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Kristin Brice has used her height as an offensive asset throughout her basketball career.
"I've always been tall," said Brice, a sophomore marketing communication major. "[I've] always towered over everyone."
This season, the starting forward has averaged over 15 points and eight rebounds per game—ranking in the top 10 in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) in both of these categories. Head Coach Bill Gould had envisioned Brice performing well in her second season, and said he is happy with the results so far.
"Kristin has really done incredibly well for us," said Gould. "She had a nice year last year and I thought she would do well this year as well, but she has really just exceeded expectations."
Brice has picked up her scoring as of late, including contributing 24 points in the team's win over Suffolk on Saturday. As the team's leading playmaker, she has, over the course of the year, become the "go-to" option for her teammates.
"She is our top scorer, and we have confidence that if we get Kristin the ball, it's going in the hoop," said Macy Day, a sophomore marketing communication major.
During Saturday's game, Emerson ended the first half down by five points, but rallied in the second and ended with a last-second, game-winning shot by senior captain Shannon Norton.
Brice has not just helped herself on offense—her talent, said Gould, has opened up the rest of the team's capabilities.
"It just gives you such a great option when you know you have someone that can put up big points in any game that she ever plays," said Gould. "It just allows the rest of the team a little more freedom to have a little bit of space when the other team has to guard her with at least one-and-a-half to two people."
Despite all of the praise, Brice credits the team's success to its cooperation.
"I think going [into games] other teams look at who are the top scorers, so they try to shut those people down," Brice said. "I think that it's good that so many people on our team, including people off the bench, have the ability to score."
Yet Brice will have to make some improvements, according to Gould, if she wants to sustain her success.
"She needs to get a little bit stronger. Especially now that she is a focal point of the offense, defenses are going to key in on her," said Gould. "They're going to try to be physical with her, bump her, make it tough for her."
With these adjustments, Norton said Brice could be the team's best player by next season.
"I think next year Kristin could be our top player. She's already one of the top right now," said Norton, a visual and media arts major.
This year the Lions are 3-4 in the GNAC, but based on the team's recent performance, both Brice and Gould think the Lion's can be successful in postseason games.
"I would just love to go far in the playoffs, especially this year," said Brice. "I think that [the Suffolk game] just showed that we have the ability to do so."
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MARCUS RASHFORD fired a rocket to put Manchester United within touching distance of the Europa League final.
His blistering 67th-minute free-kick gave the Red Devils a vital away win in this semi-final first leg.
Marcus Rashford blasted in a stunning free-kick to give Manchester United the upper-hand in the Europa League semi-finalUnited's best bet of a Champions League place next season is winning the Europa League — and boss Jose Mourinho hailed his teenage hero.
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Mourinho said: "He is 19-years-old but in love with football. He stays for half an hour to practise free-kicks and was waiting for his opportunity.
"It's his mentality. He works and works, so let's forget the age, it's the
quality. It's a great free-kick because the ball moves really, really fast — with the speed of the ball it's impossible to save."
Jose Mourinuo hailed Marcus Rashford for his maturity in the Celta Vigo win
But Rashford, who came into the game carrying a knock, limped off on 80 minutes with a left-knee injury.
It is a worry for Mourinho, who is short of options with superstar Zlatan Ibrahimovic out for the season.
With the return leg on Thursday, Mourinho added: "I'm very pleased but not so much with the result.
"At half-time we should have been at least two or three up already.
"Let's hope Old Trafford wants us to win because when it does, we win."
Midfielder Marouane Fellaini added: "We will play in front of 75,000 and we have to give it everything.
"I hope the fans will also give us everything."
England legend Gary Lineker tweeted: "Superb from Rashford. Absolutely sensational. 19 years old and steps up to take @ManUtd's free-kicks ahead of Pogba. He's got it all."

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Starring: Dave O'Brien, Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig, Carleton Young, Lilian Miles, and Thelma White
Director: Louis Gasnier
Rating: Four of Ten Stars
A societal scourge is exposed through this cautionary tale where Bill (Craig) is framed for murdering his sister (Short) and a hood (Craig) is driven mad... all because of the evils of marijuana!
"Reefer Madness" is one of those Bad Movie Night mainstays that I have been avoiding for many years. Everyone had written about it, it didn't sound all that interesting to me, and there were so many other unseen films out there. A friend gave me the "Taboo Tales" DVD collection for Christmas, and since "Reefer Madness" is the first film on the first disc, I figured the time had come to watch it.
I found that it was neither as bad nor as unintentionally funny as I had been led to believe. For the most part, it's a ham-fisted melodrama that alternatively exaggerates and misrepresents marijuana and its effect on those who use it. It moves along at a steady steady while beating viewers over the head with its anti-drug message, never being exactly boring but never being all that engaging because the characters are mostly unlikable. It gets truly interesting only in those few scenes were it goes way over the top with caricatures of marijuana smokers. Like so many drug movies, I think this is probably funnier if you're stoned while watching it.
For me, the most interesting part of the film was that I only really grew to care about the fate of Ralph, an utterly despicable thug and rapist played by Dave O'Brien. I think this was because the character was being played by one actors with honest-to-God careers in the field, and because Ralph holds a more important place in the story than even the character we're supposed to care about--the poor kid who's life is being ruined by drugs, drug pushers, and drug users. I suppose the film really is more about Ralph than Bill, since Ralph's even the subject of the movie's greatest scene, in which he beats a person to death in a fit of marijuana-driven paranoia.
I wouldn't say this film is worth going out of your way for, nor even that you should start with it if you find yourself with it included in a DVD multi-pack. The Four rating I gave it is as low as it can be without being a Three, and it barely earns that on the back of my being entertained by Dave O'Brien's performance. I suppose the nicest thing I can say about it is that it's far better than the other Dwain Esper-involved film I've watched. But, like I said above, maybe it's funnier if you're high. I understand EVERYTHING is funnier if you're high.


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City of Brass (the Daevabad Trilogy #1)
By: S.A. Chakraborty
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Publication Date: November 14th, 2017
Format: Hardcover
Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she's a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.
But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she's forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.
In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.
After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for…
I learned about City of Brass not when it came out, but because I started following S.A. on Twitter (she's a history/food nerd, it's great). Because I was so intrigued by her threads, I decided to check out her book–and man, was I not expecting how great it was. In the mood for edgy political maneuvering in a world of Djinn and djinn-human hybrids? This is going to be a book you should read.
Nahri captures your attention almost immediately–a street grifter in Cairo during the Napoleonic Wars, her only goal is survival, with some thought spared to her desire to become a physician. In this she's helped by some magical powers that not only allow her to heal immediately, but also help her diagnose and treat illnesses in others. But this goal is dramatically changed when she accidentally summons an actual djinn, and learns that her powers come from her own djinn blood.
Her Djinn protector, Dara, is a grumpy, scarred warrior, at times alluring but also obstinate. He insists that for Nahri's own protection she needs to go to Daevabad, one of the great cities of the Djinn and the place her ancestors once lived. This is all the more pressing since she's the last living Nahid, a branch of Djinn who specialized in healing. But not all is great in Daevabad–the second son of the king, Ali, is trapped between his own devotion to his family and his compassion for the human-djinn hybrids, shafit, who live in the city as a lower caste of people. Nahri's appearance in the city cannot help put stir flames of class resentment and rebellion, and add to the tensions already present.
