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Remember, size is no guarantee of strength. We may be the smallest gallery in Soho, but we intend it to carry big ideas.
Gallery Manager:
Moira Rizopoulos
Moira is a Creative Producer and works on array of creative projects at The Garage Soho; including advertising campaigns, films, exhibitions and events. It was this role that lead her to manage 'The Smallest Gallery in Soho' where she helps showcase creative and thought-provoking work. Previously, Moira gained a BA in Fine Art and a MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Philip Levine
Philip has been working in the creative and cultural industries for the last decade as a producer. This has ranged from exhibitions, events, publishing, talks and creating his own unique artwork under the title 'Headism'. He has gained a MA in Culture, Policy and Management at City, University of London. Being from London, his passion is knowing 'who and what' is up and coming in cultural trends and being involved within them.
Andreia Costa
Andreia is an Associate Architect at Jamie Fobert Architects. She studied in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto and practiced for 3 years in her native Portugal. Before moving to the UK Andreia decided to explore her contemporary art interest by working in Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art as an architecture and art lecturer. In 2010 she joined Jamie Fobert Architects, where she has been involved in several projects including Selfridges and Tate exhibitions.


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Don't judge a book by its cover
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Hardcover
I really wasn't sure about this book just based on the cover. Boy was glad I changed my mind and purchased it! Like another reviewer I've read several books on the subject of perimenopause. None can compare to COULD IT BE...PERIMENOPAUSE? Dr. Goldstein has provided such a great service to those of us who are wondering what the heck is going on with our bodies and minds during this sometimes trying time. One of the sections that I was so glad to read is about dealing with symptons in a natural way. He asks, "Do you really want it natural or safe?" Dr. Goldstein brings up great points in answering this question. I realized what I wanted was safe and if at all possible natural. If anyone is contemplating surgery, get a copy of this book and read the section about this subject. It is very important and a REAL eye opener. I wish I had this book before I had surgery. This book really educates you and prepares you to ask more questions when visiting your OB/GYN.
Pages: 256
Publisher: Little, Brown
Laurie Ashner
Steven R. Goldstein
Top 10 book
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
Few books come together with some many history examples and famous stories that show the insight this book does so perfectly. 48 laws --- raw in humanity and useful because it is so. Just gives you that glimse of reality of how the world works --- just cant be said enough of how insightful this book is. I've read many books my life and in those 10 of hundreds of them --- this is one of those that no one should be without if you at all enjoy the fact of life how the world can work er.... to your advantage :)
Pages: 480
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Robert Greene
Finally, techniques for texture
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Hardcover
I love this book. I own two other bread making books, and this is my favorite. The other books give little antecdotes followed by a recipe, but they don't explain anything. This book has a lot of useful information on obtaining the perfect texture (creamy yet airy) and a chewy crust. My bread also rises better than it used to. And thanks to this book, my starters are finally working. I agree with the reviewer who said that the techniques discussed in the beginning of the book are not reiterated in the recipes, but they are straight forward enough to keep in mind.
Pages: 352
Publisher: Broadway
Linda West Eckhardt
Diana Collingwood Butts
Harry Potter, Book for EVERY one!
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Hardcover
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was probably the best book I have ever read. I am 14 and I read alot. I try to stick to bestsellers (like the ones on the NY times list) and this book being stedily on that list cought my eye. It was so wonderful I read it in 2 days. I read it to all the kids I babysit for, ages from 1-12 and boy do they all love it! My mom even read it and loved it. This book breaks down barriers as a "childrens book" for all ages!
Pages: 309
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
J.K. Rowling
Heart Wrenching Novel
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
If I had to name my three favorite authors, Alice Hoffman would be right up there with Diane Chamberlain and Chalotte Vale Allen. In Turtle Moon, Alice Hoffman has done a masterful job of showing how a young boy, perceived as "the meanest boy in Verity" is anything but! This mean boy rescues a baby from a murderous father and goes on the run with him. An unforgettable novel about the healing power of love and the folly of making assumptions based on appearances and innuendo.
Pages: 304
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Alice Hoffman
Don't judge a book by its cover
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
I bought a hardback version of this book, an edition published in 1989. I was disappointed at the look and, at first, the layout, but closer, patient inspection revealed something special. This book is almost a perfect balance between scientific rigorousness and new age blather, but there is clearly an honest attempt to please two sets of people. I haven't tried the system (I've had the book for a couple of years!) but the science is very convincing, and quite unsensationalistic. The book basically claims to take 8-10 years off your age (including the way you look! ), and frankly this skeptic believes it. Read the book and you'll believe it too. It ISN'T rubbish, it is a proven means of regaining youth. The authors' bona fides, by the way, are as impressive as you'll get, and they have never to my knowledge spoken to Roseanne.
Publisher: Warner Books
David Imrie
Richard Earle
The best of Robert Heinlein
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Hardcover
I am a big fan of Robert Heinlein, although I find all his Hugo award winning novels especially "Stranger in a Strange Land" and the "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" pretty hard to digest. However "The Fantasies of Robert Heinlein" collects 8 intriguing stories from one of the true masters of SF."All you Zombies", where a man in a bar reveals that he is his every relation (father, mother et al) through a series of time paradoxes and "And he built a crooked house" where an architect constructs a house in the shape of a tesseract (a four dimensional hypercube) in which he and the new occupants of the house find themselves trapped are simply masterpieces. Check out "They --" as well.A must read for any Heinlein and serious SF fan.
Pages: 320
Publisher: Tor Books
Robert A. Heinlein
A. J. Ayer's criterion vs. Karl Popper's criterion
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Paperback
To the previous reviewer:"Nor can we accept the suggestion that a sentence should be something which is definitely confutable by experience . . . This has been proposed by Karl Popper in his Logik der Forschung." ("Language, Truth and Logic", p. 38)A. J. Ayer criterion is based upon the assumption that no scientific theory is either confirmed or refuted "for eternity". In fact, it is both a verifiability/falsifiability criterion since by verifying a sentence one is falsifying its converse. Karl Popper's falsifiability criterion is based upon the assumption that certain scientific theories can be refuted "for eternity" (absolutely) albeit no theory can be confirmed "for eternity".
Pages: 160
Publisher: Dover Publications
Alfred J. Ayer
Great Text for Culinary Nutrition Class
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Hardcover
I was assigned this text in my nutrition class in culinary school. The book was a joy to read because it was fun and easy to read. I really liked the section on vitamins and food sources of each vitamin. However, if you really want to know the type of questions asked in nutrition class in culinary school get the following. "Nutrtion Study Guide for Food Service and Culinary Professionals: Key Review Questions and Answers by Melissa Heilman. The isbn of this book is 1933023058. This book is right on with the type of questions that I accounted on my tests. With the help of these two books getting an "A" was quite easy.
Pages: 656
Publisher: Wiley
Karen Eich Drummond
Lisa M. Brefere
made me late for work
Rating: 5/5
Binding: Hardcover
I am not a civil war freak. This was the first book on the subject I read. Great book though. The book is well over 800 pages and I was reading the book on the bus, as soon as I got home, when I woke up... For weeks I was too into what was happening in the book to keep up with the 'real world'. Not my usual experience for sure. If you have any interest in American history you should like this. If you don't have any interest the Civil War, read this and you will I'd almost bet it. This book is that good and more...
Pages: 928
Publisher: Oxford University Press
James M. McPherson


