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Ultrasound transducers are systems used to evaluate targets and interpret the reflected signals. Ultrasound transducers are available in different shapes and sizes which produces an image in the form of a plane body with the structures cut across.
Piezoelectric crystals change size and shape of the beam that generates a voltage when force is applied and also works as ultrasonic detectors. Some systems use separate transmitters and receivers, while some combine both functions into a single piezoelectric transceiver.Ultrasound transducers use non-piezoelectric principles such as magnetostriction and diaphragm principle used for fabrication of transducer arrays. Cardiac ultrasound transducers are available in different sizes and shapes in order to be used outside the echo lab.
However, new developments in ultrasound technology and cardiac ultrasounds allow imaging at the cellular or molecular level, paving the way for earlier diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
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High prevalence of diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, geriatric population with bypass surgery, rising patient awareness programs, growing research and development initiatives for heart diseases, and increasing demand for diagnostic imaging devices are the major factors driving the cardiac ultrasound transducers market. According to the WHO, cardiovascular disease is one of the leading cause of death globally.
In 2016, WHO reported 16 million deaths under the age of 70 years which is due to non-communicable diseases, and 37% death were caused by cardiovascular diseases. Growth in technologies such as biochips, catheter implantation, mall hand-held or pocket-sized ultrasound systems, and increase in use of advanced software applications available for measuring the protocol of the ultrasound test are likely to fuel the growth of the cardiac ultrasound transducers market.
The global cardiac ultrasound transducers market has been segmented based on product type, end-user, and region. In terms of product type, the market has been classified into sector transducer, concave transducer, pencil transducer, linear transducer, microconvex transducer, and others.
Cardiovascular is a rapidly growing application segment because of increasing prevalence of cardiovascular diseases globally. According to the WHO, cardiovascular diseases accounted for 17.5 million deaths in 2012, representing 31% of all the global deaths.
Of these, an estimated 7.4 million were due to coronary heart disease and 6.7 million were due to stroke. In terms of end-user, the cardiac ultrasound transducers market has been classified into diagnostic laboratories, ambulatory surgical units, hospitals, clinics, and others.
Geographically, the cardiac ultrasound transducers market has been segmented into North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Middle East & Africa.
North America dominates the global cardiac ultrasound transducers market due to sophisticated infrastructure with modern software modalities, patient awareness programs, and high per capita health care expenditure. Early-phase diagnosis and treatment of disease is driving the medical devices market which in turn is expected to augment the cardiac ultrasound transducers market in North America.
Europe is the second largest market for cardiac ultrasound transducers due to favorable government policies regarding health care infrastructure, incidence of cardiac diseases, and awareness among the population. Asia Pacific is expected to grow at a higher rate due to rising geriatric population, changing lifestyle, increasing awareness about cardiovascular diseases, and surging per capita expenditure.
In addition, economic growth supports the improvement of the health care infrastructure in developing countries such as India and China. Hence, these factors fuel the growth of the cardiac ultrasound transducers market in Asia Pacific.
Major players operating in the global cardiac ultrasound transducers market include Siemens Healthineers, Chison Medical Imaging Co., Ltd., Esaote SpA, GE Healthcare, Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc., Telemed Medical Systems, Samsung, Toshiba Medical System Corporation, and Hitachi Medical Systems.
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God of my Life,
thank you for your presence with me this week,
in the times that were easy and the times that were hard.
Guide me to a period of rest that I might preside with you,
recharge my batteries,
and prepare to again do the work you are calling me to do next week.
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The Kentucky Department of Education will spend up to $800,000 to underwrite the cost of Advanced Placement tests for the 2016-17 school year for students who qualify for free and reduced-price lunch, Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt said Friday.
While state law requires costs of the exams to be paid by the Kentucky Department of Education, state funding has not been available for the tests that give students college credit, education officials said. In the past, state officials secured federal grants to pay the fees for private and public school students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Recently enacted federal education law eliminates funding for the tests.
"All students should have equal access to the benefits of AP coursework," said Pruitt, who reallocated money from other areas of the state education budget. Pruitt said it was a way of addressing the "opportunity gap" — between low-income students and their peers.
Andrew Brennen. a 2014 graduate of Lexington's Paul Laurence Dunbar High School who is concerned about the unfunded mandate, told the Herald-Leader on Friday that state lawmakers should make it possible so that the state education department can pay for all students taking the Advanced Placement exam.
In 2008, when the state passed changes to state law, "lawmakers bragged to Kentucky students and families that they were no longer going to be responsible for covering the costs of the expensive" Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate tests, Brennen said.
"This never happened for tens of thousands of Kentucky students," Brennen said. "Commissioner Pruitt deserves credit for doing everything he can to ensure that there are no barriers to students who hope to be college and career ready. Our state legislature should adopt a similar posture. In this case it's quite simple. Follow the law and honor your promise."
In 2016, more than 4,000 colleges and universities around the world received qualifying AP test scores for college credit, advanced placement, or consideration in admissions, with many colleges offering credit in one or more subjects for qualifying scores, education officials said.
Without the state education department covering the fee, it would be up to districts to pay the $53 test fee for students living in poverty.
Data from 2016 show that nationwide among blacks, Hispanic and Native American students with the potential to succeed in AP courses, only about half enroll, officials said Friday.
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Some of Lil' Sis' favorite RightStart Mathematics activities this month were learning more about doubles with the math balance, reflections, and showing place value and quantities in different ways.
