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Something I have come to notice over the last few years is the fact that my hair has started thinning. It has gone from being a beautiful thick healthy head of hair to a shadow of its former self. No one would really know if they were to look at it though as I am the queen of trickery when it comes to my hair, a quick flick of the comb here, blow of the blow dryer there and a spray at the end, the magic is complete. I'm going to share a few tips with you on how to get your hair looking fuller and thicker if you're starting to feel a little lacklustre.
Stop washing your hair!
Okay, I don't mean completely, but I do mean every day. This is only going to make your hair prone to breakage due to the fact you're stripping all them natural oils out and making it really brittle. Try going every three or four days to see how it goes.
Put down that towel and that brush while you're at it!
Please, for the love of god stop rubbing your hair with a towel and yanking it with a brush while its wet. This is going to cause so much damage and make your hair prone to breakage. Instead pat it dry or better yet leave it to dry naturally, as for the brushing try using a wide tooth comb teasing any tangles rather than yanking them.
Stop using heat every day
Heat can really damage your hair, yet again causing it to break and look thin. The worst part for someone like me who's hair also falls out is all that tugging can make excess strands drop. Some simple yet effective root lift tricks without adding heat is to just simply change what side you wear your parting on, back comb in the areas you need a little lift, and use dry shampoo throughout your hair to add texture to make it appear thicker and fuller.
Perfect your blow dry
If you are going to use heat on your hair make sure you're going to use it right. Perfecting your blow dry can be hard but once you have the knack you're going to be whacking it out like a pro. Blow dry your hair in the opposite direction to how you want it to fall to really give it that root lift, then set it with a cool shot, this will hold your style all day long. Once you get the hang of it you can then have a play around by adding curls for more volume, keeping the straighteners well away from your hair.
Rethink your cut and colour
Even if your hair is falling out or thinning having a good cut can actually boost the way it looks by adding a bit of depth in the terms of layers, creating volume in areas. Also just adding a few highlights here and there can trick the eye into making your hair look thicker and fuller.
Obviously when your hair starts to thin and fall out it can really knock your confidence, I know it doesn't make me feel as great as I used to as I can't do all the things I used to be able to with my hair. Luckily we live in a day now where there are so many treatments on offer from natural supplements to hair transplants where you can get a beautiful head of hair to give you all the confidence in the world. They aren't just designed for the likes of Wayne Rooney either, women can benifit from them all the same given them the beautiful head of hair they once had or have craved their whole life.
What are your top tips for keeping your hair looking fuller and thicker?
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If You're Looking for the Ideal Family Log House, Here's Something That Might Interest You
Log cabins are an amazing way to build a full time home or even just a getaway! This 3 Bedroom Cabin Model is the perfect example of what a family cabin looks like. The scene it's in is just picturesque, the open field with tall and short trees surrounding, all on it's own without another house in sight. The perfect place to create family memories, and the perfect house to pass down to future generations. The log built home has a really beautiful classic design, with the log beams as columns in the front of the house, as you enter the patio. The patio is the perfect place to enjoy the outdoors with a nice glass of iced tea or a cup of hot tea in the colder months.
The two bedrooms on the upper level seem to have their own little peaked windows, making for nice light and added space in the rooms too, since the windows jut out from the house a bit. The landscaping is great in it's minimalism. Letting the house speak for itself. The rocks that make up the flower beds are the perfect natural touch for this house and give an area to plant some bushes, flowers or maybe some edible plants!
Log homes and cabins are always a classic go to when building and designing homes and cabins. There is a warmth about log structures that just can't be created by other building materials. The logs are amazing in their beauty and they are so strong and durable to be able to hold up to anything, and so many years of use. If you are lucky enough to live in one, you know that they are truly something special, and you probably wouldn't settle for anything else! To check out the beautiful photo of this home, head over to 'Branson Cedars Resort' website by following the link in the description below for more!
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February 28, 2007
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AIRTRAN AIRWAYS IS TRUE TO THEIR WORD AND PROVIDES EXCELLENT SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITYAccording to Akron-Canton Airport
Green, OH:On behalf of the 1.2 million travelers in the Akron-Canton Area, the Akron-Canton Airport (CAK) respectfully disagrees with allegations about AirTran Airways made by Midwest Air Group in a recent press release. AirTran Airways has not only kept promises it has made to our community, it has exceeded them by offering more nonstop destinations and lower fares than any carrier in the sixty year history of the airport.
"AirTran Airways has never misrepresented or failed to deliver on any business opportunity presented to our community," said airport director Fred Krum. "AirTran Airways is a respected provider of reliable, value-driven air service that has saved travelers in our region millions in airfare for more than a decade."
AirTran at CAK at a glance:
·AirTran Airways offers service from CAK to markets people want to go to including Atlanta, New York, Boston, Orlando, Tampa, Ft. Myers and Ft. Lauderdale
AirTran consistently operates 99-99.5% of their monthly departures
CAK customers rave about AirTran's new Boeing jet fleet and XM Radio in every seat
AirTran Airways has effectively lowered fares by 40% since they commenced service in our market
AirTran Airways supports business, community and charitable organizations including but not limited to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, United Way of Summit and Stark Counties, the University of Akron athletics department, the Akron Aeros baseball club, and the Greater Akron chamber of commerce
AirTran Airways' service has stimulated new trips from our airport by 300% and has made our region a more desirable place to live, work and raise a family
"Although the airport is neutral on the AirTran Airways offer to acquire Midwest Air Holdings, we felt compelled to clear the record regarding AirTran's benefit to our community.They have been a terrific partner," added Krum.
About CAK
Akron-Canton Airport has posted record breaking passenger traffic for the past five years, welcoming more than 1.4 million travelers annually. CAK also offers the lowest average fare of any airport in the State of Ohio, largely because of AirTran Airways' service. Additional information including flight reservations, driving instructions, and a relaxation station is available at www.akroncantonairport.com.Akron-Canton Airport, a better way to go®.


