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Celebrate the multi-hued flavours of music at the Rajasthan International Folk Festival (RIFF) 21-25 OCTOBER 2010 in Jodhpur - Mehrangarh Fort
Bangalore, August 23, 2010: Jodhpur RIFF, recently ranked among the top 25 international music festivals in the world is back again to enchant music lovers at the magnificent Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur from 21-25 October 2010. In its fourth year, the five-day festival has been carefully designed to present to its patrons the exceptional traditional music of Rajasthan, as well as unique collaborations between Indian and International performers. The festival is in an amalgamation that breaks all conventions and has a unique global appeal.
The passes for the festival can be booked online on the festival website www.jodhpurfolkfestival.org.
The five-day long festival has a packed programme in various stunning settings, including headline artists on the Main Stage; parties at Club Mehran; Dawn and Dusk devotional concerts performed at sunrise and sunset with the atmospheric fort as a stunning backdrop; Living Legends Stage dedicated to the most experienced performers of specific genres is a true celebration of roots music; Interactive Folk sessions, which will offer the audience the chance to learn more about rare traditional art forms from the musicians themselves.
Announcing the 2010 edition of the Jodhpur RIFF, HH Maharaja Gaj Singh II of Jodhpur-Marwar and Patron of the Festival said, "It gives me great pleasure once again to bring Jodhpur RIFF to music patrons across the world. Music is pure and truly universal and it is this reality that inspires us year after year to use the festival as a platform to showcase the talent and legacy of Rajasthani artists. Audiences see that music is not limited to its traditional forms - it can get a new life when thoughtfully teamed up with international artists. We are sincerely grateful to our partners and our audiences for all the appreciation we have received and hope we succeed in keeping alive our traditional music legacies."
The festival is scheduled to open with traditional Maand by Ali Mohammed (Shekawati), Pt. Chirenji Lal (Jaipur) and Banarasi ji (Jodhpur).
Vocalist Ashwini Bhide, maestro of the Jaipur Atrauli Khayal Gayaki then takes the stage for an evening of traditional abhangs and thumri.
The Jodhpur RIFF, which is now a highlight of the international festival calendar, will showcase the lesser known traditional forms of Rajasthan - nirguna bhajans by Jamuna Devi and Mali Devi (on the Ektara); a Rudra Veena performance by Ustad Bahauddin Dagar; a recital by Pt. Chandra Prakash, acclaimed exponent of the haveli sangeet, Nathdwara temple tradition.
Audiences at the RIFF are in for a rare experience when British Tamil singer Susheela Raman, of Salt Rain fame takes the stage with Rajasthani traditional musicians. Susheela and guitarist/ producer Sam Mills have been working with talented musicians Nathoo Solanki, Kutle Khan and Chugee Khan, from Rajasthan. The collaboration will feature practitioners of the region's rarest and most ancient instruments to create an exceptional performance.
Pete Lockett, voted the world's best percussionist, will also be presenting his own collaboration with 14 Rajasthani traditional musicians. This would be a first for Pete, who has never played with Rajasthani artists before. One of the most versatile and prolific percussionists in the world, Lockett is known to promote traditional music and for his own amazing ability to play just about any traditional percussion instrument - not surprising then that he is the ethnic percussionist one hears on the last five Bond film soundtracks!
Other performances include Sona Mohapatra, India's sensational desi soul vocalist (of INXS afterglow fame); the Lahore based sufi rock band Mekaal Hasan Band; 16-member world famous Warszawianka folk dance ensemble from Poland; DJ Maga Bo from Brazil; an Italian traditional music collaboration with Rajasthani artists; Zawose Family from Tanzania; virtuoso Flamenco gypsy-jazz guitarist, Augustin Carbonell 'El Bola' and a special Flamenco-Kalbeliya dance collaboration.
"The beauty of the Jodhpur RIFF is that while its texture and strength remains traditional and Rajasthani, its flavor and resonance is truly contemporary and global." Says Mr. Divya Bhatia - Festival director, Jodhpur RIFF.
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Jodhpur RIFF is a partnership project involving two of India's leading heritage trusts: Mehrangarh Museum Trust and Jaipur Virasat Foundation. The festival has been endorsed by UNESCO as a "Peoples' Platform for Creativity and Sustainable Development". For the fourth year in a row, this year's Principal Partner of Jodhpur RIFF is Taj Hotels, Resorts and Palaces, one of Asia's largest and finest group of hotels, and a consistent champion of the cause of promoting rural art and artisans.
About Jodhpur RIFF
Jodhpur RIFF (Rajasthan International Folk Festival) is Indian's leading international traditional music festival. For five days in October each year, the festival brings together more than 150 Musicians and performing artists from across Rajasthan and around the world to celebrate their musical heritage and create new sounds through innovative collaborations as well as interactive daytime sessions for school children, their families and visitors, staged against the breath taking backdrop of the Fort. Jodhpur RIFF includes performances by master musicians from local Rajasthan communities, sensational headline acts showcased each night on Main Stage, and cutting-edge global dance grooves that will keep the party going late into the night at Club Mehran.
Timed to coincide with "Sharad Purnima" the brightest full moon of the year in north India, Jodhpur RIFF features a series of spectacular concerts and events based in and around Mehrangarh Fort - voted "Asia's Best Fortess" by Times Magazine.
For further information on Jodhpur RIFF, please visit www.jodhpurfolkfestival.org
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Switchgrass Biomass Production In The Midwest USA: Harvest And Nitrogen Management.
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Information on optimal harvest periods and N fertilization rates for switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) grown as a biomass or bioenergy crop in the Midwest USA is limited. Our objectives were to determine optimum harvest periods and N rates for biomass production in the region. Established stands of Cave-in-Rock' switchgrass at Ames, IA, and Mead, NE, were fertilized 0, 60, 120, 180, 240, or 300 kg N ha -1 . Harvest treatments were two- or one-cut treatments per year, with initial harvest starting in late June or early July (Harvest 1) and continuing at approximately 7-d intervals until the latter part of August (Harvest 7). A final eighth harvest was completed after a killing frost. Regrowth was harvested on previously harvested plots at that time. Soil samples were taken before fertilizer was applied in the spring of 1994 and again in the spring of 1996. Averaged over years, optimum biomass yields were obtained when switchgrass was harvested at the maturity stages R3 to R5 (panicle fully emerged from boot to postanthesis) and fertilized with 120 kg N ha -1 . Biomass yields with these treatments averaged 10.5 to 11.2 Mg ha -1 at Mead and 11.6 to 12.6 Mg ha -1 at Ames. At this fertility level, the amount of N removed was approximately the same as the amount applied. At rates above this level, soil NO 3 -N concentrations increased.

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Hospital And Healthcare-Acquired Infection Compensation Claims
A hospital-acquired infection is an infection that a patient or visitor sustains whilst at the hospital. Can you sue a hospital if you get an infection? In some cases, yes. Hospitals owe their patients and visitors a duty of care, so if you contract a hospital infection because of staff negligence you may be eligible to make a compensation claim for your injuries. Trust Medical Negligence Law to handle your compensation claim today.
To begin your hospital-acquired infection compensation claim, call us on 0800 408 7827 today for your free telephone assessment. Alternatively, use our online medical negligence claims form to contact us. If we can see that you have a claim, our panel of medical negligence lawyers will start working on your claim as soon as possible.
