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It’s storming outside and when it storms like this, I like to read. A lot. Which also means I sort of binge on book purchases… here’s what I’ve added to my TBR this week
Phoenix Reborn by J.D. Tyler
Wolf shifter and Firewalker Phoenix “Nix” Monroe has finally met his ultimate Bondmate—Alpha Pack nurse Noah Brooks. Unable to accept his own sexual identity, Nix rejects Noah despite the intense attraction he feels towards him.
By the time Nix realizes he has cast aside the love of his life, it may be too late to save Noah from a terrifying enemy…
Notes: Releases March 15th. This book is numbered 7.5 in part of a series, and I suggest you read the series in order.
Taking Shots by Toni Aleo
No matter how hard she tries, Elleanor Fisher never thinks she’s good enough, from her job to her weight to her love life. After enduring years of abuse at the hands of an ex-boyfriend, Elli has been drifting through life in a daze. Until, that is, she meets Shea Adler on a promotional shoot for the NHL’s Nashville Assassins. Before Elli knows what’s happening, the gorgeous Shea breaks the ice and shatters her world.
A brilliant athlete inside the rink, Shea Adler is tired of the life he’s living outside of it: the women, the money, the drinking. But everything changes when he meets Elli. After laying eyes on this feisty, witty, beautiful woman, he feels like he’s just taken the hardest hit of his life. No matter how skeptical she is, Shea knows they are meant to be together—if only he can convince Elli to put her insecurities aside before she misses out on a shot at love.
Notes: No joke, I bought this because the series title is The Assassins. I know nothing about hockey.
Three by RJ Scott
Is this just hot sex, or can two become three?
Mark is finding his way in life after six years in the army. He’s always wanted to write scripts for TV, and for one show in particular, Tomorrow’s Game.
Half in lust already with the lead actor Zach, he is shocked when he ends up in Zach’s bed and finds out that Zach’s co-star Rob is part of the package.
Notes: RJ Scott and a ménage… need I say more?
Broken Soldier by Jamie Lynn Miller
Sergeant Connor Finley and Sergeant Shawn Weller are dedicated soldiers working covert ops for Shadow Unit — a joint UK/US anti-terrorism task force.
Partners in the field and out, they had been through hell together for the last four years and made it through standing side by side. But when their latest undercover op to bring down an arms dealer plunges them into a world of drugs, sex and violence, Shawn must literally get in bed with the enemy in order to complete the mission. And Connor is forced to watch, helpless, as his partner is broken into pieces.
Will love be enough to put them both back together or will this be their final mission?
WARNING: Contains scenes of drug use, graphic sex and realistic situations
Notes: I love this author and the whole commando vibe here. I’m in.
The 13th Hex by Jordan L. Hawk
Dominic Kopecky dreamed of becoming a member of New York’s Metropolitan Witch Police—a dream dashed when he failed the test for magical aptitude. Now he spends his days drawing the hexes the MWP relies on for their investigations.
But when a murder by patent hex brings crow familiar Rook to his desk, Dominic can’t resist the chance to experience magic. And as the heat grows between Dominic and Rook, so does the danger. Because the case has been declared closed—and someone is willing to kill to keep it that way.
Notes: Releases April 5th. This is a second edition (my first time reading it) and the first in a series.
Legal Heat by Sarah Castille
Katy Sinclair made it to the brink of partnership at her high-powered law firm with hard work, dogged determination, and the ruthless self-discipline to cultivate a conservative public image. But when she follows an evasive witness into a sex club, she can’t deny herself a red-hot sexual encounter with the seductive bartender who sets her body on fire. She’s sure no one will ever know about her indiscretion—until she walks into the courtroom to find her dirty little secret is the opposing counsel in the most important case of her career.
As the managing partner in a struggling law firm, hot-shot attorney Mark Richards can’t afford any mistakes that might cost him his biggest client. Like getting involved with his beautiful, determined opponent—the mystery woman he hasn’t been able to forget. But when Katy’s quest for justice leads to death threats, Mark will sacrifice everything to protect her.
Now they’re risking their hearts…and their lives…in a race to catch a killer. Little do they know, the greatest danger lies closer to home.
Warning: The book contains explicit sex, light bondage, violence, murder, steamy shenanigans in the courtroom, naughty sexytimes in the boardroom, and an exceptionally hot hero with a versatile tie. Any objections will be overruled.
Notes: I love this author and I just found out a #2.5 is coming soon, so I want to read the whole series first.
Turncoat by Megan Derr
Dixie is a man adrift, picking away at the evildoings of the Grand Order of Defenders and the DeVine Corporation wherever he’s able. But none of it is what he really wants, and what he wants is out of reach.
Then a notorious thief crosses his path, a man with abilities that might make all the difference. With his help, Dixie can at long last return to face the people that destroyed his whole world and return that destruction tenfold.
Notes: Megan Derr is it. The first book in this series, Trick of Light, was fabulous. I can’t wait to read this one.
Gay Knights and Horny Heroes: Tales from King Arthur’s Court
by Michael Gouda
The timeless tales of King Arthur have been told throughout the ages as sterling examples of bravery, manhood, and heart-searing romance. But really, we know it’s all about the men.
Here we have a re-imagined landscape of Arthurian love stories, a place in which contests of strength become contests of foreplay, a knight’s favored squire may be his equally favored bedmate, and Lancelot is given his rightful place in history: at Arthur’s side and in his bed, for as long as the two shall live.
Come, gentle readers, and venture into the world of yore, where men were men, and so are their lovers, and every warrior loves a good joust! Welcome to the world of Gay Knights and Horny Heroes—God save the King! (And the man at his side!)
Notes: I am obsessed with all things Aurthurian. I’m unsure how I ended up missing this treat, but I’ve remedied it now. I shall be reading very soon.
Stray by Kari Gregg
With a lycan father, a human mother, and the human side of his genetic makeup dominant, Luke left his birth pack to try living among humans, but he felt awkward and uncomfortable isolated from the culture that raised him. He’s still searching for where he fits in.
After losing his family in a vicious attack, Dean rebuilt his pack by accepting loners, rejects, other survivors, and even ferals. He and his ragtag group of strays made a warm and welcoming home.
Luke believes he’s finally found where he belongs. Meddling parents and a neighbor who isn’t as human as he seems won’t sway him. Luke wants Dean to take in one last stray…him.
Content Warning: Shifter knotting/tying, mating heats (yes, plural), and jerky!
Notes: She’s back, ladies and gentlemen! I can’t wait to read Gregg’s newest book. It looks like tons of fun (and mating heats).
A Bear Walks into a Bar by Eden Winters
It takes one strong alpha with a tight grip to keep a mountain full of shifters under control. Sawyer Ballantine’s contending with an uppity wolf leader and a herd of shifter elk bound and determined to take over. He might be the lone bear on the mountain, but he’s not going to allow another four shifters to just move in, especially not when they whiff of power. They’ll either be his in all ways, or they’ll be gone.
Dillon, Jerry, Kevin, and Brad have no one but each other since their groups kicked them out. The young bear, wolves, and fox make a merry ménage, pooling their meager skills and serving beer. They’ve stumbled into more than they understand, caught in the dispute between the Urso of Ballantine Mountain and the elk. But winter’s setting in, and they don’t know how to keep Dillon safe for hibernation.
And then a bear walks into their bar.
Notes: Eden, shifters, bears… I’m in.
Protecting His Witch by Zoe Forward
Veterinarian Kat Ramsey hasn’t a clue that she’s a witch. Sure, she can read minds, and there’s the whole “dimension-hopping” issue that she can’t quite control, but Kat is determined to keep things normal. That is, until she accidentally hops into the Otherworld, and runs smack into Matthew Ryan?the seriously hot one-night stand from years ago who shoved her out of his dorm. Naked.
And there’s the tiny matter of the curse she gave him.
May you never find satisfaction with another woman. Billionaire and former druid Matthew Ryan hasn’t forgotten the curse, or the witch who gave it to him. Kat’s unexpected return means the curse will finally be broken. Unfortunately, his libido has other ideas?like how to get her back into his bed one last time. But far more worrying is his suspicion that Kat is the seventh Pleiades witch. Because while he’s turned his back on his druidic ways, he’s still bound to protect the woman who made his life hell…
The last thing he wanted was to fall for a witch…
Notes: I’m kind of on an urban fantasy kick lately (I blame Lexi). This one caught my eye.
So now, back to work and maybe when I finish a chapter or two I’ll reward myself with time to read.

