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Starting from September 1 2015, a new vaccine to prevent meningitis will be offered to babies as part of the NHS childhood vaccination programme.
Who is the meningitis B vaccine offered to?
Meningitis and septicaemia (blood poisoning) can affect people of any age, however, it's most common in babies and young children.
The new vaccine will be available to babies aged 2 months alongside other routine vaccinations. They will then have their second dose at 4 months, followed by a booster at 12 months. The vaccine will protect around 90% of group-B strains circulating in the UK.
The vaccine will be given as a single injection into your baby's thigh and can be given at the same time as other routine vaccines such as the 5-in-1 vaccine. This will save you time on going back for another appointment and less distress to your little one.
What will it protect my baby from?
The meningitis B vaccine protects your baby against an infection by meningococcal group B bacteria, which not only causes meningitis, but septicaemia as well. These are serious illnesses and can be fatal, causing blood poisoning and brain damage.
Bacterial meningitis is extremely serious and any signs or symptoms should be checked and treated as a medical emergency. It's far more serious than viral meningitis and symptoms often begin suddenly and develop quickly.
As it's more common in babies and young children, it's important to keep an eye out for symptoms and signs, including:
- Vomiting and refusing to feed
- A high fever with cold hands and feet
- Drowsiness and becoming unresponsive/floppy
- Having a high-pitched or moaning cry
- A stiff neck and sensitive to bright lights
- Seizures or convulsions
- A bulging soft spot on their head
- Rapid breathing
- Feeling irritable and not wanting to be picked up or cuddled
- Blotchy skin and a red rash
These symptoms can occur in any order, some not even appearing. If your baby has any of these symptoms, but doesn't have a rash, do not wait for it to appear. These are all symptoms of meningitis and if your baby develops them, you should seek medical help immediately.
Glass test
If one of the symptoms is a rash, take a clear glass and press the side firmly against your baby's skin. If the rash doesn't fade, it's a sign of meningococcal septicaemia.
Side effects
Like any vaccine, there can be side effects, however, studies of the meningitis B vaccine show no serious safety concerns at this time.
The main side effect of the meningitis B vaccine is a fever or a high temperature, but you can reduce the risk of this by giving your baby liquid paracetamol after the vaccination.
Other common side effects can include:
- Tenderness and redness at and around the injected area
- Irritability and upset
- Vomiting and/or diarrhoea
Allergic reaction
Although rare, some babies can have an allergic reaction to the meningitis B vaccine soon after the injection. This is usually a rash or itching that can affect part of the body or all over.
In very rare cases, babies may have an anaphylactic reaction, causing breathing difficulties or collapsing. Although distressing, trained professionals will know exactly how to react and how to treat your baby. They'll be treated immediately and babies make a complete recovery.
With these in mind you can make your decision whether you'd like your baby immunised against the new vaccine.
If you'd like any more information about meningitis and the meningitis B vaccine, the NHS are constantly updating their website with information.
At Little Shipmates, our staff are trained to spot symptoms of a range of illnesses like meningitis. You can feel reassured that your little one's health is our priority and we'll react promptly to any signs in which we feel they could be at risk.
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With European governments cutting back on spending, many are asking whether this could make matters worse. In the UK for instance, recent OECD estimates suggest that 'austerity' will lead to another recession, which in turn may lead to a higher debt-to-GDP ratio than before. As the debate heats up, this column provides some cool economic logic.
Daniel Gros, 29 November 2011
Alberto Alesina, Francesco Giavazzi, 13 September 2011
As Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announces a new austerity bill based on tax rises, this column argues that the country's leaders are in denial – it is as if they are trying to take aspirin to hide the symptoms of pneumonia. The authors predict that, with the current political class in power, Italy will soon enter another recession and, eventually, another crisis.
Hans-Joachim Voth, Jacopo Ponticelli, 10 August 2011
Governments cutting budget deficits have to consider not just the political reaction of the opposition and the media. A backlash on the streets, in the form of unrest and politically-motivated violence, is a real possibility. This column shows that since 1919, the level of instability has typically risen at the same time as budget cuts are implemented.
John Van Reenen, 07 March 2011
The recent announcement that Pfizer will close its main UK research lab (where Viagra was created) is the latest bit of bad news to bite the British economy. This column argues that the UK government's austerity programme is only making growth prospects worse. Instead of Plan B, it says that the government needs the economic equivalent of Pfizer's little blue pill – a "Plan V".
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The full fight card for UFC 168 has officially been finalized.
There will be eleven fights total. The main event will feature a middleweight title rematch between Anderson Silva (33-5) and Chris Weidman (10-0). Weidman took Silva's belt in July when he upset Silva by knocking him out in the second round. UFC President Dana White granted Silva an immediate rematch.
As the evenings co-main event, the highly anticipated women's bantamweight title fight between TUF coaches Ronda Rousey (7-0) and Miesha Tate (13-4) will finally commence. The two fought once before under the Strikeforce banner last year when Rousey defeated Tate by mutilating her arm with a first round armbar finish. Since then, the two WMMA pioneers have coached opposite one another on TUF 18 in what was arguably the most dramatic season of the series. There's a lot of hatred built up going into this fight, especially from Rousey. These two ladies don't like each other at all.
Additionally, a battle between two of the best heavyweights in the world will take place as former UFC Champ and Pride veteran Josh Barnett (33-6) takes on 6'7″ giant Travis Browne (15-1). Barnett most recently knocked out Frank Mir (16-8) about four months ago in his first fight in the UFC since defeating Randy Couture (19-11) for the heavyweight title back in 2002. Browne also has some momentum, as he's coming off a huge knockout win over Alistair Overeem (36-13).
