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You know how some things just seem to go together, such as ketchup and french fries, peanut butter and jelly, or apples and oranges? Same goes for trashiness and snaps. For whatever reason, trashy posts on Snapchat tend to just feel more right than photos posted to any other social media forum such as Facebook or Twitter. Perhaps it's the idea that snaps are designed to be much less permanent than other posts that accounts for the existence of some of the following trashy snaps. Of course any snap can become permanent with a simple screenshot. And what is the Internet for if it isn't for screenshots of trashy snaps?
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Last week, the NFL released a statement saying they were continuing their investigation into under-inflated footballs used by the Patriots during their AFC Championship game victory over the Colts to determine if the deflation was "the result of deliberate action" by the Patriots.
Coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady both denied any knowledge of what happened and Belichick offered up an explanation via scientific experimentation on Saturday, but Jay Glazer of FOX Sports reports that the league has "zeroed in" on a team employee in their investigation.
Per Glazer, the league has interviewed a Patriots locker room attendant who allegedly took footballs from the officials locker room after they had been inspected and approved "to another area on way to field" before the start of the game.
There's reportedly video of this attendant with the balls, although Glazer adds that the league's investigators are "still gauging" if the attendant, called a "strong person of interest," had anything to do with the deflation.
At a news conference today at the site of the Super Bowl in Chandler, Arizona, Kraft expressed his disappointment at the treatment of Tom Brady and Coach Belichick, as well as the "media leaks" that have kept the story roiling.
"I want to make it clear that I believe unconditionally that the New England Patriots have done nothing inappropriate," Kraft said. He also asked that the NFL apologize if its investigators find no wrongdoing in the case.


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From swimming in South Dakota's glacial lakes to biking down volcanoes in Hawaii, experiencing the great outdoors can be an essential part of the student experience. Conveniently, some schools have national parks right on their doorsteps, while others have clubs and organizations dedicated to rugged outdoor pursuits like snowshoeing and rock climbing. Indeed, the nation's hugely varying natural backdrops – from Florida's sultry beaches to the rugged canyons of Nevada – effectively form one giant playground for adventure-minded students. Best of all, many schools in or near such stunning surroundings are very reasonably priced, allowing students more money for exploring. Taking the price of tuition and the associated fees into account, the following list is a compilation of the 30 most affordable schools for outdoor enthusiasts in the U.S.
To create this list, we first referenced the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) Table 330.10, subtitled the "Average undergraduate tuition and fees and room and board rates charged for full-time students in degree-granting post-secondary institutions, by level and control of institution: 1963-64 through 2018-19." This was in order to find schools that charge tuition and fees noticeably below the average costs for 2018-19. As this article is largely based on the cost of out-of-state tuition and fees, we needed to differentiate between the table's in-state and out-of-state totals. To that end, we also referenced the NCES' Table 330.20.
We also needed to compare this information with each individual school's tuition and fees costs. To determine which schools were the cheapest we referenced the following lists:
• Ranker, "The Cheapest Colleges in America"
• U.S. News & World Report, "10 Colleges with Affordable Out-of-State Tuition"
• CollegeStats.org, "Cheapest Colleges"
• CollegeCalc, "Cheapest Colleges in America by Out of State Tuition"
We went on to further confirm tuition and fees rates for individual schools by looking at the information provided on their websites – this information also enabled us to rank the schools by most affordable tuition and fees total.
Finally, we then examined each potential entry's proximity to fun natural features such as beaches, mountains and lakes, among others, as well as the outdoor-focused recreational clubs and societies on offer at each school.
30. Shepherd University – Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Shepherd University's out-of-state undergraduates' tuition and mandatory fees amounted to $18,224 for the 2019-20 academic year. And with extra funds to spend on less academic pursuits, learners may be tempted by the 22-minute car journey to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. Thanks to the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, Harpers Ferry offers great white-water rafting, kayaking and fishing opportunities. Students who enjoy strolling in the great outdoors can also enjoy the park's 20 miles of trails, or link up with the more adventurous 184.5-mile trail that runs through the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Park, which is less than half an hour from the campus by car. Horse riding is also on offer nearby, while golfers can sample the fairways and greens of local country club golf courses Locust Hill and Cress Creek.
29. Grambling State University – Grambling, Louisiana
Just over 35 minutes from Louisiana's Grambling State University is Lake Claiborne State Park, a preservation area that accommodates a wealth of outdoor pursuits. Angling fans will be pleased to know that the lake is full of fish, including white perch, bream and striped and largemouth bass. The park's natural surroundings also provide a welcome habitat for campers and hikers. To the northeast of the campus, meanwhile, is the 15,250-acre Lake D'Arbonne, as well as its surrounding 655-acre park. A further five angling jetties are located in the park, in addition to boating platforms, and water skiers are welcome to practice their skills away from the shoreline. With 2020-21 out-of-state undergraduate tuition and fees totalling an affordable $23,606, there should be more funds for outdoor enthusiasts to spend on what they love doing the most.
28. Palm Beach State College – Lake Worth, Florida
Tuition and fees figures for the 2019-20 academic year for non-Floridian bachelor's students at Palm Beach State College were estimated at a low $16,875. And with such bang for their buck, students will have cash left over to explore beautiful Lake Worth, as well as take in nearby Palm Beach and its endless water sport opportunities. Arguably more exciting for outdoorsy types, however, is Lake Okeechobee – part of the "Glades" and the continental U.S.' second-biggest freshwater lake. Located around an hour's drive inland, this is the place to fish for largemouth bass, watch for alligators or explore the Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail – on foot, on rollerblades or by bicycle. The around 110-mile trail surrounds the lake, with one stretch across Herbert Hoover Dike.
27. Fitchburg State University – Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Fitchburg State University students take adventure seriously. Indeed, the school's Outdoor Adventure Club meets every week to plan its next snowshoeing hike, mountain biking trip or rock-climbing excursion. There's certainly a great deal of wide-open space to explore, much of it within 15 minutes of campus. This includes the 4,500-acre Leominster State Forest and the riverside walking trails of the 300-acre Henry E. Cowdrey Nature Center. Also close to the college is the 1,000-acre Pearl Hill State Park, home to numerous hiking and biking trails and some of Massachusetts' premier campsites. In fact, out-of-state learners may struggle fitting in all of the park's 51 encampments. Non-Bay State undergraduates forked out just $16,603 in tuition and fees for the 2019-20 academic year.
26. Louisiana State University at Alexandria – Alexandria, Louisiana
The Alexander State Forest Wildlife Management Area is located just ten miles southwest of Louisiana State University at Alexandria. And despite its name, the site isn't totally dominated by trees. Within the forest's boundaries is the 2,600-acre Indian Creek Lake, which is a popular locale for both anglers and water skiers. A 300-acre campsite borders the lake, and trailer and tent spots with electricity and running water are available to hire. Fortunately, learners won't struggle to afford a trip to the site, as the school's competitive rates means out-of-staters paid just $15,496 in annual tuition and fees for the 2019-20 academic year. This means that students could afford to explore the protected 6,000-acre Grand Cote National Wildlife Refuge site and enjoy spotting various waterfowl species – as well as, occasionally, the odd bald eagle and Louisiana black bear.
25. Dalton State College – Dalton, Georgia
Located near the Blue Ridge Mountains, Dalton State College no doubt impresses arriving non-Georgian students with its green surroundings. What's more, students won't be traveling far to enjoy the great outdoors. There are approximately two and a half miles of walking trails in the campus' adjacent forest, while the school is located on the doorstep of the John's Mountain Wildlife Management Area. With 24,849 acres to explore, the site is perfect for canoeists, hikers and campers. Plus, a little further afield is Fort Mountain State Park, which boasts 70 campsites, four backcountry campgrounds and is ideal for mountain biking, walking and swimming. Perhaps Dalton State College's tuition and fees are even more impressive with out-of-staters, who forked out a low $12,668 for the 2019-20 academic year.
