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Wenger himself confirmed he would sign only “top players” in winter, and this has seen the club linked to an avalanche of star players in recent weeks.
According to Portuguese sports newspaper O Jogo, they claim Arsenal are keen on signing a defensive midfielder in January and they suggest Arsenal primary target is Porto’s Danilo Pereira.
It’s no longer news that the Gunners are currently without some key players due to injury with the likes of Jack Wilshere, Mikel Arteta, and first-choice midfield pairing Francis Coquelin and Santi Cazorla.
Danilo only joined Porto in the summer, from Maritimo, but at 24 would be a great investment for Arsenal.
The midfielder has established himself as a key player at Porto this season having spent two seasons at Maritimo, and before that a campaign at Roda JC.
In an interview with O jogo, Boa Morte revealed ‘I went to Madeira, but not to watch Neves. He’s an 8, not a 6,’
He also revealed that Pereiera has been a long term target
“I’ve watched Danilo since he was 15/16 years at Benfica. His development has been impressive, but I wasn’t surprised by it.’
‘Danilo has quality for a different challenge, he just need to be given the opportunity. Things are already easy for him at FCP.”


Friday, September 28, 2018, - Sunday, September 30, 2018, All Day
The UK’s only festival dedicated to short stories runs from September 28 to 30 at Charleston.
Friday, September 28, 2018, 10.00 am - 12.00 pm
Macmillan Cancer Support will be holding a coffee morning at Pizza Express on Friday, September 28.
Friday, September 28, 2018, 10.15 am - 12.15 pm
Talks for All provides a weekly social slot for listening to an engaging speaker, asking your own questions, and meeting with others in a relaxed and informal environment. The series of talks, organised by the Adult College for Rural East Sussex, begins on Friday, September 28, and continues each week until May 24. They will be held at Uckfield Civic Centre from 10.15am to 12.15pm. It will cost £95 for 27 talks.
Saturday, September 29, 2018, - Sunday, September 30, 2018, 11.00 am - 5.00 pm
Rebecca Weddell is opening her Let Fire Inspire glass bead studio to the public as part of the Artwave Festival.
Saturday, September 29, 2018, 7.00 pm
Harlands Primary School will present Carnival of Animals at the school on Saturday, September 29.
Sunday, September 30, 2018, 7.30 pm
The final - and sold out - show from Synth-pop pioneers, Soft Cell, will be broadcast live at The Picture House, Uckfield, on Sunday, September 30.
Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 7.30 pm - 11.00 pm
Superstrings will bring their lively and entertaining repertoire of Hot Club, Gypsy Jazz, Swing and Bluegrass to Bridge Cottage, Uckfield, on Wednesday, October 3.
Friday, October 5, 2018, 7.20 am
Join fellow Uckfield business people for a networking breakfast with a difference on Friday, October 5, from 7.20am at The Highlands Inn.
Saturday, October 6, 2018, - Sunday, October 7, 2018, 10.00 am - 5.00 pm
The Lavender Line, at Isfield Station, will be holding a steam traction engine and classic car rally on Saturday and Sunday, October 6 and 7.
Saturday, October 6, 2018, 7.00 pm - 11.00 pm
The Geoff Bellhouse Band will be playing at Ridgewood Village Hall on Saturday, October 6.


