By Cody Lee on Dec 23, 2012
The iPhone gamepad space is starting to get a little crowded these days, mostly thanks to Kickstarter. It seems like every week now we see a new controller pop up on the crowd-funded site promising to be better than the last.
But so far, none of them have managed to go mainstream — outside of maybe the iCade line — meaning it’s still anyone’s game. And this week, Justice Frangipane and crew decided to throw their hats into the proverbial ring… Read More
By Cody Lee on Dec 21, 2012
Earlier today, we told you about the unfortunate story of POP, the portable power station. In just a few short months, the accessory went from a popular Kickstarter project with over $100,000 in funding, to essentially deadweight due to Apple denying their request for a MFi license.
The problem was, the POP’s use of other charging cables in conjunction with the new Lightning connector violated Apple’s Made For iPhone terms, thus leading to the license rejection. Well today, following the story, Apple has updated its MFi guidelines and released a statement… Read More
By Cody Lee on Dec 21, 2012
Back in September, things were going pretty good for the folks at Edison Junior. Their Kickstarter project POP, a portable power station, was a huge success, raising more than $100,000. And they were hoping to start shipping the accessory by early December.
But unfortunately, instead of mailing out POPs to their backers this month, Edison Junior is trying to figure out how to not go broke returning everyone’s money. It seems that Apple has rejected their application for a Lightning certificate, forcing them to shut down… Read More
By Cody Lee on Dec 20, 2012
Despite lackluster sales, Microsoft’s new Surface has been praised for its innovations. Windows 8 RT certainly doesn’t look like anything else on the market right now, and the tablet’s ultra-slim Touch Cover keyboard is an interesting concept.
In fact, a lot of folks are asking if there is something similar available for the iPad. There are, actually several keyboard covers that are compatible with Apple’s tablet, but none of them come closer to the Touch Cover than the NIBIQÜ… Read More
By Cody Lee on Dec 12, 2012
Now, I know what you’re thinking, “ugh, not another iOS gamepad! We’ve seen dozens of these already and they’re either too expensive, too bulky, or too complicated.” And you’re right, we’ve seen a number of these things, and most of them fit that description.
But what if I were to tell you that this new gamepad called the WynCASE was different? What if I told you that it was inexpensive, extremely thin, and didn’t require a Bluetooth connection or batteries? Does any of this pique your interest? Good. Keep reading… Read More
By Cody Lee on Dec 7, 2012
When it comes to iPhone-friendly speakers, there’s no shortage of choices. There’s the Jawbone Jambox, the Beats Pill, and countless other options. But when it comes to durable speakers that you can take with you anywhere, the choices are a lot more limited.
In fact, you might even say there’s a gap in the market for such a product. And the Boombot REX ultraportable speaker is hoping to fill that gap… Read More
By Oliver Haslam on Dec 5, 2012
Holding iPhones and iPads just where you want them is something of a dark art. There are more than enough docks, stands and foldable cases out there that claim to do the job and while most do just that, we’ve always hankered after something a little different.
When we saw the MobileMount on Kickstarter quite a while ago, we had a sneaky suspicion that we had found it. At first glance it was a car holder for a phone. Looking a little harder though suggested it could be much more than that. We were intrigued.
Since then, the Kickstarter project has come to fruition, and you can now pick up your very own MobileMount for just under $40. But should you? Let’s find out… Read More
By Sebastien Page on Dec 5, 2012
Even though Apple has no plan to release its own dock for the iPhone 5, we’ve seen plenty of third party alternatives that all look as creative as they are original. The OCDock by OCDesk is one of these docks that not only looks gorgeous, but seamlessly integrates with your iMac or Thunderbolt display. It’s simple, it’s beautiful. In short, it’s something that Apple itself could have designed.
Today we sit down with Mart Jaetma, an OCDesk team member who is actively contributing to the development of the OCDock and its Kickstarter campaign. Mart tells us more about the OCDock, how it came to life, and why you should help fund his project… Read More
By Jim Gresham on Nov 30, 2012
Traditional console gaming never truly engages those participating in the game. Those playing the game on any given console, even a Wii, never actively work together or play a game in a given space away from the couch. Combiform looks to shatter conventional gaming with its new handheld-console system that even interacts with iPhone. The system, which is a unique patented technology, encourages multimodal interaction because it is not only a toy, but also a video game accessory with exciting possibilities… Read More
By Cody Lee on Nov 29, 2012
Despite the many improvements Apple has made to the iPhone over the past five years, there are still some things missing from the handset. One of the biggest omissions, for a lot of folks anyway, is the lack of external notifications.
And Apple must agree, to some extent, because it added the LED Flash for Alerts feature in iOS 5. But the makeshift solution doesn’t quite cut it for everyone, and that’s where the myLED external notification light comes in… Read More
By Cody Lee on Nov 28, 2012
Have you ever found yourself out and about with a dying iPhone and no charger? With the introduction of Apple’s new Lightning port, that scenario isn’t nearly as unlikely as it used to be.
That’s why Kickstarters Kegan & Roberto developed the Nomad, a 3-inch USB-to-Lightning cable that fits on your key ring. That way, you’ll never find yourself without an iPhone charger again… Read More
By Cody Lee on Nov 27, 2012
Both Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now behind us, meaning that Christmas is less than a month away. And for those of you looking for last-minute gifts for that special gadget-lover in your life, iOS accessories are always a nice choice.
Unfortunately, there aren’t a ton of options available for Apple’s newer devices like the iPhone 5 or the iPad mini due to their new Lightning connectors. But if you’re determined to find something, you might want to check out the Podi-m… Read More
By Christian Zibreg on Nov 22, 2012
Ever since I got my first iPad back in 2010, I’ve been constantly looking for the perfect stand. For a guy who’s all about minimalism (you should see my office), simply leaving the iPad lying flat on the table just feels wrong. Cases help, but I prefer stands that suspend the tablet mid-air, iMac style. That’s why I’m so excited about a new Kickstarter project. Dubbed the Slope, it’s an iPad stand with a twist, one that perfectly blends with your Apple-branded work environment… Read More
By Cody Lee on Nov 22, 2012
Smartphones are often referred to as Swiss Army knives. They’re digital cameras, and movie players. And with their vast app selections, there’s little else they can’t do — much like the popular pocketable multi-tool.
But the new TaskOne case takes the term a little more literally. With its built-in 2.5″ drop point blade, bottle opener, wire cutters and host of other tools, it actually does turn your iPhone into a Swiss Army knife… Read More
By Cody Lee on Nov 21, 2012
There’s a lot of things that the iPad excels at, like performance and screen quality. But it leaves a lot to be desired in the audio department. The tablet just doesn’t have the technology to deliver rich, full sound.
Obviously, there’s a number of accessories on the market today that fill this void, like the Jawbone Jambox. But none of them are as portable and attractive as the iPad itself. And that’s where ORA comes in… Read More
By Cody Lee on Nov 12, 2012
Romo the robot first appeared last November as a Kickstarter project. It was essentially a fully motorized, acrylic robot that was both controlled and powered by an iOS device. And despite looking like a build-it-yourself hobby-bot, it collected well over $100,000 in pledges.
Well this year, Romo is back and better than ever. The robot has been redesigned from the circuit board up, and has been improved in almost every way imaginable. It looks better, goes faster, thinks smarter and is much easier to use… Read More
By Cody Lee on Nov 9, 2012
We’ve seen a number of gamepads built for iOS devices over the years, but this has to be the first time we’ve ever seen an iPad gaming wheel. In fact, the developers of the KOLOS say it’s the first of its kind.
The KOLOS is a tabletop steering wheel that cradles your iPad and uses its built-in accelerometer to give you a more realistic gaming experience when playing titles like Real Racing and Need for Speed… Read More
By Cody Lee on Nov 6, 2012
A friend of mine asked me the other day what I thought about add-on camera lenses for the iPhone. I told him the Olloclip was pretty popular, but I hadn’t ever owned any myself so I probably wasn’t the best person to ask.
You see, I’ve never really seen the point to these clip-on lenses. They just never seem to improve picture quality enough to justify the cost and hassle. But this new HiLO Lens might actually be worth taking a look at… Read More
By Cody Lee on Oct 30, 2012
We all know the scenario. You’re away from home, with no charger, and your iPhone just alerted you that its battery is now down to a measly 10%. What do you do?
Well, if you had the new ZOpro case on your iPhone, you could use its integrated charger to breath life back into your handset. But wait, what’s a ZOpro case? Read More
By Christian Zibreg on Oct 17, 2012
Carmageddon, a classic arcade racing game inspired by the 1975 cult classic movie Death Race 2000, won many recognition and awards, earning its notoriety for graphical violence stemming from the carnage concept: the locals stay out on the streets at their peril and you run over or smash into them with your automotive killing machine.
As you could imagine, Carmageddon was banned around the world, which only helped fuel its popularity. I was a little bit taken aback that Apple actually allowed such a title into its puritanic App Store environment (maybe because the concept calls for borderline comedy violence?). I’ve included a trailer, a video interview with developers and some screenies right after the break… Read More


