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Today I gave a talk at the 2005 SSP (Sponsors of School Publications) Spring Conference at Webster University in St. Louis, MO. There were several hundred high school students at the conference. I was one of many local professionals volunteering our time to talk with the kids about turning writing into a career. When I showed up, I had no idea how many students would come to my session. And it had been a long time since I’d spoken with high school students. To my surprise, there weren’t enough seats for all the students who came through the door. These kids were really interested in what I had to say about publishing, since most of them worked on their school’s yearbook or newspaper staff. Some of them also had some writing projects going on the side, such as comic books, novels, or short stories. Some of them had already been published in magazines. They were also very curious about how I published my newest book Words With Wings. (I used a digital print-on-demand press called lulu.com.) It was a treat to work with such motivated students. Keep up the good work!
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Baltimore County Police say they have charged a Randallstown man with the death of his 3 month old daughter.
37 year old Derran Patrick Claggett of the 3900 block of Noyes Circle has been charged with first degree child abuse & second degree murder. He is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $500,000 bail.
Police say that on September 20th, at 12:33 am they were called to Northwest Hospital after a 3 month old girl was brought into the facility not breathing. Detectives learned that the child had trauma to her head and chest. Medical services transported the child to Johns Hopkins Hospital in grave condition where she succumbed to her injuries 3 days later.
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After the end of the civil war in 2005 and the victory of the rebel group CNDD-FDD (National Council for the Defence of Democracy and the Forces for the Defence of Democracy), democracy and stability seemed closer than ever before. Since the end of the war, two elections have been deemed relatively free and fair, although far from perfect. Burundi’s new constitution also contains the formulae for a meticulous consociational division of power, which allows a minimum of ethnic, gender and political pluralism.
This heritage is, however, increasingly under the attack of the ruling party, the CNDD-FDD, as explained previously on this blog. Their hold on power was facilitated by the opposition’s boycott of the 2010 elections. Since 2010, the ruling party has increased its efforts to close political space across the country. A law passed in June severely restricts media freedom. In addition, the ruling party has not been afraid to imprison journalists or kill members of the opposition.
The most worrying development, however, is the government’s recent attempt to revise the country’s constitution.

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Dreamed that it was difficult to enter the character in the script or come out from the emotional experience of the character, or there was a discordant or ugly lens, indicating that she would face many unfortunate accidents.
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The married woman dreamed of being an actor in a play and would be abandoned by her husband.
Men dream of watching drama, you will add extra expenses.
The woman dreamed of watching the drama. Be careful, you will be bullied.
Dreamed that going to the drama with friends, you will be strong and strong.
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The largest amount was directed to the Export-Import Bank of China, with Kyrgyzstan paying 8.099 billion soms ($90.5 million) towards the principal debt and 3.1 billion soms towards interest. "This is the largest amount we have paid this year to one creditor," assured Abdanbek Abdybapov, the head of the public debt department at the Ministry of Finance of Kyrgyzstan.
The second and third-largest payments were made to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Development Association (IDA, a World Bank Group). Kyrgyzstan paid 4.58 billion soms towards the principal debt and 1.193 billion soms towards interest to the IMF this year. Before the IDA, Kyrgyzstan repaid 2.732 billion soms towards the principal debt and 406 million soms towards interest.
Abdanbek Abdybapov clarified that Kyrgyzstan will pay another 3 billion soms towards the external debt by the end of this year.
Currently, Kyrgyzstan has $4.486 billion in external debt and $1.5 billion in domestic borrowings.
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In response to "Who Needs Friends?" from The Escapist forums:
That was an interesting read with some good points, although I do disagree with the claim that people will stop reading or switch off if your character is a loner who initially has no friends. That's just not true. The Man with No Name in A Fistfull of Dollars, John Rambo in First Blood (the book, not the film), two examples of interesting, loner characters off the top of my head. The mysterious drifter is a classic character archetype for a reason.
Introducing old friends is a problem in games where you determine the personality of the player character.
Unless you make the friend so generic that they could be friends with just about anyone, conflicts will be inevitable. This solution only really moves the problem around, as now you have a generic boring PC who is friends with a generic boring NPC.
I cannot really see a way to give a RPG main character pre-existing friends with personality that feel real and interesting. Perhaps if you tracked the PC's personality in the early game, and then introduced a "friend" from their past who made sense given the choices you had made?
If you say to the player: "This guy is your friend", and you cannot stand the guy, and feel it would be in character for your PC to hate him, this will undermine whatever personality you try to give your character, rather than reinforce it. Of course, the situation you describe, a character who by all rights should have friends who does not is equally jarring.
Imagine if you were trying to play through Fallout NV as a Ghoul-hating Bigot, and the game insisted introduced a Ghoul character from your past as a friend.
RPG's must allow the player to create the PC's personality from scratch. Giving the PC pre-existing friends will define some level of canonical personality. This is why the "Mysterious Drifter" archetype is popular. It provides reasonable justificatiuon for the PC not having any connections with the game world, and allows the player to define their character however they please.
Where the PC has canonical personality, friends should be used to define and explore their personality.
- Mr Jack
In response to "Myth-takes and Other Oddities" from The Escapist forums:
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You set the table and lay the forces out. Unlike ‘normal’ wargames, there are no real rules, there’s no set turn sequences, no movement rates, no reactions (per se), no firing mechanism, etc… One side starts, and he gives his narrative, such as “I wish these three units to advance on the enemy here (pointing to spot), while these five units move on the right flank (here), via this route (sweeping). These three units (pointing) will remain in reserve, with an eye towards enemy activity surfacing in this area on our left flank (pointing).”
Then his opponent says, “well, you’re advancing on my central position whilst moving on my left flank, so I’d like to thin my central position by three units, leaving three units in place to counter yours, then I want to move those three plus my reserve of three units left to counter your flank march, and I figure they’ll meet you here (pointing).”
Then the first player will argue, “there’s no way you’d have enough information to allow your commander the option of thinning his central position,” and the second will say, “yeah, you got me, but I still have the three units from my reserve marching to counter your flank attack, meeting you here (pointing).” Then the first player will say, “I think it’s a bit optimistic of you to think you’re reserve will meet me there on the flank, I think it will be further into your line.” They’ll argue/debate for a bit, then when it can’t be agreed upon, they’ll either set odds for several scenarios (okay, 10% we meet on you side, 40% we meet in the middle, and 50% we meet on my side) or a straight up opposed roll, high die wins. Either way, the dice decide the location the two forces meet on the flank.
Then they come up with battle outcomes, i.e., “my guys will take up covered positions here and ambush your guys still on marching on the road.” “No, my guys will see yours crest the ridge here, realize the severity of the situation, and so they’ll double time to here, thus beating yours to the covered position.”
And on and on. So, there are no real rules, just opposing forces squaring off via the provision of verbal orders, with die rolls to sort out disagreements. At least that is my understanding, hope it helps.


