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We are currently in Greece. In this Travel Blog we talk about International Museums Day 2021 and how we checked out as many museums and landmarks as possible! In previous blogs we explored the Acropolis, Anafiotika and Kolonaki areas, Panathenaic Stadium, and went to Lycabettus Hill for the sunset.
In case you are new here, we are Will and Katy. We are a travel couple that is traveling around the world. We are currently in Greece. We hope to show you what it is like to travel in 2021!
We flew out of Tirana (Mother Teresa) International Airport to Athens International Airport in Greece. 3 months earlier we flew into Tirana from Florida in the United States with a layover at Frankfurt Airport in Germany. We spent the time since traveling around the Balkans: Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Macedonia.
International Museums Day
International Museum Day, May 18th, is where every museum that participates and is open will allow you in for free! This day was created in 1977 by the International Council of Museums. Each year there is also a theme. The theme for 2021 is "The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine." Our challenge for the day is to see how many museums we can get into before they close at night.
Operating Hours: 10 am - 6 pm
Regular Price: 5 Euro
Overview: The Acropolis museum was founded to exhibit all the significant finds from the Sacred Rock and its foothills. The location is 300 meters south of the Acropolis and it has glass walls in order to see the area in which these pieces were excavated. The entrance way features a clear floor to show the ruins of an ancient Athenian neighborhood on this very site.
Temple of Athena Nike: Several of the slabs and parts of the broad horizontal band of sculpted decoration at the top frontage, called a frieze, can be seen in the Acropolis Museum; other parts of the frieze are in the British Museum Brauroneion: The head of the statue of Artemis, the goddess of hunting,is now on display at the Acropolis Museum.
Parthenon: Lord Elgin, a British Ambassador stole the marble friezes from the front of the Parthenon. Today I believe half of the remaining original frieze is in the British Museum and the other half are in the Acropolis museum. It's a shame that the British museum will not return the section they took of the frieze of the Parthenon to the Acropolis Museum where people can see all of the remains of the original frieze together in one place right next to the original location.
Erechtheion: It has a porch which has stone carvings of 6 draped females or caryatid figures. But the ones here today are exact replicas. 5 of the original caryatids are in the Acropolis Museum and the Sixth one is at the British Museum in London. Lord Eligin along with half of the frieze of the Parthenon took one of the caryatids. Athenian legend had it that at night the remaining five Caryatids could be heard wailing for their lost sister. It would be great to have the originals here but I would imagine they are safer in the Acropolis Museum.
Propylaea: This is the west and formal entrance way of the Acropolis.
Operating Hours: 10 am to 5 pm
Regular Price: 3 Euro
Overview: In 1964, the Hellenic State decided to found the War Museum, wishing to honor all those who fought for Greece and its freedom. They have a replica of Greece's very first war plane. Statue of Alexander III of Macedon known better as Alexander the Great. Shows the warfare he designed that equipped his men with long spears to help win many battles.
Kotsana Museum of Ancient Greek Technology
Operating Hours: 10 am - 6 pm
Regular Price: 5 Euro
Overview: At the beginning of the century, this building belonged to the wife of King Alexander I, and later on was the head office of the Athenian News Agency. Kostas Kotsanas was born in 1963. He has dedicated his life to the study of ancient Greek culture, particularly in the field of ancient Greek technology. He created this museum at his own expense. The museum highlights the technology of ancient Greeks, an extremely important but relatively unknown aspect of ancient Greek culture.
This museum is a must when visiting Greece, it is a hands on experience and the attendants are very helpful and knowledgeable! We even got a free gift on the way out.
Ancient Agora Museum
Operating Hours: 8:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Regular Price: 4 Euros
Overview: We are in the Stoa of Attalos or the covered walkway enclosed by pillars which was built by and named after King Attalos II of Pergamon. Excavation of the Athenian Agora began in 1931; well after other famous sites such as Pompeii and Olympia which has allowed its record keeping and historical context to remain in place. It has over 35,000 pieces of pottery and over 70,000 coins. The Athenian Agora was the center of the city. Every event or activity of the time could happen in the Agora.
You can see more of our day exploring the museums (and some historical sights) of Athens Greece in our travel vlog "Athens Greece International Museums Day 2021 Travel Vlog (Acropolis, War, Technology, Ancient Agora)" on YouTube. Out now!
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Canadian operators build new truck route
Gravel operators from Summit Sand and Gravel, Mainland Sand and Gravel, and Lafarge Sand and Gravel worked together to build a truck route that minimizes gravel trucks traveling roads in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, the Abbotsford Times reports.
Collaboration began following a neighborhood meeting during which residents voiced concern about the safety of loaded gravel trucks on steep local roads.
The three operators pooled their resources and built a new road within the three quarries; reducing trucks on local roads by an estimated 75 percent.
“This is an excellent example of neighbors working together to solve a problem,” Abbotsford Mayor Bruce Banman said in a press release. “This would have been an expensive project if the city had to become involved, but, by working together, local businesses came up with their own solution, and everybody is happy and safe.”
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By Lee Zimmerman
The Americana label is bandied about rather loosely these days, being used to describe everything from roots rock wannabes to alt country crooners. However no record company truly epitomizes the essence of that elusive tag more than HighTone, whose simple slogan, “American Music,” neatly sums up the one single element that defines their distinctive artist roster.
The diversity of music found within that realm reflects the passion of its founders, Bruce Bromberg and Larry Sloven, two music business veterans whose initial bond was formed when they discovered they had a mutual admiration for country music icon Merle Haggard. Bromberg, a producer, songwriter and sales rep for the now-defunct Tomato Records, first met Sloven in the late ‘70s when the latter was working for Pacific Record and Tape, Tomato’s West Coast distributor. However, it wasn’t until 1983 when the two opted to join forces.
Bromberg had been an enthusiastic champion of Cray’s Tomato debut, Who’s Been Talkin’, which had generated a critical buzz with radio and retail. Unfortunately, the prospects for Cray’s sophomore set were considerably diminished when Tomato announced its pending demise. Desperate to find a new outlet for the follow-up, Bromberg turned to Sloven, who, in turn, offered $25,000 and the suggestion that they create a record label to provide its release. A distribution arrangement was inked with Polygram and the new imprint — Mercury/HighTone — debuted with Robert Cray’s second album Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark.
In the beginning, with only one album to launch the label, HighTone was slow getting started. Consequently, Bromberg was forced to take a job at his father’s insurance company in order to maintain an income. Sloven kept his position at an Oakland California record distributor, promoting HighTone product clandestinely before going to work and while on his lunch hour, making calls on a pay phone.
