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Civic & Government
Ennead creates architecture that shapes the public realm. Our civic projects range from embassies to courthouses to major city infrastructure. The designs of these buildings integrate the latest technology and systems, address specific functional criteria, and exemplify civic purpose and responsibility. They activate their surroundings and nurture a sense of community through the inclusion of essential public space.
U.S. Diplomatic Facilities
Our designs for diplomatic facilities create a welcoming civic presence that responds to local culture while proudly representing the United States. Serving as both community centers and workplace environments, these facilities balance openness and transparency with security, encourage the practice of diplomacy, and inspire cross-cultural exchange.
Our courthouses establish a positive civic presence and create spaces that affirm the significance of the judicial process.
Municipal Organizations
Ennead creates accessible, welcoming spaces that enhance the visitor experience. These municipal facilities are civic anchors that establish place and form for important community resources.
Infrastructure Facilities
Our infrastructure facilities go beyond addressing fundamental community needs and engage the civic realm. These facilities establish public space in unexpected locations and incorporate striking material palettes and forms to create memorable architectural statements that serve as community destinations.
Ennead's comprehensive portfolio of education work has redefined learning spaces – from kindergarten to graduate school – with bespoke environments that establish a unique sense of place, inspire student development, promote collaboration across disciplines, and strengthen connections within the classroom and to the broader community.
Learn more about our approach to Higher Education here and our K-12 work here.
Informing our K-12 projects is our extensive higher education experience, which guides us to anticipate the next step in a child's academic career as we create spaces that will prepare them for that future and optimize each stage of learning along the way. These spaces are sophisticated educational environments that balance technically-advanced teaching spaces with spaces for serendipitous social interaction and community building.
Learn more about Ennead's approach to K-12 schools here.
Professional Schools
Our approach to the design of professional business, law, and medical schools both supports and is informed by the latest pedagogy. We make flexible buildings that promote academic and social exchange with spaces that encourage communication and networking between students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
Learn more about our approach to academic buildings for Professional Schools here.
Visual & Performing Arts
Our educational facilities for the visual and performing arts merge the needs of traditional arts disciplines with innovations in technology to further inspire curiosity, creativity, and collaboration. Our visual and performing arts spaces emphasize transparency, putting talent on display and connecting with the larger community.
Learn more about our approach to academic buildings for Visual and Performing Arts here.
Our academic laboratories provide state-of-the-art research environments where multiple disciplines can collaborate on diverse research projects. We carefully integrate communal spaces within to encourage knowledge sharing and foster a sense of identity for the research community. The design of our laboratories emphasizes flexibility. This adaptability helps institutions thrive long into the future, leaving them well prepared to adjust to changes in technology and research needs.
Learn more about our approach to Research and Teaching Labs here.
General Academic
We design dynamic centers for academic and student life. Each conveys a welcoming identity and creates an enriching environment for student growth and development inside and outside of the classroom. Our educational spaces are driven by the logic of the program and informed by current thinking about academic models and by the conviction that they must promote interaction and collaboration and foster a larger sense of institutional community. They foster successful implementation of new pedagogical techniques, such as the flipped classroom, and technological advances. They establish and strengthen connections between faculty and students by introducing a variety of informal spaces that function as connective tissue, promoting social and academic interchange. They excel at unifying areas of focused program with interdisciplinary and community space where students and teachers come together to exchange ideas.
Learn more about our approach to General Academic buildings here.
Master Planning
Our master plans are eminently practical, flexible and buildable, conceived in economically viable increments that can evolve over time to accommodate inevitably changing academic, social, and technical needs and funding sources.
The planning methodology is focused on identifying, understanding and preserving those aspects of the current environment that have been seminal in the support and development of a mature academic culture, and codifying these proven planning criteria as precepts and rules for revision and expansion. By using what worked in the past to expand to the future – coupled with innovative new planning concepts and tactical interventions – Ennead can ensure both the preservation and growth of an institution's culture.
Learn more about our approach to Master Planning for Education here.
Ennead's architecture transforms institutions. Our buildings advance institutional missions while they telegraph institutional identity. We partner with healthcare providers to create new human-centered environments that change the way care is delivered and experienced. Our buildings are designed to support technological innovation, safety, and quality for patients, their families, caregivers, and staff. We believe healthcare facilities should aspire to be civic places that connect to the surrounding city, extending the notion of care and supporting healthy communities.
Learn more about our approach to healthcare here.
Our healthcare work includes: Inpatient Care; Ambulatory Care; Cancer Care; Behavioral Health; Strategic & Master Planning; Children's Hospitals; Translational Research; and Medical Education.
Commercial & Mixed-Use
We have designed a wide range of commercial and mixed-use projects situated in dense urban settings, oftentimes in highly sensitive historic or planned districts. These projects extend beyond their program to engage their surrounding context and improve the urban fabric of their precincts.
Mixed-Use Commercial
Recognizing the importance of tenant and visitor attention, we prioritize the inclusion of retail, food and beverage, and cultural amenities into our mixed-use programs. As a result, our commercial mixed-use environments are lively and attractive assets to the community.
Corporate Workplace
We have a proven capacity to work with complex programs and develop them into an architecture that enhances the identity of our clients. Our planning techniques for corporate architecture integrates state-of-the-art dynamic technology to understand typical work patterns to strategically develop facilities that not only attract and retain top talent, but that also promote an efficient, comfortable, and inspiring workplace.
Residential & Hospitality
We have designed a range of residential buildings and hotels in dense urban settings, oftentimes in highly sensitive historic or planned districts. These projects resolve challenges that extend beyond the satisfaction of their programs to engage the public realm. They have been recognized for architectural excellence and for their ability to enliven the surrounding context and improve the urban fabric of their precincts.
Commercial Life Sciences
With over fifty years of experience in designing innovative laboratory environments, we guide developers to make smart, economical decisions throughout ground-up and renovation research projects. Considering space, adjacency and functional requirements, we design game-changing commercial and institutional laboratories that serve multiple requirements, help to accelerate discovery, and attract and retain top-tier end users.
Large Scale Urban Design & Master Planning
Our large-scale urban design and master planning work is rooted in a civic approach. Our designs actively engage and improve their surrounding contexts, some by reinforcing the existing fabric, others by creating destinations with bold, innovative design. These projects provide enlivened pedestrian experiences that invite users into the space and, in turn, act as community catalysts.
Ennead's diverse and renown portfolio of laboratory buildings for scientific research, teaching, and innovation has helped to define many of the leading trends in state-of-the-art laboratory design. Unique to our integrated design approach is an emphasis on utilizing architecture to improve the quality of the working environment, and creating vibrant research communities where investigation, invention and impact can thrive.
Historically research buildings have been driven by function, efficiency and flexibility; our laboratories go beyond these goals to create connections across disciplines, opportunities for business and innovation, and moments of public engagement.
Learn more about our approach to laboratory building design here.
Biomedical Research & Life Sciences
Critical to the success of our institutional and academic life science wet lab buildings is an innovative design approach to community and workplace spaces. We focus on creating dynamic and engaging research environments where scientists can collaborate to transform basic research into tangible improvements to human health.
Our engineering laboratories provide state-of-the-art academic research environments where multiple disciplines can interact and collaborate on diverse research projects. Critical to their success is the implementation of carefully designed and scaled communal spaces which create hubs for the sharing of knowledge necessary to support innovation and discovery.
Instructional & Teaching
Research is the foundation of undergraduate education. Teaching laboratories, which take the form of singular buildings or dedicated programs within multi-disciplinary research facilities, provide undergraduate instruction in the life and physical sciences as well as engineering disciplines.
These technologically advanced instructional facilities offer the opportunity to expose undergraduate students to graduate level research projects, entrepreneurial opportunities, and innovation.
