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The paper presents the results from the investigations of the effect of the local soil characteristics upon the seismic response at the surface of the Skopje city region. The SHAKE2000 computer program was used. Four soil profiles with a total thickness ranging between 7 m and 30 m were considered. The soil dynamic properties were defined by using data on the Skopje city region reported in literature. Horizontally, the soil layers were modeled as a one-dimensional soil column subjected to horizontal earthquake motion at the base. The seismic motions were defined using sets of four synthetic accelerograms compatible with the uniform hazard spectra at bedrock for return periods of 95, 475 and 1000 years. The results represent transfer functions as a representative measure of amplitude-frequency modification of local soils and absolute acceleration response spectrum at the free surface. The amplification factor was computed as a ratio between the acceleration spectra at the free surface and those at bedrock.
Aleksovski D, Manic M, Kovacevski P, Timiovska L 1990: Geophysical Investigations by Use of Microseismic Tremor Method in the Terrain of Geotehermal Borehole of IB SKG-4/Karpos III — Skopje. Skopje
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FRENCH KANDE 16" TRIPLE STRAND MATISSE LINKAGE WITH RIVOLI AND FRENCH CROSS
This necklace features three 16” strands of our hand curated Matisse mix with silver wire, our Baby Bubble chain and very bold French Cross. Absolutely beautiful all by itself or layered with our other designs.
*** OURS HAS A RIVOLI CRYSTAL LINKAGE INSTEAD OF CHAIN
- Strand Length: Short, 16”
- Stone Size: 10 mm
- Sterling Silver Plated
- Each piece of French Kande is handmade in our Los Angeles studio by Californian artisans.

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Living with a disability is a really complicated thing because situations in normal life seem impossible or you just find them as obstacles. Especially if your legs are caught up, you will have problems even going outside of your house without help either crutches or a wheelchair. That problem can be a short-term one, where you had a fracture, or it can be chronic, especially in older generations where they suffer from joint inflammation, or just don’t have the strength to walk and climb efficiently.
One of the things that are most complicated for people who suffer from that sort of thing is climbing the stairs. That is why people are using stairlifts to help them with their everyday living, avoiding those obstacles.
Lifts for cornered stairs
This is an elevator that is made to go around the stairway if they happen to have curves. They can be pretty expensive depending on how many corners does the stairway has.
Lifts for straight stairs
These are the basic lifts that are just meant to go up and down on a regular straight stairway. These are the cheapest ones but they have to fit on your stairs.
This variation is made for people who can’t move the joints on their legs properly so they can’t climb the stairs, but they can’t sit on the lift as well. That is why they have a platform where you can step, and a handle that you can grab to assist your stability. Note that if the person suffers from vertigo or had problems with fainting, this is not the product for them because they can fall and cause serious damage to their health.
This option goes up and down between floors, just like a regular elevator that you see in any building. This is the pricier option because it requires a lot of work. People who build these elevators have to drill a large hole in the ceiling so the elevator can pass between, that ups the price of it. This is maybe the best option for everyone if they can afford it because it can be used by everyone, especially people who are immobile and can’t move from the pushchair to the elevator as suggested by West Sussex Stairlifts.
Since we have seen what are the differences between stairlifts, although there are more that are basically a mix of these ones, for example, the same lift like these just made with materials that are good for outdoor use, it is time to see what you need to know before you select the right one.
Understand your needs
Before buying something, you will need to know what exactly are you looking for. Check the stairs whether they have corners or not, even if you have just a slight curve at the beginning or at the top you shout note that. Another thing to know is where you want the parking spot to be because it charges there. And lastly, you should check the options to see if they fit your case. Before buying, you should go and try them in the selling place or in the factory.
Check your budget
Since they are relatively expensive, you should know how much you can spend to get one because it is easy to overspend thinking you have the best product without the need for that. Also, you should check your state funds if they have something on the side for situations like these so they can finance your elevator.
If you need to use the elevator for a short term, for example, while the treatment of your fracture lasts, you should rent one so you don’t have to spend too much. If it is for an older person then buying it is the best option because you will know you have made their life easier in the long term, helping them with their daily tasks and just living in general.


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Definition funny of Votech:
Vocational Technical institution where one learnes various different skills.
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Songs about Votech:
Vo-Tech Man by Numbskulz from the Album Towncraft (Notes From A Local Scene) [Explicit]
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Vo-Tech Educators Grapple with Growth.(vocational-t... training)(Brief Article): An article from: Community... (Jul 28, 2005)
The Vo-Tech Track to Success in Architecture and Construction (Learning a Trade, Preparing for a Career) by Amie Jane Leavitt (Aug 2014)
The Vo-Tech Track to Success in Health Care (Learning a Trade, Preparing for a Career) by Susan Henneberg (Aug 2014)
Telecommunication Wiring (The Prentice Hall Series in Votech References) by Clyde N. Herrick and C. Lee McKim (Sep 1991)
Apprentice Workbook: Vo-Tech Standards by Mr. Bernard M Martinage HGM (Dec 2, 2013)
VoTech Student's Guide to Job Hunting by J. Michael Farr and Merie A. Pavlicko (Apr 11, 2006)
(Reprint) 1977 Yearbook: Cape Cod Regional Vo-Tech High School, Harwich, Massachusetts by 1977 Yearbook Staff of Cape Cod Regional Vo-Tech High School (May 1, 1977)

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- President Donald Trump welcomed Kamala Harris as Joe Biden's vice-presidential pick, saying she is "the kind of opponent everyone dreams of."
- But an Axios report portrayed Harris as the candidate many of his aides and advisers least wanted to face.
- Its logic was that she would be harder to paint as a radical-left figure than other choices.
- Nonetheless, the president shared a video that tried to depict the Harris-Biden ticket as a radical-leftist prospect.
- Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
President Donald Trump addressed the announcement that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden tapped Sen. Kamala Harris as his vice-presidential pick by calling her "the kind of opponent everyone dreams of."
His apparent eagerness came shortly after a report said Harris was the candidate his campaign wanted to face the least.
Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning, "@KamalaHarris started strong in the Democrat Primaries, and finished weak, ultimately fleeing the race with almost zero support. That's the kind of opponent everyone dreams of!"
—Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2020
His tweet came the day after Biden announced Harris as his pick. The former vice president called her "a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country's finest public servants."
And it came after a Trump aide told Axios that Harris was the candidate he least wanted Biden to pick.
The aide said other candidates would be easier to turn Trump supporters against. Trump already had nicknames for some, like "Communist Karen" Bass or "Spyin' Susan" Rice.
Axios said: "Very few, if any, of Trump's top political advisers were rooting for Biden to pick Harris."
Its logic was that Harris would be tougher to paint as a creature of the far-left, in keeping with the campaign narrative that Biden is a "puppet" of more radical elements of his party.
In his reaction to Biden and Harris' announcement, Trump focused on Harris' failed presidential bid.
She was originally one of the candidates running against Biden to become the Democratic presidential nominee, and at one point she was the front-runner.
Harris dropped out in December, partly blaming a lack of funds after other candidates became more popular.
Trump shared a video that said Harris' presidential campaign involved her "rushing to the radical left" and showed news headlines from when she dropped out of the presidential race.
A Reuters report on Wednesday said Harris polled better among Republicans than Biden and that attacks against her could appear sexist or racist.
Harris will be the first woman of color and the first person of Indian descent to be nominated for national office by a major political party.
Trump aides said Harris would be a tough opponent and difficult for Vice President Mike Pence to debate, Reuters reported.
Harris endorsed Biden's bid for president in March, saying: "I really believe in him, and I have known him for a long time. One of the things that we need right now is we need a leader who really cares about the people and who can therefore unify the people. And I believe Joe can do that."
After she was announced as Biden's vice-presidential pick, she said Biden "can unify the American people because he's spent his life fighting for us. And as president, he'll build an America that lives up to our ideals."

