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Benefits Of Home Health
You may have a tight job schedule, making you not be able to have adequate time to take care of your elderly loved ones. Having a task of taking your children and the elderly loved ones at the same time may prove to be hectic. Choosing to enroll your elderly loved ones to a home care may help relieve you the workload as well as end up being the better option as opposed to you taking care of the elderly by yourself. This article elaborates how you are likely to benefit by taking your elderly to a home care.
If you enroll you elderly loved one in a home care, you ensure that he or she has a caretaker at all times. If The greater part of your day is spent at your job, you need to ensure that your elderly loved ones are at safe hands which in this case is a home care.
The great thing about enrolling you’re the elderly at a home care is that they will be able to receive adequate medical care. Once you enroll your elderly loved ones to a home care, they will be allocated a nurse who will keep on checking their health status as well as give the proper treatment when required. A home care also has the required medical technology to handle vast medical conditions that arise as a result of ageing. Now you will not be tasked with the duty of finding a medical practitioner to keep on checking on the elderly one health state.
By enrolling your elderly loved ones to a home care, he or she will be able to get a proper diet. Your elderly loved ones should be given proper nutrition so as help boost the body immunity. Your elderly loved ones require a food that is rich in all nutrients so as to live longer. Attendants in a home care will be able to provide nutrition counseling as well as the right diet as required by the elderly loved one.
Research has proven that when the elderly are engaged in interaction, they tend to live longer. Not taking your elderly loved ones at a home care may greatly affect their life they will miss out on many social activities and interactions that are not present in your house. When you enroll your elderly loved ones to a home care, they are likely to live longer due to the fact that in a home care, the elderly ones will be able to get engaged in social activities that help to keep them less depressed.


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SEEKINGBand to Join, Vocalist, Vocalist - Soprano, Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Vocalist - Alto, Electronic Music.
Have played in several cover outfits in Kansas City
Most recently BOOM, and FARMSICKLE STICK
Waiting on Amy
& old original hard rock band Mi Dixie Wrecked few years ago
I am also currently playing Bluegrass and acoustic rock w Farmsickle Stick (which is everyone's side project from their other bands)
Since Farmsickle is playing out enough.....I am looking for a more creative or interesting project.
I would like to do an Original Alternative, POP, or Hard Rock group that tries to create something .but still tries to play live...with or without additional covers
I can do some background vocals while playing. I can handle 1-3 easy vocal songs and still play also. But don't expect a ton of lead singing if I'm playing.
- Screen name:
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- Nov 30 2018
- Active within 2 weeks
- Level of commitment:
- Years playing music:
- Gigs played:
- Over 100
- Tend to practice:
- 1 time per week
- Available to gig:
- 2-3 nights a week
- Most available:
Hard Rock...Godsmack, Metallica, Megadeth, Vol Beat, Halestorm, 5 finger death punch, Atreyu,
Newer Euro Power Rock..Amaranthe, Delain, Nightwish, Beast In Black
Pop Music...Phil Collins, Bon Jovi, Rhianna, Chalie Puth, Taylor Swift, Flo Rida, the Weekend, Kelly Clarkson, Bruno Mars
80's --just about everything New Wave..Hair band...Pop..Metal
INXS, Motley Crue, Def Lep, Skids, Metallica, Phil Collins, Richard Marx etc.
Alternative: Older Paramore, Fallout Boy. Blink 182, Icon for Hire
I love Disco and dance music
Modern Country: Luke Bryan, Big and Rich, Florida George, Jason Aldean
Classic Rock: Triumph, Stones, REO, Journey, STYX, the Who, etc
- Vocalist - Tenor:
- Other Percussion:
I have 10 Drumsets (too many at moment)
Rehearse usually 4 piece tama or pearl
Gig--usually 4 piece Gretch Catalina Club w 2 crash,(pictured) Rock Bag
Creative--6 piece Premier 3 rack toms, double pedal
I can play a 9 piece double bass drumkit..or 4 piece mini bop kit depending on the band/gig situation
All professional Zildjian, Sabian, or Paiste Cymbals
I have 5 sets hihats and 5 rides plus many crash options.
CAD and SHURE Drum Mics
Shure SM58 Vocal MIC
Little bit of stage lighting
I also have Yamaha Power Head 8 channel PA w speakers and monitors..I can run a small 4-5 piece band for your average bar or small outdoor gigs.
I can expand or swap stuff with drumsets....
Current electronics...have older Alesis DM5 system..and an older TD6 Roland kit...but could use some upgrades if needed to play live these are more record and practice kits...I recently purchased a WAV sample pad and Roland Percussion pad to enhance live stuff...Intend to upgrade this area if gigging more regularly and using it.

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Addiction treatment centers help people overcome their addiction by providing resources and support There are thousands of rehab centers located throughout the country No matter a person’s addiction problem, there is a treatment center out there to help them overcome their addiction Why People decide to go to an Addiction Treatment Center According to www.drugabuse,gov,….
Alcohol is increasingly becoming the drug of choice for young people, with a 10 per cent rise of the number of under-18s seeking addiction advice over the past year, new figures show. Angela Slaven, director of youth services at Kent County Council, said while the number of people seeking help for under-age drinking were up,….
Obama’s decision not to prosecute medical marijuana users and sellers suggests the war on drugs is ending Ships of state tend to change course slowly. Policies set in place over decades, and implemented by large, self-perpetuating bureaucracies and enforcement systems are pretty hard to dismantle. Fundamental change rarely happens overnight. Much of the criticism that….
Treating heroin addicts by giving them heroin might seem counterintuitive. But for some of the most hardened addicts, administering heroin in supervised clinics may just do the trick where detox and methadone have failed. Following the lead of Switzerland and a handful of other countries, Britain recently concluded a four-year trial in which longtime addicts….
The school called the meeting in response to a weekend last month when there were three car accidents involving students from the high school. Two of the accidents happened around or after 2 a.m., two involved students who had left house parties, and in one instance a student was cited for operating under the influence,….

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Mosgiel livestock vet Victoria Chapman has been delighted to discover more than a dozen fantails roosting snugly together on a jasmine vine in her shed.
Chapman has recently been living elsewhere while builders undertake renovations at her Bush Rd property, and was pleased to learn from them last week that the fantails had just started roosting in the brick farm shed.
The birds began roosting at dusk, shortly after 5pm, then flew off at dawn and, through the day, also visited the builders by flying into the nearby farmhouse while they worked, she said.
An old jasmine vine had grown not only on the shed's exterior wall, but had also ventured inside and through part of the roof, a loop of vine just below roof level providing a convenient indoor perch which was warmer than alternative roosts outside, exposed to winter winds.
"It's just a comfortable little perch for them up there. They sleep there overnight".
"I'm happy for the birds that they've found somewhere that they're happy to be," she said.
'I'm sure it's warmer in the shed — it's warmer than being out in the trees," she added.
"I like the way they chirp noisily at you. They're wonderful".
She also enjoyed watching the way the light, agile little birds jumped into their preferred position on the vine each evening, and shuffled along with and made room for each other before the nightly side-by-side roosting.
Hearing from the builders about her recent visitors had been a "beautiful surprise".
She and her friends remained intrigued by the all-in-together heat-saving roosting technique on the vine.
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The Godfather Collection (The Coppola Restoration) [Blu-ray]
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment Brand: Paramount Color: color
Francis Ford Coppola's Masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone's family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged. Based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel and featuring career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall, this searing and brilliant film garnered ten Academy Award nominations, and won three including Best Picture of 1972. People used to say this was Frank Sinatra's world, and the rest of us just lived in it. After watching the multiple special features in the box set The Godfather - Coppola Restoration, one might conclude it's actually time for a cultural and historical revision: This is the Corleone family's world. The rest of us better tread lightly. Actually, the point of the half-dozen or so features crammed onto a disc accompanying the beautifully restored The Godfather, The Godfather II and The Godfather III, is that The Godfather movies have penetrated popular culture in such a deep and meaningful way that they are second-nature to everything. David Chase, creator of and writer on The Sopranos, for example, describes in the featurette "Godfather World" that his hit HBO series was intended to be the story of the first generation of mobsters actually influenced by Francis Ford Coppola's hit trilogy. Joe Mantegna calls the three films "the Italian Star Wars." (Mantegna co-stars in The Godfather III.) Alec Baldwin says no matter what one is doing, one is compelled to stop and watch the films if they're on television. Richard Belzer calls the films "a religion." And so on. A number of people similarly testify in "Godfather World" to the importance and ubiquitousness of The Godfather and its sequels in American life. There's no point in arguing, so its best to move on to the other featurettes, including "The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't," reviewing in detail much of what has been said about Paramount's mistreatment of Coppola, about casting fights (Steve McQueen as Michael?), about the studio's assumption they were getting a quick-and-dirty B-movie, and about producer Robert Evans' determination to keep his choice of director and unlikely actors under his wing. Fresh information within the special features, however, begins with "â€¦ When the Shooting Stopped," a fine study of post-production on The Godfather, with several surprising and fascinating facts. Among emerging details is an explanation of why Michael Corleone's scream toward the end of The Godfather III is silenced out. (Hint: it was meant to be the inverse of a sound effect in the first movie.) "Emulsional Rescue: Revealing The Godfather" talks about the painstaking work of restoring the first two films, beginning with a phone call from Coppola to Steven Spielberg (after the latter's DreamWorks studio became...
