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High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission Federica Mogherini met today in Brussels with Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Defence Radmila Šekerinska and Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Dimitrov of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
They discussed the steps leading to the implementation of the Prespa agreement signed with Greece in June. The High Representative/Vice-President commended the work of the government in implementing this historical agreement that the whole Europe saluted. This process represents a unique opportunity to overcome difficulties of the past and to enhance reconciliation in the region; it is also crucial for the country's European Union path.
The High Representative and the Ministers also discussed progress in the reform agenda the country is pursuing vigorously. In particular they focused on the rule of law, an area with tangible impact on the lives of the citizens, where progress will also help the country advance towards the EU. Federica Mogherini confirmed full support for the country's European Union integration path and readiness to accompany the ongoing reforms, to the benefit of all citizens.


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|John Thomas Drybrough Dog Tag
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I like the idea of "If I am out, I am lost". But has a sad impression at last. Good post.
A little more information on J.T.
He emigrated from Scotland to Canada in 1912 and settled in Victoria B.C.
After the war he was employed as branch manager at Mc Mc & Prior in Burnaby.
Joseph Walter SANFORD and Elizabeth A. DRYBROUGH
I sent an email to the website admin. See what happens from there.
born June 20, 1897 in Leith SCotland to Peter and Mary (Jeffery) Drybrough. He had one sister, Elizabeth. Emigrated to Canada in 1912. Was living at 1416 Taunton St. Victoria BC at the time he signed up - Nov 24 1915 - originally into the Gordon Highlanders. He was 5'7" with brown eyes and black hair at the time. After the war he was a motor mehanic. Married Florence Partington in Victoria on Mar. 25, 1922. and had one daughter. After marriage he became branch manage of Mc. Mc & Prior. Died in New Westminster BC on 10 May 1971 and is buried in Victoria.
He has a great nephew and niece (possibly living in California) mentioned in his nephew's obituary.
There is a great-nephew and niece mentioned in his nephew's obituary - probably living in California.
Sent you an email with possible contacts for a great niece and nephew of John Thomas Drybrough

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January 30, 2013
DARPA and the US Army have taken the wraps off ARGUS-IS, a 1.8-gigapixel video surveillance platform that can resolve details as small as six inches from an altitude of 20,000 feet (6km), ExtremeTech reports.
ARGUS is by far the highest-resolution surveillance platform in the world, and probably the highest-resolution camera in the world, period.
ARGUS, which would be attached to some kind of unmanned UAV (such as the Predator) and flown at an altitude of around 20,000 feet, can observe an area of 25 square kilometers (10sqmi) at any one time. If ARGUS was hovering over New York City, it could observe half of Manhattan. Two ARGUS-equipped drones, and the US could keep an eye on the entirety of Manhattan, 24/7.
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In addition to the string quartet that contains the original version of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, Camerata San Antonio's January concerts will also include another iconic early 20th century work–The Creation of the World by Darius Milhaud. The concerts will take place on January 7 in Kerrville, January 8 in Boerne and Sunday, January 10 at 3 p.m. at Travis Park United Methodist Church in San Antonio.
Milhaud (September 4, 1892 to June 22, 1974) may not be a household name, but he is an important figure. Not only was he a prolific composer, but he also was an influential teacher. He moved from his native France to California in 1939 and taught at Mills College. His students included two of the pillars of the American minimalism movement, Philip Glass and Steve Reich as well as composers William Bolcom and Iannis Xenakis. Jazz great Dave Brubeck also studied with him as did popular composer Burt Bacharach.
"La création du monde" ("The Creation of the World") was inspired by a trip to the United States Milhaud made in 1922. He heard jazz in Harlem and one-year later wrote this 20-minute ballet based on African mythology. It was originally written for small orchestra, but Milhaud arranged it for the small ensemble that Camerata San Antonio will use in January. Here is a video of a short part of the original small orchestra version.
Milhaud did something that I'll bet NO OTHER COMPOSER has ever even tried. His 14th and 15th string quartets were written to be played, not only as individual works, but they can also be played simultaneously as an octet. I have no idea what that sounds like, but it certainly is a compositional tour-de-force.
Camerata San Antonio's entire program is:
Barber: String Quartet, Op. 11
Copland: Sextet
Milhaud: Creation of the World, Op. 81b
Shulman: Rendezvous
Gershwin: Selections for Clarinet and String Quartet
The musicians will be:
Ilya Shterenberg, clarinet
Ertan Torgul & Kimberly Torgul, violins
Emily Freudigman, viola
Kenneth Freudigman, cello
Vivienne Spy, piano
For more information visit http://www.cameratasa.org/.
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|Best Thermal Paste Application Methods
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|Written by Olin Coles
|Monday, 21 April 2008
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Thermal Paste Application
Over the past several months, I have read an unreasonable number of discussion forum posts which offer inaccurate and often times incorrect information. It's not really all that surprising to read poorly conceived information on the Internet, which seems to be an anonymous means of passing off opinion for fact. As a general rule we don't let too many things go untested, and the advice of wanna-be experts is not doing the hardware enthusiast and overclocker community any good. In this article, Benchmark Reviews dispels myth and establishes fact on the topic of proper application of Thermal Interface Material.
These days, Intel and AMD are producing very efficient central processing units that put out far less heat than prior generations. The CPU powering my primary workstation uses the Intel E8200 processor, which is rated for 65 watts using the 45 nm fabrication process. The constant production refinement has allowed the new 2.66 GHz E8200 to operate at the roughly the same Thermal Design Power (TDP) of an old P4 HT 2.66 GHz, but at the same time offer multiples more performance power. The trend of power efficient central processors is slowly making its way into graphics processors, too. The lesson we are learning in 2008 is that size matters, except that instead of skyscraper sized CPU coolers we are trying to reduce the footprint and shrink the area consumed by our systems.
After discussing this topic with real industry experts who are much more informed of the process, they offered some specific advice that didn't appear to be a "one size fits all" answer:
The more we researched this subject, the more we discovered that because there are so many different cooling solutions on the market it becomes impossible to give generalized advice to specific situations. Despite this, there is one single principal that holds true in every condition: Under perfect conditions the contact surfaces between the processor and cooler would be perfectly flat and not contain any microscopic pits, which would allow direct contact without the need for Thermal Interface Material. But since we don't have perfectly flat surfaces, Thermal Material must fill the tiny imperfections. This is where our testing comes into play.
In the next few pages, which we plan to adjust and refine as necessary to meet with industry product changes, Benchmark Reviews will test several different methods of applying Thermal Interface Material to cooling equipment. The object here is simple: define the best methods to apply thermal paste, primary to central processing units. This guide will also be the first of its kind to test the proper application of material on a Heat-pipe Direct Touch (HDT) cooler, which requires a little more attention.
This kind of quality reviews makes it a lot easier for enthusiasts, like me, which do not have much resources for us to try such tests.
Thanks again... and i hope for more quality reviews from you guys..
Thanks Again!
Definitely going this route next time.
is still as keen as it thought, or in other words, it is not mistaken - your peas are mistaken ( they are really f***** up ;) ). I do hope this is cleared out, and I do hope that somebody confirms the size of the peas on the picture, based on my assumptions!
On a different subject, I would liked to have seen the results of mounting the square cooler that you did a thin, even spread of TIM on. How did it look when removed?
Also I would like to see heat readings from all these different application methods. While you may want one or the other spreads visually, how does that translate into actual practice? Could less coverage translate into a thinner layer that increases metal to metal contact, yielding better results than 100% CPU coverage but thicker layer? Inquiring minds want to know!!
now what is 'channels level' we are talking about here?
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After having read your article, I have concluded that the two drops on the two centre partitions of the mounting base would be the best option for the Hyper TX3 cooler (to be used with an AMD Phenom II x6 1100T CPU), however, if sanding is not carried out, how would one deal with the space between the deeply set pipes and the CPU surface? Also, I have read that even merely touching the metal with a finger can cause grease and all kinds of particles to become stuck to it, so if sanding were to be carried out, how could one possible ensure that the cooler is thoroughly cleaned of all the residue from sanding? Thank you for any advice.


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There are no specific noise levels that are acceptable usually. The Council will look at each case and try to determine whether or not a statutory nuisance exists.
A building site near me is causing a lot of noise - are there any times that they need to adhere to, and are there any limits to the level of noise allowed?
There is guidance with regard to building site times, and these times are usually as below:
- Monday to Friday: 7.30am to 6.00pm
- Saturday: 7.30am to 1.00pm
- Sunday: No noisy work at all
There are no limits to the levels of noise of building sites within the above times, although under Health & Safety legislation, there are precautions that have to be taken with regard to the employees on the site, wearing ear protection etc. As the noise is only for a short period, this would not be a statutory nuisance.
I have a problem with noise from deliveries early in the morning or late at night. Are there any guidelines?
These complaints generally would not be considered a statutory nuisance under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, although officers can look into the matter and speak to the companies involved to try to reduce any impact.
I would like to have a party but I think my neighbours will complain. Am I allowed?
