text: Corneal Epithelial Cell Growth Kit (ATCC® PCS-700-040™) General Information Characteristics Culture Conditions Specifications Documentation Print Email Share Share this product Facebook Twitter Google+ Permits and Restrictions View Permits Biosafety Level 1 Biosafety classification is based on U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines, it is the responsibility of the customer to ensure that their facilities comply with biosafety regulations for their own country. Product Format frozen 1 kit Storage Conditions -20°C (or -70°C for long-term storage) Comments Corneal Epithelial Cell Growth Kit (ATCC PCS-700-040) contains components that when added to Corneal Epithelial Cell Basal Medium (ATCC PCS-700-030) creates a complete ATCC® Primary Cell Solution&trad; culture environment for epithelial cells derived from normal human corneal. The serum-free medium formulation is designed to support normal corneal epithelial cell morphology as well as promote rapid growth and proliferation. No feeder layers, extracellular matrix proteins or other substrates are required. The final concentration for each component in ATCC complete corneal epithelial growth medium is as follows: Apo-Transferrin: 5 µg/mL Epinephrine: 1.0 µM Extract P: 0.4% Hydrocortisone: 100 ng/mL L-Glutamine: 6 mM rh Insulin: 5 µg/ml CE Growth Factor: Proprietary formulation Complete Growth Medium Obtain one growth kit from the freezer; make sure that the caps of all components are tight. Thaw the components of the growth kit just prior to adding them to the basal medium. It is necessary to warm the L-glutamine component in a 37°C water bath and shake to dissolve any precipitates prior to adding to the basal medium. Obtain one bottle of Corneal Epithelial Cell Basal Medium (485 mL) from cold storage. Decontaminate the external surfaces of all growth kit component vials and the basal medium bottle by spraying with 70% ethanol. Using aseptic technique and working in a laminar flow hood or biosafety cabinet, transfer the indicated volume of each growth kit component to the bottle of basal medium using a separate sterile pipette for each. Table 1. Corneal Epithelial Cell Growth Kit Components Component Volume Final Concentration Apo-transferrin 0.5 mL 5 µg/mL Epinephrine 0.5 mL 1.0 µM Extract P 2 mL 0.4% Hydrocortisone Hemisuccinate 0.5 mL 100 ng/mL L-Glutamine 15 mL 6 mM rh Insulin 0.5 mL 5 µg/mL CE Growth Factor 1 mL Proprietary formulation Antimicrobials and phenol red are not required for proliferation, but may be added if desired. The recommended volume of each optional component to be added to the complete growth media is summarized in Table 2. Table 2. Addition of Antimicrobials/Antimycotics and Phenol Red (Optional) Component Volume Final Concentration Gentamicin-Amphotericin B Solution 0.5 mL Gentamicin: 10 µg/mL Amphotericin B: 0.25 µg/mL Penicillin-Streptomycin-Amphotericin B Solution 0.5 mL Penicillin: 10 Units/mL Streptomycin: 10 µg/mL Amphotericin B: 25 ng/mL Phenol Red 0.5 mL 33 µM Tightly cap the bottle of complete growth medium and swirl the contents gently to assure a homogeneous solution. Do not shake forcefully to avoid foaming. Label and date the bottle. Complete media should be stored in the dark at 2°C to 8°C (do not freeze). When stored under these conditions, complete media is stable for 30 days. Volume 1 kit Sterility Tests Negative for bacteria, fungi and yeast Functional Tests Rate of proliferation and morphology. A Certificate of analysis (CoA) is available upon request for each lot of Corneal Epithelial Cell Growth Kit. C of A Certificate of Analysis Permits These permits may be required for shipping this product: Customers located in the state of Hawaii will need to contact the Hawaii Department of Agriculture to determine if an Import Permit is required. A copy of the permit or documentation that a permit is not required must be sent to ATCC in advance of shipment. Basic Documentation Product Sheet Certificate of Analysis SDS


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Terry Francona, re Youkilis's 0-for-6 showing in two PawSox games:
I asked him if he wanted to go to Double A to get some hits. He said no.The Fenway crowd cheered David Ortiz all evening, but he was hitless in four trips and is now 1-for-his-last-17. Francona:
If I said I hadn't thought about the lineup, that's not true. But I knew all along I really didn't [want to move Ortiz]. David and I talked about that a little bit. ... I don't want to tell a player, "Hey, if you keep struggling, we're going to move you down." ... The one thing I don't want to do is start bouncing the lineup all over the place. ... [I]t's our responsibility to not lose patience [just because] everybody is screaming to lose patience.Tito says that "if we move David around, everybody moves", but that's not really true. Anyway, Yook's return will disrupt the order, too. Why not simply switch Ortiz and J.D. Drew -- both left-handed hitters?
I'm not crazy about Bay hitting 6th, but as long as Ellsbury stays at the top and Francona wants to maintain a L-R-L-R-L-R pattern, that's where he fits. (Unless Bay is 4th and Youkilis 6th?)Ellsbury
Other returns/changes to the roster: Daisuke Matsuzaka, out with right shoulder strain since April 14, will start against the Mets (and Johan Santana) on Friday night. Francona says Mark Kotsay is "very close" to returning to the team.
John Smoltz begins his minor league rehab assignment in Greenville (A) Thursday night. He will throw about 50 pitches. If Smoltz takes the full 30 days allowed for the assignment, he would return on June 19, when the Red Sox host his old team, Atlanta.
Jed Lowrie continues his rehab, including light throwing and one-handed swings, "dry swings, just going through the motions to get my body acclimated to swinging with both hands". Lowrie says he has about 90% range of motion in his left wrist, whereas before surgery it was a painful 50% percent.
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BUT AS EVER forum readers you must ride one to believe it and try one before you buy your next board.
Test Report of the 134 Wainman Joke by a very happy UK customer.
Wainman Joke 134 x 40.5 Review
The board out of the box is a nice clean looking design with a clean outline and a smooth deck, having never been a fan of stepped decks this is a real bonus. The underside of the board does not look that radical, until you run your hand over it. On doing this you notice a fairly substantial convex bubble in the middle of the board, blended into concave channels either side of the bubble then running through the tips to the end of the board, the board offers a heavy rocker but nothing too extreme. The issue with the rocker is how to measure it with a convex bubble in the middle of the board!
To say it is a weird design is an understatement as it breaks the mould of the traditional kiteboard with a concave or flat, and the traditional wake board with a convex bottom. The rails are fairly thick and substantial and all in it looks like it will take a beating. The board is fitted with small 40mm fins and a brilliant set of pads and straps. Once built up the board does not feel heavy at all and weighs in at 3.85Kg which is about middle of the road.
The pads and straps are worth a special mention! The pads seem to be gel filled with a nice depression that the ball of your foot fits into perfectly, the pads are neither too hard or soft and with a low profile keeping the feeling between foot and board very direct. The straps are comfy and well shaped with a great plastic fitting on the end that screws neatly (and easily) through the pad. The stance widths are 55, 60, 65cm centre to centre.
