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Teva announced today that the Supreme Court will hear its appeal in a move to delay generic competition for the drugmaker's multiple sclerosis treatment Copaxone. Teva hopes to extend the drug's patent life through September 2015. Its current patent for Copaxone is set to expire in May of this year.
In January FDA approved a new version of Copaxone that allows patients to take the drug three times a week rather than daily. The drugmaker, according to Reuters, says that it believes 45% of regular Copaxone patients will switch to the new form of the drug. Leerink Partners analyst Jason Gerberry said he expects that 25% of current Copaxone patients will be switched by June, about 33% by year end and 40% in two years, also reported by Reuters.


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Grinnell sends four to Olympic trials
Pioneers send three student-athletes and one coach to qualifier
GRINNELL, Iowa - For most any division III school, it's a rare treat for an athletic program to have an Olympic Trials qualifier.
So it's obvious to see why Grinnell's swimming and diving squad is turning heads by boasting four qualifiers.
In March, not even a full day after completing an incredible performance at the NCAA championships, Michael Brus qualified for the United States Olympic Trials in the 200-meter backstroke. That event is slated for late June.
But that's just the start of success for the Pioneers. Both Claire Williams and Claire Forrest have qualified for the U.S. Paralympic Trials in Bismarck, N.D., and assistant coach Deidre Freeman is a qualifier for the U.S. Diving Trials in Seattle, Wash. Those events are all in June, as well.
"It's pretty amazing," said Grinnell swimming and diving coach Erin Hurley of the collective accomplishments. "It's really every coach's dream. At the DIII level it is not very common to have athletes at that level, so we're very fortunate to have all of these people in the Trials."
"Having somebody of Michael's caliber is one thing, but the way he conducts himself is another … he's vested in the team and very coachable," added Hurley. "And getting to coach the two Claires has been a wonderful opportunity. They've both done very well at Grinnell and I've learned tremendously from them.
"As for Deidre, we recruited her in high school but she was offered a scholarship at the University of Iowa and went on to become an All-American there," Hurley continued. "She has a lot of experience, but also an understanding of what Grinnell is all about."
Brus, from Davenport, Iowa, has essentially rewritten Grinnell's record book in his short time with the team. He is a part of eight school records, a two-time Midwest Conference Swimmer of the Year and has qualified for nationals two years in a row. In March, he earned All-America honors in the 100- and 200-yard backstrokes and honorable mention All-America recognition in the 200 freestyle.
Despite his individual success, Brus is the ultimate team player. "I like breaking relay records more than anything," he said. "That's because I'm doing it with people and get to share it with them."
He said a conversation with Hurley is what convinced him to shoot for a spot in the Trials.
"It's funny because when I was training for nationals, Erin said I had the opportunity to qualify for the Trials," recalled Brus. "Earlier in the same practice, I remembered how when I was younger my goal was to go to the Trials. It's odd how that all happened at the same time. I thought if I could make the Trials, it would be cool for the team and school."
Of course, Brus had to bounce back quickly from a busy NCAA meet. Literally hours after earning All-America honors in the 200-yard backstroke, he had to be set to earn a spot in the Trials in the 200-meter backstroke.
"Twelve hours earlier I had just swam the backstroke at nationals, and that race hurt a lot," said Brus. "I was thinking 'I don't know if tomorrow is going to happen.' But I woke up the next morning and once the time came, I said 'let's do it.'"
By qualifying for the Trials, Brus has had to extend his training. "It's a big adjustment," he said. "Last year I swam nationals and then got to focus on just school and have a bit of down time. Now I'm back in the pool swimming harder than I normally would. It's an adjustment, but worth it in the end. I just want to swim fast at the Trials and enjoy the experience."
Forrest, from Minneapolis, Minn., is no stranger to the Paralympic Trials after competing in them in 2008.
"It's a thrill to be going to the Trials again," she said. "Just the energy there … everybody is so excited and it's so much fun. I had some of my best career swims there."
Paralympic swimmers are divided into categories, based upon the nature of an athlete's physical challenge. Forrest is either a level S5 or S6, depending on the event.
As for events, she'll certainly have a busy time in Bismarck. "I'm planning on doing the 400 free, 100 free, 50 free and 100 back," she explained. "The extra training has been challenging, but I've enjoyed having Michael and Claire in the pool. To train by yourself is hard, but we make it fun. It definitely makes the time pass by."
Her goal at the Trials is simple. "I would love to see some lifetime-best swims," she said. "And I also want to have as much fun as I possibly can."
Like Forrest, Williams will be a busy swimmer at the Trials. She is registered to compete in the 400 freestyle, 100 backstroke, 100 butterfly, 200 individual medley and 200 butterfly, though she says she may drop one of those.
"I swam the Trials when I was 13, and it's exciting to be going back knowing what it is," said Williams, from Urbana, Ill. "Now I have Erin as a coach and I can be tapered and ready to go, plus know what it's like to swim prelims and finals."
Williams is no stranger to success, as she is the American record-holder in the 500- and 1000-yard freestyles in the S9 category. "It will be fun to see where I stack up with other S9 swimmers," said Williams of the Trials. "I want to go faster than my first Trials and make it back to the finals for my events."
Williams said adjusting to the extra workouts has not been difficult. "I've had a lot of practice balancing swimming and school work, so it's not a big shock," she said. "I am so incredibly lucky, though, to have Claire and Michael doing this, too. It would be almost impossible to do this by myself for two hours a day."
Freeman, a Grinnell High School graduate who started coaching the Pioneer divers this past season, saved her best for last while competing at Iowa. "I graduated in 2010 and did a fifth year," she said. "My diving went beyond where I expected it, as I placed third on one-meter at the Big Ten Championships and second on three-meter. That was exciting since the Big Ten is the toughest league in the country, diving-wise."
She also competed in the three-meter synchronized diving event, where she and her partner took top honors. "Overall, that was the best meet I ever had," said Freeman. "I broke two school records held by former Olympians."
Freeman went on to earn a 10th-place finish in three-meter at the NCAA championships, and took 15th in one-meter diving. "I just missed the finals of three-meter, which was disappointing, but I did well in the consolation round so that was fine," she said.
As for the Trials, Freeman has qualified in both three-meter diving as well as synchronized diving. The latter event, she noted, is unfamiliar to most.
"There aren't many teams out there," she said. "The main reason is because there aren't many people you can match up with in terms of the same style, same jump, same height and kind of looks like you. I was very fortunate to have somebody at the University of Iowa who fit all that. It's also very convenient to have her there in terms of training. Hopefully at the Trials we can final."
The athletes note that having so many Trials qualifiers from Grinnell adds a shot of enthusiasm to their endeavors.
"That is one of the most exciting things about this," said Brus. "I don't know how many schools would be able to say they have four athletes going to the Trials. I think it's pretty special that a small school in the middle of Iowa has these top athletes. It's an honor to be part of it."
"That's personally very exciting to have so many teammates going to these big events," added Williams. "We already know our program is a strong program, and people on campus know we work hard. It's a good place to be."
"For the program, it shows a lot of dedication," explained Forrest. "I think it shows even though we're a large team, we are also a strong team."
Hurley agrees with the swimmers' assessments.
"This brings our program a lot of exposure," she said. "The current team is making plans for the summer to support our athletes, and the alums are very enthused about it. As an athlete, or even as a coach, this is one of those things that might be on your bucket list."

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It feels so good to be back here for Sunday Serenity. Perhaps it was just me, but I have been feeling out of kilter lately, and I needed some true "me" time over this weekend.
Our weekends lately have been taken up with soccer games for the boys. I really enjoy watching them play, and coming into their own by not playing on the same team for the first time since they began. Their games are normally hours apart, so after Elwood's game in the morning, I snuck home to spend the afternoon with myself.
The rain began mid-morning, and with the temps only in the high 40's (um, hello Spring, where did you go?), I decided some bath spa time was in order.
