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Hydrochlorothiazide / valsartan Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Warnings
Hydrochlorothiazide / valsartan is also known as: Diovan HCT
Hydrochlorothiazide / valsartan Pregnancy Warnings
The use of drugs that act directly on the RAA system during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy has been associated with fetal and neonatal injury, including hypotension, neonatal skull hypoplasia, anuria, reversible or irreversible renal failure, and death. Oligohydramnios has also been reported, presumably resulting from decreased fetal renal function; oligohydramnios in this setting has been associated with fetal limb contractures, craniofacial deformation, and hypoplastic lung development. Prematurity, intrauterine growth retardation, and patent ductus arteriosus have been reported, although it is not clear whether these occurrences were due to exposure to the drug. These adverse effects do not appear to have resulted from intrauterine drug exposure that has been limited to the first trimester. Mothers whose embryos and fetuses are exposed to an angiotensin II receptor antagonist only during the first trimester should be so informed. Nonetheless, when patients become pregnant, physicians should advise the patient to discontinue the use of valsartan-HCTZ as soon as possible. The Collaborative Perinatal Project monitored 50,282 mother-child pairs, of whom 233 were exposed to thiazide or related diuretics during the first trimester. An increased risk of malformations was found for thiazide diuretics. Use of thiazides after the first trimester does not seem to carry this risk. Thiazide diuretics may, however pose metabolic risks to the mother and fetus (hyponatremia, hypokalemia, thrombocytopenia, hyperglycemia), and may have a direct effect on smooth muscle, resulting in inhibition of labor. Rarely (probably less than once in every thousand pregnancies), no alternative to a drug acting on the RAA system will be found. In these rare cases, the mothers should be apprised of the potential hazards to their fetuses, and serial ultrasound examinations should be performed to assess the intra-amniotic environment. If oligohydramnios is observed, valsartan-HCTZ should be discontinued unless it is considered lifesaving for the mother. Contraction stress testing (CST), a nonstress test (NST), or biophysical profiling (BPP) may be appropriate, depending upon the week of pregnancy. Patients and physicians should be aware, however, that oligohydramnios may not appear until after the fetus has sustained irreversible injury! Infants with histories of in utero exposure to an angiotensin II receptor antagonist should be closely observed for hypotension, oliguria, and hyperkalemia. If oliguria occurs, attention should be directed toward support of blood pressure and renal perfusion. Exchange transfusion or dialysis may be required as means of reversing hypotension and/or substituting for disordered renal function. Cases of neonatal thrombocytopenia associated with antepartum administration of thiazide diuretics have been reported. AU TGA pregnancy category D: Drugs which have caused, are suspected to have caused or may be expected to cause, an increased incidence of human fetal malformations or irreversible damage. These drugs may also have adverse pharmacological effects. Accompanying texts should be consulted for further details. US FDA pregnancy category D: There is positive evidence of human fetal risk based on adverse reaction data from investigational or marketing experience or studies in humans, but potential benefits may warrant use of the drug in pregnant women despite potential risks.
Use is contraindicated. AU TGA pregnancy category: D US FDA pregnancy category: D Comments: Adequate methods of contraception should be encouraged.
Hydrochlorothiazide / valsartan Breastfeeding Warnings
Use is not recommended and a decision should be made to discontinue breastfeeding or discontinue the drug, taking into account the importance of the drug to the mother. Excreted into human milk: Yes (hydrochlorothiazide); Unknown (valsartan) Excreted into animal milk: Yes (hydrochlorothiazide, valsartan) Comments: -The effects in the nursing infant are unknown. -Administration of thiazide diuretics in high doses causing intense diuresis may inhibit milk production.
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17 Hours on the Big Blue Busby Colly
Leather seats wide enough for two people? check
Polyester fleece blankets? check
Half-stuffed pillow? check
Seats that recline 180 degrees? check
TV playing weird movies? check
Seat belt damp with cleaning fluids? check
IPods, Kindles, and laptops out and ready? check
On a bus? check!
Yes it's true, on a bus. When people think of a bus, the words that probably pop in their heads are: crowded, smelly, hard plastic seats, lucky if you get a seat, and most of all, gross. Not this bus.
The only part of this bus that was smelly was the bathroom — but it's cool it had a bathroom.
When my parents told my brother and me that we were going on a seventeen-hour bus ride north from Bariloche in Patagonia to Mendoza, which is Argentina's wine region, I thought they were kidding. I was wrong.
First, we got all of our stuff together and took an hour-long taxi ride to the bus station. Finally we got there and had to wait 45 minutes in the station because the bus wasn't there yet. Then it arrived.
The bus was a giant blue, black, and gray two-story bus called Andesmar. It reminded me of the double-decker tour buses in England, but this one had a roof. Our seats were on the first floor, in the back. No one showed up to take the other seats, so we had the whole downstairs to ourselves!
I was expecting it to be more bus-like — you know, just seats — but instead it was like an airplane, but better! It had huge leather seats that could go all the way back to make a bed. It had those polyester fleece blankets and half-stuffed pillows that are surprisingly really comfortable. It also had those little lights and air-conditioning vents above each seat, and instead of flight attendants there were bus attendants.
A Sony flat-screen TV mounted on the wall was playing a creepy movie that was in English but had Spanish subtitles. The movie was The Witches of Eastwick; I do not recommend it at all.
On the bus I started and finished a book, went through two packs of gum, watched two movies on TV, watched a movie on my IPod, listened to songs on my IPod, and ate.
I also played toothpick bingo. A guy on the bus passed out toothpicks and mini bingo sheets the size of Post-Its. When a number on your sheet gets called, you pop it out with your toothpick. A guy who works on the bus called out numbers in Spanish, and my mom translated the numbers in English to us. After about three numbers I got bored so I quit, but my brother kept playing and was one away from winning when we heard a guy on the top floor shout out that he won.
For a while I didn't have anything to do, so I looked out the window and saw lots of pretty desert-like hills and dry land, and a pink and orange sunset.
The bus also serves food, just like on an airplane — but I discovered that bus food is worse than airplane food by far. This was our first super long bus ride so we didn't know everything we were suppose to do to prepare; for example: BRING YOUR OWN FOOD OR YOU WILL HAVE TO EAT THEIRS!
First they gave us a snack of soggy crackers and cookies that were like baby crackers with an odd filling. I didn't eat any.
The snack was handed out at 6:00, close to when I would usually eat dinner back in Piedmont, and the real dinner wasn't served until 11:00! I was absolutely starving! I could barely stay awake. My brother had already passed out while waiting. Finally, after forever, it came.
First there was a cold appetizer consisting of a roll of bread that was so hard and stale you could use it as a hammer. Also, there was mushy roll of ham that fell apart when I picked it up, complimented by fake sweaty cheese with cut-up potato and carrots. And last but not least, orange and slimy flan. I ended up just eating the bread. After that I was bored, so I opened the sugar packet and dumped it in the flan. Then I did the same with the all the condiments and then the food. Before I knew it, all of my food ended up in the flan.
Finally, a half-hour later, the hot food came. I really didn't know what it was going to be; I thought it might be a hot dog or a hamburger or something like that, but no. It turned out to be chicken-fried steak. What is chicken-fried steak? It is fried, dessicated, thin steak covered in oil, breadcrumbs, and mayonnaise, lying on mashed potatoes with a pound of salt mixed in. I opened the foil covering and almost puked on it, but trust me, it would have blended right in. I didn't eat any of it besides the mashed potatoes (which turned out to be pretty good, just a little over salted).
After dinner they played another movie at 12 midnight, but my family and I were so tired that we asked one of the workers on the bus to turn off our downstairs screen.
Finally I went to sleep. The next morning I woke up at 8:00 to a chorus of talking, buses all around me, and most of all, my mom shaking me to try to get me up. I sat up and looked around — we were in Mendoza, where we're now spending a week.
I loved going on this bus. If you ever do a super long bus trip like this one, I just have one tip: bring your own food.

