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An inlay restoration is a custom made filling made of composite material, gold, or tooth-colored porcelain. Porcelain inlays are popular because they resemble your natural tooth. A porcelain inlay is made by a professional dental laboratory and is permanently cemented into the tooth by your dentist.
Inlays can be utilized to conservatively repair teeth that have large defective fillings or have been damaged by decay or trauma. Inlays are an ideal alternative to conventional silver and composite fillings. Also, they are more conservative than crowns because less tooth structure is removed in the preparation of inlays.
As with most dental restorations, inlays are not always permanent and may someday require replacement. They are highly durable and will last many years, giving you a beautiful long lasting smile.
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What does getting an inlay involve?
An inlay procedure usually requires two appointments. Your first appointment will include taking several highly accurate impressions (molds) that will be used to create your custom inlay and a temporary restoration.
While the tooth is numb, the dentist will remove any decay and/or old filling materials. The space will then be thoroughly cleaned and carefully prepared, shaping the surface to properly fit an inlay restoration. A temporary filling will be applied to protect the tooth while your inlay is made by a dental laboratory.
At your second appointment your new inlay will be carefully and precisely cemented into place. A few adjustments may be necessary to ensure a proper fit and that your bite is comfortable.
You will receive care instruction at the conclusion of your treatment. Good oral hygiene practices, a proper diet, and regular dental visits will aid in the life of your new inlay.
I am so excited today as I have had my first Laser Snoring Treatment (Fontana Light Walker NIGHTLASE). I will not lie, I DO snore (which keeps me from going (overnight with friends), and according to Bob, I snore LOUD and A LOT! Dr. Hansen of Hansen Dental Treatment Center in Pasco, WA is Educated and Certified in the field of Laser treatment for a variety of ailments. He has the very latest in laser equipment here in the Tri-Cities, WA. Within 3 months and 3 treatments I should have my snoring arrested! Did the laser treatment ?hurt?? Only mild discomfort but the treatment is so quick and non-invasive. How long was the treatment? 15-30 minutes. If this works, I will sing Dr. Hansen?s praises! You can click on this link if you have any interest in what I am talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=bH_jAoMJYgY
So?while I was at Dr. Hansen?s office, I was also able to experience my first treatment to tighten my facial skin, i.e.: bags under eyes, wrinkles from my eyes, above my lips, general tightening of the facial skin to improve my overall aging and improve my collagen production (age 66 years YOUNG). The laser treatment forces collagen to begin reproduction within the epidermal layers of my skin. I honestly can say, that after my first treatment, I noticed a difference in my overall skin tightness and am excited to get my 2nd of 3rd treatments. I have had collagen treatments and Botox in the past. THAT was the ?past?. I am definitely vying for a non-invasive and no down-time via the laser technology available today at a MUCH the reduced cost!
What I love is the virtually pain free, and non-invasive procedures done with the laser treatments.
This is not the main reason for the laser equipment in Dr. Hansen?s office. He is a dentist and the laser equipment he has performs an abundance of dental procedures?catapulting us into the advanced age of less painful, if not, painless dentistry!
I wholeheartedly recommend Dr. Hansen when you consider your next need for dental or aesthetics,(i.e. skin scaring from acne, a face lift without the downtime, and the list goes on and on) without the excessive expense of traditional treatments.
Please give Dr. Hansen?s office a call and talk to his friendly staff regarding your needs today!
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I actually look forward to my visits to Hansen Family Dental. Dr. James Hansen and his staff have taken care of my dental needs for over five years and everyone has always greeted me with smiles and worked together as a happy and cohesive team, showing each other courtesy and respect while treating me like family. So, the word "Family" in the name of their business takes on real meaning.
As a woman in her late 70s, my dental problems are not without challenges but Dr. Hansen and his staff have worked together to find the best solutions for me. Whether the procedure is a simple cleaning, filling or a root canal, my comfort is important to each one of them and I never feel tense or nervous. Their smiles are sincere and make me relax. In addition, their willingness to work out an affordable payment plan that works for me and enables me to get the care I need without undue hardship is greatly appreciated.
As a child my wisdom teeth grew horizontally, pushing my other teeth forward. My wisdom teeth were removed when I was about 27 years old but over the years the bottom teeth drifted forward and caused so much crowding that it became almost impossible to floss. I could see that my gums were being affected and felt sorry for any hygienist that had to clean my teeth. I realize that healthy teeth and gums play an important part in my overall health so after asking about solutions to my problem, invisalign (virtually invisible alternative to braces) was suggested as a possibility.
I hesitated because of my age, but realized that with people living longer these days, I could live another 20 years. So, the office staff helped me work out a payment plan that would work so that I could actually have my teeth straightened, something I had wanted to do for many years but didn't think would be possible. It is exciting to see that, after just a few weeks, my teeth are already moving. Within a few months I won't be biting the inside of my bottom lip anymore, will be able to floss and clean between all of my teeth, won't have to feel sorry for the hygienist, won't have the threat of gum disease, and I'm sure I'll feel better about my smile.
Thank you Dr. Hansen and each member of your staff for making it so pleasant to take care of my teeth! In addition, I thank you and your staff for your service and giving back to your community through your volunteering and distributing of toothbrushes, toothpaste, and dental floss to over a thousand low-income families each year that have sought help at the St. Vincent de Paul Food Bank in Pasco. You set a great example of caring about your neighbors in need. You are a dentist I can highly recommend as I know your staff reflects your values!
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This is the time of year that thoughts turn to giving back, and in a city as large as Denver, there are a lot of people in need and a lot of wonderful ways you can volunteer your time and energy to help those in need. There are so many important causes in need of your help, and you can find a lot of great resources to figure out just where you should be volunteering your time. As you are planning your holiday season, consider taking some time to do some volunteer work to support these important organizations that strive to make Colorado a better place year-round.
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Prevent Child Abuse Colorado
Prevent Child Abuse Colorado is a non-profit organization dedicated to "educate, connect and mobilize Colorado communities and families so our children can grow and develop free from abuse and neglect." There are a lot of wonderful ways you can get involved to support this important organization. Volunteers are needed to distribute pinwheels to local communities and to provide support for Pinwheels for Preventions events throughout the state of Colorado. There is also need for Party for Prevention hosts, it's an opportunity to hold a party to benefit Prevent Child Abuse Colorado. You can also help by approaching businesses about selling the signature pinwheels in stores. There are many different ways you can give your time to help this great cause.
Extreme Community Makeover
Much like the television show of the similar name, Extreme Community Makeover is dedicated to improving neighborhoods and home improvement projects in communities throughout many Denver neighborhoods. You can organize a group with your church, school group or scout troupe, you can volunteer with your family or even on your own. A typical day starts around 9 a.m. and you'll work through the day targeting specific blocks to remove graffiti, clean up the neighborhood, build fences, work on houses and any other projects that may be needed. It is a full day of work (lunch included) where you can truly impact a neighborhood in need.
Warren Village
Warren Village is a home for low-income and single-parent families that need a little extra help to get back on their feet. It is a safe house combined with a lot of self-help services to help these families in need get the step up they need to provide for themselves and their children. It has been a home to more than 4,000 families since it opened its doors in 1974. There are also several ways you can give your time to Warren Village. There is need for child care, where you and your family can assist in special events and programs for the kids that live at Warren Village while their parent attends classes for important life skills. You can also volunteer to teach a life skills class which could be anything from budgeting to stress management to cooking or any other similar type of class. Check the website, there are always lots of ways you can support this wonderful organization.
Mile High United Way
You are probably no stranger to the United Way. It is an organization that works throughout the country in three primary areas; youth success, adult self-sufficiency and school readiness. The United Way provides services to help increase early literacy and graduation rates, while helping adults and families become more economically self sufficient. Of course, such a large organization is always in need of a variety of volunteers. There are holiday parties that need volunteers to help set up and check in, outreach to the Children's Hospital, as well as mentoring and tutoring services for children and adults. Visit the website for a full list of all of the great opportunities available.
Hunger Free Colorado
The Colorado Anti-Hunger Network and the Colorado Food Bank Association merged in 2009 to create Hunger Free Colorado, a nonprofit organization that seeks to find solutions to all of Colorado's hunger challenges. It works to increase public awareness and to ensure that all Coloradans have access to affordable and nutritious food. You can support Hunger Free Colorado by volunteering to staff the Food Assistance Hotline, which provides answers and resources to those applying for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs. Or you can spend time working in the lobby of the Denver Human Services Building, assisting with the administrative work needed for clients applying for resources.