Years ago I had a chance to visit an amazing aruvedic center in New Mexico. The experience was intense, but very purifying as well, and one thing that I fell in love with was detoxifying scrubs. While I was there, I learned that the traditional scrubs were used in place of soap, and were created to try and draw toxins from the body. They were also used as full body masks for even deeper purification. I asked one of the aruvedic practitioners what was in it, and all she could tell me was vegetable protein and spices. While that was not a ton to go on, I tried to recreate the smells when I returned home, and I think that I have it pretty close.
I tend to use the scrub as a body soap as well, and always at the beginning of the shower.
As I think that I have mentioned in the past, I love blending nourishing oils for my family, and finding different ways to nurture our skin. I have recently fallen in love with the amazing properties of avocado oil, and since my boys can not live without their chocolate oil smell, I knew we needed to add that in for them. From that, a simple oil was born of melted cocoa butter and avocado oil, along with a few drops of lavender essential oil. It is so hydrating for the skin, and the perfect way to seal the pours after a detoxifying scrub.
Detoxifying Scrub
3/4 cup of gluten free vegetable protein
1/4 cup milk powder
1/2 teaspoon cardamon
1/2 teaspoon coriander
Mix together with a fork or whisk, and store in a cool dry place for up to 2 months.
Hydrating Oil
8 oz organic avocado oil
4 oz cocoa butter
2-4 drops lavender essential oil
Melt together in a double broiler, and bottle when cooled.
This is a very rich and intense oil, perfect for dry or sunned skin.
I am coming to realize that it is important to have a spot that no matter what is happening, is comfortable and relaxing. For me, that spot has become my own bed. I have co-slept with two beautiful souls, breast fed, read, dreamed, loved, dried tears, and been granted a ton of snuggles in my bed, and I feel that it is the most sacred place that I have in my home. For me, it is now a symbol of all that I have become as a mom and a woman, and a place where I can feel free to get lost in myself. My journal, a great book, these are the types of things that I like to curl into my spot with, on a cozy weekend afternoon, and enjoy.
Sitting in my bed, reading a great book, and drinking a pot of tea. That is an afternoon well spent.
I love a great cup of coffee in the morning, there is no denying that. I did not begin to drink coffee until my youngest child was two, but since that time, I have enjoyed it each and every morning. Having said that, there is nothing that I like better than a good cup of tea. My mom was great at introducing tea to me young, and I loved all the varieties of fruits and herbs that were available. Oh how I remember going out to dinner with my parents, as a pretty young girl, and how grown up I felt with my pot of water and wooden tea box at the end of the meal.
Today, I have a blast taking the boys to a fun tea shop, and letting them pick out something really indulgent. Tea time in our house has always been a part of our days, and since we can never go out for pastries or breads, it is nice to create that in our daily lives. Two of my current favorites; Chocolate orange roobios, and apple cinnamon. A friend of mine sent them from a small tea store in New York that she lives around the corner from, and I only ever drink them on special occasions. Hey, some people save special bottles of wine, or brandy. I save tea.
A special blend that the boys and I have been working on is dried mint, orange peel, and a cinnamon stick. So warm and uplifting
With the rain still falling, I (almost reluctantly), dragged myself from my warm spot to go and watch Jacob play his game. Those boys work so darn hard, and after a grueling hour in the harsh weather, my baby was in need of some serious energy. Jake and I have been talking a lot recently about the Green Smoothie Challenge, and some recipes that we might want to try. I think that one of the incredible positives about Jacob having celiac disease, and being faced with some health challenges early, is that he knows how EVERYTHING makes him feel. He knows that when he eats well, when he takes his supplements, when he gets outside and exercises, he feels good. I think that he spent so much time feeling horrible, that he is very attentive to keeping himself in a balanced place.
We stopped off at the natural food store on our way home and picked up some seasonal fruit, as well as some Kale, and headed home to give us both a little bit of energy.
I LOVE cooking with my kids, and I know that is one reason that Jacob going to school is painfully hard for me. Waking up in the mornings, cooking, reading, and just being together has been so amazing. I know that times like these, when he and I are sharing space, making something for the rest of the family to enjoy, that it is going to become sacred time for both of us.
I let Jacob take the reins on our smoothie for the day, and I must say that he did a great job of picking out some yummy ingredients for all of us to enjoy. It was just what we needed
Jacob's Green Smoothie
2 Tbsp 3-6-9 oil
1 Tbsp flax meal
1 Tbsp probiotic powder
1 Tbsp Spirulina powder
1 Tbsp honey
1 chopped apple, skin on
2 roughly cut bananas
1 box of organic strawberries
1 small bunch of kale
1 cucumber, skin on and chopped
1 mango, chopped
1 Tbsp of chopped fresh mint
The juice of one orange
Place everything into the blender, and liquefy.
Drink immediately and enjoy
And the perfect way to end a simple but wonderful day? Movie night
Friends of ours from Denver came up to stay last night, and brought a copy of the movie Earth for the kids to watch. After some thought, we decided that we all wanted to see it, and we popped some popcorn and got ready to head downstairs (our only TV is in our basement, which is SO nice). As only my Jake could do, he went outside to the garage and came back with individual Chinese take out containers that he knew I had from a party last summer.
Having kids has taught me something that I think I had forgotten; that life is supposed to be pretty and fun, and even something as simple as popcorn should be eaten in a beautiful container.
Indulgence has become such a bad word in our society, and yet, indulging in time to take care of ourselves, time to read and find comfort, time to spend with our amazing children, is what makes us whole. It is what makes us wake up the next morning feeling refreshed and ready to fight hard for our kids safety, security and well being. Fight hard for our work, for our marriage, and for our community. Indulgence is essential, and it is a way for us to take some time away and say that we are worth doing something nice for as well. "Me" time can be hard to come by, but when it comes, it is always transforming.
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Post-Gazette Steelers Insider Ed Bouchette joined the FAN Morning Show to talk about the Browns game and the return of Big Ben. Ed thinks the story from Milledgeville,Ga is behind Ben now as he stays out of trouble. Ed thinks Ben has actually changed since his suspension and experienced it first hand.
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Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy
Extracorporeal shock wave therapy, or ESWT, is a reasonably new treatment for painful plantar fasciitis / heel spurs / heel pain which is becoming more popular with recent improvements in the delivery device.
How does Shock wave therapy work?
ESWT delivers targeted shock waves to the painful area using a hand held 'gun' that taps the inflamed tissue. The shock isn't an electric shock, it is a physical blow. Shock wave therapy is thought to work by causing micro trauma (or tiny spots of damage) to the thick gristle-like tissue that makes up the plantar fascia band. We usually reserve using shock wave for plantar fasciitis that is chronic – more than three months in duration. The body will come in and repair this new, acute injury and in doing so brings more blood flow and repair cells to the chronic injury where your body has 'given up' its repair effort.
It has proven useful to also shock the calf muscles and Achilles Tendon to treat heel spurs as these two structures are highly interdependent. This is done using a different shock head that goes deeper and broader than the one used on the less fleshy parts of the feet.
Like many medical procedures, there are pros and cons to the use of shock wave therapy. Our Brisbane podiatry clinic completed a ten patient trial run in September 2015 with the unit before we decided to incorporate it into our practice. The results were better than we had anticipated with very stubborn, long term conditions responding quite quickly. We also found good success with Achilles Tendon issues.
The potential downside to treatment is that it can be uncomfortable at the time of delivery and it can increase pain for a couple of days after. So far, we have found that patients tolerate quite different levels of stimulation on the heel and the delivery of 'taps' can be dialed up or down accordingly. Application to the calf is generally quite pleasant. We are currently only using the treatment on conditions where it has been present for more than three months. We don't think that it will be as useful on more recent pain but will learn more as we go along.
What is the cost of Shock wave therapy?
The treatment is often done three or four times at an interval of 4 to 7 days apart. The cost of the sessions is ~$85 and, as we are podiatrists, the treatment attracts a health fund rebate between $20 – $50 depending on your level of cover. Item numbers for shockwave therapy are F014 and F145.
