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I am a policy guy, so my expertise in electoral politics (i.e., "the talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity," to quote Publius) is quite limited. But I will put my Sharon Angle "man pants on" and challenge my fellow Pilieus bloggers to do the same. Here are my predictions:
The Senate: the GOP will end up with a slim minority of 49 seats
Of those that are currently toss ups, the GOP will take Illinois (Kirk), Colorado (Buck), Angle (Nevada) and Pennsylvania (Toomey).
- All this could change if the Democrats are successful in throwing Meek under the bus in hopes of preventing Rubio from being elected (the horror! A young charismatic Latino conservative!)
- Alternatively, if the wave is as big as some predict hope, the GOP could take Washington and West Virginia, thereby claiming a slim majority (BTW, if this happens, there are two words that will never be used together by the media when discussing the actions of the minority: Democratic obstructionism).
- The wave will be a Tsunami if Fiorina beats Boxer in California
- Abandon ye all hope if O'Donnell throws a spell on the Delaware electorate
The House: Obviously going GOP. My best guess is that the GOP will pick up 64 to give it a 242 to 193 margin.
Like I said earlier, I am a policy guy. My prediction: even if the GOP wins a majority in both chambers, all of the populist, small government rhetoric will dissipate quickly. No one can look back to the last GOP majority and harbor any hope of responsible governance, balanced budgets, transparency, etc. If the GOP does what the GOP has done in the recent past, the 2012 elections will likely flip things once again.
So I am throwing it down. Grover, Sven, James, Jason and Marcus…time to pull on the "man pants" and put some numbers down.
Reader predictions are most welcomed!


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The Cultural Association of Traditional Dances Molyvos "Molyvos", organizes a village event with a tribute to Manolis Chiotis. The artistic direction is taken by Mr. Simitsis Manos. With friendly participation, Baliakas Giannis and Patlakas Grigoris will join the music road.
The event will take place on Sunday 24 March at 19:00 at the Mithymna Conference Center.
The entrance is free

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Hollywood Bowl
Bringing corporate personality to life
The Hollywood Bowl Group is the UK's largest ten-pin bowling operator, with a portfolio of 57 bowling centres operating across the UK under the 'Hollywood Bowl', 'AMF' and 'Bowlplex' brands.
We have been working on enhancing the company's corporate story since its IPO in 2016.
Our strategy team worked closely with the client to present a clearer investment proposition that truly embodies the spirit of what Hollywood Bowl does.
The design conveys the brand's vibrant personality and celebrates the excitement of the world it encompasses. We art directed the photography to develop a bank of imagery that could be used both in the corporate reporting suite and across other corporate communications.


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Our young people are the leaders of tomorrow, and Te Puni Kōkiri is committed to supporting rangatahi Māori to reach their full potential.
Investing in our future leaders
We are teaming up with whānau, community leaders, providers, other government agencies community leaders and employers all over the country to assist our young people on a pathway to further education, training and employment.
Check out the links below to learn more about the mahi we do with rangatahi throughout Aotearoa.
Ngā Kaupapa me ngā Pānui
Kua rārangi mai ngā kaupapa me ngā pānui ki raro iho nei.
Taranaki maara kai nourishing body, mind and soul
It's not unusual for a garden to grow kai. But what about maara that also grow language and communities? That is exactly what is blooming under the watchful gaze of maunga Taranaki in Te Taihauāuru.
Jus Action 2019 Conference
Just Action 2019, The Salvation Army's social justice conference will be taking place next Tue 1 to Wed 2 Oct in Wellington
- Registration required
- Organiser: The Salvation Army Social Policy & Parliamentary Unit
Pae Aronui graduate excited for future
Ko Hikurangi te maunga, ko Waiapu te awa, ko Horouta te waka, ko Mangahanea te marae, ko Ngāti Porou to iwi, ko Walter Taingahue ahau.
Skills learned from Pae Aronui course saves participants' nana
Two rangatahi are extremely grateful to the tutors at Vertical Horizonz for the first aid and CPR skills that aided them to save their Nana's life during a heart attack.
Investing in our future business leaders and entrepreneurs
Supported by Te Puni Kōkiri and run by Young Enterprise Trust, the Rangatahi Business Challenge is a fun and interactive 3-day introduction to business and enterprise for year 9-11 tauira.


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The flourishing genre of the comic opera had its roots in eighteenth-century Italian opera buffa, whose irrepressible brio was soon taken up outside the country's borders. In France it produced opéra comique and operetta, and in German-speaking countries Spieloper and Viennese operetta. Some of the world's most popular comic opera overtures, filled with gorgeous tunes, brilliant orchestration and race-to-the-finish endings, are presented here. They include staples of the concert repertoire such as Hérold's dramatic Zampa, the textual delicacy of Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna and the vivid colour of Lortzing's Zar und Zimmermann.
Hérold, Ferdinand
Nicolai, Otto
Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno
Thomas, Ambroise
Reznicek, Emil Nikolaus von
Flotow, Friedrich von
Auber, Daniel-François
Lortzing, Albert
Cimarosa, Domenico
Adam, Adolphe
Cornelius, PeterMottl, Felix, arranger(s)
Adam, Adolphe; Auber, Daniel-François; Cimarosa, Domenico; Cornelius, Peter; Flotow, Friedrich von; Hérold, Ferdinand; Lortzing, Albert; Nicolai, Otto; Reznicek, Emil Nikolaus von; Thomas, Ambroise; Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno
Mottl, Felix
Friedel, Lance
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Label: Naxos
Genre: Orchestral
Period: 20th Century; Classical; Romantic
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A month from Monday will be Weed Wednesday in Canada, the first day dope smokers in this country will no longer have to fear the police sniffing them out and tossing them in the clink for toking up an illegal herb.
The recreational use of marijuana will finally be legal on Oct. 17, making it one of the few promises kept by the Trudeau Liberals who have yet to do much else in the first two years of their mandate except blossom the debt and deficit.
How are they doing with NAFTA? Don't ask. According to Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland everything is fine, just slow moving.
Pipelines? Again, don't ask. And don't ask about the billions in revenues being lost for our inability to get the bounty of the Alberta oilsands to tidewater.
Chill, instead. Toke up. Get buzzed.
For weed aficionados in the nation's capital comes the good news (for them) that the determination of their drugging and driving will not be reliant on a roadside saliva test, at least not the technology that the Trudeau Liberals have decided is as courtroom-worthy as the tried-and-true breathalyzer for booze.
Ottawa Police Chief Charles Bordeleau wants nothing to do with this buzz detector, a $6,000 piece of equipment known as the Drager Drug Test 5000, used in some 40 countries to measure TCH levels in a driver's spit.
He doesn't trust it.
Now, as anyone who lives in Ottawa knows, it is not exactly the warmest place on the planet when winter rolls in. In fact, it is apparently the seventh coldest capital in the world, but not far off degree-wise from being the coldest, which is Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.
The Drager, however, apparently doesn't like the cold.
It is so temperature sensitive, in fact, that it only functions properly when the thermometer is above 4C.
In snowy Ottawa, that's a heat wave.
"We'll monitor the technology to see how it works," Bordeleau told reporters earlier this week. "The issue around keeping swabs at a right temperature is problematic in our climate, so we're going to see how other police services are dealing with that."
In other words, he won't be the guinea pig.
The latest numbers show that Ottawa Police has upwards of 475 patrol vehicles in their fleet, which means going all-in with the Drager saliva tester would have set back ratepayers some $2.8 million.
Bordeleau has decided, instead, to wait it out, and use standardized field tests for assessing and identifying drug-impaired drivers.
Most know the drill. Touch your nose, walk a straight line.
So, while the Drager sits on the sidelines, Bordeleau has indicated that 246 officers have been trained as field drug testers, and that another 24 have been trained as drug-recognition experts who will be available every shift to make the final determination whether to lay impaired charges.
"We're as ready as we can be with the information that we have," he said, which is not exactly a thumbs up.
So, with only four weeks to go, what will the fine be for someone caught smoking dope in public, rather than legally out of sight?
What will it say on the ticket being issued? What will be the fine, and what will be the court process to anyone wanting to fight the ticket?
For the answer to these questions, don't ask Bordeleau or any other police chief in the country because none has yet been told by the Trudeau Liberals, despite the looming Pot Freedom Day.
"The assumption," said Bordeleau, "is we will have that (information) before (Oct. 17), and that will be entered into our system."
This hardly sounds ready.


