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The Cooks Illustrated website offers a Best Almond Cake recipe made in a food processor. Ingredients include all-purpose flour, four eggs, almond extract, unsalted butter and blanched toasted almonds.
MarthaStewart.com also provides a variety of online almond cake recipes. These include almond sponge cake, served as part of a stone-fruit trifle, and almond poppy-seed loaf cake, served for breakfast or dessert and requiring 7 ounces of almond paste and 1/4-cup poppy seeds. It stays fresh in an airtight container for up to two weeks.
Martha Stewart's chocolate-almond upside-down cake is featured as a text recipe and video tutorial. Ingredients include cake flour, honey, cocoa powder and buttermilk.


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"Look out Tesla" – that was the reaction at the Paris Motor Show when Mercedes-Benz unveiled its 'Generation EQ' electric crossover.
'Benz says the scalable chassis architecture and powertrains developed for the EQ will morph into future electric cars in most market segments from SUVs to two-seat convertibles. Word on the street in Paris says the crossover version displayed could enter production very quickly (including some chassis components in carbon-fibre).
In fact 'EQ' will be the Mercedes version of BMW 'i' electric sub-brand – so it's got serious volume aspirations and isn't just marketing puffery.
"We're now flipping the switch," CEO Dieter Zetsche told the media preview in Paris. "We're ready for the launch of an electric product offensive that will cover all vehicle segments from the compact to the luxury class."
The concept car revealed in Paris has two electric motors for an output of 300kW/700Nm and covers zero to 100km/h in under five seconds. Range between recharges is claimed to be 500kms.
Inside is impressive technology which is already leading towards autonomous driving (based on the HERE digital mapping which even now has incredible detailing). Details are displayed on a 24-inch TFT hi-res screen with a new 3D digital interface.
Like Tesla, Benz' EQ brand is much more than vehicles and will eventually include fast charging systems and even home or commercial lithium-ion energy storage units (in fact, Dr Andreas Rueckemann who heads Mercedes Benz Energy was recently in Australia talking to business leaders).
"EQ stands for a comprehensive electric ecosystem of services, technologies and innovations," Dr Zetsche told the media gathering in Paris.
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As rumors about the expected Motorola "X Phone" swirl around the Web, Google may have been hinting at some of the phone's features during its Tuesday earnings call.
While speaking about Motorola, which is still unprofitable, Google Chief Executive Larry Page listed some features he thinks smartphones should have. Many are interpreting his words as a listing of the features we'll see on the next Motorola phone.
"Battery life is a huge issue," Page said, according to The Verge. "You shouldn't have to worry about constantly recharging your phone. When you drop your phone, it shouldn't go splat. Everything should be a ton faster and easier. There's real potential to invent new and better experiences."
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Prince Avalanche reconciles Green's twin modes into a whole no other director could have, deeply felt and light as laughter.
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Here's a funny, poignant oddball of a movie, existing on a galaxy far, far away from the likes of "Pacific Rim" or "World War Z" or anything whose computer-generated actions speak louder than words.
While the core elements of this reluctant buddy movie could almost constitute a pared-down theater piece, the film breathes with real cinematic expansiveness. Green's poetic observation skills are the key to that seeming contradiction.
Prince Avalance is frequently funny in a subdued sort of way, but it's primarily contemplative and eventually intimate.
An unconventional, ultimately rather sweet buddy pic that's an audiovisual treat.
This sweetly eccentric and low-key buddy picture/bromance bears little resemblance to more well-known examples of the genre, such as "Lethal Weapon" or "Pineapple Express."
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When I open My Computer I see the drive listed under "Other" as "Maxtor Locked Drives." When I right click on it and click on "unlock drive" nothing happens.
I have never password protected this drive.
I'm running Windows XP, SP2.
Here's what I've tried so far:
1. Different USB ports
2. Connect via fire wire
3. Connect drive to another computer
4. Device manager uninstall drive and reboot. XP recognizes the new hardware, but still cannot access drive.
Any help would be appreciated as I have an almost completed movie project on that drive. Many hours invested.


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|Forever 21 leaf embellished chiffon jacket: $30
But, OK, the above look is just out of my fashion comfort zone. I don't think I could ever pull off the edgy hipster+soft florals look like the model (well, to be honest, I don't even know if she pulls it off).
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Really unique layout, the squares that have the roll over effect all over the background of the site are a neat touch, even if they are fairly useless. Sometimes when you put something into the design like that it just gives the design a nice feel when it's used, that's it and it's enjoyable in this instance. I also really like that they elected to make each page a unique loading page and not do a slideshow type website. That may have really been too much for this design but in this case it's restraint that makes it work out well and that can be hard to do. Sweet use of @font-face and the interactions are all perfectly done.
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Obituary: Quentin Hoover
Artist Quentin Hoover (b.1964) died on April 20. Hoover created numerous cards for Magic: The Gathering as well as other collectible games. In addition to his work in the gaming industry, he also was one of the co-creators of the comic Morgana X.
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This notice announces a forthcoming meeting of a public advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). At least one portion of the meeting will be closed to the public.
Name of Committee: Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee.
General Function of the Committee: To provide advice and recommendations to the agency on FDA's regulatory issues.
Date and Time: The meeting will be held on February 20, 2003, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Holiday Inn, 8120 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD.
Contact Person: Jody G. Sachs or Denise H. Royster, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (HFM-71), Food and Drug Administration, 1401 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852, 301-827-0314, or FDA Advisory Committee Information Line, 1-800-741-8138 (301-443-0572 in the Washington, DC area), code 12391. Please call the Information Line for up-to-date information on this meeting.
Agenda: The committee will review and discuss the selection of strains to be included in the influenza virus vaccine for the 2003-2004 season and the intramural research program of the Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Office of Vaccines Research and Review.
Procedure: On February 20, 2003, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:20 p.m., the meeting is open to the public. Interested persons may present data, information, or views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committee. Written submissions may be made to the contact person by February 4, 2003. Oral presentations from the public will be scheduled between approximately 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. and 2:50 p.m. and 3:20 p.m. Time allotted for each presentation may be limited. Those desiring to make formal oral presentations should notify the contact person before February 4, 2003, and submit a brief statement of the general nature of the evidence or arguments they wish to present, the names and addresses of proposed participants, and an indication of the approximate time requested to make their presentation.
Closed Committee Deliberations: On February 20, 2003, from 3:20 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., the meeting will be closed to permit discussion where disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy (5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6)).
Persons attending FDA's advisory committee meetings are advised that the agency is not responsible for providing access to electrical outlets.
FDA welcomes the attendance of the public at its advisory committee meetings and will make every effort to accommodate persons with physical disabilities or special needs. If you require special accommodations due to a disability, please contact Jody G. Sachs or Denise H. Royster at least 7 days in advance of the meeting.