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The children in room 2 have really taken an interest in manipulating, creating and talking about play dough. We cannot wait to see where this will lead the children to explore and learn. So far we have created silky and bubble dough.
Children have also decided to create slime. When making the two different recipes we discussed how they are the same and different.
What will happen next?
We have decided to take a field trip to Walmart to buy all the ingredients we need to create and experiment with making a new playdough. Children first voted on 5 different recipes. When looking at our chart we counted 8 votes for the “Marshmallow Playdough.” This was the group with the most votes.
When looking at the recipes and planning our shopping trip we found that a lot of play dough recipes have similar ingredients. With this said we can probably use multiple recipes with just a handful of the same ingredients.
(The pictures attached show the children creating tally marks when placing their vote on the play dough recipe to make. Other pictures show them playing and manipulating the slime we created. )
The children in room 3 have really enjoyed shaping and manipulating play dough. They have really taken an interest in talking about how to make it and decided to make slime. We compared how slime is the same and different.
Statements made by some of the children:
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"It jiggles!" -Larissa
Children have been continuing creating art collaboratively. Recently we used salt, liquid water colors and pipettes to produce some amazing art. The salt and liquid water color created a variety of vibrant colors. The results of our salt art were incredible!
Over the past weeks children have thoroughly enjoyed creating beautiful art together.
Collaborative and collage art with found materials collected near the duck pond.
Using beads and wire on a wreath.
Sharpie markers were used to make a puzzle.
Children have begun to explore light and shadows. We experimented with putting flashlights together. When put together and turned on children discovered they could see shadows. We found that when we use flashlights with mirrors we create reflections of the light.
Building towers has been a strong interest in our classroom. We are reviewing architecture books to get additional ideas as we build our towers.
The children have been exploring with Magna Tiles. They've taken pictures of them as well as built with them.
Lately, we have been doing several activities in the classroom. We have had some fun with different building materials and creating some interesting structures. We have been painting with cookie cutters and evergreen branches from the bushes outside. It was an interesting experience to watch them paint with the branches instead of paint brushes. Some of the kids have also been making some interesting racetracks using blocks and other materials.
The kids have also been working on photo books. They are writing descriptions of the pictures they took that will be put into our books. We have worked on the construction part of our photo book and used glue to attach the outside and inside cover papers to the boards. We will continue to work on the books.
We did some more work with light and shadows and created a shadow box using a flashlight. The children got to experiment with my own digital camera and take pictures of the different shadows they created in the box. We also took some great pictures of the sunflowers outside on the playground! The pictures above are all child taken photographs.

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There are all types of shops and boutiques lined up, with restaurants, cinemas, ice-cream parlors, and street cafes in between. Amongst all this, in the summer months, Schwabing artists put their work out on display-some quite remarkable, some not. As compared with the old part of the city, Schwabing is not interesting due to places of interest, rather it’s the people who live and work here.
Schwabing is a world of artists, writers, philosophers, musicians, students, and people who make the best out of life. These and others – those who wish they were artists and intellectuals-enjoy seeing and being seen indulging in deep conversation with others of their kind. Here you also frequently come across interesting people who have not been so successful in life and whose good ideas have since been taken over by others. At the Munchener Freiheit, the Leopoldstraße widens out to form a large area, the Forum with terraces and fountains.
Here again, there is a colorful range of tables and chairs for sitting outside. Moving in the direction of the English Garden there is a network of small roads and alleyways lit up with colored neon lighting and filled with fragments of music pouring out of the various pubs. You have now arrived at Munich’s hotspot for pubs, bars, amusement houses, discotheques, cabarets-it’s never-ending… Have a good time!


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Working on the understanding that there is an energy, an electromagnetic one, flowing throughout the body, one can easily envisage the creation of a closed circuit when holding the hands and fingers in certain gestures. Each set of fingers met, every posture of the hand creates a subtle difference in the effects of the flow. This mudra focuses bio-electrical energy to the root.
It can be tempting for some of us to feel like we want to skip to the higher octaves of frequency, bypassing all the mundane static to tune straight in to the cosmic source for guidance. The brighter lights “up there” are far more interesting and appealing than the boring “down here” stuff of earthly existence. After all, isn’t it “up there” where we can tune our “radio receivers” for clearer communication with our own spirit and higher consciousness? Isn’t this where the information streams in from the subtle universe?
While the latter may be true, if we’re not properly grounded the information being received may strike us like a lightning bolt charging through a golf club left standing on the green. It will send the club flying.
To handle such a powerful charge, we must first be grounded. The root is associated with the color and frequency of red. It is the chakra of physicality, passion, power, providing, and survival. It is represented by the elephant. It is the archetypal masculine rage, yet also matriarchal compassion and gentleness. The elephant is unstoppable in its strength and power, its inner resolve a representation of our higher self. The elephant is at home in Neptune, so, as we create our reality, we must remember to discriminate, to follow our true highest dreams but not to succumb to illusions, whims, and fantasies.
The root chakra’s petal formation is fourfold, representing stability, calmness, and endurance. It is home. It is all of the raw energy channeled and grounded constructively within our own basic physical survival. Left unbalanced, we will remain indecisive and disconnected from reality, which can manifest stressfully or leave us feeling like a nebular space cadet, treading water in a thick fog of marijuana. On the other hand, it can result in the most typical of today’s humanity: purely focused on the physical drives of society and without relation to the subtle. In this state, we’re more likely to become reactionary than responsive.
But there’s more . . .
The root is what connects us to this beautiful Earth of which we are a part. We are born of the organic matter of the universe and physically recycled at this frequency until such time that we evolve sufficiently to move beyond known reality.
As we connect with others sexually, we connect our roots. This is different from the sacral chakra; if the roots connect while unbalanced in either party, the domino effect of rising energy from intercourse, typically Kundalini energy or Shakti energy, will be enough to unsettle all the other subtle energy centers, leading to emotional unbalance if nothing else. Here we can see the downward spiral of love that includes attachment, hunger, need, clinging, control, anger, resentment, disassociation, and so on. This is the basis of the emotional drama that so many people consider normal these days. During sex, intimate or animal, energy is exchanged as much as fluid. If we are not in balance, sex can leave us with all our fears and negative traits triggered. In other words, be mindful of unconscious engagement and with whom you share your root, as they in turn share theirs with you, for your own sake as well as for the sake of the other.
A balanced and grounded root chakra is primarily feeling at home within ourselves. It is the compassionate caregiver and provider for the rest of the emotional body. It is the mother elephant protecting her baby. It creates the bedrock, the nest, and the home from which the children, higher chakras, emotional body can feel loved and grow.
The Buddhist teachings speak of the marriage of compassion and wisdom. Compassion is represented by the masculine and wisdom by the feminine. From this we can even call the root, the earthly manifesting male, the inner masculine lover engaged in the sacred embrace with the inner wisdom of higher chakras. This practice lovingly holds that golf club, the inner energy channel, as the lightning streams in with all its cosmic glory, facilitating a fully embodied active earthly existence with higher wisdom. We ground the circuit board to the Earth so that the electricity can flow freely and safely.
The seed syllable associated with the root is LAM. As everything is frequency, reciting this sound will help clear and recalibrate the stuck-ness of an unbalanced chakra, like morphing the mud that can keep us bogged down, into living fertile soil from which all else can grow healthily.
There are many grounding meditations to be found, none simpler than sitting quietly in nature (if possible) holding this mudra and reciting the seed sound mantra with slow deep breaths deep down to the base of your torso. If possible, see this breath as red, vibrating with vitality, and feeling the connection with the energy of all organic matter. We can also do the tree meditation, as above with the addition of imagining roots that extend deep into the Earth. These are two really simple yet effective practices that can be carried out at any moment, especially when we’re feeling spacey, unfocused, angry, desperate, or lost.
So, there you go: a little reminder of why we should not forget our root. It is the vital force connecting us to all earthly existence. It is home from which we can fly.
Tilly Campbell-Allen (Dakini as Art)

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Hugh Hewitt is ruthlessly promoting his book, "BLOG" on his website, and encouraging others to do so as well. I need to join the parade. This is a rough month for me financially, and next month doesn't promise to be much better. Rather than ask for donations, I'd much rather offer something worthwhile (IMHO, anyway) to my loyal readers (all half-dozen of you!). I write science fiction. I don't consider myself the next Robert Heinlein, Jerry Pournelle, or Orson Scott Card, but I do think I do a fairly good job of writing an enjoyable read with realistic characters and a believable plot. I offer five novels on my personal website here, for the astonishingly low price of $1.00 each. Take a look, download and read them. Everything is based on the honor system - if you like my books, please pay for your download. If you need them in a different format, I have a couple of others - Microsoft .lit format, rich-text, plain text, Word Perfect, etc. - that I can offer, by request only (they take up too much of my allotted storage space). I accept PayPal, checks, and cash. If you need an address, please email me and ask!
If you like what you read, tell your friends. If you don't, tell me, and tell me why. The only way my writing can get better is from responding to honest criticism.
I need to leave this at the top for as long as I can, and hope I get a positive response from as many of you as possible.


