Water features transform an ordinary landscape into a delightful retreat. Whether you seek something more relaxed like a calm stream, or a little more excitement with a rushing waterfall, The Pond Contractor offers a number of different possibilities to choose from. We can accommodate any spot in the yard and build it any size. In fact, depending on the design, a water feature is excellent for solving landscape design issues such as a slope you are not sure what to do with, a shady area your sod won't grow in, a rocky terrain, etc.
i was brief to create an extension of the existing home and lifestyle, an urban sanctuary in which to relax, revitalise and energise. Using clean simple lines ,have created a cutting edge, yet low maintenance entertaining space.
The main focus is the seamless sandstone bridge which seemingly floats over a black tiled pond filled with koi fish
Existing terraced garden beds were planted with abundant contrasting vegetation, with a native Elaeocarpus hedge at the side of the house.
Contemporary paving and a built in BBQ are softened by the existing sandstone retaining walls.
The brief for this project in shah alam was to provide the clients with an inviting intimate space on their front part. The area is extremely exposed, and subject to full sun and high winds. The solution was to design a garden using tough coastal planting in stylish long canal pond which require lot a water, as well as creating privacy and humidity. Privacy was also provided by the tall and long pond to create drama.
this modern terrace courtyard was originally an uninviting empty courtyard, with the sun reflected in glaring white tiles and walls. The clients never used the space and wanted a complete transformation for themselves and their young son.
Spotted gum timber decking of various widths rises into a planter bed for the grasses and bamboo, the back wall set off by a powdercoated geoscreen.
This project involved the re-design of a delapidated rear terrace garden together with the construction of a contemporary garden at front of house.The rear garden required renovation and re-design. We introduced lush tropical coastal plants and pathways of sandstone and timber to create a magnificent coastal retreat. For the front garden and pool areas we created eye-catching contemporary designs which blended with the simple lines of the existing house.
This property comprises four distinctively different outdoor areas within a small urban townhouse.
This recently built garden provides a fertile retreat for the owners in Cremorne. The strong structure of horizontal wooden panel and big wide decking boards
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The Occult Underground
Just when it seemed that Science and Reason had scored their greatest triumphs, the mid-nineteenth century witnessed an astonishing rebirth of occultism and anit-rationalism: the beginnings of the movement we now call New Age. A secret tradition of knowledge rejected by the Christian or Scientific establishments suddenly became emboldened to seek publicity and converts.
James Webb's painstaking research carry him into the undergrowth inhabited by such illuminated personages as Madame Blavatsky, the Reverend Leadbeater, the Bortherhood of Luxor, Annie Besant, Krishnamurti, Swami Vivekananda, Spiritualists, Rosicrucians, Vegetarians, Mithraic cults, and all manner of occult propagandists.
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Oxford American Dictionaries has selected its annual "Word of the Year," and that word is GIF. You are already familiar with GIF as in Graphics Interchange Format, or this images that change and move. the Word of the Year is for GIF as a verb!
“The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to create simple, looping animations, turned 25 this year, but like so many other relics of the 80s, it has never been trendier,” notes Katherine Martin, Head of the US Dictionaries Program at Oxford University Press USA. “GIF celebrated a lexical milestone in 2012, gaining traction as a verb, not just a noun. The GIF has evolved from a medium for pop-cultural memes into a tool with serious applications including research and journalism, and its lexical identity is transforming to keep pace.”
Indeed, GIFING has had an amazing year in 2012. In January the New York Public Library launched stereogranimator allowing visitors to create GIFs of 40,000+ digitized stereographs from its collection and share them. Then in March Tumblr hit 20 billion blog posts. July saw the 20th anniversary of the first GIF posted on the World Wide Web, a photograph of the band “Les Horribles Cernettes”. In August GIFing was perfect medium for sharing scenes from the Summer Olympics in London, especially this coverage of the vault from The Atlantic. Most recently many media outlets were live-GIFing the 2012 presidential debates.
And how is it pronounced? The computer programmers who created the format used a soft g like the peanut butter brand Jif, but a hard g is considered correct as well because so many people say it that way. Find out more about the usage of GIF and see the other words that were considered for Word of the Year at the Oford Dictionaries blog. Link
P.S. The Oxford Dictionaries UK Word of the Year is ‘omnishambles.’ Link

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A program of heroic classics, including Beethoven’s iconic “Eroica” Symphony, gets the Greenwich Village Orchestra season off to a rousing start. The concert also features Berlioz’s colorful Roman Carnival Overture and rising Dutch star Tosca Opdam performing Sibelius’ lushly romantic Violin Concerto. Music Director Barbara Yahr conducts. Seating is limited, advance reservations strongly advised.
Praised for her “enchanting musical personality”, violinist Tosca Opdam has captivated audiences and critics alike with her musicality and poise. This season’s highlights include a debut recital at Carnegie Hall, as well as recitals in the Netherlands, USA and Berlin. Recent engagements include a performance at the Liberation Day concert at the Amstel river, broadcast live on national television. Concerts have taken her all over Europe and North America to prominent concert stages and venues such as the Concertgebouw and the Music Theater in Amsterdam, Lincoln Center, Muziekcentrum Frits Philips (Eindhoven), and the National Arts Center in Ottawa. A passionate chamber musician and recitalist, Tosca has appeared at numerous music festivals in the Netherlands, USA, and Canada. She played and worked closely with renowned musicians such as Inon Barnatan, Liza Ferschtman, Sol Gabetta and Maxim Rysanov and has performed in master classes with eminent musicians such as Pamela Frank, Ilya Grubert, Theo Olof, Georgy Pauk, Candida Thompson, Frank Peter Zimmermann and Pinchas Zukerman.


The current tritium leak at Vermont Yankee is not the first such leak, according to an anonymous individual claiming to be a Vermont Yankee employee.
That revelation is included in a two-page letter sent today to the Vermont Public Service Board by the Department of Public Service. The source is an email from Public Oversight Panel member Arnie Gundersen. Gundersen informed the DPS that he was called Sunday afternoon by a person claiming to be a VY employee.
The news occurs as the Senate prepares to vote on whether to allow the PSB to take up VY's request to relicense the plant beyond its scheduled closing date of 2012.
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"Employee said that in addition to the current tritium leak, there have been other leaks in the AOG (Advanced Off Gas System) in previous years," Gundersen wrote in his email to the DPS.
"Specifically, employee said that approximately two years ago, there was an unisolatable radioactive steam leak into the underground AOG drain pit," Gundersen noted. Access to the AOG drain pit was made through an outside hatch.
"Employee said that leak could not be isolated and a shutdown would have been required to repair the leak," noted Gundersen. "Employee said that 'Furmanite' leak sealant was applied to plug the hole until complete repair during the next outage."
It's not clear from Gundersen's email if that repair was made during a refueling outage. VY is scheduled to conduct a refueling outage in April.
"While the Department at this time has no reason to accept or challenge the accuracy of the allegations, it takes these allegations very seriously and is implementing a review of past Vermont Yankee corrective actions in a specific attempt to determine whether the allegations are accurate or not, and if such a leak did in fact occur, whether it was part of an underground piping system," writes PSB attorney John Cotter.
Additionally the department will be reviewing the plant's reporting obligations to see if such an event was reportable to the state and, if so, whether appropriate notifications were made.
As noted in "Fair Game" several weeks ago, Entergy has informed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in previous years of the existence of tritium in an onsite drainage system.
As word spread of the whistleblower claim, anti-Vermont Yankee groups chimed in.
"If the allegation recently made by an anonymous Vermont Yankee employee proves true, then Entergy may have failed to report or even covered up previous releases of radioactive material into Vermont's environment," said Jim Riccio of Greenpeace. "Greenpeace calls on the Department of Public Service and Attorney General William Sorrell to investigate this allegation in an expedited manner and to put Entergy officials under oath and compel their testimony in this matter."
Vermont Yankee officials did not immediately respond for comment.


