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Read the following sentences.
1. Ram is going to the office.
2. Pen is kept on the table.
3. Dia will reach in 2 hours.
All underlined word in the sentences given above show the position (place or time) or how things are related to one another. These words (to, on, in etc.) are termed as prepositions.
A preposition is a word, which is used to show direction, location, time or to introduce an object and relates a noun, pronoun or noun phrase to other part of the sentence.
Rules Regarding Prepositions
1. A preposition is followed by usually noun or noun phrase but sometime pronoun or gerund (ing form of verb) also.
2. If a sentence begins or ends with a preposition, it should be closely linked to another word.
Example: Who did you speak to?
To whom did you speak?
1. Used to designate days of the week and dates.
Example: Ayush birthday is on 8th January.
My grandparents are coming on Thursday evening.
2. Used to name streets, road, avenues etc.
Example: My house is on expressway.
3. Used to state surface of something.
Example: The red pen is on the desk.
4. Used to specify a device or a machine.
Example: Anu is working on the computer since morning.
5. Used to specify the part of the body.
Example: He hit me on my head.
6. Used to talk about state of something.
Example: This bike is on sale.
1. Used to specify definite time.
Example: The train will reach station at 2:00 p.m.
2. Used with particular place.
Example: People gathered at the park.
3. Used to point out any activity.
Example: I am good at dance.
1. Used for undefined times during a day, a month, a season or a year.
Example: Ravi started his business in 2015.
2. Used to specify name of the location or place such as cities, towns, states, countries, continents etc.
Example: Ria lives in Delhi.
3. Used to specify a shape, color or size.
Example: I bought ribbons in different color.
4. Used to specify a faith, views, interest or feeling.
Example: I believe in life after death.
Used to express movement toward a place.
Example: My mom is driving to the bank this morning.
Used to specify how long anything continues i.e. duration of time in seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years).
Example: Tia can hold her breath for 5 minutes.
Use to specify time from a specific point in the past till now.
Example: He has been waiting here since 9:00 am.
1. Used to specify an amount or a number.
Example: I drank 3 cup of coffee yesterday.
2. Used to show belonging to or connected with.
Example: That bag is of my little sister.
1. Used to show feeling or emotion.
Example: Ria acted with confidence.
2. Used to indicate usage of something.
Example: Cook is cutting vegetable with knife.
3. Used to indicate possession.
Example: People with less money are not always unhappy.
4. Used to indicate togetherness.
Example: Attendant will be with you shortly.
5. Used to show understanding.
Example: Do you agree with me?
1. Used to indicate something extending directly upwards from something.
Example: Kite is flying over the tree.
2. Used to express more than estimated amount.
Example: Ravi's result is over my expectation.
3. Used to indicate period of time.
Example: I worked in this school over a year.
4. Used to show some movement.
Example: His father sent over a packet of books on his birthday.
1. Used to talk about means or method.
Example: We are going Delhi by airplane.
2. Used to indicate closeness.
Example: ATM is by the mall.
3. Used to who does something.
Example: The letter was delivered by postman.
4. Used to indicate certain action for particular reason.
Example: You clear this exam by preparing hard for this.
1. Used to indicate inside something.
Example: He dived into the sea to save the drowning child.
2. Used to show change in the state.
Example: Water changed into ice on freezing.
Used to indicate gap or space that separates two things.
Example: Dia is sitting between Jia and Ria.
Used to indicate group or mass or collection or in middle of something.
Example: The sweets are distributed among five of us.
Used to express "close to" or "next to".
Example: Dia is sitting beside me.
Used to express "in addition to something" or "apart from something".
Example: Three girls besides Dia were playing with sand beside sea.
Used to show some kind of measurement on a scale or to show something that is not below each other.
Example: Tinku is performing below average.
Used to indicate something exactly below it or less than something.
Example: Pen is lying under the bed.
1. Used to show disagreement.
Example: We should not do anything against the law.
2. Used to indicate something is touching something.
Example: Rohan is standing against the wall.
3. Used to show prevention of something.
Example: He is vaccinated against polio.
4. Used to show comparison.
Example: We must see the benefit of this machine against its cost.
1. Used to show movement from one side to another or from one place to another.
Example: The sailors sailed across the sea.
2. Used to indicate opposite side of a road, river, line etc.
Example: There is a big orchard across the river.
3. Used to point out several parts of an area.
Example: School has several branches across the country.
1. Used to point out higher place or position than something.
Example: The water in the dam rising above the marked line.
2. Used to indicate something is greater than something in number or level or age.
Example: This month inflation is above average.
3. Used to show higher quality compared to something.
Example: I like this above all other things.
1. Used to point something at or toward the back of something.
Example: Who is standing behind Ria?
2. Used to show less progress or improvement compared to something or somebody.
Example: This train is running behind schedule.
3. Used to indicate support of somebody.
Example: Her parents are behind her decision.
Next to
1. Used to point out position right beside somebody or something.
Example: Dia is sitting next to Ria.
2. Used to show order of somebody or something.
Example: Next to Math my favorite subject is Science.
1. Used to indicate one end or side of something or somebody to other.
Example: The thief got in through the back door.
2. Used to point out something from the other side of the objector substance.
Example: I could not see the road clearly through the fog.
3. Used to indicate any activity or situation from beginning to the end.
Example: Small children cannot sit through a concert.
4. Used to show passing of any kind of barrier.
Example: I have got through the NET exam.
5. Used to show means or reason of something.
Example: You can clear this exam only through hard work.
1. Used to indicate the place where something or somebody starts or begins.
Example: Ayush took out a big chocolate from his pocket.
2. Used to show the starting or beginning time when something was first made or existed.
Example: We will go to school by bus from tomorrow.
3. Used to tell source of something.
Example: This boy is from primary wing.
4. Used to show ingredient or material of which anything is made.
Example: This cloth is made from bamboo silk.
5. Used to indicate cause of something.
Example: The old man died from heart attack.
In front of
Used to indicate position just ahead of something or somebody.
Example: Dia is sitting in front of Ria.
Formal term of "on" is upon.
Example: She is wearing a red hat upon her head.
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Greece's intelligence boss quits amid phone surveillance scandal
Panagiotis Kontoleon steps down 'following mistaken actions found during lawful wiretapping procedures', prime minister's office says.
The head of Greece's intelligence service has stepped down, the government announced, amid a scandal over the alleged usage of surveillance malware.
EYP chief Panagiotis Kontoleon had presented his resignation "following mistaken actions found during lawful wiretapping procedures", the office of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a statement on Friday. Mitsotakis accepted the resignation, it added.
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The announcement came a week after the leader of the opposition PASOK party, Nikos Androulakis, filed a complaint with the supreme court over "attempted" spying on his mobile phone with Predator malware.
"A few days ago I was informed by the European Parliament that there was an attempt to bug my mobile phone with Predator surveillance software," Androulakis, who is also an MEP, told reporters as he left the court in Athens on July 26.
The European Parliament set up a special service for MEPs to check their phones for illegal surveillance software following hacks using spyware similar to Predator called Pegasus.
The software can infiltrate mobile phones to extract data or activate a camera or microphone to spy on their owners.
Androulakis used the service for "a precautionary check of his phone on June 28, 2022" and "from the first check, a suspicious link related to the Predator surveillance tool was detected", PASOK said in a statement.
Meanwhile, two legislators who spoke to the Reuters news agency on condition of anonymity earlier this week said Kontoleon had admitted during a parliamentary committee on July 29 that his service had spied on Thanasis Koukakis, a financial journalist who works for media network CNN Greece.
The government says Greek authorities do not use the spyware allegedly deployed in the hacking of Koukakis and do not do business with companies selling it.
In April, a Greek prosecutor began an investigation into an allegation by Koukakis that his smartphone had been infected by surveillance software.

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Ingredient's :
Egg 2 nos.
Sugar 2/3 Cup
All purpose flour / maida 6 tbsp.
Baking pwd. 1/8 tsp.
Vanilla essence 1 tsp.
Method :
Preheat the oven 250 / 120° C.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and apply a small coating of oil / butter.
Sift together flour and baking pwd. And keep aside till ready to be used.
Beat egg, sugar and vanilla essence really good till it is pale color and doubles in volume.
Add the flour mixture and mix gently with a wooden spoon. Don't use a mixer for this step.
Transfer this mixture into a sauce bottle.
Drip the batter onto the baking sheet to make small drops leaving space in between the drops.
Bake for 12 to 15 minutes.
Note :
- After the cooking time the biscuits will be slightly soft to touch bit will harden up within minutes.
- If you don't have a sauce bottle, use a zip lock bag instead. Fill up the bag and make small hole in one corner so that the batter will drip when you apply a small pressure.
- The texture of these cookies should be very light and crispy.


