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If you have an Emergency, dial 911 If you need a same-day sick visit with a primary care physician in Peabody, call 978-538-4300 and ask to speak to your primary care physician's office. The triage nurse who is part of your health care team may set up a same-day appointment with your doctor or, if he or she is not available, your team's nurse practitioner, physician assistant or resident physician. The nurse may also discuss your condition with a doctor and then call you with further instructions. For urgent medical care after office hours, Lahey Medical Center, Peabody has an Emergency Department open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week that is staffed by specialty trained emergency medicine personnel. To refill a prescription during business hours, please call 978-538-4300. After business hours, please call 978-538-4309 to leave a message for a prescription refill. All requests will be completed within 48 hours. Request an appointment online.
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February 21, 2011
Alaska's politicians and scientists wrestle over how to manage big game and the predators that prey on it.
Arizona's Fossil Creek, dramatically brought back to life, is now endangered by the hordes of people who love it.
The Navajos are on the brink of getting water they've long been entitled to, but not everybody on the reservation is pleased.
- Steve Snyder on Making a monument from scratch
- Deb Dedon on Rains bring incomplete drought relief to parts of Southwest
- Deb Dedon on American Indian students in Utah face harsh discipline
- Bette Korber on The Los Angeles wetland wars
- Garrett Allen on The view from 31,000 feet: A philosopher looks at fracking

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Rivian Automotive, Inc. (RIVN)
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Rivian Automotive designs, develops, and manufactures category-defining electric vehicles (“EVs”) and accessories. We sell them directly to customers in the consumer and commercial markets. Our vehicles are complemented by a full suite of proprietary, value-added services that address the entire vehicle lifecycle and deepen our customer relationships. Starting with a clean sheet, we built a vertically integrated ecosystem comprised of our vehicle technology platform, cloud architecture, product development and operations, products, and serv... [Read more...]
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Is the stock's lofty valuation justified, or is it just hype?
Its planned merger with Polestar can make GGPI stock a strong EV bet, but patient investors who wait to buy will see much bigger rewards. The post Gores Guggenheim Could Be the Next Big EV Play, But Don...
Investors hoping for a quick return on RIVN stock are likely out of luck as the EV maker faces production delays and stiff competition. The post Rivian Stock Is Far Too Overvalued to Consider Buying Now...
Wall Street is abuzz with the electric vehicle IPOs. Phoenix Motors filed for an initial public offering in the United States on Monday after Rivian made a blockbuster market debut in early November.
How does the competition stack up to the EV industry leader?
Rivian Automotive Inc (NASDAQ: RIVN) recently started deliveries of its long-anticipated R1T all-electric pickup truck. The company is the first to put into the market an all-electric pickup, which has ...
RIVN stock will remain volatile with clarity arriving around a few key days next month. With the Dec 6.
Can Rivian survive without the help of an automotive giant? Fear not, as RIVN stock holders can stay optimistic - and stay in the trade.
Rivian has knowledgeable fans, so RIVN stock has good chances longer term. Meanwhile, its early Wall Street days require a strong stomach.
Several electric vehicle (EV) stocks are on the rise Monday and we're diving into the latest news behind that movement today. The post EV Stocks: Why LI, XPEV, TSLA, RIVN, and NIO Are Revving Up Today a...
Some EV startups have little to show for their nosebleed valuations, Gores Guggenheim has real products, yet GGPI stock is stuck at $13. The post Rivian IPO Suggests Gores Guggenheim Ought to Be Wort...
Rivian Automotive is worth $100 billion before it's proven it can scale production, and meet demand for its electric vehicles. Yet many see it as a worthy challenger to Tesla.
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Amazon-backed electric vehicle maker Rivian has started notifying customers who have reserved the R1S SUV of delivery delays, media outlets reported on Wednesday.
Amazon-backed electric vehicle (EV) maker Rivian Automotive Inc has started notifying customers who have reserved the R1S SUV of delivery delays, media outlets reported on Wednesday.
Rivian stock has fallen from its peak, but there are still reasons to like it today.
If this stock isn't a bubble, I don't know what is.
The EV industry is red-hot, but there's value if you know where to look.
Rivian may be overplayed, but Lucid has real value.
Rivian Automotive Inc (NASDAQ: RIVN) will begin the delivery of its Launch Edition electric pickup trucks in March, Electrek reported on Tuesday, citing a customer email from the company. What Happened:...
This Fool is sitting on a record amount of cash and is finally putting some of it to work.

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The carpet wasn’t the only thing that was red in Hollywood this past weekend. Rocker chic(k) new music artist Erica Chase sported a slick lick of power-red lipstick as she hit the carpet in high Hollywood style.
First, Erica was spotted on the carpet at the Hollywood film premiere of Division III: Football’s Finest wearing a soft red lipstick with a coral undertone, but the following night, she joined celebs including Quinton Aaron (The Blindside), Carla Renata (Up All Night), Desiree Hall (NCIS: Los Angeles) at Gloria Govan’s (VH1’s Basketball Wives) charity birthday party wearing a glamorous, full-on shade by Revlon in their signature Revlon Red hue.
“Red isn’t just relegated to the bottom sole on a pair of Christian Louboutins these days,” Chase said. “It’s made its way upstairs on some of fashion’s coolest faces too.”
Chase isn’t kidding. Many of fashion’s glamour queens have been sporting the crimson shades including Lady Gaga, Angelina Jolie, Miranda Kerr, Taylor Swift, Amber Heard, Scarlett Johansson, Kate Moss and Katie Perry.
In addition, Lancome recently revealed Emma Stone’s new ad in which Emma is flying the red-hot flag for rouge lipstick as the brand takes aim at a younger group of women to tempt them to ditch the lip gloss and come back to lipstick.
Meanwhile, when Erica isn’t seeing red on the carpet, she and her guitar are in the studio with metal legend Dana Strum (Slaughter, Vince Neil Band ) and working on her upcoming album.
Photo (above): New music artist, Erica Chase in Signature Revlon Red lipstick.

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Probably the most essential issues when designing a kitchen is the performance. When you’re searching for kitchen design ideas which have a little bit of coloration, add a brilliant mosaic tile backsplash or pick out a vibrant flooring finish. It also gracefully hides loads of every day grime that tends to occur in a small kitchen. Great layout with the cooktop in the same as earlier but there seems to be extra room in this kitchen and that isn’t the main cross by.
Except for anomalies like a house theater , the kitchen is the most expensive room in the home to rework, on a sq. foot by sq. foot foundation. An entire kitchen renovation with a national median price of $60,000 recovers about 67% of the initial venture price at the dwelling’s resale, based on the 2015 Remodeling Affect Report” from the NATIONAL AFFILIATION OF REALTORS®.
Including an island, even when it’s small, can add plenty of working surface house to your kitchen. Review the following pointers, design strategies, options and lessons realized earlier than finalizing your Small Kitchen Reworking mission plan. A trio of Ballard Designs Paris Bistro stools pull up to a Corian-topped island and a fireclay farmhouse sink by Rohl has a brass Waterworks Easton faucet.
I also did the floor of the island totally different from the remainder of the kitchen counters. Or you possibly can create the gourmand kitchen with an adjoining family room that’s so common as we speak. Ideally, you need a renovation that brings out one of the best qualities of your kitchen and likewise enhances your home.
Being a multi-purposeful house, your kitchen should be correctly geared up with several types of lighting which can be suited to totally different functions, similar to task lighting, cabinet lighting, and smart systems that can be programmed for cooking, entertaining, or doing homework.

