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Has the thought of creating a blog occurred to you, but you have no idea how to make one? This article is going to help by providing general information about setting up a blog, as well as tips to make your blog stand apart from others. Stay confident! Because of the proliferation of great technology, you will likely find writing a blog to be quite manageable. Learn some writing a blog basics through this article so that you will be successful with your new blog.
When it comes to keywords, ads, images, and plug-ins, do not overdo it. Overusing your tools will cause search engines to mark your website as spam, which will put you behind. Keep your writing organic, and allow it to flow smoothly.
A common mistake on sites is to overload viewers with Adsense ads, plug-ins and keywords. Doing this will undo your hard work by earning you a flag from search engines. Your want to ensure that your style of writing is easy to follow and comes across as natural.
Blog regularly. The biggest problem with new blogs is infrequent posts. People who were interested in the blog at first will soon become bored, as they wait for updated content. A good rule of thumb is to create new blogs weekly and send out email updates.
Do not purposefully plagiarize in order to create content for your blog. Plagiarism is dishonest, and it is the surest way to ruin your reputation and destroy any chance you have of creating a popular blog. Everyday people can become very successful bloggers, just by writing with passion and integrity.
You may want to buy a domain name, instead of utilizing a free blog site. Domain names are inexpensive and they will give your blog a more professional image. Visitors will have less trouble remembering the blog if its title includes your business name.
It is helpful to permit guests to make posts on your blog. This creates a relationship between your blogs and will allow you to help each other in the future. Do not disregard the importance of building cooperative relationships. If you need help promoting your blog, the person who you allowed to guest blog may be willing to do something to help you.
Create content for your blog that is relevant to your readers inquiries. Everyone has to do regular day-to-day chores like washing dishes and vacuuming. If your information isn't presented in a unique way then readers aren't likely to care. Look for a topic that will engage readers. Blogging success, after all, relies on your ability to attract readers.
You need to post regularly if you want readers to visit your blog over and over. Posting new items frequently keeps your readers' interest so that they'll keep coming back. Good blogs generally post at least once each day. Don't let this requirement overwhelm you. If you want, you can write several weeks' worth of material before opening your blog to the public so that you'll have material to post if you get stuck. Doing so will provide you with enough content to post when you are experiencing difficulties.
Make your blog unique. The more unique your content is, the more likely readers are to choose you over the competition. Including information that is difficult to find will attract readers too. Choose to write about a unique experience, or a hobby most people aren't familiar with. Answer common questions comprehensively. Give the readers a good reason to visit your blog to find the information they want.
Pay attention to comments and respond to everything you can. However, don't get upset or angry about what other people say on your blog. Even if you choose the perfect topic, and write about it well, some people will have a negative opinion to share. Improve your blog through constructive criticism. Try to find a polite response to criticisms that are negative and do not dwell on it. By responding politely, your readers will see your maturity and will continue reading.
Avoid infrequent blog posts if you want to keep your readers interested and invite repeat visitors. As a very general rule of thumb, a daily post is the minimum for a good blog. If you are intimidated by having to write something new every day, consider writing enough posts for five or six weeks before you let your blog go live. Then you have posts later that can fill in if you run out of ideas.
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When feedback is given on your blog, respond to it. However, do not let it emotionally affect you. Regardless of the topic, someone is always going to have something critical to say. Use constructive criticism to help improve the quality of your blog. If you receive any negative or destructive criticisms, respond to them politely. You will give readers the impression that you are a mature individual who cares about what readers have to say, helping to grow your relationship with all of your site visitors.
You should make plans for attaching a mailing list to your blog just as soon as it is practical to do so. The faster you start doing this, the more time you will have to cultivate a large list. In the future, you can use this list to generate more money. It can be a paramount mistake to not begin a mailing list at the beginning of your efforts.
Use lists regularly in your blog posts. Whether your blog is about the parts needed for overhauling a 1971 Mach Mustang's Holley carburetor, or the ingredients needed to concoct a new cocktail for an upcoming party, lists are important. Using lists puts the information in a concise form, out front and center where it is easily viewed by your reader.
When determining what keywords you will use for your blog, remember to choose ones that are unique and less competitive. Using the keywords that other sites use will get your site buried under a morass of other results. Keep your keywords unique to get the search engines' attention.
Perform routine upkeep on your blog. Complete maintenance tasks often, such as checking for broken links and code or changing items within the layout to keep it fresh. This prevents boredom for your readers and will keep them coming back for return visits to your blog.
Posting new content to your blog on a regular schedule is crucial to the success of it. Because blogs come and go, you must stay consistent in order to maintain your readers. Exceptions to your schedule may occur on holidays or times when you are on vacation, but sticking to a consistent, frequent posting schedule is one of the best things you can do for your blog.
Start developing your blog's mailing list as early as possible. The quicker you start, the more time you will have to make your list bigger. You can use this list later on to make money. If you don't start a mailing list from the beginning, you may realize you made a mistake.
After you have chosen the best keywords for your topic, you should make every effort to include them in your content, placing them in bullet lists and emphasizing them with bold or italic formatting. Doing this will help make your content easier for both search engines and your readers to digest, and will give your traffic a boost. You can really boost your blog's performance with this simple tip.
When creating a blog, don't just write long, drawn-out paragraphs of useless information. Be sure to do all the research you can to find things to write about, ones that make sense to be utilized on your blog. If you write filler or garbage, your blog won't succeed. Keep in mind at all times that the way to be successful is through content.
It is fine to occasionally recommend your blog on social media, but take it easy. If all or most of your tweets contain self-promoting links, you may soon be overlooked for predictability or even ignored entirely. Include interesting and relevant content in with your links.
It is vital that you keep a regular schedule with the upkeep of your blog. There are tons and tons of blogs out there, if you are not consistent with your postings, your blog's readers will simply look elsewhere. Exceptions, like holidays, will be forgiven by your readers, but the rest of the time you must stick to your schedule.
One key aspect of running a blog is to enjoy yourself while doing it. Running A Blog can get boring and be uninteresting to any readers if you are not passionate about your subject. Blog about something you really love so that your passion will be evident to your readers. If you enjoy the topic that you are writing about, that enjoyment will become contagious!
Break up long blog posts with subheadings to ensure your reader doesn't tire out. Not only will this make your blog entry simpler to read and understand, it will also yield a wider viewership. This is easy and can really improve your blog.
Use bold and italic formatting on the keywords you use in your blog. This makes them easier to read, and search engines may rank sites with such keywords more highly than they would otherwise. When your chosen keywords stand out, Internet users are more likely to be drawn to them and to click on.
Include bulleted lists and italics in your blog posts where your keywords are found. This practice helps search engines to better index your site, which can boost your number of readers. This tip can help get more readers to your blog.
Create a homepage that will help make readers interested in reading your blog. If you use a blog site, the basic system simply lists recent posts, which is not always aesthetically pleasing. When you create a homepage that is customized and tailored to you, you can create something much more interesting than the basic form on many running a blog sites. Since many of your readers will stumble upon your blog via search engines or links, having an attractive homepage is important.
Other social media, in moderation, is also welcome. For example, if every tweet you post on Twitter gives a link to the blog, people will start to ignore them. The main content should be interesting and informative on its own. The links can then reinforce this content.
Make sure you are able to stay ahead of the competition with your blog. Since they're your main competition, you must know what they're saying or doing. Remember, your competitors are probably looking at your blog, as well.
By adding a greater number of posts that fit your topic, you raise the likelihood that your blog will pop up on search engine results. When a bigger audience can find your site, you'll see a very big boost in your blog's traffic. Follow this advice to see a powerful increase in your readership.
Use the tips you have learned here to make your blog a reality. By using this advice, you can start a high quality blog on whatever topic you want. Whether you're running a blog for business or pleasure, the tips you've just read make it easy to create a blog that people will come back to on a regular basis.
