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At the risk of being called yet another Chicken Little media type, the simple truth about the Toronto Maple Leafs season is that it comes down to January. Specifically, the nine home games the Leafs play between Tuesday and Jan. 23.
If they cannot stop the slide that began in December in those nine games, all but two of which are against fellow playoff seekers in the NHL's Eastern Conference, then it will likely mean a seventh consecutive finish out of the playoffs. The NHL's unforgiving three-point system only rarely allows teams out of contention by the all-star break to fight their way back in and that only happens if they can win at a pace approaching .700 over the rest of the season.
The Globe and Mail's James Mirtle, the mad Tweeter, uses an exchange between Leaf captain Dion Phaneuf and assistant coach Greg Cronin to illustrate just how tense things are when it comes to the team's defensive shortcomings.
Boiling these troubles, which include a penalty killing unit that should be in the witness-protection program, down to a single word means this – goaltending.
Aside from James Reimer's nice little run between January and April of last year, the Maple Leafs have not had all-star calibre goaltending since 2004, when Ed Belfour's back was still healthy. That also happens to be the last year the Leafs made the playoffs.
By the end of the 1997-98 season, the Leafs were a mediocre team with one star, Mats Sundin, that finished out of the playoffs. They signed Curtis Joseph in the summer of 1998 to play goal and went to the 1998-99 Eastern Conference final.
Joseph stuck around for four seasons, followed by Belfour for two more. In those six years, the Leafs made the playoffs every year, hit 100 points or more three times, never had less than 90 points and went to two conference championships. With a little better luck with injuries, they could have made the 2002 Stanley Cup final.
Since then, Leaf management, whether it was headed by John Ferguson or Brian Burke, has a history of hastily deciding someone is the next Joseph and giving up too much in a trade for that person or giving him too much in the way of a contract. So it went with Andrew Raycroft, Vesa Toskala and, to a certain extent, J.S. Giguere.
The pattern was continued when Reimer was given a three-year contract for $1.8-million (all currency U.S.) last summer and anointed the No. 1 goaltender. Actually, the pattern kicked in a little earlier when Burke outbid several other NHL teams for Jonas Gustavsson in 2009.
Since then, Reimer has not been able to come close to the goaltender he was a year ago. Getting bonked on the head by Montreal Canadiens forward Brian Gionta is part of it but even when he is 100 per cent healthy, as the Leafs claim he is now, Reimer has not been good.
Neither has Gustavsson, at least consistently good. At least he has the excuse that head coach Ron Wilson, who is still looking for his first win since that big contract extension tweet on Christmas Day, never used him enough to let him find that consistency.
That may change beginning Tuesday against the Tampa Bay Lightning, if Gustavsson can post a win.
But this much is sure – none of the Leaf woes, from their penalty killing to their self-destructive tendencies in their own end, will stop until a goaltender starts stopping pucks.


On May 16, 2014, the Eleventh Circuit became the first federal appeals court to define "instrumentality" as it is used in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act's definition of "foreign official." In upholding the convictions of two individuals, the Eleventh Circuit held that any entity can qualify as an "instrumentality" of a foreign government – making its employees "foreign officials" to whom the Act prohibits payments – so long as the entity is (1) "controlled by the government of a foreign country" and (2) "performs a function the controlling government treats as its own." United States v. Esquenazi, No. 11-15331 (11th Cir. May 16, 2014). The court rejected the defendants' arguments that only entities that perform "traditional, core government functions" can qualify as instrumentalities, and agreed with the government that even companies performing commercial services can qualify as instrumentalities.
With respect to the "control" element, the Eleventh Circuit provided a non-exclusive list of factors to consider:
- The foreign government's formal designation of that entity.
- Whether the government has a majority interest in the entity.
- The government's ability to hire and fire the entity's principals.
- The extent to which the entity's profits, if any, go directly into the governmental fisc, and, by the same token, the extent to which the government funds the entity if it fails to break even.
- The length of time these indicia have existed.
With respect to the "functional" element, the Eleventh Circuit suggested that companies, courts and juries should weigh:
- Whether the entity has a monopoly over the function it exists to carry out.
- Whether the government subsidizes the costs associated with the entity providing services.
- Whether the entity provides services to the public at large in the foreign country.
- Whether the public and the government of that foreign country generally perceive the entity to be performing a governmental function.
The Eleventh Circuit stated that the company at issue in Esquenazi, a Haitian telephone company known as Telecommunications D'Haiti, S.A.M. (Teleco), would qualify as an "instrumentality" of the Republic of Haiti under any definition it could craft. It noted in particular testimony that during the time period in question: (a) the Haitian president appointed the chief executive and all of the board members, (b) the equivalent of the central bank of Haiti owned a majority of the shares, and (c) Teleco was generally considered a public entity.
As a practical matter, strong anti-corruption compliance programs seek to prevent any bribery whether of a foreign official or an employee of a private foreign company. Accordingly, whether an entity is an "instrumentality" under the FCPA is most often a concern when businesses are considering entering into commercial relationships with employees of such entities, or entities owned or controlled by such employees (or their family members). However, given U.S. and multinational enforcement priorities, the risks of doing any business with such persons increases dramatically if they could be considered "foreign officials."
In Esquenazi, the Eleventh Circuit blithely suggested that consideration of the "objective factors" it listed should make it "relatively easy" for U.S. companies doing business abroad to assess whether an entity is an "instrumentality" – particularly in light of the Advisory Opinion process. But even if a particular transaction could await an Advisory Opinion, any resulting Opinion would be expressly conditioned on the accuracy and completeness of the information provided. Those experienced in international business understand how difficult it remains to obtain reliable ownership and similar information in many foreign countries.
Companies will need to continue to be cautious in dealing with employees of any entities that have some level of foreign government control or ownership, and it remains to be seen whether the Eleventh Circuit's "objective factors" will alleviate or only aggravate the confusion about which persons are "foreign officials" under the FCPA.