This was a book that hooked me over and over again, in a number of ways–I liked the honest historical look at Cairo, the cleverly woven stories of the Djinn that was steeped in actual mythology, Nahri's fierceness, Ali's cleverness and sense of duty, Dara's mystery. It was all just delightful, honestly. There were so many excellently drawn characters, who clashed with each other in the most delightful ways. I especially adored Nahri's dilemma–her attraction to Dara, despite being furious at him half of the time, versus her gentler pull towards Ali. I also loved Ali–he was awkward, set in his beliefs but uncertain of them at the same time, deeply religious but not a fanatic, but also possessing an absolutely brilliant strategic mind.
There was also the whole political maneuvering and tension thing, which I absolutely couldn't get enough of. Daevabad is a tinderbox even before Nahri, a shafit belonging to a tribe worshipped by djinn obsessed with purity, steps into it. There's a LOT going on–tension between two opposing religions (Islam and the Daeva religion), tension between pure-blood djinn and the shafit, tension between the original denizens of the city and their conqueror royalty…and that's not getting into any of the political drama happening outside Daevabad. At times the threads Chakraborty was weaving were a little too complicated for me to follow, especially at the end when there's a LOT happening. But that's partially because the two characters whose eyes we see through (Nahri and Ali) are both in the dark about some of what's going on. The elements that I couldn't quite get, though, I trusted would be explained in more depth.
I could wax lyrical about this book for a while, honestly–there's a lot to unpack, and it's fairly hefty. It toes a line between YA and NA (New Adult), although there's nothing that would require a content warning. But I'll finish with this: there is NO WAY I'm not buying the City of Copper when it comes out, because after everything that happened at the end of CoB I NEED to know what happens next and that all of my faves are OK. Fortunately, it's coming out January of 2019!
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Chinese New Year eCommerce Guide: Trends, Insights and Best Practices13 February 2015
The Chinese New Year marks the start of the Spring festival, a two week long celebration marking the beginning of a new season that is traditionally associated with health and prosperity. For retailers, this festival also presents a unique opportunity to reach out to a large consumer group that perceives the Chinese New Year as a time for new beginnings, or more specifically, new things. China is one of the fastest growing markets and with more than 1.4 billion Chinese across the globe, the holiday is indeed a golden opportunity for retailers both online and offline. So how can eCommerce retailers leverage this holiday to reach out to online consumers in China? This article discusses some key trends and best practices for the season.
In 2014, SingPost eCommerce research found that majority of US mono brands were looking to China with a clear eCommerce strategy. 71% have set up an eCommerce business in China without a physical retail store. This also rings true amongst British retailers – Advertising Age revealed that high street fashion label Topshop launched on the mainland in September 2014 with a purely eCommerce strategy via Shangpin.com, an online retail platform. Global retailer Costco also leapfrogged setting up physical stores in China and announced its market entry via Alibaba's Tmall marketplace.
In the global retail space, Chinese New Year was listed as one of the top five international holidays for eCommerce in 2012, according to Business Insider. And it's traction is growing year on year – according to Economy Watch, consumers in China spent over USD $86 billion within just the first six days of the festival in 2013 with that number increased to an estimated USD $97.4 billion in 2014.
Holidays like Chinese New Year represent an annual high point in the continuously growing Chinese market. China's eCommerce revenue reached an estimated USD $2 trillion in 2014, a 25% increase from 2013 according to China's Ministry of Commerce. With such significant spending and consumer interest, the Chinese New Year is a lucrative opportunity for eCommerce businesses to leverage on the shopping opportunities provided by the holiday season, much like how China's Single's Day sales continues to illustrate the raw purchasing power of the Chinese market. In a 2014 study by KPMG, Single's Day revenue grew by 80% from 2012 to 2013. In 2014, Chinese eCommerce company Alibaba reported USD $9 billion in revenue across this popular shopping day, officially making Single's Day the most successful online sales event in the world. With Asia Pacific having taken up more than 30% of global online B2C sales in 2014, eCommerce businesses are now positioning themselves accordingly to maximize profits during peak seasons such as Single's Day and Chinese New Year in 2015.
However, businesses need to understand the various eCommerce trends, cultural nuances and logistical considerations that go along with a festival such as Chinese New Year. That means providing products and services that are relevant to Chinese New Year buyers, as well as establishing reliable delivery, inventory and stock keeping systems to meet surges in demand and ensure timely order fulfilment.
Key Trends Shaping eCommerce in China
Various trends are shaping the China eCommerce landscape, specifically in mobile, social media, local payment solutions and growth in lower-tier cities. A keen understanding of these ongoing trends is key to capturing a market with potential that goes well beyond the Chinese New Year holiday.
Mobile is Key
According to a 2014 A.T. Kearney report, China's eCommerce market has grown to an estimated 300 million online shoppers with more than half of China's internet users accessing the internet on their mobile devices. In statistics released by KPMG and Mogujie in 2014, desktops and laptops lead the way when it comes to internet access (69%), but smartphones (53%) are following close behind as smartphone penetration continues to grow among Chinese consumers. Web application and design agency Go Globe released figures that projected mobile shopping to grow as much as 91% from 2013 to 2014. Mobile payments have already begun to take off among Chinese consumers. In a 2014 KPMG report, 55% of China's internet users had experience in mobile payments, as opposed to 19% of US internet users. With mobile commerce projected to reach as high as USD $160.88 in 2017, according to Go Globe, eCommerce businesses need to develop a strong mobile-focused strategy in order to remain relevant in the increasing mobile Chinese market.
Social Sells
Social media has also become an important driver of eCommerce activity in China with over 625 million active social media users according to a 2014 report published by We Are Social. Social media platforms such as Tencent's microblogging platform We Chat has grown to 600 million subscribers in 2014 from only 300 million in 2013, while social networking site Qzone boasted more than 600 million monthly active users in 2014. Chinese online consumers have been observed to be more active online with regards to their purchases and preferences compared to their US counterparts. According to Forbes in 2014, 75% of Chinese internet users provide product feedback on social networks, while US rates are less than 20%. But despite these numbers, We Are Social reported in 2014 that China still stands at 46% in terms of social media penetration, showing that there's still a lot of room for growth in the sector.
Popularity of Electronic Payment Platforms
Online shoppers in China have also become more receptive of electronic payment platforms. In a 2014 report from China Briefing, 70% of all online transactions in China were paid for electronically while only 30% were settled in cash. However, the electronic payment market is dominated by online payment service Alipay with 48.8% market share, followed by TenPay (19.8%), Union Pay (11.4%), 99Bill (6.8%) and China PnR (5.3%) according to 2014 figures published by Chinese SEO Shifu. In 2014, Alipay released payment statistics over the past ten years, revealing 42.3 billion transactions over the past decade, averaging 4.23 billion transactions a year and 11.5 million transactions a day. Alipay's success can be attributed to a number of factors, one of which is its incorporation of an escrow system that protects the interest of both buyers and sellers from fraud and non-service.
