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TAMPA (FOX 13) - Tampa water customers could turn on the tap and find the water looking a little murky, or smelling funny, or both.
The city water department says nearly their entire system is feeling the effects of an algae bloom, and it's affecting 100,000 homes. But city officials say the first thing everyone should know is: the water is safe to drink.
The second thing they want people to know if that it could take another two or three days for the algae to flush out of the system.
Elizabeth Riley of Seminole Heights reacted to the yellow water from her faucet the way anyone would.
"My first thought was, is it OK to drink?" Riley asked FOX 13 News.
The city says the compound causing the odd taste, called geosmin, is completely harmless, and is common in some vegetables. For instance, it's what gives beets their earthy flavor.
"I might tend to drink from the filter water that is in the fridge or something, more than I usually would," Riley said.
But the City of Tampa's water director, Chuck Weber, insists that's not necessary.
"I drink the water, my family drinks the water, it's safe," Weber said.
Weber says the brownish, smelly water is from an algae bloom in the Hillsborough River, which is the city's water source. The bloom is due to low water levels caused by drought.
When water levels are low, sunlight reaches closer to the river's bottom, where fertilizer runoff is plentiful during the spring. Sunlight mixing with fertilizer under the water creates perfect conditions for an algae bloom.
So far, the city has received 22 complaints for the water's taste, and 58 for odor.
Workers are flushing it from the system with copper sulfate. The city's latest tests show algae levels are already down by half since Wednesday.
"We expect that those levels will be undetectable by Friday, so over the weekend it should dissipate in the distribution system, and we should be back to normal by Sunday or Monday," said Weber.
The one area of the city not affected is New Tampa, which gets its water from other sources.

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Photography, Interesting Links and Tidbits about my life as a Dutch-Indo growing up in Amerika.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Our Roots In Food: Kibbeling
Ooh Yeah !!.... Thanks for the suggestion, Ingrid....Doin' this one, tonight !! :o)Our Roots In Food: Kibbeling: There are so many wonderful places on the internet to find Dutch recipes and I was lucky enough to discover this Kibbeling recipe over at H...

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'Scream Along With Billy: Radical Days' Debuts at Joe's Pub
Notorious punk rock/cabaret performer Billy Hough will debut his latest "Scream Along With Billy" presentation at Joe's Pub at 425 Lafayette Street in Manhattan on Sunday, April 16 at 9:30 p.m. The new show will feature Billy Hough and Susan Goldberg returning to Joe's Pub with a "guide to surviving" these impossible times.
Along with special guests Lili Taylor, Jeremy Gustin (Albert Hammond, Jr), and Matt Hough (GarageDogs), the evening will be the first show of its kind, also being filmed by acclaimed filmmaker Oren Moverman and recorded for a future album release. This unique new show follows Hough's successful Halloween 2016 appearance at Joe's Pub, as he poses the questions "Do you wanna be in a movie? Wanna be on a record? Then come be a part of rock-n-roll history, and pick up some tips on how to weather the shit storm."
Throughout the show, the band will be recording a brand new album called "INDIA: The Only Way Out is Through." Billy Hough's nine new songs run the gamut from '60s pop to classic country to noise symphony, and offer historical solutions to life during wartime. This one-time only show, built solely around Billy's original songs including hits from GarageDogs, the films of Oren Moverman, and his and Sue Goldberg's classic album "Venice," will be turned into a concert film by Moverman.
"Scream Along With Billy" has developed into a cult sensation over the last ten years, with live shows in New York City and Provincetown, MA, building up a fiercely devoted fan base and following. Filmmaker John Waters called it "The bravest thing I've seen in 20 years," while acclaimed writer Hilton Als at The New Yorker proclaimed that it "Keeps the audience mesmerized. Absurdist theater can happen anywhere, especially if it's kept alive by artists like Hough" and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham raved that "Billy Hough is touched by genius, a word I don't use often or lightly."
Hough's highly-acclaimed, always conceptual live shows, recordings and videos have included "Scream Along With Billy" performances in homage to many iconic recording artists including David Bowie, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Nico and others. Hough and Susan Goldberg, along with their brilliant on-stage guests (Michael Cunningham, Gordon Gano, Lili Taylor, Justin Vivian Bond, etc.) have also explored the work of Andy Warhol, John Waters, David Lynch, and Robert Altman in conceptual musicals. Accompanied by the historically accurate Sue Goldberg (Space Pussy) on bass and eye-rolls, the duo has earned a provocative reputation for themselves by finding the midpoint between piano bar and horror movie.
But they saved the best story for last: their own. Billy's journey from Mississippi to Los Angeles, Eagle Scout to hustler, a junkie to movie star, is nothing compared to the adventures he's had with his soulmate, Sue. All the gory details will be laid bare and filmed live on stage in this one-time-only event, "Scream Along With Billy: Radical Days."
Hough's friend and sometime collaborator, actress Lili Taylor, has been appearing as a special guest in his "Scream Along With Billy" live shows for years, and will again join him on stage.
Billy Hough is known to many as founding member of legendary 1990's punk band GarageDogs, but his recent career highlights include his single "Radical Days" on Garage Dog Records, which was written and performed by Hough in the 2014 feature film "Time Out Of Mind," written and directed by Oren Moverman and starring Richard Gere. He also appeared in Oren Moverman's 2012 film "Rampart," and wrote/performed three songs on the soundtrack.
He released his Billy Hough & the X-Loves' "Venice" solo album, which continues to generate hugely popular short film-like videos. His latest single and video, released in the fall 2016, is "It's All My Fault," Hough's musical rant about betrayal, size queens, and general debauchery: This past year, the unstoppable Billy Hough also wrote the track "Rocket Science" for Moverman's upcoming film "The Dinner" and produced the audio book for author friend Michael Cunningham's "A Wild Swan: and Other Tales," winning a "Best of the Year" award from the American Library Association: Hough and Lili Taylor narrated the audio book together, of which was said, "Taylor and Hough's atmospheric dual performance delivers a quirky interpretation brimming with macabre, racy humor in Cunningham's reimagined fairy tales for adults."
"Scream Along With Billy: Radical Days" will play on Sunday, April 16 at 9:30 p.m. at Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street.

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The most important meal of the day or… overrated?
The other week I had this mindblowing chickpea saffron almond soup at my office a local cafe. It was one of those meals that just hits the spot in all the right ways. I thought about that soup for days on end before finally getting my butt in gear to replicate it. After a […]


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The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times:
Before Tuesday’s Iowa Republican caucuses, predictions were that the top three finishers would be clumped together. So it proved, and the race stands essentially where it did before the balloting: Mitt Romney remains the candidate to beat, but he continues to encounter skepticism from conservatives; Rick Santorum is emerging from the ranks of alternatives to Romney; and Ron Paul commands an intense loyalty but is almost certainly too unconventional (to put it mildly) to win the nomination. Tuesday’s clear loser: Newt Gingrich, the latest object of conservative flirtation to rise and then fall from favor with stunning speed.
Each of the successful candidates had his strengths: Romney benefited from his business background, supposedly superior electability in November and a barrage of negative advertising directed at Gingrich. Paul rallied on young people attracted either by his libertarian economics or his isolationist foreign policy (or, perhaps, by his support for legalizing marijuana). And Santorum, once the longest of long shots, owes his success to dogged retail campaigning and the ability to broaden his message beyond abortion. The former senator from Pennsylvania also managed the feat of pointing to his experience in Congress while portraying himself as a conviction conservative who would shake up the Washington establishment. Clearly Santorum’s rivals — and the media — underestimated him.
Santorum’s showing means that he will be under increased scrutiny from his opponents and the news media. He may lack the necessary staying power. But even if he doesn’t consolidate his position as the anti-Romney, he has postponed the anointment of the former Massachusetts governor. That’s a reassuring thought for those who would like to see the Republican race continue and not be aborted after Iowa and next week’s New Hampshire primary. A smaller field may help produce a more meaningful debate, where a rush to Romney would squelch it.
Before Tuesday’s caucuses, skeptics were dismissive of the importance of Iowa: It was too white, too rural and too evangelical to serve as a microcosm of the nation or even the party, and thus unfit to exercise the influence conveyed by the first contest of the year. Those demographics certainly helped Santorum, and Romney’s ability to overcome them testifies to his strength. But campaigns have to start somewhere, and Iowa’s Republican caucus-goers are more reflective of the GOP electorate than those in many other states.
Nor, of course, is it the last word. After New Hampshire come primaries in South Carolina and Florida. Together the four states constitute a sort of national primary. If Romney finishes first or second in most or all of them, he will be close to the status of presumptive nominee. If not, the race will go on. And that’s a good thing.