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September 9, 2018
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today, 30 September 2010, thursday, is the day of our exhibition..
|Me finishing up our group's sign.(i paint it myself! :D )
it was held at the Dataran Ilmu from 8.30a.m to 1.00p.m.. there are 4 Tesl class that were involve in the exhibition and each class have 8 groups. each groups were given a topic to choose for the exhibition. and my group and I got the topic Technology in Communication. well,at first, i was wondering what to exhibit about the topic,then when my group go ask our Social Study lecturer, sir Dzaki, he brief us about what to do that related to our topic.
|Muzark and Nasir doing the decorations...
|Muzark, Dzul, Nasir & Aiman doing the decorations. (lakonan semata-mata)
|Faez & Akmal glittering the leaf for the decorations.
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The next time someone looks askance at Thad Matta when he's the only one seeing the sun on a dark horizon, he might be able to point to this season as proof that he's not just painting a smiley face on a dire situation.
The next time someone looks askance at Thad Matta when he's the only one seeing the sun on a dark horizon, he might be able to point to this season as proof that he's not just painting a smiley face on a dire situation.
"I don't know how Coach does it," guard Jon Diebler said yesterday, "but he was right."
Seven weeks ago, the Ohio State men's basketball team had started its Big Ten season 1-3 and Matta told his players not to fret because the conference champion wasn't going to finish with fewer than four losses anyway.
"I remember Coach coming in the locker room and saying, 'If you guys just hang on, we're going to be all right. We are going to be in the running,'" P.J. Hill said. "We just kept believing him and, right now, we are on a roll."
Ohio State has won 11 of its past 12 Big Ten games heading into a game against Michigan today in Value City Arena. The No. 9 Buckeyes (22-7, 12-4) trail first-place Purdue by a game in the loss column, and the Boilermakers must play third-place Michigan State on Sunday without star forward Robbie Hummel, who suffered a season-ending knee injury Wednesday.
Ohio State finishes its regular season Tuesday at home against Illinois. Purdue and Michigan State have two games apiece remaining after Sunday.
If Michigan State beats Purdue and the three teams finish in a tie for the championship, Ohio State will get the No.1 seed in the Big Ten tournament because of its 2-1 record against the other two. Purdue was 2-2 and Michigan State 1-2 in the round-robin.
The Buckeyes would be the first team to rally from a 1-3 start and win at least a share of the Big Ten title since Michigan State started 0-3 in 1957.
"When you get in a hole like that, it's hard to think that far (ahead)," Kyle Madsen said. "When you're 1-3, you're just thinking you've got to get the next game, get the next game, get the next game, and just hope that in the end you're going to be right there with everybody else."
The Buckeyes had two strikes against them when they started the Big Ten season. First, four of their first five games were on the road, and all four were against teams projected to be NCAA Tournament contenders. Second, they played the first two road games without their best player, Evan Turner, who did not return until Jan. 6 from a back injury.
Ohio State lost one more road game, at Minnesota, before reversing course with a win Jan. 12 at Purdue. Turner scored a career-high 32 points, including 14 in a row as the Buckeyes rallied from 10 points down in the final four minutes.
"Four out of our first five games were on the road, which was really tough. We knew we were going to have some stretches with some home games," Diebler said.
"And I think, without having Evan, we were still very positive that when he came back, whenever that was going to be, we were going to have a chance to win the Big Ten."
Not only Ohio State but also Michigan State (Kalin Lucas) and Wisconsin (Jon Leuer) have played multiple conference games without star players this season. Now it's Purdue's turn.
"It's a tremendous loss for Purdue," Matta said.


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To understand the five fold relationally, one must understand its purpose and mission. Is the five fold to be offices to govern the church or are they passions desires and points of view of believers in Jesus? Let's look at their purpose and mission.
To Equip The Saints…..
"….. for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;" (Ephesians 4:12)
One purpose for the five fold is "for the equipping of the saints". If it were for the structuring of the church, it would read "for the equipping of the staff," but it doesn't say that. It is not a "professional development" tool.
One definition for "equip" is "to prepare mentally for a particular situation or task." For what situation are we preparing our believers in Christ? For evangelism? It takes a special mentality to infiltrate a hostile world that rejects Jesus and share the gospel. What "necessary supplies for a particular purpose" do we, as a Church, "equip" them with? One of the greatest tools we can give them is to "release" and "send" them with our blessing.
The organizational church tried to keep William Booth in his pulpit, not in the streets, and would not release him to evangelize. He resigned, went for it alone, and founded the Salvation Army. Unfortunately, many believers with an evangelistic passion find themselves alone because the church won't bless their "independent" endeavors.
Evangelists do not have to be alone when embracing the five fold because they have others supporting and encouraging them. A believer with a shepherd's heart, standing with him, he can nurture and care for any new convert. Another believer with a passion to teach could share the Logos Word and help make it a Rhema Word in a new convert's life. A prophetic believer would seek the voice of the Holy Spirit for guidance. A believer with apostolic vision would network this new convert with others to strengthen his walk. What greater gift can we give an evangelist than release him to, "Go do your thing; we got your back covered"?
A believer with an evangelistic passion often gets burned out and discouraged if they don't have the support of their local church. But in the five fold an evangelist has a shepherd to nurture, a teacher to instruct, a prophet to draw near to God, and an apostle to "see over" what the Holy Spirit is doing in his life. That is equipping!
If we would approach equipping through the Lamad method of experiencing a faith journey with a brother or sister rather then academically instructing them, we would be more effective in discipleship. Am I willing to "lay down my life for my brethren" by literally being beside him in a 24/7 relationship? Jesus did it! If so, this five fold will work. If not, I will be inclined to outsource it to a professional, which is our current structure. It is all about intimate, sacrificial relationships!
The same is true with the other four passions. Equipping means standing by each other while "laying down" your agendas, passions, and opinions "to serve" one another!
As a church we have no idea what equipping means until we "experience" it! When we "invest" in one another, believers to believers, "equipping" will flow naturally as it did in the first century.


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Saturday, June 01, 2013
Thanks For Coming Out, 2013 Detroit Red Wings
On the verge of missing their first playoffs in forever, the Detroit Red Wings were able to actually get to the 7th game of the second round, though getting beat in overtime by the Blackhawks. While many thought they overachieved, these are the Red Wings and that's a tradition that never gives up.
The core of the Red Wings offense is going to be together for a long-time-- especially if they re-sign Pavel Datsyuk to a long-term deal this off-season--but for some reason, they have been able to develop players to fit into their system for years. Many were skeptical of what Damien Brunner could bring to the table, but he could be one of the first European free-agents to make a big impact in the NHL, so long as he sticks to the Red Wings system. Up and down, the Wings filter in and out cogs in order to fulfill their needs.
It's hard to fill the void that Nicklas Lidstrom left, but the Wings are trying with Niklas Kronwall and Jonathan Ericsson. Kronwall does bring the physical side and Ericsson the defensive side; but they are hard-pressed to have the full package player that Lidstrom was. With only Kronwall, Ericsson, and Jakub Kindl playing over 40 games, the stability of their defense is something that that could be called into question as the years go on.
There are many who call Jimmy Howard elite, but I don't know if I believe that he's the Joe Flacco of the NHL. While Howard's number are decent, is that because of the system or his skill?? Many believe that Martin Brodeur was so good because of the system and scheme he was behind, but people give Howard the benefit of the doubt. Chris Osgood was able to win Cup rings with this Red Wings team in front of him, but Howard so far has zero. I refuse to believe that he's in that upper echelon of goalies without a ring or Conference championship to show for it.
Many questions also surround Mike Babcock's future, as he has a couple more years with the Red Wings. Even if Babcock were to leave, the Wings have always been a team that has been able to replace coaches with relative ease, sans the Dave Lewis experiment. Should Babcock go in a couple years, the brass of the Wings should be able to fit in another cog to the machine-- much like their player roster-- in order to keep a successful franchise going.
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When I first heard the term dry brushing I had no idea what to think. But it really is exactly what it says. You brush your body with a dry brush, and you are dry. Why? Exactly. Just what I thought.
Dry brushing is thought to stimulate the body's circulation and lymphatic systems. By massaging or stimulating your lymph nodes it helps shed excess water and toxins from your body. Your lymphatic system, unlike your circulatory system, does not move on it's own and relies on the movement of your muscles and diaphragm. Dry brushing can give your lymph a little oomph. (hehe)
I have even read some people swearing that it reduces their cellulite. I am not sure how I feel about that one. In the end of the day dry brushing is inexpensive (about $15 for a brush), takes 5-10 minutes, will feel amazing on your body, and you will for sure shed some dead skin, right?
Things to know about dry brushing:
The Brush:
You can purchase the brush at a Whole Foods, or a health foods store. Look for natural bristles, not synthetic. Look for stiff bristles, but not too tough for your body. Test it out on your hand to see how it feels. Try to get a long handle brush so you can reach your back!
How to dry brush:
Start at your ankles and create firm strokes in toward the center of your body. I also read that some people make circular motions and move toward their heart. You want to brush toward your heart because this is the natural path of your lymphatic system. Do not push so hard, like a crazy person, it should not be painful. Your skin will most likely turn pink, but it should not be bright red and painful. After you finish your legs brush your arms, shoulders, stomach and armpits! I know there are a lot of lymphs in the armpits!
How often:
If you are just starting off, 2-3 time a week. After your skin and body are used to the dry brushing you can slowly increase to every day. People who "dry brush" usually do it before they shower. If you only shower once a week, you can dry brush before you go to bed.
I plan on trying this dry brushing thing. Does you dry brush? Has you ever heard of it before? Let me know down below! XO