Growth in Rural Areas and Lower-Tier Cities
Another notable trend in the Chinese eCommerce market is the burgeoning growth of online shopping in lower-tier cities and rural areas in China. Although a 2014 ATKearney report cites that a majority of the Chinese consumer market are still concentrated mostly in the country's top cities, the fastest growth is being experienced by less-developed areas. In order to access these highly lucrative regions, it becomes especially important for brands and retailers to make various logistical improvements in order to increase geographical coverage in harder-to-reach regions in the country, particularly during high volume seasons in Chinese New Year. Various China-based eCommerce businesses have already begun to invest in expanding within China. In 2015, China Daily reported that Alibaba will invest USD $1.6 billion to build operational centers and service outlets in order to cater to rural sectors. Its competitor, JD.com, has also announced plans to build centers in China's Guangdong Province to serve farmers shopping online.
Top Shopping Categories During Chinese New Year
Food, fashion and travel are some of the most popular shopping categories for retailers during the Chinese New Year season. The Spring Festival marks the largest migration of Chinese travellers in the year as consumers take trips to be with family or go on vacation. China's National Development and Reform Commission estimated 3.6 billion passenger trips over the Chinese holiday season in 2014, which was 200 million more passenger trips compared to 2013. Airlines like Cathay Pacific and Dragonair released combined statistics that showed a substantial jump in sales during the Chinese New Year season. Both airlines served a combined total of more than 2.5 million passengers in January 2014, a 9.3% increase during the same period in 2013.
Booking agencies have also been quick to jump at the opportunity to serve the vast influx of passengers. In preparation for 2015's Chinese New Year, travel booking site travelchinaguide.com has been advertising Spring Festival bookings as early as December 2014, providing visitors with various early bird promotions and discounts for tours across China. Beijingholiday.com, a China-based tour booking site, also provide special themed tours catering specifically for tourists who are looking for the full-fledged Chinese New Year experience in the Chinese capital.
Outside of travel, fashion and cosmetics shopping is another big draw for festival revellers, with sales tending to peak right before the holidays. According to a survey released by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), Chinese New Year holiday sales peaked seven days before the festival in 2014, totalling over USD $1.2 billion across various cities in China. This is nearly double the revenue of 2013, where pre-holiday sales peaked at USD $0.74 billion.
Cross-border shopping also continues to be a growing trend among Chinese shoppers. According to China Internet Watch, online shoppers from China purchased USD $12.5 billion worth of goods from foreign retailers in 2013 and were estimated to have spent an additional USD $22.6 billion in 2014. Popular product categories include cosmetic and skin care products, women's clothing as well as perfume and toys, mirroring overall in-border Chinese consumer trends. In a joint survey published by KPMG and Mogujie, top online shopping categories among Chinese consumers include cosmetics (53%), women's shoes (39%), women's clothes (36%) as well fashion accessories (34%) and bags (34%).
While eCommerce businesses are in direct competition with their physical retail counterparts, the HKTDC also highlighted that growth in the Chinese New Year season has been spearheaded by online sales in 2014. In another survey conducted by the HKTDC, six surveyed online retailers posted a total of USD $55.6 million in revenue across just seven days of the festival, a substantial 43% increase from 2013.
Best Practices for eCommerce Businesses during Chinese New Year
Despite presenting eCommerce businesses with a wealth of opportunities, there are key considerations to bear in mind during the Chinese New Year, particularly when handling increased demand and a higher influx of orders. According to Advertising Age, China-based eCommerce giant Alibaba was reported to have increased warehouse space and personnel by as much as 60% to meet demand during Singles Day in 2013. To stay competitive during such holiday periods, businesses need to bolster internal infrastructure and support systems downtime between two weeks to a full two months before the festivities. Here are some best practices that businesses can integrate:
Prevent Service Downtime by Improving Server Systems – Servers need to be able to handle the increased web traffic to prevent site downtimes and service outages. When investing on server side improvements, businesses need to take the time to stress test their servers prior to the pre-holiday surge to prevent loss of service during the holiday season itself.
Cater to Large Inflow of Orders – Improvements towards stock keeping and order placement are also essential when serving the large influx of Chinese New Year buyers. This is where accurate demand forecasting and extensive pre-planning becomes essential. But managers should also be willing to bolster operations with 24 hour warehouses for additional sales and support staff to ensure a streamlined workflow between order and delivery.
Expand Offering of Delivery Options – Businesses should not rely solely on single delivery services, especially when serving developing markets where local infrastructure may keep orders from being fulfilled on time. This is why secondary and tertiary courier services are important during peak sales seasons like the Chinese New Year. This gives operations the flexibility to address delivery concerns ahead of time to avoid delays. Business should also leverage alternative delivery services, such as electronic parcel lockers. Singapore Post operates over 80 parcel locker stations in Singapore, called POPStations, which allow consumers to pick up their parcels at a convenient time and location.
Improve Delivery Efficiency by Securing Transport Commitments – The demand for reliable and timely transport will inevitably increase during peak seasons like Chinese New Year. This is why businesses are encouraged to secure volume commitments early in order to guarantee availability of delivery and transport assets.
Prepare for Increased Purchase Returns – An efficient and reliable returns system is critical during the holiday season. Due to the expected surge in new customers, it is important for businesses to be able to make a lasting impression among new buyers to ensure future patronization. Having a solid return policy not only improves customer satisfaction but also increases the percentage of return customers and future referrals.
Partner with Local Logistics Networks – During a peak period like Chinese New Year, businesses will face roadblocks such as late product delivery and slow collect-on-delivery processes. To address these concerns, it is recommended to establish and strengthen relationships with local logistics providers. This means creating partnerships with local logistics companies to ensure reliable operations not only during Chinese New Year, but across the Chinese shopping calendar.
With 2015's Chinese New Year just around the corner, businesses should prepare to make the necessary improvements to both their front end and their logistic infrastructure to keep up with the influx of orders. It's the combination of strong, reliable logistics partnered with a firm grasp of consumer insights and market trends that will ultimately determine the success of businesses during the Chinese New Year shopping season.
How SingPost eCommerce can help
SingPost eCommerce is a full service eCommerce enabler that provides global brands with Asia Pacific's first end-to-end managed eCommerce solution which includes – Enterprise Grade eCommerce Technology, Warehousing, Delivery, Returns Management, Site Operations, Regional Customer Care and Performance Marketing. We operate across Asia Pacific with a fully interconnected eCommerce infrastructure and 22 distribution centres.
As part of the Singapore Post Group of Companies, our clients leverage on this extensive fulfilment and logistics network as well as our market knowledge across the Asia Pacific region including China.
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Lymphedema Wrapping
Wrapping your arm in layered bandages is the gold standard for lymphedema compression. It's easy enough to see that wrapping can contain and control swelling that's already present, but it does much more as well. The sluggish lymph vessels lie just below the skin, where they depend on the pressure of the muscles beneath them to act as a pump in stimulating lymph flow. The bandages apply gentle and consistent pressure against the skin, providing a surface for the muscles to press against and enhancing the effect of the muscles' pumping action. So wearing bandages can actually act to pump excess fluid out of the arm and reduce the swelling as you go about your daily activities.
The lymph fluid also contains proteins. These proteins become gel-like when they sit in the tissues too long. This protein enriched fluid then makes the limb heavier and thicker. With wrapping, these hardened and thickened areas are broken down and become soft and pliable. The heaviness of the limb is then reduced.
Bandages are wrapped with gradient pressure. That means that they're wrapped more tightly near the hand and gradually loosen as they spiral up the arm. This gradient pressure pushes lymph in the direction you want it to go: up and out of your arm.
