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One of the most important ideas behind aquascaping is this, "The larger the tank, the better." In fact, this is a great general rule to follow if you plan on raising any fish. For our example, we're using a smaller aquarium-since we cannot fit a larger on on a single monitor. This is 1024x768, roughly 10 gallons.
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Choose a gravel color, and size, that will go hand in hand with your tank, and the fish you plan on keeping! If you are interested in anothe aspect of fishkeeping, known as biotope aquariums, you will have to do a bit more research. Biotope aquariums are tanks which only house particular species from particular places. (Ie: an Amazon Basin biotope, or a Rocky Bottom Stream biotope.) In this case, we chose the larger gravel, known as stream from the Guppy Pack. Also, try to figure out what single object is going to be the focal point in the tank. In this case, we have a large rock. Place this rock roughly in the 2/3rd position as this is the golden spot for viewing. Doing this creates a naturalistic balance to the tank, as opposed to placing the rock dead center; a big aesthetic no-no!
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Add plant cover around the rock-generally plants are found in clumps. In our tanks, we try to place our plants in clumps, as this proves to be much more realistic.
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The next aquascaping technique is very interesting. When placing clumps of plants, it's best to do this in a triangular shape (when viewed from above). This also creates a sort of balance within the tank.
|And that's it! These techniques are only illustrated here in the most basic form. If you combine these techniques with ones from the other article, you will quickly see how your tanks can become quite attractive with just a little bit of effort. Look foward to more articles on aquascaping as well as biotope aquariums soon! Until next time, happy aquascaping!
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Healing Yourself Through Faith
Forgive To Live – Free Yourself Of Emotional Baggage
If you have been hurt by another, you might pause to ask, 'Could forgiving someone ends up being self-defeating — even harmful? What if I forgive only to find this individual coming back to hurt me all over again?'
By learning how you can forgive, we take back whatever power we might previously have lost. If it's suitable to tell the other person that we choose to forgive them, this will diffuse tension at the same time. Once verbalize our forgiveness, it can relieve tension, bringing with it a calmness that had previously been dismissed. Alternatively, we may choose to forgive and not tell the person who has hurt us, and this is fine, too.
Perhaps we can treat forgiveness like a boundary, something that limits negative energy from actively poisoning our personal space. When we forgive, we are proactively stating, 'I release my self as well as my emotions from your grip. I'll not hate you. I will not let that damaging energy to affect my life.'
First and foremost, keep in mind that forgiveness is for you – not really for the person you need to forgive – something that frees you from the debilitating emotional burden of the past and its damages. In forgiving you undoubtedly will find the inner harmony that you deserve.
The process of forgiving, of moving from anxiety and hurt to a far more peaceful, balanced internal state, requires us to consider what happened. The person or people who have harmed us had a reason for what they did, no matter if they or we recognize those reasons. Most likely they too, in their very own way, have been the victim of others, harmed or damaged using their very own particular past. While there may be missing parts and pieces of the puzzle, it is we, and not they, who decide on the way we choose to respond to what has happened.
Through this process we may come to a far more profound understanding: although we have been treated unfairly or perhaps unkindly, it is now in the past. And it is there that it needs to remain if we are to move forward with our life in a more balanced, and much freer manner.
Arriving at the place where forgiveness is achievable cannot be attained straight away. It can take time to work through the pain. Therapy, support groups, or self-help tools can all be immensely helpful. It's perfectly acceptable to fully recognize the true consequences of what the person or people did. Anything less is not honoring ourself. It's healthy to get all of it out in the open.
Taking the high road is always the mature, benevolent and wise thing to do. Proactively choosing to forgive is different from ignoring the facts. To forgive does not necessarily mean that we forget. The goal of forgiveness is to release yourself from the anger, the hurt and the loathing, not to deny what took place.
For anyone who is hurting and filled with rage, perhaps forgiveness is the key that can unlock those shackles that are keeping you in pain. Finding your own way to forgive may not be easy, but it is one of the most liberating things you can do. Maybe now is the moment to move on from the past and forgive. Your life awaits you, and there is no real need to delay. Begin your journey of forgiveness now and move ahead a wiser, more balanced person.
This really is your life, isn't it time to at last live it?
Giving Back to the Community
Serving your community is serving the Lord. It not only strengthens the ties within the community but also strengthens the faith of the individual. Christ and the kind Samaritan taught us to be kind and offer help to our fellow man, no matter who they are.
However, our Christian faith teaches us something else too – temperance. Many people become overzealous with their volunteering and even prideful. People who volunteer so that they would be able to say they volunteered are simply virtue signaling, and that's not what volunteering is all about. Volunteering is not about making yourself feel good about it, and bettering yourself, but making the life of the one we're helping better and making them feel good.
Another thing to remember when volunteering in your community is that you're not out to change the world. What you're doing during your service is not going to have a huge impact on your country, your state or even your town, but this shouldn't bring your down or dissuade you from serving. Your goal isn't to help change the world, but help those in this world feel a little bit more comfortable living in it.
But, before you start your service, you must determine what are your strengths and weaknesses. Volunteering may not be a job proper, but you will need to have some applicable skills to be useful, otherwise, you'll just be in the way. On the other hand, these "skill requirements" are a very broad term, so don't feel discouraged if someone seems more capable than you. There is always something you could do to help, and, if you're devoted enough to the service, you will find something you can do, if not better than others, then on a par with them. Even the smallest acts of kindness echo in the hearts of those the act was performed on.
Finally, let's say that service is not simply something you do on Saturdays, but a way of life. Not in the literal sense, of course, but in the sense that you're always trying your best to serve. Taking out the trash, washing the dishes, helping an elderly person cross the street – this can all be considered an act of kindness, and a form of service. Soon, service will come naturally to you, and you'll be able to find your way around the toughest volunteering jobs with ease.
All in all, these are the most important few things to remember if you wish to serve your community. Everyone can help, and everyone has worth, and it's their job to find out how can they give back to their community to the best of their ability.

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Utskrift från Malmö universitet - mau.se
Utskrift från Malmö universitet - mau.se
|Conference Paper, peer reviewed
|The quantitative contribution of AV-plane motion to LV pumping in controls, athletes and patients with dilated cardiomyopathy measured by MR imaging
|Carlsson, Marcus ; Hard, Lars ; Eliasson, Matilda ; Mosén, Henrik ; Ugander, Martin ; Buhre, Torsten ; Arheden, Håkan
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|The quantitative contribution of AV-plane motion to LV pumping in controls, athletes and patients with dilated cardiomyopathy measured by MR imaging Carlsson M, Hard L, Eliasson M, Mosén H, Ugander M, Buhre T, Arheden H. INTRODUCTION: Previous studies using echocardiography in healthy subjects have reported conflicting data regarding the percentage of the stroke volume resulting from atrioventricular plane motion (AVPM). AIM: To quantify the percentage of SV explained by AVPM in controls, athletes and patients with decreased left ventricular function due to dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging. METHODS: 12 healthy subjects (mean age 24 years, 5 women), 12 elite triathletes (mean age 35 years, 4 women) and 12 patients with DCM and ejection fraction below 30 % (mean age 54 years, 4 women) were examined by cine CMR. Maximum AVPM between end-diastole and end-systole was measured at two points in each of three long axis planes and expressed as the average of the six points. The SV was calculated from contiguous short axis images by established techniques. The mean epicardial area of the largest short axis slices in end-diastole was multiplied by the AVPM and divided by the SV to calculate the percentage of SV explained by longitudinal function (AVPM/SV). Data is presented as mean±SEM. RESULTS: SV for controls was 116±6 ml. SV was increased in athletes 140±4 ml (p=0.01) and decreased in patients 72±7 ml (p<0.001). AVPM for controls was 16±0 mm. AVPM was unchanged for athletes 17±1 mm (p=ns) and decreased for patients 7±1 mm (p<0.001). AVPM/SV for controls was 60±2 %. AVPM/SV was unchanged for athletes 57±2 % (p=ns) and for patients 67±4 % (p=ns). CONCLUSIONS: AV-plane motion is the primary contributor to LV pumping accounting for about 60 % of the stroke volume. Although AVPM is less than half in patients with DCM compared to controls and athletes, the contribution of AVPM to LV function is maintained which can be explained by the larger short-axis area in the dilated left ventricle.
