difficult with a lot of uncertainty involved.
Is this Intel's silver bullet?If Intel can get 10-nanometer into volume production by the end of 2015/early 2016 as Kanter suggests, then Intel should be able to maintain, if not extend, the manufacturing technology lead that it has over its foundry peers.
The good news is that if Intel really does have a "revolutionary" 10-nanometer technology on its hands, then this could help its mobile ambitions -- as long as Intel's product definition and implementations can execute.
That said, Intel had a similar lead with FinFETs for quite a while over the competition, but it failed to capitalize on it as far as shipping mobile products go. Having a manufacturing technology lead is certainly an enabler, but product execution is, in my view, more important.
As an Intel investor, I look forward to seeing whether Kanter's predictions ultimately pan out.
The article Intel Corporation Might Be Bringing a Revolutionary Technology at 10-Nanometers originally appeared on Fool.com.
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Not even the most beautiful teeth can look attractive if healthy and pleasing-looking gums do not surround them. That's because the gums frame the teeth like a picture frame frames a picture. To have a pleasing smile, the shape, color, and texture of the gums are just as important as that of the teeth they frame. Although tooth development, periodontal disease, trauma, or tooth loss can create esthetic gum deformities, modern periodontal procedures and cosmetic dentistry can give individuals a smile to smile about.
As a result of periodontal disease, gums may appear red, swollen, and shiny. If an individual has gingivitis or periodontitis, the gums have to be periodontally treated prior to cosmetic dentistry procedures.
Teeth that appear too short may be normal-sized teeth hiding under too much gum. This can be the result of normal tooth development, or the use of certain medications that may cause gums to overgrow. Either way, a crown lengthening procedure can help reveal the normal tooth structure.
If the teeth appear to be too long or if the root surfaces are exposed, it may be due to gum recession. Soft tissue grafting is very successful in correcting this problem.
If the gum margins appear to be higher on some teeth and lower on others, this may be due to gum recession, altered eruption, or gum defects that resulted from tooth loss. The treatment of uneven gum margins may require crown lengthening, soft tissue grafting, ridge augmentation, or a combination of these procedures.
After a tooth is lost, the bone that encased it disintegrates and the gum around it may collapse, creating an indentation where the tooth used to be. Ridge augmentation procedures can help correct this problem.
Changes in the color of the gums may be part of normal gum development, or the result of scarring. Soft tissue grafts can predictably correct this problem.
Periodontal disease can result in spaces in between the teeth that may appear like black triangles. These spaces can be very difficult to treat. They can be made less unattractive by a combination of procedures that include orthodontics (braces), crowns (caps), and/or periodontal (gum) surgery. The best way to avoid these spaces is to treat periodontal disease in its early stages and avoid the need later for cosmetic dentistry.
One or more missing teeth can be predictably replaced with the aid of dental implants. Dental implants can look and feel like natural teeth.
Changes in the appearance of the gums can occur as a result of normal tooth development, periodontal disease, trauma, or tooth loss. By working with a restorative dentist who has expertise in cosmetic dental care and through the aid of modern periodontal techniques, individuals can design a smile that is both esthetic and youthful in appearance.
By Laura Minsk, DMD
In most cosmetic dentistry practices, good health and sound oral function are their primary goals. But these days, both can be achieved with a third factor in mind, good looks.
Good looks are all around us. In consumer magazines, TV, media, politics, and business. Both men and women are flashing bright, near perfect smiles. It's a pleasure to see. We're not all born that way, and they probably weren't either. Dental makeovers have contributed to a large part of the self-esteem of models, movie stars, and recently, the grocery clerk or the grandmother next door, who seek cosmetic dental care.
Surprisingly, most tooth restoration procedures are fairly conservative. That is, removal of healthy enamel is kept to a minimum, or dispensed with altogether. Teeth bleaching, tooth bonding and contouring are quick, easy, and fairly inexpensive. Porcelain veneers lend new form and youthfulness to front teeth. Tooth-colored fillings can replace discolored amalgams. A new denture can restore a more youthful appearance. The choices are yours.
Notice the people you know who are proud of their teeth. They smile more often. Great teeth build self-confidence. Most people respond more readily to an attractive smile in a very positive way. The psychology is simple, the impact great.
We are lucky to have new materials and techniques that make a beautiful smile within everyone's reach. Take advantage of cosmetic dentistry, for yourself and the people around you.
Give your cosmetic dentist a call today to find out how your smile can benefit from today's technical innovations.


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How blockchain powers e-voting
By Horizon State
Horizon State, a startup building citizen engagement platforms, is changing the way elections work.
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Reports of foreign influence in the US elections and the Brexit referendum are now well known. Meanwhile, in India, platforms such as WhatsApp are being used to spread extremist and false information in the run up to elections. Social media can have even more dangerous influences in young democracies like Myanmar, where Facebook is the homepage to the internet.
