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My Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3/5)
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Anise Sawyer plans to spend every minute of summer with her friends: surfing, chowing down on fish tacos drizzled with wasabi balsamic vinegar, and throwing bonfires that blaze until dawn. But when a serious car wreck leaves her aunt, a single mother of three, with two broken legs, it forces Anise to say goodbye for the first time to Santa Cruz, the waves, her friends, and even a kindling romance, and fly with her dad to Nebraska for the entire summer. Living in Nebraska isn’t easy. Anise spends her days caring for her three younger cousins in the childhood home of her runaway mom, a wild figure who’s been flickering in and out of her life since birth, appearing for weeks at a time and then disappearing again for months, or even years, without a word.
Complicating matters is Lincoln, a one-armed, charismatic skater who pushes Anise to trade her surfboard for a skateboard. As Anise draws closer to Lincoln and takes on the full burden and joy of her cousins, she loses touch with her friends back home – leading her to one terrifying question: will she turn out just like her mom and spend her life leaving behind the ones she loves
I feel kind of shy going into this review because I know a lot of people really loved it. Well I didn’t hate it and I enjoyed parts of it but overall, it’s an okay book for me. It has a great concept with interesting characters.
I had high expectations before reading this, I’ve read reviews about it and seen it around Twitter so I was really excited and hyped up. The first few chapters were really good, it’s really a promising summer read with all the surfing, waves, and sun.
The story follows Anise, our competitive surfer girl, as she goes through a summer she would never have thought of. Here’s the thing, her Aunt with three children got into an almost fatal accident so Anise and her father is forced to go to Nebraska to help them for the summer. Which means Anise is forced to give up her summer with her waves and friends. She’s literally a girl out of water and taken to an unknown dry land.
There were times that I really felt for Anise like whenever she’s struggling with the thought of becoming like her absent mother. I love how she’s determined and competitive! She turned from a surfer to a skater real quick, she got some serious skills. Her relationship with her family, which includes the one with her aunt and cousins, is the best. I love how she tried to understand her pre-teen cousin, Emery, and did her best to reach out to her. Basically, Anise is a great and well-written main character.
That being said, the story has a great focus on her family life. She’s close and open to both her father and aunt. The whole family dynamics especially the bond between Anise and her cousins was heartwarming. I like how the author handle the issue with Anise’s absent mother, how significant this figure is to her character development.
For the romance part, Lincoln and his dimple are both addictive and endearing. Aside from his dimple, his confidence is his selling point. The romance developed nicely and the pacing was perfect.
After all these praise, why did I only gave this 3-stars? First thing that I didn’t quite like is the relationship of Anise and her friends. They’re apparently a close-knitted group of friends for over the years, but I didn’t feel that. I felt like her friends could have been more understanding on the overall situation, Anise wasn’t the best also with communication but I don’t know…if I were one of her friends I think that I would get her more. So yeah, the whole friendship drama felt off to me.
Next is the ending, it was very abrupt and the resolution was inadequate. There were still a lot of loose ends, some might like this “open-ended” story but I felt cheated. Primarily because I didn’t fell any assurance at Anise and Lincoln’s relationship, like will LDR work for them or will it only be a summer thing?
Other than that, the book is definitely worth the read! The writing was simple yet compelling. Overall, Girl Out of Water can be your next summer read—it’s diverse, fresh, and just the perfect read at the beach.
Thank you so much Netgalley and the publisher for giving me an eARC of this book.


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The affected units of the EcoSport have been recalled for a fuel and vapour line corrosion as well as problems with the wiring harness for the correct deployment of side airbags.
Its highest selling model in the country, Ford has issued a recall exercise affecting 20,700 units of the EcoSport compact SUV in India that were manufactured between June 2013 and September 2014. The units have been called back to service centres for corrosion in the fuel and vapour line and reorientation of the wiring harness for right deployment of the side airbags. The American automaker has already started contacting customers and is asking them to bring the vehicles to service centres.
Ford India is recalling 19,441 units of the top-end Titanium variant with the 1.5-litre diesel or 1.0-litre petrol engines to rectify the issue with the seat belt sensor that decides to deploy the side airbags. Out of the total vehicles, 2715 units are that of the petrol variant and will be checked for corrosion in the fuel line. A total of 1404 units have both the issues and need to be fixed. While Ford has not acknowledged yet, but it is reported that few customers had raised complaints in the past over the issue.
Globally Ford has recalled 34,132 cars for the vapour and fuel line corrosion issue, while 8666 units of the EcoSport have been affected with the airbags wiring issue and were manufactured at the automaker’s China facility. The Indian units on the other hand are produced at the company’s Tamil Nadu plant. All repairs will be carried out by the company free of cost on the affected models. Ford had recalled 1000 units of the EcoSport few days after the launch in July last year.

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Six New Shotguns for Women
Having coached a lot of high school girls in trapshooting, I’m well aware of the challenges women face in finding...
Having coached a lot of high school girls in trapshooting, I’m well aware of the challenges women face in finding guns that fit them. So as I walked the aisles of SHOT Show 2016 last month, it was gratifying to see encouraging signs that after years of talking about women taking up shooting and hunting, the industry had finally moved past the “shrink it and pink it” philosophy of marketing. Everywhere I went, I saw manufacturers offering products specifically made for—and often designed by—women: boots, pants, even backpacks.
Best of all, that trend extends to shotguns. I saw half a dozen guns made for serious hunting and shooting—some designed specifically for women, others that will easily adapt to smaller frames while offering full-size performance. Here they are, in the order in which I saw them:
The debut of Caesar Guerini/Fabarm’s Syren line of guns in 2014, with stocks actually designed to fit women’s bodies, was an industry first. However, the $3,000-plus price of Syren over/unders was too rich for some shooters. For 2016, Syren introduces the Elos sporting gun, an O/U with same stock design, but with less decoration than previous models and a lower price tag. It features niceties, such as a trigger that can be shifted rearward to accommodate shorter fingers, and a soft recoil pad to cut the kick. The gun comes in 12 gauge only, with 30-inch barrels and interchangeable choke tubes so you can alter your pattern spread for close range or distant targets. MSRP: $2595.
Following Syren’s lead, Franchi introduced its own Catalyst line of women’s shotguns this year. The Instinct represents a good value in a field O/U that could serve as a gun for skeet and sporting clays as well. The Instinct has Franchi’s take on the Syren stock, with a shorter length to suit smaller statured shooters, and a raised Monte Carlo comb on the stock to better fit long-necked shooters (women’s necks are generally longer than men’s). The Instinct comes in 12 gauge with 28-inch barrels and interchangeable chokes, and is chambered for heavy 3-inch shells as well as lighter 2 ¾-inch ammunition. It has the versatility to be your one gun for everything. MSRP: $1600.
Franchi’s other entry in the Catalyst line is the Affinity semiauto. Light and handy, it should make an excellent field gun. At just 6 ¾ pounds it’s light for a 12-gauge gun, which will make it easy to carry and handle, although the tradeoff will be a little more recoil. The Affinity is an inertia-operated semiauto, meaning that it uses recoil and not gases bled from the gun’s action to eject and load shells. Inertia guns are very reliable, even in bad weather, and they are quite easy to clean. The gun comes in 12 gauge only, with a walnut stock, soft recoil pad, and choke tubes. The Affinity will shoot anything from target loads to turkey loads. MSRP: $999.
Beretta’s A400 semiauto comes in a lighter-weight version for 2016. It weighs just 6 pounds, 10 ounces in 12 gauge. Despite its light weight, the gun will not kick too badly because it is a gas-operated semiauto (gas guns have noticeably softer recoil than any other type) and because it has Beretta’s Kick-Off recoil reducer in the stock. Essentially a shock absorber, the Kick-Off compresses as the gun comes back under recoil, softening the blow to your shoulder. The gun comes in a choice of 26, 28 or 30 inch barrels, all chambered for 2 ¾ and 3-inch shells. It also features Beretta’s GunPod II, a sensor in the stock that records shots fired and miles walked. It even allows you to call home and send your GPS coordinates should you need rescue. Although not a gun designed specifically for women, the A400 Light has a stock that can be adjusted for length and a set of spacers that allow you to customize the gun’s dimensions yourself. With the longer 28 or 30-inch barrel to smooth your swing, it would make a good hunting/sporting clays gun. MSRP: $1600.
For turkey hunting fanatics, Beretta has made its fine A300 Outlander available in a special, camouflage turkey version. Besides a coat of Realtree Xtra to help you blend into the woods, the new model features a shorter, 24-inch barrel that will be easier to handle in the brush or the confines of a blind. The barrel has fiber-optic front and rear sights to help you put a tight pattern precisely on a turkey’s head and neck, and the gun’s receiver accepts a scope mount if you want to add an optical sight like a scope or red dot. It has studs to accommodate sling swivels to make it easier to carry though the woods. Although the A300 isn’t labeled a “women’s model,” it has a stock that can shortened up to an inch with no more tools than a screwdriver, and stock shims that can alter to gun’s dimensions to better suit its owner. In all other ways it is the same gun as the excellent A300 Outlander, which I consider the best value in a semiautomatic shotgun on the market. MSRP: $900
One of several Italian gunmakers in the Rizzini family, B. Rizzini enjoys a reputation for making very good field and target guns. The new V3 target model has a stock that takes its cue from the Syren line, with a shorter overall length and a raised Monte Carlo comb to better suit female shooters. The gun comes in 12 and 20 gauges, with a choice of 28-, 30- or 32-inch barrels to suit different shooting styles. The shorter barrels make the gun lighter and livelier, long barrels add some weight to the front the gun that helps it swing smoothly. The V3 comes with extended choke tubes that are easy to change as you move from close-in to long-range targets. The receiver accents come in a choice of yellow or purple. MSRP: $2450