We would advise that you give all neighbours plenty of warning if you intend to have a party that may cause them some disturbance. If these are one-off events then the District Council would not want to prevent such occurrences, assuming they were of a reasonable volume and did not continue all night.
However, if you regularly have parties then you are more likely to be causing a statutory noise nuisance and the District Council could serve notice on you to prevent future disturbances. It is therefore best to be responsible and neighbourly and cause as little disturbance as possible.
Are there any time limits when I can play my music loud?
There is no time limit when loud music can be played without the possibility of action being taken by the Council.
The law states that music must be assessed for statutory nuisance, so if it is loud and clearly audible in another person's property or garden, then it could be considered a problem at any time of the day.
Obviously, the later at night the music can be heard, the more likely your neighbours and council officers are to consider it a nuisance.
I have a problem with neighbours playing loud music/noisy DIY/barking dogs etc. Can you do something about it?
Initially, we advise you to courteously approach the person causing you a problem. They may not realise you are being affected by their activities.
If this offers no improvement then contact us with the details as to your complaint and we will send you diary sheets for you to complete.
On return of the diary sheets to the Council, officers can assess if further action is necessary and they would then advise you accordingly.
It may be that an informal word from the Council solves the problem or it may be that further investigations and monitoring will be required to assess the potential for more action.
What if the Council has tried to investigate the noise and they cannot take any further action?
You can consider taking your own action under s82 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
Further advice can be obtained in our leaflet - taking your own action (pdf)
A house alarm keeps ringing in my neighbourhood. Can it be stopped?
If it is an alarm on a domestic property and you do not know who the occupier is, try and find out from any neighbours if they know of where the owner may be, or if they are likely to return shortly. Most alarms do not ring for too long before the house occupier returns.
If it appears that the occupier is not likely to return for some period, for example they may have gone away on holiday, then please contact this department on 01353 665555. Officers will then establish if the property is registered with us and, if so, key holders can be notified to come and turn it off.
If we do not hold details of the key holder then an assessment as to the occurrence or otherwise of a statutory noise nuisance must be made. If Officers feel a nuisance is being caused then notices will be served and after a specified time period, Officers will arrange for the alarm to be deactivated.
This is usually done from the external, but if the alarm cannot be deactivated from the outside (and this very occasionally happens), a warrant to enter a premises is requested from a Magistrates Court and, if successful, Officers will make the necessary arrangements to enter the property to turn off the alarm. All expenses incurred in undertaking this work is recharged to the householder.
It is important that if you have an alarm on your property you notify us on the approved form, of 2 separate key holders who can be contacted at any time to deactivate or reset the alarm for you. This could save you money in the long run.
I have a problem with noise from a bird scarer. Is there any advice please?
The Council has produced a leaflet that explains about bird scarers that can be dowloaded below:
Noise or Nuisance Complaints
To report a noise or nuisance complaint, please ensure you have read the information above and complete our online report form or phone 01353 665555.


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The Olympic gymnast Paul Hamm has been fired from his assistant coaching position at The Ohio State University, following his arrest for assaulting a cab driver in Columbus last Saturday.
Gene Smith, the Buckeyes' Athletic Director, said in a press release that Hamm hadn't acted according to TOSU's famously high standards:
After meeting with Coach (Rustam) Sharipov and considering his recommendations, Paul Hamm has been terminated as an assistant coach with the Ohio State men's gymnastics team, effective immediately. We have high standards for our coaching staff and unfortunately Mr. Hamm failed to meet those standards.
Hamm, who only joined Ohio State's gymnastics staff this past June, is currently free on bail and has an arraignment scheduled for next Thursday. He has not yet commented publicly on the incident, but if you hear of any replay consultant jobs in the Midwest gymnastics circuit, he could surely use a referral.
Ohio State fires assistant gymnastics coach and Olympic champ Paul Hamm following arrest [Cleveland Plain Dealer]


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|Do you want to avoid the friend zone?
Photo by freedigitalphotos.net.
Research performed by Aaron Lukaszewski and Jim Roney at the University of California – Santa Barbara (UCSB) tested whether preferences for personality traits were dependent on who the target was. In Experiment 1, they asked UCSB undergrads, on a scale from 1 to 7, the degree to which their ideal partner would display certain traits towards them and towards others. These traits included synonyms for kindness (e.g. affectionate, considerate, generous, etc.), trustworthiness (committed, dependable, devoted, etc.), and dominance (aggressive, brave, bold, etc.). Experiment 2 replicated the procedures of Experiment 1. The only difference was that the term "others" was divided into subsets including unspecified, family/friends, opposite sex non-family/friend, and same-sex non-family/friend.
Let's go over the do's and don'ts so that future "nice guys" aren't friend zoned. According to the findings, as graphed below:
|Figure from Aaron and Jim's 2010 Evolution and Human Behavior paper.
2. Women prefer men who are kinder and more trustworthy towards them than anyone else. So it's not so much whether you are nice enough, its whether she knows you are nicer to her than anyone else.
3. Women prefer men who display similar amounts of dominance as they do kindness. Dominance isn't a bad thing, as long as you can distinguish her friends from her foes; especially her male friends.
4. To make things more complicated, women also prefer men who are directly dominant toward other men but don't display dominance toward them or their family/friends, whether male or female. Some guys may want to befriend these other men, but be weary. Women preferred dominance over kindness in this situation, so kindness may not be enough.
These preferences may have developed to avoid mating with someone willing to expend physical and material resources for extramarital relationships, and invest greater in her and the children. Moderate kindness and trustworthiness toward others will maintain social relationships and prevent detrimental relationships, which may be why women generally prefer kind and trustworthy guys. But in all fairness, women can be in the friend zone too; just look at Deenah and Vinny (excuse the shameful Jersey Shore reference).
There are some things that guys look for in a mate, so ladies, here is a little advice:
1. Guys generally want a mate who is kind and trustworthy, too. We're not that different; so don't act a little crazy because you think he likes it. He doesn't.
2. Guys also prefer women who display dominance toward other women (non- family/friend). Don't be afraid to put that random girl with the prying eyes in her place.
Contrary to the hypotheses predicting female mate preferences, male mate preferences may have developed as a way to take advantage of strong female-based social hierarchies. No matter what the reasoning, however, if you can
1) be kinder and more trustworthy towards that special someone than anyone else and
2) display dominance over other same-sex people, then feel free to say good-bye to the friend zone!
For further details, check out the original experiment:
Lukaszewski, A., & Roney, J. (2010). Kind toward whom? Mate preferences for personality traits are target specific Evolution and Human Behavior, 31 (1), 29-38 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.06.008


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By late summer, the fruits hanging from vast groves of Prunus amygdalus trees in California have withered and split. Through cracks in their leathery rinds, you can see glimpses of the pale teardrop-shaped seeds they protect: almonds, ready for harvest.
By early autumn, fresh almonds are pouring into markets by the ton. It's the perfect time of year to make this recipe for almond cherry cream pie, which works the subtle, yet complex flavor of almonds into all three layers: a crispy crust, a custard filling, and a sweet, crunchy topping.
The chefs in our research kitchen tested more than 40 versions of sweet and tart crusts to find the combination that, thanks to a bit of almond flour and powdered sugar, produces a container for the pie that has just the right balance of sweetness, strength and buttery give. A thin coat of cocoa butter holds the cream filling away from the crust, so it stays crisp from the first bite to the last. And a dash of almond extract enhances the flavor of the almond flour.
The pie is filled with a simple pastry cream flavored by amaretto, the almond-flavored liqueur. Cooking the custard in a temperature-controlled pot of water ensures that the texture turns out right every time.
You can top the pie with caramelized almonds, which are easy to prepare and make an addictive snack on their own. And for a splash of color and a dash of tartness, we add canned Amarena cherries. Fresh cherries are even better, but hard to come by this time of year. Slices of fresh fig also work well as a topping.
The crust, filling and caramelized almond topping for this pie can each be made separately and stored until you are ready to assemble the pie. The crust will keep for up to three months if you vacuum seal it and then freeze it before it is baked. The pastry cream filling will keep for up to two days in the refrigerator. The caramelized almonds will keep for up to a week when stored in an airtight container.
If you are making the pie all at once, you can save time by making the pastry cream and caramelized almonds while the dough for the crust rests in the refrigerator.
Start to finish: 3 hours (1 hour active)
Makes one 12-inch pie
2 tablespoons cocoa butter
12-inch double-almond pie crust, baked (see recipe below)
4 cups amaretto pastry cream (see recipe below)
� cup (60 grams) caramelized almonds (see recipe below)
12 Amarena cherries or fresh cherries, halved
In a small saucepan over low heat or in the microwave, melt the cocoa butter. Brush a thin coat of the cocoa butter over the interior of the baked pie crust. Set aside to allow the fat to solidify at room temperature.
Fill the crust with the cold pastry cream, smoothing the surface with a spatula. Refrigerate the pie until it becomes firm, at least 1 hour.
Top the pie with the crumbled caramelized almonds and cherry halves. Serve cold.
