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One more sample gone now – yay!
But that's pretty much the only good thing about this tea. It tastes flat and like it's the water used to boil some edamame or something. Maybe it is because this was stored in a plastic bag (yes, I know, shame on me) or because it is pretty old (I've ignored it for a couple of months and I don't think it was all that fresh when I got it). But whatever it is, this isn't enjoyable to me.
I'll probably finish this cup because it isn't awful or anything, but I don't think I'll try a second steep. Ever.
One would hope but if a tea isn't good hot, I don't keep it around. Plus, I don't think the taste of edamame water would be much better cold.
I let the second half of the cup cool to around room temp. I could actually taste a little bit of sweet at the very beginning of the sip then but then it went back to full on edamame water.
I poured it out. Ah well!
I participated in the Signature Blend box pass that was going on on the Adagio boards. So I got lots of samples of lots of blends!
I don't drink as much oolong as I would like, because I feel as if I really ought to savor it. And usually I don't have a lot of time for savoring. This tea is amazing. It has wonderful tropical & floral notes. I even oversteeped it (ha not unusual) but it is fabulous. A little strong, maybe, but very good. And I love how my teapot looks like a kelp forest when I'm brewing it. From prior experience I will say that steeps 2 and 3 will be the best… assuming I don't forget about it and leave it for 30 minutes. Ahem.
Oh pumpkin spice. Well I will give you this. If you were just called spice tea I wouldn't have to rate you so poorly. Because lightly spicy you are. But pumpkin? Where is the pumpkin? I'm afraid of steeping it for much longer and making it bitter. There is just the faintest pumpkin note. Enough to let me know what I'm missing.
I will not give up so easily and I'll experiment with milk and sugar but I'm disappointed for now.
I like this tea. It's really smooth. The flavor is very mellow and not overpowering. It makes for a nice tea-drinking experience.
I prefered it best when cooled off a little, but not quite room temperature (I finished it before it got to that point _).
Looking for a warming cup to start my day. With milk and sweetner. Good! Not overpowering.
I just received this from Adagio yesterday. Think I'll keep it around as a staple flavored Black Tea.


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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
i love paris in the springtime
BUT my little sis Jemimah and my Mother are there today and I am thinking of them, and how much fun they must be having together - the 2 peas in a pod that they are- and how I am only winsy bit jealous. But not really, because what I really am, is extremely grateful for this time they have together and that my sweet mother- who never does much for herself at all, but is always doing for others- got to go on this amazing adventure! I cannot wait to read her blog updates all about it!
To celebrate their grand Paris adventure I created a whimsical 2 tiered Eiffel Tower Mobile.
This is a play on an idea I have had for a year, since my trip to Juneau last Spring, when I created something similar for baby Ellis' nursery...
It was great to get this out of my head and into my hands, and I had fun making it while thinking of all the wonderful experiences Mom and Jemimah are sure to be having!!
They were the perfect inspiration!
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I never did get you a photo of Ellis' mobile, did I? Yeah, I suck :) I actually need to re-hang it because too-tall Adam kept bumping his head on it, so I took it down to re-hang, and then it got crooked, and then...well, you know how days turn into weeks turn into months...
Speaking of sucking, I got Heather Armstrong's book today ~ Hearthside actually had a copy! If you can hold out on buying a copy for yourself, I was going to get you one at her book signing. I had meant to surprise you, but just realized you may buy a copy on your own. :)
hugs ~
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Outline 1)Motivation 2)Representing/Modeling Causal Systems 3)Estimation and Updating 4)Model Search 5)Linear Latent Variable Models 6)Case Study: fMRI 1
Outline Search I: Causal Bayes Nets 1)Bridge Principles: Causal Structure Testable Statistical Constraints 2)Equivalence Classes 3)Pattern Search 4)PAG Search 5)Variants 6)Simulation Studies on the Tetrad workbench 2
3 Bridge Principles: Acyclic Causal Graph over V Constraints on P(V) Weak Causal Markov Assumption V 1,V 2 causally disconnected V 1 _||_ V 2 V 1 _||_ V 2 v 1,v 2 P(V 1 =v 1 | V 2 = v 2 ) = P(V 1 =v 1 )
4 Bridge Principles: Acyclic Causal Graph over V Constraints on P(V) Weak Causal Markov Assumption V 1,V 2 causally disconnected V 1 _||_ V 2 Causal Markov Axiom If G is a causal graph, and P a probability distribution over the variables in G, then in satisfy the Markov Axiom iff: every variable V is independent of its non-effects, conditional on its immediate causes. Determinism (Structural Equations)
5 Causal Markov Axiom Acyclicity d-separation criterion Independence Oracle Causal Graph Z X Y1Y1 Z _||_ Y 1 | XZ _||_ Y 2 | X Z _||_ Y 1 | X,Y 2 Z _||_ Y 2 | X,Y 1 Y 1 _||_ Y 2 | XY 1 _||_ Y 2 | X,Z Y2Y2 Bridge Principles: Acyclic Causal Graph over V Constraints on P(V)
6 Faithfulness Constraints on a probability distribution P generated by a causal structure G hold for all parameterizations of G. Revenues := 1 Rate + 2 Economy + Rev Economy := 3 Rate + Econ Faithfulness: 1 ≠ - 3 2 2 ≠ - 3 1 Tax Rate Economy Tax Revenues 11 33 22
7 Equivalence Classes Independence (d-separation equivalence) DAGs : Patterns PAGs : Partial Ancestral Graphs Intervention Equivalence Classes Measurement Model Equivalence Classes Linear Non-Gaussian Model Equivalence Classes Etc. Equivalence: Independence Equivalence: M 1 ╞ (X _||_ Y | Z) M 2 ╞ (X _||_ Y | Z) Distribution Equivalence: 1 2 M 1 ( 1 ) = M 2 ( 2 ), and vice versa)
8 D-separation Equivalence Theorem (Verma and Pearl, 1988) Two acyclic graphs over the same set of variables are d-separation equivalent iff they have: the same adjacencies the same unshielded colliders d-separation/Independence Equivalence
9 Colliders Y: Collider Shielded Unshielded X Y Z X Y Z X Y Z Y: Non-Collider X Y Z X Y Z X Y Z
10 D-separation X is d-separated from Y by Z in G iff Every undirected path between X and Y in G is inactive relative to Z An undirected path is inactive relative to Z iff any node on the path is inactive relative to Z A node N is inactive relative to Z iff a) N is a non-collider in Z, or b) N is a collider that is not in Z, and has no descendant in Z X Y Z1Z1 Z2Z2 V W Undirected Paths between X, Y: 1) X --> Z 1 Y 2) X Y