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Submitted to: World Aquaculture Society Meeting
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Publication Acceptance Date: 8/1/2003
Publication Date: 3/1/2004
Citation: Peterson, B.C., Waldbieser, G.C., Bilodeau, A.L. 2004. IGF-II mRNA expression in slow and fast growing families of NWAC103 channel catfish. World Aquaculture Society Meeting. Honolulu, HI. p. 466.
Technical Abstract: Differences in growth exist among genetic families of NWAC103 channel catfish. Identifying genes involved in regulating growth may prove important to selecting fish for efficient lean growth. Insulin like growth factor-I and 'II (IGF-I and IGF-II) are involved in the proliferation and differentiation of muscle cells and have been identified in many species of fish. Expression of IGF-II in relation to growth in channel catfish is not known. Research was conducted to examine IGF-II mRNA expression in slow and fast growing families of NWAC103 channel catfish. Three hundred and twenty fish (18.1 +/- 2.4 g) from eight families were grown for six weeks in 76-l tanks (10 fish/tank). The fish were supplied with 26.0 degrees Celsius well water and fed a 36% CP commercial diet once a day to apparent satiation. At the end of the six-week study, the fish were weighed and muscle and liver samples were taken for RNA extraction. Relative expression of IGF-II mRNA was determined by real time RT-PCR in fast (I8) and slow (I1) growing families of fish. Results of the growth study demonstrated that specific growth rate (SGR) and food conversion ratio (FCR) were the same in 7 (I8,G8,C6,G6,H6,F2,I5) of the 8 families (Figure 1). Family I1 was slower growing and had a poorer FCR (P < 0.01) (Figure 1). Expression of IGF-II mRNA was 5 and 46 times greater in muscle and liver of fast growing fish (I8), respectively, relative to slow growing fish (I1) muscle and liver. These results confirm growth rate and feed efficiency differences among NWAC103 catfish families. IGF-II could potentially be a candidate gene whose expression may reflect differences in muscle growth. Examination of other genes such as IGF-II receptor and IGF-I and its receptor may also contribute to our understanding of muscle growth in channel catfish.

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Well, we made it: Our 50th episode of Antidote for the Commonplace. In this episode we discuss some of our favorite films, comics, and games that were released over the past year but were not covered in a previous episode. Topics include Resident Evil, Looper, X-Wing, Columbus Comic Con, Bouchercon, Sinister, Max Payne 3, Bioshock Infinite, superhero films, and Resident Evil Revelations. Here’s to 50 more episodes!
It’s here! The World’s End, the cap to the infamous Cornetto Trilogy. The AftC crew take on the conclusion to two of their absolute favorite films. Does it deserve a spot alongside Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, on display atop the mantel for all to see? Tune in to find out!
The World’s End is in theaters and it’s the perfect time to take a stroll down memory lane with our favorite Brits. Director Edgar Wright takes center stage as we discuss our favorite moments from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz (the first two films in the “Cornetto Trilogy”) as well as Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Come back next week for our take on The World’s End!
With the release of Riddick, the latest film in the Chronicles of Riddick saga, mere days away, the AftC crew take a look back on the film series. From it’s humble beginnings in a cult hit, Pitch Black, to the epic sequel, Chronicles of Riddick, we take a trip down memory lane to examine the character of Riddick and the movies where he captured our attention. On with the show!
Co-hosts Matt and Jon discuss Guillermo Del Toro’s latest summer action epic, Pacific Rim. It’s all out action with giant mechs vs giant monsters, but how does the film hold up outside of the battles? We take a critical eye to one of our favorite directors after discussing his work in our previous episode.
Guillermo Del Toro is one of the most visionary and creative directors of our time. Since his latest film, Pacific Rim, charged into theaters this past weekend, we thought we’d take a look back at the films he’s worked on to date. From Mimic to Pan’s Labyrinth, to Hellboy and beyond, Del Toro has given us some of our favorite moments in film. Tune in for our Del Toro Restrospective and next week for our review of Pacific Rim.
ZOMBIES! They’re back, gushing into theaters like water from a fire hose. You just can’t put ’em down. Co-hosts Matt and Paul give their take on the summer blockbuster, and the past, present and future of the big Z.
ROUND TABLE TIME! Co-hosts Matt, Chris, Eric and Jonathan get together to discuss their favorite comic book films, as well as those that have been announced for release in the near future. Agree? Disagree? Tune in and let us know!
Star Trek is back and bigger than ever, taking on modern themes that touch close to home in society today. Tune in as we discuss the sequel to the 2009 blockbuster remake, the future of the Star Trek Universe and dive into the darker aspects of the film.

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Public school birthday boy falls to death from clifftop
by CHRISTIAN GYSIN, DUNCAN ROBERTSON and LUKE SALKELD
Last updated at 09:38 19 July 2007
The body of George Frewer was found floating in water near rocks at Tristram Cove at Polzeath at breakfast time on Tuesday - the morning of his 17th birthday.
The officer investigating the case said his death was an inevitable result of the drink and drug fuelled excesses that take place in the up-market Cornish resort each summer.
Detective Constable Nigel Hoare, of Devon and Cornwall police, said the death was bound to happen "because of what goes on in Polzeath".
"He had been out with friends on Monday night and fell off the cliffs at Polzeath in the early hours of Tuesday morning and sadly died," he explained.
"It is not believed he was with his friends when he fell. The boy was staying with family friends.
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"It is a terrible tragedy - But I am afraid it was just going to happen because of what goes on in Polzeath every year. In this case, the consequences have been quite tragic."
An inshore lifeboat pulled George from the water shortly after he was spotted by a holidaymaker floating in the sea at 8.15 am on Tuesday.
He was found close to a secluded beach and his body was then taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro.
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The teenager had just finished the first year of study for his A-levels at the £24,075 a year Radley College in Oxford where he was a boarder at the 630 pupil boys school in Abingdon.
His merchant banker father Martin, 47, yesterday travelled to Cornwall to visit the scene of the tragedy while his wife Caroline was last night understood to be comforting the couple's 15-year-old son Henry.
Mr Frewer, who works in the City, lives in Tadley, near Basingstoke, Hampshire.
Mr and Mrs Frewer said: "George was a great sportsman, loving, generous and extremely popular. We will miss him terribly. At this difficult time we would ask the media to leave the family and George's friends in peace."
Family sources claimed the couple were distressed at suggestions their son may have been involved in drugs as he was always "very much against them".
However, one holidaymaker - who refused to be named - claimed the teenager had been smoking cannabis at a party shortly before he fell into the sea.
Detectives cordoned off part of the car park near where he fell as the tourist told reporters: "He was smoking pot and he fell off the cliff. I heard he had been out partying with friends. There are a lot of posh young holidaymakers down here."
Despite the drugs claim it emerged yesterday that George was a popular boy who had entered his name on the social networking website 'Facebook' where he listed 405 people as his friends.
The mother of one of his school pals, who did not wish to be named, told the Daily Mail: "Everyone down in Cornwall is in a state of shock. My own son is in bits - as are others who have been holidaying down there.
"George was a lovely lad and certainly not a wild boy who would get out of control. It is just tragic."
Radley School said: "The school is shocked and saddened to hear of the death of George Frewer and our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this difficult time."
Schoolfriends revealed that George was a keen sportsman and played on the wing for the school rugby team.
The tragedy had cast a shadow over the controversial West Country holiday venue which in recent years has been dubbed 'Kensington-on-Sea' and 'Sloane-on-Sea'.
Each summer the resorts of Polzeath, Rock and Daymer are descended upon by hundreds of public schoolboys and girls with a reputation for alcohol fuelled violence and partying.
The group have been dubbed "Snob Yobs" by locals as many take to beaches and hold parties into the early hours.
There is a recognised drug taking culture when rich students visit and in the past week both Polzeath and Rock has seen almost nightly disorder.
Hundreds of youngsters have been accused of behaving badly - causing damage to cars and property after holding drink fuelled beach parties.
Locals have also complained to police of littering, fighting and vandalism.
Windows were even smashed at Polzeath's Marine Visitor Centre which is being used as a temporary police station during the public school summer invasion.
The month of July normally sees pupils from Radley, Wycombe Abbey, Downe House, Bedales, Harrow and Marlborough visit the area.
Next month it is the turn of students from Eton, Stowe and Westminster to holiday in a West Country region which first became popular with well-to-do students after Princes William and Harry visited after their exams.
In recent years police have been granted dispersal powers to break up outdoor parties and deal with general disorder while setting up 'exclusion' and 'alcohol free zones' at several beaches.
Last week the wing mirrors were pulled from the side of a police patrol vehicle which moved in to break up trouble and one man was admitted to hospital with a fractured skull after fighting broke out on one of the beaches. One Renault Clio car was jumped on by students using it as a "trampoline".
Last year dispersal orders were issued to 274 people banning them from Polzeath for 24 hour periods and local shop-keepers and bar owners confiscated more than 400 fake ID cards from under-age drinkers.
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“We took the opportunity to link these public and school areas to create a dynamic space that reaffirms the school’s value to the community.”
Priscilla Ladouceur, Principal
After 10 years of vacancy, the school site was developed with a football & soccer field surrounded by a rubberized track. The school property adjoins a community park with two lit professional soccer fields, a baseball diamond, playground and creek with walking trails. We took the opportunity to link these public and school areas to create a dynamic community space.
Even though it is not an urban site, it is a local school where many students walk to school and enter from various directions. Pedestrian linkages along the ‘desire lines’ were anticipated for students, and these create interesting junction points. There is a lot of criss-crossing through the grounds with tree-lined sidewalks and unit paved paths. Given the setting, we tried to keep the site as green as possible, mitigating concern for residents used to looking out on an open field by building up the land between the school and the homes and planting trees.
Our focus was really on the student areas of the school and creating outdoor spaces they wanted to spend time in and develop those ever so important relationships and memories. Connecting the inside and outside lowered common area is an effort to communicate to students the importance of thinking of their school not just as a building sitting on a lot; but as a complex carved into the ground and connected with the exterior; all working together to become a happy place. Now we just have to wait for the newly planted trees to grow a little bigger.