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Next week Albertans could be witness to the most glaring of many examples of leadership failures by our own premier, Ed Stelmach.
Hollywood director James 'Avatar(d)' Cameron is scheduled to make a visit to our vitally important (and equally vilified) oil sands operations.
Cameron, who previously referred to our oil sands as '...a black eye for Canada', then followed up with the admission that he didn't really know anything about the subject, received a letter from Premier Stelmach inviting him to tour northern Alberta.
The Hollywood director has taken up the offer - but on his schedule. Now we see the so-called 'leader' of the province doing his best impression of a jellyfish by kowtowing to the self-proclaimed 'king of the world'.
Stelmach will be hundreds of miles away, attending the Economic Edge Summit 2010 in Gatineau, Quebec but will drop everything for the meeting - most likely at our expense.
What makes matters worse is that the meeting was set on Cameron's schedule. Apparently, 'his people' have more pull then 'Stelmach's people'.
The only issue is that there is going to be a meeting at all.


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Gannett Chief Executive Robert Dickey tossed all media from a company conference call on Thursday, shortly after saying he was not going to address recent “press speculation” about his company’s talks to acquire Tronc.
It was an odd move for two reasons. First, nearly every company allows the media to listen to its quarterly with Wall Street to discuss its results.
Second, Dickey runs a media company.
Hours after the media got the old heave-ho from the call, a possible reason for Dickey’s testiness emerged: Several banks were withdrawing their support for Gannett’s proposed $1 billion deal, Bloomberg reported.
The banks are concerned the two companies are not all that healthy.
Since April, Gannett, owner of USA Today and more than 100 other papers, has been trying to buy Tronc, formerly Tribune Publishing, which owns the Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Baltimore Sun and other papers.
News that the deal was imperiled sent shares of both companies skidding to 52-week lows.
Gannett tumbled 17 percent, to $8.21. Tronc cratered 28 percent, to $12.27.
Gannett was said to be ready to pay $18.75 a share for Tronc.
One ambitious analyst managed to ask Dickey about possible deals.
“I think we remain committed to our strategy of building out our local footprint . . . as well as the impact that has on the goal of being the largest digital news network under the USA Today network banner,” said Dickey, who noted that any deal “ comes down to making sure these are accretive to shareholders and the financing terms make sense for the company.”
Seemingly stymied with the Tronc deal, at least one major Gannett shareholder wants the company to buy back shares — and call off the pursuit for Tronc — to boost the sagging stock price, one source tells The Post’s Josh Kosman.
The Gannett board was said to be trying to pull the deal together for Thursday morning to have something to offset a down quarterly report.
No deal was announced.
In the quarter, Gannett reported operating profit fell 10.1 percent, to $772.3 million. It posted a net loss of $24.2 million.
Tronc reports its quarterly results on Nov. 1.


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Drawing on more than three hundred Hebrew roots, the author shows that Jewish thought employs Hebrew concepts and categories that are altogether distinct from those that characterize the Western speculative tradition. Among the key categories that shape Jewish thought are holiness, divinity, humanity, prayer, responsibility, exile, dwelling, gratitude, and language itself.
While the Hebrew language is central to the investigation, the reader need not have a knowledge of Hebrew in order to follow it. Essential reading for students and scholars of Judaism, this book will also be of value to anyone interested in the categories of thinking that form humanity's ultimate concerns.
Introduction 1. Opening Remarks on the Holy Tongue 2. First Things 3. Giving Voice to G-d 4. The Good 5. For the Sake of Another 6. The Soul 7. Exile 8. Dwelling 9. The House of the Book 10. The Word 11. The Holy 12. Closing Remarks. Hebrew Roots of Words Examined
Studies, which are interpreted to cover the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, culture, politics, philosophy, theology, religion, as they relate to Jewish affairs. The remit includes texts which have as their primary focus issues, ideas, personalities and events of relevance to Jews, Jewish life and the concepts which have characterised Jewish culture both in the past and today. The series is interested in receiving appropriate scripts or proposals.

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The analyst raised his price target for Tesla shares to $500 from $470, representing 81 percent upside to Friday’s close. Tesla shares rose 2 percent in premarket trading Monday.
Haissl said the Model 3 has significantly lower material costs versus the Model S since it uses a less-expensive electric motor and takes away features such as an air suspension and aluminum body. He also estimates the labor content is about $1,000 per car for the Model 3 versus more than $4,000 for the Model S due to “higher levels of automation and lower in-sourced content.”
The analyst played down recent fears that Tesla will move away from a more modernized manufacturing process.
“We think reports that Tesla is reversing its automated manufacturing strategy over-exaggerated the real changes to the production system,” he wrote. “We expect Tesla to remain the battery technology leader, as traditional OEMs have shown little effort to commit meaningful capital into battery technology.”
Tesla’s shares are down 11.1 percent year to date through Friday compared with the S&P 500’s 1.5 percent return. The company’s stock rose 2.8 percent Monday.
— CNBC’s Michael Bloom contributed to this story.


My latest, on the renaming of the Edmonton City Centre Airport:
Seriously, though, the survey and process does provide insight into how many Edmontonians think about our city. It’s a reflection some image of a city we’d like to see Edmonton as, not the city we are. Two notable airport to residential community conversions – Stapleton in Denver and Mueller in Austin – preserved their names, and I doubt anyone feels that cheapened them. In fact, the link to the history is more likely to enhance the community. Its current state is an evolution, another step in the site’s history.


