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The Next Era of Networking Has Arrived
Accelerate your business transformation with Cisco Digital Network Architecture.
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Discover how Cisco Intelligent Branch can enable your digital transformation by helping you to:
- Deliver an immersive experience for customers and employees
- Achieve cost advantage through the consolidation of devices at the branch
- Simplify operations with a software-defined WAN platform
- Protect your business with pervasive security at the network edge and branch
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The Evolving Branch
Fuel innovation, capture competitive advantage, and grow your business as you accelerate your digital transformation. Many of these changes will begin at the branch, where your employees are located and where you engage with your customers. As a result, today's businesses need to change to meet growing demands for capabilities like:
- Cloud and software as a service (SaaS) applications
- Rich media like teleconferencing and high-definition video
- Increased use of mobile and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices
- Direct Internet access and guest Wi-Fi at the branch
Along with meeting these demands, branches also need to have pervasive security, without compromising the user experience. Cisco Intelligent Branch is the foundational branch infrastructure to accelerate your digital transformation.
With Cisco Intelligent Branch, you can innovate quickly, while reducing costs and risks. This helps you keep customers happy and keep revenue growing.
For business leaders, Cisco Intelligent Branch delivers:
- A personalized digital experience for customers and employees
- Improved mobile, social, and online engagement with customers
- New business model creation through actionable insights
For IT leaders, Cisco Intelligent Branch delivers:
- Operational simplicity and automation with software-defined networking (SDN)
- Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and investment protection with flexible software licensing
- Increased agility with a scalable and resilient platform that offers both physical and virtual network services
Management and Orchestration
Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module (APIC-EM)
This highly intuitive, policy-based controller abstracts network complexity and simplifies branch and WAN deployments using the Cisco IWAN and Enterprise Service Automation applications.
Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN)
A next-generation network and Layer 4 through 7 services architecture, IWAN delivers agnostic connectivity, high network availability, superior application experience, and integrated threat defense for hybrid WAN and direct Internet access (DIA).
Cisco router-based security
This suite of integrated, router-based security solutions provides comprehensive network threat defense across the entire attack continuum. Use it to protect your business before, during, and after an attack.
Physical and Virtual Platforms
Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR)
An integrated branch services platform, the 4000 Series seamlessly extends to cloud services and can accelerate the digitization of your business.
Cisco UCS E-Series Servers
These converged, virtualization–ready, and router integrated blade servers host Cisco virtual network services and third-party, industry applications in a price- and performance-optimized footprint.
Cisco Enterprise Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
This solution provides greater agility by virtualizing network functions. Enterprise NFV works with existing physical and virtual network devices as well as Cisco or non-Cisco network services.
Flexible Software Licensing
Cisco ONE for WAN
A flexible software consumption model, Cisco ONE for WAN provides investment protection through license portability between physical and virtual network platforms, along with access to on-going innovations.


