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This study is undertaken to elucidate the possible relationship between foot cadence and cardiac rhythm during running and also the mechanisms of caridio-locomotion coupling.Occurence of cardio-locomotion coupling was verified in all of 17 male subjects during treadmill running.Slight sigmoidal relationship was obserbed between intercardiac timing of foot landing and instantaneous R-R intervals. This is caused by the mechanism that instantanous R-R interval is affected by the timing of foot landing in such a way that cardiac cycle is shortened when the landing is done at the ejection period, while it is prolonged when the landing is done at the early diastole.When the subject dropped from a platform of 30cm high to the floor, the instantaneous R-R interval is affected by the timing of dropping.From these findings, we speculated that the sensory stimuli provoked by foot landing inhibits the cardiac vagus center which sends inhibitory impulses to the heart, and the occurence of cardiac-locomotion coupling can be explained by the same mechanism.
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not everyone is creative. there are lots of ways in which people can get satisfaction from their lives- family, volunteer work, hell, even sports give people a sense of belonging and fulfillment. what i can't help but wonder is, given the many career options open to them, why do people who are so singularly uncreative keep ending up in the film industry? surely they could find better ways to apply their skills, but no, instead we are forced to bear the constant onslaught of genre films, where the rules become so restrictive that it is almost impossible to tell one film from the other, or, and this is obviously where i'm going with this post, the endless, repetitive remaking of previous films, which removes any pretense of originality from the equation.
and nowhere is that more evident than in the horror genre. witness the sad onslaught of remakes that have been paraded through theatres (and ushered quickly onto dvd to recoup their considerable costs) in recent years. director john carpenter, who would have dreamed of budgets half the size of those lavished on the people sloppily remaking his films in the last decade, would be rolling in his grave, were he not still very much alive and making films that garner less attention than the glitzy attempts to remake Halloween, The Fog, Assault on Precinct 13 (itself a form of remake). freddy and jason have been resurrected from the dead so that they could be resurrected from the dead again in the form of sequels to a remake of films that spawned numerous sequels.
but nowhere has this desperation to capitalise on the impact of these films, their notoriety and their influence more evident than in the saddest remake attempt ever greenlit: i spit on your grave.
this film was derided as a sado-masochistic male porn fantasy when it came out in the late 70s, but is generally recognised now as a twisted masterpiece of feminism. (this becomes particularly obvious in light of the film's original title "day of the woman".)
all of these films are being remade for one reason and one reason only: somewhere along the line, a studio executive believed that it was possible to bring the story the commercial success it never had on its original release (even though carpenter's films were generally successful, the theatrical success pales in comparison to their subsequent cultural deification) and that they can further increase financial returns by bringing the story to a new generation.
this logic is flawed on both points. first of all, the comparative financial success of films like Halloween is based purely on a ratio of gross income to budget. the film looks a lot less financially successful if you assume it was made with a budget of nearly $20M. the idea that somehow the ratio holds- if the original made close to 20x its budget of $250K, then with a budget of $20M, it should gross $400M, is ridiculous. (and anyone who can't see that should probably be joining the ranks of the unemployed by the time you've finished reading this post.)
the second point is more complex. i don't believe for a second that major studios invest in a film in the hope that it will become a cult favourite. after all, a financial failure is a financial failure and it doesn't look good on the books no matter what. but the fact is, if you think that you can parlay a moderate critical success into a hugely successful franchise that will spawn not only its own sequels, but a farm of "me too" imitators, then there is something to be gained. and why not take a chance on a formula that's tried and true with a previous generation? after all, if they liked it, why wouldn't kids and young adults of the same age group like it now?
have these people been dropped on their collective head?
let's ignore, for a moment, that such people can just go download the originals whenever they want. let's ignore the fact that films like saw, hostel, martyrs and human centipede have already pushed the envelope of fear and violence so far that these old films seem like family television viewing. does no one at these studios realise that films are always, inescapably, a product of the time and culture in which they're produced?
consider the underlying sameness of the classic 80s slasher movie: a group of young people, representative of the present (troubled or rebellious teens) and the future, are faced with a supernaturally powerful enemy- violent, evil, inexplicable and incapable of reason. the 'impure'- those who engage in sex, drugs or other forms of debauchery- are the first to go, whereas those who remain pure and true, more vigilant and more determined than their often flawed parents (probably former hippies anyway), are finally able to triumph (although these films often hint that the evil they have fought is not defeated but merely deterred). the story is clearly routed in the cold war mentality of the early 80s. there are films that are a lot less subtle about the message, films that feature actual stories of american soldiers fighting against sadistic soviet zombies, but the underlying message is the same. ultimately, what stands out about the villains of these stories is their inhumanity- they may have been human (american-like) at one point, but they have divested themselves of the vestiges of this in their single-minded pursuit of ultimately nihilistic violence.
(by comparison, if we look at films that are the product of the current era, we see a different sort of message. these films, particularly the entirely modern 'torture porn' movement, indulge a fascination not with an enemy who seeks to obliterate and strike down, but one who luxuriates in the joys of sadism and prolonged pain. in other words, one whose ultimate thrill comes not from violent destruction and brutish dominance, but from causing their victims the greatest amount of fear- from terrorising them.)
what the producers (and likely anyone else involved in the remake) of 'i spit on your grave' fail to realise is that, taken out of the cultural context of the 70s, the story is at best a sort of gruesome satire. nestled within its time, the era (pun forthcoming) of the equal rights amendment, the time when it briefly looked like the awakened feminist consciousness of the late 60s would somehow bear fruit in the form of a a truly egalitarian society (it's true- drugs were stronger back then), the film is meaningless. once one factors in the reagan-era backlash against anything even vaguely reminiscent of feminism, followed by the phenomenally successful red herring of "political correctness" have intervened, it's difficult to see what the film, in many ways a violent metaphor for that rising feminist consciousness and a warning to those backward types who would resist it, is all about. nowadays, it can only be viewed as 'deliverance' with a female lead.
i'm unlikely to ever see the remake of 'i spit on your grave'. i honestly expect that it will be gone from theatres before i've even finished thinking about whether or not i want to see it. but that doesn't stop me from thinking about it and what i'm thinking is that when studios are hiring people who will decide which projects get the go-ahead and which don't, they might want to be a little less concerned about their future employees' knowledge of marketing and a little more concerned about their knowledge of history.


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The Police Department's new Community Family Affairs Division is launching a citizens' police academy for residents to get an insider's look at how the department works.
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The Police Department's new Community Family Affairs Division is launching a citizens' police academy for residents to get an insider's look at how the department works.
Classes will be held Wednesday nights for 10 weeks, starting Sept. 17, on everything from terrorism to drug investigations to performing CPR. Police are now accepting applications for about 25 seats.
"They're going to get firearm training, they're going to get training in (dealing with) domestic violence, they're going to get training in the law," said Officer Ed Pomponio, who leads the Community Family Affairs Division.
Police established the new division in June in hopes of building ties with residents and helping them better understand the law.
The citizens' police academy has the same aim, Pomponio said, by giving the public a window into what officers do. Pomponio and Chief Scott Rohmer are coordinating the classes.
At no cost to the participants, the program offers them a chance to ride along with a police officer on patrol, tour the department, see a police dog demonstration and hear from numerous officers in the department.
Speakers also are expected from the Middlesex district attorney's office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Classes are intended for adults 18 or older who have not committed a felony, and no misdemeanors within the past year, Pomponio said. Each session will be from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The sessions will kick off with opening ceremonies and end with a graduation ceremony on Nov. 19.
"It will be fun," Pomponio said. "It will be a good time."
For more details and an application, visit the Police Department's Web site at www.ashlandpd.org or call Pomponio at 508-881-1212, ext. 50.
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Friday, August 12, 2011
{trendspotting: campaign in the kitchen}
16 comments:
- Designwali said...
i'm loving this trend!
- August 12, 2011 at 4:04 AM
- Nichole @ Parlour said...
