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system disorders." The company also says it is being advised by Jefferies & Company, Inc. and Perella Weinberg Partners, with legal counsel from the Cooley law firm.
While Cypress says it will continue to fill orders for its Avise line of personalized medicine services, the company will either sell or discontinue the business by the end of September.
The company estimates that exiting its commercial business will decrease its operating costs by about $10 million a year, although operating results for the rest of this year will be adversely affected by as much as $4.5 million in severance payments and other charges.
Ramius, predictably, denounces the move, questions the sale of the fibromyalgia drug to Forest, and demands to review documents related to the marketing agreement.
In a statement issued yesterday, Ramius Partner Managing Director Jeffrey C. Smith, says, "This is just another prime example of the Board failing to exercise its fiduciary responsibility to represent the best interest of all shareholders. Rather than rushing to dispose of the Co-Promote, the Board should have considered its potential strategic value to an acquirer and determined how best to maximize its value."
Smith concludes by calling on Cypress to "halt all extraordinary transactions." A spokesman for Ramius declined to comment today, but hinted there is more news to come.

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This Beer Is Perfected Through Artificial Intelligence
IntelligentX Beer refines its own recipe based on Facebook Messenger feedback Meet the world's first beer crafted by artificial intelligence: IntelligentX. To create the perfect batch, the London-based brewing company behind the project collects customer feedback through a Facebook Messenger bot then inputs that information into an algorithm to tweak the beer's recipe. [embedded content] IntelligentX cofounders Hew Leith and Rob McInerney are the two collaborators on the project. "We take all the choices: the ingredients, the methods and so on, and put that in a data structure that the AI understands," said McInerney. IntelligentX affectionately calls its algorithm ABI for Automatic Brewing Intelligence. IntelligentX beers are brewed in four varieties — golden, amber, pale and black — though it is unclear how curious drinkers can get their hands on a bottle. A cryptic message on…
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Marlins plan FSU day
Team to honor Florida State
MIAMI – The Miami Marlins are making a new effort to attract fans.
The Fish are planning an FSU Day at Marlins Park.
The Marlins are hosting San Francisco on Sunday Aug. 18.
The Marlins are welcoming the Florida State Boosters club and the Miami Seminole club.
The Giants star player is Buster Posey.
The catcher was a standout at FSU.
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Alright, folks, I'm back, got in last night. It was a long and exhausting trip, but I enjoyed the opportunity to speak to our youth. I got video of the last talk I did with the 13-14 year olds and I'll let you know when I get that uploaded. It wasn't the most accessible place in the world, but I managed to get around pretty well. It was most enjoyable seeing so many good Catholic families dedicated to Christ and His Church. This is what is desperately needed to counter the culture of death in our world! Some pics:
Tomb of the unborn outside the building I was staying in:
CatholicFamilyLand was founded by Gwen and Jerry Coniker, parents of 13(!) children and former members of the Pontifical Council for the Family. Gwen died in 2002 and her cause for sainthood was opened in Sept. 2007. Her body rests in a side chapel in one of the buildings at CFL:
On my way home I stopped in St. Louis to visit a good friend of mine and her 6 week old baby Selena Christine:
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Just like the featured attraction on Saturday night, the chief support bout is also a rearranged fight as Martin Lindsay prepares to reclaim the British featherweight title when he takes on Lee Selby. Just hours before they were due to trade leather at the Odyssey Arena last September, the Welshman fell ill and on doctors […]
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Hillerby keeping the faith ahead of Odyssey showdown
FOLLOWING his one round demolition of Alesandrs Radjuks at the Emerald Roadhouse in February, Joe Hillerby (6-0) declared that 2012 would be the year when he makes the breakthrough.
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South Belfast will not miss out as one of the most important weeks in local music history kicks off towards the end of this month.
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Another edition of Kantar Worldpanel's Smartphone OS Market Share Data report has come out and this one's a doozy for both iOS and Windows. The numbers cover the holiday quarter of 2015 and they seem to show an overall decline in interest with Windows-based phones and iPhones.
Windows saw a couple of steep changes downwards year-over-year, with Italy seeing a 6 percent loss in share, France down 5.2 percent and Australia off by 3.3 percent. Small, but measurable gains were made in Great Britain and Japan. Still, with shares dropping from double digits to below 8 percent, it's not a pretty look.
Thanks to the underwhelming iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, iOS market share took more than 3 percent falls in the US and Italy. There was 1.1 percent growth in China, but that number has seen better times.
The most impressive annual growth in a certain market was found in Spain as Android jumped up from 66.6 percent share during holiday 2014 to 78.1 percent this year — that's 11.5 percentage points.
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IBM Doesn't like drama -- and it proved that late last month when, without fanfare, its board of directors named 30-year company veteran Virginia Rometty to succeed Sam Palmisano as CEO.
Rometty will replace a somewhat reserved figure who didn't seek the spotlight in Washington or Silicon Valley, but who nevertheless brought big changes to IBM and set clear directions for it.
Rometty, the company's senior vice president and group executive for sales, marketing and strategy, will take over as CEO on Jan. 1. Palmisano will remain chairman of the board.
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44 years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated. We have come a long way in the area of race equality, but we still have so far to go.
I spend quite a bit of time on Facebook keeping up with friends and family. I also keep up with some of my favorite celebrities and public figures. Last week I decided to check out Dr. Cornell West's fan page. He posted several announcements in support of a youth leadership conference, hosted and organized by his good friend, Tavis Smiley. There was one question in response to the post that is often asked of black leadership when these types of conferences are called: "Is there going to be some definitive strategy and planning or a bunch of talk about our "glorious" past?"