Here's the full fight card:
Main Card (PPV)
Chris Weidman vs. Anderson Silva [Middleweight Championship]
Ronda Rousey vs. Miesha Tate [Women's Bantamweight Championship]
Josh Barnett vs. Travis Browne
Fabricio Camoes vs. Jim Miller
Diego Brandao vs. Dustin Poirier
Preliminary Card (FOX Sports 1)
Uriah Hall vs. Chris Leben
Michael Johnson vs. Gleison Tibau
Manny Gamburyan vs. Dennis Siver
Siyar Bahadurzada vs. John Howard
William Macario vs. Bobby Voelker
Estevan Payan vs. Robbie Peralta


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There you are, perusing the chilly refrigerated section of your favorite supermarket. Although you buy milk on almost every shopping trip, your mind goes through a familiar dance when faced with a wall of choices. Skim or whole? Is there a difference between 1% and 2% milk, and if so, are such small increments that important? You care about your health and maybe you're even trying to lose weight, so you pull a carton of skim off the shelf and put it in your basket. But did that deliberation lead you to the right choice? Is skim milk good for you at all?
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Thirteen full-time faculty members in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Penn are joined by staff, postdocs, and students in research on astrophysics and cosmology.
Major areas of research include: theories of the very early universe; approaches to cosmic acceleration, including modified gravity; cosmological parameter estimation, including the properties of dark matter and dark energy, and their influence on the formation of galaxies; the nonlinear growth of structure in the Universe; the evolution of galaxies through the epoch of reionization and into the recent era; mm and sub-mm observations of star and galaxy formation and galaxy clusters; detection of planets around nearby stars; and observations of the Solar System beyond Neptune. We address these questions by developing new instrumentation in the optical, mm, and sub-mm regimes, observations from the radio through x-ray, analysis of large survey datasets, computation and simulation, and theory.
There is close collaboration between the astrophysics groups and Penn researchers conducting laboratory searches for dark matter, and theoretical studies of gravitational and dark-sector physics. Penn researchers have major roles in many collaborative astronomical projects. Ongoing projects include the Sloan Digital Sky Survey; Dark Energy Survey; Atacama Cosmology Telescope; Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope; and the Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization. Near-future projects include the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, and the Euclid spacecraft.
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Kiera joined Meyerson, Fox, Mancinelli & Conte, P.A., in September 2017 as an associate in the family law department. Kiera graduated from Rutgers University in 2008 with a B.A. in Criminal Justice and minors in Political Science and Criminology. After completing her undergraduate studies, Kiera enrolled in Rutgers School of Law – Newark, where she graduated from in 2015. Upon graduating from law school, Kiera clerked for the Honorable Linda Grasso Jones, J.S.C. of the Family Division in the Monmouth County Superior Court. Since the completion of her clerkship, Kiera has worked exclusively in the areas of matrimonial and family law, and has appeared in court throughout northern New Jersey. Kiera is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association.
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Sunday, 1 April 2018
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Happy Easter Sunday,
As usual I have made a card or project specifically for today I was going to make an easter egg box as I have done in the past but i just couldn't get it right ( I'm sure that happens to all of us!) So i went with making this gold and white easter card which uses a new technique with the Izink Diamonds!
I stared by cutting my Gerbera Lattice three times in gold dust white card I used spray glue to add 2 of these layered onto another piece of the card. I then, using a spatula, spread the Gold Izink Diamonds over this so that the glitter paint filled the gaps in the die cut. I added a further layer on top to neaten the piece however this really wasn't required as it came away very clean.
The centre of the flowers are made by painting the Gold Diamonds onto a piece of card and cutting it out using the press cut card candy die which fits perfectly in the centres.
I wrapped a piece of silk gold ribbon around the background finishing with a messy bow and pearl strings
I stamped the Gerbera daisy stamp in perfect medium onto more of the card and heat embossed it with the new Izink Extra Fine detail gold embossing powder ( this is the finest embossing powder i have ever used its like dust lol)
I cut the flowers out with the matching die and shaped them arranging them on the bow as shown.
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Hi JohnReplyDelete
Beautiful card.Happy Easter enjoy the holiday.
Morning John, gorgeous card love the way the flowers are put together. Happy Easter.ReplyDelete
Nancyd xx
Morning John, firstly Happy Easter to you and Sam. Now to the sample, well you have done it again, it is super duper, love the gold colouring and the dies you have used, the flowers on the front of the bow look so realistic you can almost smell them, thank you.ReplyDelete
Stay safe, healthy and happy, hugs, June Smith xxx
- Anonymous1 April 2018 at 08:25
Gorgeous card John.I have been using this die and love it.ReplyDelete
Happy Easter everyone.
Hi JohnReplyDelete
Happy Easter. A lovely card.
B xx
- Anonymous1 April 2018 at 09:22
Fabulous card Happy EasterReplyDelete
Happy Easter.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous card, really lovely.
Happy Easter John. Just gorgeous, really beautiful.ReplyDelete
Annette x
Hi John,ReplyDelete
Happy Easter.
Oh I love this wonderful card and your desing is ace.
Love the wonderful glittery background you have created and such a super idea the centre of the flowers is.
Beautiful flowers also and what a grgeous bow.
Lots of crafty regards. Jenny L.
Morning John,ReplyDelete
Happy Easter.
Lovely card.
Happy Easter John love your cardReplyDelete
June Horrocks xxxx
Beautiful card, John. Happy EasterReplyDelete
Anne (Northampton)
Hello John, a lovely card, it looks great with the gold Izink diamonds. Have a lovely day everyone. BxReplyDelete
Lovely card JOHN I love your Gerbera Daisy dies and hope to increase my stash very soonReplyDelete
Hi JohnReplyDelete
What a gorgeous sophisticated card today, I'm loving the gold glitter, isn't it gorgeous. I hope you have a lovely easter, a day to spend with friends and family and eat chocolate. 😃.
Love Diane x
Hi JohnReplyDelete
A gorgeous opulent card.
Happy Easter John. Love the card.ReplyDelete
So pretty, xxxReplyDelete
Hello John,ReplyDelete
Happy Easter !! What a lovely card! It's beautiful.
Hope you are having a relaxing Easter.