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text: Nutrition A better buy June 15, 2008 07:00 PM Tweet Rick Lundquist Like everything else, feed additives should be evaluated for their specific return on investment in your rations. And, as circumstances change, their benefits should be reevaluated. Record high feed costs certainly qualify as "changed circumstances." At first glance, you might think it's time to take all additives out of the ration to reduce cost. But the relative cost of many feed additives compared to current grain and forage prices is less now than it was a year ago. So, it might be time to take another look at the cost effectiveness of proven feed additives in your ration. The key word is "proven" feed additives: those with sound research behind them. If a feed additive helps get more out of your feeding program--better feed efficiency, more milk, higher protein or butterfat, better reproduction or improved cow health--and the relative cost of that additive is less now because of higher feed prices, then the cost:benefit ratio will be greater. That could help your bottom line. Organic mineral companies, for example, who supply zinc methionine, proteinates and other organic mineral complexes have held prices pretty stable so far. They've done so even though most inorganic mineral prices have soared in the past year. Copper, manganese, zinc and cobalt prices have all risen substantially. This makes organic complexes of these minerals better relative buys than a year ago. Organic sources tend to be more available to the cow. Organic selenium or selenium yeast have actually gone down in price, while vitamin E prices have increased dramatically. Selenium helps regenerate antioxidants like vitamin A and C. It may have a sparing effect on the antioxidant properties of vitamin E, so feeding 3 mg. of selenium from organic selenium may reduce the need for expensive vitamin E. Yeast prices have also remained relatively stable, while corn has almost doubled in the last few months. If yeast helps increase fiber digestibility, feed efficiency or milk production, that 5¢/cow spent for yeast is a better purchase now than a year ago. A major yeast product company recently used a meta-analysis to summarize many different published trials feeding their yeast product. The average overall response was about 2 lb/cow increase in milk production. Those two pounds of milk are worth more now too, so the return on investment for yeast products is greater than a year ago. The price of Rumensin has gone up about 3% in the last year; not much when compared to overall feed cost. Rumensin has been shown to increase feed efficiency. Any increase in feed efficiency is worth more when feed prices are higher. Other proven feed additives, especially those that improve the efficiency of feed utilization or milk production efficiency may also deserve another look. Silage inoculants that reduce losses during fermentation and storage can also be more beneficial with higher forage prices. Rick Lundquist is an independent nutrition and management consultant based in Duluth, Minn. You can contact him at email@example.com. Bonus content: Follow this link to read more on feed additives: "Feed Additives: Which, When, and Why" by Michael F. Hutjens, University of Illinois. You are reading an extended version of the Nutrition column that ran in the June/July issue of Dairy Today. Back to news


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I'm sure if you've read this blog for a while you know I'm a Russophile. I lived in Russia for a few years in the mid-90s and even once I moved to New York I managed to find a Russian wife. I keep up with Russian news. We eat Russian food, read Russian books to our kids, and I speak in Russian with my in-laws. My son speaks and understands Russian as well as English. Russia and Russian culture are therefore central to my life.
So it should come as no surprise that we have followed the conflict in Georgia closely. That's not fair … it's a war, and we've followed it as closely as we've followed anything in the news. I won't go into my own (strong) opinion of who's right and who's wrong in the conflict. I think there are many things to be said to defend the actions of each side, and the three undeniable truths are that (a) Georgia is learning – to its sorrow – that allying with the US isn't worth anything when push comes to shove and (b) Russia has regained its superpower status, and the tsar's grip on the empire is secure and (c) we, ordinary people, suffer when governments play at the game of thrones.
But as I've read the accounts, I was struck by something that tears at me again and again when I read the news: how tenuous our hold on our "lives" are. Not our physical lives – but our lives, a complex mix of family, friends, work, health, happiness, possessions, routines and children. None of the refugees in Georgia are worried about how happy their job makes them. None of them are concerned about whether the baby bottles they can obtain contain bisphenol-A. Nobody is complaining because they prefer Dasani to tap water. Nobody is unhappy because they don't have a BMW like their neighbor. Nobody is thinking about credit card debt. Their lives have moved from the comfortable routine of birth, school, family, work, death to something more like death, death, death. It's almost impossible to comprehend – I guess – if you haven't experienced it.
I can't even begin to imagine what it feels like to have your home and all of your possessions destroyed. I have a 3-month old daughter. We wash our hands before feeding her organic formula with boiled filtered water. We wash pajamas in special baby detergent. I count on high speed internet, my collection of business-casual wear and my hot water for showers. We rely on a certain level of availability of consumer goods and services. I don't count on a war exploding in New Jersey or New York – at least I haven't since a few months after September 11th, 2001.
And in the midst of all of this, I do worry about whether what I do is worthwhile, and makes me happy. And I know that many people will say "don't worry about what's happening elsewhere – concentrate on what you can control now." It is good advice. I can worry about my self-esteem while some woman in Georgia (or Rwanda or Iraq or any other conflict-torn nation) worries about how to get clean water for her infant. I don't know how else to proceed and maintain any sort of sanity. A few years ago I had a female colleague who told us horror stories about her escape from Bosnia in the mid-90s during the ethnic cleansing there. After a while I had to get up and walk away every time she started talking about it. I knew I appeared uncaring or insensitive, but there's only so much horror that you can voluntarily absorb.
So I try first to remind myself not to watch the news, but I also try to remind myself how – for the present – we in the "western world" are able to live lives that are enviable past comprehension for so much of the world. I know a lot of that dream is eroding, and that's cause for concern. I know a lot of that dream is a false vision of prosperity – even the most wealthy amongst us will never approach the 5% of Americans who have more than 50% of the wealth in America. But as we watch the Olympics, and the empty tributes to a world united, it's worth remembering again and again and again that our ability to navel-gaze, like I do constantly, is a gift that only a tiny percentage of the world's population has ever received.


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Company News, 2005-08-26, 12:03 PM
PeinigerRöRo awarded insulation contract for China
In signing a new contract for insulation work in China, Gelsenkirchen-based PeinigerRöRo GmbH has taken a further step toward offering its customers worldwide the same high quality of standardized services.
Within this context, Shanghai Peiniger, an Asian subsidiary of PeinigerRöRo, has been awarded a contract by Bayer Polymers Shanghai to insulate some 8,700 running meters of pipeline and another 4,000 square meters of vessels, tanks, and other equipment.
The pipework affected is part of a polycarbonate plant representing a total investment of US $240 million erected by Bayer at the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park, Cao Jing. Bayer will invest in this chemical complex in the following years up to US $1.8 billion.
The insulation materials selected are mineral wool for the hot sections and polyurethane for the cold ones while for the jacketing 0.8 mm aluminum is the choice. The work is due to start as early as August for completion by the end of the year.
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Release date: December 15, 2016
Subgenre: Near future science fiction, Biopunk
About Liquid Muse:
Jonah Winter has developed the perfect creativity enhancing drug – one hundred percent effective, non-addictive and safe.
This is a short science fiction story of 2600 words or approx. 10 print pages altogether.
