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Get closer to Charles Dickens than ever before at a special weekend celebration inside the house where he was born.
Charles Dickens was born in a small terraced house in Portsmouth, which now stands as a museum to the great writer. Inside, it's been restored and furnished to reflect middle class tastes of the time.
Now, in a special weekend celebration, visitors are invited to get closer to Dickens' first home than ever before. Between 8 - 11 December, visitors will get to walk fully around the home, getting up close with the furniture, ceramics, glass and decorations that have been faithfully maintained there.
There are three rooms to visit: the parlour, the dining room and the bedroom - where Dickens was born.
Among the items on display are the couch on which Dickens died at his house in Kent, his snuff box, an inkwell and his paper knife.
Costumed volunteers will be on hand during the weekend to give visitors the best ever feeling of what the house would have been like back in the early Victorian times.
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Asthma Environmental Intervention Guide
Asthma Environmental Intervention Guide for School-Based Health Centers
Developed by Regional Asthma Management & Prevention (RAMP), a project of the Public Health Institute
In partnership with the California School-Based Health Alliance
The purpose of this guide is to support school-based health center staff in leading or supporting evidence-based strategies and promising practices to reduce exposure to environmental asthma triggers. Although there is a broad array of evidence-based interventions to address asthma triggers, many people with asthma continue to be exposed to the factors that make their asthma worse. School-based health centers (SBHCs) are uniquely positioned to address this gap in order to help children breathe easier. While many SBHCs across the country are already playing a key role in helping students manage their asthma by providing quality clinical care and education there is an opportunity for SBHCs to also be leaders in managing the environmental factors that make asthma worse.
The guide describes the relationship between asthma and a number of environmental asthma triggers and shares scientific evidence that SBHC staff can cite when educating others on the need to address environmental asthma triggers. This is followed by five sections each tackling a strategy, or broad category of intervention, that SBHC staff could lead or support. They include:
- Education
- Case Management
- Improving Indoor Air Quality in Schools
- Improving the Students' Home Environments
- Improving Outdoor Air Quality Around the School and Community
Each section provides an overview of the type of intervention, points to specific tools and resources, and suggests how SBHC staff can lead or support implementation. The array of interventions is intended to serve as a "menu" from which SBHC can choose depending on their interests, resources, and the particular needs of their patient population. While a comprehensive approach that works across settings and utilizes multiple strategies is likely most effective for reducing the burden of asthma, any step that SBHCs can take to reduce exposure to environmental asthma triggers will help students breathe easier. Reading this guide is the first step!
In order to help us evaluate the impact of this guide, we kindly ask you to take a brief survey before downloading the guide by clicking here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/knowledgepractice. After you have clicked the "submit" button, you will be provided with a link to the guide. If you would like to access the guide directly, you may go to http://www.rampasthma.org/uploads/asthma_guide_sbhc.pdf.
Be sure to check out the At-A-Glance document for quick tips by clicking here. Download an asthma trigger table by clicking here.
Also, don't miss the case studies, highlighting ways that SBHCs across the country are already succeeding in conducting environmental asthma interventions by clicking here.

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"It's a blast!"
Listerine (Pfizer)
It's a blast to have advertising around that won't leave the audience behind flustered. Or with the unsettling uncertainty of missing out on something. A welcome disruption of disruptive advertising.
In Europe, German tv is dominated by me-too products of American start up ideas. Feels like 95% of reliable household brand names are gone. Bummer.
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She was one of the outstanding travellers of the 20 th century. Writer and journalist through necessity, photographer by predilection, she explored distant regions of the planet in a search for the ultimate truth. A successful sportswoman famous for her travels and books, she criss-crossed the most outlying parts of the earth under what were truly adventurous conditions.
Les voyages extraordinaires d'Ella Maillart
2 DVDs
Artemis Films Production, 2018
Okrutni put
Dve žene i ford na putu za Avganistan
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I'll never forget the sound "it" made. It wasn't a bump or a crash. It wasn't a slam, slap, or smack. Instead, it was a thud: My newborn baby's body sounded like a sack of potatoes when she hit the hardened surface. When her fragile bones and soft skin struck the lacquered wood. When the soft spots on her head connected with our not-so-soft living room floor.
At first I didn't know what to do.
How had she fallen? She was right there — next to me on the love seat. I was right there, and now she is crying. Her little fingers are reaching for my feet. What happened? What the hell happened?
But I didn't have time to consider my transgressions. I didn't have time to analyze what I did wrong — to figure out if I had fallen asleep or simply turned away for too long — instead I scooped her up. I cried into the crook of her neck as she dried her tears in mine, and after a few moments I found my phone and pressed a few buttons.
Shaking and crying, I dialed her pediatrician.
I tried to explain to the receptionist what had happened: My little girl had fallen off the sofa. Her little body had rolled right onto the floor, but while she heard me, to this day I'm not sure she really listened. Because her voice was slow and serene. She was calm and collected.
And my doctor? I was told my doctor would call me back.
"OK, I will pass your message along to Dr. M and she will call you back. Have a great day!" the voice on the other end of the line told me.
A great day? A "great day!?" How the hell could I possibly have a great day?
I hung up the phone and collapsed in a heap beside the couch — onto that cold, hard, and unforgiving floor — with my daughter still in my arms.
I was holding on to her with every ounce of strength I had.
What did the nurse mean when she said the doctor would call me back in a few minutes? Didn't she understand the gravity of the situation? My daughter could be injured or brain damaged. What if "a few minutes" came a few moments too late?
Through tears, I apologized to my daughter. I prayed as I kissed the top of her head and the center of her forehead. As I kissed her cheeks and her neck, her lips and her chin, and as I kissed every inch of her little face, I told her Mommy would never drop her again.
I vowed I would protect her: never again would my daughter fall.
Eventually, her pediatrician called me back. She had me explain what happened — again — and she asked what my daughter was doing, and how she was acting, and the truth is, she seemed fine. She had already stopped crying and had actually begun laughing at my tears. (At this age, she also laughed at her fingers and toes, Daddy's farts, and anything which made Mommy's face look funny. Including anger. Including tears.)
Her doctor explained that while I should keep an eye out for odd behavior and lethargy, she was probably just fine.
My daughter would be a-OK.
