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The seemingly endless debate about the relative effectiveness of search engine optimization (SEO) vs. pay-per-click (PPC) advertising too often is asking the wrong question, or rather asking the question too broadly. The issue isn't whether SEO or PPC works best for business—it's whether SEO or PPC is best for where your business is now.
For large businesses which have been involved in online marketing for some time, SEO makes sense. They have the kind of content marketing experience, sophistication and industry reputation to achieve strong organic results, and the resources to push those results even higher.
But for small businesses just getting into the online marketing game, PPC is often the better option. These businesses need the kind of rapid result PPC advertising can deliver. As Adam Stetzer notes in "Avoid SEO Hype: Why Small Businesses Should Focus on Return on Investment," although SEO has some clear advantages, newcomers to online marketing should go with PPC first:
"Agencies should steer inexperienced customers into PPC first because it is most similar to Yellow Page advertising. Furthermore, 72 percent of marketers that use PPC plan to increase their PPC budgets in 2014, which demonstrates it is generally successful. PPC allows customers to secure new business rapidly. Trust will develop over time, and new products [like SEO] can then be proposed."
Doing PPC Right
The fact that PPC campaigns tend to deliver results more quickly than SEO doesn't mean that PPC is easy, or that anyone can do it. Google AdWords is at the ready with lots of support and online help, but getting it right takes time and no small amount of experience. For small businesses just getting started with PPC and AdWords, mistakes aren't an option.
One way to get it right with AdWords is to avoid some of the more common mistakes, including the following 10:
1. Getting Keywords Wrong
The trick is to target the words and phrases your customers and prospective customers are most likely to type when searching for the products and services you offer. Not properly researching keywords or, worse yet, making educated guesses can be a recipe for disaster.
Let's say, for example, your small business sells used furniture in Albany, NY. If you target keywords like "furniture" or "buy furniture," or "furniture albany ny," lots of people will see your ad—unfortunately, most of them are looking for new, not used furniture. If you also create an ad that doesn't specify you sell used furniture, you're going to be paying for a lot of clicks from people who will never buy your products.
To target the right customers, you need to do research using online tools, like The Google AdWords Keyword Tool or WordStream. Start by making a list of your products and services, then create a list of what words you think customers will type when looking for each of those products, and finally use one of these tools which will suggest appropriate variations of those keywords, along with the cost-per-click (CPC) for each one.
2. Overusing Broad Match Terms
Unless you specify otherwise, AdWords will default to "broad match terms." This means that your ad will be displayed when someone types your words in any order, as well as synonyms and variations of your words. That can be advantageous in situations where those variations match products and services you offer. Typically, however, you're going to get clicks from people who used an order or a synonym that has nothing to do with your business.
An AdWords specialist will know under what circumstances it makes sense to use broad match, but you probably won't. Assuming you're working with a limited budget, it's better to drive more targeted traffic using exact match keywords or modified broad match.
3. Forgetting Negative Keywords
When you use broad match, you don't know what variations of your keywords AdWords will insert, and some of them will display your ad to people you don't want. You can avoid this problem by using negative keywords. Negative keywords target people you don't want to see your ad.
Let's go back to the used furniture example. If you use broad match for "used furniture," AdWords might include variations like "antiques" or "salvage." Since you don't sell either antiques or salvage, you can use these as negative keywords, ensuring that people looking for these products will not see your ad and potentially click on it, wasting your money.
4. Forgetting Mobile Searches
Searches on mobile devices are growing every year, and people search differently on their mobile devices. You need to create mobile-specific ads to cater to these searches. For example, because smartphones are smaller than laptops or desktops, people tend to use truncated versions of keyword phrases on these devices, and you need to accommodate this behavior in your mobile ads. You should also consider making the ad content shorter and including a "click-to-call" extension, which generates a call to your business when prospective customers click on it.
5. Limiting Your Campaign to Generic Ads
Doing PPC right means creating a clear path for shoppers, one in which the words they type display an ad which matches that query as closely as possible and, when they click on it, takes them to a landing page which displays the products or services mentioned in the ad. If you sell used furniture and create a generic ad for your business, say one which includes "Harry's Used Furniture Store/Buy Our Inexpensive Used Furniture/URL," you're not creating that clear path for someone who types in "used beds" or "used living room furniture."
You need to create separate ad groups, each of which relates to one of your products or groups of products. Then you need to create for each ad group a separate ad which more directly relates to what customers are looking for.
6. Not Using Analytics
No matter how careful you are in picking your keywords and designing your ads, you're not likely to get the most for your money if you aren't continually improving your campaigns—and the only way to do that is to monitor which keywords and ads are working for you, which need tweaks, and which you need to shelve.
To monitor performance, you need to link your account to Google Analytics. When you do, you'll see a wealth of data which will help you make any necessary improvements. For example, you might discover that a lot of people are clicking on a given ad (for which you're paying money), but abandoning your site ("bouncing") as soon as they get there.
7. Using Too Many Keywords in Ad Groups
If one of your ad groups is for people looking for used dressers, you might think it's a good idea to select virtually every variation of that search phrase in your ad group. The problem is that, the more keyword variations you include in your group (especially if you don't take the time to assess the relevance of each keyword to your product), the less likely it is that your ad will match a user's search query. For example, if in this example you inadvertently pick up "used georgian dressers," a product you don't sell, you're displaying your ad and potentially getting click-throughs you don't want.
8. Not Using Scheduling
If you don't want people to see your ad during hours when your store isn't open, you can tell AdWords not to display it during off hours by using Ad Scheduling. You also might want to limit ad exposure during especially busy times when you won't be able to handle an influx of calls.
9. Not Using Bid Adjustments
When you set up your campaign, you tell AdWords how much you're willing to spend. AdWords will limit exposure of your ad to match that budget. Bid adjustments are an opportunity for more nuanced bidding. They allow you to show your ads more or less frequently depending on where, when and how people search. For example, a click might be more valuable to your business if it comes from a mobile device, or if it occurs in a certain location or on a specific date or at a specific time.
10. Not Using Ad Extensions
AdWords ad extensions allow you to supplement your ad with additional information, like your store's address, your phone number, a store rating or more webpage links. Displaying this additional information tends to improve both click-through rates and website conversions. The really good news about ad extensions is that AdWords offers this option free of charge.
This is just a small sampling of the mistakes AdWords users, especially those who are new to PPC marketing, tend to make. Others include not bidding on competitor keywords (if you're Harry's Used Furniture, you can buy the name of a competitor, Bob's Used Furniture—when someone searches for your competitor, your ad will appear), making spelling errors, displaying ads that link to broken landing pages, and not including locational keywords.
The best way to avoid these and other AdWords mistakes is to work with an experienced digital marketing agency with specialists who know the rules of the road and can best ensure your success. To learn more about the ways our digital marketing services, from PPC to creative design, SEO, content creation, marketing automation and social optimization, will help you drive sales and grow your business, contact us today.


