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A bipartisan group of U.S senators introduced legislation Thursday that aims to address growing concerns that hospitals serving low-income populations are unfairly penalized under Medicare's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.
The legislation would require the CMS to account for patients' socio-economic status when calculating risk-adjusted readmissions penalties. Holding all other factors constant, socio-economic conditions—such as poverty, low levels of literacy, limited English proficiency, minimal social support, poor living conditions and limited community resources—likely have direct and significant effects on avoidable hospital readmissions. Adjusting for these factors would improve accountability and quality of care, according to the text of the bill.
The CMS did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In a previous statement to Modern Healthcare on 30-day readmission penalties, the agency acknowledged the complexity but said its research shows hospitals in poor communities “can and do perform well on readmissions measures.”

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Ruby Rose is one badass chick as she doesn’t care what people might think of her as long as she gets to be herself. In our compilation of Sexy and Hot Ruby Rose Pictures, you can tell that she is not afraid to showcase her boobs and her ass in films and television series, as long as it also showcases her versatility as an actress.
Even when she’s in a bikini, Ruby Rose’s kickass tattoos give this chick a whole new level of badass. To see it yourself, browse through our photo compilation and be amazed at how Ruby Rose showcases herself as a person and as an actress.
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Ruby Rose Langenheim’s inspiration has always been her mother, Katia Langenheim. The actress was born on March 20, 1986, to a single mother and artist, Katia. Her childhood has been a whirlwind kind of life since she frequently traveled until they settled in Melbourne.
Her career started when she joined a modeling competition and won second to Catherine McNeil, the 2002 Girlfriend model winner. Her job was not as smooth-sailing until she had a collaboration project with a clothing line called Milk and Honey in 2010. Then, in 2014, she worked with another fashion brand for their clothing range, Faircloth Lane. She worked with Phoebe Dahl, and she got featured in several magazines, including Vogue and New York’s Inked Magazine.
From modeling and fashion, she ventured into cosmetics when she became the face of Maybelline New York in Australia in 2014 and the front of Urban Decay Cosmetics since 2016.
From modeling and fashion to VJ, Ruby competed with 2000 hopefuls in the MTV VJ Australia and won the competition. A little later, in 2009, she won the Favorite Female Personality for the ASTRA Awards and did charity work for Global Vision International by traveling to Kenya and highlights their organization’s work.
Rose also became a television host in 2009 at the 7 pm Project alongside Dave Hughes and two other personalities. Then, she separated ways with the show to pursue her hosting career. In 2015, she and singer Ed Sheeran became the hosts of the 2015 MTV Europe Music Awards, which was in Milan.
If we’re talking about versatility, this badass chick turned to her acting career with Josh Thomas on the pilot episode of the series “Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation”. She also produced a short film called “Break Free” in 2014. CW network also got Ruby Rose to cast as the Batwoman in 2018 and aired in October 2019.
Recently, she appeared in the Netflix show, “Orange Is the New Black”, as Stella Carlin. Since 12 years old, Ruby Rose always felt that she was a lesbian until she came out to be one.
Her pre-teen life was not easy, but she got through all those hardships and grew stronger, smarter, and $4 million richer.

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Franziska Baumann has been teaching singing and vocal performance to professional students and amateurs. The focus of the classes is on the individual vocal requirements and needs of the students. The foundation of the training is the awareness of the interplay between breath, body perception, and voice production. A healthy vocal sound enables the individual expression to flow freely. Voice is body and soul, matter and spirit.
Her teaching incorporates her experience as a vocalist with a broad approach to extended vocal techniques such as overtones, microtonal, speech-related, and timbral vocal techniques, as well as various yodeling techniques and repertoire from contemporary music, classical, jazz, and pop.
IMPROVISATION/ VOCAL PERFORMANCE/ LIVE ELECTRONICS
This unique training is suitable for those interested in voice performance who want to develop their vocal artistic concepts using improvisation and/or live electronics and perform them. When vocalists perform on stage with technology such as gestural live electronics, it creates an expanded field of connections between voice, body, gesture, and transmitted sound. What we see and hear is no longer based on the traditional understanding of sound, which is associated with kinetic energy, such as the movement of a violin bow over a string. Instead, we are exposed to a holistic experience where the boundaries between human and computer-generated voice blur. This offers enormous creative potential for developing an individual embodied language for human-computer interaction. See also book publication: "Embodied Human-Computer Interaction in Vocal Music Performance," Springer London.
STAGE YOUR MUSIC PERFORMANCE
Franziska Baumann has been teaching improvisation, composition, vocal performance, composed theatre, and voice and live electronics at the Bern University of the Arts since 2006 in the Master Composition & Creative Practice program. As a vocal performer and sound artist with over 20 years of artistic experience, she knows the ways to unleash individual creative potential and develop a personal profile. She offers practical and flexible teaching concepts that combine improvisation, composition, and musical-scenic approaches. In this context, artistic means of expression, such as electroacoustic media, video, light composition, staged body language, and scenography, can be used. With individual coaching and inspiration from theory and practice, she supports students in discovering new artistic terrain and strengthening their own artistic handwriting in conception and performance. Through applied playing practice between experimentation and compositional systematics, we develop and realise adequate musical-dramatic implementation forms. The goal is to promote one's artistic profile and transform individual visions into unique musical-scenic experiences.
Franziska Baumann gives guest lectures, masterclasses, and workshops in Switzerland and abroad:
- Free improvisation
- Embodied Human-Computer Interaction in Vocal Music Performance
- "Sound (without) Body"
- Sensors and Live Electronics
- Interface Performance
- Score as a Creative Place

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Have been having some kind of pinched nerve or something in my back for the last week or so that’s really got be pretty immobilized… Have been putting off seeing a real doctor because I know they only thing they’ll recommend is a steroid treatment. I’ve never had one but of course have read many times of the frustrations they cause with blood sugars.
How bad are they for blood sugars really? And how long do those effects last?
This is definitely a question for @daisymae!
I’ve had a steroid injection into my knee many years ago but mostly all I remember is that it was extremely painful. I was not controlling my BGs at all at that time so I can’t say how bad it was, just that it was bad, and seemed to last forever.
I think DM who has excellent control would tell you it is controllable!
It’s worth it, IMO, if it’s something for which steroid injections are likely to be useful and it’s really causing a problem. You’ll likely need to bump up your Tresiba significantly (I would say for me, +30-50%ish, it has varied) and also be a little more aggressive on bolusing/corrections for a week or slightly more. It’s a gradual taper off, so as long as you drop back down once you start to see lows, the three-ish day window it takes for Tresiba to adjust should also be roughly ok. Just expect less than your usual levels of control for the 1-2 weeks following, but nothing catastrophic.
That said, I’d say only about 50% of the steroid injections I’ve gotten over my life have felt worth it in the end, just because it’s hit or miss for me whether they have helped much. Try to get an ultrasound guided one if you can, much better—that may be the norm anyway for the back.
Also did you do anything to your back when it started? Might want to r/o a problem that could be addressed with manual therapy, i.e., subluxed rib or SI joint or something (all of which result in back pain and spasms, in different areas). I get them super easily bc of my connective tissue disorder, but normal folks can get them too from lifting something too heavy or other physical trauma. Takes a lot more force to relocate them on a normal person, but an actually good chiropractor or some PTs who practice manual therapy can do it. Only tricky thing is they don’t show up on x-rays at all, so lots of MDs won’t realize that’s going on and diagnose them—you need someone who knows how to feel for one to find it (or to be experienced enough with the subjective sensation yourself of what it’s like).
I needed to start at 180% Basal increase(beginning the second day) for about 5 days post injection through my pump using NovoLog insulin, and I needed to increase my ICR 200% as well as my ISF 200% for corrections. I did NOT experience a tapering off effect; for me, AND YDMV, it was as if a light switch went off (one day I needed all of that extra insulin, and then the next day right back to normal), I didn’t need anything extra. Just regular amounts of insulin across the board.
I want to add a cautionary remark/bit of information : When my “light switch” went off and I no longer needed the extra insulin, I crashed very dramatically. And my BG dropped to 21 !!! I was fortunate that I did not pass out. My husband was able to get me to drink about a quart of apple juice. I don’t wear a Dexcom, so I had no alarms going off to tell me I was dropping so quickly. I had been testing with finger sticks frequently and looking at my FS Libre (no alarms on it). so it could have been deadly.
And, unfortunately the injection did not help me at all. I am going for another MRI this coming Tuesday to see if there is another matter going on that is causing so much pain. I am most likely looking at authoscopic surgery as the cortisone did nothing for me.
But remember this, if you are to take anything away from my experience/ information: with the exception of only a few minor bleeps, I was able to maintain my TR BGs for the entire time. I don’t think I ever went above 130.
You are in my prayers.
It’d be an exceptional day for me to never go above 130 without steroids!
Luckily they just injected a bunch of lidocaine into a certain muscle group and prescribed muscle relaxers… so hopefully I won’t have to learn about steroids quite yet
No I don’t think I really did anything to cause a specific injury… I just woke up with a stiff and painful neck and back about a week ago and it’s just gotten worse since… I’d rather be able to say I strained it lifting a burning car off of a pregnant woman or something but no such luck