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CORTLAND - The board of trustees expressed worry and disgust Monday over a proposed regional water authority that could regulate the town's ability to drill new wells to accommodate its rising population. Water Superintendent Harry Zimmer said he wants to get the necessary state permits for a planned well before summer, in case a group trying to create a water authority over DeKalb, Boone and McHenry counties gets the authority established in the spring election. “I think it's pretty urgent we get that well permitted at least, because everything bigger than a residential well, they want to have a say in whether you can drill it or not," Zimmer said. Trustees had harsh words for the proposed Kishwaukee Valley Water Authority and dismissed the McHenry County-based group behind it - called the Alliance for Land, Agriculture and Water, or A-LAW - as outsiders trying to regulate growth in DeKalb County. “They're sticking their nose in something that's not their business," Trustee Randy Reiter said. “It's a bunch of people from outside the area coming in and telling us what to do. They can kiss my behind." Trustees Chuck Lanning and Dan Milroy said the town should get as much information about the potential authority out to the public as possible. “What's sad is John Q. Citizen could vote for this without having all the information," Lanning said. If petitions submitted Nov. 17 by A-LAW are approved by a DeKalb County judge, a referendum would appear on the April 17 ballot asking voters to approve the creation of the water authority. Under state law, such authorities can regulate large-scale uses of groundwater through a well-licensing process. Also Monday, Town Engineer Tom Simmons said he has not given up hope that an industrial company that has expressed interest in the town might still locate there. Prospects seem to have dimmed for Chicago-based RCI Construction, because the company reportedly requires a railroad track linking its site with the Union Pacific line, and laying the track will cost the town more than $2 million. “We're still having a difficult time figuring out how we're going to get this railroad built and paid for," Simmons said. He said he was investigating the possibility of selling industrial bonds that could be paid back with sales tax revenue from the site. He has projected that RCI could generate between $1 million and $3 million in sales taxes annually once it reaches full operation. “We'll pay a percentage of the sales tax if that's what it takes," he said. “We do not want to lose this industry." Union Pacific reportedly refused to foot the bill for laying the side track, because the company would not move enough freight on it for the track to be profitable for the railroad. A request last month to zone the 40-acre site southwest of town for industrial development was withdrawn, and a state agency withdrew a grant it had awarded for the project because it said the company had dropped plans to locate in Cortland. Simmons told trustees he is still working with other state agencies and has been in touch with state and federal legislators in his quest for funds. “The Department of Transportation railroad division said they won't have any money available until '08," he said. “We spoke with (U.S. Rep. Denny) Hastert's office, and they said maybe '08. But this industry wants to move now." Also Monday, about 20 spectators turned out to see the board recognize resident Elroy Overton with the DeLaine Mullis Outstanding Citizen Award. The annual award is presented to someone who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to the town. Overton spent 44 years on the Cortland Fire Department, 21 as chief, and also served as a trustee on the Cortland Fire Protection District. He also is a former town trustee and a charter member of the Cortland Lions Club. “Elroy is a prime example of what this award represents," Mayor Bob Seyller said. “The commitment and dedication to our community Elroy has shown over the years should inspire all of us." Dana Herra can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Kat Radley is currently a staff writer on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Her debut comedy album, “The Important Thing Is That I’m Pretty” with Uproar Entertainment premiered at #4 on the iTunes Comedy Charts. Kat has also appeared on FOX’s Laughs, and has made multiple appearances in many prestigious festivals such as The Laughing Skull, World Series of Comedy, and Women in Comedy Festival. She performed at the premiere Berlin Comedy Festival and has also toured Europe.
She is currently based in New York City

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Creamy Potato Gnocchi
This dish ticks every box in the flavour game: Creamy, salty, rich, sweet and with those delicate, fluffy pillows of Gnocchi heaven...I just wish we saved enough for tomorrow's lunch! This is one recipe that even Nonna will approve of! Buon Appetito!
- Potatoes | 6 (Peeled)
- Salt & Pepper | To season
- Egg | 1 (Large)
- Plain Flour | 1 1/2 Cups
- Olive Oil | 1 Tbsp
- Chicken Breast | 400gm
- Garlic | 1Tbsp (Minced)
- Mushrooms | 1 Cup (Sliced)
- Sun-dried Tomatoes | 125gm (In Oil)
- Cooking Cream | 100g
- Cheese | 100g (Cheddar)
- Basil | 1 Bunch
STEP 1 | In a large pot boil potatoes until tender, remove from the pot and let cool. Then peel, quarter and mash well.
STEP 2 | Add salt, pepper and one large egg to the mashed potatoes and mix together with a fork. Then add the flour and mix through again.
STEP 3 | Knead lightly until dough is manageable and not too sticky. Add a little more flour if the dough is too moist. Break the dough into four equal portions and with each one, roll to 1 cm in thickness on a floured board. Cut into 3 cm lengths and roll into a ball.
STEP 4 | Place on a floured tray until ready to use.
STEP 5 | Cook the gnocchi in batches in a large pot of salted boiling water. Remove with a slotted spoon as they rise to the top.Sauce
STEP 1 | In a large pan heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the sliced chicken breast, minced garlic, salt & pepper, mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes and stir well.
STEP 2 | Cook until the chicken has turned white, then add some extra flour (to thicken the sauce), cream, cheese, basil and stir through.
STEP 3 | Following the method above, and the cooked gnocchi to the sauce, then gently mix through.
STEP 4 | Garnish with a few more basil leaves and lightly roasted pine nuts.SERVES 4

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FGC specializes in film making, but we're also pretty handy with copywriting and design. Most of what you see is a collaboration from Simo & Simo with a spattering of other co-labs. Think big, fail fast.
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What Zotero Does
Zotero (pronounced "zoh-TAIR-oh") is software that collects, manages, and cites research sources. It's easy to use, connects to the various web browsers where you do your work, and best of all it's free. Zotero allows you to attach PDFs, notes and images to your citations, organize them into collections for different projects, and create bibliographies using Word, Google Docs, or OpenOffice.
Because Zotero is open source and has a large user community, thousands of bibliographic styles are available and updated regularly.
Using This Guide
This guide is several pages long -- use the tabs across the top to navigate through topics.
Zotero Quick Start Guide
See also this great guide published by the Zotero developers themselves.
To install, go to https://www.zotero.org/ and click the red "Download" button. Click "Install Now" and follow the instructions.
If you have any problems, check the Zotero installation page.
The Microsoft Word/Google Docs integrations will automatically install when you download and install Zotero/Zotero Connectors. These allow you to easily cite items from your Zotero library in your papers.
FREE ZOTERO STORAGE SPACE
Hope College Zotero users have access to Unlimited Storage Space on Zotero's cloud servers.
To join Hope's Zotero Institutional Storage plan, you must have your 1Hope email address associated with your Zotero account. If you did not register for Zotero with your 1Hope email, view the step-by-step screenshots below to learn how to add a second email address to your existing Zotero account.
ADD A SECOND EMAIL ADDRESS TO YOUR ZOTERO ACCOUNT
1. Go to the Zotero website and log in to your existing account with your current email address or user name.
2. Choose "Settings" from the upper right-hand corner of the window.
3. Within your Zotero Settings, choose the "Account" tab. Next, scroll down to add an additional email to your existing Zotero account (for example, an @hope.edu email). Finish by choosing "Add" You should receive a confirmation email in your 1Hope email account verifying your new email account. Click on the confirmation link in that email.
4. Once you have added an 1Hope email address to your Zotero account, your storage settings should automatically be updated to reflect the unlimited storage space you receive as a member of the Hope College Zotero Institutional Storage plan.
Zotero is a single standalone application for users of all browsers. Zotero Connectors for Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Safari allow saving to the Zotero application or zotero.org in a single click. More information is available from the Zotero blog.

