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From one of the country's foremost doctors comes a ground-breaking book about diagnosing, treating and healing Lyme, and peeling away the layers that lead to chronic disease.
You may not know that you have Lyme. It can mimic every disease process including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, autoimmune conditions like MS, psychiatric conditions like depression and anxiety, and cause significant memory and concentration problems, mimicking early dementia. It is called the "Great Imitator," and inaccurate testing-combined with a fierce, ongoing debate that questions chronic infection-makes it difficult for sufferers to find effective care.
When Dr. Richard Horowitz moved to the Hudson Valley over two decades ago to start his own medical practice, he had no idea that he was jumping into a hotbed of Lyme disease. He would soon realize that many of the chronic disease diagnoses people were receiving were also the result of Lyme-and he would discover how once-treatable infections, in the absence of timely intervention, could cause disabling conditions. In a field where the number of cases is growing exponentially around the world and answers remain elusive, Dr. Horowitz has treated over 12,000 patients and made extraordinary progress. His plan represents a crucial paradigm shift, without which the suffering will continue.
In this book, Dr. Horowitz:
- Breaks new ground with a 16 Point Differential Diagnostic Map, the basis for his revolutionary Lyme treatment plan, and an overarching approach to treating all chronic illness.
- Introduces MSIDS, or Multiple Systemic Infectious Disease Syndrome, a new lens on chronic illness that may prove to be an important missing link.
- Covers in detail Lyme's leading symptoms and co-infections, including immune dysfunction, sleep disorders, chronic pain and neurodegenerative disorders - providing a unique functional and integrative health care model, based on the most up-to-date scientific research, for physicians and health care providers to effectively treat Lyme and other chronic illnesses.
Cutting through the frustration, misinformation and endless questions, Dr. Horowitz's enlightening story of medical discovery, science and politics is an all-in-one source for patients of chronic illness to identify their own symptoms and work with their doctors for the best possible treatment outcome.
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RICHARD HOROWITZ is a board-certified MD specializing in Internal Medicine. He and his wife, Lee, founded the Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center in Hyde Park, New York, which has treated over 12,000 patients for tick-borne diseases over the past twenty-six years. Dr. Horowitz is known for his pioneering work with Lyme disease and is recognized to be one of the country's foremost experts on chronic illness.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:
Identifying Lyme Disease
The History of Medicine:
2000 BCE: Here, eat this root. It will make you strong.
1080 BCE: Throw out that root and drink this potion; it is better for you.
250 AD: Get rid of that potion; it is bad for you. Take this herb instead.
1910: Get rid of this herb and take this potion; it is more effective.
1950: That potion is bad for you; here, take this drug.
2000: That drug is no longer effective; here, eat this root.
How is it possible that an epidemic of tick-borne diseases could be spreading without getting the proper attention? How could patients throughout the United States continue to be desperate for help? To understand the answer to this dilemma, you need to understand the intricacies of Lyme disease and the constructs of the medical paradigm that doctors and health authorities work under.
First of all, we must look at the history of medicine. Medicine is a continuously changing and expanding field, and it is said that almost half of everything that we learn in medical school will usually be proven to be wrong every five to ten years. There are numerous examples of the undeniable blessings of modern medicine: antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals; new high-tech diagnostic machines and tests; groundbreaking surgeries; and public health initiatives have extended human life (most especially in infancy) and increased well-being in the general population. But along the way to modern medicine, some medical pioneers have been dismissed or even attacked for what others believed were their heretical ideas.
For example, consider Dr. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, a nineteenth-century Hungarian physician, who is now known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures described as the “savior of mothers.” Semmelweis made an important scientific observation: When he washed his hands before delivering babies, the women in his clinic did not die as often from puerperal sepsis (a bacterial infection that kills women shortly after giving birth) as those in another clinic in the same hospital, which had a death rate of 10 percent. When he shared this important observation with his colleagues, he was ridiculed. As patients abandoned his colleagues and begged to deliver in his clinic, he was ostracized by his medical society and driven out of medicine. He was committed to an asylum, where ironically, he died of septicemia only fourteen days later, possibly the result of being severely beaten by his guards.
Dr. Louis Pasteur was another example of a scientist who was ridiculed. It was years before his theory of the germ origins of illness was proven to be correct.
Helicobacter pylori were first discovered in the stomachs of patients with gastritis and stomach ulcers in 1982 by Australian doctors Barry Marshall and Robin Warren. The conventional thinking at the time of their research was that no bacterium could live in the strong acid environment of the human stomach. They also proposed that treatment with antibiotics rather than the practices then in use, which included stomach removal, were best for ulcer patients. Their discovery was ignored for almost twenty years, while patients had their stomachs removed because of bleeding ulcers, or were told to drink large quantities of milk, or were cautioned that their ulcers were due to stress alone.
There is a long list of other examples available for anyone who wants to explore the history of medicine. Many of these pioneers pushed the boundaries until the paradigm of that specific disease process was transformed. Are things different today? Have we learned to listen to those challenging the medical establishment? Certainly not with respect to Lyme disease and associated tick-borne disorders.
To understand Lyme disease, we need to go back to the mid 1970s, when portrait painter Polly Murray first noticed an outbreak of what had been called “juvenile rheumatoid arthritis” in the town of Lyme, Connecticut, that had affected her and her children from decades earlier. Dr. Alan Steere, a rheumatologist at Yale University, was called in to investigate the epidemic, as were researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Rocky Mountain Labs. Dr. Willy Burgdorfer, a researcher at Rocky Mountain Labs, identified a microscopic spirochete, a spiral-shaped bacteria that resembles the one that causes syphilis. This was eventually identified as the causative agent of the newly identified disease, and the spirochete was named Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) after Dr. Burgdofer’s discovery, and the related disease was called Lyme, after its initial outbreak in the town of Lyme, Connecticut.
Although patients may have had other manifestations of the disease, Dr. Allan Steere primarily investigated patients with rashes and rheumatologic manifestations, including hot, swollen joints, for the Connecticut Department of Public Health. He was instrumental in determining that many became ill in summer or early fall and lived in geographic clusters in mostly rural areas. He did recognize that patients were very ill and not just psychologically disturbed. But what caused this mysterious illness?
This mysterious illness was actually not a new discovery at all. Lyme disease had already been reported in Europe in the late 1800s, as a rash of the hands: Dr. Alfred Buchwald described a skin lesion; others in Europe and the United States reported the same lesion as part of a condition called Bannwarth syndrome, a triad of radiculitis (a pain radiating along a nerve), with Bell’s palsy (the sudden onset of facial paralysis), and meningitis (an inflammation occurring in the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord). In 1909, Dr. Arvid Afzelius described an expanding ring-like skin rash, later named erythema chronicum migrans, or ECM (in 1990, dermatologist Dr. Bernard Berger recognized that the rash was not chronic in all cases and renamed it Erythema Migrans or, simply, EM). Ten years later, Afzelius connected the disease with joint problems and speculated that they are somehow related to the bite of a tick. In 1922 the disease was found to be associated with neurological problems, and in 1930 the diagnosis further included psychiatric disturbances. A few years later, arthritic problems were added. In 1965 Dr. Sidney Robbin, a semiretired internist living in Montauk, New York, described expanding circular rashes that responded to penicillin treatment that appeared in conjunction with a peculiar type of arthritis that he named Montauk knee. Five years later, Dr. Rudolph Scrimenti, a Wisconsin dermatologist, published the first report of an ECM rash in the United States. As Dr. Robbin had observed, he too reported that the rash responded to penicillin.
No one, however, had put all the pieces together. And no one yet connected these symptoms to the patients who were so ill in rural Connecticut. Was this a new illness, and, if so, where did it come from and how should we treat it? By 1977, Dr. Steere was reporting a whole host of specific and often bizarre signs of this new disease, including fever, fatigue, headache, migratory joint pains, as well as multiple cardiovascular and neurological abnormalities. As the result of treating patients with antibiotics for (only) seven to ten days, many patients went on to develop other symptoms. It appeared that antibiotics just wouldn’t help Lyme patients. Perhaps Lyme was caused by a virus, or was an autoimmune disorder.
When you have been trained in a particular medical specialty, you see the world through certain lenses and diagnostic paradigms. A gastroenterologist, for example, sees the world through the lens of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and tries to link up a patient’s symptoms to diseases known in their specialty. This is the same for neurology or infectious disease or, in the case of Dr. Steere, a rheumatologist, for diseases of the joints, which include autoimmune diseases. It is not that the thinking of these doctors and subspecialists is necessarily wrong, but it may be that their worldview only includes part of the whole picture. There is relative truth, and then there is absolute truth. When the three blind men are feeling the elephant, they each describe a different part. One describes the elephant as having a long, movable nose, another tough skin with thick legs and big nails, and the third might just describe a thin, coarse tail. Each has described a certain relative truth, and none is incorrect, but none of them have seen the big picture: It’s an elephant!
So it is with Lyme disease. The initial paradigm created for diagnosis and treatment of these patients was through a rheumatologist’s narrowly focused eyes. Soon the infectious disease doctors claimed Lyme disease as part of their turf.
I was trained as an internist to be a medical detective, with a wide diagnostic perspective: We have to know something about all of the medical subspecialties. The vision of an internist must be broad and inclusive of all possibilities, since his or her job is to diagnose patients to effectively determine who needs to be referred to subspecialists. An internist, therefore, will not necessarily have some of the inherent biases or diagnostic schema associated with subspecialists. As Lyme diagnosis and treatment fell into the domains of the rheumatologists and infectious disease doctors early on, a paradigm was forming based on the way these subspecialists viewed the world. In addition, traditional medical education has always taught doctors to find one cause for all of the patient’s symptoms. This is deeply ingrained in every physician’s education. We generally are not taught to look for multifactorial causes of an illness. Therefore, if a Lyme disease patient presents with thirty-five different symptoms, the established paradigm would be to try and explain these complaints according to the accepted medical model: one primary diagnosis. If the doctor could not find a single etiology, or cause, for your symptoms, it must be because it is psychological in nature, and you are crazy. Or the answer might be elusive because the symptoms can’t be understood in the HMO-dictated fifteen-minute time frame. Or perhaps the physician hasn’t looked hard enough, or just sees the world through one narrow diagnostic lens.
Let’s embark on a journey together as medical detectives to see how we might diagnose and treat one of the most pressing epidemics facing us in the twenty-first century.
GETTING TO THE SOURCE OF CHRONIC ILLNESS
Although solving such an enormous problem like multiple systemic infectious disease syndrome (MSIDS) might seem a very daunting, or even an unreachable, goal, as a physician I have found that communicating well with my patients is a key ingredient. Searching for clues by listening intently to their symptoms allows even the most seriously ill multisystem-affected patient to achieve greater health and wellness. After accumulating all of the necessary information from the patient, and reviewing the laboratory results, we need to blend medical knowledge with deeper intuitive wisdom.
Tell me again: What do you feel? When did it begin? What makes it better or worse? As I probe each time, their stories prompt me to search for new clues: The mystery unfolds through our dialogue. Of course, this technique doesn’t ensure that we can discover the answers for all the problems of all our patients all the time. Nor does it mean that this strategy will cure illnesses that have plagued patients for years (although this might be possible). But it does allow the medical detective to register some clue that hadn’t seemed important before.
The second piece of the strategy of being an insightful medical detective is attitude. And by this I mean developing a strong desire to benefit the patient who is suffering. We can achieve this by imagining exchanging ourselves with another and doing for them exactly what we would want done for ourselves. Rather than take an all-knowing physician stance, I believe the best medical strategy is developing a strong and unwavering compassion for others. Any success I have had in my practice rests on this guiding principle. Although this might sound like a new credo for modern medicine, it is, in fact, implied in the Hippocratic Oath that all physicians take. It has doctors pledge respect for human life, and to treat patients as fellow human beings, not medical conditions.
Adopting compassion as the foundation of our health-care system challenges the time-efficient models and financial incentive–driven perspectives of modern health care. Yet many patients, physicians, and insurance directors are unhappy with our current health-care system. Even patients with health insurance coverage suffer with chronic undiagnosed illnesses, physicians burn out, and health-care costs continue to soar in this unhealthy atmosphere. It is difficult to find satisfaction as a physician if you are rushing from patient to patient and are unable to find the time to develop a strong, heart-centered healing partnership with those who seek your care. Shifting from the head to the heart, where our compassion lies, can bring patients and physicians greater satisfaction, and it provides the essential motivation to get to the root cause of illness. This ultimately benefits the patient, the health-care system (as unnecessary and expensive tests are not performed), and the physician (as he or she experiences greater satisfaction and improved patient outcomes).
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recognizes that chronic illness may be a complex interplay of genetics, environmental factors, infections, and trauma. But in day-to-day practice, doctors often do not use this broad framework to understand and treat chronic illness. Usually, the HMO model encourages limited time for visits and referring patients to long lists of specialists who, if they get approval, will perform long lists of expensive tests. Yet these same insurance companies often place limits on medically necessary treatment options for economic reasons. Few physicians have the time to uncover the multifactorial causes of chronic illness. Most specialists are trained only to treat one small piece of the puzzle, one body system, or one category of causes.
I believe that the first piece of this paradigm shift must therefore be with primary care physicians. These first-line physicians must use a broader and more inclusive framework to break down chronic illness into layers by examining the mental, emotional, and physical aspects of each illness.
Then we must go even further as detectives and break these physical symptoms down into the anatomy of an illness, the biology of an illness, the biochemistry of an illness, the immunology of an illness, and the genetics behind the illness. Functional medicine and abnormalities in the biochemical pathways that drive chronic illness are a start. These often need to be examined to discover clues as to why the chronically ill patient has persistent symptoms. In medical school, doctors are not taught adequately about environmental medicine nor is the importance of what these toxins may do to the body emphasized, or how detoxification pathways work, how inflammatory cytokines (the protein molecules that are secreted by cells that can communicate with each other) cause sickness behavior, or how mental or emotional stress can negatively affect adrenal function, causing immune system dysfunction.
Physicians are trained to recognize and treat chronic infections, but many believe that the list of chronic diseases is limited to those like tuberculosis, leprosy, syphilis, chronic Q fever, or chronic viral infections...
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See Kilohana Plantation Estate and visit Luau Kalamaku. Hawaiian cuisine is well-cooked at this place. Degust good kalua pork, teriyaki chicken and potato salads at this spot. The truth is that you will really enjoy tasty pudding and perfectly cooked banana pies. When visiting Luau Kalamaku, it's a must to try delicious Mai tai, rum or wine. Based on the reviewers' opinions, waiters offer great coffee.
At this place, you can celebrate any event, whether it's an anniversary, a wedding or a birthday party. The atmosphere of hospitality of this spot highly depends on the staff, that is gracious here. Cool service is something that people note in their comments. You are to be pleasantly impressed with democratic prices at Luau Kalamaku. The homey atmosphere makes a good impression on visitors. Both food and service made favorable impressions on Facebook users, and this place got the 4.5 star rating there.