They eventually hired a marketing company to help them find new distribution, and then turned to independent promotion people to pitch their product to radio. In time, Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark garnered gold sales status. Three years later HighTone/Mercury birthed another Cray offering, Strong Persuader — a multiplatinum smash that gave the fledgling label its first, and to date greatest, across-the–board hit.
With the success of the two Cray albums under their belt, Bromberg and Sloven quit their day jobs and opened their own office in Oakland. Within a few years, they weaned HighTone away from Polygram, expanded their repertoire and diversified the sound to encompass not only blues, but also rock, folk, country, Latino and reggae. The label made early inroads into the then-burgeoning Austin, Texas, music scene, winning critical kudos for early albums by Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Dale Watson and the Hot Club of Cowtown before branching out into the up-and-coming west coast roots rock market via releases of music from Dave Alvin, the Blasters and their critically-acclaimed Merle Haggard tribute album, Tulare Dust.
HighTone also made a firm imprint in the traditional country realm, adding such stellar names as Gary Stewart, Johnny Rodriguez, Hank Thompson and Buddy Miller to their rapidly growing roster.
From the beginning, HighTone’s music was driven more by the owners’ preferences and enthusiasm than any deliberate attempt to stake out a specific niche.
“I don't think we ever thought of it as anything other than singer-songwriters,” Bromberg recalls. “We started as a blues label, which is what I did before HighTone. My taste was country and blues. We became involved with many singer-songwriters… I was closer to the blues people than the folksingers, with exception of the Austin acts, many of whom I worked with… I was way into Joe Ely; he produced his own albums and the first Gilmore for us. I worked with the harder country people such as Heather Myles, Dale Watson, Ted Roddy, Lonesome Strangers, and Dallas Wayne.”
HighTone’s growth throughout the late '80s and early '90s neatly coincided with the growing popularity of what had come to be called Americana, a synthesis of no-frills rock ‘n’ roll, traditional folk and classic country. Yet Bromberg insists that the style has never been defined definitively, a fact that’s blurred any attempt to categorize HighTone as a whole.
“As far as Americana is concerned, it's just a catchall term for roots music,” he contends. “Our Tulare Dust album was the first number one on the Americana chart, however there is no Americana chart in Billboard. It was more a radio format thing, so therefore not as meaningful as if it were in Billboard. The stuff winds up in country sections or folk.”
In an attempt to bring further attention to these various genres, the label launched a number of specialty package tours that grouped together like-minded artists from the HighTone stable. Variously known as the Roadhouse Revival Tour, the Monsters of Folk tour, the Twangbangers Tour and the Big Noise From Springfield Tour, these outings helped turn the spotlight on the company’s diverse musical offerings.
Over the years, HighTone’s extra emphasis on developing singer/songwriters gave a critical boost to the careers of artists such as Tom Russell, Chris Smither and Buddy and Julie Miller. Last year also saw the return of the legendary PF Sloan, whose HighTone album Sailover marked his first U.S. offering in nearly 35 years.
“Our criteria used to be to sign artists we really liked, but now we have to look at what they have going on,” Bromberg says. “Whatever success we had was due to the fact we chose artists we thought had something different, or who were very good singers and musicians.”
Despite its nearly 25-year legacy as America’s definitive roots outlet, Bromberg says that today’s marketplace presents new challenges, even for established indies.
“I think it would be very difficult to start a roots label now,” he admits. “There’s not as many clubs, and I think that as our audience ages, they don't go to the few record stores left. Amazon doesn't come close to replacing the stores… The digital era has pretty much wiped out most record stores, and the income from downloads does not come close to the income lost from store sales. Bandstand sales by artists have become more and more prevalent.”
Not surprisingly then, HighTone’s operations remain modest. The company is still based out of its original Oakland offices and employs only two full time staffers in addition to its two founding partners. Nevertheless, the label boasts a sprawling catalog. Last year, it commerated its success by compiling nearly 80 songs and 16 videos for a five-disc CD/DVD box set aptly dubbed American Music: The HighTone Records Story.
Along with contributions from every artist that’s been a part of its roster, it includes a booklet filled with reflections, observations and anecdotes from Bromberg, Sloven and many of those same musicians that played such important roles in the company’s evolution. Dave Alvin’s comments seem to echo an overall feeling of gratitude and admiration that’s felt for the label and its founders.
“HighTone gave me the unique opportunity to grow as an artist that few, if any labels would have,” he writes. “For that I am eternally grateful to Bruce Bromberg and Larry Sloven. If it hadn’t been for them I never would have found my voice as a singer-songwriter and I’d probably either be flipping burgers right now or something far, far worse. No artist can ask for more.”

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Rich jewel tones, delicate lace, pleats, chiffon, floral cut-outs, silk, and tulle – the new Vizyon collection takes you back to a time when high-octane glamour was the way women expressed their femininity. “This collection tells the tale of a woman with timeless elegance, it is her moment to shine,” says Shradha Murarka, describing her new collection.
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The palette is refined and feminine, in both its neutral and deeper tones. Bright red, emerald, black, navy and burgundy are the key colours lending a romantic and urban vibe to this range. The royal tones of purple, green, champagne and turquoise, along with silver and gold add a hint of mystery and fantasy.
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|By Marketwired .||
|May 21, 2014 06:47 PM EDT||
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/21/14 -- International Northair Mines Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:INM) (the "Company" or "Northair") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Net Smelter Return ("NSR") royalty agreement ("Royalty Agreement") with Coeur Capital, Inc. ("Coeur") for proceeds of US$4.0 million. The 2.5% NSR is payable on future production from the La Cigarra silver project (the "Project"), located in north central Mexico.
"Northair is very pleased to raise funds allowing us to move forward without diluting our existing shareholders during this difficult time in the resource industry," said Fred Hewett, President and CEO of Northair. "We appreciate the support of Coeur and look forward to having them as a long term partner as we continue to advance La Cigarra. The funds will be used for a drill program to potentially increase our resource, explore other significant undrilled targets and to conduct further economic studies."
Under the terms of the Royalty Agreement, the Company will receive US$4.0 million payable for a 2.5% NSR royalty on production from the La Cigarra silver project. Northair will receive US$2,250,000 of the funds on the effective date of the Royalty Agreement, which will be followed by US$1,750,000 payable as a second tranche on September 2, 2014.
Coeur's parent company, Coeur Mining, Inc., currently owns 20,350,000 common shares representing 19.4% of the Company's issued and outstanding common shares and is an insider of the Company. As a result, this transaction is a related party transaction and subject to valuation and minority voting requirements of Policy 5.9 of the TSX Venture Exchange and Multilateral Instrument 61-101 - Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101").