These patterns have also created a "disinterest in politics" among the youth, says Nimo Naamani, co-founder and tech chief of Horizon State, a startup building citizen engagement platforms. Seeing that social media has failed to engage voters, the company wants to change the way elections are run.
Rebuilding voters' trust
It is working with governments across the world to enable e-voting on the blockchain, making it more secure and trustworthy than traditional polling booths.
Blockchain distributes individual voting information across thousands of computers around the world, making it impossible to alter or delete votes once they've been cast, Naamani explains. "If you want to attack the ledger and change the information, it is very mathematically difficult to do that."
"If you want to attack the ledger and change the information, it is very mathematically difficult to do that."This approach promotes greater trust between voters and governments by protecting their data and privacy. Voters get the right to choose how much information they wish to disclose. While national elections require voters to disclose who they are to verify their eligibility, other engagement forums, such as local town halls, do not require the same level of disclosure.
"We create trust by having the user in control over their data and privacy", says Horizon State's CEO, Oren Alazraki. The company also does not store voters' information or manage their identities, unlike Facebook, he adds.
The platform allows citizens to cast their votes on smartphone apps, rather than having to queue up at polling stations. As a result, voters will be "far more responsive to the idea that they can make their voice heard and their vote will count", adds Naamani.
While Horizon State's approach is a huge leap from traditional paper voting slips, it doesn't require governments to completely rebuild their systems. Its platform can be modelled to fit into existing electronic voting machines. "Eventually, you'll see the shift towards decentralised and remote participation, rather than these centralised gatherings at public polling stations," says Naamani.
The company's e-voting platform is receiving global interest, Alazraki reveals. It has gotten requests from three countries to run their elections, while four others are keen to run population censuses on their blockchain platform. The company was also recently selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
Two-way engagement
Elections only happen once every few years, but governments need to be far more responsive. Beyond voting, Horizon State wants to help governments engage citizens more frequently, and in a more meaningful way. "We want to let governments discuss with the citizens as many times as they want, and as often as they want."
Existing engagement platforms like Facebook no longer appeal to governments, the company believes. "Organisations are shy going on Facebook," says Alazraki, and "fear the consequence of receiving feedback [on social media]". With no easy way to independently verify Facebook users' identities, it is easy for people to spread negative comments from behind fake profiles.
This is an issue that the blockchain platform takes care of. Horizon State is building a suite of tools that will let governments engage citizens in two-way dialogue and understand sentiments in nearly real-time. Its community engagement platform allows governments to ask residents for help and ideas on local issues. "Political candidates can put issues up for vote, or for deliberation on the platform," Naamani says. Citizens can then vote on and discuss these issues, with artificial intelligence gathering insights from voters' sentiments.
The blockchain platform also improves transparency in community processes, allowing participants to track how funding and donations are being used. "As a citizen, you can see what is happening - both with your own submission, but also with the things that affect you and your community", Naamani says. This visibility is crucial for governments to improve their credibility.
The company is partnering with others, with plans to deliver even more services, such as employment, healthcare records and emergency services, on its blockchain platform.
Why Asia?
Horizon State's founders believe that its blockchain-based platform has the potential to spark great change and citizen engagement across Asia, where access to smartphones is cheap and ubiquitous.
Governments are rapidly developing internet connectivity across the region. Villages may lack proper roads or hospitals, but most residents have mobile phones and internet nearby. A mobile and secure engagement platform like Horizon State's can allow governments to engage with remote communities which would otherwise have little say in national decisions.
The company is developing new ways for people to use their services in areas with poor connectivity. "We're going to collaborate with some telecommunications companies to provide means for these rural places to communicate [with local governments]," the CEO says.
The company's ultimate goal is to allow communities to "help and organise themselves better to seek structured assistance for governments and various agencies", he concludes.


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Mediterranean Vibes on God's Mountain
God's Mountain Estate is a hidden gem set on a cliffside overlooking Skaha Lake in the stunning Okanagan Valley. Although it is just a few hour plane ride from Vancouver, you truly feel that you have been transported to somewhere in Europe when you arrive. The aesthetic makes you feel like you have stepped into a Mediterranean villa, surrounded by vineyards, lake views and romance. Around every corner there is something new to discover... whether that be the Juliet style balcony, the jaw-dropping cliffs or the white washed walls of the little villas. It is a visual and sensory feast!
So in this magical setting, Rob and Stephanie were married under the Okanagan sunshine and overlooking blue waters. It could not have been a more beautiful day!
Loved every moment of this beautiful day!