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The heaviest onion weighs 8.5 kg (18 lb 11.84 oz) and was grown by Tony Glover (UK). It was weighed at the Harrogate Autumn flower show in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK, on 12 September 2014. Tony Glover has been growing onions for years and finally achieved the record.
He gave them a nitrogen-rich food and have to make sure the humidity was just right,’ said the 49-year-old. He also got grow lights fitted to [the greenhouse] inside to simulate the sun when the days get shorter or when the weather isn’t very good. Mr Glover says it took him nearly a year to grow the super-vegetable but he loves what he does.
Tony Glover has smashed the existing record for his whopping vegetable, which weighs an eye-watering 18lbs and 11oz and measures 32 inches around its widest part.
When recipes call for a large onion, on average they mean around 12 ounces. But Mr Glover’s whopper was almost 25 times that size.
That one onion is large enough to make 250 onion bhajees, French onion soup for 36 people or 50 portions of onion rings.
Well, below are some photos of the biggest onion ever
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Bhubaneswar, Oct 15 (LocalWire): Mo Bus, the public transit service run by Capital Region Urban Transport, has crossed one lakh daily commuters on Monday, officials said here today.
Mo Bus achieved the one lakh feat in less than a year of starting operations as yesterday a total of 1,01, 881 passengers took Mo Bus to commute.
By achieving this substantial number of ridership, Mo Bus has established itself as a major mass transit facility in the capital and its peripheral outskirts, Crut officials said.
The public transit service was introduced on 6 November last year with an objective to provide sustainable, comfortable and economically viable mode of transport for people of the capital city region.
The average footfall in ‘Mo Bus’ service is around 80,000 per day.
The number of commuters in Mo Bus used to be around 70,000 till the month of August. After amendment in Motor Vehicle Act, there was a sudden rise in commuters and it went up to around 97,000 passengers on 6 September and around 94,000 on 8 September.
‘We have gained significant commuters in the last three months.
In the month of May, 33000 people travelled by Mo Bus and revenue also came down to Rs 5 lakh. The consistent effort led to the rise in commuters and revenue in September with an average of 80000 passengers and Rs 11.6 lakh per day respectively,’ said Dipti Mahapatro, general manager, personnel and administration and spokesperson, Crut.
‘Currently we have a fleet of 200 buses equipped with free Wi-Fi and technologically advanced equipment.
There is a need and demand for more buses with the increase in footfall.
In next two-three months, network will be expanded and 50 old buses will be refurbished and added to the fleet.
Out of the 50 buses, 30 are from Cuttack, 10 are from Balasore and another 10 are from Bhubaneswar,’ she added.


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You are probably all familiar with the animated series, Hatty. It was created by Gingo Animation, the studio that bought you Gabriel Garza, and it was released in 1996. It aired on the syndicated Gingo Lineup on August 31, 1996.
It follows the adventures of a wacky weasel named Hatty. The show's plot usually consisted of Hatty and his friends solving problems, hanging out with their other friends, and other stuff. I absolutely LOVED that show when it came out. It ran for seven seasons, which it contained 91 episodes.
Sadly, Hatty got cancelled on September 7, 2002, although it still airs in reruns on the Gingo Channel and some other channels like Boomerang.
Just a decision or there's something behind it?
Gingo was actually working on another episode, the production number was 714, the title was "Abandoned". It was supposed to be Season 7 Episode 14 after the official series finale, "The Top of the Weasel", and was darker than the usual Hatty standards. However, "Abandoned" was never aired on TV.
How do I know this, you ask?
Well, I was a intern at Gingo Animation. One day in 2002, I walked into the studio, and saw everybody looking afraid, this wasn't like them when they finish episodes of Hatty, they would usually be happy and cheerful.
Rob Paulsen, the voice actor for Hatty, walked in, in his hand was a CD labeled "Hatty 714 - Abandoned", he dropped the CD onto the floor and left. I picked up the CD, which had dust from the floor's dirtiness. 714 was a production number, I really thought we weren't even making episodes of Hatty anymore.
The day was over, and I decided to go home for the night.
I also snuck out with the disc, it was hard but I did.
When I got home, I went to my room and inserted the disc into the DVD player. I wondered what craziness Hatty would get into. It started with a picture of the air date of the episode, which was September 14, 2002, a week after the official series finale.
It showed a production card, with words saying "Abandoned 714 September 2002".
The episode started with Hatty sitting on his bed, having a sad look on his face. There was no sound except for a buzzing noise. Then Hatty started crying, but it doesn't sound like his usual crying at all, it sounded like so realistic if his voice actor was crying in pain. Seeing Hatty cry, I felt sorry for him, like I wanted to give that poor weasel a hug and cry with him.
The crying only went on for 3 minutes, until the scene switched to Hatty walking downstairs to the kitchen. Instead of the clean, cartoon kitchen in the episodes, it was an abandoned kitchen with rusty cutlery, set at night. It was windy. There was no sign of Hatty's friends.
The windows were smashed and the ceiling was torn. It looked like it was from real life. The music was some out of tune, deep music. I could almost swear I heard some screaming in the distance.
A voice said, it sounded like a rough voice, it repeated "Abandoned" 3 times. Then it showed Hatty coming outside of his house, which it looked abandoned, and started to walk around through Fozzville.
Fozzville now looked like a complete dive of hell, as the grass was dead, and the trees were now crooked. Even the houses took some damage, having the windows broken, and some cracks.
The voice returned. It repeated the word "Abandoned" again, in a demonic voice. Hatty kept walking for 5 minutes with the voice repeating the world "Abandoned" over and over again, until Hatty stops and looks at something horrible...
It was his best friend, Allo the frog. He was mutilated with gore and all. I'm not even going to go into full detail, I'm paranoid as I already am.
Hatty looked at the camera and spoke.
"You... you abandoned us..."
He then pulls out a pistol and pulls the trigger. Hyper-realistic blood and brain matter splatters the wall behind him. It showed Hatty and Allo's dead bodies, with the same voice saying "Abandoned" over and over again. This continues for the rest of the episode.
Then the ending credits rolled, just plain white letters scrolling down a black background, silently until the very end, in which "you will be abandoned" was whispered in an unidentifiable voice. Also, the only foreign thing was that the copyright date read "(C) 1983 Universal Studios." I scratched my head, seeing that Hatty was created in 1996 and this episode was made in 2002. It made no sense.
The DVD ends.
I was in shock. I didn't know what to think. Was this supposed to be an actual episode or just a joke? I had no idea what to say.
The next day, I walked into the Gingo studio. A group of angry looking people stand in front of me, they asked me why I took the disc. I said that I was sorry and gave them the disc.
If you came across this episode, please, just let me know...