The red plastic tool in the pic above showed the reflection of the design on the geoboard. We extended this activity by writing words on paper and seeing their reflection in the mirrror, as well as drawing simple designs on paper and then drawing their reflections on the opposite side of the paper. Big Sis enjoyed joining us for this activity too. She couldn't resist the combo of math and art! ;-)
She enjoyed the place value and quantity lessons and designed a creative play activity that allowed us to get even more practice in, in a way she felt was just a game and fun playtime. I love it when that happens (as it often does for us with this math program)!
Lil' Sis decided to imagine the tiles were cookies and the abacus and place value cards showed her inventory - how many she had available - at her bakery. So she sold Big Sis and I some cookies and we played with number values, more and less, paid with place value cards, and more! Lots of extra practice!
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James Milton and Sarah M. Abernathy weremy gggrandparents.They had two children,Nancy and Thomas. Nancy married Isaac Monroe Sellers.I would like to knowmore about this family. James Milton died April 1865 . Sarah died about 1901. I would like to talk
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My grandfather was named John Milton Sellers.Nancy [Nannie] and Isaac Monroe were his parents. Help please from James Milton Abernathy's Family.


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Ricky's Taqueria closed briefly, but could reopen soon
Hungry fans of Ricky's Taqueria were disappointed to find it closed at lunch today, but the popular Elkhart restaurant could reopen very soon, according to the owner.
An orange sign in the front door window indicates an issue with the Indiana Department of Revenue. Amanda Stanley, director of public relations for the department, said in an email she couldn't release specifics, but added: "When the department has exhausted all efforts to collect taxes from a business, the department revokes the business's Registered Retail Merchant Certificate (RRMC). Without a valid RRMC, the business cannot legally conduct sales in the state of Indiana."
Owner Jesus Rojas said officials from the department came this morning and wouldn't allow the restaurant to open. He said that he owes about $16,000 in sales taxes from April, May and June. "I (will) go pay everything today," he said.
He said he's awaiting money from his personal tax return, but was headed to South Bend to make the payment. He said he hopes to be open as early as this evening.
The small taqueria at 57995 C.R. 9, is well-known for its burritos and tacos and also has a food truck that is popular at the Elkhart County 4-H Fair.


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Explore Spain and Portugal with Rick Steves as your tour guide.
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text: The Milford boys cross country program strives to produce student-athletes committed to bettering themselves and their school. The work ethic needed to succeed on the cross country course is fostered in each student-athlete in hopes of it spilling over into the academic arena as well. Coach Dave Ackerman has been involved with the program for 25 years as a coach and 4 years as an athlete competing for Milford, where he was a 3 time state qualifier and an all-league runner. He carried his love for running beyond his college career by becoming a successful marathoner, racing in the first 12 Flying Pig Marathons and numerous other road races and marathons around the country. The inspiration that long time Eagles coach Dave Niemeyer provided to Ackerman has driven him to hold all Milford cross country athletes to the highest possible standards in all that they do. Coach Matt Jorden is in his 15th year of coaching and also competed at Milford High School. He was coached by both Coach Ackerman and Coach Niemeyer and hopes to pass on the lessons that he learned from cross country to today's student athletes. The cross country program invites all young men to join the team in hopes of leading Milford to the top of the ECC, the city, and the state of Ohio in cross country. Those student-athletes with the desire to be the best in the classrooms and the hallways of Milford High School as well as the cross country courses of Cincinnati and all of Ohio should join this outstanding group today! Go Eagles!


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This really helps me to see that the tree that my cousin sent me does connect.Now I can get the documentation needed to back it all up. Clarence E. Abernathy married Rose Quest May 17, 1918 in Perryville, MO.Rose was from Rush Tower, MO born 10-1-1900 and died 3-18-1983 Festus/Crystal City, MO.They had 4 boys Robert, Lewis, Kenneth, Paul Raymond (Ray).Kenneth my dad is only one living; in mid Missouri.How do I get the census books?I still visit MO relatives and friends if I have to physically view them.Thanks for your help.


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Just like this, she would call to the children before closing her eyes and putting her head back into the water.
They lay on their stomachs at the end of the pier and watched as their mother sank deeply into meditation while her legs slowly moved from beneath the water and floated to the top. Her arms spread out from her body and relaxed into position. Her fingers moved in rhythm with the small ripples lapping toward the shore. When larger waves came, pushing the water toward her, the angles of her body surfed what came her way. It seemed that her hair tried to follow the waves as it fanned out as far as it could before bidding farewell to caressing splashes.
Aren't you afraid? The water is so dark! (her young son)
How do you do it; how do you stay up? (her tiny daughter)
Silence smiled. (no replies, so deep was her relaxation)
The children thought her so beautiful, their mother. But she seemed to belong less to them when she bobbed in the water and they gazed down from the pier. It was as if each time she went out there to float they lost her a bit more, as if a drop more of her love stayed out there when she returned to them.
Toweling off, she would shake her head to release water from her ears and her hair would send sprays that dotted the dry planks of wood underfoot. The sparkle of moonlight in her eyes was what the children searched for then, for when they saw it they knew she was back with them.
Howdoyoustayupinthewatersodarkhowdoyoufloataren'tyouafraid? they asked again and again.
They waited for the same mysterious answer she always gave, the words that both assured and excited them:
There is nothing to fear. Many are there to hold and protect me.


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"Here is an embiggened version of the infamous jobs chart prepared by Obama administration economists Jared Bernstein and Christina Romer back in January 2009 (and now updated again by me with data from the August jobs report)."
