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The Cardiovascular Research Foundation, in partnership with the American College of Cardiology, held Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2011 from November 7-11 in San Francisco. The features below highlight just some of the studies that emerged from the TCT meeting.
» Predicting PCI Outcomes
» Radiation Exposure: Comparing Radial & Femoral Routes
» Gender Differences After MI in PCI Recipients
Predicting PCI Outcomes
The Particulars: The risk assessment score ACEF (age, creatinine level, and ejection fraction) has previously been used to predict outcomes in cardiovascular patients. It is calculated by dividing age by ejection fraction and adding 1 to the score if creatinine levels are greater than 2 mg/dL. The ACEF score has been validated in randomized trials of cardiovascular patients but has not been evaluated in routine clinical practice for PCI recipients.
Data Breakdown: A study of patients undergoing PCI in routine clinical practice found that 21.2% of those in the high ACEF tertile had the highest 3-year death rate. Rates were 7.8% for those in the middle tertile and 3.3% in the low tertile.
Take Home Pearl: In patients undergoing PCI in routine clinical practice, the ACEF risk assessment score appears to be a good predictor of mortality.
Radiation Exposure: Comparing Radial & Femoral Routes [back to top]
The Particulars: Data on PCI- and coronary angiography-related radiation exposure when the radial and femoral routes are used are limited. The current evidence base has also been contradictory.
Data Breakdown: Between June 2004 and December 2008, 3,973 patients who had PCI or coronary angiography were assessed in a study. The average radiation exposure for those who underwent PCI via the femoral route was 112 Gy-cm2, compared with 106 Gy-cm2 for those who underwent the procedure via the radial route. Average exposures for patients who underwent coronary angiography were 59 Gy-cm2 for the femoral route and 52 Gy-cm2 for the radial route.
Take Home Pearl: Radiation exposure for patients undergoing PCI or angiography does not appear to be elevated with transradial access when compared with femoral access.
Gender Differences After MI in PCI Recipients [back to top]
The Particulars: Studies have shown that there are clear gender differences in risk profiles for patients presenting with myocardial infarction (MI). However, outcomes for men and women with STEMI who undergo PCI are not as clear.
Data Breakdown: An analysis of 3-year data from the HORIZONS-AMI trial found that women with STEMI undergoing PCI had a 77% higher risk of major bleeding after an MI than men. Women also had slightly more major adverse cardiovascular events than men (24.0% vs 21.2%), including death, reinfarction, stroke, and ischemic target vessel revascularization.
Take Home Pearls: At 3 years after an MI, women appear to have significantly more major adverse cardiovascular events than men, particularly major bleeding. However, little difference was observed in overall major adverse cardiovascular events.
For more information on these studies and others that were presented at Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2011, go to www.tctconference.com.


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3-Year-Old Zuffa Lawsuit Against NY Dismissed
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2010 GTC Conference Wrap-up:
IGCC on the move
despite obstacles
Five US IGCC power projects under construction or being developed will add almost 2500MW over the next 3-5 years.
Once again, a large and far-reaching turnout was attracted by the annual Gasification Technologies Council/EPRI conference attesting to the continued broad interest in the status of project and technology development connected with gasification of coal and other feedstock.
More than 600 attendees gathered from all over the world attended the 3-day Washington DC event. The range of topics presented over covered the gamut - from the booming commercial coal-to-chemicals industry in China to the emergence of new gasification-based technologies for the conversion of biomass to synthetic natural gas and liquid fuels.
The November-December issue of Gas Turbine World magazine features comprehensive coverage of key presentations made at the conference, with focus on major commercial-scale projects under construction and actively under development. A copy of this convenient wrap-up is now available at this link.
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"That is so low."
That's an umbrella in the lower right corner, by the way. (In case my amazing drawing talents were leaving you wondering.)
I know what you're thinking. You want it. But it isn't for sale! This magnificent magic marker drawing on wood is going to hang in our bathroom!
Everybody poops. Be prepared.
I have no idea what that means, either.
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With influences as diverse as Kierkegaard and Miles Davis, new insights are synthesised from both simple and complex discourse.
Ever since I was a pre-adolescent I have been fascinated by the essential unreality of the zeitgeist. What starts out as triumph soon becomes manipulated into a manifesto of greed, leaving only a sense of chaos and the prospect of a new beginning.
As wavering phenomena become distorted through diligent and diverse practice, the viewer is left with a clue to the edges of our future.


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Fans Will Not Be Happy About This Male R&B Singer Calling Out Beyoncé, SZA And Cardi B
"Stop using that f**king pain to make it OK to say some bullsh** on your record and get nominated for a Grammy..."
Update, September 28, 6:55PM:
Meek Mill aired out some of his grievances this evening, taking to his Instagram to share the receipts that just a week ago, things were totally cool between him and Beanie Sigel.
Captioning what appears to be a screenshot of a text sent to him from Sigel, Meek wrote, "All good a week ago!"
He then addressed that Sigel mentioned Lil Uzi Vert during their text exchange and reassured Lil Uzi directly, saying, "don't mind that shot, that's how n****s talk when you winning."
Following this, the rapper expressed, in all capital letters, "ONE MIN THEY TALKING LIKE THIS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS THEN THEY TALKING LIKE THAT? I CANT BELIEVE "n#%gas" went out like that."
He then added, "THIS WHY I GOTTA CHANGE MY NUMBER LOL."
The Philadelphia ended his response by saying that he feels as though others are far too concerned with what's happening on their cell phone screens and as a result, have an inability to think thoroughly.
Take a look at Meek Mill's heated Instagram response here, and see the original story for details below.
Beanie Sigel has come forward to offer his personal thoughts regarding why there is seemingly permanent bad blood between Meek Mill and Drake.
The common denominator among the two rappers? According to Sigel, all of their woes can be traced back to one source: Nicki Minaj.
"Drake don't gotta live by the rules we live by, or [the rules] you claim to live by," Beanie Sigel said during an interview with Taxstone. "He's not a street n****a. He's not from the streets, so he don't gotta live by that code. You can't look at that man in a different light because he got armed security or whoever he got. He's the f***ing biggest thing in music, n***a! A pop star. Who cares if he not writing that s**t? That n***a saying some s**t. I don't give a f**k. It's not taking away from your money or any of that."
Following Sigel detailing his thoughts about Drake as a person so deeply rooted in contemporary music, he went on to explain what he feels is the real reason Drizzy and Meek Mill may never see eye to eye.
"So what's the real reason why [Meek] was mad at Drake?" Sigel proposes. "In my point of view? You was laying in the bed one night, you rolled over and you looked at her and you asked her, 'You f**k that n***a?' And she ain't answer you in the way you wanted to."
That's quite the theory, Beanie.
Sigel recently inserted himself into another one of Meek Mill's battles by involving himself in the making of the Philadelphia rapper's diss track against the Game. He and the Game spoke on the situation and made amends, but Sigel still got punched during Diddy'sBad Boy Reunion show.
Perhaps Sigel may want to be a little less vocal about being in Meek's corner until things calm down.
Take a listen to Sigel's interview in full via the clips below.
(Photos from left: Gilbert Carrasquillo/Splash News, Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images, Photographer Group / Splash News)
"Stop using that f**king pain to make it OK to say some bullsh** on your record and get nominated for a Grammy..."
Here are all the artists who posted tributes to the late R&B singer.


