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In this assignment you are required to undertake a close analysis of a section a scene or scenes of a film seen in class (Sex and the City opening clip; The Piano, Lost in Translation). Your analysis should focus on how a female subject is constructed on screen, using cinematic devices such as cinematography, sound, editing The paper should include the following:
a. Identify the scene/s you are discussing and contextualize its importance in the film.
b. Give some brief background of the film under discussion, its plot, storyline and style.
c. Examine cinematic techniques such as mise-en-scene i.e. the scenic construction, editing and sound. You can select one or more whichever in your opinion contributes to the way in which a female subject is constructed. Your analysis should then pick these elements and unpack how they contribute to the way in which we as viewers understand the female subject as a character. Do we develop sympathy with her? Do we doubt her, or see her deviant? Does she come across as indecisive? Questions such as these will help you determine what impression is the female character being made to have on the audience. When you start thinking about this, try and link what elements of the film music, sound, acting, scenography contribute to this.
d. Discussion of female presence using appropriate theoretical criteria introduced in class: Once you have unpacked the scene/s you examined contextualize your conclusions using some the readings introduced in class.
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It's almost done!!....now you can find lavender in Selangor...no need to go France ;p
Do you know that.....
Fraser's Hill includes seven peaks, with altitudes between 1,220 and 1,524 meters above sea level. The Meteorological Department station is measured at 1,280 m. Year round temperatures are between 17°C~25°C / 63°F~77°F.
Louis James Fraser..??
Fraser's Hill derives its name from Louis James Fraser, a solitary Scottish pioneer, who set up a tin-ore trading post in the 1890s. The British army had not explored the Titiwangsa Range, so Fraser recruited guides and coolies for an expedition to the upper ridges, prospecting for gold or other valuable metals. At the top he found an ancient forest of moss-draped trees and ferns with a prehistoric appearance, kept constantly moist in the cloud layer.
New look of RRSB!!
Currently we are upgrading our landscape...it will be completed by this March...cant't wait to see the new look of RRSB :)

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Irrigation pumps are essential components in systems which move water from one location to another for a variety of purposes. They are commonly used in boilers, filtration systems, high-rise building pressure boosting, irrigation systems, air conditioners, water-cooling systems and industrial applications.
Choosing the correct pump for a project can be a frustrating task. This guide will inform the uninitiated pump buyer how to make the right purchase the first time.
Features to Consider When Choosing an Irrigation Pump
Choosing the correct irrigation pump is crucial, as they are designed for specific industries, markets and applications. For example, ANSI Centrifugal Process Pumps are associated with industrial manufacturing of textiles, automobiles and chemicals, as well as the processing of foods and beverages.
Vertical In-Line Pumps are used extensively in plumbing and air-conditioning applications, while Vertical Multi-Stage Pumps are employed with boiler systems and high-rise building pressure-boosting systems.
Pumps are rated for efficiency, noise level, size and compactness, ease of serviceability, purchase and operating costs, interchangeability with various existing pump systems and other technical factors of pump operation, such as ratings of suction, discharge, horsepower, pressure, flow and revolutions per minute. For advanced buyers with knowledge of the calculations involved with the above factors, the next step is understanding 'pump characteristic curves,' which graphically depict the relationship between factors such as head, discharge, speed, power and limiting suction lift (cavitation susceptibility). These curves often make selecting a pump easier at a glance.
Know your Equipment
Start by determining the equipment that will be used with the pump. Do not buy the pump first and try to match equipment to it later. Pumps are highly-specific machines that are not easily interchangeable, and a buyer might be forced to purchase expensive, unnecessary and specialized equipment and adaptors later if the wrong pump is purchased first.
As a point in case, in home applications, such as sprinkler systems, understanding technical factors of a pump is essential because purchasing a pump with the wrong features will often result in a complete failure of the system. Pumps purchased in home improvement stores may have misleading labels. Therefore, you need to fully understand how product labels' descriptions of gallons per minute, pounds per square inch and horsepower relate to one another in the performance of the pump. Buyers who are unable to understand these complicated relationships should consult a specialist or store attendant for advice before purchasing.
Determining Pump Size
Having chosen the equipment to be used with the pump, the following step is to choose the size of the pump needed for the job. Obviously, a farm's irrigation needs require a much larger pump than a home sprinkler system. Often buyers of home sprinkler systems purchase far too little or far too much power for the size of their lawn. Know the size of the area you are irrigating in square feet or meters and equate this to the amount of pump power you require.
Water Source Matters
After deciding on the size of the pump needed, knowing the water source location is incredibly important. Irrigation water can come from water pipes, springs, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, drainage pipes and even wastewater sources.
The location and source of the water supply should be considered because different pump types are designed to extract and pump water from different heights. For instance, deep well submersible pumps extract water from hundreds of meters underground. They require specific design characteristics and power ratings.
Finally, price is always an issue in commercial and non-commercial pump applications. Pumps range in price from less than 100 dollars to thousands of dollars. Once you have a pump type in mind, contact a reliable manufacturer for a price quote.
This is also a terrific opportunity to discuss a project with the sales representative as a final check that you have selected the correct pump for your project. If you raise price concerns at that time, the sales department might be able to locate an alternative pump that suits your purposes. In some cases, sales representatives can point out problems with the project you are using your pump with and suggest an entirely better system for your pump application.
Pump buyers should be very careful and do their research concerning not only the pump itself, but also the equipment intended for use with the pump. Buyers should also know where the pump will be housed for space concerns, pump power needs, the source of the water supply and the prices of different pumps. In the case that questions arise, one should always consult a professional before purchasing to avoid wasting money on incompatible or inappropriate parts and equipment.


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The Haile/US Bank College of Business economics program provides students with excellent problem-solving abilities and develops student reasoning through the principles and intermediate courses in microeconomics and macroeconomics. Analytical skills are developed through two semesters of econometrics - the quantitative methods that economists use to seek answers to business and policy questions. Students are trained to analyze business and financial conditions, and to understand theories explaining causes of unemployment and inflation.
Students may consider using an internship (ECO 396) to fulfill an elective requirement in the economics degree program. The internship option allows students to gain practical work experience and real-world networking exposure at the local, regional, national, or international level while under the guidance and supervision of an expert professional.
A graduate in this major has a variety of career options such as:


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Laser tag is wholesome family fun for people of all ages to enjoy. You run around black light lit obstacle courses and try to hit the enemy teams vest with a "laser" gun. It is very fun and also very profitable. Starting one up is fairly simple and cost efficient as well. The first thing you should consider if you want to open your own laser tag park is the name you will give it. Here are some great ideas to give you inspiration.
Action Town
Area 51
Battlefield Colorado
Blazer Tag
Code Red Laser Tag
Commando Laser Tag
Dizzy Family Fun
Dog Tagz
Fun City
Fun Frenzy Laser Tag
Fun Station USA
Invasion Laser Tag
Laser Battlefield
Laser Battles
Laser Bounce
Laser Legend
Laser Quest
Laser Tagging
Laser Wars
Lazer Crazer
Lazer X
Loveland Laser Tag
No Surrender Laser Tag
Nor Cal Laser Tag
Ultrazone Laser Tag
Wahooz Laser Tag
This cool looking and fun video is documenting the grand opening of a laser tag facility in Florida. It really shows the excitement and fun that is had at these places.
Last month, more than 2 million people visited Brandon's blog. He shares exactly how he took his blog from zero to 1 million monthly visitors here. His path to success was not easy. Brandon had to comeback from being disabled, by a rare health disorder, for most of his thirties. God delivered him from hardship and has blessed his family in so many wonderful ways. You can send Brandon a message here.


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Chez Catherine is a gourmet restaurant in Paris' 8th district, open from Monday to Friday. Just a short walk from the Champs Elysées, this traditional French establishment uses the best in season products to produce culinary delights. Try the snail and mushroom casserole or the potato pancakes with smoked salmon and herring caviar as a starter, followed by in season game and vegetables for a main course.
