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It's uplifting and relaxing—no wonder many of us crave the sun. Experts now explain how to get a little light without a lot of damage.
It's called a Burqini. Unveiled last year, it's a mashup of a burka—the modesty garment worn by devout Muslim women—and a bikini, the immodesty garment favored by devout sun-worshippers. The Burqini is a two-piece swimsuit: A long-sleeved, hooded turtleneck tunic and bootleg pants fashioned from UV-blocking polyester. Aside from its two pieces, a bikini is none of those things.
To the serious sunbather, any sun-protective measure—a big ol' Bo Peep bonnet, a beach umbrella, an SPF higher than one's shoe size—seems tantamount to wearing a Burqini. Indeed, a nationwide survey conducted this year found that nearly 30 percent of adults say they don't use sunscreen at all, despite the fact that 1.3 million new skin cancers are diagnosed each year in the United States, 90 percent of which are caused by sun exposure. "As dermatologists, we take a stand that you have to stay out of the sun between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., wear sunscreen, don't tan—and the message isn't working," says Vincent DeLeo, chairman of dermatology at St. Luke's-Roosevelt and Beth Israel Medical Centers in New York City. "We're fighting a lost battle. We have to be more realistic with the message, because you can't tell people to have a healthy lifestyle and, at the same time, tell them they can't go outside."
So instead of ignoring the usual thou-shalt-nots because it all just seems like way too much (and not nearly enough fun!), a few doctors are offering an incremental plan for a healthy attitude about the sun and your skin. Think of it as inching your way into the crisp, cool ocean: Each step might be daunting at first, but you'll get used to it in no time.
They're called "tanning coffins" for good reason: Those lambent, blue-light capsules are absolutely linked to higher rates of skin cancer—despite tanning salons' claims of being safe. "We dermatologists are seeing people in their 20s who already have basal-cell cancer from tanning parlors," says David Leffell, professor of dermatology and surgery at Yale School of Medicine. One study of Scandinavian women showed that those who used tanning beds more than once a month were 55 percent more likely to develop melanoma—and that's just once a month, whereas some states allow visits as often as once a day. Don't fool yourself into thinking you'll do it "just this once": Research suggests that tanning can be addictive, since it releases mood-enhancing endorphins. (That may partly explain why tanning is a $5 billion-a-year industry.) Nor should you stop in just for special occasions. "If you want to be tan at your wedding, a tanning bed is the worst thing you can do," says Leslie Baumann, director of the University of Miami Division of Cosmetic Dermatology. "You trade looking good for three days for looking terrible at age 40." Also, in her book The Skin Type Solution (Bantam Dell), Baumann dispels the myth that tanning clears up blemishes. "Acne actually gets worse in summer months and is worsened by UV exposure," she says.
Not that you should trade in the fake 'n' bake for real sunbathing—since sunburn, too, is linked to skin cancer: A report in the British Journal of Dermatology showed that just five lifetime sunburns double the risk of melanoma. And the tingly red scourge isn't exactly going away: In a 2003 study at the University of Pennsylvania, nearly 40 percent of Americans reported having at least one sunburn in the previous year. "It's even more alarming that that number goes up 60 percent for people ages 18 to 24," says Joel Gelfand, medical director of the clinical studies unit at the university's department of dermatology. Plus, the wealthier and more educated people are, the more likely they are to have been sunburned. "They have more opportunity for sun exposure through leisure time and travel," Gelfand says. Aside from the cancer risks, dermatologists insist that tanned skin just doesn't look good. "The next time you're in the sun, just look at your forearm. It's basically being cooked," says dermatologist Seth Matarasso, professor at University of California–San Francisco School of Medicine. "It's baked, and it becomes unattractive and almost untouchable." For all the tandoori chicks of Hollywood—Paris, Britney, Nicole—Matarasso points out that there are some sun-shunning, age-defying celebrity role models. "At this year's Academy Awards," he recalls, "there weren't any tanned celebrities on the red carpet."
Baby steps. That's all dermatologists ask. If you were to toddle over to the bottle of sunscreen, pump a nickel-size dab on your palm, and finger-paint your face, the dermatological community might snap photographs like a proud parent witnessing a milestone. "Just use it once a day, and that's a huge step in the right direction," Baumann says. "It's doable. It's like when patients hear that they can eat only 1,000 calories a day, and that doesn't work for anyone. But if they just aim to eat 500 fewer calories, it's more realistic." Perhaps the easiest way to remember to incorporate it into your daily routine is to use a facial moisturizer with SPF 15 at least, and preferably 30. This takes about half a minute, Matarasso says. "For all the multitasking you do each day, you can manage this."
Consider a sunblocking daily body lotion, too, to protect your hands, chest, and legs. (Could those prim, First Lady skirts be to blame for Laura Bush's skin cancer on her calf?) Then get SPF-enhanced lip balm. "It makes your life easy when putting on sunscreen is not an extra step," says Karyn Grossman, a dermatologist in Los Angeles. Find the best formula for your skin, and be sure it offers "broad-spectrum protection" against both burning UVB rays and aging UVA rays. The potent ingredient "Mexoryl, which is found in Anthelios, is great, and it was finally approved for sale in the United States, but a lot of women in their 20s find it too greasy," Grossman says. As alternates, Grossman (a consultant for Prescriptives) likes Prescriptives Anti-Age Advance Protection Moisturizer, and Neutrogena's and Aveeno's products with Helioplex, a more stable reformulation of the ingredient Parsol 1789.
If you're spending most of your day indoors, you can put sunscreen on in the morning and be done. "Telling people to reapply their daily sunscreen just scares them off completely," Baumann allows. "But if you protect yourself every day, it helps make up for the times when you have more sun exposure." When you're outside a lot, you do need to reapply early and often, especially considering a 2006 study at University of California–Riverside: It found that when some UV-blocking ingredients penetrate the skin, they can create harmful aging compounds—but only when UV blockers aren't on the skin's surface, says Kerry M. Hanson, senior research scientist in the department of chemistry. She advises following the Skin Cancer Foundation's guidelines, slathering on at least two tablespoons (or palmfuls) for your entire body. Or, try a spray, like the ones from Coppertone, which you can see as they first go on, Leffell says. (Plus, rubbing in lotion vigorously may reduce its efficacy, a British study indicated last year.) And if you're forgetful or lazy or sleep on the beach, DeLeo offers a bargain: "Use a higher SPF, like 60, and you can get away with not reapplying as much."
Your memories of last summer at the beach will never fade (thanks, Flickr!). The same cannot be said for the dullness, discoloration, and DNA damage that your skin suffered from excess sun. "The damage is partly reversible, especially when you use retinoids," DeLeo says. (And, since they increase sun sensitivity, they're incentive to remember your daily SPF.) Baumann points out that preventing more damage is as important—and easier—than erasing the existing damage, and for that she encourages bolstering your system with vitamins. "Add fruits and vegetables to your diet and drink orange juice if you're spending the day in the sun," she says. "I also like Dr. Brandt Water Boosters or oral supplements like Coenzyme Q10, pomegranate, or cranberry." As yet, there's no clear sun-protection dosage for these supplements, so Baumann suggests taking the recommended daily allowance and fortifying it topically with SkinCeuticals CE Ferulic, Prevage, or a Coenzyme Q10 product from Nivea or Eucerin in addition to sunscreen. For good measure—and to silence those "I need to sit in the sun for my body to generate vitamin D" whines—DeLeo says, "It can't hurt to take a vitamin D supplement. As we age, we do need more and more of it, but we can just get it in a pill."
As with bra sizes or bank accounts, skin tone is often the subject of people's wishful thinking or willful denial. Dermatologists classify skin from type I (never tans, always burns) through type VI (the darkest skin with the most protective pigment), but as DeLeo notes, people tend to miscategorize themselves. For instance, "most blue-eyed redheads consider themselves type II's"—able to tan a bit—"when they're really type I's." (A recent forecast from the Oxford Hair Foundation estimated that redheads might be extinct by the year 2100, and one can only hope it will not be because they've literally burned themselves out.)
To settle the confusion, add a dermatologist to your list of annual appointments (or semiannual for those with very fair skin or a family history of melanoma), and you will have not only a baseline exam against which to compare any future damage, but also a chance to catch any potential skin cancers early on. "You see the dentist twice a year," Leffell points out, "and who ever died from a cavity?" Even those with more resistant skin types who are less at risk for cancer may still have reason to address the sun's cosmetic effects, such as splotchiness, DeLeo says.
He acknowledges that the fear of a dressing-down (while undressed, no less!) keeps many tanned potential patients from scheduling the inspection. In which case, he says, "just make the appointment. We'll warn you—that's our job, the way other doctors tell you not to drink too much and not to get fat—but if a dermatologist makes you feel too guilty, switch to a new one."
Yes, every cloud has a silver lining—but not an SPF lining. A cloudy day is no guarantee of UV protection, says Dana Sachs, associate professor of dermatology at the University of Michigan. "Patients come in with severe sunburns that they got on overcast days, when they least expect it." She adds that, on cloudy days, when there's enough glare to require sunglasses, you certainly need sunscreen, too.
Be aware of the UV Index, a scale from 1 to 11+ that indicates the intensity of solar radiation; Leffell suggests making it part of your Google News home page. (Or, sign up for email alerts for your area—with the option of receiving them daily or only when caution is warranted—visit epa.gov/sunwise.) "It's the same way you check the weather," Leffell says. "If there's 60 percent chance of showers, you bring an umbrella. If there's a high UV Index, you decide not to play tennis in the middle of the day."
To keep from finding yourself high and dry—and fried—Grossman says to place sunscreen in the car's glove compartment. "You don't want to leave it in there for more than a few months, since the extreme temperature fluctuation destabilizes the sunscreen," she says. "But it will help in a pinch." For the diligent pupils in Advanced Placement Sun Protection: the wide hat, the umbrella, the SPF-infused clothing. "Sun Guard makes a laundry additive that gives your clothes a UPF of 30," Sachs says. For pool and beach days, Matarasso recommends Solumbra's sun-protective clothes. "They're form-fitting and pretty cute," he attests. "It won't look like a gunnysack was thrown over you."
Until Sports Illustrated publishes calendars featuring models from Nunavut Territory, it's likely that tanned, tawny skin will remain a beauty ideal. Dermatologists are shockingly OK with this—provided the tan comes from a bottle or a spray booth. Leffell admits that he's been "punk'd" by more than a few patients. "I routinely get fooled," he says, laughing. "I'll start berating someone and she'll go, No, no, no, this is spray-on.'" He likes the Jergens Natural Glow Daily Moisturizer, which is also what Grossman takes with her on vacation. "I leave more tan than when I come back," she explains, because she gets an airbrush tan before departure, "and while I'm on the trip, I use the Jergens." Keep putting daily sunscreen over the fake tan, Sachs says, "since it doesn't confer any natural protection against UV. Just think of it as a long-lasting form of makeup."
There's a T-shirt out there, in the great universe of 100-percent-cotton shibboleths, that states, "Kiss my ass, I'm on vacation." Sadly, this sentiment seems to be directed at dermatologists, sunscreen, and any poolside Good Samaritan who has suggested, ever so kindly, that you really might want to seek shade in that cabana. Too often, even those who play by the rules the other 50 weeks of the year let their good habits fly out the sun-drenched window during those precious two weeks away. "People work hard, and they want to veg out, sit on a beach, and read, and having a tan means being on vacation," Matarasso says. (Though it is encouraging that at Winvian, a luxury resort in Connecticut, the simulated cave rents for $1,950 a night.) But take heart in knowing that "when you wear sunscreen and keep reapplying it, you'll still get some color," DeLeo says. Still, some vacationers sun-binge the last few days of break, Matarasso says, "because they get that panic like, 'I don't want to go back to Buffalo and not have people tell I was on vacation!'" He proposes a substitution that, at 24 cents, is a veritable bargain compared to the price of undoing cumulative sun damage: "You want your friends to know you were on vacation? Send a postcard."