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Florence Sunset Wine Tour Review
Florence, Italy is without a doubt now one of my favorites cities. I could visit it 100 times and still have so much to enjoy and experience all around Tuscany... most importantly - the wine and people.
On this tour I changed it up and instead of going to another vineyard, tried out a wine tour in the city itself, but away from typical tourist areas and out of the hot sun. I chose the Made of Tuscany Sunset Wine Tour and it did not disappoint! Susanna, a local, personally hosted us, and has an exceptional team leading a vast amount of daily tours on behalf of Made of Tuscany. Susanna provides her wine tour guests with their own tasting glass and pouch that hangs conveniently over their neck. The pouch is such an innovative idea and I've never seen anyone do it before! Being able to legally drink outside is a plus, too.
We met Susanna at 7:15pm at Ponte Vecchio, the famous medieval bridge lined with jewelers and high-end shops arched over the Arno River. She guided us along the other side of the river and on to a local wine shop. On our way to the shop she pointed out the home of Antonio Meucci, the famous Italian inventor and first inventor of the telephone! (Gasp)
Susanna had lots of stories and information like that to share. As a local, she pointed out the best spots to eat pizza and gelato too. :-)
When we finally arrived to the first wine shop (after a short walk), we came upon locals enjoying their evening aperitif. They cleared out of the entrance and inside the shop sat a small table and chairs in front of a wall of shelved wine bottles.
Then the wine arrived: we tasted one refreshing rosato and two deep reds. As an added bonus, the wine was paired with breaded bites dressed with delectable toppings. Susanna made the tasting so comfortable that I kept forgetting to try the wine and just wanted to chat the night away about Florence!
We then went to another shop for a tasting accompanied by more appetizers. But first, Susanna led the way to a nearby bridge and took a lovely photo of us with an evening Firenze as the backdrop. Along our walk to she noted the cold evening and Alex and I began to laugh uncontrollably. We couldn't wait to share that during our visit throughout Italy, we noticed everyone using the word "fresh" to describe something cold. At first, in restaurants, we didn't understand this. We would ask for a wine recommendation for dinner and the waiter would describe: "The red is very good, but it is not fresh. The white is lovely and fresh."
Why would you serve us wine that is not fresh!? And what does that even mean!?
Alex and I encountered this a few times until one day (in Venice) we brought chilled wine to a boat party and the host said "Wonderful! We can have fresh wine now! The refrigerator is broken so I'm trying to keep the others fresh with the fan!"
We realized fresh meant cold, not old!
Susanna laughed hysterically at our story, piecing together all the times she's used the word fresh where tourists have probably been confused, but never said anything!
Oh, the joy of translations.
We finally arrived to the wine shop and Susanna provided us with another glass of red to enjoy with bruschetta. As she handed us the tasting she said, "careful – the bruschetta is not fresh."
We froze.
Susanna clarified: "Well - it is very fresh, but not fresh!"
We laughed and walked on, sitting together into the evening in front of the breathtaking Duomo with wine, bruschetta, and a good time.
The Sunset Wine Tour runs evenings at 7:30 for two hours, and costs $39. They offer tours in five languages and all of their guides are licensed. For a listing of all Made of Tuscany tours in Florence, peruse their website here >>


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Health Care Services Available During Temporary Stay in Hungary
Based on the guidelines of the National Health Insurance Service www.oep.hu/
Below, you can find information how to seek health insurance services during your temporary stay in Hungary.
- Residents of EEA (European Economic Area) countries and Switzerland
- Entitlement certificates
- How to use the European Health Insurance Card in Hungary
- Lack of EHIC
- Planned Treatment
- Croatia
- Bilateral Agreements on Social Policy and/or Health Care
1. Residents of EEA (Europe Economic Area) countries and Switzerland
Residents of the European Union, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, who are entitled to health care of the national health service or mandatory health insurance scheme of their respective countries of residence, can receive in Hungary the health care
- which becomes necessary
- on medical grounds
- during temporary stay in Hungary
- taking into account the nature of the benefits required and the expected length of stay.
The treatment, which becomes medically necessary during the patient's temporary stay in Hungary is free of charge.
In case of doubt the health care provider decides whether the needed treatment is medically necessary during the expected duration of the stay in Hungary. However, by virtue of decisions of the European Commission (n° 2004/481/EC and 2004/482/EC), all treatments are deemed necessary in case of
- oxygen therapy and
- pregnancy and childbirth
- dyalisis
2. Entitlement certificates
For getting the treatment in the same conditions as Hungarian insured persons, an European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) or the Provisional Replacement Certificate (PRC) must be submitted to the health care provider.
3. How to use the European Health Insurance Card in Hungary
Documentation required
- You need both the European Health Insurance Card and your passport or ID card.
You can only obtain treatment from surgeries, which have a sign saying they are contracted with the National Health Insurance Fund. The inscription is generally as follows:
"a társadalombiztosítás egészségügyi szolgáltatásaira szerződött szolgáltató".
If you need necessary medically treatment, it is advised to see a general practitioner (GP - "háziorvos") first. The GP decides whether further specialised out- or inpatient treatment is necessary and will issue a referral.
The specialised outpatient care, typically available at outpatient centres ("szakrendelő"), is rendered generally upon referral. However, you may seek outpatient care without referral if the treatment relates to dermatology, gynaecology, urology, otolaryngology, ophthalmology, oncology or general surgery.
The following dental treatments are available at dentists contracted with the National Health Insurance Fund (OEP) in case of necessity:
- emergency care
- on the basis of specialist's referral, and treatment related to any basic dental or oral diseases
- tooth preserving treatments
- dental surgery treatment
- gums diseases.
It is to note that the costs of materials are generally to be borne by the patients.
Where a doctor or dentist issues a prescription, it should be taken to the pharmacy, where the EHIC shall be submitted as well. Subsidies on medicines can vary according to disease and type of product. The subsidy is provided directly to the pharmacy, so the amount you will have to pay at the purchase of the prescribed medicine is a "co-payment" and therefore it is not refundable.
Hospital Treatment
Hospital treatment is normally provided through a referral from a GP. In urgent cases no referral is necessary.
A co-payment of 30 per cent but maximum HUF 100 000 is due
- when obtaining hospital treatment without a referral from a primary health care provider,
- when using a health care provider other than the one specified in the referral by the prescribing doctor or
- if you chose to be treated by a doctor who is not on duty at the time of the treatment.
For extra services (better room, meal etc.) additional charges are applied by hospitals.
Private charges for seeing a doctor or dentist and co-payment for hospital services and pharmaceuticals are not refundable.
(It is to note that most dentists advertising themselves are not contracted for the services of the Hungarian health insurance; if dentists are contracted to health insurance services, they only provide emergency dental treatment and eventually tooth filling when needed).
If you are treated privately in a hospital, none of the charges are refundable.
EHIC in General
The European Health Insurance Card is required for each episode of treatment. It must be submitted to the physician treating you, or at the patient's registration desk in hospitals or outpatient medical centres.
4. Lack of EHIC
If the insured person cannot produce an EHIC while seeking necessary health care in Hungary, the health care provider can accept a retroactively issued PRC as well. The PRC must be submitted by the patient or forwarded via fax at latest within 15 days following the treatment. If a PRC cannot be produced either in due time, the health care provider charges a fee for the treatment and issues an invoice. A refund of the invoiced amount is not possible in Hungary; however, the patient can apply for a reimbursement according to Hungarian tariffs from his/her competent health insurance institution after returning home.
5. Planned Treatment
If the EEA or Swiss resident wishes to receive a planned medical treatment in Hungary at the expenses of his/her competent health insurance institution, or enters Hungary with the purpose of getting health care, a prior authorisation is required. The competent institution certifies its consent on a form E 112. This form has to be submitted to the health care provider in order to get the treatment with the same conditions as Hungarian insured persons. An EHIC is not acceptable in such circumstances.
6. Croatia
Persons insured in Croatia, as well as their dependant family members are entitled to urgent health care services during their stay in Hungary under the same conditions as Hungarian insured persons. The immediately necessary treatments can be sought by submitting a HR/HU 111 certificate. This form is issued on request by the competent regional office (područni ured) of the Croatian Health Insurance Institution (HZZO).
7. Bilateral Agreement on Social policy and/or Health Care
The citizens of the following States can receive health care in immediately necessary cases. The document certifying the entitlement is the PASSPORT only.
- Angola
- Cuba
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Macedonia (Former Yugoslav Republic of)
- Mongolia
- North Korea (Peoples' Democratic Republic of Korea)
- Serbia
- Montenegro
- Russia
- Ukraine
Other States of the Commonwealth of Independent States (Содружества Независимых Государств)
Third countries
Citizens and/or residents of countries, which are not part of the European Economic Area and which don't have bilateral agreements with Hungary on the provision of health care, have to pay full price for the health care services rendered in Hungary. According to the Hungarian legislation, the health care provider can set the fee basically freely; therefore the Hungarian National Health Insurance has no influence on the amount of fee charged. However, in order to avoid discrimination, it is important that the health care provider applies consequently the same fee for the same service. For this purpose, most health care providers have established price lists that can be consulted before the treatment.
Important phone numbers
Ambulance: 104
Fire Department: 105
Police: 107
For any help: 112
All these numbers are free to call.
Kaposi Mór County Hospital: Ambulance 06-82-501-300; Dentist: 06-82-311-005
For mental help: SOS-life: 06-80-505-390; Help in Telphone: 08-82-415-875; Anonymous AIDS Advice: 06-1 466-92-83
Helping assistant: 188
International Inquiries: 199
In Hungary most medicines require a prescription, but over-the-counter medicines are available. Pharmacies/chemist's sell both prescription and non-prescription medicines and medications are not usually sold in other places suchas supermaket.
General health
Healthy eating: A new climate, unfamiliar food and the emotional stress of being away from home can all affect your health. It is vital that you eat the right food, and enough of it, in order to stay healthy. To achieve a balanced diet you should make sure you eat something from each of the following food groups every day:
- bread, rice, pasta or cereals
- milk, cheese, yoghurt
- fresh fruit and vegetables
- meat, fish, eggs, lentils, nuts or beans
Food plays a surprisingly large part in helping us feel settled and happy, so it is worth spending a bit of time finding out what food suits you. You may be cooking for yourself for the first time and may not find this easy, but you may find that there are many people in a similar situation as you. Most bookshops stock a wide range of cookery books with helpful recipe ideas and perhaps you may want to get together with other students to cook something together every now and then.
You may find the weather is very different from what you are used to in your home country so you should make sure that you wear clothes that are suitable. In summer it is better if you bring some light clothes, some jumpers and water-resistant shoes for rain.
Hungary has a temperate continental climate that is influenced by three main factors: the Eastern- European continental, the Western-European oceanic and the Mediterranean influence. For details about actual daily weather in Hungary and weather forecast, we have collected for you the best weather forecast websites.
www.qwikcast.com ; www.weather.com
Here are substantial differences among the averages temperatures of the four seasons.
In summer you may have weather-related symptoms such as:
- Headache: It is a good idea to bring suitable medicines. In Hungary the weather can change quite easily.
- Getting sunburnt: It is really dangerous, especially if you are coming from a northern country, you have to be really careful. You should wear a hat and try to avoid the sunshine. If you feel sick, immediately call an ambulance.
- Ticks are blood-feeding parasites that are often found in tall grass and shourbs where they will wait to attach to a passing host. (Not in the house, or in the city!!) Ticks are important vectors of diseases, including Lyme disease. To remove a tick use a small set of tweezers, made especially for ticks. You can buy one in a pharmacy. To avoid ticks, you can buy sparys or lotion, maybe immunization. In Somogy county ticks are wide- spread, if you are going on a trip be careful, avoid the tall grass, and wear closed clothes, after the trip, examine yourself.
Personal safety
- Kaposvár is a small city and relatively safe to live in but a few simple precautions will help make your stay in here safer.
- Never walk home on your own at night. Take a taxi, or bus. At night stay with a friend or group of friends. Never accept lifts from strangers.
- Always let someone know where you are going.
- Do not carry a lot of cash with you, and keep your purse and mobile phone in a safe place and out of sight.
- Take care of your possessions at all times, especially important documents like your passport, and do not leave them lying around.
- Keep photocopies of your passport, visa stamps, and insurance documents separately, in case the original gets lost, damaged or stolen.