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Liposomes as carriers of antimicrobial drugs
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Liposome are promising drug carrier systems being developed. Their successful use in the treatment of several diseases demonstrates that a solid rationale for clinical development of liposomes as antimicrobial drug carriers can be established. There are a number of potential drug candidates for liposome encapsulation. The involvement of several biotechnology companies has culminated in the design and licensing of formulations for the treatment of certain microbial infections and cancers. Understanding of liposome behavior in the body and of the physicochemical mechanisms involved in the interaction of liposome, drug, and cellular targets is essential for their future applications.
Source:Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy, 1997, 23, 5, 483-488
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Manicure in “Ombre” style never looks boring! Therefore his return as the trend of spring / summer 2017 was received with joy. In order to get an amazing effect ‘Ombre’, it suffices to take a sponge, apply to it the desired color and pat to make up nails. The effect is a smooth transition of colors to get quick and easy. The only advice – do not forget to protect the cuticle with tape so as not to paint her nail.
In one of the Desigual nail designs presented “Ombre” in three colors – bright shades of pink, blue and yellow. Naeem Khan is a gentle “Ombre” with a smooth transition from nyudovogo in pink at the tips of the nails. Monse offers a transition from tint on the tips of the nails.
Be careful with some of the trends manicure 2017. Improper execution, they may look scruffy and not stylish and original. Tracylee Manicurist offers to paint your nails color and have a thin line of gold glitter nail polish on cuticle.
This trend is the sexiest 2017. Red is always seductive, playful and a bit of glamor. At Emporio Armani in the spotlight dark deep shades of red. Leitmotiv We chose the cheerful orange-red with a glossy shine. Classic cool red color chosen for Rag & Bone models.
One of the trends of spring / summer 2017 – it nails burgundy. Maroon lacquer adds a bit of gothic tone in the image. It was quite a brave choice for a manicure Monique Lhuillier and Kate Spade. It is important to add that at the finish lacquers similar shade to be glossy.
Not only brought burgundy shade in Gothic fashion trends manicure 2017. Many designers have chosen nail color of the night sky. starry sky effect could create Marchesa thanks to metallic shades of dark gray with black and silver highlights. Rag & Bone prefers deep black, and DKNY – dark blue.
As evidence that the glossy shades are back in fashion, let Tibi example of the various embodiments of the manicure. In the models nails rounded and oval shapes were painted in thick glossy shades of gray, orange and mint. Bright nails presented the models on show at the Jeremy Scott. The highlight of this was the drop of nail polish contrast in the lower part of the nail.
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It's just Us + 42
I don't know if 42 is going to or not. I'm probably going to get a header as well.
Basically I've exhausted my creative genius on these avatars, and if I tried to create any more they'd just look like ****.
All times are (GMT -06:00) Central Time (US & Canada). Current time is 4:47:19 AM

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A sheriff is an elected law enforcement official who serves a specific county. Many of the responsibilities of the sheriff overlap with those of local police departments. The biggest difference is that a sheriff has jurisdiction over the entire county, while police departments can only enforce laws within city limits.
While sheriffs share law enforcement duties with city police officers, their degree of responsibility varies by jurisdiction. Municipalities with limited resources often contract law enforcement services to the sheriff, especially for complex crimes where they may not be equipped to conduct a detailed investigation.
Sheriffs tend to be more involved in cases where a suspect operates across city lines. Since they have the authority to investigate crimes and make arrests in any city in their jurisdiction, they often act as a bridge between various municipal law enforcement agencies in that jurisdiction.


Suzuki Malaysia Automobile Sdn Bhd have updated their Suzuki Swift for the 2009 model year. The locally assembled Swift retails at RM 73,788.00 OTR with insurance and comes in 5 colours, including Bayside Blue, Silver Grey, Supreme Red and Tranquility Black as well as one new colour – Superior White.
Suzuki has basically added 2 features – a keyless entry and start system, and auto-retractable side mirrors with integrated signal indicators. The keyless entry system allows you to open the door via pressing a button on the door handle, and the keyless engine start is not unlike Latio’s where you turn an ignition knob, not as sexy as a start button but it works. Its primarily to allow you to access and start the car without having to take out the key fob from your pocket or in the case of ladies, your handbag.
The rest of the car should remain largely the same – a 1.5 litre DOHC engine with variable valve timing producing 101hp at 6,000rpm and 133Nm of torque at 4,000rpm mated to a 4-speed automatic transmission, good cute but perhaps now dated looks and one of the best handling and fun factor in its class.
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Flipkart has just revealed that it will have exclusivity on the Xiaomi 'Desh Ka Smartphone' in India. Translated from Hindi, Desh ka Smartphone literally means 'the country's smartphone' or the 'phone that belongs to the country'. Even so, the phone remains mostly a mystery.
The landing page for the phone puts a heavy emphasis on battery life and multitaksing. There have been some speculations that this is actually the Redmi 5A. Currently, only the older Redmi 4A is on sale in India for INR 6,000, but that phone is a year old now.
The Redmi 5A does have decent battery life with its 3,000mAh battery though Snapdragon 425 doesn’t exactly scream “multitasking”. Anyway, the 5A also has a 5” 720p screen, a 13MP camera and currently runs Android 7.1 Nougat (MIUI 9).
The unveiling of the Desh Ka Smartphone – whatever it turns out to be – will be in two days on November 30. Meanwhile, Xiaomi India is busy pushing out promo videos like the ones below:
It is not about language war or something here. I mean to say Xiaomi's promotion should be in English to appeal everyone in this diversified nation. P.s: if you claiming Hindi as National Language.. You kid need to know it wont unite this count...
Who say hindi is India's national language???. Just google it bro


Yes, at the Houston Quilt Show Bernina announced a new longarm is coming in 2014.
BERNINA International AG is one of the world's leading manufacturers of sewing and embroidery machines. BERNINA products are used by quality and design conscious users worldwide for textile work,
sewing, embroidery and quilting, as well as for felting and tailoring. Innovation has been BERNINA's policy since day one. Karl Friedrich Gegauf invented the first hemstitch sewing machine at the end
of the 19th century. This special sewing machine caused a major sensation, as hemstitches had always been sewn by hand. In 1932, the first household sewing machine with the name BERNINA left the
Today, A-1 Quilting Machines, Inc., of Springfield, Missouri, manufacturer of the A-1 LongArm, have made it possible to turn a delicate, traditional hobby into a profitable hobby or business.
Stewart Plank, native of the Ozarks, saw a need to help out an old-time tradition, by becoming the owner and manufacturer of one of the first original quilting machines in the United States. Stewart utilized his mechanical background in the aircraft industry to design and manufacture truly the finest in quilting machines, the A-1 LongArm.
Stewart recognized that quilters need to purchase and rely on a high quality, long lasting machine. Quilters need prompt service and the promise of support, long after the machine is purchased and delivered.
Stewart continues to manufacture only quality machines for quilting businesses all over America.


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Monday’s can always use some inspiration. It’s not a grey day here in London, but I still love these images. The paintbrushes make me feel creative, and I am planning to start testing out painting with oil colors, something I haven’t done previously. I like finding images that can tell a story; what art inspiration was created with these brushes? Something modern, or maybe a landscape?
Images that are all in the same tone can help use create and set a mood, the same way music can. When I sit down to write, typically I listen to music. The style I choose often depends on what I’m writing. For each piece I have in progress, I actually have playlists set to help capture the mood of the story. I also put on music when I cook, something either rhythmic and soothing, or upbeat and bright. It helps to create a positive mood, which reflects in my cooking.
I love taking time to start the day by reading through my daily blogs, and then going over to Pinterest (where these images are from – captions are links to these images and credits) and pinning images that either provoke me to think or feel something. By trying to start the day this way, it feels more positive and creative.
Hopefully every Monday, or possibly more often, I will post images that have the same style theme or in the case of these pictures a color theme.
What do you do to keep creative and add inspiration to your day?


Hollywood actor Bradley Cooper is 'taking Propecia' as preventative baldness therapy, website claims
Screen star Bradley Cooper is alleged to be taking anti-baldness drug Propecia, sources claim.
According to popular US website Radar, Cooper 'is so anxious about his receding hairline' that he has resorted to the oral haircare medicine.
The 39 year-old star of American Hustle, who is currently dating Suki Waterhouse, is said to be keen to retain his leading man status - and, especially, looks.
Hair-raising: Allegations claim that Bradley is taking Propecia to prevent hair loss
Hirsute: Bradley sported thick-looking hair when he was recently in London
Currently, the popular performer sports a stylishly messy cut which he parts to one side.
The source also told People that Cooper 'has a lot of bald guys in his family, so he’s been on Propecia for a couple of years and, to his delight, it seems to be working.'
They added: 'Bradley is determined not to go bald and lose his leading man looks.'
Bradley Cooper and Suki Waterhouse at theTom Ford show in London Fashion Week
Representatives for the handsome actor, whose other film credits include The Hangover and The Place Beyond The Pines, have been contacted by MailOnline, but are yet to respond.
Propecia is a brand name of Finasteride which reverses male pattern baldness by blocking testosterone from damaging hair follicles.
Originally, it was prescribed for men with enlarged prostates, but the side-effect was soon considered a breakthrough tool to tackle hair loss.
Although many celebrities - including Jason Donavan, Wayne Rooney and James Nesbitt - have had successful hair transplants, few have been open about taking Finasteride.
Spencer Stevenson, an expert on hair loss who hosts specialist talk show The Bald Truth, recommends Propecia prior to a hair transplant - despite the fact it can have dramatic side-effects including so-called 'man-boobs' and alleged permanent erectile dysfunction.
'Before you even consider a hair transplant, look into going on Propecia or applying Minoxidil (a topical hair-loss treatment) for at least six months first, to strengthen existing hair and prevent further hair loss,' he says.
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After separating two years ago in February 2010, Debra Messing has officially filed divorce papers from her husband, Daniel Zelman.
E! News points out the Smash star is asking the judge to have joint physical and legal custody of their eight year-old son, Roman.
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The couple met as students at NYU in the '90s and got married in September 2000. Apparently they continued to live together in NYC up until recently, although they were separating.
Debra's been linked to her co-star, Will Chase. Will has two kids from his first marriage and is getting divorced as well.


