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Tenure track positions as Assistant Professor in metabolic disorders including diabetes within th...
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The Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM) at Umeå University has been established as part of a national agenda with the goal of regaining a leading position for Sweden within medical research. The Centre is a collaboration between Knut and Alice Wallenberg's Foundation, Umeå University, Västerbotten County Council, the Kempe Foundations and the Cancer Foundation for Northern Sweden. In this call, the Centre is looking for up to two outstanding researchers - Wallenberg Molecular Medicine Fellows - to be positioned within the area of metabolic disorders including diabetes. The positions are provided with a generous 6-year support package including funding equivalent to two Postdoctoral Associates, two PhD Student recruitments and 6 million SEK for running costs. The successful candidates will be working in strong internationally recognized research environments and have access to excellent local and national research infrastructures including unique collections of longitudinal samples in existing biobanks.
Work description
The successful candidates will be working in close proximity to established research groups within the focus area of metabolic disorders including diabetes. The candidates are expected to initiate and maintain a strong research program complementing on-going research within molecular medicine at Umeå University, and to take active part in collaborative research opportunities and exchange programs within the new network of WCMM centres at Gothenburg, Linköping and Lund Universities as well the Science for Life Laboratories in Stockholm/Uppsala.
The successful candidates will primarily be conducting research. Up to 20% of the employment can be devoted to teaching so that the criteria for promotion to a tenure track position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor (Universitetslektor) can be fulfilled within six years.
To be eligible for the positions, candidates must have a PhD degree completed no more than eight years prior to the deadline for the application, i.e., September 10, 2009, at the latest. A candidate who has completed their degree prior to this time could be given equal priority if special circumstances exist. Special circumstances include absence due to illness, parental leave or clinical employment, appointment of trust in trade union organizations or similar circumstances. We are seeking outstanding candidates with documented excellent research in fields relevant to molecular medicine. The candidate must have appropriate postdoctoral training outside the university at which the PhD was defended.
Assessment criteria and weighting of criteria
The evaluation will be based on all the listed assessment criteria in following order of priority: 1) scientific proficiency, 2) pedagogical abilities, 3) administrative skills, ability to initiate interdisciplinary cooperation, ability to interact and communicate research with the community and leadership experience.
The evaluation of the scientific proficiency will devote particular emphasis to the level of independently performed research within the area of molecular medicine, with focus on molecular aspects of development and disease within metabolic diseases. This includes publications at a high scientific level and grants achieved in strong competition. The evaluation of pedagogical abilities will pay particular attention to planning, execution, and evaluation of teaching as well as supervision and examination. Evaluation is also made on the basis of documented administrative skills including leadership, ability to plan and develop an organization and its personnel, as well as undergraduate education, and the ability to interact with society.
More about the position
The position will be provided with a generous 6-year support package including funding for 2 Postdoctoral Associates, 2 PhD Students as well as 6 million SEK for running costs. To qualify for promotion, the candidates are expected to complement the funding with their own national and/or international grants. The researcher will work within one or more of the 13 departments of the Faculty of Medicine. The Department in which the candidate formally will be employed will be decided in consultation between the applicant and the faculty. An individual scientific and educational development plan will be formulated upon agreement between the applicant and the Head of Department at which the applicant will be employed. One pedagogical and two scientific mentors will be appointed to support the career of the candidate.
Tenure track evaluation
The position is part of Umeå University's tenure track system, in which an Assistant Professor has the right to apply for promotion to a tenured position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor. To be eligible for consideration for tenure, the application must be made within six years of taking up the position. If the Assistant Professor is not promoted to tenure, the position will be handled in accordance with existing rules for transition and redundancy.
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Last application date 2017-09-10.
- Föreståndare för WCMM, Professor Tommy Olsson, 090-785 18 45, email@example.com
- Bitr. föreståndare, Professor Maréne Landström, 090-785 24 58, email@example.com
- Dekan, Professor Patrik Danielson, 090-786 58 93, email@example.com
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Followers of other codes will never quite understand the love-hate that football fans have for important matches.
Sure, other codes have important matches (I guess), but they aren't decided on the razor-edged margins of football where the merest puff of a god's whim can make all the difference. The angle that a goal bound shot hits the post or crossbar determines – by a millimetre perhaps – whether the ball crosses the line enough to be measured by a fallible human official, and that millimetre can mean the difference between going to the World Cup…
Or not.
Because, as I've written before, goals are hard to get – and just one determines the game. Games like basketball or Aussie Rules have millions of goals so one goal in those games does not mean life or death as it does in football. Tries in league or union are hard-ish to get in comparison with basketball and AFL, but they're still a lot more common than goals in football. So, in all those games the sheer flood of points means that the fans don't really start to get anxious until the final quarter.
Not football. A goal conceded at any time is like a dagger through the heart for the fans because it has every chance of being decisive.
What this fundamentally means is that watching football is not really something you enjoy. It is something you endure, and the more you love the team the tougher your ordeal. For me, watching the Socceroos in a World Cup Qualifier is like watching a surgeon perform open heart surgery on a two year old. You desperately want the kid to survive but just one slip…
And the tension isn't just for ninety minutes. It starts weeks before and gradually reaches its nerve-jangling climax at kick-off. I don't know what happens after that. I often get to half time and can't remember anything other than the goals (if any) and a kind of white noise in my brain made of hope and terror.
The weird thing is: I love it, even though I hate it. I look forward to the game for months, and then I can barely stand to watch, such is the gut churning angst…the white-knuckled joy of watching the Socceroos.