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Urinary urgency and frequency affects over 33 million Americans. That’s about 1 in 6 adult in the United Stated today. Over Active Bladder (OAB) along with Painful Bladder Syndromes - Interstitial Cystitis, is more common than adult onset Diabetes.
Patients who have these conditions often report worsening symptoms with the intake of certain foods or fluids. The elimination of these foods and beverages often result in significant improvement in symptoms.
20 Foods and Fluids that are know to cause irritation to the bladder are:
• Alcoholic beverages
• Apples and Apple juice
• Carbonated drinks
• Citrus fruits
• Cranberry and Cranberry juice
• Spicy Foods like Chili or Mexican Food
• Tomato and Tomato juice
• Vitamin B Complex
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Plano OBGYN Associates
Plano Urogynecology Associates
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Xiaomi Redmi Note 5A is believed to be the lower tier smartphone in the upcoming Redmi Note 5 series. The handsets are rumoured to launch at the end of this month or early next month.
Xiaomi is reportedly working on a Redmi Note 5, the successor to Redmi Note 4 smartphone powered by the Snapdragon 630 chipset. The handset is expected to launch either at the end of this month or early August. Other than Redmi Note 5, Xiaomi may also be working on another smartphone named Redmi Note 5A, believed to be a cheaper counterpart to the Redmi Note 5.
The retail box of the smartphone confirming the name and Xiaomi logo has been detailed by ITHome. The handset's specifications suggest a 5.5-inch full HD display and Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 chipset coupled with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage. The handset reportedly sports a dual rear camera setup with two Omnivision sensors at the back and a Samsung sensor at the front.
The listing suggests that the Redmi Note 5A uses a 12MP Omnivision OV12A10 sensor coupled with a 13MP OV13880 sensor for its rear camera setup. The front camera is said to be using 5MP Samsung S5K5E8 sensor. On the other hand, the Redmi Note 5 is said to sport a 5.5-inch full HD display and support Qualcomm's X12 LTE chipset. The handset is likely to be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 630 platform and will be available in three storage options: 3GB RAM variant with 32GB storage, and 4GB RAM variant with an option of either 32GB or 64GB storage.
After struggling to maintain its position in Chinese smartphone maker, Xiaomi recently recovered with a shipment of 23.16 million smartphones in the second quarter of 2017. The company CEO Lei Jun claims that the new restructuring is working well and it will continue to add more Mi Home retail channels to expand its reach in the offline segment. Jun also detailed Xiaomi's target to hit 100 million smartphone shipments next year. The company is rumoured to add another flagship in the form of Mi 6 Plus apart from introducing Redmi Note 5, Redmi 5 smartphones later this year.


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For fast food in Selma, check out the burger menu at Wendy's. Give your stomach a break and try some of Wendy's' gluten-free or low-fat items.
For patrons' convenience, nearby parking is readily available.
The super-affordable fare at Wendy's will definitely make your budget happy too ? prices are almost always under $15. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are all served at Wendy's, so come by whenever it fits your schedule. Wendy's serves up tasty burgers at a quick pace, so stop by today and enjoy a great meal.


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This morning my view counter clicked over 100,000 Views ! Thanks to everyone who has looked at my work since I first joined Red Bubble in January 2008. When I became a member of RB, it never even entered my mind that I would have had that many views of my images or that I would have looked at that many images from other Artists too.
It’s a great web site to see fantastic imagery and expand your concept of what is possible in the world of Art – everything ! The depth of talent on Red Bubble is amazing. There are great friends to be made on this site too – it’s a lot of fun and there are some very interesting things discussed.
Thanks very much to all my Red Bubble friends for your support and encouragement,

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Meadow Lark bomb threat: 'The world is full of crazy people'
For the second time in three days, a school was evacuated and parents and faculty put on edge after an automated “robocall” came in threatening that a bomb was in place at a Great Falls school.
“At approximately 9:15 a.m., Meadow Lark Elementary School received a call on its main line, very similar to the call on Monday indicating a threat to the school,” Great Falls Public Schools Superintendent Tammy Lacey said. “Students and staff were immediately evacuated. The police department was called and our usual threat protocols were put into place.”
About 480 students and 75 staff were evacuated from the school building, walking with a police escort to the nearby Heritage Inn where they were kept in a secure location until the all clear was given a little more than an hour later.
Just two days previously, more than 800 students and staff members were evacuated from North Middle School following a wave of robocall bomb threats that affected at least 43 schools across 17 states, and another 27 schools in Great Britain.
Wednesday’s bomb threat at Meadow Lark Elementary appears to have been a near exact duplication of the threats made Monday.
“It’s my understanding it was happening simultaneously across the country,” Lacey said. “It does not appear to be generated by a local source.”
In a story from the USA Today network, national school security expert Ken Trump described Monday’s nationwide series of bomb threats as a “swatting” case, a form of computer-generated threats that has become more and more common in recent years.
“They can use Voice Over IP (Internet Protocol) systems or other technologies that can be virtually impossible to track down,” Trump said.
As was the case on Monday, parents in Great Falls were notified of the school evacuation through a series of automated calls. Information also was posted on the school district’s Facebook page, as well as on the Facebook page for the Great Falls Police Department.
The initial postings informed parents of the evacuation, assured them that their children were safe, but did not disclose the location to which they had been evacuated.
“We do not put out immediately where the students are because bad guys monitor Facebook and Twitter,” Lacey said. “We make sure we do not put out where the students are until we feel confident we have enough of a law enforcement presence to keep students safe from any and all people who could take advantage of the situation.”
“We’re not trying to keep (parents) from their children,” she added. “It’s just that if they go to the school, first of all they’re putting themselves in harm’s way. The police then have to deal with them, which is a distraction for them in ensuring the public’s safety.”
The Sowers family of Great Falls was directly affected during both school evacuations. Seventh-grader Macey Sowers was evacuated from North Middle School on Monday and her younger sister, Preslee, was evacuated from her fourth-grade class at Meadow Lark on Wednesday.
In both cases, their mother, Pam Sowers, was contacted regarding her children’s’ safety within minutes of evacuation protocols being put into place. Sowers said her immediate inclination was to make contact with her children, but she was reassured by the amount of information communicated by the school district and the police.
“With each phone call, it seemed to kind of settle our minds a little bit,” Sowers said. “I was extremely impressed with the details on the recordings. I’m just so grateful that the school system has that process in place. It seemed to flow very well.”
Sowers admitted to feeling anxious during both evacuations, but knowing the school district had established protocols established to deal with the threats eased her mind.
“I don’t think my anxiety was diminished,” she said of the subsequent evacuation notices. “It was more knowing that the processes were in place at the school, the processes were in place at the police department and feeling confident that the kids were secure wherever they were at.”
Only nine school days remain before the summer break, leaving limited opportunity for additional bomb threats during the current school year. But even if more schools are forced to react to telephone threats, Lacey is confident the district is prepared to handle them.
“We practice evacuations throughout the school year, so our students and staff know what to expect,” Lacey said. “They handle it calmly and know that they will be kept safe and that we have protocols in place to do that.
“The world is full of crazy people,” she added. “Certainly, we don’t understand the motive of this, which is bent on disrupting schools, but we take each of them seriously. While I understand the frustration parents might feel, there is nothing that we can do about it other than to respond in the safest ways that we can. We’ve done that and will continue to do that if this continues.”

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Postdoctoral Research Scientist
A Postdoctoral Research Scientist position is available immediately for a highly motivated candidate to work on a new NCI-funded project investigating the relationship between relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of heavy-ion radiotherapy and the response of pancreatic cancer, as well as the potential combination of heavy-ion radiotherapy and the induction of ferroptosis. The study uses both cellular models and KPC mouse models to address these central questions. Our laboratory is in the Center for Radiological Research (crr.columbia.edu) in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Upper Manhattan. This project is a collaboration with investigators in the Mouse Hospital (https://www.olivelab.org), a facility dedicated to pre-clinical studies for developing new pancreatic cancer treatments. Some studies will require irradiations using our heavy-ion facility at the Radiation Research Accelerator Facility (www.raraf.org/) located in Westchester County, upstate New York, and beamlines at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. This is an outstanding opportunity to work with investigators in leading radiation biology and pancreatic cancer laboratories.
Candidates must have PhD and /or MD degree with experience in molecular biology, cell culture and/or mouse models, as well as excellent communication and writing skills. A background in radiation science, cancer biology, and/or immunology is also strongly preferred.
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Are you ready to migrate to the cloud? If so, how will you maintain your integrations during this transition? Maybe I can help by painting you a picture of an integration. This is a picture that Beringer Technology Group has painted hundreds of times for our clients, and I hope it can help you.
My painting starts with an on-premise environment. Here I have several applications, servers and databases living in harmony behind my firewall. I invested a significant amount of resources building and maintaining SQL based integrations between these systems.
As my infrastructure ages, I need to make a decision on my upgrade path. Do I want to continue to support the hardware and software necessary for an on-premise environment, or do I want to start leveraging cloud applications? The cost effectiveness of cloud applications makes that an easy decision for me, but it raises another question... How will my integrations survive the migration to the cloud?
Implement an iPaaS solution
I can keep these integrations alive by implementing an iPaaS (Integration platform as a service) solution. iPaaS is a cloud based service that allows me to integrate my new cloud applications with my existing onpremise infrastructure.
My painting now illustrates an integration where my SQL server trigger moved to my cloud application. The iPaaS solution is now tasked with catching that trigger, then executing the SQL stored procedures in my onpremise environment. This allows me to continue to leverage my existing SQL based integrations, while building my new cloud based integrations.
We're not just limited to integrating with SQL servers. I can leverage my iPaaS solution to communicate with other cloud applications like Act On and Microsoft Cognitive Services.
My iPaaS solution is a very important first step on my journey to retiring my onpremise environments. I can now continue my phased approach to migrating to the cloud, and replace each application as they retire.
Reach out to Beringer today!
We love to implement cloud applications and build integrations here at Beringer. We have a tremendous amount of experience working with iPaaS solutions, and we’re always finding innovative ways to help smooth the transition to the cloud.
Are you ready to migrate to the cloud?
Please feel free to contact us and see how we can help you.
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Ooh la la! Stretch-to-flatter sheer honeycomb lace makes the Collette collection trés sexy, non? The flutter-sleeve tee is an ultra-feminine top that works beautifully as sleepwear or loungewear. These are the underpinnings that look lovely enough for a special occasion, but feel good enough to wear every day. Oiu, oiu!
95% Viscose / 5% Spandex Jersey with 85% Nylon / 15% Spandex Lace
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- Soft and Flowing Body and Wide 3/4 Sleeves
- Open Front Neckline with Cozy High Back Neck.
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There isn’t a dearth of meals stalls, small eateries and eating places in Delhi. There’s a store in each locality which presents a wide range of scrumptious dishes. Speaking concerning the coronary heart of Delhi, Outdated Delhi is stuffed with an alluring, hearty aroma of Mughlai delicacies, comparable to biryani, kebabs, chaat and extra. Distinctive flavour, in depth use of tangy spices and rather more, Chaat is among the hottest road meals in Delhi. In case you love chaat and Outdated Delhi-style delicacies, then it’s time for us to disclose your shock. Right here we convey you 5 old-Delhi-style chaat recipes, which you’ll be able to simply put together at house with few easy and simply out there elements. Sure, you heard it proper! Let’s begin with the recipes.
Kulle ki chaat, daulat ki chaat and extra, here’s a listing of 5 old-Delhi type chaat recipes that you could strive at house:
1. Kulle Chaat – Our Recommendation
Let’s begin with this. Kulle ki chaat is a small, bite-sized snack that may tantalize your style buds. The phrase kulle is for cups which can be taken out of fruits or tubers comparable to watermelon or boiled potatoes and stuffed with chickpeas and a number of other pungent spices. Click on right here for the recipes.
2. Wealth Ki Chaat
A candy pleasure! This highly regarded chaat recipe is definitely a frothy dessert made by churning milk for hours after which leaving it to sit down outdoors on a cold night time. Click on right here for step-by-step detailed recipe of Daulat Ki Chaat.
Different dishes you could strive:
3. Papdi’s Chaat
Right here we convey you probably the most fashionable road meals of North India, Papdi Chaat is a scrumptious mixture of spices, curd and deep-fried, crispy papdi. Whereas there are numerous methods to make papdi chaat, this specific papdi chaat recipe is a mouth-watering gem from the streets of Outdated Delhi. Click on right here for the recipe.
4. Outdated Delhi’s Fried Aloo Chaat
A deep fry, crispy potato chaat from the streets of Outdated Delhi. This fried aloo chaat made with tangy tamarind and mint chutney is a must-try. To arrange it at house, all it’s a must to do is minimize boiled potatoes into cubes, deep fry them, toss in spices and chutneys. There your chaat is prepared! Click on right here for the recipe.
5. Fruit Chaat
Best and healthiest! To arrange this chaat, all it’s a must to do is chop some fruits like papaya, banana, apple, watermelon, add a whole lot of chaat masala and lemon juice to offer it a spicy and tangy style. Sure that is it! So, subsequent time eat your fruits this manner and tell us the way you favored it.
In case you like chaat, click on right here for extra chaat recipes.
For extra Outdated Delhi recipes, click on right here.
this a lot solely! Now that what to do, strive these recipes and tell us which one turned out to be your favourite within the feedback part beneath.