As Northair is not listed or quoted on any prescribed exchange, the transaction is exempt from the formal valuation requirement of MI 61-101. Northair is relying on an exemption from the minority approval requirement of MI 61-101 as described in more detail below.
As previously disclosed, Northair needs to fund $800,000 to exercise its option to acquire a 100% interest in the original concessions, certain concessions surrounding the Project and to pay for certain mineral concession and land taxes. These commitments are in excess of the Company's cash on hand, accordingly, the Company currently has neither sufficient funds nor reasonably available financing options to satisfy these commitments.
A special committee (the "Special Committee") of three independent directors of the Company was constituted to consider the entering into of the Royalty Agreement with Coeur. The Special Committee has determined unanimously that the Company is in serious financial difficulty due to its near term financial commitments, the Royalty Agreement with Coeur is designed to improve the financial position of the Company, and the terms of the Royalty Agreement are reasonable in the Company's current circumstances. Accordingly, the Special Committee recommended to the Board that the Royalty Agreement be approved and the Board accepted that recommendation.
Use of Proceeds
Proceeds from the Royalty Agreement will allow Northair to earn a 100% interest in certain key mineral rights comprising the La Cigarra silver project, as well as carry out continued exploration that will include 4,000 metres of core drilling at San Gregorio and Las Carolinas. These two adjacent mineral zones currently host a Measured and Indicated silver resource of 50.5 million ounces grading 76 g/t. (see INM PR#13-05 dated February 26, 2013) defined over a strike length of 2.1 kilometres. The program will also include 1,700 metres of drilling to test multiple mineral showings and historic mine workings found at the Las Venadas and Las Chinas targets. These untested mineral showings lie to the south and extend the La Cigarra mineral trend an additional two kilometers.
Raymond James Ltd. assisted Northair in arranging this transaction with Coeur.
The transaction is subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
About International Northair Mines Ltd.
International Northair Mines Ltd is a mineral exploration company engaged in the acquisition and development of gold and silver properties in Mexico. Northair is focused on advancing its La Cigarra silver project located in the state of Chihuahua, which currently hosts a NI 43-101 Resource estimate of 50.4 million ounces of silver in the Measured & Indicated categories grading 76 g/t silver and 3.5 million ounces of silver in the Inferred category grading 61 g/t silver constrained by a Whittle pit shell at an economic cutoff grade of 30 g/t silver (assuming metallurgical recoveries of 84% silver). The La Cigarra silver deposit also contains appreciable amounts of lead, zinc and gold as referenced in the San Gregorio/Las Carolinas Resources Technical Report La Cigarra Project, Chihuahua Mexico dated effective February 26, 2013.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD,
INTERNATIONAL NORTHAIR MINES LTD.
Fred G. Hewett, P.Eng., President & CEO
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
This news release may contain forward looking statements which are not historical facts, such as resource estimates, anticipated results and costs, and discussions of goals and exploration results, and involves a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, metal price volatility, volatility of metals production, project development, resources estimates, future anticipated resources and cost engineering estimate risks, geological factors and exploration results. See Northair's filings for a more detailed discussion of factors that may impact expected results.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women and girls and their access to reproductive health and family planning. No mother should die in childbirth and girls should be able to reach their full potential. I am honored to support the life-saving and life-changing work of UNFPA as a member of USA for UNFPA’s Legacy Society. My planned gift will help to ensure the essential support for women and girls globally that is their human right. I invite you to join me.
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I’m a Knowledge Lead for The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children Restorative Inquiry
My experience at the Schulich School of Law was very positive—and very busy! There were a lot of opportunities for extracurricular activity, and opportunities to be a leader in extracurricular settings; at Dal they pushed you to be innovative and think of new things when it comes to extracurricular opportunities.
That was good for someone like me, who is very outgoing. Law school is tough, and the course-based work demands so much in terms of time and effort. I used the opportunities available outside of the classroom as positive reinforcement to get through the academic challenges.
My job is not one that requires a law degree, but it’s a job that requires excellent research and writing skills (in which my degree was helpful), and now that I’m in the position I think the law degree is necessary—funny how that happens. Being at Dalhousie got me thinking about all the types of opportunities available to try and be innovative in my career; really thinking outside of the box.
This career is a good fit for me because it involves my community. I am a Black female from Nova Scotia, so I am passionate about the work, and directly connected to my work. It allows me to take the skills I learned in law school, but continually build on them in ways that I probably didn’t even think possible. I’m someone who likes to always push the boundaries, and this job is great for me because it’s not traditional!

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Inactivation kinetics of sensory neuron sodium channels depend on the type of hydrogen ion buffer
Tetrodotoxin-sensitive and tetrodotoxin-resistant sodium currents were studied in rat dorsal root ganglion neurons using a patch-clamp method. The type of hydrogen ion buffer used was found to affect the kinetics of the inactivation process. Tris ions irreversibly bound to the inactivation gating apparatus, accelerating the decay in the trailing front of the ion current. The characteristics of this process were clearly nonlinear in this buffer. In HEPES buffer, the inactivation dynamics were slowed for both types of channel studied. Unlike results obtained with tris buffer, there were no sharp changes in the characteristics as compared to those obtained immediately after puncture of the cell membrane. The advantages of using HEPES buffer for studies of the inactivation gating processes of sodium channels are discussed.