11 D-separation X is d-separated from Y by Z in G iff Every undirected path between X and Y in G is inactive relative to Z An undirected path is inactive relative to Z iff any node on the path is inactive relative to Z A node N is inactive relative to Z iff a) N is a non-collider in Z, or b) N is a collider that is not in Z, and has no descendant in Z X Y Z1Z1 Z2Z2 V W Undirected Paths between X, Y: 1) X --> Z 1 Y 2) X Y X d-sep Y relative to Z = {V} ? X d-sep Y relative to Z = {V, Z 1 } ? X d-sep Y relative to Z = {W, Z 2 } ? No Yes No X d-sep Y relative to Z = ? Yes
12 D-separation X 3 and X 1 d-sep by X 2 ? Yes: X 3 _||_ X 1 | X 2 X 3 and X 1 d-sep by X 2 ? No: X 3 _||_ X 1 | X 2
13 Statistical Control ≠ Experimental Control X 3 _||_ X 1 | X 2 X 3 _||_ X 1 | X 2 (set)
14 Independence Equivalence Classes: Patterns & PAGs Patterns (Verma and Pearl, 1990): graphical representation of d-separation equivalence among models with no latent common causes (i.e., causally sufficient models) PAGs: (Richardson 1994) graphical representation of a d-separation equivalence class that includes models with latent common causes and sample selection bias that are Markov equivalent over a set of measured variables X
15 Patterns
16 Patterns: What the Edges Mean
17 Patterns
18 Tetrad Demo 1)Load Session: patterns1.tet 2)Change Graph3 minimally to reduce number of equivalent DAGs maximally 3)Compute the DAGs that are equivalent to your original 3 variable DAG
19 Constraint Based Search Background Knowledge e.g., X 2 prior in time to X 3 Statistical Inference
20 Score Based Search Background Knowledge e.g., X 2 prior in time to X 3 Model Score
21 Overview of Search Methods Constraint Based Searches TETRAD (PC, FCI) Very fast – capable of handling 1,000 variables Pointwise, but not uniformly consistent Scoring Searches Scores: BIC, AIC, etc. Search: Hill Climb, Genetic Alg., Simulated Annealing Difficult to extend to latent variable models Meek and Chickering Greedy Equivalence Class (GES) Very slow – max N ~ 30-40 Pointwise, but not uniformly consistent
22 Tetrad Demo 1)Open new session 2)Template: Search from Simulated Data 3)Create Graph, parameterize, instantiate, generate data N=50 4)Choose PC search, execute 5)Attach new search node, choose GES, execute 6)Play (sample size, parameters, alpha value, etc.)
23 Tetrad Demo 1)Open new session 2)Load Charity.txt 3)Create Knowledge: a.Tangibility is exogenous b.AmountDonate is Last c.Tangibility direct cause of Imaginability 4)Perform Search 5)Estimate output
24 PAGs: Partial Ancestral Graphs
25 PAGs: Partial Ancestral Graphs
26 PAGs: Partial Ancestral Graphs What PAG edges mean.
27 1) Adjacency 2) Orientation Constraint-based Search
Constraint-based Search: Adjacency 1.X and Y are adjacent if they are dependent conditional on all subsets that don't include them 2.X and Y are not adjacent if they are independent conditional on any subset that doesn't include them
Search: Orientation Patterns Y Unshielded X Y Z X _||_ Z | Y Collider Non-Collider X Y Z XY Z X Y Z X Y Z X Y Z
Search: Orientation PAGs Y Unshielded X Y Z X _||_ Z | Y Collider Non-Collider X Y Z X Y Z
Search: Orientation Away from Collider
Search: Orientation X1 || X2 X1 || X4 | X3 X2 || X4 | X3 After Orientation Phase
34 Interesting Cases X Y Z L X Y Z2 L1 M1 M2 M3 Z1 L2 X1 Y2 L1 Y1 X2
35 Tetrad Demo 1)Open new session 2)Create graph for M1, M2, M3 on previous slide 3)Search with PC and FCI on each graph, compare results
36 Tetrad Demo 1)Open new session 2)Load data: regression_data 3)X is "putative cause", Y is putative effect, Z1,Z2 prior to both (potential confounders) 4)Use regression to estimate effect of X on Y 5)Apply FCI search to data
37 Variants 1)CPC, CFCI 2)Lingam
LiNGAM 1.Most of the algorithms included in Tetrad (other than KPC) assume causal graphs are to be inferred from conditional independence tests. 2.Usually tests that assume linearity and Gaussianity. 3.LiNGAM uses a different approach. 4.Assumes linearity and non-Gaussianity. 5.Runs Independent Components Analysis (ICA) to estimate the coefficient matrix. 6.Rearranges the coefficient matrix to get a causal order. 7.Prunes weak coefficients by setting them to zero.
ICA Although complicated, the basic idea is very simple. a11 X1 +... + a1n Xn = e1 ... an1 X1 +... + ann Xn = en Assume e1,...,en are i.i.d. Try to maximize the non-Gaussianity of w1 X1 +... + wn Xn = ? There are n ways to do it up to symmetry! (Cf. Central Limit Theorem, Hyavarinen et al., 2002) You can use the coefficients for e1, or for e2, or for... All other linear combinations of e1,...,en are more Gaussian.
ICA This equation is usually denoted Wx = s But also X = BX + s where B is the coefficient matrix So Wx = (I – B)x = e s is the vector of independent components x is the vector of variables Just showed that under strong conditions we can estimate W. So we can estimate B! (But with unknown row order) Using assumptions of linearity and non-Gaussianity (of all but one variable) alone. More sophisticated analyses allow errors to be non-i.i.d.
LiNGAM LiNGAM runs ICA to estimate the coefficient matrix B. The order of the errors is not fixed by ICA, so some rearranging of the B matrix needs to be done. Rows of the B matrix are swapped so the it is lower triangular. a[i][j] should be non-zero (representing an edge) just in case i j Typically, a cutoff is used to determine if a matrix element is zero. The rearranged matrix corresponds to the idea of a causal order.
LiNGAM Once you know which nodes are adjacent in the graph and what the causal order is, you can infer a complete DAG. Review: Use data from a linear non-Gaussian model (all but one variable non- Gaussian) Infer a complete DAG (more than a pattern!)
Hands On 1)Attach a Generalized SEM IM. 2)Attach a data set, simulate 1000 points. 3)Attach a Search box and run LiNGAM. 4)Attach another search box to Data and run PC. 5)Compare PC to LiNGAM.
Special Variants of Algorithms PC Pattern PC Pattern enforces the requirement that the output of the algorithm will be a pattern. PCD PCD adds corrective code to PC for the case where some variables stand in deterministic relationships. This results in fewer edges being removed from the graph. For example, if X _||_ Y | Z but Z determines Y, X---Y is not taken out.
Special Variants of Algorithms CPC The PC algorithm may jump too quickly to the conclusion that a collider and noncolliders should be oriented, X->Y<-Z, X---Y---Z The CPC algorithm uses a much more conservative test for colliders and noncolliders, double and triple checking to make sure they should be oriented, against different adjacents to X and to Z. The result is a graph with fewer but more accurate orientations.