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More than 100 types of cancer are known, with great variation even in cancers stemming from the same tissue or organ. For instance, triple negative breast cancer behaves differently and is treated differently than breast cancer that is hormone receptor and epidermal growth factor receptor positive.
Cancers are composed of cells that divide without stopping. Some divide slowly, others quickly. Some are more invasive than others. Body terrain can influence the microenvironment in which the cancer exists, making it more or less likely to spread. You can sometimes improve your body terrain with integrative practices. (See Body Terrain and Tumor Microenvironment.)
Knowing how your cancer behaves will influence the type of testing and treatment used, prepare you for possible treatment side effects and guide you in steps to prevent or minimize these effects. It will help you understand and choose the complementary therapies and lifestyle approaches that may enhance your conventional treatment, manage side effects and improve your quality of your life.
You can also prepare your home team for what to expect. You can plan ahead to line up the support you may need. Finally, learning what to expect allows you to prepare mentally and spiritually to catalyze your resilience for facing the weeks and months to come.
You may read "the median five-year survival for this cancer is X percent." That means that this percentage of people survive at least five years. But median survival doesn't show the range of survival expectancy—which can vary from months to decades. We know many people who have lived far beyond the median. Getting healthier with cancer—and skillful use of conventional and complementary therapies—may help extend your life. It will very likely improve the quality of your life. There is nothing wrong with hope.
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You might start with learning about cancer generally and then proceed to your cancer specifically.
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I believe all my notes are chosen by "selection" (I have been highlighting a single verse or several verses at the same time before I make a personal note).These notes (over 26,000 of them) were originally meant to appear only on my nasb.
After so many years of reading and studying out of one translation (the nasb), I decided to broaden my expectations by choosing a new translation (the nkjv) to work with.
I decided to link both translations together through the visual filter (but when I did it, it also "grabbed" the niv, the esv, and some other major translations because at one time I had linked them together to facilitate my reading on other major translations).
Whenever I used one translation, it copied what I had on the other ones until decided to un-linked them all. I called this group of bibles, "MY BIBLES.".
I don't know how to delete the link that joins these translations. If I could delete the link, perhaps it would solve the problem, but with Logos 8, I don't know how to do it, (it was much easier with Logos 7).
Your opinion is greatly appreciated,
There are 3 round yellow icons that appear on verse 19 on the right hand side. They are exactly alike if one hovers over them.
Joseph Luna:I decided to link both translations together through the visual filter
You can't do this. When you make a note by selection, it is in ONLY the one translation... unless you turn on the corresponding notes & highlights filter. Doing so will show ALL "corresponding notes & highlights" from ALL other versified translations & commentaries.
Joseph Luna:Whenever I used one translation, it copied what I had on the other ones
You will need to delete each of those if you don't want to see the duplicates.
Joseph Luna:I don't know how to delete the link that joins these translations.
Again, it is "all or nothing."
Joseph Luna:it was much easier with Logos 7
It is my understanding that this feature has not changed from L7 to L8.
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Me: it was much easier with Logos 7
Me: Like I said, I don't know how to do it.
By the way, I was just giving you an example of what I did. None of the translations remained linked for more than a few hours.
So to cut it short, what you are saying is that I can't link the nasb with the nkjv because it just doesn't work even though there is visual filter that it says it can?
Thank you my friend,
Joseph Luna:what you are saying is that I can't link the nasb with the nkjv because it just doesn't work even though there is visual filter that it says it can?
I was wrong (see below), but I am still confused by your comments. More screenshots might be instructive about how you have set things up.
If you place your "by selection" notes/highlights into notebooks (named whatever you want, including the name of the translation), you can turn them on/off. Here is a screenshot of what you need to be looking for.
If the duplicate notes you created and DON'T want to see are in the SAME notebook as the ones you DO want to see, your only choice is to delete the duplicates. If you need help with that, we can troubleshoot that issue... but I want to keep on the single topic right now.
Can you give us a screenshot of this portion of your menu?
Here is a portion of YOUR screenshot where you had said that there was a duplicate note.
Notice that the bottom of the popup box (which appears translucent in your screenshot) says "Corresponding annotation from NASB95." That tells you that the note is not "in" the other translation, but is only appearing because you have the "corresponding notes & highlights" feature turned on. I am unsure if the "NASB95" shown in your screenshot is derived from the translation or the notebook name you gave it.
Which specific version are you running? I tried to figure out where the "NASB95" came from in your screenshot. On my installation it is clear to me that that line comes from the notebook... however, mine does not say "corresponding annotation." I wonder if that is a difference between Mac/WIndows.
There is definitely something strange about the NASB anchor in that, it is specific to the NASB but has no text selected. This none selected text is then being applied 3 times in the KJV, looking with interlinear on in KJV it seems to show pattern, but I cannot work it out.
This is not easy to do from Windows desktop, how did you create the note?
Maybe you can move that note to a new notebook, and share that notebook with public?
Anyway I have to sleep, I am in UK, hopefully JT can resolve, or some others. Bit of a weird one.
Kevin - Thanks for jumping back in. Question: Do you know how he has the note say "Corresponding annotation from NASB95"? (See my post above). I could not figure out how to get a note to say that on Mac and am wondering if there is a difference between Mac/PC.
Hi yes JT, it is a note he has created specific to the NASB, his 2nd picture shows the note,and the anchor. It shows the 'Corresponding annotation from...' when corresponding notes visual filter is selected, as is in the KJV for him.
I think the actual problem is that for some reason that note in the NASB when applied as corresponding filter in the KJV is showing more than once in that verse. Looking in the KJV with the interlinear on, you can see it applies just after whereever there is a word in the english text that does not exist in the greek.
I just posted above you, it is weird that he has somehow created it with no text selected in the NASB....but that might be a conversion issue and how notes used to be anchored.
Anyway cheers, bit of weird one...hopefully this has not confused the issue.
You are correct in what you said Kevin, although it is not the kjv but the nkjv (no biggie).
i appreciate people getting on the wagon. Perhaps someone may be able to solve this puzzle.
You are absolutely correct JT. The notes I created in the nasb, I wanted to be copied to the nkjv through the visual filter (see below).
The issue as you know is that it did copy it into the nkjv through the "Notes and highlights corresponding", but it duplicated the notes sometimes even 4 times!
JT: Below I have two screenshots which indicate a visual filter for both translations although I don't see the Exegetical Notes or the Illustrations boxes that it shows on your post (not on the search box either).
7444.LOGOS SCREENSHOT.docx
I need to finish a couple projects here at home but wanted to respond real quick to three things:
JT, you are correct. I apologize for using the wrong wording. As for your question, I have no copied any notes.
The same notes taken from the NASB are showing 2, 3 or 4 times throughout the NKJV instead of just being one.
Please take a look at verse 16. You will notice that the NASB has one red note while the NKJV has 4 notes. All are exactly the same,
7080.LOGOS 8 SCREENSHOT.docx
Why do you think they are the same note? From the screenshots, they don't appear to be! What happens when you delete one?
Because I can see they are duplicates. Visually, you can compare the notes that are on one verse located on the left side with the notes that are on the parallel translation on the right and see the difference in the number of notes. As far as I'm concerned, I don't know why the notes that are shown are being duplicated 2, 3 or even 4 times. I have 26,000 plus notes on my NASB.
If I delete a particular note from the NKJV, all the "duplicates" disappear. With that, the original note on my NASB also disappears. In order to avoid that, I have to highlight my original note and use the "copy and paste" procedure to ensure I can recreate it again.
Now, if I recreate the deleted note on my NASB, the duplicates will show up again. But if I recreate my original note on the NKJV, it will remain as one note, but I will no longer have my original note on my NASB. I other words, I can't have both notes at the same time, (but I refer only to the ones that have been duplicated).
I think it is important to add that not all notes that are showing on my NKJV are being duplicated or triplicated.
This is too much work to do by hand. I'm really surprised that helpdesk will not take the time to investigate this issue and find out why it's happening.
JT. I just tried something new. I clicked on my "notes and highlight corresponding" on my NASB without using the NKJV box of "notes and highlight corresponding", meaning, there is no link between these two translations
What happened is that it duplicated the notes to seven times on my NASB! Please look at verse four of the screenshot. These seven notes are identical. When I checked off the "notes and highlight corresponding" box, it went back to only one note.
8176.MAT 4 SCREENSHOT.docx
It is easier Joseph if you just embed the image in the forum, using the paperclip icon. Not everyone will have word, or will want to open it.
I have added your image for other to see.
Incidentally, there are 7 words in the nasb that are not in the greek in that verse, although verse 3 has 4 but not 4 extra notes, so maybe not related. Still, maybe could you please turn on your interlinear and then take a screen shot of the verse which will may show further details?
Thanks, I will do it as you said and copy the screenshot to "paint" instead.
The note that I created is simply a personal observation of the verse of what I think it means. It has nothing to do with the Greek.
The screenshot of my duplicate notes is below,