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Modern sweet brands hit the shelves in the 1950s
World War II brought big changes to Woolworth's ranging policies. Within a year of the start of the war all sorts of everyday items were in short supply and most prices had doubled.
The Ministry of Food introduced rationing for many products, with the goal of spreading the available stocks fairly. Rations were reduced at the end of the war as an export drive left shops short of stock. Sweets remained rationed until 1953.
While they could not workaround rationing, the Woolworth Buyers did find a number of innovative ways of getting plentiful stocks onto the confectionery counters. Traditionally a proportion of the weigh-out range had come factories in the Irish Republic. This was increased. The Emerald Isle was enjoying a period of prosperity and reaping the rewards from staying neutral during the World War. Irish Dairy Farmers were producing a surplus of full cream milk. By adding sugar they were able to make delicious fudge and all manner of confections.
A new Irish Buying Office, located above the premier store in Henry Street, Dublin, found a way to circumvent post-war import restrictions. Goods were purchased from Continental Europe, imported into Ireland (which had no import restrictions and free trade with the UK) before being sent north to Ulster or east to the mainland.
For old time's sake the headline price of pic'n'mix was kept down to sixpence a quarter for boiled sweets in the late 1940s. In equivalent terms, taking account of inflation, this was cheaper than before the war. Chocolate became part of a luxury range at a higher price. Some boxed chocolates which had been sold for sixpence for a half pound (2½p for 227g) had risen to half a crown (12½p) - a five-fold rise.
The confectionery and snacks department was given pride of place at the front of the store. Mirrors were added to the wall counters to enhance new displays of bottled drinks. Chilled Pepsi Cola was the stand-out seller. The success of this icon of American culture may perhaps have been inspired by the billeting of US servicemen around the UK in the run-up to D-Day. Ice Cream, which remained unrationed, was in plentiful supply and was available in a dozen different varieties of cones and cornets, with toppings and sauces.
Another key change in the 1950s was the introduction of an increasing number of bar lines (single, wrapped bars of chocolate and candy) as well as gift items like boxes of chocolates. In the early 1950s it was quite normal to display pic'n'mix in one area of the store, drinks and ices in another and the shelved lines - chocolate bars, boxes and bags of sweets somewhere different again. Company bosses believed that most people bought these items on impulse rather than visiting specifically to buy them, meaning that they were dotted about between the main staple displays of toiletries, homewares and fancy goods.
The picture on the left shows the store in Crown Buildings, George Street, Pontypool in Monmouthshire (Gwent) in 1954. In the foreground an Assistant is serving a Customer with Pic'n'Mix, while the store's displays of Chocolates are more than fifty feet away at the centre of the store straight inside the entrance.
The picture, like many in our museum was taken by Reg Gallanders, the store's manager, who served the Company with great dedication and commitment. It captures the atmosphere of a Fifties store perfectly, with the salesfloor bustling with shoppers and staff busily giving personal service at each island counters. To see the picture close up, click to open it in a new window.
The Fifties saw the start of big changes to the sales floor layout. The emerging trend in retailing, which began in the USA, was for stores to convert from personal service as shown in the picture above, to self-service displays with checkouts dotted around the store or guarding the entrance. This supermarket-style shopping is used in most shops in the twenty-first century, but sixty years ago Woolies customers proved highly resistant to the concept during trials in Cobham, Surrey and Didcot, Oxfordshire.
The new self-service layout makes it easier to discern the individual products in the photographs. Goods were shelved in several tiers, rather than being arranged between glass dividers on a single level counter-top. But for customers at the time it meant that they no longer had the opportunity for a friendly chat with the Assistants they had come to know over many years' shopping. They also found it harder to get advice about the products before deciding to buy.
The picture below shows the range of confectionery lines sold in the Didcot store when it opened its doors in 1956. Most of the brands that the public trust in the twenty-first century can be seen. A close inspection reveals slab chocolate from Cadbury, Nestlé and Rowntrees, along with Mars Confectionery, including Mars Bars, Maltesers and Treats.
Although the early self-service stores got many things right, and in some ways were ahead of their time, there were plenty of mistakes. Company bosses had red faces when one branch opened with a sign stating 'This is a help yourself store'. It was clear at their annual stockcount that customers had taken them at their word and helped themselves to anything they fancied! Another blunder was the belief that it wouldn't be possible to sell pic'n'mix in a self-service environment, and the decision to stock only pre-bagged assortments. This was deeply unpopular and forced Executives to put their thinking caps on and come up with a display fixture and operation that would allow customers to choose and bag their own sweets. This set the standard for the next fifty years of trading in the High Street.
After a lot of soul-searching the Woolworths fixtures experts came up with a design for a self-service Pic'n'Mix counter. Just in case customers didn't like it, rather than testing it in a British store they sent it as far away as possible. The trial took place in the brand new store in Salisbury, Rhodesia (today known as Harare, Zimbabwe), as shown below. It proved a big hit, and before long the same fixture was installed at Guildford in Surrey and was soon incorporated into the specification for new stores.
The self-service fixture became a company standard for the next twenty-five years and still featured in a number of stores as late as 1987, as illustrated in the writer's own store at Camberley, Surrey.
However bad the fixture may look, as ever the range of sweets was unrivalled, in a tradition that helped to sustain the High Street stores for almost 100 years.
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Disposable income and the number of households earning $100,000 are expected to rise, which will entice regional and local guests to visit resorts more during peak season.
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Rising disposable income and an increase in inbound international travel has benefited the Canadian Ski and Snowboard Resorts industry in the five years to 2014. The industry endured a dismal early half of the five-year period; however, revenue experienced strong growth in 2011, thanks to a rise in per capita disposable income and an increase in the number of households earning $100,000 or more. These increases provided consumers with more discretionary income, enabling them to spend more on recreational activities such as skiing and snowboarding. In the five years to 2014, industry revenue is expected to increase.
According to IBISWorld Industry Analyst Andrew Alvarez, “While regional and local guests comprise a substantial portion of industry revenue, operators rely heavily on international travellers to bolster profit margins, as they typically stay for longer periods of time and take advantage of a resort's full spectrum of amenities throughout their stay.” Though international travel has been mildly volatile over the five-year period, total inbound travel is expected to increase over the five-year period. This increase is expected to contribute to growing profit.
Over the five years to 2019, industry revenue is expected to continue growing slightly. Disposable income and the number of households earning $100,000 are expected to rise, which will entice regional and local guests to visit resorts more during peak season. However, says Alvarez, “A still-strong Canadian dollar, coupled with heightened competition in the global tourism industry, is expected to result in an overall decrease in the amount of inbound international travel over the period, siphoning would-be profitable international guests away from domestic operators.” Furthermore, the effects of global warming are expected to wreak havoc on certain industry establishments, creating anomalies in snowfall and potentially hurting revenue as a result. As a result, operators are expected to diversify their product offerings over the period and maximize revenue generated from regional and local consumers, while also investing in state-of-the-art snowmaking technology to maximize the length of the peak skiing season.
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I suppose these titles fit me in a nutshell. If someone asked me at a dinner party, what do you do? I’m probably going to give these a shout out. For two decades (that sounds like an eternity), I’ve been marketing technology to enterprises across multiple industries: insurance and financial services, government, manufacturing, retail, life sciences, and healthcare. Currently, I lead an expanded team working to develop business relationships within client set and market company strategy and vision. My specialties include: Business Development, Leading Large and Diverse Teams, Website Development, Communication, Presentations to large groups, and Design. I know it’s a long list. I’ve been doing this a long time.
Knights of Legend
Recently, I published my first novel, Knights of Legend, after eight years of work. The hardest part might not have been the writing, just a few paragraphs each day can take you far. To think, just 500 words per day translates to 180,000 words a year. This is two full-length novels! For Knights, most of the time I spent in the editing process, there were twelve drafts of this book. It was a long road. And I have a number of people to thank including friends, family, college professors and an editor that trimmed about 50,000 words out of the book. For me, this book is lean and mean. But in the end, it’s the confidence of putting yourself out there that is the hardest. If you are interested in picking up a copy, check out the Dynamic Page store or look on Amazon (there is a Kindle Version too).
The Dark Harp
This is a little project I managed with my kid. A year ago, my child laid down the Christmas challenge. “Write me a story, Daddy.” After a lengthy editing process, crafting 50,000 words, and painting a little on the side, the story of a King, Queen, Dark Wizard, and two magical instruments is available now.
Putting Yourself Out There
I’m going to be using this blog of sorts moving forward to post some insights I’ve written from literature and business classes to just trying to keep my head above water being a dad. I’ve actually written a number of articles through the years. Hopefully, over time I’ll add more work, discuss books I’ve read, post pictures of places I’ve visited and just put myself out there. Hope you enjoy.
Yeah, I still believe in the American Dream, that baseball is the National Pastime, and that telling stories remains an important part of our culture.

