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Your magical New Year's adventure begins at Kemi-Tornio Airport, Kemi Train Station* where our friendly local representatives await to greet you and transfer you to your hotel in Kemi. After check-in, the rest of the day is free for you to explore this delightful destination or relax in a traditional Finnish sauna at the hotel. In the evening, enjoy a delicious three course dinner at the hotel.
*You can also choose to fly into Oulu Airport, but complimentary transfer to your Kemi hotel will not included in that case. See "Transfers to/from Oulu" under the items Not Included in this tour for more information
Experience the magic of the Arctic Circle during a day-long excursion to Rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish Lapland, which is a relaxing 1.5 hour ride from Kemi in a comfortable coach bus. The first stop is a Lappish reindeer farm. Here, you can learn about reindeer herding and Sami culture and take a 30-minute ride in a reindeer sleigh through the woods. Your guide will take the lead and you will follow in a true Sami-style convoy, but you will still earn a special “reindeer driver license” from this experience!
Afterwards, enjoy a delicious lunch at a local restaurant before heading to the famous Santa Claus Village to meet Santa himself and his merry elves at his workshop before a bit of souvenir shopping. By late afternoon the coach bus returns you to Kemi.
Back at the hotel, get dressed in your favorite (and warm!) outdoor party outfit before the bus picks you up at for a 15-minute ride to a rustic cottage in the woods. Here, you will enjoy a festive New Year's Eve dinner and try unique activities in traditional tepees, such as tin melting and fortune telling. You will also be "baptized" by a traditional Shaman inside a kota tepee, with a special amulet necklace given to you as a keepsake of this experience. And to stave off any late night hunger, the fire will be hot and ready to grill some sausages!
Before the countdown to midnight starts, you will be transferred to Victoriatorget on the border between Finland and Sweden to experience two New Year celebrations. First you can watch a firework in Finland at midnight and one hour later it is time again in Sweden at their midnight. After the celebrations bus will bring you back to your hotel and you are free to discover Kemis nightlife.
Start the New Year on the right foot with a hearty Finnish breakfast buffet at your hotel. Then it's time to shake off the remnants of last night's festivities with some fresh Arctic air! Equipped from head to toe in winter gear (with helmet and goggles), you will get acquainted with the snowmobile, the Laplanders’ favorite method of travel. After a thorough briefing on safety and driving instructions, you'll join your guides on the trails in no time. With two people per machine, you can take turns driving to your destination: a Lappish camp in the snowy wilderness, where an outdoor lunch is served in a kota teepee.
Later in the day, the adventure continues at a local husky kennel, just a 30 minute ride away. Here, the group will be split into two smaller groups: while one group enjoys a 45 minutes husky safari in the wilderness (two persons sharing one sled) the other group can warm up in a laavu, a traditional Sami tepee, and grill some sausages. This is a great opportunity to learn about the training of Siberian huskies and to try your hand at “mushing”. The groups will switch activities before returning to the hotel in time for dinner.
Kemi Airport for any of the 2 departure or to Kemi Train Station at any time or a transfer to Oulu Airport with one of our two scheduled buses can be arranged.*
* Should you choose to fly out of Oulu Airport, note that the bus transfer from Kemi to Oulu is not included in the cost of the tour. See "Transfers to/from Oulu" under the items Not Included in this tour for more information.
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Iceland Complete Tour - 14 D / 13 N
Aurora Safari By Rail & Cruise Tour - 8 D / 7 N
Oslo - Gol - Flåm railway (flamsbana) - Aurlandsfjord - Sognefjord - Gudvangen - Voss - Bergen - Northern lights - Ålesund - Aksla - Tromsø
Icefjord Adventure Tour - 4 D / 3 N
Ilulissat - Sermermiut valley
Bhutan 7N / 8D Tour - 8 D / 7 N
Phuntsholing - Bagdogra - Thimphu - Paro - Phuntsholing
Australia 6N / 7D Tour - 7 D / 6 N
Brisbane - Gold Coast - Sydney
Australia & New Zealand combo 17N / 18D Tour - 18 D / 17 N
Homebound - Brisbane - Gold Coast - Brisbane - Auckland - Rotorua - Bay of Island - Queenstown - Te Anau - Milford Sound - Christchurch - Sydney - Homebound
Australia 12N / 13D Tour - 13 D / 12 N
Melbourne - Brisbane - Gold Coast - Cairns - Sydney
Bali 3N / 4D Tour - 4 D / 3 N
Best of New Zealand 14N / 15D Tour - 15 D / 14 N
Auckland - Rotorua - Lake Taupo - Turangi - Wellington - Kaikoura - Christchurch - Queenstown - Glacier Region
USA 7N / 8D Tour - 8 D / 7 N
New York - Corning - Niagara Falls - Philadelphia – Washington DC


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March 18, 2021
Insurance Commissioner Confirms COVID-19 Vaccinations Won’t Affect Life Insurance Benefits
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready confirms that COVID-19 vaccinations won’t affect policyholder’s life insurance benefits. He also urges Oklahoma consumers to be cautious about social media misinformation regarding COVID-19 vaccinations. Social media posts have falsely indicated that getting a COVID-19 vaccine could threaten life insurance coverage claiming they are experimental and not tested for safety.
“This is simply not true,” said Commissioner Mulready. “Whether it’s Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson, these vaccines received Emergency Use Authorizations after the Food and Drug Administration determined their safety and efficacy. I assure you that getting a COVID-19 vaccine will not impact your life insurance benefits.”
Tyler Laughlin, Regional Vice President of the American Council of Life Insurers, agreed.
“Life insurance policies are very clear on what might cause your insurer to deny a benefit,” said Laughlin. “Policyholders should rest assured that nothing has changed in the claims-paying process as a result of COVID-19 vaccinations.”
Commissioner Mulready encourages Oklahomans to contact their insurer if they have any questions or concerns about the details of their life insurance policies.
If you have questions about other insurance issues, contact the Oklahoma Insurance Department at 1-800-522-0071 or visit our website at www.oid.ok.gov.