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When you're wading in a cool mountain stream, and you can see your toes in the sand, you assume the water's safe to drink. But even water that looks perfectly clear may harbor a variety of bacteria, parasites and protozoa that can make you very ill. You can't tell from smelling or taking a small taste whether water is safe to drink. Even water from spigots in campgrounds may not be. When you're camping, unless there's a sign that specifically states that water is safe to drink, you should take precaution and treat it.
Portable water filters are probably the easiest and safest way to treat water for drinking. There are many choices in water filters. The least expensive may cost less than $20, while more expensive filters can cost several hundred. For the average user, it's possible to find a perfectly functional water filter for less than $100.
You should expect water from different areas to have its own unique flavor, but the process of filtering the water doesn't make it taste funny. Water filters work by capturing the microscopic life that lives in abundance in freshwater.
The consequences of drinking untreated water can be severe. Water that tastes fine can contain bacteria, parasites and protozoa that cause nausea, diarrhea, loss of appetite, fatigue and vomiting. Some of the diseases spread through a contaminated water supply are botulism, cholera and dysentery. Parasitic infestations from contaminated water can lead to the development of rashes, muscle aches, fever, chills, coughs, neurological symptoms, jaundice and malnutrition. While most illnesses from drinking contaminated water cause discomfort for a few days or weeks, others can be deadly.
Water Filter Basics
The communities of bugs that live in fresh water supplies include giardiasis and cryptosporidium. The purpose of the water filter is not to kill the creatures, but to capture them inside the filter and prevent you from ingesting them. The effectiveness of the water filter is determined by what is known as the pore-size efficiency. This is the measurement of the size of the openings in the water filter. These measurements are microscopic.
The measurement used to describe the size of the filter's openings is called a micron. One micron is 1/1,000 of a millimeter. Any water filter with a micron size of one or less will remove parasitic eggs and larvae from the water as well as protozoa. To remove bacteria, the micron size must be less than 0.4 microns.
Regardless of the type of water filter, they all work in the same basic way. An intake hose is used to draw water into the filter. If you have a filter inside your water bottle, you'll fill the water bottle up first and place the filter inside. If you have a standalone filter, you can scoop water into a pail or put the intake hose directly into the water source.
Once inside the intake hose, the water is pressed through the filter, either manually, for a freestanding filter, or through suction, with a water bottle filter. The filter traps any microorganisms that may be living in the water -- and, like we said, it doesn't kill them. Once the debris is captured in the filter, clean water passes through and is ready for drinking. The area where the clean water exits the filter is called the filter outlet.
Choosing a Water Filter
The style of water filter that you choose depends on your personal needs. Many people favor water bottles with the filter built in. Others choose a small hand filter that allows them to purify water as they pull it from the water source and dispense it into separate containers. If you have a water pack system that fits into your backpack, it's possible to purchase a water filter system that coordinates with it.
How you decide what water filtering system will work best for your needs depends on a variety of factors. If you travel with youngsters and plan on filtering their water, you'll probably want a separate hand filter. Many hikers like to add powdered drink mixes to their water. If you're one of these hikers, you probably don't want a water bottle filter. This way you can have separate drinking containers, one with your drink mix and the other with plain water. If you add drink mix to a water bottle filter, you won't be able to drink or filter any water until the bottle is empty.
If you're camping in wilderness in most parts of the world, a water filter that filters for bacteria, protozoa and parasites should be more than adequate. If you're headed for a Third World country or an area where the water may be exposed to sewage, your filter also needs to kill viruses.
Water filters that are equipped to kill viruses most often contain an iodine filtering system. Like iodine chemical tablets (which we'll learn more about later), this can adversely affect the flavor of your water. If you want the insurance of a filter that kills viruses, take along some ascorbic acid -- even the granulated orange flavored powders available at grocery stores will work. After filtering the water through the iodine system, add some of the powder. Ascorbic acid neutralizes the iodine, improving the taste. It also neutralizes the effectiveness of the iodine, so make sure that you follow the manufacturer's instructions for how long to let the water set in the iodine filter before adding anything else to the water.
Regardless of what type of water filter you choose, you don't want a situation where you are surrounded with water but have nothing to drink. A flow rate of one liter per minute is a good average to shoot for when shopping for a water filter.
Caring for Your Water Filter
The very design of the water filter means that it will eventually clog. Remember, it's not killing those creepy crawlies in the water; it's trapping them in the filter, where they remain. The first sign that your filter may need some maintenance is that it becomes difficult to pump. Don't force the issue. If you try to force the water through the pump, you may wind up with microscopic bugs in your water supply.
To get the longest life out of your water filter, it's important to follow the manufacturer's instructions on care and maintenance. But there are some general tips to keep in mind. You can count on filtering about 100 gallons of water before your water filter needs to be changed. Proper care and a little preventative maintenance will go a long way in reaching this goal.
You can scrub some water filters to clean them. If your filter is one of these, scrub it gently with a toothbrush when it becomes difficult to pump. If your water filter cannot be scrubbed, it may still be possible to clean it. Some water filters can be immersed in clean water and rinsed gently. Of course, this is something that must be done at home with clean tap water.
If your water filter comes with a pre-filter, be sure to use it. A pre-filter captures some of the larger debris before it enters the main filter. If your water filter doesn't have a pre-filter, and the water around you has a lot of sediment, make your own, using a coffee filter or clean shirt.
Some filters can be backwashed. To backwash your filter, remove the intake hose and reattach it to the filter outlet. When you pump water with the hose attached this way, it will send clean water through the filter, loosening debris that may be clogging it up. It's important to sanitize the filter with a solution of one capful of bleach to one quart of water before using it again. Pump the solution through the filter and let it dry thoroughly before storing it away or using it.
Water Filter Troubleshooting
One of the best ways to increase the life of your water filter is to start with the cleanest water that you can find. While a babbling brook may seem cleaner than a pool of standing water, this is not necessarily so. Flowing water stirs up dirt and sand on the bottom of the water, making it easy to pull that into the water filter. For the cleanest water, choose a pool of standing water, and don't let the hose touch the ground. If this isn't possible, dip some water into a pan and let it set for at least an hour before running it through your filter. This will give the sediment time to settle to the bottom.
Some of the most common problems with water filters are also easily preventable. It's important to be gentle with the filter. If you drop it, it may appear fine and continue to work, but the inside may develop small cracks. The microorganisms that you're trying to filter out can easily pass through these cracks without you knowing it -- until you get sick.
If you're camping in cold weather, it's important to remember what happens to water when it freezes. If your water filter freezes while it's damp, the water inside can expand, causing cracks and leaks to develop. Tuck the water filter inside your clothes during the day, and sleep with it at the bottom of your sleeping bag at night.
Finally, make it a habit to keep your water filter dry. When you're not using the water filter on your trip, carry it outside your backpack in a mesh bag. When you return from your trip, flush the filter with a weak bleach solution and let it dry thoroughly before packing it away. This will prevent bacteria from growing inside of the water filter.
Other Ways to Purify Water
Water filters aren't the only way to purify your drinking water. Boiling is one traditional method. But while boiling is highly effective, it does have its drawbacks. For one, it's time consuming to purify a significant amount of water this way. And, while warm water may be a treat when you're on a winter hike, it's certainly not when the weather is toasty. Even after allowing the water to cool, you'll be drinking tepid water.
Boiling also has a negative effect of the taste of the water. Some people describe the taste as "flat." You can reduce this somewhat by pouring the boiled water back and forth between two clean containers as it cools. This process aerates the water, improving the taste. Probably the biggest drawback of boiling is that you'll use a lot of fuel to boil enough water to keep you hydrated.
Chemical tablets are another option for purifying water. These tablets typically contain iodine. They do a good job of killing bacteria in the water and making it safe to drink, but they have a negative effect on the water's taste. Water treated with iodine is bitter and has a lingering aftertaste.
Also, while they're inexpensive, once the bottle of chemical tablets is open, it has a limited lifespan. Another drawback of chemical water treatment is that it doesn't always work against some types of protozoa. Finally, if the weather is particularly cold or the water is filled with sediment, the chemical tablets will take longer to work.
The biggest drawback of chemical treatment is the adverse health effects it can have on some people. For people with thyroid disease, immunodeficiency and some other health concerns, chemical tablets containing iodine can be a serious threat. Also, if you're pregnant, it's important to speak with a doctor before using iodine for water purification.
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As I hinted at on Monday, I ran the Broad Street Run on Sunday, May 5th!
A friend at school and I entered the registration lottery back in February and we were both lucky enough to get spots. I had planned to make Broad Street the center of my training plan in the early spring, but didn't end up preparing for it until I started this blog at the end of March and ran the Rumspringa 1/2 in mid-April.
I did do some training in red socks, after my friend told me about the Facebook event that had been created to start the trend. Other than that, my preparation was really just focused on the races I've recapped here. I love doing races as a way to get miles in. Even if those miles aren't especially fast, at least they're done! 🙂
On Saturday afternoon, I went to the expo with my mom, who had pledged to be my supporter for all things Broad Street that weekend. (Aren't moms great?!) Parking was easy – and free – at the Philly stadium complex and foot traffic into/out of the expo was well-managed. Packet pick-up was really fast, and the t-shirt station on the other end of the expo was also very organized.
There were quite a few vendors of clothing at the expo – compression socks, headbands, sports tops and shorts, etc. There were also a few race info booths, which is where I spent most of my browsing time. The ODDyssey Half-Marathon was handing out discount cards for $5 off their upcoming race AND my mom and I were lucky enough to score wristbands for their Broad Street after-party on Sunday!
On Sunday morning we got to the stadium complex around 645. It was freezing! I had checked the weather, but honestly didn't expect the below-45-degree morning to feel quite so chilly! Luckily, we got a great parking spot and had a short walk to the subway station.
The idea is that the course is a point-to-point route from north Broad Street towards the south, ending at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, which is close to the stadium complex. Everyone who drives to the race has to park at the stadium and take a free subway ride to the start. The race info said that the train ride to the start takes about 35 minutes and that everyone should plan on boarding a train by 630! This seemed a little excessive to me, but I was soon to find out why they recommended such an early start…
I said goodbye to my mom at the subway station, with plans to meet up at the "lost runners" area in the Navy Yard after the race. When I got to the subway tracks, there was a train loading up that seemed full already. The cars in the back half of the train were all standing room only. I figured I might have to wait for the next train, but kept following the crowd ahead of me to the very front of the train. Amazingly, there was room in the front few cars – and there were even seats! I ducked into the very first car and got a seat, which was an amazing stroke of luck.
The train got more and more crowded the further north we went. Eventually, people waiting at the stops between the stadium complex and the start line were told to wait for the next train. I was happy to be on the train and moving toward our destination!
We arrived at the Olney Septa station around 730. There were massive amounts of people just milling around inside. I talked to a few runners and they all said they were staying in the station because it was warm. Since this was my first time running Broad Street, I figured I'd better sacrifice the warmth and get to the start line to see how things looked. Good thing I did, too, because it was a madhouse! The best way to describe how crazy it was is to tell you that the lines for the porta-johns were 45+ minutes long, despite the fact that the race organizers had rented over 300 of them for the start area. Yes, it was just that busy. There were 40,000 runners, after all!
The start kicked off around 830 with a beautiful rendition of the National Anthem. There were also words from Boston Mayor Tom Menino, a moment of silence in honor of Boston, and Sweet Caroline before each wave started. It was a very moving way to begin the race!
I spent the first few miles of the race navigating the crowds and just enjoying the feeling of running down one of Philly's iconic streets. I had no idea how quickly I could or should run this race, and I often found myself trying to slow down in these early miles. I definitely agreed with my fellow runner when he said, "I think the crowd just pushes you along in things like this." I did try to look around and appreciate the spectators cheering and cowbelling. 🙂 I also took some time to snap photos of things I wanted to remember, like the cool shirt the girl above was wearing.
And City Hall in the distance.
And these runners, who carried the flag throughout the race. I don't know how people have the strength to do this, but it is awesome to see!
I didn't get a picture, because I almost ran right by her, but I heard someone calling my name shortly after the 9 mile mark and was really happy to see my mom cheering for me! It was just the thing I needed to keep me going for the last mile.
This probably takes the award for the best view. The Navy Yard gates = one-quarter of a mile left!
I picked up my finisher's medal and food bag (soft pretzel! Tastykakes! yogurt! yes!!!) and walked off in search of the "lost runners" meet-up area. The first information booth attendant I talked to hadn't even heard of that location and she directed me to the family meet-up area instead. Who knew that even existed?! I would have planned to meet my mom by the first letter of our last name if we had figured that out in advance, but it was just as well that we planned for the lost runners location. The letter meet-up spot was really crowded.
As I was waiting at the lost runners area, beginning to despair of ever being "found," I looked up and saw my friend from school! I couldn't believe that in a crowd of 40,000+ runners and spectators we happened to find each other. She was looking for her siblings, so we decided to divide and conquer. We eventually found my mom and my friend's brother and sister. After chatting for a bit, and recounting our favorite race moments, we parted ways for the day.
My mom and I walked back to the stadium complex, only to find such bad traffic that people were sitting in their cars in line to leave but with the engines turned off. Luckily, we had alternative plans and decided to go check out the ODDyssey 1/2's after-party. It was at McFadden's at Citizen's Bank Park. When we got there I traded my entrance wristband for a free beer ticket and we went to the outdoor bar to enjoy the gorgeous afternoon. (My mom drove. Again, she's awesome!)
The after-party was the perfect way to spend an hour or so relaxing after the race, and by the time we got back to our car, the traffic had completely disappeared. It was time to go home and recover and enjoy some good food. As my friend said, "calories don't count today." 😉
The Broad Street Run was a wonderful race. The spirit and energy there was really inspirational and it felt great to be part of such a legendary Philadelphia tradition. Broad Street definitely lived up to its hype for me, and I plan to be back in the future!
Happy Fitness Friday Linkup, everyone. Enjoy your weekend.