Vertical and Commercial Life Sciences
In response to their constrained urban sites and relatively small, repetitive floor plates, our commercial life science and urban high-rise laboratories strategically integrate diverse research groups across multiple floors through the effective use of interior glazing and by creating strong visual connections between spaces, both vertically and horizontally. These strategies enhance collaboration between research teams that would otherwise be separated.
Reconfigurable work space and a broad range of architectural amenities and mixed-use programs are essential to create successful research laboratories while also engaging with their local communities and businesses to enrich the research environment.
Innovation & Data Science
With a focus on accelerating the cycle of discovery, our innovation and data science laboratories provide both academic institutions and commercial lab enterprises with forward-looking facilities that contribute to cutting-edge research that moves ideas and technologies to market at a faster rate.
Cultural & Performing Arts
Ennead has a long history of designing for the cultural sector and partnering with leading institutions to create spaces that enrich and enhance the visitor experience. From museums to concert halls, Ennead has deep expertise in the technical, social, and experiential requirements for world-class cultural and performing arts venues. Our award-winning buildings engage and embrace the public, delight artists and performers, and optimize the experience and enjoyment of the arts.
Science & Natural History Museums
Our science and technology museums give form to the spirit and excitement of scientific inquiry, the thrill of exploration, the logic of process, and the value of unexpected discovery. These buildings simultaneously support the needs of administrators, staff, and researchers, improve collections storage and back-of-house spaces, and integrate state-of-the-art technology throughout.
Art Museums
Our extensive experience designing ground-up art museums well as renovations and expansions to existing facilities has afforded us a deep knowledge of the spatial, aesthetic and technical requirements for the presentation of art in all its forms. Our architecture is in service of the experience of art–it optimizes but never overwhelms, while offering a bespoke solution for the unique needs of the institution, its staff and its collections. Ennead museums welcome and inspire visitors and become vital cultural centers within their communities.
Cultural Museums
Our cultural and historical museums are profoundly civic in nature. We create iconic cultural and historical museum architecture that welcomes the community and creates a neighborhood space for formal and informal recreation, contemplation, and gathering.
Concert Halls & Opera Houses
Presentation styles within concert halls and opera houses are evolving: through our extensive and ongoing work with leading institutions, we have developed a deep understanding of the latest trends in the field, and the necessary technical requirements to create spaces that elevate performance and adapt to changes. Central to each of our buildings is the integration of the highest level of natural acoustics and the design of spaces that enhance and enrich the performer-patron experience.
Learn more about our expertise with venues for performing arts here.
Ennead creates iconic theaters that are designed around the primacy of the performer-patron experience. Our theaters are flexible — they can evolve with changing performance types, serve as multi-purpose venues, and provide public spaces for community engagement.
Accommodating emerging art forms and technologies and responding to the latest in performer-audience engagement trends, our theaters integrate client and stakeholder needs. Whether a traditional proscenium theater or a non-traditional performance space, an Ennead building supports dynamic and immersive performer-patron experiences.
Learn more about our expertise with venues for performing arts here.
Education & the Arts
Our academic art facilities contribute to campus identities and promote the arts as a critical part of the academic experience. Drawing upon our expertise in both education and fine and performing arts typologies, these academic arts facilities integrate cutting-edge trends and technologies across sectors. Central to each of these projects is a focus on spotlighting the process of creating, drawing the campus community into the space, and putting the arts on display.
Master Planning
With a rich history of working with prominent institutions to plan for large-scale institutional improvements over long timeframes, we help develop master plans that will allow for projects to be realized in impactful and sensitively-phased approaches. We help institutions plan for complicated phasing and strategize a balance for how and when to spend resources.
Master Planning
Essential beliefs about the inseparability of aesthetic, programmatic and urbanistic goals inform our approach to urban design and master planning. Whether for a corporate headquarters, academic campus, or a great museum, at the scale of an individual building, district, or city, our approach merges formal concepts and programmatic requirements with social responsibility and civic engagement.
In our master planning work, we have developed a range strategic approaches – such as analytics, physical planning, and visualization – that engage stakeholders and navigate regulatory negotiations to deliver optimal results.
Urban Design
At the urban scale, we create flexible plans and design guidelines that are financially viable, economically, and environmentally sustainable, responsive to growth and change, and positively impact surrounding communities.
Campus & Precinct Planning
Our precinct plans and comprehensive campus master plans interpret the distinctive identities of academic institutions and, in so doing, create places through the reinforcement, repair or improvement of the immediate environment. By using what worked in the past to expand to the future – coupled with innovative new planning concepts and tactical interventions – our team can ensure both the preservation and growth of institution's culture.
Renovations & Expansions
Our approach to historic building restoration and adaptation is defined by the belief that signature buildings from past eras should be respected, but not replicated. Our renovations and additions consider the possibilities of lightness, transparency and translucency, the layering of space, and the importance of context. Ennead understands how to integrate progressive, forward-looking architecture within a historic framework, where old and new are made better by the juxtaposition.
New York City
Our approach to the design of professional business, law, and medical schools both supports and is informed by the latest pedagogy. We make flexible buildings that promote academic and social exchange with spaces that encourage communication and networking between students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
Learn more about our approach to academic buildings for Professional Schools here.
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Are you thinking of investing in your children's future? Well, there are ways that you can do it securely and not risk losing your funds. Just like everything else in life, your best bet lies in making sure that you have done your research. You need to look at the past performance record of any investment you wish to undertake. The performance record should be in a span of not less than 16 years. In this article we are going to look at some of the investments that you should consider.
If you do your research well, stocks can offer the kind of investment that is inflation proof compared to other forms of investment. Stock investing is usually only considered high risk when you buy on a short term basis. For example, if you bought stocks at around 2006, then decided to sell at around 2008, most likely you lost money. On the other hand those who bought their stocks at around 2006 and are selling them now, they are definitely getting high returns. You have to remember what a stock means to you. You are buying into the ownership of the company. You have to look at it as your own business that could be affected by several factors.
It could be that it is the market that is sluggish. As soon as the market improves, you can be sure to make money. You should also buy into companies that are easy to manage, ones that you can easily tell whether they are doing well or not. That is the only way you can be sure that your research of the past performance of the company is likely to continue. They say past performance is not a guarantee of future performance. However, I consider it a good place to start when looking for red flags. Overall, by the time your children are almost ready to go to college, you should be ready to sell your stocks.
If you consult an investment advisor they may offer solid advice on which stocks to be looking at for long term growth, when your kids are older. But if you like the idea of picking them yourself then a service like StockMonitor.com would be useful. You can track your investment portfolio and get a whole suite of tools including their technical analysis stock screener which can show you companies that are in strong trends, or have sold off and may be displaying good value for money.
The other factor to keep in mind is that when it comes to investing in stocks, you have to diversify. You need to spread out your investment to multiple companies that are performing very well. There is a great likelihood that some will outperform others. You may even invest in companies that target the same market, but they appear equally strong. Over a period of ten years, it is possible for one of them to dominate the market. If you invested into both of them, you can rest assured your investment decision will pay off.
DRIPs or Dividend Re-Investment Plans Accounts
Some companies also offer DRIPs. This is where after you buy stocks, the dividends are reinvested back and your shareholding increases. They are great when you want to save for your children's future but also teach them how to invest in stocks. When they keep seeing their shareholding increasing each year, they will appreciate the importance of investing in stocks.
Bonds are a form of temporary shareholding. You simply buy them for a specified period of time. Unlike regular stocks where you can hold onto them for as long as you want, bonds are a form of IOU. You are lending money to a government or an institution so you can get it back with interest. They offer a lower risk but at lower interest rates. They are less favored compared to stocks.
A 529 college savings account
This is another great way to diversify the investment in your children's future. It involves paying their college tuition using the current rates. Many States allow you to do that and the tuition fees is transferable to other colleges in other States. It is a great way for you to secure your children's education. Many people say they have never heard of this option but is is a great way save what you have in your child's future education.