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When you turn up at the pediatrician's office here and say your child has a fever, and probably the flu, they immediately put a mask over his face. Our school makes you stay home for 5 days, minimum, following a fever (they must be fever free for 2 days before they can return) and the same goes for siblings, even healthy ones. Conor was perfectly happy to spend an inordinate number of hours playing his DS over the course of his brother's illness...
Here they are in Dr. Che's waiting room on Nov 21 (everybody's all better now). Dylan's Doraemon socks match the Doraemon office slippers.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
swine flu boy
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Job Description
We are currently recruiting for a Dental Assistant to work 3 days in our Bridgeport location and 2 days in our Stamford location.
The Dental Assistant is responsible for providing clinical assistance to the dental staff in treating patients.
- Provide four handed chair side assistance to Dentists when performing dental procedures such as operative, preventive, endodontic, prosthetic and/or surgical procedures.
- Provide chair side assistance including but not limited to draping patients, preparing the operatory for treatment, preparing and mixing medicaments and impression materials, intra oral suctioning, retracting oral tissues, handing a removing instruments.
- Help management of patient flow by:
- Escort patient to/from the reception area/waiting room.
- Seat each patient and seeing to their comfort.
- Have all equipment prepared and ready for use.
- Have the room fully prepared for the patient treatment.
- Advise Front Desk Coordinator about special instructions for the patient.
- Prepare, sterilize and organize instruments and ensure that all dental instruments are
- cleaned, dated and processed, according to Department guidelines and standards.
- Monitor and maintain dental equipment, such as compressors, evacuator systems, radiographic developing equipment, sterilizers, light curing units, in accordance to manufacturers' guidelines.
- Develop and process dental radiographs in accordance with provider orders; assists in the monitoring and maintenance of radiation safety procedures and protocols.
- Prepare and send laboratory cases to assigned dental laboratory.
- Pour impressions to make stone and plaster models, and trims before sending to the laboratory.
- Collect, record and update patient health histories and vital signs. Assist the Dentist in recording treatment date in the MediaDent system.
- Patient management during dental procedures provides post-operative care and instructions to patients.
- Employ dental procedure isolation techniques.
- Assist in the prevention and management of medical emergencies in the department.
- Practice infection control and employ the management plan to meet OSHA, CDC, ADA and JCAHO standards.
- Adapt to cross-training requirements, specifically front desk duties.
- Must be able to travel between all Dental locations, able to work nights as well as weekends.
- Other related duties as assigned
JOB QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS EDUCATION: High School Diploma or Equivalent
LANGUAGE SKILLS: Spanish Speaking Preferred
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Basic Mathematical Skills
EXPERIENCE: At least 2 Years Prior Clinical Experience
LICENSURE / CERTIFICATION: Dental Assistant Certificate (preferred but not required), Radiology Health and Safety Certificate (required), Infection Control Certificate (required), CPR Certificate (required)
Excellent PC skills including knowledge of Microsoft Office, Internet and database management tools.
How to Apply
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Signature Modeling and Analysis Tool (SMAT) – Developer's guide
- Authors
- Corporate Authors
- Defence R&D Canada - Valcartier, Valcartier QUE (CAN);LTI, Quebec Que (CAN)
- Abstract
- This contract report presents the implementation of the signature modelling tool that was developed for the first implementation phase of 3D infrared signature modelling compatible with the KARMA simulation environment developed on behalf of Defence Research and Development Canada – Valcartier in the framework of Public Works and Government Services Canada contract number W7701- 052709/001/QCL "Development and exercise simulation". The main objective of this tool is to support 3D infrared signatures modelling. Free and open source software as well as commercial-of-the-shelf tools have been considered, allowing the reduction of the implementation time and increasing reliability. This report is presented as a developer's guide of the Signature Modeling and Analysis Tool (SMAT) and describes the implementation of the tool that manages the infrared property database of a 3D model that is needed in the infrared scene generator. SMAT offers control on the environmental conditions, the sensor characteristics and allows for trade-off studies of the modelling parameters. Analysis methods were implemented to help in the modelling process and analysis results can be exported for further analysis or reference. Although this tool is relevant for infrared signature modelling, future improvements shall be considered to better support the process.
- Keywords
- Infrared scene generation;Modeling and simulation (M&S)
- Report Number
- DRDC-VALCARTIER-CR-2008-259 — Contractor Report
- Date of publication
- 01 Sep 2008
- Number of Pages
- 50
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Critical analysis essays are often challenging for students. Beginning students analyzing works of fiction, non fiction, movies, and other media, often make the same murderous (to essays) mistakes--- they plot retell. They get into that whole "and then_______________ and then ______________" then you are writing the essay wrong.
Before I tell you how to use an example to help you compose a perfect paper, I want to tell you, as an English professor, the way most students falter when composing this book.
In a critical analysis essay, you have to assume that your reader already has seen this movie or read the book closely. This will keep you from retelling them the plot of the book. Pretend as if your reader knows every single thing about what happened in the play, movie, book, short story, or other work you are discussing.
When trying to find good samples of essays, you must realize that a really good critical analysis might not have been written about that work—yet. . . (you might still write it!).
Therefore, you need to search for essays on famous works, that students have been writing on for some time. You can try essays on Shakespeare, Hemingway, Faulkner, Sam Shepard, -- any work that has garnered respect for years and years.
This system works because these are essays that are time tested and work.
Try searching for "award winning student essays on _________________________." These types of searches will reveal essays that can serve as a good model of the kind of essay that you need to write.
Once you get the sample do you know what you are looking for when you read it? What you can learn from these student writers is very important. Looking at a sample can be the very key you need to sit down and start writing yourself. I am going to tell you exactly what to see in these essays as a model for your own.
Look at the intro and note how many attention-getting sentences they use to get you interested in the topic.
Then note how they use their thesis statement, which tells the reader exactly what the essay will do.
Then, note how many evidence paragraphs they use and how they write a good closing paragraph.
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Sorry I can post the entire article but is anyone excited about this?
Has gotten back b/b/s function so far
Sorry I can post the entire article but is anyone excited about this?
Has gotten back b/b/s function so far
Yea over time. I have a paper copy which has the full article. Out if town but hope to scan it next week and put up. I may find some time to put type some of it out tonight.
Electrode Implants Help Paralyzed Patient Back Onto His Feet
Electrical stimulation offers hope for adults with spinal cord injuries to learn to walk again.
By Nate Berg
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Rob Summers is standing up. Two feet on the ground, legs straight, hips squared. He has done it thousands of times before — out of bed in the morning to practice with his championship-winning collegiate baseball team, or up from the couch to get a snack.
Most memorably, he stood up on a July night in 2006 to walk out the door and over to his parked car on a street in Portland, Ore. Standing next to his Ford Explorer, he saw the lights of another vehicle approaching from behind. It was coming fast — too fast.
Before he could get out of the way, the car threw him to the ground, and the driver fled what was a gruesome scene: Summers lay on the asphalt in a pool of blood, the victim of a hit-and-run that severed the connection between his brain and spinal cord and paralyzed him from the chest down.
Fast-forward three and a half years: A 23-year-old Summers is standing up again. He's in a lab, hooked up to wires and sensors, and surrounded by doctors and research assistants. He is the first patient in an experiment that has gone fantastically right.
Yea, if someone who has access to the article and could give us some more specific information, that'd be great.
Whatever return he has got is good...but before is, I have read that he has (self reported) "improved" b/b/s function. This of course could mean a lot of things.
A fair amount of time has passed.
"This is very exciting. It will make a big impact. If it works in one person, it's going to work in many people," said McDonald, who believes the technology may help about 10% to 15% of people with spinal cord injuries.
The surgical procedure was followed up with daily physical therapy sessions, and Summers has regained some sexual and bladder function, doctors said.
The procedure is not ready for the clinic, cautioned Susan Harkema, of the University of Louisville's Department of Neurosurgery and Frazier Rehab Institute, where Summers was treated. The scientists will test the treatment in a second patient this summer.
McDonald said the technology won't help everyone.
"This has the potential to dramatically change the lives," McDonald said. "It's not a perfect cure, but it doesn't need to be."
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.
Isn't this just an old story? Epi-stim.
There are articles back a couple of years ago but this is a recent 2013 article with how things have progressed and trial they are doing with 4 other subjects
If there is new information, could you post the article? Thank you...
Here is some parts of the article which was in Discovery Magazine:
In late 2009 a team surgically implanted the electrode array directly over Summers' dura. The neurostimulator device and remote controlled mechanisim bulge out of the lower right side of his back like a "small stack of business cards".
A few weeks after recovering from the surgery they turned on the stimulator and lowered him onto a treadmill. As his feet touched down and his lower body began to feel his weight Summers' legs began to engage. The trainers stabilized him but slowly moved away and he was able to stand on his own.
After a few months of training with the implant (which included standing and assisted walking over a treadmill) he was able to show improvements in how stable and how long he was able to stand. Unexpectedly he also regained other movements below his waist: wiggling his toes, moving his ankles, bending his knees, and flexing his hips. The more his motor neurons communicated with the muscles in his lower body the more he remembered how to move. The training was augmented by the electrical stimulation itself. Edgerston says the current might of reactivated damaged neurons or caused new neurons to grow across the site of the injury or both. Although he could stand only a few minutes in a harness that first time in 2009, Summers now practices unassisted for an hour a day. He regularly does cardio and weight training as well.
Before the treatment like most people he didn't sweat below injury level/trouble regulating blood pressure/trouble getting an erection/no control over bowels and bladder. "I had a prescription list close to two pages long" to regulate most of these functions, he says. But after the implant and through his extensive training, Summers has regained control of most of these functions and has ditched the drugs-an unexpected result that he says has given him back much of the freedom he lost after his accident.
Edgerton can't say for sure why those functions returned, although he hypothesizes that they may have come back once more blood was pumping into the legs as muscles started to engage again.
The electrode device is not fine-tuned enough for walking, a much more complicated movement. Edgerton and Harkema are now working on a more sophisticated stimulator that could help patients take the next step.
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One of the few technologies to survive cancellation of the Army's multi-billion dollar contacting fiasco known as FCS is the Non Line-of-Sight Launch System's (NLOS-LS) Precision Attack Missile. Only it turns out the NLOS missile isn't so precise. In recent tests out at White Sands, New Mexico, the missile failed to hit its target four out of six times, Defense News' Kate Brannen reports. Not only did it miss, but it missed by a lot:
"Test missiles failed to hit a moving tank 20 kilometers away, a moving infantry vehicle 10 kilometers away, a stationary tank 30 kilometers away, and a stationary truck 35 kilometers away. It missed the infantry vehicle by 20 meters, and the truck by 25 kilometers."
The only two hits came when the missile used its laser designator instead of the errant infrared seeker. The story says the Army is looking at scaling back its buy of the NLOS missiles that cost $466,000 apiece in favor of a cheaper alternative.
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Please note: Matters concerning grades, academic progress, financial aid and other issues associated with a student's academic program at BCC should be directed to the appropriate college Dean and should not be reported through a BAT reporting process.
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Electronic reporting of concerning behavior does not preempt other methods of reporting. Suspected violations of law may be report to BCC Security and the Massachusetts State Police. The BCC Safety and Security Department provides a 24-hour telephone line (413-236-1010) that may be used to report a threat of violence or concerning behavior. This number should not be used for emergencies.
BCC's Personal Counseling offers assistance in how to help someone in crisis and how to make a referral. If students need immediate assistance, BCC Security can also help them access the Brien Center Crisis Team at 413-499-0412, available 24 hours.
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I thought that Collier had some great points that she wrote about. I agreed with many of them which is why I chose to do quotes this week and discuss the three that I thought were important.
"The key is the true appreciation of the different
linguistic and cultural values that students bring into the classroom"(Collier)
I thought that this was an important quote because it is nothing but the truth. How can you have students who speak another language in your classroom if you cannot appreciate different cultural backgrounds? To me it is not possible, you need to appreciate it to be able to accept it. If you accept your students and their different backgrounds, chances are you will have a better relationship with them. I think that it is very important to support a child's first language if you are going to be their teacher.
"It is the social bias that language-minority students experience most often in school.
When the children are very young, it is experienced as personal inadequacy. When the child is older, it is taken as an indictment, a personal and familial affront"(Collier)
No matter what language is spoken, everyone is the same. Students are not different because of the language they speak and teachers need to understand this. Young children may feel that they are not capable of learning in school if the teacher does not incorporate their language that they speak at home into the classroom. Older children will think it is their families fault that english is not their first language but nobody chooses what culture and language they will come from and use to speak. Like Collier states in guideline number four, the languages need to be appreciated.
"To affirm the home language means that they will not be told that they are wrong, or that what they say is vulgar or bad. Instead, the teacher analyzes with the students the differences between their dialect and the standard variety..."(Collier)
There was a bit more to this quote but I felt that the important part was in the beginning. A teacher shall not tell a student that the language they are speaking is wrong, rather to help them work on how to say their words in their language and put them into the english form. Telling a student they are wrong about their own language that they likely know better than you who does not speak it as a first language will not give them the courage that they need. The student will bring their language to the classroom, and the teacher will bring english to the classroom and together they shall work on them in a safe and comfortable environment.
As well as teaching multilingual children, I think it is important to know the benefits of being multilingual. I think that if a teacher is having a hard time getting a student to believe that being multilingual is good, they should watch this video to be able to explain how it benefits the brain.
Points for discussion in class:
Students should always feel comfortable speaking their first language and teachers should be aware of how to incorporate the different languages and cultures into classrooms. Every language is special and children should not feel as though it is bad that they do not speak english. Just as Collier states, appreciation and acceptance is key.