Love Myra x
Happy Easter John,ReplyDelete
Today's card is beautiful, as is the wreath shown yesterday. Hope you have a lovely Easter Day.
love Maureen x
Happy Easter John. A lovely card today and as I picked up my parcel from The Art of Craft yesterday I now have some Gold Izink Diamond paint to give this a try. Looking forward to trying it. Have a lovely day. Take carexxx.ReplyDelete
Hi John, Hope you are enjoying Easter break today's card is simply stunning, love it.Stay healthy and happy,Lots of Love Barbara DxxxReplyDelete
A really beautiful card.ReplyDelete
That's lovely John. Hope the Easter Bunny brought you an egg.ReplyDelete
Hi John this is a stunning card it is just so pretty I love it. Your chocolate cake looked amazing. I hope you had a very Happy Easter. We hosted a family meal that's why I am late today. Take care. Hugs JackieReplyDelete
Hi John very pretty Easter card. Hope your having some Me time & haveing a Happy EasterReplyDelete
Hi john lovely card, when are the other dies going to be on sale, I only have the strip....I want the rest. Thankyou.ReplyDelete
Very informative and impressive post you have written, this is quite interesting and i have went through it completely, an upgraded information is shared, keep sharing such valuable information. Dragonfly Diamond PaintingReplyDelete


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MSO's Opus One will be performing William Susman's Zydeco Madness in the upcoming performances with Marcela Pinilla on March 1 & 2 at the Rumba Room. William Susman lives in the San Francisco area. His composition, Zydeco Madness, was dedicated to "the forgotten of Hurricane Katrina" in Louisiana. With the recent Mardi Gras celebration, and the fact that it's awesome to be able to interview a living composer, I thought you would all enjoy hearing what William Susman has to say about being a composer and particularly about the piece the MSO musicians will be performing next week.
Interview with William Susman
Tell us about your background: where did you grow up, and where do you live now? How did your musical career begin?
I grew up in a suburb of Chicago and now live near San Francisco. I did my undergrad work in music at the University of Illinois and went to grad school at Stanford in order to work at CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics). I've lived in the SF Bay area since then. As a teenager in the Chicago area, I studied with a variety of teachers in classical and jazz piano and, counterpoint. I also played in my high school big band and gigged with jazz combos. My influences back then were all the jazz greats such as Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Bud Powell, Monk, Miles, and Coltrane.
My first big break was when I got a BMI award for a large divisi work for soprano, choir and orchestra which also happened to be my Stanford master's thesis. At the BMI award ceremony in New York, I met one of the judges, the seminal American composer Earle Brown. At the ceremony, he said "I had to fight for your score. No one wanted to look at it because it was too big. I was the only one willing to spread it out on the floor!" (that was before you could reduce things cheaply at Kinko's. I had made copies of the score at an architectural blueprint shop. Not long after BMI, I was staying at the Chelsea Hotel and met Virgil Thomson who lived there. He gave me the practical advice of, "The print is too small and the score is too big!")
It was very exciting to have a composer of Earle's stature champion me. He helped secure a Fromm Music Foundation commission. I wrote a chamber orchestra piece with that commission and it was premiered at the Aspen Music Festival. It was also selected for the Gaudeamus Festival in Holland and was performed by the VARA radio orchestra (now Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra) conducted by Ernest Bour. Bour was a legend with the European avant-garde having premiered many works by Berio and Ligeti among others. Needless to say, I was honored to work with these musicians while in my mid-20s.
You've written works for an assortment of instrumental combinations in varying genres! How did your schooling and musical experiences contribute to your compositions? How different is it to write seemingly unrelated genres, like film scores to piano concertos?
Before I arrived at University of Illinois I spent a year and half at Tulane. I had a wonderful piano teacher there named Robert Zemurray Hirsch who introduced me to all the great 20th century composers and I most connected with Webern and his Opus 27. It was truly an epiphany for me to study and play Webern's music. Since that time, my process has always included ideas of structure, symmetry, cycle, isorhythm, hocket and the like. Today, though, my musical language could not be more different than Webern's. It's the sheer brilliance and beauty of his constructions, as if he created these immense crystals, that I so admire.
After Tulane, I transferred to Illinois at Champaign-Urbana to completely focus on music. I was 19 and majored in music composition and piano. I used to love to browse through the stacks of scores in the music library and happened across Pithoprakta by Xenakis (coincidentally, also a string orchestra work). I fell in love with his sound world and also that of Ligeti's. I was deeply attracted to large divisi scores where each member of the orchestra played a different part. Ligeti called it micro-polyphony. I liked large-scale constructions and "clouds" of sound. A few years later at Stanford, I wrote a grand scale divisi orchestral work with almost a 100 solo parts in some sections. It was reminiscent of Ligeti and Xenakis. This was the piece that caught the attention of Earle Brown at the BMI awards.
Listening to my music today you may not be able to tell that I had such a strong interest in the European avant-garde, yet it was that early experimentation for me that helped mold and discipline my process today. However, it was also not my language and I was lucky to realize this early on. I was mesmerized by their style but the ideas that created their music were not mine. My sound has gradually evolved over many years by trying to imbue each piece with my own ideas. I've written everything from piano pieces, string quartets, and wind quintets to vocal, chamber ensemble, choral and orchestral pieces. With each new commission, I feel I am developing my voice. I cannot say that about my pieces from my early 20s yet they somehow helped me get recognition.
The difference between writing a film score and writing a piano concerto is that I am working with a director and serving the needs of the film as opposed to working for myself. I have written many scores for documentary films. When scoring, I always try to give the music an organic connection with the film whether it's using an instrument or borrowing a folk melody seen or heard in the film. For example, with the silent documentary Native New Yorker (which won the Tribeca Film Festival) I scored it with instruments you see buskers playing. With my recent piano concerto as with other concert works, I can focus solely on the abstraction of sound.
It's only fair to ask: do you have a musical hero?
Schoenberg without a doubt.
I can say from personal experience that even musicians in music conservatories shy away from new compositions. What is the biggest barrier that modern day composers face when presenting their works to the public?
Yes. That can happen. In my experience when I was at University of Illinois and then at Stanford, I was able to find musicians willing to play my music. It was good experience getting feedback from these players who were friends of mine. It was only after I left school that it became a challenge.
In my opinion, there is not a single barrier but three that are interrelated. And, in a sense they are not exclusive to music but to almost any new endeavor.
