text:
The 2012 Aston Martin Vantage V12 Roadster is a luxury vehicle that offers a lot for the huge price tag that comes with it. This is one of the most expensive luxury car brands in the world and this model lives up to the name.
This vehicle can go from 0-62 MPH in only 4.5 seconds and has a maximum speed of 190 MPH. It has rear-wheel drive, a fully-catalyzed exhaust system in stainless steel and valves that have active bypass on them as well. There is also a six-speed manual gearbox included and a limited-slip differential.
|Vehicle Type: Coupe
|Base Price: NA
|Fuel Tank Capacity: 17.6 gallons (80L)
|Miles Per Gallon: NA
|Length: 172.5 in (438.2 cm)
|Wheel Base: 102.3 in (260 cm)
|Height: 49.4 in. (125.6 cm)
|Width: 79.6 in. (202.2 cm)
|Curb Weight: 3880 lbs (1760 kg)
|Ground Clearance: NA
|Luggage Capacity: NA
|Maximum Seating: 2 people
|Engine: Quad Overhead Cam V12
|Displacement: 5935 cc
|Horsepower: 510 HP
|Max RPM: 6500 RPM
|Torque: 420 lb-ft @ 5750 rpm
|Transmission: 6-Speed Manual
|0-60 mph: 4.5 seconds
|Maximum Speed: 190 mph (305 km/h)
This two seater have doors constructed with aluminum, magnesium alloy, composite and steel body. There are LED rear lamps, halogen projector headlamps and door side impact beams located throughout the vehicle.
ABS brakes come standard as does emergency brake assist. Traction control is also included as is dynamic stability control with track mode. The front and rear tires are 19″ Pirelli P Zero Corsas.
More Features
A trip computer and cruise control are included for easy driving. There are also glass switches and carbon fiber door pulls. The steering wheel is trimmed in leather and the seats have memory capability. The sport seats also move in ten different ways, including adjustments for lumbar support.
There are side airbags as well as passenger and driver front side airbags. The rear screen is heated and there is automatic temperature control for the passenger and driver. Other equipment that comes standard includes: auto-dimming rear mirror, power fold exterior mirrors, rain sensing wipers, MP3 connections, alarm, remote control door lock and more.
This vehicle is one that anyone can appreciate. The large price tag is due to the reputation and quality of these vehicles.


text:
Open Source Contribution - Tools of the Trade
For Software Freedom Day. Touches on aspects of contributing and the basic skills involved/needed, some examples and the demo repository used.
View presentation at https://open-source-tott.appspot.com
I won't begrudge you if you decide to view the presentation here though it's not perfect. I've tried to make it better.
Click on the below and hit f to view in fullscreen. Press Enter, space , → to advance; Backspace, ← to go back.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Styles Available to order with this logo
Style# 8110
Product ID: A255-247-4821
Product ID: A255-247-4821
New Era Embroidered Structured Fitted Cotton Hat
Your Price$42.15
Style# 8838
Product ID: A122-990-4375
Product ID: A122-990-4375
ATTENTION: Our website uses features that are not supported by your current internet browser. Please use a modern browser, such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari to navigate our site. If you need assistance, please give us a call.


text:
|Price GST
|Next Running
|Advanced First Aid
|4 hours
|Register interest
|RPIVATE School of Pharmacy | Extended First Aid Blended
|6 hrs
|Renewal First Aid
|Renewal First Aid
|6 hours
|01 Dec
|Renewal self-paced eLearning
|3 hours
|Work Safe First Aid
|Work Safe First Aid
|8 hours
|05 Dec
|Work Safe self-paced eLearning
|4 hours
|Extended First Aid
|Extended First Aid
|12 Hours
|Extended self-paced eLearning
|6 hours
|Extended self-paced eLearning
|6 hours
|Renewal self-paced eLearning
|3 hours
|Work Safe self-paced eLearning
|4 hours
|Advanced First Aid
|Advanced CPR for Health Professionals
|4 hrs
|30 Nov
|Resuscitation for Vaccinators
|CPR and First Aid for Vaccinators
|3 hours
|12 Feb 24
This 4-hour advanced resuscitation (ACLS) course is ideal for healthcare professionals and non-clinical staff. The course covers basic principles of managing cardiac arrest and is CORE Immediate Adult equivalent (previously known as CPR level 4/5).
This 3-hour resuscitation course is specifically designed for authorised vaccinators and pharmacist vaccinators and will cover all required topics and the necessary skills to manage a life-threatening emergency.
This course is great for anyone who needs fundamental First Aid knowledge and skills and those who do not require Workplace compliant first aid training. Perfect first aid course for community groups, clubs, or churches.
This course specifically applies to teachers, school support staff and carers and focuses on providing emergency first aid to children under the age of 14 within the school environment or care setting. It is a great team bonding exercise or a teachers-only day activity.
First aid certificates must be renewed every two years. This first aid refresher (revalidation) course brings your knowledge and first aid skills back up to speed. Your first aid certificate must be current or within 3 months of its expiry date to be eligible for renewal.
This course is an 8-hour essential first aid 'core programme' for workplace first aid. Work Safe, or first aid level 1 (equivalent to unit standards 6402 and 6401), is perfect for low and medium-risk workplaces and will prepare your team to respond to the most common emergencies.
This course is a 12-hours comprehensive first aid programme, also known as first aid level 2. Extended first aid is ideal for moderate to high-risk workplaces and will cover all relevant topics and equip your team with required first aid skills.
If you require group training, we can arrange a suitable in-house course at your workplace or another preferred location for your convenience. We also offer the most competitive rates in the industry when comparing courses with other accredited training providers.