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Nintendo Switch Console With Neon Blue & Red Joy-con
In Australia with standardized pricing for the European marketplace varying. The set consists of a Switch console, a dock, left and ideal Joy-Con controllers and accompanying straps, a Joy-Con grip, an AC energy adapter and an HDMI cable. There have been two Switch bundles offered at launch, 1 with grey Joy-Con and one particular with neon red and blue Joy-Con. Nintendo feared that a larger price would harm sales, which prompted them to not incorporate any added hardware or games.
The game is delightful and terrific for fans of The Sims or Stardew Valley. It’s very simple, friendly, and packed complete of customization choices. You have complete manage of your character’s look, their household, and even the geography of the island that you reside on.
Saffron has been freelancing for more than 5 years, specializing in the copywriting and inventive writing market. She has studied a Bachelor of Creative Writing at Deakin University and has majored in Journalism at RMIT University. “And eventually the customer is going to make the choice of when the life cycle of a console slows,” Piscatella added. The GameCube’s shortcomings have generally been easy to focus on basically due to the fact it’s really hard not to visualize what this console could have been if just a couple of the additional clear flaws had been addressed. You know, we can in fact save a tiny time talking about the GameCube’s failures as we previously took an substantial look at the console’s shortcomings in an article focused on how the GameCube produced Nintendo a small cynical. Verify it out if you want to be reminded of the lots of strategies this was not a best console.
Of course, a significant part of the purpose why persons wanted to be capable to see the GBA screen a bit superior was that the GBA had so lots of wonderful games. With that out of the way, let’s talk about which Nintendo console is really the best. Nonetheless, it appears the organization is expecting 2022 to be a bit more of a struggle when it comes to promoting consoles as a outcome of ongoing chip shortages.
Yet another of gaming’s greatest consoles ever is the Nintendo Game Boy. Believed of and designed by the identical team behind the Game & Watch, the Game Boy combined attributes of the initial handheld with swappable cartridges like the NES to generate one particular of the finest promoting consoles ever. Sales of the Game Boy and Game Boy Colour are estimated at about 120 million units. The NES was initially marketed as the Family members Personal computer, or Famicom in Japan, but was released as NES in North America at CES 1985. Launch titles included Super Mario Bros, Ice Climber, Pinball and Duck Hunt. You could choose up a console with a copy of Super Mario Bros for $99 or a Deluxe Set, which incorporated two games and several accessories, for $199.99.
Regardless of whether you happen to be new to the series or an old pro, we highly advise Metroid Dread. This double pack bundles two of the very best Sonic games in recent memory onto a single cartridge at a bargain value look here. Platform by means of some outstanding retro-style levels in Sonic Mania, then rally with each other with good friends to cross the finish line initial in Team Sonic Racing.
Immediately after the conclusion of the acquisition in October 2022, Dymano was rebranded as Nintendo Images Co., Ltd. In 2018, Shuntaro Furukawa replaced Kimishima as company president, and in 2019, Doug Bowser succeeded Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé. In April 2019, Nintendo formed an alliance with Tencent to distribute the Nintendo Switch in China starting in December. In April 2020, ValueAct Capital Partners announced an acquisition of $1.1 billion in Nintendo stock purchases, giving them an general stake of two% in Nintendo. The constructing belongs to Yamauchi Co., Ltd., an asset management business of Nintendo’s founding family members. It was further reported that the original 19th-century headquarters was apparently demolished and turned into a parking lot.
This makes the knowledge of working with the console a great deal additional seamless. The Nintendo Switch is a terrific console—part living room program, component transportable device, and all Nintendo. Even though the Switch isn’t as packed with additional features and apps as other modern day consoles are, there are nonetheless several items it does not tell you. Here’s what you have to have to know to get the most out of your new Switch.
It correctly turns your Nintendo Switch into a NES Classic Minior SNES Classic Mini. (Pocket-lint) – TheNintendo Switchhas its own, paid subscription service which is needed for on line play. To play with your pals on-line in “Play with Buddies” or to play in on-line matchmaking in “Play Globally” you do need to have a subscription to Nintendo Switch On the net.
Nintendo raised its Switch sales expectation to 14 million units for the fiscal year. With these changes, Nintendo projected that it would sell at least ten million Switch consoles for the duration of the 2017 fiscal year, alongside 35 million games. The Switch did not launch with any multimedia-oriented features, such as a internet browser, a messaging program or assistance for video streaming solutions. The industrial failure of the Wii U also pressured Nintendo in the Switch’s development. According to Fils-Aimé, when it became apparent that the Wii U’s life cycle efficiency would underperform the company’s expectations, the Switch became a “make or break solution” for Nintendo. The Hulu app for the Switch is effortless to use and quite comparable to the Hulu mobile app.
Mario Paint players can draw images, produce music, and navigate by means of a series of mini-games in the unusual title. It’s challenging to not make correlations amongst Mario Paint’s revolutionary ideas and the a lot of creation-driven games that have followed. Does not rather really feel made for the Nintendo Switch in the way it was ideal for the Wii U, but it is nevertheless a excellent piece of computer software. It makes level style accessible for absolutely everyone and has a massively beefed-up single-player mode. Not too much has changed, but Mario Kart eight is about as definitive as it gets.

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The Times October 11, 2006
… taxpayers’ money. Mark Borkowski, a PR and marketing expert, said: “The people who use MySpace are not going to fall for this. Things …
Backing for spoof band to the tune of £2.4m
By David Brown
NOT since Spinal Tap spoofed the excess of the rock’n’roll lifestyle has a more surreal band been foisted on the public.
In a £2.4 million marketing campaign the Government has formed a 1980s-style rock group to lecture the public on the risks of back pain.
The band, Bäackpain, has its own profile on MySpace, the social networking website, complete with blogs, video downloads and posters. It is being promoted in a nationwide newspaper, poster and radio campaign, which will make it one of the most recognisable bands in the country.
But the attempt by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to make back pain fashionable was met yesterday with derision. The band is, of course, a spoof invented to front the HSE’s Better Backs campaign, which launched on Monday. The band members’ names should be a clue: Kylie Crouch (vocals), David Bent (bass), Stoop Williams (drums) and Ben Yorney (guitar). Perhaps the HSE was inspired by Tony Blair who played guitar in a university band and who has been troubled by a bad back while Prime Minister.
By using MySpace, owned by the parent company of The Times, to promote the group the Government is attempting to tap into the cache of the site that launched the careers of musicians such as Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen and Sandi Thom. However, critics have derided the campaign as being a waste of taxpayers’ money.
Mark Borkowski, a PR and marketing expert, said: “The people who use MySpace are not going to fall for this. Things like this work when they are subtle and underplayed. This is completely over the top.”
Blair Gibbs, spokesman for the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “It is depressing to think that people in authority sat down and thought this was a good use of taxpayers’ money.”
Sue Kelly, of the Better Backs campaign, said it had decided to use a rock group to avoid focusing on people in specific jobs as 80 per cent of people will suffer back pain. “We tried out quite a few different things on focus groups and found that people enjoyed the humour of the rock group. It is not a subject normally associated with health and safety,” she said.