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8.554354 - COSTE: Guitar Works, Vol. 4
Napoléon Coste
Napoléon Caste was France's greatest guitar composer and, together with Mertz, the guitar composer most representative of the Romantic style. He was born in the village of Amondans in the picturesque Loue river valley, immortalized by the painter Gustave Courbet. Caste's father, the village mayor and a former infantry captain, patriotically named his son after the new Emperor (1805 was the year of Ulm and Austerlitz, but also of Trafalgar) and groomed him for a military career. From age six, young Napoléon also began to play guitar, taking his first lessons from his mother. At the age of eleven Caste suffered an extended and serious illness, and the family seems to have abandoned any plans for his military career. The youthful Caste, living in Valenciennes, gained local fame as a performer and teacher of the guitar, and in 1828 even played duets with the visiting Italian virtuoso Luigi Sagrini (they performed Giuliani's Op. 130). In 1830, the year of the July Revolution, Caste moved to Paris to pursue his career. The French capital was not only one of the great cultural centers of the world but also, since the 1820s, home to a guitaromanie, a rage for the guitar, which was attracting performers from throughout western Europe, especially the Italian states and Spain.
Caste, who apparently had little formal training in music, studied theory and composition in Paris and also became the friend and pupil of Fernando Sor (1778-1839), the esteemed Spanish composer and guitarist. One of Caste's concerts in 1838 opened with a duet featuring Sor in his last documented public appearance. The piece they performed may well have been Sor's Souvenir de Russie, op. 63, which was the last piece Sor published in his lifetime and his last numbered work; it was dedicated 'à son ami, N Caste.' Simon Wynberg, in his edition of Caste's works, also cites an extant copy of Sor's Divertissement, op. 62 (1838) which carries a similar, handwritten dedication. Whichever piece they performed, this friendship between the Spanish maestro and the brilliant young Frenchman would prove historically important for both men, for Caste derived considerable prestige from his reputation as Sor's last and greatest pupil; in return, Caste made several significant contributions to Sor's legacy.
Caste's own compositions began to appear in print in the 1840s, and in about 1851 he also published a Complete Method for Guitar by Fernando Sor. This work, in spite of its title, was in fact anew method for the guitar by Caste himself, based on the technical principles he had learned from Sor, and augmented with a number of Sor's studies as well as a few original pieces by Caste. It is not to be confused with Sor's own Method of over a decade earlier, which was not really a 'method' at all in the traditional sense but instead a remarkable discussion of guitar technique, primarily descriptive, with few musical examples. Thus, Caste's work filled a void, since it provided a pedagogical system by which beginners could learn to play in the manner of Sor, in contrast to the 'methods' of Sor's rivals such as Carulli, Carcassi, and Molino. Whether Sor himself authorized this project or would have approved is impossible to know. Nevertheless, the work was successful if one judges by the number of editions which followed; its profound influence on guitar pedagogy is best illustrated by the following anecdote: In 1945, the virtuoso Andrés Segovia published a set of twenty studies by Sor. In his introduction to the work, Segovia praised these pieces for demonstrating the 'right balance between … pedagogical purpose and … natural musical beauty' and recommending them both to the student who wished to develop superior technique, and to the master who wished to maintain it. An instant classic, these twenty 'Segovia studies' thereafter become ubiquitous in guitar pedagogy, and remain so today. But, in an article in Soundboard in 1984, the Norwegian guitarist and musicologist Erik Stenstadvold pointed out that sixteen of the Segovia twenty were among the twenty-four Sor studies Caste had selected for his 1851 Method, and, furthermore, that virtually every digression from Sor's original to be found in Caste's edition, including the occasional editorial error, is duplicated in the Segovia collection.
Nor is this the only way in which modem guitarists who perform Sor's works are indebted to Coste. In the 1870s, when many of Sor's works had gone out of print, Coste published new arrangements of several of the maestro's duets. Bryan Jeffery, in his biography of Sor, notes that it was Coste who was responsible for the most frequently heard modern arrangement of Sor's L'Encouragement, op. 34. This piece had been originally conceived as a duet for master and student, with one part considerably more difficult than the other; in Coste's edition and in the many modern editions based on it, the two guitars share back and forth the more difficult melodic lines, creating an equal duet with greater appeal to concert performers (and audiences).
The present recording brings together Coste's most important pedagogical contributions to the guitar: the miscellaneous pieces he wrote for his edition of the Complete Method for Guitar by Fernando Sor, and the publication, two decades later, of his own classic set of studies, Opus 38. All of these works were composed for a seven-string guitar, that is, a standard guitar with an additional bass tuned to D and occasionally to C, but are playable on a six-string guitar with minor retuning.
The Introduction and Allegretto, in the keys of A minor and A major respectively, were taken from the Method of 1851. The latter is an exercise in thirds and sixths, with chromatic passing tones.
Coste's Twenty-Five Etudes, Op. 38, have never been out of print since they first appeared in around 1873. As much exercises in composition as they are technical studies, these pieces feature a harmonic sophistication unprecedented in guitar music except perhaps in the works of Sor; several of them are uncompromisingly polyphonic, sustaining three and even four moving voices. Nevertheless, Coste disguised his didactic intents with plenty of attractive melodies, sparkling scale passages, and several brilliant cadenzas, creating one of the guitar repertory's finest sets of concert etudes. Most were dedicated to a friend or pupil; No. 9, for example, was dedicated to Soffren Degen, the Dane whose collection of Coste manuscripts has become an invaluable resource to modern scholars studying this composer's music Étude No. 25 was dedicated to Nikolai Makarov, the wealthy Russian nobleman and guitar aficionado who sponsored the Brussels Concours of 1856, a competition to which thirty-one guitar composers submitted sixty-four compositions. (Coste won second prize; the first prize was awarded to Mertz). Étude No. 14 was an Andante extracted from an unpublished Fantaisie symphonique, and dedicated by the composer to his wife.
The remaining pieces on this recording were also first published in the Method of 1851. The Rêverie Nocturne in D is an exercise in harmonics; the Preludio (No. 11) in G is an arpeggio exercise, and the lovely Andante (No. 14) in D features a melody in the bass, polyphony, and a dramatic cadenza. Preludio (No. 12) in G is another piece featuring almost vocal polyphony, while Estudio (No. 13) in G minor sustains a pedal in the inner voice.
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Anyone still feeling like a cheese filled slug from all the holiday food and drinks? Well, we certainly were…..that was until yesterday. I decided right before NYE that I was going to drag my poor husband along with me on a juice cleanse to begin the morning of January 2nd (we weren't going to cut our holiday short by one second!) We did a 2-day juice only cleanse that I ordered from Clean Juice, which has a couple of locations in our hometown. I was motivated by how disgusting I was feeling after the holidays and needed to be re-energized and reset, but wasn't sure exactly what we were getting into. Curiosity won and we took the plunge.
Here are the facts of this cleanse:
• 2 days = 6 cold pressed, organic juices per day in a specific order. There are also 1, 3 & 5 day options, but I could only sucker my husband into 2.
• Nothing else is allowed except for organic black coffee, organic plain tea, and water.
Here is what I learned from the experience:
• Juicing is really hard when you are used to solid foods. I found myself fantasizing about food most of the first day and my stomach growled from about 3:00 on both days. I was also pretty spacey and tired.
• This is a cleanse, which involves lots of trips to the bathroom, especially the first day and night (wee hours of the second morning for me). So I recommend not having too many errands to run if you're interested in trying it.
• With the exception of the 6th juice of the day ("dessert"), don't expect these to taste like something you'd opt to drink on a hot summer day. The faster you can get them down, the better. The beet juice ("dinner"), was gag worthy for me. I think everyone has their favorites (and least favorites). Ryan used his frat star skills and could finish one in a few sips. It took me slightly longer.
• I didn't sleep well. Not just because of trips to the bathroom, but I was hungry and restless. I recommend melatonin or another sleep aid.
• Definitely do this with a friend, spouse, or anybody you can be kind of grumpy with who feels your pain.
Aside from these things, surprisingly, I will absolutely do this again! It removes toxins from your liver, stomach, and intestines. After vacations and holidays this is perfect. I can even imagine doing a 1 day cleanse on the first of each month just to get the month off on the right foot. Today, I feel REALLY good! I haven't had any crazy cravings and was full quickly during my first meal. This is not a weight loss thing whatsoever. Sure, I lost some water weight, but that wasn't the goal.
So, if you have been feeling sluggish and not sure how to jump out of holiday mode, I recommend this! Online companies similar programs, but support your local spots if you can. Cheers to 2019!🍋🥒🍍🍎🥕