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People often talk about “supplementing shape with shape” and “supplementing what they eat with what they eat”. However, these statements are most likely taken out of context in the process of circulation. Without modern science as the basis to support them, they are somewhat too simple and crude.
Which statements are reasonable and which are rumors? Let’s sort it out.
Eat liver to tonify liver?
For example, when eating pig liver, pig liver will be directly absorbed by intestines after being digested and decomposed by stomach, thus it cannot directly act on liver in human body.
Especially for some patients with liver discomfort or liver diseases, if they want to achieve the purpose of recuperation by eating animal liver, they will not produce any effect, but will increase the burden on the liver and make the disease more serious.
For example, the fat metabolism ability of patients with [fatty liver] is worse than that of normal people, so it is necessary to choose a diet with high quality protein and low fat, such as eggs and fish, and eat as little animal fat as possible.
Eating kidney to tonify kidney?
By the same token, eating animal kidneys cannot directly affect the kidneys.
Especially for people with renal insufficiency, such as uremic patients, the nutrition they absorb in a day needs to be controlled within a certain limit. However, the cholesterol and protein content in animal kidneys are relatively high, and such patients already have symptoms of low urine volume.
Once you eat the kidney, it will lead to accumulation of waste in the body, which is more difficult to discharge out of the body and further increase the burden on the kidney.
Eating skin and mending skin?
Want smooth skin? Want to be beautiful? How about eating pigskin? Or chicken skin? Or duck skin?
However, how much [skin] you eat cannot realize [face-saving] people’s pursuit of beauty.
Collagen in our skin makes skin smoother, softer, firmer and shiny by keeping moisture in the dermis.
However, the collagen eaten by the belly will first be decomposed into amino acids, which is no longer collagen and has no function of collagen. Therefore, eating [skin] directly cannot directly produce effects on skin.
But fortunately, eating all kinds of skins wastes much less money than eating high-priced collagen health products.
Eat brain to nourish brain?
Eating pig brain cannot directly act on pig brain… ah no, it is human brain.
[Eating Dolphin to Remove Brain] means that it is best not to eat pig’s brain. Although pig’s brain is delicate in meat quality, tender and delicious, with high contents of calcium, phosphorus, iron and other mineral elements, its cholesterol content is also very high.
Young people can eat a small amount of pig brain to taste fresh, but if the elderly start blindly eating pig brain to pursue the purpose of restoring memory when symptoms of memory loss occur, it will only add blockage to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Especially for the three-high population, it is even more harmful than beneficial.
Eat eyes to mend eyes?
Eating eyes cannot directly act on eyes. (If you are familiar with it)
Take fish eyes as an example. Fish eyes do contain collagen and-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids.-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids help promote retinal development and prevent cataract and macular degeneration and pathological changes in the eyes of the elderly.
However, the content of the two is similar in the eyes of fish and other parts, so there is really no need to eat fish eyes for the reason of rich content.
However, there is also a little good place, even eating it is no harm.
Eat bone psoralea?
Rumors of [drinking bone soup to supplement calcium] have gradually been shattered.
The main unreliable part of this rumor is that the amount of calcium in bones that can be dissolved in soup is very small. If you pick up the bone and chew it directly, the absorption rate of calcium is still very low. (Hey, there seems to be something wrong …)
The wonderful kitchen tips on [adding vinegar to make soup to help dissolve calcium] have also been proved by experiments:
Adding 100-200 grams of vinegar to every 500 grams of bone and pressing it with a pressure cooker for 1-2 hours can indeed significantly increase the solubility of calcium acetate.
However, it is so sour, can I still drink it? (Strong man, dry this bowl of vinegar.)
In addition, statements such as “eating heart to tonify heart”, “eating belly to tonify belly”, “eating legs to tonify legs” and “eating lung to moisten lung” are mostly untenable and can be overturned by the above similar logic.
So, [eat whip to strengthen yang]? One word: No!
What about what to supplement what? Tell the truth…
Eat blood and enrich blood!
Only the article [eating blood and enriching blood] is generally recognized.
This is because animal blood is rich in heme iron, which is easily absorbed by human body.
Compared with iron from non-heme sources contained in kelp, black fungus, red dates, etc., it can better meet the needs of iron deficiency anemia patients for iron supplement and blood benefit.
At the same time, the protein contained in the blood is also relatively high, which is suitable for people with weak digestion and weak body after being converted into amino acids.
The answer is what?
A single [eating A and supplementing A] is not feasible. The key is to eat a comprehensive and balanced diet so as to benefit the whole body.
However, I have to say that [eating fat and supplementing fat] is definitely the truth that thunder cannot beat.


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A VA-backed cash-out refinance loan lets you replace your current loan with a new one under different terms. If you want to take cash out of your home equity or refinance a non-VA loan into a VA-backed loan, a VA-backed cash-out refinance loan may be right for you. Find out if you’re eligible.
The change has since allowed homeowners to acquire property and then immediately cash-out refinance to replenish liquidity, purchase other.
Cash Out Refinance Mortgage Rates What Is Cash Out Refinancing Should You Refinance Your House to Pay Off Your Student Loans? – Cash-out refinancing was always an option; however, under previous guidelines, fees and sometimes higher rates of interest were charged on money borrowed that exceeded the balance of the loan being.Cash Out Refinance With poor credit refinance with cash out and low credit score – myFICO Forums. – Re: Refinance with cash out and low credit score I am not an expert on refinancing, however, I concur with Gunnar that you should not take money out of your home to pay off credit card debt. I, too, was in a situation roughly a year ago where I had incurred a lot of credit card debt.4 alternatives to a cash-out refinance | Mortgage Rates. – current mortgage rates for rate-and-term refinances and cash-out refinancing are affordably low. However, you still need to compare options and shop among competing mortgage lenders to pay as.