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Digitain noted that the new office will allow the sportsbook and casino platform provider to provide better service to its growing client base in the region, while also further expanding its presence in the European market.
The group explained that the new office will ‘accommodate a team of experienced professionals’ who will work closely with clients to provide services and support.
Digitain added that the opening of the office forms part of its ongoing expansion strategy, with this being the first of multiple offices that it plans to open around the world.
“We are thrilled to open a new branch in Bucharest,” said Digitain Founder Vardges Vardanyan. “Romania is a dynamic and growing market, and we believe that this new office will allow us to better meet the needs of our clients and partners in the European market.
“At Digitain, we are committed to delivering the best possible experience for our clients. We believe that the opening of our new Bucharest office will help us to achieve this goal, and we look forward to building strong relationships with our clients in Europe.
“We are always looking for opportunities to grow and improve, and the opening of our new Bucharest office is a testament to this commitment.”
Also opening a new office today, Aruze Gaming Europe (Aruze) announced its first office in Europe, with the aim of providing dedicated sales and service support to its European, Middle Eastern and North African market bases.
The Netherlands office will serve as the group’s European headquarters moving forward, with the company aiming to capitalise on the aforementioned markets through a ‘dedicated and focused regional approach.’


The Wisconsin Science Festival will be run virtually this year, offering over 100 events to attendees.
Events include a variety of science-based activities including experiments, Q&A sessions, demonstrations, information on COVID-19 research efforts in Wisconsin and more.
The Wisconsin Science Festival is a state-wide program for people of “all ages and interests,” meant to “inspire and engage us in the enterprise of science and discovery; to cultivate curiosity and communicate the power of knowledge and creativity to change our world view; to promote innovation and to cultivate the next generation of global citizens,” according to the Festival and its statewide partners.
The program is completely virtual due to the current COVID-19 situation, but will remain “widely accessible regardless of the circumstances,” according to the COVID-19 updates page.
The Festival is designed to engage students with science at a young age and spark their interests by exposing them to a variety of topics and experiments.
“Making science accessible and understandable is critically important, especially now, given the challenges we are facing,” the UW-Madison Dean of the College of Letters and Arts Eric Wilcots said in a UW News release.
Last year, more than 33,000 were in attendance, over 300 events were provided by various Wisconsin organizations and more than 2,600 students participated in the festival, according to the 2019 Annual Report.
The Wisconsin Science Festival is set for Oct. 15 to 18. Event dates and times can be found on the Wisconsin Science Festival’s event page.


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Rainbow Company Choir
Did you know that singing is healthy?
Did you know that singing sharpens listening skills and improves concentration?
Choral singing promotes teamwork.
All children 1st through 5th grade are invited to join the Rainbow team!
We meet on Wednesday evenings from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
We usually sing once a month but maybe a few more times during the Christmas season.
Contact church office at 763-753-2057 if interested or with questions.
Sing praises to God, sing praises! Psalm 47:6
Lift Every Voice Choir
Welcomes singers of all abilities, from 9th grade and older.
We sing a mix of traditional and contemporary choral music every
4-5 weeks from September through May,
with a special Christmas concert in December.
Come join us on Wednesdays from 8:00-9:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary!
Sisters in Christ Women’s Choir
Is a group of women who totally enjoy singing together.
They sing every 4-5 weeks from September to May.
Sisters practice every Wednesday night from 7:00-8:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary!
If you are in 9th grade and older and love to sing; at all levels, we encourage you to join us!

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By Dhruv Agarwala
A lot has changed since the coronavirus pandemic started and the world had to adapt ways it hadn't imagined. Now, as the world inches towards the mass production of Covid-19 vaccines that will act as a precautionary cure against this fatal virus, it remains to be seen if the current state of affairs becomes the new normal, or life goes back to the way it was before the pandemic. Many things however have changed irrevocably. Indian homebuyers' preferences in the real estate market, is one such thing.
Remote working to be the mainstay
For a variety of reasons remote working will continue to be the preferred mode of working for corporates across the world, considering the number of benefits it has offered in an atmosphere fraught with concerns about the physical wellbeing of employees and monetary stress caused by the pandemic. Companies would not like to start paying expensive rents for office spaces, when concerns about containing the outbreak of this disease still loom large.
Interestingly, it's not just office spaces that have been impacted by the work-from-home phenomenon. Trends clearly indicate that after becoming the main mode of working since December 2019, preferences are moving towards home ownership as compared to living on rent.
It's also pertinent to note that the pandemic has made people change their investment preferences, with more and more people now preferring real estate investments to investing in the stock markets. Also, amid record low interest rates on home loans, stamp duty reductions and price corrections, properties across the country are far more affordable now than what it has been in the past two decades or so.
Another fallout of the pandemic is how home buyers are viewing the location aspect of a property they want to purchase. Since commuting for work is no longer an issue, most people are willing to move to the peripheries where comparatively lower property values help buyers afford bigger spaces, at lower rates. Since being in the metro cities is no longer a precondition to work in an office located in that big city, migrants have either already moved back to their homes in tier-II, tier-III cities, or are planning to do so, especially since majority of them have seen their salaries getting reduced because of the economic fallout of the pandemic.
Data available with Housing.com show that tier-II and tier-III cities have been able to pip India’s prime residential markets in recent times in terms of demand for house property and land.
High-income individuals and those who are on their way to approaching retirement are also choosing alternative locations like hill stations and beach destinations as work station. Since their home is not only going to be their personal haven but also their professional arena, buyers are now seriously considering bigger homes. This trend has also resulted in a spike in demand for plots. More and more buyers are now considering plot purchases so that they can build a house, with all amenities and facilities suited to their individual requirements.
While it may be myopic to say that the real estate markets in the bigger cities are going to suffer because of the changes brought in by the work-from-home situation, it is certainly safe to say that remote working has brought the focus back on peripheral locations and suburbs of big cities, apart from tier-II and tier-III cities.
For the overall real estate market of a nation to perform well, markets across the country must perform equally well. This kind of overall development is also imperative for a more balanced urban sprawl and development. This was not happening in India. Also, while large-scale migration towards the big cities substantially increased the demand for housing in these markets, it also created major spikes in prices of these properties due to space constraints and a demand supply mismatch.
Despite the fact that a large number of projects were launched in the city peripheries, the suburbs in most of these markets failed to get much attention from the buyer—despite their affordability—because it involved long and often, tenuous hours of travelling from central business districts where the majority of employment hubs are located.
Similar trends were seen in tier-II and tier-III cities. Despite large-scale investment by the government in these cities, demand for real estate there remained dismal because most people moved to the big cities for work-related purposes as the smaller cities were not as successful in creating work opportunities.
Work from home has changed that. With the arrival and spread of the work-from-home concept, small cities and suburbs are now in a position to reach their full potential, enabling real estate in India to spring out of a prolonged slowdown that has been plaguing it for over half a decade now.
-Author is Group CEO, Housing.com, Makaan.com and Proptiger.com