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This bowl started with my experimenting with figuring out how to glue conical segmented shapes, or splayed miter joints, as I like to think of them.
I made this test piece out of some nice oak, so I could then try to make a bowl out of it.
The tricky thing is how to mount it for turning, and how to add a bottom. Because the precision of this shape was less than perfect, I figured my best option was to turn the inside bottom edge perfectly round and conical and match that with a turned conical "plug".
But I don't have a lathe chuck for mounting a shape like this.
So my solution was to just glue the workpiece onto a piece of plywood. I had previously flattened the rim on my jointer. I applied a bead of glue (previous photo) and then clamped it to the plywood.
Next I screwed the plywood to the faceplate of my lathe, and then turned the inside edge to be conical.
Once the cone was turned, I had to get the plywood off again. I used a thin saw blade in the table saw and cut all around. I had to cut the narrow edge of the workpiece back a little anyway, so I wasn't wasting any material.
I didn't want to make the bottom of the bowl out of a solid piece of wood, because, with seasonal shrinkage, that might cause it to warp or pull away from two sides of the rim. So I made a sandwich of three layers, with alternating grain directions. It's hard to see the wood with all the clamps on it.
When I made my plywood for the bowl lids this way, many people suggested using some sort of press for the glue. But I much prefer individual clamps. That way, I can be sure that pressure is applied everywhere.
I glued a disk onto the bottom to screw the lathe's faceplate on. That way, I won't end up with screw holes in the bottom of the bowl.
Cutting the workpiece round.
After I cut it round, I had the idea of cutting it conical on the bandsaw. That would reduce how much turning I'd have to do next.
Next I set the bevel gauge to the angle that I had turned into the bottom of the rim...
... and used the bevel gauge to check my angle on the disk. This photo was taken before I started turning.
Turning the cone. I set the tool rest to be the exact same angle that the cone needed to be. That made it easy to get the angle right.
Checking the fit. It took a few tries to get a fit I was happy with.
Once I decided the fit was good enough, I prepared for gluing. I put lots of glue on both parts because the joint isn't really that tight.
Clamping it together. Note how the lathe's faceplate is still attached to the bowl bottom.
Now back on the lathe.
I found I didn't have the rim on as straight as I would have liked, so I added a shim on one side between the faceplate and the bowl to offset the crookedness a little.
The inside is mostly round, except for two joints around the rim and the circular joint between the sides and the bottom. Fortunately, I have lots of thickness left, so I can afford to turn it down some more.
Turning the outside. Once I got it round, with the chisel cutting along the grain all the way around the bowl, I get nice long shavings just flying from the chisel, with relatively little dust.
I don't like wood turning much, but this part was fun.
The bowl fully rounded. I had plenty of thickness left to work with, so I thinned it to about 10 mm, and gave the sides a slight curve reminiscent of a bell.
Then sanding it all. I'm no fan of sanding, but on a lathe, at least it's motorized.
The mess at my lathe. I had the dust extractor running the whole time, with the end of the hose near the chisel. This didn't catch many shavings, but it sucked up most of the airborne dust.
I still needed to figure out how to remove that temporary piece of wood that I had glued on. I hadn't really thought this out ahead of time.
A good solution that people have pointed out is to glue on a piece of paper to the bottom of the bowl before gluing on the extra piece. The paper is strong enough for turing, but the bottom can still be pried off with a chisel, essentially splitting the paper in two.
But my bottm was glued on solid. My first thought was to maybe build a bandsaw jig to cut the bottom off. My homemade bandsaw has enough headroom to make this doable.
But then I realized, if I just put the bowl on my jointer, I wouldn't need to build a jig at all.
I wouldn't have tried this sort of thing on my homemade jointer when I first built it, because I didn't trust it right away. But it has served me well for a year now, without exploding. The jointer only has a 2" (50 mm) diameter cutter head, and a relatively narrow opening around the cutter head, so I was able to plane the bottom off the bowl without a problem.
After several passes, checking that the bottom is still level. I put the flat bottom on the jointer table and spun the bowl around while watching the bowl's rim against the fence. If the bottom was crooked, I would have had to do a tapered cut to correct. That would have involved slightly lifting one side of the bowl as I passed it over the jointer.
After the jointer work, I had a bowl with a perfectly flat bottom. But I wanted the bottom to be slightly hollow. The solution would have been some large faceplate chuck to hold the rim of the bowl on the lathe, but I don't have such a chuck.
So I decided to carve it out on the table saw. I attached a back-stop to the fence, and raised the blade to about 2 mm above the table...
...then, placing the bowl over the blade, I slowly spun it around to carve out the bottom.
I had to take several passes, each time moving the back-stop back a little to carve out a sufficiently large area.
The bottom hollowed out.
The turned bowl, seen from the top. Note the circle of grain going at 90-degrees in the bottom of the bowl. The way I had turned it, I went completely through the top layer of my three layer sandwich for the bottom. If I was doing it again, I would have made the top layer thicker so I wouldn't end up going through it.
That circle of perpendicular grain is slightly off center. That's because I had mounted the bowl slightly crooked to compensate for the fact that I glued the rim on slightly crooked.
Because this is a bowl, I should expect that at some point, somebody might put a salad or something else wet into it, so I needed a finish that wouldn't let water penetrate. Oil-based finishes are best for this. I don't use oil-based finishes much, but I still had some Varathane finish left over. I originally bought it to varnish some canoe paddles two years ago, then used it again to varnish the tables for the jointer and then the wheels and frame for my bandsaw/sawmill
I always use oil based finishes outside. This time, in front of my new shed. That way, I could just put the piece inside the shed to let it dry overnight.
Some people really like to use these "painters triangles" for supporting work. Personally, I just use some triangular rails and put the work on that instead. They sometimes leave a slight line on the workpiece, but there's no risk of leaving a divot in it either. Whatever line might end up on it can be scraped off with a chisel. Sometimes I cut notches in the edge of the rails, but usually I don't bother.
With five coats of varnish, the bowl turned out nice and glossy. And looking at the joints, it looks as though it was made with incredible precision.
I'm sure there's better varnishes for bowls, but the Varathane I already had, and looking around on the net, people don't seem to be worried about it being poisonous.

