From Alexander Hamilton
Treasury Departmt Augt 10th 1792.
I have been duly honored with your Letters of the 1st and 5th instant. A copy of the latter is enclosed according to your desire.
You may depend upon it, Sir, that nothing shall be wanting in this Department to furnish all requisite supplies for the Army with efficiency & œconomy, and to bring to exact account all persons concerned in them as far as shall consist with the powers of the Department. Hitherto monies have been furnished to the War department, as they have been called for, for procuring all those articles which had not been objects of direct Contract with the Treasury. And I learn from the Secretary of War that every thing is in great maturity.
Under the former system, provisions and clothing were the only Articles which the Treasury had the charge of procuring; the receiving, issueing, & inspecting their quality belonged to the Department of War by usage.
The Act of the last Session, entitled “An Act making alterations in the Treasury and War Departments” prescribes that all purchases and Contracts for all Supplies for the use of the Department of War, be made by or under the direction of the Treasury Department.1
As much progress had been made in preparations for the Campaign, prior to the passing of this Act, by the Secretary at War, I thought it best to continue the business under his immediate care for some time—’till in fact all the arrangements begun should be compleated. It is now, however, determined that on the first of September the business of procuring all supplies will be begun under the immediate direction of the Treasury, upon Estimates and Requisitions from time to time furnished and made by the Department of War.
The arrangement which is contemplated for this purpose is the following—Provisions and Clothing will be provided as heretofore by Contracts made by the Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to previous Advertisements. Articles in the Quarter Master’s Department will be to be procured by him or his Agents or Deputies; for which purpose advances of money will be made to him directly, to be accounted for to the Treasury by him. Ordnance stores, Indian Goods and all contingent supplies will be procured by an Agent who will be constituted for the purpose with an allowance of Eight hundred Dollars a year in lieu of Commission. Accounts for his purchases in every case in which it can conveniently be done (which will comprehend the greatest number of cases) will be settled immediately with the Treasury and the money paid directly to the Individuals. In other cases, advances on Account will be made to the Agent, to be accounted for directly to the Treasury.
A leading object of this arrangment is to exempt the Officers, both of the War and Treasury Departments, from the ill-natured suspicions which are incident to the actual handling and disbursment of Public Money. None of the interior officers of either department, except the Treasurer, will have any concern with it.
The supplies of every kind will be delivered to the order of the Department of War. The issuing of them & the accounting for the issues (except as to provisions which are directly issued by the Contractors to the Troops & which are proved to the Treasury upon vouchers prescribed for the purpose) appertain to the Department of War. The Regulations, which have been adopted for the purpose, will no doubt be early reported to you by the Secretary at War; as well as those which have been concerted with the Treasury respecting the paying & accounting for the pay of the Troops.2
I beg leave to assure you that in the application of the general arrangement which you have adopted respecting the execution of the Act concerning distilled Spirits, the greatest attention will be paid to œconomy as far as the precautions of the Treasury can ensure it.3
I presume it to have been your intention that the opinion of the Attorney General should be taken as to the Power of the President to appoint the supplementary Officers contemplated during the recess of the Senate; which shall accordingly be done.4
It affords me much satisfaction to observe that your mind has anticipated the decision to enforce the Law, in case a refractory spirit should continue to render the ordinary & more desirable means ineffectual.5 My most deliberate reflections have led me to conclude, that the time for acting with decision is at hand: and it is with pleasure, I can add, that an encreasing acquiescence is likely to render this course the less difficult in the cases in which an uncomplying temper may finally prevail.
I shall without delay execute your directions respecting the Officers of Cutters.6 With the highest respect and the truest attachment I have the honor to be &c.
1. Hamilton is referring to section 5 of “An Act making alterations in the Treasury and War Departments” of 8 May 1792 (see Annals of Congress description begins Joseph Gales, Sr., comp. The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States; with an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature. 42 vols. Washington, D.C., 1834–56. description ends , 2d Cong., 1st sess., 1383–86).
2. Hamilton had suggested on 22 July that GW request that both the secretaries of war and of the treasury report to him the regulations under which army provisions were being issued and accounted for. GW did so in writing on 1 August. Knox wrote GW on 7 Aug. that the “papers which you have been pleased to require shall be transmitted by the post of Monday next,” 13 August. Knox’s letter of 11 Aug. has not been found, however.


text:
Covery Story - Da Prato al Made in Italy, exhibition which celebrates the famous Prato designer Enrico Coveri. Some pictures of the exhibition and photos of Vogue Italia.
Covery Story - Da Prato al Made in Italy
24 Oct.- 18 Jan.
Auditorium della Camera di Commercio di Prato - via del Romito, 71
Last On Vogue
A chat with Kristin Prim, the founder of The Provocateur, the site that publishes letters written expressely by leading women addressing the whole female world. Vogue.it presents you an exclusive preview of the letter written by Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer

domain: artistic


There's a driver on the software disc that came with the phone. Instructions for installing it are given on the Samsung website at:http://erms.samsungu...amp;AT_ID=83176
I have posted them below.
WARNING!! If you go to the Samsung site for the instrucitons, be certain you stop at the last step in the instructions shown below!!!!
The rest of the instructions on the Samsung site will update your ROM and delete ALL personal data.
Please install the SGH-i607 Modem USB drivers version MCCI 4.38 from the BlackJack Software Companion CD. Insert the Software Companion CD into your computer. Browse to your CD/DVD drive, single right click on the drive and choose explore. The modem drivers are located at \Extra\Desktop\Samsung_Modem. Next, click the Setup.exe to begin installation.
An Install Driver window will appear. Click the Install button to load the modem drivers.
The driver package has been successfully installed. Please click OK to continue.
The port mapping on your BlackJack must now be changed.
On your phone, select to Start > More > Settings > Connections > USB.
Change the default selection from ActiveSync to Modem and press Done.
Plug the handset into your computer via the USB cable. Windows should detect new hardware and begin to install new software for it. When it is finished (usually in about a minute), proceed to Device Manager to check out the status of the drivers.
To locate Device Manager on your PC, click Start Button > Settings > Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager. There should be three separate child devices, each referenced by a text box. The image below illustrates the location of the following devices you should see:
SAMSUNG Mobile Modem
SAMSUNG Mobile ModemDiagnostic Serial Port (WDM) (COM11)
Universal Serial Bus controllers
SAMSUNG USB Composite Device
If you DO NOT SEE the three child devices (Samsung Composite, Samsung Modem, and Samsung Port) or they have yellow ?’s or red x’s, it is recommend to contact Samsung Customer Care to resolve this issue prior to you attempting to flash the handset. Please contact us toll free at 888-987-4357.
If you DO SEE all the devices, the port mapping should be changed back to the original settings on the phone as follows:
Click Start > More > Settings > Connections > USB
Change the selection from Modem to ActiveSync and press Done.
Be sure to be using ActiveSync 4.2 (or newer). To check which version of ActiveSync you are using click on Help > About Microsoft ActiveSync.
Make the Connection Settings are properly configured according to the illustration below. This screen is found by selecting File > Connection Settings....
I´m testing new SGH i60x and got it without CD, right now (weekend) cannot install almost anything, as I need Active Sync to install some applications, what I have in EXE, but not in .CAB (like Skype, what is prime target for my testing).
Please, is possible to download somewhere windows driver?
When I connect, it report new device MITS SGH-i600 USB RNDIS. Drivers are not on Samsung web site.
I have to return the phone to friend (from one of our service providers) tomorrow. Too late to chase for missing CD with drivers...


text:
Springerle Molds Easter 2024 Collection
We are so pleased to launch our 2024 Easter & Spring Collection of Springerle Cookie Molds! This collection is hand-selected by the MollyJWilk team 🎉
These beautiful molds are made from resin and are used to make a traditional cookie from the German and Alsace region in France. They come from House on the Hill, one of just two Springerle mold makers left in the world! They are handmade in a small shop in Rosebud, MO and so very special any time of year.
In this collection, for many of the molds we have corresponding cookie cutters made from either plastic or copper. All cookie cutters are hand-made to perfectly align with their related mold. The cutter is featured in the photo for any mold that comes with one.
Most cookies are around 3" in height once they are cut out, except the Cassie's Garden which is 7.75" in height, Four Diamonds which is about 7" in height, and Bee Happy which is about 2" in diameter. For exact dimensions, please feel free to contact us!


text:
Letters to the editor
Advertise with us
Advertise with us
Atlanta Jewish Connector
Editor & Managing Publisher:
Keeping The Jewish Southeast Connected
JEWISH TIME PODCAST
Health and Wellness
Jewish Time Podcast
Submit a Simcha
Atlanta Jewish Times
North New Jersey
The Jewish Standard
The Jewish News
The Australian Jewish News
Become a Times of Israel Partner
November 1, 2022, 10:31 am
Cloned Cannabis Cells with 12 Times More Potency Grown in Bioreactor
Company behind the tech says each gram of its product will stretch much further in treating patients than a gram from cannabis plant — and needs far less water and other resources.
February 16, 2022, 2:28 pm
Father and Son on Cutting Edge of Canna-Biz
Jordan Tritt and his father, Dr. Ramie Tritt, have invested in over 40 cannabis companies across multiple states.
January 17, 2022, 8:24 am
Autism Researchers See Promise in Medical Marijuana
Early studies find some optimism for the use of marijuana derivatives to provide help for families coping with the difficult condition.
October 2, 2019, 9:59 am
Medical Marijuana Examined at AgeSmart Lecture
Community members of all ages gathered to hear the most recent London Family AgeSmart Lecture where experts discussed Medical Marijuana and legal CBD products.
March 27, 2019, 1:36 pm
Gelfand Capitalizes on a Growing Industry
Brett Gelfand’s path seemed straightforward as he finished his senior year at UGA's Terry College. Then on a trip with his father to Colorado, he found a new direction.
January 3, 2019, 5:42 pm
Exploring the use and legality of medical marijuana, both in the U.S. and Israel.
October 17, 2018, 1:58 pm
Israel was among the first countries to legalize medical marijuana, and in February 2017, the Israeli parliament took steps towards legalizing the export of medical marijuana.
October 17, 2018, 1:38 pm
Silvers Touts Israel’s Leading Role in Medical Marijuana
Top cannabis allergy expert Dr. William Silvers explains Israel's role in the medical marijuana industry.
Marcia Caller Jaffe