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A little bit of history
First School at Worser Bay:
With population growing, the first school in the district was opened in 1897 in the Church Hall in Beach Road, with a roll of sixteen under Miss A.L Banks, later Mrs Brown. A school room was then built on the present Worser Bay School site, with Mr W.W. Rowntree as head teacher from 1903 to 1920. Further growth led to the opening on 12 September 1916, of a side school at Seatoun in a room rented from the Presbyterian Church, with Mrs W. Rowntree in charge. On the present site a two-roomed school was erected and occupied on 9 September 1918. These two rooms are the front rooms of the present school.
Seatoun School: In 1921 the school was separated from Worser Bay. Increasing numbers of children created accommodation difficulties over the years, the Presbyterian and Anglican churches frequently making their halls available as classrooms. Much correspondence passed between Department, Board and Committee in settling the problems. Heartburnings arose as schools were opened at Miramar South and Strathmore Park and pupils were “directed” away from Seatoun School to ease the overcrowding when a peak roll of 480 was reached in 1948. The opening of an intermediate department at Rongotai College and in 1964 the Evans Bay Intermediate School lowered the roll and made Seatoun a contributing school with standard four as its top class. In 1971 there were 249 pupils under the control of Mr M. W. Hoy and a staff of 10.
Today we currently have an enrolment scheme that ensures our end of year roll is around 440 students, Mr John Western is the Principal and a staff of 39.
Opening Few Paragraphs From 50th Jubilee Booklet
The opening paragraph of the 50th Jubilee booklet, written by Reg Luxford, states:
“In June 1969, at a meeting at the Seatoun School, a committee was set up to organise a golden jubilee. Twenty-three months later, on a Friday afternoon, after many willing workers had spent countless hours on the multitudinous tasks associated with such a project, this committee waited with anticipation to measure the result of their efforts. They were not disappointed. Within short time hundreds of former pupils, teachers and visitors were milling around, talking, laughing, reminiscing, looking at old photos and meeting friends of former times.”
The forward from the 75th Jubilee (October 1996) booklet, written by Board Chair of the day, Chris Baker, makes interesting reading. It includes:
“The school has gone through many changes in recent years but there would be few more auspicious times to have a Jubilee celebration than at present. Because of the popularity of the school, and of Seatoun community, as I write this forward we are awaiting confirmation from the Ministry of Education that the community’s wish has been granted to have the existing school replaced by a larger school located at Fort Dorset”
She goes on to write “Tomorrows Schools have changed the way schools are run and how the education of our children is delivered. Some of the positive aspects of these changes relate to the community’s ability to influence how the school is run and few communities would have taken more advantage of this than the Seatoun community.”

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Mid-tier information technology (IT) services firm Larsen and Toubro Infotech (LTI) has posted a net profit of Rs 416 crore, a growth of 17% year-on-year during the June quarter of FY 21. This represented a growth of 2.6% sequentially.
The shares of Mumbai-headquartered firm rose by more than 4% on Thursday on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
The high growth rate came amid the Covid-19 pandemic that has pushed the world into a recession with demand shrinking for most services.
The better than expected results of IT services firms including Infosys, Wipro and Mindtree led to IT stocks rising 16% on Wednesday.
During the first quarter of the current financial year, the engineering conglomerate Larsen and Toubro's subsidiary saw its revenue grow to Rs 2,949 crore, an 18.7% y-o-y rise over Q1 of the previous fiscal. This represents a growth of 2.1% sequentially.
“Covid-19 is a crisis unlike any other and we have ensured delivery for clients. In a quarter marked by a challenging environment, we have delivered revenue growth of 10.6% y-o-y in constant currency and closed a large deal as well. We remain committed to exceeding client expectations," Sanjay Jalona, CEO and managing director of LTI said.
The L & T group runs two more IT services firms -- L & T Technology Services and Mindtree.
Bengaluru based Mindtree, which it bought last year, saw better than expected results during the June quarter. It reported a 130% increase in quarterly profit on the back of a healthy order book.
Indian IT firms have benefitted from the rise in cloud migration, digitalisation and remote working requirements as lockdown and health concerns have forced most companies to provide work from home for employees.
Last week, LTI launched Canvas, a platform for remote and hybrid software engineering workplace that aims to drive interventions that are critical to software engineering.
Last month, the company launched a programme where customers who use SAP tools can accelerate their migration from on-premise systems to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.


