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Retinal Tear or Detachment
What is a retinal tear or detachment?
Retinal tear or detachment (RD) is an eye condition in which the retina peels away from its underlying layer of support tissue. It is similar to wallpaper peeling off a wall.
Most retinal detachments are the result of a retinal break, hole or tear. These tears occur when the vitreous gel pulls loose or separates from its attachment to the retina, usually in the peripheral parts of the retina. The vitreous gel may tug on the retina with enough force to create a retinal tear, allowing the fluid from the vitreous cavity to pass through the tear into the space behind the retina and therefore detaching the retina.
If not promptly treated, it can lead to blindness.
Who is at risk?
The risk of RD in normal eyes is around 5 in 100,000 per year.
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- Older people over 60 years
- Severely short-sighted (myopic) people
- People who have had previous cataract surgery
- People who have had previous eye surgery or injuries to the eye
- People with a family history of retinal detachment
What are the symptoms?
- Floaters or black spots, cobwebs or squiggly lines
- Flashes like bright sparkles of lightning
- Progressive loss of vision field that looks like shadow or curtain blocking the vision, usually coming from the side
What are the available treatments?
Retinal Tears can be treated with Thermal Laser to seal the retina by placing a barrier around the tear, so that fluid cannot track under the retina and peel it off.
Retinal Detachment can be treated with the following:
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- Pneumatic retinopexy
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Digital is changing the way Canadians do business. On April 20, Digital Main Street (DMS)—encouraging retail and other city-focused businesses to adopt digital tools and technologies—is hosting the Digital Main Street Forum to spotlight processes and technologies that will help local business connect with consumers.
Held at Toronto City Hall, the forum is expected to address key practices businesses should implement to strengthen and broaden their reach. Attendees will learn about online marketing strategies, how to leverage data and better engage clients, and e-commerce approaches that will help their businesses grow their customer base.
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There will be much more to the water gallery than the specimens; another component to the exhibit will be the Hydro-Thermal Vent Diorama. Hydro-Thermal Vents are found deep down in the depths of the ocean, and the new water gallery diorama will teach us all about them! It will be in a section of the exhibit about Ocean Living that will also include information about the vastness of the ocean and the tides, among many other topics. This diorama might look familiar to those of you who visited the museum long before the construction started, and remember the old mineral gallery. Originally it was on display in the mineral gallery as an example of how the mineral food chain worked, but now it is being modified to fit into the new water gallery. Because it will now serve as an example of a Hydro-Thermal vent found off the coast of British Columbia, some of the rocks as well as flora and fauna need to be changed to represent the location accurately.
The diorama itself was constructed with museum display requirements in mind. In order for it to be easily transported into the museum, the diorama is built in two parts and all the materials used are lightweight. The rocks are made out of foam and then painted, and the rest is constructed out of sand, concrete and moldable plastics. The diorama is also built on casters so that it can be moved around for cleaning purposes. Brian Clemence is the original artist of the diorama, and he is also currently working with the museum to make the appropriate changes. He has his own sculpture studio in the Ottawa area, and you can see some more of his work in the snow sculptures on display at Winterlude!


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In what seemed to be a merely pedestrian alternate model to the Samsung Galaxy S5, the Galaxy S5 Active continues to impress with a number of surprises under the hood. We found out just a few days ago through a hands-on leak series that the Galaxy S5 Active isn't just a more rugged version of the Galaxy S5, rather that it also has a number of new features. Things like a barometer inside to tell you elevation and atmospheric pressure, a proper compass, an active shutter button for taking pictures underwater, and allegedly optical image stabilization on the camera. While that last part will need to be confirmed as being a hardware feature, the possibility of having OIS on the Galaxy S5's camera is incredibly tantalizing to say the least.
Now we're getting a great new look at the phone in still images thanks to @EVLeaks, and it's in nearly every angle imaginable. While we don't get any sort of glimpse of the side of the phone, including the new Active Button, we get a great look at the front, back and the back with the plate and battery removed. The only thing that bares any real resemblance to the Galaxy S5 is behind the back cover when removed, which actually looks identical to the Galaxy S5. You'll find the same battery, the same conjoined SIM/SD Card tray above the battery, as well as the fairly large single speaker flanking the battery on the bottom left. That's about where the similarities end though, as you can see when putting the back plate back on the device looks much more ruggedized and industrial than the softer Galaxy S5 does.
The sides of the phone seem to feature a hardened material that juts out from the edges, likely helping the Galaxy S5 Active recover from a nasty drop that'll almost certainly land on one of the four corners of the device. Moving onto the front we get a clear shot of the tri-button layout, including the home button with the back and recents buttons on either side. These are all now physical buttons, likely to aid in the use of the phone while underwater or under extreme duress. The device is also a little more angular looking thanks to the padded corners, but still carries that overall Samsung look. How does the device feel in the hand? We can't wait to get our hands on one to give it a try, but it's looking more and more like we should be seeing an official announcement for this bad boy any day now.


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Pinball Construction Set created a new genre of video games—the "builder" or "construction set" class of games. With PCS, users can construct their own virtual pinball machine, by dropping controls onto a table. Controls included bumpers, flippers, spinners and other standard pinball paraphernalia. Attributes such as gravity and the physics model could also be modified. Users could save their creations and develop custom artwork to go along with them. Tables could be saved on floppy disks and freely traded.
Budge originally published and distributed this game via his publishing "company" (Budge and his sister), BudgeCo. In the competitive publishing era of the 1980s, however, he willingly allowed EA to publish his game when they approached him in 1983, since he didn't really want to be an entrepreneur.
Budge was inspired to program the game after developing Raster Blaster, the first pinball game for the Apple II. He encountered many hurdles in trying to develop an open-ended pinball development tool, mostly because of the Apple's relatively limited processing power and graphics capabilities.
Pinball Construction Set was ported to the numerous home computers of the era, including the Commodore 64 and as a PC booter. PCS went on to sell over an astounding 300,000 copies in all platforms. EA followed with Music Construction Set, Adventure Construction Set and Racing Destruction Set all from different authors.
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You thought the last post was an introduction, didn't you? No, silly. That was the introduction to the introduction.