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These three events have your name on them this weekend.
Trapped in a 'Maise'
WHAT FilmFan Night: 'What Maise Knew'
WHEN 7 p.m., Friday
WHERE Dover Public Library, 35 Loockerman Plaza, Dover
COST Free
INFO Visit doverpubliclibrary.org or call 736-7030.
The compelling drama "What Maise Knew" will screen at the Dover Public Library tonight.
A contemporary reimagining of Henry James' namesake novel, "What Maise Knew" features Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgard and Onata Aprile. The film tells the story through the eyes of Maise (Aprile), a sweet 6-year-old whose inadequate and childish parents (Skarsgard and Moore) are fighting for her custody.
Maise's father (an aging rock star) and mother (a contemporary art dealer) are too involved with their careers to recognize their neglect of her. While her parents push the envelope by taking on inappropriate new partners, the shuffling of Maise from household to household becomes more troubling.
Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, "What Maise Knew" is a heartbreaking but redemptive story that touches on family, self-sacrifice and one child's unconditional love for her parents.
The 'Fun' bunch
WHAT The Funsters in concert
WHEN 9:30 p.m., Saturday
WHERE Fire & Ice at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino, 1131 North Dupont Highway, Dover
INFO Visit doverdowns.com or call 674-4600
The Funsters have no problem living up to their name. Comprised of family and lifelong friends, the close-knit group has lasted for more than 20 years because the crew understands two principles: play the music that you enjoy and don't take life too seriously.
The Fun bunch will bring its lightheartedness and classic cover tunes to the Fire & Ice Lounge at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino on Saturday.
The band, which features a horn section, predominately plays covers from the early '60s to late '70s. The Funsters' repertoire includes tunes such as Marvin Gaye's "Aint That Peculiar," the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar," Mack Rice's "Mustang Sally," Sly & the Family Stone's "Hot Fun in the Summertime," Elvis' "Suspicious Minds," Nat King Cole's "Love," Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" and Ray Charles' "Greenbacks."
Poetry with 'Footnotes'
WHAT Flowrite and Rhythm presents "Footnotes"
WHEN 2 p.m., Sunday
WHERE Acorn Books, 1030 Forrest Ave. Suite 114, Dover
COST Free
INFO Visit acornbooks.net or call 734-9100
Vivacious poets Flowrite and Rhythm will give an intimate performance from their new series "Footnotes" at Acorn Books on Sunday.
"Footnotes" features works that focus on domestic violence, homelessness and women empowerment.
Expect nothing less than a riveting performance, as both Rhythm (Kelli Koontz-Wilson, of New Jersey) and Flowrite (Flossie Davis, of New York) are wordsmiths who know how to tug on one's heartstrings with their deep subject matter.
In addition to writing poetry, Rhythm is also an author, having released two captivating books on women empowerment with "The Color of My Skin" (2002) and "Hookers in the Playground ─ A Newark Mother's Cry for Peace" (2010).

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You B2UTYs ready? Cause after a year and two months the legendary boy group BEAST/B2ST has FINALLY returned! And for a present to their fans, they released their titled track A WEEK before their albums hits stores! Can you say gift of the year? With a song like this, I don't think it's anything less.
Though the MV hasn't been released yet, CUBE has released a teaser clip that shows off their ENORMOUS transformation from their "Fiction" promotions.
Be sure to check out BEAST/B2ST's "Midnight Sun" album on the July 22 KST!
Color Coded Lyrics for BEAST/B2ST's "Midnight"