Gone with the Wind (Two Disc 70th Anniversary Edition)
Manufacturer: WarnerBrothers Brand: Warner Brothers Model: 9044155
Period romance. War epic. Family saga. Popular fiction adapted with crowd-pleasing brilliance. Star acting aglow with charisma and passion. Moviemaking craft at its height. These are sublimely joined in the words Gone with the Wind. This dynamic and durable screen entertainment of the Civil War-era South comes home with the renewed splendor of a New 70th-Anniversary Digital Transfer capturing a higher-resolution image from Restored Picture Elements than ever before possible. David O. Selznickâ€™s monumental production of Margaret Mitchellâ€™s Pulitzer Prize-winning book can now enthrall new generations of home viewers with a majestic vibrance that befits one of Hollywoodâ€™s greatest achievements.
Sherlock: Season 1
Manufacturer: BBC Home Entertainment Brand: BBC Home Entertainment
A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock is a thrilling, funny, fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London. Co-created by Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, Coupling) and Mark Gatiss, Sherlock stars BAFTA-nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (Hawking, Amazing Grace) as the new Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman (The Office, Love Actually), as his loyal friend, Doctor John Watson. Rupert Graves plays Inspector Lestrade. The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain--they live at the same address, have the same names and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them. And so across three thrilling, scary, action-packed and highly modern-day adventures, Sherlock and John navigate a maze of cryptic clues and lethal killers to get at the truth. In the wake of Guy Ritchie's reimagining, the BBC puts its own stamp on Arthur Conan Doyle's sleuth--and sets him in a London filled with cell phones and laptops. In the pilot, director Paul McGuigan (a keen visual stylist) introduces Sherlock Holmes (Atonement's Benedict Cumberbatch) as a "high-functioning sociopath" and Dr. John Watson (The Office's Martin Freeman) as an army veteran with posttraumatic stress disorder. Through a mutual friend, the two become flatmates at 221B Baker Street (Una Stubbs plays their landlady). Holmes, who consults with Scotland Yard inspector Lestrade (Rupert Graves) on his trickier cases, drafts Watson to assist him. In "Study in Pink," four people commit suicide by poison. When Holmes sets out to establish a link, he falls right into the culprit's clutches. Other cases concern a smuggling operation ("The Blind Banker") and a mad bomber ("The Great Game"). Though he doesn't make a formal entrance until episode three, an infamous figure from Sherlock's future has a hand in each mystery, while the detective's brother, Mycroft (co-creator Mark Gatiss), first appears when he tries to hire Watson for a case of his own, an offer that gives the good doctor pause. Through his job at a medical office, Watson also meets Sarah (Zoe Telford), who becomes his girlfriend. Part of the fun of Jeremy Brett's Holmes (and Agatha Christie's Poirot) came from the period details, so this update takes a little getting used to--as does the occasional mumbled line--but Cumberbatch and Freeman share an enjoyable Odd Couple rapport, marked by flashes of deadpan wit, which compensates for the absence of deerstalker caps (Holmes favors scarves) and journals (Watson maintains a website). Extras include commentary on the finale, the original pilot, and a featurette, in which cocreator Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) notes that Cumberbatch was his only choice for the title role. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
The Walking Dead: Season 1
Manufacturer: AMC and Anchor Bay Entertainment Brand: Anchor Bay Entertainment Model: 15713001
After waking from a coma in an abandoned hospital, police officer Rick Grimes finds the world he knew gone - ravaged by a zombie epidemic of apocalyptic proportions. Nearby, on the outskirts of Atlanta, a small encampment struggles to survive as 'the dead' stalk them at every turn. Can Rick and the others hold onto their humanity as they fight to live in this terrifying new world? And, amidst dire conditions and personal rivalries, will they ultimately survive one another? AMCâ€™s The Walking Dead is an epic, survival adventure series from the director of The Shawshank Redemption and the producer of The Terminator and Aliens. Arguably the biggest hit of the 2010 television season, the apocalypse drama The Walking Dead pulls the zombie subgenre out of its overexposed doldrums and finds, ironically enough, the humanity and emotion beneath its rotting shell. Produced by Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) and Gale Anne Hurd (Aliens) and based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead follows a band of Atlanta-based survivors of a viral outbreak that has caused the dead to rise up and consume the living. The group's nominal leader is a sheriff's deputy (Andrew Lincoln) who wakes from a gunshot-induced coma to find the world in disarray and his wife (Sarah Wayne Callies, Prison Break) and son missing. His search for his family and the survivors' attempts to make sense of their lives in the wake of the outbreak is handled with intelligence and sensitivity, which helps to elevate the show beyond the grindhouse take on zombies, which favors spilled guts over character development. That's not to say that the blood doesn't flow plentifully here: the special effects are on par with zombie-movie mayhem, but again, they aren't the show's raison d'Ãªtre. Solid performances, including Jon Bernthal as Lincoln's partner, Jeffrey DeMunn as the group's leading rationalist, and Michael Rooker and Norman Reedus as a pair of trouble-making rednecks, and gripping suspense make each of the first season's six episodes compelling from start to finish for both horror fans and those who dislike the genre as a whole. The two-disc set of Walking Dead's first season includes all six episodes, as well as a number of making-of extras, including the show's conception and production, a talk with Robert Kirkman (he's a fan), a look at the makeup by KNB Studios, and the show's panel at the 2010 ComicCon. All of the principal players on both sides of the camera are given adequate screen time to discuss their vision for the show, its influences (George Romero, naturally), and the challenges of depicting the end of civilization on a budget. --Paul Gaita
Sherlock: Season 2
Manufacturer: BBC Home Entertainment Brand: Warner Manufacturing
Sherlock: Season Two (BBC/DVD)Nominated for 4 primetime Emmys, Sherlock is back with Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Watson in three new stories. In A Scandal in Belgravia, Sherlock gets embroiled in the complex plans of the dangerous and desirable Irene Adler, and finds himself employing every one of his remarkable skills to survive as the unlikely duo square off in a battle of witsâ€¦and perhaps emotions? The Hounds of Baskerville whisks the increasingly popular detective and Watson to the wilds of Dartmoor, and face to face with the supernatural lurking in the eerie landscape. Meanwhile, Moriarty is still out there in the shadows, and is determined to bring Sherlock down-at whatever the cost-in The Reichenbach Fall. With beguiling performances, witty scripts and some of the most intriguing characters ever created, it's no wonder that Sherlock has proven to be a worldwide success.]]> There is nothing elementary (a Holmesian clichÃ© that this exceedingly smart and savvy series wisely shuns) about Sherlock. This sophomore season exceeds the pleasures and promise of the Emmy-nominated first season with three feature-length mysteries that fully test Holmes's mettle and cunning, and shake his very high self-regard. The first and third episodes do full justice to two figures who loom large in the Holmes canon. The first is Irene Adler (Lara Pulver), a.k.a. "the Woman," in "A Scandal in Belgravia," a ripping and naughty yarn involving a high-class dominatrix and some scandalous royal photos. The second, of course, is Moriarty (an Emmy-worthy Andrew Scott) in "The Reichenbach Fall," who hatches a mad scheme to bring about Holmes's ruination. The middle mystery is perhaps Holmes's best-known, "The Hounds of Baskerville," a psychological thriller that lacks the other two's worthy central adversaries, although Holmes's rare moment of bafflement sets the stage for the seemingly game-changing finale that has Dark Knight echoes. Sherlock's high concept--transplanting Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's master consulting detective to 21st-century London--is brilliantly realized, but at the heart of this series' success is the casting and chemistry between Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Watson, who chronicles their adventures in--what else--a blog. While some may make innuendo about the nature of their relationship, it is their friendship that unfolds by degrees that holds the most fascination. "I don't have friends," Holmes confesses to Watson in one of his rare quiet and less prickly moments. "I have one." Sherlock benefits from repeat viewings, not so much to decipher clues, but to savor the brilliant wordplay. Series three cannot arrive fast enough. --Donald Liebenson