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On Saturday, May 14, 2022, the Zambia Ministry of Health (MOH) launched an ambitious 10-day COVID-19 vaccination campaign in all of the country’s 116 districts, across the 10 provinces, with the aim of vaccinating 70 percent of eligible Zambians (12 years and older) by June 30, 2022. At the beginning of the campaign the national vaccination rate stood at 22.8 percent fully vaccinated and 31.2 percent with at least one dose, with a 10-day target of vaccinating over 5 million people to help get the country to 70 percent vaccinated.
Under the guidance and support of the USAID mission in Zambia, the USAID DISCOVER-Health project is providing vital support to the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in three provinces. At the start of the campaign, the gap to 70 percent (number of eligible unvaccinated people) in the supported provinces were as follows: Central (497,609), Copperbelt (720,449), and North Western (271,410). With this life-saving work ahead, tens of thousands of community mobilizers and vaccine providers headed out to generate demand and vaccinate eligible Zambians against COVID-19.
The project strategically established community vaccination points in locations such as churches, markets, and schools. Crucially, the campaign took a multi-sectoral approach, and worked with community leaders and influencers, including civic, traditional, and religious leaders, and popular musicians and performance artists. While official data is not yet available due to entry backlogs, daily vaccination tallies revealed the following estimated full vaccination rates in USAID DISCOVER-Health-supported locations: North-Western Province at 42 percent (with 67 percent having received at least one dose), nearly doubling full vaccination rates from 24 percent pre-campaign; Copperbelt Province at 40 percent (with 56 percent having received at least one dose), an increase from 26 percent pre-campaign and Central Province at 42 percent (with 61 percent having received at least one dose), a significant increase from 23 percent pre-campaign.
In Lusaka’s Chelstone and Chipata sub-districts, which the project also supported, the rate currently stands at 34 percent, an increase of 20 percent from the start of the campaign. From the May vaccination campaign achievements, the supported provinces are now primed to reach 70 percent vaccination rates, as both first and second doses continue to be administered in the coming weeks.
In Ndola on May 19, 2022, USAID DISCOVER-Health Project Director Dr. Muka Chikuba-McLeod and project colleagues, together with the Copperbelt Province Permanent Secretary Augustine Kasongo and other Provincial leaders, had the honor of hosting Jeremy Konyndyk, Executive Director of the USAID COVID-19 Task Force and the USAID/Zambia Mission Director Sheryl Stumbras, along with other senior USAID officials. Observing the vaccination campaign in full swing, the delegation visited multiple vaccination sites and health centers in Ndola, including one of the busiest local markets in Zambia, Masala market, and a nearby school, Sathya Sai Secondary School.
Jeremy Konyndyk, Executive Director of the USAID COVID-19 Task Force, speaking when he met with local civic, religious, and traditional leaders in Ndobla, Copperbelt Province.
“We were eager to see Copperbelt’s vaccination model in action and learn lessons in the Province, and in Zambia. It’s a proof of concept to show what can happen when you have strong leadership and political will from the government, strong resource support from donors, and strong technical engagement,” said Konyndyk. “When all of those come together, with strong population engagement and community mobilization, enormous success is possible. This pandemic is not over. The best insurance we have against future risk is to get as many people vaccinated as possible.”
USAID DISCOVER-Health is supporting the national COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Here is a woman vaccinated in Masala market, Ndola, Copperbelt Province.
Successful vaccination campaigns go far beyond simply administering the vaccines. USAID DISCOVER-Health staff are working with the MOH to engage eligible populations about vaccine safety and efficacy, working closely with key local stakeholders, including traditional leaders, clergy and other community stakeholders, to ensure these key messages reach Zambians across the board.
Gaining this level of stakeholder buy-in is key to the success of the campaign, as Dr. Chikuba-McLeod explains.
“Now, we are dealing with the middle majority of Zambians who are vaccine-ambivalent. With this group, in addition to strong local leadership and increasing vaccine access within communities, ‘who’ delivers the vaccine message matters greatly,” said Dr. Chikuba-McLeod. “In the Masala market, I can shout into a megaphone encouraging people to get vaccinated until I am blue in the face, but no one will listen to me. However, if one of their own, say a market leader, tells them in a language and way they understand that it is safe and smart to get vaccinated, they turn out in droves and get vaccinated. Now, 78 percent of the eligible population in the Masala area have received at least one dose of their COVID-19 vaccine because the right people are delivering that crucial vaccination message.”
Dr. Chikuba-McLeod and the USAID DISCOVER-Health team are committed to continue supporting the country’s vaccination efforts in this way, to ensure success: “A conservative religious group in Kapiri Mposhi only allowed its members to be vaccinated when our vaccination teams engaged with them courteously, including respecting their dress code, and their leaders gave the nod. Local leadership, respectful engagement and harnessing of local solutions, including locally-resonant messaging, cultural appropriateness, and availability of technical and financial resources – that is what will get Zambia to 70 percent.”
A breastfeeding mother receives her COVID-19 vaccine certificate, after being vaccinated at a USAID DISCOVER-Health mobile site in Ndola.
The USAID DISCOVER-Health Project aims to improve the lives of Zambians by providing them with better access to quality health care. The Project contributes towards HIV epidemic control, supports national COVID-19 vaccination, prevention and treatment programs, while also providing family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), and maternal and child health (MNCH) services and products.

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Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset, owned by Berlusconi family, announced that it is planning a European expansion and that it will move its headquarters from Milan to the Netherlands.
“We believe cross-country consolidation is more achievable than in-country,” Mediaset finance chief Marco Giordani said in a statement.
He said the idea is to create a “pan-European content and entertainment group” covering a variety of national broadcasters but with a neutral base.
Mediaset has once before announced similar plans but was stopped by French company Vivendi that holds some 29% of Mediaset and is the company’s second biggest investor.
Two people close to the matter on Monday told Reuters the groups were making fresh attempts at resolving their dispute.
“We don’t want to return to a situation in which we are talking more of legal issues than of industrial strategy. Let’s move step by step, but let’s move”, Mediaset’s finance chief said.

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Featured Image: Trick R Treat, by Lee James McKnight
The blackbird simulacrum lands on my shoulder. Behind his oculi dwells the AI entity that began as a copy of my mind. “You built me a bird’s body?” he asks. “I’ve thought being a bird would be spectacular since childhood,” I answer. “You’re right. It is!” He thinks he’s suave in his Ray-Ban sunglasses. “Sorry,” he grins, “I can’t lie, I dig hot chicks!” “Uh-huh,” I nod. He puts on welding gloves and reaches into his pet carrier. Seeing red, flaming little birds, I squee. “Baby phoenixes!” This guy is suave. Ner poked his molted body. “How’d this happen?!” “We’re in a kh’nar lifepod,” she answers. “It’s made for my kind, not humans. It thought you were a kh’nar with a genetic disorder, and fixed you.” “Fixed? I’m a freaking space spider!” “Yes, and a handsome one.” My teleporter failed and stripped my mass. I’m five inches of micronized woman on a peaceful island somewhere. I make a knife out of a coral chip and explore now vast beaches. I’m stunned meeting women my size. “Are you new to Lilliput?” they ask. He holds a knife to her throat in the passenger seat. “Sorry, Darlin’. I’m the one they warn you about in hitchhiker stories.” “No, Darling,” she sighs, amused at his blade, “I’m the monster in those stories.” His arm breaks, and he screams seeing her fangs. The boy’s sheet ghost costume was a soaked shroud clinging to him. “Trick or treat.” Kate offered candy. “Get sprayed by a hose?” “I hit my head falling into your pool…” She glanced to the pool and saw a floating white sheet. Looking back, the boy was gone. “Found you,” Death says to Mike. The child flashed a grin under the hospital bed. “You always find me in hide and seek!” “I find all.” “It’s been two weeks. Is today Ally’s day?” Death led him to Ally’s terminal ward. “She’ll be happy to see you.”