24. University of South Dakota – Vermillion, South Dakota
As of 2020, out-of-staters enrolling at the University of South Dakota benefit from a "reduced" tuition and fees price of $12,807 – almost half of the overall 2019-20 national average, and half of what non-residents paid elsewhere that academic year. With academic costs comfortably covered, learners can invest their dollars playing in the Vermillion school's impressive natural surroundings, which, incidentally, are taken advantage of by the school's Outdoors Club. The group's activities include trap shooting, hiking and, during the colder months, snow tubing in Sioux Falls' Great Bear Recreation Park. The outdoors can also be enjoyed independently; just 15 minutes' drive from campus, for example, is Clay County Park. Located on a stretch of the Missouri National Recreational River, its 34 acres offer ample opportunities for walking, horse riding and wildlife watching, and visitors are welcome to camp overnight.
23. St. Johns River State College – Palatka, Florida
The price of tuition and fees for out-of-state students enrolled at Palatka's St. Johns River State College for the 2019-20 academic year was estimated as an affordable $10,347. And adventurous students can put any spare cash to good use, as the Ocala National Forest is around a 40-minute drive away. The forest is home to over 600 waterways and springs, which make for excellent snorkeling, swimming and diving spots. Additionally, winter temperatures are so surprisingly mild that camping is possible all year round. Even closer to campus, meanwhile, is Etoniah Creek State Forest, an 8,679-acre site that offers equestrian, walking and birding trails, as well as hunting and fishing opportunities.
22. South Dakota State University – Brookings, South Dakota
According to Rough Guides, visitors are often moved more by South Dakota's "wildlife, hiking trails, mountain lakes and memorably scenic highways" than its instantly recognizable landmarks. Fortunately, such remarkable natural beauty is within reach of South Dakota State University students – especially at nearby Oakwood Lakes State Park. Located less than half an hour's drive from the school's Brookings campus, the park contains eight glacial lakes suited to summer swimming and boating, while cross-country skiing and ice fishing are possible in winter. Just over 20 miles further north from the park, meanwhile, is Lake Poinsett, where outdoorsy types can camp alongside one of the state's biggest lakes. And an extended camping trip may be in order for newly arrived out-of-state undergraduates, thanks to the school's affordable tuition and fees costs, which totaled an estimated $12,676 in 2020-21.
21. Midwestern State University – Wichita Falls, Texas
Enrolling non-Texans at Midwestern State University can expect to pay just over $5,665 per semester for tuition and fees, as of 2020. At nearly $11,330 for the two-semester year, this is just under the overall 2019-20 national average – but an impressive 52 percent less expensive than that year's typical out-of-state cost. This saving leaves plenty of surplus cash to explore the pretty Wichita Falls surroundings – and because it's less than ten minutes' drive from campus, Lake Wichita Park is an excellent place for learners to start. The 234-acre site harbors walking and cycling trails, baseball fields and, intriguingly, a landing runway for model airplane enthusiasts. Also close by is Lake Arrowhead State Park, a great spot for outdoor swimming, angling and equestrian adventures. It's possible to camp here, too.
20. Black Hills State University – Spearfish, South Dakota
Black Hills State University undergraduates who aren't from South Dakota or Wyoming faced just $11,742 for their 2020-21 tuition and fees – which is a staggering $20,113 less than the typical yearly out-of-state rate. Because the Northern Black Hills are located practically on the Spearfish-based school's front door, such a saving is best invested in adventure. On that front, there are nearby mountain bike trails and snowboard and ski tracks to discover, and the entire 125-mile-long by 65-mile-wide Black Hills area is synonymous with dramatic canyons, jutting rocks and placid lakes. Within 90 minutes of the Black Hills State University campus, meanwhile, are more than 2,000 climbing routes and, further afield, there's Badlands National Park. This 244,000-acre expanse was once described by Lonely Planet as resembling "an ocean someone boiled dry."
19. Northern State University – Aberdeen, South Dakota
Described by Lonely Planet as "endlessly attractive," South Dakota is a state of prairies, amazing scenery and, in Mount Rushmore, one of America's most prominent landmarks. The state is seemingly tailor-made for outdoors enthusiasts and, fortunately, this is also the case at Northern State University's Aberdeen campus, which is located close to miles of cycling and recreational tracks. Plus, just north of the town is the 210-acre Wylie Park, which is home to softball fields, campsites and even more trails. A little further beyond Wylie Park is the Richmond Lake Recreation Area, where it's possible to snowmobile and ski as well as sail around the eponymous over 1,000-acre body of water. These local attractions are waiting to be discovered by out-of-state students, who paid just an estimated $11,822 for tuition and fees in 2019-20.
18. Florida State College at Jacksonville – Jacksonville, Florida
With 73,352 acres of the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve to explore, including Guana River Estuary and Lake Guana, it's easy to see why magazine Folio Weekly's readers voted the habitat "best place to canoe or kayak" for three years in a row from 2007. Naturally, fishing is also popular in the reserve, and there are further opportunities to walk, cycle and horse ride along its trails. Florida State College at Jacksonville's (FSCJ) downtown campus is just 34 miles away from the reserve, which makes it easily accessible to outdoorsy students. Still, location is one thing, finances is another. Fortunately for out-of-state FSCJ learners, 2019-20 annual tuition and fees amounted to roughly $11,011.
17. Brigham Young University–Hawaii – Laie, Hawaii
Students at Brigham Young University–Hawaii have not one or two, but 12 nearby beaches to choose from. The two closest to campus are Onini Beach and Bathtub Beach, though Kokololio Beach, arguably the prettiest of the local beaches, is only a few minutes further south. Kokololio can be reached from Bathtub via a hiking trail, which takes in scenic tree groves and other greenery on its way to Kokololio's faultless white sands. A little further inland, meanwhile, is the Hauula Loop Trail, a 2.5-mile walk featuring a beautiful waterfall. The Laie school is managed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and tuition and fees for non-church members was estimated at $15,253 for two semesters – almost 60 percent less expensive than students typically paid at other private institutions in 2019-20.
16. College of Southern Nevada – Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas may be synonymous with casinos and showgirls, but on its doorstep are some of the U.S.' most intriguing landscapes. Take the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area, for example. Just over half an hour's drive from the College of Southern Nevada, this over 48,000-acre site offers summits of volcanic rock and explorations of low-lying lake beds that have long since gone dry. This is great news for hikers, bikers and horse riders, but not so good for water sport enthusiasts. Fortunately, their needs are catered to by the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, which is roughly an hour by car from campus and perfect for fishing and boating. Students won't be that out of pocket either, because the institution's out-of-state tuition and fees costs totaled a low $10,317 for 2019-2020.
15. West Virginia University at Parkersburg – Parkersburg, West Virginia
Welding, 3D modeling and business administration all can be pursued at West Virginia University (WVU) at Parkersburg – and if the institution's curriculum comes across as diverse, then so too does the surrounding landscape. Take Mountwood Park, for example, which is just a 20-minute drive to the east. With more than 50 miles of cycling and walking trails, as well as a disc golf course, horse riding and archery facilities, it's a true adventurer's playground. Water-based fun, meanwhile, can be had a little further north, among the nearby Ohio River Islands, which is known for its fine fishing spots. Out-of-state students needn't worry about having spare cash for outdoor pursuits, either, as WVU Parkersburg tuition and fees amounted to just $9,792 for the 2019-20 academic year.
14. Middle Georgia State University – Macon, Georgia
Middle Georgia State University has five sites across the state, but its main campus is located in Macon, around eight miles from Lake Tobesofkee. As well as the manmade six-mile-long body of water, the surrounding recreation area also boasts the Arrowhead, Claystone and Sandy Beach parks. Water-based activities are arguably the site's biggest draw, with sailing, boating and swimming all enjoyed around the 35 miles of shore. Non-Georgians will have cash left over to spend on the correct gear as well, as tuition and fees for the 2020-21 academic year cost $11,390.