Mutual Funds
This is a form of stock ownership that allows you to let a mutual fund organization invest on your behalf. It is worth noting they charge you extra for that service and you need to factor that in your investment. They basically invest in several companies that they consider to be performing well. They allow you to own a portion of those companies through them. If you do not have time doing your own investment research, they offer a better investment option.
Those are among the top best options that give you great control both in investment and securing your child's education and financial future. We hope that you have learned something and you will build on that to make informed investment decisions for your children's future.

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Heather Hadden – Salesperson at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices
Introducing Regent's Crescent, a London real estate redevelopment that's an amalgamation of the city's rich history and modern conveniences officially launched sales earlier this week. Designed in the 1800s by a Famed Architect John Nash and known as Regent's Crescent, the development comprises an entire terrace row on Park Crescent, right on the edge of the capital's leafy Regent's Park.
The terrace is Grade I-listed—the rarest historic architectural designation in England—and was designed by John Nash in 1820. Following the completion of its redevelopment next year by CIT Group, it will be home to 67 new apartments and nine villas, according to a news release.
Sales have quietly been taking place off market for around a year with 25% of inventory sold, according to a spokeswoman for CIT. The remaining homes are now fully on the market.
Despite the addition of brand new residences, the development remains listed due to its retention of the original listed Nash-designed facade. The construction work has also repaired wartime bomb damage to restore "the truest version" of Nash's work, the release said.
The famed British architect of the Regency and Georgian eras is responsible for some of the U.K.'s grandest designs, such as Buckingham Palace, Marble Arch and Brighton's Royal Pavilion.
In Nash style, the building will have Regency-inspired features such as fanlights, chimney stacks and an 18th century ice well that was discovered on site and has been preserved.
In the residences, which will be priced from £2.9 million (US$3.7 million), materials such as herringbone timber flooring, marble and plaster mouldings feature throughout.
"Regent's Crescent is a remarkable scheme that we are proud to be working on," Its unique combination of enchanting and historical importance, outstanding original design, unsurpassed new build quality and remarkable location make it a very rare and special offering for the capital."
Residents will also have access to amenities including a spa, a swimming pool, a private cinema, underground parking, 24-hour concierge and security and access to private residents' gardens.


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The Suicide Squad - arrivals & b-roll
THE SUICIDE SQUAD In Theaters and HBO Max on August 6, 2021 From writer/director James Gunn comes Warner Bros. Pictures' superhero action adventure "The Suicide Squad," featuring a collection of the most degenerate delinquents in the DC lineup. Welcome to hell—a.k.a. Belle Reve, the prison with the highest mortality rate in the US of A. Where the worst Super-Villains are kept and where they will do anything to get out—even join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X. Today's do-or-die assignment? Assemble a collection of cons, including Bloodsport, Peacemaker, Captain Boomerang, Ratcatcher 2, Savant, King Shark, Blackguard, Javelin and everyone's favorite psycho, Harley Quinn. Then arm them heavily and drop them (literally) on the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese. Trekking through a jungle teeming with militant adversaries and guerrilla forces at every turn, the Squad is on a search-and-destroy mission with only Colonel Rick Flag on the ground to make them behave…and Amanda Waller's government techies in their ears, tracking their every movement. And as always, one wrong move and they're dead (whether at the hands of their opponents, a teammate, or Waller herself). If anyone's laying down bets, the smart money is against them—all of them. The film stars Margot Robbie ("Birds of Prey," "Bombshell"), Idris Elba ("Avengers: Infinity War"), John Cena (upcoming HBO Max series "Peacemaker," "Bumblebee"), Joel Kinnaman ("Suicide Squad"), Jai Courtney (the "Divergent" franchise), Peter Capaldi ("World War Z," BBC's "Doctor Who" ), David Dastmalchian (upcoming "Dune," "Ant-Man and the Wasp"), Daniela Melchior ("Parque Mayer"), Michael Rooker (the "Guardians of the Galaxy" films), Alice Braga ("Elysium"), Pete Davidson ("The King of Staten Island," TV's "Saturday Night Live"), Joaquín Cosio ("Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse," TV's "Narcos: Mexico"), Juan Diego Botto ("The Europeans"), Storm Reid ("The Invisible Man," "A Wrinkle in Time", "Euphoria"), Nathan Fillion ("Guardians of the Galaxy," TV's "The Rookie"), Steve Agee ("Brightburn," "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2"), Sean Gunn (the "Guardians of the Galaxy" films, the "Avengers" films), Mayling Ng ("Wonder Woman"), Flula Borg ("Ralph Breaks the Internet"), Jennifer Holland ("Brightburn," upcoming HBO Max series "Peacemaker") and Tinashe Kajese (TV's "Valor," "The Inspectors"), with Sylvester Stallone (the "Rocky," "Rambo" and "Expendables" franchises), and Viola Davis ("Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," "Suicide Squad"). Gunn (the "Guardian of the Galaxy" films) directs from his own screenplay, based on characters from DC. The film is produced by Charles Roven and Peter Safran, with Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder, Walter Hamada, Chantal Nong Vo, Nikolas Korda and Richard Suckle executive producing. Gunn's creative team includes director of photography Henry Braham ("Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2"), production designer Beth Mickle ("Captain Marvel"), editors Fred Raskin ("Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2," "Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood") and Christian Wagner (the "Fast & Furious" films) and Oscar-nominated costume designer Judianna Makovsky ("Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2," "Avengers: Endgame," "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"). The music is by John Murphy ("Kick-Ass"). Warner Bros. Pictures Presents An Atlas Entertainment/Peter Safran Production, A James Gunn Film, "The Suicide Squad." The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is set for release nationwide in theaters and IMAX on August 6, 2021 and will be available on HBO Max for 31 days from theatrical release.


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UC Davis scientists find link between arthritis pain reliever and cardiovascular events
A research team from the University of California, Davis and Peking University, China, has discovered a novel mechanism as to why the long-term, high-dosage use of the well-known arthritis pain medication, Vioxx, led to heart attacks and strokes. Their groundbreaking research may pave the way for a safer drug for millions of arthritis patients who suffer acute and chronic pain.
Using metabolomic profiling to analyze murine (rodent) plasma, the scientists discovered that Vioxx causes a dramatic increase in a regulatory lipid that could be a major contributor to the heart attacks and strokes associated with high levels of the drug and other selective COX-2 inhibitors, known as "coxibs."
"This is a major breakthrough that can lead to a better medication for people suffering from acute pain," said entomologist-chemist Bruce Hammock, a distinguished professor of entomology with a joint appointment at the UC Davis Cancer Center. The research took place in the laboratories of Hammock, cell biologist Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, UC Davis Division of Cardiovascular Medicine; and physiologist Yi Zhu, Peking University.
The research is to be published the week of Sept. 13 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Our metabolomics study discovered that 20-hydroxyeicosatetrasanoic acid, also known as 20-HETE, contributes to the Vioxx-mediated cardiovascular events," said UC Davis bioanalytical chemist Jun-Yan Liu, the senior author of the paper and a five-year member of the Bruce Hammock laboratory.
Millions of arthritis patients took Vioxx before its withdrawal from the global market in 2004. Vioxx, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and coxib for acute and chronic pain, particularly for arthritis and osteoarthritis, was on the market for five years. Merck & Co. voluntarily withdrew it in September 2004 due to concerns about the increased risk of heart attacks and strokes.
The chronic administration of high levels of selective COX-2 inhibitors, particularly rofecoxib, and valdecoxib, increases the risk for cardiovascular disease, Liu said.
Cardiology expert Garrett J. Gross, professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, who is not associated with the research, described the UC Davis-based research as "a highly significant finding."