But there's even more. Layered bandages work as you move to "massage" any areas of fibrosis (hardened tissue) and keep your arm soft and pliable. Unlike regular compression garments, bandages can be worn safely day or night because they exert only low pressure when your muscles are not moving, avoiding the possibility of constriction and lymph blockage as you sleep. And as a final benefit, each time you bandage your arm you're adjusting the compression to the exact shape and size of your limb at that moment, so there are no worries about size or shape changes with wrapping as there are with garments made to a pre-determined size.
Because wrapping is so effective at moving lymph fluid out of the body, your therapist will generally wrap your affected area at each therapy session, after s/he has done Manual Lymph Drainage (gentle lymphedema massage) to stimulate lymph flow and redirect it out of the swollen areas. You'll wear the bandages 23 hours a day, seven days a week, throughout the therapy period, removing them only to shower before returning for the next session.
Your therapist should teach you the entire procedure, allowing you the opportunity to try it yourself on days when you don't see her/him, and checking the fit and feel of your efforts at your next session.
When the active therapy phase is finished, you'll continue to wrap your hand and arm until you can be fitted for compression garments. Since regular garments can't be worn safely at night when your muscles are relaxed, you'll need to continue to wrap nightly (unless you have also been fitted for special night garments.) You'll also want to wrap your arm to manage the special strains of traveling or strenuous exercise, or whenever there is a flare-up of swelling anywhere along your arm or hand.
Stop bandaging and see your doctor at once at any sign of infection (redness, warmth to the touch, fever, new itching or tingling, rash, or unexplained rapid swelling). Compression should not be applied in the presence of an active infection.
If you have an open wound near the affected area, talk to your therapist about how to care for the wound under bandages.
Congestive heart failure or the presence of blood clots are both conditions where you'll need to discuss special precautions about bandaging (or any other form of compression) with your doctor and therapist.
There are a number of commonly used methods of bandaging your arm for lymphedema, but all apply the principles of layered wrapping and gradient pressure. The layers help to protect the skin from irritation, spread the compression evenly across wide areas, and allow for high working pressure and low resting pressure to encourage lymph flow and prevent constriction.
All bandaging starts with applying lotion to moisturize your skin and keep it healthy. Keeping your skin well hydrated can prevent minute cracks from forming and allowing bacteria to enter and cause infection. It can also prevent skin irritation from the unaccustomed use of layered bandages. A ph lotion is recommended.
Tubular stockinette further protects the skin and provides a comfortable, breathable basis for wrapping.
If your fingers or toes are bandaged, the wrapping of choice will be two or three rolls of flexible gauze.
Next, felted cotton-like fabric or thin foam is used to add a layer of padding that evenly distributes the compression of the outer bandages. It can also hold in place specially fitted pieces of flat foam, Swell Spots™ or chip bags to protect tender areas where bones are prominent, or to reduce fibrosis (tissue hardening due to proteins settling in the tissues).
Finally, short-stretch bandages are applied, with narrower bandages across the hand or foot and wider strips spiraling up the arm or leg. The number of bandages needed to wrap will depend on the size and length of the individual and the level of compression desired. These bandages are applied with carefully graded compression, more pressure at the hand end (distal), decreasing as it moves upward toward the body (proximal).
Unless you're planning to keep a lymphedema therapist in your pocket, or to limit your travels to a 20-mile radius around your therapist's office, you need to know how to do this yourself. Wrapping is a lymphedema self-care tool you'll use again and again to regain control after a flare-up, or to prevent that flare-up from happening in the first place.
By working together with your therapist and being proactive with your health, lymphedema can be manageable. Take the time to learn self-care wrapping to manage your lymphedema and experience full quality of life!
First, NEVER USE ACE BANDAGES TO WRAP FOR LYMPHEDEMA OR FOR LYMPHEDEMA PREVENTION. The outer bandages used for lymphedema wrapping may look like the ordinary ACE-type bandages available at any drug store, but they're not the same. Lymphedema bandages are called "short stretch" bandages. They'll stretch if you pull them, but not nearly as far as an ACE bandage stretches. This more limited stretch applies the right kind of pressure to your skin to help pump the lymph along, and it prevents the uneven binding and constricting that can happen with an ACE bandage.
Second, LYMPHEDEMA WRAPPING SHOULD BE TAUGHT BY A SKILLED AND EXPERIENCED THERAPIST. Much as we value the proud independence of a self-taught individualist, lymphedema bandaging is one of those skills that requires some one-on-one tutoring and supervision to learn. If the bandages are not layered correctly, the skin could be irritated and open, exposing you to a higher risk of infection.


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CES 2017: Extremely Affordable New Amazon Fire 4K TVs with Alexa Voice Search Coming
Stephan Jukic – January 4, 2017
Standardized third-party smart TV platform technology seems to be entering a sort of golden age, especially when it comes to its implementation in highly affordable start 4K TVs of the mid-range sort. Even some premium 4K TV makers are getting in on the third-party smart platform bandwagon. Thus, today we have the excellent Roku TV smart platform running smoothly in 4K televisions from TCL and Hisense, the Google Chromecast platform in many of Vizio's superb 4K smart TVs and even the premium 4K HDR TVs of Sony run with the very robust Android TV platform that's also maintained by Google.
Now, Amazon is joining the same market with the introduction of its Amazon Fire smart platform in a selection of highly affordable third-level brand ultra HD TVs that lack many premium features but do offer decent general performance specs.
Select 4K UHD TVs under the brand names Westinghouse, Element and Seiki, which are all owned and built by the same parent company called Tong Fang Global, will now be coming with the Amazon Fire TV OS for 2017. Each of these brands will be releasing four new TVs with the smart platform in sizes of 43 inches, 50 inches, 55 inches and 65 inches and the same robust smart functionality that Amazon's OS delivers to the company's Fire TV stick and Amazon Fire set-top/gaming box will be offering content and web browsing access in all of these TVs.
Thus, buyers of the new TVs will get the same basic interface setup and the same access to streaming services like HBO, Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video, Hulu and over 100 channels of other content. Additionally, the included Alexa remote that comes with all of these TVs will offer up voice controlled command and search functionality of a pretty decent caliber. Needless to say, the new TVs and their smart platform are designed to offer the full range of 4K content stream options from the included apps that offer ultra HD entertainment. The TVs and their Amazon Fire smart platform include support for Over The Air live TV as well.
Amazon has also ensured that the Fire TV smart platform in these TVs can be controlled via the new Amazon Echo device that the retailer has recently released and there will also reportedly soon be Alexa control options for third party apps on the TVs.
As for the TVs themselves, they're pretty basic starter-type 4K TV models, so no they don't come with any sort of fancy HDR features like enhanced contrast, wide color gamut and high-end motion handling specs. However, for basic UHD home entertainment with some excellent 4K upscaling and sharpness, the assorted Amazon Fire TV 4K models are mostly decent performers. And again, these TVs will almost definitely come priced to sell though we don't yet have pricing details or a release date available.
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Google Introduces Web Page Creator
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Google have just launched it's Page Creator - a free system that lets anyone with a Google ID to create a webpage quickly with a WYSIWYG technology.