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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
- Sprecher: Simon Prebble
- Spieldauer: 32 Std. und 30 Min.
- Ungekürztes Hörbuch
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2005
- Sprache: Englisch
- Anbieter: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory.
But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr. Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England's magical past and regained some of the powers of England's magicians. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman from the dead. Soon he is lending his help to the government in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte, creating ghostly fleets of rain-ships to confuse and alarm the French.
All goes well until a rival magician appears. Jonathan Strange is handsome, charming, and talkative, the very opposite of Mr. Norrell. Strange thinks nothing of enduring the rigors of campaigning with Wellington's army and doing magic on battlefields. Astonished to find another practicing magician, Mr. Norrell accepts Strange as a pupil. But it soon becomes clear that their ideas of what English magic ought to be are very different...
Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of historical England. She has created a world so thoroughly enchanting that 32 hours leave readers longing for more.
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"Extraordinary....Immersion in the mesmerizing story reveals its intimacy, humor, and insight, and will enchant readers of fantasy and literary fiction alike." ( Publishers Weekly)
"Ravishing...superb...combines the dark mythology of fantasy with the delicious social comedy of Jane Austen into a masterpiece of the genre that rivals Tolkien." ( Time)
"Clarke welcomes herself into an exalted company of British writers, not only, some might argue, Dickens and Austen, but also the fantasy legends Kenneth Grahame and George MacDonald, as well as contemporary writers like Susan Cooper and Philip Pullman." ( The New York Times Book Review)
Von Tilman Am hilfreichsten 17.09.2016
Great story, poor quality
A fantastic story, a great narrator. However, the audio quality is very poor. Although I set the quality to high, the sound was muffled like a 56kbit MP3.
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Von BikerJoe Am hilfreichsten 01.11.2016
Mediocre Adult Fantasy for the Patient Reader
This is not a “Harry Potter” for adults, nor is it an “alternative history” novel, it is fantasy of its own kind, but with very brittle charm. Overall Susanna Clarke does not make it easy for you to warm to the novel’s main characters. For me it is still hard to understand, how and why this novel received the prestigious “Nebula Award”.
Some readers might find beauty and entertainment somewhere in this lengthy meandering story, but it is a challenge:
1) It is not really adult fantasy, because the characters appear to be infantile and simple minded and devoid of real emotions
2) There is no real story line, it is a compilation of events with endless deviations and sidelines. Of course the story is spiced with a multitude of great and funny scenes and pictures, but somehow Susanna Clarke does not manage to weave them into a gripping narrative, in general the reader just gets bored and wants to get to the end of it.
3) The prose intends to reflect the language of the 19th century, but after a while, this effort is rather annoying, because it is simply too clumsy. To compare Susanna Clarke’s style to one of the great authors, as some of the reviews do, is just embarrassing.
4) Fantasy gets away with a lot and everything is possible, but there has to be some logic and consistency. In Susanna Clarke’s world the wizards can do the most incredible things, they move cities and rivers, let stone figures talk and revive the dead, but fail to do the most obvious and simplest things.
Without giving away too much, the main story line is as follows:
The great wizard, Mr. Norrell of Hurtfew Abbey, wants to bring magic back to England. He moves to London and takes the young and rich Jonathan Strange as a pupil. Together they entertain England with incredible, but mostly useless deeds of magic and wizardry. While Mr.Norrell prefers the study of books to actual magic, Jonathan Strange wants to help England and its people, he wants to do useful magic. Their initial friendship falters and turns into animosity gradually. This leads to some rather unpleasant consequences for their private lives and the repercussions even affect the country itself.
It is a long book and if you have the time and patience, you might get some entertainment out of it. I admit, I struggled with it.
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Keeping diet healthy and making all the good stuff part of it is carried out by very few people. There are various grocery stores out there which are working with the aim to bring all the right food to the people. The trend of shopping online for all the needed stuff included your grocery has reach hype. This has conveniently helped people in saving their time and energy which are very hard to do so in this fast pacing world. Martha and Marley Spoon promo code has been making a great impression on the people of US by bringing all the great choices which can support them in every possible way.
The organic food has become one of the greatest choices of people who believe that healthy eating takes them to step ahead of every offering they particularly can be provided with. Life becomes an easy thing when you get to eat all the preservatives free produce and farm animal eat good food to provide people with the right stuff they actually demand for and fortunately it was under budget thanks to Marley Spoon coupons.
The trend of moving towards eating organic food is good for the consumers as people living nearby the farms get to eat all the healthy food along with those who are living in the cities. The small farms growing organic food and produces are focusing more on original stuff rather depending more and more on chemicals.
There are times you find the prices of these organic produces little extra to that of normal food available due to extra benefits attached to it in making you live a healthy life. All the fruits and vegetables are produced all around the year through natural and other ways including artificial weather conditions. But it is more appropriate that the produce of the season should be preferred as compare to that of the out of season stuff. This helps in saving an extra penny you have to spend. Though, the concession available on the order placed at Martha and Marley Spoon is worth going for, as this makes things all in control of the customer’s approach. Check the link which shows how Marley Spoon works.
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White Iron Lake, Minnesota, USA
White Iron Lake is part of a chain of lakes in St. Louis County, Minnesota that also includes Garden Lake, Farm Lake, and South Farm Lake. Part of the Kawishiwi Watershed, White Iron Lake is owned and controlled by Minnesota Power for electrical production. White Iron Lake is a premier vacation destination with year round outdoor adventure. Boating, jet skiing, waterskiing, swimming, beaches, canoeing, and kayaking are…
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All About White Iron Lake, MN
White Iron Lake is part of a chain of lakes in St. Louis County, Minnesota that also includes Garden Lake, Farm Lake, and South Farm Lake. Part of the Kawishiwi Watershed, White Iron Lake is owned and controlled by Minnesota Power for electrical production.
White Iron Lake is a premier vacation destination with year round outdoor adventure. Boating, jet skiing, waterskiing, swimming, beaches, canoeing, and kayaking are enjoyed all through the warm weather. During the winter, the frozen lake offers cross country skiing, snow shoeing, and dog sledding across the ice and surrounding area. Fishermen delight in year round fishing with ice fishing opportunities for bluegill, sunfish, crappie, northern pike, smallmouth bass, and walleye. Many current residents were once annual visitors who eventually purchased lakefront real estate to relocate to this outdoor paradise.
White Iron Lake offers a direct entry into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area which offers over 1,500 miles of canoe routes through nearly 1,000 lakes and streams. Paddlers can enter for a leisurely day trip or plan on extended excursions with over 2,000 campsites along the route for those who want a rustic experience. Over the years, lodges, spas, and bed and breakfasts have sprung up along the route to offer a more comfortable night’s accommodations for those who prefer to be pampered before starting on the next leg on their journey. The Boundary Waters Canoe Area is part of the Superior National Forest and Bear Island State Forest which provides beautiful shoreline scenery, wildlife activity, and a look into an area that has been virtually untouched since the glaciers carved the route.
Ely, Minnesota has been a tourist destination since the early 1900’s due to the natural beauty of the area, including White Iron Lake and many other lakes. Residents describe their town as on the edge of the wilderness, and take great pride in their lifestyle that has North Country flair. Fishermen have long known about the many lakes of the area that offer ample opportunities for trophy fish of several species, including smallmouth bass, northern pike, walleyes, and lake trout; lakes marked “Canoe Only” provide some of the best and fastest action. Because of the great expanse of outdoor adventure, outfitters, guides, and nature services are plentiful and encourage first time visitors to use their services to make every moment a pleasant memory with their professional touch and secrets to a successful trip. For time in town, allow a few hours to wander through the unique and distinctive shops of Ely for Northwoods furnishings, rugs, wall decor, and souvenirs of your trip.
Winter at White Iron Lake provides pristine scenery for cross country skiing, snowmobiling, snow shoeing, dog sledding, and ice fishing. After dark step outside into the quiet night for a chance to witness the breathtaking color show of the Northern Lights dancing across the sky. No matter which season you choose to visit, vacation rentals and accommodations are plentiful and range from modern resorts, bed and breakfast inns, motels, rental homes, secluded cabins or lodges, houseboat rentals, campgrounds, and RV parks.
White Iron Lake and Ely, Minnesota are an outdoor adventure lover’s prime destination. Whether you choose to paddle, fish, hike, or to do it all, you will not be disappointed with all the prospects available to you. With so much untouched natural beauty to explore, allow yourself some time to just sit back, unwind, listen to the quietness, and breathe in the fresh air. For outdoor life at its finest, come for a visit today.
Things to Do at White Iron Lake
These are some activities in the White Iron Lake, MN area visitors can enjoy:
- Vacation Rentals
- Ice Fishing
- Jet Skiing
- Water Skiing
- Cabin Rentals
- Cross-Country Skiing
- Dog Sledding
- Wildlife Viewing
- State Forest
- National Forest
What Kind of Fish Are in White Iron Lake?
White Iron Lake has been known to have the following fish species:
- Black Bass
- Lake Trout
- Northern Pike
- Smallmouth Bass
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White Iron Lake Statistics & Helpful Links
Lake Type: Natural Freshwater Lake, Dammed
Water Level Control: Minnesota Power
Surface Area: 3,429 acres
Shoreline Length: 26 miles
Normal Elevation (Full Pond): 1,386 feet
Minimum Elevation (Min Pond): 1,382 feet
Maximum Elevation (Max Pond): 1,393 feet
Average Depth: 19 feet
Maximum Depth: 47 feet
Drainage Area: 837 sq. miles
Trophic State: Mesotrophic to eutrophic
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Jan. 28, 2013 — -- U.S. families spend an average of $139 a month on cellphone usage — or $1,668 a year — up from $127 a month in 2009, according to J.D. Power and Associates. And according to Validas, a company that helps decipher mobile phone bills for companies, 80 percent of us are paying our cellular providers for services we don't even use.
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ABC World News' actually used the service last month to help Phil Barry save on his family's smartphone bill. The service helped him save nearly $1,400 over the course of the year.
But Validas has gone beyond the save portion of the service -- adding "love" and "give" features to its site. After suggesting ways you can cut your bill, it offers the opportunity to donate some of that savings to Seven Bar, a nonprofit organization that makes micro loans to women in need.
"Our brand is about doing good now, not later. We built it into the app, so you can give right when you find out how much you are saving," Todd Dunphy, a co-founder of Validas, told ABC News.
You can give $5, $10, $25 or more through the site, but the donations are made via PayPal, not directly from your cellphone bill. According to Seven Bar founder Renata Black, the money will first go to help women who were affected by Hurricane Sandy.
"The app is empowering, and we extend that to empower women," Black told ABC News. "It's not that men aren't amazing, but more importantly, it's said that when you help a women the first thing she does is help her kids. It's the ultimate synergy of one plus one equals six."
Validas and Seven Bar officially launched the charity program last week at an event in New York City. There aren't applications for the iPhone or Android phones yet -- the company's co-founders say they are working on that -- but you can visit savelovegive.com now through any browser to see if there's any money you can save on your bill, and then decide whether to donate any of the savings to charity.


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PRINCIPLE STUDY OF THE FM RADAR FOR IMPROVING THE ACCURACY IN QUANTITATIVE RAINFALL-RATE MEASUREMENT
Ma Zhenhua (Institute of Atmospheric Physics)Liu Guosheng Liu Wei(Nanjing College of Meteorology)
The equations for estimating the echo power from rain when either a PM-pulsed radar or a FM-CW radar is used are derived. The results show that, with an adequate frequency range selected, rain echo power may have a value which correlates well linearly with the rainfall-rate, irrespective of the pattern of drop-size spectrum. Thus, it provides good remote sensing data for rainfall-rate measurement.