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Posted by Robert Hardy on June 28, 2013 •
"How often do we think about aspect ratios? Better yet, how often do we think about where all of our aspect ratios came from and the storied cinematic histories from which they were born? It's an interesting question, not only for the sake of being more informed about the technical history of cinema, but also for having a better understanding of the implications of various aspect ratios on your film's aesthetic and story. Hit the jump for an extensive video lesson on the history of the aspect ratio.
Filmmaker IQ has produced an awesome and in-depth course called "Everything You Need to Know About Aspect Ratio". The first lesson from their course is a sprawling 18 minute exposé with all of the aspect ratio history you could ever want."
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Available exclusively on the App Store, meticulously designed to be beautifully powerful, and painstakingly engineered for iPad — Inspire Pro delivers an incredibly fast and realistic painting, drawing, and sketching experience that you can take with you wherever you go and use whenever inspiration strikes.
Paint it. Blend it. Love it.
While the strokes of a wet oil paint brush look beautiful on their own, the breathtaking blending effects of a dry brush will absolutely stun you. Graze the canvas with just a bit of pressure to add a subtle blur to your artwork or use stronger pressure to actually mix existing colors together to create new ones!
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While most other painting apps struggle to keep up with even a sluggish 30 frames per second on iPad, Inspire Pro's Sorcery™ engine renders brush strokes up to a mind‑blowing 120 FPS and then asks for more.
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Watch your paintings unfold, stroke-by-stroke, with Canvas Playback. Each brush stroke is recorded automatically while you paint, without any loss of speed. You can watch the video of your artwork at anytime from the gallery or export it at high-quality 1080p. Mesmerize your family, friends, and the world with your Inspire Pro skills and Canvas Playback.
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Thanks to the awesome technology behind Sorcery™ and the power of iPad GPUs, Inspire Pro can render two brush textures at 1024 x 1024 resolution each, simultaneously and dynamically. During a brush stroke, "shape" and "surface" textures are combined on the fly to produce incredibly realistic marks on the canvas for mediums like chalk and charcoal.
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International HR Polices and Procedures
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In his article "Human Resources Policies Compared: What Can the EU and the USA Learn from Each Other?" author Eduardo Tome states:
"There is little doubt that the twenty-first century will be dominated by a 'knowledge based economy' (KBE); consequently, in the future, human resources (HR) will be absolutely fundamental for the well being of human societies" (p. 405).
Discuss the relationships between HR policies between the EU and USA that are "fundamental for the well being of human societies," and organizations.
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Most sales so far made to those with Ukrainian roots
The country's top two beer breweries - the Kiev-based Obolon brewery and Zaporizhya's Slavutych brewery - have even entered the American beer market in the past year, with both companies boasting significant exports - most of which supply a dedicated following of beer drinkers with Ukrainian roots. Immigrants of both Ukrainian, Russian and Jewish descent make up most of the drinkers.
Obolon has moved more quickly to establish foreign markets, and is now available in Russia, Germany, Israel, as well as in Asian and African countries.
According to Mykhailo Zelenko of Obolon export specialist, the brewery exports almost 2 million bottles per week to Russia, which has forced Moscow to draft an import tariff on beer that is expected to be imposed early next year. He added that while Russia is its largest market outside of Ukraine, the European market is growing steadily, with Germany buying almost 500,000 bottles since the beginning of this year.
Slavutych, which has pumped $49 million in foreign investments into new technology since 1996, targeted the U.S. market first, with its first exports arriving in the United States last November.
"The fact that Ukrainian beer has already made it to America is proof of its quality and taste," said Ihor Tovkach, general director at Slavutych.
Beer from both breweries can currently be bought in around 20 states - including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California - all of which have large populations of Ukrainian immigrants. Both breweries say that they will distribute in all 50 states and Canada by the end of 2001.
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Creating a Glass Button: The Complete Tutorial
Well, it was a while back that I posted the first Creating a Glass button tutorial. Of course, that was based on the old look of Sparkle, and I have had some feedback recently that the project doesn't run anymore. Also, the completed tutorial never 'made it to press' leaving people with a rather lifeless button.
Well folks - GREAT NEWS - I have finished working on a all new glass button. And what better design to follow than some of the glass buttons in our shiny new OS.
The Windows Vista taskbar has some real nice buttons - they are see through and have an internal glow. So, I though I would base my all new complete glass button tutorial on these babies. I also hope there is enough content in the tutorial to help you explore other designs and other controls.
So, attached to this post are the full instructions for creating the buttons above. I have also attached the finished project if you want to explore what I have done.
This has been a while coming, so please enjoy!
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The creeks in and around Sea Pines have become so clotted with sediment that large boats might soon be unable to pass and the storied Harbour Town Yacht Basin might close to yachts, officials within the gated community say.
About eight yacht slips, amounting to 300 to 400 feet of dock space, already have been lost in Harbour Town because of silt filling the channel entrance.
At nearby South Beach Marina, smaller pontoon and motor boats sit in mud. Marina owner Bob Gossett recently rearranged the docks to move commercial boats farther from shore and give them better access to the marina. Still, boats sit high and dry at low tide.
"We're to the point where we've hit a critical stage," Gossett said.
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In all, about 323,700 cubic yards of sand and mud need to be dredged from Harbour Town and South Beach marinas and Braddock Cove and Baynard Cove creeks, according to a 2008 engineering survey.
The entrance channel to Harbour Town is filling at a rate of 8 to 10 inches a year, said Mark King, president of The Club Group Ltd., which represents the Harbour Town boat-slip owners association.
"One year from now, if something's not done, we'll lose more slips," King said. "And the whole character of Harbour Town changes."At issue is how best to preserve that character. Dredging seems to be the answer, but the bigger questions -- which have lingered for eight years -- are how to pay for dredging and where to dump the spoil.
Some are optimistic that government, Sea Pines and business officials can work through these concerns. Others, including Beaufort County councilman and Harbour Town slip owner Stu Rodman, aren't so sure.
"I don't see a solution to it at this point," Rodman said.
Private groups have paid for dredging in the past, but costs have increased so much they can no longer afford it, said Cary Kelley, executive vice president of Sea Pines' Community Services Associates. The last round of dredging in Sea Pines, in 2003, cost about $2.5 million and was paid for by Sea Pines marina owners, businesses, boaters and homeowners along the waterways, according to Island Packet reports.
Current estimates for dredging are three to six times the 2003 cost -- between $7 million and $15 million -- Kelley said.
Lack of affordable disposal options, new permit requirements and the scope of work have driven much of the cost increase, he said.
Town Council has set aside $25,000 for a study of its potential role in dredging private marinas. The money has yet to be spent. CSA has asked that the money go toward studies to determine if, among other things, an on-land disposal site could be expanded, said Councilman George Williams Jr., who lives in Sea Pines.
That issue will go before council's Public Facilities Committee on March 1 before being considered by the full council, said town manager Steve Riley.