In this course, students will improve their command of welding processes, advance their welding skills and perform welds to the high standards established by the American Welding Society (AWS). The theory and skills needed for certification in specific welding vocations will be covered. Visual inspection of weld discontinuities along with the requirements and duties of the certified welding inspector are discussed. Successful students will perform welding tasks that meet AWS and ASME standards for an industry certification.
Level I Prereq: Academic Reading and Writing Levels of 6; Academic Math Level 3; WAF 140 minimum grade "B", may enroll concurrently; WAF 230, WAF 231 or WAF 232, minimum grade "B"
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The foods available in your community can impact your food choices. Learn how to find, choose and promote healthy foods and drinks in your community.
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Community spaces are important gathering places. They provide a safe space for residents to play, learn and participate in activities. Some community land may also provide a place to grow or harvest food. These spaces include:
- recreation centres
- community centres
Food and drinks are often offered or sold in these places, which can have an impact on the health of the residents.
Community spaces can shape people’s eating habits positively by:
- limiting less healthy choices
- having healthy options readily available
It’s important to have healthy food choices available no matter where you are, as these choices can shape your eating pattern.
There are many strategies you can use to help you make healthy choices in your community.
Pack your own food
Pack your own meal or snacks to have available if you get hungry. That way you know you’ll have something healthy to eat. It can also help you cut down on the chances of having to buy less healthy food.
Always carry a reusable water bottle with you in case you get thirsty.
If it’s not possible to bring your own food, think ahead to where you will be. Find out what healthy food options are available where you are going or close by. This can help prevent you from having to choose meals or snacks that can be less healthy out of convenience.
Cut down on waste
Buying and eating food outside the home can add a lot of extra waste, especially from food packaging and eating utensils. If you know you’ll be eating a meal, think about what you can bring to cut down on waste. Consider packing:
- cloth napkins
- reusable cutlery
- a reusable water bottle
- a travel mug for coffee or tea
- any food that you have made in reusable containers
- reusable grocery shopping bags for any foods you purchase to take home
Explore places you can grow or harvest your own food
Growing or harvesting your own food can be a great way to enjoy healthy, in-season options. Depending on where you live, you may be able to:
- pick fruit
- hunt, fish or trap
- start or join a community garden
Find out about community programs
Many communities have programs that offer healthy foods for free or at affordable prices.
There may also be programs in your community that focus on teaching food skills.
Your local community centre can be a good place to learn about the programs that are available.
Everyone can play a role in creating a healthy food environment in their community.
As a community member you can:
- Ask for healthy foods to be sold or served at community events or spaces like your local recreation centre or at community fairs.
- This lets those who buy the food know that there is an interest in healthy options.
- Find out about organizations and associations you can join that run events or programs, or oversee places where food is sold.
- Talk with other members about opportunities to offer healthier food and drink options. Share your ideas on how to include healthy choices.
If you are responsible for food at community events or spaces:
- make water easily available and free of charge
- make sure healthy foods are available and widely promoted
- consider reducing the number of highly processed foods or sugary drinks offered
- be aware that signage that promotes food or drinks can influence food choices
- think about the images on drink machines or billboards in community centre arenas
Be a part of community planning discussions. Well planned communities make it easier and more convenient for people to make healthy food choices. There are many ways a community can support healthy eating such as:
- community gardens
- harvesting programs
- healthy food pantries
- affordable cooking and food preparation classes
- healthy eating policies for community spaces and events
- grocery stores or markets accessible by walking or public transportation


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The Portland Avenue Presbyterian Church was destroyed by fire in January, but now the congregation is drawing up plans to rebuild on the original site. After the fire was extinguished, the frigid January air turned the charred remains into an eerie icy scene. All but the steeple has been torn down, but the brick and stone from the original structure has been saved and will be used in the reconstruction (one of the massive original window frames was saved on site, too). Rev. Willa Fae Williams, pastor at Portland Avenue Presbyterian, says the church is too important to the congregation and the historic neighborhood to just abandon. The congregation has been growing recently and already is involved in outreach to the neighborhood.
A clothes closet and food pantry, once operated out of the basement of the original church, have been moved to the old Portland fire station. The old fire station had recently been vacated after a new Portland station opened in February. Long range plans include possibly renovating the abandoned Kroger store adjacent to the church into a community outreach center and a permanent home to the clothes closet and food pantry.
The rebuilt church is expected to look much like the original, which had just undergone restoration prior to the fire. The entrance to the new church will be at ground level to more easily accommodate handicap accessibility. Crews were on site today securing the steeple to keep it water tight. Officials have not been able to determine what caused the blaze earlier this year, and have not ruled out arson at this point. Rev. Williams hopes construction on the new church could begin early next year.
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Get Your Scare on in KY
October is upon us which brings a change in temperature (hopefully), as well as a ton of different ways to get your scare on. In Kentucky, whether you like it slasher-style aka Freddy Krueger or friendly like Casper the Friendly Ghost, we have just the ticket to get you out of your rut and jolted back to life.
If you don’t mind spiders, check out www.haunts.com for a listing of attractions across the state. We like this site because you can filter your selections by city and by venue. Whether you want a haunted house, a haunted corn maze, zombie hunts and shootouts or scream parks, it’s all right there at your fingertips. One of the highlights is Grim Trails in Jeffersontown, KY. This is a haunted trail that takes you from the lair of the Yeti to Bluebeard’s manor and to Dracula’s Transylvania. According to the website, it’s been Louisville’s top haunt six years running.
Down in the western part of the state, Skeleton’s Lair Scream Park in Bowling Green is your source for all things heinous. It’s actually five attractions in one location and includes the all-new Skeleton Visions 3D, Gold City Ghostride, Doomsday Doll Factory, and an escape room where you can challenge your brain. October 12-13 they are having a guest appearance by Cooper Andrews who plays Jerry from The Walking Dead. He will be signing autographs and hosting a Walking Dead watch party on Sunday, the 13th.
Voted the #3 Best Corn Maze in the Nation by USA Today, the Devine’s Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch in Harrodsburg, Kentucky will challenge your intuition and navigation skills. This year’s award-winning design is in honor of Kentucky Farm Bureau’s 100th year as serving as the “Voice of Kentucky Agriculture”. When you finally get out of the maze – we are confident they won’t just leave you there – visit the Corn Café and have some apple cider and a hot dog. They also have tube swings, a zip track, paintball wars, and a nightly bonfire complete with s’mores! Things get spooky the week of Halloween as they host “Field of Horror”. Have you seen Children of the Corn? Yikes! This year it will be held on Friday, November 1st, and November 2nd starting at dark.
Right here in Lexington, we have Fright Nights at Jacobson Park. Combining two attractions spread out over 40 terrifying acres, Fright Nights is sure to give you chills and thrills. Leigh and I went last year to check this out, and since we are both big babies, I think we went through the entire thing with our eyes closed. We managed to escape, but we were hoarse for a week. Nothing like a guy running around with a chainsaw to bring out the screaming schoolgirl in you! Each year they change things up, so you are sure to get a unique experience every time. We recommend getting your tickets online as it will save you time in line. Be sure to wearing running shoes…you might need them!
Whichever way you like your scary, visit one of these ghoulish places this October and let us know about your experience!