domain: medical


text:
Japanese-styled vegetable pancake. Ingredients like bacons, onion, crabstick can be substitute with other seafood and quatities are up to personal liking.
My Private Note
Units: US | Metric
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon dashi powder (dissolved in 125ml of water)
- 170 g okonomiyaki flour
- 450 g cabbage (shredded)
- 2 onions (shredded)
- 150 -200 g bacon (cut)
- 80 -100 g imitation crabmeat
- 50 g fresh shiitake mushrooms (shredded)
- 1combine eggs and dashi mixture in a small bowl. stir in flour and mix well til smooth.
- 2add in shredded cabbage, mushroom, onions, bacon and crabstick to the pancake batter and mix well.
- 3heat a frying pan over medium heat. pour a bit of oil, heat and add in the pancake batter to fry.
- 4fry for 3-4 minutes until golden brown then flip the pancake over and fry for a few minutes.
- 5repeat step 3 and 4 until the batter has finished.
- 6remove the pancake, add in the toppings and serve hot.
You Might Also Like...View All Lunch/Snacks Recipes
Nutritional Facts for Okonomiyaki
Serving Size: 1 (164 g)
Servings Per Recipe: 5
- Amount Per Serving
- % Daily Value
- Calories 258.2
- Calories from Fat 160
- Total Fat 17.8 g
- Saturated Fat 5.8 g
- Cholesterol 192.8 mg
- Sodium 458.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate 13.0 g
- Dietary Fiber 2.9 g
- Sugars 5.8 g
- Protein 12.2 g
The following items or measurements are not included:

domain: food


Mukhtaran Mai gang rape: 13 released after acquittal
Islamabad: Thirteen men who were acquitted by the Supreme Court in the Mukhtaran Mai gang rape case have been released from the Multan central jail, a media report said.
The men were released on Tuesday.
Dawn said that the men raised slogans against Mukhtaran Mai after they were released.
Mukhtaran Mai became a symbol of the country`s oppressed women after her gang rape on the orders of a village council in 2002.
An Anti-Terrorism Court, while acquitting eight of the 14 accused in the case, had awarded death sentence to the remaining six -- of whom five were acquitted by the Lahore High Court which also reduced the death sentence of the sixth accused, Abdul Khalique, to life imprisonment.
A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court confirmed the Lahore court order.
More from India
More from World
More from Sports
More from Entertaiment
- Sachin Tendulkar joins Narendra Modi's #SelfieWithDaughter campaign
- BJP MP Hema Malini injured, one child killed in Dausa road accident
- Dausa car crash: Hema Malini injured, child killed; MP's driver booked for over speeding
- PMO seeks report on Air India flights delayed by Fadnavis, Rijiju; Aviation Minister apologises
- Islamic State trying to gain foothold in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir: Army


text:
The Art Room is a creative and fun learning opportunity for kids in primary school who love art.
We equip kids with extraordinary skills in art and craft, to create stunning pieces that you'll be proud to display in your home.
Classes are currently run on Mondays and Thursdays 3:30-4:30pm in Mentone, Victoria.
Our workshops run through out the year during school holidays and on special occasions.
If you are interested in your child attending classes at The Art Room please email us: email@example.com


text:
This November, everyone’s favourite party house is welcoming a wide spectrum of new and returning talent to the decks, from deep house to dirty techno to everything in between. This month and every month, CODA will play host to some of the city’s best locals and incredible international talent – who will you come out to see?
For the past few months, a new weekly has crept its way onto Toronto’s party radar – the family at All Blak Records are the minds behind re:set, an intimate Thursday night session for crate diggers and music lovers. This week the All Blak crew is joined by none other than CODA’s Joel Smye aka Baby Joel. RSVP Here.
The following night on November 3, get ready for a night of authentic house music vibes with British duo Camelphat, as they make their CODA debut. They are known for throwing down incredibly groovy, classic house sets. RSVP & grab your tickets here.
On November 4, let soulful house guru YokoO guide you on a musical journey! Also in celebration is the 7-year anniversary of Toronto agency Equaria; run by the talented duo Nature of Music. Toronto love will be dialled up to 10. RSVP & grab your tickets here.
Berlin duo Pan-Pot will take over the decks on November 10 for a night of deep, dark, dirty techno. These two always push the boundaries when it comes to production and performance, making them a Toronto fav. RSVP & grab your tickets here.
The team at Ozmozis never lets down with their takeovers. This time around, they are blessing the CODA crowd with a double header featuring the incredible Nick Warren and Diynamic bigwig H.O.S.H. RSVP & grab your tickets here.
The following weekend is one for the techno heads. Starting us off on November 17 is one of Hamburg’s finest exports, Oliver Huntemann! Over the span of two decades he has been striving to create masterful techno-electro productions and relentlessly delivering flawless performances. RSVP & grab your tickets here.
On November 18, the one and only Paco Osuna takes control. He is recognized as one of techno’s most renowned acts, taking every accolade with stride and constantly striving to move forward with creativity and expression. As the saying goes: ‘No Paco, no party’! RSVP & grab your tickets here.
Now here’s something special for the deep house lovers of Toronto – world renowned mega label Anjunadeep is bringing their North American tour to Toronto for not one, but two huge nights of soulful, evocative deep house. Spread across Thursday, November 23 and Friday, November 24, the CODA decks will play host to 16-Bit Lolitas, Dom Donnelly, Luttrell, Jody Wisternoff and David Hohme. RSVP and grab your tickets for Nov 23 & Nov 24.
Closing out this very heavy month is a Toronto bonafide crowd pleaser: the boys from Pleasurekraft. They have completely solidified a perfectly seductive, groovy, techno sound – one that you won’t be able to keep still to. It’ll be a real treat hearing PK through the PK. RSVP and grab your tickets here.


text:
When Angels Play Poker (Paperback)
Inspiring Voices, 9781462412136, 122pp.
Publication Date: May 13, 2017
Other Editions of This Title:
A seasoned con-artist named Jimmy lands himself in a new high-end senior living complex, and is looking forward to hanging out with a hot chick he meets the first weekend there, when he suddenly drops dead of a heart attack, and arrives in Heaven.
While adjusting to the shock of his new situation, Jimmy meets his elder angel guide Norm, and is assigned to watch over a woman on earth he never knew before. He finds out the woman, Maura, is his brother's girlfriend and he learns from Norm that he'll play a critical role in helping Maura through the relationship.
As time goes by though, Jimmy realizes Maura's life is much less exciting than his was on Earth. He finally approaches Norm, and tells him how bored he is. That's when he is told that sometimes while waiting for events to unfold on earth, even Angels get to play poker in Heaven....
If you're wondering what Angels do all day, immerse yourself in a charming, inspirational story about the adventures in Heaven when an ordinary couple go about their lives on earth, while being watched over, prayed for, and loved every day.

domain: library


text:
Monster Mania: An hour-plus DVD ‘history of horror’ cinema hosted by Jack Palance (who, after all, did play Count Dracula in a well-made Dan Curtis ‘made-for-TV’ movie version of Dracula). It’s heavily weighted towards the Universal classic 1930’s – 1940’s era films, but also includes all kinds of rarities, from Thomas Edison’s 1910 Frankenstein, to inside looks at period special effects work, horror star interviews and more.
Bride Of Monster Mania, hosted by everyone’s favorite (well, she’s my favorite!) Mistress Of The Dark, Elvira. It’s an approx. hour-long overview of women in horror cinema from the silent era through the ‘golden age’ Universal films to contemporary films, and includes interviews with he much beloved (and missed) Ingrid Pitt, hammer horror femmes and more. Frankly, I liked this disk even better than the first Monster Mania.
Danse Macabre: Audrey Hewko by Peter Coulson, from Fashionising. “Possessing endless grace and infinite beauty while recreating the splendid motions of a statuesque ballerina, Audrey Hewko bared of all signs of heaviness makes for a divinely sexy sight.”
“The Actress Who Could Have Been…But Never Was.” That’s what the newspapers said about actress Carole Landis (1.1.19 – 7.5.48), one of the stars of the previous post’s I Wake Up Screaming (1941), whose tragic suicide at such a young age is another sad case of the Hollywood dream machine eating up yet one more talent. Her real name: Clara Stentek, raised in Wisconsin, and per her bio, in a rough environment shaped by poverty and sex abuse. But she made it to Hollywood on a hundred bucks she’d saved up, starting out as a nightclub hula dancer, then doing time in late 1930’s roles as a Twentieth Century Fox contract player, finally striking it big in 1940’s One Million B.C. Many know her best for being a tireless WWII USO show performer, logging over 100,000 miles in England, North Africa and the South Pacific, appearing in more shows than any other Hollywood actress and voted one of the top pinups among the boys in uniform. She wrote a best selling book, Four Jills And A Jeep about her experiences, later made into a movie starring some of very same actresses from the real life adventures.
But Landis was perennially unlucky in love, with multiple marriages and failed affairs, which included a two-time try with an older neighbor back in Wisconsin, then Busby Berkeley, producer H. Horace Schmidlapp, Darryl F. Zannuck and Jacqueline Susann, who supposedly based her ‘Jennifer North’ character in Valley Of The Dolls on the romp with the actress, and on Landis’ penchant for pills. Her final and most tumultuous love affair was with married actor Rex Harrison, which may or may not have been the last straw that lead to her suicide from a Seconal overdose.
Caught the 941 ‘proto-noir’ film I Wake Up Screaming on TCM last night. It was originally called Hot Spot, released in 1941 and re-released in a bigger way again in 1948. You’ll spot posters, stills and lobby cards online under both titles. The movie’s based on a novel by the same name by Steve Fisher (the cover pic above is from Pulp Covers), who got to co-write the screenplay with Dwight Taylor.
The story is pretty basic 1940’s era crime melodrama stuff: Agent/promoter Frankie Christopher (Victor Mature, he of the always astoundingly glistening black hair) is accused of murdering Vicky Lynn (played by Carole Landis), an actress he discovered as a waitress, and Frankie ends up trying to prove his innocence with the unlikely help of the victim’s own sister, Jill Lynn, played by Betty Grable in one of her few dramatic roles. There are nice supporting roles by Laird Cregar (just read a novel I’ll be posting about with a character repeatedly referred to as ‘that guy who looks like Laird Cregar) and Elisha Cook Jr. For my money, Carole Landis is the heart of the film, though her on-screen time is largely seen in flashbacks. Cool title, nifty dark ‘n shadowy scenes, and always fun to watch the birth of a dark and jaded film-making style that would evolve into what we call Film Noir.
I have an original 1969 Warren publishing Vampirella #1, but that one’ll stay safely where it is alongside the old Creepy’s, Eerie’s, Vampirella’s, Famous Monsters Of Filmland, Skywald magazines and their companions. This is just the 2001 ‘Commemorative Edition’ from Harris Publications, and even it’s starting to show its age. So, laid it very gently onto the scanner for this pic, as you can guess.
Not too often that horror media’s bastion of blood ‘n guts, torture porn and EFX minutae devotes 5 full pages to a ballet/art film, but Fangoria managed to allocate some space to something other than chained-up women and oozing entrails in this January 2011 issue (#299) for Darren Aronofsky’s darkly beautiful Black Swan. Even gave the film its “Fango Seal Of Approval”, which apparently told its readers that it’d be okay to go see it, even if they were put off by the dance milieu promos they might have seen. I suppose that if push came to shove, they could’ve touted the Natalie Portman-Mlla Kunis sex scenes as a last resort.
I tease, but seriously, Fangoria may be the longest running horror magazine that remans in operation, but it does get a little frustrating toting an issue around with the inevitable gross-out or damsel-in-visciously-violent-distress covers. One can feel like either a creep or a perv (or both) paging through an issue at the coffeehouse, you know?
Actually, this issue is also worth holding onto for a two-page feature and interview with James Knelem Clarke about his musical score for the 1974 cult-fave Jose Larraz Euro-sleaze classic Vampyres, and even a two-page interview with former Joan Jett band-mate and ex-Runaways lead singer Cherie Currie regarding her role in the 80’s schlock-fest Parasite 3D (most of her part vanishing in the editing room anyway).