Users get 100 megabytes of storage space to make their page. Here's a screen cap of the sign in page (click to enlarge):
I can't get much past this page yet and am getting an array of Error messages. As with most Google launches I guess this is getting ALOT of traffic to it.
I wonder how long before they allow adding of AdSense to pages - and also how long til Spammers start using them for their purposes.
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This 11 episode series questions the separation that our cultures or religions have tried to establish between human beings and animals.
Animal Homosexuality
Author(s) : Bertrand Loyer, Jessica Menendez, Stéphane Alexandresco
Director(s) : Bertrand Loyer, Jessica Menendez, Stéphane Alexandresco
According to recent scientific research, more than 450 different kinds of animals engage in homosexual activity. St Thomas Productions has taken this research, and combined it with never-before- seen film footage, to produce this compelling and groundbreaking documentary. Animal Homosexuality explores the various ways homosexuality is expressed in the animal kingdom through courtships, affection, sex, pair-bonding and parenting. A covert revolution has been taking place in nature, and has gone unnoticed until now. With the help of scientific research, international stock footage and location shoots all over the world, Saint Thomas re-examines and revises the fundamental paradigms of nature.
Animal Medicine
Author(s) : Bertrand Loyer, Jacqueline Farmer
Director(s) : Jacqueline Farmer
Like us, animals are exposed to parasites, bacteria and viruses the germs which cause disease. How do they survive these attacks ? Recent research and observation have shown that animals use plant and insect substances to treat themselves not only do they apply things to their skin, they actually treat themselves by feeding on things not normally part of their diets. Capuchin monkeys rub citrus fruit on their fur, caterpillars eat poison hemlock, herbivorous red deer have even been seen chewing the legs off live seabirds. This film takes off around the world to discover how animals use medicine, it questions what notions they have about health and how medical knowledge is passed on from one generation to the next. In doing so, the film also asks what we can learn from animals about medicine.
Animal Language
Author(s) : Bertrand Loyer, Keebe Kennedy
Director(s) : Keebe Kennedy
An Indonesian legend claims that monkeys can speak but they prefer to stay quiet. Do animals have languages that we don't understand? Is it just a question of getting the right dictionary or is language the one thing that separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom? Birds sing, lions roar and chimpanzees chatter but do these noises mean anything? This one-hour documentary takes viewers into the wild to listen to nature's noisemakers and meet some of the scientists who spend their days trying to have conversations with animals. From parrots to killer whales we find out who is saying what to whom and explore whether there is such a thing as animal language.
Animal Politics
Author(s) : Bertrand Loyer, Guillaume Poyet
Director(s) : Guillaume Poyet
Man is not the only social animal. At the beginning of 2001, Franz de Waal published his work on a group of chimpanzees in the Arnhem zoo, in the Netherlands. He showed the existence of elaborate and subtle rites which, according to him, revealed a political organization. This fueled the foundation of an argument much debated in todays scientific world. Man would therefore no longer stand as the only «political animal » as defined by Aristotle. Schemes, coalitions, and mediation are all aspects of chimpanzee behavior. Long before man took hold of the political domain, nature had provided other animal species with a whole array of political stratagems, from the most cunning to the most egalitarian: polyergus ants have been practicing slavery for millions of years, hamadryas baboons have a right of veto and deer on the Isle of Rum have established their own democracy. Biologists have even realized that some traits of character used by politicians to fulfill their ambitions (and reach their goals) can be found in other animal species. Domination, alliance-building, seduction and manipulation are forms of intelligence no longer monopolized by man. Barriers continue to fall as discoveries on animal societies throughout the world progress.
Animal Adoption
Author(s) : Bertrand Loyer, Jacqueline Farmer
Director(s) : Jacqueline Farmer
Altruism, an act that bestows a benefit on the recipient while conferring a cost to the actor, is one of the central paradoxes of evolution. In the wild, where only the fittest survive, adopting other animals offspring is not really in line with Darwins theory of evolution. And yet, amongst bees, dolphins, lions and several primate species, altruism may go as far as adoption. In the case of social insects, parent substitution was a flaw in Darwins theory of evolution by natural selection: the biologist noticed that non-reproductive insects who adopted and helped young ones, brought a large portion of genetic baggage from their parents. Darwin had to broaden his theory to the family group. For mammals, including men, what advantage is there in the act of adoption? In the years following the adoption, does the adopted individual contribute to the foster parents survival and vice versa? The controversy at the heart of this documentary continues to be debated in todays scientific world. While raising these different questions, this documentary will study each case separately because each adoption behaviour has evolved independently forming its own pattern, its own benefit and even its own disadvantages.
Animal Tools
Author(s) : Bertrand Loyer, Guillaume Poyet
Director(s) : Guillaume Poyet
Recent discoveries have shown that hundreds of animal species use tools. New Caledonia crows, for instance, use twigs to remove insect larvae from their galleries; sea otters use flat stones to break open urchin shells or earshells; tailor ants weave leaves together with the threads secreted by the species larvae. Until recently, it was believed that the human tool was different from the animal tool which is neither transmitted nor accumulated. Several long-term studies on animal populations have proven quite the contrary. The animal tool can be cultural, some chimpanzee populations for instance have their own technical traditions: they crack nuts with stones. Supported by these observations, this comprehensive documentary will be structured around three central questions: how does the tool-using animal transform the world? And by extension the others? And how does the tool transform the animals behaviour?
Animal Business
Author(s) : Nicolas Gabriel
Director(s) : Nicolas Gabriel
«Give me this, I will give you that». This universal definition of trade finds an equivalent in nature in a phenomenon call «mutualism». Shaped by evolution, it describes all long or short term exchanges and cooperation between animals to survive. It turns the traditional host-parasite relationship in a beneficial alliance for both partners. To describe mutualism, this fascinating and well-documented episode travels from the cold ocean dephts to the heat of summer corn fields where unexpected couples have formed : manta rays and remoras, sea cucumbers and shrimps or else butterflies and ants got married for better or for worst.
Animal Play
Author(s) : Keebe Kennedy
Director(s) : Keebe Kennedy
As children we learn more about life through playing games than we do in any other way. It is the ability to play that enables us to develop into well co-ordinated, adaptable, highly social individuals. But we are not alone, animals play also. For many years this animal play was thought to be somehow 'different' to human play, but this is proving not to be the case. Why do animals indulge in play, what are the functions of these energy draining and often dangerous activities? This interdisciplinary programm will explore the reasons that play is so important to development: by describing social, locomotor and object play behavior in animal as diverse as reptiles, birds and mammals, it will find out the benefits it does provide. Finally it will look at the shocking evidence of what happens to young animals who are prevented from playing. In a startling parallel to humans, animal deprived of play, develop into dysfunctional adults, and even serial killers.
Animal Emotions
Author(s) : Keebe Kennedy
Director(s) : Keebe Kennedy
The study of animal behavior leaves little room for emotional-related explanations. Feelings in animals tend to be presented as functional explanations of behavior in a given situation. The notion of emotion has been completely overlooked, especially in the sixties, at the peak of animal experimentation, since it was easier to deny animal feelings like sadness or suffering, to guiltlessly carry out all sorts of tests. Recognizing the existence of animal feelings implies moral obligations. Things however are changing and many scientists who study animal behavior are paying more and more attention to emotions. But how could it be otherwise? To better understand a behavior we need to compare it to an already seen already and understood situation. And what could better help us understand a specific behavior than our own experience, our own behavior and our own emotions.