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Popping a pill could fix gene defect
Simply popping a pill might be enough to overcome the type of genetic defect responsible for many cases of cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and haemophilia. An experimental drug called PTC124 produces a working protein even though the gene remains defective.
Unlike gene therapy, it would work only for people with a particular kind of mutation. But while gene therapists are still struggling to develop safe and effective ways of correcting genetic faults, treatments like this could be available much sooner.
As many as a third of genetic diseases are caused by a premature stop mutation – a mutation in the middle of a gene's sequence that stops the protein-making machinery at that spot. PTC124 binds to a key component of this machinery, allowing it to read past the misplaced stop signal. As a result, the full protein is made. Normal genes should not be affected, because their stop codon is at the end of the messenger RNA strand rather in the middle.
In 1996 scientists showed for the first time that an old antibiotic called gentamicin suppressed these misplaced stop signals in human DNA. Last week, the results of the first randomised, placebo-controlled trial were published in The New England Journal of Medicine (vol 349, p 1433), showing that when gentamicin is applied to the nostrils of people with cystic fibrosis, normal CFTR protein production is restored.
"What's remarkable about this study is that someone has actually shown in that little patch of the nose that they can correct the abnormality," says Peter Durie of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. A larger trial where patients are inhaling the drug is already under way.
Poor absorbtion
Gentamicin may work for other genetic diseases too. In 2002, a small trial in Italy showed the antibiotic can restore production of the dystrophin protein in some cases of muscular dystrophy. None of the patients could normally make any dystrophin protein at all.
However, gentamicin has drawbacks. The body absorbs it poorly, so it must be injected or inhaled. And inhaling is fine for cystic fibrosis, but of little use for conditions such as muscular dystrophy. The antibiotic can also cause rare but serious side effects such as hearing loss and kidney damage.
That is where PTC124 comes in: it was designed from the start to have similar properties to gentamicin but to be safer and more easily absorbed. "We are really in a different situation now, where we are trying to identify drugs based on how they should act," says Langdon Miller, chief medical officer of PTC Therapeutics in New Jersey.
The drug was screened out of a pool of 175,000 synthetic molecules. Pre-clinical tests so far indicate that it is more potent than gentamicin and seems to have very low toxicity. "This could have very far-reaching effects," claims David Bedwell, a microbiologist at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, who has tested the compound in his lab and is collaborating with the company.
In mice with muscular dystrophy the drug restores expression of the dystrophin protein found on the surface of muscle cells. Tests suggest the muscles regain some of their normal characteristics. Tests on mice with cystic fibrosis also suggest PTC124 restores production of functional CFTR.
All the results remain unpublished, though researchers working with the company say they hope to publish as soon as intellectual property issues are resolved. Miller says the company hopes to start clinical trials with healthy volunteers as early as next 2004.
But a premature stop mutation will not always be the cause of a particular genetic disease. So even if PTC124 or gentamicin make it to the market for treating genetic diseases, they will not be a magical cure for everyone.


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I won't lie, I really hate the wind in the winter. Since moving to Kingston where I am so close to a lake I have really started to understand why wind sucks. If wind is ripping off a lake it'll be damp and cold and evil. There's not a lot to do to beat this dreadful cold air, but I have found the best thing is to never have an exposed neck. You'll feel a lot warm with your neck covered. Also warm fleece lined mittens help too!
Now to be fully warm I should be wearing a parka, but I mean, wool coats are so much cuter. Anyway, bundle up and stay warm, friends!


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The James Ossuary and the Suspect Tomb of Jesus' Family
With Gary Manning
Sometimes we have to discuss claims that are sensationalized and unsubstantiated. And that's what we do on this program. Gary Manning is a professor of New Testament at Biola University, and he discusses the latest claims linking the James Ossuary with a tomb in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem, discovered decades ago.
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The Fraudulent Antiquities Trial Verdict IV
With Andrew Vaughn
Andrew Vaughn, executive director of the American Schools of Oriental Research, talks further about the trend of holiday-oriented news conferences of archaeological discoveries aimed at avoiding scholarly scrutiny. We discuss the James Ossuary, and the recent announcement regarding The Patio Tomb in Jerusalem's Talpiot neighborhood.
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A Healthier Way to Live
Our founder, Dr Aaron Butcher DC, is a dedicated Chiropractor. He has kindly left a comment about his experience with the industry:
"I decided almost overnight that I wanted to be a chiropractor, because of the effect that chiropractic care had on my own life. I've always been really into my sports, but at one point I was training too hard and it started to take its toll on my body. I was getting back ache and I developed a disorder called Osgood-Schlatter disease. Nobody within the NHS was able to diagnose it, and my GP advised me that I would have to give up sports.
In desperation, I consulted a chiropractor called Jonathan Cartile, and with his help I made a full recovery. It made a big impression on me to see someone working to such a high standard outside the conventional healthcare system, and having a huge impact on people's lives. I decided that that was the job for me, and I moved to Bournemouth to begin my training." – Aaron (Our Founder)
Aaron has a gentle touch, which puts his patients at ease. He cares about the overall health of the people that he treats, evaluating the whole picture and encouraging the patient to make changes in their lifestyle. This enables them to heal. Like all good chiropractors, he works hard to find the underlying cause of the patient's condition, and addresses it so that healing can take place.
It was thanks to his love of sport that Aaron first encountered chiropractic. When martial arts and competitive swimming took their toll on his body, he consulted his GP to ease the pain he was in. However, he found the NHS could do little to help. In desperation, he consulted a chiropractor and was so impressed by the results that he decided to train to be one himself. These days he not only uses chiropractic to treat sports injuries, but also helps athletes to improve their performance through health optimisation.
Aaron trained for four years and emerged with a master's degree from the Welsh Institute of Chiropractic. The call of home proved irresistible, and Aaron returned to live in the North East in 2016. He enjoys exploring beautiful Northumberland on one of his motorbikes, of which he currently has four.
Contact our friendly Chiropractors, in North Shields, North Tyneside, for more details on our treatment options.


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Let's be honest, it hasn't been too long since we've scouted these chaps. It was a week ago when first place of the Midwest Division was on the line and the Admirals swept not only the two games against the Rockford IceHogs but also the end of their three-in-three with the Rochester Americans. The Admirals did fall 3-2 in overtime to the Chicago Wolves on Wednesday but the points gained in the last two games were a bonus. The IceHogs haven't played since we last saw them.
Entering tonight's game, the Admirals and IceHogs have both played 48 games on the season. The Ads lead the Midwest Division with a record of 28-13-3-4 (63 points) over the IceHogs who have a 26-16-4-2 (58 points) record. A loss tonight would not impact the divisional standings. Though, I think we'd all prefer to simply win.
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What has changed since the last time we met? Quite a lot. The Predators and Admirals defensive injury woes have left the AHL side of things very tight. With Jaynen Rissling joining the Admirals this week there are no more defensive products in the system at the ECHL level. In addition, it meant adding an extra body to the fold. What's fun is that it's a player that should be more than familiar with tonight's opponent.
Jared Nightingale was added on a PTO contract and made his Admirals debut on Wednesday night in Chicago. He was the team captain of the IceHogs last season where he played 67 games, scored 4 points (1 goal, 3 assists), had a plus/minus rating of -14, and 114 penalty minutes.
"To be coming to a team like Milwaukee, they've always been a playoff team, I'm really excited to help them continue to win," said Jared Nightingale on Aaron Sims' pre-game show Wednesday night. "Hopefully I can fit in and can add an element that they need. I'm excited for that."
By joining the Admirals Nightingale is playing for his fourth different AHL team this season. He has played with the Norfolk Admirals, Hartford Wolf Pack, and Grand Rapids Griffins in 2014-15. That goes along with the Toledo Walleye of the ECHL.
"Things have changed quickly. This will be my fifth team," said Nightingale. "You could look at it through two odd lenses, get frustrated, but I've honestly been pretty fortunate to go to quality organizations and I know I've only heard good things about Milwaukee. Grand Rapids was a great experience. I was down in Norfolk for a couple months and that was great. Even when I was in the [ECHL] with Toledo it's still rewarding. There is a lot that you can get out of it."
Tonight won't just be his first game against the IceHogs since playing for them last season. It will actually be the first game he has ever played against the IceHogs in his career. Quite impressive to have a first like that when you have logged 542 professional games.
It isn't all bad news as far as the Admirals injury woes are concerned. Tonight should mark the return of Miikka Salomäki to the Admirals lineup after missing the last 7 games due to an upper-body injury. The Finn was cleared to play ahead of Wednesday night's game but the team elected to keep him out one more game just to be on the safe side.
Also on the Admirals side of things. Taylor Aronson has already been returned to Milwaukee after a cup of coffee in the NHL. He was brought up pretty much on an emergency basis in case Shea Weber was still feeling ill last night. As it happened, both d-men took to the ice for pre-game skate and Weber was good enough to go. Aronson was a healthy scratch. Anthony Bitetto is the lone man up in Nashville at the moment.
What's changed for the IceHogs? Nearly as much. They've had quite the active transfers the last week and it even includes Kirill Gotovets. That Belarus native made his professional playing debut with the Admirals on an ATO contract last season. He even made a Chatterbox appearance.
The comings and goings for the IceHogs have seen Kyle Cumiskey and Ryan Hartman both get called up to the Chicago Blackhawks while Finnish phenom Teuvo Teräväinen rejoins the IceHogs from a decent spell in the NHL.
Teräväinen has played 12 games for the Blackhawks this season and has scored 4 points (2 goals, 2 assists). He's been much better at the AHL level this season: 33 games, 23 points (6 goals, 17 assists), plus/minus of -3, and 6 penalty minutes. Against the Admirals this season he has 4 points (1 goal, 3 assists) in 6 games.
As far as those suspensions go, the IceHogs will be receiving Brandon Mashinter tonight while Cody Bass starts the first of a two game suspension tonight. Mashinter served his two game suspension for elbowing last weekend. Meanwhile, Bass was suspended by the AHL for his actions last Friday in Milwaukee. I know Bass was involved in his fair bit of post-whistle antics, as was Pierre-Cédric Labrie, but I don't recall a moment where I thought he went over the line. Garret Ross was given a match penalty for saying the magic words at the officials in the Saturday game in Rockford. Would still love to know more of what happened there.
After last week I could just about toss expectations to the wind. The two games played between the Admirals and IceHogs had a playoff level intensity with a defensive structure in the second game of *pause* no defensive structure. Those two games ended with a combined scoreline of 11-6 to the tune of the Admirals with a combined 88 penalty minutes.
If there were any aspect that could be bigger and better than it was last weekend you would assume both defenses should be on point tonight. The game plan for both should be simplified and I think both would prefer to avoid the run and gun nature of the Saturday game in Rockford last weekend. With the Admirals defense in a small jam at the moment – this might be the make or break to the game. Otherwise, perhaps that offense will just do enough like they did last weekend.
What are you expecting out of tonight's game against the Rockford IceHogs? How will the Admirals defense fair in their second night together in the current shape that they're in? Will our offense be able to overpower the IceHogs to control this game?
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There's an old joke about a man who visits a doctor, complaining that his arm hurts whenever he moves it a certain way. The doctor's response? "Stop moving it that way."
That pretty much sums up Apple's response to the people who have complained that holding the iPhone 4 in their left hand can cause signal strength to fall, dropping calls and reducing bandwidth. For these people – over 40 of whom have contacted Wired.com – touching the lower left corner of the iPhone's metal band is the source of the problem.
Here's Apple's official response to the problem:
Gripping any phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your Phone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases.
Despite numerous reports from Wired.com readers, we have been trying to replicate the problem without success. According to Wired.com writer Brian X. Chen, if he grips the iPhone 4 firmly in his left hand while downloading a web page, one or two bars disappear from the signal strength indicator. I haven't been able to reproduce the problem at all.
Sascha Segan on Gearlog.com said he was able to reproduce the problem using what he calls a "death grip," holding it "in a slightly sweaty left hand, with my fingers covering the three black lines on the phone's edge and the bottom left corner in my palm." In that grip, he guesses, signal strength drops by about 3 to 5 dBm.
Solution: Don't hold your phone in a death grip, especially if you're left-handed and inclined to have sweaty palms.
And if you're one of the people who sees this problem even when holding the phone gently, put your iPhone 4 in a protective case – or add a strip of black electrical tape to the lower left edge. Both break the electrical contact between the phone's antenna and your skin, and prevent the signal-loss from happening.
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East Wake Academy host two Scholastic Book Fairs each year. This gives students access to high quality books. Each book fair runs for one week. Our first fair will be November 12-20, 2015. The theme for this fair is Monster Book Fair! We will have a pajama night family event. Students can come and have bedtime stories read to them. We will need lots of volunteers to help us before, during, and closing down the fair. The second fair will be April 8-15, 2016. Please continue to check the Scholastic book fair tabs for updates.