Unemployment Rate
"The December employment report showed that nonfarm payroll employment fell 85,000 since November. (In November, employment ticked up 4,000; November's gain was the first increase since December 2007.) In addition, the unemployment rate remained at 10.0%. The unemployment rate was 4.9% in December of 2007. In December 2008, 15.3 million people were unemployed. By contrast, in December 2007, 7.7 million were unemployed. The recession has produced an extraordinary number of long-term unemployed: over 6 million people have been out of work for at least six months.
While the unemployment rate is 10.0%, the fraction of 'underemployed' is much larger. The fraction of those unemployed, discouraged or otherwise not looking for work but willing to work, and those working part time for economic reasons was 17.3% last month.
According the report, 'Temporary help services added 47,000 jobs in December. Since reaching a low point in July, temporary help services employment has risen by 166,000.' After a downturn, firms typically hire additional temporary workers before hiring additional permanent workers, in order to be sure that an economic recovery will be sustained. As a result, temporary hiring one closely watched indicator for signs of improvement in the labor market."
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Why We Grow What We Grow
If you have driven by our Pittstown farm in the past few months, you may have noticed the vibrant, green sprouts carpeting the fields. This early season green is the winter rye that our farm team planted last fall as a cover crop, and it plays an important role in preparing the fields for this year's growing season. Rye can germinate in near-freezing temperatures and tolerates the chill of early spring, which allows it to grow rapidly and crowd out potential weeds. Additionally, its roots loosen the soil, which improves the flow of oxygen and water through the fields. When it is time to plow the fields for our spring plantings, the rye will be turned under the soil and begin to decompose. As it breaks down, the rye releases nitrogen into the soil and becomes food for the next crop planted.
We plant cover crops to prevent soil erosion and improve soil conditions, but how do we decide which vegetables to plant? The decision is based on factors ranging from environmental limits to recipient requests. For example, the first crops to go in the ground after the rye will be crops like cabbage and onions because they can tolerate – and sometimes prefer – the cooler weather. The garlic we planted last November is also cold-tolerant and will mature through the spring to be ready for harvest in early June. Once temperature and weather patterns are considered, we look to requests and feedback from recipients on what types of foods to plant.
Many of the vegetables we grow are part of Feeding America's 'Hard 7' list of nutrient-rich, storage-hardy foods. The 'Hard 7' are: potatoes, cabbage, apples, onions, sweet potatoes, carrots, and oranges. Of these fruits and vegetables, oranges are the only type we do not grow at our farm, and you have probably helped us plant and harvest many of the others! These foods are grown in large quantities and are sent to food banks and food pantries for distribution as well as to our Free Farm Markets. We also grow foods specifically requested by recipients, such as hot peppers and green tomatoes among others.
Another food we grow a lot of is sweet corn. If you have seen pictures from our Grow-a-Row Kids Farm Days, you have probably seen pictures of the children eating sweet corn they picked right off the stalk. The happiness captured in these photographs is a big reason we grow what we grow, because healthy bodies make for happy minds. Join us this growing season and be a part of that happiness!


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For my work for Boréal Bikes, an ebike startup, I recently started to look into a couple tools, which are useful for a crowdfunding campaign. As crowdfunding is getting bigger and bigger, more mature and and a more developed "system" (of testing product ideas etc.), there's already quite a few companies now that do something especially for companies that are crowdfunding, or, even more specifically, just for companies crowdfunding on Kickstarter or Indiegogo etc..
Get ALL that money from the crowd. Every cent counts.
Competitor & Best Practice Analysis
Media coverage or the total amount raised by campaign can be misleading. If you want to find out which campaigns really did well and what impact PR successes etc. that seem crucial on first sight really had, it is helpful to look at some data on how a campaign did over time. Here are two tools for that:
Here is a comparison between these two tools on a blog called Crowdfux, which I do not want to repeat, plagiarize or paraphrase here. (Plus a third service called Kickspy, which shut down in the meantime.)
Perk Fulfillment Partners
Some crowdfunding perks for backers are fairly commoditized by now, like merchandise, such as a T-Shirt or coffee mug, for small contributions. Therefore, it's probably only "natural" that some companies have emerged that help you specifically with the fulfillment of your "standard perks".
- Backerkit: They also cover some other related areas, for the organization of the delivery on your campaign.
- Amplifier: The fulfillment partner promoted on Indiegogo. (You can use them whenever you "directly sell to your community" though, according to the information on their site.)
You will still have to develop your product or film your movie yourself etc. though. 😉
Launch Buzz Tools
Getting traction and attention early on is one of the key components for the success of a crowdfunding campaign. On some plattforms, your campaign only gets visibility via the plattforms channels after you reach a certain percentage of your fundraising goal. Every day that the campaign is below that treshold might result in wasted potential. These two tools allow your base to support you by agreeeing to simultaneously broadcasting a message on social media, for example at the time around the launch of a campaign:
Both tools work quite similar, they just have different business models: Headtalker has a marketplace for (adding and selling) paid reach, Thunderclap charges for some features.
If you have some essential tools to add, need help with a crowdfunding campaign, or want to exchange ideas, experiences etc. around crowdfunding, contact me on Twitter!


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Artificial sweeteners are a dieter's dream – adding sweet flavor to everything from calorie-free soda to sugar-free ice creams and cookies. However, although the number of Americans eating artificially sweetened products has ballooned from 70 million in 1987 to over 160 million today, our national obesity rate is skyrocketing as well. Why the disconnect?
Researchers suspect that artificial sweeteners may actually lead to weight gain, not weight loss. Why?