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Kazan welcomes competitors of the 2019 FINA/CNSG Diving World Series
Olympians and Olympic winners, Asian, European and World Champions will take part in the 4th Leg of the FINA/CNSG Diving World Series in Kazan.
The prestigious tournament shall commence on the 10th and is due to be live till the 12th of May, the fifth year to go visiting the millennium city in the heart of Russia. On its fifth arrival to the Tatars capital the elite circuit registers 64 divers from 13 FINA Members entered for the contest. Top platform and springboard specialists, including 31 men and 33 women, will distribute 10 sets of medals in individual, duet and mixed disciplines.
Let's look ahead into the tournament and learn the must-know facts and features of the upcoming events.
Chinese legends give way to rising compatriots
The Men's field of Kazan will have a number of peculiarities, comparing to the 3 previous meets of the year. For the first time ever we will miss here a number of sounding Chinese names. There are 12 men on the list, and it is a pity, but the most victorious athlete in the 2019, 2012 and 2016 Olympic, 2015 world champion Cao Yuan is not attending. 3 previous legs booked Cao a marvelous lead of 6 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medals, so he can afford himself a short break in the mid-season.
Notorious 10m specialist Chen Aisen has not come to Kazan as well to leave the door to the top open for Lian Junjie, 2-time junior world champion and YOG silver medalist on the 10m platform. It goes without saying, that Chinese win here shall not come for granted. Milk is grilled to the mill of the Brits. The mightiest of them, Thomas Daley, celebrated his first gold win during 7 years, improving his season's overall to 550.05. What a good chance for him to dig on the gold mine!
The same holds true for the men's 3m springboard. Xie Siyi, a worthy rival for his compatriot Cao, is absent to bring more fire in a gold campaign of Kazan. Russian Olympic star Evgeny Kuznetsov may look competitive, currently ranking 4th in the overall table on 25 points. He rather badly misses victories this season, finishing at a hand to the podium not once. #3 in the chart Jack Laugher of the Great Britain is a sure bet. Olympic and world champion has already travelled to the podium 3 times, finishing as high as second one week ago in Montreal. Another top level performance shall come from Canadian Francois Imbeau-Dulac, who is better specialized on mixed and synchro trampoline diving.
Synchro contest well packed
Driving forces of China are dazzling in synchro events.
On the upper birth all eyes will be on the Asian decorated duo of Lian Junjie & Yang Hao. World and Junior Worlds champion Lian has been diving but for a year with Hao. He used to be a rookie partner for Chen Aisen since 2017 and won mixed 3m title in Kazan FINA Worlds-2015 pairing Han Wang. No matter how young the new duo is, their chemistry is almost perfect – both at the trampoline and in the air. One recent gold of Montreal's leg of the FINA DWS on 464.52 points is a good omen.
Chasing Chinese will be host Russian Victor Minibaev/Aleksandr Bondar, Australian Stacey Declan/Bedggood Domonic and British Thomas Daley/Matthew Lee. What a good show is ahead of us!
A broader competition shall be expected in the men's 3m synchro springboard. 18 years old Zonguan/Wu shall prove their strength against masters, like Daniel Good fellow/Jack Laugher of Great Britain, Philippe Gagne/Francois Imbeau Dulac of Canada. Several other pairs will be eying the podium as well, including host Russians, Ukraine and Mexico.
More fire in mixed events
7 mixed duets will seek fortune in 10m platform and one less in 3m springboard events.
German Loui Massenberg/Tina Punzel have been withdrawn shortly before the start, however, they were not regarded as the major title contenders. In the absence of Si Yajie, Lian Junjie (winners of 3 consecutive meets) is not in the race on gold, which is an omission indeed. Russian hopes Nikita Shleikher and Iuliia Timishinina look promising enough to combat North Korean Hyong II Mying and Jo Jin Mi.
On 3m mixed synchronized platform, Chinese rookies Chang Yani/Yang Hao are not in the competition and their nation transfers gold hopes on young Chen Yiwen/Tai Xiaohu. The ever podium residents Thomas Daley/Reid Grace as well as Francois Imbeau Dulac/Jennifer Abel will definitely be ready to challenge Malaysia and Australia.
Promoting universality
Asian powerhouse is always seen winning and they often say one of the reasons for that highly victorious frequency is universal character of their divers. Coaches tend to train all-around skills in their athletes since childhood and never cease working. To illustrate that, Chang Yani, pretty well doing on 3m mixed synchro, world champion-2017 and reigning Asian Games winner in women's duo with incomparable Shi Tingmao, will try her luck on 3m individual springboard. She will be a good challenge for Canadian Jennifer Abel and Maddison Keeney of Australia, wishing to add up to their bronze medals.
On the upper birth, strong dives may well be expected from Zhang Minjie, representing China (not so decorated as her compatriots Lu Wei and current chart's leader Zhang Jiaqi, but has already proved her strength as a synchro competitor), Canadian Meagan Benfeito, who experienced all spots of the podium but for the top to obtain #3 in the overall ranking underway, and Kim Mi Hwa, disappointingly fourth in Montreal overrun by her teammate Mi Rae. European Champion-2017 Louis Toulson and Pandelela will also eye medals and ranking points.
On synchro 3m springboard strong medal contenders have come from the Commonwealth nations - Canadian Abel/Citrini Beaulieu, Australian Keeney/Smith and British Torrance/Grace, the first two looking to pack their collection of medals to a full set. All strongest, but for the supreme Chinese, will again be in action on 10m platform, including Caeli/Benfeito, already on 2 bronze and 1 silver, Cheng/Toulson - always at a hand to the podium, and of course, the major breakthrough of Montreal Kim Mi Rae/Jo Jin Mi of North Korea.
Program to follow
The three-day event kicks off in Kazan on May 10 and features 10 standard events. Competition day 1 will play out 4 synchro titles as the finals in the 10m platform and 3m synchro springboard for both men and women are due to take place. On Saturday, May 11, the medal offer includes women's 10m platform, men's 3m springboard as well as the mixed synchro 10m platform. To crown it all, on Sunday, May 12, the winners will be celebrated in the men's 10m platform, women's 3m springboard and mixed 3m springboard.


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Your Swing Versus: A 9 Handicap vs Rory McIlroy
We all know we don't quite swing it like our heroes on tour. But what are the fundamental differences between an elite action and, well, ours? And what can we do about it?
This new series is designed to provide some answers.
"Here, we pitch nine-handicapper John Dudley against Rory McIlroy, a player of similar build," says former European Tour winner and TG Top 50 coach Andrew Murray.
"John is a decent player and in isolation his swing looks pretty sound. But when you compare it to an elite action, his issues with stability are laid bare. Stability is a key part of a great action, and seeing where these actions diverge will help you improve yours."
1. The Set Up: Differences
What initially strikes me is how much more dynamic Rory looks; he is perfectly in balance and athletically strong. In contrast John looks comfortable but not as stable; sitting into his thighs and a straighter spine will definitely assist his backswing stability. There's no skill to achieve this, just discipline and a mirror!
2. The Take Away: Differences
This is probably the part of the swing where these actions most closely align. John is very good; I like the clubface angle, which broadly copies the spine in a neutral position, and he sets the club on a good angle. Improved posture would assist this still more. His arc isn't quite as wide as Rory's but still impressive.
3. At The Top: Differences
John turns well but it's compromised by instability in his left glute and knee. The tell-tale signs are his belt tipped downwards and loss of height. This sees the shaft pointing right of target. Rory has a massive turn, retaining great width, but it comes from a much more solid base. It's the position of a flexible, strong athlete.
4. Delivery: Differences
John recovers well from that rather collapsed look. But to do so he's had to compromise the downswing's ideal ground-upchainreaction.HishipsaresquarerthanRory's andhistailboneismovingtotheball.Rory'sstabilityand strength let him retain angles, which lets him get the club in the slot, maintain radius and set up an inside attack.
5. Through The Ball: Differences
Because John has lost his angles, his action lacks power, stability and extension. He looks a little cramped or jammed up through the ball. In contrast Rory can fire his arms down the target line while his hips rotate at terrific speed. But this is only achievable with poise, power, strength, flexibility and balance!
6. The Finish: Differences
John finishes in balance, which is great; it's not explosive or wide enough for my liking, but that's very much a result of what's gone before. His hold looks unsecure, suggesting mid-spine inflexibility. Rory's massive arc takes his arms wide and away from him... and he remains perfectly poised – a lesson to us all.