The Houston engagement, which runs Jan. 19-31, 2016, is the first confirmed tour stop for Bridges, which ended its run May 18, 2014, after 137 performances at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The national tour is expected to launch this fall with additional markets and a launch city to be announced in the near future.
Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher (Golden Boy, South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza) helmed the musical that has a score by Tony winner Brown (Parade, Honeymoon in Vegas) and a book by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Norman (The Secret Garden, 'Night Mother).
Despite its brief run, The Bridges of Madison County earned two 2014 Tony Awards, for Best Score and Best Orchestrations. A Ghostlight Records cast album preserves the score.
Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara (The Light in the Piazza, South Pacific, Nice Work If You Can Get It) and Steven Pasquale (Reasons to Be Pretty, Far From Heaven, "Rescue Me") led the cast as Italian-American housewife Francesca Johnson and National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid, respectively.
Casting for the tour has not begun.
The TUTS season also includes Matilda (Oct. 6-18), A Christmas Story (Dec. 8-20), Mary Poppins (March 8-20, 2016), Oliver! (April 5-17) and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (May 3-15).


The second in a series of exhibitions, the Vancouver Special showcase has been on since May and is wrapping up after this weekend on January 3rd 2022.
Disorientations and Echo features 32 well-established Vancouver-based artists and up-and-coming talent. Working with a variety of different mediums, this show is the perfect edition to your holiday plans. According to the VAG, the entire exhibition speaks to the thought-provoking themes of cultural resilience, the articulation of suppressed histories, the performance of identity and embodied knowledge.
This local-focused exhibition is a great initiative by the Vancouver Art Gallery to highlight the diverse techniques and abilities of these artists who make the city their playground in the creation of their art. Get immersed in Vancouver’s Art and Culture scene and support these local artists by checking it out.
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I said goodbye to one of my very good friends yesterday. She is going to become a sister in Italy, and I won't see her for a year. I can't even write for four more years. It is such a bittersweet occasion - I'm rejoicing wholeheartedly for her beautiful vocation, but my heart is anguished with missing her.
She was the first best friend I had, and we were fast friends from the time we met five and a half years ago, when she was 13 and I was 10. For that first year and a half or so, we really were like "one soul in two bodies". We told each other just about everything and loved one another devotedly.
But clouds must shadow every friendship, and they did ours. Hasty words were spoken, feelings hurt on both sides, and for about a year we didn't even speak to each other. We were each going through very different times in our lives - I was becoming a teenager, but she was becoming a young lady.
Thanks be to God, we completely forgave and forgot about two years ago. Things could naturally never be as they used to be, but soon we were once again as close as we had been, just in a different and more mature way.
This past summer I didn't talk to her as much as I wish I had. It was a very busy, stressful summer for both of us, but certainly more so for her. I think that whenever we have to say goodbye to someone dear to us, we will always wish we had had more time with them.
It makes me miserable to think that I'll never celebrate another Christmas or Easter or birthday with her, that if I get married she won't be a part of the wedding, that she will most likely not see my kids when they are babies, that I won't be able to tell her all about college - simply that our lives are now going to be forever separate. She won't be there to laugh with me, to cry with me, to comfort me when I need it.
But I am happy for her - so happy! She has been given a beautiful and mind-blowingly wonderful vocation. She'll be living in a beautiful country, be part of a religious order, be the spouse of Our Lord Himself. She'll be so happy.
There was a Mass for her a few weeks ago, and in his sermon our priest said she is going to be one of the "missing links in the puzzle of life". He said that vocations are like many steps on the ladder - some are closer to heaven, others farther away, but we need all of them or else we wouldn't have a ladder. The steps closest to heaven are those occupied by priests, sisters, and brothers, and lately we've had a shortage of them. He said that, hopefully, she will be one of the missing links - fill in a gap at the top of the ladder.
This is my acknowledgment of her, you could say. I'm happy that she is my friend, that we have so many good memories, that she was blessed with such a beautiful vocation. I miss her terribly - I always will, and I'll always look forward to seeing her. Saying goodbye to her was one of the hardest things I have ever done. I ask your prayers for her, on her behalf.

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4/5 Neil MacGregor delves into the history of an artefact from Korea.
5/5 Neil MacGregor examines a painting from the Silk Road.
3/5 Neil MacGregor examines a pottery warrior figure from a forgotten people in Peru.
2/5 Neil MacGregor with one of the most sensational finds from Anglo-Saxon Britain.
1/5 Two gold coins from Syria which sum up one of history's greatest political upheavals.

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[The critics were asked to provide their thoughts on the prevalence of 3D.]
Denby: It depends. I mean I loved “Avatar.”
Scott: You and I were on Charlie Rose talking about "Avatar" when it came out and we were both really impressed and seduced by that. I think that's a case where it was appropriate to the story, to the scale of visual ambition. It's not necessary a lot of the time, but I’m not willing to say it can’t be an interesting tool. I think that Martin Scorsese used it to very compelling effects in "Hugo." I think that Wim Wenders did in "Pina." You can never pre-judge these things. There was a certain point where there was a dogma among critics and the industry that a serious drama could not work in color, that that would make it too bright. Color was for costume musicals and if you wanted realism then you couldn’t have color. You could find that in James Agee, the greatest of all critics. I’m not willing to say that a virtual reality, an immersive experience can’t be a great movie.
Denby: I think our loyalty is to the artist and to the audience, to storytelling and dramatic arc, and humor. Technology has always been secondary. It helps those virtues.
Scott: I feel the same way about the big argument now involving digital versus film. Again, I want to trust the artist and there are filmmakers who know more than I do about what it takes to tell these stories. I think that digital technologies are an extraordinary, empowering, and exciting thing, and there are others who regard it with skepticism or horror. The only thing we're competent to judge is what they make.
Topolsky: What do you think about Rotten Tomatoes?
Scott: It has a sort of limited utility. There is information there. It's a poll. It’s a little bit like a survey. It doesn’t substitute, I mean criticism is not necessary. You can go to a lot of movies you can love them and be completely untouched by film criticism, it exists for people who are interested. I think there are always people who are interested in having some kind of further conversation about what they’ve
seen, finding out what someone else has thought about it. What we’re looking for and hoping for are readers. It’s not going to be everybody who reads criticism, but you hope that you’ll have your circle who you’re talking to that kind of expands.
Denby: Those who care at all tend to care a great deal. That's always been true and it’s just as true now. I’m not bothered by the democratization of criticism. It’s part of the conversation and it’s healthy and good and people say smart things -- not always but often. I wish print editors thought as we do because there's no doubt about the devaluation of employability of critics in print with a job you could earn a living at. I don’t know what to say to kids. You meet them all the time.
Scott: Did anyone say to you -- your guidance counselor or your parents -- I mean, I don’t recall [mine] saying, "Film criticism, that's a great way to make a living!"
Denby: It was never easy, but it get easier on the internet where you can establish your voice. As I say, people should give up a little of their independence and come together with a professional attitude and start a film magazine.