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A lotto winner may find yourself along with a lot of factors to deal with. With the thought that they are actually mosting likely to get some cash, lots of folks perform certainly not offer any kind of interest to exactly how they spend that money. Some individuals find themselves devoting the cash they succeed for personal things, while others placed it into savings as well as get a sideline.
Many xo so 3 mien lotto victors start the method through dividing their winnings amongst the several forms of assets. They typically separate in between the amount of time just before they gain as well as the time after they succeed. If they carry out certainly not succeed again, this assists them to remain economically dependable even.
If you are actually privileged enough to win the lotto, you may wish to consider what varieties you have an interest in playing. You might have a wish to service playing those numbers. Participate in the ones that you appreciate, or even the ones that are actually amongst your preferred crew’s.
You additionally might desire to generate a budget and allot the volume of loan in your financial account. You may start to spending plan in order that you recognize precisely how much you have to invest monthly on getting lotto game tickets. You will certainly know just how much funds you possess to play with each month.
If you prefer to receive much more than one ticket daily, you ought to get the tickets coming from a lotto shop. This may assist you conserve some money, and also assistance to make sure that you are actually receiving the very best chances when you play. You ought to not buy tickets from the mail-order business.
The wonderful thing about playing in a lotto game is actually that it is actually exciting. If you can not afford to go to the lotto game shop, you may still play online. This alternative permits you to play and also even to select the numbers that you wish to play with.
Some individuals like to conserve the lottery game tickets that they succeed. Others simply take a look at their succeeding ticket once in a while. These individuals might consider their winning ticket each opportunity they visit the lotto game establishment, or maybe as frequently as they prefer.
You must decide if you are going to offer the ticket online or in person if you succeed the lottery as well as choose to maintain the lotto ticket. You may decide on which you favor. There are some states that require you to keep your winning ticket in a secure location, for the protection of you and other individuals who are in your house.
Furthermore, some lotto shops supply tickets as a hobby. A lot of these lotto game stores likewise possess competitions that you may enter, to see if you may succeed the lottery. When you gain the lotto game, you will definitely intend to be able to share the second along with your friends and family.
One more great technique to share your adventure along with others is to try as well as join a huge opening of a new organisation. You may help others with your understanding of the lotto. You may have the capacity to be involved in the starting stages of a future organisation.
When you gain the lottery, you might be able to go to an advantage for charitable organization at the lotto game stores. If you succeed the lottery, you may be able to gain the lotto, even though you carried out not desire to devote everything cash on it. This may be a fantastic experience that you will never forget.
It does not matter if you succeed or lose the lottery game game. You may find that you have a great deal of enjoyable despite the fact that you carried out not gain. If you wish to succeed the lotto as well as attempt, you might be able to obtain a couple of suggestions and techniques from lotto game gamers that have succeeded.
Lottery is actually a kind of video game which generally demands some ability to participate in. However, the possibility of succeeding the lotto is actually still fairly high. There are numerous people who made ton of money coming from it. Hence, participating in the lottery game is a lot more prominent than ever before.
This is because of the exhilaration that this activity provides. It is like watching an automobile racing through the highway, you merely can not take your eyes off it. That is why lots of folks play this activity. The video game was actually definitely prominent back in the year of 1980. The lotto game is one of the best popular activities nowadays.
Millions of bucks were actually wagered on the lotto activity in every single state in the United States. The players actually obtain a possibility to win millions of dollars each year.
Lotto is actually certainly not a quite hard video game to participate in. It could be easily discovered thus all you need to perform is actually to decide what numbers you are visiting wager and also the amount of you want to wager.
It is always easier to check out a number when it is imprinted on a card than it is to examine it. So you should put in the time to take a look at the amounts prior to betting. It is actually better if you have your very own automobile, as you will definitely not have any individual to consider.
To win the lotto, there are just a few points that you require to bear in mind. Right here are some of the suggestions that you need to keep in mind:
* The easy idea is that you need to not be impulsive when selecting numbers. Carry out certainly not select the very first number that you observe.
* Do not be actually also delighted concerning shedding. You may shed chance and also give up at the last minute.
* A succeeding ticket may happen only the moment in a lifetime. Carry out not anticipate that every day you will certainly win the lotto.
* Lotteries are actually certainly not all good fortune located. There are great deals of really good people responsible for the settings that function very challenging to ensure that you win the lottery game.
* Try to become artistic by utilizing your creative imagination as well as carry out not be impatient. The probabilities are actually that you are going to just be actually a loss if you are actually much more quick-tempered.
If you win the lotto and also determine to always keep the lottery game ticket, you must decide if you are actually going to offer the ticket online or in person. Many of these lottery game stores also have contests that you can enter into, to observe if you can succeed the lottery game. When you win the lotto, you might be able to join a perk for charity at the lottery game shops. If you gain the lotto game, you might be able to succeed the lotto game, also though you did not prefer to devote all that funds on it. If you desire to succeed the lotto and attempt, you may be able to get a few pointers and methods from lottery players who have succeeded.


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The Importance of Being in the Wild by Christian Hayes Danvers
Incredible in its own right, nature never ceases to awe and amaze all of us. It's the bedrock of our entire society, economy, and way of life. Everything we eat, everything we breathe, and everything we use to water our crops come from our woods, rivers, oceans, and soils. They also provide many necessities to our daily lives that contribute to our well-being, contentment, and wealth.
Many people refer to these resources as the "natural capital" of the earth. All sectors of the economy, from agriculture and forestry to the service industry, benefit significantly from these features. When added up, the entire worth of these advantages is staggering, amounting to at least US$125 trillion annually.
Despite their value, we frequently overuse natural resources because of their low cost to us as humans. Without thinking about the consequences, we destroy forests, overfish oceans, pollute rivers, and pave over wetlands. We incur enormous social and economic expenses because we ignore the advantages provided by nature.
To fully comprehend the effects of our decisions, Christian Hayes Danvers, the owner, and manager of Bella Salon, believes that we must consider the economic and social value of the natural world. You can consider long-term advantages to people, the economy, and the environment instead of short-term financial gains.
What Role Does Nature Play in How We Feel and How We Live by Christian Hayes Danvers?
According to recent studies, the places we spend our time in can either add to or alleviate the stress in our lives, which has physiological consequences. The sights, sounds, and sensations that bombard your senses at any one time can alter your emotional state and your hormonal and immune system responses.
Anxiety, sadness, and helplessness are among the emotions that might result from being in a stressful situation. This will increase your heart rate, blood pressure, and muscle tension while dampening your immune system's response. However, things change for good when the surrounding atmosphere is pleasant. Also, people of all ages and backgrounds find beauty in the natural world; even Christian Hayes Danvers is a nature lover.
- It's in Nature's Healing to Do So.
Experiencing nature, or watching nature videos, might help you feel better emotionally. Spending time in nature elevates your mood and helps your body in other ways, like lowering your blood pressure, heart rate, muscular tension, and the generation of stress chemicals. Research in hospitals, offices, and schools has shown that even a single plant in a room can significantly impact stress and anxiety and may even reduce mortality.
- Relaxing in nature
Nature also aids in the process of healing from physical and emotional wounds. We are hardwired to find sceneries of nature fascinating, and this makes it easy for us to forget about our aches and pains when we encounter them.
- The power of nature to restore
The influence of the natural world on human health and happiness is one of the fascinating topics of study today. Depression, tension, and anxiety are all alleviated, and a sense of serenity and equilibrium is restored when one spends time in nature or views scenes of nature, all of which are linked to pleasant moods and psychological welfare, meaningfulness, and vitality.
Spending time outdoors, or simply watching images of nature, improves focus and concentration. Humans have an innate fascination with the natural world, allowing us to give our full attention to our surroundings while we're out. Furthermore, this serves as a mental break, preparing us for the next challenge.
- Nature binds by Christian Hayes Danvers.
Spending time outdoors helps us feel connected to one another and the wider world. People who live in public housing surrounded by trees and greenery are more likely to know each other, feel more connected to their neighbors, care more about helping and supporting one another, and feel like a part of the surroundings. In addition to having a stronger feeling of community, they also had a lower risk of crime, lower levels of domestic violence and aggressiveness, and a better ability to handle the rigors of daily life, including the strains of poverty.
When people view natural settings, the areas of their brains connected with empathy and love are sure to light up. Still, when they view urban scenes, the parts of the brain associated with dread and anxiety are more likely to be engaged, which may help to explain this sensation of connection. Nature seems to stimulate emotions that bind us to one another and our surroundings.
- Being Outside in Nature Relieves Stress and Increases Meaning.
Numerous studies have shown that being in nature positively affects people's mental health. Studies show that being in nature makes people happier. Just being outdoors might help lift your mood.
We are not designed to spend our entire lives behind four walls. It's simple to lose your individuality in settings like these. But when we go outside, we're reminded that everything living is interconnected. Walking in the woods can help lift your spirits if you feel down or overwhelmed.
Pure nature is a place where calm and wildness can coexist without conflict. We get a mixed bag of emotions from our visits there. Maybe that's the case because nature is where everything starts and finishes. When things else around us seem to be falling apart, we can take comfort in the knowledge that life somehow manages to persevere in the wild.
After some time in the woods, we feel refreshed and equipped to understand that this moment is more precious than anything that has ever happened or will ever happen.
- Our Muscles and Immune Systems Benefit From Regular Walks in Nature.
Spending time in nature has some positive effects on our bodies and minds. Plant compounds called phytoncides (essential wood oils) have been shown to boost the immune systems of humans exposed to them.
Phytoncides are chemicals released by plants to prevent pests and decay. The immune system relies on natural killer cells, which seek out and destroy contaminated or malignant tissue. Therefore, taking a stroll in the great outdoors may save your life.
Furthermore, hiking is among the healthiest things you can do. You can shed up to 400 calories in just 60 minutes of hiking. As a bonus, it's much less taxing on our joints than running. As a result, hiking can aid in warding off heart disease, the leading cause of mortality in the United States. It helps with weight loss and core strength.
It should go without saying that many of the world's most breathtaking vistas may be seen along hiking trails. So, Christian Hayes Danvers believes that going outside into nature is worthwhile for more than only the health advantages, both mental and physical.
Christian Hayes Danvers Said People Whom Value Nature Have a Higher Standard of Living, Greater Creativity, and a Longer Lifespan.
Nothing beats being alone in the woods, far from any sign of civilization. It brings about an indescribable calmness of awareness. Only the noises of the forest's inhabitants and your own feet will break the silence. The unfortunate truth is that few of us enjoy moments like this. People of all ages, especially Millennial, gravitate toward urban areas and away from the outdoors. Yes, among these urban sprawls, you'll find some lovely parks, but a stroll through them, Christian Hayes Danvers admits, can't be compared to a hike through the woods. We'd indeed all be better off if we made more of an effort to escape the city and enjoy nature.
Proof abounds that those who value nature and make an effort to spend time there report higher levels of happiness, health, and creativity.