Game of Thrones: Season 2
Manufacturer: HBO Studios Brand: HBO Studios Model: 25939076
In the second season of the epic HBO original series Game of Thrones, kings from across the fictional continent of Westeros vie for the Iron Throne. As winter approaches, the cruel young Joffrey sits upon the Throne in King's Landing, counseled by his conniving mother Cersei and his uncle Tyrion, who has been appointed the new Hand of the King. But the Lannister hold on power is under assault on many fronts, with two Baratheons donning crowns, and Robb Stark fighting as the King in the North. With tensions and treaties, animosity and alliances, Season Two is a thrilling journey through a riveting and unforgettable landscape. The epic scope of the grand television fantasy series Game of Thrones is matched by the extraordinary wealth of extras found in its sophomore-season set. Based on A Clash of Kings, the second novel in George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, season two of Game of Thrones admirably encapsulates the sprawling War of the Five Kings, which pits the malevolent Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) against a host of contenders for the throne of the late King Robert (Mark Addy), including his brothers Stannis (Stephen Dillane) and Renly (Gethin Anthony). Further complicating matters is the appointment of Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) as Hand of the King to Joffrey, which sets off an intense behind-the-scenes power struggle with his siblings, Cersei (Lena Headey) and Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), who carry on an incestuous affair. Meanwhile, there's also the issue of Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) and her three dragons; Daenerys spends much of season two making her way across the Red Waste in order to launch her own plan of conquest. These central conflicts are supported by a host of secondary storylines, including Alfie Allen's Theon Greyjoy, who is faced with dreadful choices in his own quest to prove his worth, and new cast member Carice van Houten as Melisandre, a priestess who uses a variety of wiles, including sex, to spur Stannis's assault against Joffrey's forces in the series' showstopping set piece, the Battle of Blackwater Bay. That Game of Thrones manages to not only weave together all of these myriad threads but also make them compelling and fully realized is among the keys to the show's astonishing popularity, as are the performances, which, along with the direction and writing, help to make the series the best costume fantasy drama ever produced on television. Its blend of historically inspired intrigue and supernatural elements keeps it far afield of camp territory, where most TV fantasy has bogged down in the past, while the cast, led by the extraordinary Peter Dinklage as the wily Tyrion, rivals any modern day/dress series. Of course, the show's copious violence and sexuality (the latter of which borders on excessive this season) are also key factors, but the visceral nature of these parts mesh well with the show's overall theme of a medieval land gripped by extraordinary bloodshed. The five-disc DVD set of Game of Throne...
Game of Thrones: Season 1
Manufacturer: HBO Studios Brand: HBO HOME VIDEO Model: 25229222
The first season of the hit HBO original TV series, based on the bestselling book A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. An epic drama, Game of Thrones is set in the fantasy continent of Westeros, where ambitious men and women of both honor and ill-repute live in a land where summers and winters can last for years. This adventure-fantasy series is now available in a 7-disc Blu-ray collection with these exclusive features: in-episode guide, historical Game of Thrones context, inside look at the creation of the battle of Blackwater Bay and audio commentaries with the cast and crew that includes Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey and Kit Harington.
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There are a lot of different causes of eyeinfections, and hence the signs and symptoms of eye infections can widely vary. It canbe as simple as conjunctivitis or â€œpink eyeâ€�, and it can be as severe as sightthreateninginfections such as a corneal ulcer. Eye infections can be caused by bacterial, viral or fungalagents, and it can affect any part of the eye, including inside the eye. It can be isolatedto just one eye, or it could affect both eyes. Some signs and symptoms of infection may includeredness of the eye and discharge from the eye. The discharge can be a watery, mucusyor a puslike discharge. Other signs and symptoms can include eyelash crusting, itching of theeyes, pain in the eye, light sensitivity,
eyelid swelling, eyelid tenderness, blurryvision or a feeling that something is in the eye.If you feel you have an eye infection, call your of Optometry to book an assessment.If you wear contact lenses, it is advisable to stop wearing contact lenses at first signsof infection and remain in glasses until your eye infection has healed.


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Riverside Library Director Tonya Kennon will fill in as parks director while officials search for a permanent replacement for Ralph Nuñez, who retired Monday, March 31, after 10 years with the city.
The city has 52 parks and 14 community centers. The library system has eight branch locations.
During Kennon’s interim job, which will last several weeks, library administrative services manager George Guzman will run day-to-day library operations, according to a city news release.
Officials are considering whether to hire private security guards to patrol 13 parks and four libraries during evening hours, after complaints about safety concerns from the public and council members.
Contact Alicia Robinson at 951-368-9461 or firstname.lastname@example.org

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Cook 30 mins
Eggplant is one of my favourite vegetables. This mouthwatering spicy dish is served in Sri Lanka on special occasions such as weddings. So good is it that I would happily eat it every day of the week if not for the high oil content. Definitely not one for calorie counters! It is usually served with a chicken curry and saffron rice. I love it hot, but cold the next day, it is sensational. If you wish, prior to cooking, you can cut each eggplant lengthwise into quarters, sprinkle with the salt and leave uncovered in a single layer for thirty minutes. Rinse the eggplant under a cold tap, pat-dry with kitchen paper, and slice into 1" cubes as directed below. I personally don't bother with the salting process. If you prefer to use baby eggplant, just slice crosswise into 1" cubes. Recipe obtained from a Sri Lankan friend.
- 21 ounces large eggplants
- 1 teaspoon salt (optional)
- vegetable oil, for deep frying
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, extra
- 1⁄2 medium onion, finely chopped
- 1⁄4 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- 1 teaspoon whole mustard seeds, ground in a mortar and pestle
- 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 inch fresh ginger, grated
- 2 green chilies, chopped (optionally seeded to reduce the heat)
- 10 fresh curry leaves
- 1 tablespoon malt vinegar or 1 tablespoon cider vinegar or 1 tablespoon wine vinegar
- 1⁄3 cup coconut milk
- 1⁄2 teaspoon brown sugar
- Wash the eggplants, remove the stalk, and slice lengthwise into quarters.
- Cut each quarter lengthwise into 1" wide strips and then crosswise into 1" cubes.
- Heat 1-2 inches of peanut oil in a wok to medium-high heat (375F) and deep-fry the eggplant cubes in batches until golden brown (this takes around three to five minutes for each batch, adjusting oil temperature as necessary).
- Drain thoroughly on kitchen paper.
- In a medium-sized pan, heat the extra oil and saute and stir the onion until golden brown.
- Add the turmeric, cumin, coriander and mustard and stir for a couple of seconds before adding the garlic, ginger, chillies and curry leaves.
- Stir and saute for 30 seconds.
- Add the vinegar, coconut milk, salt to taste and the sugar and stir until well mixed.
- Bring slowly to the boil before adding the deep-fried eggplant cubes.
- Stir, then simmer gently on low heat until most of the liquid has evaporated, about 10 minutes.
- Taste and season with a little more sugar and/or salt as desired.
This didn't quite make the 5 star mark for me but it was almost there. I thought that the seasoning was spot on, my problem was the coconut milk. It might be a proper curry with it but I would have given 5 stars if I had left it out.
BrianH is one of my fav. chefs- so when I saw HE liked this one, I had to try it- and I am so glad I did. It looks slightly intimidating but this was an easy dish to do. And way tasty. It is ALMOST like a dish we love at a Boston restaurant- Bombay Club- but less greasy and no tomato. I will play with this recipe but it's great as-is also. Eggplant takes on a new sweetness and it's just so good. We ate the entire batch, the 2 of us. I did extra-spice a bit, as per Brian's suggestion, and also, didn't deep fry- I pan fried the eggplant, drained, and to soften, I simmered, covered, over low heat with all of the other ingredients for about 25 minutes. Perfection.