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I am holding this image in my mind.
Warehouse. Blank Space. White Lights. Long Tables. Band. Dessert Table. Lots and Lots of People.
Someone needs to let me plan a party for them. All these ideas and nothing to do with them right now. It's a sad place to be.
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CS456/556 Final Presentation and Project Demo Evaluation
Date: __________________________________________________________
Name of the evaluator: ____________________________________________
Team: __________________________________________________________
Writing: 20 points are given for each of the following, for a total possible score of 100 points.
___________ Mechanics – Length, spacing, margins, name on paper
___________ Grammar and spelling – Deductions for misspelled words and violations of the basic rules of English grammar.
___________ Sentence structures and proper paragraphs – Are the sentences well-formed and easy to follow structurally? Are there paragraph breaks at the appropriate points?
___________ Organization – Is the organization logical and complete? Are sources properly acknowledged?
___________ Technical clarity – Does the writing carry an argument through in a cohesive sequence to a strong conclusion.
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Presentation: Each of the following areas receives a score of 0 to 10 points, for a total score of 0 to 100 points.
___________ Posture, use of hands
___________ Eye contact
___________ Volume
___________ Articulation
___________ Organization of the presentation
___________ Power point slides: appropriate level of details
___________ Power point slides: graphical quality and readability
___________ Appropriate rotation of the presenter among team members/Appropriate length for individual presenters
___________ Drawing on class/client interaction
___________ Informative scenarios for demonstration
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Project: Each of the following areas receives a score of 0 to 20 points, for a total score of 0 to 100 points.
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___________ Innovation
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All our products come with comprehensive warranty support.
|Two Year Swap Out Warranty (Single Phase)
|All Harland Simon UPS single phase products up to 3kVA are covered by a two year swap out warranty. Includes parts, transport and labour.
|Two Year On Site Warranty (Single Phase)
|All Harland Simon UPS single phase products over 3kVA are covered by a two year on site warranty. Including parts, travel and labour.
|One Year On Site Warranty (Three Phase)
|All Harland Simon UPS three phase products are covered by a one year on site warranty. Including parts, travel and labour.
Standard warranty for a replacement or repair is on a reasonable endeavours basis.
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|Units 3000VA and below:
- If a reported defective unit is found to have no fault an aborted visit or inspection charge will be made*.
- Units that are retuned for repair must be properly packaged and will be at the customer's liability against physical damage.
- It is the claimants responsibility to ensure all details have been completed and the form has been returned**
- The unit will normally be collected after one working week of dispatch of the replacement UPS***
* £295.00 Inspection Charge/£225.00 for an aborted call out
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The BCE site directors at each Burlingame school serve as the liaisons between parent volunteers and the overall BCE organization.
Jen Liebhaber, VP Site Directors (and the former Franklin BCE Site Director), described the role as being the primary leader and face of BCE at each of the school sites.
"The site directors work tirelessly to achieve BCE's mission: providing the Burlingame School District with financial resources to create a rich and inspiring education for our children beyond what is possible with public funds," she said.
In addition to being the "go-to" person for BCE questions, each site director is in charge of local outreach efforts and develops personal relationships with donors over a two-year term.
Two site directors are entering the second year of their terms — Delyn Simons (Washington's BCE Site Director) and Kristen Schwager (Roosevelt's BCE Site Director).
Over the next several weeks, we'll be introducing you to the rest of the site directors:
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What Are Your All-Time Favorite xoVain Articles?
It's gonna get sappy up in here.
'What is your definition of beauty?' asks Selfridges, the UK-based luxury retailer. At first reassuringly democratic, the question carries a waft of faux-chumminess, where beauty is obviously independent of anything a brand could tell me. But, despite my cynicism, Selfridges plotted an expansive map of beauty culture, covering everything from age to body alteration throughout its 6-week program, The Beauty Project.
One of the main aspects of the campaign is a 4-minute film exploring the resurgent trend of natural afro hair called 'A Return to Natural', where Hannah Pool (writer/curator), Marc Hare (shoe designer), Adio Marchant (Bipolar Sunshine) and Monique Sterling (Theatre Director) meditate on their personal journey with the 'fro.
Whilst a seemingly fortunate inclusion of minorities in the beauty debate, the campaign's surface empowerment is undercut with a narrow understanding of what is 'natural', what it is to be 'natural' and the supposed moral, post-oppressive utopianism that it affords.
The word 'natural', especially in a beauty context, spews ideas of honesty and being real. It's important to note the position it maintains in a binary of options, though — being natural only gains significance when compared to the fake. The processes towards the 'natural' can switch on an infinite cycle of subtraction, or, as Sebastian Truskolaski's mentions in an article on beauty theory, the appraised standard of nature can suddenly disappoint with its emptiness. "Adorno argues that 'Nature is beautiful in that it appears to say more than it is.' And, in a way, that's precisely the point: mere nature is only beautiful where it steps outside of itself by saying 'more than it is': by making itself completely into artifice."
That's not to say being 'natural' (whatever that is) can't enliven or enrich, but it's worth underlining that the positives aren't by default. The title 'A Return to Natural' builds itself upon an unstable premise, alluding to a single, long-awaited homecoming when home, in actuality, can be any place and is only as good as you make it.
Statements that fashion a relationship between being 'natural' and being true to one's self lose grounding In fact, it becomes a bit tired. Surely (attempted) authenticity is an overly hyped signifier of self-assurance. Why are we still posturing?
The question then arises: 'Why would you be other than what you are?' or, as Hannah Pool candidly asks, 'Why do so many black women put another woman's hair on their head? This interrogation, posed 3 minutes in to the film, is met by an array of claims articulating the alleged insecurities that inform wig or weave wearing.
'They are fighting to compete with all the women who may have straighter hair'
'Femininity is very much read through long, silky flowing hair'
'I think black women spend more money on their hair than white women simply because they are chasing many ideas of what they are supposed to do'
Whilst this may motivate some hair transformations, it gravely simplifies the desires behind black beauty choices. The possibility that women of color like to dip into trends or experiment is sidelined, condensing participation in beauty culture as 'trying to be' rather than 'freeing one's self up to be'. Agency has, and is being, denied to minorities in the beauty context, and the façade of choice often gives way to guilt and shame, whether a woman chooses to follow the norm or steers away from it.
And the money thing? The staggering amount of cash that [some] black women pay for their hair? Well, is there a cap on the amount that should be spent, and who is in a position to interrogate that decision? This phenomenon of black hair money is referred to twice in the video and framed within the infrastructure of a luxury retailer. It scolds women for their spending whilst silently dictating how they should spend … splurge less on your hair so you can spend more money with us here in our department store (plausible, no?).
The film ends with a montage of Monique Sterling's iridescent Afro, whilst her doppelganger donning chemically straightened hair rotates into darkness, relieved of its temporary spotlight. The final words, before the credits, are an assertive 'keep your hands off my hair'. Slightly irritated and confused by this point, my impulse was to turn that exact phrase back to the video, with a resounding 'but why don't you leave my hair alone?!'
With all things considered, the film campaign ceases to be about natural hair, Afro hair or even general hair choices.
Instead, like first question posed in the film, it's about what your hair says about you … because, let's face it, everyone is watching.
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A Baltimore cardiologist says a major international study that found that three clot-dissolving drugs work equally well to reduce the death rate of heart attack victims may be premature.
hTC Another study, which already has begun and also will involve about 45,000 patients worldwide, now is being touted as the one "that will once and for all settle" the long-debated question of which drug is most effective, Dr. Raymond Barr said yesterday.
Barr, who provided research on 90 patients in the Third International Study of Infarct Survival (ISIS), was at the American College of Cardiology meeting in Atlanta last weekend where the results were announced and the new study was disclosed.


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Photos: NY-NY & Monte Carlo tear up the old for the new
MGM Resorts International announced plans for a $100 million outdoor plaza project in April 2013. It involves remodeling the front facades of New York-New York and Monte Carlo to showcase new eateries, shops and Hershey's Chocolate World, an interactive attraction that celebrates Hershey's-branded products. This district will be anchored by a 20,000-seat arena developed in conjunction with AEG.
Last month, the promenade in front of New York-New York was reopened to pedestrians, unveiling several new businesses (Stupidiotic, Swatch and I♥NYNY) and a new Starbucks. Much of the European-style exterior of the Monte Carlo is under construction as well. Look for a number of new restaurants to be launched there in coming months – including Shake Shack, Sambalatte, 800 Degrees Neapolitan Pizzeria and Double Barrel Roadhouse.
The outdoor plaza project at New York-New York and Monte Carlo is expected to be completed by the first half of 2014 while the arena will open in spring 2016. Take a look at photos of the progress below.


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By David Schwartz
PHOENIX, May 27 (Reuters) - An Arizona judge has rejected media requests to allow live broadcasts of court proceedings to determine if convicted killer Jodi Arias should receive the death penalty for murdering her ex-boyfriend in 2008, documents showed on Tuesday.
Judge Sherry Stephens ruled that the penalty phase may be recorded but that any resulting audio or video recordings may not be made public until after a verdict has been reached, according to court papers.
The judge also said that in the unlikely case she opts to change course and allow limited live broadcasts, such airings would be subject to a 15-minute delay.
The ruling in the high-profile case came in response to efforts by media outlets to live broadcast a sentencing phase retrial for Arias, a one-time California waitress convicted last May of murdering Travis Alexander in his Phoenix-area home six years ago.
Alexander was found slumped in the shower, stabbed multiple times, his throat slashed and shot in the face.
The jury that convicted Arias also ruled that she was eligible for the death penalty but deadlocked on whether she should be executed or spend the rest of her life in prison.
A new sentencing phase jury will be selected in September following months of delays in the sensational case, which had been live-streamed on the Internet and attracted tens of thousands of viewers across the nation.
Since then, further proceedings have been argued mostly in closed-door proceedings, including the request to broadcast the penalty phase. Stephens made her ruling in an entry logged by the court on Tuesday but dated May 21. She did not make public her reasons for the decision.
State prosecutors had the option of retrying the sentencing phase of the trial. If there is another deadlock, a judge would sentence Arias to natural life in prison or life with the possibility of parole after 25 years.
The original trial took five months to complete, with jurors given a heavy dose of graphic testimony, bloody photographs and sex-laced situations. Arias testified for 18 days, proclaiming that she acted in self-defense. (Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Steve Orlofsky)