On the water the board is simply amazing, it feels solid underfoot and is very easy to break out. I think the ability to break it out is aided by the convex bubble, no locked in feeling but at the same time does not feel sketchy at all. The board can be ridden as fast as you like and still feel in control, riding it slowly and slightly underpowered it does not bog down and still rides very nicely despite the rocker. The wake is clean behind the board and the small fins are not really noticeable in that they do not grab. Loading an edge and releasing it the board just flies off the water, it is one of (if not the) best releasing board I have ridden ever!
The pop is just amazing, the harder you load the edge the higher you go, no suction, no mushy feeling, nothing just a simple clean edge release. The landings on the joke are exactly that, I know it has been a marketing aid for Wainman but seriously it is just so easy to land everything. Over rotated jumps, off axis raileys, unbalanced kiteloops - if you can get the board back on the water base first you can land it simple as that. I think the convex base allows you so much freedom where other boards would catch an edge and trip you up the Joke allows you to slide the board round and ride away.
With many boards these days there is a lot of marketing bull that goes with the products. For most of us riding in average conditions (horrible chop, pouring rain, gusty - this was the weekend just gone) the main consideration should really be how comfortable is the board and how long can you ride it without feeling fatigued. Well for the Joke, especially considering how strong it is as a freestyle board, it is fantastic. The bottom shape eats chop literally, in 30 knots southerly at Hayling (not the best direction) I simply did not notice the chop, usually my body would be complaining within an hour. On the Joke nothing, very easy smooth ride.
As for carving, well on the face of the head high waves coming in at Hayling this weekend it was carving brilliantly. This coupled with a board that rides very well upwind (on the beach it definitely rides a few degrees higher than any other TT though this is very subjective), putting you back upwind very quickly for whatever you want to throw at it next. It really is a fantastic board and should be worth serious consideration for anyone after a new board. I have no affiliation with Wainman at all and spend my own hard earned, the Joke is a fantastic well built board that is amazing to ride. Words don't really do it justice it just has a massive grin factor!


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By Tessa Raebeck
From fast-growing local bands to slow food snail suppers, there's plenty to do on the East End this weekend. Here are some highlights:
The Montauk Project is playing at Swallow East in the band's hometown of Montauk Saturday, July 26 at 8 p.m. The local beach grunge rockers, who were born and bred on the island and are steadily gaining more recognition by music critics and enthusiasts alike, released their first full-length album, "Belly of the Beast," in March. The band, which consists of East Hampton's Chris Wood and Jack Marshall, Sag Harbor's Mark Schiavoni and Jasper Conroy of Montauk, will be joined by hip hop/rock hybrid PUSHMETHOD, who were voted the best New York City hip hop group of 2013 by The Deli magazine.
Eastern Surf Magazine said of the East End group, "The Montauk Project is far tighter than every other surf-inspired East Coast rock band to come before it." Swallow East is located at 474 West Lake Drive in Montauk. For more information, call (631) 668-8344.
Also on Saturday, People Say NY presents an open mic and art show at the Hayground School in Bridgehampton, starting at 8 p.m. In addition to featured grunge pop artist Adam Baranello and featured performer Danny Matos, who specializes in spoken word and hip hop, performers of all ages are encouraged to participate.
According to its mission statement, People Say NY "brings art back to the fundamentals, so we can remind ourselves why artists and art lovers alike do what we do."
The night of music, comedy and poetry has a sign-up and $10 cover and is at the Hayground School, located at 151 Mitchell Lane in Bridgehampton. For more information, visit peoplesayny.com or check out @PeopleSayNY on Twitter and Facebook.
In celebration of the release of the "Delicious Nutritious FoodBook" by the Edible School Garden Group of the East End, Slow Food East End hosts a Snail Supper at the home of Judiann Carmack-Fayyaz, located at 39 Peconic Hills Drive in Southampton. The supper will be held Friday, July 25, at 6 p.m.
Guests are asked to bring a potluck dish to share that serves six to eight people and aligns with the slow food mission, as well as local beverages. Capacity is limited to 50 and tickets are $20 for Slow Food East End members and $25 for non-members. The price includes a copy of the new cookbook. Proceeds from the evening will be shared between Slow Food East End and Edible School Gardens, Ltd. Click here to RSVP.
Some one hundred historians will converge upon Sag Harbor to enjoy the Eastville Community Historical Society's luncheon and walking tour of Eastville and Sag Harbor.
The day-long event starts at 8:30 a.m. with a welcome at the Old Whalers Church, located at 44 Union Street in Sag Harbor, followed by a walking tour at 9:30 a.m. to the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum, the Sag Harbor Custom House and the Sag Harbor Historical Society, which is located at Nancy Wiley's home. A shuttle bus is available for those needing assistance.
From 11:15 a.m. to noon, guests will visit the Eastville Community Historical Society Complex to see the quilt exhibit "Warmth" at the St. David AME Zion Church and Cemetery. A luncheon catered by Page follows from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor.
The Peter Marcelle Project in Southampton will exhibit the Hilton Brothers, an artistic identity that emerged from a series of collaborations by artists Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg, from July 26 to August 5.
Their latest collaboration, "Andy Dandy," is a portfolio of 20 digital pigment prints. The diptychs combine Mr. Makos' "Altered Image" portraits of Andy Warhol with images of flowers from Mr. Solberg's "Bloom" series.
"Andy wasn't the kind of dandy to wear a flower in his lapel, but as 'Andy Dandy' demonstrates, sometimes by just altering the image of one's work or oneself, a new beauty blooms," the gallery said in a press release.
The gallery is open Friday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment.


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The pop culture phenomenon FAME stage musical once again continues to reach new generations of performers and audience
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text: Nepthu stars in one of my favorite episodes, "Temple of the Sun." He's also one of my favorite one-off villains. Given the chance, I think he could've made a great return villain much like Masque could have. The figure could come with his scarab and the diamond Zoar. I'd also like to see the Sand Demons he created as army builders.


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God made a covenant that we know as the Ten Commandments with the Israelites. Today these laws help us know how to love and worship God and help us know how to treat others with justice and kindness.
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God gave the Israelites a set of laws, or rules, called the Ten Commandments that were to help them establish a new life, a new community;
God's rules are as important today as they were in Old Testament times;
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - Ken Harrelson and Mike Shannon are among the 10 finalists for the Baseball Hall of Fame's broadcasting award.
Harrelson has broadcast for the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox, spending 27 years in Chicago. Shannon has called St. Louis Cardinals games for 42 years following a nine-year playing career with the Redbirds.