"The recent discovery of Hammock and co-workers at UC Davis that murine plasma concentrations of 20-HETE may be a significant biomarker which may predict the susceptibility of patients to having an unfavorable cardiovascular event while taking selective COX-2 inhibitors such as rofecoxib is an important and novel finding," Gross said. "This discovery may help to unravel the unexpected occurrence and potential mechanism responsible for sudden cardiac death in a number of patients taking COX-2 inhibitors for inflammatory disorders such as arthritis. This a highly significant finding which may lead to a safer use of these drugs in selective patients with disabling inflammatory disorders and may lead to the development of more selective drugs for use in these types of patients."
Urologist Ralph devere White, professor of urology at the UC Davis School of Medicine and director of the UC Davis Cancer Center, described the research as "extremely exciting."
"Vioxx and other drugs in this class were looked on as extremely promising in moderation," devere White said. "The fact that the Hammock lab discovered why the drug could lead to heart attacks and strokes and is able to quantify the deleterious facts is extremely exciting. I hope that patients can safely use this drug in the future or block the deleterious effects so it will have all of the benefits and none of the adverse side effects."
When asked to comment on the research, Richard Roman, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, with expertise in 20-HETE and cardiology, said: "Rofecoxib (Vioxx) a COX2 inhibitor that was widely used for pain relief was recently withdrawn from the market because it increased the risk of heart attack and stroke. The mechanism of the adverse effects of has not been determined. The study of Hammock et al is important breakthrough because it indicates that Rofecoxib raises the blood levels of 20-HETE which is a potent constrictor of vessels in the heart and brain and they showed it also increases platelet aggregation and clot formation."
"They further demonstrated," Roman said, "that this adverse effect was due to the ability of the compound to inhibit the enzyme COX2 which appears to play a major role in metabolizing and inactivating 20-HETE in the body. Overall this study suggests that the cardiovascular risk associated with Vioxx is not unique to this drug but is likely shared by all members of this class of drugs. It also indicates that one might be able to predict patients that are at risk for a potential cardiovascular event by monitoring serum 20-HETE levels."
"Obviously, more studies are now needed to measure 20-HETE levels in patients treated with COX2 inhibitors because the current study was done in mice and the relative importance of COX2 enzymes in the metabolism of 20-HETE may differ substantially in man versus the mouse."
Nationally, some 46 million individuals suffer from arthritis. "And almost one million patients are admitted to hospitals every year because of their arthritis," Hammock said. "They do need effective and safer drugs to relieve their pain."
The UC Davis scientists predicted their research will open up new strategies to develop safer coxibs. For example, inhibiting the regulation of the enzymes CYP4A and CYP4F could lower the circulation level of 20-HETE and that may reduce the cardiovascular events of coxibs.
The paper, "Metabolic Profiling of Murine Plasma Reveals an Unexpected Biomarker in Rofecoxib-Mediated Cardiovascular Events," is co-authored by Jun-Yan Liu, Ning Li, Jun Yang, Nan Li, Hong Qiu, Ding Ai, Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, Yi Zhu and Bruce Hammock. All are from UC Davis except Nan Li and Yi Zhu, from Peking, while Ding Ai is associated with both Peking University and UC Davis.


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In the 3rd Edition rewrite of the famous module White Plume Mountain, the titular dungeon gets modified highly successfully to use 3rd Edition rules while staying very true to the original version in style. One specific encounter, however, sticks out as a very poor conversion...
Early on, the group is given a crossroads of three directions to choose from to tackle in any order. Almost immediately down one of these paths (canonically the "first" one you're expected to do, if the order it is written has anything to say about it), you encounter a slime trap. The rules state no way to avoid or defend yourself against this trap - simply that green slime falls from the ceiling when an adventurer passes below it, automatically hits them, and deals terrible damage (including Con Damage) continuously unless removed or burned promptly. It will immediately kill most typical adventurers in only a few rounds.
This particular trap offers no saving throw, opposed attack roll, use of trap-finding, or even a spot check. This is not the case for every single other element of the dungeon, which is full of Reflex-Save or Attack roll traps and ambushes that are all labeled and given statistics.
What happened here? Why is this trap so special and hardcore - and one of the very first ones in the dungeon, no less? Reviewing the 2nd Edition version, the trap was similar there (just even more likely to instant kill, what with Save vs Death), but all the other traps were similarly more hardcore, and were revised appropriately in 3rd Edition.
The rules for Green Slime are actually not unique to this dungeon, and are available at the SRD under Dungeons. It says that they hit a 5-foot square and deal their damage and effect there, but no rules are given for any kind of defense. This seems to be a major contradiction in mechanics and style to everything else in 3rd Edition.
Alternatively, are there any fair house rules for this situation? A reasonable spot check difficulty or reflex save ruling for how to avoid this slime?
Clarification: The major facet of the question is the inconsistency of the rules between this trap and all others in the module. 2nd Edition situations are well known for their difficulty, and 3rd Edition for toning down that same difficulty. The fact that this one type of obstacle is the only one that seems effectively "unconverted" in nature is what is being called into question.


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Spend eight weeks in service learning in Salamanca, Spain. Placements are available in the following areas:
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Custom designed service learning experiences are based on the student's interests and educational experience.
The program is open to students in all years, including first-years and those who have just graduated.
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- Applications for all other locations are due with placement deposit on March 1, 2023.
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Current UR students and non-UR students who wish to participate in the UR Summer International Service Learning program must complete the required registration. See below for details.
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Students who have been approved for a summer international service learning experience must register their participation with UR online using GatewayAbroad by February 15, 2023.
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- Complete the online registration for your program
Note: To earn academic credit for your service learning experience, you must coordinate with a Richmond faculty member and pay the standard tuition fee. Complete the Individual Instruction Course Request form and submit to the Office of the Registrar in Queally Center.
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University of Richmond summer international service learning experiences may be eligible for Weinstein Summer Grant funding and UR Summer Fellowship funding. The maximum award for Weinstein Summer Grants is $3,500, while the maximum award for UR Summer Fellowships is $4,000. The award amount is determined by the number of hours worked, so please inquire about the maximum number of service hours you can receive to determine your maximum eligibilty.
Each award requires a separate application. Application deadlines for both awards appear below, along with general application deadlines for internship applications. Read each program's application procedure and requirements carefully; only complete applications that fulfill the purpose(s) of the grant will be considered for funding.
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If experiencing an international service learning experience is only possible with funding from one or both of these awards, please contact Cheryl Genovese, Summer School manager, and Ashleigh Brock, Spider Internship Funds coordinator, as soon as possible in your planning to discuss options and timelines.
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Dubai (UAE), December 27: Dr Jitendra Matlani Dubai business tycoon and famous social icon of Dubai has been awarded the most prestigious Bharat Gaurav Award. The award function was held at one of the most prestigious location Atlantis the Palm Island Dubai in which eminent and iconic personalities from abroad and country were recognised and awarded.
His Excellency Awad Mohammed Sheikh Mogrin was the chief guest of the event. Sheikh Awad in his speech praised Dr Jitendra Matlani for his relentless service towards the community he said Dr Jitendra Matlani apart from his business has been actively participating in social services, specially during the covid pandemic he served the society with his full heart by sending 400 Indians by charter flights from UAE to India when there were no flights and many more things from food and shelter to oxygen concentrators to various part of India.
All guests of honour were present at the event Mr Mohamed Al Ali, Managing director, First Abu Dhabi Bank. Mr Mohammed Al Banna, Senior advisor and group CEO of His Highness Sheikh Juma BIn Maktoum Al Maktoum praised and congratulated Dr Jitendra Matlani for his selfless service towards society.
At the same time, Dr Jitendra Matlani thanked Pandit Suresh Mishra, President Sanskriti Yuva Sanstha for Nominating his name and awarding him with the most prestigious Bharat Gaurav Award. This was the 8th edition of Bharat Gaurav award Sanskriti Yuva Sanstha recognise the most prestigious personalities from the world every year and honours them.