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The pursuit of home-school connections never ends for educators. As a principal, I make mention of literacy in virtually every monthly newsletter I send home. In fact, this is a message I sent last month:
There are many exciting things happening at Scottish Corners right now! First, we are continuing our focus on the celebration of reading. Thank you to all the families and teachers who attended Family Literacy Night. We enjoyed the discussions with you about how to spread the love of reading at home. As author Donalyn Miller, author of the inspiring The Book Whisperer, points out, “The students who are readers in our schools are also the top academic students in our schools. They achieve in all key areas of learning . . . therefore, turning our students into life-long readers should be one of our ultimate goals as teachers.” In short, the more students read, the better readers — and students — they become. We hope you’ll support this thinking at home by encouraging your child to read, read, and read some more!
Our first Family Literacy Night was a smashing success. The evening was largely led and planned by Amy Simmons, our Instructional Support Teacher. We organized the evening like a professional conference, with a keynote presentation at the beginning and then smaller break-out sessions individualized to the needs and interests of our families.
We began the evening by greeting all families at the door and giving them a “program” for the evening. Students were then directed to a classroom where they enjoyed a teacher reading a book aloud. The students were broken into primary and intermediate levels, so the books were age-appropriate for all students.
While they were enjoying an age-appropriate book read by a teacher, the parents all gathered in our common area. There, literacy expert and fourth-grade teacher Tony Keefer and I presented the parents with a 20-minute keynote presentation. The presentation was intended to bridge our literacy work at school with what parents do at home; our goal was to give parents specific strategies to support their child’s learning. We discussed how to find a “Just Right Book”; how to talk to their child about books; how important it is to read what they are reading; how to make reading fun and exciting; alternatives to books; and what to do if the child is stuck. We also stressed that reading should be an expectation for students at home, and parents can model this by reading themselves. We allowed a few minutes for parents to ask questions at the end.
Next, we made an announcement for the students to come back to the common area and meet back up with their parents. From there, the family chose three of six “sessions” to attend. Each session was 15 minutes long, and was led by the teams of grade-level teachers who had created an informative lesson for families.
- First grade: These teachers presented six strategies to help families read together.
- Second grade: This team addressed fluency in the primary grades. What is fluency? Why it it important? How can you build fluency with your child?
- Third grade: The focus was to help families navigate some online resources and books. Teachers explained how to find books in the library, and shared some iPad apps to help readers.
- Fourth grade: Building fluency was the theme of the fourth-grade team as well, but they addressed fluency for more developed readers. They shared online resources and suggestions for improving fluency.
- Fifth grade: To show off favorite books, these teachers led families in making a book “advertisement” to share with others.
- Bonus: Tony Keefer led parents with an online tour of Wonderopolis, and supported families in navigating this inspirational site.
As my families left the school that evening, I stood by the door to say goodbye and wish them a good evening. It seemed every single family stopped to speak to me, expressing deep appreciation for the night’s experiences. “I have always read to my child,” many told me, “but I had no idea what else I should be doing!” They admitted they were guilty of some things we’d warned against — providing spelling for tricky words without forcing the child to attempt first; picking books too easy for their child; and avoiding technology out of uncertainty of what were “good” apps and websites. Now after just a couple hours, most parents in attendance expressed they felt more confident and were eager to try some of our suggestions at home.
You can download a copy of our program for the evening by clicking here.

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One New Year's wish involves the late Gene Corrotto, who passed away in November at age 93. The Arkansas native and former OU football captain helped establish Norman High as a prep football power during his time as head coach there from 1958-73.
Like most coaches from his era, Corrotto did everything from call offensive plays on Friday nights to mow the stadium grass on his off days. In his case, Corrotto literally laid the sod by hand when NHS erected its then-new football stadium back in the early Sixties.
Harve Collins Stadium is named for the former NHS graduate who donated the money that paid for construction of the facility. Corrotto's name is on the football field house that houses the locker and weight rooms, but what better way to pay tribute to the legendary figure than to name the field in his honor?
Staying in the facility mode, here's hoping T. Boone Pickens and the Gaylord family join forces to parlay their great wealth into helping find a cure for cancer, instead of trying to one-up each other for the number of buildings they can pay Oklahoma State and the University of Oklahoma to put their respective names on. "Jay C. Upchurch


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In a discussion about secrets and how they relate to the travel industry, it is not a secret that everyone wants to save money wherever they can. This is certainly the case with great push in the industry to help reveal major hotel deals at the last minute. Finding a place to stay can, in many cases, take or break our trips. Whether it's for business or pleasure, if you have a bad experience with a hotel, it rips the trip. If you've also paid a lot for the bad experience, it really boils blood.
The travel industry as a whole has changed in the better part of the past three decades. According to travel experts, there was a time when much of the travel industry was organized by travel agents and agencies. While they did a great job and were a reflection of their times, today's travel industry revolves around many options, low cost, flexibility and choice. The consumer-led travel industry has reached a point where travelers who wait until the last minute can book some of the enormous savings that may not have been possible until ten years ago.
Here are some of the secrets travel instructors recommend if you are looking for major savings at the last minute when booking a hotel room:
1. Mixed deals – If you are looking to stay in a hotel, you may need to travel. While some trips can work better if you drive, many people prefer to travel to their destination and rent a car to get around in the city. Some of the best savings you can get are all of these options in one travel package, which reduces the price considerably. You must be diligent in the search for these deals, but they are there.
2. Travel websites – Part of the perseverance needed to find great combo deals that includes checking out websites that specialize in travel savings. These sites have put together the best deals from all over the internet, saving you time and ultimately money. You can also subscribe to email notifications and alerts for upcoming new deals.
3. App Mania – Whether you work with iOS or Android, you are definitely aware of the increasing number of apps available to do anything. Look a little further, and you'll find apps for finding incredible hotel reservation deals especially for procrastinator in all of us. With the right mix of alerts and our portable devices within easy reach, finding a last minute deal has become really easy.
4. Mid-week travel – Most travelers try to book on the weekend, which means they interact with anyone else who tries to book during the weekend. Insiders agree that by converting reservations to during the week, it is very likely that you will get some serious savings in hotel reservations just because hotels want to make sure to fill in their rooms even if at a discount.
5. Out-of-season travel – Similarly to mid-week travel, choosing to travel during a time of the year where others cannot achieve some significant savings. This does not only apply to hotel room reservations, but only to all other means of travel. This can be huge for those looking for combo deals.
It's easy to get last minute hotel deals than you think, but it's important to note that the more you play the procrastinator, you also need to think critically about the best way to get the deals you want. With all of your options, choosing an extensive network and using technology to your advantage may be the best approach to getting the savings you want the next time you book a hotel.


China's Zhurong Mars rover has been silent for months, leaving scientists and space enthusiasts baffled about the cause of the communication breakdown. However, the mystery has now been solved as mission officials announced that the likely reason for the rover's silence is its dust-covered solar panels.
The long-standing mystery surrounding the silence of China’s Zhurong Mars rover has finally been solved, as mission officials reveal the likely cause: dust-covered solar panels. A similar fate was met a few months ago by NASA’s InSight lander. The robotic mission to Mars ran out of juice after thick layers of Martian dust accumulated on the solar panels.
The Silent Mars Rover: A Dusty Dilemma
After nearly a year of inactivity, Chinese officials have disclosed the probable fate of the nation’s pioneering Mars explorer, Zhurong. According to Zhang Rongqiao, chief designer of China’s Mars exploration program, the rover’s solar panels are likely blanketed in dust, preventing it from generating sufficient power to awaken from its scheduled hibernation.
Zhurong’s Hibernation and Unresponsive State
Initially, Zhurong entered hibernation in May 2022 and was expected to revive in December 2022 as sunlight increased in the Martian northern hemisphere. However, the rover remained unresponsive. In March, NASA images revealed Zhurong in the same position where it had started its hibernation, nearly one year earlier.
A Year of Exploration on Mars
Despite the unfortunate outcome, Zhurong exceeded its original mission duration by three months, exploring the Utopia Planitia region on Mars for 358 days and traveling 6,302.5 feet (1,921 meters) before falling silent. The rover carried six instruments designed to study Martian rocks, soil, magnetic fields, and weather.
Zhurong’s Achievements and Legacy
During its operational period, the rover, named after the Chinese god of fire, took a selfie, captured images of the Martian landscape, recorded Martian wind sounds, and participated in experiments between the European Space Agency and the China National Space Administration.
Future Space Endeavors
While NASA’s Perseverance and Curiosity rovers continue to explore Mars, China’s upcoming space plans involve a lunar sample-return mission and detailed surveys of the Moon’s south pole.
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In recent years, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) of embryos in clinical assisted reproduction has become increasingly widespread. Besides preventing birth defects in the offspring of parents who are either sufferers or carriers of life- threatening or debilitating genetic diseases, PGD can also be indicated for the routine screening of chromosomal abnormalities and gender selection.
The Naltrexone implant therapy is among the methods used by Dr. Vororbiev at his anti-addiction clinics. Although Naltrexone can be administered under the form of tablets, injections or implant, the most efficient is the later, with the highest success score. Naltrexone is an opioid antagonist which helps the patients get back to a drug free life.
Usually, people don’t set out to be hooked on drugs, alcohol or other addictions, but unfortunately those who don’t have the willpower to keep the addictions from consuming them suffer, and it’s not just them – loved ones are forced to watch as drugs, alcohol and gambling crumble their lives. In many cases, those suffering from an addiction just don’t have the finances to deal with rehabilitation – it’s an ironic dilemma; you need money for rehab, but you use the addiction to ‘function’.
Suffering from a drug or alcohol addiction is detrimental to the quality of life for you and those who love you. In the United States, individuals might not always have the resources or financial means to obtain the proper treatment in a qualified, professional center. These factors should never play a role in whether you overcome harmful addictions or not, but the reality is they do.
Nowadays, xenon therapy is one of the most effective ways to treat drug addiction, alcoholism, psychological and neurological disorders.
IVF treatments continue to be one of the most popular and successful fertility treatment in the world, and Nova Clinic, specializing in infertility problems, offers state-of-the-art IVF methodologies as well as quality surrogacy programs.
Drug abuse and substance abuse is rampant around the world. Addictions and substance abuse are not limited to narcotics and alcohol, but can include prescription drug use, gambling, or any other type of behavior detrimental to physical and emotional well-being. Rehabilitation for such addictions utilizes various methods of treatment...
According to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, by 2020, depression will become the second-leading cause of disability and death throughout the entire world.
В клинике Доктора Воробьева качест-венно лечат все виды зависимостей: от наркотиков, алкоголя, пристрастия к азартным играм. Здесь помогают пациентам с депрессиями, неврозами, заиканием.
Вот уже 15 лет этот комплексный психолого-медикаментозный подход дает потрясающие результаты: от зависимости избавляются порядка 87 процентов пациентов, при том, что по мировой статис-тике нормальный показа-тель не превышает 13 про-центов!

