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The SEO industry exploded with news about RankBrain, a new artificial intelligence that recently became the 3rd most important ranking signal out of hundreds of ranking signals Google uses to determine which page deserves which organic ranking spot.
What does the RankBrain do?
Most of what we know about RankBrain comes from an interview at Bloomberg with Greg Corrado, a senior research scientist at Google.
To sum up our understanding of what it does is the following:
RankBrain helps Google understand the entities within the query and their relationship to other entities that Google knows about.
Or in the other words, to quote Greg’s interview:
For example, it’s adept at dealing with ambiguous queries, like, “What’s the title of the consumer at the highest level of a food chain?” And RankBrain’s usage of AI means it works differently than the other technologies in the search engine.
“The other signals, they’re all based on discoveries and insights that people in information retrieval have had, but there’s no learning,” Corrado said.
RankBrain is in use for a few months now so you’ve already been served some results by RankBrain without actually knowing about it. It’s serving 15% of Google’s search results right now and it has become the 3rd most important ranking signal of Google’s algorithm.
Google’s engineers themselves were surprised by RankBrain’s performance meaning it works better than expected.
Just to emphasize how important RankBrain is right now to the algorithm, let me quote another thing from this interview:
In experiments, the company found that turning off this feature (RankBrain) “would be as damaging to users as forgetting to serve half the pages on Wikipedia,” Corrado said.
What does it mean for eCommerce?
While the rest of the SEO industry is probably as fascinated by this new AI as we are, we at Inchoo are much more interested in what this new AI capable of learning new entities and relations between entities holds for the future of eCommerce SEO.
Our best guess is that RankBrain might be very helpful in some eCommerce industries and drive even more organic traffic for queries you weren’t able to rank for before.
For example, if this AI can learn relations between entities it could help a fashion eCommerce website rank for certain clothing worn by certain celebrities at a certain event without actually mentioning the said celebrity or the event in question on a product page.
This is how it could work in a very close future (if not already today in some cases):
- The AI could learn that a certain dress “A” for example belongs to a certain brand “B” in one article. It could understand the dress as one entity and the brand as another.
- In another article the AI can learn that a certain celebrity “C” wore the dress “A” at event “D“.
- An online store could have listed the dress “A” by brand “B” for sale.
- A user might enter query such as “Where can I buy a dress worn by “C” at “D“?”.
- Even though the query doesn’t’ contain the entity “A” or entity “B“, by understanding relations between these entities, AI can deliver the online store that sells “A” by “B” as a search result to this user, which is actually what user wanted all along.
What are your thoughts on RankBrain? How do you feel it will affect eCommerce SEO?


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British Airways and American Airlines have been linked together as members of the OneWorld Alliance since 1998, when the OneWorld Alliance was originally created. Unlike most airline partnership agreements however, American Airlines and British Airways have had special restrictions on their partnership within OneWorld due to potential Anti-Trust violations enforced by the BAA at London’s Heathrow Airport for flights to/from The United States, specifically.
Because of said anti-trust restrictions, for the past decade, American and British Airways have not been allowed grant any of their perks to the opposite airline’s members for flights across the Atlantic to/from the United States. For example, if an American Airlines AAdvantage member were flying from Los Angeles to London on British Airways, he/she would earn NO miles in his/her AAdvantage account whatsoever. This follows suit for mileage redemption and elite benefits as well.
Following the recent US/EU OpenSkies Act that has significantly reduced government restriction on the Trans Atlantic market, American and British Airways have been fighting to have their restrictions lifted. American and British Airways have chosen the optimal time to fight these restrictions because the current trend in that market is lifting age-old government restrictions.
Founder and CEO or Virgin Atlantic Airways, Richard Branson, has said that he is prepared to spend millions of dollars to prevent the tie-up between American Airlines and British Airways.
If American Airlines and British Airways do in fact have their anti-trust restriction lifted and are allowed to be true program partners, thus allowing them to offer perks to eachothers members, create codeshare flights, and share internal pricing information; they will jointly share a dominating market share for the Trans Atlantic segment to/from London. The combined operation will offer the most frequent flight schedule, easiest use of frequent flyer miles, and will hypothetically be able to control the pricing for the entire industry crossing the Atlantic to/from London. Naturally, this will undoubtably be felt by Virgin Atlantic’s balance sheet.
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Celebrate the transcontinental railroad sesquicentennial
Two suburban groups will help celebrate the sesquicentennial of the completion of the transcontinental railroad.
A celebration on Saturday, May 4, at The Illinois Railway Museum in Union will recognize the 150-year milestone. Visitors can board a coach train pulled by a diesel, and electric interurban and streetcars will be available for visitors to ride. Illinois residents will be treated to 50 percent off the ticket price with a valid ID.
On Saturday, May 11, the North Central "O" Gaugers Model Railroad Club will recognize the significant anniversary by running model steam engines from the Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines. The tracks open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Fremont Public Library, Mundelein.
The event is free and includes the club's monthly book sale, which sometimes offers train books. All ages are welcome.
The epic story of the 1869 completion of the transcontinental railroad personifies the American spirit. By the 1850s, railroads crisscrossed the East Coast, continued through Chicago and crossed the Mississippi River. From there, travelers negotiated a hodgepodge of transportation modes in order to land months later on the West Coast.
The Civil War's split between the North and South provided the opportunity to negotiate a northerly route and realize the country's destiny to link the two coasts. Steam locomotive from opposite directions met on May 10, 1869, in Promontory, Utah, joining the east and west routes with a ceremonial golden spike.
This year, the Golden Spike National Historical Park in Promontory will kick off a three-day celebration of the sesquicentennial of the transcontinental railroad, expecting attendance of as many as 50,000 train enthusiasts beginning Friday, May 10.
Other events in museums, universities and communities throughout the state are posted on a website, www.spike150.org.
In California, the Railroad Museum in Sacramento will feature artifacts relating to the Central Pacific's pursuit to blast through the Sierra Nevadas and lay rails to meet the Union Pacific in Promontory.
This single event proved transformational for almost every aspect of American society: it created a significant call for immigration of Irish and Chinese laborers, the demise of the Native American traditional way of life, the first law banning immigration to the U.S. of a specific ethnic group, changes in women's fashion, a boon for westward migration, time standardization, and statehood for 11 western territories, among other things.
The Union Pacific Railroad has been hosting a traveling exhibit in seven western states along the railway. These exhibits will continue through July. Find dates and locations on www.up.com/aboutup/community/great-race.
For an online tour of historic photos of sites along the two rail lines, see the railroad's website, "The Great Race to Promontory" at www.up.com/goldenspike/index.html.
Sign up for steam engine news on www.up.com/heritage/steam to follow the railway's steam engines Big Boy No. 4014 and Living Legend No. 844 as they ride the rails between Ogden, Utah, and Cheyenne, Wyoming, through May 19.

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James City County has been selected as a recipient of a 1995 Enterprise Zone Award, Gov. George Allen announced Wednesday.
The new James River Enterprise Zone, a 3,456-acre tract near the Newport News city line, is the first enterprise zone in the county. It is the largest tract of undeveloped industrial property on the Peninsula and includes the Grove community and Green Mount Industrial Park.
''It means the state recognizes Green Mount and the Grove area as a desirable location for business,'' says Supervisor David Sisk, who represents the district where the enterprise zone is located.
''It's a vote of confidence in James City and it's a job creation vehicle. This land now will be even more attractive to companies that rely on incentives to help make that final decision on where to locate.''
Enterprise zones are geographic areas where the state and locality offer incentives to businesses to locate there.
The James River Enterprise Zone is roughly bordered by routes 143 and 60, the James River and the Newport News line. More than 2,400 acres there are zoned for commercial or industrial development under the county's Comprehensive Plan.
The area is where the BASF acrylic yarn manufacturing facility closed in 1992, resulting in the loss of 500 jobs. Unemployment in the area is at 7.2 percent, nearly double the countywide rate of 3.7 percent.
''This is definitely going to turn things around,'' Sisk says.
The county's goals for the area include creating 200 full-time jobs within five years, providing better day care and transportation and diversifying the tax base through commercial and industrial development.
James City was one of 14 localities in the state, including Hampton, selected by Allen and the Department of Housing and Community Development to receive an enterprise zone designation. There are 50 enterprise zones in the state.