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At almost the very last minute, I was offered a ride to Salt Lake for general conference. We would leave Thursday evening and be back by late Sunday. Since the only responsibility I had during that time was a class on Friday (and that was definitely not essential) and because I would never, under any circumstances, miss a trip to Zion, I hopped on board. Though this could be the stuff of song and/or story (see Canterbury Tales), the weekend turned out to be pleasant, if surprisingly uneventful.
We left E-town round about 6pm Thursday and headed to Red Deer, where we picked up the fourth member of our party. Two hours south of that town, he remembered that he had forgotten his passport. Since, like most normal people, he doesn't tend to cart about a birth certificate, we had to turn around. So, we lost four hours. But it was just four hours of sleep, rolling into small town south Alberta roughly at 4.00 am.
We slept for about four hours and then hit the road again by 9. We drove through some breathtaking pieces of Montana (for which the promotional materials that claim it to be big sky country are not, in fact, lying). We rolled into the Valley round about eight that night. A rousing rendition of O Ye Mountains High was attempted, but scrapped when stumbled through the first verse and realized we didn't really know the hymn all that well. For those doing the math, we've logged 19 hours in the car by this point. There are few things more difficult than being trapped in a car, not being able to eat, and having your traveling companions munch down for several hours. Fortunately, I survived without breaking my fast, though I had to fudge it a couple times so as to not make my various hosts Sodomites (their sin, of course, was inhospitality not anal play).
Our time in Salt Lake was a bit of a swirl. I got to meet the my newest niece, all of three weeks old. I saw my family. We went to Saturday afternoon conference, which turned out to be a broadcast from the Tabernacle, much to the dismay of some of our party. I introduced A. to Sam Weller's. We experienced priesthood, which was live. I got to see Ryan, who also went out to dinner with our family for some tasty, if slightly overpriced Mexican food. That was a lucky break as he and his (much) better half are going to be gone from Zion by the time I'm home again. The weather was gorgeous, a real example of how beautiful some springs in Utah are. Then, come 7.20 am Sunday morning, we pulled out of the driveway and were on our way back north. (time in Utah: 35 hours).
The trip home was pretty smooth sailing with two stops. First in Montana where we tried turning the Missouri from its course, but learned that God must be pretty dang eager to pour down knowledge on the heads of the Latter-day Saints. The second was an hour-zapping meal stop in Lethbridge. God decided to pour down not knowledge, but snow, upon the heads of us four Latter-day Saints in a rather mean-spirited April Fools Joke. The storm was pretty intense, but cleared up after Red Deer and I was home for bed by 1.30 am. The timing on the trip up, even with our two minor stops and the blizzard conditions, managed to sit about 18 hours.
If you've learned addition, you can see 19+18=37. What this means is that we were actually in Salt Lake for two fewer hours than the journey there and back took. And, a bulk of the time there was spent sleeping. Said another way, for every minute we spent in Salt Lake we were in a car or on the road for 1 minute, 3.6 seconds. Ryan called us "Mormon Jihadists". I think I like the title in all its racist glory. Though, technically we'd be closer to hajji. I always have thought gathering to Zion, at least for conference, should still be an essential aspect of Mormonism. Maybe we can bring it back and then use it to open doors to the Muslim world. It's like brt-ing, but on a much less specific level.
Assiduous records of our gas consumption were kept until the computer we were using crapped out and lost our data. We figured the miles per gallon, the kilometers per liter, the cost per mile, and so on. I suggested we include the rod per cup (somewhat cheekily as I didn't really get the joy of rather prosaic data sliced in not-so-thrilling ways). Unfortunately, we didn't know how many rods were in a mile. It's 320. Since we averaged just under 30 mpgs, let's say 28, we'd be getting 560 rods per cup of gasoline. Now, that's some data that gets my engine going, if you know what I mean.


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When I was 12, I took it upon myself to teach myself Welsh. Really. Needless to say, it didn't really stick. But although that obsession faded, I never lost the desire to visit Wales. So when we planned our trip to central England, I insisted we take a day or two to drive into Wales. It didn't look that far on a map - surely it wouldn't be that long of a journey.
Well, never underestimate how long it can take to get around on British roads. Nevertheless, we did get in a few days along the southern coast of Wales.
Our first stop, as it grew dark and dark rainclouds rolled in, was the not-entirely-scenic town of Swansea. Caught in the middle of what seemed like a true gale, we took the first room we could find and spent the night.
From there, we drove west. Our next stop was Pembroke, a cute medieval town with a stunning 12th century castle. We spent several hours running around the castle grounds, climbing stairs, walking along the ramparts, and enjoying amazing views from the towers. Like I said in the last post, there's something to be said for historical sites where the visitor can have the run of the place.
From Pembroke, we headed south to the seaside town of Tenby. With an amazing, broad beach and a colorful old town, Tenby was a lovely place to visit.


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Join us for a lively evening with New York Times Bestselling author, actor, producer and screenwriter Greg Sestero.
Greg's 2013 memoir "The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made" was published by Simon & Schuster and adapted into a Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award nominated film featuring an all-star cast including James Franco, Seth Rogen, Dave Franco, Sharon Stone, Bryan Cranston, and Alison Brie.
The real life story centers on Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, who meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class. Together they travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true by making Tommy's personally-funded film "The Room" which surprisingly has become one of the most popular underground cult phenomenon films ever. Fifteen years after the initial limited release of "The Room," it's still playing to late night moviegoers in theaters internationally.
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The Scottish government is conducting a year-long Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for offshore wind around Scotland. The offshore projects will proceed only if the SEA does not throw up any show-stopping environmental issues. A formal lease allowing construction will then be granted once the developer has conducted its own site-specific environmental assessment and secured planning consent.
The ten successful site bids were whittled down from 23 applications lodged by 14 companies. Most of the successful bidders are already active in UK offshore wind (table). Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) subsidiary Airtricity has emerged with the biggest slice of capacity. It secured four licences totalling 2700 MW: two off the west coast as sole developer and two off the east coast in partnership with other players -- Fluor, which has already partnered Airtricity on the 500 MW Greater Gabbard project off east England, and SeaEnergy, which makes its debut as an offshore wind developer in its own right. SeaEnergy is the marine renewables offshoot of Aberdeen offshore oil and gas investment company Ramco. It previously developed the DownVind demonstrator project comprising two deepwater wind turbines at Talisman Energy's Beatrice oil field on behalf of owners Talisman and SSE. Now, as a minority (25%) partner with Airtricity, it has won the concession to develop a further 920 MW at Beatrice, nine miles off the coast in the Moray Firth.
SeaEnergy is also taking a 25% share in partnership with RWE npower renewables on the 905 MW Inch Cape wind project ten miles off the east coast in the Outer Tay estuary. SeaEnergy's Joel Staadecker says the awards represent a significant milestone in the company's strategy, taking it nearly half way to its target of owning one gigawatt of wind power within five years.
The biggest site, known as Argyll Array, goes to ScottishPower, the British arm of Iberdrola of Spain. With potential for up to 1.5 GW south-west of the island of Tiree on Scotland's west coast, it is the biggest offshore wind licence awarded to date in the entire United Kingdom, second only to that granted the 1 GW London Array project off the south-east coast of England.
Another company making its first appearance on the UK offshore wind scene is Mainstream Renewable Power, set up last year by former Airtricity boss Eddie O'Connor. It won the rights to a 360 MW site known as Neart na Gaoithe in the outer Forth estuary off the east coast. "This is a first, but very significant, step for our Offshore Centre of Excellence, which we established last year," says O'Connor. The centre is focused on offshore development in the UK, Ireland and Germany, he says. "Neart na Gaoithe is the first step in our vision of an interconnected series of wind-fired power stations in the North Sea providing long term security of energy supply for Europe."
Jason Ormiston from green energy trade body Scottish Renewables says the combined capacity of all the projects would make a massive contribution to Scotland's efforts in tackling climate change and helping to deliver reliable and affordable supplies of electricity. "Now the industry, government, the Crown Estate, Ofgem and the wide range of interests which use the sea must work together to deliver this exciting potential," he says. Ofgem is the energy market regulator for Britain.
In addition to the exclusivity agreements, the Crown Estate says it is working on plans for a 23 turbine wind farm off Aberdeen where developers Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group and Vattenfall of Sweden hope to create an offshore test centre.


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A decentralized exchange (DEX) is a marketplace for trading Ethereum-based tokens where a certain element of the exchange's functionality operates according to Ethereum's decentralized protocol. A common feature found in DEXs is that they do not rely on a third-party service to hold the user's assets. Another decentralized feature would be that trades occur directly between users through smart contracts.