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You’ve probably heard of poker. If not, you may be wondering how this game works. Poker is a card game family where players wager on which hand is better according to the rules of the game. You can find information about poker’s rankings on the Internet. Below is a quick overview of poker. But if you really want to master the game, keep reading for some tips. Whether you’re a novice or a professional poker player, the tips listed here will be of great help to you.
Poker is a game of skill, and its history is filled with rumors about its origin. While many believe that it originated in Persia, the earliest European game was probably poque, which is where we get the word poker from. Poque evolved alongside the German game pochen and the Spanish game primero. Later on, poker made its way to the New World via French settlers. Today, more than a billion people play poker online, and millions of people in many countries all over the world are addicted.
In the original game of poker, players have five cards, ranked from Ace to King. If any of these five cards is an Ace, that hand is called a flush. If a player has more than one five-card hand, the higher card wins. However, in street poker, a player can only win if they have five-of-a-kind hands. But if two players make five of a kind, that’s the game.
A maniac poker player, on the other hand, is loose and crazy, a type of player that tends to play recklessly. In tournaments, the buyin is set, and players play until they’re out of chips. Usually, the last man standing wins. A poker glossary will help you understand the different types of players and their strategies. For example, the poker terminology “VPIP” stands for voluntarily put in pot. A high VPIP means the player has a bad hand. Similarly, the poker terminology “whale” refers to a player with an exceptionally poor hand.
Whether you’re a beginner or an expert poker player, there’s a game for everyone. The basic rules of poker are simple and straightforward. The objective is to win the “pot” – the sum of bets placed by all players in a given deal. This is done by winning a high-ranking poker hand, placing the highest bet, or making a bet that no other players call. This betting structure is the key to the game’s strategy.
There are literally hundreds of ways to play poker. The rules of each game vary slightly, but the core principles of the game are the same. To begin, players must ante – or put in money – before being dealt their cards. Then, they must place their bets into the center of the table. The highest-ranked hand wins the pot, and the betting continues in this fashion until all players call or fold. Then, the players must choose whether or not to raise or fold their cards.
The rules of poker differ by game type, but it is generally played with a standard 52-card deck. The value of the cards depends on the dealer’s rules, and the number of cards in the deck. Poker is one of the most popular card games and is enjoyed both by professional and recreational players alike. So, how do you start playing poker? Check out our guide and learn how to win poker with a few simple rules. It is the perfect game for beginners and experts alike.
In Texas Hold’em, each player is dealt two cards face-down, called the hole and pocket. Each player then takes their turn betting, beginning with the big blind and moving to the left. Then, three cards are dealt face-up in the middle of the table, called the flop. The flop is the community cards and each player uses it to form a five-card hand. If a player has a better hand, it wins the pot.
The betting phase ends once all but one player folds. If no player folds, the remaining player collects the pot without showing their hand. If more than one player remains in the pot at the end of a round, the game is called a “showdown”. During the final round of betting, all the players reveal their hands, and the player with the highest hand wins the pot. If you’ve ever played poker, you’re likely familiar with this process.

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Castro hopes for meeting with Obama
Friday 28 November 2008
Raul Castro, the Cuban leader, has told the actor Sean Penn that he would be willing to meet Barack Obama, the President-elect, after he assumes power in the United States, although he added the encounter should take place in a "neutral location", for instance Guantanamo Bay.
"We must meet and begin to solve our problems," President Castro said during a highly unusual interview given to Mr Penn in Havana a few weeks before Mr Obama was elected. His article will be published in the 15 December issue of The Nation magazine and is already available on its website.
The purpose of such a summit, Fidel Castro's younger brother added, should be primarily to end the trade restrictions that the US has imposed on the Caribbean island since its Marxist revolution, which will be marked by 50th anniversary celebrations in January.
Mr Penn, whose new film about Harvey Milk, the gay rights pioneer and city supervisor in San Francisco who was assassinated in 1978 opened in the US this week, travelled in October to Venezuela and Cuba accompanied by Christopher Hitchens, the US-based British columnist, and the historian Douglas Brinkley. Only Mr Penn was invited to meet Raul Castro, however.
Critics of American policy towards Cuba have taken heart from the election of Mr Obama, who said during his campaign that he would lift the new restrictions imposed by George Bush on exchanges with Cuba. He promised to allow Cuban-Americans to visit the island as often as they like and to send as much money as they wished to their families there.
The relationship could also be improved if Mr Obama honours his pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, set up after the 9/11 attacks to contain so-called "enemy combatants".
Whether those changes alone would be enough to trigger a sea-change in relations between Havana and Washington is hard to predict. Mr Obama has said he would not support ending broader economic sanctions on Cuba until it releases all of its political prisoners and improves political freedoms.
"The only reason for the blockade is to hurt us," the younger Castro told Penn, using the term the Communist leadership employs for the 50-year-old trade embargo. "Nothing can deter the revolution. Let Cubans come to visit with their families. Let Americans come to Cuba." After suggesting Guantanamo for a meeting with Mr Obama, the Cuban leader tartly added that maybe "we could send him home with the American flag that waves over Guantanamo Bay".
But there seemed little mistaking Mr Castro's interest in changes that could thaw the long freeze between Cuba and the US. "The American people are among our closest neighbours. We should respect each other. We have never held anything against the American people. Good relations would be mutually advantageous."
In a video on The Nation website, Penn said he was moved to make the trip to Venezuela and Cuba because of his frustration over the "demonisation" of the leaders of both countries by US politicians. However, he cites Joe Biden, the vice president-elect, among them.
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This is the first project we'll be creating, during out class tonight. This is the Fancy a Cuppa template and is seriously super easy to create and super fun! So many ideas for this type of project; perfect for housewarming gifts or a dinner gift. How about baby or bridal showers? I chose to go with a baking theme so I could dig in to my stash of vintage cooking paper from Kaiser Craft. (Next month I plan on incorporating Lauren's stamps with the template). I adore this paper and the fun retro colors. How about the lady holding the giant pie...too much fun!
Since my designer paper had a bunch of baking references I opted to fill my coffee cups with the supplies needed to bake chocolate chip cookies. And if I was giving this as a gift, I would include a coordinating recipe card, which this paper line happens to come with! I didn't even use stamps on the box, just cut out the many images from this darling paper and added a few tiny pearl accents. Easy peasy! Be sure to check out the My Time Made Easy web site for many more ideas! I'll be back early next month with a new project!