Hands On 1.Simulate data from a "complicated" DAG using a SEM IM. 1.Choose the Search from Simulated Data item from the Templates menu. 2.Make a random 20 node 20 edge DAG. 3.Parameterize as a linear SEM, accepting defaults. 4.Run CPC. 5.Attach another search box to data. 6.Run PC. 7.Layout the PC graph using Fruchterman-Reingold. 8.Copy the layout to the CPC graph. 9.Open PC and CPC simultaneously and note the differences.
Special Variants of Algorithms 1.CFCI 1.Same idea as for CPC but for FCI instead. 2.KPC 1.The PC algorithm typically uses independence tests that assume linearity. 2.The KPC algorithm makes two changes: 1.It uses a non-parametric independence test. 2.It adds some steps to orient edges that are unoriented in the PC pattern.
Special Variants of Algorithms 1.PcLiNGAM 1.If some variables are Gaussian (more than one), others non- Gaussian, this algorithm applies. 2.Runs PC, then orients the unoriented edges (if possible) using non- Gaussianity. 2.LiNG 1.Extends LiNGAM to orient cycles using non-Gaussianity
Special Variants of Algorithms 1.JCPC 1.Uses a Markov blanket style test to add/remove individual edges, using CPC style orientation. 2.Allows individual adjacencies in the graph to be revised from the initial estimate using the PC adjacency search.
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Subarachnoid haemorrhage affects approximately 8000 people per year in the UK. The average age of a patient with subarachnoid haemorrhage is 50 years, although it is often seen in younger people (25-45 years). Despite modern medicine, the death and disability rate remains high both from the initial bleed and from the associated complications such as vasospasm. This is characterised by neurological impairment seen following the bleed. Despite modern treatment this is still associated with a poor outcome. This has significant implications due to the long term intensive neuro-rehabilitation these patients will require.
A recent study has shown that placing a small drain in the lower back following a subarachnoid haemorrhage may reduce the chance of vasospasm occurring and result in a better outcome. This trial was not optimally performed and so a trial is needed to look at this in more detail. The investigators have set up such a trial in our neurosurgical unit. If the investigators confirm that there is an improvement in patient outcome, it will change our practice in the future.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage |
Device: Lumbar Drain (Medtronic lumbar drainage system) Other: No lumbar drain |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Lumbar Drainage of Cerebrospinal Fluid in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage: A Prospective Randomised Controlled Trial |
- Incidence of delayed ischaemic neurological deficit [ Time Frame: Within 21 days of haemorrhagic ictus ]
- Modified Rankin Score [ Time Frame: 10 days and 6 months following haemorrhagic ictus ]
- Incidence of cerebrospinal fluid shunting [ Time Frame: Within 12 months of haemorrhagic ictus ]
- Incidence of completed infarct secondary to delayed ischaemic neurological deficit [ Time Frame: Within 21 days of ictus ]
- Incidence of cerebrospinal fluid infection secondary to lumbar drainage [ Time Frame: Within 8 weeks of removal of lumbar drain ]
Enrollment: | 210 |
Study Start Date: | November 2006 |
Study Completion Date: | July 2010 |
Primary Completion Date: | July 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: Study
Insertion of lumbar drain
Device: Lumbar Drain (Medtronic lumbar drainage system)
Insertion of lumbar drain to drain cerebrospinal fluid
Other Name: Medtronic lumbar drainage system
Normal clinical management without lumbar drain
Other: No lumbar drain
No lumbar drain
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All patients who present to our department with proven aneurysmal SAH and fit the inclusion criteria (see below) will be approached for inclusion into the trial. Written informed consent will be sought prior to recruitment into the study. Written assent from the patient's relatives will be sought in those cases where neurological impairment prevents written informed consent being obtained from the patient. The patient will subsequently be randomised into the control arm or the study arm of the trial. The control arm consists of normal therapeutic intervention, including external ventricular drainage if required for hydrocephalus. Those randomised to the therapeutic arm will have a lumbar drain inserted and set to drain CSF at 5 ml/hour. This will continue until CSF is no longer blood stained or until day 10 following insertion.
Primary outcome measures:
1. Incidence of delayed ischaemic neurological deficit. This is defined as new neurological deficit and/or impairment of consciousness without other identifiable cause at least three days post haemorrhage.
New impairment of consciousness is defined as a drop in the Glasgow Coma Score of 1 motor point or 2 verbal/eye opening points.
Secondary outcome measures:
- Modified Rankin Score at day 10 post ictus and at 6 months.
- Severity of delayed neurological deficit and the development of a complete infarct.
- Incidence of cerebrospinal fluid infection secondary to lumbar drainage
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If a patient has presented greater than three days following the initial bleed, any neurological deficit present may be a delayed neurological deficit and thus must be excluded from the trial. Should the lumbar drain fall out prematurely the patient will be asked whether they wish to continue in the study and, if so, the lumbar drain will be reinserted and management will continue as before. Patients showing signs of lumbar drain infection will have the drain removed, a sample of CSF and the drain tip sent to the microbiology laboratory and appropriate antibiotic therapy instituted.
The neurosurgical unit at Leeds General Infirmary treated 313 patients with acute subarachnoid haemorrhage in the three years 1997-2000. Of these 243 patients would have been suitable for this study on the basis of their admission clinical status. The power calculation was derived from the estimate that 40% of patients treated with standard therapy will develop clinical vasospasm. If the retrospective study showed a minimum of 20% improvement in its outcome variables then we expect to see the same improvement. For an 85% power this requires 105 patients in each arm. We expect this to take 3.5 years based on the number of eligible patients that present to our unit with a 60-70% recruitment rate (approximately 30 patients per year per arm).
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage.
- Recruitment prior to day three post-haemorrhage.
- Written informed consent or relative assent given.
- WFNS grade 1-3.
- Fisher grade 2, 3 and 4 (without space occupying haematoma) on initial CT scan.
- No intraventricular haemorrhage, space occupying haematoma or other contra-indication to lumbar puncture.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Non-aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage.
- Delayed presentation / recruitment (after day three post-haemorrhage)
- Written informed consent or relative assent denied or unobtainable.
- WFNS grade 4 or 5.
- Fisher grade 1 on initial CT scan.
- Intraventricular haematoma obstructing ventricular outflow.
- Intracranial haematoma with mass effect.
- Bleeding diathesis.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00842049
United Kingdom | |
Leeds General Infirmary | |
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, LS1 3EX |
Principal Investigator: | Yahia Al-Tamimi, MCChB(Hons) | Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust |
Study Director: | Stuart Ross, FRCS(SN) | Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Mr Yahia Al-Tamimi, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00842049 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
Study First Received: | February 11, 2009 |
Last Updated: | February 22, 2011 |
Keywords provided by The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust:
Subarachnoid haemorrhage Aneurysm Cerebrospinal fluid drainage |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hemorrhage Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Pathologic Processes Intracranial Hemorrhages Cerebrovascular Disorders |
Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Nervous System Diseases Vascular Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases |
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Transaction Oracle — A Timely Look at Transactions as They Happen Thursday, November 16, 2006Phillies - Signed King, Swann, RushfordPhiladelphia Phillies - Signed 3B Brennan King, OF Pedro Swann and 1B Jim Rushford to minor-league contracts. All 3 of these players were in the Phillies organization last year and are being re-signed as minor league free agents. King is the most interesting, but his BA is probably too low and his secondary skills not enough to ever get him more than a cup of coffee. Rushford and Swann would both have been terrific role players 4 or 5 years ago, but both their skills have declined in their mid-30s and they're just filling some organizational holes on their way to coaching jobs. Reader Comments and RetortsStatements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy. Please report any inappropriate comments. 1. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: November 17, 2006 at 03:06 AM (#2240024)
I don't care whether Rushford can still play or not. I'm happy to see him stay in uniform as long as he can swipe one off the laundry cart.
