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IRVINE, CA - Good morning, AndNowUKnow readers!
Today, I am bringing you some of the category and weather news from around the industry. Check back twice weekly to see where the rain is falling, the sun is shining, and everything in between.
Weather around the country is fairly quiet this week. We have showers returning to the Eastern half of the country, heat out west dissipating, and a potential tropical depression forming out in the Caribbean.
Almost the entire eastern half of the country will receive rain this week. The graph below notes the accumulative rainfall amounts over the next five days. Areas in blue represent total rainfall between .75" to 1.50". Once we get into the purple areas, the accumulate rain totals will be above 1.50" up to 2.00".
This should be a welcomed relief for many of these areas who haven't see rain for well over a week now.
The heat wave that engulfed most of California last week has dissipated for the most part. The coastal valleys of Salina, Santa Maria, and Oxnard have all returned to normal temperatures as of Sunday. The southern half of the SJ Valley is still under a heat advisory with maximum temperatures between 100° to 103° through next weekend. This is down about 5° from the maximum high temperatures we saw late last week. The average high temperature for July in region varies from 98° to 101°, so although it's still hot this week these adjusted temperatures are typical for this time of year.
There is a tropical disturbance off the southern coast of Puerto Rico that is bringing showers to the area. It is nothing to worry about at this point. The concern is that it may continue to gain strength and form into a Tropical Storm later in the week as it makes its way west and north. Could bring some heavy showers to Florida and Georgia later in the week. We will follow the storm and update you on Friday.
Thanks again, and we'll be back later this week with another report!


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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
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Town Hall Talk
MLA O'Mahony absorbs feedback regarding CGH acute care closure
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ore than 80 people turned out to oppose the closure of Chilliwack General Hospital's sub-acute rehabilitation unit at a town hall meeting organized by NDP MLA Gwen O-Mahoney this week.
Speaker after speaker took the health authority to task for the May 25 surprise announcement to close the 20-bed unit and replace it with outpatient services. They cited the complete lack of community and stakeholder consultation, the pressures the closure would put on patients and family members, and the limited home support services available in the area as major concerns.
HEU secretary-business manager Bonnie Pearson, one of five panelists invited to participate in the town hall, backed comments from the audience about the lack of adequate home support services which along with transportation issues, the health authority has yet to address.
"We need more resources in home support and better transportation options for patients and their families," Pearson said. "And I'm not hearing a commitment from the FHA to increase these services and help offset the impact of the closure."
The panel also included a Fraser Health Authority representative who attempted to explain the rationale behind the closure move and answer many questions about the decision.
Rounding out the panel were spokespeople from the District Seniors Resources Society and Fraser Valley Brain Injury Association and Reid Johnson, president of the Health Sciences Association. All challenged the decision.
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Hi folks,
As I get askd how I make my pics regularly, I want to start a series of making-of blogposts to explain my light-setups, camera-settings and post-processing. This is about the second set from the shoot with VikTory (http://www.viktoriamodel.com/).
I wanted to make this idea happen for a while now, the only thing missing was the right type of shoot for it. As I've came across VikTorys website a while ago, I had this "heureka"-moment and knew it was a perfect match. Her flexibility and creativity with forms and lines made it a great combination.
The idea was a very contrasty and dark set with concentrated lighting and a mirror image. I of course know that is easy to achieve in post-production, but I wanted to create the idea in cam ... if possible with only one light-source.
I've communicated the idea with VikTory and we came up with a couple of posings which should work out just fine. We knew from the beginning that we would be very much restricted in our movements (not just her, but me as well), because I not only had to have the light and model in my mind, but the mirror-image, the light in the mirror and the double composition as well.
As I've explained in the previous blog, I've shot this as a second set on purpose. I wanted to get to know VikTory and her shooting-habits and to get her "warmed-up" before doing such a complicated set. If anybody wants to try this setup, I'd recommend to do the same. This surely was one of the more demanding sets I've photographed.
As you can see on the setup-pics (made with set.a.light 3D – www.elixxier.com), I have set up one flash (profoto B1 – 500Ws) equipped with a Profoto Zoom-Reflector (adjustable normal-reflector) in front of and above Victoria (who was sitting down), pointed to her face. She was sitting on a polycarbonate plate ("plexiglass" – about 3 x 4 m). This plate was positioned on a black backdrop which I've pulled under the model until the front of the camera. It is not possible to show this plate on the setup pics I'm afraid, but I'm sure you can picture it. The back edge of the plate was right at the beginning of the curve in the backdrop, VikTory was sitting about 0,5m from that edge.
This setup created a little problem, as the face (or the part of the body being in that position) was in a bright spot and the falloff to the ground was relatively strong. But as sort of a trade I've got a nice light-spot on the background for it, which was also there in the reflection. This resulted in a very nice photographed vignette.
Camera settings
I've used the Canon 5D IV here as well, out of the same "fear" that I might need the dynamic-range advantage here as well.