In 2009, the South Island Dredging Association asked the town to manage the next round of dredging, assuming liability should the project fail. Town staff opposed the idea, and council declined to act.
Harbour Town's marina is a 7-iron shot from the 18th green at Harbour Town Golf Links, home of the PGA Tour's Heritage golf tournament. The event's annual telecast delivers images into homes around the globe of the candy-striped lighthouse and spectators aboard gleaming yachts.
But the marina may not be able to accommodate those eye-grabbing vessels much longer, King said.
King said four or five slip owners have relocated from Harbour Town to the Florida coast. In all, Harbour Town has lost 18 boats that were more than 70 feet long in the past 15 months.
"They can work around the tides, but many prefer not to sit in the silt at low tide," he said.
Commercial sightseeing and charter operations also are affected. Vagabond Cruise has canceled dozens of trips and eliminated some crew positions on its yacht at Harbour Town because the water wasn't deep enough, said Keith Walston, company president and CEO.
Some argue that if a solution isn't found soon, the problem will spiral. The value of adjacent properties could decline, hurting their owners and diminishing the town's property-tax base. Revenue on home and villa rentals and on retail, food and beverage sales could follow.
"We're going to be a kayak and canoe marina before you know it," said Harbour Town harbormaster Nancy Cappelmann.
Rodman says the county could lose as much as $3 million a year in property taxes alone.
Despite consensus that Harbour Town, South Beach Marina and its feeder creeks need to be dredged, there is disagreement about where to dump the spoil.
The current dredging permit -- which expires in 2012 and is held by the South Island Dredging Association, made up of boat slip owners and Sea Pines residents -- calls for dumping it about 10 miles offshore, near the mouth of Port Royal Sound. The site has been approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and has been used for past Sea Pines dredging projects.
Others say on-land disposal, possibly near Calibogue Cay or in the Sea Pines Forest Preserve, would be better because of the regulatory restrictions on offshore disposal. But on-land disposal significantly adds to the cost.
Federal and state officials halted the South Island Dredging Association's previous efforts in 2003 to deepen the waterways after a contractor was accused of improperly dumping dredge spoil into Calibogue Sound, instead of the approved offshore site. The project manager was acquitted of federal criminal charges, and the dredging association -- facing fines of nearly $500,000 -- settled a lawsuit with state officials, paying $50,000 but admitting no wrongdoing.
Most of the 2003 project was completed before dredging was halted, but the area is now overdue for its next round of dredging.
After the problems in 2003, new requirements were attached to the permit: the association must hire a state-approved dredging contractor and the amount of sediment that overflows the barge headed to the dump site must be monitored.
Barge operators have been unwilling to guarantee spoil would not be spilled en route to the offshore site, according to the dredging association.
A CSA task force is working with the South Island Dredging Association to find a solution, Kelley said.
Jack Brinkley, president of the dredging association, declined to comment.
A January 2010 review of dredging in Sea Pines by Olsen & Associates recommended the dredging association's permit be amended to allow on-land disposal, and a site on Calibogue Cay has been considered. The site is not large enough to handle all the spoil, but it could handle Harbour Town's, coastal engineer Christopher Creed wrote in the review.
Spoil dumped at the Calibogue Cay site would be hauled to a landfill in Ridgeland, Kelley said.
That plan, however, could meet resistance from Calibogue Cay residents, who already use the site for their own dredging projects. The neighborhood, along the Intracoastal Waterway near Harbour Town, features homes with private docks with deep-water access to the Atlantic Ocean.
Kelley said that based on the amount of material to be dredged, thousands of dump-truck trips would have to be made on streets near Calibogue Cay. Calibogue Cay property owners also would have to sign off on use of the site, he added.
Some have suggested using up to 45 acres of undeveloped areas in the Sea Pines Forest Preserve for disposal. Development and use of the site would be expensive, Creed wrote in the review, and would mean removing trees and building a dike.
Any amendments to the dredging association's permit would require public hearings and approval from the state's Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -- a potentially lengthy process.
"We hope to have those answers in the next few weeks. We'd like ... some dredging work done (next) winter," Kelley said.
Along with disposal and permitting hurdles, there's also the matter of funding.
Estimates of dredging costs, depending on the method and dump site, range from $7 million to $15 million.
Some have suggested a municipal-improvement district within Sea Pines, which would establish a special property assessment.
Should council approve such an effort, owner-occupied homes within Sea Pines would have to consent to be taxed, according to state law. Owners of second homes, on the other hand, would automatically be taxed, Kelley said.
"We'd like to change (state law) so that everyone in the district would have to participate" automatically, following voter approval of those in Sea Pines to create the tax district, he said.
State Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort, did not close the door on the idea of legislative action.
"It depends on what is requested. You have to start with the common-sense notion that the financial burden of the dredging must be primarily borne by the slip owners," Davis said. "They are the ones who benefit the most.''
Questions about spoil disposal and cost need to be answered first, he said.
Kelley said property owners closest to the waterways probably would pay the most, and those living farthest away, the least.
"This is an issue for Sea Pines, and we need to find out how we're going to pay for it," he said.


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One of the real gems in the northwestern corner of Philadelphia is Morris Arboretum. It's a wonderful place to spend an afternoon. There's a Victorian fernery, outdoor model railway, environmental sculptures, streams and ponds. It's easy to spend a whole day lost in the natural beauty of the place. Follow the link below to see their complete listing of courses this spring!
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Black sacks full of rubbish left on the pavement
Reported via Android in the Flytipping category anonymously at 22:44, Friday 9 February 2018
Sent to Enfield Borough Council 1 minute later
By Palmers Green library in Broomfield Lane.
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Diabetes Risk Higher With 'Nonfunctional' Adrenal Tumors
Nonfunctional adrenal tumors have been linked to an increased risk for diabetes.
With the increasing use of abdominal imaging in recent years, the incidental discovery of adrenal tumors occurs more frequently. Although it is estimated that they are detected in 1% to 10% of abdominal imaging studies, the majority of these are determined to be benign tumors that are viewed as nonfunctional and thus clinically unimportant. A new cohort study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, however, suggests that there may be a need to reconsider this line of thought.
With approximately 10% of adrenal tumors, subclinical hypercortisolism may be present, in which there is excess cortisol secretion in the absence of the typical signs and symptoms of hypercortisolism, also known as Cushing's syndrome. Subclinical hypercortisolism has been associated with a range of metabolic conditions, including hypertension and type 2 diabetes, among others, and some findings have linked it with a higher risk of cardiovascular (CV) events and mortality compared with nonfunctional adrenal tumors.
Preliminary evidence from previous small studies, however, indicates that even patients with tumors that are considered nonfunctional may have impaired cardiometabolic functioning vs control patients without adrenal tumors. This suggests that nonfunctional adrenal tumors "may not be nonfunctional after all; they may impart cardiometabolic risk by secreting inappropriate amounts of adrenal hormones that evade traditional clinical criteria and detection capabilities," according to the authors.