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Women always have an inner desire to look beautiful and this is the reason why cosmetics have come into existence. Cosmetics are used not only to hide spots, but they are also used to enhance the facial features and eye mascara is one of the eye makeup products.
Eye mascara is one such beauty item that is found in every womans make up kit. It is applied on the eye lashes, which gives them an elongated appearance.
The first image that comes to ones mind when they think about mascara is a small bottle, which when opened has a long brush attached to its cap. This in fact is the modern form of mascara.
Mascara basically comes in three forms that is liquid, cream and cake form.
The cake form was the very first type of mascara. One can apply this kind of mascara with the help of a brush. However, it cannot be applied with a dry brush. You need to wet the brush first, while using this kind of mascara.
The cream one is also applied with a brush, but here the cream is wet already, so one can directly apply the mascara on the lashes.
The liquid form of mascara is the most preferred one, because of its easy application. The brush is made in such way that one can easily reach every eyelash.
There are two types of eye mascara readily available in the market, one is non-waterproof and the second is waterproof. As the name suggests waterproof mascara is one, which is resistant to water. It does not smudge when it comes in contact with water. The non-waterproof one can get washed off easily. The advantage of non-waterproof mascara is that it can be easily removed with the help of water. On the other hand, the waterproof mascara can be removed only with the help of a makeup remover. However, the benefit of waterproof mascara is that it lasts for a longer time than the non-waterproof mascara.
Eye mascara does not require a million ingredients. It is in fact made up of only three essential ingredients that is wax, preservatives and pigmentation.
Wax like beeswax or paraffin wax helps keep the lashes separated and also keeps the color stuck onto the lashes. The pigmentations are the basic contents that give color to the mascara. Carbon black is a pigment used to give black color while iron oxide is the pigment added to give brown color. Hence depending upon the color different pigments can be added.
The addition of water depends up on the manufacturing process. If anhydrous process is used then there is no need of water, but if the emulsion method is employed, where thickeners are used to make the mascara, then these thickeners have to be mixed with water before combining all the other ingredients. There is also the usage of vitamins, whose sole purpose is to condition the lashes.
Eye mascara is available in any cosmetic stores. There are also many online stores, which sell this product.


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3rd Annual Earth Care Concert
3rd ANNUAL EARTH CARE CONCERT IN WEST SEATTLE PRIVATE GARDEN
Experience inspired Celtic music in a magical setting--a West Seattle Arroyos private garden with stunning views of Mount Rainer and Puget Sound. Relax in this quintessential Northwest home and garden, perched on a bluff above the Sound, surrounded by nature and the amazing music of Magical Strings.
Ticket price includes the following: tours of a solar energy system, lead by A&R Solar; Presentations about local sustainable farms, community gardens, organic food, and nutrition; Organic wine/beer/nonalcoholic beverages and an array of delicious finger food prepared by Chef Jenny of Bon Appétit and created from local, sustainably grown organic produce; A musical performance by Magical Strings.
3:30 PM Presentations about Community Sustainable Gardens/Food, Nutrition, Wellness & Solar Energy, Wind Energy and Rain Gardens. Organic appetizers and beverages served.
6:30 PM Magical Strings Concert with Celtic Dancers
With dancing hammers and pulsating strings, Philip and Pam Boulding create the distinctive music of Magical Strings, described by The Washington Post as "warm, graceful and sonically gorgeous." Celtic harps and hammered dulcimers are colorfully augmented by pennywhistles, concertina, valiha (Malagasy harp) and storytelling. Since 1978 they have drawn a loyal following worldwide, captivated by their energetic arrangements of Celtic music and their own engaging compositions, intertwining Celtic roots with classical and world music influences. Practically a household name in the Northwest, Magical Strings has toured throughout the United States, Canada, and Ireland. In Japan they toured twice with their family quartet, performing many sold-out concerts from Okinawa to Sapporo. As a duo Philip and Pam opened for Dan Fogelberg in 30 major U.S. cities, sharing their music with enthusiastic crowds of up to 15,000 a night. Following the tour they were invited to record with him on River of Souls and then a second album, The First Christmas Morning. Since 1980 Magical Strings has recorded 18 albums on Flying Fish/Rounder, EarthBeat Records, and their own label, Magic Hill Music. Their more recent CD featuring the family quartet, Where Dragons Dance, appears on Allegro's Alula Visions label. Their three newest releases appear on their own label: Dances and Dreams Best of Magical Strings, which celebrates 30 years of their career featuringtheir favorite tracks from the first nine albums; Musings, a solo harp all-original album from Philip; and Celtic Yuletide Live!, featuring energetic live performances from their 2009 Yuletide season. Their music has received a growing stream of international airplay and acclaim over the years. Islands Calling, was named "their best album yet" by Billboard Magazine in 1996, and features several guest artists including Alex de Grassi and Hawaiian slack-key virtuoso Keola Beamer.
More information about Magical Strings a Magicalstrings.com
House Concert in a private garden in West Seattle Arroyos
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Celebrate love with your sweetheart in the dreamy settings of Mahabaleshwar! Spend a romantic evening marveling at the sunset over the Western Ghats. Create new memories of just the two of you as you go boating in the serene Venna Lake. And make sure to relish the sinfully sweet fresh strawberry and cream at Mapro Garden!
Inspired from an Italian city, picturesque Lavasa is the perfect destination for a quick Valentine’s vacay with your dearest! Walk hand-in-hand as you explore the private city’s numerous attractions. Adventurous couples can team up to indulge in thrilling activities such as rapelling, rock-climbing, paintball and more.
Take a romantic break this Valentine’s Day at the beautiful seaside town of Alibaug! Create lasting memories as you walk along the golden sands with your sweetheart, gaze at the beautiful sea and spend a few precious moments of togetherness. Make the most of your special holiday by indulgung in fresh and mouthwatering coastal cuisine!
Make most of Valentine’s Day 2019 by visiting refreshing and pristine Amboli for the weekend! Revel in the company of your loved one as you soak in the natural beauty and pleasant climate of Amboli. Feel refreshed as you stroll together through enchanting trails and feast your eyes on the lush greenery.
Surprise your beloved with an idyllic Valentine’s getaway to the perennial romantic locale of Lonavala. Exchange sweet nothings amidst the scenic hills and February’s refreshing winter breeze. And don’t forget to relish the delectable dishes in Lonavala including the authentic chikkis, hot onion pakoras and lip-smacking Maharashtrian cuisine.
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I was born in Hong Kong. As a child, I had traveled to many counties throughout the world such as Thailand, Malaysia, Japan and the United States, but my visits had been to mostly to popular tourist destinations. For example, in the United States, I visited Disneyland, Disney World, the World Trade Center, Sears Tower and the Statue of Liberty. Based on these trips, I had always thought that America was very similar to Hong Kong; America just had different looking people who spoke another language. My perception was also influenced by my ethnocentrism. Because Hong Kong is a very small, homogenous city, I assumed that all of America was just like New York.
I later returned to America to start my undergraduate education. It was Winter 2000, when the airplane slowly descended into the Indianapolis International Airport. I had expected to see the skyscrapers that had welcomed me on my previous journeys, but that day all I saw were corn fields and single story homes. I was shocked and left totally speechless. I asked myself, “What have I gotten into?” I did not know that farmland existed in America. I wondered, “Why do Americans need farms? Just import all your food. Who wants to be a farmer anyway?” I simply did not understand.
However, I soon realized the limitations of travel on truly understanding the cultural dynamics of a country.
I also mistakenly believed that reading had provided me with a thorough understanding of world culture. When I was growing up, I liked to cook all kinds of food from different cultures, European, American, Asian and Middle-Eastern. I felt close to those cultures when I manipulated different ingredients and spices from those regions. I collected ethnic cookbooks, especially those with vivid pictures, and vibrant stories about life in different cultures. William Sonomas cookbooks were my favorite. When I read about the different kinds of food people eat and the ingredients they chose, I felt in touch with their daily lives. To me, learning about cooking was like looking into a culture with a spyglass.
Unfortunately, reading is not always the perfect way to learn about culture as I discovered during a family gathering with my in-laws. When I reached over and spooned some vegetables off the plate across the dinning table, my in-laws were shocked by my barbaric manners. I could not understand why the entire table stared at me as though something terribly wrong had just happened. I panicked, and found out that I was supposed to say,.