We list DEXs that operate under varying "degrees of decentralization" running on the Ethereum main network. One has to understand how a particular exchange is implemented to appreciate just how decentralized it actually is. Broadly, DEXs may be categorized according to the following types:
- Off-chain order book, on-chain settled
- On-chain peer-to-peer
- Off-chain peer-to-peer
- On-chain order book & settlement
- Plasma-chain order book


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There's an "argument" going on right now — resembling the posturing of silverback gorillas more than an argument — concerning whether the Copyright Office is a captured agency. On one side, there are "info free" warriors and allies, such as the so-called "Public Knowledge" group (a deceptively deceptive name, with multiple layers of ideological presumptions in it), claiming that the Copyright Office has been agency-captured by "copyright holders" to the detriment of the public at large. The opposition has been sniping around the edges, pointing at all of the problems — and, admittedly, they're serious ones — with the factual support offered for that position, but failing to engage with the underlying question of whether there has been a capture at all.
And then this happens: The recently-ousted Register gets a new job as CEO of the Association of American Publishers, continuing the long tradition of senior Copyright Office officials (and even not-so-senior) sliding easily into well-paying jobs specifically in the distributor/transferee segment of the entertainment industry. This exposes the meaninglessness of the posturing described in the first paragraph, because "copyright rights" is not a two-sided battle. It isn't even necessarily a battle... but it definitely has more than two sides. At minimum, copyright necessarily involves the rights of:
- The actual, natural-person creators of copyrighted works;
- The distributors and, where present, transferee-owners of those works after their creation;
- Reusers of those works, who create useful derivatives within the framework of copyright (whether licensed or not, fair use or not,... legally or not);
- End users of those works
The regulatory capture is the second area. And Ms Pallante's new job — which will fit in quite well with her advocacy over the years — is a pretty clear piece of evidence that capture has been successful. Ironically enough, because the Copyright Office is an arm of Congress, its employees are exempt from most of the "revolving-door" restrictions... which might have inhibited this particular embarassment if the Copyright Office had been in the Department of Commerce where it belongs, along with the Patent and Trademark Office.


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It's the thirty-eighth episode of On The List with Brett Gursky. This week's guest Alex Beh ("Warren") talks all about his career as a writer, a director, and an actor. His latest film "Warren" is a project that he wrote, directed, starred in, and also produced. What began as a script several years ago would later become his feature directorial debut, and he got to film it in his hometown of Chicago. Alex shares behind-the-scenes stories from the making of the movie, which also stars John Heard, Jean Smart, Sarah Habel, & Austin Stowell. Then he takes us back to the beginning, discussing how he got his start and the short films he created along the way. You can check out "Warren" on iTunes now.
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Inspired by the rebellious Spaniards' success against Napoleon, Austria launched a campaign to liberate neighboring countries from Napoleon's rule. Hoping to inspire large-scale revolution throughout the Confederacy of the Rhine, Austrian troops invade Bavaria on April 8, 1809, proclaiming a War of German Liberation. But the people of Bavaria, who had profited from Napoleon's earlier defeat of Austria, rallied once again around Napoleon as he assembled his troops for battle.
"Austria wants to get slapped; she shall have it," Napoleon boasted. "If the Emperor Francis attempts any hostile move, he will soon have ceased to reign."
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Verney Road School starts 2019By Ashlea Witoslawski
It was a big day for some of Verney Road School's newest students when they entered their classroom for 2019.
As the students sat down for their morning tea, followed by some outdoor play, classroom teacher Donna Allen said it had been a ''lovely morning''.
''We had more teary mums than children this year,'' Mrs Allen said.
Verney Road School provides education for children with a range of intellectual disabilities.
Mrs Allen said the first year of school could be difficult for all parents, especially when the child might need more attention and support.
''It's a big step for parents and it's hard enough without a disability,'' she said.
''Children with added needs means trust has to be at another level.''
Mrs Allen said the teaching staff worked hard at the end of term four the previous year to make sure the children could adjust before beginning their education.
''We asked our parents to write a welcome letter to help us learn as much as possible before the children started school,'' Mrs Allen said.
Verney Road School has 10 new students joining their Foundation cohort this year.
To ease the transition, the students are broken in two groups of five and attend for two days per week, with an interview day held with the parents on Wednesdays.
Verney Road School principal Jan Gill Kirkman also emphasised the importance of readying Foundation student families before the school year.
''The families help us prepare and they have done a really good job,'' Mrs Gill Kirkman said.
She said the families were sent a photograph of their child's teachers to pin in a familiar place at home to help the new students adapt.
''Routines are vital for our students and good communication is needed between families and the school,'' she said.
''Our key is that all children can learn and they do.''


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When 1950s Home Technology Enters the Workplace
"What started as a passing technology fad has taken hold. The younger generation in particular is taking to it very quickly. "My children spend all day on it. In fact the teenagers have given up everything else to use this technology."
It all started with Uncle Miltie. After the debut of Milton Berle's show, sales of television sets doubled to 2,000,000 in 1949. Today, kids want and expect to be entertained.
What does this mean for the workplace?
We need to keep up with the needs of the changing world. Some day every household will have 2 or 3 television boxes. We can even expect advances like television programs in color. Clearly the workplace needs to keep up. Entertainment through the use of technology is becoming an important communication avenue for our younger workers.
"A happy, unstressed workforce is going to be more productive. We started by having television in the lunch room but today we are providing TVs for every employees desk. Sure,there is a risk but think about the benefits?"
Executives take note. Can you afford to ignore the needs of your next generation of workers?"


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Random panels from the Teddy Scares Vol.2 story I'm doing at the moment. More of that filthier, grungier coloring style I'm playing with.
San Diego Comicon went extremely well. I've got a lot to talk about, but I think instead of talking about it, I'm just gonna wait until I can show you.
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A group of researchers from Russia, Belarus and Spain, including Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology professor Yury Lozovik, have developed a microscopic force sensor based on carbon nanotubes. The scientists proposed using two nanotubes, one of which is a long cylinder with double walls one atom thick. These tubes are placed so that their open ends are opposite to each other. Voltage is then applied to them, and a current of about 10nAflows through the circuit. Carbon tube walls are good conductors, and along the gap between the ends of the nanotubes the current flows thanks to the tunnel effect, which is a quantum phenomenon where electrons pass through a barrier that is considered insurmountable in classical mechanics. This current is called tunneling current and is widely used in practice. There are, for example, tunnel diodes, wherein current flows through the potential barrier of the p-n junction. The researchers used the relationship between the tunneling current and the distance between the ends of the nanotubes to determine the relative position of the carbon nanotubes and thus to find the magnitude of the external force exerted on them. The new sensor allows the position of coaxial cylinders in two-layer nanotubes to be controlled quite accurately. As a result, it is possible to determine the stretch of an n-scale object, to which electrodes are attached. Calculations made by the researchers showed the possibility of recording forces of a few tenths of a nN(10-10newtons). To make it clearer, a single bacterium weighs about 10-14newtons on average, and a mosquito weighs a few dozen mcN (10-5 N).However, the device developed by the physicists may find application beyond micro scales.
Stanford engineers have developed an improved process for making flexible circuits that use carbon nanotube transistors, a development that paves the way for a new generation of bendable electronic devices. (Bao Lab / Stanford University)
Engineers would love to create flexible electronic devices, such as e-readers that could be folded to fit into a pocket. One approach involves designing circuits based on electronic fibers, known as carbon nanotubes (CNTs), instead of rigid silicon chips. But reliability is essential. Most silicon chips are based on a type of circuit design that allows them to function flawlessly even when the device experiences power fluctuations. However, it is much more challenging to do so with CNT circuits. But now a team at Stanford University has developed a process to create flexible chips that can tolerate power fluctuations in much the same way as silicon circuitry. "This is the first time anyone has designed flexible CNT circuits that have both high immunity to electrical noise and low power consumption, " said Zhenan Bao, a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford. In principle, CNTs should be ideal for making flexible electronic circuitry. These ultra-thin carbon filaments have the physical strength to take the wear and tear of bending and the electrical conductivity to perform any electronic task. But until this recent work from the Stanford team, flexible CNT circuits didn't have the reliability and power-efficiency of rigid silicon chips.