This guide shows how standards can be created within iPassport. iPassport provides a tool to import whole standard sets when they are prepared in CSV format. However, they can also be entered individually to build them manually if required and there might be times when internal standards want to be created.
A subscription or licence may be required from the standards issuing authority before they can be imported.
The permissions relevant to standards are the following:
Standards:Create New Version
Standards:Delete Standard Sets
Standards:Link To Records
Standards:View Archived Standards
Standards:View Draft Standards
They are all included in the system roles, Global Editor (excluding admin and personnel records), Global Editor (excluding admin) and Standards Editor.
The standards module is found under Quality Management > Standards.
5 tabs are available and the standards editor is found under the tab, Create Standards.
Standards must be placed in a specific OU but the same standard set can be added to different OUs.
To create a new standard:
To illustrate, an example will be followed using the standard set, CAP ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY CHECKLIST.
Once created, the screen refreshes to display the standard set. A section on the left shows a tree structure view of the standard set, which at this stage only has one entry - the title, entered in the creation step. This is now the root node and all sections will stem from it.
The right portion of the screen offers tabs and fields which relate to the currently highlighted item in the tree structure view.
To add a new node:
Click in the Actions field (to the right of the standard set title) and select Add new child item from the dropdown menu
Click Go (the item will appear on the left, under the root node and labelled, “No title”)
NOTE: A child item can be a Heading or an Entry (Entry Type); an Entry is considered a Standard, while a Heading is not. Headings don’t require a Code.
Add a code (when required) by clicking the edit (pencil) icon under Code, entering it in the field that becomes available and clicking Save
Add a title by clicking the edit (pencil) icon under Title, entering it in the field that becomes available and clicking Save
Click the edit (pencil) icon under Entry Type, click in the text box, select Heading or Entry (only a Standard should be of the type, Entry) and click Save
Click the edit (pencil) icon to the right of the Description field to open a text editor; text can be pasted here
NOTE: The Standard description text editor has tools to allow adjusting the format of a body of text that has been copied and pasted in.
TIP: For a double return, press Return; for a single return, press Shift+Return
Click Save to close the text editor and return to the standards page
If required, click the edit (pencil) icon under Evidence of Compliance Guidance, click in the text box, enter pertinent text and click Save
CAP checklists (seen as Standard Sets by iPassport) have the column, “Evidence of Compliance” that corresponds to this field. For other standards, this can be a user created text or it can be left blank.
Before adding a new child item, click its parent in the tree view to achieve the intended hierarchy; the selected item is always visibly highlighted in the tree view section
The Up and Down arrows under Order can be used to reorganise items under the same parent
To relocate an item under a different parent:
If an item is a parent of other items, the children will be moved together with the parent item.
If the tree view doesn’t refresh, navigate away and back to the Standard Set to see the move applied.
To navigate back to a draft standard:
All of the items within a standard set can be edited while it’s in draft state. To edit any content, the item must be selected (highlighted) in the tree view section to reveal all of its fields on the right. Clicking the pencil icon that appears under each field, opens an area to edit and then save the change.
To change the name or version of a standard set, while in draft mode, go to the Actions dropdown menu and select, Change name/version details. This opens a lightbox (pop-up window) with editable fields for Name and Version. To save changes, click Change Details.
While in draft state, items can be deleted by highlighting them (clicking them in the tree view), going to the Actions dropdown menu and selecting, Delete item. If an item is a parent of other items, it can’t be deleted. The system first produces a message to acknowledge the request to delete the item and then produces another message saying, “This Standard cannot be deleted as it is the parent item of others, please delete all child items first”. Once all the children items are individually deleted, the parent item can be deleted as well.
NOTE: Certain browsers may offer the option, “Do not show this message again”. If this option gets ticked by the user, it will prevent deleting further items. Close and reopen the browser to remedy this.
When standards are updated by the issuing authority or internally, new versions can be created within iPassport to keep the system up to date. Information about this can be found in the user guide, Standards Importer.
The differences between two consecutive standard sets can be viewed at any time by navigating to the more recent set, selecting, “Compare with previous version” from the Actions dropdown menu and clicking Go.
The lefthand part of the lightbox has three sections - ‘New Items’, ‘Deleted Items’ and ‘Changed Items’. Each section will only list relevant items in a tree form; when clicked, any item which has children will expand to display its items.
The details themselves are displayed in the righthand side of the lightbox when a bottom level item is clicked. Added text, links or attachments are highlighted in green; removed text, links or attachments are highlighted in red. It is possible to jump to any of the links or attachments in this lightbox.
The whole standard set can be deleted, while in draft mode, by selecting, Delete Standard Set from the Actions dropdown menu. A message pops up asking to confirm this operation before the set is removed.
Once the addition of the standard set has been completed and it’s ready for release, it needs to be authorised so it can be used within the system.
To authorise a standard set:
Go to the Actions dropdown menu and select, Sign off/Approve Standard Set
Once a Standard Set is signed off, this operation can not be undone
In the Sign Off Standards lightbox, tick the checkbox to confirm that the set has been thoroughly checked and to acknowledge that no changes can be made after it has been approved
Click Sign Off
When a standard set is no longer used or wanted, it can be archived and permanently removed from view. The permission, Standards:Archive Standards is required.
To archive a standard set:
Go to the Actions dropdown menu and select, Archive Standard Set
Once a Standard Set is archived, this operation can not be undone
Click OK in the dialog box that pops up to confirm the operation


text:
It’s finally here! The publication day for The Meet Cute Method.
Now available in all formats, The Meet Cute Method follow Frankie as she tries to find out if you can still find love the old fashioned way – by meeting people in real life.
This book was so much fun to write because it allowed me to play with the tropes of the genre and pay tribute to some of my favourite romantic comedies.
Check out the blurb below:
Do movie romances ever happen in real life…?
Frankie doesn’t believe in true love. As relationships expert at popular magazine Stylife, she has learnt that dating disasters are far more common than happy ever afters.
So when she is tasked to find out if meet cutes can work in real life she is up for the challenge – but whether it’s being a damsel in distress with a flat tyre, or spilling coffee over a stranger, she isn’t convinced this can really lead to love.
But little does Frankie know that the ultimate meet cute opportunity is just around the corner. As she is whisked off her feet (all in the name of her work project of course…) perhaps true love isn’t just for the movies after all…?
Click here to pick up a copy from Amazon.