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Emily, 14, created this design last year and we predict it will sell out fast if the sale of other products are anything to go by!
Beautifully hand-printed Paisley Duvet Covers are all 100% cotton and are ethically produced.
Single Duvet covers come with a pillow case and bag
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100% cotton, 200 thread count.
Machine washable up to 40°C and tumble dry on low heat.
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The Agency for Supervision of Fully Funded Pension Insurance – MAPAS introduced
measures for prevention and protection of employees and pension fund members in
accordance with the measures of the Government of the Republic of North
Macedonia to prevent the spread of COVID disease – 19 (Coronavirus). All
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A Central Saint Martins graduate who’s been producing knitwear for fashion designer Gareth Pugh for six seasons and is backed by The British Fashion Council’s NewGen can only be a talent to watch. Craig Lawrence’s knitted womenswear collections are of a certain fascination since they seem, alienesque and sexy as they are, to be a bit out of place – and that’s what makes them just right.
Craig Lawrence and his fabulous metallic yarns, lace stiched elastic bandeaus, boxpleats, lace-hole techniques and swarovski emballishments are now collaborating with the London boutique The Village Bicycle and collaborating with Dazed & Confused Fashion Editor Katie Shillingford, who also works closely with Gareth Pugh.
He keeps his shows without music but explanatory commentaries on the outfits and it’s been six season’s now since Craig Lawrence has been showing fashion films in the context of his collections. The next one will be screened on 19th February 2012 from 11am – 12pm at Somerset House at London Fashion Week AW12.


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The workshop, themed “Fostering inter- and intra-religious dialogue to prevent and mitigate conflicts in South and South-East Asia” is jointly organized by KAICIID and the OIC in partnership with the Indonesian Centre for Dialogue and Cooperation among Civilizations (CDCC) and the Jakarta-based Gusdurian Network. It also foresees the participation of senior representatives of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) institutions.
Intra- and interreligious dynamics in South and Southeast Asia have become increasingly troubled over the past decade. Rising intolerance, whether along ethnic or religious lines, has caused divisions and raised security issues in various countries in the region. The workshop seeks to provide a platform for dialogue and exchange on interreligious relations in South and South East Asia, to facilitate collaboration between religious leaders from different faith backgrounds, and to foster relations with decision-makers on a regional level.
“If we want to fight the effects of intolerance, which has become a worrying trend not just here in South East Asia, but all over the world, we must focus on the need to integrate different ideologies, different ways of life, and different religious beliefs”, KAICIID’s Secretary General Faisal bin Muaammar said about the importance of the encounter.
Key topics to be addressed during the workshop include the role of religious leaders in detecting hate sentiment and incitement to violence online, the facilitation of safe access to holy sites and ways to protect them, as well as the multiple challenges related to inclusiveness in the educational sector.
“Through this meeting, the OIC hopes to further engage religious leaders and policymakers in constructive dialogue on how multi-religious societies, including Buddhist and Muslim communities, across the region can come together not only for the wellbeing of followers of Islam and Buddhism but for the betterment of humanity at large,”, the OIC Secretary General, Dr. Yousef Al-Othaimeen, said.
The meeting in Jakarta is the second of its kind, following a workshop that took place in Bangkok, Thailand in 2017 with the participation of 70 religious leaders and policymakers from the region. Based on the input from the event participants, KAICIID initiated its country programme in Myanmar.
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The media is cordially invited to attend the opening ceremony on 18 December at 9:00 am and the press conference, which takes place on 19 December at 15:30 Jakarta Time.
Venue: Hotel Borobodur, Jl. Lap. Banteng Selatan, Ps. Baru, Kecamatan Sawah Besar, Jakarta, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta 10710, Indonesia

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We look back from 2007 when the Company was formed and trace our life to date, where sahyadri seeds pvt. ltd. has stood the test of time, through various challenges and stand proud of our evolution. Over the years, we have maintained a customer oriented focus which has seen us develop seed that is responsive to our farmer needs across all our regional operations. The company has wide experience in seed production of important agricultural crops backed by in-house R & D programme over 25 acres of farm land.
Sahyadri seeds conduct successful breeding programmes and commercial activities in different cereals, pulses and vegetable crops. M/S. Sahyadri seeds pvt. ltd. is a company dealing mainly in Maize, Bajra, Sorghum, Groundnut ,Wheat, Paddy and Gram. Over the years the company has expanded its research and commercial activities into various other crops and territories.
Sahyadri seeds pvt. ltd. was established in 2007. The company has become one of the up coming seed companies within a short span of time. Sahyadri seeds has made rapid advances from seed production and supply ventures to a commendable position in Research and Development. Our company strives to breed innovative vegetable hybrids designed to boost yield, reduce chemical inputs, and increase freshness, flavor and quality. The motto of our company is to deliver high quality products to cater the needs of farming community.

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Saturday Matinee Theatre
Episode 077: 1955: The Adventures of Robin Hood - Maid Marian
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Riyadh - KSA
Full MEP Design
HVAC System Design & Calculations
Full detailed AutoCAD Drawings - 2D Piping
MEP Engineering Specifications
Full Equipments Schedules & Schematics
Full Technical Report
Dar Al-Muthul - Architects Consultants.
Riyadh - KSA
Project consists of two story blocks for the three main educational levels (KG to Secondary level) along with an auditorium (total site area 12,555m2). Our scope was to do the design of plumbing services for this facility.
The Plumbing services for the project included water supply and distribution, sanitary and storm water disposal systems. These services were designed in accordance with the local and international Codes and Standards.
PLUMBING DESIGN REPORT/SUMMARY - Sample of the Technical Report
Site Water Supply
Water to the site will be obtained by connecting to the existing Municipality water mains. Municipality water will be stored in a combined underground domestic and fire water storage tanks.
Domestic Cold Water
Stored potable water from the combined domestic and fire water storage tank is transferred to the sanitary fixtures by means of water transfer pumps to attain the required pressures at the water outlets which should be maintained to achieve a minimum of 1.0 bar at the hydraulically most remote fitting.
Domestic Hot Water
Domestic hot water for the wet areas are generated locally by using individual type electric water heaters installed above false ceiling. Hot water supply temperature will generally be maintained at 55°C.
Sanitary Sewer Drainage
Sanitary drainage comprise a one-pipe vented gravity system installed with adequate falls discharging eventually to outside the building. External sanitary pipes and manholes convey sewage and wastewater to the existing Municipality main sewer line.
Sewage lifting stations were provided as required to discharge sewage from wet areas which can not be discharged by gravity system.
Storm Water Drainage
Storm water from roofs are drained through roof drains and piped to discharge freely above the ground level along the adjacent roads.
Pump Rooms & Tanks
Complete design of dimensional layouts with sections was provided for all plumbing rooms & tanks in coordination with other services including pipes & pump arrangement and equipment schedules.