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Yesterday in Byron Bay I met Tommy. He’s a local legend, a dancer and one of the kindest, raddest people I’ve ever met. If you meet him, say hello from me!
See his story here: “I’m Free To Be Me”
Not just fierce - fearsome!
Missed that detail, didn’t you?
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The Mega Millions jackpot is up to $512 million.
The odds of winning the grand prize at the drawing tonight is 1 in 302 million.
The winner could chose to take home a cash prize of $303 million.
The last million-dollar winners of the Mega Millions matched five white numbers to win $1 million on July 20. Those tickets were sold in Illinois and Pennsylvania.
Mega Millions drawings are held Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. Five balls are drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 through 70. The Mega ball is drawn from balls numbered 1 through 25.
Mega Millions is played in 44...
The 7 Eleven store at 8014 Liberty Road sold one of the winning Mega Millions lottery tickets with a jackpot of $640 million dollars.

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Last month when the Resident Evil 2 remake was announced, some fans weren’t feeling the new faces Leon and Claire. Their appearances changed because Capcom had scanned real people and created character models based on that data. Here are those people.
Fashion model Eduard Badaluta was the basis for Leon, which he revealed on his Instagram. He asked fans to enjoy the game!
As website Revil reported, Fashion model Jordan McEwen was the basis for Claire, which she also revealed via Instagram (though, she’s since taken the post).
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No matter how confident you are, proving yourself worthy in the eyes of your in-laws is a daunting task. Now imagine if your father-in-law to be is the ruler of your country! Suddenly, its mission impossible and you have an immense hill to climb. However, even you couldn’t imagine how badly your proposition would end. An attempted beheading, an Evil Mage, and a King who is kidnapped! This is the crazy plot of Princess.Loot.Pixel.Again, and a story that you’ll relive a thousand times.
Developed by EfimovMax and published by Big Way Games, this is a rogue-lite dynamic platformer. Set in an ever-changing Evil Tower, Princess.Loot.Pixel.Again is a tough action-adventure title. Subsequently, its retro charms will infuriate you from the start as you’ll die repeatedly and lose all your progress.
Princess.Loot.Pixel.Again is deceptively simple.
I’ve played enough of these games to know that I shouldn’t fall for the basic mechanics. However, I always do, and these deceptively simple ideas make it moreish but oh so frustrating. You’ll die more times than you care to think about, but this matters not. You’ll take a deep breath and start the madness over again.
Princess.Loot.Pixel.Again is jam-packed with content and there is an array of characters to pick from, and a plethora of items to find and artefacts to collect. Each playable hero has strengths and weaknesses that support certain play styles. There is a warrior, rogue, mage, archer, and more. You’ll experience magic, speed, close or ranged combat, and so on as you annihilate every enemy. The equipment you find adds to your base attributes and these can make huge differences to your chances of survival. Yet, the artefacts are the key objects to collect. These magic-infused tablets give you a helping hand during each playthrough.
Death surrounds you.
Simply not being good enough for the King’s daughter shouldn’t be a reason to lose your head. Sadly, though, this is where it all begins. You may think it karma when an Evil Mage swoops in and kidnaps the murder-happy ruler. However, you want to prove you are worthy of the Princess’s love, so you enter the Evil Tower to slay the Evil Mage. Unsurprisingly, this is instantly regrettable as death is guaranteed.
If you make it past the many twists and turns and overcome the horrific bosses in your path, you’ll witness multiple endings. Depending on the choices you’ve made and how many times you’ve played it, you’ll see many unique finales. This was surprisingly rewarding and made the hard work worthwhile.
Damn you, rogue-lite mechanics.
Because of its rogue-lite qualities and tough platforming elements, your progress is wiped repeatedly. This horrendous mechanic will make you wince as you start again for the nth time. Yet, it allows you to experiment with each character and different setups. I loved how minor changes had a big impact on how you tried each playthrough. Would you try to rush each level with the rogue, or will you pick off your foes with a bow or magic? Tactically, it’s very clever and you’ll have to think on your feet to be victorious.
Strangely, though, the real kicker surrounding the simplicity of Princess.Loot.Pixel.Again is how easy the monsters are to defeat. Each creature moves in a set way, so planning to kill them is easy, in theory. Sadly, though, it’s never that straightforward, as traps and obstacles always stand in your way. You learn that new items will only get you so far, and victory is determined by studying your foes’ strengths and manipulating their weaknesses.
Princess.Loot.Pixel.Again is dated, but pleasant to look at.
The side-scrolling perspective and Metroidvania style dungeon crawling were combined brilliantly. This tried and tested approach works spectacularly in this setting and was easy to pick up and play. The dated but smooth imagery doesn’t harness the power of modern machines, but it was nice, nonetheless. Thanks to its mainly dull colour palette, the surrounding world feels oppressive and claustrophobic. Thankfully, there are moments of vivid colour that break up the monotony and keep things interesting.
Death is just around the corner, so it could have been easy to get frustrated. Fortunately, however, the high-adrenaline electronic soundtrack is full of energy. Its fun tunes distract you from the repetitive nature of the gameplay and the basic sound effects are effective throughout. You won’t be wowed by the audio, but its lighthearted energetic style is on par with many of its peers.
A gentle reminder as you begin again.
The developers have done a great job of making the action extremely accessible. A gentle reminder at the start of each playthrough highlights the controls, and the simple but effective UI makes it easy to use your abilities and inventory. You’ll have the controls mastered in no time, and this allows you to focus on the finer details.
Its core rogue-lite elements make this extremely addictive and frustrating. Players will lose hours of their lives while trying to overcome each obstacle and every enemy they encounter. I never tired of trying to get to the end boss, and every new ending is worthy of your time. Subsequently, Princess.Loot.Pixel.Again is loaded with replay value and is exceptional value for money.
Princess.Loot.Pixel.Again is annoying, but brilliant at the same time.
My hatred for rogue-lite/like games has waned, yet I still find them equally annoying and brilliant. Princess.Loot.Pixel.Again will punish you and test your ability to focus on fine details. If you learn your enemy’s traits, you will progress at a nice pace. However, simply relying on upgrades is not enough and will ensure you fail repeatedly. I loved it and hated it and recommend you to buy it here! You’ll scream, quit, and try again as you make your way through the Evil Tower to destroy the Evil Mage.

