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I am not dressed YET, but I'll be putting on my costume in a little while. 8D
Does putting on actual clothes for once count as dressing up for Halloween?
Hallowe'en "party" is tomorrow, not tonight for me. I'm just dimming the lights and pretending not to be home. Like hell I'm giving sweets out to begging kids...
What's my costume today? Grumpy bastard.
I was a vampire last night, a demon princess tonight and a very hungover student tomorrow morning.
I am going to be one of those annoying parents that takes their kid trick-or-treating. No costume for me tonight. Hopefully next year. I also wouldn't mind driving a few hours up north to visit @Noxious though :D
PARTY IN DALLAS WOOOHOOO! I'm so bummed you can't make it @Beatrix. :( Y'all really need to come up soon. I'm going as Batty from Fern Gully. I will post pictures.
I dressed up like a night shift worker. Oh wait...
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Ooh! That sounds like fun! Seems like we have a lot of trips to make XD
School's party was last night. I was a scarecrow. Even have a stuffed toy crow that....well.....crows XD
All the costumes (Including in costume shops) were uncomfortably short/sexy. I didn't feel confident enough to pull anything off....and I had no time to make one....and I can't find a wide brimmed purple hat... or a turquoise turtleneck.
Originally I wasn't....then we decided to have a 'nerd/geek' theme at work....and I came to realize I am truly a nerd/geek without trying o_o perhaps pictures later...
Decided not to dress up because, well, at work and a great deal of my clients are schizo-affective or delusional or paranoid. I don't need to accidentally be triggering them by showing up knocking at their door in costume...
Yes I was a homicidal maniac
They look just like everyone else
I did not dress up because I don't necessarily care to celebrate Halloween.
Niiooipe. Going to comicon selweden tommorow
No. I was going to, but, being an introvert and someone with chronic pain, after being out around people for most of the day, I was way too worn out and sore to even attempt it. I decided to change into my pj's, watch movies and eat chocolate instead
It was sorta hard to tell where the costume started and my average day off look ended.
I did kind of the same thing, but swing shift security guard.
The dress code for the place called for a collared shirt, tie, and blazer, so I looked decent. When I had kids coming through the lobby in costumes all hyped up for Halloween, some of them asked me what I was gonna dress up as. I told them I was already in my costume and that I was a businessman. They accepted it at face value, the saps.


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His mom wanted something with little cars en this is what i made :-)
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Lovely cake, well done! :-)
Brilliant! so perfect! :-)
Very cool cake! Love it!
love everything about the cake, quite eye catching, well done!
What a cute cake!
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This is such a fabulous design, a little bit of everything :)
Thank. You so much Peggy,Sarah and Calli :-)
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endoplasmic reticulum
The endoplasmic reticulum
is a large system of membranes that accounts for a majority of all membranes in a eukaryotic cell
there are two different kinds of ribosomes
free ribosomes and bound ribosomes
free ribosomes
bound ribosomes
ribosomes are inportant because
the endoplasmic reticulum
there are two different kinds of ER
smooth er and rough er
smooth er
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it is called smooth er because
it has no ribosomes on its surface
smooth er
creates steroids and stores ions so that the cell can have them when it need it.
rough er
get its name because it surface is studded covered with ribosomes and is the site of synthesis for certain proteins
The rough endoplasmic reticulum (rough ER) is a
a complex membrane-bound organelle and is involved in the transport of the proteins made by ribosomes on its surface. Found in eukaryotic cells — the cells of plants, animals, and humans
the rough endoplasmic reticulum changes with the needs of the cells
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Ribosomes that dot its surface move onto the membrane as they begin to
make protein and move off when they are done.
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production and transport of proteins in the cell.
. Both types are present in
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cells producing lipids (fats) and steroid hormones will have a greater amount of
smooth ER
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carbohydrate metabolism
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lipid synthesis
calcium storage
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Animal cells involved in hormone secretion are
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the ER
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the ribosomees on the rough ER serce as the
place for the synthesis of proteins that are directed by the genes to be put together in the ER
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A component of food that supplies energy (calories) to the body.
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Good morning!
This morning's reading, from the Old Testament, is from Joshua, chapters 11, 12, and 13.
I know that to some, this record of the cities and regions of the Promised Land seems quaint, and pointless, and of no purpose. Look at the news. These lands remain a point of contention thousands of years later. And, as then, it is brutal warfare. I once wondered why so much fighting over land I wouldn't want. There are answers to that - the land and trade routes that cross between the great civilizations (at the time - no longer) of Egypt and Mesopotamia, for example. But the main point is that G-d Almighty assigned this land to these people and their descendants, and that land grant is the important one.
Thie evening's reading from the New Testament continues in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 4, verses 1 through 32. This is the record of Jesus in the wilderness, tempted by the Devil, followed by His teaching at the synagogue in Nazareth.


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The Paris Metro or Métropolitain (French: Métro de Paris) is a rapid transit system in the Paris Metropolitan Area. A symbol of the city, it is noted for its density within the city limits and its uniform architecture, influenced by Art Nouveau. It is mostly underground and 214 kilometres (133 mi) long. It has 303 stations. It is the second busiest subway system in Europe, after the Moscow Metro, and the tenth-busiest in the world. The first line opened without ceremony on 19 July 1900, during the World's Fair (Exposition Universelle).
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True to the US army's motto of "Be all you can be", Gemini would ideally end up as every possible profession that exists. Physically and mentally agile, Gemini like to spread themselves around in their myriad of pursuits. They may often leave others in the dust with their expressiveness and enthusiasm and holding their attention can be difficult. Give them the right gift however and you may just slow them down for a minute or two.
Gifts for Cancer
Mother knows best and no one knows better than a Cancer. Cancers love to lend a helping hand to their friends and family, sometimes a little too much, as only a mother could. Often emotionally driven individuals, Cancers are always sensitive to the emotions and needs of others and will quickly adapt to suit other people's needs. Even if that special Cancer in your life is your father, give him the gift that only a mother could love.