text:
World Snowboarding champion Shaun White falls on his arse a lot.
Most snowboarders do, it's an occupational hazard.
But Shaun White has a special way of falling on his arse that helped him achieve the highest ever score in the history of the Olympic halfpipe.
Read on to discover the powerful practice technique that helps experts across a variety of fields stay on top of their game. It's a method you can steal when you practice a language that could help you:
- Speak and understand the language better
- Feel more confident
- Stop worrying about your mistakes (and make fewer)
Deliberate practice: a winning formula to learn just about anything
In the 2010 winter Olympics, White landed a trick called the Front Double Cork 1080. This kind of trick would normally take him years to master, but during his training for the Vancouver Olympics, he nailed it in one day.
Before the Olympics, Red Bull built White his own private half-pipe with a foam pit at the end.
Riders normally build up slowly to tricks like the Front Double Cork 1080, because a fall could be fatal. But the foam pit reduced the impact of the fall, allowing White to practice complex tricks that would have been too dangerous to try directly on the snow.
In his article 3 Rules of High Velocity Learning, author Daniel Coyle describes how the pit gave White the freedom to make mistakes, fix them and try again. Over lots of repetitions, this technique helped him fall on his arse less.
Here's the winning formula that sped up White's learning exponentially:
- Try something difficult.
- Screw it up.
- Analyse what went wrong.
- Adapt approach.
- Repeat.
Whether he knew it or not, White was doing deliberate practice, a technique which psychologist Anders Ericsson identifies as the key to achieving high levels of performance in any field.
In this article, you'll learn how deliberate practice works and how it can help you practice a language more effectively. Then, I'll share 10 practical ways you can apply deliberate practice to your language learning.
At the end, I'll talk about how I'm integrating these ideas into my own language learning routine this month.
How do pros practice a language?
How do experts become the best at what they do?
Most people put it down to natural talent.
But over three decades of research across fields as diverse as sports, music, ballet, chess and computer programming suggest that, apart from physical differences like height and body-size, expertise isn't linked to innate differences.
Overwhelmingly, the most important factor that separates the high-achievers from the rest is the way they practice.
Imagine two friends are learning Spanish for their trip to Colombia.
Jill spends her time doing exercises from textbooks and playing on apps like duolingo and memrise. She gets most exercises right and feels at ease while she's practicing. She's waiting to accumulate more vocabulary and grammar before having a go at using Spanish in real life.
Jane starts off with a Spanish textbook but quickly moves on to muddling through more realistic materials, like simplified stories and slowly spoken podcasts. She gets herself an online tutor or language exchange partner and tries using the stuff she's been learning in real conversations. She speaks painfully slowly at first, makes a lot of mistakes and often feels awkward while she's practicing.
Who will speak better Spanish in Colombia?
Most people instinctively practice like Jill. That's because many education systems instill the principle that right answers are good and wrong answers are bad. The result: we'd rather practice things we're likely to get right, because mistakes make us feel like a failure.
But you know that awkward phase where you mess up a lot? That's where the learning happens.
Psychologist Angela Lee Duckworth, who studies performance across a wide range of fields from spelling competitions to salespeople, shows that the highest achievers aren't always the most talented or intelligent.
They're the snowboarders who fall on their arses and get up again, the kids who focus on spelling the most difficult words, and the language learners who are willing to put up with awkward silences while they try to squeeze a sentence out.
They're the ones who face the difficult bits head on, make mistakes, learn from them and keep going.
Most polyglots learn languages like Jane. They:
- push themselves to read and listen to things slightly above their level.
- practice speaking, even when it feels awkward.
- spend a lot of time make mistakes and getting corrections.
This kind of practice is very efficient, which explains why they learn to speak languages well in less time.
Why most people practice a language the wrong way
Despite the benefits, most people avoid deliberate practice for a couple of reasons.
1. It feels less efficient (but it's not)
When you're getting things right most of the time, it feels like you're making progress.
But it's an illusion.
It's a bit like tidying your room by shoving everything in your cupboard. It feels like you've got the job done, but all your shit is still in the cupboard. When you finally get around to sorting it out, it'll take you twice as long compared to if you'd just done it properly in the first place.
When you mindlessly work through a grammar book or play on apps like duolingo, it feels like you're making progress because you get ticks or points with every right answer. But those little satisfying dings don't necessarily help you use the language in real life.
When you face the trickier parts of language learning head on, like speaking or reading texts with words you don't recognise, it's a struggle at first, so you feel like you're not making much progress. But that extra effort will help you use the language much better in real life.
As writer Sonia Simone puts it: "don't take shortcuts, they take too long."
2. You have to analyse your mistakes
At work, when your boss says "let's go through some feedback" it's often a euphemism for "let's talk about how you screwed up".
The "feedback" stage in deliberate practice is no different: it's a detailed analysis of what you did wrong. And because you're human, you'll probably find it quite uncomfortable.
When you write something in a foreign language, you might cringe when you look back and see the mistakes you made. When you practice speaking, it doesn't feel great when your tutor or speaking partner points out your mistakes. And if you ever manage to pluck up the courage to record yourself speaking, it's pretty mortifying to listen back to yourself.
But if you want to get the benefits of deliberate practice, it's time to change the way you think about mistakes. Mistakes aren't something embarrassing to avoid: they're a key component of the learning process.
The more you make, the better you get.
10 ways to practice a language like a pro
1. Learn by doing (and making mistakes)
Deliberate practice doesn't mean you should stop learning from books and apps altogether. It means that you should focus on putting what you learn into practice immediately so you can identify your weaknesses and learn from your mistakes.
Let's imagine you want to master the past tense in Spanish. Here's how you can do it with deliberate practice:
- Learn grammar point: Learn how to use the past tense in your textbook/website/app.
- Practice using it: Write a paragraph about something in the past (e.g. what you did yesterday).
- Get feedback: Get corrections from a native speaker. You can post your paragraph to websites like italki or lang8 to get free feedback from native speakers.
- Adapt: Look at the mistakes you made and learn the correct way to say it.
- Repeat: Write another paragraph using the past tense (make it more interesting by using a new theme, for example, your last holiday) Try to reuse the words/grammar you got wrong so you can practice using them the right way.
You can do this technique with speaking, too. Try recording yourself talking about what you did yesterday and listen back to it – you'll often notice your own mistakes that you didn't pick up on while you were concentrating on speaking. Alternatively, if you have a conversation tutor/language exchange partner, you could talk about what you did yesterday, or any other theme that helps you practice what you've been studying recently, and ask them to correct you when you make mistakes.
2. Help people correct you
Imagine you're talking to someone who isn't a native speaker of your language and they make a mistake. How would you feel about correcting them?
Sometimes non-native speakers don't like correcting us because they're worried we might get offended or think they're rude. Help them feel more comfortable by asking them to correct you and thanking them when they do so.
Another handy phrase to learn in your target language is "do you say it like that?" This helps you get immediate feedback when you're not sure about what you just said. It also shows the person you're speaking to that you want to learn, so they'll feel more comfortable correcting you.
3. Repeat
To get the benefits of deliberate practice, it's important to repeat your corrections until you get them right. There are two ways to do this:
If your speaking partner points out your mistake, don't just say "gracias/merci/danke…". Reformulate the sentence aloud and ask them if you said it right this time.
Long term
If you notice that you often mistakes with certain grammar points or vocabulary, make a note of them and practice them as much as possible in your writing and speaking.
4. Break it down into components
When experts do deliberate practice, they break the skill down and practice the parts which cause them the most problems. Here are a couple of examples for languages:
- Instead of thinking "I want to improve my Spanish pronunciation", work out which individual sounds you find difficult, track down some tutorials and practice them until you can do it. If you're not sure where to find tutorials like this, the Mimic Method is a great place to start.
- Instead of thinking "I want to improve my Italian grammar", identify the elements you have the most trouble with and practice making sentences with them until it becomes automatic.
5. Focus on the awkward bits
When you learn a language, it's tempting to brush the awkward parts under the carpet. Just the phrase "German adjective declension", makes me want to look in the other direction and start whistling. But if you face these awkward bits head on and practice using them, you'll look back one day and wonder what all the fuss was about.
6. Stick with it
Sometimes the only thing that differentiates people who master a skill from those who don't is the amount of time they're willing to stick with it. When it comes to languages, people often decide they can't understand a grammar point or pronounce a word even though they've only tried a few times.
Some things will probably take longer to learn than you think, but it's worth sticking with them. You'll be so glad you did when you can finally say them right.
7. Take responsibility for your own learning
Don't wait for a teacher or book to tell you what you need to work on. Take some time to review your own learning and to notice gaps in your knowledge. For example, after you practice using the language, ask yourself questions like:
- which vocabulary was I missing?
- what did I make mistakes with?
This way, you'll know what to focus on in future.
8. Accept that you're going to feel like an idiot
When you go back and focus on your mistakes, you'll probably feel like an idiot. It's normal, particularly when it comes to things like speaking and listening to recordings of yourself. But the more you do it, the easier it gets. The secret is to accept the fact that you feel like an idiot and practice the language anyway.
9. Aim to make more mistakes (not fewer)
Remember: each mistake is a little sign that you just learnt something. To make progress, set yourself the goal of making more mistakes, not fewer. Paradoxically, this approach will help you make fewer mistakes in the long run, as the feedback after each mistake will help you get it right next time.
10. Get motivated
Deliberate practice requires a lot of effort, so it can be tricky to get motivated. Here are a couple of tips:
1. Build up the habit gradually
Let's imagine you want to do 30 minutes of deliberate practice a day. If you try to do it through willpower alone, you might run out of steam after the first few days. The key is to build up the language learning habit gradually. Start with something that's impossible to say no to, like 1 minute per day, then increase by one minute each day over the course of a month until you get to 30. Habits built up over time are much easier to stick to.
4. Use the 2 minute rule
Once you're in the habit, you may still have days when you don't feel like doing deliberate practice. On these days, try setting yourself the goal of working for 2 minutes. You'll probably find that after 2 minutes, you're happy to carry on by force of inertia. Even if you decide to stop after 2 minutes, the fact that you didn't skip your study session completely will make it easier to get back into it the following day.
All work and no play makes language learning really dull
So we've established that deliberate practice is good: it will probably help you speak a language better and faster.
My problem is, it doesn't fit in very well with my life philosophy.
It's the kind of thing people write about on those blogs that tell you that putting butter in your coffee (?!) will make you richer, thinner and better in bed.
The pressure to be the best at everything doesn't motivate me, it makes me want to hide under the covers. Sure, I want to speak a language well, but I want to enjoy learning it too. Because of it's not fun, what's the point?
How to practice a language with work and play
All deliberate practice and no fun probably wouldn't be a great way to learn anyway. Firstly, if it makes you feel tense, it could slow you down, because stress gets in the way of learning.
Secondly, there's a ton of research which shows that reading (and listening) for pleasure is a very effective way to learn a language.
While deliberate practice is about decomposing the skills and practicing the details, play, in the form of reading and listening to, or watching things you enjoy is essential. It helps you put all the pieces together and interact with the language as a whole.
And it keeps you happy and motivated.
If you've been learning for a while, your play activities could be things like comic books, magazines, podcasts, films and TV series.
If you're new to the language, there are still plenty of ways to inject fun into your learning. Here's a list of 32 fun ways to learn a language – you'll find activities in there that work for lower levels too.
My language learning plans for September
I'm currently on a French mission: I'm taking the DALF exam in November and I'm aiming to study for around 2-3 hours a day.
Last month, I decided to spend around half that time on deliberate practice, so I set myself the goal of doing the following activities each day (Monday to Friday):
- 25 mins grammar (learn rules + practice using them in writing/speaking)
- 25 mins pronunciation (record myself speaking + work on tricky sounds)
- 25 mins writing (practice writing + get feedback from native speakers on italki)
This turned out to be way too much: the idea of tackling that mammoth task each day was intimidating, so I ended up not bothering most of the time. I did reach my target of 2-3 hours of French most days, but it was almost always play activities like reading Tintin or watching Netflix.
So this month I've decided to concentrate on gradually building the habit of deliberate practice. On September 1st, I studied the 3 parts (grammar, pronunciation and writing) for 1 minute each. Since then, I've been adding on 1 minute per day and hopefully by the end of September I'll be back up to my goal of around 25 mins.
I'd also like to integrate more deliberate practice into my lessons with my online conversation tutors.
Here's my plan:
- Prepare conversation questions with the new words and grammar I've learned, so I can practice using them in conversation during the lessons.
- Note down the things that my tutor often corrects me on and make an effort to practice them after class. For example, I make lots of mistakes with those pesky prepositions so I'm going to push myself to use them more in my speaking and writing tasks.
But I haven't forgotten about playtime either! I've got a couple of audiobooks I'd like to finish and I'm planning on vegging out in front of a few French TV programmes/films.
What do you think?
Can deliberate practice help you learn a language? Which suggestions from this article can you use in your own language learning routine? Let me know in the comments below!


text:
BOG Adrenaline Switcheroo Tripod Camo
Out of stockBrand: Bog-Pod
The Battenfeld BOG Adrenaline Switcheroo Tripod is engineered for portability and versatility. It is made of durable, aluminum construction and has a patented USR shooting yoke and a patented SWITCHEROO mounting system. The retractable steel spikes secure into virtually any terrain. The height adjusts 18 inches – 68 inches. It is camo in color.
- Patented USR provides ultimate stock stability
- Head rotates 360 degrees
- High density foam grips
- No-slip lever locks provide secure locking, quiet release
- Engineered for portability and versatility
Additional information
|3.48 lbs
|29.0 × 4.75 × 4.75 in


text:
An eye-catching design with sleek style. Make any room a decor haven with this exceptional bed. Easy elegance offers a casual look with modern accents. Bold styling plays with geometric shapes in vertical and horizontal orientations. Add a glam touch with metallic leatherette upholstery.Features:
- Set includes: One (1) bed
- Opulence and elegance rule the day in this exciting bedroom collection
- Glam finishing touches create a bedroom fit for rock and roll royalty
- Black finish adds richness and drama
- Metallic leatherette upholstery on head and footboards
- Product materials: Asian hardwood and okume veneer
- Tested static weight: 600 lbs.
- 50 lbs. tip over test: Cases 30" and taller passed ASTM standards test
- Finish: Black
- Box spring: Required
- Assembly required: Yes
- Piece: Queen Bed
- Width: 63.5 in
- Depth: 84.75 in
- Height: 56 in
- Weight: 84.68 lbs
Payment & Security
Your payment information is processed securely. We do not store credit card details nor have access to your credit card information.