1. Sweetness is a Clue to our Brains
Throughout the history of mankind, our brains have intuitively understood that sweetness and calories went together. When we eat a sweet, tasty food, our brains understand that and think we're getting a substantial amount of calories from it. Therefore, our brain sends us the message to cut back on other foods, or to stop eating sooner. Sweetness = calories = the need to stop eating.
2. Artificially Sweetened Foods Trick our Brains
The International Journal of Obesity published a study performed on two groups of rats. One group was fed sugar-sweetened liquids, the other group ate a mix of sugar and artificially sweetened liquids. After 10 days, both groups were offered a high-calorie chocolate snack, followed by their regular food.
Guess which group overindulged in the regular food? You guessed it – the group that drank the artificially sweetened liquids. It seems that when we drink artificially sweetened products, our brains are confused when those products don't deliver the calories their taste seems to promise. We then try to find those calories elsewhere by craving more food.
3. Brain Interference
Our brains intuitively associate sweet tastes with calories. When sweet taste accompanies zero calories, our brains become confused and our whole system becomes unable to determine appropriate amounts of foods to eat in order to maintain a healthy weight.
4. Higher Fat and Salt Content
Aside from the whole brain-tricking issue, there's another way artificial sweeteners promote weight gain. Often when food manufacturers reduce sugar content, they compensate by increasing the amount of fat, salt, or other unhealthy ingredients. The same is true of low- and no-fat products. All of these food manipulations with artificial ingredients is wreaking havoc with our bodies' abilities to determine how much of a food to eat.
5. Use Your Brain – Confused or Not
If all of this scientific talk is leaving you feeling a bit helpless, don't despair. Despite the confusing possibilities that studies suggest, we still have an advantage over lab rats: we can use our brains to make nutritional choices that lead to good health. Next time you're tempted to drink that diet soda, you can say "no" to it and replace it with a sparkling water or tea. Or, you can say "yes" to it, but you can turn on your alert to make wise food choices during the rest of the day – not using it as a free ticket to unlimited snacking on cookies and chips.


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These Shallow Graves by Jennifer DonnellyThese Shallow Graves
Author: Jennifer Donnelly
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Date: 2015
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Jo Montfort is beautiful and rich, and soon—like all the girls in her class—she'll graduate from finishing school and be married off to a wealthy bachelor. Which is the last thing she wants. Jo secretly dreams of becoming a writer—a newspaper reporter like the trailblazing Nellie Bly.
Wild aspirations aside, Jo's life seems perfect until tragedy strikes: her father is found dead. Charles Montfort accidentally shot himself while cleaning his revolver. One of New York City's wealthiest men, he owned a newspaper and was partner in a massive shipping firm, and Jo knows he was far too smart to clean a loaded gun.
The more Jo uncovers about her father's death, the more her suspicions grow. There are too many secrets. And they all seem to be buried in plain sight. Then she meets Eddie—a young, brash, infuriatingly handsome reporter at her father's newspaper—and it becomes all too clear how much she stands to lose if she keeps searching for the truth. Only now it might be too late to stop.
The past never stays buried forever. Life is dirtier than Jo Montfort could ever have imagined, and the truth is the dirtiest part of all.
I don't read historical fiction very much, which may seem funny as I study history at University, but I tend to stick to fantasy and contemporary. I picked up These Shallow Graves after mulling it over for several weeks after spotting it in my local Waterstones. There was just something about the cover, synopsis and the fact that it was set in early 1900s New York that I could not shake. I ended up buying it finally and I do not regret it one bit. The book was written well, the plot was well thought out, the characters were very interesting to read about.
So what is it about? These Shallow Graves is a Young Adult Mystery/Crime book set in New York where we follow Josephine Montfort who is investigating her father's death with the help of Eddie and others. If you read it, you may deem it as predictable in some places, but I loved the last 100 pages of this book as they were quite unexpected. I feel like it is the perfect historical murder mystery plot and I found myself unable to put this book down. It also features a forbidden romance, but does not focus heavily on this which I think is great. I do love a bit of romance in books, but I'm not a fan of it when books have an interesting plot but focus on the romance more heavily than anything else. As a mystery, there were several twists and turns in this book, including character twists. There were some things that I felt were quite predictable, but I loved how the main mystery opened up another case, which really surprised me. This book was just full of surprises!
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What do the Tories offer? Putting aside the squabbling and the Brexit meltdown, there isn't a great deal. At the beginning of her blighted reign Theresa May promised a rosy picture of a one nation Britain in which everyone had their place and everyone got on. This was 50s Toryism respun, a kindlier, industrious society (except for immigrants and recipients of social security) where racism became a bad memory and the proceeds of wealth were shared more fairly. Accused of channelling her inner Ed Miliband, this was thin gruel. But coming after six years of Dave who, in many ways, appeared to be the continuity of Blair/Brown and who, in their turn, left the Thatcherite settlement untouched, May's Toryism seemed fresh. Her initial success and thumping poll leads weren't just down to making a hard Brexit her own. Believe it or not, she represented change and got the plaudits for it.
18 months is an eternity in politics, especially when instability hits and events accelerate. Now it is Jeremy Corbyn who is the change candidate and Labour the vehicle for rethinking politics and trying something new. Therefore his speech at the Co-op Party's conference presented an opportunity to consolidate this position, and he did not disappoint. Our Jez grabbed the headlines by conceding Philip Hammond's charge that Labour was a threat to his economic model. Too right, but the populist flourish wasn't the main point. What was is the vision of the future as a better place in which people are not just better off because of sound policies, but the application of technology to enhance our lives.