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Phoronix: Humble Indie Bundle #2 Rakes In $1.8 Million USD
The Hunble Indie Bundle #2 was a huge success. After quickly generating $1M USD in sales over a short period of time and then adding all of the original Humble Indie Bundle #1 games too, the second bundle deal has now ended. This second Humble Indie Bundle took in more than $1.8 million US dollars; $1,822,724.06 to be exact...
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me hate the RIAA
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Originally posted by V!NCENT View PostNo market for Linux games, huh?
Now let's wait for the avarage price paid and devide the total income by it to see how many Linux sales there are.
So the bundle is worth $85 (iirc). The previous bundle, which is included, is worth $80 (iirc). That's a total of $165. The bundle was sold 232,845 times. Also, 25% of the downloads for the first bundle were pirated, let's assume a similar number for the second bundle.
Using RIAA math, this means the guys could have raked in 232,845*1.33 (25% was pirated, you need to add one third to the legal 75% to get 100%)=310460*$165. If they would have simply asked the $165 the bundle was worth and loaded it with DRM to prevent piracy, they would have made OVER FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS! And we stole OVER FORTY NINE MILLION DOLLARS FROM THE DEVELOPERS!
We are criminals! I am a criminal! Oh noes!
So where was I..
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No market for Linux games, huh?
Now let's wait for the avarage price paid and devide the total income by it to see how many Linux sales there are.
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it sux, i missed this one grrr.
i was supposed to get it in 24th or 25th, but i totally forgot during those "busy" days... :/
will have to wait for hb3 to get the second bundle included (hopefully!)
well, i still havent finished all my games from the first bundle, so at least i'll be entertained a while.
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I bought mine at 15$ and did a gift (10$) to one of my friend.
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Bought mine for $40 before they added the original bundle on top. Quite a sweet deal, well worth the money.
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Bough'd it for 8.5$. So happy that they reached over 1.75 million
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Fact Sheet
President Pledges Clean Energy Education Opportunities to Inspire the Next Generation of Scientists & Engineers
April 27, 2009
This material is available primarily for archival purposes. Telephone numbers or other contact information may be out of date; please see current contact information at media contacts.
During a speech at the National Academy of Sciences on April 27, 2009, President Obama announced a National Science Foundation/Department of Energy collaboration that addresses the need to "spark a sense of wonder and excitement" in the nation's young people to pursue careers in science and engineering.
As part of President Obama's "New Energy for America" plan, the Administration will provide the opportunity for thousands of American students to pursue careers in science, engineering, and entrepreneurship related to clean energy. These young men and women will invent and help commercialize advanced energy technologies such as efficient and cost effective methods for converting sunlight to electricity and fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, stationary and portable advanced batteries for plug-in electric cars, advanced energy storage concepts that will enable sustained energy supply from solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, high-efficiency deployment of power across the so-called "smart grid" and carbon neutral commercial and residential buildings.
The National Science Foundation is joining the Department of Energy and other government agencies to educate students at all levels in fields contributing to fundamental understanding of energy science and engineering systems, while educating the public about energy choices and challenging our educational institutions to develop innovative ways to enhance science and technology instruction and learning. NSF is uniquely poised to spearhead part of this multi-faceted collaboration via its portfolio of programs.
Individual Fellowships to Graduate Students involved in Clean Energy Research: Building upon one of NSF's oldest and most successful programs, the Graduate Research Fellowship Program, established in 1952, will provide highly flexible three-year fellowships for American graduate students pursuing the Ph.D. degree in topics related to clean energy research and development. These fellowships provide an annual stipend for room, board, and living expenses with a cost-of-education allowance to the Fellow's institution of choice for partial tuition and fees.
Integrative Graduate Training Programs involving Clean Energy: NSF will invest in new flagship IGERT (Integrative Graduation Education Research Traineeship) projects proposed by universities that work across academic disciplines to provide highly structured training for American graduate students pursuing their Ph.D. These new interdisciplinary programs will consider energy topics from a high-level systems perspective, including science, engineering, design, environmental impact, economics, social aspects of adoption and use, and public policy. Traineeships include internships in industry, government, and international research centers. This will produce young investigators fully prepared to become leaders in clean energy science and policy, and will also spark new and sustained collaborations between university departments and research centers.
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in Energy: to provide new REU courses and research opportunities for undergraduate students to learn about clean energy and gain experience in active research projects. Funding would be available for universities, labs, and industry to develop curriculum and Research Experience for Undergraduate sites, with supplements provided to existing research awards to provide stipends for college students to participate directly in a research experience.
Technician Education: to improve education for young Americans who will become technicians in clean energy fields, focusing on two- and four-year college programs. These ATE (Advanced Technological Education) projects will study aspects of technician education, concentrating on curriculum development, teacher and faculty training, partnering relationships with industry and regional alliances, and fostering career pathways from secondary schools into community colleges. This program will also involve students preparing to become teachers focusing on math, science and technical education in primary and secondary schools, and facilitate partnerships between certificate programs and potential employers of energy-focused technicians and instructors.
Focused Research in K-12 Science Education Strategies and Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers: will address how students learn about science and technology, evaluating immediate challenges in primary and secondary schools and envisioning science education as it could be in future decades. It will assess what works and why, enable enhanced learning in the K-12 setting on topics relating to clean energy, and consider new and innovative ways to communicate the challenges and promise of clean energy; for example, incorporating currently popular ubiquitous social communication platforms. This will include projects to design and evaluate educational strategies and assess how to scale them up to reach large numbers of students. This will also include innovative technology experiences for students and their teachers that address how to effectively interest and prepare students to participate in the clean energy workforce of the future.
Public Awareness and Action: will engage and inform the public through informal education about how science and technology are addressing the nation's energy challenge and transforming our energy future. A broadly-designed outreach program, highly leveraged through media providers, and using innovative and popular cyberlearning technologies, IMAX©films, television and radio programs, as well as local science museums and youth and community education programs. This project will raise public awareness about our need to meet the clean energy challenge and related environmental mitigation benefits, understand the implications of our energy choices, and adopt clean energy lifestyles. It will also capture young people's interest in "green technology" and inspire them to pursue careers that find solutions to our future energy needs.
Graduate Post Doctorate Education: energy research to educate graduate students and postdocs on frontier energy research that has high transformative potential. These students and postdocs will become the future academic leaders and industrial innovators to advance the creation and adoption of advanced clean energy technologies.
Specialized Energy Centers: small number of new forward-looking engineering and science and technology centers located at America's colleges and universities. These specialized centers will focus the regional and institutional strengths of science and engineering schools around aspects of clean energy research while building partnerships with their state governments, regional industries, and local school districts to infuse expertise into the communities in which they are based. In addition to center-specific projects, Centers will include many aspects of the program elements described above, tailored to their regional or specialty (e.g. solar conversion; materials research; wind engineering) context. These centers will initially build upon existing NSF funded ERCs (Engineering Research Centers) and STCs (Science and Technology Centers) centers devoted to energy research; however, in future budget years, specialized energy centers will be separately designed and solicited.
Education in Complex Interrelationships: to enable education in computationally-enabled modeling of complex interrelationships among energy systems, environmental and economic impacts, and human factors.These group-funded efforts will be facilitated by university high-end computational facilities to foster cyber-enabled learning skills for conducting complex modeling and analyses.
Media Contacts
Dana Topousis, National Science Foundation, (703) 292-7750, email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Related Websites
National Academy of Sciences Press Release: http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=20090427
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. In fiscal year (FY) 2018, its budget is $7.8 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 colleges, universities and other institutions. Each year, NSF receives more than 50,000 competitive proposals for funding and makes about 12,000 new funding awards.
Useful NSF Web Sites:
NSF Home Page: https://www.nsf.gov
NSF News: https://www.nsf.gov/news/
For the News Media: https://www.nsf.gov/news/newsroom.jsp
Science and Engineering Statistics: https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/
Awards Searches: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/


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Step2 Company, in continued support for the efforts of the Saving tiny Hearts Society (StHS), which is committed to funding research on congenital heart defects (CHD), is donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of its Tropical Island Resort water table. This year in the U.S. alone, 40,000 babies will be born with a CHD, making it the country's number one birth defect. The condition affects nearly 1 million babies each year.
The Tropical Island Resort water table features packaging with tiny hearts superhero Myles splashing it up with his friends. Myles has a scar from his three previous open-heart surgeries—the results of being born with a severe complex congenital heart disease, single ventricle. He is based on the two-year-old son of a Step2 employee.


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On June 7 and 8, at 11 a.m. local time, Fathom Events and Mattel will debut Team Hot Wheels: The Origin of Awesome in select movie theaters nationwide. The film tells the story of how series characters Gage, Rhett, Wyatt, and Brandon face off against a mysterious black car that begins transforming the sleepy town of Hilly Woodlands into a wild mess of orange track and outrageous obstacles.
Fans will get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look, learning how Team Hot Wheels was created through interviews with Mattel officials, a first-hand look at early sketches and concept art, and a glimpse into how the characters were developed.
Tickets are available at participating theater box offices and online at www.fathomevents.com.