To investigate this possibility, they compared the risk for diabetes and other outcomes in patients with nonfunctional adrenal tumors to that of patients who did not have adrenal tumors. The researchers assembled a cohort using individual medical records of hospital patients who had undergone abdominal imaging via CT or MRI.
The main outcomes — hypertension, composite diabetes, hyperlipidemia, CV events, and chronic kidney disease — were assessed at baseline and during follow-up. Only the patients who had 3 or more years of available follow-up — 166 with nonfunctional adrenal tumors and 740 without adrenal tumors — were included in the final analyses.
The results show that composite diabetes was found in 27.3% of those with nonfunctional adrenal tumors vs 11.7% of patients without adrenal tumors, and the risk for composite diabetes was significantly higher in patients with nonfunctional adrenal tumors (absolute risk=15.6%; 95% CI, 6.9-24.3; adjusted risk ratio=1.87; 95% CI, 1.17-2.98). No additional significant associations were observed for the other outcomes.
These results have several clinical and research implications, including the potential need to reevaluate the current classification of adrenal tumors as nonfunctional. Additionally, the findings suggest that incidentally detected adrenal tumors may be "independent risk factors for diabetes that may warrant more frequent surveillance for glucose intolerance," wrote the authors.
Future investigations should use broad adrenal steroid metabolite profiling to explore "whether nonfunctional adrenal tumors secrete inappropriate amounts of glucocorticoid that evade current clinical practice and contribute to adverse outcomes," they concluded.
Disclosures: Dr Turchin reports receiving personal fees from Novo Nordisk and Monarch Medical Technologies and grants from Sanofi and Merck. Dr Vaidya reports receiving grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and personal fees from the Endocrine Society. All other authors report no financial conflicts of interest.


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Founded in 1977 by the Brandon Women's Service League, the Brandon Regional Hospital Auxiliary has expanded its role and programs to keep pace with the needs of a rapidly growing community.
Today the Auxiliary totals more than 200 volunteers who perform a wide range of services for the patients, guests and staff of Brandon Regional Hospital.
The Auxiliary is a nonprofit organization; proceeds from the hospital gift shops and other volunteer fundraisers are used to provide scholarships for those in the Brandon area pursuing careers in the medical field.
The scholarships are awarded based on financial need, and more than one million dollars has been given to students since the program's inception in 1977. Approximately $20,000 is distributed to various local charities each year.
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Job specific training will occur in the service selected by the applicant. Members volunteer for a three-hour shift, once a week and must complete a minimum of 75 hours a year to remain an active member of the Auxiliary.
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This 5 bedroom villa can accommodate total of 10 adults with opportunity to add an extra bed to each bedroom, maximum capacity is 15 Adults.
This is a five (5) bedrooms villa that laid on a side of green rice fields in Tiying Tutul village in Canggu. The property actually offer two separated villas, a 3 Bedroom villa and 2 Bedroom villa. The villas built on concept of mix modern and Balinese style interior and exterior.
The villas are available as one, two and three bedroom villas or as a whole five bedroom villa depending on our guest needs.
The 3 bedroom villa offered two (2) King size bedroom with en suite shower and toilet on the ground floor and one (1) Master bedroom on the second floor with en suite bath tub, shower and toilet. An open space kitchen and living room facing the 645 square feet swimming pool is the place where breakfast prepared and served daily. Open air shower next to the swimming pool, Balinese gazebo and a barbecue facility are provided to complete your vacation.
The 2 bedrooms villa has two (2) King size bedroom with en suite shower and toilet. Las Casitas also featured an open space kitchen with living room, Balinese gazebo outdoor shower and Swimming pool.
Guest will enjoy our large size bedroom with king size bed and attached bathroom. Bedroom size is approximately 270 square feet and Bathroom size is about 160 square feet. Big size wardrobe is an addition to exceed his or her need of space. A save deposit box, air conditioner, universal plug, extension cord are available in each room. 3 Mbps fiber optic Wi-Fi will help you to stream any movie online for the whole time on any corner of the villa.
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Good morning, afternoon or night (depending on the moment when you read me) and welcome to "The spirit of words", a little room where month by month we will analize different literature works! I have decided to dedicate this month, February, to a woman who has fought for women's rights and their independence during a long period of her life through literature. So we can say that she became a very important step forward for them. Do you know who she is? Yes! She is Virginia Woolf.
Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) wrote under her husband's name, Stephen, because it was forbidden for women to write. Both of them belonged to the "Bloomsbory group", a club of poets, writers and people who produced any type of texts, and they met in the same place to talk about literature and to write. As her parents owned a magnificent library at home, she grew up getting smarter by reading all the books she could. That made her to want to write and publish as any other man could have done, and she did. She had a dark youth since her half-brothers abused her sexually and her family died one by one in less than ten years, so she decided to focus on literature to defend women in those kind of situations.
Her importance came when she developed an innovative literary technique in order to reveal women's experiences and to find an alternative to the dominating sexist views of reality through the description of how a girl can live that male reality. Then, she published some books such as "Orlando", "Three Guineas", "A Room of One's Own" or "Mrs. Dalloway".
The book I have chosen to read is "The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf", a book which shows the evolution of her writings from an early age up to her latest days. It is divided into four parts: "Early stories", "1917-1921", "1922-1925" and "1926-1941."
Through those stories we can see that she uses an easy vocabulary as well as the style of narration to show us how a woman can be seen in several situations within society. The "stream of conciousness" (interior mologue), which was created by her, is another common technique practiced to transmit her (or of a female character) impressions and thoughts about tiny details as she does in "The mark on the wall", included in the second stage of the book. Moreover, we notice that women are responsible of most of the stories to explore her lives that way. The best thing we can abstract from Virginia is that when we read her works, we are able to breathe her soul and ideas, which is, al least for me, essential to any good writer.
In my opinion, this is a great woman because she lived and wrote in a period when women were really understimated and were not allowed to do many of the things that nowadays are totally normal to do. Furthermore, she went against society through literature, something that was highly far away for them, to change their reality. What do you think about this woman? Was all her work worth it or not? Please, give your opinion in a comment!
And that's all in February. I hope you like Virginia Woolf and you read any of her books. If you pay attention to her works, you will see that she is a true fighter for women's rights. Please, write anything you want to share in a comment.
As always, I want to thank your time to read my entry. If you like my blog, you can follow me also in twitter in @sirfransc .
See you in March with a new author!!
Take care,
Fco. Serrano.


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Recently I've reviewed the first two companion novels/novella's of The Lunar Chronicles. Now I'm back to review the other ones!