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Aces and Faces, the super new game of Video Poker is being dealt to you right here at Slingo! Can you get your mitts on those all-important winning hands?
It's you against the dealer - so prepare yourself for an epic poker battle!
You'll even have the chance to double your winnings, so play like a pro.
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Your total bet amount is the number of coins you play, multiplied by the coin
size you bet. You can select a coin size either by clicking BET, or by going
to Settings and tapping coins. Tap the payout table to choose the number of
coins. If your cards create a winning hand then, you guessed it, you'll get a
fantastic win! The better the hand, the bigger the winnings, so go for it!
Return to player
This game has a theoretical RTP of 99.26% which means for every £100 wagered
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(Newton, Mass.) The Rivier University Women's Volleyball team extended their recent winning streak to seven games this evening as they defeated Mount Ida College, 3-0 in a Great Northeast Athletic Conference contest at the MIC Athletic Center. The win catapults the Raiders' overall record to 9-3 and 2-0 in conference play while the Mustangs fall to 7-6 overall, 0-1 in the GNAC.
Rivier was victorious by set scores of 25-11, 25-14 and 25-18.
Sophomore sensation Taylor Dunster (Sutton, Mass.) once again led the Raider offense as she hammered down 13 kills and a .323 hitting percentage. Dunster also collected 14 digs with senior libero Bethany Trevino (Westminster, Colo.) picking up the team high of 17 digs on the evening. Junior setter Hayley Macken (Clifton Park, N.Y.) dished out 27 assists while adding six kills of her own and freshman Jillian Rabasco (Nashua, N.H.) totaled five kills and six service aces. Senior Madison Soucy (Tolland, Conn.) also collected 11 digs in the win.
Mount Ida was guided by freshman Rachael Coloumbo's (Wallkill, N.Y.) six kills and senior Mary Kate Reidy (Agawam, Mass.) added five of her own. Sophomore Alexis Bell (Salem, Conn.) led the team with 16 assists and 14 digs.
Next up for the Raiders will be a GNAC Tri-Match at the Muldoon Gymnasium as they host Suffolk University and Johnson & Wales University on Saturday. The first game against Suffolk is set to begin at 11am while the rematch of the previous three GNAC WVB Championship games is scheduled to start at 3pm. Mount Ida will host New England College and Lesley University in a non-conference tri-match on Saturday.


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WHS (WHS) Class of 1994 Alumni List
Help us Update the WHS 1994 Class List by adding any names missing from the list below:
Registered Alumni
1994 Class List
- Adriene Arnold
- John Bradford
- Johnny Bradford
- Eric Broom
- Ebony Carson
- Chiquita Conley
- Samaria Crenshaw
- Seth Deaton
- LaTosha Dugger
- Geneva Fouts
- Terrence Freeman
- Larry Gause
- Mara Harden
- Marlow Harmon
- Kijakazi Hill
- Nephetiria Huley
- Crystal Johnson
- David Johnston
- Kenneshia Jones
- Kenneshia Highly Favored Jones
- Rebecca Kuenker
- Lavicia Little
- James Long
- Kandra Mcbride
- Christopher Mckay
- Latonya Mcneil
- Candace Moore
- Jamilah Moore
- Genny Fouts Nabors
- Jennifer Pologruto
- Erica Russell
- Mohammad Shaikh
- Josh Smith
- Kim Sneed
- Shironda Stepney
- Coley Thornton
- Sara White
- Sarah White
- Deidra Williams
- Marlo Woods
- Shatora Yates
- Sherhonda Young
Know WHS Class of 1994 graduates that are NOT on this List? Help us Update the 1994 Class List by adding missing names.
The Lion King was the top movie in theaters in 1994, with a lifetime gross of over $422,780,140. Among TV shows in 1994, 60 Minutes was the most popular of the year.
Hit Songs From 1994
When Can I See YouBabyface
The Most Beautiful Girl In The WorldThe Artist Formerly Known As Prince
Whoomp! (There It Is)Tag Team
Return To InnocenceEnigma
Anytime You Need A FriendMariah Carey
AgainJanet Jackson
Here Comes The HotstepperIni Kamoze
Bop Gun (One Nation)Ice Cube
At Your Best (You Are Love)Aaliyah
Streets Of PhiladelphiaBruce Springsteen
Hit Movies From 1994
Hit TV Shows From 1994
Reunions and Wooddale High School News
More 1994 alumni from Wooddale HS have posted profiles on Classmates.com®. Click here to register for free at Classmates.com® and view other 1994 alumni.
Missing some friends from Wooddale High that graduated with you in 1994? Check the list below that shows the Wooddale class of '94.
If you are an alumn of WHS you should register now in the alumni directory. We also encourage you to interact with the rest of the alumni on this site. You can find old friends, share photos and stay updated on the latest school news.