Other finalists for the Ford C. Frick Award are: Joe Castiglione, Jacques Doucet, Bill King, Duane Kuiper, Eric Nadel, Eduardo Ortega, Dewayne Staats and Pete van Wieren. Doucet, King and Kuiper were the top three picks in online voting by fans.
Final voting for the award, presented annually for excellence in baseball broadcasting, will be conducted by a 20-member panel. The winner will be announced on Dec. 11 at the baseball winter meetings.


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BERLIN - Germany will avoid recession in 2013 and achieve growth rates similar to 2012, Dieter Hundt, leader of Germany's employer association, said in an interview with Reuters.
"I'm expecting that we won't experience recession in Germany next year and the economy will once again grow at similar levels as this year," Hundt said. The German economy has so far managed to fend off the euro zone's troubles, expanding by 4.2 percent in 2010 and 3 percent last year.
The country's gross domestic product in 2012 is expected to grow by about 0.9 percent. In 2013, private economists have forecast GDP to increase by about 0.7 percent, down from mid-2012 predictions of 1.3 percent.
Hundt also said that he was concerned about high wage demands in Germany in 2013 after workers got big increases in 2012 thanks in part to intervention by Chancellor Angela Merkel and members of her cabinet.
Even though unions are calling for big increases again in 2013, Hundt said he was confident wage deals would be moderate.
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Between 1545 and 1546 Martin Luther preached on several occasions in Halle, a former ducal town with a rich and colourful history. Luther's main adversary, Cardinal Albrecht, also lived in the city in today's Saxony-Anhalt region.
From 1514 to 1541 the cardinal ruled from his residence at Moritzburg Palace in Halle. As well as criticising the cardinal's pompous court, Luther denounced the selling of indulgences that was widespread in the church at that time. By doing so, he made an enemy of the highest church dignitary in the Holy Roman Empire after the Pope. The late-Gothic pulpit and the memorial on the outer wall between the 'watchman's towers' bear witness to Luther's fiery sermons at the Market Church. Luther's original death mask and a cast of his hands are on display in a tower room at the church.
Halle is home to a remarkable wealth of architectural monuments, from bourgeois houses to baroque and Renaissance buildings. Halle is also the birthplace of the baroque composer George Frideric Handel and is famous far and wide for hosting the annual Handel Festival. The State Museum of Prehistory provides a fascinating window into the past and is home to the famous 4,000-year-old Nebra Sky Disk, which has been included on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register since 2013.
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The main attraction here is the state's abundance of nature, particularly the Olympic National Park. However, you will also find a selection of uniquely charming cities here too. The IT powerhouse that is Seattle and neighboring Bellevue promise vibrant atmospheres alongside outstanding cultural attractions. Perfect for those occasions when you're seeking a manmade contrast to the stunning natural environment Washington is so well known for.
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Duplex fire leaves 21 homeless
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A two-alarm fire tore through a duplex in Milwaukee on Wednesday night, sending firefighters to a hospital and leaving nearly more than 20 people homeless.
The three firefighters injured while fighting the fire are out of the hospital.
WISN 12 News was told the injuries range from an injured knee to steam burns and heat exhaustion.
The duplex at 34th and Wright streets had three families living inside with a total of 21 people -- 12 adults and nine children
It was a group large enough that the American Red Cross opened a shelter for them.
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I made these today to take to work......and brought the pan home empty.
Peanut Butter Bars
1/2 cup Butter or Margarine, softened
1/2 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Packed Brown Sugar
1/2 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
1 Egg, Beaten
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 cup All-Purpose Flour
1/2 cup Quick-Cooking Oats
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/4 tsp Salt
1 cup (6 oz) Semisweet or Milk Chocolate Chips
1 cup Confectioners Sugar
1/4 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
1/4 cup Milk
1 In a mixing bowl, cream butter, sugars and peanut butter.
2 Add egg and vanilla; mix well.
3 Combine flour, oats, baking soda and salt; stir into creamed mixture.
4 Spread into a greased 13x9-inch baking pan. Sprinkle with chocolate chips. Bake at 350º for 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned. Middle should be slightly jiggly when removed from oven. Do not over bake.
5 Combine icing ingredients; pour over bars while still hot.
Yield: 3-4 dozen
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Bars will cut easier if refrigerated for several hours.
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SNC-Lavalin to provide crusher trade-off study and Golder to complete Site Selection Analysis for additional heap leach facilities
TORONTO, Ontario, November 20, 2012. Lydian International Ltd. (TSX: LYD) ("Lydian" or "the Company"), a gold-focused mineral exploration and development company, today announced that it is further considering mine layout alternatives at its Amulsar gold deposit in Armenia. Recent drilling has identified new gold mineralization and extensions to known gold mineralization which together have provided a greater insight into the underlying resource potential and thus the probable extent and overall capacity of the Amulsar gold deposit. These gold mineralized extensions may impact on the mine plan and layout as described in the Company's Feasibility Study (see press release 7 September 2012). Amulsar is a feasibility level high-sulfidation style, heap-leach gold project with reported CIM compliant Proven and Probable reserves of 2.29M Oz Gold at 0.8 g/t and 9.98M Oz Silver at 3.3 g/t and a resource of 0.2M Oz Gold at 1.0 g/t in Measured and Indicated category and 1.1M Oz Gold at 0.9 g/t in Inferred category.
The current Amulsar mine plan and layout was developed to accommodate the known extent and estimated extensions of gold mineralization at the project and in-part to satisfy a production target of March 2015 which was imposed under a Mining License granted to the Company in 2009. As previously announced, a new Mining License was granted to the Company on September 26 2012. This Mining License supersedes the 2009 license, allows a further four year construction period and thus provides scope to better scale and further optimize the mining operation.
Drill results this year (see press releases August 21, September 24, October 23 and November 20) imply new resource potential both laterally and below the currently proposed pit-shells. Drill results from the Erato area and to the northeast of Tigranes in particular highlight potential up to 600m to the east of the pit-shells and in the currently proposed locations of the crushing and conveying facilities. Potential for further resources will also impact on the stacking capacities of proposed heap leach facilities.
As a result of the new Mining License, the new resource potential and the possible encroachment of the resource on the current mine layout, the Company is in the process of re-examining its original mine design and carrying out additional mine planning in order to ensure that its final development plans maximize the value of its Amulsar Project.
Accordingly, the Company has retained SNC-Lavalin of Perth Australia to complete a new feasibility-level (±15% cost contingency) crusher trade-off study. This study will be complete before end 2012. Preliminary findings imply that the installation of a single primary gyratory cone crusher, versus the currently planned staged installation of two primary jaw crushers, would reduce the overall crushing plant foot-print and the consequent impact on resource expansion. A single primary gyratory cone crusher would also likely allow for the operation to quickly achieve an ore mining rate of 10Mtpa and reduce initial earthworks, blasting and oversize re-handling costs.