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Spring is here! And that also means it’s Show House season! Here in our backyard, The Pasadena Showcase House of Design opened April 22 and runs through May 20. Several of our talented design friends have put their magic touches on the house to make it all come together. See who’s involved and have a glimpse here with this LA Times coverage.
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Imagine you are watching the sunset somewhere in a cozy environment, feet up, birds chirping, sounds of flowing waters etc. Imagine the urge to open your Facebook account to let the world know how rosy your life is. While at it and on your “private” account, you make certain allegations to your acquaintances and former clients about business prospects you are venturing into and you get carried away at times. At that moment, you even conspire and tell people to keep things on the hush because you know the subjective impact of the nudging you just did. Your attitude may be “what could possibly go wrong”, besides, this is my private social account, and so, you become nonchalant and do it anyway. Well, that attitude may reflect negatively on you in law. If you continue reading, you will notice how Nieland’s private Facebook messages which were unlawfully obtained were used against him in what seems a bizarre turn of events. I will further discuss how and why that was so, just in case you find yourself typing away on social media platforms.
The facts herein are pretty straightforward, Harvey and Nieland were business partners and had registered and traded in a Close Corporation called Huntershill Safaris CC. Harvey held a 51% members’ interest and Nieland 49%. Their core business it seemed was to sell hunting tours. Nieland was employed as a professional hunter and safari guide. Well, they parted ways with simmering tensions but Nieland remained a member of the Close Corporation nonetheless. Harvey suspected foul play that Nieland was sabotaging Huntershill but could not prove it. He suspected that since he joined another gaming house called Thaba Thala as a farm manager, he was going to or is pouching Huntershill clients and breaching his fiduciary duties towards Huntershill in terms of Section 42 of the Close Corporation Act 69 of 1984.
So, Harvey approached his lawyers who directed a letter to Nieland, safe to mention there was quite a ping pong effect of letters. Eventually, Harvey’s lawyers requested that Nieland desists from disparaging Huntershill business activities, that he is in breach of his fiduciary duties alternatively breach of his restraint of trade. Nieland’s lawyers responded by denying the allegations but recorded that they will instruct Nieland not to engage in such activities. So, back at the ranch, one of Harvey’s employees muffled that they knew Nieland’s Facebook password. Just what Harvey needed, a chance to snoop on Nieland. They accessed quite a large number of incriminating data from Nieland’s Facebook profile (the so-called Annexure “G” in court papers), needless to say, that was unlawful.
Based on this “evidence”, Harvey then instructed his lawyers to file an urgent application to the Eastern Cape Division in which he requested the court to order Nieland to stop his shenanigans. The matter was heard by Plasket J who then had to determine merits regarding three things: 1. Urgency of the application, 2. Whether or not to strike out Annexure “G” to the Founding Affidavit and 3. Decide whether or not the Applicant deserves the relief claimed by Harvey.
So, without delving into the technicalities attached to the application itself, the court agreed with the urgency therein. Secondly, the court turned its focus to the infamous Annexure “G”. The court agreed that accessing Nieland’s Facebook page without authorization was a violation of his privacy (refer to Section 14(d) of the Constitution of 1996). I must say, Nieland’s answering affidavit must have made a meal of this assertion but there was a critical aspect that the court made reference to which tipped the scales in this matter. Section 86(1) of the Electronic Communication and Transaction Act 25 of 2002 (hereafter the Act) states:
(1) Subject to the Interception and Monitoring Prohibition Act, 1992 (Act No. 127 of 1992), a person who intentionally accesses or intercepts any data without authority or permission to do so, is guilty of an offence.
The shortcoming of the Act is that it is silent on the admissibility of such evidence as obtained through unscrupulous means. That said, the discretion then fell squarely on the court to make the decision in terms of common law and particularly, in civil cases irrespective of how the “evidence” was obtained. To add salt to injury, the answering affidavit where Nieland denied his activities together with his letters propelled a particular interest to the court. Consider the following if this picture is still murky, in civil proceedings, both parties are at liberty to choose the material they wish to discover in order to advance their case and in some instances, that material could be detrimental to their case. However, in criminal matters, the defendant does not have to discover anything. So this choice in civil matters further assisted Harvey’s case. Eventually, the court frowned at the attitude of Nieland, who had denied under oath such activity but now “proven” by this Annexure “G” and further hid behind the privacy clause in the Constitution. At the outset, it must be said that privacy is not an absolute right especially where you expose yourself to business and social interactions. As you can imagine, the privacy defense fell hollow and could not hold in light of the data contained in Annexure “G”. The court also considered what other legal options Harvey could have followed and opined they too, could not have assisted him for example, he could have sought Anton Pillar orders or filed the same application without Annexure “G”, sued damages arising from breach of fiduciary duties.
In the end, when confronted with an issue pertaining to allegations of impropriety relating to social media utterances, one ought to be circumspect before denying anything out of hand as there may be incriminating evidence that your opponent may have up their sleeve. There was brilliance in this instance to launch an application instead of action proceedings, possibly to circumvent speaking to the authenticity of the infamous Annexure “G”. So, the court literally looked at what Nieland had done by luring Huntershill clients through his posts in violation of his fiduciary duties, he lied in his answering affidavit contrary to Annexure “G” and ordered the admissibility of Annexure “G” despite the privacy clause defense, ordered costs against him and further interdicted Nieland to continue engaging in activities which amongst others violated his fiduciary duties to Huntershill. So, be careful what you say on Facebook and other similar channels of social media while idling with nothing much to do.
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Pickleball is one of the fastest growing recreation sports in the country! Now bring glow in the dark pickleball to your next event with our premier glow equipment.
All the equipment glows with our special blacklights. For best results the games should be played in a pitch dark room with player wearing as much neon and white as possible.
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Four students from Valencia High School’s Medical Sciences Academy traveled to Washington, D.C. to partake in the HOSA Washington Leadership Academy for future health professionals.
Juniors Lindsay Whalen and Kate Jetter joined sophomores Joy Peters and Tori Vatcher in our nation’s capital. The students attended several workshops on leadership, cultural understanding, and communication. Additionally, they toured historical monuments such as the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, Jefferson Monument, as well as the National Mall area.
The culminating event of this educational trip was speaking with representatives from Congressman Steve Knight’s staff. Students voiced their success stories with Career Technical Education classes taught through the Medical Sciences Academy and suggested that congress continue to fund CTE courses and training in the future.
Overall, the students walked away from this experience having gained knowledge about their leadership potential, how they can build positive relationships, and how to affect policy at a state and national level, which is knowledge they can use personally, professionally, and academically now and in their future medical careers.


Here are some of the first images at the runied Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that rendered it useless.
Recently, decommissioning work which began at the plant suffered a setback after its shape-changing robot stalled, hours into its mission to search for melted fuel. The mission had to be abandoned. The â€śtransformerâ€ť robot, which can alter its shape depending on its surroundings, was sent in to photograph the inside of the reactor containment vessel and record temperatures and radiation levels.
Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), the plantâ€™s operator said that the robot stopped moving last Friday during its first inspection of the containment vessel inside reactor No 1. However, in a glimmer of hope, the stranded robot collected data that indicates a path exists to send other robots deeper into the reactor.
Reactor no 1 was one of the three reactors that suffered a meltdown after the plant was struck by an Earthquake and a Tsunami in March 2011. TEPCO said on Monday that it would cut the cables to the stranded robot and postpone a similar inspection using a separate device. They also admitted that the technology for the robots to actually retrieve the nuclear fuel hasnâ€™t been developed yet.
Here's the video footage taken by the robot inside the reactor:


The relational database system of KM3NeT
1 Université de Strasbourg, Université de Haute Alsace, GRPHE, 34 rue du Grillenbreit, Colmar, 68008 France
2 University of Salerno, Dipartimento di Fisica, via Giovanni Paolo II 132, Fisciano 84084, Italy
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The KM3NeT Collaboration is building a new generation of neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea. For these telescopes, a relational database is designed and implemented for several purposes, such as the centralised management of accounts, the storage of all documentation about components and the status of the detector and information about slow control and calibration data. It also contains information useful during the construction and the data acquisition phases. Highlights in the database schema, storage and management are discussed along with design choices that have impact on performances. In most cases, the database is not accessed directly by applications, but via a custom designed Web application server.
© Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2016
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For the past week, I have been struggling with a concept that I see in my life and it seems to be in so many areas that are important to me. I wish that I knew how to formulate into words what has been “eating” at me, but I am still having trouble.
It is the idea that our perceptions are reality. I have my perceptions. I write about them on this blog because I find that everyone has their own perception of what it is like to be where my husband and I are in this journey.
As a parent, your perception of an insident may be that it was ”’cute” when your child behaved in a particular way. It was totally different as your child relates to you the same insident. I remember something like this between my dad and my brother.
My dad was changing a flat tire on the old Model T or A, I can’t remember which. My brother was always in my dad’s shadow and at 4 years old, he wanted to “help”. My dad, being the type of personality that he was, allowed his young son to tighten bolts on the car wheel. For whatever reason, my dad failed to go behind my brother and make sure that the wheel was tightened. So as they went down the road, the wheel came off and rolled down the road. My dad had a terrible temper and proceeded to “whip” my brother until he wet himself. (Today, the spankings and whippings that we all received would have resulted in my dad being arrested for child abuse. That was then. ) My dad put the wheel back onto the car and that was that.
When my dad told the story, he was chuckling and thought that it was a funny story, but I had heard this story before from my brother. He didn’t find it funny at all. In fact, it was a major reason why my brother was afraid of my dad and my grandfather most of his life.
Same story, different perspective. Today, we allow our perceptions to determine our reality and we make moral judgemnts based on our perceptions. It isn’t the perception that is so troubling as it is judgement that is passed upon your perception.
I experienced this kind of thing in regards to our wedding celebration. I made a decision based on my perception. Of course, our perceptions are formulated from the fact that cancer takes center stage in our life. It is the cause of our daily events and it is the major reality that we deal with.
I felt so bad when I didn’t realize that a decision I made regarding the Wedding hurt someone that I love very much. It hurt them and I felt like that the only thing to make it right was to cancel our celebration. It was a decision that my husband and I came to unanimously and at the same time. We stopped everything in its tract.
I realized that I had a terrible fear that if I offended those that I depend on, they may not be there when I need them the most. I walk on egg shells because of this fear and frankly, this fear takes away my individuality as a person. I hate being that dependent, but I am in a vulnerable situation and the fear of the unknown has great influence on me.
This terrible fear reduces me from being a confident and decisive person to being a sniffeling blog of a human being and I hate it. I hate living in fear of what is going to happen to me if my husband doesn’t survive. What if I am left totally alone without support or help when I can’t pay the light bill or even when I need help with the arraingements with my husband’s burial…
I live in such terrible terror and I am so tired of it. I have to find a way of living outside of this fear and I have to understand that the perception of others cannot influence what I know to be true.
With much encouragement, we have set the date of our celebration for February 2,2008. I hope that we can have this celebration of our love and more than that, of my husband’s life. He is not doing very well right now. He is tired and he sleeps alot now…He is becoming a shadow of the man that he was and it hurts to see this….that is the world of my perception and it is my reality.
All of this reminds me of my parents 50th Wedding Anniversary. We did not know that my mother was so ill. She was determined to have this celebration but the night of the celebration, she went to bed an never got up.
I received a call at work the next day and my mother was taken to the hospital and then tranferred up to IU Medical Center. She was diagnosed with late stage multiple melanoma. They gave her two years to live and they were right.
There were two things that enabled her to hold on. The celebration was one and the birth of my nieces second child was the next. Two days after the birth of her great grandson, my mom left this world. It is a testiment to her will. She wasn’t leaving until she saw that baby’s face.
I wonder if this isn’t the same with my husband. In the back of my mind, I wonder how long will he last after this celebration? He wants to give celebration to me as the final demonstration of his love….I am so humbled and I am so afraid. This will be in the back of my mind as I plan and anticipate this wonderful day…
In the midst of this joy, there is fear…I am so tired of living in the fear of the unknown, the fear of perception, the fear of his dying and most of all the fear of being alone….
Will I ever break out of the fears that are in these shadows and live again?…I wish that I knew….
I want to thank Roads at “Price of Love” and the Merry Widows site for their encouragement….I appreciate your help as I walk this journey. With your kindness, I know that whatever comes, I am not alone…..and I won’t lose heart.