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When Katherine Steck’s daughter was a young baby, she and a few other moms decided to form a playgroup for local families in Los Angeles. One big issue kept coming up: vaccination. They wanted to create an inclusive community for parents. They also wanted to protect their children, many of them too young to have fully vaccinated against diseases like measles, chickenpox, and rotovirus.
They finally settled upon a clear policy: Parents who chose not to vaccinate their children were not welcome in the group.
“When you choose to not vaccinate your kids you’re taking away opportunities from them… because you’re putting other children at risk,” Steck said.
In Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband and 13-month-old daughter, it turned out that her deliberations over fairness to all children, privacy, and individual choice may not have been necessary. Steck quickly discovered that local parents were interested in cloth diapers, organic food, natural ingredients, and making sure their vaccinated children did not cross paths with unvaccinated ones.
Still, Steck says, as clear as she is on her stance toward vaccination and her responsibility to protect her own daughter, she feels unclear how to broach the subject with other parents.
Medical privacy laws don’t give parents the right to know whether another family vaccinates, says Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at New York University. “You can ask, but parents have no legal obligation to share vaccination status with you,” he said in a phone call.
“I think you do need to be talking with other parents as a responsible parent,” he said, comparing the vaccination conversation to asking about guns in the home, or communicating with other parents about food allergies. It’s especially important, he said, when there are outbreaks, like the many cases of measles in New York (paywall), Texas, and the Pacific Northwest right now.
“I think kids have a right not to be harmed and not to be put at a deadly risk, not just harm but deadly risk or risk of severe disability,” Caplan said. In the case of measles, he noted, “often it doesn’t kill you because we can get you to a hospital and kind of keep you going, but it can certainly leave you with brain damage or deafness. Those are serious.”
When the measles vaccine first became widely available, childhood mortality decreased in a way that could not be solely explained by the lack of measles deaths. Recent research has shown that measles doesn’t just make humans sick, it wipes out our immune systems, leaving us incredibly vulnerable to other diseases.
“For years after the cough clears up and the rash disappears, children who’ve survived a bout with measles tend to come down with bacterial and viral infections more frequently. The virus essentially wipes out your catalog of prior infections so that the only foreigner your body recognizes is measles itself,” Megan Molteni writes in Wired.
Caplan noted some school districts have started to post information about the vaccination rates in specific classrooms, saying that though they don’t identify unvaccinated children by name, in many school communities this information is enough to start a conversation among parents.
Indeed, some of the most successful strategies to get parents to vaccinate depend on other parents.
As Nadine Gartner, a founder of the pro-vaccination group Boost Oregon, wrote in the Washington Post (paywall), “Vaccine-hesitant parents aren’t stupid or anti-science. Often, they’re not even opposed to vaccines; they’re just scared.” Kim Nelson, a South Carolina mom, identified the moment that parents are most vulnerable to anti-vaccination messages: before their child is born. She booked a space at a local library and set up shop to share scientifically sound information about vaccines (paywall) with compassion. “I do think they appreciate it when you meet them sympathetically, and you don’t just try to blast facts down their throat,” she told NPR.
Though she hasn’t yet had to have a one-on-one conversation with another parent who doesn’t vaccinate, Steck says that she’s ready to put up a boundary to protect her own child and to serve as a “data point” for the other parent. “You are free to do what you want but there are downsides to it,” she explained. “I’m going to eliminate those for my child.”
Caplan sees it from another angle, noting that it’s not just children too young to be vaccinated who are at risk when outbreaks of the measles and other preventable diseases emerge. As we age, so do our immune systems, he says, and some cancer and transplant treatments also leave patients very vulnerable to disease. “It’s important to understand that vaccination is a community issue, not just an individual issue,” Caplan said. “So you’re trying to protect other people when you vaccinate… from your kid.”

