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New General Manager Mike Voutsinas, team's board of directors to answer questions on February 25 at Buffalo Wild Wings
Auburn, N.Y. - The Auburn Doubledays of the New York-Penn League, Single-A Short-Season affiliate of the Washington Nationals, are pleased to announce that the team will host a "Meet the Staff" event on Tuesday, February 25, at Buffalo Wild Wings in Auburn. The event is open to the public and fans will have the opportunity to ask questions and offer suggestions to the team's new General Manager, Mike Voutsinas, as well as members of the Auburn Community Baseball Board of Directors."I am looking forward to meeting more great Auburn Doubledays fans," said Voutsinas. "Feedback from the community is critical to our organization as we prepare to offer an outstanding product in 2014." The event will get underway at 5:30pm at the Buffalo Wild Wings located at 1612 Clark Street Road across from Fingerlakes Mall. A question and answer session is scheduled to begin at 6:00pm. The event is free to attend and fans will be able to take advantage of Buffalo Wild Wings' $3 happy hour specials, including tall domestic drafts and select appetizers, until 7:00pm. In addition, fans that stay for Buffalo Wild Wings Trivia Night beginning at 7:30pm will have the opportunity to win hundreds of dollars in prizes, including items from the Doubledays. For more information about the "Meet the Staff" event, call the Doubledays office at (315) 255-2489. For the latest Auburn Doubledays news and notes, follow the team on Facebook and Twitter or visit http://www.auburndoubledays.com/.


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Where I have made a mistake was that Mr. Modi campaigned that he would do all sorts of reforms, but for some time he did nothing. I was disappointed by his inaction and so I sold out my Indian shares. I should have been more patient. (WisdomTree India Earnings Fund ETF (EPI), BSE Sensex)
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NewsFactor Network: Shortly after it announced that it would no longer be selling its TouchPad tablet, HP put the doomed devices on sale for $99. In response, consumers snatched up the tablets so quickly that most retail outlets soon sold out of them. In a blog post, HP's Mark Budgell wrote, "the good news is that we will have more available shortly."
In addition to releasing more TouchPads from its inventory, HP it is "fully committed to providing support and service" to everyone who bought one of the mobile devices.
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@ericjohnsalut: Ang lakas-lakas ng debut CD ni @XianLimm under @starrecordsph!!!! Congrats, Xian! #SoItsYou May 23, 2012
Music is in Xian's veins. Mary Anne, a piano teacher, composer and a single mom raising his only child Alexander Cruz Lim-Uy nicknamed Xian in the U.S. , soaked his young boy in her brand of music. Xian asked to be taught and learned the piano at age 8 and mastered classical piano performing in a recital at age 17. Still retaining the chubby looks that had him bullied in school, Xian expanded his world when he ventured into basketball, his father's legacy. He was 18 when he decided being in a desk job was not for him. He left for school and basketball enrolling in the University of the East, his father's alma mater in the Philippines where the elder Lim-Uy played in its varsity team.
Fate had somehow something more in store for Xian in form of photographer-stylist Ton Lao who saw in the 6' 2" now trimmed and slim Xian Lim, a model and actor instead. The jump to Mr. M and Star Magic, an ABS talent pool, was a short one. Xian's first sortie into the small screen was a wedding photographer to Kim Chiu and Gerald Anderson's characters in the 2008 ABS-CBN top-rating soap, My Girl, same year Xian flew back to Philippines.
Xian's progress was slow. Three years passed and though his shows and projects were steady they were not remarkable. His persistence paid off in 2011. It proved to be a great year for Xian. His ethnicity helped. He got chosen to play the role of Andy Wu,, son of a rich Chinese restarateur; one of three leading men to Kim's character Jade Dimaguiba in My Binondo Girl.
Again by another stroke of fate, things happened that brought the plum role of getting the girl in the end into Xian's lap. Xian who plowed into acting workshops in the lean years from 2008 to 2011 came prepared to tackle his role and with the built-in chemistry which exploded onscreen between him and Kim, a situation totally unexpected by the two, Xian was catapulted into instant fame with fans flooding twitter, email, facebook with a clamor for a Xian and Kim pairing after My Binondo Girl.
The fans staying late to watch My Binondo Girl nightly, this new breed of fans who were neither Kim nor Xian fans but Kim and Xian fans both, calling themselves, KimXis; twitting, posting messages on Facebook, pinoy exchanges, emailing ABS-CBN executives for more projects for Kim and Xian had their heyday when ABS announced that Kim and Xian would have a follow up soap and a movie to boot, their first one together. Notable of these fans is BBC Business News Anchor, Rico Hizon who until now watches replays of My Binondo Girl for his stress relief as I do.
From My Girl Wedding Photographer in 2008 to My Binondo Girl Groom to Kim Chiu in 2011 the shy, introverted , once loner Xian Lim who found his niche in music then acting has fulfilled a dream-the dream of seeing himself onscreen. Kim, in her native Cebu, had the same dream. Is this fate, destiny or God's grace to two lonely people who have found happiness in their work and perhaps in each other. More in God's grace that now there are two less lonely people in the world along with thousands who follow them. God is good!
Xian's music world which has expanded into modelling and acting has reverted into music! Xian is now a recording artist landing at the top of the charts on its May 6, 2006 release of his recording album So It's You with it's carrier single, Puso kong Hibang, his own composition, for the week April 30 to May 6, 2006! Music to Acting to Music - Xian Lim's world has come full circle!


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O'Hare Airport's getting new body scanning devices, replacing a generation of scanners that the ACLU's Ed Yohnka tells the Sun-Times have been empowering security agents to conduct "virtual strip searches" of passengers. The replacements are faster, too.
* Pro Publica report from 2011: Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Tests of Full-Body Scanners
'NO GROUNDING IN SCIENCE AND ... COMPLETELY INACCURATE.' A Northwestern University doctor is among those condemning Republican Rep. Joe Walsh's declaration that "you can't find one instance" of an abortion necessary to save a woman's life.
* Walsh issues clarification: "I find it amazing that both the local media and the national media are so fascinated that I and most Americans actually feel passionately about protecting the sanctity of life."
* Abortions getting tougher to obtain in dozens of states
THE BOAT THEY MISSED. What should Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have said when asked about all those Apple products made in China? Arik Hesseldahl of AllThingsD serves up an answer he'd have liked to hear from either of them.
* The answers they did give
* Bloomberg gets tough on Obama and Romney
IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF, UM, TIME? Newsweek's print edition dies at the end of the year. The Atlantic's Derek Thompson says the company's plan to transition to a "subscriber-only product for the tablet ... is an answer to the wrong question."
* The Onion brags: "Thriving 'Onion' Puts Another Print Edition Out Of Business"
SPEAKING OF THE ONION... Its editor, Will Tracy, and its head writer, Seth Reiss, visited Rick Kogan on The Afternoon Shift Wednesday to talk about their new book, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge. Guess what the entry on "Chicago" says.