In addition, with the potential for the definition of further leachable ore, Golder Associates Inc. of Denver, Colorado recently updated its heap leach site alternatives analysis and has identified additional potential valley-fill and conventional heap leach pad locations that may host more capacity than the currently permitted location.
The Company is currently working with the Armenian authorities on assessing various mine-design options that better reflect the underlying resource potential, the ultimate crushing and stacking capacity and fully satisfy the environmental and social obligations of the Amulsar gold deposit. The Armenian Government authorities have indicated their desire to work closely with the Company to ensure that any proposed improvements meet all regulatory requirements and do not in any way delay the planned production time-line.
CEO and President of Lydian International, Dr. Tim Coughlin says "Amulsar and particularly the Erato area appear to be undergoing something of a growth-spurt. It makes sense now to seriously consider the results of the trade-off and site alternative studies and consider new means of extracting maximum value with the usual full and due consideration for the local community and the environment. Our intention is to ensure that these additional design studies do not impact the development time-line which includes commencing construction in 2013."
The information in this news release was compiled and reviewed by Dr Tim Coughlin, BSc (Geology), MSC (Exploration and Mining), PhD (Structural Geology), FAusIMM; CEO and President of Lydian International Ltd and a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
Lydian employees are instructed to follow standard operating and quality assurance procedures intended to ensure that all sampling techniques and sample results meet international reporting standards. Drill core is cut on-site and rock-chips are split to ensure representative sampling. Half core and remaining rock-chips are stored on-site. On-site personnel log and track all samples prior to sealing and shipping. Quality control is monitored by the insertion of blind certified standard reference materials and blanks into each sample shipment. All resource sample shipments are sealed and shipped to ALS Chemex, an independent third party. All assay work for the released results was carried out by ALS Chemex at its analytical laboratory in Rosia Montana, Romania. ALS Chemex's quality system complies with the requirements for the International Standards ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 17025:1999. Analytical accuracy and precision are monitored by the analysis of reagent blanks, reference material and replicate samples. More information can be found on Lydian's web site at www.lydianinternational.co.uk.
About Lydian International
Lydian is a gold-focused mineral exploration and development company with expertise employing "first mover" strategies in emerging exploration environments. Currently Lydian is focused on Eastern Europe and, in particular, developing its flagship Amulsar gold project in Armenia. Lydian also has a pipeline of promising early-stage gold and base metal exploration projects in the Caucasus regions.
Lydian's management team has a track record of success in grassroots discovery, in acquiring and developing undervalued assets, and in building companies. Lydian has a strong social agenda and a unique understanding of the complex social and political issues that characterise emerging environments. The Company's significant shareholders include the International Finance Corporation which is a member of the World Bank Group and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. More information can be found on Lydian's web site at www.lydianinternational.co.uk.
Caution regarding forward-looking information:
This news release may contain certain information that constitutes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are frequently characterised by words such as "plan," "expect," "project," "intend," "believe," "anticipate" and other similar words, or statements that certain events or conditions "may" or "will" occur and include statements regarding the Company's intended planned exploration. Forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the date the statements are made, and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. These factors include the inherent risks involved in the exploration and development of mineral properties, the uncertainties involved in interpreting drilling results and other geological data, fluctuating metal prices and other factors described above and in the Company's most recent annual information form under the heading "Risk Factors" which has been filed electronically by means of the Canadian Securities Administrators' website located at www.sedar.com. The Company disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements if circumstances or management's estimates or opinions should change. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
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Erasmo's shaky start halts dominance on hill
Mariners secure early lead, but starter gives up five runs in four-plus
OAKLAND -- Young right-hander Erasmo Ramirez had the first rough outing of the season for a Mariners starter as Seattle dropped a 6-3 decision to the A's on Sunday at O.co Coliseum.
Despite the loss, Seattle concluded its season-opening road trip with a 4-2 record and heads home to Safeco Field after Week 1 with the lead in the American League West.
Much of that initial success has come courtesy of excellent pitching. Seattle's starters had been 4-0 with a 1.62 ERA in their first five games, but the A's got five runs off Ramirez in his four-plus innings of work.
The 23-year-old normally relies on excellent command, but he walked three and threw just 49 strikes in 83 pitches while becoming the first Mariners starter this season to allow more than two earned runs.
"I was fighting trying to throw strikes," Ramirez said. "My strength is putting the ball in play, just throwing the ball in the strike zone and making the hitter swing the bat. But today, I don't know. I didn't feel it. I didn't feel like the strike-thrower I am."
Manager Lloyd McClendon said it was all part of the learning curve for his young rotation, which also includes rookies James Paxton and Roenis Elias.
"I think what we have to understand, particularly with young starters, they're so hyped up with that first start, letting everything hang out," McClendon said. "Now he's coming back on regular rest, and it's probably a bit much. He wasn't as sharp. I would suspect he'll be better his next time out."
Ramirez, who held the Angels to two runs in seven innings in his debut, is now 1-1 with a 5.73 ERA.
Veteran right-hander Chris Young replaced Ramirez in the fourth and threw two perfect innings in the first relief appearance of his 10-year career in the Majors. Young, 34, was signed to be Seattle's No. 5 starter two weeks ago, but his initial outing was skipped when Friday's game was postponed due to poor field conditions in Oakland.
Young was moved into a long relief role for now, and he responded with an efficient 22-pitch effort with two strikeouts, though he did allow Ramirez's final run to score on a sacrifice fly to center by Jed Lowrie.
"The results were good, and that's all that matters," Young said. "As the innings build, I can evaluate a little more. But today it was nice to get out there and get my feet wet and keep improving."
Dominic Leone replaced Young and threw a scoreless seventh in his Major League debut, surviving a leadoff double and two-out walk.
"That really kind of calmed me down," Leone said of being greeted by Eric Sogard's two-bagger to right-center. "I know that sounds weird, you give up a double and you'd think, 'Wow,' you get all hyped up. But I think it settled me down, and I realized this is still baseball and I have to execute my pitches, that's all."
The A's made it 6-3 when Yoenis Cespedes led off the eighth with a home run off Yoervis Medina, and new Oakland closer Jim Johnson slammed the door in the ninth for his first save after two rough outings in his first week.
The Mariners took a 3-0 lead after three innings against A's right-hander Sonny Gray, but he settled in and got through six with a 5-3 lead before turning things over to Oakland's outstanding bullpen.
Mariners center fielder Abraham Almonte continued his aggressive high-risk, high-reward play with an RBI single in the second off Gray before getting thrown out trying to go first-to-third on Brad Miller's own run-scoring base hit to right for the third out -- with Robinson Cano standing on deck.
"I tell my guys I want them to unleash their talent, be aggressive," McClendon said. "But you also have to be intelligent. I said it before: He's going to make some mistakes. In that situation, you have to know we have our best hitter coming to the plate. You [should only] go to third standing up. In this game it's unfortunate, but the only way to learn is by making mistakes. And you learn from them."