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1. Once you have signed up to the site you can view and message carers. Type in
the postcode for where the care is required and which type of care you need (hourly, live-in or overnight) and the platform will identify those carers that match as closely as possible your criteria. We then recommend that:
you message those carers to discuss your requirements which you think might be
suitable and they should respond to you within 24 hrs. Please try to be as
flexible as possible, the carers on our site are growing a team of clients - the
more flexible you are, the greater choice of carer you will have
2. Once you have agreed responsibilities and terms and ideally had a face-to-face
meeting, your carer will send you a service agreement through the platform for your
3. Next check the care schedule times, dates and fees are in order. If all is in order
you will need to approve the service agreement by clicking on the Start Contract
button. The button will go green and your carer's contract has been approved
4. Next you will need to click on the "Authorise" button to arrange payment. We use
'Stripe' as a very secure third party online payment mechanism. Their login box
appears asking for your credit card details. Please complete and then your
payment is held securely in a third party account and will only be released to the
carer after the weekly schedule of care is completed
5. If your care is ongoing, your carer will send you your weekly care shifts for
approval. Click on the "Authorise" button to approve each week's payment. You
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2016 Schedule | 2016 Roster | Preview Video | Social Media
LANCASTER, Pa. – Franklin & Marshall's women's cross country team opens its 2016 season today, hosting the Little Three Meet which features long-time rivals Dickinson and Gettysburg. The annual competition is the first official event for a young Diplomat squad that is aiming for another quality showing at the 2016 NCAA Mid-East Regionals.
To watch the season preview video, click here.
2016 Diplomats
Julia Zielinski and Rachel Weiss, F&M's top two finishers at the 2015 NCAA Mid-East Regionals, were lost to graduation. However, five new faces joined the roster for 2016 and are expected to make an immediate impact. Improved performances from a core of returning contributors and the infusion of new talent has the Diplomats set to finish in the top half of the region for the eighth consecutive year.
Key Returners
Grace Adams – Jr.
Kathleen McCutcheon – Jr.
Abby Grehlinger – Jr.
Amelia Cadwell – So.
Adams leads the crew of returners after she was third across the line for F&M at the regional championships last season. Cadwell and McCutcheon were also featured at regionals a year ago, while Grehlinger has had a strong preseason and looks set for a breakout junior season.
The Road Ahead
F&M hosts its first official meet of the year today, beginning at 6:30 p.m. as rivals Gettysburg and Dickinson come to Lancaster for the Little Three Meet.
Other big events include the Desales Invitational on Oct. 8 in Allentown, Pa. The meet serves as a preview of the 2016 Mid-East Regionals, which will also be hosted by Desales on Nov. 12.
A continued feature to this year's schedule is the "Add to Calendar" button, which allows fans to sync new events and updates directly in their Google, Exchange, Yahoo, Outlook, ICal and additional calendars.
Look for the icon below, which can be accessed at the top-right of the 2016 women's cross country schedule when viewed on your computer, or bottom-left of all schedules on your mobile device.
Follow Along
All of your favorite Diplomat athletic teams are available on social media. Follow them on Twitter and Instagram and like them on Facebook.


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There was plenty of history and prestige at stake at the $15,000 buy-in World Poker Tour No-Limit Texas Hold'em Championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas way back in December 2004, not to mention the first-place prize of $1.8 million dollars.
On the third day of this five-day marathon tournament, the following hand came up between an amateur player — let's call him Mr. X — and me. At the time, only 45 players out of the starting 400 entrants remained.
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With the blinds at $3,000/$6,000 plus a $500 per player ante, Mr. X, who had $164,500 in chips, opened for $15,000 from the 7-seat. I was in the 3-seat with $285,000 in chips and looked down at pocket kings.
How should I play this big hand?
Sure, I love having pocket cowboys but I just couldn't decide how to play them against an unknown amateur in this situation. I figured I had two options. I could either smooth-call my opponent's bet and hope to extract a lot more of his chips later in the hand, or I could re raise his bet and give him the chance to rer aise me back.
The smooth-call would entail merely calling his pre-flop $15,000 bet in order to disguise the strength of my hand. My goal, obviously, would be to make my hand appear much weaker than it really was. Then, later in the hand, I'd try to draw another $40,000 to $120,000 into the pot since my opponent might assume that I was trying to steal the pot with an oversized bet.
But I also knew that a re raise before the flop would alert my Mr. X to the strength of my hand and would likely cause him to fold. Then again, there was also the possibility that my reraise would induce Mr. X to move all-in with an inferior hand like J-J, Q-Q, A-K, or even worse. In that case, I'd be a huge favorite to win a ton of chips in this poker game.
Well, I chose to make the extremely safe play. I made a huge pre-flop reraise.
Here's my reasoning. First, I wanted to protect my hand. There was no way that I was going to give Mr. X a free card to beat me. Second, I had already decided that I would move all-in for the rest of my chips on the flop in the event Mr. X called my massive pre-flop reraise, assuming a non-ace flop like Q-9-4 or 2-2-7. I'd have to protect my hand from a potential bad beat one more time.
So I raised my opponent's bet up to $80,000, a $65,000 reraise into the $40,000 pot.
Somewhat surprisingly, though, Mr. X responded by shoving all-in for $164,500. I made the call in a split second and turned up my pocket kings. Mr. X's face looked ashen as he showed his Ad-Jd. I was now a 2 1/2-to-1 favorite to take down the pot.
The flop came down K-Q-J. Yes, a beautiful set of kings for me! I was so close to taking a massive $460,000 chip lead. All I had to do was dodge a ten on the turn or river, but you guessed it, a ten hit on the turn and Mr. X made his Broadway straight.
I was still in the hand, though, as any card on the river that paired the board would give me the winning hand. Nope, didn't happen. The last card was an eight and I was crippled.
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GE discontinued manufacturing of the Power Break I circuit breaker in 2008, and the remaining inventories of these breakers have now been depleted.
Fortunately, GE's next generation of circuit breakers, Power Break II, provided a useful platform for developing a retrofill kit for the now obsolete Power Break I models. Since the Power Break II breakers are not drop-in replacements, GE has developed an engineered retrofill solution that will serve the needs of end-users with both fixed-mounted and draw-out versions of the Power Break I breakers.


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There is a clear link between STEM – Science Technology, Engineering and Maths – and land-based education. From developing new energy sources and developing new high yield crops, to protecting rare species of animals, these skills are essential. In fact, it might be a surprise to people just how many different careers within the land-based sector require STEM skills. Kingston Maurward College offers a wide range of courses which teaches the STEM curriculum and can help young people secure jobs in these fields. There are jobs to suit all skill levels in a range of different environments from vets using ultrasound technology to diagnose pregnancies to precision farming using GPS satellite driven combine harvesters. We have an excellent reputation for teaching these STEM skills within agriculture, animal conservation and welfare, marine ecology and horticulture. However, you may not know that we also offer construction and sports and fitness diplomas or that we teach up to the highest level of the Association of Accounting Technician's (AAT) Accountancy qualifications. STEM skills currently integrated within the Kingston Maurward College curriculum:
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Maurward College has two state of the art laboratories within the Learning Resources Centre which support learning in anatomy & physiology, nutrition, microbiology, genetics, soil analysis and botany. Students may find themselves analysing plant DNA, investigating the welfare of supermarket chickens or viewing the life in a drop of lake water through high-powered microscopes. The laboratories are modern flexible spaces, supported by qualified staff where students can work in small groups or individuals on student research projects.