Did you miss my previous post? Here's my review of Glitches & The Little Android :)
The Queen's Army
The Lunar Chronicles #1.5
18 pages
I think I would have enjoyed Ze'evs character in Scarlet more if I had read this before reading Scarlet.
Poor little 12-year-old Ze'ev,, saying goodbye to his family . I really felt for him, my heart goes out to him while reading this.
The first time the thaumaturge manipulated his mind.. ugh so awful.
Although this wasn't a happy story, it was very interesting to read and it felt too short. I think I would have liked to read more about his growth from that 12 year old to an adult. still, I enjoyed reading about him.
Rating: 3.5 stars
Carswell's Guide To Being Lucky
The Lunar Chronicles #3.1
42 pages
This story is about young Carswell Thorne growing up.
Really enjoyed reading this short story. It was so funny to read. Honestly, I wanted to continue reading his story and get to know him even more! I would have loved to see how he ended up in Beijing Prison!
These stories and more are now available in a book called Stars Above, check it out!
Have a great day everyone!


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Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth and some like to pretend they were. Take a look at this snob-inspired cluster which includes winter boots for tires, jewelery mugs, luxury snack foods, anti-aging sheets, luxury liquor dispensers, $8 ice cubes, Marie Antoinette shoes, and luxury condo car elevators.
Implications - Objects that are commonly perceived as "snobby" are seen as such because of their excessive extravagance. When something pricey exists solely for adornment without any function, it is seen as an unnecessary decadence; however, some consumers enjoy these products as they signify financial security. In today's society, money is synonymous with prestige, which is something consumers seek.
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I'm on Depression medication. I'm planning RTW, could I still do it? You might be ok in Western countries, but what about Asia or something? Could you see a Doctor there? I'm Irish, does anyone know?
Travelling when on Medication?
have you tried to contact IAMAT, they used to have a world directory of english speaking doctors who knews western practices.......
I think you should be fine, it may be easier to see doctors in larger cities but if you check to see if there is a directory then you should be fine.
I don't think you should let being on medication hold you back from the trip of a lifetime
Hey Marcus!
I agree with Rraven, contact IAMAT for possible physicians. Depending on how long you plan to be traveling, I recommend taking a 3 month supply of your medication with you. As you stated, you'll be able to refill your prescription in the European countries. I'd work with that scenario and save the meds for S.E. Asia if you will be in more rural areas. Depending on your particular medication, I doubt you will run into problems with refills in larger metropolitan areas.
I do recommend getting a letter of health from your physician stating that you are taking particular medication(s). Ask for (at least) one written prescription to carry with you in case of loss or theft of your prescription bottle. I would ask for 2 copies and ask that they be dated for one full year. (Here in the States, prescriptions are usually good for 12 months unless it is a class C medication. Class C = controlled meds such as barbiturates, etc.) If you need to refill using your written prescription, be sure to ask that it be returned to you and give a simple explanation of why - you are traveling RTW.
When traveling with medication, always have paperwork to back it up but never let it stop your from doing what you want to do. It will take a bit more planning and preparation than someone not on meds, but it shouldn't stop you. Having the letter of health from you doctor can come in handy if some official questions your meds. Be sure the Doc has it written on letterhead with an address and phone # for his clinic/hospital. Simple things like that can be a life-saver.
(Sorry for not answering a bit sooner - been on holiday myself - with my meds.)


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This is my shop made edge banding machine its made of scrap plywood,a small spindal roller and a cheap heat gun it works very well. I am working on a new one that is going to be better, my plan is to add two heat gun so I can feed the plywood faster thank you and hope you guys like it
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Good job. Decent edge banding machines are expensive.
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Teleperformance Gains Competitive Edge and Comprehensive Regulatory Compliance with Vormetric Data Security
Teleperformance is a globally recognized outsourced CRM services, contact center solutions, debt collection and social media company. With revenues approaching $3 billion, the Paris-headquartered group's 135,000 employees operate over 260 contact centers spread across 49 countries.
Business Challenge
The large number of diverse applications and associated data – including call recording systems and CRM packages from multiple vendors, as well as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server repositories – created significant obstacles in many areas, including data integrity and security.
Christian Muus, director of security for Teleperformance EMEA, commented, "We considered using the native encryption capabilities included in each of our applications but quickly saw that this would be unreasonably expensive and too complicated to manage given the number of different servers and applications. The result would have been added complexity and administration overhead requiring us to hire new people with the appropriate expertise, or greatly extend the training for our existing application teams to create internal experts in each area."
Technical Challenge
"The need for robust encryption was being driven by our clients and also regulatory standards like HIPAA-HITECH, PCI DSS, ISO 27001 as well as European Union and country specific data protection requirements," recalled Muus. "Sensitive end-user data, such as but not limited to credit card details and personal identifiable information, are collected in so many of our applications that we made a decision to encrypt all of our clients' applications and databases."
The scale and pace of Teleperformance's operations dictated the need for an easy-to-manage, agile encryption and key management solution.
Teleperformance originally used the native encryption capabilities available from its Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Enterprise environments but the overhead associated with implementations – including data structure considerations, defining key and certificate management strategies, setting administrative rights, etc. – was becoming unacceptable. Every new instance required additional design and operational discussions.
Following a detailed analysis of viable options, Muus and his team made the decision to implement Encryption and Key Management solutions from Thales eSecurity, purchased though Thales eSecurity channel partner SHI International Corporation.
He stated, "We were excited when we found the Thales eSecurity solution; it gives us a consistent view of all encryption across the company, and allows us to encrypt information without having to be concerned about the application associated with the data or change business processes.
"We are continually rolling out new servers and applications, so ease of deployment is very important. It turned out that implementing Thales eSecurity was simple, and since the solution is transparent to applications, installation was easy and straightforward."
Cost justification for the investment in Thales eSecurity proved to be equally clear-cut. Muus reflected," We did a cost comparison for just one system – a call recording package – and found that if we had purchased the application-specific encryption add-on from the vendor, it would have been more expensive than buying Thales eSecurity for our whole environment. So, not only did we save money by buying Thales eSecurity to protect that single application, we can use it to protect everything else too!
"We've also saved money and increased reliability by reducing the overall complexity of encryption and key management, and by being able to administer the whole environment centrally. The interface is so intuitive that it is extremely easy to quickly become proficient."
Teleperformance takes great pride in ensuring that its infrastructure exceeds stringent regulatory and information security management system requirements. The Thales eSecurity solution provides the company with a critical capability to secure and protect its massive amount of diverse data. Muus stated, "Our external regulatory auditors are big fans of Thales eSecurity; they always are impressed with the comprehensive access control-based separation of duties that Thales eSecurity provides.
Across the whole company we only have three people with access to our encryption keys; even application administrators cannot access the application's data despite having administrative rights for the whole server. And furthermore, the three people that are sanctioned to access our encryption keys don't have access to the systems or applications. This is exactly the separation of duties required by standards like PCI DSS."