I have known a lot of people that don't get the Mass. Some are Catholics that are going to Mass, but just aren't really sure why we do what we do. Some are non-Catholics that have been to a Mass or two and either wonder how we can put up with the same dusty ritual over and over, or they really liked it, but didn't understand a lot of what was going on. Some are people that used to be Catholic, but left, partly because the Mass didn't mean as much to them as some other church services did.*
The Mass is so ancient, and has so many customs that date back to the early Church Fathers and Jewish customs. I wish I could talk more about that, because it's fascinating, but I really want to focus on the Scriptural points that come to mind. For the most part, I don't want to look at "proof text" types of things, but rather the ways that we get to not only read or recall the Scriptures, but also to live them in some way every single time we go to Mass! I love it!
The term "Mass" really only refers to the Roman rite, and there are many different rites of the Catholic Church. I will speak of the Roman rite, because that is what I know. However, whatever Catholic liturgy** you go to, you will experience the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist. Right there, in breaking these up into two parts, we see an echo of the Scriptures. Check out Luke 24, starting with verse 13. The two disciples are walking when Jesus appears to them and begins to start explaining the meaning of the Scriptures and how that applied to His passion and death. I give you... The Liturgy of the Word! Then they sat down to supper, and the disciples came to know Him in the breaking of the bread.... The Liturgy of the Eucharist!
Now, clearly, what we do at Mass today is not exactly like what happened on the road to Emmaus. Like I said, I'm not proof texting here. I just want to show you that what we do in the Mass calls Scripture to mind at every turn.
Another introductory Scripture to look at is John 1:14: "And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us." One church that I've mentioned before shows this simply and beautifully. On the lectern where the Scripture is read, it reads "The Word". Then on the altar it says, "Was made Flesh", and over the tabernacle, "And dwelt among us." The lectern (or pulpit), looking at the Liturgy of the Word, the altar where the Liturgy of the Eucharist takes place and the tabernacle*** where Jesus resides, as He should reside in our hearts as well after every Mass.
One thing that I should reiterate here is that Catholics believe that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist. We believe that when He said, "This is my body," and "This is my blood," that He meant it, literally. None of the rest of what we do makes any sense without that understanding. It would be awfully pointless to genuflect and do all the rest if He wasn't there. It doesn't mean that you have to agree with Catholics on that point, but understand that we do believe it, and that is what the Mass is all about.
And that concludes the introduction. Both of them. Next time, I'll actually talk about the parts of the Mass!
*Which reminds me of a point that I want to clarify. I know I get all biased and "yay, Mass!" and all. It is true that I vastly prefer the Mass to any other service, but I do not mean to discount the ways that other types of services bring meaning to people's lives. My purpose is to share why the Mass has such meaning in my own life.
**Liturgy means the public form of worship.
***The tabernacle is the box where any leftover hosts are kept between Masses.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
A Little Guide to the Mass: An Introduction
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Labels: Bible, Bible Catholics, Catholicism, Guide to Mass, Mass
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Thank you for reiterating the True Presence. There are so many people Catholic or otherwise, who don't understand that that is what the Church teaches. :)ReplyDelete
Also, I'm working on figuring out Pinterest. To the best of my knowledge it's kind of like finding something you like in a magazine and ripping the page out so you can reference it later, but just doing it online.
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Back in 2013, I first learned about Bitcoin when they were worth about $30. Today, they're worth over $2,800. They've gone up and down since, but overall, they seem like a pretty solid investment, especially if you got in early.
Now, when everybody wants to get into buying them, they think it's "too late." Well, you probably won't become a multi-millionaire overnight…but it is possible. And people have done it. Multiple times. Even when they think it will never grow to those enormous gains, even investing a small amount could result in huge payoffs down the road.
While I think Bitcoin is an awesome investment worth dabbling in, I'm not actually trying to recommend investing in cryptocurrency, specifically. What I really want you to think about, is what other trends are in the budding stages that you recognize that no one else does? Now that Bitcoin is in the spotlight, the truly enormous gains are probably over with. But what about something truly new, exciting, and useful? That's what you need to hitch your wagon to.
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Dynamixel SDK
The ROBOTIS Dynamixel SDK is a software development kit that provides Dynamixel control functions using packet communication. The API of Dynamixel SDK is designed for Dynamixel actuators and Dynamixel-based platforms. It assumes that you are familiar with C/C++ programming. This e-Manual provides comprehensive information about ROBOTIS products and applications.
Supported Dynamixels
The Dynamixel SDK supports all Dynamixel series developed by ROBOTIS. For example, all series such as AX, RX, EX, MX, XL, XC, XM, XH, PRO-L, PRO-M, PRO-H and PRO+ are supported by packet communication. For information on each Dynamixel model, please refer to the Dynamixel section of the following manual.
- http://emanual.robotis.com/
Supported Protocols
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Blogging is a lot of fun, so it's no wonder that people are flocking to the internet to start blogs every single second of the day. Blogging is a great way to meet new people, to share your story and interests and even to make some money.
But a lot of new bloggers get frustrated when they pour their hearts and souls into their blogs with hardly anybody reading their work. Has that happened to you? It's frustrating, isn't it?
So what's going on here? Some people get millions of readers a day to their blogs, and your blog seems just as cool as theirs. Doesn't it?
If you're losing your mind and losing your passion for blogging due to low traffic levels, then you've come to the right place. You're about to get some real answers here.
Blogging isn't magic. There are ways to do it right and ways to do it wrong. So if it seems like you must be doing something wrong, then here are some reasons why nobody is reading your blog and some solutions for how you can get more readers to take notice.
1. Your Content Is Boring
Okay, this one might sound harsh, but you're already thinking it. So we might as well discuss it.
Yes, it is possible that your blog is just plain boring, so that's why nobody keeps reading it. Every blogger assumes this to be the case whenever their traffic takes a nosedive. And in some rare cases, it might actually be true.
But that is almost never the case.
If you've ever had a reader come to your blog and comment about how much they enjoyed your post because of this and that and whatever else — then your writing doesn't suck. You're not boring. It just means that there are other reasons why you don't seem to be getting any traffic to your blog. So let's move on and talk about those.
2. Your Blog Has No Focus
If you find yourself gaining subscribers — and then promptly losing them — then that is a good sign that your focus is too scattered. You are likely blogging about way too many unrelated topics. That's not always the case, but it happens a lot.
Readers are going to subscribe to your blog for one of two reasons:
1. they think that your content is interesting
2. they think that you are interesting
That's basically what it comes down to. If you have a lot of charisma, charm, humor and personality, then it's possible to blog about a lot of different topics and still keep readers coming back for more.
But even with "cool bloggers" like this, what happens more often that not is that they will lose subscribers — or will have low engagement from those subscribers — if they talk about too many topics. This is why it's a good idea to focus on a particular niche.