I tried to walk away from the question, but I couldn't. This question annoys me every time I hear it. It reeks of laziness and complacency. I posted the following statement in response:
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Sneaky Green Tip #3
Ditch the plastic to go green. When I first moved out on my own I would save the plastic containers from take out, yogurt, cheese... anything so I wouldn't have to spend big bucks on tupperware. After the BPA craze when companies started removing BPA from their plastics, I thought it would be fine to start saving those new BPA free containers. Then I read that often times, in place of BPA, companies are using substances more harmful than even BPA... we just don't know about it yet. I don't know who true this may be, but I'm not willing to gamble on it either.
So now I have a glass fetish. I collect glass everywhere and anywhere I can. I save my spaghetti sauce jars. I save the apple juice jar. I buy glass containers from every yard sale, thrift shop, and rummage sale I see. The tops of my cabinets are decorated with my glass finds, and my cupboards, and fridge are full of the work horse variety. I love glass!


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Well I thought I should write a post as it's been a while since I've been on here! My apologies for being away so long, but I have been very extremely busy with a number of projects, many of which I hope to be able to post properly about over the coming weeks!
I have been spending a lot of time painting on both canvas and wood to create some new pieces for my Filiadavidus shop on Etsy, I hope to launch the new pieces, both originals and print versions, later this week!! It's very exciting! I also have a couple of canvases that I will put prints up of, one of which I'm very happy with so I may just post a photo of in the next couple of days, look out for that.
One of my prints, Thoughtful, has just won the Daily Challenge over on the Etsy Challenge Blog, which I am very pleased with, it has also generated a lot of extra traffic so hopeful it'll sell soon, fingerscrossed!
Yesterday I got an email from Kat, at Smidge.ca, to let me know that my print 'Thoughtful' had been featured as her Readers Choice for the day. It is lovely to know my work is getting out there! If you would like to read about it click here, alternatively you can go directly to the print 'Thoughtful' by clicking here.
I'd also like to say a big thank you to all the people that have put my work on their treasury's. I woke this morning to find three messages from different sellers, saying they had chosen my work for their collection's. What a lovely way to start the morning, only problem is now I'm going to have this kooky grin all day!


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Looking for a great holiday-inspired performance this weekend? Good! I have a few ideas for you then, because we have some great music being played in our town! Not sure which one to choose? Or – did you just happen across my classical music blog and you're not yet really a fan? If so, I … Continue reading
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Must See Classical Music in Columbus
Columbus, Ohio is a city filled with arts organizations and for those of us interested in listening to classical music, it provides us with a wealth of options. The classical music concert season is starting in the next few weeks and whether you're a veteran of going to see the symphony or looking to venture … Continue reading
Survey Results: The Raw Data
Following is the raw data from the survey I conducted earlier this month: Musical Arts in Columbus. Here are some details on the survey itself. * Taken June 4-18, 2013 * 192 attempts at the survey: 177 complete, 15 incomplete. 111 online, 66 via paper in person at the Arts Festival. Incomplete surveys are not … Continue reading


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Your premium cigar choices are always going to be infinite. The assessment process can be akin to boiling the ocean – cigar manufacturers are coming out with new brands all the time and your tastes and possibly your budget are always changing.
First an Important Part of the Selection Process is an Understanding of Three Cigar Basics
Everything about a premium cigar starts with the head. Your going to at least understand cigar cutter basics, as every cigar head has to be clipped prior to smoking it.
Take a hard look at the head of a cigar. It shoiuld look good, no ragged edges, the tobacco wrapper should be in place and the appearance of the tip should be consistent with the look and feel of the cigar.
An understanding of filler tobacco is also integral to the selection of a cigar. Filler is the core tobacco used in your cigar and it is the overarching taste component of any cigar. So, ask questions about the filler used in your cigar – the more you know about the filer the better you will be able to judge the quality of the cigar.
The wrapper of a premium cigar is like icing on a cake – it's integral to your taste experience and stay away from wrappers that have an odd appearance, look a bit dry on the exterior or have an odd coloration.
You want a consistent look and feel. Nothing wrong with some variations in color; but to underscore, a dramatic difference in color may mean it's a low cost wrapper or something has gone wrong in the manufacturing or storage of the cigar.
Two Great Everyday Premium Cigars that Won't Break the Proverbial Bank
Let's start with a premium cigar that's an standby smoke for an any cigar aficionado: The Rock Patel Edge Torpedo is an absolute must have for your humidor.
This cigar packs a taste wallop and it's not for the faint of heart; it's not going to knock you out of your chair with raw unfettered power, it's like firing up a Ferrari, it's a smooth powerful "ride" you are going to enjoy. But, probably not the best choice for a neophyte cigar smoker.
The Rocky Patel Edge really shows off the skills of Patel's chief cigar maker, Nestor Plasencia. It's a full flavored complex tasting cigar, comes in two premium wrappers: the spicy Corojo leaf or the "over the top" rich maduro that's as dark and oily as the bottom of an oil rig 1K feet down. Not for the fainthearted, as earlier.
Alec Bradley American Classic is made with a fine Nicaraguan tobacco leaf, using classic traditional "Cuban cigar manufacturing methods" that underscore the qualities of cigars made back in the early days in Cuba.
Why is this important? You want a cigar that has been manufactured properly; lower cost economy brand cigar manufacturers just don't have the time or resources to manufacture a quality product. The devil is always in the details.
The American Classic is a mild cigar, with a mellow smooth taste that goes well after a lighter meal of fish and chicken and a chardonnay. Not so much with heavier meals and full bodied red wine – it has a subtle taste that goes well with lighter meals.
- The American Classic uses a gorgeous tasting Connecticut seed Honduran wrapper. It's priced aggressively but there is not drop off in quality for this cigar vs. much more expensive sticks in the $200-300 price range (per box).
- The Alec Bradley American classic cigar provides a complex taste with notes of coffee, nuts and a slight woodsy after taste that lets you know this baby is well made. It's more expensive than entry level priced cigars; but it's well worth a few bucks more for a box of these cigars.