Tonight of course is the worst kind of night because the game doesn't start until late so I will have to mooch about the house urging time onward while stewing in my ulcerous juices. It's too early to sleep first and get up (as I might for say a 2.00 kick off) and too late to get the agony over with quickly. And either way the result goes, I won't be able to sleep afterwards (from excitement or depression) so tomorrow is already a write off.
I am old enough to remember all of the World Cups we missed out on and the basket case the game was in (partly) because of that. I so desperately want us to go to every World Cup now, not just for the experience but to keep the game moving forward. I'm like a young Abe Simpson insisting on watching the first Super Bowl because it might have died if people didn't support it.
But tonight it all about winning.
We have to win to keep our chances of qualifying strong, so now I'm going to be in a frenzy of inarticulate angst for the next few hours, numbly willing time forward to the final whistle.
And the thing that makes me truly pathetic?
I'm over fifty.
Adrian's latest book Political Football: Lawrie McKinna's Dangerous Truth is in the shops right now or available through Booktopia. Adrian also wrote Mr Cleansheets.


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It's Global Warming, Stupid
By Paul M. Barrett on November 01, 2012 Tweet
Mayor Bloomberg: 'People Just Don't Understand How Strong Nature Is'Yes, yes, it's unsophisticated to blame any given storm on climate change. Men and women in white lab coats tell us—and they're right—that many factors contribute to each severe weather episode. Climate deniers exploit scientific complexity to avoid any discussion at all.
Clarity, however, is not beyond reach. Hurricane Sandy demands it: At least 40 U.S. deaths. Economic losses expected to climb as high as $50 billion. Eight million homes without power. Hundreds of thousands of people evacuated. More than 15,000 flights grounded. Factories, stores, and hospitals shut. Lower Manhattan dark, silent, and underwater.
An unscientific survey of the social networking literature on Sandy reveals an illuminating tweet (you read that correctly) from Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. On Oct. 29, Foley thumbed thusly: "Would this kind of storm happen without climate change? Yes. Fueled by many factors. Is storm stronger because of climate change? Yes." Eric Pooley, senior vice president of the Environmental Defense Fund (and former deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek), offers a baseball analogy: "We can't say that steroids caused any one home run by Barry Bonds, but steroids sure helped him hit more and hit them farther. Now we have weather on steroids."
In an Oct. 30 blog post, Mark Fischetti of Scientific American took a spin through Ph.D.-land and found more and more credentialed experts willing to shrug off the climate caveats. The broadening consensus: "Climate change amps up other basic factors that contribute to big storms. For example, the oceans have warmed, providing more energy for storms. And the Earth's atmosphere has warmed, so it retains more moisture, which is drawn into storms and is then dumped on us." Even those of us who are science-phobic can get the gist of that.
Sandy featured a scary extra twist implicating climate change. An Atlantic hurricane moving up the East Coast crashed into cold air dipping south from Canada. The collision supercharged the storm's energy level and extended its geographical reach. Pushing that cold air south was an atmospheric pattern, known as a blocking high, above the Arctic Ocean. Climate scientists Charles Greene and Bruce Monger of Cornell University, writing earlier this year in Oceanography, provided evidence that Arctic icemelts linked to global warming contribute to the very atmospheric pattern that sent the frigid burst down across Canada and the eastern U.S.
If all that doesn't impress, forget the scientists ostensibly devoted to advancing knowledge and saving lives. Listen instead to corporate insurers committed to compiling statistics for profit.
On Oct. 17 the giant German reinsurance company Munich Re issued a prescient report titled Severe Weather in North America. Globally, the rate of extreme weather events is rising, and "nowhere in the world is the rising number of natural catastrophes more evident than in North America." From 1980 through 2011, weather disasters caused losses totaling $1.06 trillion. Munich Re found "a nearly quintupled number of weather-related loss events in North America for the past three decades." By contrast, there was "an increase factor of 4 in Asia, 2.5 in Africa, 2 in Europe, and 1.5 in South America." Human-caused climate change "is believed to contribute to this trend," the report said, "though it influences various perils in different ways."
Global warming "particularly affects formation of heat waves, droughts, intense precipitation events, and in the long run most probably also tropical cyclone intensity," Munich Re said. This July was the hottest month recorded in the U.S. since record-keeping began in 1895, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The U.S. Drought Monitor reported that two-thirds of the continental U.S. suffered drought conditions this summer.
Granted, Munich Re wants to sell more reinsurance (backup policies purchased by other insurance companies), so maybe it has a selfish reason to stir anxiety. But it has no obvious motive for fingering global warming vs. other causes. "If the first effects of climate change are already perceptible," said Peter Hoppe, the company's chief of geo-risks research, "all alerts and measures against it have become even more pressing."
Which raises the question of what alerts and measures to undertake. In his book The Conundrum, David Owen, a staff writer at the New Yorker, contends that as long as the West places high and unquestioning value on economic growth and consumer gratification—with China and the rest of the developing world right behind—we will continue to burn the fossil fuels whose emissions trap heat in the atmosphere. Fast trains, hybrid cars, compact fluorescent light bulbs, carbon offsets—they're just not enough, Owen writes.
it's global warming stupid
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|Limited Edition Lip Layers in Shiraz and Retsina and Limited Edition Pastille Rosebud
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|the gorgeous, bright, limited edition Pastille Matte collection.
l-r: rosebud, violet, lavender and lilac
Hello, my name is Leah and I'm a Bite Beauty addict. I returned to my local Sephora today with the intention of purchasing the above mentioned Watermelon lip tint. After much deliberation, trying on and re-trying on I ended up with something completely different than I went in for- surprise of surprises!
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My love affair with Bite Beauty will continue on- I have a feeling that over time it may become my one and only lip product brand! Now, if only I can convince them to branch out into foundation, I'll be a content gal!