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For patients, health care professionals, and hospital administrators alike, electronic health records (EHR) are one of the primary focal points on the continuum of care. With almost a half-century of development, the history of EHR has shown strengths as well as limitations.
One common criticism is the administrative burden the system places on nurses and physicians, with the need for patient data competing with the need for patient care. Doctor and nurse burnout rates are linked to the diversion of time, attention, and resources to the workload of service to EHR.
Mobile web apps take EHR off-leash
A leading vendor in the EHR market is Meditech (Medical Information Technology, Inc.), which (as of 2016) holds about a 17% share of the EHR market in acute care hospitals. EHR providers Epic and Cerner are in a virtual tie at about 25% each of market share.
Meditech has been much in the news recently because of the launch of its re-engineered and re-designed web-based platform, mobile Web EHR. With the emphasis of the platform shifting to mobility, ease of user interface, and interoperability, Meditech and its clients hope to advance the field to the benefit of all stakeholders.
Making EHR serve the Quadruple Aim
With this recent advent of mobile, web-based EHR, health care providers have the potential to revolutionize the mechanics of record-keeping and access to data. Connections between patient engagement, clinical care, and administrative data can flow in one seamless package, wherever the patient and the caregiver team may be.
This ideal recognizes the value of each component in the EHR equation. It also frames the potential benefits concerning all four pillars of the Quadruple Aim:
- Better population health results
- Better experience of care for patients
- Better value for costs
- Better professional experience for care providers.
Interim healthcare leaders with Meditech experience
NHS Solutions works with client institutions to provide leadership and management for interim assignments across every phase of the healthcare continuum, including leaders with Meditech experience. From interim nurse leadership jobs to clinical directors and managers, contact us and ask how we can help find your next opportunity, and get started on a better professional experience of your own.

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November 21, 2014
It has been a busy and exciting fall for myPower at Berkeley. From social media outreach to adding more live Pulse energy dashboards online to spreading turn-off-the-light stickers through campus, myPower has continued to help empower UC Berkeley students, staff and faculty to take action and reduce energy use. The past few months, myPower has completed energy surveys in numerous campus buildings and offices, including the Energy Biosciences Building, the Office of Legal Affairs, and Mulford Hall, and has worked with building occupants to identify new ways to save energy.
November 20, 2014
The Office of Sustainability and Energy (OSE) and Residential Sustainability Program (RSP) invite you to engage in a multimedia presentation on climate change and climate action given by ACE (Alliance for Climate Education).
Why Attend? Young people – YOU - have the most to lose when it comes to climate change, and the most to gain by fighting it. ACE (Alliance for Climate Education) helps you take control of your future. Be the change!
When: December 3, 2014, 6-7pm
October 30, 2014
By Carol Ness, NewsCenter
UC Berkeley celebrated international Food Day 2014 by going super-local, no mean feat for such a big campus. On Friday night, dinners served in all Cal Dining cafes were made almost entirely from foods grown, produced or milled within 260 miles.
October 29, 2014
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October 23, 2014
Article by: Ben Rushakoff
October 16, 2014
You can now view and download the IARU's Green Guide for Universities.
October 14, 2014
A picture is worth a thousand words! During the “Getting Your Bearings” tabling event 2014, we asked students to share with us ways they are living sustainable lives. Aside from striking a pose, students are engaging the campus community in a multimedia dialogue about the importance of leading sustainable lifestyles via our Instagram page!
October 13, 2014
Article by: Amy Craik
Passionate and eager student sustainability leaders gathered on September 17 for UC Berkeley’s Office of Sustainability and Energy Annual Fall Forum. This year’s forum was revamped to connect environmental student leaders to sustainability resources in hopes of facilitating collaboration, communication, and awareness on upcoming projects and events.
Article by: Ben Rushakoff
October 9, 2014
Three student fellowships are now available with the University of California Global Food Initiative.
October 7, 2014
The Office of Sustainability and Energy is excited to announce the latest member of the green department family to recertify their efforts: the University Health Services (UHS) – Tang Center. Originally certified in 2012, the UHS Tang Center has spent the past two years focusing their environmental efforts on waste and energy reduction.
The Dow Chemical Company and Center for Responsible Business (CRB) at the Haas School of Business are proud to bring the Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award (SISCA) to UC Berkeley for the fifth year. SISCA recognizes and rewards students for their innovation and research in sustainable solutions for the world's most pressing social, economic, and environmental problems. SISCA competitions are held at seventeen top universities around the world, with grand prize and runner-up winn
September 26, 2014
Did you know that in the U.S., toilet flushing is the single highest use of water in the average home? While newer, efficient toilets use closer to one and a half gallons of water per flush, older models can use up to seven gallons.
September 2, 2014
Article by Amy Fudenberg
Did you know that since February, the campus has reduced water use by ten percent? For an array of useful tips on how to save water on campus and at home and for more information on what UC Berkeley is doing to conserve water, visit the campus drought alert page here.
August 28, 2014
The start of the school year is the perfect time for new and returning students alike to become engaged in campus sustainability. Learn about the different environmental organizations and initiatives at UC Berkeley by attending these upcoming events.
August 23, 2014
Interested in learning more about what is causing California's drought? A four miles high, 2,000 miles long high-pressure ridge is pushing rain north and preventing it from reaching California. No one knows exactly what is causing such an unusual ridge, and this ridge is even worse than the one which contributed to the 1976-1977 drought.
August 5, 2014
UC Berkeley has been awarded the 2014 APPA Effective & Innovative Practices Award for its submission "Providing Financial Incentives to Promote Energy Conservation by Building Occupants". As one of the five schools selected, UC Berkeley received a $4,000 cash award sponsored by Sodexo.
July 16, 2014
Have you noticed brighter, better quality light in buildings throughout campus, or lights that turn on once you enter a room? These are all due to projects undertaken to reduce energy usage on campus as part of the Strategic Energy Plan, which saves the campus millions in energy costs.