Ron Varnhagen looked around. The office was spacious, all granite, steel and black leather. Designer furniture, of course, names and shapes and styles the knowledgeable would recognise. There was art on the walls, abstract swirls and random swishes of paint, exclusive and hideously expensive. Floor to ceiling plate glass windows took up two entire walls, providing a striking view across the city.
It was a space designed to impress, but that was only to be expected. Most start-ups spent a lot of effort on their headquarters to impress potential investors — garages or mismatched offices in converted warehouses had always been rare and become even rarer in recent years.
None of the potential investees had any idea how unimpressive their identikit offices really were, especially when you'd seen it all before and knew that this office suite and everything in it — designer furniture, artwork, even the sad potted palm in the corner — could be rented by the hour.
Jonah Winter sat enthroned behind an ebony desk. He was still young — mid-thirties perhaps — and tried to look even younger. Three days beard, precisely trimmed and cultivated, hipster designer glasses he didn't really need, a Savile Row suit over a Kylo Ren t-shirt (the idiot didn't even have enough sense to go for Darth Vader), hand-stitched Italian trainers. Winter was every inch the model of a modern CEO and every inch a poser.
He rose when his administrative assistant — for today, at least, since she'd been probably rented along with the office — showed Ron in.
"Ronny," Winter exclaimed in that annoying faux jovial tone of start-up founders everywhere, So good of you to drop by." He held out his hand, a sharkish smile on his face. "I trust you've ascertained yourself of the qualities of our product?"
Ron ignored the proffered hand. "Indeed, I have. Which is why I'm here. So let's cut to the chase, Winter. No need to flatter me — I know it's all an act anyway."
The smile vanished. "All right. So have you… uhm… tested our product on yourself?"
"No, I paid someone to test it," Ron replied, "This isn't the first time I've been asked to invest in a new miracle drug, you know? Not all of them work as advertised or at all, so I'd rather not run the risk of testing it on myself."
"Our product works exactly as advertised," Winter declared with the smug confidence of someone certain of his genius, "No side effects either."
"So I realised once I read the report of the young man I paid to test it," Ron said, "So I decided to give it a shot myself. Quite literally."
Winter's gaze grew speculative. "And…?"
"I had ten excellent ideas in two hours," Ron admitted grudgingly ,"Normally, I have that many in a month. So your product works. What I want to know is how?"
Winter slapped him on the back in another demonstration of faux camaraderie. "Oh, come on, Ronny, you know that I can't possibly reveal any trade secrets and proprietary information without a firm commitment, signed and issued in writing."
Ron moved away, out of Winter's backslapping range. "I'm not asking you for the damned formula," he growled, "All I want to know the basics of what precisely your product is. Because so far, all attempts to pharmaceutically enhance human creativity have failed miserably. Unless you count alcohol and various street drugs with their unfortunate side effects."
"Side effects which my product does not have," Winter boasted, "Creativity at the press of an injector, where you need it and when you need it — no impairment, no side effects, non-addictive…"
"I don't want a goddamned ad slogan, I want to know what it is."
Winter's eyes — icy blue, as befitted his name — narrowed. "Did you have the product analysed?"
"Of course, I had it analysed," Ron snapped, "You don't think I'd run the potential liability risk of injecting an untested drug into a volunteer, even if I'm paying him handsomely for the privilege."
"The lab said that substance is organic. Biological. Contains animal protein. And DNA. Human DNA. So what sort of fucking Soylent Green are you trying to sell me here?"
Winter stumbled backwards, clearly caught off guard. "Soylent what? The protein shake, you mean?"
"No, like in the movie. You know, 'Soylent Green is people'?"
The confused look on Jonah Winter's face told Ron that he didn't.
"Let me guess, you haven't seen the movie."
Winter shook his head.
"Ah well, it was probably before your time. Anyway, what I'm saying here is that I don't want a potential PR nightmare on my hands, when it turns out your product is created by unethical means. So if your drug contains the shredded bodies of Iraqi war orphans, I need to know. Now."
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|Chickpea Curry
There were 80 Dairy Free dishes in the Food on Friday: Dairy Free collection – absolutely fab. Thank you to all who contributed.
I have selected a few of the dishes to inspire you today. You can see the rest of them at a glance on this Pinboard.
The first pic is of DietTaste's lovely Chickpea Curry.
Lisa from Cooking with Curls brought us this Limoncello Tiramisu Ice Cream
Look at these ingenious Mini Tahini Cups with a Creamy Coffee Date Filling by Lisa's Kitchen.
And here is Cathy from Three Kids and a Fish with her Crockpot Turkey Chili
Aubree from Living Free brought over this super Pasta-Less Turkey Lasagne.
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I have classes which previously had massive methods so I subdivided the work of this method into 'helper' methods.
These helper methods are declared
private to enforce encapsulation - however I want to unit test the big public methods. Is it good to unit test the helper methods too as if one of them fail the public method that calls it will also fail, and this way we can identify why it failed?
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How many of us have a soundtrack? You know what I mean. The list of songs that you hear that spark a memory, feeling, inspire you, give you hope, motivate you. We all have them.
For me, they change frequently and are almost completely dependent upon what else is going on in life. Yeah, I have my standard "go to" songs but then there are those that I haven't heard in years that spark a new emotion. I'm a different me than I was 10 years ago, 5 years ago, a year ago and I hear the lyrics differently. It's actually quite fascinating.
Just last night I heard a song by PINK that I haven't heard in many years. It randomly played on Spotify and immediately sparked emotions...good and bad. My first thought was about the jam sessions my best friend and I used to have in our dorm in college. We used to JAM to this song. I could even hear us singing and immediately texted her to tell her I missed her. It was awesome for that song to take me back to such happy memories. She lives too far away for us to have our frequent jam sessions, but they live in me and I cherish the memories.
On the flip side, I heard the lyrics in a different way than I did back in college. They meant something more and felt less trivial than they did back then. They made me question things. Would I ever be strong enough to say "yeah, it's like that" and stick to it. Of course those questions then led to the mind game that we all play with ourselves. You know the game. The one where you play out different scenarios in your head until you realize you've just built an entire discussion, confrontation, conversation, or whatever, that will likely never play out. Those are the games that keep me awake at night. I want to be done playing.
Anyway, I genuinely believe music can heal the soul. I'm still looking for a few tracks to add to my soundtrack. What songs make up your soundtrack?
This is a place where I can try to make sense of my world. My blogs may not always flow, nor will they always make sense, but they'll always come from the heart. This is my space to just express my thoughts, be heard and make sense of my world. I welcome your comments and look forward to sharing with you.
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Archive for November, 1991
Investment Promotion Conference
With support from an affiliate of the World Bank, Multi-lateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the Federal Government organised a well-attended Investment Promotion Conference in Islamabad during the past week. It was incumbent upon the present regime to have an "open house" to display the willingness (and the readiness) of the present political government to change the lip-service of "encouraging" investment of yesteryears into reality. Before attempting to induce inviting foreign entrepreneurs to invest their money and time in Pakistan, the present Government had very correctly loosened the stranglehold that bureaucracy has over the body economic in Pakistan. During the past year far-reaching structural changes have been put into place and to that end a conducive economic environment is gradually taking shape. One must commend MIGA for investing time and effort in helping the Ministerial agencies concerned with making the Conference a relative success.
PIA's management paralysis
In an emulation of John F. Kennedy's "Boston Mafia", Nawaz Sharif (or rather his brother Shahbaz "Bobby Kennedy" Sharif) brought in close associates and friends from Lahore into the Federal Government and thus into the national mainstream. As long as a person is qualified for a particular post, there should be no heart-burning on this issue, to the victors must go the spoils, the discretion with which they exercise this right shows the level of political maturity. Any leader who does not bring his intimates and the party faithful to Camelot will get short shrift and the Sharif family have enough political savvy not to try and buck the system. There is a genuine requirement to have political loyalists in critical management positions, inherently motivated to assess, analyse, then issue and carry out command decisions.