3 � tablespoons (50 grams) egg yolks (from 3 to 4 eggs), whisked
� cup (165 grams) unsalted butter, very cold
1 � cups (200 grams) all-purpose flour
⅜ cup (30 grams) almond flour
� cup (80 grams) powdered sugar
1 teaspoon (4 grams) salt
� teaspoon (2 grams) baking powder
� teaspoon (2.5 grams) almond extract
Baking beads or dry beans, as needed
Fill a large stock pot with hot water, then set over low heat and bring to 153� F. Clip a digital thermometer to the rim of the pot, with the tip well submerged, to monitor the temperature.
When the water reaches 153� F, place the egg yolks in a zip-close plastic bag. Slowly lower the open bag into the heated water until the top is nearly at the surface of the water, then seal it. The goal is to use the water pressure to squeeze as much air as possible out of the bag. Once sealed, the bag should sink.
Submerge the bag of yolks, and let them cook in the 153� F water for 45 minutes. Keep an eye on the thermometer and adjust the heat as needed to keep the temperature at or near 153� F.
While the yolks cook, dice the chilled butter, and combine it in a food processor with both flours, the powdered sugar, salt, and baking powder. Pulse until the mixture takes on the texture of cornmeal.
Add the almond extract and cooked egg yolks gradually, while continuing to pulse the food processor. Continue processing until the dough starts to bind. Although it may look quite dry, it will cohere eventually.
Shape the dough into a ball, flatten it into a thick disk, then wrap it tightly in plastic wrap. Put the wrapped dough into the refrigerator and let it rest for an hour. As it rests, the butter in the dough will harden and the gluten will grow more elastic. While the dough rests, you can make the pastry cream and caramelized almonds from the recipes below.
When the dough is nearly finished chilling, heat the oven to 375� F.
Unwrap the dough and roll it into a circle that is about ⅛-inch think and about 14 inches around (or 2 inches larger in diameter than your pie pan). If you find that the dough is too sticky to roll, either chill it again or place it between 2 pieces of plastic wrap or kitchen parchment, and then roll it.
Line a 12-inch pie pan with the dough; do not trim off the excess. Instead, let the edges drape over the sides of the pan. Press the dough firmly into the pan interior. If you don't need to use the crust right away, cover the unbaked crust in plastic wrap and store it in the refrigerator. For longer-term storage, vacuum seal it, and stick it in the freezer.
To prepare the crust for baking, prick it with a fork all over, then press kitchen parchment over the top to protect it during baking. Fill the pan with baking beads or dry beans, and press them against the walls so that the dough doesn't droop while it is in the oven.
Place the pie pan on a baking sheet, and bake until it turns golden brown, about 12 minutes. Midway through the baking, rotate the pie pan a half turn so that it browns evenly.
Carefully remove the beans and parchment. If the crust still looks a little wet, return it to the oven for another 2 to 3 minutes.
Cool the crust to room temperature, then use a knife to trim any excess crust from the edges of the pan.
� cup (110 milliliters) heavy cream
� cup (100 milliliters) whole milk
5 tablespoons (64 grams) sugar
Pinch of salt
� cup (200 grams) egg yolks, blended (11 to 12 yolks)
1 � teaspoons (6 milliliters) amaretto liqueur
� cup (50 grams) unsalted butter, softened
Fill a large stock pot with hot water, and heat it to 176� F. Use a thermometer clipped to the pot to monitor the water temperature.
In a medium saucepan over medium-low heat, combine the cream, milk, sugar, and salt. Whisk the mixture until the sugar and salt have completely dissolved.
Strain the blended egg yolks into a zip-close plastic bag. Remove the air from the bag by slowly lowering it into the stock pot until the surface of the water almost reaches the seal, then close it. The bag should sink into the water. Allow the egg yolks to cook in the water bath for 35 minutes; adjust the heat as needed to keep the temperature at or near 176� F.
The yolks should now be firm and fully set. Transfer them immediately from the bag into a blender, and puree them at low speed. Do not allow the yolks to cool before blending, or the pastry cream will become grainy.
While the blender is running, gradually add the amaretto and the warm cream mixture.
Increase the blender speed to high, and gradually add the softened butter. Blend until the mixture becomes smooth and creamy.
If you will not be using the pastry cream right away, press plastic wrap directly onto the surface of the custard to prevent a skin from forming, and store it in the refrigerator.
� cup (50 grams) sliced almonds
2 � tablespoons (25 grams) sugar
2 � teaspoons (10 grams) egg white, blended
Pinch of salt
Heat the oven to 350� F. Line a baking sheet with kitchen parchment.
In a small bowl, mix the almonds, sugar, egg white and salt. Spread the almonds evenly across the prepared baking sheet.
Bake until golden brown, about 6 minutes. The color of the almonds can change quickly, so keep an eye on them.
Cool the almonds to room temperature, then crumble them into large pieces. If you will not be using them immediately, store the almonds in an airtight container.
EDITOR'S NOTE: W. Wayt Gibbs is editor-in-chief of The Cooking Lab, the culinary research team led by Nathan Myhrvold that produced the cookbooks "Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking" and "Modernist Cuisine at Home." Their new book, "The Photography of Modernist Cuisine," will be released in October.


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March 30, 2015
Clear the Clutter and Help Others in Need!
Posted in Windermere Foundation by Marilou Ubungen
Your junk could be someone else's treasure or be resold to provide funding for programs that help people in need. There are a lot of other non-profit, charitable organizations in your area that would be more than willing to take your spring-cleaning discards. Here is a list of some organizations to give you an idea of the many possibilities.
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March 27, 2015
Nine Ways to Landscape for Maximum Curb Appeal
Posted in Selling by Porch.com
Don't let bad landscaping ruin your curb appeal. These ten tips will help you get your landscaping gorgeous.
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March 26, 2015
Update: A Legislative Effort Is Now Underway In Congress To Extend The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act
Posted in Short Sales by Richard Eastern
UPDATE: Senators have introduced a bipartisan bill that would extend the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act through 2015 and all of 2016. Heller is an influential member of the Senate Finance Committee and has pledged to attach the bill to a larger piece of legislation that is moving through his committee. We will keep you posted on the progress of the extension as the process moves forward.
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March 19, 2015
How to Hire a Home Inspector
Posted in Buying by Tara Sharp
A home is a major investment and, for many people, the greatest financial asset they have. With so much at stake, it makes sense to do what you can to protect your financial interest. Getting a home inspection is a smart, simple way to do just that.
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Here's Your Spring Maintenance Checklist
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Now that spring has sprung, let's clear the cobwebs and get your home ready! Here is our quick guide to spring home maintenance:
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Oregon and Southwest Washington Real Estate Market Update
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Aug. 23, 2010 — There is now biologic evidence to back up the belief that vitamin D may protect against autoimmune diseases and certain cancers.
A new genetic analysis lends support to the idea that the vitamin interacts with genes specific for colorectal cancer, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, and other diseases, says Oxford University genetic researcher Sreeram Ramagopalan.
The study is published in Genome Research.
When Ramagopalan and colleagues analyzed the binding of vitamin D receptors to gene regions previously identified with different diseases, they found evidence of increased binding for multiple sclerosis, Crohn's disease, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, colorectal cancer, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
"Genes involved in autoimmune disease and cancer were regulated by vitamin D," Ramagopalan tells WebMD. "The next step is understanding how this interaction could lead to disease."
Role of Vitamin D Supplementation
The role of vitamin D supplementation in preventing these diseases is also not well understood.
Exposure to sunlight is an efficient way to raise blood levels of vitamin D hormone, and food sources of the nutrient include oily fish like salmon, fortified milk, and other fortified foods.
But most people would have a hard time getting the vitamin D they need from food, and the increased use of sunscreen has reduced sun exposures.
By one recent estimate, as many as half of adults and children in the U.S. were deficient in the vitamin.
Current recommended daily vitamin D intake is 200 IU (international units) for those up to age 50; 400 IU for people 51 to70; and 600 IU for those over 70. Most experts say that these doses are too low.
Many experts, including Ramagopalan, say 2,000 IU of the vitamin may be optimal for preventing disease.
Blood levels of the vitamin are measured as 25-hydroxyvitamin D. Levels below 20 nanograms per milliliter are generally considered deficient.
Harvard School of Public Health nutrition researcher Edward Giovannucci, MD, says blood 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels of between 30 and 40 nanograms per milliliter may be about right for reducing the risk of autoimmune diseases and certain cancers.
While he says some people can reach these levels without supplementation, many others would need to take 1,000 to 2,000 IU of the vitamin a day.
"Based on what we know, I think it is reasonable to recommend that people maintain blood levels of around 30 nanograms per milliliter," he says.
Unanswered Questions
But vitamin D researcher JoAnn E. Manson, MD, says it is way too soon to recommend taking much larger doses of vitamin D than are recommended.
Manson chairs the preventive medicine department at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and is principle investigator of a large U.S. study on vitamin D.
Still in the recruitment stage, the five-year, 20,000-person study will explore the impact of 2,000 IU of vitamin D on the risks for a wide range of health conditions, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and depression. The study will also examine the effects of the fatty acid omega-3.