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QUIMPER, France, , (Pakistan Point News - APP - 19th Jan, 2017 ) - After queueing in the dark for more than an hour, hundreds of voters who had turned out in winter rain to see France's fast-rising presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron faced disappointment. "The space is full. We can't let any more people in," the 39-year-old former economy minister told the crowd as he appeared in the gloom outside a sports centre in northwestern Quimper on Monday.
Among the mass of people hunched in thick coats and hats stood Jean Yvard, a small business owner from the local Brittany region, who came to hear what he described as a "social phenomenon." Yvard, 53, said he had always voted for the right, but in the election in April he is considering the centrist Macron, who quit the government of Socialist President Francois Hollande in August, to run as an independent. "What he's proposing is still not known, but it'll come.
What's known is his attitude, the personality," Yvard told AFP as the final spaces filled up in the 2,500-capacity venue. Others, from retirees to a 23-year-old shop assistant, were also curious about someone who, less than 100 days before voting, has suddenly picked up momentum. Pollsters now tip him as a serious candidate, bookies have slashed their odds for victory, and regular crowds of thousands are testament to his pulling power. "From around December, we started thinking that it's a possibility we might win," a senior aide said on condition of anonymity.
For fans he's a fresh face in a fossilised political system, a reformer with a social conscience, an ex-banker who understands both business and the "banlieues" -- France's gritty multi-ethnic suburbs. His critics see a shallow sensation fuelled by media hype, or an elitist snob who has never been elected and is backed by chief executives. Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has called him the "candidate of the banks." APP/AFP/kmd � 10:32/13:16/13:16

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- Alianza ¡Listos a Jugar!
- 424 people
- Mexico (Mexico City)
The largest hula hoop workout consists of 424 participants and was achieved by Alianza ¡Listos a Jugar! (Mexico) at Plaza de la República, in Mexico City, Mexico, on 23 October 2016.
The purpose of the event was to promote healthy habits for Mexican youth.

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Dilip Vengsarkar, the veteran cricketer, deserves all praise on being given the BCCI’s Col. C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award.
The ministry of human resources development is fast becoming everyone’s favourite punching bag, but this time it is not without reason.
The Hisar standoff between godman Rampal and the Haryana police reminds one of Operation Bluestar, where the Indira Gandhi government was forced to go on the offensive to remove Jarnail Singh Bhindran
What’s the point of deploying langurs to shoo away the monkeys during President Pranab Mukherjee’s visit to Banke Bihari temple in Delhi? This foolish act is a clear violation of the Wildlife Act.
Hats off to our stand-in captain, Virat Kohli, who on the eve of our team’s departure for Australia tackled the media as he would tackle his opponents with a straight bat.
The tongue-lashing that CBI chief Ranjit Sinha received from the SC 12 days before his retirement is unprecedented for any chief of the country’s premier investigating agency.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to US President Barack Obama to be the chief guest at India’s Republic Day celebrations, and its prompt acceptance by the White House is a big diplomatic succ
Indian cricket’s image was tarnished due to the findings of the Mudgal Committee report. We must try our best to shape ourselves in a better mould before the start of the 2015 World Cup.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently called upon the BJP to make itself an all-inclusive party by reaching out to all sections of society so that it represents the country’s diversity.
“The safest place for a girl is her house and safety lies when she is with her father”. This sentence has become a myth after the Delhi police submitted the rape crime map in the Delhi high court.
The lowering of the age limit for appearing in the civil services examination is a retrograde step for it will ruin the prospects of many aspirants, especially those belonging to the “forward castes”.
A day after launching “Operation Rampal”, the Haryana police finally arrested the elusive Rampal Maharaj from his fortified ashram.
The rare intervention by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to free five Indian fishermen on death row has handed PM Narendra Modi additional domestic and diplomatic victories that could upend New

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Originally Posted by girnny777
It's been four years since the DM tour. They could at least do more than one show a year here.
Well, the only time they tour the US extensively is when they have a new album to support. Other than that we don't get much from them. All the festivals are in Europe every summer so that's why they play more there. Plus, Metallica is one of the few bands who are able to work the schedule they want. If they only want to tour the US every five years then there's really nothing anybody can do to change that. They have enough money and don't need to tour North America as often as other bands do.


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My First 5 Minutes Fairy Tales Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel are lost in the forest when they see a cottage made of cakes, chocolates and candies. Who owns this cottage? This is a beautiful retelling of the classic children fairy tale – Hansel and Gretel. With vibrant, captivating illustrations and simple text, it will spark the child’s imagination, develop speech & language skills, and encourage to read books.

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Originally facing life in prison for the September 2017 murder of DeMarcus "Peanut" Chew, Ceasar Davison was found guilty on lesser charges carrying a total maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.
The man accused of Shooting DeMarcus "Peanut" Chew was found not guilty of a first-degree murder charge Thursday at the Des Moines County courthouse.
At about 5 p.m., a Des Moines County jury found Ceaser Davison guilty on the lesser offense of assault causing serious injury, a class D felony, a crime for which he faces up to five years in prison, and conspiracy to commit a forcible felony, a class C felony for which he faces up to 10 years in prison.
Davison was accused by Des Moines County Attorney Lisa Schaefer of shooting Chew seven times on Sept. 10, 2017. The murder was committed to collect money from a hit placed on Chew by A.J. Smith, who had a long running feud with the Chew family.
In Iowa, defendants can be found guilty of first-degree murder if they commit the murder or if they aid or abet the crime. However, the instructions read to the jurors in the Davison case did not include language for aiding and abetting.
Earlier this month, one of Davison's coconspirators, Emmanuel Spann, was found guilty of aiding and abetting first-degree murder. Three others — Antoine Spann, Andre Harris and Derrick Parker — pleaded guilty to other offenses and are serving between 15 and 20 years in prison.
Thursday afternoon, Davison's defense attorney argued his client's innocence during closing statements and attacked testimony given by Antoine Spann.
"He knew he was going to prison and he was never, ever, ever, ever, ever getting out," defense attorney John Rigg said.
Antoine Spann received a plea offer allowing him to avoid a mandatory minimum sentence in exchange for providing testimony at the trials of co-defendants.
The defense's theory of events is Antoine Spann planned and committed the murder. Then, once Antoine Spann was arrested for Chew's death, Harris said Antoine Spann originally had wanted to accuse Emmanuel Spann of being the shooter. However, Harris said he was not OK with framing Emmanuel Spann. Harris said he wanted to tell the truth, that it was Davison who committed the murder.
A witness testified they saw a tall man standing at an estimated 6'2" — the same height as Emmanuel Spann — running from the scene. However, Rigg said no one saw a short man in the area and Davison is only 5'8".
Legally, defendants cannot be convicted of a crime using only the testimony of a coconspirator. Rigg said nothing, other than the testimony of the two men, pointed to Davison being the shooter.
Rigg argued it was easy to find a motive as to why Davison would be framed. Rigg reminded jurors Davison and Harris had, at one point, been sleeping with the same woman. While Harris said on the stand the issue had been settled, Rigg argued pinning a murder on Davison would be a great way for him to get revenge.
"Why didn't they talk about framing Parker, which neither one of them said was a friend of theirs. Is it because he knew who the shooter was?" Rigg asked jurors.
Rigg also said there was plenty of evidence as to why Antoine Spann would kill Chew. One reason was that Smith was Antoine Spann's methamphetamine supplier and Rigg said Smith cut Antoine Spann off until Chew was killed.
"You ain't gettin none until the deed is done," Rigg said mimicking Smith.
Rigg pointed to the fact Antoine Spann received drugs from Smith as a reward for committing the murder as to further evidence Antoine Spann had a much larger role in the murder than he liked to lead on.
As one more point of inconsistency, Rigg pointed to Harris' story for why he came to Burlington. Harris said he came to purchase $800 worth of cocaine. However, Antoine Spann said he only dealt marijuana and methamphetamine. Beyond that, Rigg questioned why Harris would come all the way to Burlington just to buy cocaine.
In addition to his attacks on Davison's alleged coconspirators, Rigg also accused Burlington defense attorney Scott Schroeder, who represented Antoine Spann, of helping to create a factitious narrative which framed Davison as the shooter.
It has been alleged by both Rigg and defense attorneys for Emmanuel Spann that a call took place between Antoine Spann and Harris using Schroeder's phone. Calls between attorneys and their clients cannot legally be recorded which means there is no way to know what the two men talked about.
"Harris came from Chicago to Burlington to make the call, it must have been important," Rigg argued.
Rigg argued this was an attempt for the two men to get their stories straight before Antoine Spann spoke with law enforcement to get a plea deal.
Now that Davison has been convicted, he faces up to six years in prison. Judge John Wright did not set a date for sentencing.
This report has been corrected to say Davison was convicted of conspiracy to commit a forcible felony, a class C felony punishable by 10 years in prison, and assault causing serious injury, a class D felony, and to identify Lisa Schaefer as the prosecuting attorney.