Several weeks ago, a member of the "Lahore Mafia" inner sanctum was made Chairman of PIA. Mumtaz Hameed is a successful, young businessman having proven commercial talents. In trying to emulate Mian Rafiq Saigol's successful tenure as Chief Executive of the Airline in the 1970s during the PPP regime, the recipe for success was pretty straightforward, a private entrepreneur would bring fresh dynamism to the national airline, a competent and successful management executive from the private sector is almost always a plus point in the public sector. As regards his confidante-status with the ruling elite, it is always a bonus if your Chief Executive has special access into the inner circle of the country's ruling elite. Mumtaz Hameed took over from Nawaz Tiwana, who was doubling as Managing Director (MD) and Acting Chairman after the departure of Air Chief Marshal Farooq Feroze Khan to the post of the Chief of Air Staff. Nawaz has risen up the ladder through PIA's management hierarchy, one of the handful of bright young airline management executives who were aspirants to become MD earlier till one of the deserving ones, Arif Ali Abbassi, got the nod from the Benazir Government. When politicians stay out too long in the cold, political patronage can run amok, somewhere men of conscience have to draw the line. Arif soon became history as he could not keep pace with extraneous demands of the Client-Patronage system, mostly requests for employment. Thus despite the fact that he raised the wages of PIA staff, brought down the foreign currency overdraft from US $ 92 million to US $ 50 million and left Rs 2000 million in local currency surplus. Air Marshal Farooq Feroze Khan became MD in addition to being Chairman and he in turn made three Deputy Managing Directors (DMDs), Nawaz Tiwana, Arshad Mahmood and Khurshid Anwar, the latter two had been charge-sheeted for corruption and misuse of official position. On the departure of Air Chief Marshal Farooq Feroze Khan, Nawaz Tiwana was deservedly elevated to MD and took over also as Acting Chairman. To all accounts, he greeted the appointment of Mumtaz Hameed as Chairman with an open mind. If he resented the younger man's taking over the top slot in PIA, it did not show in his demeanour or attitude.
The Marcos parallel
President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines died in exile in the US a few years ago. As he fled the country, crowds entered the Malacanang Palace to gawk at Imelda Marcos' collection of over 3,000 pairs of shoes. More than anything else, those shoes symbolized the corruption and ostentatious vulgarity that brought Marcos down from an imperial Presidency of an impoverished country. Cory Aquino succeeded him as President, street power overturning the obvious electoral fraud in the Presidential elections, the government machinery had earlier declared Marcos elected in defiance of the tabulated facts.
The Marcoses had systematically looted their country, the many bank accounts frozen in tax haven countries are safe witness to that. From the first day of her incumbency, President Cory Aquino devoted considerable effort to recover the looted millions, most of her pains to that end resulted in frustration because of legal obstacles. While cash was difficult to locate, real estate was comparatively easier to trace, as was the details of Mrs Marcos extravagant shopping sprees in New York and other fashion capitals of the world. Even the aircraft carrying the Marcoses into exile had millions of dollars in cash and kind that were obviously fraudulently obtained.
Finance and power
The Nawaz Sharif Government is determined to create a world record of sorts in effecting the quickest privatisation in history. While the determination in the maintenance of their AIM is commendable, there is definite doubt about whether this policy of haste has been well thought out before being put into implementation.
To start the process, the present Federal Government took advantage of the homework done earlier in the denationalisation process by the PPP regime with respect to MCB and went ahead with that sale within 60 days of the IJI forming the Government. While criticism was levied at the seemingly hasty fire-sale to a Consortium of those believed to be the favourites of the PM, there is sufficient reason to believe that among the bids made, the offer accepted was the most responsive. Conceded that the price was low, it was after all the first open tender offer and potential investors were very conservative in their bids, the benefit of doubt should go to the Federal Government.


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Note: Lucy is 11, Edmund 15, Susan 16 and Peter 18. In the flashback Martin is 10 and Susan 25
Chronicles Of Narnia: Sex On The Beach
by Tricksterson
"What was that all about?," Lucy asked Edmund, who had had to be pulled off another boy in the London Underground while they were waiting for their train. It was Peter however who answered since Edmund just glared at her.
"He's...frustrated," Peter said in a voice that almost a whisper.
"Frustrated? About what?" The she saw how Edmund's, and for that matter Peter's eyes were roaming up and down her and lucy's bodies. "Oh," she said, lowering her voice to match Peters. "You think we're not frustrated too? You think we don't want your cocks in us? But they didn't have room for all of us in one house."
"Yes," said Edmund, "but at least you and Lucy can..."
"Not as much as you think. We almost got caught once and Mrs. Lindsay watches us like a hawk now"
"So does Mr. Lindsay, " Lucy added "But in a different way. A really creepy way."
Out of nowhere Susan sniffed and, sounding like she was holding back tears, whispered, "I miss Martin." Martin was her son by Aslan and had been ten when they had been brought back to England. More than once, nearly every day, in Susan's case, they wondered what would have happened if they had brought him riding with them the day they had left Narnia.
Before the argument could go any further something changed. At first they weren't sure what it was and then they realized everything but them had...stopped. Not only was no one moving, even the air had stilled. And then everything rippled and the tube station wall fell apart and they got sucked into the hole.
* * *
They were back. They were on a beach, so very different from the crowded and smelly subway tube they'd been in but even if they had been on an identical beach in England they still would have known where they were. The sky was a more vivid blue, the air just plain *cleaner*.
At first the boys just stood there taking it all in. The Edmund nudged Peter and pointed.
The girls had reacted more physically. They had already kicked off their shoes and were dancing around each other. Then Susan, followed by Lucy peeled off her school jacket and vest. Both boys eyes were hypnotized by the rhythmic bouncing of her tits.
The girls noticed the boys staring and grinned at each other.
"Let's give them a show," Susan said.
"Let's," said her sister, nodding eagerly, then turning to her brothers and shimmying out of her skirt. "Like what you see?" she said in a tone that tried to sound adult and sexy but didn't quite make it. That didn't seem to phase either Peter or Edmund however. Both of them just gazed slack jawed at her and Susan and nodded.
She turned and shook her pert little bum at them, causing Edmund to move forward but Peter put out a restraining arm.
"That's right boys," Susan called out to them, "Just watch the show for now." She herself was slowly unbuttoning her blouse while swaying to an an inner music. Lucy followed her lead and soon was wearing only her chemise and panties. Susan on the other hand still had her chemise, underwear and skirt on. This was something Lucy decided to fix. She knelt before her sister, unzipped her skirt and slowly pulled it down past her hips and down to the sand then softly kissed Susan's thighs bringing a soft moan from her. She looked out of the corner of her eyes to see her brothers were also taking off their clothes although with more speed and considerably less grace. Lucy heard a rustling of fabric and saw her sister pulling her chemise up over her had and then throwing onto the beach. Lucy smiled and then pulled down her sister panties after which she slipped a finger inside Susan's slit, finding it already moist and bringing another moan.
"Oh God Lucy, that's good! I love you!"
Lucy looked up and replied, "I love you too." She heard footsteps coming up behind her and looked to see the boys naked and erect, approaching. "Looks like the boys love us too, " she said with a chuckle. She turned around as her sister moved beside her and sank to her knees/ They held each others hands as their brothers stopped in front of them and, acting in unison Susan took Edmunds cock in her free hand as Lucy did the same to Peter and they bent their heads worshipfully to take the boys members in their mouths.