Cano extended his season-opening hit streak to six games, and his heads-up baserunning led to a run in the third. Cano led off with a double on a lazy looper to center field that Coco Crisp waited back on, only to realize too late that Cano was running hard to second the whole way.
Cano then moved to third on a wild pitch and scored easily on Justin Smoak's base hit up the middle for a 3-0 lead.
But Ramirez gave up a three-run homer to Brandon Moss in the bottom of the third that tied the game as the A's designated hitter drove a 2-1 fastball into the right-field seats. Oakland tacked on two more in the fifth to end the young right-hander's outing.
Smoak has a team-leading eight RBIs in the first six games, and Cano is hitting .391 after Sunday's 1-for-4 outing as the Mariners prepare now for Tuesday night's home opener with the Angels.
"Any time you can come back off the road with a winning record, regardless of how you got there, it's a successful trip," McClendon said. "I told our guys, it was a tough one today, but we had a successful road trip. We'll get home, rest up and be ready to play in front of our fans. I know they're all excited to get there."


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Mom just won't give it a rest.
"I don't," my 85-year-old widowed mother tells me every day since she broke her wrist, "want to be a burden."
Her fear of being a burden is how we got to this point. I drove to the Constable family farm in rural Indiana on the Saturday morning before Easter to pick up Mom and bring her to the suburbs for the weekend. Not wanting to burden me with the task of toting her things all the way out to the car, Mom carried her small travel case, suit bag and her seldom-used cane outside so she'd be ready to go when I pulled into the lane.
I sensed something was amiss when Mom hid her left arm under a dish towel full of ice.
"I tripped over the cane and sprained my wrist," Mom explained, grasping the irony of the cane causing her fall, but not the seriousness of the black-and-blue, swollen wrist with the giant lump and the odd twist.
"Oh, Burt, I don't want to be a burden," she said, before agreeing to swing by a hospital emergency room since it's on our way anyhow. The week that follows involves casts, powerful pain medications, a surgery to put a metal plate in her arm and some trips between my house and Indiana.
Mom knows burdens. She was the main caretaker for my dad, who died in 2003 at age 87 in the same room of our farmhouse where he was born. Mom was the main caretaker for my brother, Bill, who died of bile duct cancer in 2010. As I drive Mom to the farm and back during her wrist ordeal, we stop at an Italian restaurant halfway between her house and my house to eat an emotional dinner on what would have been Bill's 50th birthday. It gives us a chance to talk about burdens.
We talk about how I remember Mom taking care of her mother, who insisted she didn't want to be a burden even as she spent every night and weekends at our house because she was scared to be alone after her husband died. We talk about how my sisters and I remember Mom and Dad taking care of our relatives, doing nice things for all the old ladies from church and giving rides and performing good deeds for lots of other people who needed help.
Monday, as our youngest son turns 13 and my wife and I marvel that we are the parents of three teenage boys, I have a greater appreciation for the burdens my mom and dad handled for my siblings and me.
I don't remember ever apologizing for being a burden all those times when my parents dropped what they were doing to pick me up after basketball practice, prepare a meal especially for me at 5 p.m. and not only get me to my game at 6:30, but drive a half-hour to the game, stay for the whole thing and then drive into town on the way home to pick up my grandma, whom they had dropped off at another old lady's house sometime earlier.
I could wait hand-and-foot on my Mom until she's 100 and still not have balanced the scales of burden, or even have time to recount all the burdens I've put on her shoulders during my five decades. Even acknowledging those burdens sounds silly.
"Hey, I don't want to be a burden, but you know how you bathed me and fed me and put me in that adorable little outfit to show me off at Easter dinner? Well, I threw up on my outfit and the back of that new dress you were wearing and now need a second bath," the baby me never said. "And when you do change me into a new wardrobe, I don't want to be a burden, but I can just tell this diaper isn't going to come close to containing what I have in store for you just about the time you finally sit down to eat."
We recount all the times Mom got me ginger ale and a cool washcloth for my head. I explain to her that I might never have gone to college if she hadn't taken on much of the burden of getting me through high school and making me think of the future. We talk about how the adult me can still be a burden at times to my wife, our kids and even her. We laugh about that time a pipe burst in our house just as my wife and I were leaving to catch a vacation flight, and Mom and Dad drove up to handle the mess and have things fixed up by the time we got home. Burdens? Mom has taken on far more burdens than she's caused. She's handled the burdens of countless others and been an example of how to handle those burdens.
Still, Mom insists on talking about how her wrist makes her a burden. That burden forces my wife to reschedule music lessons, me to miss one of our son's soccer game, turns our living room into a temporary hospital room, messes with work schedules for my wife and me and creates havoc in our boys' comings and goings, Mom says, shaking her head apologetically.
"I can't believe one person can have such an impact on the lives of so many other people," Mom says.
I'm not sure she understands just how true that is.


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Lieutenant Leslie Morriss Newton was born in Essex, England, in 1893 to Lewis Boswell Newton and Louisa Jean Newton (née Sandeman). The family later migrated to Tasmania, and Newton worked in Launceston as an accountant. On 25 August 1914 he enlisted with the AIF, aged 21. Joining the 12th Battalion, he was sent to Brighton Camp and spent the following month training within the northern Tasmanian B Company. Owing to his accounting background he was appointed the Company Orderly Clerk. A week after arriving at Brighton, Newton was promoted to corporal.
Newton and the 12th Battalion left from Hobart on 20 October 1914 aboard HMAT Geelong. They arrived in Albany a week later, before setting sail for Egypt on 1 November with the First Convoy. Five weeks later Geelong reached Alexandria. The battalion proceeded to Mena Camp near Cairo, where they trained for almost three months with their fellow 9th, 10th and 11th Battalions of the 3rd Brigade. On 2 March they left for Lemnos Island.
On 24 April 1915 the 12th Battalion left Lemnos and anchored at the nearby Imbros Island. After taking their last meal at 9 pm, the men climbed into torpedo-boat destroyers to be taken ashore. At 4.30 am, about 100 metres from shore, the battalion came under intense enemy fire. Within hours of landing it had suffered many casualties and its commanding officer, Colonel Clarke, had been killed by a sniper. The men advanced beyond the beach but harsh terrain forced them to scatter. B Company, who had arrived far north at Ari Burnu, progressed up MacLagan's Ridge. They stayed in good formation as they scaled a second ridge; however, upon reaching the summit of Johnston's Jolly they came under heavy fire. As the troops thinned out, Newton seized a handful of men to reinforce the left flank amid an onslaught of shelling and machine-gun fire. An Ottoman attack came at 5 pm, and though casualties were rapidly mounting the wounded were too exposed to be collected by stretcher-bearers. Troops hoping for respite after dusk were disappointed, as Newton recollected:
Our hopes were soon dashed to the ground … for as the darkness deepened so the machine-gun fire increased, until it was almost an act of suicide to even to get on to one's knees.