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This is a very unique piece – an exceptionally large tapered Amethyst crystal with a pristine termination, extracted from a large Amethyst crystal cluster, thus the “root” reference. These extracted pieces are relatively common on a smaller scale, but this size is very uncommon, and ones with a pristine termination like this one, AND with exceptional color – extremely rare. A great find and conversation piece for sure!
Location: Caetité, Bahia, Brazil
Size: 5 x 4 x 33.5 cm
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This is my first post for my new weekly feature, Fun on a Dime! I’ll be sharing fun, simple, and inexpensive ideas for kids, families, parents, and moms! Also, I would love to feature your ideas, so feel free to send me an email at motherhoodonadime @ gmail . com!
1) Bring the snow indoors!
This is one of my favorite activities when it snows! My littlest girl (age 2) likes to be outside in the snow for just a little while (she’s not a fan of cold hands!), so I bring the snow inside. Simply fill up a few bowls with snow. Lay down a towel and pass out cups, measuring spoons, spatulas, and any other desired items. Have fun scooping and playing in the comfort of a warm house!
2) Make a masterpiece with birdseed!
Let your little ones explore and design their own creations in the snow with birdseed! They can also get in a little alphabet practice by making letters in the snow!
3) Come in from the cold outdoors and make “Snowman Soup”!
Heat up a steaming mug of hot chocolate — this is your “soup”. Throw in some marshmallows — this is your “snowman”. Have fun watching your “snowman” melt! (We turned this into a relay. You can check it out here.)
4) Make an ice-skating rink indoors.
Put on some socks and pretend to skate! We had fun gliding, twirling, and sliding.
*If your floors are pretty slick and/or your children are prone to accidents, you might not want to attempt this activity! 🙂 Otherwise, I think it is probably safer than ice-skating outdoors!
5) Make snowy paintings!
Use a marshmallow dipped in paint to add snow to a winter scene. You can find step-by-step directions here.


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Our guides team is made up of Master Naturalists, experts with Master's Degrees in Outdoor and Sustainability Education, lifelong Montanans, and more!
Winter is a fantastic time to visit Yellowstone - the park is nearly empty and wildlife is abundant! We’ll stop at geyser basins, canyons, hot springs, and rivers. Our guides will share stories of the park’s human and geological history as well as information about flora and fauna.
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Stop At: Mammoth Hot Springs, Grand Loop Road, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
Visit the incredible travertine features of Mammoth Hot Springs, including the famous Canary Spring.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park, WY
Visit the Serengeti of North America and keep your eyes peeled as we look for bison, moose, wolves, bighorn sheep, foxes, coyote, and more!
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Calcite Springs Overlook, Grand Loop Road, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
You have the option to hike or snowshoe to a stunning overlook of the Yellowstone River and some of the many hot springs that line it's canyons.
Duration: 3 hours
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Most travelers can participate
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
- Face masks required for travelers in public areas
- Face masks required for guides in public areas
- Face masks provided for travelers
- Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff
- Social distancing enforced throughout experience
- Regularly sanitized high-traffic areas
- Gear/equipment sanitized between use
- Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized
- Guides required to regularly wash hands
- Regular temperature checks for staff
- Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
- Contactless payments for gratuities and add-ons
- We have submitted a COVID-19 action plan to the park and have been approved to operate.
- Lunch - At midday, your guide will serve a gourmet picnic lunch. We cater to all dietary request with notice!
- Spotting scopes
- Field Guides
- Snowshoes or microspikes, if necessary
- Park Entry Fees - we recommend the America The Beautiful Pass
- Gratuity for guides - If you had a great day, a 10-20% tip is appreciated!
Yellowstone Forever Institute, 308 W Park St, Gardiner, MT 59030, USA
Traveler pickup is offered
We'll pick you up from your hotel in our 15-passenger van or luxury SUV!
6 to 8 hours
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Yesterday's challenge over on the Crafty Secrets forum on SCS was hosted by Pammyjo. Her clues on Monday were real brain teasers ... the phrase "I am truly thankful" written in four different languages ... yea, how fun was that!
Of course since I haven't used my french in over 40 years, I cheated and went to the internet and had the phrase translated. Sure was easier than trying to remember 40 years back ... heck I'm lucky to remember what I did yesterday let alone that long ago ... some of you probably know what I mean ... right!! Anyways, on to the card!!
I certainly have a LOT to be thankful for this year. We are not totally out of the woods yet, but after 1 more pet scan I'm praying that DH's cancer is GONE. We'll know the answer to that sometime in December. But after all he's been through this year, he is feeling really good right now and his double cataract surgery last week was a huge success.
My card base is duplex hunter green/ivory cs. I had a few fall colored scraps laying on my work table which I used for my background and the main image is from my Crafty Secrets Fall Cotton Scraps. The images on cotton scraps are fantastic for quick & easy cards. I've rounded just 2 of the 4 corners using my corner rounder by Creative Memories and the leaves are also made from a Creative Memories punch. The ribbon was purchased at Hobby Lobby.
Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by to see what I've been up to. Come back later to see what I can come up with for today's SCS sketch challenge ... should be fun!!!

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Heat is an enemy to most electronic circuits. It can cause premature aging of active devices, deterioration of solder joints, and degradation of printed-circuit-board (PCB) performance. In power bipolar transistors, excess heat can even cause an undesirable effect known as “thermal runaway,” in which energy from the device is released to feed a temperature-rise loop that ends in the device’s destruction. Thermal management is a practical approach toward removing heat from electronic circuits, ideally without compromising electrical performance.
All electronic circuits generate heat to some degree, since efficiency levels are not close to 100%. The low efficiency of electronic circuits can be a particular problem at high power levels, such as in power amplifiers and the circuits that support them. The latter includes power combiners/dividers, filters, couplers, and terminations. Antenna circuits (on transmit) must also often handle high power levels. Managing the heat in an RF/microwave circuit requires a multipronged strategy that includes designing effective thermal paths to carry heat away from a circuit’s heat sources, such as power transistors; measuring the heat produced by the circuit and its circuit elements; and modeling the circuit for heat. Many companies proficient in thermal design will perform measurements and create models before and after a circuit is packaged, since the packaging plays an instrumental role in handling the heat.
One of the first steps in designing for effective thermal management of an RF/microwave circuit (or any type of circuit, for that matter) is to carefully choose a PCB substrate material. RF/microwave circuit designers must find a circuit-board material that is not only stable with time and temperature and capable of dissipating a required amount of heat, but also has the proper dielectric and electrical properties needed for a particular high-frequency circuit design. High-frequency circuit-board materials are characterized by a large number of mechanical and electrical parameters, with permittivity (relative dielectric constant) and dissipation factor two of the critical barometers of electrical performance, while thermal coefficient of dielectric constant, coefficient of thermal expansion, and thermal conductivity are the three main measures of a PCB material’s behavior with temperature.
The thermal coefficient of dielectric constant is a measure (typically in ppm/°C) of the variability of permittivity as a function of temperature in the z direction or thickness of a circuit material, usually referenced to a specific test frequency, such as 10 GHz. The coefficient of thermal expansion (also in ppm/°C) is also measured in the z direction and is used to gauge the reliability of plated through holes (PTHs) with the temperature swings experienced in normal material processing. The PTHs are used not only to connect circuits to ground planes, but as thermal pathways that help dissipate heat. The thermal conductivity is a reading (in W/m/K) of the amount of power that can be dissipated by a material for a give rise in temperature, also measured in the material’s z direction. By using circuit materials with enhanced thermal conductivity, for example, the temperatures at device junctions and solder joints can be minimized under high-power conditions.
While circuit materials based on fluoropolymers such as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) are known for their low loss and general excellent electrical behavior, pure PTFE is subject to a great deal of expansion and contraction with changes in temperature. Thus, for use in PCBs, it is usually reinforced with some other material (such as glass fibers). In addition, some PCB material suppliers have developed circuit materials that combine PTFE and more thermally stable thermoset materials. For example, TMM® laminates from Rogers Corp. are ceramic thermoset polymer composites designed for applications in which thermal management may be a concern. Available with various values of relative dielectric constant, these materials exhibit a low thermal coefficient of dielectric constant, typically less than 30 ppm/°C, electrical stability with changes in temperature. The material offers twice the thermal conductivity of traditional PTFE/ceramic laminates, at 0.70 W/m/K, with isotropic thermal expansion properties that are closely matched to those of copper, so that stress is minimized on PTHs even during the temperature changes of material processing cycles. For even more demanding thermal applications, the firm’s RT/duroid® 6035HTC circuit material combines low loss with impressive thermal conductivity of 1.44 W/m/K to help manage heat flow away from a PCB’s solder joints and device junctions.
Power transistors are predictable sources of heat in a high-frequency circuit, especially as demands for higher power levels push the capabilities of newer transistor designs, including gallium arsenide (GaAs), gallium nitride (GaN), and silicon-carbide (SiC) devices. With higher power levels come higher power densities, and the need for mounting and packaging materials with extremely high thermal conductivities to dissipate the excess heat. Transistor carriers have been developed from a variety of materials capable of conducting heat, including copper, beryllium oxide (BeO), copper-tungsten, and even diamond. BeO, for example, has thermal conductivity of about 285 W/m-K at room temperature, which is outstanding—except when compared to some diamond heatsinks, with thermal conductivity values as high as 1800 W/m-K.
While many power transistor suppliers develop their own packaging based on thermal needs, some organizations, such as the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM), specialize in developing custom materials and packages capable of dissipating a large amount of heat. The firm has developed heat sinks, packages, and even test fixtures (see figure) based on metal-phase-change-material (metal-PCM) composites which are designed to minimize the customary mismatch of CTE between different packaging materials for tailored thermal expansion behavior and enhanced packaging reliability at high power/temperature levels.
In addition to selection of packaging materials, the use of bonding films, such as organic adhesive films from American Standard Circuits (ASC) can help enhance the thermal conductivity of PCBs as well as packages. The company offers PCBs with customer-specific heat management requirements based on the use of PCBs with PTHs and its proprietary adhesive bonding films. ASC manufactures PCBs based on circuit materials from leading laminate suppliers, including Arlon Materials for Electronics Div., Nelco (Park Electrochemical Corp.), Taconic Advanced Dielectric Div., and Rogers Corp. Measuring the temperatures of circuit designs or even simulating the operating conditions that can bring thermal stress to a PCB requires specialized test equipment capable of accurately detecting wide temperature extremes and, in some cases, generating such temperature extremes. The line of ThermoStream® benchtop and portable systems from Temptronic, for example, are capable of creating and detecting temperatures from -90 to +225° using forced-air streams. Compact systems such as the model TPO4390A offer extremely fast temperature transition times for stress testing, with the capability of shifting from -55 to +125° in about seven seconds while maintaining 1°C accuracy. This system features a touchscreen for ease of control and four remote interface ports for system integration, including Ethernet, GPIB, and RS-232C ports. Khoury Industries is another supplier of thermal test equipment, along with test chambers and fixtures for thermal measurements. Microtek Laboratories is an outside test laboratory for RF/microwave designers in need of outside test services for an extensive range of PCB tests, including thermal stress, thermal shock, and thermal analysis.
Once a design has been tested and analyzed for thermal hotspots, a computer model can help understand the modifications needed to better dissipate the heat from those critical points in a PCB or package. HyperLynx Thermal software from Mentor Graphics, for example, can perform thermal modeling on double-sided, multilayer PCBs with as many as 3000 components on each side. The software provides precise calculation of junction temperatures for improved reliability predictions. Another model tool is the QoolPCB™ thermal modeling software from Advanced Thermal Solutions.
Docea Power recently released its AceThermalModeler™ (ATM) software for creating thermal models for PCBs, system-on-chip (SoC) designs, system-in-package (SiP) structures, and even three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits (ICs). According to the firm’s Chief Executive Officer, Ghislain Kaisler, “With it, system architects can perform both thermal steady state or coupled power and thermal analysis for dynamic application profiles running on different architecture configurations.” The software’s models are meant to help designers understand thermal gradients across a circuit and develop packaging and integration solutions quickly and effectively.