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My dear friend Donald recently asked, under rather unusual circumstances I won’t go into just now, “How beautiful is beautiful, Kat?” He was speaking to my art, what he thought my life was all about .. And I realized during the course of our conversation that afternoon, more than ever before, that I wanted to be real in my body and to hopefully serve by what I call “OMGodding” all over the place ~ enthusing, whether through painting, writing, great conversations, healings or .. however things play out, in connecting to the light and its glorious rays. Reveling in Life through, in my case, art. A sense of de-crystallization, elegant dissolution following this exquisite hunger for the light, has pervaded the past few years for me—when I am aware, it is as though the Fabric of Everything comes endlessly through every moment, my soul pouring through my heart (Donald again) with passion and intoxication in every heartbeat. Traveling out and out to build on the light that’s been, by bringing in ever more expansiveness. Which somehow translates into joy, for me.
I wonder about you on your beautiful journeys these days .. What are you up to? How big and juicy and fun and full-out are you playing? How are your dreams shaping up, and are they what you really wanted? What are you discovering, or allowing yourself to see that is changing you and Life forever? Are you evermore the you you imagined being, when you were small? Or has everything changed so much since then, and since you often live at least two or three centuries in a day, that that is that not even relevant anymore?
Sending you all so much light and joy always,

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U.K. challenger bank Revolut seems to be expanding its cryptocurrency assets after silently adding the decentralized meme token Shiba Inu (SHIB) to its banking app.
Indeed, the fintech company, which has more than 15 million users, looks to have implemented a function that allows users to buy Shiba Inu Coin on its trading platform.
The Shiba community first became intrigued when Revolut modified their official Twitter handle’s cover picture. In the cover shot, the Shiba Inu Dog is seated in an office chair in front of a laptop. A slogan inscribed on the wall in the backdrop reads, “Never Settle.”

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One of our key ambitions for the children at Wicor is to inspire them to notice and ask questions about their world and to feel their own strong connections to the planet they are going to spend their lives on, writes headteacher Mark Wildman.
We have therefore spent the last five years shaping the school both inside and out, to create a challenging and inspiring learning environment that fosters curiosity and wonderment.
We now have a large allotment, a wildflower area for pollinators, an orchard with a newly-created wildflower meadow, camera obscura, pond, stumpery, tropical bed and two large polytunnels and greenhouses to germinate our seeds.
To help bring this to life in the classroom we have recently developed an Environmental Science curriculum which exploits our outdoor learning resources.
This curriculum ensures that children spend a good deal of their time investigating and learning about the environment through activities such as gardening and horticulture, cooking, art and poetry.
Every child gets to plant something from seed, to care for growing plants and then to harvest the end result whether it be a radish or a rose.
The children also help turn some of the produce into items for sale at Christmas and summer fairs by making everything from chutneys to lavender-scented bath bombs.
We have a team of community volunteers who work in the grounds helping the children understand the finer points of horticulture, for example, companion planting, soil types, pest control and plant propagation.
The community volunteers also support our four seasonal grounds days. We want the children to learn about the changes in their environment that occur throughout the year and to help this we have four seasonal grounds days.
We have just had our Spring Grounds Day. The theme of this day was ‘Trees’ and the school spent much of the day outside drawing, photographing and writing, as well as carrying out maintenance tasks and studying some science.
We usually have a bonfire going on these days and the children cook potatoes, marshmallows and corn on the cob.
Inspiring young minds is a constant process, so what next?
Apart from preparing for this year’s National Garden Scheme Open Days, we are creating a Jurassic Garden and preparing to take delivery of our first group of hens in September.
That will cause fresh wonderment and a whole new set of questions.

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The earnings warning that cable modem manufacturer
(Nasdaq:TERN) released in December was but the tip of a particularly large iceberg. The company not only missed its own moderate expectations. Today it appears that that things aren't going to get better in 2001.
Terayon's income for the fourth quarter of 2000 amounted to $62.9 million, in keeping with forcasts ranging from $60 million to $63 million. But its figures are a far down from the third quarter, which resulted in sales of $125 million.
The further down one travels along the financial statement, the grimmer the picture becomes. The bottom line is animated in red, showing a loss of 77 cents a share pro-forma, compared with 12 cents for Q4 1999. It looks as though investors are too disappointed. The stock nosedived 20% in after-bell trading.
Majestically missing its mark
Terayon did warn investors that losses would deepen. But even the most pessimistic analysts were caught off guard.
Terayon's severe warning issued in December 2000 guided that losses would range from 46 to 49 cents a share. The average earnings estimates on Wall Street were for 41 cents a share. Terayon majestically missed its mark with a loss of 77 cents a share.
As for net losses, Zaki Rakib, CEO and founder of Terayon, estimated a month ago that the company would report a $34 to $36 million loss, compared to net profit of 8.5 million for Q3 and a $3.3 million expected gains for Q4.
The unpleasant surprise was that without one-time expenses, the losses for Q4 were $50.8 million.
Terayon blamed its ills on diminished sales and profits on orders both slowing and canceled. It complains that customers are sitting on inventory and are therefore ordering less. This creates considerable uncertainty for the projected sales growth of 2001.
earnings warning for 2001, losses of 45 cents a share?
Rakib's latest news ia that results for first quarter 2001 are not going to restore investors' confidence either. At this time Terayon estimates that losses for Q1 2001 will reach 45 cents to 50 cents a share, and that income will continue shrinking and will amount to a mere $45 to $50 million. Analysts, who have had to update their estimates after December's warning, were hoping for a less drastic 33 cents loss.
Terayon reiterates the blame belongs to telcos hesitant to spend large amounts on infrastructure. In 2001, Rakib expects a pro forma loss of $120 to $120 million and income of $200 to $230 million. That's very low compared to a five month-old estimate by him that company sales for 2000 would reach $400 million. Now he informs investors that the company will not reach those figures in 2001 either.
During the Nasdaq heydays, Terayon looked good. It seemed to be Israel's standard-bearer in the global cable equipment market. The company took advantage of its good name, raising $500 million in corporate convertible debentures five months ago. Its offering was followed by a buying frenzy. Terayon bought no less that seven smaller Israeli and foreign companies. Among which were Imedia in July 99, Telegate and Radwiz in October 99, ComBox, in February 2000, and Intranet Telecom a month later. The final acquisition, Truechat, was completed all of two weeks ago.