Soooo chic, and HOLY MOTHER OF PEARL. That last kitchen is beyond! That's going in the 'keeper' files for sure!
- August 12, 2011 at 4:28 AM
- David Toms said...
The cottage kitchen is a killer! HAve a great weekend
- August 12, 2011 at 4:37 AM
- Sara Mueller said...
I am loving the last kitchen! Amazing! Ikea?
- August 12, 2011 at 5:36 AM
- Things That Sparkle said...
Love this!!! Cannot wait to see Christine's completed kitchen, it is going to be perfect!
- August 12, 2011 at 6:28 AM
- Erica said...
Such an awesome look. I am dying waiting to see Christine's #PKG. I have a feeling we're all going to want to move in.
As for that last kitchen... insane. I love it.
Wishing you a fabulous Friday sweets! xo
- August 12, 2011 at 7:09 AM
- Amanda Hill said...
I am so excited to see the finished kitchen from B&B! I am also pretty smitten with the gold kick boards :) Think I might be adding those to my kitchen!
- August 12, 2011 at 8:16 AM
- barbara@hodge:podge said...
I am loving that trend as well! That kitchen by Bill Ingram was to die for! Can't wait to see Christine's kitchen!
- August 12, 2011 at 11:14 AM
- Kathysue said...
Nancy these are some great examples. my boys furniture use to have this hardware on it and I loved it. I wish I had taken off the hardware before I got rid of the pieces. It is fun to see the use of brass creeping back into our lives. Just like the blog post I wrote, before we know it we will all be using bras again. Kathysue
- August 12, 2011 at 1:21 PM
- Maureen @ Modecor said...
Have been following along with #projectkitchengorgeous also with great anticipation. But I have to agree about the Canadian House & Home cover kitchen.... I wanted to see more pictures of every possible angle. I loved it's powerful quaintness, size and functionality.
- August 12, 2011 at 1:47 PM
- The Simply Inspired Home said...
Love all of them. Enough said!
- August 12, 2011 at 7:27 PM
- christine {bijouandboheme} said...
Ah thanks so much for the mention Nancy- so sweet of you:) I of course, adore the idea of campaign in the kitchen and love all of the examples you posted. I think that last kitchen might just be my favourite one of all time- there isn't a thing I don't ADORE about it!!
- August 13, 2011 at 4:25 AM
- Dayna @ Inspiration for Decor said...
Yes, I am totally with you! You've rounded up all the images that I've been ooooh'ing over lately too. Especially that cottage featured in House Beautiful. The combination of wood + gold hardware is divine.
- August 13, 2011 at 8:00 AM
- Nuha said...
we just got an old bookshelf from my husbands friend and they have the same hardware...but um, my husband painted over them haha just another thing for me to clean now :)
- August 13, 2011 at 8:05 AM
- theLENNOXX said...
Oh yes, I definitely love this trend! Especially love the corner trim =D
xox Linda
- August 13, 2011 at 12:36 PM
- quintessence said...
I'm on catch up this weekend reading. I'm so glad I scrolled down because I just love this post!! I've been following Christine and Meredith's kitchen adventures as well but just adore all these fabulous kitchens. All fabulous examples - great round up!!
- August 14, 2011 at 11:01 AM


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Keeping it in the family
From Associated Press
India's Rahul Gandhi is on a quest to become the fourth generation of his family to rule India. The Congo's Joseph Kabila is celebrating his questionable re-election to the presidency he inherited from his father. Or to former Indonesian former president Megawati Sukarnoputri was the daughter of the country's first president.
North Korea's preparations to transfer power to a third generation of the Kim family, following the recent death of Kim Jong Il, is by no means an anomaly: In both democracies and dictatorships, political dynasties abound across the world.
While former US President George W. Bush — the son of a president and the grandson of a senator — was never dubbed "the Great Successor," and Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto — who followed in her assassinated father's footsteps — was never said to have been "born of heaven," just like Kim Jong Un they ended up in the family business of running a country.
While some dictators pass on power to their children as a veritable inheritance, dynasties exert a powerful pull in democracies as well. The identity of a party might be deeply linked to a family. A familiar name might give a political scion an edge on the ballot, further strengthened by the family's established political and fundraising machines. Sometimes the heir is a puppet, a brand name needed to rally the public, while backroom power brokers pull the levers. Or a nation in mourning over the death of its leader might turn to the grieving child for comfort and continuity.
Stephen Hess, a Brookings Institution scholar and author of America's Political Dynasties, sees nothing unusual about politics becoming a family business.
"Aren't bakers more likely to be bakers if their fathers were bakers?" he said in an email.
The most successful dynasty in the world is probably India's Nehru-Gandhi family, which held the prime minister's post for 37 of the country's 64 years of independence and is working on bringing another generation to power.
In the huge, multiethnic tapestry of India, the Gandhis are seen as among the few with a nationwide appeal that cuts across language, region and caste, said historian Ramachandra Guha.
Less than two years after the death of India's first Prime Minister Jawarhalal Nehru, leaders of his Congress party turned to his daughter, Indira Gandhi, to head the country, incorrectly judging her as a weak and pliant puppet.
After her assassination in 1984, the mourning nation looked to her son Rajiv to take her place. After his 1991 assassination, his widow Sonia eventually became the most powerful politician in the ruling party even as she groomed her son, Rahul, to eventually take over.
But Guha believes dynastic politics are waning in the country, with voters more focused on development and other issues.
"Rahul Gandhi has by no means shown anything like the popular appeal that his father or grandmother or great grandfather had," he said.
Then there's the Philippines, where President Benigno Aquino, son of former President Corazon Aquino, took over last year from Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, daughter of former President Diosdado Macapagal.
Unlike in many countries, where voters might feel a loyalty to a political party, in the Philippines, they identify with a family that has traditionally looked out for their welfare, said political analyst Ramon Casiple. The dynastic system is so entrenched it survived and thrived during centuries of Spanish and American rule and even the transition to democracy, he said.
When party leaders die in the Philippines, their children nearly always replace them. If the party chooses someone else, the spurned heir often forms a new party, leaving the old one to wither, Casiple said.
"The party is not that strong. It doesn't have an independent life. They depend on the good will of the family on top of it," he said.
The passing of power is a delicate maneuver in authoritarian regimes. While Fidel Castro managed the transition to his brother, Raul, in Cuba, dynastic politics were strongly rejected in the Arab world this year.
Hosni Mubarak's efforts to pass on the Egyptian presidency to his son Gamal were among the main causes behind the wave of street protests that toppled his 29-year authoritarian regime. Before he was overthrown and killed, longtime Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi appeared to be grooming his son Seif al-Islam Gadhafi to take over.
And Syrian President Bashar Assad, who inherited his office upon his father's death in 2000, has been fighting off a rebellion with a crackdown that has killed more than 5,000 people this year, according to U.N. figures.
Perhaps Pakistan might be Kim Jong Un's best bet for finding out how to cope with the surreal experience of being thrust, with little political background, into a leadership role in a mourning nation.
Just three days after the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto — herself the daughter of slain Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto — her 19-year-old son Bilawal Zardari was declared the new chairman of her party.
Looking deeply uncomfortable in front of more than a dozen microphones on national television, he answered a single question, saying he would continue his studies at Oxford and talking of political leadership as something that can be willed from generation to generation. "When I return, I promise to lead the party as my mother wanted me to," he said.
Within days, Bilawal Zardari began calling himself Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, and over the past four years has become increasingly known simply as Bilawal Bhutto.
But when his party won elections in 2008, there was no talk of handing authority over a nuclear nation rife with political intrigue and wracked by tensions with a powerful neighbor to someone whose only qualification was his bloodline.
Instead, his father was named president.
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Os módulos de memória VENGEANCE Pro Series™ DDR3L, da CORSAIR, são projetados para a recém-lançada sexta geração da plataforma Intel® Core™ (codenamed Skylake), com CIs especialmente selecionados para overclocking superior.
