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Greenwich boys volleyball rallies past Danbury
Through is unofficial interpreter -- teammate Marco Garcia in this case -- Daizo Mori did his best to answer the questions.
Yet whether the native of Japan was speaking in his first language or English, the responses really didn't matter. On this day, Mori's post-match smile was worth a thousand words.
With Mori headed back to Japan after the season, the Greenwich High School boys volleyball team is doing its best to make sure that Mori gets to experience the state playoffs before he leaves.
On Friday afternoon, Mori certainly did his part to get the Cardinals one step closer to states.
Mori finished with two assists, 10 service points and 14 kills -- including the match-clinching point -- as Greenwich rallied to a 3-1 victory over Danbury by games scores of 22-25, 25-21, 25-23, 25-22.
"I was kind of nervous and awestruck (on that last kill)," Mori said with a little help from Garcia. "I'm very happy, I know this was a big win for our team."
It sure was.
Needing three victories in their last four games to make states, the Cards (5-8) crossed one win off the list. Ironically, it came against a Hatters (6-9) squad that handed Greenwich a 3-1 loss two weeks ago after the Cardinals took the opening set.
"It was two pretty evenly matched teams competing, but they've really made a lot of improvement," Danbury coach John MacMillan said. "We had some sequences where the breaks just didn't go our way today, and they took advantage."
Michael Gianopoulos totaled 11 service points, 15 kills and two blocks for Greenwich, while Tomas Cespedes had nine kills and three blocks. Also in the victory, Joao Galibier contributed seven service points, four kills and five digs.
"I thought our guys did a nice job of executing the game plan and really playing with a purpose," Cardinals coach Peter Georgiou said. "The play of our middies was key, and our setter Erik Kastigannis was phenomenal. We've got some tough games remaining, but the focus has just been on getting three wins in the last four games. This was a big step toward that goal."
With the score tied 21-21 in the second game after some long rallies, the momentum turned in favor of the host as Greenwich won the final four points to even the match at one set apiece.
Again, the game was there for the taking in the third set, but led by Cespedes, the Cards showed their resolve and grabbed three of the final four points for a 2-1 lead.
In the final game, Greenwich led by as wide of a margin as 19-10 before Danbury chipped away. It eventually got to 24-21, and with the match on the line, Mori delivered in a big way.
"That was great to see," Garcia said. "We really want to make states for Daizo. It was kind of ironic because two weeks ago we won the first set and then lost 3-1, and then today it was the opposite. Hopefully, this is a sign of how far we've come."


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Heading to Texas
Bubba is heading across Oklahoma and moving into Texas. Route 66 went through a short piece of Texas. Some of the towns bypassed by the new roads have dried up and some have blown away.
We arose early and had a brief bite in the local tavern.
The place needed a little maintenance; a light bulb was burned out in the rest room.
The road was getting rougher so I gave a test drive to a car better suited to both me and the road. It is little but rough.
I took it for a spin. It was a little hard for me to turn the steering wheel.
I decided to go back to being a passenger with Rick and Spider. The addition of the newer, bigger, roads makes it difficult to stay on the old portions sometimes. Our choice here was to go over the perimeter fence or go around and do some backtracking.
Maybe we could dodge the trucks and stay on track.
Some of the old places are deteriorating and it is only a matter of time before…
We waited at this place for an hour and a half for a big gust of wind.
In other places restoration has taken place. This little station is in Shamrock Texas. It is a great little town worth a stop.
At night it is a beacon in the darkness.
When in Shamrock Texas there is but one place to eat. Big Vern's
It isn't hard to find. It is one block east of THE red light. We missed it at first because we only saw a green light but eventually found it and the friendly staff took us to our table.
They brought me in, in a nice bunch of grapes.
After seeing the town's other attraction, the largest water tower in the state we bedded down for the night.
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My BMW R 1200 GSA and the 30k km check point.
I bought my BMW 1200 GSA new last spring (2010). It now has 30.000 kilometers on it, which is pretty intense. At least thats what I think. I have no idea how much milage bikers of today are actually putting on their bikes. Never asked. Anyway, I thought it would be a nice idea to write a condensed report on how this first year and a half of ownership has been.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Negotiators for General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers were close to agreeing on a deal to transfer the automaker's retiree health care costs to a trust managed by the union, according to news reports Saturday.
GM and the labor union held their seventh session of talks Friday and planned to meet Saturday, the Associated Press reported.
Details of the health care plan haven't yet been worked out, AP said, citing comments from a person who was briefed on the talks.
GM's drive to transfer about $50 billion of long-term retiree health-care costs to a trust managed by the union has been seen as critical to a positive outcome.
Such a move, if agreed, would save GM about $3 billion a year.
While union bosses accept the concept, pioneered in a labor agreement struck last year between Goodyear and its United Steel Worker employees, progress has been slow to non-existent on how it would work at GM.
Media reports as of Friday, citing anonymous sources privy to the closed-door talks, say GM is only willing to take on about $30 billion of the $50 billion accounting liability the health-care plan carries.
"The union is understandably skeptical to this," David Healy, analyst at Burnham Securities said Friday. Like many on Wall Street, he is also increasingly skeptical that the talks can produce an agreement without resolving the health-care issue.
"The longer this goes on without a settlement, the more likely there will be a strike, though it is my impression it would be a short one," he said.
GM's GM, -1.25% share price reflects this growing concern. It jumped from $31.74 on Sept. 13, the day before the talks began, to a session-high of $36 on Wednesday, fueled in part by a big rally following the Federal Reserve's rate cut but also on views that GM would manage to hammer out a deal with the union.
That optimism is waning and the stock has since flattened out at around $35 a share, despite further gains Friday by the Dow Jones Industrials Average which includes GM.
GM shares closed Friday at $34.94, up 47 cents for the day.
Meanwhile, more than 70,000 GM employees are working day-by-day without a contract, poised to strike at any time if their representatives declare the talks deadlocked.
The entire automotive industry is closely watching the talks. Whatever deal is eventually reached between GM, the world's biggest car maker, and the UAW will serve as the blueprint for contracts between Ford Motor Co. DJIA, +0.01%, Chrysler, and their workers. It will also shape the contracts of thousands of workers in the U.S. automotive parts industry.
Negotiators on both sides of the table are painfully aware of the high stakes.
GM, fighting to defend a market share under siege from foreign carmakers, insists it needs to get out from under crushing pension and health-care costs that, for key competitors such as Toyota, are often borne by national welfare programs.
Auto workers are also reluctant to resort to a strike, keenly aware that a prolonged labor action could accelerate the decade-long offshoring of their jobs to far cheaper labor markets.


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More Indian Institutes of Management were flocked by consulting firms on a look out for management talent this year. The improving economy as well as the government initiatives such as Digital India was the driving force behind this demand.
At IIMs in Kashipur, Trichy, Udaipur, Rohtak and Shillong the offers made by the consulting matched those from traditional areas such as financial services, technology and consumer goods. While there was a two fold increase in offers from consultancies in some B-schools the biggies in the sector such as EY, Deloitte, Cognizant and the Boston Consulting Group stated that they hired approximately 50% more MBAs this year with as much as 30% higher salaries at the entry level than last year.
Although the consultancies have been pretty active as far as hiring is concerned but till now the bigger names had been largely focusing on the established institutes such as Ahmedabad, Bengaluru and Kolkata.
While the trend continued this year too but the higher demand for more MBAs with an improving economy took them to more institutes this time. In fact this turns out to be cost effective as well since the graduates from established institutes demand a higher salary.
Sandeep Kohli, national director for HR at EY said," Clients are fairly positive about campaigns such as Make in India, Digital India etc. The outlook for growth is quite positive and all this is translating into a rise in hiring numbers this year." Cognizant that topped the ET's Top Recruiters at B-School study for over three years now said that it is now venturing into the newer IIMs as well. According to Sandy Gopalan, vice president for consulting at Cognizant, the increasing digital focus of clients is one of the major factors behind this.
Gopalan said," We are in the midst of a once-in-a-decade shift in the technology landscape. While continuing to drive down costs in core operations, clients are also shifting towards digital in order to remain competitive. This trend is creating significant opportunities for B-School graduates. More than ever, consulting is the first port of call for clients looking to leverage next generation technologies to optimize their businesses and drive innovation."
It is a well-known fact that the big consulting firms normally pay Rs 20-30 lakh annual package to B-school talent at the entry level. According to MDI Gurgaon BCG offered the highest salary at the institute this year at 32.1 lakh. Suresh Subudhi, partner and head of recruiting at BCG said," In line with our growth, we have hired almost 50% more than last year across grad and undergrad campuses."
The sharpest jump in offers from the consulting space was seen by IIM-Rohtak, founded in 2010- to 22 this year from just nine last year. At IIM-Shillong, the number rose to 25 from 17; at IIM-Udaipur, to 13 from 8 whereas IIM Kashipur witnessed a 30-35% increase in offers from consultancies this year.