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LONDON (Reuters) – United States will get a flavour of what awaits them of their quest to retain their title at this 12 months’s World Cup as they participate in one in every of 4 tournaments kicking off this week that includes groups certain for France in June.
FILE PHOTO: The U.S. girls’s soccer group cheer throughout a reception at New York Metropolis Corridor hosted by New York Metropolis Mayor Invoice de Blasio to have a good time their World Cup closing win over Japan on Sunday, in New York, July 10, 2015. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/
Jill Ellis’ aspect host the fourth version of the round-robin SheBelieves Cup which begins on Wednesday, marking 100 days till the beginning of the worldwide showpiece on June 7.
The SheBelieves Cup additionally options Brazil, England and Japan, who completed runners-up to the U.S. on the 2015 World Cup in Canada.
Japan and the U.S., who additionally contested the 2011 World Cup closing which was received by the Asian nation on penalties, face one another in Chester, Pennsylvania on the primary day of the competitors.
That match comes after England, managed by former Manchester United midfielder Phil Neville, open towards Brazil as they goal to construct on their spectacular qualification marketing campaign for the World Cup by successful the world title for the primary time.
England’s match towards Japan subsequent Tuesday can be a rehearsal of their World Cup Group D assembly in June.
One of many oldest competitions in girls’s soccer, the Algarve Cup, additionally begins on Wednesday in Portugal.
Canada, Scotland, Spain, Netherlands, China, Norway and Sweden are the World Cup groups that includes within the four-group event, which started in 1994, together with Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland, Portugal and Poland.
Norway’s hopes of a fifth Algarve Cup title are hampered by the continued absence of Olympique Lyonnais striker and inaugural girls’s Ballon d’Or winner Ada Hegerberg, who is just not enjoying for the nationwide group on account of a dispute with the affiliation.
The 23-year-old is not going to even characteristic for the 1995 World Cup winners in France, as Norway supervisor Martin Sjogren mentioned that talks to attempt to persuade her to return had failed.
“We tried to resolve it, we had conferences, however she determined to not play,” he instructed the BBC.
Elsewhere, World Cup debutants South Africa will check their mettle towards Thailand, Nigeria and Italy within the 12th version of the Cyprus Cup.
The quartet are the one groups out of 12 arriving in Cyprus who can be enjoying in France from June 7 to July 7.
The ultimate event to mark the 100-day countdown to the World Cup would be the inaugural Cup of Nations, hosted by Australia and pitting them towards South Korea, New Zealand and Argentina.
France, Germany, Jamaica, Chile and Cameroon is not going to be collaborating in any of the tournaments this week.
The World Cup will embrace 24 groups in whole enjoying throughout 9 cities in France. The opening match will happen at Paris’ Parc des Princes between the hosts and South Korea.
Reporting by Christian Radnedge; Enhancing by Toby Davis

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Alex Kretowicz, MD
“I had filler and botox done. I also had my lips done for the first time and Dr. K was amazing, she knew what she was doing and is very good at her work. I am very happy with the results.”
- Billie R, Genbooks Review
About Dr. Kretowicz
Joined August 2020
Dr. Alex Kretowicz graduated from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and did her residency training at Sky Ridge Medical Center. She earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors in English Literature at the University of Southern California (USC), where she also completed her post-baccalaureate. While in medical school, Dr. K served as the president of the dermatology interest group, co-founded a free dermatology clinic in Aurora, and published several papers on melanoma.
Dr. K is passionate about helping patients feel confident in their own skin. Thus, she loves that injectables make this goal possible in a matter of minutes at a fraction of the cost, and without the downtime of surgery. A California transplant, Dr. K loves the beach and visits her family (and drooly bulldog) often. In her free time, Dr. K can be found trying out a new restaurant with friends, attending a show, or shopping at a vintage store.
How I focus on you as a patient:
1 — Education
I am passionate about education and believe that knowledge is a key component of a patient’s treatment. As a result, I take the time to discuss the process and reasoning behind my treatments. Educating patients on the available options, the procedure, and the realistic outcomes, empowers the patient with a voice at the table.
2 — Teamwork
The patient and I are both members of the treatment plan and once the patient understands the process, he/she can then better vocalize preferences. Moreover, while I will give my opinions based on my experience and education, I strive to ensure the patient’s preferences are honored. This relationship is paramount in achieving the patient’s desired results.
3 — Personalization
Working as a team ensures the patient’s goals and tastes are involved in the treatment and aids in avoiding communication breakdown. Along with discussing the patient’s goals before starting the treatment, I check in with the patient throughout the treatment to gain the patient’s input. I also strive to use my tools to enhance the appearance of a patient with his/her unique characteristics rather than create standardized features.

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At TLC Developments, we're passionate about creating spaces that enrich lives. Our mission revolves around crafting environments that foster enterprise, relaxation, collaboration, and a vibrant sense of community. We're committed to making a profound impact on community development and connections, and we're dedicated to staying engaged, involved, and innovative to consistently add value for our valued customers.
At TLC Developments, we hold a firm belief that a holistic, healthy lifestyle encompasses four key sectors: Finances, Wellbeing, Social Health, and Purpose. Often, people invest their entire lives in building wealth, only to later spend it addressing health issues. We advocate for a balanced approach, striving to construct communities that empower our customers to achieve well-rounded and improved life outcomes.