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Traveling Luck for Biddeford Shopping Center, Maine, United States
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The timezone in Biddeford Shopping Center is America/Iqaluit
Sunrise at 07:33 and Sunset at 18:18. It's light
Latitude. 43.4803°, Longitude. -70.4792°
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Temperature: 6°C / 43°F
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Geographic features & Photographs around Biddeford Shopping Center, in Maine, United States
- school;
- building(s) where instruction in one or more branches of knowledge takes place.
- District School Number Ten (historical) (0.5km)
- Biddeford Primary School (1.3km)
- Biddeford Middle School (1.3km)
- Saint James School (2.2km)
- Biddeford High School (2.2km)
- Saint Andre School (3.1km)
- Moody School (3.7km)
- Saco High School (historical) (3.7km)
- Sweetser Childrens Services School (3.9km)
- Governor John Fairfield School (4.3km)
- church;
- a building for public Christian worship.
- Second Congregational Church (2.5km)
- Saint Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church (2.6km)
- Anchor Baptist Church (2.7km)
- Saint Marys Church (2.7km)
- Saint Joseph Church (2.7km)
- Saint Andre Church (3km)
- United Methodist Church (4km)
- Unitarian Universalist Church (4.2km)
- Local Feature;
- A Nearby feature worthy of being marked on a map..
- Biddeford Shopping Center (0km)
- Five Points Shopping Center (0.6km)
- Interchange 4 (1.9km)
- Hosanna Christian Fellowship (2.6km)
- Whites Wharf (3.3km)
- Saco Valley Shopping Center (4.1km)
- stream;
- a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- Thacher Brook (2.6km)
- Cole Brook (2.7km)
- Deep Brook (2.9km)
- West Brook (4.1km)
- Swan Pond Brook (4.2km)
- building(s);
- a structure built for permanent use, as a house, factory, etc..
- Southern Maine Medical Center Health Sciences Library (1.3km)
- Biddeford Historical Society Building (2.6km)
- McArthur Public Library (2.6km)
- Biddeford City Hall (2.7km)
Accommodation around Biddeford Shopping Center
- island;
- a tract of land, smaller than a continent, surrounded by water at high water.
- Springs Island (3.4km)
- Factory Island (3.5km)
- Cow Island (4km)
- Mouse Island (4.1km)
- cemetery;
- a burial place or ground.
- Greenwood Cemetery (0.1km)
- Woodlawn Cemetery (0.7km)
- Saint Marys Cemetery (1.2km)
- Saint Josephs Cemetery (2.1km)
- hospital;
- a building in which sick or injured, especially those confined to bed, are medically treated.
- Webber Hospital (1.1km)
- Southern Maine Medical Center (1.3km)
- Trull Hospital (1.9km)
- populated place;
- a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
- Five Points (0.8km)
- Airport Village (1.4km)
- Biddeford (2.9km)
- dam;
- a barrier constructed across a stream to impound water.
- Bradley-Springs Island Dam (3.5km)
- West Channel Dam (3.5km)
- Cataract Dam (3.8km)
- park;
- an area, often of forested land, maintained as a place of beauty, or for recreation.
- Waterhouse Field (1.3km)
- Saint Louis Field (1.5km)
- Clifford Park (3km)
- tower;
- a high conspicuous structure, typically much higher than its diameter.
- WIDE-AM (Biddeford) (0.6km)
- WSTG-FM (Biddeford) (0.6km)
- reservoir(s);
- an artificial pond or lake.
- Saco River Reservoir (3.5km)
- Saco River Reservoir (3.8km)
- airport;
- a place where aircraft regularly land and take off, with runways, navigational aids, and major facilities for the commercial handling of passengers and cargo.
- Biddeford Airport (2.2km)
- administrative division;
- an administrative division of a country, undifferentiated as to administrative level.
- Biddeford, City of (3.9km)
- post office;
- a public building in which mail is received, sorted and distributed.
- Biddeford Post Office (2.8km)
- lake;
- a large inland body of standing water.
- Wilcox Pond (2.4km)
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- Wood Island Light landmark tower
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- Goat Island Light landmark tower
- Bush compound city city o
- Scarborough (CDP), Maine city city o
- Alfred, Maine city city o
- South Sanford, Maine city city o
- Gorham (CDP), Maine city city o
- Flughafen Portland (Maine) airport airport
- South Portland city city i
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Portland international jetport(PWM), Portland, Usa (27.1km)
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General edward lawrence logan international(BOS), Boston, Usa (155.1km)


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Happy Halloween, everyone!
Wherever you are, I hope you are able to enjoy the day. This weekend has been big for parties galore-for both grown-ups and children alike. I've definitely done my fair share of celebrating this year already. But now I'm looking forward to spending the afternoon today with my nephews, Elliott and Oliver, aka Woody and Buzz Lightyear. What are YOU dressing up as this year?
This Spiderweb Brownie Cake came at the perfect time. I had originally planned to make some red velvet bleeding heart cupcakes for one of the parties, but my call schedule at work last week was incredibly hectic. I wasn't able to devote as much time to it (who does, really?) as I wanted to, so I scratched the whole idea all together…and then I saw this. Simple, but still festive. Not too much preparation needed. Not too much creativity, endless frosting colors, or crazy ingredients. In fact, I had all that I needed. I wanted it to look festive….but I really wanted it to taste even better. In fact, if you want….you still have time to make this today in time for your Trick or Treaters!
So, from me to you….Happy Halloween!
Spiderweb Brownie Cake
For the Brownie:
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
2 and 1/4 cups sugar
4 large eggs
1 and 1/4 cups Double-Dutch Dark Cocoa or Dutch-process cocoa
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon espresso powder
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 and 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
2 cups chocolate chips
For the cream cheese "web":
4 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon unbleached all-purpose flour
1 large egg yolk
1/2 teaspoon almond flavoring (optional)
|1. For the brownies: Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a 9″ x 13″ pan, or 9″ springform pan. (You can also use 2 8-inch cake pans.)
|2. In a medium-sized microwave-safe bowl, or in a saucepan set over low heat, melt the butter, then add the sugar and stir to combine.3. Return the mixture to the heat (or microwave) briefly, just until it's hot (about 110°F to 120°F), but not bubbling; it'll become shiny looking as you stir it.
|4. While the sugar heats a second time, crack the 4 eggs into a bowl, and beat them with the cocoa, salt, baking powder, espresso powder, and vanilla till smooth.
|5. Add the hot butter/sugar mixture, stirring until smooth.
|6. Add the flour and chips, again stirring until smooth.
|7. Spoon the batter into pan.