Key wordsSodium channel patch-clamp method inactivation of sodium conductivity
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The next generation coronavirus vaccine will not come so soon
The flood of cash from Operation Warp Speed has helped guide many biotech companies into the competition for coronavirus vaccines, but the incentive to continue working on new competitors is not very strong. Significant reason: The first cash flood went well — providing multiple highly effective vaccines in record time. However, in other disease areas, 2nd and 3rd generation vaccines are usually the main products. And the first COVID-19 vaccine is not always optimal for the whole world. Get the right market news for your time at Axios Markets. Subscribe for free. The big picture: Pfizer and Modana RNA vaccines are very effective. Also, in the United States and other wealthy countries, refrigeration requirements and multiple doses can be easily managed. “The motivation for developing a vaccine to replace such a vaccine is not overwhelming,” said NIAID director Anthony Fauci. The US government has little reason to spend billions of dollars on subsequent research, and the vaccine market relies heavily on government and non-governmental agencies. Yes, but: Each existing vaccine has some characteristics and is not a perfect candidate for use in low-income countries, and ultimately, vaccination as much as possible in the world is not possible. It will be the self-interest of a rich country. Both Pfizer and Moderna are two shots and need to be stored at very low temperatures. AstraZeneca is a two-shot and has been plagued by bad headlines and safety concerns from European regulators. Johnson & Johnson is a one-shot, but it has also suffered a reputational decline due to very rare side effects. Conspiracy: There is no traditional market incentive to develop cheaper competing products, especially since much of the remaining needs are in poor countries, “said Professor Craig Garthwaite of Northwestern University,” low prices for another vaccine. If you’re trying to develop in, that’s probably not a good incentive. ” Efficacy, safety, cost, ease of use, speed of development for a new generation covering variants, and manufacturing scalability, “said Krishna Udayakumar, Founding Director of the Duke Global Health Innovation Center. “For long-term sustainability, new vaccines probably need to be better in one or more of these domains.” What we are paying attention to: The vaccine pipeline is completely dry. Not — Novavax is likely to seek approval soon and other vaccines are still under development “Access to capital may be even more difficult in the future, but still with significant R & D support There seem to be several vaccine candidates, “said Udaya Kumar. These include vaccines that use a variety of platforms and vaccines that can be administered orally. Existing vaccine manufacturers will continue to work on their products. Pfizer is investigating whether vaccines can be stored at warmer temperatures. This makes it more accessible around the world. I think there is a strong interest in access to mRNA vaccines in low and middle income countries. I also think that companies are doing a lot of research to get rid of the cold. “They have chain requirements,” Forch said. “There will always be individual researchers working on new platform technologies.” “They won’t be done at Operation Warp Speed levels. These will be done by the individual grantees who devised the concept.” Axios Details: To get the latest market trends at Axios Markets Please sign up. Subscribe for free.

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A Teesside teacher with cystic fibrosis has welcomed a new screening test for every baby born in the region.
Each baby born on Teesside is now being screened for cystic fibrosis - an inherited disease that particularly affects the lungs and digestive system - for the first time.
The move, which began on November 1, is part of a national ongoing programme that will see all babies in the country tested for the condition. Health authority NHS North East expects to pick up between 12 and 15 babies with CF out of the 30,000 births every year in the North-east and Cumbria.
Though a child with CF may still become ill, earlier diagnosis and treatment may help them live longer, healthier lives.
Sarah Newlove, 27, of Ingleby Barwick was born with the condition and has welcomed the screening programme.
"I think it's a great idea," she said. "The earlier you know, the less damage it will do to your body and you can start treatment straight away."
The screening test will also pick up whether someone is a carrier of the CF gene, which they could pass on to their child.
"Picking up people who are carriers is quite radical but a good idea. People don't realise how common the mutation is."
Sarah was diagnosed with CF at three months old, after her mother felt she wasn't putting on weight even though she was constantly hungry as a baby.
A sweat test was used to diagnose the disease at the time but she had to have three as one came back normal and one abnormal.
Under the new screening a midwife takes a small sample of blood from the baby's heel, usually when they are five days old. The sample is sent to the regional screening laboratory at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle.
The test identifies those babies with the most common alterations in the cystic fibrosis gene that causes CF.
Families of babies who test positive for cystic fibrosis are told quickly and an immediate appointment with a specialist paediatrician is arranged for further tests to be carried out.
Middlesbrough's James Cook University Hospital is a specialist CF centre where the tests can take place.
Although the condition is life limiting with no cure, sufferers' life expectancy can extend into their 40s.
The Acklam Grange science teacher takes antibiotics to ward off bugs, along with vitamins and enzymes.
She has spent time in hospital with bugs, chest infections and kidney stones but has not let the condition stand in her way.
"If you are sensible and not reckless you are ok," she said.
Community based treatment is now favoured, so Sarah is able to have antibiotic injections at home instead of making trips to hospital.
Her husband Darren has been tested and is not a carrier. But as Sarah has CF, if she had children they would automatically be carriers of the condition. They would not, however, have full blown CF.
Sarah is positive about what the future holds. "No one knows when they are going to die. It is the way you handle it and my parents brought me up to be strong and positive."
Consultant paediatrician Dr Fiona Hampton said: "The screening means babies and their families can start treatment early on in their life.
"This helps prognosis as there is no cure but it is possible to lead a normal life with CF."

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Monoclonal antibodies could be created with the help of cultured cells. The quick rise could cause abrupt stroke or heart attack. This can raise your danger for lung relevant disorders and specific kinds of cancer.
Monoclonal antibodies can be created with the help of cultured cells. The fast increase could cause sudden stroke or cardiac arrest. This could increase your threat for lung associated disorders and also particular sort of cancer. One of the most important step you could do for the general public as well as yourself is to end up the whole course of drug. Typically, therapy includes a combination of inpatient as well as outpatient programs, therapy (psychiatric therapy), self-help teams, matching with specific sponsors, and drug. No single aspect develops whether an individual will certainly become addicted to medicines; nonetheless, the National Institute of Medication Misuse (NIDA) reports the general threat for dependency may be affected by lots of points. It depends on the age of the private and also the degree of the injury. The response to that depends quite on you. It’s a commitment that people try to make yet typically times may seem frustrating due to the fact that sobriety, in the extent of a year, as well as a life time, feels like way too much.
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A number of the major actions we could determine to try turn-around for the impact of medication addiction in our life is constantly to look into various medicine treatment programs that are available. Scientists have actually known that the brains of individuals addicted to drugs differ from those of others, however it has not been clear whether this is a reason or effect of addiction. However, people utilizing medications for these functions commonly develop a tolerance, needing more of the medication to experience the desired result. All medications of misuse flood the mind with artificial dopamine. In many cases drug misuse is a result of self-medication to manage severe stress and anxiety or depression. Family members should think about addressing their very own stress and anxiety with counseled therapy sessions. Ask if there is at any time dedicated to household programs as well as if team treatment is included. When the alcohols pain is stayed clear of for the time being but discomfort, anxiousness, tension as well as animosity are enhanced severely in the family.
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The recuperating addict or alcoholic could then practice the concepts taught to them in their alcohol as well as medication rehab program with even more willingness and also motivation than before. Like other kinds of heroin, black tar converts to morphine in your body where it could then connect itself to opioid receptors. GardeningIf you have actually seen just what a wood chipper could do to a branch or perhaps a tiny trunk, after that you know why it’s extremely vital to take security preventative measures seriously when operating these equipments. Yet exactly what when disciplinary issues come to the forefront as well as you can see your child becoming a victim? Songs does not always position issues for teenagers that live a healthy as well as balanced lifestyle, inning accordance with the American Academy of Kid and Adolescent Psychiatry. These issues motivate repeated medication usage, as well as the line between chemical abuse and addiction ends up being hazy. They can cause problems with a person’s actions like being moody, having memory loss, or perhaps having difficulty believing and also making decisions.