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In the UK, all medical practitioners such as doctors, nurses and surgeons owe their patients a duty of care. This means that they are responsible for protecting their patient’s health, safety and well-being. If a patient receives substandard medical care which breaches the duty of care that the healthcare worker owes them and results in injury or illness (or a worsening of it), this is known as medical negligence. We also refer to medical negligence as clinical negligence or medical malpractice.
If you have experienced medical negligence which caused you to pick up an infection from a hospital, the NHS trust or private healthcare company that manages the hospital may have liability. This means that they could be responsible for your injuries and you may be eligible to make a hospital infection claim against them.
To begin your compensation claim for hospital-acquired infection, call Medical Negligence Law today to speak to a claims advisor. If we can see that you could claim compensation, we will provide you with a No Win No Fee solicitor from our panel to handle your claim.
A hospital-acquired infection is an infection that a patient or visitor contracts due to their time in the hospital. We also refer to them as healthcare-acquired infections, nosocomial infections and hospital infections. Hospital-acquired infections can happen because of poor standards of hygiene and medical malpractice.
Some of the most common hospital-acquired infections include urinary tract infections (UTIs), respiratory infections such as ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and surgical site infections. Healthcare workers are responsible for following professional hygiene practices and preventing nosocomial infections, as well as their other duties.
If you wish to claim compensation for hospital-acquired pneumonia or any other type of healthcare-acquired infection, you may be wondering how much money you could be owed. Some people use an online clinical negligence compensation calculator to help them estimate how much compensation their claim could be worth. However the compensation calculations these give are not guaranteed to always be accurate. The Judicial College has published guidelines for how much compensation can be awarded depending on the type and severity of the infection. The Judicial College Guidelines are a regularly updated publication that solicitors may use to help them value injuries and illnesses.
Please review the table below to estimate how infections may be valued. Please note that the table includes general damages but excludes special damages.
|Illness Caused By Non-traumatic Injury||(i) Similar to severe toxicosis which causes serious and acute pain as well as fever, vomiting and diarrhoea and requires admission to a hospital for several days to weeks. This may also cause IBS, incontinence and haemorrhoids.||£36,060 to £49,270|
|Illness Caused By Non-traumatic Injury||(ii) Similar to serious and short-lived food poisoning. Symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhoea which diminishes over several weeks. There may be an impact on the persons sex life and bowel function for several years.||£8,950 to £18,020|
|Illness Caused By Non-traumatic Injury||(iii) Illness which causes significant stomach discomfort and cramps in the stomach as well as effects on the function of the bowels. May also cause fatigue.||£3,710 to £8,950|
|Serious Kidney Damage||Permanent and serious damage to both of the kidneys or the loss of both of the kidneys.||£158,970 to £197,480|
|Kidney Damage||Loss of one kidney. The other kidney is not affected.||£28,880 to £42,110|
|Spleen Injury||The loss of the spleen and which causes risk of future internal infections.||£19,510 to £24,680
If your claim for hospital-acquired infection compensation is successful, you could receive general damages and special damages. What is the difference between these heads of claim? General damages compensate you for the suffering, pain and loss of amenity your injuries caused. Special damages aim to reimburse you for any financial losses or out-of-pocket expenses you have incurred as a result of your hospital infection.
Examples of special damages you may be able to claim include:
- Medical expenses
- Care expenses
- Travel expenses
- Home adaptation or mobility assistance expenses (where there is a permanent disability, for example)
- Loss of income
Be sure to keep evidence of your losses. This can include tickets for transport to and from the hospital, medical bills or care invoices. Call our team to see what else you could use as proof.
If you have contracted a healthcare-acquired infection in a hospital and have grounds to claim compensation, a lawyer from our panel can handle your claim on a No Win No Fee basis.
What does this mean? Instead of charging you a fee upfront to handle your compensation claim, a solicitor would offer you a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA). This means that you would only pay their fee if the outcome of your claim was successful.
In the event that your claim loses, your lawyer would not charge a success fee, so there is less financial risk involved.
If your clinical negligence claim is successful, a solicitor would deduct their success fee from your compensation payout at a minor rate. This rate is also capped by law to prevent overcharging.
Contact Medical Negligence Law today to learn more about making a No Win No Fee compensation claim.
A number of factors can cause hospital-acquired infections. You could contract an infection from the hospital by skin-to-skin contact or contact with an infected surface, for example. Some hospital infections, such as ventilator-associated pneumonia, can occur because the tube that is inserted into a patient’s throat allows harmful bacteria to enter the patient’s lungs.
Patients can also be more vulnerable to picking up an infection whilst in a hospital because their treatment or their medical condition may mean that their immune system is weakened. Similarly, the infection can enter a patient’s body via an open wound such as a sore, burn or cut, if these are not cleaned, dressed and handled properly.
Doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers must take special care to sanitise medical equipment and their hands. They should also wear appropriate PPE to avoid the transmission of hospital-acquired infections.
Hospitals must also ensure that adequate cleaning and standards of hygiene are in place to kill bacteria that may be living on surfaces. Unfortunately, hospitals can be busy places where staff are overworked and have to deal with serious life or death situations. This can lead to medical errors resulting in a patient acquiring an unwanted infection.
There are many different types of infections that patients can pick up from a hospital. They can be bacterial, fungal or viral.
The most common hospital-acquired infections include the following:
- Urinary tract infections (UTIs): This is an infection of the kidneys, bladder, or the tubes that connect these organs.
- Respiratory infections (including pneumonia): Pneumonia is an inflammation of the lungs that a virus or infection causes.
- Bloodstream infections (BSIs): This is where bacterial or fungal microorganisms are present in the bloodstream and cause infection.
- Surgical site infections: This is when a patient acquires an infection following an operation.
The following can also infect patients:
Coronavirus or Covid-19 caused a global pandemic. The main symptoms of Covid-19 are loss of taste and smell, a continuous cough and a raised temperature. Although most patients recover from it, some are at risk of hospitalisation or death.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
MRSA is caused by the Staphylococcus (staph) bacteria. These bacteria are resistant to many forms of antibiotics and can infect a cut or open wound. This infection can transmit through contact with another person that has MRSA.
A bacterial infection can cause this. It is an infection of a patient’s deeper layers of tissue. Symptoms include inflamed red skin and a temperature.
Ebola is a rare disease that is transmitted from primates to humans and can be transmitted from human to human. It has a 50% average fatality rate and patients have to be isolated.
E. coli is a form of severe food poisoning that can also spread from person to person. Eating unpasteurised dairy products can cause it. Severe cases of E. coli can result in kidney failure.
Patients can pick up an infection from the hospital if they visit an A&E department, go to the hospital for outpatient treatment, or stay in the hospital.
Hospital-acquired infections can spread by contact transmission between medical staff and patients. They can also spread through common vehicle transmission: bacteria on surgical equipment and medical tools or uncleansed surfaces and bed linens.
Some infections are airborne and can spread without infected individuals being in close proximity. Others can spread through droplet transmission (when a person with respiratory problems coughs or sneezes nearby and respiratory droplets transfer the infection through your mouth, nose or eyes).
What steps can hospitals take in preventing nosocomial infections? First of all, hospital staff must follow proper standards of hygiene. For example, they should wash their hands frequently and wear the appropriate PPE. They should also wash or sanitise surfaces, bed linens and medical equipment as needed.
If an infection or infectious disease is identified, medical professionals should treat the patient. If necessary, they should isolate the patient or take steps to stop the infection from spreading to other patients.
Special care must be taken around patients who are more vulnerable to hospital infections such as those with weakened immune systems, the elderly or people with underlying health conditions.