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Using Biotechnology to Reduce GHG Emissions from Animal Farming
Agriculture accounts for almost 20% of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and livestock alone uses 80% of total agricultural land. The bulk of GHG emissions from livestock (consisting of methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide) arise from four main sheep and cattle rearing activities: enteric fermentation, manure management, feed production, and energy consumption. While governments place a high value on the introduction of clean energy, there is much to be desired in terms of finding innovative ways to control GHG emissions by the dairy and meat industry. For the world to achieve the Climate Action Plan targets for 2050, a focus on cleantech alone will not be enough.
Cutting down GHG emissions associated with livestock requires concerted research, and the development of technologies that can ensure cleaner methods of animal farming. In parallel, the world also needs to rethink its consumption patterns. While raising awareness is the first step towards altering the consumption of meat and dairy, the food industry will have to ensure the faster development and widespread distribution of alternatives to ensure a long-term change in consumer behavior.

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Two wild card teams began game 1 of the World Series last night. The San Francisco Giants put a serious beating on the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. The Royals have been on a hot streak during the postseason, but they seemed to have lost their momentum last night.
Kansas City’s pitcher, James Shields, gave up three runs during the first inning. A home run by Hunter Pence put the Giants on the board right away. According to an article from ESPN, Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner has continued his dominance in the post season. He pitched for seven strong innings and received the win for the night.
The Royals did manage to have a few hits during the game, but unfortunately could not produce a lot of runs. There were a few defensive errors that also cost them the game. Radio personalities like Igor Cornelsen and others claim they could have been impacted by jitters and the weight of an entire city on its shoulders.
The final score for the game ended up being 7 to 1. The second game of the World Series will be tonight in Kansas City.


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The opening notes of Eugène Pottier’s L’Internationale would be familiar to many: the song has been utilized as the official communist and socialist song for movements worldwide since the mid-nineteenth century. It was the Second International and Third International Communist Parties’ hymn, after taking its title from the First International; the Soviet Union’s national anthem from 1918 to 1944. L’Internationale was originally intended to share the tune with La Marseillaise, France’s national anthem, but by 1888, it had its own melody. The lyrics’ translation into so many other languages, becoming a de facto anthem for leftist movements throughout China, Germany, England, numerous South Asian countries, as well as independent socialist, Marxist, and anarchist movements called for a distinctive sound.
Artist Anri Sala’s Take Over (L’Internationale) – screened at Frieze Los Angeles – trades in the song’s political charge for an elegant rehearsal. A piano begins to play on its own before veering off course, banging down discordantly before the skilled hands of musician Clemens Hund-Göschel take control. He seems to be able to train the inanimate keys, as they play themselves in tune and continue the arrangement after he lifts his up. He hits the keys with force; they meekly continue playing themselves without making a sound. The hands come back, slowly, finessing the song from the keys. The camera finally pulls back for a single shot: the piano and its player sit alone in a plywood-covered room. A single high window suggests the room shares a wall with a nightclub: rainbow reflections from a disco ball’s paillettes float across the walls.
More of a sound piece with a visual component than a film with a score, Sala’s Take Over (La Marseillaise) (2017) is nearly indistinguishable from his L’Internationale. Shown together, and on a loop, there is a contraction in one’s reinforcement of a national identity, and consequent expansion into a call to a movement transcending any such boundary. Sala grew up under communism in Albania; the delicate pull between the two performances here faintly underline how each allegiance song’s promise of protection from the other is nearly indistinguishable.
Main image: Anri Sala, Take Over, 2017. Courtesy: Esther Schipper, Berlin and kurimanzutto, Mexico City; photograph: Andrea Rossetti


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OSLO, September 2. /TASS/. The new Danish government may keep up an active political dialogue with Russia, while maintaining a tough stance on the Ukrainian issue, Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen told the Danish news agency Ritzaus on Wednesday.
"We may keep up the necessary dialogue with Russia to address current issues, such as sending a Danish astronaut to outer space," he said. "We continue cooperation with Russia in the Arctic, and we also need to discuss with the Russian side the problems that are important for the Baltic region."
Jensen earlier told the Jyllands-Posten newspaper that it was necessary "to resume active dialogue with Russia" and not to refrain from high-level bilateral meetings. He noted though that Denmark would "continue to assume a critical position" with regard to the situation in Ukraine and the compliance with the Minsk agreements.
On Wednesday, Copenhagen is hosting a meeting of senior diplomats from Denmark, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Estonia. According to Jensen, among the issues under discussion are the European security situation, the situation in eastern Ukraine and the sanctions policy towards Russia, which, he said, was effective and should "convince Russia to refrain from confrontation" and interference in the affairs of neighboring countries.
Moscow has repeatedly said that it considers the anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the West because of the Ukrainian conflict to be counter-productive. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted that "fanning confrontation and attempts of exerting sanctions pressure [on Russia] was a dead-end track."
The Danish minority government was formed by the Liberal Party led by Lars Lokke Rasmussen at the end of June following parliamentary elections.


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It’s an action packed day today.... driving a bit to get to Anna Maria Island and enjoying the crystal clear water of the Gulf ... eating lunch at The Famous SANDBAR restaurant by the beach .. Driving to the Siesta keys which is rated the number 1 beach in America.... driving back to St Pete’s and dining out in an outdoor setting ... All FUN FUN and Endless FUN
Anna Maria Island is almost like beaches in Phuket, Thailand ... the water is warm, pleasant and anyone and everyone will enjoy it’s clear and the beautiful shore that it offers...
From the St Petersburg beach it’s a hour and fifteen minute ride to Anna Maria islands ... if you are going there don’t look any further than the Sandbar beach side restaurant... it has the perfect setting for anyone ... it has a picture perfect Beach, an amazing beach side eatery and a nice shade to sit and relax ... you cannot go wrong ... you can spend the whole day hanging out there and if you dine in the Sandbar parking is free.
You can easily spend 3 days in this Island ... you have all kinds of things you can do here ... a relaxed beach set up if you are looking for a beach break ... I highly recommend Anna Maria Islands and this easily tops my expectation and a good beach experience.
From Anna Maria Island we drove to the Siesta Keys... it’s rated No 1 beach in the USA. Due to hurricane the water was not as usual. However it’s a very nice beach to be enjoyed.
We ended up the day in Remington Beach area. A nice dinner and a visit to ice cream shop ... a beautiful area to be enjoyed and the Tampa area offers a lot for a nice and good get away...