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Suspicion greets ambo's career change
THE intricate and complicated world of immigration law and the visa process was demystified for guests at the Brisbane North Chamber of Commerce monthly networking event at Lido Restaurant last night.
Leanne Stevens was a career paramedic, who had carved out a distinguished work record for the Queensland Ambulance Service, before she made a switch and became a migration agent.
"There are similarities between both careers. You make positive changes in people's lives in both careers. You are an advocate for your client (or patient)," she said.
Ms Stevens (pictured with Vivienne Lewis from Anew Lifestyle) said the biggest change had been in how she was treated by her clients.
"I've gone from being an ambulance worker, which is a highly trusted and respected profession, to a migration agent, which doesn't even rank in the top 50 of trusted professions," she said.
"As an ambulance worker I could walk into someone's home in the middle of the night and be immediately trusted. But as a migration agent the things I was telling my client were regarded with suspicion and that took some getting used to," she said. .
Dodgy agents create trust issues
Ms Stevens said unethical conduct from operators in the industry tarnished the entire sector with an untrustworthy reputation.
"I've heard from people who said their agent charged them $50,000 for a visa," she said. "Really, the most expensive visa at the moment is about $4500, and even when you add on the fees that come with that, you're likely to only get to about $10,000. That's a long way from $50,000," she said.
On the improve
Government regulation and the introduction of more ethical operators were improving the industry's reputation.
Ms Stevens' agency, Emergico, helps small businesses bringing workers in from overseas with visa applications and resettlement processes.
About 20 members of the Chamber of Commerce enjoyed complimentary drinks and canapes as they welcomed new members at the event sponsored by the Brisbane Racing Club.


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Joshua Holt: Venezuela court rules US man to be tried on weapons charges
A judge in Venezuela has ordered that a jailed US citizen must stand trial on weapons charges.
Tuesday's ruling comes 18 months after Joshua Holt, 25, was arrested in the capital, Caracas, following his marriage to his Venezuelan girlfriend.
Mr Holt and his family reject the charges against him.
A day before the ruling, Mr Holt's mother released an audio of her son complaining of poor health, and pleaded for his release.
"I'm very dizzy and I can't think and my stomach hurts," Mr Holt says in a 40-second voicemail message. "It hurts bad, and I don't know what to do. I've never felt like this before."
Mr Holt, a former Mormon missionary from Utah, travelled to Caracas in June 2016 to marry his Venezuelan girlfriend, Thamara Candelo. She is a fellow Mormon and the couple intended that Ms Candelo and her children would move with Mr Holt to the US following the marriage.
While waiting for their US visas, Mr Holt and his wife were detained in her family's house in Caracas and accused of hiding weapons.
The US State Department has called on the Venezuelan authorities to release him.
"He's in extremely poor health. We want him to be brought home," spokeswoman Heather Nauert said.


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I've spent decades dreaming about the perfect life. It's about time I let myself have one.
Friday, 26 June 2015
Lush Katariina
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Wow that is so lovely.and it must be wonderful to have it so close to where you now live. Those blue lupins took my breeath away and it is so nice to see a red squirrel too. There are only a few locations in England where they still remain and haven't been over run by the grey squirrel. Sarah xReplyDeleteReplies
This squirrel was running around us and we felt like it was expecting some tidbits. I'm sure there was more than enough available in the surrounding forest.Delete
Ihania kuvia ja kauniit maisemat. Tuolla en olekaan koskaan käynyt, vaikka entinen turkulainen olenkin.ReplyDelete
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Me uusturkulaiset olemme aivan ihastuksissamme lähitienoolta löytyvien hienojen luontokohteiden paljouteen.Delete
What a beautiful place to visit and enjoy, it looks so lovely!! xxReplyDeleteReplies
Now that we no longer have a garden of our own it is a blessing to have places like this nearby.Delete


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Summer Camps for the Folsom and El Dorado Hills Region
Mar 29, 2018 11:36AM
School's almost out! But wait…now what are we going to do? Fortunately, our area offers a treasure chest of summer camp fun. The companies featured this month are staffed by licensed professionals who love kids and enriching their lives. With something for just about all personalities, these camps are ready to entertain, and even educate, kids this summer. Style invites you to take note of these cool camps!
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The impact that the svirfneblin had on the underworld is not disputed by anyone; the consequences of the relentless advance of their Svirfdozers almost spelled doom for more than their own race. While some deep gnomes have turned their backs on scientific advancements as a result, there is a school of thought that is convinced that the issue did not lie within the mechanical wonders the svirfneblin construct; instead, they consider the ceaseless ambition of their mortal brethren, consequence of their fear of death, to be the root of all evil. They believe that the origin of this ambition lies within the shortcomings of the flesh. Seeking to surpass the boundaries of the physical, these beings aim to transcend the limitations of their mortal coils by enhancing their bodies with cold steel. These vanguards of scientific advancements are the transgnomamists, and they believe that their path is the one that will lead not only their race, but all races of the Underworld, into a new, golden age.
- 0.1 It's Science!
- 0.2 Svirftech Bodymods
- 0.3 Svirftech Influx
- 0.4 Improved Svirftech Influx
- 0.5 Greater Svirftech Influx
- 0.6 Svirftech Bodymods Backslug
- 1 Arms of METAL!
- 2 Legs of STEEL!
- 3 Svirfoderm-Enhancers
- 4 Sensory Svirftech
It's Science!
Beginning at 2nd level when you choose this arcane tradition, you radically alter your views on how magic should work, how to use it and what to do with it. You begin championing a thoroughly distinct magic tradition (though you'd scoff at it being called "magic"—it's proper science!). You subscribe, heart and soul, to the belief in svirftech. This tradition has is benefits, but also its complications.
Scientific Equipment. Svirftech requires a ridiculous amount of hoses, levers, clamps, beakers, nozzles, cinches, wicks, flasks, gears, sprockets, widgets and all other kinds of mechanical knickknacks. You have to carry these around, which means that your natural carrying capacity is considered to be halved (Your Strength score multiplied by 7.5, rounded down), as you are at all times burdened with the massive assortment of your tools. You are considered to be proficient with these gizmos, but suffer from disadvantage when trying to use them to improvise a function. If you ever lose your scientific equipment, you cannot use your spell-tech until you regain your scientific equipment. You can replenish it in one day of shopping for a cost of 5 gp x your Hit Dice.
Svirftech Charges. When you become a transgnomamist, you undergo serious modification of your body. As a result, the implants and your arcane powers resonate, generating magical energy that you use to power your spell-tech and svirftech bodymods. You may expend a maximum number of svirftech charges per round equal to your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier. Your svirftech charges replenish after you finish a long rest.
Consult the Svirftech Charges Table below to determine your number of svirftech charges available.
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Spell-Tech. Once you choose to be a transgnomamist, you undergo modification of your body. This modification changes how your body conducts magical powers and prevents you from casting wizard spells in the usual way. You still have to prepare spells, as you have to prepare your technical bric-a-brac, but you no longer expend your spell slots to cast your prepared spells. Instead, you power your spells with your own bio-mechanical svirftech and latent, spiritual energies. In order to cast a spell-tech, you have to expend a number of svirftech charges equal to the spell slot you'd usually expend. If you cast a spell at higher levels, you instead expend svirftech charges equal to the increased spell slot level. Cantrips do not require the expenditure of svirftech charges. Your spell-techs are considered to be non-magical for the purpose of functioning in antimagic fields and similar environments, wherein magic functionality is compromised.
However, since the duplicated energies still are very much are akin to the energy-matrices of spells, they are still subject to counterspell and similar dispelling efforts. You still have to concentrate on spells with a duration, constantly recalibrating your tools, so such spell-tech effects can still be ended by breaking your Concentration. Spell-tech requires a lot of mechanical components, which are stressed by channeling magic energies. Once a given spell-tech's duration has elapsed (or if it has been countered, if you have lost Concentration or the spell-tech has ended otherwise), the specific spell-tech cannot be cast again for a number of minutes equal to the spell-tech's spell level, as this particular configuration of the spell-tech cools down and slowly becomes operational again.