"I think it is important that we not leap ahead of the evidence in recommending high doses of vitamin D," she says. "We will soon have a better understanding of the optimal doses of vitamin D and the optimal blood levels associated with the best balance of benefits and risks. But right now there are many unanswered questions."


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Eternal Throne - A mobile fantasy adventure game with terrific 3D graphics! Featuring immersive 3D graphics, with stunning character design and great many challenges throughout seven distinct game chapters, this mythical themed adventure game will bring you to a whole new world of mobile gaming experience!
Since the beginning of time in the world of Elysia, the Gods of Light and Shadow have waged a war known as the War of Eternal Succession. Every one hundred years the Gods of Light and Darkness choose a single female champion who must search for seven holy artifacts known as the Queens Raiment. The champion who finds the artifacts first is crowned Queen of Elysia and rules in favor of her Gods.
If the Champion of Light prevails, then Elysia is granted 100 years of peace, prosperity and bounty.
Should the Champion of Shadow triumph, Elysia is plunged into 100 years of darkness and destruction and creatures of shadow run unchecked throughout the land causing fear, havoc and terror at the whim of their dark ruler.
Once again the Gods have called upon their champions to contest for rulership of Elysia. Our story begins as the Champion of Light begins her perilous quest, facing a land held in the grip of darkness for 200 years.
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My mountain bike is about 8 years old. It's a Gary Fisher Sugar I
bought way back in 2000. I love it, I'm not heavy or daft so don't need
huge amounts of travel, but my forks (Manitou SX) while good, have
always been a bit flexy and not really felt very plush.
when I saw a pair of Reba SL on offer for 200 pounds I couldn't resist.
Recently most decent forks have been disc specific which puts me off
(don't want to go down that route just yet). These are just right,
100mm travel so won't upset my geometry too much, nice and light,
remote lock out (which is a gimmick lets be honest)
So then I
had the fun of getting it on to my bike. I wish I'd read the web first
as I didn't push the crown race down firmly enough to start with, but
now that's sorted, it's great. In fact getting the crown race off the old forks was the only really tough bit. Nice and stiff, plush and after a bit of
fettling just the right amount of travel.
Now for some more adventures around the trails of Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire


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Today's weather vane was photographed by a reader, and a fellow genealogy blogger, in Massachusetts. Have fun guessing where you may have seen this weather vane.
Do you know the location of weather vane #129? Scroll down to see the answer....
Today's weather vane was photographed by Steven Handler and sent to me by his wife, the genealogy blogger Elizabeth Pyle Handler. It is a private residence on a quiet side street in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. This weather vane is a very highly detailed three dimensional antique train engine on a cupola above a garage. This home is near the commuter train rail, so their choice of a train is very apropos. In a town full of nautically themed weather vanes, signs and names, its nice to see something different!
Elizabeth Pyle Handler has two blogs:
From Maine to Kentucky http://frommainetokentucky.blogspot.com/
Jewish Genealogy Journey http://jewishgenealogyjourney.blogspot.com/
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The Great Coverup: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate
Seven Locks Press, 1992 - Social Science - 319 pages
As city editor of the Washington Post, Barry Sussman became part of the team that uncovered what many have described as the nation's worst political scandal. The Great Cover-up chronicles all the events that pushed Nixon from office.
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just your average craft blog... hopefully with more interesting than average crafts ;) if you are interested in any custom creations, please contact me: firstname.lastname@example.com
Thursday, December 31, 2009
barbie madness.....
this is a piece that i completed in march of last year, titled "barbie the destroyer." it was initially just a lark for a work party, but the idea has grown into something more akin to obsession. i'm currently working on a series of barbie goddess figures for a show in april. i hope to post pics of these as they are completed. sadly, mother kali is still my only completed piece although i've been working on several at once. procrastination and i have a long history together and i'm hoping that since the madness of the holidays is drawing to a close that we can end our dysfunctional friendship, at least for a while.
hope this is adequate for a first post :)
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Dear Jose Maria, Thank you for your comments. Please, see our response inlined. > we would like to raise some questions regarding the practical use of > import clause w.r.t RDF data and OWL ontologies: > > 1) Which is the minimun set of RDF serialization formats that are > supposed to be supported by a RIF implementation? In the specification > SWC we read: > > "Several syntaxes have been proposed for the exchange of RDF graphs, the > normative syntax being RDF/XML. RIF does not provide a > format for exchanging RDF graphs; it is assumed that RDF graphs are > exchanged using RDF/XML, or any other syntax that can be used for > representing or exchanging RDF graphs." With the text you quote, above, we are trying to provide a little guidance in an area which is architecturally independent of RIF. While we recognize that RIF implementors need to know which RDF access protocols and formats they need to support, we do not believe we are in a position to answer that for them; they have to make their own assessment of the RDF standards. We note that when RIF started, RDF/XML was the only W3C-recommended way to access RDF data; since then, SPARQL and RDFa have also become W3C Recommendations. Our expectation, which we intended to convey in the text you quote, is that systems will at least support RDF/XML, but that it is better for us not to set mandates concerning issues in the RDF space. > Note that the test cases use the Turtle syntax. Thank you for pointing out this incongruity. The test cases have now been modified to use URLs which are independent of content type, and the downloadable/live test suite (not the wiki) now includes both RDF/XML and Turtle. For example: http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/test/repository/tc/RDF_Combination_Constant_Equivalence_1/RDF_Combination_Constant_Equivalence_1-premise.rif imports this: http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/test/repository/tc/RDF_Combination_Constant_Equivalence_1/RDF_Combination_Constant_Equivalence_1-import001 which is served as either RDF/XML or Turtle, depending on the HTTP "Accept" header that the client sends (see below). The default is RDF/XML. A suffix of .rdf or .ttl can also be appended. > 2) If more than one RDF serialization format are to be supported or > required, how the RIF implementation can determine the parser to be used > for each import clause? This is matter for the appropriate Web and RDF specifications. In general, with Web dereference operations the underlying protocol conveys this information. With HTTP URLs, the Content-Type header identifies the syntax the delivered content. For RDF/XML the type is "application/rdf+xml", for turtle it's "text/turtle", etc. See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.17 and http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/ for more details on that mechanism. Please acknowledge receipt of this email to <mailto:email@example.com> (replying to this email should suffice). In your acknowledgment please let us know whether or not you are satisfied with the working group's response to your comment. Best regards, Sandro Hawke, in behalf of the RIF WGReceived on Wednesday, 21 April 2010 17:00:12 UTC
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Baby shot in New Haven is upgraded to fair condition
NEW HAVEN --The condition of a toddler who was shot Wednesday as he was held by his aunt has been upgraded to fair at Yale-New Haven Hospital, officials said today.
The child, who is about 18 months old, was on the porch of his home near the corner of Kensington Street and Edgewood Avenue and was shot in the torso, police said.
The child's father grabbed the wounded baby and rushed on foot to the hospital several blocks away.
Assistant Police Chief Archie Generoso said the child was out of surgery and was being transferred to the Yale-New Haven Hospital pediatric facility.
"It appears that the baby is out of danger," he said.
Police Chief Dean Esserman is at the hospital with the child's family. The child was undergoing surgery.
The incident unfolded around 2:35 p.m., when an occupant of a dark colored sedan began firing a gun, police said. The baby, who was being held by his older sister on the porch of the home was hit, police said.
Police do not know the intended target of the gunfire.
"I would certainly hope that a 1 and 1/2-year-old was not the target of the shooting," said police spokesman Officer David Hartman.
Kylie Welsh, 34, who previously lived near the area where the toddler was shot, said "I always thought it was really bad up here."
"It's jut really sad," she said.
Alderman Frank Douglass stopped by the shooting scene after leaving the hospital with Alderwoman Tyisha Walker visiting the family.
"They're holding it together. No one has an idea what brought this on. Myself, I'm just a little tired of having this happen right around the corner from me. Whatever the issue is, let's clean it up."
Not long before the shooting on Kensington Street, police responded to gunfire on Stevens Street in the Hill neighborhood. Witnesses reported a charcoal colored car fleeing the scene there, which generally matched the description of the vehicle on Kensington Street.
Wednesday's shooting reminded Lucy Weston of the shooting that claimed her nephew Justus Suggs more than five years ago. A gunman sprayed a crowd. In the Hill and Justus, 13, who wasn't the intended target was shot in the head and later died.
"This is totally sickening. Teach them from the cradle to the grave," she said of the danger os guns and the street life. "Then they know."
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Is LM6142 a good choice. The datasheet for LM6142 says Gain 108dB with RL = 10k (so, does that mean I can achieve 100x gain with one op-amp of these)? Thanks.
1) By using TLV2371, I can bias at 2.5V and use from Gnd to +5V, right?
2) Whats the maximum gain of TLV2371? I need maximum gain of 200 either with single op-amp (like lm386) or dual op amp (like lm 358)?


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3-1/2" Column Drop for Key Column - 2" Dia.
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Flaming River's column drops are machined from billet aluminum with a smooth radius edge. This sleek design is available in satin or polished finish. Available in 1-3/4" and 2" diameter to fit all Flaming River column styles.