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Dance With #Cinderella
Dance With Cinderella
Hugh O. Smith
It happens suddenly.
One minute I'm staring up at the ceiling, listening to the creaks and shudders of a house settling down for the night and wishing, hoping praying that just for once I could fall asleep like a normal person, then the next I'm in a frantic dreamland fun house occupied by every bogeyman I've ever been afraid of. I've been thinking a lot lately about loss, so my dreams are saturated with sad goodbyes that translate, when I wake up, into a fog of emotion that should burn away in the sunlight but never does. The worst ones involve my daughter and her walking away to a far-away building. She enters and some hazy form is just inside the doorway, someone I feel I should know but don't. She embraces him/her then shuts the door without looking back. She is gone, and I know without anyone telling me that I won't ever see her again.
Maybe it's the season. Maybe it's me coming to terms with things I should have a long time ago. Or maybe, as a friend told me, I'm mourning, finally.
I had no idea. Then one day last week my daughter and I were watching television and she found a channel playing the song This Moment (Dance with Cinderella.)
"Daddy," she said. "It's the song we danced to at the father-daughter dance. Remember, at the recital?"
I did remember. The father-daughter dance is usually the last number at her dance recitals and last year the song was Dance with Cinderella, the kind of song about a father and daughter I might have made fun of in another life. Now that I am a father, with a daughter, the song about a dad watching his little girl grow up and get married gets me every single time. During rehearsals the song played over and over and over, and over and over a roomful of men, tough resilient men, men of all races and ages linked by the common thread of our love of our little girls, wiped their eyes and pretended not to see the emotion welling in one another as we danced with our beautiful daughters.
I felt the emotion again and began to think about the dream I had the night before and how the song fit perfectly into my fears of losing what I loved. Then…
"Dance with me Daddy."
I stood up and tried to remember the steps and for the next three minutes we danced, me trying not to step on her feet, she trying to get in as many twirls and spins as one gorgeous six-year old ballerina could in so short a time. When the song was over we danced some more to another song, then another, then another.
It wasn't until later, after I'd kissed her good night, that I realized I'd missed the point of the song, of my dreams, of life. Stop worrying about what may come and enjoy what is. I wasted time agonizing about the future when the present is here to be lived. I still don't know what my dreams meant, or why I was having them but now it doesn't seem as important.
'Cause all too soon the clock will strike midnight
And she'll be gone…


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Uploading photos on Facebook is a very easy task, as you will just have to go to the Facebook album page and then upload any number of images you want in the album, but then it will be lot easier if you would not have to open even the webpage for this. I know that you might have certain applications for freeware for this operation to be performed without opening Facebook profile. Today I will review a Google Chrome Extension with the help of which you can upload the photographs by just dragging and dropping them on a certain application window.
You will not have to location them by clicking the browse option and then selecting the photographs. If you are using Windows XP then you do not have option to see the thumbnail view for all the photographs of all the photos in a folder, so you will have to remember the names of the files and then browse them one by one, while uploading them on Facebook. So as far as my knowledge is concerned I will suggest that dragging and dropping is the best method to upload the files on the Facebook. As you can see the screenshot of the extension it will ask you for logging in the account and then granting this extension the permissions to this extension to upload the photos directly form Google Chrome.
Now after you login and grant the required permission you will see the windows as mentioned in the screenshot above. If you want to add any of the photos in any of the previously created albums then you will just have to drag then over that album or if you want to create a new album then you can see that icon to create a new album on the window. I hope that you will like this application, as it makes quite easier for you create the albums on your Facebook account and upload your photographs. If you face any problem while using this extension then please let us know. This will only work for Google Chrome, and the link for that extension has been mentioned below in the post.
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In 1888 Duncan set off on a round-the-world trip as correspondent for the New York World and the Montreal Star. In Calcutta she met her future husband, Everard Cotes, an Englishman serving there as curator of the Indian Museum. They married two years later. Duncan lived in India for twenty-five years, with extended stays abroad in London and frequent trips to Canada.
A prolific and popular writer of fiction, Duncan set nearly half of her novels in India. The Imperialist (1904), generally considered her finest, is her only novel set in Canada. During and after World War One she devoted much of her time to playwrighting.
In 1922 Duncan and her husband retired to England.
Sara Jeannette Duncan died in Ashtead, Surrey, England in 1922.


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Friday's Weekly Travel Photo – A Flower in Bloom in Oslo
Norway has a reputation as one of the world's most beautiful destinations. The majestic fjords, stunning waterfalls, and inspiring vistas of massive snow capped mountains have come to define the country. Yet, there is an added richness that goes beyond that – small details which add to Norway's charm and make it an ideal destination for a variety of other reasons. This photo captures one of those charming aspects. Taken on the outskirts of Oslo at the Museum of Cultural History, this photograph features a beautiful flower in bloom along an old wooden fence in front of a traditional Norwegian farmhouse. The museum, which has a large out door component, is home to wonderful old Norwegian buildings, horse drawn carriages, and cultural performers playing traditional music. It is well worth a visit!
When you think of Norway, what image or memory comes to mind?
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George Michael (Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou) was a famous English singer and songwriter along with a record label producer. He was best known for his songs Last Christmas, Careless Whisper, Faith, Too Funky and Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go".
Michael released a number of solo albums and sold more than 100 million records. He has won a number of awards throughout his professional career including the Brit Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Ivor Novello Awards and even the Grammy Awards. Apart from that, he was also ranked among the top 40 most successful artist to ever live by the Billboard magazine.
Michael has been tied to several controversies, from drug abuse to arrests for indulging in public indecency. He announced his very first tour in the year 2006 after 15 long years and the tour was divided into three separate tours spanning over the course of three years from 2006 till 2008. Apart from a celebrated career comprising of some of the most memorable songs, George Michael was distinguished for contributing millions anonymously to charity.
Early life and education
George Michael was born on June 25, 1963 in East Finchley, London to Kyriacos Panayiotou and Lesley Angold. His father was the owner of a Greek-Cypriot restaurant and his mother was an English dancer. Michael spent the major amount of his childhood in Kingsbury, London and later the family moved to Redlett, Hertfordshire.
Michael pursued his education from the Kingsbury High School and later changed to Bushey Meads School. It was where he met his former band mate, Andrew Ridgeley and the two of them became the best of friends. In initial days, Michael started a band along with Andrew Ridgeley and his brother and other two friends and named it the Executive. The band broke up soon after. He got together with Andrew Ridgely and started 'Wham!' which created history with songs like 'Careless Whisper', 'Wake me up before You go-go' and 'Last Christmas'.
George Michael – Boyfriends
- Michael came out clean with his sexuality as a bisexual at the age of 19 to his band mate Andrew Ridgeley and some of his close friends. But he later cleared in many of the interviews that he was not bisexual but gay.
- He lost his boyfriend Anselmo Feleppa, Brazil-based costume designer to AIDs in 1993. In fact, Feleppa had confessed his HIV status to Michael in 1991, when they began dating. But Michael continued the relationship and grieved his partner's death for 3 years, even releasing a song 'Jesus to a Child' as a tribute. After losing his boyfriend Feleppa in 1996, he lost his mother to cancer in 1997.
- Michael was in a long term relationship with a cheerleader coach and flight attendant, Kenny Goss since 1996. The couple were pretty serious about each other and even had two homes, one in Dallas and the other in Highgate, London. It was even rumoured that the couple were set on registering their relationship as a civil partnership in the UK but later postponed it due to the negative publicity it brought to Michael's career. The couple split in the year 2009.
- George Michael was romantically involved with celebrity hairstylist and freelance photographer Fadi Fawaz since 2012. It was Fawaz who found Michael dead in the Christmas morning, 2016.
Following the disbandment of Wham!, Michael started focusing more on his solo career and started it off with his debut album, Faith in the year 1987. The album went straight to #1 in the music charts both in UK and US after its release. Michael's second album, Listen Without Prejudice Vol.1 was released on 1990.
Michael released his other albums, Five Live, Older, Ladies and Gentlemen, Songs from the Last Century, Patience in the consecutive years later. The second documentary of George Michael's life Freedom was set to be released on 2017 but the singer who gave the world The Last Christmas was taken away on December 25, 2016.
George Michael – Net Worth
George Michael has an estimated net worth of $200 million. He has a number of houses and properties under his name, the most public ones being the ones in London and Oxfordshire where he breathed his last.
George Michael – house
The house where his partner Fadi Fawaz found him dead is a £4 million riverside mansion in Goring-on- Thames, Oxfordshire.
He also has another Georgian home in Highgate, London worth £10 million