All the little details:
Dress: Rue De Siene Bridal
Videographer: Lee Wedding Films
Makeup: Save the Date Beauty
Wedding venue: Spanish Banks
Reception: Koerners Pub
Floral design: Flores Amour
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This study aimed to summarize the function-related goals set by older people, and to explore gender differences in goal selection and associations between balance-related goals and fall history, self-rated balance, and fear of falling. We included community-dwelling people aged 60 years and older participating in two randomized controlled trials. Participants nominated two function-related goals, which were summarized into components of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. Chi-square analyses were used to explore associations between goal types and participant characteristics. Goals related to recreation and leisure and walking were the most common function-related goals selected. Men and women set similar goals. Participants who had poor/fair self-reported balance were more likely to set a balance-related goal than people with good self-rated balance. In contrast, fallers and participants who had a fear of falling were not more likely to select a balance-related goal than nonfallers and participants who had no fear of falling, respectively.
Oliveira, Sherrington, Ramsay, Kirkham, and Tiedemann are with Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Hassett is with Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Manning is with School of Biomedical Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Orange, Australia.


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Poachers have long had the upper-hand over conservationists because they have the element of surprise. They also often strike at night, when light is low, and this makes catching poachers incredibly difficult. Among the animals they hunt down are elephants and rhinos, for their valuable horns and tusks, which are used for medicinal and ivory crafting purposes on a global scale.
Because illegal animal poaching is a huge problem in many parts of Southern Africa, where some of the world's most beautiful wild creatures roam free, conservationists are taking a higher-tech approach to staying one step ahead and fighting back.
A $5 Million grant from Google, paired with additional support from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is making it possible for authorities to utilize high-tech drones armed with HD cameras that can find poachers from up in the skies, even at night time.
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These cameras can then wireless relay their video footage back to the controller via their hand-held controller, which is often a tablet of some kind. The range for drones of this category is pretty decent as well, so authorities can comb regions relatively far away from where they're standing. More importantly, it has built-in night vision technology, which is very important given how poachers like to attack.
These drones are able to comb over the trees of forests and over the plains that poachers often have to run across to get from point A to point B. With eyes in the skies, authorities are hoping to catch poachers before they can get to the animals, which might help in the fight to save some endangered animal species from extinction.
According to the New York Times, the drone testing started back in August of last year in Malawi's Liwonde National Park by a South-African company known as U.D.S., and so far, the testing has proven impressive. Video footage shown off by the NYT report shows what poachers look like from above. They're are seen defensively standing in the drone's eyesight, unable to do anything about it.
At this point in time, the drone testing is still in its premature stages. While it can spot potential poachers from up high, the surveillance system isn't mature enough to help authorities get to the wrongdoers quickly enough. That said, it hasn't helped to lead to any arrests just yet at this point in time.
In the future, it's hoped that regions where poaching is common can adopt more of these surveillance drones and perhaps hire more manpower to hunt down and capture poachers before they get a chance to harm nature's wonderful creatures.
Overall, it sounds like the concept has the potential to be an effective weapon against illegal poachers, which means saving the lives of elephants, rhinos, and other species of animals, all around the world.
On the other hand, technology isn't the answer to everything, as GPS tracking devices that are often used for conservation purposes can be hijacked by poachers to track an animal's every move in real-time.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Andrew Luck finally reverted to his old form Sunday - and the Colts finally looked like the team everyone expected.
Now they just have to keep playing this way.
Luck threw two touchdown passes and set up Adam Vinatieri for a tie-breaking 55-yard field goal with 6:13 left, giving the Colts a 27-24 victory over Denver that ruined Peyton Manning's homecoming.
"That's who we need to be, consistently," Luck said. "Probably a little bit of soul searching, trying to figure out what we want to be. The truth of the matter is we have the pieces, which is pretty darn obvious."
The Colts (4-5) ended a three-game losing streak, won for the first time in six tries outside the horrible AFC South, and retained their division lead.
Manning, meanwhile, fell 3 yards short of becoming the NFL's career passing leader - after his second interception and two late defensive penalties - allowed Indy to run the final six minutes off the clock.
Denver's quarterback heads into next week's game against Kansas City with 71,836 career yards; Brett Favre had 71,838.
But that was not the record Manning really wanted to break in a venue many credit him with helping build. He'll also have to wait to break Favre's career record for most career regular-season wins (186) by a quarterback after going 21 of 36 with 281 yards, two TDs and two interceptions.
"I've been in enough situations like that in my career where I've been able to focus on the task at hand - trying to win the football game," he said after losing his second straight at Lucas Oil Stadium in what could be his final game in Indy. "I kind of dealt with them (the emotions) a few years ago. I felt like this time coming back was just playing against a good football team."
A team that that was mired in turmoil.
Just five days after firing offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton and giving the play-calling duties to Rob Chudzinski - and four days after Luck wound up on the injury report again - Manning's successor played like the best young quarterback in football. The Colts followed his lead:
-They started fast and finished strong.