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The Camancho Triple Maduro owes its heritage to the Camancho family who were the first cigar manufacturers in the world to roll three layers of leaf into their premium cigars – there is nothing left to chance with this cigar brand, they grow their own tobacco, closely monitor every facet of the manufacturing process and carefully monitor every aspect of production.
This stick is something you should treasure after a great meal and with good company – it has notes of coffee (espresso), with a slight hint of toasted pine nuts, a slight aftertaste of mocha – the flavor is intoxicating and what you'd expect with a Camancho Triple Maduro. Your living large when you fire the beauty up.
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The European Molecular Biology Laboratory is an intergovernmental organization, which is why social security for their employees has to be adequately provided by the organization itself. At EMBL almost all PhD students and post docs are associated to the personnel group 'fellows'. Historically fellows were excluded from some of the social security schemes, which were offered to all other staff, like unemployment benefits and pension payments. In 2011 Dominik Boeke and me, both as elected fellow representatives in EMBL's staff association, started an initiative to introduce a pension scheme for fellows at EMBL. Initially we organized the fellow's representation in this matter throughout EMBL Heidelberg and all outstations in favor for concerted efforts to convince EMBL administration, the Director General and Council about our concerns (the Council consists of representatives of all member states and determines EMBL's policies). Hundreds of fellows, the staff association and many more actively supported the initiative. Eventually, EMBL introduced a pension scheme for fellows in a two-step process in 2012 and 2014. Alongside with pensions, unemployment benefits and other means of social security was and is in an ongoing process made available to fellows.
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Thesis Title
Dielectrophoretic Separation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using Different Electrode Geometries
Date of Graduation
Fall 2009
Master of Science in Materials Science
Physics, Astronomy, and Materials Science
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Kartik Ghosh
dielectrophoresis, single-walled carabon nanotubes, separation, electrode geometry, HipCO
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Materials Science and Engineering
The synthesis processes of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) cannot produce a pure sample of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). Separation of SWNTs from the impurities and further separation between metallic and semiconducting SWNTs is important. Dielectrophoresis is one method of separation by electronic type. Many factors influence the efficiency of type separation such as potential, frequency, solution chemistry, and electrode geometry. This work investigates electrode geometry and its effect on dielectrophoretic separation of SWNTs into metallic and semiconducting species. The electrodes were produced using optical microlithography where five geometries were created to study the effects of geometry on SWNT deposition and separation. It was found that electrode geometry has a significant effect on the efficiency of dielectrophoresis, where a radial electrode geometry gave the best deposition.
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A regular visitor to North Korea says North Korea is angling for foreign investment with a new government body set up to attract money into the isolated country.
Glyn Ford, a former member of the European Parliament who has been to North Korea more than 20 times and is now working for the EastWest Institute think-tank, said the country appeared keen to press forward with the move.
"All the messages I've been getting over the past six months or more are about bringing in inward investment," he told the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Beijing. "There's certainly a jockeying in Pyongyang to actually be part of the membership and the staffing of that state investment committee," he added.
"It's not full-blooded economic reform -- the North Koreans want to edge forward," Ford said. "The problem they've got is that if they want to follow either Vietnamese or Chinese-style reform they require inward investment."
China is already heavily involved in the North's economy, and Ford said he expected it would only really be Chinese companies that would take advantage of Pyongyang's move. "I was told that 80% of what's coming in North Korea at the moment is Chinese and I'm told there's a lot of Chinese investors nosing around in North Korea," he said.


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Believe it or not, there is a link between how many teeth you have and your risk of developing or worsening diabetes, for example. It makes sense when you think about it: your ability to gain adequate nutrition, eat a wide range of fresh food and chew comfortably diminishes markedly if you lose even one tooth.
In this paper,
J Clin Periodontol. 2011 Nov;38(11):1007-14. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-051X.2011.01775.x. Epub 2011 Sep 15.
Periodontitis is associated with angiographically verified coronary artery disease.
Buhlin K, Mäntylä P, Paju S, Peltola JS, Nieminen MS, Sinisalo J, Pussinen PJ. Source: Institute of Dentistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. firstname.lastname@example.com
the researchers came to this conclusion:
Compared with patients with no significant stenosis, poor periodontal health including missing teeth, periodontal inflammation, and bone loss is associated with angiographically verified coronary artery narrowing in patients with stable coronary artery disease or acute coronary stenosis.
In other words, if you don't have all your teeth, you're statistically likely to have cardiac disease problems.
In this study,
J Periodontol. 2010 Jun;81(6):870-6.
Number of teeth as a predictor of cardiovascular mortality in a cohort of 7,674 subjects followed for 12 years.
Holmlund A, Holm G, Lind L. Source: Department of Periodontology, County Hospital of Gävle-Sandviken, 801 87 Gävle, Sweden. firstname.lastname@example.com
the researchers found for the first time a dose-dependent relationship between number of teeth and both all-cause and CVD mortality, indicating a link between oral health and CVD, and that the number of teeth is a proper indicator for oral health in this respect.
Over 7,000 people and 12 years is pretty convincing!
And, it's not just your heart(infarction) or your head (stroke) that might be at risk if you are not orally healthy:
Oral health and peripheral arterial disease.
Hung HC, Willett W, Merchant A, Rosner BA, Ascherio A, Joshipura KJ. Source: Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Many studies have reported the association between poor oral health and coronary heart disease or stroke, but few of them evaluated peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Hence, in this study we examined the associations between oral health and PAD.
We found that incident tooth loss was significantly associated with PAD, especially among men with periodontal diseases. The results support a potential oral infection-inflammation pathway.
So, being 'well' is a hugely important thing. We offer our patients opportunities to be assessed, understand their current situation, and actively prevent future problems. If you'd like to consider a plan for your future, give us a call-we'd be happy to discuss it with you.