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Indira Gandhi National Open University has extended the last date for admission into its various masters, degree, PG diploma and diploma programmes of the January 2017 session from December 30 to January 16 next, according to Regional Director of IGNOU S. Raja Rao.
Candidates residing in Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, and West Godavari districts of AP and Yanam of Puducherry can apply for admission into the courses.
The common prospectus (Rs. 200 at the counter) is available at IGNOU Regional Centre at Ushodaya Junction, MVP Colony, here, and at Study Centres in Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, Rajamahendravaram, Gajuwaka, Vizianagaram, Srikakulam, Etcherla, Amalapuram, Rajam and Tuni.
Students belonging to SC and ST categories seeking admission into first year of B.A., B.Com., B.Sc., B.S.W., B.T.S. and B.C.A. are exempted from paying fee under the SCSP and TSP schemes.
Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Kadiam Srihari said of the 346 engineering colleges, 147 colleges were de-affiliated by the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University for failing to adhere to norms.
Following inspection by the JNTU teams, it came to light that private colleges with no minimum standards had been showing fake student strength and been collecting funds from the government under the fee reimbursement scheme. Seventeen Pharma and 10 MBA colleges were also de-affiliated for falling short of required standards.
Subsequently at the direction of the Chief Minister, Vigilance and Enforcement teams had inspected 683 colleges and submitted two reports on violation of affiliation norms and misuse of welfare funds. The reports were being analysed, Mr. Srihari informed the Legislative Council on Tuesday.
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Responding to Leader of Opposition Md.Ali Shabbir on private universities, he said the State government did not make any announcement yet. However, he pointed out that private universities were functioning in 24 States ruled by different parties. Only States like Kerala, J&K, Telangana and Tripura did not have private universities. The government wanted to first study how the private universities were being run. He said proposals for 80 more degree colleges were under government consideration. New colleges would be started in Asifabad and Dichpally soon and two junior colleges in Old City would be upgraded.
With 11,199 out of 48,000 BTech first year students failing to get the required credits for promotion to the second year, the JNTU has decided to take tough measures to ensure quality teaching in affiliated engineering colleges.
The varsity wants the colleges to recruit Ph.D faculty to meet the norms for each course or reduce their student intake per course.
As per the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) norms, the teacher-student ratio in engineering colleges should be 1:15. The cadre ratio of professors, associate and assistant professors should be 1:2:6.
In view of the dearth of Ph.D faculty, JNTU has decided to give some relaxation on this issue. There should be one senior professor (with PhD) for 120 students and one additionally for every 60 students thereafter. Therefore, if a college has 240 students in CSE, the faculty should comprise at least three PhD holders. JNTU vice-chancellor A. Venugopal Reddy said the decision was taken in view of criticism that teaching standards were plunging in affiliated colleges.
"Almost one-fourth of the 2015 batch students have failed to get 28 credits out of the required 56 credits for promotion to the second year. Since students are at risk of losing a full year, the supplementary exam was conducted in advance; 5,600 candidates cleared them while 5,500 failed again," he said.
"There may be many reasons for the students' below-par performance, but the varsity has resolved to take steps so that teaching quality improved in all affiliated colleges," he said.
Affiliated colleges said they were in a tight spot as there were not enough doctorates in engineering available for recruitment.
"The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) knows this and is not insisting on the cadre ratio. They are only looking at the faculty-student ratio and other infrastructure," a member of Telangana Private Engineering Colleges Association said.
"The AICTE itself is not insisting on PhD faculty but JNTU is asking us to follow it at any cost," he said. Many colleges have applied for closure in the last two years.
Jawaharlal Nehru University and Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCEME) would soon have more exchange of students and faculty, said Vice-Chancellor of JNU M. Jagadesh Kumar.
Mr. Kumar, who was in the city for the convocation ceremony of MCEME graduates on Thursday, said a common alumni network could also be planned for the future.
JNU has been issuing under-gradauate and postgraduate degrees to military engineers who graduate from the MCEME. "Productive exchange between the two institutes will yield positive results," Mr. Kumar said. The V-C also inspected the college that was established in 1953.
In the convocation ceremony, 70 B.Tech and M.Tech students graduated from the varsity. Mr. Kumar urged students to contribute to the nation's progress. "We should be aiming at a corruption-free society," he said.
The graduates should work towards equitable sustainable society and achieve good governance.
Supporting the Skill India initiative of the Union government, the V-C said regional, territorial and cyber world security of the country was in hands of young men and women who enter the defence forces. "Young people have the responsibility to shape India in a better way." As many as 17 graduates received special medals and trophies for excellence in education.
The UGC has amended rules for granting autonomous status to colleges, with universities being told to clear applications within three months. "If the varsity fails to take any decision within three months, it shall be presumed that the university has no objection to the proposal," the UGC said. Chaitanya Degree College in Warangal waited for 10 years before it got the NoC. College chairman C. Purushotham Reddy felt the UGC decision would expedite the process and formalities along with UGC nod could be completed in six months.
Former NAAC director V.S. Prasad said, "No university will like to give up its authority over colleges under its jurisdiction. As there was no timeline, it was up to the universities to give a clearance." Asked about the order, JNTU registrar Dr N. Yadaiah said the university would have no problem with the UGC deadline.
With the government not in a position to release fee reimbursement dues, professional colleges have expressed their helplessness to pay the common services fee to JNTU for this year.
This means that the varsity will be short of nearly Rs 100 crore revenues. According to the JNTU registrar, the varsity will now have to look for alternative resources to extend services to the affiliated colleges. Like every year, the varsity had written to all engineering, MBA, MCA, and pharmacy colleges this month.
The common services fee contributes a major chunk of revenue to the varsity. Each college has to pay Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,000 per head depending on the year of study of students. There are nearly 300 engineering colleges and most pay in the range of Rs 22 lakh to Rs 80 lakh depending on the number of students studying.
JNTU registrar Dr N. Yadaiah said that the varsity collected the fee for services such as faculty development programmes, curriculum revision and content development, workshops and staff training, co-ordination meetings, university publications and examination related services.