Having a specific topic that your blog focuses on can really help you gain traffic and build a steady audience a lot faster because people know what to expect and are already interested in your topic.
3. You Don't Know Who Your Target Audience Is
Another reason your blog audience isn't growing might be that you aren't really sure who you are trying to target with your content.
Do you know who your ideal reader is? Does your ideal reader have a specific age range, gender, cultural background, occupation, lifestyle or income level? Have you ever really thought about it?
Having a target reader — a customer persona, if you will — can be really helpful when creating your content. If you know who your audience is and what they are interested in, then you can tailor your content to meet their needs. This means more value for them and more traffic for you.
This is basically an extension of the idea above: focus. You will usually find it easier to grow your following quickly when you focus on both a particular type of reader and a particular subject matter.
4. Your Blog Posts Aren't Ranking in Search Results
If you've been blogging for several months, have 20 or more blog posts up and still aren't getting any traffic from Google, then your content is probably not very well optimized for search engines.
There are many search engine optimization (SEO) tactics that can help you get more traffic, but the one a lot of bloggers ignore the most is keyword research.
Keywords are the phrases that people use when searching for something online using Google, Bing and other search engines. Including keywords in your content and blog headlines can attract new readers and get more traffic to your site.
Google's Keyword Planner and LongTail Pro are both excellent tools for researching keywords. Check out some tutorials on how to do keyword research using tools like these, and you will learn some great tips to boost your traffic.
5. You Aren't Promoting Your Posts
This is becoming less of a factor as more and more bloggers are embracing social media sites like Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Snapchat, Google+ and Instagram. But if you're a little late to the party and tend to just kick back after publishing a blog post, then you need to get up to speed.
Ten years ago, it was totally possible to just publish a new blog post and expect the world to show up and read it. But times have changed. There are millions of blogs out there, and if you want your blog to get noticed then you need to get busy promoting your content on social media, forums, Q&A sites and other blogs.
6. Your Social Media Presence Isn't Very Strong
Now, maybe you are already promoting your posts on all your social media channels. That's awesome! That's what you have to do. But if you only have 100 followers on each of those accounts, then you can't really expect to get a lot of traffic from that — unless those followers are super engaged and interested in every single thing you post.
Growing your social following will go a long way in boosting traffic to your blog. It's not just a numbers game though. You want real followers who are genuinely interested in you and your content. Never buy followers. It looks good but delivers zero value.
Instead, engage with the followers that you do have. Respond to every comment. Use hashtags to attract your target audience. And keep posting and sharing consistently.
7. You Aren't Actively Expanding Your Audience
One huge mistake that many bloggers make is that they are practically nonexistent outside of their own blog and their own social media accounts. This blogging bubble keeps you separated from the rest of the blogosphere and severely hinders your ability to grow your audience.
If you want to 10x your audience as quickly as possible, then you should probably start blogging more on other people's platforms. This sounds counterintuitive at first, but it's the secret sauce that the best bloggers in the world use to scale up quickly.
Why would you want to write for someone else's blog when you're struggling to build your own blog?
How does that even make sense?
Actually, it makes complete sense. If your blog only has a handful of subscribers, then publishing that new post on your own blog won't create much of a splash because only your tiny audience will see it. But if you can publish that sucker as a guest post on a more popular blog, it will be seen by many more people. And if they like it, they are likely to click through the link to come check out your own blog.
For this reason, you should probably start writing guest posts just as much as — or even more than — you write for your own blog. Getting your work out there in front of new audiences is crucial to growing your own audience. Exposure is a big deal, so take advantage of it whenever you can.
You can also create your own "guest posting" opportunities by publishing content on sites like Medium, Quora, InfoBarrel and EzineArticles. Whether your posts on those sites rank in Google or not, they still have value because those sites all have a strong following and built-in audience. So the possibility of getting referral traffic makes it worth the effort.
Building your blog audience will take some time. Despite the clickbait titles all over the web, nobody achieves blogging success overnight. But by following these blogging tips consistently, you will start to see results over the next year. Just keep at it. Believe in yourself. Never stop learning. And keep following your passion.


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Cardiac imaging is a technique which is used to monitor the functioning and the condition of the heart muscle and its valves. Imaging technique helps in understanding any disorder caused to the heart or any kind of disorder that might occur soon. Cardiac imaging is further divided into invasive and non-invasive imaging techniques. By methods of Angiogram in which dye is injected into the bloodstream and based on the movement of the dye, the images are collected. Also, there are methods of using ultrasound for imaging purpose, this is used in Echocardiogram and is a non-invasive method for monitoring the heart and its functions. Thus, cardiac imaging is a wide branch and a useful methodology in medicine.
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February 12, 2008 - At first glance they appear to be stories of improvement, of fierce competition and drive, of the electronic age of admissions. Then as you begin to peel off the skin, you realize that these are in fact stories of missed opportunities, wasted resources and an industry that desperately needs to evolve in a hurry. The stories I refer to here are the numerous articles that have been written over the last few weeks and years in fact, detailing college admissions offices being flooded with applications. From the University of Texas that enrolls nearly 40,000 undergraduates each year to Rhode Island College which just surpassed the 2,000 application mark, colleges throughout the country are seeing an increase in the number of applications that come across their desk. An increase in applications, transcripts and letters of recommendation- bottom line: an increase in workload and an increase in paper.
With the increase in applications, admissions and enrollment teams are being stretched beyond their limit as students are applying to more schools, sending more transcripts, generating larger piles of paper than ever before. The impact this is having on institutional inefficiency and the environment are mind boggling to say the least. Although small steps have been made with the online application, hundreds of thousands of pieces of paper are wasted in the form of transcripts and letters of recommendation. As Susan Peterson points out in the Daily Texan online (UT Admissions Office Sorts Final Applications, 2/1/08), the University of Texas "processes about 24,000 pieces of mail every admissions season". That is just one school during one admissions cycle!
Can you imagine if these admissions folks were receiving transcripts sent in directly to their SIS system from the high school SIS system? Can you imagine if so much time and energy was not wasted relying on a paper-based system and more time was devoted to matching students with the right college – a college that they will succeed at?
From data re-entry, to security, to cost and environmental issues, the higher education industry needs to fast track this problem. Data security and privacy issues abound; the photo of folders stacked up with sensitive student information inside on top of an unsecured desk says it all.