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Posted: November 17, 2006 at 03:35 AM (#2240046)
I agree with Vlad. Now that the Red Barons are a Yankees team, I can be sure that my best Red Barons memory will be the game in 2003 where he went 4-for-4 with a walk, 6 RBIs, and a walk-off 3-run homer.
3. alkeiper
Posted: November 18, 2006 at 12:02 AM (#2240818)As for the other two, never heard of them, so I'll look on Baseball Cube. Swann: Ah, now this is the definition of a journeyman. Transactions: Drafted - Selected by Atlanta Braves in 26th Round (674th overall) of 1991 amateur entry draft (June-Reg) Jun 11,1991 - signed Oct 17,1997 - Granted Free Agency. Dec 8,1997 - Signed as Free Agent by Tigers. Oct 16,1998 - Granted Free Agency. Dec 17,1998 - Signed as Free Agent by Tigers. Oct 15,1999 - Granted Free Agency. Dec 18,1999 - Signed as Free Agent by Braves. Oct 15,2000 - Granted Free Agency. Jan 22,2001 - Signed as Free Agent by Braves. Oct 15,2001 - Granted Free Agency. Feb 14,2002 - Signed as Free Agent by Blue Jays. Oct 15,2002 - Granted Free Agency. Feb 3,2003 - Signed as Free Agent by Orioles. Oct 9,2003 - Granted Free Agency. Oct 17,2003 - Signed as Free Agent by Orioles. Oct 15,2004 - Granted Free Agency. Jan 24,2005 - Signed as Free Agent by Reds. King: Spending three full seasons in Jacksonville is generally not good, especially when you don't improve at all during that period.
I agree with Vlad. Watching Rushford in Scranton, he was almost ALWAYS out signing autographs for kids before games. No player was more accomodating. Brennan King has good hands at third base with average range. He's got some pop but his average is probably too low to merit any kind of a Major League future. Swann I didn't see long enough to merit a real opinion. In any case, I'm happy to see all three remain, even if the AAA team moved.
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Network marketing is only growing fast around the World because of it's an effective business model. Here's the 3 Best Products for MLM in 2017.
175,000 people in the United States alone are signing up into a network marketing company PER WEEK. . .
The best MLM companies have products that are all-natural and fill a need. I list the 3 best natural product MLM companies below:
1. Organo Gold
Organo Gold began in 2008 by Bernard Chua.
The company creates Ganoderma-infused coffee and tea. Ganoderma Lucidum is an exotic mushroom with a dark, shiny exterior that has been used in Chinese medicine for over 4,000 years. The mushroom is supposed to control blood glucose levels, improve immune function and hepatoprotection.
Ganoderma is also known as the "herb of spiritual potency." Organo Gold has marketed this amazing mushroom in various products and in the process has won recognition by the Napoleon Hill Foundation and Organo Gold donates thousands of dollars to the foundation.
Products from Organo Gold:
African Red, Caramel Vanilla, Columbian Roast, Gourmet Black Gold, Raspberry Cacao, Rodeo Chai, Royal Brewed, and Te amo.
Recent News for Organo:
Organo opens up in Romania. For Romanians, coffee is still a luxury and in the past, being a communist country, Romanian's were rationed coffee.
Organo introduces the eco-friendly brewing cup. Bernard Chua stated: "We spent this year perfecting the offering with recyclable brewing capsules and a product line expansion to meet the demands of Organo customers."
Organo expands into Hong Kong. Shane Morand stated: "The power of probiotics coupled with the perceived benefits of Ganoderma — used for millennia in Chinese medicine — makes Pro-B21 one of OG's most powerful offerings.
2. Pure Trim
Pure Trim offers weight loss shakes and weight-loss chocolate truffles, among other supplements. The shakes are Soy free, gluten free, dairy and whey free. Pure Trim formed May 10th, 1995.
Here's a testimony:
"My sister lost 120 pounds in a year drinking the Pure Trim Meal Replacement Diet Shakes! I lost 10 pounds in eleven days. She is a real testimony as well as many others that these shakes really work. Soy free, gluten free, whey and dairy free so they are super healthy! Get your life back and feel good…"
Pure Trim works and it's feasible to lose 7 pounds in 10 days. These shakes taste really good, the vanilla and raspberry especially.
Ingredients include:
- 190 Calories
- Plant Calcium
- Antioxidants & Prebiotics
- Mediterranean Essential Fatty Acid Blend
- Ionic Plant Trace Mineral Blend
- Super Raw Anti-Aging Greens Blend
The truffles taste like real chocolate but are packed with beneficial, natural ingredients, such as:
Organic Prickly-pear, Organic Pomegranate, Organic Thyme, Organic Cinnamon, Organic Black Seed, Organic Milk Thistle, Organic Olive, Organic Artichoke, Organic Lemon Balm, Organic Sage, Organic Fennel, and Organic Fenugreek.
Prices for the products are a little expensive, but for the quality it's worth it. They also offer very competitive incentives to successful distributors, like getting an exotic car as a bonus!
3. My Daily Choice
My Daily Choice started January 1st, 2015. They offer nutritional sprays, cash back travel packages, and Brain Bears and Brain Fuel Plus, a 13 natural ingredient, first-to-market supplement for brain health, called Brain Fuel Plus. The ingredients are:
- Sensoril
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- L-Glutamine
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- Vitamin B6 & B12
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The product testimonials range from the supplement helping children's ADHD to helping Alzheimer's.
This supplement helped curb my cravings for sweets and alcohol. My sleep is more sound and energy throughout the day is clean, unlike coffee which produces a crash.
My Daily Choice is in over 170 countries and they just released their children's version of Brain Fuel Plus, called Brain Bears.
These Brain Bears are gluten and sugar free.
They are naturally sweetened with Stevia.
There's 2.2 Billion children in the world, a lot of them lacking in nutrition and some have ADHD.
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- In over 176 Countries
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Network marketing is a 182 Billion industry globally.
It thrives even more when there is economic uncertainty.
People are losing trust in job security and home-based entrepreneurship is a better option these days.
Network marketing levels the "playing field" for everyone.
"The people at the top make all the money" is a myth.
The people at the top in network marketing got there through hard work, just like a CEO becomes a CEO through working hard, slowly rising through the ranks and getting advanced degrees and training.
The powerful advantage of being a network marketer is the unlimited income potential.