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In today’s wholesome news…
Five beautiful little Humboldt penguin chicks have been welcomed into the world, and their teeny little wings are stealing our hearts already. Emerging from their eggs between 26th March and 14th April, the miniature new arrivals have been adjusting to life tucked away in their nests, where both mum and dad have been taking it in turns to care for their baby chicks.
And to honour their birth during the Coronavirus pandemic, Chester Zoo has decided to name the chicks after NHS heroes and the hospitals that they work at. Previous births have seen names given inspired by crisps, chocolates and British athletes, however, this year’s will mean so much more, paying homage to those risking their lives every day to help us combat the pandemic.
After collecting suggestions from their fans, Chester Zoo has now selected the names, confirming in a statement that the penguins have been named Florence (after Florence Nightingale), Thomas (after St. Thomas’ Hospital), Bevan (after NHS founder Aneurin Bevan), Arrowe (after Arrowe Park Hospital) and Countess (after the zoo’s local hospital the Countess of Chester Hospital).
Humboldt penguins’ existence is considered to be threatened, and the incredibly rare birds are now the most ‘at risk’ of the 17 penguin species. Listed as ‘vulnerable to extinction’ by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the penguins are facing a number of threats, including climate change, over-fishing of their food sources, and increased acidity and temperatures in the oceans.
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‘Frosty the Snowman, was a jolly happy soul…’
I went into Frosty the Snowman working under the assumption that the famous song of the same name was based on this 1969 short film. Actually it’s the other round. Which renders the whole thing a little hollow. It’s a bit like when you find out that the original Transformers cartoon was based on the toys.
This kind of happened before with the 12 Days of Christmas Films when I watched White Christmas assuming that that’s where the song came from. Alas, it was actually first recorded for Holiday Inn years earlier. Maybe this whole Christmas thing is just a castle built on lies. Maybe pigs in blankets aren’t the best food known to man. Maybe I don’t have to ruin Christmas by getting so drink on Christmas Eve that I don’t know who I am. Who has the answers? Santa?
Well, Santa does pop up in Frosty the Snowman to save the day like the absolute goddamn legend that he is but mostly this is a film about an evil magician who looks a lot like Dick Dasterdly chasing a talking snowman, a rabbit and a small child through the North Pole. It’s a bit weird.
While How the Grinch Stole Christmas has Dr. Seuss’ unforgettable prose to work with, Frosty the Snowman only has the unavoidable Christmas song. I mean it’s hardly an epic tale is it. What even happens in the song? God, who even cares? I’m ten days in now, the end is in sight. Five years ago I started this shit and I’m still not free of it. Christ, I hate Christmas pudding.
Two more to go… two more to go…
I love Christmas films but I’m all out of festive cheer now. I’ve done my time Santa. Set me free!


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In this week’s Take Two, Jamy Ian Swiss showcases one of magic’s all-time greats—Juan Tamariz. Tamariz has had a profound influence on more than one generation of magicians. Find out what makes him so especial.
A new edition of an old book—that even comes with its own handbook! Discover the double value hidden inside The Card Magic of Edward G. Brown by Trevor Hall and the Study Guide by Andi Gladwin in this review by Jamy Ian Swiss.


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Get ready for the T-Rex effect: these BMX trix tend to be every bmx one of the stage power!. victory points by generating high and also difficult jumps. Great BMX game!.
Play BMX Ventures and race against computer player and try to break the best time record. It is time for you get in your bicycle and also head right down to the BMX Ramp to tv show off the cycling expertise. jocuri Event from the ghost BMX, a creating of all of your previous ideal time. Do some amazing tricks with your BMX bicycle. Trip your Bmx, pickup truck some speed, do some stunts and accumulate some score!.
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You can play jocuri cu bmx games with your friend or play against the computer.