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AVID Learning, is an Essar initiative, who foster creative learning across the fields of Culture & Heritage, Literature and Art – including Visual, Performing & Applied Arts – through workshops, panel discussions and other programs. I got associated with AVID at their Travel Writing Workshop, with Dilip D'Souza at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival.
Last week I was invited by AVID for their event "Making the Cut Before Red Carpet", A Discussion with Cameron Bailey. Cameron Bailey is the Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival and Board member of Tourism Toronto, on the Advisory Council for Western University's school for Arts and Humanities and for Haiti's Cine Institute Film School. He has been a writer and broadcaster. He reviewed for Toronto's NOW Magazine, CBC Radio One and CTV's Canada AM. The discussion was hosted by Nasreen Munni Kabir, a Television producer, director and author best known for producing an annual season of Indian films for the British television's Channel 4. She won the 1999 Women of Achievement Awardig Arts and Culture and was a governor on the board of the board of the British Film Institute serving a 6 years term.
|Cameron Bailey and Nasreen Munni Kabir
The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the world's most influential and prestigious film event. Cameron talked about the secrets of creating a great festival, how TIFF shapes the film industry, the future of film festivals and how audience shape independent cinema. Cameron shared how their expert work on selecting the best Films to be screened at the TIFF. Also TIFF is a great platform to network for Film Makers, where distributors from different countries gather, to purchase the films. He also shared, though cinema has reached small screens, even the cellphones, watching the film on a big screen at film festival still holds its significance. He also remembered the screening of the Bollywood movie Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, when the fan went crazy to get a glimpse of their favorite actors and director, Karan Johar, Amitabh Bachchan and ShahRukh Khan. The event ended with reception. You can visit TIFF webpage here, to know more about the festival and submission procedure.
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AVID Learning, Consulate General of Canada and ICIA celebrate Women's Day with a week of Artistic Introspection around a Photo-Exhibition on Child Brides by Photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair.
The exhibition is from March 20th to 28th 2015, at ICIA Gallery, ICIA House, Rampart Row, Kalaghod, Mumbai. Interested ones can have a tour of the exhibition.


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Lord Rees of Ludlow will be talking at the University of Bath about the history of the universe at the Founders Day Lecture on Wednesday 4 April 2012.
The Founders Day Lecture provides an opportunity to hear an excellent and eminent speaker as we mark 46 years since our foundation.
Astronomers have made astonishing progress in probing the cosmic environment. They can trace cosmic history from a mysterious 'beginning' nearly 14 billion years ago, and understand in outline the emergence of atoms, galaxies, stars and planets and how, on at least one planet, life emerged and developed a complex biosphere of which we are a part.
But these advances pose new questions: What does the long-range future hold? How widespread is life in our cosmos? Should we be surprised that physical laws permitted the emergence of complexity? Is physical reality even more extensive than the domain that our telescopes can probe?
This illustrated lecture will attempt to address such issues.
Lord Rees has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge since 2004. He was nominated to the House of Lords in 2005 as a cross-bench peer and was President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010.
Lord Rees' current research deals with cosmology and astrophysics, including black hole formation and cosmic structure formation, especially the early generation of stars and galaxies that formed relatively shortly after the Big Bang.
He has authored or co-authored around five hundred research papers. He has lectured, broadcast and written widely on science and policy, and is the author of seven books for a general readership.
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|Looking at the table midway through the battle. The British have formed a line to protect the camp ridge.
|The cavalry complete their crossing of the Bugaroff, led by the impetuous but not particularly competent Feodor Dunnovich.
|Verdlunchko presses forward, as do the cavalry.
|The rifles fall back into the vineyards where they can continue to snipe at the flanks of the advancing infantry but are out of danger of being charged again.
|The Russian attack prepares to go in.
|The Norfolks unleash a volley.
|The guards pour fire into the lone battalion on the right. The job of this unit is to pin the left of the British line in place while the main attack breaks the other flank.
|The Russian cavalry deploy to support the infantry, while the artillery prepares the way..
|From their flanking position, the Rifles continue to exact a toll on the advancing Russian wing.
|Paddington-Beere leads his men from the front, and is wounded.
|While the battle rages the last of the Russian column crosses the Bugaroff.
|The Russian Dragoons are seen off by the Scots, who at first are driven back, but then unleash a hellish volley. Dunnovich is caught up in the rout.
|The Uhlans, in the meantime, true to their orders, form up. Their job is to break the centre.
|Gotanich gets his first glimpse of the battle since crossing the river: 'Good God - what is happening?!'
|Meanwhile the Coldstream guards have advanced on the British left flank and annihilate the hapless jagers.
|In the distance the Uhlans can be seen riding towards the Gordon Highlanders, through a curtain of fire. The British line is thin, but it is holding as the last Russian reserves arrive on the battlefield..
|The death ride of the Uhlans.
|'That is quite enough of that thank you very much.' Half a unit will be lost for no gain whatsoever.
|The newly arrived reserves look to break the British right again.
|The Coldstream guards wheel into line and with the Grenadier guards proceed to wipe out the last infantry unit on their flank.
|Gotanich himself leads the assault and drives the Norfolks back.
|The battlefield at this crucial juncture. The Russians pour everything into breaking the right of the British line, while the Coldstream guards begin a turning movement of their own to recapture the redoubt.
|In one of the greatest feats of arms in the whole war, the Coldstream Guards recapture the redoubt. Onegin-Offagin and the first battalion of the Caucasus regiment are expelled.
|Now the Suffolks are charged, while Stark-Raven manages to rally the Norfolks. Verdluchko spurs his horse to catch up to the St Petersburg regiment on the far left of the Russian line in order to lead it into combat once more.
|The Suffolks are reduced to a handful of men, but are kept in the battle by General Colin Dour-Haggis, the Divisional commander.
|Onegin-Offagin gathers the second battalion of the Caucasus regiment for an attempt to retake the redoubt.
|The Norfolks are pushed back in hard fighting, but the St.Petersburg regiment is staggered and unable to rally, due to their commander General Verdlunchko, being captured!
|The day can still be won. The Russians roll the last die with an attack on the centre of the British line.
|Onegin-Offagin recaptures the redoubt. The dice throws for this particular event have to be seen to be believed. The Russians reclaim their objective.
|The Scots are pushed back in the centre. Is the battle turning the way of the Russians finally?
|The hard-pressed Suffolks see off the last Russian attack by Gotanich.
|Trumpets sound. The cavalry has arrived to help the hard pressed British!
|A final view of the Battlefield reveals that neither army has much left intact. The arrival of the cavalry is the signal for Gotanich to withdraw his battered forces.
British unit of the match would have to go to the Coldstream Guards for their assault on the redoubt, but to be honest any of the units could have claimed the prize. The Anglian regiments in particular suffered heavily but refused to give in. Had they broken earlier the Russians would undoubtedly have taken both objectives.
Russian unit of the match has to be the Caucasus Brigade. The jagers performed expertly, and the taking of the redoubts was legendary.
General of the match was Onegin-Offagin who did his duty and held his position without any rushes of blood to the head.
At the end of the game yet another guards commander was out of action (Paddington-Beere wounded), but Verdlunchko was captured. One must now debate - was Verdlunchko right to press the assault, or should he have waited for Gotanich to arrive with the rest of the Russian force and co-ordinate it?
I've decided that in the grand scheme of the Bugaroff front, the Russians have held the ford. The British will have to fortify Camp Ridge and remain vigilant.


