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"In C-level focus groups, chief physicians and hospital administrators told us they had made efforts to reduce other costs across the board," said Leighton Schroder, Lanier's director of solutions and market development. "But document management was one of the least-looked-at areas for cutting costs. It was the last frontier."
This presented a tremendous opportunity for Lanier to reshape its marketing communications plan. "Now our messages drive home a huge cost savings for hospitals and physician offices," Schroder said, "and the fact that at the same time we can greatly improve the quality of the patient care they provide."
Lanier put these ideas together and launched a campaign last fall, fittingly called "The Last Frontier." The campaign used an "Indiana Jones"-like theme to show hospital administrators how Lanier can rescue them from unnecessary document management costs.
"Hospitals have historically been our main target, as they are much larger organizations with much greater buying power," Schroder said. "We targeted different groups of individuals-business managers, key physicians and top-level administrators. Having multiple touches within an organization builds greater awareness among decision-makers and influencers alike."
The campaign consisted of four different direct mail pieces, which went to thousands of acute care facilities, as well as specially created marketing-driven Web pages-all with a call to action. In addition, Lanier made a big splash at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society annual conference this winter-which delivered an audience of 20,000 health care IT professionals-with a booth that played up the cliff-hanger "Last Frontier" theme. "Everything we did came with a good sense of humor and excitement to draw interest, but we were sure to hit home with how we could save hospitals money," Schroder said.
Lanier was thrilled with the campaign's results. "We had an excellent response rate offline and online of about 5% to 6%," Schroder said. "We turned over many leads to our sales organization, which includes 80 representatives strictly dedicated to the health care vertical."
In fact, the campaign was so successful, Lanier has carried the theme over to reach a new target this year. "We're starting to market our solutions directly to physicians' offices, but it's a very difficult audience to reach," Schroder said. "Doctors are interested in what we have to say, but they're very busy. Copiers and documentation systems don't seem as critical to them as, say, new X-ray equipment."
To meet this challenge, Schroder said, it's important to reach out to secondary audiences, such as physicians' office managers. "If we can get our foot in the door, we have an extremely high conversion rate. We make them wonder why they had never looked more closely at their document management processes before," he said.


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Without a doubt, the iconic horror first-person shooter DOOM forever changed video games when it first launched over 20 years ago. "DOOM is a Deathmatch, an attitude, an expression," says DOOM Senior Producer Sean Bean. "It's rock-n-roll and sending demons straight back to Hell with a double-barrel shotgun with blood on your face."
Facial Animation for the Speed of Production
When the time came to reboot the iconic game and take cutscenes to the next level, CounterPunch Studios brought in Faceware's Analyzer and Retargeter software. Andrew Egiziano, owner of CounterPunch Studios has a deep relationship with the tools, "the CounterPunch team has been using the tools alongside the developers for years…The software that Faceware produces allows our company to achieve higher quality animation at unprecedented turnarounds. This allows us to create high volume quantities of quality animation in very short timelines."
Animators can then focus on creativity and bringing out the best performance possible. Analyzer tracks points on a performance capture actor's face and sends the data to Retargeter to apply that data onto a CG character in a fraction of the time it would traditionally take. "The software did the heavy lifting with our artists' direction. This gave our artists more time to focus on the details and fine-tune the areas that take the animation to the next level," Egiziano explains.
"Analyzer does a great job at capturing the essence of the performance – the process allows us to quickly choose extreme facial shapes in order to train the software in capturing the most out of the performance. We can really capture the necessary subtleties of the performance… Once the data is converted to use with Retargeter, it creates and constructs an animation based on these poses – this saves time and allows the artist to focus on creativity and personality of the character," Egiziano continues.
The CounterPunch team delivers an amped experience for DOOM packed with creativity, personality and action that makes the game better than ever. Check out the trailer…if you dare!

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Hello friends! Today I'm going to share my hike to Gulugod Baboy in Anilao Batangas. It's legitimately a hike for beginners!
Note: We drove there so if you're looking for the commute details, click this link here.
Also, very important note: Batangas City is very very traffic starting 9am onwards. We thought that there was an accident but apparently it's really a normal occurrence. We were set back about 2-3 hours because of the traffic caused by two intersections. Ugh. =_=
The way to all the resorts is full of road construction as of this writing. Please be careful driving.
To get to the starting point of the hike, you have to get to PhilPan Dive resort. It's actually kind of at the far end of the set of resorts (You'll even pass by the Santorini look alike!) but ask around and the locals are sure to send you on your way.
There's only one restaurant near PhilPan and their garlic rice is pretty good!
You're supposed to register before starting the hike. It's not very obvious where to register but it's actually the sari-sari store across the street of the registration booth. They have people register so in case you get lost. It's only P35, so it's pretty cheap. They use that money to maintain the mountain, so please register!
You can opt for a guide or not, it's up to you. The guide costs P500. The path is pretty straightforward and you can ask locals if you think you're lost. There are some houses on the way. There are also a bunch of halo-halo stores at the start of the hike. The guide is optional. We decided not to get a guide.
And off we go!
The hike actually doesn't take that long but we took a lot of breaks and pictures in between. Because we didn't have a guide, we got lost at some point but some locals directed us back to the path.
The path has a lot of dogs, so be wary. Some of them bark at you and follow you around but most of them just chill around looking at you.
There are a lot of stops in between. Also, there's a certain area in the path where there's a really steep cemented short path, like 2-3 meters of steep cement. Be careful at that area!
We hiked uphill for about 2-3 hours. The whole climb was okay, it was just really hot because we started at 1pm (Also please bring sunscreen).
The top of the Gulugod Baboy was gorgeous!
Eventually we finished taking photos. We didn't really have a lot of time left so we didn't manage to climb all the way up. Beside the summit of the mountain is a parking/camping space. There's also a shop and a bathroom. You can actually just drive all the way up to the top.
We didn't have time to climb back down, so we took a trike back to the registration booth. The trike costs P500 but it's a 45 minute trip that goes uphill and downhill a lot.