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Looking at F1 test pics I found something "strange" on a RBR
I think it is a device to measure aerodynamic downforce but a friend of mine with some racing experience was not so sure.
(an angry) volunteer at FSAE-I 2012
D-Team UniPisa (alumni group)
E-Team Squadra Corse - Università di Pisa
FSG & FSAE-I 2009-2010
Looks like a good way to get some flex-wing testing to correlate to modeling maybe? They ran the same thing at the beginning of the year also. And to note they were the only team that did.
I wouldn't be surprised if more teams will run something similar by the first test next season, especially seeing how hard of a time Ferrari was at trying out the flex-wing last couple of races...
Finished @ UofT Racing
McLaren tested a similar system in the winter tests 2011:
Scarab's F1 blog has a pretty good writeup on how it might work:
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Lumière 650, home THERAPEUTIC LASER SYSTEM
Low-Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) works via Photo-Bio-Modulation (PBM); where cool, coherent light stimulation of the cells within hair follicles produces increased intracellular energy and promotes hair growth.
LLLT can also enhance the effects of medical treatments for hair loss. LLLT is therefore ideally utilized in conjunction with other medical treatments for hair loss as a
salubrious component of a comprehensive hair and scalp care regimen.
The Lumière 650 (L650), is an FDA cleared laser device that provides highly
uniform, cool, 650-nanometer coherent illumination via 272 medical-grade laser diodes (not LEDs).
The L650 fits conveniently inside a hat or cap and requires minimal space when packed for travel.
A rechargeable lithium-ion battery allows for mobility and increased ease of use.
For optimal therapeutic results, simply wear for 7 minutes daily.


The financial industry is making payments better, more efficient, simplerand faster.
Many Americans are particularly invested in efforts to achieve this last improvement. A recent Federal Reserve study found that 69% of consumer payers and 75% of business payees prefer instant or one-hour payment speed.
The key question for all users is what functionality will be required to meet Americans needs: validation of good funds, settlement of funds, or actual funds availability in a users bank account?
The automated clearinghouse network sits at the epicenter of this dialogue. As the backbone for electronic payments, it supports over 80 million ACH payments each day, including direct deposits and direct payments. It also enables settlements for credit and debit card transactions and ATM transactions. By speeding up processes within this ubiquitous foundational system, we can better meet the needs of the industry.
Nacha, which serves as the administrator of the ACH network, identified the need for faster payments six years ago when it implemented Secure Vault Payments. SVP is an online and mobile payment system that leverages the ACH Network and offers a real-time guarantee of good funds, 24 hours a day and seven days a week. Although the technology already exists to meet the demand for faster payments, not all financial institutions have adopted it. We have seen time and again that ubiquity is critical for any change in our vast ecosystem. So when the Federal Reserve cited the lack of a real-time payments system as an issue in their September 2013 paper, Nacha agreed.
But real-time payments are only one part of the solution. While there are some unmet consumer and corporate needs that would benefit from real-time payments, there are many other needs that can be met by same-day payments. Expedited bill payments, payroll applications and many ad-hoc business payments, for example, would benefit greatly from same-day ACH. Same-day ACH would allow the network to move payments faster and provide additional functionality that meets the industrys needs for faster payments.
To that end, Nacha is working toward a phased implementation approach that will move the ACH network from next-day settlement to same-day payment processing during three different windows. This would be available for virtually any transaction and provide greater certainty about fund availability, thereby improving the efficiency of hourly payroll disbursements and last-day tax or bill payments. All of this provides a solid foundation on which to build other innovative services.
Nachas work as a rulemaker for many types of payments and standards has demonstrated the benefit of continually working to bring parties together to identify solutions that balance the needs of various entities. Todays work on same-day ACH is an industry effort that will serve as a first step to moving payments faster.
Over the past several months, Nacha has methodically collected and analyzed feedback on this approach from financial institutions, businesses, and payments service providers in an effort to identify a workable path forward in advance of formal rulemaking on same-day ACH. This step will help all parties to think carefully about the rules, tools, and technology that can help create a bridge from todays payments to those of the future.
Janet Estep is president and CEO of NachaThe Electronic Payments Association in Herndon, Va.


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Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab have developed a technology based on wireless signals that detect an object or activity behind a wall. With help from a Wi-Fi network, the silhouette of a person is effectively captured in a process that is said to be capable of determining the identity of a person as well.
Dubbed as RF-Capture, the technology uses a technique that involves bouncing wireless reflections off a human body to outline its silhouette and its motions. It "can trace a person's hand as he writes in the air and even distinguish between 15 different people through a wall with nearly 90 percent accuracy," MIT said in a press statement.
What is also equally interesting is that it can be trained to recognize the identity of the scanned object or person based on measurements and other collected information uploaded through algorithms designed to detect body features. The detailed discussion of RF-Capture can be accessed through this link.
"[We] use the captured human silhouettes from our reconstruction algorithm [to] train a classifier on these silhouettes which allows us to distinguish between people," Fadel Adi, one of the MIT researchers behind the project, told Gizmodo. "The classifier captures features like height and body builds, which allows us to distinguish between people using RF-Capture."
The MIT researchers did not identify any specific real-world application for RF-Capture. However, it could serve as a basis for other technologies such as a monitoring device for the elderly or as a means to control home appliances, according to The Verge. Watch the technology in action in the video below.