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Date: ca. 1772 - 1808
Remarks: John Rivington was the son of James Rivington (ca. 1724-1802) and Elizabeth (Van Horne) Rivington, recieved a commission in the British army from Sir Guy Carleton, the last commander of Royal forces to occupy New York. This was probably in recognition for his father's earlier loyalty to the crown. He was a lieutenent of the 83rd Regiment, and rose to the rank of major before his early death in England in 1808.


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I've talked about the Moorea airport before, but you have to see it to believe it. So you bet I snapped some shots while there. There's no air-conditioning, no security, and it's just so, so small!
We were nervous about the weight of our luggage and carryons. Air Tahiti is really strict about it, and we've read a lot of horror stories. When we got to the check in line we quickly learned that it's all about who you get. We soon were hoping for one person over the other. If we got the guy, he wasn't weighing carryons, but the lady was, and the people who got her were not happy.
Thankfully, it worked out for us, and we got the guy. He barely looked at my carryons, let alone weighed them. He simply asked how many tags I needed. This saved us at the end of the trip when we were on our way back to Tahiti. I told the person behind the counter we still had our tags, so she didn't even bother questioning our luggage. Phew!
We met another couple at the airport in Moorea that not only had to pay extra for their luggage, but also had to redo all their packing in order to limit their carryon weight. We definitely had more than them too. We really lucked out.
Anyway, everyone makes a big deal about being the first bunch on the plane. It's all because they want to get the best seats, or really, sit on the one side for the better view. We didn't stress over it. In fact, we ended up being one of the last people on the plane, so much so that we were nervous we wouldn't even find seats together!
We did, but in very front of the plane, and on the less desirable side. We honestly didn't care, we were just so excited to be on our way to Bora Bora! Then, to our surprise, right before takeoff the flight attendant approached us and asked if we wouldn't mind changing seats. She said this side of the plane was too heavy (was she calling us fat? Don't think that didn't cross my mind lol). Anyway, we of course had no problem doing so, and she placed us in the last row (closest to the exit) and on the opposite side. Essentially, the best seats in the house were just handed to us.
So I admit, we should have rushed on that plane and snagged seats on the one side. Luckily, it worked out for us. But I now fully understand WHY people say you HAVE to sit on the lefthand side. Scroll down and see for yourself. I mean, look at this view!
So take note: when you walk onto the plane, you want to sit on the lefthand side (your left, as you are facing the front of the plane).
Nana, Moorea!
The flight from Moorea to Bora Bora is about 40 minutes. You don't fly very high, and (when sitting on the left hand side) you have a perfect view as you fly over Raiatea, and then another amazing view as you get into Bora Bora!
The Bora Bora airport is located on its own island. It's not as small as the Moorea airport, and has the prettiest scenery. I mean, this is walking off the plane (below). At an airport! How is this real?
Staff from the Four Seasons Bora Bora greeted us at the airport with leis. They asked us to point out our luggage, and then showed us to our boat. I literally kept pinching myself, because none of it seemed real.
Once on the boat, we were given a refreshing towelette, cold water, and off we went!
At 12,288 xpf per person round trip, it's a pricey ride (figure for rounding off purposes it's about $250). However, there's really no other way to get from point A to point B. I'm not sure if there are "boat cabs," or something along those lines, but if you're already spending the money to go to Bora Bora, you might as well just go with what the hotel offers. It's much easier.
When we pulled up to the resort I thought I was going to cry. I cannot believe I made it here!
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The Big Walnut School district will have a levy on this November's ballot for voters to approve or decline the building of two new schools. In the past, I have always said that I would support levies as it supports our district's kids and in turn our future. I also should have a positive effect on my property value.
First a little background, my wife and I moved to the district 19 years ago with our four children. All four graduated from Big Walnut (2006, '09, 12 & '14) and all participated in various school activities including athletic teams. In the early 2000's I was in charge of the local youth baseball program and then from 2005 -2012 was the booster president for the HS baseball program. During these years I worked with many other volunteers raising funds for the baseball teams which in turn benefited the student-athletes. The majority of what was purchased was done through fundraising by volunteers. This is true for basically all of the sports programs in the district as my wife and I also participated in other sports programs fundraising as well.
I also attended most of the High Schools overall booster meeting as the baseball representative. During those meetings we were provided with spending the Athletic Director had planned and basically of his budget. Nothing really was out of line with his budget or spending.
When our youngest son graduated in 2012 I concluded my time as baseball booster president, though continued to help in an advisory manner. When our daughter graduated in 2014 that ended our kids participation in high school sports. I then was a volunteer coach for the freshman baseball teams in 2015 & '16 and assisted the new baseball boosters in an advisory capacity. It was in 2015 that several changes occurred. The district had a new Superintendent and High School athletic director and in 2016 a new High School principal.
What I witnessed in 2015 and '16 in spending by the current Athletic Director has made me question my previous support for levies as a taxpayer. The Athletic Director should be supervised by the principal and in turn by the Superintendent and held accountable. In my opinion, I do not believe this to be the case, to the point, during the past two years I really question the past and future prudence of the current administration to be responsible with my tax dollars.
I know of four instances where this occurred, the most questionable was the purchase of a quarter of a million scoreboard for the football stadium. Funds were not raised ahead of time for the purchase and at the time of writing this, still not funded by booster fund raising. The AD has allegedly pledged to pay the district back over time with attempted fundraising, though that fundraising and sources were not in place at the time of purchase and were not at the end of the 2016 school year. In addition to all this at the June school board meeting the Athletic Director's contract was granted a three year extension.
In summary, I will not be voting in favor of any levy going forward while the current administration is in place (Athletic Director, High School principal, District Superintendent and her administrative assistant). I do not have the confidence in the persons currently holding those positions to prudently utilize my hard earned tax dollars and will not until either the persons in those positions change or hopefully their actions change.
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Personal improvements, transformations due to polyamory
Since I discovered the term "polyamory", my life began to change dramatically.
Just the very knowledge of that one word started me on a journey of self-discovery and realization that I can barely comprehend. It was like going down the rabbit hole.
What happened? How can one word change my life so dramatically?
The first thing to realize that it was not the power of the word alone, but also the context. Now is the Information Age and the power of google cannot be underestimated here. Nevertheless, google does not provide any information. It only makes it that much easier to find it. So there is a slew of true forerunners that I must thank for opening up – not only in the sense of their relationships but also in the aspect of publicising, publishing and otherwise spreading the word.
Initially through the most popular (at the time) resources The Ethical Slut and Polyamory Weekly as well as Opening Up, I learned that I was not a complete unique freak. There are maybe 350 to 700 million others out there who feel similarly to me… and that's self-reported in a societal context of oppression, demonization accused immorality and of course simple ignorance. I supect that the true number is much higher.