domain: literature


text:
Edit to add: More fanarts added to the post. ^-^/ ♥
I'll be adding the sketch requests as I draw them (I'll post them in replies to the comments), so come back to check the post every so often if you'd like to see them~!♥
Hi everybody~! \^-^/ ♥ *is all happy and fangirly today
I have some more time at the moment and so I FINALLY got to update my Zero x Kaname fanfic series, "Cradle of Blood"! :D *bounces happily at finally getting to post it*
Cradle of Blood - Chapter 25: “A lie Into the sweetest truth… ”
(Warning: Yaoi, Zero x Kaname, Hurt/Comfort/Romance fic, mature rating)
I even drew a commemorative quick piccie for the 'finally updating!' moment. XD
(Although it is very random since most of the elements in the pic don't match what actually
happens in the chapter. XD;;; *should have drawn something more accurate to the contents* XD;;)
Like where he is wounded and where he isn't and stuff. XD; *just doodled randomly*
Click if you'd like to see the full version of the pic. ^^/
AU. Ten years after the vampires lost the war, the world is ruled by the hunter supremacy and vampires are only kept alive to serve as pleasure slaves in brothels. Everyday is a nightmare for Kaname, until he meets a certain silver-haired hunter… ZxK KxZ
Please don't click if you're underage or dislike yaoi and/or dark themes in fanfiction. ^^;/ (CoB is a pretty dark AU fic, with a world that's rather brutal to vampires. ^^;;)
Otherwise, if you don't mind such themes etc. in fics, I hope you'll enjoy the chapter~! X3 ♥
The other part of this post is
This post is the first installment of a new idea I had, the Vampire Knight Kinky Fridays~! :D
(They'll just be called that way for now by lack of a better name, even though it won't be always posted on fridays. *failure* XD *had the idea on a friday and couldn't think of a nice memorable name* XD;)
Only named that way because it sounded less odd than "vampirturday" or something terrible like that. 8D *is shot*
Caturday is awesome, but it just doesn't work the same for vampires. XD
Please ignore the text, this is the cropped preview I made for the Japanese fandom, I forgot
to save an English version of it, but the full size later in the post has an English version.
More COB!picstuff of Zero x Kaname in this post also. ^^/
And for once also, some Kaname seme x Zero uke instead
of Zero x Kaname! ^^
The VK kinky fridays might not have a new post each week since it would depend on having time and all, but the idea is that every so often, I'd make one of these posts and it would be a
Lately I rarely have been posting fandom stuff due to lack of time to do elaborate full-color pictures often, but I miss the VK fun so much, and so I'm hoping to post more often if it's to make sketch dumps & fic idea ramblings, rather than actual finished full pics or full fics since that takes more time to complete and thus gets updated more slowly... That way I still post the more elaborate stuff whenever possible, but in between I'm hoping to make little posts like this with messier stuff and fun fangirling VK with everyone and exchanging lovely mind images taken from our fic ideas/plot bunnies etc. in comments here. :D
So the VK kinky fridays are basically a happy box-garden for us all to get together and dump out fic ideas/plot bunnies/quick sketches and simply fangirl VK and go wild talking about the various ideas etc., in the comments. :D
That kind of talk + fic ideas and pics etc is always welcome in all of my posts anyway, but the idea behind those friday posts in particular is that it would be a special area where we could all post about all sorts of hardcore things without worrying about an innocent readers passing by and stumbling on it by accident. :D
There will be a bit more to it than just that, btw. :D *had some ideas for fun stuff*
I'd like to make those posts more entertaining and engaging for everyone, so whenever I have enough time for that, I'll offer to draw quick/simple free VK sketch requests for the first few people to comment in the post. :D
I have more time this week, so for now I'll tentatively say:
I'll draw free VK sketches for the first 10 people to comment on this post with a sketch idea. ♥♥♥ ^-^/
(I'll post them in the comments as the post goes.)
That way, I figured it would be more fun for everybody than just talking about plot bunnies etc., since people dropping by will have a chance of getting a free sketch of whatever VK setting they might like, if they arrive early on. :D
NOTE: Due to the nature of a post centered on kinky explicit yaoi pics, please do not view this post and the fanarts if you are under the legal age for such a thing in your country. ^^
By viewing this post/the pics, you acknowledge that you're of legal age and not offended by it.
If you are either underage or hate pervy fanarts, please enjoy instead the posts that I make that are safe for a broader age etc. ^^;/ (*tries to post the pervy pics and the normal pics separate so that people can view the posts according to their preference etc.*)
A few quick rules for the sketch request thing. ^^/
★ The sketch request can be yaoi or het etc. (or also no pairing), it doesn't have to be pervy or anything, it can be innocent.
Only VK characters please, no OCs or characters from other series (unless it's from one of the main fandoms I also fangirl, such as Saint Seiya, Madoka Magica, Suzaku x Lelouch or Fate/Zero). (Sorry!) ^^;
★ Max is 2 characters per sketch (exceptions might be made if you have
★ They would be simple/rough sketches (more or less simple depending on how inspired/fangirly I feel at the moment XD), and it can be any VK characters or pairings.
★ You can specify a general idea of a pose if you want, such as "Zero on a horse" or "Kaname & Zero kissing", "Yuuki holding a bunny" or whatever like that, but I only guarantee the VK character(s) in the request; as for the pose etc. I reserve the right to change the setting a little, like Yuuki might end up holding chibi-kitty-versions of the guys instead of a bunny for example.
The pose and settings might end up the same or change a bit depending on however my fangirling goes. ^^ (Since they are free sketches instead of commissions, and that would make it more fun for me to draw. ^^)
I'm setting it at that amount of free sketches for now, but if there's a lot of people interested and the requests sound fun/are fangirlable and get my moe fired up for drawing, I might draw more than that. :D♥
Or if you arrive after the free request slots are all filled, you can always try your luck on the next VK kinky fridays, when I open the free requests again. :D♥
And some more info about what to expect of the VK kinky fridays as a whole:
1) They might change name from "VK Kinky Fridays" so whatever else when I can think of a better name. XD;
2) They won't necessarily be posted on fridays... XD;;;
The original idea was for it to be posted on friday ideally, so that we'd all be able to fangirl throughout the weekend most and then continue bit by bit until the next week, but it might be a bit random depending on when I have time each week... ^^;
(If you have this page on your Flist or on RSS, it shows you when I update my blog, so it should show up in it. :D)
3) The VK kinky fridays might not have a new post each week, since if I'm totally out of time I might not get to post new stuff... in which case, we can always continue fangirling VK together and talking about lovely fic ideas or posting VK sketches etc. in whichever is the most recent VK kinky friday post. :D Even if it's a week old or more.
→ It's not an actual 'weekly' only thing, it's an ongoing permanent thing, the different installments are simply for the sake of my posting new sketches etc. in the main body of the post when I have new stuff, but if it's a busy week and there's no time to make a new post, we can always continue the fangirling of VK and rambling etc. in the previous post's comments with everybody's sketches and plot bunnies etc, as long as we all want. :D
I guess that the VK kinky fridays when I have time will be more lively than the ones when I have less time. XD; Since whenever I have time I'd like to post more random piccies and to offer free sketches when possible etc. :D
If you have pics/fic ideas etc. you'd like to share too, you can post whatever sketches and plot bunnies etc. you'd like to show/talk about as long as they don't contain or incite bashing, and are entirely created by you. ^_^/
(No posting fanarts etc. that aren't done by you, unless you have the permission of the artist, of course. ^^; )
We can all still keep talking about yaoi in the other posts too of course, but the friday ones will be especially kinky I guess. XD *lol* Hence the name.
And that way we can post explicit yaoi pics that can't go in the news posts etc. :D
(VK is normally targeted at older teens in most countries anyway, so it's not like anyone coming to a VK blog to read about the series would be an innocent soul who never saw anything pervy (if they are, they're reading the series itself in secret...? XD;), but having a post specific for us all to dump sketches and fic ideas would always be a fun thing anyway. :D
The focus of the VK kinky fridays is on yaoi simply because that's what I'll be posting most, but het pairings are also completely welcome, with the single condition that only if the fan posting about it is not going to attack the other pairing(s). ^^;
Like with all of my blog, it's a peaceful zone that welcomes all fans of VK and the fangirling of any characters and pairings, but bashing or attacking any other characters/pairings/or, worse, real people, is completely forbidden. ^^; Please have fun without ruining the fun of your fellow fans, so that we may all happily enjoy the series together~! ^-^/ ♥
Since the VK Kinky Fridays will cover both sketches/pics and also fic ideas/plot bunnies etc., I wanted also to mention quickly:
ALL kinks/types of situations (with yaoi or het or tentacles or anything XD) are all welcome with the condition that it's not done to be demeaning or bashing. ^^/
For example, if you want to talk about a fic idea/plot bunny in which a character is raped or rapes another for the sake of angsty situations where they lose their mind to bloodlust and it becomes a kinky non-con fic or something like that, then that's perfectly fine and as welcome as any other kink, but if the fic idea/plot bunny is about that character getting raped or raping someone just because you hate him and want to put him through misery or to portray him as weak, or to portray him as an evil rapist, just for the sake of showing that character negatively or for any other hatred-based reason, then that's not welcome. ^^;
Even though the fic ideas would be technically about the same kink, the treatment of the character wouldn't be the same at all, and the hatred instead of love would make a huge difference in the portrayal etc. of the characters. ^^;
Because fics written for the sake of bashing are not enjoyable at all, and the character portrayal is poor and unappealing for actual fans of the series. Especially for the fans of whichever character is getting bashed, because it wouldn't be a true fanfic of that series, it would just be a bashing attempt disguised as a fic.
What I'm trying to say is, all fetishes are fine in fanfiction, as long as the story or story idea/plot bunny/etc. is written with the author's care and dedication/love, and not with hatred.
Non-con or any other fiction kinks are fine, there's nothing wrong with fictional rape, after all, this is not real life/actual rape, it's just fiction and mere fictional kink, completely different from reality. In fiction, all sorts of things like that are fine.
The important thing for fanfics (not only ones mentioned here, but fanfiction in general), is that fanfics are meant to be written with an author's love, the love of us fans for the story and its characters. Otherwise, we'd be writing our own original fiction, rather than writing fanfiction.
So writing a fanfic must be an act of love, and not an act of presenting personal hatred for any character/pairing/etc. ^^;
So even the most dark and hardcore fanfic ideas are completely welcome, as long as you make it clear that they are hardcore/etc. for the sake of whatever is needed in the plot (be it for the sake of Hurt/Comfort, or a plot device requiring a rape scene, or a kinky PWP or anything else), and thus are just kinky and not dark because of any character or pairing hatred. ^^
Now that the boring explanations are over, let me go ahead and
Some of those are fanarts I started drawing ages ago and only now finished, and others are newlt drawn fanarts or messy quick sketches. :D
You've already seen the CoB-related pic above, drawn for chapter 25 of my fic. I had also drawn this one, which doesn't really matches any recent chapter of the fic, but which is a bit of a CoB-related comical situation. XD XD
In case you're not a reader of "Cradle of Blood", the reason why Kaname is shorter is that it's AU and in the world of that fic, Kaname was captured years ago and spend part of his years growing up with anti-vampire drusg in his blood-stream, which stunted his growth and made that he's a bit shorter than Zero in the fic. (In the fic, Zero wasn't bitten by Shizuka, and is still human. And while in the AU like in the manga Zero is also a hunter, in the AU he grew up without the strong hatred of vampires and thus is much more of an idealist like he was as a child in the volume 1 of the VK novel.)
Zero and Kaname slowly fall in love, despite the way the dark post-hunters-vs-vampires-war world is an invasive background interfering with their love story. ^^/
It's a mix of a tragedy and a romance, with hopeful tones also. (It's kind of like VK in that it has hopeful stuff as well as depressing stuff, and can also be terribly dark and hopeless at times due to how cruel the world of the AU is. ^^;)
That pic also happens to be a wink to a lovely pic Raisin-Mucchin drew, of Zero & Kaname in CoB, in the scene where Zero brought Kaname cream puffs and they eat them in the bathtub. :D♥
She is an amazing artist and does utterly adorable VK fanarts~! :D She did some for CoB which make me melt of how cute they are! X3 *bounces with happiness at how lovely they are* :D *finds it so wonderful when people draw fanarts of CoB* ♥♥♥
And unrelated to COB but also Zero x Kaname yaoi, here's a pic I just HAD TO draw from the explosion of moe that came about with chapter 81 of the manga, and Kaname being all shocked that Zero was drinking "dirty blood". XD<3 He sounded so... adorable, touching the door and looking as if he would have preferred Zero to drink only his blood... *melts*
Please ignore the fact his pose is, uhm, not exactly related to blood drinking. XD XD *lol*
*loved all the fanservicey vibes in 81, wants to draw more fanarts for it* 8D~~~
*hopes for more fanservice in the series* ^^ The angst is nice, but... XD Sexy is nice too!
It almost looks more pervy with that heart, as if the heart was something spread open... 83 *is shot*
And also caused by the fangirling of VK 81, here's a really quick and really messy sketch, which I might or might not eventually redraw clean for coloring sometime. ^^/
It's Kaname being all inviting for Zero. (In case it's so messy/just a bunch of chaotic lines that it's hard to tell who it is. XD;)
His leg isn't morphing, it's just that I changed my mind about in what pose to draw it. XD;; I wanted to show that he's spreading his legs but still had the underwear on the leg, and kept changing the pose.
My pics usually have a messy stage like that at first, since I imagine a pose in my mind, then put it in the paper and change my mind a lot before I go and draw a clean version of it. :D
That's my latest beloved leather-bound notebook btw. X3 That's why it looks weird/fluffy-ish, the cover is leather with an unfinished soft inside. *adores old-school notebooks*
I normally use modern art paper for serious pics, but I have a deep love for pretty notebooks for the ones I carry around to just doodle on, and own a ton of different ones from all over the world. Anything with leather covers and old-school looking/seems like something from ancient times, is my top choice at all times. XD;
They have leather-bound Italian notebooks that are amazing. *-* Some of them with the old-style rough paper look... it looks just how what I imagine the notebooks Leonardo da Vinci carried around on his belt must have looked like. X3 *lol*
Of course, the notebooks won't make any of us draw any better, much less like Leonardo da Vinci!! (*wants* XD), but they sure look pretty on a shelf and are more enjoyable to flip through than the messy pile of loose leaf papers that's always getting tossed around on my desk. XD *lol*
So I can't resist the pull to collect them especially when I see really pretty ones for a good price. *-*
Continuing with the pervy piccies, this one was drawn as a birthday gift for Blackened Wing, and also in part still as a result of the explosion of fangirling from chapter 81. X3
The idea behind this pic is that Zero has just taken Kaname, hence the pulling out and the dripping. :3
But they're kinky like that, and Zero had told Kaname not to come until he says he can, so Kaname is being his masochistic self & eager-to-please-his-loved-one by holding with all he has, but so desperately wants to finally be able to come. X3 Zero is caressing his face while probably praising him for his control, and is about to finally let him get his release as well. :3
There's also a variant with a lot more of the dripping etc. from Zero having just pulled out ^^ And Kaname looking more undone even. *was trying to convey that he's possibly shuddering etc. with the feeling of Zero pulling out and of everything dripping out...
And now for something completely different, I did an art trade a while ago with the lovely Mochifight... ^^/ (who draws utterly awesome VK fanarts which you can find on VKnet, btw :D *adores both that site and Mochi's art* ♥♥♥ )
I finally finished her pic now (ORZ /so late), and since she had drawn an awesome Zero seme and Kaname uke for me, in return I drew Zero seme and Kaname uke for her. :D
So... you'll get to see a Kaname and Zero VERY different from how I usually draw them, since I tend to go for super-seme Zero and melting-uke Kaname usually... XD *lol* While this time it's instead domineering-seme Kaname x on-heat-but-too-tsundere-to-admit-it-uke Zero. X3
Mochi wanted Kaname being all seme and kinky, talking dirty to uke!Zero, which would be turning Zero on even though he won't admit that he likes when Kaname does that, so... X3 The pic got pretty kinky.
She asked for the pic to be in Japanese, although I was supposed to write also an English translation. I ended up forgetting to write an English version on a variant of the pic itself though, so I'll just write it below in the post instead. ^^;/
Just in case, hoping no one misunderstands this: Mochi and I both adore Zero & Kaname, and of course, the dirty talking is only for the sake of it being kinky, and not at all as anything to humiliate Zero for real or make Kaname seem mean or anything. ^^; It's just for it to be kinky, dirty bedroom talk.
Zero himself is very turned on in the pic, the setting for it is that being talked that way makes him horny, he just won't admit it due to pride/tsundere-ing, but it's totally consensual and all. ^^ Just kinky play, but not real-life humiliation. (Considering the things I put Kaname through in pics and fics etc., you know well it's just kinkiness when such things are done/told to either of them in my fanworks. XD *lol*)
The setting I had in mind for the pic is that Kaname regularly gives his blood to Zero but things get heated in the middle of it and they always end up having sex etc. as a result of all the bloodlust & lust mixing together... And Zero doesn't like to admit that he's submitting to Kaname willingly, so he acts all tsundere and denies that he's terribly turned on and enjoying it, but Kaname knows better since they've been doing this for a while and he's gotten used to Zero's body language... X3
In that scene in particular, Zero just gave Kaname a blowjob after drinking his blood (hence the stuff all over Zero's face)... X3 And Kaname had moved onto preparing Zero for penetration, but Zero was feeling embarrassed and started claiming he wasn't into it, and so Kaname started talking super dirty for the fun of seeing Zero looking even hornier and craving it while on same time looking all terribly embarrassed. X3
Translation (things in brackets are things that didn't quite have the same meaning in Japanese as in English and needed additional nuance explained/conveyed) :
"You claim you don't want this...?
What are you on about, after all we've already done...?
I know how much you're on fire from what I just did...
As usual, your body is more honest, Kiryuu-kun...
Your mouth [up here] might deny what you truly want, but your other hole [the mouth down here] is begging for it...
The sound effects surrounding Zero are various noises of panting and of pleasure. (Japanese language has sound effects that actually convey such things with specific meanings, instead of just being a noise. XD So they're actual noises of being turned on and feeling pleasure/jolting with the feeling etc. X3)
The line about the two mouths (the one 'up here' and the one 'down here', with the lower one being more honest one XD) is a huge cliche line for porn movies etc. in Japan. XD The tsundere and/or proud character who claims they don't want it while being totally turned on and visibly wanting it, often ends up getting told that sort of expression. XD
So when Mochi described the type of dirty talking she wanted for the pic, I just couldn't resist having Kaname say that. XD
Here's also a variant version in which Zero still has some blood on his mouth from drinking from Kaname.
The bloody one was the original version, but I ended up thinking it looked hotter without the blood, and made two versions instead.
...and also had ended up making more in case anyone wanted to see it without the text etc. ^^
...and now back to some Zero x Kaname + threesome implications, here's a very messy sketch I did, when I was just throwing together some ideas for a potential doujinshi cover (hence why it looks like crap, it was just a rough sketch to toss together the idea of the pose I had in my mind).
Possibly won't get finished due to lack of time + issues with giganto-genitals on the front cover. XD
Erm, the person on the top of the pic, making somewhat of a creepy rapist face, uhm, that's supposed to be our innocent shojo manga heroine. *lol* XD *is shot*
And the person whose head wasn't drawn yet but who has a manhood the size of 5 normal men's is Zero. XD;;; *hides under a rock*
(Kaname's one was supposed to be of equal size or something similar but along the way I got distracted drawing Zero's parts and it ended up gigantic. XD;;; It's his super-seme aura, it does this to my brain when I draw him. XD;;;)
Please ignore the creepy disembodied flying genitals aspect of that pic, it's just a quick sketch. XD;;
The setting for that pic is: "Why but Kaname-senpai, Zero, you two have it all wrong...!! I never wanted you two to fight for me! I have a much better idea of how all three of us can enjoy life instead of you two pointlessly fighting..."
It's passed during Academy times, hence human!Yuuki. Probably a doujinshi that will never come to life though. XD;;
I just had this huge urge to draw a pic with Yuuki pinning down Kaname's arms while 'offering' him for Zero to take him... And Kaname is all for pleasing Yuuki so he submits, but he is still not ready to accept the feelings he also has for Zero (and vice-versa, otherwise, how am I supposed to get them into a happy threesome before the end of a short story? XD *lol*), so he's rather unsure of himself while losing his virginity to Zero. XD
Meanwhile, Zero was equally unsure but gets dragged into it by Yuuki (she has a way of doing that XD), initially being in denial and telling himself that it will be a form of revenge against purebloods to wipe the smugness or whatever off Kaname's face by doing him like that, but then he ends up feeling bad and having to confront the fact he loves Kaname too.
So of course, a happy threesome ending eventually ensues, at the lovely speed only PWPs can achieve. XD *lol*
And by the way, if anyone feels like writing a fanfic for the setting of that pic, I will draw a full color VK pic for you in exchange/as thanks. *__*/ ♥♥♥
(Provided Zero is seme and Kaname is uke, in the fic. XD Most people write KxZ instead of ZxK, so I'm always so starved for ZxK fics. T^T *craves her beloved favorite pairing*)
*hopes you all enjoy the post, if you like yaoi/kinky fanarts* \^-^/ ♥
And if yaoi etc. isn't your cup of tea, hopefully you'll get to enjoy the non-yaoi post(s) when I have time to make some about the upcoming VK mascots etc.* :D ♥
*will be back later to draw piccies etc* :D