Animal Culture
Author(s) : Emma Baus, Bertrand Loyer
Director(s) : Emma Baus
In the 1950s, rhesus macaques living on the island of Koshima in Japan started to wash the sweet potatoes researchers gave them to eat. This observation could have remained anecdotal if the Japanese primatologists had not given this innovation the name of: preculture. Culture, always considered as a distinctive feature of the human race was being put into question. The study of the most evolved primates, our cousins the chimpanzees and bonobos, has since then enabled us to give a more precise definition of animal culture: habits acquired through a learning process leading to distinct traditions in different animal communities. Progressively other species have joined the culture club: elephants, dolphins, killer whales and even ravens Through precise examples and never before seen footage, this documentary fuels the old debat of nature versus culture and sheds new light on the paradoxical question:Is culture natural?.
Animal web
Author(s) : Nicolas Gabriel, Bertrand Loyer
Director(s) : Bertrand Loyer
Insect societies have always fascinated us by the perfection of their organisation. But without their ability to secrete a substance (wax, glue, ...) insects would never have been induced to become organized. The first groupings were enabled by constructive secretions such as silk, a magical fibre that builds, unites, and speaks.
Among all the different animal secretions, silk is a formidable medium of information which encourages social interactions. For some species, this extraordinary substance serves as means of both communication, transportation, as well as protection, nourishment, and reproduction. With silk as the foundation, the social life of insects and spiders is organized around these web-networks.
Everywhere in nature, spun threads cross, interweave, and separate, creating many intersections where spinner insects and spiders can meet and feel each other's vibrations.
It's the beginning of a form of communication that can be transformed into a confrontation, a sexual encounter, or another form of interaction.
The techniques of macro-cinematography, endoscopy, and electronic microscopy will allow us to forget our giant size and enter into the intimate universe of social insects and spiders to discover the secrets of the silk spinners.


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TAKEMURA Kazuko passed away in December 2011 at the age of 57 after a one-year battle with a serious illness.
However Ms. Takemura continues after her death to contribute to research on feminism and gender. Thanks to the efforts made by Ochanomizu University and the administrators of her will, The Takemura Fund for Feminist Research for Gender Equality and Justice has been established.
According to the website of the Fund, its objective is to offer grants for studies in feminism/gender and research contributing to activities for empowerment and support for women to realize gender equality and justice as soon as possible. Furthermore, based on Ms. Takemura's own philosophy, the Fund places priority on people and activities that would otherwise have no chance to apply for research funding as are not attached to a university.
I sincerely hope that her wish be linked with many people to bear fruitful results and express my farewell and thanks to Ms.TAKEMURA.
For more details about The Takemura Fund for Feminist Research for Gender Equality and Justice, visit the site below:
The deadline for applying for this year's grant is June 18.
Original article on the WAN website (April 27, 2012)
Translated and adapted from the WAN website by FUKUOKA A.A.


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"So," you might be asking, "why is the movie guy writing about theatre?" A fair question. I love theatre. A lot. I was a theatre major in college and, until recently, have spent the past decade employed at Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse, where I've learned about and appreciated this great art form all the more.
And as much as I love movies, and love getting to write about them, I now have the chance to devote the same amount of time and passion to plays, musicals, and other area stage productions. Friends will attest that I'll easily spend hours discussing whatever stage production I see, so the chance to write on this subject for the Reader is both humbling and thrilling.
Like film, theatre is completely subjective; I personally prefer four hours of Long Day's Journey Into Night to two hours of 'night, Mother, the zippy, meaningless Little Shop of Horrors to that endless "classic" Hello Dolly!, and don't get me started on the nightmare that is Grease.
But what's so marvelous about this art form is that it's about interpretation. We've probably all sat through at least one cripplingly bad show in our lives, but it's amazing how you can generally counter your bitching about the production with, "But you know who was really great in it ... ?" Good actors, more often than not, are good actors even in bad shows, and those drawn to performing tend to do theatre because they love it. (God knows few are getting rich from it.) That love can come through in even the sorriest of theatrical circumstances, and it oftentimes emanates from a show's director, its designers, and its musicians, as well.
Theatre is an inherently passionate medium, with many different kinds of artists collaborating to make one piece of art, so it makes sense that, with nearly every show, there's something to enjoy. You can be completely happy watching an actor deliver dumb jokes with so much enthusiasm that you laugh despite yourself. When you see an old chestnut directed with such vitality that it seems brand-new, you can find yourself unreasonably giddy for the whole night. Hell, you can even make it through Cats if the damned thing looks and sounds good enough. When theatrical talents give a work their all - when the interpretations of their material (whether that material is good or bad) are absolutely right - theatre can seem fulfilling like no other art form on earth.
Despite having missed a great deal of area work recently - when you're employed in a theatrical venue, it becomes exceedingly difficult to attend shows elsewhere - I'm fortunate that the opportunity to now write about theatre for the Reader has presented itself, and I welcome the challenge.
No, I haven't given up on movies; you'll still have to endure my weekly ramblings about the state of cinema. But I couldn't be more excited about beginning this new journey. I hope you'll come along for the ride.


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This was the opening question posed at the recent Well-Being for Women presentation presented by Maxine Szramka and Katie Walls in Surry Hills, Sydney.
The presentation led into a discussion on what is true well-being and what are some of the key factors that get in the way of us experiencing true well-being as women. A point of consideration presented was that if we are feeling tension then we are in a state of ill-being.
Resilience as a way to 'get by'
A discussion on and around how we have used resilience as women to get by opened up a conversation that most women could relate to. Resilience has become our best friend. We have used it to toughen up, to be able to do it all, to be the superwoman; the mother, daughter, friend, career woman, wife, partner and in this state of being 'resilient' we then override listening to what our body needs in way of self nurturing and self care. Resilience has been championed in our society, yet it has not delivered in giving us true well-being because we are still feeling the pressures and tensions of life not to mention the increasing rates of cancers and women's health issues.
With resilience we are able to 'get by' as women – but isn't this 'getting by' a far cry from a true state of well-being that we can live as women, a life that is filled with joy, connection and love that is felt from the body on a daily basis.
Our innate sensitivity as women
Innately we are deeply sensitive and yet for many of us we have chosen to numb our sensitivity because the world has told us that it is not okay, that we won't survive or get by if we are too sensitive.
If we reflect back to when we were little girls most can remember this sensitivity and just how gorgeous it felt. But at some point we decided that being sensitive was not a good thing. We are fed and then we buy into the pictures that we can be the super woman, overriding much of what doesn't feel good. We put on our cape, stand proud and tall in our boots and get on with life.
Sensitivity as our 'superpower'
The discussion within the group presentation led into that perhaps we have got it wrong and our sensitivity is actually our superpower. That being sensitive is what allows us to feel and be in the world in a way that honours the innate preciousness and natural power that we all are as women.
We discussed that the body has a deep wisdom, yet we often choose not to listen to it and we override it in an effort to achieve everything we think we need to. However, what we arrived at is that it is through our sensitivity that we can feel what it is that the body requires to be in a true state of well-being, so when we surrender in our body and allow ourselves to be tender, we naturally connect to the woman that is there within and from this quality have the ability to honour her in all that we do. Living in connection is what leads to true well-being.