These initial resources were incredibly helpful in holding my hand through my initial forays in to ethical non-monogamy. I realized that I made mistakes in the ethical part and many more in the communication part. It takes a much broader view and understanding of how other people feel – empathy – that really makes it possible to act ethically. Without understanding, I thought that I was acting fairly and morally, but with the blinkers off, I realized that I was not as open as I thought I was. I started practicing techniques such as non-violent communication and reducing my reticence to openly discussing my negative emotions. Through exposure to more subcultures, sexual and gender identities, I became more understanding of them and the distinct challenges they face in default society as well as the challenges that are common to all.
Thanks to all of that my horizons have not only broadened, but I have also been more politically and socially active in fighting injustices that I wasn't really aware of before as well as supporting policies that I would also have never before considered. This increased interest in politics and sociology has additionally led me to better understand the legal and constitutional frameworks of various nations as well as how cultural influences change interpretations and vice-versa.
Understanding systems and their influence on culture, socitey and individuals has led me to far better appreciate the subtle but huge power of systems such as democracy, legislation, taxation, economy and equally as powerful, but smaller-scale workplace policies and processes. It has helped me to understand also that whether we want to or not, we are part of such systems – not seperate from them. I came to realize that we therefore have a direct influence on these systems, whether we consciously try or not. Even as far as the subculture common trope of, "I'm not responsible for educating others." Well, actually, every interaction with others does educate them – even if the lesson is that are arrogant and standoffish.
Finally, coming back in a big circle and capturing the lessons learned from all of the above, I rediscovered the importance of releasing attachments and showing compassion to all. The philosophical and practical aspects of Buddhism that I had always admired. If that's not a fine example of the cycles of life, then I don't know what is…
For this whole journey, I must thank all who were part of it. For all who influenced me – in "good" and "bad" ways – in the end, I think I am a better person for it all. No matter the interaction, the lessons learned have helped me to improve and better myself, so I thank you for it. Everyone. From the bottom of my heart.
Dedicated to: W, Katwiesel, Ian, Mr. T, Victoria Rosa, Polly Singleish, Aggie Sez, Ammos, Garden of Joy, OpenCon, Eider and Gwen.


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A Cape Town University of Cape Town tagged image from photographer – Robert Cutts as published on Flickr.
The Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto
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There is a better-organised version of this article at here.
This is the view of the hospital looking south from Hospital Footbridge in Diepkloof, Soweto in the province of Gauteng, South Africa. The bridge spans the Potchefstroom Road at the north of the hospital. The hospital's entrance gates are at the position of marker A on this map. Potchefstroom is a town lying about 110 km southwest of Soweto.
As can be seen from this Street View, the construction referred to in the yellow notice on the photo has been completed and the entrance is open again. The StreetView also shows that bridge itself has been covered over since we were there in 2007 when it looked more like this.
As at 2007, with 3200 beds and 6760 staff members, occupying 173 acres the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital is reputedly the largest hospital in the world. Certainly it's the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. There's an aerial view of the site here. The hospital was opened by the then Prime Minister, Jan Smuts on 23 September 1942. It was the middle of WWII and six years were to pass before the seeds of apartheid were to be planted by Smuts' successor, Daniel Malan. During the opening ceremony, Smuts said that after the war the Imperial Military Hospital, Baragwanath, as it was then called, would be used for the Black population of the Witwatersrand but, in the meantime, the hospital would be used to treat war casualties. At first they were mainly from the Middle East command but, towards the end of the war, the hospital began to specialise in tuberculosis patients, both from the Middle East Command and from the Far East Command.
The hospital was built next to the site of a hostel founded by John Albert Baragwanath (1842-1928), a Cornishman who had emigrated to South Africa in the 1890's. He was born in Falmouth, but the family's roots were in Towednack near St Ives. There are still Baragwanaths in South Africa. Read about them here, here and here. .
In 1948 Smuts' United Party was defeated by the National Party led by Malan. A few years later, South Africa left the British Commonwealth. This made "Imperial" an inappropriate description so the establishment was renamed Baragwanath Hospital. Read more about the history of the hospital here and about how it is in the present day here. In 1997, the hospital, already by then one of the largest in the world, was renamed the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in his memory. Nowadays it admits more than two thousand patients daily. About half of them are HIV positive.
It's said that, in his time, Chris Hani was the most popular member of the leadership of the ANC after Nelson Mandela – particularly among the poorest communities. He was born as Martin Thembisile Hani, the fifth of six children, on June 28, 1942 in kuSabalele in the Transkei (now the Eastern Cape). That region was the birthplace of many other leaders of South Africa's protest movements – names such as Nelson Mandela himself, Walter Sisulu, Clarence Makwetu, Bathandwa Ndondo, Lindiwe Msengana-Ndlela, Steve Biko and Matthew Goniwe were all born in and around the Eastern Cape.
Chris Hani attended Lovedale school and went on to study literature at the University of Fort Hare. When 15 he joined the ANC Youth League and engaded in protests against the Bantu Education Act. After graduating, he joined Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1963 he was exiled to Lesotho where he was the target of assassination attempts. He received military training in the Soviet Union and, after serving in the Rhodesian Bush War in what is now Zimbabwe, he moved to the ANC's headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia becoming head of Umkhonto we Sizwe.
In February 1990, President F.W. de Klerk announced the lifting of the bans on the ANC, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and thirty-one other organizations which, unitl then, had been declared to be illegal by the apartheid regime. Soon after, Chris Hani returned to South Africa and took over from Joe Slovo § as head of the SACP in 1991. He supported the suspension of the ANC's armed struggle in favour of negotiations.
On 10 April 1993, Chris Hani was assassinated by a Polish far-right immigrant named Janusz Waluś, who shot him in the head as he stepped out of his car. Waluś fled the scene, but was arrested soon afterwards after Hani's neighbour, a white woman, called the police. Clive Derby-Lewis, a senior South African Conservative Party M.P., who had lent Waluś his pistol, was also arrested for complicity in Hani's murder. Derby-Lewis was tried and sentenced to death for his role in the assassination but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment when capital punishment was outlawed in 1995.
In June 2010 Derby-Lewis applied for parole on the grounds that he was over 70, and was entitled to parole in terms of South African law for having served in excess of 15 years in prison. In November 2010, Derby-Lewis' lawyer reported that Derby-Lewis was receiving treatment for skin cancer and prostate cancer, hypertension, and for a gangrenous spot in his leg. The Correctional Services department reported that a decision on his parole could be announced in early December. As at March 2011 I don't know whether or not such an announcement was made.