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In his eloquent eulogy at Muhammad Ali's funeral last year, Billy Crystal said: "To live in his time, watching his fights, experiencing the genius of his talent, was absolutely extraordinary." Anyone who has seen Billy Crystal's one-man show, "700 Sundays," knows of his gift of combining history, humor and pathos. Crystal's father was a pioneer in promoting the great jazz artists of the 1940s and 1950s, and the young Billy saw the movie "Shane" in a theater while sitting on Billie Holiday's lap. Armed with that history, Billy Crystal was uniquely appreciative of Ali's impact as it unfolded.
One of the reasons to study history is to be able to recognize historical markers when they happen right before your eyes. For sports historians, the last 12 months, and particularly the last five months, have offered up timeless performances. Many years from now people will be asking, "What was it like to see that?"
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I read this column by Mike Littwin after JD Salinger's death.
He poses the question, "Would today's teenagers still get Holden Caulfield?"
It made me wonder about my friends and their relationship, if any, with Holden Caulfield.
Personally, I don't have a relationship with Holden. For some inexplicable reason, like I didn't want to, I never read it. Maybe I just preferred my own particular brand of angst to his.
So here are three questions for you …
1. Did you read The Catcher in the Rye?
2. Did you relate to Holden's angst?
3. Would you play a Catcher in the Rye video game where you and Holden together fight ennui and phoniness with wicked awesome swords and swashbuckling heroics?