Os módulos de memória Vengeance Pro Series DDR3L, da Corsair, são projetados para a novas plataformas Intel® Core™ (codenamed Skylake) de sexta geração, com CIs especialmente selecionados para overclocking significativo com placas-mãe DDR3L da série Intel 100.
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Os módulos da Vengeance Pro Series DDR3L são montados com CIs especialmente selecionados para otimizar o potencial de overclocking.
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Built with the new Haswell platform in mind, the kit comes with a 12-14-14-36 setup with 1.65v requirement. 2933MHz DDR in itself is a task, but to offer that across a 16GB kit and four modules is a great accomplishment from Corsair. This is not only the RAM we'll be using in our launch coverage of the new Intel Z87 and Haswell platform, but will be used in future motherboard reviews carrying that chipset."
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If you like to follow the buying trends of institutional investors such as hedge fund managers and mutual fund managers, you may be interested in this list. We ran a screen on healthcare stocks paying dividends for those that have seen significant net institutional buying over the current quarter.
Interactive Chart: Press Play to compare changes in analyst ratings over the last two years for the stocks mentioned below. Analyst ratings sourced from Zacks Investment Research.
We also created a price-weighted index of the stocks mentioned below, and monitored the performance of the list relative to the S&P 500 index over the last month. To access a complete analysis of this list's recent performance, click here.
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1. Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT): Medtronic manufactures and sells device-based medical therapies worldwide. Market cap of $36.30B. Dividend yield at 2.84%, payout ratio at 31.75%. Net institutional shares purchased over the current quarter at 80.9M, which is 7.63% of the company's 1.06B share float. The stock has gained 6.34% over the last year.
2. The Ensign Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENSG): Provides nursing and rehabilitative care services in California, Arizona, Texas, Washington, Utah, Colorado and Idaho. Market cap of $454.22M. Dividend yield at 1.02%, payout ratio at 9.03%. Net institutional shares purchased over the current quarter at 873.1K, which is 5.36% of the company's 16.28M share float. The stock is a short squeeze candidate, with a short float at 6.97% (equivalent to six days of average volume). The stock has gained 22.18% over the last year.
3. Chemed Corp. (NYSE:CHE): Provides hospice care and repair and cleaning services in the United States. Market cap of $1.18B. Dividend yield at 1.16%, payout ratio at 14.76%. Net institutional shares purchased over the current quarter at 557.7K, which is 2.7% of the company's 20.66M share float. The stock is a short squeeze candidate, with a short float at 5.41% (equivalent to 7.33 days of average volume). The stock has gained 6.22% over the last year.
4. Lincare Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LNCR): Provides oxygen and other respiratory therapy services to the home healthcare market in the United States. Market cap of $1.90B. Dividend yield at 3.93%, payout ratio at 31.48%. Net institutional shares purchased over the current quarter at 2.3M, which is 2.57% of the company's 89.35M share float. Might be undervalued at current levels, with a PEG ratio at 0.69, and P/FCF ratio at 10.59. The stock has performed poorly over the last month, losing 12.43%.
5. Becton, Dickinson and Company (NYSE:BDX): Develops, manufactures and sells medical devices, instrument systems and reagents worldwide. Market cap of $17.07B. Dividend yield at 2.09%, payout ratio at 28.22%. Net institutional shares purchased over the current quarter at 4.8M, which is 2.22% of the company's 215.75M share float. The stock has gained 13.42% over the last year.
*Institutional data sourced from Fidelity, all other data sourced from Finviz.
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I still wonder what the point of BlogShares is. It looks interesting though, so I signed up for an account, nonetheless. I'm trying to claim my blog, too, and I should receive 1000 shares for claiming it. I looked at some of the richest BlogShares member there. The amounts look ridiculous. Take a look at the top five:
- Laila (B$953,060,218,869,094.00 total value / B$52,087,283,139,722.40 cash balance)
- mars/iris Securities (B$733,775,913,201,747.00 total value / B$8,892,079,668,602.45 cash balance)
- PnP (B$582,102,492,984,145.00 total value / B$116,831,035,031,531.00 cash balance)
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It is that time of year again: Christmastime. To paraphrase Dickens (though not from A Christmas Carol), it is the best of times, and also the worst of times. The time when holidays are exhausting, the people you spend it with tiring, and the inevitable return to work depressing. Just like every other time of year, in fact, only more so.
It is also the time of year when a small but vocal sub-section of the population lament the fact that no one seems to remember 'the reason for the season.'
You may know of whom I refer to: the cultural warriors.
They are the one's who want to put Christ back into Christmas, to rescue it from rampant consumerism. Or they want to take Christ out of Christmas because it has become much too commercialized.
The semantic argument neatly parallels the cultural criticism. If Christ is in Christmas, that is because the word itself contains a historical trace of things that once were, namely, the celebration of Christ's mass--or Crīstesmæsse in ye Olde English And if Christ has been lost to the celebration of Christmas, that is because people now find themselves animated by baser motivations, like the desire for new toys, new clothes, and, with a little less frequency, books. New game consoles, electronic devices, or perhaps just straight-up cash, to be spent however the recipient so desires, are also possibilities.
The rest of the population--tucked comfortably in their secular beds in the feigned hope that a rotund gentleman in a red suit, the memory of Eastern Orthodox saint, which was revived by a major soft drink producer in the first half of the 20th century, will shimmy down the chimney--wonder what all the huff and puff is about. Live and let live, they say. It's is all just stories, anyway. What really matter is that you enjoy the time you have, and with family, if you have them.
Welcome to Christmas in a time of culture war. The culture warriors wag their collective finger at the rest of the population, who happily mold the holiday to their secular ends. They pit the virtues of faith against the indifference of reason; the will to believe against the tepid bath that is common sense. The battle is fought almost exclusively, and certainly ineffectually, from one side, to the great annoyance of the other.
Christmas in a time of culture war is more accurately described as Christmas in a time of material plenty. The capitalist organization of the economy is real miracle here. (No really, it is.) The competitive organization of the marketplace has freed persons to improve their material lot through their own creative industry. This translates, in turn, to an increase in financial resources, which can be invested back into one's own business, or can be used to purchase things things like food, clothing, shelter, or, in line with our theme, Christmas presents.
Consumption, even conspicuous consumption during the holiday season (when, we are reminded, business either makes or breaks its yearly budget), is the engine driving the entire operation. Consumption drives a cycle of economic expansion, which rains blessing on the masses. But, if the culture warriors are to be believed, the cycle is one with vicious moral and spiritual consequences. Market economics and capitalist finance has endowed its beneficiaries with more personal freedoms than has hitherto been known anywhere on earth. We no longer have to wait on others to give us gifts, which we don't deserve anyway. Now, like the proverbial self-made man who pulls himself up by his own bootstraps, we can buy gifts for ourselves--the sort that we really do deserve.
The consequence of material plenty is the schizophrenia of culture war.
Think it over for a moment. The old Christmas stories are typically set in economically trying times. This is as true in the Gospel narratives as it is in Dicken's A Christmas Carol. The stories are about the needy and vulnerable, just trying to eek out an existence on the edge of civilized life. Or think of the Christmas Truce on Christmas Eve in 1914, when 100,000 British and German soldiers decided singing Christmas carols and playing football (i.e. soccer) with the enemy was better than depriving him or breathe and life. The context makes the act of giving especially poignant.
At Christmas in a time of material plenty calls to serve God instead of Mammon amount to the pot calling the kettle black. There are poor people surrounding us on all sides. But they are not the one's vocalizing their displeasure with consumerism. The ones who feels the pin-prick of conscience are the one who raises their voice.