Your medical doctor can supply you tips, info and also devices that you could not obtain anywhere else. You should understand that there is a great deal of false information around, the majority of which comes from individuals who are utilizing the medicines. Abusing medicines impacts every person either directly or indirectly. Not all people are influenced by drugs in the very same means. Female as well as male don’t respond the exact same way to medicines when they take them. Show them photos of people who are addicted to medicines both before and also after their dependency took hold. NSDUH data show that in 2008, 14.2 percent of individuals 12 years of age and older had actually used illegal medicines during the past year. The knowledge that there is no second opportunity imbues one’s last years with tragedy. It is crucial that the contaminants accumulated over years of substance abuse are gotten rid of so actual rehab could start.
Studies recommend that stress levels also add to the success of substance misuse recovery. Neuroscience of psychedelic substance use and dependence. Such detoxification centers may be essential for the initial few days of withdrawal, especially when taking out an addict from heavy and long-lasting use alcohol or benzodiazepines. Sleep deprivation — even as little as avoiding a few hours of sleep — can activate an episode of mania. The label, nevertheless, does little to assist a person quit. Yet by much the most effective tool is obtaining expert assistance to take care of your addiction to pure nicotine. As well as to recognize that there will certainly be somebody there to help. So it works to know and acknowledge indications of substance abuse. Like various other drugs, reduced birth weight and a smaller head area is attributed to heroin use. Duplicated use an opioid resulting in opioid reliance triggers long-lasting changes in both the structure (the design of the brain) as well as the way the mind functions (the biochemistry and biology of the mind).
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Zaditen whose main material is Ketotifen, is a very efficient fat burner. This drug which is also known with its active substance name, is a product of Novartis Company. Zaditor is not a underground product but is a drugstore product. It can be found easily at the legal pharmacy warehouses. Its combination with Clenbuterol becomes very effective.
Zaditen is a drug from antihistamine family. This drug’s and elixirs main material ketotifen hydrogen fumarate. The human body that produces histamine as its defense mechanism stocks histamine in all mast cells and when the body encounters with foreign substances, the allergens stimulate the these cells and histamine stocks are released. So Ketotifen blocks this histamine that causes the allergic reactions and your body is saved from the allergic symptoms.
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As we head into September, many plants in the garden are growing and changing in fun ways, including your hemp. You’ve probably noticed how your plants are sending out taller shoots. Over time these taller shoots develop the flowers that you will harvest in October. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves, here is the step by step guide to your plants before harvest. Want the TLDR? Check out the fab videos from the “HGTV of Cannabis”, GBL TV. Spoiler alert, I am in this video on arranging cannabis flower.
Late August Plants should be ‘stretching’ with more space between each set of leaves. You might notice a few of the shoots are significantly taller than the rest of the plant. At this time the plant is transitioning from vegetative growth (all the green leaves and shoots) to developing flowers as it matures. A bit of a lanky teenager look may result!
Early September Your plants continue to mature and you’ll notice pistils forming at node sites along the branches. In non-technical terms this means the flowers are starting to develop in your hemp. Think of these as a green rosebud before it starts to turn into a yet-opened rose.
Mid-September Those buds are now starting to get bigger and fill out, looking more like the final flower. You will start getting some intense smells from your plants. This is a great time to give them a sniff every few days and enjoy the aromas!
Late September to Early October The flowers are looking very much like final flower, full of aromas and lots of sparkle like a dusting of sugar on the fine leaves of the plant. Branches might get very heavy and need some support, especially if you are in a high-wind area.
For more information check out Royal Queen Seed’s flower development guide. You’ll notice they talk about each stage in terms of week. Don’t get too caught up one week vs. another. It’s just more ways of saying the same thing, that your plants will mature over a general period of time. Like waiting for a tomato to ripen, just check your plants out from time to time and enjoy the show!

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The hotel is right next to the beach. They have chair and towel service which makes traveling to the beach hassle free. The rooms were super clean and well kept. All of the staff were very friendly, helpful and professional. Breakfast was great, and the cook does a great job of keeping everything out and fresh. I was very happy with our overall experience here.
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- Stay with someone you know. The hotel enjoys an excellent location beachside in the heart of Seven Mile Beach area close to restaurants, bars and shopping and with breakfast and basic wi-fi access included offering excellent value to the traveller on Seven Mile Beach. While not a beachfront property guests access the beach by a small path a few feet from the back door. The hotel offers 5 suite types: 2-bedroom, 1-bedroom with full kitchen as well as Business Pool View King Studios, Deluxe Studio with 2 beds and Queen Studios each with kitchenette are ideal for any size of family and budget. Onsite Restaurant and Dive Shop with snorkel trips to Stingray City offers convenience at your door step. Best location, best value on Seven Mile. ... more less
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Brand Best Practice: To insure success of your brand, connect it with a solid business plan to better insure the business will be profitable.
A business plan doubles your chances for success, says a new survey. “The study found that writing a business plan correlated with increased success in every one of the business goals included in the study. These were: obtaining a loan, getting investment capital, making a major purchase, recruiting a new team member, thinking more strategically and growing the company.”
Build your business success on a solid foundation, with a brand that provides customers what they want, how they want it and at a price they can afford. Part of that solid foundation is a business plan that assists in implementing and monitoring the brand along with proactively guiding future operational decisions that complement the desired brand.
Business Plan Sections
Executive Summary – 1 page overview of the business and why it will be profitable
Business Description – type of business, legal structure & customer’s value proposition
Target Customer – describing the customer using demographics and psychographics
Pricing Strategy – review of pricing strategy: below market, at market or above market
Competition – review top 3 competitors with their brand, value proposition and pricing
Competitive Advantage – what causes you to stand out to new and repeat customers
Marketing/Sales Strategy – describe how you will attract new and repeat customers
Management Team – describe who has the skills to operate a profitable business
Capital Requirement – review how much money the business needs and its source
Financials – Cash flow Statement – 12 month spreadsheet with income and expenses
Financials – Breakeven Analysis – shows when the business will break even: income versus expenses
Financials – P& L Statement – shows how the business performs profit versus loss
Action Step: Complete or update a current business plan. No cost class, due to sponsor support to help you.