Could it be that sensitivity is the new black?
Honouring our sensitivity ~ the key to true well-being
Isn't it time that we turned the tables around and honour our sensitivity as ignoring it hasn't worked so far which is evident with the increases in women's health issues over the past decade? Could it be that honouring our sensitvity is the key to true well-being for us as women?
By Donna Gianniotis
Well-Being for Women presentations are held in Surry Hills in Sydney. The next upcoming presentations will be held on Tuesday 12th July & Tuesday 11th October at Surry Hills Library and Neighbourhood Centre. Read more


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Time goes too quickly when you are off for one week from work. I don't know where the time has disappeared. Well I do. Obviously, by having late nights watching too many films, one after the other, and sleeping in, my hearts content. My sister called me 'Princess and the dvd' today. I don't mind, I found it quite amusing. Hey it is good to catch up on sleep. When I'm back at work, I don't sleep very well. five or six hours of sleep, when I am personally trying to aim for eight hours of sleep. Guess, it doesn't help, when you're engrossed with a book and you're like, 'just one more page and then I'll sleep' or 'just till the end of this chapter' and it turns into the whole book.
I had a thought the other day about time. We are stuck in time. Time doesn't move fast. It is us, humans who are moving fast. Time is still. Like poetry.
So, yes I am now called 'Princess and the DVD' – yes – I love films. What films did I watch last night? A documentary about real life serial killers. Frightening stuff and it was based on the the fictional character Hannibal Lecter, as all the killers are cannibals. Nice 😦 Then there was the hot, action hero Jean Claude Van Damme's movie "Double Impact", I remember watching this action film when I was a kid. It was after all a 1990's film. Then ending the night with comedy romance, "Notting Hill" starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant – mister floppy hair! I do love watching films.


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Squash is a ball sport played by two or four players in a four walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. Squash is a fast but fun game.
When: Monday's
Time: 2.00pm-3.00pm
Where: Dudley Leisure Centre
Staff: Sid Virk
Cost: Free
For further information please contact Sid Virk on 0121 565 7818.


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There are always plenty of concerts and sporting events at NYCB Live's Nassau Coliseum, but come October some other happenings are going on at the arena.
Some terrifying creatures, known as the "League of the Undead," are skulking around there this month. They've settled into Blood Manor, which takes up residence at the Coliseum shortly, ready to haunt Long Islanders through Nov. 3.
The creepy phantasmagoria that is Blood Manor, known to horrify those who dare enter its doors in lower Manhattan's Hudson Square neighborhood, is back on Long Island for its second season here. Zombies, chainsaw wielding murderers, bloody ghosts, perhaps a mental patient or two, or a werewolf, even a clown, inhabit "Crypts of the Coliseum." They're waiting to terrorize all who dare cross their path.
Double in size of the original Blood Manor, visitors will find themselves enveloped by an overwhelming sensory experience as they navigate 10,000 square feet of dimly lit corridors, chambers and hidden places.
Each room has a different theme, all filled with gore. In one room, you mighty find rotting flesh oozing out of a refrigerator. In another — the old morgue — a rotting corpse on a table awaits passersby, with other corpses popping up at any given moment.
"The effect is one of shock and awe," according to those involved with the project. "You turn every corner and there are creatures everywhere."
The macabre beings — 40 to 50 of them — are in constant motion, ratcheting up the fear factor, building to a terrfying 3D conclusion.
"Blood Manor has a great following," says Nick Vaerewyck, NYCB Live's vice president of programming. "Many people go down to their haunting every year. We were blown away by the all-immersive experience when we first visited."
It's a formula that takes the classic haunted house experience into the 21st century, ratcheting up the scares with high-tech UV lights, animatronics, and gore-filled state-of-the art props.
"We felt really good about the response last year," Vaerewyck says. "People were eager to come through a second and third time. This year we've added some elements that will make the experience even better."
All in the action happens nearly completely in the dark. Visitors can't even feel their way around since there's no sense of depth, with constant bombardment by the strobe lighting.
For this season the Blood Manor team changed the layout and added more details. That means one thing: more frights.
"Four rooms have been completely redesigned," Vaerewyck says. "And the characters are more seasoned and ready for much more visitor interaction. It's going to be a totally different feel."
So watch out! And just when you think you've witnessed all the frights, there's that explosive conclusion that leads everyone into a disturbingly absurd nightmare, enhanced by 3D glasses.
"The floor is popping, the colors are popping, it's such a cool experience," Vaerewyck says.
In essence, for those who enjoy a good scare, there's something for everyone.
And adding to the — frightful — fun this year, stop by the Fear Garden and carnival, on the plaza. Visitors can partake of food, beverages, and entertainment, along with a Ferris Wheel, Riptide ride and carnival games, and some special (creepy) guests may even show up.
"We've enhanced the city experience here," says Vaerewyck. "Since we have more room, we're able to do things on a grander scale."
"It's never the same and always evolving. People will be blown away by how much fun they're going to have. Scream, laugh at your friends, Blood Manor is all about bringing people together and having a good time."
Blood Manor's Crypts of the Coliseum
When: Oct. 5 through Nov. 3, times vary. Not recommend for children under 14. $30-$50 for R.I.P Express Entry Pass for all dates except Halloween weekend (Oct. 26-31), $35-$55; available at www.ticketmaster.com, www.nycblive.com, or (800) 745-3000.
Where: Nassau Coliseum, Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale.


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- Uitgever:Penguin Travel
- Bindwijze:Paperback
- Afmetingen:13,2 x 19,8 x 2,1 cm
- Taal:Engelstalig
- Publicatiedatum:jan 2013
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The trip to Mauritius was amazing and everything worked out perfect thank you.
We were so busy with all the activities but still could work in some rest. We hired a scooter the one day and explored the Island and took the tandem on the hottest day and forgot the wallet at the hotel but it was a good adventure!
It was especially hot and we were surprised to find that the weather is so constant. That air-con in the room was a lifesaver. Also, the wifi service was extremely good.
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For: John McLay
"As brisk as bees, if not altogether as light as farries, did the four Pickwickians assemble on the morning of the twenty-second day of December in the year of grace in which these, their faithfully recorded adventures, were undertaken and accomplished. Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away. Gay and merry was the time, and gay and merry were at least four of the numerous hearts that were gladdened by its coming.
And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment. How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual good-will, which in that happy state of companionship and mutual good-will, which is the source of each pure and unalloyed delight, and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages alike, number it among the first joys of the future condition of existence, provided for the blest and happy! How many old recollections, and how many dormant sympathies, does Christmas time awaken!
We write these words now, many miles distant from the spot at which, year after year, we met on that day, a merry and joyous circle. Many of the hearts that throbbed so gaily then, have ceased to beat; many of the looks that shone so brightly then, have ceased to flow; the hands we grasped, have grown cold; the eyes we sought, have hid their lustre in the grave; and yet the old house, the room, the merry voices and smiling faces, the jest, the laugh, the most minute and trivial circumstances connected with those happy meetings, crowd upon our mind at each recurrence of the season, as if the last assemblage had been but yesterday! Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveler, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!"
Every year during the Christmas Season, an old college friend of mine and I read and ponder this piece of literature together. Sometimes we read it to each other on the phone as we are not usually in the same vicinity at the same time. It's become sort of a tradition. It's become a comforting tradition for me.
