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A few years ago, I went through what I call my Chunkster Phase. I didn’t even notice I had gotten out of shape until one of my favorite clients, a grandmotherly nutritionist, told me I was looking “well-loved.” Since then, I have made it a point to exercise regularly — through a job change, a trial, and a file-cabinet-drawer-related injury. And during the past year or so, I have figured out how to eat a mostly balanced diet. The result is that I still fit comfortably into my high-school cheerleading uniform (as demonstrated at my office Halloween party). And I can climb to the top of Mailbox Peak — one of the steepest day hikes around — without needing to take a breather or cry.
Though of course everyone’s health and fitness needs are different (and some may need to consult with a doctor before changing diet and exercise routines), here’s what I found worked for me to get fit, without a huge time commitment:
Wrap your mind around the no-brainers.
There are some obvious steps to getting healthier. They do not make life more enjoyable, but they work. For me, these included:
- Swapping out iceberg for greener stuff like spinach, kale, and romaine.
- Avoiding fried food and drinking less. (Sigh.)
- Bringing a healthy lunch and snacks to work.
- Making extra at dinner to have healthy leftovers for lunch.
- Buying whole-wheat bread, English muffins, and pasta instead of products made from processed flour.
- And the most intuitive but somehow hardest: Stop eating when you are full.
For most of my adult existence, the crisper drawer in my fridge housed little more than a couple of bruised apples and a bag of dried-out baby carrots. Now I try to build my meals around fruits and vegetables. I stock up on “the usual suspects”— broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, onions, and green peppers — which can be sliced up and roasted with garlic powder in minutes. I always keep a bag of salad in the office fridge, so that even if I have to buy a sandwich or eat a Lean Cuisine, my midday meal is somewhat healthy. (I can’t eat just a salad. In my stomach’s opinion, a bowl of lettuce is not a meal.) And I literally eat an apple a day.
Annoyingly, having a lot of produce around usually requires an additional trip to the grocery store each week. But I try to take care of that task right after the gym, so my sweaty gym clothes can serve as a reminder to me of what it takes to burn off the calories I am about to buy.
Remove common road blocks.
I have found that it is best to think of working out as the default: Plan to work out every day, and only opt out if there is a competing commitment. It also helps to remove any of the usual impediments:
- Pick a gym that is close to work and do not stop at home first (it is so hard to get the motivation to leave the house). Indeed, proximity is worth a pricier membership, since you will go more.
- Work out as early in the day as you can, to avoid feeling too worn out for post-work exercise.
- Bring your gym bag to work every day, even if you have other plans (in case they fall through).
- Keep healthy snacks at work to avoid the “I’m too starving to work out before dinner” excuse.
- Stock up on decent workout clothes, so you have clean gear without constant laundering.
- And for those with kids, pick a gym that has childcare.
My gym is across the street from my office. It takes me 10 minutes to get from my office chair to the treadmill. If I have plans after work or more work to do at night, I can leave for the gym and come back. This level of convenience makes it irritatingly convenient to exercise regularly.
Using shortcuts can make healthy eating choices an efficient option.
- Keep an apple slicer at work to cut up fresh fruit.
- Buy pre-cut fruits and vegetables if you do not have a lot of time or energy to play sous-chef.
- Choose bagged salad that comes with all the necessary ingredients.
Pile fruits and vegetables on ready-to-eat stuff.
I like food that tastes like chicken strips. I am also lazy as all get-out when it comes to meal preparation. My compromise is minimal-effort things like throwing a bunch of vegetables into pasta sauce, or layering a frozen cheese pizza with a ton of veggies. I have also mastered this breakfast burrito — whole-wheat tortilla, mushrooms, green peppers, onions, ham, and a little cheese — that requires only one egg. Since vegetables make up so much of the meal, I end up eating less of the bad stuff that I still need to consume to avoid food rage. Try a little ice cream with a large serving of strawberries, or add a banana to your cereal.
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Today is Friday, and due to the figure on my scale, I will not be consuming the donuts.
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What is the most common cause of maternal dystocia in the sow?
Dystocia of maternal origin may be caused by uterine inertia, small pelvic size, failure of cervical dilation, and uterine torsion. Failure of cervical dilation and uterine torsion are the most common causes of dystocia of maternal origin.