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The question here asks to "evaluate the effectiveness," so your answer should focus on discussing what elements of the Warnock Report and subsequent legislation were effective, but also which elements did not go far enough.
So you might consider:
1. The Warnock Report was effective in that it was a landmark. It was the first wide-ranging investigation of special educational needs (SEN) provisions in the UK and hoped to prepare children being educated in the SEN system to enter employment.
2. It was also effective because it marked a shift in how people who were "handicapped" were discussed and provided for. In the 1950s and 1960s, students were simply referred to as "handicapped" and the question was simply whether or not they could be educated. In the Warnock Report, this was dismissed as outdated: now, individual students were looked at in terms of their context, background and particular needs. This is in fact the origin of the term "special educational need" as is now widely used.
3. The Warnock Report also identified the fact that about one in five of all children will have a special educational need at one time or other—SEN children are not a separate category of "others."
4. The Warnock Report formed the basis for future development of these ideas. For example, the Education Act 1981 set out the idea that children's needs were all relative to each other, and that Local Education Authorities should be responsible for helping schools identify children with special needs.
5. Some drawbacks of the Warnock Report today are that it was written in a very different context from today, within which there was no national curriculum and schools were 90% state-run by Local Aeas. Now, it is argued that academies, which are state schools not controlled by Local Areas, tend to exclude students with SEN because this will cost them more to educate these students. So some of the provisions of the Warnock Report are not fit for purpose in the modern context.
The Disability Act 2001 had a different purpose from the Warnock Report. Its goal was to establish legal rights for disabled and SEN people in terms of their education and employment opportunities. So, while Warnock was invaluable in terms of changing how people were categorized and helping them access more individualized education, it did not offer legal protections. The 2001 act exists to make discrimination in terms of goods, services and education actively unlawful. Students now cannot be unjustly excluded from schools, colleges, youth services, etc. This act helps to compensate for some of the issues Warnock does not cover, but as noted above, the academization of education has provided schools with loopholes to get around this.

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Purchase Third Rail PP Printers Proof Limited Edition Hand Pulled 7-Color Serigraph Print on 320gsm Fine Art Paper by Graffiti Pop Artist Risk Rock.
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Third Rail, 2015 Serigraph in colors on Coventry Rag Fine Art paper 24 x 24 inches (61 x 61 cm) (sheet) P.P. (aside from an edition of 50) Signed, numbered, and dated in pencil along lower edge. 7-Color Serigraph on 320gsm Fine Art Paper Size: 24 x 24 Inches Release: May 10, 2015 Run of: 50. This edition was originally sold with Risk's monograph Old Habits Die Hard. The book narrates Risk’s role as one of the pioneers of graffiti in Los Angeles and his aim to not only push the boundaries of his own art but also help elevate the graffiti movement to worldwide recognition.


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A recent oil boom and competitive housing market in western North Dakota has led many residents to live in man camps, recreational vehicles, trailers and mobile homes. The trouble is those structures are unsafe to occupy in times of severe weather and there are few options as to where they should go in the event of severe summer weather.
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Located on Prince of Wales Island in southeast Alaska, the Haida House stands well insulated and protected from high winds, heavy rain and low temperatures associated with its northern marine climate. Eight inches of rigid insulation installed to the outside of the stud walls and 12 inches of rigid insulation installed over top of the roof deck protect the wood structure while limiting thermal bridging. Wood studs installed perpendicular to a second roof not only provide the ventilation space for the roof, but also extend to create the house’s overhangs. Also serving dual purposes is the rigid insulation between floor joists, which completes the thermal enclosure and provides an insulated bed for the radiant floor heating system. A high efficiency water heater located under the stair landing provides both heat and hot water for the house. A small heat recovery ventilator (HRV) installed in the attic completes the high performance mechanical system by providing outside air to the interior. As designed, the Haida House uses 40% less energy than a home built to code in 2006.


The latest storm knocked down trees all across the Santa Cruz Mountains this week, and one huge oak tree landed on a home in the Bear Creek Country Club area of Boulder Creek.
Travis Tree Professionals were at work Wednesday, removing the tree, which managed to puncture the house owned by John Oliver.
"This is our bonus room and laundry closet, and this branch came through inside the closet, through the roof and through the walls and took out our door right there," Oliver said, looking at the damage. "We've had water just pouring in."
Oliver said his wife and kids were still away on vacation. He came back early for work. Otherwise, everyone would have been home when the tree came down.
"If the tree had fallen another few degrees this way, it would have caused real structural damage," he said.
Bob Pilgreen of Travis Tree Professionals said there's so much rain that the ground can't soak it up fast enough.
"The big trees just don't have enough root system to hold up a big tree when there's a big mud ball around it," he said.
Meanwhile, many Boulder Creek residents received a bit of positive news about their water supply, which had been compromised when part of Bear Creek Road collapsed.
The San Lorenzo Water District finished installing a bypass pipeline near the collapse, just in case the main pipeline under Bear Creek Road gets damaged in the next storm.


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Today I took a break from baking for humans and made some cookies for Chaos and Mayhem. It's not the first time I've made them but it's been a while and it was my first time making them gluten free. We've banned gluten flour from the house as it gives me a migraine to bake with it and Dave isn't much of a baker.
I'd love to give credit but the recipe has been in my book since at least 2006 and I have no idea where it came from. We've dubbed them Chaos Cookies and they were very well received by a tough panel of judges, Chaos, Mayhem and their friend Stella.
Chaos's Gluten Free Dog Cookies
1 cup flour (I used my old batch of Gluten Free Featherlight)
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 cup peanut butter
3/4 cup milk
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix Flour and baking powder then add peanut butter and milk. Combine then roll out on floured surface to 1/4" thickness. Cut out your pups favorite shapes or keep it simple. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes or until the cookies are golden brown. Cool before serving to your pup! Keeps best in fridge or freezer.
I've found that a simple shape makes for the best cookie cutter. We had a skinnier dog bone cookie cutter but found that the bones broke easily. I also made some triangles for smaller treats for toy stuffing.