Lithotripsy for Plantar Fasciitis
There is both a high-energy and low-energy form of ESWT. The Brisbane Private hospital has a lithotripsy machine that delivers high powered shock to the bone of the heel. This is a much more intense treatment which causes more concentrated therapeutic damage to the tissue. It may be done under local or general aneasthetic. This treatment was originally used for breaking up kidney stones. We have used this as our 'treatment of last resort' previously with reasonable results but had preferred steroid injections ahead of this treatment due mostly to the pain of application and the cost of the treatment. You can visit their website here to learn more.
Steroid injections for Plantar Fasciitis
At this time, we are recommending low intensity shock wave plantar fasciitis ahead of steroid injections for plantar fasciitis at our Brisbane podiatry clinic. This is for two main reasons. Although there is some chance of increased pain for a few days after the treatment, there is no systemic affect on the whole body and the treatment is a walk-in walk-out one. Also, it seems likely that the long acting corticosteroid would be forced out of the tissue if shock wave was used after an injection, thus moving it away from the site of action.
If you wish to visit us to discuss treatment options, please use our contact page here. Be sure to let us know that you want to discuss shock wave plantar fasciitis treatment to ensure that we assign the correct practitioner to evaluate you.


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Dr David Hilton
Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Media Arts
School of Art, Design and Architecture (Faculty of Arts and Humanities)
I am Programme Leader for Contemporary Film Practice .I am Academic Liaison for a number of Plymouth University partner colleges and FDA courses.
PHD 'Film and the Dartington Experience' 2004.
MFA Art Film, BA Fine Art,
Background in Coordinating Filmmakers' Workshop, Video Production, TV Documentary production, Video News and Features Editing.
Teaching interests
Film Video
Research interests
Doctoral thesis: 'Film and the Dartington Experience' looking at Dartington's history of work with film and its relationship to the Mythic status of Dartington. The work incorporates an experimental documentary video film and photographic works.
Having worked in film and video producing, editing and teaching for some years with a special interest in experimental and documentary work, I have developed work with photography and painting. As well as the qualities of particular media I am interested in time, space and the uncertainties that surround the particular in our perception.
This interest has extended to explore the possibilities of the 360 degree auditorium as a site of experience and filmic exploration. In the past two years I have produced 6 works for the 360 degree arena and produced three papers on the experience and potential of this work.
I am a member of the Land Water Research Group within the Faculty of Arts
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Mybackground includes coordinating Filmmakers' Workshop, TV Documentaryproduction, Video News editing, Experimental Filmmaking. Research interestsinclude archive film regeneration and projects exploring memory artefacts andimaging using photography and video. Current work is investigating thepotential paradigm shift in the cinematic experience afforded by 360 degreeviewing experience.
2015 'Crossing Lines': exploring 360 degree moving image. Lecture presentation TV interview and Master Class in 360-degree Filmmaking given by invitation at The Great Creator show organized by BritishCouncil in Beijing (Orange Hall, 19 Sanlitun Road, Taikoo LiSouth, Chaoyang District, Beijing) Oct 30th to Nov 1st.
2015.'Ingenium quis habitat'; Paper presented at the International PanoramaCouncil's International Panorama Conference in Altotting, Germany 11th – 14th Sept 2014.'Reframing a reconstruction' Paper presented at 'The Interlude between body, artefact and discourse', Plymouth Art Centre, 12 Jul 2013 - 14Jul 2013. Organizer team for Time Around Space ICCI 360 Conference PlymouthJune http://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/icci/360/Pages/default.aspx
2013. 'A View in a Room' presented at AVANCA | CINEMA Conferência Internacional Cinema -Arte,Tecnologia,Comunicação. Avanca Portugal 26th July 2013.http://www.avanca.org/EN/programa.php?diaID=3Published Avanca Cinema 2013.Portugal. pp. 454 - 460
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2012 'Being Where in the Dome' Paper by David Hilton and Martin Woolner submitted to Conference on the Image 26th 27th Sept Saint SebastianSpain Sept 2011.Published by 'International Journal on the Image' Volume 2,Issue 4 Common Ground , Chicaco ISSN: 2152-7857 > . http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/
2011 'It's Behind You,' Paper by David Hilton and Martin Woolner presented at ISCA 2011 Istanbul. 14th to 21st Sept 2011 in Experience of Film and Documentary Panel Sat 17th Sept.http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/paper-list?page=3 http://www.avanca.org
2010 'Inside out: The Cortical Songs 360experiment', paper by DavidHilton and John Matthias presented at Avanca Cinema- International conference of Cinema, Portugal 28th to July 31st Aug http://www.avanca.org
2005 'Film and Dartington' 30 minute video presented at 'Creativityand Place' ConferenceSchool of Geography, University of Exeter, 23 - 25 Junehttp://geography.exeter.ac.uk/creativeindustries/creativityandplace.shtml
2004 'Film and The Dartington Experiment' Conference paper presented at the Constructing CommunitiesConference of theInterwar rural History Group Gregynog Powys 21-22 April
Other academic activities
My skills and interests include Film video production and editing, Archive film, Photography, music and painting as well as creativity as a major feature of personal fulfilment and professional development


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Felix Werner Wehrli
Professor of Radiologic Science in Radiology
Member, Committee for Appointments and Promotions, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Director, Laboratory for Structural, Physiologic and Function Imaging, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Director, Imaging Core, Penn Center for Musculosketal Disorders, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Department: Radiology
Contact information
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Radiology
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MRI Education Center
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Philadelphia, PA 19104
Department of Radiology
1 Founders Pavilion
MRI Education Center
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: (215) 662-7951
Fax: (215) 662-7263
Lab: (215) 349-8519
Fax: (215) 662-7263
Lab: (215) 349-8519
Graduate Group Affiliations
M.S. (Chemistry)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology , 1967.
Ph.D. (Chemistry)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1970.
M.S. (Chemistry)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology , 1967.
Ph.D. (Chemistry)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1970.
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Laboratory for Structural, Physiologic and Functional Imaging
BMB Graduate Group
Description of Research ExpertiseResearch of the Laboratory for Structural, Physiologic and Functional Imaging is aimed at quantitatively characterizing tissue microarchitecture and its relationship to physiology and function by means of spatially resolved nuclear magnetic resonance in animals and humans.
A major focus of the Laboratory is the development of new methods for the quantitative assessment of metabolic bone disease by means of the MR-based "virtual bone biopsy" and image-based computational biomechanics. A related area of concentration is the reduction to practice and translation to the clinic of novel quantitative solid-state proton and phosphorus MRI techniques for the study of bone matrix and mineral properties. A further line of work focuses on the quantification of systemic vascular disease via functional MRI-based methods including time-resolved blood flow, vascular compliance and venous blood oximetry with applications to the peripheral and central vascular system
Other areas of active in-house and collaborative research comprise the further development of novel non-Cartesian imaging techniques for cancer staging in the abdomen and chest, research aimed at the study of gene expression in mouse models of disease using novel micro-CT approaches, the study of neuronal architecture in mouse models of spinal cord injury by means of diffusion diffraction NMR, the development of MRI techniques to map internal strains of the intervertebral disc, and the development of novel RF coil hardware for ultra-high field MRI. Investigators in the lab have also recently embarked on a program aimed to develop and implement methods for imaging with real-time feedback control applied to fMRI of drug addiction and treatment.
Description of Itmat ExpertiseStructural and functional imaging of the musculoskeletal and vascular systems with particular focus on degenerative bone diseases and atherosclerosis. Translation of laboratory imaging procedures to the clinic.
Selected PublicationsEnglund EK, Rodgers ZB, Langham MC, Mohler ER 3rd, Floyd TF, Wehrli FW.: Simultaneous measurement of macro- and microvascular blood flow and oxygen saturation for quantification of muscle oxygen consumption. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Epub ahead of print, May 2017.
Wehrli FW, Fan AP, Rodgers ZB, Englund EK, Langham MC.: Susceptibility-based time-resolved whole-organ and regional tissue oximetry. NMR in Biomedicine 30(4), Apr 2017.