What are the common causes of dystocia during farrowing of the sow?
Insufficient dilatation of the birth canal or a low frequency and intensity of uterine contractions are the main causes of discomfort and pain around parturition. In general, dystocia is more likely to happen in gilts than in multiparous sows.
How do you know when a sow will Farrow?
In many sows, the fluids stained with blood will be expelled from the vulva and serve as a sign that farrowing will follow shortly (generally in two hours or less). Likewise, the greenish-brown meconium will sometimes be expelled shortly before farrowing.
How do you deal with difficult farrowings?
Excessive damage can also negate the option of the use of a cesarean section as a treatment.
- Familiarize yourself with the basic anatomy of the reproductive tract.
- Thoroughly clean the sow’s rectal and vaginal area.
- The manager’s fingernails should be cut short.
What is uterine inertia?
UTERINE inertia or atonia, the term applied to abnormally ineffectual uterine contractions, as Bourne and Bell state, “is one of the most common causes for delay and disaster in labour.” Surprisingly little has been written about a condition so time consuming to both the patient and the obstetrician.
What are the symptoms of dystocia?
Clinical signs of dystocia include labor lasting more than 4 hours with no production of the fetus, green vaginal discharge, and / or more than 1 hour between births. If any of these signs are noted, it is recommended that you seek medical attention immediately.
How do you stop pigs from crushing sows?
Farrowing crates—narrow cages where sows are kept during lactation—impede the sow in the expression of natural behaviours and, therefore, cause animal welfare concerns. However, piglet losses due to crushing by the sow are effectively reduced by farrowing crates.
How do you help a sow farrow?
10 Steps To Successful Farrowing
- Prepare farrowing rooms.
- Make sure sows are ready to farrow.
- Evaluate environment daily.
- Induce sows with care.
- Work to reduce stillbirths.
- Warm up and dry off all piglets.
- Ensure all pigs receive a good dose of colostrum.
- Minimize transfers.
How many piglets do sows generally birth?
The average litter size is 7.5 pigs, and it is not uncommon for a sow to have 12-14 pigs per litter. The gestation period of a sow (from the time she is bred until she farrows) is 114 days. A sow can have her first litter at approximately one year of age.
Can sows farrow together?
It is normal to ‘batch farrow’ sows so that groups of sows will be weaned and come on heat together. Grouping sows or gilts opposite to the boar pens will also aid in the detection of those on heat.
How soon can a sow be bred after farrowing?
“Many sows weaned during the first two days after farrowing will not breed back normally until five to eight weeks postpartum,” says Britt.
How long are sows in labor?
Duration of labor ranges from 30 minutes to more than 5 hours. Pigs may be born either-head first or rear feet first; either is normal. Fetal membranes or afterbirth may be expelled several times during delivery, but afterbirth generally occurs in a larger amount near the end of farrowing.
Uterine Inertia is the failure of contractions during whelping. Normally the bitch strains and muscles contract pushing puppies into the birth canal and then expelling them. Uterine Inertia can fall into two categories. “ Primary Inertia ” occurs in heavily pregnant bitches near their whelping date.
What is primary inertia in pregnancy?
“ Primary Inertia ” occurs in heavily pregnant bitches near their whelping date. The bitch fails to have contractions, but the cervix dilates and the placentas can detach from the uterine wall.
Do sows with primary placenta retention have an enlarged uterus?
All sows with primary placenta retention had an enlarged uterus (Björkman, Oliviero et al., 2015 ). Interestingly, oxytocin application had a tendency to decrease uterus size.
Does farrowing duration affect placenta expulsion duration in sows?
In sows with a short farrowing duration (<7 hr), placenta expulsion duration increased with increasing farrowing duration, whereas in sows with a prolonged farrowing duration (>7 hr), placenta expulsion duration decreased with increasing farrowing duration.

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New Ed Sheeran trail launched at Portman Road
The Ed Sheeran Trail has been launched by Ipswich Borough Council and takes in nine landmarks in Ipswich that are of significance to Ed's global breakthrough.
The Club is the first stop on the trail, before taking in Steamboat Tavern, University of Suffolk, The Swan, Town Hall, Ipswich Musuem, Halberd Inn, Christchurch Park and finishing at Christchurch Mansion where the unique Ed Sheeran: Made in Suffolk exhibition is in the Art Gallery until May 2020.