When we got back down, we logged out of the registration booth and changed clothes in the car. Afterwards, we went straight to Tagaytay for some bulalo! ❤
Anyway, that's it. Hope you found this helpful!


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- Thank you for going beyond your contract hours. Thank you for coming in early and staying late. I know that you earn a salary, but when you end up calculating per hour what you make, it's not what you're worth. (Because like all teachers who care, I work during the summer.)
- Thank you for caring. Some of the students that come into your classroom don't have a cheerleader at home who believes they can be something some day. Thanks for instilling this into them at a young age.
- Thank you for going beyond and working with that one child who just needs a little more than the school day can give. Thanks for being willing to give up time so he can maybe begin to tread a little water and not drown. Thanks for not giving up.
- Thanks for instilling a desire into your class to read for real purposes and to write for real purposes. Thanks for showing them that writing occurs all of the time. Thanks for making your classroom fun and engaging and allowing students to be who they are.
- Thanks for laughing with your class. Learning should be fun.
- Thanks for letting your class teach. Some of the greatest lessons they learn are the ones that the students "taught". You'd be surprised at how many lessons we refer back to the student that explained that concept first to us...whether it's sliding through the whole word, reading the word shrugged or sighed, or measuring with rulers to see how big objects really are.
Monday, May 10, 2010
What a teacher wants...
This past week was a week to appreciate teachers...I want appreciation from my state government. I want a thank you that goes beyond just those two words. I want our state government and leaders to realize what some of us teachers do for our students. This is how I envision a thank you...
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Maybe they could give out warrior awards.
- May 11, 2010 at 8:31 PM
I am not the government, but I help pay for the "government" as a taxpayer. I don't know you. I am not a teacher. I have been employed in county government for 35 years. Many of us in county government share your same work ethic but work on behalf of the taxpayer...that your students will become some day. I do know that teachers have a difficult job in today's world. Thank you for all you do to try to make successful adults by helping them "believe they can." Hold your head up high and be proud of the job you do!! You are appreciated!!
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Good Boy Pawsley Succulent Pigs In Blankets are the tasty way to treat your dog this Christmas.
Please note that food treats will be sent separately from any other food items ordered.
These tasty festive treats are made with 100% meat, so you can ensure they are getting nothing but the best this Christmas.
These treats are wheat free, made from three different meats and suitable for all breeds of dogs.
Resealable packaging for longer freshness.
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You can drive for work every day, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're ready for your Pennsylvania CDL General Knowledge test. These tests are full of questions that are difficult for the most experienced professional driver, so make it easier on yourself by taking an PA CDL general knowledge practice test. With questions selected from the 2018 official Pennsylvania CDL manual, the practice test closely simulates the official written test. With the help of this test, you'll be ready to handle anything that comes your way when you walk into the Pennsylvania DOT. Other drivers might be stressed out on test day, but you'll be cool and ready to walk out the doors with your endorsement.
How to Take the Practice Test
While some people fly through the practice test so they can move on to the real one at the DOT, it is a good idea to take the practice test slowly. Use it as a tool to learn more about the official test. Go through the questions, paying attention to those that give you some problems. If a question gives you an issue, jot it down so you can spend more time studying the topic in your manual.
Some people also only take the practice test once or twice, but you should take it as often as needed. Take it until you know the questions inside out. The questions should be second nature to you by the time you go to the DOT.
Taking Your Test
When test day rolls around, you might feel a little uneasy. That is fine. Shake those nerves out of your system. You are more than ready. You have taken your practice test repeatedly, so you're ready to ace your test.
Just in case you need some more practice, though, take your practice test once more. That way, you'll be positive that you're ready to take on whatever the test throws your way.
A practice test is the best way to prepare for your General Knowledge endorsement. Take the 50-question test so you'll be ready for each and every question on the test.


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When I was a kid, I remember being mesmerized by a 2-hour TV special about a man who spent 150 days sailing his 60-foot sailboat, American Promise, 27,000 miles around the world non-stop. His name was Dodge Morgan.
As I pondered romantic visions of sailing the open ocean with nothing but the sound of passing waves slapping the hull, dark, star-filled skies, and the hum of the wind in the rigging, I thought, "What an amazing adventure".
Before casting his dock lines ashore in Portland, Maine, the start of Dodge Morgan's 1985/6 record-setting circumnavigation, his friend (and my former neighbor) Max Fletcher handed him something… It was a copy of the journal he kept while sailing his Westsail 32, Christopher Robin, double-handed around Cape Horn a few years prior.
He later told Max that he read it during his voyage and remarked, "if these two idiots can do it, so can I."
While battling fierce storms, intense loneliness, and the challenges associated with managing over a thousand square feet of canvas, Dodge Morgan pioneered the sport of long distance singlehanded sailing, advanced offshore sailing technology, and inspired countless individuals to get out on the ocean and explore for themselves.
Soon after returning from his circumnavigation, he donated American Promise to the United States Naval Academy for their offshore sail-training program. A well-built boat with attractive lines and substantial living space in her cabin, American Promise was an ideal training platform for the Midshipmen.
Summer sail training sessions by the Naval Academy brought the Mids up to Maine on occasion to visit Dodge, but he never again set foot on her. Perhaps he just preferred to remember her how she was.
Years later, while a member of the Offshore Sailing Team at the United States Naval Academy, I was afforded the opportunity as Navigator/Watch Captain of American Promise during the 1997 Marion-Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race. I could hardly have been more excited to be racing a boat that had been the platform of such an inspirational voyage 10 years earlier.
Although in later years he lived a bit of a recluse lifestyle, he will always be remembered by his friends as a wonderful and interesting gentleman and saavy businessman.
Fair Winds and Following Seas Mr. Morgan.