The lenses used were my trusted Sigma 85mm f1.4 Art and Sigma 50mm f1.4 Art with the aperture set to f4. The other settings were studio-typical ISO 100 and 1/160s shutter-speed. Compared to the sets before I wasn't afraid of the shallow depth of field (as the set was more static) and I wanted the mirror image to fall off into a little bit of unsharpness to make it clear which image is the mirrored one on first sight.
As I've mentioned before, I had a little problem with the bright spot in the face. Normally I set the lighting in a way that the highlights in the skin are perfectly lit and then go back about 1/3-stop. This time I've set the highlights to be almost blown out in order to don't loose the shadows. Shooting tethered (the camera was directly wired to a computer) and be able to exactly measure the brightness made this possible. This way I was sure not to burn out the skin and could go right to the limits.
Conclusion/ final thoughts
As I've written in the intro, this was one of my most demanding setups yet. Everything had to be perfect not only once but twice, that and the problem that my freedom of movement and perspective was more or less non-existent (if I've moved sideways, the reflection was distorted; shooting too high or too low meant, that the reflection got shortened or extended too much, if I've got to close I've cut off too much ... )
One thing for sure: I wouldn't recommend any beginner in the studio to try this set. And I wouldn`t recommend doing it with a Model you don't know (despite the fact that VikTory did an awesome job). And of course it isn't easy for the model as well as the poses have to be very exact and she might have to hold it a little bit longer to give the photographer a chance to align the shot perfectly. Another problem is, that you have to keep the mirror image in mind as well (especially a "problem" shooting nudes).
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A 31-year-old man discovered dead in a Shellbrook home on Saturday is being described as a "great father" to his daughters.
RCMP found Lindsay Arthur Voyer dead after they were called to a house in the 300 block of 4th Ave. East in Shellbrook at around 3:20 p.m Saturday, police said in a media release issued Sunday. RCMP do not have any suspects in custody at this time.
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The RCMP consider Voyer's death to be a homicide and have called in Major Crimes Unit North.
Danielle Lidguerre, said Voyer loved their girls, Anna and Lily.
"Lindsay was a caring loving person who always like to meet new people," she said in a Facebook message to the StarPhoenix on Sunday.
An autopsy will be conducted Tuesday in Saskatoon.
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RCMP are asking anyone who may have witnessed or who may have information about a dark green vehicle in the area of the residence Saturday afternoon to contact them. RCMP the vehicle described as possibly being a Ford Focus, or a similar vehicle to that make and model, and was also described as being dirty in appearance.


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Three on-campus outdoor field courses include one on identifying bird species, a tour of Stockton's campus forests, and a look at biodiversity hotspots on the school's campus, a university spokesperson said.
The Mullica River tour will be 2½ hours, and will include stops at various watershed habitats.
The Pinelands Short Course provides a venue for the commission to educate the public, which is part of its mission. More than 1,400 people have attended the course in the last three years alone, said commission Executive Director Nancy Wittenberg.
Registration is now open for the daylong event.
There will be 38 presentations to choose from, covering a wide variety of ecological and cultural topics, according to the commission.
President Harvey Kesselman said the university is pleased Stockton faculty will share their knowledge at the Short Course. They include forest expert George Zimmermann, entomologist Jamie Cromartie, river expert Claude Epstein, professor emeritus, and birding expert John Rokita.
New courses include: Coyotes in New Jersey; the Fungi Kingdom and its Importance to the Pinelands; Raptors and Reptiles in the Pinelands (with live animals); The Life Story of 1st Lt. Jeremiah Leeds, a "Piney" who once owned almost all of what is now Atlantic City.
Other new topics include an overview of insects' roles in the Pinelands; the geologic and land use history of Pinelands rivers; a virtual field trip of the rivers and streams in the Barnegat Bay watershed; the Lenape and their use of the region's environment; and honey bee rescue.
Returning popular presentations from the past include threatened and endangered snakes in the Pinelands, the Jersey Devil and origins of New Jersey; the secret world of plants and pollinators; and Pinelands frogs and toads and wilderness survival skills.
Pinelands-themed food, coffee and other refreshments will be available for purchase at Stockton's Campus Center, and there will be Pinelands music.
The Pinelands Short Course is registered with the New Jersey Department of Education, and professional development credits are available to New Jersey teachers who attend, the commissions said.
Senior citizens and students get discounted registration fees.
To request a hard copy of the brochure and registration form, call 609-894-7300, ext. 125. The form is also available online at nj.gov/pinelands/.
To register online, go to: http://intraweb.stockton.edu/eyos/page.cfm?siteID=107&pageID=470/.


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OPINION: Why Tom Brady Makes No Sense On Current State Of NFL
The most important skill in pro football is to adapt. There's a reason why Bill Belichick has remained one of the NFL's best coaches for the last 18 years. But the comments of his quarterback, Tom Brady, seem downright idiotic.
Tom Brady On NFL Being 'Glorified College Football'
In an interview last week, Brady said "Today's NFL is glorified college football." There's a hint of truth in that statement. But there's nothing wrong with the state of the NFL today. Coaches should do everything they can to win. The adaptation of college offenses makes perfect sense.