Svirftech Bodymods
At 2nd level when you choose this arcane tradition, you also choose two special implants that change your body, as you embark on the journey towards becoming a machine. Your svirftech bodymods are produced by your bio-mechanical svirftech implants by deliberately converting and manipulating your body structure and tissue. They do not have a cost and cannot be sold. Your svirftech bodymods become part of your body and cannot be disarmed, sundered or otherwise directly targeted. Your svirftech bodymods may be controlled as naturally as though they were part of your body. Most svirftech body mods have an advanced function. Advanced functions require the expenditure of svirftech charges to activate, as denoted in the Advanced Function line of the svirftech bodymod. Unless otherwise noted, you can activate the advanced function of a svirftech bodymod as a bonus action.
Svirftech bodymod advanced functions do not require concentration. Once the duration of the advanced function of one of your svirftech bodymods expires, it requires a 1-minute cool-down before you can activate the advanced function again. At 6th, 10th, and 14th level, you may choose an additional svirftech bodymod. Whenever you choose a new svirftech bodymod, you may also have your body change one of your existing svirftech bodymods and replace it with another.
Svirftech Influx
At 6th level, you use your bonus action to flood your svirftech bodymods or spell-tech with an influx of potent energies after using it. Roll 1d6. You decrease the number of minutes of the svirftech bodymod or spell-tech before you can use it again by the result you rolled. If you decrease the cool-down period to 0, you may use the svirftech bodymod or spell-tech again on your next turn. Once you have used this feature, you may not use it again until you finish a long rest.
Improved Svirftech Influx
Starting at 10th level, you roll 1d8 instead of 1d6 when using your Svirftech Influx class feature. You may also use it an additional time (for a total of 2 uses) before you need to finish a long rest to use it again.
Greater Svirftech Influx
Beginning at 14th level, you roll 1d10 instead of 1d8 when using your Svirftech Influx class feature.
You may also use it an additional time (for a total of 3 uses) before you need to finish a long rest to use it again.
Svirftech Bodymods Backslug
This bodymod looks like a mechanical svirf riding slug affixed to the spine and base of the transgnomamist's skull. A transgnomamist may only benefit from one such device and enhancement bonuses granted by this device do not stack with ability increases granted by magic items, mechanical wonders or technological items.
There are two variants of backslugs:
Advanced Function: 2 svirftech charges
Duration: 1 hour
This svirftech bodymod increases a single mental ability score (Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma), chosen at the time when the svirftech bodymod is gained. The brainslug increases the chosen attribute by 1, up to a maximum of 20. Activating the advanced function of the brainslug provides you a special surge of insight: You may add +1d4 to the next ability check, skill check or saving throw based on your brainslug's chosen attribute.
Advanced Function: 2 svirftech charges
Duration: 1 hour
This svirftech bodymod increases a single physical ability score (Strength, Dexterity, Constitution), chosen at the time when the svirftech bodymod is gained. The stimslug increases the chosen attribute by 1, up to a maximum of 20. Activating the advanced function of the stimslug provides you a special surge of power: You may add +1d4 to the next ability check, skill check or saving throw based on your stimslug's chosen attribute.
Arms of METAL!
These svirftech bodymods replace one of the arms of the transgnomamist with a metal arm prosthetic. There are 3 different arms of metal svirftech bodymods.
Weaponized Arm
Advanced Function: 1 svirftech charge
Duration: 1 round per level
This prosthetic includes an internalized weapon—a circular saw (slashing damage), a potent drill (piercing damage) or a kind of steam-powered sledgehammer (bludgeoning damage) and may be enchanted as usual. You are proficient with your weaponized arm and use your spell attack modifier to attack with it. Regardless of the damage type chosen, the weaponized arm is treated as a one-handed martial melee weapon that inflicts 1d8 points of damage and scores a critical hit on a roll of 19–20. You may draw or sheathe your weaponized arm as a bonus action or as a reaction to rolling for initiative. While the advanced function is activated, the weaponized arm ignores a damage threshold of up to 5. Additionally, while activated, the weaponized arm inflicts an additional +1d6 damage of its damage type.
Healing Hands
Advanced Function: 3 svirftech charges
Duration: Instantaneous
The transgnomamist's hand has small scalpels and syringes that contain healing reagents. You have proficiency in the Wisdom (Medicine) skill as well as in the herbalism kit tool. You also gain advantage on these checks. As an action, you may activate the advanced function of the healing hands while touching a target. The target is healed by 1d8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier hit points.
Internalized Shield
Advanced Function: 2 svirftech charges
Duration: 1 round per level
Your arm slowly grows a physical shield, which grants the normal bonuses of a shield. You are proficient with your internalized shield. The advanced function can be activated as a bonus action or as a reaction to being targeted by a spell or effect that requires you to make a Dexterity saving throw. For the duration of the advanced function, you gain the Evasion class feature as well as advantage on Dexterity saving throws. Your defensive shield also provides you a number of temporary hit points equal to your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier when you activate it.
Legs of STEEL!
These svirftech bodymods replace both of your legs. There are three different legs of steel svirftech bodymods.
Svirfslug Sliders
Advanced Function: 2 svirftech charges
Duration: See text
Svirflsug sliders generate a synthetic version of super-slick svirflsug slime, decreasing friction. This increases your speed by +10 ft. You can activate the svirfslug sliders as an action. When you do, you increase the slime-production for 1 round per transgnomamist level. While thus activated, you can, as a bonus action, launch yourself up to 120 ft. in a straight line, ignoring non-damaging difficult terrain. This may be used a total number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier before prematurely ending the effects of the advanced function of this svirftech bodymod. Alternatively, while the advanced function of the svirfslug sliders is activated, you may squirt super-slick slime as a bonus action, duplicating the effects of grease as a non-magical ability.
Svirfslug Sticky Stompers
Advanced Function: 1 svirftech charge
Duration: 1 minute/level
These sticky legs grant the transgnomamist the Arachnid Athletics feat. Additionally, upon activating the advanced function of this svirftech bodymod, the sticky slime excreted by this svirftech bodymod generates the equivalent of one web shackle per round. These shackles are short-lived and crumble to dust when the duration of the advanced function elapses.
They cannot be sold.
Silenced Steps
Advanced Function: 1 svirftech charge
Duration: 1 minute/level
These particularly well-cushioned legs enhance the abilities of the transgnomamist to remain out of sight. You gain proficiency in Dexterity (Stealth).
If you activate the advanced function, the perfectly cushioned steps and the emitted counter-vibrations render you undetectable to tremorsense for the duration of the activation. Additionally, while the advanced function is activated, you gain advantage on Dexterity (Stealth).
These svirftech bodymods change replace the totality of your skin. You may only have one svirfoderm-enhancer.
The Fabulous Slug-Neblin
Advanced Function: 1 svirftech charge
Duration: 1 round/level
Your skin takes on slug-like characteristics, sweating sticky residue when you are threatened.
You may choose to begin sweating at any time.
Once you do, the next Intelligence modifier + your proficiency bonus 5-ft. squares (minimum 1) you pass become slimy, difficult terrain. You do not treat these slimy squares as difficult terrain. The gooey train of svirf slug slime always follows your movement. The slime floats in water, neither sinking nor rising. When used during flight, the slime falls to the floor. Creatures with the Land's Stride feature or similar abilities can move through this difficult terrain without impairment. When you activate the advanced function, it sends a psychic command to the slime. The slime is agitated by this command and becomes your choice of either acidic or poisonous, inflicting your choice of 1 point of acid or poison damage for each 5 feet of movement through the area. At 6th level, this damage increases to 1d4 and at 10th level, it increases by a further +1d4 for a total of 2d4 acid or poison damage.