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Kittens go to their new homes between 12-13 weeks of age after the have been altered.
$1850 is pet quality and $2350 is show quality. Please click on about our kittens for more info on what is included in that price.
Our health guarantee is 5 years and we will replace your kitten if it dies within that time frame of a genetic disease. Details are provided in the contract.
Yes, all kittens leave Whispurr Lane litter trained. We use Catit Go Natural Pea Husk Clumping Cat Litter which is made from pea outer fibres. This pea husk litter is a great choice for cats and people with allergies. Even as your cat digs around in the litter box, the smallest litter particles aren’t kicked up, but will gradually travel down.
We feed Fromm! Please check our nutrition page for more info!
Once approved you will be able to place $100 to be placed on our waitlist.
Once kitten selections are available you can pick your kitten and place $250 and that is when you have placed a full non-refundable deposit of $350.
Not at this time.
We are located in London Ontario.
We are only 2 hours from Toronto and only a 10 min drive from the highway! So very easy to get to our cattery!

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Music heals and lifts our spirits like nothing else. So why not listen to this soothing tanam by D Srinivas, one of India’s best exponents of the Saraswati Veena? In this video, D Srinivas plays a melodic improvisation in linear rhythmic progression in Rag Sriranjani.
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In this Darbar release, we bring to you Raga Sriranjani, which is fabled in Hindu tradition as the favourite Raga of Goddess Lakshmi. Hindus worldwide worship Goddess Lakshmi to bring in auspiciousness into their homes: She is the goddess of prosperity and wealth in the Hindu Pantheon.
Raag Sriranjani is a derivative Raga of Kharaharapriya, the 22nd Melakarta Raga of the Carnatic Raga system. It omits Pa or the 5th note in its ascent and descent and stands as a hexatonic Raga. There is an inherent perkiness to it that makes Sriranjani apt for melodic accompaniment in multi-percussion ensembles in Carnatic concerts known as Taal Vadya Kutcheri.
D Srinivas learned the Veena from his mother D.L. Tulasi and played his first concert at the age of 9. There is a sophistication in the way he develops the Ragas that makes his recitals a big appeal even to audiences outside the Carnatic genre. His treatment of the Raga is wholesome and there are moments of dramatic pauses that lend a high to this piece; The meends (gliding notes) are effortless and the use of the base strings create a flawless tonal quality.
This is part of Darbar’s on-location series where recitals are held in beautiful locations around India and the video and audio quality is optimized to give the feeling of an intimate setting of a Baithak or private soiree.


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Back in my pre-vegan days, I used to love a good cookie swap party. Now that I’m vegan and don’t have many vegan friends close-by, I’m bringing the cookie swap party to Keepin’ It Kind! Each day, for 25 days, one of my favorite bloggers will visit and share one of their favorite holiday cookies! That’s 25 Days of Cookies, my friends! Happy Holidays!
You know how there’s just some people who’s sweetness and grace always brings a smile to your face? Courtney of The Fig Tree blog is one of those people to me. The Fig Tree is a vegetarian blog with loads of great vegan recipes, but it’s the words of her posts that are so lovely. Courtney’s kind personality shines through in every post and I’m so excited to see what she brings today!
Hello, my name is Courtney and I'm the blogger behind the The Fig Tree. I am so very excited to be presenting a holiday cookie recipe to all of you lovely Keepin' It Kind readers. To my American friends, I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving and are enjoying a relaxing holiday weekend. I also hope that you are ready for some more sweets, because I've got one delicious cookie to share with you in today's edition of the cookie swap party! A chewy chocolate cookie with a crisp exterior layered with cinnamon sugar. Yum! These cookies are perfect to dip into a cozy cup of tea or to add some sparkle to the dessert table at a holiday party. They are very easy to put together and the results will definiely add more cheer to your holiday season. A special thanks to Kristy for asking me to share in the annual cookie swap. It's been so much fun and I am looking forward to seeing (and trying) all of the cookie recipes to come in this year's swap!
- 1/2 cup of canola oil
- 1 cup of white sugar
- 1/4 cup of maple syrup
- 3 tablespoons of almond milk
- 2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract
- 1 and 2/3 cups of all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch-processed)
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon of salt
- 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
- 1/4 cup of white sugar
- 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
- 1 cup of icing sugar
- 2 teaspoons of almond milk
- 2 teaspoons of light corn syrup
- 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- Preheat oven to 350'F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
- 2. In a shallow bowl or plate, combine the two topping ingredients (sugar and cinnamon). Set aside.
- 3. In a large mixing bowl, combine the canola oil, almond milk, white sugar, maple syrup and vanilla extract.
- 4. In a medium mixing bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder, ground cinnamon, salt and baking soda.
- 5. Slowly mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until well combined. You should get a fairly pliable dough. Roll dough into walnut-sized balls then roll them into the cinnamon/sugar mixture coating them well. Place cookie balls on the baking sheets (12 per sheet). Using a flat-bottomed glass or measuring cup, squish the cookie balls until roughly 2-inch discs.
- 6. Bake each batch of cookies for 10 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on pan for 5 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack.
- 7. Make the Royal Icing: Mix the milk, vanilla extract and icing sugar together. Thin with corn syrup to the desired consistency. Decorate cookies with pretty little snowflakes!
cookie recipe adapted from Isa Chandra Moskowitz
The Fig Tree is a wholesome food blog that celebrates vegetarian and vegan cuisine from around-the-world. I created The Fig Tree in hopes of inspiring people to use a diverse range of ingredients to create simple, meat-free dishes with tons of flavours. In addition to my love for cooking, baking, photography and blogging - I also adore reading, live music and theatre, studying languages and traveling. And I love chatting with my readers. Please leave me a comment and tell me about your favourite holiday tradition. Check out The Fig Tree on Facebook, Twitter and on Pinterest.

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Community Care, no.1383, 2001, p.26-27.
Discusses problems faced by people with learning difficulties in participating in politics. Focuses on the failure of the major parties to produce accessible manifestos for the 2001 general election.
Health Service Journal, vol.111, Aug. 2nd 2001, p.14-15.
Describes the remit of the new National Institute for Mental Health which will implement the National Service Framework for Mental Health and drive forward the reforms laid out in the NHS Plan. Working closely with NHS Research and Development and the Medical Research Council, it will bring mental health policy, research and dissemination of good practice together under one umbrella.
Community Care, no.1385, 2001, p.12.
At present only an Approved Social Worker (ASW) can apply to compulsorily admit someone with mental health problems to hospital. The government proposes to remove the requirement for an ASW to be involved in sectioning. Instead, two doctors will be backed up by a "suitably trained mental health professional".
J Garnham and C Foley
Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, vol.4, 2001, p.396-397.
Describes a national education and support programme for carers of people with severe mental illness.