The previous events were held at Parliament and London, and United Nations in America. The Principal Patron of Sanskriti Yuva Sanstha, Lokendra Singh Kalvi mentioned that Indians are making their mark in the whole world. We are honored standing under our tricolor national flag and chanting the national anthem in Dubai, we definitely feel proud of the success of Indians in Dubai. While conducting the program on the occasion, Assistant Director, DPR Rajasthan, Govind Pareek, addressed and said that through this Bharat Gaurav Award ceremony, such hidden talents have been brought to the fore, and praised. Those who have made the countryman proud by making a different identity in the whole world.


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I've seen many recipes for scrambled eggs with and without milk / cream / half and half
So what does the milk do? The only difference I can see is color - without the milk the eggs are a brighter yellow.
What am I missing?
I've seen many recipes for scrambled eggs with and without milk / cream / half and half
So what does the milk do? The only difference I can see is color - without the milk the eggs are a brighter yellow.
What am I missing?
Well, it makes the eggs go further for one...
But it also produces softer, creamier results. You're moving toward something like a custard or quiche. If you like your eggs very stiff, this is probably a bad idea.
If you've never made scrambled eggs the Gordon Ramsey way you're really missing out. He calls for fresh cream, but I use sour cream and find it works just as well and gives a nice tangy flavor. Great video where he demonstrates the technique: http://videosift.com/video/Gordon-Ramsay-s-Perfect-Scrambled-Eggs
According to him, one of the reasons to add milk or cream is to cool the eggs down so they don't keep cooking after you remove them from the heat.
It's worth learning to cook excellent scrambled eggs without the milk and cream, in my opinion.
Traditionally, (well, at say Cordon Bleu in the 1950s), cream would be added to stop the eggs from overcooking once they were properly done. And, like people mentioned, they get creamier as well, but the cream would be cold and added at the end; its primary purpose was stopping the overcooking.
If you heat slowly, shake gently, and treat them kindly, scrambled eggs can be totally freaking fantastic without any additives. Start there.
According to Cook's Illustrated, the fat in milk or cream will actually separate the protein strands from the eggs, resulting in fluffier eggs. And fats give a smooth taste to food that you can feel on your tongue.
Using milk in scrambled eggs results in eggs that are moist and, er, creamy. Texture-wise, they come out softer (some might say "gloppier") than eggs without. Flavor-wise, they're a bit more mellow and richer. The downside is that they don't come out as fluffy (unless you're just using a small amount).
I've known people who think milk in scrambled eggs is the devil's additive. I really like the softer texture and the difference in flavor, though. Try them yourself, and you may! Try them and you may, I say!
There are two philosophies on cooking scrambled eggs: some prefer them cooked slowly over low heat, while others swear by a very hot pan. If you cook them slowly, milk or cream is primarily there to make them tender, and perhaps to prevent overcooking.
However, none of the other answers have mentioned fast cooking. If you pour raw scrambled eggs into a very hot pan, they will begin to cook almost instantly. In that case, any added liquid (even water) will add to the boiling effect near the pan surface, producing steam that will separate the protein bits with air pockets and fluff the eggs.
I have never noticed a significant effect on fluffiness by adding liquid in slow-cooked eggs. But for the fluffiest scrambled eggs possible, cook on high heat with a bit of liquid added. Just be very careful to keep the eggs moving and remove immediately while they are still slightly undercooked, or they will dry out. (The eggs will continue to cook even out of the pan.) On the other hand, make sure they are cooked enough, or they will "weep" liquid. It takes a little practice -- with a very hot pan, even 5 seconds can make a significant difference, so have your plate ready.
The fast scrambled eggs technique is more difficult, but it's time-efficient, and the extra liquid added can produce very fluffy eggs. (For the record, the same technique can be used for extra-fluffy omelets -- very hot pot, a little liquid, keep things moving and remove promptly.)
My guess it makes it softer and more moist. I usually don't put milk in it but a good piece of butter and sour cream which gives it a great creamy texture.
The addition of milk is to make it fluffier and lighter. In my opinion (emphasis on "my"), it is like cooking with training wheels. I have never liked the watered down flavor of eggs done this way and I much prefer the denser flavor of eggs sans milk. You do have to be more attentive and make sure the eggs are not overcooked. It's a bit tricky and you have to remove them just before they look quite ready, and they will become perfect by the time they cool a bit.
Never add milk or cream during cooking, it will separate the mix and make it watery. Only add cream or creme fraiche after off the heat.
I've always used milk in my scrambled eggs (mixing the milk in with the eggs before cooking). The soft and fluffy results speak for themselves.
It's definitely an improvement over adding water. For years, my grandfather made breakfast at his house. He didn't use milk or cream in his scrambled eggs--he used water--and never strayed from that. To say they were unappetizing is an understatement.
I add about a quarter cup of 3.25% ( homo ) milk to 3 XL eggs; put them in a hot pan, on medium, with some melted butter, about 1 tsp. in it. Soon as they start to bubble, I begin stirring "slowly", with a spatula. Once they are about 3/4 done, I put a glass lid on them, so I can watch them because I don't want all the liquid to evaporate out of them. Then, after they have firmed up, I remove the lid, break them all up and serve them hot cause I like my food very hot. They still have some tasty juice left that I can dip my toast in. The milk keeps them soft and fluffy, even though I put my salt, pepper,hot sauce and green onion ( or chives ) in during the mix. I find that putting the salt on after they are cooked, gives them a tart metallic taste; but for those that may prefer, the spices can be added after. Well that's my 2c worth.
Never add milk or cream to eggs because it takes away from the flavor of the eggs also it doesn't make it fluffier or anything so basically it's a waste.


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Dave has written another Christmas play.
And he is directing it. And he is acting in it. And so are other people related to me by blood. And so are many of the cast from last year's Merry Gentlemen ~ A Christmas in Mediocrity, but it is a whole new story and feel. In fact, the infamous and ridiculously good-looking Bill Barrow (and he needs to be because he is married to the ravishing Candi), whose character has a much more expanded role in this show said,
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"Last year's play was good. It was really good. But this year's is fantastic. It is so much better!"
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It is slated for two performances, December 20 and 21 at Community of Faith in Broomfield (90 Emerald Street), which is sponsoring the whole shebang.
All I know about the story is what Dave will let me know until the performance: It's about a children's pastor who has been assigned the task of putting together the church Christmas pageant even though he doesn't really care for Christmas and doesn't even really like children, either. But poor Pastor Mike is stuck. He is stuck with overbearing assistant directors, a Joseph who wears football pads, a little superhero who calls himself The Pigeon, a prima dona named Twinkle and a skate board riding redhead known as Dorito. Can Pastor Mike pull it off without losing his sanity?
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High levels of two proteins in the blood of pregnant women appear to indicate the subsequent development of preeclampsia, a life-threatening complication of pregnancy, report a team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The proteins, which interfere with the growth and function of blood vessels, also signal the development of high blood pressure during pregnancy.
The findings appear in the September 7 New England Journal of Medicine.
"This finding appears to be an important step in developing a cure for preeclampsia," said Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director of the National Institutes of Health. "It may also provide the basis for predicting whether or not a woman will develop the disorder."
The research team was led by Richard Levine, M.D., M.P.H., of the Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research at NIH's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and S. Ananth Karumanchi, M.D., of the Departments of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Funding for the study was provided by the NICHD, as well as two other components of the NIH, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
Preeclampsia is a leading cause of maternal death and often occurs without warning. The condition results in high blood pressure and protein in the urine. Preeclampsia may begin with mild symptoms, then progress to severe preeclampsia and to eclampsia-dangerously high blood pressure and convulsions-which may result in disability or death. When preeclampsia is not severe, the high blood pressure it causes can usually be treated in the short term. The only cure for preeclampsia is delivery of the baby. The condition is estimated to complicate from 3 to 5 percent of all pregnancies.