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|CADVision Sues Telus (Update)
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CADVision Development Corporation, a Calgary Internet Service Provider with 35,000 subscribers, commenced action in the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta against Telus Corporation ("Telus"), Telus Communications ("TCI") and Telus Advanced Communications ("TAC") on November 19th, 1997 seeking injunctive relief and, in the alternative, damages. CADVision alleges Telus, TCI and TAC are treating it in a discriminatory manner by not providing CADVision equal access to ADSL Voice Over Data Service. CADVision's application was heard before Justice H.S. Prowse of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta at 10:00 am, Wednesday, December 17.
CADVision has also sought similar relief from the Canadian Radio Television Commission ("CRTC") and a decision of the CRTC is expected in the upcoming weeks. In light of the pending decision from the CRTC, Justice H.S. Prowse adjourned CADVision's application until Friday, January 2, 1998. In addition, the Court of Queen's Bench also ordered an interim injunction against Telus, TCI and TAC preventing TCI from launching ADSL Voice Over Data Service until the parties appear before the Court January 2, 1998.
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The New Forest is a picturesque national park which sits within Hampshire; its diverse landscapes make it the perfect place to enjoy many forms of exercise and fun activities. The New Forest is a haven for cyclists, horse riders, ramblers and water sport enthusiasts; making it the perfect place for a short break, holiday or even just a day out.
Some of the best ways to enjoy the forest is through an activity, why not see the changing landscapes and observe the wildlife by hiring a bike, enjoying acarriage ride or even by booking in for a forest hack. With the New Forest being ideally located on the south coast, there are a wealth of water sports and activities for you to enjoy. Why not try sailing or windsurfing on the coastal or inland waters?
If it rains during your visit to the New Forest then do not worry, there is a selection of indoor pools at the New Forest's health and leisure centres which also boast some of the best indoor sports facilities in the south.
Enjoying a New Forest activity is a great way to explore the beautiful forest, whether you are here for the day or even looking to stay for longer.
Go walking…..
Ramblers can enjoy endless walking routes that will twist and turn through vibrant gorse, imposing woodland and bubbling streams.
There are many guided walks held throughout he year which means you have the ability to book either your own private guide or joining one of the many organised walking events.
Go Cycling….
The New Forest is a fabulous place for budding cyclists as there is an extensive choice of cycling routes for all abilities. With 143 miles of track, visitors are free to explore experiencing a huge variety of habitats and wildlife.
There is so much to see and do and so many park areas and villages to visit. And no matter where you go, be sure to use the Brand New Forest BetterPoints app and earn BetterPoints as you walk, cycle and travel about!


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Sardine Appetizers
- Prep: 10 min
- Cook Time: 15 min
- Total: 25 min
- Serving: 8
Inspired by Spanish flavors, Sardine Appetizers are served cold with crackers.
- 1 green bell pepper
- 2, 3 3/4 ounce cans sardines
- 1/2 cup tomato sauce
- black pepper
- 2 eggs, hard cooked, cut into slices
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. In oven, roast green pepper until skin puckers and turns brown, about 15 minutes. Peel skin and discard seeds and core.
- Drain sardines or paper towels; arrange in a single layer on a platter. Pour tomato sauce over fish; sprinkle with black pepper. Slice green pepper and arrange with egg slices on top of tomato sauce. Serve cold with crackers.
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Earthquake hits European Deal or No Deal game show sending contestants into panic
A GAME show host had to cooly calm down the panicked contestants when an earthquake hit the studio while they were filming an episode.
Host Lila Filipovska was leading Macedonian game show All or Something – known as similar to famous Noel Edmonds' contest Dead or No Deal – when the studio started to rumble.
In a clip of the incident guests and competitors visibly panic as the whole ground starts to shake beneath them.
The camera vibrates vigorously and some frightened folk began to make a bolt for the door.
But – needing to keep everyone safe and everything under control – Lila shouted at the escaping people that they had to stay seated.
She shouted: "OK, OK, it is over. Where are you headed? Stop it. Do not panic guys. OK. Silence. We said no panicking, what's the problem? It is over."
Everybody returned to their seats, visibly scared for their lives with one even crying
Trying to lighten the mood – Topalova joked: "I am just wondering if this is being recorded?"
Several buildings were struck by the earthquake in Macedonian capital Skopje and this was just one of many aftershocks happening 24 hours after the first tremor.
With everybody safe Topalova later wrote online: "We were all somewhere during many earthquakes in the city. The last one caught me in the studio just before I was about to read the news.
"I want to thank my colleagues from the director's booth who were reassuring me through my earpiece.
"They were telling me that I am safe and that nothing bad will happen to me. It is a delight and an honour to have such colleagues on the shift. I am very thankful! The TV colleagues understand me the best. God helps us all."
But this isn't the first game show to suffer from frightening life-or-death threats.
One lad had to be rushed to the hospital when a Python strangled him during a TV contest.


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Gold retracement likely to bring further gains
Yesterday saw a continuation higher in gold, building on the gains seen earlier in the week. The sharp upside followed by temporary intraday retracements is indicative of a strong breakout trend and given the move lower seen today, it is likely we are going to see the same again.
The retracement seen yesterday morning came back to just 23.6% of the Friday low to Monday high and given that shallow move, I would expect a deeper move lower today. The prime target for that next leg higher is at $1207, which represents a confluence of Monday's peak, combined with the 50% retracement of yesterday's move higher.
Ultimately I will only become more neutral should price fall below $1199 as this would create a new lower-low. That being said, with price now towards the top of the range seen in the past month, there is significant resistance around $1220-$1224. Thus I could see price begin to reverse around that area and only a close above $1224 would bring confidence of a move higher than that level.
Silver approaching resistance zone
Silver's gains have pushed the price towards the upper section of the symmetrical triangle that has been in play over the past six months. The precious metal has sold off between the 200-day SMA and an ascending trendline (beginning in July 2014) on three occasions. Therefore any move into that zone (currently $16.74-$16.95) would bring warning signs of a potential reversal lower.
In the meantime, price is retracing and I am expecting to see a jump higher in the near future with support provided by $16.49 (Monday's high).
Brent continues to retrace
Brent Crude is moving lower for a third consecutive day, retracing some of the gains seen this month. However, these have been somewhat minimal and a major challenge to this recent downside is likely to come at the 50-period (4 hour) SMA which held up prices last week.