As the NFL moves more towards speed and high-scoring offenses, it finds that college-style offenses are more suited for it. From the front office perspective, it allows you to start rookie quarterbacks sooner. They don't take as long to figure out complicated offenses. This lets you get more value for a roster spot before you have to deal out contracts that are one-sixth of the salary cap. Those contracts kill your ability to build teams. Without adapting to these changes, coaches would have nothing to work with.
The caricature of the angry, screaming coach might still be true. But the idea of a coach who refuses to change is long gone, or at least on its way out, minus Dallas.
Look at the I formation, where a running back and a fullback are on the field directly behind the quarterback. The 2000's Seattle Seahawks ran plays with their quarterback under center close to 100 percent of the time. The Seahawks that went to two consecutive Super Bowls featured a mobile quarterback who worked out of the shotgun and scrambled.
In 2010, teams ran formations with three receivers 20% more than they did sets with two running backs. By 2016, with rules that favored offense and protecting receivers now implemented, they ran three-receiver formations 43.5% more than two-back formations.
And adaption shouldn't just be formation-based. One of the most successful adaptions was the 2011 New England offense. Belichick ran formations with two tight ends frequently. But he let his tight ends break the mold of being stone-handed blockers who could catch the ball at the goal line. Instead, he built an offense based around them, having them stretch the field vertically, block, and even act as running backs at times.
Coaches shouldn't be stuck in a mindset. They should work with their personnel.
There's an old Bum Phillips quote about Bear Bryant. He said the same thing about Don Shula too. It goes "He can take his team and beat yours, and then he can turn around and take your team and beat his."
I'm clueless as to why every coaching philosophy isn't based on that quote. There's only so many players in the league. Rather than focusing on getting players who fit your team, why not make the best team you can with what you have? There were seven coaching jobs open last season. There looks to be another seven this one. There's no time to get who you want. You have to get what you want with who you have.
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China Life Insurance Co. Ltd.LFC and its subsidiaries operating as a life insurance company have been putting up a good performance for the past many quarters. Its strong top and bottom line growth looks impressive.
The company with a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) flaunts an impressive VGM Score of B. Here V stands for Value, G for Growth and M for Momentum with the score being a weighted combination of all three factors.
Now, let's focus on some important points that make China Life's stock a good option to hold onto.
Increasing Premiums: China Life has been witnessing steady revenue growth for the past few years, mainly backed by the significant premium growth in the company's Individual Life Insurance business. In the first quarter of 2018, regular premiums in total premiums from long-term insurance of new policies rose by 36.9% year over year.
Additionally, renewal premiums in total premiums increased by 18.7% year over year. Thus, a rising trend in premiums is likely to bolster the company's revenue growth, going forward.
Price Performance: Quarter to date, shares of the company have lost 0.4%, performing relatively better than the 1.05% decline of the industry it belongs to. Its solid fundamentals are likely to favor the stock moving ahead.
Strong Investment Management: The company has been witnessing a strong investment income since 2014. The investment income of the company came in at $20.6 billion (RMB 129 billion), growing 19.3% year over year. Although the metric decreased in the first quarter, the gradual raise in interest rates should aid net investment income in the coming quarters.
Profitability: China Life's trailing 12-month return on equity (ROE) of 12.32% compares favorably with the industry's average of 9.76%. This in turn indicates the company's efficiency in using the shareholders' fund.
Stocks to Consider
Some better-ranked players from the Life Insurance Industry are GWG Holdings, Inc GWGH , American Equity Investment Life Holding Company AEL and FGL Holdings FG .
GWG Holdings is a financial services company that purchases life insurance policies in the secondary market of the United States. It sports a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) and managed to pull off a trailing four-quarter positive surprise of a whopping 185.14%. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank stocks here .
American Equity Investment Life and its subsidiaries offer life insurance products and services in the United States. With a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), the company delivered a trailing four-quarter beat of 24.38%.
FGL Holdings provides individual life insurance products and annuities in the United States. It carries a Zacks Rank of 2. The company came up with a four-quarter positive earnings surprise of 12%.
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Guyana's recent discovery of significant crude oil reserves has it poised to become the Caribbean's newest oil producing country in the near future. The find promises to open up exciting opportunities for Guyana's growth and development. It also presents opportunities for new and more meaningful forms of participation – of both local and foreign businesses – in Guyana's economy.
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Despite this current limitation, there is an abundance of opportunities for Guyana's local business community to play an immediate and significant role in supporting the oil and gas sector, whether it be through providing goods or support services, facilitating the training and development of Guyanese nationals or building the infrastructure needed to support the sector's expansion.
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Botox or miraDry for underarm hyperhidrosis?
I've read about both miraDry and Botox, but I'm still undecided which one is better, since neither one guarantee results. I was thinking about getting Botox first, to see how I feel about it, and then get the more permanent solution (which is miraDry). This way, I'll have more time to save money in the meantime because miraDry is a bit too expensive for my budget right now.
I was able to save money at first with Botox, but my preference was to use miraDry, because of the more long term effects it had on my underarm sweat glands. A month or so after my Botox injections, the excessive sweat had decreased significantly. The sweat was still there, just less noticeable. I felt more comfortable hanging out with my friends. My ultimate goal was to have the miraDry procedure done. 2 months after my procedure, I noticed no sweating except when I ran in marathons or exercised heavily. I have been able to maintain a more dry armpit, and have not experienced any major issues.