I have dozens of recipes for aubergines curried or spiced, as I lived in Sri Lanka. I cook curry almost every day. Therefore when I saw this I had to give it a go. Easy to cook, but I would have preferred a little more spice, having said that I will cook this again and again, It is by far one of the easiest aubergine dishes I have cooked in more than 50 years. Thanks for sharing your recipe with us, very well done.

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Adhiraj Segel is currently pursuing his BFA degree from the Photography department at SAIC. His work tries to explore the interaction of human activity and the surrounding environment while exploring ideas in the Anthropocene.
Contributions to Humans & Nature:
- A New Nature
From Minding Nature’s Winter 2019, Volume 12, Number 1 issue.


Airmaster Fan Company has been sold by owner Robert LaZebnik to the company’s President and CEO, Richard Stone. The sale was completed on Dec. 28. No financial details are being released.
Stone has named the following the officers of the company; Ron Johnson is the CFO and Executive Vice President, Mike Pignataro has been promoted to Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
A company press release stated: "Airmaster Fan Company remains committed to uncompromising quality, outstanding service, and superior products, which have built our brand recognition in the market."
Airmaster is a market leader in the engineering, design, and manufacturing of fans sold through the wholesale distribution market.
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He skipped the spin and went right to what we already knew. Asked for his evaluation of a team that’s been under .500 for much of the season, Ruben Amaro Jr.
DENVER – Jonathan Pettibone’s difficult outing in Coors Field on Saturday has led to some speculation that the Phillies might bring Carlos Zambrano to the majors for a start la
DENVER -- A day after Cliff Lee voiced frustration with the Phillies’ inability to win consistently, manager Charlie Manuel joined the club.
Ruben Amaro thinks you’ve got it all wrong. Maybe you look at the Phillies and see a team that’s struggled to be average this year. Amaro sees something else.


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This is an article I recently wrote for African Arguments on Nigeria’s recently revised GDP series.
According to recently reviewed GDP figures, Nigeria is now Africa’s biggest economy. It was about time a more accurate measure of economic output, which captures Nigerians’ entrepreneurial zeal, was adopted. The headline-capturing highlights of the new series reveal the scale of the economy, and greater economic diversification with the rapid growth of non-oil sectors. Significantly, the figures indicate how this growth accounts for the “jobless” economic expansion, the slow pace of industrial development and the regional dimensions of the economic boom.
According to the rebased figures, six sectors now account for 70% of nominal GDP rather than three in the old series. The service sector grew fastest, by 240%, and is progressively constituting a larger portion of the GDP. Conversely, the share of the two hitherto giants – agriculture and oil has fallen to 21% and 14.4% respectively. Nigeria is transiting to a services-driven economy due to the rapid growth of information and communications technology (ICT), banking, trade and the informal economy.
Zenith Bank, UBA and Guaranty Trust Bank are Nigerian financial institutions with a huge presence across the continent. Mobile phone subscription has exploded from just 2.2 million lines in 2002 to over 169 million by 2013. Call credit vendors, petty traders and other unofficial activities in the informal economy have also been included in the new series, as a component of the services sector.
On the surface, the emergence of the service sector as a major growth driver indicates a greater diversification of the country’s production structure away from oil (a long sought after goal). The share of the oil and gas sector has fallen from 32.4% of GDP in the old series to just 14.4% in the new series. On one hand this is good news, on the other hand, it reveals deeper structural distortions. Nigeria appears to be leap-frogging from an extractive to a services-oriented economy without commensurate industrial development, and this comes with some baggage. This slow pace of industrialisation accounts for the non-inclusive nature of growth and widening inequality in the country.
The necessity to experience industrialisation as a phase in the economic development process from a poor to a rich society is well documented. The Economist andForeign Policy magazines both recently hosted debates on the necessity of industrialisation for sub-Saharan African economies. Economist Ha-Joon Chang points out categorically that “…it is a fantasy to think that developing countries can skip industrialisation and build prosperity on the basis of service industries”.
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The study by Human Rights Watch bemoans an over-aggressive approach where the FBI will identify someone who fits a possible terrorist profile; urge that person to participate in an attack; provide the necessary materials; then, finally, make an arrest.
The study examines sweeping changes to police tactics since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, an era of increased pressure on law-enforcement to intervene before crimes ever get committed.
This climate of urgency has led police to overstep moral guidelines, according to the 212-page study entitled Illusion of Justice: Human Rights Abuses in U.S. Terrorism Prosecutions.
"The FBI may have created terrorists out of law-abiding individuals," said the report, released Monday.
"In many of the sting operations we examined, informants and undercover agents carefully laid out an ideological basis for a proposed terrorist attack, and then provided investigative targets with a range of options and the weapons necessary to carry out the attack.
"Instead of beginning a sting at the point where the target had expressed an interest in engaging in illegal conduct, many terrorism sting operations that we investigated facilitated or invented the target’s willingness to act before presenting the tangible opportunity to do so."
The report said it wanted to examine police tactics that had led to 500 terrorism convictions in U.S. courts since 9-11. Citing previous studies, it said half these cases involved informants and that the informant played an active role in the plot 30 per cent of the time.
The authors interviewed 215 people connected to 27 American terrorism cases.
The report said some of the people targeted suffer from mental illness or financial problems. It said they were given the motive and the means to commit crimes they might never have ever considered.
In two cases, it said suspects were even given money to participate in a plot.
The study quoted a New York judge in a case involving a plot to shoot down military planes and bomb synagogues. That judge said, of one suspect, that only the government could have succeeded in making a terrorist out of him — because his "buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in scope."
Said another judge at a different stage in the same case involving the so-called Newburgh Four: "The government came up with the crime, provided the means, and removed all relevant obstacles."
The accusation of police entrapment has also been leveled in a U.S. case related to Canada's Via Rail attack suspects.
Ahmed Abassi was accused of plotting to organize a U.S-based terrorism cell, and prosecutors alleged he worked to radicalize one of the two people accused of planning to blow up a passenger train in Canada.
But a court filing for the Tunisian national said that he never even wanted to go to the U.S., and actually just wanted permission to re-enter Canada and be reunited with his wife there.
The document said a police informant:
—Lured him to the U.S, with a promise to help get him into Canada.
—Helped him get a U.S. visa.
—Reached out to his mother, father and wife and got them to encourage him to go to the U.S.
—Arranged a meeting with one of the Via Rail suspects.
The court filing said Abassi repeatedly rejected entreaties for him to get involved in a terror plot — although his stated reasoning, apparently, was that the plans presented to him weren't devastating enough.
Last week, after the case against him crumbled, Abassi was sentenced in New York to the 15 months in prison he had already served.
The Human Rights watch report has now urged a series of procedural changes, including a more go-slow approach to launching a sting operation.
It also criticizes U.S. entrapment laws.
It says the U.S.'s wishy-washy definition of entrapment fails to meet international legal standards. In the U.S., defendants must show not only that the government induced them to commit an act, but also that they were not "predisposed" to committing it — with that latter part being especially difficult to prove.
On the FBI website, an agency instructor says terrorism poses a unique legal challenge.
"Law enforcement agencies face a difficult task," said David Gottfried, an instructor at the FBI Academy and bureau's assistant general counsel.
"In the aftermath of 9-11, it no longer proves sufficient to solve crimes after people have committed them. Rather, a top priority of law enforcement is preventing another terrorist attack against U.S. interests. The American people expect federal, state, and local law enforcement officers to proactively prevent another terrorist attack, and even one failure is unacceptable."

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Question: Most of the stuff you write about is geared to intermediate or advanced computer users. How about some basic stuff for beginners? There are a lot of us new users who need information just for beginners.
Answer: This is a project I have been meaning to do for some time.
While some more intermediate or advanced users may find it overly simplistic, I think it will be a useful reference in teaching folks who are just starting out.
From time to time, I will try to run columns about computer basics. You can take a look at this introductory article on “Computer Basics for Newcomers to Computers” .
So here are a few basic definitions:
Let’s start with a definition of what a computer is, and then look at some key components inside.
A computer is a counting machine. Modern-day computers process information in the form of binary numbers. Binary is a counting system that uses only the numbers one and zero (not zero through nine). A computer is really a glorified calculator that can do millions of binary calculations a second.
These binary calculations together form commands. These commands, all grouped together, tell the computer to do tasks. Programs can contain millions of commands that have the ability to take information from a computer user and do something with it to produce a meaningful result.