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What are the signs and symptoms of fluid volume deficit?
Signs and Symptoms of Fluid Volume Deficit
- Dizziness (orthostatic/postural hypotension)
- Decreased urination (oliguria)
- Dry mouth, dry skin.
- Thirst and/or nausea.
- Weight loss (except in third spacing, where the fluid will still be in the body but inaccessible)
- Muscle weakness and lethargy.
What is the best indicator of dehydration nursing?
- Weight loss is the best measure of dehydration.
- If a child is haemodynamically unstable (ie in shock), prompt fluid resuscitation with fluid boluses must be given.
- Rehydrate enterally (orally or via nasogastric route), unless severe dehydration or shock.
How do you assess hydration status in nursing?
Changes in body weight, haematological and urine parameters, bioelectrical impedance, skinfold thickness, heart rate and blood pressure changes are among these indices. Plasma osmolality, urine osmolality and urine specific gravity are the most widely used markers of hydration.
What is the nursing diagnosis for dehydration?
Nursing Care Plan for Dehydration 1 Nursing Diagnosis: Fluid Volume Deficit related to dehydration due to fever as evidenced by temperature of 39.0 degrees Celsius, skin turgidity, dark yellow urine output, profuse sweating, and blood pressure of 89/58.
What are the complications of dehydration?
Dehydration can lead to serious complications, including:
- Heat injury.
- Urinary and kidney problems.
- Low blood volume shock (hypovolemic shock).
Which of the following symptoms would be the nurse expect to assess in a patient with fluid volume deficit?
An elevated blood pressure and bounding pulses are often seen with fluid volume excess. Decreased blood pressure with an elevated heart rate and a weak or thready pulse are hallmark signs of fluid volume deficit.
What assessment findings are consistent with dehydration?
A systematic review found that the best individual examination signs for assessment of dehydration were prolonged capillary refill time, abnormal skin turgor and abnormal respiratory pattern (4).
What are the nursing interventions for dehydration?
Nursing Care Plan for Dehydration 1
|Nursing Interventions for Dehydration||Rationales|
|Start intravenous therapy as prescribed. Encourage oral fluid intake.||To replenish the fluids lost from profuse sweating, and to promote better blood circulation around the body.|
What are the symptoms of dehydration in the elderly?
Signs of dehydration include:
- Feeling unquenchable thirst.
- Few or no tears.
- Dry, sticky mouth.
- Not urinating frequently.
- Dark-colored urine.
- Unexplained tiredness.
- Feeling dizzy or lightheaded.
What are the main causes of dehydration?
Causes of dehydration Dehydration is caused by not drinking enough fluid or by losing more fluid than you take in. Fluid is lost through sweat, tears, vomiting, urine or diarrhoea. The severity of dehydration can depend on a number of factors, such as climate, level of physical activity and diet.
What are nursing interventions for dehydration?
Nursing Interventions for Fluid Volume Deficit
- Urge the patient to drink the prescribed amount of fluid.
- Aid the patient if they cannot eat without assistance, and encourage the family or SO to assist with feedings as necessary.
- If the patient can tolerate oral fluids, give what oral fluids the patient prefers.
What electrolyte findings are common with dehydration?
An electrolyte imbalance occurs when the concentration of a mineral, or electrolyte, becomes too high or too low relative to the amount of water available in the body….The most frequently observed electrolyte imbalances associated with dehydration concern:
- And chloride.
How do you document dehydration?
Dehydration [Documentation Suggestions]
- List any history of inadequate fluid intake, diuretic therapy, or nausea and/or vomiting.
- Describe clinical signs and symptoms (e.g., orthostatic tachycardia, postural hypotension, poor skin turgor, elevated urine osmolality, etc.).
What happens to vital signs during dehydration?
Vital signs may include postural readings (blood pressure and pulse rate are taken lying down and standing). With dehydration, the pulse rate may increase and the blood pressure may drop because the blood is depleted of fluid.
What happens due to dehydration?
Moderate to severe dehydration can cause tiredness, confusion, muscle cramping, poor kidney function, little-to-no urine production, and fast heart rate. Severe dehydration can lead to shock, weak pulse, bluish skin, very low blood pressure, lack of urine production, and in extreme cases, death.
What are early signs of dehydration?
Dehydration can be mild, moderate or severe, depending on how much of your body weight is lost through fluids. Two early signs of dehydration are thirst and dark-coloured urine. This is the body’s way of trying to increase water intake and decrease water loss. Other symptoms may include: dizziness or light-headedness; headache
What do vital signs tell you about dehydration?
– Blurred vision – Cold, clammy, pale skin – Dehydration and unusual thirst – Depression – Dizziness or lightheadedness – Fainting – Fatigue – Nausea – Lack of concentration – Rapid, shallow breathing
Which is typically one of the early symptoms of dehydration?
– Increased thirst. – Dry mouth. – Tired or sleepy. – Decreased urine output. – Urine is low volume and more yellowish than normal. – Headache. – Dry skin. – Dizziness.
How are vital signs affected by dehydration?
– Confusion – Dizziness – Fainting – Heart palpitations

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With current demand for gas at historic peak, any decrease in production due to deposits of scale within tubing is the most troublesome for any E&P company. Statistically 28% of time it is the scale in well that hinders producing it at optimum rate. "Carbonate" and "Sulfate" scales are most common of mineral scales that form in wells. Carbonate scales are generally tackled by wellbore cleanout with acid or by using scale inhibitors to slowdown scale deposition process but none of these solutions solve the problem on permanent basis. Sulfates scales are generally very hard to remove through acid job and usually chemical chelants are used to control sulfate scales.
The major production enhancement challenge faced in well ‘X’ was to permanently mitigate severe scale build up issue in tubing for optimum production performance. This paper presents how these challenges were faced and overcome by using ClearWELL* unit, resulting in stable and continuous production.
A scale study was conducted by OMV laboratory in Vienna to identify the scale build up mechanism and solutions for its mitigation. The study confirmed that minor pressure decrease at formation temperature promoted water transfer into the gas phase, if water rate is low compared to gas rate, this can result in complete evaporation and formation of precipitate leading to scale build up (mainly calcite). To reinstate production, repeated wellbore cleanouts with coiled tubing using diluted HCl (7.50%) were thought to be the temporary solution in fighting CaCO3 scales.
ClearWELL unit was commissioned at well ‘X’ x-mas tree, which is currently under pilot testing. It is an electromagnetic device which continuously generates electronic dipole that induces a randomly varying high frequency electric field throughout the entire piping system. The electric field generated by device forces homogeneous crystal formation in suspension rather than on metal surfaces. Scale crystallizes in suspension and is carried away with gas water mixture.
During last 5 months of its pilot testing, results achieved so far are promising. Stable and no lost production added a reasonable value to the producing asset and saved huge revenue loss to the company.