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1 Introduction and related work
After their impressive results on the ILSVRC2015 challenge, deep residual networks (He et al., 2016)
quickly became one of the default architectures for computer vision tasks. Instead of just stacking layers on top of each other where each layer has to transform the output of the previous layer (), they add skip connections, identity mappings that copy the input of the layer to the output. The layer then learns a residual to add to the input () . This makes it easier to optimize the network and allows us to build networks with hundreds or even thousands of layers. ResNets are closely related to Highway networks (Srivastava et al., 2015) where the flow of information is regulated by gates instead of using a fixed skip connection.
The residual connections have some very interesting properties in addition to increasing the maximum depth of the network. Various works have shown that ResNets are remarkably robust against deleting or reordering layers from a trained network(Veit et al., 2016) (Srivastava et al., 2015) while this behavior is not found in the more traditional architectures. Veit et al. (2016) argue that ResNets should be interpreted as an exponential ensemble of shallower models. Because of the shortcut connections there is a large number of possible paths with different lengths and although all these paths are trained simultaneously they do not strongly depend on each other. Deleting some layers of the network corrupts certain paths but since there is an exponentially large number of paths the overall effect on the final accuracy is limited. Greff et al. (2016)
on the other hand argue that the layers in a ResNet do not learn completely new representations but instead they gradually refine the features extracted by the previous layers. In this
unrolled iterative estimation viewsuccessive layers cooperate to compute a single level of representation. Jastrzebski et al. (2017)
provided a formal view of iterative feature refinement and showed that a each residual layer refines the feature representation to reduce the loss with respect to the hidden representation.
In this work we follow the iterative estimation view and exploit these properties to design networks with less parameters and a smaller computational cost. To reduce the model size we enforce a strict parameter sharing between the layers in the network. Since each layer refines the features extracted by the previous layer instead of learning completely new features, it seems plausible that there is a certain redundancy in having different parameters for each layer. Sharing parameters between layers has been proposed before (Jastrzebski et al., 2017) (Boulch, 2017) and both papers report impressive model size reductions.
To reduce the computational cost we incorporate an Adaptive Computation Time (ACT) mechanism. In a traditional ResNet every sample follows the exact same path through the network where every layer refines the features from the previous layer. Not all samples are equally hard to classify and some of them will need more refinement steps than others. With ACT we can include a component that will decide how many steps are needed for each given input sample. ACT was introduced byGraves (2016)
for recurrent neural networks where the network adapts the number of calculation steps to the complexity of the input. ACT can also be applied to networks for image recognition.Figurnov et al. (2016) introduced a ResNet based architecture where ACT was used to decide to evaluate or to skip certain layers. They even further improved this to Spatial ACT (SACT) which adapts the amount of computation between spatial positions.
We combined these two ideas of parameter sharing and adaptive computation time to design a building block for accurate deep neural networks with small model size and adaptive computational cost.
A typical ResNet consists of first a convolutional layer with batch normalization and ReLu nonlinearity followed by maxpooling. Then, a sequence of four blocks is stacked where each block consists of multiple stacked residual units. Each residual unit consists of one or more convolutional layers and a shortcut connection. All residual units in a block operate on the same spatial size. The first convolutional layer in each block uses a convolution with stride 2 to reduce the spatial size.
We propose to replace each block by the architecture shown in figure 1 (left). Each residual unit in a block is replaced by an iteration of this module. We use maxpooling between each block to reduce the spatial size. Our block consist of three main parts: a processing block with three convolutional layers, a state buffer where the results are accumulated and the ACT block that decides how many iterations of this block are needed.
The state buffer is used to gradually build the output of the block. The output of each iteration is added to the state which allows for an iterative refinement of the features. The initial state () is initialized with zero values.
The processing block consists of three convolutional layers with a bottleneck structure (He et al., 2016). At each iteration we concatenate the original input of the block () with the current state (
) before passing the concatenated vector through the processing block. The output of the processing block is added to the state. Each convolutional layer is followed by batch normalization, as is common in ResNets. We found that it is not possible to use the same batchnorm statistics for multiple iterations, instead we use a different set of statistics in each iteration. This only incurs a small overhead since the number of batchnorm statistics is very small compared to the full network. The same approach was used inJastrzebski et al. (2017) in their experiments with shared weights.
The ACT block is a small two layer fully connected network (2 times 64 hidden units) that decides whether to keep evaluating the block or to move on to the next block.We concatenate the current state, the original input and the output of the processing block and apply global average pooling to obtain a vector with a single value for each channel. The ACT network uses this vector to calculate a halting score between 0 and 1 (sigmoidal activation).We sum the halting scores of each iteration and as soon as the cumulative halting score reaches one we stop evaluating this block and move on to the next block. We add an additional loss term to the classification loss to encourage the network to use a small number of iterations.
We trained our models on three benchmark datasets for image recognition: CIFAR10, CIFAR100 and ImageNet. We report the number of parameters, the theoretical number of operations and the test accuracy in table3. We designed our models after a ResNet architecture and constrained them to use at maximum the same number of iterations in each block as the the number of units in that block of the ResNet. ResNet152 for example has four blocks with 3, 8, 36 and 3 residual units respectively. The corresponding IamNN is then constrained to use at maximum 3, 8, 36 and 3 iterations for each block respectively. The computational cost of the IamNN networks varies depending on the complexity of the input image, we report the average required FLOPS over all images in the test set.
For CIFAR10 and CIFAR100 we reduce the number of parameters by 90% compared to the corresponding ResNet101. The number of FLOPS varies between 0.8 GFLOPs and 2 GFLOPs for both datasets depending on the complexity on the input image. On average we require 1.1 billion and 1.6 billion operations for CIFAR10 and CIFAR100 respectively, a reduction of 56% and 36% respectively. For CIFAR10 we obtain a slightly higher accuracy compared to the ResNet, probably because weight sharing acts as a regularizer for the small dataset. On CIFAR100 however the accuracy drops from 79.3% to 77.8%.
For the ImageNet dataset we used ResNet152 as a baseline. We are again able to reduce the number of parameters with 90% and the computations by 65% the top5 accuracy drops from 93.3% to 89%. To illustrate the benefit of iterative refinement using the same weights we also include the result when our IamNN network is only allowed one iteration per block. In this case there is no iterative refinement possible and the network obtains a top5 accuracy of 83.2%. We also compare to other architectures that were built to be very efficient in terms of computational cost and memory footprint (MobileNet (Howard et al., 2017), ShuffleNet (Zhang et al., 2017), SqueezeNet (Iandola et al., 2016) and GoogleNet (Szegedy et al., 2014)). These networks obtain a similar accuracy with a similar number of parameters but at a lower computational cost. This is because we did not change the basic operations of the network (1x1 and 3x3 convolutions). Some of the techniques used in the efficient networks such as depthwise separable convolutions are however orthogonal to our weight sharing and ACT approach and could be used to reduce the computational cost even further.
Figure 2 shows how many iterations are used for each block in the ImageNet network. The vertical line indicates the number of residual units in the corresponding ResNet (= the maximum number of iterations for the IamNN). Figure 3 illustrates how the network is able to adapt the computational cost to the complexity of the image. We show some typical images sorted from fast (left) to slow (right) to classify. The computation cost varies between 0.7G and 2G FLOPS for CIFAR10 and between 2.5G and 9G FLOPS for ImageNet.
|Dataset||Network||Params||FLOPS||Top1/ Top5 (%)|
|IamNN||4.5 M||1.1G (.7G - 2G)||94.6|
|IamNN||4.6 M||1.6G (.7G - 2G)||77.8|
|ImageNet||ResNet152||60 M||11.5 G||77.0 / 93.3|
|ResNet18||12 M||1.8 G||69.5 / 89.2|
|Single crop||IamNN 1 iter||4.8 M||0.9 G||60.8 / 83.2|
|Single network||IamNN||5 M||4 B (2.5G - 9G)||69.5 / 89.0|
|ShaResNet34||14 M||11 G||71.0 / 91.5|
|Googlenet||7 M||1.6 G||65.8 / 87.1|
|MobileNet1||4.2 M||570 M||70.6 / 89.5|
|ShuffleNet2x||5.6 M||524 M||70.9 / 89.8|
|SqueezeNet||1.3 M||830 M||57.5 / 80.3|
4 Conclusion and future work
We proposed a new ResNet based architecture based on insights in the iterative refinement behavior of ResNets and Highway networks. By using the same set of weights multiple times we can reduce the model size by 90%. Thanks to adaptive computation time the computation cost of the model depends on the complexity of the input image and is on average much lower than typical ResNets. In future work we will try to improve the results on the ImageNet dataset and we will incorporate other techniques such as depthwise separable convolutions to reduce the computational cost even further.
- Boulch (2017) Alexandre Boulch. Sharesnet: reducing residual network parameter number by sharing weights. arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.08782, 2017.
- Figurnov et al. (2016) Michael Figurnov, Maxwell D Collins, Yukun Zhu, Li Zhang, Jonathan Huang, Dmitry Vetrov, and Ruslan Salakhutdinov. Spatially adaptive computation time for residual networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.02297, 2016.
- Graves (2016) Alex Graves. Adaptive computation time for recurrent neural networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.08983, 2016.
- Greff et al. (2016) Klaus Greff, Rupesh K Srivastava, and Jürgen Schmidhuber. Highway and residual networks learn unrolled iterative estimation. arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.07771, 2016.
He et al. (2016)
Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren, and Jian Sun.
Deep residual learning for image recognition.
The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2016.
- Howard et al. (2017) Andrew G Howard, Menglong Zhu, Bo Chen, Dmitry Kalenichenko, Weijun Wang, Tobias Weyand, Marco Andreetto, and Hartwig Adam. Mobilenets: Efficient convolutional neural networks for mobile vision applications. arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.04861, 2017.
- Iandola et al. (2016) Forrest N Iandola, Song Han, Matthew W Moskewicz, Khalid Ashraf, William J Dally, and Kurt Keutzer. Squeezenet: Alexnet-level accuracy with 50x fewer parameters and¡ 0.5 mb model size. arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.07360, 2016.
- Jastrzebski et al. (2017) Stanisław Jastrzebski, Devansh Arpit, Nicolas Ballas, Vikas Verma, Tong Che, and Yoshua Bengio. Residual connections encourage iterative inference. arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.04773, 2017.
- Srivastava et al. (2015) Rupesh Kumar Srivastava, Klaus Greff, and Jürgen Schmidhuber. Highway networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.00387, 2015.
- Szegedy et al. (2014) Christian Szegedy, Wei Liu, Yangqing Jia, Pierre Sermanet, Scott E. Reed, Dragomir Anguelov, Dumitru Erhan, Vincent Vanhoucke, and Andrew Rabinovich. Going deeper with convolutions. CoRR, abs/1409.4842, 2014. URL http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.4842.
- Veit et al. (2016) Andreas Veit, Michael J Wilber, and Serge Belongie. Residual networks behave like ensembles of relatively shallow networks. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 550–558, 2016.
- Zhang et al. (2017) Xiangyu Zhang, Xinyu Zhou, Mengxiao Lin, and Jian Sun. Shufflenet: An extremely efficient convolutional neural network for mobile devices. arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.01083, 2017.