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Veggie Thursdays!
by Richard Harris, Brussels
The open air market on Saint-Gilles church square has been operating for centuries starting when Saint-Gilles was a small village on a hillside overlooking Brussels. The fields around the village are where people first started cultivating Brussels sprouts over 600 years ago taking advantage of the many natural springs that flowed down the hill. Now Saint-Gilles is one of the 19 boroughs that make up Brussels and it's a lively mix of different ethnicities and nationalities living in handsome Art Nouveau and Art Deco neighborhoods. As well as the age-old Sunday morning market there are morning markets four other days a week, though they tend to offer more dry goods than food. The Sunday morning market is the classic food market with everything from a fishmonger to a guy who sells nothing but potatoes. In between there are fowl merchants, butchers, vegetable stands, fruit stands, cold cuts and cheese stands, olive sellers, bakers, wine merchants etc. Last year a gourmet/organic evening market was created on Thursday evenings and it's a big success with quite a few prepared food stands and organic beer and wine merchants. The whole square becomes one big café terrace filled with animated conversations as everyone relaxes after a day's work.
EVA (Ethical Vegetarian Alternatives) is a Belgian organization which promotes vegetarian eating through a number of different actions - information stands, conferences, cooking classes, their website, and special events. They promote Veggie Thursdays to get people to eat vegetarian at least one day a week. As they tell it, if a person has one meatless day per week that person will eat 250 less animals during his/her lifetime. And since it takes 22 pounds of grain and 4,000 gallons of water to produce 2 pounds of beef and also since livestock raising contributes one fifth of greenhouse gasses, everyone doing a meatless day will help appreciably to lower the world's carbon footprint. Which brings us to today's event. EVA decided to take advantage of the popularity of the Saint-Gilles Thursday evening market and set up what they claim is the longest vegetarian table ever in Belgium for a Veggie Afternoon/Evening.
The food was phenomenal and everyone had a fabulous time.