The Diepkloof district of Soweto has associations with Alan Paton, the author of the inspirational book Cry, the Beloved Country
that was written in 1946 while the author was touring Europe and America. Smuts was still Prime Minister of South Africa while the book was being written but by 1948, when the book was published, the National Party had won power and the seeds of Apartheid were being sown. There is a mention of the hospital in the book.
Paton was born in 1903 in Pietermaritzburg capital of what was then Natal and is now KwaZulu-Natal. He was the Principal of the nearby Diepkloof Reformatory from July 1935 to June 1948. In Diepkloof – Reflections of Diepkloof Reformatory, Clyde Broster, senior English master at Rondebosch Boys' High School, Cape Town, has selected some extracts from Paton's works that were inspired by his time at the Reformatory. First in the collection is To a Small Boy Who Died at Diepkloof Reformatotory – a poem in memory of a 6-year-old pupil of the Reformatory. I trust that such a boy, should he have offended nowadays, would be more humanely treated. Also in the book is a poignant short story about a boy called Ha'penny spent time in the Reformatory in the early 1940s. It can be read in full here. It's only a couple of pages long – but it's well worth reading. Alan Paton died in 1988 – just before the ANC Government took power. He had constantly opposed the apartheid regime and many of his stated beliefs are now enshrined in South Africa's Bill of Rights.
A few days before first writing this in January 2009 I had heard the news of the death of Helen Suzman, a great South African dissident with Lithuanian Jewish ancestry. Suzman was born in Germiston in the Witwatersrand in 1917 and first entered the South African Parliament in 1953 as a member of the fast-declining United Party. She later switched to the Progressive Party which eventually became the Progressive Reform Party. At one stage Suzman was the only woman – and the only member opposing apartheid – in the South African Parliament. Suzman often asked questions in parliament about abuses of civil rights. On one such occasion, a cabinet minister yelled at her "You put these questions just to embarrass South Africa overseas." She replied "It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers". Her Progressive Reform Party was one of those which merged to become the present-day Democratic Alliance (South_Africa), now (February 2009) the official opposition party in the South African Parliament. Helen Suzman stood beside Nelson Mandela, the country's first black president, when he signed the new constitution in 1996.
On 5 December 2013, four years after the death of his friend and supporter, Helen Suzman, Nelson Mandela himself died at the age of 95.
§ Joe Slovo (1926-1995) was another great South African dissident with Lithuanian Jewish ancestry. His family emigrated to South Africa in 1934 when he was eight. He joined the SACP in 1942 and in the early 1960's was instrumental in forming an alliance between the Communists and the ANC. In 1963 he was exiled and lived in Britain for a while. In was elected general secretary of the SACP in1984 and returned to South Africa in 1990. He died of cancer in 1995. A settlement east of Cape Town has been named after him.
In case you're wondering, the Motorizr Z3 is (or perhaps was) a mobile phone.
Photos of some of the people referred to in this description can be seen in my comment below. Others can be seen by clicking on the appropriate links that follow. Some of the links contain additional information:
Chris Hani
Jan Smuts
Daniel Malan
Nelson Mandela and Helen Suzman (from MailOnline, 5 January 2009)
Walter Sisulu
Clarence Makwetu
Steve Biko
F.W. de Klerk
Janusz Waluś
Clive Derby-Lewis
Alan Paton
Joe Slovo
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This description was first incorporated in June 2007 and has been revised and expanded several times since. The current version dates from March 2011 with the edition of the record of Nelson Mandela's death that was added in December 2013..
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The two main channels offered a prime-time shoot-out between Champions League football and Last Tango in Halifax, but for those in search of an hour away from the hurly-burly the only show in town was Cathedrals (BBC4). Richard Alwyn's three-part documentary series about the daily working lives of cathedrals has been an underrated gem and last night's final instalment on Southwark was perhaps the most intimate of them all. The series appropriately ended not with a banging of drums and a crashing of cymbals, nor with a handwringing whimper, but by keeping calm and carrying on against impossible odds. In this part of south-east London, God struggles to make himself heard above the trains that rattle past the cathdedral windows, the city planners that tear apart the local community by building ever more expensive housing and the Tory cuts that push the needy into the arms of Wonga.
When I started watching, I imagined I was just going to be treated to a snapshot of diocesan life, but by about halfway through I realised this film was – intentionally, presumably, unless God really does move in mysterious ways – a meditation on the nature of faith. At every daily service I saw row after row of empty seats – at one, the clergy outnumbered the congregation: Andrew the Dean saw only a measure of faithfulness. The fewer the people who attended, the greater the need for him to step up to God's mark. In the team's pastoral work, I saw only a heroic but near futile attempt to offer comfort. Canon Bruce Saunders merely advised his team they were not there to make good the government's stupidity and mistakes: "You can't feed or house people." Their only reward was to experience new levels of dissatisfaction in what they could do for people.
Driving all this was a search for relevance. I'm not sure that praying for the mayor of London to do a good job during morning service would be quite where I would chose to start, but desperate times call for desperate measures. God in Southwark has come out of the pulpit and into the flow-charts of management speak as Andrew and Bruce tried to find a language of a "Living God" that was as at home in local council meetings and bankers' boardrooms as it was among the old and the oppressed.
"I guess people don't feel worthy or welcome," said Andrew, when asked why so few people came to the cathedral. "Might it be because people don't think it's relevant?" Alwyn pressed off camera. "Hasn't the rejection of women bishops led to a loss of credibility?" "Yes," said Andrew reluctantly, clearly wishing Alwyn would stop putting him on the spot but having far too much integrity to lie. Bruce also struggled. He was good on why atheists like Richard Dawkins are so sure of the nature of the God in whom they don't believe, but far vaguer when trying to articulate what God he, himself, believed in.
As far as I could tell, Bruce's God was pretty much anything you wanted it to be, which is what my God would be like if I had one. I suspect I'm not that far away from many Church of England clergy on matters of faith. I can't say I saw any real signs of God in Southwark Cathedral and I certainly never got a glimpse of the bishop. Perhaps he is too holy to go to church. But I did see a lot of goodness and I came away feeling that the world is a better place for having Southwark Cathedral in it.
Dominic Sandbrook's Strange Days: Cold War Britain (BBC2) has been something of a curate's egg. At times hopelessly partial, at others inspired. His argument that capitalism won out over communism because it gave people more stuff fell into the simplistic category, but what capitalism undoubtedly did give us during the cold war was some breathtakingly good spy thrillers, the finest of which were John le Carré's George Smiley novels.