But the Christmas story is more 'secular' and so more materialistic than the cultural warriors allow. The accounts of Jesus' birth Matthew 2 and Luke 2 contain no message condemning material goods nor calls to stand apart from the rest of consumerist culture. Quite the opposite. In Matthew 2, The Magi bring expensive gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the boy-child in Bethlehem. In Luke 2, this parents dutifully go to Bethlehem to register in the Roman census, but, as the story goes, find no room in the local inn, and are forced to settle for a manger in a stable. The image painted is rustic, not ascetic. It is not a matter of denying oneself the goods one can afford, but in being grateful for the gifts that one cannot.
And finally, there is the general question of what the Christmas story is supposed to amount to. The Gospel of John does not have an explicit account of the the birth of Jesus. But its prologue (John 1) does retell the creation narrative in Genesis 1 in the light of Jesus' coming. It describes how 'the Word became flesh' and 'made his dwelling with us.' The latter phrase could also be rendered as 'tabernacling' or 'tenting' with us. There is no escaping that the meaning of the phrase is thoroughly materialistic. God 'tents it' with humanity precisely by taking on humanity's ruder, material nature. In other words, God is the quintessential consumer who likes stuff just for the sake of liking stuff--the stuff we are made of, the stuff we have, and so on.
The lesson in all of this, I suppose, is that if the cultural warrior finds their material needs more than satisfied this Christmas, they should donate something to charity and/or shut up. Bemoaning the fact that other people either have forgotten about or don't know the 'reason for the season' is only to put one's own self-righteousness on display. And no one wants that. It is Christmastime, after all.


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CDC declares Zika advisory for Brownsville, TX
Published on Thursday, December 15, 2016
Just days after the last remaining area of Miami being monitored was declared Zika-free for local transmissions, the focus has now shifted to Texas.
The city of Brownsville is now under a travel advisory with pregnant women being advised not to travel there by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There have been five cases so far of Zika infection contracted locally within the city, which is located close to the Mexico border.
"We're recommending pregnant women not travel to Brownsville, and if they do travel to that area, to ensure that they avoid mosquito bites and they avoid the risk of sexual transmission, and that when they return from the area, that they undergo testing for Zika virus infection," said Dr. Denise Jamieson of the CDC.
The CDC says further cases are a possibility as the temperatures are still warm enough for mosquitos to breed.
Texas Department of State Health Services officials have called on all pregnant women in Brownsville and any who had visited since October 29 to be tested for Zika.
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Drs Blair, Secrett & CoombsTel: 0141 942 9494
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Online Patient Access for booking GP appointments and ordering repeat prescriptions through the surgery website: due to technical difficulties, it will not be possible to provide online appointment access from May, 2016 as previously indicated. Until further notice, no new registrations will be accepted for this service. Please note that this will not affect the online repeat prescription service due to start in May 2016.
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Our practice nurses offer well-woman, asthma, diabetes, hypertension, heart and stroke clinics as well as general health checks. They can also offer advice and support on weight management, diet and other health related issues, including smoking cessation and travel/immunisation advice.
Mrs Margaret Kilgour takes blood samples requested by the patients GP. Mrs Kilgour also checks blood pressure when appropriate.
Michelle Cowan
The Practice Manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The Practice Manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.
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Receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries, dealing with financial claims, dealing with patient records and carrying out searches and practice audits.
The Glasgow antenatal service has been reorganised and midwives no longer see patients at GP practices. Bearsden/Milngavie pregnant women are seen at Milngavie Clinic. The phone number is 0141 232 9456.
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Brenda provides health information and support mainly to families with babies and young children. This includes post-natal visits, infant feeding, child growth and developmental screening clinics, immunisation, parenting and behaviour management. Brenda also sees women with post-natal problems. Her contact number is 0141 232 4814. Drop-in baby clinics at Bearsden Burgh Hall on Wednesdays 10:00 - 11:45.
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I've recently bought a new computer and obtained a real version of XP to go with it, unfortunately we have lost the activation code , it was printed on the label apparently but we cant find it anywhere. I've mananged to get another copy with the code but I dont know how to get rid of the original one? I just want it to go away so I can put the new XP on.. and I tried going to "add / remove programs" like the troubleshooter told me too and XP wasn't listed... All i need to know is how get rid of one copy and put another on... If anyone can help me, please let me know.
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H2 Equity Partners has acquired a majority stake in Multi Pilot Simulations (MPS) from private shareholders and Mainport Innovation Fund.
MPS, founded in 2007, is a groundbreaking manufacturer of fixed-base flight simulators for airline pilot training and bridges the gap between the low-fidelity, traditional fixed-base simulators and the high-fidelity, full-motion simulators that are currently being offered in the market. The company integrates more than 150,000 components into flight simulators in its facility near Utrecht, the Netherlands. MPS' team of avionic experts designs, produces, install sand maintains flight simulators based on the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 for flight schools such as EPST and airlines such as Ryanair worldwide.
Dick Verburg, President and CEO at MPS, said: "We are very excited to have such a professional party as H2 Equity Partners as our new investor. We thank Mainport Innovation Fund for their trust and support in MPS over the last five years. I look forward to working with H2 Equity Partners and my management team to further grow our simulator business and to continue to contribute to flight training quality and aviation safety."
H2 Equity Partners is an independent private equity firm founded in 1991, active in the Benelux, Germany and the United Kingdom. The firm has built an exceptional record of acquiring and growing fundamentally attractive businesses that have a combination of operational, financial or strategic improvement opportunities at the time of investment.
Harmen Geerts, Partner at H2 Equity Partners, said: "H2 Equity Partners has been very impressed with the highly innovative products and services of MPS and with its management team. We believe there is an increasing need for professional fixed-base simulators to enable the best possible training for the growing number of pilots of jet aircrafts globally. We look forward to supporting MPS in its next phase of growth."
Oaklins' team in the Netherlands together with Oaklins' aerospace and defense team in the USA acted as the exclusive M&A advisor to the shareholders of MPS.
Dick Verburg added: "Oaklins assisted us perfectly throughout the process, leveraging on their international network and in-depth sector expertise."
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The Fusion Workshop Series
The Fusion Workshop Series is a special performance opportunity for students enrolled in the Fusion Training Program at Marshall Ellis Dance School. These performances will take place three times a year at the ME Theatre. These performances are different from traditional Yearly Recitals.
Each Workshop Series will be unique. Students will have the chance to sign up for 1 or all 3 Workshop Series. The program is designed to challenge the student artistically and teach them to learn choreography quickly. This ability to adapted to a changing environment is important to a young dancer.
The requirements for the Fusion Workshop Series is that the student must be enrolled in Levels 1 – 5 in the Fusion Training Program. Tuition $25/week will cover all additional fees for the Workshop Series including costumes and performance fees.
Each Workshop Series will be a 6 or 8 weeks session. For more information please email email@example.com
iDance Orlando Workshop Series!
- The Workshop Series is open to all Fusion Program/ Team ME Students.
- The iDance Orlando Festival Workshop Series will be a 8 week program with performances on April 29 and April 30.
- All Performances will take place at ME Theatre
- Tuition for this program is $25/week or $200 for the full 8 weeks.
- Rehearsals will begin March 11, 2017. Saturday 4:00pm – 5:30pm for 8 weeks until Showtime!
Sign up now! Please visit the front desk at Marshall Ellis Dance School.
Other Fusion Programs:
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text: In a summary of election results for the Northeast on Page 3 of Thursday's Monitor, the party affiliations of two New York congressional candidates were incorrect. The two candidates are US Rep. Bill Green (R) and Manhattan borough president Andrew Stein (D). The story also should have said that the state Senate retained its Republican majority, and the Assembly kept its Democratic majority.


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OCA Chancery affected by Hurricane Irene
The Chancery of the Orthodox Church in America is temporarily closed as a result of the aftermath of Hurricane Irene.
Power has yet to be restored, phone lines are down, and many downed trees in the area have made travel virtually impossible. One of the downed trees is blocking entrance to the Chancery drive.
Reports indicate that an estimated 1.5 million Long Island residents are still without power and phone services.


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Fold out the rapid shooters and take down the Ghost Dragon!