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When it comes to water and wastewater solutions, the choice is clear.
Improving the quality of our drinking water is much more than a business capability to us; it’s deeply personal. And we’re equally committed to making sure that the wastewater that our businesses and communities generate doesn’t harm the environment.
That’s why Robert B. Our Co. has become a leader in the construction of state-of-the-art water treatment and wastewater facilities across southeastern Massachusetts.
Of course, no matter how qualified and motivated our team is, successfully addressing the issue is bigger than any one company. So we strive to maintain positive, long-standing relationships with design and engineering firms, subcontractors, and vendors.
Knowles Crossing Water Treatment Plant
The busy fishing port of Provincetown, MA, had a water system that dated back to around 1900 — and its two well fields were beginning to produce increased iron and manganese levels that at times exceeded Massachusetts drinking water standards.
With no real alternatives for clean drinking water, the town hired a firm to design a new microfiltration membrane treatment plant.
The new 1.2 MGD facility uses potassium permanganate for raw water preoxidation treatment, followed by membrane filtration for removing iron and manganese precipitates and sodium backwash water is discharged to exterior sand filters for aquifer recharge. A 10,500-foot raw-water transmission main was installed from the South Hallow Well Field to the plant so both well fields could be served by the same plant.
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Project: Knowles Crossing Water Treatment Plant
Owner: Town of Provincetown, MA
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Foxy Calgary-born Rae Spoon’s new single “Ocean Blue
” ambles through the decadent canals of Venice in the spirit of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice
“Ocean Blue,” Spoon’s first single from their new album, I Can’t Keep All of Our Secrets
, is a slight departure from their previously folk-indie sound.
The music video is described as a “visual pastiche” of Mann’s 1912 novella, about a man driven to obsession by the beauty of a young teen while vacationing. Spoon, as the Aschenbach character, is a dapper, heavily made-up person making their way through the city toward their fatalistic end.


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to starting Finishing Touches, I was the head designer at
Berthoud Florist for the past 8 years, having worked in the florist
business for over 27 years. For those of you who know my work, what
I send out the door would be what I would enjoy in my own home.
is a priority in all of my designs. You
will find the highest standard of floral design, from a simple hand-tied
bouquet to an intricate arrangement for that special occasion. In
using all hand picked flowers from local wholesalers, which are
all shipped within 24-48 hours of the event, I can assure you the
best product available.
the years I have had many satisfied clients.

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Editor’s note: Points is happy today to republish our friend Stanton Peele’s recent commentary on the new Cambridge study of sibling pairs and addiction. Not many of us here at Points are real hardcore quants, but even we were scratching our heads at these findings. In brief: researchers looked at sibling pairs in which one sibling was an addict and the other was not, and claimed that the disparate responses prove that addiction is an inherited brain dysfunction. 50% addicts + 50% not addicts = 100% brain diseased? But don’t take our word for it; let Stanton Peele to do the math.
The Cambridge Brains
Published in the most prestigious fundamental research journal in the world, Science, investigators at Cambridge found that siblings, half of whom were drug-abusers/addicts and half of whom were not, shared this trait. This proved to the researchers that the brain anomaly preceded the drug abuse, and was not a result of it.
Here, let’s turn to Nora Volkow (as Science itself did) for an explanation:
“The inferior frontal gyrus is really one of the main ‘brakes’ of our brain,” says Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who wrote a commentary accompanying the study in Science. “[Drug users and their siblings] have less [sic] connections that are linking the rest of brain with the inferior frontal gyrus [and other key regions] that form a network that allows you to inhibit responses.”
Run that by me again. A study showing a brain dysfunction that somehow causes addiction led in half of siblings to drug abuse and in the other half didn’t? Doesn’t that make us want to learn what accounted for the siblings with the brain anomaly not becoming addicted?The most casual reading of these results points to a fundamental problem with the conclusion that brain function causes addiction. Let’s grant that we can reduce impulsivity to a single brain structure (which isn’t itself true*). Instead of saying this study provides proof that addiction is inbred, it is equally true—truer—to say that it proves that impulsivity and brain structure have no impact on addiction. After all, only a coin flip could tell you the chances of two people who share these traits becoming addicted or not.
The Alcoholism Gene
Really, the study—since it measured no natural populations—tells us nothing about whether this brain condition is any more prevalent in addicts at large than it is in non-addicts. (Do you remember the ballyhooed 1990 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association which found the gene for alcoholism and addiction in one group of alcoholic cadavers? It was never replicated among any general alcoholic-addict population.)
Nothing daunted, Volkow (as described by addiction reporter Maia Szalavitz for Healthland) builds a whole edifice on such nothingness:
But the big question, as Volkow points out, is why the siblings in the current study ended up following such different paths when they shared the same vulnerabilities to addiction. Why did one become addicted, but not the other? Additional results from the brain scans may provide intriguing hints at an explanation. For instance, people with addiction—but not their siblings—showed decreased activity in their medial orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). “That area is crucial in terms of enabling you to have flexibility and to shift your behavior as a function of changes in [the] environment,” says Volkow.
Well, that explains it—doesn’t it? “Brain-disease” Volkow offers as the reason that some impulsive people abuse drugs and some don’t is their (hypothetical) deficient functioning in another area of their brain! These poor souls are doubly diseased!
Ain’t science grand? I’m being ironic, of course—this isn’t science. It’s as though, having found something in the brain—but something not able to account for addiction—the writer doubles down on her brain-behavior bets. Why, she has become addicted to seeking brain explanations! This disease is known as reductionism: the ironclad belief that describing events in biological terms comprises a scientific advancement no matter how hypothetical the explanation is and how little it improves our understanding of—or ability to influence—outcomes.
And the disease is catchy. Forbes magazine’s coverage of the Science study purported to defy its results—”Your Brain May Be Wired for Addiction but You Don’t Have to Surrender.” But it actually reified them by fantasizing that the resiliency against addiction in half the subjects must have stemmed from some yet-to-be discovered “variations in the brains of the un-addicted siblings.”
Control for Childhood Dysfunction
Brains, brains, brains. Nothing in the addicts’ and non-addicts’ lived experiences had any impact? The researchers carefully controlled for childhood experiences, and ensured that the siblings’ upbringing was similar (they found high levels of family dysfunction and abuse in the early lives of both the addicted and non-addicted siblings). Since abuse also causes addiction (we are told), then certainly abuse + genetic predisposition must equal addiction. Except, then, we still have the one addicted sibling and the one nonaddicted one, given the presence of both factors. That’s because negative childhood experiences are just as nondeterminative as predictors of addiction when actually measured in general populations as is brain structure.
Isn’t there any other possible explanation for the differences in siblings’ addictiveness? How about the role of purpose, social support, learned skills, etc.? The reason to suggest these things is that another government agency, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), spent a year surveying leading behavioral mental health professionals in order to uncover the common current elements in people’s lives that lead to recovery from mental illness and addiction. SAMSHA identified these psychological and environmental conditions that prevent and dispel addiction: Health, Home, Purpose, Community.
But you can’t find those things in a laboratory. And that is why the revolutionary SAMHSA initiative has received virtually no media attention from the likes of Time Healthand. I guess it depends on how you define science—is it the result of work by people wearing white lab coats or is it identifying the things that make a difference in comprehending and dealing with the world? The factors identified by SAMHSA seem so prosaic. Their only advantage is —that they are prosaic. Because these are the fiber of human lives, the things parents and people themselves can strive to attain, the things society and social agencies can encourage.
Oh, and these factors actually account for which people resist addiction, and tell us how and why they are able to do so. If that isn’t science, then nothing is.
Recovery: A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential. -- SAMHSA