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Evangelical Christian Leaders Urge Proactive Climate Solution
It has been widely reported that US Evangelical Christian leaders yesterday issued a statement pressing the US federal government to tackle climate change as a matter of urgency. In doing so, the Evangelical Climate Change Initiative, a group of more than 85 Christian leaders, invoked Jesus Christ in urging government and business leaders to "solve the global warming crisis". Surprisingly, the context of this public postion seems larger than just climate change. The attention-getter, though, was the reading at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington of the statement, "Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action", saying "human-induced climate change is real," and calling on the U.S. government to pass legislation establishing limits on carbon dioxide emissions..."This is God's world, and any damage that we do to God's world is an offense against God himself." Saying they were not represented by the statement were such long standing 'skeptics' as James Dobson of Focus on the Family.
This is an amazing development , coming as it does, just as many of us have become convinced that rational arguements will not suffice to convince others of the need for climate action. Perhaps the spritual view is the one to make the difference. This was addressed most poignantly by Peter Asmus of the San Franciso Chronical when he recently asked: "Is the environmental movement dead? No, it is just in the process of transforming itself into something larger than the next frightening direct-mail fundraiser...". Even so, a call to elected officials is not exactly overlooked by the Evangelical movement.


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A few weeks ago I wrote a story about meeting a Buddhist Monk on the Highline. He was exactly what I needed that day. I had prayed to God to bring me something to make me feel love that day. When I met this young man he said, "I love you because you are beautiful." I believe God can speak to us through many vehicles. That day I do believe I got what I needed and I give my higher power the credit. When I was discussing this with a friend, a New Yorker, she said, "Oh no, Cookie, that is a scam. I read about it recently. They give you blessings and take your money." I explained to her that I did not give him any money, but I did give him my phone number because we had to use the translator on our phones to communicate. There was only so much, "I love you because you are beautiful" I could take. I was trying to discuss God's love with him and how I thought he was displaying it. Our conversations were benign and I felt no fear. Anyone can find my number online, but I do not disclose where I live to strangers or Buddhist monks. Another friend of ours said not to worry he did not get money from me and it was harmless. As the days passed I received the same messages from him. I responded with well wishes. He then sent me a picture of himself in civilian clothes which I didn't think was appropriate if he is a monk, but who am I to judge. I would see calls from him and I would not answer because I don't speak his language. Recently, I received a text from him that said, "Where are you? I want to kiss you." I decided this was the devil talking and so I blocked him. I got a blessing and got to keep my money. I think I scammed him.
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Uptown Girl
Tomorrow I move to a new place on the UWS. That's the Upper West Side. I'm getting this city lingo correct. I have committed to stay in New York City for the month of April. While I am excited, it is still hard to be away from my husband, my children, my animals, and my friends. I am so grateful for this opportunity and as we keep saying in our family, "make it count!" I intend to continue growing, writing, doing work and service in my program of sobriety, meeting my obligations, and staying grateful for this season in my life. I feel like an exchange student. Each day I am so excited about my adventures and my surroundings, but there are moments I think I want to pack up and fly back into my comfort. I know that growing is painful despite one's surroundings. Staying in gratitude. Making it count.
New York and The Red Cross
Anyone who knows me knows I love The American Red Cross. When I graduated from college I was hired as a Donor Resources Representative with The American Red Cross in Birmingham, Alabama. My first boss, John Burleson, was like a big brother to me and our group was my family. It was 1984 and we were living the life. Everywhere we went, we were the Red Cross gang. I studied the history of the big red mother, as we called it; I wanted to know everything I could about it. I even went to the national headquarters in Washington D.C. with my mother, daddy and sister in August of 1985 on a family vacation. To this day, I am loyal to The American Red Cross. Tonight the Empire State Building is shining with red and white lights in honor of The American Red Cross month, March. I love looking up and seeing the lights each night and finding out what the colors represent. Tonight I was excited to see two of my favorite things together so beautifully. The Empire State Building and The American Red Cross. Two American icons. Grateful for them both.
The New York Way
29 March 2016
I have a blister on my feet from my new cool New York shoes. Today I'm going to wear my cool, comfortable shoes that I brought with me from Alabama. They look pretty New York to me. Style and comfort. That's the New York way. Yesterday I left my apartment at 6 pm for a 7 pm meeting downtown. I could have walked it in 46 minutes, or the correct train would have taken me 25 minutes at that time of the evening. I took the wrong train. Or, trains. I got on the wrong train three times. At rush hour. A great lesson in patience. I arrived at 7:20 for the meeting. That's the New York way. Learning about the trains. A friend told me he has lived here for 25 years and still takes the wrong train occasionally. Being kind to new people. That's the New York way. It's Spring in New York. It's freezing and windy. That's New York, and I love it.
The First Step, Again
From Coffee and Kafka
Taxi Cabs and Fire Escapes
I wanted to run
My feet in motion
Not going anywhere
Wild horses to help me roam
Taxi cabs to set me free
A fire escape to sit and think
A clear mind
A pen to write
My mind is open
My thoughts are free
Breathing is easy
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First published: 29 November 2017
London's suburbs are braced for a wave of construction after the mayor, Sadiq Khan, announced that rules protecting local character would be lifted to enable a big increase in housebuilding.
The capital's outer boroughs must build more homes over the next decade than there are in the city of Manchester, according to Khan's draft London plan. One-third of new housing planned in London will be built on small sites, including in back gardens and upward extensions of existing houses, apartment blocks and shops.
The plan sets the capital's development strategy until 2029 and calls for more than 250,000 homes to be built in 13 outer suburbs as part of a new London-wide housebuilding target of 650,000 over that period, more than double the current rate.
"I am using all of the powers at my disposal to tackle the housing crisis head on, removing ineffective constraints on homebuilders so we make the most of precious land in our capital," Khan said.


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We're using a $500,000 policy from Banner Life* with a 20 year term as an example. A 45-year-old male would pay $1,205 a year for this policy he qualified for the Standard class rate.