Ride Cole's Blaster Bike into battle and protect the Aeroblade! The Ghost Warrior Cowler is armed with a deadly Ghost Blade Sword and is launching an aerial attack on a Ghost Dragon. Fold out the awesome dual six-shooting rapid shooters to take down the flying beast. Speed away from the pair of Skreemers trying to turn Cole into a ghost and don't let them get their hands on the Aeroblade! Includes 2 minifigures with assorted weapon elements and an accessory element: Cole and Ghost Warrior Cowler.
- Includes 2 minifigures with assorted weapon elements and an accessory element: Cole and Ghost Warrior Cowler
- Cole's Blaster Bike features 2 foldout rapid shooters, big wheels, 2 golden exhausts and a flag with Ninja details
- Also includes 2 Skreemers (attachable to minifigures) with a sausage element
- Ghost Warrior Cowler minifigure features transparent ghost legs
- Weapon elements include Cole's Deepstone Scythe, Cowler's Ghost Blade Sword, and the Aeroblade
- Cole's Deepstone armor element also included
- Ghost Warrior Cowler minifigure features transparent ghost legs
- Swerve away from the Ghost Dragon's swooping attacks
- Fold out and fire the six-shooting rapid shooters!
- Escape from the Skreemers with the Aeroblade
- Recreate your favorite scenes from the NINJAGO™: Masters of Spinjitzu TV show
- Cole's Bike measures over 3" (9cm) high, 7" (20cm) long and 3" (8cm) wide
- Ghost Dragon measuresover 4" (12cm) long, 4" (12cm) wide and under 1" (2cm) high
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To Rent Price upon request - Villa in Tenerife
Luxury villa with a gorgeous panoramic ocean views, in the apartment there is all necessary for rest. Cozy luxury villa on two levels in the popular complex Parque Santiago 3.
Parque Santiago 3 is one of the most prestigious complexes in Tenerife. Large ocean view balcony with all day sun and superb panoramic views of the pool and surrounding gardens of palm trees and tropical flowers.
The complex is located on the Golden mile, the most popular and favorite tourist destination in south Tenerife.
Parque Santiago 3
Parque Santiago 3 boasts the largest pool in Southern Tenerife, part heated during winter. Children's Water Park/play area. Gymnasium. Plenty of free sunbeds and parasols amongst the gardens surrounding the pool.
Parque Santiago 3 is highly impressive complex located in an unrivalled position close to the centre of Las Americas. The seafront promenade allows easy access to all areas and the nearby fishing port of Los Cristianos. Many restaurants, bars and shops. Launderette. 24 hr security ensuring tranquility within this beautiful complex. Close by you will find a sheltered sandy beach with sunbeds and water sports. Also an open natural preserved beach where you can watch the surfers and breaking waves. Within a short stroll you will find supermarkets, banks and restaurants of all kinds.


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Dominion Senior Living Bristol
425 Shelby Lane , Bristol, TN 37620
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Set amidst rural countryside on the edge of Bristol, Tennessee, Dominion Senior Living of Bristol offers both compassionate assisted living and care for those with Alzheimer's or dementia. Our brand new community is easily accessible from Volunteer Parkway/US Highway 19 and lies nearby numerous dining establishments and shopping centers.
Dominion Senior Living manages and memory care communities throughout the Southeast. Our faith-based mission compels us to respect and honor our fathers and mothers and our goal is to create an environment to achieve this aim through outstanding physical, emotional and spiritual care.
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Designed from the ground up with seniors in mind, Dominion Senior Living of Bristol has wide hallways so those with mobility difficulties can easily get between apartments and common areas. We offer a variety of studio and one-bedroom floor plans, each brightly-lit and smartly-designed to accommodate residents and their treasured belongings.
Delicious meals are served in our dining room featuring home-style cooking graciously prepared and served by our culinary staff. Common areas include spacious communal rooms where residents congregate, socialize and partake in our diverse selection of activities. Recreational, social events, outings and wellness programs are thoughtfully planned and organized so that there's never a dull moment.
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Our staff lives out our mission of service to seniors on a daily basis by handling the necessities of housekeeping, laundry and linen. Dedicated care professionals are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to respond and attend to resident needs.
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Check out other exciting apps from 78 x 36 Productions™ coming soon......
Imperial Millennium: MEDINA™ from 78x36 Productions.
Will light protect the kingdom,
Will forces of darkness arise?
What people are saying...
"One of the most anticipated casual gaming storylines!!
"Addictive has a new name!"
"Recommended to all"
Embark on an all new adventure through an exotic land dating back to the 8th century.
Awaiting you, as a loyal royal subject of monarch ruled imperial Medina, is a heroic opportunity, to bestow many riches including monetary goods, deeper intellect and spiritual awareness. Your ultimate goal is to prevail and insure the Kingdom will be able to survive for another 300 years.
Choose your character and level of difficulty to challenge your best inner Sheikh (or attain the knowledge to become one). Find and collect symbolic quest objects, while escaping the moguls path. Make your way through Medina's labyrinth maze, listen for your cue, unlock more imperial cities and sequentially present HRH The King with the found quest treasures. Your destiny will be presented upon you, ultimately revealing truths that have eluded generations.
To Play:
Swipe and play video game for iOS. An all new RPG set in an exotic locale. The object of each of the game's levels is to maneuver the royal subject, distinctively known as a Murid, through one side of the city unlocking the exit gate and collecting imperial objects along the way. The player must move character, a Sheikh apprentice, through the meandering labyrinth city medina maze which can be controlled by the swipe of a finger. Other player movements are the manipulation of the double tap to jump over fixed objects, all the while evading the evil black Moguls. Other objectives include collecting the quest objects, four distinct objects, needed to be personally presented to the king.
Character description: Choose your character, a young Murid, an older wiser soul, or a female apprentice. Find your favorite. Be your favorite. All will have the nomination to be honored in regal realm. Challenging levels are: easy, medium, hard; and with each, a new journey begins.
Find the four quest objects, deliver them safely to HRH The King, all while eluding the black Moguls and destiny will show itself.
Key game features:
4 challenging and distinct layouts (co-coordinated sub-layouts Coming Soon!!!)
9 game play variations with 3 character choices and 3 levels of difficulty
Numerous transcending quest objects at your finger tips
Challenge others through GameCenter
Lives sequencing
Collect all of the objects and gold pieces to become an Imperial Millennium:MEDINA Master Gamer
Point accumulation Leader Board
Brag to your friends or challenge unknown others through supported Social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter. Post accomplishments.
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Hand Sewing with Felt: Forest Animals
Diane Hurst, Artist and Home Educator at All the Time Learning
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About This Class
Create a variety of felt forest animals, from the instructions and patterns available through this class!
Animals include a bear, fox, deer, fawn, skunk, cougar, wolf, and owl. You can choose one to make, or make them all :)
Hand-sewing techniques will be taught -- no sewing machine is needed! These animals are a fun project to work on in spare moments-- while waiting for appointments, riding in the car, watching TV, etc. By spending just 5 - 10 minutes at a time, over several sessions each animal will be easily completed, and these unique felt toys make great gifts for children-- either individually or as a set.
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Diane Hurst is a visual artist and fabric artist, and a long time homeschool mom. She started creating felt designs and patterns when her children were young, and several years ago began an Etsy shop to offer both felt toys and patterns, and self-designed creative homeschool curriculum.
Diane is currently studying for an art degree, and loves doing anything creative! She is a songwriter, also, writing folk genre songs; many of these are children's music.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Now that the Federal Reserve has decided not to slow its bond purchases, a debate over whether its purchases have helped the economy will rage on.
The Fed announced on Sept. 13, 2012, that it would start buying $85 billion a month in Treasury and mortgage bonds. The idea was to lower longer-term borrowing rates. Lower loan rates, Fed officials hoped, would encourage more borrowing and spending and accelerate economic growth.
Is it working?