"The weapon is not simply a tool. It is an extension of skill, of body. I can only pray that the great darkness never comes, but if it does you cannot fight it with bits of tin and wood. You need stronger weapons, forged to strike at your enemies both physically and mystically!"
User can create and/or wield various forms of enchanted weaponry that suits their needs in battle whether they be offensive or defensive. The weapons are capable of being powered by or creating a wide variety or magical powers that often yield impressive results. Due to the weapons being powered by magic, they also act as a blank slate for different kinds of supernatural abilities.
The Fangs of the Dragon (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003)
Decimaar Blade (Tales of Arcadia)
Sword of Daylight (Tales of Arcadia)
Staff of Avalon (Tales of Arcadia)
Warhammer (Tales of Arcadia)
Shadow Staff (Tales of Arcadia)
Monado (Xenoblade Chronicles)
Caliburn (Sonic the Hedgehog)
When the Old Ones attacked the ancient world, King Poseidon (DCAU) gathered nearly all of the ambient mystical energy on Earth and forged it into the mystic Trident of Poseidon to defeat them.
Azrael/Michael Lane (DC Comics) duel-wields the Sword of Sin and the Sword of Salvation.
Jason Todd (DC Comics) wielding the All Blades.
Zatanna (DC Comics)
He-Man (Masters of The Universe) possesses the virtually indestructible Power Sword/Sword of Grayskull, which allows him to channel the mystical powers of Castle Greyskull.
The Mystic Weapons (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) are weapons of unknown origin with each possessing a different power...
...such as Leonardo's mystic ōdachi which can open portals from one locations to another...
...Michelangelo's mystic kusari-fundo which can transform into a fire spirit...
...and Raphael's mystic tonfa which can create a red energy armor around himself to increase his strength.
Lion-O (ThunderCats) wields the Sword of Omens, legendary weapons and cultural treasure of the Thundercats, with the Eye of Thundera granting the sword limitless magical power, and granting Lion-O the ability of Sight-Beyond-Sight.
Jack (Samurai Jack) wields a magical katana forged by the gods Odin, Ra, and Vishnu from the qi within his father,...
...and is the only weapon in existence that can truly destroy the demon dark lord, Aku.
Ebony Blade (Marvel Comics) is a magic sword which the Wizard Merlin fashioned out of a meteorite, thus it is indestructible and can cut through anything, even deflect most magical attacks.
The Dragon Slayer (Berserk) is a massive slabsword that's been soaked in the blood of countless Apostles, their pseudo-apostles, and even a member of the God Hand. It eventually became a cursed weapon able to harm astral beings, and possibly kill members of the God Hand.
Kyōka Suigetsu (Bleach) is one of the most powerful Kidō-Type Zanpakutō, being able to trap targets into unbreakable illusions that not even Yhwach's Almighty can see through.
Tachikaze (Bleach) is an elemental Kidō-Type Zanpakutō that generates explosive winds blades.
Ruri'iro Kujaku (Bleach) is a Kidō-Type Zanpakutō that creates powerful energy vines that drains the life of enemies.
Young Goku (Dragon Ball series) with the Power Pole.
The Konatsian Wizard (Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon) wielded the enchanted Brave Sword and used it to slice the Phantom Majin Hirudegarn in half.
Holy Swords such as Excalibur and Durandal (Highschool DxD) were forged using divine enhanced magic and alchemy, granting them immense holy powers and various mystical abilities ranging from purification to spatial manipulation.
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…Alibaba's Metal Vessel empowered by the Fire Djinn Amon…
…Kogyoku's Metal Vessel empowered by the Water Djinn Vinea…
…Kouha's Metal Vessel empowered by the Strength Djinn Leraje…
…Kouen's Metal Vessel empowered by the Gravity Djinn Agares…
…Hakuryuu's Metal Vessel empowered by the Life Djinn Belial.
Haru Glory's (Rave Master) special power, Rave, is connected to his shapeshifting sword, the Ten Commandments.
Light Weapons (Slayers)
Gene Starwind (Outlaw Star) wielding his Caster Gun.
Augus (Asura's Wrath) wields the mystical sword, Wailing Dark, which can project energy waves and extend to seemingly endless lengths.
As a powerful Umbran Witch Bayonetta (Bayonetta) can access Rodin's colorful gallery of hellish super weapons created from the Angelic Hymns Golden LP's to aid herself in the survival battles against the relentless onslaught of heavens legions, tools with which she can harmonize her wicked weaves and demonic summons in unison for the slaughter of said assailants in impeccable style.
Kratos (God of War series) is highly proficient in multiple forms of weaponry. He has either acquired or stolen various weapons from gods and powerful beings which are capable of manipulating the forces of nature and magic.
Sora (Kingdom Hearts) is one of many who are chosen to wield the sacred Keyblade in the battle of darkness and light.
The Trap Team (Skylanders) wield powerful weapons made out of magical Traptanium crystals that can help them defeat and secure villains and also harness elemental power.
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Gearshift (Skylanders) can user her Traptanium Gear to trap enemies and infuse it with Tech in order to switch it into different modes and create miniature gears to aid her attacks.
Gusto (Skylanders) can use his Traptanium Boomerang to trap enemies and infuse it with Air to create powerful tornadoes, and charge it with electricity for more impact.
Krpt King (Skylanders) can use his Traptanium Broadsword to trap enemies and infuse it with Undead to control his sword remotely and strike enemies from a distance.
Knight Light (Skylanders) can use his Traptanium Scimitar to trap enemies and infuse it with Light to increase its damage output.
Knight Mare (Skylanders) can use her Traptanium Flamberge to trap enemies and infuse it with dark in order to increase its damage output.
Tuff Luck (Skylanders) can user her Traptanium Warblades to trap enemies infuse them with Life in order advance plant life and shoot razor-sharp energy waves.
Wallop (Skylanders) can use his Traptanium Hammers to trap enemies and infuse it with Earth to send a tremor through the ground and release waves of Earth energy.
During his adventures in the time of King Arthur, Sonic (Sonic The Hedgehog series) wielded the talking sword, Caliburn, which is actually the greatest of the Sacred Swords, Excalibur.
Hervor (Valkyrie Crusade) wields the magic sword Tyrhung.
Gunner (Valkyrie Crusade) wields two magical handheld water guns.
Dainsleif (Valkyrie Crusade) wields the magic sword Dainsleif.
Fytir (Valkyrie Crusade) wields her own magical sword.
The Monado (Xenoblade Chronicles) is a powerful mystical weapon that can manipulate the ether around it and grant the wielder access to special "Arts."


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Last week, New York City's Board of Health scuttled a proposal that would have given people more freedom to change the sex on their birth certificate. The proposed plan would have been the first in the country to permit individuals to declare a gender without making any anatomical changes. But before it could get off the ground, the plan spawned a furor. In failing to anticipate that backlash, the board did a significant disservice to the transgender community.
Under a New York City Health Code provision enacted in 1971, individuals are entitled to a new birth certificate if they change their names and undergo "convertive surgery"—sex-reassignment surgery. The law entitles people to have their original sex erased, not changed; the "M" does not flip to an "F" in the "Sex" box, it is just deleted. From the perspective of transgender activists, this is not ideal, as it leaves individuals without any gender, rather than recognizing their post-transition status. Nonetheless, when the city enacted the statute, it was a frontrunner in the movement for transgender equality.
Now the city has fallen behind other jurisdictions. Most states currently allow transgender people to get new birth certificates if they have had sex-reassignment surgery. The gender classification on the birth certificates of these states is altered, not erased. Only three states—Idaho, Ohio, and Tennessee—have rules that say no change to a certificate will be made even if the applicant has had surgery.
If it had enacted the new proposal, New York City would have again gone where no jurisdiction has before. Under the plan, an individual who is over 18 can change her sex so long as she 1) has changed her name; 2) has "lived in the acquired gender for at least two years"; and 3) has submitted "two affidavits, demonstrating ... full transition to and intended permanence in ... her acquired gender." One affidavit must come from a physician licensed in the United States who has demonstrated at least "two years experience ... related to transgender treatment." The other must come from a mental-health professional with similar experience.
As a New York Times article observed, the new law sought to reflect a better understanding of the transgender community. Many transgender individuals do not have the funds to undergo sex-reassignment surgery, which has been estimated to cost between $10,000 and $20,000. Other people cannot have surgery for health reasons. Perhaps most importantly, many do not feel they need to have surgery to redefine their gender, which they understand to be more than the sum of their physical parts. As City Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas R. Frieden recognized, "Surgery versus nonsurgery can be arbitrary."
All of which sounds enlightened. But the health department, surprisingly, did not anticipate the wave of practical concerns that surfaced when the plan was publicized. These included the worry that the plan would conflict with rules adopted by New York state, or possible new federal rules, concerning identification documents. Reservations were also voiced by institutions like hospitals, jails, and schools, which routinely segregate according to sex. These concerns led the Board of Health to withdraw the proposal, settling instead for a minor amendment permitting individuals to change, rather than to delete, the sex on their certificate after surgery. "This is something we hadn't thought through, frankly," said Dr. Frieden. "What the birth certificate shows does have implications beyond just what the birth certificate shows."