Diameter: 2"
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The name Teheran (Tehran), as well as the small, radiant flowers in the foreground, indicates that the print is an interpretation of a Persian carpet. The lobed leaves in varying colours are reminiscent of the plant dye colours madder, wild mignonette and indigo. Teheran was designed in the 1940s, but it was printed for the first time in 1991.
Josef Frank's textiles with the 315 linen designation are best suited for curtains, pillows and other textile products. They can also be used as upholstery fabric on furniture that is not exposed to excessive wear, such as in the home.
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Steve Subar is CEO and President of OK Labs.
Motorola and T-Mobile have announced the launch of a new and innovative Android-based smartphone, the Cliq. This attractive, feature-rich slider handset happens to build on a chipset and firmware that feature OKL4 inside. Definitely cool, but not the focus of this article.
The buzz about this new handset comes from Blur, the social media UI Motorola developed to run on top of Android. Blur aggregates messaging streams and content from Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace, Picasa and a dozen other portals and services. Like many new applications and services, Blur aspires to provide both an end-user experience AND a developer platform.
The dual nature of Blur has prompted cries of Foul and Fragmentation from a number of industry voices, especially from fans and followers of the underlying Android platform. At issue is that instead of augmenting Android, Blur could take on a life of its own, distracting developers and further fragmenting the already splintered smartphone software segment.
The potential for Android fragmentation has existed since Google launched the platform. The search giant and its partners in the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) chose the permissive Apache license to govern Android. Apache offers comfort to manufacturers (OEMs) but worries many that without other strong governance, those OEMs will fork Android to suit their own needs.
I won't argue the merit of these fears, nor of OHA's anti-fragmentation pledge. Instead, let's look at the issue from the OEM point of view. OEMs live in a crowded, noisy, competitive marketplace. To stand out, handset OEMs need to build and market highly differentiated devices with clear, branded added value. However, some of the leading mobile platforms run counter to that need. On one hand, they provide a rich user experience. On the other, they lock OEMs into a narrow look and feel and branding -- a phone built with these platforms is first an instance of that software, and second, a product of the OEM. This type of commoditization, akin to the desktop PC marketplace, is anathema to mobile handset design.
So, it is completely comprehensible why OEMs would seek to customize, re-skin and re-brand a platform like Android. However, the further an OEM takes Android from its off-the-shelf architecture and APIs, the more difficult it becomes for ISVs and developers to target that device with the platform SDK and standard software.
I would like to posit an alternative to the trend and temptation to fragment for differentiation: you guessed it -- mobile virtualization. By deploying mobile virtualization, OEMs can retain a 100% platform-compliant environment in tandem with a custom-branded and differentiated one, boasting an interface that helps their devices stand out in the mobile crowd. OEMs can deploy a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) mobile OS like Android, SymbianOS, or Windows Mobile in one virtual machine (VM), and a fully customized vendor-specific interface in another. The differentiating VM could host a complete instance of the customized COTS OS, or just lighter weight code that lets the device strut its stuff, communicating with the COTS OS VM via high-speed hypervisor IPCs.
Mobile virtualization brings the best of both worlds to OEMs, ISVs and developers -- a COTS platform and APIs with an opportunity to differentiate mobile products and product families. As a balm for fragmentation, mobile virtualization offers mobile network operators and consumers more opportunities for new services and access to ever-larger software portfolios.


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As far as we know, this is the only official, Diesel-equipped VW that can pull wheelies. Of course, it's the only one that can pull stoppies too, as evidenced by the gallery of Dakar practice action photos below.
These photos were taken as Carlos Sainz put in one last practice session before packing his VW Race Touareg 3 off to Buenos Aires for the start of the 14-day Dakar rally on January 1.
Like the past two race Touaregs, gone is pretty much everything but the headlights and grille, replaced with a steel space-frame chassis covered with a carbon fiber and Kevlar body. Power comes from a twin-turbocharged 2.5-liter TDI diesel delivering 300 hp and 442 lb-ft of torque to a ZF-Sachs five-speed sequential transmission with a three-plate ceramic clutch. Three limited-slip differentials deliver power through a high-travel suspension system similar to the the one fitted to the race-winning Touaregs in 2009 and 2010. The new trucks have been optimized for the tremendous 15,000 foot race elevation changes, so performance won't suffer so badly when the engines are starved of oxygen. 0-62 mph comes in just 6.1 seconds with a top speed of 117 mph.
Sainz won the 2010 Dakar in his VW Race Touareg 2, we don't expect the result to much different this year.
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DECOLOCK DQ2 is a 2-point truss system made of aluminium. The individual elements are connected via two cones, pivots and pins.
The advantage of the conical connection system is that the cones completely fit into the main chords so that highest load capacity is guaranteed. The Quick-Lock system enables fast, efficient and highly aesthetic assembly when the truss constructions are frequently assembled and dismantled.
The two main chords are made of 35 mm aluminium tube with 2 mm wall thickness and offer sufficient strength at a low weight. The braces have a diameter of 10 mm with 2 mm wall thickness and provide the system with a decorative appearance.
With DECOLOCK, you can realize compact installations with low self weight, e. g. for shop displays, shop decorations, exhibitions, interior design, fair booths, discotheques and theatres.
DECOLOCK is primarily designed for decorative installations and can be used for permanent or temporary installations due to its highly aestethic appearance. The advantages of this system are the compact construction with 220 mm outer dimensions, low weight, optimum strength along with easy and quick assembly.
The documentation of this truss system is closely related to the Codes of Practice SR 1.0 - Provision and Use of Truss Systems published by the VPLT/PLASA. The GSI/SLV welding approval, the load tables and the engineering drawings can be downloaded from the Internet before buying the product!
Please note: this truss system must never be combined with other systems!
System components (straights):
Designation No. Weight (kg)
Materials used: Alloy EN-AW 6060 T66 (AlMgSi0.5 T66)
Main chords 35 x 2 mm
Braces 10 x 2 mm
Accessory/truss 2 x connecting cone, pivot, pin
Load table DQ2:
Span (m) Point load (kg) UDL (kg/m)
2 90 165
4 60 54
6 50 20
8 44 12
10 35 6
12 30 4
Maximum system-length: 8 meters
The load capacities given in this load table are based on the German standard DIN 4113.
The capacities are only valid for static loads supported at both ends and must never be exceeded!
Please refer to the VPLT Code of Practice SR1.0 available under www.plasa.org and www.vplt.org
For BS and ANSI compliance multiply the given capacities with 0.85.
This load table is only valid for trussing systems made of ALUTRUSS components.
This load table is not valid for circular truss.
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A research paper published two years ago claimed that the dissemination of chain letters on the Internet represented a new and unusual model of information diffusion. This week, another pair of researchers have published a paper saying that the earlier one may be jumping to conclusions. Instead, it suggests that the unique way chain letters seemed to travel from inbox to inbox was mostly a result of the study design itself. The results indicate that scientists may need to be more careful about selection biases and the limits of the Internet before drawing conclusions about how digital information gets around.
The diffusion of most things, from information to disease, can be described by a 140-year-old rule discovered by two Victorian researchers: if an item, like an infection, is passed to less than one person on average, it will peter out, usually rather quickly. If it's passed to more than one person on average, not only will it survive, but it will spread very widely, reaching a huge number of people in a very small number of steps. This may seem obvious, but the two models aren't exhaustive. Researchers thought it might be possible for new models of diffusion to arise, especially in the new environment of the Internet.
A few years ago, two researchers decided to turn this lens on the Internet to see if information travel fit either of these two scenarios. To establish a model, they looked at the paths of two chain letters: a petition supporting public radio and television and a petition protesting the Iraq war.
When they plotted the paths of the letters, they found that the rate of forwarding was low: about 0.95 people passed the letter on for every person that received it. According to the model above, the letters should have died out.
But instead of having a short chain of a few dozen nodes, the letters' spread continued on, extending through long, slim trees, with most people receiving the letter after it had passed through hundreds of other hands. Despite the unfavorable ratio of senders to receivers, more than 10,000 people recieved each of the letters.
The models suggested the Internet may not obey the usual rules of information dissemination—while the trees appeared fragile, they seemed to be supported by some mysterious process that allowed them to survive through the actions of rare individuals. The researchers who modelled the letters thought they might be looking at a new norm for information paths.
However, for the new paper, a pair of Stanford researchers recreated the data, and they realized that the survival mechanisms were far from mysterious. Rather, it seems this was the only type of chain letter that could survive long enough to be identified based on the criteria the earlier researchers used.
The Stanford scientists pointed out that, because the study only looked at chain letters that reached a large number of people, it was impossible to see any letters that might have had a subcritical ratio of receivers to senders—these letters would have died out too quickly to achieve the wide-reaching spread that the earlier researchers wanted to study. It's entirely possible, the Stanford researchers noted, that the Internet may not be able to sustain a chain letter that follows the usual supercritical path where each person passes it on to more than one person.