I suffered from excessive underarm sweating so I opted to get miraDry. I no longer sweat or have moisture and odor under my arms. Before having miraDry, I had Botox treatments completed for several years. Botox is a temporary treatment that needs continuous maintenance. It is less expensive than miraDry, but my doctor offered payment options, which made miraDry very affordable. You should see a plastic surgeon or dermatologist who offers miraDry and Botox to find out which one they recommend for you. You may be pleasantly surprised when you compare miraDry payment options to having routine Botox treatments completed.
I receive Botox treatments in my underarms for my hyperhidrosis, and it has worked out for me really well so far. It is my personal opinion that Botox is the way to go for several important reasons. Number one, I find it to be cheaper than miraDry. When cost is a factor and, like me, you're not very good at saving up large amounts of money, then Botox is an affordable option. Number two, miraDry does not always work for everybody. I've read about several people who claim that the surgery did not work or that the results were not worth the price or the swelling and bruising. Botox shots do hurt somewhat, but I've never felt the agony that some claim they have experienced from undergoing miraDry. Number three, and most importantly, Botox works. Yes, I have to go in periodically for treatments, but they always work. I have never felt like I was wasting my money when I spend it on my follow up treatments.
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Many people in the UK strive to look the part. Exactly how they do this is up to them as there are many different ways to do this. Some people like to dress up and put on some really striking, expensive and fashionable clothes. This certainly turns a lot of heads as people can very easily see other people in this manner. Others like to utilise particular fashion accessories such as bracelets, necklaces and watches to help customise their appearance and improve the way they look. Of course, how someone looks really comes down to how the people closest to them perceive them and people therefore normally dress in a very particular and typical manner.
Although many people talk a lot about buying some of the leading fashion brands the world has to offer, in reality very few do. This is because although many people want to look the part, the majority often don?t as it is too much for money for them to do this or they don?t go to the types of places that one would normally dress up for. Many people do however like to wear fashion accessories such as bracelets, necklaces and watches. In fact the market for designer watches has grown quite significantly over the past few years.
Designer watches in the UK are sold far more frequently. This is because so many people crave the designer look and feel of watches. There are many different watch models to choose from too so people can be safe in the knowledge that they will never go short of these types of fashion accessories. Watch manufacturers are always looking to create new models too so customers will always be able to buy into the latest designer watches.
Emporio Armani are one brand that is very hot on their designer image. They therefore produce many different designer watches to appeal to the needs of their customers. In return, Emporio Armani customers are very appreciative of this and tend to buy into the brand and purchase many different designer watches within the Emporio Armani range.
This trend for designer watches is not just in relation to watches. Many people also buy designer necklaces and designer bracelets to add to their designer watch and help them look the part even more. Necklaces have become extremely popular in the UK as more of the leading stars have been seen to wear some absolutely stunning necklaces both on-screen in some of the most viewed television shows and Hollywood films and also at some of the top award shows such as the BAFTAS.
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The Moshe Skier Band is playing Summerfest again this year!Jewish Blogmeister also has video of backstage footage from last year when Psychotoddler opened for Foreigner.
July 1st (Sunday), 3pm Classic Rock Stage
This year he opens for George Thorogood (Dada-DA Dada-DUH)!
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Respiratory, laryngeal, and articulatory adjustments to changes in vocal loudness in typically developing children and children with spastic-type cerebral palsy
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This study explored the physiological adjustments made by the speech mechanism when sustained maximum phonations and sentences differing in vocal loudness were produced by typically developing children and children with cerebral palsy (CP). Respiratory adjustments (lung volume initiation, termination and excursions), chest wall muscular amplitude adjustments (intercostal, obliques), vocal fold adjustments (speed quotient), fundamental frequency of selected vowel nuclei and area of mouth opening were calculated. A total of eight children (4 typically developing children, 4 children with CP) were studied. Results indicated that overall typically developing children adjusted lung volume initiation, lung volume excursion, intercostal and oblique muscle activity, speed quotient, fundamental frequency, and area of mouth opening to meet vocal loudness targets. In contrast, children with CP primarily adjusted intercostal and oblique muscle activity, speed quotient, and fundamental frequency to meet vocal loudness targets.