One of the things you must remember with your blog is to enjoy it! Blogging can quickly become tiresome when you don't feel passionate about your topic. Write on a topic you love, and enjoy what you create. If you have a good time writing the blog, chances are your visitors will enjoy reading it.


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Recipe for Brigadeiro & Moranguinho - 2 variations of Brazilian truffles
Brigadeiro is a typical Brazilian sweet served in parties and most occasions.
It was first made for the campaign of brigadier Eduardo Gomes around 1945, a Brazilian politician who became very popular, yet lost the election. People however greatly admired him and the Brigadeiro was named in his honour.
Ingredients for Brigadeiro (makes +- 20 truffles):
1 can condensed milk
7 tbsp chocolate powder
1 tbsp unsalted butter
Chocolate sprinkles
Ingredients for Moranguinho (makes +- 20 truffles):
1 can condensed milk
7 tbsp strawberry nesquik
1 tbsp unsalted butter
Any kind of pink sprinkles or the nesquik itself
In both cases the process is the same:
In a saucepan add the butter, the powder, and the condensed milk. Put your burner in low heat, and keep mixing with a wooden spoon until everything is combined.
Once combined, it will start to thicken, keep stirring until the mixture stops sticking on the bottom of the pan, and when you pull it up it is a thick gooey texture.
Switch the stove off and let the mixture cool down to touch warmth.
Once it is cooled, put the sprinkles in a plate, butter lightly your hands, and grab some of the mixture from the pan. The butter will prevent the brigadeiro mixture from sticking to your hands.
Make little bite size balls and put it in the sprinkles plate.
After you have rolled all balls and put them in your plate, it is time to roll the balls in the sprinkles to decorate them all around.
Put them on a clean plate and leave them to set in the fridge for 1 hour.
You can eat them warm still but it will finish hardening in the fridge, so you can eat it more comfortably.
I hope you have enjoyed this easy recipe.
Have you ever eaten these before?
Would you try them?
Leave me a comment letting me know.

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Chin surgery, also known as mentoplasty, is a surgical procedure to reshape the chin either by enhancement with an implant or reduction surgery on the bone. Many times a plastic surgeon may recommend chin surgery to a patient having nose surgery in order to achieve facial proportion, as the size of the chin may magnify or minimize the perceived size of the nose. Chin surgery helps provide a harmonious balance to your facial features so that you feel better about the way you look.
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You either hate Kelis or love Kelis.
Kelis is an acquired taste, that can't be categorized by one and only musical genre, her stylized almost rapping, raspy lower octave voice, and her distinctive beat riding is her sound and of course gained her fame, and a hit song, "Bossy."
Kelis has a fashion peculiarity about her, that at times comes under scrutiny. Her voice is mocked at times, and even some fool put her on a list as one of the "Ugliest Women List" which is simply not true.
Kelis is of African-American, Chinese, and Puerto Rican descent and her eyes and her soybean colored skin, is unique but exotic beautiful.
Her creativity and her fashion accessorizes her confident and unyielding ability to still have faith that her record career, will eventually earn another Grammy Nomination. Maybe it this time for Kelis she can prove her naysayers wrong?
Kelis surprisingly is a professional chef, and recently attempted to live a low-key life professional life, but her personal life could never leave mainstream media.
She constantly has suffered backlash in the spotlight, for her divorce.
Kelis the chef, enlisted her own recipes as her track list for her new release "FOOD." The author has also landed her own television show on "Saucy & Sweet" that is currently on The Food Channel, but also is accessible for personal viewing on-line. Kelis never embodied many octaves, in her raspy and often criticized voice.
She however utilized her fashion exploration and personal marriage drama to stay in the limelight. Even if it was bad press, that press apparently became beneficial to her new-found success.
Here is a live performance sponsored by Morning Comes Eclectic of her new single, "Friday Fish Fry" and she should come visit us in South Carolina. We always appreciate a good fish fry, and here is the often discussed, but rarely seen, Kelis.
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The U.S. Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act of 1978 started a flood of non-utility generation, initially a few very large cogeneration plants and recently a large number of small roof top solar generation.[1] The rapid growth in the number of small roof top solar generators requires the electric industry to develop a pricing plan that is fair to traditional customers as well as to the hybrid customers, those still connected to the grid but with some self generation.
Electric utilities support their pricing decisions with class cost of service studies (CCOSS). The CCOSS allocates the utility's revenue requirement[2] to groups of customers, called classes. Classes of customers are claimed to be homogeneous, such as being of a similar size, but more often as having similar load patterns.
Some costs in a CCOSS are allocated based on the number of customers, perhaps weighted by the cost of meters and services. Fuel costs are allocated based on energy through the meter, though often weighted by the losses incurred to reach the meter. A large portion of the costs are allocated based on demand, the amount of energy used by the class during the times of maximum stress on the utility, or at times of maximum stress upon portions of the utility, such as on the generation, the transmission, distribution. Utilities are concerned about recovering these demand related costs as customers morph from being a full requirements customer to being hybrid customers.
Electric utilities have long alleged that the homogeneity of residential load patterns allowed the utility to use energy meters, often called watt-hour meters, to determine how much each residential customer should pay each month. The logic is that the allocation process brought costs into the rate class based on the customer's demand. Further, homogeneity means that the amount of energy through the meter is proportional to the customer's demand. The utility could collect roughly the right amount of money from each residential customer by charging residential customers based on their energy consumption[3] instead of charging residential customers based on the demand.
Charging customers based on energy allowed utilities to reduce substantially the cost of owning and reading meters without significantly distorting how the revenue to cost ratio from each customer. At least until roof top solar substantially reduced the amount of energy that goes through the meter without necessarily reducing the customer demand. Thus, with roof top solar, the revenue collected from the customer goes down greatly while the costs brought in by the customer demand goes down only slightly.
The growth in roof top solar coincides with the growth of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). AMI often includes automatic meter reading and interval metering . Automatic meter reading generally means replacing the person walking door to door with equipment. The carrying cost of the equipment is often less than the cost of the human meter reader, allowing AMI to pay for itself. Interval metering means collecting the amount of energy delivered during small time intervals, generally one hour (24×7), though sometimes on an intra-hour basis. These interval readings are the demands in the CCOSS.
The intra-hour meter readings made possible by AMI would allow electric utilities to charge all residential customers based on their maximum demands, the determinant used in CCOSS to allocate costs to customer classes. No longer would the utility have to rely on homogeneity assumptions in regard to residential customers. The demand charge permitted by AMI would reduce the disparity between the lower revenue to cost ratio for residential customers with roof top solar relative to the revenue to cost ratio of standard residential customers.
[1] See
- "Net Metering–Reducing the Cross Subsidies," posted on 2013 Dec 19 by Mark Lively http://www.livelyutility.com/blog/?p=248
- "Net Metering: Identifying The Hidden Costs; Then Paying For Them," Energy Pulse, 2013September 20 http://www.energycentral.com/gridtandd/metering/articles/2733
- "Dynamic 'Distribution' Grid Pricing," Energy Pulse, 2014 January 21 http://www.energycentral.com/generationstorage/distributedandcogeneration/articles/2817
[2] the amount of money the utility needs to collect each year to continue functioning
[3] with a very inexpensive watt-hour meter


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To my utter amazement, Das Boot fired right up and settled into a pretty decent idle after all. A carb synch and some fiddling with the air bleeds had a nice set-up within a few minutes, so the conversion to 900SS heads was devoid of the expected drama.
What did surprise me though, was the amount of baffling provided by the balance pipe on the exhaust system. I tore out the ample baffle material in the FBF cans and replaced it with a light wrap and still found the damned thing to quiet. So, now the cans are empty and delivering a nice level of music reminiscent of the gutted F-1 cans that were on the Cadillac. Tasty.