Telangana Private Engineering and Professional Colleges Management Association general secretary K. Sunil Kumar said that colleges were not in a position to pay full salaries to their staff, leave alone the services fee to the varsity.
The issue was brought to the notice of varsity officials and then to education minister Kadiam Srihari. We told him that colleges were facing financial woes and sought time till the first week of March to pay 25 per cent of the amount. The minister agreed and gave directions to JNTU officials," he said.
The JNTU-Hyderabad administration on Wednesday announced that the detention system in first year was introduced so that freshers could take the study seriously and excel in it.
This statement comes in the backdrop of demand by detained first year students to allow them to attend second year classes. Registrar Dr N. Yadaiah said that detention system for first year students that was already in place in other varsities was introduced in JNTU only last year.
"This was informed to all the first year students. But still over 11,000 students could not clear the required 28 credits out of the 56 for them to be promoted to second year. After representations from students that they were not aware of the detention rule, advanced supplementary exams were held in which over 5620 students cleared the required credits," he said.
Hyderabad Software Enterprises Association (HYSEA) and Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge (TASK) have decided to extend IoT Maker Spaces, which serves as labs for building prototypes, to 18 more engineering colleges affiliated to the JNTU-H.
Announcing this on Monday, HYSEA president Ranga Pothula said this followed the overwhelming response for the pilot project implemented in 12 engineering colleges last year. Over 1,500 students participated in the project and 22 products were shortlisted for support and mentorship. HYSEA and TASK had signed an MoU for the programme last August.
The IoT Maker Spaces would be equipped to build IoT/Smart City products. A structured year-long programme towards building market ready technology products and special internships/placements is to be launched, a release said.
BTech students who took admission last year under the R15 batch staged a protest outside the JNTU campus, alleging that it had detained them without a clear plan. JNTU detained around 13,000 students for not getting the minimum 28 credits in the first year. Around 8,000 failed to clear the supplementary exams in August which were held after protests.
These detained students will have to get the requi-red credits by writing the supplementary exams next year and join their juniors who took admission in 2016 under R16, in the second year. B. Venkat, NSUI student leader, said, "R16 students had 16 subjects in two semesters in the first year, R15 students had 11. Students fear there might be subjects in the second year of R16 which have connection with subjects in the first two semesters which the R15 students did not have."
JNTU registrar Prof N. Yadaiah said, "There is no confusion. The detained first-year R15 students can clear their supplementary exams, get the credits, join R16 in the second year. R15 students have more credits in first year than R16."
The JNTU-Hyderabad on Tuesday announced that it would conduct advanced supplementary exams from the last week of August for the 13,085 first-year engineering and pharmacy students who were detained for not getting sufficient credits.
JNTU-H stated in a press release that students securing the required credits will be promoted to the second year.
They were asked to submit an undertaking to the effect that they would be prepared for detention if they do not get the required credits.
As per the regulations formulated for students who joined B.Tech and B.Pharmacy in 2015-16, each student should get 28 out of 56 credits to get promotion from the first to the second year.
Hundreds of engineering students from various colleges who were detained in their first year staged a protest at the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University on Monday. The students were demanding that the university conduct a supplementary exam for them.
Police took 16 students into preventive custody. The students are planning a protest march on Tuesday. Around 14,000 first-year students were detained after the JNTU made it mandatory for students to clear at least 50 per cent of the 56 credits.
Students failing to get 28 credits are detained and there is no supplementary exam option. This costs them a year, and they have to pay the fee for that year,
On Monday there were rumours that some students had attempted suicide.
There was, however, one report of a first year student from St Martin's Engineering College who attempted suicide but was dissuaded by his friends.
A first year student at a private engineering college said they should be given one chance. "If we do not clear it, we can be detained. There is a lot of stigma associated with being detained," he said.
M, Krishank, Osmania University JAC leader, who led protests outside JNTU said the university should give students a second chance.
Engineering College managements have accused the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) of behaving in a dictatorial manner by cutting seats in top colleges without taking into consideration their objections thus denying an opportunity for students to study in reputed colleges.
In the affiliation process conducted by the JNTU in the last few months, several top colleges also lost seats in key branches such as Computer Science and Electronics for not complying with norms. These include sought-after colleges like VNR Vignan Jyothi, KMIT and Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology that lost about 500 seats. Similarly, one of the biggest groups like JBIET was denied almost 1,000 seats.
However, the college managements say the deficiencies were minor and negligible. Correspondent of a top college said JNTU officials went by the first fact-finding commission report and did not take into consideration the second report where the deficiencies were plugged. "These were small mistakes like not attaching the Aadhar card number of some faculty member. Despite showing details of qualifications, experience, selection committee minutes, appointment orders, joining reports and attendance registers, yet JNTU ignored them."
The university apparently has also not considered cases of teachers who were sent to various faculty development programmes for which the documents were also shown to the first fact-finding committee. In some cases permission was denied if the shortage was limited to just one faculty member, colleges claimed.
"This is against what the Chief Minister has promised to us. He assured us that time would be given to plug minor deficiencies," said another correspondent, unwilling to be quoted. In some cases, permission was denied if the experimental set ups in a particular laboratory were 10 instead of 12. "Universities usually ask colleges to conduct minimum of 10 experiments out of 12 setups in the lab. But even that was not taken into consideration."
JNTU could have restrained at least going by the academic achievements of the colleges over the years and why students choose them. "Denial of seats has robbed students of studying in good colleges and it is a loss to not just institutions but also to good students," argued a senior faculty member. Senior teachers agreed that there are some black sheep in the industry but one can't judge everyone with the same tool.