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Wrong to tax sports drinks
I QUESTION the introduction of a new tax on sports drinks, introduced during the Budget presentation last week.
Sports drinks have relatively low sugar content, compared to carbonated (non-diet) soft drinks (aka sweet drinks) (Please see table below).
Carbonated soft drinks, on average, have about twice as much sugar in a small cup (250 mls) than do sports drinks. Overconsumption of soft drinks is an unwelcome component in the overconsumption that predisposes us to obesity.
We even have local data – for example, the Adolescent Health and Fitness Study (AHFIT) (circa 1997), the Barbados arm of the Global School-based Health Survey 2011, showing high consumption of soft drinks in young Barbadians.
Sports drinks have water, a small quantity of electrolytes, flavouring and a small quantity of sugar. In the sports drink, the sugar is designed to top up the energy stores burnt during exercise lasting more than 20 to 30 minutes, allowing a prolongation of the exercise performance (“stamina”).
Athletes in training and in competition are encouraged to consume sports drinks to maintain hydration, and the “sugar” and electrolytes allow a more rapid absorption of the fluids, when compared to plain water.
If physical activity is considered a healthy trait, and sports drinks are designed to enhance performance in those who are physically active, it would be interesting to hear the explanation why the sports drinks have been lumped with the other soft drinks. Putting on a new tax here seems to be discouraging a healthy habit.
– Dr Colin Alert


Official HUD Guidelines for the FHA Program. The FHA loan program is managed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). They HUD website offers dozens of handbooks relating to the FHA mortgage-insurance program, adding up to more than 10,000 pages. That’s a lot of reading material.
To be eligible for an FHA loan, borrowers must meet the following lending guidelines: FICO score of 500 to 579 with 10 percent down or a FICO score of 580 or higher with 3.5 percent down.
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One borrower having two FHA loans at once is the exception, not the rule. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has set specific rules for this rare occurrence. Most people do not.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Housing Administration announced on Thursday it was seeking to streamline and clarify its rules in a bid to entice traditional banks to rebuild their FHA loan.
FHA Loan Rules For Loan Approval: Federal Debts and Tax Liens FHA loan rules for loan approval include instructions to the lender about unpaid federal debts and tax liens. Your chosen participating FHA lender is responsible for verifying your income, employment record, and your monthly financial obligations-which may include tax obligations.
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As winter descends upon the charming city of Prague, the heart of its historical centre, the Old Town Square, undergoes a stunning transformation into a festive wonderland. The Old Town Square Christmas Market, a beloved annual tradition, draws locals and visitors alike into its magical embrace.
This Is One Of The World’s Best Christmas Market
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The festivities are centred on the Old Town Square, endowed with rich centuries of history. Wander among charming wooden stalls decorated with ornaments, homemade souvenirs, and traditional crafts. The market has a mouthwatering assortment of Czech and foreign goodies, which range from savoury regional cuisine to well-known trdelník pastries.
Customary booths display a variety of regional handicrafts and holiday treasures. Find puppets, finely embroidered lace, and hand-blown glass ornaments. The air gives you enticing smells of sweet dumplings, garlicky cheese flatbread, and sizzling Czech sausages. Live performances and musical entertainment take centre stage, contributing to the joyous atmosphere.
The vibrant ambience is enhanced with outstanding performers and local bands. Moreover, they spread festive cheer throughout the marketplaces. Prague’s Christmas markets mix modern workmanship alongside centuries-old customs. Stalls that skillfully combine the allure of traditional Czech handicrafts with contemporary design are available for visitors to peruse.
This year’s Old Town market will have a Cinderella theme in honour of the 50th anniversary of the film Three Wishes for Cinderella, which premiered in 1973. Cinderella’s fairy tale is an intrinsic element of the Christmas ambience in Czech homes. Hence, this year’s anniversary finds itself in the Christmas theme.
The tree will light up every half hour between 4:30 and 9:30 p.m., with animation matched to Karel Svoboda’s film score. During the holiday season, five-meter candles will illuminate the observation bridge. They even have an envelope-shaped photo point in the square that will reflect fulfilled wishes.
Moreover, the tree has 60 gigantic 2D Christmas stars, 3D printed from recyclable plastic. It gives a unique touch. The tree is adorned with red and gold balls and sparkles with 11 kilometres of light cables and 100,000 LED lamps.
Europe’s Christmas Market Are A Place To Be Now!
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Europe’s Christmas markets, with their centuries-old traditions and enchanting atmospheres, captivate the hearts of locals and visitors alike, turning the festive season into a time of wonder and joy. Over the centuries, these markets evolved into something much more profound—a celebration of Christmas that now extends across Europe, from the grand boulevards of Paris to the charming squares of Prague and the historic lanes of Vienna.
The charm of Europe’s Christmas markets extends beyond the larger cities to smaller towns and villages, where the intimate settings create an even more enchanting experience. In these quaint locales, the markets become a focal point for community gatherings, strengthening the bonds between neighbours and generations. The simplicity and authenticity of these smaller markets evoke a sense of nostalgia. They take you back to a time when the holiday season was celebrated with a genuine spirit of togetherness.
Europe’s Christmas markets offer an immersive and unforgettable experience. So be sure to visit one if you’re in Europe.
When: 2 December 2023 – 6 January 2024
Where: Prague’s Old Town Square
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1 package yellow cake mix
1 package vanilla instant pudding mix
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 can (8 ounces) crushed pineapple,
well drained with juice reserved
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 medium banana, cup up
1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
1/4 cup chopped maraschino cherries,
1/3 cup prepared cream cheese frosting
Preheat overn to 350º.
Coat a 10 inch Bundt pan with nonstick
In a large bowl, combine the cake and pudding mixes, the oil, pineapple, eggs, and cinnamon. Add enough water to the reserved pineapple juice to make 1 cup. Add it to the bowl, then beat with an electric beater until the mixture is thoroughly combined.
Stir in the banana, pecans,and cherries; mix well.
Pour into the pan.
Bake for 55 to 60 minutes.
Cool in pan for 20 or 25 minutes, then invert onto a serving plate. Let cool completely.
Microwave the frosting for 15 seconds. Stir until smooth and drizzle over the cooled cake.

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NOIDA: In order to rid the stretch between the Dadri-Surajpur-Chhalera (DSC) road and Noida-Greater Noida Expressway of traffic snarls, Noida Authority has decided to construct a 2.5km-long flyover that will begin at Sector 78 and end at Sector 82.
The flyover will not just ease traffic chaos on this busy stretch but also reduce travel time between Sectors 82, 93, 105, etc and the expressway considerably.
Noida Authority has already appointed a consultant for this project and the Detailed Project Report is currently being prepared. The flyover will be constructed at a cost of Rs 250 crore and will make travel from Sector 37 to the Noida-Greater Expressway and towards Dadri free of traffic jams.
The DSC road is one of the busiest stretches in the city and traffic jams, particularly during peak hours, are a regular occurrence on it.
The situation is made worse by the fact that the stretch between Biraula village near Sectors 49 and 82 is very narrow and heavily encroached upon. Commuters going up to the expressway or to Dadri via Greater Noida are forced to pass through this narrow and jam-ridden stretch.
"We recently completed a traffic survey for the entire city to identify the busiest and most congested stretches across Noida. The stretch between Sectors 78 and 82 along the DSC road is one of the points that needs immediate attention and, hence, we have decided to construct the flyover," an Authority official said.
In 2009, the Authority has proposed to construct an elevated road on this stretch to solve traffic problems and reduce travel time to the expressway and Dadri. However, the plan could never take off. However, the Authority has assured that this time the project will be taken up on a priority basis.
According to the Authority officials, the DPR and the design details for the project will be completed soon and tender process will be initiated soon after.
The Authority is also contemplating the construction of a 5.8km-long flyover between the Chilla regulator near Noida Gate and Mahamaya Flyover.