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Paper number 143
|A STRENGTH ANALYSIS METHOD OF COMPOSITE PLATE WITH MULTIPLE BOLTED JOINTS|
Yang Xu1 , Zhang Yining1 , Xu Xiwu2
1Shenyang Aircraft Research Institute, Shenyang, 110035, P. R. China)
2Department of Aircraft Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, P. R. China
|Summary||In this paper, a very useful method for design calculations is proposed to analyze the strength of composite plates with multiple bolted joints. The method first transforms the problem into a complex potential value problem in anisotropic plane elasticity and then utilizes the Faber series expansion and the least squares boundary collocation techniques to obtain the series solutions of the stress concentration around holes in a finite composite laminated plate. Yamada-Sun point stress criterion and the characteristic length are used to predict the hole strength, so the calculations of the contact stress and the effect of material non-linearity, large displacement and stiffness reduction on the strength, which are complicated and yet very difficult to be simulated numerically, are not required. The method is then used to study the effect of the ply ratio and distance between bolts on the pin load distribution and bearing strength after the it is tested.
||Keywords|| laminate, pin load distribution, joint strength, joint parameter.
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Chapter 10: Ethernet Switch Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting is very important for a CCNA technician. In this chapter we see tools and methods that will help you identify and solve most network problems. Consider using the techniques in this chapter as a guide to logical problem-solving processes. The steps in this tutorial address computer connection problems in Cisco Command-Line Interface (CLI).
The process of troubleshooting help you the problem or the issue you are having. It makes you think in all the possible causes of it and test your skills as technicians. There are three basic steps in the troubleshooting process: Analyzing/Predicting normal operations-in this step you basically predict what should happen if the network is working correctly, based on documentation, ...view middle of the document...
CDP lend a hand to discover and/or confirm documentations by listening for advertisements sent by other devices. It usually discover device identifier, address list, local interface, port identifier, capabilities list, and platform. CDP create a secure explosive to restrict the access but is easy to disable it.
For the next step in our adventures in troubleshooting let’s start with the idea that before a switch can either send or receive data frames, it must be working properly. Switches have two status codes to determine if an interface is working. They are named the line status and protocol status. The line status is use when the layer 1 is working and protocol status is when layer 2 is working. Their values are shown either “up” or “down”. When there are speed and duplex mismatches is exhausting to troubleshoot. Switches and routers can have different speed (10,100 or 1000) and different duplex (full or half) interface. Keep in mind when you configuring both speed and duplex on the switch interface, the IEEE-standard auto-negotiation process will be disabled- deactivating the agreement of fastest speed form both devices. Some common LAN Layer 1 problems indicators are excessive noise, collisions, and late collisions.
Switches are smart devices that learn MAC address and store them to make forwarding/filtering decision for each frame in the future. The show MAC address-table EXEC command displays the content MAC address table, which display the lists all MAC addresses currently known by the switch. The port security feature restrict input to an interface by limiting and identifying MAC addresses of the workstations that are allowed to access the port. When you assign secure MAC addresses to a secure port, the port does not forward packets with source addresses outside the LAN.


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Clemson makes up better than a fourth of Athlon's All-ACC first-team defense, which was announced recently by the publication.
They're joined by four players from Florida State - defensive end Mario Edwards, linebacker Terrence Smith and defensive backs P.J. Williams and Jalen Ramsey.
Virginia Tech had two first-team defensive selections - cornerback Kendall Fuller and defensive tackle Luther Maddy.
Rounding out the team are Miami linebacker Denzel Perryman and Virginia safety Anthony Harris.
Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Jameis Winston led the first-team offensive selections, and his joined by teammates Karlos Williams (fullback), Rashad Green (wide receiver), Nick O'Leary (tight end), and offensive linemen Cameron Erving, Bobby Hart and Tre' Jackson.
Other first-team offensive picks included running back Duke Johnson of Miami, wide receiver Tyler Boyd of Pittsburgh, and offensive linemen Andy Gallik of Boston College and Laken Tomlinson of Duke.
Clemson had no players on the second team, while defensive end Corey Crawford was named to the third team.
Clemson Preseason Rankings, Honors
Team Rankings: No. 17 Lindy's, No. 21 Athlon
Unit Rankings: DL - No. 2 by Lindy's, No. 3 by Athlon; LB - No. 9 by Athlon
DE Vic Beasley - First-team All-American by Sporting News, Lindy's, Athlon, Phil Steele, CFB Matrix; No. 1 DE by Lindy's, No. 9 player overall by NFLDraftScout.com, ACC defensive player of the year by Sporting News, first-team All-ACC by Athlon, Sporting News, Phil Steele.
LB Stephone Anthony - First-team All-ACC by Sporting News, Athlon, Phil Steele; fourth-team All-American by Phil Steele; No. 12 LB in the nation by Lindy's.
DT Grady Jarrett - First-team All-ACC by Sporting News, Athlon, Phil Steele; 3rd-team All-American by CFB Matrix.
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WR Charone Peake - Fourth-team All-ACC by Phil Steele, Athlon
RB Wayne Gallman - Fourth-team All-ACC by Phil Steele
QB Cole Stoudt - Fourth-team All-ACC by Athlon
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What Are the Different Types of Eye Drops for Babies?
There are not too many different types of eye drops for babies that are considered safe by the medical community. Parents should check with the child's physician if eye infections or irritations occur. Health care providers generally prescribe antibiotic preparations in dosages that will eliminate infection while producing the smallest number of adverse effects. Even eye drops for children contain formulations that are too strong for the small bodies of young infants. Some pediatricians suggest applying a couple of drops of mother's milk to the irritated eye.
In the hours shortly after birth, health care professionals use antibiotic eye drops for babies as a safeguard against any possible infections the infant might have contracted in the womb. Silver nitrate was the medication of choice for decades, but physicians changed to erythromycin because it has fewer irritating effects. Occasionally infants develop what appear to be eye infections, commonly called pink eye, that cause redness and crusty drainage. Parents should consult with a physician prior to putting any substance into a baby's eyes, as many medications overwhelm small infants. A health care provider may prescribe tobramycin or other antibiotic solutions deemed safe for use in babies.
Many ophthalmologists offer baby eye exams to evaluate whether the child's eyes function together and accommodate for changes in light. The ophthalmologist might use eye drops that dilate the pupils, allowing the physician to examine the inner eye for signs of astigmatism or nearsightedness. The effects of the eye drops usually include blurred vision, which lasts for up to 90 minutes following the examination. Occasionally infants develop cataracts or glaucoma, but there are no safe prescription eye drops for babies that treat these conditions, and infants may require corrective surgery.
Over-the-counter allergy eye drops are generally formulated for use in children aged six and older. If an infant develops eye irritation that does not seem to be related to a respiratory infection, parents should not use eye drops for babies unless advised by a physician. Special prescription eye drops might be used for allergies, or health care providers can suggest other methods of soothing irritated eyes. Medicinal eye drops containing cortisone or steroid derivatives are not recommended, as the formulations may cause bone, joint or tendon weakness, and deformities.
When doctors do prescribe eye drops for babies, it can be very difficult to put them in their eyes. A good tip for putting this type of medicine in a baby's eyes is not to try to hold them eyes open. Instead, distract baby's attention by getting him or her to look at an object, and quickly apply the drops.
When my kids were young, they had a lot of eye irritations. However, I would never have used any eye drops in their eyes unless a doctor had prescribed them. I found that warm or cool cloths worked very well for soothing irritated eyes.
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Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) December 06, 2013
Eccentry Holidays understands that vacations are often planned around the holidays. Vacationers know that they can rely on Eccentry Holidays to deliver quality travelling advice and suggestions. In an effort to provide its members with the best travel options, Eccentry Holidays is providing a list of top destinations to visit this December.
1. New York, New York
A top destination to travel to any time of year, there’s no better time to visit New York City than in December, as the magic of the holidays really makes this city sparkle. Whether it’s a day of ice skating in Rockefeller Square, taking in one of the many Broadway plays or enjoying a horse-driven buggy ride through Central Park, Eccentry Holidays recommends travelers plan on booking in their New York getaway in advance. New York offers many affordable options this time of year including walking tours of many buildings sporting festive lighting. Eccentry Holidays encourages visitors to explore some of the many unique restaurants offering memorable dining experiences for the season.
2. Boston, Massachusetts
Boston and the surrounding area take on a different aura during the holiday season. Eccentry Holidays knows that travelers won’t be disappointed with a luxury vacation to Boston in December. Eccentry Holidays recommends viewing the many outdoor activities including live nativities, carolers and even a spectacular Zoo Lights exhibit. The Boston area offers many theatrical and musical performances that are holiday-themed and fun for the whole family. Eccentry Holidays urges vacationers to book performances early during this popular holiday season. Adding to the magic of a December vacation in Boston is the allure of a possible snowy holiday, and Eccentry Holidays encourages visitors pack accordingly.
3. Leavenworth, Washington
Located in North Central Washington, the little Bavarian-themed town of Leavenworth offers an abundance of holiday themed activities in December. Eccentry Holidays understands that travelers want an affordable, yet luxurious vacation that promises something different. Leavenworth is sure to exceed any traveler’s desires this holiday season. Often described as “a village of lights,” visitors will become enchanted with this picturesque town nestled in Washington’s “alps.” Eccentry Holidays suggests that vacationers enjoy the tree-lighting ceremony and browse through the many European-themed shops. Leavenworth also offers affordable luxury spas, which are sure to warm the body up after a day of wandering through the beautiful snow covered town.
Eccentry Holidays knows that a holiday to any of these destinations is sure to be a success. For more information about the vacation services that Eccentry Holidays offers, visit http://www.eccentryholidays.com.