Agent's Skin
Advanced Function: 2 svirftech charges
Duration: 1 minute/level
Your skin becomes highly mutable. You may assume the appearance of up to your Intelligence modifier different, specific characters of a Small-sized humanoid chosen from among the races or subraces you have seen before. Once chosen, these forms and their details are persistent and may not be changed. At 6th level, 10th level and 14th level, you learn to assume an additional form. You may maintain these alternate forms indefinitely and change between them as a bonus action. Upon activating the advanced function of this svirftech bodymod, you receive the underterror's Body Evolution class feature for the duration of the activation, and 1 evolution point to assign to it.
Advanced Function: 1 svirftech charge
Duration: 1 minute/level
Your skin is actually pretty much deadened by svirftech-powered necrotic energy coursing through all of your skin and muscles. You gain resistance to necrotic damage. When you activate the advanced function, you turn your skin, guts and muscle tissue, everything but eyes and bones, translucent for the duration. You gain the dødelig's Undead Immunity and Undead Nature racial features, but also their Skeletal Vulnerability racial drawback for the duration.
Sensory Svirftech
These facial svirftech bodymods affect one or more parts of your sensory apparatus. They tend to be unsettling and as such, choosing them impose disadvantage on a Charisma-based skill of your choice. Once made, that choice is permanent.
Phantom Antenna (aka Trouble-sniffer)
Advanced Function: 1 svirftech charge
Duration: Special
This implant is a hypersensitive antenna at the tip of the nose that detects fluctuations in the emotional charges of the ectoplasm suffusing the spirit world. This antenna nets you proficiency with Wisdom (Perception) and advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks made to notice creatures that are currently particularly agitated.
The GM decides what constitutes a particularly agitated state. You may activate the advanced function as a reaction to being subjected to an effect or attack from a trap. When you do, you either impose disadvantage on the trap's attack roll or gain advantage on Dexterity saving throws to avoid its effects.
Advanced Function: 1 svirftech charge
Duration: 1 minute/level
This bodymod is reminiscent of mechanical vestraadi-nodules dotting your face. While in contact with a body of water, you gain the vestraadi's Keen Hearing and Smell racial feature.
Activating the advanced function grants you the Vestraadi's Sonar for the duration.
Fungal Filters
Advanced Function: 1 svirftech charge
Duration: 1 hour
This disturbing svirftech bodymod looks like a fungal growth covering your mouth and throat, one that sports a strangely metallic sheen. You may breathe normally underwater and even nonmagical poison gas is filtered out harmlessly by the growth, rendering you immune to inhaled poisons, but not to contact gas poison. In a wholly oxygen-deprived environment, you may activate the advanced function of this svirftech bodymod.
The svirftech begins producing oxygen for 1 hour, allowing you to breathe normally for this duration.
Furthermore, the advanced function also renders you immune to magical poisonous gas effects like stinking cloud, cloudkill, etc.
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Just three points in it. That was the difference between the Steamers making the Mitre 10 Cup Championship division play-offs and their season coming to an abrupt halt with last Saturday's Tauranga Domain victory over Northland.
Turning one of the six consecutive losses through their mid-season slump into a win would have been enough to move them above Northland into fourth place, and a semi-final spot.
But for head coach Clayton McMillan, it's not about how close they came.
"No, not at all," he says. "Despite our injuries we had plenty of opportunity to accumulate points and we didn't, so we didn't deserve to be there.
"When we reflect on the season, despite us not being able to consistently put out anything close to our top team, there were a number of games that were well within our grasp and we just failed to capitalise on the opportunities presented to us. We're suffering the consequences of that now."
Narrow losses, to Hawkes Bay by one point and Manawatu by two, hurt badly, but Clayton singles out their 45-34 loss to Otago as the real killer.
"I think we played some of our best rugby of the season against Otago," he says, "and it was all undone by three intercept tries. That's been the story of our season."
He says they were on top of their game against Canterbury in the sunshine at Tauranga Domain too - at least for the first 60 minutes.
"I was really impressed with the way we played against Canterbury, and we probably deserved more than we got out of it.
"Had we done that, we may be having a completely different discussion right now. The balance between success and failure is a very thin line at this level and, unfortunately, we're on the negative side."
That very thin line makes the Mitre 10 Cup a hard competition in which to maintain momentum from season to season. Clayton identifies three key ingredients.
"Having consistency in your squad, having your fair chunk of Super Rugby experience and being able to put the same team out on the paddock for the majority of the season helps.
"And if you're a little askew in any of those three things, it certainly puts pressure on."
Hard work has never been in short supply for the team, but their ability to turn good positions into points too often was. In only three of their 10 matches did they pick up bonus points for four or more tries, compared to seven for Championship division top dogs Waikato.
"From an attacking perspective, we simply haven't scored enough tries," says Clayton. "That's largely come about by some basic fundamental errors that have prevented us from getting the continuity that is going to lead to tries.
"But also, we probably need to have a look at the profile of some of our selections. We've been pretty open in our group about not being a team blessed with a whole lot of X-factor, and that's meant that we've had to have a fairly narrow sort of game plan.
"You would have seen us recently doing a lot of mauling and driving, and returning almost to a traditional sort of 10-man game, because that's where our strengths lie at the moment. That actually served us pretty well in the last couple of weeks.
"But if you look to last year – and I don't want to disrespect the guys we've got in the team this year because they've all tried bloody hard and given everything they've got – but we haven't had the Joe Webbers and Monty Ioanes, those guys that singlehandedly created so many opportunities for us last year that contributed to the success that we enjoyed."
In fact, trying too hard may actually have been part of the problem at times, Clayton believes. The hat-trick of intercept tries against Otago is a prime example, he says.
"The boys are so desperate to want to play well, so desperate to win games, that a forced pass when a carry would probably be a better option leads to things like intercept tries.
"It's a frustration for everybody because it's probably come as a consequence of trying too hard, not a lack of trying."
Next season will be a real period of transition, Clayton says.
"There's obviously some young talent coming through our ranks that, if they continue to work hard, will feature next year. We also have some players that have been great stalwarts who've played their last game for the Bay."
At the forefront of his mind in the second category are two players who had their seasons cruelly cut short by injury - Tanerau Latimer and Mike Delany - whose polish in the critical first five-eight position may have made a big difference to the outcome of the season.
"Mike's been an integral part of the side over the last couple of years and we certainly missed him. But we missed a whole heap of guys to be perfectly fair, and it's a season of could-have-beens.
"But we're now at the end and we're not where we want to be, so there's just disappointment that we didn't reach our potential."


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Another one of my favourites from this set, this baby Brachiosaurus coloring page shows a cute baby Brachiosaurus standing under some trees, this one should be good for children of all ages to color in.
Looking forward to seeing how the online version of this one works, got a feeling it will be good.
There are several more Dinosaur Printables also available on my site including some new online coloring pages, where you can color the pictures in using your computer.
Create your own special Dinosaur pictures on your Computer with the Dinosaur Fuzzy Felt Game.
Dragon printables, online coloring pages for children of all ages.
Two dinosaurs feature in this kids printable, a simple one good for younger kids.
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Gmvault is a great tool by Guillaume Aubert that makes it easy to create a backup of your Gmail emails on your local disk. It is cross-platform (Windows, Mac OS and Linux), supports incremental backups and handles errors that occur during the backup gracefully.
I have been looking for a tool to take automatic backups of my Gmail account for a while and Gmvault fits the bill. What I also wanted was a way to store the backed up files safely on Amazon S3 so I could recover them even if my local disk failed. This functionality is not included in Gmvault but it was quite straight-forward to code.