But I wasn't fine. I wasn't OK, and I wouldn't be for hours. In fact, I spent the remainder of that day hugging her and holding her and watching her every breath. I spent that night snuggling her and feeding her and rocking her to sleep because I worried that when she closed her eyes something would go wrong. I was worried that if I let her go she would fall. And I was worried that if I turned away, I could lose her.
What if she go hurt or died in her sleep?
For weeks, I was on edge. For months, her baby monitor was my best friend, and even today this moment still haunts me. It still terrifies me, and it still upsets me.
It hurts to know I could have seriously hurt my baby girl.
However, aside from her doctor, I never told a soul: not my mother or brother, my best friend, or even her father. Because I was scared. I was certain this incident proved I was an insufficient parent. I was certain this incident proved I was a "bad mom" — hell, I was a TERRIBLE mom — and I was this incident proved I didn't deserve a child.
I didn't deserve my daughter.
Of course, today — a full three years later — I know this isn't true. I know this moment didn't define me, as a person or a mother. I know accidents happen, and I know I am not "bad" or "terrible" or a complete and total f**k up. But I still struggle to speak about it.
Admitting that I dropped my baby, and telling this story for anyone to read, may just be the hardest thing I have ever done.
And yet that's exactly why I'm telling it. Because accidents will happen, and as scary as they are, other parents need to know they are not alone.
Other parents need to know these moments do not mean one damn thing. At least not in the grand scheme of things.
These mistakes do not make you a good parent or a bad one.
So please: While I know accidents like this are horrifying and terrifying and so damn scary as the moments unfold, don't ever question yourself. Don't ever doubt yourself. Don't put yourself down, and don't call yourself a bad mother, because if you were a "bad mom" you wouldn't care.
If you were a bad mom, you wouldn't worry or cry, carry guilt, remorse, regret, or fear.
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Telangana State PGECET will be soon conducting 3rd Counselling for complete admission process. Soon after you can check Counselling date from here.
TS PGECET 3rd and Final Phase Counselling Dates 2015 | Seat Allotment Order
The Telangana State Council of Higher Education invites number of application forms for various admission tests in Osmania University. As per other courses from this university there was also invited application for Post Graduate Engineering Common Entrance Test. after application process there are all qualified candidates will be got admitted by counselling. For complete counselling and get admission in Post Graduate engineering courses. According to university guideline it will be soon conduct this 3rd phase counselling. To get more detail regarding to counselling check online notification at http://tspgecet.tsche.ac.in/doc/notification_1.pdf.
TS PGECET Final Phase Counselling Date 2015
The Telangana State Council of Higher Education is the state government organization was developed by government of Telangana for conduct various number of examination in every year. As per other exams from this council there was also conducted exam for TS PGECET. For this exam get more required details you also have to check on from official website of it at www.tspgecet.tsche.ac.in. After conducting 3rd counselling from this university there will be also provide you all information about it. So all students was appeared this exam is also advised to get all updates from here.


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The Motor Car Act 1903, which came into force on 1 January 1904, required all motor vehicles to be entered on an official vehicle register, and to carry number plates. The Act was passed in order that vehicles could be easily traced in the event of an accident or contravention of the law. Vehicle registration number plates in the UK are rectangular or square in shape, with the exact permitted dimensions of the plate and its lettering set down in law.
You can find out where your personalised registration number plate was originally issued here.
Students at a school in Surrey have been threatened with having their bikes locked away unless they comply with a new policy on cycling to school, which includes having a number plate attached to their bikes.
In a letter sent to parents, Keith Batchelor, head of the Beacon School in Banstead, said that he was implementing new rules on children cycling into school, and parents would have to sign an agreement before their children were allowed to ride in.
As well as telling students to stick to the Highway Code, wear a helmet, and use hi-vis clothing and bike lights "where appropriate", the new rules also mean that students will have to have a number plate (supplied by the school) attached to their bikes, which Mr Batchelor hoping that this will make students not following the rules more identifiable.
"On joining the school this September, I decided to refine the current cycling policy to enhance further the safety of the students in our care and develop their sense of responsibility on the road," Mr Batchelor said in a statement, as reported by Get Surrey.
"The procedures will support the safeguarding of our students on their journeys to and from school and help us to celebrate safe cycling. We will provide extra training to students where it is needed."
As part of the new policy, the school says that students who fail to follow the rules may be banned from cycling to school, with those who continue to ride in having their bikes locked up until their parents or carers are available to collect them.
Number plates for bikes have been the subject of discussion in recent months after a survey by Halfords found that two-thirds of respondents were in favour of cyclists having to have them attached to their bikes.
However the idea came was slammed by both cycling campaigners and motoring groups, with the AA describing it as "impractical and unnecessary" while Cycling UK said "rather than encouraging people to cycle, and bring all the associated health and wealth benefits, it is more than likely to put newcomers or occasional cyclists off cycling altogether."
A NUMBER plate sold to raise money for Tatton Park has fetched a world record price of £331,500 at auction.
The M1 registration mark was bought by an anonymous north west-based bidder - for his six-year-old son's birthday.
Officials at auctioneers Bonhams and Tatton Park were stunned by the final selling price for the unique plate, which quickly reached and overtook the previous world record.
And they were even more amazed to learn that the owner is a boy who cannot legally drive for another 11 years.
The youngster is the son of a wealthy Cheshire businessman who refused to reveal himself and made his bids by phone.
Trevor, or Stretch to his mates because he is "very tall", is a mine worker who loves his car so much that his choice of numberplate had to reflect that passion.
The GT4EVA plates take pride of place on his XY GT Falcon.
"I just wanted to put some numberplates on it that stood out from the rest," Trevor said.
He is one of 3644 Rockhampton region residents who in the past year have personalised their vehicle with unique numberplates.
The plates cost from $165 to $3300 and the region is home to a wide array of unique registrations including these beauties: OMG MUD, HIP100, L1VE1T, C1NDYS, SPUNKYB and FORD36.
For some people, personalised plates are like chips - you can't have just one.
And Trevor is a prime example of that.
He has MAC392 on his Mustang and he also has TKD11 (his initials and date of birth) on another vehicle and SRD12 on his partner's car.
"I just love them - it just makes your car different to everybody else's," Trevor said.
Personalised Plates Queensland managing director Jemma Elder said more than 750,000 personalised plates had been issued.
Jemma said vehicle owners were happy to spend big on them because they were a "fun and creative way" to express themselves.