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By Gwen Filosa, The Times-Picayune
February 23, 2010
Pete Adams, far left, executive director of the Louisiana District Attorneys Association, joins other justice and state officials entering Harmony dormitory Tuesday during a tour of the Bridge City Center for Youth.
This isn't the same Louisiana lock-up where a teenager died after a guard knocked him to the ground seven years ago, one of the last horrors to unfold at a youth prison before the state ended its historic practice of treating juvenile delinquents the same as adult convicts.
For starters, the 132-bed riverside campus is called the Bridge City Center for Youth, not a "correctional" facility. Instead of a warden, Linda London is the director.
Bridge City, in short, is the promise of a sea change in Louisiana juvenile justice, said Mary Livers, who a year ago became the Office of Juvenile Justice deputy secretary, inheriting a system only five years into transition from confinement to treatment, and an eventual end to sending juveniles hundreds of miles away from home.
Kristi Spinosa of the Louisiana District Attorney Association, Ralph E. Brandt Jr. of the Orleans Parish district attorney's office and Joe Waitz Jr., Terrebonne Parish district attorney, listen to residents of Harmony dormitory during a tour of the Bridge City Center for Youth.
Bridge City is one of three state "secure care" centers for juveniles; the others are the Swanson center in Monroe, where more than 200 juveniles are held, and the Jetson facility outside Baton Rouge that is home to about 80 youngsters. All three are for boys only; girls are sent to the Ware Youth Center in Coushatta and only the Monroe facility has not fully adopted the "Missouri model,'' named after the state that 17 years ago changed from prisons to treatment centers for juveniles.
Five years ago, Louisiana accepted "the Missouri model,'' sought after across the nation as the answer to juvenile rehabilitation, and began using a therapy method of treating juveniles as troubled children, as the state code demands, rather than as miniature adult convicts held behind the same brand of razor wire and cell bars.
"We're trying to lower their risk so they can return to the community and be not-at-risk to the community and for the rest of their lives," Livers said Tuesday before leading a small group of prosecutors and legislators on a tour of the grounds and dorms at the Bridge City.
"I'd like to shut down all of the buildings that have cells," Livers said, referring to the juvenile lockup in Monroe. "We will shutter them. In the last year, we are not locking kids up and leaving them in private cells."
At the behest of a federal court's oversight, Louisiana's youth centers now have fewer than 500 juveniles under 24-hour care instead of 2,000. Most come from New Orleans, and then from Lafayette or Shreveport. Forty percent have been diagnosed with severe mental illness.
Susan Poag/The Times-Picayune 'I'd like to shut down all of the buildings that have cells,' said Mary Livers, left, Office of Juvenile Justice deputy secretary.
Mark Stewart, who helped change Missouri's juvenile system decades ago and is helping usher Louisiana from prison-model to treatment-model, said, "The juvenile system is broken in this country. It's horrible and the results are horrible. We started here five years ago but retreated after Katrina. We're just coming back into place."
Louisiana's juvenile prisons were way too large and way too far away from where the kids were from, Stewart said: "They were gulags; horrible." And until 2004, when Kathleen Blanco became governor, the juvenile system was a part of the adult corrections department.
The cost of the therapeutic model is $60,000 per juvenile per year, but Stewart and Livers said research shows that juveniles can be rehabilitated at higher and more permanent rates than adults.
At Bridge City, boys ages 10 to 20 serve a minimum of six-month terms given to them by judges across the state. They live in dormitories, recently renamed from the likes of Bacchus, Zulu, Rex and Zawandi to recovery code words such as Serenity, Hope, Pride and Dignity.
About 2 1/2 years ago, the Bridge City center, a former convent at the foot of the Mississippi River levee in Jefferson Parish and the shadow of the Huey P. Long Bridge, opened several newly built dorms that resemble suburban homes, with pitched ceilings and living room-type furniture, next to 14 twin beds.
The average age of juveniles here is 16, and residents wear khaki pants and black sweatshirts over collared shirts.
Everyone goes to school and those with GEDs may enroll in culinary arts or other vocational training. Team sports, Bible study and "conflict resolution" fill the days, along with "restorative justice" projects that include visiting a war veterans' home in St. Charles Parish, where the juveniles serve lunches and talk with the former soldiers.
"Some of our kids are parents, so we have parenting classes," said Emily Williams, the group leader at the Harmony dorm, where on Tuesday, most of the 14 residents were from New Orleans and they included 19-year-old Jeremiah, a father of two who has spent two years at Bridge City, where his sons, ages 2 and 3, have visited him.
"I've got about 13 months left," Jeremiah said. "I've got a court date in June."
Tyrone, 16, said he has two months left on his sentence. "I want to go back home and go to school," he said. "I'm working the program."
Even the state juvenile systems most constant critics approve of Bridge City and the Missouri-based therapeutic approach, which is credited by its architects with a 90 percent success rate, meaning that 90 percent of juveniles never return to any prison either as a youth or adult.
"Bridge City is definitely the model for the rest of Louisiana," said Dana Kaplan, director of the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, an advocacy group that monitors conditions in juvenile detention. "We recognize there has been great progress, particularly for nonviolent offenses. We have absolutely seen some improvement in particular at Bridge City. Where we are most lacking still is there hasn't necessarily been full investment into community-based programs that we need. Budget cuts have hindered good programs we have had on the ground. The question becomes how do we really actualize reform?"
The days of adult-type of confinement aren't over in Louisiana, Kaplan said.
"Maybe at Bridge City," she said. "Not statewide."


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Organic Vegetables
"Vegetable" comes from the Latin vegetabilis and from vegetare which is derived from vegetus, in reference to the process of a plant growing.
In culinary terms, a vegetable is an edible plant or its part, intended for cooking or eating raw. In biological terms, "vegetable" designates members of the plant kingdom.
The non-biological definition of a vegetable is largely based on culinary and cultural tradition. Apart from vegetables, other main types of plant food are fruits, grains and nuts. Vegetables are most often consumed as salads or cooked in savory or salty dishes, while culinary fruits are usually sweet and used for desserts, but it is not the universal rule.
Some vegetables can be consumed raw, some may be eaten cooked, and some must be cooked to destroy certain natural toxins or microbes in order to be edible, such as eggplant, unripe tomatoes, potatoes, winter melon, fiddlehead fern, and most kinds of legume/beans (such as common beans). A number of processed food items available on the market contain vegetable ingredients and can be referred to as "vegetable derived" products. These products may or may not maintain the nutritional integrity of the vegetable used to produce them.
Vegetables are eaten in a variety of ways, as part of main meals and as snacks. The nutritional content of vegetables varies considerably, though generally they contain little protein or fat, and varying proportions of vitamins such as Vitamin A, Vitamin K and Vitamin B6, provitamins, dietary minerals and carbohydrates. Vegetables contain a great variety of other phytochemicals, some of which have been claimed to have antioxidant,antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral and anticarcinogenic properties. Some vegetables also contain fiber, important for gastrointestinal function. Vegetables contain important nutrients necessary for healthy hair and skin as well.
Diets containing recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables may help lower the risk of heart diseases and type 2 diabetes. These diets may also protect against some cancers and decrease bone loss. The potassium provided by both fruits and vegetables may help prevent the formation of kidney stones.
The USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends consuming 3 to 5 servings of vegetables daily. This recommendation can vary based on age and gender, and is determined based upon standard portion sizes typically consumed, as well as general nutritional content.
Most vegetables are produced using traditional farming practices. However, the yield of vegetables from Organic farming is growing.
At Sanjeevani, the fresh vegetables are taken from farm to process plant within 6 hours and compete the process of cleaning, sorting, grading in next few hours to avoid the decay of nutritional values/taste. Thus the cleaned and blanched vegetables are free from microbial lives. These vegetables pass through IQF (Independent quick freezing) process to lock the nutritional values and aroma within the vegetable and finally preserve at -18degree Celsius. The self life of these preserved vegetables are 24 months.


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Slicebox.net Review: A Server Nightmare
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About six months ago, I signed up for a dedicated server with slicebox.net. The servers are hosted at he.net which has a good reputation. And the price at that time was very attractive, $99/month for their 2-processor 64-bit server with centOS. They set up the machine quickly. But from there it just went downhill.
Over the next three months, the server and slicebox's rdns server was subjected to multiple downtimes. I went through setting up a dozen sites and configuring/tuning postfix, contacting mail providers like comcast, aol, yahoo, etc, configuring feedback loops for the email, to resolve the bad IP history and get email properly delivered.
Is A Yahoo Directory Link Worth It?
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Link-building experts are sometimes confused about the guidelines for links -- supposedly, any link that "is paid" should "be nofollowed" which supposedly indicates that the link should not "pass pagerank". And if you are "caught" by "Google" "buying" or "selling" "reputation" through "links" then you may be penalized by Google in any of a variety of ways, like a pagerank devaluation (for instance).
Fast and Effective PHP Session Setup Example to Minimize Logouts and Problems
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I have one site which uses PHP sessions identified by browser cookies to store user state information. This allows the application to store a large amount of information efficiently, providing continuity for a complex user session without sacrificing performance, and without using the database. Just reference the session like any other hash, and anything you stored is still there, no matter the complexity of the data type with no serialization required.
Installing APC from beta/alpha development onto centOS 5.4 64 bit dual core
I had some trouble installing APC from the published stable and beta versions and from pecl / pear - errors like
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Using Jquery, JSON, and AJAX in Drupal
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I recently had the opportunity to dig into drupal's activemenu module, a seldom-used and not-entirely-functional ajax framework that can be used to build menus/trees on the fly. It provided a good roadmap that I was able to customize to work well for a project I did with rockpeaks.com.
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osDate and mysql Performance Optimization Tips
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Well, one of my websites has been successful to the point where I have to start looking into performance issues. It's based on osDate, so most of what I find may be helpful to others using that system. Since osDate uses image processing, mysql and smarty templates, these are the main areas for optimization.
(The following graph from my Google webmaster tools console was added Nov 30, 2009, three weeks after I began working on the optimizations, so you can see that even as my database grows - as it does slowly over time with a larger userbase - my average page load time is vastly improved due to these performance tips)
osDate Permission Denied Behavior
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OsDate has a simple system for allowing only registered, logged-in users view certain pages. These pages (like userpicgallery.php for instance) simply include the file "sessioninc.php" right after setting up the session. Sessioninc.php checks to see whether the user is a registered, logged-in user, and if not, redirects the user to the login page.
Landing Page and Referral Tracking For PHP/mysql osDate Site
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I know from google analytics that about 25% of my paid clicks are from return visitors. Drilling deeper, I learned that one visitor from a certain city in California (I know the exact city) has been searching google for one of my most expensive keywords and clicking on my adwords ad, as his way to return to my site. OK, once or twice, that's great. But this man visited fifty times in one week. I guess he likes my filipina dating site, Christian Filipina. Hey Google, please give me some control to limit the number of repeat visits!
Installing Flash Video Chat With Your Own Chat Server or p2p
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I've recently been learning about video chat for one of my sites. Although Adobe is in the process of making p2p video chat widely available, by making it (RTMFP/Stratus) part of the nearly-ubiquitous Flash 10 standard (see adobe developer portal), it appears there are no good solutions for peer-to-peer video chat yet, so I'm now in the process of setting up a chat server on my dedicated centos linux box, and associated chat software to run it.
Setting up DKIM, SPF, Domainkeys DNS, Regular DNS on CentOS 5.3 at Pacificrack.com
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I'm working with one site that is struggling with mail being rejected outright by other mail servers and sent to the spam box. Over the past month, I've fixed a few errors in the MIME formats, contacted rejecting domains (aol, live, yahoo, etc), all of which has increased slightly the success rate on mail delivery. But not enough. So the next step has been to setup the signature pages so that the site can sign mail and no spammers can take advantage of the good reputation the site builds. This is no guarantee, of course, but it's the next logical thing to try.