But his rate would only be $755 a year if qualified for the Preferred Plus class rate. That's a savings of over $450 a year.
When you multiply this over the 20 year term of the policy, it adds up to a saving of $9,100!
The thing that has a great influence on your rating is how you do on your Life Insurance medical exam. For tips on how to make the most of your exam, see the SelectQuote blog, "Six ways to Ace your medical exam ."
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The coming of the digital age has led to the creation of many new businesses, and as these businesses grow, they need to hire new workers.
Such is the case with Verdasys Inc., an information security firm based in Waltham, Massachusetts. According to the Boston Business Journal, the company recently acquired funding which will be used to bring in new workers.
Verdasys received $15 million in investment from GE Asset Management, reports the news source.
Company CEO Jim Ricotta said that that money would largely be used to hire salespeople and engineers to help expand the business of the firm, which was founded in 2002.
Ricotta said that last year, the company reached profitability on just under $30 million in revenue. It is hoping that this new investment, which the news provider reports brings the total amount of the funds raised by the company to $45 million, will help it expand its footprint in the information security industry overseas.
Many companies in the computer software sector have likely been adding jobs recently, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that more than 200,000 jobs were added in March.


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We recently released version 2.4 of Give. It's an exciting release that has a lot of performance improvements.
One side-effect of those improvements is that it is now completely incompatible with an old and retired functionality plugin that we formerly distributed called "CSV Toolbox". If you used CSV Toolbox in the past, please make sure that you deactivate it before updating to Give 2.4.
What is CSV Toolbox?
CSV Toolbox was a functionality plugin that we provided long before we developed our now full-featured export tools. For a while, Give had very basic exporting tools, and those tools did not include all the custom donation meta from custom fields or anything from Form Field Manager in particular.
We wanted to make sure our export features were robust, so while we were building that out, we put together a more simple version and called it "CSV Toolbox". We only distributed this via our support channels, it was never sold or posted publicly.
Once our export features were completed, CSV Toolbox became obsolete. But for those who still had it active, it just sat there harmlessly. But it also wasn't connected to our licensing so you couldn't get automatic updates to it at all.
Why is CSV Toolbox now a Problem?
Part of the speed enhancements we made in Give 2.4 were to ensure that any action that is designed only for the admin interfaces, only ever runs in the admin and nowhere else at all. CSV Toolbox was not built that way. It had several admin functions that were initiated even on the frontend. So now that our admin functions cannot access the frontend at all, CSV Toolbox tries to run there, but the functions are not available and thus you get a fatal error that prevents you from accessing your site.
I Already Updated and Now I've Got Trouble. What do I Do?
The best way to recover from this is to manually delete the CSV Toolbox plugin from your site. This is most often done via FTP. If you are not familiar with that, we suggest that you first contact your host and ask them to delete the plugin for you.
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L'El Orech Din- To the One Who Arranges Judgment "Hinei Yom haDin"- Judgment Day has arrived. This is the powerful message of the Untaneh Tokef prayer, with its depiction of the heavenly court and even the angels trembling before God's throne. The theme is expanded in the beautiful piyyut on p. 401 (in the Gates …
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Archive for the 'electric vehicles' Category
Thinking about Better Place's EV infrastructure proposals.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
— Richard Feynman
Better Place has attracted a lot of publicity recently, including on the Today Show and in the New York Times, following their agreement with AGL Energy and Macquarie Capital Group to raise one billion Australian dollars (about USD $665 million) to build a network of electric-vehicle battery infrastructure across Australia.
Better Place's model offers a network of battery stations, just like petrol stations, at which an attendant will swap out an electric vehicle's discharged Li-ion battery for a newly recharged one.
Drivers belonging to a monthly subscription service gain unlimited access to Better Place stations and fully-charged batteries for their cars. While electric-car owners can still charge their cars at home, a series of stations gives them more flexibility to travel long distances despite a battery's limited range.
These are the biggest challenges to electric vehicle adoption – even the very best electrochemical batteries give a relatively low limit to the maximum range, they take a long time to recharge, there's no infrastructure for recharging on the go, the batteries have finite lifetimes, and they're very expensive. There's only so much energy you can store in a given amount of battery of any particular chemical composition, and there's a limit to the rate at which you can pour energy back into the battery in practice – these barriers are not things you can easily get around with politics and marketing.
The Tesla Roadster, as an example of one of the few battery electric vehicles on the consumer market today for which plug-to-wheel energy consumption data is easy to find, consumes 199 Watt-hours per km. In February 2008, Tesla Motors reported that, after testing a Validation Prototype of the Tesla Roadster at an EPA-certified location, that those tests yielded a range of 220 miles (354 km) and a plug-to-wheel efficiency of 199 Wh/km. (Admittedly, the Tesla is probably sacrificing a little energy efficiency for the sake of performance, meaning that it could probably be possible to deliver better energy consumption in a vehicle designed with that consideration in mind.) I'll use the Tesla Roadster as a specific example, mainly because such technical details of it are easy to find.
The battery in the Tesla takes 3.5 hours to charge from zero charge, and stores 53 kWh of energy. Efficiency of the charging electronics is 86%, so 62 kWh of electricity is needed for a single charge.
If you just plug in the vehicle to charge it, and it consumes 62 kWh to charge the battery, and charges in 3.5 hours, then the line power supply to the charger must supply 74 A at 240 V (AC RMS) or 144 A, on a 120 V grid. Those are very large currents, far in excess of the maximum capacity of 10 to 15 A or thereabout that we associate with standard domestic power circuits.
If you were to just plug in such a vehicle into a household electricity line socket to charge it, (at 10 A at 240 V), then a 12 hour charge would correspond to a range of 164 kilometers, or a round trip of 82 kilometers.