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Well, I finished the Alter Egos bracelet and it turned out nicely. I made it about 8 1/4" so it sits more like a bangle than a cuff. I love the wash on the black beads, too!
Sadly, the other bracelet I was working on didn't make the grade. As I was working on it and I realized that the 22/0 beads are just not strong enough and durable enough to be the base of a bracelet like that. I'm going to try it again, but as a circular two-drop peyote so it's essentially doubled. It should work much better that way.


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Short Term Loans for StudentsTemporary loans for students
Student loans to individuals are a response and can help allocate the resources necessary to fully close a functioning collegiate loan pool. Individual loans can help students cover their unpaid student fees and allocate resources for various extra expenditures such as accommodation and meals, computer, book and related schooling.
It is important to make full use of all other types of support before you start to deal with your own study loans. Some students have been reversed by assuming more debts than they can cope with, and it is important to keep credit taking, especially from the business community, to an absolutely strict level.
Students should complete and hand in the free application form for a federal study grant before granting loans. After completing the FAFSA, students can request loans, fellowships and fellowships from the federal and state governments to cover their study fees. It should be a top policy for all college-bound students. It is only when all other ressources are depleted that students should consider a face-to-face credit or a commercial creditor.
Individual study loans, such as individual or alternate loans, are provided by commercial banking houses, cooperative societies and sovereign financial organizations. Wherever individual loans are predominantly intended for study fee purposes, individual loans should help to finance incidental expenditures such as accommodation, book, computer, travelling and other subsistence needs.
Those loans should be taken up with some fear. Individual loans to students have an important place in university finance, but students should be careful not to incur overindebtedness. There are not as many individual study loans as there are typically individual study loans. Qualification requirements can be very stringent, and the condition of the credit can be much more restricted than even a general creditor credit for collegiate school.
The following conditions must be met by students taking out a face-to-face mortgage for the college: Students must have a sound background to be individual borrowers. Pupils with little or no creditworthiness must have a co-signatory. Students and co-signatories must subscribe to a legal bond that guarantees reimbursement of the principal and all interest due.
Most students demonstrate an appropriate level of earnings, depending on the needs of the respective creditor. As a rule, the interest coupons on private loans are high and float. One of the most important characteristics to be taken into account when requesting a private credit is the related interest rat. The amount of funds the borrowers need to pay back in addition to the credit principal is specified.
Low-risk students are usually charged higher interest and it is wise for most students to consider a co-signatory in order to ensure the most lucrative interest rate on their loans. Those students considering a private student loans should be aware that interest is accrued according to the principal once the student loans are authorized and paid out, and will be accrued over the term of the student loans.
When students take advantages of the deferral schedules offered, the interest accrued is added to the lending principal. And as the principal expands, so will the interest and costs of the loans. Retail creditors each establish their own redemption schedules in accordance with the internal directive and no two creditors will have exactly the same redemption schedules.
Usually, redemption schedules are governed by the underwriter's corporate policies, the borrower's record, and the amount and intent of the loans. Characteristics to be taken into account in a face-to-face reimbursement plan: Delayed Methods of Payments - This is a function provided to students by a number of financial institutes, and it allows students to defer reimbursement until after completion.
The students should bear in minds that interest will continue to be accrued during a deferment and will lead to a significant rise in the overall costs of the loans. Auto Disbursement Rebates - Many commercial banking and cooperative lending organizations will provide a discount on borrowing charges for those customers who select auto disbursement as their redemption schedule.
Benefits for cosigners - Students who take out a mortgage with a co-signer can often get more competitive interest charges and more variable redemption schedules. Early redemption fines - Many commercial creditors levy fines for early redemption of loans overdue. Individual creditors make profits over the term of each credit and equalize often through sanctions for early repayments.
If students are considering taking out loans, whether individual or individual, they must review the redemption schedule thoroughly before signing a contract. Keep in mind that failure of a college or college student loan is never an optional one. Individual study loans are available from most commercial financial services providers, such as banking houses, cooperative societies and saving-shops. As with any privately held students loans, availabilities, limits and terms differ according to the lender's preference.
Below is a selection of privatesector creditors who usually provide individual study loans: For students with a restricted borrowing record who have found it hard to obtain a mortgage through a local or cooperative institution, peer-to-peer lending can be considered. Although quite new to the college lending industry, B2B providers are offering personalised loans.
Those students considering P2P creditors should know that they are not subject to the same federal rules as banking, cooperative banking, and saving and lender organizations. Whilst they are an optional for students looking for funding, it is advisable to exercise prudence when dealing with peer-to-peer loans. If you are buying a study grant you should consider the following tips:
Do the lenders allow you to postpone payment during your studies? Which are the minimal and maximal credit risk costs? Do lenders provide rebate incentive for payment with automated disbursement? Is it possible to consolidate the loans after they have been graduated? When using a co-signatory, does the borrower provide an optional co-signatory approval after an authorized timeframe for making in-payment?
Individual loans to students provide much -needed resources when all other resources are not sufficient to cover a student's entire collegiate expenses. However, all loans to individuals should be handled with care and should only be regarded as a last option for university financing. Following these simple instructions will help students determine when a home loans program is the right response to their university financing needs.
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Missouri Baseball and Missouri State Baseball have teamed with Major League Baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals to bring one of college baseball’s top rivalries to Busch Stadium during the 2018 season. Mizzou and Missouri State will square off at Busch April 3 at 6:30 p.m., the first of three games between the in-state rivals next season. Continue reading “Missouri and Missouri State to Play at Busch Stadium in St. Louis”
The 2017 NCAA Super Regionals will take place June 9-11 (Friday-Sunday) and June 10-12 (Saturday-Monday); the winners of the Super Regionals will advance to the College World Series.
The 2017 College World Series consists of two, 4-team double-elimination brackets from June 17-24 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska; the two bracket winners will meet in a best-of-three CWS Championship series on June 26-28.
Here are the previews of this year’s NCAA Super Regionals. Continue reading “Super Regional Previews”
This week’s college baseball notebook, plus a look at the nation’s longest winning and losing streaks.
COLLEGE BASEBALL WEEKLY NOTEBOOK:
Tulane, UConn, South Florida, Houston and UCF are all tied for first place in the American Athletic Conference standings with identical 9-6 records. Four of the five teams meet in head-to-head series this weekend. UConn travels to Houston and UCF plays at Tulane in a two crucial late-season series. South Florida hosts East Carolina, who is currently in last place in the league. Continue reading “Notebook; Winning/Losing Streaks”

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New Study on Spanking Children: Will It Affect Timesharing Decisions?
New research suggests that the more children get spanked, the more likely they are to defy their parents and experience anti-social, aggressive behavior, as well as mental health problems and cognitive difficulties. Given that this is now published as science, could this end up having an effect on what a court views as abusive behavior towards children by one parent?
The Study & Results: Spanking and Physical Abuse Result in Similar Outcomes
The study analyzed 160,000 children and only looked at spanking, explicitly avoiding the possibility of conflating spanking with other behaviors that could be seen as abusive. What they found was not good: the data showed a direct relationship between adults who were spanked as children and the likelihood of developing some serious negative outcomes later in life, such as mental health issues. Spanking also evidently helps to create adults who go on to physically punish their own children.
And it gets worse: In comparing the negative effects of spanking with those of other physical abuse against children, the study indicated that they both essentially resulted in the same negative outcomes.
Spanking Is Still Widespread
Overall, surveys of Americans have indicated that they support spanking sometimes as a form of discipline: specifically, around 80 percent of preschoolers have reported being spanked in surveys, with 50 percent of eight and nine-year-olds reporting being hit with actual objects, such as a paddle.
Child Custody Cases
With corporal punishment still technically legal in all 50 states, courts have historically upheld a parent’s right to spank. But could this study—and possibly others to come—start to change that?
The law in Florida states that “corporal discipline of a child by a parent or legal custodian for disciplinary purposes does not in itself constitute abuse when it does not result in harm to the child,” where harm not only covers physical injury, but also emotional and mental injury. However, this latest study indicates that it does harm the child, even if later on in life.
In fact, parents have, in some instances, lost custody of their children due to spanking and it can be used against a parent in a custody case. Obviously, this becomes more of an issue when one parent is spanking the child and the other parent objects to that as a form of discipline. But this latest study could have far-reaching implications for custody cases, which have typically looked for excessively harsh corporal discipline in deciding whether to adjust a custody situation. Now that all forms of spanking cause emotional and mental injury, could it lead to broad implications for child custody in moving forward?
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If you suspect that your child is being emotionally abused by the other parent due to corporal discipline, contacting an experienced attorney to discuss what your rights are and how this could affect your case is of the utmost importance.
We represent both mothers and fathers in child custody and related issues for clients in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, and Boca Raton. Contact us at the office of Sandra Bonfiglio today so we can get started helping you.

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Plant genetic resources and food security: Stakeholder perspectives on the international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture
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Frison, C.; López, F.; Esquinas-Alcázar, J.T. (eds.) (2011) Plant genetic resources and food security: Stakeholder perspectives on the international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity. London (United Kingdom): Earthscan, 321 p. ISBN: 978-92-5-106482-5
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The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is a pivotal piece of recent legislation, providing a route map for the use of such resources for sustainable agriculture and food security. This book explains clearly the different interests and views at stake between all players in the global food chain. It touches upon many issues such as international food governance and policy, economic aspects of food and seed trade, conservation and sustainable use of food and agricultural biodiversity, hunger alleviation, ecological concerns, consumers' protection, fairness and equity between nations and generations, plant breeding techniques and socio-economic benefits related to food local economies. The book shows that despite the conflicting interests at stake, players managed to come to an agreement on food and agriculture for the sake of food security and hunger alleviation in the world.
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Kiran Manral is the award-winning author of ten books. She was a journalist at The Asian Age, The Times of India, features editor Cosmopolitan, India Cultural Lead and Trendspotter at Gartner Iconoculture, Senior Consultant at Vector Insights and is currently Ideas Editor, SheThePeople. She was shortlisted for the Femina Women Awards for Literary Contribution in 2017. The Indian Council of UN Relations (ICUNR) with the Ministry of Women and Children, Govt of India, awarded her the International Women's Day Award 2018 for excellence in the field of writing. Her novella, 'Saving Maya', was long-listed for the 2018 Saboteur Award, supported by the Arts Council of England in the UK. Her novels 'The Face At The Window' and 'Missing, Presumed Dead' were both long-listed for Jio MAMI Word to Screen, and 'The Face at the Window' was also shortlisted for the South Asian Film Festival 2019. Her books include 'The Reluctant Detective', 'Once Upon A Crush', 'All Aboard', 'Karmic Kids-The Story of Parenting Nobody Told You', 'A Boy's Guide to Growing Up', 'True Love Stories', 'Saving Maya' and '13 Steps to Bloody Good Parenting.'
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Bailin Gongfu Black Tea is one of the three famous Fujian Gonfu Teas. Fujian is famous for its three Gongfu Teas which are Tanyang Gongfu, Zhenghe Gongfu and Bailin Gongfu. Bailin Gongfu is different from other two for its rich taste and extra thick liquor. Actually Bailin Gongfu popularity is also for its process unique and special brewing method.
It is named after its place of origin. Chinese city Bailin started producing this Gonfu Tea in the era of 1875 to 1908 i.e. during the reign of Guangxu. A proper tea factory was founded in a town of Bailin at that time though Bailin was already famous for producing top quality tea. Then Bailin Gongfu was introduced to the world and it was started to export in Southwest Asia and Europe.
Bailin Gongfu is produced by the leaves very carefully plucked in time. For best quality Bailin Gongfu Black tea, leaves should be collected when these are very young and fresh. It gives this tea the very refreshing taste and color. But if mature leaves will be collected to make tea, it won’t be of that quality and the taste won’t be so rich and the color won’t be so bright. That’s why a special care is taken while picking the leaves for the production of this tea.
The actual brewing method i.e. traditional Chinese method of brewing this black tea is unique and quite complicated. But it is the fact that real taste of Bailin Gongfu Black tea comes out just by its original brewing method. But if you want to brew it in Western Style then it’s quite simple. Just put 1-2 teaspoons into 8oz water. Then brew it at 85 ºC for 2 to 3 minutes. You may increase this time according to your taste and mood. For more information please checkout Teavire’s article on how to brew bailin gongfu.
The taste of Bailin Gongfu is awesome which is rich and refreshing. The brewed tea liquor is thick, bright in color and full of aroma which is mind refreshing. A good amount of pekoe in the tea causes an awesome fragrance which is the main specialty of Bailin Gongfu Black Tea.
It is easy to store as compared to green teas. Just choose some air-tight and dark container which must be free from any sort of smell or fragrance. Keep the box in low temperature but keeping in refrigerator is not required at all. Use the stored tea as soon as possible to avoid the loss of its taste and aroma.
It contains more caffeine than other tea which eliminates laziness and refreshes you. Its taste is stronger than others. The presence of antioxidants helps in reducing the threat of certain cancers. The best thing about Bailin Gongfu is that it reduces the aging effect and it makes your heart stronger. So Bailin Gongfu black tea is the good of taste, fragrance and health.
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Who: F. W. Boreham, British pastor and author of more than 50 books. He spent most of his life pastoring in New Zealand and Australia. (See the article “Who Is F. W. Boreham?”)
Genre: On Boreham’s spiritual essays: F. W. Boreham is difficult to place into a genre. A reviewer wrote in Preacher’s Magazine, “There is only one Boreham.” His writing is a mix of essay writing and what I call “literary preaching”—preaching that is intensely informed by both Christian and classic literature. In the main body of his work (“classic Boreham”), some chapters were originally sermons; others were culled from his 3000 biographical essays. In any case, most of his 49 books are a goldmine of suitable (if light) devotional reading. (See my list of his published works.)
Overview: Very few of F. W. Boreham’s devotional books have clear themes; this is an exception. Many of the sermons run on the themes of the passage of time, the metaphor of life as a journey, and the approach of eternity. His overall method is to treat whatever metaphors, stories, and life parables present themselves to him.
Meat: “Our Second Wind” is among the best chapters in any of his books. “The Wayside Inn” and all of Part II is moving and memorable. Passing of John Broadbanks is one of the later books of his career, so his writing style is very clear and polished here.
Quotes: “Life’s choicest prizes are for the plodders.” (“Our Second Wind”, loc. 1694)
“The rending of the veil was not the desecration of the temple; it was the consecration of the world.” (“Beau Geste”, loc. 2475)
“The Kingdom of God demands of each man the dedication of his own individuality.” (“The Ordinand”, loc. 2604)
F. W. Boreham, Dreams at Sunset, Part I, ch. 7
The postman has this morning brought me a letter that affords me peculiar satisfaction. It invites me to return for one notable Sunday to a pulpit in which, long ago, I spent twelve very happy years. ‘We are celebrating our Jubilee,’ the minister writes, ‘and we all want you to be among us!’ Continue reading
F. W. Boreham, Rubble and Roseleaves, Part III, ch. II
I was holiday-making at Lake King. As a matter of fact, Lake King is no lake at all. It used to be; and, like the Church at Sardis, and like so many of us, it bears the name that it once earned but no longer deserves. In former days, a picturesque rampart of sand hummocks, richly draped in native verdure, intervened between the fresh waters of the land-locked lake and the heaving tides of the Southern Ocean. Then the engineers arrived; and when the engineers take off their coats no man can tell what is likely to happen next. At Panama they split a continent in two. At Lake King they wedded the lake to the ocean. Through the range of sand-dunes they cut a broad, deep channel by which the big ships could pass in and out, and, as an inevitable consequence, Lake King is a lake no longer. But it was not the big ships that interested me. It was the trawlers. I liked to see the fishing-boats come in from the ocean and liberate their shining spoil at the pens. On the shores of the lake the fishermen have fenced off a sheet of water, a quarter of an acre or so in area; and into this sheltered reserve they discharge their daily catch. I never tired of visiting the fish-pens. As I looked down into their clear waters they seemed to be one moving mass of beautiful fish. Never in my life had I seen so congested an aquarium. There were thousands upon thousands, tons upon tons, of them. Continue reading
F. W. Boreham, My Christmas Book, Part I, ch. IV
It may or may not have happened in December; Bret Harte does not say, and it certainly does not matter; for whether it happened in April or September or December, it was Christmas-time in Roaring Camp. It is always Christmas-time when a little child is born; the angels sing their song in somebody’s sky, and heaven fills the atmosphere of somebody’s home with its Gloria in Excelsis—its message of peace on earth and goodwill among men. Continue reading