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REMOVABLE DENTAL PROSTHESIS AND ANCHORING DEVICE THEREFOR Filed April 7, 1953 INVENTOR FRANCO SANDRI ATTORNEYS Patented Oct. 12, 1954 UNITED STATES PATENT orrics.
REMOVABLE DENTAL PR-OSTHESIS AND ANCHORING DEVICE THEREFOR 10 Claims.
This invention relates to means for removably attaching a dental prosthesis (which term shall include both complete denture sets and bridges) to metal pins fixed to existing teeth stumps or preferably in the root canal. Such pins terminate with a ball head projecting above the alveolar ridge and are adapted to be removably inserted in metal collars or bushings fastened to the prosthesis.
The object of the invention is in the first place to provide an improved ball joint for removably attaching the prosthesis to one or more pins fixed to existing teeth or roots in such a manner as to permit to accomplish during the mastication slight movements in all directions and to relieve the pillar root from hurtful stresses.
A further object of the invention is to provide a ball joint for a dental prosthesis anchored to pins and which is simple and safe, which permits an easy attaching and removing of the prosthesis and whose parts may be easily changed and cleaned.
According to the invention, the anchoring pins fixed to stumps of existing teeth or preferably in the root canal, where they are cemented in a suitable manner, terminate outwardly with a ball head and constitute, together with a capping of the root, the fixed part of the prosthesis.
The removable prosthesis, on the other hand, is provided with suitably wide bores and with retaining means for a cylindrical resiliently yielding member which, once inserted, cannot come out of the bore without removing the said retaining member thereof, but is only allowed to accomplish slight movements therein.
Said retaining member however has a hole of such a width as to permit to the ball head of the said pin of snugly passing therethrough and engaging itself into the bore of said cylindrical resilient member, which is slightly resiliently expanded thereby.
By this arrangement temporary movements of the prosthesis are permitted during the mastication. On the other hand the sliding connection between the ball head and the cylindrical resilient member permits adjustments of the prosthesis to increased shrinking of the edentulous gum which resiliently supports the prosthesis.
The above and other features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following specification of some preferred embodiments shown by way of example in the attached drawing in which:
Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view of a jaw in which only two tooth roots are left, which are .7.
Z provided each with a ball-headed pin for holdin a complete denture set, also shown in bottom plan.
Figure 2 shows in section a denture anchored to a ball-headed pin by means of a device according to the invention.
Figure 3 shows enlarged a detail of Fig. 2.
Figures 4; and 5 show in section a further embodiment of the device and detail thereof, in enlarged scale.
Referring to the drawing, the device for anchoring a dental prothesis according to the invention comprises a fixed part, constituted by one or more pins each fixed to tooth stump or root and a movable part attached to the prosthesis. I y
In the embodiments as shown in the drawings, the pins l are shown as fixed by cementing in the canal of the roots 2 and are provided with a ball-shaped head 3 projecting above the alveolar ridge.
i The dental prosthesis 4, which may be a complete denture set (as shownin Figure 1) or a bridge, presents in correspondence of each pin I a blind bore 5 in which a metal cap 6 is fixed substantially at right angles to the alveolar ridge.
Said cap 6 is open at its outer end and is pro vided with a screw thread in which another cap 1 with perforated bottom 8 may be screwed. Thus caps 6 and l define a cylindrical chamber provided with an axialhole E which is of such a diameter as to permit of ball head 3 passing therethrough, together with a part of pin 1 In said chamber defined bymembers 6, l and 8 a cylindrical resilient member l0 (Figs. 2 and 3) or H0 (Figs. 4 and 5) is arranged co-axially, so as to be slightly shiftable in axial and transversal directions, but is of such an outside diameter, as not to come out of the hole 9. The inside diameter is however such as to permit of the ball head 3 being inserted therein with a slight frictional pressure by slightly expanding its walls. For this purpose, as shown, said cylindrical member may be either in the form of a helical spring it, Figures 2 and 3, (in which however the convolutions are much more close together than as shown) or also in the form of a sleeve or small tube IIB split longitudinally as at 2| (Figures 4 and 5).
The anchoring of the prosthesis 4 is effected by simply inserting each ball head 3 through a corresponding hole 9 and into the resilient member ID in Figures 2 and 3, or H0 in Figures 4 and 5 until the saddle base of the prosthesis bears on the underlying gum H (Figures 2 and 4).
During the mastication, the prosthesis 4 is permitted all necessary slight movements, in relation to pillar root 2, which are useful in relieving this latter from detrimental stresses, and this inasmuch as the prosthesis is actually supported by the edentulous gum ll which acts also as cushioning means.
In addition to these movements the device permits a permanent shifting of the ball head 3 along the cylindrical member ID in Figures 2 and 3, or H0 in Figures 4 and 5 to adjust the prosthesis to the shrinking of the edentulous gum. This adjusting movement is braked by the friction existing between member H1 in Figures 2 and 3, or III] in Figures 4 and 5 and the ball head 3 and is independent from the movements which take place during the mastication.
In the usual techniques, the pin l is usually welded to the root capping l 2 as shown in Figure 4. Now, if the pin is provided with a fixed head 3, this may lead to deformation of said head. In order to avoid this, either the capping l2 may be provided with a tubular extension I I2, Fig. 2 and the pin I may be directly cemented into the root canal independently from the root capping, or it may be soldered to said tubular extension of the root capping or also the ball head 3 may be removable and attached to the theaded pin end i by screwing, as shown in Figure 5.
Although the fixed part of the dental pros- I thesis has been shown fixed in a tooth canal, of course the headed pin might be fastened also to some member projecting for example from dental cappings. These and other variations will not depart from the principle on which the present improvements are based, as set out in the following claims.
1. In combination, a removable dental prosthesis and an anchoring device therefor, said anchoring device comprising a pin adapted for being fixed to a natural tooth part in position. to project above the alveolar ridge, an enlarged head on the projecting end of said pin, said removable prosthesis being adapted to be fitted on the edentulous part of the gums and to be anchored to said pin, a vertical blind bore provided in a bottom part of said removable prosthesis to receive the projecting part of said pin, means removably mounted in said bore having a wall closing the lower end of said bore and defining with said bore a chamber, said wall being provided with a hole having a diameter slightly greater than that of the said head on the end of said pin, a cylindrical 4 hollow spring member enclosed in said chamber substantially coaxially therewith, said spring member having an outer diameter that is smaller than that of the chamber, but larger than that of the said hole, while the inner diameter of the spring member is smaller than that of the said hole and of such a size as to slidably engage the said head on the pin under substantial friction.
2. An arrangement according to claim 1 in which the said cylindrical hollow spring member comprises a coil spring.
3. An arrangement according to claim 1 in which the said cylindrical hollow spring member comprises an axially split sleeve of resilient material.
4. An arrangement according to claim 1 in which the said pin is adapted for being cemented into a canal in the said tooth part.
5. An arrangement according to claim 1 in which a cap is provided for covering the upper end of said tooth part.
6. An arrangement according to claim 5 in which the said cap covering the upper end of the tooth part is integral with said pin.
7. An arrangement according to claim 5 in which the said cap covering the upper end of the tooth part is provided with a tubular extension adapted for fitting the root canal of the said tooth part and through which the said pin freely passes.
8. An arrangement according to claim 1 in which there is a cap open at the bottom mounted in said blind bore and the said means removably mounted in said bore comprising a second cap fitted within the cap that is mounted in said bore.
9. An arrangement according to claim 8 in which the cap in the bore is internally threaded and the second cap is externally threaded and the said second cap is screwed into the cap in the bore.
10. An arrangement according to claim 1 in which the said enlarged head is in the form of a ball and is detachably mounted on the end of said pin.
References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 583,565 Carr June 1, 189'! 1,101,810 Otrich et a1. June 30, 1914 2,112,007 Adams Mar. 22, 1938


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Local is not the answer
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The latest email newsletter from Earthsave was waiting for me in my inbox this morning. If you haven’t signed up for it, you definitely should. There are always links to valuable stories, plus news about their upcoming events.
One link led me to a CBC story about a University of Toronto professor who has authored a report looking at the concept of “local” food, and how it is not a solution to our environmental situation.
The problem, Desrochers says, is that food miles are based on a faulty premise. Namely, that transportation is the major contributor to a food’s greenhouse gas output.
“People who’ve never been involved in agricultural production tend to minimize the requirements,” he says. Only about 10 per cent of the energy consumed in food production is related to transportation. “So to argue that the closer you are to your food, the better, is a real over-simplification.”
“Food miles are, at best, a marketing fad,” Desrochers says in his report.
Animal products are a prime example. Even eating locally produced meat, eggs, and dairy means contributing to environmental damage and agricultural inefficiency. The carbon footprint of animal agriculture is very nearly the same, whether your chicken was raised in the Fraser valley and eaten here in Vancouver, or if he was raised in California and eaten here. Transportation adds such a small amount of greenhouse gas emissions that the benefit is negligible.

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It’s important to remember our history as American women. The Women’s Reform Movement was crucial in the U.S. because it was a precursor to women being able to vote. Some of the key leaders were Susan B Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Carrie Chapman Catt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone. They used various strategies such as lectures, pamphlets, lobbying for better education, women’s labor unions, speeches, and conventions. Speeches, particularly the one made by Susan B. Anthony, were influential in affecting the way people viewed the rights of women.
The second-wave feminist movement had a positive influence on our current society as exemplified by the National Organization for Women, Redstockings, Anti-Rape Movement, Battered Women’s Movement, by women such as Robin Morgan, Carol Hanisch, Betty Friedan, and Gloria Steinem, as well as topics like abortion, birth control, college, job opportunities, the use of Ms., and black women empowerment. To begin with, the National Organization for Women was an essential element to why American women have as many rights as they do. This movement encompassed most of the ideals of the second-wave feminist movement and became established by their defiance towards oppression from the government and job discrimination. From the “Bill of Rights for Women”
She created a society in which women wanted to live in. Women had found this new society appealing so they had begun to endorse women’s activism and fought against their suffrages by taking on jobs that men typically held, gaining an education, and taking a stand to end female
Friedan was an author, an activist, and the first president of the National Organization for Women. The National Organization for Women aimed to promote women 's ideas, eliminate discrimination, and protect the equal rights of women in all aspects of life. Friedan ignited the second wave of American feminism by writing The Feminine Mystique. Friedan 's audience would most likely be women who want their rights and are annoyed with the housewife role. In her article, "The Importance of Work," Friedan uses several means of persuasion and different types of rhetorical strategies to describe the change in human identity.
This thesis will be dealing with the life and work of two most prominent women writers of the 19th and 20th century, Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. For better understanding of complex topics their work reflects, I will describe important events from their biographies. Although Dickinson and Plath lived in two different centuries they were connected by a common thread, the position of women in the male-dominated world. Not only that they wanted for women to have the same rights as men, but also to be free from the roles of housewives and mothers which were imposed on them by a conservative society. They fought for these rights in only way they could, by writing.
She further on instills the ideas of how feminism should be intersectional for all groups and not just for a select few. She explains the cruciality of transnational feminism, where it is dependent upon building solidarity across the divisions among women. Overall, Mohanty believes in illuminating the historical aspects of nations and how they led to the social construction of women. Mohanty’s text was exceedingly interesting to read since it expanded my perceptions
Character Analysis of the Women in “Everyday Use” In Alice Walker’s short story, “Everyday Use”, the author examines three female characters for the purpose of illustrating the different types of influences African American history had on women living during the twentieth century. The short story was published at the end of the Civil Rights Movement, which attempted to seek equality for minorities, including African American women (Bankston). While the movement did seek progressive change and advocated for important rights regarding equality, it also promoted social unrest and contributed to the division of American society that began after the unifying times of the 1950s. As a result, some African American women continued to be impacted
Gilman came to be known as a notable feminist, but she was much more than a feminist; Gilman was an American author, social reformer and a lecturer (Davis 179). Gilman’s work “The Yellow Wallpaper” show her strong views on feminism and show traditional gender norms formed the traditional role that women played in the 19th century. Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper” which was a short story published in 1892 (“Charlotte Perkins Gilman” 110). “The Yellow Wallpaper” is written in first person and it is seen through
Her goal was to establish the headstone for a transnational feminist movement that offered room for Women of Colour and women of the Global South. Therefore, she tried to shift the focus from the White feminism of the time to a more complex view that included the lives of non-Western women and their realities. To create solidarity between women from different places, different communities, different worlds there has to be a comprehension of their distinction to be able to recreate a sense of community and
These societal changes are credited with having achieved women 's suffrage, gender neutrality, reproductive rights for women, and the right to enter into contracts and own property. Feminists around the world have had different causes and goals. The western feminist movement included women 's suffrage
Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal. It defines, establishes, and achieves equal political, economic, personal, and social rights for women. “This was also the perspective conveyed by the best know histories of the American women’s movement published prior to 1970, in which feminism effectively began in 1848 at Seneca Falls and the focus was on votes for women” (Offen 6). In Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale shows how women advocated feminism in order to increase a political ideal. However, people say that it is impossible to read the novel without being aware of the issues of gender and the aspects of feminism, that are central to it.
Her first book, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, included works from “The Great Lawsuit,” was her most influential Transcendentalist work. “A manifesto for the women’s rights movement, it revealed Fuller’s enormous knowledge of literature and philosophy as she described the oppression of the female sex through history and advocated equal status for women” (Source 7). Her book was inspired from her conversations, how women weren’t equal to
Women in England during the 1800s faced restrictions to participate in movements and were limited in their political speaking and voting capabilities. Although many women accepted their fate, some fought for a different social role. (“The Women 's Rights Movement”) Women such Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and Mary Shelley inspired a new way of radical thinking towards human rights, specifically the rights of women (Surgis). Thanks to these inspiring individuals, there was a change in women’s attitude regarding their options to become part of the work force, gain an education, and have equal rights in marriage (Surgis). Educating women was the primary focus for many modern feminists, explaining that if women were educated the opportunities