Gifts for Leo
Like their ruling celestial body, The Sun, Leos can't help but find themselves at the centre of it all. As the nucleus of their social group, a Leo's birthday or special event will never go unnoticed and they'll damn well tell you ahead of time when to expect it. Fiercely loyal and charitable people, Leos expect only the best in exchange for the honour of being their friend and will never let you hear the end of it if you fail to deliver.
Gifts for Virgo
From the fine cut of a jacket, to the twirl of a pen or paintbrush or even the subtle aftertaste that lingers on a discerning palette, Virgos exemplify the mantra of quality over quantity. Virgos deliver and expect to receive in a manner of delicate and superb presentation. Generally considered critical yet caring, a Virgo might excuse a poor gift in favour of "it's the thought that counts" but that thought best be the finest thought you can muster.
Gifts for Libra
The term "Judge for yourself", would probably be a solid piece of advice in a case over which a Libra was presiding. Prone to weighing up all the sides of an argument and never specifically choosing one, Librans maintain balance and impartiality in every choice they make. Keeping everyone happy is often a difficult job; help maintain order in your Libran's life by getting them a gift that's balanced just right.
Gifts for Scorpio
A Scorpio will have no problem becoming the apples of someone's eye, and that's exactly the way they planned it. Fiery and passionate, Scorpios love to influence people to get their own way and have no problem turning a few heads when they enter a room. They will however always give 100% for those they care about and never take no for an answer. Help stoke the fiery flame that burns in their belly with a gift that burns as hot as they do.
Gifts for Sagittarius
The glass is always half full in a Sagittarian's world and the grass is always greener on whichever side they're on. Sagittarians are the most positive of all the star signs and will always have the biggest dreams for their future. Being that positive all the time isn't without its downfalls though and Sagittarians may become discouraged if they fail to live up to their own high-flying expectations. Give them the perfect gift to maintain that infectious optimism.


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Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is one of the overlooked heroes of iOS. Part of Bluetooth 4.0, it offers a low-power way to wirelessly connect sensors and other short-range devices to applications that can, with Apple's blessing, run in the background. That means, your phone can track and monitor systems without you having to keep an application open full-time and it won't run down your battery.
Still an emerging technology, lots of BLE projects are just ramping up. I recently had a chance to try out a prototype of Phone Halo's Wallet TrackR system. Small enough to fit in your wallet, the Wallet TrackR uses BLE to virtually tether valuables to your iPhone.
It works like this. You slide the TrackR into your wallet or connect it to your keychain. Once paired with your phone, a background process connects to the unit and makes sure that it stays close. Should you move too far away, your phone alerts you -- and shows you the TrackR's last known location on a map. You won't have to worry about getting up from the table at that restaurant and accidentally leaving your wallet behind.


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There is no denying that Scandi girls know how to dress. We didn't think it could get any better than the street style we obsessed over at Copenhagen Fashion Week in August but the looks from Stockholm this week are arguably even better. With just as much colour, print and laid-back layering as we saw in Denmark, click ahead for the best tips on bringing your summer wardrobe seamlessly into autumn with elegant prints and covetable knitwear.
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Although it is often attributed to advertising executives in the 1950s, printed references to the phrase, "Half the money spent on advertising is wasted, but no one knows which half." appear as early as 1897. Today, if you spend five minutes chatting with a digital media planner, he or she will surely bring up the idea of the ability to measure every click or view and how it has revolutionized the ad game. Theoretically, with the right measurement and analytics tools in place, every campaign could be continually optimized and refined, reaching maximum effectiveness and near-zero-waste. So, why aren't we all seeing major leaps in returns?
It all boils down to three main issues.
First, most firms use basic analytics that measure impulse, not affinity. Second, in most measurement structures, there's no allowance for context. And finally, current analytics don't reflect the lifetime value of a customer. But let's address each of these, one by one.
Optimizing for impulse, not long-term affinity
The underlying mechanism of optimization is simple: messages that get clicked most often are run more, while messages that get clicked less are removed. On the face of it, the system is completely logical. We all want clicks, right? Well, not solely. We want more clicks, but it's important that those clicks are the kind that result in a final sale. And further, we want to have insight, over time, as to which of the ads that resulted in clicks and sales also resulted in creating a long-term relationship with a customer—and, hence, an increase in repeated or related sales. And that requires time, patience, and quite frankly, a long-term perspective that current measurement-driven optimization applications do not offer.
No value for context
Current analytics have little room for valuing context (e.g., where a user was or what he or she was doing when an impression took place). While certainly the context regarding individual instances could be inferred through close examination; that is impractical. This means we have no weighting for adjacencies such as whether a message was seen in an environment with relevance to your brand, or better yet, additive in value to customers' opinions of your brand.
No accounting for lifetime value
The overweighting of the value of clicks or even conversions, as opposed to repeated positive impressions, underweights the value of developing a relationship, awareness, and affinity over time.
In branding, the short way's the long way.
Great marketing has always been about finding the perfect balance between short-term tactical gains and building long-term brand equity. Today, marketers are facing increasing pressure to show direct returns on every marketing spend. And while we agree that all things can be measured, for some very important things, the time frame in which the proper measurement should be taken is often longer than the budget cycle (and its related dashboards).
So what's a marketer to do?
As much as we all depend on and benefit from the latest measurement and analytics tools, unless we leave room in our strategic plans and spaces within our dashboard for building long-term brand affinity, there is a strong chance we will miss opportunities to make future clicks and future sales easier to come by.
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Thanksgiving is the perfect time to reflect and be grateful for everything we have in our lives. Will you show your thanks by giving back? You can help families in need to have a great holiday. This week's column features agencies that are collecting food during the next couple of weeks for Thanksgiving baskets.