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25 Jun Testimonials
We’re in the lucky position that we get to meet hundreds of amazing families each year. We love taking the time to truly get to know every individual that walks through the door, whether that’s finding out what you love getting up to on the weekend as a family, or whether that’s just learning that your trouble makers won’t go anywhere without their trusty teddy in tow. It’s because of this personal connection that we are able to create unique artworks tailored to suit each family and it’s because of that we receive kind words like these.
These testimonials mean the world to us, it lets us know we’re doing our job properly!
Neill dealt with a tired grumpy toddler and crying newborneffortlessly. Really relaxed and professional viewing, no hard sell. Would thoroughly recommend.
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When it comes to Branded, I typically like to stick to writing and reminiscing about the late 70s and 80s through the perspective of a kid. I was a kid at the time after all, and there was a lot of culture that completely flew past my naïve radar. As an adult I look back to this time a lot because it’s comforting and I really like the idea of investigating and deconstructing all of the stuff I grew up on to get a better picture of what helped make me the person I am today.
That being said, like most folks my interests are varied and diverse, and there are so many more aspects of that time that I find myself really connecting with, particularly when it comes to music. I dig all kinds of stuff in a bunch of disparate genres, but what I find myself gravitating to most times is punk. Whether it’s the fore-bearers, the American avant-garde & glitter rock of the early 70s (bands like MC5. Suicide, The New York Dolls, the Modern Lovers, the Velvet Underground or the Stooges) and the UK glam invasion (T.Rex, David Bowie, Mott the Hoople, or Slade), the various punk and hardcore scenes that sprang up in New York (the Ramones, The Dead Boys, Blondie, the Talking Heads), L.A. (the Screamers, X, Black Flag, and believe it or not the Go Gos), D.C. (Minor Threat & the Bad Brains), and in London (The Clash, The Damned, the Sex Pistols, and Generation X), and the post punk that followed in their wake (bands like the Pixies, the Replacements, the Smiths and Sonic Youth.) This is the kind of music that is inevitably blaring on my mind’s stereo system while I’m commuting to or at work, doing chores or brainstorming for various projects. It’s not often that I find myself daydreaming that I could time travel to experience a scene, or wondering if I was born in the wrong era, but if I had to pick another time to have grown up I think it might have been one that had me coming of age in the mid-70s so that I could have experienced more of the birth of punk from the front row (so to speak.)
All of this music that I love has really been making me rethink my perspective on how we experience bands that we like. For years I’ve been fairly opinionated when it comes to listening to music. In my eyes, the end all be all, the best way to listen to a band was to seek out their albums, what ever official releases are hanging out there, and then devouring them in sequential order. Like I wanted to follow the band through their lifespan, listening to the roots and then hearing the progression as they grew, matured, or simply changed into something else entirely. I never sought out best-of, live albums or compilations unless that was the absolute only way I could hear any one particular band. I felt like the studio albums were the purest form of the music, what the band deemed the “final” versions of songs recorded for posterity. For years this just felt like the way to go.
But there were some modern bands that I loved that really challenged this notion. I think of a band like Ween. I got into Ween, like a lot of teens my age, after hearing Push the lil Daisies in one of the video segments on an episode of Beavis and Butthead back in the early 90s. For some reason the wackiness of that tune really burrowed into my brain, and it wasn’t long after that, that I found myself in a Circuit City thumbing through the “Modern Rock” W section looking for Ween albums. At the time I wasn’t so disciplined in how I listened to bands, I was like 15 years-old, so I really just wanted the album that had Push the lil Daisies on the track list. That record was Pure Guava, and after buying the cassette with lunch money I’d been saving all week, I went home, slid it into the tape deck on my stereo and proceeded to fall in love with one of the weirdest bands I’d ever heard. The album is a hodge podge of style full of quirky, drug-induced songs about battleships made of poop, young love, stallions (the manly kind), shitty jobs, and shirts that your mom bought. It was unlike anything that I had heard before, and I was drunk on how happy it made me. For the next 20 or so years I made it a point to pick up every album they released and to see every live show whenever they came through Atlanta. I ended up seeing them around 10 times at a bunch of different venues around the city; inside the Masquerade on their 12 Golden Country Greats tour, outside when they were touring on The Mollusk, at the Roxy around the time White Pepper came out, and numerous times at the Tabernacle. What I discovered over that period was that Ween was sort of two different bands. They were one band that thoughtfully produced all kinds of weird and amazing music on 9 studio albums that melted my mind for over half my life. But they are also a different band that plays incredible live shows that differ dramatically from the albums. Sure, most of the songs are the same, but there is a distinct difference between hearing Big Jilm on Pure Guava, and hearing it live.
Ween was always the exception to my rule of listening only to official studio albums because I saw first hand that the live act could be so very different and amazing in its own right. That wasn’t always my experience with live music. There are a lot of bands I’ve seen over the years that are very close when it comes to comparing the albums to seeing them live. Beck, 311, No Doubt, R.E.M., They Might Be Giants, the Presidents of the United States, Queens of the Stone Age. They’re all great live, but the show wasn’t something else, if that makes sense.
Lately though, I’ve been doing a deeper dive into L.A. punk circa 1977-1983 and I’ve had this notion of seeking out studio albums challenged by a scene where a lot of the bands just never recorded a full album or they released a handful of 45 singles that are either lost to time or hard to track down. I’ve just finished John Doe and Tony DeSavia’s book Under the Big Black Sun, and anthology of essays on L.A. punk written by the folks who lived it. As I was making my way through the book it became crystal clear that to really understand this scene you kind of had to be there. There was a lot of overlap in the essays where the writers kept pointing to bands like The Go Go’s, who were pretty influential in the scene with their live shows and weird fashion antics (Belinda Carlisle would wear dresses made out of black Hefty bags and duck tape.) But a lot of the folks who brought them up (including a couple of the members of the band themselves) lamented that when they finally got around to recording their first record the sound was pulled into a much more pop rock realm. What you hear on Beauty and the Beat (admittedly still a very awesome record), what was taking MTV by storm, sounded vastly different than their punk roots and the shows they were playing around L.A. between 1978 and 1980. This era of the Go Go’s really wasn’t captured well, so aside from some photos, band fliers, and lo-fi audio concert recordings you can find on youtube, that stuff basically lives in the memory of the folks who were there to see it firsthand.
This is true of a lot of the bands at the time. Bands like The Screamers, who were very much about the live gigs incorporating art school flash and showmanship that was almost as important as the music itself. Sure, there are a handful of demos that have surfaced over the years and a couple of early music videos floating around the internet, but these hardly match up to the descriptions in Under the Big Black Sun. It makes any exploration of this punk scene pretty frustrating when you start digging in band by band.
That isn’t to say that there isn’t some priceless recordings of this era outside of official studio albums. For one, there is a great film, Penelope Spheeris’ The Decline of Western Civilization, which captures at good chunk of the more well known acts at the time including Fear, Black Flag, X, Alice Bag, the Circle Jerks and the Germs. Black Flag in particular is a revelation as it’s the pre-Henry Rollins line-up of the band with Ron Reyes on vocals. It’s also some of the best footage (at least that I’ve seen in my own digging) of Darby Crash and the Germs before his suicide months before the film was released. To see these acts filmed with decent cameras and sound equipment live is truly a gift.
Luckily, there are also some really great fans that have digitized some of the ephemera of the era. In particular, the entire run of Slash magazine has been preserved by Circulation Zero. This magazine was a huge part of the scene, not only documenting what was going on with an insider’s view, but later in the publication’s life it also served as a label that released some of the better studio albums from groups like X, the Germs, and the Flesh Eaters. Flipping through the scans of these pages is almost like going back through time.
I also just started the 2001 oral history of the scene called We Got the Neutron Bomb by Mark Spitz & Brendan Mullen, which like Leggs McNeil & Gillian McCain’s Please Kill Me before it, exhaustively sought out interviews with as many key players in the scene that would be willing to sit down and talk about L.A. punk. What’s crazy is that some of these folks are pretty vocal about not talking about it. Greg Ginn & Pat Smear (of Black Flag and the Germs respectively), outright refused to participate in the book which is a shame. Sure, there are other volumes out there that fill in these gaps like Henry Rollins’ Get In the Van about his time with Black Flag, or Lexicon Devil, a look at Crash and the Germs by Brendan Mullen, Don Bolles, and Adam Parfrey. But the more I dig in, the more that this scene in particular feels like this special cherished moment in time that is secret and not for everyone. Like if we all start paying attention it’ll lose the magic that made it so great.
Again, whether it’s that the stories are scattered over a number of books and vintage magazines, or that what you hear on a lot of the albums is a sanitized version of what the music was like in the clubs, it’s kind of hard to immerse yourself in the scene. It’s had me scratching at the corners, looking for the dirty digital rips of 10th generation cassettes of concerts, seeking out anything I can find on youtube, no matter how out of focus or not perfect, just so that I can get a taste of this world. Maybe that’s the way it should be; it should be a herculean task to try and be a part of something that didn’t involve you. Maybe some eras or scenes really are of their time in a way that they’re meant to almost self destruct and leave no traces. The bands didn’t just break up, they were washed from the face of the Earth. All I know is that I’m going to keep digging because every little scrap I find is like a treasure. Lucky for me John Doe and Tony DeSavia have a follow up to Under the Big Black Sun coming out this June. Repurposing the title of another X album, this new volume is called More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk. I’m really looking forward to that.