Li C, Magland JF, Zhao X, Seifert AC, Wehrli FW.: Selective in vivo bone imaging with long-T(2) suppressed PETRA MRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 77(3): 989-997, Mar 2017.
Cao W, Chang YV, Englund EK, Song HK, Barhoum S, Rodgers ZB, Langham MC, Wehrli FW. : High-speed whole-brain oximetry by golden-angle radial MRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Epub ahead of print, Mar 2017.
Zhao X, Song HK, Seifert AC, Li C, Wehrli FW.: Feasibility of assessing bone matrix and mineral properties in vivo by combined solid-state 1H and 31P MRI. PLOS ONE Page: e0173995, Mar 2017.
Fernández-Seara María A, Rodgers Zachary B, Englund Erin K, Wehrli Felix W: Calibrated bold fMRI with an optimized ASL-BOLD dual-acquisition sequence. NeuroImage 142: 474-482, Nov 2016.
Englund Erin K, Rodgers Zachary B, Langham Michael C, Mohler Emile R, Floyd Thomas F, Wehrli Felix W: Measurement of skeletal muscle perfusion dynamics with pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (pCASL): Assessment of relative labeling efficiency at rest and during hyperemia, and comparison to pulsed arterial spin labeling (PASL). Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 44(4): 929-39, Oct 2016.
Chen Cheng, Jin Dakai, Liu Yinxiao, Wehrli Felix W, Chang Gregory, Snyder Peter J, Regatte Ravinder R, Saha Punam K: Trabecular bone characterization on the continuum of plates and rods using in vivo MR imaging and volumetric topological analysis. Physics in Medicine and Biology 61(18): N478-N496, Sep 2016.
Li Cheng, Seifert Alan C, Rad Hamidreza Saligheh, Bhagat Yusuf A, Rajapakse Chamith S, Sun Wenli, Benny Lam Shing Chun, Wehrli Felix W: Cortical bone water concentration: Dependence of MR imaging measures on age and pore volume fraction. Radiology 280(2): 653, Aug 2016.
Rodgers Zachary B, Detre John A, Wehrli Felix W: MRI-based methods for quantification of the cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 36(7): 1165-85, Jul 2016.
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Los Angeles Readers – Check Out 'Christine' On The Big Screen This Saturday!
Love John Carpenter? Love Stephen King? Then you probably love Christine, but I doubt you've ever seen it like this. On the big screen on a rare 35MM print (I'm not a luddite but films shot on 35MM tend to look their absolute best on 35MM). Plus you get the chance to win all sorts of free DVD's before the movie!
Bloody-Disgusting's own Brian Collins will be presenting the film as part of his Horror-Movie-A-Day screening series at the New Beverly Cinema. Tickets (which you can buy here) are only $8 – so this is a win-win scenario for you. It all goes down this Saturday, April 28th at 11:59PM.


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Father of English literature, writer of bawdy tales, creator of lifelike pilgrim characters: Geoffrey Chaucer is all this and so much more. This class will introduce you to Middle English literature and its historical context through the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, including The Canterbury Tales and selections from his minor poetry. Alongside issues of genre, poetic form, and relationships to earlier writers, we will pay particular attention to Chaucer's fictional narrators, his treatment of female characters, his construction of masculine subjects, and his exploration of ethical impasses that arise in the process of meaning-making through reading. In addition to Chaucer's own work, we may read selections from his influences, contemporaries, and later imitators, all of which illustrate the processes of imitation, adaptation, and transformation characteristic of Middle English literature. We will also emphasize - and practice in formal essays -- different ways to approach Chaucer's works. We will spend the first weeks of the semester learning how to read Middle English; language instruction will begin on the first day. Evaluation will include translation quizzes, formal essays, informal written responses, and examinations.
Required Texts
- Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales (Broadview, ed. Boenig and Taylor). Be sure to get the FULL Canterbury Tales (first or second edition is fine, with blue or light blue spines), NOT The Canterbury Tales: A Selection (the abridged version: same editors and same press, but with a brown spine).
- Chaucer, Dream Visions and Other Poems (Norton, ed. Lynch)
- additional material will be made available online and via <emma>. Please budget for printing costs, as I will require you to print some items.
- MLA Handbook (7th ed, 2009).
Recommended Texts
(not at the bookstore, but good to have to hand)
- Andrew Galloway, Medieval Literature and Culture (Continuum)
- Winthrop Wetherbee, Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, 2nd ed. (Cambridge)


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When you pertain to obtain a mattress as well as just what my viewpoint is, this post is an initiative to give you an appearance of just what people normally ask. It often happens as a dialog between the client as well as me. You might locate on your own asking the similar concerns. Please do review them all.
Q1. – I have actually been making use of cotton mattress as well as desire to modify it to just what's brand-new out there.
Ans. No question you are most likely to lose out on that particular timeless, rustic smell of that mattress; nonetheless, it's regarding time we started noticing wellness.
The change from the cotton mattress to one more type of mattress have to be stable. Our body takes sudden adjustments as a shock. To prevent this, I would certainly state, select a coir based mattress. The aspect is very easy, coir is the closest you could reach the cotton feeling. When packed inside a cover, I have equivalent appearance. It has equivalent suppleness. It's high up on longevity and also provides an also surface area.
Q2. – My old mattress has actually gone down.
Ans. You should have actually absolutely listened to the expression, "resting still, refraining from doing anything, merely damaging the chair." Well, the chair breaks since it maintains all our 80-90 kilos for an extended period of time. What with the mattress? It endures our bodyweight entire evening long, as well as in many cases, the day also. The item utilized making mattresses is versatile yet immune; the opportunity of sagging is frequently there.
There are 2 aspects for this sagging.
- Life of the mattress – When you most likely to a shop to acquire a mattress, you recognize that, in one sort of mattress, claim springtime, the price ranges greatly for each item. Why? There could be great deals of elements for this, like the high quality of furniture, the thickness of mattress, the dimension of mattress. One of the most important are the high quality of its components.
- Manufacturing issue – Constantly feasible no matter the truth all manufacturers try to obtain eliminate human component at the time of manufacturing as well as maintain it very little largely to running tools. Amongst the search for these issues is that the product undergoes, claim 100 perceptions of our body-weight.
All manufacturers supply you a guarantee of a minimum of 1 year.
Q3. – I obtain a duplicating backache.
Ans. In this instance, you need to take a look at 2 points. Your way of living and also 2nd your mattress. Generally, the criminal is, exactly how you invest your day, while the sufferer is the mattress. Your back might hurt at the end of the day if you have a long-hour-sitting-job or owning throughout the day or perhaps fragile to temperature level adjustments.
Company mattresses straighten our spine and also prevent it from dropping over. You could really feel a little discomfort if you have actually been making use of soft mattresses, nonetheless, your body will certainly obtain utilized to it in a number of days.
Life of the mattress – When you most likely to a shop to acquire a mattress, you identify that, in one kind of mattress, state springtime, the price selections from $100 to $1000 each item. There could be several facets for this, like the top quality of furniture, the thickness of mattress, the dimension of mattress. Change from cotton mattress to other kind of mattress should be consistent.


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Scottish SongsReturn to Scottish Song index
Fields O Bannockburn
Fields O Bannockburn Twas on a bonnie simmer's day,
me English came in grand array
King Edward's orders to obey ,
Upon the Field of Bannockburn. Chorus:
Sae loudly let the Pibroch wakeKing Edward raised his standard high,
Each loyal Clan frae hill and lake ,
And boldly fight for Scotia's sake
Upon the Field of Bannockburn.
Bruce shook his banners in reply -
Each army shouts for victory
Upon the Field of Bannockburn. The English horse wi' deadly aim
Upon the Scottish army came;
But hundrteds in our pits were slain
Upon the Field of Bannockburn. Loud rose the war cry of McNeil,
Who flew like tigers to the field
And made the Sass'nach army feel
There were dauntless hearts at Bannockburn. McDonald's clan, how firm their pace-
Dark vengeance gleams in ev'ry face,
Lang had they thirsted to embrace
Their Sass'nach friends at Bannockburn. The Fraser bold his brave clan led,
While wide their thistle banners spread-
They boldly fell and boldly bled
Upon the Field of Bannockburn. The ne'er behind brave Douglas came,
And also with him Donald Graham,
Their blood-red painted swords did stain
The glorious Field of Bannockburn. That day King Edward's heart did mourn,
With joy each Scottish heart did burn,
In mem'ry now let us return
Our thanks to Bruce at Bannockburn.