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The collection comprises of correspondence by Byrd relating to polar matters
Richard Byrd collection
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- Dates of Creation1928-1939
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- Physical DescriptionCorrespondence (13 leaves)
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Richard Evelyn Byrd was born on 25 October 1888 in Virginia. He was educated at the University of Virginia and the US Naval Academy, Annapolis. Receiving his commission in the US Navy in 1912, he was compelled to retire in 1916 because of a leg injury. Relegated to deskwork in the Naval Reserve, he was recalled when the United States entered the First World War, training as a pilot in the newly-formed Naval Air Service. In 1918, Byrd was involved in planning the first long-distance flights of the US Navy seaplanes across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1925, he was seconded to Donald Baxter MacMillan's expedition to northwest Greenland as planning and liaison officer, gaining his first Arctic flying experience over west Greenland and Ellesmere Island. The following year, Byrd organized a private expedition to attempt a flight from Svalbard to the North Pole in a tri-motor Fokker monoplane with Floyd Bennett. Byrd claimed to have reached the North Pole, although recent analysis of his diary suggests that he may have turned back before reaching the Pole due to concerns about aircraft serviceability. In June 1927, Byrd made a non-stop flight across the Atlantic from Newfoundland to France with four companions, crash landing in the sea at Ver-sur-Mer.
His established reputation now made it possible to contemplate larger ventures and Byrd announced his object of reaching the South Pole by air on the United States Antarctic Expedition, 1928-1930. From his base at 'Little America' in the Bay of Whales, a series of exploratory flights were made over and beyond King Edward VII Land, during which the Rockefeller Mountains, Edsel Ford Ranges (now Ford Ranges) and Marie Byrd Land were discovered. Laurence McKinley Gould, chief scientist and second-in-command, led dog-sledging parties to study the geology of the Rockefeller and Queen Maud Mountains.
Advancing to the rank of rear-admiral in the US Naval Reserve, Byrd made full use of media publicity to promote a second United States Antarctic Expedition, 1933-1935, organized to continue previous scientific and geographical exploration in the Antarctic. An extensive scientific and exploratory programme was conducted from both ground and air using the extended base, 'Little America'. His success on this expedition persuaded the US government that Antarctic exploration was no longer a matter for private enterprise and, in 1939, Byrd was given command of the government-backed United States Antarctic Service Expedition, 1939-1941, with the objectives of delineating the coast between 72 and 148 degrees West and consolidating the discoveries of the previous two expeditions. Two bases were established to achieve this, one at 'Little America' and the other on Stonington Island, Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula. Planned to last for several years with changing personnel, the expedition ended under threat of the Second World War.
During the Second World War, Byrd advised on cold-weather clothing and equipment, and in planning long-range air routes for war in the Pacific Ocean. He was appointed officer-in-charge of the United States Navy Antarctic Developments Project, 1946-1947 (Operation Highjump), revisiting the continent and flying to the South Pole. His last expedition to Antarctica was as officer-in-charge of the United States Expedition, 1955-1956 (Operation Deep-Freeze), in connection with the International Geophysical Year Programs. He died on 11 March 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Published work Alone by Richard Evelyn Bird, Putnam London (1938) SPRI Library Shelf (7)91(08)[1933-1935 Byrd] Skyward... by Richard Evelyn Bird, Penguin Putnam New York (2000) SPRI Library Shelf 92[Byrd, R.E.] Discovery, the story of the second Byrd Antarctic expedition by Richard Evelyn Bird, G.P. Putnam's Sons New York (1935) SPRI Library Shelf (7)91(08)[1933-35 Byrd]
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It never ceases to amaze us at AES International, at the number of people who ask us why it is important they use a regulated financial adviser.
It is tempting to answer this with another question: would you use an unlicensed dentist, doctor, lawyer or any other professional? A better answer, though, would be that seeking professional wealth advice is absolutely critical to avoiding catastrophic disaster when it comes to financial planning, too.
So why is it so imperative you receive regulated financial advice?
There are countless reasons why you should ensure that the advice you receive is given by a regulated adviser. Here are four key ones:
Regulated financial adviser benefits
To be regulated, a firm needs to be a registered legal entity. It needs financial resources (known as capital adequacy), professionally qualified individuals, and systems and controls that are adequate for looking after clients. This means that you can have confidence that the company will not simply disappear.
Regulated firms must follow strict rules ensuring the advice they provide is suitable for your needs, appropriate, and fair. In the UK this falls under an Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) initiative called “Treating Customers Fairly”.
The analogy about the doctors and dentists may seem obvious – I am sure you also wouldn’t want an unqualified electrician to wire your house, an unqualified mechanic to service your car or an unqualified plumber to fix your pipes. However, the international financial marketplace is littered with unqualified salesmen. It simply does not make sense to trust something as critical as your financial well being to someone with no qualifications. Qualifications matter.
What is a regulated financial adviser?
In the UK, the FCA requires all financial advisers hold financial qualifications equivalent to at least a Level 4 qualification within the national Qualifications and Credit Framework. This means the adviser must be educated in financial advice more or less to university degree level.
It is worth asking your financial adviser what qualifications he holds to ensure you are getting professional advice from someone suitably qualified.
Fair recourse to complain
By using a regulated financial adviser you will have a proper course to ask for redress if you feel a product has been mis-sold to you or you have lost out financially from having received poor advice. Regulated firms have well documented, careful, comprehensive and prompt complaints handling procedures. If you are not happy with their response you may be able to complain to an Ombudsman (independent adjudicator), or in some cases directly to the regulator who will investigate to ensure you get fair treatment.
In the event something does go wrong with the product you have taken out or the advice is wrong, you may be eligible to compensation from the firm, and more importantly, even if the firm is not in a position to pay, there is still recourse available. As an example, advice given by an FCA regulated firm in the UK is covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (up to a specific limit): for regulated investment advice, for example, you can claim compensation up to a limit of £50,000 if a firm is unable to pay). None of this is available from an unregulated firm.
Regulated firms also have to have professional indemnity insurance in place which may pay compensation if they have made an error. An unregulated firm will not have this cover in place leaving clients exposed to a great deal of unwelcome risk.
Check the advisory company’s credentials
All countries have a financial markets regulator – a list of the regulators can be found here.
Nearly all regulators have registers available so you can check the firm you are dealing with is properly authorised. The adviser you deal with will also be able to give you details of company and regulatory numbers and explain all of the above.
AES is authorised and regulated in 36 different jurisdictions which means we have met and agreed to maintain high standards in relation to both providing you with financial planning, and in administering the financial affair of our clients.
We believe the gold standard of regulation is that of the UK where our regulator is the FCA. As we focus on the international market we export this best practice into other markets so our clients get the peace of mind and security to know we put their interests first.
In our experience, many international ‘IFAs’ are only licensed for basic insurance services, often operating well outside their scope of authorisation, whilst some are not regulated at all. It is always worth checking and indeed double-checking the exact categories of business that firms are licensed to conduct, and should there be any doubt at all, AES International will be able to clarify the position.
The following case study is fictitious, but it illustrates a scenario we see time and time again.
David was working his last few years before retirement in Abu Dhabi when he met an unregulated financial adviser. The charismatic salesman persuaded him to invest his pension and excess savings in two offshore investment bonds. This well-known international life insurance company was based in the Isle of Man and didn’t have a licence in the UAE either. When the underlying funds (that were also unregulated) that David had invested in collapsed, he lost his entire life savings in one go and had absolutely no recourse to complain to anyone. The adviser was gone, the funds vanished and the life insurance company stonewalled the complaint saying he had invested at his own risk…
No one should ever have to be in this position but it is all too frequent within the international market. Make sure it doesn’t happen to you.