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Congratulations on making it through...and on your baby! I couldn't agree with you more...experience, experience. TL
On July 9th at around 9pm, I gave birth to my second child, Charlotte, at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. By the time I got to the hospital, around 6pm, I was already eight centimeters dilated. For those of you who don't know much about childbirth, that's pretty far along. The birth itself wen...
He was the funniest man I've ever known and so concerned with being taken seriously, which is maybe why the reaction to Dr. Fun. I remember him talking about just starting out as a teacher and that he was too funny. It got in the way of the teaching...You have done so much, David, in this respect. His poetry is taken pretty seriously.The Pleasures of Poetry! You're Amazing!
Tanya Larkin on The Talking Heads, Her Roommate's Notebook from Ninth Grade and Love Letters from Boys
I was writing this really serious comparison/contrast between Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge and Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner, which is a very good book, especially the first fourth or so and there are sentences throughout that are stunners ( I was disappointed the narrator didn't change at all but I think that was a problem of not depicting other characters besides the narrator very roundly or deeply. Oh I really got into it, and I didn't even say what I just said.) But then I went to band practice and the thought of continuing this essay thing…Ugh. I'd rather talk about music and my night. And so I present what I was listening to on the way home, an album that only ripens, as it's the perfect critique of hyper-capitalism and love in capitalism and gender stupidity and intelligence and all the music perfectly enacts the lyrics and the lyrics match the music. More Songs About Buildings And Food, folks, by The Talking Heads. Listen to the whole album. All the songs are of a piece. So many strident, dramatic, in medias res first lines: Oh baby you can walk, you can talk just like me…if that's what you want to do. "Damn that television...what a bad picture!" "Don't get upset, It's not a major disaster." When I came home from practice, my roommate had just gotten home too. She had been visiting her family in Townsend and was exhausted from driving back in the rainstorm, which was the true rainstorm to break the heat wave. She had had to pull over in the rainstorm and pee in a cup she was telling Little T and me, Big T. (We're both Tanyas and thusly distinguished thusly) Isn't this the kind of detail people put in blogs? Like PR for the world? Anyway, there were rainbows I had missed but they had pictures they assured me. J was exhausted but she had a bunch of love letters boys had written her, well mainly one boy, and an all purpose, meaning without dividers! (sic) notebook from ninth grade. On one page is a poem, on the next notes from science (Importance of Rivers) , the next notes from math ("I never leave a radical on the bottom!"), the next from Spanish (Hispanic Location: Costa Rica..visited during: Spring Vacation…enjoyed: the animals, beautiful water( (la agua fuy muy bonita)), the people)…future plans to see people: next verano), the next from math (**All repeating numbers are rational!), songs lyrics (Hold me/Like the River Jordan), notes from science, you get the idea, then a draft of a long break up letter which might have only served as preparation for a pretty intense breakup (As you will see, J. had some Loves.) I won't include the letter, but I will a little of everything else. Forget about the Notebooks of Malte, here is the notebook of my roommate, J. But first a love poem: My soul cries every time we depart I leave... Continue reading
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Movies that break heat waves: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid..."Well we are involved, Etta..." Continue reading
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Yesterday I taught The Rite of Spring and Jonah Lehrer's excellent essay on Stravinsky from his first book Proust Was a Neuroscientist. It's about how difficult it is for the brain to accept new sounds even when those new sounds are the only sounds that make us feel. Every time I teach it I can't help thinking of the great poetry that goes neglected by publishers year after year perhaps for the same reason. We are pattern-loving, meaning-making creatures. That stuff makes us happy. Not least because we depend on it for survival. When we can't recognize a familiar pattern of sounds, our brains and bodies revolt. Our pupils dilate, our blood pressure rises…we freak and we feel, and for the most part, we don't want to do that. My favorite book of poetry from the last several years isn't a book. It's a manuscript—a book length poem called The Palisades by Gillian Kiley, a spacious, dynamic meditation that mines every register of grief, occupying it all with a tremendous wingspan and exploring its terrible incommunicability. In that regard, the poem becomes about the inability to communicate the most private, vulnerable parts of ourselves, especially in this speedy culture that seems intent not to give us the time and space to feel, let alone articulate those strange feelings: People will be afraid to talk to you if you insist on remaining humid and alert to detail. It's through elliptical, unflinching, and sustained discussion of our inability to convey these deeper hidden feelings that Kiley manages to do so. The boundary between any two sovereign nations is also the point of contact. The poem responds to her father's death, and part of that response is a mid-life reckoning. The speaker asks how has she been of use? Did a tragic sense of decorum keeping her from loving deep and far enough? I remember feeling so lucky to hear the old stories. To me it seems the speaker goes as far into death with the loved one as it can go and because it is death and things become impersonal in that territory, that speaker feels like all of us. In some zones, the rain that came was an almost unnoticeable quiet, words that never broke on the tongue. I am guessing this book hasn't been published because it's a book-length poem and about grief. Grief isn't cool, and Kiley's unsentimental treatment of it doesn't fit neatly into any camp or category of poetry we've seen before. Besides, who wants to feel sad? Well, I do. Really and truly. It makes me feel human by making me feel close to other humans. First Kiley and then the rest of you. Throughout the book, there is not only sadness but rage, a rage for separateness and a desperate yearning for distance from the event--the relief of perspective. And then there is all the intelligence that was used to overcome that rage and sadness. To give someone advice is to show a complete lack... Continue reading
Posted Jun 20, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
Hi Nin--I love your comics. So funny and sad. I don't know if I am your neighbor. I live in Somerville, MA, now--a suburb of New York, four hours north of the city...Thanks for reading my book!
Nearly everything reminds me of fracking these days. On the bus home from New York this morning, there was the usual offender, a woman having a long, loud conversation on her cell phone. I put in my ear plugs. Then someone in the back, probably in the bathroom, decided to smoke a cigarette, hold...
Thanks. A couple years back, an Italian cousin came to visit Boston. At my suggestion she had taken one of the Chinatown buses from NYC (I took a Bolt Bus Monday...there are outlets, which means movies, which meant La Strada on the way down to NYC on Friday.)When I intercepted her at the bottom of the bus steps, she was like, "Squalido!" The Bolt Bus is usually not that squalido. But yes I prefer the Quiet Car on the Acela...Ludlowville sounds nice. I imagine a post office...
Nearly everything reminds me of fracking these days. On the bus home from New York this morning, there was the usual offender, a woman having a long, loud conversation on her cell phone. I put in my ear plugs. Then someone in the back, probably in the bathroom, decided to smoke a cigarette, hold...
Nearly everything reminds me of fracking these days. On the bus home from New York this morning, there was the usual offender, a woman having a long, loud conversation on her cell phone. I put in my ear plugs. Then someone in the back, probably in the bathroom, decided to smoke a cigarette, holding us all hostage to his or her desperate addiction for a couple of hours as the smoke settled into the upholstery and our lungs. I didn't have nose plugs. Besides, nose plugs wouldn't have worked for my lungs. Why didn't I walk the length of the bus and ferret out the smoker and demand him or her to put out his or her cigarette pronto? I don't know. Everyone was pretending like it wasn't happening. Soon enough I was calmed by the busload's indifference, their eerie denial. Rilke was getting interesting again. Do you see where I am going with this? I used to come from the Rust Belt, but now I come from the Frack Belt, fifteen miles east of Youngstown, Ohio, where fracking wastewater pumped back into the ground caused a series of earthquakes this New Year's Eve. The media tends to characterize the natural gas boom as either environmental disaster or economic panacea—a technology that has arrived just in time to save small farmers from foreclosure and provide jobs for those who have been struggling without them. But the people I know who have sold leases to their land to the energy companies are doing just fine. They are doctors, professionals, small business owners, large business owners. They are not on the brink of disaster. They own McMansions, send their kids to private schools (or don't… because they don't really believe in education that much and would rather pocket the money rather than waste it on sensibility or whatnot.) Consider the country club where my parents golf and swim. Does it really need the extra dough from the gas in the bedrock under their land? Of course it does. That way it can pay off its bills without raising members' dues. My father, a recently retired doctor and Goldwater Republican has a complex relationship to the industry which has swept up his town. In theory he believes in deregulation, in a person's freedom to determine his or her own entire fate, financial or otherwise, but he also doesn't want people to die of cancers caused by the chemicals the fracking companies pump into the ground (benzene, toluene, the list goes on…) or the chemicals and metals that fracking draws up (arsenic, uranium, etc.) In the Rabbit room of the country club, a room where men go to smoke cigars and gossip—yes, only men—he has raised concerns about these agents and by-products of the fracking process known to cause cancer. What if they pollute the acquifer as they have been known to do at many sites? What if fracking on the property of a family who has sold the rights to their land pollutes... Continue reading