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By Michelle Durham
OCEAN CITY, N.J. (CBS) — Ocean City residents who live in the shore community's south side plan to pack a Thursday evening council meeting to find out what local officials plan to do to fix the non-existent beach and dunes that they say threaten their homes.
They're riled because of an ongoing beach replenishment program in the northern part of the city, while they say they sit and wait.
Wendy Smith's Ocean City home is in the southern end. She's lived there for 20 years and says she doesn't begrudge Northern Ocean City residents, but Smith says trucking in thousands of pounds of sand isn't going to work. But she questions how the municipality would get the estimated $4.5 million for a full replenishment program, including dune construction.
"Do it right. Put the money out now. Get the money back from FEMA, the state — wherever you can get funding from. Protect the houses, give the people the beach they are expecting to have when they come down to vacation and move forward."
Smith says the beaches started to erode long before Superstorm Sandy, but estimates they lost five feet of beach post Sandy, threatening the safety of their homes, not to mention rental values.
"It would be like telling people, 'you are going to go to the Poconos, but we've taken the mountains away.'"
Ocean City officials did not respond to our numerous calls for comment.
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First things first:
I'm not an expert and I'm not pretending to be one. I can't read suspension graphs. I can only tell something's good something's sh1te. I'm an average rider.
Just to be clear - I didn't get the shock for free or give anyone a blow job to get a massive discount - I paid for it with my hard earned money.
Although I'd like the Madelk lads to prosper well, I wouldn't put on my bike something I wouldn't like just to make somebody else happy.
BOS don't need advertising. I've seen OPEL, AUDI, PEUGOT 's ads – haven't seen Bentley's one. Simple as that. And if you're buying BOS, you are buying a Bentley.
Also a lot of BOS stuff gets sold before it makes their way onto the shop shelf... So the purpose of this post isn't to sell more stuff.
First of all it's kinda late BOS introduce an enduro specific shock but as far as I know they have tested them for a long time before they put them into production.
I've always hated other manufacturers for experimenting on me especially when I pay sh1t loadz of money for their gear.
KIRK works perfect straight out of the box (so did Deville). Air pressure set up, a quick check on the rebound and you're ready to go. Hi and Lo speed compression dials let you adjust the setting to suit your riding style and terrain. I like the KIRK and the Deville for being very clear on the adjustments – you can actually feel the difference. My Lyriks had 16 clicks and they all felt the same.I even thought they were broken.
On the KIRK there's also a lever which activates a gate to cut off small bumps – handy for long boring fire road climbs.
It's light - 340g - feck me that's nothing for a shock with a piggy back, open bath and a huge shaft.
I had a VIP'r before that and even though it was much better that other AM shocks on the market it still felt like a compromise.
VIP'r had very good mid stroke control and great damping (look at the size of the shaft – BOS's shafts are super thick – much better oil flow).
You could set it quite soft and it'd still hold the mid stroke support nicely - unlike RP23, DHX air, RS RT3... especially on a high leverage ratio bike – they'd fly through the mid stroke; and set them up firm and you get a very edgy feeling. I think for up to 140-150mm AM frames the VIP'r is the best option on the market. For a 160+ bike you 'd wish for more plushness. Here comes the KIRK which is as plush as VOID (BOS's air sprung DH shock) but offers a very good pedaling platform. Now, as I said, I'm not good at the technical part of it so I've no idea how they did it but they did it, feckers. A plush shock with a pedaling platform. They call it: (Quote):"an intelligent pedaling optimizer splitting up the hydraulic flow to the compression. Therefore, the small bumps comfort stays and the pumping effect disappears."
It does work. It really fecking does. You can set it up soft and still get platform support for pedaling and brilliant mid stroke support when ramming into berms or compressing before a jump.
Please remember I've had it on a Nukeproof Mega 2012 which is a single pivot – much harder to control than your fancy Maestro,DW-link etc...
BOS claim the KIRK has " AN AIR SPRING GETTING BETTER PERFORMANCE TO THE COIL SPRING".
Having ridden an ELKA Stage 5 shock on the same frame before I wouldn't say you can get close to that with an air spring. (a canadian coil shock ) – butter, – an amazing shock – the bike felt like a flying carpet.
Turns out the French did it. I'm not sure if it's better but for sure does not feel worse and it reminded me how the Elka used to work. In the end you're getting the same performance with lower (much lower) weight + the pedaling platform that is a separate thingy allowing the shock to stay plush on small bumps.
I always think you will ride any bike and have fun – any fork – any shock – it's not about the bling. However I am very happy that I finally bought something (even though it wasn't cheap) and it really works as advertised – no bullshit, no spaceship technology. It just works and works very well.
Not too hard , not too soft – if you imagine how ideally your suspension should work this is it.
No shit.
It is hard to explain all this technical stuff.
You're welcome to stop me on the trails and borrow my bike for a ride.


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Other Writing
Every now and then I like to branch out my options and occasionally I write for other websites. Here is a (fairly) comprehensive list of written pieces that can't be found on here or Sauber Insight.
2nd November 2008: Couldn't Have Asked For More
|My own personalised review of the 2008 F1 season.
20th January 2010: Pity the F1 Fool
|I basically talk about why Twitter should not be trusted all of the time when finding out news stories
10th March 2010: Closing Thoughts…
|F1 Weekender
|I discuss the chances of F1 newbie's Campos Meta 1.
3rd December 2010: Life is a Rollercoaster
|I talk about the relationship between Peter Sauber and Kamui Kobayashi.
5th February 2011: Oh, Hispania!
|VivaF1 (Originally for F1 Weekender)
|A look back at how great that lot called Campos Meta 1 did and how they will cope in the 2011 season.
15th August 2011: Top Ten – Backmarker Moments
|Inspired somewhat by the new teams, a look at the best ten moments where the backmarkers got their names in the limelight.
As well as these, I have also wrote every now and then for Triple League Racing and of course my old blog, One Timo Glock.