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I was raised by an incredibly creative mother: a seamstress, a painter, and a portrait artist. My father is an inventor and naturally I inherited the creative gene, too. I am a free spirit; I love to laugh, love to paint, and I love people! My husband is an accountant and I am an artist...to me, we ...

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Present status of the accelerators of heavy-ions are reviewed and future prospects of them are briefly discussed. Several examples of application of these accelerators in various fields of research are given in relation to the description of interaction of heavy ions with matter.
A previous paper (E. Sakai: “Oyobuturi”, Vol. 38, No, 1 (1969), pp. 2-19) described the state of the art in the development of semiconductor detectors at the end of 1968. The present paper reports the progress performed since 1969. The items described are as follows ; status and problems in germanium crystals for man-ufacturing Ge(Li) detectors, the best energy resolution achieved by Ge(Li) and Si(Li) detectors, an explanation of pulse risetimes, slow pulses and their effect on the time resolution of various timing circuits for Ge(Li) detectors, the calculated and measured detection efficiency of Ge(Li) detectors, search of the appropriate standard sources for the efficiency determina-tion, a concept of figure of merit, results of a measurement of incident gamma-ray angular dependence of the detection efficiency, temperature dependence of the performance of Ge(Li) detectors, radiation damage study, the development of gamma-cameras for medical use, ultra-high resolution Si(Li) X-ray detectors, high-purity germanium detectors, and gamma-ray detectors made from compound-semiconductors such as GaAs, CdTe, Hglz, etc..
Internal stress in Ag, Au, Cu and Mo films prepared by low pressure plasma sputtering are measured during the deposition by a bending method, and the results are compared with those of evaporated films. At an early stage of film growth where the film is still discontinuous, tensile stress is gen-erated in the sputtered film in the same manner as in the evaporated film. At a later stage when the film becomes continuous, compressive stress is generated in the sputtered film while tensile stress remains in the evaporated film. The origin of the compressive stress is considered to be due to gas incorporation from the investigation of the correspondence between stress and structure in Mo and γ-Mo2N films prepared by reactive sputtering.
Changes in gate threshold voltage (VT), carrier mobility (μ), and low-frequency-noise characteristics have been investigated for n-channel MOSFET's, into whose channel region 11B+, 27Al+, 28Si+ and 31P+ ions were implanted through their gate oxide film. In case of Si implantation, a slight decrease in μ still remained after 15min. anneal at 950°C, while no significant change was observed in VT or in noise characteristics. Introduction of acceptor ions resulted in a substantial decrease in μ, and an increase in low-frequency noise level. The shift in VT was found to be proportional to implantation dose up to 1012 cm-2 in case of B+ and P+ implantation. It is possible to detect the effct of radiation damages from the changes in VT of MOS-FET's. From the annealing behavior of Si+ implanted MOSFET, the activation energy of annihilation of such radiation damages was obtained to be 0.35 eV.
Molecular orientation of a nematic liquid crystal, p-methoxybenzylidene p-n-butylaniline, injected into sandwich-type cells is determined by simultaneous measurements of dielectric constant, conductivity and optical transmission and partially by conoscopic observation. Various kinds of wall-surface materials are investigated by X-ray diffraction method and electron microscope, in connection with the molecular orientation of the liquid crystal. X-ray diffraction patterns showing the strongest line of (110), and (200) or (211) of SnO2 rutile structure, of which the latter two consist of Sn atom, correspond to the walls which orientate the long axes of the molecules parallel and normal to the walls, respectively. Molecular orientations to the Sn, Al and Au walls are similar to (200) or (211) planes of SnO2. Influence of temperature, impurities and aging on molecular alignment are also investigated.

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Ubisoft has announced a new mode, Bounty Hunter, coming to Watch Dogs 2 multiplayer.
The game mode occurs when the player kills too many civilians, and gets a contract on their head. Then, up to three players can invade the player’s world and take him or her down for rewards. However, if the player terminates all of the bounty hunters, he or she receives an even bigger reward.
Watch Dogs 2 also brings back the Hacking Invasion, where the player invades another player’s world and has to stealthily acquire data from their systems.
The big thing that Ubisoft is really wanting to push is that the multiplayer is seamless, no lobbies to wait in, and no loading screens. They repeatedly say the word in the trailer, which can be seen below.
Watch Dogs 2 looks awesome, and is set to release on November 15th, 2016 for PC, Playstation 4 and Xbox One.

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What is MilllionDay?
MillionDay is a daily lottery with a post-tax top prize of €1 million. Players pick five numbers between 1 and 55, with each line costing €1. Draws take place every night at 7pm CET, and there are four prize levels, beginning with a €2.17 award for matching two numbers. That prize is rounded down to €2 after tax.
Find out more information on how to play MillionDay at the dedicated lottery page.
The three €1 million MillionDay winners so far are:
A player from Caltagirone on Sicily, who bought their ticket for the draw on Friday 16th February at a shop run by Oriana Failla. They played the numbers 40, 41, 44, 46 and 48.
A ticket holder who played on Thursday 1st March at a bar called La Ruota in Fumone, about 45 miles southeast of Rome. The winning numbers for were 1, 20, 47, 48 and 52.
A player who picked up their entry in Fernando Agostino’s shop in Gioiosa Ionica, Calabria on Sunday 4th March. They chose 3, 9, 15, 34 and 55 to win the €1 million post-tax prize.
Play MillionDay Online
Lottery fans can now play MillionDay online for the first time, after internet sales went live on Wednesday 7th March. Previously it was only open to retail customers, allowing the online network to be developed and tested.
Whilst MillionDay celebrates its recent winners, SuperEnalotto continues to grow to mammoth proportions. Saturday 10th March’s draw is worth a colossal €111.5 million following another rollover on Thursday night.
It is currently the fifth largest SuperEnalotto jackpot of all time, and you can stop it in its tracks this weekend. You can buy SuperEnalotto tickets are retailers across Italy, or choose your numbers online now, wherever you live in the world. Good luck!

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I spied Ant Colony from about fifty feet away and knew that I had to at least give it a try. Regardless of what its pages contained, I knew there was something special about a book with such a bizarre cover. Bright colors meld with violently jagged edges over an inconspicuous ant hill, hinting at a darkness lurking beneath. I was not wrong.
Do you believe in ghosts? Violet Willoughby does not and she is the daughter of a medium, albeit a fraudulent one. In Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey, the year is 1872, London England and Violent is the daughter of a scheming, manipulative and opportunistic mother who wants her to “marry up” no matter what. They rig séances and swindle unsuspecting high society spiritualists. After many faked séances Violet remains a skeptic of ghosts until one fateful night she sees a transparent girl oozing water and lilies and who will not rest until her killer is brought to justice. Violet is the only one who sees the very persistent spirit and soon realizes that it is up to her to solve the mystery behind her death in order to have the spirit be at peace.