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A shorter review this time, as by now most potential clients must have a pretty clear view of what this fabulous hotel can offer them. We required a relaxing break in a warm sunny climate after the cold, snowy winter weather at home. This is...More
Spent the Easter holidays here with our 6 year old daughter after reading all the excellent reviews and am very pleased to say it is worthy of all the praise. It is a midsize resort with immaculate grounds and a decent range of facilities. It...More
Lovely staff very friendly and informative. The hotel is spotlessly clean .
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We have been here 5 times now because it is of consistent quality. I've never heard of a superior room but there are mum is suites ad mentioned by Alan.... the best rooms for piece and quiet and yet a lovely view of the top pool are block 2.and above level 3 to ensure there are no palm trees blocking the lovely views all around the valley mountains too.
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Traditional vocal recitals - songs by Schubert, Strauss, Debussy - are rare these days. A vocal recital devoted to contemporary Italian composers seems positively radical.
Needless to say, such a venture is not going to have people clamoring for seats even when admission is free. But the 16 attentive folks who checked out Duo Alterno's concert Wednesday evening at the University of Maryland Baltimore County's Fine Arts Studio, opening the 17th annual "End of the Edge Performance Series," were rewarded with dynamic performances of fascinating music.
Soprano Tiziana Scandaletti and pianist/composer Riccardo Piacentini explored the current Italian scene and vintage pieces by two giants of modern music. The older works from the 1940s provided fitting bookends to the program, since everything else performed reflected their influences.
Luigi Dallapiccola's "Tre poemi" (with texts by Joyce, Machado and Michelangelo), reveals how strangely alluring atonality can be, with wide-leaping, richly communicative vocal lines and a lush piano part. Luciano Berio's deliciously lyrical "Quattro canzoni popolari" is far removed from the more adventurous, challenging style that would characterize him later; it reaffirms how closely tied Italian music has always been to the human voice and to melody.
The material in-between strayed quite far at times from those borders, yet always remained grounded in the same basic expressive principles. Fabio Vacchi's 1995 "Mignon" (with a text by Goethe) has the singer jumping from high to low pitches with keen dramatic intent; the song's vaporous close is particularly effective. Alessandro Solbiati's "Holderlin Lieder," written this year and given its premiere here, aims for a similar darkness of sound and mood and exploits the voice even more strikingly.
Although Scandaletti's tone quality was often brittle and she couldn't always achieve the technical smoothness required, there was a telling sensitivity in her delivery, matched by Piancentini's thoughtful, accomplished pianism.
Ennio Morricone, best known for such film scores as "Cinema Paradiso," was represented by excerpts from his 1992 "Epitaffi sparsi." These short, stylistically eclectic epitaphs are packed with wit and kinetic energy, which the performers relished.
One of the most interesting offerings was Piacentini's "Fugitives" for voice alone, with texts by Baudelaire. The words flow in riveting, unpredictable bursts of speech, song, whispering and humming. Scandaletti revealed quite a flair for this sort of thing.
It came through even more theatrically in a wild a cappella piece by the late soprano Cathy Berberian that had the singer delivering snippets of "Sempre libera" from "La Traviata," radio weather reports, snores and imitations of gunfire.


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Hayne declined to answer questions on the December 2015 matter when he fronted the media after returning to NRL club Parramatta on Wednesday for the first time since 2014.
His lawyers later revealed in a statement that he had made contact with the plaintiff, while Hayne said he had told his US legal representatives to have the matter resolved "as quick as possible" after it was revealed a civil suit had been launched last month.
"I confirm that I unequivocally and vehemently deny the allegations made against me and I will be vigorously defending the matter," Hayne said.
"I have the utmost faith in the United States justice system and have left this matter with my legal team."
Hayne's lawyers said they were yet to be served with papers for the civil proceedings over the alleged incident, which was said to have occurred during Hayne's stint in the NFL.
Hayne's US lawyer, Mark Baute, was confident he would be cleared.
"Mr Hayne is innocent and will ask a United States jury to find him innocent," Baute said.
"There is no objective evidence of any sexual assault in this matter and the lawsuit lacks merit.
"Mr Hayne and I look forward to the day when a jury can find him innocent."
Baute was the trial lawyer who successfully defended NBA star Derrick Rose over rape claims in a federal civil case in 2016.
According to US court documents, Hayne was interviewed by Santa Clara police in May of 2016 in relation to claims made by a woman over an alleged incident the previous December.
In October 2016 the woman, known as Ms V, was told by police that there was insufficient evidence to proceed with a criminal case.
However she is now pursuing the two-time Dally M winner on claims of sexual battery, gender violence, infliction of emotional distress and negligence in a civil suit.
Hayne, 29, returned to his childhood club at the Eels from the Gold Coast this summer, and said he was yet to talk to Parramatta management about the matter.
He also deflected questions on whether he had informed the then-NRL owned Titans he was the subject of an investigation when he signed in August 2016, however the club has previously claimed they were not told.
Hayne quit his NFL stint with the San Francisco 49ers in the same month he was spoken to by investigators, but denied his departure was related to the incident.
He also said the claims hadn't taken away from his dream of playing in the NFL, but hit out at media for following him to his pre-planned trip to Israel and attempting to speak to his family in the past fortnight.
"It's been tough for them - it's been pretty emotional just seeing them get ambushed," Hayne said.
"That sort of thing was pretty disappointing and hard to watch and listen to.
"I don't think you can describe the feeling (of learning of the case). You've just got to go through it and let justice take its course."