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Holo Pigment 1g
Designer: ocean nail supply
$ 40.00
please use drop down menu to choose color/size
**Note: Each item is sold separately
Please look at sub text under the item name to see what you have selected to purchase
This is a Holo hue pigment, holographic pigment that's available in 1 gram. But it will be in a 5 gram container so it will look almost empty. lol. But the quality is no joke. Rub over the cured gossip gel to get the instant holographic effect over any gel polish. Afterward seal with a top gel. This is a cosmetic grade product, FDA approved, safe for eyes, skins and nails.
We recommend purchasing the gossip gel with this item as it holds the holo better.
The gossip strengthen gel is recommended to do a hard gel overlay which prevent chipping and makes the holo last longer on the nails
Instruction as followed
cure 30 seconds under LED and 2 minutes under UV.
Seal with a rubbery top (no wipe gel top).


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Where are the municipal offices located and how can I contact them?
The municipal Administration Office is located at 7 Milne Street, Minden Ontario. The main entrance is off Pritchard Lane and is fully accessible. For general inquiries, please call 705-286-1260 where you will be directed to the appropriate department.
Who do I contact for Building and By-law Issues?
For building and By-law Issue information please click here.
Who do I contact for general administration?
For general administration information please click here.
Who do I contact for Treasury and property taxes?
For Treasury and property tax information please click here.
Who do I call for Landfill information and Water/Wastewater?
For questions related to recycling please contact Environmental & Property Operations Manager.
It is in the interest of society as a whole and of the Municipality, and its ratepayers in particular, that the amount of waste material generated by private citizens and businesses be reduced; that wherever possible such materials be re-used or recycled; that the environment be protected from contamination by hazardous substances; and that the lifetime of existing and future Sanitary Landfill Sites be extended. Council has recently passed new by-laws in this regard and recycling is now mandatory. As well, clear bags only will commence effective January 1st, 2008. For a list of recycling material accepted at our landfill sites, kindly contact the main administration office (705) 286-1260.
Who do I call for general, non-emergency, fire related issues?
|Mike Bekking
|(705) 286-1202
|Deanna Smith
|(705) 286-1260
|ext. 212
Who do I call for Planning and Development?
|Donna Sisson
|(705) 286-1260
|ext. 209
When are the tax bills levied for the Municipality?
Bills are sent out, twice a year, and each bill has two (2) instalments. Installments are usually due March, May, July and September.
Where can I pay my tax bill?
Taxes may be paid by the Telephone Banking Services of the CIBC, Bank of Montreal, TD Canada Trust Bank, Royal Bank or Bank of Nova Scotia. You may also pay your taxes in person at the Municipal Office, using the Pritchard Lane entrance or mail your payment to our postal address, or via preauthorized payment. If you require a receipt, please provide a self-addressed, stamped envelope. With the preauthorized payment plan method, installment amounts are taken from your bank account on the due dates. All that is required is to fill out the authorization form and send it in with a void cheque, at least two (2) weeks before the next instalment due date. Faxed copies are acceptable. Account must be in good standing with no overdue balances to participate.
Are post-dated cheques accepted?
Yes. Please contact the Finance Department at 705-286-1260 ext. 200 to obtain full details.
When are water and sewer charges levied for the Village of Minden?
Meters are read quarterly and the bills issued reflect the water meter readings.
How do I book the S.G. Nesbitt Memorial Arena or Community Centre?
For facility booking information please telephone (705) 286-1936 or email email@example.com
Is there a library and where is it?
The Minden branch of the Haliburton County Library is located at 174-176 Bobcaygeon Road, Minden and you may contact them directly at (705) 286-2491 or the Haliburton County Public Library, Minden Branch.


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"I ride in
Daddy's car in purple car seat." That's the phrase I've been hearing every day since my husband Jeff installed our new Black Plum Diono Radian rXT in the back of his BMW. I tease him that installing a car seat in the back of his slick ride might cramp his style but he just laughs. Quite frankly, if he's going to have a car seat in his cool car this is the one. This Diono car seat is slick.
The need never arose to purchase a second car seat until now but since that I'm back at work full-time as a flight attendant instructor there's no way around it. When I was offered a Diono Radian rXT for review purposes, how could I resist? And now that we have this all-in-one car seat I'm kicking myself for not getting one sooner.
Why would I recommend the Radian rXT car seat over others?
Safety. Most importantly from a safety standpoint it has a steel alloy frame (that's right – a steel car seat!), aluminum reinforced side walls, energy absorbing EPS foam. My husband raves about this car seat. He says its the sturdiest, most resilient car seat he has ever had the pleasure of installing and using on a daily basis. This is coming from a dad of five kids who researches anything and everything under the sun and delves even deeper if the item is safety related and for his children.
Support. For the littlest passengers there is reinforced adjustable head support. She comfortably falls asleep in this car seat. A couple of weeks ago she slept for three hours in it and woke refreshed.
Outstanding reviews. Browsing customers reviews is imperative when researching baby products. The overall consensus is outstanding. The biggest complaint that I read was regarding the material and considering that it's not a safety feature I think such a negative is forgivable. Speaking of safety, check out this five-star review on Amazon.


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Bentley hopes engine choice will help double sales
The hills are alive as the heavy yet agile Bentley careers around a series of tight corners - though not with the sound of music.
Instead, there is the deep growling sound of a V8 engine, which hammers its way into the car's leather-and-wood clad cabin.
It is the sound of things to come for the luxury car company; a new voice to sing a new tune to appeal to a new audience.
"We are widening the appeal," chairman and chief executive Wolfgang Duerheimer insists.
"We are introducing a completely new driving experience."
Fastest Bentley
Since it was first launched about a decade ago, Bentley's Continental GT has become well known for its more powerful, yet at the same time more quiet and sophisticated, W-12 engine.
The engine, or rather the powertrain which also includes things such as the gearing system, is essential to Bentley's subtle diversification between cars that at first sight look similar. Hence there is even a variety of versions of the drive systems that go with the W-12, which in its latest reincarnation has been installed in the new Continental GT Speed.
The car is the fastest Bentley yet, delivering nought to 60mph (100km/h) in just four seconds flat with a top speed of 205mph (329km/h).
"Bentley is now the world's largest producer of 12-cylinder engines," says Mr Duerheimer, ahead of the GT Speed's international debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
'American muscle'
With such a pedigree, Bentley's decision to kit out the Continental with a rather more brutal-sounding four litre V8 engine is a big deal in the world of luxury cars - its rawness ushering in Red Hot Chilli Peppers where Mozart previously reigned.
Big deal, that is, because the engine has enabled the British luxury car brand to penetrate new segments in this finely-sliced market.
"The V8 will appeal to a different market segment," says Michael Straughan, member of Bentley's board of management, in charge of manufacturing, pointing to how the V8 is a whopping 40% more efficient than the W-12 in terms of fuel economy and carbon dioxide emissions.
Yet in some markets it is the engine's torque, or pulling power, that is its main selling point.
"The reaction to the V8 has been superb, especially in the US," he says. "There's something about the Americans and the growl of a V8 engine."
English heritage
By contrast, there is something distinctly British about how Bentleys are made at the carmaker's factory in Crewe, Cheshire.
Though output has expanded dramatically over the last decade, the techniques used remain largely the same.
Perhaps the most dramatic sensation within the Bentley plant is the wide array of smells, of leather and wood and sewing machine oil, as well as the sight of craftsmen at work in ways that bear no resemblance to the average car factory worker.
Leather-clad steering wheels are still stitched by hand, the seats are sewn from large cow hides using ordinary-looking sewing machines, exotic wood veneers are cut into shape with the aid of precision tools, and the stainless steel is polished by hand.
Staff at Bentley work 85-minute cycles, which means they have to learn a sequence of tasks that last for almost an hour-and-a-half, Mr Straughan explains. By comparison, mass market assembly line staff often repeat the same tasks every minute.
"Then if you add on the fact that we work with special materials that not many people work with now, you'll see why we've got to find people with the right skills," says Mr Straughan.
"People who have the mental capacity of remembering so much work and doing it to the same quality standard every time."
Group technology
Such processes take time and make Bentleys expensive, though the carmaker's close link with the parent company Volkswagen Group helps it keep costs down.
"We're part of a global company with, I think, 96 factories around the world," says Mr Straughan. "So if we want to stay at the forefront of technology, which is crucial for Bentley, then we've got to take advantage of what's available within the group."
Using shared components while ensuring the cars made at Crewe remain distinct is a challenging balancing act, Mr Straughan acknowledges.
"We won't do it at the expense of the brand," he says. "The brand is the most important thing for Bentley."
Sales to double
Bentley has long taken advantage of the brand's appeal among the growing number of wealthy individuals, especially in emerging markets.
The Chinese market has helped sales recover from a recent slump and as growth is set to continue in markets such as Russia, India and Brazil, the carmaker is gunning for a doubling in sales over the next five years.
"Some 15,000 cars per year would be a reasonable volume for the products we've got at the moment," says Mr Straughan - which might not sound like a lot until you realise that these cars cost at least £140,000 ($220,000), and most of the time they cost a lot more.
Add to that its plans to broaden its product range, with the possible addition of a sports utility vehicle (SUV) that was launched as a concept at the Geneva motor show in March, and it is clear that the British marque's ambitions are as great as ever.
Bentley believes there is a market for ultra-luxurious SUVs that cost more than those currently on offer, such as the Range Rover, the BMW X5 or the Porsche Cayenne.
Rivals such as Maserati and Aston Martin have also seen this gap in the market and have come up with similar concepts over the last couple of years.
"Lots of people have talked about it," says Mr Straughan, "but nobody's quite got there yet, and we haven't got there yet.
"But there's a space there and it would be perfect for a Bentley."