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The White House is reviewing policies to see if social media companies are legally liable for misinformation about COVID-19, President Joe Biden’s communications director said Tuesday.
Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy called misinformation about the coronavirus an “urgent” public health threat and Biden’s administration has previously noted the importance of mitigating false information being spread online.
Tuesday, White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said platforms like Twitter and Facebook should do more to tamp down on false information.
“We’re reviewing that, and certainly they should be held accountable,” Bedingfield told MSNBC. “And I think you’ve heard the president speak very aggressively about this. He understands this is an important part of the ecosystem.”
Bedingfield also targets conservative news outlets in the video.
Supporters say Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act should be amended to make social platforms liable when users post false information that could cause harm to Americans.
“It is a big and complicated ecosystem and everyone bears responsibility to ensure that we are not providing people with bad information about a vaccine that will save their lives,” Bedingfield added.
A study from the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania found people who rely on conservative media have much less confidence in public health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci, and are much more likely to believe misinformation about the vaccines.
To date, the United States has seen more than 34 million coronavirus cases and more than 600,000 deaths, the most in the world.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told reporters that people who have not been vaccinated “remain susceptible,” especially from the Delta variants, and are at elevated risk of severe illness and death.
Data show that more than 99% of the people who have died of COVID-19 “over the last few months” were unvaccinated, Walensky added.
In a report last week, Murthy called for increased monitoring of misinformation by technology platforms.
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Why is my display not fully waking from sleep?
This problem is well documented in blogs (not by Apple), however over the years I have not found a solution. I will attempt to accurately describe the problem.
I never let my 2009 27" iMac (2.8 GHz Core i7) go to sleep, only the display is set to sleep after a period of time. It does not matter how long the display waits before going to sleep. It does not matter how hot (or cool) the iMac is, nor does it matter if anything is plugged into any ports or not. This issue has also existed through at least four versions of OS X (Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, and now Yosemite). I have an external display hooked up via Mini DisplayPort cable (the monitor has only a DisplayPort input) and it too acts the exact same way as the built in iMac display, meaning it will not fully wake either (more accurately, it will not show any video other than the pointer).
When I return to my iMac, I touch my trackpad (or anything else that wakes the display) and the backlight will turn on and the external monitor will also wake (as seen in the first photo) and most of the time even the pointer arrow will be visible (as seen in the second and third photo, it's hard to focus on anything with little light). The pointer arrow even moves across both displays fine. But every other pixel will be black with just the backlight leaking through the LCD panel. No key command or combinations of keys will allow me to go any further. The only solution is to force my iMac off and restart by holding the back power button for ~10 seconds and a click back on.
This has been an issue for years, and I believe it has been an issue when I had 12GB, 16GB, and 32GB of RAM installed over the years. This has been an issue before and after I installed a second and third HDD and a SSD (in the optical drive bay). I have also removed the logic board to get to the SATA cable, meaning virtually all the connections have been reseated. The same behavior still exists no matter what I have done to upgrade this iMac. Again, this issue has existed across at least the last four versions of OS X.
Does anyone have any idea to why the backlight will light up, and the external display will wake and yet the rest of the computer (GPU) will not respond? Again, the iMac itself never sleeps, only the display and the hard drive sleep, the fans always run.


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I was invited to a stamp party last night and had so much fun! I was on the other end as the stamper instead of the teacher. I can't believe how many mistakes I made...LOL! You would think I didn't stamp much! We made three cards and they were all fun to make. I don't know what stamps or papers we used, because I didn't write any of it down. I just stamped and passed.
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This card was fun, because the sentiment on the inside can be seen from the die cut on the outside. Who doesn't love chocolate, orange and pink?
This card was the most challenging, because I am not good with a of brayer. We used a glossy card and lots of layers of ink. Of course, the teacher's card looked waaaay better. I will have to practice with my brayer more. I love the look of this one.
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Yonah Freemark tackles the big question, as House Republicans deliver an agenda to reduce federal spending that proposes deep cuts to transit spending.
Jan 25, 2011 the transport politic
Women's safety on public transit is increasingly in focus worldwide. Many systems have turned to designating separate areas for women, but what happens after they get off?
Dec 21, 2010 TheCityFix
TheCityFix looks at the future of the automobile in cities and the possibilities of moving people in to alternative modes in times when car ownership rates are still exploding.
Dec 9, 2010 TheCityFix
The Obama administration has expressed interest in playing a bigger role in transportation and infrastructure policy in the U.S. National Journal asks its panel of experts if it's the right time for the White House to be more involved.
Oct 27, 2010 National Journal
National Journal asks its panel of transportation experts whether the car is really threatened by the rise in policy focus on pedestrians and cyclists.
Aug 4, 2010 National Journal
Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is paying close attention to the link between transportation options and obesity in America. Next American City's Willy Staley looks at whether this attention will fight the epidemic.
Aug 3, 2010 Next American City
In the 2nd part of an expose featured previously on Planetizen, reporter Matthew Lewis uncovers the significant number of lobbyists influencing transportation policy in Washington.
Jan 22, 2010 Center for Public Integrity
A new report identifies ways to incorporate health objectives into transportation and land use planning.
Jul 27, 2009 The Convergence Partnership
Cyclists hear a lot about how much better the biking is in Europe. The Brooklyn Paper takes a look at why, and whether or not the lessons of Amsterdam are applicable in the US.
Jul 19, 2009 The Brooklyn Paper


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The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL), a Manufacturing USA institute, announces a grant to help fund the advancement of biopharmaceutical manufacturing technology in the U.S. and globally from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
NIIMBL will receive up to $1.5M from the foundation to support the development of innovative technologies to reduce the cost of manufacturing biopharmaceuticals. This grant provides a valuable resource for leading scientists and subject matter experts from the NIIMBL community to develop manufacturing technology solutions that increase speed to market and lower costs for biopharmaceuticals to improve healthcare outcomes for all patients, including those in under-served markets and developing nations, through enhanced access to life-saving medicines and vaccines.
“The innovations needed to address global health needs are well-aligned with the innovations that the NIIMBL community is pursuing. We are incredibly excited to collaborate with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to address society's need for access to safe, effective, high quality medicines.” said Kelvin Lee, NIIMBL Institute Director.