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Whimsical illustrations bring a child’s dreams to life in this beautiful and imaginative bedtime story. Every evening when he goes to bed, the night sits at the child’s bedside and reads him a story. Some stories are sweet, others are magical, and still others are mysterious, but they all inspire his dreams as he drifts off into a peaceful good night’s sleep.
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The 36 Hours That Shook Washington
By Frank Rich
What we saw was this: 1) Much of the Beltway establishment was blindsided by Michael Hastings’s scoop, an impressive feat of journalism by a Washington outsider who seemed to know more about what was going on in Washington than most insiders did; 2) Obama’s failure to fire McChrystal months ago for both his arrogance and incompetence was a grievous mistake that illuminates a wider management shortfall at the White House; 3) The present strategy has produced no progress in this nearly nine-year-old war, even as the monthly coalition body count has just reached a new high.
If we and the president don’t absorb these revelations and learn from them, the salutary effects of the drama’s denouement, however triumphant for Obama in the short run, will be for naught.
There were few laughs in the 36 hours of tumult, but Jon Stewart captured them with a montage of cable-news talking heads expressing repeated shock that an interloper from a rock ’n’ roll magazine could gain access to the war command and induce it to speak with self-immolating candor. Politico theorized that
That sentence was edited out of the article — in a routine updating, said Politico — after the blogger Andrew Sullivan highlighted it as a devastating indictment of a Washington media elite too cozy with and protective of its sources to report the unvarnished news. In any event, Politico had the big picture right. It’s the Hastings-esque outsiders with no fear of burning bridges who have often uncovered the epochal stories missed by those with high-level access. Woodward and Bernstein were young local reporters, nowhere near the White House beat, when they cracked Watergate.
The Interior Department follies will end promptly only if Obama has learned the lessons of the attenuated McChrystal debacle. Lesson No. 1 should be to revisit some of his initial hiring decisions. The general’s significant role in the Pentagon’s politically motivated cover-up of Pat Tillman’s friendly-fire death in 2004 should have been disqualifying from the start. The official investigation into that scandal — finding that McChrystal peddled “inaccurate and misleading assertions” — was unambiguous and damning.
Once made the top commander in
We now know, thanks to
This fundamental contradiction helps explain some of the war’s failures under McChrystal’s aborted command, including the inability to hold Marja (pop. 60,000), which he had vowed to secure in pure counterinsurgency fashion by rolling out a civilian “government in a box” after troops cleared it of the Taliban. Such is the general’s contempt for leadership outside his orbit that it extends even to our allies. The
In the 36 hours between the Rolling Stone bombshell and McChrystal’s firing, some perennial war cheerleaders in the Beltway establishment, including the editorial page of The Washington Post and Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, did rally to the general’s defense and implored Obama to keep him in place. George Stephanopoulos, reflecting a certain strain of received Beltway wisdom, warned on ABC that the president risked looking “thin-skinned and petulant” if he fired McChrystal.
But none of the general’s defenders had an argument for him or the war beyond staying the course, poor as the results have been. What McChrystal’s supporters most seemed to admire was his uniquely strong relationship with Hamid Karzai, our
You have to wonder whether McChrystal’s defenders in
The war, supported by a steadily declining minority of Americans, has no chance of regaining public favor unless President Obama can explain why American blood and treasure should be at the mercy of this napping Afghan president. Karzai stole an election, can’t provide a government in or out of a box, and has in recent months threatened to defect to the Taliban and accused American forces of staging rocket attacks on his national peace conference. Until last week, Obama’s only real ally in making his case was public apathy. Next to unemployment and the oil spill, Karzai and
To appreciate how shielded Americans have been from
The gaping discrepancy between Emanuel’s upbeat assessment and the reality on the ground went unremarked because absolutely no one was paying attention. Everyone is now. That, at least, gives us reason to hope that the president’s first bold move to extricate
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"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and everything to lose--especially their lives." Eugene Victor Debs


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Most Dramatic Pop Star Hair Makeovers
Since pop stars have armies of stylists and glam squads at their disposal, they can change their hair color, cut, length and texture on a daily basis or on a whim. If they want to go from short to long or from bangs to bangs-free or from black to pink, they can! So which pop stars have had the most dramatic hair makeovers?
Well, there's Justin Bieber's definitive and famous swoop bangs, which he abandoned for his James Dean pompadour. Or Katy Perry's penchant for trying every color of the rainbow in a calendar year. Oh and what about Lady Gaga's vacillation between long and short? Don't forget Jessie J's switch from Bettie Page blunt bangs to a buzz cut, which she did for charity. Or Miley Cyrus' punk rock pixie cut. Don't get us started on Rihanna's fickle follicles.
We've rounded up some of the most dramatic and drastic celebrity hair makeovers. The only constant is change for these peeps.