An electron microscope image shows carbon black nanoparticles modified by adding polyvinyl alcohol for downhole detection of hydrogen sulfide in oil and gas wells. The nanoreporters were created at Rice University. (Credit: Tour Group/Rice University)
Scientists at Rice University have created a nanoscale detector that checks for and reports on the presence of hydrogen sulfide in crude oil and natural gas while they're still in the ground. The nanoreporter is based on nanometer-sized carbon material developed by a consortium of Rice labs led by chemist James Tour. Limited exposure to hydrogen sulfide causes sore throats, shortness of breath and dizziness, according to the researchers. The human nose quickly becomes desensitized to hydrogen sulfide, leading to an inability to detect higher concentrations. That can be fatal, they said. On the flip side, hydrogen sulfide is also a biologically important signaling molecule in processes that include pain and inflammation. Tour said chemists have synthesized fluorescent probes to detect it in the body. The Rice team capitalized on that work by using the probes to create downhole detectors for oil fields. Crude oil and natural gas inherently contain hydrogen sulfide, which gives off a "rotten egg" smell. Even a 1 percent trace of sulfur turns oil into what's known as "sour crude," which is toxic and corrodes pipelines and transportation vessels, Tour said. The extra steps required to turn the sour into "sweet" crude are costly. So it's important to know the content of what you're pumping out of the ground, and the earlier the better," Tour said. Led by Rice professors Tour, Michael Wong and Mason Tomson and researcher Amy Kan, the university has pioneered efforts to gather information from oil fields through the use of nanoreporters. The nanoreporters were designed to detect and report on the presence and amount of oil in a well that might otherwise be hard to assess. Now the same team, joined by chemist Angel Martí, is employing thermally stable, soluble, highly mobile, carbon black-based nanoreporters modified to look for hydrogen sulfide and report results immediately upon their return to the surface.
Scientists at New York University and the University of Melbourne have developed a method using DNA origami to turn one-dimensional nano materials into two dimensions. Their breakthrough offers the potential to enhance fiber optics and electronic devices by reducing their size and increasing their speed. DNA origami employs approximately two hundred short DNA strands to direct longer strands in forming specific shapes. In their work, the scientists sought to create, and then manipulate the shape of, amyloid fibrils—rods of aggregated proteins, or peptides, that match the strength of spider's silk. To do so, they engineered a collection of 20 DNA double helices to form a nanotube big enough (15 to 20 nanometers—just over one-billionth of a meter—in diameter) to house the fibrils. The platform builds the fibrils by combining the properties of the nanotube with a synthetic peptide fragment that is placed inside the cylinder. The resulting fibril-filled nanotubes can then be organized into two-dimensional structures through a series of DNA-DNA hybridization interactions.
Professor Jonathan Coleman, AMBER. (Image Credit: AMBER)
Researchers in AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland funded materials science centre headquartered at Trinity College Dublin have, for the first time, developed a new method of producing industrial quantities of high quality graphene. Described as a wonder material, graphene is a single-atom thick sheet of carbon. It is extremely light and stronger than steel, yet incredibly flexible and extremely electrically conductive. The discovery will change the way many consumer and industrial products are manufactured. The materials will have a multitude of potential applications including advanced food packaging; high strength plastics; foldable touch screens for mobile phones and laptops; super-protective coatings for wind turbines and ships; faster broadband and batteries with dramatically higher capacity than anything available today. Until now, researchers have been unable to produce graphene of high quality in large enough quantities. The subject of on-going international research, the research undertaken by AMBER is the first to perfect a large-scale production of pristine graphene materials and has been highlighted by the highly prestigious Nature Materials publication as a global breakthrough. Professor Coleman and his team used a simple method for transforming flakes of graphite into defect-free graphene using commercially available tools, such as high-shear mixers. They demonstrated that not only could graphene-containing liquids be produced in standard lab-scale quantities of a few 100 millilitres, but the process could be scaled up to produce 100s of litres and beyond.
The particles were designed to release doxorubicin when exposed to ultraviolet light. Here, ovarian cancer cells turn red as the doxorubicin is released over time. (Image Source: MIT; Image courtesy of Erik Dreaden and Kevin Shopsowitz)
Delivering chemotherapy drugs in nanoparticle form could help reduce side effects by targeting the drugs directly to the tumors. In recent years, scientists have developed nanoparticles that deliver one or two chemotherapy drugs, but it has been difficult to design particles that can carry any more than that in a precise ratio. Now MIT chemists have devised a new way to build such nanoparticles, making it much easier to include three or more different drugs. The researchers showed that they could load their particles with three drugs commonly used to treat ovarian cancer. "We think it's the first example of a nanoparticle that carries a precise ratio of three drugs and can release those drugs in response to three distinct triggering mechanisms," says Jeremiah Johnson, an assistant professor of chemistry at MIT. Such particles could be designed to carry even more drugs, allowing researchers to develop new treatment regimens that could better kill cancer cells while avoiding the side effects of traditional chemotherapy. Johnson and colleagues demonstrated that the triple-threat nanoparticles could kill ovarian cancer cells more effectively than particles carrying only one or two drugs, and they have begun testing the particles against tumors in animals.
The illustration shows the nanofibers in white and the virus in green. (Image Source: Uppsala University; Photograph Credit: Björn Syse)
Researchers at the Division of Nanotechnology and Functional Materials, Uppsala University have developed a paper filter, which can remove virus particles with an efficiency matching that of the best industrial virus filters. The paper filter consists of 100 percent high purity cellulose nanofibers, directly derived from nature. The research was carried out in collaboration with virologists from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences/Swedish National Veterinary Institute. Virus particles are very peculiar objects- tiny (about thousand times thinner than a human hair) yet mighty. Viruses can only replicate in living cells but once the cells become infected the viruses can turn out to be extremely pathogenic. Viruses can actively cause diseases on their own or even transform healthy cells to malignant tumors. 'Viral contamination of biotechnological products is a serious challenge for production of therapeutic proteins and vaccines. Because of the small size, virus removal is a non-trivial task, and, therefore, inexpensive and robust virus removal filters are highly demanded', says Albert Mihranyan, Associate Professor at the Division of Nanotechnology and Functional Materials, Uppsala University, who heads the study.
Gold nanoparticles make better catalysts for CO2 recycling than bulk gold metal. Size is crucial though, since edges produce more desired results than corners (red points, above). Nanoparticles of 8 nm appear to have a better edge-to-corner ratio than 4 nm, 6 nm, or 10 nm nanoparticles. Credit: Sun lab/Brown University
By tuning gold nanoparticles to just the right size, researchers from Brown University have developed a catalyst that selectively converts carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbon monoxide (CO), an active carbon molecule that can be used to make alternative fuels and commodity chemicals. "Our study shows potential of carefully designed gold nanoparticles to recycle CO2 into useful forms of carbon," said Shouheng Sun, professor of chemistry and one of the study's senior authors. "The work we've done here is preliminary, but we think there's great potential for this technology to be scaled up for commercial applications." The idea of recycling CO2 — a greenhouse gas the planet current has in excess — is enticing, but there are obstacles. CO2 is an extremely stable molecule that must be reduced to an active form like CO to make it useful. CO is used to make synthetic natural gas, methanol, and other alternative fuels. Converting CO2 to CO isn't easy. Prior research has shown that catalysts made of gold foil are active for this conversion, but they don't do the job efficiently. The gold tends to react both with the CO2 and with the water in which the CO2 is dissolved, creating hydrogen byproduct rather than the desired CO. The Brown experimental group, led by Sun and Wenlei Zhu, a graduate student in Sun's group, wanted to see if shrinking the gold down to nanoparticles might make it more selective for CO2. They found that the nanoparticles were indeed more selective, but that the exact size of those particles was important. Eight nanometer particles had the best selectivity, achieving a 90-percent rate of conversion from CO2 to CO. Other sizes the team tested — four, six, and 10 nanometers — didn't perform nearly as well.
Northwestern researchers have developed a "recipe" for using nanomaterials as atoms, DNA as bonds and a little heat to form tiny crystals. An electron microscope image (left) shows a faceted single crystal consisting of nanoparticles brought together using DNA interactions. A schematic (right) illustrates how the lattice of nanoparticles is held together by DNA, taken from a simulation used to model the system. The observed crystal shape is a rhombic dodecahedron, a 12-sided polyhedron made up of congruent rhombic faces. (Image Credit: Northwestern University)
Nature builds flawless diamonds, sapphires and other gems. Now a Northwestern University research team is the first to build near-perfect single crystals out of nanoparticles and DNA, using the same structure favored by nature. "Single crystals are the backbone of many things we rely on -- diamonds for beauty as well as industrial applications, sapphires for lasers and silicon for electronics," said nanoscientist Chad A. Mirkin. "The precise placement of atoms within a well-defined lattice defines these high-quality crystals. "Now we can do the same with nanomaterials and DNA, the blueprint of life," Mirkin said. "Our method could lead to novel technologies and even enable new industries, much as the ability to grow silicon in perfect crystalline arrangements made possible the multibillion-dollar semiconductor industry." His research group developed the "recipe" for using nanomaterials as atoms, DNA as bonds and a little heat to form tiny crystals. This single-crystal recipe builds on superlattice techniques Mirkin's lab has been developing for nearly two decades. In this recent work, Mirkin, an experimentalist, teamed up with Monica Olvera de la Cruz, a theoretician, to evaluate the new technique and develop an understanding of it. Given a set of nanoparticles and a specific type of DNA, Olvera de la Cruz showed they can accurately predict the 3-D structure, or crystal shape, into which the disordered components will self-assemble.
