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Professional experience in Vietnam
Located in Southeast Asia, Vietnam is a small and beautiful country with a fascinating history and stunning landscapes. Exploring the beauty of this country with its people, food and culture is an experience not to be missed.
Program overview
- Where: Ho Chi Minh, Southern Vietnam
- When: 21 November - 14 December 2019
- Who: Pre-service teachers across primary and secondary courses
- Cost: Approximately $4900 - $5400, plus spending money ($500 - $1000)
You will be placed in primary and secondary settings in Ho Chi Minh. School hours vary school by school so this something you will informed about when you arrive in Vietnam. There will be lots of opportunity to immerse yourself in the school community in a range of extra-curricular activities.
Please note: the finer details will be finalised before the trip, and might be subject to change.
What's included in the cost
The cost includes:
- Round trip airfare
- Transfers to and from the airport
- Accommodation (to be confirmed closer to travel date)
- Some meals – welcome and farewell dinners
Items not included that students need to budget for:
- Snacks and lunches
- Passport and VISA expenses
- SIM card
- Public transport card
- Toiletries and personal items
- Tours and some local travel
- Vaccinations
- Spending money
See what Financial support is available to you.
Opportunities to explore
After school hours and on weekends, you will have an opportunity to (at your own expense):
- Interact with other preservice teachers through a range of activities;
- Explore the local area, including the cu chi tunnels, museums, enjoy the food or a stroll through the city;
- Travel to other parts of Vietnam.
How to apply?
Recruitment for overseas placements runs from March to April and July to August each year depending on the location.
See Applications, selection process and cancellations for more information.
Who to contact?
Academic questions
Dr Sarah Rutherford
Logistics/Financial Questions
Ms Rochelle Mayer, IPE Coordinator


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On Bankrate's test of asset quality, SNOCOPE scored 40 out of a possible 40 points, exceeding the national average of 38.09 points.
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The thing about time is that you can never have it back. As Chic Benetto tells us, it's such a shame to think, that time, we have a lot of it. But time spent with the ones we treasure is always time spent well. There's an app that ensures you that to be the case. It's for your gossamer iPhone, and it's called Flashback – a newly contrived, genius photography app.
What is Flashback?
By definition, flashbacks are events that have occurred in the past. These past events are registered in our memories and though they have passed, we are able to draw out what we felt during those times simply by recollecting them in our thoughts. Flashback, this new iPhone app, works akin to that but in a much better way. When you take pictures, it musters the moments that happen the image is being taken. Therefore, it is an app that can tell the back story of your images in the most animate way possible. And, what is better than a video of moments recorded before a scene is frozen to a photograph?
A Look Inside Flashback
Before anything, it is worthy to note that Flashback is a groundbreaking app for the iPhone since it marks the beginning of new scheme of collecting memories by incorporating video recording and photo shooting altogether. It effaces the conflict of having to choose between both.
-Flashback can record up to 5 seconds of video before a photo is taken. It will surely humor you how messy everything is before everybody pose to be frozen in a photograph. Looking back, it could delight you and even bring you to tears when sharing with friends and family in the future.
-Flashback has its way around augmenting more aesthetic into your video-end-to-image shots. After the recording and the photo-taking finale, it will bring you to the edit section where you can apply frames, add captions, apply red-eye, stickers, and other enhancements that can make the snippets more of an eye-candy as much as they are the harbingers of your beloved memories.
-The best thing about Flashback is that it allows you to compile up to 50 Flashbacks into one single play, and save them as a single file. This allows your iPhone to reel an ensemble of funnily lovely mementos that combine videography and photography to create an instrument of true artistry and look-back gems.
In addition to that, you can simply load images you have in your album and compile them along with your newly recorded Flasbacks. Wrap everything up like a ruby of a gift with an album title and to whom you dedicate it to. Pass on the gift to your beloved ones through the neatest social media platforms with a single click.
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Alongside her consultancy work helping charities to create robust fundraising and marcomms strategies, she has led training across Europe, Japan and the Middle East for organisations such as the BBC, European Broadcasting Union and British Council.
Sarah is a trustee of the Royal Philharmonic Society, National Campaign for the Arts, Flatpack, The Stringcredibles, and Motionhouse Dance Theatre, and a former trustee of Spitalfields Music and the BBC Performing Arts Fund. She is a Fellow of the British-American Project and the Royal Society for the Arts, and a Member of the Institute of Directors.


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Lowering carpet costs by putting people first
Tue March 12th 2019
We recently had customers who had just moved back to Auckland after living abroad and had recently purchased a property to start their new chapter in life. They clearly wanted the floors to start a new chapter in life too - and asked us to replace the carpet in the entire house.
Lower flooring quotes & better service starts by listening to customers
We went through the range of different carpet to pick the one that would suit their need. Price was a main point to consider for them as the family had spent a huge amount on the relocation cost alone. After confiding their financial position with us we felt compelled to help out wherever we could.
Later that afternoon, with the clients having left the shop, our team spoke to the owner of our company and together we managed to lower the quote by lowering our margins wherever it was possible. We called the customer straight away to run through it with them and they were delighted to hear the revised quote. We also suggested that if they could uplift the carpet this would lower the cost even further and we would then dispose of it appropriately at no extra cost.
These small changes can help clients save a great deal of money but are not normally suggested by companies that place profits over people. We could just sense how appreciative they were of this.
Being there when the carpet is installed
On the day of the installation our team was present with the family overseeing the job being completed. At that moment, watching their daughters play on newly laid carpet and seeing our customers' faces light up with joy made our team feel very happy. Helping out wherever possible throughout the process of flooring and seeing the final results with our clients are some of the reasons why we love our business.
This industry may be very competitive but what makes our team, and Flooring Direct as a company, different from others is our ability to empathise with our customers and provide them with a unique and positive experience through their journey with us. Check out our range of residential carpet, give us a call or pay a visit, or even better - ask us for a carpet quote right now.


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WFAN Moving To FM & Taking Yankees With Them?
John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman in stereo? A warble in one speaker and crying in the other? Could it be?
Via Jerry Barmash:
Coming off its silver anniversary celebration, WFAN most powerful all-sports station in America, may be positioning itself for a dramatic dial switch to FM.
Several factors are at play for WFAN to make that leap of frequency: First and foremost is last month's announcement that CBS Sports Radio is being created. Original 24-hour programming will air on station's throughout the country starting in January. But as early as September, CBS Sports Radio will provide updates to affiliated stations.
One of those stations poised to take some of the network content is WFAN. Operations manager Mark Chernoff remains steadfast in the future of 660 AM.
"WFAN is locally programmed, no change."
But there is much more to this story.
ESPN got its much-coveted FM home in New York at 98.7 in April. Ratings have immediately been impressive. But beyond that, FM is not just attractive to listeners and advertisers, it's attractive to sports franchises.
The Yankees, heard on WCBS, are languishing through 2012 without a contract, in effect, like a lame duck president. They will be the biggest, off-season free-agent signing.
A former CBS Radio employee, who asked to remain anonymous, tells FishbowlNY that the Yankees are likely done with WCBS.
"If anything, they will go to the 'FAN or WEPN FM," the source says. "Whoever doesn't get the Yankees will get the Mets, but there is a chance WFAN could try for both and clear the Mets on 660 and the Yankees on FM."
Despite the stronger night time signal AM offers, the Bombers will likely dictate the need for being on FM.
"What the Yankees want to do is what the Giants have been doing, hold the broadcast rights and 'lease' time on a station," the source adds. "WFAN then gets a guaranteed amount and loses the overhead of having to sell the spots while the Yankees retain total creative control and they have endless potential to profit as they sell spots. But it's easier for those spots to be sold on FM even thought FM doesn't have the full 'reach' like AM does."
Michael Kay's Twitter War
Via Bob Raissman –
Michael Kay, the TV voice of the Yankees, the most storied franchise in sports, is not above mucking it up in a Twitter war — with a college kid. Wonder if Mel Allen and Red Barber would engage in such hijinx if Twitter was around in their day?
And wonder what George Steinbrenner would think of the voice of his franchise telling a Twitter adversary: "LOL. What a punk. Twitter tough. Enjoy your miserable, ugly, insecure existence."
Kay, who also hosts ESPN-98.7's afternoon drive show, clearly still has plenty of time on his hands.