The pubs listed above are all venues that Ed performed at on his way to becoming the global superstar he is today.
Town's general manager of football operations, Lee O'Neill spoke of the benefits of the trail to the Club "We are delighted the trail starts here, it might bring people here who don't otherwise come and we feel we are a very important part of the town."
Participants will have the chance to win some exculsive signed Ed merchandise through taking part in the trail.
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A North American Free Trade Agreement panel has upheld the latest U.S. lumber industry trade complaint against Canadian softwood lumber, reports the Surrey Now-Leader.
The NAFTA panel has reviewed the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (USITC) determination of “injury” to U.S. lumber trade from Canadian lumber, in the latest of a decades-long series of trade and legal actions brought by U.S. forest industry representatives.
B.C. Council of Forest Industries president and CEO Susan Yurkovich says the “unsupportable decision” doesn’t change Canada’s position.
“Even with the decision affirming the USITC remand determination on injury, the Canadian parties still have pending World Trade Organization and NAFTA challenges to the Department of Commerce’s underlying countervailing duty and anti-dumping duty determinations that have yet to be resolved,” said Yurkovich in a statement.
“We are confident that those proceedings will yield favourable results as they have done in the past, and the duties ultimately will be ruled to be unwarranted.”
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For over three years, Jennifer Silver, 33, an independent advertising guide in Manhattan, trolled online dating sites seeking prefer. She tried Complement and JDate.
“I got the worst activities,” Ms. gold stated. Whenever one possible big date didnt bear the smallest resemblance to his photo, she strolled appropriate past your, considering he’d endured the girl right up. “People comprise most shady,” Ms. sterling silver said. She hired a traditional matchmaker rather.
A person might imagine that in an age of unmatched access to prospective dates through the Internet, matchmakers was scraping for company. As an alternative, their business is on an upswing, according to John LaRosa, mcdougal of a report of the Marketdata corporations, a research company. Matchmakers now amount above 1,600 in the us, up from 1,300 in 2004. He additionally notes that “matchmaking as a whole has shed the social stigma for many of us.”
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Matchmakers prescreen prospective matches, centering on long-lasting being compatible versus “short-term biochemistry,” Ms. Clampitt stated.
While websites allow unlimited fantasizing, matchmakers promote consumers to just take their unique minds outside of the clouds. “Sometimes we’ll become a man who is a good-looking guy, but no Brad Pitt, and he desires a thin design,” said Shoshanna Rikon, who owns Shoshanna s suits, a Yenta-style matchmaking service in New york that features an in-person interview and an internet presence, and expense about $1,500 for eight dates. “We try to be most realistic with whom we set your with.
Another indication of an upswing regarding the go-between: 80 matchmakers gathered on Friday in Weehawken, N.J., for a two-day convention that Matchmaking Institute, which structured it, bills given that to begin the kind here. Its keynote presenter, tag Brooks of using the internet Personals observe, told players that matchmakers offering “a chance to connect” and “a possiblity to authenticate” possibilities with techniques the internet sites can t. The guy pointed out that the problem for matchmakers has always been casting an extensive adequate internet; for online sites the problem is narrowing the pool. He suggested both discover usual floor.
Among the list of various other presenters is Julie Ferman, who owns Cupid s advisor in l . a .. In a job interview ahead of the meeting she said that when Web internet dating became popular a decade ago, it appeared like “personal matchmaking could well be a dinosaur.” As an alternative, she said, the “big chasm” between their unique enterprises has actually narrowed as matchmakers have begun utilizing a more hybrid method.
Cupid s Coach groups with websites adult dating sites to offer events. As soon as the singles arrive, Ms. Ferman satisfy them, takes their particular photographs, will get their own email address and adds these to this lady databases of 12,000 names. Customers usually register through their webpage or send this lady an e-mail content; she comes after with a job interview.
“i am going to best recommend them once i’ve satisfied them personally,” Ms. Ferman stated.
A 2006 study performed by Pew websites and United states lifestyle job discovered that while 52 percent of 16 million individuals who have utilized online dating services had mostly positive encounters, 29 per cent report typically negative activities. The majority of asserted that “many on line daters sit about their marital position,” the report said. And per a 2007 report by Jupiter analysis, the percentage men and women exploring the internet sites are stagnating.