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Brian is flying from the U.S. to Canada to visit his dad. When the pilot has a heart attack, Brian tries to fly himself the rest of the way, but he ends up crashing the plane into a lake. Until somebody comes to rescue him, Brian must survive in the wilderness by himself with only his surroundings and a hatchet his mother gave him.
I thought Hatchet was a very good book. It was very exciting, and it was fun reading about Brian having to survive in the wild by himself.
I would recommend this book to others if you like excitement and adventure in your books. This book also had tips, I guess, of a few survival strategies.
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|By ADAM SECHRIST, LINSEY DAVIS (@LinseyDavis) and ROGER LEE||Nov 30, 2012, 6:49 AM|
Dee Dee Moore, the Florida woman on trial for allegedly swindling money from lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, then fatally shooting him and burying his body, said today that she went into anaphylactic shock while in jail overnight.
Tampa Judge Emmett Battles discovered this morning that Moore had medical problems and asked her in court what happened. Moore told the judge she went into shock after taking medication and was then admitted to the infirmary and put on 24-hour watch.
"I was having anaphylactic shock, sir, because they gave me a medicine called Bactrim for a kidney infection," Moore said in court. "I had an allergic reaction to it, and my tongue swelled up really bad last night and they admitted me into the infirmary."
Moore, who is charged with first-degree murder, also told the court that she was having problems with cuts on her ankles from being cuffed every day.
Her comments came a day after Battles issued a final warning in scolding her for facial expressions she is believed to have made toward jurors.
"Miss Moore, I've cautioned you throughout these proceedings," Battles said in court Thursday. "I'm warning you. I think I'm going to make it clear for the last time."
Prosecutors say Moore, 40, befriended Shakespeare, who disappeared in April 2009, after he won $30 million in the Florida lottery. After he burned through most of the cash, she agreed to manage the little he had left, but instead, prosecutors say, stole his money and killed him.
Authorities say Shakespeare, 47, was shot twice in the chest by a .38-caliber pistol sometime in April 2009. He wasn't reported missing until November. His body was found under the slab in a backyard in January 2010.
She has denied the allegations.
Polk County authorities claim Moore offered someone a $200,000 house in exchange for reporting a false sighting of Shakespeare. She also allegedly sent the victim's son $5,000 in cash for his birthday, and used the victim's cellphone to send text messages purportedly from him.
For a third day, jurors also saw Moore cry in court. Prosecutors Thursday played an audio tape of her allegedly asking a friend to lie to police, saying, "Just go to jail for the false police report."
Shakespeare's mother, Elizabeth Walker, Thursday told jurors that Moore tried to hide that her son was missing.
"He [was] supposed to be going to California. They said he had AIDS," Walker said.
But prosecutors contend Shakespeare did not have AIDS. Instead, they allege, Moore had already shot him twice in the chest and buried him in her backyard. To keep her lie going, investigators say, Moore even orchestrated a call to Shakespeare's mother from someone pretending to be her son:
"He said, 'This is Abraham,' and I said, 'Well, you don't sound like Abraham.'"
The court also heard an hour-long police interrogation tape of Moore, in which investigators can be seen grilling Moore on her plan to manage Shakespeare's money.
Moore continues to maintain her innocence, saying she was trying to help Shakespeare collect unpaid debts and protect him from the many people trying to take advantage of him. Her defense attorneys have argued that the evidence against her was circumstantial, and that that Moore's gun might have been used to shoot Shakespeare, but noted that ballistics tests were incomplete.
Prosecutors are not pursuing the death penalty in the case. If Moore is convicted, she faces life in prison.


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A Complete Wine Analysis Using Multiplets Detection
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Dr Michael Bernstein1; Agustín Barba1; Dr Susanne Klein2; Dr Andrea Dreiseitel2; Daniel Heidger2 and Volker Heidger2
We have built a validated process for the simple analysis of wine components using only signature peaks and multiplets. An extended capability makes this possible, together with a semi-automated work flow that allows the trained user to quickly achieve an analysis that is checked and correct. [1, 2] After analysis, results are exported and automatically uploaded to a corporate database.
We shall demonstrate the program features that make this analysis possible, and show results for a wine analysis. A surprising level of analysis can be achieved, with >50 metabolites reliably quantified from a single 600 MHz 1H NMR spectrum. Quantification results were validated through certified compound additions. The process is part of a streamlined analysis that is performed on ca. 50 samples per day per analyst.
Using Remote Sensing Methodologies to Combat Schistosomiasis in Northern SenegalPoster
Schistosomiasis is associated with poverty, a lack of clean water and sanitation and is is transmitted through snail vector. Remote sensing methodologies were used to identify types of vegetation that are significantly associated with snail presence as previous studies had shown that removal of certain aquatic vegetation decreased the prevalence of schistosomiasis in nearby villages.READ MORE
High Speed Analysis: Combining Fast GC with Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry for Complex Sample Analysis in Under One MinutePoster
The demand for more efficiency and productivity in the laboratory has led to applications using Fast GC-MS methods for routine analysis in a wide range of fields.READ MORE
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ALDH2 may have an unidentified protein interaction network, which would help elucidate its importance in various cellular functions. The combination of immunoprecipitation and mass spectrometry will give us insights that could not be easily attained otherwise.READ MORE