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Christina Rossetti Biography
|Christina Georgina Rossetti
|December 5, 1830
London, England, United Kingdom
|December 29, 1894
London, England, United Kingdom
Christina Rossetti was born on December 5, 1830, in London, England. She was a popular Victorian poet, who delighted in a credibility as one of the top literary figures in the nineteenth century. Birthed to a family packed with artists and also scholars, she was subjected to a rich intellectual atmosphere at an early stage in her life. Christina's father, Gabriele Rossetti, was an Italian poet and also political asylum seeker, while her mommy, Frances Polidori, was a competent pianist as well as singer. Her brother or sisters followed their own imaginative searches as well: her sister Maria was an author, bro Dante was a painter and also poet, as well as bro William became a writer as well as movie critic.
Christina Rossetti showed her capability to write rhymes also as a child, finishing her initial verse when she was only eleven years of ages. Her actual surge to fame can be found in the 1860s when literary circles began observing her job. Around this time around, her most famous collection of rhymes, "Demon Market as well as Other Rhymes", was released in 1862, securing her track record as a leading poet.
Rossetti's jobs were highly influenced by her spiritual beliefs, and also she was a sincere participant of the Church of England. Her faith played an essential role in her prolific output of devotional as well as verse verse. A few of her most popular religious poems consist of "In the Bleak Midwinter" as well as "Love Came Down at Xmas", which are still treasured as timeless Christmas carols.
Her personal life was noted by a collection of romantic frustrations, which had a profound effect on her later work. She was engaged two times, yet both interactions fell apart. Rossetti's romantic dissatisfactions left her disillusioned with love, ultimately leading her to count on her belief for relief.
Throughout her life, Christina battled with numerous wellness problems. She was identified with Tomb' condition, a thyroid disorder, when she was just sixteen. Later in life, Rossetti likewise battled depression and recurring rounds of problems that many hypothesize were the outcome of the untimely fatalities of her father, sibling, and also various other loved ones.
Over her remarkable career, Christina Rossetti created a considerable body of job that still influences modern poets today. Along with religious motifs, her poetry frequently discovered the themes of love, loss, charm, and feminism, showing a very delicate and also reflective understanding of the world around her. Amongst her most renowned jobs are rhymes like "Keep in mind", "A Birthday", and also "The 3 Enemies".
Christina Rossetti died on December 29, 1894, in London, at the age of 64. It is believed that the cause of her fatality was a reappearance of breast cancer cells, which she had actually fought previously in life. Her position as a vital poetic number in the Victorian age remains unassailable, with her work continuing to inspire and also affect generations of viewers as well as writers alike. Rossetti's life and also her payments to the literary canon provide a long-term testament to her skill and ability as a poet, guaranteeing her location in background as one of the leading literary lights of the 19th century.
Our collection contains 12 quotes who is written / told by Christina.
Related authors: Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)
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Carrot Ranch September 21 flash fiction prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story using a lens.
Jane is looking idly around the Metro stop when she sees it.
Here she stands with everyone else, scrolling on her phone, her second-hand boots and Patagonia windbreaker and messy updo indistinguishable from anyone else’s. No way to tell that the thirty-eight dollars in her wallet is her very last, that her bus card is low-income, that the tall Americano she’s sipping is her first such splurge in a month.
Amazing. She’s pulling it off, looking like everyone else, with their Starbucks apps and credit card bills.
How many of these people are, secretly, no different from her?


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Ziauddm Shamsi ( 5/16, Rimpa Plaza M.A. Jinnah Road, Karachi. )
Aftab Anwar ( 5/16, Rimpa Plaza M.A. Jinnah Road, Karachi. )
Intra Esophageal Acid Purfusion or Bernstein Test is used to evaluate pain that may be related to Acid ésophagitis. The test was developed as an aid in the diagnosis of esophagitis1 Since esophageal pain may be very much similar to discomfort that arises from other conditions specially cardiac disease, Bernstein test is an attempt to reproduce the pain that arisEs in esophagus as a consequence of esophageal spasm or inflammation.
The procedure is relatively simple, inexpensive and can be done any where in hospital or clinic in Pakistan.
2. Preparation of Solution
a) Take two 500 c.c. bottles of normal Saline, label one bottle “S” and one bottle “A”.
b) Open the “A” bottle and pour out 50 c.c. of Saline solution with a 50 c.c. Syring, add’ 50 c.c. 1.N Hydrochloric acid to the remaining 450 c.c. of normal saline. This will constitute 500 c.c. of a 0.1 .N Hydrochloric acid solution.
c) Connect Y type I.V. tube into “A” and “S” and suspend bottles from an I.V. pole.
d) Close the “A” tubing and open the “S” tubing thereby filling the tubing with normal saline.
3. Preparation of Patient
a) Patient should fast after mid-night.
b) No analgesics or antacid should be taken prior to this test.
c) Explain this test in simple words to the patient.
d) Ask the patient if he is aheady experiencing any chest or upper abdominal pain or discomfort and record it, since this may affect the result of the test.
A 14 to 16 F size Nasogastric tube is passed into the stomach and gastric contents are aspirated. Then tube is withdrawn to the level at which the tip is 30 to 35 cm. from the flares.
i) Have intubated patient comfortably seated. Stand with “S” and “A” label bottles behind the patient so that solution cannot be seen by the patient.
ii) Attach 1.V. tubing to the nasogastric tube. Run the fluid from “S” bottle at a rate of 120 drops per minute. The Saline drip is maintained at this rate for five minutes. Instruct patient to describe any discomfort throughout the procedure, ask questions frequently.
iii) Close the tubing leaving from “S” bottle and then open the tubing leading from “A” bottle without making patient aware of it. There is usually no need to adjust the main control as flow rate has to be constant at 120 drops per minute.
iv) Continue the intra esophageal drip of O.1.N Hydrochloric acid from “A” bottle until the patient reports a sensation of warmth, pain or discomfort. Ask patient whether sensations are new or it resembles the problem that had occurred at home or previously.
v) If no discomfort occurred after 30 to 60 minutes of “A” drip the test may be terminated but if discomfort occurs during the course of acid infusion, record the nature, location and intensity. Close the tubing leading from “A” bottle and open “S” bottle without patient’s knowledge.
vi) Continue the saline drip until the discomfort disappears or diminishes considerably. If the pain or discomfort disappears one may return to the acid drip again to determine whether there is relationship between patient’s discomfort and acid perfusion. This can be done several times to establish this relationship.
vii) Test is concluded with final five minutes drip of saline and then 30 c.c. of antacids placed down the Nasogastric tube. Make record of responses of final Saline drip and to the antacid.
Interpretation of Bernstein Test should be made in the light of following facts.
1. Distribution of symptoms, a retrosternal burning sensation or discomfort that extends above the xiphoid is presumed to be of esophageal in origin. Occasionally discomfort may be felt in
2. Rapidity of disappearance of symptoms on the upper abdomen. discontinuation of acid perfusion is suggestive of its origin in esophagus rather than stomach, so is rapidity of disappearance of symptoms after antacid administration.
3. Repetitive production and relief of symptoms establishes relationship between discomfort and acid produced esophagitis.
4. Bernstein test is one of the most sensitive way to diagnose acid reflux esophagitis (80-100%) even when it is not detectable grossly on endoscopic examination or Radiological examination.1-3
5. If esophagitis is present, usually discomfort is noted within 10-15 minutes of acid perfusion, and though a positive test indicates that discomfort arises in esophagus but does not necessarily mean presence of esophagitis.
6. Rarely patients with esophageal disease do not experience discomfort during the test. A negative test is not necessarily indicative that esophagitis or esophageal spasm is not the cause of chest discomfort. So other tests like X-rays, Endoscopy, biopsy, manometry etc. may be needed.
7. Patients known to have angina may be able to differentiate response to acid drip and their usual angina pains.
1. Bernstein, L.M. and Baker, L.A.A. Clinical test for oesophagitis. Gastroenterology, 1958; 34: 760.
2. Benz, L.J Hootkin, L.A., Margulies, S., Dormer, M.W., Cauthorne, R.T. and Hendrix, T.R. A Comparison of clinical measurements of gastroesophageal reflux. Gastroenterology, 1972; 62:
3. Tuttle, S.G. ,Betarello, A. and Grossman, M.L Esphageal acid perfusion test and a gastroesophageal reflux test in patients with esophagitis. Gastroenterology, 1960; 38 : 861.