13. Potomac State College of West Virginia University – Keyser, West Virginia
Thanks to all the state parks, rivers and lakes in close proximity to Potomac State College of West Virginia University, enrolling students are gifted numerous opportunities for outdoor recreational activity. And they'll have more cash to do so, too, as out-of-staters only spent $12,912 on 2019-20 tuition and fees. Among the most exciting al fresco options is Savage River State Forest, a 54,000-acre habitat ideal for bikers, hikers and anglers. Located around 40 minutes' drive from the school's Keyser campus, it's also a perfect location for wild camping. However, as the forest is home to black bears, visitors should think twice before storing food in their tents. Half an hour's drive north of the campus, meanwhile, is Dan's Mountain State Park, which features a fishing pond and offers visitors some spectacular panoramic views.
12. Western Nevada College – Carson City, Nevada
Out-of-state students at Western Nevada College, which has five sites across Nevada but is headquartered in Carson City, paid tuition and fees of $10,618 for the 2019-20 academic year. This comes in safely under the entire U.S. average and less than half that of the out-of-state mean cost, according to 2018-2019 data. Welcome news indeed for outdoor enthusiasts, particularly as Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park Spooner Backcountry is located practically on the school's doorstep. The 12,000-acre state park accommodates more than 50 miles of cycling, walking and horse riding trails. Furthermore, at the park's western edge, on the shores of Lake Tahoe, is Sand Harbor, whose 55 acres of beach is a haven for swimmers, boaters and coastal explorers.
11. Broward College – Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Non-Floridians attending Broward College in Fort Lauderdale for the 2019-20 academic year faced just $11,190 in tuition costs. Including fees – which is still over 50% less than the overall national average for 2019-2020. Further savings can be had in the realm of outdoor pursuits, as the Fort Lauderdale institution has its own water sport and ropes adventure facility around 15 minutes by car from its main campus. The nearby Tigertail Lake Recreational Center invites students to try their hand at stand-up paddle boarding, windsurfing or canoeing, among other activities, while sailing and camping trips are also options. Those venturing a little further afield, meanwhile, can explore the Everglades and Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area. Located roughly 23 miles from campus, this huge protected site is a great place for fishing, hiking, cycling and wildlife.
10. Bemidji State University – Bemidji, Minnesota
Bemidji State University's Outdoor Program is well known across the U.S., and adventurous students can take advantage of its cutting-edge climbing wall and the sailing excursions it offers across Lake Bemidji. Just beyond Lake Bemidji, which is adjacent to the Minnesotan school, is its namesake state park – a haven for mountain bikers, boaters and anglers as well as, during the colder months, winter sports enthusiasts. Chippewa National Forest, meanwhile, is only 20 minutes' drive away, and its wild campgrounds and plentiful trails offer another exciting source for open-air entertainment. Added to Bemidji's appeal is its excellent value for money, with 2019-20 tuition and fees estimated at $8,940.
9. Bellevue University – Bellevue, Nebraska
Barely 20 minutes' drive from Nebraska's capital city of Omaha is Bellevue University, where undergraduate students pay just $250 per credit hour, as of 2020. This translates into a 2020-21 tuition and fee total of no more than $9,420. While that's over 64 percent less than the 2019-20 general national average, it represents a massive 70 percent saving on that year's typical private institution rate. Fortunately, there's plenty in the realm of outdoor recreation on which learners can spend their surplus cash. And the obvious choice, based on its hiking, biking and boating facilities, is the Missouri River waterfront. Even closer to campus, though, is Fontenelle Forest, where conservationists aim to foster "the quiet wild of nature". With its mixture of forest, wetlands and prairie, the site is an excellent place to discover Mother Nature's magic first-hand.
8. West Texas A&M University – Canyon, Texas
Since 2019, non-Texan students at West Texas A&M University have faced tuition costs of $9,803, which is just $30 per credit hour more than their in-state counterparts. While this represents a saving of over $14,807 compared to the 2018-2019 overall national average of public universities, it's an impressive $22,607 less expensive than that year's non-resident norm for private universities. Luckily, outdoor enthusiasts with some extra cash to splash needn't travel far for their fix; the school's Canyon campus is less than 15 minutes' drive from Palo Duro Canyon State Park, and the site's main attraction is second only in size to the mighty Grand Canyon. Featuring over 30 miles of horse riding, walking and mountain biking trails, this is the place to come for a couple of days adventuring interspersed by a night underneath under the stars. Also close by is Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge, a sprawling 7,664-acre reserve featuring forest, marshland and prairie.
7. Southern University at New Orleans – New Orleans, Louisiana
Full-time non-Louisianan undergraduates at Southern University at New Orleans paid just $8,900 in tuition and fees for the fall 2020 semester. This total, projected over the course of a full academic year, works out as almost 45 percent less expensive than the overall 2018-19 national average. Finances aside, this is a school big on recreation. Not only is it around 15 minutes' drive from the historic French Quarter, it's also perfectly situated close to wildlife-friendly bayous and swamps. For instance, the Barataria Preserve is approximately a half an hour car ride from campus and offers 23,000 acres of marshland and forests ideal for kayakers hoping to spot a swamp rabbit, water snake or even an alligator. There are several miles of trails to explore, too, while the nearby Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge boasts further hiking, canoeing and fishing opportunities in another beguiling New Orleans habitat.
6. University of Hawaii Maui College – Kahului, Hawaii
Barely 15 minutes' drive from Kahului's University of Hawaii Maui College is Iao Valley State Park, a 4,000-acre expanse of lush peaks and spectacular rock formations. One such natural attraction is Iao Needle, which stretches around 1,200 feet high and is adorned with tropical green flora. It is surrounded by a network of scenic hiking paths, meaning that the adventurous can look forward to a series of impressive views. Around an hour's drive in the other direction, meanwhile, is Haleakalā National Park – a volcanic landscape that hosts Maui's tallest summit and is also the perfect spot for downtown cyclists. Such activities are affordable thanks to the school's excellent-value tuition and fees, with non-Hawaiians coughing up just $8,406 in 2020-21.
5. South Texas College – McAllen, Texas
The average South Texas College out-of-stater paid just $7,830 for their 2019-20 tuition and fees, which is almost less than half the 2018-19 overall national average. Indeed, the complete cost of attendance for the entire 2018-19 academic year for non-Texans was just over $17,000 – approximately $9,000 less than the typical total elsewhere, according to 2018-2019 figures. With the essentials covered, surplus dollars can be used for less bookish pursuits. Located roughly 50 minutes' drive from the school's Pecan campus in McAllen, the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge is teeming with flora and fauna, including rare animal species like ocelots and burrowing owls. If wildlife spotting isn't what students are after, however, there's also the possibility of fishing and hunting.
4. New Mexico Highlands University – Las Vegas, New Mexico
Unlike its Nevada namesake, New Mexico's Las Vegas is more historic landmark than city of sin, and outdoors enthusiasts will find it an ideal base from which to discover a wealth of al fresco activities. Just over five miles from the city's New Mexico Highlands University is Storrie Lake State Park, which is a great spot for anglers and water sport fans. A 20-minute drive from campus in the opposite direction, meanwhile, takes visitors to the Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge. Featuring at least two nature trails and a driving track, in addition to a wildlife viewing platform, this is a superb location to sample the wild New Mexican landscape. Enrolling out-of-state students may have more funds to explore their natural surroundings as well, as the school's 2020-21 tuition and fees totaled a low $10,842.
3. Delta State University – Cleveland, Mississippi
For the 2014-15 academic year, Mississippi's Delta State University students paid just $4,060 per semester in tuition and fees, or $8,121 per year. That's a staggering $8,197 less than the 2018-2019 national average, and such a significant saving can be invested away from the classroom, particularly at the Dahomey National Wildlife Refuge, which is located just 16 minutes' drive from the school's Cleveland campus. The refuge is a great place to spot migrating waterfowl or for more general bird watching, and the site's 11,600 acres feature a boardwalk, a viewing deck and a butterfly garden. A little further away from campus is the Great River Road State Park, which features a 75-foot observation platform offering superb views over the Mississippi River. Sporty students, meanwhile, are catered for by facilities including Delta State's on-campus golf course.