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PURCHASE, N.Y. (AP) — MasterCard is splitting its stock for the first time since the credit card processor went public more than seven years ago.
The maneuver announced Tuesday is designed to make MasterCard's stock more attractive by making it less expensive to buy individual shares.
MasterCard also is raising its quarterly dividend by 83%.
The 10-for-1 split calls for stockholders to receive nine additional shares for each one they already own. That means MasterCard will issue nearly 1.1 billion more shares, an increase that will dramatically drive down its stock price.
MasterCard's stock jumped 2.8% in after-hours trading to $785 after closing up 0.6% to $763.61 in regular trading Tuesday. At the closing price value, a 10-for-1 split would lower the price to below $80.
The Purchase, N.Y. company's stock has increased nearly twentyfold from its initial public offering price of $39 in May 2006.
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I was reading an old thread in the men's forum about the most beautify men's Fragrance. I thought I would pop over here and get a new perspective with a twist. I am looking for a deeper insight. I think beautiful fragrances should induce an emotional reaction from those around you. SO, what do you think is the most beautiful male or uni fragrance AND what gut emotion or thought passes through your mind when you smell it?
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Oooops, posted into wrong forum,
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
"Oooops, posted into wrong forum"
Oh don't worry too much. The ladies do allow gentlemen in here on occasion, I hope. It is refreshing to read something besides the guys' view of the hobby/passion.
I've not smelled a mens/uni fragrance on a man that moved me. I've worn Molecule 01 (and would love to smell it on a man) and it makes me feel safe, secure, soothed- very comforting.
Molecule 01 seems interesting. From the reviews, the Ladies like it but the guys can't seem to smell it very much. However the sense of wellbeing that it seems to induce is noteworthy. It sounds right for an evening by the fireplace.
I think Gucci pour Homme is beautiful and comforting.. when i smell it I imagine the man who would wear this would be strong yet gentle and able to keep me safe and warm.. :-)
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"That's interesting as I've noticed a few men recently stated that this frag gave them feelings of unease, saying it evoked feelings of hopelessness and loss."
This is getting more interesting than I expected. This is one of my favorites, after it burns off the top notes. Out of curiosity I wonder if it is a personal feeling brought on by the scent of a "superior" male that is not them, some hidden note that brings back memories or some other mechanism.
This is a great scent I wear just for my own enjoyment. I actually feel more alive when I wear it. It has been a good match for me. If you hear specific reasons please post them here or about others that cause the same effect. This is a most curious twist.
I vote for Guerlain's Vetiver. It is sexy yet comforting. Smells like a man in control, in a good way!
I like a lot of fragrances: Eau Savage, Terre d'Hermes, Dior Homme, Timbuktu, Fou d'Absinthe, Ambre Narguilé and, yes, Bandit.
This is very interesting, from my male perspective. I will have to try Gucci pour Homme again -- with the above comments in mind. My recollection is that is was (to my mind) sweet and rich, didn't evoke an emotional response, just not my style.
"Beautiful" -- for me could go a couple of directions.
Sheer joy, springtime hope and feel-good happiness is Mugler Cologne.
A kind of effortless happiness with a more masculine verve would be Worth pour Homme and Jil Sander Man Pure (original, hard to find). Warm spice but not over-the-top rich.
A dry relaxing lavender. L'Occitane by the company of the same name.
In other words, these are a "breathe deep and enjoy the quiet time" scent.
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"The force that through the green fuse drives the flower // drives my green age..." Dylan Thomas
It depends on chemistry,of course, but I love Le Male or Sienne L'Hiver
on a man.Divine's L'Homme de Coeur and Dior Homme are both good too.
Irish Eyes... nice screen name Most beautiful perfume for man? Wow I think it is easier to express the meaning of life itself.
Dior Homme for me.
This week I have smelled a rare thing - male work colleagues wearing cologne, and two of them at that. One is wearing a very nice mystery scent, and I think the other is wearing the divine Gucci pour Homme. I don't know them very well and have been reluctant to stop them in the corridor to ask about their fragrances. Nor do they ever ask about mine.
This is a real turn up for the books. I would not have put these two men down as fragrance fans. I see them in a new light. Suddenly they become more individual and interesting to me. I have imagined them at home making their fragrance choices for the day, and wondered what they like to smell themselves. They have been elevated from the crowd of blurred faces.
I adore the great dusty beauty of Dior Homme and wear it myself. Ditto Terre d'Hermes. I love to smell a man wearing a good fragrance, whatever it may be.
My update notification has apparently been on the blink. There are several replies I have missed.
"I like a lot of fragrances: Eau Savage, Terre d'Hermes, Dior Homme, Timbuktu, Fou d'Absinthe, Ambre Narguilé and, yes, Bandit."
Wow I like all of these that I have tried. The one I have not tried yet is Fou d'Absinthe. I think I am in tune with this list. Each one gives a distinct "feeling" to the wearer and to the one perceiving the scent.
"Irish Eyes... nice screen name "
It looks like we have similar ideas. To be Irish is great but the eyes of the Irish look deep into the soul.
"Dior Homme for me"
I wore this one yesterday. It has an interesting paradox of being partly soothing but just on the outer realm of edginess. The calm before the storm?
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"I love to smell a man wearing a good fragrance, whatever it may be."
The allure of a mystery. I have to admit an interesting scent of a woman draws my interest. It does not need to be loud or complicated but hopefully reflects their own likes and desires. It can inspire the imagination.
Rochas Monsieur Concentree (original formula).
My reaction: it makes me want to take me out to dinner, get me drunk, take advantage of myself, and still respect myself in the morning.
Others' reactions: smells nice; that's great!; god that smells good; wow, what are you wearing. Etc. Never received a bad comment when wearing it.
Catherine Deneuve: "You should put scent where you like to be kissed."
I don't think I could limit it to just one fragrance. However...I LOVE the smell of vetiver on men, add a touch of birch tar & WOW!
Yep..that'll be heavenly for me.
"You smell like sunshine and happiness."
Eau Sauvage and/or the original Armani pour homme.
Oh ... and add Chanel Pour Monsieur to that list.
I like 'em smelling *clean*
Yup, that is my No 2 fave, and my friend's husband wears both, rotating them carefully for me through the year. I have to experience having a "fragrant spouse" vicariously, on account of my own partner eschewing all scented products bar Palmolive soap.
Beautiful fragrances for men that I've found are Tiffany for Men and Dior Homme. They are not necessarily sexy fragrances, but are transportative and refined. I also think Fahrenheit (old formulation) and Derby are beautiful fragrances, but have more sex-appeal to me. Beautiful and aesthetic seem to go hand in hand for me. "Beautiful" connotes almost an untouchable, virginal aspect to me, and seems like there should be a lot of austerity and coolness to it. Bois d'Iris is also beautiful to me. The heat of Musc Ravageur, which is also a wonderful fragrance to me, doesn't feel like an aesthetic creation for it's own sake, but more of a sensual mood fragrance. I think all of these as beautiful fragrances, just for different reasons.
I think I'm more confused now than when I started.
"My reaction: it makes me want to take me out to dinner, get me drunk, take advantage of myself, and still respect myself in the morning."
How does your significant other spend her evenings? <grin>
"Bois d'Iris"
When I smell iris I get a calm reassuring feeling. I don't know if it is stirring old memories from childhood or what the stimulus might be. Bois d'Argent is a little sweet but has a stunning effect on me.
How do you ladies feel about Dolce & Gabbana's The One?
Sorry to be repetative but Eau Sauvage (especially vintage) and Dior Homme are the ones for me.
Terre d'Hermes comes a close second.
A woman without perfume is like a flower without a scent.
No Bel Ami?-rhetorical question.
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Date of News Release: 05/09/2014
(Frankfort, KY) - On April 27, 2014, Kentucky State Police investigated an alleged hit and run collision involving a Shelby County Deputy's wife and a Shelby County woman who fled the scene of the accident.
Within minutes of receiving the call, Troopers located Katherine Burnett, age 29, of Shelbyville, operating a 2003 Chevrolet. One passenger, a minor child, was in the vehicle at the time of the traffic stop. Burnett was arrested and lodged in Shelby County Detention Center, charged with Leaving the Scene of an Accident, Reckless Driving, DUI 1st, Aggravated Circumstances, Endangering the Welfare of a Minor, Failure to Use Child Restraint Device, Wanton Endangerment 1st, Trafficking Controlled Substance 1st Degree, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and Prescription Controlled Substance not in Proper Container. Further charges may be pending.
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By Peter Ferrara
President Obama has a community organizer understanding of America's taxes. His rhetoric doesn't recognize that under our tax system the earnings from capital investment are taxed not once, but multiple times.
First, by the corporate income tax, then again by the individual income tax through the tax on dividends, then if you sell the capital investment, through the capital gains tax, then when you die, by the death tax. When he complains that the rich are not paying their fair share, he is just looking at the rate on any one of these taxes, and not considering all of the others. So he wants to raise them all for those making over $1 million per year to what he considers the tax rate paid by the middle class, which he calls the Buffett rule.
As a result, Obama would increase the top capital gains tax rate by 100%, increase the top tax rate on dividends by 100%, increase the top two income tax rates by nearly 20%, and increase the death tax rate by nearly 60%, while the corporate tax rate remains the highest in the industrialized world. The capital gains tax rate under the Buffett Rule would be the fourth highest among OECD nations, as the Wall Street Journal noted on Wednesday.
The Heritage Foundation explained it like this on Wednesday. The taxation of capital is like a trip on a toll road, where you have to pay $3.50 to get on the road, then $3.50 at a toll booth on the road, then a $1.50 toll to get off the road. Obama's understanding of the tax code is like saying the toll for this trip is $1.50, which is somehow unfair to those who take the bus on the same route for a $3.50 total fare (assume the bus is exempt from the tolls). So he thinks the toll to get off the road should be $3.50 as well.
But Warren Buffett is more than happy with Obama's proposals. That's because his Berkshire Hathaway is effectively the largest tax shelter in the nation, partially shielding its investors precisely from the multiple taxation of capital. So raising tax rates sharply to make that multiple taxation far worse will just mean more customers for him. Buffett's company is like a subway next to the road that only charges $1.50 total fare.
As the Journal further observed on Wednesday, however, "IRS data show that middle-class workers on average pay just under 15% of their income in federal taxes, while the richest 0.1% pay almost twice as high a rate on average, or 26%." That's for all federal taxes.
Indeed, for 2007, before President Obama was even elected, official IRS data shows that the top 1% paid more in federal income taxes than the bottom 95% combined! The top 1% that year paid 40.4% of all federal income taxes, almost twice the share of income they earned. Sounds like "the rich" are already indisputably paying their fair share, at least.
Moreover, Obama's own Treasury Department projects that the Buffett Rule tax would raise only about $5 billion a year, less than one half of one percent of the deficit for this year. Over the next 10 years, it raises less than 0.1% of the $47 trillion President Obama proposes to spend in his 2013 budget.
But the resulting revenue won't be anywhere near that. Over the last 45 years, every time the capital gains tax rate has been raised, revenues have declined, with neither CBO nor Treasury or Congress's Joint Tax Committee getting it right once. Moreover, when the top tax rate on dividends was cut to 15% in 2003, dividends paid soared thereafter, increasing the resulting revenues. Raising the tax rate on dividends and capital gains back up will result in lower, not higher, revenue, raising federal deficits and debt even more.
Of course it's worse than that. Besides the Buffett Rule tax increases, the Obamacare taxes go into effect next year, with an additional tax on investment income, including capital gains and dividends. In addition, the Bush tax cuts expire, further increasing tax rates for capital gains and dividends, as well as individual income tax rates. With the conflux of all the tax rates of all the layers of the multiple taxation of capital rising towards the highest in the world, along with Obama's regulatory tsunami surging to a crescendo, and causing soaring energy costs, the result will be renewed, double dip recession next year.
That will mean federal revenues further collapsing across the board, with federal deficits and debt soaring even more. Working people will suffer the most, as unemployment skyrockets back into double digits, and real wages fall further with declining labor demand. Most taxpayers earning over $1 million a year are owners of small businesses. In fact, most are the small businesses themselves reporting on individual returns as the individual's business income. But most new jobs are created by small businesses. Raising taxes so sharply on them is just going to kill still more jobs.