text:
Punarnavadi Kashayam (പുനർന്നവാദി കഷായം) 200ml
|Categories:||Ayurvedic medicines, Kashayam|
Punarnavadi Kashayam is an ayurvedic medicine that is primarily used for the treatment of Anemia and Fever. The key ingredients of Vaidyaratnam Punarnavadi Kashayam are Chitrak, Bael , Haritaki, Black Pepper, Punarnava and Brihati, which help in blood cell formation and reduce pain and swelling.
There are no reviews yet.

domain: health


- (1) Belt Clip
- (1) Tool Case
Maximum torque of 88.5 ft.lbs. (1,062 in.lbs.)
Variable speed trigger (0-3,200 RPM) for easy operation
2.3 AMP motor for high performance (0-3,100 IPM)
Reverse switch located near the trigger ensures easy one-handed operation
Impact-resistant aluminum housing for gear protection and durability
Dual ball bearings for longer tool life
1/4" hex bit shank for fast bit changes
Compact design (9" long) and lightweight (3.1 lbs.) for both vertical and horizontal applications
Rubberized pistol grip provides increased comfort on the job
Externally accessible brushes for easy greater serviceability
No videos found!
Submit a video!
No Reviews Found
Submit a link!
This product has not been reviewed yet.
Let us know what you think.