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The Library - Electronic Resources
Library Catalogue | Databases | Journals | Reference Titles | Bibliographies | Directories of botanic gardens
Library catalogue
The library catalogue is shared with the Department of the Environment Library.
It contains entries for all book and journals held in the library.
Not all material is catalogued. Uncatalogued collections include part of the archives collection, vertical files, reprint collection and seed lists.
This section covers bibliographic databases only.
Click here for botanical databases and SpeciesLink, a botanical name portal, linking to a range of botanical databases.
- Algaebase literature search, 42,500 bibliographic items on algae of the world.
- Agricola Bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the U.S. National Agricultural Library.
- Bibliography of Systematic Mycology literature on fungi, from CABI.
- BibliOrchidea 150,000 entries on orchid literature.
- Biological Conservation Newsletter Bibliography 35,000 references to literature on conservation biology.
- Book and Magazine Citations to Plant Info and Images more than 380,000 citations.
- Botanicus digitised historical botanical literature from Missouri Botanical Garden Library.
- Cyberliber an electronic library for mycology.
- Flora of Australia Online from Australian Biological Resources Study.
- IndExs an index of exsiccatae.
- Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature now incorporated into KBD.
- Liverwort Literature, 12,000 records, from Early Land Plants Today project.
- Recent Literature on Lichens
All journal titles held by the Library are listed in the library catalogue. Electronic versions of some titles are available to staff and to library visitors.
- Growing Native Plants An updated and expanded version of the printed series published by the ANBG from 1971 to 1989
See also these sites for access to online journals:
- e-journals.org/botany/ "Electronic sites of leading botany, plant biology and science journals".
- Biodiversity Heritage Library digital copies of titles from 10 major UK and US institutions.
- Botanicus digitised historical botanical literature from Missouri Botanical Garden Library.
- Cyberliber, mycology journals.
- Early Land Plants Today (ELPT) bryology journals.
Reference titles
- Authors of Fungal Names from Index Fungorum.
- Authors of Plant Names updated version of Brummitt & Powell.
- Gazetteer of Australia = Geoscience Australia Place Names Search.
- Index Herbariorum Global directory of public herbaria and associated staff.
- Index Nominum Genericorum (ING)
- International Code of Botanical Nomenclature Vienna Code (2006)
- International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants 7th ed. (2004)
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species version 2009.1
- Names in Current Use for Extant Plant Genera NCU-3e, updated electronic version
- Taxonomic Literature, 2nd ed. (TL-2) Online edition available for staff and to members of IAPT
- Vascular Plant Families and Genera / R.K. Brummitt, from Kew Herbarium
- Flora of Australia Online from Australian Biological Resources Study
- Census of the Vascular Plants, Hornworts and Liverworts of the Australian Capital Territory Version 2.0 (2008)
- Checklist of Northern Territory Vascular Plant Species (2007)
- Census of South Australian Vascular Plants 5th ed. (2005)
- Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania Web ed. (2008)
- Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria 7th ed. (2003)
- Western Australian Flora Statistics includes conspectus of families and genera (2009)
Library staff have compiled bibliographies on popular topics, based on the collections held in the ANBG Library.
Directories of botanic gardens
- Directory of Australian botanic gardens and arboreta
- Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) Garden search A worldwide directory.
- Gardenvisit.com Garden finder A worldwide directory, includes public and private gardens
- Internet directory for botany : arboreta and botanical gardens
- American Public Gardens Association Public Garden search North American gardens
- GardenWeb Gardens & Collections Directory Mostly North American gardens


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Sometimes working out can become a chore, but are there ways to make it more interesting or heaven forbid, even fun. I have long been a proponent of making something old new again.
Here's a question I like to ask daily: do you like working out and exercising? You'd be surprised to find out how many people answer that question with an emphatic "No!" Now this isn't just a response I get from people starting to work out; it's a common answer I get even among those who have been working out for years.
Yes, working out can suck, but are there ways to make it more interesting or heaven forbid, fun? Of course there are. I have long been a proponent of making something old new again. Remember all those drills your high school coach made you do during sports practice? The running up and down steps or hills; the runs around the track, the suicides (running back and forth increasing the distance each time), the foot drills on the agility ladder, the jumping rope, the jumping over boxes? These are just to name a few. Now imagine adding this kind of exercise to your current exercise regimen.
Yes, there is truly something to say about letting your life come full circle. All those drills we thought we said goodbye to for the last time can surprisingly be our saving grace in regaining our health, losing weight, and turning back the clock.
The formula is a very basic one: add conditioning and plyometric exercises to your routine (which should consist of some form of muscle resistance training and strength training) and effectively burn calories, lose weight, tone, and sculpt your muscles and your body. I'll give you an example: a typical weight resistance workout may be weight training your back and bicep muscles. You may complete a series of exercises for each muscle group, aptly hitting various parts of the muscle. Bent-over rows, seated rows, deadlifts, preacher curls, concentration curls, and reverse grip curls are examples of some of the exercises. You then follow this with sports conditioning exercises like burpees, box jumps, jumping rope, or using medicine balls. If some of these exercises sound like a foreign language, have a personal trainer or an experienced athlete demonstrate them for you and walk you through how to properly do them. A trainer can also determine what exercises will be appropriate for you.
Now sports conditioning exercises are not meant to replace general cardio and endurance exercises like running outdoors, on a treadmill, running path, or track, or using elliptical machines and stationary bikes. They're meant to add variety to your workout, help you in your quest to improve your physicality and your health. If you're an athlete, they'll also assist you in improving your speed, agility, power, and athleticism.
One of my favorite quotes about exercise came from Cher, who said "Fitness – if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body." Let's face it, physically working out is not everybody's cup of tea, but instead of meeting it with feigned indifference, we must find ways of making the most necessary components of a healthy life interesting at the very least. Personally, I have always found mixing up exercise routines with sports conditioning and plyometrics to be both a lot of fun and always very rewarding. Many of my clients swear by it as well. Try it. You'll be glad you did!
Michael Shaw is a certified fitness trainer, sports performance nutrition specialist, owner of Shaw Fitness, a member of the Maryland Advisory Council on Physical Fitness, and a fitness model manager. He can be reached at www.michaelroyshaw.com.


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We've waited a long time to get our hands on the HP iPaq hw6900 series. Though Hewlett-Packard first unveiled it at the 3GSM World Congress back in February, it wasn't until late October that HP and Cingular announced the official availability of the Windows Mobile smart phone. Was it worth the wait?
Well, sort of. With an integrated GPS receiver, the iPaq hw6900 sets itself apart from its competitors by doubling as a handheld GPS device supporting Cingular's new location-based service. In addition, it offers Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a full suite of productivity apps, making it a road warrior's dream. However, it's not all that dreamy.
Though we appreciate the full QWERTY keyboard, the buttons are tiny, so we often pressed the wrong key and the 240×240-pixel-resolution screen pales in comparison with other smart phones we've tested. In addition, all that functionality seemed to take a toll on the device's responsiveness, and it doesn't support Cingular's HSPDA network like the recently launched Cingular 8525 does.
Yet overall, the smart phone performs its primary functions well. The HP iPaq hw6900 series consist of four models: the HP iPaq hw6925 and the cameraless iPaq hw6920 are available through Cingular for a pricey $359.99 with a two-year contract, or you can get the unlocked hw6945 or hw6940 (no camera) directly through HP for $599.99. For our review, we used the HP iPaq hw6945.
The design of the HP iPaq hw6900 series has not changed much from the hw6500 series. It retains that PDA-like form factor, which is to say that it's a bit blocky (4.6×2.8×0.7 inches) and heavy (6.3 ounces) for a phone. Though it's not any bigger than the Nokia E62 or Palm Treo 700wx, if you haven't used a Pocket PC phone before, its wider body might require some acclimation when using it as a phone.
On the other hand, there are some advantages to the larger size. The first benefit is a nice, wide display. The iPaq hw6900 series features a 3-inch diagonal touch-screen that displays 64,000 colors. The extra real estate makes it better for viewing Web pages. The touch screen is responsive, but the 240×240 pixel resolution isn't as sharp as some of the other Windows Mobile smart phones we've reviewed recently, such as the Cingular 8525. The display is still readable in direct sunlight, however, and HP includes an attachable plastic flip cover to protect the screen from scratches. There is a small status-LED above the screen that illuminates different colors for wireless connections and battery status. To the right of the LED is the power button, and the stylus holder is on top of the unit.
Another perk of having a larger phone is that HP was able to fit in a full QWERTY keyboard for easy messaging. Now, while the iPaq hw6900's round keys are brightly backlit (much improved over its predecessor) and seem well-spaced, they are so tiny that our thumbs often covered two buttons, and so we had to be very careful to press the right key. That said, we give a slight edge (and we mean slight) to the hw6900 series over the Treo 700wx because of the extra spacing between the keys. Above the QWERTY keyboard are two soft keys, a small joystick, and the Talk and End buttons for making calls. For dialing phone numbers, you can use either the spacious onscreen virtual dial pad or the number keys that share space with the letters on the right half of the QWERTY keyboard. The latter are highlighted in black for easy identification.
On the left spine is a volume slider and a camera activation key, while the camera lens, flash, and self-portrait mirror are on the back of the unit. To store all those photos, you'll of course need plenty of memory, so there is a mini-SD expansion slot on the right spine of the hw6900 series. Finally, there is a 2.5mm headset jack, a connector port, and a reset hole on the bottom of the device.
The HP iPaq hw6900 series improves upon the iPaq hw6515/hw6510 in several ways. First, it's powered by a higher-speed 416MHz Intel PXA270 processor (compared to 312MHz) and runs the latest Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC Phone Edition. This version has the full Microsoft Office Mobile suite for viewing and editing Word and Excel documents and opening PowerPoint presentations. In addition, you get the standard set of PIM tools–calendar, contacts, notes, and tasks–and other useful utilities, such as a software download manager, a voice recorder, and a Today Panel Lite app, which installs a convenient toolbar on your Today screen to indicate battery life, backlight setting, and available memory. Speaking of which, the hw6900 series comes with 64MB SDRAM for running applications and 45MB user accessible memory. For even more storage space, there's also a mini-SD card expansion slot.