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We have to give Weichong Marwing his due - he did try, he really did give it a go on Liberator in the Champions & Chater Cup on Sunday, he just didn't have quite the horse.
Marwing rode aggressively on the stayer, quickening the tempo through the final 1,000m of the 2,400m to see if there were chinks in the armour of his rivals at the distance and we witnessed that rare bird, the well-run staying race.
The overall time was the fastest 2,400m at Sha Tin since Viva Pataca's hollow 2007 win in the same race, and that on a day when the track was racing considerably faster even than it was on Sunday.
What the last Group One of the season told us was California Memory can run a solid 2,400m and will take out this season's Champion Stayer award, and that stablemate Willie Cazals may not win any awards this season, but could provide the local side with a worthy Vase competitor in December.
Dare we dream, perhaps he even is a serious winning chance in the race that has not stayed at home since 1998.
Willie Cazals has come quite a way in his Hong Kong journey. Less than 18 months ago, the former Italian Derby runner-up must have been perilously close to looking a lost cause to Tony Cruz and the horse's connections. Willie wanted no part of his barrier trials and refused to play, several times just refusing to jump away at all.
It was a painstaking effort to finally get him passed to race - albeit tempting the gods by lining him up on April Fool's Day last year - in his only racetrack outing of his first season before injury.
Willie's progression has been steady since and Sunday's effort to accelerate off a strong tempo showed the gelding is the real deal over a trip, not just a bullocking one-pacer looking for a distance only because it's too far for everything else in the race.
California Memory accelerated, but Willie actually kept the same kind of sprint up for longer, getting home in the final 800m in 45.33 seconds.
We see plenty of stayers with that kind of final sectional in Hong Kong each season, but only because the pace is usually so pedestrian until the 800m that no energy has been used getting there.
That split is much harder to produce after spending energy to stay in range and we'll be keen to see how he measures up in December if Willie Cazals can produce something similar against the stars of France, Great Britain and Japan.
Of course, in the meantime, Cruz will be desperately hoping to find a handicap somewhere to run Willie Cazals who, oddly-enough, rose only five points in the ratings for this meaningful second placing.
Certainly it was an odd number to Richard Gibson, trainer of Akeed Mofeed and Gold-Fun, each of which went up 10 points for finishing fifth in open Group One races when racing above their station.
Or just as odd if you were Sean Woods, trainer of the same Autumn Gold raised 10 points for finishing fifth in the Group Two Jockey Club Cup last year when out of the ratings.
The concept behind these rises is that the same group of horses may meet in a handicap shortly, and it would be unfair to have a huge gap between them when the lower-rated horse has already proved competitive in reality when much closer or level in the weights.
The rises cover only the first five placings and beaten runners are capped at 10 points, though it's open slather if they win.
Interestingly enough, Autumn Gold was only half a length off running fifth on Sunday - could he possibly have got another 10 points had he run fifth, while the runner-up in the same Group One got only five points? Oh, the arcane ways of the handicapper.
But even if you are buying the underlying concept, you're not even making an offer on the nonsense doled out on Monday with Willie Cazals, who beat home five horses rated from nine to 20 points his superior and against which he will still be rather well placed if they meet at handicaps any time soon.
No-one, but no-one - and we include the handicapping staff in this - can possibly make any sense of this five-point rise. And the ultimate irony is that, unlike Akeed Mofeed, Gold-Fun and Autumn Gold, who all earned a relative pittance for fifth, Cruz and Willie Cazals' owners would probably have copped a 10-point rise on the chin after winning $1.6 million in prizemoney.