-They had no turnovers.
-They committed only four penalties, and the 17-0 lead they took in the first half was their largest of the season. They even ended Denver's first-quarter scoreless streak at seven games when Frank Gore scored on a 7-yard run.
That's exactly what Indianapolis needed, and precisely what coach Chuck Pagano had spent weeks preaching.
"We really feel we've competed with the best football teams in the league - Denver, New England, Carolina," team owner Jim Irsay said. "We still feel we can go the places we dream of going."
They could - if Luck continues playing this way.
The first ended with an 8-yard TD pass to Ahmad Bradshaw that gave Indy a 24-17 lead. Then after Manning tied the score again a 1-yard TD pass to Owen Daniels, Luck took the Colts back down the field and set up Vinatieri for his longest field goal since coming to Indy in 2006.
Luck could have made it three straight scoring series had he not taken a knee on the final play at Denver's 1-yard line.
"We had to start like we finish, Pagano said. "We finish as good as anybody in football. But we had to put it all together, 60 minutes, and we did."
Denver closed to 17-7 on Omar Bolden's 83-yard punt return on the last play of the first half. Manning started the second half with a 64-yard TD pass to Emmanuel Sanders and the Broncos tied it on a 29-yard field goal from Brandon McManus.
But they never got the lead.
"We dug ourselves a hole in the first half and showed a lot of character getting out of that hole," coach Gary Kubiak said. "We just weren't able to close the deal after battling our way back. They (Colts) finished it, we didn't."
Daniels caught six passes for 102 yards, and Sanders had six receptions for 90 yards and a TD for Denver.
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My Resignation…
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I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old.
I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant.
I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks.
I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them.
I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day.
I want to return to a time when life was simple; When all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care.
All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.
I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good.
I want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.
I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones.
I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.
So…here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood.
And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first, cause…….."Tag! You're it."


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Advance care planning (ACP) helps you ensure that your medical wishes are honored in the event that you are unable to speak for yourself. Honoring Choices® Indiana – North Central is here to help you with the process, every step of the way.
We use Respecting Choices® First Steps® ACP Facilitator Certification, which is designed for professionals such as social workers, nurses, clergy, physicians, and others involved in assisting patients and residents in making end-of-life treatment decisions. We also encourage community members with an interest in helping healthy adults discuss and document their future healthcare decisions to become certified facilitators.
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Violinist Sharan Leventhal has given more than 125 premieres as a soloist and as a founding member of Marimolin and the Gramercy Trio. Many of these have been recorded on New World, Newport Classics, Naxos, Parma, NorthEastern and Catalyst/BMG labels. She has been a frequent guest for the Boston Artists ensemble and Present Music, and also appeared as a violin soloist with many U.S. orchestras. Leventhal currently teaches at The Boston Conservatory and Brandeis University, and has served on the faculites of Michigan State, the Berklee College of Music and the Interlochen Arts Camp. She has given masterclasses on four continents, and is the founder and director of Play On, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting active participation in music making.
Eric Segnitz is a violinist, a composer/arranger, and a charter member of the Milwaukee, WI-based new music ensemble Present Music. His composition credits include plays, television, film and concert works (published by Hal Leonard). Mr. Segnitz's producing credits include work for the Albany, NorthEastern, LML, Dargason, Narada, Innova and New World labels. Orchestral experience includes many years of service for the Milwaukee Symphony, and he can be heard as a soloist on two recent premiere recordings: "Todo Buenos Aires" by John Adams/Astor Piazzola [Albany], and the Kamran Ince violin concerto "In White" [Innova]. He has shepherded the Kepler Quartet's Ben Johnston quartet-cycle project since 2002 as both producer and second violinist.
Upon graduation from Indiana University, Brek Renzelman was named the assistant principal violist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra for the 1985-1986 season. After his next orchestral assignment in the viola section of the Atlanta Symphony, Renzelman decided to return to Milwaukee, where he served as the violist with Present Music from 1992 to 2010. In his freelance career, Mr. Renzelman has recorded with international soloists, acted as principal violist for the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra, and performed in the Milwaukee Symphony viola section in long and short-term stints during the past two decades. He is also currently devoting time to social activism, and the publication of his first book.
Karl Lavine is the principal 'cellist of both the Madison Symphony and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. He has freelanced and worked as a grant writer in New York City, toured Europe and Canada as a member of the Kandisky Trio, and performed an 18-month European tour of West Side Story. From 1999 to 2009 he served as the 'cellist for Present Music, and continues to perform regularly with John Harbison's Token Creek Festival. Mr. Lavine has held faculty positions at Iowa's Luther College, Illinois Wesleyan University, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and the National String Workshop. Lavine also maintains an active private teaching studio in Madison, WI, and is Director of the Chamber Music Program for the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra.