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How Can I Avoid Dental Implants?
There are a variety of other options for tooth restoration that are cheaper and don’t require implants. These methods may be able of restoring some lost tooth volume, but they are only temporary. They can cause more harm than good. This can include damage to the enamel as well as gum disease, which can result in dental decay and loose teeth. Fortunately, proper regenerative care can help to restore gum health and prevent the need for dental implants.
It is important to avoid beverages and foods that are high in sugar when it is about dental implant treatment. They can cause damage to the implants as well as your natural teeth. In addition, you should avoid certain types of sauces like those used on steak. Instead, drink water to keep your mouth hydrated and clean.
Candies and sweets with sugar may stick to the surface of the implant, causing it to fail and leading to infection. It is important to avoid sweet foods and hard foods following dental implant surgery. They can cause mouth irritation, which can lead to an uncomfortable situation.
If you’re wondering about the foods that you should avoid after dental implants, speak to your dentist. They will be able to provide more information. You can also request an appointment for a no-cost consultation. By calling your Cumberland dentist you can inquire about post-implant care. Your dentist might also offer suggestions to prevent infections that could result from dental implants.
It is essential to avoid eating hard, sticky or acidic food items following dental implant surgery. These foods can affect the healing process of the implant. The healing process of the soft tissue surrounding the implant can be affected by acidic and hot foods. Additionally, you should avoid drinking soda and other beverages that are sugary while recovering from dental surgery. These foods could cause more complications as they are sugar-based.
It’s okay to indulge in soft, chewy snacks It’s just not advisable to eat excessive amounts of sugar. These include muffins, cakes as well as pies. They can cause damage to your dental implant even though they appear to be harmless at first. Regularly brushing your teeth is a good way to avoid this.
Although dental implants are efficient in the restoration of dental function, smoking can negatively affect the performance of dental implants. Smoking and dental implants can cause increased risk and failure. Dental Associates of New England can help you understand the risks and complications associated with dental implants treatment. This guide explains why patients undergoing dental implants should not smoke.
If you’re thinking of having dental implants, it is best to stop smoking as soon and as fast as you can. Smoking limits blood flow and increases the risk of complications. For this reason, you should stop smoking one week before the procedure and for at least two months afterward. This will allow your body to heal more quickly and enable the first stages of the process of osseointegration.
Implants are less secure because of a weaker immune system. Smoking can also harm the oral tissues including gums, teeth and teeth. This can cause cavities and stains on your teeth. It can also lead to gum disease, and increase the risk of implant failure.
Smokers also have a higher risk of developing peri-implantitis. This occurs when bacteria collect around the implant’s base. It causes irritation to the gums and bone surrounding the implant which weakens osseointegration. As a result, their dental implants could fail as a result of bone loss around them.
If you’re thinking of getting dental implants, it’s important to quit smoking as soon as you can. It’s not always possible for everyone to quit smoking, however it is possible to reduce the number of cigarettes you smoke. Quitting smoking can greatly improve the efficiency of dental implants as well as boost your overall health.
High-intensity physical activity
While dental implants have a success rate of ninety-five percent, they also carry some dangers. Dental implant failure is an example of these dangers. A dentist can assist patients to reduce these risks by offering specific guidelines prior to dental implant surgery. For instance, patients should avoid strenuous exercise for at least 48 hours following surgery and avoid swishing vigorously. Also, they should make sure to rest more and avoid lifting heavy weights for at the very least a week.
Although it can be tempting to start exercising when you first wake up following the procedure, high-intensity exercise can increase blood flow, which could lead to an increase in the rate of healing. Patients should consult with their dentist to determine when they’re permitted to exercise or engage in other high-intensity activities. Every patient’s healing journey is different. Some patients may be able to exercise within a matter days, while others may have to wait several weeks or months. Patients should be attentive to their body’s signals for warning and avoid exercise until they are cleared by their dentist.
Although physical and aerobic exercise are vital to a person’s overall health, many are unaware of the possible dental risks. Limit your activity that is intense to just a few hours per week. Patients should limit their consumption of high-sugar snacks during this time. In addition, patients should continue brushing their teeth following a meal. sugary snacks.
Gum disease can be treated in various ways. One of them is maintaining a healthy oral hygiene. This will prevent you from suffering from swollen, red and bleeding gums after having dental implants. Maintaining your gums’ health is crucial to protect your implants and your remaining teeth, and will ensure that your new teeth are protected for many years to come.
Brushing after every meal is the ideal method to remove plaque and debris. To remove food particles and plaque between your teeth, floss is a must. It is also recommended to visit the dentist regularly to clean your teeth. During these visits, your dentist may recommend a process called a scale-and-polish. This procedure will remove food particles and plaque from the gumline. Gum disease can also be caused by smoking, so it is essential to quit smoking before you get dental implants.
In addition to maintaining a regular dental hygiene routine it is also vital to visit a periodontist to ensure that your mouth is healthy enough to be able to receive implants. While most dentists are trained to treat periodontal diseases however, not all are qualified to treat this particular area. Seeing a periodontist before dental implants can help prevent the disease from getting worse and help in the process of getting implants.
Gum disease can lead to serious problems. It could even lead to the loss of the tooth. If the disease is not treated it may eventually lead to infections of the implants causing serious damage.
Smoking can interfere with healing.
Smoking can interfere with the healing process of dental implants. Because nicotine hinders the gums’ ability to receive oxygenated blood, which is vital for cell development and repair, this could cause problems. This can result in a substantial delay in the healing process and eventually lower the success of dental implants. Smoking also can contribute to the development of gum disease.
It is essential to be honest about your smoking habits with your dentist. Smoking is the most common cause of illness and death in the UK. Around 78,000 people die each year from smoking-related diseases. In addition, many more suffer from smoking-related illnesses which include coronary heart disease and stroke, pneumonia and various cancers.
Although smokers may be able to undergo dental implant surgery, they should not smoke for a week prior to the surgery. During the period of recovery it is essential to follow the directions given by your dentist. This includes limiting your consumption of food, smoking, and drinking. You should also limit your intakes of caffeine, alcohol nicotine, and other substances that could hinder healing.
Smoke from cigarettes burns the oral tissues and damages the salivary glands. This will cause the gums and bone to become weaker, which in turn will result in a decline in the ability of the teeth to support them. Nicotine also blocks blood flow to the area. The tissues won’t be capable of healing properly when they lack oxygen and blood flow. Smoking cigarettes also weakens the immune system.
There are a myriad of reasons why smoking cigarettes may hinder the healing process of dental implants. Smoking tobacco, for example reduces the amount of oxygen in the bloodstream, which is crucial for the growth of bone. In addition it weakens the immune system and makes it difficult for gums heal properly.


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Hobb’s Grove will open Friday, Sept. 28th and run through Wednesday, Oct. 31st – weather permitting.
We’re closed Mondays, Tuesdays and the first 3 Wednesdays.
Parking, ticket booth and concessions open at 6:00 p.m.
The Haunting begins at dark.
The ticket booth will close Sun. – Thurs. at 9:30 and Fri. & Sat. at 10:30.
The Grove closes at 10pm Sun. – Thurs. and 12:00 midnight Friday & Saturday.
Individual tickets for The Portal, the New interactive Laser Shooting haunt, The Haunted House, Haunted Forest and Haunted Hayride as well as the Combo tickets for all 4 attractions can be purchased at the ticket booth during those times.
If you plan to do all 4 attractions, arrive early. Hobb’s Grove does not guarantee guests will experience all the attractions purchased that evening. Tickets are good all season and can be upgraded. There are no refunds.

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Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My Heart)
World Premiere Performance at The Royal Albert Hall
Friday November 3rd 2006
Today Paul McCartney announces the world premiere performance of his new classical album Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My Heart). Ecce Cor Meum is a work for chorus and orchestra in four movements.
Ecce Cor Meum will be performed by Kate Royal (soprano); Academy of St Martins In The Fields Orchestra; London Voices; Boys Of Magdalen College Choir, Oxford and Boys of Kings College Choir, Cambridge. They will be conducted by Gavin Greenaway. This is the same cast that appears on the studio recording, which is released by EMI Classics on September 25th.
Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My Heart) is Pauls fourth classical album since his first was released in 1991, The Liverpool Oratorio. The album has been more than eight years in the making and its origins follow in the historic tradition of composers that have been commissioned to write music for the world-renowned Magdalen College Oxford. Paul was specially invited by Anthony Smith (President of Magdalen College 1998 2005) to compose something to set the seal on a new concert hall for the college. His hope was for a choral piece which could be sung by young people the world over, in the same way that Handels Messiah is.
In November 2001, the first version of Ecce Cor Meum was given its preview performance by the Magdalen College Choir, which was conducted by Bill Ives at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. This was a great learning experience for Paul. Eventually I made it all come together through correcting a lot of misapprehensions a lot was learned before the Sheldonian performance, but a lot of it was learned afterwards. An experienced choral composer knows that children cant be given huge sustained passages; they dont have the energy and the stamina. At the Sheldonian there was some quite hard stuff that I didnt realise because Id done it on the synthesiser (which has endless stamina!), but during that first performance the solo treble couldnt come on for the second half I think Id used him up in the first half! These are things that people either learn because they are taught them immediately at the first lesson, or you learn through the years, so it was good to go through the piece a lot of times, and we took out huge choral sections and gave them to the orchestra. If it had been a Beatles song I would have known how to do it. But this was a completely different ball game.
The Royal Albert Hall performance will be a very special evening. Tickets go on sale from today.
Friday 3rd November
Royal Albert Hall
Doors 6.30pm Performance 7.30pm
Tickets available from 020 7589 8212, 0871 230 2603
Or online at www.royalalberthall.com ticketmaster.co.uk
Ticket prices for this performance will be £60.00, £55.00, £45.00, £30.00 and £20.00.


Statement by the Executive Mayor, Alderman Patricia de Lille City of Cape Town partners with IBM in prestigious project to help optimise service delivery The City of Cape Town and IBM have come to the end of an incredible three-week journey. This year, the City of Cape Town was honoured to receive an IBM Smarter Cities Grant. This meant that IBM would send a high-level team of executives from their operations around the world to work on a business project of the City’s choosing at no cost us. Given the talented team we had to work with, we decided to focus on a particular problem that had come up again and again in our strategic planning: how to manage, maintain and rationalise our social assets. Social assets include community facilities, clinics, development centres and many other examples of installations that serve the community, either by providing a programme or a service of some kind. IBM spent a great deal of time interviewing our officials and politicians, seeking to get to the heart of the issues and proposing ways forward. In addition to this, they reviewed huge amounts of City information sources, at both the operational and the strategic level. Today, they officially presented their findings to us. They have proposed a model of integrated, transversal planning that can help us identify, profile and manage our social assets based on the needs of each individual community. At its heart, they have focused on a model of building our social service delivery model around the individual resident in a ‘citizen-centric’ design. This means that we have to ask ourselves: what does each social service mean for the person who receives the service; how do they perceive it; and what are their needs? In order to do this, they have proposed a delivery framework within the City – a unit focused on transversally addressing common issues related to facilities across directorates. This unit will rely on using project and programme methodology to bring officials together to create shared solutions focused on innovation and design-led thinking. I am particularly satisfied with this approach. First, it is consistent with our attempt to find creative design-based solutions for a range of common challenges in the City – an approach which is consistent with our designation as the World Design Capital for 2014. Second, and more importantly, this approach builds on the work we have already done in the City to institute transversal management through the economic and social clusters, a point specifically referenced by IBM. Not only does this mean we have been moving in the right direction of creating integrated management in the City, it means that we now have an opportunity to consolidate the gains we have already achieved and take our transversal management approach to the next level. I would like to thank the IBM team for all of their hard work and thank all those City officials and politicians who have helped make this project a success.


Towards a Formal Model for Grid Architecture via Petri Nets
- Yuyue Du, Changjun Jiang, Yubin Guo
- Information Technology Journal ico_openaccess SCOPUS
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- Grid architecture, logical petri nets, modeling, correctness, verification, formal specification, Information technology, T58.5-58.64, Industrial engineering. Management engineering, T55.4-60.8, Technology (General), T1-995, Technology, T, DOAJ:Computer Science, DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
Grid computing enables the virtualization of distributed computing and data resources to create a single system image, granting users and applications seamless access to vast IT capabilities. Grid architecture is a new software environment that developed to furnish users with grid computing platform that applications can access distributed resources through a well controlled, secure and mutually fair way. In this study a formal model based on Logical Petri Nets (LPNs) for grid architecture is proposed. Using this model, both static structure and dynamic behavior can be simulated and analyzed. The LPN model of grid architecture is constructed and causality relationship between the actions of grid components can be explicitly described. Based on this model, main properties of this grid structure is analyzed and verified formally.
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The 2023 CPIA Conference will help producers maximize investments in their irrigation systems with presentations on pivot performance, sensors, drones, cover crop and residue management, and chemigation.
Updated for 2023, the Handy Bt Trait Table can help producers avoid the development of resistance from using the same traits repeatedly and in troubleshooting insect injury or preparing to apply herbicides.
The FarmBits team interviews Dr. Simerjeet Virk, University of Georgia, about his research on using spray drones for pest management and how farmers can tailor this ag tech for their unique operations.
NASS will ask producers to provide information online or by mail about the types of crops they intend to plant in 2023, how many acres they intend to plant and the amounts of grain and oilseed stored on their farms.
TAPS is expanding its competition in 2023 with a new irrigated popcorn competition, a cover crops option for sprinkler corn, and a new location for the sorghum competition. The expansion also includes a new TAPS competition in Colorado.
The 38th annual conference will include a new workshop on QuickBooks Online, and keynote speakers from across the nation who will touch on topics of mental health, farm economics and their firsthand experiences as farmers and ranchers.

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It will animate your avatar (most are face), in real time, from a webcam. It only works on Windows and Mac client for now.

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A former Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper charged with assaulting three women during traffic stops has waived his right to a jury trial.
44-year-old Eric Roberts has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault, indecent exposure and sexual battery charges.
The allegations surfaced in 2014 when one woman filed a federal lawsuit alleging Roberts raped her following a traffic stop.
Roberts was suspended in July 2014 and resigned two months later.
He is scheduled to appear in court Dec. 6th to enter a new plea.

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While we always knew the cast of Avengers: Endgame aren’t exactly short of cash, we now know what the likes of Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, and Chris Hemsworth earned last year. With the Marvel Cinematic Universe being the world’s highest-grossing franchise, it’s no surprise its biggest stars have been locked in with some supersized bank balances.
Heading back to Avengers: Endgame, the MCU’s 22nd entry was an ensemble for the ages as the OG Avengers reunited to try and topple Josh Brolin’s Thanos. Although relative newcomers like War Machine, Ant-Man, and Rocket Raccoon all had a part to play, most of the movie’s giant runtime focussed on Iron Man (RDJ), Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Hemsworth), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Black Widow (Johansson), and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner).
It’s a good job that Endgame netted an eye-watering $2.7 billion at the box office because some of the star’s paycheques were almost as big at Giant Ant-Man. Forbes has given us a rundown of Hollywood’s Top 100 earners in the entertainment business. The site reveals how six Endgame stars managed to earn $340 million in 2018.
Although he only makes it to No. 24 on the list, Chris Hemsworth was the highest-earning Avenger in 2018. Not all of his salary came from Endgame, but he still took home $76.4 million last year.
Up next, Downey Jr. bagged $66m, Bradley Cooper $57m, and ScarJo earned $56m. Taking the rest of the spots, Chris Evans took home $43.5m and Paul Rudd got $41m.
Entertainment lawyer David Chidekel of Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae said, “Celebrities such as Downey and Johansson currently have extreme leverage to demand enormous compensation packages from studios investing hundreds of millions of dollars in making tent-pole films, such asThe Avengers series.”
If anyone is questioning why huge MCU stars like Brie Larson and Tom Holland don’t make the list, it’s important to remember their status as relative newcomers to the franchise. All of the above have been part of the MCU for a good while now, whereas Holland only joined in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War and Larson in last year’s Captain Marvel.
It’s standard MCU practice to secure stars with a starting sum of six figures for a multi-movie arc. Both Holland and Larson have bright futures ahead of them and are expected to become cornerstones of the upcoming Avengers roster revamp.
Even if Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson are seemingly done with the MCU (after Black Widow for ScarJo), I don’t think they’ll be too disappointed with their Avengers hauls from last year.
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(GOOD NEWS NETWORK) – In the Netherlands, an 82-year old woman was recently laid to rest in a coffin made entirely of fast-composting mushroom fibres that will considerably increase the health of the soil in the years that follow.
Dubbed the 'Living Cocoon,' the coffin gives an option for a more ecologically conscious generation who may want to leave a positive impact on the planet after they've gone.
Created by 26-year-old Bob Hendrikx, a bio-designer from the University of Delft, the Living Cocoon is made by growing mycelium around a coffin-shaped frame. Mycelium is the part of the mushroom we can't see – the underground fibrous network that makes up most of the lifeform.
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Norwalk Hospital will dedicate 2 newly renovated pediatric emergency rooms in memory of Dr. Al Beasley and Dr. Jean Beasley.
The husband-and-wife pediatricians were beloved in Westport. Dr. Al died last year; Dr. Jean passed away from cancer in 1973.
The most recent issue of Catalyst — the magazine published by Nuvance Health, Norwalk Hospital’s owner — devotes 2 pages to the Beasleys. The story notes that Al was the grandson of a Harvard-educated attorney who founded the Boston chapter of the NAACP; his father graduated from Harvard, his mother from Radcliffe. Al served 2 years as an Army reservist, the 4 years in the Air Force during the Korean War. He and Jean married while they were attending NYU Medical School.
Dr. Al Beasley was also a major benefactor of Staples Tuition Grants, in honor of Dr. Jean. (Hat tip: Burton Stuttman)
John (Jackie) Laux of Jersey City died June 9 in Midvale, Utah after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He passed at home to the tune of the Grateful Dead, surrounded by his wife Marybeth, son Robert, and daughters Kristen and Molly.
Jackie and Marybeth had recently relocated to Utah to live out his lifelong dream of becoming a ski bum and being closer to his grandchildren, Devyn and Callan Laux, and Maggie and Noelle Giusti.
Jackie was an accomplished hockey player, playing goalie for Iona College. He made many lifelong friends on the ice, a tradition that continued through his final years while refereeing youth hockey in Connecticut.
Jackie also loved golf, and was a proud member of Shorehaven Club in Norwalk. Surrounded by friends, he enjoyed the fresh air, light beers and moderate exercise, then met his children by the pool to catch a swimming, diving or tennis match.
He was always excited and proud to watch (or coach) his children’s soccer, baseball and softball games, and tennis matches. As his children grew, their joint love of sports grew into family gatherings at New York Giants and Rangers games.
Jackie’s generous personality garnered him hundreds of friends around the country. He was quick to lend a helping hand or buy a drink for a friend in need of company (or just plain fun). He connected with others instantly and deeply, and leaves behind a lasting impression on all who knew him.
Due to COVID, a private memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on July 12 at Westport’s Unitarian Church, and broadcast via Zoom (click here for the link). Following the service, family and friends are invited to Penfield Pavilion in Fairfield (5 p.m.).
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Jackie’s name to Huntsman Cancer Institute or First Tee of Metropolitan New York.
Staples’ spring hockey team won the Southern Connecticut Hockey League Division 3 Spring hockey championship, thumping North Branford 7-0 in the finals. Incoming captains Andrew Gebicki, Jason Wolgast and Cole Feinleib led the team.
Last week, “06880” highlighted 3 Westporters — long-time, willing workers committed to making our town, and neighboring Bridgeport, better places for everyone.
TEAM Westport — the first selectman’s committee on multiculturalism — honored Al Beasley, Andy Boas and Claire Gold yesterday. The original blog post hinted at their contributions — but not in great depth.
Andy Boas, Claire Gold and Dr. Al Beasley -- TEAM Westport honorees. (Photo by Lynn U. Miller)
If you weren’t at the ceremony — and over 100 Westporters, from all walks of life, were — here’s what you should know about these remarkable honorees.
Al Beasley is a long-time Westporter. He watched the town grow from a small artists’ colony, through the baby boom, into a suburb filled with businessmen and Wall Street executives. But he has seen it all through a unique perspective, and with a background different from most people who live here.
Al’s grandfather, a Harvard-educated Boston attorney, helped found the NAACP. Al’s father also went to Harvard – and became a doctor. His mother graduated from Radcliffe. Those were proud accomplishments, in an era when educational opportunities for black men and women were limited.
Al’s parents wanted him to have a well-rounded education. He got one, at the Walden School and Columbia College. He married a high school friend, Jean. Both earned medical degrees – Al from New York University. Both became pediatricians.
As a captain in the Air Force during the Korean War – based in Houston — Al first experienced overt prejudice. But he persevered, and in 1953 the Beasleys moved to Westport. He wanted his children to experience the same freedom he’d found at the Walden School. The Beasleys rented a home on 11 acres, for $90 a month. The Beasleys were one of only 5 or so black families in town.
They bought land from a fellow physician, Mal Beinfield. The Beasleys had trouble getting a mortgage – the banks’ excuse was “they did not like contemporary dwellings.” But Westport Bank & Trust Company president Einar Anderson said to the Beasleys’ request for $20,000: “There’s no problem. Let us know when you want it.”
In addition to his professional accomplishments – private practice as a pediatrician; co-founder of Willows Pediatrics; associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine, and an emeritus staff member at Norwalk Hospital – Al immersed himself in community work.
He was a pediatrician for the Intercommunity Camp; a member of the Selectman’s Committee for Youth and Human Services; a board of directors member for the United Way; member of the scholar selection committee of A Better Chance of Westport; trustee of Earthplace, where he organized the Green Earth series on health and the environment.
Al’s wife, Jean, died in 1973. Six years later he married Janet, a native of Berlin and a survivor of a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.
Al says: “When Jean and I moved to Westport in 1953, it was a magical town. It opened its arms to us, welcomed us, and made us feel special.”
Al adds: “My birth certificate said ‘colored.’ Then the preferred term changed to ‘Negro.’ Later it was ‘black,’ then ‘African American.’ I am a man of color, but I like to be accepted for what I have to offer. The town has done exactly that.”
Looking back on his career, Al says,“I’m an activist. I tried to give my utmost to the community, and I think the community appreciates that. This is a wonderful town. I thank everyone who entrusted their most precious commodities – their infants, their children and their young people – to me.”
Andy Boas’s resume is impressive enough. A general partner of Carl Marks Management, he has directed various public and private companies in which his firm has an interest.
But the Cornell University and Hofstra University School of Law graduate is much more than a money man. He has – quite literally – put his money where his mouth is.
In 2000 Andy founded the Charter Oak Challenge Foundation. Its mission is simple, yet agonizingly difficult: help build better futures for underserved children in the Bridgeport area.
The foundation wasted no time. In less than a decade it has created the largest college scholarship program in the area. It provides support – both strategic and monetary – to numerous non-profit organizations in and around the city.
The first major initiative — a scholarship program — has sent more than 100 deserving Bridgeport high school students to college, with a scholarship and a laptop.
In 2006 Charter Oak helped open Achievement First Bridgeport Academy – in one of that city’s poorest and toughest neighborhoods. The public charter middle school now serves over 450 students a year. This fall Achievement First Birdgeport opened its second school, for children in kindergarten through 5th grade. Its first class of kindergartners includes 90 youngsters. Andy calls them “scholars” – and they are.
Andy helps raise millions of dollars a year for his schools. He says, “I don’t take no for an answer. We do whatever it takes to get the work done.”
Andy’s work on behalf of others is his passion. “I’m lucky I live in the United States, and in a beautiful community like Westport,” he says.
“My kids went to Staples. They have everything they want. But just a couple of miles away, it’s a completely different world.” Andy calls Bridgeport “a disastrous, intolerable situation. The fact that where you live determines the education you get is outrageous. These kids are getting neutered.
“I got involved because this was right in front of me. It was a no-brainer. A better Bridgeport means a better America. I’m not going to rest until these kids a few miles away get an equal chance.”
School superintendents are often maligned. Sometimes they’re respected. School superintendents are seldom admired, let alone loved. But those are exactly the words used to describe Claire Gold.
A graduate of Penn, Yale and Fairfield University, she started out as reading teacher working with special needs children. She arrived in Westport in 1965, working as a psychologist at Coleytown Junior High. She later became townwide director of special education; assistant superintendent, and — from 1980 through 1988 — superintendent of schools.
She moved to Weston, serving as superintendent there, then made her mark as an educator in an even broader way. After consulting as a desegregation specialist for interdistrict programs, Claire was an originator and developer of the Six to Six Interdistrict Magnet School in Bridgeport. Her focus has been on the arts, and bringing together urban and suburban children.
She was selected as one of the top 100 administrators in North America; cited by Governor Ella Grasso as an “Outstanding Woman in Connecticut,” and was named “Connecticut Educator of the Year” for her work on behalf of minority students and the cause of school integration.
Claire’s work is epitomized by her efforts for Project Concern, during her tenure as Westport’s superintendent of schools. She nurtured it, creating opportunities for scores of boys and girls from Bridgeport to attend Westport elementary school, junior high and Staples. It was a life-changing experience for many – not just the Bridgeport youngsters, but the Westport students, teachers and families who knew them, befriended them, and to this day in some cases, still call them “best friends.”
For the last 6 years, Claire has been the driving force behind the new Discovery Magnet School in Bridgeport. Focusing on science and technology for grades pre-K through 8, its cross-district scope helps ease racial isolation between Connecticut’s urban and suburban schools.
“I always felt fortunate to have had the career I did in Westport,” Claire says.
“My parents were immigrants. I was the daughter of 2 Polish peasants from the shtetl. Growing up in Hoboken, I knew what it was like to make your way in a new country.
“I have a deep feeling that somehow, we all have to live together. And there is no better place to start than with very young children.”
Fall Sundays in Westport used to be reserved for leaf-raking, until we outsourced that odious task.
We also used to watch the Giants, but now meh.
So if you’re looking for something truly inspiring and interesting — and want to hang out with some really intriguing people, in one of Westport’s most spectacular homes — head over to Ann Sheffer and Bill Scheffler’s, on Stony Point, this Sunday at 2 p.m.
TEAM Westport — the town’s committee on multiculturalism — will honor 3 great folks. The 2nd annual Trailblazer Diversity awards and reception highlights these residents’ lifelong pursuit of human rights for everyone.
Albert Beasley, MD was a practicing pediatrician for more than 50 years. Among the 1st black families to own a home and raise children here, the founder of Willows Pediatrics has influenced thousands of Westporters, in many generations. An associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Yale, and senior attending emeritus in pediatrics at Norwalk Hospital, Dr. Beasley has stayed involved in town life on many levels, including Earthplace — where he organized the Green Earth series on health and the environment.
Claire Gold is a long-time advocate of diversity in education. As Westport’s superintendent of schools from 1981-88, she championed Project Concern — which brought hundreds of Bridgeport youngsters here. After leaving her post she worked on behalf of minority students and school integration. Her passion is easing racial isolation between Connecticut’s urban and suburban school districts. For the last 6 years Claire has been the driving force behind the Discovery Interdistrict Magnet School in Bridgeport.
Andrew M. Boas‘ day job is investment advisor. But he also founded the Charter Oak Challenge Foundation. Since 2001, it’s sent more than 100 deserving Bridgeport students to college with a scholarship, laptop and mentor. He also was a leader in establishing the Achievement First Bridgeport Academy Middle School, a charter school now serving 500 5th-8th graders. Andy is now overseeing the start of its extension for grades K-4.
Al Beasley, Claire Gold and Andy Boas represent Westport at its best. Forget the leaves. Definitely forget the Giants.
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OAKLAND - To make a run at a division title, the Giants need Dereck Rodriguez to match his big first half. Perhaps the rookie has bigger plans.
Rodriguez took the ball on the first night of the second half and allowed just one run on three hits against a tough A's lineup. He departed with one out in the seventh and the bullpen took it home, clinching a 5-1 win that evened this Bay Bridge series at two games apiece.
Here's what you need to know from the first game back...
--- Rodriguez walked none and struck out five. He lowered his ERA to 2.72.
--- With Brandon Belt on the paternity list, Ryder Jones was called up for a spot start. He certainly made the most of it. Jones jumped on a 2-0 slider from Edwin Jackson in the fifth, smacking a homer off the right field foul pole. The blast was the third of the 24-year-old's career. He hit two last season as a rookie.
--- Andrew McCutchen had a pair of sliding catches. The robbery of Jonathan Lucroy in the fifth inning had a catch probability of just 66 percent.
--- Pablo Sandoval hit a no-doubter to right in the seventh inning. It was his 14th homer since returning to the Giants last summer, matching his total in Boston.
--- The A's announced a crowd of 45,606, a sellout. They're expecting a few thousand more on Saturday.


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Do you use songs and music in your classroom to enhance instruction?
This is a great way to promote skills in a fun way! It is also a sneaky way to promote memorization of skills without any pressure. :)
Here are some great songs I have found for certain reading skills:
ABC - Letter Sounds
I have these songs on ALL the time: during transition, in the mornings while students are entering, during clean up, when coming to the carpet after Daily 5. I love to SNEAK it into their day!
Do you have OTHER great reading songs that are high quality and skill based? Post in the comments! Thanks & happy singing! :)


Update on the USPS Senate Debate
Date: April 24, 2012
Today, the U.S. Senate began debate on Senate bill S. 1789, known as the 21st Century Postal Reform Act, and which you may have heard about recently in the news. The bill has many provisions and amendments and is still under discussion.
To help keep you informed about the process, the Postal Service is sharing with you information that was given to the bill’s four Senate sponsors earlier today. Senators Joseph Lieberman, Susan Collins, Tom Carper and Scott Brown had requested details on what a potential mail processing and distribution network would look like if modeled under the proposed service standards contained in the bill to maintain overnight service for intra-SCF volume.
In response to the Senators’ request, the Postal Service provided a modeled network scenario. The model provided is the best estimate available on which processing plants and facilities would be needed, based solely on the proposed legislation. Further refinements to the model may possibly be necessary.
Details about the modeled network request may be appearing in the news media. The Postal Service therefore wishes to clarify that the information provided to the Senate does not represent a new Postal Service proposal, and should not be interpreted as a new Network Rationalization plan. The facilities on this list could be subject to change based on a House version of the legislation, and the outcome of the subsequent committee process.
Debate on the Senate bill is continuing through today, and the legislation is not final. In addition, the legislation being considered would not become final in its present form; even if this legislation were approved by the Senate today, action would still be required in the House of Representatives, and a final bill would have to be signed by the President.


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Hello, dear readers of Travels-Ukraine!
I’m sure that few of you know where the popular Avatar movie was actually shot?
So, the shooting was not in an artificial pavilion, as many believe, but in the magnificent National Park of China with an incredibly beautiful landscape of nature.
The beautiful and at the same time unusual nature of China, which has no analogues in the world, formed the basis of those fantastic episodes of the film that won the hearts of many moviegoers.
Naturally, computer graphics were used, but only as an addition to the beautiful earthly landscapes.
When you see bizarre shapes in front of you that are shrouded in bushes and trees,
a thought creeps into consciousness, as if you really are on another planet.
These landscapes are so unusual that it is impossible to take your eyes off the local unearthly panorama, especially at sunset. Therefore, if you have the desire and opportunity to visit the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in China, to see the fantastic landscapes of nature, then feel free to hit the road!
Interesting facts about the movie “Avatar”
- Initially, it was planned to shoot the famous picture in the 90s.
But in the aggregate of unforeseen difficulties, shooting started only in 2005.
- During the creation of the film Avatar, new technologies that were developed exclusively for this film broke into the art of cinema, thereby providing an opportunity for actors to fulfill their roles without even making up.
- Especially for the film “Avatar” came up with a new language, which consisted of 500 words.
- The film Avatar has been nominated three times for the prestigious Academy Award.


Werder Bremen was the first Bundesliga team to be kicked out in the first round of the DFB Cup and thus suffered a severe setback in the still young football season.
Double leadership is not enough
After being outnumbered for 80 minutes and leading twice, Werder lost 2:3 (1:0) in a turbulent game at third division team Viktoria Köln. Donny Bogicevic scored the winning goal in the fourth minute of added time, after which the game was not restarted. Werder is now the sole record holder with eleven first-round defeats as a first division team against a lower-class club.
Dortmund without problems
Meanwhile, the other favorites did not hide themselves. Runner-up Borussia Dortmund had no trouble beating regional league team Schott Mainz 6-1 (3-1), nor did Bayer Leverkusen, who clearly won 8-0 (3-0) at regional league team FC Teutonia Ottensen. VfB Stuttgart easily defeated the fourth division team TSG Balingen 4-0 (3-0). FSV Mainz 05 had to tremble at 1-0 (0-0) at SV Elversberg until the end.
Hertha shoots down Jena
Bundesliga relegated Hertha BSC retained the upper hand after the false start in the 2nd division at regional division club FC Carl Zeiss Jena 5-0 (1-0) and celebrated the highest victory in the cup competition for 20 years. Last season, Hertha, as the Bundesliga club at the time, lost in the first round on penalties at second division side Eintracht Braunschweig. Second division FC St. Pauli won 5-0 (1-0) at fifth division Atlas Delmenhorst, and league opponent Holstein Kiel won 2-0 (0-0) at FC Gütersloh from the Regionalliga West. 1. FC Nuremberg won 9-1 (6-0) at FC Oberneuland from the Bremen league and SpVgg Greuther Fürth 1-0 (1-0) at third division Hallescher FC.
Meet ducksch and jug
Bremen took the lead twice through Marvin Duksch (43') and the top scorer Niclas Füllkrug (77'). But Bremen's home-grown player David Philipp, who trained with the Hanseatic League from 2014 to 2020, equalized twice (72nd/79th). Bogicevic really made the last second for Cologne's second round entry, who are leaders after the 1st matchday of the 3rd division.
Sébastien Haller (22nd and 35th minute), Julian Brandt (24th), Marcel Sabitzer (57th), Donyell Malen (79th) and Youssoufa Moukoko (85th) scored for Dortmund in front of 30,312 spectators. Nils Gans (34th) scored the acclaimed consolation goal for the blatant outsider. BVB had to do without the injured new signing Felix Nmecha, and the injured Karim Adeyemi was also absent in Mainz.
The goals from Leverkusen were scored by Edmond Tapsoba (16th minute), Victor Boniface (42nd), Florian Wirtz (45th, 1), Amine Adli (59th, penalty kick), Jeremie Frimpong (67th), Adam Hlozek (74th, 90th). .) and Jonas Hofmann (81st).
Squad TSG Balingen Squad VfB Stuttgart DFB-Pokal at www.dfb.de


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Advantages and disadvantages of semi-finished products: buy or cook yourself
Semi-finished products are becoming more and more popular nowadays, offering busy people and families easy meal options. SSPDaily, will consider all the concerns about their impact on nutrition and overall health.
Semi-finished products are characterized by a high degree of convenience. They are pre-packaged and cooked, which saves time and effort on cooking. For people and families with busy schedules, convenience foods make it easy to grab a quick snack.
- A variety of options
Semi-finished products offer a wide variety of dishes. They include different cuisines, dietary preferences and specific dishes. This wide variety allows people to have access to a variety of meals to suit different tastes and preferences.
- Extended shelf life
As a rule, ready-to-eat products have a longer shelf life than fresh ingredients. This helps reduce food waste, as such products can be stored for a long time without spoiling.
- Health concerns
Semi-finished products often do not have sufficient nutritional value. Many of them contain large amounts of sugars, unhealthy fats, and sodium. Regular consumption of such ingredients can be detrimental to your overall health.
- Lack of freshness
Processed foods are usually not as fresh as homemade foods made with fresh ingredients. This can lead to a deterioration in flavor and texture compared to home-cooked meals.
- Higher cost
Processed foods tend to be more expensive than preparing a home-cooked meal with fresh ingredients. The convenience of pre-processed and packaged foods often comes with a higher price.

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The Water Division is responsible for the production, treatment and distribution of potable water to the residents and businesses of the City.
The City of South Pasadena (City) is committed to keeping you informed about the quality of your drinking water. This report is provided to you annually. It includes information describing where your drinking water comes from, the constituents found in your drinking water and how the water quality compares with the regulatory standards.
Water Bill Updates
South Pasadena water customers will soon be served by a new billing company, Munibilling, after the sudden closure of Fathom (formerly Global Water). The City Council approved the new contract Wednesday, Nov. 20.
There will be no change in the rates charged to customers and no interruption in water service.
South Pasadena operates its own water utility staffed by City employees, but contracts for billing services. We were only notified last week that Fathom was ceasing its business operations at the end of November. It was unfortunate that Fathom chose to wait until the 11th hour to inform us they were closing. However, we were able to quickly find a qualified new vendor.
We anticipate a smooth transition as Munibilling steps in. However, during the transition, we are asking water customers to take the following actions:
- Do not pay Fathom for any due or overdue bills. Instead pay the City directly, either by check or credit card
- Payments can be made by mailing a check to South Pasadena City Hall attn. Finance Department, 1414 Mission St. South Pasadena 91030, or in person at City Hall (checks and credit cards accepted).
- Cancel all automated payments to Fathom immediately.
Please be patient as there may be delays in receiving your bill. The City will work with customers on payment deadlines if there are delays during the transition.
You will receive further updates by mail and other outreach methods with information on making future payments through Munibilling.
For water emergencies after hours or on holidays, please call South Pasadena Police Department Dispatch at (626) 403-7297.
Water Quality Report/Consumer Confidence Report (CCRs)
Should you be experiencing cloudy or discolored water below is a letter and troubleshooting guide with additional information.
City of South Pasadena 2015 Urban Water Management Plan
The City of South Pasadena is has adopted the 2015 Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) in compliance with Urban Water Management Planning Act, California Water Code Sections 10608 through 10656. Click here to view the 2015 Urban Water Management Plan
For Water Conservation tips, please visit our Environmental Programs page.
To report water waste, please email us at email@example.com, and include as much information as possible. Pictures are helpful.


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Vanessa Hudgens is branching out on the world wide web.
The 27-year-old actress and singer just launched her new lifestyle website, Astral & Opal.
“Welcome to Astral & Opal!” she welcomed readers in a Letter from the Editor last week. “I love surfing the web but nothing ever stuck with me. So, I thought it was time to create the site I needed in my life. As for me, I believe that life is as you make it. I want to feel good, look good and live a colorful life full of adventure. You are in the drivers seat, on an open road and only get one lifetime to make it count. We gotta live it to the fullest!”
Vanessa added, “I hope Astral & Opal guides you to inspiration, passion, wisdom and makes your world a little more colorful. Enjoy!”
Posted to: Vanessa Hudgens


Iwami Airport is a regional airport in Masuda, Shimane, Japan. Its IATA code is IWJ and is located latitude 34.68 and longitude 131.79 in Japan and operates in JST time zone which is the same time zone as Izumo.
It has one runway that allow night landings, and is adequate for Large turboprop commuters, short and medium haul transport aircraft. Supports most single engine aircraft, light twins, most business jets and commuter aircraft.
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Friday, July 25, 2014
Haiku My Heart Friday: Home from Paris
It's true what they say,
"Be it ever so humble,
there's no place like home."
I am quoting those famous words first written by John Howard Payne as lyrics for a song composed by Sir Henry Bishop (you can read all about it here). I was pleasantly surprised to realize that his words fit the haiku requirements of 7 and 5 syllables for the 2nd and 3rd lines perfectly. I was also interested to see that the first line of the song he wrote goes like this: "Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam..."
For indeed, in recent weeks, I experienced many of the pleasures the city of Paris had to offer and visited opulent palaces such as the Louvre
and equally beautiful former train stations (Musee D'Orsay)
I count myself extremely lucky to have the opportunity to travel as much as I do and to visit the wonderful places and meet the delightful people that I do but in the end, it's always good to come home.

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How to Measure your Health Without a Scale
Updated: Jun 6, 2018
Learn why scales are not a reflection of your health.
RAGE AGAINST THE SCALE - Amy Jaffe Nutrition
In my nutrition counseling office, I have a sign in the scale closet (where it belongs) that says,
“This scale can only give you a numerical reflection of your relationship with gravity. That’s it. It cannot measure beauty, talent, purpose, life force, possibility, strength or love.”
I request all to read it when they enter to remind themselves.
I rage against our culture of surface appearance as measures of self esteem and the scales that perpetrate it.
For example, the scales in the entrance of Publix, a regional supermarket chain... First of all, it is hardly good marketing. After people weigh themselves and don’t like the number, do they really want to go in and buy even more food?
And why do doctors and health care professionals make inappropriate comments when weighing ED patients? Worse, if the person has the courage and assertiveness to ask to be weighed backwards, they tell them anyway or leave the chart in plain sight! And why is weight loss included in so many MD recommendations for people with medical issues when health is measured by so many other parameters more important than body shape and size?
Speaking of scales, the BMI scale is challenged in an excerpt from “Diet Survivors Handbook” author, Judith Matz in their spring online newsletter:
Spring 2016 – Diet Survivors Group Newsletter, Judith Matz, LCSW
We've known for a long time that Body Mass Index is a poor measure of an individual's health. Now, a new study out of UCLA confirms that using BMI to determine health misclassifies nearly 75 million Americans as healthy or unhealthy. The researchers used the latest data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)—considered to be the most reliable health data on the U.S. population, and looked at cardiometabolic health data, which gives measures of blood pressure, triglycerides, glucose, insulin resistance and C-reactive protein (a marker of inflammation).
Consider these numbers:
• 34.4 million people (half the people) in the "overweight" category are healthy
• 19.8 million people in the "obese" category are healthy
• 2 million people in the "very obese" category are health
• 21 million people in the "normal" category are unhealthy.
The authors of the study conclude that this research is the "final nail in the coffin for BMI."
The take away message? To reach optimal health, focus on behaviors that support your individual, unique body e.g. physical activity, honoring cues for hunger and fullness, eating a wide variety of foods, getting a good night's sleep, managing stress and/or whatever else you need to do to take care of yourself.
We can’t escape that we live in a diet/deprivation culture. The media, including print, all social media, tv, radio, movies, commercials, subliminal messages, every minute bombards us with the “your body is not ok, it is flawed, here is what you can buy to fix it so you can be beautiful or handsome like the images that surround us”. The scale will never say what we want it to say...This is an article that has been circulating from the NY Times:
“After the Biggest Loser, Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight”. Contestants lost hundreds of pounds during Season 8, but gained them back. A study of their struggles helps explain why so many people fail to keep off the weight they lose.
And then there are our families and friends who intentionally or unwittingly give us the same messages that lead to hurt, guilt and shame with our bodies and more harmfully, the essence of ourselves. I get enraged when the 10 year old girl I am treating right now already has an intractable eating disorder. I saw a client who was discharged from months at a treatment center, and whose mother suggested they do Weight Watchers together the day she returns home. Like the author of “The Good Body”, Eve Enseler says, “Stop trying to fix your body, it was never broken!”.
In the many years I have specialized with this population, I have found that getting on the scale is one of the most sabotaging events in a person’s eating disorder recovery. In contrast, when the person gives their scale away or throws it away, or smashes it to pieces, it provides the empowerment needed to accelerate their process exponentially.
When I suggest to clients that they can respectfully decline to be weighed at the doctors’ offices, they are dumbfounded. It feels radical that they can actually tell them, not ask, to not be weighed. It’s true, I haven’t been weighed at any health care professional setting in over 20 years.
The only scale I would endorse using is the one above!
View one-on-one treatment options in the menu above.

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The federal government has lost at least $439 million so far this year in productivity through a policy that allows civil servants to stay home, with pay, during emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s budget watchdog said in a report released Friday.
Most of that total was a result of employees at the Canada Revenue Agency staying home, unable to work, between March 15 and May 31, the Parliamentary Budget Office said.
That one department accounted for just over $311 million in paid leave, far ahead of the second-costliest department, Correctional Services Canada, at more than $33.8 million.
The report says the Canada Revenue Agency told the budget watchdog that limitations on work was the most common reason for taking leave, mostly related to compliance and collection activities being postponed during the pandemic.
The Public Service Alliance of Canada, which represents the majority of federal employees, called the numbers “modest.”
The PBO report was compiled at the request of Edmonton Conservative MP Kelly McCauley, who wanted to know the financial impact of the policy, known as pay code 699.
The policy allows federal employees paid leave for emergencies such as being sick with COVID-19, having to quarantine, not being able to access the technology they need to complete their work and having to care for dependants.
It does not require employee to first use up other forms of paid leave, such as vacation, family emergencies or accumulated sick leave.
“The data shows that vast majority of public service employees were able to work at full capacity while only a third were occasionally forced to use 699 leave,” said PSAC national president Chris Aylward.
The PBO also noted the leave amounted to about one per cent of government salaries for the period.
“The price of forcing layoffs and trying to rebuild the public service after the pandemic would have cost taxpayers tenfold — let alone the negative impact on our economy,” Aylward said.
The PBO said 699 costs could be closer to $623 million, government wide, because the Treasury Board Secretariat, which is responsible for the civil service, only provided information from 62 of the 88 federal public service organizations, representing about 70 per cent of government departments.
The PBO noted that it was not able to find a leave policy of a similar scope in the private sector, although some provinces have offered their employees some pay cushions.
“Many provincial governments have issued notices requiring managers to provide flexibility and allow employees to draw on future sick leave credits during the pandemic,” the PBO report said.
Terry Pedwell, The Canadian Press
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"DETERMINE to make it to the top" that is the decision of Rohan Alexander Bennett, when he left his home town of Annotto Bay, St. Mary to start his musical career in Kingston, Jamaica. Born in 1972 under the sign of Pisces, Determine is the product of a strong, supportive and close-knit family. His father, Bobsey Bennett is a fisherman, and his mother, Reverend Lucilda Bennett is a minister of Religion. Determine credits his mother and Bob Marley as his greatest source of inspiration.|
|Determine is a past student of the Holy Trinity Secondary School in Kingston and the Port Antonio Secondary School in Portland, JA. Here he excelled in Home Economics and Accounts. He was offered the opportunity to further his studies in Accounts, but because of his love for music he declined the offer and went to pursue his musical career in Kingston. Like numerous other Jamaican artists Determine began performing on the Jamaican sound system circuit and he soon managed to reach such a popularity that he won the Rockers award for best new deejay in 1995. Meanwhile he had the opportunity to visit various recording studios and a series of singles followed including "Burn Up", Dem No Know Love", "Bulls Eye Part 2" (in combination with with Brian & Tony Gold) and his debut single "Lion In Zion", done on the King Jammy$ label. The latter made a significant impact both locally and abroad, but it was his first international single release, "Selassie I", that finally brought him his breakthrough as it went to the number one position on the British pre-release chart. However, alongside the top ranking dancehall deejay Beenie Man Determine scored his biggest hit to date with "Kette Drum", a duet that has topped Reggae charts in Jamaica, the U.S., Canada and Europe, and has been hailed as one of the hottest dancehall hits of 1995. Originally intended as a solo effort, Beenie Man was so impressed with the Bobby "Digital" Dixon produced riddim that he invited Determine to record it as a combination tune. It not only affirmed the revival of Nyabinghi drumming on record but the huge success of the riddim led to some notable answer versions from artists like Bounty Killer, Shabba Ranks & Cocoa Tea and Garnett Silk.||
In the following year, 1996, Determine reinforced his high profile as he continued to record some notable and successful tunes. As a part of the trend of reviving Bob Marley riddims in the Dancehall he voiced "Live Wire" across the wicked "Heathen" riddim for Ocho Rios-based producer Barry O'Hare and his XRated Crew, for whom he also recorded the songs "Time Like This" and "Who", the latter delivered across the "Drum Song" riddim. Combinations with Yogi - the striking "No One Cares" - and Turbo Belly - "What Dem A Think" - as well as solo hits that included "Welcome Shaka Zulu", I Shall Not", "Born Pressurizer", "House House", "Nah Duh Nuttin" (which lashes out the heads of Government, who has been exhausting the labour of its people and compensating them with little or nothing in return), and "If A Nevah Jah", followed and created a positive impact, thus spreading his name and fame further. Determine founded his own label "Zulu Productions", on which he released "More And More" - which went to a number one position in Canada - and "Hands In The Air", a number one tune in Bermuda.
|On November 11, 1996, under the management of Artistic Exposure, Determine led the "Father's Of Africa" tour in the U.S. where he performed in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago and Connecticut. He then moved on to Canada where he performed in Montreal, Ontario and Toronto. Other members of the tour included Everton Blender, Yasus Afari and Deli-Man-Deh-Yah. Determine has also made performances in Antigua, St. Kitts, Bermuda, Barbados and Trinidad. He performed on the "Passion" tour along with Lady Saw, Frisco Kid, Tanya Stephens, General Degree, Leprechaun and Cement Kid. They made appearances in the U.S. and Canada between July 3rd-27th, 1997.|
On March 15th, 1998 Determine accompanied by Prezident Brown and Hindu went on his first promotional tour in Europe where he performed in France, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland. Under the management of RUNN Records in Holland and the "XRated" Record label in Jamaica, Determine delivered solid performances although his part of the show only featured six songs, thus leaving his ardent fans clamouring for more. (Check out our concert review of this show in Antwerp, Belgium, which took place on the 21st March, 1998.)
Determine's love for children was the force that drove him to treat over 300 children in the Majestic Gardens community in Kingston on May 12th, 1996. Here the children were treated to a cooked meal, snacks, natural juices, fruits, ice-cream and hundreds of excercise books and pencils for returning to school. Black Champion sound system provided entertainment for the event, along with Anthony B, Vigilante and Determine. Several talented individuals from the community got the opportunity to reveal their God-given talents. On January 1, 1998, Determine officially adopted the Rushworth Basic school in Waterhouse, Kingston JA, after he was approached by Mrs. Lavern Hendricks for financial assistance to refurbish the building which housed 90 students ages 3-6 years old and 5 teachers.
This encouraged Determine to organize a fund-raising Walk-A-Thon and Stage Show on Valentine's Day, February 14th, where he along with parents/guardians, students, teachers and members of Zulu Productions journeyed from Constant Spring to Waterhouse with the hope of solliciting enough money to finance the needy project. This was followed by a Stage Show which featured artists from the Zulu Productions camp : Vigilante, Attowa, Fire Lion and Determine himself. Other contributing artists were Risto Benjie, Easy Wayne and Angie Angel. Even Determine's serious countenance and socially conscious lyrics cannot mask the humour that shines through his stage antics during every performance and makes him one of the Dancehall's truly great entertainers. Recently Determine started his Fan Club, where he can be contacted at :
Determine's Fan Club
c/o Paula Francis
P.O. Box 280
Sleeve notes from "Freedom Chant" (Brickwall)
Text : Teacher & Mr. T, 10-12-1999
All Rights Reserved. © 1999 Reggae Vibes Productions