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Traditionally, as fans and blowers in process equipment would break down, replacement used to be standard practice, especially for severely damaged or worn equipment. But that may not be the best case for manufacturers today. By simply replacing a fan or blower, end users may lose an opportunity to enhance the quality of their equipment.
Fan repair specialists have an advantage over original fan designers. They can observe the performance history of an existing fan and rework its design to prevent a particular type of wear, corrosion or other problem. Analysis allows repair specialists to select the most appropriate metals or exotic alloys for an application and make adjustments to enhance equipment life. In many cases, the quality of the repaired part or component will exceed that of the original.
Determine whether to repair or replace
Fans and blowers will inevitably need to be replaced or repaired, even with the best maintenance in place. Plant engineers also have the option of rebuilding, an extensive form of repair. What may look to be an irreparable fan destined for the scrap heap may actually be able to be rebuilt to look and function like new (Fig. 1). Even fans with worn-through blades or other components can be rebuilt and improved to reduce wear in the same locations.
Rebuilding allows specialists to improve efficiency or strength and reduce a fan’s vibration and sensitivity to imbalance. A design modification such as reducing rotor inertia can shorten start-up time and lessen stress on the motor. If cracking has been a problem, specialists can adjust material thickness and may incorporate FEA stress analysis to confirm the fan wheel design is structurally robust and will last a long time.
In redesigning a fan, specialists may address three common causes of damage: wear, corrosion and temperature.
Wear, corrosion and temperature
Wear, or erosion, is sometimes evident when some fan parts or components have given way or have been unable to perform. A fan repair specialist can determine the variables responsible for wear and suggest a redesign when appropriate. In some cases, just the shaft and hub %%MDASSML%% and, possibly, part of the wheel %%MDASSML%% can be preserved while the rest of the fan is rebuilt.
Blades or blade liners that aren’t hard enough to resist erosion from a dirty air stream are bound to wear. Numerous new alloys, steels and other wear-resistant materials may help. For example, chromium-carbide or tungsten-carbide blade liners are cost-effective solutions for reducing wear. In severe instances of wear, repair specialists may use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to simulate the interaction of fluids and gases with fan components. A CFD analysis can provide accurate data to improve wear resistance.
Fan corrosion may be the result of a change in the gas stream’s composition since the fan was purchased and installed. Or, perhaps the fan was not equipped to handle the gas stream in the first place. Repair specialists may begin with a gas-stream analysis to identify variables responsible for corrosion. New stainless steels and exotic alloys that can handle potentially corrosive situations may be the answer. Fan specialists can test these materials under simulated conditions to select the best one for an application.
Temperature can also be a critical factor in fan failure. Steels and alloys can last only so long at temperatures above their design limitations. If materials used in a fan’s original design did not last as long as they should have, alternatives can be used for the repaired or rebuilt fan.
One of the most common points of breakdown in high-temperature applications are anti-friction bearings. Causes for bearing breakdown include:
Low inherent L10 life: The calculated life of a bearing, or L10 life, is the number of operating hours a group of apparently identical bearings will exceed under a given set of conditions; it is a function of radial load, axial load, speed and bearing basic load rating
Heat buildup and improper lubrication: Excessive temperatures can damage bearing components and cause breakdowns in lubricant. Heat conduction can be reduced by using materials with low thermal conductivity, adding a heat flinger or installing a radiation shield.
Broken down or worn fans or blowers may have a greater useful life than most think. Analyzing the precise cause of a fan’s degeneration can provide long-term capital expenditure savings. The cost savings realized by repairing or rebuilding an existing fan can range from 20% to 80%.
Before rushing out to order a new fan, consider the benefits of repairing or rebuilding the existing unit. Replacing an underperforming fan with another just like it will be a temporary fix at best. The sensible approach is to assess the cause of the fan’s degeneration; then use that information to either repair it or replace it with an improved model. In many cases, repair will be the more economic solution for both the short- and long-term.
Author Information Thomas J. Kuli is chief engineer, and Tim Rape is repair/rebuild manager, both for Robinson Industries Inc.


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A WITHINGTON couple have described how they clung to a tree and pulled an eight-year-old girl to safety as a tsunami wave hit their holiday resort in Thailand.
Garry Beran and Carolyn Spraggon made an incredible escape from the disaster - walking away with just cuts and bruises from the massive waves which hit the Thai resort of Khao Lak.
Amid the chaos they saw a young Swedish girl being carried away by the force of the water and helped her to the higher branches of a tree.
Carolyn, 30, of Denshaw Close, Withington, said: "We were holding on to a tree and the next minute she just appeared from nowhere. She was in the same hotel as us and we'd seen her at breakfast that day.
"At first she was being carried away by the water but we grabbed hold of her as we clung to the tree. After the first wave other people started to help her up the tree so she wasn't affected by the second wave. She had some nasty cuts but eventually she was taken away to safety by some Thai people and other tourists."
The couple, both biological research scientists, arrived in the resort on Christmas Day afternoon after spending three weeks touring Thailand. Just before breakfast on Boxing Day they felt the tremors of the earthquake which set off the disaster.
Carolyn said: "Unbelievable as it sounds now, it wasn't worrying at first. The building just shook and then stopped. None of the locals even mentioned the earthquake. It's never really happened along that coast so they are not used to it and nobody was expecting it."
The pair headed for the beach but while they were sunbathing the tide suddenly went out very quickly for about 500m, completely exposing a coral reef just offshore.
Carolyn said: "We were just thinking, 'the tide goes out quickly here!' and decided to go out for a walk to the water. You could see everyone with their natural curiosity just walking towards the water's edge."
The couple only became anxious when they heard Thai people blowing whistles to raise the alarm.
Garry, 30, of Newville Drive, said: "People were screaming at us but we didn't know what was going on. Everyone just started looking towards the water and the noise. There was no obvious wave. We couldn't really tell how high it was because it's just a big long coastline and there's no reference point."
Carolyn said: "The water came over the reef and it still didn't look like a big wave, just a lot of water moving very quickly."
The couple finally ran from the beach after seeing a coast guard's boat shoot into the air from the force of the water.
The couple fled into scrubland and scrambled over a barbed wire fence.
Despite the danger, Carolyn said: "I still had that very British thing of not wanting to push people out of the way."
Eventually they clambered onto the roof of a house from where they witnessed the carnage unfolding before them, as people and debris such as fridges and house doors swept past.
But just as they thought they had reached relative safety, the house collapsed beneath them and they were plunged back into danger.
With the sea swirling around them, dragging them underwater, they managed to hang on to each other and cling to a tree as the strong current swept out and a second wave hit them.
It was the afternoon before they plucked up the courage to let go of the tree and were led through the waist deep water to higher ground by some Thai people.
"People were screaming that they had broken bones and couldn't walk. They were in shock and didn't really know what to do or where to go."
Carolyn, who was still wearing just a bikini, and Garry, who was only in shorts and T-shirt, spent the night outdoors, before being taken to a nearby hospital were they received immediate medical treatment.
And the couple had nothing but praise for the Thais who continued to care for tourists, despite having lost everything themselves.
Garry said: "We were just overwhelmed by the Thai people helping us on our way, even though they didn't know what was going on either."
From the hospital the couple were taken to a government compound and flown by military plane from Phuket to Bangkok, where they spent a night before flying back to Manchester on December 29.
Carolyn said: "We are just so pleased and relieved to be home. We have got out of this with each other but people are just in desperate situations."
Garry said: "Nobody knew where we were. The family were in denial at first thinking we'd be alright. But as soon as we spoke to them they said, 'we thought you were dead'."
Garry said: "We are not god people at all and just think we were lucky to escape."


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When the calendar turned over to January 1, 2015, everyone was clamoring for their make-believe hoverboards that they were “promised” in the fictional movie Back to the Future Part II. Guess what? There’s not going to be hoverboards for the masses by October 21, 2015. Hoverboards are cool and all, but in 2015 we shouldn’t concern ourselves with hoverboards, we should be striving for HOVERBIKES! And that’s just what the United States military did.
The United States Department of Defense just announced a deal to develop a hoverbike. The DoD sought the services of the UK-based Malloy Aeronautics, a company that has been attempting to make the hoverbike a reality for the last few years.
Malloy tried to finance their project by starting a Kickstarter for their ambitious project. By the end of the crowdfunding campaign in September of 2014, they had 451 backers who pledged $72682.05, more than doubling their original goal of $34,000.
The Army believes that the hoverbike is ideal for search and rescue or cargo delivery missions. That role could expand into surveillance. The hoverbike would be a much cheaper alternative than helicopters, plus it offers maneuverability in tight spaces. It will operate autonomously or with a human pilot.
Forget hoverboards, how sick would it be to have a speeder bike like from Star Wars?
The Department of Defense believes that Malloy’s version is safer than most hovercrafts because the rotors are guarded. Just watch out for trees on Endor.