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Fire Science Technology Program Director
Georgia Piedmont Technical College
Chuck Baird is a twenty-eight year veteran of the fire service, who retired from his department as a captain assigned to a triple company, engine, truck, and rescue in December 2016. He currently serves as the Fire Science Technology Program Director at Georgia Piedmont Technical College in Covington, Georgia. He has served as a training officer over the first twenty years of his career, both as a staff instructor and adjunct instructor. He was the captain of the training division for six years guiding day to day operations and has actively taught firefighters, EMS providers, and the public since 1991. He is a NPQ III Fire and Emergency Services Instructor and Georgia Level III EMS Instructor. He has earned three college degrees including a Masters Degree in Executive Fire Service Leadership from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona. Baird is also a graduate of the National Fire Academy’s Executive Fire Officer Program. He has served as the chairperson for the Metro Atlanta Training Officers Section of the Metro Atlanta Fire Chiefs Association for the past six years. He has taught within local fire and EMS academies, the Georgia Fire Academy, and regional and national conferences, including five years at FDIC.
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When was the last time you honed your instructor knowledge and skills? As firefighters and fire officers we are expected to maintain a high level of proficiency in using the tools of the trade. As instructors, it is paramount that we are masters of the instructor’s tools of the trade. This workshop is designed to provide participants with an opportunity to refine their knowledge and skills of instruction. Return to your department and company better prepared to provide highly effective and successful learning experiences. Participants are encouraged to engage the tools of the instructor creatively and effectively to improve their delivery of instruction. Enroll in this workshop and master these tools of the trade; mastering learning environment dynamics, mastering training aids, mastering the presentation, and mastering the audience.


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Left to right: Banks, Benson, Carrie, Ben
Somehow Ben ended up with two pumpkins modeled after him. He was particularly inspiring this year apparently.
Skeleton, Knight, Ventriloquist, and half-hearted ventriloquist dummy
I've been feeling sort of anti-blog lately but Ben keeps getting on my case to post something and it's probably good to make an effort here. I'd like to think I'll record my memories in a personal journal but if I don't have some sort of public accountability it's just not going to happen so I need to do better here. And it's fun to remember things!
Halloween was fun, as usual, and even though I had a mad dash to the finish with costumes (again!) it's getting more and more fun to create costumes for my little guys because they are so excited about the final results. Next year I'm going to try and convince everyone to dress up in a theme since I have 3 boys and that would be awesome-sauce.
And now: on to Thanksgiving! And we have family here this year which makes it twice as awesome! Yes!
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
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Molotov Jukebox With Huw Eddy & The Carnival
Internationally acclaimed actress Natalia Tena (Natalia who starred in the Harry Potter Film series as Nymphadora Tonks and in Game of Thrones as Osha), fronts the band with her infectious and sultry lead vocals.
Molotov Jukebox’s music has been described as explosive and eclectic. The band started out as a 2 piece with Natalia playing accordion and her partner Sam playing Balkan fiddle. They became a 6 piece with the addition of trumpet, bass, drums and guitar, playing anything from Balkan/Eastern European music, to Tropical Gypsy. The band’s sound is also influenced by the music in countries they are touring.


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Polyurethane foam offers automobile designers and manufacturers the means to produce seating that can be easily assembled, disassembled and recycled. It also meets the highest performance specifications over a wide range of firmness—without added weight. Through many years of service, and even under heavy use, polyurethane foam retains its original firmness, shape and resiliency. Arm rests, head rests, cushioned instrument panels and other parts of your car’s interior are all made with polyurethane foams.
Polyurethanes are used throughout your car—in familiar places like the foam that makes your car seats comfortable, as well as a few places you might not expect. polyurethane Foam are used in the bumpers, the interior “headliner” ceiling section, the car body, its spoilers, and in all the doors and windows
This foam has 100% open cells made by thermal reticulation process.The foam blocks are placed inside high pressure reticulation chamber for charging with gas to convert it in different PPI (pores per linear inch) depending upn the customer needs.
Our reticulated foam is available in both Ester & Ether.
Ester based reticulated foam are stable with petroleum products and thus can be used effectively to mop-up and filter petroleum products.
Ether based reticulated foam are not affected by water and thus are ideal for water filtration.
Ester based automotive filters are technically superior than paper filters in terms of effeciency, life as well as reusability.
The seats are perhaps the most visible part of the car that is made of PU foam. Without polyurethane foam, car seats won’t be as soft, comfortable, and shock-absorbing as they are today.
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Coaches for the various national team will be announced in February, this is according to the General Secretary of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Dr. Mohammed Sanusi.
The scribe of the Nigerian football governing body also made it that the appointments of coaching crew will be done on merit and the new coaches must possess the qualifications for the positions.
Dr. Sanusi also stated that only the Super Eagles job is not open as the current coach Gernot Rohr moves closer to agreeing on a new term with the Federation.
“The consultants saddled with the responsibility of recruiting and recommending are expected to turn in the chosen coaches for the Super Falcons, U-23 Eagles, Flying Eagles, Falconets, Flamingos, Golden Eaglets and Future Eagles for the NFF executive to approve and announce the appointments,” Sanusi said.
“We expect them to do a thorough job and recruit the best coaches among those who applied. I can assure Nigerians that the NFF will employ the best coaches for our national teams soon.” He said.
It would be recalled that the Federation decided not to renew the contract of the previous coaches following their dismal performances at the major competition last year.