text:
Looking back: Will Rogers in Stillwater
Friday, February 3, 2006
Will Rogers’ visit to the OSU (Oklahoma A&M) campus 75 years ago this month drew plenty
of attention and good reviews from the local press.
One A&M student, whose letter home was featured in a college magazine following Rogers’ February 5, 1931 visit, put it like this:
“Rogers’ wisecracks are spread from coast to coast—and when I say ‘wisecracks’ I mean ‘wisecracks.’ He ridicules everyone from ‘king’ to ‘field mouse,’ and gets away with it—Well! Just to prove his power—the receipts for the performance totaled $2,507.52—bring on another individual who could extract two hundred and fifty thousand pennies from these seemingly penniless students.”
Rogers came to Stillwater to raise money for families who’d been hit hard by drought during the Great Depression. According to published accounts in The Daily O’Collegian and The Stillwater Gazette, his stop here was one of many he made during a lengthy fundraising tour at the time and his popularity was obvious.
As the Gazette reporter put it: “… for two hours, Oklahoma’s favorite son rambled through a happy monologue that had the nearly 2,000 persons alternately rocking with laughter, nudging each other understandingly, or sitting alert, faces wreathed in smiles, ready to burst out again in gales of mirth or hand-clapping, or both.”
What made Rogers so special? The Gazette reporter confirmed the A&M student’s comment on “kings to field mice” by writing: “Will’s ready wit harpooned a sacred cow or two, polished off Governor Murray and pricked any bubble of self-importance that might be in the process of blowing by the thirteenth Oklahoma legislature. He handed a few warm ones to those present and the homefolks yelled for more….”
Rogers, who was one of Hollywood’s biggest stars at the time, had a tenth grade education, and his Stillwater visit allowed him to “serve up” plenty to his degree-bound audience.
“You know when a class graduates here, the smart ones go out and coach somewhere, and the dumb ones, they go to the legislature.
“All your speakers bring a message to the youth of Oklahoma. I’m not going to hand you any of that hooey. They generally say the future of the state depends on you. You know, we’ve got too many of you now. You are a pretty hard looking group. I don’t see anybody I’d like to take back to Hollywood.”
The day after his appearance in Stillwater, Rogers would write in his nationally syndicated daily newspaper column: “Played this morning at the best agricultural school in America, Oklahoma A and M. Their cattle win all the shows, and their boys win all the judging contests. It’s not a raccoon coat college.”

domain: news


text:
Indeed you are.
And it goes far from just relationships. Eventhough this would be the perfect time when I could wite a novel out of that particular area, right now I am referring to the blog stuff. What's the first thing that crosses ones mind when found out that her/his favorite blog of all time is closed for business? CLOSED?? What the fuck? You spent hours and hours scrolling and scrolling, admiring and liking everything (yes I'm a freak) and you didn't see that coming.
I'm going out to get some recover drinks, thank you very much. And back to my love atachment stuff. At least I'm used to that.

domain: hobby


text:
Nobody loves tracking expenses. We get that. But we guarantee you'll find it painless with FreshBooks. You can connect your bank account or credit card to import expenses automatically, snap a pic of a receipt, or log it on the spot. Tax-friendly expense categories and easy to generate reports make filing less of a hassle. Plus you will get to know the real spend of your business. Nice and painless, see?
Connect your FreshBooks account to nearly 10,000 supported banks and credit cards in the United States and Canada. Automatically import your expenses daily, putting that task of entering receipts on auto-pilot.
Use QBO or OFX files generated from your bank to import expenses into FreshBooks easily.
Literally. Snap a pic of a bill (say, post lunch meeting), and then save to expenses in your FreshBooks account. Then, attach it (and all your other captured expenses) to the invoice(s) when it's billing time.
Want to know how much you've spent on oh, say, office supplies this year? And where did you buy most of the stuff you need? It's easy to filter your expenses by category and vendor to get the answers you seek.
Do you have a number of expenses that recur each month, or each year? Set them up to be automatically entered, and save yourself some hassle. We know! Awesome.
And all with a click (or two). With FreshBooks, it's that simple.
Setup is quick and painless. No credit card required.

domain: economics


Bristol Charities is a registered UK charity whose mission is to provide opportunities and support for people and communities to improve lives through grants, housing and charitable projects. Our organisation has transformed and enhanced the lives of those in need in Bristol for over six hundred years.
Our vision for the Vassall Centre is to transform the site into a balanced new neighbourhood centre for multigenerational living and working. This will include accessible, sustainable work and meeting spaces for current and potentially new tenants, alongside new, high quality affordable housing for older people and families, together with facilities for the wider community.
Our proposals, which we are shaping and reviewing in partnership/consultation with our tenants, local residents and wider stakeholders, offer a unique opportunity for the Vassall Centre to improve upon the existing services, make better provision for the local community and make more effective use of the site.
The Vassall Centre is located on the corner of Gill Avenue and Vassall Road in Fishponds, Bristol.
The existing Vassall Centre buildings, built in 1945 as a temporary based for American soldiers. Now more than 75 years old, they are at the end of their practical lifespan and offer very low levels of energy efficiency and sustainability.
The site is in a sustainable location, within a 10-minute walk of the commercial centre of Fishponds Road, with a variety of shops and restaurants and well connect, with good bus links and bus stops next to the site entrance.
Bristol Charities is currently undertaking consultation with tenants, the local community and wider stakeholders on early designs for the redevelopment of the Vassall Centre, before refining our proposals and submitting a planning application to Bristol City Council in the coming months.
Once the planning application is submitted, there will be a further consultation period led by Bristol City Council, when people will have a further opportunity to comment on the proposals before any formal planning decision is made.
The existing Vassall Centre buildings, which were built as a temporary base for US soldiers in 1945, are now more than 75 years old. They have been altered and modified over the years, with the office to the north of the site being redeveloped to provide housing and the current buildings have now reached the end of their practical lifespan. The newly built, upgraded workspace we are proposing will be of much higher quality than the current offices, highly sustainable and built to last. The redevelopment of the site will also mean we can provide much-needed affordable new homes for older people and families.
We are working on designs that will improve the centre’s visual appeal, open it up to the local community and increase biodiversity, with new trees, planting and space for wildlife. We are also currently exploring ways to commemorate and celebrate the centre’s historic role and legacy within our designs.
Bristol Charities is committed to retaining a high level of accessibility for which the Vassall Centre is well known and we have appointed an independent accessibility consultant, Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE), to provide specialist advice for our plans.
The team is also committed to increasing biodiversity, with new trees, planting and space for wildlife, and Bristol Charities is in the process of appointing a landscape ecologist to help with this aspect of the proposals.
We are committed to the site in the long-term and plan to own and manage the housing for older people, community facilities and workspace. Brighter Places, a highly experienced charitable housing association based in Bristol, has been selected to develop and manage the affordable housing.
Bristol Charities will continue to offer accessible workspace for charities and businesses. It is proposed that construction will take place in two phases, so that tenants can continue to operate from the site whilst work is underway.
The project team is also exploring ways to commemorate and celebrate the centre’s historic role and legacy within the designs.
Bristol Charities is currently consulting with a wide range of communities and stakeholders to inform and refine our plans, before submitting a planning application in the coming months.
The views of local residents, tenants and wider stakeholders are important to us. We would like to hear your thoughts and ideas about the proposals and what you would like to see from the future centre. These will be taken into account as we develop our proposals.
The Story So Far
The first round of consultation took place in autumn/winter 2021 and was designed to give people the opportunity to influence the emerging designs at an early stage. We held a series of meetings with tenants and the local community and an exhibition to present our early proposals and hear people’s views.
We had good engagement with the local community, with over 100 people participating in the consultation events and exhibition and 74 responses to our survey. In addition to lots of positive feedback and suggestions, there were some shared concerns, particularly from adjacent neighbours, about the potential impact the proposed development might have on their properties, as well as questions as to why the existing buildings could not be retained and refurbished.
Whilst this phase of consultation is now complete, the exhibition proposals can be viewed below and will remain on display at the Vassall Centre and will be updated as the project progresses. The project team has been reviewing and considering all comments in detail, in order to help shape and inform the next stage of the designs.
As the proposals are developed further ahead of the next round of consultation, we would value your help and ideas, particularly in relation to the publicly accessible elements of the proposals. This includes the potential community uses and activities that could be included in the new building, as well as how to make these welcoming to both existing and new residents.
To facilitate this feedback, we have created a new survey which is available online using the button below. Alternatively, copies are available from the Vassall Centre. which can either be returned to the Vassall Centre or by post to ABC.
The next round of consultation in February/March will include further community events, meetings and facilitated workshop sessions, where you will have the opportunity to view and discuss the evolving designs, give feedback, and help shape our proposals. Further details will be published here. These events may have to be delivered virtually, depending on covid restrictions.
If you have any questions or queries regarding the development proposals for The Vassall Centre, please contact Avril Baker at ABC, our consultation coordinator, on 0117 977 2002 or [email protected].
If you have any queries regarding room bookings or current services at The Vassall Centre, please contact the Vassall Centre operations team on 0117 965 9630 or email [email protected].
If you are interested in leasing workspace at The Vassall Centre, please contact Bristol Charities on 0117 965 3514.


US Congress Panel Votes to End Cuba Travel Restrictions
The Agriculture Committee of the US House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to eliminate a travel ban that prevents US citizens from visiting Cuba.
The bill, approved 25-20 and which would also allow American commodities to be sold directly to Cuba and allow some direct financial transactions with Cuban banks, is supported by several business and farming groups, including the US Chamber of Commerce, the National Corn Growers Association and the National Farmers Union.
The Travel Restriction Reform and Export Enhancement Act, must still go through the Foreign Affairs and Financial Services Committees before it can be considered by the full House and the Senate.
According to the US Constitution, the Cuba travel ban violates the US citizens' rights and is illegal.


text:
Main / Photography / Jeron Nurse Call Ec 300 Manual
Jeron Nurse Call Ec 300 Manual
Name: Jeron Nurse Call Ec 300 Manual
File size: 987mb
EC Audible Visual Emergency Call System. LT Rev. 2. September Central Nurse's Station. .. Over the years, nurse call systems have become. The Jeron EC Tone-Visual Nurse Call Systems are used in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and extended care facilities. The system accommodates up to. Results You searched for: Jeron EC Nurse Call System Results Displayed: 1 - 15 of 67 Jeron - Emergency Pullcord Station-SPST. EA.
Audible Visual Emergency Call System INSTALLATION and OPERATION MANUAL LNOTICE Mircom's EC- system offers a basic system most nurses and. Download or Read Online jeron nurse call ec book in our library is free for you. We provide copy of jeron nurse call ec in digital format, so the resources . 3 Dec You are about download or reading jeron nurse call ec manual for personal use only. Please look at this list below before start clicking the.
19 Jul Jeron Nurse Call almerajhomeappliances.com eBooks for Free Jeron Ec Manual No other position you devise negative discover the manuscript. If you are winsome corroborating the ebook Jeron Nurse Call Ec Manual in pdf coming, in that instrument you outgoing onto the evenhanded website. We. 25 Feb Tag: jeron nurse call wiring diagram to her with jeron nurse call manual furthermore jeron ec manual furthermore jeron manual. Crest replacement Pullcord and Staff Stations for the Jeron EC system. Free PDF ebooks (user's guide, manuals, sheets) about Dukane nurse call wiring . 3 Mar Nurse Call System Wiring Diagram – brainglue, nurse call wiring jeron nurse call manual furthermore jeron ec manual to her with jeron.