This epic Twitter "battle" was only a few posts away from "I'm rubber your glue."
It started when the kid, @JoeHendler9, said he would be listening to WFAN's Mike Francesa. Kay replied by pointing out Francesa would not be on because the Mets were playing.
"….Know stuff if ur a smart guy," Kay tweeted. "Ohh, sry I forgot even better. I know you have it marked on your calendar everytime francesa isn't up against you," Hendler replied.
Things went on and on and down hill from there. Very entertaining. Enough so for Kay to do a Twitter war of the week.
At some point, I wonder, if Kay's ESPN job will ever cost him his gig with the Yankees?
Today's Yankeeland News: Booze & Steroids
First, this via the AP –
YES Network television host Bob Lorenz has been charged with drunken driving in Connecticut where police say he was found passed out in his car in his hometown of Westport.
The 48-year-old Lorenz was arrested early Wednesday morning. Police say they found him slumped over the wheel of his car and when they woke him up he drove away slowly and nearly hit a utility pole. Officers say his speech was slurred and he smelled of alcohol.
Lorenz hosts pregame and postgame shows for the New York Yankees and New Jersey Nets. He was arraigned Wednesday at Norwalk Superior Court and his case was continued to Feb. 29.
There's no phone listing for Lorenz and it's not clear if he has a lawyer. A Yes Network spokesman declined to comment.
And, then there's this from the Daily News –
The woman accused of stalking and blackmailing Yankees GM Brian Cashman has injected steroids into the sordid mix.
From Rikers Island, Louise Meanwell claimed Wednesday that Cashman told her he misled federal investigators over what the Bombers' brass knew of steroid use by players.
Meanwell, who claims she had an affair with Cashman, told the Daily News that Cashman confided to her that he was grilled in June or July by "the feds."
She said Cashman told her he made it seem like the Yankees had no knowledge of players' steroid use when, in fact, they did.
Cashman's spokesman Chris Giglio vehemently denied the accusations.
"These claims are complete and utter fiction, the latest installment of a carefully concocted campaign of harassment now spewing from a jail cell by a person who is being held on serious criminal felony charges of harassment and extortion," Giglio said.
A friend of Meanwell's told The News he sent an email to federal investigators advising them of her claims.
The friend said he sent the email to Ron Gardella, chief investigator for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, and FBI agent Brian Jacob.
The email, obtained by The News, went on to say that Meanwell had "specific details" on dates and times that Cashman was aware of steroid use by players.
Both the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office refused to confirm or deny that Meanwell had informed them of her claims.
Cashman was on prosecutors' witness list for Roger Clemens' trial on perjury charges last July before Judge Reggie Walton declared a mistrial on the first day of the proceedings in Washington. Walton has scheduled a new trial for April.
I'm sure the Mets don't mind the Yankees making the headlines with all this "stuff" and taking the spot-light off them and all their problems…
Kim Jones Leaves Yankees YES Network
Don't feel bad Yankees fans. Look at the Red Sox, they lost Heidi Watney. I'm sure that YES can find another field reporter who is willing to eat meat on a stick.
Yankees Go Up Against MLB Network Intentional Talk
Watch out Rose & Millar. Via the YES Network –
Former Yankees player and coach Willie Randolph, who most recently had been a coach with the Orioles and the Brewers, will join host Bob Lorenz in the studio when the YES Network premieres its Yankees Baseball Daily show this Monday, November 14, at 7 pm. Randolph will make regular appearances on Yankees Baseball Daily, YES' five-night-a-week show which will cover the moves of not only the Yankees but all of MLB.
Also on Monday, Yankees Baseball Daily will feature the first part of a two-part interview which YES Yankees reporter Jack Curry conducted with Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman. The second part of the interview will air on Yankees Baseball Daily on Tuesday, November 15.
Along the way this Hot Stove season, YES' team of Bob Lorenz, Jack Curry, John Flaherty and Kimberly Jones will tap the most trusted sources in the New York market to contribute to the show.
Not to be out-done, the Boston Red Sox announced that they will now have a show that airs six nights a week starting at 6:59 PM hosted by Joe Castiglione and Marty Barrett…
Yanks Give 880 Another Year
Via Bob Raissman –
The Yankees will be staying on WCBS Radio – For at least one more year.
Radio sources say the Bombers will sign a one-year extension with WCBS-AM, its radio home for the past 10 seasons.
Sources said ESPN-1050 was in the running for the Yankees radio package, but Yankees brass had issues with 1050's weak signal.
With the package staying at WCBS it's likely Suzyn Waldman and John Sterling, aka, Ma and Pa Pinstripe, will return to the radio microphones for the 2012 season.
John Sterling is likely to return to Yankees radio booth after sources say Bombers will ink a new deal with WCBS-AM.
Sounds like ESPN told the Yankees that they should have a stronger signal in 2013.
I figure that the Yankees want to be aligned with an all-sports talk station at some point, like the Mets have with WFAN.
Now, it would really be cool if the Yankees started their own radio station…which I think I suggested in the past, here, once before…
Getting To Know John "Jack" Sloss, Harry Moskowitz, John Sterling…Or Whatever His Name Is…
This is a great read on John Sterling.
At some point, the Yankees are going to pull the plug on him. I just wonder who will get his job…
YES, A Sense Of Humor
Today's YES Network Totoya Text Poll is a good one:
In a movie about the YES Network, who would play Michael Kay?
- Jeff Garlin
- Jim Belushi
- John Goodman
- Kiefer Sutherland
- Vince Vaughn
Funny stuff.
Word To Michael Kay
You did a great job when Jeter passed the Iron Horse – allowing the video and crowd reaction to tell the story after it happened. Please do the same when he gets hit #3,000.
Booth Boys
Six years ago, I said that I would go with Ken Singleton, Jim Kaat and Paul O'Neill for every game in the YES booth. But, you know what? Michael Kay, Al Leiter and Paul O'Neill seem to really have fun in the booth together. I actually don't mind Kay in this set-up. I could live with that too – and then use Ken Singleton and/or David Cone as a fill in when someone needed a day off. What about John Flaherty? Put him on the radio with Jack Curry…would that work?
Bob Lorenz & John Flaherty Working Yanks Series In Motown
I guess the rest of the YES boys don't want to spend four days in Detroit, if they can avoid it.
Seven Types Of Sterling Homer Calls
DirecTV: If Tube Goes Black, Blame Yanks
Via WFAN –
If you were watching the Yankees' home opener Thursday afternoon, you probably noticed a commercial on YES urging fans to "be heard" in the network's ongoing contract battle with DirecTV.
An updated video posted to the YES website ominously states, "Attention DirecTV subscribers: The YES Network's current agreement with DirecTV expires tonight. Starting tomorrow you may lose your entire season of Yankees baseball on YES.
"We've been working diligently towards new deal but despite our continued negotiations, DirecTV may cease to carry the YES network. We're doing everything we can to resolve this situation and ensure a full season of Yankees baseball on YES."
As of 11:59 p.m. Friday, the TV home of the Yankees and Nets will be without an agreement with DirectTV. Whether YES will actually be pulled off the air is unclear.
"DIRECTV plans to keep the channel up while we conclude these negotiations," said the satellite provider in a statement. "However, if the channel should go dark for any reason, make no mistake that it was solely the decision of YES Network to take the channel away from DIRECTV customers."
Remember the YES and Cablevision 16-month dispute? Will this one top that? Sad, if it does…
YES Censoring Affiliated Bloggers?
I'm a little late to the party on this one. Just saw this news via Greg Cohen.
Shocking? Not really.
This I can share: In the two years that I was a member of the blog network for SportsNet New York's official website, SNY.tv, from 2008 to 2010, I was never asked – ever – to rescind or retract something that I posted. Stress that: Never, ever – at all.
But, it seems YES has a different policy with their bloggers. Something to keep in mind when you read the YES affiliated bloggers, now, I assume…
If this is all true, you can expect the YES blogs to always feed the fanboy Yankees-blinders and Pinstripe-Pollyanna throng all the pablum that they crave, but, that's it – and nothing more.
Yankees/YES Trying To Hide Cashman At Soriano Presser?
Reportedly, Rafael Soriano's new contract with the Yankees represents the fifth highest average salary ever paid to a relief pitcher. Only Mo Rivera, Brad Lidge, K-Rod and Joe Nathan made more on an annual basis than what New York will pay Soriano.