text:
Shark Classic Clip Tie dye Neon Green
Shark Classic Clip Tie dye Neon Green
Sale Sold out
Regular price $65.00 USD
Regular priceUnit price per
Sale price
Retro-futurism at its finest! The Shark Clip features the original clip band system that ignited the Freestyle brand. Much like a seatbelt, just clip in to keep your watch safe, snug and comfortable. Like all Shark Watches, the Shark Clip is backed by our limited lifetime warranty.
View full details


text:
Adhesive Sounds releases "Remember this Night" by COSMIC CYCLER
The Ontario record label Adhesive Sounds announced new music from COSMIC CYCLER yesterday, titled Remember this Night. The album is a classic-style and hypnagogic pop album of smooth jazz and easy listening samples with a sheen similar to older late night lo-fi albums. Two tracks feature 「サンセット Network❾❶」, a long-time producer in sample-based vaporwave. The album is available as a pay-what-you-want digital download and for $10 CAD on C38 cassette in an edition of fifty.
Check it out below:


text:
Guess who's in the doghouse?
Brandi Glanville has pink-slipped her personal assistant in the wake of her beloved Chihuahua mix Chica going missing last week from her Bel-Air, Calif.-area home, E! News confirms.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star's rep tells us that Brandi made the difficult decision to fire the unidentified helper "as a result of what happened with her house and her dog."
The news comes four days after Glanville tweeted her house was burglarized and the thief or thieves made off with her pooch.
Unfortunately for her 23-year-old employee, Brandi held her accountable for not ensuring the pup's safety.
"I can't comment regarding any monies owed, other than to say Brandi will make whatever payments are outstanding and warranted," the rep added.
Glanville has offered a $10,000 reward for Chica's safe return.
In the meantime, Eddie Cibrian's ex-wife has added a new member to the family, getting a replacement dog aptly named Chico, who Mason renamed Chody.
—Reporting by Ruth O'Neil


text:
3 Best Android Games To Play In 2015
Android gamers are typically honored with shiny new recreations or continuations consistently. It"s as of now been two months since 2015 has started which makes the most of the bad-to-the-bone gamers their days to get the fancied diversion. Despite the fact that there are a lot of outsider answers for download a gaming application, Google Play Store is dependably the most suggested application store for Android gadgets. Every one of the recreations we are going to cover are accessible in Google Play Store; some of them cost cash however.
The Walking Dead: No Man"s Land
If you have been a devotee of AMC"s TV arrangement, then you know the zombie based TV arrangement The Walking Dead. Taking into account the real comic and TV demonstrate this current diversion"s plot proceeds. The gamer needs to play the character of a survivor in the post-prophetically catastrophic world where human like animals have assumed control over the earth; the strolling dead or well known at this very moment. To make due through the diversion is the fundamental goal of the gamer. Settle on insightful choices and push your gamer to the No Man"s Land. The Walking Dead anticipates discharge in the Q1 of 2015.
Image Source: Play Store
Sons of Anarchy
TV arrangement plots are okay storyline for Android recreations nowadays, at any rate that is the thing that it appears like taking a gander at the developing number of TV story based Android diversions nowadays. "Sons of Anarchy" is in light of a TV arrangement around a pack of motorcyclists. They were savage thus would be the gamer. Notwithstanding, the diversion gives a brief presentation of the storyline amid the gameplay so it doesn"t generally oblige you to know the TV arrangement storyline before you play the amusement. Every section is topped off with another ride and its about settling on right choices on right times. The amusement is created by mainstream motion picture studio Fox Digital Entertainment and expected discharge time is Q1 of 2015
The diversion plots a city that is half submerged. The city being overwhelmed is frantic for outside help. The player must be the deliverer to get supplies to the individuals in the submerged city with no extravagant device yet just a straightforward angling watercraft. Additionally, the player will need to investigate the structures that may in any case have the capacity to hold living prisoners, and could permit a salvation operation. The submerged experience is fun on the off chance that you are into this kind of recreations. "Submerged" is planned to discharge in the first quarter of 2015.


text:
|Porsche LMP1/98
|Image gallery (20)
Page 1 of 3 Next >>
The end of the Group C and IMSA GTP era had left former rivals, Tom Walkinshaw Racing (who ran the Jaguar Group C and GTP efforts) and Porsche with very different but remarkably complementary problems. TWR was in the hunt for a new backer to continue operations in the company's American facility in Valparaiso, Indiana, while the strapped-for-cash Porsche could use a new sports racer as the basic 956/962 design dated back to 1981. As an added incentive, arch-rival Ferrari had returned to the arena with the 333 SP prototype racer.
Through American Porsche specialist Andial's Alwin Springer, Porsche and TWR were introduced with the hopes of creating a car that could race against the new Ferrari in the American endurance racing classics; the Daytona 24 Hours and Sebring 12 Hours. In order to keep the costs to a minimum, TWR's Tony Dowe proposed to adapt the company's existing cutting-edge chassis, which had already been used for the Jaguar XJR-14 and Mazda MXR-01. The carbon-fibre monocoque was to be fitted with a spyder body to comply with the latest regulations and mated with the latest evolution of the Porsche 962 engine.
Porsche's board agreed to the project and the work started in September 1994. TWR supplied a chassis but few, perhaps not even Porsche themselves, at the time or for years after knew that this was not just a XJR-14 type chassis but one that had actually had seen action as an XJR-14. Either way, it was a state-of-the-art carbon-fibre monocoque, designed back in 1990 by Ross Brawn. It featured double wishbone front suspension with push-rod actuated torsion bar springs and dampers. In addition to the existing tub, the construction of a second was started for what was intended to be a two-car effort.
In addition to removing the roof, which opened the rather claustrophobic cockpit, much of the XJR-14's sophisticated aerodynamics was removed to comply with the new WSC regulations. Gone was the front wing mounted between the fenders as was the huge twin-element rear wing, and most importantly, the underbody ground-effect tunnels were replaced by a flat bottom. Mounted where the Ford Cosworth HB V8 was once fitted was the twin-turbo flat six used so effectively in the Porsche 962C. Breathing through a pair of mandatory 34.5mm restrictors, the all-aluminium produced around 540 bhp.
Page 1 of 3 Next >>
|Image gallery (20)
|All Cars - Contact us - Privacy Statement - Top
|© 1998 - 2023 Ultimatecarpage.com


text:
- AUS vs BAN Live Match World Cup 2015
- AUS vs BAN Team Squads
- AUS vs BAN Match Schedule
- AUS vs BAN Match Live Score
- AUS vs BAN Live Match Highlights
- AUS vs BAN Match Pics
- AUS vs BAN Video Highlights
- Quarter Final Matches
- Srilanka vs South Africa
- India vs Bangladesh
- Pakistan vs Australia
- New Zealand vs West Indies
Australia vs Bangladesh Match Pics World Cup 2015
International Cricket Council ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 matches are very interesting; the eleventh match of World Cup 2015 is played Bangladesh vs Australia.
Cricket World Cup 2015 11th ODI match between Australia vs Bangladesh is played at Brisbane Cricket Ground, Australia at 08:30 PKT, 03:30 GMT and 13:30 local time. Hope you all watch live match Bangladesh v Australia on your TV sets or online.
BAN v AUS match was very interesting and hope you would like to view some of the pictures of this match. So, we have arranged few of the best pictures of AUS vs BAN world cup 2015 match for you. You will love to watch these pics of your favorite players. We are trying to put some more pictures of Bangladesh v Australia live match soon.
In the pictures of the match, the spectators will look their favorite players to play in the match. they will surely enjoy this match.
WC Match Pictures
Australia Vs Bangladesh Match abandoned without a ball bowled..


text:
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (PCSBI) encourages comments. PCSBI cannot respond to every comment. PCSBI reviews comments before they are posted. To ensure a respectful dialogue, PCSBI will require the following guidelines be followed by all commenters:
- Stay focused. All viewpoints are welcome, but comments and links should remain relevant to the topics being discussed.
- Be respectful. Personal attacks, profanity, and aggressive behavior are prohibited. Instigating arguments in a disrespectful way is also prohibited.
- Tell the truth. Misleading or false information and unsupported accusations are prohibited.
- No spam. Repeated posting of identical or very similar content in a counter-productive manner is prohibited.
- No product endorsement. Share your experience without naming a specific product or service. Marketing or promotion of a particular vendor, product, or service is prohibited.
We retain the discretion to determine which comments violate our comment policy. We also reserve the right to remove and/or not allow comments to be posted. The views expressed within posted comments do not necessarily reflect those of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (PCSBI), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or the federal government. Reporters, journalists, and other media professionals are requested to contact PCSBI's Communications Director at 202-233-3960 and to refrain from submitting questions here as comments. These types of questions will not be posted or answered. We recognize that the web is a 24/7 medium, and your comments are welcome at any time. However, given the need to manage federal resources, moderating and posting comments will occur during regular business hours (8-6 p.m., M-F, except for federal holidays). Comments submitted after hours or on weekends or holidays will be read and posted as early as possible the next business day. To protect your own privacy and the privacy of others, please do not include phone numbers, email addresses or any other personal identifiable information in the body of your comment.