There are two types of computers dominating the market—those built by Apple
Computer, usually called Macintoshes or “Macs,” and those referred to as PCs or “personal computers”. PCs were originally designed by Lenovo (formerly IBM)
and are sometimes called “IBM-compatibles”.
Today’s PCs have a variety of different parts, but the majority use Intel processors, which are controlled by an operating system called Microsoft Windows. A computer’s “operating system” is the basic program that controls the computer. Most PCs use Microsoft Windows. Macs use the Mac OS X operating system.
Programs for Macs
do not run on PCs. As a general rule, programs for PCs do not run on Macs. (There is a program called an “emulator” you can use to make some PC programs run on a Mac, and there are a few newer pieces of software that have been adapted to run on Macs.)
So what is a computer made up of?
CPU (or processor): A CPU or central processing unit, also known as just a “processor”, is the brain of a computer. It does all those binary calculations to make programs run. You’ll hear people talk about a “Pentium” or “Athlon” (for PCs) or “G4” (in the Macintosh world). They are referring to the brand of processor in the computer. (For more information about types of processors, please see: “How to choose a microprocessor”.
Hard Drive or Hard Disk: A hard drive is the storage on a computer that contains all the information the computer needs to operate, including programs, data created by a computer user, and the operating system. A hard drive is sometimes referred to as a “hard disk”. It is not that beige or black box that all the computer components are in; a hard drive is actually a bunch of disks spinning very quickly inside a case. There are special “heads” that read and write information onto the disks. The heads are similar in concept to the arm on a record player. They move back and forth over the surface of the disks as they spin. They use magnetism to read and write binary information.
is short for Random Access Memory. This is also referred to as simply “computer memory”. This is where the computer does short-term tasks. When a program runs, a copy of it moves off the hard drive and into the processor. Then, when the processor wants to do special calculations or specific tasks, it sends the task to the memory where calculations are made. When that’s done, the task is wiped out of RAM. (For more about how to add memory to your computer, please see our “How to Add RAM” article.
If you “run out of memory”, it means that there are too many tasks in RAM, and no more can fit in. Sometimes these tasks use the same part of the memory and this causes a computer crash. A crash means the computer stops working. When you switch off the computer and restart it (also called “rebooting”), the RAM is wiped clean and the computer should operate normally again. A hard drive is not wiped clean during a restart. It retains all information even when the computer is switched off. To help keep them straight, remember that the hard drive holds data more or less permanently, until it’s deleted by the user, while RAM holds information temporarily, only long enough to assist the program it’s part of.
For more on Computer Basics, see this topic which features several articles on “Computer Basics”.


|Publication number||US4754122 A|
|Application number||US 06/943,323|
|Publication date||Jun 28, 1988|
|Filing date||Dec 22, 1986|
|Priority date||Jan 2, 1986|
|Also published as||CA1258876A, CA1258876A1, DE3700080A1, DE3700080C2|
|Publication number||06943323, 943323, US 4754122 A, US 4754122A, US-A-4754122, US4754122 A, US4754122A|
|Original Assignee||Seb S.A.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (7), Referenced by (5), Classifications (6), Legal Events (6)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an electric kettle composed of a water vessel and a base-plate on which the vessel rests, the base-plate being connected electrically on the one hand to the power supply system by means of a flexible cord and on the other hand to the water vessel by means of movable electric coupling elements.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In known electric kettle designs, when the water within the vessel attains the desired temperature, the supply cord which is connected to the base-plate must be detached by the user before removing the vessel from the base-plate. This precaution is necessary in order to guard against arcing at the level of the electrical connections between container and base-plate, thus imposing a constraint on the user.
In some designs, the base-plate is provided with microswitches which automatically cut-off the electric power supply when the vessel is disconnected from the base-plate. However, these microswitches increase the cost of manufacture of kettles of this type.
The aim of the present invention is to overcome the disadvantages of known designs by providing an electric kettle which makes it possible to cut-off the supply of electric current to the vessel as soon as the user takes hold of the vessel without any need to disconnect the flexible supply cord which is connected to the base-plate.
The invention is directed to an electric kettle comprising a vessel for containing water, a heating resistor within said vessel and a temperature limiter adapted to cut-off the supply of current to the heating resistor when the steam temperature of the water contained in the vessel attains the desired value. The water vessel is supported on a base-plate which is electrically connected to the power supply system, said base-plate being also electrically connected to the vessel by means of movable coupling elements.
The electric kettle in accordance with the invention is essentially provided with a trigger which can be actuated by the user in order to release the electric coupling elements which connect the base-plate to the vessel.
Thus, when it is desired to remove the vessel containing hot water from the base-plate, the user pulls the trigger, thus interrupting the supply of electric current and automatically releasing the electric coupling elements which connect the base-plate to the vessel.
In an advantageous embodiment of the invention, the trigger is housed within a handle which is attached laterally to the water vessel.
Thus, as soon as the user grips the vessel handle, he or she is necessarily obliged to actuate the trigger which is fixed within said handle.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the trigger is provided with a lever which is partially sunk within the handle and actuated by a restoring spring, said lever being pivotally mounted on a pin located at the lower end of the handle. Said lever is provided beneath its pivot-pin with a downward extension in the form of an arm which extends in proximity to the side wall of the vessel. Said extension arm is adapted to carry electric coupling elements which extend in a direction substantially parallel t the base-plate and are adapted to cooperate with complementary electric coupling elements arranged within a lateral connection box which is rigidly fixed to the base-plate.
Thus, when the user pulls the trigger, the lever extension ar which is joined to said trigger undergoes a lateral pivotal displacement, with the result that the electric coupling elements attached to said extension arm are moved away from the coupling elements which are attached to the lateral connection-box of the base-plate.
This pivotal movement of the extension arm which is joined to the trigger makes it possible at the same time to release the vessel from the base-plate.
The electric kettle in accordance with the invention is preferably provided with a temperature limiter in cooperating relation with a toggle switch which automatically cuts off the supply of electric current to the heating resistor of the vessel when the temperature of the water within said vessel attains the desired value.
In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, the trigger is adapted to cooperate with the switch in order to "clear" the temperature limiter or in other words to put the switch in the current-interruption position when the user pulls the trigger.
In consequence, the trigger of the kettle in accordance with the invention has the following three functions in succession:
interruption of current supply to the heating resistor,
disconnection of the phase connections,
opening of ground connections and reclosing of the electric coupling elements between the vessel and the base-plate,
releasing and re-locking of the vessel on the base-plate.
FIG. 1 is a schematic view in elevation with portions broken away and in longitudinal cross-section showing an electric kettle in accordance with the invention, the temperature limiter being in the set position and the trigger being shown in the position of locking and electrical connection with respect to the base-plate of the kettle.
FIG. 2 is a schematic view which is similar to FIG. 1, except for the fact that the vessel and the base-plate of the kettle have been suppressed, and which shows the temperature limiter in the current-interruption position.
FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along the plane III--III of FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along the plane IV--IV of FIG. 1.
FIG. 5 is a top view of the switch and of the rear portion of the operating stem of the temperature limiter.
FIG. 6 is a fragmentary schematic view of the trigger and of the base-plate connection box, the electric coupling elements having been partially released.
FIG. 7 is a view which is similar to FIG. 6, the trigger being fully engaged and released from the base-plate connection box.
In the embodiment of FIG. 1, the electric kettle comprises a vessel 1 for containing water, said vessel being provided in proximity to its base-plate 2 with a heating resistor 3. At the upper end of the vessel 1 is placed a temperature limiter 4 which is adapted to cut-off the supply of electric current to the resistor 3 when the steam temperature of the water within the vessel 1 attains the desired value.
Said temperature limiter 4 is placed within a chamber 5 which communicates with the interior of the vessel 1 through an orifice 6 formed in the top portion of the side wall 7 of the vessel 1. Said temperature limiter 4 can be manually reset by the user by means of a toggle switch 8.
The temperature limiter 4 is adapted to cooperate with a member 9 consisting of a valve head which automatically closes the orifice 6 of the chamber 5 as soon as said temperature limiter 4 has moved to the current-interruption position, or position in which the supply of electric current to the heating resistor 3 is cut-off, as indicated in FIG. 2.