"A lot of people are very proud of their vehicles and it's a way for them to express themselves and their passion for their cars and to complement the look of their car," she said.
While most people opt for letter and number combinations that will not offend, there are some motorists who like to choose plates that are not appropriate for our roads.
"We work very closely with the Department of Transport and Main Roads who provide very strict guidelines to adhere to," Jemma said.
"We run every plate against the very strict assessment criteria to ensure they are clean and that they are appropriate for display."
While PPQ sells the unique regos on more than 250 types of plates and designs, it's the DTMR that produces the finished plate.
Canberrans who want to show their support for marriage equality can now do so in a novel way - rainbow number plates.
Following the legalisation of same-sex marriage, the ACT government has announced it will bring into circulation number plates with a rainbow band instead of the traditional slogan.
The colourful plates will cost a one-off fee of $60 and regulatory services minster Gordon Ramsay said he expected demand for them to be high.
The fee covers the cost of production of the plate, and unlike the rainbow buses and roundabout, Mr Ramsay said there would be no extra cost to the ACT taxpayer.
ACT government to offer free marriage certificates for same-sex couples who wed when briefly legal in Canberra
Location chosen for Canberra's rainbow roundabout
"The government has been supportive all the way through of people's rights," Mr Ramsay said.
"We're the most welcoming and inclusive city and I want to make sure we continue to be able affirm that and celebrate that."
Three in four Canberrans voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage in the recent postal survey, an "emphatic" result Chief Minister Andrew Barr said gave the government licence to make Canberra more "inclusive".
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Asked if the number plates could make cars a target given 26 per cent of the ACT voted against marriage equality, Mr Ramsay said he had "full confidence" Canberrans would respect the rights of others.
People can apply to have their existing 'Y' series plates remade with the rainbow design, although it will take about four weeks.
The government also announced on Friday it will waive $55 certificate fee for couples married previously under the ACT's Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013 if they marry again.
Couples who previously registered a civil union under the Civil Union Act 2012 can also have their fee waived.
There are about 80 couples eligible in a move that is expected to cost the ACT government about $4400.
ACT Opposition leader Alistair Coe criticised the government's "grandstanding and expenditure of public resources".
"All Canberrans, regardless of their sexuality, deserve a government that concentrates on health, education and all the other actual responsibilities of the ACT government," Mr Coe said.
MOTORISTS in the UK are still being targeted by new DVLA email, message and text message scams in Britain and here's what to do if you are.
Criminals posing as the Driver Vehicle Licence Agency (DVLA) are still sending bogus messages to motorists, to attempt to maliciously acquire data or money from them.
These criminals are being exposed on Twitter now as motorists are savvily becoming wise to these messages.
DCI David Coleman, Deputy Director of Intelligence, Kent & Essex SCD tweeted a picture of a fake text he received.
The message read "We would like to notify you that you have an outstanding vehicle tax refund of GBP 220.50 from an overpayment, request refund dvlc.au1h.com."
The DVLA has been explicit in the past about its policy regarding contacting customers.
It replied to a customers reporting another potential phishing scam saying "we're already aware of this scam and we are investigating.
"We advise drivers that we don't send texts that contain links. Please ignore it and don't click on any link."
On its website it reiterates how it will never contact a driver via text or email.
"We're aware that some members of the public are receiving emails, texts and telephone calls claiming to be from DVLA.
"Links to a website mocked up to look like a DVLA online service are sometimes included in the message.
If you are buying the plates separately then you'll need to go to a registered number plate supplier to get new number plates for your vehicle. The registered supplier will need proof of your identity, as well as proof that the registration number belongs to you. The number plate supplier will need to see at least one document from each of the lists below. This will allow the number plate supplier to confirm your name, address and entitlement to the registration number. All documents must be original, not copies.
If Sydneysiders thought property prices had hit peak ridiculous, licence number plate collectors have gone one better with the original NSW No.4 plate up for sale for between $1.2 million and $1.4 million.
The asking price tops the $1.18 million median house price in Sydney, and doesn't even include the Rolls-Royce that it was attached to until early last year when it was owned by Aussie John Symond.
The founder and executive chairman of Aussie Home Loans bought it in 2010 from property developer Ivan Holland, who had secured it in an art swap from businessman and art collector John Schaeffer.
Aussie John was approached to sell the 1910-registered plate early last year, but with a $1.2 million price tag the buyer from Asia declined.
Mr Symond has confirmed he sold the plates 18 months ago to a mystery buyer in South Sydney.
Numberplate aficionado Shane Moore said the plate is widely rumoured to have been sold by Mr Symond for about $1 million.
"Single-digit plates rarely trade so quickly," said Mr Moore, who runs the numberplates.com.au website.
"They are usually held within the one family for decades. As an asset class they've appreciated in value in recent years, but they're also a volatile asset. If things go badly, investors will sell off the plates."
Registered in 1910, the No.4 licence plate is the most expensive item set to go under the hammer on August 28 at the 2017 Shannons Sydney Winter Classic Auction.
It tops the asking prices for 26 cars on offer, including a 1924 Rolls-Royce for $120,000, a 1964 Porsche for $125,000 and a Mustang Fastback for $120,000.
Single-digit, heritage licence plates have long been a highly prized collectible among the ultra-wealthy. In 2008, the No.6 NSW number plate sold for $800,000. It topped the previous high of $683,000 paid in 2003 by an Asian businessman for No.2.
The No.1 plate is owned by the family of the late founding chairman of Australian National Airways, Sir Frederick Stewart, who had owned it since the 1930s.
The No.8 plate was regarded as the most valuable because it is regarded as auspicious in traditional Chinese culture. It last traded in 2010 for $500,000.
In Victoria, single-digit number plates are also investment-grade assets. The number 1 VIC plate is owned by former Foster's Group chief Peter Bartels.
In 2013 British businessman Afzal Kahn knocked back £8.5 million for his "F1" numberplate, having bought it for a record £440,000 in 2008, according to The Telegraph in London.
By 1932, the available numbers within this scheme were running out, and an extended scheme was introduced. This scheme consisted of three letters and up to three digits, taken from the series AAA 1 to YYY 999. The letters I, Q, and Z were never used, as they were considered too easy to mistake for other letters or numbers or were reserved for special use, such as the use of I and Z for Irish registrations and Q for temporary imports. (After independence, the Republic of Ireland continued to use this scheme until 1986, and Northern Ireland still uses it.)