text: Building on previous research, a new study published in Frontiers in Endocrinology evaluated the two-year outcomes associated with a digitally monitored continuous care intervention (CCI) for type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients. The initial findings found that the CCI effectively helped patients achieve nutritional ketosis and thereby improved weight, glycemic outcomes, lipid, and liver marker changes. The present study was an open label, nonrandomized, controlled trial in which T2D patients were stratified by CCI (n = 262) and usual care (n = 87). The primary outcomes were two-year retention, glycemic control, and weight changes. Over the two-year study period, the CCI group presented reduced hemoglobin A1c, fasting glucose, fasting insulin, weight, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, triglycerides, and liver alanine transaminase, as well as increased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. No changes in spine bone mineral density were observed in the CCI group. The CCI group reduced its use of glycemic control medication (with the exception of metformin) from 55.7% to 26.8% (insulin, –62%; sulfonylureas, –100%). With the exception of uric acid and anion gap, the usual care group did not exhibit any of these changes, and diabetes medication use rate did not change. The CCI group also had a 53.5% diabetes reversal rate and 17.6% remission rate; the usual care group did not achieve disease resolution.

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With more than 30 artists on the bill this June, Metallica’s upcoming Orion Music + More festival in Atlantic City has the music angle more than covered.
Metallica will be playing their classic “Black” album in its entirety on one of the nights for the first time ever in the U.S., and performing the “Ride The Lightning” album on the other night.
Now, Metallica has announced details of the Orion Custom Car + Motorcycle Show, curated by frontman James Hetfield.
Over 300 of the best Customs, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars and Custom Motorcycles will be on display at the Orion Custom Car + Motorcycle Show inside the festival grounds throughout the weekend.
Orion ticketholders can check out incredible machines from across the world, including celebrity cars in the Primo Palace like James Hetfield’s 1936 Auburn Roadster Slow Burn Kustom and 1937 Lincoln Zephyr Voodoo Priest Kustom by styler and builder, Rick Dore.
Awards will be given out for Best in Show for each category: Customs, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, and Custom Motorcycles. Plus, festival goers can cast their votes for the Fan Favorite.
Explaining his vision behind the Custom show, Hetfield says, “For a Metallica fan to come in and experience stuff that they wouldn’t normally; maybe they wouldn’t normally go to a car show and see what goes on there.”
For more – including details on how you can enter a vehicle in the event - check out the festival website here.
Orion Music + More happens June 23-24 at Bader Field in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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EDMONTON, AB – The Edmonton Convention Centre is pleased to announce it has received a Venue Excellence award from the International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM) that recognizes Edmonton’s downtown convention centre as one of North America’s top five performing public assembly venues. The Edmonton Convention Centre is the first Canadian venue since 2012 to receive this prestigious award.
The Venue Excellence Award recognizes five IAVM venues of any type within the membership which demonstrate excellence in the management and operation of public assembly venues. This includes but is not limited to amphitheaters, arenas, auditoriums, casinos, complexes, convention centers, exhibit halls, fair/festival grounds, performing arts centers, race tracks, stadiums & university venues. To determine excellence in venue management and operations, IAVM used the following four criteria.
• Operational Excellence
• Team-building/Professional Development
• Safety & Security
• Service to the Community
“IAVM members manage public venues all over the world and we’re excited that the Edmonton Convention Centre has proven to be one of the best. The professionals who manage the Centre are to be commended for this industry achievement and Edmonton is fortunate to have a phenomenal asset that serves its citizens.” Brad Mayne, CVE, President and CEO.
“This award is a testament to the world-class team we have in Edmonton that is committed to delivering a remarkable experience for our guests and community,” says Richard Wong, Edmonton Convention Centre General Manager. “As a mid-sized convention centre and a division of Edmonton Economic Development Corporation, we’ve proven that we can punch above our weight and compete with some of the world’s largest venues. We’ve done this by showing that a venue can be more than a facility. It can be an incubator for business and an important part of the cultural fabric of a community.”
In its 35th year of operation, the Edmonton Convention Centre has a vision to be one of Canada’s top performing convention centres. This year’s other recipients include the BOK Center (arena), Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Intrust Bank Arena, and the Minneapolis Convention Center. The last Canadian venue to be recognized was the Vancouver Convention Centre in 2012, and venues recognized in years prior include Los Angeles Convention Centre, Anaheim Convention Centre, AT&T Stadium, MetLife Stadium, Georgia Dome and Safeco Field.
The Edmonton Convention Centre was also recognized by Meetings Professional International Edmonton Chapter as 2018 Venue of the Year. It was also awarded the Human Rights Award for Excellence in 2008 by the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights. For more information on the Edmonton Convention Centre’s impact, watch below.
About the Edmonton Convention Centre
Managed by Edmonton Economic Development Corporation, the Edmonton Convention Centre has a vision to be one of Canada’s top performing convention centres. Everything we do is dedicated towards pushing the limits of providing the very best experience an event planner or guest has ever had, anywhere. Our team of event experts is ready to create a REMARKABLE experience for you. Contact us today by visiting ShawConferenceCentre.com.
About the International Association of Venue Managers
Founded in 1924 and representing public assembly venues from around the globe, IAVM’s 5,400 active members include managers and senior executives from auditoriums, arenas, convention centers, exhibit halls, stadiums, performing arts centers, university complexes, racetracks, and amphitheaters. IAVM’s mission is to educate, advocate for, and inspire public assembly venue professionals worldwide. More information about IAVM is available at IAVM.org or via @IAVMWHQ on Twitter.
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The Florida Parent Network – the largest advocacy network of its kind and a model for every educational choice program in the United States – is now Florida Voices For Choices. Its new name reflects the tremendous growth and diversity in the education choice movement, but its mission remains the same.
First, some background.
In late 2012, I was hired to organize parents for Step Up For Students. Step Up, which hosts this blog, had been around for more than 10 years and served 70,000 children in Florida every year through the Tax Credit Scholarship program.
That was an exciting time. I traveled the state listening to many parents laud a program that had, in their own words, saved their children’s lives. They valued being able, for the first time, to help direct their children’s education and outlined the results in improved grades, self-esteem, behavior and future opportunities. These parents also had great ideas for how to improve the program, ensuring it worked for more families, and helped us understand the growing need for more options in Florida.
For the past six and a half years, the programs, and the number of involved parents, have continued to grow.
Our advocates include parents who’ve just joined Step Up and are new to educational choice, but they also include parents whose children have graduated. These advocates stay involved to ensure future generations of children benefit from schools that work for them.
We’ve welcomed grandparents, foster parents and caregivers into the fold, empowering all to get involved and advocate for their children and themselves.
And it’s no longer just me organizing around the state. We have seven professional organizers helping to empower advocates from Key West to Pensacola, and everywhere in between.
Not everyone thinks this is a great idea.
As we grow, defenders of the status quo get nervous. They threaten to shut us down almost every year.
Lawsuits have been filed and bills introduced, all designed to limit options and force our parents back into district schools. Candidates run for office and blatantly threaten programs that serve the neediest among us.
In 2016, Step Up formed the Florida Parent Network to officially help moms and dads who want to fight for their right to choose the best schools for their kids. In 2017, we expanded FPN to include parents who make choices other than scholarships: charters, magnets, virtual and home schools.
In other states, these factions are divided against each other. In Florida, we are a united army.
Here are some of the ways our advocates have made their voices heard throughout Florida over the past six years:
- After our #dropthesuit campaign and appearances at school board meetings throughout 2014, the Florida School Boards Association dropped out of a lawsuit to end the Tax Credit Scholarship program.
- We targeted the PTA through a similar social media campaign in 2015-16, and within months, the organization dropped from the same lawsuit.
- Over 10,000 advocates marched in Tallahassee in 2016 to support the scholarship program and protest the lawsuit against us. It remains the largest march in Florida’s history.
- Starting with the 2014 legislative session, our advocates have reached out to lawmakers in support of legislation that helps children get off waiting lists and into great schools.
- We’ve registered hundreds of parents to vote.
- By law, we can’t tell anyone who to vote for, but we can tell our advocates which candidates support their interests and which do not. Then we encourage our advocates to get out and vote. They are proving to be an important bloc who’ve made a huge difference in the last two gubernatorial elections alone, not to mention dozens of local school board races and other contests across the state.
Florida Parent Network moms and dads have grown into hundreds of thousands of parent power activists, and we’ve been increasingly aware that many of them aren’t parents at all.
We represent and mobilize faith and school leaders, teachers, students, alumni and community partners. These are advocates of all ages and backgrounds who firmly believe children should be educated based on how they learn rather than where they live. They make phone calls. They meet with lawmakers. They write op-eds. They march in the streets and shout on social media.
They won’t let up.
Instead of forming different networks, we’re more powerful together. Therefore, we are proud to announce that Florida Parent Network is now Florida Voices for Choices. The best way to acknowledge the unending support of all these folks is to include them in our name.
If you believe in this movement, text FVFC to 52886. Florida’s next legislative session starts in January, and 2020 is an election year. Join us. And get ready.