Posted Jun 18, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
"I don't want to talk about love, I just want to make it." (D'amore non voglio parlare, lo voglio solamente fare.) I hear this Patrizia Cavalli line, made famous in Kenneth Koch's poem "Talking to Patrizia" and think, I don't want to talk about poems, I just want to make them. And yet here I am talking about poems. And I will talk about them endlessly (the way Patrizia wound up talking about love in Koch's poem)...or at least until the end of the week. This reminds me of a Kenneth Koch comic I have up in my bathroom. I'll scan and post The Italian Cabdriver Comics and maybe a few others in the next couple of days. It goes like this: The Italian Cabdriver said Poetry? Poetry in English?...Nay Nay Signore...Poetry, Poetry...is in Italian!...What is your word for nature, for example?..."Nature," I weakly said, knowing I was defeated...Ah hah! exclaimed..my driver Luigi Piccione hailing from Paestum, Lacania...But now resident in Rome..."In OUR language...IN OUR LANGUAGE," HE SAID"..."IT IS"...LA NATURA! I've been to Paestum. My sister and I went on a wild boat and bus trek there about 15 years ago. It's home to the enchanting Tomb of the Diver, a fresco of a diver painted on the interior of a tomb. At first people thought it was the tomb of a diver. Then, given the things they found in the grave, a musician. Continue reading
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Bushwick Named Amongst 100 Most Expensive ZIP Codes in NYC
Williamsburg, East Williamsburg, and Bushwick, all ranked in the first half of listed ZIP codes.
See Exclusive Photos: Bushwick Tenants Sue Landlords for Severe Neglect
After a fire in 2008 at 299 Troutman Street, units were abandoned and the owners ignored the need for repairs.
Governor Cuomo Signs Loft Law Clean-Up Bill Amid Messy Community Debate
The bill has been years in the making and protects many of the city's loft tenants from eviction.
Public Advocate Introduces Bill to Mandate Racial Impact Study in City Rezoning Process
"It is a critical step in the struggle to stop the displacement and gentrification of neighborhoods of color."
Bushwick Rezoning Aims for Industrial Job Growth and Affordable Housing, Locals Remain Skeptic
Despite tensions, the community meeting held Wednesday remained civil for the most part.
Evictions in Bushwick Are on the Rise While Overall NYC Cases Have Fallen
Roughly 28 percent of residents in Bushwick pay more than half of their wages toward rent.
Anti-Segregation Campaign for Housing is Launched in Bushwick
Elected Brooklyn Officials and local advocates fight for racial justice before neighborhood rezoning plans come to life.
Another NYCHA Public Housing in East Williamsburg Without Heat
NYCHA struggles to keep tenants warm and provide regular maintenance.
Friday Fast Fact: Almost 300 Cases Filed Were Filed Against Bushwick Landlords in 2018
Here's a roundup of the housing cases brought against Bushwick landlords this past year.
Friday Fast Fact: 2,500 New Apartment Units Will Come to Bushwick by 2020
A recent report shows that Bushwick will be a hub for construction of new apartment buildings over the next couple of years.
Bushwick Rezoning Event Highlighted More Affordable Housing Concerns From Longtime Residents
"People are becoming homeless."
Friday Fast Facts: Median Asking Rent In Bushwick Hits An All-Time High
Landlords are asking renters to pay more for apartments than ever before, but how long can this last?
Why It's Time to Finally Get Renter's Insurance
Finally Cross Renter's Insurance Off Your To-Do LIst and Protect Your Stuff for Just $5 a Month
A Tale Of Three Cities: Bushwick Community Plan Released To A Packed House On Saturday
The plan will outline rezoning in the neighborhood.
Come Out On Saturday For The Unveiling Of The Bushwick Community Plan
The steering committee will finally present the Bushwick Community Plan, which has been in the works for over four years.
Residents Gathered This Weekend To Discuss Rezoning In Bushwick
Bushwick residents gathered at MayDay Space to talk about displacement and share their fears.
Animal Rights Activists Protested A Local Vivero Last Friday
Viveros are places where animals are slaughtered per order in the neighborhood.
Drag, Rezoning and Ridgewood Street Fair: Some Events To Check Out In The Area This Weekend
There's a lot going on in the area this week to celebrate the end of summer, protest displacement and trying drinks.
A Look At The Bushwick Protest Against Displacement This Past Friday
Mi Casa No Es Su Casa, an anti-gentrification art collective, projected residents' concerns about housing and displacement in Bushwick.
Two Events To Consider This Week: Meet Ocasio-Cortez And Illuminate Displacement
There's a chance to meet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and shine a light on displacement in Bushwick.
Denizen: An Elegant Meets Approachable All In One Living Experience
This site has everything needed to have a community within a community.
Friday Fast Fact: Bushwick Has One of the Highest Rates of Serious Housing Violations in NYC
We dig into publicly available to data to see how housing issues are plaguing the neighborhood.
What Is Democratic Socialism? A Q & A With The North Brooklyn DSA
Democratic Socialism has surged in popularity in the past two years. Bushwick Daily spoke to the North Brooklyn Chapter of Democratic Socialists of America spokesman Justin Charles to learn more.
Friday Fast Fact: More than a Quarter of Bushwick Residents Live Below the Poverty Line
Data from the American Community Survey reveals that more than one in four Bushwick residents lives in poverty.
"Work in Progress: Residential" is Bushwick Daily's August Poem of the Month
A poem about "progress" and housing in the area.
The Former Ridgewood Theater Building is Getting a Blink Gym
What once was an affordable multi-screen cinema is now housing, and soon to be a theater.
Celebrate The 13th Year of Bushwick Pride This Weekend
Resist and party in the streets of Bushwick for an awesome cause this weekend.
Friday Fast Fact: Families Are Being Driven Out of Bushwick
Data from the American Community Survey shows that the rate of families with children in Bushwick has been cut in half since 2000.
Bushwick is Home to Some of the Fastest Rising Rents in NYC
Everyone knows that Bushwick rents are on the rise, but here are some numbers to back it up.
Get to Know Bushwick Like Never Before Using This New, Data-Rich Interactive Map
Ever wondered how long the average commute of a Bushwick resident is—or what percentage of the neighborhood was born abroad? Find out using CoreData.nyc!
In a New Game, Bushwick Renters Can Explore The Factors Affecting Life in Aging New York Buildings
New game give you perspective on real-life challenges facing old rental buildings.
Is Your Bushwick Lease Signing or Re-Signing Coming Up? Watch Out for These Shady Lease Clauses!
Here are a few things to keep an eye out for when you're negotiating with your landlord or prospective landlord about your living arrangement!
Bushwick Studio Apartment Rents Just Jumped by Nearly 10 Percent, Report Indicates
An annual report by real estate firm MNS states that at the end of the summer, the average rent for a Bushwick studio apartment increased by 9.06 percent, from $1,925 to $2,099.
Hilarious Fake Bushwick Apartment Listing Offers Up Treehouse in Maria Hernandez Park
A brooklyn resident posted the bogus listing to make apartment hunters consider the dire state of the housing situation in Bushwick.
Bushwick Residents Designed a Neighborhood Map for Housing Advocacy—Learn to Use it This Thursday!
The Bushwick Community Map integrates data from city records into an easily navigable resource for tenants and homeowners trying to stay abreast of changes to the neighborhood's housing landscape.
See Rent Rate Fluctuations by L Train Subway Stops (Then Scream & Move to Canarsie)
The shutdown is coming—and rent increases are stagnating, but not dropping.
A "Historic First" Men's Shelter Serving and Employing Bushwick Residents Will Open Next Month
A former rehab facility on Bushwick's DeKalb Ave is about to reopen as a 100-bed homeless shelter
Residents Facing MTA "Relocation" Meet to Share Concerns
Bushwick community members who occupy twenty-six apartments on the triangular block adjacent to the Myrtle Ave-Broadway station on the J, M and Z trains and who discovered last week that M train work will necessitate that they leave their homes for a definite 6-10 months and possibly much longer met Wednesday night to share their experiences and consider plans of action