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Sports photography, a branch of the shooting sports scenes in which the picture is taken in this type of photography, equipment and tools are important because the subject is moving and photographers away from the scene, including powerful telephoto and zoom lenses, so to be. The camera should be able to use continuous shutter. The most important thing in sports photography of the subject according to the shutter speed sports Ast.svzhh often moving at high speed, so the photographer must have all the power and Mac impulsivity to take your photography to sports subject in a moment Freeze the time (except when the photographer is trying to follow a special meaning in the image, for example, the elimination of the horse in a riding competition, to convey the excitement and speed) in most sports photographers use cameras the ability to have several successive images of the moment when even the far left-eye image and the show itself.
During the training the techniques and principles Beginner Sports Photography to learn sports photography.
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– Lenses for sports photography
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If white parents want their kids to truly care about black lives, they should send them to school with black kids
Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen scores of articles about how parents, particularly white parents like me, should be talking to our kids about race. These pieces tell us what we should be saying, what we should be reading, to make our kids understand racism — particularly as African Americans experience it — and how they can fight it.
But one important piece of advice has been missing from these recommendations: If white parents really want to teach their kids that black lives matter, they should send them to school with black kids.
That’s not happening now. Although it’s been over 65 years since the Brown vs Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional, our schools are still deeply segregated by race, more so than they’ve been in decades.
There are many reasons for this, which could be the subject of a whole separate piece. I’ll just name a few: Changes in the law over time made it easier for schools to re-segregate in some parts of the country. In another landmark decision in 1974, the Supreme Court ruled that schools systems didn’t have to integrate across district lines. If white parents didn’t want to send their kids to an integrated school in their city, all they had to do was move to a white town and their kids could attend a white schools — and that’s exactly what many white parents did. Finally, court-ordered busing, which brought black kids to majority white schools and vice versa, was met with fierce opposition by many whites and ultimately ended about 20 years ago, when courts decided schools were “integrated enough.”
Underlying all these factors is an inescapable fact: when white parents are given the choice, they choose to send their kids to segregated schools. As the journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has persuasively argued, although liberal white parents say they oppose school segregation, they make choices that uphold it.
Until a few years ago, my husband and I had made the same choice for our family. When our son finished preschool, we chose to send him to the local private Montessori school rather than our neighborhood public school. There were a number of factors that drew us there, chief among them the fact that kids in the younger grades were given four recess periods, which we thought would suit our very active 5-year-old.
But I’d be lying if I didn’t admit I was also somewhat scared off of our neighborhood public school. I often heard people describe it as a “bad” school, or slightly less offensively, a “failing school.” When I first purchased my home, more than one person asked where I would send my (as yet unborn) kids to school, since, they assumed, I wouldn’t send them to the neighborhood school. Others have told me they considered buying a house in my neighborhood, but ultimately decided not to because of the failing public school.
It’s true that the school tends to perform poorly on state tests. This is not surprising; about 60% of the students at the school receive free or reduced lunch, and there is overwhelming evidence that test scores are highly correlated with family income. (This trend definitely holds up in my school district, where performance on the state-wide test in 2019 was highly correlated with the percentage of lower-income students.)
Knowing about this research, I decided to ignore my peers’ warnings and follow my conscience. Over the years, I had come to see the choice not to send my kids to the neighborhood school as hypocritical. How could I say I supported public education, but not send my kids to public school? If the neighborhood school was good enough for other people’s kids, why not mine? When our son entered fourth grade and our daughter first, we switched them to our neighborhood public school.
In addition to being predominantly lower-income, our school is more racially diverse than most other schools in town. About 10% of the student population is black, compared to 5% and 2% at the two closest schools (which, incidentally, also have much lower percentages of students on free or reduced lunch). This might not sound especially diverse, but bear in mind that we live in a predominantly white town in Indiana.
I’m sure many of my peers were mystified by my choice to switch my kids from the Montessori school, renowned for its wonderful curriculum and highly engaged families, to our neighborhood school. Why would I sacrifice my kids’ education like that?
Of course, no one has said that to my face, but it’s safe to assume that’s what many think. Many liberal white parents agree that segregation is a problem, but still choose schools that are predominantly white and affluent over more diverse schools, because they don’t want to, in their words, “sacrifice” their kids’ education.
I don’t see sending my kids to the neighborhood school as a sacrifice, and neither do they. For one thing, they like their school. They like their teachers, who are dynamic, engaged, and caring, and their classmates, many of whom they now count as friends. Because the school is just around the corner, they walk there on their own, which makes them feel very independent. Walks home from school frequently turn into spontaneous playdates with other neighborhood kids. (Of course, none of this is happening now because of the pandemic, but I hope some version of it starts up again soon.)
But my kids have gained a lot more than just a school they like — they have gained perspective. They are now friends with people who look different from them and come from different backgrounds. They have seen, first-hand, how privileged they are compared to some of their peers. (A few months ago, my son told me how on Friday afternoons, a bunch of his classmates go to the cafeteria to load up their backpacks with food, so they’ll have enough to eat over the weekend. “I’m really lucky I have enough to eat,” he told me.)
I hope this perspective makes my children more compassionate people. As Hannah-Jones wrote in a moving essay about deciding to send her daughter to a high poverty school, “I think it makes her a better human being. I think she gets to see that these kids aren’t any less than her. They just have less than her.” I know that understanding privilege is not an end in itself. But it is an important first step. As my kids get older, I hope they act on this understanding by lifting up those who don’t have the same advantages, through advocacy, community service, perhaps even their career choices.
I don’t mean to suggest our family hasn’t given anything up in the switch to our neighborhood school. I know my kids would love to go to the same school as their close friends from preschool. I also realize they might be more academically challenged at a school with more resources, where they would have more individualized attention from their teachers. And they also miss out on some of the perks of more affluent schools, like robotics club and chess club, activities I know they’d enjoy.
But I also realize how lucky our family is to have the resources to make up for those shortfalls. My husband and I have the time and energy to help our kids nurture friendships with people they don’t get to see at school. If we want them to be more academically challenged, we can hire a tutor, or buy them some workbooks, or sit down and teach them ourselves. If they have a hobby or passion they want to pursue, we have the time and resources to help them do that outside of school.
What does all this have to do with black lives? A lot. When white parents send their kids to schools where almost everyone else is white, it upholds a racist system. The Supreme Court outlawed segregation because it rejected the notion that schools could “separate but equal.” Segregated schools harm black lives.
I know a lot of white parents will see things differently. They will insist they are anti-racist. That’s why they took their kids to the protests in the last couple of weeks (or at least talked to them about it, if they wanted to avoid the crowds) and why they are talking to their kids about the ills of racism. And in theory, they’ll say, they’re for integrated schools. But when it comes to making choices for their own children, they’ll say, they’re just doing what any parent would do — trying to provide their child with the best.
I get it. I want the best for my kids, too. But it’s time we re-examine what we mean when we say that. Is the best school simply the one most bells and whistles, the fanciest playground, or even the one most likely to set our kids on the path to the Ivy League? To me, the best school is more than that. It’s the one that helps them become better people, better citizens — which is what public education is supposed to be about.
It’s great to take our kids to protests, to talk about racism, to read books by black writers and with black protagonists. But in the end, it’s our actions, the choices we make about how to live our day-to-day lives, that matter most.
When our kids hear black lives matter, it should make them think of people they know, kids they see and play with every day. It should be more than just a slogan.