Thanksgiving is the perfect time to reflect and be grateful for everything we have in our lives. Will you show your thanks by giving back? You can help families in need to have a great holiday. This week's column features agencies that are collecting food during the next couple of weeks for Thanksgiving baskets.
For a complete list of ways to help others during the holidays, read United Way's Holiday Guide to Giving and Volunteering at the following link: www.uwgs.org/holidayguide.
Saint Michael Parish
St. Michael Parish works with St. Vincent de Paul to help struggling families with Back to School, Thanksgiving and Christmas programs. Currently, more than 100 families have requested assistance for the holidays, and this number will grow as the holidays get closer. The agency provides Thanksgiving baskets to families in need, and is looking for donations of turkeys, stuffing, cranberry sauce, gravy, rolls, pie, cookies, potatoes, carrots, squash, celery, apples, napkins and roasting pans. Thanksgiving basket donations are accepted until Nov. 22.
Contact: Leah Grant, pastoral minister, at 772-2494 or email@example.com.
Location: Exeter.
My Friend's Place
The mission of My Friend's Place is to provide a comprehensive program for temporary housing and support. My Friend's Place is the only shelter in Strafford County that provides emergency shelter for homeless individuals and families. Donations for Thanksgiving food baskets are needed. Suggested items include turkeys, gravy, vegetables, rolls, cranberry sauce, etc. Drop off Thanksgiving items by Nov. 21. Other food donations are also accepted on an ongoing basis and will be used to stock the shelter supplies.
Contact Lisa Routhier, coordinator, at 749-3017 or email@example.com.
Location: Dover.
Great Bay Kids' Company
Great Bay Kids' Company provides quality early-childhood and school-age enrichment programs for children ages 6 weeks to 12 years old. The center would like to provide some of their families in need with a food basket for Thanksgiving. If you are willing to provide items for a half basket or a full basket, contact the agency.
Contact Audra Indelicato, coordinator, at 659-2324 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Location: Portsmouth, Newmarket or Exeter.
Cornucopia Food Pantry
The Cornucopia Food Pantry provides an open and inclusive community serving the needs of citizens in a variety of ways, including the food pantry located in the Waysmeet Center. The pantry will be providing Thanksgiving food baskets to community members in need. Donations for the baskets are accepted until Monday, Nov. 18. Suggested items include potatoes, carrots, onions, stuffing, fresh fruit, pancake/muffin mix, rice, pasta and soups. Favorite family recipes with ingredients or anything homemade adds a nice personal touch. Donations can be dropped off at the Waysmeet Center, or arrangements can be made to pick them up.
Contact Larry Brickner-Wood, executive director, at 862-1165 or email@example.com.
Location: Durham.
Operation Blessing
Operation Blessing helps individuals and families in need by providing food, furniture, clothing and other necessities in an atmosphere of love and encouragement. You can help Operation Blessing provide a Thanksgiving meal to families in need by donating the following items: 18-20-lb turkeys, 10-lb bags of potatoes, 3-lb bags of onions, canned corn and green beans, boxes of stuffing, cranberry sauce, jars of turkey gravy, butter, brownie mix and boxed bread mix. Thanksgiving donations are accepted until Nov. 22.
Contact: Debbie Herrington, volunteer coordinator, at 430-8561 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Location: Portsmouth.
Kingston Food Pantry
The Kingston Food Pantry serves the residents of Kingston by providing food year-round and with food baskets and gifts during the holidays. The food pantry is distributing Thanksgiving food baskets and is in need of: turkeys (or gift certificates to buy them), stuffing, potatoes, fresh vegetables, cranberry sauce, turkey gravy, frozen pies, bread mixes, etc. Contact the organization for Thanksgiving donation deadlines.
Contact: Ellen Faulconer, coordinator, at 642-3342 ext. 5 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Location: Kingston.
LEND A HAND: These and hundreds of other opportunities to volunteer or donate goods are brought to you by the United Way of the Greater Seacoast Volunteer Action Center, sponsored by NextEra Energy Seabrook, online at www.uwgs.org/volunteer or call 373-9105.


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The Lucas County Republican Party's screening committee last night interviewed three candidates for the Toledo City Council at-large seat up for election Nov. 7 and voted to recommend Dave Schulz, an unsuccessful 2005 council candidate, to run to fill the seat, said Rob Reichert, interim chairman of the Lucas County Republican Party.
The other candidates were Dave Davison, a retired Toledo police officer, and Jonathon Rodebaugh, a quality manager for a manufacturing company.
Mr. Reichert said the executive committee plans to meet after the Sept. 8 filing deadline to vote on the endorsement.
"I'm very happy with the news," Mr. Schulz said last night. "It helps me get involved with the party."
Mr. Schulz said he is a traditional Republican because he is for limited government and fiscal responsibility, and he hopes to bring his creativity and purchasing background to council.
The seat was vacated in May by Democrat Bob McCloskey, who was convicted of bribery in state and federal courts.
The interim appointee is Democrat Lourdes Santiago, who is running for the position and is endorsed by the Lucas County Democratic Party.
Also running are unendorsed Democrats Bob Vasquez and Joe McNamara.
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This small infographic shows several daily activities that will make you smarter. Here you can find more smart activities. We will consider our own version of such activities. You can do them at home, at work, while communicating. There is simply no reason to procrastinate, so you can start right away.
- Write down a list of 10 ideas. The list does not have to be revolutionary, it can relate to your work, your hobbies, things you want to change around you, simply stuff that you wonder why nobody thought about. Simply looking for 10 new ideas will open you up to a wide range of new experiences. If you decide to take the ideas one step further and conduct a short research, you will learn a thing or two in no time.
- Follow up with hard questions. If someone asks your a question, or you have a question you cannot readily answer, do conduct your own research. Who knows what wealth of information you will discover!