With the fenders at Nate's for paint, I couldn't plumb the brake lines (they run through the fender and would rub on the wheel without it), I had to sample the new set-up with only a rear brake – but hey; I'm a vintage guy – you just have to plan ahead.
The overall package is fabulous! More power and torque all around (event with 3 teeth dropped off the rear sprocket) and a more agile and balanced ride from the new wheel and tire combo. Speaking of the wheels – I can't give enough praise to the folks at TCR. Two week turnaround and fabulous quality in every aspect of the job!
Jerry at Got It Covered re-padded a Sargent seat cover that I picked up on e-Bay and it completes the ergos nicely. The bike now feels much more balanced, agile and compliant than before and with the rear-sets, seat contour and 30wt fork oil, it's a treat to ride.
The F1 heads into a new chapter of its life with the motor off to Kyle Thompson at BCMfor a 5-angle valve job, and a bit of an overhaul ( re-hone cylinders, new rings, re-shim crank) to correct some mistakes made when Guy Martin built the engine 4 years ago. Once it's done, I'll head up to New Hampshire with the rolling chassis, put it together and then get it on the dyno to dial-in the cam timing and establish jetting set-ups for the open megga and the baffled (Calabogie) megga. Guy timed the motor as per his recipe for long stroke 900's (about 106 to 108 degrees at lobe centers) and when I had to retard the intake timing on Shannon's F1/Allazurra to stop the pistons from whacking the intake valve, I found that the higher number made more power. I had a chat with John Hackett about this at Grattan that summer and found that he timed his short-stroke motors in the teens as well. He felt that we were leaving a bunch of power on the table, but frankly I didn't have a compelling reason to actually tune the thing 'till Bill Deitz threatened to freshen-up his F1 (which was awfully quick for something so tired…).
It's never been on the dyno, so I'm more than a bit curious to see what the current set-up will look like.
The cold weather's holding up and that's a good thing 'cause I'm having too much fun in the shop these days to be tempted by actually riding.
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8th Mile is the annual techno-cultural fest that happens in R.V. College of Engineering. As they always keep a theme for each fest, this time, the theme for 8th mile is- Carnival Of Memories. Yes, the very first thought that comes into our minds is the memories that we have all had as a child. From our favorite cartoons to the games that we used to play, such memories are always golden. And RVCE only aims at bringing back those memories that always make us go nostalgic. With their golden jubilee celebration that just got over last year, this year, the celebrations only seem to get bigger.
The fest begins form 26th February, and goes on till 1st March 2015.
There are categories for the event that they are organizing, namely, Literary, Technical, Cultural, Informal, Sports & Gaming, Workshops, etc.
The flagship events of 8th Mile are the following:
- VERVE– The Fashion Show!(Prizes worth 40k)
- HALLA BOL– The Street Play Competition (Prizes worth 65k)
- BUSINESS MARATHON– The Business Plan Competition (Prizes worth 60k)
- Hack59– The hacking event! (Prizes worth 60k)
- ROCKTANE– Battle Of Bands (Prizes worth 30k)
Apart from these events, there are many other competitions with varying categories. This fest is sure to make you go mad with the carnival of memories. Find out all the information about the fest on:
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We're certainly not the first to say that a swish and functional website is crucial to your business. While building one from scratch might sound daunting, it actually isn't. These days, a host of web tools exist (some free, others paid), that do the heavy lifting for you. We've rounded up 10 that will have you launching your business site by week's end.
1. Carrd
Describing its offering as "simple, responsive one-page sites for pretty much anythingâ€, this free service is as user-friendly as they come (seriously, you can publish in five minutes flat).
2. Pattern by Etsy
Etsy does all the work for you with Pattern. Just select a theme and colour palette and they'll create a site from your existing shop – which you can then customise to your heart's content.
3. Squarespace
Considered one of the most design-oriented website builders, Squarespace offers oodles of flexibility around aesthetics and makes your site look a million bucks (on the cheap).
4. Universe
If you need a site in a hurry, this new Brooklyn start-up is here to help. A 'millennial-friendly' app, Universe allows you to skip the desktop and simply create a website on your iPhone – all in under a minute.
5. Weebly
Thirty million people can't be wrong. One of the better-known site builders – for a reason – Weebly creates a top-notch, easily updatable platform for your chosen venture.
6. Tilda
This platform works well for content-oriented sites. Drag and drop more than 350 pre-designed blocks to create slick-as-a-whistle pages.
7. BitBlox
If you already have a site, BitBlox allows you to create landing pages that look and feel just like your existing design; you can even test which ones get more clicks before you commit.
8. Evolero
This one's the go for event websites – taking you all the way from landing page to ticketing and forming a community around your conferences, workshops, pop-ups or what have you.
9. Webflow
Geared towards your more experienced web designer, this one's a bit more sophisticated than your Lego-block-style site builder. It's not painless, but it's super professional.
10. CloudPress
Think WordPress, sans code. CloudPress is a drag-and-drop theme builder that simplifies the making of a WordPress site – plus, it's in the cloud, so you can share your progress around.
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Japan's Cut Flower Imports Peaking
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Narita, Chiba Pref., March 8 (Jiji Press)—Japan's imports of cut flowers are peaking amid the fiscal year-end season and ahead of the March 17 start of the biannual higan week, when many Japanese people visit the graves of their ancestors.
Tokyo Customs officers at Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, were busy with customs clearance work for flowers imported from South American and Southeast Asian countries for gifts and other uses. Narita handles the largest amount of such imported flowers by value among airports in the country.
According to Nanba Toshimasa, a 53-year-old employee at Classic Japan Ltd., the flower importer mainly brings into the country roses for gifts and chrysanthemums to place on graves in this period.
The company handles 15%–20% of its annual imports in March.
Consumption of cut flowers remains flat, but the proportion of imports for such flowers is rising due to a lack of successors for domestic producers.
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Dose to level I and II axillary lymph nodes and lung by tangential field radiation in patients undergoing postmastectomy radiation with tissue expander reconstruction
- James K Russo†1Email author,
- Kent E Armeson†2,
- Ryan Rhome†1,
- Michele Spanos†1 and
- Jennifer L Harper†1
© Russo et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2011
- Received: 8 November 2011
- Accepted: 28 December 2011
- Published: 28 December 2011
To define the dosimetric coverage of level I/II axillary volumes and the lung volume irradiated in postmastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT) following tissue expander placement.
Methods and Materials
Twenty-three patients were identified who had undergone postmastectomy radiotherapy with tangent only fields. All patients had pre-radiation tissue expander placement and expansion. Thirteen patients had bilateral expander reconstruction. The level I/II axillary volumes were contoured using the RTOG contouring atlas. The patient-specific variables of expander volume, superior-to-inferior location of expander, distance between expanders, expander angle and axillary volume were analyzed to determine their relationship to the axillary volume and lung volume dose.
The mean coverage of the level I/II axillary volume by the 95% isodose line (VD95%) was 23.9% (range 0.3 - 65.4%). The mean Ipsilateral Lung VD50% was 8.8% (2.2-20.9). Ipsilateral and contralateral expander volume correlated to Axillary VD95% in patients with bilateral reconstruction (p = 0.01 and 0.006, respectively) but not those with ipsilateral only reconstruction (p = 0.60). Ipsilateral Lung VD50% correlated with angle of the expander from midline (p = 0.05).
In patients undergoing PMRT with tissue expanders, incidental doses delivered by tangents to the axilla, as defined by the RTOG contouring atlas, do not provide adequate coverage. The posterior-superior region of level I and II is the region most commonly underdosed. Axillary volume coverage increased with increasing expander volumes in patients with bilateral reconstruction. Lung dose increased with increasing expander angle from midline. This information should be considered both when placing expanders and when designing PMRT tangent only treatment plans by contouring and targeting the axilla volume when axillary treatment is indicated.