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Click above for a replay of the GigaLaw webinar, "How to Dispute a .us Domain Name: Transferring and Suspending Domains Under the usDRP and the usRS." The webinar was originally presented on March 29, 2017.
In this webinar, Doug Isenberg of GigaLaw and Renee Fossen of FORUM provide information about the two dispute policies that are available to trademark owners under the .us country-code top-level domain (ccTLD): the usTLD Dispute Resolution Policy ("usDRP") and the usTLD Rapid Suspension Dispute Policy ("usRS").
The webinar provides an overview of the usDRP (which allows a trademark owner to seek the transfer or cancellation of a .us domain name) and the usRS (which allows a trademark owner to seek the temporary suspension of a .us domain name). The webinar discusses the substantive elements of these two policies and how they differ from the larger and more well-known Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS). The webinar also explains how to file a usDRP or usRS complaint and explore some important decisions under these two policies.
Playing time is approximately one hour.
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Area geografica: Europa dell'est e Turchia
Settore: Telecomunicazioni
Using CA Application Performance Management, we can now observe application performance from the end-user's point of view, which provides us with real-time monitoring capabilities both from a technical and individual's perspective.
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, Middleware Infrastructure Expert , Vodafone Turkey
Vodafone Turkey operates in 81 cities throughout Turkey, with 3,203 employees in more than 1,200 stores. The company offers fixed line, mobile telephony, Internet and digital television services to more than 21 million subscribers.
Having encountered issues with real-time monitoring, Vodafone Turkey decided to transform its IT infrastructure with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to ensure successful service delivery.
CA Technologies SOA solutions, including CA Application Performance Management, have enhanced Vodafone Turkey's application security and performance by ensuring problems can be analysed and solved quickly.
With end-to-end monitoring of IT components, such as its CRM and billing systems, Vodafone Turkey can now take a more proactive approach. By monitoring applications from a customer's perspective, problems can be prevented before they arise.
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On October 24, 2004, about 0025 Pacific daylight time, a Learjet 35A, N30DK, registered to and operated by Med Flight Air Ambulance, Inc. (MFAA), crashed into mountainous terrain shortly after takeoff from Brown Field Municipal Airport (SDM), near San Diego, California. The captain, the copilot, and the three medical crewmembers were killed, and the airplane was destroyed. The repositioning flight was operated under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 with an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan filed. Night visual meteorological conditions prevailed.
The accident flight was the fourth and final leg of a trip that originated the previous day. ATI Jet, Inc. (ATIJ), dispatched the airplane, the two flight crewmembers, and two of the medical crewmembers from Albuquerque International Sunport (ABQ), Albuquerque, New Mexico, about 1500 on October 23, 2004, for a repositioning flight to pick up another medical crewmember and a transport flight to pick up a medical patient in Mexico. According to MFAA personnel, repositioning flights were conducted under 14 CFR Part 91 rules, and medical patient transport flights were operated under Part 135.
On the flight's first leg, the airplane departed ABQ about 1520 and landed at El Paso International Airport (ELP), El Paso, Texas, about 1555 to pick up the third medical crewmember. On the flight's second leg, the airplane departed ELP about 1625 for Playa De Oro International Airport (MMZO), Manzanillo, Mexico, where it landed about 1825 to pick up the medical patient and one accompanying passenger. On the flight's third leg, the airplane departed MMZO about 2040 and flew to SDM, where it landed about 2324 to drop off the medical patient and the passenger. The airplane was then met by U.S. Customs Service personnel and was on the ground for about 1 hour before it departed on the accident flight to return the airplane to its base at ABQ.
A review of records from the San Diego Flight Service Station (FSS) revealed that one of the flight crewmembers filed the IFR flight plan to ABQ at 0002 on October 24, 2004. The filed route of flight included an estimated 0020 departure from SDM with a cruise altitude of flight level 370 (37,000 feet pressure altitude) direct to Palm Springs, California, and then direct to ABQ. The flight plan included an estimated time en route of 1 hour 15 minutes with 3 hours of fuel on board the airplane. The flight crewmember did not request any weather information or an IFR clearance and clearance void time.
The cockpit voice recorder (CVR) recording revealed that the captain and the copilot listened to the SDM automatic terminal information service (ATIS) recording; however, they listened only to the remarks portion of the recording and did not listen to the weather information. The copilot then attempted to contact "Brown Field Municipal clearance" on the radio frequency, but he received no response. The captain suggested that the copilot could try contacting the Tijuana tower. The copilot stated he could pick up the flight's clearance in the air but then stated, "I don't want to do it but..."
The copilot then tried to contact the San Diego FSS via the remote communications outlet frequency but received no reply. He next tried to contact the Tijuana tower but again received no reply. Afterward, the copilot tried to contact the San Diego FSS utilizing a different radio frequency but still received no reply. After the copilot's fourth failed attempt to obtain the IFR clearance using the radio, the captain said, "all right, let's just do VFR [visual flight rules]."
According to the operator, the flight crew had a cellular telephone and a satellite telephone on board the airplane. The CVR recording revealed no attempt by either crewmember to telephone the FSS for an IFR clearance and clearance void time.
The captain and the copilot discussed the departure. The captain stated that he wanted to depart from runway 8 to avoid flying over the city of San Diego. He also stated that a runway 8 departure would place the flight on a heading straight toward ABQ, and the copilot agreed with this statement. Neither the captain nor the copilot mentioned the mountainous terrain to the east and northeast as a consideration in deciding which runway to use for departure. The CVR recording revealed that the copilot yawned five times within 6 minutes during the departure discussion.
According to the CVR recording, the captain and the copilot performed the checklist items and set the altimeters to 29.93 inches of mercury (Hg). The copilot then asked for a briefing, to which the captain responded, "uh, let's see. will be standard callouts tonight and, if you can't punch up through a nice hole then just uh, you know, stay at a reasonably safe altitude and uh, underneath two hundred and fifty knots, and I'll do the best I can to, get somebody's attention." This statement was followed by the sound of takeoff power being set on the engines.
A review of radar data revealed that the airplane departed runway 8L at 0023 and climbed on a straight-out departure. The published departure procedures for IFR aircraft departing from runway 8L included a climbing left turn to a heading of 280°, which was a nearly complete course reversal to avoid the mountains east and northeast of SDM.
According to air traffic control (ATC) transcripts, the captain contacted the Southern California Terminal Radar Approach Control (SCT TRACON) controller after takeoff to pick up the flight's IFR clearance. The controller told the flight crew to set the transponder to code 7372 and "ident." A review of radar data revealed that the airplane climbed to about 2,300 feet mean sea level (msl) and leveled out, and its flight track remained approximately straight out from the departure runway.
At 0024:55, the controller stated the flight was radar identified, and he instructed the flight crew to turn to a heading of 020°, maintain VFR, and expect an IFR clearance above 5,000 feet msl. The captain acknowledged the heading instructions, and no further radio communication was received from the flight. A review of radar data revealed that, at the time the controller issued the instructions, the flight was about 3.5 nautical miles (nm) west of the mountains, and the heading issued by the controller resulted in a flight track that continued toward the mountains.
The last mode C radar return from the flight at 0025:03 depicted the airplane about 6 nm east of SDM at an altitude of 2,300 feet msl. A review of the controller's display data recording revealed the controller's computer system issued a minimum safe altitude warning (MSAW), which consisted of an aural alert and a visual alert on the controller's display, during the flight's last two mode C radar returns at 0024:59 and 0025:03. At 0025:56, the controller attempted to make radio contact with the flight but received no reply. After the controller's subsequent attempts to contact the flight crew were unsuccessful, a search and rescue operation was initiated.
The airplane wreckage was located about 8 nm east of SDM in a mountainous area southeast of Otay Mountain's highest peak. The initial impact point was at an elevation of 2,256 feet msl. The San Diego Police Department's Air Support Unit, which arrived at the site by helicopter about 20 minutes after the accident, used night vision goggles and infrared imaging to locate the wreckage. The Air Support Unit responders reported that they observed a broken-to-overcast layer of clouds near Otay Mountain while flying to the accident site and that the elevation of the main impact crater at the site was about 75 to 100 feet below the observed cloud layer.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the failure of the flight crew to maintain terrain clearance during a VFR departure, which resulted in controlled flight into terrain and the air traffic controller's issuance of a clearance that transferred the responsibility for terrain clearance from the flight crew to the controller, failure to provide terrain clearance instructions to the flight crew, and failure to advise the flight crew of the MSAW alerts. Contributing to the accident was the pilots' fatigue, which likely contributed to their degraded decision-making.
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So the "girls" have grown a lot. I just grabbed the purse camera for this shot, so it's not the greatest. They look like grown ladies now though. I have to tell you.... they are so much fun. It's very cheap entertainment watching them.
They definitely have their own personalities. Priscilla, the Barred Rock, is the nicest of the group and the first to run to me. I realize she just equates me with food, but since my boys are all at the age now where they think they don't need me.... I'll take it.
Shelly, the Buff Orpington, thinks she rules not only the roost, but pretty much the whole backyard. Sylvie, the Silver Wyandotte, is sort of in the middle, but much more like Shelly.
We should be seeing eggs in about another month to two months. Can't wait for that day. My bet is on Priscilla. She's a week older than the other two and she's just nice like that. :-)


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It can be frustrating to get cheese you've spent good money on out of the fridge, only to find it's gone moldy. You probably know you shouldn't eat moldy cheese, but you might be tempted to try to kill the mold by baking the cheese at high temperature. Although baking won't make your cheese safe to eat, all is not necessarily lost. Once you understand how heat interacts with moldy cheese, and the different ways mold affects the cheese itself, you may be able to use other techniques to save your cheese.
Heat and Mold
Heat does kill mold, and it doesn't take a blistering hot oven to do it. According to Ohio State University, most molds cannot survive above 140 degrees Fahrenheit. This, reports the university, makes heat an effective method for controlling mold that occurs in garden mulch. However, there are some good reasons you shouldn't use heat to kill mold on cheese or, for that matter, any other food.
Heat and Mold Toxins
Though mold itself can't survive high temperature, there's a reason why the FDA doesn't recommend baking moldy cheese. According to "Cooks Illustrated," toxins produced by mold are far less sensitive to temperature changes than mold itself. When you pull your cheese out of the oven, the mold will be dead, but the poisons that can make you sick will still be there. However, there are other ways to save some moldy cheeses.
Cutting Mold Off Cheese
Sometimes, you can save moldy cheese by cutting out the contaminated areas. "Cooks Illustrated" recommends trying this only with hard, aged cheeses such as cheddar or Parmesan, and removing at least an inch of cheese around the mold. Mold toxins are water-soluble and can penetrate deeply into soft, watery cheeses but not into hard, dry cheeses. Also, make sure not to let the blade of your knife touch any of the mold. If this happens, thoroughly wash it before doing any more cutting.
Detecting Spoilage in Cheese That Is Suppossed to Have Mold
Not all mold is harmful. Cheese makers intentionally inject certain types of mold into their cheeses. Mold is what gives real blue cheese its trademark flavor, for example. However, it's important to note the difference between normal mold and spoilage. Different colored molds, or a sour smell, mean the cheese has gone bad. If it's a hard cheese, you can cut out the mold, but if it's soft, like blue cheese or feta, discard it.