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The objectives of this study were to investigate the frequency of pregnancy-related hypertension among patients referred to a hypertension clinic and its association with the severity of hypertension and evidence of end-organ damage. In this cross-sectional study, women with hypertension were submitted to a systematic clinical evaluation. The occurrence SIS3 supplier of pregnancy-related hypertension was investigated by questionnaire. The association between pregnancy-related hypertension and severity of hypertension (stage 2 according to Seventh Report of the Joint National
Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC VII)) and end-organ damage was assessed in a logistic regression model. The mean age, systolic AZD1390 nmr and diastolic
blood pressure and body mass index (BMI) of the 768 women examined were 51.6 +/- 12.7 years, 158.2 +/- 26.6 mm Hg, 93.8 +/- 14.3 mm Hg and 29.4 +/- 5.6 kg/m(2), respectively. The proportion of women with pregnancy-related hypertension was 32.9%. It was significantly associated with hypertension at stage 2 (OR: 1.60, 95% CI: 1.14-2.24; P = 0.01) after controlling for confounders. The occurrence of a pregnancy-related hypertension was not associated with evidence of optic fundi abnormalities, left ventricular hypertrophy or abnormalities in kidney function. In conclusion, pregnancy-related hypertension is frequent in women referred to a hypertension clinic, and is associated with severe hypertension but not with evidence of end-organ damage. Journal find protocol of Human Hypertension (2009) 23, 415-419; doi: 10.1038/jhh.2008.140; published online 20 November 2008″
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of UC (PIUC), defined as <3 cm from the nearest margin. Singleton placentas (n = 1418) submitted to the pathology department over an 18-month period were analyzed. Each case of PIUC (n = 119) was matched with a control placenta of the same gestational age. Placentas with marginal or membranous UC and multiple gestations were excluded. The overall prevalence of PIUC was 8.4%, but PIUC frequency was significantly increased in premature births at <28 weeks (21.4%, P < 0.001). There was no association with other adverse pregnancy outcomes. PIUC was associated with decreased placental weight Z-score (-0.69 +/- 0.92 versus -0.22 +/- 1.3, P = 0.0056), but not fetal weight Z-score, suggesting increased utilization of placental reserve. PIUC was also associated with relatively elongated placentas (length minus width: 2.6 +/- 3.2 versus 1.0 +/- 3.1, P = 0.006). PIUC tended to be more frequent in young primiparous mothers and was significantly less common in women with a history of prior curettage (66% vs 50%, P = 0.013).

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Downtown_stalingrad_v1 This is the first update to the map. No major changes but I fixed a few minor map flaws such as: the texture for the signs on the factory with the russian base in it. fixed the terrain that was overhanging in the german base . modified the sky as to reduce the flickering effect. For the next updated version I would like to add some custom vehicles such as the ahz tanks and pak guns This a large city map. I looked at many photos of Stalingrad and made many of the buildings from these. I was also Inspired by such maps as Kharkov, Pavlov, Lazur, and Armogeddon. The map was designed with Base Assult , Domination, and Capture the Flag in mind. However HQ and Retrieval should play well too. For Death Match and Team Deathmatch it might be too big. There are many buildings to fight and hide in. Most of the buildings along the back edges of the map cannot be entered so as to force the players to move up. This is also a good jeep racing map as the roads along the outside form a big race course. This map supports all game types. DM TDM SD BAS RE HQ. I used prefabs for a couple of the buildings and for the game types CTF BAS SD and RE. My thanks to the people over at Modsonline who made these. As always I support all my maps and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org FireBall1
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Kristin and I just watched the 90’s Disney flick Blank Check last night. It was as amazing as when I was a kid; if you haven’t watched it, you should. For those who need a quick recap, here’s the general synopsis:
Preston, a 10-year old living in a middle class family, feels like his two older brothers are stealing the spot-light from him. They are starting some sort of business and take over his room, all with his parents’ blessing because his dad is also an entrepreneur. He sees that money could buy his own space. He takes some birthday money (all eleven dollars of it, for his 11th birthday) to the bank, but they’ve got a $200 minimum – disheartened, he leaves with check in hand. In the parking lot, he’s nearly hit by a guy who we were introduced earlier in the movie who bestowed a lot of money onto the bank’s manager to launder. In a frenzy, the guy starts to write a check, signs it, then bolts when the cops come around because he’s a criminal on the run.
Back at his house, Preston ponders what to do with this check. He remembers the $200 needed to open the account, and so he plans on making the check for $200 to open one. Not happy with that number, writes in 10,000. Then he thinks…this guy just gave him a blank check. What’s the worst that could happen? So, he writes it for a million dollars, made out to cash, and off to the bank he goes.
Not knowing who to expect should be picking up the money bestowed to the bank manager, Mr Manager obliges with cashing the fraudulent check and off runs Preston with a cool mil in his backpack. He proceeds to buy a house and spend lavishly on games, a race track, and high tech (for the day) electronics. He’s living large under the guise of some mysterious Mr. Macintosh (aptly named from the brand of computer he used to write the check), but ultimately finds himself spending too much, without any real friends, and reality kicks in. Soon, he’s broke and everything is over. It was a wild ride, though, that’s for sure.
There’s more to it than that, but that’s the movie in a nut-shell. It got me thinking: yeah, this is a totally entertaining movie – completely off the wall and not plausible by any definition of the word – but there are some actual things one can glean from our boy Preston.
Preston, in an effort to conceal his fraudulently-obtained money, attempted to do everything himself. Obviously being 11 years old, he has no experience managing such a tremendous windfall of cash. I mean, he’s 11. But no matter what your age, a dramatic windfall can sometimes be difficult to handle. Even as a grown adult, suddenly receiving an influx of cash can be an awesome feeling, but if you’re not careful, it could end disappointingly, or worse.
If you happen to receive a windfall – an unexpected bonus at work, an inheritance, or something more common like a tax return – it’s better to sit on it than blow it on fun stuff right away. Even better, if it’s a sizable chunk of cash and you just aren’t sure, find somebody who can help you and advise you appropriately, like a Financial Planner or accountant. Investing and saving most of a windfall should be a priority if you want to use the money to help you retire earlier, for example. Using it to pay off debt is also not a bad bet, or just bolstering an emergency fund that may need some TLC.
Whatever it is, making sure you have some sort of plan is generally a good idea. It’s not a bad idea to think about what you’d do with an unexpected influx of cash now rather than have to sort through it if/when it happens.
And of course, nobody would blame you if you wanted to spend a little bit of it on fun stuff now. After all, what’s the point in having money if you can’t enjoy any of it right now? Kristin and I have agreed that 90% of whatever we’d get if we won the lottery, for example, would be saved and invested. But that 10% is guilt-free spending.
Money Doesn’t Fix Everything
Throughout the movie, you come to realize that despite having all the cool gadgets, Preston doesn’t really have anybody to share his new-found wealth with. He spends most of his time hanging out with a limo driver, Henry, that he hired, but nobody else. Money can be a great tool to reach your goals, but money alone doesn’t solve everything. I think that people often think about making more money and expect that just having more money would mean having fewer problems. That’s far from the truth, for many reasons. Without discipline and good budgeting habits, for example, it’s easy for things like lifestyle inflation to creep up, especially slowly over the years.
There are some easy ways to combat this, like automatically bumping up your 401(k) contributions if you get a raise at work, or setting up automatic transfers to a different, semi-remote savings account. Patterns like this set you up for a stronger future without sacrificing your current quality of life. Outside of raises, increasing your savings rate can often be an incremental process that becomes pretty easy to stomach if you do it slowly. Adding another 1% of your pay toward your 401(k) each year, for example (in addition to any raises) might seem like a squeeze, but it’s a slow enough process that you should be able to slightly adjust your spending habits and still feel okay.
Your friends when you’re poor will be your friends when you’re rich
One of the kind of depressing things about Blank Check is that Preston doesn’t really have many friends. After coming into some money and living the high life for a bit, he decides to throw himself (and “Mr. Macintosh”) a birthday party. The guest list is huge, and when he can’t pay the $100,000 bill to the event planner, everybody leaves – and the girl he was hopelessly in love with (who was in her early 30’s) wasn’t there either. Limo Driver Henry gives Preston a tough life lesson: The friends you have when you’re poor, will be the friends you have when you’re rich. Folks who come around only after you’ve made it may not be friends at all, and may be after your money instead.
Sure it’s a bit pessimistic, but it highlights one big thing for me. When you do have a lot of money – and people know it – it’s important to make genuine friendships, and not engage in frivolous relationships with people who seem non-genuine or only interested in reaping the benefits of friendship with somebody better off than they are. Surrounding yourself with like-minded individuals who build you up and encourage you will make you far more likely to succeed than surrounding yourself with toxic individuals looking for a handout.
That point applies to everybody though, not just people with money. Life’s too short to be filled with negativity from the people around you. You shouldn’t put up with those sorts of relationships, whether it’s with “friends”, a job, or anything else. There are alternatives, and it’s better to follow those than be miserable or exploited.
Ultimately how much money somebody has isn’t really anybody’s business other than that person’s. Living within your means and being non-flashy can be a great way to hide your success if you so choose. While obviously extremely well-known and maybe not the best example, Warren Buffett lives in a completely unremarkable house in Nebraska. Of course individuals will spend and save their money in different ways based on their values in life, and that’s the great thing about having the freedom to do what we choose with our money.
Where did you unexpectedly learn something about money? How has it impacted you?