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I can't help carping on about the worldwide turmoil in progress while the empires of the West were celebrating peace in November 1918, if only because nobody else seems to be mentioning it. We seem to be living in wild and crazy times today, and no doubt expect them to be remembered as such, but try stripping away the sensationalism built into information overload and comparing modern madness with the everyday news hitting the streets a century ago. With the grim exception of climate change, our apparently seismic social and political shifts can look pretty tame. Starting from where I left off in Germany, Russia, Belgium and Luxembourg, this is some more of what I mean.
On the day that Allied forces entered Luxembourg, 21 November, the German Navy surrendered to the Allies in the Firth of Forth, just off the Royal Navy base at Rosyth. The surrender, and that of some 160 U-boats at Harwich (in batches through the second half of the month), put an end to the only threat to Great Britain's home security since Napoleon, and was a hugely symbolic moment for the British, whose path to war had been mapped by the rapid rise of German sea power. Given that the Kaiser hanging from a gibbet was off the menu, at least for now, the image of his feared warships tamed was most visible proof of victory available to the British public. The nation rejoiced, but soon had other things on its collective mind.
The following day saw the publication of election manifestos by the two main contenders in the British general election, the Coalition Liberals led by Lloyd George and Andrew Bonar Law's Conservative Party. Called within twenty-four hours of the Armistice and due to take place in mid-December, the election asked a greatly expanded franchise – including some women for the first time, and millions of men serving overseas – to choose a government fit to rebuild the nation and the world while the party political system in Britain was in a state of unprecedented flux.
Most Conservatives and the majority of Liberals committed to continuation of the wartime coalition stood as 'Coupon' candidates – because they carried a coupon identifying them as the coalition's chosen candidate – and were opposed only by those against the coalition. The latter included a large portion of the new force in British politics, the Labour Party, and a substantial rump of the Liberals, still led by former premier, Herbert Asquith.
Asquith had won the last general election, but that had been back in 1910 and since then his popular stock had fallen a long way, prompting predictions of electoral failure in 1918 from almost everyone but Asquith himself, whose campaign was already being described as complacent and lethargic. Pundits assumed with equal certainty that the Labour Party, which produced its own manifesto on 27 November, would make substantial gains, not least because of the broader franchise, but how well it would do was anybody's guess. With the future shape and prosperity of the Empire manifestly in the balance, and given that I haven't even mentioned that it was also an obviously pivotal moment for the future of Ireland, this was one of the most extraordinary and eagerly awaited public votes in British history… and I'll get back to it.
While the British were all agog with triumph and trepidation, other victorious peoples were taking crucial steps towards nationhood or adherence to a chosen nation. In Zagreb and Belgrade, late November saw urgent attempts to organise a united front of southern Slav peoples in time to make a bloc impact at the forthcoming peace negotiations. The kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro had been unified in wartime, with the former far and away the more influential partner, but a separate National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs had been established during the War's last year at Zagreb, where it had proclaimed a Kingdom of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs in March 1918. On 23 November, after hasty negotiations in Geneva and elsewhere, the National Council proclaimed full unification of Serbia and Montenegro into a Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (ah, the wording).
A compromise reached under deadline pressure, created by a body that was self-appointed rather than representative, the new Kingdom was headed by the elderly King Peter of Serbia and came into being when his heir Prince Alexander accepted the Council's declaration on 1 December – but it pleased neither pan-Slavic nor nationalist elements within its constituent nations and was largely ignored by Britain, France and Italy. Allied troops continued to occupy parts of the territory claimed by the Kingdom (KSCS), occasionally becoming entangled in skirmishes with ragged local defence forces, and although the KSCS went on to send a delegation to Versailles, so did the Kingdom of Serbia. The Big Four (France, Britain, Italy and the US) chose to negotiate with the latter, though the US eventually recognised the KSCS in February 1919, while Britain and France gave it reluctant recognition at the end of the peace process. This was the only means of getting the KSCS to sign the treaty, and of passing responsibility for ongoing disputes about its legitimacy back to the Slavs themselves.
Despite its universal unpopularity and an almost continuous history of instability – including a coup in 1929 by which the then King Alexander established autocratic rule and Serbian dominance of a renamed Yugoslavia – the state would survive until the 1990s, when its tensions would finally explode into bloody civil war, an outcome that was predicted with some confidence by British newspapers and politicians in November 1918.
Meanwhile the disintegration of Germany was unfolding on a daily basis. A workers' republic of northern German states, with Hamburg as its capital, was proclaimed on 24 November. Three days later the newly proclaimed People's State of Bavaria, a social democrat regime filling a power vacuum since the flight of King Ludwig III on 7 November, severed relations with Berlin, and on 28 November the Kaiser signed the deed that turned his own flight to the Netherlands into a formal abdication.
Further east, the area that would one day be controlled by the USSR was in a state of dramatic, often dangerous flux, as civil war gathered pace in Russia and regions formerly dominated by the Russian, German or Austro-Hungarian Empires sought to establish their political identity and geographical borders.
The Bukovina region announced its intention to join Romania on 24 November, and a week later King Ferdinand reoccupied Bucharest at the head of his army. In between, on 28 November, Romanian troops retook the much-disputed Dobrudja province from Bulgaria, a move that forced the resignation of liberal Bulgarian premier Malinov. The new Bulgarian premier, Teodor Teodorov, took power the same day and was tasked with simultaneously making clear Bulgaria's condemnation of its alliance with the Central Powers (a crucial position in the run-up to peace negotiations), maintaining Tsar Boris III in power and appeasing the demands of both nationalists on the right and revolutionaries on the left (principally the Agrarian Union and the Communist Party). He would last until the following October, when revolutionary forces would take control of government without overthrowing the Tsar.
In Poland, the personal prestige of independence campaigner Josef Piludski had helped him form a generally accepted and stable government in the immediate aftermath of the Armistice, but it had territorial ambitions. The first skirmishes of the nine-month Polish-Ukrainian War for control of Galicia's mixed population were already taking place in November 1918, just as a revolutionary socialist Directorate was taking power in Kiev, while Polish disputes with Lithuania and Russia about the Vilnius region and Belarus would sputter briefly into open warfare before Poland's Baltic frontiers were set by the 1919 peace treaty.
Poland also sent forces into the northern Czechoslovakian provinces of Spis and Orava during November, and helped foster uprising to support its claims in Silesia, which was eventually partitioned between Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia after a plebiscite imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. Czechoslovakia was meanwhile engaged in border confrontations with Hungary that would spill over into warfare during 1919, and part of the Romanian Army had also entered Hungary in pursuit of territorial claims to Transylvania that culminated in the proclamation of a Romanian-Transylvanian union on 1 December.
I could go on like this for hours, reeling off crisis reports from all corners of a confused world, and still leave out plenty of big news. I won't. Instead I'll make the small point that, as mass media commemoration of the Great War issues its last outraged squawks, an explosion of events with far more global significance than trench battles are passing their centenaries on a daily basis. You won't be hearing much about them from the mainstream, but they're worth even this brief, partial examination, both as a perspective on the modern world and as a reassuring reminder that we have survived crazier times than these.


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When we build impervious surfaces like roads and parking lots, we are reducing the area available for absorbing stormwater, which disturbs the natural hydrology of an area. This stormwater is then channeled away to a storm drain, carrying with it contaminants and sediments that become concentrated elsewhere. The practice of low-impact-development (LID) is intended to reduce or mitigate the negative environmental impacts created by development, particularly its effects on water systems and hydrology. Many tactics and strategies exist for LID; however, many of these practices in an urbanized or developed setting remain a challenge, given the needs for durability, accessibility, and functionality. One technology, permeable paving or paver systems, seems most appropriate when it comes to LID in urban areas.
The Los Lunas Transportation Center in Los Lunas, NM. is in the process of expanding the use of the center from a municipal office building and commuter train stop to a community center and transit hub with the addition of several plazas and a courtyard in which to hold community events and facilitate interaction. Given the need for substantial durable walking surfaces across the site, the amount of unpaved surface area was limited and budget limitations could not support the use of permeable paver treatments throughout, so our efforts were focused on developing a site-specific LID strategy that fit into the aesthetics and would meet the budget. Though there are several LID interventions on this project, this article will examine the intervention in the North Plaza.
The North Plaza is intended for hosting community events such as music, farmer's markets and other gatherings. The plaza is primarily concrete, but the aesthetics and layout draw from the Spanish-style grid of trees visually connected by bands of pavers that accentuate the pattern. The need for accommodating a large number of people and minimizing the potential for tripping hazards required that tree wells be reduced to only 36 SQ FT, not a friendly environment for any tree species.
To address both the increased stormwater runoff generated by the impervious surfaces of the plaza and the constraints on the trees, we implemented LID strategies in the form of a permeable paver system in the gridded bands on the plaza surface and provided structural soils (a blend of gravel and organic materials that promote robust and healthy root systems) around each tree to provide healthier growing conditions.
The concept is that the plaza will drain from the southwestern corner to the northeastern corner and that the surface runoff will be intercepted as it crosses the band of permeable pavers. As it is intercepted, it will percolate into the subsurface and structural soils surrounding the tree wells, therefore providing supplemental water to the tree roots, which will encourage a denser tree canopy providing more shade for users in this space.
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Leana used to steal to help her children, now she wants to teach them a whole new way to live
Leana Bester was in her teens when she began a relationship with a much older man. After having a child together they married, but divorced nine months later. She had two more children to another man but admits she had no direction or purpose in life.
"My life was out of control," she describes. "I was doing wrong things and was not teaching my children about God as my parents had. I was permanently angry and jealous."
When she began shoplifting to support her children she was soon caught and sent to prison.
"God saw that I was messing my life up and took me away from all temptations," she recalls. "God allowed me to be sent to prison for the wrong I had done.
"I was very angry, hurt and sad at the time. I did not understand why, if there was a God, He allowed me to go to prison. I was shoplifting to look after my children. I asked myself how God could send me to prison when I was shoplifting for the right reasons. I blamed Him for my mistakes."
In prison Leana was went through Christian courses as part of a restorative justice program.
"In the beginning, I did these courses with a heavy heart," she says. "But after a few weeks I began to enjoy the classes and was learning about God and His Word, the Bible.
"I never understood why God sent me to prison, but the more I read the Bible, the more I began to understand.
"I realised God wanted to save me from my sinful life (of rebelling against God's laws). He saw I was doing wrong and that I was living my own life, a life full of sin."
Leana says the Bible course that she did changed her life. Though, at first it was an effort to go along, she found she started to enjoy it and it changed her mind about God.
"After a few months I finally repented (turned away) from my sins and accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Saviour," she says, trusting that God had forgiven all her sin through Jesus's sacrifice on the cross.
"God sent me to prison where I got to see how wrong my life was. I know now that I am a child of God. I want to go home and teach my children about God and His Word."
After becoming a born-again Christian, she recalls, "I started praying to my God and saw how He made my life better."
"I committed my life to God and am not an angry person anymore. I will keep on praising God.
"I know that I have changed. I am a better person. I am much friendlier and no longer swear and get worked up. I am patient and kind and people can see the difference in me. My mother said she could hear that I am a changed person when we spoke on the telephone recently.
"Now when I get angry I talk with God. I really enjoy talking to God, because He listens to my prayers.
"Since my conversion, God has made a huge difference in my life. He has healed my pain, hurt and insecurities. I am a much stronger person and I am able to forgive the people that have hurt me.
"God has protected me in very difficult situations here in prison and has helped me when I was lost. He is keeping my three beautiful children safe and gives them lots of love," she concludes. •