Lucy broke the hold to first cup, then massage Peter's balls. Susan did the same while the brothers buried their hands in their respective sisters hair. Peter pulled off his preadolescent partner's chemise, exposing the tiny bumps on which her nipples rested while Edmund undid Susan's bra.
After a bit of this Susan raised her head and called out, "Switch off for fucking!" Reluctantly and slowly the boys pulled out of their sisters mouths whiller the girls fingers and lips trailed down their legs.
Both girls lay down on their clothes and spread their legs but when Edmund got between Lucy's she looked nervous and said, "Wait!"
"What?," Edmund said, impatient and just a bit angry.
"Don't get mad. I want you in me as much as you do! It's just...I'm a virgin again so go slow."
"You're a what?"
"When we came back so did my...virginity." Edmund realized that she was referring of course to her hymen. It must have come back because her original age was younger than when it had been broken.
"Now , please! Fuck me! Fuck me nowww!"
"But gently?"
"At first." She briefly wondered if maybe she should have gone with Peter. Edmund was a vigorous lover but not very good at the soft touch.
Still she had to admit he tried. "Guide me in," he said. She complied, taking his rod in her tiny hand and easing it into her. Secretly this turn of events made him happy. He'd always wanted to be the one to pop his little sister's cherry. Instead that happy task had fallen to the faun Tumnus.
"I love you Lucy," He said in a surprisingly soft tone as he broke through."
"Unh! I love you too, now fuck me!"
Alongside them Peter was already inside Susan who had broken the handholding with her sister to claw at her brother's back.
"Ohhh...yess!" She moaned "My King, my husband, my brother!"
Meanwhile Lucy was rapturously rediscovering the joy of sex.
"Oh..fuck...ohfuck...OHHHFUCK! YES! FUCK ME EDMUND! FUCK YOUR BABY SISTER GOOD AND HARD!!"
After coming the girls lay panting for a minute, their loverbrothers still on top and inside them. then Lucy called for another switchoff.
"Favorite position?," Peter asked.
"Yup!," Lucy answered with a grin.
Back when it had just been Peter, Susan and Edmund their favorite sex position had been for Susan to be on all fours and taken doggie style by one brother while she sucked off the other. With the addition of Lucy accommodations had had to be made.
One sister, this time Lucy, was still on her knees, Peter behind her, but Susan was underneath her, face to pussy while Edmund leaned and his little sister braced against each other, his hands clutching her shoulders while she ran hers eagerly over his bare chest and they kissed frantically while their older siblings fucked and were fucked by them. Meanwhile Peters hands roamed over the bare swellings that would someday be Lucy's breasts while her rammed into her pussy from behind.
Susan, her tongue alternately licking her younger sisters cunt and her older brothers cock as it moved in and out of said cunt gave muffled moans and yelps as Edmund fucked her. Lucy was more vocal.
"OH! Peter! Fuck me! Yes! Oh yes Susan! Your tongue feels sooo goood!," Then as Edmund sucked on her nipples, "Castle! Castle! Castle!"
"Have you gone mental?" Edmund asked. "What the fuck does 'Castle!' mean?"
"It means, my brotherlove...Oh! Oh! Oh!...I see a castle up on that cliff!" Then her eyes rolled up in her head and she lost the capacity for coherent speech as Peter and Susan both hit just the right spot at the same time. As often happened when they all made love together her orgasm set off a chain reaction, with Edmund and Peter spurting into their respective partners and Susan coming as well, her nails raking across the soft, smooth flesh of her little sisters thighs and buttocks as she climaxed then all of them collapsed into a gasping, satiated heap.
* * *
Afterwards they had put their clothes on, or at least the bottom halves, they all decided it was warm enough to go topless, and set out to explore what Lucy had seen. It had turned out not to be a castle but the ruins of one. It was Lucy who first realized that these were the ruins of Caer Paravel, their former home and seat of power. Then they found a room, underneath the ruins. In it were statues and a chest. Four of the statues were of the adults they had been before they left. The fifth, in the center and set back from the other was of a young man, a man whose features, even though they were a decade or more older than when she had last seen them, Susan recognized immediately.
"Martin! My son!," she cried and burst into both tears and memory.
* * *
It had been the day they left Narnia, although of course none of them knew that. Martin had come into her room as she was dressing for the hunt.
"Why can't I go with you and the others Mummy?"
She turned around, topless. Casual nudity had become quite common it the palace. After all, nymphs, satyrs, fauns, centaurs and centaura all went about in a state of undress, wearing clothes only for ornament. When appearing on formal occasions the siblings dressed up in full mideval regalia but on average and especially around each other various degrees of nudity were the norm.
She looked at him, her pride and joy. He was quite tall for his age and broad shouldered as well, his eyes were a pale gold and had catlike pupills, an inheritance from Aslan, his father as was the head of thick, tawny hair. She couldn't wait until he was thirteen and old enough to fuck her. She felt he was old enough now and so did he but the boys, especially Edmund had argued, in essence, that if they'd had to wait until Lucy's thirteenth birthday so did she and Lucy. At least, unlike Lucy, they hadn't had to hide anything from him about how things were in the royal family and he had grown up with his mother and aunt being *very* attentive, bestowing kisses, fondling and a lot more at every opportunity.
"Well be hunting deer and Fernando," she said, referring to his pony, "won't be able to keep up. Don't pout, come here and let Mummy make you feel oh so good."
He gleefully ran up to her and sat on her lap then proceeded to suckle on her tits while she undid his doublet then pulled off his hose. Their lips met in a long, slow kiss as one of his small hands creeped under her skirt and she started to stroke his cock, which at just under five inches was quite large for a ten year old. They both closed their eyes and moaned in mutual gratification.
"Get between Mummy's legs will you darling?," she asked, the whimpering tone belying the nonchalontness of her words. He did so, pulling off her skirt as she lifted her hips then burying his face between her soft thighs, licking and sucking.
"Oh! Oh my dearest baby boy yess!," she moaned. She dug her hands into his thick blond hair and hooked her legs over his shoulders, crossing her ankles behind his back as she came with an explosive "GAWD!"
Martin's face, covered in her juices rose from between her thighs with a grin. He licked her crotch nectar off hhis lips and said, "My turn!"
"Yes my darling, it is," his mother said as they switched positions on chair and floor. She lifted his staff with a finger and licked up from the root to the tip then swirled her tongue around the glans, first in one direction, then the other before popping it in her mouth and sucking.
"Oooh, Mummy! You're so good at that!," her son squealed. "I want to fuck you oh so much!" He wrapped his fingers in her dark brown hair and gasped as he came, sending a trickle of sperm down her throat.
"I want you to fuck me too darling," Susan said. "When we come back your aunt and I will talk to your uncles again."
But of course they had never come back.
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Rosehip Extract-------------------750mg
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Athelstaneford is a village in East Lothian, Scotland. An amateur video is at the foot of this page. It is near the town of Haddington and lies about 20 miles east of Edinburgh.
According to popular legend, Athelstaneford is where the original Scottish saltire - the white diagonal cross on a sky blue background - was first adopted.
On the eve of a battle between an army of the Picts and invading Angles from Northumbria in 832AD, Saint Andrew, who was crucified on a diagonal cross, came to the Pictish King Óengus II in a vision promising victory. The next morning the Picts saw a white cross formed by clouds in the sky.
They won the battle and attributed their victory to the blessing of Saint Andrew, adopting his form of the cross as their flag, and naming him as their patron saint.
The leader of the retreating Angles, "Athelstan", was slain at a nearby river crossing, hence the name Athelstaneford.