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 I think it may take a few days before there will be any official
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I've read many nodes that describe diverse systems over the years, and again before I posted. I didn't see anything that does what I want. I saw a collection of ad-hoc systems, each different, each flawed. Each a duplication of engineering that is kept proprietary. The question why haven't we got a good, common solution for applications? We have a good common solution for modules.
The only thing I've seen that looks like a step in this direction is [mod://Shipwright]. I haven't had a chance to fully dig in to the docs and experiment with it, so I can't comment on how good it is.
If there is a particular node that you think describes a great system, please post a link.
Are our build systems our crown jewels? Do we keep them secret to gain competitive advantage? Or are they too wound up in internal politics and history to be cleaned up enough that we wouldn't be too embarrassed to share?

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About Bee
Venom Therapy
Venom Therapy
Bee venom has a long tradition as a folk remedy
for arthritis and other degenerative diseases.
As in the case of many natural folk treatments
used for millennia throughout the world, bee
venom contains active compounds that have therapeutic
properties. Just as myriad plants have given
humankind some of our most valuable pharmaceutical
drugs, many of the bioactive ingredients in bee
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Bee venom is administered by properly trained
physicians in the form of a direct bee sting
or an injection of the sterile venom from a bottle.
In several studies, including research conducted
by Andrew Kochan MD, bee venom therapy was successful
in treating diseases which conventional pharmaceuticals
can only partly help. Bee venom has potent analgesic
and immuno-modulatory properties that help reduce
inflammation and promote healing. It also contains
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Medical researchers in Russia reported that
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Cockle Creek has seen many strange sights come and go. Over the centuries, this beach-laced hideaway in Tasmania's south-east tip has offered welcome shelter from the might of the Southern Ocean outside.
Shell middens show Aboriginal antiquity. French explorers on sailing ships halted nearby, building a vegetable garden. Later sawmillers shipped wood from its shores, and a salmon farmer tested its waters.
And now it's David Marriner's turn.
This Melbourne prince of property has turned his eye to Cockle Creek. After five years of negotiations, Mr Marriner is set to be the first to build a big tourist complex from scratch inside one of Tasmania's treasured national parks. For better or worse, the $15 million project with a main lodge, 60 cabins, boatsheds, jetty, access road and supporting facilities is also a precedent in management of a globally important wilderness.
Tasmania's recent revival has meant booming tourist numbers.
In the wilderness, there are signs that limits to growth are approaching. For years track workers have hardened trails to deal with heavier foot traffic, turning some bushwalks into boardwalks. Now on the premier 65kilometre Overland Track the government is to cap peak season numbers.
But apart from a handful of small commercial huts and standing camps, no new tourist project has been built inside a national park. They have been either just outside, or redevelopments of existing facilities.
At Cockle Creek East, Mr Marriner is leasing land at the end of Australia's southern-most road. It is inside the 600,000-hectare Southwest National Park. Most of this park, but not Cockle Creek East, is in the 1.38 million-hectare Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, one of only 13 globally to satisfy all criteria for selection.
The Greens appealed against the project on grounds including visual degradation and contradiction of the park's natural values, and its impact on Aboriginal sites.
Project manager Rod King said: "There'll always be people who have a fundamental objection to development in national parks, and I understand that . But at the end of the day, people who are aware of the process we've been through can't fault it on environmental grounds."
Mr Marriner is equally reassuring. "Part of what we are selling is relationship to nature," he said. "So we don't want to destroy the reason people would go there."


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Jean Paul Gaultier's history with Madonna is the stuff of MTV legend; her infamous Blonde Ambition-era cone bras and corsets stand alone as some of the French design maverick's most iconic pieces. So, naturally, when he was recently commisioned as the creative director of Diet Coke, he couldn't help but reference the pop culture touchstone in the ads.
Gaultier's first Coca Cola Light commercial follows up from a series of early web ads. The extended version, streamable below, shows the designer engaged in a playful, vaguely creepy fashion shoot involving dolls while a remix of Dragonette's "I Get Around" plays. At the ad's end, the new bottles make their fashionable debut: in breton stripes, bras and corsets, they are inarguably the coolest way for a beverage to salute pop and high style in one swoop (or shall we say swig?). The accompanying print ads feature the designer in spectacular, classic Madonna drag; suffice to say the ad wizards at Coca Cola HQ are a lot more liberal than those at Pepsi circa 1989.
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Poster claims village school to shut
SIGNS claiming that Davidstown School is facing closure because of the low numbers of pupils due to start there in September have appeared outside the school in the village.
The posters, headlined 'Help Save Our School', claim that fewer than 50 students will attend the village school from September.
School principal Dominic O'Sullivan said yesterday (Monday) afternoon he had no comment to make about the posters or who was behind them.
Davidstown businessman and parent Alan O'Connor said a number of issues have been raised with regard to the school and that some parents remain unhappy.
'As of tomorrow evening, a number of parents are pulling their children from the school,' said Mr O'Connor. 'It's a sad state of affairs. I don't know whether it will be resolved or not.'
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Three games into the preseason, coach Kevin McHale likes what he sees from the Rockets but thinks they have a way to go before the season starts.
"I really want to get our nine- to 10-man rotation down, but I am not sure we will have that down before the season starts. But we will figure it out," McHale said. "You would really like to see everyone healthy so you could play around with more lineups at this point, but we are still working on it."
The Rockets lost their first preseason game to New Orleans by a point and won twice against Indiana on their trip to Manila, Philippines, and Taipei, Taiwan.
"I think the preseason is great for us," Dwight Howard said. "It is time for us to really focus on defense and the things we can work on together. We met our defensive goals overseas, and that was good."