A carbon nanotube-coated paper triangle placed on an ionization source charged by a small battery is held in front of a mass spectrometer. Researchers at Purdue University and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras studied the use of carbon nanotubes to advance ambient ionization techniques. (Purdue University photo/Courtesy of Thalappil Pradeep)
Nanotechnology is advancing tools likened to Star Trek's "tricorder" that perform on-the-spot chemical analysis for a range of applications including medical testing, explosives detection and food safety. Researchers found that when paper used to collect a sample was coated with carbon nanotubes, the voltage required was 1,000 times reduced, the signal was sharpened and the equipment was able to capture far more delicate molecules. A team of researchers from Purdue University and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras performed the study. "This is a big step in our efforts to create miniature, handheld mass spectrometers for the field," said R. Graham Cooks, Purdue's Henry B. Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. "The dramatic decrease in power required means a reduction in battery size and cost to perform the experiments. The entire system is becoming lighter and cheaper, which brings it that much closer to being viable for easy, widespread use." "Taking science to the people is what is most important," Pradeep said. "Mass spectrometry is a fantastic tool, but it is not yet on every physician's table or in the pocket of agricultural inspectors and security guards. Great techniques have been developed, but we need to hone them into tools that are affordable, can be efficiently manufactured and easily used."


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The future of 4D printing is here—and now available for purchase at New York's Patrick Parrish Gallery, where Swiss designer Christoph Guberan and the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT's International Design Center have just unveiled a collection of functional inflatable lamps, vases, and vessels. Presented in the exhibition Liquid to Air: Pneumatic Objects (on view through August 26), the wares mark the team's latest advancement of Rapid Liquid Printing and, excitingly, the most directly market-viable—not to mention aesthetically pleasing—application of the 4D-manufacturing technique to date.
Rather than setting out to create a preconceived set of products, the resulting works were organically formed as an extension of the research process itself. MIT professor Skylar Tibbits, who founded and co-directs the Lab, neatly describes its material experimentations as threefold: "One is on self-assembly, how things come together on their own; one is on programmable materials, how materials change shape, change property, and so forth," he explains, using possibly the simplest terms to describe complex initiatives that could lead to a future of structures and products that build and operate themselves after they're printed and exposed to natural elements. "The third one," Tibbits continues, "is on phase change, or how materials go from solid to liquid, which is what this project falls under."
As Co.Design previously reported, Rapid Liquid Printing was developed by the Self-Assembly Lab and Steelcase Inc. last year, and allows for vast improvements upon 3D-printed processes now familiar to us. Rather than printed laterally, as a layered substrate, Rapid Liquid Printed objects are robotically "drawn" four-dimensionally in a vat of gel suspension, which supports the printed structure as it solidifies, allowing for vastly more intricate works in a fraction of the time—in many cases, down to mere minutes. Combined with the Lab's experimental materials, the 4D-printing technology carries a host of potential applications. Some of the Lab's otherworldly concepts to date have included self-lacing sneakers, a la Marty McFly, and modular products that can assemble themselves.
For the presentation at Patrick Parrish, the designers have chosen to focus their experimentations on printing inflatable objects with silicone. "The two major things that are new here is that printing soft, stretchy materials is very difficult in any other 3D-printing process," Tibbits explains. "It's almost impossible—and then, printing inflatables that are also air- and water-tight is really unheard of."
Here, the team's experimental designs naturally lend themselves to variations of inflatable, lantern-like lamps, fixtures, and vases in a range of complex shapes that both evoke the elegance of Brancusi and the minimalist novelty of the Space Age. Each vessel uniquely explores a complex set of geometries, rendered in a range of thicknesses, in an exploration of the material's translucence and opacity. Some of the vessels have also been printed with internal chamber layers, casting sophisticated patterns and shadows when paired with an LED light source. With or without the knowledge of how the glowing orbs are created, they're a beautiful sight to be seen—though a set of Rapid Liquid Printing apparatuses, placed upon plinths with finished vessels shown submerged in gel tanks, makes their manufacturing origins clear.
Parrish, Guberan, and the Self-Assembly Lab, along with Brazilian artist Marcelo Coelho, brought the Lab's first live demonstration to the public a few months ago, at Design Miami in December, with a fair-booth installation that produced a flexible, though static, rubber tote bag in a complex woven pattern that was printed in just minutes, and available for cash and carry right on the spot—a sight that thrilled and surprised fairgoers who were drawn to the stylish designs. With Liquid to Air, the team has furthered their utilitarian experiments by progressing to an inflatable medium.
A time-lapse video on view at the gallery shows Guberan's small, handheld inflatable designs being printed—in a manner startlingly evocative of Westworld's opening sequence—then blown up like a balloon to nearly 10 times its size: a playful demonstration of its material strength and flexibility. For the purposes of the gallery display, they've been pre-inflated and paired with LED lights to be sold as lamps ready to take home, as-is.
Currently, the only limitation to Rapid Liquid Printing is physical scale. The printed object can only be as large as the tank containing it. But when that printed object is rendered in a material that has the ability to inflate, morph, or evolve in the span of its material lifetime, the potential applications become exponentially greater: portable shelters, furniture, interiors, and skins are just some of the applications the Lab suggests, and which a handful of industry players have jumped at the chance to explore.
In a recent project sponsored by BMW and shown at London's Victoria & Albert Museum this May, the team created what Tibbits characterizes as "a printed, inflatable soft robot that moves and transforms," a pneumatic technology that, it's suggested, could feasibly be applied to car interiors for airbags or customizable seat-cushion settings in the not-so-distant future. Working with Steelcase, the Lab team also recently explored a future model of furniture production that's individually customized and printed on-demand.
With Patrick Parrish Gallery's market-ready inflatables on view to a wider, non-trade audience in the form of lamps and vases, and priced from $95 to $3,200 depending on size and complexity, the exhibition seems to mark a distinct milestone for the Lab's efforts. When I suggest as much, Tibbits responds with a humble and casual shrug, explaining that commercial viability isn't necessarily an end goal for the Lab, but simply one of many avenues to further its research and gain feedback.
"We'll do a research project and sometimes it's government-funded, sometimes it's industry-funded or self-funded, and other times it's through a different channel and we'll have different outputs, even if it's the same work," Tibbits says. "It could go to a gallery, it could go to industry, or it could go to an academic paper—it's all the same research work explored into different directions and possibilities. Here, it's simply research translated into a product and gallery context."
As Guberan also emphasizes, the inflatables suggest a new form of production in which the printed object isn't the definitive end product—but rather a marker within a lifespan of flexible use. It's an opportunity to reshape our understanding of product design, beyond our current systems of industrial mass production.
"People often ask me where the interest lies for a product designer, or if I identify more as a product designer or material researcher," says Guberan, who has been collaborating with the Lab since 2014. "For me, I see the lab and the people working there as simply having a new way of producing objects. It's like working with future artisans, the artisans of tomorrow. As a designer, people usually expect that we turn out one design, a perfect final masterpiece—but with this technology, the outcome is much more flexible, less definite. Once it's printed, the object has the ability to take on another life of its own."


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RARITAN — Chess master Dean "The Dean of Chess" Ippolito, 32, of Whitehouse Station will attempt to set a world record tomorrow by playing chess against at least 100 challengers at St. Ann's School in Raritan Borough. Those challengers must have a rating of at least 1200 by the U.S. Chess Federation.
Ippolito, who has Dean of Chess schools in Flemington and Branchburg, was scheduled to attempt the Guinness World Record for most games played simultaneously last November in Raritan Township. Due to reported controversy surrounding the last two record-breaking events, Guinness has officially retired that record.
In its place, Guinness has created a new "professional" record, which has more stringent rules for the players. Ippolito plans to be the first to attempt this new record. Despite the increased level in play amongst the challengers, Guinness has kept the minimum win percentage at 80%.