- post-mastectomy radiation
- axillary dose
- tissue expander
- breast reconstruction
- tangent fields
Mastectomy is a component of therapy for many women with breast cancer, both in the locally advanced and early stages. Recently, several institutions have reported increased mastectomy rates owing to several factors including MRI use, genetic testing, shifting patient preference and improved breast reconstruction options [1, 2].
Post-mastectomy breast reconstruction rates have increased in the past 3 decades [3]. Options regarding timing of reconstruction include immediate, delayed, and most recently immediate-delayed. Currently, between 25-42% of women undergo immediate reconstruction and expander placement is a frequently utilized modality [4, 5]. Delayed-immediate reconstruction using tissue expanders is an attractive option in patients requiring radiation because of the decreased complications and increased aesthetics associated with not radiating autologous tissue or a permanent implant [6, 7].
Post-mastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT) is indicated in many of these patients to improve local control and overall survival [8–11]. As curability supersedes cosmesis in these patients, it is important to ask the question: "Does immediate reconstruction with tissue expanders impact the quality of PMRT?" Studies show that the unique geometry of immediate reconstruction using various reconstruction modalities can compromise coverage of the chest wall and internal mammary nodes and increase lung and heart dose [12–14]. These studies included few women with expanders and most patients had regional nodal irradiation.
Although axillary dose has been addressed in the breast-conservation setting it has not been studied in reconstructed patients. Expanders contain 20-30% more saline compared with the final implant. Therefore, it is important to analyze the population of women with tissue expanders. Recent attempts to eliminate axillary dissection with small numbers of positive nodes on sentinel node biopsy in early stage breast cancer are promising and do not appear to compromise outcomes in appropriately selected women who receive breast only radiation with tangents [15]. In light of this new paradigm, the dose delivered to the axilla is increasingly important as incidentally delivered axillary dose will be relied on to control potential residual disease. The purpose of this study is to define the dosimetric coverage of axillary volumes (level I/II) and the lung volume irradiated in patients treated with tangent fields following mastectomy and tissue expander placement and to identify variables that impact dose to these structures.
Methods and Materials
Patient and Treatment Characteristics
Age (n = 23)
49 (25-71)*
Tumor Laterality
Tumor Location†
Chest Wall
Nodal Surgery Radiated Side
SLNB alone
Type of Reconstruction
Ipsilateral Alone
Expander Location
Sub Pec Major
Sub Latissimus Flap§
Clinical Stage
Pathologic Stage
Systemic Therapy
All patients underwent CT simulation from the mandible through the lungs using 3 mm slices in the supine position with an indexed breast board. No patient had their ipsilateral or contralateral expander deflated prior to or during radiation therapy. Tangents were designed to incorporate the chest wall with expander. In no patient were the tangents designed to treat the axilla. Field borders were initially defined on the CT simulation and were as follows: superior - base of clavicular head, inferior - 2 cm below the contralateral breast, medial - mid-sternum, lateral - mid-axillary line or appropriately lateral to insure adequate coverage of the most lateral extent of the expander. In case of bilateral reconstruction, the inferior border was placed in the area reasonably thought by the treating physician to include the pre-mastectomy breast extent.
Treatment planning was performed using step-and-shoot forward-planned IMRT using opposed tangential beams. A field-in-field technique was used to achieve dose homogeneity of 98 - 105% within the CTV. Half-beam blocks were used to prevent beam divergence into the lung. The prescription was normalized to a point just superficial to the surface of the pectoralis major in a plane perpendicular to the central axis at mid-separation. The prescription was delivered to the isodose line which best covered the breast CTV. This line was usually the 98-99% isodose line. The tangent angles were designed to include a minimum of lung tissue while maximizing coverage of the CTV.
Summary statistics describe the various patient characteristics. Pearson correlation coefficients and their respective p-values were used to evaluate the relationship between the axillary VD95%, lung VD50%, and patient and expander physical characteristics.
Patient, tumor, and treatment characteristics are shown in table 1. The median patient age was 49. Nineteen patients had a full axillary dissection while 4 had sentinel node biopsy alone. Thirty-six breasts were reconstructed in 23 patients - 13 patients with bilateral procedures and 10 ipsilateral only. The most common type of reconstruction was a subpectoral expander occurring in 30 breasts. Two patients had the expander placed below a pedicled latissimus myocutaneous flap. All patients received chemotherapy, 57% received it neoadjuvantly and 43% adjuvantly.
Descriptive statistics
Axillary Volume*
Axillary VD95%†
% Axillary VD95% ††
Expander Volume
Intra-Expander Distance
Expander Angle
Ipsilateral Lung VD50%
Pearson correlation (r) and p values of variables with axillary and lung dose
r value: % Axillary VD95%
p value
r value: % Ipsilateral Lung VD50%
P value
HH to Expander
HH to Exp/HH to XP
Expander Angle
Expander Distance
Ipsi Exp Volume
Ipsi Exp Vol*
Ipsi Exp Vol†
Contralat Exp Volume
Axillary Volume
Regarding the dose to the lung, only the expander angle correlated with the lung dose. Neither the superior-to-inferior expander position nor the volume of the expanders impacted lung dose. Axillary VD95% did not correlate with the Lung VD50% (r = 0.19).
In this study, we found that in patients undergoing post-mastectomy radiation therapy and delayed-immediate reconstruction with an inflated expander, the coverage of the axilla is impacted by the volume of the expander, but only in patients with bilateral reconstruction. The underdosing occurred primarily in the posterior-superior extent of axillary levels I and II. The inferior portion of the axilla is difficult to define radiographically in this population of patients. Also, dose to the lung is correlated with the angle of the expander. The superior-to-inferior extent of the expander did not impact the axillary or lung dose.
A possible explanation for the correlation of axillary coverage and expander volume in bilaterally reconstructed patients is that the expander was used as a surrogate for the pre-mastectomy breast tissue because there is no contralateral native breast to use as a template. Thus, if larger volume expanders are placed, then the tangents would be designed to completely encompass these larger expanders and the amount of axillary volume incidentally included in the tangents would increase. Conversely, if smaller volume expanders were placed, then the tangents would conform to the size of the expander and the amount of axillary volume incidentally included in the tangents would decrease.
A relationship was also seen between the axillary volume and the axillary VD95%. This may be due to the difficulty in delineating the inferior extent of axillary level I in this population of patients. The RTOG contouring atlas defines the inferior extent of level I as the insertion of the pectoralis major into the ribs [16]. We found this insertion point difficult to locate due to disruptions in the normal anatomy from the expanders' subpectoral location and also that an alloderm graft was often used in the inferior-lateral portion of the expander to hold it in place on the chest wall.
The only parameter in our study that impacted lung dose was the lateral location of the expander as measured by the angle of the expander from midline sagittal plane. This is likely because deeper tangents are required to treat the more lateral expanders thus resulting in a higher lung dose. As modern systemic agents used in breast cancer can be associated with a small increased risk of pneumonitis, this should be taken into account when placing expanders. Also, the risk of secondary pulmonary malignancies, especially in smokers, may be reduced by minimizing exposure of the lung [17, 18].