It being the Co-operative conference, it was entirely right to float ideas from Labour's Alternative Models of Ownership report. Singling out the new wave of parasites enabling then feeding off the so-called gig economy, he raises the prospects of using digital architectures to facilitate cooperative businesses that can displace and out-compete the Ubers and the Deliveroos. As we have seen, because their business models can only operate by cornering markets there is a very clear public interest such monopolies are broken up or cooperatised. Indeed, he is broadly in favour of extending cooperative business - not least because the standard share holder model of ownership leads to wealth concentration and, in Britain's case, the present investment strike and the consequent tumbling productivity figures.
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What follows is The Redbird Daily's selection for The Cardinals' April players of the month award. Each month we will give you one position player and one pitcher that had the most productive month in the organization.
Here are our winners for the month of April.
Hitter Of The Month – Luke Voit: Memphis – 1B, Age 26
April 2017 Stats: 75 AB, 7 Doubles, 1 Triple, 5 HR, 16 RBI, 11 BB, 19 SO, 1 SB, 51 Total Bases, 360/448/680/1.128
Wow, Luke Voit wasn't messing around during his debut month at Memphis. This 6'3 235 pound-listed(He's bigger than 235. He looks about 250 of pure muscle in person) behemoth of a man has exploded onto the Pacific Coast League scene.
Quick Aside: Can you imagine if Voit would have been able to stick at catcher? Man, that would have been a sight.
Voit's success is more than just the flash in the pan-type that starts red hot at the beginning of the first month of the season, yet fizzles out by the end of the month. Voit is hitting .400 in 35 AB with 2 HR, 9 RBI, 2 BB, with 5 K over his last 10 games . There is actually reason to believe that he has getting better since the beginning of the month.
Earlier this week the Cardinals moved Anthony Garcia off of the 40 man roster, and the move was somewhat downplayed as a move to clean up the 40 man. That might be true, but I think we all know John Mozeliak well enough to know that this is a guy who doesn't make a roster move unless he sees the potential of another move on the horizon. I wouldn't be surprised if the former Wildwood, Mo resident and Missouri State Alum found his way into that 40 man spot if either the Cardinals offense sputters again or Matt Carpenter's defense at 1st base stays exactly the same as it is right now.
Pitcher Of The Month – Jack Flaherty: Springfield – RHP, Age 21
April 2017 Stats: 5 Starts, 32.1 IP, 0.56 ERA, 2 ER, 4 BB, 28 K, .191 AVG Against, 0 HR Allowed
I cannot remember a more dominant month of pitching at the minor league level off of the top of my head than what Flaherty has done this April. Luke Weaver had a stretch at Springfield last season that was close, but even that wasn't as dominant as Flaherty's April. It has nothing short of miraculous.
Digging deeper into his April, 4 of Flaherty's 5 starts have gone at least 6 innings. 3 of his 5 starts have been scoreless outings and he hasn't allowed more than 1 run in either of the other two starts. Flaherty isn't walking anybody and he's striking out plenty.
Flaherty has been completely in control on the mound. He is throwing, nay, commanding, four pitches on all quadrants of the strike zone. The ball looks free and easy coming out of his hand and his poise is that of someone who is years older than he is. Also, hitters can go ahead and forget about squaring the ball up on him. Needless to say, there isn't much hard contact against Flaherty.
This is even more encouraging because exactly one year ago a 20 year old Jack Flaherty was beat around in 4 April starts for Palm Beach to a tune of an ERA of 6.46 while holding hitters to a batting average of 313. I bring all of this up to accentuate the fact that this is a different kid pitching than he was a year ago. This is a man on the mound. He'll be pitching in Memphis in no time if he keeps this up.
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Funny thing about logic, is that the same logical conclusion can be arrived at using different logical processes. Not all logic is the same, nor is it meant to be. Mathematic and scientific logic are, in fact, different processes. Logic is a process of thought – it moves from one direction, or point, to a concluding point. Sometimes a logical conclusion is arrived at by moving forward through information, sometimes it processes information retroactively, and sometimes logic is arrived at laterally.
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Racism is the belief that some races of people are superior to others.
Races include Caucasians (Whites), Africans (Blacks), Latinos, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, Asians, Middle Easterners, and South Asians (East Indians).
Go ahead and prove that racism is not real.
Racism is 100% completely and utterly real. That is undeniable.
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By "reverse racism" do you mean "racism against whites"? That's what the term usually refers to.
I want to establish that while prejudice and racism are similar, they have different connotations. It is true that white people can experience prejudice, offensive opinion not based on reason. Anyone can. However, racism is much more complicated: It is a concept that operates on both an individual and institutional level.
Racism is an institution where a particular race is dominant, and uses this dominance to oppress the other races in order to benefit. Instances of this are slavery: White people had oppressed Blacks in order to gain profit off of Black people's labor. Then later there was segregation, which was less direct but still oppressed blacks.
Today, the oppression that racism creates is more on an economic and educational level. Job discrimination makes it difficult for Blacks to earn more money, which makes it more difficult for their children to get a better education, and therefore get a good job when their children are older. You can clearly see a cycle, and this is only one instance that the system of racism creates. White people do not experience any of this, and in fact benefit off of this. If African Americans and other minorities are refused from jobs due to their skin color, then white people have a higher chance of obtaining a job. Usually without even knowing it.
White people do not experience police brutality at the same level black people do. More than 100 unarmed black people were killed by police in 2014. (http://mappingpoliceviolence.org......) They also don't experience incarceration at the level either. While people of color make up about 30 percent of the United States' population, they account for 60 percent of those imprisoned. They're targeted by society and poverty because of racism on a structural level. (https://www.americanprogress.org......)