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Pre and Post-Christmas Sydney FC Holiday Clinics are on Sale Now!!
Sydney FC will be running pre and post-Christmas holiday clinics in the Eastern Suburbs in the upcoming Summer school holiday period. PLUS as a special early bird promotion, all clinic participants who register before the 21st December will go into the draw to win one of ten Sydney FC Game Day Experiences at the Adelaide game on Friday, 20th January, 2017.
The Sydney FC holiday clinics are led by ex-Socceroo and Sydney FC player Paul Reid with assistance from qualified coaching staff to improve the technical ability of all participants. The clinics are a great opportunity for all football players, both boys and girls, to have fun playing football and to continue developing their skills in the lead up to the new football season.
Sydney FC will be running a number of clinics right across Sydney in the Summer holidays. The clinics run from 9am-3pm for 3 days, are for 5-15 year old boys and girls and cost $295 (sibling discounts apply). This includes a Sydney FC training shirt, shorts, socks and hat, opportunity to meet some of the Sydney FC players, plus a FREE Junior Blues Membership (12 years of age and under). Venues and dates for the clinics in the Eastern Suburbs are below:
Cranbrook Junior School: Tuesday, 13th December to Thursday, 15th December, 2016
Queens Park: Tuesday, 20th December to Thursday, 22nd December, 2016
UNSW: Tuesday, 10th January to Thursday, 12th January, 2017
Cranbrook Junior School: Tuesday, 17th January to Thursday, 19th January, 2017
To register your child and details of all the clinics around Sydney, visit www.sydneyfc.com/community


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"Wrinkles of the City" portrait in Galata, overlooking the Golden Horn
A friend, Juliana, and I decided to go in search of the "Wrinkles of the city, Istanbul". This is a series of images by the French artist, JR. They are part of a project begun in 2008 in an effort to portray urbanisation in different cities of the world. "Wrinkles" refers to the faces of the elderly affected by the changes and upheavals they have experienced in city life. The portraits are huge, each covering the whole side of a building, forcing the locals to experience JR's massive images.
The Galata Tower looms over one of JR's portraits in Istanbul
An elderly couple cling together, on the side of a warehouse beside the Golden Horn
Many of the images are already damaged by the weather...
...and others have been vandalised
This one in Balat is still in good condition.
Although JR installed 15 images throughout Istanbul, we only managed to find a handful of them. We had a fun day, however, walking in interesting parts of the city, and riding up the Golden Horn in one of the smaller ferry boats. There is always something fun to do in Istanbul.
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How many times have you been caught at the front door searching about for a key and when you find it you have trouble finding the keyhole? You're not Robinson Crusoe on this one! Torch keyrings provide security for your keyrings and a convenient one hand operated light source to make it easier to enter any door in an organised manner. Light keyrings all come complete with batteries so nothing's required from you in delivering a useful custom gift to your clients. Flashlight keyrings go beyond simply being a personal light source for emergencies, most models are equipped with clear LED light diode which produces a beam much like sunlight in composition while using the minimum amount of energy and thus preserving battery life. If you'd like further illumination on the range of torch keyrings available FreeCall Fresh Promotions 1800 129 999 and speak to an enlightened consultant.
A torch is a useful item to have around, and these can often be found in homes, cars, and workplaces in Australia and all over the world. When a torch is placed on a keyring, it allows a person to have light with them wherever they may require it, and this provides an element of safety most audiences can greatly appreciate. When a brand places their name or logo on to one of these torch keyrings, recipients can rest assured that the brand cares about their safety and well-being, thereby automatically creating a positive impression.
A torch keyring may also be given to employees, and workers who may find themselves doing their tasks at night or in a dark location can keep themselves safe if they have a torch portable enough to take with them anywhere. When a standard torch may prove inconvenient, or it slips the mind of an employee, they can always rely on their torch keyring to light their way. When employees use these products in client homes or in public areas, the branding on the items will then become noticeable to those around them, helping to market a brand as they simultaneously keep their workers safe. Those in construction, those in the business of outdoor goods, or those who wish to promote safety can all appreciate a torch keyring in marketing, as these are items that are able to reach these brands' necessary audiences while helping to create a positive impact.
The body of a torch keyring will be manufactured using either a plastic material or one of many metals, and this gives these torches the durability they need to be used anywhere. Small torches, larger torches, and high powered torches may be placed on a keyring, and products of all shapes and sizes are manufactured to allow a brand to choose their ideal piece. The keyring portion of a torch keyring is commonly made of metal and it can be shaped in a traditional circle fashion or as a carabiner. In order to create the brightest and longest lasting light, LED bulbs are most commonly used. LED bulbs are exceptionally small light bulbs with the ability to outlive other styles and emit a significantly brighter beam. Laser engraving and pad printing will place branding onto torch keyrings, and print areas are typically located down the body of each product.
A volunteer fire company hosting a fundraiser decided to offer branded torch keyrings to attendees. Each keyring was branded with the fire company's name, logo, and phone number and they quickly became one of the most popular items at the event. The fire company wound up earning all of the funds that they needed to renovate their station, and the keyrings could be seen frequently traveling around town with their recipients.
If quantities are kept from getting too high, torch keyrings may be able to be shipped affordably. While small, these products can be weighty in bulk numbers, and when large recipient audiences are sought, hand distribution may be the most effective method.


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December 24, 2008
By Gwendolyn Driscoll
California's low-income teenagers have a lot in common: Sugary soda. Fast-food restaurants. Too much television. Not enough exercise. The result: Low-income teenagers are almost three times more likely to be obese than teens from more affluent households, according to new research from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
In California, 21 percent of teenagers living in low-income families are obese, according to the new policy brief, "Low-Income Adolescents Face More Barriers to Healthy Weight." Low-income is defined as having income of less than $19,971 for a family of four or $12,755 for a family of two, according to federal poverty guidelines. In contrast, only 8 percent of teenagers living in families making more than $59,913 (family of four) or $38,265 (family of two) are obese.
California is home to about 480,000 obese adolescents from all income levels. But the high rate of obesity among low-income teens suggests that barriers to healthy behaviors, healthy foods and physical activity not only continue to exist but have grown even larger. Those barriers include high numbers of neighborhood fast-food restaurants and low numbers of parks and other opportunities for physical activity.
"Our neighborhoods are literally making us fat," said Susan H. Babey, one of the policy brief's authors. "We need better strategies and more thoughtful urban planning if we are going to make our towns and cities livable, not just places where we live."
Among other recommendations to combat teen obesity, the policy brief's authors urge city planners to consider zoning ordinances to regulate the number of fast-food restaurants while providing incentives to attract grocery stores and other outlets that stock fresh fruits and vegetables. The Los Angeles City Council recently used data from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research to support such a moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in South Los Angeles.
The policy brief's authors also called for greater opportunities for physical activity and education, as well as campaigns to promote family dinners and discourage excessive television viewing.
"The disparity in teen obesity prevalence among low-income and more affluent communities should serve as a wake-up call to policymakers," said Dr. Robert K. Ross, president and chief executive officer of The California Endowment, which funded the policy brief. "Where we live plays a critical role in shaping our health status. Elected officials can help improve the environmental factors that contribute to the poor health of Californians through local ordinances and statewide policy."
Among the findings of the policy brief:
· More sugary soda: 67 to 71 percent of low-income teens reported having at least one glass or can of soda on the previous day, compared with 55 percent of more affluent teens.
· More fast food: 46 to 49 percent of low-income teens reported eating fast food on the previous day, compared with 37 percent of more affluent teens.
· Fewer family meals: Up to 11 percent of low-income teens reported that they had never eaten dinner with a parent or guardian during the previous week. The rate is twice that of more affluent teens.
· Fewer opportunities for organized sports: 36 to 37 percent of low-income teens were on a school sports team in the previous year, compared with 49 percent of more affluent teens.
· Less physical activity: Nearly one in five, or 18 percent, of low-income teens did not get at least 60 minutes of physical activity in a week the minimum amount of physical activity recommended by the 2005 federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
· More television: 56 percent of low-income teens watch more than two hours of television per day, compared with 46 percent of more affluent teens.
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research is of the nation's leading health policy research centers and the premier source of health-related information on Californians.