I would need to see a move back below $61.40 for an indication of a potential longer reversal lower. Thus for the time being, I expect to see a bounce higher in the near future for a continuation of the medium-term uptrend.
WTI range holds for over two weeks
WTI has been trading within a sideways channel for over two weeks and there are few signs that we are about to see a breakout. Values are starting to tighten, forming a potential symmetrical triangle yet for the time being I expect to see continued moves between the $55.73 and $58.40 zones.
Thus the key is to play the intraday swings and for the moment, the sign is that we could see a move back to $56.10 in the near future for another move higher in the near future.


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"String him up! String him up!" One man came running with a rope, shouting, "Hang him!"
The master of ceremonies tried to protest thru his megaphone, but the instrument was knocked out of his hands, and he was hauled to one side, and presently there was a man climbing up the pine tree and hanging the rope over a limb. You could not see Grady for the jostling throng about him, but suddenly there was a yell from the crowd, and you saw him quite plainly—he shot high up into the air, with the rope about his neck and his feet kicking wildly. Underneath, men danced about and yelled and waved their hats in the air, and one man leaped up and caught one of the kicking feet and hung onto it.
Then, above all the din, a voice was heard thru the megaphone, "Let him down a bit! Let me get at him!" And those who held the rope gave way, and the body came down toward the ground, still kicking, and a man took out a clasp-knife, and cut the clothing away from the body, and cut off something from the body; there was another yell from the crowd, and the men in the automobiles slapped their knees and shrieked with satisfaction. Those in the car with Peter whispered that it was Ogden, son of the president of the Chamber of Commerce; and all over town next day and for weeks thereafter men would nudge one another, and whisper about what Bob Ogden had done to the body of Shawn Grady, secretary of the "damned wobblies." And every one who nudged and whispered about it felt certain that by this means the Red Terror had been forever suppressed, and 100% Americanism vindicated, and a peaceful solution of the problem of capital and labor made certain.
Strange as it might seem, there was one member of the I. W. W. who agreed with them. One of the victims of that night had learned his lesson! When Tom Duggan was able to sit up again, which was six weeks later, he wrote an article about his experience, which was published in an I. W. W. paper, and afterwards in pamphlet form was read by many hundreds of thousands of workingmen. In it the poet said:
"The preamble of the I. W. W. opens with the statement that the employing class and the working class have nothing in common; but on this occasion I learned that the preamble is mistaken. On this occasion I saw one thing in common between the employing class and the working class, and that thing was a black-snake whip. The butt end of the whip was in the hands of the employing class, and the lash of the whip was on the backs of the working class, and thus to all eternity was symbolized the truth about the relationship of the classes!"


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Employer-financed retirement benefits schemes: excluded benefits: living accommodation and related benefits: benefits provided to employee's family
Section 393B(3)(d) Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003
Employer-Financed Retirement Benefits (Excluded Benefits for Tax Purposes) Regulations 2007 S.I. 2007 No.3537
See EIM15022 for provision to the employee's family of accommodation that was provided for the performance of duties.
The regulations relating to living accommodation and related costs include a number of circumstances in which the provision of a benefit which has the character of a relevant benefit to the employee's family is also an excluded benefit. Those circumstances are after any of the following events:
- the employee's death, (but see below further conditions for living accommodation provided to the families of deceased ministers of religion)
- the employee's taking up residence elsewhere as a result of ill-health, disability, infirmity or other physical or mental condition
- the employee's taking up residence elsewhere following a separation, annulment or divorce of a marriage or the nullity or dissolution of a civil partnership
In the last 2 circumstances, the ex-spouse or ex-civil partner shall be treated as a member of the employee's family.
Families of deceased ministers of religion may continue to receive living accommodation as excluded benefits, so long as the death of the minister occurs when:
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Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and Opposition leader Andrew Holness were among the scores of party officials and supporters, who turned out for yesterday's Nomination Day exercise in Central Westmoreland, which saw businessman Dwayne Vaz and banker Faye Reid Jacobs being ratified as the candidates for the ruling People's National Party (PNP) and the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) respectively for the December 1 by-election, to fill the vacancy left by the late Roger Clarke, as member of parliament.
Vaz and Jacobs will have another contender come election day, as Ras Astor Black, of the Jamaica Alliance Movement (JAM), was also duly nominated under the guidance of Maurice Rodriques, the returning officer for Central Westmoreland constituency.
Jacobs first
Jacobs, who came to the nomination centre flanked by Holness and fellow party stalwarts Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, party chairman Robert Montague and deputy leader Horace Chang was the first to be nominated at 10:43 a.m., paying her J$3,000 nomination fees with J$100 notes.
"By the grace of God and with good organisation, we are going to create history here in Central Westmoreland," said Jacobs. "We are doing the work on the ground and we are confident and ready."
Holness was quite upbeat after the nomination exercise, saying he was feeling a wind of change blowing in Central Westmoreland.
"We have selected a good candidate, who is a daughter of Westmoreland. We think she will be a good candidate," said Holness.
The tempo reached fever pitch at approximately 11:25 a.m. when Vaz, with Prime Minister Simpson Miller arrived at the nomination centre ahead of a large contingent of orange-clad party supporters. His nomination was quite smooth as he paid his fees in J$1,000 notes.
"The campaign is going great ... the traction is great and the ground, and we are confident that we will have a landslide victory come December 1 ... . I know the issues and the people know that, so that is why I am enjoying such great energy on the ground."
Simpson Miller confident
Prime Minister Simpson Miller was full of confidence, describing Central Westmoreland as PNP country, declaring that victory for Vaz was a foregone conclusion.
"This is PNP territory ...; this is a constituency that has consistently been voting for the PNP ... . We have a young man who is equal to the task and we are sure that he will get the job done come election day," the prime minister said. "Once he gets elected, he will have the full support of the party and the Government."