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Devoured Beyond Recognition
(Metal Age Productions)
The long running Czech Death Metal machine FLESHLESS is now ready with their 8th full length massacre, entitled "Devoured Beyond Recogniton". It has never been a band that has hit me right on spot, though they've done some good things during the years. After the yawning intro, the party kicks off with 'Dead Never Dies', a great uptempo tune with some decent riffing and rhythm patters and a great growl. The effects on the growl this time around remind of some great Swedish gods, and that actually lifts the overall impressions of the impact. Musically the band has developed quite a lot as well, and the music hits harder, than I remember the albums did in the past. The band has matured quite a lot since I've last given them some spins, the songwriting is solid, and the progression throughout the album is thought through, there is a great flow to the songs and the variation is quite present. It is not like there is something original over this album, or something that will revolutionize Death Metal, though a solid output with some good tunes and moments, well made Death Metal with a suckerpunching production that pushes the music further. Though please leave those intros and outros be, they drain my sanity, or the bits and pieces of it, that's left. More info at: www.facebook.com/pages/fleshless-official/320589007961874, www.metalage.sk
Anders Peter Jørgensen


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Making up what it lacked in technical prowess with sheer charm, Spanish four-piece Hinds' 2016 debut Leave Me Alone was an outlier in a field of overpolished indie. Throughout, its meandering, raggedly harmonised songs seemed to be permanently teetering on the brink of collapsing. It perhaps shouldn't have worked, but it did. Their second album has once again been recorded at home in Madrid, but this time they've brought in outside collaborators: Strokes producer Gordon Raphael and Grammy-winning John Legend/Perfume Genius engineer Shawn Everett. Quite what this sprinkling of A-list stardust has brought to the party isn't immediately obvious, as I Don't Run essentially continues where Leave Me Alone left off. The production values remain determinedly lo-fi, the playing still no-frills, the songs rarely rising above the ramshackle.
Yet despite the frequently shambolic nature of these C86-indebted songs, they're always warm-sounding. Highlights include the gentle, surf-influenced Linda, the punchy chorus of Tester, and the intertwining vocals of Carlotta Cosials and guitarist Ana Perrote. But spread across 40 minutes, the band's limitations and the lack of variety begin to grate, never more so than on the plodding I Feel Cold But I Feel More. A plan B for their third album would be nice.


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India's Dhanush Srikanth bags 3 golds at Asian Shooting Championships
Doha [Qatar], Nov 13 (ANI): Indian shooter Dhanush Srikanth bagged three gold medals in the men's 10m air pistol event at the Asian Shooting Championships here on Tuesday.
The debutant won the medals in junior men's 10m air rifle individual, mixed-gender and team events.
Sports Authority of India (SAI) took to Twitter and hailed Srikanth's superb performance.
"What a superb international debut for DhanushSrikanth as he wins three gold medals at the AsianShooting Championships. He won the 10m air rifle individual, team and mixed with ShreyaAgrawal. Great going by the KheloIndia talent," SAI tweeted.
Earlier, Indian shooter Saurabh Chaudhary bagged a silver medal in the men's 10m air pistol on Sunday. (ANI)


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This article refers to the Barracuda ArchiveOne Enterprise or Express, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.
In Exchange 2010, Microsoft found that database space was not being reclaimed in several scenarios where items are hard deleted once the item is purged from the store. This includes archiving scenarios where items are bulk deleted based on date, and stubbing scenarios where email attachments are deleted.
Exchange 2010 attempts to clean up the row for a deleted item within a couple of minutes of the item being hard deleted. However, cleanup fails if another process has open references to the item. Outstanding references on deleted messages are particularly common in journaling mailboxes, or when third-party archival software is used. The vast majority of customers who experienced this behavior have associated it with one of the aforementioned scenarios. However, technically any client can hold an open reference and prevent an item from being cleaned up.
For details on getting an accurate whitespace figure and Microsoft's recommendations for reclaiming whitespace, refer to the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog article Database Maintenance in Exchange 2010.
After you have followed Microsoft's recommendations to resolve this issue, verify that whitespace is reclaimed as expected.


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The article in the European Spine Journal highlights a major difficulty in assessing the effectiveness of various back pain treatments. No two studies used the same criteria to measure improvement. The lack of uniformity appears to be present in every aspect of the enigma of low back pain. Recent studies demonstrated that the tests a family physician uses to establish probability of a disc herniation may not be valid. There are inconsistent criteria for fusion vs. a simple laminectomy or foraminotomy for back pain. Injection techniques vary widely for back pain thought to be from nerve or muscle.
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pain management Archives
Measuring Low Back Pain Treatment Outcomes
The article in the European Spine Journal highlights a major difficulty in assessing the effectiveness of various back pain treatments. No two studies used the same criteria to measure improvement. The lack of uniformity appears to be present in every aspect of the enigma of low back pain. Recent studies demonstrated that the tests a family physician uses to establish probability of a disc herniation may not be valid. There are inconsistent criteria for fusion vs. a simple laminectomy or foraminotomy for back pain. Injection techniques vary widely for back pain thought to be from nerve or muscle.
Is chronic back pain adequately treated?
I just read an article on the under treatment of chronic pain with the most common associated disease states listed as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, and sickle–cell anemia. Since physical deconditioning is fraught with many serious negative consequences, such as obesity, high blood pressure, stroke, heart disease and diabetes in addition to be being a cause of most common pain problems, it should probably rank as a form of disease.
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If I get back pain will it go away?
Although Low Back Pain (LBP) is thought to affect around 80% of individuals, it is also thought to be self limiting and get better quickly (within weeks). Studies of patient populations however suggest that it is actually a more serious problem. Although most patients who experience back pain do not see a doctor, 60-80% of those that do are still reporting pain one year later and in those whose pain has disappeared, 20% will have a recurrence within months.