text:
Proper healthcare is hard to find while living on a low budget. Without the ability to access insurance through their jobs, many low-income individuals are left to pay for doctor, dentist, or eye appointments completely out of pocket. Cost for both the appointment and treatment needed after visiting a doctor can become a burden for many families. 3:16 Family Medicine is eager to combat this challenge by providing a free community health clinic for Carroll County residents.
"We have been offering a free community health clinic every quarter since we opened our doors in September of 2017," said Family Physician and Owner of 3:16 Family Medicine and Spa 3:16, Allison Key.
The mission of the clinic is to provide a payment free option for members of the community who need to access a doctor. The goal is to eliminate the barrier of money or cost and allow for the Carroll County community access to free healthcare.
"Our mission is to love others and serve our community," said Key. "We want to meet people right where they are. Everyone deserves access to health care and as primary care providers, we believe in the power of prevention and early diagnosis. Our goal is to offer just another opportunity for people without insurance or access to care to not only be seen and treated for free by one of our providers, but to get information about resources in our community to help long term.
"The visit is free as well as any necessary lab work," continued Key. "We do offer minor procedures and in house testing for free as well as medications from our small in-house dispensary. We have several patients who come each quarter for follow up, and it is always free."
Alongside opening their services to the Carroll County community, 3:16 Family Medicine also tries their best to reach out to the homeless community in the area. Working alongside Be the Light Medical Missions, Key saids they provide needed services for homeless individuals such as transportation to and from the clinic.
"We do reach out and try to make sure that all centers, churches and other places of access for the homeless know that we offer these services, and we hope to continue to expand on those as well," said Key. "We have a non-profit arm called Be the Light Medical Missions."
"One of our primary goals there is to offer a medical transport van so that people who need to see a doctor or make it to an appointment but do not have transportation can get a ride for free," continued Key. "We want all people to have access to the care they need."
Even with the transportation services provided, there are still certain challenges that 3:16 Family Medicine is hoping to overcome. One of these main challenges is getting back in touch with their patients once they have attended the clinic, especially individuals who attend the clinic without having a primary residence.
"One of the biggest challenges we face is follow up after the visit or even getting to and from the visit for some of our patients," said Key. "Sometimes we have difficulty getting back in touch with a patient about their results because their living situation or contact information may be transient. Most people do not realize the large homeless population we have in our community and the degree of poverty that many in our backdoors are living in daily."
Although there are still improvements to be made regarding the service. Key says she is very grateful to see how much it has been used for the betterment of the community. Key is especially grateful for her staff that take time out of their day to help provide the clinic.
"We offer these clinics in the evening hours, so I am very grateful to my staff and our providers for volunteering their time to work these extra-long days serving others," said Key. "It is sometimes hard to arrange childcare or take care of our own situations, but these ladies go the extra mile to help others every day and for that, I am so grateful. Their hearts are just gold. "We hope that these events offer hope and help to those who need it," continued Key. "It is our blessing to be able to use our time and talents to reach out to our community and serve. Hopefully, it is making our community a healthier and happier place."
You may also like
Annual "Infinite Weight / Present Histories" Exhibition Returns to Newnan Vault GalleryBy Alex Ducoulombier / November 16, 2023
An Immersive Summer Awaits Abroad for UWG StudentsBy Jannette Emmerick / November 16, 2023
NSSLHA Walk for ApraxiaBy Emma Worley / November 16, 2023
Financial Wellness WednesdaysBy Carolyn Moncrieffe / November 16, 2023
Ethics Bowl Posits Thoughtful ConversationBy Jannette Emmerick / November 16, 2023


text:
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philmusic.dotcom
eto na. kita kits tayo dito
wala pang tickets sa ticketnet. kating kati na ko bumili.
balcony boys pasok.
So stoked for this!!! Just to confirm. wala silang meet and greet here in Manila right?
Bad Behavior has blocked 10029 access attempts in the last 7 days.
Page created in 0.068 seconds with 25 queries.


text:
Current Position:Home>>Antibodies>>Flow Cytometry Antibodies>> PE/Elab Fluor® 594 Anti-Human CD44 Antibody[P2A1]
Welcome to order from local distributors.
FAQ for Flow Cytometry AntibodyAdd to cart Bulk request
For research use only. Order now, ship in 3 days
|Alternate Names
|CD44 antigen,CD44,CDw44,Epican,Phagocytic glycoprotein 1,PGP-1,Phagocytic glycoprotein I,PGP-I,CD44,LHR, MDU2, MDU3, MIC4
|Gene ID
1. Barclay AN, et al. 1997. The Leukocyte Antigen FactsBook Academic Press.
2. Haynes BF, et al. 1991. Cancer Cells 3:347.
3. Goldstein LA, et al. 1989. Cell 56:1063.
4. Mikecz K, et al. 1995. Nat. Med. 1:558.
|Clone No.
|P2A1(See Other Available Formats)
|Mouse IgG2a, κ
|Isotype Control
|PE/Elab Fluor® 594 Mouse IgG2a, κ Isotype Control[C1.18.4] [Product E-AB-F09802P]
|FCM (See the Application Description)
|Storage Buffer
|Phosphate buffered solution, pH 7.2, containing 0.09% stabilizer and 1% protein protectant.
|Recommended Use
|Each lot of this antibody is quality control tested by flow cytometric analysis. The amount of the reagent is suggested to be used 5 µL of antibody per test (million cells in 100 µL staining volume or per 100 µL of whole blood). Please check your vial before the experiment. Since applications vary, the appropriate dilutions must be determined for individual use.
|Biological ice pack at 4℃
|Stability & Storage
|Keep as concentrated solution.
Store at 2~8°C and protected from prolonged exposure to light. Do not freeze.
Centrifuge before opening to ensure complete recovery of vial contents.
This product is guaranteed up to one year from purchase.
|PE/Elab Fluor® 594
|PE/Elab Fluor® 594 is designed to be excited by the blue (488 nm), Green (532 nm) and yellow-green (561 nm) lasers and detected using an optical filter centered near 620 nm (e.g., a 610/20 nm bandpass filter).
How to select the appropriate detection channel through the spectrogram?
|CD44 is a 80-95 kD glycoprotein also known as Hermes, Pgp1, H-CAM, or HUTCH. It is expressed on all leukocytes, endothelial cells, hepatocytes, and mesenchymal cells. As B and T cells become activated or progress to the memory stage, CD44 expression increases from a low or mid level of intensity to high expression levels. Thus, CD44 has been reported to be a valuable marker for memory cell subsets. CD44 is an adhesion molecule involved in leukocyte attachment to and rolling on endothelial cells, homing to peripheral lymphoid organs and to the sites of inflammation, and leukocyte aggregation.
|Related Protocols
|Staining Cell Surface Targets for Flow Cytometry
|Product Name
|FITC Anti-Human CD44 Antibody[P2A1]
|20Tests, 100Tests, 100Tests×2
|Check More
|PE Anti-Human CD44 Antibody[P2A1]
|20Tests, 100Tests, 100Tests×2
|Check More
|APC Anti-Human CD44 Antibody[P2A1]
|20Tests, 100Tests, 100Tests×2
|Check More
|PE/Cyanine7 Anti-Human CD44 Antibody[P2A1]
|20Tests, 100Tests, 100Tests×2
|Check More
|PerCP/Cyanine5.5 Anti-Human CD44 Antibody[P2A1]
|20Tests, 100Tests, 100Tests×2
|Check More
|Elab Fluor® 488 Anti-Human CD44 Antibody[P2A1]
|20Tests, 100Tests, 100Tests×2
|Check More
From now on, if you have published a paper by using any of our products since 1/1/2019, fill out the "Elabscience Publication Reward Application Form"carefully and send it to firstname.lastname@example.com, we will get back to you with the reward after we confirm it ASAP!
Subtotal:$View / Edit


text:
J'adore Mon Chez Moi Always Open! Convenience Store
Ever wanted to start up a place that's covenient for all? J'adore Mon Chez Moi Convenience Store created and designed by Quercia-Delvigne has everything you need when you want good food but you are in a rush. This premium STEM plus toy playset includes 28 pieces ranging from scanner, steamer, order machine, and an array of food choices that can be thrown in a basket for check out. This will provide boundless imagination and encourage thinking and problem solving skills to pull off running this store. Suitable for children over 36 months. Search qudetube on youTube for a demo and other similar products.
- 1 cashier
- 1 shelf cabinet
- 1 cash register
- 1 steamer
- 1 plier
- 1 shopping basket
- 2 rice balls
- 2 juice bottles
- 2 cup noodles
- 1 steamed stuffed bun
- 2 shushi bentos
- 2 sandwiches
- 12 paper money
- 1 bank card
product features
- cash register with sound and light
- scanner with sound and light
- Easy assemble
- With variety of foods
- With steamer
Item# 927233


text:
BRIDE & GROOM: Kayla Collison and Robert Miller
WEDDING DATE: October 14th, 2017
THEME:"PURPLE! If we had to put a label on it, our day was rustic and vintage." – K
LOCATION: Beaverdale Golf Club (♥) (golfnorth.ca/ beaverdale) Cambridge, ON "We wanted the rustic feeling of a barn, without the added novelty charge. It was beautiful inside and out and had all the room that we needed; at a great price to boot." – K
PHOTOGRAPHY: Mirror Form Photography (mirrorformphoto.com) "We chose Mirror Form not only because she has an artistic eye for capturing the most beautiful photos but also because she is an acquaintance of ours. She believes in love and you can see that captured in her work! Meghan is so lovely to work with. She is confident in her abilities, but so down to earth and easy going."- K
FLOWERS: Sola Flowers (solaflowers.ca), Hamilton, ON
DÉCOR: Fitz the Occasion (facebook.com/Fitz-the
Occasion-Chair-Covers-Event-Decor), Kitchener, ON
CAKE: Cakes by Jan (cakesbyjan.ca)
GROOM + GROOMSMEN'S ATTIRE: Stars Men's Shops (starsmenshops.com) Kitchener, ON
BRIDE'S ATTIRE: David's Bridal (davidsbridal.ca) Cambridge, ON
BRIDESMAID ATTIRE: DC Dress (etsy.com)
HAIR & MAKEUP: For the guys – Spearhead Barber & Supply (spearheadbarbershop.com) Waterloo, ON. For the girls – Niki Cooper of Cowboys and Angels Salon (cowboysandangelssalon.ca) Waterloo, ON
BIGGEST CHALLENGE: "The biggest challenge for us was deciding on guest list. Rob and I both have large families with blended sides which creates a lot of people you want to be invited. We decided we would split the guest list into ceremony and dinner guests, and a separate list for just the dancing and party. It was a great compromise and a way to still have everyone we wanted there to celebrate with us, but also keep our budget reasonable." -K
ADVICE, ONE BRIDE TO ANOTHER: "Never take for granted a single moment of life because you never know what tomorrow brings! Our family suffered a great tragedy just a week out from the wedding. My brother went missing and was found 3 days later passed away. It was the most difficult decision for us to move forward with the wedding given the unthinkable sadness our families were going through. I am happy to say with the support of our families and the help, caring and understanding from all our vendors, especially Beaverdale Golf Club, that our day was a reminder of love and family and how important it is to just be with each other, through the happy times and the sad ones. I know my brother was there with us through the entire day, and it was such a wonderful, happy, love filled day that our family so needed at the time." – K
Featured in the Fall/Winter 2018 issue of The Wedding Ring Ontario Magazine
MORE ABOUT BEAVERDALE GOLF CLUB |Affordably beautiful, Beaverdale Golf Club's (golfnorth.ca/beaverdale) ceremonies and receptions live up to Golf North standards (more details in their review in The Ring, here). To find out more, email Beaverdale Golf Club directly using the form below. ????