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Gum Nut Babies
Back in November we decided to try our hand at making Gum Nut Babies
We gathered our gum nuts from under the gum tree in the front yard and with some felt and pipe cleaners we set to work.
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and then we added the gum nut ‘head’.
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WASHINGTON – From his lab in Toulouse, France, Benjamin Sanderson fashions the vary of utmost dangers to people from local weather change, analysis he hopes can inform policymakers planning for worsening wildfires and floods. It’s the sort of work he as soon as carried out in america — and hopes to once more quickly.
Sanderson is amongst dozens of U.S.-based local weather scientists who shifted their analysis to France, or sought refuge in academia or in left-leaning states like California after Republican Donald Trump was elected in 2016. They apprehensive his administration’s mistrust of science would affect their capacity to finance and advance their work.
Now, with the presidential election looming — and Democrat Joe Biden forward within the polls and promising to prioritize the position of science in policymaking — a few of these researchers hope for a return to the times when america was seen as the very best place on earth to do their jobs.
Local weather science in Europe just isn’t handled as a “political subject,” Sanderson mentioned, including that he would take into account returning to america below an administration that valued scientific enter.
In america, the position of scientific analysis in public coverage is clearly on the poll in Tuesday’s presidential election.
Some Republicans have sought to undermine the analysis displaying human-caused local weather change since lengthy earlier than Trump was elected in 2016, however the sidelining of science-based suggestions in coverage choices has solely accelerated since.
In opposition to the recommendation of researchers, Trump introduced plans in 2017 to withdraw america from the Paris Settlement, a world accord to battle world warming. He argued the pact would devastate the financial system with out offering a lot environmental profit. His administration has since rolled again greater than 100 environmental protections it deemed burdensome to trade, together with these looking for to restrict greenhouse fuel emissions. Trump has additionally appointed trade insiders or local weather change doubters to key roles overseeing environmental regulation and lower scientific advisory committees at federal businesses.
The politicization of science has come into sharper focus this 12 months amid the coronavirus pandemic, as Trump has ridiculed and ignored many analysis findings and proposals from the administration’s high infectious illness skilled, Anthony Fauci, and the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.
The administration has made a behavior of “ignoring, sidelining and censoring” scientific researchers, in response to an August assertion by the Union of Involved Scientists, a nonprofit that advocates for scientific approaches to social and environmental issues.
White Home Workplace of Science and Expertise Coverage spokeswoman Jordan Hunter didn’t touch upon the departure of scientists below Trump or on the administration’s dealing with of analysis on local weather change and the pandemic. She mentioned the administration was “dedicated to making sure the following nice scientific breakthroughs occur in America,” reminiscent of synthetic intelligence and house exploration.
Biden, against this, has promised to battle local weather change and to make use of scientific analysis and recommendation to sort out the pandemic. His transition crew is already looking for enter from casual advisors on the way to rebuild and develop U.S. analysis, the Biden marketing campaign mentioned.
“Science will likely be on the coronary heart of a potential Biden-Harris administration,” mentioned transition spokesperson Cameron French.
The candidates’ contrasting takes on the worth of science could also be finest summed up by Trump himself, who mentioned at an Oct. 18 rally in Carson Metropolis, Nevada: “If you happen to vote for Biden, he’ll take heed to the scientists. If I listened to scientists, we’d have a rustic in an enormous despair as a substitute of — we’re like a rocket ship.”
Biden replied the following day over Twitter: “For as soon as, Donald Trump is appropriate: I’ll take heed to scientists.”
Make the planet nice once more?
In December 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron provided alarmed U.S. local weather scientists multiyear grants to relocate and conduct local weather analysis in France below his “Make Our Planet Nice Once more” program — a jab at Trump’s “Make America Nice Once more” slogan.
This system got here in response to Trump’s determination to start withdrawing america from the Paris local weather settlement. At the very least 32 scientists from throughout the globe took Macron’s supply, in response to the French authorities. About 18 of them had been working at U.S.-based establishments earlier than they moved some or all of their analysis to France.
Sanderson had beforehand labored on projections for excessive climate associated to local weather change on the Nationwide Heart for Atmospheric Analysis in Boulder, Colorado. He moved to the French metropolis of Toulouse, he mentioned, to flee the politics that has engulfed U.S. local weather science. He works primarily within the hope of informing coverage, an endeavor that “was now not related below the Trump administration,” he mentioned.
One other scientist who went to France is Philip Schulz, a former post-doctoral researcher on the Nationwide Renewable Power Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. Now he research natural electronics and photo voltaic vitality in Paris below the French program.
He cited the Trump administration’s local weather skepticism as driving his change of job and nation. “I work in a discipline that’s attempting to fight local weather change and allow an vitality transition,” Schulz mentioned.
Scientists in exile
Whereas some U.S. scientists took up Macron’s name to work in France, others fled jobs with the federal authorities for positions in academia or for left-leaning state governments reminiscent of California, which tried to recruit disgruntled researchers.
“I really feel they’re like Russian dissidents throughout the us,” mentioned Jared Blumenfeld, California’s Secretary for Environmental Safety, who ran the federal EPA’s Pacific Southwest area from 2010 to 2016. “They’ve been in exile in California.”
Blumenfeld mentioned it can take a long time to rebuild science from an onslaught of politics and superstition he believes started below the administration of Republican George W. Bush. He mentioned California is not going to begrudge researchers who return to federal authorities jobs if Trump loses the election.
“In the event that they wish to return and proceed to work and construct up these battered establishments, Godspeed,” he mentioned. “We’ve been right here to take them in from the storm.”
Different U.S. authorities scientists and specialists have discovered refuge in academia.
Joel Clement, a former director of the workplace of coverage evaluation on the U.S. Inside Division, left authorities in 2017 after being transferred from a place targeted on local weather change within the Arctic to the division’s workplace of income. He now does analysis and teaches on the John F. Kennedy Faculty of Public Coverage at Harvard College.
“Any administration goes to have an extended highway to get this again on monitor,” mentioned Clement, who has been concerned in conversations about restoring U.S. science with different specialists informally advising the Biden crew.
Dr. Ruth Etzel, EPA’s former head of kids’s well being, continues to be working on the company, although she says she has been sidelined from her specialty below Trump.
A pediatrician with a concentrate on epidemiology and preventative drugs, Etzel was positioned on administrative go away in 2018 after advocating extra aggressive measures to stop lead poisoning. She now works as a senior advisor within the workplace of water.
“I don’t have significant duty in workplace of water,” Etzel mentioned. She mentioned she hopes a brand new administration would let her share her experience.
The EPA declined to remark.
The Biden marketing campaign hopes scientists who left come again to work for the federal authorities.
A marketing campaign working group has been tossing round concepts for restoring scientific integrity on Zoom calls, together with probably making a White Home workplace targeted on local weather change, organising nonpartisan oversight of federal scientific businesses, re-appointing scientific advisory panels and recruiting younger scientists to federal jobs, in response to advisers who weren’t approved to talk publicly.
Such modifications could be very welcome, mentioned local weather scientist Venkatramani Balaji, who’s working as a laureate within the French “Make Our Planet Nice Once more” program, however saved his affiliation with Princeton College in america.
“Sooner or later, science goes to be invited again to the desk,” Balaji mentioned. “As a group, we must be prepared for when that occurs.”

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The Town of Troutman’s roots go back to the 1750s, when immigrants from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland first arrived to take advantage of the abundant free land in North Carolina’s Piedmont region.
They cleared farms, built cabins and barns, raised livestock, planted crops and traded furs. They made lives for themselves.
One of the newcomers was eleven year old John Jacob Trautman (original spelling). In 1778, he and his mother moved from Rockwell (in Rowan County) after his father’s death.
Trautman instantly became a landowner; local historical records show that a deed for the purchase of 200 acres of land at the head of “Norrids Creek” (Norwoods Creek), just west of the present town of Troutman, was issued in the name of Jacob Troutman on April 1, 1778.
More land was purchased in following years, sometimes hundreds of acres at a time. All totaled, Jacob Troutman is said to have held title to around two thousand acres, as he bought and sold land quite freely in the midst of his other duties. His tombstone epitaph describes him as “… a carpenter, hat maker, cooper, stockman, school teacher and Realtor.”
Troutman married in 1795, to Margaret Fesperman, and they had eight children together. Their second child, John Jacob, Jr., like his father, was also called Jacob. The younger Jacob married a Statesville woman named Anne Wolford, and they had seven children together. It is actually Anne and the couple’s surviving five children (two died in early childhood) who cemented the family name in local Piedmont history.
In 1853, 22 years after Jacob Jr. had died, Anne Troutman, along with her two grown sons, Sidney and Jacob, and her three younger daughters, built a home and wagon workshop close by a fork in the old Charlotte Road, where Perth Church Road branched off westward to the Catawba River (today, this area is downtown Troutman).
These were the main wagon roads for the area at the time and saw regular traffic throughout the year. Sidney Troutman was a skilled wagonsmith and iron worker, and it was the perfect spot to ply the trade. So, the Troutman brothers began repairing and building wagons at their new homestead. They shipped their iron in from Richmond, Virginia, and procured their oak, pecan and hickory wood locally. There was a steady flow of freight wagons going past their new homestead, and the craftsmanship of the Troutman men was well-received.
Over the following years, as the family’s reputation and holdings flourished, people began referring to the crossroads simply as Troutman’s, and the name stuck.
In 1855, the Troutman family’s wagon works once again proved very beneficial for the increased wagon traffic that newly started railroad construction brought. Railroad construction required that materials and workers be brought in, and, as the tracks progressed, a big camp for railroad workers was built near Troutman.
Three years later on October 1, 1858, Statesville held a day long celebration when the railroad was officially opened. Statesville now had both east-west and north-south rail connections that put the city on the map. It was also a turning point for the budding village of Troutman, which now had about 60 permanent residents. Although not formally incorporated as a town, it was now a regular passenger and freight stop on the AT&O line.
By 1862, nine Confederate dollars bought passengers a seat on a train pulled by a wood-fired steam locomotive all the way from Columbia, South Carolina to Statesville. Trains departed Columbia every morning at 7:30 AM, reached Troutman at 6:55 PM, and Statesville at 7:30 PM.
Unfortunately, the Troutman railroad stop was short lived, as military necessity required that the rails from Charlotte to Statesville be ripped up and shipped to Virginia to replace track in and around the Shenandoah Valley that had been ruined by Union raiders during the Civil War.
The rails were not rebuilt until 1870, and Troutman Depot was once again listed on the railroad schedule. That little depot building can be found today, relocated to a site adjacent to the Troutman family cemetery just a mile west of Town.
In the decades after the Civil War, the Troutman vicinity was home to saw mills and furniture makers. As the prime timber was cut and worked, the furniture industry gradually moved westward to Hickory and High Point. Cotton farming and textile mills became a mainstay of the local economy after that.
In 1905, Troutman residents petitioned the State Legislature to grant them an official Town Charter. Today, some 100 years later, Troutman is now home to more that 2500 people, and interest in the community continues to grow.