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- 1. Mikuru Asahina's Adventure Episode 00
- 2. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya I
- 3. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya II
- 4. The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya
- 5. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya III
- 6. Remote Island Syndrome (Part 1)
- 7. Mysterique Sign
- 8. Remote Island Syndrome (Part 2)
- 9. Someday In The Rain
- 10. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya IV
- 11. The Day Of Sagittarius
- 12. Live Alive
- 13. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya V
- 14. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya VI
On the first day of high school a beautiful girl named Haruhi Suzumiya introduces herself as having "no interest in ordinary humans". She asks for any aliens, time travelers, sliders or espers to join her. Watching her weird behaviour is Kyon who sits in front of Haruhi and is the only person who talks to her. When Kyon comments about Haruhi's joining every club in school and then quitting he unwittingly gives Haruhi an idea to start her own after school club. Thereafter Kyon and several others find themselves dragged, literally, into the Save our world by Overloading it with fun Suzumiya Haruhi's Brigade (the S.O.S. Brigade for short).
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The Ultra-339 is for guitarists seeking the power of the Ultra-III's breakthrough electronics in an ES-style guitar, featuring Epiphone's legendary ES semi-hollow body construction in a reduced sized, the new Ultra-339 will take your guitar playing to the Ultra-level! Case sold separately.The Birth of a LegendFirst introduced in the late '50s at ou... Click To Read More About This Product
The Ultra-339 is for guitarists seeking the power of the Ultra-III's breakthrough electronics in an ES-style guitar, featuring Epiphone's legendary ES semi-hollow body construction in a reduced sized, the new Ultra-339 will take your guitar playing to the Ultra-level! Case sold separately.
The Birth of a Legend
First introduced in the late '50s at our legendary Kalamazoo factory, the ES series became an instant rock classic, bringing the look and feel of an archtop to a generation of players who had grown up playing solid body guitars like the Les Paul. The ES-335, the first in the ES series, was an instant success. But for many players who were used to smaller solid body guitars, the ES-335 felt too bulky to play on stage. The new Epiphone Ultra-339 is the perfect remedy, featuring smaller body dimensions while still retaining the bell-like tone the ES series is famous for. And best of all, the Ultra-339 is loaded with Ultra technology!
Great Tonewoods
While the Ultra-339 is packed with cutting edge technology, it still maintains the same basic specifications that made ES-style guitars the choice of two generations of artists from Chuck Berry to B.B. King to Alex Lifeson. The Ultra-339 features a laminated maple body with a solid center block, classic f holes, and a comfortable 24.75" scale SlimTaper "D" profile mahogany neck, which is glued-in with a mortise and tenon neck joint. The 12" radius rosewood fingerboard has 22 medium jumbo frets just like vintage ES-style archtops, a 1.68" nut and mother-of-pearl dot inlays. The Ultra-339 comes in three beautiful color finishes: Cherry, Natural and Vintage Sunburst.
Two Great Pickup Systems in One Guitar
At the heart of the new Ultra-339 are two pickup systems. The classic pickup system features Epiphone's new ProBucker humbucker pickups"a ProBucker-2 in the neck position and a ProBucker-3 in the bridge position. Both are patterned after Gibson's famous BurstBuckers and are wound to the same specs as the Kalamazoo factory's legendary PAF pickups.
Epiphone's ProBuckers feature authentic 18% nickel silver base and cover, Elektrisola wire, accurate bobbins, slugs and screws and sand casted Alnico-II magnets to give you that classic "Patent Applied For" airy tone that defines rock and roll.
The second pickup system features Shadow Germany's patented NanoMag pickup embedded discretely at the end of the fingerboard. Featuring three samarium cobalt magnets, an air coil, and active electronics, this low-impedance pickup captures subtle body acoustics and string harmonics. Together, you get powerful humbucker-driven rock crunch as well as shimmering acoustic-like tones and everything in-between.
One-Of-A-Kind Electrics Built-in
Built discretely into the bridge pickup mounting ring is a full-function, chromatic tuner. Just push the ON/OFF button and sound is immediately muted when the tuner is activated. Eleven color-coded LED's identify the note and whether it's sharp, flat or in-tune. Also, to allow quick and seamless changes between each pickup system, the Ultra-339's NanoMag Volume control now doubles as an A/B switch. Just push it in and quickly toggle between ProBuckers, NanoMag or both pickup systems with no delay and no "pop." Two additional LED's on the pickup mounting ring provide a visual indicator of which pickup system is active (Red=NanoMag; Blue-Magnetic or Red/Blue=Both).
Hook-Up Directly To Your Computer
The Ultra-339 features three different outputs. By using the standard 1/4" MONO output, both the ProBuckers and NanoMag are mixed into one signal. Plug in an additional 1/4" cable into the STEREO output, and the ProBuckers are routed through one cable and the NanaMag the other. In this way, you can send the ProBuckers to your favorite guitar amp and the NanoMag to a PA or an acoustic guitar amp. Using the A/B switch, you can now change "on-the-fly" between the two outputs.
The third output is USB. Using a USB cable (included with the Ultra 339), you can plug directly into your computer and use guitar applications such as Native Instruments GuitarRig 4LE to play your Ultra-339 through a variety of simulated amplifiers and effects and listen through your computer speakers or headphones. GuitarRig also features a recorder, a metronome, a tuner and much more.
Epiphone Hardware
Epiphone hardware is the best in the business and the Ultra-339 features Epiphone's patent-applied-for LockTone locking Tune-o-matic bridge and Stopbar tailpiece for increased sustain and string changing ease as well as quality Wilkinson 14:1 ratio vintage style machine heads with tombstone buttons for tuning accuracy and stability.
Compact ES-339 body style
Great tonewoods with laminated maple body
Two pickups systems: ProBucker and NanoMag
Seperate and combined pickup outputs
Advanced electronics with tuner and USB audio output
Case sold separately
Body Type: Reduced-Size Classic "ES" Style with F-holes
Species: Laminted Maple body with Solid Center Block
Binding: 1-ply Cream
Adhesive: Premium Titebond
Species: Mahogany
Profile: Slim Taper"¢ "D" 1960s
Truss Rod: Standard
Adhesive: Premium Titebond
Neck Fit
Joint: Mortise & Tenon
Adhesive: Premium Titebond
Joint Angle Tolerance: +/- .015"
Species: Rosewood
Frets: 22 Medium Jumbo
Radius: 12"
Scale Length: 24.75"
Inlays: Mother-of-Pearl Dot
Binding: Single -ply White Binding
Material: PVC Imitation Bone
Width: 1.68"
Type: Classic Epiphone Sloped Dovewing
Logo: Mother-of-Pearl '60s Era Epiphone Logo with "Crown" Inlay
Truss Rod Cover: Kalamazoo Era "Bell Shape" with "Ultra ES-339" Engraving
Model: Wilkinson"¢ Vintage with Tinted Green Tulip Buttons
Plating: Nickel
Tuning Ratio: 14:01
Type: Locktone"¢ Tune-O-Matic
Plating: Nickel
Material: Stopbar
Plating: Nickel
Knobs: Black Top Hat Knobs with Metal Inserts and Points
Pickguard: Black with Classic "E" Epiphone Insignia and Black/White Binding
Pickup Mounting Rings: Black
Strap Buttons: Die-cast steel, Nickel Plated
Strings: .010 - .046, Swedish Steel "Hex" Core
Neck Position: ProBucker-2"¢ (Alnico II)
Bridge Position: ProBucker-3"¢ (Alnico II)
Fingerboard: Shadow"¢ NanoMag"¢ Humbucker (Cobalt)
Potentiometers: 2 Volume Controls, 2 Tone Controls
Back Controls: NanoMag"¢ Gain
NanoMag"¢ Treble EQ:
NanoMag"¢ Bass EQ:
Coil Wiring: Hand-soldered and Machine Wound
Toggle Switch: 3-way Toggle with White Cap
Chromatic Tuner: On/Off Switch
A-G LED Note Indicators
# LED Indicator
High Pitch
Low Pitch
In-Tune LED Indicators
Output: 1/4" Mono (both signals blended)
1/4" Stereo
USB (Computer supplies power to Ultra-III when connected):
Power: 9 Volt battery (except when connected to computer USB)
Reviewed by 9 customers
Comments about Epiphone Ultra-339 Electric Guitar:
First one to touch the first arrival at the store. Positive side: These humbuckers are great. Strikingly beautiful guitar at first glance. Finally a semihollow that you can access all of the controls without fishing wires through the "f" holes. Negative side: For the money they might have though about dressing the frets. The neck feels like you are trying to play a neck made out of a saw fish snout. I have heard about playing till you bleed, but this is not what I thought they meant. Really, 14:1 tuners? Come on! The built in tuner is great but it is difficult to tune a guitar using that tiny tuner with these antiquated machines. Control pots.....Well.....the person that installed them is cross eyed. When you turn the knobs they wobble - some guy told me that all archtops do that. BS! Grabbed a Dot, a Gibson 339, and an Ibanez archtop and only the dot acted the same way. Also the tone control was stripped. Tells you about Epi quality control. I repeat...For the money? Really. Finally the Nanomag played through an acoustic guitar amp sounds kinda acousticy but it also sounds like a poorly designed Chinese Tele neck pick up. Although it DID sound better than the Les Paul Ultra III. Schecter, and Carvin with Piezo sound much like an acoustic.