Singer Shaurya Mehta’s indie song Ungin is a fusion of pop and EDM
Shaurya Mehta’s new track Ungin is finally out now on his official YouTube channel. Ungin is a fusion of pop and electronic music and is receiving rave reviews from the audience.
For Ungin, Mehta drew inspiration from the surreal surrounding around the Hanle Observatory in Ladakh. The lyrics and the composition of the song have been receiving plaudits from everyone including some international radio channels & music critics.
Speaking about it, the singer said, “I always enjoy creating songs which have a deep meaning. ‘Ungin’, which we refer to as countless, is for all those who love new-age music catering to the youth and anyone who enjoys a good vibe. It is about stopping time and just being in the moment.”
Sharing his story about the song, he further revealed, “I was in Ladakh for a music video when I got to know about the Hanle Observatory. We could not shoot there, but the place is unreal; you can see stars and galaxies and it has a vibe of its own. I was transcended into a zone of tranquillity, and the place inspired me to write some lines which became the opening lyrics of the song.”
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Ungin beautifully depicts a lover asking for the time to stop and for couples wanting to freeze their special moment. Besides Hanle Observatory, Shaurya took inspiration from the sea in Mumbai. “Everything in Mumbai changes with time. But the sea remains the same with the sound and movement of the waves spilling its magic in nature ”, he added.
Trained by renowned singers Shri Suresh Wadkar and Ravi Tripathi for seven years, Shaurya Mehta is a singer, songwriter, and music composer who collaborated with leading music companies and record labels with songs garnering more than 6-7 million views.
The song has been played on Big FM 92.7 across 58 Indian cities since its release. Shaurya was also interviewed by RJ Rani on her show which recently saw singing maestro Shankar Mahadevan.
This year, Shaurya Mehta has many upcoming projects that include songs from different genres. His next is an EDM track released in May 2023. Shaurya is also keen to take his work to an international level by collaborating with notable artists and music companies in the world.
Currently, Shaurya is also working on independent music through his private record label ‘Chai Coffee Entertainment’.
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THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CASTLE
Eastnor was built by the 2nd Baron (Lord) Somers, later 1st Earl, between 1810 and 1824. The combination of inherited wealth, his judicious marriage to the daughter of the eminent and rich Worcestershire historian, Rev. Treadway Russell Nash, and his great ambition prompted the 1st Earl to commission a castle to impress his contemporaries and raise his family into the higher ranks of the ruling class. Then, as now, the size and splendour of a country house evidenced the standing and fortune of any family. His architect, the young Robert Smirke, who was later well known for his design for the British Museum, proposed a Norman Revival style. From a distance, Eastnor tried to create the impression of an Edward 1st-style medieval fortress guarding the Welsh Borders. It was a symbolic and defiant assertion of power by an aristocrat in a period of fear and uncertainty following the French Revolution and during the Napoleonic Wars. The symmetry of the design emphasized authority, distinguishing Eastnor from the more rambling, picturesque, castellated mansions of a slightly earlier period at Downton Castle (Shropshire) and Smirke’s 1805 creation for the Earl of Lonsdale at Lowther Castle (Cumbria). By most standards, the castle is massive, and the construction team and materials used were on a similar scale. 250 men working day and night were employed over the first six years of building, and in the first 18 months 4,000 tons of building stone, 16,000 tons of mortar and 600 tons of wood were used.