It depends where you look and how you interpret the economy's shifts. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested Wednesday that the bond purchases have helped offset the impact of higher taxes and government spending cuts that took effect this year.
Here are some key measures of the economy's health and how they've changed in the past year:
The unemployment rate has declined from 7.8 percent in September 2012 to 7.3 percent now. But even that modest drop hasn't always been for the right reasons. Unemployment has declined partly because more Americans have retired, remained in school or given up looking for work — not because many employers have started hiring aggressively. The government counts people as unemployed only if they're looking for a job. Chairman Ben Bernanke acknowledged all this in July when he said the unemployment rate, "if anything, overstates the health" of the job market. On Wednesday, Bernanke attributed most of the drop in the rate in the past year to greater hiring.
Hiring has picked up since last September — just not by very much. In the six months that ended in September 2012, employers added an average of 130,000 jobs a month. That average jumped to 208,000 in the six months that followed the Fed's announcement. But over the longer term, the improvement is more modest: Employers added an average of 178,000 jobs in the 12 months before the Fed's bond buying began. That inched up to just 188,000 in the 11 months that ended in August, the latest period for which figures are available.
Lowering mortgage and other interest rates was the central goal of the Fed when it launched its bond purchases. In November, the average on a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 3.31 percent — its lowest point on records dating to 1971, according to Freddie Mac. That was down from a much higher 4.12 percent in the week before the Fed's announcement. Rates remained low until Bernanke signaled in late May that the Fed could end its purchases this year. Since then, long-term mortgage rates have risen sharply. The 30-year mortgage rate averaged 4.57 percent last week.
Lower borrowing rates encouraged more Americans to buy homes. Sales of previously owned homes jumped to an annual rate of 5.39 million in July from 4.78 million last September. That's a 13 percent jump in 10 months. In a similar period before the bond purchases began, home sales rose nearly 9 percent. Mortgage rates were already historically low before the bond-buying program began. In part, that's because the Fed has held a short-term rate it controls at a record low near zero since December 2008.
Lower rates have boosted home sales and construction, but the housing recovery was largely under way by the time the bond purchases began. That's one reason economic growth hasn't accelerated. The economy expanded at a 2.5 percent annual rate from April to June. That was actually slightly below the 2.8 percent growth reached in the July-September quarter of 2012, when the bond purchases began.
Many of the Fed's critics have worried that its ultra-low-rate policies would ignite inflation. The Fed, after all, buys Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities by creating new money. That new money gets pumped into the financial system when the Fed buys the bonds from banks. More money chasing fewer goods can push prices up. Yet so far, there's no such sign: Consumer prices rose just 1.5 percent in the 12 months that ended in August. When the Fed launched its purchases, the annual inflation rate was a bit higher: 2 percent.
Stock prices have risen, as the Fed hoped. The idea was to draw investors out of extremely low-yielding bonds and into stocks. The Dow Jones industrial average closed at just over 13,333 the day before the Fed's announcement. On Tuesday, it closed at nearly 15,530 — 16 percent higher.
Many factors affect the returns that investors earn on Treasurys. This makes it hard to gauge the Fed's impact. The return, or yield, on the 10-year Treasury note was 1.76 percent the day before the program was announced, though it had already fallen in anticipation of the Fed's move. It fell to 1.57 percent in mid-November, the lowest since August. Bernanke's comments May 22 sent the yield back above 2 percent, and it closed at 2.87 percent Monday. Other developments, such as Europe's financial crisis, have also occasionally pushed rates down.


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Rep. Young Encouraged By Army Corps Review of ConocoPhillips' Permit Denial
Washington, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Young released the following statement today following news that the United States Army Corps of Engineers has accepted the request to review ConcocoPhillips' appeal after their application for a CD-5 Alpine Satellite Development permit was denied. Rep. Young made his voice heard in favor of this appeal back in April, when notified that the Army Corps had rejected the request for a permit.
"I am encouraged that Brigadier General Yenter agrees that this decision is worth reviewing," said Rep. Young. "To say I was angry when the permit was rejected would be an understatement. When the application was denied, it was done with the explanation that a buried pipeline, impossible to inspect, would be a safer alternative to roads. This could not be further from the truth, and am encouraged that it is getting a second, more detailed look. These types of projects are important to the safe development of our natural resources and should not be bogged down in politics."
To view Rep. Young's letter to Brigadier General Yenter, click here.
To view Brigadier General Yenter's response, click here.
To view the notice of appeal acceptance, click here.


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SOURCE: Helix BioPharma Corp
June 25, 2012 19:09 ET
AURORA, ON--(Marketwire - Jun 25, 2012) - Helix BioPharma Corp. (TSX: HBP) (NYSE MKT: HBP) (FRANKFURT: HBP), a biopharmaceutical company developing drug candidates for the prevention and treatment of cancer, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the selection of Robert Verhagen as Chief Executive Officer. Mr Verhagen is currently a Director for Helix, he is a graduate of the University of Alberta with a Bsc and MBA and has extensive experience in the bio-tech industry. "I am pleased with the selection of Rob from our CEO search. Rob has already contributed significantly to Helix as a Director," said William White, Chairman and Interim CEO of Helix. "I look forward to his leadership of the company taking us forward."
"I have worked with Rob now as a Director and I have been impressed with his knowledge and experience in the industry and his work on the Board to focus Helix on our critical programs," said Marek Orlowski, Director, "I look forward to his leadership of the company to deliver results."
Mr. Verhagen is pleased with the opportunity to make Helix all it can be and said, "As a Board Member, I have seen the great potential of Helix and its programs. As CEO, I look forward to taking the responsibility in converting this potential into real value for all shareholders."
Helix also announced that the Board of Directors has approved the voluntarily delisting of Helix's common shares from the NYSE MKT and the voluntarily deregistration of its common shares under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), after which the company will cease filing reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC").
Helix's common shares will continue to trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") under the ticker symbol HBP and the company will continue to file the necessary reports with Canadian Securities Administrators at www.sedar.com, in addition to publishing financial and other material information on the company's website at www.helixbiopharma.com.
"After reviewing the relevant factors associated with the company's continued listing on the NYSE MKT, it was determined that Helix and its shareholders would be better served by its original TSX listing," said William White, Chairman.
The factors reviewed by the Board of Directors' primarily include:
Helix has provided written notice to NYSE MKT today of its intent to delist and plans to file a Form 25 with the SEC on or about July 9, 2012 to initiate the voluntary delisting. The company expects that the delisting will be effective ten days after such filing, which is expected to be on or about July 19, 2012. The company intends to also file a Form 15F with the SEC to deregister and terminate its reporting obligations under the Exchange Act after the delisting has become effective. The company's reporting obligations under the Exchange Act will be suspended immediately upon filing Form 15F and will terminate 90 days thereafter if there are no objections from the SEC.
Helix reported that its Board of Directors met in Poland last week after meeting with investors and touring academic and research institutions to learn of opportunities for future collaboration. "It was very productive for the board to meet in Warsaw to see first-hand the commitment of investors and the resources in Poland that could assist Helix," said Mr. White.
Helix also reported that its Board of Directors received and reviewed the formal due diligence report from FK Partner which provided a baseline report on the financial position and operations of Helix for the benefit of the reconstituted Board. Mr. White said, "Management provided full cooperation and assistance to FK Partner and both management and the Board found the FK Partner report helpful." The FK Partner summary report and managements actions in response to the report have been posted on SEDAR.
About Helix BioPharma Corp.
Helix BioPharma Corp. is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the field of cancer therapy. The company is actively developing innovative products for the prevention and treatment of cancer based on its proprietary technologies. Helix's product development initiatives include its novel L-DOS47 new drug candidate and its Topical Interferon Alpha- 2b. Helix is currently listed on the TSX, NYSE MKT and FSE under the symbol "HBP".