Comments about Epiphone Ultra-339 Electric Guitar:
I have been waiting for some time now in anticipation of the es-339. I suppose if money was not an object I would have bought the gibson es-339 and been a happy camper - but money is an issue so I waited for the epiphany version. It finally arrived and I suspect I bought it before the packaging was even out of the dumpster. I love everything about it EXCEPT I had a terrible string buzz on the low E and A strings. I took it back in to the store and the guitar tech started describing all the work they were going to have to do to "fix" it - and even then he was not entirely sure it would work. I said "not my problem - I just bought the thing - how about you get me one that works." So now I am waiting for the one they ordered to replace the one I bought. Out of curiosity I played both of the other two 339 ultra's they had in the store and one of them had a similar string buzz issue. So beware and be forewarned. Possibly a manufacturing defect going on here that could affect lots of them. If you are considering buying one - check it out first. I would be reluctant to buy one sight-unseen (online)
Comments about Epiphone Ultra-339 Electric Guitar:
I wrote the original review that described the problem I had with string buzz on this epiphany and I was reserving final judgement pending the arrival of the replacement guitar. Well, the replacement arrived and guess what, same problem with the string buzz. So there must be some issue coming out of the factory that you should look for if you are considering one of these. That is the bad news. The good news is that the guys at guitar center went way out of there way and incurred some not insignificant expense to get the guitar configured properly to eliminate the problem. I was REALLY impressed by this level of customer service (occurred at the Tukwila GC store in Washington State). Once they were done the problem was gone and I have been playing this guitar for a few months now. It is truly not only a thing of beauty - it sounds and plays great. And you get all the high-tech bells and whistles that come as part of the "ultra" package. This is obviously the "cheaper" version of the Gibsom 339 which you can get for $2,000.00. To be honest - I have a hard time telling the feel, lay, and sound of the epiphany ultra and the gibson 339......except for the price. Maybe there really is a substantive difference - other than the name on the headstock of the guitar - but if there is I am not able to detect it in the way the instrument plays and sounds. Highly recommended!
Comments about Epiphone Ultra-339 Electric Guitar:
I just picked up a 339 Ultra from my local Guitar Center and love it! Off the wall playability and intonation was not great (as expected) but after their in-house tech did a proper setup it plays really well. Features: -The Nanomag pickup is cool, and while it doesn't sound like a Martin, Taylor or Gibson acoustic, it has a nice voice of it's own. It is a nice option for those who need a quick acoustic fix. It sounds best through an acoustic amp or straight into a DI to a sound system but I've toyed with the idea of an acoustic simulator to really fill up the sound. -The humbuckers have a great growl to them and plenty of sustain to keep chords singing and lead lines flying, especially in combination with the comfortable neck. It isn't a small neck but it is still comfortable. -Note- there is a slight delay when switching between acoustic/electric settings. If you pick your spots on when to switch it is no big deal, but a quick switch on the fly will give you a second of dead space. Quality & Reliability: -So far so good! As I said, it needed a proper setup, but after that it feels and plays great. Look & Feel: -Gorgeous! Purchased the natural finish and it is fantastic, everyone who has seen the guitar has commented on how nice it looks. Love the 339 shape and the guitar feels great to hold
Comments about Epiphone Ultra-339 Electric Guitar:
Take to heart the warnings that this guitar can have a bad buzzing on the A & low E string. I bought one then took it to a Gibson servive center after over two hours of hard work it still buzzed. I took it back and tried another in the store and it buzzed also. I was told by the store tech he thought it was the nanomag and I probably agree. They said one person had ordered and tried 5 and could not find one that played. It's a shame because it is a real nice guitar except for the buzzing. Thank goodness for the Guitar Center's return policy. If your looking for a 339 size axe without the Gibby price, I'd maybe try the Epi 339 pro. No nano. I wanted to try one but there wasn't one in the store. Make sure if you buy an Ultra play it first.
Comments about Epiphone Ultra-339 Electric Guitar:
It's tough to find fault with the Ultra 339 package. I purchased the Pelham Blue limited edition version. I expected an imperfect paint job and a neck that needed a set up. Neither arrived. Out of the box appearence and playability were surprisingly good. You can read the product description to find out about the feature set which is what attracted me to the Ultra in the first place. There ARE a wide variety of tones to be coaxed from the Ultra. As another reviewer wrote, don't expect a true acoustic tone from the nanomag pick up....but you may get close...much is dependent upon the amp that you play it through. Needless to say, if you play it through an acoustic amp, that will enhance the acoustic tone possibilities considerably. The only niggle that I wasn't expecting is the weight of the Ultra relative to the size. Consider it small but hefty. The "hollow" is a very semi-hollow...Get a soft wide guitar strap to attach to it. As for the neck and fretboard, not quite as endearing as some of my other hollow body electrics but it seems typical of the 339 genre. (it's a bit on the narrow side for me) But oil the neck good once received and it'll do just fine. Given the price tag relative to my PRS II Hollowbody, it's easy to call the Ultra 339 a bargain. It's a great way to scratch one's guitar itch without emptying the check book! Over and Out
Comments about Epiphone Ultra-339 Electric Guitar:
I was looking for a versatile semi-hollow at guitar center. I played several of the thin-line tele's which were in the 1000-1500$ range and the were just ok, nothing to write home about. I just happended to pick the 339 up off the display wall and noticed that it's weight was more substantial than I figured it would be. I hooked up to an AC-15 and WOW, this thing sounded so warm! I play thru a Line 6, just to make sure it sounded good on a different amp. The playability was great, the neck felt smooth and comfortable. I took it straight to the register and paid for it. After I changed the strings the first time, I noticed it had some string buzz on the "E", and "A" strings. I adjusted the truss rod a half to 3/4 turn to the left and it was gone. Easy fix. It was definitely worth the money.
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i miSs my ex..aND iM regreting
Though we are far apart
Our love is very strong
I remember the memories we had before we departed.
The time we shared laughters & all.
As i sit here on earth,
Missing the one that's not here wit me,
i hope & pray
That he's just a-okay.
But i still hope he was here.
One more hug
One more kiss
One more smile
One more time we want to hear
His voice, his laugh.
I miss seeing you at least twice a week.
I miss our long phone calls during night time.