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Canada's ex-envoy to Iran details cooperation with CIA
After admitting to spying for the US during the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, Canada's former ambassador to Tehran expounds on the controversial revelations in an exclusive interview with Press TV.
Kenneth Taylor said Tehran was of great political and strategic importance to Washington and thus the US embassy tried to keep abreast of Iran's internal developments through regular meetings with the Shah.
Following the US embassy takeover on Nov. 4, 1979, Taylor, who was based in Tehran at the time, said that he did not expect the takeover to last much long when he opted to give sanctuary to six US diplomats who had managed to escape the embassy seizure through the back door.
According to Taylor, he got further caught up in the whole issue when the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) sent two of its agents with three infiltration plans to recover the US diplomats, one of which was to issue passports for the US diplomats to leave Iran under the guise of Canadian tourists.
The Globe and Mail revealed on Saturday that Canada's former Ambassador to Tehran, Kenneth Taylor, was serving as the "de facto station chief" for the CIA in Tehran in the wake of the Islamic Revolution.
According to the paper, then-US President Jimmy Carter and Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark agreed in a secret meeting that Taylor would provide US intelligence with information from his position at the Canadian Embassy in Tehran.
He won praise in the US for sheltering six US Embassy staff as well as helping them return home on Jan. 27, 1980.
In conversation with The Globe and Mail this week, Taylor said he felt confident taking on the US intelligence enterprise because Iran at the time was in chaos and the risk was minimal.
The details of Taylor's role are revealed in the book "Our Man in Tehran" by Trent University historian Robert Wright.


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Clinical evidence confirms vitamin C’s powerful antiviral/antibiotic effect against pneumonia when used in sufficient quantity.
Robert F. Cathcart, MD, successfully treated pneumonia with up to 200,000 milligrams of vitamin C daily. (1,2) One can, to a significant extent, simulate an IV of vitamin C by taking it by mouth very, very often. When I had pneumonia, it took 2,000 mg of vitamin C every six minutes to get me to saturation (bowel tolerance). In three hours, fever was reduced several degrees and coughing virtually stopped. At an oral daily dose of just over 100,000 mg, complete recovery took just a few days…. (continues)

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The lack of a whole-hearted, landslide, public embrace of health reform is surprising considering that unless your family earns over $250,000, reform costs you nothing and, the president’s health care plan, if enacted, is estimated to increase the income of the average family of four by about $10,000 in 2030.
One part of the explanation for public reluctance to embrace reform may be explained by behavioral economics. Behavioral economists have found that people in most situations:
- Undervalue future money and overvalue money now
- Focus on losses over gains
- Prefer the status quo over change
How does this play out in health care? Let’s consider each of these behavioral factors in turn.
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Autoclave is an instrument to sterilize items by placing the item inside the chamber. The temperature inside the chamber is 121 degree Celsius. It is hot enough to kill all the microorganisms. This instrument is widely used in hospitals and laboratories. It is used to kill bacteria, viruses, and other dangerous chemicals. There are some people who contributed in the invention of Autoclave.
1. Denis Papin
He was a British physicist born in French. He invented steam digester in 1967. It was a cooking instrument that we also known as a pressure cooker. Now is developed into autoclave.
2. M. Lemare
He made and advanced version of Papin’s steam digester in 1820. He stated that the steam digester can cook meat within half an hour. The lacking side was the serious injure caused by the steam digester.
3. Charles Chamberland
He reformed steam digester into medical or scientific instrument in 1879. He was a microbiologist who worked with Louis Pasteur. His reformation is now called as autoclave sterilizer. He also invented a filter consisted of porcelain which hole is smaller than the size of bacteria.
Before the three people who contributed in the invention of autoclave. The history of autoclave has begun far before 1967. In the ancient history, Moses wrote that the purification of materials was done by using fire and also boiling water. In 460-377 BCE, Hippocrates found that surgical instruments could be sterilized by pouring boiling water onto the instruments. In 1729, Lazzaro Spallanzani found that it needed 30 minutes to sterilize instruments by heating the instruments in a sealed glass.
The autoclave is considered as an effective sterilizer because it can generate heat more than 100 degree Celsius. Doctors, tattooists, scientists, and many other people from different profession are the people who usually use this instrument. Medical items can be sterilized with an autoclave so that the hazardous microorganism will be killed.


Valentin Urusov, the Russian electrician and trade unionist unjustly imprisoned for years in a Siberian penal colony, received the international Arthur Svensson Prize for Trade Union Rights in 2013. Urusov led the trade union Profsvoboda at Alrosa, the world’s second largest diamond mining company, based in the northern Sakha province of Russia.
Urusov, who was released from prison in March—after he was nominated for the prize—was jailed in 2008 for allegedly possessing narcotics. However, his arrest coincided suspiciously with preparations for a protest rally by workers at the state-owned Alrosa—a rally which Urusov helped organize. He was sentenced to six years in a penal colony.
In awarding the prize, given by the Norwegian trade union movement, committee chairman Lief Sande said “Urusov has become symbolic of the struggle for workers’ rights and freedom of association in Russia.”
Further, the award committee noted its concern about the workers’ rights situation in Russia, writing, “Freedom of association and the right to strike have long been under pressure, and “it may appear that conditions are deteriorating further.”
The prize is named for the former leader of the Norwegian Union of Chemical Industry Workers, Arthur Svensson, who was especially engaged in international solidarity.


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Girls Generation officially makes a comeback with a stunning music video for pre-release single Party.
The hotly anticipated music video (the teaser, which was released just a few days ago, has already garnered over 2.3 million views) has all the makings of a summer anthem with vivid beachside visuals and a catchy hook.
Meanwhile, Girls Generation held their showcase Girls Generation Party @Banyan Tree, MCed by comedian Shin Dong Yup, on July 7 to commemorate the release of Party.
The girls will kick off music show promotions on KBS Music Bank starting July 10 followed by MBC Music Core on the 11th and SBS Inkigayo on the 12th.
Jessica has wowed people with her participation in the new version of SNSD of the music video for the song called "Catch me if you can"
Following the leak via Weibo of screenshots featuring the Girls Generation OT9, including former member Jessica, in the Catch Me If You Can MV, the music video featuring all nine members, which was presumably filmed before Jessicas departure from the group, has been leaked.
There was speculation that the screenshots may be fake, but with the release of this music video that includes Jessica, its hard to deny that there definitely was a version of Catch Me If You Can featuring the OT9. Not to mention, in this version Tiffany and Taeyeons hair is different from the officially released music video for Catch Me If You Can.
--> Releasing his first digital single, Han Hee Jun unveiled the audio teaser for his upcoming duet with SNSD′s Tiffany.
On May 14, the teaser for QnA was revealed, showing a man and a woman starting a heart-fluttery relationship in the form of a storyboard.
Han Hee Jun stated, "It′s an honor to sing my first song release with Tiffany sunbaenim of SNSD. It′s a song that fits the spring well, so please show much interest."
QnA will be released on May 15.
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--> Being part of the chase, SNSD unveiled Catch Me If You Can.
On April 10, SNSD released its new Japanese single, Catch Me If You Can in Korea, along with its music video. In the music video, the SNSD members danced to the catchy melody on a construction site with outfits that went along with the concept.
Catch Me If You Can was released in Korea on April 10. It will be released in Japan on April 22.
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--> Miss A′s Min was the latest star to take the hot seat on Mnet′s 4show, where fellow member Fei, Girls′ Generation (SNSD)′s Hyoyeon and G-Soul joined to spill on the star.
On the April 7 broadcast, Min introduced Hyoyeon, saying they got close performing together as a dance duo before they debuted with their respective girl groups.
Hyoyeon said, "I think we′ve been friends for over 10 years, about 12 years?"
Often spotted hanging out together via SNS, Min said of the friendship, "After we debuted, since we′re both in the same field, we lean on each other a lot."
On what the girls like to do when they meet up, Hyoyeon said, "Since we′re adults, we′ll have a glass of wine or talk about boys we′re interested in."
Check out the full episode below!
--> With the beat pounding in our ears, Girls′ Generation unveiled its teaser video for Catch Me If You Can.
After posting about the song and making the hashtag #CatchGG go viral, SNSD dropped the first teaser video for its upcoming song Catch Me If You Can on April 8.
The video showed the SNSD members dancing in an empty lot of a junkyard and construction site as they sang "Catch me if you can" with an addictive electronic melody.
Catch Me If You Can will be released on April 10.
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NEW DELHI: On Thursday morning strong tremors woke many in Delhi, and adjacent areas of Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida and Ghaziabad, with a rude jolt.
— Earthquake Alerts (@QuakesToday) 16 November 2016
The US Geological Survey reports the quake measured 4.2 on the Richter scale.
The tremors, which lasted for about one minute, shook Delhi and neighbouring areas in the National Capital Region approximately at 4:30 am.
— Urvashi Batra (@romany_apsarah) 16 November 2016
According to the USGS, the epicentre of the earthquake was in Bawal in Haryana’s Rewari district and it was at a depth of 10 kilometres.
There was no instant loss of life and property. Many people took to Twitter despite the tremors hitting early in the morning.
— Ankur Sharma (@AnkurrS) 16 November 2016