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Epic simile refers to detailed comparisons that are built up over a large course of the text throughout several lines as opposed to the function of simile which points out similarities between two dissimilar concepts in a short and simple manner. These are used to add richness to the narrative but more importantly, to transpose loftier ideas into familiar and acceptable notions. Since these require elaborate and detailed comparisons, they are often digressive in nature, i.e, these comparisons tend to deviate from the actual narrative to discuss at length a specific aspect.
Milton was more concerned with the intellectual function of the simile rather than its aesthetic function. For instance, the various comparisons of Satan to an enormous sea beast (I.199-207) or the fallen angels to a swarm of bees (I.768-776)or the description of Satan’s shield to the moon as seen through Galileo’s astronomical glass (I.284-291) seek to help the readers understand the abstract concepts in the form of concrete images. Doing so is an important aspect of the narrator (and by extension Milton’s) task of justifying the ways of God to men as well as Milton’s project of creating a Biblical epic of the scale of the classical epics such as The Iliad and The Odyssey. The buzzing bees present the image of a filthy, undifferentiated swarm lacking individuality as well as a reduction in their stature just like the reduction in their size, in the mind of the reader. At the same time, they represent a certain kind of wildness and chaos which the fallen angels seek to bring to the world of mankind. The images of sea as well as the swarm of bees portray Hell as a place always in a state of flux and impermanence, in direct contrast to the immutability of Heaven.
Interestingly, Homer, who is credited with the conception of the epic simile,also uses the ‘bee simile’ in his epic, The Iliad. Harding notes that, “Milton wanted his readers to recognize the source of his allusion so that they could compare his version with the original and then judge for themselves how skillfully, and with what new creative insights, he had reworked it” (665).
Thus, while Milton’s use of epic similes present decorative, poetic imagery, they are also suffused with deeper meaning of classical scholarship and serve the larger purpose of providing the reader with a means to make the grand events of cosmic proportion more relatable.


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President Donald Trump on Monday morning went on Twitter to castigate NFL players who kneeled for the national anthem the prior day, arguing the issue has "nothing to do with race."
Several NFL players on Sunday kneeled, sat, linked arms, or even stayed in the locker room during the national anthem after Trump said that league owners should not tolerate players disrespecting the American flag.
"Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners when someone disrespects our flag to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out. He's fired. He's fired,'" Trump said in Alabama on Friday while campaigning for Sen. Luther Strange (R., Ala.).
Two days later, before any football games were played, Trump continued his campaign against players who kneel for the anthem, saying teams should "fire or suspend" them.
After players responded to Trump's comments by kneeling in greater numbers, the president noted on Twitter that some fans booed their actions.
"Many people booed the players who kneeled yesterday (which was a small percentage of the total). These are fans who demand respect for our Flag!" Trump wrote.
He added that playing the national anthem at sporting events is about respect for the United States, and is not an issue about race.
"The issue of kneeling has nothing to do with race," Trump wrote. "It is about respect for our Country, Flag and the National Anthem. NFL must respect this!"
Trump appeared to be responding to critics who argued he was stoking racial divisions because many of the players' actions were meant to protest racial injustice.
The president also praised NASCAR owners for coming out against kneeling for the national anthem. Several owners said Sunday that they would not tolerate racers who launched such protests, with some threatened to fire those who did not stand.
"So proud of NASCAR and its supporters and fans. They won't put up with disrespecting our Country and our Flag- they said it loud and clear!" Trump tweeted.
Trump ended his tweetstorm with a message containing the hashtag, "#StandForOurAnthem."


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One summer, illustrator and book designer Jim Hutcheson was exploring the wares in a small bookshop in Spain when he came across an illustrated history of the life of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, a Castilian knight also known as ‘El Cid’ or ‘El Campeador’. That got him thinking about the representation of other medieval warriors in literature, especially children’s books, and inspired him to commission artist Jill Calder and author James Robertson to create a new illustrated history of Robert the Bruce (published in 2014 by Birlinn).
Robert the Bruce is famous for many reasons, but particularly for leading the First War of Scottish Independence, so Jill, James and Jim quickly began wrestling with how to represent war and violence in art and text. The Visualising War podcast caught up with them recently and we had a fascinating discussion about the decisions they made and the impact which they hope their work will have.
The pivotal event in any account of Robert the Bruce’s life has to be the Battle of Bannockburn (1314), which resulted in an unexpected victory for the Scots over Edward II’s English forces. Jim, Jill and James dedicated 8 of the 64 pages in their book to narrating this, but they also wanted to take time over the events leading up to it, to help readers understand how that battle came about and how much violence had already preceded it on both sides. James talked particularly about the ‘Douglas Larder’ incident. Sir James Douglas was a Scottish landowner whose castle was occupied by English soldiers. On Palm Sunday in 1307 or 1308 (so the story goes), Douglas and his followers used a church service as cover to launch an attack on soldiers from the occupying garrison, killing many. He took surviving prisoners back to the castle and sat down with his men to enjoy the meal which had been prepared for the garrison on their return from church. Once full, he raided the castle stores and then gathered the remaining supplies in the cellars, where he proceeded to behead all the captives, piling their bodies on the stores and setting fire to them – as a grim warning to future occupying forces of what violence might befall them.
As well as giving readers a sense of just how violent the period leading up to Bannockburn was (English forces were acting with equal brutality towards any Scots they captured), James was keen to narrate this incident in a way that prompted comparisons with modern conflicts and atrocities, raising the question ‘Was this a war crime?’. Jill’s illustrations helped with this. As she explains on the podcast, she felt she could not shy away from the violence, even though the book they were creating was intended for younger readers. She did lots of research for her artwork, studying medieval sources to get details of clothing and weaponry right, for example, but also examining modern representations of conflict to inform her own. For the Douglas Larder story, she ended up basing her illustration on images of violence and retribution from local ‘wars’ between rival Mexican drug cartels. As she put it, this kind of theatrical violence – designed as a warning, as much as a punishment – is still going on in the world today; so, as well as giving her representation of 14th-century events a gritty realism, the echoes of modern atrocities in her artwork nudge readers to ask questions about the world we are currently living in and not just about Medieval ethics.
The picture Jills paints is colourful, beautiful even, with vibrant red flames flickering and a few stars visible through a castle window. The decapitated heads do not stand out – they are slightly hidden by the flames. But the beauty of those flames draws readers in, inviting them to look more closely; and once a reader notices the heads, they cannot unsee them. James, Jill and Jim all remember being shocked but fascinated by certain descriptions or images of violence in the books they read as children, and their hope with this page was built on that experience. Through a mix of compelling storytelling and gritty realism, they wanted to give their readers an image that would stick, that would fascinate, absorb and horrify, prompting them to peel away the layers and think: What? How? Why?
When narrating Bannockburn itself, James and Jill had four double-page spreads to work with, which allowed them to combine panoramic representations with close-ups of individuals. James wanted to stress that Robert the Bruce would probably not have opted to fight the battle, given the choice, and took time to set out the careful preparations they made to try to even out the huge imbalance between the much larger English forces and relatively few Scottish troops. He also wanted to focus attention on what Bruce said to his men before the battle, to remind readers why the conflict had been going on all that time and what was at stake for the soldiers themselves, about to risk their lives in what was likely to be a fight to the death.
One of Jill’s illustrations helps set the scene with a map of the battlefield, showing the troops gathered on both sides just before fighting began. Another zooms in on a decisive moment, when two warriors – Robert the Bruce and Henry de Bohun – charged towards each other and Bruce put an axe through de Bohun’s head. As with the Douglas Larder episode, there is no getting away from the violence of this scene. In the centre, a spray of blood shoots up as Bruce’s axe drives down through de Bohun’s helmet. Jill thought long and hard about how to capture the effort and determination which that extreme act of violence must have required, showing Bruce with teeth gritted and eyes focused as the horses carry their riders past each other. The horses themselves provide an extraordinary commentary on what one man is doing to another in this moment: their wide eyes help capture the adrenalin, terror and horror of the battlefield encounter. As with her other illustrations, Jill’s depiction of violence here is stylised as well as realistic, with vibrant colours and exquisite details drawing readers in, so that they look with a mixture of fascination and shock as they grasp what is unfolding. As simple as it is, this illustration captures some universal truths about battle and war, helping readers visualise not just the moment in question but the brutality of conflict at all times and in all places.
During our chat, Jim, James and Jill reflected on the role that both fiction and history have to play in shaping our understanding of past and present conflict. The story of Robert the Bruce is a mix of myth and history, which makes it amenable to creative storytelling. Readers will discover things they did not know about Bruce and the Scottish Wars of Independence from James, Jill and Jim’s book; but they are also taken on a bigger learning journey because of the way in which the historical narrative can be retold with new emphases and used to prompt reflection on wider issues. In this illustrated history, we also see the way in which images of battle help add new layers to what a text can tell us, as well as vice versa. This book – aimed at children, but equally intriguing for adult readers – richly illustrates what sensitive representations of war can do: like some of the other children’s literature discussed in Part 1 of this blog, it makes people stop, think, recoil, worry and evaluate the rights and wrongs of what they have just read.
To find out more about representations of war in children’s books and James, Jill and Jim’s illustrated history of Robert the Bruce, you can listen to our interview on the Visualising War podcast.
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Mindfulness can relieve pain, especially chronic, according to a recent study published in the journal PAIN . Other researchers have also made similar statements. A study published in the journal JAMA stated that mindfulness can specifically help relieve back pain. In some cases, it was even more effective than traditional treatments.
Another study published in Frontiers in Psychology also found that mindfulness meditation helped injured athletes improve their pain tolerance.
Another study showed that it could help people with chronic inflammation, such as rheumatoid arthritis or irritable bowel syndrome. The reason for this may be that mental stress plays a big role under these conditions.
But which parts of our brains are responsible for this analgesic effect? A new study led by Fadel Zeidan, assistant professor of neurobiology and anatomy at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is trying to figure this out.
Mindfulness and pain
Zeidan says that mindfulness can relieve pain as it is about being aware of the present, without having emotional reactions or judging. Some people are better at this than others and they seem to feel less pain.
What the researchers wanted to find out was whether a disposition for mindfulness was linked to lower pain sensitivity, and which brain functions played a role, if so.
They studied 76 people who had never meditated before. They assessed participants’ mindfulness levels using the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory test. This test measures non-identification of thoughts with emotions, acceptance, openness, non-reactivity, understanding of mental processes and observation of the present.
The researchers then used painful and non-painful heat levels to stimulate participants’ brains. They used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to observe their brain activity.
They worked with the assumption that inherent mindfulness correlated with lower pain sensitivity and lower activity in a brain circuit called the standard mode network (DMN).
There are several contiguous parts of the brain in this network, all of which are active during rest periods. Rest periods are when you have no attention to the outside world and are lost in your thoughts. Important brain areas in the network include the posterior parietal cortex, the prefrontal medial cortex, and the angular gyrus.
Meditation and ‘default mode network’
Meditation is an mindfulness exercise that focuses on your immediate experience. When you meditate, you push distractions like self-reflective wandering thoughts away.
Not surprisingly, researchers have associated meditation with lower activity in areas of the brain that are involved in the treatment of self-reflective thoughts. These areas form the default mode network. Those who are experienced in meditation also show much lower activity than those who are not.
Along these lines, they have also associated migrating tanks with higher DMN activity. Those who show a lower DMN activity while meditating also have a better ability to concentrate. Early research has suggested that meditation lowers DMN.
But how is it related that mindfulness can relieve pain?
This new study showed that inherent mindfulness was associated with lower activity levels in the posterior cingulate cortex. Conversely, those who reported the highest levels of pain showed higher activity levels in this region. Zeidan says DMN turns off when we do things like read or write.
He also says that it returns when we stop these tasks and return to the treatment of thoughts and feelings.
“The results of our study showed that individuals who practice mindfulness appear to be less trapped in the experience of pain, which was associated with lower pain reports,” Zeidan said. He also said that: “Now we have a new ammunition to target this area of the brain in the development of effective pain treatments”.
He hopes that their mindfulness study will ultimately help people relieve chronic pain: “Based on our previous research, we know that we can increase mindfulness through relatively short periods of mindfulness meditation training so that it can prove to be an effective way to provide pain relief to millions of people suffering from chronic pain ”.