text:
Who We Are
We are a tract and booklet printing ministry that produces literature free to all. we have been printing for the past 26 years and have over 250 different pieces of literature geared for the salvation of sinners and the spiritual growth of the believer.
Our Vision
Our goal is to help those we can with the presentation of the Gospel and to teach and train those who have been saved with the Word of God.
Contact PrisonMinistry.net regarding this listing


text:
Approaching A Guitar Solo
"I came up in the jazz world, where the approach to doing a solo is off the melody. And that's how I was trained to approach a solo. When I got older and I started helping songwriters with their arrangements, that was always my focus: My guitar parts have to be based off of the melody or the structure of the song. And to be honest, I think that's why songwriters like me and why I have lasted this long in this business. I'm all for that song and what it needs. I am not there to show off." - Scotty Johnson of the Gin Blossoms -- episode 13 of the Bands To Fans podcast
Comments are closed.
February 2023


text:
PRAGUE, Feb. 25 (JTA) — The road to Prague goes through New York — at least it does if you're a Czech Jew trying to build a new $6 million senior residence for Czech Holocaust survivors and you're short on cash. In the coming weeks, the chairman of Prague's Jewish community, Tomas Jelinek, will be in New York to launch a campaign to raise money for the Hagibor Senior Center, designed for the growing number of Czech survivors in need of high-quality, specialized care. Hagibor, which is being built by a coalition of Jewish groups and Holocaust-survivor organizations, will replace a smaller facility in Prague that can no longer cope with the growing number of survivors in need of assisted-living care. "The survivors are getting older, their health is deteriorating and their need is great," Jelinek said. "Perhaps 50 percent of current survivors will need our assistance, as they do not have any family to support them either because of the Holocaust or because their families left during the time of communism." The plan for the new facility — slated for completion in 2006 — has been several years in the making. It is being supported by the Terezin Initiative, an umbrella organization for Czech Holocaust survivors; the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; and the Czech Federation of Jewish Communities. The planned facility will have 60 beds with round-the-clock health-support services and a day-care center. It will cost an estimated $763,000 annually once it is up and running. As many as 1,550 Holocaust survivors live in the Czech Republic, accounting for roughly half of the official membership of the federation and about 1.5 percent of the world's remaining concentration-camp and ghetto survivors, according to Czech Jewish officials. Jelinek said demand for spots at senior homes have soared despite efforts to care for survivors through a second assisted-living facility in Prague and a home-care service launched in 2002. For now, the plan for the new facility counts on raising a third of the estimated $6 million cost from local community members, borrowing $2 million from banks and raising the final third from donors abroad and organizations dedicated to helping survivors. The project already has some support. Retired New Jersey businessman Marcel Bollag told JTA during a visit to Prague that he would make a "substantial" donation to Hagibor. Bollag, 83, whose wife was born in Czechoslovakia but escaped before the Nazis came, said, "If you push Jews into a Gentile type of nursing home, it's not a home." Jelinek said the Jewish community has not been able to find spots in regular private nursing homes for more than a handful of survivors, despite years of searching. "The state also does not have sufficient capacity to take them," Jelinek said. "We decided to try to do it ourselves because we see it as the last thing we can do for the generation which suffered the most during the last century." Dagmar Lieblova, the chairwoman of the Terezin Initiative, said survivors also prefer a home shared with other Holocaust survivors. "I think many of them would prefer to stay with other survivors because they share the experience and can understand each other," she said. "The survivors are alone as they age and we want them to live the rest of their lives in dignity." Jelinek will kick off the U.S. fund-raising campaign on March 7 at an exhibition at New York's Center for Jewish History featuring the work of the late Czech artist and Holocaust survivor Alfred Kantor. The kick-off will come a day before the 60th anniversary of the gassing of 3,800 Czechoslovak Jews at Auschwitz, the largest number to be killed in a single day. Hanus Orlicky, 78, says he can't wait for the facility to open. Orlicky, who survived several concentration camps and a death march but lost nearly 30 members of his family in the Holocaust, lives at home with his wife and says it won't be long before he and his wife need extra help. "We are thinking about what will happen as we age," he said, "and we think a person can remain independent at Hagibor. We are able to care for ourselves still, but everyday life is getting more difficult."
Prague builds new senior home


text:
Pharmaceutical outsourcing services provider PCI announces laboratory expansion at contained manufacturing centre
Global pharmaceutical outsourcing services provider PCI Pharma Services (PCI) has announced a laboratory expansion at its site in Tredegar, Wales, UK.
The Tredegar facility is PCI's development and manufacturing Center of Excellence with specialist expertise in the processing of highly potent molecules.
The site has undergone significant investments in recent years; this latest project ensures analytical capacity and capability to service increasing customer demand.
The investment will see PCI's laboratory increase its analyst headcount by approximately 60% and increase its high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) capacity in excess of 20%, in addition to tripling its capacity for sample receipt.
The layout design of the facility incorporates optimised safety, combined with leading ergonomic principles, to deliver enhanced throughput and efficiency improvements.
PCI commented that after launching its contained manufacturing facility utilising the latest in containment technology at Tredegar, the site has seen significant growth in its global customer base. The company hopes this latest project will ensure PCI is able to service both existing and potential new clients, and offer a project initiation in terms of analytical transfer within 4-6 weeks.
The site offers a Center of Excellence for the development and manufacturing of pharmaceutical products in a variety of dosage forms and has more than 30 years of experience in the specialist handling of potent molecules.
According to PCI, investment in state-of-the-art contained equipment, combined with the creation of a 'Potent Passport' philosophy to identify the specific handling requirements for every highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredient (HPAPI) project, defines PCI as a market leader within this space. The contained technology includes Xcelodose micro-dosing for early stage development drug-in-capsule (DIC), fluid bed granulation and roller compaction for products sensitive to heat and moisture.
Commenting on the expansion, PCI senior international VP, Richard Yarwood said: "Expansion of our laboratory services is an important program for the Tredegar site. Speed to market is of critical importance to our clients. We pride ourselves on continually improving our service for both existing and potential new clients and our analytical service is integral from the early stages of analytical development through to commercial launch and the associated annual stability testing."
He continued, "Among our many key strengths is our ability to on-board projects faster than our competitors. This additional footprint will ensure we are able to continue to offer this speed of project initiation addressing customer need."


text:
Protection function
(1) Low voltage alarm: the buzzer sounds 2 audible with a difference of 1 Hz.
(2) Low voltage protection: the buzzer emits a continuous alarm 3 times, with intervals of 1 Hz.
(3) Low voltage recovery: the low voltage rise automatically restores the output and the buzzer sounds 3 times the alarm is canceled.
(4) Overvoltage protection: the buzzer sounds 4 times, with a deviation of 1 Hz.
(5) Overvoltage recovery: the voltage is reduced automatically to restore the output, and the buzzer sounds 4 times the alarm is canceled.
(6) thermal protection: 80, when the overheating protection buzzer sounds an alarm 5 times, with a deviation of 1 Hz.
(7) Overload protection: 10S automatic shutdown output for overload protection, 5S automatic recovery, automatic locking for three consecutive times.
(8) Short-circuit protection: Short-circuit protection Outout 1S stop interlock.
Package List:
1 x 1000W Inverter
2 x Cables
1 x User Manual.
1 x remote control
Installation and commissioning of this equipment should be performed by professional electrical service personnel who are familiar with the structure and operation of the device.
FAQ-Infrared Paint Lamp
1. Why choose our factory?
Our company has advanced production equipment and strong technical force. The production process is strictly managed in terms of quality. Our products are sold all over the world, and are well received at home and abroad for their excellent quality and perfect service.
2. What are the advantages of our products?
High efficiency, energy saving, fast delivery, good quality
3. Our advantage?
Reasonable price and best service, advanced equipment and strong technology.
4. How to order?
Once you are interested in our products, please contact us via online or email as soon as possible. A specific quotation will be provided according to the required size and quantity.
5. How is the quality?
All products comply with ISO and the highest national standards, if necessary, we can also provide CE, certificates.
1. Question: Why is your quotation higher than other suppliers?
A: In the domestic market, inverter brands are mixed. Many low-cost inverters are actually assembled by unlicensed small workshops. They are assembled rudely and use unqualified components to reduce costs, which poses a very big safety hazard! In order to protect the personal and property safety of your relatives, please don't be greedy for low prices, and be sure to choose a reliable inverter!
2. Question: Is the output voltage of our inverter stable?
A: Absolutely. Our inverter is designed with a good voltage stabilizing circuit. You can even check while measuring the true value with a multimeter. In fact, the output voltage is quite stable. A special note is needed here: Many customers find that they are unstable when using a traditional multimeter to measure voltage. We can say that the operation is incorrect. Ordinary multimeters can only test pure sine waves and calculated data.
3. Question: What should I pay attention to when installing the inverter?
A: Place the product in a ventilated, cool, dry, and waterproof place. Please do not use force or put foreign objects into the inverter. Remember to turn on the inverter before turning on the appliance.
4. How about your warranty?
A: We provide 1 year warranty and lifetime technical support for different products


text:
This forth album from one of the Worlds premium drum groups is nothing less than astounding! Those of you who are familiar with Northern Wind know that this group is at the top of the list when it comes to incredible musical talent and this album tops all of their releases to date! As well, this is the FIRST album ever released by a drum group that is in the ENHANCED CD format - meaning that the CD not only plays music, but can also play a live recorded VIDEO performance of Northern Wind in any computer and most DVD players! True innovation from one of PowWows most innovative groups!
Gabe Desrosiers ( Lead singer), Daniel Buffalo (Lead), Nate King (lead), Elliott Desrosiers (Lead), BJ Copenace ( Lead), Rodney Crow, Bruce Crow, Justin Handorgan, Tommy Hunter, Archie Paypompee
Members not present during this recording:
Farrell Desrosiers, Corey Joseph, Ronnie Goodeagle
12/03/23 08:20:06 PM Pacific TimeCopyright Matoska Trading Company, Inc.