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Ronaldo slams The Sun for publishing fake interview
Real Madrid and Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo has blasted British tabloid The Sun for publishing an interview he says he never gave.
The 29-year-old tweeted that the interview was "pure fiction", Irish Independent reported.
The article claimed that the former Manchester United winger scored every goal for his late father.
"My dad would want me to play, he always did everything in life for me to play football," he is claimed to have said in the article.
"When I win something I always think about him. I know he's around. He's always looking at me and out for me. He sends me messages in my dreams because what I am today is thanks to him and to my mother."
Meanwhile, the superstar, who helped Real Madrid win their 10th Champions League title, joined his national team-mates at the Praia del Rey resort on Portugal's Atlantic coast for their World Cup preparation.
Source: Irish Independent
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The long and short of adding math terms in html text is to add each term individually using the Unicode data as [&#x....;] without the square brackets. The dots represent a four digit hex number for example replacing the dots with [221A] would produce the root sign.
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MY REVIEW: CSCS Advanced Face Serum
Product DescriptionHigh end anti-aging solution for the skin. Regenerates skin cells and moisturizes skin.
Ingredients: De-ionized Water, Ferulic Acid, Vitamin C (as scorbic acid, Vitamin E (As d-alpha tocopheryl aceate), and Glycerin.
I love my serums. And all C serums are not the same. I have done a lot of research and the benefits of C + E Ferulic Acid out does most c serums. I use this only in the morning on cleansed skin. Face,neck,decollete and hands. All were sun damage is common. I love this serum. Along with their hyaluronic acid works hand in hand with any moisturizer! Beauty 10. ~Tiffany


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Use common sense when taking health supplements: Focus on vitamin D
Is there a way to make healthy choices affordable? It troubles me as a naturopathic doctor when I hear from one of my patients that they have spent hard-earned money on a supplement that is not even indicated for them. Or, the supplement is a good fit for them, but they are taking it in a way that just ends up becoming expensive urine. Or even worse, the supplement is causing them more harm than good.
What I am about to describe is a smarter way to take supplements. One which combines the knowledge of textbooks and evidence based natural medicine, but also does not forget about individualized medicine and the inherent wisdom of nature. Mother nature existed long before supplements and clinical trials. Nature is very smart in that it packages all the nutrients, vitamins, and minerals together with their necessary cofactors and enzymes to insure optimal absorption and utilization in the body. This is what you would normally get when you eat nutritious and wholesome food in it's most natural state. So why are so many people in Canada showing underlying nutrient deficiencies?
There are many reasons, but that is too extensive of a discussion for this article. In short, over the last century, humans have experienced the largest diet change in history – for convenience, people no longer grow there own food and instead have adopted the Standard American Diet (SAD diet) consisting of foods that are mass produced from deficient soil and foods that are overly processed and refined. The nutrient composition in the same fruits and vegetables found in grocery stores today is an average of 15% lower compared to 50 years ago (here). This would mean that we should be eating 15% more fruits and vegetable in order to reach the same amounts of nutrients. But instead of increasing our vegetables, North Americans are consuming two-thirds (2/3) of their calories from depleted, man-made sources such as refined sugars, added fats and oils, white flour, white rice, and distilled liquor (here).
In addition, 68% of the conventionally grown produce in the grocery store is now found to have at least one pesticide (here), with bell peppers found to have 88 different pesticide residues (here). These extra toxins require additional nutrients to be detoxified and removed from the body. Therefore, all this has led to a nutritionally incomplete diet with widespread underlying nutritional deficiencies. This is a possible reason to consider supplementation to help correct and prevent the deficiencies' effects on the body. However, the problem with supplements is that many are isolated compounds and have lost the optimal packaging as nature intended.
Therefore, before I take any supplement I always ask myself:
- How would I normally find this nutrient in nature ?
- How can I mimic nature to increase the products absorption and effectiveness by the body ?
- What is the most effective dose for me ?
Common Sense Approach to Vitamin D
Are you deficient in Vitamin D?
The latest research review has determined that 70% to 97% of Canadians will become vitamin D deficient this winter (here). It is estimated that correcting vitamin D deficiency would save the Canadian health system an estimated $14 billion annually, and prevent 16% of premature deaths (here). During the Canadian winter months, the cold weather tends to make us bundle up, as well as limits our time spent outside. Both of these factors reduce our exposure to the vitamin D producing sunshine. In addition, for Canadians living between latitudes 43 to 55 degrees (including Moncton at 46 degrees), there is a 4-5 month stretch in the winter where UVB rays from the sun are not even strong enough to produce adequate levels of the vitamin, whether skin is exposed to sunshine or not.
Since we are not getting enough UVB to produce adequate levels of vitamin D, we must consider vitamin D rich foods or supplements. However, the Vitamin D Council informs us that the few foods which do contain vitamin D, contain too little to be of any noticeable benefit and therefore should not be considered a satisfactory source of vitamin D. So, we should at least consider vitamin D supplementation, especially during the Canadian winter season.
Why is vitamin D important?
Everyone knows about vitamin D's role in bone development, bone health, and its importance in the prevention of osteoporosis. This bone health function is achievable with a small amount of vitamin D. But, vitamin D has been found to have far more functions in the body than just its role in bone health. Activated vitamin D is actually a steroid hormone that acts as a key or gatekeeper of more than 2,700 different sites on your DNA genome. The vitamin D binding sites are near genes involved in virtually every known major disease of humans. It prevents disease by making sure that certain unwanted genes stay locked up and controlled, while genes needed to prevent disease get turned on when they are needed.
The Vitamin D Council reviewed the recent scientific research and found that with vitamin D supplementation, to the optimal blood concentration range, resulted in more than just bone health. They found links to the prevention of over 100 different diseases. Some of the findings include a 77% reduction in all-cancer incidence (especially breast, colon, and rectal cancers), 25% reduction of cardiovascular disease, 33% reduction of diabetes, and a 64-90% reduction in colds and flus. Other less understood links were found with depression, multiple sclerosis, cognitive health, autoimmune diseases, and muscle pain or weakness.
How much Vitamin D should I take?
Well, there is conflicting evidence regarding the recommended dose, with certain dosages being helpful for some people yet dangerous for others. Many factors (body composition, age, medications, kidney and liver function, nutrient cofactor status, etc) affect how the body responds to vitamin D. Therefore, the optimal dose of vitamin D is different for every person. Naturopathic doctors are trained at taking a comprehensive history, taking into account all aspects of an individual's health, and then choosing the correct dosage. Once this is determined, more than 93% of patients can achieve normalized levels without risk of toxicity (here). To ensure that you are in the optimal range, naturopathic doctors can test and carefully monitor your body's vitamin D concentrations in order to adjust the dosage with how your body is responding. The Vitamin D Council describes this testing as "the only way to know for sure if a certain dosage is working for you."
Ensuring the optimal levels in the body is important because toxicity from excess vitamin D is dangerous causing calcification and damage to internal organs, and can cause formation of calcium kidney stones. Also, taking vitamin D supplements alone without the necessary cofactors can potentially cause plaque buildup in your arteries (atherosclerosis), which is the leading cause of heart disease. However, checking with your naturopathic doctor regarding the required cofactors that should be taken with vitamin D will prevent this.
Is there a best time of day to take Vitamin D to increase its absorption and effectiveness?
Vitamin D is naturally produced by the body when skin is exposed to sunlight. Therefore, wouldn't it be best to take your vitamin D supplement in tune with the sun's schedule and when your body would normally receive it? I like to take half of my dose in the morning, to set up my circadian rhythm, and the other half at noon, when the body would normally be exposed to maximum sunlight. If you were to take vitamin D in the evening, then you would be telling the body that it is daytime and this can disrupt the body's natural rhythms.
So, what is the common sense approach to taking vitamin D?
First, determine if vitamin D is indicated for your unique health situation. If so, then make sure you are taking the dose that is specifically suited to you and that it is taken with the necessary heart protecting cofactors. For added effectiveness, consider taking it in accordance with nature's rhythms, and consider testing your vitamin D levels to make sure your body is in the correct range receiving the full benefits of vitamin D without the risks. So, my best advice to you is to seek out your local naturopathic doctor – he or she is trained in evidence based natural medicine and practices individualized, patient-centered care tailoring their approach specifically to you.
Dr. Nicholas Anhorn, BSc, ND is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor and is currently accepting new patients at the Moncton Naturopathic Medical Clinic located at 12 Fifth Street in Moncton (382-1329). Dr. Anhorn provides professional and personalized health care for the whole family. In addition to family medicine, he also has a special interest and advanced training in helping patients with pain management, detoxification and cancer. Additional information can be found on www.monctonnaturopathic.com.
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I love Chambray and made a pattern to make little e a long sleeve peasant shirt. During initial fittings, I was worried because it made her look like what I imagine a Shakespearean male actor would wear, or maybe "1800s prairie look." Little e did say she felt like "ma" from Little House on the Prairie due to the puffed sleeves. However, thankfully, I think in the end, it turned out ok. And, more importantly, it created the basis for a few other pattern ideas that are swirling around in my head for dresses.
I love the tuck detail in the front and this is the first time experimenting with them. I made them quite wide just based on ease of measuring at a 1 inch interval and sewing on the 1/4 inch edge of my sewing machine foot. I ended up having to adjust my pattern to accommodate more tucks but I think it turned out perfectly for this shirt. The process of "tuck making" is quite therapeutic: measure, drawn line, iron, sew, measure, line, iron, sew. This is all done on a separate piece of fabric and then the pattern is laid on top of the tucks to cut.
I also finally learned how to properly sew a button. There are many button sewing tutorials out there so I won't go into it but the final product is a strongly anchored button with only one clean, tiny thread line in the back. The ends are actually all hidden, in the front behind the button, and also in between the fabric fold. E jumped on my button sewing bandwagon and quickly handed me some of his shirt and pants that were missing buttons. Lucky me!
I've been doing a lot of reading about launching clothing lines and e-commerce sites. There's a lot to learn out there and sometimes, I think the more you know, the less likely you are to just jump out there and do it. I was considering having my Princess Lougewear manufactured but the risk seems high that I would end up with a bunch of dresses that never sell. So, I will just make them myself for a bit, and sell one at a time, see if anyone is even interested. It's scary to put something out there and I do see how entrepreneurs can be so into their own product that they can't see when it's just a plain bad idea. Obviously making the clothes myself will not be a long term sustainable plan and I would probably only make enough to cover my materials and maybe get paid like $2 an hour, but at least I can see if there's any traction.
Somebody tell me if this Princess Lougewear is just plain dumb. =)
Well my cousin from Taiwan has already said that while she thinks it's cute, no one would want their child to wear a floor length dress in Taiwan because they would essentially be sweeping the dusty floors. Here in the US, that doesn't seem to be an issue and my little princesses seem to love the floor length and moms don't mind either as floors are carpeted or hardwood for the most part and not dusty. Anyway, I feel like a kid about to open a lemonade stand. It's fun. =)