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Few things are better at the end of a long day than coming home to a dinner that's already prepared.
This super simple White Chicken Chili cooks away all day while you're at work. Just toss the beans in when you get home, decompress for 20 minutes, and omnomnom…..
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Slow Cooker White Chicken Chili
- 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 2 4oz cans diced green chilies
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2-3 cloves minced garlic
- 3-4 c chicken broth
- 2 cans white beans, drained and rinsed
- 1/2 lime
- salt
- pepper
- cumin
- chopped cilantro and sour cream (for garnish)
Place the chicken breasts in bottom of slow cooker
Top with chilies, onion, and garlic
Sprinkle with a little salt, pepper, and cumin and squeeze the lime over all
Pour chicken broth around the ingredients
Cook on high for four hours, or low for 8
When done, shred chicken with two forks and add back to slow cooker, along with the two cans of beans
Cook on low for about 20 minutes more
Garnish with chopped cilantro and sour cream
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September 6, 2014 @ 11:30 am - 4:00 pm| Free
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The Southeast Asian Arts and Culture Coalition present the Mid-Autumn Harvest Festival on Saturday, September 6, 2014, 11:30am-4pm at Tenderloin Children's Recreation Center. The exhibition helps promote and preserve the arts and culture of the Southeast Asian American communities in San Francisco. There will be representatives from the Burmese, Cambodian, Laotian, Thai, and Vietnamese communities.


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Welcome to Puxirum (a Tupi word), which means in Brazilian Portuguese "mutirão", and in english this single word means "help that members of a community give each other".
The Puxirum of Arts and Indigenous Knowledge.
That was the place were the Natives had congregated to the lectures.
They came from all Latin American countrys, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil...
V World Social Forum, Porto Alegre city (jannuary, 2005)
Welcome to Puxirum (a Tupi word), which means in Brazilian Portuguese "mutirão", and in english this single word means "help that members of a community give each other".
Guillermo Ashaninka
From Peruvian Amazonia, Guillermo is an Ashaninka and one representant from AIDESEP. He was funny guy, but also very serious... a interesting combination.
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Pataxós, Brazilian Natives painting their bodies to the manifestation. They are living big problems with their land's demarcation, fighting with farmers and big cellulose multinacional industry. It was wonderful to see they doing that paintings, preparing their soul.
Nícia Maldonado
Here is Nícia Maldonadon, co-ordenator from CONIVE (Venezuela), talking to their/ours brothers, on the Puxirim lectures, from the V World Social Forum.
Guarani Kaiowá people
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Village Nhanderu Marangatu, in Mato Grosso brazilian's state.
I believe the link above should be the most complete information about brazilian indigenous, translated to english. It's a non profit organization, with a very intense work. Hope you enjoy.
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Website links are like many things in life (dishwashers, car transmissions, significant others) – we all have them and need them, but few people know how they work. This article will give you a complete run-down of the types of SEO links there are, and how you can best make them work for you.
What are links for, anyway?
The primary purpose of SEO links is to increase rankings for relevant & targeted keywords, not to drive traffic. In this matter, quality trumps quantity. Consistent & efficient link building is very important to how a website ranks (along with on-page optimizations which are the other vital half of search engine optimization.)
Many SEO companies promise 1,000s of links, but these many links are useless if the sites they link to your site have no strength.
How does one determine the quality of a link?
The quality of a link is determined by a many different factors, but the biggest ones are domain authority and page relevancy:
- Domain authority – Strength of the URL
- Consider: Are targeted keywords used in the URL? Is it an old URL with a lot of good solid history? Does it have a strong page rank or Moz page authority? All of these factors are used to determine the muscle power of a site, and thus the power of a link from the site.
- Page relevancy – Topics and content on the site
- Consider the topics and subjects used in the content of the page, and the keyword used as hyperlink text for the link. These factors should be relevant to your site and the keywords you wish to rank for.
Types of links – Do follow & No follow
Also, there are two types of links. They are as similar as two different shirts, but have very important differences, like a t-shirt vs. a sweater:
- Do follow
- This type of link passes SEO value to a linked website.
- No Follow
- This type of link passes SEO value to a linked website, but tells the Google bots and scanners to not penalize the site with poor rankings due to being linked from a poor website. Penalties from Google can be caused by too many links (link farms, link "stuffing"), bad links, and duplicate content. A No Follow code tag tells Google, "This link isn't necessarily relevant, so don't hold this link against me!"
- Note that all social media links are No Follow. They pass along SEO juice, but they cannot create a penalty on your site.
The difference between DoFollow and NoFollow is all in the code they use when placing the link.
- This is a NoFollow link example:
- Targeted Keyword
- This code tells the Google bots and scanners to disregard all the authority that one site passes to another site.
- This is a DoFollow link example:
- Targeted Keyword
- This code tells the Google bots and scanners to pass the authority-building juice along to your page from their page.
Anchor text
Anchor text is the text that is hyperlinked (highlighted) and clickable, that can can come in or go out from a given site. You never want to overdo anchor text, especially with the exact same term used over and over. Again, link building is about quality and not quantity.
Always use links that make sense on your site and are relevant to the search terms for which you would like to rank.
Using text is essential for link building. When the text is placed in an image file, it is not recognized by Google bots and scanners as a link for the keyword. It is recognized as an image link, but it doesn't have that clickable text that will tell Google what your site is all about, and give the link strength for terms searched on Google.
You'll want to tell them that when they link to your site, they want to use a "DoFollow" link, as opposed to a "NoFollow" link.
In a Nutshell: Best practice for linking
An ideal link is built with hyperlinked text, is DoFollow, and the name of the link is the keywords you would like to target.
So a good, quality link looks like this inside of a paragraph:
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With a little bit of effort, you can guide your partners and vendors to link to your site and pass along domain authority safely, and by Google's rules. But always check with internet marketing and SEO professionals when deciding which kind of link will be the most beneficial to your site.