Many Billionaires, including Warren Buffet and Donald Trump heavily endorse the network marketing business model:
Also, members of congress recently have created a caucus specifically for pro network marketing. Stated below:
"Representatives Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Marc Veasey (D-TX) today announced the creation of a new, bipartisan congressional caucus to build support for direct selling."
The average earnings of a top network marketing professional is $20,000 a month.
These are normal, working-class people with no special degrees or skills who had the courage to stick out the hardships and rise to the top.
Network marketing is based on "leveraged income."
You earn a small percentage off of the efforts of your entire organization, which then creates monthly passive income. Meaning, you can get paid whether you work or not.
Once a large organization is created by your efforts and other members duplicating a simple system, residual income grows and momentum begins.
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Turtleneck – Jil Sander, plaid scarf – Amicale, tee – Topshop, print scarf – ALICE by Temperley, black
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I love them all, but not fond of the pink :)
I am not brave enough to wear bright bottoms but admire them on others
You are fabulous! I have yet to purchase a colourful pair of pants because I wasn't sure how to pull it off with what I have. Being the Queen of Neutrals, it looks like I'll have endless possibilities. I really like the tip about wearing it with another bright colour of the same intensity. I have seen a lot of colour blocking and now realize that intensity is the key. I'm thinking of red - but probably because I treat red like a neutral as well. Thanks for all the great tips in just a few sentences!
ReplyDeleteI admire this look and get it, but my bottom half couldn't pull this off. I think the best way for pears like me to wear the brightly colored bottom is with a full-leg wool trouser, and that's at least a $150 investment. BUT, if you have a leaner lower half and are apple-shaped, this would be a current and chic way to draw attention away from a tummy issue and focus it on your narrow legs. Sigh, jealous...
ReplyDeleteYea, wow, thank you so much! You got the challenge so right on. I'm so inspired now! B&w stripes...pairing the color with camel...winter white...black turtleneck...GENIUS!! I would have never thought of these combinations. This wardrobe display is exactly what I needed to inspire me. AA is right about the scarf, this gives me a canvas in which to display it. Thank you so much; you are incredibly talented. I'm going to Montreal this coming week and can now wear my cobalt pants with panache. XO
ReplyDeleteI have been reading several of your old posts and it has been a great help to me. You see, I am the worlds worst packer and have a hard time arranging a capsule but after reading one of you posts I was able to come up with something for a wedding this weekend. Can't wait to read about stripes because I am sooo drawn to them. Thanks to Aesthetic Alterations I happened to stumble across one of your comments and checked out the Vivienne Files. Thanks for such a great blog!
ReplyDeleteI'm inspired to dig out the red pants I bought this summer, wore 2 or 3 times without ever feeling I had a good combo, and packed away.
After seeing these examples, I want to pair them with an ivory fisherman's sweater, a striped tee, a purple pullover. In summer, the color felt a little overbearing. Now it seems like a pick-me-up for the fading color and energy of winter.
Vivienne, shopping diet or not (and major kudos and inspiration, by the way) I'm sure you're one of the best dressed women in your zip code. There is such disciplined yet creative classic chic about everything you put together.
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Simple Baby Shower
This is the cake I made for my sister-in-law's baby shower. It was chocolate with chocolate chips...YUMMM! Didn't have a mold or anything for the blocks so I made them by hand and used a Gem cutter for the booties. Was very simple and, IMO, classy. Was very happy with how it turned out. TFL!


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If you want the very best that Apple can offer, then check out the Mac Pro 12-Core Desktop Computer Workstation, the company's premiere computer. Built with high performance in mind, this system is ideal for CPU-intensive and graphics-heavy applications. Apple didn't skimp on the design either. Housed in a striking tower form factor, this desktop workstation has a silver front grille with easy access to USB 2.0 and FireWire 800 ports as well as a headphone jack. Sturdy handles at the top of the case ensures that the system can be safely moved.
Unlike the limited expansion options of other Apple products, the Mac Pro is fully customizable with its easy-access interior. Slide out the four 3.5" SATA drive bays to upgrade seamlessly to a total of 8TB (using 7200rpm SATA HDDs) or 2TB (using SSD). Slide out the processor tray to access the 8 RAM slots, which can support up to a memory capacity of 64GB. The back of the system features a plethora of ports, including more USB 2.0 and FireWire 800 ports as well as dual Gigabit Ethernet ports. There are also optical and analog audio options as well.
The Mac Pro is powered by two 6-core Intel Xeon processors running at a clockspeed of 2.66GHz. This system also comes with 12GB of RAM, a 1TB 7200rpm SATA hard drive, Apple's SuperDrive DVD burner with dual-layer disc support, 802.11n Airport Extreme Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR for wireless device connectivity and ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics with 1GB of memory.
The 64-bit OS features Time Machine backup, which automatically backs up system data to an external hard drive. It also features intuitive Cover Flow navigation, the powerful Spotlight search tool and Quick Look document preview. Boot Camp allows you to run Windows on your Mac, which is useful if some of your applications are only available on Windows. Front Row turns your Mac Pro into an impressive media player.
iLife '11 is a complete suite of digital creativity applications. Easy enough for anyone to use, iLife will help you edit your home movies, organize digital photos, and compose original music. The system is also powerful enough to run Apple's professional-level applications, perfect for those who are ready to move up to the next level of creative software.


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HISTORY IN SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY Site by Lynne Landwehr © 2004 www.historyinslocounty.org
A Timeline of San Luis Obispo County History This timeline is extremely brief, and intentionally so. However, if you wish to suggest changes or additions, please e-mail lelandwehr @ yahoo.com (but with no spaces in the address) and please include the phrase "Obispo History" in your e-mail's subject line. Thank you.
Click here for a Timeline of WOMEN'S HISTORY in San Luis Obispo County.
1542 Cabrillo and party enter Morro Bay, name Morro Rock (Click here for a timeline of Morro Bay's history, provided courtesy of Jane H. Bailey.)
1769 Portolá expedition passes through the area 1772 Fages leads Spanish expedition to area to secure bear meat for settlements at Monterey and San Antonio 1772 Junípero Serra founds Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, 5th in the coastal chain of 21 missions 1797 Mission San Miguel Arcangel founded (16th mission)
The search button below can be used to search all pages within this site for a word or phrase.
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With 199 entries for the six races at Tweseldown tomorrow Robert Killen, chairman of the sport's secretaries' association, admitted that "December racing has quickly become a victim of its own success".
So successful that balloting looks probable in the maiden which has 49 entries. Lord Atterbury, third in the 2004 Grand National and now trained by Simon Robinson in the south-east, could make his British pointing debut in the mixed open (12.00). Martin Ossie, disappointing under Rules, is now back with the astute Dick Baimbridge and is engaged in the Ladies Open (12.30) along with Richard Barber's very promising Gaye Trigger. Unbeaten in four outings last season, the nine-year-old has shown he can cope with soft ground.