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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed legislation giving schools the option to teach a gun safety course sponsored by the National Rifle Association.
The new law does not mandate that schools teach the NRA's successful Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program courses, taught to about 1 million children each year. But the legislation paves the way for schools to do so, should it choose to, and help students learn about firearms safety and other topics covered in the course.
According to this report on FOXNews.com, the legislation "also requires school personnel to participate in an "active shooter and intruder" drill led by law enforcement officers." The bill was introduced on Dec. 13 in the Missouri legislature, the day before the Newtown, Conn., shootings in which 26 students and adults were murdered.
The new law also gives local sheriffs the responsibility for issuing ID cards for concealed gun permits. Previously, that was done by driver's license clerks. The FoxNews.com report said Nixon was asked about the gun safety program for the elementary school students and said, "Allowing the local school districts to make those choices is appropriate."
The Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program was begun in 1998. It helps children learn about gun safety and what to do if they find a gun, including a video and instruction from police officers serving as school resource officers. The NRA provides the program materials free of charge. More than 20 states encourage gun safety programs in schools; Missouri is one of only a few with laws pertaining to it.
"It's teaching a great safety message to children that could possibly save their life," said Eric Lipp, the NRA's national manager of community outreach.
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Drivetime Thursday 13 September 2018
Mary Wilson presents an information packed evening news magazine with all the stories of the day
The war in Syria and the subsequent migrant crisis prompted Ireland to offer shelter to 4,000 people here under the Irish Refugee Protection Programme two years ago. John Cooke revisits residents of Ballaghaderreen's Emergency Reception Centre .
Barry Lenihan reports on stag and hen parties in Carrick on Shannon
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Fresh Start II: Get Growing!
In Winter 2017, six Houston area schools began a journey of revitalizing their school gardens via the Fresh Start II program. By overcoming challenges such as a lack of leadership, volunteers and organization, garden coordinators were able to achieve goals set forth in the program and revive these neglected green spaces. Each school now hosts an Organic Outdoor Classroom for their school community and have plans to continue through the 2017-2018 school year and beyond.
Over 140 students, teachers and community members attended the Gardening 101: Organic Gardening Classes for Teaching in the Outdoor Classroom series and overwhelmingly rated it as excellent. These interactive workshops taught students, teachers and community members the basics of organic gardening, nutritious and simple recipes and the importance of having a balanced eco-system within the garden. In addition to the workshops, Fresh Start II, connected volunteers with their local school garden.
We are proud of each school's progress and delighted to share their stories. Click each school below to see a pictorial journey.
Durham Elementary International Baccalaureate World School
Rusk Elementary School (now Baylor College of Medicine Biotech Academy at Rusk)
Jewell Simpson Houston Academy
We would like to sincerely thank each participating school, staff, parents, community members and our community sponsors:
San Jacinto Environmental
Houston Food Bank
Elkins Foundation
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If the volatility of global markets year-to-date is any indication of how the year will come to a close, the predominant themes going into 2014 will continue to be turmoil, fear and uncertainty. Astute traders take advantage of the heightened volatility by seeking arbitrage opportunities in the spot and forward markets around the globe. Opportunities come in the form of time, location or grade spreads.
A time spread is a simple contango trade whereby the difference (spread) between front month and back month futures is above the cost of carry (storage, insurance, ancillary). One of the most notable time spreads occurred in the steep contango of the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) market at the end of 2007 and early 2008. Participants of this trade were able to store WTI, Brent and other grades in offshore floating storage, evidenced by the parabolic change in rates for Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) and other available tonnage at the time (prior to their subsequent 90+% collapse).
The rates for VLCCs eventually caught up to the spreads; the arbitrage window closed and with it the demand for freight. Keeping an eye on freight rates at the various crude and product hubs can give you an idea as to how far contango spreads can blow out and, perhaps more importantly, in which direction arbitrage flows are moving.
Locational arbitrage is very prevalent in the physical trading world. Raw crude, refined products, coal, metals, grains or any other commodity are transported from markets with abundant supply to markets in deficit. One recent location arbitrage occurred in the global high-sulfur fuel oil (HSFO) markets when large physical trading firms purchased fuel oil in the Antwerp-Rotterdam-Amsterdam (ARA) complex and shipped it to the Singapore market, which was experiencing increased demand at the time.
The ARA-Singapore HSFO arbitrage caused dislocations that in turn created other opportunities for those who were watching. The increased demand for HSFO in ARA sent the price premium to better quality, low sulfur fuel oil (LSFO) in other hubs around the globe. The LSFO market in New York specifically was suffering from oversupply and lackluster demand, a combination never bullish for prices. The LS/HS spread between New York and ARA is an example of a grade arbitrage where the underlying qualities of the product imply a price relationship than can become distorted because of localized supply and demand factors.
Crude oils typically are defined by gravity, measuring density and sulfur content, an element that decreases the value of crude oil because of the increased cost of removing it. The gravities of WTI and Brent are 39-40 and 38, respectively. The sulfur content of WTI and Brent are 0.24% and 0.37%, respectively.


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For those using personal GPS guidance systems, our street address is 423 Park Avenue, Huntington, NY 11743.
Located on the historic Village Green in Huntington Village, at the intersection of Park Avenue and Main Street (25A).
Driving from the west:
Take either the Long Island Expressway (LIE) east to Exit 49N (RT-110 N) or the Northern State Parkway east to Exit 40 (RT-110 N/Walt Whitman Rd). Follow RT. 110/Walt Whitman Rd. north approximately 5 miles (RT-110/Walt Whitman Rd. becomes New York Ave.) to RT-25A/Main Street in Huntington. Make a right turn. The third traffic light will be Park Ave. Make another right turn. The entrance to the Cinema Arts Centre is the first driveway on the right, 100 yards south of RT-25A/Main Street.
Driving from the east:
L.I.E. west to exit 51. Make right turn off service road or take Northern State west to Exit 42 North, Huntington, Rte. 35 (Rte. 35 becomes Park Ave. after Jericho Turnpike). Proceed to L.I.R.R. crossing, then go three traffic lights. Just after the third light, CAC is the first driveway on the left.
Taking the train, from New York City:
From Penn Station (34th Street and 7th Avenue) take the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) to Huntington. Train schedules are available HERE or by calling 631-231-LIRR. An off-peak round-trip ticket costs $16.00 (peak round-trip costs $21.75). Once arriving in Huntington, we recommend taking a cab to the Cinema Arts Centre (<10 minutes, $8.00). Our address is 423 Park Avenue at the intersection of Park Ave and Main St (25A) in historic Huntington Village. But don't worry, every cabbie knows how to get here.
Taking the bus:
See the Suffolk County Bus map by clicking here. We are located at the Village Green Center on the H9 Route (click here for schedules). Full fare for the bus is $2.00 (except routes S92 and 10C – $2.25); Students ride for $1.25; Children under 5 years old ride free; Seniors and persons with Disabilities and Medicare Card Holders for $0.75. Transfers cost $0.25, good for two connecting buses, valid for two hours from time received.