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Keppra is an antiepileptic drug to be used as an adjunctive therapy in adult patients with epilepsy for whom current therapies have not been effective in controlling partial seizures. Partial seizures, which are the most common type of seizures in adults, may be characterized by impaired consciousness, loss of awareness, involuntary motor behaviors, and other non-conscious, involuntary events. For physicians and patients, the attraction of Keppra is that it increases seizure control without adverse interaction with co-administered antiepileptic drugs.
Epilepsy is caused by excessive electrical activity in the brain. Those who suffer from the disorder (2.3 million in America alone) experience recurring seizures. Even with treatment, only about 50% of epilepsy patients have complete control of their seizures, and 600,000 patients do not respond at all to the previously available therapies.
Three clinical studies compared 3 distinct dosages of Keppra (1000 mg/day, 2000 mg/day, or 3000 mg/day) with a placebo. All of the 1393 epilepsy patients who participated in the trials had continued to experience seizures during the baseline period despite their being treated with 1-2 antiepileptic drugs. Concomitant AED regimens were held constant during administration of Keppra. Effectiveness of the Keppra therapy was measured primarily by reduction in weekly partial seizure frequency for the entire treatment period.
Results of the trials indicated that Keppra significantly reduces the weekly seizure frequency over a placebo. Percent reduction ranged from 17.1% to 30.1% depending on the study number and the dose of Keppra in the treatment. In general, higher doses yielded greater reduction in number of seizures, although results varied over trials.
Another appealing result of the trials was the overall lack of negative interaction when taken in conjunction with other AEDs.
Although Keppra was well tolerated by participants, the following adverse events were reported during trials:
15% of patients receiving Keppra, compared to 11.6% of patients receiving the placebo treatment discontinued therapy or had the dose reduced as a result of an adverse effect.
Exercise caution when giving Keppra to patients with moderate and severe renal impairment and patients undergoing hemodialysis, since levetiracetam is substantially excreted by the kidney.
Keppra is rapidly absorbed after oral administration and food does not affect the extent of bioavailability. Pharmacokinetics are linear and steady state is achieved after two days of multiple twice daily dosing. Keppra is not protein bound (<10 percent bound) and its metabolism is not liver cytochrome P450 dependent, with sixty-six percent (66 percent) of the dose renally excreted unchanged. Plasma half-life of the medication is approximately 6 to 8 hours but is increased in the elderly (due to age-related decrease in renal function) and in patients with renal impairment. Keppra is unlikely to produce, or be subject to, pharmacokinetic drug interactions. (From Doctor's Guide to Medical and Other News)
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Fire alarms operate according to the same principles as burglar alarms. They need a signal such as a buzzer, a power supply to run the signal, and a trigger to activate the signal. The key difference between a fire alarm and a burglar alarm lies in the trigger. While a burglar alarm is activated when someone passes a specific barrier, a fire alarm is activated when the temperature in the surrounding area reaches a specific point.
Step 1
Strip the insulation off the ends of the wire. Connect one to each of the four terminals in the battery and the buzzer.
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Connect the battery and the buzzer to the piece of plywood with tape or glue. They should be close enough to connect the wires but far apart enough to place the alligator clip comfortably between them.
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Wrap the wire from the positive (+) battery terminal around the top jaw of the alligator clip. Then wrap the wire from the positive (+) buzzer terminal around the bottom jaw of the alligator clip. The two wires should come into contact when the clip is closed.
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Wedge the piece of wax between the jaws of the alligator clip. The wax needs to remain firmly in place when you take your hand away.
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Position the alligator clip on the plywood between the battery and the buzzer, and secure it in place with tape or glue.
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Connect the wires from the negative (–) terminals on the battery and the buzzer. During a fire, the wax will melt, which will close the jaws of the alligator clip and complete the circuit. The alarm will then go off.
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The Argonaut strategy is one of the few investing exclusively in micro capitalisation stocks and concentrating on the lowest tiers of European stocks.
The Smaller European Companies strategy uses the same investment philosophy and process but with a bias towards companies that have a substantial shareholder that is a family. This additional filter has shown to produce strong results over the long term but is yet widely ignored by most investors.
The New Europe strategy invests in small and medium sized companies across Eastern Europe according to a broader definition of the region, including countries such as Greece, Turkey and Russia. The strategy focuses particularly on little-known or poorly followed smaller and medium sizes stocks that have been ignored by mainstream investors, sometimes due to their location or their size.
The Swiss Small&Mid Cap strategy aims to achieve capital growth by investing in a diversified portfolio of Swiss-based companies, applying a strictly "Value" bias. The strategy focuses on companies that are undervalued or neglected by investors and analysts because they are less liquid that blue chips. The « Value » philosophy aims to limit the downside risk of selected securities, through a so-called « margin of safety » approach.
Regional Equity
The objective of the Taiko Japanese equities strategy is to achieve long-term capital growth by investing in listed Japanese companies. The strategy seeks to profit from investment opportunities by identifying under-valued securities using a variety of fundamental analytical tools focusing upon growing cashflows and then employing qualitative screens to implement positions. The strategy has a concentrated portfolio, typically holding between 20 and 30 different positions at any given time but with diversification across multiple sectors. The strategy invests in companies throughout the capitalisation range but not below JPY 20bn.
For the Bamboo strategy, invested in Asian ex-Japan equities, QUAERO CAPITAL has partnered with emerging markets veteran Robert Lloyd George. Actively managed, the strategy aims to generate consistent returns by investing in a portfolio of 25 to 35 stocks, companies driving economic growth across sectors with a focus in Greater China, India and ASEAN markets. Stock selection focuses on strong cash flow generation and sustainable dividend yield. The investment strategy relies on both top down asset allocation and bottom up analysis to build a concentrated portfolio. The investment team identifies growth themes across the investment universe and conducts research and invests in companies in specific sectors which will benefit from these growth themes. The portfolio management team focuses on original research and maintain a disciplined investment process, paying particular attention to corporate governance and ESG principles. The strategy aims to have low turnover and a strong risk management framework in order to deliver consistent and repeatable returns for investors.
The objective of the Taipan Asian Pacific ex Japan equities strategy is to achieve long-term capital growth by investing in listed equities of companies in Asia Pacific ex-Japan. The strategy seeks to profit from investment opportunities by identifying under-valued securities using a variety of fundamental analytical tools and then employing qualitative and quantitative technical and price momentum screens to implement positions. The strategy invests mainly in publicly traded equity securities in Asia Pacific ex-Japan, typically holding between 30 and 60 different positions at any given time but with diversification across multiple countries, currencies and sectors.
The management of the Cullen ESG US Value equities strategy has been delegated to Cullen Capital Management, a registered investment advisor based in New York. Established in 1983, Cullen Capital Management has 34 years of experience as a disciplined, experienced and research-driven value investment manager. Its established network provides it with strong access to company management teams. The objective of the strategy is to seek long-term capital appreciation through investments in equities of US companies across all market capitalizations, trading at valuation levels deemed attractive by the Sub-Investment Manager, meeting a minimum rating on MSCI's proprietary ESG ranking system and having favourable environmental, social and governance (ESG) fundamental characteristics. The investment approach is active, bottom-up and driven by fundamental research.
The Global Equities strategy is uniquely based on cognitive psychology which aims to exploit the systematic mistakes made by company managers and investors and to minimise the Investment Team's own mistakes. Company managers' over-confidence and investors' anchoring are assessed to identify and exploit unjustified skepticism or anxiety in investors. The strategy employs a risk first approach and looks to de-select stocks, rather than select them, in order to minimize several biases that fund managers usually suffer from, among which over-confidence, narrative bias, confirmation bias and sunk cost bias. The strategy results in a portfolio which is well diversified across factors, sectors and regions.
On 1st December 2016, Berger van Berchem & Cie SA has been appointed as the new manager of the World Opportunities strategy, which offers a diversified exposure of world equity markets. The investment objective is to achieve superior risk adjusted returns relative to world equities over a 3 year rolling period, using both a price trend and a fundamental approach to select and evaluate companies in absolute and relative terms. The strategy is managed with both value and growth principles from a global investment universe of more than 5'000, with a clear bias towards reasonably valued stocks.
Thematic Equity
Specialising more specifically in infrastructure investment in Europe, the Infrastructure (Not Listed) investment team focuses on the PPP / PFI sector and private project financing by targeting small to mid-size infrastructure projects. We believe that this strategy offers an attractive risk / return framework and direct access to recurrent cash flows over the long term. The investment team has in-depth knowledge of the infrastructure market and its players in Europe. It has strong expertise in financial engineering enabling to invest with protective features for its investors, following a thorough investment process. QUAERO Infrastructure implements a generalist approach: telecom, transport, social infrastructures, utilities, water and energy. The QUAERO Infrastructure team is also committed to responsible investing and has established a charter of principles to integrate responsible governance, social and environmental criteria in its investment process.
Using research gathered over several years, QUAERO CAPITAL has also built an expertise in listed infrastructure investing by focusing on a liquid solution for a very defensive asset class. The objective of the Infrastructure (Listed) strategy is to create a long-term thematic vehicle with weekly liquidity for investors wanting to take advantage of the sector's unique characteristics: low correlation to markets and the business cycle, high correlation to price indexes, diversification benefits for an equities portfolio and protection in difficult markets.
The Accessible Clean Energy strategy aims at maximising total return by responsible investments globally along the clean energy value chain. The strategy provides access to a large and diverse set of industries via an active, long only listed equities strategy offering daily liquidity. The strategy invests in a concentrated portfolio of best in class clean energy generation, technology, transmission and efficiency companies while incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria as part of the investment process.
The Yield Opportunities strategy invests in assets with attractive risk-adjusted yields across Bonds and Equity asset classes on a worldwide basis and aims to achieve consistent risk-adjusted returns with low volatility over the long term. Using a macro overlay, the manager invests in undervalued yield opportunities currently subject to concurring positive macroeconomic changes. The portfolio construction is the result of individual securities selections and is not managed by reference to any benchmark. The manager applies a rigorous capital allocation and risk control by monitoring overall exposure to FX, rate and credit spread.
QUAERO CAPITAL offers three mixed asset strategies. These strategies each offer a specific risk return profile – conservative, balanced and dynamic – to cater for investors' specific investment profile. The asset allocation is the result of QUAERO CAPITAL's global economic forecasts and funds are selected using both quantitative filters and a qualitative research process. Each of these strategies are available in several currencies.
The International Equities strategy aims at providing exposure to global equity markets. The asset allocation is the result of QUAERO CAPITAL's global economic forecasts and funds are selected using both quantitative filters and a qualitative research process. This strategy is available in several currencies.
The Global Alternative Multi-Manager invests in a diverse set of underlying funds that carry out liquid alternative strategies and/or are exposed to liquid alternative asset classes, which display a high level of diversification with respect to a traditional balanced portfolio.