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Triage Considerations for Patients Referred for Structural Heart Disease Intervention During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: An ACC /SCAI Consensus Statement.
Molly Szerlip M.D.
Shah, P. B., F. G. P. Welt, E. Mahmud, A. Phillips, N. S. Kleiman, M. N. Young, M. Sherwood, W. Batchelor, D. D. Wang, L. Davidson, J. Wyman, S. Kadavath, M. Szerlip, J. Hermiller, D. Fullerton and S. Anwaruddin (2020). “Triage Considerations for Patients Referred for Structural Heart Disease Intervention During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: An ACC /SCAI Consensus Statement.” Catheter Cardiovasc Interv Apr 6. [Epub ahead of print].
The COVID-19 pandemic has strained health care resources around the world causing many institutions to curtail or stop elective procedures. This has resulted in the inability to care for patients valvular and structural heart disease (SHD) in a timely fashion potentially placing these patients at increased risk for adverse cardiovascular complications including congestive heart failure and death. The effective triage of these patients has become challenging in the current environment as clinicians have had to weigh the risk of bringing susceptible patients into the hospital environment during the COVID-19 pandemic versus the risk of delaying a needed procedure. In this document, we suggest guidelines as to how to triage patients in need of SHD interventions and provide a framework of how to decide when it may be appropriate to proceed with intervention despite the ongoing pandemic. In particular, we address the triage of patients in need of trans-catheter aortic valve replacement and percutaneous mitral valve repair. We also address procedural issues and considerations for the function of structural heart disease teams during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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I recently received a message from an old friend who is living in Swansea, saying he’s putting together a book documenting the skate scene in the city, titled ‘Locals Only’. He invited myself and fellow photographer and friend, Scott Pattenden, to cover the photography side of things.
We decided to make the most of our trip and spent two days in Snowdonia (insert link to other article) before heading south.
We arrived early Saturday morning, and with skaters having a super relaxed attitude to live up to only 3 of the 10 confirmed locals turned up. Neither the absences nor the freezing cold held us back though and we headed to out to shoot.
We were shown around a few of the local spots by the guys, these included car park roofs, various ledges and banks around the city and a couple of derelict spaces littered with used needles (watch VICE’S ‘Teenage Heroin Epedemic’ to get the idea).
Check out the shots below to get a feel of our day and keep your eyes peeled for when the book lands.
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One day I found the need to replace the HDMI extender that I had been using with a new one. I decided that I would look to do this with a TCP/IP Capable unit as this would allow the use of the CAT6 Cable for other IP based use.
So off to Jaycar (local Australian electronics shop) to pickup the following unit https://www.jaycar.com.au/100m-hdmi-tcp-ip-1080p-extender-with-infrared/p/AC1734
The units all plugged in well and sent HDMI signal as expected but when I went to find them on the network I couldn’t find them…..off to do some google research.
Turns out that these units are not on the same network as my local network and do not use DHCP for configuration. I stumbled upon a different physical unit manual ( https://www.innochain.com.tw/images/SX-EP22-28-E6-89-93-E5-8D-B0-29-email.pdf ) that mentioned that
- TX was found on 192.168.168.55
- RX was found on 192.168.168.56
I quickly added a secondary IP address to my local PC (192.168.168.5). Success! I was then able to hit web pages on both the TX and the RX.
192.168.168.55 – TX Unit
192.168.168.56 – RX Unit
Not much difference here except that there is no EDID Setting option
Opening Up the Units
OK so this will void your WARRANTY
Opening the units it is clear that
- At point 1 can add a serial port
- At point 2 a 4 switch DIP module can be added to set the GROUP ID
This is a major upgrade of the unit and will let you run multiple TX/RX groups on the same network. I got this information from the SX-EP22 Manual
How to use DIP switch:
1).Use 4-bit DIP switch to select 16 group ID (such as 0001, 0010, 0101 etc.)
2).Change group ID easily to select the sources.
3).For example, when the connection is :
Source( DVD1) – TX (TX1) – Gigabit Switch – RX(RX1)- TV1
Source (DVD2) – TX (TX2) – Gigabit Switch – RX(RX2)- TV2
Source (DVD3) – TX (TX3) – Gigabit Switch – RX(RX3)- TV3
The group ID of transmitters is :
If you need display Source2 on TV1, then just set Group ID of RX1 same as TX2: 0101
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How do you make cold packs?
- Step 1: Place ice cubes in a plastic bag. …
- Step 2: Run a washcloth under cold water and then wrap it around the plastic bag of ice. …
- Step 3: Place the homemade compress on your skin for up to 20 minutes.
- Step 4: Dry the area with a towel after you’re done. …
- Reapply: For swelling reapply the compress after two hours.
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What is meant by exothermic and endothermic reaction?
An exothermic process is one that gives off heat. … An endothermic process is one in which heat has to be supplied to the system from the surroundings. A thermoneutral process is one that neither requires heat from the surroundings nor gives off energy to the surroundings.
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What is a reaction that gets colder?
An endothermic reaction is the opposite. This is when a reaction starts colder and ends up hotter taking in energy from start to finish. In an endothermic reaction the system gains heat as the surroundings cool down. In an exothermic reaction the system loses heat as the surroundings heat up.
What happens to the different substances when they are heated or cooled?
When a substance is heated it gains thermal energy. Therefore its particles move faster and its temperature rises. When a substance is cooled it loses thermal energy which causes its particles to move more slowly and its temperature to drop.
What term is used when heat is absorbed by a reaction thus leaving the surroundings colder?
Potential energy is stored in the bonds of the molecules in the reaction. Kinetic energy is the heat that is either released or absorbed in the reaction. … Positive ∆H indicates an endothermic reaction which absorbs heat from the surroundings. This leaves less energy for the surrounding thus the beaker will feel cold.
How do hot and cold packs work?
Many instant hot and cold packs function by dissolving a salt into water. As the salt disassociates heat is either released in an exothermic reaction or absorbed in an endothermic reaction.
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Which reactions are exothermic?
Other examples of exothermic processes include:
- The thermite reaction.
- A neutralization reaction (e.g. mixing an acid and a base to form a salt and water)
- Most polymerization reactions.
- Combustion of a fuel.
- Nuclear fission.
- Corrosion of metal (an oxidation reaction)
- Dissolving an acid in water.
Do exothermic reactions decrease in temperature?
When energy is released in an exothermic reaction the temperature of the reaction mixture increases. When energy is absorbed in an endothermic reaction the temperature decreases. You can monitor changes in temperature by placing a thermometer in the reaction mixture. See also What Are The Steps To The Water Cycle?
What do cold packs do?
Cold packs are very effective at reducing swelling and numbing pain. An injury swells because fluid leaks from blood vessels cold causes vessels to constrict reducing their tendency to ooze. The less fluid that leaks from blood vessels the less swelling results.
Which of the following is transferred due to a temperature difference?
HeatHeat is energy transferred solely due to a temperature difference.
How is a cold pack an endothermic reaction?
Are these reactions endothermic or exothermic? Cold packs are endothermic because they take heat from their surroundings.
What happens to the temperature during an endothermic reaction quizlet?
A chemical reaction releases heat energy into the surroundings the temperature of the system gets warm. Heat flows out of the system. What happens in energy endothermic reactions? … the temperature decreases.
When a cold pack is activated a chemical reaction occurs and the temperature of the pack contents drops sharply what is occurring in this reaction?
The reaction is endothermic H° > 0. When a cold-pack is activated a chemical reaction occurs and the temperature of the pack contents drops sharply. Which of the following is a correct description of the reaction occurring in the pack? The reaction is exothermic H° > 0.
When a reaction occurs in a flask you notice that the flask gets warmer is the reaction exothermic or endothermic?
An exothermic reaction involves the release of heat from the system or reaction into the surroundings. This heat release is often observed as warming…
What’s the temperature of dry ice?
Dry ice is made by liquefying carbon dioxide and injecting it into a holding tank where it’s frozen at a temperature of -109° F and compressed into solid ice. Depending on whether it’s created in a pelletizer or a block press dry ice can then be made into pellets or large blocks.
What chemical reaction is occurring in the flask?
Endothermic reaction in a flask feels cool because endothermic reactions use up energy(heat) from the surrounding. Therefore the surroundings loses heat and cools down.
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Why do endothermic reactions absorb heat?
In endothermic reactions the bond energies of the reactants are greater than the bond energies of the products. As a result more energy is needed to break the bonds in the reactants than is released during the formation of the products. The difference in energy is usually absorbed from the surroundings as heat.
Is temperature endothermic or exothermic?
Endothermic reactions result in an overall positive heat of reaction (qrxn>0).
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|Exothermic Reactions||Endothermic Reactions|
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Which one is an endothermic reaction?
Endothermic reactions are chemical reactions in which the reactants absorb heat energy from the surroundings to form products. … Physical processes can be endothermic as well – Ice cubes absorb heat energy from their surroundings and melt to form liquid water (no chemical bonds are broken or formed).
How cold is an ice pack?
Depending on the method you choose to cool your gel pack (freezer refrigerator or submerged in ice) it can get as cold as 17˚ F. It is important to always use a protective barrier between the gel pack and your skin as to avoid any tissue damage.
When A Reaction Occurs In A Flask You Notice That The Flask Gets Colder. What Is The Sign Of Î´h??
When a reaction occurs in a flask you notice that the flask gets colder. What is the sign of ΔH? ΔH is positive. The fact that the flask gets cold means that the system is absorbing heat.
Why are some reactions cooled?
For example some reactions are too vigorous and must be cooled to prevent spilling and pressure build up.
Is endothermic hot or cold?
An exothermic process releases heat causing the temperature of the immediate surroundings to rise. An endothermic process absorbs heat and cools the surroundings.”
Which answer defines exothermic reaction?
An exothermic reaction has reactants that are lower in energy than products because energy is released to form the products. An exothermic reaction has reactants that are higher in energy than products because energy is absorbed to form the products.
What is in a cold pack?
An instant cold pack is a device that consists of two bags one containing water inside a bag containing ammonium nitrate calcium ammonium nitrate or urea. When the inner bag of water is broken by squeezing the package it dissolves the solid in an endothermic process.
What is the lowest temperature at which a fuel air mixture will ignite spontaneously called?
Flash Point6 Flash Point. The flash point of a liquid is defined as the lowest temperature at which a substance generates a sufficient amount of vapor to form a (vapor/air) mixture that can be ignited (piloted ignition).
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What is an endothermic reaction example?
Endothermic Processes Melting ice cubes. Melting solid salts. Evaporating liquid water. Converting frost to water vapor (melting boiling and evaporation in general are endothermic processes.
Which of the following reaction is exothermic reaction?
The burning of coal is a combustion reaction in which heat is released. Therefore it is an exothermic reaction . Decomposition of vegetable matter also leads to the production of heat so it is an exothermic reaction . Respiration is the breakdown of food to release energy.
What is a endothermic reaction quizlet?
Endothermic reaction. A reaction in which energy is ABSORBED by matter. Energy flows into the system from the surroundings generally in the form of heat (heat is not being released it’s being absorbed) (getting colder) You just studied 10 terms!
What kind of reaction is a cold pack?
An instant cold pack is the perfect example of an endothermic reaction. There are many possible ingredients in an instant cold pack but they often contain solid ammonium nitrate and water.Jun 1 2020See also what are the four characteristics of a mineral
Which reaction is exothermic quizlet?
All combustion reactions are exothermic.
What type of reaction occurs in a hand warmer?
Disposable hand warmers turn up the heat in your mittens by means of an exothermic reaction that in essence just creates rust. Each pouch typically contains iron powder salt water an absorbent material and activated carbon.Jan 25 2010
Which of the following reaction do you think will result in absorption of heat?
A reaction in which heat is absorbed is called an endothermic reaction.
Why do cold packs get cold?
One bag contains water while the other holds a chemical like calcium ammonium nitrate. When you shake or hit the pack the internal bags break causing the two substances to mix. This leads to an endothermic reaction which causes the pack to turn cold for several minutes.