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Half Assed Cron With WP Cron
I was working on a project recently that was using WordPress as the base platform and had a need for a scheduled task function. Ordinarily, this would be the type of functionality that I would just setup a cron job for; but since Wordpress has a pseudo cron system in place I decided to investigate that as an option. Long story short; fuck that man.
As mentioned, Wordpress has a pseudo cron mechanism available to Wordpress developers for scheduling tasks called WP Cron. WP Cron works using series of functions available for plugin developers to create their own cron style tasks. In theory Wordpress makes this easy(ish) using the built in cron API but the reality is that it's not only confusing and awkward to implement but once you're complete you have to allow for a bit of latitude on the scheduling.
Take a look at scheduling a task in Wordpress. Basically, it works by adding a function to your activation hook, within a plugin, that like the below:
<?php register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'my_activation'); add_action('my_hourly_event', 'do_this_hourly'); function my_activation() { wp_schedule_event(time(), 'hourly', 'my_hourly_event'); } function do_this_hourly() { // do something every hour } ?>
Pretty simple implementation really though not very "cron" like in syntax. The important part is the call to "wp_schedule_event()" which takes 4 parameters (start date, recurrence, hook and arguments). According to the API manual the function:
Schedules a hook which will be executed by the WordPress actions core on a specific interval, specified by you. The action will trigger when someone visits your WordPress site, if the scheduled time has passed. See the Plugin API for a list of hooks.
The problem I had was that this function only allows for 3 options on recurrence; hourly, twicedaily and daily. I needed my function to run at a specific time. (It was EXTREMELY important that it ran during a specific interval.)
This isn't to say that it's not possible to schedule a task for a specific time; it's just a pain in the ass. You have to write all the logic to determine when to add a new task and removing expired tasks. Ughh. To me the question becomes "Should I write a couple hundred lines of code or just add a single line to my crontab?".
Crontab baby.


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***Queens' College now offers three named sports awards, alongside the existing Q550 support. For information on sports awards, please see the information under 'Financial Assistance' on the main website, accessed here.***
The College has a number of strong sports teams and active societies, that are a great way to get to know other Queens' students, both undergraduate and postgraduate. As a general rule, college sports and societies at Queens' are open to all Queens' students, that is, students from both the JCR and MCR. Depending on the year, certain sports have notably larger proportions of postgraduates playing,
Graduate Choir
Queens' Graduate Choir is a relaxed, non-auditioned choir consisting mostly of graduate students and alumni of Queens' College (although we welcome others!) Around 25-strong, the choir performs a wide variety of music from sacred motets to pop classics. We perform at various college events in Queens' throughout the year, including the MCR Christmas dinners, summer garden party, and termly concerts. The Graduate Choir membership represents a broad range of ages, subjects and levels of singing experience. Emphasis in rehearsal is placed on improving as singers, exploring choral repertoire, and most importantly having fun! There are no auditions — all that's required is a desire to sing!
We rehearse once a week, in Queens' College Chapel. We are always happy to welcome new members, so don't worry about coming along for the first time. The best way to get in touch is to email us at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also subscribe to our mailing list and find us on Facebook. Please feel free to get in touch with Arthur Tombs on firstname.lastname@example.com.
MCR Football
The Queens' College MCR football team is the most successful in the university and has been since 1959. We play in the University's MCR league which is a mixture of College MCRs, Departmental and University Society teams. The team has won the league consistently for a number of seasons now, including a league cup double in the 2015-16 season.
We usually play our matches early on Sunday early afternoons and have a practice session once a week on Wednesday evenings throughout the year (including the summer period). We also try to organize plenty of social events sporadically across the year. We're always on the look-out for new team mates so if you're interested in playing, or even just coming to the 5-a-side practice sessions during the week for some more casual football, please get in touch with Richard Nickl, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
MCR Cricket
Queens' College MCR cricket team has a decidedly laid back atmosphere. All skill levels are welcome, guys or girls, from absolute beginners to seasoned veterans. If you've never played cricket before, this is the perfect opportunity to come and have a go.
We are mainly active in Easter term, playing in the graduate cricket league, which is split into two groups of around 7 teams from other college MCRs. The winners and runners up of each group then enter the semi finals and so forth. The games are usually very chilled out and it's a great way to spend a summer afternoon. Net sessions are held once a week at Queens' Cricket Ground on Barton Road. Details for sign-up, games and practices will be sent round toward the end of Lent term. Details may be found on the cricket facebook group, or by contacting the captain, Isobelle Bolton, firstname.lastname@example.com.
MCR Squash and MCR Badminton
Squash and badminton also have postgraduate only sessions once a week, where members of the MCR can come along and play each other. Squash is held in the squash courts in Lyon court, while Badminton is played in the Fitzpatrick Hall. Rackets are provided and all skill levels are welcome to both! Details on the timings of sessions and the relevant contacts for each are communicated early in Michaelmas term.