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A physician, a developer and an investor walk into a room…
This may be a rare occurrence, but when it happened last Friday, these three were greeted by over 300 people just like them: people eager to see the health services landscape in Canada change for the better by applying technology to front-line problems.
This weekend, MaRS was host to Hacking Health’s second-ever hackathon. For those unfamiliar with the hackathon concept, these 48-hour events focus on rapidly developing and prototyping technical solutions to real-world problems. They do so by bringing together developers, designers, business mentors and idea originators, and emphasizing hands-on work on projects that can be tackled in a short period of time.
By connecting healthcare experts such as doctors, nurses, clinic managers and other health professionals with developers and designers, Hacking Health has created an environment where teams can form quickly, assumptions can be tested and the necessary steps to solving known, bite-sized problems can be put into motion immediately with the end goal of bringing newly formed prototypes back to clinics and hospitals for immediate impact testing.
Hacking Health began on the evening of Friday, October 19, with 68 one-minute pitches from a variety of healthcare experts. The remainder of Friday evening was dedicated to amalgamating ideas, forming teams and beginning to map out solutions.
The hackathon continued with full-day sessions on Saturday and Sunday. Come Sunday morning, a little less than half of the teams had survived the intense initial ideation, planning, prototyping and testing stages. By that afternoon, 27 real human-centred solutions to a number of burning front-line healthcare problems were presented—a true testament to the level of talent and dedication in the room.
By the numbers
The numbers speak to the huge success of this event–one of the largest hackathons in Canada:
Though every application represented a win (some were even polished enough for use in clinics YESTERDAY!), here are some of the honourable mentions highlighted by the Hacking Health judges:
Best team: VeriDrug
A web and mobile application for patients and providers, VeriDrug assembles current medication lists from up-to-date dispensing databases and presents them in an accessible and useful format.
Huge progress and huge impact: OsteoMapper
Similar to an immunization record for vaccines, OsteoMapper will provide doctors with a quick and easy visual check of where their cancer patients have received radiation therapy to avoid the overlap of radiation fields, a mistake that has potentially fatal consequences.
Most transformative: GENtle 2.0 – Open Source HTML5 DNA Design App
Fondly described as “a bio-lab in every browser,” GENtle is creating foundational technology for labs to help create, simulate and test new DNA on their computers before having to send it for production.
Most practical: Wound Measurement
A mobile application, Wound Measurement measures the surface area of wounds using a non-contact, reliable medical tool that tracks wound healing through photo documentation.
Maternal and child welfare, as well as people’s choice: It’s a Long Story
It’s a Long Story is a timely mobile game that helps girls and boys to learn appropriate boundaries, encourage healthy intimacy and proactively prevent predatory behaviour, harassment and assault.
Best consumer health product: ProstaTrack
ProstaTrack is a mobile application dedicated to the improvement of patient and physician experiences in dealing with prostate cancer. It also allows for the mass collection of data toward population-level quality improvements.
Grand prize winners
The two winners of the MaRS Incubation Prize were:
For most social impact: CommunityLinks
A tool for community resource navigation, CommunityLinks is an online platform helping both providers and patients to access current information about the services in their communities that meet their needs.
For greatest immediate impact and executability: PocketLabs
Empowering patients with results, PocketLabs allows patients to view their laboratory results on their mobile phones immediately after their results are available, and helps them to understand their results with contextualized lab references.
As so eloquently expressed by Hacking Health co-founder Jeeshan Chowdhury, Hacking Health serves a similar role as a chef in the process of baking a cake: it seeks out the best ingredients and brings them together harmoniously. However, these are only the first steps to making something new and delicious. After all of the ingredients have been combined, the budding cake still needs the nurturing warmth of the oven to support its transformation from batter to delicious dessert.
This is why Hacking Health chose to hold their Toronto event at MaRS: to sustain the collaborative partnerships formed between technology innovators and healthcare experts in an ecosystem with support for both, and also to ensure that, after the weekend has ended, these nascent ventures will have the support they need to carry on testing, iterating and improving their solutions from an organization already primed to accelerate new innovation.
To view more pictures from the event, click here.
Hacking Health was made possible by a number of partners, including Nightingale, an innovative health IT and electronic medical records company; and the Business Development Bank of Canada, dedicated to helping entrepreneurs reach their full potential.