You could contract Covid-19 through airborne transmission, contact transmission, droplet transmission and potentially surface transmission. Therefore, in situations where healthcare workers have close contact with patients, they should take appropriate precautions to reduce the risk.
Vulnerable patients receiving treatment in the hospital are particularly at risk. A study led by King’s College London estimated that up until April 28th 2020 one eighth of hospitalised Covid-19 patients (in 10 UK hospital sites and 1 Italian site) contracted the virus whilst staying in hospital.
Healthcare workers, by the nature of their occupation, are also at greater risk of contracting Covid-19. According to the British Medical Journal (BMJ), during the period of 16th April to 7th June 2020, at least 10% of all Covid-19 infections in England were among patient-facing healthcare workers and resident-facing social care workers.
According to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), estimations suggest that around 300,000 NHS patients in England contract healthcare-associated infections each year.
What is the most acquired healthcare infection in England? According to NICE, the most acquired hospital and healthcare infections are respiratory, including pneumonia and lower respiratory tract infections at 22.8% of all infections.
Other common hospital-acquired infections and healthcare-acquired infections include urinary tract infections (17.2%) and surgical site infections (15.7%).
Can you sue for hospital-acquired pneumonia in the UK? In certain circumstances, yes. If you have contracted pneumonia or any other type of infection because of negligence on the part of the hospital, you may be eligible to claim compensation. Call Medical Negligence Law today, to begin your hospital-acquired infection compensation claim.
If a hospital infection is not properly treated, a person can pass the infection on to others when they leave the hospital. If you were infected by someone else who caught an infection from the hospital, you may be eligible to make a hospital infection claim for compensation.
Similarly, if you are the parent of a child under the age of 18 or the kin of a vulnerable adult who is not mentally fit to claim compensation, you may be eligible to claim on their behalf. The funds will go to your relative’s best interests.
Patients Who Could Be More Likely To Get A Healthcare-Acquired Infection
Patient’s who could be more vulnerable to healthcare-acquired infections include premature babies, patients receiving treatment for cancer who may have a weakened immune system, patients with underlying health conditions and the elderly.
Can You Sue A Hospital If You Get An Infection?
If you contract an infection because of negligence on the part of the hospital’s staff or management, you may be eligible to make a hospital infection claim.
What Infections Can You Get From Hospital?
Infections that patients can get from a hospital include E. coli, clostridium difficile, Ebola, MRSA, urinary tract infections and surgical site infections. This is not an exhaustive list.
Do Hospitals Have To Pay For Hospital-Acquired Infections?
If a patient makes a successful medical negligence compensation claim for a hospital-contracted infection, the claim will be handled by NHS Resolution. The majority of these claims are settled out of court.
What Is The Most Acquired Hospital Infection?
The most acquired hospital infection in England is respiratory infections. These include pneumonia and lower respiratory tract infections.
If you wish to claim for hospital-acquired infection compensation, contact Medical Negligence Law today. We work with a panel of specialist clinical negligence lawyers who are able to handle your claim.
Use the details below to reach us:
- Call us on 0800 408 7827.
- Use our medical negligence claims form to write to us.
- Chat with an advisor using the live chat at the bottom right-hand corner of your screen.
We hope you have found this hospital infection compensation claims guide helpful. If you wish to know about making a claim for clinical negligence compensation, you may also find these guides helpful.
Doctor Negligence Compensation Claims: Find out what to do if your doctor caused or worsened your injuries or illness.
No Win No Fee Medical Negligence Solicitors: Learn more about how our panel of solicitors work.
How To Make A Medical Negligence Claim: Our guide explores how exactly you could make a claim.
NHS Resolution: Read more about the Government’s NHS Resolution.
Taking Legal Action For Clinical Negligence: Read about claiming from Citizens Advice.
NHS Advice For Claimants: The NHS provides advice if you’re considering making a medical negligence claim.
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SnapRite® Starter Fastener Kit contains all the snap components needed to get started setting snaps with the SnapRite System. This kit has 260 nickel-plated brass snap fastener components for multiple applications. Install cloth-to-cloth and cloth-to-surface snaps as well as Pull-the-Dot (one way) snap fasteners and gypsy studs with this starter kit. All of the components in this kit are compatible with the SnapRite System.
The SnapRite System is a set of four unique dies that work with a standard rivet gun to install button, socket, stud, and eyelet snap fastener components quickly and easily. The SnapRite Dies screw into the nosepiece of a rivet gun and must be used with one a SnapRite Mandrel.
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Buses from Porto Alegre to São Paulo
How long does the journey from Porto Alegre to São Paulo take by bus?
The journey from Porto Alegre to São Paulo covers a distance of 530 mi. On average, you can expect your journey to last roughly 20 h 24 min. However, booking the fastest option will see you reach your destination in approximately 18 h. For faster journeys, look for express routes. Please remember that these may only depart at certain times of day, or on particular days of the week. You may also find that you can go from Porto Alegre to São Paulo faster by making connections, rather than taking a direct route.
When do departures from Porto Alegre to São Paulo leave?
The first daily departure from Porto Alegre to São Paulo leaves at 09:14, while the last journey of the day sets out at 23:00. These are according to the standard schedules for the route between Porto Alegre and São Paulo. However, different providers' timetables can vary from day to day or month to month, so these particular departures may not be available every day. Some providers may change their schedules on public holidays and weekends, or during the summer months. Check your travel dates when making your booking.
How many times a day do departures from Porto Alegre leave for São Paulo?
The route from Porto Alegre to São Paulo is served by providers including KAISSARA, PENHA and Viação Penha. From this list of transport providers, there are up to 10 departures each day. However, this exact number will vary. On average, journeys depart from Porto Alegre 4 times per day. This number includes all the transport providers that serve the route. When traveling from Porto Alegre to São Paulo, you may choose to use an indirect route, involving connections. If you prefer not to do this, you will find an average of 4 direct journeys each day. However, indirect routes open up more possibilities for flexible travelers. On average, there are 0 journeys with one change or more each day. These numbers are all averages. They can slightly vary depending on the day of the week, the season of the year, local festivals, and other factors.

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Meet Mark & Linda Graf of Graf Bees – The Buzz in Emerson, NE!
Stop by their shop in northeast Nebraska for local honey & honey products!
What Graf Bees – The Buzz Offers:
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- Honey treats like honey taffy and honey ice cream
- Honey-based sauces including honey mustard and honey BBQ
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THANK YOUR LOCAL BEEKEEPERS!
Bee populations across the United States are in decline, but bees are responsible for nearly 1 in 3 bites of food that humans consume because of the food crops that require pollination to grow (think apples, coffee, almonds, blueberries, cucumbers, watermelons, & more!).
Local beekeepers like Mark and Linda Graf are helping keep bee populations alive, managing hives from infestations, and helps local farms have an abundance of pollinators.
How does honey get from the hive to those pretty bear containers?
Taking honey out of the hive and putting it into jars takes time and patience!
When beekeepers open a hive, they harvest a frame full of honeycomb (neat wax cells built by bees that stores the honey!). The beekeeper then needs to remove the pure liquid honey from the honeycomb in a process called extraction.
There is a range of ways to extract the honey – some with equipment and some by hand. When you have a substantial amount of honeycomb, a beekeeper may use a piece of equipement called an extractor to help remove the liquid honey from the comb.
Graf Bees offers opportunities for the community to come watch the magic of honey extraction happen with live demonstrations of pouring honey through the extractors at their shop. Check out their Facebook page to see when you can come watch the process!