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Ultimately it will be the voters of Lafayette Parish — city, unincorporated, smaller municipalities — who will decide whether to chuck the city-parish charter and return to dual city and parish forms of government. But penultimately the Lafayette City-Parish Council must make it possible, and the vote to advance an ordinance to the ballot box will require a 6-3 super-majority. That’s not likely. Here’s how we think it will shake out:
FOR: Brandon Shelvin (District 3), Kenneth Boudreaux (District 4), Don Bertrand (District 7), Keith Patin (District 8)
The city-majority council members have much to gain if the charter is repealed. Each is in his first term in office and, assuming the charter is repealed and a new city council with a three-term limit is (re)created, presumably each could try for what would amount to four consecutive terms in office.
Boudreaux and Patin, who both voted for the deconsolidation recommendation as members of the charter committee, are on board with scrapping the city-parish charter. Bertrand says he’s on the fence and feels like we’re moving too quickly, but adds, “It would be hard for me not to give the people of the city of Lafayette and the parish the opportunity to vote on something.”
Like Boudreaux, Shelvin represents an economically challenged part of the city that stands to benefit if the parish is jettisoned and the city focuses its resources on itself.
AGAINST: Purvis Morrison (District 1), Jared Bellard (District 5), William Theriot (District 9)
Morrison is on record dead set against repealing the charter. “When I ran [for office] I can specifically remember people asking us not to be this north side-south side, east side-west side council,” he says. “They wanted us to be a total council for this parish, and now we’re coming out in our third year [in office] and we’re talking about deconsolidating. This parish is not that big, and to pit the parish against the city is not the right direction.”
Theriot says he’s keeping an open mind, but neither he nor Bellard have any apparent motivation in voting for deconsolidation; they would effectively be voting themselves out of Lafayette government since neither lives in the city limits.
X FACTORS: Jay Castille, (District 2), Sam Dore (District 6)
Castille’s district is 48 percent city, 52 percent rural and Carencro, so he’s the most likely to be divided. He tells The Independent he prefers to amend the charter to make it a more workable document, yet he joined the committee on Feb. 1 in voting unanimously to put a deconsolidation ordinance before the council. But he also says we’re going at this too fast: “I still believe the people have the right to vote on their type of government, but I also believe they have the right to have the information they need to make an educated vote.”
Dore, the LPUA chairman, represents the district that is most overwhelmingly city residents. But he, too, is wary of giving up on consolidation, and he says he’s hearing the same from his constituents. “I don’t believe that consolidation is working the way it should or that it could,” he says, “and I think we could make some hard choices and improve on the way it works. But scrapping it? Man, I don’t know.”
Dore and Castille both sound more likely to vote against a deconsolidation ordinance. So where does that leave us? Four in favor, five against. Two votes short of even making it onto a ballot.
Local and state agents Thursday night raided The Keg, the popular college bar located in the area known as The Strip, leading to the (at least) temporary closure of the venue.
Here's your daily look at late-breaking national and international news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday, April 18, 2014:
Friday's Blogs from the Bog!
Time and time again, the Lafayette Parish School Board shows an overwhelming tendency toward idiocy, but Wednesday night’s contentious discussion over Northside High School’s teen mother program tops the list of dumb discussions.
C & C Technologies, HIT Fitness, R3 Sciences, the Acadiana Symphony Association and the United Way of Acadiana recognized for innovation.
“The accomplishment of this goal within the next ten years is not only critical for the region to effectively compete with other regions for residents and businesses, but also to provide an amenity for everyone in Acadiana to enjoy.”
Education Superintendent John White says a continued push to try to keep Louisiana from using tests associated with the Common Core education standards are creating "a state of chaos" for public school teachers.
The Acadiana Symphony Orchestra has decided to end its traditional Independence Day spectacular known as Red White & Boom.
Under the deal, Teche shareholders would get 1.162 shares of IberiaBank for each share of Teche stock.
Gov. Bobby Jindal's plan to use $210 million in surplus and one-time money to help balance next year's budget received the backing Thursday of the State Bond Commission, support that was needed for the maneuver to work.
Acadiana's nightlife guide.
State wildlife and fisheries agents have arrested a 39-year-old man accused of stealing crawfish.
An East Feliciana Parish lawmaker has jettisoned his proposal to make it harder for a condemned prisoner to appeal a death sentence.
Senators advanced a proposal Wednesday that would let the governor remove New Orleans-area levee board members for violating what he considers to be public policy, despite concerns it would introduce political meddling into state flood protection.
The must have pieces this season
Dave Perkins, LCG Comp Plan honored along with local architects and designers at the 2014 INDesign Awards
Greg Manuel’s Lafayette-based residential development company is taking advantage of exponential industrial growth in Lake Charles.
Longtime Lafayette retailer ventures online.
It’s not how aggressive or conservative you are — it’s planning for risk that matters most.
Thanks to cutting-edge digital technology, more and more consumers are banking on ATMs and mobile phones.
Regional bank bids farewell to Downtown May 30
ABiz takes a look back at the most noteworthy moments for the local banking industry over the last year.
Most experts say short-term interest rates will be unchanged through 2014, but long-term rates are inching up.
Largest recruitment event in Acadiana returns May 21 to the Cajundome Convention Center
A lawyer’s ad should only be a starting point, as there is much more to consider when seeking quality representation.
Thanks to the inaugural 2012 INNOV8, a design for lifting heavy objects was brought to market.
The annual juried competition recognizes excellence in architecture, interior design and historic preservation in Lafayette and the five surrounding parishes.
Cypress Bayou GM hosts open house.
New hires, promotions, transfers in Acadiana business
The scion of a landmark Four Corners restaurant climbs back into Lafayette’s culinary scene as franchisee for a popular burger chain.


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TAKE A DIP!
Whether you are rekindling your passion for swimming or dive bombing it in the deep end, head to some of our favourite open air lido's this summer to enjoy a picnic and soak up the summer sun. Here's our guide to the loveliest lidos to take a dip.
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To beat the heat this summer we recommend braving it in Shoalstone Lido, a fantastic freshwater open-air swimming pool located in Devon's sunny town of Brixham. This lido has been a popular spot for bathers and leisure seekers since 1926 and its stunning outdoor location lends character and distinction. If you don't want to spend all your time in the water there is also a newly refurbished café.
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There’s no better way to escape the stresses of city life than to go for an outdoor swim. Why not try out London Field's Lido, located in Hackney. This is London's only 50-metre heated outdoor pool, so if you have been inspired by this years swimming Olympians then this is the pool for you!
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This classy and modern lido is located in Bristol and is perfect for a romantic treat or a place to meet up with friends. After a tiring yourself out in the pool we highly recommend you visit the well renowned restaurant to fill up on calories burnt!
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Ilkley's lido is uniquely mushroom-shaped and looks out onto a poster-perfect view of the cow and calf rock formation on Ilkley Moor. With a large flat grassy area alongside the pool this lido is perfect for a spot of picnicking.
If you think we have missed a gem in our list of favourite outdoor lidos please let us know...

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Reflects incoming energies and makes the perfect base for magic mirrors. Useful for magical protection if worn as jewellry. Copper is primarily a conductor and it is also a bridge in many ways. It's a good metal to use for a magic wand because of this. Copper can be used to draw away negative energy.
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Manganese is a chemical element with the symbol Mn and atomic number 25. It is not found as a free element in nature; it is often found in minerals in combination with iron. Manganese is a transition metal with a multifaceted array of industrial alloy uses, particularly in stainless steels.
Smoky Mountain Relic Room offers a 30 return policy with proof of purchase.
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The Smoky Mountain Relic Room stands behind the items we sell with a limited lifetime guarantee. We will exchange any item for store credit if the item sold is found by a certified authenticator not to be the authentic artifact, fossil, meteorite or mineral that we advertised it as being. A letter, specific to the artifact, fossil, meteorite or mineral in question, from a certified authenticator (in the business under the occupation specific to the item in question) must be brought in with the item for the return to be acceptable. This guarantee is for the lifetime of the initial purchaser only. See the Relic Room Manager, downstairs inside Smoky Mountain Knife Works, for more information. Original receipt required for exchanges.

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The Rollz Motion seat belt provides extra security when out and about. Suitable for the Rollz Motion (regular and small), the Rollz Performance and Rollz Rhythm.
The seatbelt can be fixed with Velcro at the back of the wheelchair package and adjusted to the desired length. Make sure the wider, foamed part is at the front of your abdomen.
When the seatbelt is not in use, you can unclip the buckle and store it at the top of the wheelchair package. You can convert the Rollz Motion into a rollator walker while the belt is attached to the wheelchair package. Works with all the Rollz Motion models.
Note: The seat belt is not a safety belt.


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