If a letter did reach epidemic status (read: was forwarded to every person in everybody's address book), they postulated that e-mail servers could be brought to their knees. This suggests that truly epidemic chain letters are snuffed out by their own scale before they even really get going.
The new researchers also noted they could only reproduce dissemination trees of a similar style when they left out a portion of the simulated nodes. In the first study, these missing nodes might correspond to short branches that terminated quickly, where the lists of participants were not recovered. When the missing nodes were included, the complete profile of the chain letters' travels might have looked a little more like the classical supercritical spread.
It's still possible that the chain letters' trees represent a type of information diffusion not covered by the subcritical-supercritical ratios. There may even be mechanisms that can guide chain letter diffusion trees into these long, narrow shapes. But, given to the issues the Standford researchers found, they think it's likely that either the earlier study did not have the whole picture, or that the paths these chain letters traced are highly atypical.
While chain letters are no longer as de rigueur as they were in earlier years of the Internet, the lessons they can convey are more trend-proof, since they may apply to other travel patterns. In order to get a better sense of their behavior, the Stanford researchers suggest that scientists may need to focus on gathering more complete data sets before drawing conclusions.
PNAS, 2010. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000814107, 10.1073/pnas.0708471105 (About DOIs).


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Artist Profile: Duncan Malashock
How did you know? I'm totally fascinated by that book and its implications, especially when it comes to culture and the Internet. In case you haven't read it, here's the basic idea:
It's a science fiction story, in the distant future on Earth, in a European province named Castalia. Castalia is the archetypical ivory tower, an academic sanctuary where students practice a form of abstract cultural study called the Glass Bead Game. The game operates on the principle that every field of knowledge can be broken down into its component parts, and so the "beads" which make up the game are each symbolic of a "unit" of cultural knowledge or accomplishment from the arts, humanities, sciences, history, etc. The idea is that these beads can be linked and juxtaposed together, the goal being for players to share their revelations of cultural insight through making connections between elements of all the arts and sciences.
"...a passage from the Bible, a phrase from one of the Church Fathers, or from the Latin text of the Mass could be expressed and taken into the Game just as easily and aptly as an axiom of geometry or a melody of Mozart."
It seems like a utopian idea, the accomplishment of uniting the disciplines, but the story deals with the complications of studying culture while being removed from the necessities and urgency which made that culture possible in the first place; and in a way, it's about that detachment and privilege symbolizing the end of culture.
I'm sure lots of readers and writers have seen the connection since the Internet was created. Remixing, memes, "supercuts", reblogging, and the hyperlink all bear a resemblance to this idealized mode of analyzing and resynthesizing cultural material at a distance. Even the act of using the Internet, of having a peek at the total field of global culture via the network of information, can pretty easily give you the impression of an ex-cultural experience. So to me The Glass Bead Game is a really thorough critique of that way of interacting with the world.
Anyway, I think about it a ton, although you'd never know it from that tiny video I made except for the name; it happened to fit in with the series of performance documentations I did, and I couldn't resist playing around with the idea. So thanks for asking.
Recently you gave a talk about your early experiences with computers and the tools that you used growing up. Would you still be exploring ideas about technology in your art without this background?
A lot of my work deals with interfaces, either making them, using them, or automating their use. Those mediated experiences, you could say, are a tech-oriented phenomenon, but really the way I figure it, you could just as well say that any experience can be mediated through anything else that's a "medium". Personally, I tend to explore ideas that come about through my personal relationship to technology as a medium. And I think that's pretty normal for an artist, no matter what materials are involved, because I see the creative process as basically being made of two interacting mechanisms. The first is your own ability to manipulate what you're working on, and the second is your ability to be emotionally and intellectually affected by the results. It's a feedback loop, where the results of one process affect the tactics of the other; you see what "works" and what doesn't "work", whatever that happens to mean at the time, and you go back and change it until it does.
From what I can tell, that's how to play the game, and that's the way it's always been done. I think it applies no matter what your medium is, even if your practice is very conceptualist or driven by critical theory; you're still manipulating something and being attuned to the result. Whether it's paint, or sculpture, or JavaScript, or basket-weaving, or conceptualist declarations, or Facebook performances.
So even though technology got my attention at a young age, and I'm of course interested in all the ways technology has transformed our society, I think some of the most valuable ideas artists explore are going to be informed by their relationship to the medium they use; I try to stick to that.
Distorted Scans in Google Books
"Could there be a fitter representation of copyright's contemporary plight than the fingers of a Google technician obscuring Kant's defense of writer's rights? An author's consent, Kant cautions in a footnote, 'can by no means be presumed because he has already given it exclusively to another', yet Google is struggling to effect exactly this sort of transfer of consent today, as it attempts to win approval for a legal settlement in the United States that will allow it to republish works whose copyright owners have not come forward. I couldn't have read Kant's essay so easily without the Google technician's labour - in fact, without Google, I might not have got around to reading it at all - but her fingers were nonetheless in the way. The internet's attitude toward Kant's words is ambiguous, combining respect, appropriation, liberation and accidental vandalism," Caleb Crain once wrote, having discovered a spectral-seeming hand, while conducting research for his review of Adrian Johns's Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. (The page has been rescanned, but the image is still on Nicholas Carr's blog.)
Wohlgemeynte Gedanken über den Dannemarks-Gesundbrunnen by Johan Gottschalk Wallerius is scarcely recognizable as a book with hundreds of distorted pages. (via Waxy.)
Bidoun #25 Inspired By Jan 25th in Cairo
Twenty-five is special. This, the twenty-fifth issue of Bidoun: Art and Culture from the Middle East, responds to the Egyptian revolution that began on the 25th of January. (Twenty-five is also the median age of the Egyptian people.) In April and May, a group of Bidoun editors took over the first floor of The Townhouse Gallery in downtown Cairo, five minutes from Tahrir Square, to better understand what happened, and what did not happen, during the eighteen days of revolt, and after. We wanted to think critically about art and revolution and whether it was possible to make a magazine that wouldn't totally betray either. And so we walked around and looked and talked and—especially—we listened.
Bidoun 25 is the result, a rough and ready document, bristling with words—the product of over fifty unique interviews in Arabic and English, along with roundtable discussions, political party platforms, TV transcriptions, overheard dialogue, public apologies, dreams, tweets, and email forwards. Conversations and as-told-to tales appear amid found texts of every kind, from soap-operatic Mubarak family melodramas to post-revolutionary paperbacks to lists of looted antiquities and a compendium of negations found in news headlines (from "EGYPT IS NOT LIBYA" to "ZIMBABWE IS NOT EGPYT, HONEST.") Bidoun 25 is our most collaborative issue yet, produced in concert with dozens of Egyptian writers, artists, architects, and activists (including guest editor Yasmine El Rashidi). The result, we hope, is a kind of composite portrait, at once disjointed and revealing, partial but not trivial.
Inside, you'll meet the first family of the revolts, an intergenerational (and confusingly named) activist band that includes, among others human rights lawyer Ahmed Self El-Islam, computer whiz Alaa Abd El Fattah, and Sanaa Seif, a seventeen-year-old whose new magazine, Gornal, was born in Tahrir Square. You'll encounter ...
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On Rock Paper Shotgun, an essay about the "bizarre, ambitious Spectrum game/band spin-off Frankie Goes To Hollywood – a game of pop music, terraced houses, sperm, Nazi bombers, Reagan spitting at Gorbachev and murder most foul." (via things magazine) Rachel Lord writes about the history of khaki for DIS magazine, "khaki was a Victorian military breakthrough. A technology, first and foremost, that gave the "Informal Empire" of Great Britain her second wind... When confronted with the realities of non-conventional, guerilla-style warfare in harsh climates against an ever-changing enemy, their primary issue was their inflexibility." "Instagram is all about death. The 70s filters our parents used, artifacts of cameras we've never held. Nostalgia is the negation of death, it proves we are still living even without an identifiable future. Instagram is a machine for producing instant nostalgia, a ward against death...We are told that digital (over)sharing on social networks and the like is a natural human impulse, that we're merely augmenting extant human needs, the need to communicate, to form social groups. But what if sharing is actually a mourning for what we have lost? Or, that which our lives are now too full to contain."- James Bridle Geoff Dyer's first column for the NYT on recursive summarizing in an academic book, not unlike "watching a rolling news program: Coming up on CNN . . . A look ahead to what's coming up on CNN." Hito Steyerl, Right in Our Face (e-Flux) The fact is that if I've learned one thing in two years of studying how we think about the future, it's that the one thing that's sorely lacking in the public imagination is positive ideas about where we should be going. We seem to do everything about our future except try to design ...
Simon Denny, 3-D Vessel 2 (2011)
3-D Vessel 2, (2011.) Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin. (Based in Berlin.)