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I totally get when I hear people who travel often say they feel as if they're a wanderer. It feels as if you're just floating along– slowly loosing connection with the past, but somehow trying to plant your roots in the present.
I feel grateful to have been able to participate in a local photowalk in which we spent about 2 1/2 hours wandering the streets of a neighborhood in Chennai. We started at a temple, took smaller streets and alleyways toward the fish market and ended up close to the Zion church. The walk was geared toward photographers– of which I am not. I simply wanted to wander. Without a 16 month old attached to my chest. It was magnificent to see. What better way to view the city. It's as if India was purposefully trying to set up it's country for you to be able to take pictures at every corner. Everything is picturesque. But not in a way that one might typically imagine something being picturesque– there weren't stunning views, or snapshots filled with crisp autumn colors, or with snow capped mountains. You just saw life. You saw the struggle, the smiles, the markets, the rituals.
And as a wanderer, I saw what photographers saw. I saw what captured their attention. How they framed their pictures. Their techniques. Changing the aperture to adjust to the lighting.
An art that I'm beginning to appreciate so much more.
"It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us."
― Henri Cartier-Bresson
Let the discovery begin.
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Every time I step outside and see women driving their mopeds or motorcycles, I get scared that their long dupattas flapping in the wind or their flowing silk saris will get stuck in the wheels or gears. I see this scene playing out so vividly in my head, but alhumdulliah it doesn't seem to happen. Somehow, everyone manages.
I'm grateful for social media as it's made this transition that much easier. I feel as if I'm right there with family and friends whether it's through a few quick pictures on snapchat or longer conversations on viber.
As many people as there are in this country, I hardly see pregnant women. I wouldn't be out in this heat either.
The colors here are so vibrant. The buildings, the flowers, the clothes, the chutneys, the temples. When I first arrived, I knew there was color but it all blended together. Now I actually see the color — and it's in everything.
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A lost in translation moment:
I was chatting with our housekeeper over some gharam, gharam chai about what I thought was nursing (i.e. breastfeeding), but during the conversation –she thought I was talking about nursing, the profession. I guess i never learned the word 'breastfeeding' in my many years as a Hindi/Urdu speaker.
I went for a haircut and they had hip hop music on blast. It made me miss the states. It's crazy how music can take you to another time and place. It can take you back to your high school days as you reminisce riding the bus staring out the window on your way to school, or your college days having jam out sessions with your girls. As complicated as life seemed to be back then, those days were just so simple. Maybe it's the simplicity that I miss.
Being at the resort and seeing the ancient temples this weekend was quite nice. I was in such awe that I hardly took pictures. I do hope to go back and capture the sunrise across the bay. Around Maghreb time, the Adhan went on and it was kind of magical to hear. The infinity pool was directly in front of the Bay of Bengal and when you looked out, all you could see was the sea.
We go through a lot of toilet paper.
Our final shipment arrived today. Boxes upon boxes were flowing in. We have so much crap. Hoping this nomadic lifestyle will push me to simplify our lives. Having to unpack these boxes reiterates just how much 'less is more.' I can't wait to start decorating the place and making it feel more like our home.


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1. Getting back in the rhythm
With a new baby in our lives, our day to day garden operations have been thrown for a loop. We are just starting to find that rhythm again when it comes to the garden. With a little love being thrown its way, the garden is beginning to come back to life for the fall season. The nice rain we got this evening probably didn't hurt either. The break in the temperatures just offers further encouragement to get my hands dirty. There's pretty much always dirt under my fingernails this time of the year.
2. Our seedlings are taking off
This is the bright spot in our garden (literally). We have broccoli, cauliflower, collards, and onions growing rapidly under lights inside. Really, it was too hot to start fall crops, so we were forced inside, but it's also letting us play a little catch up. We are sowing lots of greens in the garden beds that should come up quickly. Let's just say a couple weeks from now our gardens are going to be looking a lot different.
3. Mulch madness has begun
Motivated by the recent drought, we have already started mulching our fruits and perennials. Our plants struggled through the brutally tough summer, and a nice layer of mulch will help them recover and get better equipped to ensure the winter. We actually may finally finish off the infamous mulch pile very soon.
4. Planting perennially
After snagging a nice assortment of plants on sale this spring, I planted most of them in pots as the garden beds were already full. They all filled out their pots nicely and were more than ready to be transplanted. With empty garden beds all around, we found some perfect locations for the blackberry, raspberry, and black currant. We, of course, had to balance them out by adding more and more comfrey plants. It should come as no surprise that I am already scoping out the next wave of plant purchases.
5. We have mushrooms!
We were gifted our first shiitake mushroom log for Christmas this past year. We watered it occasionally throughout the past year. To be honest, I had pretty much forgotten all about it until recently when I noticed a tiny bit of growth on it. By the next day, small mushrooms were forming. We are harvesting everyone we see now, and it has me extra inspired to start inoculating enough logs to feed us year round. As easy as these logs are to manage, this is going to be a staple on our homestead for years to come.


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Toronto Post Office 1853-1873
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Yes, you're right! That's a lion and a unicorn on the roof. A Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque here at 10 Toronto Street has this to say:
Coordinates: 43.649934 -79.376231
Built in 1851-1853 for the Province of Canada, the Seventh Post Office was designed by Toronto architects Frederic Cumberland and Thomas Ridout. The building, in the then popular Neo-classical style, resembles a Greek temple. The elegant symmetry of the Ionic columns, corner piers and the entablature topped with the Royal Arms of England demonstrates an ease with classical forms. The building served as a post office till 1873, and housed government offices until 1937. It was then sold to the Bank of Canada and later purchased and refurbished by Argus Corporation Limited.
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Back to my Salamandes with this awesome model. Yes, I'm talking about the basic Space
Marine Sergeant from the AOBR boxed set. The only change was the head swap from the
naked head to a more "politically correct" helmet.
In addition to the Sergeant the next model comes from a more medieval time. Yes, I'm
talking about Warhammer Fantasy of course and my new hand gunner model. That's only a
test model as I have three more on the paintstation. I really need to update my Empire
collection I have neglected for a while.
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Dizziness: Crushed fresh plants or leaves are sniffed.
Powdered dried plant as dentrifice.