Ras Black, who showed up at mid-day, was also confident, albeit he showed up with just one supporter by his side. He quickly paid his nomination fees and then declared he was ready to support the people of Westmoreland, especially the ganja farmers.
"I am confident of victory ..., as you know, this is a ganja parish and the people want a leader to stand up and protect their rights," said Ras Black. "The people are tired of poor representation ...; they want a leader who cares ... ."


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Have you ever wondered about Eastern spirituality? Have you experienced the beauty of silence? Are you moved by compassion and love towards all beings? Have you ever tried to meditate? If any of these questions appeal to you, please come to join us in this course which will provide an introduction to some of the most important Buddhist concepts, emphasizing their usefulness for Buddhist and non-Buddhists alike. We also will study and demonstrate various meditative techniques to allow each student to develop their own meditative practice.
The classes will be held on Saturday morning twice a month from September 2017 to April 2018. The classes will consist of a one hour talk followed by another hour of discussion. There will be an optional 1/2 hour of meditation preceding each class, as well as an optional discussion during lunch (lunch is $12) after the class. A suggested reading list will be provided, but no reading will be mandatory.
There will be a retreat at the end of the series, Thursday April 19, 2018 to Sunday April 22, 2018, at an additional cost.
You do not have to have taken Intro to Meditation and Buddhism Part 1 to enroll in this series. All are welcome.
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Still fairly cool when we arrived at the Mt. Coot-tha Botanic gardens.
We made our way to the John Oxley District Orchid Society Inc. Orchid show only to find that we didn't have any cash and they didn't have any electronic means of taking our money. So back to the car to find an ATM and then back to the show.
This was our first Orchid show so I've no idea if it was big, small, good or bad but I did enjoy the Orchids they had on display.
We also sat in on an Orchid potting lesson and got to ask a few questions about some pressing orchid issues like, why is that one smaller than this one and will this live in Toowoomba? All of which they were happy to answer for us. They were very friendly and helpful.
Also you don't go to an Orchid show and walk away empty handed so I bought two booklets, one for beginners and one on Cattleyas, some plant labels and a pen.
I also bought my self an Orchid called Twinkle 'Yellow Fantacy.'
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BEST POINTS: If there's a particular painting you're looking for, you can search the site by typing in the artist's last name. Once there, you can enlarge the picture, or focus in on specific details. Check out the some of the details up-close on Edward Hicks's "Peaceable Kingdom" (see story, below).
Alternatively, if you want to learn more about a certain period of art, you can take one of the museum's many "tours," which will lead you through a series of works chosen to illustrate specific concepts, while providing commentary about them. There are tours on all different periods - under the heading of American art, for example, there are nine separate tours. The site also offers some wonderful in-depth studies of a few select paintings. The analysis of Vermeer's "Woman Holding a Balance" traces out the lines of perspective, and analyzes different symbols within the composition.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: The site also offers resources for teachers, including suggested classroom activities and bibliographies for further information. There are even entire lesson plans given on certain artists, such as Matisse and Manet. All the services on the site are free of charge, as is the museum itself.
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Touring the country by bus may sound romantic, but for musicians, it also can be a cramped, claustrophobic nightmare, says Alex Ebert, frontman of the 12-member Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
Then again, the singer — appearing this week in Oakland with the band, promoting its upcoming gospel-fervent sophomore recording "Here" — says he was spoiled by last year's unusual Railroad Revival Tour.
The Zeros, Mumford & Sons and the Old Crow Medicine Show hopped a 15-car, 1940s-vintage train in Oakland for a six-gig whistle-stop jaunt that ended eight days later in New Orleans; the journey was detailed in "Big Easy Express," a new documentary by director Emmett Malloy.
Ebert saw an early screening, and was dumbfounded.
"Some really beautiful events happened during the trip, and they captured them really well," he says of the footage — a combination of digital, 16-mm and Super 8. "There was this one cloudburst over Austin that was just outrageous, and the cars themselves were really beautiful, with little areas to sleep in. And there was so much music and merriment going on, it was just a revelation, and really magical."
Ebert, 33, is a deep thinker who's sensitive to otherworldly phenomena. As a mortality-obsessed teen, he sought consciousness expansion in drugs, and cheated death a few times during an ensuing addiction.
He emerged from rehab a new music-minded man, with a cathartic idea for a book (unfinished, but soon being retooled as a graphic novel) concerning a preacherlike character named Edward Sharpe, out to save humanity ... and maybe form a band, as well.
"Still, that Railroad tour was paramount in my canon of experiences. I lived that childish fantasy of a time when land could represent freedom and traveling could represent hope, possibility and endless adventure," he says.
Ebert's keen perception extends to Zeros compositions, too. Recently, he decided that the band's 2009 debut "Up From Below" was a bit too bombastic.
"So with 'Here,' we really wanted to do a more meditative group effort, something a little more tender," he says.
Buttressed by rafter-rattling choruses, strummers such as "Mayla," "I Don't Wanna" and "That's What's Up" are as rousing as any Sunday morning spiritual, and perfect concert sing-alongs.
"Whenever we do a show, it seems like everyone in the audience is a part of the band, anyway," he says.
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By Walt Kelly (Fantagraphics Books)
Walter Crawford Kelly Jr. was born in 1913 and started his cartooning career whilst still in High School, as both artist and reporter for the Bridgeport Post. In 1935, he moved to California and joined the Disney Studio, working on shorts and such features as Dumbo, Fantasia and Pinocchio until the infamous animator's strike in 1941.
Refusing to take a side, Kelly moved back East and began drawing comicbooks – primarily for Dell Comics, who had the Disney funnybook license.
Despite his glorious work on such humanistic classics as the Our Gang movie spin-off, Kelly preferred anthropomorphic animal and children's fantasy (see Walt Kelly's Santa Claus Adventures) and created Albert the Alligator and Pogo Possum for Animal Comics #1 (December 1942). He sagaciously retained the copyrights in the ongoing tale of two Bayou critters and their young African-American pal Bumbazine. Although the black kid soon disappeared, the animal pals stayed on as stars until 1948 when Kelly became art editor and cartoonist for the hard hitting, left-leaning liberal newspaper The New York Star.