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Music legend Prince passed away early Thursday morning at the age of 57.
His body was found at his home in Paisley Park in Minnesota. Previously, the singer had a medical emergency on April 15 where his private jet was forced to make a landing in Illinois. But despite his illnesses, he appeared at his concert the next day ensuring fans that he was OK.
Prince was an international superstar and just a few of his accomplishments include winning seven Grammys, selling more than 100 million records, and being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
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Intracranial arteriopathies are frequent causes of pediatric stroke and important risk factors for stroke recurrence. Without tissue diagnosis, vascular imaging is relied upon to identify the underlying etiology and prognosis. We hypothesized that children with unilateral intracranial arteriopathy with lenticulostriate collaterals would demonstrate distinct vascular outcomes compared with children without collaterals.We retrospectively identified children with unilateral intracranial arteriopathy from two institutions. Two blinded raters from each institution reviewed magnetic resonance or digital subtraction angiography at baseline and =12 months. Patients were grouped according to presence or absence of lenticulostriate collaterals. Clinical features and vascular imaging outcomes were compared using univariate analysis and multivariate logistic regression.Forty-four children were included: 22 males, median age 8.2 years (range two to 16.9 years), and further stratified into the collateral group (n = 20) and non-collateral group (n = 24), with median follow-up of 25.5 months and 23 months, respectively. Both groups demonstrated similar rates of progression on vascular imaging at =12 months, 50% in the collateral group versus 37.5% in the non-collateral group (P > 0.05). The collateral group was associated with asymptomatic clinical presentation, normal brain MRI, border zone infarcts, and either vascular stabilization or new contralateral disease. The non-collateral group demonstrated either vascular improvement or discordant progression (combination of improved and progressive lesions). Using a multivariate model, collaterals continued to be an independent predictor of vascular outcome.This study suggests that lenticulostriate collaterals in children with unilateral intracranial arteriopathy may serve as a useful neuroimaging biomarker that helps to stratify patients with distinct clinical features and patterns of vascular evolution.
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I personally love seeing a new to the scene rave baby’s eyes light up as they walk into their first massive festival. It’s almost like experiencing it yourself a for the first time again. The massive crowds, the positive energy flowing around and the craziness and beauty that many stages are known for; it can be an amazing experience exposing someone new to this culture, but what about the people who simply don’t want to welcome the newbies?
We’ve all heard it before, “mainstream people are ruining the scene” or “newbies don’t get it cause they haven’t been here since the beginning”. Well I hate to break it to some people, but unless you’ve been raving since the 1980’s you haven’t been around since the beginning either. At one point or another we were all new to the scene. Think about how that felt. To be accepted no matter who you are, how you dress, or what you do in day to day life. It didn’t matter. So why wouldn’t you show baby ravers the same respect?
Irregardless of how they got to the festival whether they went willingly or were dragged by their friends, they’re there! So why not share some PLUR and good vibes. There’s nothing sadder to me than when I hear someone say “This is my first rave!” And the person they were talking to pointedly turns away. Instead of distancing yourself because you think they “don’t understand” show them! Trade them their first piece of Kandi, give them a light show, share the culture that you love so much. Some of my favorite memories at festivals involve coming across a newbie and showing them the ropes.
Pushing people away from the culture because they’re new is not what rave culture is about. Unity is one of the founding elements and I feel like that’s falling to the wayside nowadays. Don’t roll your eyes when someone doesn’t know how to trade kandi, teach them! If someone’s being a festival meanie and ruining the good vibes that’s one thing, but someone who’s genuinely there for a good time will be open to all these new ideas.
So next time you come across a rave baby, don’t be so quick to judge. Give them a hug, a shoulder ride, or their first piece of kandi and welcome them into the crazy world you keep coming back to. They’re just as free to enjoy it as you are.

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Back agony and pregnancy, tips on what you can do to make your pregnancy and lower back torment somewhat simpler to manage.
Typical weight gain in pregnancy is around 35 pounds, yet heaps of ladies I have met over my twenty-year birthing assistance vocation increased 35 pounds to 70 pounds during pregnancy. The pressure of unexpected weight gain during the short pattern of pregnancy can cause back torment and pregnancy wretchedness.
Pregnancy pose change:
Pregnancy and lower back torment happens in light of pregnancy weight gain and the programmed changes your body makes in stance to oblige the developing belly. This adjustment in pose is called pregnancy lordosis. Upper and lower back torment and pregnancy lordosis go inseparably on the grounds that your spine turns out to be too bended, lengthened, and your bosom and rear end stick out pulling and extending your back muscles.
On head of this, back agony and pregnancy go connected at the hip in view of the more significant levels of pregnancy hormones you produce. Pregnancy hormones relaxingly affect a large number of the muscles in your body to oblige the muscle extending that is needed during pregnancy. Loosened up muscles are not as steady to the spine and abs, accordingly numerous ladies grumble of back torment and pregnancy shoulder pressure.
Pregnancy pelvic changes:
The female pelvis is comprised of various bones. At the point when you get towards the finish of your pregnancy, a child can’t fit to a typical measured lady’s pelvis without the pelvis opening and extending. The pelvis has two significant joints; one towards the privilege and one towards the left of your lower back alongside a pivot joint at the very last part of your spine.
Back agony and pregnancy tendon pulling and extending is an immediate consequence of your pelvis opening, which will permit your child’s head to connect with or go into the hole of your pelvis. Pregnancy and lower back torment is additionally brought about by the abundance pressure felt profound inside your pelvis as your infant sits and trusts that work will start.
These elements taken together, it isn’t surprising for pregnant ladies to get spinal pain. So on the off chance that you move a spinal pain straight away beginning getting things done to keep your spinal pain from deteriorating or gaining out of power.
Instructions to help limit manifestations related with pregnancy and lower back torment:
I unquestionably suggest having decent hot shower splashes, putting pleasant warm packs on your back, or far superior actually having back rubs to help with your pregnancy and lower back agony.
I would totally prescribe that each pregnant lady go to see a bone and joint specialist during pregnancy. A ton of conventional obstetrician, gynecologist and birthing specialists are somewhat scared of sending the ladies to a bone and joint specialist since they are simply not educated with regards to what alignment specialists really do. A bone and joint specialist can enable your spine to oblige simpler to all the stance changes that occurs during your pregnancy and mitigate torment related to pulled and focused on muscles related to pregnancy and lower back agony
Aside from that, let us take a gander at what things would you be able to never really claim body to help limit back agony and pregnancy. Wearing a decent supporting bra during your pregnancy will uphold the expanded bosom weight and elevate your bosoms so they don’t feel so weighty. This will reduce a ton of the upper back pressure related with pregnancy and lower back agony.
There are likewise a great deal of pregnancy stomach fasteners that have been made to help uphold the heaviness of your developing belly which can help soothe back agony and pregnancy tendon inconvenience.
Numerous ladies are centered around stylish shoes and wear strange footwear during pregnancies that don’t uphold their stance and feet. I can’t accept the number of pregnant ladies out there are wearing absurdly high shoes or low shoes. Keep in mind, as you become increasingly more pregnant all the bones and muscles inside your feet are pushed.
Investigate the shoes you are wearing during your pregnancy and ask yourself these inquiries to assess the significance of your feet:
Do your shoes have a decent strong curve in them?
Are your shoes quite wide to oblige the expanding development and enlarging of my foot related to additional blood volume and growing that happens during pregnancy?
Could your foot effectively sneak out of your shoe? On the off chance that so you could excursion and fall and harm yourself or your infant.
The more educated you are about pregnancy the better decisions you will make. Better decisions mean a more joyful more beneficial mother and infant. Pregnancy can be an unprecedented encounter for a lady. It is definitely more than growing a child and getting pregnancy and lower back torment.
Pregnancy has an enormous passionate, mental, profound, and fiery side to it. The more you comprehend these viewpoints, the simpler and less indicative your pregnancy will be. Figuring out how to associate with the feelings of your unborn kid will permit you to upgrade your pregnancy experience and give up to its typical physiological cycle of pregnancy and lower back torment.
Birthing specialist Hannah Bajor C.N.M., M.S.N. is organizer, CEO and Visionary behind the Lumalove® brand of getting pregnant, pregnancy, fruitlessness and unnatural birth cycle instructive help items and administrations.
Hannah says “realizing my life’s motivation gives one an embrace advantage”. Her 30 years birthing assistance experience alongside her own excursion through ten years of fruitlessness, having actually encountered a multi week premature delivery and a brush with death conveying her subsequent youngster has lit a fire in her spirit that NO ONE can put out and that is to “change labor training as we probably am aware it”.