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Chronic Low Back Pain and Fibromayalgia
A recent article discussed the number of patients with Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP) who also had Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). This article is an example of the confusion in medicine about both conditions. Believe it or not although the most common diagnosis for low back pain is non-specific low back pain, referring to sprains and strains of muscles and other soft tissue, there is no agreed method to look for and treat muscle generated low back pain. Patients with
Fibromyalgia on the other hand, although complaining of pain in muscles, are for the most part not considered to have muscles as the cause of their pain but rather problems in their nerves that are experienced as pain in muscles.
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Back Pain Treatment
Please refer back to the past two blogs to find the background material for todays blog. Although the number of CARF approved pain centers in the US halved, the number of outpatient pain centers mushroomed. The services provided however focused on two areas:
- Medication management
- Nerve blocks and other invasive procedures.
Although many patients could be helped with one or both of these approaches, many patients in need of physical therapy and psychological services that were integrated with the overall treatment plan, would no longer receive optimal treatment. Reimbursement would be the driver of care rather than the needs of the patient. Centers could not stay in business and provide care that insurance companies would not cover. The shift toward procedures became an accepted standard of care and new organizations of pain physicians were formed whose membership focused predominantly on invasive procedures.
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Multi-disciplinary Pain Centers rise and fall
John Bonica, M.D. a world renowned anesthesiologist at the University of Washington in Seattle was the individual most responsible for the creation of a new specialty, Pain Medicine. In 1977 The American Pain Society was founded and became the United States national chapter in the International Association for the Study of Pain. Complicated difficult to treat pain patients were usually not successfully treated by a physician representing one medical discipline and thus the multi-disciplinary pain treatment model was created.
It was understood that belief systems about the patients' pain such as –"having pain means I am harming myself " resulting in the avoidance of activities that produce discomfort and eventually eliminating many important activities in the patients life with resulting deconditioning, depression, pain drug use, dollars spent and ultimately disability. Pain becomes the focus of life and the more it is pondered the worse it feels. Multi-disciplinary teams composed of a pain management physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, occupational therapist, physical therapist and pain team nurses provide weeks of intensive full day treatment programs with remarkable success in restoring function to patients disabled with persistent pain.
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History of the concept of the spine as the cause of back pain
Back pain can be found in the medical literature as far back as 1500 B.C. in Egypt.
Through the ages various explanations have been offered to explain the cause and how to treat it. But it wasn't until the 19th century that the spine and the nervous system were seen as the fundamental source of back pain. The idea that the cause of back pain was some injury or irritation in the bones and nerves of the spine was adopted by the medical community and this notion has persisted up to the present. With this in mind, recommending bed rest made sense-so bed rest became a standard treatment through most of the 20th century. Some savvy physicians recommended staying active, but their opinion was drowned out by the bed rest proponents. If you have an injury it can take weeks to heal, and therefore it was common to have patients with back pain lie in bed, often in a hospital, sometimes without even getting up to go to the bathroom, for two or more weeks. It was only at the end of the 20th century, that the medical community recognized two facts:1. Back pain was usually not from any obvious injury. 2. Prolonged bed rest was not only not helpful, it was damaging. So patients with typical back pain began to be encouraged to remain active and to return to work as quickly as possible.
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History of Back Pain- Don't believe that the newest approach is the best!
Spinal fusion surgery for back pain was reviewed in three articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association this week http://cot.ag/bjDgWW . The sobering conclusions were that we are spending up to 10 times more for complicated new surgical procedures and frequently getting worse outcomes and up to twice as many complications.
Unfortunately, this is nothing new in the history of back pain treatment. An article in Spine http://cot.ag/dASfWh analyzed the cost of the treatment of back and low back pain in the United States. It found that the cost of care from 1997 to 2005 went up from $62 billion to $86 billion and at the same time the number of patients reporting difficulty in functioning because of their pain also went up by 25%. Spending 65% more ($34 billion) resulted in worse outcomes.
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History of Muscle Pain
A review of comprehensive pain treatment textbooks finds no chapters dealing with muscle pain aside from sections on "Myofascial Pain Syndrome" discussing "trigger points" as the defining characteristic of syndromes with painful muscles. This points up a fundamental problem in discussing and understanding clinical muscle pain- the lack of agreed terminology to describe what is found when a painful muscle is examined. All muscle pain logically cannot be the result of trigger points. Treating every patient with tender muscles with injections will frequently result in failure to eliminate the pain. To better appreciate this lack of understanding, the history of muscle pain should be reviewed.
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What causes my back pain?