So while blacks can be prejudice against whites and say bad things to offend them, they're not being racist because they don't have the institutionalized power to protect them and their statements. Furthermore, if black people make negative statements or act negatively towards white people, it doesn't affect the power, rights, and opportunities that white people have. On the other hand, if white people act negatively towards black people, the power, rights, and opportunities of black people are restricted.
You have changed the definition of racism that I provided in the first round. If you were going to use a different definition, you should have specified that in round one.
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Posted by whiteflame 2 years ago
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3 points to Pro (Arguments). Reasons for voting decision: Con doesn't provide terms in R1, thus Pro can provide any term he likes. Con then concedes that racism per the definition is true, thus Pro wins arguments by concession.
[*Reason for non-removal*] The voter is allowed to determine whether or not a definition in the first round constitutes a solid definition for the debate that cannot be contested. It's not up to moderation to decide whether or not this is reasonable.
Posted by Leugen9001 2 years ago
In round 1, Pro exploited the fact that "reverse" was not in Con"s argument; he exploited ambiguity rather than actually making a case. This may have been acceptable if "reverse" wasn"t also in the contention of the debate, but it was. As such, Pro"s first concession was not a concession.
Con"s argument relied on his own definition of racism; if we went with Pro"s definition, which was posted earlier and therefore should be counted as the correct definition, then Con"s argument would not be valid. Con"s change of the definition was pointed out by Pro, but Pro did not point out how that related to the validity of Con"s argument.
Due to Debate.org"s restrictions on voting, it"s difficult to make any vote on this debate argument-wise. If I voted for Con, then I would be voting for an argument that was reliant on a changed definition, as Pro made the first definition, a definition incompatible with Con"s argument. If I voted for Pro, then I would be ignoring the fact that Pro did not point out how Con"s playing with semantics affected Con"s case, making it not an adequate rebuttal. Plus, semantics are apparently fair game unless otherwise stated, thereby making the case even more confusing.
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The Gamble Family is: Theo Gamble – permanent platinum bisexual romance / fortune Vampire alien. His twins by alien abduction: Vena (Knowledge – Ecological Guru) & Gunthur (Popularity – 5 top businesses). Dancesphere abduction son Hero & daughter Wahalla .
Wahalla ages up. The nursery is finally empty.
Vena & Gunthur run the family business for a while. Both earned a gold badge in sales & cashiering.
Yet another vampire in town. It's becoming and epidemic.
Hero becomes a teen. I think he's the best looking of his siblings.
Yet another of the Gamble children has grand aspirations.
Theo loans Gunthur the money to start his own business. A music pavilion was built. After a slow start, Gunthur & Hero managed to work the business up to level 10. Not only that but Gunthur managed to double the money his father gave him. Gunthur has now bought a building that he hopes to turn into a clothing store.
Gunthur meets the Brownie University cheerleader. Yes, the one and only. Now he can't wait to get to uni.
Winston Ogg comes home with Wahalla almost every day. I guess that makes sense since he lives across the street.
Vena is thrilled to see her grandma. Shelby visited with over half the family that night.
Theo finishes off his lifetime aspirations.
Gunthur chooses a secondary aspiration.
And then it happened, Vena learned that discovering logic can be dangerous.
It's a bumpy landing.
Her siblings point and laugh…and thank the gods they didn't get selected. (The haunted teddy bear was deleted because…I don't like spooky bears.)
Due to my various hacks, Vena finds herself expecting. She does her best to stay healthy and active.
She also maxes her skills.
STOP! I have the triplets and quads hack but I never use it. However, I decided (in my brilliance) to reset the odds and start using it just to add flavor. Odds are: quads 2%, triplets 8%, twins 20% & single births 70%.
Vena goes into labor. We press the random button.
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We welcome generation three a little earlier than expected.
Five minutes after giving birth Vena, Gunthur & Hero head off to college.
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Roman heads back to Gumdrop Hills.
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The dismissal and rehiring of workers as private contractors by GPL is seen as a move the workers representative NACCIE believes the company is using to weaken the union's representation.
In an interview with Capitol News Kenneth Joseph general secretary of NACCIE said that the issue is not only a GPL one but disclosed that other companies are doing the same.
After months of going back and forth on the wages and salaries negotiations the Guyana power and light company and the union NACCIE are now heading to arbitration. Joseph believes that arbitration is long overdue.
Justice Prem Persaud is the chairman of the panel, the union is represented by Seepaul Narine GAWU general secretary and the company is represented by Gobin Ganga the deputy governor of the bank of Guyana. Among the issues to be resolved is the payment of an annual increment from 2007 to 2011 for those GPL workers who qualify as well as the payments for those entitled to performance increment awards for 2007 to 2010.


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Study 101 - This was a small inpatient study (N=93) involving 4 doses of sertraline and a placebo group. The difference between sertraline and placebo was nonsignificant for each of the doses. For the 100 mg group, sertraline performed numerically worse than placebo. This study was not published. Study 103 - In this study, sertraline was significantly better than placebo in one of the three doses tested. According to the FDA, this study was significant at the 50mg dose (p=0.018) but nonsignificant at 100 mg (p=0.084) and at 200 mg (p=0.210). The journal article, however, reported statistically significant results for all three doses. For a possible explanation of these discrepancies, please see Table B in the Supplemental Appendix to Dr. Turners article. Study 104 - This study involved a single sertraline dose group (50-200 mg) compared to placebo and the difference between the two groups was statistically significant according to the FDA as well as according to the journal article. Study 310 - A small inpatient study (N=146) involving 4 doses of sertraline compared to placebo. Also like Study 101 none of the dose groups separated from placebo. This study was not published. Study 315 - This study (N=148) involved a single dose group (50-200 mg) compared to placebo. The difference between sertraline and placebo was nonsignificant (p=0.046). This study was not published. Study 320 - This study, a 44-week maintenance study, was not covered in Dr. Turners paper since the paper focused on short-term studies. Studies 101 and 310 - This is a single page providing a general description of the two inpatient studes, 101 and 310.