text:
Many people love Chai for it’s health benefits, strong aroma and rich taste. Black Chai tea warms you up when its cold raining outside. When you do not want to go anywhere, just wrap into a cozy blanket, switch the fireplace, sit back on the sofa and make a good cup of hot Chai.
Start from classic but be creative! Choose your desired flavour infusion. Get inspired yourself with this recipe and share the cup of beautiful Masala Chai drink!
Masala Chai recipe
You will need:
- 2 heaped tbsp of Masala Chai or Spicy Chai Black tea blend ( Black Tea Blends Archives – Three Spoons – Tea, Coffee and Something more )
- 400ml desired milk
- 3-4 tbsp of sugar or honey to taste
- 650ml of water
- place the tea into a saucepan, pour over the water, let everything simmer for couple of minutes on medium heat
- add the milk and sugar ( or honey ) , continuing by stirring for another 2 min
- remove the pan from heat and strain the tea into a teapot
Pour into the mugs or cups from the height at least 30cm to create a foam on the surface, serve hot
Add 2 2.5cm ( 1in ) pieces of vanilla pod, split, just as the mixture starts to simmer ( see the process above ). Alternatively, add a few drops of vanilla extract at the end of the simmering
Hot Buttered Rum Chai
Add 2 tbsp Rum and 1 tsp butter per serving, just as the tea is being served! Add more Rum if you prefer it a little stronger 🙂
Chocolate & Chili Chai
This is a delicious blend of spices, chili and chocolate. Add a small pinch of chili powder or dried chili flakes when the tea is simmering. Add 25g of dark chocolate at the end.
For an even richer dessert- style Chai, add 1 tbsp of unsweetened cocoa powder ( DRINKING CHOCOLATE Archives – Three Spoons – Tea, Coffee and Something more ) at the end of the simmering, just before the tea is strained. * For a creamy white chocolate chai add 20g white chocolate


text:
Directed by: Stephen Kijak | 90 minutes | music, documentary | Featuring: Yoshiki, Toshimitsu Deyama, Tomoaki Ishizuka, Hiroshi Morie, Sugizo, Hideto Matsumoto, Taiji Sawada, Gene Simmons, Wes Borland, Richard Fortus, Marilyn Manson, Stan Lee
The music industry continues to keep great secrets. It is nice when these are sometimes revealed by chance. A bit of curious music lover already knew before services like Spotify which ways to discover new music, but just like with other art forms such as books and films, so much is made that it is impossible to learn about everything. X Japan is Japan’s largest band, they have been around since the eighties, sold more than 30 million albums and played eighteen times in the sold-out Tokyo Dome stadium (55,000 tickets per night!). Well-known names such as Stan Lee, David Lynch, Lars Ulrich (Metallica) and Gene Simmons (KISS) are among their very loyal fan base. Don’t feel embarrassed if you’ve never heard of them though, you’ll have to struggle to find someone who did know the band before the release of “We Are X,” a rockumentary by Stephen Kijak.
It should come as no surprise that the band’s history is one of ups and downs. “We Are X” is also not innovative or surprising in that sense. Childhood friends Yoshiki and vocalist Toshi founded the band – then simply called X – in 1982, while they were in high school. Yoshiki, responsible for the music, lyrics, drums and keyboards, had a troubled childhood. He spent an average of a third of a year in hospital because he was very asthmatic. At the age of ten he found his father, who had just committed suicide. This trauma still has an effect on the musician, who received a drum set from his mother as a result of this violent event to celebrate his aggression.
In the eighties, X stood for a mix of heavy metal, punk rock and classical music. Their style was called “Visual Kei”, where bleached hair with upright spikes, colorful make-up, extravagant costumes were just tools for a performance that was unheard of by Japanese standards at the time. Of course they are strongly influenced by artists like David Bowie and Kiss, but their sound is unmistakably their own, Japanese is, yes. Typically Japanese is that the band members never really show the back of their tongues. Although there are sometimes emotional statements, it is also just as often said, “I’d rather not talk about that.”
However, ‘We Are X’, as befits a good rockumentary, still deals sufficiently with the dips: the (alleged) suicides of band members, the leaving of vocalist Toshi because he was brainwashed by a cult (who labeled his source of income as ‘the devil’). X did not exist from 1997 to 2007, after which they really started to work on their breakthrough in the United States. In 2014 they took the stage at Madison Square Gardens and the documentary shows how they worked towards it. Also beautiful are the images of fans telling how the music has helped them get through difficult times, such as after the death of a family member or loved one. “We Are X” is primarily a film for those fans, but fans of a well-made rockumentary that teaches the viewer some music history with a lot of speed and compassion for the subject, can certainly have fun with this film.

domain: entertainment


US retailer Best Buy will sell the Apple Watch in 100 stores starting from August 7th. It will become the first national US retailer to stock the Apple Watch.
It will stock the Apple Watch in an additional 200 stores by the holiday season this year.
Best Buy will stock the Apple Watch and the Apple Watch Sport, as well as accessories including straps, screen shields, and chargers.
Allowing Best Buy to stock the Apple Watch could expand Apple’s footprint to over 1200 retail locations. Best Buy has over 1000 stores in the United States, which is more than Apple’s 267 shops.. The initial agreement however only includes 300 stores in 2015. As a highly personal product with many strap options, potential customers will want to try it on before purchasing. Previously, with iPhones or iPads which have only 3 colour variants and were established in their respective sectors this was less important. Best Buy stocking the Apple Watch is another way for Apple to limit inventory challenges that are associated with the permutation of Apple Watches and straps.
This is not the first time Apple has allowed a third party retailer to sell the Apple Watch. High end fashion retailers, such as Dover Street Market, sold the Apple Watch on launch day, although those shops were aimed at affluent consumers who were more likely to purchase the Apple Watch Edition, and had very limited stock. This is also not the first time that Apple products are sold in Best Buy. Macs, iPads and iPhones are all available for purchase in Best Buy’s around the US.
This move by Apple also indicates that its supply is catching up with demand. It was not until two months after the official launch that Apple actually sold the Apple Watch in its own retail stores in selected Apple Watch launch countries. In addition to the Best Buy announcement, Apple has expanded its Apple Watch footprint to Turkey.
The Best Buy agreement will pit the Apple Watch against its competitors side by side. This is unlikely to have much initial impact on smartwatches from Android smartphone makers such as Samsung and LG because Apple Watch is only compatible with iPhones. But it may impact smartwatches such as Pebble which are compatible with iPhone. Previous versions of the Pebble were significantly cheaper than the Apple Watch’s, but Pebble has increased its prices with each version bringing its top range Pebble Time Steel model within $50 of the cheapest Apple Watch.
The agreement to sell Apple Watches through Best Buy also highlights the distinction between the Apple Watch models. Both the Apple Watch and the Apple Watch Sport, which will be sold in Best Buy, are priced close to electronic gadgets, rather than premium jewellery. The Apple Watch Edition, although it performs the same functions, is unlikely to be sold in Best Buy or other general electronics shops and is intended as a fashion accessory.
Best Buy has an international presence in countries including Mexico, and China. In contrast, Apple does not have such an extensive presence outside the United States, and the Best Buy group could help Apple put the Apple Watch within reach of consumers from those countries, discouraging grey imports.


text:
The irony of Netflix, the company that essentially put Blockbuster out of business, making a series set in a Blockbuster store is perhaps one of the funniest things about the new sitcom Blockbuster. Although it’s theoretically inspired by the last existing Blockbuster video-rental store, Blockbuster has almost nothing to do with the real-life store depicted in the 2020 documentary The Last Blockbuster. That documentary is also streaming on Netflix, and it has more distinctive characters and more genuine affection for movies than the entire season of Blockbuster seems to.
While the actual last Blockbuster is located in Bend, Oregon, Blockbuster takes place in suburban Michigan, in a nondescript strip mall that could be located anywhere. The first episode opens with store manager Timmy Yoon (Randall Park) learning that all other Blockbuster stores have closed and the corporate office has shut down, leaving Timmy on his own. He’s been working at the same store since he was in high school, and he has to finally step up and take responsibility. It’s one of many familiar workplace-sitcom dynamics that could have been imported from a show set in any type of retail establishment. Creator Vanessa Ramos squanders almost all the unique potential of setting a show at the last Blockbuster.
It’s no surprise that Blockbuster was originally developed for NBC before being picked up by Netflix since it has the feel of a network sitcom from a decade or two ago. Ramos is a sitcom veteran whose credits include Superstore, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Mr. Mayor, and Blockbuster has all the predictable narrative beats of those shows without the clever jokes or memorable characters.
There’s a perfunctory will-they-or-won’t-they dynamic between Timmy and employee Eliza Walker (Melissa Fumero), but it’s a pale reflection of the similar connection between Fumero and Andy Samberg on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Timmy has had a crush on Eliza since high school, but of course, as soon as he’s about to declare his love for her in the first episode, she reveals that she’s getting back together with her estranged husband. Blockbuster is full of contrived obstacles and artificial deadlines like that, with stories about suddenly urgent needs to raise rent money or lay off an employee.
The supporting cast includes Tyler Alvarez, Madeleine Arthur, Olga Merediz, and Kamaia Fairburn as the other Blockbuster employees, with J.B. Smoove as Timmy’s best friend, Percy Scott, who owns the strip mall and runs a party store next door. Alvarez’s Carlos Herrera comes closest to capturing the vibe of a dedicated video-store employee with his supposed filmmaking ambitions, but all of his movie references are superficial. An episode in which a new store intern tries to outdo Carlos’ film knowledge comes off as if the writing staff has little interest in cinema beyond casual trivia.
People who dedicate themselves to working at the last outpost of a dying home-video format should have some amount of passion for film, but everyone aside from Carlos barely mentions movies at all. In one episode, Carlos comes up with the idea of exchanging employee picks, with everyone picking movies that they think the others would like, but there’s no sense of what kind of taste in movies any of these characters have. Even supposed cinephile Carlos just occasionally names filmmakers, seemingly at random.
Those missed opportunities would be less disappointing if Blockbuster were a genuinely funny and engaging sitcom, but even as a low-key show about retail workers, it can feel like a chore to get through. The characters are often irritating, and their personalities seem to shift according to the demands of individual episodic plots. Arthur’s Hannah Hadman is dim and naive except when she needs to be insightful, and Merediz’s Connie Serrano is a sweet, out-of-touch older woman except when she needs to be savvy or ruthless. They’re inconsistent rather than complex, and they don’t build interesting or meaningful relationships over the course of the 10-episode season. Park and Fumero are likable as the dueling leads, and they have enough chemistry that their inevitable romance is unobjectionable. The rest of the cast is somewhat forgettable, aside from Smoove, who tries way too hard as the abrasive Percy.
The jokes are lackluster, and the pop-culture references are often dated. There are occasional self-aware mentions of streaming and the death of video stores, and one store customer says, “Algorithms can suck it!” in the first episode. However, Blockbuster doesn’t come off as a clever meta sitcom with something to say about the new era of cinema and Blockbuster’s place in it, and any jabs directed at Netflix itself are mild at best. The Last Blockbuster is sometimes clumsy and self-satisfied, but at least it offers a look into a unique business run by dedicated people. In the streaming era, it’s easy to ignore this new sitcom and just give that documentary another shot.
The 10-episode first season of Blockbuster premieres Thursday, Nov. 3 on Netflix.