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Duplex ultrasound is commonly used to measured vein diameters and patency prior to surgery.
The great saphenous vein in the leg and the cephalic and basilic veins in the arms are conduits that can be harvested and used for leg bypass surgery. These veins need to be free of thrombus and of a minimum size (>3mm) for them to be an effective and lasting conduit for bypassing arterial blockages. B-mode ultrasound is used to measure the diameters of these veins with a detailed report of the vein diameters created. Vascular surgeons will use a vein graft in preference to a synthetic graft due to the longer patency of vein grafts for bypass surgery.
Due to the increasing incidence of renal (kidney) failure the creation of a fistula to be used for dialysis is becoming more and more common. A fistula is created by connecting a superficial vein to the artery. These veins are now subjected to arterial pressure and as a result these veins begin to dilate. The amount blood flow increases through the vein and catheters can be inserted in the vein to take blood to a dialysis machine for filtering and then be returned to the vein. The most common veins used to create a fistula are the cephalic and basilic veins in the arms. B-mode ultrasound is used to map the course of the vein and measure the diameters of the vein. The vein needs to be >3mm in diameter for a successful fistula to be created. At the same time of the vein mapping the brachial, ulnar and radial arteries in the arm will also be scanned to check that there is no flow limiting stenosis in these arteries, the presence of which may compromise maturation of the fistula.
PATIENT PREPARATION AND EXAMINATION TECHNIQUE:
Arm and leg vein mapping: no preparation required.
The patient is seen sitting with the legs dependant and the arms supported by a pillow. The study is non-invasive and painless and does not involve needles. Privacy is assured. The skin of the legs and arms are exposed and gel is applied to the skin. The ultrasound probe is moved over the skin of the limb. B-mode ultrasound is used to examine the veins and assess them for patency and thrombus. The diameters of the veins are measured in the proximal, mid and distal segments of the upper arm and forearm and in the thigh and calf. A detailed worksheet is prepared documenting all diameters and a formal report generated. In the case of vein mapping for fistula creation B-mode and Doppler ultrasound examination of the arm arteries will also be performed with these results included in the formal report.
On occasions the sonographer will draw on the skin the course of the vein as a marker for the surgeon. This should not be removed prior to surgery.
The examination may take up to 30 minutes to perform.
Patency of the vein and presence of thrombus in the veins should be documented.
Presence of calcification and existence stenosis in the arm arteries should be documented.

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Christmas came early for more than 400 families in need in Miami-Dade and Broward.
On Friday the Miami Rescue Mission and Broward Outreach Centers served up Christmas meals complete with toys for the kids and Christmas trees.
Dozens of volunteers prepared and cooked while others packed bags with toys for the children who would go without otherwise.
At the Miami Rescue Mission, a Christmas luncheon was served on decorated tables in the street. Families then received a Christmas tree, family size Mission Hope bags with hygiene products and toys for their children.
“I could come out here and give my kids some Christmas gifts because I can not afford for them this Christmas and I just really appreciate it,” said Sirporia Sims who received presents for her young siblings and her own two children.
“They need it. A lot of toys, people that don’t have anything at all. And that’s for me is a big thing. It’s a blessing,” said volunteer Laommi Matute.
The Miami Rescue Mission said toys will also be given to kids enrolled at CARE Elementary and in the Miami Rescue Mission Community Activity Center Afterschool Program along with more than 200 from Angel Children. Overall, they plan to give away more than 5,000 toys across their three campuses.
“We’re trying to reach families with children in need in this Wynwood area and this area of Miami that’s very much deprived of things we take for granted in our lives,” said Antonio Villasuso with the mission.
At the Broward Outreach Centers in Hollywood and Pompano Beach, their residents along with select families were treated to a day of singing, games, raffles, toys for the kids and a delicious Christmas dinner.


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Water Development, Sanitation and Environmental Protection Minister Rapheal Nakachinda has called for home grown solutions in the water sector, if water Utility companies are to meet the demand.
Mr Nakacinda said the cost of importing water treatment equipment is huge, and that utility firms must Come up with Mechanisms of embracing local solutions.
He said this when he inspected works for the construction of the 18 Million Kwacha North Western and Sanitation Water treatment plant in Solwezi.
And North Western Water and Sanitation Company, Technical Manager Kabika Mufalo said, Climate change had continued to threaten the water sector in the area, which has resulted in the reduction of the water Volume.
Eng Mufalo said, there is need to continue with the construction of more water reservoirs for future eventualities.
He said the company is at the moment only able to produce 400 Cubic meters of water with a deficit of 800 cubic meters of water.


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Optimization-Based Strategies for Grade Transition Operation of a Continuous Styrene Polymerization Process
We present a combination of feedforward and regulatory control system to implement optimal grade transition operation of a continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) that must produce several grades of polymers. When the target polymer quality grade is specified, a two-step approach is adopted to implement the optimal grade transition operation. The dynamic optimization is carried out to minimize the amount of initiator assumption during the transition operation as well as to shorten the transition time. Through case study of a free radical styrene polymerization, it is shown that both transition time and initiator assumption are superior to those of a regulatory control system.
Q. Guo et al., "Optimization-Based Strategies for Grade Transition Operation of a Continuous Styrene Polymerization Process", Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vols. 48-49, pp. 798-801, 2011