- Write down a list of 3 things you accomplished today and 3 things you want to accomplish tomorrow. This list will build gratitude, sense of purpose and responsibility. Eventually you will ask yourself why you accomplish some goals and do not accomplish others, and this is a classical learning moment.
- Read your favorite blogs. Try to follow them daily. If your blog is good enough, you will get plenty of learning opportunities. If you do not learn, you should probably revise your favorite reading.
- Play devil's advocate. It is very easy to trust figures of authority: mass media, scientists, friends, doctors and attorneys. Probably quite often you should trust them, but still ask yourself how they arrived to some decision rather than another, conduct independent research. I saved 5 lives this way, lives of people I care about. Maybe you can do this too…
- Have a "stop doing" list. Everybody has a "to do" list, yet we do not find time to complete it. If we stop destructive habits, we will have a lot of free energy to invest in things we really want to do.
- Hang out with smart people. Typically our intelligence is a median intelligence of 5 of our best friends. If you hang with smart people new doors will open for you.
- Set aside time to do nothing. Pomodoro breaks, meditations, jogging routines. When your minds goes blank all sorts of things will surface.
- Never waste a lunch. Use your kitchen time to socialize. If you have no friends around, concentrate on your food and see what ideas come up. Our memory depends on the activities we do, so the things we discussed while eating may surface when we eat alone.
- Focus on one task and one moment at a time. Then go to the next task and so on. When you need to multitask, do it very carefully and limit amount of tasks you batch together. If your mind starts jumping between tasks your productivity will suffer.
- Allow yourself to play and be silly. Open up to new experiences. Do not judge yourself too hard if you fail occasionally. Eventually you will succeed and surprise yourself in a good way.
- Teach. Write blogs. Allocate time to mentor others. Visualize how you would teach someone as a perspective. By teaching we learn.
- Recieve feedback gratefully. Actively look for constructive feedback. Feedback others in a thoughtful, well-formulated form that help them improve.
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It is posible to save 165 NM of navigation by crossing the state of Florida via Lake Okeechobee instead of doubling the Keys. Going counterclockwise, you enter through the Port St. Lucie Inlet, then motor up the river, and finally connect to the Port St Lucie canal. This canal leads under many bridges, past Indiantown, through two locks, and into Lake Okeechobee. There are draft and bridge clearance restrictions. Excellent information is available on the super Blue Seas website.
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Whether you're headed to the STC Summit, a regional STC meeting, or another conference, you'll have a better experience if you prepare ahead, take care of yourself while at the conference, and follow up later. Here are a few picks from the Web to tell you how.
Geoff Hart has advice for surviving large conferences such as the STC Summit.
Katherine Pickett offers some advice on networking at conferences, including what to do when the conference is not directly applicable to your work.
Feel lost in the crowd? Here's how to make an impression.
Are your hands too full? Here's more advice on networking during a conference.
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What My Kids Taught Me
What My Kids Taught Me - Part I
Mother's Day is here. I couldn't help but think about my own journey as a mom. Each one of my children has brought something in me that I wasn't aware off before and I am forever grateful to god for choosing me as their mother.
I will be taking you in on my journey from my oldest to my yet to be born in Sept:-)
I am going re-live those moments with you as I share my journey with you. Going all the way back to when we were just warming up to the thoughts of starting a family almost four years into our marriage. Those thoughts of nervousness and excitement of starting a family and being a mom ruled my head. And almost a year later, I was pregnant with my first born, my darling daughter, Harshagun, meaning God's Gift.
May 15th, 2012 is etched in my memory! It was the day when I became a mom from just a woman. I remember how big of a deal was her eye and hearing test for us and don't even get me started on assembling and putting that baby car seat in the car for the first time. Taking my daughter home was the shortest 5 mins drive but I still remember how aware we were of every single bump on the road so our princess wouldn't get hurt.
My daughter was born at 36 weeks and 2 days so she was little premature. She had jaundice. We had to stay in the hospital for three longest weeks of my life. It was so hard to see my little one placed in the photo booth with her little eye mask and so many tubes coming in and around that looked like everywhere. Every few hrs they took a little blood sample from her feet and monitored. She was finally sent home all clear from jaundice for us to enjoy her new found company, yay!!!
Funny thing is all this while, she was without a name. We had a letter that we wanted her name to start with but we didn't get to brainstorming names for our little princess. In hospital, she was called as Baby H:-)
First lesson, I learned from my daughter was 'Patience'. She was a tiny little being. She didn't know how much her presence meant to every one around her. How she had made such a big difference in our lives by just being her tiny self. It's hard to see your little one being poked needles multiple times a day. But little did we know that something harder was about to show up in our lives and how she was going to teach me life lessons that I would remember forever for good.
On July 8, 2012, I was at my parents house feeding my little princess and I hear this big loud noise of a crash and then somebody screaming on top of their lungs. I ran downstairs to see what had happened. I had no idea what I was about to see was going to change our lives forever. My brother was lying on the floor and I saw my dad was on the floor as well trying to put something around my brother's leg. There was blood all over. The crash I heard was my brother being pinned by our very own car and it was in very own driveway. Site is hard for me to forget!
It all so happened so quickly. It was the most testing time of our lives. The only thing that kept our sanity was my daughter. Her little smile and chuckle is all we looked forward to. She got us through that difficult phase in our lives. My brother has come out stronger and now living a happy, and healthy lifestyle. In all of this, my daughter taught us to be strong and live life one day at a time. Be oblivious, enjoy the present. Past and future is not in our hands but today is. So try your best to make the most out of it!
When you stay in present, time flies.
And just like that my maternity leave ended. I resumed my work and two and a half years later, my gorgeous son sneakily made his way into our lives. The phase up until his birth and afterwards was the beginning of my evolution as a creative being.
More on to my journey with my son in the next blog...Catch you all very soon!