And, the press conference to officially announce his deal is today at 10 am ET. And, what's on the YES Network right now at ten AM? Not the press conference. Instead, it's a Yankees Classics game from 2009. Why? Is this not big enough news for YES to carry live? Or, are they trying to hide something here?
At least the Baseball Channel at MLB.com is broadcasting this one.
Update: 10:20 am ET. The press conference finally starts. Levine, Cashman, Girardi, Trost, and Afterman are there from the Yankees front office. Cashman talks first. Basically says nothing for ten seconds and then hands the podium to Girardi.
Girardi gives Soriano uniform #29 and Cashman places a Yankees cap on Soriano's head. It's photo-op time.
Update: 10:25 am ET. Soriano speaks. It's all in Spanish. Yankees have a translator there to help him with the media Q&A. Soriano says he's happy to set up Mo now but he hopes to be the Yankees closer in the future.
Update: 10:34 am ET. Soriano still doing Q&A. And, I think I figured out why YES is not carrying this one. The presser is about as exciting as being stuck in traffic on Geroge Washington Bridge. Soriano is 31-years old and has been playing baseball in America since 1999. But, evidently, he's got no ability to speak any English.
Update: 10:35 am ET. Soriano is done. That's it – Jason Zillo says they will break into groups now in the back of the room for media members to ask questions informally. MLB.com drops the feed. Wow. A whopping 15 minutes. I guess we'll have to read the papers to get the Cashman reaction to any questions.
Update: 11:13 am. Via Peter Botte – Cashman: "Its not my team. I don't own it. They do…In any job you better be prepared for every decision to not go your way. I think 29 other GMs would love to have their owner shove Rafael Soriano down their throat."
Down their throat, or, up their poop chute, Cash?
Yanks & WCBS-AM To Part Ways After Season?
Via Bob Raissman –
Is the curtain falling on Ma and Pa Pinstripe? Will next season be John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman's last in the Yankees radio booth?
Right now their future is up in the air. The Yankees contract with WCBS-AM, worth about $12 million per year, expires at the end of the 2011 season, so do Sterling and Waldman's pacts. Sterling has been the radio voice of the Yankees since 1989. Waldman joined him in 2005.
There has yet to be any serious negotiations between the Yankees and WCBS. The job status of Ma and Pa cannot be resolved until a new radio-rights deal is cut. Industry moles say other outlets have chatted informally with Bombers brass. These potential suitors are looking to get a sense of which direction the club wants to go with its radio rights.
Outside of WCBS, which probably wants to keep the Yankees, it's highly likely ESPN will – if it hasn't already – stick its beak into the mix. For ESPN-1050, the process of trying to chip away at WFAN, longtime Mets rights holder, has not been easy.
Adding Yankees radiocasts to the mix of Jets, Knicks and Rangers would help change the equation – drastically. But how much would ESPN be willing to pay for the radio rights to Yankees baseball? And would pinstripe honchos be satisfied having their games go out over ESPN-1050's weak signal? That situation could be corrected if ESPN ever purchases another station with stronger reach.
There also has been talk about the Yankees buying a radio station.
I really don't see the Yankees getting rid of Sterling and Waldman. Heck, they're still doing the YMCA when they drag the infield, right? The Yankees hardly get rid of something when it's time for it to go. Whatever they do, in terms of picking a station and choosing broadcasters, I just hope they do the right thing. There are many, many, people out there in Yankeeland who use the radio broadcasts as their main way to follow the team. And, it would be a crime against that part of their fan base if the Yankees screw this up…somehow.
Feeding Michael Kay
Via the Post with a h/t to BBTF –
Yankee announcer Michael Kay is a real meathead.
And now that local TV anchor Jodi Applegate is about to marry him, she's desperately trying to figure out how to please a man wedded to only three foods: steak, bacon, and chicken parmesan.
That's all her fiancé ever wants to eat.
"He will eat a salad, but only if it's iceberg lettuce, and nothing else, no dressing. So it's basically frozen water served with a fork," says Applegate, a self-described foodie wannabe.
"Chicken parm is probably the most exotic thing he'll eat — and he'll eat mozzarella cheese because it's in chicken parm," said Applegate, who anchors the evening news for cable Channel 12 on Long Island.
On their first date, they ordered a caprese salad to share — but Kay took all the mozzarella and left her the tomatoes.
"I was immediately nervous. I thought, 'OK, is he just a quirky guy, or is he really OCD about what he eats?' So I threw a tomato on his plate to see if he freaked out. He just laughed, thank goodness," she recalled.
She also tried to make him classic French beef bourguignon, which she told him was beef stew. That's when she learned he won't eat soup.
Kay says he'll never give up his three favorites — especially the chicken parm.
Can you say "See-ya!" to good cardiovascular health?
Waldman Defends Jeter
There's no such thing as "Pasta Diving Waldman!"
Via Bob Raissman –
So it has been these tales of the Captain "slowing down" and slumping, accompanied by visions of [Derek] Jeter, 36, walking to shortstop with a cane followed by a ball boy carrying a package of Depends, that is feeding the media. Once again, Jeter, in this alleged "twilight," is throwing a banquet for notebooks and microphones.
Thursday, on the other end of the telephone, Suzyn Waldman (aka Ma Pinstripe/Georgie Girl) was talking about 2004 when Jeter had an 0-for-32 stretch in April. She remembered how he stood and answered all the questions. This time around it's more complicated. It's September. He's older. And there's a contract negotiation, likely his last, waiting for him.
"All the people doing the talking are shortsighted, very shortsighted," Waldman said. "I don't think any of the talk, any of the stories, affect Derek at all. Everybody is jumping to conclusions because they need something to talk about."
"You're watching a career go full circle," Waldman said. "It's not over, trust me. Wait and watch how this season plays out. Stop looking at it game to game. Baseball is a game of attrition. Let's see where Derek's standing in October. Then shoot your mouth off."
"The Jeter contract is not a delicate situation at all. I think the Yankees will give Jeter what he wants," Waldman said. "But nobody knows what he wants. They're all jumping to ridiculous conclusions."
Suzyn is starting to remind me of the old aunt in your family who you love because she's your aunt, but, who you love even more because she's an older lady who shares your passion for baseball. However, as much as you love her, you cringe every time she starts to talk something baseball-related and is wrong, since you really don't want to tell her that she's wrong because she's your old baseball-loving aunt who you love very much…
Speaking Hypothetically On A-Rod, Swisher & Others
From tonight's post-game coverage on YES:
Kim Jones to Joe Girardi: Joe, hypothetically speaking, could you be without Rodriguez, Swisher and Berkman tomorrow?
Girardi: Hypothetically, yes.
It's exchanges like this that make me wonder why we have the manager's post-game press conference after each game…
And, speaking hypothetically, isn't it time to tell Javy Vazquez that he's going to sit it out until he's able to throw a major league fastball and/or pitch more than four innings in a start? Or, is that more rhetorical than hypothetical?
Corcoran Joins YES
Cliff Corcoran is joining the YES Network.
Cliff always reminded me of Al Leiter. And, now that they're both at YES, it's going to even harder for me to tell them apart. Then again, I always mix up Manahawkin and Mantoloking too. So, maybe it's just me?
Seriously, I've met Cliff at least once – maybe twice? – and he seems like a really good guy. And, it's always nice to see nice things happen for nice people. So, of course, my congrats go out to him on the new gig!
YES Takes On FanTake
Via NYConvergence:
The YES Network, the the cable channel owned by the New York Yankees, reached an agreement this week to partner with sports fan community website FanTake to add it to YESNetwork.com. FanTake is a network of blog, podcasts, videos which, rather than focusing on a particular sport of region of the U.S., covers all pro and college sports nationally.
The partnership is part of the YES Network desire to reach more Yankee fans who are not baded in the NYC area.
It's interesting to watch what RSN websites are doing these days. Earlier this year, SNY.tv took over NYYFans.com.
It's all about the numbers. These sites want to get other sites under their umbrella so that they can roll up the traffic numbers (from these acquired sites) into their own – and then pitch the overall page view counts to their potential advertisers. Also, the more page views, meaning the bigger audience, allows the RSN sites to charge more for their ads.