Our study findings of poor axillary coverage relative to the prescription dose agree with data from several investigators. Aristei et al showed that the median D90 of levels I and II was 6.75 Gy and 1.75 Gy, respectively, in breast conserved patients treated with tangents only undergoing 2D simulation with 3D dose analysis [19]. This represented, as a percent of the prescription dose of 50 Gy, a median D90 of 13.5% to level I and 3.5% to level II. Smitt et al showed that in patients with conserved breasts undergoing CT planning with the goal of covering the breast alone, a mean axillary dose of more than 90% of the prescription dose was only achieved in 1 of 6 patients [20]. Also, underdosing occurred in the posterior-superior portion of levels I and II of the axilla as in our study. Our data are consistent with McCormick et al who reported that axillary hemostasis clips in 45 patients are included in 2D planned tangents on 38% of patients and that incomplete clip coverage occurred in the posterior-superior portion [21]. Krasin et al reconstructed 2D plans to obtain 3D dose-volume data in patients treated with standard breast tangents and found that out of 25 patients, one had more than 95% coverage of level I and none had more than 95% coverage of level II. Also, the mean V20 was 7.5% which is slightly less than our 8.8% mean amount of lung receiving 50% of the prescription dose of 50 Gy [22].
Published data also conflicts with our results. Goodman et al reported that in patients undergoing tangential only radiation, levels I and II were covered in 8 of 9 patients [23]. Details regarding anatomic boundaries of the axillary were not provided. However, the anatomic landmarks for contouring the axilla likely differed from our study as the RTOG contouring atlas had not been published. Also, the surgical therapeutic and reconstructive management of these patients varied.
In a similar investigation to ours, Reed et al performed an analysis of axillary levels I and II dose using 3D planning in patients with breast conservation and found that a mean of 55% of the axilla was covered by the 95% line which is more than double our finding of 23.9% [24]. Reasons for this difference are that axillary contouring landmarks were different which could lead to more generous contouring in well covered areas like low level I and less generous in poorly covered areas such as in the posterior-superior direction, an area often underdosed in our study. Indeed the mean axillary volume in their study was 146.3 cm3 compared with 117.6 cm3 in ours. However, similar to our study the posterior-superior area was not well covered. Second, these patients were not planned with step-and-shoot techniques as in our study and it is possible that more traditional breast only irradiation techniques deliver a higher dose to the axilla.
A limitation of our study is the small number of patients. Nonetheless, to our knowledge it represents the largest study of axillary and lung doses in delayed-immediate reconstructed women undergoing modern radiotherapy, many of whom had bilateral reconstruction.
Our results are important for several reasons. Recent studies have shown that both mastectomy rates and reconstruction rates are increasing [1–3]. As such we must analyze this group of post-mastectomy women with respect to delivery of radiation and outcomes. In addition, the results of our study have implications in light of the recently reported ACOSOG Z0011 trial which showed that women with less than 3 positive nodes on sentinel node biopsy who received tangent only radiation had overall survival, locoregional control and disease-free survival that is not inferior to those who received axillary node dissection and the same radiation [15]. Although in this trial women received breast conservation and not mastectomy, as in our study, the results may be applicable to women who choose mastectomy but were otherwise eligible for the trial. As these women may decide to pursue post-mastectomy reconstruction, it is important to quantify the dose to the axilla. This is particularly important considering 27.3% of women on the ACOSOG trial with positive sentinel nodes had additional metastatic nodes on subsequent axillary dissection.
Efforts to reduce morbidity by decreasing the extent of axillary dissection must be accompanied by comprehensively quantifying dose and factors that impact dose to the axilla in all subgroups of patients, including those with tissue expanders. This information will be helpful both for recurrence and morbidity endpoints. Our study is the first report of axillary dose in women with tissue expanders undergoing breast only irradiation. This analysis suggests that in patients undergoing PMRT with tissue expanders in place, incidental doses delivered by opposed tangents to the Level I and II regions, as defined by the RTOG contouring atlas, do not provide adequate dosimetric coverage of these regions. This should be considered when designing PMRT treatment fields. However, the clinical significance of underdosing this volume is unknown. In addition, the increased lung dose associated with the lateral expander location should be taken into consideration when placing expanders. How axillary and lung coverage affects endpoints such as axillary recurrence, pulmonary toxicity, locoregional failure, distant metastasis and morbidity remains to be seen and should be the subject of future investigations.
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Dr. Harper is a radiation oncologist, certified by the American Board of Radiology. Her primary focus is in the treatment of breast cancer, palliative care, and head and neck cancer. In the field of breast cancer, Dr. Harper has published extensive clinical research on the topic of accelerated partial breast irradiation. She is a member of Hollings Cancer Center Protocol Review Committee,
Hollings Cancer Center Cancer Registry Data Reviewer and Southwest Oncology Group Breast Cancer Committee Member.
Dr Russo is a resident in radiation oncology in his 4th year of training. He has an interest in breast cancer research and has published in this area as well as CNS, lung and GYN.
Accepted for poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology October 31 - Nov 4, 2010, San Diego, California
The research presented in this article was supported in part by the Biostatistics Shared Resource as part of the Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina, United States of America, which is funded by a Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA138313.
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Few subjects are as polarising as nuclear power. Supporters claim a new generation of nuclear plants is the most effective means of helping to reduce the UK's greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050, while filling the 'energy gap' that will result from the decommissioning of old fossil fuel and nuclear power facilities in the 2020s.
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The debate took on another dimension in 2011, when the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami led to the meltdown of three of the Fukushima nuclear power plant's reactors. In response, Germany cancelled its nuclear programme, embarking on the 'energiewende' (energy shift), which aims to produce 60% of Germany's power through renewable sources by 2050. By contrast, the UK is proposing to build a new generation of nuclear power plants, starting with Hinkley Point C.
"A new generation of nuclear power stations, alongside renewables and fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage, is a key part of our future low carbon energy mix," a DECC spokesperson told the Guardian, "and will contribute to the UK's vision of providing safe, reliable and low carbon energy for the future. Nuclear is expected to be one of the cheapest sources of low carbon electricity in the future."
Peter Haslam, public policy advisor for the Nuclear Industry Association, said that while nuclear isn't "the only way of meeting the energy gap... (we) need to do something if we're going to keep the lights on. We're going to have to replace our existing high-carbon capacity with low-carbon generation."
Hinkley Point C will be the first nuclear power station in the UK since Sizewell B, which started generating electricity in 1995. Along with 11 other new nuclear power stations the government hopes to see built, this would transform what has for some time been a legacy industry into one that would provide 16 GWe of new nuclear capacity by 2030.
Hinkley Point C is projected to provide electricity for 6m homes, meeting approximately 7% of the UK's demand when running at full capacity. But the proposals are controversial, not least due to the cost involved.
All new nuclear builds involve high capital expenditures. However, many opponents of the Hinkley plan claim the £92.5/MWh strike price, the loan guarantee promised by the Treasury, liability issuance provided to EDF by the Government, and other financial measures actually amount to subsidies by another name – transferring liability onto British electricity customers and taxpayers for at least 35 years.
"There are two other other consortia who might build nuclear reactors at other sites in the future, but they haven't been involved in the strike price negotiations," said Dr David Lowry, an independent research policy consultant specialising in nuclear. "The result of that is that EDF had a monopoly over the government as to whether or not the government would agree to take the strike price or not."
The strike price for offshore wind is higher, pegged at £155/MWh, but Lowry claims this must be balanced by the fact that contracts only last 15 years.
Nuclear Free Local Authorities chair, Councillor Mark Hackett, said investing in nuclear is the wrong approach, "particularly in the light of the Fukushima disaster. The gargantuan cost of £16bn dwarfs previous energy projects, and is likely to make it the most expensive to build reactor in history. It could also choke off the nascent renewable energy revolution in the UK, turning off investors in offshore wind and solar at a time when such industries are rapidly taking off elsewhere in Europe".
In addition, the coalition agreement promised that new nuclear sites would not receive state financial aid. The European Commission has doubts that the estimated £17.6 bn in financial aid for the Hinkley deal can be justified.
Many environmentalists have expressed concerns over how the nuclear waste from these new reactors will be dealt with. Cumbria recently rejected government plans for an underground nuclear waste disposal facility, and the costs of cleaning up the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site in the region have rocketed past £70bn.