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Add a little bit of elegance to your next party with our Gingham Farms Party Fans. Beautifully created with classic colors of Black, Cream and Gold, these fans will warm your heart and your party with ease. Pair them with our Floral Banner or Gingham Farms Pennant Banner for a touch of decadence at your next gathering. Perfect for weddings and family/friends gatherings.
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Stuart Walesh, an author and consultant, once said: "The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a challenge and opportunity beyond imagination."
Many of us use computers. Sometimes, the time we spend on them consume the majority of our day. Whether or not this is a good or bad thing can be debated in another blog post, but the fact is…technology is an overwhelming part of our diet.
Taking my first computer science class as an undergraduate made it apparent to me that learning about how code and algorithms work was a really important thing, especially if I wanted to solve problems on my own. I declared my major in computer science and focused on learning more about how code could be used to analyze large amounts of text more efficiently. I have not regretted it since, and am beyond happy to see a good number of students show up to the Python Open Labs to learn more about how to write code to perhaps automate their own tasks.
The people who show up to our class are diverse in terms of major – coming from backgrounds ranging from education to international affairs to pure math/analytics. It's been really nice to see people actively show up to our labs with a desire to learn how to code and truly curious about how to solve problems. It's proven to me again and again that anyone can learn how to code, and it's been wildly encouraging to see people who think they cannot do it actually do it!
This is my first semester helping to lead the Python Open Labs. I find that lessons introducing a new programming language or new programming concepts are best taught in a step-by-step manner. Jupyter Notebooks have allowed me to accomplish this very well, allowing for space to write comments in markdown and running code in cell blocks. The students in class love this medium as well, and at the end of the lesson, they can easily look back over the notebook and remember what we learned about.
I've really enjoyed helping out with the labs so far and answering so many questions from the students who show up. Anyone is welcome to stop by the Python Open Labs – even if you have never written a line of code before in your life. I look forward to learning more from my students as the semester goes on.
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He applied the "Page 99 Test" to his new book, Sex Panic and the Punitive State, and reported the following:
My book examines how modern moral panics around sex have stoked a distinctively American culture of fear. Reportage on violent pedophile predators, the perils of the Internet, the priest abuse scandals, the Michael Jackson trial, and so on have made sex crime stories part of the furniture on twenty-four-hour news services, local television news stations, and even newspapers of record. By degrees, then, the figure of the imperiled child has come to occupy center stage in the national morality play, and narratives of rescue have become the dominant justification for political action. I show how the one thing—obsession with extreme perils and statistically anomalous events—substitutes for the other: a concern for child welfare writ large.Read an excerpt from Sex Panic and the Punitive State, and learn more about the book at the University of California Press website.
Page 99 comes near the end of Chapter 3 and develops a key thread of the book's argument: I show how sex panics are built into the architecture of a state that preempts, punishes, and surveils on an unprecedented scale. New laws have eroded rights of the accused, while Megan's Law registries, civil confinement statutes, and "child safety zones" undermine constitutional protections against ex post facto penalties, preventative detention, and excessive punishment. And the techniques used by moral entrepreneurs in sex panics have become replicable templates for governance, movable type for lawmaking in general.
Page 98 inaugurates a discussion of what I dub "first-name laws." "Historically, laws that bore names bore the surnames of their authors: Taft-Hartley, Humphrey-Hawkins, McCain-Feingold. Since the early 1990s Americans have increasingly named laws—which are supposed to be impersonal, detached, aloof—after individual victims, usually a child or young adult. These laws are typically referred to in familiar form: not the Megan Kanka Act, but 'Megan's Law.'" This "personalization" of the law, I reason, "bends lawmaking to the passions of the populace; it reinforces punitive trends to strip away rights of the accused and protections for the convicted; and it ratifies the power of the special case to steer the general rule."
Segue to the fraught case of Terri Schiavo, who had been kept alive in a persistent vegetative state for thirteen years when her husband had the feeding tube removed. In 2003 the Florida legislature passed "Terri's Law," empowering Governor Jeb Bush to have the feeding tube reinserted. After the Florida Supreme Court struck down the law in 2005, the federal government intervened.
The Schiavo case is usually understood to have been a campaign by religious conservatives and pro-life activists, who equated removal of the feeding tube with euthanasia and euthanasia with abortion. And so it was, but what is striking about these events is how closely they follow the script of sex panic and the cult of child victimhood. The campaign for government intervention was spearheaded by Terri Schiavo's parents, who assumed the role of the victim's family. Congressional Republicans and right-to-lifers deployed the usual tropes of moral alarm. Allegations were floated that Michael Schiavo (decidedly not "family") was a violent spouse abuser, and some made dark insinuations about his motives for wanting to remove the feeding tube. The family's complicated ordeal was packaged as one more outrage against the innocent. Videotapes and posters of the comatose woman put a face on the suffering.I sum up on pp. 99-100:
Well in advance of Terri's Law and federal intervention in the case, a growing body of sex crime laws had prepared the way for just such use and abuse of lawmaking. It cannot quite be said that Aimee's Law, Megan's Law, Jessica's Law, or the Adam Walsh Act were special statutes passed for individual people or particular cases. But they did push legal norms toward reactive, ad hoc lawmaking around special cases. Their naming, their valorization of victimhood, their conflation of horrifying anomalous events with pervasive risks, the techniques of suasion used to pass them, not to mention the special provisions they applied against ex-convicts who had already served their sentences, deeply eroded fundamental legal principles. Many such laws have to do with sex crimes, others with federal involvement in the search for missing adults (Bryan's Law, Kristen's Act, Jennifer's Law), others with routine appropriations for mundane undertakings.
While first-name laws are becoming a normal technique of governance, still other statutes take commemorative form, populating the legal landscape with icons of misfortune. By degrees the social drama boils down to stories of innocence and victimization. The state is cast as the parental figure who will save the imperiled child. By increments exception becomes the rule, emotionality replaces reason, and special provisions become ordinary. This happens not through the suspension of the law but through a hollowing-out of law's essence.
--Marshal Zeringue


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- OACA Membership, Accreditation Program and Primer on Planning Certificate are recognized qualifications for Committee of Adjustment / Consent Authority related employment opportunities throughout Ontario
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In certain circumstances it could be necessary to transfer a soft key license activation from one PC to another. For example, if a PC is being replaced or had some hardware failure.
Direction for this process can be found in the Movicon On-line Help documentation and have also been explained below.
…Transferring "Site Key" codes as described from the On-line Movicon help...
If you need to re-install the software or transfer the license to another PC, you will first have to remove the license by transferring the site key code to a Floppy disk, USB dongle or a network path shared by two PCs and insert the code into the new station.
The two computers are defined as:
Source PC : is the PC which contains the Movicon license
Destination PC: is the PC in which the license is to be transferred to
To complete this operation successfully please follow these steps:
- Insert a Floppy disk, a USB dongle, or use a network path shared by the two PCs, where the destination PC must be setup to receive the license using the "Register Transfer" command from the "Software License Management" window accessed with the "Check Options Used (Dongle Requirements)..." command.
- Transfer the Floppy disk or USB dongle to the Source PC or use the network path shared by the two PCs and press the "Transfer Out" button in the same "Software License Management" window.
- Put the Floppy disk or USB dongle, now containing the license, in the Destination PC or use the network path shared by the two PCs and press the "Transfer In" button from the "Software License Management" window.
The license should now be transferred to the Destination PC. Repeat these procedures to transfer license back.
In brief, to transfer licenses you should always use:
- Register Transfer
- Transfer Out
- Transfer In


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A piece of street art depicting two British, male police officers kissing sold in Miami for $575,000 to an anonymous buyer.
"Kissing Coppers" was created by the anonymous street artist, Banksy, and is considered one of his most famous pieces. It changed hands several times before arriving at the Fine Art Auctions Miami (FAAM) at LMNT gallery.
"Banksy is one of the most important street artists today," Sebastien Laboureau, a street art expert and CEO of MoonStar Fine Arts Advisors.


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When she sees that the Eranthemum, freeze damaged and presumed dead, is sprouting green leaf buds at the base, she points and shoots. "Look at THAT!" she exclaims to an invisible audience, "it's coming back!"
The gardener spent a couple of very pleasant hours out back. She may actually stop whinging about the weather now that she's gotten some hort therapy!