When preeclampsia occurs late in a pregnancy, the baby can be delivered with relatively few ill effects. However, if preeclampsia occurs early in pregnancy, delivery of the baby would result in premature birth, which increases the risk of death, and for such lifelong complications as blindness, cerebral palsy, and learning disabilities. In such instances, physicians are forced to weigh the mother's risk of severe disease or eclampsia against the consequences of preterm birth for the baby.
In the current study, the researchers present strong evidence that an imbalance of two proteins produced by the placenta is responsible for the symptoms of preeclampsia. Abnormally high levels of these proteins appear to deprive the blood vessels of substances needed to keep the lining of the blood vessels healthy. Deprived of these essential substances, the cells lining the blood vessels begin to sicken and die. As a result, the blood pressure increases, and the blood vessels leach protein into the tissues and urine.
The first of these two proteins is known as soluble endoglin. It begins accumulating in the blood of pregnant women 2 to 3 months before they develop preeclampsia. In women who developed preterm preeclampsia, levels of soluble endoglin began to rise in the 17 th to the 20 th week of pregnancy. In women who developed preeclampsia at full term, soluble endoglin levels rose at the 25 th to the 28 th week of pregnancy.
Similarly, soluble endoglin levels also rose in the 33 rd through the 36 th week of pregnancy for women who later developed gestational hypertension-hypertension without protein in the urine. Levels rose still further after the onset of gestational hypertension.
"This finding suggests that gestational hypertension is a mild form of preeclampsia," said Dr. Levine.
The second protein involved in the chemical imbalance is called soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1 (sFlt1). The women in the study who had developed preeclampsia had increased levels of sFlt1. The increase in sFlt1 was accompanied by reduced levels of a substance, placental growth factor (PlGF). Both women with term preeclampsia and women with gestational hypertension had a simultaneous rise in soluble endoglin, and an increase in the ratio of sFlt1 to PlGF (high levels of sFlt1 and low levels of PlGF.)
"Both soluble endoglin and the altered sFlt1/PlGF ratio appear to contribute to the development of preeclampsia, Dr. Levine said. "Severe disease usually occurs in women with high levels of both measures and not in women with high levels of only one or the other."
Dr. Levine added that detecting high levels of both soluble endoglin and sFlt1 early in pregnancy might be especially helpful in predicting the later development of preeclampsia. Detecting high levels of these molecules might also help in distinguishing preeclampsia from chronic high blood pressure, kidney disease and other conditions that can produce symptoms similar to preeclampsia.
Dr. Levine said that both sFlt1 and soluble endoglin are referred to as soluble because they circulate in the bloodstream. Both molecules exist in a non-soluble form, attached to the surface of cells lining blood vessels. In this non-soluble form, they are classified as receptors because they serve as targets for other molecules. When molecules attach, or bind, to the receptors, the binding process initiates a chain of events in the cells. PlGF binds to Flt1 on the lining of blood vessels. Another substance, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) also binds to Flt1. This binding process is essential to keeping blood vessels healthy and maintaining normal blood pressure. Similarly, a molecule known as transforming growth factor beta (TGF beta) binds to endoglin, and this binding is also required to keep blood vessels healthy.
Dr. Levine explained that the prevailing theory holds that, when the placenta isn't able to absorb sufficient oxygen from the mother's blood, it begins secreting both sFlt1 and soluble endoglin into the mother's bloodstream. The sFlt1 binds to VEGF and PlGF and soluble endoglin binds TGF beta, diverting the compounds from the mother's blood vessels. In response, the mother's blood pressure rises, forcing more blood to the placenta. High levels of sFlt1 and soluble endoglin result in severe forms of preeclampsia.
"We've found specific molecules that appear to be causing the clinical signs of preeclampsia and so we now have an idea which molecules we would need to interfere with to treat the disease," Dr. Levine said.
A possible treatment for preeclampsia might involve reducing levels of sFlt1 or soluble endoglin or adding more of the molecules that they remove from the blood stream, Dr. Levine added, so that more VEGF, PlGF, and TGF beta would be available for the blood vessels that need them. One company has developed the means to produce a form of VEGF. Presumably, such a drug would raise the levels of circulating VEGF in the bloodstream. The surplus VEGF would bind to the high levels of sFlt1 produced during preeclampsia, but enough free VEGF would still be available to attach to cell surface receptors to promote the health of blood vessels.
Dr. Levine cautioned, however, that such attempts to develop a drug treatment would need to proceed cautiously. It's possible that restoring normal blood pressure and blood flow to the mother's circulatory system might deprive the fetus of blood.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute provides information about preeclampsia at https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/high-blood-pressure and information about high blood pressure during pregnancy at https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/files/docs/guidelines/hbp_preg_archive.pdf (PDF - 250 KB).


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This database includes all the municipalities that have been considered in the Censuses in Spain from 1842 the year in which the so-called Cadastral Register is dated, which is the first Census to present the complete ensemble of municipalities in the Spanish territory. Municipalities created or disappeared within the same intercensal period are not included. For each municipality, the alterations to the main characteristics that have taken place over time are presented and which are shown in the Population Censuses considered. Three quantitative and three circumstantial characteristics have been included. The quantitative characteristics are: de facto population, de jure population and number of households (families or registration certificate). In terms of the circumstantial characteristics: change of name, variations in size of territory and municipality existence. In the Help section, the process for using this database is explained. The methodology provides a description of the objectives, definitions, codes and symbols used in the analysis and a short summary of each Census. |
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WELCOME to the website of the World Arabian Horse Organization. Here you can find our latest news a wealth of information and many hundreds of photographs, not just about WAHO, but also about the activities in our Registering Authority Member countries and at our Conferences. There are also several very interesting articles in the General Interest section. The WAHO Office can be contacted by email should you have any Arabian horse-related questions you think we can assist with. Enquiries about Individual Membership are always welcome. We hope you will enjoy browsing our site.
Founded in 1970, the World Arabian Horse Organization is a registered charity with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. There are now 83 countries affiliated to WAHO as Registering Authority Members, either in their own right or in the care of a neighbouring studbook authority, together with 4 applying member countries. WAHO has the responsibility of ensuring that standards acceptable to all our Registering Authority Members are established and maintained in the matters of regulations, methods of registration and production of Stud Books.
The basic objectives of WAHO are, in brief:
- To preserve, improve and maintain the purity of the blood of horses of the Arabian breed and to promote public interest in the science of the breeding of Arabian horses;
- To promote and facilitate the acquisition and distribution of the knowledge in all Countries of the history, care and treatment of horses of the Arabian breed;
- To advise and co-ordinate the policies and activities of Members of the Organization;
- To co-operate with any person or body of persons domiciled throughout the world in an endeavour to promote uniformity in terminology, definitions and procedures relative to the breed of Arabian horses;
- To act in a consultative capacity in discussion and negotiation with International, National and other authorities on matters concerning horses of the Arabian breed.
At the historic 1970 meeting in London, when WAHO was founded, the late Major Ian Hedley said something which the Executive Committee of WAHO still believe in to this day. He said the world saw the Arabian horse in the beginning as a war horse, but he hoped that it would finally become an instrument of peace and understanding. All the members of WAHO have to be thanked for the tremendous contribution they have made over the years, as they worked together to turn this hope into a reality, in the interest of the subject of all our efforts, the Arabian horse. With our strong commitment to protecting the integrity of the world's Arabian studbooks, to education and to equine welfare issues especially those which affect our breed, WAHO's achievements over the past fifty years have laid a solid foundation on which to build for the future, as we face the many challenges facing horse breeders and owners everywhere, and the scientific and communication innovations that lie ahead.


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One area that is often overlooked in the divorce process is the need to update estate planning. Most people would agree that their ex-spouse is the last person they want to inherit their assets when they die—or to have that person make life and death decisions for them. But that is exactly what can happen – and often does – when these documents are not updated.