text:
Hey all! Steve here, and as promised, I wanted to give you a little look into a few of the Great Houses, since they are going to be major factors in how your ruling House fares – and of course, youself!
The first Great House is your own! You will get to name this House whatever you want, along with assigning its primary and secondary colors (these will be by default the Empire's colors as well) and its crest (also the Empire's crest). Your House has been gutted by the history of Imperia, and you are the last heir (one reason that humanity's position is so precarious). As a result, there are very few characters that are actively part of your House. It will be imperative to build a power structure where you have at least one or two Houses on your side – it might be expensive, but even the combined resources of the Empire can not stop a civil war from bringing down your House.
House Hawken (est. 2940)
One of the newest Great Houses in the Empire, House Hawken rose to power in 2940, when the brilliant young Octavius Hawken discovered a way to convert aluminum to keramium, an incredibly light and strong substance that could be used to coat traditional metals, but provide incredible protection using only 1/10 of the metal required. Naturally, this cut down tremendously on costs, particularly with aircraft and military craft, as well as lessen the stresses on starships.
The House, as a result of this discovery and a savvy negotiation with the War Prime of the time, resulted in the House being given a tremendous grant for further research on their House seat of Illitch. As a result, over the last 110 years the House has been given over to war research for the Empire, to the disgust and some fear of the other Houses. They are also the only House that is allowed a personal military, for purposes of experimentation. The current leader, Grand Duke Altus Hawken, is seen as somewhat more expansionist then his predecessors, and with the idea that his House is 'new money', is watched with equal parts scorn and trepidation. The affiliation of the House means that the War Prime is heavily influenced by this House, which could lead to trouble should the House move too far away from the Emperor.
From 'The Complete Imperial Who's Whom, entry on Grand Duchess Francia Hawken, 30.2.3014:
Francia, Grand Duchess of the Hawkens 2998-present day
Born: 12/9/2951
Throneworld: Illitch, home of the famed Illitch shipyards.
Parents: Grand Duke Altus Hawken, Duchess Consort Lydia Hawken
Ancestry: Great-niece of Grand Duchess (formerly Junior Technical Officer) Octavia Hawken, who claimed her throne from Gaius III Calabar in 2912 with the assistance of the Emperor Magnus VI Skye, who (unrelatedly) owed the Calabars a lot of money.
Noteworthy Achievements: Francia's impeccably even-handed approach to the sale of her shipyards' products have induced several quite-profitable planetary conflicts to develop into extremely-profitable interstellar wars, thereby vastly improving her House's capacity to produce yet more lucrative, definitely-legal military innovations. Alongside this philanthropic work, she has also made sure to do due honor to her superiors, in particular the Marshal Prime – the dignity of whose office would be sorely wounded were it not for Francia's selfless and unfailingly generous aid.
Biography: Francia was born at the Hawken palace outside Lorem City, Illitch, whilst her young parents were in stellar orbit, inspecting progress on their latest cruiser. This rather set the tone for her childhood as a whole…'
House Waldegrave (est. 2744)
"One of the numerous Houses tracing their station to their role in Pierce's Revolution, the Waldegrave clan's carefully-maintained martial traditions evoke ancient Earth's Spartans as much as any modern dynasty's drill program. Nurtured in the harsh worlds of the Outer Rim, their austerely vigorous way of life was always ill-suited to governance, and as a result – to their great shame – Maarten Waldegrave lost the family's throne world to a popular revolt in what they refer to as the Catastrophe of 2744. Since that day, the family have repeatedly sought Imperial permission to retake the world, without success – and no child of theirs has been named Maarten."
' – RevenantWiki, entry on House Waldegrave, retrieved 4/4/3049
House Horlock (est. 2415)
This House was originally formed as a reaction to keep power from the Emperor's hands. The first Grand Captain, Howard Horlock, was violently opposed to allowing so much power in the hands of an Emperor who did not represent the many. He was killed attempting to assassinate the first Sun Emperor, Magnus I, but he left with his son Zed a history and the knowledge to continue the crusade. While House Horlock has never been aggressively expansionist, what they do hold they manage well; their scions and staff are considered experts in wringing every last bit of efficiency from a planet or system. Though they publicly deny it in categorical terms, many Horlocks still yearn for the day they will rise up again against the Emperor, and take the Empire for their own, to protect it in the manner they deem best – with uncompromising force.
From various texts:
'At 22:16, 15/8/2499, an attempt was made on the life of His Grace by Grand Captain Howard Horlock, head of the informal Court faction of the same name, using a handheld pistol-type weapon. Due to the prompt and fearless response of Security Officer Pablo Yamaguchi, the assassin was inhibited with lethal force before he could complete his mission. We believe Horlock to have acted alone, due to his making the attempt personally on his own behalf, and the weapon's being originated from his family armory and bearing his symbology. Our inquiries into his associates in aforesaid Horlock Court faction proceed apace and we will endeavor to provide His Grace with further information as soon as it becomes available to the Security Corps. Inquiries are also being made urgently into how Horlock was able to bring aforesaid pistol-type weapon into the presence of His Grace undetected.' – Imperial Security Corps post-incident report concerning failed assassination attempt on the Emperor Magnus I Pierce, 16/8/2499, Red Archives
'The Horlocks of the present day, however, have risen far from their ignominious origins. Loyal allies of the Emperor, they have a centuries-long record of ruling their domains with authority and unquestionable justice. The competence and stability of their administration make them vital players in Imperial politics, almost always for the common good.' – Continuing History, edition of 3024
"Sorry Oss, bad news – we have to cancel all our plans. The guest of honor has a friend on our side somewhere. Looks like we won't be able to hold that party after all. But I suppose that's our family motto by now – 'We'll do what's right – later'" – Intercepted letter from Priebus Horlock to Austina Horlock, 31/4/3024, Red Archives. 'The guest of honor' almost certainly refers to the Emperor Ensino.
House Ilioaia (est. 2644)
'In the aftermath of the Second Xyl War, a young miner named Bengamin Ilioaia set out, as many other space wildcatters did, to look for new sources of materials to rebuild the shattered Terran Alliance. While most of his peers were not very successful, Bengamin discovered a comet that was incredibly rich in rare minerals. He made 3 trips to the comet, telling nobody but his wife and two brothers about his find. On the third trip, he found his older brother, Ivan, waiting for him with a smile and a kinetic cannon, obliterating his small mining craft.
Upon telling their younger brother, Mihai, about what he did, Mihai became furious and killed Ivan on the spot. With most of the bloodline now dead in a single tragic day, Mihai took Bengamin's wife in marriage and set out to build the Ilioaia line once more. Years of surveying led the House to discover multiple sources of materials, eventually cementing their legacy as the most powerful mining house in the Celestial Empire.' – RevenantWiki, entry on House Ilioaia, page retrieved 16/4/3029
"When they say blood is thicker than water, they never saw the blood running down the side of our family's crest. It is our burden, some would say our tragedy, but I say it is our triumph that so much good has sown from the soil of such anger. Let our position in the Empire remain strong, and let us remember that while we stand firmly today among our fellow Houses, what shockwaves can occur from one heinous and narcissistic act." – Speech from House Leader Wyllmson Iiloaia to his Council, 29/2/2994, Red Archives.
House Barwon (est. 2723)
House Barwon is unusual only in that it was not formed by a significant event or crisis; rather, it was formed through a steady progression of shrewd and intelligent moves that slowly allowed House Barwon to consolidate power. Masters at trading, they are best known for helping the then-reeling Terran Federation through the aftermath of the second Xyl War, providing food and basic materials to planets that had been devastated or even partially assimilated in the war. The First Lord of the House is traditionally elected by their House vassals, another difference from most Houses, and this traditionally gives House Barwon the most stability of any Great House in the Empire.
'The Game is not to be taken too seriously.
The Game is to be taken very seriously indeed.
The Game begins when all players have entered the pitch. Players of name may enter by any tier. Players without name may enter by the second or third tiers. Players without property may enter only by the third tier.
The Game ends when the last board is destroyed, or when to continue would be fatal to one or more of the first- or third-tier players.
The boards are to be arranged by the Host. A single Host player may enter by the first tier, but no other players may be fielded by the Host.
The boards are to be as specified in Appendix A, sections 1, 4 and 5.' – Lucrezia Barwon, Rules of The Game, 4th edition
'In the brightest and most fragrant corner of the Summit Lounge is to be found the Princex Aletheiu Barwon, heir to the throne of Olympia, quing of the festivities that surround the Game, and – it is whispered – privy to every supposedly clandestine conversation and secret tryst that happens anywhere in Jeux over the course of those exciting summer weeks. Accompanied at all times by a retinue of stunning servants, each individually dressed by them alone, Aletheiu is happy to act as patron to the most dazzling fashion houses on Olympia – which is why the very best of them congregate in Jeux! Good luck getting near them, though – Aletheiu values their privacy, and the security at the Summit Lounge is the very best.
Turning toward the shaded end of the bar, we encounter Duchess Mikhail of New Kent…' – Camara Xu, 'Olympia's Capital Prepares for the Game', in The Solarian, 15/1/2983
House Kiraly-Finn (est. 2390)
Heavily invested in the Technik movement, this dynasty's family ties sit uncomfortably with the Technik ethos. More than five hundred years ago, General Zoltan Kiraly-Finn was one of Zed Pierce's original co-conspirators in the foundation of the Empire. His loyal service earned him and his descendants a sector, and for centuries they were the Emperors' most loyal stalwarts. But over the generations, especially with the rise of the trade houses in the 29th century, their star waned. In what seemed their fading years, the newly-inheriting Tera Kiraly-Finn refused to continue acquiescing. Instead, she turned to the nascent 'Technik' movement – which had begun as a niche subculture among the New Terran academic elite – and ran with it, pushing their innovations as far as she dared. More importantly, she made their ethos cool. Yet despite her achievements, the movement never quite trusted her, or her children and grandchildren. Their conversion to it was in the name of family loyalty, not true belief, and that suspicion still lingers…
'Closest among the disciples of Father Sun's chosen servant was General Zoltan Kiraly-Finn. Magnus conferred with him on almost every matter of note over the course of the Celestial Revolution, and for his wise counsel and fearless leadership, he would be anointed a Saint soon after his death in 2526.' – 'Personae of the Celestial Revolution', Ecclesiastical History
'But the opposite has happened: in the four years since her death, Nevsky's sinister ideas have, if anything, found a wider audience. And they have friends in high places.
Loudest of the Techniks in high society is Tera Kiraly-Finn, direct descendant of St Zoltan. She has very publicly indicated her sympathies for certain of the 'movement's' ideas, even going so far as to sport stick-on cranial stimulators at the Exclaim! Ball earlier this year. But investigation by this newspaper's reporters suggests that she is not only disgracing her family's name – she is doing so cynically and for profit. Inside sources have revealed that the Kiraly-Finn family own majority shares in over 45% of the Technik cyber-dens licensed across the entire Empire. By tacitly promoting this heresy, Kiraly-Finn is deliberately undermining the very fabric of our Empire for the crassest of reasons – a deeply irresponsible, even seditious, move.' – Melchio Ignacci, 'Lucida Nevsky's Dangerous Legacy' in The Solarian, 8/4/287
House Milak (est. 2915)
House Milak was a very minor House for most of their existence, only recently coming to power in 2915, when they uncovered a vast hoard of rare minerals during a routine mining expedition near their seat's arctic pole. This allowed them to more or less corner the market on rare materials fabrication, and when the Empire is short on these critical minerals, as they often are, While technically a Minor House, House Milak is usually the final resort for Great Houses that do not wish to resort to the Empire's draconian terms to secure the resources that their holdings need.
'House Milak is a minor House whose throne world is Juthrbog. The present Head of House is Sir Krasivi Milak, b. 2868.' – Entirety of the Continuing History entry on House Milak, edition of 2914
'That can't be right. Ask them to check it again.' – Prospector-General Finant Anatol, on receipt of the first reports from the Northern Territory Mineralogical Survey, Juthrbog, 32/4/2915
'EMP: Krasivi! My friend! So good to see you. How is your lovely husband?
KMK: [inaudible] the operation. We expect him to be much more, uh, docile. [laughs] And how is His Grace?
EMP: Fantastic, Krasivi, just fantastic. I've been renovating the old lodge at Lake Geneva, I must show you it sometime. Gorgeous place. Gorgeous. You must come by. Are you a hunting man?
KMK: I [inaudible]
EMP: You must be. Come, have you tried this? [clicks, sound of pouring drink]
KMK: I'm sure, uh, what-
EMP: It's Calviador, grown on my personal estate outside New Berlin. Fantastic stuff. Very rare, you know, very rare. Speaking of rare things, actually, the Empire, as you may know, is presently terribly short of certain rare minerals…' – Transcript of conversation between Emperor Eliezer III Housseini and Sir Krasivi Milak on 33/1/2916, in the Autumn Room, Vindoland Palace, New Terra. From the Red Archives.
These are just tastes of your opposition, to give you an idea of the Imperiaverse – much more to come!