The temperature limiter 4 includes a bimetallic strip 10 (as also shown in FIG. 4) designed to undergo deformation as a function of the steam temperature to which it is directly exposed. The bimetallic strip 10 is adapted to move by deformation between a position (shown in FIG. 1) in which the valve head 9 is retained by the bimetallic strip 10 and frees the orifice 6 and a position (shown in FIG. 2) in which said bimetallic strip 10 releases the valve head 9 and in which a restoring spring 11 moves the valve head 9 to a position (shown in FIG. 2) in which said valve head closes the orifice 6 of the chamber 5 and at the same time moves the aforementioned toggle switch 8 to a position in which the supply of electric current to the heating resistor 3 is cut-off.
In the embodiment illustrated, the valve head 9 is carried by a stem 12 slidably mounted within a body 13a. Said valve stem extends through the chamber 5 and through the orifice 6 which opens into the interior of the vessel 1.
That end of said valve stem 12 which is remote from the valve head 9 is in contact with the toggle switch 8.
That portion of the valve stem 12 which is located within the chamber 5 has an annular abutment shoulder 13 which (as shown in FIG. 1) is applied against the bimetallic strip 10 under the action of the restoring spring 11 when said bimetallic strip 10 is at a temperature below the desired value.
The spring 11 which is mounted on the valve stem 12 is designed to move the stem 12 towards the toggle switch 8 and thus to bring the valve head 9 to the position of closure of the orifice 6 of the chamber 5 when the bimetallic strip 10 releases the annular abutment shoulder 13 of the valve stem, as indicated in FIG. 2 (see also the position of the bimetallic strip 10 as represented by a chain-dotted line in FIG. 4).
The toggle switch 8 is designed for manual operation by the user in order to produce a displacement of the valve stem 12 and its annular abutment shoulder 13 to a position in which the stem is locked with respect to the bimetallic strip 10 and in which the orifice 6 of the chamber 5 is open. This displacement is carried out in opposition t the action of the restoring spring 11.
In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the vessel 1 rests on a base-plate 14 which is connected electrically to the flexible supply cord 15, said cord being in turn connected to the power supply system. Said base-plate 14 is also connected electrically to the vessel 1 by means of movable electric coupling elements 16, 17; 18, 19.
A trigger 20 which is attached to the vessel 1 and designed to be actuated by the user is intended to free the electric coupling elements 16, 17; 18, 19 which have the function of connecting the base-plate 14 to the vessel 1.
Said trigger 20 is housed within a handle 21 which is attached laterally to the vessel 1.
Said trigger 20 is constituted by a lever 22 which is partially sunk within the handle 21 and controlled by a restoring spring 23. The lever 22 is pivotally mounted on a pin 24 located at the lower end of the handle 21 and is provided beneath the pivot-pin 24 with a downward extension in the form of an arm 25 which extends in a substantially vertical direction in proximity to the side wall 7 of the vessel 1.
Said extension arm 25 is adapted to carry electric coupling elements 16, 18 which extend in a direction substantially parallel to the base-plate 14 and are connected to complementary electric coupling elements 17, 19 arranged within a lateral connection box 26 which is rigidly fixed to the base-plate 14.
The electric coupling elements 16 carried by the extension arm 25 of the trigger 20 consist of two metallic connector-pins which are in contact with two resilient metallic strips 17, said strips being fixed within the connection box 26 and connected to the two conductors of the flexible supply cord 15.
The electric coupling element 19 which is fixed within the connection box 26 is connected to the ground lead. This coupling element 19 is a bent metallic strip, the end of which is frictionally engaged within the electric coupling element 18 in the form of a spring clip as shown in FIG. 3.
In the service position as indicated in FIG. 1, the electric coupling elements 16, 18 which are attached to the extension arm 25 and are engaged within recesses of the connection box 26 have the function of locking the vessel 1 on the base-plate 14.
Furthermore, the trigger 20 is adapted to cooperate with the toggle switch 8 in order to "clear" the temperature limiter 4 or in other words to interrupt the supply of electric current to the resistor 3 when the user pulls the trigger 20.
To this end, the top portion of the lever 22 of the trigger 20 has a guide ramp 27 which is applied against one arm 28 of the toggle switch 8.
The operation of the electric kettle described in the foregoing will now be explained.
It will be assumed at the outset that the kettle is in the service position as illustrated in FIG. 1.
In this position, the temperature limiter 4 is set, the bimetallic strip 10 maintains the valve head 9 in the position of withdrawal from the orifice 6 and the heating resistor 3 is supplied with electric current.
The steam formed within the vessel 1 communicates with the interior of the chamber 5 and escapes to the exterior through the orifice 29 (as shown in FIG. 4).
When the steam attains a predetermined temperature, the bimetallic strip 10 is deformed and moves away from the annular abutment shoulder 13. The valve stem 12 is then thrust by the spring 11 against the toggle switch 8 and initiates changeover of this latter (see FIG. 2), thus cutting-off the supply of electric current to the heating resistor 3. At the same time, the valve head 9 closes the orifice, thus preventing admission of steam into the chamber 5.
In order to remove the vessel 1 from the base-plate 14, the user only has to pull the trigger 20 in the direction of the arrow F indicated in FIG. 2.
As soon as the user presses the trigger 20, the toggle switch 8 is "flipped" to its stop position (as shown in FIG. 2), with the result that the power supply to the heating resistor 3 is cut-off.
When the user continues to press the trigger 20 (see FIG. 6), the electric coupling elements 16 and 17 are released prior to the electric coupling elements 18 and 19, thus making it possible to open the phase connections whilst the kettle unit still remains connected to ground without any attendant danger of arc formation since the toggle switch 8 is in the open-circuit position.
At the end of travel of the trigger 20 (see FIG. 7), the electric coupling elements 16, 18 of the extension arm 25 are completely released from the connection box 26 and the vessel 1 is then completely released from the base-plate 14.
At the time of relative motion of the electric coupling elements 16, 17 and 18, 19, these elements are in frictional contact and thus maintain a low value of electrical contact resistance between said coupling elements.
Moreover, when the vessel 1 is replaced on the base-plate 14, it is impossible for the user to reset the temperature limiter 4 as long as the trigger 20 is not in the rest position as indicated in FIG. 1 in which the electric coupling elements 16, 17 are fully engaged within the connection box 26.
The electric kettle in accordance with the invention therefore provides the user with a high degree of operational safety.
After using the hot water contained in the vessel, the user can immediately reset the temperature limiter 4. This is due to the fact that, since the valve head 9 shuts-off the orifice 6 of the chamber 5, the bimetallic strip which is no longer in contact with hot steam undergoes rapid cooling and consequently returns at high speed to its normal position in which it locks the annular abutment shoulder 13 in position when the temperature limiter 4 is put in the reset position.
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|U.S. Classification||219/437, 219/432, 219/435|
|Dec 22, 1986||AS||Assignment|
Owner name: SEB S.A., FRANCE
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:COPPIER, MICHEL;REEL/FRAME:004650/0186
Effective date: 19861125
|Nov 15, 1988||CC||Certificate of correction|
|Nov 4, 1991||FPAY||Fee payment|
Year of fee payment: 4
|Feb 6, 1996||REMI||Maintenance fee reminder mailed|
|Jun 30, 1996||LAPS||Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees|
|Sep 10, 1996||FP||Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee|
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My FIL was in the ICU for 2 days post-op and they considered that a very short time. However we were allowed to see him a lot - not sure he appreciated it at the time - but maybe we helped distract him from the pain he was in at the time. His total hospital stay was 10-11 days post-op (again a very short stay).
Diabetes - time will tell. FIL isn't diabetic...yet...he had half of his pancreas removed. I've heard sometimes it shows up immediately or sometimes after recovery and after you're home. Or I read a story of someone who went diabetec in the hospital and then returned to normal and was able to go off of insulin at home! They'll test the blood sugar levels (they will be high with IV fluids/sugar liquids) so you won't have an accurate result until he can start eating normal food.
I think age and general healthy condition can help - really the most influential factor that I noticed is a positive attitude and willingness to start sitting up and standing and walking post-op. So be encouraging and ask the nurses when he's moved where he can walk. FIL was allowed to walk outside (yes like on the street) with his IV pole! He would also walk around the hotel lobby downstairs. Just ask and see, be gently encouraging. Some people need physical therapy afterwards so a PT might stop by, but my FIL was able to walk on his own without a walker immediately (also shocked the hospital staff).
Anyway I hope this helps, my thoughts and prayers and best wishes! Keep us
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P. N. Youssef, T. C. Lee, A. L. Murphree; Same Regimen Chemotherapeutic Response in Presumed Chemoresistant Group B Intraocular Retinoblastoma. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2008;49(13):2015. doi: https://doi.org/.