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Extending the Life of Donated Organs
The 100,000-plus U.S. patients waiting for organ transplants face a perilous race against time. Most organs can only be preserved outside the body for somewhere between four and 24 hours–a problem that aggravates the chronic shortage of donors. In 2008, 6,684 patients died waiting for organs, according to the National Kidney Foundation.
A Harvard scientist is hoping to change those bleak statistics. Hemant Thatte, associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery, has developed a liquid solution that may preserve organs for up to 10 days outside the body. Thatte's lab at the VA Boston Healthcare System devised a recipe of 21 chemical compounds that they believe will slow down the process of cell deterioration.
"Our whole goal is to maintain the metabolism of the organ without having to lower the temperature" of the preservation system, Thatte explains. "It's like a state of suspended animation." Thatte dubbed the solution "Somah," which is Sanskrit for "ambrosia of rejuvenation."
In October 2009, Thatte and his colleagues published a paper in the journal Circulation comparing Somah to the widely used preservation solution Celsior, made by biotech company Genzyme. The researchers harvested hearts from female pigs, stored them in one of the two solutions, then biopsied them at several points over the next four hours. They observed the function of the cardiomyocyte and endothelial cells–both of which must be preserved in order for the transplanted heart to survive over the long term. By measuring key proteins, they determined that the rate of cell death was significantly slower in the Somah-preserved hearts than it was in those stored with Celsior. Their experiments in pigs suggest that Somah keeps hearts and livers viable for at least 10 days. By contrast, solutions such as Celsior can only be counted on to preserve hearts and livers for about four and 12 hours, respectively.
Three students who were taking a class at Harvard's business school got wind of Thatte's research from Harvard's Office of Technology Development, and they decided to write up a business plan as an assignment. The team named their startup Hibergenica and set out to find investors in January. They believe they need $5 million to get Somah to market.
The Hibergenica team is pitching investors on the idea that Somah will expand the market for transplanted organs from $30 million a year to as much as $200 million. Some of that growth will arise from an increased supply of viable organs, which could potentially be shipped from faraway places like Hawaii, or even from overseas. Team member Haytham Elhawary, a scientist at Brigham & Women's hospital who was auditing the business-plan class, believes market expansion might also come from premium pricing–Somah could fetch a price that's as much as five times higher than competing solutions, he says.
To command that price tag, Hibergenica will have to show that Somah improves the quality of harvested organs, and thus boosts the long-term survival prospects for transplant patients. The solution has the potential to achieve that goal, the entrepreneurs believe, because it is designed to preserve the metabolism of the organs while they are outside the body.
The ingredients work together to transform tissue metabolites into products that protect cells. In the heart, for example, Somah converts ammonia–a toxic byproduct of tissue metabolism–into a metabolite that augments the nitric-oxide pathway. "That opens up the vasculature of the heart, which helps to preserve its function," says Alison Williams, a scientist at Harvard's School of Public Health, who is serving as Hibergenica's chief scientific officer. Specifically, nitric oxide inhibits vasoconstriction, clotting, and inflammation.
Hibergenica's plan is to build on Thatte's initial research by transplanting Somah-preserved organs from pigs into other pigs, so they can measure post-transplant survival rates. If their expectations are met, they'll need about a year of human trials before they can apply for FDA approval. They'll start with kidneys and other abdominal organs, "because that's where the volume is," Elhawary says. If all goes well, they'll test the solution in heart and lung transplants.
There haven't been any significant advances in organ preservation in over 20 years, though other companies are certainly trying. In March, Andover, MA-based TransMedics raised $36 million to develop a technology that uses blood perfusion to preserve organs in a system designed to mimic the conditions of the human body.
Proving that Somah reduces organ damage will be critical for convincing transplant surgeons to embrace the solution, says Luca Cicalese, director of the Texas Transplant Center and John Sealy Distinguished Chair in Transplantation Surgery at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX. "Organs get wasted not because of time factors, but because of quality issues," Cicalese says. "If this solution reduces damage to cells, that would be a major help."
Other surgeons argue that extending the time window for transplantation could, in fact, offer significant advantages. Michael Marvin, chief of transplant surgery at the University of Louisville, points out that many donated organs have to be flown on chartered airplanes and transplanted in the middle of the night. "Surgeons are working on very little sleep, which may not be optimal," he says. And if organs could be flown on commercial airlines instead of chartered jets, "I imagine there would be a dramatic reduction in costs," he adds.
Much of Hibergenica's pitch to investors hinges on the idea that Somah will save health-care costs over the long run, despite its hefty price. "If the organs we're offering are in a much better state, that will reduce postoperative complications and morbidity," says Elhawary, who has spent the last several months on the road with his three teammates, pitching the idea to venture capitalists and angel investors. "Ultimately that will save money for hospitals and insurance companies."
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Happy 5 Year Anniversary to Jeanne and Mark
Congratulations to Jeanne and Mark on their Five Year Anniversary! Their ceremony was at the beautiful St. Vivian Church with their reception following at Pebble Creek. I loved photographing the couple and their families at Mt. Airy Forest. What a beautiful backdrop for so many wonderful photos. I also loved how the couple did a full swing dance for their very first dance! Jeanne and Mark, we wish you two all the very best!


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The Consumers Guide to Understanding the Drugs & Supplements
We see them in stores, magazine advertisements, commercials, and practically everywhere online. Today, the marketplace is flooded with miracle drugs, dietary supplements, natural remedies, and prescription medications — all claiming to solve any number of serious health problems.
However, most consumers don't understand the differences between supplements and drugs. And if they can't identify what sets the two apart, they can't protect themselves from potentially harmful substances posing as safe products on the drug-store shelf.
The Difference Between Dietary Supplements and Drugs
There are important similarities and differences between dietary supplements and drugs that every responsible consumer should know. For instance, both dietary supplements and drugs can have positive effects on the body, both can cause problems if taken incorrectly, and both can be derived from plants (natural sources).
But there are also notable differences in what drugs and supplements are designed to do and how they're regulated:
A drug is any substance intended to diagnose, treat, or prevent disease. Drugs have to be tested and approved by the Food and Drug Administration to show that they're safe and effective in treating or diagnosing a specified disease or medical condition. The FDA also continues to monitor drugs once they've been released into the market.
The FDA defines a dietary supplement as "a product intended for ingestion that contains a 'dietary ingredient' intended to add further nutritional value to (supplement) the diet."
Some dietary supplements help lower the risk of disease, some claim to maintain the structure or function of certain organs for a specific benefit, while others — like multivitamins — help ensure adequate intake of nutrients. However, the FDA categorizes dietary supplements as a food rather than a drug, so supplements aren't tested or approved by the FDA before hitting the market.
It's possible for a dietary supplement to become a drug, but it must go through a drug's regulatory path and clinical trials, which takes several years.
Still, it's not uncommon for consumers to mistake a dietary supplement for a drug. Often, they'll turn to a supplement they can buy at the grocery store to treat a condition instead of visiting a doctor or filling an expensive prescription, but only drugs are designed to treat diseases.
Many consumers are also under the impression that supplements are inherently "natural" and safe, but the lack of regulation surrounding the testing, manufacturing, and labeling of supplements can lead to potentially harmful products. Independent tests have found some dietary supplements contaminated with things like heavy metals, bacteria, pesticides, and even traces of prescription drugs. Accurate and honest labeling is solely up to the manufacturer.
How to be a Conscious Consumer
When consumers are educated on the differences between dietary supplements and drugs, they can make better choices about which fit their needs and lifestyle. Here are a few tips for becoming a more conscious consumer:
Check with a physician. You should consult a physician before taking any supplement or drug — even something over-the-counter. A doctor can tell you if you're taking the right product or if any drug or supplement could be dangerous to you.
Find out if a drug is FDA approved. Although few people do much research before taking a prescription or over-the-counter drug, it's always best to get a little background information first. The FDA provides resources to help consumers find out which drugs have FDA approval and even which have generic or appropriate alternates.
Research supplement history. Like with drugs, do a little research into all dietary supplements before you introduce them into your routine. You can do this through the FDA's resources and scientific and health journals. Ensure that the supplement won't cause any adverse reactions or exacerbate any current health conditions. Also, check the manufacturer for safety or health violations.
Recognize regulatory loopholes. There are a few tricks companies use to skirt around U.S. regulatory standards, which may put consumers at risk. Non-English advertisements, labels, or health claims aren't highly regulated through the FDA's standards. Labels that contain "FDA-certified cGMP facility" simply mean the manufacturer claims to follow regulatory standards — not that the product has been tested and/or regulated by the FDA.
Drugs and dietary supplements both have a place in the market, but unlike what many consumers believe, they're not interchangeable substances. To protect yourself from potentially harmful products or side effects, learn the differences between drugs and dietary supplements so you can make the best decisions for your health.
About the Author: Kevin Xu is the CEO of MEBO International, a California- and Beijing-based intellectual property management company specializing in applied health systems. He also leads Skingenix, which specializes in skin organ regeneration and the research and development of botanical drug products. Skingenix is listed in the 2014 Empact100 Showcase.