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The Wisconsin Badgers come out of a solid Big Ten this year with a 23-8 overall record, and a 13-5 in-Conference record. However, the Badgers were disappointed this past weekend with a first round loss to Illinois in the Big Ten Conference Tournament. The Badgers have not missed a tournament since in 1998 edition, and have competed in 1 Final Four during this 12-year stretch. The Badgers will be looking for a better result than last year, as they were bounced in the second round by Xavier. With their opening round loss in this year's Big Ten tournament, the Badgers are not in the position they wished for at the #4 seed in the East Region, after having a strong finish to their season.
First Round Opponent – Wofford (26-8) Southern (15-3)
Tournament Prediction – The Wisconsin Badgers have appeared in 15 NCAA Tournaments, and have competed in 2 Final Fours. The Badgers have only brought home a single Championship, and that was way back in 1941. The Badgers most recently played in a Final Four in 2000, as they marched through the Tournament as a #8 seed. An overall tournament record of 20-14 is disappointing for Wisconsin seeing as they have played in every tournament since 1999. The Badgers competed in an Elite Eight in 2005, and a Sweet Sixteen in 2008, but have not accomplished anything to bring home for their school. I see a Sweet Sixteen in the Badgers future in this tournament, but they will likely run into a powerful Kentucky squad in the Regional Semifinal, ending their 2010 run in this tournament.
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The New Mexico Lobos have earned themselves a #3 seed in the East Region of the NCAA bracket, and are arguably the most surprising team to crack the AP Top 10 rankings this season. The Lobos have had a strong season, going 29-4 on the year and 14-2 within the Mountain West Conference. However, the Lobos were upset in the second round of the Mountain West Conference Tournament this past weekend by San Diego State, earning the Aztecs a berth into the NCAA Tournament. The Lobos aren't exactly regulars in the NCAA tournament with just 11 tournament appearances in school history, and no championships or Final Fours to speak of. Junior Guard Darington Hobson and his 16.2 points and 9.2 rebounds per game hopes to lead the Lobos into their first Final Four in school history coming out of the East bracket.
First Round Opponent – Montana (22-9) Big Sky (10-6)
Tournament Prediction – As mentioned, this is a very inexperienced school when it comes to the annual NCAA Tournament, as New Mexico has made just 11 tournament appearances in school history, and have not brought home any hardware with them to date. The Lobos are just 6-12 overall in this tournament, and have not made it past the second round since the 1974 tournament. The Lobos made several tournament appearances during the 1990's but to no avail, and have qualified just once for the tournament in the new millennium, losing in the first round to Villanova in the 2005 tournament. Given the history of this basketball program, it seems like a long shot for this Lobos team do any serious damage in this tournament, and I could see them being the first #3 seed eliminated from this tournament. Do not expect any serious run from New Mexico, but hopefully qualifying for this tournament for the 2nd time in 11 years will help this basketball program for the future.


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Organizations are faced with the challenge of assuring that the digital materials utilized by business partners, retailers, sales force and distributors are approved and on-brand. A process for managing your digital assets provides this assurance since the most current imagery is always available to everyone that needs it. A DAM (Digital Asset Management) system achieves this result because it is centrally administered and provides the ability to make quick changes to content involving all pertinent users who collaborate in the authoring process (product managers, advertising dept, vendors, etc). This continuous updating of files happens in real time even though each promotional element is on its own design cycle.
Today most product manager communication with advertising & marketing occurs around the production cycle for new materials. If a product is added, discontinued or changed outside of this cycle, the new imagery may not be immediately supplied/updated to retailers and the sales force. Customers & sales people don't even know new images exist. Since only a select few staff in the marketing department know where the correct images are, customer and sales requests for images are processed through a specific person that knows where the image/file is located. The availability of this person determines the speed of the image/file fulfillment. Unfortunately if images aren't easy to locate and available 24/7, people will forgo the process of getting the most recent image. It doesn't matter if the correct image exists when the process for getting it takes too long or requires too much effort. Some retailers and sales people will simply use an existing, outdated image.
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Back in 2014 I spent a week in Sorrento exploring the city, the stunning Amalfi Coast, the ruined cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and wandering the tiny streets of Capri. Now, I absolutely loved visiting the typical tourist-y areas and I would highly recommend them, but my favourite day of all was one of the far more relaxed days I spent there.
The Bagni della Regina Giovanna (Baths of Queen Joan) can be found about 2km west of Sorrento, among the ruins of the Roman Villa known as Villa Pollio. Both the ruins and the baths are free of charge to visit, and the ruins in particular give a beautiful cliff top view onto the Bay of Naples (definitely take your camera if you go!). It is thought that the baths were named after the 14th century Queen Joan of Naples who frequented the baths with her ladies in waiting. The baths have some of the clearest water I have ever seen and many rocky outcrops that would be perfect for sunbathing if you got comfy! Unfortunately, I (stupidly) didn't bring a towel or a bikini so I didn't actually manage to take a dip myself, but this leads me onto another fab thing about the baths.
Just around the corner from the baths, via a very long and slightly rickety looking boardwalk is the Lido la Solara, a small and unassuming beach bar but let me tell you, it is a gem. From memory, the bar has really lovely vibe and a wide range of food and drink on offer at very reasonable prices – it is the absolute perfect place to sit and chill, looking out over the water. You can also rent a sun lounger from the bar and soak up the rays until your heart is content! When we went I think we were just about the only non-Italians there and it was so so nice to feel a bit more off the beaten track.
So, you're probably wondering how you get to this little slice of paradise? Well you've got a couple of options but either way you're going to end up walking downhill on a fairly long and uneven path so I don't advise trying to do it in flip-flops!