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International human rights instruments are the treaties and other international texts that serve as legal sources for international human rights law and the protection of human rights in general. There are many varying types, but most can be classified into two broad categories: declarations, adopted by bodies such as the United Nations General Assembly, which are by nature declaratory, so not legally-binding although they may be politically authoritative and very well-respected soft law;, and often express guiding principles; and conventions that are multi-party treaties that are designed to become legally binding, usually include prescriptive and very specific language, and usually are concluded by a long procedure that frequently requires ratification by each states' legislature. Lesser known are some "recommendations" which are similar to conventions in being multilaterally agreed, yet cannot be ratified, and serve to set common standards. There may also be administrative guidelines that are agreed multilaterally by states, as well as the statutes of tribunals or other institutions. A specific prescription or principle from any of these various international instruments can, over time, attain the status of customary international law whether it is specifically accepted by a state or not, just because it is well-recognized and followed over a sufficiently long time.
International human rights instruments can be divided further into global instruments, to which any state in the world can be a party, and regional instruments, which are restricted to states in a particular region of the world.
Most conventions and recommendations (but few declarations) establish mechanisms for monitoring and establish bodies to oversee their implementation. In some cases these bodies that may have relatively little political authority or legal means, and may be ignored by member states; in other cases these mechanisms have bodies with great political authority and their decisions are almost always implemented. A good example of the latter is the European Court of Human Rights.
Monitoring mechanisms also vary as to the degree of individual access to expose cases of abuse and plea for remedies. Under some conventions or recommendations – e.g. the European Convention on Human Rights – individuals or states are permitted, subject to certain conditions, to take individual cases to a full-fledged tribunal at international level. Sometimes, this can be done in national courts because of universal jurisdiction.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights together with other international human rights instruments are sometimes referred to as the international bill of rights. International human rights instruments are identified by the OHCHR and most are referenced on the OHCHR website.
According to OHCHR, there are 9 or more core international human rights instruments and several optional protocols. Among the well-known instruments are:
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Last night Greensky Bluegrass and The Wood Brothers played the Ting Pavilion in downtown in Charlottesville, VA. The large outdoor venue was packed with fans who enjoyed their rockin’ bluegrass music.
Many thanks to Dylan Langille who shared these photos from the show.
Thanks as well to Emily Ginsberg with Big Hassle Media who passed along this brief video snippet of the band, along with Oliver Wood, debuting their cover of John Prine’s That’s The Way the World Goes ‘Round.
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TEN THOUSAND FEET above Southern California, Roberta Mancino stood before the open door of an airplane. She smiled, said “Ciao!” as if she were stepping out for an espresso, and leaped into the sky.
Ms. Mancino, an Italian who is one of the world’s best sky divers, was wearing a flying-squirrel-like costume called a wing suit that allowed her to glide up to three feet forward for every one foot down. She streaked through a cloudless sky toward the San Jacinto Mountains, then arced back west, her body hurtling like a javelin bound for the Pacific.
Ms. Mancino, 29, has more than 6,000 jumps to her name and holds three world records in sky diving, including one for participating in the largest-ever formation. She has also won two first-place awards in the Italian sky-diving nationals in freestyle, an exacting aerial ballet performed at more than 120 miles an hour.
In 2009 Ms. Mancino began BASE jumping (for buildings, antennae, spans and earth), the death-wish variant of sky diving that involves launching from buildings and bridges with only seconds — and no second chances — to safely deploy a parachute. Last year, she took up proximity flying, in which you jump from a mountaintop in a wing suit and soar beside cliff faces and above ridges before deploying a parachute.
But if Ms. Mancino’s exploits are jaw-dropping, so too are her looks, for which she has received as much press, or even more. Photographic spreads of her have appeared in the Italian editions of Allure and Vanity Fair, and the French edition of Playboy and European men’s magazines like Max.Continue reading the main story
The magazine profiles invariably combine athletic celebration — pictures of Ms. Mancino in flight — with sexual titillation. She poses inside a plane wearing a parachute harness and little else, teeth bared in a fierce feminine roar. She emerges from ocean waves, clasping her hands behind her head and wearing nothing at all.
Three years ago, the readers of Men’s Fitness, bypassing better-known celebrities like Danica Patrick and Amanda Beard, crowned Ms. Mancino the “World’s Hottest Female Athlete” in an online poll. The editor, Roy Johnson, said that he, like many of his readers, hadn’t heard of Ms. Mancino before the survey but was quickly won over. “There were no arguments that she was an athlete and even fewer arguments that she was hot,” Mr. Johnson said.
Showcasing her sexy side can be dangerous for an athlete who wants to be taken seriously, especially if she racks up more endorsements than achievements. Just ask Anna Kournikova.
In many women’s sports it is almost impossible to make a living through athletic competition alone. In less-mainstream sports like kayaking or sky diving, compensation comes almost exclusively from sponsorships. That requires a track record for getting media coverage, and the fastest route is to expose a little flesh. Better yet, a lot.
Men don’t have to do that. Superstar male athletes are typically celebrated for their skills while female competitors draw excessive attention for their looks, said Mary Jo Kane, executive director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota. “I have a feeling that without Mancino being sexualized in the media, we would never have heard of her,” she said.
THE takeaway of Ms. Mancino’s story — an accomplished female athlete must do racy photo shoots to get noticed — is clouded slightly by Ms. Mancino’s original career. Before she was a sky diver, she was a model.
Riding in a car from the jump site to Los Angeles, where she had a meeting with K-Swiss, a potential sponsor, Ms. Mancino explained how she got her start. She was 16, swimming at her hometown beach in Anzio, Italy, when a scout approached and asked if she would do modeling.
“I said, ‘Really?’ because I didn’t think I was that pretty,” Ms. Mancino said.
The scout connected her to an Italian jeans company, which featured her in small runway shows and got her into Italian teen magazines like Cioè. Ms. Mancino also hit the beauty pageant circuit, entering contests in Tuscany and Rome, and made the cover of Fotografare, a nationally circulated photography magazine.
Her teenage success notwithstanding, Ms. Mancino said, “I didn’t want to be a model. It was just a way to make money.” Her true passions were dancing (she started ballet at 4, then turned to salsa) and sports.
When she was 14, Ms. Mancino started dating a kickboxer and decided to try the sport. Not one to dabble, she trained for hours a day and eventually earned a black belt in mixed martial arts.
At 20, after admiring the soaring studs in the movie “Point Break,” she started sky diving, for which she proved to be well suited. She was already in supreme physical shape from kickboxing and had the workout discipline that serious sky divers need to practice for hours at a time in a wind tunnel. Her dancer’s flexibility, grace and bodily control made her a natural for the choreographed acrobatics of the freestyle discipline.
Her potential as a model was far less certain. Ms. Mancino topped out at only 5-foot-4 and developed a curvy figure rather than the pencil-straight one the industry prefers. The endless succession of cuts and bruises from sports, meanwhile, would cause photographers to gasp in horror and then reach for the concealing makeup.
Her modeling contracts began to include clauses that would forbid her to participate in sports for several weeks leading up to her shoots.
Ms. Mancino said that as she entered her 20s, her modeling agent told her that she needed to do a 180-degree professional flip. Rather than trying to be a model who sometimes played sports, she would be a full-time professional athlete who occasionally modeled. Rather than promoting jeans or dresses, Ms. Mancino would promote herself: as an extreme sports athlete who could leap from a plane, knock you flat with a single kick to the skull, then walk away smiling in Versace.
This strategy allowed Ms. Mancino to focus on sky diving, and, in the last few years, to become famous with the help of sporadic lens-melting photo shoots.
A year after she snared the "world’s sexiest" title from Men’s Fitness, she was the star of a nude pinup calendar published by Max, a popular Italian men’s magazine, which made her tabloid fodder in her native land. Strangers greeted her on the street. Italian gossip magazines published pictures of her attending runway shows and eating dinner with her boyfriend.
Last year, after moving to Los Angeles, she was featured in an ESPN documentary and appeared on Conan O’Brien’s show on TBS.
Ms. Mancino seems to fascinate people (“I have dreams about you jumping out of an airplane naked,” Mr. O’Brien gushed) because her image clashes with the reality of what she does. “She’s archetypal feminine, very sweet and polite, and yet she’s so fierce in the sky,” said Fiona Horne, a sky diver who profiled Ms. Mancino for Parachutist magazine.
Alessia Glaviano, the photo editor at Italian Vogue, said that Ms. Mancino looks like a little doll, meek and adorable. “She’s tiny, she’s got a pretty little face,” she said. “It’s scary what she can do.”
Case in point: Last fall, for the ESPN documentary, Ms. Mancino pulled off one of her most dangerous stunts yet. She stood atop a bulb of rock that crowns the Eiger, in the Swiss Alps, then leaped. In her wing suit, she veered ever closer to the craggy black massif, rocks filling the view of her helmet-mounted camera. Finally she turned away and pulled the rip cord.
It was heady, edge-of-your-seat stuff. Proximity flying “is probably the most dangerous sport in the world right now,” Ms. Horne said. “It is at the cutting edge, and Roberta is breaking new ground.” But ESPN also was sure to show Ms. Mancino preening in designer clothes, strolling bikini-clad along beaches at sunset, and delivering smoldering close-ups straight to the camera. It was as if a woman who could literally fly through the Alps wasn’t enough to keep viewers interested.
This is the sort of coverage that Ms. Kane, at the University of Minnesota, criticizes. Using sex to market female athletics may excite young men but turns off most serious fans, she said.
“Sex sells sex,” Ms. Kane said. “It doesn’t sell women’s sports.”
FOR her part, Ms. Mancino remains unapologetic about her choices and laughs about the way Mr. O’Brien fixated on her being naked while sky diving, which she did do a few times, at the behest of a photographer. “Why did I do it?” she said. “Because somebody was paying me to do it.”
After the meeting with K-Swiss in Venice Beach, Ms. Mancino talked about the projects that really got her excited. She hoped to one day do a spiraling wing suit flight from the top of the world’s tallest building, the 2,716.5-foot-tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai, or to jump from the top of the Colosseum in Rome or from ice cliffs in Antarctica.
“The fact that I can model is cool but nothing, really, compared to what I do in the sport,” Ms. Mancino said. “I just love to fly.”Continue reading the main story