If you need to travel further than that in a day, then clearly "charging stations" like the Better Place model, or some kind of provision for high-current power supplies to charge the vehicles, needs to be available. In principle, at least, the Better Place business model sounds like a good idea.
The service also saves drivers time, according to the company, since Better Place attendants can swap out a battery in about three minutes, versus the few hours it takes to recharge a battery.
Keeping in mind that electricity is only as clean as its energy source, Better Place claim that their stations will purportedly recharge their stocks of batteries using electricity from renewable energy systems.
Better Place proudly proclaims that "We will build an electric vehicle network capable of supporting the switch of Australia's 15 million gas cars to zero emission vehicles." and that "AGL will provide all of the renewable energy—from wind and other sources—needed to power the electric vehicles and work with Better Place to optimize the network."
The total 'renewable' electricity generation in Australia in 2007 was 20.964 TWh, almost all of which (14.722 TWh) is hydroelectricity.
So, if all of Australia's current renewable energy generation, across all energy utilities – which is already used, already traded for "carbon credit", and sold to "green power" customers – was used to power Australia's 15 million passenger cars, assuming that they were all replaced by battery electric vehicles, then there is only enough renewable electricity generation at present for each car to travel an average of 19.2 kilometers per day, assuming that only "renewable" energy, i.e. hydroelectricity, and solar, wind, tidal or biofuel generated electricity was used to power 15 million BEVs, and that every bit of electricity generated from these systems in this country was dedicated exclusively to this use.
In 1991, cars in Australia travelled an average of 14,600 km [source], or 40 km per day. If this level of car use was maintained today (unfortunately I cannot find any newer statistics), then total renewable energy generation would have to be multiplied 2.1 times from present levels – assuming all cars were replaced with BEVs and that all the renewable electricity generation was used exclusively for charging the BEVs, and no fossil-fuel-generated electricity was used. I don't think I really need to convince anybody that any real expansion of hydroelectricity is not something that is at all foreseeable nor really practical in Australia.
Simply muttering the magic word "renewables" three times and clicking your heels, or something, isn't grounds for conjuring up an arbitrarily large quantity of cleanly generated electrical energy – the infrastructure has actually got to be put in place to generate that corresponding quantity of energy.
The entrepreneur wasted no time comparing the east coast of Australia, where Better Place will build "electric highways" connecting Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, to the West Coast of the U.S. where Agassi would like to do the same between L.A., San Francisco and Seattle. The greater Melbourne-Sydney metro area will require 200,000 to 250,000 charging stations, Agassi said. Better Place plans on deploying some 500,000 charging points for the whole of Israel.
Under the plan, the three cities will each have a network of between 200,000 and 250,000 charge stations by 2012 where drivers can plug in and power up their electric cars.
If you have 250,000 charging stations (I'm not sure if they mean 250,000 total for the east coast, or 200,000 to 250,000 each in each of those three cities.) and 21 TWh per year of renewable energy, then that's only enough for each charging station to be able to recharge three batteries per day, which is obviously completely insufficient. (1 day * (21 TWh per year) / (250,000 * 62 kWh) = 3.7)
In practice, burning one litre of petrol in an automotive engine results in emission of 2.32 kilograms of carbon dioxide per litre. Obviously, better fuel economy means better CO2 emissions economy per kilometer.
In Australia, the average GHG emissions intensity for electricity generation is 1000 gCO2/kWh. (In Victoria, it's obscene, about 1300-1400 gCO2/kWh.) The Tesla Roadster has a plug-to-wheel efficiency of 199 Wh/km. Therefore, the equivalent CO2 emission for the Tesla Roadster is about 20 kg CO2/100 km.
So, if you can have a petrol-burning IC engine car with a fuel economy equal to 8.62 L per 100 km or better, then in terms of CO2 emissions, it is equally as good as, or better than, such an electric vehicle. In brown-coal-powered Victoria, the point of equivalence is about 11 to 12 litres per 100 km – which basically all cars surpass, at present.
8.62 L per 100 km is 27.3 miles per gallon – so that's approximately equal to the old CAFE standard for cars in the USA, which I'm pretty sure was 27.5 MPG, and significantly worse than the newer standard of 35 miles per gallon. It is totally practical to build cars with such a degree of fuel economy.
Whilst in principle electric vehicles are a good idea particularly in the long term, we have to realise that right now, given the current state of electricity generation in Australia, the number one priority, in terms of mitigating excessive anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, has got to be the replacement of fossil fuel based electricity generation with non-polluting systems.
While we're implementing that, I also think that improving the fuel efficiency of ICE cars and vehicles is just as easy, probably more cost effective, and capable of delivering an equal degree of improvement in the environmental intensity of the transport sector, at least in the near term, until the coal-fired electricity generators start being replaced.
Robert Merkel over at Larvatus Prodeo posted a good post on the same topic recently.
I'll leave you with a quote from Merkel – I couldn't agree more with this:
If I were a government minister receiving a visit from Better Place and its partners for some kind of government incentive, I'd look very long and hard at the environmental benefits we'll get for the dough they're asking for.
Just like solar panels, I'd expect the answer to come back – lots of money for bugger-all environmental gains. And that should be the bottom line, not slick PR campaigns that suck in a gullible mainstream media.
Electric vehicles: A quantitative look.
For argument's sake, I'll start with an assumption that the fuel economy of your average petrol-fuelled ICE passenger car is about 7 L per 100 km under conventional conditions.
7 L / 100 km corresponds to about 15.1 kg carbon dioxide emissions per 100 km.
(You can use the above expression in Google Calculator, and just substitute in any alternative figure for the fuel consumption for your particular car, if you like.)
(In the above calculation I've used the assumption that petrol is basically pure n-octane in chemistry terms, in terms of its density and carbon content.)
Obviously, better fuel economy means better CO2 emissions economy and vice versa.
(For readers in the US (or elsewhere) who would prefer the Imperial units, try this link instead. Fuel economy of 30 MPG will correspond to about 0.6 pounds of carbon dioxide per mile.