With severe back pain we frequently worry about having a herniated disc. If you have back pain and get an MRI chances are you'll find something. At NY Hospital/Weill-Cornell, 90% of the MRIs of the low back are read as abnormal. But most back pain is diagnosed as "Idiopathic /Non-specific", referring to sprains and strains of soft tissue such as muscle. But common soft tissue problems are not seen on the MRI so we often incorrectly assume that what we see on the image, such as disc herniaton/bulge, degenerated discs, spinal stenosis, facet arthritis, spondylolisthesis, is the cause of the pain. When we treat these "causes" we have many failures. Actually in some studies more than 50% of the back surgeries are unsuccessful leading to a new diagnosis, Failed Back Surgery Syndrome. Some clinicians recognize that muscles could be a source of the back pain and have attempted to treat the muscle that they have identified by applying pressure (palpation) to the suspected painful muscle. There are a variety of treatments that are offered. I will discuss some of them next time.~Norman J. Marcus, MD Norman Marcus Pain Institute, New York NY "Your New York City Pain Relief Doctor"
The Blog to Illuminate and Eliminate Chronic Pain
It is my wish to inform patients and colleagues about the possibilities of eliminating pain even when it is thought to be permanent (chronic) or require an invasive proceedure such as surgery, nerve injections, spinal cord stimulation or a morphine pump to achieve any relief.
Our story begins with the recogniton that the current standard of care doesn't work very well. An article in the Jouranl of the American Medical Association (JAMA), in February, 2008, by Martin, Deyo, et al.. reported that even though the cost of neck and low back pain in the USA increased from $26 billion in 1997 to $86 billion in 2005, there was no improvement in treatment outcome. $86 billion is also the amount we spend on cancer.
Actually patients were reporting that they were more impaired by neck and back pain in 2005 than in 1997. It appears that the reasons that we frequently offer to explain low back pain such as herniated discs, degenerated discs, arthritis, and spinal stenosis, are frequently wrong since treating these so called causes results in no, or partial, temporary improvement. What is missing from the published diagnosis and treatment guidelines for common pain problems such as low back, neck and shoulder pain, is any approach which addresses muscles as the primary source of pain.
In future postings we will look at some reasons why muscles are ignored and what you can do about it.~ Norman Marcus, MD
Norman Marcus Pain Institute, New York NY "Your New York City Pain Relief Doctor"


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Griddled lamb with wild rice salad
Nutrition and extra info
- Gluten-free
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal634
- fat34g
- saturates8g
- carbs49g
- sugars4g
- fibre3g
- protein31g
- salt1.3g
- 250g basmati & wild rice
- 4 tbsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 2 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- ½ tsp ground cumin
- 75g whole almonds
Almondarr-mund or al-mund
Sweet almonds have a subtle fragrance that lends itself well to baking and also works well with…
- 4 ripe tomatoes, diced
A member of the nightshade family (along with aubergines, peppers and chillies), tomatoes are in…
- 100g mixed black and green olives, marinated in garlic and oil (see tip), halved
- handful flat-leaf parsley, chopped
- 4 lamb cutlets
Cook the rice in boiling salted water following pack instructions. Drain and immediately run under cold water until the rice is completely cold.
Meanwhile, put the oil, vinegar, garlic and cumin in a screw-top jar. Season generously and shake well to mix. Toast the almonds in a small frying pan, stirring, for 1-2 mins. Cool, then roughly chop.
Mix the rice with the almonds, tomatoes, olives and parsley. Heat a griddle pan and season the lamb well. When the pan is hot, cook the lamb, turning occasionally, for 7-8 mins. Remove from the pan, cover with foil and leave to rest for 2 mins.
Pour the dressing over the rice salad and mix well. Top with the lamb cutlets and serve.
Recipe Tip
DIY deli olivesPick up marinated olives from the deli counter or make your own: coat olives in good-quality olive oil and add a few finely chopped garlic cloves.
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The Guy Forsyth Blues Band, 'The Pleaser,' Small & Nimble Records (REVIEW)
Guy Forsyth, an Austin bar room hero, plays guitar, harmonica, ukulele and singing saw. For his eighth studio album, The Pleaser, he's reverted back to the blues where he blows that harp and sings his own profanity-laced songs of lust. You can call it Punk Blues.
"Put A Little Sex In It" and "Miniskirt" are catchy little odes but it's on "Nobody Taught Me How To Love" and "Nobody Gonna Bail Me Out" where his inner demons run rampant and glorious in hard-charging vestiges of individualism.
Granted, Forsyth's attitude is more Sex Pistols than Muddy Waters and, thus, not for the squeamish. The dude's an iconoclast. He's also a solid singer and instrumentalist. His other band is The Hot Nut Riveters, an old-timey string band, and he's a hit when he plays solo throughout Europe. (I have to smile at the thought of Euro hipsters thinking of him as a rebel ugly American.)
Dig a little deeper and you'll find such gems as Needle Gun (1995) and Unrepentant Schizophrenic Americana (2006).
Sure, Guy Forsyth is an acquired taste but his brand of unrepentant sin might be just the thing for musical vicarious thrills.© 2016 The Classical Art, All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.
TagsGuy Forsyth, Austin Texas Music Scene, Hot Nut Riveters, Sex Pistols, REVIEW


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Is it worth $10? No
You expect a movie like "Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw" to be big, loud and stupid. Heck, you want it to be, right? But my goodness, you don't want it to be this big, loud and stupid.
The problem is not necessarily the action, which is grandiose yet mediocre, but the story and character development. The heroes, Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), hate each other. So they bicker. You're supposed to laugh as they trade insults. You don't. Hobbs and Shaw are like the middle-aged couple at a party that everyone knows should've divorced years ago: Their banter is amusing at times, but they grow tiresome quickly.