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At a press conference today in New York City, Toyota president Akio Toyoda & North American CEO Jim Lentz officially announced that the Lexus ES 350 will be built at the Georgetown manufacturing plant in Kentucky — from the press release:
The move will generate 750 new jobs. To support the new dedicated assembly line, Toyota will invest $360 million in the Georgetown plant.
About 50,000 Lexus vehicles a year will be produced, bringing the plant's total annual production capacity to more than 550,000 vehicles. It will be the first time the ES will be assembled outside of Japan.
The ES is Lexus's bestselling sedan, with approximately 58,850 vehicles sold in North America in 2012 — including 56,158 in the U.S. Projections for Toyota's production volume at the company's Kyushu plant in Japan have not changed. The company remains committed to building 3 million vehicles per year in Japan, including Lexus models, as previously announced.
The press conference was broadcast online:
(The full transcript of the press conference is also available on the Lexus website.)


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The worlds first ACJ320neo successfully completed its first flight from Hamburg, getting its test programme to a good start.
The new member in the ACJ product line is based on the most successful aircraft Family, the A320neo airline Family. The corporate jet version includes features such as extra fuel-tanks in the cargo-hold that will deliver even more intercontinental range, plus greater cabin-pressure for better passenger comfort.
More info: https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2018/11/acj320neo-takes-to-the-skies-for-the-first-time.html


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Virgin Money, a registered financial services provider, wants to change the way friends exchange money, with its peer-to-peer payment application, Virgin Money Spot. Users can download the app, link their Internet-enabled card from any South African bank, enter a security PIN and exchange money with friends.
"We want to make sending and receiving cash simple. Now you can spot your friend for the meal you shared, or the bet you lost, or your contribution to the grocery bill. You simply spot them the money through the app and we transfer it directly from your bank account to theirs, no fees. It's that simple," says Zeyad Davids, CMO of Virgin Money. "Virgin Money Spot removes the hassle of exchanging banking details for EFT payments and lets users send money safely by simply entering a phone number or tapping a name on their contact list."
If a user's card is linked to a bank's rewards programme, they will earn points for payments made via Virgin Money Spot, as if they were using their card. Every Virgin Money Spot user is issued with a unique code that they can use to refer friends. Each time someone registers using their code, they'll both be rewarded with R20 from Virgin Money.
Virgin Money Spot is a 3D Secure payment solution that uses data encryption and PIN-protected payments to provide safe and secure experience possible, according to the company. Users will only need to load their card details once and will then approve transactions with their unique PIN. They will receive notifications each time they make a transaction or are sent money.
Spot was developed in partnership with mobile software company, wiGroup, the largest mobile transactional platform in Africa that wants to simplify and improve the way the world transacts. Last week, it was announced that the Virgin Group had invested in the Cape Town-based firm, which will use the funds to fast-track its expansion into emerging and developed markets.
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Tapestries in the Norton Simon Museum
The art of tapestry — an ornamental textile woven of wool and silk threads that often tells a story — flourished in Europe from the 15th through the 18th centuries. Often called "the frescoes of the North," tapestries were synonymous with the brilliant costumes, courtly occupations and spiritual character of the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. Flemish, and later French, weavers excelled in creating imaginative and sumptuous pictorial designs. The Norton Simon Museum is home to eight spectacular examples, from the 15th through 17th centuries. Their subject matter includes episodes from ancient myth and history, as well as religious imagery, all of which were popular subjects in this medium.
The story of the Trojan War, beloved by medieval writers, provided rich source material for this art form. The adventures pertaining to Paris and Helen from this famous epic tale inspired the design of four of the museum's tapestries. Woven in Belgium, a center of artistic activity, including tapestry production, the suite likely included additional scenes that may have been displayed together as one continuous, decorative ensemble.SHOW MORE


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The Triangle Business Journal reported on local builders that were listed on Builder Magazine's annual survey of the top home builders in the country, including HHHunt. Read the article.
An Inside Look at the Performance of Triangle Home Builders
- HHHunt Builds Home for Habitat in 25 Days
- Work Starts on Development's Final Chapter


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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Luby's Pecan Pie
from Luby's in Austin, TX. Another submission by Nothing-In-The-House Texas correspondent Brodie.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
T n' T Homestyle Pies
From T n' T Bakery in Lancaster, PA. Sent in by Nothing-in-the-House correspondent Brodie.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Nothing-In-The-House hopes to take a trip to this combination pie shop/design studio in the next year...
Find out more about Greensboro, Alabama's PieLab here.
Find out more about Greensboro, Alabama's PieLab here.
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Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, Volume 52
Volume 52, Number 1, September 1989
- Endre Boros, Zoltán Füredi, Jeff Kahn:
Maximal intersecting families and affine regular polygons in PG(2, q). 1-9
- Charles J. Colbourn:
Simple neighbourhoods in triple systems. 10-19
- Brian Alspach, Paul J. Schellenberg, Douglas R. Stinson, David G. Wagner:
The Oberwolfach problem and factors of uniform odd length cycles. 20-43
- Yutaka Hiramine:
A conjecture on affine planes of prime order. 44-50
- Sunanda Bagchi, Bhaskar Bagchi:
Designs from pairs of finite fields. A cyclic unital U(6) and other regular steiner 2-designs. 51-61
- Jurek Czyzowicz, Daniele Mundici, Andrzej Pelc:
Ulam's searching game with lies. 62-76
- Thomas W. Cusick:
Recurrences for sums of powers of binomial coefficients. 77-83
- Zsolt Tuza:
Minimum number of elements representing a set system of given rank. 84-89
- Makoto Matsumoto, Norihide Tokushige:
The exact bound in the Erdös-Ko-Rado theorem for cross-intersecting families. 90-97
- James Gary Propp:
Some variants of Ferrers diagrams. 98-128
- Peter Frankl, Zoltán Füredi:
Extremal problems whose solutions are the blowups of the small witt-designs. 129-147
- László Babai:
The probability of generating the symmetric group. 148-153
- Aiden A. Bruen:
Kummer configurations and designs embedded in planes. 154-157
- Zbigniew Lonc:
On decomposition of hypergraphs into Delta-systems. 158-162
Volume 52, Number 2, November 1989
- Anders Björner, Michelle L. Wachs:
q-Hook length formulas for forests. 165-187
- K. T. Arasu, Dieter Jungnickel:
Affine difference sets of even order. 188-196
- Vladimir D. Tonchev:
Self-orthogonal designs and extremal doubly even codes. 197-205
- Joe D. Chavez:
A natural notion of morphism for linear programming problems. 206-227
- Pankaj K. Agarwal, Micha Sharir, Peter W. Shor:
Sharp upper and lower bounds on the length of general Davenport-Schinzel sequences. 228-274
- Noga Alon, Joel H. Spencer:
Ascending waves. 275-287
- Ákos Seress:
Some characterizations of type-1 lambda-designs. 288-300
- Dieter Jungnickel:
A new family of relative difference sets. 301-303
- Peter J. M. van Laarhoven, Emile H. L. Aarts, Jack H. van Lint, L. T. Wille:
New upper bounds for the football pool problem for 6, 7, and 8 matches. 304-312
- Hans Jürgen Prömel, Bernd Voigt:
A short proof of the restricted Ramsey theorem for finite set systems. 313-320
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British pop superstar Adele continued to make history last week, as her latest album, 25, racked up another 1.16 million album equivalent sales in the US. It marks the first time in the Nielsen SoundScan era, which began in 1991, that an album has sold over a million copies in consecutive weeks. The album already held the record for sales in a week, as it debuted atop the Billboard 200 a week ago with sales of 3.48 million. The set's lead single, "Hello", is on a historical run of its own, topping the Billboard Hot 100 and the Streaming Songs chart for a sixth straight week. The track has also topped the Digital Songs chart for five weeks, and has been the most heard song on radio for the last four weeks. In addition, the official VEVO video for "Hello" has been viewed more than 625 million times since it was posted on October 22nd.
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Jack customizes his talks to his audience. His experience as a former attorney, CEO, and intensive study of conscious leadership impacts everyone in attendance.
Jack infuses personal stories, his background, humor and the latest research from authorities worldwide to bring a unique experience not easily found anywhere else.
The themes are often the elephant in the room which are not discussed and hold us back from living our dreams. The discussions are thought provoking and stimulate discussion which leads to action and transformation.