Tomorrow's fixture: Tweseldown Racing Club at Tweseldown. (First race 11.30). 3m west of Aldershot; 2m from Fleet town centre. 6m from M3; Exit 4 or 5.


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Sather has now been GPL/LGPL'ed so that it may be maintained as part of the GNU project. The 1.2beta release with the GNU licencing is now available. It may or may not build - it is meant to be mainly as an 'official' release of the source to enable further distribution by GNU. Download it from here .
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bunnies & stripes
About me
House tour Paris
Before & Afters
Ikan't tell you how much I love Ikat. Almost as much as I love neon. And bunnies.
Here are my current favourites:
All found
And what would Ikat be without a little graphical diversity:
Stripes and (sort of) chevrons
This is another before & after of something I bought second hand from www.Leboncoin.fr (which is French for Craigslist):
Kind of pretty but kind of ugly on first glance. I wanted it because it matched my
secretary desk
. Same lines, same wood...at least I thought so at the time! This is actually laminate while my desk is solid wood...*sad face*. This meant I was a little reluctant to sand it and paint it entirely. It was going to stand next to my secretary desk, but I didn't want to make it too matchy-matchy, and I did really grow to like the natural wood colour while it sat in the living room waiting to be painted for a few months. So, this is what I did:
I used the same colour palette as for my desk: see the grey footsies? see the yellow pulls from Anthropologie? I wanted to accentuate the geometric lines of the wood, so I decided to paint stripes that would join up in the middle to form one HUGE chevron pattern. That was the initial plan. Oh how I overestimated my geometry skills. Oh how I forgot to take into account the fact that the doors would OVERLAP.
From this angle, it looks almost like chevrons. Right? Yes. Yes it does.
The tray is an easy way of hiding the ring mark that couldn't be saved with the mayonnaise trick
Those two are so in love. Even Eames is a little jealous...
Neon envy
My recent
tray table revamp
has made me crazy. Crazy for neon. I officially crave colour. Which do you like best?
I simply can't decide
The hairy lantern
I'll admit I pinched this idea from Pinterest, though I can't seem to find it anywhere now. If I find the link I'll be sure to add it here. (Psssst! update! I just found the original here: http://www.designsponge.com/2011/03/weekly-wrap-up-paper-scrap-light.html)
Start with a boring Ikea paper lantern. (I haven't got a picture of one, but you know what I mean: white paper ball that costs 2 Euros).
Add about 50 sheets of A4 printing paper and a roll of tape.
Take a pair of scissors and make sure you've got some episodes of The Big Bang Theory to watch
Cut away like a mad person for 2 days
Stick away like a bored person for 3 days
This is what it looks like when it's not centered above anything in particular:
And this is what it looks like after your handy boyfriend has spent 2 hours moving it along over the dining room table (also note that he finally put up the Japanese silk screen above the cocktail cart, YESSS!) :
Everybody who walks into the room says it looks like a hairy or furry lantern, so this is now its official denomination.
The happy tray table
This weekend I finally got around to finishing my dear little tray table, and I think this is probably my favourite project so far. I can't stop smiling everytime I look at it! look:
This is what it used to look like before I sanded it and spent 2 weeks painting it white. I was going to go with a chevron pattern in gold or silver on the bottom of the tray, but then I was hit by neon. Wham! And I had to have some. So here it is:
Here it is again, with a bunny lamp, because no nightstand is complete without one:
And just because my bedroom is now my favourite room, here it is again:
Time for bed!!
Headboard/ screen
This is a post about a sad old screen that my bf bought when we were dating to keep his cat out of his bedroom when I came to stay since I'm allergic. I must say, he made a pretty good choice. (I don't have any photos of his apartment at the time but let me just say you needed a box of Xanax just to build up the courage to walk DOWN the steps into the dark and damp underground grotto that he lived in). We inherited a lovely health bed from my Aunt but it came with a rather plain old headboard, so I decided to make maximum use of the screen.
The pictures are quite personal without being too corny. I incorporated several foxes and rabbits (guess who is who in our household), the three postcards at the bottom came from the medieval museum in Paris, in the middle we have a reproduction of 'the kiss' by Klimt, as I was saying the other day, and I couldn't resist this cute play on words:
Hard to read from here, but the little poem is the second half of
Bits & bobs
Some little corners of my house that I really love
The first reader who spots the rabbit-free picture
gets a..... errr.... free rabbit?
Chevron addiction
another old revamp that I needed to post. Actually, make it two. Here is my official chevron series:
Weekend finds
I'm so glad it's brocante season again :D
I found these treatures a couple of weeks ago on the East side of Paris. It was weird going to a flea market on the other side of the city yesterday only to find the same sellers! Paris is a village.
Check out the little set of polka cups and mugs ! (the green mug was being used for my tea!) They're Arcopal, so virtually unbreakable, and they are as happy as my kitchen! I think we paid €15 for the set. The little flower mug was another find, it's got it's own little tea strainer on the top. So cozy, so British, so cheap: €1
Finally a white glass bud vase! I've been drooling at these on Etsy for ages but always on US shops, so although they're always cheap, you pay more for postage than for the actual vase. This was €3 so I'm glad I waited now!
I thought this would add some character to our bedroom and make it look slightly lees childish. It's an old poster from WW2 that reads "Silence, the ennemy is listening to your secrets", since our walls are paper thin it seemed appropriate. The navy and pale yellow are perfect for the room. €1!
I picked up this plain old nighstand for 3 Euro at a flea market right after we moved last year. It was just plain raw wood, all ready to be painted and I knew it would go perfectly in our guest room/office because of its slight Louis XVI vibe.
I painted it a deep aurbergine purple and gave it a coat of varnish to protect it from scratches. I spent ages wondering whether to stencil it or use something like a potato stamp to add some bling. I was thinking little gold squares to match the lampshade in the office and the Klimt reproduction in the headboard (more on that later!!), but in the end I decided to just keep it simple.
Good enough for J.K. Rowling and Pushkin. And a little seashell from St Maarten!
Flower power
This is one of my older before & afters.
Just before we moved last year, we came across this old lampshade in someone's dustbin.
I hesitated for a couple of days thinking it wouldn't be worth the trouble (it's mostly cardboard and old fabric, some of the petals were quite damaged and it took a LOT of imagination to convince me), but its little face in that dustbin kept coming back to me... I couldn't resist !
As you can see, it was gold inside and black on the outside. I wish I could have stuck with those colours because they really gave it a vintage 70's feel, but it wouldn't have looked good anywhere in our new place, so I decided to switch the gold to silver and the black to red (with a few of coats of white gesso inbetween).
It's not perfect up close but it looks cute in its new home.
Aren't you glad I rescued you, little flower?
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February 1 – The Long Road
I took the road less traveled by… and that has made all the difference.
I took the road less traveled by… and that has made all the difference.
Which Jesus will you chose?
Is this really God's will?
Everything God creates is good. The problem is, what God creates, people disfigure. Every single time I sin, I am marring the beauty God has created. Sometimes that disfigurement only happens inside my own soul. Other times my sin forever changes the course of someone else's life.