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Welcome to the Fox & Goose Inn
A hotel in the heart of Somerset close to Junction 22 of the M5 and near Burnham-on-Sea and Weston-super-Mare
Welcome to the Fox & Goose Inn. A picturesque Somerset inn, parts of which are believed to date from the 18th Century, with a recently constructed adjoining lodge style hotel, located on the A38 just 550 metres north of Junction 22 of the M5 motorway. Junction 22 is the motorway exit for Burnham-on-Sea Weston-super-Mare and Bristol International Airport.
The Fox & Goose Inn provides superior 2 star accommodation and the Inn has one of the most popular restaurants in Somerset with excellent food. Both are personally run and supervised by the experienced and professional resident managers.
Whether you need a leisure break, bed & breakfast or require accommodation with facilities for business meetings, seminars, exhibitions, lunches or evening meals, our team is ready to welcome you with a smile! An oasis in the renowned Somerset levels and close to the beaches at Burnham on Sea, Brean, Berrow and Weston super Mare, the hotel is also conveniently situated for Bristol Airport travellers and visitors to the vast nature reserves of the Somerset wetlands.
The Fox & Goose Inn is the perfect choice for exploring the area - come and visit us, soon! We guarantee you will return to Somerset!
Hotel accommodationThe Fox & Goose Inn is ideally situated and is the perfect choice for exploring the area - come and visit us, soon!
- 11 double or twin rooms
- 3 family rooms
- Passenger lift
- English or Continental Breakfast
- Welcoming Restaurant
- Relaxing Bar
- Ample free on-site parking
- Free Wi Fi Internet access for all guests
- Friendly, efficient and caring staff
- Air-conditioned bedrooms
- The hotel is no smoking throughout including all guest bedrooms
- Weddings, conferences and business meetings catered for
- Disabled access to all public areas
Call us now on 01278 760008 to discuss how we can help!
Restaurant & Bar
- Newly refurbished bistro and family room
also available for private hire
- Table service
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- Extensive menu from simple fare to more sophisticated meals
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- A choice of 3 local real ales
- Large selection of wines
- Log fires in the winter
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- If you are trying to acquire a new customer and you show that prospect how the features of your company can meet and exceed their needs, this is an example of strategic selling.
- A sophisticated missile that can help your country win the war is an example of a strategic weapon.
The definition of strategic is something done in order to achieve some specific goal, to meet a specific plan, to gain a military advantage or to effectively fight a war.
- of or having to do with strategy
- characterized by sound strategy; favorable; advantageous
- essential to effective military strategy
- operating or designed to operate directly against the military, industrial, etc. installations of an enemy: the Strategic Air Command
- required for the effective conduct of a war: strategic materials
Also stra·te′gi·cal
also stra·te·gi·cal
- Of or relating to strategy.
- a. Important or essential in relation to a plan of action: a strategic withdrawal.b. Essential to the effective conduct of war: strategic materials.c. Highly important to an intended objective: The staff discussed strategic marketing factors.
- Intended to destroy the military potential of an enemy: strategic bombing.
Related Forms:
- stra·te′gi·cal·ly
(comparative more strategic, superlative most strategic)
- of or pertaining to strategy
From Ancient Greek στÏατηγικός (strategikos, "of or for a general", also "a treatise on strategy"), from στÏατηγός (strategos, "the leader or commander of an army, a general"), from στÏατός (stratos, "army") + ἄγω (ago, "I lead, I conduct").


text: The Lanayr Hotel located close to all amenities including shops, Tower, Winter Gardens and C. I. U Clubs etc. also a short walk to the promenade where you can take a ride on the tram to Blackpool's famous Pleasure Beach. There is always something to do in Blackpool. Or take a trip to Clevelys and its traditional shops then on to Fleetwood and its markets.A large car park capable of accommodating coaches.for general enquiries Call The Lanayr Hotel on (UK) 01253 623302Our dining room is spacious and all meals are freshly prepared with a varied menu. We can with pleasure cater for any special dietary needs - please advise us of your requirements when making reservation.The Bar is open every day offering a wide choice of beers, wines, spirits and soft drinks. We also have a dance floor, so you can dance the night away. All rooms are well appointed with central lift to all floors


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24×24 with a nice east-facing porch, double doors we can drive up to, his side and my side. Unfortunately I don't have any recent pictures but I've included one of the building in progress and the long work bench with a drop-down for the chop saw, a cut-off box on wheels below that, plenty of storage above and below. Tools include a 3hp Grizzly cabinet saw, a 5hp Grizzly shaper table, a 48" and a 12" lathe, dual scroll saws, a drill press, 2 combo sanders, planer, jointer, chop saw, and one old band saw which I think I'll replace for his birthday this year. Oh and an upright compressor which we mounted into the end of this run of cabinets to save floor space.
Since we spend so much of our free time here I wanted a nice porch on it for ice tea breaks.
-- Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. --Theodore I. Rubin
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#1 posted 05-30-2012 01:43 AM
Looking good karen. You all will enjoy that porch. I put a 200 sq ft covered deck at the south side of my shop and that is where my smokers are. Spend lots of time there. Gotta ask though, whatcha doing with that 5 hp shaper. I know its legal and all, just curious. Enjoy JB
#2 posted 05-30-2012 01:50 AM
Looks like a great shop Karen plus a super bunch of tools too.
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#3 posted 05-30-2012 02:06 AM
I do love my porch! Now it's being temporarily used as cover for a stack of lumber and other miscellaneous bits from building the house but maybe this is the year to get all that finished and done with (and cleared out!).
-- Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. --Theodore I. Rubin
#4 posted 05-31-2012 03:05 AM
What a wonderful shop story. The couple that plays together stays together right? LOML doesn't much care for what goes on in my shop, but she DOES love to help me out in the house… Thank God because with my back the way it is, nothing below knee high would get painted otherwise!
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#5 posted 05-31-2012 08:01 PM
It's a really nice shop, Karen , and a fine shop building.
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On May 5, 2015 I had anterior bilateral total hip replacement surgery (yes both hips!), and I am happy to report that the surgery went well!
As you can see from the image, I am almost like the bionic man now!
I have been walking up to three miles at a time, and I have even been able to do some light hiking! I am getting around without a cane for the first time since December, and compared to before the surgery my pain level is almost nothing.
Today I went for a two mile walk without using my trekking poles, which I have been using on my longer walks, and I feel great!
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Lady Boy BrideSunday, January 30th, 2011
Wedding Dress
Michael Waters
That Halloween I wore your wedding dress,
our children spooked & wouldn't speak for days.
I'd razored taut calves smooth, teased each blown tress,
then—lipsticked, mascaraed, & self-amazed—
shimmied like a starlet on the dance floor.
I'd never felt so sensual before—
Catholic schoolgirl & neighborhood whore.
In bed, dolled up, undone, we fantasized:
we clutched & fused, torn twins who'd been denied.
You were my shy groom. Love, I was your bride.
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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "South America Multiplay Services Market Dynamics to 2020: Multiplay and Blended Services Adoption, RGU's, ARPS and Service Revenue" report to their offering.
The report provides holistic historical and future prospects of Multiplay Services Penetration, Blended Service Adoption and Revenue Generating Units split at service levels - Mobile Subscriptions, Mobile Broadband Computing Subscriptions, Pay TV Households, Fixed Broadband Households and Fixed Voice Telephony Households from 2011 to 2020 at country level.
Further the report highlights the market base of Multiplay Households subscribers by Operator and their Average Revenues.
Apart from Subscriber's volume and revenues, the report also provides insights in to South America's demographic and economic data at country level. This helps in establishing a framework to better formulate the Multiplay and Blended Services market forecasts. Information such as population, nominal GDP, consumer price inflation and currency exchange rates are included to ascertain market sophistication, current and projected demand, and future opportunities.
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neuronal hyperplasia
Definition: increased numbers of ganglion cells with myenteric plexus hyperplasia and increased acetylcholinesterase activity in nerves of the mucosa and submucosa. Clinically, neuronal hyperplasia mimics Hirschsprung disease. Similar findings are seen in patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome, type IIB, and in neurofibromatosis.
Synonym(s): hyperganglionosis, neuronal intestinal dysplasia
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JERUSALEM (Oct. 21)
An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman claimed today that Americans holding dual citizenship were serving in the armed forces of Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia and that there are 1,500 American citizens residing on the West Bank.
He said the Arab charge that the U.S. was encouraging American citizens to fight for Israel, which was based on the fact that the U.S. does not automatically revoke the citizenship of Americans serving in armed forces of friendly states, was a "smoke screen alibi" for Egypt where Soviet advisors direct Egyptian military activities on the front lines.
The spokesman said the Arab accusations were a continuation of the false charges voiced by President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan, at the time of the Six-Day War, that U.S. planes were aiding the Israel Air Force. Diplomatic sources here nevertheless expressed "astonishment" that the U.S. seemed to be apologizing to the Arabs instead of attacking Arab motives in the case.