Beneficiary Designations
Assets that have beneficiary designations (e.g., life insurance policies, employer retirement plans, IRAs, annuities, health savings accounts, investment accounts and some bank accounts) are not controlled by a will or trust. Instead they will be paid directly to the person listed as beneficiary (unless that person is deceased, is a minor, or is incapacitated when the insured dies). Because most married people name their spouse as beneficiary, these should be changed right away.
However, naming the right beneficiary is critical. This is especially true for tax-deferred plans because of possible estate and income tax issues and the potential for long-term tax-deferred growth. Be sure to seek expert assistance before naming a beneficiary on these accounts.
Children and Other Beneficiaries
If you name children as beneficiaries and they are minors when you die, a court guardianship must be established for them until they become age 18—at which time they will receive the entire inheritance. Until then, the other parent (your ex-spouse) could be named by the court to manage the funds. Naming another individual (for example, your parent or sibling) as beneficiary with the understanding they will use the money to care for your children until they are older is also risky. You have no guarantee they will follow your instructions, they may be tempted to use the money for their own needs, and the money would be exposed to their creditors.
Naming a trust as the beneficiary instead and selecting your own trustee (which may still be your parent or sibling) is a much better choice. A trustee can be held liable if he/she misuses the trust assets. An ex-spouse can be prevented from having access to the money, and you can control when your children will inherit. Money that stays in the trust is protected from irresponsible spending, creditors, and even spouses. For all these reasons, a trust is an excellent choice as beneficiary instead of an individual, regardless of his/her age.
Your Will and/or Living Trust
If you do not update your will or trust, your ex-spouse may inherit your assets. And if he/she remarries, the new spouse and his/her children could inherit your assets, leaving your children and family with nothing. If you provide support to your parents or others, be sure to include them in your estate plan.
If you have minor children, you need to name a guardian for them in your will. (Even if you have a living trust, a simple will is required to name a guardian and to direct any forgotten assets into your trust.) Upon the death of one parent, usually the surviving parent will become the sole guardian. But if your ex-spouse has also died, had his/her parental rights terminated, or becomes an unfit parent, the court would have to appoint a guardian and would appreciate knowing your choice.
Powers of Attorney
Most married couples give each other the power to make health care decisions, including those regarding life and death. Financial powers are also usually given to each other so that one can manage the other's financial affairs without interruption. These are often quite broad, including the ability to buy and sell real estate, open and close financial accounts, change beneficiary designations, collect government benefits, etc. Instead of your ex-spouse, you can name a parent, sibling, close friend or adult child to have these powers and act for you when you cannot.
You Need Professional Guidance and Assistance
You probably need an experienced attorney more now to help you with updating your estate plan than you did when you were married. Don't procrastinate on this. Make sure you protect yourself, your children and others who depend on you.


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The Confession of REBECCA WEST, daughter to Anne West of Colchester in ESSEX.
The said Rebecca confessed at the Barre, that about Shrovetide last her mother bad her make haste of her worke, for she must gee along with her before Sunne downe: and as they were going over the fields, her mother gave her a great charge never to speake of what shee should heare or see, and she faithfully promised to keep counsel. When she came to the house of meeting there were five Witches more; the two chiefs were Mother Benefield and Mother Goodwin: this Mother Goodwin pulled out a Booke, and after their manner they prayed out of it, and presently their severall Impes appeared in severall shapes: fix whereof appeared in the shapes of Kitnens [sic] about a weeke old in Mother Benefield's lap, and after she had kissed them, she said unto Rebecca that those were all her children which she had by as handsome a man as any was in England. Then they commanded their Spirits come to kill such a mans Horse, some a cow, some a Childe, &c. then Mother Benefield called to mother West, and asked if she were sure that her daughter Rebecca would keepe counsel, or else she might seeke all their blood. She answered, Rebecca had promised. They all then replyed, if shee ever did speake of it that shee should suffer more tortures and paines on earth, then the paines of hell. Presently mother Benefield said, for more certainty let her take cur Covenant and Oath as we have already done. Then they taught her what to say, the summe whereof was to deny God and her Saviour Jesus Christ, to renounce all promises of his blessings, and the merits of his bitter death and passion, to beleeve as they did, and to serve and obey as they did. And the said Rebecca confessed that so soone as she had done thus, the Divel in the shape of a little blacke dog leaped into hes lap, & kissed her three times, but she felt them very cold. Shortly after, when she was going to bed, the Divel appeared unto her againe in the shape of a hand some young man, saying that he came to marry her. The manner was thus: he took her by the hand, and leading her about the roome, said, I take thee Rebecca to be my wife, and doe promise to be thy loving husband till death, defending, thee from all harmes; then he told her what shee must say, whereupon she took him by the hand and said, I Rebecca take thee to be my husband, and doe promise to be an obedient wife till death, faithfully to performe and observe all thy commands; the first whereof was that she should deny and renounce as aforesaid. And being asked by the Judge whether she ever had carnall copulation with the Divel, she confessed that she had. And being asked divers questions by a Gentleman that did speake severall times with her before and afterward (giving her godly and comfortable instructions) she affirmed that so soone as one of the said Witches was in prison, she was very desirous to confesse all she knew, which accordingly the did, whereupon the rest were apprehended and sent unto the Gaole. She further affirmed, that when she was going to the Grand Inquest with one mother Miller (indicted for a Witch) she told mother Miller that shee would confesse nothing, if they pulled her to pieces with pincers: and being asked the reason by the Gentleman, she said she sound her selfe in such extremity of torture and amazement, that she would not endure it againe for the world: and when she looked upon the ground shee saw her selfe encompassed in flames of fire: and presently the Grand Inquest called for her, where they admit but one at a time, and so soone as she was thus separated from this mother Miller, the tortures and the flames beganne to cease: whereupon she then confessed all shee ever knew, and said that so soone as her confession was fully ended, she found her conscience so satisfied and disburdened of all her tortures, that she thought her selfe the happiest creature in the world: withall affirming that the Divel can take any shape, and speake plaine English.
Another Witch sent her maid to a neighbours house for a handfull of herbes, who meeting with her sweetheart staid an houre by the way, saying she should bee halfe hanged for staying so long: whereupon he told her that in such a place in their owne garden there grew the same herbes, so it was but going over the pale and her journey was ended; which she did, and pleased her mistris well for her long stay, by bringing those herbes. At night her mistris bade her go up to bed first, which made her mistrust something; where upon she peeked between the boards, and observed her mistris to cut the herbes in small peeces, shrewing them about the roome: the next morning her husband rising betimes found twelve or fourteene great Hogs, being all his owne, dead in the yard, and so for his Sheepe and all his other Cattell, and telling his wife how they were undone, she replyed, Hath the queane served me thus? she shall suffer for it. Then he examined the maid, and both gave evidence. This was at Ipswich in Suffolke.
The evidence of Mr. Long a Minister neere Colchester in Essex.
First, that as he was riding on the way, the shape of a red Dog passed by him, at which his blood did rise: and being passed a small distance, turned his face, his eyes appearing not like the eyes of any creature, his horse presently started, and never left kicking and flinging untill he threw him downe, but had no hurt. An old woman in the Towne called goodwife Clarke being mistrusted and examined before Sir Thomas Boes, confessed that she sent forth this spirit, with command to make the horse throw Mr. Loig and breake his necke: and being demanded by Sir Thomas Boes what was the reason the Spirit did not performe her commands, she answered because the power of God was above the power of the Divel. But the horse did pine to death for his punishment.
The evidence of the said Mr. Long.