The Blade Runner Mk. II BEV, for example, (which you can buy in Australia now), requires a charge of 95 amp-hours at 240 V, and has a range of 120 km, corresponding to an electric power consumption of 190 Wh (Watt-hours) per km.
(Similarly, if we know the charger's current draw, voltage, charge time, and the vehicle's operating range for a single charge, then the electrical energy required to run the car for a given range is straightforwardly calculated for any EV.)
The tech specs for the Tesla Roadster claim that its electric power consumption is 110 Wh/km.
The specifications for the Mitsubishi i-MiEV correspond to about 154 Wh/km average.
In Australia, the average GHG emissions intensity for electricity generation is 1000 gCO2/kWh. (In Victoria, it's obscene, about 1300-1400 gCO2/kWh.)
Therefore, the equivalent CO2 emission for the BladeRunner is 19 kg CO2 per 100 km, for the i-MiEV it's about 15.4 kg / 100 km, and for the Tesla Roadster it's about 11 kg CO2/100 km.
So, for electricity generation like Australia's, the i-MiEV is about the same, in terms of its indirect greenhouse gas emissions intensity, as an average, reasonably fuel efficient, petrol-burning ICE car. The BladeRunner is significantly worse than an ordinary car, and the Tesla Roadster is significantly better – but I guess the Tesla represents what is essentially a top-of-the-line EV, with a price tag to match.
At the moment, in Australia, there is absolutely nothing to be gained at all, in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reduction, from electric vehicles. (Unless you get a Tesla). (In fact, choosing an EV over a new, relatively efficient petrol or LPG fuelled conventional ICE vehicle, which you could easily get for the same kind of budget, could very well represent a significantly worse choice, in terms of GHG emissions.) For that to change, what is required is a large reduction in the greenhouse gas intensity of electricity generation – replacing coal-fired generators with nuclear power or other clean electricity generation.
However, the greenhouse gas intensity of Australia's electricity supply is very bad, by global standards. Ontario (in Canada) is an example of a place where extensive uptake of nuclear power, and extensive access to hydroelectricity, have almost completely displaced coal-fired generation, and provide electricity with extremely low greenhouse gas emissions intensity – about 200 gCO2/kWh, or 20% of the Australian average. In Sweden or France for example, you'll see much the same.
In the US, for example, on the average, it is somewhere in between.
Thus, under these conditions, the BladeRunner has equivalent GHG emissions of about 3.8 kg CO2 per 100 km, 3.1 kg/100 km for the i-MiEV, and about 2.2 kg/100 km for the Tesla – all of which are far superior to any ICE vehicle.


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Ariz. gov. wants proposal fast-tracked to address opioid crisis
The legislation is expected to include a limit on the first fill of narcotic drugs and a good Samaritan law allowing bystanders to call 911 for help without fear of arrest
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PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Monday promised to pump more cash into the state's K-12 public schools by starting to restore some cuts made during the Great Recession. He also wants the Legislature to fast-track a proposal to address the opioid crisis, overhaul the state's water laws and help fund his push to cut prison recidivism.
Details on the new school funding the Republican governor proposed during his fourth state of the state address weren't released. Ducey wants to add money to the basic funding formula that is distributed to schools based on enrollment and other factors and restore it to pre-recession levels. There have also been cuts to the school building fund and to cash needed to maintain and operate schools.
"I've pledged to increase spending on K-12 education, above and beyond inflation, every year I'm in office," Ducey said. "I've also said, we'll never check the box on public education. We can always do more for our kids and teachers."
Restoring all the cuts couldn't happen in just one year, but the goal is to accelerate investment in public K-12 schools. Some of the money will come from cash freed up by his agency directors during a review of spending he ordered last year.
The governor's office declined to provide details of the proposed new spending, saying that information will be disclosed later this week when Ducey's budget proposal is released.
Minority Democrats were wary of the governor's promises on school funding, saying he's promised to boost school funding in the past and came up short.
"It's very easy to get up here and say a lot of thing that sound good," said Rep. Rebecca Rios, the minority leader. "That's exactly what transpired with his last state of the state address. But come Friday when the budget appeared there were no dollars to back it up."
On the opioid front, Ducey said he plans to call a special session of the Legislature this month to enact the proposal. The legislation is expected to include a limit on the first fill of narcotic drugs from doctors and dentists, stopping doctors from dispensing drugs, requiring pharmacists to check a prescription database and enacting a "Good Samaritan" law allowing bystanders to call 911 for help without fear of arrest.
The governor called an opioid emergency in June and the state Health Services Department put in place real-time overdose reporting rules. Between June 15 and Dec. 28, 2017, the department tracked more than 4,900 suspected overdoses and 716 suspected deaths.
"Our package will attack this issue from all angles, while protecting individuals who suffer from chronic pain, and maintaining compassion for those struggling with addiction," he said.
Democrats were cautiously complementary of the proposals, but want more emphasis on people already addicted or jailed.
"I think his focus is good in terms of reducing the number entering and getting addicted," Rios said. "I think it's short on substance when you talk about treatment of people that are already addicted and treatment for those who are already incarcerated."
Ducey's staff has been working during the off-session to revamp a state law enacted in 1980 to ensure Arizona can survive a cutoff of Colorado River water in a drought situation while continuing to grow.
"Earning Arizona's reputation as a national leader in water management was no easy feat and it didn't happen by accident," Ducey said, "It was the proactive nature of our predecessors, and our state's willingness to take-on complex issues."
The governor has pushed to cut the number of released prisoners who return to prison, focusing on job training and other efforts to help them become productive citizens when they return to society.
He wants to expand a job training program to include as many as 1,000 inmates at men's and women's prisons west of Phoenix.
"These efforts and others are paying off," he said. "We've seen a 10 percent drop in released inmates going back to prison on a technical violation, and Arizona is experiencing the largest drop in the number of inmates in our prisons since 1974."