On October 4th 1948, Pogo, Albert and an ever-expanding cast began their careers in the funny pages, appearing six days a week until the periodical folded in January 1949.
Although a gently humorous kids feature, by the end of its run – reprinted in full at the back of this magnificent tome – the first glimmers of the increasingly barbed, boldly satirical masterpiece of velvet-pawed social commentary began to be seen…
This first of twelve volumes follows the ascent of the scintillating and vastly influential strip; don't believe me, just listen to Gary Trudeau, Berke Breathed, Bill Watterson, Jeff McNally, Bill Holbrook, Mark O'Hare, Alan Moore, Jeff Smith and even Goscinny & Uderzo and our own Maurice Dodd & Dennis Collins, whose wonderful strip The Perishers owes more than a little to the sublime antics of the Okefenokee Swamp citizenry…
After the Star closed Pogo was picked up for mass distribution by the Post-Hall Syndicate and launched on May 16th 1949. A colour Sunday page debuted January 29th 1950 and both were produced simultaneously by Kelly until his death in 1973 (and beyond, courtesy of his talented wife and family…).
At its peak the strip appeared in 500 papers in 14 countries and the book collections which began in 1951 numbered nearly 50, collectively selling 30 million copies.
This volume includes all the Star strips, the Dailies from inception to December 30th 1950, and the Sundays – in a full colour section – from January 29th – December 31st 1950, plus a wealth of supplementary features including a Foreword from columnist Jimmy Breslin, an introduction by biographer Steve Thompson, a week-by-week highly detailed contents section, a useful guide 'About the Sundays' by Mark Evanier, and an invaluable context and historical notes feature 'Swanp Talk' by the amazing R.C. Harvey.
Kelly's genius was the ability to beautifully, vivaciously draw comedic, tragic, pompous, sympathetic characters of any shape or breed and make them inescapably human and he used that gift to blend hard-hitting observation of our crimes, foibles and peccadilloes with rampaging whimsy, poesy and sheer exuberant joie de vivre.
The hairy, scaly, feathered, slimy folk depicted here are inescapably us, elevated by burlesque, slapstick, absurdism and all the glorious joys of wordplay from puns to malapropisms to raucous accent humour into a multi-layered hodge-podge of all-ages accessible delight.
In later volumes Kelly would set his bestial cast loose on such timid, defenceless victims as Senator Joe McCarthy, J.Edgar Hoover, the John Birch Society, Richard Nixon and the Ku Klux Clan, but he starts off small here, introducing the gently bemused Pogo, boisterous, happily ignorant Albert, dolorous Porkypine, obnoxious turtle Churchy La Femme, lugubrious hound Beauregard Bugleboy, carpet-bagging Seminole Sam Fox, pompous (not) know-it-all Howland Owl and a host of others in gags and extended epics ranging from assorted fishing trips, building an Adam Bomb, losing and finding other people's children, electioneering, education, kidnapping, the evil influence of comicbooks, Baseball season, why folks shouldn't eat each other, Western cow punchers, cows punching back, New Years Resolutions, public holidays and so much more…
The Sundays also began with one-off gags but soon evolved into convoluted and mesmeric continued sagas such as the search for the Fountain of Youth, building a school and keeping it filled, Albert being elected Queen of the Woodland by the elf-like forest fauns – and why that was ultimately a very bad thing indeed…
Timeless and magical, Pogo is a giant of world literature, not simply comics, and this magnificent edition should be the pride of every home's bookshelf.
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We have been getting quite a few calls concerning Canine Influenza (also called Canine Flu). Here are some important bullet points:
- Influenza in our canine patients usually makes them pretty sick. Common symptoms include loss of appetite, coughing, runny nose and eyes, fever, and lethargy. If your pet has some matter in the eyes or a mild cough, but is eating normally and generally acting normally, it is probably not influenza. It may be something else though so don't hesitate to call us with any questions!
- Canine influenza has not been shown to infect people.
- There have not been any documented cases of canine influenza in Minnesota at this time. There have been cases in nearby states, including Wisconsin.
- This virus spreads easily. It is present in high numbers in the nasal secretions of infected patients and the virus can live for short periods of time in those secretions when they are left on objects like food/water bowls, our clothing, etc. So, it can be spread from dog to dog, and it can be spread from exposure to contaminated objects.
- There are several strains of canine influenza, and they keep changing, a little like human influenza strains do. So there are vaccines available that provide protection against the strains within that vaccine, but like the human flu vaccines they don't cover all of the strains that are out there. We have the most current vaccine on hand, it protects for the influenza strain H3N8 but it is unknown how well it protects against the most recently identified H3N2 strain.
- There are lab tests available that allow us to test our canine patients for both strains.
- Since influenza is a virus, recovery from infection requires that the patient's own immune system gets rid of the virus – just like humans, our body needs to get rid of the infection. Antibiotics help avoid secondary bacterial infections, but do nothing against the virus itself. So treating our canine patients who have influenza involves doing things to keep them hydrated, keeping their fever down, keeping them eating, and treating secondary infections while their body deals with the influenza virus.
- Here are our recommendations as of this time concerning Canine Influenza:
- Our patients who are most at risk are the ones who are exposed to other dogs frequently (dog park, day care/boarding, going for a walk, etc.), and whose owners are exposed to other dogs frequently. So decreasing exposure to other dogs is an important risk reducer.
- However, common sense should be applied here – there is a difference in how aggressively we should change our pet's quality of life due to concern over influenza now (with no known cases in MN) vs. if that situation changes and we start to see cases here in our state.
- The highest risk areas for the first cases to appear are situations where dogs are entering MN from out of state. These situations include humane shelters that receive pets from out of state, and homes that foster for those organizations, snow birds who are returning with their pets, etc. All of those situations provide an important and positive role for dogs in our society, but awareness of risk levels may help our clients make good decisions about where to exercise their pets and with whom.