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Parcel Mapping and Cadastre Mapping
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An accredited register of the authority, extent, and cost of homologous parcels of undoubted property in a accustomed area is proclaimed because a cadastre. Often a cadastre is used for a basis of taxation. Mapping procedures which involves cartographic methods that aim at defining the dimensions of land parcels is called parcel mapping. Bona fide is and declared due to cadastre mapping being heartfelt helps in creating maps which answerability flawlessly depict cadastres.
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The production phase of the mapping process includes mainly five tasks. These production tasks are CAD conversion, building parcel raster to vector, maintenance raster to vector, maintenance spatial alignment and maintaining existing data editing. The final phase of parcel mapping is associated with the attainment of high accuracy levels. The final processing of the mapping includes the stages of edge matching, multi pin check, summarize check, multiple stack creation etc.
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Regaining lost functionality in the Windows XP Recovery Console
The fact that so many Windows command prompt features are disabled in the Windows XP Recovery Console is a source of frustration for admins. Fortunately, the Group Policy Object Editor and Set command can help restore access to most of those functions.
Previously in this series about Windows XP Recovery Console, I described the Recovery Console as a handicapped version of the Windows command prompt because so many of the normal features and capabilities associated with the command prompt have been disabled. Fortunately, administrators can regain some of the missing functionality.
Before I begin
In spite of the fact that so many of the Recovery Console's capabilities have been disabled, there are still quite a few valid DOS commands remaining. A comprehensive discussion of all of the available commands is beyond the scope of this article, but if you are curious as to which commands you can use, I recommend checking out Microsoft KB article 307654.
Taking back some functionality
In order to regain access to some of the lost functionality through the Windows XP Recovery Console, you have to make some changes to the machine's local security policy. Sadly, you have to do this while Windows is functional, because you can't make the changes directly through the Recovery Console.
To do so, enter the GPEDIT.MSC command at the Run prompt. When the Group Policy Object Editor opens, expand the Local Computer Policy and navigate through the console tree to Computer Configuration | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Local Policies | Security Options. Next, locate and enable a policy setting named "Recovery Console: Allow Floppy Copy and Access to All Drives and Folders" as shown in Figure A. If you have a lot of machines running Windows XP, then I would recommend enabling this policy at the domain level rather than on each individual machine.
It is important to realize that simply enabling this Group Policy setting alone will not give you access to all the files or folders, nor will it allow you to copy data to removable media. You still have to tell the Recovery Console that you want access to some of the things that have been restricted.
Doing so involves using the Set command. Simply boot the machine into the Recovery Console and then enter the Set command followed by an environment variable, the equals sign and either true or false. Setting an environment variable to True enables the option to which the variable corresponds, while setting the variable to false disables the option. For example, suppose you wanted the ability to write data to removable media. The environment variable that controls removable media access is AllowRemovableMedia. Therefore, the command would look like this:
Set AllowRemovableMedia = TrueKeep in mind that you cannot use the Set command unless you first enable the Group Policy setting that I showed you above. Otherwise, when you enter the Set command you will receive the following error message:
The SET command is currently disabled. The SET command is an optional Recovery Console command that can only be enabled by using the Security Configuration and Analysis Snap-In.Now that you know how to use the Set command, you can see which environment variables you can use with it by taking a look at the table below.
Environment variables for the Set command
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|Setting this environment variable to TRUE allows you to use wildcard characters in conjunction with some of the commands. The wildcard characters consist of * and ?.
The * character indicates that you want to use any item that matches the specified pattern, regardless of length. For example, if you want to see all of the .EXE files found in the current directory, you could use the DIR *.EXE command.
The ? character allows you to tell the command that you don't know what a specific character is going to be. For instance if you want to see all of the files in the current directory that end in BK1, BK2, BK3, etc., you could enter DIR *.BK?
|Setting this environment variable to TRUE gives you access to every folder on the hard disk.
|If you set this environment variable to TRUE, Windows will allow you to copy files from the hard disk to removable media.
|Setting this variable to TRUE allows you to overwrite files without being prompted each time. This is handy if you need to overwrite a large number of files. Otherwise, it is usually best to leave this option disabled to prevent accidental data loss.
So while the Windows XP Recovery Console does have many restrictions, there are workarounds, and knowing how to use the Group Policy Object Editor and the Set command is the key to accessing them.
How to install it
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|Brien M. Posey, MCSE, has received Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional Award four times for his work with Windows Server, IIS and Exchange Server. He has served as CIO for a nationwide chain of hospitals and healthcare facilities, and was once a network administrator for Fort Knox. You can visit his personal Web site at www.brienposey.com.