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Has anyone watched this movie? It’s on Netflix. I re-watched it 2 nights ago and it’s quite interesting. Would love to discuss this movie with people who have watched it (or will watch it). I definitely recommend it, especially since we’re all depressed and want to die. No this movie doesn’t have to do with depression- it’s the opposite actually.
So everyone is trapped in this room and it’s killing people off one at a time, every 2 minutes. It appears only ONE person can make it out alive, and they’re all clamoring to live. And trying to decide which one of them should get to live. Throughout the movie, they try to convince each other why so and so should die, or why so and so should live.
It’s quite interesting. I don’t want to ruin the spoilers. Take a gander:

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The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
"There were times . . . when Kelly felt desperate, confused and shattered. But she also felt embraced and loved. And that sustained her.”
There are books that you read, and often put down because they are not what you expected. This is a book that you will read and occasionally put down for another reason: in order not to finish it too soon. The Girls from Ames is a book to savor and embrace, regardless of one’s gender.
This is a nonfiction tribute to a 40-year friendship between the 10 surviving members of an 11-member high school clique. They are a group of women who “reached maturity in the era when feminism was blooming.” They grew up with the theme of empowerment resounding in the environment. Consider that on TV they watched not “I Love Lucy” or “Father Knows Best” but instead “Wonder Woman,” “Bionic Woman,” and “Charlie’s Angels.”
The original group of 11 girls—Karla, Kelly, Marilyn, Jane, Jenny, Karen, Cathy, Angela, Sally, Diana, and Sheila—grew up in the relatively small community of Ames, Iowa, a community where they were literally surrounded by corn fields. The corn there grows so high that it can hide cars.
This is a telling of the lives of this group (like a real-life version of the stories of eight women told in the novel The Group) and their lives are touched with successes, tragedy, divorce, illness, and death. The outgoing Sheila was to die in her twenties under strange circumstances that have never fully been resolved. In addition, the children of the group members have been affected by illness and two members of the remaining group have battled breast cancer. On the flip side, a member of the group first became a mother at the age of 45.
“Having a close group of friends helps people sleep better, improve their immune systems, boost their self-esteem, stave off dementia, and actually live longer. The Ames girls just feel the benefits in their guts.”
This book does its best in focusing on why it is vital for women “to nurture female friendships.” We’re told, for example, “Research shows that women with advanced breast cancer have better survival rates if they have close friends.” The matter of the peace and acceptance that accompanies aging is also well noted in The Girls from Ames. “By their mid-forties, women know they’re at a crossroads. They are still holding on to their younger selves, but they can also see their older selves pretty clearly.”
The one aspect of the book that may be slightly troubling is that males, particularly husbands and fathers, tend to come off as pale by comparison. The men in the lives of these women are displayed as not being very communicative, especially among other men (that is not how they get their needs met), and yet they are generally well loved. At one point the women in the group are asked to rate their husbands/partners, and the average score came out to 8.2 on a 10-point scale. All in all, a very good score!
One man was asked to consider reading this book and he declined, sending this message via e-mail: “Unfortunately, I do not have plans to read the book, but please convey to the girls from Ames that I think they are pretty hot.” That was from Tom (60 years old) in Ohio.
The women from Ames are mothers and female role models in their own communities. But most of all they remain the best of friends. They are friends, survivors, and a mutual support network. They have all been battered a bit by life and, except for the still greatly missed Sheila, they have made it through.
This would be a great selection for almost any book club, even one that includes a less-communicative male or two. The very best news is that the story of the women from Ames will continue. The 13 daughters of the 11 women are extremely good friends. Bravo!