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I finished up these miniatures for a commission recently. The Saxons are a mixture of Gripping Beast and Musketeer Miniatures.
Part of the same commission is this Undead Cabal anc consists of a mixture of Reaper Miniatures (the Werewolf and Vampress in red) and Heresy Miniatures. These are the first Heresy miniatures I have painted in a long while and they are very nice, especially the "fleshy" vampire with the wings.
I painted the wizard for my collection. He is from Reaper Miniatures Dark Heavens line (Vistaril Quillscratch 3393).


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Who's Got Next? Domingo A Hoya, Robinson A Hoosier And More…Posted by Josh Paunil on May 25th, 2012
Who's Got Next? is a weekly column by Josh Paunil, the RTC recruiting guru. We encourage you to check out his website dedicated solely to college basketball recruiting, National Recruiting Spotlight, for more detailed recruiting information. Once a week he will bring you an overview of what's going on in the complex world of recruiting, from who is signing where among the seniors to who the hot prospects are at the lower levels of the sport. If you have any suggestions as to areas we are missing or different things you would like to see, please let us know at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Lead Story: Georgetown Reels In Top-50 Junior Wing
Domingo A Big Pick-up For the Hoyas. Georgetown has been working hard on local guys in the Class of 2013 such as point guard Rysheed Jordan, shooting guard Davon Reed and center BeeJay Anya, but the Hoyas went to the opposite end of the country to pick up their first commitment in the junior class as small forward Stephen Domingo, a California native, made a verbal to head coach John Thompson III. Domingo is actually the second California wing to commit to Georgetown as Hollis Thompson a Los Angeles native. Domingo also has ties to the nation's capital since his grandparents are D.C. residents and his mom is a District native. Domingo is a great pick-up for the Hoyas since he is a great shooter with terrific range and a smooth stroke. He can knock it down off the bounce or in catch-and-shoot situations and has great height and length. Georgetown is also chasing after point guard Tyler Ennis, small forward Nick King and power forward Jermaine Lawrence in the Class of 2013 although they may be out of the race for top-100 small forward Josh Hart now.
What They're Saying
Junior Juwan Parker on where each school stands in his recruitment: "I'm considering three schools right now: Memphis, Georgia and Stanford. I would rank them in that order."
Junior Stanford Robinson on why he committed to the Hoosiers: "[Indiana head] coach [Tom] Crean, we connected very, very quickly. We shared a lot of laughs, he presented his plan of where he sees me fitting in and how I could play a part in it.
Junior Stephen Domingo on choosing Georgetown: "It was really the relationship I developed with coach [John Thompson III] and the way they promote the versatility of their wings. They rely on their wings a lot and they use their wings in a way I can be productive offensively and defensively."
Junior Josh Hart on his list and how Stephen Domingo's commitment to Georgetown impacts him: "My list is San Diego State, Villanova, North Carolina State, Marquette and Georgetown. I just like the coaching staffs, community and the players on and off the court at those schools. I'm not sure about Georgetown because they just picked up a player at my position. I'm not positive yet where they stand."
Junior Tyrone Outlaw, who's stock has soared as of late, on who's standing out to him: "Yale and Harvard because I'm big on Ivy League schools because of the academics. Them two, Duke and places like that."
Sophomore star Tyus Jones on potentially teaming up with other sophomore studs: "I've definitely talked to [class of 2014 center] Jahlil [Okafor] quite a few times about the possibility of going to the same college and that's definitely a possibility. We just look at the schools who have shown a lot of interest in us which as of now would be the University of Minnesota, Michigan State, Arizona, Ohio State and Duke, those are the main ones who have shown interest in us."
What You Missed
Standout Senior Montrezl Harrell Trims His List. Class of 2012 power forward Montrezl Harrell is one of the few top senior still uncommitted after Virginia Tech finally released him from his letter of intent following the Seth Greenberg firing. But he seems to be navigating through the recruiting process the second time around fairly quickly and has a top four as well as visits already set up. Harrell's top four consists of Alabama, Cincinnati, Florida and Louisville and has a trip planned to Louisville May 31-June 2. Some more good fans for Cardinal fans out there is that Louisville assistant Kevin Keatts used to the be the Hargrave Military Academy coach, where Harrell just graduated from. It also remains to be seen when Harrell will visit any other schools since his family is hoping to make a decision soon and he has the USA U18 National Team training camp June 5-12. However, at that training camp, he will be coached by Florida head coach Billy Donovan so the Gators could have an inside track on him as well.
Junior Stan Robinson Commits To Indiana. Class of 2012 shooting guard Stan Robinson committed to the Hoosiers last Thursday over Alabama-Birmingham, Texas, Maryland, Rutgers and Villanova and Wake Forest, joining small forwards Devin Davis and Luke Fischer as well as power forward Collin Hartman in Tom Crean's junior recruiting class. You may be wondering why UAB is included in that list that also includes the likes of Texas and Villanova but Robinson was very close with head coach Rob Ehsan, a former Maryland and Virginia Tech assistant. Robinson is also close with Indiana assistant Kenneth Johnson, who used to coach at Paul VI High School (MD) and for Team Takeover (DC), both squads Robinson currently plays on. The Hoosiers are hoping to use that Team Takeover connection to lure another Maryland native, Class of 2013 star center BeeJay Anya. Anya is the highest priority for the Indiana coaching staff right now in the junior class and has another connection to Indiana since he is very close with current Hoosier Victor Oladipo, who went to DeMatha Catholic High School (MD) where Anya currently goes. The Team Takeover big man told RTC that Oladipo is like his "big brother" and it's definitely safe to say that Indiana is among the schools Anya likes the most.
What We Learned
Troy Williams Expands His List But Carolina And Kentucky Still Lead. Class of 2013 standout small forward Troy Williams was set to commit a couple of weeks ago with his final two consisting of Kentucky and North Carolina. However, after backing out of that decision date, Williams decided to expand his list to Louisville, Florida, South Carolina and Georgetown. Williams told RTC, though, at the Southern Jam Fest last Saturday that he still likes the Tar Heels and Wildcats twice as much as the four new schools on his list. It seems like Williams just wanted to open up his options and that he won't make a decision until after the AAU season. For now, he's focusing on the summer circuit but it will be interesting to see if any new leaders emerge for the 6'7″ Virginia native as the new couple of months progress. Before that decision date, I would have thought Williams would pick North Carolina but now I have no idea where he will end up. Rumors are flying about Kentucky and Carolina backing off of Williams some but it seems like Williams isn't that interested in any programs outside of those two schools. Williams also entered the headlines yesterday when he decided to transfer from Phoebus High School (VA) to Oak Hill Academy (VA), something we go into a little further below.
Elite Juniors On the Move. A lot of big-time juniors have announced their transfers recently from Anton Gill (Louisville) going to Hargrave Military Academy (VA), Troy Williams to Oak Hill (VA), Allerik Freeman to Findlay Prep (NV) and Sindarius Thornwell to Oak Hill (VA). You may be wondering why it's worth mentioning all of these transfers, but consider this, do you think Class of 2012 star power forward Anthony Bennett would have ended up at UNLV if he didn't attend the nearby Findlay Prep? Three of those four top-50 recruits mentioned above remain uncommitted and it doesn't look like anyone in that trio will commit within the near future. These transfers will also give you the opportunity to see these future stars on television a year early and not to mention will make them better players, in addition to better people. It will be interesting to see who else is on the move for their senior season and how it impacts their recruitment but with all of this movement just in the past week or so, it looks like things could get exciting in the near future.
Video of the Week
Small forward Jabari Parker was the Class of 2013 star that graced the cover of Sports Illustrated, but Class of 2013 power forward Julius Randle is star in his own right. Kentucky coaches John Calipari and Orlando Antigua even make cameos in his highlight tape.


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Well, my plan to update the blog more frequently has taken a back seat to getting my photo archive in some kind of order, after 10+ years of shooting. For some reason, the older I get, the more I get OCD about organizing stuff like this, when I should be focusing on stuff like sorting through the World Cup pics my family wants to see.
Anyways, traveling deep into old hard drives does yield gems like this. I've seen this photo for years and the juxtaposition of shirts never struck me as funny until now. Pretty sure one of the Willome brothers took this photo.


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Universal DAB radio adapter launched
Alpine has unveiled the EZi-DAB, which despite sounding like something you'd find in a first aid kit, is a clever little device that changes any car stereo into a DAB digital radio. It's neat, handy and (quite) cheap.
We see press releases for a dozen accessories a day, but this is the best idea we have come across in a long time.
It is a small, stylish way of turning your old radio into a DAB unit and additionally can control iPod, iPhone, iPad and USB flash drives or other phones. It uses an antenna discreetly attached to the windscreen, so that no drilling is required and offers a full set of what the marketing wallahs love to call "surprise and delight" features – basically clever time-shift stuff:
Forecourt Pause: Hit the pause button before removing your car keys, so that the broadcast is paused for a maximum of 15 minutes.
Pause and Rewind Live Radio: Pause live radio and continue to listen later, or rewind at 15 second increments.
Picnic Mode: Listen to digital radio with the ignition off and the car keys removed.
It costs £249.99, which is no giveaway, but it is a cost-effective way of bringing non-DAB radios (that would be over 90% of the total) into the modern age.
Radio 6 Music here we come!


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Because the world's largest no-kill rescue and adoption organization, we all the time have tons of of canines, cats, puppies and kittens out there, and that particular one is waiting for you. A pet adoption gift certificate works the identical method as any other OKC Animal Shelter pet adoption, however the prices are already paid. Why it is distinctive: Need to stand up-shut and private with the thousand-plus animals—from dogs and cats to horses, pigs, ferrets, parakeets and beyond—on the Kanab sanctuary?
There are additionally private shelters which may use the phrases humane society" or SPCA" of their name. You should come to the Center to adopt an animal and seek advice from the animal's Pet Identification quantity when inquiring about a explicit pet. The price to adopt a Golden Paws" pet is $forty five for cats and $seventy five for canine.
Comply with Petfinder Pro to remain in touch with what is occurring for animal shelter and rescue group members. We invite you to meet any of our canine to study their individual personalities so you'll find the proper dog for you. When you undertake a pet from a shelter or different rescue organization, you save lives.
When on the lookout for a brand new furry friend, check out animal shelters and rescues near you to adopt a pet. To not point out, by adopting from a shelter like APA!, you become a hero to that one animal, and that just feels good. Our Cellular Adoption program brings adoptable animals out of the shelter and into the community.
We might be delighted to have you ever visit the shelter Monday to Friday eleven.00am to four.30pm, Saturday & Sunday from 11.00am to four.30pm so you possibly can see all of the animals now we have for Adoption. Adoption applications might be stuffed out at our shelter once interaction has taken place and usually are not out there online.