1. Money to create and produce something new.
2. A platform to present what you produced and,
3. Using that platform effectively to reach an audience.
Once barriers 1 and 2 are met, number 3 – trying to reach an audience poses a challenge. How to get people excited and interested in coming out to hear live music and taking a chance on something new and different and, perhaps even a little demanding is where the classical music world should put more energy.
Do you find that modern audiences are excited to hear premieres of works? After all, that's how all the great Classical composers got their start!
It all depends on the venue and the vibe. I think it's vital that audiences meet composers at a concert. Audiences always have an opportunity to see and, or meet a conductor, soloist or orchestra members yet it is ironic that composers are often overlooked. I think audiences would get more excited about new pieces if they were given an opportunity to have some sort of human connection even if it's only to see the composer take a bow. Question and answer sessions before or after a concert also help foster communication.
So, in answer to your question, I do not really think audiences are generally excited about hearing premieres of new works, but they could be. It's all about communication, reaching out and saying hey, check this out, it's something new, meet the composer, hear him talk about his music, we think you might connect with his sound or what inspired him, etc. I think it's also helpful when the musicians performing the music get a chance to meet the composer.
I think the MSO's Opus One Series is making a great step forward in reaching out to audiences. A smaller, relaxed venue can create a more personal connection for the audience and performers.
I'm interested in hearing more about your chamber music group, OCTET. For all of you readers who aren't familiar with OCTET, it's an awesome New York-based music ensemble dedicated to performing contemporary compositions that push boundaries. What inspired you to start OCTET?
What inspired me to start OCTET was the need to hear my music. It's always been a challenge to get performances. I wanted to take control of getting my music performed and recorded. I also wanted to create a distinctive ensemble sound. Our instrumentation is sax, trumpet, trombone, drums, piano, keyboards, vocals, and bass. We are a scaled down big band playing contemporary classical.
(You can hear the ensemble at our website and on our blog.)
Let's talk about the piece MSOs Opus One is performing on March 1 and 2, Zydeco Madness. You've told me before that this piece was your response and memorial to the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina. What connection do you have to Louisiana?
I lived in New Orleans for a year and a half before transferring to Champaign-Urbana. I remember the seasonal storms and floods and walking around in 3 feet of water years before Katrina. When Katirna happened, I asked myself why are these people being neglected and forgotten.
Initially, it was a solo accordion piece, because the lead instrument in a Zydeco band is typically a button accordion. I chose Bayan accordion which is a very large button accordion with a wider range than the accordions you see in Zydeco bands. The Bayan accordion is what one studies in the conservatory. You also generally play the Bayan sitting down because of its weight.
My piece does not emulate the Zydeco sound, which is very much tied into blues and creole music, so much as paint a picture or a mood around the events of Katrina using an accordion. The piece is episodic, jump-cutting from one event to the next like a news report.
It was premiered by a great Russian Bayan virtuoso named Stas Venglevski. I created a string orchestra version shortly after. Watch a performance of Stas playing here.
You originally wrote Zydeco Madness for solo accordion. What prompted you to write it for String Orchestra?
By expanding it for string orchestra, I was able to reach a larger scale of sound, create different textures with the original material and give the piece wider exposure. Also, we all saw horrific news reports of people's stuff floating, drifting and burning in currents slick with oil. I had this vision of someone's accordion floating in this mess, and morphing into some giant monster accordion dripping with the fallout of toxic sludge. In a sense, the string orchestra was like a giant accordion.
Solo accordion and String Orchestra obviously sound very different. Do you prefer hearing this piece one way or the other?
No preference. I love the way Stas plays this piece and he usually amplifies himself in order to get the scale of sound I'm looking for. I also am very happy with the way the string orchestra version came out. They each make a powerful statement in their own way.
Do you like that your piece will be performed in a non-traditional venue? MSO Opus One always performs in non-traditional venues.
Very much. I am very excited about this performance with the MSO at the Rumba Room. I think the MSO Opus One Series has the right idea about how to reach a wider audience. Hopefully there will be people at the Rumba Room who having never heard a live orchestra may consider coming to a concert hall performance in the future. For anyone attending, it's a cool vibe to sip a drink in a relaxed atmosphere and connect with the music up close.
Is there anything else you'd like to add?
It's such a pleasure to be working with the MSO and I am very excited to hear them play!
Thank you so much for your time! We are really excited to hear your piece!


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quote:hey gina, how's things?
yeah, we got about a foot. lots of drifts. was really windy.
getting cold. wind chill tomorrow around zero.
stay warm.
quote: it'll be a world of difference in the right conditions -- w/all this new snow (&a lot more coming tmrw nite too), give it a whirl on a sunny day, you'll have a blast! It's the bomb
This is our neck of the woods.
It was particularly bad for me because I did NOT follow my own advice. When I last looked at the maps the night before (radar), it seemed as though the heavy snow would not arrive till 10 am, so I thought I had plenty of time to get out to the gym and do a short workout. I never made it there. By 7:15 I was hit with a white out and it did not improve till noon time. White meaning you could not see what was on either side of the street, could not see traffic lights even with no one ahead of you. I turned around but it was too late. I made it to a shopping center and saw a store open so I went there to hang out till things improved, but they didn't. A nasty plow plowed me in while I was in the store, my defroster could not even keep the back window clear, much less could I see out the side windows with horizontal snow coming. Finally someone with a black pick up truck happened by, had mercy on me and plowed out the stuff I would not have even been able to shovel. The CEO of the store is going to hear from me. It was so bad on the road I could not get thru it. In the 5 hours it took me to traverse a 6 mile swath of road I did not see one plow, not one. I had to constantly pray for about the last few miles, because there was no way I was going to get thru that. When I finally got back to where I live, I could not get in the driveway. I had to shovel to barely get in. Later another nasty ass plowed several feet of snow right in back of my car. Too high, too packed in to shovel that down.
When I went out later that night to do a little more work, the cop who lives next door was out there with his snowblower aiming his snow directly at the side of my car. I did not yell, it was obvious what was happening. I just got in the car, sat quietly, and put on my Isis head chopping off looking ski mask just there watching him. For some reason he seemed to stop.