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Surprise! Personhood Mississippi Does Want to Ban the Pill!
It really wasn't a doubt in most reproductive rights advocates' minds that although the backers of Mississippi Initiative 26 claim their amendment would leave a woman's right to prevent pregnancy intact, they really wanted to ban birth control as well. After all, when the local sponsor has 10 kids and says God is in charge of opening and closing the womb, it's a safe bet that he's not a big fan of letting women and families decide for themselves when they want to become pregnant.
But to actually come out and say that Initiative 26 would ban the pill? No one had been willing to say it on record, until now. Speaking on NPR, Walter Hoye finally agreed that yes, IUDs, the morning after pill, and even the standard birth control pill itself will all be illegal if the amendment passes.
Hoye: Any birth control that ends the life of a human being will be impacted by this measure.
Rehm: So that would then include the IUD [intra-uterine device]. What about the birth control pill?
Hoye: If that falls into the same category, yes.
Rehm: So you're saying that the birth control pill could be considered as taking the life of a human being?
Hoye: I'm saying that once the egg and the oocyte come together and you have that single-celled embryo, at that point you have human life, you've got a human being and we're taking the life of a human being with some forms of birth control and if birth control falls into that category, yes I am.
Of course, the birth control pill, like the morning after pill, works to stop ovulation in the first place. But enough"pro-life" pharmacists and doctors have spent so much time trying to claim that both actually prevent implantation, that in Mississippi itself, that's been taken as scientific fact. As Irin Carmon wrote at Salon, "One of the local doctors most closely associated with the Yes on 26 movement, Beverly McMillan, told me unequivocally that the IUD and the morning-after pill would be banned, and has written that she 'painfully agree[s] that birth control pills do in fact cause abortions.' Another doctor, Freda Bush, who has gone on television to claim that contraception wouldn't be banned, wouldn't give a straight answer about which contraceptives would be banned, claiming she wasn't an authority. She herself already refuses to prescribe the highly effective IUD out of the fear that it would block a fertilized egg – in her mind, an 'abortion.'"
Want to prevent pregnancy? After November, your choices may be get a box of condoms, go celibate, or run across state lines for your prescriptions.
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EML Admission
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To be considered for admission to the Executive Master of Leadership degree program, applicants must have a bachelor's degree and a minimum of five years of experience with progressively greater levels of responsibility in management or leadership positions.
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- Past performance as evidenced by work experience, community service, and prior academic accomplishments
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- Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution with a GPA of 3.0 or better
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The Iceland Adventure Itinerary
Exercise: Could Eldfell Erupt Soon?
Geothermal Energy
Geothermal energy is the heat energy that occurs naturally in the earth. The energy is recovered from the heat of the earth's core. In nature, geothermal heat shows up in the form of volcanoes, hot springs and geysers. The heat itself is derived from radioactive decay beneath the earth's surface. In certain locations, it is concentrated and is close enough to surface waters to be brought to thesurface for many different purposes. When it is above 150 degree Celsius, it is considered hot enough to be used to generate electricity and heat in Iceland.
For thousands of years, humans have used naturally occurring hot springs for bathing. More recently, geothermal energy has been used to generate electricity, and to provide heat for homes and industries. Geothermal energy is a versatile and reliable source of heat and electricity which generally produces none of the greenhouse gases associated with the combustion of fossil fuels. Unfortunately, the best geothermal resources are concentrated in areas of volcanic activity and are not widely distributed. California, Iceland, Italy, New Zealand and Japan are all areas where geothermal energy is used on a significant scale.
In Iceland there are mainly two sources of energy; geothermal energy and hydro power . Geothermal heat is one of Iceland's greatest natural resources. The Iceland's capital has enjoyed this valuable power source for more than 60 years. Icelanders are very lucky to have this geothermal heat. For that reason central heating and warm water are rather inexpensive.
The geothermal heat is mostly used to heat fresh water which, when hot, can be utilized directly for central heating. 89% of all the houses in Iceland are heated this way (see Figure 1). But the geothermal water is also used in many other ways. It is used in swimming pools, for soil warming, fish farming, drying of timber and wool, animal husbandry etc.
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1. Geothermal energy is extracted for heating and electricity generation from natural steam, hot water, or hot dry rocks in the Earth's crust.
2. The water is pumped down through a injection well where it passes through joints in the hot rocks. It rises to the surface through a recovery well and may be converted to steam.
3. A mixture of steam and geothermal brine is transported from the wells to a central separation station.
4. After being separated from the brine, the steam is piped through moisture separators to steam heat exchangers inside the plant building.
5. Then the steam can be piped to steam turbines for co-generation of electricity. Unutilized steam is released through a steam exhaust.
6. In the steam heat exchangers, the steam is cooled under pressure into condensate.
7. The heat is then transferred to cold fresh water in condensate heat exchangers. The condensate cools down in the process to 20 degrees C.
8. Separated geothermal brine has its heat transferred to cold fresh water by geothermal brine heat exchangers. Since the mineral-rich geothermal brine causes scaling that coats the heat exchanger pipes, steel particles are allowed to circulate in the stream, impacting against the pipes to remove any scaling as it occurs.
8.Cold water is then pumped from wells to a storage tank .
9. From the storage tank, it is pumped to the heat exchangers where its temperature is raised to 85 degrees C to 90 degrees C.
10. It is then passed through deaerators where it is boiled at low vacuum pressure to remove dissolved oxygen and other gases that cause corrosion after being heated. Thus cooling the water to 82 degrees C to 85 degrees C.
The blue lagoon is located about 40 minutes from the capital Reykjavik. The lagoon is a pool of natural mineral rich geothermal sea water in the middle of a lava field. The lagoon gets is vivid blue color from the blue-green algae and white silica mud. The Lagoon is located beside Svartsengi a geothermal power plant, which pumps the mineral laden water from up to 2 km from beneath the earths surface.
This water, which is about 240 degrees C, passes through several processes to generate electricity and then heats water that in turn heats 89% of Icelandic homes. The extra run off forms the blue lagoon which is about 35 degrees C to about 40 degrees C year round. The blue lagoon is known as a therapeutic bathing pool. The lagoon has proven health benefits. Scientists say bathing in the lagoon has positive effects on psoriasis and eczema. The lagoon is a very popular tourist attraction, mainly because of the many health benefits. The Blue Lagoon produces and markets the Blue Lagoon skin care products, based on active natural ingredients from the Blue Lagoon.
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The Hotel Australasia case will be back before the Land and Environment Court next week, with a section 34 conference slated for Thursday, July 10.
The conference is a conciliation-type hearing conducted by a commissioner of the court, with representatives from Great Southern Developments and Bega Valley Shire Council present.
Members of the public are not permitted to attend.
The matter was first mentioned in court in late April, after Great Southern Developments director Rodney Thompson made an application following Bega Valley Shire Council's decision to heritage list the 110-year-old building.
Mr Thompson has long held plans to demolish the hotel, which has been closed for four years, and build a third supermarket for Eden on the site.
The Hotel Australasia is considered a landmark building in Eden's main shopping precinct of Imlay Street.
It was opened in 1906 and still retains heritage features from its prime, which local groups are working to preserve.
The need for a third supermarket in the Eden township of just over 3000 people has been hotly debated.
While debates as to the heritage value of the hotel also continue, there is no denying that the Australasia is deeply rooted in Eden's psyche and history.


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Burglary probed at Paci restaurant
Published 5:21 pm, Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Police are investigating a burglary reported Tuesday morning by the owner of Paci restaurant, 96 Station St.
It was not immediately determined if anything was taken, but cabinets in the office and a cash register were damaged. Some coins were also found on the floor.
According to the report, the alarm system was functioning when the owner arrived at the restaurant Tuesday, but was apparently not activated during the incident.