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This Anthropological Life has joined the blogosphere! This article is a glimpse into where we see anthro podcasting today and in the future. Stay tuned for part 2 soon!
"Talking Anthropology: Podcasting for the Public (Part 1)" on Teaching Culture blog from the University of Toronto Press just out!
Here's an excerpt from the blog, check out the rest in the link above!
This Anthropological Life (TAL) is a professional experiment. Our aim is to promote anthropological thinking to the public through enjoyable and entertaining conversations. We've been making podcast episodes at TAL for over two and a half years, and have produced over 60 episodes, each around 45 minutes. The format is an unscripted, roundtable conversation supported by weekly research.
One main goal of TAL is to demonstrate and practice anthropological thinking in a publicly accessible way (with no homework, no jargon, no extra reading). Podcasting provides a natural medium through which to do this because open conversations don't easily allow for footnotes, extensive quoting, or even hard-to-say sentences. It sounds simple, but as any academic anthropologist knows, trying to explain Bourdieu's habitus or Marx's labor theory of value in conversation without confusing your students is a learned skill. However, TAL isn't intended to explain anthropological theory, nor is it to highlight anthropologists and their work. Rather, we use podcasting to break down anthropological research into an easily digestible format promoting holistic thinking.
We see TAL as somewhere between academia, design anthropology, public anthropology, and entertainment. Since podcasting is not (yet) an accepted academic format like a thesis or peer-reviewed journal it hovers on the fringes of academia. Its roots as a form of alternative, democratic radio production put it for many in the entertainment/news/informally-learn-something-new camp. Couched between these two forms we saw an opportunity to raise public consciousness about anthropology. In 2013 podcasts were a relatively new medium and applied anthropological communities like the National Association of Practicing Anthropology (NAPA) and Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) hadn't gained huge traction in anthropological worlds (I'm glad to see this changing). Podcasting is a great medium for sharing knowledge that follows on the heels of classic radio, the move towards more audiobook consumption by the general public, and the need to stop privileging the visual for information consumption. As someone who struggles with reading, this last point is particularly important to me.
Check out the rest: Talking Anthropology: Podcasting for the Public (Part 1)


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The Brady Campaign To End Gun Violence released a tweet Tuesday praising the effectiveness of both the Brady Law and the Assault Weapons Ban. The tweet reads as follows:
Gun laws stop the #gunviolence! Gun deaths plummet after the Brady Law and Assault Weapons Ban are passed.https://tinyurl.com/3kq22st
Included in the tweet is a link to a statistical analysis of firearm-related deaths in the United States from 1981 through 2007. Chronologically, the linear graph attempts to track the relationship between firearm-related deaths and gun control legislation over a 25 year period. (View chart here)
In chronological order, the graph first notes the passing of the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 as a moment after which gun-related deaths increased. The aforementioned legislation served as a revision of the Gun Control Act of 1968, generally relaxing restrictions on interstate gun and ammunition sales, but also restricting machine-gun sales to civilians. According to the graph, beginning at the onset of the Firearm Owners Protection Act, gun-related deaths increased over a period of seven years from 1986 to 1993.
According to the date, 1993 represents the peak year for gun deaths, with over 39,000 firearm-related fatalities occurring in the U.S. that year (up from about 33,000 in 1986). The graph then demarcates the points at which, in 1994, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and Assault Weapons Ban are passed. Using these points as a reference, gun-related deaths are shown to decline significantly, bottoming out at about 28,000 gun-related fatalities in the year 2000. After the year 2000, firearm-related deaths are shown to gradually rise through the year 2007. Also noted on the graph are the expiration of the Brady five day waiting period in 1999 and the Federal Assault Weapons Ban in 2004.
Although the graph is purely statistical in nature, it seems to illustrate a trend of decreasing gun-related deaths in years following significant gun control measures, with increased fatalities when like measures expire.
The graph's data claims to be derived from several sources including the CDC NCIPC WISQARS report system. According to the Centers for Disease Control, WISQARS is an "interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data." Also listed as sources are the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Shooting Industry Magazine, Small Arms Survey of 2003, and "Radical Gun Nuttery" by Clayton Cramer and David Kopel.
Second Amendment activists and gun control supporters have long argued over gun-related crime data. Critics of such legislation point to data that seemingly shows lower crime rates in states with more relaxed gun laws, especially those states that permit various forms of gun carry. These constituencies often point to high crime rates in California and the District of Columbia – districts with some of the toughest gun control laws in the U.S. – as evidence that gun control measures do not ratchet down crime rates. In fact, gun rights proponents regularly argue that criminals are less inclined to operate in areas where citizens are legally allowed to arm themselves and carry weapons.
Although there are compelling statistical arguments on both sides, many experts agree that analysis of the effects of guns on crime and safety is fraught with complications and ambiguity. For example, the studies often fail to account for economic factors and broad changes in the American legal system. For example, some argue that during prosperous economic times, gun-related deaths are likely to fall, while lean fiscal periods mark increased violent crime.
In another controversial argument often referred to as the Donohue-Levitt hypothesis, several researchers from the University of Chicago theorized that drops in crime rates in the early 1990s resulted from the legalization of
abortion in 1973. According to the theory, the lack of unwanted children 18 years after the overhaul of Roe v. Wade led to diminished crime.
Although the debate is unlikely to end anytime soon, most experts caution that interpreting basic data is incredibly complicated and nuanced. Furthermore, compelling arguments can be made on either side, as various data seem to support facets of both the gun control and Second Amendment arguments.


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Stand to attention- khaki is well and truly back on the front line of fashion for A/W. The Balmain army lead the charge, their hip-hop safari style more than ready to take on life in the big city. Hailed by many as "the new neutral", the hue is blissfully simple to match with and flattering against near on every possible skin tone. Wear day or night, to defuse a show stopping evening look or pull together haphazard daywear seperates. Were more proof needed, just look to the fellow designers following in Olivier Rousteing's hallowed steps. From T by Alexander Wang's 3/4 length coat to Anya Hindmarch's Vaughan bucket bag and Raquel Allegra's harem pants- all were a vision in khaki. Part army surplus, part utilitarian staple, this wonder shade more than deserves to be promoted up the fashion ranks for fall.
After more style inspo? Check out our edit of the top faux fur styles for A/W14 now!
Shop khaki with Mallzee
Mango military textured gilet
River Island khaki chiffon hem slip dress
Warehouse polo neck jumper
Topshop fine gauge mid length cardigan
Boohoo Lily ripped khaki full length jeans
ASOS full skater skirt in ponte with deep pleats


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Just Add Ink is a new challenge blog: the Just Add Ink Design Team is a group of Australian & New Zealand Stampin' Up! demonstrators who love to share what they love and inspire others to create!
This week's challenge is the very FIRST one & a colour challenge & guess what we have the colours. They also have a prize but challenges are great especially when our mojo needs a little kick start!
Shock horror I've posted twice on one day so don't forget about this week's challenge on NZSU either which is the post below.


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Success! Take a look at some of the footage (the action starts around 1:57):
At the East End of Grand Cayman, an underwater camera will capture live footage of a boulder star coral, Orbicella (Montastraea) annularis during its annual spawning event. The spawning is expected to occur from today, September 24, through Thursday, September 26. Due to the timing of the full moons in August and September, this year's spawning is the latest recorded event in 10 years.
It's rare to see a spawning even in person because it happens underwater at night, but now, for the first time ever, anyone with an internet connection and a big enough screen will be able to watch a this happen live.
You can see it happening here: Cayman Reef Cam.
Coral spawning is believed to be triggered by three main cues: rise in water temperature, lunar tidal cycles and circadian changes in light. These factors vary around the globe and different species spawn at different times in relation to the full moon so predicting the exact time and date can be extremely tricky.
The predictions for this spawning even were made from data collected by Alexander Mustard and Stephen Broadbelt, who began collecting data on M. annularis and several other species nearby. They collected data every year since then which resulted in a research paper and has helped in the prediction of other future spawning dates.
This amazing project was made possible by a collaboration of several groups, take a look:
- Gates Frontier Foundation
- Wild Goose Imaging
- Teens4Oceans
- Ocean Classrooms
- Ocean Frontiers
- Compass Point Dive Resort
Copyright © 2013 by Marine Science Today, a publication of Marine Science Today LLC.