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If this is a medical emergency, call 911.
Tumors are growths that are not normal – lumps of tissue that form when abnormal cells multiply and grow without the normal controls to stop them.
When tumors start in the skeleton, such as in leg bones, ribs or arm bones, they are called bone tumors. When they start in other tissues, such as muscles, tendons, fat or blood vessels, they are called soft tissue tumors. When bone and soft tissue tumors are malignant, they are called sarcomas.
There are two general types of tumors:
Both bone tumors and soft tissue tumors can be either benign or malignant.
Any child can get a bone or soft tissue tumor. Doctors do not know exactly what causes these tumors in most cases.
Treatment for these tumors may be very different for children than for adults because pediatric tumors respond to therapy in different ways than adult tumors. Also, there are special issues because children are still growing.
To ensure that your child's diagnosis and treatment are the best they can be, it is important to work with experts in pediatric bone and soft tissue tumors.
Seattle Children's has the largest and most experienced pediatric bone and soft tissue tumor program in the Northwest and one of the most in-depth programs in the western United States.
We have experience diagnosing and treating all types of bone and soft tissue tumors, both benign and malignant. Through our Bone Tumor and Sarcoma Clinic, we treat a wide range of patients, from infants to young adults up to age 21 (or sometimes older if their cancer is best treated by pediatric experts).
Our clinic is one of the first in the country where doctors who specialize in bones, joints and muscles (orthopedic surgeons) and doctors who specialize in cancer (oncologists) work side by side in the same clinic.
Our surgeons and doctors work closely with nurse practitioners, social workers, physical therapists and other team members from many areas of healthcare. They collaborate to provide comprehensive care for your child in our weekly clinics. They meet each week to discuss each child's care in detail in order to provide the safest, most effective treatment.
If a tumor is cancerous, your child needs to receive the right treatment to get the best results. We will see your child in clinic right away and decide on the next steps to get you the right diagnosis and best treatments. We may also recommend any research studies that might offer the best hope for your child.
A phase 1 clinical trial at Seattle Children's is testing CAR T-cell immunotherapy in children and young adults with relapsed or refractory solid tumors. The trial is called STRIvE-01. In this trial, the patient's own T cells are reprogrammed to recognize and target the protein EGFR, which is expressed by many childhood solid tumors, including bone tumors and soft tissue tumors.
Doctors who treat people with cancer use 5-year survival rates as a way to measure treatment success. The 5-year survival rate means the percentage of patients with the disease who are alive 5 years after their disease was diagnosed. For Ewing sarcoma, our 5-year survival rate is about 5½ percentage points higher than the national average. For osteosarcoma, our rate is about 1½ points higher than the average. For national cancer survival rates by cancer type, click here to see childhood cancer statistics.
For more than a decade, U.S. News & World Report has consistently ranked Seattle Children's Cancer Center among the best in the nation. In 2018, our program again ranked #1 in the Northwest.
Read more about Seattle Children's cancer treatments and services and cancer research.
We treat all types of bone tumors and soft tissue tumors, including:
Benign bone tumors are much more common than malignant bone tumors, and they almost never become cancerous.
These types of benign bone tumors are found most often in children and teens:
Image at left: Unicameral bone cysts happen most often in the places in the body marked in red. These cysts are more commonly diagnosed in the first (birth to age 10), second (age 10 to 20) and third decades of life (in your 20s) as marked by the blue bars.
Malignant bone tumors (bone cancers) start inside the bone. They can spread cancer cells to other parts of the body, often through the blood, to the lungs or other bones. A malignant bone tumor can be limb or life threatening.
These are the most common types of bone cancer in young people:
Ewing sarcoma can start in any bone in the body. Less often, Ewing sarcoma can develop in soft tissue.
Image at left: Ewing sarcoma common body sites and occurrence by decade of life. Ewing sarcoma happens most often in the places in the body marked in red and less often in the places marked in orange. This bone cancer is diagnosed in the first, second and third decades of life or later as marked by blue bars.
Osteosarcoma can also start in any bone. In children, it most often starts near the knee. Usually, the tumor cells make abnormal bone. Sometimes osteosarcoma spreads to other bones or the lungs.
Image at left: Osteosarcoma common body sites and occurrence by decade of life. Osteosarcoma happens most often in the places in the body marked in red and less often in the places marked in orange. It is diagnosed in the first, second and third decades of life or later as marked by blue bars.
There are many types of benign soft tissue tumors. They are much more common than malignant soft tissue tumors.
These are the common types of benign soft tissue tumors in children:
Schwannomas and neurofibromas are types of non-cancerous peripheral nerve tumors. These tumors grow in nerves that branch off the spinal cord.
Malignant soft tissue tumors (soft tissue sarcomas) are not common in children.
These cancers can start in any of the soft tissues that connect or support other structures. These tissues include muscles, tendons, fat, blood vessels, lymph vessels, nerves and the soft tissues in and around joints.
Rhabdomyosarcoma (pronounced: rab-doe-my-o-sar-ko-ma) is the most common type of soft tissue sarcoma in children. This is cancer in a muscle and can develop in almost any muscle of the body.
Symptoms of bone and soft tissue tumors can be hard to identify and describe. It's important for your child to see a doctor if you notice a physical change, such as a lump, or if your child complains of pain.
The symptoms depend on:
Here are general guidelines.
The most common symptom of bone tumors is pain.
It is common for a child who has a malignant bone tumor (bone cancer) to complain about pain for months before seeing a doctor.
Often, benign bone tumors do not cause pain, but they may cause pain if they weaken the bone or rub on nerves or tendons.
Bone tumors may also cause:
The most common symptom of soft tissue tumors is a lump or mass. Often, soft tissue tumors do not cause any pain.
Children with rhabdomyosarcoma (cancer in a muscle) most often have a lump that grows quickly.
Other symptoms may depend on where the tumor is. For example:
Your child's doctor will start with a thorough exam and will ask about your child's health background. Then the doctor may suggest a number of tests to help tell:
The doctor may want to have pictures taken of the inside of your child's body (imaging studies), often starting with an X-ray.
Often, we can see and evaluate benign bone tumors by taking a traditional X-ray of the bone.
If an X-ray does not provide enough information about your child's tumor, we may ask for one or more of these imaging studies:
This soft tissue mass near the elbow joint of a 16-year-old boy is hard to see on an X-ray (left) but shows up clearly on an MRI cross-section of the elbow area (red circle and arrow).
If imaging studies suggest that the tumor may be cancer, we will ask your child to have a tumor biopsy. In the hospital, doctors will remove a small piece of the tumor and examine it under a microscope for signs of cancer. This test is important to identify the specific type of tumor and help us plan treatment.
In children with bone tumors, surgeons must use extra care when choosing where to place the needle for the biopsy. There is risk of spreading the tumor cells. If the needle is placed carefully, your child may be able to have limb-sparing surgery (instead of amputation) to remove a cancerous bone tumor. Our surgeons use imaging studies before your child's biopsy to carefully select the path for the needle. The goal is for your child to have the best chance for limb-sparing surgery.
Your child, adolescent or young adult can get the very latest treatment for bone and soft tissue tumors at Seattle Children's.
Your child's treatment will depend on several factors, including these:
No matter which type of tumor or which treatment your child has, we will check their condition regularly for months to years after treatment and take care of any health concerns that arise. Some tumors — even benign tumors — have a risk of coming back, so it is important to keep an eye on your child's condition.
Some benign bone tumors only need to be checked by a doctor once or twice a year. Some may go away on their own. Some children with benign bone tumors need to wear a brace, splint or boot for 4 to 6 weeks to allow their bones to heal.
Sometimes, a benign bone tumor can cause problems while it grows. It can weaken your child's bone and make the bone more likely to break. Tumors also can press on nerves and cause pain. If this happens, your child should see an orthopedic surgeon.
If your child needs surgery, we often can use techniques that are not as hard on the child as more traditional surgeries. These newer, less invasive techniques require little cutting into the skin and do not require your child to stay in the hospital. They include radiofrequency ablation and cyst injections.
The main surgery for benign bone tumors is surgery to scrape the tumor out of the bone (curettage) and fill the hole left behind with a bone graft.
The graft most often comes from the bone bank (allograft). Your child does not need to have another surgery to get the graft from their own body.
Seattle Children's works with a special bone bank. The bone grafts we use come from healthy donors and are carefully screened for diseases.
It usually takes about 4 to 6 weeks for children to heal after this surgery. In many cases, children use crutches and a brace, splint or boot to protect their bones while they heal.
If your child has curettage and bone grafting, we provide physical therapy to help your child return to usual activities. Most children recover from this surgery in 2 to 3 months.
In radiofrequency ablation, the doctor inserts a tiny needle into the tumor. The needle contains wires that transmit an electric current. The current heats the tumor to a high temperature and destroys it.
Doctors most often use radiofrequency ablation to treat a tumor called osteoid osteoma.
In most cases, your child can go home and go back to their usual activities right away after the treatment.
We can sometimes heal unicameral bone cysts (simple or solitary bone cysts) by injecting them with a paste of bone marrow and bone matrix.
In children younger than 10, a unicameral bone cyst can cause a bone fracture (red arrow). Bone marrow paste injections are the preferred treatment to control these cysts (yellow arrow), letting the bone heal (orange arrow). This child's cyst remained (white arrow) but was not painful.
If your child's doctor is using bone marrow, the marrow will come from your child's pelvis. We will give your child medicine (anesthesia) to make them sleep during the surgery to collect the bone marrow. Bone matrix comes from healthy human donors.
Usually, it takes more than 1 injection to heal the cyst. Your child may have injections every few months for 6 months to a year.
Malignant bone tumors (bone cancers) must be treated. Many children have more than one type of treatment.
Chemotherapy may be your child's main treatment. Doctors may also use chemotherapy before surgery to shrink a tumor or after surgery to kill any cancer cells that might remain in your child's body. Or they may use chemotherapy both before and after surgery.
The exact mix of medicines and how long they are given depend on the type of cancer your child has. Researchers are studying new mixes of medicines to find the most effective combination for each type of disease.
We use special techniques to get the best information about your child's tumor. For example, within 2 months of beginning chemotherapy treatment, your child will probably have a PET scan. This imaging test allows us to judge how fast a tumor is growing and whether the chemotherapy is working to slow its growth or shrink it.
Our patients receive chemotherapy at our main campus in Seattle — most often in the hospital but sometimes in the clinic as outpatients.
The kind of surgery done for bone cancer depends on:
In the past, some children had their leg or arm removed (amputated) to get rid of malignant bone tumors in their limb. Now, this happens less often. Most of the time, surgeons can remove only the part of the bone that is affected by the tumor.
In limb-sparing surgery, also called limb salvage, the surgeon removes the tumor and any bone and cartilage affected by it, but leaves the nerves, muscles and tendons around the area so that your child can keep their leg or arm.
Seattle Children's has three surgeons who are leaders in limb-sparing surgery. All three are trained in pediatric orthopedic surgery as well as musculoskeletal oncologic surgery.
Depending on the location of the tumor, the surgeon may use a bone transplant or a metal implant, such as a knee joint replacement, to replace the bone that was removed. Seattle Children's was the first to use bone transplants in children to replace parts of bone that have to be removed.
Whether your child has limb-sparing surgery or an amputation, they will have extensive physical therapy after treatment. If your child has had limb-sparing surgery on a leg, they most likely will use crutches for 3 to 6 months while the bone graft or implant heals.
Children younger than age 12, who have more growing ahead of them than older children, need another surgery to lengthen their limb so that it keeps pace with their growth as they get older.
Limb-sparing surgery is complex, and it requires doctors to make careful decisions about which children are likely to respond well to the surgery.
Learn more about limb-sparing surgery.
About 2 or 3 out of every 100 bone cancer patients must have surgery to amputate a limb to remove their tumor. Surgeons most often do it because the tumor is large or is likely to come back.
This shows why early treatment is so important. It is best to treat the tumor before it gets big.
Children who have amputations can do almost anything they want to do. Using an artificial limb (prosthesis), they can play sports and be active. Children who have leg amputations can walk on their new prosthesis within 3 months.
At Seattle Children's, we provide prostheses and help with your child's adjustments. Read more about our orthotics and prosthetics services.
Some types of cancer, such as Ewing sarcoma, tend to respond very well to radiation therapy. Others do not respond as well.
Doctors sometimes use radiation before surgery to shrink a tumor so that it's easier to remove or after surgery to kill any remaining cancer cells.
Learn more about Seattle Children's Radiation Therapy Service.
Our Cancer Survivor Program helps children and young adults who had malignant tumors stay healthy after cancer treatment.
If a benign soft tissue tumor is painful or growing larger, your child may need to have it removed. With some painless tumors, we simply watch for changes.
During surgery for a soft tissue tumor, the surgeon removes the tumor. The surgeon may have to remove muscle along with the tumor, but your child most likely will not have a serious loss of strength.
After surgery, your child may have physical therapy to regain strength, movement and confidence.
If your child has a malignant soft tissue tumor (soft tissue sarcoma), it must be treated.
Your child's treatment may depend on the location of the cancer. Most children have surgery to remove the tumor, as well as chemotherapy and radiation to shrink the tumor before surgery or kill cancer that remains after surgery.
Our doctors use chemotherapy to reduce the size of soft tissue sarcomas before we do surgery. In some cases, doctors give chemotherapy after surgery to kill any cancer cells that may still be in the body.
The exact mix of medicines and how long they are given depend on the type of cancer your child has. Researchers are studying new mixes of medicines to find the most effective combination for each type of disease.
Within 2 months of beginning chemotherapy treatment, your child will probably have a PET scan to help us judge whether the chemotherapy is working to slow their tumor's growth or shrink it.
We also use radiation therapy, a treatment that uses high-energy beams to destroy cancer cells and shrink tumors. Learn more about Seattle Children's Radiation Therapy Service.
We use surgery to remove as much of the tumor as possible, along with some of the healthy tissue around it. After surgery, your child may have physical therapy.
Many of our patients with cancer take part in clinical trials. These research studies give children the chance to get the newest treatment options being studied – options that are not offered at all treatment centers.
Sarcoma researchers are looking for the best mixes of chemotherapy medicines and ways to use radiation with better results. They are also looking for new types of treatments. Their main goals are to improve cure rates and reduce the risk of long-term effects from the disease and treatment.
Seattle Children's is part of:
Being part of these groups means we may be able to give new medicines to children whose cancer does not respond to treatment or comes back after treatment.
Your child's doctor will talk with you in detail about any new treatment that might be a match for your child. Then you can decide whether you want to try this option.
Read more about orthopedics research and cancer clinical trials at Seattle Children's and how clinical research has improved the outlook for kids with cancer.
Contact the Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at 206-987-2106 for an appointment, second opinion or more information.
To make an appointment, you can call us directly or get a referral from your child's primary care provider. We encourage you to coordinate with your pediatrician or family doctor when coming to Seattle Children's.
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If you like to move fast on the computer, then the RoadMice Camaro Wireless Mouse is just what you need. Car lovers will be happy to know that RoadMice come in a plethora of models: You can choose from various Chevy, Chrysler, Ford, Dodge, and even highway patrol and police cars. The mice are both PC- and Mac-compatible and cost $44.95.
I tested out a black Chevy Camaro mouse.
The mice have 800-dpi resolution for enhanced accuracy and precise movement. The mouse glides smoothly on the mousepad, and you never have to worry about running over the cord. If you'd like, you can choose to have the headlights light up when you click on the left or right mouse buttons.
And just like when you're buying a real car, you get the title to your car. Registering your car gives you a unique VIN number, which is a great way for collectors to make sure their car mice are properly documented. You actually get a real title that you can hang up above your desk as you use the mouse.
You can even buy "insurance" for your car. The one-year replacement plan, which costs an additional $19.95, covers all types of damage, including: "mechanical breakdown, crashes, theft, fire, acts of god, parental repossession, beverage or water damage, earthquake, floods, drops, falling rocks, animal consumption, jealous friends or family members stepping on it, and anything else that typical insurance companies will exclude from coverage."