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Experiments in Decolonizing the University. Towards an Ecology of Study
CHEF Talk (webinar) – free and open to all
Info about event
Speaker: Dr Hans Schildermans, Researcher, University of Vienna, Austria
Chair: Dr Søren S.E. Bengtsen, Co-Director of CHEF, Aarhus University, Denmark
Time: February 9th, 2021, at 15.00-16.00 Central European Time (CET)
Place: A Zoom-link will be shared with the participants closer to the event
The aim of this talk is to reconsider the relation between university and society from the point of view of the practices of study that inhabit the university. Drawing on the work of Isabelle Stengers, Donna Haraway, Alfred North Whitehead, and John Dewey, and taking inspiration from the Palestinian decolonial, experimental university ‘Campus in Camps’, I develop the concept of an ecology of study to approach the relation between university and society from a new angle. The ecology of study omits the pleas for more freedom and autonomy on the one hand, and the attempts to instrumentalize the university for societal needs on the other hand. Instead, I argue that experimenting with study practices that always inhabit the university opens up sites of resistance against current neoliberal and capitalist reforms of the university, and places to envisage different futures for the university as an ecology of study that is always already there, always to be reclaimed.


Ricky Morris was a few steps from extending his 2009 season by another 5,000 meters.
Shalane Jackson lassoed 20 rebounds to go with 14 points, but she was on the bench with five foul as East Union High's girls basketball team went into overtime against visiting Grace Davis of Modesto Tuesday.
RIPON - East Union opened the game on a 16-3 run, and the Lancers needed every inch of their head start to hold off a ferocious Ripon High comeback in a 55-51 win Tuesday.
TRACY - The youth and inexperience of rebuilding Linden and fledgling Lathrop were painfully evident in their Tracy Winter Holiday Classic consolation-bracket clash at West High Tuesday.
Ripon High's girls basketball team did not have its prettiest performance of the season, but its effort was good for another victory as Ripon handled Encina High with ease 45-22 Tuesday in a semifinal matchup of the Cosumnes Oaks Classic Elk Grove.
For Stephanie Vanni, winning every match seemed like a prerequisite for her varsity tennis career.
Sierra High's girls basketball team had a chance to get even with Ripon Monday but lost 46-34 in the first round of the Cosumnes Oaks Classic in Elk Grove.
Midway through Monday's non-league contest against visiting Lincoln, the East Union High boys basketball squad went to a zone defense.
TRACY - File this one under the "and it wasn't that close" category.
A final product of greatness is something that cannot be displayed overnight.
The two clubs participating in the inaugural Hoops for the Cure Classic lived up to their end of the bargain, and a blowout birthday effort from East Union's Briona Fontenot proved to be the difference in the Lancers' 61-56 win over Ripon High Saturday at the Dalben Center.
It might have taken the Sierra Timberwolves a little time to make sure everything was firing on all cylinders Saturday night in their non-league contest against the Beyer.
Despite holding an 8-point lead heading into the fourth quarter the Ripon Indians simply couldn't hold off a late charge by the Bret Harte Bullfrogs in the championship round of the 2010 Ripon Winter Classic.
Troy Hoffdahl followed teammate Robert Vaughn's lead, sinking a pair of free throws with 3.3 seconds remaining to help lift East Union over the Enochs Eagles 63-61 Friday at the Dalben Center.
RIPON - The Indians will have to play a better game in tonight's final of the inaugural Ripon Winter Classic.
Jacob Corn doesn't shy away from discussing the few missteps in his otherwise spectacular senior season for Manteca High's baseball team.
Allie Walljasper lifted Sierra's softball team to unprecedented heights the past four years with her powerful right arm.
For three months, Scott Tolman chased a time taped to the ceiling above his bed.
RIPON – Even out of season, Hannah Sweet keeps a constant presence at the Ervin Zador Aquatic Center.
Yok Jing Ma had a checklist of goals at the start of the tennis season.
Kyle Colyn came up a few strokes short of becoming the first golfer in Ripon Christian history to qualify for the CIF Northern California Regional Championship Tournament.
RIPON – Malik Taylor had the big bat for Ripon while teammate Damian Sandoval had a dominating performance on the hill to lead Ripon to an 11-1 win over Lodi in the championship game of the Cal Ripken Central California District 1 10u Tournament at Veteran's Park in Ripon.