So, when it says the YES Network's desire is to "reach more Yankee fans who are not baded in the NYC area," don't take that to mean YES is trying to reach out to more fans to help the fans. Anyone from anywhere in the world can access the YES website if they have an internet connection. This is all about adding another site's traffic to their totals, with the hope that it leads to more advertising revenue, and that's all.
Does Kim Jones Get To Go To The Bachelor Party?
Michael Kay puts a ring on it for Jodi Applegate.
I wonder if anyone has warned Jodi that she's going to be using a thesaurus a heckuva lot more often than a Kama Sutra book once she ties the knot with Kay?
GQ Doesn't Love Or Hate YES
But, click here to see who they do love and hate.
Bob Lorenz
Did you catch any of Bob Lorenz' play-by-play work this weekend on YES?
I thought he did a solid job.
What I liked most about Lorez was his style. He's got that nice and "every guy" delivery but it's very professional and polished – somewhat like it was with Frank Messer, back in the day.
And, what I loved about listening to Bob Lorenz do these games was that he made sure the story was "the game" – instead of attempting to make "his announcing of the game" be the story of the game. You know what I mean? (See: Kay, Michael.)
What did you think of Bob Lorenz in the booth this weekend?
Fan Lays Pork Chop Chomp On Kim Jones' Meat Stick
The revenge of Pork Chop Pough? No, it's just some yahoo eating Kim Jones' cold other white meat…
Via Mark Feinsand –
One of the new features this season on the YES Network's telecasts has been an in-game report by Kim Jones, whose topics have ranged from the latest struggles of Mark Teixeira to updates on the multitude of injured Yankees players.
Thursday night's topic was an update on Curtis Granderson, but Jones also showcased some of the unique concessions offered at Target Field. One of those items is a "Pork Chop on a Stick," which Jones held up for display during her report.
Unbeknown to her, a fan wearing a Yankees jersey and hat snuck up behind her while she was on the air and took a bite out of the pork chop.
"I can't believe this right now," Jones said to fellow YES broadcasters Michael Kay and Al Leiter on the air. "I've lost control of this. Al, I was going to bring it back to you."
Kay expressed his disgust at the fan's action, to which Jones replied, "I can't tell you how revolting it is."
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No truth to the rumor that the fan later came down with a bad case of Nick Swisher's cooties…
Ron Darling
I was driving into work this morning and listening to WFAN. It was some time between eight and nine. Ron Darling was being interviewed. He was talking about all of David Wright's problems. (And, is it just me, or, are they just killing Wright these days in Metsville? Remember when they were calling him the Mets version of Derek Jeter? Well, that didn't last too long, did it?) Darling also talked about the importance of the Mets making a good showing against the Yankees.
Darling is a Met. And, as he disclosed on the interview this morning, his father is a big Red Sox fan. That's a lot to be turned off by…if you're a Yankees fan.
However, and I've said this before, Ron Darling is incredibly good as a baseball analyst. He's probably the best in New York, in my opinion.
The Yankees/YES have some good announcers. But, they don't have anyone in the class of Darling.
If I recall correctly, Darling was doing Washington Nationals games before coming to the Mets. Shame the Yankees missed the chance to get him. But, that said, maybe there's someone else out there doing work for a team who's great, like Darling, who's looking to upgrade to the big stage in Yankeeland?
If you could pick one announcer/analyst from another team and get him hired by YES, who would you pick. For me, it's Ron Darling. How about you?
Yankees To Be 1st MLB Telecast In 3D
So, which YES broadcast team member are you most afraid of seeing in 3D?
Yankeeography – New York Yankees 2009
I can't believe it has taken me over 4 months to see this one, but, last night, I caught the Yankeeography on the 2009 season (for the first time). Man, was it good. Very well done. I later found out that it's available on DVD too – entitled "New York Yankees 2009 – Season of Pride, Traditions & Glory." It's just as good as those year-end VHS summaries that MSG used to do.
Jen Royle
I just wanted to say that Oriolesville's gain is Yankeeland's loss. How'd the New York market ever let her go?


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Seismic Planning
What & Why
Seismic Planning
What & Why
Over the past several decades, Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in water system infrastructure improvements. These improvements include:
- Federal- and state-mandated water projects
- Rehabilitation and replacement of aging infrastructure
- Seismic upgrades to selected facilities
All new projects meet or exceed current seismic standards. To date, SPU has invested more than $100 million in seismic upgrades to existing water infrastructure. Completed and future seismic upgrades will provide more protection of the water system during an earthquake and decrease system disruptions after an earthquake.
The 2018 Seismic Study:
Seattle's path to building one of the most earthquake-resilient drinking water systems in the nation
Updated December 7, 2018
Nearly 30 years ago, SPU began retrofitting Seattle's regional drinking water system to withstand the kind of earthquake that occurred in Alaska on November 30, 2018. This includes more than $100 million in seismic upgrades completed to date.
When an earthquake similar to the one in Alaska hit Seattle in 2001 (the Nisqually earthquake), the water system, that serves 1.4 million people in our area, was resilient and experienced only minor damage.
In recent years, new information has emerged about the Seattle Fault Zone and Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquakes that was not recognized 10 to 20 years ago. This led SPU to embark on a comprehensive, three-year seismic analysis of Seattle's drinking water system.
The recently completed 2018 seismic study supplements an earlier SPU seismic study conducted in 1990 and analyzes the performance of the drinking water system using new information about earthquakes.
The 2018 study provides our region with a good understanding of how the drinking water system will withstand a major, catastrophic earthquake, which has a 15 to 20 percent chance of occurring in Seattle in the next 50 years.
Based on the study's findings, SPU is developing short- and long-term plans, covering the next 50 years, that put the utility on a steady path for making significant infrastructure investments and building one of the most earthquake-resilient drinking water systems in the nation.
Information about how Seattle residents and businesses can prepare for an earthquake and other emergencies can be found on Seattle's Office of Emergency website .
Links to the 2018 seismic study are available below, including the 16-page Executive Summary, which contains all the conclusions and essential content of the full study.
- Executive Summary (2.04 MB)
- Cover Page (848 KB)
- Table of Contents (4.16 MB)
- Section 1 (613 KB)
- Section 2 (19.7 MB)
- Section 5 (3.91 MB)
- Section 6 (4.4 MB)
- Section 7 (619 KB)
- Section 8 (1.43 MB)
- References (620 KB)
- Abbreviations (592 KB)
- Appendices (103 MB)
Note: Sections 3 and 4 of the study contain information that is protected by the Department of Homeland Security and not available for public safety reasons.
Regional water system resiliency
SPU has also been a regional leader in helping to develop water system resiliency. SPU is a charter member of The Water Supply Forum, which recently completed a regional earthquake vulnerability assessment. This assessment will help water utilities in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties:
- Evaluate and increase our region's existing water supply systems resiliency
- Plan for potential water supply disruptions
Additionally, SPU is working with other water utilities around the country through the Water Research Foundation and the American Society of Civil Engineers to share water system seismic resiliency improvement methodologies and approaches, and to develop seismic standards for new water mains.


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This time it's The Witching Hour.
Obviously The Witching Hour didn't have the power to paralyse as Ghosts did, what with its stories not being true like those of that other mag. However, they compensated for it by having not one but three hosts in the form of the witches Cynthia, Mildred and Mordred. I think we each have our favourite of the trio. In many ways, they were the Spice Girls of their day.
So, let's take a look at the issues I had and, in a feat of memory not encountered since The 39 Steps, see what I can actually recall about them.
I'm really not sure what happens in this issue. I'm going to guess there might have been a story in it about a World War II seance, and Pompeii being destroyed.
But who cares what was in it? It's a lovely cover by Nick Cardy and, as we all know, it's packaging that matters most in this life.
I've got a feeling this may involve a fake monster. Other than that, I'm not certain.
I got this one on a Sunday. I seem to recall it involved a naughty husband dressing up as a monster to terrorise his wife.
I have no doubt he got his comeuppance in a suitably ironic manner.
It's the Holy Grail! A 100 page version of The Witching Hour!
Bought at Sheffield's then new, but now demolished, Sheaf Market, how I thrilled to this as a child.
My favourite tale was always the one about the boy up the clock tower and the penny that brought nothing but bad luck.
I think this one contains a tale of a man who's a reincarnation of an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh and starts to become him thanks to the work of his sinister psychiatrist.
Does this also include the tale about the woman who has a tiny demon growing inside her? That may well have been my favourite DC horror tale of all time.