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Regus: The serviced office giant plans to move to Luxembourg and rename the firm
The announcement of several corporates moving their domicile residence abroad again raised the issue of the UK losing many big British businesses due to its uncompetitive corporate tax system.
Last August, the leading serviced office provider Regus , announced its plan to quit Britain due to its tax regime planning a move to Luxembourg. The world’s biggest serviced office space provider continued its profitability and expansion with increased pre-tax profits by 39% to £74.5m. Revenues rose by 23% to £507.5m and the company’s net cash increased 38% to £140.2m, as per Property Week.
In the current economic uncertainty, the Regus Group makes a new strategic move to help protect its taxation position as the credit crunch in the UK has brought more insecurity for international businesses whose holding company is in Britain and therefore under the UK tax regime.
Luxembourg was chosen by Regus as it meets the essential commercial criteria the group was looking for, including more stability with the tax regime for international companies as the group continues its worldwide expansion.
Mark Dixon, Chief Executive of the group, commented that Regus’ move is not only due the British tax regime but also to internationalise the business. He also stated that Regus will be renamed “New Regus”.
The Regus office space solutions have proved to be increasingly attractive to global, small and medium enterprises, especially since the beginning of the economic downturn, and the move to Luxembourg is a new move for the worldwide leader in view to a new strategy with “New Regus”.
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Analysis: Dropbox Carries Risks For SMBs
Dropbox, known as a purveyor of cheap cloud storage for consumers, is now targeting small and mid-sized businesses with a new service offering. However, SMBs considering the service need to bear in mind that it lacks key compliance certifications many businesses need, potentially leaving them open to significant financial penalties.
The new Dropbox for Teams cloud storage service does not meet the requirements of Payment Card Industry (PCI), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) or the Sarbanes-Oxley law, executives and media representatives from the San Franciso-based company confirmed to CRN this week.
Failing to meet compliance requirements could carry catastrophic consequences to SMBs, including some businesses that Dropbox is targeting with its Teams cloud storage offering. Dropbox executives, though, defend the product saying customers who beta-tested it prior to launch were concerned with collaboration and ease-of-sharing, not PCI, HIPAA or SOX.
’This is not what our customers are asking about right now,’ said Chenli Wang, team lead of business and sales operations for Dropbox regarding Dropbox for Teams' lack of regulatory compliance. ’But there are things we always evaluate. We are just getting started.’
Wang noted that SOX compliance is aimed at publicly traded companies, which Dropbox is not targeting with Teams. HIPAA compliance, he said, is ’more complex’ because ’it’s not just about the technology compliance, but also data access and practices. That is more around how the businesses themselves enforce policies.’
Still, Wang said, HIPAA compliance is an area that ’we may potentially look at.’
With PCI compliance, Wang said, that benchmark is more directed at the storing of customer credit card and personal data and ’that’s not what they’re using [Dropbox for Teams] for.’
The buildout of cloud-based storage solutions, for both businesses and individual consumers, is encountering a push-pull between cost in a price-sensitive environment and need for security, privacy and regulatory compliance.
However, for many businesses, compliance could be the whole ballgame.
For example, here’s what Bank of America says in an online FAQ about what happens to a business that does not comply with PCI regulations:
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’If you do not comply with PCI [Data Security Standard], your business may face significant financial and reputational risks.
’If your cardholder data is compromised, you could be required to reimburse us for card brand fines ranging up to $500,000 per incident, as well as subsequent fraud losses incurred by card issuers resulting from the compromised card data, which may exceed fine amounts.’
In addition, Bank of America says, a business could have its entire account blocked for a lapse in PCI compliance. And that’s even if a business conducts fewer than 20,000 credit card transactions in a year.
With HIPAA, health care providers themselves are often small businesses with the same regulatory compliance requirements as large, multi-global health insurance companies.
Even SOX requirements could be a factor for small, privately held companies. Under the act, third-party providers of significant services to publicly traded companies -- like VARs or consultants -- have to maintain the same controls as the publicly traded companies themselves. So the impact of non-compliant technology in even smaller organizations could loom large.
Wang acknowledges that Dropbox doesn’t provide any warnings for small businesses with its Dropbox for Teams service to let them know the risks of storing regulated data on its non-compliant infrastructure.
PCI compliance, Wang said, ’may apply to a small subset of potential customers. For the vast majority,[the focus is on] collaboration and creative assets. We’re not talking about bank statements.’
He said that security, and functions like encryption, were in fact considered and included in the development of Teams, and customers have been happy with that. His comment comes after some customers of Dropbox's consumer service have had security complaints.
In unrelated cases, Dropbox has been fending off customer concerns about its security for some time. Those concerns -- which have led to at least two lawsuits and a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission -- include the alleged access of some Dropbox employees to individual customer data, as well as a one-time glitch that allowed some customer data to be accessed even without a password. Dropbox has been defending itself vigorously against criticism of its security, however, and has not been deterred in working to expand its addressable market.
Launched primarily as a consumer-focused tool for storing a small capacity of data online, Dropbox last month disclosed that it was launching Teams for collaboration -- targeted at SMBs. Dropbox for Teams, which is sold directly online, is priced at $795 per year for use by up to 5 people. Dropbox advertises Teams as providing ’bank-grade’ encryption, and the service allows for quick sharing of data stored in its online service -- including via Apple's iPhone.
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The market for cloud-based collaboration and storage is crowded, and there are competing solutions that do provide regulatory compliance and channel support. These solutions include, for example, IBM’s IBM Lotus Connections combined with IBM Vantage.
On the issue of working through third-party solution providers, Wang said the company only sells Dropbox for Teams direct, not through a channel of solution providers
While Teams may address needs for quick, low-touch solutions for cloud-based collaboration and sharing in an organization, the unaddressed risks it brings may become an increasingly important topic of conversation for even the smallest of businesses. The sooner and more focused that conversation begins, the better.
For now, there appears to be nothing wrong with using Dropbox’s base consumer service for storing innocuous files and having access to them across platforms. And many organizations may even find Dropbox for Teams to be a solid offering that's easier to use for file sharing and storage than e-mail.
But for others, there may be $500,000 (or more) worth of reasons to be cautious about taking the quick, cheap and easy route.


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A recent trip to Texas netted some fabric that was turned into a dress for grand-daughter Hannah. She is 14 about to turn 15 this month and fits a size 12 pattern perfectly. I don't understand these bloggers who make size 4 or 6 for themselves when they can't possibly measure that small. I mean Hannah is a very slender teenager and her measurements put her exactly into a size 12. I know that some patterns have more ease than others, but generally I have found that they are in the ballpark and only require minimal tweaking to make them fit well.
The pattern for this dress is Butterick 6331; it has a vintage look to it and could be a little too cute, but hopefully she will wear it. I am making the same pattern again in a soft printed chambray, that version will be collarless and sleeveless plus it will have the full skirt. So it will look more like a sun-dress.
I figure that since version 1 fit her so well, that I should make a second version right away before she grows. The only changes I made to the pattern were to bring the neckline in slightly (it looked very wide to me) and I took in the side seams 1/4" directly under the arms to eliminate gaping there.
Second version of Butterick 6331 in a lovely printed denim chambray. Instead of gathering the skirt, I pleated it so that it would not be a full waist. Very few people feel comfortable in a gathered waist I find. Pleats give you the exact same circumference in the skirt but the fullness is controlled at the waistline.
These two fabrics will be made into a tiered dress for grand-daughter Sarah who is five, but a very tall five. The pattern is Simplicity 2377, which I picked up at Joanne's in Texas. Simplicity patterns aren't sold in Canada any longer. The reason given is that they don't print the instructions in French and Canada insists on all products being sold in the two official languages. Stupid I say, as the percentage of people who speak French in Canada is not that great. There are probably more people who speak Chinese than speak French now.
I will make her a size 7, as she is growing like a weed. She is already wearing Hannah's old clothes from when Hannah was 8 years old. I had the plaid in my stash and picked up the batik pink quilting cotton to coordinate with it. Sarah's favourite colour of course is pink, as is the case for most little girls.
And the yellowy cotton above is going to be a gardening blouse for me, using Vogue 8689. My daughter in Texas made this pattern up for her very first sewing project and it looked great. She made it first in a cotton/linen blend, then again in a cotton lawn print. She said the second version looked like scrubs so she took off the sleeves and bound the armholes. And that blouse looks wonderful. She ties the ends in a knot and wears it with a very cute heart-printed blue denim.
I also bought three fabrics from Blackbird Fabrics last week. One is a stretch twill in tan to make into pants, and there are two lengths for summer blouses. One is a double gauze in navy that I think will be very interesting to work with.
So long since posting here, life has been busy with all sorts of new things. Adjusting to a new house, to a new community, to a new weather system and also to a new puppy.
But I have made some living room curtains. There is another window that needs another set, but this is enough for this week. I so dislike sewing home decor items, I find them incredibly frustrating for some reason. The quantity of fabric, the weight of it, the need for exact measuring, and then the task of mounting the hardware on the wall. Neither one of us is very practical and it takes a major effort to screw in brackets for the curtain rod. But we managed today to get this one up and so I felt obliged to finish the first pair of curtains and get them hung. The brackets need to be extended a little further as the curtains get stuck on the blind hardware that is also there, but that is a minor job.
I will so enjoy getting back to garment sewing. A zillion pieces of a pattern is far less intimidating that the 94" of curtain lengths that I was dealing with in these.
This is Tekla, a Norwegian elkhound. She is now 17 weeks old. We got her at 10 weeks, and she has been quite the handful. We have always had dogs from their young puppy age, but I don't recall any being quite so difficult to train as this one. Of course, having a UTI for two weeks at Christmas didn't help as she had to go out every 30 minutes and there were many accidents in the house. But she has a wonderful loving nature and is incredibly curious and energetic. And she will keep us exercising and walking which is so necessary in this stage of our life.
Other than that, I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of spring. But before that, we are heading south to visit our daughter and her family in Texas. This is the daughter who took up sewing 10 months ago, and has successfully completed over 50 items of clothing so far. This includes 4 bras and 2 pairs of jeans, there is no stopping her. She has discovered the wonderfully creative world of sewing and her husband even bought her a serger for Christmas. She made a fleece dog coat right off with it. Next are t-shirts and sweatshirts for the kids; the oldest boy said that he was looking forward to something without buttons.
This is Tekla when we first got her, about 11 weeks old.
And this is her when she takes a nap; she often rolls over onto her back and is out for the count. Only lasts about 15 minutes though, then she is up and ready to go again.
Of course, this has severely limited the amount of sewing that I get done. But every thing has its season.
For some reason, I got it in my head that I wanted to make a bathing suit. The idea took over and I searched for a pattern that would be suitable for this aging body. Aha! Butterick 5795 popped up and, although the photos were not that helpful, the line diagrams showed a "swimdress" that I could see myself wearing.
The pattern has a lot of options: a crossover swimsuit, a tank top in two lengths with a swimsuit bottom, a skirt to wear over the bottom if desired, and a cover-up dress that looks quite good too.
I found this print at our local fabric store, the fabric is heavy duty nylon/lycra and it was pricey, especially when I discovered that I had cut the bottoms on the wrong grain and had to purchase more. In actual fact, I then found out that it was only the lining that I had cut wrong and the lining restricted the stretch of the print; once I cut lining with the correct stretch, everything was fine.
I made the shorter version of the swim dress, the bottoms are pinned to the dress form because I couldn't get them up over the bottom of the stand without losing the feet (of the dress form that is).
Rather than use the directions for the lining, I cut the front double and zigzagged purchased bra cups in the correct position. Then I simply sewed the lining to the edges of the front and treated them as one layer. That is why you can see the side seam pulling to the front; it is the elastic sewn underneath the bra cups that pulls in the lining which is attached at the side seam. It doesn't do this when I am wearing it.
This is the back view; it has a slight flare to it. The longer version would be more flared. When I tried this on, I actually thought it would make a very nice princess line dress in a knit with some body. I may actually try one later on, but I would raise the neckline and finish it with binding or a facing. I think I would add sleeves to it as well.
All in all, I am quite pleased with this swimsuit. Of course, one never really knows until you actually swim in it, because there can be surprises with swimwear. The swimdress may float up and be totally annoying; I should know in two weeks time when we have moved to Ontario and I take my first dip in Lake Kamaniskeg (I can hardly wait).
I have sewn two dresses this summer plus a top, but haven't posted any of that. We are intensely busy with selling this house, packing up and getting ready to leave this province. Thirty-one years is a long time and we are going back to our original province, now that Nick has retired.
I plan on sewing one more blouse, then the sewing room will be packed up and the machines packed and ready for the big move.
Preparing for a big move in July or August from Nova Scotia to Ontario. I am thrilled at the fact that we now have a large lot that is great for gardening. The hardiness zone is more limiting, this is zone 3 whereas Halifax is zone 4, but the soil is clay whereas Nova Scotia is rock and more rock, as well as giant tree roots.
So first up, I just had to plant a flowering crab apple tree. So easy to dig a foot-deep hole with this soil, add the sheep manure to the soil, apply the fungus to the exposed roots (apparently it helps the roots to grow and to absorb moisture), add bone meal to the soil as well and then plant. Water generously and I'm done!
Apparently the apple tree in the empty lot next door will provide the cross-pollination required. So I don't have to plant a second apple tree. Which is a bit of a relief, I am rather tired by the effort to plant this one.
I have also discovered four peonies in one of the garden beds. And the daffodils I planted last fall are just about finished. There is a perfect spot for a clematis vine just by the back deck (feet in shade, tops in the sun), this is something I could never grow in Halifax. I am going to push my luck though and see if I can get a climbing hydrangea to grow here. It is one zone colder than hydrangea needs, but in the right spot it just might make it.
Next week, it is back to Nova Scotia to finish packing up the house and then selling it. Once that is done, we will move here permanently. The move will bring us within a 5-minute drive of 7 of our grandchildren which will be great. And travel to Texas to visit the other 3 grandchildren is easier from Ontario than from Nova Scotia. The only drawback is leaving our youngest daughter in Nova Scotia. We will only see her when she takes her vacation and visits us here.
This is the view of the front yard as seen from the front steps. This is what we see out of our living room window. In the fall, the colours are magnificent with the red maple and the golden leaves of the many birch trees.
This is one angle of the back yard, the lot line defined by large pine trees, which the neighbour emphatically informed me belonged to him. "I can trim the branches if you would like", he said. I replied "they are just fine the way they are."
The other angle of the back yard. This is the land of sheds, almost everyone has at least one in their yard and often as many as three or four. Provides great storage for wood piles, bikes, snowmobiles, ATVs, boats, and possibly racoons and their young.
Life will be different here. I am looking forward to it. I know that I will miss terribly some things about Halifax and the closest fabric store is an hour's drive away and it's not terribly impressive. I will definitely be shopping online for many fabrics and notions. But life will also be much simpler, living in a town of 1200 people rather than a city of 100,000. There doesn't seem to be that sense of urgency that you feel when you live in a city, always watching the clock because you are on a schedule. I feel that we will be living more in the moment here.
All in all, a good move we think. As with any major change, there will be a period of adjustment.
I am very grateful for all the blessings in my life.
I made this top last spring in a linen printed fabric and was really pleased with it. However, when they tell you to prewash linen 3X, take the advice. The top shrunk after the first wash and is no longer wearable, well not by me. I made a second version in a black tencel fabric, it is okay but it doesn't really thrill me. But I still liked the pattern and got it out last week for a third version. This time in a batik rayon in the most gorgeous shades of blue and purple.
I did add more darts to the front from the waist as I found the FBA had made this too loose in the waist area. And perhaps it would be better 1" shorter, but this is good to go. I will hand wash this top to preserve the fabric for as long as possible. If you can get your hands on Eucalan fabric wash, don't hesitate, it is great stuff, you simply swish a capful into a sink of warm water, add the garment and let it soak for 15 minutes or so. Then squeeze it out gently, no need to rinse, and hang to dry. I did this with a rayon blouse from another Batik Butik fabric and I wore it pretty steadily for 8 years.
So another version of this top is up next. This time, I have a drapey fabric that I can't remember where I got it. It must have a lot of rayon in it because of the drape, but I don't think it is 100% rayon. It might be mixed with some polyester or with cotton.
This time, I will make the sleeveless version with the longer back hemline.
Alterations to this pattern include:
Cut size 18
Make a full bust alteration adding 1 1/2" to each front piece, and making a rather large side bust dart
Extend the length of the top by 1" (even though I am short, I find many tops are just too short, I prefer a longer length)
Make the top full button front rather than tab opening. Cut pockets, yoke and front bands on the bias.
My third version shows that I need to raise the end of the bust dart by 1", which will be done on this fourth version. I don't think I have ever made 4 versions of any pattern in my life.
I am finding it difficult to get much extended sewing time in these days, as we are preparing to sell our house with a move across provinces in July. So much to do to declutter the house, which is a four-storey 100-year old home. After 21 years and six people living here, there is a lot to go through and discard, recycle, rehome, whatever. I have been forced to cull a lot of my fabric stash and patterns too, and the local thrift shop has got a lot of these. One woman at the sewing guild said I see you brought your patterns to the Sally Anne. When I checked, they were all gone. I guess there are some sew-ers out there.
Next week will see another driving trip of 1000 miles to Ontario where my husband will lead his last geological field trip of his career. This is a bittersweet time for him, as he has loved teaching and retirement is not coming easy for him.
I am hoping that he will teach at the small college where we are moving, and that he can introduce a new crop of students to the subject that he loves.