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Helping empiricism gain a voice
Empiricism differs from Dualism and Materialism because it asks each person to take a look at what is actually occurring and asks how these events might be explained without using preconceived theories to dismiss our observations. New Empiricism continues the liberal approach of the Enlightenment by insisting on the scientific method of observing then theorising.
I hope that I have demonstrated in this Blog (see "Contents" on the left) that there are plentiful grounds for doubting materialism and no definite evidence for dualism. I interpret my observations as suggestive of the existence of spirituality but given our current state of knowledge Empiricists may believe in a God, reject a God or be agnostic. Although the ideas behind New Empiricism are too technical for the philosophical journals and too philosophical for technical journals the Internet has provided another path for publication so if you largely agree with the idea of New Empiricism you can help by mentioning it and linking to it wherever possible on the net.
Please comment freely if you wish.
*Note: there is a difference between materialism and physicalism. In the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry for physicalism it states: "Physicalism is sometimes known as materialism. Historically, materialists held that everything was matter -- where matter was conceived as "an inert, senseless substance, in which extension, figure, and motion do actually subsist" (Berkeley, Principles of Human Knowledge, par. 9). The reason for speaking of physicalism rather than materialism is to abstract away from this historical notion, which is usually thought of as too restrictive -- for example, forces such as gravity are physical but it is not clear that they are material in the traditional sense (Dijksterhuis 1961, Yolton 1983)."
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I was just turned on to this blog by a commenter over at Post Human Blues.ReplyDelete
Based on your description of the New Empiricism, I like it. I try to remain grounded in my own empirical observations, whether they be "outside" in the so-called "material" world, or "inside" in the subjective realm of experience.
You have however missed the other side of the coin of materialism. Materialism is a monistic view that everything, including consciousness is from matter. Dualism claims that matter and mind are seperate and distinct things. However there is another monistic view, which is that everything is mind or consciousness, and that the material universe is a manifestation of cosmic consciousness. This is a VERY old viewpoint called Vedantism and dates back at least to the 2nd Millenium B.C.E. in India.
Interesting points. I would make a distinction between materialism and physicalism, for instance gravity may be non-material and the relativistic contraction of a moving rod is not due to any material force but results from a change of viewing point (See Speacial Relativity Wikibook ). Although materialism rejects Vedantic ideas Physicalism is different and could embrace a universe that had consciousness as a fundamental constituent, physics would then be the physical relationships between these constituents.ReplyDelete
Descartes considered this point when he said that the universe could be a dream but even if it were a dream it would still have empirical features similar to those that he describes in his "Meditations" and there would still be relations between these features that could be described by science.
- Anonymous19 August 2009 at 01:55
Interesting site. You may want to be more explicit about what you mean by "physicalism" though. Because honestly, what you talk about often sounds to me like something along the lines of hylomorphic dualism.
Hyl(e/o)morphic Dualism is attractive. If you substitute "spatiotemporal arrangements" for "substantial forms" then I would plead sort of guilty but do not believe this is dualism, its the essence of physicalism! The main argument against substantial forms is the problem that they are only knowable by interactions - but if you introduce time as a direction for arranging things then the interactions themselves are part of the form as arrangements in time.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous19 August 2009 at 20:18
I agree it's attractive. Though I'm not sure I'd agree it's the essence of physicalism. I mean, there used to be no "physicalism", just "materialism". Materialism is something I reject, and it seems you do as well, though you say it's now only a subset of physicalism. Maybe. Complicated subject, but I'll keep on reading your site.
Thanks for the efforts here.