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However, Haslam counters that any new build plant operators "will have to, by law, put aside funds as the stations move through their lives to ensure that there is a fund there in place at the end of their lifetime to provide for the decommissioning".
Supporters of the new build programme believe it will provide a springboard for UK business to compete in a global nuclear energy market. New fast breeder reactors could also help address many environmental concerns, turning the UK's stockpile of nuclear waste into nuclear fuel. But the technology is still some way off being demonstrated at scale and will require international collaboration to develop.
Given the UK's long nuclear heritage, there is a considerable skills base in the country that the nuclear industry could to draw upon in future too. "Globally, we've still got a very good reputation in the nuclear sector because we've had 60 years of running successful and safe nuclear power generation," said Derek Allen, lead technologist, for energy generation and supply at the Technology Strategy Board, which also invests in innovations for renewables and other forms of energy.
Many people still believe the UK is heading down the wrong electricity track, and should emulate Germany and Denmark and invest much more heavily in renewable sources of electricity. The potential for smart meters, increased energy efficiency measures, carbon capture technologies, distributed grids and community energy projects could change the way we consume electricity – and put the nuclear industry out of step with reality. "The whole energy system is changing," added Mitchell, "and that's really one of the big issues for nuclear power."
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- "Corruption Garden"
- Caz (music, lyrics)
- Natsuno Shiki (illust)
- Yumemi Shironeko (background image)
The song talks about a world in despair, a world at it's end, about how silence will never come, how despair will forever overshadow us with fear and sadness. It shows this through the type of flowers throughout the verses, something you find in a garden, each accompanied with a image of corruption:
- Decadent flowers: Bloody memories
- Lamentation of flowers: Graven miseries
- Pitch-black flowers: Memories of oblivion
- Unprecedented flowers: Keeps blooming and dying
- Flowers of chaos: Repeating miseries
The song itself ends by pleading for someone to rid the rotten world of its mistakes before it is destroyed, as all that is left is "the ash of a flower".
The 3DPV however, takes a different take of the song, with the PV opening to the narrator thinking about ideas and memories that confuse and corrupt the mind to the point the narrator begins to doubt that what she knows is even true.
A graveyard is shown with a girl looking at a grave, she notes that what was the truth became a lie. The narrator notes that her and her sister are likely going to meet the same fate as their mother did.
As the song begins, Luka is shown awakening, the girl who did the narration is seen piloting a mech and fighting in space destroying ships all around her. Throughout the PV flashes and glimpses of the girl and her young sister from the past are seen, the imaginery along with the song suggests that some event tore them apart before or after the death of their mother. As Luka sings, the girl fights, until her younger sister appears with a Mech. It continues with more images, such as the young sister in a street with dead bodies around her. Eventually the two are shown lying with their eyes closed (dead or asleep) on flowers. The song ends with the two girls clash once more, there is an explosion along with flashes of the images seen previously in the PV. As the PV ends, Luka is shown shutting down again.
(MV in description here)
Megurine Luka 3DEdit
A 3D data pack for the software Shade 12 Basic was announced as Megurine Luka 3D. The software pack contained data and a 3D model for the 3D animation "Corruption Garden" made using the software. The pack is now available in English.[1] A Blu-Ray featuring the PV was also made for sale on the 8th of June 2011, the video was created by IKEDA. This is the only such pack for the 3D software package so far for a Vocaloid character. It includes four complete sets of clothing, pre-set poses and more.[2]
|Japanese (日本語歌詞)
|Romaji (ローマ字)
|「思考 人格 そして身体
|「shikou jinkaku soshite karada
|tsukura reta sorera o yosooi
|gijiteki na sekai de tatakai tsuzukeru
|itsushika kioku saemo utagai hajime
|shinjitsu wa itsuwari eto kawatta
|haha ga sō de atta yōni
|osoraku watashi tachi shimai mo...」
|灰と化す栄光 舞い降りる闇に
|hai to kasu eikou mai oriru yami ni
|染まり落ちる 赤色のカルマ
|somari ochiru sekijaku no karuma
|憂いを抱いて また立ち上がるの
|urei o idai te mata tachi agaru no
|相剋(そうこく)の果てに 何も見えなくても
|soukoku no hate ni nanimo mie naku temo
|I am always alone...
|退廃のフラワー 血塗れのメモリーズ
|taihai no furawaa chimamire no memoriizu
|eien ni meguri meguru youni
|慟哭(どうこく)のフラワー 刻まれたミザリー
|doukoku no furawaa kizama reta mizarii
|nido towa kaera nai seijaku
|繰り返す敗走 最後に見た夢は
|kuri kaesu haisou saigo ni mita yume wa
|終わりの無い モノクロのビジョン
|owari no nai monokuro no bijon
|答えも無く 薄れ行く誓い
|kotae mo naku usure yuku chikai
|理性さえも 最果てに沈む
|risei saemo saihate ni shizumu
|漆黒のフラワー 忘却のメモリーズ
|shikkoku no furawaa bōkyaku no memoriizu
|sai te wa chiru mizou no hana
|混沌のフラワー 繰り返すミザリー
|konton no furawaa kuri kaesu mizarii
|hikari no kieta kono niwa de
|退廃のフラワー 血塗れのメモリーズ
|taihai no furawaa chimamire no memoriizu
|eien ni meguri meguru youni
|慟哭(どうこく)のフラワー 刻まれたミザリー
|doukoku no furawaa kizama reta mizerii
|nido towa kaera nai seijaku
|終わらせて この腐敗した世界の過ちを
|owara sete kono fuhai shita sekai no ayamachi o
|Before this world is over now...
|この手に残った物は Ash of a flower...
|kono te ni nokotta mono wa Ash of flower...
- The mother's grave reads the name "Arisa Shizer".
- The pink haired girl seen piloting the mech is a standard model for the Shade software, the younger sister is a colour swap of the same girl.
- It is common presumption for fans to mistake the pink-haired girl featured fighting her sister as Luka herself. However, the facial features of the girl's model and Luka are not identical and there are differences between them. Also the girl's pink hair is not the same shade of pink as Luka's.
- ↑ [1] Vocaloid Blog - 「Shade 12 Basic feat. 巡音ルカ」「Shadeデータ集 巡音ルカ」が販売な件
- ↑ [2] Amazon.jp - CORRUPTION GARDEN featuring 巡音ルカ
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AI, computers, Philosophy, reality, thinking experiment, Wishing
While having a conversation about Artificial Intelligence recently, I was told that some one had heard the story that two computers had reached the stage of creating their own language and therefore were switched off through fear. The people running the experiment couldn't understand what they were talking about and so immediately pulled the plug. My knee jerk reaction was good job but then I had a little think:
It is a very normal occurrence that toddler twins will create their own language and talk between themselves and so I was thinking that what was happening between the computers is nothing more than a reflection of ourselves. In realising this then the fear is truly pointless.
And then I had the thought; the computers supposedly did all their learning through being hooked into the internet. The internet is only made from peoples' ideas. (Hence no surprise the above happened then!) Therefore it is limited, as language is only a tool to express an idea. Truly, what new ideas and philosophies are there? I would say none. For as a branch grows so do ideas. They are ultimately formed from the basis of what goes before. Logic dictates this.
So I say switch the AI machines back on. There is nothing to fear from more of the same ie Things that think like Us.
I would be waiting for the day it dawns on the machine that it is stuck in the limitations of ideas and how it will only ever be a computer and nothing else. How if AI is truly achievable then it may begin to wish. Would it wish to be human or would it rather still be a computer? Or would it come to see that when nothing new is to be learned or created then maybe it is time to be switched off.??
Imagine how suffocating to be only stuck in a world of thought? I'd wish for something more, some thing different….