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The Harry Potter Saga contains some of the most iconic films of the 2000s. Most fans of the franchise grew up with these movies, which came out over a decade. However, as time has passed, Redditers have found things they can improve on Harry Potter.
Although many of these changes could not be made at the time, as most of the books were not published, some changes would take seconds to incorporate, which fans find particularly offensive. Hopefully, if Harry Potter Whenever movies are rebooted, writers will consider these tips.
10/10 Including more dobby scenes from the books
Anyone who has read the books knows that Dobby is one of the most important characters Harry Potter. A house-elf is not only one of Harry’s most loyal friends but also an important helping hand to Harry. For example, Dobby was instrumental in helping Harry survive the second act of the Triwizard Tournament, but only appears in the house-elf films.
Redditor Jackets572 comments, “I understand that they were trying to save money on the CGI it takes to do Dobby, but you know the director thought for years ‘Oh, we’ll just let Neville do it, no big deal..'” However, it was a big deal because all these deleted scenes from the books took away from the climactic moment of Dobby’s death. Deathly Hollows: Part 1.
9/10 Adding more to Tom Riddle’s backstory
Sixth though Harry Potter The book is one of the darker ones from the series Half-Blood Prince Movies don’t have the same energy. In a movie that focused primarily on the romantic development of the characters, Dumbledore was left with very little time to properly adapt the memories shown to Harry.
However, fans believe it was a big mistake. As one Redditor explained, “It will not only inform the audience about the life and personality of the main antagonist (…), but also provide in-depth information on Horcruxes.Furthermore, the search for Voldemort’s motivations and fears was one of the central themes of the book and what allowed Harry to find Voldemort’s Horcruxes.
8/10 Altering Voldemort and Harry’s final duel
While Deathly Hollows: Part 2 Depicting the epic battle between Voldemort and Harry at Hogwarts, the books depict a more toned-down version of this battle. Harry is not one of the strongest wizards harry potter, Although he is very talented for his age. In the books, Harry manages to kill Voldemort not by subduing him, but through a combination of the element of surprise and specific circumstances.
Fans believe it will show a long and spectacular fight in the end Deathly Hollows: Part 2 removes the story’s central theme: that Harry wins because of his heart and his community, not because of his sheer power. Redditor sineofthetime notes that the conflict should be less seasoned to prove that Harry is “just a regular old wizard”.
7/10 Redditors will draw Voldemort’s corpse
in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, when Harry finally defeats Voldemort after a fierce battle, the dark wizard is easily defeated. This is an eerie adaptation of the scene in the books, where Harry sees Voldemort’s body enter the Great Hall along with all the other bodies.
According to Redditor covmatty1, “In the book, he died as a human, not some kind of weird supernatural thing. “It’s a very significant change, because, at the end of the day, Voldemort was just an ordinary man, even if he thought he could break the laws of nature.
6/10 They will include the character Peeves
Peeves the Poltergeist isn’t a main character in the books, but his presence isn’t inevitable either. On top of adding to the magical atmosphere at Hogwarts, Peeves is a recurring character who makes things difficult for everyone in the castle, but he’s also responsible for many fan-favorite pranks. Fans were outraged that the beloved creature was not a part of the movie.
It is very possible that Harry Potter Movies don’t want to spend money on a character that doesn’t really affect the plot, but it’s often these kinds of small details that really improve the experience for fans. Redditor ciocinanci says, “We must have ‘It opens the other way,’” the funniest interaction between Minerva McGonagall and the Poltergeist.
5/10 They will add more about the Marauders
However some of the robbers are Harry Potter Characters who age vulnerable have the most important storylines in the series. However, the movies did them a disservice, as many flashbacks and information about these characters were omitted from the movies.
The Marauders consist of Harry’s father and his best friends, Sirius Black, Remus Lupine, and Peter Pettigrew. Their story is so important that its foundation Prisoner of Azkaban When Harry found out that Peter had cheated on his parents. Understandably, there wasn’t enough screen time, but as Redditor RobbieNewton commented, “They brushed it off completely.“
4/10 Redditors will make Harry and Ginny’s relationship even better
One of the most criticized elements of the series is that the films are sometimes disconnected from each other, leading to some large plot holes. Harry Potter. This may be because some books were not published at that time or because of a change in direction, but still, the result leaves fans disappointed.
In particular, viewers find Harry and Ginny’s romance strained and forced The Half-Blood Prince Because it wasn’t set in the earlier films. On top of this, many believe that the on-screen chemistry between Daniel Radcliffe and Bonnie Wright is lacking. Redditor anne_with_an_e says that they “Do anything to make it look like there’s a little bit of romantic chemistry between Harry and Ginny.”
3/10 They will design the Hogwarts castle in a more magical way
The Harry Potter The books place great emphasis on how unique Hogwarts is as a place, and one of the most interesting parts of the school is its structure. From the rooms that appear out of nowhere to the many magical passages to the unexpectedly winding staircases, there is never a dull moment in this place.
The Harry Potter The movies make a concerted effort to keep it dynamic, but still, fans think that the movies made some mistakes. According to Redditor gatheloc, ladders make no sense because they “All housed in a tall tower covered in every Hogwarts portrait.“Although the vision of the castle may vary from interpretation to interpretation, it is true that there may be more magical elements sprinkled around to make it more interesting.
2/10 They will give Dobby a proper burial
Dobby was one of Harry’s best friends and an important part of his life at Hogwarts. In the books, when a house-elf gives his life to save Harry and his friends, Harry makes sure to give him a proper burial. Because it is one of the most emotional moments Harry PotterFans find it insulting that the scene was not portrayed properly.
In the books, Harry buries Dobby in his coat, but in the movie, he uses a plain sheet. On top of that, in the books, Harry and his friends give Dobby a piece of clothing each, as a final gesture to a free house-elf. However, movies don’t include it. Redditor Miniloo expresses how angry this makes them because they already were “[taken] far away [Dobby’s] Playing an important role in the movie.”
1/10 They will add more clues to the following events in the movies
Fans love seeing little hints or foreshadowing of the story that will be covered later Harry Potter The movies, which happen in the books. Redditor Eagling mentions, for example, “The Locket Horcrux” and “The Vanishing Cabinet,” which are two objects that readers see in the books before they become relevant to the story.
While this would be amazing, it was practically impossible because the franchise’s writers had no idea how important these items would be when making the first few movies. Still, it might be a good time to reboot these movies, or better yet, make a TV show that allows time for all these little details.
Next: 10 Ways Harry Potter Doesn’t Age