Zombies and ghosts can't save people. Can you imagine what Lazarus would have looked like if he stepped back into his body, crawled out of his grave, and then showed up at his brothers doors to pass along that message?
Again I say, don't get involved in foolish, ignorant arguments that only start fights. (2 Timothy 2:23) Read: Jeremiah 44:24-47:7, 2 Timothy 2:22-3:17, Psalm 94:1-23, Proverbs 26:6-8 Relate: Honestly, I was actually surprised with my most recent facebook browse. When I decided what verse to use for today, I jumped over there expecting more of the usual. Apparently,…
"I'm in a desperate situation!" David replied to Gad. "But let us fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercy is great. Do not let me fall into human hands." (2 Samuel 24:14 NLT) Read: 2 Samuel 23:24-39, 2 Samuel 24, Acts 3, Psalms 123:1-4, Proverbs 16:21-23 Relate: Israel was once again focusing on…


text: Cost to build Minn. light rail grows to $1.86B 2016-08-09 20:19:13 Claire Thompson A 14.5-mile proposed light-rail line between Minneapolis and Eden Prairie in Minnesota is now projected to cost $1.86 billion, an increase of $19 million. The Metropolitan Council planning agency says the increase is due to delays caused by legislative inaction. The cost of the Southwest light-rail line has increased — again. This time, by $19 million. The price tag of the 14.5-mile line linking downtown Minneapolis with Eden Prairie is now $1.858 billion. Although the Metropolitan Council, the regional planning body that is building the project, is quick to note that about half of the $19 million increase will be borne by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), it leaves local taxpayers responsible for $9.5 million. The increase is because of "inaction by House leadership to provide the remaining state share of funding," according to a Met Council news release on Monday. This refers to the final piece of local funding totaling $135 million that was to come from state coffers this legislative session. But light rail is controversial among some Republican lawmakers, and a deal was not struck, leaving the Southwest project (and others) in limbo. Transit advocates are hopeful a special session of the Legislature this month may provide a pathway to shoring up those local funds. But Gov. Mark Dayton said Monday that Republican opposition to additional state funding for Twin Cities transit programs is the major stumbling block as he and legislative leaders continue to discuss a possible special legislative session. A full local match must be nailed down before the FTA grants its portion to the Southwest project, about $929 million. 'Cost of inaction is real' "The cost of inaction is real, large, and one that falls on the taxpayers of the region," said Met Council Chairman Adam Duininck. At a news conference Monday covered by my colleague Patrick Condon, Dayton was asked about the new SWLRT cost estimate. While he hadn't yet seen detailed explanations for the latest cost bump, the governor suggested efforts by statehouse Republicans to block the project were a likely factor. "The longer we delay the project, the more expensive it's going to be," Dayton said. "The clock is ticking, as well as the eligibility for the federal funding." Rep. Tony Albright, R-Prior Lake, member of the House Subcommittee on Metropolitan Council Accountability and Transparency, said in a statement: "It's clear that there are bipartisan questions about whether this $2 billion project is a worthy use of taxpayer dollars; Democrats neglected to fund Southwest Light Rail when they had full control of state government two years ago, and Governor Dayton chose not to include Southwest Light Rail funding in his proposal for the largest bonding bill in state history. I would encourage the Met Council to stop wasting taxpayer resources playing the political blame game when they can't even convince Democrats to make this project a priority." Because of the funding issue, the project has essentially stalled, Duininck said. Its environmental review has been completed and planners are ready to request FTA approval to enter the engineering phase — when construction bids are let. Met Council spokeswoman Kate Brickman said the SWLRT's $19 million budget increase is effective Oct. 1. After that, the price will go up an additional $1 million a week due to delays, about $50 million a year. She said the cost increase is because of expenses related to third-party designers and consultants who will have to be rehired once — if — the project resumes. She said a legal fees related to a lawsuit, filed by a group that opposes the project, is not part of the cost increase. The Southwest project is slated to begin service in 2021, the same year as the Bottineau Blue Line extension linking Minneapolis to Brooklyn Park.


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When I started making my social media rounds this morning, I came across Jeffrey Zeldman's call to action for this year's Blue Beany Day on November 30th. But I respectfully disagree with a number of points he is making in his post about JavaScript frameworks and their accessibility implications. Continue reading "JavaScript is not an enemy of accessibility!"
Firefox 49 supports the HTML5  and  elements
As you may or may not have heard, Firefox 49 supports the HTML5  and  elements. Both full keyboard support and support for assistive technologies is also available right from the start.
What are they?
 and  allow to dynamically show and hide blocks of content. For example, when composing a list of frequently asked questions, each question could be wrapped in an details-summary-block, with the summary being the question, and the details following in the rest of the details block. The user can then show and hide the details by just clicking or pressing on the summary content.
Previously, to achieve the same goal, web developers would have had to use a <button> element and bind some JavaScript to it that would show or hide some other adjacent block of text by modifying certain CSS properties. And as things go, these turned out to not always be accessible. Either developers used a clickable
 or  element without proper keyboard support, or forgot to add the proper WAI-ARIA semantics, or both, turning these kinds of dynamic content into a challenge.
Well, no more, as the HTML5 specification addresses these issues with the  and  elements.
An example
This can be very easily demonstrated. Navigate to the below heading, which is going to be announced by screen readers as a button, with a collapsed state, and then press Space, or use the mouse or your finger (when on a touch screen) to click or press on it. Then, the button will change to an expanded one, and there will be another new paragraph below that heading. You can press on the button again to collapse that paragraph again and make it disappear.
Press me to show what I'm wearing underneath
Hahah, thought you'd find something naughty here, eh? Well, sorry to disappoint, it's just a silly rambling of mine. Go ahead and go back up to close me again.
The code for this is pasted below.

Press me to show what I'm wearing underneath

Hahah, thought you'd find something naughty here, eh? Well, sorry to disappoint, it's just a silly rambling of mine. Go ahead and go back up to close me again.

The content inside the  element can be all kinds of elements like lists, tables, sub headings if need be etc. Just remember to keep the proper heading structure when you do it. The fact that I used a heading up there is totally optional, too. It just fits in the heading structure of the blog.
Hope these elements will now help to create more accessible collapsible content blocks! Other browsers like Chrome and Safari also support these elements, and we're hoping that Microsoft Edge will follow lead soon as well!
The Firefox developer tools Inspector Panel is becoming accessible
A few months ago, I wrote about the efforts to make the built-in Firefox developer tools more accessible. That work started in January and is now carrying first far-reaching fruits. Here's an update! Continue reading "The Firefox developer tools Inspector Panel is becoming accessible"


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Category:Use Australian English from June 2012
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- Arthur Waite (racing driver)
- Garth Walden
- David Walker (racing driver)
- Johnnie Walker (racing driver)
- David Wall (racing driver)
- Callan Ward
- Beau Waters
- William Alfred Webb
- Wentworth (season 3)
- Wentworth (season 4)
- Wentworth (season 5)
- West Australian Football Club
- Peter Wherrett
- Jamie Whincup
- Doug Whiteford
- Whittlesea Football Club
- John Paul Wild
- Troy Wilson (Australian rules footballer)
- Winners & Losers (season 2)
- Winners & Losers (season 3)
- Winners & Losers (season 4)
- Winners & Losers (season 5)
- Women's Australian rules football
- Wonderland (season 1)
- Wonderland (season 2)
- Wonderland (season 3)
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hear! hear!