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Having an asset in your portfolio that generates passive income while providing a hedge against inflation is an attractive dual function for many investors. A Commercial Real Estate Investment Fund (CRE) can be an excellent addition to your portfolio. Benefits of a CRE include portfolio diversification, liquidity and the fact that investors save time Not to manage a property.
What is a commercial real estate mutual fund?
In general, a CRE is any investment that pools capital from investors with the intention of investing it in commercial real estate. While there are certainly nuances between the specifics of one fund and another, they usually have some things in common.
CREs have fund managers who ultimately make the decisions about the fund and where the money goes. When real estate investors invest their money in a fund, they don’t know which properties the money will be used for. The fund manager is trusted to find the best opportunities.
The diversification that CREs offer is one of its most appealing qualities. The invested capital is spread over several objects; The type of property, the location and the type of tenants are all facets that contribute to diversification. Overall, this type of diversification helps reduce risk for investors.
These types of funds typically offer greater availability of liquidity, with some funds being able to be bought and sold like stocks, offering a type of short-term liquidity not often found in commercial real estate investing.
Most CRE funds pay healthy dividends, which are derived from the income generated from tenant rent on the fund’s properties. This is the passive income that many investors seek when investing in commercial real estate.
The different types of commercial real estate mutual funds
There are four types of commercial real estate mutual funds: real estate investment trusts (REITs), exchange-traded funds (ETFs), mutual funds, and private equity funds.
Real Estate Investment Fund: A REIT is a form of commercial real estate investment that is characterized by an often high dividend yield and favorable tax advantages. The lion’s share of a REIT’s income must come from real estate and 90 percent of its taxable income got to paid out to investors if the trust wishes to maintain its tax-advantaged status. The tax benefit of REITs is that they are not taxed at the corporate level as individual shareholders pay taxes.
REITs can either be privately held and only accessible to accredited investors, or publicly traded, meaning their shares can be bought and sold on the stock exchange. REITs usually specialize in niche properties such as office buildings or apartment buildings.
Exchange Traded Funds: An ETF is quite similar to a mutual fund, although there are some key differences. ETFs are mutual funds that trade on major exchanges, making them easier to buy and sell. They usually come with lower management and custody fees.
Investment funds: While REITs invest directly in real estate, a mutual fund invests in the stock values of the companies that invest in the real estate. Mutual funds are not required to pay out a large percentage of their taxable income as dividends, as they are typically offered directly to investors by their management companies.
Investors with a moderate risk appetite looking for passive income and capital appreciation usually find mutual funds a good fit.
Private Equity Funds: These types of funds pool their investors’ capital in the equity portion of commercial real estate transactions. They are privately held, are only available to accredited investors and tend to be less liquid. Because these funds are aimed at investors who are looking for investments with a longer term. These funds often require a commitment of five to 10 years.
Due to the investment horizon and the accreditation hurdle, these private equity funds are usually only available to wealthy investors.
Advantages for commercial real estate funds
Although there are several different types of mutual funds, they are all somewhat similar and typically offer the same benefits and also carry the same risks. As with any investment, there are pros and cons that you should consider before parting with your money.
Diversification and Liquidity: Two of the most attractive advantages of these funds are their diversification and liquidity. With capital spread across different locations, properties and types of tenants, investors benefit from a diversified portfolio within a single fund unit. Publicly traded funds have the advantage of being easily bought and sold, which is attractive to investors with liquidity needs.
Hands off investment: Because the fund is managed by someone else, investors benefit from the manager’s experience and have no responsibility in choosing the assets in which to invest. This expertise is an added benefit as fund managers can leverage their own professional networks to access offerings not otherwise available to the average investor. Because the fund manager does all the heavy lifting, fund investors benefit from real estate ownership without having to worry about the actual management of real estate. This frees investors up for other investments or activities.
While there are significant benefits to investing in CREs, they must be weighed against the risks associated with the fund.
Lack of control: While the hands-off and irresponsibility of these real estate fund investments may appeal to some, investors have no control or say over how their money is used. This can be off-putting for some investors. Fund investors also have no say in day-to-day property management decisions and must play a passive role in when and if the property is sold.
Time Commitments: Most private equity funds and many REITs require a significant investment of time. This can be off-putting for some investors, especially if they need liquidity as they may not be able to access their capital for five to 10 years. Longer investment horizons can expose investors to higher market risks, leading to increased volatility.
Fees: Fund managers don’t work for free. Although most publicly traded REITs and ETFs have low management and custody fees, some mutual funds and private equity funds do not. These types of investments tend to have higher fees, which will certainly affect overall returns.
How to invest in commercial real estate funds
Investing in publicly traded REITs and ETFs is a straightforward process. After doing the research, an investor simply needs to decide how much money to invest, identify the ticker symbol for the ETF or REIT, and then place the trade through their brokerage account. Trade requests are usually processed quickly and a small commission may apply depending on an investor’s brokerage account. However, this fee is low compared to the fees associated with mutual funds, private REITs, or private equity funds.
However, for privately traded investments in private equity funds and REITs, the process is not quite as simple as their respective firms are responsible for verifying that their investors meet the appropriate accreditation requirements. Since bank statements and tax returns often have to be checked, this can take more time. Because these investments are not publicly traded, the company typically provides regular updates of the stock price or asset value.
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How a Massachusetts law meant to help victims is working against them
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute Deputy Director of Advocacy Jamie Sabino and Greater Boston Legal Services Senior Attorney Mithra Merryman were interviewed recently by WBUR regarding a law that was intended to protect the privacy and safety of victims of domestic and sexual violence, but has instead protected perpetrators and police. The Massachusetts law requires police to keep all reports and arrests related to sexual and domestic violence secret, something no other state does.
In fact, 16 police departments turned down WBUR’s request for records detailing their actions leading up to domestic murders, all citing the same statute.
It has also harmed victims by making it difficult — even impossible — to obtain records they need for custody battles and restraining orders.
Sabino, staff attorney at MLRI, said she was concerned about potential “unintended consequences” even as she helped advise lawmakers on the language in the 2014 bill.
Read more and listen to coverage at WBUR (Aug. 27 and Aug. 29).

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Martin Short's Rollcentre Racing team has seen its hopes of securing the Avon Tyres British GT Championship come to an end after the MSA National Court ruled that the Mosler MT900 is no longer eligible to run in the GT3 class of the series.
Rollcentre's Dan Brown has picked up 60 points so far this season to lie just nine behind championship leaders David and Godfrey Jones, but a series of protests from the Jones' Preci-Spark team has led to Brown losing all points scored from the Snetterton event onwards.
With the MSA Court ruling declaring that the Mosler can now only race in the Invitational Class – and therefore not score championship points – Brown's hopes of lifting the title have been brought to a premature end after what had been an impressive campaign from the teenager.
The decision to exclude the Mosler has been taken due to grey area within the wording of the British GT regulations, with an apparent oversight by series organisers SRO leading to questions about its eligibility.
Despite not carrying full FIA homologation, the Mosler was allowed to compete in the Belgium British GT Championship under National homologation rules and was allowed to compete in the British GT Championship on similar grounds – with SRO informing Mosler that the car would be allowed in the series.
However, nothing was written into the regulations to state that that cars running to both FIA and National homologation would be eligible for the championship, with the Preci-Spark team launching numerous protests against the MT900.
Despite the entry of the Mosler being accepted at the start of the season, and at each round of the campaign, following 'written and verbal affirmation that National GT3 cars were eligible', the car has now been deemed to be outside the GT3 rules.
Adding further fuel to the fire, the lack of an Ascari team in the European GT3 Championship means that the car campaigned by the Jones' didn't take part in performance equalisation tests for FIA GT3 and has been able to run without measures that were in place last season – including an extra 80 kg of ballast.
"We took part in the British GT this year to compete in the GT3 class against other high performance and competitive race teams for the National British GT title, something the Invitation class does not offer,” Rollcentre and Mosler chief Short said. “The fact that this unfortunate, semantic incongruity has now befallen us, with three quarters of the Championship gone by, and with the best young driver in BGT since Jonny Cocker taken out of the title running simply beggars belief.
”Hopefully, the British GT Championship will return to a better state next year. In the meantime, we will run where we are welcomed.
“As a postscript, I find it incredible that the MSA approves the regulations, and then decides they are wrong. Moslers were running under these specific regulations three years ago.”


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Essential Simple facts That You Should Find out about Effectiveness.
In the region of pharmacology, potency refers to the ability of a drug to lead to a specific effect at a specific focus of the medication in a specific liquefied tool. The term is actually likewise used to measure the degree of a medicine’s concentration in a remedy or even other tool. Generally, a very strong material is going to conjure a firm action in a subject when conducted at high attentions, while a much less powerful material will certainly bring about a weaker reaction at reduced focus.
There are numerous aspects that can easily have an effect on the level of efficacy. The environment through which a medication is left open to can substantially affect its own efficacy. Things like temperature as well as air pressure can considerably have an effect on the leaks in the structure of numerous chemicals and the degree to which they can easily enter a subject matter’s physical body. In nature, cannabis and botanicals that possess higher levels of oral bioavailability are actually normally much more extremely potent than products that lack this potential. In addition, chemical representatives that are strongly unpredictable or are highly oily in nature usually tend to become much more very focused in their organic type than additional stable substances, which can easily additionally have an effect on effectiveness.
A typical strategy of screening efficacy entails noting the elimination of a certain substance coming from aqueous media at different concentrations of the medicine. Considering that the focus of each molecule of a compound is actually recognized, the concentrations of each particle of the moms and dad substance can easily be actually determined.
Another strategy of assessing the strength of a compound is actually to try to find its own result on various test subjects. When a subject is actually administered a specific attention of a chemical, some level of poisoning might be actually kept in mind. The material is actually considered risk-free if that level is actually much higher than the dangerous focus. Having said that, if it is actually lesser, then it is actually viewed as less poisonous. Numerous firms will make use of individual measurements in the strength tests of medications to guarantee the greatest feasible concentration without the danger of severe poisoning.
In a lot of scenarios, the add-on of a little quantity of a chemical material does not alter the overall effectiveness considerably. The enhanced focus of these non-bacterial chemicals will enhance the attention of other, normally occurring elements. A notable rise in efficacy can then be noted, particularly when the concentration of the component is boosted much over the focus of its transformation in to its own active kind.
It is vital that one is actually aware of the potency of products they are looking at using as well as always go through the labeling. Through knowing the effectiveness, one may lower the side impacts linked along with a high concentration of the ingredient as well as enhance the efficiency of the drug.
In the planet of chemistry, strength is actually a measurement of chemical effectiveness conveyed in systems of the concentration demanded to make a less active reaction of particular strength at the minimal dosage. Hence, the attention of the medicine in which it responds to calculate its effectiveness.
Scientific dimensions of effectiveness are based on the solubility of the medicine in the test substance. Solubility pertains to the level to which a material may be dissolved in a common fluid. A drug along with a high degree of solubility is actually a lot more highly centered than one along with a reduced one, and also as a result possesses higher efficacy. The even more strongly concentrated a drug is actually, the reduced its strength.
It is computed that once an exam is performed, its effectiveness deducts approximately half if it is actually held at space temperature. Hence, even prior to it is conducted it needs to be held in a measured environment free of dust or different contaminant. The tester is no a lot longer able to evaluate its own effectiveness effectively if during storage an exam molecule becomes unpredictable.
There are 2 simple operations used to identify the effectiveness of a compound. The very first, and also usually used, is actually to help make a substance in the laboratory and give it a try. This exam is actually remarkably definitive, as all the active ingredients in the combination are going to react collectively. All the elements will react at their normal productivity, indicating that there is no change in the potency. If, on the contrary, an exam is to be taken by mouth, after that a specialist should conduct the material to a tiny group of test subjects to note exactly how they react. casanova krople forum
The other technique for assessing potency is actually to utilize analytical strategies. As the process goes on, the percentages of different factors in the initial drug modifications, and their effects on the efficacy of the ultimate material are actually monitored.
To conclude, effectiveness tests are necessary to physician, especially in the growth of brand-new medications. They aid establish the proper quantity of a drug that ought to go into a patient’s physical body. They additionally calculate whether an individual’s present medication regimen is appropriate. Eventually, potency levels can be made use of to find out when a client needs to begin a monitored drug abuse program.