Headaches: Crushed leaves are applied on the forehead and temples.
Toothaches: (1) Wet a small piece of cotten with juice expressed from crushed leaves; apply this impregnated cotton bud to the tooth. (2) Boil 6 tbsp. of leaves in two glasses of water for 15 minutes; strain and cool. Divide the decoction into 2 parts and take every 3 to 4 hours.
Flatulence: Boil 4 tbsp of chopped leaves in 1 cup water for five minutes; strain. Drink the decoction while lukewarm. Facilitates expulsion of flatus.
Cough: Boil 6 tbsp of chopped leaves in 2 glasses of water for 15 mins; cool and strain. Divide the decoctioninto three parts; take 1 part 3 times a day.
Arthritis: Warm fresh leaves over low flame; then pound. Apply pounded leaves while warm on the painful joints or muscles.
Mouthwash: Soak 2 tbsp chopped leaves in 1 glass of hot water for 30 minutes; strain. Use the infusion as mouthwash.


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Students must vacate the residences at the end of the academic year. A students' belongings may remain in the room during breaks.
Students are required to move-out of their residences no more than 24 hours after their last final exam, or by Tuesday, May 12 at 5:00 pm, whichever comes first.
Move Out Steps
To ensure a smooth move-out, follow these steps:
- Schedule an appointment with your RA to check-out. Failure to check out with a staff member will result in a fine.
- Remove all of your belongings and clean your room. Students may be charged if excessive cleaning is needed.
- Turn in your key.


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By Sasha Geffen
MAGIC!'s hit song "Rude" just got a makeover courtesy of German producer Zedd, who remixed the song live for the crowds at Lollapalooza yesterday.
The 24-year-old producer worked the single into his headlining set at Perry's Stage last night, swapping out MAGIC!'s reggae guitar riffs for hard-hitting EDM beats. "Rude" is currently occupying the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100, and it became the first reggae tune by a Canadian band to hit the top of the Billboard charts since Snow's 1992 single "Informer".
Related: Here's The Story Behind MAGIC!, That Band That Sings That Random Reggae Song, 'Rude'
Festival-goers cheered and sang along to the infectious track as Zedd spun MAGIC! frontman Nasri Atweh's vocals over big, catchy techno synths.
MAGIC! are the latest act in a long line of famous Zedd remixes—he's taken on everyone from Black Eyed Peas to Lady Gaga to Skrillex. You can also hear his electronics on the newest single from Ariana Grande, "Break Free."
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Yet they keep me and sometimes kiss me.
In their celebtrations they recite me.
In disputes they swear by me.
On shelves do they securely keep me
Till another celebration or dispute, when they need me.
Yes, they read and memorized me,
Yet only an ornament am I.
My message lies neglected, my treasure untouched,
The field lies bare, where blossomed once true glory.
Wrong is the the treatment that I receive
So much to give have I, but none is there to perceive.


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I have a genserver module which I need to start as a server running in the background. During development, I used a standard erl terminal to start it as
Erlang R13B01 (erts-5.7.2) [source] [smp:2:2] [rq:2] [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
Eshell V5.7.2 (abort with ^G)
1> myserver:start_link().
<ok, some_pid>
Everything worked fine and I was able to call the server from other modules.
Now, I need to run it as a server continuously and stumbled upon the erl_call function. So now I do:
erl_call -d -s -a 'myserver start_link' -sname myserver_node
But, the server starts, but shuts down automatically. I enabled the -d flag to see what's going wrong. This is what I see in the debug trace file:
===== Log started ======
Fri Oct 2 04:42:32 2009
erl_call: sh -c exec erl -noinput -sname myserver_node -s erl_reply reply 184.108.40.206 42457 5882
=ERROR REPORT==== 2-Oct-2009::04:44:05 ===
** Generic server myserver terminating
** Last message in was {'EXIT',<0.59.0>,normal}
** When Server state == {20499,24596,28693,32790,36887,40984,45081}
** Reason for termination ==
** {function_clause,[{myserver,terminate,
Any idea what's causing the server to shut down automatically? The trace even says the reason for termination was normal. But I didn't initiate the termination.


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The New Courtauld Mafia must know those who have come before. In a three part series, I'll try to compile the names of the most prominent Courtauld Alums in Museums, the Academy, and Everything Else (Practicing artists, critics, etc.)
Part One: The Museum
Historically, the alumni of the Courtauld Institute have dominated the museum world in the UK, as well as having a strong presence abroad. The term "Courtauld Mafia" was coined by the Chairman of the Board of the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1989 to refer to the people that ran every other museum in the country save his. (That has now been remedied.) This list will be far from complete and I'm lacking many degree levels and dates. If you have any more information or names, I will add them:
Betty Churcher, MA '77, Former Director, National Gallery of Australia
Sir Timothy Clifford, Former Director, National Galleries of Scotland
Anne d'Harnoncourt, MA, Director, Philadelphia Museum of Art
John Elderfield, Ph.D. '75, Chief Curator, MoMA
Gabriele Finaldi, BA, MA, Ph.D. Director, Museo Nacional del Prado
Christoph Grunenberg, MA, Ph.D. Director, Tate Liverpool
Mark Jones, MA, Director, Victoria & Albert Museum
Tim Knox, Director, Sir John Soane's Museum
Neil MacGregor, MA '75, Director, The British Museum
Nicholas Penny, Ph.D., Director, National Gallery, London
Sir Nicholas Serota, MA '70, Director, Tate Gallery
Michael Taylor, Ph. D. , Curator of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
It's a pretty impressive list. From the number of current directors of UK museums with a Courtauld provenance, it would seem the Courtauld's skill at training museum leaders hasn't dwindled since the "mafia" was named in '89. The only current director of a major UK museum that has slipped through the Courtauld's fingers, as far as I can tell, is Stephen Deuchar at the Tate Britan, though he does list a University of London degree, I can't determine where from. The directors are easy to track with their official bios, but curators are harder. Any names come to mind?
Tuesday, 4 December 2007
The Old Courtauld Mafia, Part One
Labels: Courtauld Institute Alumni
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Lucy Peltz, MA, PhD, Curator, National Portrait Gallery, London
- 14 December 2007 at 12:19
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- Research article
- Open Access
- Open Peer Review
Yellow fever control in Cameroon: Where are we now and where are we going?