There are several versions of the tale, of which this is one of the more popular. Whatever the truth, the legend has cemented Athelstaneford's place in Scotland's history.


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Stroke Imaging Comes of Age: Updated Stroke Definition Embraces Modern Neuroimaging and Highlights Need for Standardized Imaging Protocols
|Dr. Asuzu and Dr. Sheth have nothing to disclose.
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|Tuesday, May 7, 2013
|David T. Asuzu, PhD and Kevin N. Sheth, MD, FAHA
|DTA: Yale School of Medicine; KNS: Division of Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology; Office of Clinical Research, Department of Neurology; Neurocritical Care Fellowship; Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit; Yale New Haven Hospital.
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Stroke mortality in the US has declined in the last few decades largely due to the use of antithrombotic therapy and lower blood pressures in the population.(1) Despite these advances, stroke remains the number 4 cause of death in the United States; 6.8 million Americans ≥ 20 years old have had a stroke, and an additional 4 million individuals are projected to have a stroke by the year 2030.(2) Treatment strategies for stroke vary depending on stroke subtype, but are fairly standardized across the more than 900 Joint Commission--certified Primary Stroke Centers in the US. However, to date a clear consensus on the diagnostic criteria for stroke and its subtypes has been difficult to establish despite repeated efforts.
In 1994, Goldstein and Matchar proposed a method of rapid and accurate clinical diagnosis of stroke based on physical findings.(3) This proposal attempted to overcome limitations in CT-based detection methods available at the time, and resulted in the broad definition of stroke as an acute onset of focal neurological deficits with no pre-existing trauma, subject to verification by repeated CT or MRI scans, lumber puncture, angiography, cardiac diagnostic studies, clinical course, and autopsy for final diagnosis.
This basic definition was updated in 2005 to include diagnostic parameters that are important not only for stroke specialists but also for first responders.4 However, this update still relied heavily on physical findings. For instance, 3 physical findings, facial paresis, arm drift, and abnormal speech, which were derived from the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHHS) and incorporated into the Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale, predicted strokes with a sensitivity of 100% and specificity of 88%, and were thus recommended as rapid diagnostic tests for both field and hospital settings.(4)
These reports and others from the same era emphasized physical stroke findings partly because of limitations with, and partly because of lack of uniform access to, CT and MRI imaging facilities at that time. However, times have changed, and with those changes have come a need for a revised definition of stroke. The AHA/ASA Expert Consensus Document "An Updated Definition of Stroke for the 21st Century"5 delivers this much-needed update to our understanding of stroke, and sets a new standard for management of stroke patients as well as for clinical and public health research.
Advances in CT- and MR-based imaging techniques have made it possible to localize regions of brain infarction and hemorrhage at high spatial resolution. Specific vessels that supply the affected regions can be inspected for occlusions, malformations, or aneurysms using duplex Doppler and transcranial Doppler ultrasound for the neck and head, respectively, using CT or MR angiography, or using catheter angiography. Furthermore, regions of the so-called penumbra, which are ischemic but not yet permanently damaged and thus salvageable by intensive reperfusion therapy, can now be visualized by multimodal MRI imaging, which combines MR angiography, diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR), and perfusion-weighted MRI (PWI), or by mismatches in CT hypodensity, CT angiography, and CT perfusion images.
An important consequence of these new imaging techniques is that smaller lesions such as silent infarcts and microhemorrhages can now be readily detected, bringing up the issue of whether or not these lesions should be counted as strokes. Lumping silent infarcts along with strokes would increase the number of stroke diagnoses from roughly 3% to 15% to 20% of the population, albeit reducing the overall rate of stroke mortality. Also the number of these detectable lesions will likely continue to expand over time as clinical imaging techniques improve. Yet silent infarcts may increase the risk of mild cognitive impairment, vascular dementia, and Alzheimer's disease, and treating patients with silent infarcts may prevent future frank strokes. Therefore, the Consensus document recommends that patients with silent infarctions and microhemorrhages be treated with measures of primary stroke prevention and that future studies address the safety and efficacy of secondary prevention measures in these patients.
Improved imaging techniques have also shed light on transient ischemic attacks (TIAs), which have traditionally been defined as clinical findings persisting for less than 24 hours. With advanced imaging, it is now evident that some clinically transient ischemia's show evidence of brain infarcts. Likewise, some protracted ischemia's that are currently defined as strokes do not show any permanent brain infarction upon imaging. The Consensus document therefore calls for a new functional definition of TIAs based on imaging studies rather than clinical findings alone. Further studies are needed to carefully characterize what imaging findings correspond to TIAs and to verify such findings in autopsy specimens; however, available data suggest that the 24-hour mark is still a reasonable cutoff for TIA definition.
Caution should be exercised in abandoning clinical stroke diagnostics in favor of imaging-based techniques, since high-resolution MRI and CT scanners are not readily available in field locations where emergency medical personnel operate, in many US hospitals, and in most hospitals in the developing world. Clinical wisdom developed and validated over decades is still the most viable or only option in such cases. However, more and more hospitals are acquiring state-of-the-art imaging facilities, and telemedicine is becoming a reality in many remote locations such that most stroke patients now have access to imaging-based evaluations. Also of note, the Consensus document does not propose delaying treatment until all imaging data are available. Rather, similar to patients with acute coronary syndrome, the blanket term "acute cerebrovascular syndrome" may be used for patients presenting with cerebral infarction, TIA, or hemorrhage, and immediate treatments are recommended to minimize permanent brain tissue damage while awaiting imaging results.
In summary the Consensus statement provides a much-needed update to our terminology for stroke and takes into account recent advances in medical imaging. The recommendations set forth in the Consensus statement set new clinical benchmarks for the diagnosis and standardized treatment of patients with various subsets of stroke. Additionally, the updated definitions of stroke and TIAs constitute a call for standardization of imaging protocols that may be used for patient care, for clinical trials, and for future clinical and epidemiological studies on the prevention and treatment of stroke.(5)
- Hong KS, Yegiaian S, Lee M, Lee J, Saver JL. Declining stroke and vascular event recurrence rates in secondary prevention trials over the past 50 years and consequences for current trial design. Circulation. 2011;123:2111-9.
- Go AS, Mozaffarian D, Roger VL, Benjamin EJ, Berry JD, Borden WB, Bravata DM, Dai S, Ford ES, Fox CS, Franco S, Fullerton HJ, Gillespie C, Hailpern SM, Heit JA, Howard VJ, Huffman MD, Kissela BM, Kittner SJ, Lackland DT, Lichtman JH, Lisabeth LD, Magid D, Marcus GM, Marelli A, Matchar DB, McGuire DK, Mohler ER, Moy CS, Mussolino ME, G. Nichol G, Paynter NP, Schreiner PJ, Sorlie PD, Stein J, Turan TN, Virani SS, Wong ND, Woo D, Turner MB. Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics--2013 Update: a report from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2013;127:e6-e245.
- Goldstein LB, Matchar DB. The rational clinical examination: clinical assessment of stroke. JAMA. 1994;271:1114-20.
- Goldstein LB, Simel DL Is This Patient Having a Stroke?', JAMA. 2005;293;2391-402.
- Sacco RL, Kasner SE, Broderick JP, Caplan LR, Connors JJ, Culebras A, Elkind MSV, George MG, Hamdan AD, Higashida RT, Hoh BL, Janis LS, Kase CS, Kleindorfer DO, Lee J-M, Moseley ME, Peterson ED, Turan TN, Valderrama AL, Vinters HV; on behalf of the American Heart Association Stroke Council, Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia, Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention, Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease, and Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism. An updated definition of stroke for the 21st century: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Stroke. 2013: published online before print May 7, 2013, 10.1161/STR.0b013e318296aeca.