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“He overlaid the inside with pure gold.” – 2 Chronicles 3:3b
This was the first decoration Solomon added to the temple. It was not an external decoration, where all his hard work and expense could be justified to his people, many of whom had donated the gold themselves, but inward facing, where God would sit.
Solomon had his priorities straight. He wanted to make God famous, to spread His light to the Gentiles and advertise His reign. He wanted to build the most magnificent temple the world had ever seen. But first, he wanted to honor God on the inside, where barely anyone would ever go, where no one would see but God.
We often become so focused on the work of ministry that we forget the One we advertise. We fight for the lost, but become lost ourselves, in our work. We focus on the external, costing God the relationship we once had with him.
In that flurry it’s far easier to let things slip, to disobey and dishonor. After all, we’re doing God’s work. How can we sin?
But God doesn’t dwell in a temple anymore. He left that place so He could be close to us. God’s new temple is in our hearts. I want to take Solomon’s process to heart. Before I go out for the day to spread the shalom, I want to honor God in that temple. I want to be gold inside, where only He sees.
I want my whole life to shine, but first on the inside.

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When it comes to the hospitality industry, guest satisfaction is paramount. Hotels strive to create exceptional experiences that leave a lasting impression on their guests. It’s essential for hotels to focus not only on the guest experience while they are on property, but also consider their pre-stay and post-stay experiences.
In this blog post we explore five effective strategies that hotels can employ to enhance their guests’s experience throughout their journey. From the moment they start planning their trip until the moment that they leave for an overall incredible guest experience.
Streamline Pre-Stay Communication
The pre-stay phase sets the tone for the overall guest experience. To make a positive first impression hotels should focus on clear and effective communication. Utilizing tools such as automated email systems, provides guests with information they will need to know before check-in. Personalized pre-arrival messages can include: relevant information about hotel amenities, local attractions, and any special offers or upgrades that are available. By anticipating guests’ needs and providing them with helpful information in advance, hotels can enhance the guest experience before even stepping foot on the property!
Create Memorable Arrival Experiences
First impressions are important – we know you have all heard that one before! Hotels can easily leave a positive, lasting impact by creating memorable arrival experiences. Welcome guests with a warm smile and a personalized greeting can set a positive tone for their entire stay. With an estimated 187,000 hotels world-wide, setting yourself apart the moment guests step foot through the door is essential to drive guest loyalty.
Hotels can provide small gestures such as welcome drinks, fresh towels, personalized notes or other small gestures that could make a positive impact on the guests stay. By paying attention to the small details and personalizing the experience, hotels can demonstrate their commitment to exceptional guest service.
Elevate In-Stay Amenities and Services
During their stay, guests seek comfort, convenience and unique experiences. To meet these expectations, hotels can focus on enhancing their amenities and service. Investing in high-quality bedding, comfortable furniture, and modern technology not only ensures a pleasant stay but also showcases the hotels commitment to guests comfort. Offering complimentary Wifi, access to fitness facilities and on-site dining options can further enhance the overall experience. Staff being able to provide personal recommendations for location attractions, arranging transportation or offering exclusive activities or experiences can help to create unforgettable memories for guests.
Proactive Guest Engagement
Hotels can improve the guest experience by being proactive in engaging with guests during their stay. Well-trained staff should regularly check-in with guests to ensure their needs are being met and address concerns in a timely manner. Implementing guest feedback mechanisms such as surveys or an inbound messaging program can help identify areas for improvement and demonstrate the hotel’s commitment to continuous enhancement.
The Loop Experience Platform offers both survey feedback with Loop Feedback and an omni-channel inbound and outbound messaging solution with Loop Inbox. Loop Feedback enables you to collect pre-stay, in-stay and post-stay feedback from guests. This provides you feedback from guests to make data driven decisions across the property. The Loop Inbox allows guests to message and ask questions across multiple platforms and have team members respond from one convenient spot. It also enables you to send outbound messages to guests pre-stay, in-stay and post-stay, to provide guests with relevant information to improve their stay. These two key engagement tools will help to improve the overall guest experience across the property.
Foster a Post-Stay Relationship
The guest experience does not end when guests check out! Hotels can cultivate lasting relationships with guests by nurturing post-stay interactions. Sending personalized thank you messages or emails expressing gratitude for choosing your hotel can make guests feel special and appreciated. Encouraging guests to provide feedback, through post-stay surveys, help to demonstrate the hotel’s commitment to continuous improvement. Offering loyalty programs or exclusive discounts for future stays can also help to incentivize guests to return and create a sense of loyalty. By maintaining communication and continuing to engage with guests even after their departure, hotels can leave a lasting positive impression to increase the likelihood of repeat visits.
To excel in the competitive hospitality industry, hotels must prioritize the guest experience at every stage of their stay. By focusing on pre-stay, in-stay and post-stay engagement, hotels can create exceptional guest experiences that leave guests delighted and eager to return. Streamlining communication, creating memorable experiences, elevating in-stay amenities and services, proactively engaging with guests, and fostering post-stay relationships are all key strategies that hotels can implement to enhance the overall guest experience. By investing in these areas hotels can differentiate themselves, cultivate guest loyalty and ultimately achieve long-term success!