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These feel like dark times, but we need to live in the light. We need to focus on the good in people, not their flaws. We need to appreciate and accept the differences in others, not criticize and judge. We need to love the unlovable to show them there is light and encourage them to find their way to it.
Sometimes people do horrible things. It's logical to be angry at them and 'hate' their actions. But what makes me sad is that this senseless act will more than likely cause us, as a country, to focus on issues that are more divisive than uniting.
I don't like extremes . . . whether they are religious, political, social, financial . . . this list could go on and on. There are always different points of view . . . whether we agree with them or not. I do, however, believe in right and wrong . . . and this act is wrong. I also know there is so much good . . . so many good people. Let's not lose sight of that and make this shooting about something it is not.
My heart goes out to all those affected. I pray for peace and light and love.


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Hey guys! I'm super excited to be exhibiting at CTNX 2013. It all happens this coming weekend in Burbank. I'll be at table 94 selling sketchbooks, drawing monsters, and jawing your ears off about modeling for video games. Swing by and ask me anything! 13 years of game experience means I've likely got some stories to share. Anddddddddddddddd I've got a blank page in the convention sketchbook that is there for me to draw you some kind of sweet critter too.
Also, there is a high probability to see guest paintings by Peter Clarke!


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Back to life as normal. Meaning, hunting for jobs, scraping together money to pay bills, channel surfing, web browsing, procrastinating writing, etc.
But its Los Angeles, and its sunny out, so not much to really complain about.
Before leaving Sonoma, Claire and I paid a visit to her aunt's neighbor Thia, who wanted to show off her chickens. Claire had been by a couple days before to take some freshly laid eggs, so fresh than when she showed me them they were still warm to the touch. Thia had the chickens perform a "symphony" for us by laying out some pans and cans upside down, and putting their feed on top. Their pecking became a cacophony of sound... a chicken symphony.
The rest of the drive was as dull as can be hoped for, with the only heavy traffic really being just outside of L.A., but still better than a typical rush hour.
Now time to catch up on all the blogs I missed, the political message boards, and a couple emails.


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Christopher Wang
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- http://www.freaklabs.org
Akiba has a background in hardware engineering and electronics and originally started out as an IC designer working on communications ICs. He's been focusing on wireless and wireless sensor networks since 2004 and worked with the original 802.15.4-2003 specification as well as the original Zigbee specification in 2006. He wrote an open source Zigbee stack which ran into licensing issues due to the terms and conditions of the Zigbee Alliance documentation and has since abandonded Zigbee. He wrote his chibiArduino stack as a small, simple alternative to the heavier wireless protocol stacks available.
In 2008, he founded Tokyo Hackerspace with a group of friends and became deeply involved in the global hacker community. He's since helped start up Mothership Hackermoms, a hackerspace in Oakland, California specifically for creative parents and HackerFarm, a communal hackerspace in rural Japan focused on agricultural technology and sustainable living. He's currently working on another hackerspace in Dharamsala, India called Knowledge Garden which will be the sister space to HackerFarm and focus on education of Tibetan and local Himachal children, as well as work on providing infrastructure in the slums in the region.
Akiba's currently a research affiliate at MIT Media Lab in the Center for Civic Media and has a diverse background that spans stints as a UNESCO design consultant, lecturer for the International Atomic Energy Agency, and research positions at both Keio University and Osaka University in Japan.
He's available for speaking engagements, workshops, or consulting. Please contact him for more details.


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Happy Memorial Day to all that have served our country and fought for our freedom.
While yesterday was not very productive, today definitely was. We woke up late again, so getting up at 5:30 tomorrow is going to hurt!
We both meditated, I made blueberry pancakes, and then we went for a nice walk before it got too hot.
I did some stuff around the house, like bring up my bike from the basement and accessorized it with this nice Bell bag to store my cell phone, keys, sunscreen, etc. in.
I was so glad to have found this bike bag last summer, because the ones that sit under your seat just didn't work with my bike. Also, those are never big enough for all of the stuff I like to take on my ride. Plus, this one was a great price.
Craig planted green bean seeds, so we'll see how they do.
Since I was already sweaty and gross from our walk, I went to the gym to do a full circuit of weights, some ab work on the ball, and about 20 minutes on the Precor 100i, which I hadn't been on in a while. I was definitely feeling it in my legs after about 5 minutes! My new "smart" goal at the gym is to switch up the machines I use. There is actually a board about smart goals up at the YMCA this month and it made me think about incorporating a new goal for my time at the gym. I know that switching up your fitness routine leads to faster results, so I decided that was my goal.
I was craving a smoothie when I got back from the Y. I threw in protein powder, strawberries, a banana and skim milk.
It was so flippin' hot out today, so we stayed inside the house where it was only a bit cooler. I read The Help and I am enjoying the story so far.
When it had cooled off a bit, I went on a bike ride and it felt good to get outside on a bike! I love bike riding and really do wish I could bike to work every day on a safe route. I got this Trek 7100 bike last summer and I couldn't be happier with it. I've always been a Trek girl. Gotta support products made in my home state!
I wasn't really hungry for dinner because of the warmer temperatures. But I had to eat something and I decided I needed some veggies in my diet today. I made a nice salad with spinach, feta, grape tomatoes, cucumber, broccoli & carrots. I also topped it with some Mural of Flavor Penzey's spice because I have found that particular spice is perfect on veggies.
It's almost 9 and that means it's almost bedtime for me! Aaah, I wish every weekend was a four day one. It has been so nice being off of work. At least I'll have a four day weekend to look forward in mid-June before the summer months get very busy for me at work.
Hope you enjoyed your Memorial Day!