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Frederick Dewayne Thompson (Jail photo)
KILLEEN (July 27, 2012)—Frederick Dewayne Thompson remained in the Bell County Jail Friday charged with burglary of a habitation with intent to commit another felony in connection with a home break-in and assault in Killeen.
His bond was set at $50,000.
He was arrested Thursday in connection with the incident, which happened on Wednesday.
According to the arrest warrant affidavit, the man and woman who were at the home told officers Thompson broke out a window of the home and then entered through a door.
Once inside he tried to assault the man, the affidavit said.

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At age 13 Steve saw a schoolmate and her sister playing guitar and singing for a school function. At this he thought: “THAT’s what I want to do!” and brushed off his sister’s nearly-forgotten acoustic and taught himself to play, often practicing 7 hours a day.
In college, Steven began to focus on songwriting. He performed on local radio and was a featured vocalist in the UC Marching Band’s televised halftime show in 1975 as well as the group’s annual Spring shows, culminating in being the main featured vocalist in the band’s 1976 Bicentennial tour of the U.S., playing 23 cities nationwide.
After leaving college, Steven started performing as a singer/songwriter in various clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area. Then heading South for Los Angeles, he continued to play in various acoustic venues.
Moving to LA opened up other opportunities, including: starting the Barbershop Quartet “Pacifica”, selected as the top new quartet of the year and qualified for the West U.S. Championships. He also performed in the “Hollywood Chorale”, representing the city of Hollywood in the form of a 16-voice jazz choir. Steve performed for a few months in the country band “Grand Junction” as acoustic guitarist and lead and backing vocalist and appears on their one release “You’re Not Alone”.
During this time he picked up bass guitar and started performing with a variety of top-40 bands. He also came into demand as a backing vocalist for live and studio performances, doing vocals for 6 albums and another single “Far Away Lands” recorded by platinum-record songwriter David Pomeranz and Russian pop star Sasha Malinin. Steve performed his original music in a series of concerts in downtown LA in 1986 culminating in a performance witih Edgar Winter at that year’s LA Street Scene, as well as doing backup vocal duties for a number of other international stars such as 60s legend Melanie, Jazz master Chick Corea and Austrailian pop star Kate Ceberano.
Steve returned to the stage as performer and songwriter, writing 4 songs and being a featured performer in a musical review based on the book “The Way To Happiness”. This show had two runs, one in 1987 and another in 1989. He also wrote two songs for the unproduced musical “Thief In the Night”, which also included songs by multi-platinum songwriters Harriet Schock and David Pomeranz and 3 Dog Night drummer Mickey McMeel.
In 1990 Steve began a long run on a Caribbean Cruise Ship. During his 16 years there he was Music Director, bassist and male vocalist of the house band and created, wrote songs for and performed in various musical reviews and stage presentations. During this time one of Steve’s songs was recorded by the New York Blues group “Ruby, Toots and the Shades” and his songs were being performed by various artists around the country.
The Ship Band also performed off-board, doing countless free concerts, benefits and fundraisers. He performed with a variety of International performers in styles ranging from Latin/Caribbean to Jazz, Rock, Blues and Funk, developing skill in all genres as well as becoming a quick study, picking up songs and styles in minimal time. Steve worked with, among others- Caribbean stars Bibi Provence, Debbie Beaujon, CC Shaw, Tamara Marshall, Debbie Beaujon and Michele Henderson; Mexican stars Amanda Miguel, Diego Verdaguer and Johnny Laboriel; Venezuelan Telenova star Ruddy Rodriguez; British composer and music educator Duncan Lorien; 70s Pop star Maxine Nightingale, International jazz performers Tommy Brechtline, Randall Courson, Roy Louis, Boo Hickson, Maggie Parke and John Novello; and Rock idol Billy Sheehan.
The band peformed one of Steven’s songs at the St Vincent Blues festival opening for Oleta Adams, and at the St Lucia Jazz Festival, following pop star Rhianna and followed by Kenny Garrett and Babyface
Returning to San Jose in 2007, Steve has quickly established himself in the music scene here, performing at numerous Bay Area acoustic venues, as well as larger events such as the 2007 Earth Day celebration, where he performed at the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater in San Francisco. He played rhythm guitar with rising country star Shawna Lynn and continues with her as a songwriting partner. He has continued his commitment to the community, performing at Relay For Life, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, local community centers and for other benefits and charity concerts.
What people remember from seeing Steve perform, apart from his clear, strong voice and easy certainty on his instruments, is his sheer love of music and performing. His first CD release “Eclectic Acoustic” reflects his varied interests and wide influences. From the country music of his youth, to the folk/rock singer/songwriters of the 70s to his years in Hollywood and in the Caribbean, you’ll hear them all.
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View Wonder Woman Movie Coloring Pages Pictures. Just as she wears a bright hot red color uniform wonder woman has been a part of 'the lego movie' and 'the lego batman movie'. Here are some wonder woman images for you to download and color.
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London's First Cereal Cafe To Open On Brick Lane
This is great news for cereal lovers everywhere. Two identical twins from Belfast, Alan and Gary Keery, are opening a cafe just for cereal in Brick Lane, London.
Cereal Killer Cafe will be the first of its kind in the UK when it launches in December, and will offer a range of 100 cereals. This is what we call living the dream.
They will also provide different types of milk, from soya and almond to chocolate and strawberry.Sound too good to be true? Well, there’s more, you can get toppings including M&M’s and Oreos. Further still, there’s cereal cocktails which must mean we’re approaching cereal utopia. The Peanut Butter Jelly Time includes Reese’s Puffs, Peanut Butter Cheerios, Peanut M&M’s and strawberry milk, and they health healthy alternatives too.
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Hi there! Listen, I want to let everyone know that if you leave me a comment, I am so very appreciative and read them all, and I had been trying to reply to each one, but it seems that I cannot any more - either Google+ or Blogger is not letting me. Whenever I click on the +1 icon and/or the Reply button, a new window comes up like a pop-up, then it disappears before I see anything in it. And sometimes, I get an error message if I try to change it from Top Comments. I have tried to Google it, but have come up with zip.
Is anyone else having this problem on their Blogger blogs? It could be just some little something I'm not checking in the Settings somewhere, but I haven't turned all snobby. I'm just overwhelmed by it, like I'm at a crossroads with too many directions I could go in. I can read your comments, so please continue to leave them and if you know what I'm doing wrong please tell me! I'll love you forever! ;-)
Art-wise, I have 2 cards to share today. This first one is a baby card for a niece and I kept it clean on purpose, or tried to.
One thing I would do differently: I would have used a different ink on the sentiment "Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers". I should have either used the same pigment ink or some Brilliance instead of some Versafine. The Clear Dollar stamp is one of those that takes a chalkish or pigment-y ink better than dye or oil-y. And I just about give up using that Versafine Satin Red. It's the weirdest red color I've ever seen, they should call it Anemic Red. This is why I shy away from one-layer cards. Stuff like this always happens to me.
So, the base mat of the above card was one of these, which were made using leftover 4x6 glossy photo paper, sponge finger daubers and ink from my Old Inks to Use Up Boxes:
Well, I'm done for today. Thanks for hanging in, let me know you were here, and have a great Monday! xoxo