Creating a Business Plan to Grow Your Business in 2019
Location: BRCC Henderson County Campus – Flat Rock, NC
Date: Saturday February 16, 2019 Time: 8:30 am-4:30 pm
Building: Technology Education & Development Room: 201
Cost: Program is offered at no charge, due to sponsor support, from the State of North Carolina and Blue Ridge Community College Small Business Center.
Description In this day, create a business plan. A business plan can be the most important tool a small business owner has. Learn how to turn your ideas into a solid plan for financing and long-term success. This seminar teaches you the important components of a business plan and helps you lay the foundation for a winning plan. Find out how marketing, operations, and finance are inter-related. Discover how a business plan is used by potential lenders, the dos and don’ts of writing a plan and steps for making the process easy.
This seminar is designed for pre-start, start-up and existing business owners that want to create a business plan for 2019 to manage their business or access money through through local microloan organizations, SBA, traditional banks, angel investing, bootstrapping, crowd funding, etc.
Note: Class will take place in a computer lab. If you have a lap top computer you can bring it.
The Henderson County Chamber of Commerce Business Plan Competition is offering a business plan competition. This class will help you prepare for it. Application available in the class. Win Free Business Services – enter the Annual Business Plan Contest Turning your ideas into a growing business starts with a plan. If you’ve got the determination and drive to create a growth company or improve your existing company, here is your chance to win and turn your dream into a reality!
The Henderson County Chamber is sponsoring the Annual Business Plan Contest with the winner receiving free services such as advertising, tax, legal, marketing and more! Interested participants will receive a copy of the detailed elements on which the business plan will be judges. The Business Plan Contest is open to business start-ups as well as existing businesses. You do not need to be a Chamber member to participate. Electronic submissions are due by TBD and should be emailed to email@example.com.
A panel of judges will select the winner, announce the results and present the award at the Blue Ridge Business Growth and Business Plan Awards Reception on TBD – part of Small Business Week.
Speaker: Gary C. Heisey, Founding Brand and Marketing Strategist with Brand Door
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Everyone probably saw it coming as it’s one of Google’s worst kept secrets. The Nexus 5 made by LG now makes it to the limelight, packing a 5-inch 1080p IPS display, a 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 CPU with Adreno 330 graphics and Android 4.4 KitKat.
If you would notice, the phone packs very similar internals to the LG G2. This one however inherits the design language of the 2013 Nexus 7, drops the 13 megapixel camera & 3,000mAh battery for an 8 megapixel kind & a lower 2,300mAh capacity and gets the latest version of Android, 4.4 KitKat. It’s smaller too; at 5-inches, it’s more compact than the G2 & almost at par with its 4.7-inch predecessor Nexus 4.
Google LG Nexus 5 specs:
4.95-inch Tru-HD IPS+ LCD display @ 1080×1920 , 445pi
Gorilla Glass 3
Qualcomm MSM8974 Snapdragon 800 2.3GHz quad-core
Adreno 330 GPU
16GB, 32GB internal storage
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n/ac
Bluetooth 4.0 LE
GPS w/ aGPS support
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8 megapixel camera with LED flash, OIS
Full HD 1080p video recording
1.2Mp w/ front-facing camera
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137.8 mm x 69.2mm x 8.6mm (dimensions)
The phone will be available in 16 & 32GB (white / black) variants which will be priced at $349 & $399 (around Php15-17k converted) respectively in the Google Play Store.
Sadly, the Play Store isn’t available yet in the Philippines and we’ll have to wait for LG to bring it here. Last time, retail stores sold the Nexus 4 at a higher price of around Php24k. Anyway, we’ll just have to wait for more info on local availability.


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No new delivery date for the ruler’s return.
Ubisoft’s redo of Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time has been postponed indeed. Having just seen its delivery pushed back from January twentieth to March eighteenth of this current year, the illustrious engineer today declared that the Prince needs somewhat more an ideal opportunity to spruce up.
At the point when that is destined to be, Ubisoft isn’t exactly prepared to say.
“We have settled on the choice to move the delivery for Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time Remake to a later date,” the distributer clarified over on Twitter. “This additional advancement time will empower our groups to convey a redo that feels new while staying dedicated to the first.”
The Prince’s past deferral was credited to the worldwide pandemic, calling 2020 “a year like no other”. Tragically, 2021 hasn’t been a stamped change on the prior year—and with no telling if or when things will return to typical, Ubisoft is reluctant to say when it hopes to have the august redo prepared for discharge.
Declared last September, 2003’s Sands Of Time is being remade starting from the earliest stage utilizing the distributer’s Assassin’s Creed motor. Fitting, taking into account that arrangement’s foundations as a Prince Of Persia model. The change will highlight immensely redesignd designs, movement caught activity and a free camera, and is the principal Ubi game to be going up by its studios in India.
In this way, we don’t yet have a clue when Prince Of Persia will at long last show up. However, when it does, it’ll be restrictive to Epic Games and the Ubisoft Store.


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The latest Inside the Blogosphere asked:
What are the worst or most disappointing endings in science fiction/fantasy novels? Why?
Here’s my, no doubt blasphemous, suggestion that the worst ending is for The Lord of the Rings:
“It pains me to say this, as it’s one of my favourite books, but one of the most disappointing endings has to be the fizzling out, living happily ever after ending of The Lord of the Rings. Having experienced such drama and tension throughout the three books the reader doesn’t really expect such a slow winding down to the books. Yes perhaps explain what happens to the characters afterwards, but we really get a bit too much of it. There’s the epilogue where they return to the Shire and everything’s turned a bit sour and they have to sort that out, but after defeating Sauron, this seems a little bit lame. But then Tolkien wasn’t perhaps writing a thriller as such, and he probably didn’t really care too much if readers got a little bit bored, and that’s why his work is so rich and rewarding, so I don’t think I would actually want to change anything either.”
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Citizenship applications will have to be submitted in person
From the 1st day of July 2019, citizenship applicants are no longer allowed to submit Lithuanian citizenship applications by simply sending them through post.
The applications will have to be submitted in person or by a representative of an applicant, at the Migration Department or at the Lithuanian embassies and consulates abroad.
Interestingly, this change was published by the Migration Department only on the 19th of July; and is not clear whether the applications that were sent after the 1st of July will be processed.
All the applications for Lithuanian citizenship are being processed by the Migration Department in Vilnius, and the process might be slightly faster if they are submitted directly.
The applications that are submitted at the Lithuanian consulates and embassies abroad are being forwarded to Migration Department.
This change does not affect De Civitate’s work since they will still be able to submit the applications directly at the Migration Department as before.