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STC invites community to Summer Bash
Fall registration kick-off
South Texas College will host a three-day event at its three main campuses Pecan, Mid-Valley, and Starr County that seeks to enable students and parents to learn more about STC programs. More than 45 programs will participate in the event, and faculty will be available to discuss program options, career choices, and course requirements.
South Texas College is inviting current, prospective, dual credit students, parents, and the community to its three-day summer bash program fair.
The three-day event will be hosted across three campus locations which includes Starr County, Mid-Valley, and Pecan Campus.
The summer bash program fair is a way for students, parents and the community to learn about STC Programs. The event currently has over 45 programs participating at all campuses that vary from applied technology, science and art; that could earn students an associate or bachelor degree. Faculty will be available to discuss program options, career choices, and course requirements.
The summer bash program fair will allow students to independently tour the campus and meet STC’s faculty before the fall semester begins Aug. 23.
Additionally, student services have extended its hours during the event to end at 7 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and throughout the month of August from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Saturdays. Students will have the opportunity to speak with an advisor, receive assistance with completing the financial aid packet, and/or registering for fall courses.
If you are a student seeking to register at STC, visit https://www.southtexascollege.edu/getting-started/.
For more information about the summer bash program fair, visit https://www.southtexascollege.edu/info/summer-bash/index.html .
The following campuses and dates will take place starting Aug. 5 –7 across Starr County, Mid-Valley and Pecan Campus.
Thursday, August 5
Starr County Campus 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Friday, August 6
Mid-Valley Campus 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
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(FixThisNation.com) – A new Bankrate survey has found that 75 percent of adults are relying on their tax refund to make it through the year. This is at a time when the IRS has warned taxpayers that the refunds might be lower than the ones received last year.
According to the survey, of that 75 percent, 43 percent said that the tax refund was “very important” to their overall financial situation, while 32 percent said that it was “somewhat important.” This is a large increase when considering that a similar post in 22 showed that 67 percent were reliant on their tax refund.
However, this year the tax refund may leave a lot of people hoping for more, as this is the first year when there are no pandemic-related stimulus payments or other tax credits that people may have benefited from in the previous year. In 2021, the IRS gave out the third round of stimulus payments, which amounted to $1,400 per person. This could be claimed by all eligible Americans.
As of Feb. 17, the IRS has issued around 28 million refunds, which is 26 percent more than last year. However, the average refund amount is $3,140 marking an 11 percent decrease from last year.
Ted Rossman, Bankrate senior industry analyst, said that it would be “reasonable” for the tax refund to be smaller this year because all the pandemic-related tax breaks had expired.
The refund is typically given when taxpayers have had too much of their income withheld or they have otherwise overpaid when doing their taxes.
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I’d like to quickly share with you another of my kawaii Little One painting! This one was at our evening classes last Tuesday, when we learned to create our own home-made paints, including tempera, acrylic, watercolor, plamat (chalk and water) and oil. More about that is in my blog Let’s Make Some Paint! And below is a little chart I made with the samples. Whilst making the paints, we also thought it would be an idea to make a painting incorporating these samples. This way, we could then experiment and experience. Another advantage is that the paints can be efficiently used up rather than being thrown away which would be a waste.
So what did I paint? Something cute of course! Little One was first to come to mind. We worked rather quickly throughout and with our hands all messy, I was not able to take photos for each step as I would normally do. Nevertheless, I worked in the sequence as per the above chart. Can you guess which paint I corresponds to what? Most obvious is the green plamat for the face and yellow for the outfit. Red tempera was used for initial outline. Then the hair was a mixture of all. We also shared with each other the paints we had created ourselves so even more variety!
What fun that was! I didn’t think at the beginning the green face and multi-coloured hair would work but sure enough, it looks really cool! In the end, I made her eyelashes green too. Now that’s what I call being creative! One thing I learned apart from how paints are made is also never to be afraid to think outside the box. Much of my paintings are indeed mixed media, even when painting Little One. However, I wanted to make this one special. Something to remember this session by, i.e., creating from scratch different kinds of paints and painting something cute with them. And here I have it, my Mixed Media Girl!


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Kalk Bay is far from the busyness of Cape Town, however features a unique hype of its own. This draws in less visitors compared to the V&A Waterfront, yet still manages to become a center of exciting activity for everyone. Kalk Bay’s layout is easy enough. The majority of the town’s restaurants, pubs, shops and hotspots can be found across the main street. You can find parking areas on the whole length of said street, however you’ll often need to park a bit far from where you’re going, and go walking across the lovely shoreline, that’s truly part of the amazing experience. Whether the sun is shining, or the clouds are gathering, below are some of the best things to do and see in Kalk Bay.
Go to the Bootleggers and Olympia Bakery
Bootleggers in Kalk Bay supplies the most incredible coffee, regardless if you are a flat-white or a triple-espresso type of person. The freshly constructed Majestic Village is the residence of this café which is all clean lines and spotless blinds.
You can’t also visit Kalk Bay without having to visit Olympia Bakery. This temple for the addicts of baked products and bake almond croissants which will persuade even the most devoted of banters to go to the carb-side. Connected to the bakery is Olympia Café, for people who like to sit back and revel in a relaxing meal.
Browse Books at Kalk Bay Books
Kalk Bay Books is really a throwback to a faraway period of bookshops, in which personnel are passionate and well-informed and comfortable seating that invites customers to take a seat and look through books just before purchasing. There’s a personalized touch to the design and suggestions there which will make even casual readers falling deeply in love with local books. Near the bookshop is what appears like a church but rather is among the suburb’s most lively tourist attractions – the Kalk Bay Theatre.
Have a Dip on the Tidal Pool
Kalk Bay hosts one of the many Cape’s most well-known tidal pools, that are ideal for a cool swim and a few local people-viewing. It’s a lovely, safe tidal pool great for cooling down and sharing discussions along with the locals; a number of them are there at sunrise to worship the sun!
Dine Out in Kalk Bay Institutions
There are many Kalk Bay dining institutions which are really worth going to. A lot of Capetonians do the drive to the place only to eat out on the well-known Harbour House or Live Bait restaurants, that are situated on the rocks and frequently battered by the waves. Even though now it’s a section of the bigger restaurant group, they still provide a great dining experience.
Amble Across the Village Shops
Kalk Bay also has turned into a remarkably well-known destination for patrons in the past few years, thanks mainly to the prevalence of antique shops filling up the main road and camouflaging around the unusual corner. Kalk Bay is old, new, charming and always flourishing with individuals coming from around the globe and local people whose stories make you blessed and satisfied with your itinerary.
Watch a Live Band in the Brass Bell
The most well-known bar and pub in the region is the Brass Bell. It’s well known due to its live music, its idyllic spot directly on the ocean and also the low-key, almost-anything-goes ambiance. You can find tidal pool if you need a quick swimming, and great food for the younger crowd downstairs in which live bands beat their drums in hypnotic trance rhythms. To get a quieter environment, you could go upstairs.
Have a Walk on the Kalk Bay Mountains
A lot of people forget the mountains of Kalk Bay for the sparkling ocean, however there’s a lot to discover on the rugged cliffs close by. Boomslang is the longest cave, and you could crawl all the way through the other part of the mountain. The caves on the place are well known, and also the fynbos is endemic on the mountain range. The views coming from the top of the mountain are enough to make tourists coming back over and over again.

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San Francisco based saxophonist Eric Barreto has a performance career that has taken him to music festivals, universities, and concert halls around the country. As a former member of the Mana Quartet, some of Eric’s performance engagements include the Downtown Chamber Series (Phoenix, AZ), the Spectrum Series (NYC), Ethos Chamber Music Society (Fredonia, NY), the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival (Vail, CO), and Festival of New American Music (Sacramento, CA). He’s also been a co-soloist with the Hot Springs Music Festival Orchestra and the National Music Festival Orchestra, and worked with the Jacksonville Symphony, Tallahassee Symphony, and the Florida State University Symphony Orchestra, and featured numerous times on NPR’s Performance Today.
As an educator, Eric has worked with students from all over the world. Some of his most notable residencies include Northern Arizona University, Florida State University, SUNY Fredonia, and Sacramento State University. He’s also a co-founder of the Mana Saxophone Institute, a saxophone intensive for students around the world that focuses on chamber music performance, saxophone pedagogy, and overall health and wellness for musicians. Eric holds a B.M in Music Performance and an M.A. in Arts Administration from Florida State University.


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I was having internet/body issues the last few days so I didn't upload anything, but I still took some pictures! I'm feeling better now and so is my internet so I thought I'd put up the photos I did take.
Friday 15 October 2010
This is the copy of the book that Simon Pegg signed for me! I'm happy he didn't spelled my name wrong because for Haley and Lindy's copy he wrote "Linda & Hayly"
Saturday 16 October 2010
This is the very first real life Jenny Saville painting I've ever seen. It was at the Freize Art Fair in Regent's Park.
The sky was also remarkably blue that day. Every time I see the sun and blue sky here I am just blown away. I have a feeling it's not something I'll be seeing a lot of this winter.
Sunday 17 October 2010
After church I went for a walk in Hyde Park. I really liked this giant raven perched on the fountain of Diana.
18 Monday 2010
I spent most of the day in futile search for shoes, internet, and offices, so here is a picture of me on the go, looking for things I can't find.
Tuesday 19 October 2010
Yesterday I got caught in the rain and it was kind of a mess so I never pulled out my camera until I got home. I decided to take a panoramic view of my room.