Yes I know it's all my fault. I did not follow my own advice, I should not have been on the road at 7 am, even though it wasn't bad then.
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I hope you had nice holidays and are now ready to dive in this shiny New Year with all sorts of plans. I know I am :)
But I still owe you my pages and I made a little collage with all of them:
I didn't exactly make the pages in good time as I mostly did them in November and December - I finished the last one on 31st of December! :) But I am so glad I did it! It's so nice to flip through the book; one wishes to have more to look at but only 12 pages.
And because the big U is always here for us and because I was really fond of this project, another one came by! Jennifer Orkin Lewis a.k.a. August Wren is doing the same thing this year and I am already making my book for it. The hashtag for the project is #12monthsofpaint and I'll keep my 12 pages group open for it (with her blessings).
So, drop by again, invite your friends and let's all dive into another painting/drawing/collaging/CREATIVE year together! ❤
Here's the FB group if you are not in it already ;) 12 pages group
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Card Recipe:
Paper - Crumb Cake, Baha Breeze, Rose Red, Whisper White card stock, Springtime Vintage Designer series paper
Inks- Baha Breeze, Crumb Cake classic inks
Stamps - Clearly for You, Your a Gem (sentiment)
Tools - Scalloped Trim border punch, 1 inch circle punch, 1 3/8 inch circle punch, 1 3/4 inch scallop circle punch, 2 3/8 inch scallop circle punch, 1 3/4 inch circle punch, 3 inch Big Shot circle die, Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder
Accessories - Designer Big Buttons, Pretty in Pink wide striped grosgrain ribbon, twine, basic rhinestones
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my online store or send me an email and I will be happy to put your order in for you!! So, today is a very busy day for me because I am getting ready for my birthday scrap weekend here at my house, so I need to go and get all the yummy snacks and such we will need to make it through :-) I will be back tomorrow with another fun card to share that is also on its way to someone near and dear to me - until then, happy stampin'!!!!
Card Recipe:
Paper - Crumb Cake, Baha Breeze, Very Vanilla, Regal Rose card stock, Springtime Vintage designer series paper
Inks - Crumb Cake, Baha Breeze, Regal Rose classic inks
Stamps - Baby Blossom, Bold Blossom (sentiment)
Tools - Pinking Hearts border punch, Modern Label punch, Large Oval punch, Small Heart punch, distresser tool
Accessories - Chantilly lace ribbon, Crumb Cake seam binding ribbon, basic pearls, basic rhinestones
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Paper - Crumb Cake, Baha Breeze, Very Vanilla, Regal Rose card stock, Springtime Vintage designer series paper
Inks - Crumb Cake, Baha Breeze, Regal Rose classic inks
Stamps - Baby Blossom, Bold Blossom (sentiment)
Tools - Pinking Hearts border punch, Modern Label punch, Large Oval punch, Small Heart punch, distresser tool
Accessories - Chantilly lace ribbon, Crumb Cake seam binding ribbon, basic pearls, basic rhinestones
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February 1, 2011
Good morning all!! WOW! The weather is beautiful here in California today and is supposed to get into the 70s for the rest of the week, which is really strange since February is usually really cold and really rainy for us! Hey, I will take it - I am ready for Spring, LOL! Love is in the air and Spring weather makes it all the better :-) So, I just had my Club gals here a few weekends ago and we did a fun layout for Valentines or for any occasion involving love really. I wanted to share with you one of the layouts they got to do - they always get two double layouts, and we have a blast! It is always difficult to get a really good pic of the double layouts so I have taken some detail shots of this one so you can see some of it up close!! We used all kinds of fun things on this layout and my Big Shot got a workout cutting all those letters ahead of time, heehee, but the end result was worth it, I think!
The title is cut out of the yummy Red Glimmer paper (item 121790) found in the Occasions Mini - I have to tell ya, I am addicted to this paper, I just loooovvvve how it sparkles :-) I used the Serif Essentials Alphabet (item 113464) with my Big Shot - oh, how I love these big letters! I thought it would be fun to also use the negative of the letters - you know, the piece that is left that shows the outline? So, that is what the Ten is spelled out with - and then, you get double alphabet letters out of each letter that you cut! Plus, it looks cool :-) The Designers series paper is also from the Occasions Mini and it is called Love Impressions(item 121780) - soooo fabulous!!!! I love all the different textures on this paper plus it is so versatile you can use it for lots of different occasions, not just Valentines Day! The cute little envie is cut from the Scallop Envelope Big Shot Die (item 113462) - isn't it cute??!! We filled it with ten loose hearts punched with the Full Heart Punch (item 119883) - these are for the ten reasons or whatever they want to journal on
them! Here is a closeup shot of the envie so you can see it better! The patterned hearts are actually adhered down to the back of the envie but the rest can be pulled out for writing on, adding small pics, or they can be left just the way they are :-) To add to the cuteness, we used the new Occasions Mini stamp set called Valentine Defined(clear item 123057), which I originally purchased for these adorable little flamingos, but of course I have now fallen in love with all of the images, lol! We stamped these fun lovebirds on Whisper White card stock, then ran them through the Big Shot using the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder (item 117335) and then mounted the image on two circles cut with the new dies in the Occasions Mini: the 3 inch circle die(item 122125) and the 3 1/2 inch circle die(item 121811).
I love how all the circles and scallops we have nest together - just makes layering that much more fun!! And, if you look at these circles, you will notice that the larger circle has also been run through the Big Shot and embossed, this time using the Square Lattice embossing folder(119976). The smaller circle has been stamped on using the XOXO stamp from the XOXOX stamp set (clear item 121973) also found in the Occasions Mini - super cute and fun!! I really had a good time designing this fun layout, and judging from the squeals and smiles I got from my Club gals, they loved it too!! They are such a fun bunch, I really look forward to seeing them each and every month - it is definitely a highlight for me!!! Today I am going to spending lots of time in my stamp room prepping for my February classes, which are now posted on my website - if you want to take any of these classes, or sign up for a workshop, contact me now and we can get you all set up! And, if any(or all, lol!) of the items used in today's project share are on your have to have list, you can order them online in my online store! Thanks for stopping by, I will be back tomorrow with another fun project to share so until then, happy stampin'!!!