text:
Pity the poor camel. Remember Lawrence of Arabia? The Bedouin Arabs rising from the desert to re-conquer their homeland. Carrying them up the Hijaz, across the Sun's Anvil, was that essential, noble beast. But, lately, camels have fallen on tough times. They've been replaced by jeeps and trucks across most of Arabia, and maligned in the West as stubborn, spitting creatures. They've even lost their name: they're not "camels" anymore, but "dromedaries" to be precise. But never mind all that. There is a place where people will still come for miles to get their camels. It's in North Africa, and 2 below zero's Diane Richard takes us there.
Savvy Traveler, 2001.


text:
We'd love for you to become an official covenant member at our church!
Being a member doesn't grant you any sort of special status (we already love everyone equally) but it does allow you to enjoy that satisfying sense of commitment and it gives you an official vote at congregational business meetings.
The process is simple: send us an email (click 'email') with your intent to become a covenant member (or talk to an Elder or Pastor in person) and you will receive our "Vision, Mission, and Beliefs" document, we'll schedule a meeting with one of the Elders or Pastors, and then we'll proudly introduce you to our congregation as an official covenant member.
Have any questions? Click the next word, email!


text:
http://career-ology.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Career-ology-logo.png 0 0 Jeff Chapski http://career-ology.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Career-ology-logo.png Jeff Chapski2011-10-10 16:13:032011-10-10 16:13:03Bloomberg Institute Launches Standardized Test for Financial Serivces
Bloomberg Institute Launches Standardized Test for Financial Serivces
The Bloomberg Institute, the educational division of Bloomberg LP, launched the Bloomberg Assessment Test (BAT), a standardized test for undergraduates and recent graduates who are interested in a financial services job or internship. This online exam was developed in conjunction with industry professionals. Read more


text:
Neurofeedback (NF), also known as EEG Biofeedback, is used to improve individuals' emotional, behavioural and cognitive functioning by training patients to increase or inhibit certain brainwaves via classical conditioning. This training is usually reinforced by interacting with visual or auditory stimuli, which provide positive feedback for achieving desired brain activity.
Early NF and Biofeedback research began with the seminal discovery made by Richard Caton in 1875, which found that the brain's electrical activity would fluctuate after mental activity. He started with placing electrodes of the open brains of animals, but was also able to demonstrate that you could record the electrical activity from the scalp. Since then, decades of research have examined the benefits of NF training on a variety of cognitive and behavioural conditions, such as ADHD, PTSD, Depression, Anxiety and Substance Abuse.
In 1891 Adolf Beck was able to demonstrate in rabbits and dogs that rhythmic oscillations in the brain disappeared when the eyes were stimulated by light. This work was a forebears of the work done later by Hans Berger who discovered alpha blocking.
In 1924, Hans Berger measured EEG on the human scalp and recorded the raw EEG tracings. He established the Berger Rhythm, 10 Hz alpha. He also identified alpha and beta waves. He was the first to suggest that abnormalities in EEG reflected clinical disorders. Berger believed that the EEG is analogous to the EKG.
In 1928, Wilder Penfield, a Neurosurgeon in Canada, was the first to conduct brain mapping. He worked with patients with epilepsy and he stimulated parts of the motor cortex to find out which brain regions they were associated with. He was the one who developed the sensory and motor homunculus.
In the 1930s Adrian & Mathews also measured electrical activity at the scalp. They also studied entrainment of brainwaves with photopic stimulation and demonstrated changes to EEG. Adrian and Matthews' demonstration of EEG recording at the 1935 Physiological Society meeting in England caused its widespread acceptance
In the 1930s, Grey Walter named the delta and theta waves, and later in 1964 he was the first to describe the contingent negative variation (CNV).
Fisher and Lowenbach recorded epileptiform spikes in 1934.
In 1949 Herbert Jasper's work with developing a set standard of electrode placements know as the 10-20 International System was accepted. This measurement system is used today as the means of identifying specific brain regions to target in neurofeedback as well as describing brain maps and placing electrodes. Jasper & Shagass in 1941 did the first study to demonstrate voluntary control over alpha blocking through classical conditioning.
Pivotal research conducted by Dr. Joe Kamiya (University of Chicago) in the late 1950's and early 1960's solidified the early findings, with him conducting the first NF training sessions recognising alpha waves using positive verbal reinforcement. He was able to demonstrate conscious control over alpha. Dr Kamiya's original work was in anxiety and he showed that increases in alpha wave production could reduce anxiety. Kamiya published a "Psychology Today" article on alpha biofeedback that increased public awareness of biofeedback and interest in EEG biofeedback.
In 1965, Dr Barry Sterman conducted his landmark study in altering brainwaves in cats. He discovered the sensor-motor rhythm, or SMR. He found that when he trained cats to increase their SMR they became alert but motionless. He then used the same cats to test rocket fuel that was creating seizures in astronauts. Incidentally he found that the cats that he had previously trained in SMR were much less likely to have a seizure than the cats that were not in his previous research. This was the 'accidental' beginning of research into the benefits of neurofeedback in epilepsy.
In the early 1970s Roy John from New York University developed a new approach in the EEG field called neurometrics. This involved quantitative comparisons of a persons EEG to a normative database of healthy controls.
In the 1970s Joel Lubar from the University of Tennessee, pioneered the used of neurofeedback in children with hyperactivity. He developed a protocol for treating ADHD through decreasing theta and increasing beta, a protocol that is still widely used today with much success. Lubar has done much research into the efficacy of NF in children with ADHD and comparing it to medication, and he continues to be one of the leaders in the use of neurofeedback in children with ADHD. He has also done research into depression, epilepsy, Tourette Syndrome (and other tic disorders) as well as specific learning disabilities.
Magaret Ayers who was trained in clinical neuropsychology, was also an important person in the development of NF. She used neurofeedback for many medical problems including drug addiction, alcoholism, head injury, stroke, cerebral palsy and even coma. She was responsible for the development of realtime neurofeedback equipment. She also investigated seizure control and treatment of coma patients with open head wounds.
Following on from the research of Sterman, Lubar and Ayers, Andrew Abarbanel developed the Neuropsychological Arousal Model. This model suggests that as cognitive processes increase, alpha brain waves decrease and beta (or desyncronised brainwaves) increase. As sensori-motor input to the brain decreases, SMR increases and attentiveness decreases. As vigilance decreases, theta waves increase. Although there are some exceptions to this (e.g.. 5Hz midline theta rhythm during memory searches), this arousal model of training it still highly utilised today in frequency training.
In the 1980s Eugene Peniston examined the effects of alpha-theta training in alcoholics. He was able to demonstrate that after 5 years of doing the program, 70% of participants remained abstinent. He noted that theta was lower in the back of the brain (as well as alpha) and conducted ground-breaking research along with Paul Kulkosky into both alcoholism as well as post-traumatic stress disorder. Bill Scott has also conducted research into alcoholism showing success rates of 79%. It has been found that alcoholics have lower levels of alpha, hence alpha-theta training, through enhancing alpha wave production, can greatly affect alcoholics recovery dramatically.
Jay Gunkelman and Robert Thatcher are both two current pioneers in promoting quantitative EEG analysis. Robert Thatcher has developed Neuroguide, one of the largest and widely used normative databases of EEG.
Birbaumer and colleagues studied the efficacy of slow cortical potential biofeedback for the treatment of ADHD, epilepsy, and schizophrenia.
Siegfried and Susan Other are a couple who have been instrumental in providing much well needed data on different NF protocols. They recognised early the role that asymmetry plays in neural functioning, and much of their early techniques involved balancing left and right hemispheres in relation to levels of arousal and symptom based training. Susan has developed a very thorough taxonomy of symptoms and relevant protocols. More recently that have been looking at infra-slow electrical potentials.
Peter Rosenfeld looked at treating depression through correcting alpha asymmetry, noting that SMR can alter alpha asymmetry. He also investigated the operant conditioning of cortically evoked responses.
Len Ochs is a pioneer in neurofeedback, who developed the LENS system: Low Energy Neurofeedback System. This system uses QEEG to identify areas of the brain which are dysregulated, and then a small electromagnetic field is applied to have create better regulation.