Simon Denny explores how material is encountered in an age in which technological overproduction and media overkill are yesteryear's assumed norm. For based in Berlin, Denny will present a project developed in Aachen, which focuses on a German production company's input in shaping the appear- ance of a global media exemplar. The artist will present a sculptural illustration of material surrounding a "scripted journey" and the spaces that provide these. The presentation spotlights the Aachen-based chrome-finishing factory responsible for fitting out the fantasy cruise liner boats of an internationally dominant U.S. entertainment company. The exhibition features a video made by the factory of their products alongside a 3D walk through their equally scripted factory premises in Aachen, shot by Denny on the new 3D Panasonic HDC-SDT750, the supposed first 3D home video camera. In doing so, Denny applies the industry's latest gimmicky must to the production process that gives its material relics their seductive sheen.


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Gateway Chapter (St. Louis, MO)
The Gateway Chapter of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association (SCAA) covers the St. Louis Metropolitan and Southern Illinois geographic area. The Gateway Chapter's mission is to increase awareness of Sudden Cardiac Arrest and reduce unnecessary death from this equal opportunity killer. We intend to pursue this objective through legislative, educational, and other awareness programs providing equipment, training, and education for the general public. We also intend to serve as a support group for SCA survivors and the families of those impacted by Sudden Cardiac Arrest.
Linda Dickson, the Gateway Chapter leader, a wife and mother of two, is a survivor of Sudden Cardiac Arrest with a strong interest in ensuring that everyone be familiar with CPR and AED procedures to improve the survival chances for those stricken.
Upcoming Events
Next Gateway Chapter meeting
Date: Thursday, May 4th, 2017
Where: West County EMS & Fire Station
223 Henry Ave, Manchester, MO
Time: 6:30pm
When heading to the fire station: follow henry ave to the right around the bend; you will see an entrance on the left hand side
Don't listen to your GPS when it says you are here. You need to follow the road around the bend!!!
Our next meeting will be in September!
Where: West County EMS & Fire Station 223 Henry Ave, Manchester, MO
Time: 6:30pm
On February 11, 2017, the gateway chapter hosted their 7th annual Got Heart Trivia night. We donated 6 AEDs and had 2 hero celebrations. We are happy to report we raised $11,000.00. This will help us donate many more AEDS. Thank you to all our volunteers and thanks to the those who supported us!!! We look forward to seeing you on February 17, 2018 for our 8th annual Got Heart trivia night!!!!!
Trinity Catholic High School
Eye Care charity of Mid-America
American Legion Post 444
VFW Post 4105
Jr Jaegar Football league
Vietnam Veterans of America Mid Rivers Chapter 458
We are planning a meeting for Thursday, January 5th. This will be a combination social meeting and some trivia night info. I hope everyone can make it.
It will be at the same place. (When heading to the fire station: follow henry ave around the bend; you will see an entrance on the left hand side)
Feel free to bring a snack to share and your non-alcoholic drinks.
**When: Thursday, Jan 5th**
Where: West County EMS & Fire Station 223 Henry Ave, Manchester, MO
Time: 6:30
Gateway's 2017
Trivia Night
April 2016
February 2016
2015 St. Luke's Hospital Rehab Hospital Conference
Our Chapter was invited to attend St. Luke's Rehab Hospital conference. It was a great way for us to connect with nurses at all the area hospitals.
On October 11, 2015 we honored 3 individuals and 8 EMS for saving Mark Young's life. A year ago, at the 1st race to the shrine, Mark survived a SCA. These individuals provided life saving CPR and when the EMS arrived they continued Mark's care. We are honored to help Mark Young celebrate these heroes!
On April 29, 2015, our chapter attended the Christian Hospital Hattitude Health fair. It was attended by 350 women. We were happy to teach all the importance of CPR and AEDs.
Update on Trivia Night
On February 21st, the Gateway Chapter held their 5th Annual Got Heart trivia night. We had over 35 baskets to raffle off and 20 silent auctions to bid on. We raised over $11,500!! In addition to this, our chapter donated 5 AEDs and had a hero celebration. It was a wonderful event!!
February 2015
July 2014
Last month our chapter hosted our 1st hands only CPR class. Bill and Linda shared their SCA stories prior to the demo of the hands only CPR! Florissant Police Department was so happy with the class that they have already booked their 2nd class for August!!!
May 6,2014
Bill Schafer, SCA survivor and Gateway Chapter member, received one of Missouri's 2014 Senior Service Awards. Bill has spent countless hours teaching CPR and how to use AED to the citizen's of Missouri! We are very proud of Bill and all his hard work.
On April 16,2014, our chapter honored three individuals for their life saving actions. Vicky Curtis, RN, Scott McMurry, and Officer Kim Berry saved the life of 14 year old Teron. We can never thank these individuals enough!
On February 22, 2014 The Gateway Chapter hosted our 4th annual Got Heart trivia night. 340 people gather in the Von Gontard Room at Mercy Hospital to support our mission. We donated three AEDs to local non profits. We had over 45 baskets in our basket raffle and more than 25 items for a silent auction. We had a great game of heads and tails and a 50/50 drawing of $345. The rounds of trivia were fun and also hard at times. In the end, we raised ~~~ drum roll please ~~ $12,540!!!! We would like to thank all who supported us! With out you, we would not be successful!!!
February 1, 2014 Hockey Event
The Gateway Chapter sold "chuck a pucks" at the St. Charles Chill Hockey game. We raised $318.25 to put towards our donation AEDs. We also had a great time talking to people about our mission.
On November 21, 2013, our chapter was proud to be a part of the Wildwood YMCA's hero celebration. Patrick, in the middle, was able to thank Jim and Doug, his two heros, just 64 days after his SCA. We were honored to be a part of this celebration.
On June 6th, the Gateway Chapter celebrated CPR and AED awareness week with a night at the Rascal's game. Angie and Ethan, both are SCA survivors, represented our chapter by throwing out the 1st pitch. We raised over $500 for our chapter to help with our AED donation program.
Here are some of the pictures from the event:
SCAA Gateway Chapter Volunteers Attempt To Set A CPR World Record
ST. PETERS, MO (KTVI) – It was a life-saving attempt at a world record in St. Peters this weekend. Volunteers tried to set the record for "most people taught CPR in 24 hours". Most who came to the event at Ft. Zumwalt East High School to learn had never needed to know CPR. They never knew who needed it…or so they thought.
3rd Annual Trivia Night
On February 16, the Gateway Chapter of SCAA hosted the 3rd Annual "Got Heart" trivia night at the Mercy Hospital of St. Louis, MO. We presented the First Washington United Methodist Church of Washington, MO and St. Joseph's Catholic Church and school of St. Josephville, MO an AED from the proceeds of our 2nd annual trivia night. This evening was full of trivia and fun. We increased our event by almost 50% and were able to raise over $7,600. We would like to thank all our sponsors and contributors but most of all we would like to thank those who attended our evening. Without you, we would not be able to do our great work. We hope to see you in 2014 for our 4th annual "Got Heart" trivia.
St. Joseph Catholic Church and School in St. Josephville, MO
First Washington United Methodist Church in Washington, MO
some of the Gateway Chapter members
2013 Contributors to the 3rd Annual Trivia Night:
Missouri Botanical Garden Old Town Donut Shop
Las Fuentes River City Rascals
Vantage Credit union Broken Bell Towing
Melissa Theime, 31 consultant Hendel's
Helfer's Main Street Books
Dan Farner, Edward Jones Metro East Monsieur School
Country House Nagle's
Ba SSTarr Productions & Gifts Main Street Market Place
Riverside Sweets Friperie
Happy Tails Six Flags
John Dengler, Tobacconist Dan & Judy Kelly
Soft Surrounding Qdoba
Dewey's Pizza De.Lish Cheese Cake Bakery and Café
St. Louis Art Museum Little Hills Winery and Restaurant
Little Caesar's pizza Shop n Save
Portrait Innovations TH Photography & Design
Laurie Solet Boutique Nancee Salyer, Salyer Perfusion
Cheesecake Factory Gallo Wine
Crest Bowl Curly Q Creations
Handyman Hardware Scott Dankerbring
Nascar Speedpark KFOU
American Heart Association Putting Edge – St. Louis Mills
Innsbrooks Golf Maryland Heights Aquaport
Raging Rivers Zuga Fitness
Salon Ltd. Country House
Island Carousel- St. Louis Outlet Mall Paul and Carol Temme
Handyman Hardware The Tavern
The Corner Pub Brunswick Bowling
Starbucks~~ Florissant Location Cannoli's
Home Depot of Florissant Bill and Ruth Schafer
Vera Bradley David Bruder
Dominic Michael Salon Jilly's Cupcakes
B & B Heating and Cooling Doozle's
St Louis Cinemas Sky Zone
Home Depot Dierberg's
City of Florissant Golfing Lowe's
Debbie Clifton, Longaberger Oral B & Smile Station Dental
Golf Club Liquidators Mitchell James Salon
White Buffalo Massage Sam's Club
Demko Orthodontics Beauty Brands – Wentzville
Chilis Jake on Main
City of Florissant QT
Legal Technology Dooleys Florissant
Gold's Gym - Dorsett Pam Gordon
Join Us for the 3rd Annual Trivia Night, February 16th, 2013!
KMOV – The Gateway Chapter of Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association, whose mission is to increase awareness of heart health, is holding its second annual trivia night Saturday at SSM St. Clare Health Center in Fenton. The mission is to raise money for non-profit organizations to help pay for AEDs- automated external defibrillators.