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Veronica Slack is Holding Tight to the Best Gift She Has Ever Received: the Gift of Recovery
Almost from her first memory, Veronica Slack’s life was in total upheaval. Abused by her mother, abused and molested by an older brother, she started drinking at five. “My mother made me her drinking buddy. She gave me alcohol and took me to bars with her while my brothers and sisters were at school,” she says. “I remember I liked the pretty shapes of the bottles and the vibrant colors of the drinks with the little red straws.”
At 12, her parents divorced and at 13 she was raped by a former boyfriend. “That changed me,” she says. “I realized that I didn’t have anyone to turn to.” Until she did. At 15, she fell deeply for Bernie, a drunk and a junkie four years older than her. A year later, Veronica was pregnant and out of school. Her descent only picked up speed from there.
“I loved my daughter, no matter what I did or what I became,” she says. “She was the cheerful hope that got buried way down inside of me as I went from a recreational drug user to an IV drug user.”
She entered a detox facility””the first of six””at 19. Three days later, she left. Veronica, for all of her devotion to her daughter and Bernie, was living entirely for her next fix. “I no longer felt the effects of the drugs. I just wanted to keep the sickness away,” she says. “I feared withdrawal more than anything.”
”˜I had no idea people cared like this’
Then came that cold day in November 1990. Veronica, now a wanted criminal, was walking along the side of a road in Chester County, Pa., strung out, no particular destination in mind, with her nine-year-old daughter in tow. Suddenly, a police cruiser was pulling up beside them. Just as quickly, they were ushered into the backseat and taken to the station for questioning. It wasn’t long before they realized her identity and the laundry list of warrants attached to it.
There was nowhere left to run. Veronica was going to jail. The officers gave her a moment alone with her daughter.
“My cold, dead heart felt a beat of humanity,” she says. “I got down on my knees, looked in her eyes, and said, ”˜Bernadette, I am so sorry for this life. I told you that someday I was going to get us out of this, and today is that day.’” She squeezed her tight and said, “Please be strong and hold on. I love you. I am coming back for you. You hear me? I am coming back.”
All the while, Veronica was anxiously calculating and recalculating. She figured she just needed to get through the night, make a decent impression on the judge in the morning, and then she’d be free to find her next fix. The judge, however, ordered her held until her court date and to Eagleville Hospital thereafter for treatment.
“When I realized I wasn’t going home I panicked,” she said. “I needed to get drugs somehow and decided to fake a seizure in the courtroom by throwing myself on the floor and starting to shake in front of the entire courtroom.”
Her plan worked. The sheriffs handcuffed her, turned her on her side and called an ambulance. At the hospital, Veronica thought she was going to receive drugs to ease her withdraw but instead she was medically detoxed. Within minutes of being placed on the IV, she was writhing in pain. The medicine was literally eating the drugs out of her system.
Weeks later, Veronica was deposited on Eagleville’s doorstep. Standing there on her own, for the first time since she was arrested, Veronica’s first thought was to run. Inexplicably, she didn’t. Instead, she entered the building, her first sober decision since she was a young kid.
Inside, Veronica found an environment that had always eluded her: clean sheets and towels, warm meals, a compassionate face around every corner. “They took me to meetings with people like me and educated me about addiction. They gave me medical treatment and medical care. They wowed me,” she says. “I had no idea people cared like this.”
”˜I found my voice being part of a group’
Veronica easily embraced individual therapy. When she shard an issue, her therapist listened and offered suggestions. It was a smooth back-and-forth. Group therapy, on the other hand, posed an immediate threat. A room full of addicts, one of them singled out at a time to share his or her most embarrassing behavior. So, Veronica slipped into survival mode. She learned to keep her head down, her face shrouded in her long hair.
The tactic was working until one day, Sandy, the counselor leading the session, homed in on Veronica.
“Veronica,” Sandy said, “I don’t know where it happened, when it happened, or why it happened, but somewhere, somehow, somebody told you it wasn’t OK to think.” Veronica says the comment sent her reeling straight back to the deep humiliation of her early childhood. She didn’t respond. She couldn’t.
“Here’s what we’re going to do with you,” Sandy continued. “We want you to wear your hair pulled back from now on. And we’re going to give you a clothes voucher for dresses that you will wear.”
Back in her room, Veronica tied her hair back and instantly felt vulnerable. She resisted the urge, though, to pull it back down. The dresses rewarded her courage. In them, she felt professional ”” even though she had never had a real job ”” and saw how pretty she was. Her confidence only grew from there. Overnight, there was a noticeable shift in Veronica’s posture. And in that next session, Sandy, maybe the only one in the room unsurprised by it, named her the group’s leader.
“Eagleville pulled me out of my shell,” Veronica says. “Being group leader helped me to speak up, stand up, and be a productive team member. I found my voice being part of a group.”
Sadly, tragedy struck while Veronica was at Eagleville and threatened to send her into a tailspin.
“I was called into the office and I knew something was wrong because the staff and Sandy were there,” she remembers “They told me to sit down and Sandy said, ”˜Veronica, remember we are here for you.’ All I heard after that was, Bernie is dead.”
Her mind exploded with a grief she had never felt, and she collapsed into a pool of sorrow as she mourned the loss of her chaotic life partner who had succumbed to an overdose. Veronica still marvels at the fact that Eagleville managed to hold on to her after this.
On the day of her graduation from Eagleville, Veronica confessed to Sandy that she was scared. She didn’t trust herself to not relapse. Sandy told her to find a meeting the next day and then another, and so on. And to keep going no matter what. Veronica walked into her first meeting and introduced herself exactly as Sandy had coached her: “Hi. I’m a drug addict with a desire not to drink.”
”˜If you are still breathing, you can still choose the road to recovery’
Despite Veronica’s desire to stay clean, she struggled with the demons of her past. She relapsed and shared this fact with her sponsor Pam and others at her meetings. “They told me to just keep coming back, and I did.”
Then one day, overwhelmed by the grief of losing Bernie, she took the train to Philadelphia and bought the same drugs that took him out. On June 7, 1991 she died on the floor of her brother’s bathroom. Fortunately, a friend from her recovery program found her in time and called 911. She was revived by paramedics and that night, received a strong dose of tough love from one of the men in her meeting group who had been looking out for her.
“He sat me down, pointed his finger in my face and said sternly, ”˜Veronica, you were dead! Not everyone gets a second chance, you’re a f’in miracle and you had better listen to me really good; If you don’t use your sponsor, work the steps, attend meetings and hang out with recovering people you are going to use within the next five days and be back in the streets living the same junkie lifestyle.”
This “scared the crap’ out of Veronica and was exactly what she needed ”” the cold hard truth, with love, from another addict. “His words kicked me out of transition and into full blown recovery.”
Veronica moved in with her sponsor, grabbed hold of the 12-step program and held on for dear life. She also relied more heavily on her Higher Power whom she said had been ever present throughout her life ”” particularly in times of pain and trouble.
Over time, she was able to get her daughter back from family and secure a job. Marriage and another daughter followed. Inspired by her respect and love for recovery, Veronica also began writing a book series for people who are “hurting, hard-headed, or too busy, like me.”
“I’m still holding on to the best thing that ever happened to me: the gift of recovery.”
In November 2017, Veronica returned to Eagleville to share her story of survival and recovery with others who are struggling with addiction. She also presented each of Eagleville’s clients with a copy of the first book in her series, “I didn’t ask to think this way, I just do,” to help them through their own journey.
“Reality set in when I walked through those doors,” she said. “I was overcome with gratitude for the hospital and its staff and a deep appreciation for the difference that Eagleville had made in my life. This was my opportunity to say thank you to Eagleville for all it had done for me 26 years ago.”
To read more about Veronica’s recovery story, learn about her book series or follow her blog, visit: https://www.becauseyoucan.co/.