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What do you guys think about working girth one week and then do length the next then back to girth work.
With body building i've heard you should mix up ways to to train. So you shocking the muscles
with different weights and exercises. Bigger ones blows up the muscles but low weights makes them longer.
Could this be true and good?
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That works good for skeletal muscle, but not so much for smooth muscle.
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Well.. it could work.
I would recommend you stick to one thing for a few weeks... Its the same with bodybuilding... you never stick to the same routine for longer than 1-2 weeks because you find another routine and start that one.Starting stats: October 15th, 2008 - NBPEL: 6.25' EG: 5.00'
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Have not heard about changing lifting routines every two weeks, every few months maybe. Biggest problem with comparing lifting to PE (other than different muscles types), is when lifting you are adding reps and weight, and it is easy to see if you are making progress. With PE, especially if you only do one routine for a week, is that there will be no measurable gain, thus you won't know if that particular routine is doing you any good. Then you change up again two weeks later (you said every other week switch between a girth and stretch routine). Unless you get lucky, I don't see this working out very well, or at least not very systematically. Don't marry a routine, but I think you need to stick to a routine for a few weeks at least.FL 6.0"/MFG 5.75", BPEL 7.25"/MEG 6.75"
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Try it out. Ultimately it's how your body responds; it works for some and not for others. I mixed up my routine pften last year and made decent gains.Old Gym Log - Tracking progress with the iLogPE App
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Prof. Allen J. Bard, PhD
University of Texas at Austin
Allen J. Bard, Professor, Norman Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair, and Director of the Center for Electrochemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, has been called a "father of modern electrochemistry" for his work developing scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM), his co-discovery of electrogenerated chemiluminescence, his important contributions to understanding photoelectrochemistry, and his co-authorship of the influential and widely used textbook, Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications.
Dr. Bard attended The City College of New York (B.S., 1955) and Harvard University (M.A., 1956, Ph.D., 1958). He joined the Chemistry faculty at The University of Texas at Austin in 1958, and has spent his entire career there. Dr. Bard spent a sabbatical in the CNRS lab of Jean-Michel Savéant in Paris in 1973 and a semester in 1977 at the California Institute of Technology, where he was a Sherman Mills Fairchild Scholar. He was also a Baker lecturer at Cornell University in the spring of 1987 and the Robert Burns Woodward visiting professor at Harvard University in 1988. He was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the Weizmann Institute of Science.
He has worked as mentor and collaborator with over 100 graduate students, about 200 postdoctoral associates, and numerous visiting scientists. He has published over 960 peer-reviewed research papers and 75 book chapters, and has received over 23 patents. He has authored three books, Chemical Equilibrium (1966), Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications (1980, 2nd Ed., 2001, with L. R. Faulkner), and Integrated Chemical Systems: A Chemical Approach to Nanotechnology (1994). He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Chemical Society 1982–2001. His research interests involve the application of electrochemical methods to the study of chemical problems.
Dr. Bard has been awarded many of the most prestigious honors for scientific achievement in his field, including election to the National Academy of Sciences (1982), the Olin-Palladium Medal of The Electrochemical Society (1987), the Priestley Medal from the American Chemical Society (2002), the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2008), the National Medal of Science (2011), the Enrico Fermi Award from the U.S. Dept. of Energy (2013), and the Torbern Bergman Medal from the Swedish Chemical Society (2014). The Electrochemical Society established the Allen J. Bard Award in 2013 to recognize distinguished contributions to the field of electrochemistry.
Bernd Bauer, PhD
Dr. Bernd Bauer is founder and CEO of FuMA-Tech GmbH. FuMA-Tech, based in Germany, was founded in 1993 and is a leading manufacturer of ion exchange membranes. The Company has comprehensive skills ranging from the synthesis of raw and auxiliary materials to the conversion of these materials to membranes and finally to their application in industrial membrane separation plants. The Company is specialized in fuel cell technology and membrane separation technology, particularly for the treatment of aqueous solutions.
Dr. Bauer received his Diploma in Polymer Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Aalen (Germany) in 1982, his Diploma in Chemistry from the University of Stuttgart (Germany) in 1988, and his Dr.-Ing. In Chemical Engineering from University of Twente (Netherlands) in 1996. Prior to founding FuMA-Tech, Dr. Bauer was a research fellow at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Interfaces and Membranes.
Angelo Ottaviani
NuTech Consulting
Angelo Ottaviani has over 40 years direct experience in chlor-alkali and electrochemistry field. He graduated as a chemical engineer from Politecnico of Milano after which time he joined De Nora Group. Over a 40 year career at De Nora Group, Mr. Ottaviani held a variety of roles including Process and Customer Service Manager, Plant Erection and Project Manager, and Development Project and R&D Manager. Mr. Ottaviani has a long history in new technology development starting with zero gap cell chlor-alkali cell design in the 1970's, through to Generation 6 chlor-alkali cell design in the 2000's. While working for De Nora Group, Mr. Ottaviani worked with ENEA, Arthur de Little, North Western Power Systems, Mannesmann, Neoplan, Fiat, MAN and others in the development of fuel cell technologies. Most recently, Mr. Ottaviani worked with the Bayer-De Nora joint venture in the development of oxygen depolarized cathode technology for chlor-alkali and HCl electrolysis. After retiring from De Nora Group, Mr. Ottaviani founded NuTech Consuling and actively consults in the chlor-alkali field in the USA, Canada and Germany.
Prof. Steven J. Thorpe, PhD
University of Toronto
Steven J. Thorpe is a triple graduate of the Faculty of Applied Science, receiving his B.A.Sc. degree in Metallurgy and Materials Science in 1980, followed by the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University in 1982 and 1985 respectively. Steven J. Thorpe joined the Department of Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a NATO Science Fellow from 1985 to 1987. He returned to the University of Toronto as a NSERC University Research Fellow and was promoted to Professor in 1998. Professor S.J. Thorpe spent a two-year leave of absence at Stuart Energy Systems Corporation, where he served as Vice President, Technology. Prior to this leave of absence, Dr. Thorpe held positions as Scientist and Senior Scientist with The Electrolyser Corporation Ltd. Before joining Electrolyser, he was a Visiting Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratories. Professor Thorpe has recently served as Vice Dean, Undergraduate in the Faculty of Applied Science and as Associate Chair, Graduate Studies for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is currently serving his second as a Governor, Constituency IV (Engineering) for the University of Toronto and is current Chair, Planning and Budget for the University of Toronto and has been members of both the Academic and Business Board. He also serves on the Electrochemistry Advisory Board of Chemetry Corporation.
Professor Thorpe has also held numerous positions in Professional Societies including, Secretary, Education Chairman, and Vice Chair of the Ontario Chapter of ASM, Executive and Director of the Basic Sciences Division of CIM and the Corrosion Section of the Metallurgical Society of CIM, and Academic Leader of the Metals and Ceramics Program of the Ontario Center for Materials Research (OCMR).
Professor Thorpe has won numerous awards including the Faculty Teaching Award, the Academics in Industry Award from OCMR, the Outstanding Young Members Award from the Ontario Chapter of ASM, and the W.S. Wilson Metal and Centennial Thesis Award.
Dr. Thorpe's current research is focused on the properties of surfaces and interfaces though examination of the electrochemical behaviour of new amorphous and nanocrystalline materials development in the fields of electronic packaging, hydrogen generation, fuel cells, and biomaterials. Dr. Thorpe has co-authored more than 70 refereed publications and is the inventor / co-inventor on more than 100 patents / patent applications patents on novel alloy chemistries used as electrocatalysts in the field of hydrogen generation in water electrolysis and in hydrogen use in fuel cells, as well as their use in components and systems designs such as hydrogen fueling of vehicles. He has served as supervisor or co-supervisor for > 80 graduate and undergraduate student theses.
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In the late 1950's, the American psychologists Herzberg, Mausner and Snyderman, analysed the foundations of job motivation based on a large-scale literature review and a survey amongst 200 engineers and accountants from the Pittsburgh area.
They challenged the traditional view that workers are only satisfied or dissatisfied with their jobs and proposed a system with dual continuums of satisfiers and dissatisfiers to understand employee motivation and satisfaction. Thus, when workers are satisfied, they attribute their satisfaction to the work itself. When they are dissatisfied with their jobs, they are concerned about their work environment. The researchers named their dual continuums motivation and hygiene.
HYGIENE factors
The factors that help prevent dissatisfaction. They do not lead to higher levels of motivation but dissatisfaction exists without them. The factors are primarily extrinsic:
MOTIVATION factors
The five factors that lead to job satisfaction and higher levels of motivation. These factors are neutral if they are not activated. They are primarily intrinsic factors:
Preferably, the two approaches, hygiene and motivation, must be carried out simultaneously. Treat people so they obtain a minimum of dissatisfaction. Use people so they achieve, get recognition, grow and advance in their careers. Based on Maslow's Hierarchy, Herzberg et al. theorised that the factors that motivate the worker or are likely to satisfy their needs, lead to positive job attitudes.
Management ought to focus on rearranging work to promote motivation factors. They suggested three possibilities:
The theory not only defined the elements of job satisfaction, but provided a valuable template to conduct job attitude studies. The original research employed the 'critical incident technique' that involved interviewees discussing occasions of great satisfaction and dissatisfaction with their jobs.
The theory showed that a participative management style is most effective with staff of professional services firms. Wages are important, but insufficient for obtaining a motivated team.
The theory showed that a participative management style is most effective with staff of professional services firms. Wages are important, but insufficient for obtaining a motivated team.
The theory is biased towards professionals. The study did not include blue collar workers.
Later studies suggested that the independent effect of motivators and hygiene factors is flawed. One study demonstrated that both can be related to job satisfaction and job dissatisfaction.
Job satisfaction does not necessarily imply a high level of motivation or productivity.