Forward-Looking Statements and Risks and Uncertainties
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements and information (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian and U.S. securities laws, including, without limitation, forward-looking statements regarding Helix's intention to voluntarily delist from the NYSE MKT and to voluntarily deregister its common shares under applicable U.S. securities laws and the timing of such delisting and deregistration. Forward-looking statements, which may be identified by words including, without limitation, "intends," "will," "expects" and other similar expressions, are intended to provide information about management's current plans and expectations regarding future operations.
Although Helix believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated and no assurance can be given that these expectations will be realized, and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Risk factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements include, without limitation: (i) the risk that the voluntary delisting and deregistration may not occur on the timeline anticipated by Helix, or that the NYSE MKT or the SEC may raise objections and those risk factors identified in the Helix's Annual Report on Form 20-F, including under the headings "Forward-Looking Statements" and "3.D Risk Factors," filed with the SEC at www.sec.gov and with the Canadian Securities Administrators at www.sedar.com (together, the "Helix Risk Factors"). Certain material factors or assumptions are applied in making the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, that the Helix Risk Factors will not cause Helix's actual results or events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements.
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The University of Cambridge Machine Learning Group and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Empirical Inference Department in Tübingen are two of the world's leading centres for machine learning research. In 2014, we launched a new and exciting initiative whereby a small group of select PhD candidates are jointly supervised at both institutions. The principal supervisors are Zoubin Ghahramani at Cambridge and Bernhard Schoelkopf at the Max Planck Institute, with potential for co-supervision by other members of the research groups (e.g. Carl Rasmussen, Richard Turner and Miguel Hernandez-Lobato at Cambridge, as well as several group leaders in Tübingen).
This is a unique programme, and admission in the last years was highly competitive. We encourage applications from outstanding candidates with academic backgrounds in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering and related fields, and a keen interest in doing basic research in machine learning and its scientific applications. There are no additional restrictions on the topic of the PhD but for further information on our current research areas please consult our webpages at http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk and http://ei.is.tuebingen.mpg.de.
The overall duration of the PhD will be four years, with roughly three years spent at one location, and one year spent at the other location, including initial coursework at the University of Cambridge. Successful PhDs will be officially granted by the University of Cambridge.
We plan to offer funding for up to two PhD Fellowships covering university tuition fees and a stipend for living expenses. We acknowledge generous financial support from Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon.
Applications and administrative questions should be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Applications to the Cambridge – Tübingen PhD Fellowships should be made by first applying to the Cambridge PhD programme in Advanced Machine Learning. Once you have completed the application to the Cambridge PhD Programme, and before actually submitting it, you should download the application and send a copy to firstname.lastname@example.com. It is important to download the application before its submission to the GRADSAF system at the University of Cambridge because the application is no longer available once it is submitted. Please use the subject line "Cambridge-Tuebingen PhD fellowship" in your email.Furthermore, applications for Tübingen should include a CV, a short mission statement and scanned transcripts. Please arrange for 2-3 reference letters to be sent directly to email@example.com.
Any questions regarding academic suitability should go to Miguel Hernandez-Lobato. Please use the subject line "Cambridge-Tuebingen PhD fellowship".
Applicants must formally apply through the University of Cambridge webpage), indicating the Department of Engineering as the host department (course: "PhD in Engineering (probationary)", supervisors: Zoubin Ghahramani, Carl Rasmussen, Richard Turner, Miguel Hernandez-Lobato).
Applicants should also make sure that they apply for "Cambridge Trusts", "Gates Cambridge", and "Other Research Councils" funding by ticking the relevant boxes in the application form
(see http://www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk/application-funding-deadlines for details).
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I am privileged to be a member of a team,
to play my part in defending and attacking,
together aiming to achieve our common goal
of overcoming our opponents.
Knowing my own responsibility
and relying on my colleagues
enriches my self-esteem
and sense of solidarity.
Participation in playing provides possibilities
of giving and receiving
and this openness
overflows in other areas of life.
Called to pass the ball to others
often better placed to score
challenges me to cede control
and contribute to the common good.
Grant me grace to be generous,
to not be a glory seeker.
Edited from Playing & Praying by Fr Kevin O'Gorman SMA, published by St Pauls Publishing, Ireland, Moyglare Road, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland, Tel: +353 1 628 5933. Available from St. Paul's Bookshop, Athlone, or from the following link: Playing and Praying


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I use Novell Groupwise at work and up until a couple days ago used this Cool Solution to sync my Groupwise calendar to my Google Calendar. The gist of it is that Groupwise automatically forwards every new appointment to my gmail, which automatically adds the appointment to my calendar. This worked fine and kept me happy except for one glaring problem. Appointments don't automatically delete.
Over time this has gotten to be a bigger and bigger problem as I have more and more old recurring appointments that have been deleted from Groupwise, but are still happily recurring in Google Calendar.
Groupwise 8 has a new feature by which you can publish the calendar as an ICS feed. You can subscribe to it as a separate calendar in Google Calendar and it will all show up nice and cleanly along with your other calendars. It's a much better solution that forwarding rules, and it will keep in sync so I don't have delete problems.
So I turned off my forwarding rule for calendar events, published my Groupwise calendar and subscribed to it in Google Calendar. But I still have the problem of a bunch of old recurring Groupwise events in my main Google Calendar. Since I followed the Cool Solution exactly, each of my Groupwise events has "GWDelegate" in the description in Google Calendar. So when I do a search in the calendar for GWDelegate all of the Groupwise events show up in the results. This is nice and simple. Now I just have to delete them.
One by one. Because I can't delete multiple items in Google Calendar. Ugh.
Okay, new plan. I export the calendar to an ICS file. I run the following awk script on the ICS file, creating a new file that has all of the GWDelegate events removed:
#!/usr/bin/env ksh awk ' # At the beginning of an event we start caching the lines until we figure out # if we are going to keep it or drop it /BEGIN:VEVENT/ { cache = 1; drop = 0; } # If we match the drop criteria (a line includes the work GWDelegate) # we flag the record as to drop, we clear the cache and we stop caching /GWDelegate/ { drop = 1; cached_lines = ""; cache = 0; } # If we find the end of an event we print out the cache, clear the cache, and stop caching # print the current line if not dropping # stop dropping and go on to the next line /END:VEVENT/ { printf( "%s", cached_lines ); cached_lines = ""; cache = 0; if ( !drop ) print; drop = 0; next; } # If we are caching we add the current line to the cache and go on to the next line cache { cached_lines = cached_lines $0 "\n"; next; }; # If we are not caching and we are not dropping the current event we print the current line !drop { print; } '
This awk script is a modification of one I found in this forum thread, so thanks to agama for the original solution.
Now that I have a full export of my Google Calendar with the events removed that I no longer want I can delete all events from the calendar and import the modified ICS file, restoring the ones I still want. Not quite as nice as being able to delete all search results, but it does work. This solution should be easy to modify to search for events with any attribute, not just GWDelegate somewhere in the event.


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2016 Grants - Ferrer
Sativex in MCI Patients at High Risk of Developing Alzheimer's Disease
Isidro Ferrer, M.D., Ph.D.
Center for Networked Biomedical Research on Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED)
Barcelona, Spain
2016 Part the Cloud Challenge for Immunity and Neuroinflammation Grant
This Phase II clinical trial will examine if Sativex reduces brain inflammation and helps slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease in people with mild cognitive impairment
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a clinical condition in which brain function has declined, but not enough to impair activities of daily living. Certain types of MCI are associated with an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in the future. Scientists are studying several ways to prevent the development of Alzheimer's disease in individuals with MCI who may have elevated risk. Reducing inflammation in the brain may be one potential way to help slow or prevent Alzheimer's progression.
Sativex® (nabiximols) is a cannabis-based liquid medication that is administered by spraying inside the mouth. It contains active ingredients called cannabinoids that are derived from the Cannabis sativa plant. These drugs interact with an extensive and complex nerve pathway in the brain known as the endocannabinoid system. Cannabinoids are believed to have anti-inflammatory and protective effects in the brain.