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So I started yoyoing back in October last year. I’m relatively new but once I got to know about yoyo vibe I got somewhat obsessed. Honestly, vibe doesn’t improve the performance of the yoyo in any way. A vibey yoyo doesn’t make tricks any less landable, but still, every now and then I just really enjoy the glass smooth feeling of a yoyo against my finger.
I got really good at tuning and I believe I can tune most yoyos to at least a 9/10 smoothness but it takes a lot of time. Also, as I tuned more and more yoyos, I realized how easy it is to get a yoyo to vibe.
Unscrewing a yoyo even once can make it vibe. It’s not like the axle has 0 clearance in the yoyo halves, so if the axles are even slightly off axis it makes it vibe. Even for a new yoyo it gets vibey once you unscrew and rescrew it. Of course a new yoyo is more consistent in its smoothness, retaining a 8-9/10 on an effortless rescrew but with tuning it can achieve a 10/10 smoothness.
I could tune most monometals to a 9-10/10 smoothness no matter how vibey they are, and I believe it is because as long as I align the axle straight I can get it pretty much perfectly smooth.
However, when it comes to bimetals it’s a different story. One ding makes it vibe unlike monometals which are pretty resistant to vibe. Also, if the steel rims are slightly dislodged, they often become permanently vibey as misaligned rims won’t be fixed with a straight axle. Even after hammering in the rims to be pretty much perfectly aligned visually, vibe is still present unfortunately.
As more time goes by, It’s rather natural to get tired of tuning out vibe I guess. Also, as I practice more and more difficult slack tricks and whips, it becomes easier to drop and ding the yoyo, and often times I knock my yoyo with my hand while whipping the string.
I dinged my Edge Infinity into oblivion today, and one of the rims got dislodged. I gently hammered it into place, and it is visually perfect in its alignment but vibe is still present. Hammering rims in worked for all of my other bimetals but it doesn’t seem to work for the edge infinity as I can’t tune the vibe out anymore. It most likely is the result of the rims being permanently dislodged in a micro scale or maybe the super thin aluminium walls being ever so slightly disfigured.
It’s still around a 7/10 smooth so I guess I don’t really care anymore. Actually, there is pretty much negligible string vibe. It’s just felt slightly on the finger when I do grinds and do the fingernail test but since that doesn’t really happen during normal play so I’m probably just gonna let it slide.
However, it’s kinda disheartening that my most expensive throw is vibey.
How often do you guys ding your throws? Do your bimetals have vibe after dinging them? Do you just let them slide or do they drive you crazy?


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Pixies have announced a string of intimate tour dates for December. The shows come in support of the band’s latest album, Beneath the Eyrie, and serve as a precursor to a “major” North American outing planned for 2020.
The six-date tour will take place in smaller capacity venues ranging from Los Angeles’ 500-capacity Troubadour to the 1,400-person Webster Hall in New York. Other stops include Boston, San Francisco, and Toronto.
Additionally, the band won’t be planning out their setlists. Instead, they’ll spontaneously pull from a practiced collection of about 90 songs. The sets will change every night, and neither band nor audience will know which song is next until just about the moment it starts.
(Read: 10 Stories Behind the Pixies’ Doolittle)
Tickets to these shows are priced at $60, and the band is working with promoters to ensure they’ll be strictly unavailable on the secondary market. The only way to guarantee admission is through the band’s website when tickets go on sale this Friday, September 27th, at 1:00 p.m. EDT/10:00 a.m. PDT.
Update: Throwing Muses’ Kristin Hersh will open for the Pixies.
Otherwise, check out Pixies on one of the remaining 23 stops on their European tour, tickets for which are available here.
Pixies 2019 Tour Dates:
09/25 – Belfast, UK @ Ulster Hall
09/26 – Dublin, IE @ Olympia Theatre
09/29 – Oslo, NO @ Sentrum Scene
09/30 – Stockholm, SE @ Cirkus
10/01 – Copenhagen, DK @ KB Hallen
10/03 – Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg
10/04 – Tilburg, NL @ O13 Poppodium
10/05 – Berlin, DE @ Columbiahalle
10/07 – Cologne, DE @ Palladium
10/08 – Prague, CZ @ Forum Karlin
10/09 – Vienna, AT @ Gasometer
10/11 – Bologna, IT @ PalaDozza
10/12 – Turin, IT @ Todays at OGR
10/13 – Zurich, CH @ X-Tra
10/15 – Munich, DE @ Tonhalle
10/16 – Brussels, DE @ Forest National
10/17 – Luxembourg City, LU @ Luxexpo
10/19 – Paris, FR @ L’Olympia
10/20 – Lyon, FR @ Le Radiant
10/21 – Rennes, FR @ Le Liberte
10/23 – Barcelona, ES & Sant Jordi Club
10/24 – Madrid, ES @ Riviera
10/25 – Lisbon, PT @ Campo Pequeno
10/26 – Galicia, ES @ Coliseum
12/02 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour ^
12/03 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour ^
12/05 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hal ^
12/09 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall ^
12/11 – Boston, MA @ Big Night Live ^
12/12 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre ^
^ = w/ Kristin Hersh
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For the extreme lovers, there is never a season, it will always be summer or at least warm somewhere in the world, or you may simply enjoy practicing your favorite sport under the inclemency of winter. In any case, this season is great for a trip to Canos de Meca, a hamlet located south of Andalusia, on the coast of Cadiz, in a coastal town located in Barbate, in the province of Cádiz, Spain, known for being a Featured tourist center during the summer months.
There are unique places that can not be found anywhere in the world and Caños de Meca, is one of them. It is known for having been a reference point for the hippie and bohemian movement of the 60s in Spain, as well as being located next to Cape Trafalgar, in front of which the Battle of Trafalgar took place. Nowadays, it continues to be a redoubt to enjoy the tranquility offered by its endless beaches, crystalline and nudist water, cliffs that gain land to the sea and its Natural Park of La Breña, whose vegetation composed mainly of stone pines falls directly on the sea.
Caños owes its name to the large number of pipes or jets of fresh water that emanate from its cliffs and that have their maximum exponent in the pipes that are at the end of the naturist beach ‘Pequeño Lulú’, although difficult to access, it is worth it visit them And of course what to say about their ‘miraculous’ mud that bathers extract directly from the rock of the beach to smear the body and leave the skin soft and smooth.
The area offers a thousand options of active tourism, sports and adventure. In this report we only deal with the most popular and popular. Caños de Meca known for its special characteristics of wind and waves, is an excellent place to practice windsurfing, especially in winter, where we can find excellent weather conditions for lovers of waves and water sports. Every year the strong winds of the Levante, attract thousands of windsurfers from around the world to Caños de Meca.
The east wind attracts thousands of people of all nationalities who are fond of windsurfing and kitesurfing every year. The busiest area for windsurfing is in front of the Playas del Estrecho Urbanization, where the wind is lateral and the largest waves are formed, especially in winter and with the sea in the background.
Los Caños has been in several occasions headquarters of official championships of this sport. On windy days the sea is filled with countless colorful candles that do all kinds of acrobatic tricks. But the problem is the lack of space. Caños de Meca is just a small street of low houses located on a cliff, but in summer it becomes the summer ‘meca’ of hippies, surfers, bohemians, nudists, naturists and that increasingly attracts a family tourist. Caños is much smaller than the Los Lances beach in Tarifa. But that does not prevent Caños from having a great name in the world of windsurfing, and is recognized as one of the best spots on the coast for professional or extreme windsurfing.
The waves here are much more constant than in Tarifa, but extreme caution is necessary, since the currents can be very strong in this area of the Gulf of Cádiz. It is ideal for people who surf professionally but can be dangerous for beginners.
So, if you still do not know the surf of its waves, the rocky area, the wild nature of its coves … Get closer to Caños de Meca.