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For the entire month of June I have been using Twitter to micro-blog my mommy adventures and competing against 29 other very cool moms for a grand prize! To start the Sling and Swaddle adventure Hotslings supplied us each with our very own baby carrier and Miracle Blanket gave us two swaddling blankets. In return, we were to be tweeting and blogging about our experiences day to day with our newborns! I had never used Twitter before and wasn't sure how it worked. It was a little confusing and overwhelming to figure out how it works but now that I use it... I kind of like it... well okay Love it sometimes. :) I have been trying to keep up with my tweets and occasionally posting info. on this blog for the contest. Hopefully you all have enjoyed the information that I shared! I know at least the family loves seeing any new pics of the kids. I realized I have more pictures with Charlotte and I together than I do of Luke and I when he was a newborn and mostly that is because of this contest! So that's a great gift for us in the future. I also was just dipping my toes into the babywearing pool when I bought my Sleepywrap carrier. Now that I also have a Hotslings carrier and have been tweeting with other moms, there are several styles of carriers that I would love to try out! Seasoned babywearers say you can never have too many types! I find that when I am wearing Charlotte, her head is up close to me so I naturally talk with her while I am walking around and describe what we are doing. Great for speech and language development! She gets a good view of the world around her instead of being stuck in the carseat stroller...which by the way she usually hates to ride in! If I try to just carry Charlotte while I go in a store or play outside with Luke, I notice how quickly my back starts aching. The difference is amazing! Wearing her in the Hotsling allows her to be comforted and feel close to me while I am able to tend to Luke, clean, or shop! I love having two free hands when it gets busy around here. Babywearing is beneficial for baby, convenient for mom, and Hotslings makes it fashionable.
I definately have also seen the benefits of swaddling your baby. Dr. Harvey Karp lists it as one of the 5 S's for infant sleep solutions! http://www.colichelp.com/shop/happiestbabyontheblock.html
I never had any luck with the swaddling blankets that use velcro that you can buy at Target or Babies R Us. They never stayed tight and the velcro was loud enough to disturb the baby. The Miracle Blanket did look complicated at first when we got one for Luke, but once you get used to it, it literally goes on in seconds. Charlotte is still wearing hers and she has yet to wiggle any body parts out of it. I think I mentioned before that I love how it stays in place and I don't have to worry about blankets or covers coming up around her mouth. That takes a huge worry off of me at night when we go to sleep. Our little girl has spent all but one night at home swaddled in her Miracle Blankets. :)
I was a little skeptical of this Twitter journey at first but it has ended up being very fun. I have met so many great moms from all over the place that love to laugh, share, support, and offer advice on any subject! It's a great way to connect and not feel so isolated if you are a mom facing the day to day challenges with your kids. The hardest part is fitting what you want to say in 140 characters or less each time! Since we have our computer on most of the day, it has been fun to type a little message quickly as I walk through the dining room or check what other's have tweeted! I will be tweeting as Shera_Mama from now on, but probably not as often as I have been (JW will be glad for that! haha) I'm thankful to have met my new Twitter friends including the Sling and Swaddle mamas and hope to stay in touch as our babies are all close in age! This contest has offered a lot of new experiences and created some great connections! Thanks Hotslings and MiracleBlanket and all the sponsors!


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The BlackBerry Torch Slider is potentially coming to Vodafone in the September/October timeframe. We have heard that 9800 will be coming to Rogers, Sprint and AT&T as well. Release dates aren't confirmed yet but the Torch Slider is probably going to touch down on AT&T first, with a rumored launch date of August 15th.
The Torch Slider is going to be the first device to have BlackBerry 6 and the new Webkit browser. The latest OS is going to address a lot of the user frustrations with navigation and the Webkit browser will make BlackBerry's web browser on par with the rest of the market.