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It began in 2002, when Sammy and aleXsir founded the project Streamrocker. It didn't take long and well known artists like Royal Gigolos, H.A.N.Z., DJ Antoine and Christopher S. noticed their works.
The close contact to Christopher S., leading Swiss DJ, helped Streamrocker to make the breakthrough in Switzerland. Consequently they received many invitations for the hottest clubs around the house scene, for example the OXA in Zurich, the LOFT in Lucerne and also the Wankdorf Club in Bern.
Unfortunately it became calm for the project over the years and the everyday life seemed to keep them both away from their dreams.
In December 2008 Sammy decided to launch a separate project and continue, where the successes of Streamrocker ended. This was the birth of Slin Project.
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We innovate the pharmaceutical industry. You can join us in the digital health revolution and tackle
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Highly motivated and skilled Senior Product Owner – Real-world Evidence (RWE) who will be part of the Global Development IT team. We would like you to drive IT projects in the Real-world Evidence space and to be the critical contributor to the development of RWE IT competencies in partnership with IT platform teams.
This role will allow you to focus on consolidating enterprise-wide RWE needs and advance the analytics capabilities, value evidence generation and collaboration across both research and commercial divisions.
We will give YOU chance to:
- Utilize deep domain knowledge of RWE, value-based medicine, health economics and outcomes research to translate business priorities and opportunities into user stories, business/technical requirements, and propose platform-oriented solutions to advance enterprise-wide RWE capabilities
- Lead teams of analysts and developers in developing products/solutions that allow users to extract relevant insights from real-world data assets from a variety of sources, through the use of statistical programming environments, visualization tools and vendor-enabled analytics capabilities
- Represent the voice of the business partners and convey the vision to the development team, providing guidance on task prioritization driven by value realization
- Be accountable for ensuring that the team delivers solutions with high quality standards, timeliness, compliance and excellent user experience
- Provide expert guidance and consulting on RWE tools and the RWE landscape, as it relates to the business value of alternative technologies, leveraging internal IT platforms and capabilities
- Engage with stakeholders to jointly manage priorities and maintain engagement throughout the development lifecycle to ensure that products/solutions are fully aligned with business expectations, gathering and incorporating stakeholder feedback on an ongoing basis
- Contribute to innovative experiments, specifically to idea generation, idea incubation and/or experimentation, identifying tangible and measurable criteria
- Participate in strategic initiatives and communities of practice, both within IT and with business partners in RWE and value-based medicine domains, to act as driver of modernization and establish a strong network, both internally and externally
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Elisa is the hero of her country. She led her people to victory against a terrifying enemy, and now she is their queen. But she is only seventeen years old. Her rivals may have simply retreated, choosing stealth over battle. And no one within her court trusts her-except Hector, the commander of the royal guard, and her companions. As the country begins to crumble beneath her and her enemies emerge from the shadows, Elisa will take another journey. With a one-eyed warrior, a loyal friend, an enemy defector, and the man she is falling in love with, Elisa crosses the ocean in search of the perilous, uncharted, and mythical source of the Godstone's power. That is not all she finds. A breathtaking, romantic, and dangerous second volume in the Fire and Thorns trilogy.You can read my full review here, but below are just a few reasons why this book was so amazing.
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I've been loathe to give away my ARC, but now I can. Why? BECAUSE THE REAL THING IS FINALLY OUT, AND I BOUGHT MYSELF A COPY! *laughs crazily* I shall call it Squishy and it shall be mine and it shall be my Squishy. Yes, indeed, The Crown of Embers just came out on the 18th, and I'm trying my best to give it a boost by highlighting it here in a giveaway hop. Of course, if you don't win (or even if you do and want to own a finished copy), you can always click my Book Depository widget to the right and buy yourself a copy!
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Here is a great resource we found that seems to cover Federal, State & Local Governments: http://law.justia.com/index.html
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As the White House argues that federal rules trump state ones, critics say, if the government doesn't act, states should be allowed to step up and tackle a problem themselves. Video courtesy of Fox News.
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7 Jul 2016
Alex, 23 months
I'm totally in denial that Alex is in his last month as a one-year-old, and that the next time I will be writing his update he will be two. It's an outrage! Where did my little baby go? I honestly feel a little shocked by how fast time has gone and that my boy is growing up. Too fast.
I would really like to keep him my baby for a bit longer; but alas, with every day that passes, my baby is turning into a big boy. I will have to accept it at some point, I know, but it's not easy.
Since the last update, Alex's speech has come on leaps and bounds - that's probably the biggest news. He is now saying and repeating a huge repertoire of words, and has even started to put two words together, like "Daddy's car", "Opa's Auto" (the German version about Granddad's car), "Pop Bubbles", "Give me", and "Thank you" (bless him - so so cute when he says it), and every day he comes up with new words. Some he just says as a one-off, but others stick and are slowly building his vocabulary.
He is still the cutest - I took the picture above on the plane back from Germany a couple of weeks ago, and he just looked so sweet, handsome and so cheeky. He entertained all the people around us, luckily in a good and endearing way. Everyone was smiling at him and giving him lots of attention, which was a relief, as I always worry about bothering fellow travellers with my kids. But so far, they have always been more or less a delight, so I had nothing to worry about.
We've also had the first taster of terrible twos and tantrums; turns out Alex is just as strong-willed and strong-minded as the rest of our family (what d'ya know!), so I think we will have a few battles of will on our hands as we go along. But overall he is extremely delightful, and whilst being cheeky and naughty at times, I do think he is beginning to understand his boundaries, and overall he is a good boy. And I like the fact that he is spirited, just like his sister. It'd be boring otherwise, wouldn't it?
He is having quite bad separation anxiety at the moment. I'm not sure what's brought this on, and he has had the odd episodes of it before, but currently it is pretty terrible. He is literally going into mega-meltdown when I leave him at nursery, even when he is surronded by his favourite carers and key worker, and whenever John leaves for work he also cries his heart out. It breaks my heart and makes leaving him, for work or travel or otherwise, pretty hard at times. I do hope he will grow out of it soon, as it's pretty horrible, and he is normally not a shy and a rather confident, independent child.
He is currently transitioning form baby room at nursery to toddler and will be fully going to his new group at the end of the month. I know he is ready for it, and he has lots of his little mates in the bigger group already, so I'm trying to look at it positively and not with a huge degree of melancholy.
We are about to embark moving him into his own room, too. So far, he was sharing our bedroom (albeit in his own cot, not our bed, as I'm not much of a co-sleeper), but we will be rejigging our room set-up over the next few weeks and Alex will finally go into his own room and Becky will get a bigger one. And whilst I'm excited about all the interior possibilities and decorating both their rooms (I will do a separate post on my interior inspiration), it is also yet another sign that we are cutting the apron strings more and more and that Alex will be a big boy soon.
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Optimisation of potato seed systems in Madagascar
CEFFEL (Conseil – Expérimentation – Formation en Fruits et Légumes) in Madagascar consists of 11 members, that represent 170,000 families. CEFFEL provides training sessions about production techniques and has a centre for trials and experiments. Furthermore CEFFEL also trains agricultural advisors, and supports its members with economic information. Potato productivity on Madagascar is on the decline as a result of bacterial wilt (Ralstonia solanacearum) and late blight (Phytophthora infestans). This affects the income of potato producers, threatens their livelihoods and negatively impacts on food security in the country. CEFFEL will seek, together with researchers and its members, solutions to manage the diseases and to mitigate their impact on potato productivity and the corresponding income of potato producers. They will explore and communicate:
- Opportunities for integrated late blight management, by combining minimal pesticides regimes with varietal resistance
- Support professionalization of seed potato sector through piloting of pragmatic seed potato traceability and market organisation
- Develop locally tailored decision making tools for the timing of planting and harvesting of seed potatoes


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Operator vs Interactor
An operator imagines they are directly affecting "tissues", and that "tissues" are responding, directly, to their tender or not-so-tender ministrations. They see themselves as direct agents of any change – "It was all about me, and my magic hands, making your tissues behave themselves." The implication of this terminology is that the patient is a passive recipient of the manual act.
The interactor sees the context of the treatment including the technique, the provider, the participant, the environment, and the interaction between these factors as contributing to patient outcomes. The interactor considers the interaction between these various factors, not simply the performance of one or more techniques as an 'operator.'