Nope. Can't remember anything that happens in this one.
Easily my favourite of Nick Cardy's Witching Hour covers though I can't remember anything that happens inside.
This is one of my faves, in which a village is eagerly awaiting the arrival of Satan until a gormless youth manages to mess the whole deal up.
And another of my faves, as a boy decides to expose his sinister and inhuman uncle.
Interestingly, Nick Cardy basically recycles his own cover from Witching Hour #31.
One bought in Blackpool - possibly 1977 - but another issue I can't remember anything about.
Another one I recall nothing of but, from the cover, I suspect there may be more of the, "Husband dressing up as a monster," routine.
And to wrap this post off with the total failure that makes this site so distinctive, I know I got this in Blackpool in 1978 but, otherwise, remember nowt.
Was there a Chinese charm whose weight drags greedy divers to their death? Or am I just extrapolating that from the cover?


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W is for Waxing
Waxing has been around for centuries as a hair removal technique. Wax is warmed until it's soft and spreadable. Using a wooden stick that looks a lot like a tongue depressor, the warm wax is spread on the treatment area. A clean white cloth is then pressed down on the warm wax and is yanked quickly off, pulling the hair with it. Waxing can remove hair anywhere on the body but is not as effective or as permanent as laser hair removal.


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Ditchling Road school was established in 1890. It was damaged by an incendiary bomb in WWII.
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Medium Duty Head Shed
Standard Line Medium Duty Head Shed Primary Cleaner
The Standard Line Medium Duty Head Shed Cleaner is based on the Heavy Duty Head Shed design, but scaled down. The offset arm design maintains proper cleaning angle throughout the life if the blade and helps absorb the impact of mechanical splices. Ideal for most coal prep plants, large power plants, ship loading, and some mining applications. The cleaner is as heavy as the most competitive heavy duty cleaners.
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- Medium Duty Primary Cleaner
- Offset arm design provides a unique cantilever action which dissipates the twist and bend forces caused by mechanical splices
- All stainless steel hardware
- Powder Coated shaft
- Standard 6" wide and optional one piece blades are designed to maintain proper contact with the cleaning surface
- Standard 6" wide blades are removable with just 2 bolts per blade for easy replacement or rotation for longer blade life
- The blade mounting shaft is removable for servicing by loosening 4 bolts (2 each side)
- Optional solid blade (one piece blade) installs with just two bolts
Tensioning Systems
The Standard Line Medium Duty Head Shed is available with both Air/Water and Mechanical Tensioners.
Air/Water Tensioners (CSHSMD-STD-A)
- Dual activator tensioning unit functions on plant air, water, or CO2
- Optional air source housed in protective cabinet (Closed system provides long life to air tank)
- Designed to provide constant tension to the cleaner
- Suited for difficult to access locations
- Simple valve operation allows tension to be released quickly to speed up blade changes and maintenance
- Water regulators are provided with pressure relief valve to prevent over pressurizing. Commonly used in underground applications where service water is available and freezing is not an issue.
- Plant air regulator systems are used in above ground applications and where freezing is an issue
- Optional CO2 regulator systems are used in remote and mobile applications such as stacking conveyors, and remote overland discharges where plant air is not readily available.
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- Suited to locations that are not difficult to access
- Requires tension to be monitored and adjusted as the blade wears
- Lower cost system but requires more maintenance attention during its life
- No risk of losing cleaning ability because of a failed air or water supply
The Standard Line Medium Duty Head Shed comes with a standard 6" wide blade and an optional one piece solid blade that are designed to maintain proper contact with the cleaning surface
Medium Duty Head Shed Single 6" Blade (CSHSMD-S-01)
- Standard offering
- Allows the cleaner to wear to the belt as needed
- Better contour to a crowned pulley
- Allows the center blades to wear independent of the outer/end blades
- Proprietary wear resistant urethane
- Can be varied to suit special applications
Medium Duty Head Shed Solid Blade (CSHSMD-SB-XX)
XX Denotes Blade Length
- Use where material build-up between blades is a concern
- Can be used in multi-primary systems
- Proprietary wear resistant urethane
|Belt Width Inches (mm)
|Blade Coverage Inches (mm)
|No. 6" (152 mm) Blades
|36 (900)
|30 (750)
|42 (1050)
|36 (900)
|48 (1200)
|42 (1050)
|54 (1400)
|48 (1200)
|60 (1500)
|54 (1400)
|72 (1800)
|66 (1700)
|84 (2150)
|78 (2000)
|Belt Width Inches (mm)
|Solid Blade Replacement Part Number
|Assembly Part Number Air/Water Tensioner
|Assembly Part Number Mechanical Tensioner
|36 (900)
|42 (1050)
|48 (1200)
|54 (1400)
|60 (1500)
|72 (1800)
|84 (2150)
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Franciscan nuns practicing Christian centering prayer say they experience union with God. Buddhist monks deep in meditation describe seeing the true nature of reality. As they deflect thoughts about their own world, they feel themselves connected to something larger – to God, or to the cosmos. And as they move into this state of spiritual transcendence, a part of their brains drifts to sleep.
Brick Johnstone also chases the experience of transcendence, training himself in a Dharma Buddhist center in Columbia, sitting for a half hour at a time, focusing on his breathing and batting away distracting thoughts. But unlike the monks and nuns, he knows how the transcendence looks in the brain.
Johnstone is not a guru, but a scientist – a neuropsychologist at the University of Missouri. He's fascinated by this idea of spiritual transcendence as a process in the brain. His research focuses on the right parietal lobe, an area of the brain that has been related to more intense experiences of spirituality. Much of his research has involved looking at people's experiences when the right parietal lobe is inhibited, often accidentally through injury. Johnstone found that when this brain area is quiet, people experience a stronger sense of spirituality.
"His work has firmed up the conclusion that this area of the brain is extremely important for a sense of selflessness," says Robert Ornstein, a psychologist who has written or contributed to more than 20 books about consciousness and taught at Stanford University.
But Johnstone will tell you that spirituality is more complicated than just suppressing one part of the brain, and he tries to look at spirituality as a process involving the whole brain, as well as cultural and environmental forces that shape a person's life.
Johnstone's work bridges two approaches to studying spirituality – the precise brain imaging of neuroscience and the abstract discussions of theology and religious studies – in an attempt to understand spirituality in the brain and as a human experience.
A "traditional Midwest kid"
Johnstone didn't grow up in a particularly religious household. He was born in 1962 to a father who started as a ladder salesman and wound up selling artificial kidneys and a stay-at-home-mom-turned-nurse in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis. He describes himself as "a traditional Midwest kid," raised in a Methodist household that was not particularly devout. He played basketball and football, and he accepted a football scholarship to Duke University in North Carolina, where he enrolled as a pre-med student.
But med school didn't stick, and instead he graduated with degrees in psychology and art history. He later enrolled in the child clinical psychology program at the University of Georgia. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1988, worked for a couple years at the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle, and was hired by the University of Missouri in 1990.
When he's not doing research, Johnstone sees patients at the Department of Health Psychology in the School of Health Professions at MU. As a neuropsychologist – someone who studies how the brain affects behavior and mental processes – he spends most his time diagnosing patients with traumatic brain injuries or reduced brain function. Though built like a former defensive back, Johnstone wears sweaters and speaks in a soft, comforting voice to his patients as he takes them through his questions. Later, after they've met with the lab technicians, Johnstone studies the patients' cognitive tests for an understanding of the physical injuries, and he pieces together the clues from the patients and their brains.
He can tell which parts of the brain are damaged from tests of memory and language. He knows which regions are associated with which abilities, and his knowledge of these relationships allowed him to join the search to understand spirituality in the brain just over a decade ago.
Discovering selflessness
Johnstone can't remember precisely when he became interested in the relationship between religion and health. It might have been during the religious studies classes he took in college, or possibly earlier. But he knows he had been thinking about it for a long time when, in 2004, he learned about a fellowship at what is now known as the Center on Religion and the Professions at MU. He wrote a letter expressing his interest, was selected, and began meeting with experts in other fields to discuss the role of religion in their professions. He explored the role of religion in coping with illnesses, injuries and disabilities, and in 2006 he became the director of the Spirituality and Health Project at the center.