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In Guatemala, like many places around the globe, thousands of rural families do not have regular access to electricity in their homes. Instead of relying on electricity delivered by reliable local infrastructure to meet their needs, they are forced to provide their own power, piecemeal, or go without.
- To light their homes they depend on dirty, dangerous kerosene lamps.
- To connect to the world around them they purchase disposable batteries for their radios.
- To power their mobile phones, often their only way of communicating with loved ones and business partners, they travel long distances and pay exorbitant rates for a merchant the charge their batteries.
In locations with prodigious wind, a small wind generator capable of charging a car battery would be an ideal way for them to meet their modest needs while avoiding the health and environmental pitfalls associated with their current solutions. The Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG) has recognized this opportunity and is working to develop wind generators to include in their infrastructure development efforts. Catapult Design is working with the Appropriate Technology Development Team (ATDT) of Engineers Without Borders-USA to develop a low cost, vertical-axis pico wind turbine for AIDG given the following objectives and constraints:
- Generate 10-20 Watts at target wind speed (~15mph)
- Charge car batteries for use with LED lights, radios, and cellular phones
- Occupy a small footprint (~ 2×3 ft)
- Manufactured with local materials & skills in Quetzalenango, Guatemala
- $100 US manufacturing cost
Download the full project brief here: AIDG Wind Turbine Project Brief
Client: Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG), Guatemala
AIDG helps individuals and communities get affordable and environmentally sound access to electricity, sanitation and clean water. Through a combination of business incubation, education, and outreach, they help people get technology that will better their health and improve their lives.
XelaTeco, founded with assistance from AIDG in Guatemala in 2005, is a micro-manufacturing facility based around the development of appropriate energy solutions for rural Guatemala.
Partner: Engineers Without Borders – San Francisco Professional Chapter (EWB-SFP) Appropriate Technology Design Team (ATDT), USA
The ATDT is a project of the San Francisco Professionals Chapter of Engineers Without Borders. They are a volunteer-based team that performs work very similar to that of Catapult. In fact, the Catapult founders initially started their technical humanitarian work with the ATDT.
Follow the latest wind turbine developments on our blog.
Tyler Valiquette chats with Cat Laine from the Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group about the ins and outs of the wind turbine.
The article that helped launch an organization, WIRED.com’s Alexis Madrigal is the first to cover the wind turbine project with Engineers Without Borders.
Tyler, Heather and Matt McLean featured on TV12′s Your Green Life. The featurette includes coverage of a wind turbine build session and the impact a few watts of electricity can make on people without light.
The Wind Turbine team meets and interviews with Tomas Roman from the local ABC News station.


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What was Leatherface up to as a teenager? We’ll soon find out!
We’ve been waiting for quite some time to hear an update on Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo’s Leatherface, a prequel to the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre that has been finished for a while now. When can we expect to see it? All has been so silent on that front that we were beginning to wonder if the day would ever come. Tonight, however, brings good news!
Producer Christa Campbell revealed on Twitter that Leatherface is coming in October!
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Jessica Madsen plays one of four inmates (Sam Coleman, Sam Strike, James Bloor) who escape from a mental hospital. One of them becomes the title character and iconic slasher. The quartet kidnap a young nurse (played by Vanessa Grasse) and take her on a road trip from hell. Along the way, they are pursued by an equally deranged lawman (Stephen Dorff) out for revenge.
The Conjuring‘s Lili Taylor plays Mother Sawyer.


Bus passengers in east London to benefit from extra services on route 5
Bus passengers on route 5 will receive a boost during the busiest times in the morning and evening peaks from today, Monday 31 March, as Transport for London (TfL) puts on further extra capacity for the route which operates between Canning Town and Romford.
An extra journey will run at the busiest times which will mean there will now be 13 buses towards Canning Town in the morning peak hour (07:30 - 08:30).
During the evening peak there will be 12 buses towards Romford in the busiest hour (17:00 -18:00).
These changes are part of a series of improvements to this route which has seen capacity increase by a third over the last eight years.
John Barry, Head of Network Development for TfL's buses, said: `We have now increased capacity on route 5 by over a third since 2006 but we know more is now needed.
`Working with Barking and Dagenham Council we are putting on these extra journeys in the peak hours and they will be kept under review.'
This service improvement is part of TfL's management and development of a network that comprises around 700 routes across Greater London operated by 7,600 buses at peak times, carrying more than 2.3 billion passengers every year.
TfL keeps the network under regular review, working with the London boroughs and other partners to help ensure that services can respond to London's changing travel needs.
Demand and reliability is monitored very closely and regular changes are made to schedules and routes as a result.
Bus service levels in London have increased by over 40 per cent since the formation of TfL in 2000 and reliability and customer satisfaction are at the highest levels since records began.
- Route 5 is operated by Stagecoach between Canning Town and Romford. It runs via Barking Road, Upton Park, East Ham, Barking, Becontree Heath and Roneo Corner
- The cost of the extra journeys is being supported by funding obtained by Barking and Dagenham Council through a Planning Agreement