-- The opinions expressed in this commentary are not necessarily those of the editors or of the American Heart Association --


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On Monday, I did a question and answer session with a load of health care professionals based in the East of England. There were (I think) a good mixture of nurses, GPs, psychologists, CAMHS, crisis teams, treatment centre managers…That kind of thing.
Because the week was rapidly sucked into a whirlpool and I have spent most of it trying to catch up with myself, I have only just started to process what we said; and, interestingly – although probably unsurprisingly – the question that arose in each of the groups I talked with was: "what are the things that really helped?"
I have talked, extensively, about what doesn't help.


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GLAD's Lee Swislow Audio Interview
Running Time: 11:20
This exclusive interview provides important gay marriage info for our LGBT global community.... Lee Swislow is the Executive Director of GLAD.... GLAD is the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders. GLAD is probably most notable for winning the historic Goodridge decision in 2003 making gay marriage legal in Massachusetts. GLAD is celebrating the 30th anniversary of their org & also the 5th anniversary of gay marriage in Massachusetts.....:)
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J.B. Hunt Transport Services is integrating Maptuit's FleetNav route optimization suite with its own custom dispatch system. FleetNav will be used to provide drivers with directions, optimize fuel purchasing and measure fleet performance.
The Telemetry Information System (TIS) from Acculeon is a self-contained driver monitor that detects and records tailgating, frequent lane changes and other risky driving habits. Integrating an accelerometer, GPS receiver, on-board map database and gyroscope, the box can be fitted with a wireless link for the @Road network or a WiFi modem for local area network wireless data transfers. The system also features a wide variety of data analysis and reporting tools for fleet managers. www.acculeon.com
A new vehicle diagnostic module for Teletrac's FleetDirector tracking and management system captures vehicle operating data to produce a detailed performance report. The report includes miles logged, engine hours, total time in-motion, total idling time and fuel consumed. The module supports the SAE J1708 interface for Class 7 and 8 trucks, and will soon support OBD2 for lighter vehicles, according to Teletrac. www.teletrac.net
The Mobius TTS-onboard computer system from Cadec Corp. has added satellite communications to its wireless options. The unit also offers wireless data links over a variety of cellular networks as well as 802.11b support for local-area networks. www.cadec.com
A new management system for longhaul fleets combines Prophesy Transportation Solutions' DispatchSeries software with Nextel Communications' GPS-enabled handsets and wireless service. The new system can update routes, load status, shipment tracking and other driver and vehicle information in real-time.
A mobile version of the PC*Miler routing application is now available for Nextel Communications' GPS-enable digital cell phones. PC*Miler/Mobile from ALK Technologies provides drivers with spoken and visual turn-by-turn directions for commercial vehicles. It also provides fleets with a web-based driver tracking system.


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Find a professional claw trimmer in the UK
A list of NACFT licensed trimmers can be found at http://www.nacft.co.uk/wp/findtrimmer/
Audited trimmers can also be found on the Cattle Hoofcare standards board website www.hoofcareregister.co.uk
A professional claw trimmer will:
- Arrive promptly with clean and disinfected equipment which is safe and well-maintained
- Correct claw over-growth to prevent future lameness (and no more, no less for sound cows)
- Treat lame cows compassionately and with effective treatments, knowing the limits and when to refer to a vet
- Keep up-to-date with the latest concepts in claw trimming, treatment and prevention
- Leave records, discuss causes of lameness and communicate well on aftercare of cases with all the farm team (including nutritionists, consultants and vets)
You should be very concerned if cows that were previously sound goes unexpectedly lame within 3-5 days after routine trimming. A professional trimmer will preserve important parts of the claw (see picture).
Trimmers will vary in their trimming style. For example, some trimmers might model the inside hind claw (left of picture) less and the outer claw (right of picture) more. The optimal style could vary between cow and herd, and there is no evidence to support one style over another at the moment. Research is being conducted, supported by AHDB.
All trimmers can make occasional errors; however, it is a concern that some trimmers feel under pressure to trim a foot to 'look pretty' for certain customers while other customers accept functional may not be pretty. To understand the difference it's important to go back to some basic principles and so most experts agree the following are faults which can produce over-trimmed claws in most situations (but like all concepts these may be challenged and open to change in light of new evidence):
- Trimming toes too short – 7.5cm from top of hoof where claw goes hard may be too short for many Holsteins
- Trimming soles so they start to flex (too thin)
- Removal of side walls including between the claws
- Excessive removal from heels, especially the inside hind claw
- Unnecessary exploration of minor (non-painful) claw horn defects (the potato mistake)
- Over-estimating the amount to remove to balance heels or toes (achieving balance at all costs)
- Overlooking signs that the pedal bone had sunk or shifted position e.g. dorsal wall buckles
NACFT maintain an up-to-date list of licensed trimmers in the UK who are qualified to diploma level (Dutch diploma or NPTC level 3) and have attended biennial check days. This association facilitate the on-going education of trimmers in the UK. The list of licensed trimmers can be found at http://www.nacft.co.uk/wp/findtrimmer/
To demonstrate added confidence in their professionalism and qualifications, a group of UK trimmers are supporting the use of spot-assessment by independent inspectors, to examine cows they have trimmed. They allow their records to be scrutinised and their clients to be contacted to verify the quality of their work. Further details can be found on their website – Cattle HoofCare Standards Board.
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Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier of World War II (and a Texas National Guardsman) was a great soldier and not-so-great husband. His widow Mrs. Pamala Murphy, passed away last month in California. She dedicated her life to serving veterans, working as patient liaison at the Sepulveda Veterans Hospital full-time until age 87. She gave every veteran the same respect she had for her distinguished husband. (BTW, the first VA hospital I was ever in was Audie Murphy VA Medical Center, San Antonio TX). Audie Murphy was young...so young that after the war he could portray himself in To Hell and Back as a 16-year old kid! His best movie was The Red Badge of Courage...interesting to have a genuine hero like him explore the character's fear and cowardice with such understanding and passion.
Great input from Ranch Hand veterans, the elder statesmen of Agent Orange issues, who on 20 May offered us a reference about dioxin which is excellent reading. Dioxin comes from lots of sources.
I have been trying to get various AF leaders to comment on the Narrative and the reports generated by the AF about C-123K contamination. Everyone, including EPA, keeps bouncing inquiries back to the VA. It is a knee-jerk reaction and gets a hot potato off their desk, but I sure wish we could get input one way or the other.
Several 74th and 731st members have their AO/dioxin paperwork in with the VA, and the New Hampshire State Department of Veterans Affairs VSO considers it a solid case very likely (for his particular client) to get approval on the first pass, and virtually certain on appeal. Hard to deny the AF reports about contamination, hard to deny exposure to that contamination when flight orders place a veteran aboard the contaminated aircraft for years, and hard to deny the numerous AO-presumitives...but still the VA will try very, very hard to do just that...deny the claims!
Potato (and onion) farmer Paul Bailey is traveling this next week but still working on getting health information and flight orders from everyone and building a data base for us. John Harris has been super about digging up other influential folks, ROA leadership, 731st veterans, and paperwork of use to us. One important thing we're looking for now is any VA denials of application for service connection from aircrews on Providers submitted between 1972-1982.
We need to better understand the approach the VA took on denying applications. General Walker had prostate cancer and applied for service connection but was denied...others have as well and we need to get info. I will be submitted an FOIA to the VA on that today but a response will be a month or more away.
Please...if you have a VA application which has been denied, please copy me on it after blocking your personal information! If you know the survivors of folks who've died of AO presumptive illnesses (such as MSgt Bob Boyd, General Walker and Lou Paskovitz) please contact them and offer information from our group...they might benefit from our efforts and I need their input if they'd be kind enough to correspond.