The highest praise for the BBC's 1979 adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (BBC4), which is now nearly halfway through its rerun, is that it is as good as the book. Alec Guinness is George Smiley and the drama tells you every bit as much about the climate of transience, suspicion and betrayal that persisted in Britain in the 1950s as Sandbrook's polemic, as well as being utterly gripping. I've seen it several times over the years and it's still just about about the best thing on television.


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We advocate using a Langstroth Hive although there are other types of hives. This type of hive makes it easier to adhere to best practices in beekeeping. Some of the other types are a Skep, Warre and Topbar Hive.
It is also imperative that you have adequate forage for your bees and enough water to keep the plants in bloom. Further these must be blooms that they (not you) like - in enough quantity and diversity that the bees will be adquately nourished. There must be lots of blooms in each season: Spring, Summer and Fall (click here to go to Xerces Society's excellent plant list for your bioregion).
If you don't already have information about pesticides, fungucides, herbicides, and their effects, you will need to read up so that you can be proactive in advocating for your bees. If you have neighbors using pesticides it may be helpful to find out what they are using and what time of the day they use it.
You must have some sort of protective equipment that covers at least your face and head (this minimal approach is for the very hardy! We recommend a full bee suit with gloves), a hive tool, smoker, and a Langstroth Deep hive box with all its component frames, bottom board (preferably a screened bottom board with insert to close it up in winter), an inner cover, telescoping lid, a couple of bricks to keep the lid down, some strapping to secure it to the base and a base of some sort. We recommend using six cinder blocks so it is really up off the ground. Do not underestimate the need for strapping. It will keep you from worrying about your bees during high winds.
You are best off with two hives so that in case one fails, you may be able to rescue the failing hive with stores from the other (if doing so does not put the stronger hive at risk). Hence, the supplies (which reflect the needs for hives which are growing and maturing) would include the following:
8 (8 frame style) Langstroth boxes, two of which are "deeps" and 6 of which are "westerns"
16 "deep" frames
48 "western" style frames
2 exterior telescoping covers
2 or more inner covers
2 (8 frame style) bottom boards, preferably screened with plastic inserts and "removable doors"
at either end.
2 size adaptors if the bottom board is larger than the boxes.
2 feeder frames or feeders (more on this later)
12 concrete cinderblocks
6 bricks or something else that is heavy to keep lids secured
2 entrance reducers
Beekeeper protective suit (s)
Beekeeper style gloves
Beekeeper veil/hat
Hive tool
Smoker fuel (burlap and unprocessed cotton)
Long nosed lighter
Ratchet strap
Fire extinguisher (preferred)
Plastic pail
Metal pail
Duct tape
8 doses of apiguard mitecide or appropriate doses of other mitecide (you may also need other supplies to cope with Small Hive Beetle if it is an issue in your area)
50lbs sugar
30 lbs drivert sugar
Quart jar fitted with #8 gauge screen
A white plate
Several commercial wasp traps or homemade wasp traps.
An extra swarm box
Recommended Text: Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees (2nd Ed.) by Richard E. Bonney
You need to have some sort of water feature for the bees available in the very near vicinity (15 to 20 feet away from the hives is preferred). You should most certainly also have access to a hose, fire extinguisher or buckets of water to prevent fire in the unlikely case that a spark should fly out of your smoker.
Beehives generally should be facing south, east or south east. However, Commercial Beekeepers may orient them in other directions when they are in the Pollination Fields. As a Backyard Beekeeper, once your hives are placed they should not be moved. If you must move them, you will only be able to move them a few inches at a time or the bees will become disoriented. Alternatively, they can be moved 2 miles away and kept at that location during the next generation of bees. Any less that that, they will return to their former site looking for their hive. The point here is that one must be sure of the placement site ahead of time. "Measure twice and cut once" is a good axiom to keep in mind!
Honeybees are a valuable part of our agricultural landscape and pollination supports our food network but the general public often does not know what to make of them. It's advisable to make a sign indicating to the public that they must not poke at the bees or otherwise antagonize them, although generally, honeybees do not seek to harm humans any more than do spiders or flies. Finally, if you live in a city or town, there may be guidelines which you must follow and you should check with your local government about this.
Preparing for a Hive Inspection- Courtesy of PerfectBee
Hive Inspection Checklist - courtesy of Eastern Missouri Beekeepers Association
Recommended Texts:
Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees (2nd Ed.) by Richard E. Bonney
Honeybee Biology and Beekeeping
What to Plant for Bees:
Check THIS LIST from the Xerces Society to plant for your area/season
-Remember to use native plants whenever possible!
-Avoid neonicotinoid treated plants!
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Age 65.
Invasive Ductal Carcinoma. Grade 2
FNAC done
My mother just had a biopsy done and the results came yesterday. The doctors recommended further tests and surgery.
However we are not keen in doing the surgery in Bangladesh and are planning to take her to India and we are in the process of applying for medical visa.
now, we are torn between choosing treatment center. kolkata is closer to us and will be better for follow up treatments. But most people we know are referring Chennai.
Can i get your good thoughts between kolkata and chennai treatments? We were planning to take appointment from Apollo kolkata or Chennai. Does anyone have any experience over there that they can share?
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So if you want to participate in the first part of this nice event you only need to share this page of Everbuying on the Facebook where after that they will announce 71 lucky winners. Giveaway runs from 15 July to 30 July is so don't wait too long.
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Would You Like to Discover Why a Poor Black Youth Became a Billionaire?
I mentioned in my last blog, that I would follow it up with a part 2 since I simply could not fit all I wanted to say in such a limited space. I strongly believe this second part will help to broaden your horizons and strengthen your resolve to press on until you arrive at your success destination.
I would like to think that the many people interested in pursuing their dreams or who are desirous of living a better life, would have all the motivation needed to make it happen, however, this is not usually the case. Wanting to do something doesn't carry the same urgency as 'I must do something'. Most likely, the reason is simple—these people can only ponder on the 'how' rather than the 'why', which is the major reason why they hesitate to pursue and give things their all.
A man once offered to buy my business, which so happened to be on the upswing with tremendous potential to possibly hit a nine figures profit in less than 10 years. Although I was not interested in selling, I was interested in knowing what his offer was. He thought he could impress me with his offer. I had to make him aware that if I decided to sell I would not be selling a business, but a dream. I mentioned that buying a business is easily done; buying a dream however, is extremely difficult to do.