Technology is allowing more doctors and patients to consult via e-mail, and insurance companies are reimbursing for it
The doctor doesn’t have to see you now.
Thanks to new technology, patients may not always need a face-to-face visit with their doctor to get the care they need.
And thanks to a growing awareness of this fact on the part of health plans, structured, Internet-facilitated and reimbursable “virtual visits” are on the verge of entering mainstream medicine. Virtual visits also are seen as a tool that will save money, provide convenient care and maybe do something to solve the problem of patients not having access to their doctors.
This is especially true in Minnesota, where five of the six largest private health plans reimburse physicians about $35 per virtual office visit, and the last holdout announced that it will soon join the club. Unresolved, however, are issues over standards for billing and legal jurisdiction matters concerning doctors conducting e-visits during travel to states they are not licensed to practice in.
Health information technology vendors are helping to bring the parties together, and a message is being spread that virtual visits benefit patients by offering affordable and convenient access to their doctors; help providers more efficiently process routine cases; aid employers by reducing absenteeism created when workers take time off to see their physician; and—perhaps most significant—assist insurance companies in saving money.
“I would hope that 100% of the companies will be doing this in the next few years,” said independent family physician and e-visit advocate Michelle Eads of Woodland Park, Colo. “Once the insurance companies get it through their thick skulls that it saves money, they’ll be more than willing to do it.”
Eads is also the sole practitioner in a pilot study Kaiser Permanente of Colorado Springs is conducting exploring the use of virtual visits by in-network independent physicians. She receives $50 for an online consultation and said preliminary figures from 2006 show that Kaiser is saving between $70 and $120 on each virtual visit.
Larry Boress, president of the Midwest Business Group on Health, said that e-visits have not been heavily pushed by his organization, but added that “our interest is in physicians adopting technology to improve the quality of care they deliver and their communication, so this is just part of that.”
Internist Paul Tang, the vice president and chief medical information officer of the Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Foundation, believes employers should pay more attention. He said, in a study, his organization found that for every $1 employers invested in virtual-visit programs, they received a $4.50 return—mostly in the form of savings generated from having less lost productivity.
“It’s early in the evolution of mainstream adoption—but more and more people are recognizing the value,” said Ken Tarkoff, vice president and general manager of consumer solutions for RelayHealth, who said that his company is currently working with more than a dozen insurance companies on programs to reimburse physicians for the time they spend using his company’s secure online communication services.
These arrangements began about five years ago, first with Blue Cross of Massachusetts and Blue Shield of California and have grown to include Aetna, Cigna HealthCare and WellPoint Blues affiliates. Tarkoff said RelayHealth-facilitated reimbursement programs were developed in Florida, Kansas City, Mo., and the New York City tri-state area, and are now being established in Illinois, New Jersey and Ohio.
Tarkoff said after RelayHealth was purchased by McKesson Corp. in June of 2006, interest has really taken off as the giant corporate parent has been able to grow the network of participating providers. “We’re working with a number of payers to accelerate growth,” Tarkoff said. “Traditionally, the relationship between a physician and a health plan may not be completely positive. This offers an opportunity to change that.”
Under the RelayHealth program, physicians are reimbursed $30 for reviewing the answers patients provide in an online interview, which Tarkoff explained represents about 40% of the usual reimbursement for a Level 3 office visit where an established patient comes in and presents symptoms.
“The reason health plans reimburse for our e-visits is because physicians are able to prove that a certain level of healthcare service was provided,” he said.
Cigna HealthCare spokesman Joe Mondy said laws prohibit him from discussing negotiated discount rates and stop him from disclosing how much Cigna reimburses physicians using RelayHealth, but acknowledged that $50 was “in the ballpark” for their physicians in Arizona, California and the New York City tri-state area.
WellPoint, the parent company of 11 Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans and three other Blues-related companies, has completed a pilot study in Denver, and has two pilots in New York and Indiana where $25 is the standard reimbursement, according to spokeswoman Cheryl Leamon.
Tarkoff predicted that RelayHealth will be involved in virtual-visit partnerships in some 100 markets in two to three years, and that Medicare will be reimbursing for Web visits within five years.
But Medicare reimbursement is not imminent. “I don’t want to reimburse a physician every time he sends an e-mail,” said Kerry Weems, acting administrator for the CMS. While not opposed to reimbursing physicians for electronic care as part of an overall reimbursement package, per-e-mail reimbursement is something Weems currently opposes. Physicians might get “very adept” at e-mailing, Weems said.
Minnesota might be the epicenter of e-visit reimbursement. At Fairview Health Services, a Minneapolis-based integrated health system, 34,000 people—or roughly 5% of the Fairview patient population—signed up since July to use MyChart, its secure portal for e-visits offered by Epic Systems Corp., according to Barry Bershow, Fairview’s medical director of quality and informatics.
About 1,000 patients are being added each month, he said. “Just like ATMs were bizarrely rare in the beginning, now no one can imagine banking at a bank that doesn’t use them,” Bershow said.
Bershow estimated that state insurance companies have reimbursed Fairview for about 500 e-visits since the July launch at $35 apiece, although he’s not sure how that dollar figure came to be. “It mystically appeared in one payer’s proposal and it seemed fair and reasonable to us,” he recalled. “So we said ‘Sure,’ and once it was out there—and no one seemed to have an explanation why—everyone picked the same number on both sides.”
Patient response has been overwhelmingly positive, he said, except for two complaints from people who had gotten used to communicating with their physician via e-mail for no charge. Physician response has been mixed.
“We have some docs with over a thousand people signed up, but we also have some with only about 35,” Bershow said. “So, obviously those physicians are clearly not into this.”
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota spokeswoman Jan Hennings said her company recognizes a $35.70 level of reimbursement for an e-visit, but if a member has a $20 copay, her company may only pick up $15.70.
Medica, the last major holdout in Minnesota, provides reimbursements through its Patient Choice business division, which is a health plan for self-insured employers, and reimbursements will go companywide soon, said spokesman Greg Bury.
Although health plan giant UnitedHealthcare is based in Minnesota, Hennings said state laws mandating that health insurance companies be not-for-profit prohibit UnitedHealthcare from doing business there. Regardless, if it did operate in Minnesota, it probably wouldn’t reimburse for e-visits because, according to company spokeswoman Debora Spano, UnitedHealthcare policy calls for only reimbursing for face-to-face visits.
Eads, speaking at the AAFP’s annual scientific assembly in Chicago earlier this month, said it takes about 16 minutes to complete the typical virtual visit, and that they have been particularly useful in monitoring patients with hypertension and depression. Besides chronic conditions, Eads said these visits are also helpful for patients who work nights or who are just under the weather.
“I live in the mountains,” she explained. “Some people don’t want to drive into the mountains just for me to say ‘Yes, you’re sick.’ ”
E-visits also work out for patients without insurance who find the $50 online-consult fee easier to swallow than the price of an office visit, Eads said.
Miami-based family physician Bernd Wollschlaeger has nothing but self-pay patients in his cash-only, paper-free practice, and he said his patients don’t mind paying for electronic communication. Fees start at $15 to $20 for a prescription refill, $25 for chronic condition management, and then go higher the more complex the task. “Most people in my practice understand that my time is money,” Wollschlaeger said. “I’ve never heard a complaint.”
While they don’t complain about the cost, Wollschlaeger said they do ignore his directions to use the secured communication portal offered through a Medem personal health record. Instead, they prefer to send him regular e-mails instead. If that’s what they want to do, Wollschlaeger said he makes them sign a statement confirming that.
Wollschlaeger said one time a patient didn’t want his wife to know that he was having medical tests done, but the secret was revealed when the patient didn’t use the secure portal. “He asked me ‘Why did you tell my wife?’ and I said ‘I didn’t, she read your e-mail,’ ” Wollschlaeger recalled.
Wollschlaeger does information technology consulting for the American Academy of Family Physician members in his state, as does Louis Spikol, a family practitioner with the Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Physician Group, but the similarities end there. Spikol said he fields several patient e-mails a week and conducts a handful of structured e-visits a month, but he doesn’t bill for them. “The hospital wouldn’t know what to do with it,” he said. “I don’t think they have any mechanisms for paying for that.”
Instead of a per-use method of payment, Spikol said he would prefer a retainer-type method. “I would rather get paid on a global basis—like the cable company where you pay $30 a month and you get to see TV,” he said.
Tang of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation thinks he has an answer to the billing dilemma: Use standard office-visit criteria such as conducting an exam, taking a medical history and making a medical decision. Tang, who is also chairman of the American Medical Informatics Association, said Palo Alto has 93,000 patients, 46%, who use the MyChart communication portal, and his team analyzed 122 e-mails between 112 patients and 69 PAMF physicians to see if two out of those three actions took place.
The analysis found that 22% of the messages contained enough evidence of history-taking and medical decisionmaking to warrant billing.
“This is a way of qualifying an
e-visit using existing rules,” Tang said. Now that he has developed some rules, Tang may need to find someone to follow them. “No one is reimbursing us—that’s the reason I wouldn’t call this ‘mainstream’ yet,” he said.
A multitude of studies have also shown that electronic communication increases patient satisfaction, and that patients rarely overburden their doctors with too much information and too many e-mails. One of the most recent studies was published in the October issue of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ journal, Pediatrics.
While researchers, physicians and patients report positive findings, however, the lawyers have yet to speak up. John Bachman, a physician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., addressed the potential problem of e-visits during a program at the AAFP’s assembly in Chicago. “I’m here in Chicago, my patient is in Florida … but I practice in Minnesota,” Bachman said, noting that the Mayo Clinic’s legal team has suggested to him that conducting e-visits while in a state he is not licensed to practice in may not be a good idea. “Technology is always faster than our laws.”
Fairview’s Bershow said he’s decided he won’t wait for the law to catch up.
“Nobody knows for sure what to do, because the laws were written before this was a possibility,” he said. “We’re proceeding from the stance that it makes sense to do this and there’s no reason not to.”
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Remember the days when you used to get sugared almonds as a wedding favour?
These days it’s more likely to be a miniature bottle of gin or…a temporary tattoo of the happy couple.
Etsy seller Lily Mandrill makes personalised temporary tattoos out of your couple photos, so you can force all your friends and family to wear your image for the duration of their wedding reception.
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The tat includes a pic of you guys, and can also include your names and the date of your Big Day™, for no extra charge.
Tattoos start at £65.58 for 25, up to £262.31 for 500,
Shipping is £13.84 to the UK (the tats come from France), although don’t forget that customs may slap you with tax, and Royal Mail will charge you a whole £8 on top of that, for the privilege of being charge tax.
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A rapist who absconded to Scotland has been returned to Cardiff Crown Court and jailed for 14 years.
Myrddin Pendragon, 48, fled South Wales while on bail facing trial for rape and sex assaults.
He was on the run for a month, changing his locations regularly while claiming benefits and was filmed on CCTV cameras in supermarkets and other public places, crown prosecutor Janet McDonald said yesterday.
A warrant was eventually executed four weeks after his trial had been due to start before a jury in Cardiff Crown Court.
Even after his arrest, Pendragon denied the offences and made his victim wait a further three months before he admitted she had been telling the truth all along and pleaded guilty. In a statement she said yesterday that all the delays and the periods of waiting had caused her great distress.
The court heard it had taken her years to pluck up the courage to go to the police, although she had previously confided in school friends.
When Pendragon assaulted her, she said she was shaking with fear as he warned her not to tell, saying: “They won’t understand us.”
A first attempt to rape her failed but when he succeeded, she was crying in pain, as he asked, “did it hurt?” and added, “I won’t do it again”.
When confronted, he threatened suicide, then claimed he suffered from narcolepsy and blamed that for his behaviour. He eventually said he had suffered abuse when young and he was afraid he was turning into a monster just like that person who attacked him.
Ms McDonald said: “He says narcolepsy affects his actions and his memory. We say he uses it to manipulate people.”
Ruth Smith, defending, said Pendragon of School Street, Porth, who previously lived in Llanedyrn, Cardiff, suffered multiple health problems including agrophobia, asthma, depression and anxiety.
Jailing him and imposing a sexual offences prevention order to keep him away from young girls in the future, Judge David Wynn Morgan told him: “You are a wicked and evil man.”
He had pleaded guilty to incitement, sexual assault, attempted rape and rape and the court heard it was not the first time he had been involved in sex with a minor.
In 1987 as Simon David Clark, he was before Cardiff magistrates for having sexual intercourse with a girl under 16 and was said to have been let off with a 12-month conditional discharge.