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(Reuters) - Shares of OCZ Technology Group Inc spiked as much as 21 percent in early trade on a report that larger rival Seagate Technology Plc has offered to buy out the solid-state hard drive maker.
Fudzilla.com, a hardware industry blog, reported on Thursday that Seagate is considering acquiring OCZ to boost its solid-state drive (SSD) product portfolio. The website said a deal could be announced as early as next week.
Seagate declined to comment on the report and OCZ could not immediately be reached.
Analysts said an OCZ acquisition would boost Seagate's margins and help it establish a firmer foothold in the lucrative enterprise segment, where SSDs are gaining popularity.
Shares of OCZ, which was valued at $308 million as of Wednesday's close, were trading up 22 percent at $5.57 on the Nasdaq. Thursday's gains added about $68 million to its market capitalization.
"I'm hearing the same rumors ... I can only say that after the last quarter, when OCZ's cash situation became more challenging, they would be more willing to enter into a deal," FBN Securities analyst Shebly Seyrafi said.
Fudzilla said Micron Technology Group was also in the running to buy OCZ.
Seagate and Western Digital Corp dominate the market for hard disk drives (HDD) used in computers, but were late in adopting SSDs — a faster but expensive technology.
Shares of Stec Inc, one of the top SSD makers, were up 3.5 percent at $7.64 in mid-day trading on Thursday on the Nasdaq.
"It is plausible for Seagate or Micron to buy an SSD company," Benchmark Capital analyst Gary Mobley said.
"Seagate has been late to address the flash storage market and needs to hedge its aging HDD business. Micron would benefit from owning OCZ by selling more NAND flash."
(Reporting by Himank Sharma and Sruthi Ramakrishnan in Bangalore; Editing by Anthony Kurian, Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)