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In much of Merton’s later writing, one sees the effort to identify and retrieve a meaningful idea of paradise joined to a fierce resistance to the increasing presence of “false paradises” within contemporary thought and practice. This is particularly clear in two important late essays, “Rain and the Rhinoceros,” and Day of a Stranger, which frame the ideal of contemplative living as being both utterly “purposeless” and necessary to the work of social criticism and political resistance.
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This world is one that we recognise as readers on the outside, but can also appreciate the sometime strange interpretations that Merton puts on things. Merton's contemplation of the workaday world, of the jet planes flying overhead, and the other aspects of modern life contrast profoundly with the contemplation of the silence broken physically only by the sounds of the wind and the birds. However, the world is very present with Merton in other ways, as one discovers from his discussion on his 'mental ecology'. This includes a landscape that includes Rilke and Lao Tzu, Tertullian and Sartre, John of Salisbury and Flannery O'Connor.
'The spiritual life is something that people worry aout when they are so busy with something else they think they ought to be spiritual. Spiritual life is guilt.' These are strong words from Merton, but it contains an interesting truth - if we make spiritual life one more thing that has to be done, we miss an important point. If we do it because we 'ought' to do it, we start from the wrong standpoint, and thus likely cannot follow the right path.
Merton pokes gentle fun at his own practices and ideas of what religious life should be. He writes a brief sermon to birds, a very good one - but the response from the birds is that even this very good, very short two-sentence sermon was one sermon too many.
Merton included many black-and-white photos of the woods, the hermitage (which he insisted should be called a house rather than a hermitage), and the monastery. These include bookshelves, chairs and tables, slowly disintegrating wagon wheels, sunlight through the woods - his surroundings, but no pictures of people. This helps to convey the sense of silence.
Merton recognises that his day is very different from that of most who will read this text, wherever in the world they may be. His day is strange, and he is a stranger, to most of our lifestyles. Yet he is a welcome friend, an interesting character with which to compare and contrast our own thoughts and feelings. This is an excellent essay with which to begin the study of Merton, as well as a wonderful treat for those who already know his work.

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SANTA ANA, Calif. – January 30, 2017 – Orange County’s Credit Union is pleased to announce the promotion of Art Armas to Vice President of Business Services and Gigi Elmasry, Kari De Santis, and Azul Sanchez to Assistant Vice President, Regional Branch Manager.
Under Armas’s leadership, commercial deposits and loans have grown as the number of commercial accounts and Memberships climb. In his new position, Armas will continue to advance the organization toward its strategic vision and plan for Orange County’s Credit Union’s business services program. He has more than 14 years of combined experience in the mortgage and commercial lending business and has been with the Credit Union for seven years. “Armas is highly collaborative in his approach to strategic planning and other credit union work, possesses strong technical expertise that is freely shared across the organization, and is an outstanding leader and coach for his team,” states Jeff Harper, SVP, Chief Lending Officer. In addition, Armas is a member of the Commercial Real Estate Professionals of Orange County and recently completed his first of a three-year program at the Pacific Coast Banking School of Business.
Elmasry is responsible for Member service and daily operations of the St. Andrew Branch in Santa Ana. She will continue to manage her home branch, as well as oversee the managers of the Mission Viejo Branch and the Yorba Linda Branch. She has 30 years of experience in the banking industry including Wells Fargo, Washington Mutual, and JP Morgan Chase. Elmasry has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mass Communication from American University in Cairo (AUC).
De Santis has been in the banking industry for more than 20 years, with 10 of those years at the Credit Union. She’s responsible for the daily operations of the Fountain Valley branch as well as the managers of the Lake Forest Branch, the Ross Branch, and the Stadium Branch. De Santis has built solid relationships with local businesses in the area to provide Credit Union benefits and financial education to their employees. She also has experience with project management and implementation of new programs such as the Credit Union’s customer relationship management system.
Sanchez has been in the banking industry for more than 13 years including Bank of America and Wells Fargo. She will continue to oversee the daily operations of the Long Beach Branch as well as the managers of the Irvine Branch and the Fullerton Branch. Sanchez has an Associates of Arts Degree in Business Management and will be obtaining a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications this spring. Sanchez is a graduate of the Neighborhood Leadership Program which is sponsored by the City of Long Beach. This experience has helped her network and find partnership opportunities to support the Long Beach community. She has served on the board of local non-profit organizations, is heavily involved in the community, and has received much recognition from Senators, Congressmen, and council members.
About Orange County’s Credit Union – Santa Ana-based financial services provider exceeding $1.4 billion in assets with more than 99,000 Members. Services offered include checking and mobile banking, savings, retirement accounts, and auto, home, and small business loans. Anyone who lives or works in Orange or Riverside Counties and the neighboring communities of Long Beach, Signal Hill, Lakewood, and Cerritos can bank at the Credit Union. The Credit Union is ranked in the top three percent of credit unions nationwide based on assets. In 2016, the Credit Union was honored with the “Award for Workplace Excellence” by Peter Barron Stark Companies and for the past three years, ranked in the top two of the “OC Register’s Best of Orange County” credit unions. For more information, visit the Credit Union’s Web site at www.orangecountyscu.org, or call (888) 354-6228


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Located on the sandy beach of Platanias, Minos Mare Royal offers rooms with flat screen TVs and CD/DVD players, hot tub and a spa centre with sauna and indoor pool.
Surrounded by gardens, Minos Mare Royal offers rooms and suites featuring free internet. The rooms also have a balcony overlooking the pool, the gardens or the sea.
The Royal Restaurant offers views of the pool and serves a rich breakfast buffet. The a la carte restaurant Poseidon serves Mediterranean cuisine in a beach-side setting. The Queen’s Wine Bar serves a large wine selection, as well as refreshing cocktails.