The THS4531 is a fully differential analog-to-digital converter (ADC) driver that is claimed to provide more than eight times the performance-to-power ratio of similar devices. The amplifier uses only 250 µA of quiescent current, while providing 36 MHz of bandwidth to support the high-performance, ultra-low power needs of portable and high-density systems, such as flow meters and portable medical devices. The device features a slew rate of 220 V/µs. A fast settling time of 150 ns to 0.01% reduces data acquisition time for driving high-sample-rate converters. The driver also features a quiescent current consumption of just 250 µA and power-down mode current consumption of only 0.5 µA. Power supply operation is from 2.5 V to 5 V, which allows battery-powered operation and flexible power supply selection. Other features include a flexible negative-rail input common mode and rail-to-rail output that enables simplified interface designs with single-ended, ground-based signal sources and differential successive-approximation register (SAR) and delta-sigma ADCs. The driver measures only 2-by-2 mm in a QFN package, making it suitable for use in high-density applications. Other package options include a 3-by-5-mm MSOP and 5-by-6-mm SOIC. The 2-by-2-mm THS4531 is priced at $1.10 each/1,000. The THS4531DGKEVM evaluation module is also available to speed evaluation of the device. It can be ordered for $149. PSPICE and TINA-TI Spice models are also available, along with a TINA-TI reference design.


text:
Fresh Thinking Therapy is pleased to offer low cost therapy to children and young people (under the age of 25), whose families usually would struggle to afford the full fees of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
The full service of CBT is offered with a limit of 12 sessions.
What do I have to do to qualify for low cost CBT?
The service is for those families earning under £15,000 per year (family income). You will need to show proof of income such as a p60, bank statement, family tax credit statement or wage slip). You or your son or daughter must be under the age of 25.
How much is each session?
The fee for each appointment is £37
Is there a waiting list?
There are a limited number of places available and sometimes there is a waiting list, but give us a call anyway. You never know!
Want to know more?
That’s great! Why not give us a call today or fill out the enquiry form.


text:
HIV, violence, blame and shame
To address internalised HIV stigma we must reduce the widespread maltreatment and violence against people living with HIV.
Marija Pantelic, the lead author of the research paper featured in this blog, is a senior advisor for research and evaluation at the Alliance.
Findings from a new research paper suggest that to address internalised HIV stigma, we must reduce the widespread maltreatment and violence against people living with HIV.
There are an estimated 2.1 million adolescents living with HIV worldwide and 85% of them live in sub-Saharan Africa. Between 2005 and 2015, AIDS-related deaths more than doubled in this age group, despite declines in other age categories.
We have known for a long time that HIV-related stigma severely hampers uptake of HIV-related prevention, treatment and care services, and therefore poses a serious threat to our ambition of ending AIDS.
Different types of HIV stigma
Whilst there are various ways in which people living with HIV can experience stigma, researchers and programme developers have mostly focused on understanding and addressing discrimination, or enacted stigma, which is when people living with HIV are treated differently or denied opportunities because of their HIV status.
Less visible and perhaps more difficult to capture is internalised stigma which occurs when a person living with HIV internalises perceived negative attitudes and accepts them as applicable to themselves. This invokes strong feelings of shame and worthlessness and can lead to suicidal thoughts.
Internalised HIV stigma is an important risk factor for poor health outcomes among adolescents living with HIV. It undermines retention in care and hampers adherence to anti-retroviral treatment, which can lead to viral failure and death.
This is concerning, particularly as data from Argentina, Cambodia, Kenya, Russia, South Africa and the present study consistently suggest that people living with HIV are (up to three times!) more likely to report experiencing internalised HIV stigma than discrimination.
Current interventions not adequate to meet the need
How we address internalised stigma depends on what we know about the process by which it comes about.
Internalised stigma is commonly seen as a purely psychological process, strongly associated with poor mental health. As such, most interventions aiming to address internalised HIV stigma are delivered in clinical settings to small groups of people living with HIV, aiming to strengthen people’s self-image through empowerment messages and psychological support.
However, it is unlikely that we will be able to scale up such small-scale interventions to adequately support the 36.7 million people living with HIV globally.
Moreover, many adolescents and key affected populations are already struggling to access healthcare because of fear of stigma and judgement in healthcare facilities. Asking them to congregate in group sessions specifically designed for people living with HIV comes with expectations to disclose their status to everyone present, which many may not be ready or willing to do.
In addition, from an ethical point of view, it could be said that clinical and psychological responses to internalised HIV stigma are applying a victim-centric approach to a public health problem.
What drives internalised stigma?
In the paper HIV, violence, blame and shame: pathways of risk to internalized HIV stigma among South African adolescents living with HIV we aimed to examine whether and how community and family-level dynamics contribute to the production of internalised HIV stigma.
Findings partly confirmed what previous research suggested, i.e. that individual factors, namely poor HIV-related health and psychological distress, contribute to internalised HIV stigma.
But we also found that experiences of physical and emotional violence within homes, schools and communities play an important role in shaping adolescents’ sense of self and contribute to internalised HIV stigma.
Specifically, adolescents with HIV-related disabilities are at highest risk of maltreatment by family, peers and community members, which in turn leads to psychological distress, fuelling internalised HIV stigma.
Addressing the source of internalised stigma
What does this mean for our programming?
First, we need to pay more attention to internalised HIV stigma. We also need to be more creative about how we respond to it. Internalised HIV stigma is experienced by people living with HIV but this does not mean that interventions should put the entire onus of change on them.
Helping people cope and boosting their self-esteem may be an important component of tackling internalised HIV stigma. However, focusing solely on this is similar to treating a symptom without treating the source.
We must address the source of internalised HIV stigma: the widespread maltreatment and violence that people living with HIV are often subject to.
Finally, more research is needed to further unpack internalised HIV stigma, as our understanding of it is still in nascent stages. Programmes aiming to address internalised HIV stigma should be accompanied with rigorous research and evaluation strategies.
We cannot afford to remain uninformed about internalised HIV stigma, whilst it continues to undermine our efforts to end AIDS.
Read the original open access article in the Journal of the International AIDS Society.
This article was written as the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, before we changed our name to Frontline AIDS.
Stigma and discriminationYoung people


Google at last has added a brand new tablet to its Chromebook Pixel line segment of devices. Considerably the Pixel C runs upon the latest version of the Android, the Marshmallow 6.0, and the incredibly designed features such as magnetic slim keyboard case is considered to be an eye candy within the target audience, which is probably to be sold separately. The device has probably been priced at $500 for the 32 GB and $600 for the 64GB version, although the keyboard which is being sold separately will probably go for $149.
In Accordance to Google, late December around the holidays is the time period when the gadget will be available in the stores. UK and Australian prices are yet to be announced but the Starting price in US can be converted for£330 or AU$715. And same goes with the keyboard, which might cost approx.£100 or AU$215.
As per the trusted tweets, the Google latest device, Pixel C carries some similarities to the Surface Pro 3 and like newly launched Microsoft tablet. It has probably geared towards efficiency with the tailor-made keyboard.Altogether these separately designed gadgetsexhibit a handsome design; both the tablet and the keyboard are portable and slim, with the latter amplifying as a case as well.
The keyboard can be easily connected via Bluetooth, but it is not your additional accessory. Whenever the tablet is closedacross the case, it certainly charges the keyboard, but it is purposefully missing some keys; because Google actually shifted some of the less used-key from this physical keyboard and has probably relocated them onto the screen display.
The magnets are quite strong and might let user feel snappy, you can also hold or use the tablet upside down with confidence as one of the Google’s representative did same on the stage during launch. While the keys don’t actually sit completely flushed with the surface available of the keyboard, the keys on the board are still considered to be the compact size with flat, which might take time to get use to with the overall keyboard.
Inside the tablet the user will get some premium specialties. The device houses aNvidia X1 quad-core processor, Maxwell GPU and 3GB Ram. The screen boasts a 2560×1800- pixel resolution display with best 308 pixels per inch and itsupposedly displays a wide range of colors and also features a super-bright backlight. During our brief time with the Gadget, the display was sensitive to the touch, comfortable and sharp view.
Same as the Pixel Laptops available in the market, the Pixel C is completely built by Google. Previously the Table models in the Nexus segment were manufactures in partnership with the help of different hardware manufacturers. The Pixel C is the first Google Table, which is offering a USB type-C port, it is the same charging port which is available on the new nexus 5X and Nexus 6P phones and the company’s most recent chromebook pixel too.
The Google Pixel C considerably targeted to an individual who is interested in a tablet to get some work done or got some stiff competition. If we compare Surface Pro 3 manufactured and launched by Microsoft with Pixel C, Surface pro 3 is far better device; it is one of the best geared tablets used for productivity available in the market.
For More Information Visit: TechieState