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The Granny telephone!
Ericsson is a Swedish telephone manufacturer that used to make these rotary dial telephones in the past. I guess this model originates from the 1960’s. It has a very distinctive design and I call these telephones Granny phones because my father’s and mother’s grandparents both had this telephone model in their homes. The colours were not this bright, though. They were dark purple. This telephone came in many colours and purple and green were the most common. I think that in Finland these telephones were sold like in tens of thousands. It was so common even in the eighties when the tone dial phones started to take over. I have seen this red version only twice and I bought them instantly. Actually I have one here in my home because I really love telephones and I want to have them as a part of my home decoration. This piece was turned into a lamp though, because I already had the red one.
I think it turned out to be a fantastic piece of lighting. The idea is striking and simple and works just great. I saved the mechanism of the dial so you can actually play like you were calling someone. Maybe to your grandma?
It comes with a white changeable shade. Please note the small crack on the right side of the body I repaired with a cheramic mass.
Height: 57 cm (with the shade)


Call to re-think quantum computers
The constant breathing of the dilution refrigerator as it pumps Helium-3 around the system is the only thing you hear in a lab with a superconducting quantum computer. Every 10 nanoseconds a pulse is triggered from an FPGA, a programmable piece of hardware, that causes the next signal to be sent into the fridge. Other signals spark measurements of the quantum system buried deep inside. All of this happens with exquisite timing as the entire operation lasts less than a single millisecond.
Quantum computers are much more than just qubits – they are a complex control system with different computing elements, from analogue hardware to FPGAs and CPUs. These elements keep the qubits alive. If we want to build great quantum computers, we need the infrastructure to manage this stack. We must start deep down in the control stack and build up.
Early in the development of traditional computers, von Neumann proposed a new model of a computer. One of its first realisations, the EDSAC, was built here in Cambridge by Maurice Wilkes. It was so successful that it was mentioned in three Nobel Prize speeches.
In this architecture, the elements that store information are distinct from those that process information. Programmes and data are stored in memory in the same fashion that enabled reprogramming and automated programming tools. This allowed engineers to build assembly languages and compilers, then high-level languages like FORTRAN and, today, easy-to-use languages like python, with libraries and SaaS tools that have accelerated the pace of the software industry. The stack was built from the bottom up.
The quantum stack is being built upside down. We have qubits and – since we know how to design great languages – many high-level development kits. All of those are based on the circuit model, a CPU directly controlling a QPU, which was popularised in the 1990s in the classic textbook by Nielsen and Chuang. This model disregards what actually goes on in the heterogeneous control stack. It presents quantum computers as black boxes in which only the bottom and the top layers are of relevance. All the middle layers are hidden away.
As programmers we want to use every bit of resource that we have and that means every bit of coherence time. We want to write programmes with the capability to react fast to what’s happening down at the qubit level. To achieve that, all layers of quantum and classical compute will need to be integrated as tightly as possible. This includes the middle layers.
These middle layers of the quantum stack currently consist of fast programmable logic, FPGAs, and non-programmable logic, the waveform generators, digitisers etc. FPGAs allow for fast feedback and flexibility whilst we refine the next generation of quantum hardware. Eventually, they will likely get replaced by custom hardware with a fixed function, for example, error correction, but that custom hardware can’t get built without the software layer providing the infrastructure.
Lowering latency in the quantum system also allows for system testing between program runs, which means you can run more tune-up experiments, such as randomised benchmarking. All of this is essential to reduce the cost and time to build a truly ground-breaking computer that will undoubtably be mentioned in future Nobel Prize speeches.
With that thought in mind, we need to develop a better model of computing – similar to the von Neumann model – and build the stack from the bottom up. This is what will make quantum software thrive. It will allow quantum hardware developers to focus on the physics and build the next generation QPUs.
This is our mission at Riverlane. We are proud to be working with some of the best hardware labs in the world. If you are interested in joining us on this quest, drop us a note at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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- Good range: 35 - 40 ft.
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Getting Started in Clinical Radiology pdf, you can download this file, andthen click visit link
Description this radiology PDF:
The opening sentence says it all: “Radiology can be a lot of fun!” It summarizes what is unique about this book. Radiology books designed for medical students have as their main purpose an introduction to the science and art of medical imaging. Behind this obvious purpose is an implicit intent also to fascinate students, and thereby to inspire some of the most susceptible and capable to choose a career in radiology. An early attempt to inspire students grew out of a classroom medical student teaching program, in which the radiologist Lucy Frank Squires was assisted by students and radiology trainees like myself. That course was wildly successful and attracted many students to a lifetime interest in radiology. What made this program unique was its light-hearted approach and the use of everyday household objects to explain radiological principles to the students, and to make them feel comfortable in the process. This text by George W. Eastman, Chris Wald, and Jane Crossin is, in many ways, an extension of that successful humanistic formula for medical student teaching. The authors have captured our attention by introducing the subject through the eyes of fictional medical students to whom they have given form, substance, and personalities with emotions and fears. Although fictional, the characters are realistic in their foibles. What is new and different in this book is its clever use of these students to make us inquisitive about them as well as the real subject matter. This process relieves some of the inherent dryness of the topic by involving our hearts in the sharing of the uncertainties and concerns of the characters, and it captures our attention. The thread of human connection to our fictional students weaves its way through the book. In the introduction we learn of the diverse backgrounds of the students, something of their private lives, and gain an inkling of their interactions with each other. In the chapter on chest radiology, we sympathetically experience the challenge of the subject material through their eyes. The complexity of modern radiology is reflected in the organization and content of the book. The students’ introduction to radiology starts with technical aspects of basic image acquisition and extends to the fundamentals of psychophysics in image perception, an important topic often overlooked in radiology texts. What follows includes principles of disease detection, disease diagnosis, and appropriate examination selection. As one who was a radiology trainee in the 1960s, I never cease to be amazed at how simple life was at that time. One chose between either film radiography or fluoroscopy; there was nothing else but nuclear medicine, which was then still in its infancy. Now, the wide range of imaging modalities makes it essential to learn how to choose between them to make the best use of imaging. For this voyage of the medical student into the world of radiology, the authors have set sail toward a unique polar star that encompasses humanism as well as comprehensive imaging science. The text promises to introduce and guide a new generation of students into the fascinating world of radiological imaging.
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Newcomers and old time producers alike, rejoice! Bass Explorer presents the first edition of an ongoing pursuit to bring creators quality samples for use in their works.
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text: The 2010 Census materials will be arriving at your homes very soon. It is very important that citizens complete and return their Census forms. Obtaining an accurate count is vital because the numbers will dictate how billions of dollars in Federal funding will be allocated. Undercounting will cost the County approximately $14,000 per uncounted person over the next 10 year period. If you have questions about the Census, there is information available at www.census.gov. You may also contact the Village Hall at (630) 323-8215 with questions.