On Sunday, May 12th, Lithuanians voted in a referendum on dual citizenship. 52.63% of all registered voters participated in the referendum. 73.45% of the voters were in favor of changing the
Constitution and allowing dual citizenship while 26.55% voted against. Even though the majority of voters voted in favor of allowing dual citizenship for more people, the number of votes was not sufficient to change the constitution. The Constitution could be changed by a referendum only if more than half of all registered voters voted in favor of the change.
There were even three elections in Lithuania on May 12th commenced at the same time – the first round of the presidential election and two referendums. On Sunday, with nine candidates running
for the nation’s top government position, polling stations were open from 7 a.m. (0400 GMT) to 8 p.m. (1700 GMT), with about 2.47 million voters registered.
Two constitutional referendums were held together with the first round of the presidential races in order to boost their chances of success. However, both referendums did not get a sufficient number
of votes needed in order to change the constitution. The proposed revisions would have diminished the number of MPs in the Seimas from 141 to 121 and enable Lithuanians to hold dual citizenship
with a number of countries meeting “European or Transatlantic integration criteria” which would be further specified by law.
Currently, the Constitution states that Lithuanian citizenship is acquired by birth except in certain
cases established by law and that no person may be a citizen of Lithuania and another country or
state at the same time, except in special cases. This provision of the Constitution can only be changed by a referendum.
A number of people were able to successfully get dual Lithuanian citizenship by descent, which is considered to be an exception and allowed by the Constitution.
Many Lithuanians who live abroad anticipate this change of the Constitution. Emigration was one of the main reasons why the population in Lithuania decreased from 3.7 million people in 1990 to 2.8 million in 2017.
Many Lithuanians living abroad want to keep their Lithuanian citizenship even if they
acquire citizenship of another country. However, currently, it is not allowed by the Constitution.
Even though the referendum failed to change the constitution and allow dual citizenship for more people, politicians do not agree on whether the question is finally answered. Ingrida Simonyte, the leading presidential candidate after the first round of elections, during her press conference on Monday, said that she interprets the results of the referendum as a sign that the majority of Lithuanians clearly want the stance on dual citizenship changed. However, Saulius Skvernelis, current Prime Minister and another presidential candidate, told that the question of whether dual citizenship should be allowed to more people was finally answered.
The Constitutional Court’s ruling reduced chances of successful dual citizenship referendum in Lithuania
VILNIUS, LITHUANIA – February 15, 2019
The Lithuanian Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that a referendum to change an article of Lithuania’s constitution cannot be held on two separate days. This decision reduced the chances of adopting the necessary constitutional amendment to allow Lithuanian dual citizenship for more people.
For the dual citizenship referendum to happen, the greater part of qualified voters, or around 1.3 million individuals, need to cast a vote in support for it.
Most analysts agree that the majority of the voters would vote in favour of allowing dual Lithuanian citizenship for more people. However, the main concern of the proponents of the referendum is that it might be considered invalid, because of an insufficient number of votes. The Seimas tried to increase the chances of a successful referendum by allowing voters to vote on two separate days together with presidential elections in May.
Viktoras Pranckietis, the Lithuanian Seimas Speaker says to BNS Lithuania that: “I believe it reduces the chances of that referendum taking place as the requirements are very high”
In his own words, it is essential to encourage voters to come, cast a vote, and to explain why it is important.
“We are now in a situation where we no longer can do anything as we have used our all resources,” said the parliamentary speaker.
Pranckietis trusts that the dual citizenship referendum should happen on May 12, side by side with the first round of casting a ballot in the presidential election.
The Seimas of Lithuania will have to adopt a new resolution regarding the referendum.


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The research findings – presented at The Endocrine Society's 94th Annual Meeting – revealed that two newly approved blood tests for vitamin D were inaccurate in at least 40% of laboratory specimens analysed.
Dr Earle Holmes of Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, USA, and his colleagues examined how well the new tests – Abbott Architect and Siemans Centaur2 – performed on 163 randomly selected blood samples. The team reported that in 40% of the Abbott Architect specimens and 48% of the Siemans Centaur2 specimens, results were inaccurate by over the maximum allowable error of plus-or-minus 25%.
Such inaccuracies could lead to misdiagnoses of patients, said Holmes.
"These inaccuracies also could confound efforts to identify the optimal levels of vitamin D for good health," he added.
Testing vitamin D
Holmes noted that doctors and nutritional advisors are increasingly ordering blood tests to measure vitamin D - often referred to as the sunshine vitamin - revealing that such tests are now among the most frequently ordered medical tests.
Such an increase in testing may result from recent scientific reports that a growing percentage of the global population has low vitamin D status, in combination with fresh research to link insufficient vitamin D with higher risks of certain diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis and certain cancers.
The researchers said the new tests tended to overestimate vitamin D deficiency.
According to gold-standard LCMS measurements, 33 of the 163 specimens showed vitamin D deficiency. However the Abbott test showed that 45 specimens had vitamin D deficiency while the Siemens test showed that 71 subjects had vitamin D deficiency.
Such inaccuracies could lead to over diagnosis of vitamin D deficiency, Holmes said.
"There has been an exponential increase in the number of vitamin D tests ordered for patients," said the US-based researcher. "But our study of two newly approved tests showed they had pretty poor performance."


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We are Architects from Jaipur (Rajasthan) , INDIA
By our knowledge we want to create a Small Toilet Space which will be cost effective and accessible to women's as well as Men's . Some 70 percent of households in India don’t have access to toilets, whether in rural areas or urban slums.
Slums of Jaipur are filled with toxic materials and are unsafe for people to live, most of the people still defecate in the open.
Scrap materials are available in huge quality and many architects from around the world are designing home by using scrap materials.
We want to help the people by providing a toilet space, using reused materials we can create a toilet space which will be low cost and effective in slum and village areas .
This project will come under clean India campaign and help our P.M to achieve the dream of clean and green India.
Why Reused & Recycled Materials?
It will help in 2 ways.
1. Low cost of construction
2. Not harming the environment.
Many Pvc pipe, Water Closets, G.I. Pipes go waste after they are used once we can use them again to create a space of the people
2 Prototype of toilet are in Designing process but most of the work will be done on site on the availability of materials.
Dry Compost toilets.
This will be movable toilet it can be fixed anywhere in slum area or village no need for water in Toilets and the left residue can be used as a compost.
This is fixed toilet and can be fixed without much work it will be connected to a water pipe and left overs are collected.
Previously we have worked on Recycled and Reused materials to create many art installations in Jaipur, Now we have chance to give something to society. Help us achieve our dream of Recycled Toilets.