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President Obama Wednesday announced five policy changes designed to boost small-business growth and job creation.
The changes—immediate executive actions—will accelerate federal payments, reduce paperwork and make it easier for small firms to tap into loans and tax credits. Here’s a summary of the announced changes.
1. Bigger capital-investment deductions. Allowing businesses to deduct 100 percent of the cost of significant investments, such as the purchase of new equipment. (Currently, the write-off of those costs is capped at 50 percent.)
2. Paying government contractors. Another initiative announced would accelerate payments to government contractors, “with the understanding that those prime contractors will similarly accelerate payments to their small business subcontractors,” Obama says. Payment time will be cut to 15 days from 30 days (after submission of proper paperwork).
3. Raising loan amounts. Obama also calls on the Small Business Administration to increase access to capital by relaunching Small Loan Advantage, raising the maximum loan amount from $250,000 to $350,000, and streamlining the loan process, making it easier for lenders to loan to small businesses.
4. Cutting red tape. The SBA will launch “QuickApp,” which slashes the paperwork for surety bonds under $250,000—letting contractors ditch “five unnecessary forms,” according to The White House. Another effort to streamline: The online application for the SBA’s disaster loan program will be cut from 80 screens to three or four screens (depending on the loan type).
5. Opening up tax credits. Finally, there would be regulatory changes made to the New Markets Tax Credit, making it easier for community development entities to attract private funds for investment in startups and small businesses operating in lower‐income communities.
Source: OPEN Forum – Obama Orders Help for Small Businesses

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There are about five PR pros for every journalist, a ratio that can be discouraging for those struggling to earn a media placement for their client. Additionally, some journalists report that they reject up to 95 percent of the pitches they receive on a weekly basis.
With odds like these, it’s important to measure your pitching efforts and other online work to make sure everything is working properly.
1. Pitch volume
Pitch volume is the number of individual pitches sent for a single content marketing campaign.
This metric is the precursor to all of the other metrics on this list. If you don’t measure the pitch volume for each campaign, you’ll be unable to determine other key performance indicators.
The benchmark or baseline for this KPI should be determined for each team member based on seniority and campaign type. A content marketing campaign in an extremely niche vertical would have fewer press opportunities and therefore the pitch volume would be lower than for another campaign in a widely covered topic area.
2. Placement rate
Placement rate measures pitch quality. The placement rate will be different for each team member and varies, like pitch volume, based on the topic area of the content marketing campaign.
It is no longer enough to measure “reach” or pitch volume alone as digital PR professionals have done in the past. If you want to track your efforts accurately, you must measure earned press mentions against total pitch volume.
The higher the placement rate, the more effective your pitch is. An extremely low placement rate may indicate something is wrong with your pitch, your targeting or your campaign.
3. Interest rate
Interest rate is the number of interested publisher replies divided by the number of total pitches sent for a content marketing campaign.
This is another indicator of pitch quality. Campaigns with a high ratio of interest from journalists indicate the pitch was compelling and relevant to the writer. When the placement rate is low, but interest rate is high, it usually means that something happened outside of your control, such as getting bumped for breaking news.
4. Decline rate
Conversely, campaigns with a high proportion of declines can show that the email pitch was of a lower quality or the campaign topic wasn’t relevant to the journalist.
5. Days to the first placement
This metric is the number of days between your first pitch sent and your first placement ni a media outlet. When a campaign has been in the pipeline for a long period of time and hasn’t earned its first press mention, consider adjusting your outreach strategy.
6. Days of syndication
How many days are you pushing the story? If a content campaign isn’t allowed sufficient syndication time—or the time between first placement and last pitch—campaigns can only perform so well.
7. Total days of outreach
If a content campaign has been in the pipeline longer than the standard amount of time for a campaign within that vertical, it may no longer have legs. It may be time to close it out and make room for a new campaign in the pitching pipeline.


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Yan, L., et al., Grazing significantly increases root shoot ratio but decreases soil organic carbon in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau grasslands: A hierarchical meta-analysis.
Yan, L., Y. Li, L. Wang, X. Zhang, J. Wang, H. Wu, Z. Yan, K. Zhang, and X. Kang. 2020. Grazing significantly increases root shoot ratio but decreases soil organic carbon in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau grasslands: A hierarchical meta-analysis.
Land Degradation & Development
The Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau (QTP) is the most expansive area of alpine grasslands worldwide, which have been grazed for thousands of years. Distinct environmental conditions render QTP grasslands vulnerable to disturbances. Intensified grazing in the area has led to its degradation in recent decades. However, the effects of grazing on grassland production, soil carbon, and nitrogen contents, their relationships and the factors influencing the grasslands of QTP have yet to be determined. In this study, we evaluated the effect of grazing by using a hierarchical meta‐analysis, and explored relation of response variables by structural equation modeling. In all, grazing significantly decreased the aboveground biomass (−38%), total biomass (TB) (−14%), litter (−63%), soil organic carbon (SOC) (−20%), and total nitrogen (TN) (−15%). The root shoot ratio was increased (75%). Grazing intensity exerted significant effects, and mean annual temperature and altitude influenced the responses to a certain degree. Specifically, the response of the root shoot ratio, which can affect the responses of SOC and TN, was significantly higher in the QTP grasslands. Our findings elucidated the response patterns, specialties, relationships, and factors influencing the QTP grasslands, which need to be considered in the development of process‐based models and the sustainable use of alpine grasslands on QTP in the future.