He also wants to help former inmates get jobs by ensuring that they have state identification before they are released. Not having an ID hampers their ability to get jobs.
"Let's get people off the streets; and in a job - with the goal of shutting down prisons, not building new ones," he said.
The governor also touted the state's relationship with Mexico, a key economic partner. He hailed a citizen, Thomas Yoxall, who killed a man who was attacking a state Trooper last year alongside Interstate 10. He also honored Cindy McCain, Sen. John McCain's wife, for her efforts in fighting sex trafficking.
Ducey came into office in 2015 promising to cut income taxes each year he's in office, but he has mainly backed small decreases that do not significantly affect state revenue.
This year will be no different: He's proposing to increase an exemption granted to military pensioners that allows them to shield $2,500 of their income from taxes.
That number hasn't increased since it was adopted in 1989, meaning the value to the 52,000 affected retirees has shrunk. He wants it boosted to $10,000 over two years, saving the average veteran $280 in state taxes a year.
"Their service has earned them a lifetime benefit from our nation," Ducey said. "So please, send me a bill that increases the exemption and demonstrates to our vets that we value this service."


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Chivas USA 0, Dynamo 1Jun 11, 2009 - 3:51 AM By JEREMY RAKES STATS MLS Correspondent
HOUSTON (STATS) - The Houston Dynamo continue to climb the ladder in the Western Conference and not even the best team in the league and Western Conference leader, Chivas USA, can stop them.
Stuart Holden scored in first-half stoppage time, and the Houston Dynamo extended their winning streak to four games with a 1-0 victory over Chivas USA on Wednesday night.
After starting the season 0-1-2, the Dynamo (7-2-3) have run off a nine-game unbeaten streak (7-0-2) to move within three points of Chivas (8-3-3) for the Western Conference lead.
"It was a hard game tonight, but it was important for us to score first," said Houston coach Dominic Kinnear. "The goal helped us pick up the pace. We got the three points on a difficult night, and that's the most important thing.
"We had a lot of long balls in the first half, but I think that was the first time that the runner and the ball met. It was a great job by Stuart to get through and finish."
Holden scored off a forward pass from newly acquired Cam Weaver. Holden took control just outside the penalty area, got past Chivas' Carey Talley, then faked right against goalkeeper Zach Thornton before going left.
"To come out with three points against the first place team, is a psychological boost for us," Holden said. "To get the goal at the end of the half and go into the half, 1-0, that was a bit of a relief, and we knew we could come out in the second half and playing without the monkeys on our back, per se."
Chivas' lone shot on goal came in the 83rd minute when Maykel Galindo got off a shot from about 20 yards on the right. Houston goalkeeper Pat Onstad made a diving save to his right to preserve the shutout.
"When you get behind, it's a tough place to play, small stadium, small field, and they did a good job defending us," Chivas coach Preki said. "We had way too many guys tonight with a sub performance, especially after the 30th minute.
"We can not make such a dumb mistake like we did. That's something that we work on all the time and we opened up the middle of the field. We did that and we got punished no matter whose on the field."
Houston outshot Chivas 11-3, with a 6-1 advantage in shots on goal. It was Houston's seventh shutout, and the Dynamo haven't allowed a goal in 307 minutes dating back to a 3-1 win over San Jose May 23.
"Our defense played a great game tonight," Onstad said. "I got that big save at the end of the game. This streak is helping our confidence go higher. We are finding ways to win in big matches, and that's what we did tonight."
Thornton made five saves for Chivas, which has dropped two of its last three matches. Chivas, which opened the season 8-1-1, is just 2-2-2 on the road and dropped to 1-4-5 all-time against the Dynamo, with an 0-4-2 record at Robertson Stadium.
"It's disappointing because it was a good opportunity to increase our points lead," Galindo said. "They did their job, they had their goal scoring opportunity. They possessed the ball, and we tried to tighten it up to get an equalizer, and we couldn't do it."
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Vinny grew up in New Windsor and graduated from NFA. He was a self employed truck driver for many years. He was a motorcycle enthusiast and enjoyed riding his Harley. He was a devoted husband and loved being around his family. He had a great sense of humor which allowed him to tell his many stories that will be missed by all.
Vinny is survived by his wife of 38 years, Denise Woodley Pillitteri, as well as his son, Vincent Pillitteri and his daughter, Christa Pillitteri, all of West Palm Beach, FL. Other survivors include his mother, Carmella Antonelli Pillitteri Starsiak and husband, Larry Starsiak of New Windsor, NY; his brother, Joseph Pillitteri and wife, Maryanne of Wallkill, NY; his sister. Lia Gallo and husband. John Gallo of Marlboro, NY; his sister-in-law, Sheryl Hunter and husband, Danny Hunter as well as his nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his father, Vincent N. Pillitteri.
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Remembering SES-8
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Replaying another old video, this time the launch of SES-8 back in December 2013 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which featured good lighting on the booster and fairing separations allowing for an animation to be made from the photographs showing these objects in flight. Click to view the SES-8 launch gallery.
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Haley Smilow Interviews Rickie Weeks
One of those players was Rickie Weeks. Below is a Q&A that was recently published in Baseball Youth Magazine, which is a magazine geared toward youth baseball players, that we thought our readers might also enjoy.
Thanks to Haley for sharing this with us and we wish you the best of luck in pursuit of your passion!
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Haley Smilow interviews Rickie Weeks
HALEY: What is your favorite thing about Miller Park?
RICKIE: The fans are amazing and I have spent my entire career in Milwaukee.
HALEY: Are there any other ballparks that you particularly like?
RICKIE: Miami because I was born in Florida and my…
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Kiko Bailey and Erick Wessel, curators and owners of The Mystic Musem, explore their collection of spirit boards, oddities, and haunted items in the museum and store.
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