3D printers are a rapidly growing technology, being able to produce three-dimensional things out of a wide array of materials. Over time, they have seen a sharp rise in popularity, as many retail stores like Staples or Best Buy are now offering these printers and their components for people to buy. Online services like Amazon also seem to be taking the same path, contributing to the idea that eventually most homes will have a 3D printer.
Though, this change is something that I hope will be welcomed by most. 3D printing technology has achieved many great things in numerous fields already, and there is no telling how much we have yet to achieve with it.
Regardless, I think it’s important to unpack the essentials of this technology and the potential it has for our world.
What Exactly Is 3D Printing?
In the simplest terms, 3D printing is the process by which a three-dimensional object is manufactured by laying down many thin layers of material.
While there are several different methods and materials used when it comes to 3D printing, it is important to understand the main idea – virtual models being transformed into real-world objects.
These models can come from CAD (computer-aided design) programs, 3D scanners, or CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) programs. Though, with all that aside, how does the process actually happen?
How Does 3D Printing Work?
There are several different kinds of technologies used by 3D printers. These include the following:
- Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM): One of the most common processes used. Here, a filament made of some thermoplastic (e.g. polylactic acid (PLA)) is melted and then released through a heated nozzle, layer by layer. This process was also used by the first 3D printers, and it continues to be used today for things like consumer products.
- Stereolithography: This process involves a tank of photopolymer as well as an ultraviolet laser. In order to create the desired object, the shape of the object is traced on the surface of the polymer, which solidifies as soon as it comes into contact with the laser. Through this, the object is “printed” layer by layer using the laser, based on the directions from the file being used (CAD or CAM).
- Selective Laser Sintering (SLS): Here, a laser of high power is used to fuse together particles of the desired material. This method works with metal, ceramic, glass, or plastic, and any leftover material by the end is simply reprocessed and reused.
As you can see, there are several different materials that can be used with 3D printers, and what can be used is determined by the technology and method used for printing.
Among these materials are metals (e.g. aluminum, stainless steel), plastics/polymers (e.g. thermoplastics), glass, and even edible materials we use for food (e.g. cheese, chocolate).
It’s surprising to see just how versatile 3D printers are when it comes to materials, and it opens a lot of paths for future developments.
Benefits of 3D Printing
One of the biggest benefits of using 3D printing is having the ability to quickly generate prototypes or models from design ideas. At the same time, designers can make fast changes in design wherever they need to.
Not only that, but the additive process that is employed by 3D printing can help cut costs and save resources, as little to no material is lost or wasted.
All of this leads to many big changes that are currently happening in the manufacturing world.
For one, manufacturing companies can make their products more accessible to consumers – especially those in remote locations – since they eventually can release files for their products, allowing people to print them in their own homes.
Manufacturing companies themselves can also optimize their production processes. An example of this is the switch to production on demand, which will boost management of inventory while cutting down the space needed in warehouses.
What We Can Create with 3D Printing
While the rapid production of prototypes and models has been an important use of 3D printing ever since its early days, there has been a growing push towards making final products with it as well.
One of the most common examples of things that can 3D printed is consumer products, including:
- Wax castings (used in making jewelry)
It doesn’t end there, though. 3D printers have already seen great use in manufacturing parts for the aviation and automotive industries. Archaeologists have been able to recreate models of ancient artifacts with this stunning technology, and paleontologists are using it to duplicate fossils for further study.
The medical world is also seeing a strong development with 3D printing. Some medical technicians and physicians have developed prosthetics and artifical teeth, while others have even been able to produce models of organs and tumors from CT scans to use for surgeries. Furthermore, there are 3D printers in development that can manufacture artificial organs (like kidneys) by laying down layers of cells. There may very well be a medical revolution in our future, and it’s all thanks to 3D printing.
Another area where major progress is happening through the use of 3D printing is the world of food preparation. MIT has already developed the Cornucopia, a 3D printer that can “print” and cook food without leaving waste, and NASA has even done research in 3D printing its food for astronauts.
And to think, this is just the beginning for 3D printing. Who knows what we’ll be able to combine or create in the next 10 years? It’s truly phenomenal how far we’ve come with this technology already – and yet it may not even hold a candle to what we can achieve in the coming years.
The future is approaching fast with 3D printers. Soon, we can expect them to become a common sight in homes around the world, being used in more ways than we can imagine. Though, their value and utility will continue to branch out beyond just our homes. We have already seen the amazing things being done in the medical sciences with this technology, and it is even seeing use in aerospace agencies like NASA. Truly, no one can predict how far this extraordinary technology will take us.
However, I can say without a doubt that this is only the beginning of something revolutionary.
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Effect of a joint on breakout noise characteristics of rectangular duct
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Breakout from a flexible rectangular duct depends on its structural properties as well as acoustic properties of the medium. Majority of duct breakout noise prediction models in the literature consider an ideal duct (without joint). However, ducts used in applications have joints. So, current research interest is to study the effect of duct joint in predicting the breakout noise and its influence on modal parameters. For this purpose, duct with a joint is considered in the experimental study and an ideal duct for numerical analysis. As a first step, an experimental setup is developed to measure breakout noise in terms of transverse transmission loss and radiation efficiency, and furthermore an experimental modal analysis is performed to measure modal parameters of the duct. Numerical analysis is performed on an ideal rectangular duct (without considering the joint condition) to calculate the breakout noise and modal parameters. Both, experimental and numerical results are compared, and it is observed that joint has a less significant influence on breakout noise as compared with modal parameters.
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More opposition, milestones for port plans
As the city's development plans for the Port of Rochester approach several milestones this summer, opponents aren't letting up in their fight to stop the project.
Bill Brown, a critic of the city's plans, will outline his research and concerns about the cost and suitability of developing the site at a public meeting of the Charlotte Strong citizens group at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Richard Young, a geological sciences professor at the State University of New York at Geneseo, will join Brown's presentation at the Roger Robach Community Center, 180 Beach Ave.
At the same time, city officials say a number of steps are in the works this summer to keep the plans moving forward, including the official start of the process for the developer to seek foreign investors to support the project. The city also laid out a timeline for the development, which is expected to break ground about a year from now.
Gregory Weykamp, principal with developer Edgewater Resources, also said Monday that he hopes to meet with community groups during a trip to Rochester, most likely in June.
"At a bare minimum, I'll be doing an update on the process — where we are, what we've heard," Weykamp said. No date has been set.
The project is a source of controversy among some city residents — particularly some in the Charlotte neighborhood, where the port is located.
The development's first phase calls for a $21.5 million, 10-story building with a hotel, condominiums, a spa and commercial and restaurant space on what is now city-owned land. City Council authorized the sale of property late last year.
Two more buildings would come in later phases if all goes well with the first. After delays, a marina project also is in the works and is expected to be completed next May or June.
While members of Charlotte Strong have criticized the plans on various grounds, Brown — a systems analyst — has focused on the site conditions.
He has questioned if the soil can support heavy development and whether the city or the developers fully understand the geology of the site, including the depth of bedrock. He will focus on these questions in Thursday's talk.
"There's some huge holes there — holes in information," Brown said. "There's stuff that they don't know that is critical."
Weykamp said techniques used in other riverfront developments will work in Rochester, too.
"There's nothing from a technology standpoint or a geotechnical standpoint that suggest any issues that can't be overcome by a deep foundation system that's readily used across the country," he said.
Several pieces are expected to fall into place for the project in the weeks after the Charlotte Strong talk.
The developer hopes to present a 3-D model of the first building to the city's Project Review Committee in June.
The model would not show details of the structure's design but give a better idea of its size and scale. Edgewater also may visit the city's Zoning Board of Appeals in July to discuss potential variances for the project — a waiver for a rule on how far one side of the building is set back from the street, for example.
The city and developers also are drawing up a legal document detailing the terms and conditions of the entire project, with hopes of wrapping it up in June or July, said Steve Golding, the city's manager of downtown development, in an email.
Financial documents on the project also should be completed in late July to kick-start Edgewater's process of finding foreign investors through the federal government's EB-5 investment program, which is expected to finance a significant portion of the development.
If all goes according to plan, the city would look to close on the sale of the first parcel in April or May of next year, with construction to start in May or June.
The project is expected to take between 18 months and two years to complete.

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GITEX 2021: Four technology trends that will define our future
Gulf IT Expo Dubai is a sprawling business space with thousands of exhibitors from all over the world.
It can be hard to get a gauge of broader tech trends, in part because every two minutes you fly over a robot or meet a hologram.
Topics like cybersecurity, cryptography, artificial intelligence, and the data economy dominate the popular narrative, but is humanity actually making progress?
Are we moving to a brighter future inhabited by collaborative robots? And self-driving vehicles? And when will humanity collectively stand up and let machines do the hard work?
The National spoke to several experts at Gitex to find out.
Many exhibitors and speakers at GITEX focus on how close we are to the singularity - the hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, leading to unexpected changes in human civilization.
"This is a historic moment in human history because we have never tried to replicate or replicate our intelligence," said Tanya Gagal, a Dubai-based futurist and artificial intelligence expert.
So when will it happen? Nobody knows, but there are a lot of companies at Gitex trying to figure out what this technological age means for humans on an individual level.
Masumzadeh suggested that films like Terminator and RoboCop depicting rogue robotic characters entered the public consciousness and inadvertently turned people away from robots and made them afraid of AI.
"I think there is a lot of bad publicity regarding AI and its capabilities," he said.
“We can't be a computer but humans have logic and common sense. We have to teach a robot that common sense and it will stay that way for a very long time.
"The robot needs to learn and we're still - right now - doing all the teaching."
A man uses an augmented reality headset at the du booth at GITEX at the Dubai World Trade Centre. Leslie Pablo/The National
Over the next few years, Ms. Jejel said, we will redefine our perception through tools such as virtual reality and augmented reality.
Dozens of companies are displaying their systems at GITEX, where exhibitors encourage visitors to don virtual reality goggles to instantly join a new world.
“You will see a lot of startups here and a lot of big organizations also investing in technology like this,” Gagal said.
“Over time, I think we will fully see the proliferation and democratization of these technologies, and they will completely change the way we interact with each other.”
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg certainly agrees. He's previously talked about creating a "metaverse" or online world where people interact, work and play games in a virtual environment, often using VR headsets.
The Facebook CEO described it as "the internet embodied where you are in it rather than just viewing content."
So in the future, 2D meetings will not take place with each person appearing in their own rectangle, but in 3D, where you feel like you are in the meeting room physically via an avatar or a 3D image.
Internet speed, better processing power and technological advances allow more people to be innovative and creative.
“We no longer have to follow a linear path of human progress, we can all come together and do amazing things,” Gagal said.
"We're actually on a really good path where humanity, governments, businesses and private organizations are really collaborating to make sure that we move forward and Gitex is proof of that."


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Fractionated stereotactic conformal radiotherapy for large benign skull base meningiomas
Radiation Oncology volume 6, Article number: 36 (2011)
to assess the safety and efficacy of fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (FSRT) for large skull base meningiomas.
Methods and Materials
Fifty-two patients with large skull base meningiomas aged 34-74 years (median age 56 years) were treated with FSRT between June 2004 and August 2009. All patients received FSRT for residual or progressive meningiomas more than 4 centimeters in greatest dimension. The median GTV was 35.4 cm3 (range 24.1-94.9 cm3), and the median PTV was 47.6 cm3 (range 33.5-142.7 cm3). Treatment volumes were achieved with 5-8 noncoplanar beams shaped using a micromultileaf collimator (MLC). Treatment was delivered in 30 daily fractions over 6 weeks to a total dose of 50 Gy using 6 MV photons. Outcome was assessed prospectively.
At a median follow-up of 42 months (range 9-72 months) the 3-year and 5-year progression-free survival (PFS) rates were 96% and 93%, respectively, and survival was 100%. Three patients required further debulking surgery for progressive disease. Hypopituitarism was the most commonly reported late complication, with a new hormone pituitary deficit occurring in 10 (19%) of patients. Clinically significant late neurological toxicity was observed in 3 (5.5%) patients consisting of worsening of pre-existing cranial deficits.
FSRT as a high-precision technique of localized RT is suitable for the treatment of large skull base meningiomas. The local control is comparable to that reported following conventional external beam RT. Longer follow-up is required to assess long term efficacy and toxicity, particularly in terms of potential reduction of treatment-related late toxicity.
The optimal management of large benign meningiomas of the skull base is challenging. Surgery remains the standard treatment and following apparently complete removal the reported control rates are in the region of 95% at 5 years and 90% at 10 years [1–14]. However, a significant subset of meningiomas, especially large tumors involving the cavernous sinus, the petroclival region, and the brainstem cannot be completely resected for the risk of significant morbidity [1, 3–6, 9]. In such patients incomplete removal of tumor with preservation of the involved cranial nerves may result in improved neurological function and temporary local control, although progression on long-term follow-up is reported in up to 80% of patients [2, 8, 13].
Local control following partial resection of benign meningiomas and at the time of recurrence can be improved with conventional fractionated external beam radiotherapy (RT), with a reported 10-year progression-free survival in the region of 75-90% [15–17]. More recently, stereotactic radiation techniques in form of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (FSRT) have been developed as accurate techniques that can deliver more localized irradiation with a steeper dose gradient between the tumor and the surrounding normal tissue, and consequently reducing the volume of normal brain irradiated to high radiation doses. Both techniques have been reported as an effective treatment in several benign skull base tumors including pituitary adenomas [18, 19], acoustic neuromas [20, 21], craniopharyngiomas [22, 23] and meningiomas .
Although in many centers SRS is the preferred treatment option for patients with small to moderate recurrent or enlarging skull base meningiomas, fractionated RT is often performed for larger tumors close to critical structures because of the radiobiological advantage of dose fractionation in reducing the risk of post-radiation long-term complications. In this study, we report the experience with FSRT at our center for patients with large residual or progressive skull base meningiomas.
Patients and Methods
Between June 2004 and August 2009, fifty-two patients with benign skull base meningiomas more than 4 centimeters in greatest dimension were treated with FSRT. Characteristics of patients are shown in Table 1. There were 17 males and 35 females. Median age was 56 years, ranging from 34 to 74 years. All patients had a KPS ≥ 60. Eighteen received FSRT following surgery for a macroscopic tumor remnant and the other 34 patients had FSRT at tumor regrowth. Twenty-one patients had more than one surgical procedure. Histology confirmed the presence of a benign meningioma in all cases. Cranial nerve deficits were present in 43 patients, mainly consisting of visual field defects in 22 and/or impaired ocular motility in 19 (Table 2). Endocrine deficits were present in 7 patients. The median time from resection to FSRT was 39 months. None of patients had received previous radiotherapy.
SCRT technique and dose prescription
The FSRT technical details and procedure using the BrainLab stereotactic mask fixation system have been previously reported . The gross tumor volume (GTV) was delineated on the basis of the contrast-enhancing tumor demonstrated on T1-weighted MRI fused with the simulation CT images. CTV was considered the same as GTV. The planning target volume (PTV) was generated by the geometric expansion of GTV plus 2-3 mm. For the last 18 patients the 3-D margin was reduced to 2 mm. The median GTV was 35.4 cm3 (range 24.1-94.9 cm3). The PTV was 47.6 cm3 (range 33.5-142.7 cm3). Treatment volumes were achieved with 5-8 noncoplanar beams shaped using a micromultileaf collimator (MLC). Plans were prescribed at the isocentre according to ICRU 50 criteria with PTV covered by the 95% isodose in 3-D. To assess the accuracy of relocation, the isocentre position was verified with a second CT scan performed just prior to the start of treatment. The tolerance of relocation had to be < 1.5 mm in any direction. Daily portal images acquired at 0 and 90° through the isocenter were obtained for each patient during the treatment. All patients were treated on a 6-MV LINAC with a 120 leaf MLC (Varian Clinac 600 DBX) and received a dose of 50 Gy in 30 fractions over 6 weeks.
Follow-up and data analysis
A clinical assessment of neurological status and tolerance to treatment was performed every six months. An MRI scan was performed every 6 months for the first 2 years and thereafter every 12 months. Tumor control was defined by the absence of radiological tumor progression. Pituitary function was assessed by complete basal hormonal assessment and dynamic testing, as appropriate, in an endocrine clinic. Vision was assessed by serial ophthalmologic examinations. Tumor control and overall survival were measured from the start of FSRT. Univariate analysis and multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression model were used to test the effect of prognostic factors on tumor control.
Tumor control and survival
Fifty-two patients with large benign skull base meningioma were treated with FSRT. At the time of analysis in December 2010, three patients had tumor progression 18, 30 and 42 months after FSRT and required surgery. After a median follow-up of 42 months (range from 12 months to 72 months), the actuarial tumor control was 96% at 3 years and 93% at 5 years, and respective survival 100% (Figure 1). Local control was similar for patients treated with FSRT as a part of their primary treatment or at the time of recurrence. MRI showed on serial imaging no changes in 37 (71%) and reduction in tumor size in 12 patients (23%), however without reaching conventional partial response criteria. Univariate analysis showed no significant tumor control between 23 meningiomas larger than 40 cm3 and 29 meningiomas smaller than or equal to 40 cm3 (P = 0.16) (Figure 2). Similarly, tumor location, sex, and age were not correlated with tumor control.
Neurological deficits were present in 43 (82%) patients. After FSRT 11 (20%) patients had a clinical improvement of neurological deficits (Table 2). Vision improved in 7 patients and cranial nerve function in 5 patients. The optic chiasm was included in the PTV of the majority of patients (n = 36) and received the prescribed dose of 50 Gy. Three patients deteriorated without evidence of tumor progression on imaging. One patient had a slight worsening of vision and two progressive hearing loss. Seven patients had a transient mild visual deterioration (n = 4) and a worsening of pre-existing 7th (n = 1) and 5th (n = 2) nerve palsy during or shortly after treatment, with full recovery after a short course of corticosteroids.
Acute and late toxicity
All patients noted transient localized alopecia at the beam entrance with full subsequent recovery of hair growth. Tiredness occurred in 14 (27%) patients, lasting for 4-8 weeks after FSRT. Transient headache occurred in 6 patients. One patient had an increase in seizure frequency. A development of new or worsening of pre-existing hypopituitarism occurred in 10 (19%) patients after a median follow-up of 36 months, requiring hormone replacement therapy with gonadal steroids and growth hormone in 7 patients, GH replacement in 2 patients, and thyroxine and hydrocortisone in 4 patients. The pituitary fossa contained residual tumor in 27 patients, and was included in the PTV. New clinically apparent neurocognitive dysfunction (Grade II RTOG memory impairment) was reported in one patient. No radiation necrosis, cerebrovascular accidents and second tumors were reported.
Fifty-two patients with large skull base meningiomas were treated with FSRT between June 2004 and August 2009 at University of Rome "La Sapienza". At a median follow-up of 42 months tumor control rates were 96% and 93% at 3 and 5 years, with respective survival of 100%. The rate of complications was acceptable, consisting mainly in worsening vision in 2 patients and pituitary hormone deficits in 10 patients. The reported tumor control rate is similar to that shown recently by others following conventional RT [15–17, 26–33] or FSRT [34–45](Table 3), however longer follow-ups needed to confirm the excellent results obtained in our series. Of note, in our study we have considered only patients presenting with large benign meningiomas more than 4 centimeters in greatest dimension, with a median volume of 35.4 cm3. Milker-Zabel et al.  reported on 317 patients with benign skull base meningiomas of a median volume of 34 cm3 treated with FSRT at University of Heidelberg. At a median follow-up of 5.7 years, 5-year and 10-year tumor control rates were 90.5% and 89%, and respective survival were 95% and 90%. Hamm et al  reported on 183 patients with large skull base meningiomas up to 135 cm3 or close to optical structures treated with FSRT with a median dose of 56 Gy with daily fractions of 1.8-2 Gy. At a median follow-up of 36 months the overall survival and the progression-free survival rates for 5 years were 92.9%, and 96.9%, respectively. Grade II-III late neurological toxicity occurred in 5.5% of patients. A similar tumor control has been reported in patients with skull base meningiomas treated with conventional RT, however with an increased risk of recurrence for larger tumors [15, 28, 29]. Connell et al  reported a 5-year control of 93% for 54 patients with skull base meningiomas less than 5 centimeters in greatest dimension and 40% for tumors more than 5 centimeters, and similar findings have been reported by others [15, 28]. Although a clear limitation of the study is represented by the relatively short follow-up, neverthless our results and data from literature suggest that FSRT is an appropriate treatment option for patients with large recurrent or enlarging skull base meningiomas with a 5-year control similar or even better than conventional RT.
The external beam radiation dose for meningioma that represents the best balance of tumor control and a low complication rate has not been defined. Most of published series show no significant difference on tumor control with the use of doses ranging between 50 and 60 Gy, however a dose < 50 Gy has been associated with higher recurrence rates [15, 27, 33]. The present results, with a tumor control of 90% at 5 years, suggest that a dose of 50 Gy in 30 fractions may achieve a good local tumor control with acceptable toxicity in large skull base meningiomas.
SRS represents an effective and safe alternative treatment option for patients with skull base meningiomas. At doses of 12-16 Gy the reported actuarial 5-year and 10-year tumor local control rates are in the range of 90-95% and 80-85%, as shown in some recent large series [46–58]; however, larger tumors are associated with worse long-term local control and increased toxicity [49, 54, 55]. DiBiase et al  reported a significant higher 5-year tumor control in patients with meningiomas < 10 ml than those with larger tumors (92% vs 68%, p = 0.038). In a large series of 972 patients with meningioma treated with Gamma Knife SRS using a median dose to the tumor margin of 13 Gy local control was negatively correlated with increasing volume (p = 0.01), and a similar trend was observed with disease-specific survival (p = 0.11) . In a retrospective review of 116 patients treated with SRS for meningiomas > 10 cm3 in volume at a dose of 15 Gy, Bledsoe et al  reported a local control of 92% at 7 years, although complications occurred in 18% of patients with skull base tumors. Interestingly, Iwai et al  using a median marginal dose ranging from 8 to 12 Gy showed a progression-free survival of 93% and 83% at 5 and 10 years in 108 patients with skull base meningiomas treated with Gamma Knife SRS; permanent neurological deficits occurred in 6% of patients. Although the use of radiosurgical doses less than 12 Gy may represent a promising approach in patients with large meningiomas, the reported favourable outcome needs to be confirmed in future studies. Currently, results from published series suggest that FSRT is a better treatment option in such patients based on its proven efficacy and safety.
Hypopituitarism was the most commonly reported late complication. A new pituitary hormone deficit requiring hormone replacement occurred in 19% of patients. Late neurological toxicity was observed in 7% of patients and consisted of worsening of pre-existing cranial deficits in 3 patients and mild neurocognitive dysfunction in one patient. A neurological improvement was observed in 19% of patients; vision remained stable in 46 patients and improved in 7 patients with visual impairment. Since the late effects of radiotherapy in terms of normal tissue damage expressed as radiation optic neuropathy occur usually within 1-5 years of treatment, the low incidence of radiation-induced optic neuropathy and others cranial nerve deficits at a median follow-up of 42 months provide some reassurance about the safety of the present dose and technique for large skull base meningiomas. The present and some other recent series on FSRT [34–45] and conformal RT [15, 17] definitely contradict the historical perception of unresponsiveness of meningiomas as well as the considerably concern of high late morbidity following the radiation treatment for benign brain tumors, which was primarily based on old reports where radiation was delivered with orthovoltage machines.
We conclude that FSRT is a high precise and safe treatment for the majority of large skull base meningiomas, with a control of tumor growth at 5 years comparable to that seen following conventional fractionated radiotherapy. For patients with large skull base meningiomas a combination of conservative surgery and postoperative irradiation should always be considered when an attempt to complete resection carries unacceptable risks of neurological deficits. The use of 2-3 mm margin from GTV to generate PTV with FSRT permits a more localized irradiation compared with conventional radiotherapy. Minimizing the radiation dose to normal brain FSRT may reduce the risk of developing late radiation-induced toxicity; however, the potential benefit in reducing long term treatment complications while maintaining a high efficacy will require longer follow-up of a large cohort of patients.
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For the UAS Whalesong
At the Recreation center on October 30, costumed individuals approached this year’s Graveyard Gala and danced the night away before Halloween. The Recreation Center was decked with the spooky spirit as beanie babies and a few superheroes lurked the halls in and out of the dance area. The Whalesong had nearly every employee there, decked out in his or her best costume.
Felix and Axel were in charge of the music, mixing in certain requests between the songs typically found at a dance, both offering a different mix of style in DJing. The dancing mostly occurred with specific songs, causing people, like lead reporter Alexa Cherry, jumping to go and dance. The two DJs offered mostly the typical dance music while also listening to public requests that could be found on Spotify. This did lead to big group dances, like the “Macarena” or “Cha Cha Slide” where lines of people maneuvered with each other for the full effect. Group dance circles were made, some large for more adventurous types to go and smaller groups for those who preferred select people, but people walked in and out of both, having fun all over the place. In larger groups people cheered on each other as individuals showed their moves.
Members of the SAB, like Austin Hales, slowly joined in with the groups, trying to rally people’s energy into enjoying themselves, and it worked. They easily corralled everyone into have a fun and active time with friends during the night. They remained in the spirit of the season with appropriate sweets, such as a batch of cupcakes frosted to look like a spider web and assorted candy.
People slowly made their way to the dance floor, and we could see each person’s individual likes and creativity with their costumes come alive. One group came as Beanie Babies, while another came as the Scooby Doo gang. Whalesong Managing Editor Daniel Piscoya was dressed as Daredevil, Ad Manager Holly Fisher as Aerith, and Photographer Darin Donohue as a Jedi. We saw Mel Scriven as the Ariel from “The Little Mermaid” and one individual as a rare Pepe meme. Everyone was decked out to look his or her best and have an amazing experience.
At 11:30 p.m., the costume contest began. There were four different categories: scariest, most creative, group/couple, and funniest. They were decided by whoever got the loudest and most amounts of applause and cheering, which in hindsight never seems to work to SAB’s advantage. It wasn’t surprising who won, just judging by the reactions they received when merely introducing themselves. Jared Jerabek donned his best Captain Hook costume and won most creative. Jean Bennett, dressed as the headless horseman (sans horse) won scariest. David Galaktionoff and his guest, dressed as Jake from State Farm and Flo from Progressive respectively, won best duo. Most funny was won by a mysterious panda bear whose name neither the Whalesong nor SAB was able to obtain. If you have more information, please email firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Senate Fails to Concur On Teacher Licensure Bill, Conference Committee Appointed
Elizabeth Yelverton | NCASA Legal Affairs & Policy Manager
Today members of the Senate voted unanimously not to concur on a bill that would modify teacher licensure requirements, after House members voted unanimously in favor of approval just yesterday. Senate Bill 219, sponsored by Sen. Tom McInnis (R-Richmond), would provide much-needed help to counties that continue to struggle with teacher shortages by allowing proven educators to fill teacher vacancies while pursuing their continuing professional licenses (CPL). The bill would create a new “limited teaching license” for individuals who were issued an initial professional license (IPL), but do not meet the criteria for a continuing professional license (CPL), as well as a “transitional license” (TL), which can be issued to an out-of-state applicant while the applicant pursues his or her CPL. Both of these new licensure options would expire for applicants after three years and would not be renewable.
This bill has been heavily debated and amended over the past months, with several education groups offering feedback on the bill, including the North Carolina Association of School Administrators (NCASA). Opponents of the bill have argued it would lower the State’s teaching standards, while proponents have noted that several counties continue to employ long-term substitute teachers, who are not required to have any teaching license, or even a college degree.
After the Senate failed to concur, both chambers appointed members to a conference committee to reconcile their differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill. NCASA urges conference committee members to recognize the emergency situation many school districts are currently facing, and to come to a solution as quickly as possible, as many teachers face losing their jobs at the end of the month unless these new licensure options are approved.


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04-10-2009, 09:51 AM
I'm thinking about buying an old classic truck, partly as a resto project, partly because i want a pickup but don't want to have two vehicles.
My question is this... will a '74 2WD F150 with a 302 pull my 08 X2? Will i have any issues with it being 2WD getting stuck on slippy ramps or anything?
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04-10-2009, 09:59 AM
For a very long time I used a 78 Ford F-150 2wd and always made in off the ramp. Mine was a standard trans so it could be a little tricky sometimes. The boat my Dad had at the time was a big VIP runabout. It weighed more than the X-2.
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If you have some decent tires you shouldn't have any problems at the boat ramp. If you do spin the tires just have a few onlookers hop in the back to add some traction. It won't be a speed demon on the highway. By 74 that 302 was low on hp and torque so it may be a little lacking on a long grade or trying to pass on a two lane hwy. On the bright side it is a simple engine to give a boost in the performance dept. An Edelbrock Performer intake (or similar) and a 600 cfm carb, along with a good dual exhaust will more than take care of any factory performance shortfall.
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Even if you haven't heard the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, you might think you have its sound pegged. It's an 18-piece big band, after all, one that's twice been nominated for a Grammy in the jazz category, most recently for its acclaimed 2009 album Eternal Interlude."
But jazz fans coming to the group's show at REDCAT Monday night looking for the familiar structures of, say, last month's performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra might be surprised. Co-leader and drummer for the Claudia Quintet, Hollenbeck pulled the ensemble together in New York City some 10 years ago as a response to some of his big band experiences.
I saw some things that could be done that weren't being done," Hollenbeck said by phone from New York days before the ensemble began its first West Coast tour. I thought there might be some other possibilities with a group that still has traditional instrumentation but the music itself is not traditional."
Under Hollenbeck's lead, the Large Ensemble's songs can carry a cinematic drive or ebb and flow with the elliptical grace of modern classical music. Batteries of brass circulate in taut bunches, churning like steam engines or delicately mingling with piano, percussion and otherworldly vocals in pieces that can stretch to almost 20 minutes but never lose forward momentum. Improvisation is present, but treated like a scarce resource.


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Questa volta vi vogliamo segnalare la storia di Justine Walpole, fotografa di origini australiane che da giovane ammiratrice di Prince, si è ritrovata, un po’ per caso, ed essere la fotografa ufficiale che ha accompagnato ed immortalalo l’artista in questi ultimi anni. Justine nell’intervista al theaustralian.com.au ricorda questa fantastica esperienza vissuta a stretto contatto con Prince, durante i suoi concerti o tra le mura della Paisley Park. Fu proprio lui a chiamarla e a riceverla personalmente al suo arrivo a Minneapolis, dopo aver visto alcune fotografie scattate in occasione del “Welcome 2 Australia Tour” del 2012. Tra i due oltre ad un rapporto artistico c’è stato un legame di amicizia e reciproco rispetto. La fotografa infatti racconta Prince sotto un punto di vista personale. Allegro, divertente e mai noioso e banale. L’ultima occasione per scattargli delle foto è stata a febbraio di quest’anno, a Melbourne in una camera di un hotel. Sono le prime che trovate al termine dell’articolo.
From teen dreams to privileged post behind Prince’s purple curtain
by Trent Dalton – The Australian April 25, 2016
Sometimes she wishes she could go back and talk to her 15-year-old self, the girl lying on her belly beneath a rattly turntable singing Purple Rain in her parents’ lounge room in Victoria’s Gippsland, staring at the iconic album cover face of Prince Rogers Nelson.
“Guess what?” Justine Walpole would tell her young self. “One day you’ll be living in that man’s house. One day he’ll be the most extraordinary friend you’ll ever have.”
For the past three surreal years of her life, Victoria-raised and Gold Coast-based snapper Walpole was the late rock ’n’ roll star’s personal photographer, a job that saw her living inside Prince’s Paisley Park compound in Minnesota, a 24/7 magic factory of endless ideas, musical experimentation, impromptu late-night photo shoots and ordinary old weeknight dinners with a pop culture demigod.
“It’s such a random, totally bizarre experience to happen,” she said yesterday.
“Now that’s it over, I can’t believe it happened. I thought it would never end.”
Walpole slipped behind the purple curtain and saw a creative perfectionist with a wry sense of humour and a deep love of Aussies who weren’t afraid to say “maybe not, Mr P” when everybody else was saying “yes”.
A police investigation is under way into his death last week amid reports the 57-year-old used drugs and alternative therapies to tackle chronic pain in his joints.
Prince’s sister Tyka Nelson, a former crack cocaine addict, could inherit his $US300 million ($389m) fortune, including a rumoured vault of unreleased music at Paisley Park Studios, the $10m complex built in the suburbs of Chanhassen near Minneapolis.
Walpole’s surreal adventure began in 2012 when Prince cast his eyes over a series of photographs she had taken of his Brisbane and Melbourne concerts.
“He started jumping around over the shots, pointing at the camera screen, just overjoyed,” she said. Prince changed her life with the following words: “You should come over to Minneapolis and make some art.”
Weeks later, she landed at the front door of Paisley Park with her long-time, spade’s-a-spade, southeast Queensland businessman partner Ross Nielson.
“My idea of Paisley Park at 15 was totally different to what I actually saw,” she said. “I imagined some sort of cartoon structure with flowers and animals prancing around and rainbows. It’s very, very different. It almost looks like some sort of space-age structure. A great big, massive, austere concrete building. The colour is on the inside.”
Sweeping recording studios with purple walls, vast indoor concert spaces decorated with Prince’s iconic love symbols, dancefloors and nightclub spaces, endless corridors lined with platinum discs, random guitars everywhere belonging to one of the greatest guitarists of all time, spaces for his beloved midnight ping-pong.
“I went to the front door and I expected someone like a butler to answer the door,” she said. “And Prince opened the door. And I was so excited to see him I ran and I hugged him, kissed him on the cheek. I just forgot myself. But he was so warm and open and he just said, ‘Come on in’.”
What followed was a three-year dream from which she didn’t wake until last week, when Prince was found dead in his home.
“Prince was bemused by (her partner) Ross,” she said. “Prince and I are both really softly spoken and Ross is this blokey Aussie tidal wave. They bonded so well because Ross is a really good ping-pong player and the two of them would play for hours and hours on end.”
The tennis-loving Prince and Nielson would spend hours dissecting sports, chewing over the diehard qualities of Lleyton Hewitt between their own rapid paddle forehands and backhands.
“Prince has a lot of female energies around him and Ross is so not like that, but he would have Prince in hysterics. Prince was a very amusing guy — he could have been a stand-up comedian. Everyone that knows him knows how funny he is. Tears-rolling-down-your-face funny.”
Prince didn’t do mundane. Prince didn’t do boring.
“I remember one day he said he wanted flames coming out of one of his band member’s hands in a photo shoot. He would just say these things and then leave the room, and you’d be there going, ‘OK’.
“I’d always be like: ‘Oh, Prince, umm, about the flame — if I light fire in the studio, won’t the sprinklers go off? I don’t want to burn down Paisley Park.’
“And he’d say: ‘Go outside and light some fire.’ So I’m outside lighting fires and that’s what it’s like.
“He wanted it and you did it. That’s what I loved about him. He pushed you so hard to do things that would normally be impossible … We got the shot with the flame coming out of the hand.”
The last shoot Walpole had with Prince was in a Melbourne hotel room during his February Australian tour. The shoot gave one of her favourite Prince shots, a haunting, straight-to-camera picture capturing the musician’s epic and intense other-worldly magic.
“He had no entourage that tour,” she said. “I would turn up at the hotel room for the shoot and there was no one there to assist him through it. Minimal lighting. Just him and I, and Ross helping out. He did his own hair and make-up. He’d throw stuff together. He knew himself so, so well and he was extraordinarily beautiful to photograph.
“There is literally only two frames of that image that exist. There’s no taking hundreds of photos of him. You literally get two shots, then it’s: ‘OK, that’s done. Next.’ ”
Walpole has been running that final shoot over in her mind since Prince died.
“It was really unusual,” she said. “He wasn’t in the room for a while and then he suddenly came back in and he said the most beautiful and sincere thank-you.”
Walpole had spent three years staring into his face through a lens. She knew that face like the back of her hand and there was something across his face that night that she hadn’t seen before, something tender and vulnerable, something big and universal that crossed from mere polite gratitude into the realms of acceptance, and fate, and last chances.
“It was the way he said thanks to me that night,” she said.
“The way he looked. I felt at the time it was an unusual thing for him to do. It feels so poignant now when I look back. I don’t know, it probably sounds weird. He was so softly spoken and so quiet, the way he stood there. It was always sad leaving Prince.”
Even sadder when Prince left us.
“I remember that girl staring so intently into that Purple Rain album cover,’’ Walpole said.
“Every single day I was at Paisley Park I took myself back to that girl with that album cover and told myself to be in that moment. I tried really hard to really etch it into my memory. I just wanted to remember the spaces, like just being in a room with Prince with him sitting alone at a piano.
“He let that 15-year-old girl see little parts of his life she never would have dreamed of. That was beautiful of him.”
Un pensiero su “Justine Walpole, ecco chi ha scattato gli ultimi ritratti di Prince”
E’ piacevole leggere questi resoconti personali sulla vita di Prince, il suo senso dell’umorismo era molto noto tra il suo entourage , ed a volte mi e’ capitato di scorgere tra le sue espressioni un non so che’ di Chaplin. Penso anch’io che Sarebbe stato un ottimo attore comico , forse per esprimere tutte le sue qualita’ dovrebbe reincarnarsi almeno in un altro paio di vite.
Per ora mi accontento (finalmente) dell’uscita anche nei negozi tradizionali di Hit And Run Phase Two, il primo ascolto e’ molto piacevole, ma onestamente…. in questo momento adorerei anche una sula compilation di starnuti……
"Mi piace"Piace a 1 persona

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A lifestyle and fashion exhibition especially for women ‘Rangoli’ takes place in Nagpur, at Press Club, Civil Lines.Â The exhibition is from 24th to 26th November from 11 am to 8 pm.
The exhibition mainly consists of women’s clothes and jewellery. There is a total of 30 stalls that are exhibited in the event. Apart from Nagpur entrepreneurs from Pune, Raipur, Hyderabad and many other glamorous cities were a part of the exhibition.
The Manager of the Rangoli exhibition, Kalyani Watkar told that â€œThe visitorâ€™s number is very less as compared to the numbers in the previous yearsâ€.
â€œWe are not allowing more than 40 people to enter the premise at a time. And before entering, the set up has been made in such a way, that the customers have to sanitize their hands and go through thermal screening mandatorilyâ€, she added.
â€œWe are ensuring the maximum Covid safety but the experience on the first day of the exhibition has been so far very disappointingâ€, she further added.
A Raipur-based jewellery shop owner Vaishali Jain said, â€œThe selling capacity is neutral as the crowd is very minimum. As in other years, people used to visit in big groups accompanying friends or cousins but now they are coming along and picking up just a few items contributing very less to the businessâ€.
Rita Mulani a shopper said, â€œCovid can’t be an excuse or barrier for me to visit Rangoli as I am a great lover of shopping and the collections of Rangoli is as always very unique and impressiveâ€.
The exhibition is well arranged with proper Covid hygiene and sanitization facilities following the COVID-19 guidelines.


Attribution: how leading marketers use campaign results to plan new strategies
At a recent Marketing breakfast panel, industry leaders discussed first- and last-click attribution, online campaigns and how they measure successes and failures.
Earlier this year, Marketing and event partner AdRoll hosted the ‘Retail Rising’ breakfast Q and A. Guest panellists Jonas Katzellenbourg, head of strategy at Urban, Alexa Lundin, head of marketing at Specialty Fashion Group and AdRoll CEO Ben Sharp discussed attribution models, and how they measure campaign results and use them to better understand consumers. Read their response to the question ‘are discount sales still relevant or have they lost all value when engaging consumers?’ Here »
How do you measure the results of online advertising?
Jonas Katzellenbourg, head of strategy, Urban
One of the things we need to start doing is to stop thinking like marketers, who have very basic tools when it comes to actually measuring things. It’s ‘how many sales did I get through the door? How many footprints in the store?’
We need to be thinking more like economists. There are so many sophisticated models out there that can actually tell you exactly what the value of your TV is, what your digital assets are. If you look at them in comparison together, it’s really helpful in understanding the value of the customer that you have now, the value of the channel it came through, but it can also help you find your next customer.
I’m going to jump ahead on this point. The most frustrating thing that I hear every day is ‘we know who our customers are.’
Great. Who is your next customer? And the customer after that? And the customer after that?
You need to be thinking as much about tomorrow as about today. The maths is out there for you to do this. It just requires finding a partner to help you and do that for you.
Alexa Lundin, head of marketing, Specialty Fashion Group
Really, for us, it’s more about last-click attribution. It’s not all about first-click attribution. That’s the easiest way for us to manage it internally. In terms of advertising overall, and gaining new customers, we see a really good benefit from social. We’ve seen better conversion rates than we see on traditional PPC media. It’s a really hard time for us in terms of juggling media budgets, versus retention budgets, versus acquisition. New customers are really, really important. For us, what we’ve done is try to build lookalike models together with our CRM team.
Who are our current customers and how do we actually try to find some of the like-minded ones? We use that through Facebook and so forth. I think there is definitely a place to be building and thinking about who a new customer is, because ultimately, when you get a target of another 20% year on year growth, with a similar budget, everyone’s being squeezed. You have to think differently.
Does the focus on last-click attribution influence your marketing in any active way?
Alexa Lundin: Not hugely. For us, it’s just about ROI and the different channels that it brings. We are definitely a more traditional retailer. Emails are still a huge part.
Customers still don’t want to hand over an email address, which I think is daft. I still look at our reports on Autograph, and we get new members every week, but only 40% of them give us an email address. Actually, it’s really challenging from that perspective, because you’re driving new people, but how can you talk with them and build that relationship with them?
Ben Sharp, managing director, AdRoll
Attribution is challenging for everyone. It’s really interesting to hear that you measure a lot of your success on last-click. We’ve done a whole heap of research at AdRoll on our customer base in the industry, which actually shows that the vast majority of marketers do still measure success for their campaigns on a last-click basis, but, as many of them that use last-click also say it’s an outdated and inefficient metric for measuring success.
Why is that?
Do people not know what the other alternatives are in the world of attribution? Is it a really difficult concept to try to sell further up the chain inside your businesses? Is it laziness? Not to be critical of anyone, but how can one actually figure out how to think about attribution in a really different way?
There are so many ways of thinking about attribution, because when you run a campaign, or a multitude of campaigns to engage an audience to attract people in the first place, not many people actually click on an ad. We know that only about 16% of consumers online actually click on ads. If you’re measuring and then optimising your campaigns based on those people who are actually clicking on ads, you’re probably doing your campaign and overall strategy a complete disservice.
On the other elements of attribution – if I tie this back to how we think about things at AdRoll – it might help re-think part of your strategy. We offer the opportunity for people to look at both post-view conversions, in the AdRoll platform but also pure conversions. It’s really important to think about those people you’ve influenced on the consumer journey, to engage with you in some form that may not ever click on an ad but they still convert as a result of campaigns that you’ve run.
They’re really important consumers to measure. Attribution is really important. View focus, click focus, but also, think about what the different platforms are, or partners that you’re working with in the marketing space, so that you are treating all of them equally and optimising your campaigns for the right level of success.
Alexa Lundin: To add to that, it’s challenging when you’re using multiple agencies and platforms. I know I certainly don’t have the knowledge: I’ve studied marketing, I’ve learned e-commerce over the years. It does come back to knowledge of how to do it differently. Which agency do you trust? I’m using one for my PPC, I’m using one for retargeting, I’m using this one for… Far out! This one says that, that one says this, and it’s like ‘OK, well I’ll go to Google and try and figure it out.’
It’s OK, to be honest. Maybe there is something within the industry that they need to be helping us with and teaching us, and creating a tool. Maybe there is the space, something a tech company can provide, something that marketers can actually use.
It is really, really challenging.
Ben Sharp: Challenging and expensive. If you look at the new Google Audience product it’s initially free. But the cost of that scales astronomically. These are not enterprise-level products that are available for every retailer.
It’s not just the price point of buying it off the shelf and putting it into place. It’s basically going ‘if I get all this extra data, what do I need to do with it?’
Inside a relatively small retailer, what’s your focus? Your focus is probably not crunching a whole heap of data. It’s going ‘OK, I’ve got sales staff out there, I need to drive footfall into store or people to my website, and I need to convert them.’
So, that data science compartment is almost like a completely different part of business. It’s very important. Lots of challenges there.
Jonas Katzellenbourg: The size and scope of marketing teams has to change. Whether you do it internally or externally with a partner, like what we do, the whole goal now is to really be able to look at the data in brand new ways.
If you can’t do it yourself, then you are doing yourself a disservice by not bringing someone else in to really make it happen and to really understand what that data tells you.
It’s also often an objective point of view that gives you an entirely different understanding of what is going on and why, what those causes are. Sometimes someone else applying a slightly different model or having a comparative data set to really run it can fundamentally change the way you go about your business and why.
Marketing‘s next Q & A event, ‘Avoid the Holiday Horror’, will ask top B2C marketers how they plan for the December season. It’s free, register now!


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Alexandra DeSanctis, Staff Writer
Democrats, Republicans navigate first shutdown since 1996
Living in South Bend, it may not be immediately evident that the federal government has been shut down since October 1. But to 800,000 “non-essential” federal employees, the month of October has seen a few unpleasant changes brought on by the gridlock within the US Congress.
The divisive nature of American politics has become all too evident over the past few weeks as the nation has watched the federal government battle over the debt limit. This stark disunion between political parties and congressional leaders culminated last week in the shutdown of the federal government. When Congress failed to pass a continuing resolution on September 30, the government lacked an agreement on spending allotment and was forced into its first shutdown since 1996.
Congress’ main responsibility, as outlined in the Constitution, is to pass spending bills and fund the government. The federal fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30; the October 1 deadline was simply the date by which Congress had to agree upon the apportionment of its spending for its next fiscal year.
This seems like a simple enough job—to outline for the government where its money will go in the upcoming year. So what was the problem? The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: the so-called “Obamacare” law. This signature legislation of the Obama administration might seem to be irrelevant to government spending plans, but congressional Republicans have argued that the law is harming American citizens, businesses and the economy. The tension within Congress has stemmed mainly from a dispute over the future of the healthcare legislation.
Most recent opinion polls indicate that an average of about 51 percent of people disapprove of Obamacare, as opposed to 40 percent who approve of the law. According to a Fox News poll from October 3, conducted after the government shutdown began, 54 percent of voters support repealing some or all of Obamacare, while 57 percent support delaying the law’s enactment for at least a year.
Leading up to the deadline to pass the continuing resolution, Republicans in Congress were insistent upon either defunding or delaying parts of Obamacare in accordance with the views of the people. With the majority in the House, Republicans passed two amendments to the House version of the spending bill: one to delay the individual mandate of Obamacare for a year, and the other to repeal the medical device tax section of the law.
Republicans argue that the president’s unilateral decision to delay the employer mandate on businesses for a year is unfair to citizens, and that it would only be right to delay the individual mandate in the same manner for at least a year. Additionally, they believe that Obamacare’s medical device tax would send jobs overseas and hurt the American economy. The Democrats in Congress—primarily the Senate—have refused to consider amending the Affordable Care Act in any way, stymieing attempts to reconcile the two parties’ perspectives.
It was this irreconcilable divide that led to the shutdown, and that continues to prevent Congress from producing a bipartisan, continuing resolution to fund the government this coming year. Since the shutdown began over a week ago, little progress has been made to bridge the gap between the Republican-controlled House and Democrat-led Senate. House Republicans continue to demand that all spending bills either delay or defund Obamacare, while Senate Democrats insist that no legislation will be passed if it touches the president’s healthcare law.
Professor Patrick Deneen of the Political Science Department offered his thoughts about the current state of division between and within political parties.
“Many analysts have been right to note that there is a ‘civil war’ going on inside the Republican party,” he stated, “with an insurgent group of legislators taking a more hard-line stand not only against the Democrats, but also the leadership of their own party.”
The only compromise in sight is the general agreement on a House bill that will give back-pay to all federal workers furloughed by the shutdown. The White House has signaled support for this legislation and it is expected to be approved by the Senate and signed into law shortly.
Government shutdown has not led to compromise, as some may have expected, but instead has polarized leadership even further. Obama targeted House Republicans directly in his weekly address on Saturday, ordering, “Stop this farce. End this shutdown now.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, and Senate Democrats share this attitude and have resisted all efforts to reopen the government and refused to vote on multiple House bills.
Speaker of the House John Boehner, Ohio Republican, shot back at Democratic leadership on Sunday, declaring that the House will not pass any bills to reopen the government or raise the debt ceiling until Obama agrees to talk to Republican leadership. “The President just can’t sit there and say ‘I’m not going to negotiate,’” Boehner stated. Conservative Republicans in both the House and Senate share this point of view for the most part, refusing to pass a “clean” continuing resolution without amending parts of Obamacare.
The mainstream media has largely blamed the shutdown on House Republicans, portraying the gridlock as a result of ideological conservatives intent on getting their own way. Voters, however, are largely split on the issue of who deserves the blame. Twenty-five percent of Americans surveyed by Fox News on October 3 believe Republican leaders such as Boehner deserve the blame, while an almost equal 24% blame the president. About 20% of Americans believe that all of the federal government—Democrats and Republicans equally—share the responsibility for the shutdown.
Regardless of public opinion, it remains clear that Congress must find some path to compromise in order to restore normalcy to the government and to bring 800,000 furloughed federal employees back to work. The gaping red-blue disharmony across the country has made itself manifest in the partisan split of Congress, a division that shows no signs of impending reparation.
Alexandra DeSanctis is finally an official Political Science major with a minor in Constitutional Studies, and she loves considering hypothetical questions. If you have any, email her at firstname.lastname@example.org.

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Published on Mar 6, 2014
Last week, the Democratic Party had their winter meeting and MRCTV’s Dan Joseph decided to ask DNC committee members and guests if they’re ready for Hillary–and why. —
Some said she had about a hundred moments of greatness when she served under President Obama – but, strangely, couldn’t name a single accomplishment of hers, besides marrying Bill Clinton.
NOTE: I inserted an excerpt at the end of the video to include Hillary Clinton’s “what difference does it make” dismissive, aggressive and scripted outburst during her testimony at the Senate hearing the subject of which was the Benghazi Islamic terrorist attacks on January 23, 2013.
To be filed under: “Low information voters,””Benghazi four” and “never forget.”


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Bringing home a new puppy or kitten can feel as exciting as bringing home a new baby! Pets are like our family, and we want to ensure they have a safe space to explore without harming themselves. Many common household items can be potentially hazardous for small pets, and it’s important to “pet-proof” our homes in the same manner that we baby-proof them. Everyday household items, such as plants, foods, toys, furniture, and medications, can be major sources of danger for puppies and kittens. Read on to see how you can puppy & kitten-proof your house to ensure your newest additions to the household remain safe and protected.
Puppy and Kitten Proofing Your Home
Table of Contents
- 1 Puppy and Kitten Proofing Your Home
- 1.1 Keep Electrical Wires Out of Reach
- 1.2 Treats Can Be Threats
- 1.3 Common Household Killers
- 1.4 Check the Antifreeze
- 1.5 Killer House Plants
- 1.6 Keep Off the Grass
- 1.7 Check Harness and Collar
- 1.8 Put Personal Care Items Away
- 1.9 Don’t Leave Plastic Bags Out
- 1.10 Watch Out for Hot Appliances
- 1.11 Cover Hot Tubs & Swimming Pools
- 2 Why is it Important to Pet Proof Your Home?
- 3 Be Prepared for Emergencies
Here are some tips for puppy and kitten-proofing your home, to ensure that your space is safer for your furry new arrival. From putting away personal items to securing wires, you can make your household pet-ready. If you believe you’ve done your best but are still facing frustrations with your new pet, it’s a good idea to consider pet behavior counseling as an option.
Keep Electrical Wires Out of Reach
Young pets love to chew when they are teething, but pets young and old are naturally inquisitive and find wires a very satisfying chew toy. Keep any electrical wires out of reach with zip-ties or by hiding them behind furniture, or utilize pet-repellent sprays to keep your kittens and puppies away.
Treats Can Be Threats
Remember, your new pet is young. Never give them bones as a treat. Chicken, turkey, or pork bones can splinter and become a choking hazard, or can seriously injure their intestines. Stick with their safer foods and treats.
Common Household Killers
Common household cleaning agents such as oven cleaners, drain cleaners, disinfectants, poisons, bleach, etc, are potentially lethal, even if you think they are properly capped and stored. Keep all of these items far away from where your pets can access them. When puppy-proofing your house, it’s a good idea to get rid of anything that looks like a “toy” to your furry friend.
Check the Antifreeze
Antifreeze has a sweet odor and taste. Even if your antifreeze is stored away in the garage, it might be in a place where your puppy or kitten can get to it when you aren’t looking. Store any such items high and away, seal them up tightly, and wipe up any garage floor spills. If you regularly leave the door to your garage open, always double-check where your pet is, especially before you start your car.
Killer House Plants
Many common houseplants are dangerous for small pets, especially kittens. Many plants are poisonous for cats, such as eucalyptus, spider plants, lilies, plant bulbs, and azaleas. Cats like to mess with plant pots and even munch on dirt when given the opportunity. Keep these plants out of reach and consider giving away plants that can harm your kitten. When kitten-proofing your home, it’s a good idea to consider removing anything that’s immediately within their reach.
Keep Off the Grass
Many homeowners treat their lawns with chemicals to offset the growth of weeds and pests. Lawn chemicals can be extremely dangerous for pets, and it’s important to carefully read all labels and follow directions to ensure you aren’t putting your pet in harm’s way.
Check Harness and Collar
Just like children, puppies and kittens grow at an alarming rate. If your pets wear collars, it’s a good idea to regularly check that the collars still fit properly. Harnesses and collars can be outgrown, leading to serious injury. If you have indoor pets, you might consider not using a collar until it is necessary.
Put Personal Care Items Away
Personal care items—such as shampoos, facial creams, cosmetics, lotions, and pills—are all potentially lethal to pets. Even if you think these items are properly stored in their cases or bottles, it won’t stop a curious kitten. Put your personal care items away where they belong and store them out of reach.
Don’t Leave Plastic Bags Out
Plastic bags can be particularly dangerous for both pets and children. Don’t leave them out—curious puppies and kittens can chew on these bags and suffocate.
Watch Out for Hot Appliances
Many appliances in our home can harm pets without us even thinking about it. Coffee pots, space heaters, and clothing irons can cause harm to curious animals. Never underestimate how high your pets can jump or where they can get to. Don’t leave your hot appliances unattended.
Cover Hot Tubs & Swimming Pools
Hot tubs, swimming pools, and bathtubs can be extremely dangerous for pets, as they might fall in and be unable to climb out. Keep them covered at all times and ensure that your pet doesn’t get into the bathroom unattended.
Why is it Important to Pet Proof Your Home?
As discussed above, pet-proofing your home is the best way to ensure the safety and well-being of your newest addition. Your furry friends will appreciate being cared for, and you will appreciate living in a worry-free space. Whether you have a puppy, kitten, or newly adopted adult pet, taking these precautions is the best way to prevent accidents and keep them healthy and safe.
Be Prepared for Emergencies
The best way to be a responsible pet owner is to take full responsibility for your little furry friend. They want to be in your life and to ensure they maintain the best quality of life possible, you need to be vigilant in maintaining a safe environment in which they can play, learn, and grow.
In the case of any emergencies, contact Paoli Vetcare right away. You can schedule an appointment with us anytime, but we are also available if your appointment just can’t wait. We are here for your puppy or kitten no matter what, whether you need to book non-life threatening urgent appointments or you simply need to call an emergency vet for advice. Upon your first visit, we will provide you with all the information you need for taking care of your new kitten or puppy, including the phone numbers for local emergency vets, poison control, and other important local services.

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