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhear! hear!hear! hear!used in a discussion or meeting to say that you agree with what the speaker is saying → hear
More results
- hear
- hear from somebody
- hear somebody out
- be hearing things
- (do) you hear?
- have heard of somebody/something
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At least 18 women and girls waiting to get free flour died when a crowd surge swelled into stampede in the Pakistan city of Karachi today.
The accident came during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a traditional time for charitable acts including giving away food.
The women were queuing in a small building with narrow passages. As more entered to get the flour, some began to panic and guards began using force to clear the place.
"Hundreds of women were pushing to enter into the small hall, and guards started beating us to get the place cleared," said one woman who ended up among the many wounded. "I fell down and was being crushed. My heart was missing beats and I thought I was dying."
Panicked relatives streamed into the city's hospital, while others brought limp bodies in the backs of trucks or in their arms. Some women wailed while laying on stretchers.
The flour give-away was organised by a private donor who was arrested for not giving police prior notice of the event.
"Poverty is on the rise, there is a desperation among people," local government official Javed Hanif said.
"Naturally, when people are frustrated, whenever they get such an opportunity, they try to grab the maximum."


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MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota freshman Taylor Cammarata gave his home state's biggest hockey crowd their only reason to cheer on Friday.
Cammarata's second-period goal was the difference as Minnesota held off Ohio State 1-0 in the Hockey City Classic, played before an announced crowd of 45,021 at TCF Bank Stadium.
Cammarata threw a puck on net that Buckeyes goalie Matt Tomkins slowed enough with a pad save to stop the puck on the goal line. But when the goalie scrambled to cover the puck with his glove, he inadvertently knocked it into the net, giving the Gophers rookie his fifth career goal.
Gophers goaltender Adam Wilcox had 21 saves for his second shutout of the season as top-ranked Minnesota improved to 16-2-3 overall and 6-0-1-0 in Big Ten play.
Tomkins had 25 saves as Ohio State fell to 11-7-1 overall and 1-3-1-0 in the conference.


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Treasury 10-Year Yields at Almost 14-Month High Before Auction
Daniel Kruger and Susanne WalkerTreasury 10-year note yields traded at an almost 14-month high as the U.S. prepared to auction $21 billion of the securities amid concern the Federal Reserve will slow purchases of U.S. government debt.
The Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Bond 10+ Year Index has fallen 4.2 percent in 2013 on bets the economy is growing fast enough for the Fed to reduce monetary stimulus. Pre-auction yields on the notes being sold today reached what would be the highest level since October 2011. A three-year debt sale yesterday drew the lowest bidding since 2010, while the U.S. will sell $13 billion of 30-year bonds tomorrow.
"The question is, has the market gone down far enough and stabilized a bit here so that we bring in buyers for the 10s and bonds?" said Thomas Roth, senior Treasury trader in New York at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities USA Inc. "There have been buyers all year with lower yield levels, so will they buy at these higher yields? I'm looking for slightly higher yields between now and the auction today."
The benchmark 10-year yield was little changed at 2.19 percent at 11:43 a.m. New York time after climbing to 2.29 percent yesterday, the highest level since April 2012, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader data. The 1.75 percent note maturing in May 2023 traded at 96 1/8.
The securities being auctioned today traded at a yield of 2.20 percent before the offering.
At the last sale of the maturity, on May 8, investors bid for 2.70 times the amount available, versus 2.79 in April.
'Tentative Nature'
Ten-year notes fell for the past six weeks, the longest losing stretch since 2009, amid speculation the Fed will taper its bond buying.
"The last month is going to be fresh in people's minds," said John Briggs, a U.S. government-bond strategist at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc's RBS Securities unit in Stamford, Connecticut, one of 21 primary dealers that are required to bid at Treasury auctions. "I wouldn't be surprised to see a little bit of a tentative nature for investors in the next two auctions."
Ten-year notes drew a 1.81 percent yield at the May sale.
A shortage of 10-year notes in the government debt funding market has traders willing to pay to borrow the securities in exchange for loaning cash for the most actively traded maturity.
The overnight repurchase agreement, or repo rate, for the 1.75 percent note due in May 2023 closed at negative 2.9 percent today, according to data from ICAP Plc, the world's largest inter-dealer broker.
'In Demand'
"On the margin, that should be a positive for the auction because it shows the securities are in demand," said Ian Lyngen, a government bond strategist at CRT Capital Group LLC in Stamford, Connecticut.
The U.S. sold $32 billion of three-year notes yesterday at a yield of 0.581 percent. A Bloomberg News survey of traders before the auction projected 0.575 percent. The amount of bids relative to debt sold, a gauge of demand known as the bid-to-cover ratio, was 2.95, the least since December 2010.
Demand for Treasuries at auction has slackened this year amid signs of improvement with the U.S. economy. Investors have bid $2.98 for each dollar of debt sold at the U.S. government's $937 billion in Treasury notes and bonds sold at auction, compared with a record bid-to-cover ratio of $3.15 set in 2012, according to Treasury data compiled by Bloomberg.
Pimco's 'Buy'
Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., called intermediate Treasuries a "buy."
The "Fed's not raising interest rates for years," Gross said today in a Twitter posting. "That makes intermediate Treasuries at buy at 2.0 percent plus." The central bank has held its key rate at virtually zero since 2008 to support the economy and has said it won't be raised until there's substantial growth.
Gross reduced the proportion of U.S. government securities in his $285.2 billion Total Return Fund to 37 percent, from 39 percent the previous month, according to data on Newport Beach, California-based Pimco's website yesterday.
The Fed, which meets next June 18-19, is buying $85 billion of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities each month to put downward pressure on borrowing costs. It will reduce the purchases to $65 billion a month at its Oct. 29-30 meeting, economists in a Bloomberg survey forecast last week.
The central bank bought $916 million of Treasuries today due from August 2023 to February 2031, from $4.2 billion offered by dealers.
Volatility, Volume
Volatility in Treasuries as measured by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch MOVE Index was at 82.3 yesterday, after rising to 84.75 on June 6 and June 10, the highest level in almost a year. It has averaged 62.4 over the past 12 months.
Trading volume has been increasing, with the amount changing hands through ICAP Plc, the largest inter-dealer broker of U.S. government debt, averaging $397 billion a day since the start of May. That's up from an average of $280.6 billion in the first four months of the year.
U.S. securities lost 1.2 percent this year through yesterday, according to the Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Bond Index. German bunds declined 1.2 percent and U.K. gilts dropped 2 percent, separate indexes show.