Encryption technologies have traditionally imposed a discernible load on system performance. Muus initially shared this concern but when asked to quantify the impact of implementing Thales eSecurity his succinct reply was, "None!"
He elaborated, "From a performance perspective, our users are completely unaware that encryption is taking place. This was our biggest concern, and in the end, it turned out to not even be an issue."
Teleperformance's IT environment is structured to provide each country with unified central services as well as country-specific decentralized local services. "The Thales eSecurity solution is flexible enough to allow us to have one centrally managed Thales eSecurity system and still meet each country's specific requirement for protecting applications and data. Thales eSecurity enables encryption to run smoothly," explained Muus.
"The Thales eSecurity solution is so impressive that in addition to client and customer data we now use it to encrypt our own critical internal data." He concluded, " Thales eSecurity gives us the performance, scalability and flexibility we need to stay ahead of our competition."


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CADETS welcomed the Mayor of Sefton by asking him to join in a game of paintball.
The Mayor, Cllr Richard Hands, spent the day with Sefton's Army Cadets at their annual camp in North Yorkshire near Catterick.
The 394 cadets from Sefton were spending an action-packed fortnight at the camp tackling assault courses, abseiling, rock climbing, first aid, signals, shooting, sports, adventure training and exercises.
Cllr Hands was welcomed by the Commandant, Colonel Ian Walton, and also met two of the chaplains supporting the camp, the Rev David Taylor from Formby and Fr David Gamble from Hightown.
He spent the day with cadets from their detachments at Southport, Hightown, Crosby, Bootle, Netherton, Litherland and Aintree before joining in the paintball exercise.
During the camp's second week, the Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside, Dame Lorna Muirhead, arrived for a two day visit in her capacity as Honorary Colonel.


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A member of one of America's wealthiest families has decried the lack of effort by the White House to promote universal access to health care for all Americans.
"We're getting no help out of the White House whatsoever," said Sen. John D. "Jay" Rockefeller 4th, D-W. Va., who participated yesterday in a forum on the crisis in affordable health care at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. "You can't get anything done in that town without the help of the president," he said.
Rockefeller urged President Bush to consider championing health-care programs for expectant mothers and children as starting points.
Rockefeller delivered the keynote address during the J. Douglas Colman Lectureship, an annual presentation on health care in honor of the man who formed the organization that later became Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maryland.


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Why do mosquito bites swell up
The saliva injected when a mosquito bites causes our bodies to produce a histamine response. We have a slight allergy response. [ Source: http://www.chacha.com/question/why-do-mosquito-bites-swell-up ]
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- Why do mosquito bites swell up?
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- because people are allergic to the bites that's why they itch, and the more you scratch them the more they swell up. some people are very allergic to them so they swell up really big. its just like most other allergies that swell.
- Why do mosquito bites swell up white ?
- http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081121113103AAzo23N
- It is your body's inflammatory response to what is basically an injury (the bite). The inflammatory response is how your body heals itself.
- What does it mean when your mosquito bite is swelled up??
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- it could be infected if you have scratched it you could have brocken the skin and infected it it really depends on how swelled it actually is keep monertering it i hope this has helpd
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- why do mosquito bites swell up your skin?
- Q: don't have time to google.fat boi, kiss my @ss, i go to the internet cafe in the morning, ask my questions, then go back in the afternoon, to check my answers. any other stupid comments?
- A: During a feeding, the female mosquito bites the human skin, and injects saliva. The saliva contains various proteins that prevent the blood from clotting, as well as proteins that keep the blood flowing into the mosquito's mouth. Many of the mosquito saliva proteins can cause immune reactions, including allergic reactions. Typically, however, most people have a variety of reactions to mosquito bites, and the symptoms change over time, depending on the amount of bites a person received. These reactions can include both immediate and delayed swelling and itching around the bite area. These reactions tend to decrease in frequency after being bitten by mosquitoes over many years. Generally, people with the above described reactions are not diagnosed as being "mosquito allergic." This term is reserved for people with more severe or unusual reactions, such as those described below. More Severe Reactions to Mosquito Bites: "Skeeter Syndrome"More severe reactions -- rather than the typical itchy red bump experienced by most people as a result of a mosquito bite -- occur less commonly. These may result in blistering rashes, bruises, or large areas of swelling at the bite sites. People who experience extremely large areas of swelling after a mosquito bite (such as swelling of most of an arm or leg, for example) have been dubbed as having "Skeeter Syndrome." In rare situations, some people may experience anaphylaxis after being bitten by mosquitoes. Other people may have experienced whole body urticaria and angioedema (hives and swelling), or worsening of asthma symptoms after being bitten. Typically, these symptoms occur within minutes after a mosquito bite, compared to Skeeter Syndrome, which may take hours to days to occur.
- Why do mosquito bites swell up when you itch them?
- A: When you are bitten by a mosquito, they inject a chemical that stops your blood clotting (so they can suck up more). The body (usually) responds badly to this chemical and releases histamine - a chemical that is sent to deal with the irritant. However, this histamine causes our skin to itch - big time. So, when we itch a mosquito bite, we increase the irritation, the body produces more histamine which increases the irritation, so we itch, and it's a continuous cycle. What you need to do is not scratch, or if it's really bad put on a cream or some calamine lotion and take an antihistamine, then the cycle will stop and the itch will, in time, go away. I hope this helps!
- why do my mosquito bites swell and become painful?
- Q: they don't really itch as much anymore. lately they swell and hurt and a few of them have had pus. could i have developed an allergy to mosquitoes?
- A: Yes u have, the same thing happened to me.mosquito would start really small and then they would swell up big. One swelled up and covered the surface of my thigh so i know what your going through.The only difference is that mine would itch also but it would be painful to scratch it. If u dont have any medication for it check out the doctor. In the mean while take advil or a pain releaver that suits u and an itch cream of your choice. I use avon therapy cream for dry itchy skin, it gets rid of the itch of the bite.( But go to the doctor he or she will give u the actual medication )
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|Twin Flames: Life's Blessing of the Heart
|Thursday, 11 February 2010 00:00
We live in an unprecedented and exciting time of change on our planet and within our cosmos with massive vibrational shifts, accelerated evolution, quantum leaps in consciousness, and instantaneous connection. Yet, like others, perhaps you are experiencing a profound longing for even deeper heart connection, reconnection, and integration—a collective longing for union, oneness, and wholeness and a deep remembering of who we are. Everywhere, people are yearning for soul mates or twin flames, but we don't quite know what we are looking for, how to create it, or how to know if it has arrived.
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It is Labor Day weekend here in the United States, a national holiday dating back more than 100 years. It is meant to honor the more than 155 million workers in the United States, and for most, it is a day of play.
For most Americans, Labor Day is more play than work. It is taking in a ball game with family and friends, picnicking, enjoying the beach or pool - cooling off. Labor Day is the traditional end of summer vacation.