The Plan
Gmvault lets you either create a complete backup of all your emails or an incremental backup of just the last two month's emails (called a "quick sync"). Since I wanted the backup to be taken automatically every week, I decided to do one complete backup manually, compress-encrypt-upload it to S3, and then set up a script that does a quick sync and compress-encrypt-uploads newly backed up emails to S3. This script is now located on a small Linux server of mine and called every Monday morning by a Cron job.
The quickest and safest choice to encrypt a file seems to OpenPGP. GnuPG is a OpenPGP implementation that is available on most Linux installations. You can find a quick introduction on how to encrypt and decrypt a file using GnuPG here.
Lots of Files
Gmvault stores the backup in a folder named "gmvault-db" in your home directory. At first I planned to just sync the complete folder to S3 but when I saw it contained 190,000+ files after the first complete backup, I quickly gave up that plan. It would have taken far too long and created unnecessary costs (S3 bills you per request). Since the files are clustered by months (one folder per month) I then decided to compress each folder and upload the resulting files. This has the additional benefit that after a quick sync I only need to upload those folders that changed, most likely only the current and maybe the last month.
The Code
Without further ado, below you see what I came up with. Let me know if you have any questions, comments or improvements in the comments!
require 'fileutils'
require 'aws'
# Change these values according to your configuration
gmail_account = '[email protected]' # Gmail gmail_account that should be synced
s3_bucket = 'gmvault-backup' # S3 bucket that the backups should be stored in
password = 'secret' # The password used to encrypt the files
# Configure AWS
AWS.config \
access_key_id: ENV['AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'],
secret_access_key: ENV['AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY']
# Load bucket
s3_bucket = AWS::S3.new.buckets[s3_bucket]
# Helper method to execute commands
def execute(command)
system(command).tap do |result|
puts %(Error running command "#{command}") unless result
# Save start time before running Gmvault so we know which files have changed
start = Time.now
# Do a quick sync (only last two months) and redirect STDOUT to /dev/null
command = "gmvault sync --type quick #{gmail_account} > /dev/null"
# Quit if sync fails
exit unless execute(command)
gmvault_folder = File.join(Dir.home, 'gmvault-db')
db_folders = Dir[File.join(gmvault_folder, 'db', '*')]
# Create "backup" folder inside Gmvault folder which will store the backup files
FileUtils.mkdir_p File.join(gmvault_folder, 'backup')
# Pick only folders that have been changed during sync
db_folders_to_upload = db_folders.sort.select do |db_folder|
File.mtime(db_folder) > start
# Compress, encrypt and upload each folder
db_folders_to_upload.each do |db_folder|
backup_filename = [db_folder.split('/').last, 'tar.gz'].join('.')
backup_file = File.join(gmvault_folder, 'backup', backup_filename)
encrypted_backup_filename = [backup_filename, 'gpg'].join('.')
encrypted_backup_file = [backup_file, 'gpg'].join('.')
commands = [
# Compress db folder (e.g. ~/gmvault-db/db/2012-06) into single file (e.g. ~/gmvault-db/backup/2012-06.tar.gz)
"tar cvzfP #{backup_file} #{db_folder} > /dev/null",
# Encrypt the created file with the password
"echo '#{password}' | gpg --symmetric --batch --yes --passphrase-fd 0 --output #{encrypted_backup_file} #{backup_file}"
# Skip to next folder if any command fails
next unless commands.all?(&method(:execute))
# Upload to S3
s3_bucket.objects[encrypted_backup_filename].write(file: encrypted_backup_file)


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Dugu Clique?
Everyone around immediately changed their faces when they heard these words from the young man. Once again, they took another dozens of steps back.
In the Snow Country, there were six plutocrats which belonged to long-standing aristocratic families, which had existed since the Snow Country was founded. They had been standing until now, which were not weaker than any great Sects. Their foundations were greatly concrete. And the Dugu Clique was one of them.
After the former generation of Dugu Clique – Du Gu Quan became the Snow Country Pill God, was the first master in the Empire who had joined the Imperial Serving Organization later, which had helped Dugu Clique's influence get stronger.
These past few years, the influence range of Dugu Clique had no longer stayed within Azure Phoenix province. It had started spreading out to other provinces throughout the Empire. They were like the sun rose in the West, exceedingly glorious.
Under such circumstances, Dugu Clique's working style was ruder and more intimidating.
Few enemies of Dugu Clique had also vanished lately.
Therefore, when people heard of the names of the two young masters of Dugu Clique, they hurriedly moved away. If a fight really happened, with Dugu Clique's working style, they would probably get implicated unreasonably.
"Get that bastard out?" Wen Wan used toothpicks to pick his teeth, didn't lifted his head, saying, "This bastard, I am afraid that he is too scared to show up."
"You. . ." The noble guy was furious, he wanted to say something.
Then an older noble guy suddenly pulled his little brother back, shook his head, pushed his little brother to a side, stepped forward, cupped his hands and said, "What shall we call you? If these lowly kids have done anything offensive to you, please excuse them."
Wen Wan lifted his head to look at him, then nodded his head and said, "On the contrary, you are pretty understanding," he pointed at Bai Yuanxing nearby, snickered and said, "The number one subordinate of the White Horse Tower Marquis Ye, Bai Yuanxing, is he qualified or disqualified to take care of your Dugu Clique's matter?"
Bai Yuanxing's face immediately turned red.
Why does he talk about me like that? General Wen is really reckless. Bringing up Marquis Ye's name maybe work in the beginning.
He was about to stand up to explain something.
Just then.
"What?" That noble young master was startled. His eyes fell onto Bai Yuanxing's body. He lightly examined then understood right away then bended his back to bow respectfully and said, "We didn't know that Sir Bai would be here. I, DuGu TianXin, greeting to Sir Bai."
Bai Yuanxing was really astonished right now.
He couldn't react momentarily.
How. . . since when did I get such a great reputation like this?
This thing hadn't been finished yet.
"DuGu DiXiu, greeting to Sir Bai." After hearing Bai Yuanxing's name, another highly noble young master seemed to realize something and be bewildered. He also went over to pay his greeting properly.
"My greeting to Sir Bai."
Their guards immediately retreated their swords, respectfully paying their greetings.
The people, who were originally anticipating something fun, were all taken by surprise.
This young man, at first look, looked like any other ordinary people. But his background was too good. Even the two young masters from Dugu Clique both paid him their respects.
Song Qingluo, who was being anxious, was also startled.
Only Wen Wan had already known this matter. His face was tranquil and full of happiness.
"This thing. . ." He didn't know what else to say.
DuGu TianXin respectfully bowed again then said, "Don't know how have Marquis Ye been lately? I've heard Marquis Ye has been in secluded cultivation when TianXin arrived in Youyan Pass few days ago. I don't dare to go disturb him. May Sir Bai apologize to Marquis Ye on behalf of us."
Bai Yuanxing had finally comprehended everything.
It turns out that Dugu Clique's people are also scared of Marquis Ye.
This also makes sense.
After all, Bai Yuanxing had been very clear at heart. Any unusual matter would become natural if it involved De Qingyu.
At first, he couldn't react because he didn't think Marquis Ye would have had the relationship with Dugu Clique. But right now, after seeing these two young masters of Dugu Clique being respectful like this, he immediately understood why.
"Marquis Ye is still in seclusion. I don't know when he will finish. YuanXing will definitely inform Marquis Ye about the appearancesof you two young masters as soon as he comes out." Bai Yuanxing said while being neither humble nor pushy.
"Then, we are sincerely thankful to you, Sir Bai." DuGu TianXin and DuGu DiXiu rejoiced.
When the Dugu Clique's master was in the prime of his life. His vital energy was different from ordinary men. He had countless wives and concubines. These two young men were the sons that he had with his first wife. His first wife passed away many years ago. The statuses of these two men had been reduced significantly. He had kids with some concubines. There were some fierce characters appearing, which threatened the position of these two men.
In everybody's eyes, they were seen as the prestigious young masters of Dugu Clique, the so-called wealthy and powerful family, they could get whatever they wanted. But in fact, was it really like that?