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Nothing looks more appealing than a home that exudes warmth. There are ways to spruce up your home and create that welcoming vibe that attracts people and keeps them happy. While some home décor ideas can be really expensive there are some that hardly cost anything. One such idea is to dress up your walls in colors and textures that are not only very appealing but signify who you are. Ethnic wallpaper may just be what you are looking for if you want your house to look warm, traditional and 'homely' in every sense of the word. Ethnic wallpaper for walls has now become a rage. People prefer it to brighten up a corner or simply transform the look and feel of a room. When complemented with the right furniture and artifacts, ethnic wallpaper can add more drama to the room.
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The Upper Charles River Trail is open again to walkers and cyclists, but crews have one more step before the project to remove all contaminated soil near the path will be completed.
The Upper Charles River Trail is open again to walkers and cyclists, but crews have one more step before the project to remove all contaminated soil near the path will be completed.
A section of the trail between Fino Field and Dilla Street had been closed since December for an Environmental Protection Agency-funded cleanup of land behind Benjamin Moore & Co.'s Sumner Street facility.
Workers have finished removing soil from near the trail but have temporarily stored it in a parking lot between the Fino Field pool and Votolato Field, Town Engineer Michael Santora said.
"The excavation has been backfilled, and fencing has all been removed," Santora said. "The public is welcome to start using the trail again."
The soil, covered with a tarp and fenced off, is being stored in the parking lot while it is tested to determine its permeability and what exactly is in it. Once workers get the test results, they will know how they should get rid of the material, Santora said.
The excavation work was finished and the trail reopened about two weeks ago. The pile should be gone within a few weeks, Santora said.
Crews removed soil on both sides of a 300-foot stretch of the trail as part of the $250,000 project.
"They didn't get rid of it all," Santora said. "Their goal was to get rid of enough of it that it is no longer a threat to the public. (The state Department of Environmental Protection) and EPA have both deemed that to be the case."
Reno DeLuzio, chairman of the Milford Upper Charles River Trail Committee, said he hasn't received complaints from trail users about the work.
"People are being fairly patient and know it will be done soon," DeLuzio said.
The contamination included heavy metals such as cadmium and lead that the town thinks leaked onto its land in the 1960s or 1970s from property currently owned by Benjamin Moore. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad previously owned the property and leased it to a company that put enamel coatings on metal.
The town sued Benjamin Moore in 2009, looking to hold the company liable for the contamination. Benjamin Moore, which bought the land in 1999, has denied responsibility.
The town also sued the state Department of Environmental Protection over the classification of the property and how quickly it had to be cleaned up.
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President Obama is fond of quoting and using Ronald Reagan references in his speeches when he wants Republicans to get on board with something. Now he would like the Senate to play ball and ratify the START Treaty during this lame duck session.
Obama mentioned Ronald Reagan four times in his weekly address, noting that when the Republican president signed a nuclear arms treaty with the Soviet Union in 1987 he said, "trust but verify."
"That is precisely what the New START Treaty does," the president said of the new nuclear treaty that he signed with Russian President Medvedev in April.
"After nearly a full year of negotiations, we completed an agreement earlier this year that cuts by a third the number of long-range nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles that the United States and Russia can deploy, while ensuring that America retains a strong nuclear deterrent, and can put inspectors back on the ground in Russia."
Republicans, feeling the pressure of voters who turned out in record numbers for a mid-term election and delivered a solid Republican victory night, are leery of the President's claims that the treaty must be ratified "quickly" by the Senate. His rush to legislate has put us in the continuing mess we experience today.
In recent days, Obama has publicly raised the stakes for Republicans opposed to the treaty, which allows U.S. inspectors to monitor Russian arsenals during the nuclear disarmament process. This week, flanked by an impressive roster of American foreign policy titans — including prominent Republicans — Obama pressured the Senate to act while demonstrating strong bipartisan backing for the treaty.Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45437.html#ixzz15vIoc6GD
And, by the way, why hasn't Obama learned yet that "chiding" is not the same as persuading the opposition party to come to your side of an agreement?
The treaty was signed last April. There are 59 Democratic Senators serving now. Why has the treaty just now been the sole foreign policy focus for Obama's administration? Because it really isn't such a top priority? Because now that the mid-term election results are in, the Democratic majority has shrunk and pushing everything is mandatory before the new session begins?
Senator Kyl is a respected member who thoughtfully contemplates legislation. He is not some glory hound looking to get headlines for opposing the President. Administration officials - anonymous, of course - send out talking points and are ramping up the pressure on Kyl.
We're hearing from Senator Kyl that we came too late with this offer, we don't have enough time to study it. It's quite an extraordinary thing, showing the budget to Congress three months early, I don't think it's ever been done before. And two days after we finalized the numbers, we flew a team to Arizona to see him and present it to him for three hours. So now he says we are 'too late,' when it was he who laid out the schedule," one senior administration official said.
We will soon know if the vote happens or not in the lame duck session.


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The Hamuq Mattress Review
A good night's sleep is always a must for every individual. We all perform well at work or school if we get enough sleep. A great sleeping habit is also key for maintaining good skin and an overall positive attitude. When it comes to better sleeping habits, a proper mattress is a crucial element. This review is specific for the hamuq mattress.
There are numerous mattresses being sold today, each with different features, materials and sizes so it can get a little confusing as to which product you might want to buy. If you need help, check out reviews of such products. In this article, you can read more about the Hamuq Hybrid Mattress.
- Has minimum foam density of 2 lbs.
- Uses pocket coil technology for less motion transfer
- Comes with coils made from 15-gauge Canadian steel
- Gives great support; designed and produced in Toronto, Canada
- Can be used on slatted bed frames, platform beds, standard box springs or straight on the floor
- Has 12" thickness
- Suits all sleeping styles—side, back, stomach
- Company provides 101-night trial period for free
Good mattresses are not hard to find these days but due to the abundance of models, choosing a great one can be a challenge. To make your selections easier, always look for reviews of products you are interested in. Chances are you may have been curious about the workings of the Hamuq Hybrid mattress.
The mattress has been built with a new advanced design where the company has condensed the mattress and securely rolled it into a manageable, more compact package. By making use of a coil system, the product is allowed to "breath" as air is capable of circulating beneath the mattress. This leads to a
mattress that is cool and comfortable to lie on.
The pocket coil system design decreases motion transfer in the same manner as memory foam. The mattress is composed of foam that is wrapped with a sturdy biofoam material all over its edges to guarantee excellent edge support. It also comes with a slim layer of biofoam on top of the coils.
The layer is followed by 3 lbs. of VLS gel memory foam and 2 inches of soft biofoam. It is finished off with 1" ultra-dense foam quilting on top of the mattress. Because of the merging of foam layers, it makes for a comfortable bed to rest and lie on and it retains stability as well due to the presence of pocket coils.
The mattress is medium firm which many will appreciate, particularly side sleepers. It has softness due to the presence of the pillow-type top; however, it does provide stability and a solid foundation because of the pocket coils.
The mattress was tested right away after unboxing and even though it was not completely inflated after unrolling, the mattress displayed a firmness that is excellent compared to similar products. Check out the mattress after a few hours and it will have expanded to full size, providing a wholly comfortable and firm surface that your back will be thankful for.
Light sleepers will not be disturbed while snoozing because of little motion transfer. This makes the mattress a nice bed for couples. The mattress can be rotated if you prefer and the company suggests that you can rotate the mattress every 6 months if you want.
Another advantage of this product is that it does not hold heat, unlike memory foam mattresses. The product will not sag after extended use since the pocket coils are known to contain their original shape extremely well, even after a lengthy amount of time.
Lastly, if the mattress doesn't work for you, the company offers a 101-night free trial run for the mattress. You can use it until the allotted time and in case you are not too keen on keeping it, you can return the product to the company and avail of a refund.
Because this product has a medium firmness, this might not be ideal for strict stomach sleepers. Strictly stomach sleepers require something extremely firm, almost like a board. While it has a plush feel, it is not overly so and it melds softness and firmness at balanced amounts. Hence this product will accommodate the needs of all types of sleepers. If you only sleep on your side, then you should consider getting something firmer.
In addition, the company does not ship to the US.
Update July 4th: It is now shipping to the USA
The Hamuq Hybrid is something all sleepers should check out… if you live in Canada, that is. (update: USA now too 🙂
It's main selling points are the pocket coils, sleeping cooler, no sinking, and lots of comfort. This is a product that combines a balanced level of softness and firmness. It is not too firm nor too plush; providing a balanced amount of support with a soft feel.
The product was also a success in terms of less motion transfer so it makes for an excellent bed for couples. The mattress is made with premium materials that last for a long time. Lastly, you can test the product for 101 nights, thanks to the company's trial period.