Ippolito anticipates tomorrow's event will last 15-20 hours depending on the average rating of the participants. "This will be a very difficult record to accomplish, both physically and mentally. Mistakes against this level of player will be quickly punished," said Ippolito, who has not lost a game in a simultaneous exhibition in over 15,000 games since 1991. He has been training physically and mentally for this event since last summer.
He recently did a training exhibition at the world famous Marshall Chess Club in New York City in which he played players as rated as high as 2200.


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Common and Rare Genetic Variants Associated With Alzheimer's Disease
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most devastating disorders. Despite the continuing increase of its incidence among aging populations, no effective cure has been developed mainly due to difficulties in early diagnosis of the disease before damaging of the brain, and the failure to explore its complex underlying molecular mechanisms. Recent technological advances in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and high throughput next generation whole genome, and exome sequencing had deciphered many of AD-related loci, and discovered single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are associated with altered AD molecular pathways. Highlighting altered molecular pathways linked to AD pathogenesis is crucial to identify novel diagnostic and therapeutic AD targets.
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(Excerpts from ART HARDWARE: The Definitive Guide to Artists' Materials, by Steven Saitzyk © 1987)
Waxy drawing materials are relatively modern and differ from dry drawing materials in two fundamental ways-they cannot be blended easily unless a solvent is used, and drawings done with waxy materials have more durable surfaces. It is basically a trade off-durability for blending.
The basic recipe for a waxy drawing material is to mix a coloring material with a filler, then add a lubricant and a binder. The coloring material, or pigment, may be water soluble or not, depending on whether the blending solvent is water or organic (mineral spirits or turpentine). The filler is usually clay or talc. The lubricant is a natural wax, if blending is to be done with an organic solvent, or a fatty acid, if blending will be done with water. The binder may be fatty acid or wax, as well as gum tragacanth or methyl cellulose. The mixture is blended and is not fired.
It is important to note that all drawings done with waxy drawing material must be fixed with a fixative or a final protective coating. This prevents the tendency of wax to rise slowly to the surface of the drawing, giving a chalky, or milky, apperance.
Oil Pastels
Oil pastels are a cross between wax crayons and encaustic (wax) paint in stick form. The amount of wax used in oil pastels varies considerably from brand to brand. With more wax, the pastel is greasier and less dusty, and is also much less subject to mechanical blending. Oil pastels were originally made by first mixing pigments into a solution consisting of a slow drying oil, such as poppy oil, and mastic resin dissolved in turpentine. This mixture was then given body by the addition of wax so that it could be shaped into sticks. As the turpentine evaporated, the sticks hardened. This recipe produces a high-quality oil pastel with a limited shelf life. Today, virtually all oil pastels are primarily made with pigment dissolved into a fossil wax. Some brands have a small amount of a nondrying oil, such as mineral oil, to improve the shelf life. Consistency varies greatly among brands and you should experiment to find the brand that best suits you. Oil pastels can be blended easily with a brush soaked in turpentine or mineral spirits.
Several years ago, almost all the oil pastels on the American market were of poor quality and lightfastness, and were primarily designed for use by children. This was not because there were no professional artists' pastels manufactured, but because it was felt there was no market for them in this country. Today, several professionalquality brands can be found. The Holbein Company offers two hundred and twentyfive colors that are rated for lightfastness. They are less waxy and have a consistency closer to a soft pastel than most other brands. The Sennelier Company makes seventy-two colors, twenty-four of which are iridescent. They are also introducing a jumbo version, approximately 1'/4 inches in diameter and 3'h inches long, in selected colors. These oil pastels contain a small amount of mineral oil, which increases shelf life and eases application; however, the drawing's surface does not harden for a long time and should not be painted over with oil paints or encaustic (wax) paint materials. Many manufacturers make both professional and nonprofessional oil pastels. The labeling is often unclear as to which is which, so you should ask before you make a selection.
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Currently there are two types of paint sticks available-pigment in wax and pigment in acrylic lacquer. The first type is just a giant oil pastel called a paint stick.
Paintstiks, made by Markall for the Shiva Company, is a widely available brand of paint stick. It comes in twenty-seven conventional colors, six fluorescent colors, which are not lightfast, white, black, gold, silver, and a colorless blender. There is a skin over the surface of the stick that has to be peeled away or dissolved with thinner before use. The skin will re-form when not in use. Paintstiks work equally well as encaustic paint or as oversized oil pastels. They dry to the touch in approximately twenty-four hours, but, like any encaustic, they take several years to cure and harden fully. Paintstiks may be used in mixed media drawing; however, in mixed media painting they should be treated as an encaustic paint, and are best used over dry oil paint or under oil paint mixed with a wax medium.
There is currently only one brand of acrylic lacquer paint stick on the market. The Edding 650 Grafic Painter is available in eighteen colors, white, and black. The Sakura Company will soon be introducing a larger version. These paint sticks appear to have stronger colors, which is probably due to the absence of wax. Their consistency is that of lipstick. They may be blended mechanically while they are still wet, but cannot be blended with solvents wet or dry. Acrylic lacquer paint sticks dry in fifteen minutes after application. Although they cannot be blended into such other wet media as oil paint, they can safely be used under oil paint or over dry oil paint.
The difference between a crayon and an oil pastel is that the crayon is harder and often has a great deal more filler, which may be either wax or clay or both. Crayons are composed primarily of kaolin (white clay), wax or fatty acids, and dyes. School, or children's, crayons are not for professional use because they are not designed to meet the artist's need for lightfastness and permanence. One product, Caran D'Ache (forty colors), is popular among both children and professionals, although several of the blues and violets did not pass our tests for lightfastness. Artists occasionally complain about many brands that claim lightfastness yet seem to have a few colors that do not hold up well over time. Consequently, I recommend that when you buy a set of crayons, you do your own test. Simply take a piece of drawing paper, preferably bristol, and apply each color so that when the paper is cut in half each sample of color will also be cut in half. Place one half in direct sunlight for several weeks and store the other half in the dark. At the end of the test put each half together and compare them. This simple test will indicate the colors to avoid.
There are several crayons currently available that claim to meet minimum standards for professional use. Among these are Berbl Art Stix (sixty colors matching Prismacolor Pencils) and Derwent (seventy-two colors), which are simply blocks, or sticks, of the same material the manufacturer uses in making its pencils. These crayons are made for working in larger areas than are practical with pencils, yet they are much firmer than oil pastels and can be sharpened. Caran D'Ache offers water-soluble crayons as well as wax crayons.
Colored Pencils
Colored pencils were originally developed for the illustrator and graphic artist. The development of the New Realism art movement has given new respectability to the colored pencil as a material for fine artwork. Colored pencils have been used to create detailed drawings that in many ways resemble paintings in egg tempera.
Colored pencils are produced in the same way as crayons, and the same precautions regarding quality and lightfastness must be taken into, account when selecting a brand. Prismacolor Pencils (sixty colors), Derwent No. 19 Artist Pencils (seventy-two colors), and Caran D'Ache are popular pencils that are said to meet minimum standards for the artist's use. Caran D'Ache produces water-soluble pencils as well as pencils that can be blended with an organic solvent. Prismacolor and No. 19 Artist Pencils blend only with organic solvents. The wax pencils may be used ' as a colored resist for the water-soluble pencils, so that when water is used for blending, the areas covered with wax pencil will remain undisturbed.