And so, I let go of the past and return to the present moment. It's a good place to be. Everything is just as it is meant to be. I am learning my lessons. Making my way. There are no accidents.
"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time." ~Laura Ingalls Wilder


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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its proposed physician fee schedule for 2020. Here are the highlights, based on the Academy's early analysis. Because this is a proposed rule, the Academy will work with CMS over the next few months to ensure a final version that is fair to ophthalmologists.
Academy, ASCRS Secure Equitable Cataract Reimbursements
The Academy partnered with the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery in an exhaustive effort to retain reasonable cataract reimbursement for our profession.
CMS today agreed to the rate that the American Medical Association's Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) submitted. Although this is a decrease, the rate is equitable relative to payments of other physician services of similar time and intensity. It is a recommendation to which the Academy and ASCRS agreed.
The RUC is a unique multispecialty committee dedicated to describing the resources required to provide physician services which CMS considers in developing Relative Value Units (RVUs).
In a process that began last year, the Academy and ASCRS negotiated with the RUC for a rate that is based on our members' survey data.
This extensive survey delivered to the RUC a robust data set culled from practicing ophthalmologists. It was combined with careful, sustained negotiations with the RUC. CMS accepted this recommendation for its proposed fee schedule for 2020.
The proposed cataract fees for 2020 are as follows:
Additionally, CMS is recommending Medicare Administrative Contractors set their own prices for new, combined cataract-and-ECP codes.
Despite the decrease, cataract surgery remains valued at the very top of the scale when compared with procedures of similar length. This is an acknowledgement of intraocular surgery's unique intensity and complexity.
Ophthalmoscopy Reimbursements
CMS is also making cuts to ophthalmoscopy fees. This is a very high-volume procedure, with very low-paying codes. Reimbursements for these codes will be even lower next year because now they will be bilateral instead of being billed on each eye. Physicians will no longer be paid for the initial ophthalmoscopy, only the extended procedure. Codes currently used to bill these procedures will be deleted.
The proposed ophthalmoscopy fees for 2020 are as follows:
The 2020 Conversion Factor
The proposed 2020 conversion factor is 36.0896, which would be up from 36.0391. There is a 0.14% budget-neutrality reduction.
The 2020 conversion factor for ambulatory surgical centers (documented today in a separate proposal) would be 47.827 for facilities that meet quality-reporting requirements, 46.895 for those that do not.
CMS' E/M Proposal
Last year, CMS permanently changed how E/M is reimbursed, collapsing the current five payment levels to just three. This change won't take place until 2021.
At this time, CMS is proposing to replace the impending changes to E/M with a plan put forward by the AMA on guidelines and descriptors in order to place more emphasis on the time required. The proposal would significantly increase the payment for these services in a budget-neutral manner that also negatively affects ophthalmology.
CMS is also proposing not applying these E/M adjustments to post-operative surgical visits that are built into ophthalmology's procedures.
Overall Effect
Because of the change to E/M and cataract and ophthalmoscopy codes, ophthalmology would experience one of the largest decreases among all medical specialties.
Quality Payment Program/MIPS Changes
The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System is getting harder. Physicians would need 45 points to pass, up from 30 points, thereby avoiding a 9% penalty. CMS also proposed increasing the cost category weight to 20%, up from 15%, along with fewer exclusions.
The Academy's IRIS Registry remains ophthalmologists' best tool for success in MIPS.
More Analysis Forthcoming
The Academy is reading and analyzing this massive, 1,704-page document (PDF, 7.6 MB). Make sure to visit the 2020 Medicare Fee Schedule page and read Washington Report Express in the coming weeks for more information on how this fee proposal will affect our profession.
For more information, contact Matt Daigle at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Ephesians 6:15, "As shoes for your feet put on whatever will make you ready to proclaim the gospel of peace" (NIV).
I have been thinking about shoes all day long. This is incredibly strange for someone who doesn't even like shoes!
This passage about the armor of God is an interesting one for a variety of reasons. Most of the pieces are defensive in nature (although not all), but the language of armor and battle and war does not lend itself well to discussions about peace… except when it does.
And when it comes to our feet, the word is "whatever."
Whatever prepares you to proclaim the gospel of peace, in the midst of struggle… put it on your feet and move! Because our shoes say an awful lot about where we have been, where we are going, and what we are willing to do. And who we are, too… Our shoes say a lot about who we are.
As I began to process all of this, many hours ago, a scene from a movie that I hadn't seen in over twenty-five years came to mind. I'm thirty-eight. If you do the math, you'll quickly realize that we're talking about something that I saw when I was thirteen. It is absurd that it stood out so vividly in my memory. The movie was "Fried Green Tomatoes." As I scribbled a note to remember to look this up later, I immediately started to shorten it to an abbreviation and was completely disturbed when it came out FGT… like this blog…
I viewed the film (which I cannot recommend… and I certainly cannot recommend for young teenagers) early this evening, because I wanted to make sure I was making appropriate connections. There are a couple of horrifying scenes depicting the Ku Klux Klan (all scenes in all movies, books, media of any kind, and especially real life which depict such an atrocity are horrifying), and a main character asks why the participants in this violence do not have enough sense to change their shoes if they don't want others to know who they are. What a great question!
If the private places our feet travel are places of violence, hate, discrimination, and exclusivity; our shoes will identify us as inadequate vessels of the gospel of peace. There is no hiding our character when the most exposed parts of our beings provide undeniable clues about who we really are.
Admittedly, I am a lousy example when it comes to footwear. Y'all, I've been faithfully wearing my flip flops in sub-zero temperatures, in the snow, all week. But I guess this proves the point. Maybe the world will know us by our shoes… and where we're willing to wear them. What's on your feet?


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There is never a good time for a cold – especially while on the road! Right now I can feel one coming on so I've made a quick and easy cold fighting remedy: Ginger tea with turmeric and honey.
Why does it work?
The ginger is an immune booster and it also clears the micro-circulatory channels of the body, including those annoying sinuses that flare up during colds. Ginger also warms up the body, so it promotes healthy sweating that detoxifies and releases cold symptoms. Turmeric is rich in curcumin which can prevent infections from getting worse. It's also a powerful anti-inflammatory that will aid in faster healing. The honey is anti-bacterial and antiviral, and also helps soothe the throat as well as provide a sweetness to the drink.
My Quick and Easy Cold Fighting Remedy:
- 1/2 an inch of peeled, fresh ginger cut up into small chunks, or 1 teaspoon of ginger powder
- 1/2 an inch of peeled, fresh turmeric cut up into small chunks or 1 teaspoon of turmeric powder
- Honey to taste (use raw if possible and remember honey is high in fructose so don't go all crazy with it. I use about 1 tablespoon)
- Pour boiling water over the turmeric and ginger.
- Let infuse until warm. About 5-10 minutes
- Stir in honey.
- Add lemon if available.
If you are on the road and can't find turmeric, no worries – the ginger and honey will still work wonders!
When I'm done with my tea I like to reuse the fresh ginger and turmeric to make another cup. Of course you can't do this if using powders, but the fresh roots can make at least two powerful cups of cold-fighting goodness.
Now, go show that cold who is boss!
Health Coach Jenna