Shaw's sister, an Mi6 agent named Hattie (Vanessa Kirby), has stolen a super virus that can wipe out the world's population. Mi6 believes she killed other agents to get it; the CIA is willing to offer her immunity if she gives it the virus. So the CIA, knowing full well that Hobbs and Shaw hate each other, put the fate of the world in their hands by asking them to find Hattie and return the virus to safety. This is what I mean when I write the movie is "stupid" – characters (in this case, the CIA) should never act this illogically.
The villain, Brixton (Idris Elba), is a genetically enhanced soldier who once served with Deckard Shaw. He's part machine and part human. (How else could one person feasibly stand a chance against Statham and Johnson in a fight?) Who made Brixton this way, and how, is not revealed. Given that the "Fast & Furious" plots have always been based in some form of reality, a deviation from that, such as a Terminator-type baddie, warrants more explanation.
It gets worse. Toward the end of the film, our heroes need a mechanic. Hobbs decides to go home to Samoa, where he hasn't been in 25 years, to have his chop shop-running brother (Cliff Curtis) handle the job. This means that over the course of four "Fast & Furious" movies Hobbs never met a mechanic worth a spit, and his only solution is to endanger the friends and family he left behind years ago. What a horrible, selfish thing for Hobbs to do, not to mention unnecessary and narratively forced. And then the sun comes up in less than 10 minutes during the climactic fight scene (we know this because of a timer seen on screen), which is the director's fault.
Speaking of whom, what happened to David Leitch? He started strong in co-directing "John Wick" (2014), then did reasonably well with "Atomic Blonde" (2017) and "Deadpool 2" (2018). And now this mess. Again, the action is okay (especially a car/motorcycle chase through London), but Leitch needs to be able to tell a story as well, and he doesn't succeed here.
To be clear, "Hobbs & Shaw" is a spinoff, not an official entry in the series, but anytime you have this type of star power and a $200 million budget you have to deliver. There's no lack of effort here, but it's so immensely dumb, so mind-numbingly inane, that it's by far the most ridiculous action movie in quite some time.
Did you know?
Combined, the eight prior "Fast & Furious" movies earned $1.5 billion at the domestic box office. "Fast & Furious 9" is currently in production with a scheduled release date of May 22, 2020.


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Beauty & The Beast Competition Cake
My 3rd year entering City of Hope's, Let Them Eat Cake Competition. And for the 3rd consecutive year, we were blessed to win "Most Artistic". The Celebrity Judge was Ron Ben Israel. What a wonderfully gracious and engaging judge! Very cool! My team ROCKS!!! They put so much of their own time into this cake and I am feeling very blessed to have such a talented crew. Oh… and that Beast… made out of gumpaste by my 19 year old assistant! HELLO!!!!!
beauty beast beauty and the beast competition winner award castle lights
Awesome cake!
What a spectacular cake!!
W – O – W ! ! That's stupendous!!! Congratulations…a very well deserved win! :) x
it's beautiful!
AWESOME!!!!! Amazing details!!! LOVE…LOVE…from top to bottom!!!! Congratulations!!! Well deserved!!! xxx
Congratulations!!!! It is Brilliantly Clever!!!! Well DONE!
Awesome! :)
Wow this is amazing! Added to my faves!! :) Brilliant!!!!
oh my goodness, how skillfill is this??? fantastic!! xx
One for the pinterest board of amazing cakes! http://pinterest.com/pin/490610953126989875/
wow wow wow i love it !! beautiful !!
Wow, what an Amazing cake! Great job!
Very nice, well done.


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Jesus Prays for You
John 17:20-26
"I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
"Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these know that you have sent me. I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them."
Prayer in Song
Dorothy Norwood has a song that is titled "Somebody Prayed for Me." Look it up on YouTube or listen here before you continue reading this post. I'll wait…
The lyrics say:
Somebody prayed for me, had me on their mind,
They took the time and prayed for me.
I'm so glad they prayed. I'm so glad they prayed for me.
My mother prayed for me, had me on her mind,
She took the time and prayed for me.
I'm so glad she prayed. I'm so glad she prayed for me.
The preacher prayed for me had me on his mind,
He took the time and prayed for me.
I'm so glad he prayed. I'm so glad he prayed for me.
If you listened to that song, you are probably dancing in your seat right now. It is uplifting and inspiring and exciting. What makes it so exciting is that if we listen to the words then we realize that at this very moment…Somebody is praying for you.
How exciting is that?
Keeping Prayers Everyday
And if we read the text from John, we learn that the very somebody that is praying for us is JESUS. Jesus THE Christ himself is lifting us up in prayer.
So go about your day, your week knowing that no matter what you are dealing with, no matter what the struggle, no matter how high the mountain that you are staring up, you can take each step knowing that Jesus himself is there with you and lifting you up in prayer to God.
I'm so glad he did, I'm so glad he did, I'm so glad he prayed for me!
PeaceTags: Hymn, Scripture