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Different hybrids blend on-line innovation with traditions. At JRetromatch and Sawyouatsinai, Jewish online dating sites, singles select a matchmaker, who next combs through the depressed hearts databases for clients. JRetro s charge beginning at $12.95 per month and Sawyouatsinai s at $9.95.
Elove, the large unique York-area hybrid choices, are an Internet provider that provides each associate a 90-minute in-person meeting, after which comes after with police arrest records and marital position monitors. Once recommended, pictures and movies become taken and submitted of the matchmaking solution. Website subscribers become then provided a password to search elove s databases.
Matchmaking “is more info on the quality of the average person compared to the amount of individuals who you date,” stated Gary Ferone, the master of Great Date Now, a traditional services with eight places in New York, nj and Connecticut. Mr. Ferone asserted that 80 % of their 400 clients had “tried one kind of websites matchmaking or other.” He, indeed, satisfied his very own girlfriend six years back on Match, but began his business because he was delay by the laborious procedure for searching through hundreds of online prospects.
However, Great time Now embraces technologies, utilizing google to assist drive singles to their Web site, in which they submit questionnaires. Those surveys are evaluated by matchmakers, exactly who next get in touch with the potential customer. Mr. Ferone, whose company, he says, possess facilitated significantly more than 100 marriages, costs those customers $2,500 for limitless introductions.
April search, 49, a divorced instructor from Milford, Conn., said she looked to Great day after she got unsuccessfully looked for a spouse on eharmony. Matchmakers, she mentioned, “get a sense for the biochemistry and that I Dont believe comes across on the web.” She discovered the service s plan to do background records searches reassuring. “They happened to be defending me personally and my offspring from individuals who might state they certainly were maybe not partnered however they are, or weren’t reputable,” she said.
Latest February she came across Tom Morgan, 63, a divorced homes inspector from Mystic, Conn. Nowadays, these include looking at transferring collectively.
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As an ABC national correspondent based in Chicago, Chris Bury
reported for World News, Nightline and Good Morning America. Currently, he’s hosting a weekly public affairs program called “In the Loop” (on WYCC, a PBS affiliate) and freelancing for America Tonight on the Al-Jazeera American network.
As DePaul's senior journalist in residence, Bury teaches “basic boot camp” reporting to freshman, as well as graduate classes in political reporting and storytelling techniques. Here, the winner of six Emmys and two Peabodys shares his perspective about journalism and his enthusiasm for teaching at DePaul.
What’s your take on the importance of journalism?
One of my favorite quotes is from a Chicago writer, Peter Finley Dunne: “Our mission as journalists is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” I believe journalism makes a difference in our communities, whether a journalist reports on government or politics or crime or the environment. I think that belief ties in well with DePaul’s Vincentian mission, which says that teaching and learning matter.
students are lucky to be in Chicago because this city takes its news seriously—it’s a great laboratory for budding journalists. Our students cover beats on the messy process of governing, on homelessness and poverty, on urban issues and development. Here, they do real interviews, real stories, real journalism—and that’s really cool.
How about career opportunities today?
As everyone knows, the profession has been going through a rough patch, and we don’t know what the industry will look like when the dust settles. But journalism is still a fantastic field, and there are still good jobs to be found. In fact, I’d say there might be even more opportunities because of the explosive growth of online publishing, including social media.
Of course, today’s journalist has to do it all: report, write, prepare broadcasts and even edit video. This is the new normal, and our students are being prepared for it; by the time they leave DePaul, they have the skills they need to carve out important careers.
What do you bring, as a practitioner, to the classroom?
Because I’ve had 30 years of experience with ABC News, including 15 years with Nightline in Washington, D.C., I can give our students a very realistic sense of what life is like in professional journalism.
One of my most important jobs is to make sure that our students can write a traditional, declarative sentence. After that, I want to make sure that they can compose a story well. No matter the medium, a journalist still needs to report the facts accurately, still needs to be a good writer, and still needs to know how to tell a story.