This is a reasonably long walk (about an hour maybe), so it's probably best to go first thing in the morning before it gets too hot and so that you can make the most of the day at the baths and the bar!
If you ever visit Sorrento be sure to check this place out and let me know what you think! Do you have any hidden gems that you know about from your travels?
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Lindsay Lohan at a lucre low
Hollywoodnews.com: Lindsay Lohan has to go kiss the Blarney Stone or get some major Feng Shui going in her life. That or maybe a rich boyfriend for a while.
According to an insider, "She's in complete financial ruin."
The "Machete" actress, 23, owes $23,000 to her landlord and is facing eviction according to Star Magazine. But wait, there's more.
She's has more than $1 million in bills and creditors are calling and demanding settlement. Top that off with some lawsuits, one being for the time when she stole an SUV in 2007.
Lohan should take a cue from Stephen Baldwin, become a born-again and have them start a charity for her. She would probably earn more in donations than Baldwin. Better yet, fans should pay $20 to receive a peck on the cheek from Lohan – a similar fundraiser practice last seen on ABC's 1950s "Happy Days." The best: She should take pictures of herself with weapons and sell them to the press.
Back in real-time, Lohan is actually selling off a lot of designer items that were gifted to her.


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In January 1946 it was rumoured that the league would expand to 16 teams. In January Toronto Scottish rejected an offer of a franchise in the newly-formed North American Professional Soccer League. President Jimmy Peden citing financial reasons. The John Inglis club of the Toronto & District League joined the NASPL and the Ontario Major League in March 1946. They later changed their name to the Toronto Greenbacks.
At a league meeting on Friday night March 29 the John Inglis club was barred from participation in the 1946 league season. This as they had failed to submit a list of players.
The amateur league was to operate with two divisions. Five Toronto teams and Hamilton Stelcos in the first division. The second division would consist of three Toronto teams and Fergus.
Review of the season
Ulster United made a clean sweep of all honours in the 1946 season. They won the Dominion Cup, the Ontario Major Soccer League, the Consols Cup, the Dunlop Cup and the Harris trophy. Ulster United played in 50 games, winning 47 and losing 3. The three losses came in exhibition games.
Liverpool beat Ulster United 11-1 on June 6 at Maple Leaf Stadium. The game was watched by 15,000 persons, the second largest crowd to ever see a soccer game in Canada. The largest was the 21,000 persons that watched the game between Ulster United and Scottish side Third Lanark in 1921.
GP W L T GF GA Pts 1. Ulster United
Exhibition game
June 5, 1946 Maple Leaf Stadium, Toronto
Attendance: 15,000
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Learn About the Ongoing War on Imported Caskets. Winners, Losers, and Lawsuits…
In 2015, Bloomberg Businessweek published a feature story on the U.S. casket trade highlighting it as one of the last standing industries of U.S. manufactured products that has not fallen to Chinese imports. In 2005, Jim Malamas was one of the first to enter the imported caskets business with his company ACE caskets. Malamas was acting on what he saw as an opportunity to capitalize on the inevitable fate of casket manufacturing going overseas.
Since the start of ACE Caskets, Malamas has had a difficult path to moving in on marketshare. One of the biggest blocks has been the sturdy infrastructure of Big Casket. Deathcare's Big Two—Batesville and Matthews Aurora Funeral Solutions—control 70 percent of the funeral merchandise market. U.S. caskets alone are a $1.6 billion business.
Historically, the Big Two have been committed to providing U.S, manufactured caskets, although now they have some manufacturing in Mexico. They sell U.S. manufactured products to funeral homes for up to $1,500, while a nearly identical foreign model sells for as little as $408. Low-cost overseas manufacturing is an obvious threat to their longstanding business model. But, caskets are still holding out for domestic manufacturing with imported caskets making up only about 5% of total caskets sold in the U.S.
"The funeral industry has had a goddamn easy ride for the last 150 years," Joshua Slocum, executive director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance, tells Bloomberg Business Week. "Why aren't as many caskets imported as Chinese dishware? It defies all known rules of supply and demand."
The industry-standard markup rate on caskets is 125 percent and it can be higher on imported caskets like those ACE provides. White & Day Mortuary reported to Bloomberg Businessweek in 2015 that they buy the popular Mandarin model, a 20-gauge steel unit, from ACE for $338 and sell it for $2,495. That is a markup of more than 700 percent and is still a competitive price for shoppers. In an industry facing pressure from budget shoppers, internet sales, and rising cremation rates, this additional revenue can can be a godsend for a privately owned funeral home.
So why hasn't the entire industry abandoned the Big Two and jumped on the imported casket train?
It likely comes down to distribution.
Because the funeral home industry is made up nearly entirely of mom and pop businesses that receive about 100 calls annually. This makes it difficult (or impossible) for them to purchase expensive wholesale products like caskets outright. Since they cannot purchase a container-load of caskets, they often place single orders at the time of need. A small company like ACE cannot deliver products in time for waiting families, but The Big Two have refined distribution channels allowing them to deliver a casket within 24-hours. The Big Two are aware that their hold on distribution is being threatened as small importers like ACE grow and attain more resources.
In 2006, A Matthews subsidiary filed a design infringement suit and nearly toppled ACE causing early customers to leave and Malamas and his Chinese importer to amass $2 million in legal fees.