text: Always Pay Yourself First Written by Kim Kiyosaki Read time: ... Original post date: September 21, 2017 Learn how to set aside money for future investments, even if you are swimming in bad debt Pop quiz: When you receive a paycheck, who do you pay first? If you're like most Americans, you're probably paying everyone else first—your rent/mortgage, groceries, utilities, car payment, insurance, etc. Once you're done paying all those bills, you stick whatever you have left (if anything) into savings—that's the classic "paying yourself last" scenario. Then you patiently await your next paycheck and repeat the process all over again. But if you ever want to get out of the rat race, then I'm here to tell you you're doing it wrong. The philosophy of paying yourself first came from George Clason's book, "The Richest Man in Babylon," which was written nearly a century ago. And its message still holds true today, despite how the world has changed. In fact, Nasdaq just named it the No. 1 proven way to save money. People who choose to pay themselves first allocate money to the asset column of their balance sheet before they've paid their monthly expenses. Essentially, you set aside a specific amount of money right off the bat, and then live off what's leftover. And that's how wealth grows. If you aren't doing this now, have no fear—it's never too late to ditch your bad habits. Learning to manage your money properly now with a "pay yourself first" mindset will ensure you have it to invest later. How to Pay Yourself First When you begin paying yourself first, it will feel totally backwards because you've been doing it wrong for decades. But trust me, it's the only way to go. Robert and I have had many bookkeepers and accountants who have balked at our approach, because they too have grown accustomed to paying themselves last. Even during times when my cash flow was less than my bills, I still paid myself first. And you can too. How? First, don't get into large debt positions that you have to pay for. Keep your expenses low. Build up assets first. Then buy the big house or nice car later. Second, when you come up short, go ahead and let the pressure build—don't dip into your savings or investments as a bailout. You see, poor people have poor habits. And one of those poor habits is dipping into savings to pay bills. Use the pressure to inspire your financial genius to come up with new ways of making more money, and then pay your bills with that. Bonus: You will have increased your ability to make more money and boosted your financial intelligence. So let's say you're taking home about $4,000 a month. If you first pay yourself $500, then you have $3,500 left for living expenses. After one year's time, you'll have saved $6,000. You can even set this up automatically with your bank, to remove the temptation of spending the money. But How Can I Save When I Have Debt? Robert and I had about $400,000 of debt when we started our lives together in 1984—but by 1990 we were debt free. Here's how we did it, and thus, here's my advice for you: Step 1: Immediately stop accruing bad debt. Stop adding to your credit card balances. Step 2: Make a list of all the debt you owe (credit card, school loans, car loans, IOUs to people, your personal residence, etc.) so that everything is clearly organized and accounted for. Step 3: Hire a bookkeeper so you can't hide from the truth—he or she will keep meticulous records each month so you always know where you stand (even if you don't want to admit it). Step 4: Robert and I decided that with every dollar that came into our household, we'd take a set percentage off the top and set it aside. Yes, this was the beginning of us paying ourselves first. We set up three piggy banks: one for savings, one for tithing or charity, and one for investing. We then set the percentage for each piggy bank at 10% each, for a total of 30% of all income we received. If we received $100, then $10 went into the savings bank, $10 into the charity bank and $10 into the investing bank. We did this with every dollar we received. You don't have to start off with 30%, but whatever percentage you choose, stick with it each month and increase when possible. Step 5: Determine the order for paying off each debt by starting with the lowest and working toward paying that off. For all other debt, just pay the minimum amounts due each month. Once your first (lowest) debt is paid off, then work on the next debt (second lowest) and so on. Remember, you have to stick to this plan every month. If you say to yourself, "I'll go off the plan just this month," then you won't form the habit and your debts will not go away. Today, Robert and I are richer, not just because we have a lot of money—but richer from the experience and the lessons we learned digging our way out of debt. And once you get your personal finances under control, you may be ready to go out and look for sound real estate investments to grow richer on. Original publish date: September 21, 2017


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St. Nicholas was a popular American juvenile periodical that was issued monthly from November 1873 through March 1940. The May, 1900, issue opens with an essay by Theodore Roosevelt entitled, "What We Can Expect of the American Boy." At the time this essay appeared, Roosevelt was serving as governor of New York.
"Of course," he begins, "what we have a right to expect of the American boy is that he shall turn out to be a good American man. Now the chances are strong that he won't be much of a man unless he is a good deal of a boy." And what did Roosevelt think it took to make a "good deal of a boy?" Basically, three things: a strong body, a strong mind, and courage. A boy should develop his body by participating in athletic sports -- "rough sports which call for pluck, endurance, and physical address. But this athletic involvement is really a means to an end. Active participation in sports, however enjoyable and beneficial in and of itself, is simply preparation for work that counts when the time arises, especially in defense of the country.
A boy should develop his mind by "work[ing] hard, at his lessons, first for what he will learn, and second, for the discipline that comes from resolutely settling down to learn it. Boys, when they study should study just as hard as they play football in an important game. Shiftlessness, slackness, indifference in studying, are almost certain to mean inability to get on in other walks of life.
"A boy should develop both physical and moral courage. He should not be a coward, who will take a blow without returning it, and he should always stand up for what he thinks is right, even when his friends sneer at him. He should be ashamed to submit to bullying without instant retaliation, and should, in return, abhor any form of bullying, cruelty or brutality.
"[A] boy can best become a good man by being a good boy -- not a goody-goody boy, but just a plain good boy. 'Good.' in the largest sense, should include whatever is fine, straightforward, clean, brave and manly. The best boys I know are good at their studies fearless and stalwart, hated and feared by all that is wicked and depraved, incapable of submitting to wrong-doing, and equally incapable of being aught but tender to the weak and helpless."
"In short," Roosevelt advises, "in life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard!"
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Opting to be humanist
The subjects of contention in MWR's Letters & Comments section leave me in a quandary. Having been a Mennonite Church member for 60 years, and on its payroll for 15, I treasure the love that emanates from within the Mennonite family. But letters indicating the great divide as to the church's focus and ethics are wide of the target. It is time to reassess the church's essence and issues.
When one is constantly faced with the horrors of innocent suffering and death from natural disasters (landslides, tsunamis, famine, starvation, Ebola, kidnappings, militarism) it is evident that the God of the Bible is not involved in mercy missions and that the religious communities, including Mennonites, don't prioritize it either.
From my perspective, it is clear God is not in the prayer answering or rescuing business. There is no indisputable evidence whatsoever — from personal observation or science — that the biblical God is involved with anything done on Earth. The Bible is too contradictory to be believed, and its God is too "ungodly" to be worshiped.
Devoid of any expectation of supernatural intervention, I have opted to be a humanist, committed to a philosophy of and responsibility toward a life of mutual good, relying on critical thinking and evidence to direct me toward that end.
B. Harry Dyck
Elkhart, Ind.
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All computer users should treat Windows Privacy Counsel as harmful software. Never install this product into your PC as it will not able to protect it the way genuine program does. It is endorse as a useful program, but in reality, it will not provide and shield or related services. Instead, Windows Privacy Counsel will pollute the computer with fictitious alerts and security-related findings. Installation of this malware also leads to alteration of system settings causing Windows to fail.
As an additional information, you should know that Windows Privacy Counsel sneaks into your computer through security breaches. It is unknown to you but there are a number of these faults inside the system. This is the reason why software manufacturer offers program updates, to patch the hole and keep the software secure against any types of attacks.
If in the malware got a slot inside your PC, follow the guide as outlined on this page. This will remove Windows Privacy Counsel and other components that may be residing on the system. After you remove the malware, it is important that you update all your programs to the latest patch if there are available.
What are the Symptoms of�Windows Privacy Counsel Infection?
Here is a screenshot image of the rogue program when it begins to scan the computer.
It will modify Windows Registry and add the following entries:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "WarnOnHTTPSToHTTPRedirect" = 0
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System "DisableRegedit" = 0
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System "DisableRegistryTools" = 0
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System "DisableTaskMgr" = 0
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Inspector"
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings "net" = "u_2012-5-24_6"
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings "UID" = "ncgfywudjs"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\advxdwin.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\SafetyKeeper.exe
The threat will drop the following malicious files:
%AppData%\Protector-[random 3 characters].exe
%AppData%\Protector-[random 4 characters].exe
%CommonStartMenu%\Programs\Windows Privacy Counsel.lnk
%Desktop%\Windows Privacy Counsel.lnk
Procedure 1: Uninstall Windows Privacy Counsel from Windows Control Panel
1. Begin the removal process by uninstalling the rogue program from Windows. To do this, we need to open Control Panel. Please ensure that you are logon with the Administrative privilege to access this function.
Accessing Control Panel in Windows 8 and Windows 10
- On your keyboard, Press Windows Key + X.
- Once Quick Access Menu appears on the screen, please click on Control Panel.
- Control Panel window will open. Please proceed to the next step which is uninstalling Windows Privacy Counsel.
How to access Control Panel in Windows XP, Windows Vista / 7
- Click on Start button that can be found on bottom left corner of the screen.
- From the list, choose Control Panel to access settings of Windows and make the needed changes.
2. To uninstall Windows Privacy Counsel, click on Uninstall a program under Programs Section. It will open a Program and Features window where-in you can uninstall, change, or repair installed software.
3. Look for Windows Privacy Counsel title or any suspicious name that was installed recently. To do this, you need to arrange the items chronologically. Click on Installed On to display recently installed programs.
4. Select Windows Privacy Counsel or any suspicious items and then Click on Uninstall button to remove it from Windows.
5. If it prompts for confirmation, please click OK button to proceed.
Procedure 2: Scan and remove Windows Privacy Counsel files with MalwareFox Anti-Malware
To remove Windows Privacy Counsel, download MalwareFox Anti-Malware. This tool is effective in getting rid of Trojans, viruses and malware.