While at the center, Johnstone transitioned to exploring the causes and effects of spirituality in the brain, and he was baffled by what he saw. He and his fellow researchers administered tests that required the study subjects to estimate the measurement of angles to measure spatial skills. Those who did worse on the test, it turned out, ranked higher on a measure of spirituality, determined by a standardized questionnaire. "It made no sense whatsoever," Johnstone says. "How does decreased spatial perception equate with being more spiritual?"
So Johnstone and his fellow researchers started digging around, and they found previous studies that had shown the right parietal lobe becoming less active in brain scans of nuns and monks in prayer and meditation. "It hit me," Johnstone says. "What is that part of the brain associated with? One is spatial perception; the other is tactile sensitivity; the third is self-orientation." He read the monks' and nuns' descriptions of those spiritual experiences and realized limiting that sense of self had to be connected to spirituality. "It's kind of like these lights went off."
Johnstone was fascinated. Suddenly, he found himself with a whole set of new questions, all related to the the bigger question of the experience of spirituality.
He led follow-up studies that began to explore this concept of spiritual transcendence, which he separates from religion and which he considers a feeling of a connection with a power beyond the self, whatever that might be. His studies stood out from previous research, he says, by focusing on injuries to patients' right parietal lobes, rather than the changes in healthy brains during spiritual experiences.
"If you hurt that part of the brain, you lose your focus on yourself," he says. "Then what are you going to do? Well, you focus on things beyond the self. And that's the basic definition of transcendence."
Johnstone's work branched out from there. He continued to examine the mental and physical health effects of spirituality and religion, linking spirituality to better physical health and the social support of a church congregation to better mental health. For Johnstone, studies like these drove home the difference between religion and spirituality. Religion can determine social practices and networks, much like any institution, he says. Spirituality, which can be experienced by anyone, regardless of any religious beliefs, is much more personal.
He also continued to explore more and more the idea of "selflessness" as the foundation of spiritual transcendence, and his results held up in studies of people of different religious and cultural backgrounds. "There's a universal neuropsychological foundation to transcendence, and it's just interpreted differently based on culture," he says.
Johnstone decided he wanted to expand his own understanding of spirituality beyond his field, and in 2013 he spent nine months at the Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton, followed two years later by a summer at Oxford University in England. During both experiences he immersed himself in discussions with theologians and other scientists, opening his eyes to new ways the fields could intersect.
Branching out
Johnstone began branching out his research even more. He turned his focus to empathy and forgiveness, two experiences connected often in religious doctrines but rarely in scientific research.
Johnstone and a team of researchers ran a study that tested the levels of empathy of people with healthy and damaged right parietal lobes. To his surprise, he found that those with more active right parietal lobes – meaning they had a more acute sense of self – tested for higher levels of empathy. To Johnstone and his team, this meant strengthening one's sense of self helps to understand someone else's existence.
Conversely, damaged parietal lobes made it easier for participants in a different study to forgive others. To Johnstone, this meant reducing one's sense of self made it easier to let go of past wrongs.
Johnstone's focus on the sense of self and the right parietal lobe makes him stand out in the field beyond just the search to understand spirituality, according to Ornstein, the Stanford researcher. "I think it's one of the few pieces of research that really ties down what is going on inside the brain to various virtues," he says.
Johnstone continues to follow his earlier research threads. In 2015, he published studies that associated poor physical health with negative spiritual beliefs, and he published another that extended his previous findings about selflessness, spiritual transcendence and the right parietal lobe to Christian, Hindu and Muslim traditions in India.
Despite some scientists' criticism of him for courting the abstract, he says this research is what keeps him excited about every day of work. "I feel lucky," he says. "It keeps on taking me places I didn't expect to go."
Reaching outside the sciences
Johnstone often relies on people from other departments, such as Dan Cohen, a professor in the department of religious studies at MU, to help him understand his findings. Cohen, who has worked with Johnstone for the past 10 years, says Johnstone has always encouraged other points of view and sought out opinions from different fields. "The nature of the research is incredibly interdisciplinary," he says. "We've connected with people from all over the university."
Johnstone often emphasizes the importance of the humanities, even in his conversations with other neuropsychologists, according to Jonathan Wellman, a postdoctoral fellow who studies under Johnstone and others in the clinic. "The interpretation of why something happens isn't something science can always explain," Wellman explains. "Why is a grander question."
Johnstone acknowledges that the hard sciences often fail to grasp the complexity of things like spirituality. He cites studies of empathy, which, he says, are often measured by tests with computer games. "That's not empathy," Johnstone says simply. He says he's trying to improve measures of concepts like spirituality in his collaborations with theologians and people in the humanities, in hopes scientists will benefit from broader and clearer understandings of these concepts in the future.
Experiencing transcendence
Johnstone does not believe spirituality is a simple matter, but he does believe people can learn to reduce their sense of self, which, in turn, can open them up to spiritual experiences and forgiveness. And while a greater sense of self was found to be associated with higher rates of empathy, he argues people can train themselves to experience both. After all, he believes all the major world religions have always encouraged both selflessness and empathy.
"We're seeing selflessness is this universal foundation for all these wonderful experiences people can have," he says.
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The Difference Between Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement
If you have reached the age of 65 and you are no longer under the coverage of a health insurance policy, you will become eligible for the Medicare program. Medicare is not formulated to give 100% insurance on all health care fees and provides only 70% – 80% of the total medical fees. The rest 20% to 30% will come out of your pocket and many people opt for a Medigap insurance policy. There are 2 types of Medigap plans: the Medicare supplement plan that has existed since 1965 and the state health insurance policies, also known as Medicare Part C, which have existed since 2006. Supplementary insurance has common features with health insurance. Existing with cost of Services and franchises. Medicare Advantage plans are network plans that provide insurance based on medical and hospital pricing agreements. These plans include healthcare organizations, preferred providers, and private service plan fees.
The first difference between the two plans is that Medicare Advantage plans are formulated to provide Medicare Parts A and B. A health insurance policy pays premiums to insurance companies to meet all of their health needs. This means that you do not connect directly to Medicare, but only to the network provider. Now, all Medicare Advantage plans must provide at least the same Medicare benefits. Therefore, there is no difference between the value of insurance, but the way in which expenses and costs are verified.The advantage plans offer lower premiums per month, but expenses increase. Put another way, if you do not get sick or do not need to see a doctor, your expenses will be reduced every year. Supplementary plans have more expensive premiums, but little or no deductibles.
Advantage plans usually have a drug policy and can help save money by using a large group to get better prices. Supplements does not include prescribed drugs, so you will normally get a distinct plan that can be customized to meet your prescription needs.Benefit policies use local networks to control costs, and benefits may vary from year to year, but not less than Part A and Part B insurance. Additional plans https://www.medicaresupplementalplans2020.org are standardized, meaning Medicare will define the content of each insurance in your supplement and will be accepted anywhere within the US limits. Where Medicare is approved.
The last big change is that when you sign up for an advantage plan, you must stay on the plan for a full year. Now, if you decide to change providers, you can only change from October 15 to December 7 of the following year. At any time of the year, it is always possible to change a policy for supplements.The Medigap F policy guarantees 100% of the deficiencies of Medicare Part A and B. This means that it covers most Medigap insurance policies. This makes F policy one of the popular diets for persons with Medicare.Now, before you sign an extra insurance contract, you've got to understand the advantages and limitations of these policies. For example, each supplementation plan has its limits, the applicant may be asked to wait a certain time before the start of the insurance, or may limit the amount that can be repaid and its duration.


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Helicopter Blows Over Tents at Havelock Chili Festival Causing Multiple Injuries
On Saturday afternoon an accident at the North Carolina Chili Festival in Havelock has resulted in several injuries. Apparently, a Marine helicopter was taking off from the festival when winds from its rotors blew over several tents and tables.
The tents and tables hit several people including one woman who suffered a broken leg. There were several other injuries as well. A total of four people were taken to the hospital.