It was like a fish drinking water; only itself would know if the water was really hot or cold.
Dugu Clique had also put a lot of effort to get the host position managing the Genius Garden's transactions this time in Youyan Pass.
The main reason was that the master of the former generation, who was now the Great Master, the head of Dugu Clique, the Snow Country Pill God- Du Gu Quan, would come to the Youyan Pass. Even though, it had been a long time since Du Gu Quan involved in family business, he still got an ultimate position in the Family. The relationship between Dugu Brothers and their grandfather had been not bad by far. They wanted to take this chance to earn some affections from their grandfather.
They didn't expect that after arriving at the Youyan Pass, they would receive the news of their grandfather and little Marquis becoming sworn brothers.
These two brothers had known really well their grandfather's personality. If their grandfather had seen Marquis Ye as a brother, when he came here, they would probably had to obediently call Marquis Ye Uncle.
Those two inquired every detail about Ye Qingyu's matter.
From Lin Baiyi's and Shopkeeper Sui's mouths, they had gotten some news. Those brothers were also frightened by Ye Qingyu's background as well as his legends. They immediately knew this little Marquis was not simple as they had thought him to be. And then after several times meeting with their grandfather to talk about some stuff and judging from their grandfather's attitude toward Ye Qingyu, they were aware that the hope that they had been spending time to find maybe was from Ye Qingyu.
They decided to pay attention, must take this favorable situation, which he and their righteous Grandfather had become family.
It was just that Ye Qingyu had been in secluded cultivation for the past few days. They didn't dare to disturb him.
They didn't think their subordinates would offend his people today, not to mention they were Righteous Grandfather's subordinates, this matter. . .
DuGu TianXin and DuGu DiXiu couldn't help but worry at heart.
"My subordinates are not sensible, dare to offend Sir Bai. I will definitely teach them a lesson after returning." At this moment, DuGu TianXin wanted to cut Song Zhi and his scoundrels into pieces.
Bai Yuanxing shook his head then said, "The one they've offended is not me but our Marquis's lover. I hope they can apologize them."
His words hadn't finished yet.
Wen Wan leisurely picked his teeth, almost spat it out, but then directly chewed it off.
This Bai Yuanxing is indeed a blockhead. I've just teased him a little bit but he really thinks that it is real. Ha ha ha ha, of course, Little Ye doesn't have a lover, a ha ha ha, this is really interesting... it is too interesting.
Wen Wan immediately felt enthusiastic and lively.
On the other hand, the fine, small, delicate and beautiful face of Song Qingluo's instantly turned red. She couldn't even lift her head up.
Since when did I become Ye Qingyu's girlfriend?
On the other side.
DuGu TianXin and DuGu DiXiu also didn't know the root of this story.
After hearing those words from Bai Yuanxing, their hearts simultaneously drummed crazily, they were scared till being numb.
In other words, if their grandfather knew of this, the legs of their brothers would probably be cut off.
"Bring Song Zhi and other his damn bastards are here for me." DuGu TianXin gritted his teeth.
When hearing this, other people around Song Zhi, who still didn't know what was happening, were frightened to the point that their limbs were numb. They couldn't even speak a word. Not to mention Song Zhi, his mind was completely blank. He had just gotten such a big support like Song Jiannan, who was like a headless-fly coming in front of him. Was he a pig then?
"Grandfather, grandfather, grandfather. . . Young master. . . I. . ." Song Zhi crawled over on the ground.
DuGu TianXin kicked him away with his foot. His eyes were as cold as a blade,"Bring me stick, I'll beat this rascal till death."
As a disciple of an aristocratic family, even though he was not cruel or sly, he definitely went through countless circumstances. Therefore, he would know when and what he should do. He would definitely not be reckless. Hence, he for sure knew when he needed to be cruel.
"Arg, young master, please, I. . ."
His words had not been finished yet.
The guards around them had taken their swords, their sheaths were like clubs. They could have turned these cunning fellows into dust in a blink of an eye.
His hunting dogs were scared crazily by Dugu brothers and their guards. Their faces were as white as sheets. Cold sweats were all over their bodies. They wanted to run but their legs were shaking too much that they couldn't move. Even though the world was big, if they had offended Dugu Clique, no one could keep them alive.
"All of you beat him to death."
DuGu DiXiu said with a frigid voice.
After all, Song Qingluo was a kind girl at heart. As a girl, she naturally had a soft heart. Until this time, she wasn't brave to do this and hesitated for a while. As she was just about to say something, Wen Wan directly pulled her to a side.
"This kind of dog who thinks that it is a lion at home is full of evil dirty tricks. Today if we let them go, they will do something meaner later. Today, I am really embarrassed that I've humiliated you and the others." Wen Wan said with a serious tone, "Today you guys don't need to mind these kinds of lowly and cunning rascals. In terms of dealing with these sly rascals, little Ye is far way better than you."
Song Qingluo was surprised, and instinctively nodded her head.
"Don't know what shall I call you sir?" DuGu TianXin clasped his hands together in front of his chest while asking.
Wen Wan laughed out loud, pretended to be a noble person, said, "Oh, I am just a small servant. I have just been ordered by the vanguard camp to come here to wait for Marquis Ye."
"Oh. . ." DuGu TianXin nodded his head.
Then he heard Wen Wan continuing his speech, "In fact, my relationship with Marquis Ye is not that close. I just happen to have taught him Martial Arts Cultivation for a while before. . ."
DuGu TianXin and DuGu DiXiu immediately changed their expressions. They almost kneeled down to bow.
Ye Qingyu was their grandfather's sworn brother. Based on their rank, they had to call Ye Qingyu, grandfather. But this man in front of them was Ye Qingyu's teacher. Teacher was like a father. Must they call him great grandfather?
This kind of rank is too confusing.
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ughhhh…… Is she seriously gonna stick?
"After all, Song Qingluo was a kind girl at heart."
Bullshit. She was a total b*tch and never once displayed this 'kindness' before. She was the antagonist yesterday but today she's suddenly the victim and gets to ride Ye Qingyu's coattails? Bullshit. If she really got dragged away and raped by that hooligan then it would have no relation to Ye Qingyu at all, she's the one who broke off their relationship. It isn't right that she can cast Ye Qinyu aside when he's a nobody but now that he has status she's suddenly his childhood friend again. Go die.
I think you are confusing Song Qingluo with his former childhood friend. Qinglou is the older sister of the loli.
I was mistaken because a few chapters back the teacher said, "Don't blame me for not letting you know about this. That girl is actually Marquis Ye's ex-lover."
And when I read ex-lover the closest thing I could think of was the childhood friend.
Wen Wan was messing with Bai Yuanxing, but I think this joke will be spread around the Pass.
this is hilarious xD thanls for the chapter 😀
lmao to perfect hahaha ty~
Wow is this slut seriously going o stay. I am so close to dropping this he doesn't even like her and neither do I. Got no interest in reading this if she sticks to him like dog


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The East Terrace can reveal that former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf - dubbed 'Comical Ali' for the bizarre press statements he issued whilst acting as Saddam Hussein's spin doctor was in line to replace Alastair Campbell as the Lions media consultant.
Sources close to Woodward have revealed that the head coach was 'less than impressed' with Campbells handling of the tour and tried to bring in a less controversial, more 'genuine' replacement. After the first Test defeat, and the ham-fisted media handling of the ODriscoll incident, Woodward spoke with Mr Sahhaf and had apparently agreed terms for him to replace Campbell. However, Mr Sahhaf backed out when he carried out some research and decided that the Lions tour was a lost cause.
'I didnt want to be associated with something so futile,' said Mr Sahhaf. 'Besides, if Mr Campbell was unable to handle it then I dont think anyone could.'
Woodward has come under heavy fire from journalists and former players for appointing Tony Blairs former spin doctor to the tour and tarnishing the proud heritage of the Lions. Many sources feel that the appointment of Mr. Sahhaf would have added a degree of credibility to the statements issued from the Lions camp, which often turned out to be misleading or contrived.