New Drug Application Number: 1991-12-30
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Polka veterans roll out the memories / THE SCENE: Grand opening of the San Francisco-Style Polka Hall of Fame
The power went out for a few minutes Wednesday morning at the Escape From New York Pizza joint on Castro Street. No matter. You don't need electricity to squeeze a wheezing ruckus from an accordion. Or three.
The early birds played -- what else? -- "The Beer Barrel Polka." Roll out the barrel, and all that.
"For the gang's -- all -- here!" belted Clyde Forsman, the near-90 polka fanatic who used to sing a rather preposterous version of Jimi Hendrix's "Fire" with Those Darn Accordions.
All right, so maybe it wasn't the whole gang, exactly, but a dozen or so friends of the squeeze box were on hand to celebrate the grand opening of the San Francisco-Style Polka Hall of Fame. No beer barrel was flowing, unless you count the Oktoberfest keg hat that towered over the head of David Golia. He's the significant other of Big Lou, the Accordion Princess, the alternative- polka lifer who epitomizes the traditional music's San Francisco twist.
In America, Big Lou explained -- silk flowers in her hair, big purple cat glasses framing her eyes and little plastic accordions dangling from her earlobes -- polka is categorized as Chicago-style (very Polish) and Cleveland- style (with a Dixieland flair). For two decades, however, San Francisco has helped define a third wave, an irreverent, kitchen-sink approach that was initially inspired by punk. Big Lou has had a hand in just about every local group, including Polkacide, Those Darn Accordions and her current project, Big Lou's Polka Casserole.
The exhibition itself consists of three boards of memorabilia encased in plastic -- album covers, a Zippy the Pinhead comic strip that name-checked Polkacide, the flyer from that band's debut gig at the old Mabuhay Gardens (with the group's name misspelled, with an "s"). It's modest, sure, but so is the Chicago-style Hall of Fame.
"That's in a small room above a travel agency," said Big Lou.
During the performance, a man burst in off the street to express his admiration.
"That was absolutely fantastico!" he crowed, yanking out a disposable camera. "My friends will love this. They're all Polish."
He stuck around for a free slice of the bratwurst pizza. As the celebrants mingled, trading war stories from some of their wackiest gigs, Forsman sat quietly in a sunny front corner.
Rolling up his sleeves to reveal a bit of his full-body tattoo, he tinkered with an accordion that had just been shipped to David Phillips, Polka Casserole's pedal steel player. The bass keys had gotten locked in transit, explained Phillips, the way an old manual typewriter might get jammed.
Tom Torriglia, owner of All Things Accordion, was festooned for the occasion in lederhosen and an alpine hat. He couldn't stay; he had to make an afternoon gig at an Italian wedding up in Wine Country.
"I'll just change out of this and put on my gondolier outfit," he said with a grin.
Also wearing an alpine hat was Jeff Davis, a member of Polkacide who owned the store Flat Plastic Sound. He reminisced about the early days of San Francisco-style polka.
When he joined the band, he followed his band mates' lead and adopted a polka-sounding stage name: Impor Hiskey. (He cadged it from the old highway liquor ad that once read "Imported Whiskey," until a few letters went missing.)
The polka bands faced a constant struggle against an insidious kind of musical bigotry, he said, stroking his long goatee. "At that time, the accordion was considered the lamest instrument around."
These polkaholics weren't about to ignore that misconception. Over in the corner, Forsman had the balky squeeze box back in working order, and Phillips and Big Lou were admiring it. It's a good starter instrument, she told her colleague sagely. It's the guitarist's first.
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When I was two years old I walked to the edge of the cliff near our house on the Pacific coast and sat for hours staring at the ocean. My mother found me there in the late morning sitting on my knees with my dainty baby fingers resting on my lap. She didn't panic as she searched the house, as she crouched on her knees to look under the bed, or when she pulled the refrigerator out from the wall. I had crawled out of bed in the morning, before she woke, out the screen door, and down to the edge of the rocks. My thin-skinned baby knees were bruised and dirty when she found me. My hands had made hand marks with orange dirt on my thighs.
My mother delivered me atop a hill so that I could see the vastness of the world when I was born, so she wasn't surprised when she found me sitting at the edge of the cliff that overcast April morning, looking out at the infinite Pacific Ocean. The clouds were rolling in from the north and rain could be seen in the distance, an ominous mass tumbling over the rocky shore. She often told me that she knew she should have looked there first, but it might have just been one of those 'after the fact' kinds of things.
I was a house cat of a child when I was young. Through out the day, I would come in search of food and attention, and after acquiring these things, I would return again to the mythical land of the outdoors. I knew she liked when I would silently come in the side door, grasp the meaty part of her arm from behind and lean on the tips of my toes to kiss her cheek. I had freedom only because I followed her rules. I let her know I was still alive through out the day, and thus I had the freedom to play without her parental eyes limiting my imagination.