The curtain has come down on Wayne Rooney’s international career – and it’s got us feeling all sentimental.
The former England and Manchester United hung up his boots on Wednesday after reportedly snubbing the chance to join up with the national team again.
Rooney has started his second stint at Everton with a bang with two goals in as many Premier League games after running out of steam in the final 18 months of his United career.
At England level, the country’s record goalscorer has played alongside some weird, wacky and wonderful faces down the years.
And according to our stats boffins, Rooney played alongside 13 players just the once across his international career.
1 Alan Thompson
Perhaps the strangest of the bunch, former Celtic winger Thompson made just the one England appearance in a 1-0 defeat to Sweden in the lead up to Euro 2004. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (who else?) scored the winner.
2 Jay Rodriguez
This would have been an awful lot more had Rodriguez’s career not been horribly interrupted by a horrible knee injury in March 2014, but Rooney and the West Brom striker appeared on the same pitch for the 2-0 home defeat to Chile at the end of 2013.
3 Francis Jeffers
Jeffers and Rooney knew each other from their early Everton days and were paired together on the latter’s England debut – a dismal 3-1 defeat to Australia in 2003.
4 Jack Butland
Butland, like Rodriguez, surely would have more caps but for a horrible injury before Euro 2016, but he does remain England’s youngest ever goalkeeper after his debut against Italy in 2012.
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5 Danny Drinkwater
Drinkwater’s emergence in recent years has directly contrasted with Rooney’s decline, but they shared a pitch for England’s final warm up game before Euro 2016 in a 2-1 win over Australia.
6 Kevin Davies
He came, he saw, he got a yellow card in a 0-0 draw with Montenegro in 2010.
7 Bobby Zamora
There was a time when our two most recent debutants were Kevin Davies and Bobby Zamora after the latter’s debut against Hungary in 2010. Lord have mercy.
8 Ryan Mason
Mason’s solitary England cap will be remembered for two reasons – an assist within a few minutes for Andros Townsend and the birth of his bizarre tattoo.
9 Anthony Gardner
Remember him? The former Spurs centre-back replaced John Terry at half time of that defeat to Sweden in 2004.
10 Jack Rodwell
The hype around Rodwell was reaching fever pitch around the time he made his England debut alongside Rooney – a 2-2 draw with Brazil in 2013.
11 Tom Heaton
They all count, but Heaton can boast to have shared the pitch with Rooney for just three minutes of the 2-1 win over Australia before Euro 2016.
12 Jon Flanagan
Another player whose career was horribly curtailed by a massive injury, Flanagan earned his only England cap against Ecuador in the build up to the 2014 World Cup.
13 Leon Osman
Osman and Rooney only just crossed paths at Everton and they did so once at international level – during an 8-0 win over San Marino in 2013.
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"Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood" (Ezekiel 19:10)
The blood-red tint of bougainvilleas is the main concern of an unusual color-blind gardener named Luca Vas when he arrives at the São Paolo home of Juraci Santos. Santos is a vindictive, distrustful woman who just happens to be the mother of the greatest, as well as most famous, fútbol player in the world. Luca wants to stay on her good side, so he is making some changes in the garden. Luca does not expect to find actual red blood, the color of which he can only imagine, and in such a way that he will never forget. Murder has been done and Juraci Santos is missing.
Tico "The Artist" Santos is the principal striker for the Brazilian team, which has been favored to win the FIFA Fútbol World Cup, the most highly anticipated sporting event on earth, which is being hosted by Brazil and is slated to start in three weeks. Whereas for many fútbol lovers, the game is their main love, for The Artist, elite though he may be, his mother is more important.
It is immediately obvious that there is a long list of people who might want to keep The Artist off the field when Brazil goes for its sixth World Cup title. The motives could be personal, or business, or even nationalistic. Could this be the work of Argentina, Brazil’s most bitter rival? Perhaps the culprits are trying to ruin the bookmaking odds or it might even be the work of someone who just would like Juraci out of her son's life. Whatever the reasons, The Artist is definitely not focused on his game.
I was caught up in the fútbol fever within a few pages of opening the book. Leighton Gage paces this interesting, exciting story just like the build-up to a big game. There is a rhythm behind the scenes that suggests a drumbeat––like that of the samba inexorably drawing the reader in to become part of the common denominator that unifies all strata of Brazilian society, from the President to the peon. Inspector Mario Silva's mandate is clear: he is to find Juraci Santos alive and before the World Cup begins. All of Brazil is depending on it. He has 13 days.
Murder mysteries are my main reading and it is always exciting to find a novel that takes me to an interesting locale and that is an original, exotic and stimulating story. The finale of this complex tale was not what I expected, but it made sense. This is the fifth of the Mario Silva series. As it has progressed, the characters and their personal lives are being fleshed out, which adds to the story without diluting the action. Though part of a series, this book can be read as a standalone because it is complete within itself. You can read it while others are watching the Super Bowl if American football is not your cup of coffee––Brazilian coffee, of course. In the end it was GOAL!! Leighton Gage.
In Europe (Belgium and The Netherlands) we have 3 books of L. GAGE now in the shops and in a few weeks we can buy the 4th (Every Bitter Thing )translated in Dutch!ReplyDelete
The author becomes more and more famous here!!
No wonder: in his books we learn so much more about the unknown life in Brasil AND his stories are so original!
Let us hope there's a translation of Vine in the Blood in the coming months...
Belgium is waiting mr Gage!!
For myself I am already looking for the next one. It might take a year but I am sure it will be worth the wait.ReplyDelete
Christiane, I hope you have a chance to read A VINE IN THE BLOOD in Dutch soon. I haven't yet read it, but I've read the others, and I'll read this one, too.ReplyDelete
I'm a big fan of both Gage's Mario Silva series set in Brazil and FIFA soccer. (The women's final between the USA and Japan was an absolutely top-notch game, and I'm looking forward to the men's World Cup in a few years.) A Mario Silva book that includes a Brazilian soccer player will be very entertaining to read. This series just gets better and better.
Leighton Gage is a master at examining Brazil's social issues. Chief Inspector Mario Silva and the series regulars are becoming more complex as the series continues. The books are first class.ReplyDelete
I'm glad they're now available in Belgium and the Netherlands, Christiane.


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NS&I has announced the Premium Bonds prize fund rate will rise from 3.3 percent to 3.7 percent from the upcoming July 2023 prize draw.
The rate boost will see an additional £39million in prizes become available for Bond holders and with the odds of each £1 Premium Bond winning a prize remaining at 24,000 to one, there are more chances each month for customers to win prizes worth between £50 and £100,000.
Alongside this, effective from today, NS&I has also increased the interest rate for young savers holding its Junior ISA, with the rate increasing to 3.65 percent up from 3.4 percent.
According to NS&I, the change will see more than 89,000 savers aged under 18 benefit.
NS&I chief executive, Dax Harkins, said: “This is now the sixth prize fund rate increase for Premium Bonds in just over a year, making it the highest it’s been in over 15 years.
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Final Report Summary - DIMAS (Deficit irrigation for Mediterranean agricultural systems)
Multidisciplinary research with various crops at different geographic locations and numerous scales was implemented to achieve the project objectives. The consortium members included research institutions and water associations of seven different countries which contributed expertise in the fields of water management, modelling, agricultural economics, sociology, rural development, irrigation agronomy, crop eco-physiology, irrigation engineering, soil science and geo-information. DIMAS participants focussed on the following activities:
1. development of a general summary of crop yield as a function of water supply
2. validation of a model for the main irrigated annual and perennial crops using common research protocols
3. elaboration of a survey on physical, socioeconomic and cultural conditions for each crop and irrigated area and
4. technology scale-up through combination of the yield model with economic optimisation modules that generated promising results for the specific conditions of each area under study.
The efforts in developing a new simulation model were based on lines initiated by the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). The model was accessible online by all project members and the general public, upon request. Field experiments were carried out to provide data for the model validation under varying water stress. The crops that were analysed included wheat, sunflower, cotton, olive, pistachio and citrus, representing the most common products of Mediterranean agriculture.
A workable, comprehensive set of DI practices and recommendations was therefore developed and disseminated among the various agricultural systems to ensure the sustainability of the applied practices. Feedback from the project end users was expected to be provided via the participation of farmers' associations and irrigation water agencies. It was anticipated that the proposed strategies would be useful towards a more rational exploitation of water resources with respective reduction of environmental problems. Finally, DIMAS attempted to increase the applicability of the proposed innovations to the agriculture industry, thereby contributing to sustainable development in the sector.

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These ultra-miniature power supplies are pin out and size compatible to industry standards. They have an output range of 5-20W, can accept universal input from 85-264 VAC and 23 of the series' models can provide single outputs of 3.3-24 VDC. They can run in an ambient temperature range of 0-40C. They typically run at 75 percent efficiency, have short-circuit protection circuitry, and are approved to UL/EC60950 safety specifications. They come with a built-in power-good LED indicator and an output adjustment potentiometer. They are as small as the 5-W version's 2.17 x 1.38 x 0.79 inches, and are made for PCB plug-in mounting. Prices start at OEM quantities at $11 each.
Are they robots or androids? We're not exactly sure. Each talking, gesturing Geminoid looks exactly like a real individual, starting with their creator, professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University in Japan.
For industrial control applications, or even a simple assembly line, that machine can go almost 24/7 without a break. But what happens when the task is a little more complex? That’s where the “smart” machine would come in. The smart machine is one that has some simple (or complex in some cases) processing capability to be able to adapt to changing conditions. Such machines are suited for a host of applications, including automotive, aerospace, defense, medical, computers and electronics, telecommunications, consumer goods, and so on. This discussion will examine what’s possible with smart machines, and what tradeoffs need to be made to implement such a solution.