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A methane-fueled rocket just reached Earth orbit for the first time ever.
The Zhuque-2 rocket, developed by Chinese company Landspace, successfully soared to orbit after launching from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert on Tuesday (July 11) at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT or 9 a.m. local time on July 12).
It was a milestone effort for Zhuque-2, which suffered an anomaly during its debut flight on Dec. 14, 2022. Beijing-based Landspace issued a statement shortly thereafter confirming that the second stage of the rocket was lost (along with a clutch of satellites) and that an investigation would ensue to find the cause, which has not yet been released.
Methane, aside from burning with a pretty blue color during launch, has been billed by advocates as being more environmentally friendly. While methane is a greenhouse gas, it is cleaner than the standard RP-1 (kerosene) used in many rockets.
Zhuque-2's colorful plume caught a lot of attention on Twitter.
📸Wow! Close-up look at Zhuque-2 Y2 launch. Nice shot of the methane CH4 flame. Credit: LandSpace, @byspto pic.twitter.com/rVBOMHXfn6July 12, 2023
😮Wow! Such a unique angle to watch a rocket launch. Bird view of Zhuque-2 Y2 methane rocket launch shot by a drone right above the launch pad. Full HD: https://t.co/fACfZOvEO0 https://t.co/FdgI1NMo6O pic.twitter.com/Pz3oSlBLGFJuly 12, 2023
📸Photos of Zhuque-2 Y2 launch today. Source: https://t.co/VQrkixB4Hh pic.twitter.com/5aNFWsgFIzJuly 12, 2023
More neat photos of LANDSPACE's Zhuque-2 Y2 https://t.co/ICqbkaqfKs https://t.co/JmHbcJS27X pic.twitter.com/CVpSiw4cmhJuly 12, 2023
Many U.S. companies are working on methane-fueled rockets as well, including SpaceX with its Starship system, Blue Origin with New Glenn, Rocket Lab with Neutron, United Launch Alliance with Vulcan Centaur and Relativity Space with its Terran line. Some of these vehicles have suffered issues in recent months, however.
Terran 1 failed to reach orbit on its debut launch in March, for example, and SpaceX issued a self-destruct command to Starship during its first fully stacked launch in April after the vehicle suffered several anomalies. (SpaceX is developing Starship to help settle Mars, and methane fuel can be sourced on the Red Planet, company founder and CEO Elon Musk has stressed.)
Vulcan Centaur was supposed to fly for the first time in early May, but that liftoff has been delayed after an anomaly occurred during testing of the rocket's upper stage.
Blue Origin's New Glenn development is also uncertain following reports Tuesday (July 11) that one of the company's BE-4 rocket engines exploded during testing in late June.
The BE-4 engine not only powers New Glenn, but also the first stage of Vulcan Centaur. More information about impacts to the two vehicles may come during an already-scheduled phone call with reporters Thursday (July 13) by ULA CEO and President Tory Bruno concerning progress of his company's rocket.
China and its private space companies have been on a tear in terms of launches, taking 54 missions to orbit in 2022 and targeting more than 60 in 2023. By comparison, SpaceX (by far the busiest U.S. launcher) launched 61 rockets to space in 2022.


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Thermogeographic variation in body size of Carcinus maenas, the European green crab
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- Kelley, A.L., de Rivera, C.E., Grosholz, E.D. et al. Mar Biol (2015) 162: 1625. doi:10.1007/s00227-015-2698-5
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Populations that span a large geographic range often experience a thermal gradient that can differentially affect the phenotypic response of individuals across the population. Variation in temperature has been shown to affect the final adult size of ectotherms, which is referred to as the temperature–size rule for ectotherms. Body size is a fundamentally important trait, as it can impact physiological performance, fecundity, longevity, and macroecological patterns. Hence, temperature may affect body size across a range, which can in turn influence maintenance of populations and ecological interactions. Here, we test whether biogeographic differences in size (carapace width) exist for a recent invasion of the non-native European green crab, Carcinus maenas, along the west coast of North America. We assembled trapping and temperature data collected from 10 sites along the western North American coast over a 5-year period. We also conducted a literature review of C. maenas size across their native range. Our results indicate that adult body size shows negative correlation with environmental temperature in both the native and invaded ranges, conforming to the temperature–size rule for ectotherms. Given the short time since colonization and lack of evident genetic structure across the invasive range, it may be that phenotypic plasticity in response to environmental temperature is driving this relationship. Forces that shape the phenotypic trajectory of species may play an important role in both invasion dynamics and subsequent ecological impacts.


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NWF Leads Call for Polluter Lobby Fraud Investigation
Tip Line Launched to Blow Whistle on Lobbying Fraud
In July investigators discovered that energy companies used forged letterhead from the AAUW (American Association of University Women) and chapters of NAACP to send letters to Congress criticizing new energy legislation, and in one case used the name of a deceased AAUW member. As an increasing number of fraudulent tactics came to light in the following weeks, NWF got serious about rooting out industry bad behavior and launched a fraud whistleblower line.
Together with AAUW, NAACP, Center for American Progress Action Fund and Sierra Club, NWF urged citizens to blow the whistle on deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal tactics being perpetrated by big polluters and their lobbyists to strike down clean energy innovation.
Adam Kolton, senior director, congressional and federal affairs at the National Wildlife Federation, said during the launch: "The hotline we have launched will help people fight back against big polluters and their lobbyists."
According to news reports, a contractor for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity sent more than a dozen forged and fraudulent letters to members of Congress in opposition to the American Clean Energy and Security Act. ACCCE and its contractor, Bonner and Associates, are now under investigation by the House Select Committee on Global Warming and Energy Independence.
Citizens calling 866-363-4648 will have the option of reporting if they themselves were a victim of a forged letter or have knowledge of one; if they have knowledge of or witnessed an event staged by the American Petroleum Institute or oil and coal interests under the guise of being a true citizen-grassroots event; if they were coerced to attend such an event or denied access to one; if they are energy company employees or contractors and want to leave a tip about unethical or possible illegal activity or if they want to report other instances of fraud or deceptive tactics including misleading ads, mailing, or calls they may have received.
“Between the fake letters to Congress and a recently leaked American Petroleum Institute memo urging its member companies to have their employees masquerade as concerned “energy citizens” at events closed to actual citizens it’s becoming increasingly clear that additional steps need to be taken to ensure that a fair, open and honest debate takes place on the clean energy jobs bill," Kolton said.
Citizens can also e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org to report suspicious activity.


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Diversity is critical to the health and growth of the Territory innovation ecosystem and attracting new innovators and entrepreneurs to base their start-ups in the Territory is crucial to drive growth and increase the visibility of the Northern Territory (NT) as a national and international innovation destination of choice.
Migration Innovation Northern Territory
With the support of the Territory Government, the Darwin Innovation Hub is attracting innovators and entrepreneurs to base their businesses in the NT through the Migration Innovation Northern Territory (MINT) program.
The MINT program assists overseas nationals who have demonstrated their commitment to supporting the NT’s innovation ecosystem by investing in the Paspalis Innovation Investment Fund and providing venture capital which in turn provides an economic benefit to the Northern Territory.
The first MINT program was successfully completed ine 2019, resulting in the Paspalis Innovation Investment Fund Noe 1 (PIIFe 1) being opened and raising $26e million establishing the first venture capital fund in the NT. PIIFe 1 is a member fund of the Australian Investment Council.
The Paspalis Innovation Investment Fund Noe 2 (PIIF 2) is now open.
Paspalis’ investment portfolio currently includes:
- Universal Site Monitoring - $1 million, Maye 2021
- BetTube - $1 million, Januarye 2021
- Corrosion Instruments - $775,000, Aprile 2020
- Aliena - $1.5 million, Novembere 2019
- Equatorial Launch Australia - $1 million, Novembere 2019
- SPEE3D - $2 million, Maye 2019
- Belly Bunker - $120,000, Marche 2019.
For further details on MINT and PIIF refer to action funding and investment options for start-ups and businesses.
The Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade regularly undertakes business attraction activities and for example, the Business Innovation unit participated in briefing Hong Kong based entrepreneurs as a part of the AusTrade innovation attraction campaign to entice them to the Territory, and the European Union Trade Commissioners, in addition to regular briefings of international trade delegation visits to the Territory, and one off special events such as addressing audiences attending the Arafura Games International Business Engagement Program.