When a person has an emotional attachment to why they are pursuing something, and not just a desire to do it, they realize their life has been carved into the journey not the prize. When I heard Ray Lewis, the retired two time Super Bowl Champion with the Baltimore Ravens, give his reason for why he was so passionate about the game of football, I couldn't help getting emotional. His reason did not deal with how he was going to be successful in football, but why. He mentioned he had vowed to make sure he could provide for his mother and relieve her of the volatile relationship she was in, and the conditions which made her susceptible to it.
When you think nothing remains in your tank after you have given your all to combat the challenges and obstacles which have drained you of your physical strength; the 'why' in your heart and mind will muster the energy to persevere longer than your opponent—not because you want to, but because you have to.
Now, I hope I'm not sending the wrong message as though I'm suggesting the 'how' is not important. It's just that the 'how' is not as imperative nor is there as much urgency attached to it as the 'why'. It is the difference between a person feeling stuck between a rock and a hard place, and another person who sees this same place as a stronghold.
If I spent my time wondering 'how' I was going to achieve something, I would be easily distracted and knocked off course before I ever got started. But if I have a cause more vital and more powerful than the fear of failing, or of not having all the necessary resources, nothing—and I mean nothing, will get in the way of my not only surviving, but also thriving.
Find out what is worth you giving it your all and you'll find the solution to succeeding in all you set your heart and mind to achieve.


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- Above is a new 3D-Scanning Superstars video from the WWE Performance Center. This episode features WWE NXT Superstar The Velveteen Dream working with the Mattel team for his action figure.
- The Undertaker, Michelle McCool and their children are backstage for tonight's WWE SmackDown in Austin, Texas, according to PWInsider. Taker lives in the area. WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry, another Texan, is also backstage. As Raj noted earlier, others backstage for tonight's show are Christian and Maryse, who has been filming "Miz & Mrs." footage with The Miz. You can read Raj's report with more backstage news from tonight's SmackDown by clicking here.
On a related note, it was noted by PWinsider that there's a very positive feeling backstage in the SmackDown locker room tonight after the Superstars spent most of the day at Fort Hood with troops for the 16th annual Tribute to the Troops events. We will have more from Fort Hood soon.
- WWE Intercontinental Champion Seth Rollins plugs his new SFNR t-shirt in this backstage video from RAW. Remember that through the end of the day, you can buy one-shirt and get one for only $1. There is no promo code necessary, just use this link. The promotion ends Tuesday, December 4th at 11:59 pm PT.
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Finding Ways To Keep Up With Options
A Guide on Traveling and Travel Destinations
Going for vacations is always on top of the list of very many people when it comes to holidays and vacations. Experiencing some change is always great because in the end, it helps you to enjoy your time and also, to free your mind out of anything related to your work. Many people like to go to the vacations with their families and this is great because they get to bond and in addition, reduce your stress levels. Just like anything else, very good planning is required if you are going to achieve all the necessary benefits. There may be a lot of things that are going to be checked when it comes to travel vacations and this is something that you have to really concentrate on. If you are not able to do good planning, you can be very sure that there is something that is going to go wrong. If you fail to choose the travel destination properly all, you do something bad with your budget planning, you can be sure that the trip is not going to be enjoyable. You may even have to cut it short at some point because you cannot manage it.
If you are a first timer, you can be sure that it's going to be more difficult for you as compared to people that have gone to vacations before. There are a lot of things that have to be considered and it would be important for you to know them. this information is provided in the article and you'll be of benefit to you. One of the things you have to do is to ensure that you're able to choose the best travel destination possible. Some of the factors that you can put into play so that you can make the best decision include factor in what you need for example, that is relaxation or having adventure and in addition to that, you also have to consider your interests and the people that you'd be taking for the journey. When it comes to destinations, some of them are very popular as compared to others for example, African safaris. It would be very important for you to factor in the amount of money that is required to plan for the whole trip successfully.
The length of the vacation or the amount of time available is also something have to consider. For the trip to be successful, you need to sort out things like the transportation, accommodation, the food, insurance and also other small items that are important.


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Researchers out of Australia have come up with a robotic third arm that will allow users to feed themselves and their friends, bringing a whole new meaning to the idea of sharing our food.
The autonomous chest-mounted robot arm has been dubbed "Arm-A-Dine" and was developed out of the Exertion Games Lab at RMIT University in Australia and the Indian Institute of Information Technology Design, The Verge reported. In addition to being able to grab food right off the table, this robotic prototype can also decide for itself who it will feed it to using a facial recognition app.
If your dining partner is smiling, your attached arm will offer them the food. If they're frowning, you will be fed instead. However, if their expression is neutral, the arm will simply hover in between you two. Clearly, personal enjoyment dictates your food eating experience and it would be in your best interest to let yourself have fun with such a bizarre device if you wish to leave the table with a full tummy.
The team at RMIT University released a research paper in which they explain most food tech has been focused primarily on the preparation of food, rather than the eating experience itself.
"There is a limited understanding and exploration around using interactive technology to support the embodied plate-to-mouth movement of food during consumption, which we aim to explore through a playful design in a social eating context," the paper reads.
Of course, there are limitations to this device. The arms have limited degrees of movement and stop 10cm away from the wearer's mouth for safety purposes. But where it lacks in mobility it makes up for in creating a socially-engaging eating experience.
IEEE Spectrum reported that during a user study, some participants even remarked on how the clumsiness of the arm actually added to the social aspect, as it forced them to interact more with the person sitting across from them and made for pleasant and light-hearted enjoyment. One user even likened the experience to memories of their mother feeding them when they were a child, while others remarked on the endearing inaccuracy of the robot.
"Although I would love perfect arm movement each time but it is too boring," one user said. "If the arm is too perfect, then there is no chance of anything going wrong or something unexpected to happen and so there is no element of surprise."
While this robotic arm is not yet a commercial project and still has some minor kinks to work out, the prospect of a meal-time gadget meant to not only help you feed your guest but better engage with them as well is certainly an interesting one. In fact, in their paper, researchers explained they see a bright future for other eating hardware similar to Arm-A-Dine.
"We hope that our work inspires further explorations around food and play that consider all eating stages, ultimately contributing to our understanding of playful human-food interaction," researchers said.
So perhaps in a few years, we'll be entertaining our guests with good wine, lovingly prepared food, and an attached robotic arm to help feed them as well, changing the world of dinner parties as we know it. Only time will tell.