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NFU Mutual Wessex are proud sponsors of Dorset Food & Drink Association and delighted to support local producers
NFU Mutual Wessex are proud sponsors of the Dorset Food & Drink Association and continue to work in partnership with them to support local food and drink producers during these challenging times. We’ve been showing our support in two key ways:
Over the summer we supported the Dorset Food & Drink Association (DF&D) to run a series of ‘Covid secure’ pop-up markets. The markets provided an opportunity for local producers to get back on the market scene and for the public to buy local, quality produce in a safe environment. It was great to see some of our commercial customers at the markets, including Lizzie from Baking Bird who commented:
It was lovely today - I made a few bob and I watched people enjoy themselves! It was rather lovely - thank you - it reminded me what life is all about.
NFU Wessex plan to support a number of DF&D pop up markets in the run up to Christmas, assuming COVID restrictions allow.
Dorset Food, Drink & Farming Awards 2020
The second way in which we’ve been demonstrating our support is through the sponsorship of the Dorset Food, Drink & Farming Awards. Just like last year, a large number of nominations were received for the eleven different award categories.
With the impact of Coronavirus and lockdown hitting food and drink businesses great and small across the county, it’s been heart-warming to read of the kindness and support Dorset people have shown. There are so many wonderful stories of communities working together to help those who are shielding; businesses adapting to serve all those that they can; the raising of money for the NHS and so much more.
Find out more about the finalists here and look out for the announcement of the winners in December.

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Event Specialty: Bronchoscopy
We’re excited to visit with attendees at the 9th annual Respiratory Congress - Back to Basics: Simple to Complex Problems in Pulmonary Diseases. Please stop by our booth to learn how the MONARCH Platform is leading the way in robotic-assisted bronchoscopy.
The Respiratory Congress and Other Chronic Respiratory Conditions coalition host this event that brings together physicians, primarily pulmonologists, that address respiratory conditions
Bronchoscopy Important Safety Statement:
Complications from bronchoscopy are rare and most often minor, but if they occur, may include breathing difficulty, vocal cord spasm, hoarseness, slight fever, vomiting, dizziness, bronchial spasm, infection, low blood oxygen, bleeding from biopsied site, or an allergic reaction to medications. Only rarely do patients experience other more serious complications (for example, collapsed lung, respiratory failure, heart attack and/or cardiac arrhythmia).
Urology Important Safety Statement:
Adverse effects from both Mini-PCNL and Ureteroscopy include pain, urinary tract infection, fever, hematuria (presence of blood in urine), exposure to low levels of radiation, retained or residual stones.
Adverse effects from ureteroscopy may include pain, perforation or injury to the ureter, resulting in extravasation of fluid and urine (urinoma), stricture of the ureter with risk of subsequent obstruction (hydronephrosis needing further repair), rare avulsion of the ureter, urinary blood clots, residual stones.
PCNL access may result in minor and major adverse effects. Minor effects include fever and nephrostomy leak. Major adverse effects may include injuries to pleura, liver, spleen, large vessels with related bleeding, gallbladder, duodenum, jejunum, colon with related cutaneous fistula, fever, pain, ileus, elevated counts.
Major adverse effects related to stone removal may include infection and urosepsis, intravascular fluid overload, extravasation of fluid, and post percutaneous nephrolithotomy bleeding.


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||Phase Transformations and Microstructural Evolution
||Kinetics Analysis of Tempering, Inter-critical Annealing and Austenitization of Supermartensitic Stainless Steels
||Frank Niessen, Matteo Villa, Frédéric Danoix, John Hald, Marcel Adrianus Johannes Somers
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Supermartensitic stainless steels are lath martensitic steels with ultra-low interstitial content and are based on the Fe-Cr-Ni system. The alloy grade is popular as a low-cost alternative to highly alloyed duplex stainless steels for oil and gas pipeline applications. The strength and toughness of the initially martensitic microstructure is based on formation of reversed austenite from lath martensite during inter-critical annealing. The homogeneity after austenitization, residual stresses from martensite formation and tempering reactions of martensite upon reheating affect the conditions for formation and stabilization of austenite. The kinetics and mechanisms of these preceding reactions and the formation of reversed austenite were measured experimentally by correlative use of synchrotron diffraction, atom probe tomography and Transmission Kikuchi diffraction, and were modeled with thermodynamics and kinetics modeling. The distribution of the interstitial elements and Ni significantly affect the phase transformation kinetics in supermartensitic stainless steels.
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# 9 Wire--Any set of big wire cutting pliers will cut it. Already mentioned
are bolt cutters and fencing tool(I always called them fencing
pliers)---Also can use a good set of 8" slip joint pliers, a big set of side
cutter pliers--I have a good little bitty set of wire strippers, aboutfour
inches long that cuts it. I don't know what kind of wire you have,there is
galvanized (used for fence braces around here) and regular (used for
everything else.) Galvanized is the easiest to find anymore. Galvanized
cuts really hard and bend hard too. If your using galvanized #9 then bolt
cutters or fencing pliers may be the best. I cut a heck of a lot of #9 and
always use the slip joint pliers on my belt. Don't use the cheap pliers
found in chain stores though. Buy Crescent, John Deere, Klien, Diamond.
Not Cee Tee, Popular Mechanics, Generic. I see this is becoming a
disertation on pliers. They are the badge of a farmer here in Iowa. So I
suppose this is appropriate.
Cutting rebar. I use a acetelyne torch. Could use a bandsaw, hand held
hacksaw, big bolt cutters, chop saw, or the already mentioned angle grinder.
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The Jacksonville Jaguars today held their first day of two-a-day practices of the 1998 training camp on Ferrell Fields outside ALLTEL Stadium.
"This first day of two-a-days is a very good start for us fundamentally, with the chance to have two solid practices," said Jaguars head coach Tom Coughlin. "We worked full pads in the morning, and it is geared more towards the running game and play action. In the afternoon we worked in shoulder pads, focusing on the pass, but we had a mixture of run and pass in the afternoon practice as well."
On the team's veteran leadership, Coughlin said, "The leadership from the veterans and providing an example for the younger players is very important. Coming into this, our fourth camp, and having a core group of players who have been here since the beginning, certainly gives the right kind of message coming from the top down."
Sunday will be an off day for the players before returning on Monday for practices at 8:40 a.m. and 3:20 p.m.