Another important contribution I make is contacts: I bring in guest speakers, especially for my graduate classes; we’ve had incredible participation from reporters and writers at the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Magazine, DNAinfo.com and local television stations. I even Skype in pollsters and writers from D.C. for my political reporting class. So, my students are getting exposed to first-rate minds in the field, including one-on-one interactions with people who can offer them internships and jobs.
So, what’s the best part about teaching?
Connecting with a new generation that’s as excited about journalism as I was when I started my career 35 years ago. At the end of the day, I want to make sure that my students have really learned something and that I have played a small part in their future success.
Article and images republished courtesy DePaul Distinctions.


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BLACKSBURG, Va., Nov. 18 -- Accelerator-based supercomputers hold eight of the top 10 spots on The Green500 List, released today. These supercomputers use dedicated hardware to perform computations faster than a typical central processing unit (CPU).
Accelerators also topped the June edition of the Green500 List (http://www.green500.org/). "One might argue that this year's Green500 marks The Year of the Accelerator," said Green500 co-founder Wu Feng, an associate professor with the Virginia Tech College of Engineering computer science and electrical and computer engineering departments.
The Green500 has ranked the energy efficiency of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers since its debut in 2007, serving as a complement to the well-known supercomputer industry marker TOP500.
Topping the Green500 is the IBM BlueGene/Q prototype supercomputer, the third in a series of energy-efficient Blue Gene supercomputers, following Blue Gene/L and Blue Gene/P. In a 2004 TOP500 ranking, Blue Gene/L bested the powerful Japanese Earth Simulator, which itself created in 2002 a so-called "Computenik" event -- a pun of the Soviet Union satellite Sputnik -- by shattering the United States' then unchallenged hold on the supercomputer industry.
Despite not making the No. 1 spot, the overall energy efficiency of accelerator supercomputers nonetheless dominated the overall Green500. The Tokyo Institute of Technology-based production supercomputer TSUBAME 2.0 holds the second spot on the latest Green500.
Accelerators have been making waves and headlines worldwide. At No. 11 on the Green500 is China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer, deemed the world's fastest supercomputer by the November TOP500 list. Built at the National University of Defense Technology research lab in Tianjin, China, Tianhe boats 1.4 times the computing power of the United States' then-top contender.
"Accelerator-based supercomputers on the Green500 List produce an average efficiency of 573 megaflops/watts, whereas the other measured supercomputers on the list produce only an average efficiency of 206 megaflops/watts," Feng said. "That makes the accelerator-based supercomputers on the Green500 nearly three times more energy efficient than their non-accelerated counterparts."
Accelerator-based supercomputers come largely in two flavors: one is based on the commodity graphics processing unit (GPU) and the second is based on the custom PowerXCell 8i processor from IBM. The latter is an enhancement of the Cell Broadband Engine developed for the game console PlayStation 3, and includes a network of programmable units called field programmable gate arrays or FPGAs.
The Green500 List is released twice a year, in June and in November. To measure energy efficiency, Feng uses a megaflops/W metric, or millions of floating-point operations per second (megaflops) divided by watts.
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In quieter times, sounding the bell of funding big science with big systems tends to resonate further than when ears are already burning with sour economic and national security news. For exascale's future, however, the time could be ripe to instill some sense of urgency....
In a recent solicitation, the NSF laid out needs for furthering its scientific and engineering infrastructure with new tools to go beyond top performance, Having already delivered systems like Stampede and Blue Waters, they're turning an eye to solving data-intensive challenges. We spoke with the agency's Irene Qualters and Barry Schneider about..
Large-scale, worldwide scientific initiatives rely on some cloud-based system to both coordinate efforts and manage computational efforts at peak times that cannot be contained within the combined in-house HPC resources. Last week at Google I/O, Brookhaven National Lab’s Sergey Panitkin discussed the role of the Google Compute Engine in providing computational support to ATLAS, a detector of high-energy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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The study of climate change is one of those scientific problems where it is almost essential to model the entire Earth to attain accurate results and make worthwhile predictions. In an attempt to make climate science more accessible to smaller research facilities, NASA introduced what they call ‘Climate in a Box,’ a system they note acts as a desktop supercomputer.
May 22, 2013 |
At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even Lego-building are today. That could be made possible through recent advancements made with the Raspberry Pi computers.