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In the recent months a group of Klebold and Harris fans have taken their hate a step further by forming a Reb& Vodka Family. They have issued death threats to several Youtube users trying to ask them to stop leaving tasteless remarks on victim memorials and several are threatening to finish the job. Even more disturbing is that the leader is a mother (jasonandme1230) who is encouraging the younger followers to act in violence. These accounts have been reported but Youtube is refusing to remove the accounts and worse yet they have not reported the death threats to any form of law enforcement . Sound familiar ? If anybody still cares about what happened to the victims please demand FBI or law enforcement to look into these accounts as they are a terrorism cell encouraging violent acts and murder.
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Jennifer ,jasonandme1230, is dangerous and it is a matter of time before she harms somebody. This person has written about killing and has issued death threats openly on the site. Youtube has ignored proof of her action and so will law enforcement until others demand that this group is investigted .
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There seems to be a 1990s nostalgia feel around this years New York Yankees heading into the 2018 season.
The A’s had not swept the Red Sox in four games at home since 1932. That streak will continue at least one more year.
Bashing four home runs Saturday, the Oakland Athletics buried the Boston Red Sox for a third straight day.
Thursday wasn’t Sonny Gray’s shiniest of starts, but he’s no longer winless against Boston.
After seeing the top four teams in the division bunched within nine games of the top spot a season ago, things will only tighten up further. And in a battle of baseball’s brawn, one fewer win for “Beantown” will be enough to punch a ticket the AL’s divisional round.
With his two-hit, three-RBI performance, David Ortiz provided starter David Price will all the backing he would need as the Red Sox trumped the A’s Friday night.
Every All-Star Break, noteworthy snubs keep players out of a hard-earned spot on baseball’s biggest stage.


Oct. 14, 2001
ATLANTA — Yellow Jacket men’s tennis player Fabio Campos was unable to continue his run of success on Sunday, as he fell in straight sets in the “B” singles draw final of the Georgia Tech Fall Classic. The three-day tournament was contested at the Bill Moore Tennis Center on Tech’s campus.
The match opened in very close fashion, with Campos and Auburn-Montgomery’s Stig Stroem remaining on serve until late in the first set. Stroem then broke Campos’ serve en route to a 6-4 opening-set win. In the second set, the Tech junior was unable to m ount a rally and won only one game in a 1-6 second-set defeat, giving Stroem the 6-4, 6-1 win.
Campos and his Yellow Jacket teammates will return to action next weekend, when they travel to Columbia, S.C., to compete in the South Carolina Fall Classic at the Maxcy Gregg Tennis Center on the campus of the University of South Carolina.


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JaCorey Williams led Canton with 24 points and six rebounds.
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. Two-way player Antonio Blakeney scored 29 points and grabbed seven rebounds to power the Windy City Bulls past the Canton Charge 102-96 on Friday night at the Sears Centre.
Jarell Eddie scored 19 points and grabbed seven rebounds for the Bulls (14-20), while Cameron Payne had 13 points, five rebounds and five assists and Jaylen Johnson finished with 10 points, seven boards and five assists.
JaCorey Williams led Canton (13-22) with 24 points and six rebounds. Roosevelt Jones provided an all-around effort of 10 points, 11 rebounds, nine assists and three steals. Marcus Thornton added 22 points on 6-of-13 from 3-point range and Grant Jerrett scored 13 points and grabbed seven boards in 24 minutes off the bench in his season debut.
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Therefore, there has been an industry consensus at this time, the mining circle is being reshuffled, and mining will become more and more large-scale. Large mines and large miners with strong capital and cheap power resources will continue to occupy the living space of small miners. For example, in the early years, the RHY mines in overseas mines were laid out. With overseas mines in the Middle East and Georgia, the mining and mining charges were more than half cheaper than the domestic mines. The mining electricity fee of 0.3 yuan allowed many miners to choose the RHY mine. The mine can still dig a good income. Since the bear market, the mining lease and power lease of the RHY mine have been very hot, attracting the miners who are mining for low-cost mining.
Therefore, despite the current bear market price decline, the large mines headed by the RHY mine continue to be deployed and continue to invest in mines to compete for power. As a result, we have seen that since last year Not only has the net computing power not fallen, but it has been increasing in volatility.
Therefore, we can see that in the logical relationship between power and currency, the price is the cause, and the calculation is the result. The increase in the price of the currency amplifies the mining profit, attracts the large-scale entry of capital and miners, and causes the increase in computing power, which in turn affects the mine mining cost and market competition. Of course, if you want to earn a steady income from mining, you have to look at the price level of electricity.


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|Publication number||US5513743 A|
|Application number||US 08/326,934|
|Publication date||May 7, 1996|
|Filing date||Oct 21, 1994|
|Priority date||Nov 4, 1992|
|Publication number||08326934, 326934, US 5513743 A, US 5513743A, US-A-5513743, US5513743 A, US5513743A|
|Inventors||Arend J. Brink|
|Original Assignee||Slic Trading Company Limited|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (11), Referenced by (21), Classifications (4), Legal Events (4)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This invention relates to a skirt seal for sealing the base of a loading chute to a conveyor belt which passes through or below the chute.
A seal of the aforementioned type prevents material and particularly fine particulate material from escaping from the conveyor belt through a gap between the base of the loading chute and the conveyor belt. As the chute skirt seal is in constant running contact with a surface of the conveyor belt, it wears rapidly and requires frequent replacement.
The applicant is aware of skirt seals which are fixed to the outer wall of the loading chute by means of clamping strips. To replace this type of seal is tedious and time consuming. This type of seal also has a relatively large contact area with the belt surface and, with the ingress of abrasive material between the contact area and the belt surface, unacceptable belt wear occurs.
The invention provides a skirt seal arrangement for a conveyor belt which includes an elongate track element and an elongate skirt seal which is slidably engageable with the track element and which includes at least one sealing surface which is sealing contact with the conveyor belt.
The skirt seal may be slidably disengagable from the track element.
The track element may include an elongate cavity and the skirt seal may have an elongate formation which is moved into the cavity by sliding movement of the skirt seal relative to the track element.
The track element may have a slot which extends to the cavity and the skirt seal may have a neck portion which passes through the slot.
The track element may be fixed to a wall of a chute of the conveyor.
The track element may be vertically adjustable relatively to the wall of the chute.
The skirt seal may extend from the track element below a lower edge of the chute wall to the conveyor belt.
The skirt seal may include a formation which engages with the said lower edge.
The skirt seal may have at least two of the said sealing surfaces which are spaced by a groove. Further, the skirt seal may have a tapered edge which is remote from the track element and which is in sealing contact with the conveyor belt.
The invention also provides a skirt seal for a conveyor belt which includes an elongate body which is made from a resilient material, a bead formation along a first edge of the body which extends from one side of a neck portion of the body, and at least one sealing surface on an opposing side of the neck portion which is adapted to be brought into sealing contact with the conveyor belt.
The skirt seal may have at least two of the said sealing surfaces separated by a groove.
An edge of the body may be tapered. This tapered edge may be adapted to bear, with sealing contact, on the conveyor belt.
The sealing surface or surfaces of the skirt seal may be on one side of the body and an opposite side of the body may have a formation which is adapted to engage with an edge of a chute wall for the conveyor.
The invention is further described by way of examples with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a view in cross section of a skirt seal arrangement for a conveyor belt loading chute according to one form of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a portion of a skirt seal used in the arrangement of FIG. 1, on an enlarged scale;
FIG. 3 is a view similar to FIG. 1 of a second form of the invention;
FIG. 4 is a view similar to FIG. 1 of a third form of the invention;
FIG. 5 is a cross sectional view of the arrangement of FIG. 4, taken on the line 5--5; and
FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the arrangement of FIG. 4.