An estimated 39 million Americans took to the road and airways this holiday weekend. That is about six million fewer than a year ago.
For young people, the holiday also means a new school year has either just begun or is about to.
America first celebrated Labor Day with a parade in New York September 5, 1882. Congress made Labor Day a national holiday in 1894. It honors the American worker, organized labor and a movement that helped to end child labor, and secure rights for workers.
There are still parades and events across the country that often attract politicians hoping to win supporters and votes.
This Labor Day, President Obama and America are still struggling with a U.S. economy that may be showing some signs of improving. And those that could vacation this holiday, are saying goodbye to summer and getting back to work.


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David Bowie passed away a few weeks ago. I felt bereft. As I explained to friends at the time, he gave me a lexicon during my childhood and teenage years for feeling lost, alone, afraid, and abandoned. His song, "Life on Mars" was an anthem for my isolation, and a validation for my fears about the world around me.
I watched a special about his Serious Moonlight tour, and this oddly handsome and somewhat quixotic artist said he was flabbergasted by the response to the Let's Dance album and the ensuing tour. Whereas he'd begun the tour in small, dive-bars crowding in a few misanthropes and punk visionaries, as the tour progressed on he was filling massive stadiums to sold-out crowds. It was beyond his wildest expectations.
This past year has been underscored for me by grief beyond my comprehension. I have had to shed myself and most of my beliefs about … well … almost everything. It has been complete destruction. I was told I would be ok, and I was told incredible opportunities were around the corner once I had sifted and sorted through the detritus. For many months, however, I believed none of that. At several punctuating points through the last year I believed it was easiest for everyone for me to no longer press myself upon this earth. That I was too much and *it*, the destruction, was too much. That the world would be a better place without me in it.
As evidenced by the words upon the page, I am still here. Not without a tremendous amount of thought and consideration for that trajectory though.
The last few days I have found myself using the word "compass" quite a bit. I realized that within the divorce (yes, most of you know about the divorce but in case you stumble upon this inadvertently and don't know me, that is what happened last year) I lost my own internal compass but I lost my external one as well. My former husband was my compass and my barometer. Recently I was thinking through a really complicated and emotional situation and I wondered aloud what he would do…how he would approach something. I broke down in hot, wrenching tears wishing I could call him and talk it through. Wishing I had his voice in my ear and his soft, sensible advice to help me navigate my discomfort and grief and failures.
(As an aside, I hate the word ex-husband, and so I often say former, but I also hate referring to him that way as well. He has a name, and though I don't want to use it here, I'm going to try and figure out a way to call him something other than "former husband." That just seems insignificant to how important he was/is to me)
I do have a point to this meandering post; I promise, I will tie this all together.
My point about the compass is this. Losing your compass means you lose your ability to know that things will be ok – maybe even better than ok – maybe even extraordinary. You lose your faith that north is north. It feels like a magnet is roped to the compass; it's skewed and you're disoriented and lost. With that comes fear and uncertainty. You feel un-grounded and un-tethered. When I lost him, I lost my external compass, and before I lost him I was already losing my internal one. It seemed hard to fathom that anything in the world could feel good again. Heap some shame and darkness on top of all of that and it felt like I was sitting in a putrid swamp of quicksand with no lodestar to guide me out.
But I tried to listen when people would tell me I would be ok. I tried to understand when other people said that my shame didn't make me unworthy of being loved. Especially when I was told that I wasn't ever loved as my marriage ended.
I tried to embrace my failures – my big, ugly, nasty failures, and learn from them, and squeeze every last drop of comprehension from them. I tried to find my voice and my integrity, buried beneath the grit and the hurt. I tried to own what is mine and shed what was not. My therapist told me she has rarely seen someone work so hard on their stuff – to deconstruct it and understand it and take away the good and relinquish the bad. It has been a street fight, for my life and for my own internal compass to emerge again.
I had a feeling back in late November, early December, that something really really extraordinary was around the corner. Normally my gut with these things is pretty correct but I didn't trust my de-magnetized compass and December was an epically shitty month punctuated by my would-be 10 year anniversary the day before New Year's Eve.
Slowly, as the early weeks of 2016 unfolded, it became more and more clear that I was probably going to get a job for which I had applied back in December. A quick trip at the end of January to interview in person and I was told a few days later I had the job. The more I learn about this job and my role in it, the more extraordinary it seems. It is unfolding in ways I never would have envisioned and it is impossible not to be a little in awe of such an incredible opportunity.
This role encompasses my love and passion for travel and international development, and also gives me the time and space I need for my own personal travel as well as the opportunity to finish my Ph.D. dissertation. It introduces me to some of the most socially-conscious and aware people on earth as well as visionaries, entrepreneurs, travelers, and capitalists. It connects me to hundreds of amazing human beings. It is beyond a privileged opportunity. It is beyond my wildest expectations.
Which is why I titled this post, The Serious Moonlight. If you're the weird kid, who makes the weird music, in the weird clothes, and your sexuality is in question, and your artistry is beyond avant-garde, and your voice is edgy and odd, and only the alienated and the misfits resonate with your music, why would you ever believe life could take you on such an extraordinary journey? And if it's a god-awful small affair and you're the girl with the mousy hair and your father has told you to go and your husband is nowhere to be seen and you're walking through your sunken dream…why would you believe it could be anything but that?
But it happened. Not that I'm Bowie (please for the love all that is holy do not think I am comparing myself to him), but that you can feel weird or sad, isolated or shitty, shame or estrangement, and then you just press on. You put your feet slowly in front of you. You play your funny music or you apply to the job you doubt you'll get. You just do it. In spite of the fucked up compass and the disbelief that maybe you'll never be more than you are…you just hope that maybe you are and that the hours you've spent applying for other jobs and interviewing and practicing will pay off. And the hours in that urine-soaked, smoky back room playing to 15 people will connect you with the person you really need to know. You cling to a tiny sliver of grace and push yourself forward. And then what emerges *is* beyond the wildest expectations, much like the Serious Moonlight tour – beyond the dreams you ever had for yourself.
Several friends asked me if I would blog about this up-coming journey. I've thought about it a lot. I'm a writer at heart but I just wasn't sure if I wanted to write about this job (it's very public) or that I wanted to connect it with my divorce publicly (because in a lot of ways they are inexorably linked). I wouldn't have had this without that. And writing about the job, to me, means writing about the journey that led me there. I wanted to be able to write and reflect about my grief, my joy, and my new life, if I was going to write at all. I can't write banal updates, I have to write about all of it – my new life and career, and the processing I'm still doing about my divorce.
So how to do that? Well I'm making this public so my friends can read it and maybe some strangers should they wish. I will be writing vaguely about my job. Maybe some experiences or general descriptions. No names, maybe places, but no company references or anything specific to my role. I will reflect on the journey itself and maybe some small updates that can be meaningful to those who know me and what I am doing. Maybe a few photos here and there but I'll probably save those for my very private instagram account. I'm a very private person in general so it's not easy to put such things into a public space for me.