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Something to keep in mind is that there is now no get rid of for psoriasis. Nevertheless, many psoriasis sufferers have been capable of finding aid through the signs and symptoms of psoriasis and/or keep psoriasis flare-ups to the least employing different therapy strategies which include with the usage of several natural solutions for instance normal oils. A single of these pure oils that is certainly seriously discussed for all-natural psoriasis treatment is neem oil. Could you remove psoriasis By natural means with neem oil? Let’s see.
The Miracles of Neem
In Sanskrit, “neem” is derived from the time period “nimba” which means “bestower of excellent health and fitness.” This tree is indigenous to India and is a staple in Indian Ayurvedic medicine for more than a single thousand years.
In accordance with the Neem Foundation in India, about seventy five per cent of Ayurvedic formulas aspect neem being a important component. These formulas have been utilized to By natural means treat several conditions and circumstances.
Many areas of the neem tree like leaves, branches, bark, etcetera are employed for healing and neem oil is derived with the seed kernels of this tree.
The varied powerful utilizes of neem involve but usually are not limited to;
This might be the most commonly known usage of neem within the Western environment. There are several research that suggest that neem is ready to kill, repel or disrupt the detrimental effects and replica of various agricultural Animals including weevils, beetles, etcetera.
Neem can be used as a private bug spray or ointment as it can act as a good insect repellant to keep several bugs and mosquitoes from landing and feasting on you. Additionally, scientific tests have proven that even a little quantity of neem can get rid of all of the mosquito larvae many of which result in malaria in sure elements of the globe without any chance to nonpest animals unlike several chemical pesticides.
It is kind of typical For several Indians to chew on neem tree twigs because neem makes certain dental wellbeing according to a variety of studies. The extract has become found in order to get rid of germs that normally cause plaque, tooth decay and gum ailment. Toothpaste which contains neem extract are available in several health foodstuff suppliers.
This pores and skin condition which influences most people could be addressed Normally with finest neem oil because of its microorganisms killing Attributes which goal the micro organism that triggers acne. This can support to stop acne breakouts and boost clearer pores and skin.
Neem has become revealed by some scientific tests to be able to reduce the secretion of belly acid and address stomach ulcers employing possibly the neem leaf or neem bark extracts without considerable Uncomfortable side effects.
Some research have proven that neem leaf extract is spermicidal and may help prevent pregnancy to some extent.
Other prospects for normal procedure using neem contain warts, eczema, herpes, chickenpox, athlete’s foot, pores and skin most cancers, etc.
Can You Do away with Psoriasis with Neem?
Neem contains a elaborate mix of more than one hundred forty Energetic substances that will help to get rid of psoriasis By natural means. Even though not a overcome, there are plenty of psoriasis sufferers who have been ready to acquire relief in the signs employing neem. The subsequent are a lot of the uses of neem for psoriasis which will help respond to the question “can you do away with psoriasis with neem?”
Neem oil acts as a good emollient since it incorporates many fatty acids as well as all-natural vitamin E to aid moisturize and soften dry skin which could improve the possibility of acquiring psoriasis symptoms When the skin is not kept perfectly moisturized.
Neem oil can maximize pores and skin overall health along with boost the all-natural immunity in the pores and skin which often can enable reduce flare-ups.
Neem oil as previously mentioned is anti-bacterial in addition to getting anti-fungal and anti-microbial which could support protect against pores and skin bacterial infections which will enhance the hazard of bringing on psoriasis symptoms.
Neem oil is able to address pores and skin redness and swelling which have been affiliated with the lesions as well as soothe skin discomfort and itchy lesions.
Having neem extracts within the leaves or barks internally may also help to spice up the immune procedure that may assistance it improved struggle off psoriasis indications.
A few Lively elements present in neem generally known as “nimbidin”, “nimbin and “quercetin” are anti-inflammatory compounds which often can support to overcome the development in the signs of psoriasis. Possessing a superior level of inflammation in the body can increase the hazard of acquiring many disorders and ailments like psoriasis.
The way to Use Neem for Organic Psoriasis Remedy
Neem oil is extremely effortlessly available since it is commonly used to be a pesticide. For finest benefits, use unrefined, natural neem oil which is cold pressed or expeller pressed to ensure that many of the effective properties are existing inside the oil. Implement this oil into the facial area and/or overall body as typically as you want to fight dry pores and skin, itching, inflammation together with to deal with the lesions By natural means.
Merely utilize the oil as you would probably any pores and skin moisturizer or sizzling oil treatment (scalp psoriasis) or utilize a number of drops for the bath h2o ahead of soaking During this drinking water for about fifteen to twenty minutes.
For inner usage, never use neem oil as it is toxic! Use products that consist of the extracts through the leaves or bark like tablets, capsules or neem tea.
You can take in the neem tea and/or steep the tea baggage in hot bath h2o for at least 5 minutes and soak for fifteen to 20 minutes.
Warning with Neem Oil Utilization
As pointed out previously, neem oil is poisonous so usually do not ingest it. Expecting and nursing Girls in addition to infants and youngsters need to stay away from it.
If using items that include the extracts, simply just Keep to the label Directions.
Neem could potentially cause allergic reactions so do hold this in mind.
A different level to keep in mind with neem oil is the fact it STINKS! This can be a offer breaker for a few Whilst it will not be that significant of a concern for Other individuals. This can be one among the reasons that it's like good insect repellant! In the event the odor bothers you a great deal of, you could possibly think about introducing different critical oils for example lavender, tea tree oil, peppermint, etc.
Is it check here possible to Eliminate Psoriasis with Neem Oil or Other Neem Solutions?
There are numerous favourable final results that were famous from read more the use of a variety of neem products but neem oil Specially, that make it a viable pure remedy for psoriasis but like every single other recommended treatment method for psoriasis, just because it works for a person sufferer doesn't signify it'll give you the results you want and vice versa. Experimentation with neem oil is the only way to find out irrespective of whether this all-natural solution will help do away with psoriasis lesions.
On top of that, utilizing neem oil when still handling Serious tension in your lifetime, smoking, consuming, and all kinds of other activities that raise the possibility of creating psoriasis indicators may perhaps hinder your ability to have constructive success from neem usage.

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Q. Should ainclude a safe-harbor clause under the benefits section for their 401k plan? In the past, the benefits information in the handbook has been limited because it can change so often. Instead, the handbook just points the employee to the summary plan documents. — Ann, Kentucky
A. I agree that for handbook descriptions of, it is important to refer employees to the official “Summary Plan Description” for full details on how the program (in this case, a 401k) is administered. General information on who is entitled to receive a safe harbor contribution—for example, the fact that you must be 21 years old and have attained a year of service—seem relevant to the majority of employees. But details about why the employer has adopted that approach may be too much for a handbook.
Remember, employers have notice requirements to participants under such a plan. So if you determine that information is too detailed for a handbook policy, make sure you are meeting notice obligations to participants in some other manner.

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City council postpones Highlands decision
The Langley City Council postponed a decision on the Highlands, the largest development in city history, after council members raised a multitude of questions about the project last week.
Water issues and traffic concerns ignited an extended discussion about the preliminary approval of the development. Talk stretched to almost 10 p.m., forcing the council finally to continue its review until the next council meeting on Aug. 2.
The councils preliminary approval would have given the developer of the Highlands the go ahead for initial on-site work, including clearing and the installation of roadways and utilities.
The city council was particularly concerned about potential impacts to the citys water supply, as the development is planned within Langleys wellhead protection area.
City planner Alice Schisel, however, said the Highlands will be a model for water resource protection. Residents of the new neighborhood will also help prevent damage to the citys water supply.
Even so, Councilwoman Faith Bushby had her doubts.
How do we enforce these rules? Bushby asked.
The project will be the model development for the conservation districts low-impact development project, Schisel explained.
The district has $75,000 to educate the public and implement low-impact development strategies.
But while it is great to teach the public how to live in a water protection area, Busby said, it was unclear how anybody would enforce the rules if fertilizers or other hazardous material get spilled.
Once damage is done, it will be too late, she said.
Mayor Neil Colburn said the city has taken necessary steps to protect Langleys water.
I feel we have taken all available precautions. Weve held the developers feet to the fire, he said. This development will have more protection than any other project.
Schisel noted the countys hydrologist has said the biggest threat to water quality would come from septic systems, and the Highlands development will be served by sewers instead.
Still, some wanted more. Councilman Robert Gilman suggested that well monitoring efforts be increased to ensure water quality.
The council raised other issues about the project during its review last Wednesday.
The council also asked about the ownership and maintenance of trails and walkways at the development.
Ross Chapin, architect for the Highlands, said an extensive trail system is planned to connect the new neighborhood with surrounding areas.
The majority of trails will be public, though some will connect to smaller, private trails that lead up to homes.
Because public trails must be maintained by city public works staff, Rick Hill, Langleys director of public works, said he was concerned that narrow trails wont be easily accessible for maintenance crews with heavy equipment.
Wheelchair accessibility was also an issue. Not only must trails be safe and wide enough to navigate with a wheelchair, but the system must also be connected so wheelchair users dont have to take a detour to get from one end of the development to the other, Schisel explained.
Gilman said he would like to see the walkways built around trees, which may mean that the city must be flexible on its requirements for 6-foot-wide walkways. The wider the walkway, Gilman said, the more trees that might have to be cut down.
Construction traffic also worried council members.
With the future of the proposed Fairgrounds Road into the Highlands uncertain, the council said that multiple trips of logging and construction trucks up and down Al Anderson Road would be unacceptable because traffic would significantly impact the quality of life for nearby residents.
Most council members said that the majority of construction traffic should use the new road once it is built.
The subdivision is the largest development in Langleys history, with 53 homes on a 14.57-acre lot on Al Anderson Road. Twenty-eight single-family lots and three clustered home groups with common courtyards are planned.
Michaela Marx Wheatley can be reached at 221-5300 or mmwheatley@southwhidbey