FIG. 1 of the accompanying drawings illustrates one form of a skirt seal arrangement for a conveyor belt according to the invention.
FIG. 1 shows a side wall 10 of a conveyor loading chute, portion of a conveyor belt 12, an elongate track element 14, and a skirt seal 16 which may be made from rubber.
The lower edge of the wall 10 is spaced slightly from an upper surface of the belt 12.
The track element is made from square metal tubing and has a slot 18 in its lowermost wall which extends over its length. The track element is fixed in any suitable manner to an outer surface of the wall 10. In this instance use is made of an L-shaped bracket 19 which is fixed to an upper surface of the track element and to the wall 10 by means of bolts or welding.
FIG. 2 shows the skirt seal 16 in perspective and on a larger scale. The skirt seal includes a body 21 with a neck portion 23. A bead 20 extends on one side of the neck portion for the full length of the skirt seal, along one edge of the body. A number of grooves 24 extend parallel to one another on an opposing side of the neck portion. Adjacent the grooves are a number of ribs with sealing surfaces 25. The edge 22 of the body which is remote from the bead 20 is tapered.
The bead 20 is dimensioned so that it can fit closely inside the cavity formed by the track element 14.
The skirt seal 16 is engaged with the track element 14 by positioning the bead 20 so that it opposes the cavity of the track element and then by inserting the neck portion 23 into the slot 18 of the track element. The seal is manually fed into and along the track element to the required extent. Any suitable stop, not shown, is located across the track element cavity, at a desired point, to arrest movement of the seal into and along the track element.
As the seal is fed into the track element in the aforementioned manner, the skirt seal is bent so that the neck portion 23 passes below a lower edge of the chute wall 10. The sealing surfaces 25 of the skirt seal are thereby brought into contact with the upper edge surface of the conveyor belt.
The grooves 24 on the under surface of the seal 16 serve two purposes. Firstly the grooves reduce the area of the contact surfaces between the skirt seal and the conveyor belt. This reduces frictional wear on the belt. Secondly material which enters the interface between the conveyor belt 12 and the edge 22 of the skirt seal can migrate up the slope of the belt and enter the groove 24 which is closest to the edge 22. Material which may migrate further up the belt will more than likely be trapped in the second or the third groove. In this way abrasive contact between this material and the belt surface is reduced while at the same time the escape of this material from the belt surface is hindered.
It can be seen from FIG. 1 that the grooves 24 have sloping forward faces 27. These encourage material trapped in the grooves to track from the grooves back on to the belt 12 and this helps to prevent material blockages in the grooves.
It is to be borne in mind that the number, sizes and spacings of the grooves are not limited to what is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 but can be of any design or configuration to suit any particular requirement.
The skirt seal shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 may include a raised shield formation 26 which is shown in dotted lines in FIG. 1. This shield at least partly covers a gap between a lower edge of the wall 10 and the upper surface of the seal 16. This reduces the entry of material from the conveyor belt 12 into the space between the upper surface of the seal 16 and the outer surface of the wall 10. Excessive material in the space can ultimately displace the seal to the right in the drawing, thereby moving the seal from the surface of the conveyor belt.
FIG. 3 shows a seal arrangement which is similar in many respects to that illustrated in FIG. 1. However the track element 14 is replaced by a track element 14A which has an integral flange 14B which facilitates its attachment to the wall 10. Also the skirt seal 16 has an outwardly projecting lip 28 which, when the seal is folded to engage with the upper surface of the belt 12, engages with the lower edge of the wall 10 thereby to reduce the likelihood that material on the belt can pass under the wall.
The skirt seals shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 have been found to work particularly satisfactorily with fine materials and relatively light impact loads. The upper curved surfaces of the seals, shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, are exposed to impact loads from above, arising when material falls within the chute on to the conveyor belt 12, and provided these loads are not excessive the seals remain in position.
When the impact loading is increased, for example if large lumps of material are discharged on to the belt 12, the seal, riding over the belt, absorbs at least a portion of the impact and this leads to damage and ultimately to destruction of the seal.
A second factor is that, again with larger particulate material, particles of the material can become jammed between the lower edge of the chute and the upper seal surface. This will also lead to rapid wear of the seal.
FIGS. 4, 5, and 6 depict a skirt seal arrangement which, depending on the circumstances, is better suited for use with coarser materials and high impact loads.
In FIGS. 4, 5 and 6 reference numerals which are the same as those in FIGS. 1 to 3, are used to indicate like components.
FIG. 4 depicts a side wall 10 of a chute positioned above a conveyor belt 12. Mounted to the side wall 10 is an elongate bracket 40 which has a top-hat profile as shown in FIG. 5. The bracket 40 has a vertically extending slot 42, as may be seen in FIG. 6.
An elongate track element 14 is engaged with an angle member 44. The angle member is secured to the bracket 40 by means of a bolt 46 which is engaged with the slot 42 and with a corresponding hole in the angle member.
As is shown in FIG. 6 the side wall 10 has a plurality of the brackets 40 attached to it at regular intervals and these provide support for the track element 14 along its length.
The track element 14 has a lip 48 and an outer wall 50 which extends downwardly for some distance below the lip 48.
A skirt seal 52 is engaged with the track element 14. This skirt seal has a base 53, consisting of a bead 20 and a base section 54, which is complemental to the track element and which fits fairly tightly, with a sliding action, into the interior of the track element.
The skirt seal 52 is elongate and is engaged with the track element in a manner which is analogous to that described in connection with FIGS. 1 and 3.
The skirt seal 52 is preferably made from a plastics material such as polyurethane with a hardness of approximately 80 to 85. This is given merely by way of example and any other material which exhibits good wearing characteristics and which possesses the required degree of flexibility may be used instead.
Depending from the base 53 is an elongate tapered section 56 which terminates in a tapered edge 58. The direction of the taper of the edge 58 is opposite to the direction of the taper of the edges 22 of the seals of FIGS. 1 and 3. In FIGS. 1 and 3 a seal is achieved by having the skirt seal resting, in a curved configuration, on the surface of the belt 12. In the FIG. 4 arrangement however a seal is achieved by the tapered edge 58 being in contact with an opposing surface of the belt 12.
The material from which the skirt seal 52 is made is stiffer than the material from which the skirt seal 16 is made but on the other hand the skirt seal 52 is sufficiently flexible to permit it to bend about a lower edge 60 of the wall 50 when subjected to sideways loading by material on the belt 12. The base 53, fitting closely inside the track element, does not move relatively thereto, and thus the skirt seal can only move, under load by, bending about the edge 60. On the other hand the material is not so flexible that the tapered section 56 is capable of easily bending about a longitudinal axis when subjected to impact loads. Thus what happens is that when the belt 12 is laden, material in contact with the inner surface of the tapered section 56 urges the skirt seal outwardly thereby keeping the lower edge 58 in contact with the belt 12. The flexure of the section which takes place is allowed for and controlled by the dimensions of the tapered section 56 and the base 54 and by the length of the wall 50.
The tapered edge 58 is subjected to wear due, inter alia, to the relative movement between the belt and the seal. At regular intervals, the bolts 46 can be loosened and the entire skirt seal arrangement can be moved downwardly to compensate for the wear whereupon the bolts are tightened to secure the skirt seal in the desired position.