May 16, 2013 |
When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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Supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have worked on important computational problems such as collapse of the atomic state, the optimization of chemical catalysts, and now modeling popping bubbles.
05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.
04/15/2013 | Bull | “50% of HPC users say their largest jobs scale to 120 cores or less.” How about yours? Are your codes ready to take advantage of today’s and tomorrow’s ultra-parallel HPC systems? Download this White Paper by Analysts Intersect360 Research to see what Bull and Intel’s Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming can do for your codes.
In this demonstration of SGI DMF ZeroWatt disk solution, Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI CTO, discusses a function of SGI DMF software to reduce costs and power consumption in an exascale (Big Data) storage datacenter.
The Cray CS300-AC cluster supercomputer offers energy efficient, air-cooled design based on modular, industry-standard platforms featuring the latest processor and network technologies and a wide range of datacenter cooling requirements.


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Renal autoregulation dynamics originating from the myogenic response (MR) and tubuloglomerular feedback (TGF) can synchronize over large regions of the kidney surface, likely through gap junction-mediated electrotonic conduction and reflecting distributed operation of autoregulation. We tested the hypotheses that inhibition of gap junctions reduces spatial synchronization of autoregulation dynamics, abrogates spatial and temporal smoothing of renal perfusion, and impairs renal autoregulation. In male Long-Evans rats, we infused the gap junction inhibitor, carbenoxolone (CBX), or the related glycyrrhizic acid (GZA) that does not block gap junctions, into the renal artery and monitored renal blood flow (RBF) and surface perfusion by laser speckle contrast imaging. Neither CBX nor GZA altered RBF or mean surface perfusion. CBX preferentially increased spatial and temporal variation in the distribution of surface perfusion; increased spatial variation in the operating frequencies of the MR and TGF; reduced phase coherence of TGF and increased its dispersion. CBX, but not GZA, impaired dynamic and steady-state autoregulation. Separately, infusion of the Rho kinase inhibitor Y-27632 paralyzed smooth muscle, grossly impaired dynamic autoregulation, and monotonically increased spatial variation of surface perfusion. These data suggest CBX inhibited gap junction communication which in turn reduced the ability of TGF to synchronize among groups of nephrons. The results indicate that impaired autoregulation resulted from degraded synchronization, rather than the reverse. We show that network behavior in the renal vasculature is necessary for effective RBF autoregulation.
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- blood flow
- myogenic response
- tubuloglomerular feedback
- phase synchronization
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[Doggiebox] Amazing Grace by Drum Beats Alone
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Wow. This is a beautiful idea, I find it really inspiring. Do you
know of any other pieces of music composed to be heard by deaf people
in this way?
I wonder if it would be possible to write a simple app to take
existing midi files and transpose / map them onto sub bass drum
beats? I'd like to try and do that.
> I am profound deaf and would like someone to create a DoggieBox
> music of Amazing Grace using only big marching band drum beats.
> I'd like to hook up this music with subwoofer so I could feel. Any
> one willing to try?
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Senior citizens want to be independent therefore are unlikely to admit that they might have needs, even as simple as having someone to talk to.
I'm going to start with that simplest of needs. Our society tends to treat seniors as separate types both individually and collectively. Their mobility is therefore restricted, not only physically but socially as well.
When groups are discriminated against in society, they tend to come together. Yet Seniors aren't doing too well in finding facilities readily available for gathering and meeting. Their independence prevents them from even asking.
Simply, they need a meeting area where they can come and virtually call their own. Everyone is welcome, but the members of the “Grand Old Club” should always have a place to gather, have coffee and talk.
I was talking to a Club member who said that he hadn't talked with a woman for months and that he missed the occasional contact. I'm sure there are many elderly women in the same situation. Some don't talk to anyone for weeks and this contributes further to their basic “stay-at-home”loneliness and feeling of isolation.
Therefore, I'm taking on a task to end loneliness among these Club members in Shorewood by at least seeking to provide a Coffee Club where they can come at anytime to meet with others.
Village Hall has not been able to provide a facility, let's say unwilling to provide this accommodation, although the Senior Resource Center and Elizabeth Price do very well under the present restrictions of Village Hall. So obviously we can't find an appropriate place in the Library. I've been trying to do this for years.