2. Sitting Bull College – Fort Yates, North Dakota
For the 2020-21 academic year, students enrolled at North Dakota's Sitting Bull College only forked out $4,010 for their yearly tuition. Moreover, that year $10,246 was enough to cover learners' accommodation, food, books and fees. The Fort Yates school is such good value, in fact, that in 2018-19 cost of attendance was almost 75 percent less expensive than the country's overall yearly average. Students there can explore the enormous Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, which literally surrounds the school's campus and is home to the Sioux Native American people. Learners wishing to catch their dinner can obtain a hunting permit from the tribe. And on top of that, there's also the option to traverse the hills, lakes and hiking and biking trails of the nearby Standing Rock National Native American Scenic Byway.
1. Brazosport College – Lake Jackson, Texas
Outdoors-loving students arriving at Texas' Brazosport College are in for a treat, as the school's Lake Jackson campus is located just over 11 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. This is great news for surfers, who will want to head for swells at the appropriately named Surfside Beach. Fishing enthusiasts will also be spoilt for choice with the wealth of fishing jetties in the area. Half an hour northeast of the campus, meanwhile, is the Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge, where approximately 400 animal species can be spotted – from lurking alligators to flocks of snow geese. Out-of-town students may be able to afford that new pair of binoculars, or a shiny surfboard, too, thanks to annual 2020-21 tuition and fees for non-Texans totaling only $2,677.
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Tuition information was updated June 2020.


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What is Cystitis ?
The term 'Cystitis' refers to 'inflammation of the bladder'. It is a most common complaint in women. Escherichia coli infections are considered the primary culprit in cystitis. The female anatomy makes it more convenient for ie. coli bacteria, which normally inhabit the colon, to travel from the rectum to the vagina, up the urethra and into the bladder. This condition is rarely dangerous but it is generally a forerunner to more serious troubles. The reoccurrence of cystitis may in some cases be associated with kidney troubles.
The kidney and bladder are the, principal structures in the urinary system. The kidneys are situated on the back of the abdomen, one on each side of the spine at about the level of the lowest rib. The bladder is situated in the lower abdomen, in the pelvis. The body is relieved of the greater part of the waste matter, resulting from the complex working of the whole body's vital processes by means of these two organs.
Cystitis Symptoms
Cystitis is characterized by symptoms which may cause great discomfort. The patient complains of frequency and burning on urination as well as an almost continual urge to void. There may be a feeling of pain in the pelvis and lower abdomen. The urine may become thick, dark and stingy. It may have an unpleasant smell and may contain blood or pus. The scalding sensation on passing urine indicates that the inflammation has spread to the urethra. Some pain in the lower back may also be felt in certain cases. In an acute stage there may be a rise in body temperature. In the chronic form of cystitis, the symptoms are similar but generally less severe and without a rise in temperature. The persistence of the chronic form of the disease indicates a process of deterioration, almost invariably due to wrong treatment of the acute form by suppressive drugs.
Cystitis Causes
Cystitis may result from infections in other parts adjacent to the bladder such as the kidneys, the urethra, and the vagina. Local irritation and inflammation of the bladder may be caused if urine is retained there for an unduly long time. It may also result from severe constipation.
Continual draining of pus and germs from an infected kidney may injure the epithelial lining of the bladder. Trouble may also arise from the presence of a stone in either bladder or kidney. Childbirth injuries and major surgical procedures within the pelvis bladder cannot hold the normal amount of urine. Germs may then find their way into the bladder and bring about chemical changes in the urine. Calcium or lime may thus be deposited in the wall of the bladder. Increasing the patient's discomfort.
Home Remedies for Cystitis
1. Cucumber Juice
Cucumber juice is one of the most useful home remedies in the treatment of cystitis. It is a very effective diuretic. A cup of this juice, mixed with one teaspoon of honey and a tablespoon of fresh lime juice, should be given three times daily.
2. Drumstick Flowers
Fresh juice of the flowers of drumstick is another effective remedy for cystitis. For better results, a teaspoon of the juice, mixed with half a glass of tender coconut water, should be given twice daily. It acts as a diuretic in the treatment of this disease.
3. Radish Leaves
The juice of radish leaves is valuable in cystitis. A cup of this juice should be given once daily, in the morning, for a fortnight
4. Lady's Fingers
Fresh lady's fingers are useful in cystitis. A decoction made of 100 gm of lady's fingers and 200 ml of water should be taken twice daily in the treatment of this disease.
5. Spinach
A quantity of 100 ml of fresh spinach juice, taken with an equal quantity of tender coconut water twice a day, is considered beneficial in the treatment of cystitis. It acts as a very effective and safe diuretic due to the combined action of both nitrates and potassium.
6. Lemon
Lemon has proved valuable in cystitis. A teaspoon of lemon juice should be put in 180 ml of boiling water. It should then be allowed to cool and 60 ml of this water should be taken every two hours from 8 a.m. to 12 noon for the treatment of this condition. This eases the burning sensation and also stops bleeding in cystitis.
7. Barley
Half a glass each of barley gruel, mixed with buttermilk and the juice of half a lime, is an excellent diuretic. It is beneficial in the treatment of cystitis, and may be taken twice daily.
8. Sandalwood Oil
The oil of sandalwood is also considered valuable in this disease. This oil should be given in doses of five drops in the beginning and gradually increased to ten to thirty drops. The efficacy of this oil can be increased by the addition of one teaspoon of ajwain mixed in a glass of water, or ten grams of ginger mixed in a cup water.
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Charles H. Kim Elementary
Dear Members of the LAUSD Board of Education: We have a number of concerns regarding the potential changes proposed for our school. In 2006 Charles H. Kim Elementary School opened with great fanfare. It is the first school, not only in the LA Unified School District, but in the entire United States, named after a Korean-American. We have watched with pride as our students have flourished and excelled under the guidance of our extraordinary teachers. Now, in the midst of LAUSD's budget crisis, the school as we know it may cease to exist. A whopping 64% of our teachers (21 out of 33 total) may be terminated or re-located due to seniority rules. It is very unusual for a school to have such a large percentage of relatively young teachers. But what is even more unusual is that they all, collectively, teach with such passion and commitment. We believe that it will be devastating to the performance and morale of the student body to potentially lose so many dedicated teachers. With all due respect to seniority, you cannot decimate your faculty by 64% and expect any continuity in maintaining high standards and results. We have both a Dual Language Spanish and a Waiver to Basic Korean Program in our school. Both programs have delivered exceptional results due to the performance of our teachers. These programs need certified bilingual Spanish and Korean professionals to teach the students. We are concerned about what kinds of teachers moving "down" from LAUSD's central administrative offices will replace these terminated and displaced teachers. Will they be certificated to teach in the Dual Language Spanish or Waiver to Basic Program Will the Principal be allowed to interview and select teachers that meet the individual needs of the school A parallel problem to that of losing a disproportionate number of qualified teachers is losing a large number of students to the new Bruin Community School and NOW School on the old Ambassador Hotel site. And here the issue of fair play arises. State law requires all year-round schools to become traditional. Charles H. Kim Elementary is already a traditional school. Yet, we are slated to lose 144 students to these two new schools due to re-drawn boundaries. Cahuenga Elementary School, two blocks away, is not required to send any students, even though it is on a year-round schedule and at maximum capacity. How were the new boundary lines determined Was there public input Why is Cahuenga Elementary School not included in the re-drawn boundary Excitement and expectations for Charles H. Kim Elementary School in Koreatown were very high at the outset. In our relatively short existence we have excelled academically. Our school is the only school to have reached an API over 800 in the first year of its existence; it was raised another 35 points in the second year. We have a number of students who have also achieved perfect scores in the CST. Our students have done exceptionally well, as evidenced by our test scores, due to the enthusiasm and dedication of our teachers. We respectfully request that you review all of our circumstances when deciding on termination or displacement of our school's teachers. Our belief is that dedication, commitment and performance are very important to the success of students. We have been very fortunate in having teachers with these values and we wish to continue to have them at our school. We ask that you also review the criteria for determining which students should be re-located to The Bruin Community and NOW Schools. It appears that our enrollment may be unfairly impacted. In sum, we believe that academically successful LAUSD schools such as ours need to be supported and fostered. These are precisely the type of schools that are models for others to emulate. We urge you to keep our staff and our enrollment intact in order to continue on the successful path we have already established. Respectfully, Friends and Supporters of Charles H. Kim Elementary School


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Long gone are the days when physicists could validate new theories by dropping objects from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. From the discovery of the Higgs boson to the detection of gravitational waves, recent findings in physics have required a staggering level of precision. In search of this precision, scientists are increasingly turning to space as the ultimate laboratory.