But I do want to write again and so many people have requested it that it made me feel really humbled enough to "blog" again. I don't want to blog, though, in a conventional sense. This is a journal for a reason. I don't want a fancy website, I don't want to be involved in the blog scene and community, I just don't want to deal with the social media aspect of it. This is a journal – it is a diary of my journey. Check in as you wish, or don't. It is for my tribe. Share if you like, or don't. Comment or don't.
I don't know when I will update but I will try and do it with as much regularity as possible, but I make no promises.
In any case, here's to 2016 and my own Serious Moonlight tour. I'll be in the Caribbean for most of this year and I'll post some photos of the moon. When you see them, you'll know what I mean – that I'm thinking about Bowie, and this journey, and how wild it is. Under the moonlight, the serious moonlight…
With love,


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News & Announcement
On 3 June 2018, our school sent 2 teams to participate in the Kubo Challenge organised by IMDA.
We would like to congratulate the teams comprising of Charlotte Loo and Rachel Loh as well as Ethan Tan and Lewis Loo for coming in 1st and 2nd respectively in the 7-9 years old category.
Well done boys and girls!
Our teachers at Waterway Primary School facilitated the Primary Two students in a nature trial project on the flora and fauna along the Punggol Waterway Park.
Find out more from this link.
Our teams clinched the Champion, First Runner-up and Third Runner-up titles in the Lower Primary category of "Speak Up! Kids 2017", a nationwide public speaking competition organised by SPH and Speech Academy Asia.
Our Orators@Waterway Programme was featured in Schoolbag.sg
Our Orators@Waterway programme was highlighted in the Lian He Zao Bao.
Waterway Primary School's Orators@Waterway Programme was featured on MOE's Facebook.
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Our school's Subject Head PE and Aesthetic, Mr Alwyn Tan, was interviewed on the GetActive! Singapore Mini Series. Click on the link below to view his interview.
Featured Interview | Full Episode
Our Orators@Waterway Programme was featured on Mediacorp News 8 on 22 July 2016 as a distinctive programme to equip students with key skills as citizens of the future, which include being confident, persuasive and clear communicators.
Our Principal, Mrs Wee-Kwan Liam, was featured in a news article giving her comments about the new PSLE Scoring and S1 Posting.
Take a look at what our parents have to say about Waterway Primary School. Find out more here.
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Sjogren's syndrome
Sjogren's syndrome (dry syndrome) - an inflammatory systemic failure of the connective tissue, which is characterized by involvement in the pathological process of the salivary glands, lacrimal glands, glands and mucous membranes.As a result, there is an inflammatory process data gland dysfunction, which leads to a significant reduction in the amount of produced secretion.The most frequently (nine cases out of ten), Sjögren's syndrome affects women after the age of 40 years, but have been known cases where the disease was detected at a younger age, women with ovarian hyperfunction.Also, this disease occurs in the presence of systemic diseases such as lupus erythematosus, periarteritis nodosa, scleroderma and sarcoidosis
Sjogren's syndrome causes
Currently no precise information about the cause of this syndrome are absent, however, after numerous observations and studies assumed thatSjogren's syndrome is caused by a genetic predisposition.Aggravating factors of the dis
Sjogren's syndrome signs and symptoms
The most common symptoms of Sjogren's syndrome is directly related to the insufficient production of secretion glands in the body.These include:
- Dryness in the throat, nose and mouth.The feeling of dryness often causes problems in speaking and swallowing.People become quite difficult to eat solid food, and eating dry (crackers, cookies, etc.) Becomes almost impossible.In the mouth, the formation of ulcers may vary taste.One common problem that occurs due to prolonged dryness of existence - the development of caries.In some cases, there are ear infections and nosebleeds
- Dry eyes.The most common worries burning sensation, pruritus, sensation of the presence of a foreign body in the eyes;increased sensitivity to light (photophobia), there is significant conjunctival redness
- parotid glands
- Dry skin
- Vaginal dryness.As a result, sexual intercourse becomes painful enough
addition to the above symptoms can be observed increase in the overall body temperature, stiffness and pain in the joints, malaise, muscle aches, and loss of hair
diagnosis of Sjogren's syndrome
Burning eyes and drynessmouth may not always mean that it is the presence of the syndrome in humans.Diagnosing Sjogren's syndrome can be only in the presence of inflammatory lesions glands.However, there are occasions when a similar result may cause various metabolic diseases in which salivary secretion is greatly reduced (usually diabetes).As a result, elderly people prematurely reduced salivary and lacrimal glands.These forms of dry eyes and mouth have nothing to do with Sjogren's syndrome.Also, for the diagnosis of this syndrome is carried out a study of tissues.For this type of research are taking small fragments of the oral mucosa, which examined with a microscope.Thus established mucous glands
Sjogren's syndrome treatment
The main objectives in the treatment of Sjogren's syndrome are treating the symptoms of burning eyes and dry mouth, as well as removal of localized inflammation.
Removal of the inflammatory process is quite serious difficulties, since the Sjögren's syndrome is a question of diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus and chronic polyarthritis.In such cases, appointed by the medication drugs similar to drugs used in the treatment of these diseases (immunosuppressants, cortisone, etc.), Especially when joining symptoms such as weakness and fever
Dry mouth is quite unpleasant symptomswhich is quite a strong thirst.Saliva performs not only the role of humidifying fluid which helps in swallowing food and grinding, but also protects the oral mucosa of possible infection.Therefore, not enough saliva generated often leads to dental caries and periodontal various inflammatory processes.As a consequence, it is necessary to engage in high-quality oral care: periodically rinse the mouth with special antiseptic solutions, as well as several times a day, brush your teeth, it is recommended to use a sugarless chewing gum.
Sometimes there are cases when bacteria migrate from the mouth to the salivary glands, causing them to infection.In this case there is a sudden quite painful swelling of the salivary glands, which is often accompanied by fever.When this state is shown treatment with antibiotics, as well as aerosols or sprays containing in its composition artificial saliva
Reduced production of tear fluid resulting in congestion of the cornea and conjunctiva of the eye.For the treatment of multiple shows daily moisturizing eye by instillation of artificial tears;bedtime shows the use of eye ointment.Due to the lack of tear fluid may strong eye infection, so at the first sign of inflammation should immediately consult an eye specialist
nasal cavity
For wetting over-dried mucous membranes of the nose shows the use of special nasal spray.Also in the period of treatment is necessary to maintain the recommended humidity using a humidifier or air conditioner
Dry vagina and labia leads to quite severe pain during sexual intercourse, but also increases the likelihood of infection.To moisten these areas of the body doctor prescribes the appropriate cream or gel.