Bloomberg Business week reported, "When Malamas entered the market, Big Casket moved quickly to defend its turf. In 2006 a Matthews subsidiary filed suit, alleging that ACE and its Chinese supplier were copying its designs. Matthews also sent letters to funeral homes and distributors, threatening to sue if they continued to buy from Malamas. ACE eventually prevailed in the lawsuit with Matthews in 2012, and the company's Chinese supplier picked up most of the legal tab. But by then, Malamas's revenue had been cut in half, his clients were spooked, and the business was in shambles."
"It was a nonsense lawsuit," says Dan Isard, who's interviewed Malamas on his podcast at FuneralRadio.com. "But it slowed him down. The Big Three made their money back on legal fees many times over."
Now, two-years since the Bloomberg story, where does the war on imported caskets stand?
For starters, Basteville and Mathews have continued to move their casket manufacturing plants to Mexico, a move that began in the early 2000's. This was expected and probably long overdue from a business standpoint.
Funeral industry expert Dan Isard told the Huffington Post in an interview:
You could import caskets from China with a 100 percent import tax and still they would be cheaper than manufacturing in the United States.
According to Malamas, after Mathews lost the 2012 suite against Wuxi Tractor Factory, they filed an enforcement action against the manufacturer. The enforcement action does not appear to be a lawsuit, but is intended to allow Mathews to conduct investigations to monitor compliance and identify violations. The details of the enforcement action could not be confirmed.
Malamas himself still gets letters for court appearances even though he no longer sources his imported caskets from Wuxi Tractor Factory. He said he does not understand why he continues to feel pressure from Mathews lawyers. "I am not complying," he tells Connecting Directors.
Malamas and his company ACE Caskets weathered the storm of the 2012 suite, but not without damage. He told Connecting Directors that his sales have declined 75%. He added, "…but "I have a lot of energy again and we are making progress." ACE Caskets is no longer the largest importer, giving way to companies like Signet Supply and Best Price Caskets.
Malamas has been refining his product line, reportedly visiting 54 Chinese casket manufacturers in person to find the best quality/price combination to offer his growing U.S. client base. All of his wood is sourced in the U.S. and Canada then shipped to China for production. Malamas told Connecting Directors:
We get to support the U.S. logging industry and still save our customers 75%. I want to help funeral homes lower their costs and this is the way to do it.


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The last game of the 2014 NFL regular season and it promises to be a good one as the Bengals roll into Steel City to take on Pittsburgh for the Sunday Night Football season finale. The AFC North has been a back-and-forth affair all season long so it is fitting that the divisional winner would come down to the final play. Both Cincinnati and Pittsburgh have had their bouts with consistency in 2014, but all they need to do is turn in a solid sixty minutes, and they'll have a much easier road to post-season success. While both the Bengals and Steelers already have their playoff spots secured, you can bet both squads will be fighting hard for the rights to crown this competitive division. It's likely that the loser of this contest has to travel to Indianapolis next week for the opening round of the playoffs – a tall order for any team regardless the situation. The way Luck and the Colts have moved the ball this year, you can bet both teams will be going hard tonight. It's the last regular season write-up of 2014, and it's been a blast yet again. Let's end the year on a winning note, so read on below for the SNF game breakdown and the last official NFL wager of the calendar year.
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It's been a long road in the always competitive AFC North, but here we are. The winner takes the division and holds a much easier route to playoff success, while the loser will be forced to travel next week to what should be a rocking venue in Indianapolis against Andrew Luck and his high-flying Colts. There's a lot on the line tonight and you can bet both squads will be eager to secure the victory against their bitter rival.
Pittsburgh has seemed to be mired in mediocrity the past couple of seasons, a far cry from the excellence that usually surrounds one of the league's model franchises. They've just been average and unremarkable, and while you can make that case again for them this season, it has worked mostly because of their superstar quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Roethlisberger has enjoyed one of his top seasons of his career in 2014 as he has an abundance of talented receiving options at his disposal. He's posted career highs in most passing categories, and much of that can be attributed to a heroic outing in Week 14 at the Bengals. In that first match-up, Big Ben went 25-of-39, for 350 yards and 3 touchdowns. Since then, not much has changed and look for Roethlisberger to pick up exactly where he left off in that contest. The Bengals defense looked great on Monday night, but to be honest that had a lot more to do with just how bad Peyton Manning was. Roethlisberger is dominant right now and the fact remains that the Bengals cannot pressure the quarterback. They enter tonight with the fewest sacks in the NFL. Pittsburgh boasts a solid offensive front and will be able to contain Cincinnati's pass rush with relative ease. Also a threat for the Bengals will be stud running back Le'Veon Bell who also had his way with Cincinnati's defense in Week 14. He was simply unstoppable, gaining 185 yards and scoring twice. The Bengals run defense is a disaster right now, and the Steelers are going to be able to move the ball with ease.
For Cincinnati, expect a bit of a letdown coming off Monday evening's big performance against Denver. They were good, but it's one thing to perform at home, and another to do it again on the road against a red-hot offense. Cincy's offense enters tonight in fine form, but they remain an easy team to prepare for. Since transferring the sole running reins to Jeremy Hill, Cincinnati has become a pretty solid team. But that said, the run game is all they've got, because Andy Dalton still cannot be trusted and still puts himself and his team in undesirable situations. The Bengals will need Hill to again be a stud to protect Dalton and long-yardage 3rd downs. That said, it remains to be seen if Hill will again turn in a solid outing. The Steelers run defense has been excellent over the past few weeks, and though they admittedly have a weakness in the secondary, Dalton is inaccurate and can't capitalize with enough consistency for that to matter.
The Steelers boast one of the NFL's best offenses and are simply an excellent team at home when facing divisional opponents. They've averaged over 35 points in their last five home outings, and with the current situation of the Bengals defense, they could eclipse that total tonight. It's tough to bet against Pittsburgh in front of their own fans right now, so we won't. The Bengals are an overrated group, especially on offense, and this failure will set them up for yet another post-season disappointment next week in Indianapolis. Roll with the Steelers to close out the season.