It is also possible to cater for the wear of the skirt seal in other ways. For example, the skirt seal could be supported by any means which constantly exerts a downwardly directed force which urges the tapered edge 58 into contact with the belt 12. It is possible in this respect to make use of springs or extensible piston and cylinder arrangements. For example, springs may act between the angle member 44 and the track element 14 to urge the track element downwardly relatively to the angle member. Alternatively, a spring may act between the angle member 44 and the bracket 40 or the wall 10 to urge the angle member downwardly relatively to the wall. Another possibility is to make use of hydraulic or pneumatic cylinders which may be activated constantly or on demand to apply downwardly directed forces to the skirt seal arrangement.
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The verdict is in: Pacific Rim is most certainly a movie you should see. It’s garnered a thumbs up from critics and even Kanye West sang the movie’s praises (though we’re sure he at least let the movie finish).
But under the very enjoyable surface of big cool robots fighting big cool monsters, this film is a love letter. It’s packed full of homages, references, and influences that were near and dear to the hearts of the writers and director Guillermo del Toro. Some are obvious and a few are a little harder to pick out amid all the action.
For those who aren’t gamers, Portal is a franchise of popular videogames based around shooting a portal gun to solve various physics puzzles. Put out by American developers Valve, the game earned devoted followers for its wit, clever gameplay, and for its villain, an evil AI named GLaDOS. GLaDOS, short for Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, is a malicious computer that provides cruel and deceptive instructions and is most known by “her” distinct computerized voice—a sound that made many fans sit up in their seats when they heard it in the Pacific Rim trailers. (Yes, the voice of the computer system to the robots, Jagers in the film, is the same voice actress who voiced GLaDOS.) Del Toro had to get special permission from Valve and copped to the inside joke, saying in an interview with the Toronto Sun: “I wanted very much to have her, because I’m a big Portal fan. But just as a wink.” He also went on to clarify that in the movie, GLaDOS was benevolent, not seeking to kill the pilots like her evil game counterpart. Observant viewers may also note that the portal in the sea that the monsters—the Kaiju—escape from is ringed blue and orange, the same colors of the portals from the game.
It might not be such a coincidence that Del Toro was also slated to helm an H.P. Lovecraft movie. The monstrous Kaiju in the film could easily pass for Lovecraft’s Elder Gods, a race of hideous monsters, the most famous of which is Cthulhu, who comes from the sea. One ongoing Lovecraft theme was the cosmic horrors that would cross over from other dimensions and the spaces between to wreak havoc on any humans unfortunate enough to come across them, not unlike Pacific Rim’s Kaiju.
Mecha has always been a popular genre in Japanese animation and has flourished simply because it’s much easier to draw giant robots rather than film them. From Macross to Gundam, the mecha genre has been around for decades. In an interview after a screening of Pacific Rim at LACMA Thursday, Del Toro copped to being influenced by one of the earliest mecha animes, Gigantor, a 1964 series in which a large metal robot fought crime. Yet many have been quick to point to another show as the spiritual ancestor of Pacific Rim: Neon Genesis Evangelion, the most famous anime of the ’90s. In it, the world is devastated by an attack known as the First Impact, which was caused by aliens dubbed “angels,” who a band of teens must fight in giant robots in order to fend off the apocalypse. Like in Pacific Rim, the monsters become increasingly difficult to fight and the pilots suffer tremendous mental stress to pilot the robots, called Evas. In the universe of Eva, the primary language is Japanese with select organizations Nerv and Seele being in German, drawing comparison to the Kaiju (Japanese for monster) and Jagers (German for hunter). While Del Toro has denied the Evangelion connection, the film’s screenwriter, Travis Beaham, has admitted to being a fan and putting some nods in the film, perhaps the knife used by Jager Gypsy Danger in one battle that bears a striking similarity to a knife wielded by the Evas. The two-pilot system in the film may also sound familiar to fans of tabletop RPs, particularly the Evangelion-inspired game Bliss Stage, in which two people with a connection pilot a robot and the closeness of their relationship correlates to their performance in battle.
Japanese Monster (Kaiju) Films
Not surprisingly, Japanese monster movies, known as kaiju films, had an big impact on the making of Pacific Rim. There is an obvious parallel to Godzilla, a mega monster movie that at times empathizes with the monster. Many shots of the fights throughout the city echo Godzilla and other Japanese monster movies, perhaps because parts of the fights were done with models rather than computer generation. As far as other specific Japanese monster movies, Del Toro has mentioned Frankenstein Conquers the World and the sequel, War of the Gargantuas, the latter of which features two giant monsters clashing. A large, violent green monster that comes from the ocean must do battle against an equally huge, but docile brown monster amid the buildings of Tokyo. To those who have seen the Pacific Rim, the opening of Gargantuas—in which the good giant saves a ship— should be a clear wink to the classic monster movie.
Whether you’ve seen Pacific Rim, are about to go see it, or are revving up to go see it again (it’s that good), you can appreciate how much care went into the production of bringing so many diverse pieces of pop culture to life in a battle that is simultaneously a throwback and a new adventure.


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Biofar Calcium Vitamin D3
- This is a bone structure strengthening supplement.
- It contains Calcium, Vitamin D3 and Vitamin C.
- Each package contains 20 tablets.
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* Priority delivery is available for orders placed between 9am - 5pm and same day delivery is available for orders placed between 12am - 5pm.
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BIOFAR Calcium-Vitamin D3 provides a specific formulation whose active ingredients contribute to maintaining normal bone structure and teeth (Calcium – Vitamin D3) and support normal collagen formation to ensure bone, teeth and cartilage function (Vitamin C). Vitamin D3 also participates in the normal absorption, use and blood concentration of Calcium.
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Coaches demonstrate positive coaching principles, superior sportsmanship, and personal integrity
Studies indicate that coaches have the greatest effect on how players learn and play sports. The Saskatoon Field Lacrosse Association is committed to attracting and retaining coaches who demonstrate positive coaching principles, superior sportsmanship, and personal integrity. Coaches will be encouraged and supported in their efforts to continually improve their own effectiveness by attending coaching clinics and receiving regular feedback.
Every player has a right to enjoy their experience with the sport of lacrosse and to learn positive character lessons that will help them in every aspect of their life. We expect our coaches to embody the following principles:
If you are interested in coaching please reach out to firstname.lastname@example.org to be put in touch with the appropriate person.

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90’s Music Revival & Major Band Reunions in 2016
The best performers always leave you wanting more, but these artists made us wait waaaay too long! We’ve been hoping that they’d get back together, plan another tour, release a new song—anything.
Well now the wait is finally over, and we’re gonna be first in line to see these revival and reunion shows coming soon.
The new wave masters are bringing their synths, guitars, and eyeliner to North America for the first time in eight years. Their 30-stop tour will treat fans from coast to coast to era-defining hits like “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Just Like Heaven,” and “Lovesong.”
— Duran Duran (@duranduran) January 22, 2016
Fans have been jonesing for the synthpop hitmakers to hit the road again, and the beloved British quartet has something truly special planned this time around: fans who buy select tickets to their 2016 North American tour also get a free CD copy of their new album, Paper Gods. Take a stroll down memory lane with Duran Duran fashion through the decades.
The original monsters of metal will bid a bittersweet farewell to their fans on their upcoming The End tour. This is your last chance to hear headbanging anthems like “Ironman,” “War Pigs,” and “Sweet Leaf” live, and you know we’ll be there.