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The NFL gave Jed York and the 49ers $200 million in support Thursday for their new stadium in Santa Clara.
York spoke on a conference call this afternoon, and this is what he said.
Q: How much of a shot in the arm is this 200 million dollar amount that was approved today?
YORK: This is something that the owners worked on – to put together the G4 facility. There was a lot of work that went into it. We're obviously very thankful for the hard work and support. This is big step for the 49ers, and I think it's a big step for stadium development in California. We haven't had a (new) football stadium in California for decades. This is going to be a big thing for everybody.
Q: Some season ticket holders are having some reservations over the ticket prices for the new stadium. Do you think that you're going to be able to sell enough tickets to pay back the full price?
YORK: I think you kind of hit on two things there. The first thing I'll say is we want to make sure there is an option for all our fans. We only have 9,000 of our seats that are currently priced right now. We are going through the process of allocating seats to folks who are at Candlestick now. The legends and the stadium authority in Santa Clara have put together a process to allow those folks to come down and have their seat or a similar seat in the new stadium. For folks that don't want those seats, if it's out of their price range we're allowing our longtime season ticket holders the opportunity to put down a completely refundable deposit so they can have first access for other seats as they open up in the stadium. We believe that the building's going to be priced very fairly for our fans, and there's going to be a lot of great amenities that make this building the greatest outdoor entertainment experience in the world. Obviously, if we weren't comfortable with that from a financial standpoint, we wouldn't move forward.
Q: You said it's priced fairly, but season ticket holders are asked from $20,000 to $80,000 for the right for the seats with the stadium builder's license. Do the 49ers think that's reasonable?
YORK: You should probably understand the facts before you say something like that. Those are 9,000 seats out of a 67,000 seat stadium. Over 55,000 seats have not been priced yet. There's definitely going to be affordable seats for everybody in the building.
Q: Do you have the naming rights deal yet?
YORK: No. We are working with potential naming-rights partners now, obviously with the full support from the NFL. That will make it much more likely that we will get it done.
Q: What are the terms of the loan with the NFL? And does it change the overall math on the borrowing for the project? Does it make it easier on the front end? How does it change anything if it all?
YORK: It's not a loan. It's NFL support. There are different pieces to it. It's fairly complicated to get into, but it obviously is something that makes financing the stadium a reality, and it's much easier to do when you have the NFL support than when you don't have NFL support.
Q: Is it more accurate to say they're kicking in $200 million towards the stadium as opposed to loaning?
YORK: It's support. Some of it is a loan from the NFL's balance sheet and the rest is support from the NFL owners. There's a combination to it and it's fairly intricate. It's a lot more complicated than what you're making it sound.
Q: Are there any strings attached as far as joint use with the Raiders?
YORK: There are no string attached, but obviously the term sheet that we have with the city of Santa Clara allowed for this to be a two-team building. That has not changed. We have not had any meaningful conversations with any team about that, but we have had some high-level conversations with the Raiders just to allow them to understand what this project looks like and understand what the stadium's going to look and feel like in Santa Clara.
Q: Were those conversations with the Raiders recent?
YORK: We've had conversations with them. We keep each other abreast of our stadium situation, so it's been ongoing for the past five or six years. But there hasn't been anything meaningful as far as a partnership or some type of joint venture.
Q: Have you met with Mark Davis in recent months?
YORK: We worked out together today at the J.W. Marriot before the meeting, had lunch together – we're staying at the same hotel in Indy. It was very casual conversation, just lamenting the fact that we aren't playing in the game more than anything else.
Q: Some of the citizen groups that are against the deal say that the 49ers haven't put any money on the line yet – that it's 100 percent financed. Can you comment on that?
YORK: Yeah, it's not true.
Q: How much cash have the 49ers put on the table so far for this?
YORK: The stadium is going to cost $1.02 billion. We've had the financing in place. We've spent money on predevelopment leading up to this project. We've spent money and we are the ones who ultimately on are on the hook for the risk of the stadium, and that's the most important piece.
Q: When will you have the seat pricing done, and what with the builder's license fees be based on?
YORK: We want to make sure that we have the opportunity to meet face to face with every single season ticket holder at Candlestick. I think that's very important. We owe them that opportunity to sit down so they can understand all their options. The way we're doing it is we're allocating seats that are the same or similar to the ones they had at Candlestick. It's hard to do that because at Candlestick about 50 percent of the seats are in the upper bowl and 50 percent in the lower bowl, and at the new stadium two thirds of the seats are in the lower deck and one third in the upper deck. So, there's not a one-to-one ratio. There are more seats that are lower and closer to the field in Santa Clara. As we get through the first piece of this allocation, we're hopeful in the next several months we'll be able to reach out to the season ticket holders, and you just keep moving forward. We've got over 20,000 season ticket holder accounts. That will take probably a year to meet with everybody face-to-face. As we get through folks we'll continue to line up interviews with more and more folks. We're hopeful in the next couple months we'll be able to get to the general admission seats. That's something that legends and the stadium authority are working on right now.
Q: How do you characterize the significance of the fact that the NFL kicked in $200 million as opposed to $150 million?
YORK: It's a different program. The G3 program was exhausted. The G4 program is a different program. When you're looking at the dollar amount, it's the most support that the NFL has ever given to one single team. The Jets and Giants had $300 million in support for both teams in a shared building. This is an unprecedented day for the 49ers and it's a big vote of confidence from the league. It shows how important is to get new stadiums built in California.
Q: Is San Francisco completely off the table now or is there still a ray of hope there?
YORK: This means that we are fully funded for Santa Clara and we are building a football stadium in Santa Clara.
Q: Are the people of Santa Clara completely protected from all these loans?
YORK: The 49ers are on the hook if the loans can't be paid back.
Q: What's the next biggest hurdle the Niners have to clear to start building?
YORK: Ground breaking hopefully will begin soon. We're doing a lot of make-ready work right now. Now it's the construction, it's making sure we get shovels in the ground and start building.
Q: What does the make-ready work entail?
YORK: Getting the site level – if you're been there you know it slopes down, there's a little bit of a grade there. So, just making sure you have everything in a position where you can start construction.
Q: Are we still looking at 2014 for the move in, or 2015?
YORK: 2015 is definite and we are hopeful that if things go well we can have a '14 opening. 2015 is a certainty, and like anything we'd like to exceed our own expectations and we're going to work as hard as we can to make that happen.
Q: Anything else you'd like to say?
YORK: There are two things. No. 1 – a big thank you to the city of Santa Clara, the city council members, the citizens for being so supportive, a big thank you to Mayor Lee and his staff that understands that even if we aren't playing in San Francisco, we will always be the San Francisco 49ers and we will find great, creative ways to work together to make sure that we are part of the fabric of the city of San Francisco, and understand that this is a great day for the entire Bay Area.


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Fans of Gameloft's online multiplayer games may soon be getting a chance to talk some smack to their distant opponents thanks to 4G LTE. Gameloft and Verizon will be offering voice chat in Asphalt 6: Adrenaline. According to Baudoin Corman, Gameloft's Vice President of Publishing, "We are thrilled to be partnering with Verizon to illustrate the potential of in-game voice chat and multiplayer over the 4G LTE network. Gameloft seeks to provide gamers with a complete mobile gaming experience and feels that these features are at the forefront of the platform's future."
4G LTE's benefits for gaming are well-known: OnLive in particular has touted 4G LTE's low latency connections as what allows them to offer the service to mobile users not on wifi; the improved bandwidth and latency conditions should be ahelp with making these games work more smoothly. Voice chat is something that has existed on iOS through Game Center but not frequently used (one iOS developer I've spoken to says that it's actually something implementable with a few lines of code, which makes it odd that it isn't implemented as an option) so having it on Android should be a boon to mobile competitive gamers. Just remember that "kill him! kill him!" and shouting expletives in a crowded space is a way for people to get really scared, really quickly.
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This cute ranch home in Pacific has had lots of great updates. Newer flooring, cabinets, and counter-tops in the kitchen. An extra parking lane has been added to the driveway, the deck and privacy fence are newer, and the bathrooms have been updated! There's plenty of room for the kids with 3 bedrooms on the main level including the master suite as well as an extra room in the basement that is currently being used as a sleeping room but could make a good play room! The other finished part of the basement is a good entertaining space with a walkout to the back yard. Back upstairs in the living room there is a wood burning fireplace to warm up to in the winter. Laundry is also on the main level! This home is conveniently located just a walk away to the city park and close to restaurants, shopping, the highway, and other amenities. Schedule your appointment today!
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Tokyo, May 13, 2010: Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International lay Buddhist organization, was awarded the title of honorary professor from Tsinghua University*, China, at a ceremony held in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on May 13. Tsinghua University President Gu Binglin headed a delegation that included Deputy Secretary-General Wang Jinzhan and other university officials which presented the academic honor to Mr. Ikeda. Also present at the ceremony were Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua and Minister-Counselor Sun Jianming.
related article Soka eBook Store Launched A selection of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) President Daisaku Ikeda's foreign language writings along with SGI-related books are now available in digital format from the Soka eBook Store. In his speech, President Gu cited the reasons for his university's decision to confer the academic title to Mr. Ikeda: "Based on his exceptional far-sightedness, Mr Ikeda made a public proposal for the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan back in 1968…thereby setting a clear direction for the development of friendly bilateral ties between our two countries." He added, "In dedicating his entire life to advocating and taking action to realize the ideal of lasting global peace and the happiness of humankind, Mr. Ikeda has won widespread recognition as well as respect and appreciation from peace-loving people in China and around the world."
This honorary professorship brings to 288 the total number of academic honors awarded to Mr. Ikeda by institutions in 51 countries and territories for his contributions to building peace, cultural exchange and the promotion of dialogue.
Daisaku Ikeda, 82, is the founder of Soka University, Japan. The university was the first to receive students from China to study in Japan in 1975 immediately upon the normalization of diplomatic relationship between China and Japan. Presently, Soka University has exchange programs with more than 30 universities in China, including Tsinghua University since 2003. Mr. Ikeda is also founder of the Min-On Concert Association which has promoted cultural exchanges between Japan and China over the past 35 years. This year Min-On has invited the China National Acrobatic Troupe to tour major Japanese cities from February to May.
*Tsinghua University, located in Beijing, China, is one of the top universities in China, ranking alongside the likes of Peking University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Established in 1911, it is highly esteemed in Asia as well as in Chinese speaking communities throughout the world and counts among its alumni luminaries such as Nobel physics laureates Yang Chen Ning and Lee Tsung Dao, Chinese President Hu Jintao and historian and writer Ji Xianlin.
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E-mail: jota[at]sgi.gr.jp
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The Guiding Light of Buddhist Philosophy
by Yoichi Kawada, advisor, The Institute of Oriental Philosophy
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Singapore Soka Association—Promoting Harmonious Coexistence in the Lion City
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Wednesday, 4/30, from 8-10 a.m. Kim Bobo of Interfaith Worker Justice Speaks in Ithaca: Working and Still Poor: What's Going on in America and What We Can Do About It
From Tompkins County Workers' Center:
Labor-Religion Coalition of the Finger Lakes & Catholic Charities
16th Religious Leaders' Breakfast Briefing
"WORKING and STILL POOR: What's Going on in America and What We Can Do about It" featuring KIM BOBO of Interfaith Worker Justice
Wednesday, APRIL 30, 2014, breakfast beginning at 8am
TEMPLE BETH EL, 402 No. Tioga St, Ithaca
PLEASE RSVP if you can make this event
Kim Bobo is the author of Wage Theft in America and co-author of Organizing for Social Change. She is also the Founder/Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice (iwj.org), a national labor rights organization supported by many national labor unions and faith-affiliated organizations. Her work has greatly raised awareness of the prevalence of wage theft in America, particularly among low income workers. Bobo has also been working closely with the TCWC and Just Economics in Asheville, NC, to take our Living Wage Employer Certification Program nationally. The TCWC is also an affiliate of Interfaith Worker Justice's Workers' Center Network.
Bobo will also be appearing in the afternoon at SUNY Cortland on April 30th and Binghamton on May 1st (see details on Binghamton visit at http://www.cnylabor.org/index.cfm?action=article&articleID=d9afec95-28ca-4ac1-9687-fd6e7647879e