2 Key Future Law Enforcement Themes
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Like many government agencies, police departments are increasingly asked to do more with less. Internal and external stakeholders are seeking greater transparency just as departments are facing staffing shortages. Required reports demand deeper dives into more data. And, with mobile devices in their pockets, residents expect answers and action with just the click of a button.
Combined, these factors are accelerating the evolution of police departments such that the future of law enforcement will be:
In fact, mobile tools and paperless processes are already setting the stage for more collaborative, digital approaches that will enable officers to spend more — and more productive — time in communities.
A new eBook from Police1, “The Future of Law Enforcement is Data-Driven and Mobile,” states, “writing reports takes a lot of time — time that could otherwise be spent in the field, combating crime and keeping the public safe.” The publication cites a 2019 study that indicated 56% of officers surveyed spent three or more hours per shift on reporting. Seventy-one percent spent an hour or more completing incident reports in their patrol cars. That number is trending even higher today.
With new reporting standards and initiatives such as the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System, reporting capabilities today need to streamline the collection of data, connect to analytics for meaningful insight, and mirror the way officers actually work. Key ingredients of software that can drive operational efficiency and enhance performance include:
- Connections with CAD and RMS to save time and ensure accuracy
- Flexibility to customize fields based on a situation
- Functionality to start and finish reports from multiple different devices
- Seamless connections to data analytics tools for real-time insights
- Opportunities for all officers involved in an incident to collaborate in one report
- Intuitive user experience
- Fully mobile functionality that engages officers from anywhere, including the field
An important byproduct of the above is access to mission-critical information from any location. This significantly improves tactical awareness and officer safety. The police department in Clovis, California, provides a good example of how this succeeds in practice. The short-staffed department aimed to work smarter by investing in mobile technologies including an app that connects patrol officers, dispatchers, and command staff.
Because the app ties to GPS coordinates from any mobile device, dispatch can see where a patrol car and officers themselves are at any time, an important consideration for officers who leave the car to pursue a suspect on foot. Command staff can also monitor activity from any device. Detectives and others not at their MDT’s can also self-dispatch. “If something big happens in Clovis, all the detectives run out of their workspace, throw on their vest, and go, and we can see them on the map where we never were able to before,” noted Lt. James Munro in the eBook. “That’s been huge.”
Efficiency and Community
For officers in Springfield, Illinois, less time spent on manual reporting means more time out in the community. Using mobile electronic citation software allows officers to boost efficiency and improve accuracy in processing citations, collecting traffic stop data, and pulling crash report data for state reporting requirements.
Electronic citations also improve officer safety by expediting the ticketing process, reducing time on the side of the road. As soon as an officer initiates a stop, the technology can automate the process by pulling data from a driver’s license, VIN, and registration. That data auto-populates the citation form with information from agency’s CAD or records management system. Officers can then have the driver sign the citation on a mobile device and print a copy on the spot. At the same time, the citation can be digitally transferred to the court system.
Solutions that reduce paperwork give back time to officers, who can use it to increase productive community presence. “In this day and age of policing, it’s important officers use their time and resources effectively and efficiently,” said Assistant Chief Ken Scarlette in the Police1 piece.
The mobile office, combined with the need for increased transparency and deeper dives into more data, requires tools that create efficiencies and improve operations. These tools provide the foundation for a data-driven and mobile public safety future.


Joe Miller on Health Care
Miller: Strongly Disagree
Question topic: The Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) should be repealed by Congress.
Miller: Strongly Agree
Two notable exceptions are former South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds (R) and Alaska Lieutenant Gov. Mead Treadwell (R), who have not fully embraced the efforts. Treadwell, who is facing Miller, said he supports "any attempt to defund and repeal ObamaCare" but that "shutting down the government is not a good idea."
"Democrats need to come to the table," Treadwell said in a statement to The Hill. "While we should try to repeal ObamaCare now, the best chance of repeal is when Republicans take control of the Senate and voters replace Senators like Mark Begich [D-Alaska] that originally voted for ObamaCare."
Second, even if ObamaCare were Constitutional, its benefit is built upon a crumbling foundation, and it will do nothing to control costs. This legislation adds millions of new beneficiaries to the already broken Medicaid program. ObamaCare will not work and will likely make our medical system worse.
The Christian Coalition voter guide [is] one of the most powerful tools Christians have ever had to impact our society during elections. This simple tool has helped educate tens of millions of citizens across this nation as to where candidates for public office stand on key faith and family issues.
The CC survey summarizes candidate stances on the following topic: "Federal government run health care system"
The Contract from America, clause 7. Defund, Repeal, & Replace Government-run Health Care:
Defund, repeal and replace the recently passed government-run health care with a system that actually makes health care and insurance more affordable by enabling
The Club for Growth's "Repeal-It!" Pledge for candidates states, "I hereby pledge to the people of my district/state upon my election to the U.S. House of Representatives/U.S. Senate, to sponsor and support legislation to repeal any federal health care takeover passed in 2010, and replace it with real reforms that lower health care costs without growing government."
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Senate races Nov. 2016:
AK: Murkowski(R) vs.Metcalfe(D) vs.Miller(L) vs.
AL: Shelby(R) vs.Crumpton(D) vs.
AR: Boozman(R) vs.Eldridge(D) vs.Gilbert(L) vs.
AZ: McCain(R) vs.Kirkpatrick(D) vs.Mealer(I) vs.
CA: Sanchez(D) vs.Harris(D) vs.
CO: Bennet(D) vs.Glenn(R) vs.
CT: Blumenthal(D) vs.Carter(R) vs.
FL: Rubio(R) vs.Murphy(D) vs.
GA: Isakson(R) vs.Barksdale(D) vs.Buckley(L) vs.
HI: Schatz(D) vs.Carroll(R) vs.
IA: Grassley(R) vs.Judge(D) vs.
ID: Crapo(R) vs.Sturgill(D) vs.Pro-Life(C) vs.
IL: Kirk(R) vs.Duckworth(D) vs.
IN: Bayh(D) vs.Young(R) vs.
KY: Paul(R) vs.Gray(D) vs.
LA: Fleming(R) vs.Kennedy(D) vs.Campbell(D) vs.Boustany(R) vs.Maness(R) vs.Cao(R) vs.Clements(L)
MD: Van Hollen(D) vs.Szeliga(R) vs.Flowers(G) vs.
MO: Blunt(R) vs.Kander(D)
NC: Burr(R) vs.Ross(D) vs.Haugh(L) vs.
ND: Hoeven(R) vs.Glassheim(D) vs.Marquette(L)
NH: Ayotte(R) vs.Hassan(D) vs.Rubens(R)
NV: Cortez-Masto(D) vs.Heck(R) vs.
NY: Schumer(D) vs.Long(R) vs.Merced(L)
OH: Portman(R) vs.Strickland(D) vs.
OK: Lankford(R) vs.Workman(D) vs.
OR: Wyden(D) vs.Callahan(R) vs.
PA: Toomey(R) vs.McGinty(D) vs.
SC: Scott(R) vs.Dixon(D)
SD: Thune(R) vs.Williams(D)
UT: Lee(R) vs.Snow(D) vs.
VT: Leahy(D) vs.Milne(R)
WA: Murray(D) vs.Vance(R)
WI: Johnson(R) vs.Feingold(D) vs.Anderson(L) vs.
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Not all calcium hypochlorites are the same. The percentage of available active chlorine, water and insoluble matter contained in a calcium hypochlorite product all contribute to the effectiveness of the product, and will affect the operating costs of your pool.
Melchlorite contains 10% - 15% more chlorine than any other leading brands of calcium hypochlorite in the UK. The higher the chlorine content the less calcium hypochlorite required. 10 drums of standard product = 9 drums of Melclorite N.X.
What is insoluble matter?
High levels of insoluble matter can block solution lines and dosing delivery equipment, which result in increased maintenance costs. Melchlorite is manufactured in Japan using a patented process and has 3 to 5 times less insoluble matter than many other leading brands.