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Google will no longer scan your Gmail for ad targeting
The company will still happily gather your data elsewhere, of course.
Dropbox document scanning comes to Android devices
The company's Paper app also gains an offline mode.
Researchers can find your deepest secrets by scanning your brain
The next privacy crisis could revolve around EEG scanning.
Dropbox's iOS app will scan the scraps of paper cluttering your office
Back up all of those ideas you jot down on sticky notes in the middle of the night.
Senator behind biometric privacy act tries to remove its teeth
Proposed revisions would effectively end Illinois lawsuits against Google, Snapchat and Facebook.
Smartphone accessory 3D-scans your food to count calories
NutriRay3D's laser-scanning tech has gone to crowdfunding to bring accurate calorie counting to your smartphone.
Egypt hunts for hidden pyramid chambers with cosmic rays
The team might use a similar technique to find the legendary burial chamber of Queen Nefertiti.
US appeals court rules Google's book-scanning project is legal
The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled that Google's use of out-of-print book excerpts falls under "fair use."
Microsoft wants you to scan in 3D using only your phone
Forget using dedicated scanners to capture objects in 3D -- Microsoft's MobileFusion would let you use only your phone.


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Sperm Health And Aloe VeraI've often wondered why men can make so many sperm, but women only have a limited supply of eggs.
Perhaps it's because sperm are so susceptible to environmental toxins and radiation that there has to be millions and even billions to ensure a high count of healthy sperm. Here is an article about how the plant aloe vera may be able to protect men from environmental radiation. Read more:
ALOE VERA acts as a radiation protector and inhibits testicular damage against gamma radiation. Health experts attending the 18th annual scientific meet on recent trends held in Hyderabad expressed this opinion.
SEE ALSO: NATURAL WAYS TO IMPROVE MENS FERTILITY (getpregnantover40.com)
Aloe Vera, a throny, succulent herb contains natural medicinal properties that enhance fertility and protect men from radiation-induced reproduction problems. According to Prashasnika Gehlot and P K Goel of Radiation and Centre for Bilogical Labortory of Department Zoology, University of Rajasthan.
Aloe Vera extract initiated in laboratory animals, early recovery from radiation induced damage to restore normal architecture of testes.
The testes are one of radiosensitive organs because of cell renewal system. Ionizing radiation was found to produce marked effect on testes in terms of lethality and impaired spermatogenesis. Extract from the leaves of Aloe Vera improved the sperm count and rectified the damage caused to the tissue.


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YaCy (http://yacy.net) is one of those projects I've heard about for a while, but never actually checked it out until recently. Unlike centralized search engines like google, bing, and duckduckgo, YaCy is decentralized, and run entirely by a network of users, giving you lots more options, and a greater chance of privacy.
This guide will show you how to install and use it on GNU/Linux systems. If you're using Windows, there's also a simple installer you can download too.
- Youtube link
- Archive.org mirror
- Torrent
- Keybase mirror
Step 1. Before we start, we need to make sure the correct Java environment is installed. Open a terminal and type java -version then press enter.java -version
Step 2. If it says java is not installed, it'll give a list of possible options. We want to install openjdk 7. Copy that item, then use sudo apt-get install to install itsudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless
Step 3. Create a new directory to store yacy in. I'll call mine 'search'mkdir search
Step 4. Head over to yacy.net and download the latest GNU/Linux tarball into this new directory.
Step 5. Change to your new directory, then decompress the tarballcd search
tar xfz yacy_v1.90_20160704_9000.tar.gz
Step 6. Now change to the yacy directroy, then run the startYACY script by typing the following. This will start search engine running on your system.cd yacy
Step 7. Now open up your browser, navigate to localhost:8090 and you can now use the yacy P2P search engine. If you want to use it regularly, you could save time by setting up a script to run yacy at startup, and changing your browsers homepage to the localhost address.
There are loads of different options to check out, so I'd suggest having a look yourself. You can do things like run it over Tor, or contribute to the search index, but that's outside the scope of this video.
I'm surprised how easy this was to install and use. Sure, it doesn't have the same amount of results compared to Google, but nothing really does. However, it's great to have other options if you're interested in privacy and internet freedom. Thanks for watching.


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When Mommy Has a Meltdown
When Mommy has a meltdown
There may be a thousand reasons why
But one of those isn't you sweet girl
How could you make mom cry?
Couldn't be your hits and bites
Or your ever-shorter fuse.
Not even your "Don't look at me"
Could cause this mom to lose
All sense of peace and self-control
All strength to stop the flow
Of tears and sobs and weeps and cries
That bring a whole new low.
When Mommy has a meltdown
It's just best to let her be.
Let her cry into her hands
And wipe mascara from her cheeks.
Oh my sweet girl the truth might be
That Mommy's just too tired
To keep her tear ducts locked up tight
She didn't get the sleep required
To be the mom you need today
The puppeteer, Mr. Bear, the chauffeur
To cart you to your many things
Might be too much for her.
When Mommy has a meltdown
She's not at her best.
Just ask to turn on Daniel Tiger
So she can take a rest.
Melting down can be the result
Of playing the comparison game
To other moms she doesn't know
Who seem not to struggle the same.
Other moms who put makeup on
And have their hair curled and styled
Who keep themselves put together
And of course have control of their child.
When Mommy has a meltdown
She just might need a break
A chance to rediscover
The difference she could make.
The very thing that she was meant
To be, to do, to see.
Finding this, she'll come alive
Inside and outside her family.
So tell your Daddy or a friend
To give your mom some space.
A quiet time, a girls' night out,
To find her happy place.
When Mommy has a meltdown
Wrap your arms around her tight.
Tell her she is doing great.
That she is doing lots of right.
That she's the best mom on the planet.
You couldn't ask for more.
She's teaching you all sorts of things
About the world outside your door.
She's teaching you to love
To be patient and be kind
She's the one you look up to
You want to be just like.
Know a mama who needs to hear she's doing alright? Share this with her!
And give her a Mother of the Year sticker while you're at it!


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The field of pattern recognition has undergone substantial development over the years. This book reflects these developments while providing a grounding in the basic concepts of pattern recognition and machine learning. It is aimed at advanced undergraduates or first year PhD students, as well as researchers and practitioners.


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The Rosebuds
Loud Planes Fly Low - Merge
FILTER Grade: 76%
By Kyle Lemmon on June 10, 2011
The Rosebuds' Kelly Crisp and Ivan Howard dissolved their marriage shortly before the recording of their forlorn and beatific fifth album, Loud Planes Fly Low. Despite their struggles, the indie-pop duo has soldiered on as a recording pair, and crystallized a recording unit of old pals. They create some of the most heart-swelling tableaus centering on relational fissures. Strains of late-night R&B on the release—mostly heard on the halcyon jam "Cover Ears" and the Crisp-led plea "Come Visit Me"—blow out some of the cobwebs and bad habits of past full-lengths. Elsewhere, Howard's crestfallen guitar strums on "Without a Focus" and his heavy-lidded soul singing on "A Story" approximate that hollowed-out feeling of a relationship in collapse. Loud Planes Fly Low's true intentions are realized once songs such as "Waiting for You" seep into your bones.


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This salad is simple, satisfying, and delicious. Warm or at room temperature, if needed, this dish travels really well. Great as a side dish or as an entree.
Prep Time: 3-5 minutes
Cook time: 40-45 minutes
Yields: 4 servings
1 cup pearled barley
1/4 cup of finely diced red bell pepper
1/2 cup of shelled edamame
1 cup of baby arugula
1 tablespoon olive oil
3 cups of vegetable stock ( optional chicken stock)
1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon of fresh cracked black pepper
Place 3 cups of vegetable stock in a large sauce pan on the stove, on med-high heat, up to a boil. Add in the olive oil, Kosher salt, and black pepper. Next, add in the pearled barley and diced red bell pepper. Give that a stir and reduce the heat to low. Stirring occasionally, simmer the barley for 40-45 minutes or until the grains are tender but still chewy. After that time, if there is any cooking liquid left, drain the barley off through a sieve. Pour the cooked barley into a large bowl. Add in all the other ingredients, and toss. The warm barley will wilt the baby arugula nicely. At this point, while salad is still warm, season to taste if needed.


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NDCC Brunch: Important Information/
The NDCC brunch is this Sunday! If you have pre-registered, or if you are still considering whether or not to attend, please review the important information below.
- Parking will be very limited because there are several concurrent events in the neighborhood.
- Take the "T" to the Chestnut Hill stop (map) and walk to 32 Suffolk Rd - it's close!
- Carpool
- Nearby parking lots you may use: Chestnut Hill "T" Stop (map), Chestnut Hill School (map) or Church of the Redeemer (map)
- Do you have mobility issues? Please pull into the driveway at 32 Suffolk Road to drop off passengers.
- If you have pre-registered, pick up your name tag when you arrive - no need to wait in the registration line.
- Still haven't registered? No problem! Walk-ins welcome
Provide your testimonial about Dottie Reichard:
- The NDCC will set up a video station at 3:00 pm
- If you would like to share thoughts about Dottie Reichard's service to our community, please respond to this email to reserve a spot in front of the camera.