He said that one morning as he was walking abroad, a poore woman being of his own Parish spake kindly to him, but his answer was that he had a long time a good opinion of her, although he ever accounted her sister, an ill liver, and little better then those that are accounted Witches, but now he strongly beleeved that her sister had made her as bad as herselfe; this much troubled the old woman, and she would not leave following and perswading of the said Mr. Long to bee of his former good opinion, professing her own innocence in any ill of such nature, or any compact with such evil Spirit whatsoever: but finding him not satisfied with any thing she had said, she assured him she would give him an evidence undenyable, whereupon she lifted up both her hands towards heaven, calling God to witnes, and desired that he would shew a present Iudgement upon her if she were not innocent and cleare: now Mr. Long affirmed upon his oath that these words were no sooner out of her mouth, but she was strucke to the ground upon her back before his face, where she did lye in a most lamentable condition, trembling and crying; be took her up and carried her into an Alehouse hard by, where she did lie in this extremitie two dayes, and that so soone as she came to herselfe he gave her the best comfort he could, shewing how mercifull God had beene to her in sparing her life, giving her time of repentance, the first step whereof must be her confession and contrition, whereupon she confessed that she had done much mischief, and that she had compacted with the Devill, that hee usually sucked her and appeared unto her in the shape of a Squirell. These aforesaid Witches have confessed that they did raise the great windes in March last, and caused a Hoy to be cast away, wherein were many passengers.
When these Witches came first into the Gaole at Colchester, the Gaoler lost his meat often, and mistrusting that the Witches had got it, upon a time bought a good shoulder of Mutton, and said hee would looke to the dressing of it himselfe, but when it was ready the Witches had got it, and all the while the Witches were at supper with it, the Gaoler in stead of Mutton was eating Hogs-wash.
After this the Gaoler desirous to see more of their feats, intreated some of them to shew him a little of their cunning, thinking to make himselfe meny for the losse of his meat, whereupon one of the Witches bid him goe fetch her foure pewter dishes wherein never water came; straightway went the Gaoler to a Pewterer and got 4. new dishes, and afore he brought them to the Witch he wet one of them, contrary to the Witches direction, neverthelesse as soone as the Witch had them, she put her bands and feet into the foure dishes, and upon an instant was lifted into the ayre with three dishes that were dry, the fourth falling off, and by good chance was found in a meadow about halfe a mile off, and brought backe to Prison.
On this day..
- 1971: Kariye Partici, the last woman hanged in Turkey
- 1402: Fang Xiaoru, of the ten agnates
- 1242: William de Marisco, pirate knight
- 1946: The Moore's Ford Bridge lynchings
- 1729: James Cluff, on appeal
- 1785: John Winship, family planner
- Feast Day of St. James the Greater
- 1831: Julien Sorel, in The Red and the Black
- 1844: The Bandiera brothers
- 1570: Ivan Viskovaty among hundreds on Red Square during the Oprichnina
- 1826: The Decembrists
- 1794: Andre Chenier, poet


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New Private Jet Experience with Anantara Hotels and Resorts
Kihawah (Maldives) – August 27, 2018 (travelindex.com) – Anantara Hotels, Resorts and Spas, the original hospitality brand to place indigenous experiences at the heart of luxury travel launches the Anantara Private Jet Experience; an incredible voyage of discovery around the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Guests can now seamlessly combine luxurious stays at Anantara properties with the ease and convenience of private jet transportation. Signature hotels, Anantara Kihavah Maldives Villas and Anantara Peace Haven Tangalle Resort, have been intrinsically linked for the first time, offering a marvelous way to discover the hidden treasure of this breathtaking corner of the world.
Elevating the Anantara concept of luxury travel to new heights thanks to a partnership with MJets, the bespoke aviation airline, discerning travelers can now curate the ultimate tour of the Indian Ocean. Embarking in the fabled city of Bangkok, known for its vibrant street life and elaborate shrines, guests can soar between the luscious jungle and coconut fringed shores of Sri Lanka to the myriad blue tones of the spectacular Maldives.
Larger groups are easily accommodated in the Gulfstream V, with a three-zone cabin environment for working, dining, entertaining and resting, the GV is the natural choice for ultimate luxury travel. Amenities including shower facilities, fully reclining beds, state of the art entertainment systems and two flight attendants, are sure to deliver guests in a state of blissful relaxation.
The Cessna Citation X, is perfect for more intimate groups accommodating up to eight passengers in utmost comfort. As one of the fastest business jet in the world, its interiors boast aesthetically pleasing and spacious cabins with no compromise on luxury and comfort. Features include fully reclining body club seats, entertainment systems and one flight attendant for optimal, personalised service. Sip champagne and feel the stress melt away as the shores of Sri Lanka emerge.
Upon touching down at Colombo International airport, transition seamlessly from the runway to a waiting private limousine ready to whisk travellers to their awaiting slice of heaven; a private villa overlooking the bay of Anantara Peace Haven Tangalle. Sheltered by a crescent of golden sand, Anantara Peace Haven Resort is an unexplored paradise located in Tangalle on Sri Lanka's southernmost shore.
At a resort where indulgence blends authentic indigenous elements and international flair, activities in Tangalle are endless, ranging from Aryurvedic Wellness Journeys to exhilarating surfing and personalised spa experiences. After dining on sustainably sourced cuisine, brought from farm to cliff side table by a private chef, master the art of Sri Lankan cuisine by taking an exclusive cooking class. Toast the ocean views from a private veranda and relax as the sun dips below the horizon signaling the end of another day in paradise.
As soon as a fleeting hint of restlessness takes hold again, guests can summon a private jet to take off to the spectacular Maldives. From the window of a private sea plane watch as the twenty-six atolls unfurl below, stretched like a necklace across innumerable shades of blue oceans. Upon arrival at Anantara Kihavah Maldives Villas, it is clear that nature reigns. Overwater villas feature a two-tiered deck with shaded swinging daybed, dining area and ocean hammocks above, and a sunny lower deck with loungers and steps into the lagoon. Choose the sunset side of the island for evenings tinged with fiery blush. Villas are at one with natural surroundings, with coconut trees jutting through some of the villas' ceilings and lush canopies offering shade and seclusion.
By day, those with a taste of adventure will be satiated by the unparalleled diving accessible from the coral reefs. Dip toes into the aquamarine lagoon of a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and snorkel with mantas and whale sharks or stroll along immaculate, snow-white beaches. By night, be transported to a faraway galaxy with a private stargazing session in the only observatory in the southern Indian Ocean.
The Anantara Private Jet Experience can be tailored to suit each guest's individual tastes and requirements and scaled to accommodate intimate couples' celebrations or larger group parties. Begin a quintessentially Anantara journey by contacting one of the experience butlers for more information.
Anantara is a luxury hospitality brand for modern travellers, connecting them to genuine places, people and stories through personal experiences, and providing heartfelt hospitality in the world's most exciting destinations. The collection of distinct, thoughtfully designed luxury hotels and resorts provides a window through which to journey into invigorating new territory, curating personal travel experiences.
From cosmopolitan cities to desert sands to lush islands, Anantara connects travellers to the indigenous, grounds them in authentic luxury, and hosts them with passionate expertise. The portfolio currently boasts over 35 stunning properties located in Thailand, the Maldives, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, Zambia, the UAE, Qatar and Oman, with a pipeline of future properties across Asia, the Indian Ocean, Middle East and Africa.
Anantara is a member of Global Hotel Alliance (GHA), the world's largest alliance of independent hotel brands.


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The Origins of the Moonwalk
We all know Michael Jackson invented the moonwalk on-stage during a performance of Billie Jean at the Motown 25th Anniversary show. What this video presupposes is, maybe he didn't?
What the video shows is that as early as the 1930s, performers such as Fred Astaire, Bill Bailey, Cab Calloway, and Sammy Davis Jr. were doing something like the moonwalk. Now, Jackson didn't get the move from any of these sources, not directly anyway. As Jackson's choreographer Jeffrey Daniel explains, he got the moves from The Electric Boogaloos street dance crew and, according to LaToya Jackson, instructed Michael Jackson.
Which is to say, the moonwalk is yet another example of multiple discovery, along with calculus, the discovery of oxygen, and the invention of the telephone. (via open culture)