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Metabolic homeostasis: regulation of FOXO by class IIa HDACs
Elana Ehrlich, Technical and Marketing Writer
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In the absence of glucose, signaling through the glucagon receptor results in dephosphorylation of HDAC 4/5/7, allowing translocation into the nucleus. In the nucleus, HDAC 4/5/7 recruits HDAC 3, inducing deacetylation of FOXO transcription factors and transcription of gluconeogenic genes. Once glucose levels increase, signaling through the insulin receptor induces stimulation of AMPK/SIK1/SIK2/SIK3 by AKT. AMPK/SIK1/SIK2/SIK3 phosphorylates HDAC 4/5/7 preventing it from entering the nucleus. Acetylated FOXO transcription factors have reduced promoter binding affinity and cannot initiate transcription of gluconeogenic genes. (Image created by Ken Mattiuz)
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Fasting or low blood sugar induces the expression of genes required for production of glucose through gluconeogenesis. Once glucose levels increase, signaling through the insulin receptor terminates glucose production in the liver and activates glucose uptake in the peripheral tissues, stabilizing blood glucose levels. Dysregulation of this balance results in development of metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes. FOXO transcription factors control the expression of genes involved in metabolism, proliferation, and cell survival. FOXO activity is regulated by acetylation. Deacetylation of FOXO transcription factors by sirtuins and now class IIa histone deacetylaces (HDAC) activates the transcription of enzymes required for gluconeogenesis. Recent discovery of the role of class IIa HDAC activity in regulation of glucose and lipid metabolism opens up the possibility for use of class IIa HDAC inhibitors for treatment of metabolic disorders. Evaluation of FOXO target gene expression using real-time PCR analysis will further our understanding of the role of HDACs in regulation of genes involved in metabolism, proliferation, and cell survival.
The FOXO family of transcription factors controls the expression of gluconeogenic genes
Class IIa HDACs deacetylate FOXO transcription factors, activating gene expression
Inhibitors of Class IIa HDACs represent a strategy for treatment of metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes
Regulation of gluconeogenesis through post translational modification of FOXO
Class IIa HDACs regulate FOXO activity
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Glucose homeostasis is regulated through a balance between the activity of the insulin and glucagon signaling pathways. Low blood glucose stimulates the production of glucagon, a 29 amino acid hormone that is processed into functional peptide hormones from the proglucagon precursor. Binding to the glucagon receptor activates a signaling pathway that includes the cAMP dependent protein kinase A (PKA) and the AMP dependent protein kinase family members, AMPK, SIK1, and SIK2 (SIK3 in Drosphila). PKA blocks AMPK, SIK1 and SIK2, allowing nuclear translocation of transcriptional activators of gluconeogenic gene expression. Transcription of gluconeogenic enzymes such as glucose-6-phosphatase and phosphophenol pyruvate carboxykinase is regulated by the transcription factors FOXO1 and HNF4a and initiates glucose production in the liver (see figure
Model for regulation of glucose metabolism by class IIa HDACs
) (1–4).
Once glucose levels are sufficient, signaling through the insulin receptor attenuates gluconeogenesis, and initiates glucose uptake. Signaling through the insulin receptor involves activation of AKT kinase by PI3 kinase (PI3K). AKT phosphorylates GSK3, deactivating the kinase, which results in activation of glycogen synthase, inducing energy storage in the form of glycogen. AKT also acts to shut off gluconeogenesis by phosphorylating FOXO1. Phosphorylated FOXO1 is excluded from the nucleus and can no longer activate transcription of gluconeogenic enzymes. PI3K also plays a role in insulin stimulated glucose uptake through activation of atypical PKCs (λ and ζ). Atypical PKCs induce translocation of the insulin sensitive glucose transporter, GLUT4, to the plasma membrane, mediating glucose uptake (1–4).
Blood glucose levels are maintained through the balance between insulin mediated glucose uptake and storage in the form of glycogen, and glucagon mediated gluconeogenesis in the liver. Dysfunction within these pathways results in type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Further understanding of the mechanisms of regulation of glucose homeostasis will aid in the development of treatment for these disorders.
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Regulation of gluconeogenesis through post translational modification of FOXO
Post translational modifications alter the function of proteins by influencing stability, localization, and interaction with other proteins or nucleic acids. Acetylation can both activate and suppress transcription. Traditionally acetylation of lysines on histone tails has been associated with transcriptional activation. The acetyl group neutralizes the positive charge of the lysine, relaxing chromatin structure, therefore increasing the accessibility of target genes to transcription factors. Acetylated histones are also binding sites for bromodomain proteins, transcriptional activators. In this setting HDACs are acting to repress transcription by allowing compaction of the chromatin (5).
Direct acetylation of transcription factors, however, has a variety of outcomes in terms of transcriptional activity. Acetylation has been shown to enhance specific DNA binding while inhibiting non-specific DNA binding. Acetylation can form a docking site for recruitment of co-activators. Lysine acetylation can inhibit ubiquitination on the same residue, affecting protein stability and localization. Acetylation can therefore induce repression and activation depending on the setting (5).
The FOXO transcription factors are a subgroup of the forkhead family of transcription factors, characterized by a conserved DNA binding domain. There are more than 100 members of the forkhead family in humans. They have been implicated in regulation of a wide range of cellular processes including differentiation, proliferation, survival, and metabolism. There are 4 FOXO genes in mammals, FOXO 1, 3, 4, and 6. FOXO transcription factors were first linked to longevity in C. elegans (DAF-16) where they were shown to be negatively regulated by the insulin/PI3K/Akt signaling pathway. They were later shown to be inhibited by insulin and growth factors in mammalian cells. FOXO transcription factors have since been implicated in a number of critical cellular processes from apoptosis to oxidative stress response to energy homeostasis and glucose metabolism (6).
FOXO transcription factors are regulated by post-translational modification; namely by phosphorylation and acetylation. Phosphorylation affects FOXO activity by sequestering the protein in the cytoplasm. FOXO 1, 3a, and 4, are phosphorylated by AKT, resulting in 14-3-3 chaperone mediated nuclear exclusion, thereby preventing initiation of transcription. FOXO is also phosphorylated by JNK under conditions of oxidative stress, inducing nuclear translocation (6).
Acetylation affects FOXO transcriptional activity through a number of mechanisms. Lysine 245 and 248 reside in the DNA binding domain. The positive charge of lysine contributes to DNA binding and lysine acetylation decreases DNA binding affinity (7). Lysine 265 resides within the nuclear localization signal and acetylation on this residue may interfere with nuclear import. FOXO is acetylated in response to cell stress by the nuclear hormone receptor coactivators CBP and p300. The nuclear sirtuins deacetylate FOXO in response to the cellular NAD:NADH ratio. The sirtuin family member, SIRT1, has been implicated in regulation of gluconeogenesis and fatty acid beta-oxidation and has been shown to induce nuclear retention of FOXO. Disruption of this class III HDAC in the mouse liver significantly decreases these metabolic processes, however the ultimate role of SIRT1 loss on glucose homeostasis is still unclear (8).
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Class IIa HDACs regulate FOXO activity
The HDAC superfamily, in mammals, is made up of 11 proteins sharing a conserved deacetylase domain, that fall into 4 families based on structure, function, localization, and expression pattern. Class I HDACs (1, 2, 3, and 8) are ubiquitously expressed in the nucleus and function in deacetylation of histone substrates. Class III represents the sirtuins. Class IIa HDACs (4, 5, 7, and 9) have large N-terminal extensions with binding sites where the MEF2 transcription factor and the 14-3-3 chaperone bind and regulate HDAC function. The class IIa HDACs are phosphorylated by kinases and then bound by 14-3-3 chaparones that shuttle the complex from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. The function of MEF2 as transcriptional activator or repressor is determined by whether the histone acetyl transferase, p300, or HDAC is bound to the N terminal extension.
The mechanism by which class IIa HDACs repress transcription is not clear. Purified recombinant class IIa HDACs lack catalytic activity and endogenous HDACs copurify in a high molecular weight complex. Recruitment of class I HDACs through their C terminal HDAC domain is a possible mechanism for the observed repressive activity (5).
Recently, class IIa HDACs have been implicated in regulation of FOXO mediated transcription of gluconeogenic genes. These findings provide insight into a possible mode of treatment for metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes. In fact, a number of class IIa HDAC inhibitors are currently in development as anti-cancer therapeutics (2, 3).
Mihaylova et al and Wang et al report a role for class IIa HDACs in the regulation of FOXO during glucose and lipid metabolism (2, 3). Both groups report direct regulation of the HDACs by LKB1, SIK1/2, and AMPK. Mihaylova et al deleted LKB1 in the mouse liver and observed decreased phosphorylation of HDAC 4/5/7(2). Treatment with metformin, an AMPK/LKB1 agonist, increased HDAC 4/5/7 phosphorylation, resulting in retention in the cytoplasm. Treatment with glucagon induced HDAC 4/5/7 dephosphorylation and translocation into the nucleus. In the nucleus, the class IIa HDACs recruited the catalytically active class I HDAC 3. HDAC 3 deacetylated the FOXO family of transcription factors resulting in FOXO target gene expression.