The mission of Our Team is to offer architectural planning and design for underprivileged groups. Often such groups include women, children or young people whose opportunities for participation in society are limited. Improving the status of women in particular has proved to be an efficient way of supporting community development. Participatory planning empowers its target groups to influence the development of their own environment, and the sense of proprietorship this creates is an important precondition for the successful completion of development projects.
In addition to cultural sustainability, WE also seeks to create ecologically sustainable architecture. The use of renewable energy sources, recycling, the utilisation of local materials and local skills are among the pillars of our planning philosophy.


A Riverside resident who authorities say was drunk when she fatally struck a motorcyclist and then tried to cover up her involvement has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Monique Elisa Johnson, 23, is due back in Superior Court in Riverside on Feb. 24 for a felony settlement conference.
The California Highway Patrol said that on Dec. 16, Johnson was drunk when her Mazda rear-ended a slower-moving motorcycle ridden by Mark Esparza, 25, of Rialto, on Highway 91 near Central Avenue. Esparza was thrown from the bike and died at a hospital.
Johnson fled, the CHP said. She then filed a false report that her car had been stolen, Officer Travis Monks said. She has been charged with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, hit and run causing death or injury and filing a false police report.


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Ahhh....similar to the pencil pointing in four directions!
Square Pattern Perler Bead Pattern / Bead Sprite
* that Cheeky Urchin *
wit and whistle sketchbook
Outdoor Weaving Frame - I am sure this could be made much cheaper!
Catwoman - DC Comics Perler Bead Pattern
Puppy perler bead pattern http://mistertrufa.net/librecreacion/culturarte/?p=12
24 matchboxes by Paperiaarre - What a great classroom assignment to create then use in artwork
The finished product is pretty fukkin cool, but I'm not even gonna pretend I know what's going on in the other pictures... Lmao
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(By Albert Chen) In practice, we have seen numerous companies not signing any NDA or confidential clauses in employment contracts with their staff. But even so, taking into consideration confidentiality measures taken by a company, like making requirements for the handling of client information, and taking into consideration the confidential content of said information, one could easily conclude most companies intend to maintain nondisclosure of confidential information, and as a corollary staff and employees also maintain these efforts at nondisclosure.
The defendant Wu began her employment with the plaintiff, Kekezhuang Company (“Company K”) starting January 1, 2006, with the agreement that she would work there until May 13, 2007. Her specific post was the business officer and general manager PA. During her employment, the company set up a special e-mail account for Wu, whose password was known only to Wu herself and the company’s legal representative. While working there, Wu contacted a Canadian company for the purpose of making specific sales, yet no final transaction had been made. However, Wu thereby obtained certain information concerning the Canadian client, including the requirements of specific products and purchasing ability. On March 15, 2007, Wu established a company with her father, Hongqijia Exporting Company (“Company H”). On April 11, 2007, Company H made a transaction with the aforementioned Canadian Company.
Moreover, Company K’s practice is to arrange the client’s card as indicating its requirements for products or purchasing ability.
Company K thought that Wu had made use of the information accessed during her employment with the company, and therefore had infringed its trade secrets. Based on these allegations, Company K filed a lawsuit against Wu.
After the hearing in the first instance, the court ruled that to confirm disclosure, practicability and benefit of the information involved in the accusation, it must consider the issue as to whether the company had taken measures to retain confidentiality over the information: the court stated that the access permissions carried out by Company K were adequate to prevent any third parties from obtaining the information, considering the fact that the information contained in the e-mails could not be obtained through public channels. Therefore, it could determine that the plaintiff had taken proper measures to prevent the disclosure of its confidential information and that of its clients. Based on these findings, the court found Company H guilty of infringement and misappropriation.
Dissatisfied with the decision handed down in the first instance, the defendants Wu and her father appealed to a higher court, with their primary argument being that Company K had never concluded an NDA with Wu, and no other measures for confidentiality had been taken. Considering the defendant’s argument, the second instance court refused such claims, holding that the measures at maintaining confidentiality undertaken by the plaintiffs had resulted in no disclosure of its information prior, and although the information was not generally known to the public, it did not also follow that if anyone were to access such information without prior permission that Company K’s confidentiality measures were insufficient for the purpose of the case. The court held that in any case where a company’s efforts at maintaining confidentiality of trade secrets it as issue, the court shall comprehensively consider such measures based on the unique characteristics of the trade secrets and confidential information in question, as well as its classification, before making a final judgment. Based on this analysis, the court upheld the decision handed down by the court in the first instance.
In protecting trade secrets, whether the measures taken are equivalent to that of an NDA or confidential clauses agreed to in a Labor Contract is an important question. The court in this case has given us a definite “no” for the time being. In the author’s opinion, however, although I agree with the court’s final opinion, I also have several different views on the issues:
1. Setting a password for an e-mail account containing confidential information and trade secrets should not be seen as sufficient to maintain nondisclosure of said information.
In this case, Company k limited the number of staff with access to its confidential information and trade secrets by only allowing a limited number of people have access to the e-mail account’s password, only allowing those directly practicing the business and its legal representative to access the information. The court assumed this to mean that Company K had taken sufficient confidentiality measures. However, in reality, setting a special password for each work-related e-mail account is rather common in most businesses, and once those measures are taken to prevent disclosure, logically, any information communicated through that e-mail account would be considered “confidential.” However, obviously, information not related to work could also be located within that specific e-mail account. For this reason, to assume that simply protecting confidential information with an e-mail account password is sufficient to show that a party had taken measures to prevent disclosure of its trade secrets and confidential information as complete improper.
2. The simple compilation and storing of confidential client information should not be seen as a sufficient measure for nondisclosure of said information.
In this case, if Company K had simply compiled the client’s information, then for such information, they could not all be confidential information. However, based on the court’s decision, in addition to the client’s contact information, Company K indicated their specific requirements for each client’s products and other useful and valuable business information. This is not general information easily accessible by the public. Moreover, to consider the typical attitude of competitor’s in the market, such editing and compiling of client information could be seen as an NDA measure.
3. Confidential information does not always mean it is never disclosed
In terms of the publication scope of the confidential information, the author is all for the argument of the court. The so-called confidential information is not complete nondisclosed. The value of the information is assessed by those adopting it, and for such companies, taking into consideration benefits to itself, to use such information within a certain scope should not be seen as a removal of all confidential measures on such information. For sure, with regard to the scope of its use, it shall be decided as per the nature of the information itself. Like in this case, the staff in charge of the business and the legal representative only knew of the information involved.