Almost tour kickoff for our final tour ever, THE END! pic.twitter.com/XJnJd5JPN0
— BlackSabbath (@BlackSabbath) January 19, 2016
— Guns N' Roses (@gunsnroses) January 5, 2016
Fans couldn’t contain their excitement when Axl and Slash announced they were getting back together for Coachella 2016, but now it looks like there’s more. They’ve already signed on to play a couple Vegas shows, and we’re hoping they won’t stop there.
For those about to rock, we salute you! We’ll be breakout out our best air guitars to rock out to “Back in Black,” “You Shook Me All Night Long,” and “Thunderstruck” on AC/DC’s 2016 US and European tour.
Next month marks the 41st anniversary of our debut album ‘High Voltage’! Turn up the amps & rock it all over again: https://t.co/CC754CaskP
— AC/DC (@acdc) January 25, 2016
Radiohead keeps fans eternally hoping for more brilliant music, and the boundary-pushing rockers are about to make those dreams come true as they embark on their first tour since 2012 and continue working on a new LP—which will obviously be amazing.
LCD Soundsystem won us over with punky dance tracks like “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House,” then shocked us when they called it quits in 2011. Now they’re back working on a new album and headlining Coachella—and we’re polishing our dancing shoes.
While we loved The Mars Volta and Sparta, we always hoped that At the Drive-In would reunite so we could throw down like in the good old days. The post-hardcore masters must have read our minds, because they’re back in 2016 touring and working on new music.
The Goo Goo Dolls scored big in the ’90s with alternative hits like “Iris,” “Slide,” and “Name.” Though they never split up, they haven’t released a new album since 2013’s Magnetic, which is why we’re so excited they’re dropping Boxes in 2016 and teaming up with Collective Soul for their upcoming summer tour.
— Goo Goo Dolls (@googoodolls) March 21, 2016
It’s been almost four years since Korn released an album, and we can’t wait to get their savage brand of nu metal back in our lives. Luckily we won’t have to—they’re co-headlining The Return of the Dreads Tour this summer with headbanger Rob Zombie (who’s rumored to be working on an album of his own).
— Korn (@Korn) March 11, 2016
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The statue of St. Wenceslas on Wenceslas Square in Prague is a symbol of Czech statehood. The monument is a group of statues of patrons of the Czech Republic. In addition to the statue of the most important of them, Wenceslas, the sculptures of St. Prokop, St. Agnieszka Czeska, St. Ludmila and St. Adalbert. The sculpture is made of bronze, measures 7.2 mi and reaches its own weight of about 5.5 tons.
St. Wenceslas Monument was built at the site of an earlier monument to this saint who was transferred to Visegrad. Its author is a Czech sculptor from the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Josef Václav Myslbek. He worked on the monument for over thirty years. The co-authors were architect Alois Dryák and sculptor Celda Klouček.
The first three figures were made in 1912, while the statue of St. Wojciech was not finished until 1924. The monument was officially unveiled in 1913, despite the lack of image of Saint. Adalbert. In later years, St. Wenceslas Monument was successively enlarged, further elements were added.


Author: Christina Echegaray
Sep. 27, 2021—Vanderbilt's Meg Rush, MD, MMHC, spoke to several members of Congress recently and painted a vivid picture of the toll the virus has taken on children in Tennessee and at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
Sep. 17, 2021—Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been awarded a five-year, $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to serve as a center of excellence for Maternal and Pediatric Precision in Therapeutics.
Sep. 15, 2021—Vanderbilt has opened a state of the art maternal fetal clinic to help expectant parents navigate the difficult decision-making process for babies at risk for or born with birth defects or abnormalities.
Sep. 2, 2021—Middle Tennessee home builder Willow Branch Homes has donated one of their new homes to raffle off in support of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
Aug. 26, 2021—Children and young adults who are obese are at greater risk for malignant thyroid nodules, according to new study from Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
Jul. 22, 2021—A decade’s worth of data shows that neonatologists are shifting the type of respiratory support they utilize for preterm infants, a move that could lead to improved health outcomes.
Jun. 29, 2021—Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt patient Madeline Heard served as the virtual patient ambassador for the Iroquois Steeplechase on Saturday, June 26.
Jun. 15, 2021—Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt has once again been named a national leader in pediatric health care, earning the distinction as the No. 1 pediatric hospital in Tennessee, and in a new regional ranking, sharing first place in the Southeast Region, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Children’s Hospital rankings.
Patient of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt first in world to receive new investigational gene editing therapy
Jun. 3, 2021—A 9-year-old patient of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is the first in the world to receive an investigational gene editing therapy for Methylmalonic Acidemia (MMA), a rare genetic disorder diagnosed at birth.
Apr. 21, 2021—Zachary Warren, PhD, professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Special Education, has been named director of the Division of Developmental Medicine in the Vanderbilt Department of Pediatrics. His appointment began April 1.


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Introduction: Social dysfunction is among the most prominent features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as well as many other developmental and neuropsychiatric conditions. What precise neuronal mechanisms are disrupted in ASD, however, are unknown. The goal of this study is to provide a basic cellular-level understanding and treatment model for ASD.
Methods: We developed an alternating appetitive/aversive paradigm in which socially-paired mice experienced both acute stress and food reward while we simultaneously recorded neuronal activity from medial prefrontal cortex. We compared WT to SHANK3 -/+ mice as a model of ASD, to explore the neuronal correlates socially relevant information and its dysfunction.
Results: Individual medial prefrontal neurons in SHANK3 -/+ mice displayed markedly different response profiles compared to that of WT. Specifically, neurons in SHANK3 -/+ mice demonstrated little differential response when presented with another unfamiliar mouse or nonsocial totem undergoing the same condition. However, in trials where the recorded mouse and a familiar mouse both receive a negative (painful) stimulus, SHANK3 -/+ mice demonstrated a significantly attenuated firing rate in response to the conspecific mouse, while the WT mice did not show any such differences. This attenuation was not observed when the other mice received positive (rewarding) stimuli.
Conclusions: Our study reveals some of the basic neuronal coding mechanisms that are disrupted in ASD. In particular, they demonstrate that, at the cellular level, autistic mice lack the neuronal-equivalent of an “empathic” response compared to wild-type. This neuronal response may provide a foundational mechanism for egocentric behavioral often found in ASD and suggests a basic model for testing neurobiologically plausible treatments for individuals with autism.
Patient Care: This research explores neuronal mechanisms underlying behavioral characteristics of autism spectrum disorder and may broaden our understanding of this condition, allowing for potential autism treatments down the line.
Learning Objectives: 1) Wild-type and SHANK3 -/+mice demonstrate differential responses towards other mice based on whether the other mouse is conspecific or non-conspecific.
2) Under neutral conditions, both wild-type and SHANK3 -/+mice demonstrate an enhanced firing rate in response to a conspecific mouse receiving a painful stimulus.
3) Under painful conditions, SHANK3 -/+ mice exhibit an attenuated “empathetic” response, suggesting a neural mechanism in the medial prefrontal cortex that underlies egocentric characteristics that are a hallmark of autism spectrum disorders.

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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Here is a 6x6 panel I made to fit onto a page using the Aspen level 2 paper pack.
The panel was interactive with a lift up panel showing the 2nd photo and then opened like a boox to show the hidden journalling.
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- Show the agreement between the Zenith Path Delays (ZPDs) estimated by the EPN Analysis Centres (ACs)
- Visualize potential periodic signals
- Reflect changes in, e.g. used options, analysis procedures etc.