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Dear newsletter readers!
Another year is coming to an end. ICES was started in 2008 and 2018 will be our 10th anniversary! We have seen an astonishing development in the area over the ten years and ICES has grown from 6 to 30+ members! It is fascinating to think about what the future may bring. We would like to point out a few upcoming events to be earmarked in your calendars! We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Software testing – one day course
The much appreciated test course is back, it is a one day course on Software Testing - Fundamentals and Emerging Technologies. Date: March 22nd 2018. For registration and more information see the event on ICES homepage. This event is open and the price is reduced for members.
SCSSS - System & Software Safety Conference
The 2017 Safety conference was a great success and the program for the 2018 is now shaping in a promising way! Reserve May 21-22 in your calendar! See the 2018 conference link here! The event is open but there is a conference fee.
What computing models to adopt for automated and smart real-time systems? - Where computing meets application algorithms
Embedded systems are evolving rapidly, with challenging applications and changing architectures. Learn and discuss predictability and other important properties can be achieve for future systems – Reserve June 8th, preliminary for 09.00-13.00. More info.
ICES 10th anniversary conference
ICES has soon been active as a center for 10 years! Reserve September 3rd!
ICES Competence group functional safety
Cyber-physical systems are undergoing radical shifts. One particular challenge is related to the guarantee of overall system dependability, while having more stochastic operational environments as well as more complex systems. The competence group brings together expertise from industry and academia, in the fields centered on safety engineering. The aim is also to encourage the establishment of a forum for communicating related trends and work directions. You are welcome to join!
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The Larssons are poor. They have so many children there's scarcely room to turn around in their tiny apartment, let alone sleep. When their father's rich half-brother dies and leaves them only two draft horses and drays, Mrs. Larsson comes up with a novel idea - Mr. Larsson, who is an inventor when he's not a traveling salesman, will turn the wagons into caravans and they will spend the summer touring the countryside. Where does the Peep come in? Well, Mr. Larsson has designed a marvelous saucepan, and they will finance their journey by selling it along the way.
It's a wonderful summer. They meet a down-on-his-luck hot dog man, an eccentric old woman, a man who might be a murderer. They discover thieves, wonderful lakes, and fascinating Swedish towns.
Bring it back? Absolutely. Even if you're not fascinated by Scandinavian children's literature, as am I, this is a wonderfully nostalgic summer read. While it lacks racial diversity, not surprising for the time period and location, it portrays a family that is poor in economic resources but rich in imagination, ingenuity, and love. The original illustrations are colorful and appealing and it's a strong family story that will appeal to readers who like this type of lazy summer reads.
Availability? It's fairly common in smaller libraries - worldcat lists multiple holdings. Used copies also proliferate online for a reasonable price. Unfortunately, it was last reprinted in the 60s so you're unlikely to find a shiny new copy that will stand out on the shelf.


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I'm a nerd. A to-do list nerd, especially. I like having a focus—or several—for the day and earning that sense of satisfaction when things get checked off the list.
Yet I'm continually refining the art of to-do list making. I go back and forth between paper and pen lists versus the kind I make in a Word document. Or a bullet point list on my phone. The tactile pleasure of the pen and paper route is great. There's an added sense of accomplishment in physically striking something off the list. But the computer document has a great function, too, if I don't let it get out of control: I can amend the day's to-dos as I move along.
Where the computer doc causes trouble is two-fold: 1) I can continually add to-dos to the day, thus making it impossible to truly accomplish everything and 2) I tend to erase what I have accomplished, so at the end of the day all I see is what I haven't done.
So I did an experiment this week (as I tend to do such things). I made a new document of to-dos and every time I completed a task, I crossed it out—rather than deleted the item. This was a test to see if I actually found more satisfaction in seeing what's been done for the day. The result? Sure. There was some joy in seeing checked off items.
The real result, though, is the realization that no matter how I project my day's activities, I always set overachieving goals. For whatever reason, I can't bring myself to list just one or two things to do in a day. I aim high, do my best, and push the rest to the next day, or the next. It's how I operate. And that's okay. For me, it works.
I love fantasizing about a super-organized life. One that has a place for everything, and where everything is in its place. One that has a to-do list of achievable goals for each day, and that's checked off in true Martha Stewart fashion. But I'm not Martha. I'm me. Chaotic, imperfect, organized-in-my-own-dysfunctional-way me. And that's a good thing.


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For Immediate Release
Timothy Karr, 201-533-8838
Free Press Urges Public Hearings on Media Ownership
Encourages FCC to Promote Competition and Diversity
WASHINGTON - Today, the Federal Communications Commission
released its Notice of Inquiry as part of its congressionally mandated
requirement to periodically review its media ownership rules. This is
the FCC's fourth media ownership review, and one that comes at a time of
fundamental change in our media system. Despite the growth of
information sources online, control of the production of original local
news remain as consolidated as ever -- and in some markets is becoming
more so.
The Commission's media ownership rules are critical to
ensuring diversity and competition in local media markets," said Corie
Wright, Free Press policy counsel. "We agree with Commissioner
Copps that the public must have a seat at the table in the ownership
proceeding. The Commission should hold meaningful public hearings,
similar to those held by Chairman Kevin Martin, to put a spotlight on
media consolidation's impact on local communities."
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Because of people like you, another world is possible. There are many battles to be won, but we will battle them together—all of us. Common Dreams is not your normal news site. We don't survive on clicks. We don't want advertising dollars. We want the world to be a better place. But we can't do it alone. It doesn't work that way. We need you. If you can help today—because every gift of every size matters—please do. Without Your Support We Won't Exist.
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S: Little Cow in Big Beef Basin
FC: Little Cow In Big Beef Basin By Kari Pawson and Char Shepard
1: To all those people we truly admire. Here is a little gift for you. You can either treasure it or hide it as far back in the sock drawer as it will go. With Tender Love, The Authors Char and Kari
2: Little Cow In Big Beef Basin By Kari Pawson And Char Shepard
4: Our first Obstacle....
5: Too bad we don't have a piece of string. You never know when you might need a good piece of string.
6: No, no little cow. At least you could have stepped into the trees.
7: Remember, in the back country one must always pack out what one packs in.
8: Cow finds a piece of potsherd which redeems him from his earlier faux pas in the middle of the trail.
11: A DISTURBING SCENE... Quick hide his eyes. Could this be one of Little Cow's ancestors?
13: Cow in a Kiva. (Yes children, this is what is known as alliteration)
15: A hardy meal at the end of a long day.
17: Night, night little cow. Sweet dreams.
18: And dream is exactly what he did...
23: Other Things We Saw That Deserve a Little Credit: The Big Ess Curve A Lotta Bull The Pretty Yellow Bird And Ruins, Ruins, Ruins


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by Mike Cadue (April 2013)
Like any tourist destination in the world, before you come to Mexico research what you want to see and then find reputable companies to contact. You can find tour companies online and from the hotel where you are staying. If you don't, then you are leaving yourself open for those unscrupulous people who are looking to make a fast dollar.
An example I know of first hand is the "parking lot guides" at the ruins in Tulum. First of all they are not trained to give tours and are trained as snorkel guides; it could be very dangerous to get involved with these people. Here is how it works: You drive into the parking lot at the Tulum Ruins and immediately a person comes right over to your car and asks if you want a tour of the ruins and to go snorkeling with turtles. The cost is 800 pesos per person (which no reliable and licensed tour would charge you). They also say you get complimentary drinks at the beach club at Paraiso on Tulum beach and a beach towel. If you accept, this is what you should expect. A person will walk you around the ruins but have no knowledge of the site or its historical significance to the Maya people. You will then be led through the beach club for one drink.
They will tell you the snorkeling portion of the tour will consist of a boat ride to the snorkeling area where you get to see a sunken Spanish galleon and swim with fish and turtles. Well, first of all there is no Spanish galleon sunk off Tulum and to see any fish, the reef at Tulum is a long way off shore. Add to that that turtles are few, if any.
You arrive on the beach, there is no boat, and you are given very poor snorkeling equipment that looks like it hasn't been washed in a long time. Here is the dangerous part: the "guides" don't even go in the water with you.
That is your 800 peso tour, or nightmare.
When booking an excursion, look on sites like TripAdvisor or others to get the real thing. You can also book tours at your hotel, if you are at a good hotel. Again, consult TripAdvisor or other travel websites.
Be safe and enjoy your vacation. Don't get "ripped off" by the parking lot guides.