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By Tom Arup
ELECTRICITY produced by renewable sources is approaching 10 per cent of Australia's total power supply, half of the national target for 2020.
The Clean Energy Council's 2011 review - launched overnight at climate change talks in Durban, South Africa - said renewables' share of Australian electricity generation had grown by almost one percentage point over the past year, up from 8.7 per cent to 9.64 per cent.
But the growth was driven largely by increased generation of hydro power following heavy rains across the east coast.
Hydro is still far and away the biggest clean energy source in Australia, accounting for 67 per cent of the total, followed by wind power at 22 per cent.
Rooftop solar technology accounts for only 2.3 per cent of all renewable power generated, or a little over 0.2 per cent of total generation.
Despite this, the review said more than 75 per cent of the $5.2 billion invested in renewable energy in Australia in the 2010-11 financial year went on household solar.
Clean Energy Council director Kane Thornton said Australia was ''well on the way to achieving the 20 per cent renewable energy target … extra rainfall in key hydro power catchments made a huge difference.''
But Carbon Market Economics director Bruce Mountain said it was not clear anyone was prepared to make the serious investments needed to meet the 20 per cent renewable energy target by the end of the decade.
''There is little evidence that investment will scale up in time to meet it,'' he said.
The council's review estimates more than 500,000 solar systems have been installed, with almost half between January and August this year - 35 times the number in 2008.
Federal and state governments have slashed subsidies for rooftop solar panels on the back of concerns about rising power prices and budget bottom lines.
While a massive increase in solar investment occurred this year, up from $1.2 billion to $4 billion, investment in wind power projects fell from $1.83 billion last financial year to $1.15 billion in 2010-11.


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Sung-yeol and Woo-hyun are two 18-year-old boys who are both tormented by the emotional scars of broken families; Woo-hyun longs to see again his mother who left him as a child, while Sung-yeol lives with a stepmother that he detests and whom he blames for the break up of his parents' marriage. Both are considered asocial by Korean norms, although popular, brave and public spirited Woo-hyun drifts through school refusing to apply himself to his studies; Sung-yeol is studious and does well academically but is dismissive and disrespectful of his parents, aloof and detached from his classmates, appearing cold and arrogant to all. The lives of the two crash together when an angel falls from heaven.
Woo-hyun's classmate, Kim Jin-young, harbours a crush for him. Fearing for her daughter's grades from her infatuation with a slacker, Jin-young's mother arrives in class and warns Woo-hyun to stay away from her daughter, publicly humiliating her. Unable to deal with her overbearing mother Jin-young prepares to jump from the roof of the school building, where Woo-hyun finds her.
Going about their business invisible to mortals are angels who guide the souls of the dead to the next life, one such nameless angel spends her time in between clients watching Korean soap operas and watching over the lives of mortals, including Woo-hyun and Sung-yeol. For this, she is chided for by a senior angel, "for its always the same story told over and over again just with different people." However the angel believes that by watching she can come to understand what it is to be human, and how mortals can love when the outcome will always be parting, and how they can live if death is all that waits.
Each angel is guided by a black book that contains the name of the soon to be deceased. The female angel arrives on the school rooftop to find Woo-hyun and Jin-young standing on the ledge. There is an unexpected thunderstorm and the name and picture of the soul to be collected oscillates between Woo-hyun and Jin-young as if it cannot decide who is to die. The angel drops her book and in the moment that she takes to recover it Woo-hyun pushes Jin-young to safety but over-balances and falls to the ground; instinctively the angel uses her powers to save his life, however they both pass out as they crash into the bonnet of a car.
Woo-hyun and the angel wake up in hospital, Woo-hyun is surprised that he is unscathed but the angel is shocked, when she realises that Woo-hyun can see her, that he can touch her, that she can feel the ground with her toes, that she has a heartbeat, and that she is in fact now mortal.
Believing her to be suffering from amnesia due to his landing on top of her Woo-hyun takes the angel to the local police station, where under questioning she stumbles on the name Yi Seul-bi. Pressed she randomly selected syllables from magazines in the police station, from which the policeman (Sung-yeol's father, Hwang Woo-jin) puzzled out a name that made sense. Woo-hyun is about to leave the newly named Seul-bi to the care of the police when Jin-young's mother arrives (with Woo-hyun's form tutor and grandmother in tow) threatening to sue Woo-hyun for trying to entice her daughter into a suicide pact, and with trumped up accusations of violence and bullying. Being well disposed to Woo-hyun from an earlier encounter, Hwang Woo-jin refuses to entertain the charges. Woo-hyun is about to leave Seul-bi to the care of the police, when his grandmother insists that they take her in as he owes her his life.
Seul-bi moves in with Woo-hyun and his grandmother, working part-time in their rice cake restaurant. Forgetting that she is now mortal Seul-bi is fearless in the face of injustice, authority and things she sees as wrong, traits that Woo-hyun appreciates and the two make themselves responsible for each other's well-being and happiness. Woo-hyun is forced by Jin-young's mother to transfer to a new school, the same school that Sung-yeol attends and the two become both rivals and allies. Curious about high school, and emotionally attached to Woo-hyun, Seul-bi decides to join him in school, where Sung-yeol also falls for her.
Seul-bi gets her wish of knowing humanity better, in high school learning firsthand the joys and sorrows of being a normal teenager, but she must also face a test unknown to any teenager nor angel, for on the day that she became mortal, the soul she should have led into the next life was Woo-hyun's.


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Published 12:00 pm Thursday, September 1, 2016
NEW ALBANY — Granville Green, 73, died Sunday, Aug. 27, 2016, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County in New Albany. Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Oxford First United Methodist Church (formerly Burns U.M. Church) with the Rev. Christopher Diggs officiating. Viewing will be held on Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Hodges Funeral Homes, which is in charge of arrangements.
He is survived by daughters Sheree Hammond of Chicago and Shadra Mathis of Oxford; sons Steven Green of Riviera Beach, Florida and Scotty Green of West Palm Beach, Florida; brother Milan Green of St. Louis; sisters Queenie Barnes of Oxford and Patricia Eskridge of St. Louis; and four grandchildren.


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Last year, Michigan's U.S. senators, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow, sought a $1 million allocation for longer-term breakwater repairs to be included in the 2007 federal budget. But the last Congress did not finalize the appropriations bill which contained this allocation before leaving session in late 2006.
Harold Chase, a Traverse City-based representative for Levin, said the new Congress then allotted 2007 funding to federal agencies at their prior-year levels - without direct budget earmarks for specific projects like the breakwater.
"The current (Corps) budget right now does not allow any expenditures on shallow-draft harbors or recreational harbors (like Petoskey's)," Foster said. "One of the options that we're looking at is to see if Congress could give the Corps money for shallow-draft harbor maintenance where we could address the most critical issues at shallow draft harbors."
Chase said Levin and Stabenow are seeking $2 million to be designated for the Petoskey breakwater fix as part of the 2008 budget. This allocation hopefully can be inserted into budget legislation sometime this spring or summer, he added.
U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Menominee, is making his own effort in the House of Representatives to arrange $1 million in funding for long-term repairs in the 2008 budget.
"Congressman Stupak has also requested funding in the House energy and water bill for permanent repairs to the Petoskey breakwater," said Stupak's press secretary, Alex Haurek. "He looks forward to working with Senators Levin and Stabenow to secure legislation for the Petoskey breakwater."
Foster has previously said that $1 million would likely allow a comprehensive breakwater repair to be planned and construction to be partially completed.
The federally owned breakwater shields Petoskey's city marina. Petoskey Department of Parks and Recreation director Al Hansen said the temporary repairs seem to be holding up well.
"We don't see any other damage so far," he said. "It came through the winter well."
But Foster is concerned that another section of concrete along the aging breakwater could break up, given the condition of the wooden structure that underlies it.
"That timber crib structure is very deteriorated for most of the length," he said.
If adequate repair funding is allotted for fiscal 2008, "hopefully we could get done with the engineering and design work so we could have some kind of construction started next summer," Foster added.
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MitoMDT (Mito Multi-Disciplinary Team) will be a national Mitochondrial Diagnostic Network for Genomics and Omics, comprising clinicians, researchers and diagnostic scientists. We seek to combine genomic testing with additional Omic technologies to improve diagnostic rates for Mitochondrial Disease (MD) to over 70%. This will identify novel genes, mechanisms and phenotypes, while enabling personalised treatments and achieving better health outcomes for patients with Mitochondrial Disease.
Professor David Thorburn
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Recruitment period: until May 2025
The MitoMDT study will assess participant eligibility based on clinical presentation, using modified Nijmegen Mitochondrial Disease Criteria (mNMDC). Referring clinicians are required to provide patient clinical information and demographic information via the study’s REDCap survey.
It is recommended that the clinicians discuss potentially eligible patients with the clinical lead in your state prior to submitting patients for consideration to the MitoMDT study.
Eligibility scores will be calculated based on the sum of:
- Clinical signs and symptoms (max. 4 points), comprising Muscle presentation (max. 2 points), CNS presentation (max. 2 points), Multisystem disease (max. 3 points)
- Metabolic / Imaging studies (max. 4 points)
- Tissue pathology / Biochemistry / Genetics (max. 4 points)
Patients will usually only be eligible with a total mNMDC score of 5 or more, with 5 to 7 classed as a probable mitochondrial disorder and 8 to 12 classed as a definite mitochondrial disorder. Patients with a score <5 can be considered if the MitoMDT review agrees that a strong suspicion of mitochondrial disease can be justified. Note that each mNMDC category (and clinical sub-categories) has a maximum score.
- Participants with a non-mitochondrial disease diagnosis explaining phenotype from other investigatory testing
- Participants with a confirmed molecular diagnosis
|A blood sample
A saliva sample (if blood cannot be obtained)
A urine sample
Liver biopsy (if other surgery is planned)
Referral process & recruitment sites
|Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne/ Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; MCRI
(Victorian Clinical Genetics Services and Metabolic Department)
|Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick Clinical Genetics Services
Children’s Hospital Westmead Metabolic genetics service
|Northern Sydney Local Health District
Royal North Shore Hospital
NeuRa – Randwick
Neuroscience Research Department
|Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service
Queensland Children’s Hospital
|Royal Perth Hospital
|Child and Adolescent Health Service Perth Children’s Hospital