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Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines
Health-Medical Documentary hosted by Michael Mosley, published by BBC in 2013 – English narration
Pain, Pus and Poison tells the extraordinary story of how mankind learnt to look at the world around him and use it to heal his body.
Michael Mosley tells the extraordinary story of how the world’s most useful and valuable drugs were created.
This BBC series tells of how our search to cure ourselves of anything from the most common, to the most life threatening of ailments, has led to a profound understanding of chemistry, and how we discovered some of the most widely used products on the planet – pharmaceuticals.
It’s a story of revelation and genius, and a story that ultimately has transformed – and saved – the lives of millions of people across the planet, lives that are now lived longer and healthier than at any time in our history.
A BBC Open University Partnership
Pain has a profound effect on our bodies – when we are experiencing it, millions of nerve cells deep within our brains are firing, telling us ‘it hurts’ – and for centuries the challenge has been to find something that will lessen or even switch off these sensations to bring us relief. Dr Michael Mosley discovers just what pain is, why we want to control it and how we ultimately did it when the discovery of morphine, the world’s first pharmaceutical, at the beginning of the 19th century led to a 200-year journey of scientific breakthrough, discovery and self-experimentation.
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Table_2_Cross-Talk of Focal Adhesion-Related Gene Defines Prognosis and the Immune Microenvironment in Gastric Cancer.XLS
Background: Focal adhesion, as the intermediary between tumor cells and extracellular matrix communication, plays a variety of roles in tumor invasion, migration, and drug resistance. However, the potential role of focal adhesion-related genes in the microenvironment, immune cell infiltration, and drug sensitivity of gastric cancer (GC) has not yet been revealed.
Methods: The genetic and transcriptional perspectives of focal adhesion-related genes were systematically analyzed. From a genetic perspective, the focal adhesion index (FAI) was constructed based on 18 prognosis-related focus adhesion-related genes to evaluate the immune microenvironment and drug sensitivity. Then three prognosis-related genes were used for consistent clustering to identify GC subtypes. Finally, use FLT1, EGF, COL5A2, and M2 macrophages to develop risk signatures, and establish a nomogram together with clinicopathological characteristics.
Results: Mutations in the focal adhesion-related gene affect the survival time and clinical characteristics of GC patients. FAI has been associated with a shorter survival time, immune signaling pathways, M2 macrophage infiltration, epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) signaling, and diffuse type of GC. FAI recognizes ALK, cell cycle, and BMX signaling pathways inhibitors as sensitive agents for the treatment of GC. FLT1, EGF, and COL5A2 may distinguish GC subtypes. The established risk signature is of great significance to the prognostic evaluation of GC based on FLT1, EGF, and COL5A2 and M2 macrophage expression.
Conclusion: The focal adhesion-related gene is a potential biomarker for the evaluation of the immune microenvironment and prognosis. This work emphasizes the potential impact of the focal adhesion pathway in GC therapy and highlights its guiding role in prognostic evaluation.