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Awesome logo identity designer
Recently, I have accepted an offer from a client who wishes to have his company's logo redesign. Brand identity is challenging and yet fun. It requires research and the most importantly, the ability to visually communicate the company's message in the simplest way. As I am seraching for inspiration, I have come across helvetic brands, … Continue reading
Dunkin Donuts Rebranding by Matt Stevens
Folks, this is some brilliant rebranding Matt Stevens has done for Dunkin Donuts. From logo, cups, posters, and apparels are well executed. Unfortunately, the design is just for fun (april fool). Too bad, because I really want that sprinkles shirt. =p
My new logo
Inspired by the typography from Delete – digital creative agent , I have redesigned my original logo. As you can see, I have kept my concept using "B" as my glasses. The reason I have decided to redesign my logo because I am planning to redo my online portfolio. The current portfolio is "okay" since … Continue reading


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U.S. diplomat blasts Hezbollah over role in Syria war
BEIRUT A senior American official on Monday denounced Hezbollah for its involvement in Syria's civil war and said the Lebanese militant group's actions place the future of Lebanon at risk.
The comments from Deputy Secretary of State William Burns were the first by a high-ranking visiting U.S. official since Hezbollah helped propel President Bashar Assad's troops to victory in the strategic Syrian town of Qusair near the Lebanese border last month.
Syrian troops have been building on the victory to move against rebel-held areas elsewhere in the central province of Homs and in the country's north.
- UN envoy: Syria peace talks unlikely in July
- Syria: Plan to arm rebels very dangerous
- U.S. training Syrian rebels at secret bases
"Despite its membership in the Lebanese government, Hezbollah has decided to put its own interests and those of its foreign backers above those of the Lebanese people," Burns told reporters as he wrapped up a two-day visit to Lebanon.
He added that the U.S. condemned "in the strongest terms" Hezbollah's actions in Syria and said they "place the future of Lebanon at risk."
Fighters from the powerful Iranian-backed Shiite Lebanese party have joined Assad's forces in their battle to crush the anti-Assad rebellion, which is dominated by Sunnis. The group was instrumental in helping Assad's troops capture Qusair, and activists say Hezbollah members are fighting in several locations in Syria.
Assad, however, refuted those reports, saying in a recent interview that Hezbollah's involvement was restricted to Qusair because of its proximity to Lebanon.
The group's open participation in the war has helped fan sectarian hatreds in Lebanon and across the region.
Meanwhile, the U.N. secretary-general warns that the participation of Iran and Saudi Arabia in the proposed Syria peace talks in Geneva remains a stumbling block that has not yet been resolved.
On Monday, Ban Ki-moon expressed that he expects both the Syrian government and the opposition groups to send delegations to the talks, planned for this summer.
Ban said that some nations remain divided whether to invite Iran and Saudi Arabia, who have been supporting the warring sides in the civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people, and displaced millions.
Lebanon is grappling with rising tensions between Sunni and Shiite Muslims linked to the more than 2-year-old conflict in Syria, which has sparked deadly street fighting on several occasions in Lebanese cities between the rival sects.
Last week, sectarian tensions drew Lebanon's weak army into the fray. Eighteen soldiers were killed in two days of fighting in the southern city of Sidon between the army and supporters of a hard-line Sunni sheik whose popularity has soared by tapping into the frustrations of many Lebanese who resent the influence Shiites have gained in government via Hezbollah.
"At a time of regional tumult and domestic uncertainty, it is deeply in the self interest of all Lebanese to exercise restraint and respect for Lebanon's stability and security," Burns said.
Burns also criticized a Lebanese government decision to postpone scheduled parliament elections last month, saying it undermines the faith of the Lebanese people in their own government and shakes the confidence of the international community in the country's institutions.


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The most common uses of essential oils
The most common uses of essential oils are:
• self-medication for comfort, calm and relaxation (baths, massages, cosmetics) and preparation for a good night sleep;
• a component of traditional medicine: Ayurveda, etc..
• Aromatic use in psychology.
Medical uses:
• disinfection and wound healing or treatment of injuries (burns, ...);
• supplementation with chronic medical treatment;
• dermatology and cosmetic dermatology;
• the choice of treatment by a qualified aroma therapist, pharmacist or naturopath.
The properties of essential oils are:
• Anti-infective: antibacterial, antifungal agents, pesticides, insecticides and repellents
• anti-inflammatory
• antihistamines
• antispasmodic
• analgesics, anesthetics and analgesics
• soothing, hypnotic and anxiolytic
• digestive properties
• antitoxic
• antivenin
• stimulating or soothing
• aphrodisiac
• etc..
Medical concept of Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy is the name we give to the use of essential oils in different application: dermal, oral, nasal, ear, olfactory etc. to complement preventive care or even diseases healing in humans, animals or plants.
The essential oils act at the disposal of symptomatic disorders of functional or organic infection.
(Etymology: Latin "aroma", Greek "ἄρωμα - aroma '= flavor, herb, Greek" θεραπεία - therapeia "= care, treatment)
Essential Oil
It is a liquid, concentrated and complex extract, obtained by the distillation of the plant: leaves, flowers, wood, roots, bark, fruit, etc.. = Distilled from aromatic plant species.
A long History shortly described
40000 BC, Australian Aborigines worked with aromatic plants through fumigation (smoke inhalation from herbs) and bandages (pasta clay mixed with herbs and applied to the skin).
There are writings from 5000 BC that tell us that the two strong herbs used in Chinese medicine were: ginger and cinnamon (still really common nowadays).
This is especially with Ayurveda that India brings a medical approach based on herbs and their energy actions.
2800 BC Egypt uses aromatic oils in their mummification and ingested medication.
Among the Greeks and Romans, Hippocrates of Cos, Discoride and Galen wrote several books about their knowledge about medicine using the benefits of the plants.
By 1200 Avicenna (Ibn Sina), an Arabian prince and doctor invented the first alembic that could distill herbs. This technology is brought into Europe through the Arab invasions and crusades in Spain.


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LastPass Review: How Does It Work and Is It Safe?
We're told to set up various complicated passwords for different websites and systems to ensure our account security. But the truth is that we can easily forget the complicated passwords and end up resetting passwords each time when we try to log in or using the same passwords for all accounts. To deal with this dilemma, there come various password management services, which aim at saving all passwords to cloud for you. LastPass is one of the top-rank password management tool on the market. Before you give this tool a shot, let's see how LastPass works and how safe it is.
What Can LastPass Do For You?
LastPass, as the its name suggests, is designed to store all your passwords and the LastPass' master password should be the last password that you need to remember. It is offered in two option: the free version and the Premium version that costs $12 per year. The Premium version is added with multifactor authentication, desktop application passwords and more. How does it work? Here are its main features.
1. Stores all your login information of different websites, passwords for credit cards, bank account, etc. to LastPass vault, a cloud storage.
2. Auto login your account on a website with no need to enter the password and account again.
3. Generate unique, complex password for you so that you don't need to beat your brain out to come up a password by yourself.
4. Secure your account with auto password change and use security challenge to sort out your weak, old, and duplicate passwords.
5. Multifactor (2-Factor) Authentication.
6.Emergency Access feature which allows you to designate trusted people to access your vault when you can't.
7. Sync all your password over different platforms: Mac, PC, Android phone, iPhone.
How to Use LastPass?
1.Sign up for a free LastPass account online and set up your account with an email address and a strong, complex master password.
2.If you are using LastPass on PC, download suitable LastPass plugin to your browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari) and LastPass will appear as an add-on in your browser.
3. If you are using LastPass on mobile phone, download LastPass app from App Store or Google Play Store.
4. You can Log in LastPass Vault with your master password and manually add passwords. Also, with LastPass add-on in your browser, you can choose to save a password in your first login and use auto-fill next time. For example, when you first log in your FaceBook account, a pop-up will appear saying, "Should LastPass remember this password?" You can choose to save the username and password and LastPass will automatically fill in the login information when you try to log in next time.
5.You can also click the browser plug in or LastPass app to access your vault of existing passwords and password generation tool.
Is LastPass Safe?
LastPass is designed to enhance your accounts security since you don't need to use weak passwords or use the same password for different accounts. However, many users feel uncomfortable about saving their passwords to cloud. In fact, the password manager doesn't have access to your passwords but use your credentials to create local decryption key for your passwords. Of course, there is risk that the service could be hacked or something. So you may want to keep important passwords like your banking information to yourself and use LastPass for other. After all, it is safer than using the same password for different websites.