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Did you know that this weekend, Sunday, the 30th Jun 2019, is celebrated as the Asteroid Day (also called as the International Asteroid Day) across the world? This day has been declared as the Asteroid Day by the UN in remembrance of the Siberian Tunguska event that happened on the 30th June 1908, in Siberia. This was the worst, catastrophic Asteroid event in the world's history. Hence, the UN has decided to dedicate this day to create awareness about the Asteroids and their harmful effects.
The idea was to spur thoughts and actions on what can be done to protect the earth, its life, and future generations from such harmful events, and to see if it is possible to prevent any future catastrophes. Asteroids are nothing but minor planets, or rocky bodies, that orbit the Sun, between Mars and Jupiter. However, few of them come closer to earth and are called Near Earth Asteroids, and they can crash into a planet when they orbit past them. That is when impact craters are created.
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On the morning of 30th June 1908, a meteor is believed to have exploded at about an altitude of 5 to 10 KM, in what is known as an impact event. In other words, since it did not hit the earth's surface, there was no impact crater. This caused a massive explosion in the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia. Incredibly, even though around 200 KM was flattened, there were no human casualties, as the region was sparsely populated.
The meteor size was estimated to be about 60 to 190 meters, and many scholarly papers have been published by scientists who studied this event, the worst such in human history. Approximately 80 million trees were knocked down, and shocks to the effect 5.0 on the Richter scale were measured at the place. The magnitude was such that it could easily have entirely destroyed a metropolitan city. Many eyewitnesses from around the area also recorded their version of how they saw the sky splitting and a fireball falling and feeling the heat, etc.
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Asteroid Day was co-founded by Filmmaker Grigorij Richters, B612 Foundation COO Danica Remy, Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Brian May, Queen guitarist, and astrophysicist. There is a declaration called "100X Declaration", created by the workgroup of the Asteroid Day. As part of this, an appeal is given to all scientists and technologists who are supporting the idea of saving the earth from asteroids to sign this declaration. Anyone can sign this declaration, and more than 22,000 private citizens have also signed this.
The UN resolution in this regard was approved only in Dec 2016, when it took up the proposal submitted by Romanian astronaut Dumitru Prunariu and the Association of Space Explorers. The AsteroidDay.org lists out various related activities across 78 countries, across the first two years globally.
There are many national and international events being organized on this day, and one can take part in these to understand more about the Asteroids. This could be a good outing to go along with family, especially if you have grandkids, or with friends. The Nehru Planetariums in Delhi and Mumbai have interactive talks, live streaming, etc. planned out. The Jawaharlal Planetarium in Bangalore also has some exhibitions and lectures planned.
Besides these, there are events planned in many schools and colleges as well. You could check out the details of all events in this Astronomical Society of India website, if interested to attend any of these. It would be good to understand what happened, why and what can happen in the future, and how our scientists and astronauts are working to bring about our safety and safeguard the planet. Especially for kids, it will be very good to understand all this, and they could use this information for their school or college projects and events to generate awareness.
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Unwrap the Smart Extruder+/Smart Extruder and press it against the back of the extruder carriage, with the connector pins facing the front of the MakerBot Replicator Z18. Magnets will lock the extruder into place. For more information about installation, click here.
2. Update Firmware
It's important to always keep your MakerBot 3D printer's firmware up to date. Firmware updates often include improvements to Z-axis homing, and your extruder may not home correctly if you don't have the newest version.
3. Run the Homing Calibration Script
It's always a good idea to calibrate the Z-axis offset after updating firmware on a MakerBot Replicator Z18. To do this, navigate to Utilities > Calibration > Z Calibration in MakerBot Print. Then click the Run Z-Homing Calibration button and follow the prompts.
You can also go into Settings > Calibration on the printer's interface screen.
4. Start a Print
Monitor the first layer of your print carefully. If the extruder nozzle scrapes against the build plate, or if you receive a homing error, the extruder is too close to the plate. If the plastic coming out of the extruder doesn't adhere well to the build plate, it is too far from the plate.
If the extruder is not at the right distance from the build plate, you can correct it by manually adjusting the Z-axis offset.


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Re:shaping new challenges – the origins and future of a series of interactive generative artworks by British artist Ernest Edmonds, 1980s-2000s
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This paper explores the origins and future of a series of interactive generative artworks created between the 1980s and 2000s by British artist Ernest Edmonds, and their curatorial and archival challenges. Edmonds' early investigation into the changing relationship between artist and viewer started in the late 1960s and accelerated by the intervention of the computer. By looking at Edmonds' first experiments in interactive art, his early time-based work using computer screens, and recent developments in interactive generative installations, this paper will investigate the challenges of archiving and preserving such material.
What did technology allow back in the early 1980s in terms of generative art production and how did archival and preservation strategies in the 1990s and 2000s deal with the change creative technology has experienced in the past thirty years? By combining the analysis of archival material held at the Edmonds' Archive in Derbyshire, and the National Archive of Computer Based Art and Design, Victoria & Albert Museum, and a series of interviews conducted by the author in the past two years with the artist and curators and professionals involved in archiving, preserving and curating Edmonds' works, this article will briefly answer these questions. By discussing the challenging issues of preserving and documenting interactive and generative art in the 2000s, the article will shed light on an original aspect of new media art curation and preservation and its consequences in the contemporary art conservation sphere.