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The fourth and final door card for the DS is now installed. The reason for the long delay was that the rear drivers side door would not lock. If the door was unlocked, the mechanism would not hold the door closed, if locked, it would behave as if it were unlocked.
Therefore, before I fitted the door card, I wanted to fix the door. The mechanism is actually quite simple, just hard to see and get to.
Essentially what happens is that the rod (12) gets somehow misaligned, which stops the little star in mechanism (2) to hold the door, and the little cam to lock it. After various attempts to try and adjust it, something worked, as it started to work properly. Access is not easy, as can be seen through a mirror.
Once the lock was sorted out, the door cards are easy to install – in the same way as has been outlined already. As usual, a little autosol on the winder mechanism completes the job.


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Debate swirling around the wave of dance presentation in museums hasn't dissipated over the last couple of years. For one thing, economic inequality between the dance and art worlds isn't likely to go away. Over the weekend at MoMA PS1, the Swedish choreographer Marten Spangberg added another layer to the conversation with "La Substance, but in English," a four-and-a-half-hour work performed Sunday afternoon as part of the American Realness festival.
It was long — the final hour didn't exactly fly by — but "La Substance" made for a hallucinatory experience equally illuminating and tedious.
Mr. Spangberg wittily transformed the MoMA PS1 Performance Dome into something of a marijuana den: Branches with giant leaves dangled over the stage. The floor was littered with pizza boxes, bottles of soda and costumes that the dancers wore and discarded with frequency. Music, a stream of hip-hop and pop songs, insulated the space with a steady, sensuous pulse. Cans of beer were passed around. Yet little was as casual as it seemed.
"La Substance, but in English," a work by the Swedish choreographer Marten Spangberg, set to hip-hop and pop songs, was performed at MoMA PS1 as part of the American Realness festival.
Gia Kourlas writes, "Debate swirling around the wave of dance presentation in museums hasn't dissipated over the last couple of years."Credit...Julieta Cervantes for The New York Times
Mr. Spangberg has recently begun experimenting with ways to focus on an expanded notion of choreography — how the word implies more about constructing time and space than knitting together steps. (Which is not to say that his talented cast of eight, wearing fantastical and disturbing stage makeup, didn't slip in a quick pas de chat or two.)
During "La Substance," which also featured Yoann Durant singing along to recorded tracks, audience members, seated on the floor or standing, were free to come and go. Yet most stayed put in this slow-cooker environment, which was a little like watching a sunset. It changed just enough to hold your gaze.
Some in the audience opted to spend time not watching, but painting colors on a mural sketched onto the same wall that Mr. Spangberg leaned against as he watched, tapped on his computer and signaled to his cast. The back curtain, a silver-and-gold patchwork design with large squares of material touting Chanel, Gucci and Louis Vuitton, contrasted with performers who walked and rose from or sank to the floor in slow motion, often pausing to look out at us as we watched them: a reflection of landscapes.
But there were jubilant, saucy dances, too, raw alternatives to more mechanical commercial interpretations to pop songs. The excellent Emma Kim Hagdahl, with tears made of glitter streaming down her cheeks, could gyrate her hips with playful insouciance or freeze time with an icy stare. At one point, the cast members, eyes closed, simply sat near the front of the stage. Behind them, the logo curtain fluttered. The amplified sound of an email being sent was a jarring interruption.
Within this oddly gentle, one-moment-rolling-into-the-next atmosphere was a stinging critique about consumerism in and out of the art world and, of course, the erosion of attention spans. In "La Substance," Mr. Spangberg makes sharp points as he examines the nature of time: Instead of bodies he choreographed air and, to his credit, that took a few hours really to sink in.


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Moon phase on 23 April 2089 Saturday is Waxing Gibbous, 13 days young Moon is in Libra.Share this page: twitter facebook linkedin
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 17 April 2089 at 21:37.
Moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1889" and ∠1908".
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2089 after 1 day on 24 April 2089 at 21:22.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
The Moon is 13 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1104 of Meeus index or 2057 from Brown series.
Length of current 1104 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 18 minutes. It is 2 hours and 37 minutes longer than next lunation 1105 length.
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 26 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 43 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠280.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠310.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
5 days after point of perigee on 17 April 2089 at 16:01 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 1 May 2089 at 17:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
Moon is 379 410 km (235 754 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 8 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 330 km (251 239 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 14:43 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet descending node on 8 May 2089 at 01:13 in ♈ Aries.
At 14:43 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
7 days after previous North standstill on 15 April 2089 at 13:45 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.461°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.489° in the next southern standstill on 28 April 2089 at 19:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
After 1 day on 24 April 2089 at 21:22 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.