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Gutter Cap
NJ Gutter offers a patented design system NJ Gutter Cap. It incorporates the principle of water surface tension in which rainwater adheres to the dome of the cap while leaves and debris fall off the roof. The existing gutters become a free-flowing roof drainage system, eliminating the hassle and danger of cleaning gutters, and preventing thousands of dollars in damage each year.
How It Works
The patented design is a more effective solution than traditional screens and vinyl caps. Screens quickly clog with small twigs and leaves and are prone to caving in from ice and snow. Screens commonly fall out of the gutter system.
Vinyl covers warp, crack, and clog in the vertical channels. Squirrels can easily chew through the vinyl to create a home in the gutter system. The gutter system is made from an X-10 metal alloy with no vertical openings to clog, and has an edge over other metal systems by its patented no-clog channeling system. Gutter protection should be almost invisible on your home. This objective is achieved because it uses a low profile mount. In addition, there are over 12 available colors to match the existing roof material. The gutter utilizes a no-fade, no-chalk finish. Many other systems will look two-tone on your home within 2-5 years depending on the climate, while this superior system will maintain proper aesthetics for any home, year after year.
This product has one of the most comprehensive warranties available. The manufacturer guarantee that its product is maintenance free. In contrast to many other available products, you will not be required to brush or hose off the system to satisfy the conditions of the warranty. With Gutter Cap you won't be purchasing a gutter fixture, but a true no-maintenance system that will look great for years to come!
What Kind Of Roofs Can Gutter Cap Be Installed On?
This product can be installed on asphalt, metal, flat, slate, cedar shake, and under proper conditions half barrel tile roofs. Pitch usually isn't an issue and it can even been installed on steep Mansard roofs.
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Because of the many variables involved in a quality installation (e.g. pitch of roof, type of roof and gutters, condition of gutters, number of inside and outside valleys, etc.), we will only quote pricing after a complete inspection of your roof and gutter system. Beware of companies that will quote an estimate over the phone! Call or use this web form to contact New Jersey Gutter Inc. (888-NJ Gutter) for a free, no-obligation inspection and price quote scheduled at your convenience.


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Southern California emcee Loose Logic presents the music video for "No Shame", the new single from Reflections, his forthcoming album featuring JL of B.Hood. Loose is recipient of the All Access Magazine Music Award "Best Hip-Hop Artist of The Year", the O.C. Music Awards' "Best Urban Artist of the Year", and was also named a "Top 100 Unsigned Artist" by Music Connection Magazine. "No Shame" was produced by Soleternity, the beatsmith behind singles with Snoop Dogg and Tech N9ne. Loose has several full-length releases under his belt, and has collaborated with Jadakiss (stream "Dumb It Down"), RBX (stream "Turn To Dust") and Jay Rock (stream "Never Sleep"). Loose has opened for and performed with Mos Def, Too Short, DMX, Pitbull, KRS-1, DJ Quik, Ying-Yang Twins, Strong Arm Steady and Evidence. He is also a founding member of rap group The Fraternity. "'No Shame' is about trying to find meaning in existence and a reason to not give up in different aspects of life; that meaning comes in many forms," Loose says about his new single. Reflections drops October 6 on Passion Play Productions.


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It takes a certain kind of person to be an investigative reporter and Hank Phillippi Ryan is one person who was made for the job. Since 1988 Ryan has been an investigative reporter for Channel 7 News located downtown Boston. Ryan's other talent consists of writing mystery novels. With four books published and awards won for her amazing writing one begins becomes amazed with Ryan's busy life.
Her weeks consists of going out in the field to compile information for her packages and spending another part of her week working in the station editing her packages. After meeting with Ryan at Channel 7 I got to talk with Ryan personally about what life is like being an investigative reporter.
The first question that may come to one's mind about Ryan's investigations is how she finds out about these stories. "The stories are everywhere. Whether it's a tip that comes in or a hunch or you read an article about a subject and you wonder if it really works," said Ryan. Ryan always keeps her eyes open. "You have to be curious about everything and you have to be kind of cynical because your first reaction is generally 'I bet that doesn't work' and then you have to be confident that you can find out the answers," said Ryan. The process of getting a story can be a brutal one as Ryan explains some of the things she has gone through.
"I have had lots of doors slammed in my face, been hung up many times, yelled at threatened with lawsuits. It's part of the territory. If it looks like someone is going to hit me I just make sure my camera is rolling. The toughest story is less often something that is physical threatening and more often someone just doesn't want to tell you. I have been hot or freezing or bored waiting for someone. Not that it's dangerous but mostly that you have to be persistent," said Ryan
After asking Ryan the story that she was the proudest of she couldn't name just one. "We found shocking flaws in the 911 system in which the state revamped the way it works. We found for years not one person of color on a federal jury pool and we found out why that was happening. We found major heart breaking in contractor homeowner system and the result of that three laws were passed and people got home out of foreclosure. We found recall notices not getting sent to schools and now school bus recall notices are getting to the schools. Don't know how many lives you're changing with the reports you do," said Ryan.
What I have been bringing up at the end of each blog post is something about Channel 5's investigative team. I would always compare the stories that Ryan did to Team 5 Investigates thinking that Ryan also watched their stories and tried to compete with them. When I asked the question if she watches Team 5 Investigates to keep up with what they are reporting, it was surprising when Ryan said no. "It's not a very worthwhile situation to do, to take the time to see other reports. My job is already hard enough", said Ryan. She mentioned that everyone was her competitor even the reporters she works with.
I told her that Team 5 Investigates comes out with a story a night and I asked why she only did one story a week. "Doing one report a week is astonishingly difficult beyond anything I can possible describe to you. It's impossible. You can't do a real investigative story every week and have it be high enough quality," said Ryan. She then talked about how some of the stories she does aren't even considered investigation stories. The reports like H1N1 products being frauds are what she calls consumer stories.
"In doing one story a week we have to juggle the topics. Some of my stories are consumer stories which are different levels of stories from a Hank Investigative. You can't do investigative stories more than once a week. That means you are calling something investigative that isn't," said Ryan.
Through these blog posts there has only been on time that I was critical of Ryan. This was when she reported on fraud H1N1 companies for two weeks in a row. I was surprised the she didn't chose a different topic the second week. When I asked her why she did this her response made complete sense.
"There are a lot of stories on H1N1. If there was any time to do stories about that it's now. For the flu product story when are you going to do a story on that but now? One of the things we strive for is that our stories are that they aren't only on the air when we find them but when they are timely and matter. The point isn't to do a whole bunch of different stories, the point is to do stories that are relevant and stories that have a viewer befit. We want the viewer to learn something and change their lives," said Ryan.
When putting these packages together it is just Ryan and her producer who work on the stories. Yet she does have to run stories past others. "My producer and I come up with the story ideas and then we will float them to the executive producer and news director and as a team come up with a plan that we think of stories we can offer and what stories they think they are important," said Ryan.
For her age it is amazing of the amount of work she accomplishes. She has been with the station since 1982 and has been in the business since 1971 when she started out in radio. I asked Ryan if she was thinking about retirement after all these years of working hard. She said that her contract is up in two years and that she does enjoy the writing life. "I don't know what I'll do. It's a real interesting transitional time," said Ryan.
When the interview was just about complete I asked Ryan if she wanted to mention anything else. "You see that quote on my bulletin board?" I nodded my head as I leaned over in my chair and Ryan read it out loud. "What would you attempt to do if you knew that you could not fail". Then Ryan said, "That's how I view the world."


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