text:
call 0203 239 4622
Get an instant quote
Other ways to book:
call us on 0203 239 4622
email us at firstname.lastname@example.com
With Chelmsford coach hire you can arrange minibus or coach hire whenever it suits your plans – Essex is just a smooth ride away.
Whether you are taking the family on a shopping trip to High Chelmer shopping centre or just attending a works conference in the city, we have the drivers to take to there.
Our team work from a hub in central Chelmsford so they can reach you quickly wherever you are in the area. We can cover any pick-up.
They can also take you well beyond Chelmsford and arrange drop-offs at the Stansted airport if some of your group will head home by air after your trip.
If you need Chelmsford coach hire, Essex becomes so much easier to get around with one of our drivers taking the wheel.
They will arrive in a vehicle selected from our fleet of expertly serviced, modern minibuses.
These come in a few capacities – from 8 seats, 16 seats to 24 seats. When you have a large group of people travelling with you we can offer 33 seaters, 49 seaters and 70 seater coach hire. These all have toilets on board.
Making a booking is so easy with Chelmsford Coach Hire – just phone, text or email our booking line. Our friendly, punctual drivers will be with you in good time. Never delayed. You will be sent a booking confirmation ahead of arrival.
Client accounts are available for anyone who plans to make repeat journeys to Chelmsford. Such an account offers great value for money on your multiple bookings.
We also have some well-adapted, wheelchair-accessible vehicles available for hire. Please let us know in advance if you would like to hire one of these.
Chelmsford has been inhabited for a long time. There have been traces found of Neolithic and Bronze Age dwellings in the area.
A Roman fort has been traced to 60AD. Over time the region developed a reputation as a centre for quality engineering. During World War II the city's light engineering role was integral to the British war effort.
From the Marconi group to the English Electric Valve Company to Chelmsford ball bearing factories, the contribution of local skilled engineers cannot be underestimated.
Local architecture is striking, with impressive buildings such as Chelmsford Cathedral, Shire Hall and the immense Victorian viaduct.
The Britvic drinks company has a huge, brutalist building in town, though as a business it broke links with Chelmsford after 150 years in the city.
Speaking of drinks, there are lots of bars and clubs in the centre, as well as cafes and restaurants such as the highly-rated Olio's Italian eatery.
Chelmsford is well worth a visit. And if you wish to get out of Chelmsford to visit nearby towns like Billericay, Wickford or Braintree, our minibus and coach hire can take you where you choose to go.
To book with Chelmsford coach hire, please give us a call or send us a message:
E: email@example.com
We were very pleased with the service we received. Our home is not easy to find but the driver had left plenty of time to follow our instructions when he phoned for help. He was very friendly and helpful. We will definitely use and recommend this company again especially for groups of 6 and above.
– Miriam, from bellsouth.net
My family were going out to Christmas dinner on Christmas Day. The price was fantastic to take 10 of us out including multiple pick up and drop offs. The driver Atif was extremely pleasant, prompt and accommodating. Highly recommend and will definitely use them again. Kind Regards, Stephanie International Business Manager.
– Stephanieat, at Day Pitney LLP


text:
The Catalyst Cap Intro Blockchain for Institutional Investors is a focused asset class event hosting Blockchain related investment managers. The event is investor driven and transactional in scope, hosting investment managers and institutional grade investors that are introduced to each other with a view to become investment partners.
This is an all-new Catalyst Cap Intro Event. While Blockchain has attracted retail investors, 2022 sees the dawn of the institutional investor stepping into the space. This is made possible by a new generation of Blockchain investing firms which offer robust business set-ups, top service providers, large capacity & innovative investment strategies, and experienced investment managers. Some of the showcased strategies will include: fundamental Blockchain currencies (including Crypto, Digital tokens, NFTs & CDBC) investing, Crypto markets volatility arbitrage, income yielding Crypto strategies, precious assets and Blockchain investing, quantitative Blockchain strategies, and Blockchain ecosystem and venture investing.
The event is live, in-person, where managers give presentations during lunch, followed by private meetings. The event concludes with a networking reception. Participants are given access to a dedicated online event portal, where the agenda, meetings, event binder and delegates are listed. The event is small and exclusive, with only around 30 participants in a controlled environment.
The introductions are arranged prior the events, in an investor driven fashion based on the merits of each investment manager and the requests made by the investors. There are no service providers, only managers and investors.
Investors are pre-screened and pre-qualified prior the events, by completing a COIN questionnaire. Investors constitute predominantly single and multi-family offices, investor intermediaries, and end-investors, located in the US but also internationally.
This event production builds on Catalyst's history and successful track record in putting together industry-recognized and effective capital raising events.
Special Event Considerations:
– This is scheduled to be an in-person event. However, please see our event terms at registration for more information and read our note on Update on Event Formats.
For reviews, see Stats & Reviews from one of our recent events.


text:
By Alistair Smout
LONDON (Reuters) - The University of Oxford's possible COVID-19 vaccine could be rolled out by the end of the year but there is no certainty, the lead developer of the vaccine said on Tuesday.
The experimental vaccine, which has been licensed to AstraZeneca
"The end of the year target for getting vaccine roll-out, it's a possibility but there's absolutely no certainty about that because we need three things to happen," Sarah Gilbert told BBC Radio.
She said it needed to be shown to work in late-stage trials, there needed to be large quantities manufactured, and regulators had to agree quickly to license it for emergency use before large numbers of people could be vaccinated.
England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty and his deputy Jonathan Van-Tam took differing views on the potential timeline.
"The chance of us getting a vaccine before Christmas that actually is highly effective are, in my view, very low," Whitty told lawmakers.
Van-Tam, however, said he was "cautiously optimistic that we will have some vaccine this side of Christmas."
Sitting somewhere in the middle, health minister Matt Hancock told a parliamentary committee that despite being an "optimist in life" for what he called the best case scenario in getting a vaccine for Christmas, he could not "promise to play Santa".
The Oxford scientists had eyed a million doses of the potential vaccine to be produced by September.
Although the deal with AstraZeneca has provided manufacturing capacity to do that, the lower prevalence of the novel coronavirus in Britain has complicated the process of proving its efficacy.
Late-stage trials crucial for providing data are under way in Brazil and South Africa and are due to start in the United States also.
There are no approved vaccines yet for COVID-19, but the World Health Organization has said AstraZeneca's shot is one of the leading candidates.
(Reporting by Alistair Smout; Additional reporting by Elizabeth Piper; Editing by Sarah Young, Nick Macfie and Andrew Cawthorne)


text:
We've survived another frustrating half-season of baseball as Twins fans, but unlike the 2011 season, there have been plenty of pleasant surprises in 2012. Unlike last year, there were no expectations of contention this season. Maybe it's the lowered expectations that have made some of the silver linings this season that much more enjoyable.
- Scott Diamond: In a season where Twins starters as a whole have totaled an MLB-worst 0.7 wins above replacement (per Fangraphs) and have a shockingly bad 5.68 ERA, Diamond has been a savior. He's pitched to a 2.62 ERA and ranks fourth in all of baseball among pitchers with 70+ innings in groundball percentage (59%). His peripheral stats suggest that there's some regression in store, but even his 3.85 FIP is a welcome sight.
- Trevor Plouffe: I took Plouffe's Ruthian efforts at Triple-A last season with a grain of salt, and don't think I'm alone in that department. I'd personally have been happy to see Plouffe bat .253 with a .325 OBP and 19 home runs on the season. That those are his totals and we're only at the All-Star Game is amazing, and it now seems like there's a legit chance for the Twins to have a pair of 30-homer bats this year. Between the taters, the #AMERICA tweets, and his #TwinsTroops Twitter campaign, it's hard not to love Plouffe.
- The bullpen as a whole: I liked a few of the minor league signings the Twins made this offseason, most notably at the time Jared Burton (who's been even better than I thought possible) and Jason Bulger (yeah........ that one didn't go so well). The team's 3.64 bullpen ERA actually ranks in the bottom half of MLB (18th), but it's a stark improvement from last year's 4.51 mark. That it's happened without Joe Nathan is even more remarkable. Thanks to a healthier (until recently) Matt Capps and a distinct lack of Jim Hoey, however here we are. Some of it may be smoke and mirrors (yes, Alex Burnett, we're all looking at you), but to this point we've enjoyed a surprisingly good relief corps.
- Ben Revere: From a .267/.310/.309 batting line (72 OPS+) in 2011 to a .316/.350/.364 line in 2012 (98 OPS+), Revere has spent the full first half of the season delivering roughly league-average offense, backed of course by his anything BUT league-average defense. Ultimate Zone Rating pegs Revere to save 27.8 runs in right field over the course of a 150-game sample. His emergence has to make you more comfortable with the thought of Denard Span being used as a trade chip.
- Josh Willingham: The Hammer seems to have reached "beloved" status here in Minnesota in a just three short months. His Thome-esque penchant for clutch taters and extra-base hits combined with his 60 RBI (eighth in all of baseball) are likely the reasons there. I don't think many people were counting on this level of production (I know I wasn't, even though I was expecting good things). He's been a blessing for this fanbase.
- Joe Mauer: While I don't think it's fair to call Mauer's resurgence a surprise, I know that the pessimistic air surrounding Mauer was (and for some baffling reason continues to be, to an extent) overwhelming around Twins Territory. I think it's fair to assume that a guy who's won three batting titles in the past would contend for another if healthy again, but there were some understandable questions about his ability to be healthy following 2011. Mauer's shown up with a .326/.416/.449 first-half line, leading the AL in OBP. That'll do Joe. That'll do.
The overall results of this team may not be any better than they were in 2011, but it just feels like there's been plenty more to cheer for this season. If I've there's anything I've missed, vote Other and leave it in the comments below.