In animals with an Alzheimer's-like condition, Sativex reduced brain inflammation and improved cognitive function when given early in the disease process. In addition, Sativex has been approved in several European countries for treating certain symptoms of multiple sclerosis. Because information on the safety of Sativex in humans is already available, it may be possible to more quickly advance this medication to clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease.
Research Plan
Isidro Ferrer, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues have proposed a clinical trial of Sativex in people who have MCI and brain changes associated with a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. The researchers plan to enroll 120 participants: 40 will receive three oral sprays of Sativex per day, 40 will receive 1 spray per day, and 40 will receive a placebo spray every day. All participants will be treated and monitored for 1 year. During that time, they will have their brain function tested and brain imaging performed. In addition, the researchers will obtain samples of blood and cerebrospinal fluid, which will be tested for markers of brain inflammation and Alzheimer's disease progression.
This Phase II proof of concept clinical trial will help determine if long-term use of Sativex can reduce brain inflammation in people with MCI, and potentially slow or prevent the development of Alzheimer's disease. The results of this work could lead to future large-scale trials of Sativex for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
Made possible through the generous funding from Part the Cloud, benefiting the Alzheimer's Association.
For more information on Part the Cloud, visit alz.org/partthecloud.


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Percentage of patients 13 years of age and older with a new episode of alcohol and other drug (AOD) dependence who received the following. Two rates are reported.
|Initial Patient Population:
Patients age 13 years of age and older who were diagnosed with a new episode of alcohol or drug dependency during a visit in the first 11 months of the measurement period
|Denominator Statement:
Equals Initial Population
|Denominator Exclusions:
Patients with a previous active diagnosis of alcohol or drug dependence in the 60 days prior to the first episode of alcohol or drug dependence
|Numerator Statement:
Numerator 1: Patients who initiated treatment within 14 days of the diagnosis
Numerator 2: Patients who initiated treatment and who had two or more additional services with an AOD diagnosis within 30 days of the initiation visit
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Not Applicable
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The new episode of alcohol and other drug dependence should be the first episode of the measurement period that is not preceded in the 60 days prior by another episode of alcohol or other drug dependence.
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- Introduced function 'satisfies all' to specify that qualifying events must meet all conditions from a set of conditions or 'satisfies any' to specify that qualifying events must meet at least one condition from a set of conditions to streamline expression logic.
- Introduced occurrencing on variables to enforce that the same instance of a clinical event is used throughout the measure when the logic within the variable does not limit the event to a single instance, e.g., FIRST or MOST RECENT.
- Introduced variables $FirstAlcoholDrugDependenceDx and $DrugDependenceTreatmentOrPsychVisit to allow re-use of logical expressions and reduce redundancy/complexity.
- Replaced 'ORs' with 'Union of' operator to provide a mechanism for specifying that qualifying event(s) must be a member of at least one of the data elements being unioned (if appropriate for measure intent).
- Replaced 'Patient Characteristic Birthdate' with 'Age at' operator.
- The top level logical operator for the Numerator Exclusions, Denominator Exclusions, Denominator Exceptions, and Measure Population Exclusions defaults to 'OR'.
Value Sets
- Value set Alcohol and Drug Dependence (OID 2.16.840.1.113883.3.464.1003.106.12.1001): Added 7 SNOMED codes (110281001, 125851000119106, 153491000119103, 19303008, 6525002, 91388009, 95918004) and deleted 29 SNOMED codes.
- This measure contains multiple Population Criteria sections. The earlier version of this measure contained mismatches between the applicable Population Criteria human readable narrative sections and their associated computer-readable sections in the XML file. This issue has been corrected.


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The former Disney Dimes (I just made that up) have been coming out with music recently!
On the heels of Miley Cyrus releasing "Malibu," Selena Gomez releases her new sultry summer beats with the song "Bad Liar." It's croony, with smooth hot bass lines, and it's something we could expect to see in a steamy scene on Grey's Anatomy.
Check out the new track:
Now we just need Demi Lovato to drop a new track and we could have the trifecta!
Amy Cooper is the type of journalist that when asked "What do you bring to the table," she replies "I am the table.


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The rising share of commercial real property ownership in public markets has markedly changed the people and institutions considering commercial real estate investment. These new investors differ from traditional suppliers of capital, particularly in that the new investors have much shorter time-horizons concerning property ownership than did traditional developers and equity investors. This has potentially important consequences for commercial property markets.
The new actual and potential investors in commercial real estate include many individuals and institutions who formerly avoided this type of investment. They had little real estate expertise and no convenient vehicles for investing in it. These investors include individuals, mutual funds, small pension funds, small insurance companies and larger insurance companies that seek more diversified and liquid approaches to owning real estate.
Now, REITs and CMBS provide them with such vehicles, and many stock analysts have sprung up to supply information about this exotic field. This new group of investors normally considers a much broader set of alternative investments than did the traditional commercial property investors. Therefore, commercial real estate must compete with many more alternatives.
When real estate was financed mainly by institutions specializing in that function and not directly linked to Wall Street, no matter what stock market-oriented investors thought about the desirability of owning commercial property, financing was still available from institutions like banks, insurance companies, savings and loans, and mortgage bankers. Pension funds also became involved, but they focused more on stock and bond markets.
But the advent of REIT ownership of commercial property - and REIT dominance of capital flows into private property markets - brought commercial real estate's desirability as an investment into competition with the desirability of all other securities in the minds of the investment officers weighing whether to buy REIT shares.
Moreover, the change in ownership of properties formerly held by private developers and now held by public REITs altered the outlook and incentives typical of real property investors. Developers who borrowed heavily to build properties used tax-sheltered cash flows to build equity over the long run by paying off debts. Their cash flows were sheltered by high interest and depreciation deductions. This resulted in low reportable earnings but rapid equity build-ups - especially during inflationary periods. Another trait of their holdings was irregularity of net earnings because of long initial construction and rent-up periods, plus intermittent heavy capital expenditures for modernization and rehabilitation. A key factor in this strategy is a long-term ownership perspective with little emphasis on reportable earnings.
Many investors in public REIT shares - especially institutional investors rated by quarterly performance - have much shorter time horizons. Also, they want steady increases in reportable earnings. In addition, REIT investors constantly survey myriad alternative stock and bond investments, for which they can use money from the same allocation pool as REIT shares. Therefore, the relative attraction of REIT shares compared with other types of stocks has become much more important in determining the valuation of real properties.
This is the converse of the advantage that REITs have of exposing real estate to large pools of investable capital that formerly ignored commercial properties. The expansion of the capital pool allocable to real property is supposed to reduce capital's cost, and it did so under favorable stock-market conditions. But REIT shares must compete in this expanded capital pool with far more types of investments.
Many investors in stocks also have much shorter time horizons than those in real properties. This is particularly true of mutual and pension fund managers, who are judged on quarterly performance. This sets the stage for greater volatility of REIT share prices than direct property prices. Thus, REIT shares' liquidity encourages short-term thinking in contrast to direct ownership's illiquidity. Traditional developers adopted long-term horizons because they could not exit quickly from equity positions.
This change in time perspectives means that many of today's owners of real estate are not willing to hold REIT shares over long periods in hope of large eventual value increases. They are more likely to bail out because of some short-term adverse factor influencing their REITs' properties. This causes much more volatility in REIT share prices than if shareholders had a true long-term perspective. Moreover, the pressure on REITs to produce steady quarterly increases in funds from operations (FFO) is not consistent with the irregular revenue and cost flows inherent in commercial properties. In periods of adverse market conditions, this pressure will eventually tempt some REIT operators to skimp on needed capital improvements in order to maintain rising FFO.
Thus, the shortening of investor time horizons caused by increased securitization of real properties is not really beneficial to the stable and efficient long-run operation of real property markets. Yet it is undoubtedly here to stay, so those conditions will stay with it.


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