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Lily Singer has never belonged. Taken from her tribe as a child and raised in a white man’s school, she no longer has a place in either world. Teaching has become her life. When that life is threatened by rumors and prejudice after a string of robberies, she must turn for help to the one man who spells disaster for her carefully ordered existence. Will he save her or steal her heart?
Christian Avery, Justice of the Peace, is used to having things his way. Cold Springs is his responsibility, and when its citizens blame the local Indian population for the mysterious robberies, it’s up to him to restore order and maintain calm. The one person who refuses to follow his lead is the beautiful, native-born Lily. Her defiance turns his life upside down and ravages his heart.
But when town gossip shifts from robberies to romance after a foolish indiscretion, Lily’s job and reputation are on the line. She must choose between the only life she has ever known and the only place she has ever felt at home, in Christian’s arms
Given to me in ebook format by the publishers in return for a review.
Set after the American Civil War, and when, in principal, whites and people of colour should be living together happily with no bitterness or recriminations.
For those people of colour – especially those from the Native Indian tribes – the reality is different, with racism, fear and hatred being confronted every day. Lily Singer is a school teacher, who has previously worked in Chicago, but is confronted with reality of living in Cold Springs. Pale enough to almost pass as white, she doesnt know what tribe she belongs to, having been brought up in a white school from a young age. Being from an Indian tribe however, she is effectively a non-citizen, so has learnt that she not wanted or belonging to anyone, certainly not a tribe, and definitely not her country.
She meets with Christian when he steps in during a school yard fight between white kids and local Indian children. Her defences are up so high that his confidence, apparent and different world view irritates her, but she recognises there is a chemistry between them. However, there are robberies around town that are being blamed on the Indians living outside of town. Suspicion is also placed at Lily’s door in a case of guilt-by-association. It’s not long before an unknown Indian man from out of town is in the city jail, having been accused of the latest robberies, despite having only just got off the train. Army friends of the chief bigot arrives in town and makes himself unpleasant with his insinuations and assumptions.
Meanwhile, Lily cant escape the sphere of Christian’s arms, and soon the two of them have begun a (fairly explicit) sexual relationship. Things come to a head, where Lily is placed into a situation where her job and reputation are on the line, and she needs to make a decision of who – or what – she places her faith in. It’s then that she gets to find out who her friends are, and that perhaps she belongs in more places than she ever gave herself credit for.
The dynamic between the two leads is good, the sex scenes are not for the prudish, some of the secondary characters are fleshed out well. The ending is left as a bit of a cliff hanger, but hopefully the story has been set up to allow the reader to come to a satisfactory “what happens next” ending. This is not a section of history that is covered much in mainstream fiction, especially where it covers the nature of mixed-race relationships. I dont remember anyone actually having issue with Christian and Lily being together, more just a case of Lily’s presence in the town in the first place – but perhaps that’s another story.


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Orbital Sciences Corp. today officially scheduled July 11 for the next launch of their Antares rocket on the company’s second NASA-contracted resupply flight to the International Space Station (ISS) after inspections of the rocket’s AJ26 engines revealed no problems. The launch date has been repeatedly delayed recently, pending the outcome of an investigation into why an Antares AJ26 engine scheduled to fly an ISS flight next year failed during customary acceptance testing (also known as “hot-fire” testing) at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on May 22.
“The engineering team that is investigating the failure of an AJ26 engine during an acceptance test at Stennis Space Center recommended that certain inspections be performed on the two AJ26 engines that are currently integrated on the Antares rocket,” explained Orbital Sciences in a statement released this morning. “These inspections were recently completed and program officials have cleared the rocket for flight.”
The Cygnus spacecraft tasked with delivering over 3,650 pounds (1,657 kg) of cargo and supplies to the ISS will be mated to its two-stage Antares launch vehicle today, and the 131-foot-tall rocket with its spacecraft will be rolled out to launch pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on July 9.
Antares has flown flawlessly on all three of its missions since 2013, but the liquid kerosene- and liquid oxygen-powered AJ26 engines Orbital Sciences uses to launch Antares skyward have failed in testing before, most recently in June 2011 when an engine caught fire on the Stennis E-1 Test Stand due to leaking kerosene in an engine manifold. The engines are actually modified Russian NK-33s, reconditioned by Aerojet Rocketdyne specifically for Antares.
A U.S.-built version of the AJ-26 engine is currently being developed in a strategic partnership between Aerojet and Teledyne Brown for NASA’s future Space Launch System (SLS).
It’s important to note that the engines themselves, built by Kuznetsov Design Bureau, are 40 years old, and they are no longer in production. Aerojet purchased 40 of the engines in the 1990s and can supply enough to Orbital to support Orbital’s contractual obligation for ISS resupply flights for NASA—for now—but without a replacement engine the Antares may not survive to fly into the next decade. In an effort to secure future exclusive business with Antares Aerojet president William Boley offered to restart engine production with Kuztnetsov last year, with the goal of producing four to six new engines annually in time to support NASA’s future CRS-2 contract (delivery of the new engines would need to start in 2016 to support that). How those talks have gone in the time since is unclear at this time.
The upcoming mission, dubbed Orb-2, will be only the second of eight such scheduled flights for Orbital under a $1.9 billion Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract with NASA. Cygnus will remain at the ISS for 40 days before burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere with over 3,500 pounds of garbage.
The mission will mark the third ISS flight for Orbital and the fourth flight of their Antares rocket (third flight for Cygnus).
AmericaSpace will provide full on-site coverage of the launch when it occurs, so check back regularly for updates.
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Strange that orbital would suggest reopening production of the engines with the Russians after all the backlash with the RD-180. Why put yourself deeper in the hole you are in already
Here’s a crazy idea, why not use an American rocket with an American engine built by American’s? Is it because Falcon 9 costs far less or is way to reliable?


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- ISBN: 9780099433620
- Автор: Coetzee, J.M.
- Язык: Английский
- Издательство: Random House UK
- Количество страниц: 176
- Страна издания: СОЕДИНЕННОЕ КОРОЛЕВСТВО
- Тематика издания: Современная литература
- Вид товара: Книга
- Тип издания: Paperback / softback book
Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmer, from which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing and begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting.

 Set against the background of the 1960s, Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness turning in on itself. J. M. Coetzee explores a young man's struggle to find his way in the world with tenderness and a fierce clarity.


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New Jersey, US
|Medium||Stand-up, television, radio|
|Genres||Observational comedy, black comedy, cringe comedy|
|Spouse||Bonnie McFarlane (2005–present; 1 child)|
|Notable works and roles||Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn
Opie and Anthony
My Wife Hates Me
Life and career
On the 2001 English Channel 5 show The People of New York vs Jerry Sadowitz, Vos was the bouncer, often performing his own skits. In 2004, Vos released his first DVD, Vos, which consisted of an unedited 55 minute performance from a single camera angle recorded at the Stress Factory in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He also released a CD titled I'm Killing Here. Vos placed third on the first season of NBC's Last Comic Standing and was a finalist in the third season.
In September 2005, Vos married comedian Bonnie McFarlane, who competed on the second season of Last Comic Standing. Together they have a daughter, Rayna Lynn Vos, born on July 31, 2007. He is a frequent guest on what was previously the Opie and Anthony show, then the Opie Radio radio show with Jim Norton and now Opie Radio on SiriusXM. His role on the show usually centered on jokes at his expense, most often highlighting his speech impediment or supposed lack of intellect. He has also hosted Saturday night broadcasts with McFarlane.
He appeared often on Comedy Central's 2002-2004 chat show Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and is friends with many other New York comedians, including Jim Norton, Colin Quinn, and Dave Mordal. He was also a close friend of Patrice O'Neal, before the comedian's death in 2011. Vos was one of the comics who spoke at the wake held for O'Neal where he placed a box of Twinkies in the open casket. He has been seen on Premium Blend and had two half-hour specials on Comedy Central Presents. He often performs at Caroline's Comedy Club and at the Comedy Cellar in New York.
He served as host of Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour in 2006 and 2007.
He was featured in a segment of the television show, What Would You Do? where he played as "the bad guy" and went overboard with his jokes.

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The South Bend; if it has lettering on the butt use this chart to determine what line it is for.
How to Convert the Old Line Weights to Modern AFTMA Line Weights;
Many of the older powell rods were very versatile in the line weights often being able to line from 5 - 7, price wise I have no clue. I'm not familiar with green ones so I can't date it for you.
Value wise the South Bends are not highly sought after and sell from 35 - 85 dollars based on weight and condition, tube - sock, etc.


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India is a multi-diversified country with all kinds of geographical features gifted by the Mother Nature. When it comes to Beaches Holidaying, India offers its huge cost lines with multiple pristine beach destinations.
India is surrounded by Bay of Bengal in the east, Indian Ocean in the down south and the Arabian Sea is the west.
Konkan, Malabar & Coromondal coast comprises the total stretch of the country.
States of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa & West Bengal have beaches with world class resorts & facilities.

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