- EPN ACs are estimating ZPDs on a daily basis
- These estimates are combined to create the EPN combined (mean) ZPD solution considering the biases (provided in this plot) between the individual solutions
- The resulting daily biases show the agreement of the ACs solutions to each other and to the combined ZPD solution
- Results from GPS weeks 834 (1996) until 1824 (2014) are by default based on EPN-repro2 results.
- Results from GPS weeks 1825 (2015) until present are coming from the routine data analysis.
- Note that the number and composition of the ACs contributing to the combined solution for this station may differ between reprocessing and routine operation.

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Although many people think living in Florida is non-stop paradise, there are definitely draw backs. There’s the never-ending frizzy hair, the horrendous driving conditions caused by tourists and snowbirds, and perhaps, worst of all, the complete lack of a proper soup season. Yes, there is a lot to be said for flip flops year round, but eating a hot pot of soup/chili/stew with the A/C blasting should be a crime!
Needless to say, as a Florida transplant to Tennessee, I not only love the fall, I’m actually IN love with it! There’s just something about a crisp morning spent on the front porch or a walk through the park as leaves change color before your eyes that can’t be matched. And there’s nothing better than a weekend full of football accompanied by a hot, delicious pot of fall chili.
I stole this recipe from my mother-in-law when we moved to Franklin a year ago, and it’s become a staple in our house. This recipe makes a big batch that’s perfect for inviting the neighbors over, or simply saving for lunch leftovers throughout the week. And, truth be told, because this is one of the easiest, most satisfying recipes in my arsenal, it pops up even on the summer menu from time to time.
Here’s a quick run down for my favorite fall chili!
What You’ll Need:
- 1 lb ground beef (Splurge for the grassfed and your tastebuds will thank you!)
- 1 medium white onion, chopped
- 1 medium green bell pepper, chopped
- 4 cups organic tomato juice
- 4 cans organic dark red kidney beans, drained
- 2 jars Tabasco chili starter. You can spice your chili up by using the hotter varieties if you’d like!
- Shredded sharp cheddar, sour cream, saltine crackers to garnish
What to Do:
1. In a stock pot, lightly sauté the onion and bell pepper in a little bit of oil
2. Make a well and brown your beef
3. Add beans, tomato juice, and jars of starter spices
4. Simmer on low for 45-minutes to 2-hours. (You can actually just heat long enough to warm through completely, but I find the longer it simmer, the better it tastes)
We have a lot of football to watch, so we’d love to know what some of your favorite, easy fall recipes are!

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Festival Number 6 is a unique and wonderful festival held in the stunning Portmeirion in North Wales (the setting for The Village in the 1960s cult TV programme The Prisoner). Last weekend saw the festival celebrate its fourth year and arguably its biggest yet, with weekend tickets selling out and Grace Jones playing on the final night.
This was my first festival, and to be honest, I don’t think I could have asked for anything better. Festival Number 6 is random, unexpected, eccentric and utterly charming. I think 2014 headliner Beck summed it up perfectly when he called it ‘the coolest, most surrealist, funkiest, freakiest, best festival in the world…’
There is so much I could mention in this post on the highlights of the weekend, from a floating dance-floor to an illuminated drumming troupe and everything in between. However, as this is a music blog I am going to discuss my musical highlights of the weekend.
The first act I saw the whole weekend, and the one I was most excited (ahem, desperate) to see was Shura. Known for her 80s inspired synth pop I was excited to see how her electro style would transfer to the live sphere and she certainly did not disappoint. Having gained a serious online following with tracks such as ‘Touch’, there is a lot of buzz surrounding Shura and, as a huge fan of her work, I was so happy to discover that she is worth the hype. Her performance was slick and tight as she smoothly transitioned between her well-known tracks such as ‘Indecision’ and new material. Her cover of Fine Young Cannibals’ ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ was superb, epitomising her 80s influences but also how she has brought these influences into the modern day in her own unique way. Finishing on my favourite track of the year, ‘White Light’, an already fantastic song was brought to a whole new existential level. I absolutely loved it and did not want it to end.
A few hours later, Kate Tempest played to a packed out tent of one of the most mismatched crowds I saw at the whole festival. From eager hipster teenagers, to young professionals and men in their 50s and 60s, Tempest certainly drew a varied crowd. Admittedly, I am not too familiar with her music but as soon as she came on stage I found her absolutely entrancing. Her words really got under your skin: ‘One man’s flash of lightning ripping through the air/Is another’s passing glare’ and she really was magnetic.
Another band I was really excited to see at the festival were Everything Everything. Playing their last UK festival, they seemed very appreciative of the great crowd in the iStage tent and played to this their full advantage, inviting us to join in with many choruses. The atmosphere was electric, especially when the crowd may as well have erupted when ‘Distant Past’ came on (seriously, that song is insane live). The new material from the incredible ‘Get To Heaven’ sounded fantastic, ‘Fortune 500’ in particular making an impact in its chilling beauty. It was an absolute privilege to hear so many tracks from this wonderful album live.
Moving onto headliners, Friday night’s headliners Metronomy were slick, fun and got everyone dancing, whether you knew their music or not. Their in sync outfits and dancing made it even more enjoyable as they brought their quirky new wave pop to the main stage. Announcing it would their last show for a while, I felt very lucky to have witnessed their unique blend of 70s sounding joyful indie-electronic pop.
Saturday night saw Belle and Sebastian headlining the main stage and while I heard some audience members arguing they were too mellow or inappropriate for a Saturday night, I felt they were a perfect match for the festival. Their charming indie pop appeals to all generations and with beautiful visuals and members of the audience being invited onto the stage near the end, it was impossible to not be enchanted by the band’s performance.
However, Sunday night’s headliner truly eclipsed Metronomy and Belle and Sebastian in terms of legend status and pure spectacle. Grace Jones provided the perfect finale to an incredible weekend with her blend of star power, with a costume change for each song of course, and selection of hits. Chatting to the crowd while offstage changing outfits, you really felt like you were in the presence of musical royalty. When she teased that she did not want to go home and asked ‘is there a curfew?’, the audience shouted ‘no!’ and you could tell that they meant it. As I was watching her I found it hard to believe that she is 67 years old as she kicked on beat in her huge heels and hula hooped through the entirety of ‘Slave to the Rhythm’. The final explosions of confetti and pyrotechnics cemented this performance as one I will never forget.
These musical highlights of the festival were truly wonderful, but it was the variety of music wherever you went, whether it was a DJ in the woods or a random band singing on the piazza about Condoleeza Rice (I’m not even joking), that made the weekend so special for me. I can’t wait to go back again. Festival Number 6, be seeing you.

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Odisha to bring legislation to benefit sharecroppers: Damodar Rout
Baripada: With farmers’ suicide being reported in Odisha, state Cooperation Minister Damodar Rout today said the state government was contemplating to bring a legislation to help the sharecroppers.
“As the sharcroppsers do not get any bank loans and compensation but sustain loss in the calamities, the new legislation will make provision for benefiting them,” Rout said while addressing a function here marking observation of cooperation week in Mayurbhanj district.
Rejecting the allegation levelled by the opposition that crop loss and debt burden were reasons behind the farmers suicide, Rout reiterated his previous statement that farmers in Odisha live with pride and never commit suicide.
“The farmers of Odisha know the art of survival during calamities like flood, drought and cyclone,” the minister said.
Meanwhile, a high level committee, headed by Cooperation Department secretary with senior officials from Revenue and Disaster Management and Odisha State Cooperative Banks managing director will soon visit Andhra Pradesh to study the policy framework on tenancy rights.