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Paper - Real Red, Going Gray, Whisper White, Pretty in Pink card stock, Love Impressions Designer Series Paper
Inks - Real Red classic stampin' pad
Stamps - XOXO, Valentine Defined
Tools - Scalloped Square Bigz Die, 3 and 3 /12 inch Circle Dies, Serif Essentials Dies, Scalloped Envelope die, Scalloped Edge punch, Small Heart punch, Large Heart Punch, 2 3/8 inch Scallop Circle punch, 1 3/8 and 1 1/4 inch circle punches, corner rounder punch
Accessories - Whisper White satin ribbon, Basic Black thin ribbon, silver glitter brads
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January 31, 2011
Good morning!! Here it is, Monday again - it sure does seem to come around fast, doesn't it LOL??!! We had a very busy weekend here and it seemed like it just flew by! I did get to stamp some which is always nice :-) I played with some new stamp sets, which always makes me happy! Today's card is the result of one of those new ones - it's called Bold Blossom(clear item 122232), and it's in the new Occasions Mini. I think it is a really fun set and I see myself using this one a lot! I paired it with some more of the yummy Springtime Vintage DSP(item 121782) - I just love this paper, I think it is soooo purdy!!! I kept the card fairly simple as I am making several to mail out to some wonderful peeps so it came together pretty quickly. I love the soft colors that are in it though - and the pop of Rose Red makes me smile because I think it just makes it look even that much purdier!!! I have a lot on the agenda today so this is a short post, but if you are interested in any of the items you see here, you can order them online in my online store or email me directly with your order and I will be happy to help you with it! I have to get ready for our new addition - we adopted a rescue from the dachshund rescue organization and she will be arriving today! I will share pics tomorrow!! We are excited but this will have to be the last one as she is number four, lol!!! Have a wonderful day and until tomorrow, happy stampin'!!!
Card Recipe:
Paper - Baha Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Rose Red, Whisper White card stock, Springtime Vintage Designer Series Paper
Inks - Always Artichoke, Rose Red, Baha Breeze, Not Quite Navy classic inks
Stamps - Bold Blossom
Accessories - Basic Rhinestones, Very Vanilla thin ribbon
Tools - Large Oval punch, Scalloped Edge border punch, 3/4 inch Circle punch, Curly Label punch, Ticket Corner punch
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The Impact of Comorbidity and Stage on Ovarian Cancer Mortality: A Nationwide Danish Cohort Study
Date Issued2008-1-29
Publisher Version10.1186/1471-2407-8-31
Tetsche, Mette S.
Dethlefsen, Claus
Pedersen, Lars
Sorensen, Henrik T.
Norgaard, Mette
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Permanent Linkhttps://hdl.handle.net/2144/3255
Citation (published version)Tetsche, Mette S, Claus Dethlefsen, Lars Pedersen, Henrik T Sorensen, Mette Norgaard. "The impact of comorbidity and stage on ovarian cancer mortality: A nationwide Danish cohort study" BMC Cancer 8:31. (2008)
BACKGROUND. The incidence of ovarian cancer increases sharply with age, and many elderly patients have coexisting diseases. If patients with comorbidities are diagnosed with advanced stages, this would explain the poor survival observed among ovarian cancer patients with severe comorbidity. Our aims were to examine the prevalence of comorbidity according to stage of cancer at diagnosis, to estimate the impact of comorbidity on survival, and to examine whether the impact of comorbidity on survival varies by stage. METHODS. From the Danish Cancer Registry we identified 5,213 patients (> 15 years old) with ovarian cancer diagnosed from 1995 to 2003. We obtained information on comorbidities from the Danish National Hospital Discharge Registry. Vital status was determined through linkage to the Civil Registration System. We estimated the prevalence of comorbidity by stage and computed absolute survival and relative mortality rate ratios (MRRs) by comorbidity level (Charlson Index score 0, 1–2, 3+), using patients with Charlson Index score 0 as the reference group. We then stratified by stage and computed the absolute survival and MRRs according to comorbidity level, using patients with Charlson score 0 and localized tumour/FIGO I as the reference group. We adjusted for age and calendar time. RESULTS. Comorbidity was more common among patients with an advanced stage of cancer. One- and five-year survival was higher in patients without comorbidity than in patients with registered comorbidity. After adjustment for age and calendar time, one-year MRRs declined from 1.8 to 1.4 and from 2.7 to 2.0, for patients with Charlson scores 1–2 and 3+, respectively. After adjustment for stage, the MRRs further declined to 1.3 and 1.8, respectively. Five-year MRRs declined similarly after adjustment for age, calendar time, and stage. The impact of severe comorbidity on mortality varied by stage, particularly among patients with tumours with regional spread/FIGO-stages II and III. CONCLUSION. The presence of severe comorbidity was associated with an advanced stage of ovarian cancer. Mortality was higher among patients with comorbidities and the impact of comorbidity varied by stage.
RightsCopyright 2008 Tetsche et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- On top of old Smoky
- Historic Old US441
- Over the Smokies
- Edge of the gorge
One of the spots I'm sure to get to is Newfound Gap, the point where US441 crossed the main ridge of the Smoky Mountains and the state line between Tennessee and North Carolina. I visited there many times as a child, and my parents did the same long before I was born. For the most part, US441 in the park follows the old road, which followed the old Cherokee trail, coming out of Gatlinburg, but just before where the famed "Loop" — built to replace a pair severe switchbacks — is now, the old road went almost due south along a stream called Road Prong, eventually crossing at uncreatively named Indian Gap.
The Cherokee were quite fond of taking the shortest route possible, so they didn't do too much switchbacking, preferring to climb more or less straight up and then straight down the mountains, a knack the white folk never seemed to get. There were and are numerous trails through the mountains — some of them preserved as Forest Service roads — and William Thomas, a white guy who was adopted by the Cherokee peace chief, picked the Indian Gap trail to widen so settlers down below could easier access saltpeter mines on Mont LeConte in Tennessee. And it was a toll road!