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As President Barack Obama mulls his next step, there is little unanimity in Congress on what the United States should do despite some Republican voices — most notably Sen. John McCain — loudly calling for air strikes and stepped-up military action. The sectarian violence between the pro-government Shiites and Sunnis adds to congressional uncertainty. The President will discuss the situation in Iraq with House and Senate leaders of both parties at the White House Wednesday. State Department and Pentagon officials will hold closed-doors briefings with lawmakers over the next couple of days.
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Consider, in 500 words or more, how business processes as services can improve efficiency. This discussion is about business process as a service and security.
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not Google. Include at least 3 quotes from your sources enclosed in quotation marks and cited in-line by reference to your reference list. Example: "words you copied" (citation) These quotes should be one full sentence not altered or paraphrased. Cite your sources using APA format. Use the quotes in your paragaphs. Stand alone quotes will not count toward the 3 required quotes.
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By Brooklyn Dance
Three aspects of Ivan Palomares' four-pronged proposal to change open apartment policies have been approved by both the Student Life Council and the President's Cabinet. The changes will be effective once RAs are trained accordingly.
Palomares, student body president, created a four pronged proposal: to have more consistent open dorm hours, less RA check ins during open dorms, to eliminate the open blinds policy and to eliminate the rule requiring a third person to be in the apartment during open hours.
After three separate one-hour student life council meetings, the group agreed on passing all but the proposal to eliminate the third person rule, which was tabled. Student Life Council members ultimately decided that more education should be implemented before passing the final request.
"They approved all but the one about the three-person rule. They did not vote in down, they just said they want to wait on that one a bit longer because they feel like there needs to be some additional work," Lilienthal said. "There was conversation [like,] 'we need to do a better job about educating our student population about appropriateness of the situations they put themselves in.'"
The President's Cabinet met on Feb. 6 and Tom Middendorf, associate provost and dean of academic and student affairs, presented the proposal. The Cabinet voted to approve the three rules. The blinds will not need to be opened, open hours will consist of every night in both male and female apartments and RAs will check in less frequently than the current rule, which is every hour on the hour.
Lilienthal said she's not sure what the new RA check ins will look like, but they will likely be more random. She added that if problems do arise, they hope to work through them instead of just ending the trial run.
"We're going to try it out. If it looks like there's some problem areas we could always go back and adjust them, but I don't think in those three areas there will be problems," Lilienthal said.
Lilienthal added that she is looking into the best system for RA checks that isn't as intense, but holds residents to a level of accountability so that they know she and her staff care about what's going on.
The student life council is comprised of 10 members including student leaders and faculty on campus. Jessica Dykes, associate vice president and dean of student development, is tasked with facilitating the meeting and therefore remaining neutral.
Dykes said that the conversation was effective and that the faculty on the student life council cared about the student perspective
"We had some great perspectives from both sides about why we have these things in place, through the lens of moral development and spiritual development and community life," Dykes said. "And then also other individuals who were wanting to hear and understand from students. I think everyone in the room very much cares about the students and hearing from students and walking with them on this journey, that's why they're on this committee. "
Currently, apartment open house rules require a third person to be in the room, all feet to be on the ground, no blankets can be shared, the blinds must be open and a guest pass must be up. Guests cannot be in the bedrooms. RAs check the rooms with guests once an hour. The open hours alternate every other day between female apartment and male apartment, but both male and female have open hours on the weekends.
His proposal came about after compiling multiple complaints from students, and attending the Nazarene Student Leadership Conference last spring where we compared Trevecca's open dorm policies with other Nazarene Universities.
"Coming in I said I wanted to do things for the students, but if I couldn't finish that I at least could build foundations," Palomares said. "I'm very excited about the results."
"The three-person rule is tabled for now, but I hope there is more we can do before the end of the year," Palomares said.
Lilienthal estimates the current open apartment rules have stayed the same for the last 10 years.
To Palomares, this makes sense.
"I think I am the first to propose changes [in 10 years] because of how much work has gone into it. I have been in numerous meetings and those in SGA who helped me put a lot of effort into our research," he said. "Not only that, but convincing people that it is time for change is not easy."
Many students like Sam Whitlock have been hopeful in a rule change for awhile.
"We do open apartments at least three times a week because there aren't places on campus where girls and guys can have a move night or binge a Netflix show," Whitlock said.
Whitlock said the proposed open hours every night would solve this problem.
"When it's girl's open apartments, I have to ask all five of my roommates if they will be in the room, which many never are. Then [my boyfriend] and I can't hangout on campus except in the noisy places like the Hub," she said.
Palomares is hopeful for the trajectory after his proposal.
"I feel that we achieved two great goals: in changing some things, and also starting a foundation for later classes to feel confident in fighting for the things students want," Palomares said.
Dykes is proud of Palomares' work and appreciates the healthy dialogue.
"It's my hope that student government and committees work together to discuss student life. It's a good thing that dialogue is happening," Dykes said.
Lilienthal agrees these conversations are healthy, saying the current rules are outdated.
"I think it's healthy to have these discussions, I think we need to have them. I always welcome those kinds of things. I'm looking forward to what we can do to make it workable and better for everyone," she said.


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Trieste – The Pearl Of the Adriatic Sea
Welcome to Trieste.
This magnificent Italian city located between the Italian border with Slovenia and also the Adriatic Sea deserves every traveler's attention. With its venerable and diverse history, Trieste is popular as a major city with the legendary origin, rich cultural heritage, and tolerance between different peoples living on its territory. Italians dine-in Slovenia, Croatians spend their weekends on Trieste's clean beaches and Austrians who don't need to leave once visited Piazza Unita' d'Italia. On every corner inside the town of Trieste, travelers can see different "countries" hidden relating to the mountains in the Adriatic Sea.
According to the locals, Trieste is a place which many fictional and real heroes have visited – Jason and the Argonauts inside their looking for the Golden Fleece, many veteran soldiers in the Trojan War and also Archduke Maksimilyan, Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Stendhal plus much more.
The city with a population of over 2 hundred thousand people develops over time as a result of its "favorable geographic location" as the geography specialists say.
Historical facts
- By some time when Trieste was underneath Caesar's rule, it becomes an official Roman colony.
- During the other century, Trieste adopted Christianity as an official religion.
- Trieste passes successively through various rulers: Goths, Longobardi, Byzantines, Franks
- In 1392 the Republic of Venice experimented with force Trieste to join its territories but Trieste asks Austrian ruler Leopold III for help and the man prevents that.
- The most successful period for Trieste is from 1857 to 1918 when like apart from the Austro-Hungarian Empire it turned out the greatest and busiest port in central Europe.
This charming port city would be a convenient crossroads for various cultures, languages and religions and religions. Trieste was under the rule of France, Austria, and Italy. After the armistice in the year of … READ MORE -->


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I started sharing assessment pieces that can be used for any literature piece with my friends on a secondary ELA board in our area. I thought it would be better to write about my experience with each one here, then link it to that page. This gives me an opportunity to include examples and such that may help you decide if you'd like to use it.
An assessment that I've been using for years is the character mandala from Laying the Foundations. I've adapted it for use with Romeo and Juliet, The Outsiders, and I'm going to try it as a person mandala with a piece of nonfiction next quarter. The reason I love the mandala is that it makes students think in a variety of ways. It is also an assessment that has steps, so I can give small check up grades during the process and make sure that no one falls so far behind that they end up with nothing to turn in.
Here are a couple of examples from The Outsiders (done by 7th graders):
Here are three from Romeo and Juliet (done by freshmen):
Obviously these are some of the best ones I've gotten, but they are great for displaying the concept which is that everyone has two sides, sun and shadow.
Make sure you do an example with them on the chart (I always use Harry Potter) because many of the students struggle to understand the connections they need to make. Another great thing about this assessment is that even struggling ELA students can come up with some pretty amazing ideas given that we are using symbols to represent the characters.
For more ideas on assessments you can use for any novel, you can visit my posts about the One Pager, the Character One Pager, or the ELAMazon assignment. Happy assessing!