I miss our everyday chat.
I miss our bonding.
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I guess its so paranormal I can´t even view it
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Yet another case of not enough information. To properly debunk this, which I'm sure one could, you'd need to know exactly the items behind her, what was happening off camera, etc, etc. Yeah, it looks odd, but imho, without any more corroboration, you have to assume the most likely explanation - reflection.
I am stumped, and I'm looking for a logical explanation.
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I am stumped, and I'm looking for a logical explanation.
I've watched it a few times but I can't give you an explanation , I can however give you for an interesting thread .
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Until more information comes in. It is my opinion someone is moving off camera behind her. But it is no reflection and possibly not a ghost.
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I was watching full screen and I saw someone wearing a dark vest with a white shirt under it moving out of camera range trying to avoid getting in the picture. It is probably not a ghost.
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At :21 you see the "anomaly" appear to pass in front of the objects in the background. It becomes opaque as it does so... to me that means a reflection in the cameral lens of some light source just out of view.
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The BBC player doesn't work in the USA. Except for the BBC Radio. Does the BBC player show the scene from another angle? But as for it being a ghost. I'm more convinced it is a person moving off camera behind her. But, if there is additional footage. I would like to see it. I must have a better monitor because I can see a hand and a face in the footage. Plus I can see the persons shoulder after Victoria Woods leaves.


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The high protein, low fat ice cream brand Wheyhey screams fun. It is championed by supermodel David Gandy, is a regular treat in the live lounge of the music event V Festival, and part of boyband One Direction's staple diet.
But the fitness fanatic founders have put in some hard yards for the desired result.
Based in Richmond, south-west London, physiology graduates Greg Duggan and Damien Kennedy have just shipped 100,000 tubs to luxury gyms and high-end supermarkets in the Middle East – their first order to the region. The ice cream is made of whey, a high protein by-product of the cheese process, and natural sugar xylitol that has no insulin response and is recommended by dentists.
"There is a massive issue with large frozen food companies who go heavy on the high fructose corn syrup which is cheap to manufacture, reduces fat and maintains taste, but is the main driver of type two diabetes," said Kennedy. "This is particularly prevalent in the Middle East, where 25pc of the population are obese."
With a plan to make a tasty but nutritious exercise supplement, the production journey started a year ago in Duggan's flat with an ice cream maker, a freezer and a copy of The 22 immutable laws of marketing.
But despite a tasty prototype which was approved by friends and family alike, the major hurdle was mass production.
"We met resistance from over 50 manufacturers who felt a truly healthy ice cream was impossible to make," said Duggan. "The ice cream industry is very traditional and the consensus was you needed full cream and full fat and full sugar to produce a brand the manufacturers wanted to be associated with."
Eventually they found a small maker in Nottinghamshire who invited them up and agreed to start production.
The pair traipsed around London's Oxford Street, independent stores, health food shops and gyms offering samples, slept in their car outside the plant, and finally the first big order came in – health food store Holland & Barrett ordered 1,000 pots and they couldn't meet the demand.
"It sold out in three days and we needed to make more. So we sold everything we could to ramp up production and research, including Christmas presents," said Kennedy. "I was even crashing on Greg's sofa to save on rent and bills."
The nutritious new product was starting to gather momentum on Twitter and pent-up frustration from the public was becoming apparent as people waited three months for more stock to hit the shelves.
Wheyhey's management team secured an HSBC loan to help cash flow but then came the lowest point of their entrepreneurial journey. They had collected their big order ready to deliver and the leased-out freezer broke down over night, losing £10,000-worth of ice cream.
"The Holland & Barrett buyer was patient and I just kept communicating with them until we replaced the order, and it flew off the shelves," Kennedy said.
Scale for the company, which is now forecast to turn over £2.5m this year and employs nine full-time staff, was achieved through social media and a lucky break with Virgin. The conglomerate took them on as one of their Virgin Media Pioneers, a programme that allows exciting new companies the chance to partake in events that go on throughout the year.
"The head chef on Necker island even contacted us and chartered a plane to fly out some ice cream for Richard Branson, and from this point we started to gain traction with the celebrity community."
Supermodel David Gandy (below), now the face of Wheyhey, invested in the company, raising its profile further and tubs of Wheyhey can now be found in Wholefoods, Holland & Barrett, As Nature Intended and GNC stores. In an unorthodox marketing move the pair composed a poem for Ocado to convince the ecommerce retailer to stock their product.
"We realise now we went too far down the gym route," said Duggan. "This is a mainstream lifestyle product which belongs in the freezer aisle not the supplements section. We've moved on."
And so has Kennedy, who is no longer living on Duggan's sofa.


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But this is also the name of the design I stitched for this month:
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I Believe in Christmas....
But this is also the name of the design I stitched for this month:
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Nice warm cap - a December necessity for the north end of the world.ReplyDelete
That's a great choice indeed. I was searching but wasn't finding anything for August. Well, maybe September will be more successful.ReplyDelete
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Here's how to sell cars fast on Twitter.
- Create a special limited edition that will not be available for sale elsewhere – a Twitter exclusive.
- Theme and schedule the special edition around a popular calendar event (e.g. Chinese New Year)
- Don't ask for full payment, just a deposit (e.g. 1.5%)
That's how Mercedes sold more than 1 car per minute (666 in 8 hours (480 minutes)) on the Chinese microblogging and Twitter-equivalent Sina Weibo for the Chinese New Year – "the year of the snake".
The results, reported in this morning's Financial Times illustrates how sticking to the basic and elementary rules of social commerce (make it an event, make it limited, make it an exclusive) can result in sales. Mercedes made 4% of it's annual sales for Smart Cars just in 8 hours.
What was particularly smart about the Smart sales was that Mercedes 'de-risked' the purchase by only processing a small deposit payment of 1.5% (1999 Rmb ($328)). Offering event merchandise – a special edition year of the snake necklace (below) was a nice touch too.
Only 666 special edition"year of the snake" models were made – and guess what? When prospects were contacted by dealers prior to the advertised January 18 social commerce event, the social influence heuristics of scarcity and consistency ensured that the Lunar "year of the snake" Limited Edition sold out, at Rmb128,888 ($20,728). That's 86 million Rmb ($13m). Not bad for a day's work.
If selling stuff on Twitter-style platforms is so easy in China, why are others finding it so hard to do so elsewhere?
The rules are certainly easy enough (make it an event, make it limited, make it an exclusive – see The Social Commerce Handbook). The temptation of course, is to ignore these basic rules, like Lamborghini China, who has singularly failed to sell even one car in social media (not an event, not limited, not an exclusive). Or BMW, who used social media as a marketing campaign platform (doh!) in China, rather than offer people value; it's 'UFO campaign' backfired and reputation was damaged.
Social commerce is perhaps made easier in China because microblogging platforms such as Sina Weibo have recently launched payment gateways and now offer integrated e-commerce features, making Twitter somewhat of a laggard (come' on Twitter – if you're looking for a business model not based on social spam – look East). Whilst Mercedes is an early adopter, Chinese mobile phone brand Xiaomi had already used it to sell 50,000 Mi2 phones in less than half a day.
It might be argued that Chinese businesses and consumers are more technologically advanced than Americans or Europeans; certainly people get richer faster in China, so the younger social media savvy generation have deeper pockets and are able to buy big ticket items.
But we think that's an excuse, not a reason.
There are enough technologically savvy people business-side and consumer-side outside of China to make Twitter commerce a success.


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Herald cartoon hits nail on the head
NZ Herald cartoonist 'Body' understands rebel Maori Party MP Hone Harawira well. I'm sure he would probably prefer a New Zealand without all the annoying white people, going by the language in his recent email exchange.
* NZ Herald - Cartoon: That'll Please Hone
Despite the public protestations of inclusion, many within the Maori Party are still well grounded in their ideas of Maori separatism and Maori sovereignty.
Some understand that these ideals can be furthered by promoting individual responsibility, with funding for the likes of health and education following the individual (allowing for Maori education Maori health providers).