© Wiysonge et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2008
- Received: 03 October 2007
- Accepted: 08 February 2008
- Published: 08 February 2008
Cameroon is one of 12 African countries that bear most of the global burden of yellow fever. In 2002 the country developed a five-year strategic plan for yellow fever control, which included strategies for prevention as well as rapid detection and response to outbreaks when they occur. We have used data collected by the national Expanded Programme on Immunisation to assess the progress made and challenges faced during the first four years of implementing the plan.
In January 2003, case-based surveillance of suspected yellow fever cases was instituted in the whole country. A year later, yellow fever immunisation at nine months of age (the same age as routine measles immunisation) was introduced. Supplementary immunisation activities (SIAs), both preventive and in response to outbreaks, also formed an integral part of the yellow fever control plan. Each level of the national health system makes a synthesis of its activities and sends this to the next higher level at defined regular intervals; monthly for routine data and daily for SIAs.
From 2004 to 2006 the national routine yellow fever vaccination coverage rose from 58.7% to 72.2%. In addition, the country achieved parity between yellow fever and measles vaccination coverage in 2005 and has since maintained this performance level. The number of suspected yellow fever cases in the country increased from 156 in 2003 to 859 in 2006, and the proportion of districts that reported at least one suspected yellow fever case per year increased from 31.4% to 68.2%, respectively. Blood specimens were collected from all suspected cases (within 14 days of onset of symptoms) and tested at a central laboratory for yellow fever IgM antibodies; leading to confirmation of yellow fever outbreaks in the health districts of Bafia, Méri and Ntui in 2003, Ngaoundéré Rural in 2004, Yoko in 2005 and Messamena in 2006. Owing to constraints in rapidly mobilising the necessary resources, reactive SIAs were only conducted in Bafia and Méri several months after confirmation of the outbreak. In both districts, a total of 60,083 people (representing 88.2% of the 68,103 targeted) were vaccinated. Owing to the same constraints, SIAs were not conducted promptly in response to the outbreaks in Ntui, Ngaoundéré Rural, Yoko and Messamena. However, these four and two other health districts at high risk of yellow fever outbreaks (i.e. Maroua Urban and Ngaoundéré Urban) conducted preventive SIAs in November 2006, vaccinating a total of 752,195 people (92.8% of target population). In both the reactive and preventive SIAs, the mean wastage rates for vaccines and injection material were less than 5% and there was no report of a serious adverse event following immunisation.
Amidst other competing health priorities, over the past four years Cameroon has successfully planned and implemented evidence-based strategies for preventing yellow fever outbreaks and for detecting and responding to the outbreaks when they occur. In order to sustain these initial successes, the country will have to attain and sustain high routine vaccination coverage in each successive birth cohort in every district. This would require fostering and sustaining high-level political commitment, improving the planning and monitoring of immunisation services at all levels, adequate community mobilisation, and efficient coordination of current and future immunisation partners.
- Measle
- Health District
- Vaccination Coverage
- Yellow Fever
- Vaccination Campaign
Yellow fever, which has caused devastating epidemics for centuries [1–3], continues to cause severe morbidity and mortality in Africa [4–6] despite the availability of an effective vaccine for the past 70 years [7]. The viral haemorrhagic disease is propagated in Africa by infected mosquitoes [8]. Aedes aegypti is the intermediary in the urban human-to-human cycle of transmission and various Aedes species are intermediaries in the jungle monkey-to-monkey cycle, with inadvertent human insertion into that cycle. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the disease causes 200,000 cases and up to 30,000 deaths each year in the continent [9]. Most of these cases and deaths occur in 12 countries, including Cameroon [10]. Cameroon is situated in central Africa at the end of the Gulf of Guinea, between latitudes 2° and 13° north of the Equator and longitudes 9° and 16° east of the Greenwich Meridian. The country, whose current population is estimated at 18 million inhabitants of whom 46% live in urban areas, conducted periodic mass preventive yellow fever vaccination campaigns for about three decades beginning in the early 1930s [11]. These regular mass campaigns led to a rapid reduction in susceptible individuals and, consequently, the yellow fever burden in the country. Within two decades of cessation of the preventive vaccination campaigns, Cameroon started experiencing serious yellow fever epidemics [12, 13], most of which remained unknown [14] owing to a weak disease surveillance system. In September-December 1990 during one epidemic in the Far North Province of the country, 182 cases (with 69% case-fatality rate) were reported [13], but it is estimated that up to 20,000 cases may have occurred during that epidemic [15]. Building upon experience gained in conducting high-quality polio eradication and measles elimination activities [16–19], in 2002 Cameroon developed a five-year (2003–2007) strategic plan for yellow fever control. In this report, we present progress and challenges of implementing the plan during its first four years of existence.
The Cameroon government (through the Ministry of Public Health) planned and implemented the yellow fever control activities, with support from development partners including the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI Alliance), WHO and the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF). The control activities involve the prevention of yellow fever outbreaks (through routine vaccination and regular preventive mass vaccination campaigns) and case-based yellow fever surveillance with laboratory confirmation and rapid mass vaccination response when an outbreak occurs [20].
The achievement and maintenance of high yellow fever vaccination coverage among infants through routine health services is an essential component of the plan. In 2004, routine yellow fever vaccination with one dose of the 17D yellow fever vaccine at nine months of age (the same age as the measles vaccine) was introduced in the whole country under the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI). Routine childhood immunisation is offered in both public and private health centres in the country. Each health centre records vaccination acts in childhood vaccination cards and vaccination registers. At the beginning of each month, health centres compile the number of children who have received vaccines (including the yellow fever vaccine) and send the synthesis to the lead health centre in the health area. These synthesise the monthly vaccination acts for the health area and forward the reports to the district health service by the fifth day of each month. The district service makes a synthesis of vaccinations conducted in the health district and forwards this to the provincial level by the tenth day of each month, together with copies of the health area reports. The provincial level in turn makes its own synthesis and sends this to the Central Technical Group of the EPI by the fifteenth day of each month, together with copies of district syntheses that were used to compile the provincial report. The central level then makes a synthesis of district, provincial and national coverage. Each higher level sends feedback on performance to the lower level that provided it with data. The performance of routine yellow fever immunisation is assessed by the yellow fever vaccination coverage achieved and the coverage gap between the yellow fever and measles vaccine. While childhood immunisation is considered the long-term strategy for yellow fever control, several decades are needed to reduce susceptibility in all age groups. Therefore, to rapidly reduce susceptibility and prevent outbreaks in the meantime, yellow fever control activities in Cameroon include preventive mass vaccination campaigns in high-risk health districts. During the training of both vaccinators and supervisors for the campaigns, the procedures, tools and importance of data management during a mass vaccination campaign were explained. During the campaigns, the head of health area synthesises data from vaccination posts under their jurisdiction daily, identify problems and take appropriate action, and forward the syntheses to the district health service. The district makes its own synthesis and sends this to the provincial level, which in turn makes its own synthesis and forwards this to the central level. The central command post makes a daily synthesis of the campaign coverage and sends this feedback to the provincial level, which in turn sends feedback to the districts. At the end of a campaign, each province holds an evaluation meeting during which a final synthesis of district vaccination coverage is performed and transmitted to the central level.