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Introduction: LinkIt One Flex Sensor
Hello builders, here in this project you will learn how to use a flex sensor with a LinkIt One Microcontroller. This project turns on LED's based on the flexing or bending of the sensor. LinkIt One is a micro controller based around the Arduino IDE environment making it easy to operate and program. The flex sensor is made of resistive material which changes its voltage out when its bent. In this project we will read the analog input from the sensor.
Step 1: Parts
1. LinkIt One Microcontroller
2. Usb Cable
3. 3 LED's ( Red, Green, White)
4. Perf board
5. 1K or 10k Resistor
6. Flex Sensor
Step 2: Solder LED's
1. Insert the leds in the format shown above. Make sure that the negative and the positive legs line up properly.
2. Solder a short piece of wire that connects all the negative pins.
3. Connect wires to all of the LED's positive pins.
Step 3: Solder the Flex Sensor
1. Insert the flex sensor into the board, solder it.
2. Insert the 10k resistor in one of the pins of the flex sensor, this pin will be your analog output pin. The other one would be VCC or power.
3. Connect the other pin of the resistor to ground.
4. Now connect wires to VCC and Analog Output of the flex sensor.
Thats all you're done with soldering. Make sure you have clean joints and no bridges and move on to programming the board.
Step 4: Code It
Plug the LinkIt One into your computer and program it using this code. This code allows for different LEDs to light up when the flex sensor bends at different levels.
int Rled = 8; // initialise the pins
int Gled = 9;
int Wled = 10;
int flexsensor = A0;
int sval;
void setup()
pinMode(Rled, OUTPUT); // pin mode define
pinMode(Gled, OUTPUT);
pinMode(Wled, OUTPUT);
pinMode(flexsensor, INPUT);
void loop() {
int sval = analogRead(flexsensor);
if(sval > 200 && sval <= 500) // change these numbers according to your readings
digitalWrite(Rled, HIGH);
else if(sval > 510 && sval < 720) // these
digitalWrite(Gled, HIGH);
else if( sval > 730 && sval <= 1023) // and these
digitalWrite(Wled, HIGH);
Step 5: Wire It
1. Connect the LED's wires to the pins as shown in the code.
2. Connect the GND to GND.
3. Connect VCC of the flex sensor to the 5v
4. Connect the signal Wire of the sensor to the A0.
Thats it you're done:) Now time to test it.
Step 6: Test and Conclusion
It works! When you bend the flex sensor one of the LED's will light up depending on the amount of bend.
This project can be further used to indicate the maximum point of bend in an object. Hope you learned from this 'ible and if you have any questions feel free to ask them in the comments below.


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iñigo quilez kindly provides his SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Course Materials of ShaderToy with me via email. Thank you iq!
Thinking implicit: 2D, non polygonal shapes
- Coordinates and color gradients (That link is depracated, so I personally recommend this link instead)
- Shapping
- Texture Mapping
- Animation
- Reactivity
- More Media
- Yet More Media
Thinking implicit: 3D
- Raymarching
- Modeling (primitives and operators)
- Displacement
- Domain Repetition (and variation)
- Shape Blending
Thinking implicit: stateless animations
- Procedural Animation
- Blending Animation Curves
- Inverse Kinematics
- Simulating Physics
- Artificial Intelligence
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Now on Blu-ray: FIRST REFORMED and HEREDITARY, Two Of The Year's Best From A24
Indie distributor A24 continues their hot streak with two of 2018's best films, Paul Schrader's First Reformed and Ari Aster's Hereditary. Both films are now on Blu-ray in North America and we took a look at the releases below
In Paul Schrader's First Reformed, Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke) minister's to his small congregation at a local historical church while attempting to cope with the loss of his son and his marriage. He soon finds himself having an acute crisis of faith when he's called in to help counsel the husband of one of his congregants who finds the world to be to painful to bear. The more he digs into this man's story, the more his faith begins to crumble, until it's all he can do to keep getting up in the morning and fighting the good fight. When his church's reconsecration ceremony turns into a corporate and political free-for-all, Toller's faith is all but gone. Can anyone help him?
Paul Schrader is one of my favorite filmmakers, his Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is an avant-garde masterpiece, and his work on films like Cat People, Hardcore, and writing for Taxi Driver are unmistakably brilliant. With First Reformed, he attempts to create a film about faith and the challenges of maintaining one's faith in the face of horrendous pain and strife. Schrader frames the film in a claustrophobic 1.37:1 aspect ratio, both mirroring the look of those great films by De Sica and Bresson, as well as defining the mise-en-scene in much the same physical shape of the small chapel that is his salvation.
Hawke's performance is one of intense power, he's given multiple unwieldy mouthfuls of monologue in voiceover that are part of his character's journal that he manages to make sound natural in spite of their arcane grammar. He's ably supported by Amanda Seyfried as the pregnant woman who called him in to help her husband, and Cedric the Entertainer in a surprisingly effective dramatic turn as the leader of a mega church that sponsors Rev. Toller's relic. All of the performances work wonderfully, but without Hawke's complete dedication to his character, First Reformed would feel very trite.
A filmmaker from the old school genre world, it would be a surprise if Schrader didn't add a bit of fire to First Reformed, and he does in the form of a violence crisis of faith that threatens to explode, both literally and figuratively, all over the film. Rev. Toller's deteriorating faith turns violent in an attempt to regain the moral high ground and atone for all the bad done in the world, but it doesn't quite work out the way he wanted it to. The finale is an exceptional and ambiguous series of images and feelings that leaves the audience to make up their own minds.
The Disc:
A24's Blu-ray looks and sounds great. Those averse to the 1.37:1 aspect ratio might be irritated, but it is what the film demands, so suck it up. Schrader's palette is subtle, with only one great scene of visual flourish, but the toen is handled well and the colors, fine detail, and grain structure all look great.
There aren't many extras listed for the film, but the ones that are present are excellent. First up is the featurette Discernment: Contemplating First Reformed, a fifteen minute EPK style set of interviews that gives a viewer a feel for the making of the film and some of the decisions made on screen. Decent, but not a knockout. The other extra, however, is exceptional. We get a feature length audio commentary from Schrader in which he discusses the 'why's and 'how's of First Reformed in great and humble detail. Not only are we privy to his process in regards to everything from casting to set design, we also get incredible thematic insights into the film and where it came from in his mind. He's a wonderful speaker and incredibly knowledgeable, making this a must listen commentary, one of the best I've heard from a filmmaker on his own work. Astounding.


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Critical Bureaucracy: The Communicative Power of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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The domestic cat is a small, usually furry, domesticated, and carnivorous mammal. It is often called the house-cat when kept as an indoor pet, or simply the cat when there is no need to distinguish it from other felids and felines. A kitten or kitty is a juvenile domesticated cat. A feline litter usually consists of two to five kittens. A multiple of kittens is a kindle. To survive, kittens need the care of their mother for the first several weeks of their life. Kittens are highly social animals and spend most of their waking hours having fun playing and interacting with available companions.
Why does Kittens Meow?
Kittens meow to their mothers when they're hungry, cold, or scared. But once cats get older, they use other vocalizations such as yowling, hissing, and growling to communicate with each other. Meowing is reserved for their communications with people. Of course, the amount of meowing varies by breed and even cat.


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In The Greatest Showman, director Michael Gracey melds the 19th century world of P.T. Barnum at the dawn of the founding of the Barnum Circus and the music and dance of 2017—costumes, sets, conventions of the old world with music, dance, and feel of today.
As Barnum works to legitimize himself in the world of culture and entertainment, he decides to produce a national U.S. tour for the opera singer Jenny Lind as a high-brow counterpoint to his low-brow circus act. Actor Rebecca Ferguson takes on the role of Lind, the true-to-history Swedish nightingale. But her song "Never Enough," written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, is far from a soprano's aria. The belted pop song reveals Lind's inner pain and ambition as a woman striving to be recognized.
During the press junket for The Greatest Showman, Ferguson spoke to Playbill about imbueing Lind with her personal sensibility. Ferguson recalls working with Pasek and Paul, particularly "movement-wise because she's supposed to stand still but somehow we needed to create crescendos and we needed to create emotions," to create this character. What's more, Ferguson worked closely with Loren Allred, who provides the singing voice for Lind in the film.
"I would listen to her intonations and the ways that she would breathe and use her voice, so that when I sang—because I sang every takewith the playback—it would be a collaboration of her voice and my acting."
Watch the full interview above.
The Greatest Showman hits cinemas nationwide December 20, starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Zendaya, Michelle Wiliams, Keala Settle, and Rebecca Ferguson.