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The ANC in the Eastern Cape has weighed in on the assault conviction against one of its councilors, Andile Lungisa.
Lungisa is currently appealing his sentence of an effective two-years in prison for assaulting DA Councillor Rano Kayser with a glass jug during the now-infamous Council brawl of 2016.
Speaking on the sidelines of the party's caucus into the challenges faced by the ANC-led coalition in the Metro on Monday, ANC Provincial Chairperson Oscar Mabuyane said the Party's National Executive Committee had looked into the matter.
Mabuyane said Lungisa's case should be dealt with through the ANC's internal disciplinary processes as it would be unfair to solely judge him on the outcome of a sentence which is currently under appeal.
He said for this reason, the ANC had given Lungisa time to appeal his conviction as it was his constitutional right to appeal to the last court available to him.
Addressing the issue of the coalition government between the ANC and the United Democratic Movement in Nelson Mandela Bay, Mabuyane said it remains intact – for now.
He acknowledged, however, that the lack of service delivery and recent SMME related murders in the Metro signaled troubled governance.
Mabuyane said the caucus planned to rekindle the spark within the party's regional leaders in the Metro.
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Cupid's Undie Run: Fremantle
Sunday, 17 February 2019
Esplanade Park, Fremantle, WA
Cupid's Undie Run is a 1.5 kilometre-ish run in your underwear on Valentine's Weekend on Sunday, 17 February 2019 in Fremantle, WA.
Put the hilarity in charity with hundreds of other half-naked or fancy-dressed runners taking to the streets in celebration of their fundraising for the Children's Tumour Foundation.
The event kicks off at Esplanade Park, where The Jungle Body will warm up the crowd. Once you have completed the run, head to the Ball and Chain for light refreshments, drink specials and Cupid's cocktails.
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Applebee's to hold Step Up for Autism fund-raisers Sept. 23
The community can support people with autism by dining at Applebee's on Wednesday, September 23.
From 11:00 to 11:00 that day, the Applebee's restaurants on Fairmount Avenue in Lakewood and Vineyard Drive in Dunkirk are prepared to donate 10 percent of the cost of each meal (excluding tax and tip) to the 2015 Step Up for Autism celebration.
To have 10 percent of the cost of your Applebee's meal be donated to Step Up for Autism, you must present a voucher provided by Applebee's. The vouchers for the Lakewood and Dunkirk Applebee's appear below. If you can't print the voucher, contact Kayla Bohall at 661-1434 and she can fax or email the voucher to you.
The sixth annual Step Up for Autism takes place Saturday, September 26, in Celoron. Proceeds will go to Filling the Gap, Inc., and The Resource Center to support individuals on the autism spectrum. For more information, phone 661-1477 or visit www.stepupforautism.com.


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An Ipswich based firm has claimed a record for the efficiency of thermo-photovoltaic (TPV) cells.
CIP Technologies said its research project, in partnership with the University of Oxford and Wafer Technology, has delivered energy conversion efficiencies up to 12 per cent. This compares to 9 per cent from existing, commercially available devices.
TPVs are similar to solar cells, but operate at infrared rather than visible wavelengths, generating electricity directly from heat. They have applications in waste heat recovery from industrial plant such as blast furnaces, combined heat and power (CHP) generation and domestic boilers, as well as silent mobile power generation.
The cells produced by the consortium are based on indium phosphide (InP) materials, rather than the more traditional gallium antimonide. According to CIP, the materials offer higher efficiency, low cost and fabrication using industry-standard processes.
The group is now working on a second-generation cell design with a more complex, multi layer construction that is designed to improve infrared capture.
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A contradiction
Back in April, Google announced a set of new advertising policies, among which was allowing advertisers to choose which sites display their ads. However, this new capability potentially shuts out a "long tail" of publishers which may be:
1. Sites with objectionable content.
2. New sites without a track record, or unfairly suspected of generating fraudulent clicks.
3. Sites with low nominal conversion rates, either due to low real conversion rates, or to low enough traffic resulting in zero conversions over some time periods.
This is part of a more general contradiction: in the quest for "quality" traffic, how much of Google's revenues will actually remain intact? If you take all the junk traffic out of the equation, will we see the same revenue growth rates? Add this to increasing competition coming from Yahoo and AskJeeves and it's an open question whether GOOG's high multiple is really justified.


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What a lovely reminder of the Bible Passage from John Chapter Eight verse 12
And this one from Psalm 18:28
What a lovely reminder of the Bible Passage from John Chapter Eight verse 12
The cross of Christ is the most recognised symbol of Christianity and mentioned forty-six times in the New Testament. There are many cross crafts which I will add to this page as I find them.
Here's a nice little pattern for a pony bead cross
You might have to use your imagination here, but I thought this might be a useful reminder for the story of Joseph in Genesis Chapter 40 and onward. I was thinking of the part in the story where Joseph hid a silver cup in his brother's luggage. Using grey or silver wool instead of the multicolour, you could use this to remind the children of the story. Follow this link here to find the instructions or click on the picture above.
The word 'wind' or 'winds' is mentioned over one hundred times in Scripture, so there should be lots of passages you could use this craft for. I have included a list of just the passages which have the word 'wind' in them. There are more which mention 'winds'.
This craft is a good one for teens and adults and perhaps older children. Although a word of caution in that the bottles are slippery when you are holding them and trying to cut through them with an exacto or craft knife or scalpel, so perhaps this part of the preparation should be left to teens or adults. They last for ages and make quite a colourful site spinning in the breeze. You can of course use whatever plastic pop/soda/softdrink/fizzy drink bottles you have on hand, 600 ml, up to two litre.
You can find the instructions from freekidscrafts.com here: or click on the picture above.
Old Testament
Genesis 8 and 41
Exodus 10 and 14
Numbers 11
2 Sam 22
1 Kings 18 and 19
2 Kings 3
Job 1;6;8;15;21;27;28;30;37
Psalm 1;11;18;35;48;78;83;103;104;135
Proverbs 11;25;27;30
Ecclesiastes 1;2;4;5;6;8;11
Song of Songs 4
Isaiah 2;11;17;24;26;27;28;32;41;57;64
Jeremiah 4;5;10;13;18;22;30;51
Ezekiel 5;13;17;19;27
Daniel 2
Hosea 8;12;13
Amos 4
Jonah 1;4
Habakkuk 1
Zechariah 5
New Testament
Matthew 11;14
Mark 4;6
Luke 7;8;12
John 3;6
Acts 2;27;28
Ephesians 4
James 1
Jude 1
Revelation 6;7
Another cutie from freekidscrafts.com is this origami frog. What better way to remind us of the account of the plagues sent by God on the Egyptians in Exodus Chapter Eight? Click on the picture or follow the link here:


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This fall inspired picture is keeping me going through summer with my August 2015 Workout Playlist. We've started Riley on two-a-day walks so some fresh music has been nice. Hope you enjoy!
August 2015's Workout Playlist*:
- Worth It (feat Kid Ink) by Fifth Harmony (3:44)
- Uma Thurman by Fall Out Boy (3:31)
- Sail by AWOLNATION (4:19)
- Radioactive by Imagine Dragons (3:06)
- Lean On (feat. MO & DJ Snake) by Major Lazer (2:56)
- I Hate Everything About You by Three Days Grace (3:55)
- Supermassive Black Hole by Muse (3:30)
- Take It Off by Ke$ha (3:35)
- Crawling in the Dark by Hoobastank (2:55)
- One, Two Step (Feat. Missy Elliot) by Ciara (3:23)
*Some of these songs contain explicit lyrics. Be sure to download the clean version to avoid language you may not want to hear.
Looking for more tunes? Check out my other workout playlists:
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This Haunting Road Trip Through Michigan Ghost Towns Is One You Won't Forget
Much of the Upper Peninsula was home to copper mines, where entire towns were built from the ground up during the 19th century. By the turn of the 20th century, many of these communities fell into disrepair when the mines ceased operation. Others are still going, though they're now sleepy burgs in comparison.
We know you love taking road trips, especially this time of year, so we put together one such excursion to be take in the Keweenaw Peninsula. The trip only takes a couple of hours and you get to catch a glimpse of many of the remains of these ghost towns along US 41. Along the way, you'll also experience the vast natural beauty that makes up the UP. For your convenience, we've included a link to the trip so you have the itinerary handy. Have a look!
1. Mandan
This ghost town boasts hardly anyone left. The community was formed in 1864 with the founding of the Mandan Company. Mining proved to be difficult here and the operation fell into disrepair by just after the turn of the 20th century.
Such rich history, wow. Love learning more about our state's ghost towns? Click here!


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Hearts Grown Brutal
Roger Cohen was the Balkan bureau chief of the New York Times from 1994 to 1995 and reported from Bosnia throughout the war there. He was one of several correspondents who in their dispatches empathized with the Bosnian-Muslim authorities and showed antipathy to the Bosnian Serbs who besieged Sarajevo. Justifiable questions have been raised in the wake of newspaper and TV reporting from the former Yugoslavia about whether correspondents who express their biases remain true reporters and have not crossed the line to become advocates.
Such questions, however, do not arise when these same correspondents become authors of books. Then they are clearly entitled to state their views. In Hearts Grown Brutal, Cohen expresses his outrage at the way Yugoslavia was destroyed. "I have tried to treat the story of Yugoslavia which lived for seventy-three years as a human one," he writes. "My understanding of the wars came through families. . . . Their story was the story I wanted to tell. . . . It seemed to me right . . . to consider Yugoslavia's destruction through families broken asunder, for this was a war of intimate betrayals."
In portraying the story of four families, Cohen relates the history of Yugoslavia, and it is not surprising in the light of his previous reporting to the New York Times that on occasion his anti-Serb tinge comes through. Cohen is too good a writer to exhibit such a bias openly. Indeed, he tries to show objectivity but inserts references here and there that have slanted connotations.
There is, for instance, his version of the origins of the dissolution of Yugoslavia in June 1991, when Slovenia and Croatia seceded and declared their respective independence. Cohen traces this event back to the 1986 Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences. He writes: "The Memorandum, paranoid, self-pitying, and aggressive, was certainly the single document most influential in establishing the drumbeat [End Page 137] of Serbian bombast and pathos that led inexorably to Yugoslavia's dismemberment." The trouble is that the existence of the memorandum was hardly known outside the circle of the Serbian Academy and that the Yugoslav regime of that period dismissed it as the expression of a certain group of Serbian nationalists who felt that the time had come, now that Tito was dead, to openly express their dissatisfaction with what they regarded as his unfair treatment of the Serbs. It is true that in 1991, when Slovenia and Croatia had to justify their secessions, their leaders quoted sentences from the memorandum in order to strengthen their case. Cohen's references to the memorandum lead the reader to the conclusion that the Serbs were responsible for the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Another indication of Cohen's anti-Serb bias can be found when he asserts, in connection with Serb activities during World War II, that "the village of Foca, on the Drina, for example, was the scene of a Serbian massacre of Muslims in January 1942." I have studied wartime events in Yugoslavia but have never come across reference to this alleged occurrence. Indeed, the Serbian resistance movement (often called Chetniks) was inactive in early 1942, with Mihailovic himself en route from Serbia to Montenegro. The other resistance movement, the Partisans led by Tito, was establishing headquarters in Foca at that time. Hence a Serb massacre of Muslims as described was most unlikely. This does not mean Serbian anti-Muslim activities did not occur during World War II. After all, Bosnia-Herzegovina was then incorporated into fascist Croatia, and many Muslims volunteered to fight in a Muslim division in the German army. In effect, Cohen's reference to a "Serbian massacre of Muslims" more than fifty years ago leads the reader to assume that more recent allegations of similar Serbian actions prove a pattern of behavior.
Cohen's book is listed as nonfiction, but there are no sources cited anywhere in more than five hundred pages. Indeed, the book reads like fiction. We follow the history of four families in which intermarriage took place between Serbs and Muslims and between Croats and Serbs, where people divorced and remarried, where children were born and older people died either peacefully or tragically, where family members betrayed their kin, where politics and war cataclysmically changed lives. The question arises as to whether all the family and other occurrences are really historical. Conversations are reported with direct quotes. Real conversations? Letters are cited verbatim. Real letters? It is at least doubtful that they are genuine translations; they sound more like Cohen's elegant style.
If we were to accept this book as fiction, it would deserve a more positive review. The author writes extremely well, portrays the former Yugoslavia and its people vividly, and knows how to keep the reader's attention. Inasmuch, however, as Hearts Grown Brutal is offered as nonfiction, it has to be judged, for the reasons outlined, more harshly. Indeed, of the many books and articles regarding the demise of the former Yugoslavia, those [End Page 138] written by academics appear to strike an objective balance, and thus hopefully contribute to eventual peace, more often than those penned by reporters on the spot who could not help but be emotionally involved in the deeply disturbing wartime events they covered.
Walter R. Roberts is the author of Tito, Mihailovic and the Allies, 1941–1945.


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(Yicai Global) Feb. 22 -- State-run contractor China Gezhouba (Group) Corp. has completed construction of Indonesia's Takalar Power Plant ahead of plan.The plant is a key project in the state's 10-million-kilowatt power development plan.
Gezhouba Group received confirmation from Indonesian Perusahaan Listrik Negara (State Electricity Co.) yesterday that the second generator of the Takalar Plant went into formal service Feb. 14, fourteen days before schedule, Chinanews.com reported. The first generator has already operated since Dec. 28.
Takalar Plant in South Sulawesi consists of two 100-million-watt generators. The facility broke ground in May 2015 in the presence of Joko Widodo, Indonesia's president. The station also went into service ahead of time after 33 months' construction, and trial operations proceeded without incident.
The generating units have already output a total electricity of 247 million kilowatt hours in trial and formal operations, and the complex is a keystone in the regional grid, keeping it safe and stable, a technician said. Gezhouba Group has expanded its business to all Belt and Road countries, said the head of its local unit, and its new contracts and business volume abroad ranked sixth and eighth among all Chinese firms last year.


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Sep 22, 2015
With Drew under quarantine (he caught the plague), the guys call on Will Chancellor to step in. He returns to the Damn Library to go deep with Christopher on Jesse Ball's latest novel, "A Cure for Suicide".
15 Seconds of a Song: Del Amitri, "Roll to Me"
Sep 10, 2015
Vanessa Manko drops in to talk about how writing is like dancing, her novel The Invention of Exile's editing journey, and they all discuss The English Patient, and suggest a novel they'd like to see made into a movie.
Fifteen seconds of a song: Fountain's of Wayne, "Mexican Wine"


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