By the end of April, 73 men of the 12th had been killed, while 239 were wounded and 193 were missing.
On 2 May Newton suffered a severe gunshot wound to his elbow and was evacuated to No. 17 Australian General Hospital. He was transferred to England on 26 June. After recovering at Weymouth Convalescent Camp, he returned to Gallipoli in September, newly promoted to sergeant. There he found a severely depleted 12th Battalion, still reeling after the desperate fighting at Lone Pine in early August. The 12th remained on the peninsula for the next two months, providing relief for battalions on the front line. Finally, on 25 November 1915 the men received orders to depart. Exhausted, with many suffering from illnesses such as dysentery, they left just after midnight.
The 12th spent the next month at Sarpi Camp on Lemnos. After a welcome Christmas break, they proceeded to Serapeum Camp in Egypt, where they helped form part of the Suez Canal defence line. Working along the eastern bank, the unit significantly contributed to building a light railway into the desert. It was also here that the 12th, along with other AIF battalions, underwent a major reorganisation. On 17 February, A and D Companies – half of the battalion – were interchanged with B and C Companies of the 52nd Battalion. Newton described the farewell that took place two weeks later:
I stood and watched them march out, and felt as though I were having a limb amputated without any anaesthetic. With keen regret we saw them go, these men with whom we had trained under varying conditions, shared joys and sorrows and, more than all, with whom we had faced death.
In mid-March Newton was promoted to second lieutenant. Shortly after, the 12th left Egypt for the Western Front. They arrived in Marseilles on 5 April. After six weeks of training, they moved with the 3rd Brigade into the Petillon sector of the front line, just south of Fleurbaix. The 12th were paired with the 10th Battalion in support of the 9th and 11th Battalions. They largely worked at night repairing trenches, constructing posts, and laying duckboards. However, on 30 May they were involved in a violent enemy raid of a salient held by the 11th at Cordonnerie Farm. Newton, at the time in command of the Intelligence Platoon, took charge:
The firing continued and increased in volume, until a heavy bombardment was in progress. I hurried the men forward and reported to the 11th Battalion Headquarters … The two right flank companies had lost touch and [the 11th Commanding Officer] wanted me to take my platoon up into the line and fill the gap … Eventually, we arrived in the line and found everything in great disorder … At the head of the salient a mine had been fired, making a huge crater, fully twelve feet deep, inside our line and destroying about twenty yards of parapet. I detailed a party of men under two N.C.O.'s to man the gap in the trench, whilst the remainder of the platoon worked like Trojans in recovering any of the sandbags which were still serviceable and building up the parapet once again … When day broke we were able to see the awful wreckage which had taken place. The dead were still lying in various unnatural positions along the trench … many of the wounded were still waiting for the much overworked, though every ready, stretcher-bearers … On looking over the parapet, into a white morning mist, one could see many dead Germans.
Twenty-six men from the 11th Battalion were killed, and another 58 wounded. Newton was soon promoted to lieutenant.
In July 1916 the 12th moved towards the Somme. They and the 1st Division were given the task of capturing Pozières. On the night of 22 July, the 12th moved towards Pozières in preparation for a midnight attack. Newton and a small group returned to headquarters in Albert, forming a nucleus for a new battalion if it became necessary. Though they were not sent out, the 12th suffered terrible losses over the next three days, with 71 killed, 248 wounded and 98 missing.
In the following weeks the battalion reorganised and Newton was made acting adjutant. They returned to the front in mid-August near Mouquet Farm. After Newton and several others reconnoitred the ground, they received orders to attack on 21 August. At 11 am, A and D Companies led the charge through the trenches, but quickly suffered a heavy enemy barrage and significant casualties. Newton, along with Captain James Newland in command of A Company, sought support from B and C Companies. Heavily sniped on their way, they reached both companies with just half an hour to plan their second assault at 6 pm. During this advance, Newton suffered a gunshot wound to his left forearm and was evacuated to the 44th British Casualty Clearing Station. Several days later, aboard HS Newhaven, he left Calais for England, where he was admitted to the 4th London General Hospital.
Newton rejoined the battalion as adjutant on 3 November in Montauban. He had arrived in what he later described as the darkest period in the 12th's history. On 7 November the men moved north to the Switch and Gap Trenches beyond Longueval. Enduring intense cold and rain the entire way, they finally arrived at the trenches that evening. Newton recalled:
And what a howl of dismay went up from the men when they saw their night's resting place! … The trenches themselves were from four to six feet deep and wide at the top … The mud and water in the bottom came well over the boot tops before any traffic had taken place in the trench and rapidly became worse as our occupation was prolonged. With the exception of two unfinished dug-outs, there were no shelters or 'possies' of any kind.
The next three months was a bleak time for the men. Newton recalled that 'the Somme winter, with its mud, wet, and depressing atmosphere, had the Battalion in its grip'.
A sudden shift in mood occurred on 24 February 1917, when it was discovered that the German front line near Le Sars was completely empty – the whole 3rd Brigade could advance. The 12th eagerly went forward, and by the time it was relieved on 27 February it had advanced 2,000 yards and captured three villages. Returning to the line a week later, the men received orders to capture the nearby village of Boursies to divert attention from the 1st Brigade's larger operations at Hermies. This was the first time the battalion was given an objective without the aid of another unit. The attack began on 8 April, and while making strong advances towards Boursies, troops met with heavy shell and machine-gun fire throughout the day. The battalion was briefly dislodged by enemy bombing that night, however recovered their position by dawn. At this point Newton was sent into the line, taking control of the posts to the right of the line and establishing a platoon post at the extreme right of the village. They maintained their position until being relieved late on 10 April, having sustained 249 casualties, 70 of whom were killed or missing. Newton's actions here, as well as those at Mouquet Farm, were highlighted when he was Mentioned in Despatches later that year:
For conspicuous ability and devotion to duty as Adjutant of the Battalion. He has always proved a most able, conscientious painstaking officer, and during his 10 months service as adjutant has displayed great tact in dealing with the other officers and firmness with the NCOs. As a platoon commander has displayed great gallantry in the line, especially at Mouquet Farm on 21 August 1916 and at Boursies on 9th and 10th April 1917.
The battalion next moved to Lagnicourt, anticipating quieter operations; however, upon its arrival on 14 April it suffered an unexpected enemy attack. After just one day of fighting, 29 men from the 12th were killed and 59 wounded. The battalion moved to the rear for three weeks, but returned amid the devastation of the second battle of Bullecourt. Despite successful initial advances on 5 May, the following day the unit was subjected to a fierce counter-attack of bombs, grenades and flammenwerfer (flame throwers). When finally relieved after five days, 125 men had been killed – 5 of them officers – and 468 had been wounded. Such heavy losses meant that the entire remaining battalion formed only one company.