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Popcaan – Get Gyal Easy
After blasting onto the scene in 2010 on the biggest dancehall tune of the year, "Clarks," Portmore's Popcaan has since proved himself as one of the most talented up-and-coming vocalists in the genre. Coming up as Vybz Kartel's protégé, this year the 23 year old has lent his distinctive voice to an arsenal of bashment hits, from ghetto laments to party smashers. Most recently, this past fall Popcaan was the first dancehall artist since Sean Paul to have his track playlisted on the BBC and big things are set to follow for the "Raving King."
2012 sees Popskull team up with Dre Skull for a series of Mixpak releases, the first being the single "Get Gyal Easy." Dre Skull's shaking bass crescendos and minor key string stabs provide the backbone for an emotional gallis anthem, a slow-burning and euphoric bashment tune that showcases Popcaan's versatile singjay style. BBC 1xtra has tapped the single to feature in their Hot 20 of 2012 special airing on January 1st and will follow by keeping the track on their playlist – a strong start for 2012.
This is Mixpak keeping its bond with Jamaica as tight as ever.
Originally released on Jan 3rd, 2012.


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An exhibition showcasing Australia's Antarctic Humanities Program was held at Parliament House in Canberra from 1 May to 25 June.
In opening 'Antarctic Impressions', Parliamentary Secretary for the Antarctic Dr Sharman Stone said that the Humanities Program was a perfect vehicle to help promote Australia's vital role in the protection of Antarctica and of our science program.
"Each year, through its Humanities Program, the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) offers the chance of a berth to Antarctica for visual artists, writers, historians, journalists, poets, musicians, film makers, teachers and those from similar occupations. So far, almost 70 have participated in the scheme," said Dr Stone.
This is the first exhibition to bring together an extensive range of artistic and other works that have resulted from the AAD's Humanities Program since it began in 1984, and included paintings, photographs, educational resources, books, travel guides, histories, video excerpts from documentaries and interactive exhibits.


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Article below was in the October 2017 Concrete International Magazine
OCTOBER 2017 | Ci | www.concreteinternational.com
Maryland and National Capital Chapters – ACI Award $55,0000 in Scholarships In 2015, the Maryland Chapter – ACI decided to revamp its student scholarship program. This was driven by a desire to interest young people in the field of engineering, to educate future engineers in the science of concrete, and to develop relationships with graduating engineers who might want to join our industry. The plan was to develop a competition between local universities that would drive the students to learn some basic concrete principles. Scholarships would be awarded based on the student's grasp of these principles, on their enthusiasm, work ethic, and school spirit. To fund the scholarships, $25,000 was set aside. Participating schools would be required to start ACI student chapters. For the competition, students were provided with a three-point curve that they used to develop a mixture design to meet a specified strength. They were taught the basics of running a trial batch and trained in all the ACI Concrete Laboratory Testing Technician – Level 1 tests for plastic concrete—temperature, air, slump, unit weight, and molding cylinders. Lectures focused on concrete design, strength, and durability were provided. The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) allowed the use of its lab for the test day and Stuart Sherman, NRMCA's Lab Manager, helped with the judging. The University of Maryland fielded a team and Morgan State University fielded two teams of five people each. The winning team for 2016, Morgan State University's "Morgan Nation," came within 20 psi (0.14 MPa) of the required strength. The trophy "The Maryland Cup," a chromeplated slump cone atop a mahogany base, was awarded. The members of the Maryland Chapter – ACI were so impressed with the students from both schools that it increased the scholarship amount to $38,000. Earlier this year, the Maryland Chapter – ACI and the National Capital Chapter – ACI decided to combine resources to promote the competition. Yvonne Nelson, National Capital Chapter – ACI President, helped with the judging and the National Capital Chapter – ACI added $10,000 to the scholarship fund. The Maryland Chapter – ACI voted to award $35,000 and then added an additional $10,000 after witnessing the superior caliber of the students in the competition (total scholarship award was $55,000). This year, the University of Maryland fielded two teams, the "Diamondbacks" and the "Terps," and Morgan State University came back with the "Morgan Nation" and the "Morgan Bears." All four teams were extremely strong and, at the end of the day, Maryland's "Diamondbacks" won the cup for their university. For the past 3 years, the Maryland Chapter – ACI has also awarded scholarship money to the Roland Park Country School (RPCS) as part of an outreach to high schools. This school performs research projects in concrete and the top students are awarded scholarships. The award is called the "Miran Award of Excellence," after Blaire Miran, who was the first recipient. Miran is now a freshman at Villanova University and is assisting in research on deflection of fiber-reinforced polymer concrete sections. This year, seven students from RPCS received awards. Putting this program together was one of the hardest things the chapter has ever done, but it was also one of the most rewarding. Next year, Howard University has expressed interest in participating and Johns Hopkins University may be interested as well. On a sad note, Dmitri Clemons, one of the founding members of Morgan's Student Chapter – ACI and a member of the 2016 winning team, passed away at the beginning of the school year. He had a great sense of humor and an incredible competitive spirit. He would have made a great engineer and we are shocked and saddened at his passing. Click on the link to see the article in CI Magazine: UMD CI October 2017.pdf


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Diana gives you her thoughts on the storytelling and villain reveal of her latest obsession, Fire Emblem: Warriors.
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It is often said that you shouldn't bring your feelings into any consideration of money, let alone any actual discussion. Money requires clearly thought-out decision-making, and our culture tends to separate emotion from reason as far as possible. Emotion will supposedly cloud decisions, making them questionable, if not downright regrettable.
Nonetheless, money cares for none of that. It has a powerful effect on our emotions, often more so if we're determined not to feel any type of way about it. Discussion of money with your life partner can exponentially multiply the Emotion Factor, since it's natural for both of you to have strong feelings about what to do with your money. You may also both harbor regret or bitterness if your finances are strained and times are difficult.
Preparation before such discussion may help prevent tensions from getting too high and possibly leading to murder. Here are a few ideas that may help facilitate peaceful discussions of money with your beloved:
Make it Routine
For many couples, money is not important enough to discuss until it becomes a problem; this includes the one I'm half of. We don't find money very interesting, so we tend to discuss it only when there is something negatively impacting our finances. It's healthy not to overemphasize money, especially in a society obsessed with it. However, if money – or any other topic, for that matter – is only discussed during a crisis, it becomes inherently negative because of the associated tension.
This can be avoided if you agree to discuss money as a couple on a routine basis. Whatever frequency you deem necessary between you is fine; weekly, biweekly, monthly, etc. Less often is generally thought by 'experts' not to be frequent enough; these discussions don't have to be lengthy, if neither of you sees a need for it, but keeping the subject out in the open is important.
However brief your discussion, time should be part of it: What happened previously, what is happening now, and what you both expect or desire to happen in the future with your finances. Establishing money discussions as routine makes them less stressful. Plus, a regular look at your finances as a couple gives you a chance to prevent potential problems from developing.
Eat and Sleep Before Money Discussions!
Most humans are harder to deal with when they're hungry, tired, or irritated. These discomforts put us on edge and make us more prone to getting upset. For this reason, ensure the best possible conditions for financial discussions:
- You already know when they'll take place if you're making them part of your routine, so plan to rest and eat beforehand.
- Take your own and your partner's stress level into account. It's not a meeting of corporate executives, it's an intimate talk about mutual interests; if one of you is stressed, rescheduling won't hurt.
- Being in a good mood is best for any discussion, but especially one that might be sensitive, like a couple's discussion of money.
- Relax. Even a crisis has to pass; you're a couple for so many reasons that are more important than the amount of money available at the present moment. Put it into perspective!
Take a Walk in your Partner's Shoes
Couples are couples not only for what we have in common, but also for the ways we balance each other – for our differences as well as our similarities. For instance, I'm an incurable bookworm. If I go within a two-mile radius of a bookstore, I come home loaded down with new books. My husband shakes his head. Meanwhile, he has a collection of over 30 guitars, each chosen for some reason that is inexplicable to me. When we plan a trip, I'm excited about saving space and money for the souvenirs and keepsakes we might want along the way, while he's on Amazon buying 50 sets of long underwear for each of us (in the SUMMER, mind you) and a new tent with built-in LED lights.
Neither of us is wrong; we just have different priorities and perspectives. Understanding this from the outset leads to more productive financial discussions.
Focus on Shared Goals
The natural continuation of mutual understanding in a couple's discussion of money is the ability to return to commonalities when the differences threaten to cause strife. There will always be things we see differently, but there are also always things we agree on; shared passions in the present and goals for the future. Couples Cash has some good insight to share on this topic also.
Trusted Third Parties in Case of Crisis
If you really cannot see eye-to-eye in certain instances, it might help to enlist someone you both trust to play mediator. I would personally find this uncomfortable, but many couples find it helps to bring a spiritual leader or financial planner into the discussion as an objective third party. This is especially helpful in cases of stalemate, where no progress can be made toward an agreement just between the two of you.