1. After downloading, please install the program using the default settings.
2. At the end of the installation, please make sure that it will download necessary updates.
3. Once update has completed, MalwareFox will launch.
4. Click on SCAN button from the main window.
5. MalwareFox will detect all the infections in the computer system and list all the threats.
6. Click Next button to remove all the infections in one click.
Procedure 3: Scan Computer in Safe Mode Using Installed Anti-virus Program
1. When troubleshooting a PC, one common step is to boot operating system into Safe Mode with Networking. The same approach will be used in the removal of Windows Privacy Counsel. Please execute instructions based on your Windows OS version.
Start Windows 8 / Windows 10 in Safe Mode with Networking
- Close all running programs on your computer because we will need to restart Windows on this procedure.
- Press and Hold Shift key on your keyboard while clicking on Restart.
- You will then be presented with Troubleshooting Options.
- Click on Troubleshoot icon.
- Then, Click on Advanced Options icon.
- Select Startup Settings icon and then, Click on Restart button.
- When Windows restarts, it will prompt to choose number from the list of options. Press the number on your keyboard that corresponds to Safe Mode with Networking, commonly number 5.
- Once in Safe Mode, please proceed to the next step which is running a virus scan on the computer.
Start in Safe Mode with Networking (Windows XP / Vista / 7 Instruction)
- Please restart the computer and just before Windows start, press F8 on your keyboard repeatedly. You will be presented with Advanced Options Menu.
- From the selections, choose Safe Mode with Networking. Please use keyboard's arrow up/down to navigate between selections and press Enter to proceed.
2. Once your Windows is running in Safe Mode, open your installed anti-virus programs and update it to the most recent version by automatically downloading necessary updates.
3. Thoroughly scan the computer and remove all identified threats. Do not restart or turn off the computer after the scan process. You still need to run another scan. Please follow the next procedure.
Procedure 4: Run TrendMicro's Anti-Threat Toolkit (ATTK) to check and delete any remnants of Windows Privacy Counsel.
As an added help to remove Windows Privacy Counsel, you can scan the computer with Anti-Threat Toolkit. This software is provided and distributed by TrendMicro. Follow this procedure to run a scan with this tool.
1. Download the package by clicking on the button below. This will launch a new browser window that contains further details about the tool.
2. Save the file to a location on your hard drive.
3. Browse for the location of the file and double-click to run. If you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7, right-click on extracted file supportcustomizedpackage and click on Run as Administrator.
4. When program launch, it will run a command prompt to initialize, prepare components, and update the program.
5. Next it will open the graphical user interface (GUI) of Anti-Threat Toolkit.
6. Click on Scan Now. This operation will scan all Windows Privacy Counsel files and processes in your computer and display a list of result for possible Fake Antivirus program and malware that needs to be removed.
7. Tick all items that are detected by the program, and then click Clean. The tool will start removing Windows Privacy Counsel components from the computer.
8. If it asked you to restart Windows, please do so.
Protect your PC from Windows Privacy Counsel or Similar Attack
Turn On Safe Browsing Features
Google Chrome's Protection from Dangerous Sites
With Google Chrome's Dangerous Site Protection feature, you will have lesser risks browsing the web. It will display a warning when the site you are trying to visit is suspicious, thus, you can prevent Windows Privacy Counsel infection. To enable protection from dangerous sites, please do these steps:
1. Open Google Chrome.
2. In the address bar, type this: chrome://settings/ and then, Press Enter.
3. Once on the settings page, click on Show advanced settings... at the bottom of the page to see the rest of the Chrome setup.
4. Locate Privacy section and mark 'Protect you and your device from dangerous sites'.
5. Please restart Google Chrome. New settings keep your browser safe while surfing the web.
Internet Explorer - Activate SmartScreen Filter
Internet Explorer versions 8 and 9 has this feature called SmartScreen Filter. It helps detect phishing web sites and protect you from downloading malicious programs including Windows Privacy Counsel. To turn on SmartScreen Filter, follow these steps:
1. Please open Internet Explorer.
2. On top menu, select Tools (IE 9). For IE 8, please look for Safety menu.
3. Select SmartScreen Filter from the drop-down list and click on Turn on SmartScreen Filter.
4. Please restart Internet Explorer.
Mozilla Firefox - Block Attack Sites and Web Forgeries
Phishing and Malware Protection is a built-in feature on Firefox version 3 or later. It warns you when a page you are trying to visit contains phishing content or an attack site designed to drop threats such as Windows Privacy Counsel. To help you keep safe while browsing the Internet using Firefox, please follow this guide:
1. Open Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. On top menu, click on Open Menu. Then select Options from the list.
3. Select Security and put a check mark on the following items:
- Warn me when sites try to install add-ons
- Block reported attack sites
- Block reported web forgeries
Edge Browser - SmartScreen Filter
SmartScreen filter is a built-in feature in Microsoft Edge browser that can help you deter malicious programs such as Windows Privacy Counsel. It can block malicious web sites and downloads.
1. Open Microsoft Edge browser.
2. Click on More Actions button located at top right corner of the screen.
3. Select Settings from the drop-down list.
4. Under Settings menu, go to Advanced Settings section and click on View Advanced Settings.
5. Scroll down to "help protect my PC from malicious sites and downloads with SmartScreen Filter". Turn it to ON.
6.You may now restart Microsoft Edge browser.


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Few tasks in rock 'n' roll sound as daunting as making the sequel to a beloved debut: The weight of expectations, minus the element of surprise, can be tough to bear. Musicians combat the much-discussed sophomore slump in every way imaginable–cloning the original, overcompensating with bloated epics, writing about the perils of fame–but the smart ones find a way to do what comes naturally, making a record that sounds like a natural progression. Chutes Too Narrow, The Shins' follow-up to 2001's near-perfect Oh, Inverted World, can't match its predecessor's thrill-a-minute menagerie of curveballs and curlicues. But it does share its intelligence and concision, as well as its remarkable ability to make kicky pop-rock sound both simple and complex, retro and modern. A few more breathless knockouts like Oh, Inverted World's "Know Your Onion!" or "Girl On The Wing" would be nice, but "Gone For Good" comes close, taking about 60 seconds to transform from a twangy country-music exercise into a rich, infectious pop blowout. Elsewhere, the tight, whooshing rock of "Fighting In A Sack," "Mine's Not A High Horse," and "So Says I" brushes up against gently shuffling acoustic material like "Young Pilgrims" and "Pink Bullets," all paced perfectly to keep the audience guessing. Without the thrill of discovery, it's no shock that the returns have diminished slightly on Chutes Too Narrow. But a minor step down from greatness still sounds damn good.
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Torsion springs are devices that raise the majority of the weight of a garage door to make sure that the door can be opened up by hand or by an electrical opener. It is mounted over the top of the door, and experiences tremendous pressures each time the door opens or shuts. It at some point fractures and breaks, typically releasing its saved power. One ought to never ever be standing or walking under the door when it is opening or shutting, specifically if you do so by hand as opposed to with an electrical opener. When the springs are working appropriately, the door shows up almost weightless, yet this is an illusion that transforms into a catastrophe when the springs instantly stop working. If torsion springs have to be readjusted, it must be finished with the garage door in the down setting and the spring under tension. Just be definite you have all your devices with you prior to shutting the door unless you have an replacement access door to the garage, as well as using eye security and handwear covers for security. This is actually really fatal since it can snap back at you and strike you hard.
One need to not also attempt welding busted springs with each other, since the weld itself could fail, either as a result of poor standard strength, or weakening of the nearby parts of the spring. Additionally, the fact that the spring was old and fatigued sufficient to damage once, it indicates that it is probably to damage again. If the spring is damaged near a winding cone, it is not a good idea to dispose of the brief damaged item of spring from the cone, clean up the end of the long remaining spring, and insert that end into the cone. This is an additional extremely dangerous improvisation. You will certainly not have the ability to balance the door effectively because the shortened spring is not going to have the appropriate weight-bearing attributes for the door. The shortened spring will be proportionately wound, resulting in additional tension that will increase the assumption of an additional crack. The aging and history of the initial spring being broken very increases the chance of an additional fracture at other places.
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Apple Tablet?
Here is quite possible the first look at what has been the enormously anticipated apple tablet. It looks to be a developers version showing off 12 seconds of some sort of merge of iphone OS and OSX dashboard. View it while it's still up!