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When it comes to keeping records relating to your bookkeeping and accounting, the more and better organized you are with your record-keeping the better off you'll be in the event of an audit. It's similar when it comes to child visitations. Nevada parents who keep a brief log of their child visitation activities will be better off if a legal disagreement arises relating to their parenting style.
Let's say, for example, that your spouse accuses you of being a bad, irresponsible or inattentive parent. Your child custody journal will prove all the things you've done to serve as the best parent you can be. Best of all, keeping a child custody diary is simple, all you have to do is write some notes in the calendar of your cellphone or physically jot down some details in the boxes of a regular wall calendar.
When taking notes, here's what you should include:
- Pick-up and drop-off times and whether you or your spouse were on time or late.
- Any times when you were unable to visit your child, the reason why, and especially mention if it was your spouse's fault.
- Days when you visited with your child.
- Health appointments you took your child to and related medical information pertaining to the appointments.
- Information about parenting talks and decisions made with the other parent.
- Your child's mood, and mood related to the other parent.
- Pending matters that you have to talk about with the other parent.
- Your child's progress in school.
- Helping your child with homework.
- Developmental milestones reached by your child: potty training, reading, playing sports, etc.
- What you did with your child: Did you read a bedtime story, take him or her to the park, etc?
Keeping a child care diary is simple -- the difficult part is consistency. When you can stick to this practice, however, you will reap the benefits of feeling that your parental rights are more secure if the other spouse challenges them in court.
Source: CustodyXChange, "Keeping a Parenting and Visitation Journal," accessed Aug. 16, 2017


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Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible, a traveling exhibition opening at Pepperdine University's Payson Library on August 23, 2012, celebrates the 400th anniversary of the first printing of the King James Bible in 1611 and examines its fascinating and complex history.
The story behind the King James Bible remains surprisingly little known, despite the book's enormous fame. Translated over several years by six committees of England's top scholars, the King James Bible became the most influential English translation of the Bible and one of the most widely read books in the world. For many years, it was the predominant English-language Bible in the United States, where it is still widely read today. Even many of those whose lives have been affected by the King James Bible may not realize that less than a century before it was produced, the very idea of the Bible translated into English was considered dangerous and even criminal.
Equally compelling is the story of the book's afterlife—its reception in the years, decades, and centuries that followed its first printing, and how it came to be so ubiquitous. Essential to this story is the profound influence that it has had on personal lives and local communities—for example, the Bible became a place for many families to record births, deaths, marriages, and other important events in their history. The afterlife of the King James Bible is also reflected in its broad literary influence in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Many authors have demonstrated the influence of the language and style of the King James Bible on their work: among them John Milton, William Blake, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. In the twentieth century, many poets and novelists—such as John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath, William Faulkner in Absalom, Absalom, and Toni Morrison in The Song of Solomon—allude to the Bible in ways that enrich their narratives.
"We are delighted to have been selected as a site for this exhibition," said Mark Roosa, Dean of Pepperdine University Libraries. "The captivating history and influence of the King James Bible will interest many viewers. This exhibition shows how important this book has been in history and helps audiences to develop a new understanding of its social, cultural, literary, and religious influence over four centuries."
The traveling exhibit was organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., and the American Library Association Public Programs Office. It is based on an exhibition of the same name developed by the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Bodleian Library, University with assistance from the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas. The traveling exhibition was made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The traveling exhibit consists of high-quality reproductions of rare and historic books, manuscripts, and works of art from the Folger and Bodleian collections, combined with interpretive text and related images.
The library is sponsoring free programs and other events for the public in connection with the exhibition. Five lectures and a film screening will be presented around the exhibition. The following lectures will take place at Payson Library, all free and open to the public:
Thursday, August 23, 4 p.m. – Opening Lecture and Reception
John Milton and the King James Bible
Pepperdine Provost Dr. Darryl Tippens
The King James Bible and Early English Biblical Translations
Dr. Cyndia Clegg, Distinguished Professor of English, Pepperdine University
The King's English in a Tamil Tongue: Missions, Paternalism, and Hybridity in South India
Dr. Dyron Daughrity, Associate Professor of Religion, Pepperdine University
Thursday, September 13, 4 p.m.
The Bible and the People
Dr. Lori Anne Ferrell, Chair of English and Professor of Early Modern History and Literature, Claremont Graduate University
The King James Bible in North American Churches Today
Dr. Ronald Cox, Associate Professor of Religion, Pepperdine University
There will also be a film screening in conjunction with the exhibition, also free and open to the public:
Film Screening: KJB: The Book That Changed the World
Discussion led by Craig Detweiler, Director of the Center for Entertainment, Media and Culture, and Associate Professor of Communication, Pepperdine University
Contact Ken LaZebnik at 310-506-6785, email@example.com or visit http://library.pepperdine.edu/ for more information. Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible will be on display at the library until September 21.


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Watch: Behind the scenes with The Royal Ballet in Taiwan
8 October 2014
First Soloist Melissa Hamilton introduces newly-released backstage films from the Company's tour earlier this year.
The Royal Ballet's 2014 Tour: Stop #2 – Taiwan
2 July 2014
First Artist Nathalie Harrison on bringing a slice of Shakespeare to Taipei, working with local actors, and unusual breakfasts.
The Royal Ballet tours to Moscow, Taipei and Shanghai in Summer 2014
31 May 2014
Company will perform Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote and a Mixed Programme between 17 June-5 July.


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Check out this months top Photoshop disasters from psdisasters.com! This month features mostly models with obscure body.
Jennifer Aniston: Anistorted Yogalosophy
Unnatural Beauties
Durex: Flagrant Faux Paw
Côté Rouen: A Screen Askew
To see more atrocities head on over to Photoshop Disasters or you can check out the PSD Facebook page for other images not shown on the website.


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Republicans have been asking themselves what they'll turn to next, after their tax overhaul wraps up. If they repeal the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate, there's a good chance the answer will be health care — whether they like it or not.
What they're saying: President Trump has said several times that he wants to take another crack at repeal-and-replace after the tax bill. GOP leaders in the House and Senate have not echoed that plan. But if Republicans do end up repealing the individual mandate, Insurance markets will begin to feel the effects quickly, leading to almost immediate nationwide upheaval that will be impossible to ignore — especially in an election year.


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Brewery OR Bar: Guinness, Dublin, Ireland OR Kitty Hoynes, 301 West Fayette St., Syracuse, NY.
Beer: Kilkenny Irish Cream Ale
Bottle, Can, or Draft: Draught
Body: A dark amber color with medium body and a rich, creamy head.
Flavor Profile: Similar to a Guinness but with more subtle flavors. Slightly malty with a great balance of sweetness and bitterness.
User Profile: Perfect for those who aren't huge Guinness fans, but still want a true Irish brew. This beer has some similar characteristics, but is easier to drink.
Occasion: St. Patty's Day celebration or any night as your favorite Irish pub
I've always had a bit of a love affair with St. Patrick's Day. With my birthday being the day after this wonderful holiday—not to mention an Irish family background and certain affinity for the color green—it seems that me and St. Patty were meant to be. Since I was little, every one of my birthday celebrations has had some sort of St. Patty's Day connection, but my 21st birthday was when the real fun began. I couldn't wait to celebrate the occasion with a pint of good Irish beer, and all things considered, a love for Guinness should run deep in my veins. Sadly, I discovered, it just isn't so.
For some reason, the most Irish of beers just isn't my type. (Sorry Guinness, it's not you, it's me.) But I refuse to be left sipping cider on the national beer drinking holiday, so I decided to try Kilkenny, a cream ale made by the same company. While Guinness has a deep, dark brown color and strong roasty flavor, Kilkenny is lighter, with more subdued malt and hops. It's poured from a nitrogen tap, like its counterpart, giving the beer a smooth consistency and a rich, creamy head that forms when the nitrogen bubbles release and rise to the top.
Instead of the bitter, coffee-like notes that I dislike in Guinness, Kilkenny has light notes of caramel that add sweetness to balance the bitterness. Pair this delicate beer with a traditional Irish feast of corned beef and cabbage or nibble on a plate of assorted cheeses including sharp cheddar and Blue. The strong flavors will complement this muted brew. You can even try substituting Kilkenny in recipes that call for Guinness, like this Marinated Flank Steak, for a subtle flavor.
Hannah Doolin is a senior magazine journalism major at Syracuse University who hopes to one day explore her Irish roots by having a pint at a pub in Doolin, Ireland.
Originally posted on Tuesday, March 13th, 2012