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Today saw another CPRE report trumpeting about space for a million homes on brownfield sites. Sadly that's nowhere near enough to end the housing crisis – and most of those sites are not in places like London with the worst shortage.
But there is plenty of room to build more homes by making existing suburbs more walkable and attractive. We're just really bad at doing it. In his book Shut Out, Kevin Erdmann fears we have built nearly all the attractive, dense places there will ever be.
"Density has become a sort of natural resource, like gold. We have a fairly fixed amount of 'reserves' of high-density urban centres, which can only be expanded with great effort."
Why did building friendly, walkable, dense, mid-rise – like Barcelona, Paris, Vienna, Bloomsbury or South Kensington – become so much harder in the 20th century?
The current English planning system has never been good at graceful densification. There is no credible evidence it can do so at sufficient scale.
It was never designed to: when it was created in 1947, London's population was shrinking. New Towns were all the rage. Planners aimed to decant people out to new garden cities in the countryside.
Sadly, moving jobs around was much harder than they thought. Network and 'agglomeration' effects matter. New Towns like Milton Keynes, well-linked to vibrant existing cities, did much better than those like Skelmersdale.
But as the number of homeowners increased, it became ever harder to build new towns anywhere within reach of the best job opportunities. We never built as many New Towns as intended. And then places like London started growing in population again, and we have never kept up with demand.
To create more homes within existing towns and cities, you need lots of flats, not houses, on an unprecedented scale.
England, for example, has never built more than 100,000 flats a year. We would need over three times that to meet demand with flats alone.
Source: Holmans; MHCLG Live Tables 209 and 254.
And even that flatters our record, because the 1960s and '70s involved demolishing swathes of existing homes for council estates. As you can see, since WW2 we have never grown the net housing stock at the percentage rate of the 1830s, let alone the far higher rate of the 1930s:
Source: Neal Hudson of Residential Analysts.
Over three-quarters of London is just low-density sprawl: endless two-floor semi-detached houses.
Source: Emu Analytics.
It's not just an English problem. Issi Romem of Trulia Research has shown how most US cities have given up on densifying their suburbs. These days they are mainly a sea of dark sprawling suburban blue, building little or no housing, like the San Francisco Bay Area.
Source: Issi Romem; BuildZoom.
There are a few exceptions: places like Miami or Dallas which, like Tokyo, have a majority of renters, who tend to be less NIMBYish; or places with no zoning, like Houston. See how much more orange Houston has today, where people are still building apartments in the suburbs?
Source: Issi Romem; BuildZoom.
Erdmann shows that. in the 1970s, as a share of GDP, the US invested three times more in building apartments than it does today. The US now spends four times more on home improvements than on building apartments, and even more on building houses:
Source: Kevin Erdmann, Shut Out, Fig. 7-9; BEA Table 5.4.5.
And those houses are mainly built in car-dependent sprawl, far from the best job opportunities.
So the problem is not just that we don't build enough new flats in places awash with jobs, like London, Oxford, or San Francisco. We don't build enough flats anywhere.
Most places in the US and England can only manage lots of flats with high-rise towers – the spots of bright red on Romem's maps. That works for some, but less well for those on low incomes, and it inevitably causes a backlash: so much so that places like San Francisco, New York and London have failed to build enough housing for decades.
If we want to stop the housing crisis from worsening forever, we have two options: improve the planning system to build more flats, or reform the green belt to build more houses. No wonder brilliant academics like Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber have been calling for green belt reform for so long.
You'd think CPRE would be fighting to upgrade the planning system so that lots more beautiful mansion blocks are built near stations in existing cities, reducing the pressure on the countryside. Sadly not. We build fewer than half the flats today that we did in the 1960s. A cynic might note that having a little green belt under threat is quite good for CPRE recruitment – but I like to think they've just been indecisive.
We can build attractive, dense places like Covent Garden again. The only question is how to solve the politics and change the system to do that today. The huge rise in the percentage of homeowners over the 20th century made it much harder.
Realistically, to build hundreds of thousands of beautiful new flats a year, making existing places better and more walkable by adding more homes, we need to be more creative.
That's why our YIMBY campaigns are pushing for residents of a single street to be allowed to vote to choose a design code to allow more housing on their street. We think that's one of the only ways to sustainably make existing places better and, ultimately, end the housing crisis.
John Myers is co-founder of YIMBY Alliance and London YIMBY, which campaigns to end the housing crisis with the support of local people.This article is from the CityMetric archive: some formatting and images may not be present.


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WINNERS OF THE 22nd ANNUAL DESIGN COMPETITION
DETROIT (Jan. 10, 2011) — Some of the most intriguing vehicles on display at the 2011 North American International Auto Show won't be there in the traditional sense. Michelin looks to innovative 3D holographic display technology to bring works from student participants in the 22nd College for Creative Studies Design Competition to life.
Innovative 3D imaging technology offers a unique way to illustrate the students' vision of a pickup truck for the North American market in 2021. The images were chosen from among the finalists of this year's CCS-based special edition of the Michelin Challenge Design competition.
|Kelly Stieler'PIVOT'
|Vaughan Ling'MUUV'
|Jose Casas'TenaX'
|Timothy Mann'What's Next?'
The 22nd Annual Michelin-CCS Design Competition was held in December at the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education. Participating students submitted a pickup truck vehicle and a tire/wheel assembly concept under the theme 'Plus 10: The Best is Yet to Come.'
Joining the winners of the competition, Kelly Stieler, Vaughan Ling, Jose Casas, and Timothy Mann, the displays include works from Andrew Bazinski, Brent Beggs, Austin Fodell, Matt Kulczycki, Daniel Nikonchik, Jonathan Russel, Boris Schwarzer, Vasyl Sydoruk and Joel Zastrow.
Winners of the CCS Design Competition
In addition to the holocube display, twelve participants the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit are receiving the exhibition opportunity of a lifetime Jan. 10-23 when their work joins 34 other 'Plus 10' vehicle designs from 22 countries in the Michelin Challenge Design™ display at the 2011 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS).
Kelly Stieler: 1st Vehicle / 1st Tire
Vaughan Ling: 2nd Vehicle
Jose Casas: 2nd Tire
Timothy Mann: 3rd Vehicle / 3rd Tire
Kelly Stieler and three other CCS students took top honors in the 22nd Annual Michelin-CCS Design Competition held in December at the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education. A total of 31 seniors participated this year, each submitting a pickup truck vehicle and a tire/wheel assembly concept under the theme 'Plus 10: The Best is Yet to Come.' For the past 10 years, the CCS competition theme has mirrored Michelin's global Michelin Challenge Design (www.michelinchallengedesign.com).
The pickup is deeply rooted in America's culture, from a 1925 Model T with a cargo box to the Ford F-Series, which has taken top vehicle sales honors for more than 30 years running. Pickups have evolved from utilitarian workhorses to refined vehicles, with safety, convenience and amenities rivaling luxury sedans.
"Despite the imprint pickups have left on America's automotive landscape, increasingly stringent requirements of NHTSA's 2012-2016 and 2017-2025 CAFÉ targets are a direct challenge to the segment as we know it," says John Moloney, Michelin North America's vice president of marketing. "In keeping with asking global 2011 Michelin Challenge Design participants to design a vehicle for their region, Michelin-CCS competitors were asked to investigate solutions that might insure long-term viability for an iconic American vehicle."
Judges for this year's event included Joe Dehner and Jeff Aneiros, Chrysler; Brad Richards, Ford Motor Company; Sung Paik, General Motors; and Bob Miron and Ken Payne, Michelin North America. Jurist Aneiros is also a past participant and winner, having won third place for tire/wheel design in 2006.
Stieler's double first-place finish garnered her two $1,250 scholarship checks. Second-place winners received $1,000 scholarships, and third-place winners earned $750 scholarships. All participants received $350 for entering the competition. Michelin also made a $22,000 donation to the school for financial aid to CCS students based on need and merit.
Michelin – CCS Winners for Vehicle Design
1st – Kelly Stieler, Lake Orion, Michigan
2nd – Vaughan Ling, Clinton Township, Michigan
3rd – Timothy Mann, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Michelin – CCS Winners for Tire/Wheel Concept
1st – Kelly Stieler, Lake Orion, Michigan
2nd – Jose Casas, Mexico City, Mexico
3rd – Timothy Mann, Minneapolis, Minnesota
About Michelin Challenge Design
Michelin Challenge Design (www.michelinchallengedesign.com) was launched in 2001 as a way to showcase creativity and innovation in vehicle design on a global scale around a central theme. Each year, Michelin invites designers around the world, from individuals to small and large companies, to create and display significant design work that would normally not have an opportunity to be shown at a major auto show.


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