Arsh Bajwa
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The Coterie Room's Smoked King Crab, Deconstructed
Chefs Brian McCracken and Dana Tough
1. King Crab
Crabmeat is poached at 135 degrees for 10 minutes in a sauce of butter that's cold smoked. "Fats such as butter absorb an aroma like smoke very well and linger on the palate. It's a great technique to avoid oversmoking an ingredient."
2. Potatoes
Grated russet potatoes are mixed with confit shallots and fresh herbs to form a hash brown patty. "To order, we dredge the patty in finely ground dried potatoes and sear in a hot pan until golden brown and crispy."
3. Gremolata
A finely minced paste of citrus and parsley balances a rich dish with a little acidity.
4. Bacon Hollandaise
A traditional hollandaise sauce made with equal parts butter and rendered bacon fat.
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Presented by Daniel Seitz, MD
CC: "I'm coughing up blood".
HPI: A 44-year-old man presents to the Emergency Department complaining of coughing up blood for two days. The patient states that two months ago he began experiencing progressively worsening cough and fatigue. The cough was initially non-productive, but for the past month he's been coughing up thick yellow sputum. One week ago he noticed that his sputum was intermittently blood streaked, and yesterday he coughed up gross blood. Over the last 24hrs the patient reports coughing up a cup and a half of gross blood. He describes the blood as bright red, frothy and devoid of food particles. He also reports a history of weight loss, approximately 20lbs in the last 6 months. The patient occasionally has fevers in the afternoon, and reports night sweats over the past three weeks. The patient states that he experiences a diffuse achy pain on deep inhalation and with cough. He denies any shortness of breath or difficulty breathing.
ROS: Negative except for as mentioned in the HPI.
PMH: Hypertension which he's treating with diet and exercise.
PSH: Denies.
Medications: None.
Allergies: No known drug allergies.
FH: Hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes.
SH: The patient smokes 1 pack per day, has smoked for ten years, occasionally drinks alcohol, and denies any illicit drug use. The patient lives alone and works as an actuary. He was born in China and immigrated to the United States as a teenager.
VITAL SIGNS: BP 92/55, P 109, R 21, T 38.4, SpO2 95% on room air.
GENERAL: Patient is sitting comfortably in his stretcher and is in no apparent acute distress.
HEAD: Head is atraumatic, normocephalic, and no tenderness to palpation.
EYES: Mild conjunctival pallor. Pupils are 4 mm bilaterally, are equally round and reactive to light and accomodation. No nystagmus. No conjunctival injection, but mild conjuctival pallor. No scleral icterus
EARS: Tympanic membranes are normal.
NOSE: No nasal drainage, no blood in nares, no swollen turbinates.
MOUTH: Dried blood around the patient's mouth. Moist mucous membranes, no tonsillar enlargment or exudates, no intraoral lesions.
NECK: Supple without lymphadenolpathy. There is no nuchal rigidity, no tenderness to palpation, no carotid bruits, trachea is midline.
CARDIOVASCULAR: S1, S2, tachychardic rate with normal rhythm. No murmurs, rubs or gallops. Peripheral pulses are present , 2+, and symmetric in all four extremities.
RESPIRATORY: Good air entry bilateral. Diffuse post-tussive rales, distant breath sounds heard over the lung apices .
GASTROINTESTINAL: Abdomen soft, non-tender, non-distended, no tenderness to palpation, no appreciable organomegaly. Bowel sounds present in all quadrants.
MUSCULOSKELETAL: Patient is mildly cachexic. Strength 5/5 proximally and distally in all extremities.
SKIN: No rashes, lesions or ulcerations. Increased pallor.
NEUROLOGIC: Patient is awake, alert and oriented to person, place and time. Face is symmetrical. Sensation is equal and intact throughout. The patient walks with a normal gait and performs finger to nose examination without difficulty.
Course in the ED: While waiting to be seen in the module, the patient expectorates 700 mLs of gross blood. The patient is rushed to resuscitation; where he's placed on a monitor and two large bore peripheral IVs are placed. A stat portable chest x-ray is obtained which shows a cavitary lesion at the apex of the patient's left lung. The patient's vital signs in resuscitation are as follows: T: 38.6 HR: 112 RR: 25 BP: 81/50 O2Sat: 87% on non-rebreather.
1. What is the patient's most likely diagnosis?
a) Lung cancer
b) Tuberculosis
c) Aspergillosis
d) Pneumonia
e) Bronchitis
2. Which of the following characteristics indicates hematemesis over hemoptysis?
a) Alkaline pH
b) Dark color
c) Frothy appearance
d) Presence of macrophages
3. What is the best course of management in this patient?
a) Emergent angiography
b) Flexible Bronchoscopy
c) Intubation of the right main stem bronchus, and place patient in left lateral decubitus position
d) Rigid Bronchoscopy
e) Rush the patient to the operating room for emergent thoracotomy
4. What vessel is most likely responsible for this patient's massive hemoptysis?
a) Aorta
b) Bronchial artery
c) Inominate artery
c) Pulmonary artery
d) Tracheobronchial capillaries
1. B (Tuberculosis)
2. B (Dark Color)
3. C (Intubate and lie on left side)
4. B (Bronchial Artery)
Hemoptysis is the expectoration of blood of any quantity, from below the larynx. Massive hemoptysis is defined as >600 mL of blood expectorated in 24 hours. While massive hemoptysis only comprises 5% of all reported hemoptysis, the mortality is upwards of 80%.
The most common causes of massive hemoptysis are bronchiectasis, tuberculosis, lung cancer, lung abscess, arteriotracheobronchial fistula, and pulmonary angiodysplasia. Based upon this patient's history (Chinese immigrant, cough that progresses from non-productive to productive to blood streaked to massive, fevers and night sweats) the etiology of this patient's hemoptysis is tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is the most common cause of massive hemoptysis worldwide and until the 1960s was the most common cause of massive hemoptysis in the United States.