But after a Swiss geographer found another, lower gap over the mountains in the late 1800s, a new road, incorporating all those switchbacks and hairpin curves the settlers seemed to prefer, was built on the North Carolina side. That, of course, predicated a new road on the Tennessee side, with all the requisite turns that met up with the older road at Road Prong.
That new gap, by the way, got an equally uncreative name — Newfound Gap, because, y'know, it was new found.
And so it stood, for the most part, until the late 1900s, when a new and gleaming US441 was built along Thomas Ridge, high above the older road that followed Beech Flats Prong. The old road has largely been taken over by vegetation, but it's still accessible from some parts, including right off the Newfound Gap parking lot where it's always been.
The road to Clingman's Dome, the highest point in Tennessee, passes just below Indian Gap a mile and a half from Newfound Gap, and the Appalachian Trail goes through it. The Road Prong Trail follows traces of the old road down into Tennessee from there.
So yeah, I'll get back up there and visit some of those old roads, but the trip will be planned carefully. It's many a day now that the 35 miles of US441 between Cherokee, North Carolina, and Gatlinburg are bumper-to-bumper. So I'm thinking one day in the middle of the week, and not in the fall, would be ideal.


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We've all been there. You're at a glamorous cocktail party when a ravishing young Hollywood starling slithers over to you and asks, "Can you explain all the buzz about 'big data' to me?" After checking the room to see where your wife is, you nod sagely, and, even as your mouth says, "Of course," your brain is warning, "Dude, you've got nothing."
Luckily, you don't really have to know much about big data to have an opinion, just like foreign policy or raising kids. So if you can spare a few minutes, I can help you get up to speed by answering a few of your "frantically asked questions" (FAQs).
Where did the term "big data" come from? Wordologists believe the term originated in the imperial Roman tax office about 27.3 AD. The noted accountant Felonius Maximus, upon entering his office one Friday, bemoaned the scrollwork he had to get through to leave in time to watch the gladiatorial doubleheader.
"Looka datta pile-a parchment on-a my desk!" Assistants who misheard came to associate the term "datta" with masses of numbers.
Today we use the word "data" to mean anything we want, but mostly stuff that we've recorded with a "free" app on our "free" phone. Interestingly, the word can be singular or plural, but if you are going for pretentious (and who isn't?) saying things like, "The data are randomly organized" will radiate an aura of knowledgeableness.
Is it pronounced "dah-ta" or "day-ta"? Despite that semi-historical Latin origin, the proper articulation of the word was set in 1987 when Star Trek Captain Jean-Luc Picard met his second officer. When Patrick Stewart says, "Mr. Day-ta," and that's good enough for the 24th Century, it clearly settles the matter for our backward era. After all, this guy knows tons of Shakespeare. By heart, no less.
"Big data" is …? The term big data can be applied to just about any large collection of measurements, values or idle thoughts (i.e., political polls). For example, if you were to measure your weight every year, that would be just data. If you measure it every second (and there's a phone app to do this, I bet) that collection of depressing numbers would be big data, often in more than one sense.
How big is "big data"? A wise person (or maybe it was a fortune cookie) once said, "The truth is a powerful weapon." This is why I use it sparingly. So I hope you can handle this. The answer: big data is bigger than you can imagine.
Remember when computers were first discovered by odd people in garages? Crudely carved from wooden components while the Cowsills crooned in the background, these early machines were able to handle thousands of bites/bits/bytes per second, or kilobytes. This meant information came across the green screens about as fast as you could read, even if you used your finger and moved your lips.
Fast forward to today. The computer on your desk or in your back pocket has moved from kilobytes (words) to megabytes (pictures) and gigabytes (movies) to terabytes (3-D live-streams of corn fungus).
So what's next? Exabytes, zettabytes and yottabytes. (I'll wait while you Google.) Toldja so! By the way, a yottabyte is defined as a bazillion, gazillion, frazillion bytes.
What is it used for? Big data is mostly used to sell gadgets to store it in. It is also good for finding spurious correlations such as consumption of mozzarella cheese and civil engineering doctorates. (Not sure, are you?) Such mathematical tricks are helpful for confusing economic debates and providing Facebook content.
What is the future of big data? Take this quick test: Can you remember your mother's phone number? OK, can you remember her name? (No, it's not "Mom.") Don't be embarrassed, none of us do. That's because we've outsourced our memory to big data. We could record every single moment of our life on video, and the data would fit in a device smaller than a Chipotle burrito. As technology advances, the size will only get smaller.
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A social care charity will have to pay more than £200,000 after a vulnerable 62-year-old man died while staff were helping him to take a shower.
Kevin McNally, a resident of a nursing home in Birstall, West Yorkshire, run by the charity St Anne's Community Services, fell from a shower chair and broke his neck in April 2015 because staff had not securely strapped him in, according to the regulator the Care Quality Commission.
McNally had Down's syndrome, epilepsy, dementia and a severe learning disability and had lived in the nursing home since 2012.
The Leeds-based charity pleaded guilty at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates' Court last week to an offence of failing to provide safe care and treatment resulting in avoidable harm to a service user.
Derek Bray, chief executive of St Anne's Community Services, said the charity fully accepted the outcome of the case and took its responsibilities while caring for vulnerable people "very seriously indeed".
Two staff had been helping McNally take a shower using a special chair that accidentally fell forwards while he was loosely strapped in. Despite attempts to resuscitate him, he was pronounced dead in hospital, the CQC told the court.
Just nine days before the incident, the Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency issued safety alerts intended to raise awareness of the danger that people could sustain injuries because safety belts were not used or adjusted properly, according to the CQC.
But the charity failed to ensure staff were aware of the warning or that they understood how to fit the strap safely, the CQC said.
Debbie Westhead, deputy chief inspector of adult social care at the Care Quality Commission, described the accident as "a tragedy that need not have happened".