Francesca Franco is a researcher specialising in the history of art and technology. She is Research Fellow at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, Leicester, where she is studying the Ernest Edmonds Archive of computational art material held at the Victoria & Albert Museum. She holds a PhD in the History of Art from Birkbeck (thesis title: Ars Ex Machina – The Missing History of New Media Art at the Venice Biennale, 1966–86). Her most recent publications include "The First Computer Art Show at the 1970 Venice Biennale. An Experiment or Product of the Bourgeois Culture?" in Relive: Media Art Histories, Cubitt and Thomas, editors, MIT Press (2013); "Exploring Intersections: Ernest Edmonds and his time-based generative art," Digital Creativity, 24:3 (2013);"Documenting Art as Art: the case of Notes (2000-ongoing) by British artist Ernest Edmonds," Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation, Vol. 29, No. 4 (2013).
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House Commerce health and environment subcommittee members Michael Bilirakis (R-FL) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) each introduced bills yesterday that would counter skyrocketing prescription drug costs, CongressDaily reports. Bilirakis, chair of the subcommittee, joined Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN) to introduce a bill that would add limited prescription drug coverage to Medicare and encourages states to expand or develop "drug assistance programs" for Medicare beneficiaries living below 200% of the poverty level. Under the legislation, Medicare would create a "stop loss" program that would cover drug costs beyond $1,500. After seniors surpassed that spending threshold, Medicare would serve as a re-insurer of benefits delivered through the beneficiaries' private drug plan. "This could go into effect now," Bilirakis said, distinguishing his bill from others that are folded into Congress' Medicare reform debate.
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Brown, ranking member on the subcommittee, "takes a much different approach" in his Affordable Prescription Drugs Act, which would give the government the authority to force price competition for those drugs considered to provide a substantial health benefit but that carry price tags deemed to be "excessive." Generic manufacturers would be able to produce versions of brand-name drugs still under patent protections, but they would pay royalties until the patent expired (Rovner, 9/23). Brown's bill would also require drug manufacturers to publicly disclose audited financial information relevant to the pricing of their drugs. Companies that fail to comply would be ineligible to participate in federal health care programs. "American drug companies have had it good for a long time," Brown said, adding "But these good times have been at the expense of people who cannot afford to pay absurdly high prescription drug prices." He said that drug prices can be slashed without having a chilling effect on pharmaceutical companies' research and development budgets. On the other hand, he said, "these prices cannot remain high without seriously affecting public health and fueling unsustainable health care inflation." Reps. Tom Allen (D-ME), Marion Berry (D-AR), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL) and Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) joined Brown in unveiling the legislation yesterday (Brown release, 9/23).
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In other Medicare news, Rep. Ken Lucas (D-KY) "is enlisting the help of [Ohio] senior citizens in his bid to have Medicare cover a portion of prescription drug costs. He's asking senior constituents to send him copies of their drug bills, which he hopes will help convince Congress to move on the issue. He said the gambit will "show Congress that we need to make prescription drugs more affordable for seniors, that we need prescription drug coverage now." He added, "I'm going to do all I can to pass a prescription drug benefit for seniors. I'm hoping that evidence of the high cost of drugs for seniors will help convince the obstructionists in Congress how real the problem is" (Crowley, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9/24).


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While pregnancy is an exciting time for expectant mothers, it can pose extra health challenges. This is especially true regarding dental health.
Because of hormonal changes that naturally occur during pregnancy, your teeth and gums are at higher risk for dental disease. These changes can increase cravings for carbohydrates, particularly sugar. Increased sugar consumption feeds bacteria found in dental plaque, which is most responsible for tooth decay and periodontal (gum) disease.
Hormonal changes can also make your gums more susceptible to infection. Conditions may be favorable for a form of gum disease called pregnancy gingivitis, which can begin as an infection in the surface layers of the gums. But like other forms of gum disease, pregnancy gingivitis can advance below the gum line and lead to serious health consequences.
Because of this "pregnancy effect" on your teeth and gums, there are some things to which you should pay heed while you're expecting. First and foremost, keep up a daily regimen of brushing and flossing to remove accumulated dental plaque. You should also control your sugar intake to minimize bacterial growth that can cause disease.
It's also important for you to continue regular dental visits during your pregnancy. Your dentist will monitor your dental health and initiate treatment if you begin to show signs of disease. Besides professional cleanings, your dentist may also prescribe antibacterial mouthrinses to combat bacteria.
As far as dental procedures, essential treatments like fillings, root canals or extractions are usually considered safe to perform during pregnancy. But elective treatments of a cosmetic nature are best postponed until after your baby's delivery.
One last tip: because of the higher risk of tooth decay or gum disease, be on the lookout for any abnormal signs in your mouth. This includes spots on the teeth, tooth pain or swollen, reddened or bleeding gums. If you see any of these signs, see your dentist as soon as possible.
Your teeth and gums are indeed at risk for disease during pregnancy. But daily hygiene, regular dental care and attention to signs of disease can help keep that danger at bay.
If you would like more information on prenatal dental care, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can also learn more about this topic by reading the Dear Doctor magazine article "Dental Care During Pregnancy."
Learning you're pregnant can be a joyous moment. But it also means life is about to change as you focus on protecting you and your child from anything that endangers your health.
Because of these new concerns you might even hesitate about receiving dental care, especially involving anesthesia. But several medical organizations representing doctors, OB-GYN physicians and dentists wholeheartedly recommend continuing regular dental visits during pregnancy.
In fact, you should continue them because you're pregnant: physical and hormonal changes during pregnancy could increase your risk of dental disease.