The latest mystery that physicists hope to unravel beyond Earth is the neutron lifetime. Inside atomic nuclei, neutrons are stable. But when they travel freely, they decay into other particles within minutes. Pinning down the precise duration of neutrons' life has been much tougher than expected. For decades experiments have given conflicting results. Knowing the true value would not just settle this long-standing debate. It would also help reveal the abundance of helium in the early universe and shed light on the formation of the first stars and galaxies.
Earth-bound neutron experiments have relied on two ways to measure the particles' duration. The "bottle" method, which involves trapping neutrons in a container and counting how many remain as time passes, gives a lifetime of 879 seconds. Yet according to the "beam" method, in which experiments detect the protons created when neutrons decay, the latter particles live for 888 seconds. This nine-second difference is massive, compared with the calculated uncertainty in either measurement. So one of them must be wrong—but scientists do not know which.
Enter MESSENGER, a NASA spacecraft launched to study Mercury in 2004. The probe carried a neutron spectrometer—an instrument that detected free neutrons escaping the planet to help map the minerals on its surface. Using the tool to measure a fundamental physical constant was never on MESSENGER's agenda.
Enormous Bottle Trap
Recently, scientists realized that they might be able to reanalyze the mission's data to measure the neutron lifetime. In a way, neutrons trapped by the gravity of a planet form an enormous bottle experiment—albeit one with a completely different set of systematic uncertainties than those associated with that method (or the beam approach) on Earth. Additionally, the space setting offers advantages such as a lack of noise from vibrations, says Nan Yu, who researches space-based precision measurements at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
A team led by Jack Wilson, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, first attempted to use data from MESSENGER's 2008 flyby of Mercury. But the complicated surface composition of the planet created too much uncertainty in the calculations. Venus, on the other hand, hosts a well-understood atmosphere of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, so scientists knew how neutrons escaping from it would behave. The team turned its attention to MESSENGER's 2007 flyby of Venus, which was made on the spacecraft's way to Mercury—and produced a scant 45 minutes of data. "The only reason that the MESSENGER instruments were actually switched on during the Venus flyby was to check that they worked," Wilson says. "It wasn't trying to do any science there."
During the Venus flyby, the craft came within 340 kilometers of the planet, allowing the team to count the neutrons present at a wide range of altitudes. "Altitude is essentially a proxy for time," Wilson explains. "The farther you are from the planet, the longer neutrons travel, the more likely they decay."
Ultimately, he and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and Durham University in England needed data from both flybys to complete their model. They calculated the neutron lifetime to be 780 seconds, plus or minus 90 seconds—a large uncertainty range consistent with both the beam and bottle methods. The results were published on June 11 in Physical Review Research. Though the measurement was not precise enough to break the measurement impasse yet, the method holds promise, scientists say.
Hope for a Resolution
"I think it's a really neat idea. I was impressed that [the researchers] were able to do it," says Shannon Hoogerheide, who runs ongoing beam experiments at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Peter Geltenbort, who conducts bottle experiments at the Laue-Langevin Institute in France, likewise welcomes the "amazing and exciting" result. Neither researcher was involved with the new study. Future measurements in space "could have a significant impact on the resolution of the neutron lifetime puzzle," Geltenbort says. But he cautions that there is a long road ahead.
The fact that the MESSENGER calculations included data from flybys of both Mercury and Venus created a large systematic uncertainty. In a future mission, flying by Venus numerous times would eliminate the need for data from Mercury and dramatically decrease the uncertainty. Even so, Hoogerheide says, reducing the error bars from 90 seconds to less than nine seconds will be difficult. "The devil's in the systematics," she says. And given the cost and complexities of a mission to Venus, it will be years before particle physicists get the chance to collect new data.
In the meantime, Wilson's team is analyzing old data from Lunar Prospector, a NASA probe that orbited the moon from 1998 to 1999. Like MESSENGER, the probe carried a neutron spectrometer that might yield an estimate of the particle's lifetime. In this case, systematic uncertainties will arise from the small size of the moon and its lack of a thick atmosphere. Despite the challenges ahead, Wilson is optimistic. "I think having some radically different solution is exciting," he says, "because it suggests that there's real potential here to make significant progress."


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Bantry group sends care packages to African mums
MATERNAL care packages will be making their way to Africa thanks to the generosity of the people of Bantry.
In August, an event called Mama Africa was held at Ma Murphy's pub in Bantry to raise funds for the Toto Care Box charity, which is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Fiona Moejes told The Southern Star: 'It is still a young charity. We have only been up and running for about two years, but this year we have been busy.'
The money raised will be used to provide maternal care packages to impoverished women in slums in Kenya.
Fiona explained that they are working to address the high maternal and infant mortality rates by supplying necessary maternal care box to new mothers.
The box contains a mattress that acts as a crib for the new-born. It also includes items such as a mosquito net, surgical spirit, nappies and anti-dehydration kits.
In order to receive a free Toto Care Box, the expectant mother must attend at least four antenatal classes, which helps to incentivise antenatal checks.
Each box costs about 3,000ksh, which is about €25, and to date the organisation is supplying around 30 boxes a month at the moment.
In preparation for the Mama Africa event a group of people cooked for two days straight to give the people of West Cork 'a little taste of Africa.'
Fiona said: 'We also had some African jewellery, clothing and household items for sale, and held a raffle for prizes that were kindly donated by the people of Bantry.'
Kenya cribs Finland's solution to The Finns' cardboard box prompts an African graduate to develop a life-saving device for babies
When Lucy Kaigutha read about a Finnish tradition that dates back to the 1930s, she was struck by a thought: Could the Scandinavians have a tool that would save the lives of newborn babies in Africa, in her native Kenya? Could a simple cardboard box doubling as a bed keep a baby safe in the first months?
"I remembered a student field trip to Marachi village in northern Kenya. There was a mum with a two-week-old baby who didn't have much to take care of this child," says Kaigutha, a graduate in public health and international development. "[It] really moved me. And I thought maybe I could also come up with a box, but one that will help mothers and babies in our poor areas."
For that is what Finland's welfare state has been doing for decades: giving every expectant mother a brightly coloured, sturdy cardboard box that is 74cm long, 43cm wide and 27cm high. It comes with a small mattress to turn it into a bed, and also sheets and clothes.
The box serves as an incentive to pregnant women to visit maternity clinics: only women who have a pregnancy certificate confirming that they had a health examination before the fifth month of their pregnancy receive a box.
Studies have shown that the earlier a pregnant woman visits a maternity clinic, the better the chances are that doctors will be able to save her baby, should something go wrong during her pregnancy.
As many women have more than one child, and therefore already have a box, they can also choose rather to receive a maternity allowance of about R2200. But, according to Finland's health department, only about a third of mothers choose the money.
Government statistics for 2014 show that 99.6% of Finland's pregnant women visited maternity clinics before the fifth month of their pregnancy.
The country also has one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world — two deaths in 1000 live births of babies before their first birthday, data from the World Bank shows. This is a remarkable drop from the end of the 1930s, when nearly every 10th child born in Finland died under the age of one, according to Statistics Finland.
In comparison, South Africa's infant mortality rate is 35 in 1000 live births, according to the 2015/2016 Health Barometer. World Bank statistics show Kenya's is 36 in 1 000.
In July last year, after consulting midwives, nurses and mothers, Kaigutha used crowdfunding for the Toto Care Box.