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To examine the clinical validity of the concept of acquiredchemoresistance in recurrent Group B retinoblastoma lesions.
Retrospective Case Series.
: Over a two-year period from 2005 to present, we identifiedfive patients with recurrent Group B retinoblastoma lesionsappearing several months following completion of chemoreductionand laser consolidation. Rather than assume that regrowth wasa result of acquired resistance to the standard CEV regimen,we assumed inadequate laser consolidation. The original chemotherapeuticagents were restarted. In each case, reduction of tumor volumeresulted. Photograph (A) demonstrates a lesion inferior to thefovea that recurred following completion of 9 cycles of CEVand laser consolidation. A presumed retinocytoma is presentsuperior to the disc. Photograph (B) shows the clinical responsein the recurrent lesion after one additional cycle of CEV systemicchemotherapy.
Patients with recurrent Group B retinoblastoma lesions followingchemoreduction and laser consolidation have acquired resistanceto the original drugs. While there are well-documented mechanismsfor such multi-drug resistance (p-glycoprotein), our reviewsuggests that this resistance mechanism may not be clinicallyrelevant in this subgroup of retinoblastoma patients. Becausethese patients continued to respond to CEV at the original doses,it is likely that recurrent growth in these cases is due toinadequate local consolidation.
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In Port Said, the Italian Achille Lauro gleamed blue at its anchor as some 600 tourists disembarked. Tugs hooted in the roadstead, cranes rattled on the wharfs, horses neighed and coins tinkled. The air crisp, crowds gathered to watch and the vendors, in full cry moved in.
"Hey Mister, come and see my camels, small camel only 20 dollars!... Hey, ragazza, look, look! This real scarab... Mister! Mister! This way visit Bor Saeed. Fast horse, go quickly, quickly! Hey lady! Buon giorno! You want cheap Frigidaire? Very good Frigidaire only 900 dollars! Hey Mister! Hey Mister!"
The world, the peddlers evidently thought was as it should be. Port Said was alive again. And so are Suez, Ismailia and a dozen villages along the Suez Canal that for eight years were war front wastelands - scarred, deserted and silent.
Today, these communities have been reborn. Under a massive and continuing reconstruction program that got underway almost immediately after the 1973 conflict with Israel, they have been rebuilt to an astonishing degree. And if funds are available and plans for the future work out, the Suez Canal region by the end of the century may well develop into a prosperous 100-mile urbanized strip of some 2.5 million people living on industry, agriculture, tourism and, of course, the canal.
The plans, admittedly, are ambitious, and even the most optimistic officials could not say just where Egypt will get the $12 billion needed to finance them. But in light of what was achieved in the first 30 months of reconstruction, it is not unreasonable to expect that a good portion of the plans will eventually come true, despite Egypt's present economic straits.
In the autumn of 1973 such imaginative planning would probably have been laughed off as a pipe dream by anyone visiting the canal region. Few people looked ahead with hope then. Instead they harked back nostalgically to the early part of 1967 - when the canal was open for traffic and its cities were bustling with commerce - or looked with dismay at the aftermath of the Six-Day War: the canal blocked, the cities deserted and in ruins and the Israeli army encamped less than 400 yards away.
The war, of course, was only part of it. After the war, and until 1970, Suez was pounded mercilessly by artillery and in 1968, Ismaila was hit too. According to official Egyptian accounts, Suez was hit daily by artillery or air raids - and sometimes both - from the spring of 1969 until a ceasefire in the summer of 1970. In Ismailia the artillery exchanges were at point blank range. As a result, Egypt evacuated nearly all the civilians - about a million people - and by 1971 the cities were depressing museums of death and destruction. In Suez some 5,000 people remained - out of a 1967 population of 250,000. These few kept essential services going forthe soldiers patrolling the canal, but rats, they said, far outnumbered the people. The scars were everywhere. In Port Tewfik waterfront restaurants were unrecognizable piles of rusty metal and torn concrete, and in Suez entire streets were devastated. Shells had turned apartment buildings into huge, grotesque skulls with gaping eye sockets. At the Convent of the Good Shepherd, the roof of the church had been blasted off and the fortunes of war had torn one statue off the wall, but left another unscathed. All told, the Egyptians say, Suez suffered losses of about $650 million in destroyed housing, utilities and industries.
In Ismailia the picture was the same. Railway cars lay derailed and rusting. Several floors of the Suez Canal Authority hospital at the edge of the waterway had been destroyed and later taken over as a lookout's redoubt. In the town, the graceful balconied villas built by the French in another era lay shattered, and entire sides of apartment blocks lay exposed, the floors inside crushed together like a pack of playing cards.
The 1973 war brought still more damage. Port Said, until then almost intact, was hit by air raids and artillery fire, villages on the western shore of the Great Bitter Lakes were battered during the Israeli thrust across the canal and Suez itself was half-occupied. By the end of the October war, 85 percent of Suez and a fifth of both Ismailia and Port Said were destroyed or damaged beyond repair. And the town of Qantara, site of a ferry across the canal, was obliterated.
Little wonder then that the prospect of rebuilding the cities appeared farfetched in the autumn of 1973. But with the war over less than a week - and the Israelis still in their cease-fire positions along the canal and around Suez - President Anwar Sadat appointed a Minister of Housing and Reconstruction and told him to start bringing the canal towns back to life.
The Minister's reply was typical. "I said okay I'll try," recalls Osman Ahmed Osman, archetypical "can-do" man and the Arab world's leading contractor. (See Aramco World, May-June 1974). Head of "The Arab Contractors Company, Osman Ahmed Osman," he had built airports, bridges, factories, housing and roads all overthe Middle East and - his crowning achievement - the Aswan High Dam, built in cooperation with the Soviet Union. Now, in the wake of war, he was faced with a challenge that in financial terms, was even bigger.
Osman, who has subsequently resigned from his ministerial post moved rapidly. By the spring of 1974, he unveiled a program that in fact, was a vision of the canal region during the next 25 years. Industry and agriculture would multiply the populations of the three cities. Free trade zones in Port Said and Suez would attract foreign investment. Tunnels under the canal would bring people and fresh water to Sinai and allow shipments of minerals in the other direction for the canal industries. Tourist resorts would be built, along with, eventually, international airports in each city.
First however, the cities would have to be rebuilt their populations brought back and roads, electric power lines and other necessities repaired. Immediately, therefore, Osman marshaled a huge workforce. "We sent in nearly 30,000 workers, as many as built the High Dam," said Hasaballah Kafrawy, head of the Executive Authority for the Reconstruction of the Canal Cities, a department of the Ministry of Reconstruction. Using picks and shovels - and often their bare hands - until equipment was available, the men began clearing away the ruins of war. Their orders were crisp and pragmatic: repair what can be repaired, tear down what must be rebuilt, and do it all as quickly as possible.
Which they did. A year after reconstruction began, some 55,000 apartments, 210 schools and 46 hospitals in the Suez Canal zone had been repaired, replastered or repainted. In Suez itself, some 60 apartments were repaired per day. Some of those repairs, it is true, consisted only of filling in bullet holes; but new housing was provided too. "In Suez we have built 7000 housing units from scratch," said Kafrawy and "some 200,000 people have returned."
There is still a tremendous job to be done. "We are still below the 1967 level," Kafrawy went on, "and we need 20,000 more housing units. Economic activity also is still sluggish because services are lacking. Suez will need much work." Nevertheless, what has been done is impressive. At the western entrance of Suez, for example, stands King Faisal City a housing district named after the late Saudi Arabian monarch who helped finance its construction and who laid its cornerstone in July 1974.
It consists of three-story buildings with one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments renting from $10.24 to $23 dollars a month. To save concrete and steel needed elsewhere in Egypt, the buildings are of limestone blocks quarried nearby. "The Egyptians did a very good job of constructing good quality housing in record time," said a Western expert involved in the reconstruction plans. At one point, apartments were being completed at the rate of one and a quarter per hour.
At the Convent of the Good Shepherd opposite the rebuilt railway tracks, things are looking up these days. Along with several mosques erected in the city the government made it a point to rebuild the convent and the church, and insisted that the sisters of the religious order which runs it return to Suez. The roof of the church has been repaired and the entire complex refurbished, all at state expense. Even though there were only 50 parishioners in early 1977 - one tenth the 1967 figure - the sisters returned. "We have started up our kindergarten and our first primary school class", said Sister Stanislas, who runs the dispensary and works in a nearby government hospital. "We hope to build up gradually until we have a full primary school going again".