For, example, your consumption of carbohydrates (like sugar) could increase, which in turn increases your risk of tooth decay. You'll also need to be more concerned about dental plaque, a thin bacterial film on your teeth that can cause disease. Hormonal changes during pregnancy may make you more sensitive to plaque, and thus more susceptible to disease — especially periodontal (gum) disease.
In fact, a specific form of gum disease called pregnancy gingivitis affects around 40% of expectant women at some point in their pregnancy. And if you already have gum disease, pregnancy could worsen it. Left untreated the disease could develop into more severe periodontitis, which may significantly damage your teeth's support structures far below the gum line, leading to bone loss, which could result in the eventual loss of your teeth. Daily brushing and flossing, regular cleanings and checkups and, if your dentist prescribes it, antibacterial mouth rinses can help you stay ahead of it.
But what about other procedures while you're pregnant? It may be best to wait on elective treatments for cosmetic purposes until after the baby is born. But some situations like deep tooth decay that could require a root canal treatment may become too serious to postpone.
Fortunately, several studies have shown it's safe for pregnant women to undergo many dental procedures including tooth fillings or extractions. And receiving local anesthesia doesn't appear to pose a danger either.
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As the new team of four fresh-faced graduates in Empired's Adelaide office, we were tasked early with coming up with an efficient and viable use for the Microsoft HoloLens device, one that Empired team could potentially bring to clients.
The four of us – Bethany, Kyla, Clayton, and Aron, started at Empired in late 2018, each of us starting down different paths. While Bethany joined the Project Management Office team, Kyla and Aron joined the Digital & Experience Design team with Kyla focusing more on front-end and Aron on the back-end, and Clayton joined the Dynamics Solutions CRM team.
We bonded quickly due to our complimentary-differing personalities and skills. In order to cement our growing team-like structure, as well as utilise our fresh perspectives, the Empired team gave us a project for the HoloLens device that had, up until this point, gone unused.
The initial idea was to create an application to suit a current client. We started the brainstorming process, with guidance from some of Empired's longer-serving team. For each of the ideas we raised, we would soon learn it was already a polished solution. Guidance from other members of the Empired team gave us a new perspective – let's take what we already have, and integrate it with the HoloLens, much like how smartphones and tablets have been integrated with business processes over the recent years.
Finally, we had a project. We were to come up with a solution using Microsoft Dynamics and the HoloLens in order to provide an efficient, worthwhile package for our clients to integrate with their current processes. After looking at the HoloLens capabilities we decided field service optimisation would be a good process to tackle.
The HoloLens is a mixed reality computer in the form of a headset. Users wear the device and use familiar Windows and Microsoft interfaces to interact with their data and applications in an augmented environment. The device uses a combination of sensors and cameras to digitally track the environment so that it can be used as a workspace. Further sensors allow for gesture and gaze interaction, and built-in speakers allow for immersive audio. It is a new paradigm in computer interaction, but one that is worth the effort, as it is bringing about inspiring digital transformations.
Aircraft giant Boeing is utilising the HoloLens to train their staff in complex and expensive tasks such as installing electrical wiring on an aircraft. With 3D augmentation capabilities, trainees are able to see and better understand the layout of the wiring by moving around the aircraft whilst wearing the HoloLens and seeing it for themselves. Trainees can also bring up wiring diagrams and place them wherever they desire in the augmented environment whilst completing the task, making for easier, cleaner, and safer training.
A HoloLens application released by Microsoft under the Dynamics umbrella, Remote Assist, is the cornerstone in our project. Remote Assist allows users to call each other through Microsoft Teams software. When a call is made through the HoloLens, the recipient can share the HoloLens experience. The recipient can share documents and pause the view at any moment and make annotations over it, which translate to live 3D shapes and drawings in the HoloLens user's view, providing a far more beneficial experience for this context than standard telephony. We decided to create our solution around this, as it is a powerful tool for field service.
As it currently stands, our project consists of two pieces. First, a presentation outlining the aforementioned topics (HoloLens technical specifications, use cases, etc.), as well as what we consider to be the business values of our solution. Secondly, a demonstration where we present a hypothetical, generic use case to showcase our solution. The solution essentially creates a modernised workspace by integrating Microsoft Dynamics and Teams with the HoloLens technology and utilising the Remote Assist application for field service.
Think about a field service scenario, where all relevant information is stored in a cloud-based service. A technician would generally need to use a tablet or smartphone to access this information while on-site. With the HoloLens, they can just access this information and leave it anywhere within their real environment, freeing their hands to work safely.
With this solution, we expect to increase business process efficiency, improve customer satisfaction and staff confidence, thereby increasing reputation.
Our solution aims to bring together existing and widely-used software such as Microsoft Dynamics and Microsoft Teams, and the new and exciting augmented reality workspace through the HoloLens device. The HoloLens is not a replacement within business process automation, but rather a worthy addition.
We have presented our project to our own team here in Adelaide, and representatives from Telstra and Microsoft, with great feedback. We look forward to bringing the project to the Graduate Bootcamp in Perth in February, as well as beginning to put this solution in front of clients within the coming months.
Posted by: Bethany Kamitakahara, Graduate Project Coordinator | 07 February 2019
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
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Of the many things we did in the break between xmas and new year's, two of the most long-term satisfying were house-y projects. I wish I was better about remembering to take "before" photos--but suffice it to say that both of these areas were those sorts of cluttered corners of shame that you try and just ignore and pretend aren't there. Until one day you finally tackle them and, oh! the joy that ensues. Above, my previously crappy bedside table, now spray painted blue and decluttered by a factor of about a million. Below, the cabinet under the bar--which previously held a non-working 90s era TV and VCR--now repurposed as a toddler-accessible toy cupboard. I really cannot tell you how happy these two things make me, each and every time I look at them. Yay!
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