Wang et al observed a similar mechanism in Drosophila. During fasting, SIK3, a member of the AMPK family of Ser/Thr kinases, is inactivated. This results in dephosphorylation and nuclear localization of HDAC4 and FOXO deacetylation. During feeding SIK3 is activated by AKT which blocks FOXO activity, promoting lipid storage (3).
Inhibition of class IIa HDACs by Mihaylova et al in a mouse model of type 2 diabetes inhibited hyperglycemia, highlighting the potential for use of class I/II HDAC inhibitors for treatment of metabolic disorders (2).
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Future questions
Identification of class IIa HDACs as regulators of glucose metabolism opens up the world of HDAC inhibitors for potential use in the treatment of metabolic disorders. However, many questions remain. The FOXO family of transcription factors regulates diverse cellular processes from metabolism to apoptosis. What roles do class IIa HDACs and sirtuins play in the regulation of these other pathways? How will HDAC inhibitors affect the other FOXO regulated genes? The transcriptional co-activator CRTC2 mediates an additional mechanism of gluconeogenic gene regulation. What is the purpose of this redundancy? What does this teach us about the function of the FOXO family of transcription factors?
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Karpac, Jason, and Heinrich Jasper, (2011) Metabolic Homeostasis: HDACs Take Center Stage. Cell
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Mihaylova, Maria M, et al., (2011) Class IIa Histone Deacetylases Are Hormone-Activated Regulators of FOXO and Mammalian Glucose Homeostasis. Cell
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Wang, Biao, et al., (2011) A Hormone-Dependent Module Regulating Energy Balance. Cell
, 596-606.
Biddinger, Sudha B., and C. Ronald Kahn, (2006) FROM MICE TO MEN: Insights into the Insulin Resistance Syndromes. Annual Review of Physiology
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Haberland, Michael, Rusty L. Montgomery, and Eric N. Olson, (2009) The many roles of histone deacetylases in development and physiology: implications for disease and therapy. Nat. Rev. Genet.
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Accili, Domenico, and Karen C. Arden, (2004) FoxOs at the Crossroads of Cellular Metabolism, Differentiation, and Transformation. Cell
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Matsuzaki, Hitomi, Hiroaki Daitoku, Mitsutoki Hatta, Hisanori Aoyama, Kenji Yoshimochi, and Akiyoshi Fukamizu, (2005) Acetylation of Foxo1 alters its DNA-binding ability and sensitivity to phosphorylation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
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Yang, Xiang-Jiao, and Edward Seto, (2008) Lysine Acetylation: Codified Crosstalk with Other Posttranslational Modifications. Molecular cell
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Model for regulation of glucose metabolism by class IIa HDACs.
In the absence of glucose, signaling through the glucagon receptor results in dephosphorylation of HDAC 4/5/7, allowing translocation into the nucleus. In the nucleus, HDAC 4/5/7 recruits HDAC 3, inducing deacetylation of FOXO transcription factors and transcription of gluconeogenic genes. Once glucose levels increase, signaling through the insulin receptor induces stimulation of AMPK/SIK1/SIK2/SIK3 by AKT. AMPK/SIK1/SIK2/SIK3 phosphorylates HDAC 4/5/7 preventing it from entering the nucleus. Acetylated FOXO transcription factors have reduced promoter binding affinity and cannot initiate transcription of gluconeogenic genes. (Image created by Ken Mattiuz)
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I currently have a 1 story ranch home with a basement. I had the basement finished about 3 yrs ago. Before all the drywall went up down there, I ran traditional ethernet/Cat5 cabling from one basement room (main PC area with cable modem) to several other rooms throughout the house (basement & main floor) to create my own home network.
I connected all the ethernet outlets myself and all has been working great for years now until I recently ran into an issue. One cat5 line doesn't seem to be fully recognized over the network and I'm having some connectivity issues in one room upstairs. I am gonna try to troubleshoot the problem (wiring, outlets. etc.).
Until then (& if I can't solve the problem), I was thinking of alternatives for this one room. a wireless bridge would work. I currently have a spare NETGEAR WGPS606 that would probably do the job. I'm also looking into some powerline products as another option.
How reliable are powerline products? In theory, I'm thinking it could be a better option than wireless since its essentially a hard wired connections vs wireless. I have always preferred hard wiring things and I also see some of these powerline products claiming speeds of 200Mbs.
well done for the cat 5 install
id suggest getting a double socket next time and running two lines as its just as quick and if one fails you have a back up.
powerline ...... groan erm general thoughts is they are in my eyes almost the same problem as wireless. which is traffic from them can be picked up by your neighbour and they need encryption to stop this. im against it always since any information that they can pick at there leisure without being spoted is more likely to get snooped. i know the encryption is supper cool but nothing beats a locked door. Since when its forced you can instantly tell.
secondly as with wireless its advertising speeds it will never reach. 200Mbs i doubt will be real life figiures.id put a pint on it that the 200mb is the send and receive speed so in actually fact its 100mb. The encryption will take its toll and any noise on the line will drop the speed and i presume they will use some sort of collision detection which will drop it as well.
stick with wired if possible. put on extended cat 5 and you can run that up to 1gig(with the right hardware). also with two lines you can get two cards and team the connection and get that up to 2gig. with none of the reliability or security concerns as wireless.
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BEIRUT: Activists gathered in Samir Kassir Square, downtown Beirut, Tuesday afternoon to protest the recent crackdown on freedom of speech and wave of investigations against dissidents.
The organizers launched a campaign labeled "against repression" in the wake of an "unprecedented decline in freedom of expression in all forms."
The statement had called on concerned citizens to gather at 7:00 p.m. in defense of "our freedoms granted to us by the constitution."
Charbel Khoury, one of the activists who was sent to court as a result of a Facebook post two weeks ago, told Annahar that he's been the victim of death threats ever since he published his views.
He had lightheartedly made a joke about the revered Lebanese Saint Charbel, which many Christians took offense to. The 28-year-old, named after the Lebanese Saint, had humorously credited the Christian emblem of bestowing a couple with a child after years of failing to conceive.
Threats began rolling into messenger as soon as his post was shared by a Lebanese Forces supporter he says, followed by verbal attacks from his colleagues at the IT office he works at.
In light of this onslaught, he contacted the police.
After a lawyer affiliated with the Lebanese Forces filed a lawsuit against him, Khoury was brought in for questioning on Thursday, July 19 by members of the Internal Security Forces.
Khoury could not elaborate more on the circumstances surrounding his investigation, yet stood strong in his beliefs and refused to apologize.
The series of court cases and judicial investigations in recent months against Lebanese media figures, which have rocked the country's reputation as a safe haven for freedom of expression, have now been extended to ordinary citizens.
Protesters gather at the Samir Kassir Square in Downtown Beirut on Tuesday, July 24, 2018 (Annahar Photo)
Some of the lawsuits targetting freedom of speech include that against popular TV host Marcel Ghanem. Ghanem faced a lawsuit of defamation because of remarks made by a guest on his previous show Kalam Ennas.
Meanwhile, Lebanese-American Journalist Hanin Ghaddar was sentenced in absentia to six months in prison by a military tribunal. The sentence was later dropped and her case was referred to the court of publications.
Although Lebanon is considered one of the freest environments in the region, some laws have put a limit on free speech.
Libel or defaming foreign leaders and public officials have been outlawed, and it is a criminal offense to insult the president and the flag, among other national symbols, while other laws ban speech that is deemed insulting to religion.
Jad Chahrour, one of the organizers of the event and communications officer at the Samir Kassir Foundation, expressed his surprise at the recent clampdown on common citizens.
The real battle, he says, is for Lebanese to hold on to their rights to express their opinions without fear of retribution.
"We should protect the space for freedom of expression on all levels," he said, through writing, filming, and taking photographs.
"Today's move against oppression was spontaneous, the protest gained traction and reflected people's anger."
The late Samir Kassir, a popular editorial writer at Annahar, was an outspoken critic of the Syrian presence in Lebanon before being killed by a car bomb blast in 2005.
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