One building in Suez was left the way it was at the end of the fighting: with half of it crushed and the shell-holes untouched ... as a memorial.
At Ismailia, the picture is even brighter. In 1977 the pre-war population of 143,000 had swelled to 220,000, light industries had started up again and the city was bustling. "We have built 6,000 housing units, but because the city is already too crowded, we now need 15,000," said Kafrawy. As in Suez, friendly Arab states pitched in to help. A 4,500-apartment housing development spread over 250 acres on the northern edge of Ismailia is named after Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the United Arab Emirates. As in Faisal City, the buildings are of limestone and, standing over long arcades bordered by arched stone columns, have a faintly Arabian air.
And in Port Said, according to Kafrawy, the imaginative program had a still greater impact. Although only 4,000 out of 10,000 housing units badly damaged or destroyed have been rebuilt, the population jumped from 280,000 in 1967 to 360,000 in 1977 - primarily because President Sadat declared the entire city a "Free Zone" in January 1976. That meant that goods could be sold in shops for hard currency without customs duties being imposed, and the results have been impressive. Stores, for example, are overflowing with consumer items, including refrigerators - but not at the outrageous $900 claimed by the dockside vendors. In addition, acreage has been set aside for outside firms to set up trans-shipment facilities and light industries, all tax-free.
There are, certainly, problems with overcrowding and a lack of services. But, says Kafrawy, "The Suez Canal cities are attractive anyway. People who can't get apartments in Cairo come here and find them. Priority is given to the families of dead soldiers, then to the townspeople whose homes were destroyed, then to others. In all the canal region, about 850,000 to 900,000 persons out of the one million who left have returned. If the funds are available and we continue as we are doing, the entire region will be back to its 1967 population soon."
The effort so far has not come cheap. Reconstruction of housing alone has cost about $358.4 million, Kafrawy said, and when the cost of restoring rail lines, roads, services and the other necessities of community life is added, the total cost will be about one billion, of which Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have already made multimillion dollar contributions.
If the reconstruction effort so far has gone well, however, there is less optimism among foreign experts about the plans for the future. The chief criticism is that they are far too ambitious in light of the country's current economic conditions and the level of foreign investment. "In many areas Egypt has overreached and will have to reassess things," was the judgment of one analyst.
The plans for the future are certainly ambitious. Three master plans, one for each of the main cities on the canal, have been drawn up, mostly by foreign experts, plus a regional scheme. They project growth and development to the year 2000 and the three plans have been priced at $12 billion dollars, at 1975 values. This is for development only, and does not include what has already been spent on reconstruction, or the widening and deepening of the canal itself, which is a separate project.
Even so, the Egyptians think that they are not unrealistic. "The master plans are broad guidelines for what is supposed to happen," said Ibrahim Zaki Kenawy Chairman of the Central Organization for Housing and, like Osman, a veteran of Aswan days. "There naturally will be changes, and probably not everything will be done. But as far as possible we intend to stick to them."
The general objectives, he went on, are to set up industries and tourist resorts, boost agriculture and the free trade zones, and develop the Sinai Peninsula so that the populations of Port Said, Ismailia and Suez will grow to 750,000, 600,000 and one million respectively. Tunnels under the canal will take road and rail traffic to Sinai and water from the Nile will be pumped across to irrigate vast tracts of land that hopefully will turn green.
The Port Said master plan envisages enlarging the existing town southwest-ward, expanding the industry and free zone area south of it and building new port facilities linked to the Suez Canal below the industrial zone. "The industries which appear to offer the best prospects of creating employment are textiles, leather goods (particularly footwear), plastics and furniture," the plan says. Planners believe that in the long term, between 500 and 1,000 jobs can be created per year in the free trade zone "if there is the necessary confidence in investing generally in the Egyptian economy." The expanded port, if all goes as planned, is expected to handle some three million metric tons of goods in 1980 and 10 million metric tons by the end of the century. The coastal area to the northwest of the city and along the shore of Lake Manzala will be developed for the luxury tourist trade with high class hotels, a casino, apartment buildings and restaurants. Agro-industries on 68,000 acres could prove profitable, the plan says.
Ismailia, it is hoped, will grow westward and continue its role as the headquarters of the Suez Canal Authority and as the commercial and financial center of the surrounding area. Some 500,000 acres of land are thought capable of being developed for agriculture, although - planners warn - the cost might be unacceptably high. The plan projects total employment in the city of 170,000 persons by the year 2000, with hundreds of thousands more in adjacent areas living, directly or indirectly on agriculture. In addition, a university is planned, with faculties of petroleum engineering, commerce, minerals technology and mechanical and electrical engineering. The university will also have merchant marine and shipbuilding colleges located elsewhere along the canal. Tourism will be developed on the eastern shore of the Great Bitter Lake south of the city.
Suez has plenty of desert land around it that will allow extensive construction for industry, planners say. Focusing mostly on light and medium industries such as fertilizers, cement and textiles, the plan projects total employment in the city of 125,000 people by the year 2000. The port will be expanded for general cargo, and for tourists there will be a sports stadium, museums, a zoo, marinas and a country club with a golf course.
Of all the future projects, the most visible start has been made in the Free Trade Zone in Port Said and on the tunnels. Because of the over-optimism and false starts inevitable in such huge undertakings, progress, admittedly has been slower than expected. By the end of 1976, for example, only one of three tunnels had been started. But it had been started.
This tunnel, some 11 miles north of Suez, will be one mile long and will be 58 feet under the present bed of the canal and some 30 feet below the bottom of the waterway when it is deepened to its maximum planned size. About 36 feet in diameter, the concrete-and-steel tunnel will be capable of handling 1,000 vehicles an hour in either direction at maximum service conditions. Drinking water for Sinai and fuel lines are also planned to go across inside the tunnel. The tunnel will cost $102 million dollars, Kenawy said. Construction of the project first began at a site further south which proved to be too sandy and another site had to be found. Kenawy said this saved about 40 percent of what it would have cost to build on the original site, but it delayed the project by seven months. Egyptian officials originally had set a target time of two years for construction of each tunnel, but analysts now say four years would be more realistic.
Some progress has been reported, too, on plans to reclaim up to one million acres from the desert or already populated zones. A pilot project of 100 acres on the Sinai bank of the canal has already proven successful and 2,000 more acres will be tackled in 1977. "We are preparing 35,000 acres in Sinai for reclamation," said Kenawy.
The foreign investment aspect of the Port Said free trade zone, like commercial sales in the city itself, has also been getting under way. Warehouses have been built and, Kafrawy said, about 40 firms have set up operations. But these are mostly trans-shipment and bonding activities, and local officials in the city say no foreign industry has yet committed itself to Port Said. In 1975 it was announced that Iran would contribute to the reconstruction of Port Said and would use its future facilities for shipping operations.
As Egypt at present is operating on a very tight budget and top officials are allocating money to projects with far more restraint than they would like to exercise, the rebirth of Suez is still far from complete. But the master plans are designed to attract foreign investment by showing the potential of the canal region in a studied, rational way, and given a better overall economic climate there is no reason to think that they will not be implemented, at least in considerable part. As Osman put it, when his men first arrived at the Aswan High Dam site, they found "rocks, mountains, the Nile and nothing else." In the canal region Egypt is starting with considerably more.
Elias Antar, a long-time correspondent in the Middle East, is a regular contributor to Aramco World.


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Hungary’s Kristóf Milák won the silver medal in the men’s 100m butterfly at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday with a European record.
Milák, the winner of 200m butterfly event this Wednesday, swam in the final with the next to 100m freestyle winner Caeleb Dressel of the United States, the favorite in the 100m butterfly. The American had his usual great start to take the lead into the second 50, where Milák was closing in on him, but could not catch up with him.
Dressel, the two-time world champion in the event, crossed the finish line in a world record of 49.45 seconds, five hundredths off the record he set at the World Championships two years ago. The 21-year-old Hungarian was 23 hundredths of a behind, but still beat, by 27 hundredths, the European super-dress record set by Serbia's Milorad Cavic in 2009. Milák's 49.68 was exactly half a second better than his personal best and the national record he set at the European Championships in Budapest in May.
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