90% of massive hemoptysis involves the bronchial arteries. These are high-pressure branches off of the thoracic aorta. Alternately, the majority of trace hemoptysis originates from the tracheobronchial capillaries.
When evaluating a patient with hemoptysis it is important to exclude gastrointestinal and upper airway etiologies of bleeding. The workup for each of these conditions is very different, but the presentations can be surprisingly similar. History is the most helpful tool in differentiating hematemesis and hemoptysis, but the following characteristics can be helpful as well:
Hemoptysis blood – alkali, bright red, frothy appearance, macrophages
Hematemesis blood – acidic, dark color, clots and food particles, coffee grounds
Approach to non-massive hemoptysis
1. Evaluate oxygenation (pulse oximetry / ABG)
2. History and physical – does anything indicate GI or upper respiratory etiology?
3. Chest radiograph
4. Are lab studies indicated? (CBC, coags, PPD, ANA, ESR?)
5. Create differential (Bronchitis?, malignancy?)
6 Bronchoscopy / HRCT
Approach to massive hemoptysis should be managed more aggressively. Mortality with massive hemoptysis is extremely high, and these patients will inevitably need ICU admission. The most common cause of death in these patients is asphyxiation and not exsanguination. Intubation of the mainstem bronchus contralateral to the hemorrhage has the potential to protect the unaffected lung. This is most easily done on the right side. In addition, it has been suggested that laying the patient on the side of the hemorrhage can keep the non-affected alveoli from flooding with blood.
Definitive management of massive hemoptysis will involve bronchoscopy, thoracotomy or angiography, depending on your institution. Getting either Cardiothoracic Surgery, Pulmonology or Interventional Radiology involved early will expedite potentially life saving management.
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The destruction of the countryside, poisons, climate change, man-made obstacles, noise - migratory birds have a lot to contend with today. Nevertheless, the hunting of migratory birds is still widespread in Southern Europe.
The Col de l'Escrinet, in the South of France, is passed by hundreds of thousands of migratory birds every year. For a long time, hunting them was not only permitted but practised intensively.
Fondation Franz Weber wanted to put an end to this atrocity, and acquired the land concerned. Peace has finally been brought back to the land where the hunters used to shoot anything that was flying. Poachers have been replaced by ornithologists and other nature lovers and protectors of the environment. Today, migratory birds are admired and counted, not killed.


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1) Identify and describe the fours perspectives contained in the definition of tourism, in terms of your home community. * The tourist: The tourist seeks various psychic and physical experiences and satisfactions. The nature of these will largely determine the destinations chosen and the activities enjoyed. * Business: Provides tourist's goods and services. Business people view tourism as an opportunity to make a profit by supplying these needs into the tourist pleasures. * Government: Politicians view tourism as a wealth factor in the economy of their jurisdictions. Their perspective is related to the incomes their citizens can earn from this business. Politicians also consider the foreign exchange receipts from international tourism as well as the tax receipts collected from tourist expenditures, either directly or indirectly. * Host community: Local people usually see tourism as a cultural and employment factor. Of importance to this group, for example, it is the effect of the interaction between large numbers of international visitors and residents.
2) What are the components of tourism?
* Accessibility: Means reachability to the place of destination through various means of transportation. Transportation should be regular, comfortable, economical and safe. * Accommodation: Place where tourists can find food and shelter provided he/she is in a fit position to pay for it. * Attraction: It's the most important basic component of tourism. Means anything that creates a desire in any person to travel in a specific tourist destination or attraction.
3) How important are tourist attractions?
A: It represents the economy of the current attraction. If a tourist goes to a place, they are willing to spend money on it and that will represent income to the city. In more exact terms, tourist attractions create money for the country. The better the service, the better chance of seeing a much bigger...
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When the velocity of the jet is gradually increased there is a certain range of velocity for which the jet is unstable, so that any deviation from the straight rush-out tends to increase as the jet moves up. If then the jet is just on the point of instability, and is subjected as its base to alternations of motion, the sinuosities impressed on the jet become larger and larger as it flows out, and the flame is as it were folded on itself.
In that condition of affairs the flame of war was kindled between the British and the French in Europe in 1745.
The magnetometric method was employed, and the metals, in the form of ovoids, were heated by a specially designed burner, fed with gas and air under pressure, which directed 90 fine jets of flame upon the asbestos covering the ovoid.
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It is probable that when a flame is smoking badly, distinct traces of carbon monoxide are being produced, but when an acetylene flame burns properly the products are as harmless as those of coal gas, and, light for light, less in amount.
It burns with a pale-blue flame forming silicon fluoride, silicofluoric acid and silicic acid.
In the last case it becomes coated with a greyish-black layer of an oxide (dioxide (?)), at a red heat the layer consists of the trioxide (B1203), and is yellow or green in the case of pure bismuth, and violet or blue if impure; at a bright red heat it burns with a bluish flame to the trioxide.
Cadmium salts can be recognized by the brown incrustation which is formed when they are heated on charcoal in the oxidizing flame of the blowpipe; and also by the yellow precipitate formed when sulphuretted hydrogen is passed though their acidified solutions.
Kindle in all hearts the flame of virtue.
Cupping his hands around the flame, he sucked life into the cigarette and then shook the flame from the match before tossing it into an ashtray.
The use of such furnaces has very considerably diminished, owing to the general introduction of coal-gas for heating purposes in laboratories, which has been rendered possible by the invention of the Bunsen burner, in which the mixture of air and gas giving the least luminous but most powerfully heating flame is effected automatically by the effluent gas.


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By Law, the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust is charged with holding an annual remembrance observance for the victims of the Holocaust.
The 2017 State Official Days of Remembrance Observance will be held on April 28, at 11am.
Holocaust remembrance week in Georgia is April 22-28, 2017. The 2017 theme is "Choosing to Act: Resistance During the Holocaust."
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Call 509.789.9297 to speak with our friendly support staff.