One former player, who refused to be named, claimed the sight of Alastair Campbell wearing a Lions tracksuit was 'sickening'. 'Im sure most of the British and Irish fans would have been able to swallow the image of Comical Ali in a Lions tracksuit sooner than Alastair Campbell.'
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No doubt that the most popular topic about health in winter is how to prevent a cold or flu. It is certainly not a pleasant experience when we catch a cold, we not only have to take some time off from the work, but also suffer from headaches, fevers, coughs, a stuffing nose and lack of energy. But there are some natural and simple solutions out there that can prevent a cold or flu in the first place, and also get you back on track quickly.
One quick and easy solution is to get a hot water bottle handy. According to the Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are some important acupoints on your neck and back that can be used to treat a cold or a cough effectively. You may wonder where they are. Let's understand the concept of the acupoints first. Your body consists of many interacting energy channels called meridian channels, just like many highways, these meridian channels form a web in the body for the energy to flow freely, and the acupoints are like the traffic lights on these highways, and they can turn on or turn off the energy flow. If you stimulate a certain acupoint, it can enhance the energy flow at the specific location, thus resolves the energetic blockage located there and speeds up the healing process. So acupoints are the gatekeepers for the energy flow in another word. There is an important acupoint called Dazhuiacupointright located on the midline at the base of the neck, which is in the depression below the spinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra (C7). It is right below the most noticeable vertebra when you bend your head and feel it with your hand.
You don't need to know exactly where the Dazhuiacupoint is located, just place the hot water bottle filled hot water on your neck, and lie down to rest for 15-20 minutes. You can do this twice a day if you want to get rid of a cold faster. The more you rest, the faster you will recover from a cold. Believe it or not, this acupoint does the wonders to treat a cold or flu.
The hot water bottle can do other wonders beyond your imagination, here are a few examples.
1. Treat a Cough
Just fill the hot water bottle with hot water and cover with a thin towel, and place it on your upper back for about 15-20 minutes a day. It will stimulate the blood circulation in your lung system and supply more nutrients to these organs to boost your immunity, which in turn to prevent a cold and treat a cough.
2. Promote a Sound Sleep
If you have trouble to sleep at night, this tip will do the magic for you. There is an important acupoint for sleep in your neck right behind your earlobe. It is called "Anmian" acupoint, which means sleeping acupoint. You can rest your neck on a hot water bottle filled with hot water at night before you sleep to stimulate this acupoint, which will give you a restful sleep at night.
3. Stop the Diarrhea
Most diarrhea is caused by the energetic blockage in your abdomen according to the traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), you can place a hot water bottle filled with hot water on your belly right on your belly button for 15-20 minutes a day. This will promote the energy flow in your abdomen and stop diarrhea in no time!
The belly button is called the magical gate in TCM, it can be used both as a diagnostic tool and also a treatment center. You can discover its magic power in this video.
4. Reduce the Ringing in the Ears (Tinnitus)
According to TCM, the energy of the kidney system opens in the ears, this means the root cause of the issues related to the ears is the energetic blockage in the kidney system. The hot water bottle comes handy again; you can place the hot water bottle filled with hot water on your lower back, either in a sitting or lying down position for about 15-20 minutes a day. Well, soon you will notice that the annoying ringing in your ears when you sleep disappears in a blink of eyes.
If you want to boost your kidney function and extend your lifespan, read how the little ears can do to your health.
5. Relieve the Back Pain and Shoulder Pains
It is common that some of us are suffering from the back and shoulder discomfort especially in winter. People with chronic arthritis may experience more pains in such a cold and damp weather. Well, a hot water bottle is all you need instead of the painkillers. I happened to catch some rain in a cold raining day a few days ago, and I felt the neck and shoulder tension the next day. All I did is to place a hot water bottle filled with hot water on my neck and rested for about 15 minutes, and only one treatment the pain and stiffness are gone. I was amazed how fast and effective it is!
I am a true believer that the best remedies for any health issue should come from the food first. How to treat a cold or a cough easily with food then?
Roast the Tangerines
Most coughs are caused by a cold. This recipe is perfect to stop a cough when it just started, especially for the children. All you need is to get some fresh tangerines from the grocery store. Don't forget, it is tangerines, not oranges. Then roast the whole tangerine in the oven, when it turns to the dark color that is just right. Then let it cool down and remove the dark peel, and enjoy the pulp inside. Just take one or two of this roasted tangerine twice a day; you will be amazed how quickly it will settle your cough. How does it work? Both the skin and the pith of the tangerine have been used therapeutically to treat a cough or bronchitis for thousands of years in Asia. The procedure of roasting the tangerine will allow the therapeutic ingredients in the skin to penetrate into the pulp. Don't overlook this roasting procedure, it does the trick!
Steam the Oranges with the Salt
If you didn't get the chance to take care of a cold when it just started, you may experience a fever and sore throat during the second stage. Now the strategy to treat a cold that has been already progressed is different too. This time we are going to choose oranges instead of the tangerines. According to the Traditional Chinese Medicine, the pulp of the oranges has a cold nature, and it has many therapeutic health benefits, including comforting the stomach, reducing nausea and enhancing digestion. While the skin of the oranges is a different story, it actually has a hot nature and soothes your lungs by reducing the cough and activating your body's self-defense system to fight against a cold. How to combine these two ingredients to maximize the therapeutic result? Here comes the solution. Soak an orange in the salty water for a few minutes and wash the skin well. Cut the top of the orange to the point that you can see the pulp. Punch a few small holes with a small knife on the top and spread 1/8 tsp of salt to cover the holes. Now place it in a bowl and steam it in a pot for about 10 minutes. When it is ready, you can just enjoy the pulp. You can enjoy this salt flavored orange one or two a day and watch how fast you can recover from a cold.
When it comes to the best remedies to prevent a cold or a cough, garlic would be one of the best out there. Why? According to TCM, the therapeutic ingredients of the garlic enter the lung meridian channel, which prevent a cold and cough in the first place. There are many ways to make garlic a powerful weapon to fight against a cold or a cough, I will introduce two simple recipes that do all.
1. Garlic and Ginger Drink
Prepare 7 to 8 slices of fresh ginger and 7 to 8 garlic cloves, remove the skin. Put all the ingredients in a pot and add 2 cups of water, bring it to boil and cook for 10 minutes with a medium heat, then add 1 teaspoon of brown sugar. This drink does the magic to stop a cough. You can drink it twice a day to speed up the recovery. It only takes a few days to ease a cough.
2. Garlic Soaks in the Honey
This is one of my favorite recipes to boost your immune system, especially in winter. It is very easy to prepare. All you need is a clean glass jar, chop some fresh garlic heads into small pieces and fill the jar with the chopped garlic, then pour the honey on top of the garlic and let it flow through the garlic until it covers the top, and seal the jar with a cap. That is it. Leave it in a refrigerator for about 2 weeks, it is ready to serve. You can take one tablespoon of this garlic and honey mixture early in the morning before the breakfast. This recipe is perfect to prevent a cold or a cough in winter and also works wonders to ease a cough for those who suffer from chronic bronchitis.
Ginger is another wonder food that has many amazing healing benefits.
There are many wonderful solutions to treat the illnesses from the Mother Nature; we should use them as the first defense as much as we can instead of jumping right into the drugs. Mother Nature has way more wisdom than our humans can comprehend at this point, would you agree?
Even some food wastes have tremendous health benefits that are beyond your imagination, here are a few examples.
What are your magical weapons to treat a cold or a cough? Please share with us.
If you are interested in more tips about health from the Traditional Chinese Medicine, check my ebook "Harness the Magical Power of Ancient Chinese Medicine". This book gathers the wisdom from ancient Chinese medicine, including how to balance the Yin and Yang energy, how to work on the energetic points of different meridian systems and how to harmonize the Five Elements such as the Fire, Water, Wood, Earth, and Metal in our body. It provides a framework to help you develop an easy to follow daily routine that not only cures chronic conditions but also prevents illnesses down the road, and achieves optimal health.