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Eight years on, a new terrorist leader, Bane, overwhelms Gotham's finest, and the Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy. Obviously this film was some time back, but I've been quite a fail blogger as late….and I've been meaning to write about it for ages. Now another film has […]
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Movie Review – MIB 3/Men in Black III – So Much Better Than 2!
Agents J and K are back… in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. The original Men in Black rocked our World's 15 years ago in 1997, a truly unique concept with […]
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Blamed for the terrorist bombing of the Kremlin, IMF operative Ethan Hunt is disavowed along with the rest of the agency when the President initiates "Ghost Protocol". Left without any resources or backup, Ethan must find a way to clear his agency's name and prevent another attack. To complicate matters further, Ethan is forced to […]
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In the near-future, where the sport of boxing has gone hi-tech, Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one […]
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During experiments to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease, a genetically-enhanced chimpanzee uses its greater intelligence to lead other apes to freedom. I've been looking forwards to this film for quite a while, especially since the 2001 reboot, which was pretty meh. Technology and cgi has come a LONG way since back then, in 2001 […]
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After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top-secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending America's ideals. Another day, another Marvel comic book hero coming to the big screen – I'm a week out of date with this one (which is still pretty good […]
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Movie Review – Source Code – Entertaining Sci-Fi
When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. In an assignment unlike any he's ever known, he learns he's part of a government experiment called the "Source Code," a program that enables […]
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NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar - At least 160 people have died in three months of clashes between the military and ethnic armed groups in Myanmar's Shan state, a senior army official said Tuesday amid efforts to revive flagging peace talks.
More than 20,000 people have been displaced since fighting between the army and several armed ethnic groups erupted near the border with China in late November.
The unrest has rippled across the northern state of Shan and into neighbouring Kachin, hampering a push by Aung San Suu Kyi's government to end the country's decades-long borderland conflicts. Military offensives that had been rumbling since mid-2016 intensified after several armed groups launched a major attack in November.
The army responded with heavy artillery and air strikes.
Experts say the fighting in the frontier areas is at its most intense since the 1980s.
That has prompted the UN to warn of a humanitarian crisis building in conflict areas, particularly in Kachin where some 100,000 people have been displaced since 2011.
Giving the army's first comprehensive toll from the Shan clashes, the chief of the general staff said 74 soldiers, 15 police, 13 government militia fighters and 13 civilians have been killed.
"We have 45 dead bodies of enemies and arrested four," General Mya Tun Oo told reporters in the capital, Naypyidaw, speculating hundreds more rebels may have died in the violence.
The toll comes as Myanmar's government prepares for a second round of peace talks, currently slated for March. The negotiations have repeatedly been put back in the past because of political deadlock with armed groups.
Suu Kyi wants to broaden a ceasefire signed with some of Myanmar's myriad ethnic insurgent groups in 2015 and known as the NCA.
The most recent negotiations were delayed after the powerful China-backed United Wa State Army (UWSA) militia held its own summit with non-signatories to the deal.
After that meeting attendees signed a statement rejecting the NCA.
Instead they called for an immediate halt to military offensives in ethnic areas and for the UN and China to be involved in the new talks.
They have also backed the UWSA's calls for Myanmar's major ethnic groups to be granted more control over their territories and resources.
"The NCA is not fair," a spokesman for the powerful Kachin Independence Army (KIA), which attended the talks, told AFP.
"The army's vision is not what the ethnic groups want."
The KIA is among several groups which are set to hold talks with Suu Kyi this week in the capital to try to break the deadlock over the peace process.


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IDPD, or International Day of Persons with Disabilities, was introduced by the United Nations to celebrate the accomplishments and achievements that persons with disabilities contribute to our community.
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Gameplay: Dino Squad Adventure 2
About the game
Play the latest 2 player adventure games with dinosaurs on Vitalitygames.com. And start the adventure with a new episode of the sequel Dino Squad adventure called Dino Squad adventure 2. Click to play now Dino Squad adventure 2 for free on Vitalitygames.com and help the little dinosaurs survive their missions and get safe back home.
In this new mission the dinosaurs require help so another character joins the dinosaur team. You can player all 3 dinosaurs using U,Q key to change between them. Work together and fight bad dinosaurs and escape the traps in this epic adventure game. To do wall jump, use jump key during you are hanging on the wall. And collect all of the golds in the game levels to complete them. One more similar game to play is Dino Meat Adventure 3. Have fun and good luck!
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March 2018
Dino Squad adventure 2 is developed RHM Games along with Dino Meat Adventure
Dino Squad adventure 2 is developed RHM Games along with Dino Meat Adventure
- A lot of missions in the game to complete.
- 3 types of Dinosaurs each one with different abilities.
- Easy controls and fun to play.
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A major beach rebuilding project targeting six miles of oceanfront in Water Mill, Bridgehampton and Sagaponack, which proponents had hoped could be completed as early as this coming winter, will be put off until at least November 2013.
The delay will allow state legislation to exempt certain property owners from the special taxes that will pay for the $24 million project. Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst said this week that legislation is being pushed through the State Legislature by Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. that would exempt two properties, both of which have conservation easements on them, from the beach rebuilding project's special taxing schedules. That legislation will not come up for a vote in the legislature until at least January, however.
Because of restrictions on dredging the ocean floor between March and November to protect migratory fish species, the delay would mean that the project would not be able to get under way until late next year.
Even without the delay, getting the massive dredging project rolling this winter would have been a challenge because of the time needed to solicit and review bids for the work from dredging companies, and the time needed to get the proper dredging vessels into local waters. But some of the organizers of the effort had been confident they would have gotten the work done.
"We were ready to go—I think we were going to be able to get it done December through March," said Sagaponack resident Alan Stillman, one of the homeowners who marshaled the effort to form the special taxing districts and organize the planning of the beach reconstruction. "Sure, we're a little disappointed. The longer you wait, the more risk you take. I've got my fingers and toes crossed that we have a nice, mild winter. If we have a big nor'easter, or a hurricane, that's a real risk."
Coastal engineering consultant Aram Terchunian, who helped design the beach reconstruction project, said there were strong hopes that the work could be done this winter. A major beach nourishment project slated for the ocean beaches in Hampton Bays near Shinnecock Inlet this winter could have helped with the logistics of getting a dredge vessel ready for the Water Mill-Sagaponack work, and kept costs down, he said. But a similar project scheduled for the West Hampton Dunes shoreline next winter might provide similar economies of scale and logistic benefits as well.
"It's conceivable that the equipment being used for West Hampton Dunes is going to be more similar to what we need anyway," Mr. Terchunian said. "You make plans because without plans you'll never get anything done, but you have to be flexible, too."
The proposed project calls for some 2.5 million tons of sand to be dredged from the ocean floor one to two miles offshore and pumped onto a six-mile stretch of beach running from Flying Point in Water Mill to the East Hampton Town line in Sagaponack. The dredging work, which will take three to four months to complete, will raise and widen the ribbon of beach in the project zone as well as create a more gradual slope for hundreds of feet below the surf line to dampen the erosive effects of waves breaking on the shoreline.
The project is to be paid for with bonds taken out by Southampton Town and repaid primarily with funds raised by a special tax levied only on the 141 oceanfront properties along the waterfront within the project zone. The town itself, which owns five public beaches within the project area, would pay about 11 percent of the total cost, a little less than $3 million.
The state legislation is intended to exempt two specific property owners, the family of Sagaponack farmer John C. White and the owners of the Bridgehampton Club, a private beach club and golf course. Both have conservation easements over the large swaths of oceanfront property they own, precluding any future development of the land.
The White family, which owns 24 acres of farmland with more than 1,000 feet of beachfront, was on tap to pay more than $60,000 a year in taxes for the project, an amount the family said it simply could not afford to pay. The beach club, while not claiming it would be unable to pay the tax, argued that it was unfair for it to have to pay to protect land that has been protected from development, particularly if the White family were going to receive an exemption.