The YWCA Spokane Alternatives to Domestic Violence program's counseling office provides domestic violence survivors and their children with individualized support and therapeutic counseling. Each year we work to support over 4000 women and children move through domestic violence.
Whether you are in a relationship that you think might be abusive, are trying to make things work, or have left your relationship, a counselor/advocate can help you make sense of your feelings and decide what you want to do.
We offer confidential appointments to talk about your situation, obtain education and information about domestic intimate partner violence, discuss safety planning and find out about community services and resources. We also offer LGBTQ affirming counseling and maintain awareness and competency of issues surrounding intimate partner violence in LGBTQ relationships. We believe that with enough support and encouragement, you can be free to make your own choices.
The counseling center also offers weekly support groups. A support group is simply a safe place to talk to other women who have experienced abuse in their relationships.
Many survivors feel for the first time that they are not alone and discover that there are others who share their feelings. In groups you are able to discuss and get support from other women on your experience with domestic violence. Our groups offer childcare with registration.
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If it's slippery where you are, I wish you safe running, driving and walking!
I'm feeling generous tonight, so I though I would share some special photos of what Wellington does if he's feeling too cooped up.
Being a rather short-haired breed, he isn't thrilled with this cold weather. He followed me inside the barn, but then hark, he heard a sound outside. Something that demanded his immediate attention – an approaching person or car, I don't remember. Let me preface this by saying we don't let Welle jump up on people or things if we can help it.
So what's a bulldog to do when he can't see out the window and he needs to investigate?
Why, he stand up on two feet of course. 🙂
After my rousing post yesterday to start Thanksgiving week, I think tonight I want to close by thanking God for some more blessings:
My great husband, family and friends; my health and ability to do the things I love; Wellington the bulldog; and the simple fact that we have a home, jobs, enough to eat, and a great country to live in, with a special thanks to the troops who help keep it great.
I'm sure this is the question on every blog from here to Timbuktu, but feel free to share some more things you're thankful for.


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Mike Zito and Jim Honeycutt co-teach the TV Production class at SHS. They work with all students on developing video skills through demonstrations, planning and creating videos for several weekly TV programs, and critiquing each others video productions.
Students are provided individual support and guidance to bring their personal and group ideas to fruition. This "independent study" environment has allowed every student to learn the basics of video production and some students to master a variety of video editing software at a very high level. When this happens students can serve as mentors to other students and the teachers.
One student, Brandon, has excelled at Motion 3 (part of Apple's Final Cut Pro suite which allows the creation of many visual effects, including particles exploding through space; movement around an object and 3D motion graphics). He has created several video pieces for the TV Production class (including the sample for the opening of a Good Morning Staples program shown below), and also applied his video skills to products for a Social Studies Civil War project as well. He is working simultaneously on many projects on his own MacBook Pro that he brings to school.
Mike Zito said this about Brandon: " He has inspired other kids and pushed Jim and me to keep up with him and elevate our program."
It was a real treat to sit in on this TV Production class today, not only to see the great concepts that are being taught and discussed, but to also conference with Brandon to view the many video projects he is working on and to hear the depth of understanding he has about video construction and the tools he is utilizing.


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If you only see one movie in 2006, make it An Inconvenient Truth, which drops to 346 screens this week. And yes, that includes the heavily lauded United 93. Because, frankly, the point of that movie will be lost when 20-foot walls of water have crashed down upon and destroyed large chunks of the world. When you walk out of An Inconvenient Truth, you feel terrified, energized and hopeful. And if you're a Republican (or, in fact, one of many Democrats) that doesn't like Mr. Gore, please just put that aside for 100 minutes. Party politics will be the least of your troubles when the environment hits its critical tipping point as discussed in this film.
It keeps me awake nights to think that, while an estimated 3.1 million people have seen An Inconvenient Truth, some 33.8 million have seen The Da Vinci Code (now on 201 screens). I know I'm supposed to go into greater detail when I write a review, but The Da Vinci Code is really just about the dumbest movie I've seen in a while. And it has nothing to do with the book (which I haven't read) or its nifty little treasure hunt. I'm just talking about a work of complete cinematic incompetence by Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman, who -- inexplicably -- both won Oscars in 2002. (Howard beat out Robert Altman, David Lynch, Ridley Scott and Peter Jackson.) If this is a measure of our national intelligence, I think I'd better run out and invest in some scuba gear before it's too late.


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How will an IPO change Twitter?
Twitter has filed to go public recently, under the name TWTR. The IPO is set to raise up to $1 billion.
Founded in 2006, Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that allows users to post text-based status updates and messages(or better known as tweets) of up to 140 characters in length. As of early 2013, Twitter had more than 200 million monthly active users.
Twitter is taking the next critical step in its evolution. Unmistakably, Twitter's initial public offering is among the most anticipated in recent years. It is one the most hyped and scrutinised IPO since Facebook's Wall Street debut one and a half years ago. To be successful, the company will need to become an advertising powerhouse and prove that the same platform can also bring tremendous business value.
"Twitter's IPO filing marks its first release of revenue and profit figures, providing an unprecedented glimpse into the company's financial health and growth prospects." ~ Wired.com
With the ever-changing Social Media landscape, it can be really hard to keep up with stats and trends that affect how you use it for your business. We have compiled some really amazing Twitter statistics that can help you determine how you improve your brands on Twitter.
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- Twitter engagement for brands is 17% higher on weekends (BuddyMedia) Tweet This Stat!
- Tweets shorter than 100 characters get a 17% higher engagement rate (Twitter) Tweet This Stat!
- Tweets with hashtags get 2 times more engagement (SalesForce) Tweet This Stat!
- Tweets with two hashtags get 21 percent more engagement than those with three or more (Hubspot)
- Tweet This Stat!Your tweets have a 12x higher chance of being retweeted if you ask for it, and 23x higher if you actually spell out the word "retweet" (BuddyMedia) Tweet This Stat!