She said: "This accident was entirely avoidable. The risk of people sustaining serious injuries because safety or posture belts are not used properly has been well known for some time. Yet St Anne's Community Services failed in its duty to ensure that care and treatment was provided in a safe way, and as a result Kevin McNally died."
The charity was fined £190,000 and ordered to pay £16,000 towards the cost of the prosecution and a £120 victim surcharge.
Bray said: "We have been deeply saddened by the events leading to this prosecution and have assisted the CQC throughout its investigations."
Since the time of the incident, he said, the CQC had carried out checks on the home, rating it as "good" with no concerns for the future.
"St Anne's Community Services is absolutely committed to providing the highest level of care to its clients," he said.


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In a translation transformation all the points in the object are moved in a straight line in the same direction. The size, the shape and the orientation of the image are the same as that of the original object. Same orientation means that the object and image are facing the same direction.Example:
We describe a translation in terms of the number of units moved to the right or left and the number of units moved up or down.
Move the object 2 units to the right and 4 units up.
The translation can be represented by a column vector as .
The top number represents the right and left movement. A positive number means moving to the right and a negative number means moving to the left.
The bottom number represents up and down movement. A positive number means moving up and a negative number means moving down.
In the following figure, triangle ABC is being translated to triangle A'B'C'
The translation is represented by the column vector .
In general, a translation can be represented by a column matrix or column vector where a is the number of units to move right or left along the x-axis and b is the number of units to move up or down along the y-axis.
The matrix equation representing a translation is:
where is the translation matrix and is the image of .
The triangle P is mapped onto the triangle Q by the translation .
a) Find the coordinates of triangle Q.
b) On the diagram, draw and label triangle Q.
As a mathematical notation, we may write: T(A) = B, to mean object A is mapped onto B under the transformation T.
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One wonders why, in some homes, a particular room is more difficult to heat than others. It's nevertheless part of the same building constructed with the same materials by the same contractor. There are several reasons why this phenomenon may occur.
Before installing a unit or system in a room, it is wise to determine the source of the problem causing the lack of heat. It is therefore necessary to address such cases such as the lack of insulation in walls, windows, ceilings or even the floor if the room is just above a garage that is rarely heated or unheated. We can fix these issues as needed.
You must also check that the heater in the room is functioning well. Are the air outlets unobstructed? Is the thermostat in working condition? Have the proper clearances been met during installation?
But there are cases where we cannot easily intervene on the particularities of the house and installation. For example, if the room has a fenestration leaving little sunshine to pass through or if its largest wall leading outside is squarely facing north. A small kitchen may not have the necessary free wall space to install a heater. It may be difficult to insulate the floor of a room above a garage.
The addition of a baseboard or a convector proves to be a very effective solution against the lack of heat in the case where there is ample space for installation. And, in order to improve one's comfort, it is very profitable to connect electronic thermostats, to either of these types of units, (they may already have a built-in thermostat) which can more accurately calibrate their demand for energy.
A small wall fan heater is also a possible solution for fast and efficient heat. It easily fits in small spaces or sometimes on certain types of cabinets. They can be recessed or not, depending on the application. They are great for the hallway, corridor, kitchen, bathroom, the staircase of the basement, etc.
A "kick space" fan heater is a great unit to compensate for the lack of space in the kitchen and bathroom. It is installed directly at the height of the recessed molding under the cabinet of the sink or washbasin.
A little known unit, called the "radiant" heater, adds an unexpected comfort to a room. It doesn't take any space away from occupants because it is installed above a window or terrace door and directs its "solar" rays diagonally downwards in the room.
There is also another unit to solve the lack of space: the ceiling fan heater. This can be recessed or surface installed. It is very comforting to have heat right above you when washing dishes or stepping out of the shower or tub.
And then there is the fan heater designed specifically for the bathroom. It blows a hot and enveloping stream of air. One model can even alternatively take on the role of a convector.
Those who wish to add heating from the floor will find satisfaction in floor heating systems. On top of being completely invisible, these systems are the ideal solution for people suffering from allergies as they do not displace air or dust in the air. This is the most sought, after heating system, and most comfortable, in rooms with ceramic tiles: the kitchen and bathroom.
Finally, there is an indirect way of compensating for the lack of warmth in a room located above a garage: add a good dose of heat to it. How? By installing a convector, a fan heater designed specifically for this task or even electric baseboards.


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Bradley Cooper is 35. His A-Team co-star, Liam Neeson is 58. Their A-Team director Joe Carnahan (41) finds Neeson to be a perfectly suitable replacement for Cooper in his survival drama, The Grey. This isn't the most drastic retooling Hollywood has ever done (a pre-Jolie Salt was originally intended for Tom Cruise), but I find it significant. Maybe in return, Cooper can fill in for Neeson on Steven Spielberg's Abraham Lincoln biopic.
Per Heat Vision, the script from Carnahan and Ian Jeffers (Death Sentence) begins with a plane crash in Alaska: "A man (Neeson) and his oil drilling team find themselves struggling to survive in the wild. The men come under attack by large, vicious, aggressive wolves who see the humans as intruders who must be killed." Though Cooper may have the vitality of youth on his side, I actually buy Neeson more as a badass wolf killer. I'm sure Carnahan and Cooper would have made a fine movie together. But Neeson takes it to a different level… for me. Anyone not on board with this development?


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» Washington's Silver Line opened to acclaim. It is already being hailed as the pedestrian-oriented transformer for the suburban Tysons business district, but the project may not create walkable, urban neighborhoods.
After years of talk, the Washington Metro was expanded by more than 11 miles last month, finally connecting it to Tysons, a suburban, auto-oriented business district in the heart of Fairfax County, Virginia. The new Silver Line that will make the connection via the existing Orange and Blue Line trunk through downtown Washington is expected to serve 25,000 daily boardings at five new stations, providing service every six minutes at rush hours and 12 to 15 minutes off peak. A second phase of the more than $5 billion project will add another 11.5 miles and extend into Loudoun County, via Dulles Airport, in 2018.
This first phase is very significant from the perspective of expanded rapid transit service; it is the second-lengthiest single line opening in the history
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