After much needed respite over the summer, and with a force more than doubled in number through reinforcements and men returning from hospital, the 12th moved to the Ypres salient in September. In the following days, Newton assisted a reconnaissance around Hooge and reviewed plans for an offensive at Polygon Wood. Joining other units of the 1st Division, the 12th were to capture the wood's western edge. The attack began on 20 September. At 5.40 am, Newton collected several men and advanced in two stages under constant enemy machine-gun fire. Upon capturing their Blue Line objective, he located and marked a suitable pillbox for headquarters. They experienced heavy shell-fire throughout the following day until being relieved that night, though overall casualties were quite low – 17 were killed and 142 wounded. For his valuable work Newton was recommended for the Military Cross and Belgian Chevalier of the Order of the Crown. The citation for the latter read:
During operations East of Ypres 20th, 21st September 1917, prior to the attack on Polygon Wood Lieutenant Newton displayed great courage and initiative in personally leading Companies of his Battalion to the Assembly Positions, and jumping off tapes. The whole of this time he was subjected to very heavy Artillery and M.G. fire, and it was mainly due to his untiring energy and devotion to duty, that the Battalion was enabled to take up its correct formation. Throughout the whole of the operations his work was admirable, and he was largely responsible for the success of the operations in which his Battalion took part.
As the Anzacs moved into Belgium, the 12th supported operations around Westhoek Ridge, which included a successful raid of Celtic Wood on 6–7 October with the 11th Battalion. They spent Christmas on the front line in Wulverghem before a month of rest in February, when Newton was granted 8 days of leave in the south of France. Operations intensified again in late March with the German Spring Offensive. On 22 April the 12th received orders to capture Meteren. They made a successful advance that night. However, they gained almost no ground in the second phase the following day, marking the only occasion during which the battalion failed to achieve its objective. After minor but successful operations around Strazeele between May and July 1918, the 12th moved south.
Supporting the final advance along the Somme, on 8 August the 12th Battalion began two weeks of costly attacks near Harbonnières. On 23 August alone the battalion suffered 50 casualties, including the death of its commanding officer. Despite the 12th's depleted state, on 25 August an aggressive final advance was ordered north-east of Chuignolles towards the Somme. Under heavy machine-gun fire, Newton took temporary charge of the battalion, personally forming them up for the 'jump off', and led a series of successful attacks. For his 'indefatigable' efforts, he was awarded the Military Cross.
Listen to Newton recount how he successfully directed his battalion in this attack:
On 3 September 1918 Leslie Newton was recommended for the Military Cross for his actions at Chuignolles, east of Proyart, a month earlier. The citation read (in part):
During operations east of Proyart from August 23 [to] 26 1918, Lieutenant Newton as Adjutant of the Battalion was indefatigable in his efforts to make the operation a success. His personal exertions at the jumping off line where the Battalion was under close and heavy machine gun fire were largely instrumental in the successful launching of the attack in that perfect order which made its advance irresistible. Throughout the whole operation he did excellent work, several times when the situation was obscure he moved to the front and assisted to correlate the action of the several companies engaged in the attack, showing no regard for his own safety although the ground was swept by heavy machine gun fire. To his efforts must be attributed a large share of the fine success which attended the Battalion in this operation.
Newton began a period of leave in October 1918, and did not rejoin the 12th until after the Armistice. On 9 December 1918 he embarked on HT Leicestershire for Australia, having completed two years of unbroken service as the battalion's adjutant.
Several years after returning home, Newton moved from Launceston to Franklin in the Huon Valley, where he remained for over 20 years. During this period he wrote the unit history for his battalion, The Story of the Twelfth (1925). Later in life, he moved to Essendon, Victoria, where he passed away on 11 August 1956, aged 63.
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Australian War Memorial, First World War Embarkation Rolls - Leslie Morriss Newton
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gaye dyason
He, along with all the Anzacs were very brave men. I enjoyed following his journey and was pleased to see he survived the conflicts.
Rest in peace great grandpapa.
You fought a hard battle. Thank you for giving us our freedom. Lest we forget.
Thank you for the freedom we have. Your bravery was exceptional. I am glad you survived and had a good life. To all those who did not survive, rest in peace and God bless.
Your bravery will never be forgotten.
Was nice to meet you in 2015.
Hi. I heard it was very tough in the trenches.
Thank you for the sacrifice of your life. We your descendants are very proud.
The story of LIEUTENANT LESLIE NEWTON was very interesting and thank you for what you did for Australia.
Newton was a fantastic soldier... inspiring to us all.
You are a hero!!
Cheers mate 4 fighting 4 us.
Cheers 4 saving my country.
Thank you for your magnificent story on your brave life. I am honoured to hear that you have got courage in war. Thank you.
deborah goodger
Lest we forget.
Good job Digger!
Well done.
rob allison
Thank you Pop. Always remembered.
rob allison
Thank you for your bravery.
You served your country well.
Jude D'Cruz
For your overwhelming efforts and those of your colleagues, we remember, will never forget and can never repay. God bless you.
You are awesome!
Thank you for going to war for me.
coralie parsell-may
Thank you fellow Tassie devil for your hand in the war. You will never be forgotten. Rest in peace mate.
It's wonderful that you survived the war. Sorry that you died of old age.
Thanks for serving our country. You were very brave.
nathan crocker
What a brave young lad who gave up your life to save us. If it wasn't for him I doubt I would be here.
Thank you for your time and dedication to the future generations.
Ella Passchier-...
Thank you for doing what you did for our country and making us free. I really appreciate what you did. Many thanks. :)
Thank you for what you did for our country because you risked your life for us so I really appreciate what you have done.
You were great!
dylan and ethan
We will never forget the great person you are.
Thank you for fighting in the war. We will remember you.
It must have been hard to survive the war. You are very very brave.
Was it very hard to survive the war? You were absolutely brave.
To the great-uncle I never knew, your life and sacrifice will not be forgotten.
I will read your book if I get the chance. I think your story is an inspirational one that can be a wonderful example and would be hard to follow.
Thank you for fighting in the war and fighting for us and for freedom.
Thank you for your bravery.
Hi Leslie, thank you for going to Gallipoli to fight for our wonderful country. You are such a great person. I thank you a million times!!!
henk and marian
Just a simple thank you, but they say honour, respect and sacrifice.
Thank you for writing your story and for your contribution.
jake miller
Well done for surviving the war.
Thank you for your hard work, and congratulations for surviving. You are very lucky.
So glad you came home after your wounds and such bravery. You must have made someone proud and we are all grateful.


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New Pharmaceutical Management System Launched28 Jun 2016
The Ministry has a new Pharmaceutical Management Information Dashboard system, launched on 23 June 2016 by the Minister - Dr. Bernard Haufiku. This is a computerized stock management system for the efficient flow of pharmaceutical information at all central and regional medical stores, district and referral hospitals. It will gradually replace the paper-based stock card currently in use.