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Hang out under a canopy of reclaimed steel trusses wrapped in vines on the 4,200 square foot roofdeck.
Huddle around the firepit for a nightcap under the stars.
Cap off a game of bocce with a dip in the outdoor heated courtyard pool.
Ready to sweat
Create your own workout or choose from thousands of Fitness On Demand™ classes and Peloton Cycle® in the huge, fully equipped fitness center with recycled gymnasium flooring.
Crank the dial up a few notches in the spin studio, equipped with interactive cycles.
Stretch it out at regularly scheduled yoga classes overlooking the courtyard pool.
Fashioned for Food
Cook in a kitchen fit for a chef, with restaurant-style fixtures, stainless steel appliances, and moveable kitchen islands*.
Gather with friends for dinners at one of several oversized teak tables on the roof or next to the grilling station with gas stoves.
Hone your apizza skills at the communal pizza oven (or take the easy route and order from Modern, right down the street).
Made for Comfort
Subway tile, custom lighting fixtures and polished concrete flooring* to create a loft-like feel.
Sliding barn doors* and open concept layouts invite small gatherings.
Reclaimed and repurposed materials add rich texture and a palpable sense of history to common areas.
Unit features
Restaurant-style gas ranges and kitchen fixtures
Stainless steel appliances
Quartz countertops
Movable kitchen islands custom-built with reclaimed steel*
Sliding wooden barn doors*
Polished concrete and vintage plank style flooring*
Open-concept unit layouts
Industrial inspired lighting fixtures
Bathrooms outfitted with subway tile, soaking tubs, and linen closets
Spacious walk-in closets
In-unit washers and dryers
Outdoor balconies available*
Nest® Learning Thermostats
Community Amenities
Stunning landscaped courtyard with several unique use areas
Heated courtyard pool surrounded by chaise lounges and decked-out cabanas
Outdoor big-screen movie theater with lawn seating and indoor movie theater with plush leather chairs
Courtyard fire pit, grilling stations and pizza oven
Long farmhouse-style communal tables in resident lounge, rooftop and courtyard
Handsome teak furniture throughout outdoor areas
Huge fitness studio with upcycled vintage gym flooring
Peloton Cycle® spin studio featuring unlimited live and on-demand classes
3,200 square foot workout area with interactive kiosk, large-screen TV, and thousands of Fitness On Demand™ classes (including TRX, Les Mills, Gaiam, and others) available
Yoga studio overlooking the courtyard pool
Rooftop lounge outfitted with hammocks, porch swings, tables and a trellis made from salvaged steel trusses
Resident lounge featuring a reclaimed wood wet bar, polished concrete floors, and custom, industrial-inspired design touches throughout
Reading room with desks, periodicals and a community lending library
Package concierge
Secured access parking
Car washing station in the parking garage
Bike sharing program and convenient bike storage space
Pet-friendly community with a dog washing and grooming area
Onsite parking
Smoke-free community
EV charging stations
Complimentary moving assistance through Updater
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Our Christian hope
Today I am blessed to celebrate birthday No. 69. Family will surround me; we will eat seafood and carrot cake. It will be a special day.
Then comes Christmas. I anticipate celebrating that day, too. And I'm bringing this additional post in honor of and preparation for Christmas.
What is the hope of those of us who identify ourselves as Jesus-followers? What do we expect to happen when "the great day of the LORD" arrives in full?
A dozen years ago, I led a class in my congregation on the content of "Christian hope." It was a good experience. Here are two of the questions we explored:
"If the substance of Christian hope is the human experience of living in the full presence of YHWH (a view I affirm), is this experience of YHWH manifest physically? Or is the experience of YHWH's full presence only spiritual and conceptual?"
Jewish and Christian Scripture strongly suggest that the physical creation as we know it (yes, only partially) is part of what YHWH saves in Messiah Jesus. Texts from John (3:17), Romans (8:19-22), Colossians (1:19-20), Ephesians (1:9-10) and the 21st chapter of Revelation bear witness to this. They assure us the salvation of YHWH reaches not only souls, but the physical world, too — including our hybrid world of physicality and spirituality.
As Revelation puts it,
"See, the home of YHWH is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them" (21:3).
Hear these words from Romans 8:19-21:
"For the created universe waits with eager expectation for YHWH's children to be revealed. It was made the victim of frustration . . . yet always there was hope, because the universe itself is to be freed from the shackles of mortality and enter upon the liberty and splendor of the children of YHWH."
Not to be forgotten are the hybrid structures of authority so corrupted by sin and so dominating in our lives. Hear how the transformed "city of YHWH" is described in Revelation 21:24-26:
"The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. Its gates will never be shut by day — and there will be no night there. People will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations."
In other words, "the nations" also will be transformed. Western, Euro-Asian and Asian peoples will live together in peace; Persian, Semitic and African peoples, too. Likewise the peoples of the Americas.
This too is the Christian hope. It was why the angels sang "hosannas" in the night skies over the fields of Bethlehem; it was why the shepherds left their posts in joyful abandon to see Jesus of Nazareth lying in such humble repose. It was because his birth and life "changed everything."
There is so much more to say — things to remind us as followers of Jesus to expect this story of Earth and its inhabitants to end well. As we hear from the gospel of John,
"YHWH did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him" (3:17).
How then should we live? How do we endure the burdens of empire, the weight of its deceptions, the apparent inevitability of global warming, the galloping inequality sweeping through our world? Somehow, it all must be perceived through this lens of hope we have been given in Scripture.
May it be so! And may we join the shepherds in joyful anticipation!
Berry Friesen lives in Lancaster, Pa., and is part of East Chestnut Street Mennonite Church. Along with John K. Stoner, he co-authored If Not Empire, What? A Survey of the Bible.
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India is likely to revamp its customs duty regime, weeding out some exemptions and correcting inverted duty structures to give a boost to the government's Make in India manufacturing initiative as well as exports.
It is also considering easing of procedures for industry such as anonymous assessments and speedier clearances, while taking steps to curb evasion.
Some of these measures could be announced in the budget for FY20 on July 5 as India looks to take advantage of companies wanting to diversify their global production and set up base in the country.
There will be a review in respect of encouraging domestic manufacturing, said a government official.
Policymakers are of the view that some exemptions on commodities and other items should be weeded out.
Sectors such as telecom, metals, batteries and chemicals for electric vehicles could see changes. The government had earlier imposed and enhanced duties on smartphones and telecom equipment. It is now expected to undertake a comprehensive review that could lead to the reduction of duties on some critical inputs used in the manufacture of phones while raising it on finished products to further encourage domestic manufacture of handsets.


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To save our environment and biodiversity, living on this planet, should become our highest precept. We are flooded with information and disinformation all the time and everywhere. Feel the truth and come back to earth, as long as we have the chance to return. We can learn from the Wolves, teach our kids to live with nature, in place of destroying it, to hunt when you must, not when you like. You can't change the world, but you can change your life. Take responsibility…
It's not a pleasure to think about man, their population and its consequences, but it brings calm, to live a life with nature. It makes one satisfied. But where is nature left? Where is our refuge?
« I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. »
« Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. »
« Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imaginated. »
Henry David Thoreau


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Eggplant with Miso Sauce Recipe
On Mondays, Kristen Swensson of Cheap, Healthy, Good swings by these parts to share a healthy and delicious recipe with us. Today, a new dressing for eggplant.
Lately, one of my favorite online recipe resources has been Food Blog Search. Powered by the benevolent and all-knowing Google, it's a database of thousands of meals, field-tested and approved by kitchen-savvy webfolk. All you have to do is type a few ingredients, and inside two seconds, the search engine will pull up a slew of suggestions from Smitten Kitchen, Wednesday Chef, the sorely missed Words to Eat By, and more.
I discovered Eggplant With Miso Sauce by way of Food Blog Search, on a site called Daily Unadventures in Cooking. Blogger Katerina pulled the dish from her old Moosewood cookbook and was impressed by the eggplant's texture and easy prep. After trying it, I concur, though I'd peg the sauce as the definite highlight.
See, when it comes to healthy meals, reliable, dynamic sauces are vital. It's their job to infuse foods with flavor, since vegetables and lean meats are generally cooked with so little oil and butter. This particular concoction is the perfect example. Here, the miso and lime create a sweet citrus counterpoint to the richer eggplant, without catapulting the dish into Paula Deen territory. At around 100 calories per serving, it's ideal for dieters, but the sauce makes it palatable enough for their non-dieting brethren, as well.
So, next time you're searching for a lighter dish, look for produce or protein paired with a tasty sauce. I bet Food Blog Search will have one or 12,000.
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- Yield:serves 4 as a side dish
- 1 eggplant, cut into 1/2-inch rounds
- salt and pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 3 tablespoons miso
- 3 tablespoons water
- 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon ginger, minced or grated
- 1/2 lime, juiced
- 1 scallion, finely chopped
Salt both sides of the eggplant rounds and place in a colander for 30 to 60 minutes. Rinse. Pat each slice dry with paper towels.
Brush a cookie sheet with 1 teaspoon olive oil. Place the eggplant in one layer on the sheet and brush tops with remaining 2 teaspoons olive oil.
Broil rounds for 7-10 minutes until cooked through and browned. (No need to flip them.) Sprinkle on fresh salt and pepper.
Whisk together miso and water. Whisk in vinegar, ginger, and lime juice.
Drizzle sauce over eggplants and garnish with scallion.
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Cape Town – Eskom is the chief culprit among state entities and departments when it comes to deviating from procurement guidelines and expanding the scope of its contracted work, with the development of Medupi and Kusile power stations still stunting its adherence to standards.
This is according to a submission by National Treasury director general Dondo Mogajane and a delegation of the portfolio to Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts on Wednesday.
Treasury also complained that accounting officers often abuse deviation and expansion provisions.
Current National Treasury regulations allow entities and departments to deviate from procurement guidelines, such as collecting the requisite number of quotations from potential suppliers and going out to comprehensive tender.
However, these provisions only cover exceptional circumstances such as emergency procurement where provision of a service and urgent circumstances where the supplier of the product or service is the sole provider or the only supplier which can meet the specifications.
But National Treasury complained that some entities and departments search the system for loopholes to allow predetermined and connected suppliers to get lucrative business from the entities, under the guise of due process.
Mogajane said National Treasury often turns down requests for deviations and expansion because the reasons are not compelling.
Mogajane told SCOPA that the persistent expansions and deviations are puzzling, because all entities and departments submit procurement plans before the beginning of a financial year and, by expanding, undermine their own spending projections.
"We also want to bring consequence management into this review. If a procurement officer does not take their procurement plan that they submitted seriously, we need to ensure consequence management that will hold executive authorities and accounting officers accountable," Mogajane said.
Chief Procurement Officer Willie Mathebula said Eskom increased within the fourth quarter of the 2017-18 financial year to R9.4bn, in terms of expansions. He added that between the third and fourth quarters of the 2017-18 financial year, Eskom expanded the scope of projects by R11bn.
"Eskom still tops the list in terms of deviations for quarter three. These were deviations that were supported for that quarter. In quarter four, deviations show that the picture changes with Eskom falling to number three and defence rising to number one," said Mathebula.
National Treasury's chief director of supply chain management Solly Tshitangano told SCOPA that Eskom had a number of applications for expansion from the original scope of projects.
He said this shows that Medupi and Kusile power stations are contributing to a major problem.
"In quarter one there were two abnormal numbers. In the second and third quarters these numbers decreased. In applications for deviations, Eskom is consistently high as far as how many deviations the entity applies for," said Tshitangano.
Tshitangano said while Eskom had the highest figure in terms of expansions, it hardly emerged as the most frequent applicant for expansion of contract scope.