- We are currently recommending the vaccine only for patients who are at high risk – service dogs, dogs that require frequent boarding or daycare, dogs whose owners work at a canine daycare center or shelter, etc. Remember that the vaccine may provide protection against only some of the strains available.
- If you have questions about canine influenza or feel your pet may be showing symptoms, please do not hesitate to contact us!! www.allpetsvetmed.com
Thanks for bringing your pets to us!
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SOURCE: Loveland Products
November 15, 2016 08:00 ET
LOVELAND, CO--(Marketwired - November 15, 2016) - Loveland Products announced today the launch of a new seed treatment for soybeans under the brand Equity® VIP.
"As soybean production continues to intensify, it's important to protect the seed and seedling to get the crop off to a strong start," says Marty Robinson, Seed Treatment Market Manager at Loveland Products. "Equity VIP is a unique combination of five active ingredients, including the SDHI chemistry component Vibrance® from Syngenta. Equity VIP's broad range of activities and diverse modes of action help assure the best level of protection against early season diseases and insect pests."
The new Equity VIP seed treatment builds off the success of Loveland Products' previous Equity offering for soybeans. It supplements an innovative and effective portfolio of seed treatments, including biological enhancers, nutritionals and seed protection chemistries for a wide range of crops.
"Our seed treatment portfolio is designed to provide a high level of efficacy in the field," Robinson states. "At the same time, we strive to make sure that both our products and our application practices achieve the highest level of environmental stewardship. We are staunch supporters of the Seed Treatment Stewardship Coalition, and we subscribe to the Best Management Practices recommended by the industry."
Equity VIP will be marketed through Crop Production Services retail locations.
About Loveland Products, Inc.
Loveland Products, Inc. offers a complete line of high-performance input products to the global agricultural and professional non-crop industries. Loveland Products' diversified portfolio of premium products consists of seed treatment, plant nutrition, fertilizer, adjuvant and crop protection products, which are available through Agrium Retail in North America, South America and Australia, and through distribution partners in over 40 countries globally. Loveland Products strives to bring new, unique products and technologies to the marketplace to provide innovative solutions to problems across the agricultural and professional non-crop industries. For more information, please visit www.lovelandproducts.com.
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The Burden of Structured Data: What Health Care Can Learn From the Web Experience (Part 1 of 2)
Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly Media, a highly respected book publisher and technology information provider. An employee of the company since 1992, Andy currently specializes in open source, software engineering, and health IT, but his editorial output has ranged from a legal guide covering intellectual property to a graphic novel about teenage hackers. His articles have appeared often on EMR & EHR and other blogs in the health IT space. Andy also writes often for O'Reilly's Radar site (http://oreilly.com/) and other publications on policy issues related to the Internet and on trends affecting technical innovation and its effects on society. Print publications where his work has appeared include The Economist, Communications of the ACM, Copyright World, the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Vanguardia Dossier, and Internet Law and Business. Conferences where he has presented talks include O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, FISL (Brazil), FOSDEM, and DebConf.
Most innovations in electronic health records, notably those tied to the Precision Medicine initiative that has recently raised so many expectations, operate by moving clinical information into structure of one type or another. This might be a classification system such as ICD, or a specific record such as "medications" or "lab results" with fixed units and lists of names to choose from. There's no arguing against the benefits of structured data. But its costs are high as well. So we should avoid repeating old mistakes. Experiences drawn from the Web may have something to teach the health care field in respect to structured data.
What Works on the Web
The Web grew out of a structured data initiative. The dream of organizing information goes back decades, and was embodied in Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) years before Tim Berners-Lee stole its general syntax to create HTML and present information on the Web. SGML could let a firm mark in its documents that FR927 was a part number whereas SG1 was a building. Any tags that met the author's fancy could be defined. This put semantics into documents. In other words, the meaning of text could be abstracted from the the text and presented explicitly. Semantics got stripped out of HTML. Although the semantic goals of SGML were re-introduced into the HTML successor XML, it found only niche uses. Another semantic Web tool, JSON, was reserved for data storage and exchange, not text markup.
Since the Web got popular, people have been trying to reintroduce semantics into it. There was Dublin Core, then RDF, then microdata in places like schema.org–just to list a few. Two terms denoting structured data on the Web, the Semantic Web and Linked Data, have been enthusiastically taken up by the World Wide Web Consortium and Tim Berners-Lee himself.
But none of these structured data initiatives are widely known among the Web-browsing public, probably because they all take a lot of work to implement. Furthermore, they run into the bootstrapping problem faced by nearly all standards: if your web site uses semantics that aren't recognized by the browser, they're just dropped on the ground (or even worse, the browser mangles your web pages).
Even so, recent years have seen an important form of structured data take off. When you look up a movie or restaurant on a major search engine such a Google, Yahoo!, or Bing, you'll see a summary of the information most people want to see: local showtimes for the movie, phone number and ratings for a restaurant, etc. This is highly useful (particularly on mobile devices) and can save you the trouble of visiting the web site from which the data comes. Google calls these summaries Rich Cards and Rich Snippets.
If my memory serves me right, the basis for these snippets didn't come from standards committees involving years of negotiation between stake-holders. Google just decided what would be valuable to its users and laid out the standard. It got adopted because it was a win-win. The movie theaters and restaurants got their information right into the viewer's face, and the search engine became instantly more valuable and more likely to be used again. The visitors doing the search obviously benefitted too. Everyone found it worth their time to implement the standards.
Interestingly, as structure moves into metadata, HTML itself is getting less semantic. The most recent standard, HTML5, did add a few modest tags such as header and footer. But many sites are replacing meaningful HTML markup, such as p for paragraph, with two ultra-generic tags: div for a division that is set off from other parts of the page, and span for a piece of text embedded within another. Formatting is expressed through CSS, a separate language.
Having reviewed a bit of Web history, let's see what we can learn from it and apply to health care.