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In PLOS this week: Venezuelan equine encephalitis evolution and spread, Plasmodium vivax genetic diversity, and more.
In PLOS this week: transcriptomic and developmental patterns of filamentous fungi development, cutaneous leishmaniasis diagnosis method, and more.
Examining more than half of its genome, researchers found the parasite's success is due to stripping its genome down to essential genes.
In Science this week: malaria resistance variants, and more.
Copy number alterations in red blood cell invasion receptor-related genes that are more common in some African populations appear to protect against severe malaria.
In Genome Biology this week: Mycobacterium tuberculosis population dynamics, mapping precision in GWAS, and more.
In PLOS this week: blood pressure and hypertension loci in people of African ancestry, Plasmodium vivax population genomics, and more.
In PNAS this week: genetic feature of ALL relapse in Down syndrome patients, Plasmodium falciparum parasite strain structure, and more.
The studies provide further support for Meridian's Illumigene Malaria as a tool for routine screening of travelers in non-endemic areas of the world.
While gene therapies may have high price tags, they could be cheaper than the cost of managing disease, according to MIT's Technology Review.
Researchers are looking for markers that indicate which cancer patients may respond to immunotherapies, the Associated Press writes.
In Nature this week: paternal age associated with de novo mutations in children, and more.
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This blog started as a catalog of my food obsession. Well, my food obsession hasn't shrunk but I sure have: 55 pounds off and still going strong! Now I'm trying to make the plunge into primal/paleo eating. Expect lots of photos of the food I make.
I really love lamb. I was grocery shopping today and got four French lamb chops (rib chops) for about 5 bucks because the sell by date is tomorrow. I brought them home and pan seared them (yay cast iron pan) with salt and pepper. I ate one and it was squisito, and I saved the rest for lunches for next week.


Neo Logism, secretary for new words, announces the candidacy of two verbs and one adjective. The nominations will be put before the membership for a vote.
Today the secretary reminds members that although the candidates may be familiar to sophisticated folks, they are new to him, which is all that matters.
The candidates, in alphabetical order, are:
To hirple. This remarkable verb appeared in The Daily Scotsman on June 19 in a report by correspondent Mike Aitken. He was covering the U.S. Open golf tournament at Torrey Pines. He wrote: “If there was a price to be paid for hirpling to glory on a wounded knee, Tiger Woods discovered the full cost,” etc. The verb is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as “to walk or move with a gait between walking and crawling; to walk lamely, hobble.”
To puppet. The verb popped up twice last month in columns by bridge master Philip Alder in The New York Times. He wrote, e.g., “North's three-club rebid forced South to puppet with three diamonds.”
Skeevy. The adjective appeared in The Washington Post last month in a column by Mary Karr about contemporary poets. By way of background she recalled a time when John Keats “lay gasping for breath in a skeevy room in Rome.” The OED defines “skeevy” as “unpleasant, squalid, distasteful.” The word is dated in English from the late 20th century; it is rooted in Italian dialect for “nausea, disgust.” Does “skeevy” fill a need?
Readers are invited to submit further nominations of new words or new uses of old words. Our blessed English language is in constant flux. It picks up new words like a dog picks up fleas, or in a more elegant image, like a garden of wildflowers picks up windblown seeds. Onward!
A praiseworthy simile
Anther function of the neologist is to voice an occasional word of praise for the fresh simile that crops up suddenly in an unexpected place. David Carr, writing in The New York Times about Tim Russert of “Meet the Press,” wrote a lovely line: “Russert had a face that seemed to be carved out of potatoes.” Do you remember Russert's face? Do you remember potatoes? Perfect.
A take-me-back question comes from “Don” in Charleston, S.C. He asks, “Once and for all, is it a cement truck, or a concrete truck?” Memories, memories! This was a favorite crotchet of my first city editor 66 years ago. I can hear him crying, “Concrete! Concrete! Cement is the powdery stuff that goes into concrete!” Some things one never forgets.
Spades is? Spades are?
A question of first impression comes from Doris K. Roane of Asheville, N.C. At her games of bridge a question repeatedly arises: “Is it ‘spades is trump' (singular) or ‘spades are trumps' (plural)? I say spades IS. Please advise so we can all be correct.”
It pains me to disagree with a bridge-playing reader in the home of the Grove Park Inn and the Asheville Citizen-Times, but ma'am, if the contract is four spades, spades ARE trumps. I should know. I've gone down at four spades a thousand times.
An inquiry of similar gravity comes from Scott Baumann in Bellevue, Wash. He encloses a clipping from The Seattle Times last month: The Wing Luke Museum was throwing a two-day party to mark “a historic opening.” Shouldn't it be AN historic opening?
Yielding (alas) to authority
Hooray for elisions and Reader Baumann! If I were stylemaster for the English-speaking world, you bet it would be AN history of England, AN hotel in Sussex, AN historical opening in Seattle and AN heroic campaign in Gettysburg.
Regrettably, the Stylebook of The Associated Press outranks your unreconstructed servant. To such a level has authority descended! I can say no more.


BOYNTON BEACH -- City officials, already $2 million over the original estimate to renovate and expand the municipal complex, will have to find another $1.5 million if they want to do the job as proposed.
Bids for the second phase of the construction, opened on Tuesday, were about 18 percent more than the $7.1 million available for the project.
Phase 2 construction will include renovating and expanding City Hall, the library, the police and fire stations and public works building. Work is expected to begin on Aug. 1.
Two firms bid on the entire project, while three others bid on parts of the work.
Acting City Manager George Hunt said he had hoped for a greater response.
"There lies the root of our problem," he said. "The interest in bidding is significantly lower than we thought. We hoped for at least 12 companies bidding, and six or seven bidding for the entire project."
The difference between the two bids for the entire project is $21.
The three bids to work only on City Hall range from a low of $5.2 million to a high of $5.4 million. The three companies vying to make improvements to the library bid between $1.5 and $1.6 million, and four companies interested in working on the public works building bid between $1.7 and $1.9 million.
"We will try to do some cost paring," Hunt said. "We have to proceed and we have to do some changes to the program. We will take a look at the bids, see how we can revise them and make recommendations to the commission by July 7."
Hunt said city staff likely will recommend that commissioners combine a number of solutions, possibly including spending more money on the City Hall renovation program if enough money can be found.
Gundars Pakalns, vice president of the architectural firm Miller, Meier, Kenyon and Cooper, said the bids on Tuesday were slightly higher than he expected.
"It all depends on the bid climate, on how much work is available and how much work the companies are doing," he said. "When you have few bids, generally they are on the higher side. Obviously the project will be built. It's just a question of how."
In 1985, voters approved a $6.3 million bond issue to pay for the expansion of City Hall. A year later, city commissioners voted to add $2 million to the project fund by deferring a planned city park expansion and using anticipated interest income from city-issued general obligations bonds and revenue from the utility tax service.
At that time, representatives of Miller, Meier, Kenyon and Cooper said their original estimate of $6.3 million would not pay for buildings large enough for the city's long-term growth and space needs. The new $1.4 million dispatch center has been completed.
The project, which will more than double the complex's space, to 154,663 square feet, is projected to meet the city's needs for the next decade.


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GP -- Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) went on with Varney and Co. to discuss the Trump agenda following Steve Bannon’s absence in the White House.
Gohmert told the FBN audience that Speaker Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are “slow-walking” President Trump’s agenda that they don’t like.
"Rep. Gohmert: If you look back before the election Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell were totally opposed to the things that got Donald Trump elected. And I told the president back in June, you are being slow-walked. We are being slow-walked. This is exactly what happened in 2005. Dennis Hastert and Bill Frisk, you know they were kind of OK with reforming Social Security but they really didn’t want the heavy lift. They slow-walked everything… I’m telling you that is exactly the way some of our leadership is thinking again. We’re going to eke by."
Blog Author's Comments: During the past few months their inaction makes me wonder what the - resistance is they are really planning when they are back in session - instead of doing their jobs. Lets remember, the same Republicans in the House making excuses, are the same ones who just voted Ryan to be the Speaker again, there was only one defection. And the GOP lawmakers put a repeal of the Obamacare bill on Obama's desk in 2015 because they knew he wouldn’t sign it. They did not put a repeal bill on Trump's desk because they knew he would sign it.
McConnell could not make himself twist one more arm of either Mikulski or Collins and perhaps ask his fellow Senators to help convince them to do the right thing for the party and the president. There is no talking to McCain because of his hatred for Trump. Quite strange how short the memories of some voters are in many states, not to remember how the people they continue to reelect have previously voted in either the House or Senate. Case in point, Arizona with McCain.
Rep. Gohmert is confirming the reality, when Congress is back in session that nothing will be done, except more excuses or broken promises. Unless it is something President Trump can do on his own it won’t be completed. Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell do not like Trump's agenda, yet his voters do. They also do not believe Trump belongs in the White House and their leader. McConnell has admitted that he was surprised that Trump won and Ryan held out with his so-called fake support for the president until after he was elected.
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