"It is a crib for the first three months, but the box also comes with 18 essential items that protect the baby in its first 28 days," Kaigutha explans.
This includes a waterproof mattress, baby clothes, a blanket and a mosquito net. The container looks like any brown storage box, although it boasts the bright Toto Care logo.
But these boxes are sturdy and specially commissioned from young men from poor areas, Kaigutha explains.
The idea of baby boxes has spread across the world. Health professionals and local authorities have run pilot projects or adopted the boxes in efforts to cut infant deaths and to help poor parents. Businesses have caught on to the idea and are selling bumper designer versions to the well-heeled and trendy — the Baby Box Co offers a deluxe, if still cardboard, style stacked with products for $449.
In South Africa, a plastic baby box is being studied and trialled by the department of economics at Stellenbosch University and the health department is investigating a maternity package linked to baby boxes.
Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, India and Canada all have local variations of the maternity package and in the United Kingdom, where government statistics show there are four infant deaths in 1000 live births, health chiefs in several hospitals have started giving the boxes to new families.
The Scottish government has confirmed all babies born on August 15 or after will get a box with essentials as a "welcome gift" and to help tackle deprivation. The box acts as a Moses basket, according to information on the Scottish government website, and is a safe and comfortable place for babies to sleep.
But the Lullaby Trust, a British charity that provides sleeping advice and works to cut sudden infant death syndrome (Sids), has warned there is no evidence to suggest the use of the boxes will cut the risk of infant mortality caused by Sids.
"We support all efforts to promote safer sleep for babies," explains Francine Bates, chief executive of the charity, in a statement. "However, we do have concerns about the baby boxes being marketed as products which will reduce infant mortality and Sids."
The Lullaby Trust has also expressed concern about whether the boxes comply fully with safety standards, because there is no "specific standard for the use of a cardboard box as a sleeping place for an


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GigaOm, an independent research firm that I highly respect, released a study today comparing performance and price between a SQL Server VM on Microsoft's Azure platform and a SQL Server VM on Amazon's AWS EC2 platform. Azure is the clear winner. But, I'm pretty tough on vendors, as you might know from some of my blog posts. Let's review their findings.
Before we get started, SQL Server database-as-a-service (Azure SQL Database) and/or Managed Instances are great to use, when it's the right use case. All the rage is XaaS nowadays. But, you know as well as I do that a high number of variables exist on if you can even use one of these platforms instead of installing SQL Server in a VM somewhere. The third-party software vendor might not support a DBaaS platform (ISVs – get with the times!). The software might have some 'legacy' (a nice name for it) practices of leveraging software installed in the OS via xp_cmdshell, or using DB Mail to send automated emails for your business. I'm sure you have a running list of things in your environment like this that make you blush when someone mentions bad practices. Installing SQL Server in a VM, either on-prem or in the cloud, gives you full control and allows these practices to continue – because sometimes you can't fix vendor code.
Back to the study and off of my soapbox…
First, they used an updated benchmarking suite, the TPC-E benchmark. I'm actually thrilled that they used both Windows and Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux specifically) as the OS platform, as it shows the validity of using Linux for SQL Server workloads, something that I've been a huge fan of for years. The TPC-E benchmark is more real-world than some of the older TPC benchmarks such as TPC-C, and is meant to represent an OLTP workload.
The workload on either cloud provider was not designed to be the 'biggest' or 'best', meaning massive, cost-prohibitive to most, or just unreasonable. It was meant to represent a 'large' deployment on either platform. I appreciate that. If you want to look at the largest platforms out there, which are admittedly quite fun to work on, they are not really representative of the vast majority of the workloads that you'll find being placed in the public cloud. Instead, they chose to deploy a fairly big SQL Server VM on both platforms – 64 vCPUs and between 432 and 488GB of RAM. These are larger than most SQL Servers that I find in the cloud, but are representative of many of the larger SQL Servers that I manage in on-prem datacenters with businesses debating about the viability of the cloud for these workloads.
The storage configuration was quite impressive too on both servers.
The RHEL configuration was quite similar to the Windows Server configuration.
The first round of results shows that the SQL Server performance on Azure with a very similar VM configuration was over three times faster, measured in database transaction per second.
They also make some significant claims on the price improvements of SQL Server IaaS on Azure over AWS, claiming an 86.8% better price-performance ratio when comparing Azure Hybrid Benefit to AWS License Mobility. They chose to do the price comparison by looking at the overall dollar versus transactions per second metrics, which I feel is a fair comparison that factors performance into the price.
One item they note is one of our favorite performance-tuning tricks, which is to use the Azure BlobCache feature. It leverages the VM RAM and a local SSD on the virtualized host in Azure to provide free read caching to boost performance of any I/O-dependent workload, which definitely includes SQL Server workloads.
Everyone's licensing scenario is different, and vary wildly. I urge you to do your own research into your licensing scenario, use cases, and judge equivalent scaled VMs on both platforms based on your needs. The results of the report are quite compelling, though, and it's similar to many of the results that we develop when comparing the various cloud providers for our customers.
I never want to come off as a marketing pitch for any vendor. I intentionally do not resell software or hardware in my consulting business, as I always want the right tool for the specific situation and client at hand. Read the report, weigh the stats and compare it to your environment, and judge for yourself. Everyone's needs, experiences, expectations, and budgets are different. Test and validate anything you're considering moving to for yourself. As for me, I chose Azure for my production environment for my business.


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It is critical to note that in order to present the most effective results, your
email newsletter campaign
must be specifically engineered to appeal to every type of Energy Supply & Services client, from the casual customers who may only be peripherally aware of your operations to the fully dedicated energy-driven companies and energy-aware consumers who avail themselves of your services and have the potential to evangelize your benefits to a wider online and offline audience. It is necessary to provide the precise type of information that each customer category requires so that when they require your form of energy services, they will turn to your company first.
Email marketing for Energy businesses is different from the traditional types of advertising placed in the conventional media such as magazines, newspapers, radio, television and Yellow Page ads. One of the most important differences is how federal and state law is generally applied to email marketing as opposed to traditional advertising: Email marketing is more severely regulated than conventional media formats and the manner by which Energy businesses interact with their email newsletter subscribers is precisely legislated.
Every Energy business collecting business cards or some form of physical signup sheets to collect information about their customers is required to state that direct and unequivocal approval has been obtained from the clients prior to placing their email address onto a list.
CAN-SPAM Violations Have Severe Consequences
In the U.S., the primary authority governing all forms of email marketing is administered under the
CAN-SPAM Act
, which illustrates criteria on how all email marketers must behave when interacting with the public. The legislation is based on the facilitation of any subscriber to instantly opt out of your list at their primary request. Violations of the CAN-SPAM Act are considered as a clear infringement of federal regulation and could lead to penalties and even long jail terms.
Facilitate Unsubscriptions
As soon as any subscriber informs your Energy business that they want to be taken off of your email newsletter receiver list, federal legislation specifies that they must be deleted from your list irrevocably and immediately. Your Energy business must make sure that the procedure your customer can follow to be taken off your list is easily locatable in every email you send them and simple to use. Failure to honor demands for unsubscriptions constitutes a crime with serious penalties.
Bouncing Email Management
When any Energy business sends out an email, be it a personal message, a business reply or a marketing campaign newsletter, one of three separate things can occur:
It can be delivered correctly.
If your email has bounced you will receive a message from the Mailer Daemon informing you of the situation and explaining reasons for the bounce. If the bounce is soft, the condition occurred after the message left your computer. In cases of a soft bounce it is considered good email practice to attempt to contact the customer through an alternative form of communication in order to inform them that the emails are being returned.
A hard bounce is a more serious problem, as the fault lies with the sender. If you are repeatedly sending emails to an address that is non-existent or blocked for any reason, the various ISPs that route traffic around the internet will place you among the lists of criminal spammers. Being placed on this type of
has serious consequences for your Energy business, as you may find that you will no longer be able to send out any email marketing missives whatsoever. The boycott may extend to your personal and business emails as well.