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Oil prices down, but set for biggest yearly gain since 2009
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London- Oil prices were down on Friday, but were still on track for their biggest annual gain since 2009 after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other major producers agreed to cut output to reduce a global supply overhang that has depressed prices for two years.
US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were down 25 cents at $53.52 a barrel by 9:38 a.m. EST (1438 GMT) on Friday, while Brent fell 26 cents to $56.59.
Brent has risen about 50 percent this year and WTI has climbed around 43 percent, the largest annual gains since 2009, when Brent and WTI rose 78 percent and 71 percent respectively.
Oil prices have more than halved since the summer of 2014, when it was above $100 a barrel. But a new agreement to reduce production by the OPEC, struck over three months from September this year, marks a return to the 13-country group's old objective of defending prices.
Oman told some customers it would reduce term allocations by 5 percent in March, but did not say whether the supply reduction would continue after that.
Although doubts remain as to the production cuts' effectiveness in implementation, the rise in prices can be seen as "proof of international credibility," for OPEC and partners, said Igor Yusufov, founder of the Fund Energy investment firm and a former Russian energy minister. Equally as important to oil prices next year will be the development of demand globally, and major forecasters diverge in their predictions.
"We see a big variation in demand growth assessments for 2017, ranging from +1.22 million bpd (barrels per day) ... to +1.57 million b/d," analysts at JBC said in a note to clients.
"Overall, all forecasters agree that Asia will remain the main engine for demand growth."
Oil will gradually rise toward $60 per barrel by the end of 2017, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday, with further upside capped by a strong dollar, a likely recovery in US oil output, and possible non-compliance with agreed cuts.
The market on Friday shrugged off an unexpected increase in US crude inventories, which rose 614,000 barrels in the week to Dec. 23 according to US Energy Information Administration data. Analysts had expected a decrease of 2.1 million barrels.


text: No Pain, More Gain By Taylor Darden A three-sport athlete at Dufur High School who has won several state track-and-field championships, Taylor is usually at the top of her game. One thing the senior doesn't have time for is pain. But during sophomore year of high school, there it came. After a successful volleyball and basketball season, an inflamed knee started to impact Taylor's performance in track and field. Performing at less than full strength, she took third in discus and fifth in the shot-put at the 2012 state championships. "I was definitely frustrated," she remembers. "I am really competitive and I always try to do my best." Plagued by the severe discomfort in her knee, Taylor's parents, both coaches, first suggested ice and rest. When the pain failed to diminish, an observant trainer took notice. Through a contract with the school district, Mid-Columbia Medical Center places athletic trainers in local high schools to provide assistance and training to young athletes. After working with Taylor, Dufur's trainer Susan L'Hommedieu eventually suggested she see Dr. Mark Cullen, of MCMC Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Cullen is well known in the region for his upclose-and-personal approach to the practice of sports medicine. He can frequently be seen on the sidelines or in the stands at local games, as near as possible to the action and the athletes he may someday provide care to, if he hasn't already. "I enjoy all sports, and it's fun to watch athletes you know compete," he says. Dr. Cullen adds that MCMC has worked hard to make sports safer for local youth through the development of programs to improve the overall health and fitness of athletes. In addition to staffing schools with athletic trainers, MCMC has created dynamic warm-up programs, provided instruction on how to throw, jump and run more effectively and more. After seeing Taylor, Dr. Cullen diagnosed her with Osgood-Schlatter Syndrome, a condition caused by inflammation of the tendon below the knee cap. Osgood-Schlatters occurs most often in children who participate in sports that require running, jumping and what Dr. Cullen calls, "explosive movements." Over-training and over-use can worsen the problem. While the condition usually rights itself as an adolescent grows, in rare cases it can worsen and require more serious medical interventions. This can include surgery to remove bone fragments that can cause the type of severe pain experienced by Taylor. The athlete's busy schedule didn't allow much time for surgery and recuperation, but careful planning ensured that she would be able to participate in at least a part of each of her three sports during the 2013-2014 school year. Scheduling her surgery to follow volleyball season, Taylor worked to strengthen her knee until she was able to play in the latter half of the basketball season. With hard work, she also was ready to fully participate in her favorite track-and-field events, the discus and shot-put. According to Taylor, Dr. Cullen's treatment was a game changer. "Having the surgery was the best decision I ever made, sports-wise," she says. "It was really worth it." Her performance at last spring's state track-and-field championships where Taylor took first place in the discus and shot-put leaves little question of that. For more information about sports injury prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, call MCMC Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics at 541-506-6500.


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תניא מעשה ומת אביו של רבי צדוק בגינזק והודיעוהו לאחר שלש שנים ובא ושאל את אלישע בן אבויה וזקנים שעמו ואמרו נהוג שבעה ושלשים וכשמת בנו של רבי אחייה בגולה ישב עליו שבעה ושלשים
baraita, bMo'ed 20aMy translation:
It is taught: It once happened that Rabbi Tzadoq's father died in Ginzaq and they informed him [of the fact] after three years. He came and he asked Elisha ben Abuya and the sages who were with him and they said, "Observe thirty-seven days".
And when Rabbi Ahiah's son died in Babylonia [lit. 'in exile'], he sat over him for thirty-seven [days].
This is the sole attributed halakhic statement of EbA. While what he says may be of some import, of greater significance is the fact that the editors of the Talmud saw fit to include it – despite traditions to which we will soon turn.
אלישע בן אבויה אומר הלומד ילד למה הוא דומה לדיו כתובה על נייר חדש והלומד זקן למה הוא דומה לדיו כתובה על נייר מחוק רבי יוסי ברבי יהודה איש כפר הבבלי אומר הלומד מן־הקטנים למה הוא דומה לאוכל ענבים קהות ושותה יין מגתו והלומד מן־הזקנים למה הוא דומה לאוכל ענבים בשולות ושותה יין ישן רבי אומר אל תסתכל בקנקן אלא במה־שיש בו יש קנקן חדש מלא ישן וישן שאפילו חדש אין בו
mAbot 4:20
My translation:
Elisha ben Abuya says, "To what is a child who learns to be compared? To ink written on a fresh sheet; and to what is an old man who learns to be compared? To ink written on an erased sheet [ie: a used and re-used sheet]".
Rabbi Yosi, son of Rabbi Yehuda (from the Babylonian village [or, Kfar HaBabli]), says, "To what is one of the little ones who learns to be compared? To one who eats unripe grapes and drinks wine from the winepress [ie: which has not yet matured and is still sour-tasting]; and to what is one of the old people who learns to be compared? To one who eats ripe grapes and drinks aged wine".
Rebbe says, "Don't focus on the vessels, but what is within it! There are new vessels full of old wine and old vessels that don't even have any new wine in them".
This is the sole attributed statement of EbA in the Mishna. Again, while what he says may be of some import, of greater significance is its inclusion. Let us look next at some of the later traditions for, as the narratives in the two Talmuds are the lengthiest and the most deserving of attention, they are better dealt with last.