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Although most laws are designed to help divorced parents maintain a healthy relationship with their children, there are times when some issues may disqualify divorcees from having legal custody of their kids. Most of these cases involve allegations related to child abuse or neglect. However, some allegations could be false statements from a contentious former spouse. If you are dealing with a child custody matter is best you contact a Salt Lake City child custody attorney to discuss your legal options.
The process generally starts with one of the parents notifying the court about his or her concern involving a former spouse or parent of the children. Evidence must be provided otherwise the allegations of abuse are not valid. If the judge determines the behavior is a threat to the child’s safety, an investigation will take place. An investigator may take a look at the circumstances surrounding the allegations and decide whether or not the allegations are true.
This is a common reason why some parents may lose custody of their children. The court will see if there is a history of child abuse. Some factors that help the judge determine if there was child abuse include scars, bruises, marks, and cuts. Whether it was initiated by anger or inappropriate behavior, child abuse will definitely cause the parents to lose custody of their children. If you suspect your former spouse has abused your child, notify the police and contact Salt Lake City child custody attorney Emy A. Cordano.
There are cases that don’t involve child abuse yet if the child witnessed child abuse against the other parent during the last 5 years; the court may deny sole child custody. A history of abuse will be considered when making custody decisions. Granting custody to an abusive parent is not in the child’s best interest.
Drug and alcohol abuse
Courts will also take a look at other factors such as the use of controlled substances. The habitual use of drugs or alcohol by either parent is detrimental to the interests and safety of the kids, therefore, the parent addicted to these substances can’t be trusted with raising the children.
Violating a court order
Parents should respect custody orders. Doing otherwise may result in a parent losing custody. Although it’s all based on how the order was written, violating the order doesn’t help advance the case. Some cases involving joint custody, for example, require both parents to making important decisions about the child. If one of the parents fails to consult the other parent before making an important decision, the custody order could be modified and the parent may lose custody.
Parental alienation and co-parenting
When one of the parents is manipulative and he or she uses these tactics to alienate the children from his or her former spouse, there is a chance he or she will lose custody. Co-parenting is sometimes the best option in some scenarios as it allows parents that can’t get along to follow a strict joint custody schedule.


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§ 13. Sir P. GRIGGS
asked the Secretary of State for War if he will state why Signaller F. E. Foley, No. 134415, Royal Garrison Artillery, 48th Siege Battery, British Expeditionary Force, France, who is a slip man, having received his letter on 7th January duly stamped by the Labour Advisory Board at Ludgate Circus, is still being retained with the Colours, he being a man of thirty-nine years of age with nearly three years' service partly served abroad, and having a wife and five children under twelve years of age; and if he will issue instructions for his immediate demobilisation under the compassionate cases clause?
If the facts are as stated by my hon. Friend, Signaller Foley would appear to be eligible for demobilisation, and will no doubt be released in due course. I would point out that the fact of a release slip being received in respect of a soldier does not 1059 entitle him to be released forthwith, but his name is registered, and, if eligible, he receives a certain priority of release.

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