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Figures. Democrats Use Jeremiah "Goddam America" Wright to Raise Cash
Four years ago they ran from Obama's pastor Rev. Jeremiah "Goddam America" Wright.
Now Democrats are using the vulgar anti-American kook to raise cash.
ABC reported:
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi defended the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on "This Week" for sending a fundraising email that attempted to capitalize on the apparently dead advertising plan to link President Obama to Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The plan has been repudiated by Mitt Romney as well as the head of the super PAC reported to have been considering backing the plan.
"Why would we have any regrets?" asked Pelosi, dismissing Romney's rejection of the proposed advertising campaign.
During our interview, Pelosi cited a previous attack by Romney on President Obama using Wright in which the former Bay State governor said "I'm not sure which is worse: him listening to Rev. Wright or him saying we must be a less-Christian nation" during an interview with Sean Hannity. When asked about these comments in light of the current controversy, Romney stood by them even as he admitted he could not recall exactly what he said.
"He has, he stood by his remarks in February. So I think maybe it might be useful to see what he said in February and see that he stands by those remarks," Pelosi said.
My, what a difference a few years make!
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We currently have an official group organized on Ibiza, part of the Poniente Branch in Palma de Mallorca. We have had a small number of members on island for some time. Several months ago Pte. Balcazar of the Poniente Branch flew to Ibiza to meet with the members, and began to discuss with me and the district president the need to at least organize a group and call a group leader. Hna. Hinckley and I visited the island a few months ago and met with the members. Following that trip we established a formal group and called a group leader. We have spent a few months looking for a missionary apartment there which could be used by members as well as missionaries and we put the pieces in place to build a branch. We were able to sign a contract on an apartment this week and Elder Allphin and Elder Roco are at the airport as I write this.
|Elders Roco and Allphin prior to leaving for Ibiza
The island has a population of about 150,000, large enough to support Church growth in membership. It is a popular tourist spot in the summer month, so much so that we will probably pull the missionaries out before the season gets into full swing, but during the off-season it is as quiet and tranquil as its sister islands, Mallorca and Menorca.
The members are very excited to finally have some missionaries on the island. They see themselves as pioneers for the Church on the island, and are anxious to built a strong branch of the Church!


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Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) YouTube team integrated a little more tightly with Google+ Feb. 16, allowing users to display their Google+ profile or Page alongside social feeds from Facebook and Twitter on their YouTube channel.
When YouTube users are on their feed tab, they'll see a box called "Post to Feed" that lets users enter a comment and add a link to share a video or a playlist.
When users post the bulletin, it will appear in their channel feed, with the comment below the video. Subscribers to the channel will be notified in their home page feed when a user posts to their feed.
These new features are designed to boost users' personal and professional brands on the video-sharing site, which could also draw more people to watch users' videos.
YouTube wants to increase the amount of time the average user spends on the Website from 15 minutes to five hours a day if it can, effectively displacing traditional TV networks such as NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox.
To help boost the amount of time users spend on its Website, YouTube has launched dozens of professionally produced content channels from the likes of Jay-Z, Madonna and other celebrities. The company has also improved its YouTube application for Google TV, which Google views as the ideal access point for YouTube content.
The video network also overhauled its home page to provide consumers more comfortable channel-surfing, part of the video Website's ongoing effort to be a key broadcasting platform.
There are other ways to boost user engagement besides creating new channels and a Web TV platform, which is why YouTube is adding sharing features that allow users to promote their video content via Google+ and other social networks that have large audiences.
The Google+ profile-sharing option isn't YouTube's first integration with the social network.
Since its June launch, Google+ users have been able to watch YouTube videos with their friends, family or colleagues via the Hangouts group video chat application, which enables up to 10 users to watch YouTube clips, music videos or even movies and discuss them in real time.
Google in August added the ability for YouTube users with Google+ accounts to start Hangouts right from YouTube with the click of a button. Google+ and YouTube got even cozier in November, as the company added a YouTube "slider" feature in Google+ that lets users watch videos right from the social network.


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Friday, 29 March 2013
In James Blish's The Star Dwellers (London, 1979), this limitation on the use of FTL does not apply. One spaceship:
"...rose from the surface of the Earth to the top of the atmosphere with the gentleness of a lift - after which she flicked into Haertel [FTL] overdrive so efficiently that she utterly vanished." (p. 34)
However, in the sequel, Mission To The Heart Stars (London, 1980):
" 'Of course, if we go directly on to the Standing Wave [Haertel overdrive] from orbit, there'll be a planet-wide minor earthquake.' " (p. 106)
In the first novel, Blish, demonstrating that the interstellar vessels of 2050 are unlike earlier spacecraft, uses phrases like "...gentleness..." and "...utterly vanished...," whereas, in the sequel, when he is imagining a hasty escape from a hostile planet, he reverts to the idea that an immediate transition to FTL will have violent consequences. The result, I think, is an inconsistency between the novels.
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A $300,000 grant to expand critical services for young people in Derby has been in limbo since the Federal election.
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Money from the Labor Government's National Crime Prevention Fund is yet to reach a youth centre in Derby, which is struggling to cope with up to 70 young people during its after school program.
The youth centre was notified in August that it had been sucessful in its application of a $300,000 grant to run a Derby Youth Crime Prevention Project.
The project had endorsement from local services, Police, and the Shire, and was due to begin in September.
Jo Allan is the Youth Services Coordinator at the Shire of Derby West Kimberley.
She says part of the funding was due to create 25 case management places for young people who were disengaged with school.
"We've got kids who haven't been to a day of school for years here.
We're really shocked to find the numbers of kids who aren't going to school on a regular basis.
They might be kids that go once a week for a year, and that's what they see as their schooling."
She says it's their responsibility to try and engage with these young people, and offer an alternative to crime.
In consultation with local Police, the centre was also looking to double the opening times.
"That was to coincide with the Derby Police identifying the times when young people are most at risk of offending."
The Shire has seen a significant increase in the numbers of young people attending after school activities this year, and due to staff requirements, the centre is only able to open for four days a week, until about 5pm.
In October, Ms Allan recieved an e-mail indicating the money now might not come through.
She says if it doesn't, the future is grim.
"I think what's going to happen is we will continue to not meet the needs of our young people.
The needs aren't decreasing here, and we need to build on what we're providing young people every year."
Listen to Jo Allan speak to Vanessa Mills about the crime prevention project, and the future for young people in Derby.


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We are very grateful to all of you who decided to come to Malvern for the World Meeting of Families and the Pope's visit to Philadelphia. We know you had to go through many obstacles but you came anyway – to help us with the Mercy Night and to spend time with us.
For us it was a wonderful grace and an enormous blessing to have you all in our house. In the beginning we were seriously concerned how this was going to work: how were we going to fit all these people into the limited space in our house? How were we going to feed them? Bring them to Philadelphia and back? It turned out that God took care of everything, and indeed everyone who came to us and wanted to go to Philly – was able to go to Philly – just like we prayed.
Our daily Masses, morning praises together, jokes at the dinner table and evening talks made us feel like one, huge family.
We loved when Pablo walked our son to the bus stop, so that he would not not be late to school; enjoyed the unexpected 'visitors' on Friday early morning; 'Pope and popcorn' was a great idea…and all the board games we played. What a great time! In the end we were sorry to see everyone go – we wish we could do this more often!
Take a look at a video summary of our time spent together as one big happy family!
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Naayak Tamil version on 25 Jan
6 January 2013
The Tamil version of Ram Charan's latest film Naayak will release on 25 January. There is no simultaneous release for Naayak in Tamil Nadu due to lack of availability. Neelisetty Subba Rao is producing the Tamil version on Crown Movies banner. Katragadda Lokesh presents it.