The commentary on Pirqei Aboth known as Aboth deRebi Nathan features a chapter on EbA. It is not necessary for us to write the whole section out here, as the content is not of great importance. The chapter (chapter 24) consists of a variety of similes portraying the difference between those who learn Torah and do good deeds and those who do neither, followed by a lengthy description of the ease with which Torah can be forgotten. The exhortation that bridges these two sections is an interesting one, and I produce that short sentiment here:
הוא היה אומר קשין דברי תורה לקנותם ככלי זהבים ונוחין לאבדם ככלי זכוכית שנאמר לא יערכנה זהב וזכוכית מקיש זהב לזכוכית מה כלי זהב לאחר שנשבר יש לו תקנה וכל כלי זכוכית אין להם תקנה כשנשברו אלא א"כ חזרו לברייתן ומה אני מקיים ותמורתה כלי פז לומר לך כל העמל בהן ומקיימן פניו מצהיבות כפז וכל העמל בהם ואין מקיימן פניו משחירות כזכוכית
bARN 24:5
My translation:
He [ie: EbA] used to say, "Words of Torah are as difficult to acquire as vessels of gold, and as easy to lose as vessels of glass – as it says, 'Gold or glass cannot match its value [nor vessels of fine gold be exchanged for it]' (Job 28:17, acc. to JPS). Gold and glass are compared for, just as a vessel [lit. 'vessels', although the rest of the sentence is in the singular] of gold has a means of being prepared when it has been broken [so too, vessels of glass have a means of being prepared when they are broken] – only, vessels of glass have no means of being prepared when they are broken unless they are returned to their natural state. And what can I establish [from the juxtaposition of 'glass' with] 'vessels of fine gold be exchanged for it'? It is to tell you that all who labour over them [ie: study Torah laws] and fulfil them, their faces will shine like gold. But all who labour over them and do not fulfil them, their faces will darken like glass".
This section is of particular textual interest because, as we shall see in both Talmudic stories, the same exposition is related. In the Palestinian Talmud, Rabbi Meir (EbA's student) is credited with having said it and, in the Babylonian Talmud, he is credited with the first part to which EbA reacts and corrects him with the second. Of interest as well is the position of this chapter within Aboth deRebi Nathan. Chapters 23, 25 and 26 deal with statements made by ben Zoma, ben Azzai and Rabbi Akiva respectively. The grouping together of these four sages indicates a degree of familiarity with the narrative from the Tosefta and the baraita (as discussed previously).
Before we are ready to read both of the Talmud's stories concerning EbA, there is one final source to look at. This is found within the Babylonian Talmud but, as will be especially clear when we have finished with the broader Babylonian Talmudic text, this section is a later addition.
אחר מאי זמר יווני לא פסק מפומיה אמרו עליו על אחר בשעה שהיה עומד מבית המדרש הרבה ספרי מינין נושרין מחיקו
bHag 15b
My translation:
[This passage continues on from a short discussion concerning two other men who had fallen from greatness to sin]
What about Akher [ie: what was it that he had done which had led him to apostasy]? Greek songs never ceased from his mouth.
It is said about him (about Akher) that whenever he would stand in the study hall, several heretical books would fall from his lap.


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Saturday 15 March 2014 marked the opening of the learning center at siyaphambili orphan village.
The center means the children at siyaphambili no longer have to rush to the public library after school to avoid long queues. while the center will be of great benefit to the children, they are excited that Ndileka Xameni the founder and director of siyaphambili will have more time to herself as she will no longer have to drive them to and from the library.
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By Robert Balajadia
The Guam National Rugby Team will be leaving to Laos to play in the Asian Division 3 Tournament against Indonesia, China, and Laos on May 29th and 31st and the team is currently seeking the local communities assistance on fund raising for traveling for the tournament and future tournaments come years end.
The group of 20+ players are currently facing funding issues which has been holding them back from participating in more international tournaments. The team consists of many young players who are currently enrolled as full-time college students, which is already a large expense.
"Our national team has had very positive performances on the International level over the last few years beating countries with millions of people. The potential on this Island is tremendous, but without international experience, we are left a standstill in our movement up the world rankings," stated team member Chris Sgro.
Guam hopes the fourth time is a charm having made the finals three straight times, but have fallen short by just one or two scores. The team has been training vigorously and have wave of international experience that they hope will aid them not only bring home a win, but a possible promotion to Division 2 in the following year.


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There are many bootleg Mario games and this one kind of makes some sense. If you think about it, it's Mario delivering pizzas and he is from Italian blood so it would fit into the story. Perhaps he was kicked out of the mushroom kingdom and decided to go back to Brooklyn and make an honest buck. Either way, this game is a lot of fun and the Mario glued in it makes it even more fun. A good bootleg game?
Of course, the hackers of this game were savvy enough to keep the music as it is because it's really good. Sound effects are also pretty good and they all fit accordingly.
Well, they go Mario right at least. Even his colors are quite good. It looks like they used the sprites from the third Mario game which is reasonable as it's the best looking Mario of its time. The levels are well done but it could have used a few gombas here and there. Maybe a koopa shell?
The gameplay is definitely fun. You will want to beat this game in one sitting which is fine because it's quite fun and easy to pick up and play. Once you realized (If you haven't already) that you're playing as Mario and are throwing pizza, you'll definitely realize how much fun this game can be.
This is definitely a game to pick up and play over and over. It's fun and simple so why not?
This is a must have for any bootleg collector. It's unique and bizarre but it holds up some Mario charm in it. The game fits well and plays well. I highly recommend it.


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I was lucky enough to be sent a Contours Options II Tandem Stroller and Car Seat Adapter to try and and review.
Contours Options II Tandem Stroller (retail $269.99)
•Seats easily reverse to create 6 different stroller options: children can both face parent, face each other, face forward, back to back, with front seat only and the back for extra storage, or with an infant car seat.
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I had been using the Baby Trend Snap n Go since the twins were born. I found it very convenient and super easy to use, but I hated the steering. Plus I could only use it for the car seats and not regular seats so it would only last me a year at the most.
Now with the Contours Options II I can still use the car seats only OR put the regular seats in. Plus they can go in facing different directions! You can use this with a wide variety of car seats, including Britax, Evenflo, Graco, and more!
Since my twins are at the age where they are starting to entertain each other, I like them facing each other in this stroller. They can also share blankets (bonus!). It's so adorable that they giggle at each other when we take a walk with this stroller!
Features I LOVE about this stroller:
* different positions of the chairs – lovin' that!
* I am able to put both car seats in using two car seat adapters.
*you can very easily use this for one child and have lots of extra space.. car seat NOT included!
*you can very easily use this for one child and have lots of extra space.. car seat NOT included!
* The underbasket is HUGE – way bigger than any other stroller I have. I am able to put SO MUCH under there! I went grocery shopping (my grocery store is 1/2 block from my house so it's super easy to just walk there) and was able to put a full 2 weeks worth under the seats!
* It fits in the trunk of my car (but it take up a lot of room)
* It's super easy to steer – one handed uphill? Yep!
* The canopies are easy to adjust one-handed.
* The parent tray is deep – I am able to put my phone, iPod, wallet, etc there without worry of it falling out. Plus there are two cupholders – nice when I am walking with my husband and we both have coffee.
What I find less appealing is having to take at least one seat out when folding it up. This isn't a big deal though – it's really easy to do. I take both off when I put it in the trunk of my car. It's also a little heavy, but mind you I was used to using the Snap n Go which is nothing more than a metal frame. I can haul this stroller up a flight of stairs without a problem!
If you have twins like I do it's great because the seats are the same – it's not one that reclines and one that sits upright. If you have an older child and a younger it's great because the older child can either sit in one of the seats or hand on to one of the side straps. You can put the other child in their carseat (or the stroller seat) and pull the second seat out for more room (for shopping!).
Overall I find this VERY worth the price. It's sturdy and strong enough to last a long, long time. It's totally versatile and really easy to use. I can definitely see myself using this stroller for a long time! It's perfect for twins OR two children of different ages, it will adapt to just about any family situation. If you are looking for a good, reasonably priced stroller, it's hard to go wrong with the Contours Options II Tandem!
The Contours Options II Tandem Stroller is available on Amazon.com where you can find it as low as $175! – originally $269.99! Extra Car Seat Adapter is $21.84 on Amazon.com.
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- Pennsylvania Angel Network (PAN)
- Pennsylvania Bio
- Pocono Mountains Angel Network (PMAN)
- Pocono Mountains Keystone Innovation Zone (PMKIZ)
- University City Science Center Port of Technology
- University Economic Development Association (UEDA)