I often played down by the rocks, near the shore. The waves would smash into the cliffs and a symphony would compose itself in my head. The crashing waves were my metronome. The rocks were my orchestra. I would direct them with my eyes closed, my hands waving violently. Sometimes when I opened my eyes, anxiety flooded my spine. I could forget my place in the world or who I was when my eyes were closed. Reality was often too intense for my fragile child mind. There was all this beauty around me, real beauty, but I choose to live in my head. It wasn't a defense mechanism. I wasn't running from anything. It was side affect of an overwhelming imagination.
I started school when I was seven years old instead of five. My mother seemed to think there was no rush. I attended a small K-12 school about two miles away from our house. I rode my bike five days a week, for eleven years, up the dusty dirt road to the town that lied directly east of our house. The town was modest: oak trees lined its streets and pale earthy colors covered its buildings. The school building itself was new. It had replaced the old school house that was originally built in the 1920s, and, according to the town's people, was too dated to house its future generation. So the new school was built, but our books remained old. Rumors were spread that they had accidentally spent too much on the school gymnasium to afford new books.
The first day of school my mother came with me to show me the way and to make sure I was placed in a class that didn't plague me with boredom. I can remember sitting on a blue metal bench, watching her wave her hands with the same drastic swings as I did when I conducted the geological orchestras in my younger years. I couldn't hear what she was saying because of the cloud of children that stood between us. My mother motioned to me. I got up and walked like a quail to her on the other side of the school patio, small steps, head forward. My tiny seven-year-old body cradled her arm as I peered up at my schoolteacher's venomous eyebrows.
"Anna, what's seven times seven?" my mother asked.
"How do you spell elephant?"
She smiled at me and I could tell I had done something right.
"Mrs. Rabinowitz, I understand your hesitancy with placing my daughter in second grade because she's starting school late, but I can guarantee that she will do fine. She's actually ahead. She's been doing math and reading lessons since she was four," said my mother with only her eyes smiling.
"Mrs. Hendrail— " started Mrs. Rabinowitz.
"It's Ms. Hendrail," snapped my mother.
"Oh…I apologize. Ms. Hendrail, I understand your concern but we simply can't put Anna in second grade without testing her, and the testing sessions have already passed, she will have to wait until January for the next sessions."
I was placed in first grade amongst the six-year-olds. When one's years are so limited to begin with, age is an insignificant factor in choosing playmates. For the first time in my life I played with other children. Sharing came naturally, as did taking turns. It made sense to share, and even as a seven year old, I felt the desire to give to those that I found interesting.
One day during lunch a girl with blond ringlet curls and a pudgy face was crying. My wonderment of her sadness drove me to sit next her; her tears a vast ocean waiting to be explored.
"Why are you crying?" I asked. Speaking slowly, I attempted to sooth her with my voice.
"My mother forgot to pack me a lunch today, and she forgot to give me money. She said she would when we were leaving in the morning but then she forgot. And now I'm hungry and I don't have anything to eat and water is so boring," she complained with her voice reaching the higher octaves and her lower lip protruded. She must have been mimicking a little girl she saw on television.
"I'm sorry," I said, "I know that it doesn't feel good to be hungry, but you know it isn't going to last forever and your mother might make a really good dinner because she forgot. But here you can have half my sandwich, then we'll both be sort of hungry, instead of you being really hungry and me being full."
The girl's face lost its tightness, as if my words had exorcised a demon from her frail child body. I felt a bubble of contentment expanding inside my chest when she took that peanut butter and jelly sandwich. When her face relaxed, a flood of joy drenched my mind, and I felt a connection between another human being. Even at seven, there was an air of meaning I sensed in human connection. A happiness and relief transferred from her to me. It was beautiful.


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Windows are a suitable case for treatment on which you can spend a little or a lot. There are also solutions for listed or conservation areas. You can make considerable gains by installing good windows, though it can be expensive.
The starting point is how much heat you may be losing from what you currently have. Some estimate that 18% of heat will be lost from windows, but of course it all depends! If you have solid walls you will be losing heat at the rate of 2.2 (this is a U value and is measured in watts per sq metre per degree of heat difference over the wall or window – the lower the better). It may be that you cannot do much about your walls, but you can address your windows. Single glazed windows will be losing heat at 4.8 (U value), i.e. you are losing more heat through your windows but they occupy less of the external wall. Curtains could take this down to 3.6 (U value), secondary glazing to around 3 (U value); basic double glazing to 2 (U value), which is better than the walls; and triple glazing to 0.6 (U value)! Each of these steps adds cost.
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- If you are in doubt about your windows you could get a thermal image which often shows how good or bad they are. LCON and other CAGS often arrange for a camera team to be available during the winter.
- Don't forget the value of "old fashioned" solutions such as installing good curtains or blinds.
- Make changes when you are doing other building work: it makes the pain easier to bear!
- Finally, don't be fooled by your builder or architect: the standard to match is now triple glazed reaching U values well below 1 (watts per m 2 per oC).
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One of the draught-proofing products Brenda Boardman particularly likes is V-seal from Stormguard. This is available from at least some of the local hardware chains, for wooden and metal hinged doors and windows. Only one half of one-side of the V is adhesive and this is stuck to the frame, so the V faces to the outside. When the wind blows the V is forced open and becomes more effective. It is reasonably durable.
Judith needed to get her single PVC glazing replaced with double glazing to get maximum benefit from further energy saving initiatives. She used Oxford Double Glazing (now reverted to their original name of Jack Brunsden) and was pleased with the results. They do a range of products – she had PVC, but timber frames were also available. She particularly liked the fact that they employed direct labour – so proper employees rather than self-employed operatives. She felt that the workmen took their time and get the job done really well rather than having to make their money by rushing off to the next job.
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