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SapientNitro signs up Dawson for board role
By Louise Ridley, campaignlive.co.uk, Thursday, 10 October 2013 07:00AM
SapientNitro has appointed Neil Dawson, a founder and planning partner at Enter and a former chairman of TBWA, as its vice-president and chief strategy officer for Europe.
In the new role, Dawson (pictured) will lead the strategy team. He will report to Nigel Vaz, the senior vice-president and European managing director, and work alongside him and Malcolm Poynton, the chief creative officer for Europe, as part of the European leadership team.
Dawson has nearly 20 years’ experience in senior strategist roles, including as the executive planning director at TBWA. He served two years as the chairman before leaving in 2007 to set up Hurrell and Dawson, which later became HMDG and then Enter.
Vaz said: "Neil is widely regarded as a world-class strategist, with the rare combination of proven agency leadership and entrepreneurial drive that has contributed to the success of leading global brands."
He added that Dawson’s experience would help the agency "redefine storytelling and pioneer new means of helping clients engage today’s connected consumers in a landscape that is rapidly changing".
In a separate move, Geometry Global UK has hired Omaid Hiwaizi, a planning director at SapientNitro, as its chief strategy officer.
This article was first published on campaignlive.co.uk
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Although aging is a normal process, there are some practices you may be practising that are hastening the onset of common age-related symptoms such as wrinkled skin, aches and pains, mental decline, and illness propensity. Often, we aren't even aware that our seemingly innocuous practices are drastically reducing our longevity. The behaviours we form in our 20s and 30s have a significant impact on how we look and feel as we age. In order to preserve maximum physical and mental health as we age, it is critical to treat your body with respect and care.
Here are a few things you can do to slow down the ageing process.
Premature ageing is caused by a steady diet of fatty, carbohydrate-rich foods. Inflammation is caused by processed meals, red meats, white bread, and margarine. Skin flare-ups and wrinkles can result from this swelling. These meals also increase your risk of obesity by adding harmful quantities of sodium, cholesterol, and fat to your body.
Consuming more whole foods can lower your risk of heart disease and diabetes. Vitamin C, zinc, beta carotene, and other nutrients found in fruits and vegetables help to strengthen your immune system. Incorporating fish, which is high in omega-3 fatty acids, and whole grains, which are high in antioxidants, into your diet will help you maintain good skin and decrease wrinkles.
While a glass of wine now and then isn't harmful, drinking on a daily basis might make you appear much older than you are. Because alcohol is a natural diuretic, the more you drink, the more dehydrated you will become.
Healthy fluids, such as water, are required for your body to conduct its usual functions. Insufficient hydration damages your organs and causes rapid skin ageing. Limiting your alcohol consumption to one drink per day reduces the amount of work your liver has to do to rid your body of poisons and impurities. Your skin's texture and moisture will improve, you'll lose weight, and your sleep will improve.
Nothing accelerates the aging process like a persistent state of worry, anxiety, and stress. Long-term stress has been shown to affect your DNA, according to studies. Chronic stress from work, family strife, or other sources causes high blood pressure, sleep disturbances, and acne breakouts.
All of these illnesses have a negative impact on our ability to age. Make an effort to find healthy stress management techniques. Taking some time each day to unplug and enjoy some quiet isolation can help to lower your stress levels significantly. Take a walk, read a book, or relax in a hot tub. Your body will appreciate you if you make de-stressing a priority.
Inadequate sleep has become a global issue. Sleep deprivation has long been linked to decreased cognitive and memory performance. Sleep interruptions can have a long-term negative influence on our immune systems, decision-making processes, response speed, and other critical brain functions. Sleep deprivation has also been connected to accelerated aging.
Poor sleep quality has been associated with decreased skin suppleness, uneven pigmentation, and under-eye puffiness. Many individuals believe that as they age, they require less sleep. Our circadian rhythms do vary as we get older, and this has an impact on our sleep patterns. However, research shows that getting 7 to 8 hours of sleep each night is still recommended. If you find yourself waking up fatigued or dragging during the day, consult your doctor to rule out sleep disorders including sleep apnea.
The presence of smoking on this list should come as no surprise. The list of ways that smoking harms your health and accelerates the ageing process is extensive. Smoking causes illnesses such as heart disease, lung cancer, infertility, high blood pressure, and emphysema, to name a few. Cigarettes not only decrease your lifespan, but they also alter your physical look. Smoking triggers enzymes that cause your skin's suppleness to deteriorate.
It also deprives your skin cells of critical oxygen, resulting in a greyish yellow complexion. If you're a smoker, now is the time to give up. According to studies, smokers who quit at 35 contributed 8 years to their life expectancy, while those who quit at 65 added 2 to 4 years. Nicotine addiction is a powerful addiction that might be tough to overcome on your own. Consult your doctor about quitting smoking drugs and practices that will help you quit for good.
Despite how wonderful the sun feels on your skin, sunbathing is one of the worst things you can do to speed up the ageing process. Excessive UV exposure weakens your skin's blood vessels and skin cells, resulting in a dry, leathery appearance.
Even worse for your skin are tanning beds. A tanning bed can expose you to up to 15 times the amount of harmful radiation as sitting in the sun, causing wrinkles, brown patches, and, worst of all, skin cancer.
Skin cancer has been diagnosed in more people than all other cancers combined in the last 30 years. It is not difficult to protect oneself from the sun's harmful rays. Every morning, apply sunscreen to your face and other exposed body parts.
Make applying sunscreen a part of your daily routine, just like you would cleaning your face or brushing your teeth. Pack a hat and extra sunscreen to reapply as needed if you know you'll be out in the sun for a long time. Teach your children about the risks of the sun and encourage them to use sunscreen on a regular basis.
Lack of exercise
Regular physical activity is the foundation of a healthy ageing process. People who do not exercise on a regular basis have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease and other age-related ailments, according to research. They also sustain more injuries than their exercise-obsessed peers. Injuries become more serious as we get older, and they frequently result in life-threatening complications.
Exercise increases the production of good hormones like testosterone, lowers cortisol levels, improves mood, and regulates blood pressure. It also helps you maintain a healthy weight and extends your life. Consider purchasing a fitness tracker to encourage you to meet your daily step goal. Make an effort to exercise for 30 minutes five times a week.
High levels of cortisol, the fat-storing stress hormone, have been linked to high blood pressure, chest pain, slowed metabolism, and weight gain in people who are always stressed. All of these factors contribute to the onset of age-related disorders, which lower your life expectancy.
Worse, when we're stressed, we crave fatty, salty, and sugary foods, which are a triple threat when it comes to weight gain. Even if you aren't obese, being overweight can shorten your life. It was shown that those who were overweight at any point throughout a 23-year study period were 19 percent more likely to die than those who never surpassed a normal weight.
Consumption of charred meat
It's time to end your relationship with charred meat. When foods are black and charred, it means they've been exposed to carcinogenic compounds formed when meat is cooked at high temperatures above 300 degrees Fahrenheit for long periods of time i.e. when meat is "well done".
Two carcinogenic substances found in charred meats, heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), have been proven to trigger DNA modifications that may increase your risk of cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI). To minimise the production of these carcinogens, the National Cancer Institute recommends avoiding direct flames or adding an antioxidant such as lemon juice to the meat.
Researchers have even found that the safest and healthiest strategy to counteract dull complexions and fine lines is to consume fruits and vegetables. Some of the best options are
- Sweet potatoes
While there is no way to stop time from passing us by, there are some things we can all do to slow down the ageing process. Making the decision to live a healthy, productive life will pay off not only now, but in the future.


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Saga's First-Ever Vote
WHAT ARE THE CHANGES?
The changes to be voted on are as follows:
We view these changes as crucial to the continuity of the Saga project: since the project’s inception 3 years ago, the crypto ecosystem and the wider world have changed significantly. In this landscape, adaptability is key. Central to our adaptation to this new world is evolving our market proposition to allow market forces to come into play. Moving towards a more volatile model is aimed at incentivising early adopters and prospective holders, both of whom would benefit as the SGA economy grows.
WHEN IS THE VOTE?
Voting opens at 12:00PM GMT on Wednesday 2 September, 2020, and will close on Sunday 6 September, 2020, at 12:00PM GMT. The results will be announced on Tuesday 8 September, 2020, and will be fully binding. Please note that only registered SGA holders will be able to vote.
Since the result of the voting process may affect the SGA price and in order to ensure the Revised Model is launched (should it be approved) at a market cap lower than the 2M’ SDR threshold, the smart contact will not accept ETHs or issue new SGAs until the results will be officially published on Tuesday 8 September, 2020. Whitelisted wallets will still be able to freely sell their SGAs back to the smart contract and get ETHs in return.
Buying and selling SGA on secondary markets, on exchanges (Liquid Global, Bithumb Global, etoroX) and other service providers (Celsius, Elastrum, Woorton) will continue with no limitation.
Lastly, we would like to share that we are officially rebranding to Sögur and renaming our token to SGR later this month!
Saga, to date, has fueled what Sögur will be. The same ideals and principles remain at the heart of the business, and our vision very much still stands: a truly global, non-sovereign digital currency, governed by its holders.
We look forward to you joining us on the next stage of our journey.
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