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Voter registration information are thought-about public beneath Utah Code § 63G-2-301, excluding your driver license or identification card amount, Social Safety quantity, e-mail cope with, and the day of your month of starting. The portion of your voter registration type that lists your month and yr of start is a private document, the usage of which is restricted to authorities officers, authorities employees, political events, or sure different people. Preregistration knowledge are thought of non-public till the registrant reaches 18 years of age. You could apply to the lieutenant governor or your county clerk to have your whole voter registration categorized as private.
Moreover notable is the return of Coco Chanel (who detested the "New Look") to the fashion world. Following the closure of her salons inside the battle years, in 1954, aged over seventy, she staged a comeback and on February 5 she offered a group which contained an entire vary of ideas that will probably be adopted and copied by girls all around the world: her well-recognized little braided go well with with gold chains, shiny costume jewellery, silk blouses in colors that matched the swimsuit linings, glossy tweeds, monogrammed buttons, flat black silk bows, boaters, quilted baggage on chains, and night time attire and furs that have been marvels of simplicity.
Design clothes and accessories. A mixture of fashion and social media, Hold permits its prospects to create feeds that perform their own preferences. With limitless scrolling, a fragile shade palette and a social media side Hold is the intersection between the fashion business and individuals who placed on fashion.
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With out a shadow of a doubt, pictures and video are the principle focus of nearly all of fashion web sites these days; they offer the impression of being great they usually showcase the product to perfection. Other sites apply bleeding edge strategies to the structure and navigation of their pages; trendsetting transcending into inspirational technology.
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We're having some points with on-line applications started utilizing the Safari browser. We advocate attempting one different browser (eg Chrome or Firefox ) proper now. Develop a bunch of products or accessories, and market them through venues similar to boutiques or mail-order catalogs.
Design clothes and accessories. Each fashion brand aims to create a novel and characteristic visible fashion that matches its persona. Nonetheless, there are specific traits which can be widespread to most fashion firms' websites. Most fashion websites rely on the power of visuals to attract consideration to them and let the product converse for itself. Utilizing photos is essential, huge images and films are highly regarded. Usually, the homepage include a large background image and a navigation menu. The rest of the content is pushed to the background so it does not compete with the displayed product. Black and white is a typical colour scheme for a lot of fashion websites, particularly those thatwant to convey a picture of magnificence and classicism, whereas youthful and playful producers use numerous colour.
Have you on a regular basis dreamt of a career in fashion, design, enterprise, or merchandising however have no idea the best way to turn your passion and experience into a viable occupation? Keep entertainment contains weekly New York-mannequin runway exhibits with the most well-liked fashion manufacturers, incorporating each live music and dance.


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An abdominal hernia is the pushing through of soft tissue through the abdominal wall. A ventral hernia is a hernia that develops in the front of the abdomen. Types of ventral hernias include:
- Incisional hernia—develops along a previous surgical incision
- Epigastric hernia—develops along the upper abdominal wall below the chest
- Spigelian hernia—develops along the side of the abdominal wall (rare)
Some hernias may not need treatment. Others can require surgery. Some hernias can be serious and require medical attention right away.
The abdominal wall covers the front of the body from the ribs to the pelvis. It normally keeps abdominal tissue in place. When the abdominal wall tears or weakens, tissue pushes out. This creates a hernia. The tissue pushed through can be loops of intestine, fat, or other tissue. The weakness may be caused by:
- Increased abdominal pressure
- Surgery or injury to the abdomen
Weak spots may be present at birth. Others may develop later in life from general weakness, injury, or surgery.
Risk Factors
Older adults are at increased risk.
Other factors that may increase the chances of a ventral hernia:
- Heavy lifting
- Coughing
- Straining during bowel movements
- Excess body weight
- Previous abdominal surgery
- Surgical wound infection
- Pregnancy
Hernias produce a bulge under the skin. It may not cause any other symptoms. Sometimes you may notice pain that increases during the day. Activities that may cause pain include:
- Coughing
- Straining during bowel movements or urination
- Heavy lifting
- Sitting or standing for long periods of time
Sometimes a loop of intestine becomes trapped in the abdominal wall. This may lead to a blockage of the intestine. Strangulation can also occur if the hernia is slowing or blocking blood flow. Symptoms of a strangulated hernia include:
- Continuous, severe pain
- Redness
- Nausea and vomiting
- High fever
- Increased sweating
- Constipation
A strangulated hernia is a medical emergency and requires immediate surgery.
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
Imaging tests may include:
Many hernias enlarge over time. A hernia may be easily pushed back in, without causing any symptoms. In this case, your doctor may choose to watch it. Otherwise, surgery is usually performed to fix the weakened area of the abdominal wall.
Hernias are repaired with surgery. During the surgery, the displaced organs are put back into place. The damaged wall is repaired. A piece of mesh may also be placed over the area to provide extra support.
To help reduce the chances of a ventral hernia:
- Learn proper lifting techniques.
- Maintain a healthy weight.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: EBSCO Medical Review Board Marcin Chwistek, MD
- Review Date: 03/2018 -
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Julia Essex
Julia Essex spent her working life teaching ballet and running her own busy and successful dance school. Ballet is an art form which creates beautiful lines and shapes through movement to please the eye and bring delight to the soul. On retiring, Julia wanted to explore a new way of expressing the beauty of aesthetic experience and so took up art.
Having tried a variety of media, Julia currently prefers acrylics and is interested in painting anything which catches her eye, especially landscapes. She loves to use fast, expressive brush strokes to convey a sense of freedom and movement in order to bring to life the extraordinary beauty of the natural world. She particularly enjoys painting 'en plein air' and recently spent four weeks in Andalusia painting seascapes.
As a child Julia often visited Birmingham Art Gallery and was captivated by the Pre-Raphaelite paintings both because of their richness of colour and their strong sense of narrative. Since retiring, she takes every opportunity to visit art galleries and to appreciate all kinds of art and was, of course, enthralled by the recent Burne-Jones exhibition at Tate Britain.
Julia was delighted to be awarded the Judge's prize in LSA's Open Exhibition last November for her painting entitled 'Poppies' and is looking forward to exhibiting a selection of her paintings in the East Lodge in July 2019.
Julia is happy to take commissions and can be contacted by email: email@example.com


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Phone 'n' Games
Play it forward...on your cell phone. A growing number of wireless entertainments are ringing up big sales.
You're sitting at your bus stop, bored and tired. You've already read the newspaper and begun counting the number of times the guy next to you has coughed into his hand. Yet salvation lies in your cell phone. You pull it from your backpack and start punching keys. But you're not calling a friend — you're in a jet fighter, blasting enemy planes out of the sky.
Welcome to one of the hottest segments of wireless gaming. A few studios — in partnership with established game publishers — are releasing titles that cell-phone owners can easily access by calling a number. And the games cost less than movie tickets (prices vary). In the last few months, Viacom Consumer Products and Paramount have put out games based on Top Gun and Star Trek; Disney/Pixar produced one for Monsters, Inc., and the World Wrestling Federation and THQ released WWF: Mobile Madness for new Java-enabled phones. There are more titles to come later this year, including games for Mission: Impossible and The Lord of the Rings. "This is the new cutting edge, and we're trying to get out in front," says Pam Newton, vice president of marketing and licensing for Viacom Consumer Products.
In a way, cell phones are perfect gaming devices. With 800 million in circulation worldwide, why not turn them into portable arcades? "People love their phones and love their games, so it's pretty obvious this stuff was going to converge," says Matthew Bellows, publisher of Wireless Gaming Review (wireless gamingreview.com), a webzine devoted to reviewing these decidedly quirky new offerings.
Quirky and, it must be said, slow. Even the most advanced phones don't boast much processing power, which makes for games reminiscent of early-'80s home-computer titles. "You have to be pretty creative with how you design these things," admits Brian Baglow, global communications manager for Digital Bridges, which created the Star Trek game. "If you ask [gamers] to type in 1,000 key strokes, they'll kill themselves."
Or kill each other. The games may be retro, but they have plenty of modern appeal. In Canada, a version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire logged 6 million hits in December. And it's been estimated that the mobile-gaming industry will generate nearly $9 billion by 2006. Even now, games are making money: Newton says Viacom's three titles have been profitable (though she declined to disclose figures).
As cell phones become more advanced, expect games to get more sophisticated and to add more-elaborate multiplayer elements. The next Star Trek game, slated for an April release, will even enable players around the world to team up in gangs to protect — or attack — one another. "You'll launch the game to find out you're getting hunted down by some guy in Russia," Baglow jokes. Now that's what we call phone tag.