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March 23rd, 2019 by WCBC Radio
One patient was transported to the hospital after being struck by a vehicle in the area of 231 National Highway in LaVale Friday evening. "Fire and EMS units were dispatched to lower LaVale just before 8 p.m. for a reported pedestrian struck by a vehicle," Todd Bowman, public information officer for the Allegany County Department of Emergency Services said. "Units from LaVale Fire Department, LaVale Rescue Squad and Allegany County Department of Emergency Services EMS Division responded on the call."
National Highway was closed for a short time as crews packaged the patient for transport.
"One, 85-year-old patient was transport to Western Maryland Regional Medical Center in Cumberland in stable condition," Bowman said.
Allegany County Sheriffs Department is investigating.
One Response to "UPDATE: 85 Year-Old Struck By Vehicle"
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What You Need To Do After a Slip And Fall Accident
An accident where you slip and fall can happen to you anywhere at any time. It is the responsibility of the property owner to maintain their homes and walkways, ensuring a minimum safety level, which is known as premises liability.
If you suffered an injury due to the property owner neglecting their property, you could be entitled to monetary compensation from the property owner. This financial compensation can be used to cover your time away from work, medical bills, and more.
The four steps you need to take if you have been injured in a slip and fall accident are the following:
Step 1: Inspect Your Surrounding Area
Examine the area where the fall occurred immediately after a slip and fall accident. Take note of what caused the fall, any witnesses to the fall and the conditions of the floor. Was there a crack in the concrete, ice on the pavement or any other obstacles? All of this information is required in order to create a complete picture of the incident.
A property owner can alter the conditions after a slip and fall incident, so recording the state of the property as it was when the accident occurred is a key piece of information when seeking a settlement. If possible, you need to take pictures of the area using your phone immediately after the accident.
Step 2: Receive Medical Attention For Your Injuries
After a slip and fall accident, your health should be your priority. If you have been injured, seek medical attention at an urgent care facility or emergency room. Here, your injuries will be documented, which means you will have proof of them.
You must also go to any required medical appointments after your initial visit to the emergency room. These appointments could be any follow-up appointments or physical therapy. If you skip them or do not follow the care recommendations, an insurance company or jury may have questions regarding the severity of your injuries.
Step 3: Make a Record of The Incident
If your accident happened at a place of business, you need to alert a manager or the property owner of the event. If you are seeking a settlement, you need to be aware of the following considerations:
● File a claim, even if the property owner accepts responsibility and is willing to pay compensation. Most likely, you will still need to file a claim to get proper compensation for any work you had to miss or any long-term consequences of your accident.
● The communication with the property owner should be limited. You should not speak to any company representatives either, as your statements may be used against you.
● Don't talk to anyone about the accident or post about it on social media. Any claims you give to medical providers should be consistent with the report given to the property owner.
Step 4: Keep Notes About Your Injuries
To prove negligence on the part of the property owner, there are several things you need to do.
● Talk to any witnesses that saw your fall, and get their personal information.
● Write down the date, location, time and a description of your slip and fall accident.
● Keep notes about any medical treatments you've received. Describe your doctor visits, medical costs and pain level in as much detail as possible.
Step 5: Contact a Personal Injury Attorney
If you want to file a claim against the property owner, take all of your evidence to a lawyer, including the notes, pictures, and medical records. To ensure swift compensation, you must do this as quickly as possible. It can be difficult to prove that the property owner was at fault in a slip and fall accident, meaning that your best chance is to have an experienced lawyer by your side.
Your attorney can assist you with everything related to your claim, such as drafting a demand letter and sending it to the property owner. A property owner will not necessarily not be at fault just because they disclosed a known danger, as they need to fix the issue in order to prevent injuries.


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Relapse Common in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis Save
Overall survival and survival free of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) have both improved significantly over time in patients with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV), but the risk of relapse has not.
In a large multicenter inception cohort of patients with AAV and renal involvement, the only predictor of better outcome was serum creatinine at diagnosis, "suggesting that early detection is fundamental to improving ESRD-free survival in AAV," noted Rennie L. Rhee, MD, from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and colleagues.
Renal involvement is a common complication of AAV and portends a poor prognosis. "Over the past several decades, patients with AAV have survived longer but whether morbidity has improved in terms of preservation of kidney function is unclear," the authors wrote online in Arthritis & Rheumatology.
They studied the impact of diagnostic and therapeutic changes on long-term outcomes in AAV in 554 patients with glomerulonephritis from the Glomerular Disease Collaborative Network AAV registry. The goal of the study was to examine changes in long-term outcomes over the 25-year period of 1985 to 2010.
Participants' median age was 60 years and 47% were female.
Renal function at diagnosis significantly improved over time, with a median estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of 11 mL/min/1.73 m2in the first 5 years of the registry and 23 mL/min/1.73 m2in the most recent 5-year period.
The study "showed consistent results indicating that better renal function at diagnosis is associated with improved survival and renal outcomes," wrote Rhee and colleagues.
Two hundred sixty (47%) patients developed ESRD and/or died during follow-up, and the rate of the occurrence of ESRD or death was 12.9 events per 100 patient-years. The ESRD-free survival rate at 1 year was 75% and the 5-year rate was 54%. The 5-year risk of ESRD or death decreased over time (log rank test for trendP
Among patients with severe renal disease, defined as eGFR of 45 mL/min/1.73 m2or less, there also was a significant improvement in ESRD-free survival over time (log rank test for trendP
In a subgroup multivariable analysis of patients who received cyclophosphamide, an elevated baseline serum creatinine was the only factor associated with an increased risk of ESRD or death, with a hazard ratio of 1.11 per 1 mg/dL of serum creatinine (95% CI 1.04-1.18,P=0.002).
Among the overall cohort, 160 deaths occurred, corresponding to an incidence rate of seven deaths per 100 patient-years. One-year survival was 91% and 5-year survival was 72%. Survival significantly improved over time, even after adjustments for factors such as baseline serum creatinine and treatment with cyclophosphamide (P=0.03).
One hundred eighty-one (33%) patients developed ESRD over the course of the study. By 1 and 5 years, 20% and 65% of patients respectively had developed ESRD, and at those time points 5% and 23% had died of causes other than ESRD. After adjustments, renal survival significantly improved across the time of the study (P=0.03).
The relapse rate was 13.9 events per 100 patient-years. The cumulative occurrence of relapse was 11% at 1 year, 29% at 3 years, and 35% at 5 years. Among the 185 patients with a relapse, 74% had evidence of renal involvement and 61% were given cyclophosphamide to treat the relapse.
The unadjusted occurrence of relapse increased over time (P
One-fourth of patients experienced a renal relapse, and there was no significant difference in the occurrence of renal relapses over time. Unlike a prior study, ANCA type was not associated with occurrence of relapse, which may have been "due to the enrichment of the cohort with patients with renal disease ... and censoring all patients after 5 years of follow-up," according to the authors.
There was also no association found between duration of cyclophosphamide use and relapse.
Unmeasured confounders, such as the dose and duration of use of glucocorticoids and other immunosuppressive therapies, represent a potential limitation to the study. Also, 32% of patients were lost to follow-up by 5 years from diagnosis, which may have affected results, and improvements in healthcare over time may have influenced long-term outcomes.
The study was supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the NIH. Rhee has been supported by the Rheumatology Research Foundation and the Vasculitis Foundation. One other author disclosed financial relationships with Actelion, Alexion, ChemoCentryx, Sanofi, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celgene, ChemoCentryx, Genentech/Roche and GlaxoSmithKline. Rhee receives support from the Rheumatology Research Foundation and Vasculitis Foundation.
This article is brought to RheumNow by our friends at MedPage Today. It was originally published February 8, 2016.
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