Make the Customer Happy
Win-win is the key to getting a standard adopted. If your clinician doesn't see any benefit from the use of structured data, she will carp and bristle at any attempt to get her to enter it. One of the big reasons electronic health records are so notoriously hard to use is, "All those fields to fill out." And while lists of medications or other structured data can help the doctor choose the right one, they can also help her enter serious errors–perhaps because she chose the one next to the one she meant to choose, or because the one she really wanted isn't offered on the list.
Doctors' resentment gets directed against every institution implicated in the structured data explosion: the ONC and CMS who demand quality data and other fields of information for their own inscrutable purposes, the vendor who designs up the clunky system, and the hospital or clinic that forces doctors to use it. But the Web experience suggests that doctors would fill out fields that would help them in their jobs. The use of structured data should be negotiated, not dictated, just like other innovations such as hand-washing protocols or checklists. Is it such a radical notion to put technology at the service of the people using it?
I know it's frustrating to offer that perspective, because many great things come from collecting data that is used in analytics and can turn up unexpected insights. If we fill out all those fields, maybe we'll find a new cure! But the promised benefit is too far off and too speculative to justify the hourly drag upon the doctor's time.
We can fall back on the other hope for EHR improvement: an interface that makes data entry so easy that doctors don't mind using structured fields. I have some caveats to offer about that dream, which will appear in the second part of this article.


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Two new systems established residence in the PSC machine room this year. Processor for processor, these systems — Hewlett-Packard GS1280 AlphaServers — are even more powerful than LeMieux, PSC's workhorse 3,000 processor terascale system, which delivers much of the public-domain computational research in the country.
During development, HP referred to the GS1280 as the Marvel, and PSC's twin Marvels are among the first to roll out of HP production. Both house 128 of the newest generation of the powerful Alpha processor, the EV7. Both provide 512 gigabytes of shared memory — each soon to be configured as two 256-gigabyte, 64-processor units.
The only difference between these capable Marvel twins is that one of them, dubbed Jonas, is dedicated to NIH biomedical research, while the other, Rachel, supports NSF science and engineering. Together, they complement LeMieux with new capabilities for scientists and engineers nationwide.
Along with a "shared memory" architecture, both new systems have exceptional "memory bandwidth" — the speed at which data transfers between hardware memory and the processor. Benchmark tests have demonstrated that the GS1280 memory bandwidth is five to ten times greater than comparable systems.
"Such a shared memory, high-performance system is not now available to biomedical researchers," said Marjorie A. Tingle, director of the Shared Instrumentation Grant Program at NIH's National Center for Research Resources, which awarded $1.3 million to PSC for Jonas. "This new resource will enable them to study particularly demanding data-intensive, memory-intensive and compute-intensive problems that are currently beyond reach."
Funding for Rachel is part of a $35 million NSF grant to PSC and its two sister supercomputing centers in October 2002. This grant supports continued development of the TeraGrid (see facing page) and provides for harnessing LeMieux and Rachel into this evolving national grid.
"The memory structure of this system represents a significant advance for scientific computing," said PSC scientific directors Michael Levine and Ralph Roskies in a joint statement. "It will make a difference in several important areas, including quantum chemistry and genomics."
PSC Connects to the TeraGrid
The nation's most powerful, academically-based computing resource — LeMieux — is now linked with supercomputers in Illinois and California as part of the TeraGrid, an integrated national system of cyberinfrastructure. PSC network engineers in August implemented and tested a light pipeline that connects PSC to the Chicago hub of the TeraGrid's high-speed "backplane," which joins Chicago and Los Angeles.
Funded by NSF, the TeraGrid is a multi-year effort to deploy the world's fastest, most comprehensive distributed-computing infrastructure for open scientific research. Analogous to an electrical power grid, the TeraGrid will make computational power available to scientists and engineers nationwide as a seamless resource, without regard to physical location of computing systems.
Implemented in February 2003, the TeraGrid's Chicago-Los Angeles backplane moves data at 40 gigabits per second — 600,000 times faster than typical Internet dial-up — the fastest network in the world. It is referred to as a backplane — a circuit board with plug-in slots for other devices — because the TeraGrid is conceived of as a single national machine for science and engineering research, with powerful systems in different places that plug-in to the backplane. The initial Pittsburgh to Chicago link of 10 gigabits per second, will triple to 30 Gbps within the next year.
LeMieux, different in both processor and operating system than existing TeraGrid systems, poses the challenge of "interoperability" — to create a grid environment integrating heterogeneous systems. The TeraGrid has established a PSC-led Interoperability Working Group to develop the software needed to meet this challenge.
"Many of us in many places are working together to create the TeraGrid," said Rick Stevens of Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, TeraGrid project director. "This work will empower U.S. research in science and engineering for years to come. The Pittsburgh to Chicago connection is a major step toward bringing this vision of integrated national cyberinfrastructure into reality."
More information: http://www.teragrid.org
Jim Kasdorf, PSC director of special projects
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The Imagination Toolbox program, now in its 6th year, aims to bring simulations, models, computational thinking, and games into the classrooms of teachers from all disciplines. For the summer of 2014, we are pleased to offer the following workshops:
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This week-long teacher workshop enables participants to use StarLogo Nova to create scientific simulations, programming activities, mathematical models, content-focused games, or other activities specifically tailored to your curriculum. Learn about StarLogo Nova, practice skills such as troubleshooting student work, and get useful feedback from other participants and workshop facilitators as you create your own activity. Space is limited, so sign up early! Cost: $100 (financial support freely available). Click here for more information and to register.
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These one-day workshops teach participants the basics of programming simulations and games using the new, completely online StarLogo Nova, a blocks-based programming environment for creating 3D programs. With a self-paced format, these workshops are great for people of all skill levels, from those new to programming to expert programmers curious about a new tool. This workshop is a pre-requisite for Imagination Toolbox, and can be taken more than once. Cost: $25. Click here for more information and to register.
*Note: due to its success last year, a special "Family Edition" of this workshop will be held on July 19th, where parents can bring their (middle school and up) children, or mature high schoolers can bring their parents or even come on their own if they prefer. Adults without accompanying children are welcome to attend any session, including Family Edition.
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