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Kids Parties and party entertainers, party hosts near Small Heath
If you are looking for kids parties and party entertainers in Birmingham then this is the right place.
We provide fully catered parties and customisable parties to suite your needs and your budget.
Our parties are suitable for both boys and girls and we can accommodate very large groups for such as nurseries, schools, community groups and disability care organisations. For childrens party bookings call; 0121 783 0041
Kids Parties
Let us take the stress out of organising your childrens party. We have experienced party hosts and entertainers that will keep your child and guests happy and entertained. There are a variety of entertainers available such as characters, clowns, games hosts and much more.
Our characters range from:
- batman
- spiderman
- iggle piggle
- sponge bob
- mickey mouse
- minnie mouse
- peppa pig
- one eye minion and many more…
Princess Parties
We specialise in princess parties and princess shows. Frozen shows and Tangled are very popular at the moment and we make and extra effort to put on amazing shows for your children that excite and allow their imagination to run wild. You can view some of our Frozen shows and Tangled shows on our Social Media sites such as Facebook, Youtube, Vimeo and Twitter which can be found at the botton of this page.
For your childrens party we have 5 party rooms and a separate party venue for childrens discos in our dance and fitness studio. If you bring the kids, then we bring the party, the venue and lots of food, drink and entertainment. We can supply additional party services such as:
Party entertainer and party hosts
- face painting
- balloon sculpturing
- funny magicians
- childrens disco djs
- clowns
- story tellers
- football party hosts
- a pamper service in our dedicated princess room
- assault course games and competition organisers
We help you plan your party as to whether you want a kids wacky ware house type party or princess party with all the thrills and spills. Just relax and let us take you through options that suit you and your guests so that we make it the most memorable birthday party for your child.
The indoor play centre also has lots of free and secure parking space with an overflow so no need to worry about that.
Stechford in Birmingham
We are based in Stechford, Birmingham on the edge of Solihull close to the A45. We are 15 miles from Coventry and 5 miles from Birmingham International Train Station. Stechford train station is walking distance from Funaticz. We are serviced by local amenities such as Cascades leisure centre. Cascades is a swimming and fitness centre. We are located on a retail park which includes:
- Macdonalds
- Matalan
- Argos
- Dixons
- Pound Stretcher
- Bargain Basements
- Pet care
- Hair dressers
- A child care centre
- After school clubs
Please see our gallery of photographs which include our childrens characters, party rooms, childrens entertainers, activity play facilities, party invitations and much more.
Kids parties Birmingham Funaticz
Address:Funaticz, Unit E, Flaxley Parkway, Stechford Retail Park, Birmingham B19 3LY. Tel: 0121 783 0041.
Social media and kids party links:
|Children's Birthday PartiesWe cater for a variety of childrens birthday parties ranging from babies to those under 12 years of age. Make your childs birthday the most special birthday possible. Let us help customise a great day for your little kids and make it really special. Party packages:Take a look at the characters we offer: Iggle Piggle:
Standard party pack, Iggle Piggle visit, 12 standard party bags, 2 helium balloon clusters. Please see party prices page.
Peppa Pig:
Standard package, 12 standard party bags, 12 standard invitations, 2 helium balloon clusters, Peppa Pig visit and a half hour use of the bouncy castle.
Please see party prices page.
Sponge Bob Party Pack:
Standard Party, package, 12 standard party bags, 12 standard invitations, 2 helium balloon clusters, Sponge Bob visit, treat table, and a half hour use of the bouncy castle.
Minnie Mouse Party Pack
Standard Party package, 12 standard party bags, 12 standard invitations, Minnie Mouse visit and a 12 Balloons on sticks.
Mickey Mouse Party Pack
Standard package, 12 standard party bags, 12 standard invitations, Mickey Mouse visit, 12 Balloons on sticks and face painting.
Minnie and Mickey Party Package:
Standard Party Pack,12 standard party bags,12 invitations, 100 balloon arch, treat table, Minnie and Mickey visit and balloon sculpting.
Despicable Me party Pack:
Standard package, 12 standard party bags, 12 standard invitations, Minion visit, Science quiz, treat table, a half hour on the bouncy castle and creation of a blue and yellow balloon arch.
Star Wars Party Pack:
Standard package, Star Wars quiz,12 standard party bags, 12 standard invitations, Darth Vader visit, Black and white balloon arch, treat table and a half hour use of the bouncy castle.
Football or Assault Course Party pack:
Standard package, Football match or assault course competition, 2 helium balloon clusters, 12 standard party bags, 12 standard invitations and 12 slush puppies.
Batman party Pack:
Standard package, 12 standard party bags, 12 standard invitationsBatman activity, batman visit and balloon arch.
Spiderman Party Pack:
Standard package, Spiderman balloon décor,12 standard party bags, invitations, Spiderman quiz, face painting, treat table, party bags.
Frozen Themes:
Frozen Olafs party pack:
Standard package, 12 standard party bags, 12 standard invitations, Olaf visit, face painting, Frozen activity, 12 slush puppies.
Frozen Anna Party Pack:
Standard package, 12 standard party bags, 12 standard invitations, Anna visit, Frozen activity, face painting, bouncy castle, 12 balloons.
Frozen Elsa's party Pack:
Standard package, blue Champagne Toast, Frozen activity, treat table, 2 Helium balloon cluster and Elsa visit.12 standard party bags, 12 standard invitations.
Frozen Party Pack:
Frozen Show, 2 Helium balloon clusters, Elsa, Anna and Olaf visit, standard package, blue Champagne Toast,12 standard party bags, 12 standard invitations.
Frozen VIP Party:
2.5 hours VIP party, Frozen show,standard party pack, 22 premium party pack, 22 invitations, Blue champagne reception, blue toast, 22 blue slush puppies, Elsa, Anna and Olaf visit, personal princess story, Princess parade, 300 balloon décor.
Princess VIP Party:
3 hours exclusive hire, fairy godmother party host, reception with two characters, princess show with 8 characters, premium party bags, 400 balloon décor, pink champagne, pink champagne reception, princess parade, personal princess story, personal princess film, crowning ceremony, treat table and bouncy castle.
Spiderman's VIP Pack:
2 hours exclusive party, hot or cold party, unlimited squash, black and red spiderman, 2 parent platters, treats table, face painting, 1 hour bouncy castle, 200 balloon décor, 22 invitations, 22 premium party bags. PRICES: Please call: 0121 783 0041 for kids parties near Small Heath.


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Calling RPC doesn't workMarcin Misiewicz Aug 4, 2010 12:24 PM
I've got another problem with errai, right know I wanted to test calling rpc in errai way, but unfortunately with no luck. Here is
the simple class which I'm using to test rpc communication :
As you can see this is very simple scenario, first to check if errai works at all I'm sending and receiving broadcast message and it works perfectly.
CDI integration on the server side works as expected.
Then I try to test rpc calls and unfortunately I get following RuntimeException with message :
No service definition for: java.lang.Class
This exception comes from line 52 of the AbstractRemoteCallBuilder class.
This message should be :
No service definition for: pl.scentia.smartoffice.test.UserAssignmentManager
But that's not the case, the real problem for me is that it can't obtain proxy object for my class. Everything looks like in the rpc example included in the errai-weld distribution.
UserAssignmentManager has @Remote annotation, the service is properly configured, on the server side everything seems to be all right.
Errai and errai-weld has been build today, so its pretty fresh. The main difference betwen my project and errai-weld example is that I don't have errai-jboss.sar I have errai packaged inside ear. But as I sad sending messages works as expected.
Do you have any suggestions what am I doing wrong ?
Marcin Misiewicz