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A pro-Trump social media influencer apologized to Americans who "absolutely hate my guts" at his sentencing for taking part in the January 6 attack.
A social media influencer behind the #WalkAway movement got home detention for his role in the Capitol riot
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My daughter is going to be having a Mall Day followed by a Spa Party on Saturday. We thought having ice cream would be fun in the evening. I'm trying to make as many things as naturally as possible so the girls can see they can have fun, eat good food and eat healthily as well. Here is a recipe I tweaked a bit. You might want to cut down on it just a bit. I followed the initial recipe I found online but added in the vanilla and butter which helped a lot. As you can see it's very fudgy. Here goes.
1 cup cocoa
1 cup maple syrup
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup water
1/2 - 1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon butter
1. Combine cocoa, syrup, salt and water and bring to a boil.
2. Turn heat down to a simmer for 5 minutes stirring constantly.
3. Take off heat and add in the butter and vanilla. Stir well.
4. Use immediately or store in refrigerator till ready to use.


If you like great guitarists, then I have a treat for you all tonight: Johnny A. Johnny A is truly one of the finest guitarists I have ever seen perform over the years — in fact he’s so fine, that Gibson Guitar even created the Johnny A. Signature model. I first saw Johnny A perform when he opened for Jimmy Vaughn here at the House of Blues in Hollywood back on November 9, 2001. He rocked the House. When I met him after the set, it turned out Johnny A was from my neck of the woods in Massachusetts and ever since, I’ve made it a point not to miss a show when he’s here in L.A..
Here’s a clip of Johnny A from the Guitar Player Party at NAMM 2004:
Enjoy… and if you must, and I mean must know what’s happening in the political world tonight… check Memeorandum for the latest buzz. I guarantee however it won’t compare with the sounds from Johnny A‘s guitar.


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5 Tips for carefree autumn walkies with your dog
Summer is well and truly over, and the days are rapidly getting shorter. Goodbyes are always a little sad, but happily, autumn is the perfect season for taking long walks. You and your dog, roaming the forest while the red leaves are falling. Autumn is the ideal time to enjoy the great outdoors. But, you should be aware there may be some dangers hiding among the fallen leaves. With these tips, you’ll be well prepared for carefree autumn walkies.
Tip 1: Leave acorns be
Every year, the falling leaves make for many good times. Fun to run through for kids, dogs and adult alike! But leaves are not the only things falling down, and not all of them are safe. Acorns and oak leaves contain a lot of tannins or tannic acid. Tannic acid is toxic to dogs and can have nasty consequences, such as stomach pains, diarrhoea or much worse: kidney failure. Clearly, it is important to stop your dog as soon as you see them chewing an acorn. Should they experience stomach or bowel issues after a walk, it is best to consult a vet.
Tip 2: The dangers of pine cones, chestnuts and mushrooms
Acorns aren’t the only things on the forest floor you should be wary of. Pine cones and chestnuts may also cause problems for your pup. Although they aren’t poisonous, your dog may swallow them, which could cause unpleasant blockages in their intestinal tract. Mushrooms are an entirely different can of worms. Some will not cause any issues and may, in fact, be super tasty, but who knows which is which? To be safe, its best to not let your dog eat any of them. That way you’ll be sure they won’t sink their teeth into a toxic one.
Tip 3: Illuminate yourself ánd your dog
Autumn is beautiful, but the sun sets earlier every day, and you’ll probably be going for walkies in the dark soon. Visibility is crucial, for both you and your pup. You may have seen them around the neighbourhood; dogs lit up like a tiny, living Christmas tree. Funny, but also highly effective! Of course, only one light-up dog collar will go a long way too. That way, every road user will notice your doggo, and in the twilight of the forest, you’ll be able to keep track of their whereabouts as well. Don’t forget about your own visibility. Reflective clothing or lights as used by runners can be a great solution.
Tip 4: Pack provisions
During those long autumn walks in chilly 13 °C weather, you use a lot more energy than in spring or summer. You help your dog by packing a snack and some water. That way, they can refuel, and the two of you can keep going for much longer.
Tip 5: Keep your dog warm and dry
Have you been out in the rain? Unless your pup has a raincoat, they are probably soaked. No problem, provided you dry them off with a towel as soon as you get home, to prevent them from getting sick. Does your dog have luscious locks? You could consider using a blowdryer to dry those different layers of fur. Don’t forget to use a low setting though. A doggy doormat will prevent your pup from running moisture and dirt into your home.
Autumn is beautiful and cosy, and a perfect season for long walks in the woods, but comes with unique seasonal challenges. Enjoying life with your furry friends is important. Keep an eye on your pup and take some precautions, and you’ll enjoy a carefree season!

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Jack Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be "Beat" and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than forty years ago.
Introduction by Ann Charters
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxi]-xxxiii).
About the Author
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) considered all of his "true-story novels," including On the Road
, to be "chapters" of "one vast book," his multi-volume autobiographical Legend of Duluoz
Ann Charters is the editor of several Beat compilations, including The Portable Beat Reader.


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FACT welcomes the creation of a new police unit aimed at targeting intellectual property crime which has been announced by Intellectual Property Minister, Lord Younger and City of London Police Commissioner, Adrian Leppard today.
The unit will be dedicated to tackling online piracy and other forms of intellectual property crime such as counterfeit goods.
It will be one of the first units of its kind in the world, ensuring that the UK stays at the forefront of intellectual property enforcement
Kieron Sharp, FACT Director General, said “This is a major step forward in tackling serious criminal activity in the UK and internationally that is harming the jobs of those in the creative industries and further investment in the UK as home to one of the world’s most important creative sectors.
“We already work closely with the City of London Police and look forward to assisting them in this new initiative.”