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- Mobile users are 76% more likely to favourite a Tweet (Twitter) Tweet This Stat!
- Twitter will generate more than 500 million dollars in revenue this year, according to an assessment by PrivCo. This represents a doubling of the firm's estimated 245 million dollars of revenue in 2012. (Statista) Tweet This Stat!
- Twitter depends on having active users that it can place its ads in front of. Roughly 87% of its total revenue comes from advertising, the company disclosed. (SEC) Tweet This Stat!
The most popular networks worldwide as of July 2013, ranked by number of registered accounts. Market leader Facebook was the first social network to surpass 1 billion registered accounts. Third-ranked microblogging network Twitter had over 500 million registered accounts. (Statista) Tweet This Stat!
Twitter grew almost 48 percent in the one year period between March 2012 and March 2013, rising from 138 million monthly actives to 204 million. (Statista) Tweet This Stat!
Justin Bieber is the most-followed person on Twitter with more than 42 million followers. The most re-tweeted message was posted by US President Barack Obama's account after winning the 2012 election – it generated almost 800,000 retweets. (Twitaholic) Tweet This Stat!
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This lesser-visited landlocked country is one of Southeast Asia's last holdouts for truly remote adventures. Vast expanses of dense jungle laden with wildlife and scattered populations of colourful ethnic tribes promise discovery at almost every corner.
Laos is a landlocked nation surrounded by Vietnam, China, Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia. What the country lacks in beaches it more than makes up for in pristine nature and an abundance of gorgeous jungles and mountains ripe for discovery. As one of Southeast Asia's least-explored countries, Laos adventure travel is a dream for adventurers.
As the least densely populated country in Southeast Asia, Laos is uniquely well-suited for adventure travel in the region. Its quiet roads are perfect for cycling, while its dense jungles, abundant waterfalls and unique hill tribe communities make it perfect for trekking. Laos also has an ever-increasing number of charming and sustainably-minded boutique hotels popping up across the country to make adventures comfortable as well.
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Negative Aspects of Desalination Need to Be Considered
THE tantalising notion of converting the most abundant storehouse of salt water into a virtually limitless supply of fresh water has been on the drawing boards for decades.
Forty years ago, United States President John F Kennedy declared that large-scale desalination projects "can do more to raise men and women from lives of poverty than any other scientific advance".
As far back as 1872, residents of Las Salinas in Chile developed a small-scale desalination plant which used the the sun's heat to evaporate and then condense fresh water from sea water.
In Israel and several desert nations in the Persian Gulf, desalination plants now provide much more significant quantities of drinking and irrigation water.
In Europe, more than 20% of Spain's farm irrigation water comes from desalination, while India, China, Australia and the United States are also gearing up to expand this technology considerably.
A desalination plant at Kenton-on-Sea in the Eastern Cape has been generating fresh water for nearly 30 000 people since 1997.
Last year, Umgeni Water confirmed it was planning to build a pilot desalination plant at Zinkwazi, while the developers of a new coastal resort announced plans to build a R50 million desalting plant.
As the number of city dwellers swells around the world, desalination is emerging as an increasingly popular option to address the growing fresh water crisis.
But is desalination the best panacea to water supply problems?
Last year, the Swiss-based conservation group WWF International published research which warns against the large-scale adoption of this technology. The report questions the wisdom of desalination for social, economic and environmental reasons.
Most topically for South Africa, WWF notes that desalination plants require large volumes of energy - from electricity, fossil fuels, nuclear power or more environmentally benign sources.
Traditionally, desalination has relied on heating salt water to condense and then distil fresh water - a technology which can consume up to 60% of the total project costs.
The report notes that the development of more sophisticated technologies has done away with the need to boil sea water to get rid of the salts. Nevertheless, a study by the US Bureau of Reclamation estimated that, even if the reverse osmosis technology is used, energy costs still made up about 44% of the costs of such plants. …


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Prices of gram and kabuli gram fell by up to Rs 200 per quintal at the wholesale pulses market today due to reduced offtake by stockists against ample stocks position.
However, other pulses after moving in a narrow range in limited deals, pegged at last levels.
Traders said besides adequate stocks on increased arrivals from producing belts, low demand mainly weighed on gram and kabuli gram prices.
In the national capital, gram and its dal local fell by Rs 100 each to Rs 5,400-5,550 and Rs 6,200-6,500 per quintal. Its dal best quality also traded lower by a similar margin to Rs 6,600-6,700 per quintal.
Kabuli gram small variety also eased to Rs 9,200-9,500 against last close of Rs 9,200-9,700 per quintal.
Following are today's pulses rates (in Rs per quintal):
Urad Rs 6,400-7,300, Urad Chilka (local) Rs 6,600-6,700, Urad best Rs 6,700-7,200, Dhoya Rs 7,100-7,300, Moong Rs 5,100-5,300, Dal Moong Chilka local Rs 5,600-5,800, Moong Dhoya local Rs 6,200-6,700 and best quality Rs 6,700-6,900.
Masoor small Rs 4,700-4,850, bold Rs 4,750-4,950, Dal Masoor local Rs 5,100-5,600, best quality Rs 5,200-5,700, Malka local Rs 5,300-5,500, best Rs 5,400-5,600, Moth Rs 3,650-4,050, Arhar Rs 4,650, Dal Arhar Dara Rs 6,600-8,400.
Gram Rs 5,400-5,550, Gram dal (local) Rs 6,200-6,500, best quality Rs 6,600-6,700, Besan (35 kg), Shakti Bhog Rs 2,550, Rajdhani Rs 2,550, Rajma Chitra Rs 7,500-10,300, Kabuli Gram small Rs 9,200-9,500, Dabra Rs 2,700-2,800, Imported Rs 4,700-5,100, Lobia Rs 5,600-5,800, Peas white Rs 2,700-2,725 and green Rs 2,900-3,000.
(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)