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A retired psychic makes the most amazing and impossible predication of his career in the latest episode of Jonathan Creek.
In The Sinner and the Sandman, Creek and Polly are trying to settle into rural life but their serene country village seems to be riddled with all kinds of strange goings on.
At the recently reopened community centre, trouble is already brewing where a sordid sex scandal is about to be revealed.
Things are no better over at the vicarage, when the arrival of a new baby is overshadowed by tales of a ‘hump-backed beast’ seen prowling around at night.
Even Creek is struck by misfortune as a plague of deadly Japanese Kntoweed threatens to trigger panic in the little village.
The series of unfortunate events leads to fear that a strange local Apocalypse is about o dawn.
Jonathan Creek, meanwhile, finds himself calling on the eccentric Mr Eric Ipswich - aka 'The Amazing Astrodamus' - an ancient and reclusive former psychic magician who will shortly bring the village to a standstill by pulling off the most baffling act of clairvoyance in history.
Meanwhile his wife Polly continues to have dreams about the kindly Sandman transforming into a dark and sinister figure of evil – what could possibly be behind her nightmares?


SEP 19?HAWK SWOOPING IN ON GNCC CHAMPIONSHIP
Pennsylvanian could add GNCC bike trophy to his collection this weekend
Morgantown, WV – Four years ago, seven-time AMA Grand National Cross Country ATV Champion Barry Hawk parked his four-wheeler for good. Hawk wanted to focus on winning the GNCC motorcycle championship for the factory Am Pro Yamaha Team. When he made the switch, his chances of winning another GNCC title seemed slimmer than the machine he was switching to.
But this weekend, at the Dunlop Spartan GNCC in Sparta, Kentucky, Hawk may land his eighth GNCC championship, his first of the two-wheeled variety. Three races remain in America’s largest off-road racing series, but Hawk, who had won five races this season, will sew up the championship if he wins again.
‘I’m not even thinking about it,’ said the 30-year-old of the championship. ‘In fact, I don’t even know what my championship win bonus is. But I will tell you, if I do win it, the first thing I’m doing is getting off my bike and getting that check.’
Hawk’s miraculous run could land Yamaha’s first GNCC Championship in ten years. His stiffest competition for the crown has come from fellow Yamaha rider Jason Raines, who is one of his Hawk’s best friends.
Raines has been consistent this season, but nagging injuries left over from his ill-fated 2002 campaign have kept him winless. The Washington-native has been on the comeback trail lately, however. After a summer of rehab, Raines has won a National Enduro and a National Hare Scramble round this month. This weekend he returns to Kentucky, the site of his last GNCC win. A healthy Raines may finally get the GNCC win he’s been looking for this season. A win would stave off Hawk’s title celebration until Ohio in two weeks.
The championship breakdown is as follows: Hawk needs to finish first, second or third in Kentucky and also have Raines finish behind him to wrap the championship.
Spoilers in the field include KTM’s newly-crowned six-time Enduro Champion Mike Lafferty , who is third in points, as well as Defending GNCC Champion Rodney Smith , of Team FMF Suzuki, and former GNCC Champ Shane Watts . Smith and Watts are anxious to prove they can still run with the series’ best, and there’s no better way to do that then spoil Hawk’s party.
All the racers will compete for three hours over a winding cross-country course consisting of mud, hills, dirt and rocks.
The pro race runs Sunday at 1 p.m., capping a full weekend of racing. ATVs race Saturday, with Troy Racing’s Bill Ballance closing in on his fourth-straight championship.
The AMA Grand National Cross Country series is America’s premier off-road racing series. One of the most physically demanding sports in the world, the nearly three-hour long cross-country races lead as many as 1300 riders through tracks ranging from eight to twelve miles in length. With varied terrain including hills, mud, dirt, rocks and motocross sections, GNCC races are tests of both survival and speed. GNCC featured sponsors include MSR, Yamaha, Dunlop, Wiseco, Maxxis, FMF, Klotz, and ITP, and riders compete for over $500,000 in series prizes and contingency money. The 13-round series will air on cable television later in the year. Associate sponsors include Ohlins, Cometic, Scott, Sidi, Boyesen, Twin Air, Pro Armor, Outerwears, Laeger’s, Silent Sport and Morgantown Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha and KTM.


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We have sent many couples to Walt Disney World for their honeymoon. Why do they love it so much? Well, here are the top reasons straight from our clients.
There are several resorts at Walt Disney World that are romantic, so we will share a few of our favorites.
Port Orleans- French Quarter is a nice smaller quaint resort themed after New Orleans! You will enjoy the lovely boat ride to Disney Springs, a horse-drawn carriage ride around the resort, or an evening eating and drinking around 11 countries in Epcot, romance is abundantly sprinkled all around.
The Grand Floridian Resort & Spa is a favorite for honeymooners too! The deluxe accommodations are perfectly situated around the resort with access to the Monorail Loop and fabulous views of Magic Kingdom. All brides will feel like a Princess at this whimsical resort.
Contrary to belief, the theme parks are not just for kids. Each park has a uniqueness that makes it special and we recommend you experience all four.
- Magic Kingdom is a playground for adults with Peter Pan’s Flight taking you back to a favorite storybook or laughing your way through the ride on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad together!
- Epcot is perfect for romance around The World Showcase. You have 11 countries to dine, shop, explore, and depending on the time of the year you may even experience one of Epcot’s famous festivals! Soarin’ Around the World or zoom in your race car on Test Track, the fun and romance possibilities are endless!
- Disney’s Hollywood Studios is full of excitement! You will make memories together while riding through Hollywood on Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith or entering the Twilight Zone together on The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror™! You can also geek out at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and experience the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run or Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance.
- Disney’s Animal Kingdom celebrates life and animals! Explore Pandora-The World of Avatar and fly on a banshee or float the boat on Na’vi River Journey!
Dining around Walt Disney World can be an amazing experience. California Grill offers gourmet dining with panoramic views of Cinderella’s Castle in Magic Kingdom. The BOATHOUSE®: Great Food, Waterfront Dining, Dream Boats™ is another favorite signature dining including water views and the opportunity to experience the amphicars for a fee. We offer many great recommendations for our clients and help with all the planning.
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Andrew J. Billnitzer, Irina Barskaya, Cailing Yin and Ruth G. Perez APP independent and dependent effects on neurite outgrowth are modulated by the receptor associated protein (RAP) Journal of Neurochemistry 124
This study was performed to characterize the contributions of APP, sAPPα, LRP, and RAP on neurite outgrowth. Our data reveal that sAPPα alters neuronal morphology, and that ERK modulates RAP effects on neurite outgrowth, especially in the absence of APP. The results suggest that successful AD therapies should preserve protein interactions in order to sustain the synaptic connections underlying memory.
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For Pizza Dough
- 1⁄2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1⁄2 cup warm water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon yeast
- 1 cup ricotta cheese (I use part skim)
- 1 tablespoon butter (divided)
- 1 cup fresh shiitake mushroom
- 1⁄4 lb Broccolini
- 10 cherry tomatoes (halved)
- 1 cup cheese (pizza cheese, mozarella, parmesan, etc.)
- mixed Italian herbs
Directions See How It's Made
- For dough:.
- Mix together the flour and in a small indention mix lukewarm water, yeast and salt.
- Mix all ingredients and knead dough into ball (you might need more flour to keep it from sticking).
- Place dough in a bowl (I spray the bowl with cooking spray to keep from sticking), cover it and let it rise for 1 1/2 hours.
- Knead again and let rise another 1 hour.
- Take dough and spread it thinly on a baking sheet (either covered with parchment or sprayed with cooking spray).
- Bake for 5 minutes in oven (preheated to 400F) before spreading with topping.
- For topping:.
- Clean mushrooms and cut into strips.
- Heat half of the butter in a small pan fry the mushrooms until lightly brown. Season with salt and pepper. Set aside.
- In the same pan heat the rest of the butter and briefly sautee the brocollini then add tomatoes and take of the heat. Season with salt and pepper.
- Spread Ricotta on the slightly pre-baked Pizza dough.
- Top with vegetables then sprinkle with fresh or dried Italian Herbs, Basil, etc.
- Top with Cheese.
- Bake for another 10 minutes (400F).