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The documentary follows Matraka Sound System, a Spanish crew located in Madrid, on their quest to find a location for a celebration of free party/squat party culture. Filmed in Madrid in the summer of 2007, nearly 20 years after the birth of the free party movement, this documentary offers a glimpse of the constantly mutating underground electronic music scene. It's history, challenges, achievements and evolution can be viewed, through the lens of other social and political movements that break from the safe and familiar conventions of their original subcultures. Situated in a context of continual repression and public resistance, the film turns a subjective eye on a growing divide from within the scene, where critical self-assessment calls into question the validity of theories, notably those of Hakim Bey, that have been historically used to justify the movement itself.


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Bad credit or lack of credit can keep you from purchasing a lot of things, but a Dell laptop doesn't have to be one of them. To get a Dell regardless of credit, try layaway plans, rent-to-own payment plans or online personal loans. You may end up paying a little more for the laptop than if you had bought it outright with cash because of interest rates and upfront deposit fees, but having your own Dell laptop is the payoff.
Put a Dell laptop on layaway. Layaway plans let you make small payments that add up to the full price of the laptop. Normally, stores will put an item on layaway if you just put a small deposit down on the item. No credit check is required, but if you don't end up buying the laptop, you will lose your initial deposit. Call stores that sell computers, such as Sears or K-Mart, and ask if they have a layaway program.
Try a rent-to-own store, such as Rent-A-Center, Color Tyme or Bestway Rent to Own. These companies will let you make payments on the laptop until you have paid for it in full. However, the laptops will most likely be used computers. Call the company and ask for a Dell laptop rental. Rent-to-own companies don't require credit checks, and payments are often small enough for you to afford them.
Get financing from a loan company that doesn't do credit checks. Websites such as Personal Money Store or Choice Personal loans offer loan approvals without checking credit history. Instead of paying the loan back on your payday, you can set up a payment plan with the loan company. Go to the personal loan website and apply for a small loan.
Loans that are easy to qualify for usually charge higher interest rates. Shop around to find and compare different interest rates before choosing a loan company.
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Sanjay Dutt will next be seen in Siddharth Anand's upcoming untitled movie, and the actor has been training hard to learn the nuances of a special form of martial arts. Sanjay is being trained by Shifu (Master) Kanishka Sharma and the director said that such training is usually imparted to National Security Guard (NSG) commandos.
"It's a rigorous and intense form of martial arts that NSG commandos train in, and which can help them kill a man with bare hands in just three moves," Mumbai Mirror quoted Siddharth as saying.
The "Bang Bang" director, who has been working on the script for the past six months, also said the training would continue till the end of June. Sanjay undergoes training for four hours every day, and also does freehand exercises, rather than going to the gym, the report said, adding that Sanjay would sport a spiked haircut and a French beard in the film.
Siddharth's last directorial venture "Bang Bang," starring Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif, was a big box office hit, and now the director is gearing up for another action-oriented film. Sanjay recently completed his jail term and is now eyeing some good movies, and will not do any film out of compulsion, the report said.
After doing Siddharth's film, Sanjay will collaborate with Umesh Shukla for another movie. "When I had narrated him for the first time, he had liked the idea. After he came back from jail, I met him and we discussed about the film. He said 'Let's work out.' We are developing the subject. I think he will first start shooting for Siddharth Anand's film, then he would shoot with us. The film will happen next year," Shukla had told Press Trust of India.


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SYNOPSIS:A clever engineer of gizmos at his technology company, Alain Getty (Laurent Lucas) is transferred to a new location where he and his wife Bendecite (Charlotte Gainsbourg) invite the boss Richard Pollock (Andre Doussolier) and his strangely aloof and ascerbic wife Alice (Charlotte Rampling). The discovery of a lemming (far from its Scandinavian habitat) that's blocked their sink adds to the disquieting time for the Gettys, which gets worse when Alice returns one afternoon, and squats in their spare bedroom. To their horror, she locks herself in and trashes the room - before a gunshot is heard. Destabilised, the couple's seemingly perfect life has no come unstuck and when Richard makes a pass at Benedicte, Alain becomes furiously jealous. But the spectre of Alice hangs over them still and the betrayals take their toll.
Review by Andrew L. Urban:Dominik Moll likes to create stories where an otherwise level headed man (or woman) who has everything under control, begins to fall apart through external influences on his life. He did this with wickedly dark humour in Harry He's Here To Help, who would do ANYthing to make his hosts' wish come true - taking vague wishes terrifyingly literally. It was genuinely dark and eerily credible.Lemming is not as successful, even though all the performances are superb, with Charlotte Rampling icy, tough and filled with a lifetime of matrimonial angst, yet seductive when required; Charlotte Gainsbourg has a difficult role as the wife who is stressed by the new environment, by the lemming incident, and especially by the disastrous dinner party that lurches their life off its safety platform. But she delivers, and makes Benedicte a calm yet vulnerable character with whom we can identify.Andre Doussolier gives his usual, reliably complex character portrait of a powerful man with moments of humility and a secret addiction to call girls. Laurent Lucas is terrific as the disintegrating man, assaulted first by his employer's bizarre marriage and its impact, then by Alice's dirty tricks and finally by the betrayal he sees when Richard seems to have seduced Benedicte away. But this is where the film hits a bad patch of icy surface and lots of fog, sliding around the edges of credibility and keeping itself well hidden behind the fog of psychological voodoo.If it weren't for the irreparably flawed third act, Lemming would have made a big impression as a complex psychosexual thriller.Review by Louise Keller:There is a flying webcam, a rodent in the kitchen drain, dinner with the boss and his wife, a neighbour reprimanding his son and a seduction. If you think these ingredients make for an incongruous combination, you are spot on. Like his previous unforgettable film Harry He Is Here To Help, writer director Dominik Moll has crafted a haunting drama about two couples that is anything but straight forward. A cross between a psychological and supernatural thriller, the film is intriguing, baffling and often confusing as the four leads dance around each other metaphorically, and Charlotte Rampling delivers her most striking performance in years. While it's easy to be wild about Harry, Lemming is less successful in that it tantalizes without fully delivering.As model couple Alain (Laurent Lucas) and Benedicte (Charlotte Gainsbourg) prepare for dinner with his boss, the mood is playful and loving. He is mentally sharp; she is calm. But when an apologetic Richard (Andre Dussollier) and his surly wife Alice (Charlotte Rampling) arrive late, an unpleasant mood hovers above the dining table. Why is Alice intent on not only humiliating her husband, but keen to intrude into the younger couple's happiness. Reflecting her black mood, Alice's sunglasses never leave her face, and her tirade of barbs and accusations trigger a sequence of events that promotes mistrust.Moll's speciality is taking an ordinary situation and layering it with an underlying sense of terror. Silence and sound is used to great effect to accentuate discomfort and anxiety. The anticipation of where the film is going to lead is perhaps Lemming's strongest suit, when all the action is internal. But in the second half, things are drawn out and I felt as restless as the lemming locked in its cage.
CRITICAL COUNTFavourable: 0Unfavourable: 0Mixed: 2
LEMMING (M) (France, 2005)
CAST: Laurent Lucas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling, Andre Doussolier, Jacques Bonnaffe, Veronique Affholder, Michel Cassagne,
PRODUCER: Michel Saint-Jean
DIRECTOR: Domink Moll
SCRIPT: Domink Moll, Gilles Marchand
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Jean-Marc Fabre
EDITOR: Mike Fromentin
MUSIC: David Whitaker
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Michel Barthelemy
RUNNING TIME: 129 minutes
AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTOR: Palace
AUSTRALIAN RELEASE: Sydney: October 26, 2006 (other cities later)