Privacy Policy
Some Energy business owners and managers do little more than click onto a competitor's website and copy their privacy policy in order to paste it verbatim onto their own website pages. Not only does this action create a duplicate content that will affect your search engine position in a negative fashion, but it also leaves your business open to potential legal action. To protect your business, your attorney should draft a completely unique and personalized privacy policy that accurately covers the way you do business online.
List Segmentation
Segmentation of an Energy business' email subscription list is by far the best method to hone your online communications strategy based on the demographic and behavior features of your subscribers. The application of segmentation techniques develops email content that precisely fit the wildly differing characteristics of your subscriber base, so you will be able to offer the types of discounts, offers, products, services, equipment and accessories each is most likely to be interested in to suit their energy needs and consumption volumes.
Test Your Email Content
Experienced email marketers are aware of the requirement that they conduct a vigorous and ongoing testing process on their email marketing content. One of the most common tests is called an A/B split test which involves identical content being sent to a particular segment of the subscription list with only a single element changed, such as the
, subject line, image or position of a link. By comparing how these different newsletters perform, you can gain valuable insight into what your Energy business customers are responding to in order to continue to hone your content through further testing.
Obtaining Your Customer's Personal Information
Most Energy business customers are hesistant to divulge personal information about themselves. Many email marketers have discovered that motivating surveys or other types of incentivized polling forms can be a boon in obtaining personal data to base segmentation methodologies on.
Analyze Your Customer's Behavior
The primary method of determining the success of your email marketing campaign is through scrutinizing various
email metric
statistics. There are some customers on any subscription list who simply will not open your emails at all, and continuing to send to these subscribers is not likely to modify that type of behavior pattern. These email addresses are best eliminated from your email newsletter list. Other customers may open and read your emails but usually fail to respond to the call to action. These subscribers should not be deleted from the list since they are reading your emails, and that often equates to their eventual response to your Energy business in other ways. The most lucrative category is comprised of the prospects who both read and click through to your landing pages, as these are the customers who are the most responsive from an email marketing perspective, and thus very valuable as online communications recipients.
Good Email Practices
It is important to adhere to good email practices to ensure that you will improve client compliance and maintain the highest level of efficiency while bearing overall positive results at your Energy business' bottom line. Lines, preheaders and subject lines should be meticulously crafted; the differing display abilities between PC and mobile browsers must be accounted for, as well as website landing pages featuring the specific content required to synchronize your A/B split testing efforts and segmentation methods.
Email Metrics
The statistics in this report demonstrate an overwhelming majority of Energy business owners and managers are unaware of their campaigns' click-through rates, while a much smaller number were also unaware of their open rates. While 44 percent were not able to quote their open rates, 87 percent could not state their click-through rates. This failure to comprehend the impact of these basic email metrics when directing an email marketing campaign is a problem that needs to be addressed, especially when it is noted that the differential of nearly double in the rate of open and click-through rate comprehension is a ratio far beyond most industry standard medians. By not understanding the most basic email metrics that are obtained by an online promotional campaign, the Energy business manager or owner denies themselves the overview into the specific factors that indicate how their overall email marketing and promotional campaigns are performing.


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Ghosts and Goblins, tricks and treats, houses of horror and costumed heroes and villains. Should Christians have anything to do with such practices, or is it just harmless fun? Believe it or not, Christians are about equally divided on this issue. Perhaps a little history is in order to help us decide this matter.
In the first place, the term Halloween is in fact a modified form of All Hallow's Eve, that is the day in the Christian calendar before All Saints Day. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the British celebration of Guy Fawkes Day (i.e. a celebration of the attempt to blow up Parliament) or the modern or more ancient practices of Bonfire Night, which may or may not derive from the ancient Celtic celebration of Harvest Night or Samhain.
The Wikipedia article on the subject suggests the following conclusions—-
Many Christians ascribe no negative significance to Halloween, treating
it as a purely secular holiday devoted to celebrating "imaginary
spooks" and handing out candy. Halloween celebrations are common among Roman Catholic parochial schools throughout North America and in Ireland. In fact, the Roman Catholic Church sees Halloween as having a Christian connection. Father Gabriele Amorth, a Vatican-appointed exorcist
in Rome, has said, "[I]f English and American children like to dress up
as witches and devils on one night of the year that is not a problem.
Most Christians hold the view that the tradition is far from being
"satanic" in origin or practice and that it holds no threat to the
spiritual lives of children: being taught about death and mortality,
and the ways of the Celtic ancestors actually being a valuable life
lesson and a part of many of their parishioners' heritage.
Other Christians feel concerned about Halloween, and reject the holiday
because they believe it trivializes (and celebrates) "the occult" and
what they perceive as evil. A response among some fundamentalists in recent years has been the use of Hell houses or themed pamphlets (such as those of Jack T. Chick) which attempt to make use of Halloween as an opportunity for evangelism. Some consider Halloween to be completely incompatible with the Christian faith due to its origin as a pagan "Festival of the Dead." In more recent years, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has organized a "Saint Fest" on the holiday.
Many contemporary Protestant churches view Halloween as a fun event for
children, holding events in their churches where children and their
parents can dress up, play games, and get candy. Jehovah's Witnesses do
not celebrate Halloween for they believe anything that originated from
a pagan holiday should not be celebrated by true Christians."
It is not a surprise that the bringing of the practice of celebrating Halloween in America is credited to the Irish Catholics, since they in particular had a robust celebration of the saints— for example St. Patrick's Day. The practice of celebrating All Hallow's Eve is especially associated historically with the Catholic tradition for another reason as well.
In Catholic tradition (cf. the various Orthodox Church traditions) there are the spirits of some dead persons in purgatory and some in limbo. It is understandable that the notion that there are spirits out there who are neither in heaven or hell, but in an unresolved state, perhaps in Sheol or the land of the dead would eventually be connected with All Hallow's Eve, the day those spirits wander the earth longing for the resolution of their eternal fate.
All Saint's Day by contrast celebrates the saints who in fact have made it to heaven and obtained the beatific vision. In neither case does the celebration of these days have anything to do with the occult, or with the glorification of evil, Satan, demons, or the like. If one wants to read a creative interpretation of All Hallow's Eve by a conservative Protestant writer, Charles Williams novel All Hallow's Eve is the ghost story for you.
It is of course true that most persons, including most American Christians by now do not celebrate All Hallow's Eve or All Saint's Day as a holy day, but rather merely as a holiday, a day for children to dress up and go trick or treating. The earlier Christian celebration is either forgotten, ignored, or its meaning neglected.
Conservative Protestants might well object to the practice of Halloween on the grounds that it offers up a theology of the afterlife they do not agree with (i.e. they do not believe in purgatory or limbo), but it would be well if they evaluated the practice on the proper historical grounds, and not make the mistake of thinking the practice originally had purely pagan much less demonic origins, which is not in fact true. Some churches today in fact have used the occasion to teach children about the saints in heaven and how they got there, especially focusing on the martyrs and the book of Revelation.
There are however other reasons for Christians to pause before simply indulging the cultural celebration of Halloween, not the least of which is that the message children actually get out of the practice is that if they dress up in costume someone will give them sweets and treats that are in fact generally of no nutritional value, if they are not positively bad for their health and dental hygiene.
But lest I be accused of being the Grinch that stole Halloween, may I just quietly suggest that Halloween could be used as a time that children could bear witness to their faith— dressing up in costumes representing the heroes of faith, chronicled in texts like Hebrews 11. In so doing, they could use the occasion of a holiday, to remember once more a holy day– the celebration of all the saints who have gone into the living presence of God who one day will return with Christ to reign on earth, as that great hymn "For All the Saints" reminds us.


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China has taken the top spot from the United States in this year's Top 500 listing of the world's most powerful supercomputers. The list was announced today during the opening session of the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, Germany.
The Tianhe-2 (Milky Way-2) is installed at the National Supercomputer Centre in Guangzhou, China. The supercomputer has a total of 3.12 million computing cores. It is expected to be fully operation in about two years time.