However others within the party (like Hone) can't see the woods for the trees, and want to cling to the big tax, nanny state control of their beloved Labour Party.
It is unfortunate that the National Party has been hijacked by Nick Smith's blind ambition to force through an unpopular, expensive, and totally unnecessary scheme to buy faux "carbon credits", especially when few other countries have anything similar passed into law.
Admittedly, doing absolutely nothing isn't an option (otherwise Labour's equally silly law comes in by default from January next year), but all that is needed is to repeal that bad bill, and agree not to put anything else in its place.
What in actual fact is the Government going to be "buying" with all our taxpayer money?? Carbon credits and the whole idea of a "trading scheme" for a natural gas is a huge farce, and one that more and more people are waking up to (despite the ongoing one-sided propaganda promoted by all those stupid journalists who swallow the PR fed by the IPCC's spokespeople.)
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"Here's An Idea: Only Women Should Have Guns," this new theme goes. "[S]ince it's abundantly clear that they'll commit less violence than men and be vulnerable to violence committed by men, let's take all the guns away from men and give them to women."
I recently heard another engineer complain that the engineering schools should be graduating at least as many women and men. Why? I don't really know. Just because, I suppose.
I would rather people pursue their God-given talents and ambitions rather than be pigeonholed into a degree program just because they are a woman or man. And as for guns, the fourth wave feminists just think men are dirty, unruly, loathsome creatures who need to be controlled by laws and regulations and requirements. The true spirituality belongs to women.
Hey, now that I think about it, who would do all of this taking away of guns the feminists propose? They might just have to turn to those nasty men with guns. Do LEOs know what the feminists really think about them? They would just as soon you be a woman, but if you must be a man, then at least you need to do their bidding until they can replace you.


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By Diane Bartz
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. lawmaker who has been leading the charge against frivolous but expensive patent litigation released the draft of a bill on Monday aimed at hemming in so-called "patent trolls."
Representative Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, released a second discussion draft of a measure that would broaden the power of judges to award fees to the winner of a patent infringement lawsuit, among other steps.
Goodlatte, a Republican from Virginia, is working on the measure with his counterpart on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy. There is no firm timeline on when the legislation might be introduced.
A variety of bills have been introduced on Capitol Hill this year aimed at reducing the number of times that companies face unfounded patent infringement litigation, often from companies known derisively as patent trolls.
The effort is backed by Cisco Systems Inc, Apple Inc, Google Inc and other technology powerhouses. The companies have been sued repeatedly by "non-practicing entities," or companies that license patents as their primary business. Google has estimated the cost of such litigation to the U.S. economy at $30 billion a year.
The White House in June urged Congress to take steps to curb these lawsuits, and there are other proposals circulating on Capitol Hill.
Goodlatte's discussion draft calls for a change in how many documents can be requested before the trial begins, which is important because of the huge expense in gathering the material.
"The idea here is to limit discovery to a set of core documents that you need to prove your case," said Matt Levy, the patent counsel for the Computer and Communications Industry Association. "The discovery process has definitely been abused."
Goodlatte's draft also requires infringement complaints to specify what portion of a patent is infringed and what the infringing product is. It also requires transparency about who owns the patent.
Additionally, it broadens a company's ability to ask the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to review a patent to ensure it is valid.
The Software and Information Industry Association, a trade group for software and related companies praised the draft as "a crucial legislative step toward achieving strong and effective patent litigation reform."
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Oil and gas operators are preparing for the approach of Tropical Storm Harvey in the Gulf of Mexico, as the US National Hurricane Center warns Harvey could form into a hurricane by Friday.
Coastal watches/warnings and forecast cone for storm center. Map from NOAA.
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Hurricane Response Team has been activated and is monitoring the operators' activities.
Based on data from offshore operator reports submitted to BSEE as of 11:30 CST today (24 August), personnel have been evacuated from a total of 39 production platforms, 5.29% of the 737 manned platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Personnel have been evacuated from one rig (non-dynamically positioned (DP) rig), equivalent to 10% of the 10 rigs of this type currently operating in the GoM.
As part of the evacuation process, BSEE says personnel activate the applicable shut-in procedure, which can frequently be accomplished from a remote location. This involves closing the sub-surface safety valves located below the surface of the ocean floor to prevent the release of oil or gas. During previous hurricane seasons, the shut-in valves functioned 100% of the time, efficiently shutting in production from wells on the Outer Continental Shelf and protecting the marine and coastal environments. Shutting-in oil and gas production is a standard procedure conducted by industry for safety and environmental reasons.
From operator reports obtained by BSEE, it is estimated that approximately 9.56% of the current oil production in the Gulf of Mexico has been shut-in, which equates to 167,231 b/d. It is also estimated that approximately 14.66% of the natural gas production, or 472 MMcf/d in the Gulf of Mexico has been shut-in.
As of 23 August 5 p.m. Houston time, Anadarko evacuated all personnel and has temporarily shut in production from four of its facilities in the Gulf of Mexico, as Tropical Storm Harvey approaches.
The company said that given the potential path of Harvey, it safely removed all personnel and temporarily shut in production at its operated Boomvang, Gunnison, Lucius and Nansen facilities.
"These facilities will remain shut in until the weather has cleared, and it is safe to return our people to these offshore locations. We will continue to track Harvey and are prepared to remove additional personnel and shut in other operated facilities in the Gulf if necessary," Anadarko said.
As of yesterday (23 August) Shell was in the process of evacuating all personnel from its Perdido platform as a precaution, and Exxon was also reducing production at its Hoover facility in the Gulf of Mexico, according to news reports.
The US National Hurricane Center is projecting Harvey to approach the southern Texas coast on Friday. Additional strenghtening is forecast during the next 48 hours, as of today at 7 a.m. CST, and Harvey is expected to become a hurricane by Friday.
On 22 August, Anadarko began removing non-essential personnel working in the Gulf of Mexico.
"We are prepared to shut in our facilities and evacuate remaining personnel if necessary to ensure safety and protect the environment," the company said on 22 August.


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Adrian Peterson did not practice Wednesday while still recovering from his hamstring injury. Peterson carried the ball 13 times against the Giants on Monday, but the coaching staff obviously will minimize his workload in practice until he has fully recovered.
Josh Freeman (concussion), running back Matt Asiata (shoulder), tight end Rhett Ellison (ankle) and wide receiver Rodney Smith (hip) also did not practice.
Linebacker Chad Greenway (wrist) was a new addition to the injury report. He had limited participation. Left tackle Matt Kalil (back), cornerback A.J. Jefferson (ankle) and kicker Blair Walsh (hamstring) also were limited.
Also, safety Harrison Smith talked to reporters in the locker room Wednesday morning. Smith remains hopeful that rest and not surgery will allow his turf toe injury to heal in time for him to return this season.
Smith suffered the injury on his left foot in a loss to Carolina two weeks ago. The team placed him on injured reserve with a designation to return after eight games. He's eligible to return to practice after six weeks and can return to the field for the Dec. 15 game against Philadelphia.
Surgery would end Smith's season because full recovery takes at least four months.
"There is a possibility that it could require surgery," Smith said. "Hopefully it won't and I'll be able to come back."
Smith said the plan is to keep his foot immobilized to see how it responds to rest. If that doesn't work, surgery will be required.
Smith suffered the injury when he planted his foot going for a tackle and had several players land on top of him.
"I tried to walk it off," he said. "But I couldn't put any weight on it."
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With poverty reduction being the overall objective of the SWITCH-Asia Programme, and 2015 being the European Year of Development, in this second issue of the SWITCH-Asia Magazine we follow up on a webinar we hosted earlier this year to investigate the link between green growth and poverty reduction.
As many countries in the region initiate national plans and development strategies for green growth, one of the most discussed issues continues to be how green growth addresses the objective of poverty reduction in Asian developing countries and how it can be made pro-poor. Several articles explain how this can be implemented, including through green investment decisions and policy interventions. In addition, this issue illustrates how the projects funded by SWITCH-Asia approach and contribute to poverty reduction in different contexts and in their own unique ways.
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