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The report said the projected average price-to-earning ratio of new listings in Shanghai will be 20 to 40, and at SME board it will be 20 to 40, and at ChiNext board it will be 30 to 40.
"We are optimistic about future market trends and believe that the ‘New Normal' of economic growth and solid macroeconomic policy, the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect and the upcoming registration reform will facilitate a new chapter for the IPO market in 2015," said Frank Lyn, PwC Chinese mainland and Hong Kong Markets leader.
IPO activity in Chinese mainland slowly recovered in 2014 with 125 IPOs and 78.6 billion Yuan funds raised in total.
Among the IPOs, 43 companies got listed on the Shanghai A-share market, 31 companies went public on the Shenzhen SME exchange, and 51 companies chose the Shenzhen ChiNext exchange.
The popular sectors include consumer products, services and industrial ones.
Other equity funds raised for Shanghai and Shenzhen totaled 609 billion Yuan in 2014, rising 42.3 percent year on year.
Lyn said the popularity of other equity financing activities will continue in 2015.
The United States continued to lead the global IPO market in 2014, both in terms of total volume and value. In 2014, funds raised in the US increased by 54 percent compared to 2014, with the NYSE and Nasdaq accounting for 534.2 billion Yuan. Hong Kong came second with 122 IPOs raising HK$ 227.8 billion ($29.4 billion), an increase of 33 percent compared to 2013.


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Sears and Kmart are in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. They got permission to hold going-out-of-business sales at 142 unprofitable stores, forcing shopping centers to find new anchors.
Simon Property Group CEO, David Simon, called that an opportunity — and possibly the end of the traditional mall anchor.
Seritage Properties, the real estate investment trust (REIT) with a slate of Sears properties said it would lose some $84 million from 82 Sears tenants that remain in its “master lease.”
Seritage Properties said that based on the leases that are already signed and the remaining lease
up of current projects in the wholly-owned portfolio, they project an annualized rental income of over $195 million.
Simon said that the era of a mall anchored by a massive anchor retailer may be over, “It depends on the mall, but doesn’t need the department stores.”
Many smaller, already underperforming malls anchored by Sears Holdings stores will be hit hard by the closures including 77 Sears and 65 Kmart locations.
For many malls, smaller stores, including e-commerce pure-players, will increasingly define them.
Of 33 stores that are closed or are closing at the end of the year, Simon controls 22 and another five in a joint venture with Seritage.
Of the 17 that we have unmitigated control, Sears will no longer exist in 2019,” Simon said. “They will either be torn down, redeveloped, re-leased, but they’ll be in our rearview mirror.”
“We’re going to redevelop this,” he said. “We’re going to generate positive momentum with the properties due to this. We’re going to reinvest in the communities. We’re going to be able to drive traffic now from this box.”
Sears has 687 stores remaining, including Kmart locations.


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SIOUX CITY (AP) -- A federal judge in Sioux City has sentenced a man from Cherokee to more than 12 years in prison for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine.
In Thursday's hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Donald O'Brien sentenced 27-year-old Robert Joseph Hare to a total of 147 months in prison, to be followed by a 10-year term of supervised release.
Hare pleaded guilty in December to one count of conspiring to manufacture and deliver the drug.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Iowa, in his plea agreement, Hare said that from October of 2005 until February of last year he and others manufactured and sold meth within 1,000 feet of the Early Childhood Learning Center in Cherokee.
Hare was previously convicted in Cherokee County in 2005 for distribution of marijuana to persons under age 18.
Hare is being held in U.S. Marshal's custody until he can be taken to a federal prison.


The show will air on Monday!
Summary: Kelly sings a "Step by Step/Whatta Man/Hangin' Tough medley featuring New Kids on the Block and surprise musical guests!
Any guesses on who the "surprise musical guests" will be? "Whatta Man" was a song by Salt N Pepa and EnVogue.
OMG!!I can’t wait for Monday!! I’ve been waiting for this for 2 years!
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For the week of June 4, the recipe for Tuesdays With Dorie was Savarin which is located on page 416-417 in Baking With Julia.
For this recipe , I actually didn’t have a Savarin pan so I used my doughnut pan and made 6 mini Savarins. This recipe was actually really easy to make and the rise time for the dough was really short. I made some modifications to the recipe based on ingredients that I had in the house. The recipe called for pear water, which I didn’t have so I left it out of the recipe. For the raspberry puree, I didn’t see the point to making it when I only needed 2 tablespoons, so I tossed fresh raspberries with heated raspberry preserves. I think it turned out just as good. The Savarin dough did have a very yeasty flavor, but it wasn’t anything that bothered me since the simple syrup (rum), whipped cream, and raspberries balanced out the flavors.

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On the 16th of September the third game of the final playoff between the “Akademiks” and the “Angels” was played. The game started equally as both teams scored a few points in the first innings. Sara Marcova opened the score for the “Akademiks” with a homerun in the first inning and gave the team a 2-0 lead. The “Angels” did not let that break their sporting spirit and quickly returned the points in the next inning. After several challenging situations and run exchange, in the last three innings the “Angels” dominated the game, reaching a score of 16:6. Thus, with three victories, the “Angels” won their second championship title and the “Akademiks” added the 2017s silver to their bag of medals.
At the end of September both teams will again have the chance to face each other in a fight for the Cup of Bulgaria. The teams of “Athletic”, “Lions”, the Junior National Team and the Serbian “Wildcats” will also take part in the championship.
Here is the final ranking from “Bulgarian softball league”:

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CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - From Cleveland to Akron to Youngstown and all the way to Erie, Pa., record high temperatures were broken.
At 10:52 a.m. the temperature at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport hit 70 degrees. The old record was 69 degrees set in 1930.
At 12:21 p.m. the temperature at Akron-Canton Regional Airport reached 69 degrees. The old record high there was 67 degrees set in 2016.
At Mansfield's Lahm Airport, it reached 67 degrees breaking the previous record of 66 degrees set in 2016 and 1930.
At 10:31 a.m. the temperature at Youngstown Municipal Airport hit 67 degrees. The previous record was 65 degrees set in 2016 and 1939.
In Pennsylvania at the Erie International Airport, the temperature hit 69 degrees at 10:30 a.m. The previous record was 66 degrees set in 2016 and 1930.
This will result in the warmest readings we've seen since October and a few new record highs.
The celestial faucet may open up from time to time along the northern tier today as well.
More rain arrives tonight as lows dip into the 50s.
Wednesday will be a transitional day of rainy weather and temperatures plummeting from the 50s into the lower 40s by tomorrow afternoon. Flooding threats will be a concern.
Thursday morning holds the possibility of a little wet snow or drizzle with afternoon highs only around 40.


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Lettice Franklin, Publishing Director at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, has acquired UK & Commonwealth rights in Green Dot by Madeleine Gray from John Ash at PEW, on behalf of Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary. Ash submitted the novel on a Friday evening, and Franklin had taken the novel off the table by the Monday morning that followed. US rights have been acquired by Caroline Zancan at Henry Holt in a pre-empt. Australian rights have been acquired by Kelly Fagan at Allen & Unwin also in a pre-empt.
For readers of Meg Mason’s Sorrow and Bliss, Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This and Raven Leilani’s Luster – Green Dot is told by Hera. Hera is in her mid-twenties, which to most people seems young but not to people in their mid-twenties. She has spent the years since school trying to kick and scream into existence a life she cares about – but with little success so far. And then she meets Arthur, an older, married colleague. Intoxicated by the promise of ordinary happiness he seems to represent, Hera falls headlong into a workplace romance and a love story that will take the rest of the novel to tell.
Lettice Franklin, editor, said: ‘I don’t think I have ever acquired a book as quickly as this one. From the moment I read its first page, I was simultaneously smitten and very, very anxious about the prospect of not publishing it. There is a moment in Green Dot when its heroine describes the thrill of making a new friend in the office: ‘Oh my God. Oh my God Mei Ling is funny. Mei Ling is funny and depressed. My two favourite things in a potential friend. I am beaming. I am floating. Mei Ling you saucy devil, you sly dog, you also hate this!!’ Reading this novel felt like a similar experience to me – it has the boisterous humour, the life-affirming intimacy, the vulnerable confessions of a conversation had on a Friday afternoon when the boss is away and here, finally, in this large, cold room you spend your life in (to quote Madeleine), is someone that sees the world as you do. It made me laugh out loud over and over again. It moved me deeply in its portrait of the particular heady obsession of a workplace crush and in its exploration of why a woman becomes – and chooses to stay – the other woman. As I read I thought about many of my favourite writers – Katherine Heiny, David Sedaris, Raven Leilani, Meg Mason, Halle Butler, Patricia Lockwood, Naoise Dolan – and Madeleine’s name now sits on that list. All of us at W&N and Orion are completely obsessed with this novel and cannot believe our luck to be publishing it. We are beaming.’
Madeleine Gray, author, said: ‘I wrote Green Dot as I was doing my UK PhD remotely from Sydney due to the pandemic, and as I was working in a bookstore where my colleagues and I were unionising. Writing this book became like a salve. I wrote to make myself laugh, and to make sense of the world that young people, and young women especially, now find ourselves in. The green dot of the title refers to the green dot on social media, showing which users are online. A lot of the romance in the novel plays out over IM and texts, and at times across countries. The green dot is also a Gatsby reference, sue me – about the allure of waiting for something that promises nothing.’
John Ash, agent, said: ‘A few paragraphs into Green Dot, I knew I was reading something incredibly special, fresh and exciting. By the time I was twenty pages in my colleagues very politely asked if I could go home to finish it, as my endless cackling and quoting was driving everyone else insane. I couldn’t be more delighted that Madeleine’s hilarious, sharp, profound and painfully relatable novel has found the very best of homes with Lettice Franklin at W&N.’
Madeleine Gray is a writer and critic from Sydney. She was a 2021 Finalist for the Walkley Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, and has written for such publications as Overland, Meanjin, The Monthly, Sydney Review of Books, Australian Book Review, and the Times Literary Supplement. She also has a British connection, in that she has an MSt in English Literature from the University of Oxford and is a current doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester.