We used WHO guidance documents [21, 22] to develop written procedures for yellow fever surveillance, including case definition, case investigation forms, and instructions for specimen collection and transport, and outbreak investigation and response. This guidance material served as the basis for large-scale training in 2002 of central, provincial, district and health centre personnel using a snowball approach. These training sessions were also used as refresher courses for surveillance of other EPI diseases (acute flaccid paralysis [poliomyelitis], measles and neonatal tetanus). Following the training, case-based surveillance of suspected yellow fever cases was initiated in the country in January 2003. Since then, basic demographic and clinical information as well as one venous blood specimen are obtained from each suspected yellow fever case (i.e. a person who presents with fever followed by jaundice within two weeks of onset of fever). The blood specimen is well centrifuged and the resulting serum sent to the laboratory within three days of collection. Each blood specimen is tested for yellow-fever-specific IgM antibodies by use of rapid IgM enzyme-linked immuno-assay kits. A confirmed yellow fever case is defined as a suspected case with either laboratory confirmation via the IgM assay or epidemiological linkage to a laboratory-confirmed case. Currently, one confirmed case of yellow fever is considered an outbreak. Three key indicators are used to assess yellow fever case-based surveillance, i.e. the proportion of reported yellow fever cases with a blood specimen, the proportion of districts with at least one blood specimen in a year and the proportion of yellow fever outbreaks investigated with district outbreak reports sent to the central level. The target value for each indicator is a proportion of at least 80%.
Regular supportive supervision and meetings are used to monitor and improve the quality of data collection, analysis and reporting during both routine and supplementary activities. We have analysed the yellow fever vaccination and surveillance data reported to the EPI Central Technical Group in the Ministry of Public Health in Yaoundé from 2003 to 2006, and discussed the sustainability of yellow fever control activities in the country.
Yellow fever case-based surveillance in Cameroon, 2003–2006
Number of districts
Districts reporting at least one suspected case
Number of suspected cases reported
Blood specimens collected
Confirmed cases
Districts with confirmed cases
Bafia, Méri, Ntui
Ngaoundéré Rural
The government of Cameroon, with assistance from her development partners, has since 2003 been implementing strategies both to prevent yellow fever outbreaks and to detect and respond appropriately to the outbreaks when they occur. Routine yellow fever vaccination coverage has improved dramatically with the country achieving parity between yellow fever and measles vaccination coverage within a year of introducing the yellow fever vaccine into the routine childhood immunization schedule. In addition, districts at high risk of yellow fever outbreaks were identified for preventive supplementary immunisation activities. The first phase of the latter was very successful in terms of vaccination coverage (93%) and quality (i.e. no serious AEFI was reported). In addition, the case-based yellow fever surveillance system is being used to update the list of high-risk districts. However, the major constraint has been responding promptly to a declared yellow fever outbreak. Ideally, a mass vaccination campaign should be organised within days of confirming a yellow fever epidemic in order to contain the outbreak. This has not been the case, owing to difficulties in rapidly mobilising resources amidst other competing health priorities. However, Cameroon has made remarkable preliminary progress in controlling yellow fever in recent years. The challenge now is to complete the planned preventive mass vaccination campaigns within schedule and to increase and maintain high routine vaccination coverage. In addition, measures have to be taken to improve and maintain high-quality case-based surveillance in all health districts, promptly plan and conduct reactive mass campaigns when outbreaks occur and continuously monitor AEFIs.
Even though our team and other investigators in Africa [25] did not find serious adverse events following yellow fever immunisation, AEFIs have recently become a big issue in South America and non-endemic countries where travellers are immunized against yellow fever [26, 27]. In the early years of yellow fever vaccine production, post-vaccination encephalitis was common but such events were markedly reduced after the adoption of seed lot manufacturing in 1941 and the restriction of vaccination to persons older than six months of age after 1969 [27, 28]. Vaccine-associated neurotropic disease is currently estimated to occur at a frequency of 4 per 1,000,000 doses [29]. Within the past decade, a more severe adverse event following yellow fever immunisation emerged [30–32]. In 2001, seven cases of severe acute viscerotropic disease following immunisation were reported; six of these were fatal [30–32]. This condition mimics severe yellow fever and is estimated to occur at a frequency of 3 per 1,000,000 doses [29]. The mechanism underlying vaccine-associated neurotropic or viscerotropic events is poorly understood. These events could be a result of vaccine virus reversion (or mutation) to wild-type virulence or a result of host-specific factors [27, 28]. Whatever the underlying cause, each AEFI requires a thorough investigation to establish whether it is caused by the vaccine itself, by an error in the administration of the vaccine or not related to the vaccine or administration (i.e. its occurrence merely coincided with vaccine administration). AEFIs may upset the public and lead to refusal of further immunisation. If this were allowed to occur, hundreds of thousands of people will continue to contract yellow fever each year and tens of thousands of these will die. Therefore, surveillance of AEFIs helps to preserve public confidence in immunisation programmes and should be an integral part of all yellow fever immunisation programmes.
Opportunities for improving yellow fever control in Cameroon include the recently formed Yellow Fever Initiative [10] and the high-level political commitment to the control of vaccine-preventable diseases in the country [16, 19]. The Yellow Fever Initiative will assist 12 priority countries in West Africa, including Cameroon, to conduct mass preventive vaccination campaigns targeting 48 million people between 2007 and 2010. These preventive campaigns should dramatically reduce the yellow fever disease burden in these countries, just as similar campaigns did for measles [33–35]. Later in 2007, Cameroon will conduct a yellow fever risk analysis using the WHO decision-making tool for preventive immunization campaigns [23] in order to update the list of high-risk districts for preventive mass campaigns next year.