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Join Physicist and TV presenter, Mark the Science Guy, at the Science Week Launch Pad for
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Get ready to blast off on a journey through our solar system in this hands on, hilarious and slightly explosive science week show!


Engine Protector is a high-grade protector for the engine and the engine parts, based on acrylate resin. This product covers the treated parts with a transparent flexible layer to make them look like new after treatment.
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Protects all engines and engine parts. Before being treated, the parts must be cleaned with Engine Cleaner
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Theuriet studied law in Paris and joined the public service, attaining the rank of chef de bureau, before his retirement during 1886. He published during 1867 the Chemin des bois, a volume of poems, many of which had been published already in the Revue des Deux Mondes; Le bleu et le noir, poèmes de la vie réelle (1874), Nos oiseaux (1886), and other volumes followed.
M. Theuriet gives natural, simple description of rustic and especially of woodland life, and Théophile Gautier compared him to Shakespeare's Jaques of the forest of Arden. The best of his novels are those that deal with provincial and country life. Theuriet received during 1890 the prix Vitet from the Académie française, of which he became a member during 1896. He died on 23 April 1907, and was succeeded at the Academy by Jean Richepin.
He was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur during 1879, and was made an Officier de la Légion d'honneur during 1895.
- Le mariage de Gérard (1875)
- Raymonde (1877)
- Le fils Maugars (1879)
- La maison des Deux Barbeaux (1879)
- Sauvageonne (1880)
- Reine des bois (1890)
- Villa tranquille (1899)
- Le manuscrit du chanoine (1902)
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Theuriet, Claude Adhémar André". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 844. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the

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Date of Award
Master of Science in Astronautical Engineering
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Jerry Bowman, PhD
An investigation of the AFIT high pressure shock tube was conducted to determine how closely it followed ideal shock tube theory and to determine the available test times for an attached Mach 3 nozzle. The driver section was five feet (1.52 m) long and the driven section was 25 feet (7.62 m) long. The driver gas used for this study was helium while the driven gas was atmospheric air. The pressure rise measured behind the incident shock wave was, on average, 30% lower than predicted by the ideal shock tube relations. Behind the reflected shock, the pressure rise was 65% lower than predictions based on initial driver gas pressure. Due to supply pressure limits and lower than predicted pressures behind the shock waves, fully expanded flow in the Mach 3 nozzle was not attained. However, steady overexpanded flows of Mach 2.74-2.96 were observed for periods of 4-12 milliseconds.
DTIC Accession Number
Vlcek, Kevin M., "An Investigation of the AFIT 2-Inch Shock Tube as a Flow Source for Supersonic Testing" (1994). Theses and Dissertations. 6332.


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Woman can smell fear: What to smell can determine who is in suffering and who in happiness. If you’re a woman, you might smell it. This has come to light not in us but in a study. According to the Daily Mail, the study found that if a person is worried or scared, he sniffs and creates a strange stir in the woman’s mind. She can sense from her senses whether someone is in anxiety or sorrow. A study by researchers at Heinrich Heine University (Heinrich Heine University) has found that women smell sweat and sense fear.
Change in behavior when sniffed
When a woman sniffs someone’s sweat, restless with fear or anxiety, her behavior suddenly changes, the researchers said. This proves that women become sensitive to the suffering of a person. Scientists gave some samples to women for this. Indeed, during a public gathering some men had to speak. Usually most people start to have fear or anxiety before speaking. The researchers took sweat samples from all speaking people and 214 women and men were given to sniff it. Earlier all women were given tasks to play some games on the advice of psychologists. When women sniffed the sweat of worried people, their behavior changed. Women avoided taking risks during the game after sniffing the sweat of worried men and became very cautious in financial terms.
Ability to sense danger in women from the very beginning
Surprisingly, a similar game did not see any change in men’s behavior, while men were also sniffed out of the sweat of those who worried. Researchers at Heinrich Heine University reported that this result reflects the social sensitivity of women. It was on the basis of signs of anxiety or fear in dangerous situations that our female ancestors expanded their social networks, he said.
For example, if a predator was sitting ambushed, the mother would sense the danger and strategize a collective measure to ensure the safety of her children. Many people lived together in it. This trend continues to this day. Researchers said the sensitivity shown by these women when they received a message of anxiety was not at all in men.


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I have many good memories and some bad memories. I have challenged myself and others who I know and love to memorize the word. By memorizing the word of God we have ammunition in our battle with temptation and our confidence in Christ’s work of salvation in our lives is enhanced. Thus enabling us to push on to our goal of holiness.
Our pastor said the other day that when we come to salvation and God begins cleaning us out, we must put something back in. The following is speaking of spirits being in us, while I am not saying if we are living in sin we are possessed the thought behind this remains the same,
“When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, seeking rest but finding none. Then it says, ‘I will return to the person I came from.’ So it returns and finds its former home empty, swept, and in order. Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before. That will be the experience of this evil generation.” Matthew 12:43-45 NLT
If we don’t fill the cleaned out area in our lives with things that are edifying to the Spirit of God we will fill it with things that edify and feed our sinful nature.
“Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.” Romans 8:5-6 NLT
So I am all about putting more and more scripture in my mind. Word for word knowledge is not what I am in pursuit of, but the truth of the scripture, that is my objective. If any of you reading this are interested in this endeavor, message me and we will work out a plan for me to send a verse to you each week.
Oh God, you are mighty and awesome and deserve our praise. In reverence I say your name and humbly ask for your blessings today. Help me to keep my heart and mind stayed on you. I exalt and magnify your holy name oh God. Blessed be your name for your goodness and favor to your people. These things I ask in Jesus name, amen!


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Creamy peach coloured pearl studs on sterling silver posts.
8mm peach pearl sterling silver stud earrings
Natural creamy peach coloured freshwater pearls on sterling silver posts.
These pearls are a good size giving that classic 50s button stud style.
I hand make these with top quality jewellers resin to fix the pearls to their backs. I then stress test them to make sure the pearls won't budge.
Pearls - 8mm natural peach coloured freshwater button pearls
Posts - solid sterling silver ear posts (hallmarked)
Backs - sterling silver butterfly backs

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Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany and World War II by Stanley G Payne
If Benito Mussolini had sustained Italy's neutrality in the second world war, instead of jumping aboard Hitler's bandwagon in June 1940 in anticipation of sharing the pillage of Europe, he could have profited mightily. It is unlikely that the Nazis would have invaded his country. The victorious allies would have heaped rewards on Italy, fascist or no, for staying out. "Musso" might have continued to tyrannise his own country to a ripe old age.
This was indeed the experience of his fellow dictator General Francisco Franco, a monster with more blood on his hands than Mussolini. The Spaniard persisted with the wholesale murder of his defeated civil-war enemies all through the second world war, and indeed afterwards. He sustained his tyranny until dying in his bed in 1975.
To this day, imbecile right-wing pundits - some of them British - pay homage to Franco's statesmanship and the "sound" governance of his country.

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Commercial performance World of Warcraft was the of 2005 and 2006.
Expansions Title Release Date Level Cap World of Warcraft November 2004 60 January 2007 70 November 2008 80 December 2010 85 September 2012 90 November 2014 100 August 2016 110 August 2018 120 November 2020 60 Eight have been released: , released in January 2007; , released in November 2008; , released in December 2010; , released in September 2012; , released in November 2014; , released in August 2016; and , released in August 2018.
Low-level players were killed in seconds by the high-damage disease.
It turns out that this appears to still be the case that internally they have a Linux build of World of Warcraft but as of yet they have decided against releasing it to the public.
Blizzard later reversed the decision to issue warnings to players promoting -friendly guilds.
Much of World of Warcraft play involves the completion of.
On January 28, 2014 Blizzard announced that 100 million accounts have been created for the game.
The seventh expansion, Battle for Azeroth, was released worldwide on August 13 and 14 depending on location 2018.