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Celebrating Restoration
Date: September 17, 2016
Time: Doors open at 4 p.m.; event is 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Location: Dave Finkleman Auditorium at Miami University
4200 N. University Blvd.
Middletown, Ohio 45044
Website: www.celebratingrestoration.com
Celebrating Restoration is an event with guest speaker Dale Garrett, author of "My 7 Seconds in Hell." Garrett will share his story of recovery and his survival from a meth explosion. Music, memorials and much more.
Rally for Recovery
Date: September 23, 2016
Time: 1 – 4 p.m.
Location: The Ohio Statehouse in Columbus
Webstie: www.oca-ohio.org/rally-for-recovery
Enjoy fellowship, fun, food, recovery speakers, exhibits, activities and entertainment at this annual event sponsored by Ohio Citizen Advocates for Addiction Recovery.


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Watch the video below, as Jack Conger and Jeff Kostoff meet after the former broke the latter's 30-year old National High School Record in the 500 yard freestyle.
See more about Conger's incredible swim here.
Thanks again to Matt Rees for all of his hard work at this weekend's Metro Championships, including making this once-in-a-lifetime meeting happen.


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Improving Healthcare for Veterans
The Chandler Fire, Health & Medical (CFHM) Department and the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Healthcare System has joined together to create the Community Involvement and Intervention Project. The six-month project aims to improve healthcare for thousands of area veterans and also serve as a model program for fire departments around the nation.
"We value veterans in our community, and this partnership between the VA and our Fire, Health & Medical Department reinforces our commitment to being a 'Veteran Friendly City,'" says Chandler Mayor Jay Tibshraeny. "Through this program, we are connecting patients with the people and the care that they need – and that will make a huge difference in the lives of Chandler veterans."
In the program, first responders will screen patients during emergency calls, identifying those who are veterans and then connecting them with medical services. One of the unique aspects of the program is the use of telemedicine. Paramedics visiting the patient can use teleconferencing technology to communicate with healthcare professionals at the VA. Fire Chief Jeff Clark states,
"Our primary goal of this partnership is to connect every Chandler veteran with the Phoenix VA healthcare services that they not only need, but deserve."
Chief Clark also notes that an Intergovernmental Agreement with the VA allows the City to avoid expending additional funds:
"We are utilizing programs and resources that are already in existence," he said. "But now, if a patient is a veteran, we have additional resources to get that patient the quality healthcare they earned by serving this country in the armed forces."
For more information about the pilot project, call 480-782-2120, or visit www.ChandlerAZ.gov/Fire.
Steren Electronics Solutions
Batteries, cables, helicopters, trucks, and ham radio supplies can all be found at Steren Electronics Solutions Plus Hobbies, your one-stop shop for gadgets and gizmos. Ron and Carol Beasley recently opened the Chandler store, which also offers installation of surveillance systems with smart home monitoring, home theater installation, and television mounting. Ron, the former 10-year owner of a Maricopa Radio Shack says,
"If you are used to buying it at Radio Shack, you can buy it here at our store, except for cellphones, which are not sold here."
Steren Electronics Solutions Plus Hobbies is located at 4245 South Arizona Avenue. For more information, call (480) 883-7696.
The Experimac Difference
Have your Apple products assessed by Experimac's in-house repair team, which works hard to fix devices quickly and accurately. The team can also enhance your devices with improved memory and software. Experimac works hard to bring customers quality products for the lowest price possible. Along with repairs, Experimac also buys, sells, and trades Macs, iPhones, and iPads. Cables, adapters, and other Apple-specific accessories are on hand for purchase. Experimac is located at 4015 South Arizona Avenue. To learn more about the store, visit Experimac.com/Chandler-AZ
or call 480.207.1150.
Classic Car & Hot Rod Show
Get your motor running and head out for the Classic Car & Hot Rod Show. This event is free and family friendly. Specialty vehicles and hundreds of pre-1980 cars will be on display for your viewing pleasure. There will also be food booths, a beer garden, and arts and crafts to enjoy. Proceeds from the car show benefit youth and veteran services organizations in the Chandler community. The show takes place on Saturday, Feb. 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. To learn more about the event, visit ChandlerCarShow.com or call 480-389-7709.
Chandler's Science Spectacular!
See students, artists, and innovators from Chandler participate in the statewide Arizona SciTech Festival. Exploration and discovery are at the forefront of this weekend where folks can learn about all things science. The weekend consists of two main events: A Night of Art & Science and Chandler's Science Saturday. On Feb. 19, Chandler's monthly Art Walk transforms into a mix of technology and art. Learn about the science behind the food, beauty, and art around us.
On Saturday, bring the entire family for entertaining, interactive demonstrations as students from the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Chandler Innovation Center's TechShop explain the importance of science in our daily lives. The science fun starts Feb. 19 at 6 p.m. To learn more about this weekend, visit ChandlerAZ.gov.
Black History Month
Every year, Chandler provides a variety of community events honoring contributions and celebrating the history of African Americans including the Black History Celebration and the African American Banquet.
Desert Dance Theatre and the South Chandler Self-Help Foundation presents the 27th Annual Black History Celebration. This day of celebration looks to create and ensure opportunities for the youth of Chandler.
And it could not be a true celebration without food. Presented by the Chandler Men of Action, The African American Banquet, being held Friday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. at the Chandler Community Center, celebrates African American accomplishments achieved this year. Man of the Year and two student scholarships are presented at the banquet, which looks to build spirit and character. For more information about all of the weekend's events, visit ChandlerAZ.gov or call Chandler's Diversity Office at 480.782.2214.
A New Kid in Town
"New American" is the way Gavin Jacobs describes his future Downtown Chandler restaurant. This style of fresh culinary eatery includes vegetarian options, seasonal cocktails, and laptop outlets catering to young professionals and families. Plans for the new restaurant include a large garage door entrance and a late-night menu that welcomes guests until 2 a.m. on weekends. The 2,400-square-foot venue of exposed original brick and raw concrete floors will have indoor and outdoor areas for patrons.
The W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State graduate, Jacobs, states, "My passion is to create an exceptional experience for every person that walks in. I love hospitality and Chandler is my home."
The Brickyard Downtown is located at 85 West Boston Street. Happy Hour service will be daily at 3 p.m. and the restaurant will serve food until 1 a.m. Thursday through Saturday. To see updates on the restaurant, visit BrickYardDowntown.com.


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Canadian artist Cassie HW on her photo-realistic artwork and what creation means to her
We spoke to 21 year old artist Cassie HW about her creative process. Hailing from Toronto, Ontario area, Cassie is both a portrait artist and third year biology student at University. Her passion for live music, literature and film is reflected in her art.
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On to the bread :) - couple of weeks ago, one of my friends that has Zucchini in her garden gave me some. I made some zucchini chutney with some and shredded the rest of it in the food processor and froze it in 2 cup measurements (2 cups coz most bread and muffin recipes seem to ask for 2 cups).
Yesterday, I baked some zucchini bread with it. The bread was the most moist, dense and delicious bread. I made a hybrid recipe out of Elise's zucchini bread with Paula Deen's recipe I found on food network's Website.
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup olive oil
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 2 cups grated zucchini*
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 3 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsps baking soda
- 1 tsps salt
- 1/2 tsps baking powder
- 1 1/2 tsps cinnamon
- 3/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 2 loaf pans
- 1 small mixing bowl
- 1 large mixing bowl/mixer
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a mixer or using a hand mixer and the large mixing bowl, beat the eggs. Add the sugar, oil, vanilla and lemon juice. Mix on low-medium speed for about 2-3 minutes until well combined and thick. With a wooden spoon, mix in the zucchini.
- In the small bowl, combine all the dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg).
- Add the dry ingredients gradually into the wet ones, mixing well after each addition. Add in the nuts at the very end.
- Pour into the loaf pans, bake for about 50-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool in pans for 15 minutes, invert them on to cooling racks to cool completely.