Sequoia, an IBM BlueGene/Q system installed at DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, also dropped one position and is now the No. 3 system. Sequoia was first delivered in 2011 and has achieved 17.17 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark using 1,572,864 cores. Sequoia is also one of the most energy efficient systems on the list, consuming a total of 7.84 MW and delivering 2,031.6 Mflops/W.
Fujitsu's "K computer" installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe, Japan, is now the No. 4 system, with a performance of 10.51 Petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark using 705,024 SPARC64 processing cores
A second BlueGene/Q system, Mira, installed at Argonne National Laboratory, is at No. 5 with 8.59 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark using 786,432 cores.
Despite the rout, The U.S. remains the world leader in number of super computers. The country has 253 of the listed 500 supercomputers. China ranks second with 65 systems, followed by Japan, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.


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Date: 6th December 2016, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Location: Auditorium of the Australian Centre on China in the World, The Australian National University, Canberra
The event will be hosted by ACT Scientist of the year 2016, Dr Ceridwen Fraser, and opened by the ambassador of Peru and former Chairman of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development, His Excellency Mr Miguel Palomino De La Gala.
Following the screening, a Q&A will be hosted by the a panel consisting of documentary film maker, Dr George Olah; conservation biologist and evolutionary ecologist, Prof Robert Heinsohn; and evolutionary biologist and conservation geneticist, Prof Rod Peakall.
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Britannia Developments Limited Collapsed into Administration
An award winning building firm has collapsed into its administration got collapsed in Yorkshire. A report says.
A massive Yorkshire house building has completely closed down its property after suffering huge loses. A report from Yorkshire confirms it. On 2nd January 2013, Adrian Peter Berry and Daniel Francis Butters were brought to the Britannia Developments Limited as joint administrators. These two persons are from Deloitte's and they will serve as joint administrators of the concern. To add to the sorrow it can be said that the Britannia Developments Limited is awarded the Home Builder of the Year in the year 2002 and 2003 and it was also among the top 10 finalists in the year 2006 and 2007. This was a Farnley-based company and it used to operate in the west and south Yorkshire. It is now in possession of seven development sites and a lot of unsold properties. It is also in charge of three unfinished developments and all the charges went in the hands of the administrators.
The Yorkshire based company is also known to have a lot of property based on a lot of parcels of development and a lot of partly exchanged properties. A spokeswoman brought forward a new report saying that about 22 employees working in that company lost their jobs. The company was at its peak with a turnover of around 34 million pounds per annum in the year 2006 but it has suffered huge losses with a pre-tax loss of about 1 million pounds in the year 2008 to 2010. A lot of people including the builder's associated expressed their deep sorrow concerning the huge loss faced by the building and the shutting down of the company.
Commenting on the particular shocking news, the people of Deloitte's group of administrator commented that this is the biggest example of a company's closing down during the recession. Recession is having a massive impact in the entire and global ambience making it very difficult for the businessmen to survive. They are facing tremendous losses as more and more people are less willing to invest during the period of recession. The massive problems associated with the builders lie here. So during the period of recession the businessmen must keep the ball rolling by the help of some investment strategies.
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About 90% of Americans eat more sodium than is recommended for a healthy diet.
Why is this a problem?
Too much sodium increases a person's risk for high blood pressure. High blood pressure often leads to heart disease and stroke. More than 800,000 people die each year from heart disease, stroke and other vascular diseases, costing the nation $273 billion in health care dollars in 2010.
Note: The words salt and sodium are sometimes used interchangeably because most of the sodium we eat is in the form of salt (sodium chloride). Some salts don't contain sodium.
Where does all this sodium come from?
Most of the sodium we eat comes from processed foods and foods prepared in restaurants. Sodium is already part of processed foods and cannot be removed.
However, manufacturers and restaurants can produce foods with less sodium. In addition, you can select lower sodium foods when possible and you can cook more foods yourself, to better control how much sodium you eat.
Types of foods matter: More than 40% of sodium comes from the following 10 types of foods:
– Breads and rolls
– Cold cuts and cured meats such as deli or packaged ham, or turkey
– Pizza
– Fresh and processed poultry
– Soups
– Sandwiches such as cheeseburgers
– Cheese
– Pasta dishes
– Mixed meat dishes such as meatloaf with tomato sauce
– Snacks such as chips, pretzels, and popcorn.
• Sources of foods matter: About 65% of sodium eaten comes from food bought at retail stores, so look for lower sodium choices. About 25% comes from restaurants and it can be hard for a person to tell how much sodium is in restaurant foods.
• Brands of foods matter: Different brands of the same foods may have different sodium levels. For example, sodium in chicken noodle soup can vary by as much as 840 milligrams (mg) per serving.
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• Americans eat on average about 3,300 mg of sodium a day. The U.S. Dietary Guidelines recommend limiting sodium to


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An action/adventure science fiction novel spanning the Galaxy and the next century.
The Supreme Command Officer of CoFed assigns Jarret a mission. He is to voyage to Rehoboth and obtain the data code key which provides that domed city with the most advanced technology in the galaxy.
His former love interest, Ann, will now be his commanding officer. Surviving several attempts on their lives, Ann and Jarret voyage from Earth to the domed city at the edge of the galaxy.
Rehoboth proves to be an idyllic place. The peace and harmony of its people convince them to settle there and not return to Earth.
However, Ann unknowingly brought the seeds of the city's destruction with her.
Jarret is forced to climb the impenetrable mountain that looms above the city to retrieve the code some believe responsible for Rehoboth's extraordinary lifestyle. In the mountain lab, he discovers secrets linking his past and future to the welfare of the city and galaxy.
Is the Utopian lifestyle of Rehoboth the result of superior technology or the benevolence of the Holy One?
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Some dog owners claim that males are typically more aggressive and destructive, particularly in small spaces. Female dogs are said to be easier to train and more affectionate. Depending on the dog breed, these stereotypes may be true or not.
Choosing a female dog means either taking the initiative to spay, or deal with the issue of the dog being in heat. Failure to take action for doggie birth control means that you're constantly trying to find homes for cute litters of puppies. Female dogs don't have menopause, so unlike the human female, dogs can have puppies practically all their lives.
You'll spend weeks every year trying to guard your female from males who can catch the scent from blocks away. On the other hand, if you have a pure bred dog that you want to breed, then having a female dog can become a financial advantage. Male dogs insist on marking their territory, whether it's around your house or in the yard. They do this by urinating on their "spot" so they can find it again. You can try to train a dog not to mark his territory, but you're asking him to go against his instincts. If you have another male dog in the house, expect a battle for who rules the house, particularly if both want to be alpha dogs.
Even a smaller male dog will challenge or irritate the larger male - just to prove who was in the house first. Dogs of opposite genders tend to get along better than dogs of the same gender. While female dogs are not as vicious toward each other as male dogs, some females don't want to share their space with another dog. Female dogs are generally easier to house train than male dogs, although that can vary by breed and by the skill of the dog trainer. Male dogs are seen as more lively and active, but certain breeds are "high strung" in both males and females.
Ask the average person shopping for a dog and you'll find many are looking for a female dog. They probably believe the notion that female dogs are less aggressive and easier to train. However, they forget that female dogs can be highly temperamental. Breeders tend to favor male dogs as an easier pet to manage. Gender isn't the only predictor (or even a good predictor) of how a dog will behave. Breeds that are known to be calm and tolerant, tend to be that way whether male or female.
Other breeds that are feisty, nippy and difficult to handle are that way for males and females. Since there's no scientific evidence that predicts the characteristics of males compare with females, then the decision about dog gender is essentially subjective. Chances are, your memories of a childhood pet or a friend's pet that you wish you had is what's influencing your choice now. Maybe you recall the gentle female Collie who lovingly cared for litter after litter of puppies as the ideal dog. Or you think about the rough and tumble large male dog that could run hard, play tirelessly and keep up with the most inquisitive children.
If that's what leads you to decide whether a male or female is the best dog to have, then go with your feelings. For you, that will be the right choice.
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