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SQL Server 2012's AlwaysOn functionality rightly deserves to 'steal the show' in terms of all of the press and attention it gets when people learn about what's new with SQL Server 2012 – because it IS a powerful set of features that allow DBAs to address both HA and DR situations with a SINGLE solution in a wide variety of highly flexible ways.
But AlwaysOn isn't the only cool new thing that debuts with SQL Server 2012. For example, I recently outlined a number of developer-related features and improvements for SQL Server 2012 in Dev Pro magazine.
Then, among a number of other improvements or benefits that SQL Server 2012 brings to the table, there are a few hidden and almost overlooked gems – such as SQL Server 2012's new support for a feature known as indirect checkpoints.
An Overly-Simplistic Overview of Checkpoints
Because of the way SQL Server works (i.e., how it doesn't actually 'write' changes from INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE and other similar operations immediately to your .mdf/.ndf files and because it, instead, writes those changes directly to the log and then just makes changes to memory), it would be possible for the number of changes in memory (and in the logs) to slowly 'overwhelm' the process of recovery – meaning that IF SQL Server were to crash or be shut down with too many changes listed ONLY in memory and in the log, then when the server rebooted or re-started after a crash, it would conceptually have to spend way too much time 'reconciling' changes found only in the logs and not on disk (i.e. in .mdf/.ndf or data files). As such, the CHECKPOINT process periodically spins up and is basically used by SQL Server to ask itself: "If I crashed right this second, how LONG would it take me to go through all the transactions in the transaction log (across all databases) and roll-forward any transactions that completed as well as roll-back any transactions that didn't complete?"
And, by default, if the answer is that it would take greater than 1 minute (for this process to occur across all databases), then SQL Server will begin the process of reconciling changes in memory (and the log) with your databases' .mdf/.ndf data files. And, in this process, SQL Server effectively just takes 'dirty pages' in memory and writes them out to disk – such that committed transactions end up not only being durable (since the transaction log ensured that already), but persisted or reconciled to disk in your data files – meaning that the changes you and your applications have made to your data end up being 'saved' into your data files.
And, again, that's an obscenely overly-simplified perspective of what's going on. (Because I'm skipping lots of details including the fact that OTHER things can force dirty-pages to be written to disk (such as memory problems) and so on.) For more information – or for a better overview of how this all works, check out my free SQL Server video on SQL Server Logging Essentials.
Managing the CHECKPOINT Interval Prior to SQL Server 2012
The key take-away from knowing how logging and checkpoints work is to note that there's a default checkpoint interval – which is set to 1 minute. Prior to SQL Server 2012, you could change this value – using sp_configure to toggle the 'recovery interval' setting. (Note too that you can actually manually kick-off the checkpoint process by issuing the T-SQL CHECKPOINT command – though, as books online calls out, you don't want to just 'willy-nilly' play around with this without knowing what you're doing.)
Only, prior the problem with that option in versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server 2012 is that you could only set this value at the server-level (meaning that whatever value you set was going to be applied not ONLY across all databases, BUT as a function of the total recovery interval target for all databases). That, and the minimum value was/is 1 minute – meaning that all you could do prior to SQL Server 2012 was set this to a WIDER or longer time-interval than 1 minute.
So, the translation here is that whenever SQL Server fails/crashes/shuts-down, unless it is shutdown gracefully (using the SHUTDOWN command – where SQL Server will reconcile logs/databases), it'll have to start the recovery process each time it restarts. And, that recovery process has to be run against all databases. To see what this means or looks like, just take a look at your SQL Server logs and look at what takes place during startup – within the first minute of so of what's going on on the server and you'll see SQL Server working through the RECOVERY process for all of your databases – as per the screenshot below:
Confession: One of my absolute favorite things about SQL Server is how insanely well it handles this process of keeping the CHECKPOINT process perfectly timed such that the recovery process can take place in roughly that 1 minute interval specified by default. In other words, SQL Server's ability to pull this off is an amazing feat of engineering – and on literally hundreds of servers that I've been able to work with in my career as a DBA and SQL Server consultant, I've always made it a point of checking this value by looking at the logs. And in performing this check, the 'Recovery is complete' message almost always shows up in the error logs within 1 minute of startup – just like clock-work (over and over and over again on virtually every server I've ever worked with – with only a few exceptions here and there).
Failure, Failover, and STARTUP without INDIRECT CHECKPOINTs
So, what's the point of this recap on checkpoints, recovery, and so on?
Nothing more than to call out that whenever SQL Server has to spin up, it's going to incur that overhead/time associated with running the recovery process. And obviously that's going to apply when a single SQL Server running in 'isolation' crashes, powers-off, or whatever and then spins back up.
But it also applies in cases where a SQL Server might be clustered or when a mission-critical database might be mirrored.
And so what this all means is that if you've got a mirrored or clustered database, then even if that 'failover' process is magical (and it is – when configured correctly), and speedy (and it is – when configured correctly), then you're still going to have to incur the cost/time associated with the recovery process.
So, for example, if you've got a 2-node cluster, and node A is running along just fine and dandy, every few seconds the CHECKPOINT process is kicking in, and making sure that recovery won't take > 1 minute. But if node A crashes or goes down, then the failover process is initiated – where node B detects that node A has gone down and then works with the Domain Controller to quickly take control of the virtual IP/machine-name associated with your cluster. And then begins the process of accessing the shared drives where your databases' .mdf and .ldf files live.
And, at that point, node B finds what effectively amounts to a 'crashed' system – where the databases weren't reconciled prior to shutdown. So, it has to execute the recovery process (meaning that all in-flight transactions that weren't completed are rolled back/out of the system, and all fully completed transactions are correctly ensured in your .mdf/.ndf files so that no committed changes were lost). And, of course, that process takes roughly 1 minute (unless you've configured SQL Server to let it know that you'd like it to take longer).
And the same thing goes, effectively, with mirroring.
Likewise, this same recovery interval will also be incurred when AlwaysOn Failover Groups failover – because they're required to walk through the same recovery process as well.
With SQL Server 2012, we finally get a new option as DBAs to address this recovery interval – and to tweak and toggle it.
Best of all, the option comes to us with the ability to toggle/tweak on a database-by-database basis. Which, frankly, is fantastic – because not all databases are created equal. So, in this sense, with SQL Server 2012's new INDIRECT CHECKPOINT feature, DBAs can actually
- set checkpoint intervals in seconds – rather than in less-granular minute-only options.
- set checkpoint intervals LOWER than 1 minute if desired.
- make these changes on a database-by-database basis
Translation: If up-time is essential for, say, a single database on a clustered instance, you can issue an ALTER DATABASE command and SET the TARGET_RECOVERY_TIME to say, 30 seconds in stead of 1 minute. And, in such a case, if such a change is made, then the expectation is that this database will be able to recover within 30 seconds after a restart or after a failover of a cluster-node, mirrored instance, or even of an AlwaysOn Availability Group – whereas other databases (which haven't had this value set), will still default to their 1 minute recovery time.
Now, obviously, this new feature is quite powerful in terms of helping DBAs achieve better RPOs and RTOs – by means of helping them dramatically decrease recovery times. Best of all, while AlwaysOn IS an Enterprise Edition only feature of SQL Server 2012, Indirect Checkpoints are available on all SKUs of SQL Server 2012 – meaning that you can pick up this benefit if you're using mirroring, traditional clusters, or just want to boost recovery time on a stand-alone box.
But, as you're probably thinking to yourself: yes, this does come with a cost – in the sense that you're now forcing SQL Server to work just a bit harder to keep logged/in-memory changes more readily synchronized with your data files in order to decrease recovery times.
As such, IF this is a feature you're interesting in using, make sure you follow the precautions outlined in SQL Server 2012 Books Online (check this link and the section on 'Impact of Recovery Interval on Recovery Performance') in terms of making sure that you VERY carefully 'ease' your way into using this feature – rather than risking overloading your servers in trying to keep up with too high of a demand being placed upon the checkpoint/reconciliation process. (That, and be aware that if you've got large numbers of long-running transactions in your system, then this feature might not provide you with the benefits you're hoping for.)