The long-term strategy for yellow fever control in the country, as elsewhere, remains high routine childhood vaccination coverage. High vaccination coverage should be attained and maintained among infants, before their first birthday, in every district. The operational strategies for achieving and sustaining high routine vaccination coverage (90% or more) in each successive birth cohort include fostering high-level political commitment, improving the planning and monitoring of immunisation services at all levels, community mobilisation, efficient coordination of current immunisation partners and mobilisation of additional funding for immunisation services.
The EPI was restructured in 2002 and is now a prominent organisational structure in the Ministry of Public Health, and the government is committed to sustaining routine vaccination services by making vaccines and vaccination material (vaccination cards, vaccination registers, syringes and safety boxes) permanently available at all levels of the health system. The restructured programme focuses maximum financial and technical support at the district level. Districts with low vaccination coverage are identified and given technical assistance in planning and monitoring vaccination activities. Emphasis is placed on supportive supervision, regular meetings to discuss data, use of data for programmatic action and regular feedback. Novel operational strategies developed at district and health facility levels include keeping log books in all villages for a census of all newborns and conducting special immunisation days in hard-to-reach areas, those without health units and or health workers and those with low vaccination coverage. Since vaccination coverage is strongly associated with socio-economic status in Cameroon [36], communication and social mobilisation efforts that accompany and support vaccination delivery have been adapted to each milieu. Permanent community dialogue structures have been established in all health districts and efforts are made to reach poorly educated mothers by disseminating information through women's associations and community opinion leaders, resulting in increased demand for vaccination services [19].
In conclusion, amidst other competing health priorities, Cameroon is using experience gained from controlling other vaccine-preventable diseases to plan and implement evidence-based strategies for preventing yellow fever outbreaks and for detecting and responding to outbreaks when they occur.
The authors are grateful to staff of the Ministry of Public Health and the yellow fever laboratory of Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, for implementing the yellow fever control strategies in the country. The authors thank Alan D Barrett, Douglas MacPherson, Fenella Avokey and Sylvie Briand for critical review and very helpful comments on an earlier version of this manuscript. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Ministry of Public Health of Cameroon nor those of the World Health Organization.
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Submitted to: National American Phytopathology Meetings
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 4/14/2006
Publication Date: 8/27/2006
Citation: Adhikari, T., Ali, S., Burlakoti, R.R., Chhetri, B.P., Goodwin, S.B. 2006. Genetic variation in stagonospora nodorum in the north central united states. [abstract] Phytopathology. 96:S3.
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Technical Abstract: Stagonospora nodorum blotch (SNB) is an economically important foliar and glume disease of wheat worldwide. This disease is widely distributed in the north central, where epidemics occur sporadically. More than 300 isolates collected from spring and winter wheat were analyzed for mating type frequency and distribution using polymerase chain reaction amplification of the mating type locus. Both mating types were distributed in the populations. Among the 11 microsatellite markers tested, six were highly polymorphic with from 2 to 15 alleles per locus. A subset of 40 isolates from North Dakota was selected randomly and inoculated onto two resistant (Erik and Salamouni) and two susceptible (Alsen and ND495) wheat cultivars. The ability of isolates to cause disease, as measured by lesion type (presence or absence of visible lesions), and percent necrotic leaf area was collectively interpreted as aggressiveness. The isolates were significantly different in aggressiveness, but less aggressive on the resistant cultivars as compared to the susceptible cultivars. The cultivar × isolate interaction for aggressiveness also was significant, indicating a possibility of specificity. Data on genotypic diversity will be presented.


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- Ways to Get Your Congregation Singing
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- 10 Ways to Use Video Technology in Worship
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Laura joins the Redring Xpelair group with more than 8 years experience, working for Wilo central heating pumps and leading boiler brand Vaillant. Most recently, Laura worked as an Area Sales Manager for water treatment specialist Fernox, with a wide-ranging remit including specification.
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Hatters boss Nathan Jones believes there is even more room for improvement from his 'Championship' striker Danny Hylton.
Town's leading scorer is now on 18 goals in just 32 games for the season, his best ever tally in a 10-year professional career encompassing spells at Aldershot, Bury, Rotherham, AFC Wimbledon and Oxford United.
Hylton has bagged 16 on two previous occasions, in 2014-15 with Oxford and 2011-12 with Aldershot and on his return this year, Jones joked: "Well he's working with the best manager now I imagine!
"No, he's done superbly well, he's done what it said on the tin really, and I'm pleased for Danny.
"He's taken on board lots of stuff, there's a lot more scope for him to learn as well, in terms of discipline wise.
"Because he would have played four more games, and who knows how many he would have?
We knew what we were getting when we did sign him and that's why went early and heavy for him.Nathan Jones
"But we can't take too much away from him because we know what we get from him.
"He's the spearhead of a very good team and we're pleased to have him. We knew what we were getting when we did sign him and that's why went early and heavy for him.
"He's been wonderful and he brings so much more than a performance on a Saturday to the building.
"He's popular and people want him to do well, his team-mates want him to do well. Then coupled with the others we've got, we have a good strikeforce."
After scoring for the third game in a row against Hartlepool during Town's 3-0 win on Tuesday night, Hylton should have had a second early in the second half, when after doing superbly to create the opportunity, he blasted over.
It's one area that Jones is looking for more from Hylton as he added: "Danny had a couple of chances to make it a little bit more comfortable sooner and we didn't take those.
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A hairdresser of 32 years, Ron comes from a family of stylists. His mother had a little salon in their Michigan home, where one of Ron's fondest memories was waking up to the smell of perm solution. His oldest brother, Roy, founded Avant in Austin 30 years ago, where Ron worked from 1983 – 1992. After twelve years of owning Austin's award-winning Innu Salon, Ron returned to Avant in 2012 as the Education Director. Currently, in addition to taking care of his guests behind the chair, Ron is the Coaching Director for Avant. In this capacity, he mentors and supports the Avant Service Team in growing and developing their careers. However, Despite his love of cutting hair, educating stylists, and pursuing technical perfection, Ron's greatest joy is simply making his guests happy!