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Did you know that low temperatures and temperature fluctuations have been associated with asthma and other allergic reactions?
Good passive solar design creates a healthy living environment with comfortable temperatures, thus reducing the risk of these health problems.
Our team understands the importance of living in healthy homes and we take care to factor in all of the crucial passive solar design elements to build a comfortable, energy efficient house. These factors include:
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- insulation.
Benefits of Passive Solar Design
- comfortable homes
- cool in summer and warm in winter
- natural sunlight entering home spaces.


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The Inaugural Chip Miller Track Day Presented by MotorCrush
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I am in desperate need of sun, ocean, and a mojito. Spring break is right around the corner, and I have been counting down the days since second semester started. Ditching bad weather and the stress of school sounds ideal.
Before we can embark on the journey to our favorite tropical destinations, we have to pack. While this can be a daunting task during the peak of midterm season, I've got you covered with a few essentials. So, if you haven't already, book a flight, hotel, pack your bags with these chic staples, and you'll be lounging by the beach in no time.
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Nice YouTube find by Ian Worling.
I agree with with Ian. Even though I don't know what they're singing about, it's very creative and feels inspiring.
They're looping movements in slow mo to regular speed is so cool.
Some New Yorkers look on curiously, while others barely notice the performers. Talent just landed again in New York.
MAMA supports the creative minds of the planet earth. If you come across something interesting and out of the ordinary, or just something that makes you smile, we'd like to know about it.


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Jesus and his followers went to a wedding where they ran out of wine. This is where Jesus performed his first miracle, turning water into wine, and it was the best wine at the party (John 2:1-11). To play through this story, we did a simple science experiment.
What you need:
- Paper Towel
- Washable Marker
- Black Sharpie
- Water
What you do:
- Before devotions, draw a simple wine cup shape on the paper towel using the washable marker.
- Trace over the cup with black sharpie, covering all of the color.
- After reading the story, present the cup drawing and water.
- Allow child to pour water over drawing.
- The drawing should change color from white to the color of the market. Remind your child of the miracle of the water turning into wine.
The Water to Wine
The physical miracle was the water turning into wine. However I love what David Guzik comments that this miracle was the symbolism of something so much more. Salvation would no longer be found in the law. It would no longer be found in trying to live up to this golden standard, and when we failed sacrificing an animal in our place. Instead, God's great plan was coming to completion. The Christ had come to atone for the world, and salvation would be found in him. Christ is the best wine. In his grace alone we find our hope.


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Course Retake 1.203
Students may retake any ECC course at the regular cost of the course if one of the following conditions is met:
- If the student has not completed the course with a grade of C or better and the course/grade is necessary to satisfy degree or certificate requirements (100 level or above), the course may be re-taken once.
- If a higher grade is required to raise a student's grade point average to the minimum required for graduation, the course may be re-taken once.
- Developmental courses may be retaken until passed successfully. However, students using financial aid should speak with the financial aid department to understand the impact of retaking a course.
- This procedure does not apply to Adult Basic Education (ABEC) courses.
Students seeking to retake a course beyond the second attempt must consult with an academic advisor and obtain an appeal form to allow registration beyond the second attempt.
A student who retakes any course does so with the understanding that only the higher grade will be used to compute the grade point average at ECC. All attempted courses will appear on the official ECC transcript along with a summary of the retake policy.
Students transferring to another college or university should know not all institutions honor ECC's course retake policy. Instead of using the higher grade to compute a student's grade point average, some schools use the average of both grades earned or they use the most recent attempt. To avoid difficulties in transferring, students are encouraged to contact the admissions office of their intended transfer institution and review its current catalog.
A student may receive financial aid for a previously passed course only once (a total of two attempts). If a student enrolls in a previously passed course for a third time, this course will not count towards the student's enrollment for financial aid purposes. A grade of "D" or higher is considered passing for financial aid purposes regardless of institutional policy or program of study. Students may receive financial aid for a course that has not been previously passed regardless of the number of attempts.
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Oct 23, 2009 Berkeley, CA.
Carten Hein Westergaard, of Vestas Technology R& D Americas, Inc., spoke at the Univeristy of California Berkeley today on wind power – or more accurately, Vestas and wind power.
Vestas is a longstanding major player in the wind energy business, boasting 20% of the global market, some 4000 employees, $595 million in investments, and 39,000 wind turbines installed to date. One Vestas V90-3MW turbine was said to be capable of producing an equivalent energy to 7,582 barrels of oil annually. Denmark, global home to Vestas, is now producing 20% of their energy with wind turbines. With the green revolution in full swing, Vestas is installing an average of one new turbine every four hours.
The pace of that production schedule is impression just given the sheer magnitude of these machines. The rotor alone weighs 41 tonnes, the nazelle, 70 tonnes, and the tower a whopping 285 tonnnes. A slide of a train with a long string of cars fully loaded with enourmous turbine components clearly made the point of just how substantial an undertaking it is to transport and assemble these massive structures.
Wind turbines look relatively simple from a distance, but Westergaard pointed out there are real engineering challenges to assembling, installing and maintaining wind turbines with a twenty year lifespan. In real world conditions, they face multiple and ongoing stresses, including such things as lightning and gale winds which can reach 32 meters/sec. To service the turbines, Carsten showed an image of an interesting craneless device somewhat akin to the way people climb coconut trees.
Nevertheless, Westergaard said the main impediment to rapid growth in wind power is not turbine engineering, but rather limits in the existing transmission line infrastructure. These limits will need to be addressed as the United States and Europe struggle to achieve increasingly ambitious clean energy goals. By 2007, Europe had installed 56 gigawatts of wind power capacity, including 1gigawatts offshore. Their annual investment is on the order of $156 million. Westergaard said in the United States the DOE is plannning to reach 300 gigawatts by 2030, including 54 gigawatts of offshore wind energy.
While interesting and informative, there are inherent limits to presentations like this by corporate representatives, since they serve the two goals of educating the public on pressing societal problems while simultaneously promoting the approach and image of the company being represented – and all the while remaining cautious not to compromise trade secrets.
For example, even though a video of the entire talk and slideshow will soon be publically available online, as press I was not even allowed to take photos of the rather generic and non-revealing slideshow. This sort of propriatory restrictiveness is out of place in a public lecture at Berkeley, a publically funded university which also happens to be famous as the birthplace of the free speech movement. In Berkeley, concerns about corporate influence in the public sphere came to the fore in recent years over BP's $500 million funding for biofuels research.
Many in the green circles many would choose to emphasize the distinction between clean wind and dirty GHG emitting fossil fuels, yet Vestas takes an entirely different approach with their "Wind, Oil and Gas" slogan. From Vestas' website:
"The Wind, Oil and Gas vision expresses Vestas' ambition of assuming leadership in the efforts to make wind an energy source on a par with fossil fuels." The goal is to make wind power mainstream.
Vestas and wind energy are by no means without controversy. Many familiar issues such as workers rights, plant closings, and globalization come into play as big companies struggle to compete in turbulent markets. Recently there were demonstrations over a Vestas blade manufacturing plant closure in England.
Article by James George