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While still unsure of the root cause of the fire, marshals reported the it began after a cigarette butt was tossed into a trash bin on the 8th floor of the Asch Building, located at the northern corner of Washington Square East at 23-29 Washington Pl.
Nearly 500 workers, mostly women, were getting ready to leave as the work day was over when the fire started at 4:30 p.m. The blaze spread too quickly for workers to put out the blaze as the factory floor was filled with cotton scraps, tissue paper patterns and wooden worktables.
FDNY was notified of the fire by 4:45 p.m., however the building's insufficient escape routes left many of the workers trapped.
Dozens gathered at the Triangle Fire Memorial Association's not-for-profit charity event last Tuesday at Christ the King High School, located at 68-02 Metropolitan Ave.
The school's chorus performed a number of hymns, including "Kyrie: A Call to Prayer" and "Prayer of St. Francis" as Gene Burch ushered in the colors and led the pledge of allegiance.
State Senator Serphin R. Maltese and members of the community spoke of the importance of the tragedy in their lives and the impact it has had on public policy.
Maltese led the ceremonies and helped present awards to community members who have given back in remembrance of the disaster.
Recipients included; artist and founder of the Triangle Fire Coalition and Chalk, Ruth Sergal, was recognized for her community engagement; Huntington English teacher Kimberly Schiller received an award for her dedication to teaching her students about the Triangle fire; Evergreen Cemetery president Paul K. Grassi was thanked for his service as vice-chairman of the Cypress Hill-Fulton Street Senior Center; and business owner Thomas Clarke also received an award for his work in the community.
Gabrielle Sfera, a Ridgewood native, led the memorial and service, as well as received an award for her work with a number of community organizations, including her service as a committee woman of the Queens Republican Club and seat at the Triangle Fire Memorial Association.
"It has been my mission to keep the memory alive of 146 workers killed in the fire," she said. "Many of our current fire and safety laws were made in response to this tragic event."
Sfera said she has always remembered those lost in the tragedy as her grandparents also worked long hours in knitting factories when they first came to the country.
"I asked myself if those knitting factories were safe because even then some factories do not follow up-to-code labor and safety laws," she said. "The Triangle Shirtwaist fire drew uncomfortable parallels with conditions facing workers today and remains one of the most vivid symbols of a constant reminder that our government must ensure a safe work environment."


text: EU prohibits "fiscal aid" Tax Update Share this 21 OCT 2015 By: Bertold Bär-Bouyssière The European Commission has ruled that two decisions made by national tax authorities artificially reduced the tax burden on the companies involved. What do today's decisions on tax rulings mean for you? A novel principle Today's decisions send a "clear message" (Commissioner Vestager) to companies that they cannot obtain unfair competitive advantages – in particular over SMEs - by creating artificial price tags for internal transactions for the sake of avoiding taxation. They are an important step in the European Commission's crusade against "aggressive tax planning". As expected, the Commission did not allow any legal, economic or political argument to derail it from the path chosen in the opening letters that were published last summer. It remains open how much the companies have to pay to the Member States that granted the tax rulings, but it will likely be between € 20-30 million per company. The Commission devised a methodology to calculate the amount of State aid to be recovered. Further, the companies cannot benefit of the rulings any longer. Today's decisions establish the novel legal principle that the OECD's Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Companies and their "arm's length" principle are an important benchmark for assessing a company's internal profit allocation scheme for the purposes of EU State aid control. The Member States and companies concerned will likely appeal against the decisions, but it will take two to three years before a judgment will be rendered. Dangerous dynamics What is the practical relevance of today's decisions? First they will have a chilling effect on the future grant of discretionary tax rulings. The Commission expects that tax rulings are made "by the book". Second, the decisions, whilst not final in light of the possibility of being overturned on appeal, constitute a precedent for more EU investigations into alleged fiscal aid granted in the past. Due to Luxleaks and information provided by Member States to the Commission about their rulings, more investigations should be expected in the very near future. However, the real question is whether and to what extent national courts will enter the arena to support the Commission with its limited resources. It has been long established that whenever a company has received unauthorized State aid, a competitor of the beneficiary may require the national courts to take all necessary measures pending the Commission's substantive assessment of the measure, including the temporary recovery of the State aid. Commissioner Vestager also sees a role for "whistleblowers". Where a complainant has or may be able to obtain sufficient evidence that a competitor has benefitted from a discretionary tax ruling, the national court seized may be compelled to order "temporary recovery". As State aid through tax rulings will generally not be justified in substance, the temporary recovery will become indefinite. Damage control - what should you do next? The ruling is based on a scheme deviating from the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines or similar soft law; The taxable basis has been freely negotiated with the tax authorities without any reference to other comparable transactions; The tax authorities merely accepted the proposals of the company seeking the ruling without further investigation or review; Internal documents (e-mails) reflect that the cost have been reverse engineered to obtain a certain taxable income; The financial parameters of the ruling lack motivation in economic terms and are not substantiated by any generally accepted methodology; The timeframe covered the ruling is open-ended or excessively long; The profit allocation factors are not consistent throughout the company's organization. If such assessment suggests that the ruling may involve State aid, please contact any of the individuals below. We can quantify your financial exposure, advise on procedural risks and discuss appropriate risk mitigation measures, all of which depend on the particularities of the tax ruling and the Member State which has granted it. In respect of future rulings, we can help you ensure compliance to avoid State aid risks.


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Longtime St. Thomas athletic director dies
Jack Zahr, 58, who served as the athletic director at St. Thomas Academy for 24 years, died on Tuesday after suffering a stroke a week and a half earlier.
Zahr spent his entire career at STA, starting out as a health and gym teacher in 1977. He was also a hockey, cross country, soccer and track coach over the years.
The school won nearly 40 state championships while Zahr was athletic director.
He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
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Teachers, nurses get raise in new contract
The District 196 school board has approved a new two-year contract with members of Dakota County United Educators (DCUE), the union that represents nearly 2,000 teachers and school nurses in the district. The union members ratified the agreement Sept. 4.
The contract provides a 2 percent raise to the salary schedule each year, with an additional 0.71 percent increase for teachers at the top step of the pay schedule in year one and 0.6 percent for the top step in year two. It is retroactive to July 1.
A first-year teacher with a bachelor's degree will earn $37,324 this year, while a teacher with a master's degree at the top of the schedule will earn $68,194 in base salary and up to $7,183 in longevity pay.
Two schools dedicate community garden
Highland Elementary and Scott Highlands Middle School will celebrate the completion of a new community garden and outdoor classroom with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday at 9 a.m.
The ceremony will take place in the garden, which is located behind the two schools, between 14001 and 14011 Pilot Knob Road in Apple Valley.
The garden has already generated more than 200 pounds of produce, which was donated to 360 Communities' food shelf. Students from both schools will get to taste the produce they grow together as part of the school lunch program.
Two parents and many community organizations have helped design, build and fund the project, including the schools' site councils, District 196 Food and Nutrition Services Department and the Eastview Community Foundation.
Foundation board has three new members
The Eastview Community Foundation, a nonprofit that supports scholarships and grants for students and schools in the Eastview High School attendance area, has added three new members to its board of directors.
Denise Bergevin, Steven Lewandowski and Linda Krummel will join a dozen other members on the all-volunteer board.
District gets grant to document its history
Northfield Public Schools received a $9,000 grant last week from the Minnesota Historical Society to document the district's history.
Given as part of the Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grants program, the money will be used to hire a consultant to research and write District 659's story.
More than 50 other grants were also awarded last week as part of the program.
Openings for kids at Preschool Lab
The Preschool Lab nursery school at Burnsville High School has openings for this school year for children between the ages of 3 and 5 years old.
The program is run by a head teacher, with high school students teaching and working with kids during the school day.
The class follows the school calendar and is held from 8:25 to 9:55 a.m. Monday-Friday, beginning the first week in October. Spring session begins the first week in March.
Cost is $65, plus donations of snacks and beverages to be used during the sessions. For more information, contact teacher Marlys Thom at email@example.com or 952-707-2332.
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Pair of firsts not enough for HNHS gymnasts
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 9:36 AM
The Huntington North High School gymnastics team got firsts from Hannah Bomba and Alexa Shoemaker but couldn't overcome visiting Fort Wayne Northrop on Tuesday, Feb. 5, falling 101.300-99.400.
Bomba scored an 8.150 to capture the uneven parallel bars, and Shoemaker scored an 8.650 to claim victory on the floor exercise for the Lady Vikings' highlights.
Mikayla Carpenter placed second on the floor with an 8.450 and Robyn Karst placed sixth with an 8.250 for the Lady Vikings' best event placings of the meet.
The Lady Vikings had their best scoring of the meet on the vault, where Mavin Chaney and Robyn Karst tied for fourth with scores of 8.550 and Carpenter placed sixth with an 8.350, giving HNHS 25.450 points.
Carly Snyder placed fifth and Chaney sixth, respectively, on the bars with scores of 7.750 and 7.7000.
Snyder led the way for HNHS on the beam with a score of 8.900 for second place. Chaney was fourth with an 8.300 and Ana Eckert was sixth with a 7.800.
Snyder was the top Lady Viking in all-around, placing fourth with a score of 33.000 points. Chaney was fifth with a score of 32.650, and Carpenter was sixth with a score of 30.600.
Northrop's Nataley Sliger won the vault with a score of 8.950, and Cassie Neilands took first on the beam with an 8.950. The Lady Bruins' Lauren Wagner was tops on all-around with a score of 33.850.