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Fruits and Vegetables Recipes
Collection of recipes using Fruits and Vegetables. Vegetables are a rich source of antioxidants and protect us from many diseases. Green vegetables contain essential vitamins & minerals and are thus very beneficial for health.
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The name amla in Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati and Nepali is derived from Sanskrit amalaki, meaning "the sustainer", due to its abundant reserve of nutrition and medications. The genus name, Emblica, is the Latinisation of the same name. Other equivalents are amalaka in Sanskrit, Avalaa in Marathi, olay in Punjabi, Amloki in Bengali, nellikka in Malayalam, amlakhi in Assamese, Usiri in Telegu, nellikkai in Tamil and Kannada, haliilaj in Arabic and anmole in Chinese.


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Question from a reader:
How do you feel about PAs and NPs?
How does Doctor D feel about them?
I have met some excellent physician extenders who work wonderfully with both patients and MDs to provide superb care. My own son, Little D, was delivered by a Nurse Midwife who is like a physician extender for obstetric care. It was an uncomplicated pregnancy, and I was totally comfortable with the midwife caring for my wife and son. It was one of the best deliveries I have ever seen.
Bad PAs and NPs can be trouble. Just like doctors, they can fall prey to the God-complex, which can be even more dangerous when arrogance is coupled with less medical education. D once worked with a NP who was doing some bad care. When Doctor D brought it up he said, "Who the hell are you to tell me how to practice!" And D was like, "Well actually, I'm the doctor assigned to supervise you, dude. It's kind of my job to tell you how to practice."
Just like bad doctors, bad physician extenders are the minority, but they can give all the good ones a bad name. Generally speaking, PAs and NPs are an important part of the healthcare system. Mid-level schooling is shorter which allows excellent people who just don't have the time for medical school to become medical providers.
Something that concerns Doctor D is the idea being forwarded by some that all Primary Care can be done solely by physician extenders. The theory is mostly forwarded by politicians eager to save money and Specialist MDs who have no idea how complex Primary Care medicine can be. While there is need for PAs and NPs in Primary Care, physicians must remain intimately involved in this essential part of healthcare.
Your mid-level provider is working with a physician even if you don't directly see that physician. This team approach has some obvious strengths: you get two providers involved in your care. Two minds can be better than one at spotting problems or unusual diagnoses. You always have the physician as a back-up if the mid-level provider feels your situation needs more advanced attention.
Of course, the flip side of this is that if either the MD or the mid-level are bad, irresponsible, or just don't communicate well your chance of problems increases significantly. Sometimes a really good mid-level provider is stuck with a bad physician. You may not even know you have a bad doctor on your team who is detrimental to your health.
If you are seeing a PA or NP you should understand how the system works, and particularly know about their relationship with the physician that supervises them. If your mid-level provider appears to be competent and has a good working relationship with mutual respect with their physician you can usually rest assured that your care will be done well.
So what do you think? Do you see an NP or a PA? What is your experience with mid-level providers? Any PAs or NPs out there who can tell us more? As always, Doctor D loves to hear your thoughts.


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CNA Training
After CNA training, it can be intimidating to work on a patient's nails and hands. Some patient's are reluctant to have someone file and clean their nails for fear of being hurt. In your CNA training you learned how many germs can be living on your hands and underneath your nails. You learned how to properly wash your hand, focusing underneath the nails, to prevent the spread of germs and disease. Your patient's nails are no different. It is important to help your patient properly clean their hands and nails daily to ensure their health and safety. This CNA training review will go over the proper procedure for cleaning a patient's hands and nails.
CNA Training: Steps to cleaning a patient's hand and nails
1) Your CNA training taught you to always wash your hands and put on gloves before you interact with a patient. After your hands are clean, gather all the supplies you will need to perform your task. You don't want to leave the patient while you get something you forgot.
2) Greet the patient warmly as you enter the room. Be sure to use their name and you name while you are letting them know why you are there. "Good morning Mrs. Smith. It's Sally. I'm here to wash your hands today. How are you?"
3) You will already have a wash bin filled with warm water. Before you start, you are going to have the patient test the water that they will be soaking their hands in. Tell them that you are going to place their fingers in the water to test it. Once they have some of their fingers in, ask your patient if the water is alright. If they say it is, continue, if they say it isn't, warm it up or cool it down. Then gently place both of the patient's hands in the basin. Allow the patients hands to soak for a few minutes. (This would be a great time to comb the patient's hair.)
4) After the patient's hands have soaked, you will begin cleaning them with a wash cloth. Dip the wash cloth in the water, ring out the excess water leaving the cloth damp, and then put soap on the wash cloth. You will gently wash the patient's hand making sure to get in between the fingers. Be sure to talk with the patient while you are cleaning them, like you learned to do in CNA training. "Mrs. Smith, How does that feel? Did you get to go outside today?" This helps the patient to feel comfortable.
5) It is now time to rinse the patient's hands. Put the wash cloth off to the side, not in the wash bin, and rinse the patient's hands in the wash bin. Be sure to get all of the soap off of their hands.
6) Using the orange wood stick, gently clean underneath the patient's nails removing any debris. Remember your CNA training by not using the pointy end of the orange wood stick and being very gentle.
7) You are now ready to dry the patient's hands. Move the wash bin out of the way and place the patient's entire hand in a hand towel. Your CNA training taught you to pat dry, you do not want to rub the patient's skin or you might hurt them.
8) Now that their hands are clean and dry, you are going to want to look at their nails. File any jagged edges leaving their nails smooth and short. Then wipe away any nail dust. Do not use nail clippers.
9) The last step to do with the patient is to put lotion on their hands. You CNA training taught you to put the lotion on your hands, rub your hands together to warm up the lotion, and then apply the lotion to their skin. You will want to give them a mini hand massage to ensure the lotion is absorbed by the skin. When you are done, pat away any extra lotion with a towel.
10) When you are done you need to follow your CNA training on properly cleaning and storing the items that you used.
11) Finally, remove your gloves and thoroughly wash your hands, as you learned how to do in CNA training.
Cleaning Your Patients' Nails After CNA Training
Cleaning a patient's hands properly after CNA training will reduce the spread of germs and ensure the patient doesn't accidently scratch themselves or others with their finger nails. Your CNA training taught you to always talk to your patient while you are working with them. This is very important to ensure the patients comfort. Always ask if they are comfortable and try to ask them about their day. You will be relied upon by your patients daily not only to help them do physical things but to talk and care for them after CNA training.


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