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Good question, and it comes as no surprise that Salena Zito is one of the few — if any — reporters asking it. John Fetterman suffered a stroke in May, a consequence of an unrevealed chronic case of cardiomyopathy. For weeks, the Fetterman family and campaign insisted that Fetterman had recovered from the former and had the latter under control, but declined to share medical reports on either condition.
And after several weeks of clearly struggling to communicate on the campaign trail, Fetterman’s team still won’t provide updates on his medical condition or prognosis. Salena notes the irony of this coming from a self-professed populist:
Despite numerous editorials from local newspapers across the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as well as the Washington Post, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman’s campaign still refuses to release updates on his medical condition. That includes not just the aftereffects from his stroke earlier this year but also an update on the heart condition that caused it. …
The evidence of the stroke’s impact is now manifest. Fetterman struggles to speak at his campaign rallies. He relies on tropes, such as talking about New Jersey, crudites, and banning the filibuster, rather than speaking extemporaneously on current issues. His symptoms have never been addressed by the medical experts who are treating him. No doctor has spoken publicly about his condition outside of the letter released by his cardiologist in June. No doctor has taken questions about him from the media.
Can this man serve the state effectively as senator for the full six-year term? The lack of transparency from a candidate whose advisers have called him “authentic, straight-talking, no-B.S. populist” has left Pennsylvania voters in the dark.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s editorial board has gone on the record demanding transparency. In fact, they called for both Fetterman and opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz to fully disclose their medical record so that voters can make an informed decision in the midterm election:
Further delays in scheduling a debate between U.S. Senate candidates John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz have raised more questions about Mr. Fetterman’s health, including his ability to communicate and process information. He has increased his public appearances, but his speech remains halting, and he repeats key phrases like mantras.
To reassure the public, Mr. Fetterman ought to release the full results of his cognitive tests and other medical records, and make his doctors available to the media. Mr. Oz should release his medical records, too.
So far, Mr. Fetterman’s campaign has reported a specific (and normal) score from his July Saint Louis University Mental Status Examination (SLUMS), but has said only that his more recent Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) test was “in the normal range.” The RBANS test results in distinct scores in five areas: immediate memory, visuospatial/constructional, language, attention and delayed memory. The campaign should tell voters how Mr. Fetterman performed in each category.
Today, Oz ramped up the pressure on Fetterman by doing exactly what the PP-G demanded.
News: Dr. Mehmet Oz has released medical records in response to a recent editorial from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
A letter (dated yesterday) from a physician released by the Oz campaign deems Oz to be in “overall excellent health.”
Here’s the first page of the letter: pic.twitter.com/aVM27TWHXy
— Justin Sweitzer (@justin_sweitzer) September 23, 2022
The release looks comprehensive, and Spencer Brown reviews it at Townhall:
The years-worth of medical information leading up to this week released by Oz also includes a series of letters, starting with one in July 2014 from Dr. Rebecca Kurth following a regular checkup that found Oz in a normal, healthy condition. A DXA whole body composition scan led his doctor to conclude Oz was “super fit with ideal body composition!” In summary, Kurth said Oz was “in overall EXCELLENT health.”
Another letter from Dr. Kurth following a regular checkup in January 2018 reaffirmed that Oz was in “overall EXCELLENT health” and his bloodwork and test results showed normal/healthy levels on the key metrics.
The most recent information comes, again, from Dr. Kurth based on a checkup on September 22, 2022. Once again, Kurth reiterated that Oz is in “overall EXCELLENT health” after an exam that showed he “is healthy and the blood tests are all favorable.” Kurth’s notes state that Oz is “well developed, well nourished, alert, in no apparent distress” and “oriented to person, place, and time.”
Along with the letter from Kurth on his latest checkup, Oz also released his latest EKG (dated 9/22/2022) that showed normal/healthy heart activity and a pathology report for a pre-cancerous polyp that was discovered during a colonoscopy conducted the same year as part of The Doctor Oz Show.
It looks as if Oz went to the doctor yesterday specifically to make this argument on medical transparency. Whether Team Fetterman liked it or not, that raises the stakes on their own refusal to disclose their candidate’s true medical condition. With early voting about to get underway in Pennsylvania, perhaps Fetterman and his handlers think they can run out the clock. However, they may end up convincing voters that they’re running away from transparency for some damning reasons — and the longer people get that impression, the more those early votes will start reflecting those fears, or at the very least, the longer people will wait to cast them.
If Fetterman can do the job, then transparency shouldn’t be a problem. The clear implication of all this dodging is that Fetterman’s not up to the job or the campaign — and they’re trying to cover it up.

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In general, they've been the era from which I've liked the least cymbals that I've played.
A bit too icy and A. Zildjian-like for my taste in K's. (not to imply that I don't like A. Zildjian; quite the contrary)
Having said that, one of the nicest 22" K's I've played was an Intermediate Stamp at Maxwells NYC in 2008. It weighed 2500-ish grams, and was just so well balanced. Tonally, I wouldn't have guessed it was an Intermediate (it sounded older than that), but it was. I remember asking Jesse how much it was ($1800), and being so bummed that I had to leave the shop without it.
I've heard some really sweet Intermediate Stamp hi-hats, too. For hats, I think the cleaner and clearer tone of that era works really well.
...I found a photo my friend snapped of of me playing that 22" Intermediate Stamp at Maxwell's.
Man, I wish I could reach into that photo, pull that cymbal out of it, and play it again!
I imagine everyone has heard the story about how K.Zil ran out of metal at 1 time..and bought up miles and miles of wire from a Turkish phone company..which they then smelted down…..
I believe this is what they used to make intermediates with,as to me,the metal looks different then NS/OS ones….


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Moisture dependence of above- and belowground responses to warming in an old-field ecosystem
To examine the degree to which species and ecosystem responses to warming are nonlinear and moisture-dependent, we exposed plots of an old field with tree seedlings to factorial combinations of warming (four levels, from ambient to +4°C) and precipitation (-50%, ambient, and +50%). We measured responses of plant growth and soil processes to the treatments over six years.
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In one week, the new DJI’s launch will take place. On August 25 at 9:00 a.m. EDT, this launch is anticipated to occur.
There have been numerous leaks about the upcoming drone Avata, but DJI has yet to make an official announcement. Avata’s leaked pictures and the teaser’s positioning of the battery indicators and propeller guards are remarkably similar in terms of design. By enrolling in DJI’s Skypixel program prior to the ‘Born to Fly’ event, users can test the drone out before it is made available.
If you are a fan of DJI, it is worth applying through the Skypixel website since, if accepted, you may have the new drone at the beginning of September.
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