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OCEAN CITY – A public hearing on the future of the Ocean City Municipal Airport is planned for Thursday, June 28 at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center. A public workshop starts at 6 p.m. and the public hearing is slated to run from 7-9 p.m.
An environmental assessment was recently completed on the general aviation airport, which is based in West Ocean City off Route 611 and operated by the Town of Ocean City. The assessment studies the impact the lengthening of runways will have on the environment.
The alternative currently on the table and reportedly favored by city staff extends the east-to-west runway to 5,000 feet; the relocation of Route 611; and expanding the north-to-south runway to 4,160 feet.
The environmental assessment, which was largely paid for by the FAA with the town and MAA chipping in about 10 percent of the $450,000 cost, is currently available at City Hall, the Ocean City branch of the Worcester County Library on 14th Street, the airport and at the Northside Park recreation office.
At the public hearing, concerned citizens will have an opportunity to weigh in on the plan as well as ask questions they may have about the future of the airport. Those pertinent comments made at the hearing are expected to be included in an appendix to the final assessment document.
In a full-page advertisement placed in The Dispatch last week, the Citizens Against Ocean City Municipal Airport Expansion, a group comprised largely of West Ocean City residents, asked a number of questions.
“We urge you to come and find out why we don’t need this airport expansion,” the ad read. “Who is really paying for this expansion? What traffic changes can we expect from this expansion? What is the environmental effect on our coastal bays, wildlife and pristine Assateague Island?”


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HALIFAX, NS (December 10, 2020)
Research Nova Scotia (RNS) is pleased to announce over $2 million in funding for new health researchers in Nova Scotia to help increase capacity in this critical area. The 21 recipients are located at Dalhousie, Acadia, St. Francis Xavier, Saint Mary’s, Mount Saint Vincent, and Cape Breton University as well as Nova Scotia Health and the IWK.
The New Health Investigator Grant supports new health researchers who are engaged in work that aligns with the province’s health research priorities. The grant aims to provide two years of support of up to $100,000 for researchers who are within the first five years of their academic appointment in Nova Scotia or who are new to the field of health research. For the 2020-21 academic year, funding for this grant is provided by the Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness.
“There has never been a greater need to support new health researchers in Nova Scotia to help inform practice, policy and decision making,” says Stefan Leslie, CEO of Research Nova Scotia. “Today, we’re pleased to announce funding for these researchers and are confident their work will positively impact the health of Nova Scotians.”
Research projects span a broad range of topics including diabetes, cancer and dementia care, pre- term infant gut health, and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic. For a complete list of recipients and projects visit researchns.ca/new-health-investigator-grant-recipients/.
Funding provided will support the establishment of independent programs of research, support and expand the research productivity necessary for obtaining long term funding from national and external agencies, and expand the potential for early career investigators to make significant contributions in their field.
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