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Electronic music is made for dancing, but for the vision research team of the Burke-Blythedale Pediatric Neuroscience Research Collaboration, plugging in and pumping up the volume is just part of the job when working with Valentino Guidi.
Born a healthy baby in 2006, Valentino reached all the regular developmental milestones. At the age of three-and-a-half, however, he nearly drowned causing a severe brain injury. After the tragic event, Valentino was unable to sit or stand, to feed himself, or to communicate. His parents also did not know whether he could see and wanted him to become more visually aware. After months of therapies and treatments in his home city of Hong Kong, Valentino became stable enough to travel, and his parents sought medical opinions in New York, where Valentino's mother, Sandra Lee, grew up.
"We started to look for options and met plenty of clinicians that looked at Valentino and within one second decided he couldn't do anything and told us to just accept it," said Ms. Lee. The search for answers led them to Dr. Jason Carmel, a pediatric neurologist and assistant professor of neuroscience in pediatrics at Burke Medical Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine. Knowing that the goal for Valentino was to become more visually aware, Dr. Carmel consulted with a Burke colleague, Glen Prusky, Ph.D., professor and director of the Laboratory for Visual Disease and Therapy at Burke Medical Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine.
Dr. Prusky created a system for testing vision in mice or rats. To test vision, rodents are placed in front of a computer screen displaying moving black and white bars. If the rodent can see the moving bars, the computer system follows the rodent's eye movement via a webcam. The bars are adjusted to become narrower and with less contrast to determine the range and limits of vision function. If a rodent's eyes no longer follow the bars on the screen then we know what the rodent is unable to see. When Ms. Lee saw this system in use, she said, "My son can do that."
"We modified the rodent system to be child size for Valentino and placed the system in front of Valentino. We watched his eyes through the webcam to decide if his eyes were able to follow and track the moving bars smoothly," said Dr. Prusky. This helped researchers confirm to Valentino's parents that he could, in fact, see!
The team replaced the webcam with eye tracking technology to improve the vision assessment tool. Jeremy Hill, D. Phil., an Instructor at Burke Medical Research Institute, created the system based on the principles that Dr. Prusky had established. "We took a computer monitor and software that presented visual stimuli, developed an algorithm that gathered input from an eye-tracking device to determine if a person's eye movement was smooth and then connected it to a system that played or paused music," said Dr. Hill. Dr. Prusky added, "We now call the system OptokineSys. It enables us to measure visual function in children who cannot communicate about their range of vision abilities."
In 2015, the Burke Medical Research Institute partnered with Blythedale Children's Hospital to bring neurosciences advances to children with neurological impairments through the Burke-Blythedale Pediatric Neuroscience Research Collaboration. Together with Valentino's family a new research program, the Vision Recovery Program, was established to help engage Valentino through vision recovery. This enabled OptokineSys to be tested with other children who are at risk of low vision due to brain injury. It is estimate that a quarter of children with low vision have diminished function because of a brain problem, rather than an eye problem. This system should allow accurate diagnosis of this disorder, improved understanding of how vision changes over time in affected children, and perhaps improved therapy.
"We've now tested over 40 children at Blythedale Children's Hospital," said Dr. Carmel, who directs the Burke-Blythedale collaboration. "We can, for the first time, know how well a child can see, even if they cannot communicate." The team has also begun to measure vision changes as children grow and develop. Dr. Prusky continues to investigate and research advancements for vision recovery and has found that in rodents, giving repeated testing on this system as therapy indeed improved their vision function. The research team plans to test the hypothesis that delivering visual stimulation at the threshold of ability can in fact improve vision function.
Valentino has used OptokineSys regularly over the years since it was developed. He has shown that it is possible to repeatedly measure vision in children who cannot communicate. It is also possible to engage children with the computer system, largely using music reward. "One of Valentino's functions that was left intact and quite sharp, was his hearing and his taste in music. That really motivates him," said Ms. Lee. Techno and dance music are some of his favorites. The research team has seen a measurable increase in Valentino's visual function over the years that he has been using it, although only a formal trial will determine if the system is effective. This offers hope and aspiration for Valentino and the large number of children with vision loss due to brain injury, that a therapy will one day be possible. Today, using OptokineSys, the music beat continues to pump up the volume.
For more information on the Burke-Blythedale Pediatric Neuroscience Research Collaboration, or about the OptokineSys program visit burke.weill.cornell.edu/burke-blythedale or blythedale.org/vision or please contact Dr. Jason Carmel at email@example.com or (914) 368-3135.


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text: Some mock drafts: https://www.draftsite.com/wnba/mock-draft/2018/ has Ariel at #13 (top of the 2nd round) to Las Vegas has Brooke at #34 in the 3rd round to New York No Big 12 players listed in the 1st round; Ariel is the first of four Big 12 players projected in the 2nd round while Brooke is the only Big 12 player in the 3rd. Surprised that BU's Wallace is not listed as drafted but that ACL injury late in the year probably has a lot to do with that. https://wbasketballblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/2018-wnba-mock-draft-version-3-0/ has Ariel at #18 (6th in the 2nd round) to Dallas. Brooke at #25 (1st in the 3rd round) to Phoenix; only two others in the 2nd round and three more in the third besides Ariel and Brooke from the Big 12. https://highposthoops.com/2018/04/03/2018-wnba-draft-big-board-v-6-0-stevens-uconn/14/ has Ariel at #15 (3rd in the 2nd round) going to Connecticut and Brooke at #18 (6th in the 2nd round) to Dallas. Four other Big 12 players (one in the 2nd and three in the 3rd) listed in this mock draft.


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Since this is the inaugural version I should explain what this is all about, but since that might take me more time today, I am quickly going to post this first item. Then another day, I will give a quick intro and refer back to it in each post thereafter.
Last night's version of ND Twitter POD, was taken a couple months ago at 'Bahall' Lake -- .3 of mile from here -- located between Lake Maria State Park and my parents in law's farm in Silver Creek Twp, MN.
Tweet version: https://twitter.com/nichedental/status/267132680611700736
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NicheDental.com Pic of Day: iPad~Ipad the truth, notepad, launch/iBachelor Pad~Swank/ThinkPad or really lily pad: pic.twitter.com/FAHGAxts
This pic turned out nice compared to half of others I take. My iPhone (next to latest version) is good for close ups, not much for distance or action, which makes sense, but is only visual recording device I have with me during my 'hiking activities' to forever capture some flora or fauna. It's especially frustrating when I'm trying to catch that elusive owl in the woods*.
Owl photo in question: https://twitter.com/nichedental/status/263844406241665024/photo/1
Swinging tree to tree in pursuit is difficult enough, so to ever get my hands on one would be choice, but a picture would be cool too, dude!
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*Just kidding about catching owls. Two things against me the swinging tree to tree: First my small hands would slip from anything but the smallest branch. Second, my luck means the first branch I grab would be rotten. And, falling to the ground from many feet up is also not an activity this 50 year old body (but feels like a young 75) cannot bear again.
Here is where I finally Facebook my inadequacies in photography. Take heed 'they' warn (the photography-anados who say nada to my taking photos), unless I take pictures when my world has stopped moving or moving around me. Taking time to smell the lily pads, as they say....
Here it's a shorter dry-a-liable photo rant, but LinkedIn to all the businesses that REALLY matter! No, no, I'm just bent out of shape. And, you can be one that REALLY matters, if you just connect. I not a snob; I just have angle management issues.
I need a good angle on getting businesses to connect. If you have any suggestions, I can try to angle and reel with them as long as they don't seem fishy. It's not that your ideas won't be good, it's just that I was voted bratwurst angler on this fully cooked bloat that I now float.
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