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In today’s (May 11) episode of ‘Time Warp’, meet Rusty Haight, a human crash test dummy. In his career, he has crashed his car almost 900 times…on purpose.
Jeff and Matt travel to the Massachussetts State Police Training Facility where Rusty will be crashing cars for the benefit of state troopers and local district attorneys.
His crashes help officials hone their accident reconstruction techniques and better understand what happens during a smash up.
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However, achieving this entry is such a painstaking task that it is considered an art form; it is so difficult to learn that only a small number of labs in the world practice it.
But that could soon change: Researchers at MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a way to automate the process of finding and recording information from neurons in the living brain. The researchers have shown that a robotic arm guided by a cell-detecting computer algorithm can identify and record from neurons in the living mouse brain with better accuracy and speed than a human experimenter.
The new automated process eliminates the need for months of training and provides long-sought information about living cells’ activities. Using this technique, scientists could classify the thousands of different types of cells in the brain, map how they connect to each other, and figure out how diseased cells differ from normal cells.
The project is a collaboration between the labs of Ed Boyden, associate professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, and Craig Forest, an assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech.
“Our team has been interdisciplinary from the beginning, and this has enabled us to bring the principles of precision machine design to bear upon the study of the living brain,” Forest says. His graduate student, Suhasa Kodandaramaiah, spent the past two years as a visiting student at MIT, and is the lead author of the study, which appears in the May 6 issue of Nature Methods.
The method could be particularly useful in studying brain disorders such as schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, autism and epilepsy, Boyden says. “In all these cases, a molecular description of a cell that is integrated with [its] electrical and circuit properties … has remained elusive,” says Boyden, who is a member of MIT’s Media Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research. “If we could really describe how diseases change molecules in specific cells within the living brain, it might enable better drug targets to be found.”
Kodandaramaiah, Boyden and Forest set out to automate a 30-year-old technique known as whole-cell patch clamping, which involves bringing a tiny hollow glass pipette in contact with the cell membrane of a neuron, then opening up a small pore in the membrane to record the electrical activity within the cell. This skill usually takes a graduate student or postdoc several months to learn.
Kodandaramaiah spent about four months learning the manual patch-clamp technique, giving him an appreciation for its difficulty. “When I got reasonably good at it, I could sense that even though it is an art form, it can be reduced to a set of stereotyped tasks and decisions that could be executed by a robot,” he says.
To that end, Kodandaramaiah and his colleagues built a robotic arm that lowers a glass pipette into the brain of an anesthetized mouse with micrometer accuracy. As it moves, the pipette monitors a property called electrical impedance — a measure of how difficult it is for electricity to flow out of the pipette. If there are no cells around, electricity flows and impedance is low. When the tip hits a cell, electricity can’t flow as well and impedance goes up.
The pipette takes two-micrometer steps, measuring impedance 10 times per second. Once it detects a cell, it can stop instantly, preventing it from poking through the membrane. “This is something a robot can do that a human can’t,” Boyden says.
Once the pipette finds a cell, it applies suction to form a seal with the cell’s membrane. Then, the electrode can break through the membrane to record the cell’s internal electrical activity. The robotic system can detect cells with 90 percent accuracy, and establish a connection with the detected cells about 40 percent of the time.
The researchers also showed that their method can be used to determine the shape of the cell by injecting a dye; they are now working on extracting a cell’s contents to read its genetic profile.
Development of the new technology was funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the MIT Media Lab.
New era for robotics
The researchers recently created a startup company, Neuromatic Devices, to commercialize the device.
The researchers are now working on scaling up the number of electrodes so they can record from multiple neurons at a time, potentially allowing them to determine how different parts of the brain are connected.
They are also working with collaborators to start classifying the thousands of types of neurons found in the brain. This “parts list” for the brain would identify neurons not only by their shape — which is the most common means of classification — but also by their electrical activity and genetic profile.
“If you really want to know what a neuron is, you can look at the shape, and you can look at how it fires. Then, if you pull out the genetic information, you can really know what’s going on,” Forest says. “Now you know everything. That’s the whole picture.”
Boyden says he believes this is just the beginning of using robotics in neuroscience to study living animals. A robot like this could potentially be used to infuse drugs at targeted points in the brain, or to deliver gene therapy vectors. He hopes it will also inspire neuroscientists to pursue other kinds of robotic automation — such as in optogenetics, the use of light to perturb targeted neural circuits and determine the causal role that neurons play in brain functions.
Neuroscience is one of the few areas of biology in which robots have yet to make a big impact, Boyden says. “The genome project was done by humans and a giant set of robots that would do all the genome sequencing. In directed evolution or in synthetic biology, robots do a lot of the molecular biology,” he says. “In other parts of biology, robots are essential.”
Other co-authors include MIT grad student Giovanni Talei Franzesi and MIT postdoc Brian Y. Chow.Research News & Publications Office
Writer: Anne Trafton, MIT News
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Ex-Illinois star Nunn to join Golden Grizzlies
Dismissed Illinois guard Kendrick Nunn decided Wednesday night that he will continue his basketball career at Oakland.
Nunn visited Oakland on Monday, and hit it off with coach Greg Kampe and his assistants.
"Obviously a great school, with a lot of reputation," said Nunn, who called new Oakland assistant Cornell Mann to commit. "They allowed me to come in, you know, to save my career."
Nunn, 20, who's 6-foot-3 and 190 pounds, will have to sit out the 2016-17, per NCAA regulations. He will have one season of eligibility remaining at Oakland.
Nunn also considered transferring to East Carolina and Texas A&M-Commerce.
A top-75 recruit coming out of high school in Chicago, Nunn averaged 15.5 points in 35.1 minutes this past season, win which he played in 28 games, with 25 starts. He averaged 11.1 points as a sophomore.
Oakland's style of play -- which gained a whole lot of notoriety this past season, with star point guard Kay Felder leading the nation's top scoring offense -- really appealed to him.
"It's just a great fit for me," Nunn said. "I think I could make another jump going there. Kay was a great player, a lefty like me, a great scorer, something I like to do. That played a part in the decision."
Felder left Oakland after his junior season to enter Thursday's NBA draft. His stock has risen dramatically since the NBA combine.
Oakland added junior-college transfer Stevie Clark to take Felder's place this season.
Nunn was kicked off the Illinois team in May after pleading guilty to misdemeanor domestic battery, and was sentenced to 18 months probation and community service. He said he's confident those issues are in the past.
"Yeah, definitely," he said. "It's a lot of things that I've seen and heard throughout the media about the situation that wasn't true at all. Oakland, they took me in and they know the story. They were positive about me."
Kampe is known to do due diligence with kids with past issues, legal or otherwise, and goes on a case-by-case basis.
Clark and Texas transfer Martez Walker are two recent examples of kids Kampe has given a second chance to.
Walker, from Detroit Pershing, was charged with misdemeanor domestic battery and booted from Texas, joined the team mid-season this past season and averaged 10.5 points in 23.2 minutes. He played in 26 games, starting 13 of them.


One year after 298 civilians fell to earth over eastern Ukraine, Putin’s regime is still denying culpability. Here’s definitive evidence to the contrary.
It’s been a year since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot out of the sky, killing all 298 civilians onboard. The results of the official inquiry have yet to be released, and while the fact that this Boeing 777 was immolated has not been disputed, various theories have been floated by the Ukrainian government, the Russian government, and other interested parties as to how it was and who ultimately bears responsibility for this tragedy.The vast majority of the evidence adds credibility to the theory that an anti-aircraft Buk missile launcher, controlled by either Russian soldiers or Russian-backed fighters and fired from a field south of the town of Snezhnoye, destroyed the commercial airliner. The Buk is an advanced weapons system capable of destroying military aircraft or even ballistic missiles at an altitude up to 82,000 feet, and so its presence on Ukraine’s battlefield was always set to change both the scope and intensity of the conflict. But it suspiciously arrived in the arsenal of the Russian-backed fighters at a time when the Ukrainian military was making rapid gains and was perhaps closing in on a military solution to the conflict.
Source: How We Know Russia Shot Down MH17 – The Daily Beast


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