Florissant Resident Dedicates Her Heart to Sudden Cardiac Arrest
After suffering an episode of sudden cardiac arrest, Linda Dickson has worked to create more success stories like hers.
On November 15, 2011, chapter leader, Linda Dickson, received a proclamation from the City of Florissant, MO. This proclamation highlighted SCA and the work she has done to raise awareness of SCA, AEDs, and CPR.
On June 23rd, we had three survivors with their heros throw out the first pitch at the River City Rascals game. We also had a table set up to help raise awareness of AEDs, CPR, and SCA.
After tackling heart problem, woman tries to help others
Linda Dickson never considered herself a philosopher. ,.But in March 2007, she was hospitalized. Lucky to be alive — and lucky to have a memory — she pondered her near-death experience.
"I wondered, what's my purpose?" she said. "Why did I survive?"
Regular visits to a gym helped to maintain her body and gave her the stamina to keep up with her two pre-teen daughters.
So why did she black out and wind up on the floor of her church, her heart not beating, with one registered nurse compressing her chest and another administering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation?
On March 5th, the Gateway Chapter held its first annual Got Heart? Trivia Night. We are happy to announce that we have raised enough money to donate an AED in the metro St. Louis area. Everyone had a great time, and we have already started planning the second annual!!!
Gateway Representatives attend Red Cross Lobby Day
Dick Byland and Linda Dickson were invited by Dana Garner of the Red Cross to attend their lobby day. March is Red Cross month in Missouri. Dana Garner, who is an employee of the Red Cross and a chapter member, also attended. The Red Cross is helping a State Representative get House Bill 482 into the House. This Bill would require all Fitness Centers to have an AED.
Gateway Chapter Representatives Attend Heart Fairs!
On February 26th, Scott, Ruth, & Bill went to St. Luke's Day of Dance & they were able to do something "shocking". They spoke to hundreds (well, it seemed like hundreds) about the life saving things an AED can do! St. Luke reported over a 1,000 attended this Day of Dance!
Our chapter was delighted to be asked to help with the St. John's Heart to heart fair on February 25th and 26th. We were able to educate people on the importance of AEDs by Linda Dickson's presentation and our informational booth. Over the two days, we talked to so many that we lost count!!!! We were told that over 1,200 were registered for this event.
On Saturday, February 19th, 250 arrived at the SSM Heart Fair. Bill, Scott, & Dick of the Gateway Chapter were ready to show everyone how to use an AED. Many were very surprised to see how easy you could save someone's life!
Even though it was the first beautiful day in St. Louis in a long time, 370 people showed up for the Christian Mega Heart fair. The Gateway Chapter table was purposely put next to the AED (look for it in the pictures). How great was that!!! We talked and showed our AED trainer to a lot of people! Hopefully, we inspired someone to take a CPR/AED class.
Snow does not stop CPR Made Simple Event
Feb. 5, 2011- Waking up to one more snowy morning in St. Louis did not stop the CPR Made Simple Event from taking place on Saturday, Feb 5 at the Kirkwood, MO Community Center. The roads were covered and it would have been much cozier to be at home. Instead, those who braved the weather learned lifesaving skills to help someone who is experiencing a breathing emergency. Kicking off Heart Month, the Gateway Chapter, SSM St. Clare Health Center Heart Safe PAD Program and the American Red Cross St. Louis Area Chapter joined together to offer CPR Made Simple to the community. The 90- minute program is ideal for those who want to know more, but do not want or need the in-depth knowledge and skills learned in a full certification CPR/AED course. Participants learned how to help someone who is choking, or who is not breathing or may need CPR or the use of an AED. Our own Chapter Member, Dick Bylund, told his story of survival to the group as a real example of the importance of learning lifesaving skills. Each participant received the First Aid and CPR for Everyone Practice Tool Kit (shown above), an event t-shirt and a gift certificate towards the purchase of American Red Cross training or preparedness products. This program was made possible through funding from Maritz and was available to the community for just a $5 registration fee.
Several who attended were: a young couple with a seven month old son, a middle schooler who encouraged her dad to join her so she could learn more ways to help people and two Boy Scouts who were encouraged to attend by their Mom who is in the healthcare field and has been previously certified in CPR and AED.
We hope to host another event in the community in October during Sudden Cardiac Awareness Month.
For more information, contact: Pam Gordon, Member and SSM St. Clare Health Center Heart Safe PAD Program Coordinator @: 636-399-6447 or email@example.com.
On Saturday, Feb 5th, Jeff & Linda Dickson made it to MoBap to participate in their Heart Fair. It was a slippery drive to the hospital, but having the 4 wheel drive helped. It was a slow start but people finally showed up. They talked to about 125 people who were able to see and run an AED trainer. They are holding a raffle on March 5th for a CPR class for 4. In order to get into the raffle at one of the heart fairs, you must learn about the AED. We can't wait to talk to more people at the rest of the fairs this month!!
Automated External Defibrillators in Public Places
Click here for story on kmov.com
The Show Me Mustang club of St. Louis gave the Gateway Chapter of SCAA a generous donation to help them purchase AEDs for the St. Louis area. We would like to thank them for their support. If you are interested in mustangs, please visit their website: showmemustang.com.
Group pursues cardiac arrest awareness
The last thing Linda Dickson remembered was passing a piece of paper to her daughter during a Ladies Guild meeting at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Florissant.
About 24 hours later, she woke up from a coma and discovered she was in a hospital.
Defibrillator donated to Kids R Kids in O'Fallon, Missouri
An O'Fallon, Missouri school has a defibrillator thanks to a mother whose life was saved by one of the devices.
Mary Smith is a member of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association and is helping raise awareness about the importance of people being CPR certified and having AEDs in public places.
Marelly Products donated a defibrillator to Kids R Kids where Smith's child goes to school in honor of National CPR/AED awareness week and after hearing about her story.
Hear Chapter Leader Linda Dickson's story and the work being done by the Gateway Chapter in her interview with KMOV-4 by clicking here.
March 14, 2010: Linda Dickson, chairperson of the Gateway Chapter, was invited to KMOX 1120 News/Sport Radio Station in St. Louis, MO to speak on a fitness show about Sudden Cardiac Arrest and our new Gateway chapter. Linda was able to tell her SCA story, raise awareness of the importance of AEDs in public areas, and invited the public to join our chapter. Thanks to Monica Adams with KMOX.
Health Fair News
St. John's Mercy Health Fair was held February 19 and 20, 2010. Approximately 1,500 people registered for the event. Representatives from the SCAA Gateway Chapter spoke to attendees about sudden cardiac arrest and AEDS. We also had an AED trainer demonstrate how easy an AED is to use. Here is a comment received from the director of the Fair:
I went to dinner with my girlfriends last night. They are STILL talking about the trio of men from your group. Their stories really moved them...and they said one of the best exhibitors at the fair! Thank you for being there.
The SCAA Gateway Chapter was represented at the SSM Health Fair on February 13. The Fair featured keynote speakers and vendors who provided education on a variety of medical issues.
Gateway Chapter Leader Linda Dickson and volunteers Bill Schafer and Dick Bylund provide valuable information to Health Fair Attendees.
On Friday, February 5, 2010, the Women's Heart Health - Her Heart - Every Beat Counts was held at the SSM St. Joseph/St. Charles Health Fair. The Gateway Chapter was represented by Linda Dickson, Dick Bylund, and Dana Garner. The event was a success with over 300 in attendance. Breakfast and lunch were served and the program included three distinguished doctors (an internist/cardiologist, cardiothoracic surgeon, and an electrophysiologist), as well as a heart attack survivor.
There were several opportunities for attendees to visit vendors including our own SCAA Gateway Chapter, American Heart Association, SSM, HeartWomen, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, and other vendors who provided education on a variety of medical issues.
The Fair was a wonderful opportunity to spread the word about sudden cardiac arrest and the Gateway Chapter's involvement in the community. We look forward to participating in the upcoming St. John's Mercy's Health Fair on February 19-20, 2010.
SCAA Gateway Chapter Survivors Meet for Kick Off Party
Front Row: Linda Dickson, Dick Bylund, Mary Smith
Second Row: Bob Rahm, Carolyn Holt, Bill Schafer
Members Jackie Rahm, Linda Dickson, Dick Bylund, Mary Smith
Bob Rahm, Jeff Dickson, Carolyn Holt, Bill Schafer, Dana Garner
At January meeting, chapter members enjoyed a tour of the new rehabilitation center and hospital room at SSM St. Clare Hospital.
Bill Schafer, Dick Bylund and Linda Dickson proudly display SCAA banner
Members visit with Maggie Crane of Channel 4 news after interview.
October 2, 2011 Ruth and Bill Schafer handled the Health Fair table for the Gateway Chapter SCAA. This was a small affair, about 150 people were registered. We had good interest in Annie and the Defibrillator. We probably had about 25 people actually try to defibrillate and "do something shocking".
Linda Dickson
1210 St. Patrice Ln.
Florissant, MO 63031
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