Benefits of the Dashboard system
- Increase visibility of stock status data that improves pharmaceutical supply chain decision making.
- Identify potential stock outs and overstocking to enable timely redistribution of health products.
- Efficient management of pharmaceutical products to maximise availably and to minimize wastage.
Key Features of the Dashboard system
- Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Dashboard – provides a summary of the number of people accessing HIV treatment and an early warning on potential stock-outs of ARV medications.
- Pharmaceutical Dashboard – provides stock status for all essential health products at all central and regional medical stores and health facilities.
- PMIS Dashboard – trends 22 essential pharmaceutical information management indicators.
NB!!! As of June 2016, the system is implemented in 15 out of 35 state hospitals.


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The San Francisco Giants played the Detroit Tigers in the World Series this year because they had winning records and defeated other teams with winning records.
The San Francisco Giants played the Detroit Tigers in the World Series this year because they had winning records and defeated other teams with winning records.
Obvious, I know, but please stick with me.
When the New York Mets played the Florida Marlins in Miami on Oct. 3, everybody knew that the final score of this final game did not matter because the two were among the worst teams in baseball.
Obvious again, but there are two more steps before I get to my points.
Manchester City and Manchester United were on top of the Premier League soccer standings, last I looked, because they had the best records.
If the Queens Park Rangers, now at the bottom of the soccer standings, keep on with their losing ways, they could be bumped down — the preferred term is "relegated" — to the inferior Football League and have to earn their way back up.
Point number one: Major League Baseball might benefit from such a system. The Mets might try harder if they risked being reduced to minor league status and some minor league team could take their place in the big leagues.
Point number two: The major world sport — soccer — and the major American sport — baseball — may differ on how they punish or reward teams, but both agree that results count.
Leading to this conclusion: If the world understands this when it applies to sports, which, after all, do not really make a difference no matter how much we yell, how about applying the same standards to the players in our other national pastime — political punditry?
The track records of many who appear on the Sunday talk shows and the daily shouting matches are embarrassing, or would be if anybody kept score.
George Will, for example, predicted a Romney electoral landslide, 321 to 217.
The actual result, for those who like to keep track of actual numbers, was 332 to 206 in the other direction. My shaky reporter math skills are not good enough to calculate just how wrong he was.
But he was worse than whatever that turns out to be because he predicted that Romney would win Minnesota along the way.
Leaving Will in his usual spot on "This Week" is the equivalent of putting the Hudson Valley Renegades in the World Series. Yet there he stays, because nobody keeps track and nobody pays the price — well, nobody except those who fool themselves into believing impossible predictions because they find more comfort in them than in reality.
To earn a spot in the premiere league of punditry — the major networks — Will should at least have a winning record. Without one, he should be bumped down to the next level, the top 10 local media markets from New York to Houston. Do badly there, and he could end up down in the next lowest tier, which could prove very interesting, because that includes the Minneapolis-St. Paul market. Lots of people there would love to call in and ask where he gets such lousy information.


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Confession: Every time we stumble upon a Pinterest shot of a perfectly sparse bedside table or an ultra-neat vanity, we're stupefied. Where's all the stuff? Sure, we dig the minimalist look on design blogs – you know, when it's all gauzy curtains and white walls and bare floors.
But particularly when it comes to our accessories, we prefer to display our prized possessions. After all, not only is it a feel-good move to surround yourself with collected items, it's practical — remember, you don't wear what you don't see.
So, whether you're simply seeking some organizational tips or your life's dream is to get your closet into an editorial spread, we've gathered 10 essential finds that'll get you excited — and downright inspired — to accessorize every single day. We promise you'll never misplace an earring or (gasp!) your wedding ring, again.


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I haven't posted anything here for a while but this artwork is amazing. This 3D Harley was made out of paper and cardboard by a prisoner. It is so very detailed.
Sorry the after picture is not the greatest but with the mirrored back and reflections it was very hard to get any kind of picture to use.
Frame is BW26671 Boardwalk
Shadow box extension 4" (made from pine and then I used a woodgraining tool and painted to match face)
Mat is a solid core and then I laminated it with bits of torn craft paper to emulate the look of the motorcycle.
Finished size is about 17" x 16"
Here is a picture of just the motorcycle which is the star of this show


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"The Backyard" is about a relationship between three people: myself, Patti, my best friend from home, and her fiancé Paul, my other childhood best friend who committed suicide in 2005. In the passage I read in the video, Patti and I stand in the backyard of Paul's parents' house five years after his death to drink and reminisce. When I wrote a shorter version of this piece for 2nd Story, this was the opening scene and closing location. Scenes of our friendship in high school comprise the bulk of the piece and intimate how we would move forward as adults.
I was enamored with keeping this Russian-doll-like structure ... It simply had to exist that way.
As I expanded that story into a larger work, I was really enamored with keeping that same, Russian-doll-like structure of starting and ending in the same location in the present tense. For me, it is the scene the piece orbits—the place we returned to as adults—that represented the entire grand metaphor of shifting, expanding, uncomfortable changing of our lives. I even titled the work "The Backyard." It simply had to exist that way.
Except it didn't work. That scene in the backyard also revealed Paul's suicide to the audience. Re-reading that scene in the context of the larger piece, it felt manipulative. Suicide carries emotional gravity on its own terms; most listeners and readers will sympathize with anyone who informs them they lost someone close in that way. But sympathy wasn't what I wanted. I wanted the audience to understand why I needed to tell that story, why the details of my life and Paul's death and our friendship are so important. I wanted to convince them that the world lost a special human being; that our story was bigger than Paul and Patti and me; that they could connect their lives with mine.
I wanted the audience to understand why I needed to tell that story.
A friend who read that draft suggested that it really took off during a different scene—later in the text, but set in high school—with Paul playing his guitar under the bright summer stars. Perhaps, my friend said, that should be first scene of the piece. I was hesitant to make the change; it would ruin my perfect structure!
Turns out my "perfect" structure was an entirely arbitrary need. When I tried what my friend suggested, I settled on something that, I think, is far more interesting: present tense scenes from life "after Paul" spliced with past tense scenes from our lives as friends. I still move toward ending the story in the backyard, with Patti and me and a final revelation before we part. But hopefully it's more challenging for the audience than it was before and that I've accomplished what I set out to do, "perfect" structure or not.
Nicholas Ward is a writer, storyteller, producer, production manager, casting person and very occasional actor who has worked with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Theatre Seven of Chicago, Sinnerman Theatre Ensemble, PineBox Theatre, and PR Casting. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from HYPERText Magazine, the Eunoia Review, and the 2nd Story podcast, where he has been a company member since 2006. In May 2014, he performed "The Backyard" for the Chicago Home Theater Festival and the piece will be published in an upcoming issue of Road Post Magazine. He lives in Logan Square with Amadeus the cat.
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