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You don't need to make them any longer! Caroline Flack highlights her trim legs with a pair of nude heels
Rumour has it that a pair of nude coloured heels can make your legs appear longer.
After a bashful guest appearance on Celebrity Juice last week, Caroline Flack dusted off a pair of her favourite short shorts and put that rumour to the test.
The Xtra Factor presenter stepped out in the capital last night wearing a pair of skin-coloured stilettos and made her already enviable legs look that touch more desirable.
They're back: Caroline Flack shows off her trim legs as she heads to Groucho Club
The 32-year-old rubbed shoulders with the likes of Kate Moss and Jade Jagger as she headed to London's exclusive venue the Groucho Club, in Dean Street.
Not one to hide away her best assets, Caroline was pictured wearing a pair of navy blue shorts, a beige trench coat, and a white peter pan collared shirt with lace detail.
She wore her loosely curled dip-dyed brunette and blonde locks down and finished off her look with bright shade of red lipstick.
On and on: The 32-year-old wears sports her usual in a pair of short shorts
Michael is that you? Caroline appears to be sharing a conversation with Kill Bill actor Michael Madsen
In high spirits, she was seen looking very cheerful as she left the party which was in support of a charity auction for the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Evidence of the fun that Caroline had whilst at the event, a picture of her and best friend radio presenter, Gemma Cairney, surfaced on Twitter.
In the amusing snap both Flack and Cairney are looking up as they stick out their tongues displaying the food that is in their mouths.
How strange: Caroline and her BFF Gemma Cairney show off what's in their mouths
The star endured a little embarrassment on Celebrity Juice, last Thursday, when Keith Lemon threw a few Harry Styles-related jokes her way.
The cheeky presenter asked: 'When you were having sex, did he just giggle at your boobs?' and then launched into a rather suggestive dance.
Thankfully Holly Willoughby was on hand to keep Keith in check- though Caroline handled the questions with poise.
Home time: The Xtra Factor presenter gets in a cab as she calls it a night
Putting a tough week behind her, Flack recently tweeted about her excitement at returning to the ITV studios to begin filming for the Xtra Factor.
Her tweet read, 'Who...a matter of weeks before we start filming Xtra Factor! Eeeeek. Looks like there will be a few exciting changes also....hmmmm'.
Caroline, who came in at number 48 on FHM's World's Sexiest Women poll, also thanked her sister for the support she'd had given her over the last few months.
She tweeted, 'My sister Jo is truly the greatest. Not sure what id have done without her the last few months!!! Shout out to all sisters x'.
'Twas a good night: Caroline Flack is all smiles as she leaves the venue in a cab
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A popular teen performer on television thanks to his co-starring role on the comedy "Melissa & Joey" (ABC Family, 2010-15), teen actor Nick Robinson made an assured debut as a feature lead in the independent drama "The Kings of Summer" (2013). Robinson's performance as a young man chafing under the strict parenting of his father (Nick Offerman) struck a chord with many viewers, including critics and audiences at the Sundance Film Festival, which helped to make the picture a favorite. "The Kings of Summer" helped to establish Robinson as an actor with range beyond the scope of the homogenous Disney Channel talent pool, and pointed the way to a future in features and television with considerable potential.
Born March 22, 1995 in Seattle, Washington, Nicholas John Robinson began acting at the age of nine when his parents enrolled him in an area theater group. Within two years' time, he had made his professional debut as a performer in a 2006 production of "A Christmas Carol" with Seattle's famed ACT Theatre. He was soon a staple of Seattle regional theater, which inspired a friend of his parents to consider a career in film and on television. A meeting with famed talent scout Matt Casella led to Robinson signing with a Los Angeles talent agency. However, his hopes were initially dashed by the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike, which brought Hollywood production to a standstill. Robinson and his parents returned to Washington, where he continued to hone his craft on stage.
In 2009, he finally earned his big break by landing the role of Melissa Joan Hart's nephew on the popular ABC Family sitcom "Melissa & Joey." He soon added the Disney Channel original movie "Frenemies" (2012), and a guest turn as an ill-fated thief on the third season of HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" (2010-14) to his growing c.v., However, his true breakout role came the following year with the independent drama "The Kings of Summer." The feature, which starred Robinson as a fifteen-year-old who attempts to declare his own independence by relocating to a tree house in the woods with two friends, received critical acclaim, including excellent reviews for Robinson's performance. He then returned to production on the fourth season "Melissa & Joey" while deferring his first year of college at New York University to focus on acting.
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Ja’net Dubois, who became famous playing the role of Willona Woods on the hit 70s sitcom Good Times has died, as reported by TMZ. She was 74.
Her family says she died in her sleep unexpectedly at her Glendale, California home.
Dubois grew up in Brooklyn, NY and began her career on Broadway. She has appeared in various plays, including “Golden Boy” with Sammy Davis Jr. and Louis Gossett Jr and “A Raisin in the Sun.” In the ’70s, she would become well known for her role as the sassy, sexy, confident gossip, Willona Woods, in the Norman Lear-created series Good Times.
Dubois also composed and sang the theme song, “Movin’ On Up,” for Lear’s other popular sitcom, The Jeffersons.


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Who doesn’t know TCL for its LCD TVs that are quite popular even in the US? The latest version of TCL mobile phones are on their way?
They provide phones to a couple of different companies but this time, their roadmap for 2019/2020 to bring TCL branded phones leaked by Evan Blass who shared on Twitter the images of upcoming TCL smartphones including a folding phone as well.
TCL T1, TCL T1 Pro, TCL T1 5G, TCL T1 Pro 5G, and FLEXTAB are the devices the Chinese company plans to bring.
It is the basic among the TCL mobile phones and comes with a punch hole which it has patented as Dotch display. The dotch is placed on the left side of the display that also houses a 24MP lens for selfies, and similarly, there lies a triple camera setup on the back with 48MP (primary lens), 16MP (ultra-wide-angle lens) and 2MP (depth sensor). The cameras are placed horizontally on the rear side guarded by two LED flashes, seems like it is designed to do wonder under low light.
On the front side, there is a 6.53” full HD screen that makes 90% screen-to-body ratio.
The T1 will have 6GB RAM and 128GB internal storage, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 675 and 3820 mAh battery coupled with 18W fast charging, which looks a decent capacity.
GizmoChina reports that T1 will come with USB-C support and Android 9.0 out of the box with a promise to upgrade it to Android Q and a fingerprint scanner on the backside. The mid-range phone might fall in $ 330 – $ 440 price bracket.
TCL T2 Pro
The Pro version is planned for the first quarter in 2020, and it will boast a full view Edge AMOLED display and a quad-camera on the backside. Expected price is between $ 440 – $ 550.
Both of the above TCL mobile phones will have a respective 5G variant in the second and third quarter of 2020.
By the time TCL brings its folding phone, probably all major phone makers will have introduced their respect phones including Samsung and Huawei.
FLEXTAB folds inward, and as per leaks, it will also carry AMOLED display. Its rumored price is $ 1440.
It’s too early to predict TCL mobile phones for Pakistani market where Samsung, Huawei, Oppo, and Vivo have occupied a bigger segment of the mid-range category.
Do tell us in the comments which phone looks better in specs?