There is plenty of space in our school buildings. So the next step is to try to find the appropriate space there and make arrangements for the appropriate conditions for the CLUB as a nice gathering place.
This is going to require organization so, we of course need to organize as soon as possible to get this done. Organization means a certain cohesiveness that gives energy to its efforts as well as provide some clout.
Our clout is already in our voting power. So that needs to be organized toward certain and specific objectives.
I would start out by asking the School Board to consider a place for us and request that they work with us in establishing our CLUB.
However, if we don't see any willingness on their part then we would have no real or basic reason for supporting their resolution for funding facility improvements. There would be no direct gain for seniors from the additional taxes .
If our facility should be funded among those proposed by the School Board, then of course, most Club members would find it in their interest and have additional and good reason for supporting the resolution.
This is a start. Let's see how it goes.
Please view previous posting, "Schools and Ederly"..

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While executives of manufacturing firms are more confident about the economy's growth now than they were several months ago, their projections are still not overly optimistic. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers' quarterly Manufacturing Barometer, 64 percent of the executives surveyed at year's end are optimistic about the U.S. economy, compared with just 45 percent who felt that way at the end of the third quarter of 2006. They are also more optimistic about the global economy - with 69 percent feeling optimistic at the end of 2006 as compared with 58 percent just three months prior.
This optimism is, in fact, based in reality. As 2006 came to a close, energy prices softened and consumers became more confident and spent more. The Commerce Department has reported that the U.S. GDP expanded at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2006 - better than the 2 percent and 2.6 percent growth recorded in the second and third quarters of last year, respectively.
So if the economy appears to be starting out 2007 strong, how can manufacturers make sure it continues to be a good year for them? EDS, a leading provider of IT services to manufacturers, says "manufacturers must become more agile and work smarter." The global technology services company cites eight trends that will influence manufacturers in 2007 - globalization, market volatility, increasing customer demands, accelerated product innovation, outsourcing noncore competencies, cost pressure, flexibility, and competition - and provides some advice as follows:
Manufacturers must leverage employees and resources around the world, integrating suppliers globally. They need to react quickly to changes in client demands that can impact profitability. Customers want "unique" products and look for them at the lowest possible cost. Thus, manufacturers must increase their product innovation, in order to satisfy customers' desires, and they must speed up design and production time in order to get products to market faster.
Outsourcing of noncore competencies will continue to help manufacturers maintain profitability, but they must look "at both sides of the ledger," i.e., increasing their revenue while reducing their costs. In order to maintain competitiveness, manufacturers need flexible assembly lines that can produce multiple products. They also need to be able to ramp up production at facilities quickly in growing markets in order to avoid the costs of shipping from facilities located elsewhere. EDS concludes that global competition is here to stay, and the companies that realize this will be the better for it. Manufacturers that are quick to adapt will grow, while those who are slow to do so will not.
The U.S. economy is already showing signs of strength greater than anticipated. And if inflation is kept in check by companies that focus on cost control rather than price increases to maintain competitiveness, the year ahead could very well turn out to be good one.


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As the Christian son of secret Jews, Viçente is in a hopeless position-charged with keeping the peace, but always suspected by the city's Old Christians, unwilling but duty-bound to help the increasingly persecuted Jews, and to aid his king whose rule is threatened.
When Viçente crosses the ruthless, power-hungry lawyer Marcos García de Mora, he makes a formidable enemy. García's plan: to rally the common men, attack Jews, and purify Toledo by purging suspected heretics-the Christian descendants of Jews, converts like Viçente.
As war breaks out between the king and his cousins, and García and his madmen rise to power in Toledo, Viçente falls in love with the mysterious Francesca and finds himself faced with impossible choices: love or duty, respect or intolerance, reverence or disdain for his ancestry.
From the courts of kings in Naples and Castile to the chambers of Pope Nicholas and the torture cellars of Toledo, this gripping novel brings to life an era of little-known history in fifteenth-century Spain, a time when a rogue inquisition threatened to destroy the very soul of Toledo.
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In his historical novel, Soul of Toledo, about Spain in the 1440s, the diabolical nature of mankind stands out as madmen take over the city of Toledo and torture suspected Jews thirty years before the Spanish Inquisition.
Webster also likes to tinker with fictional characters, putting strange people together to see what they'll do with/to each other. He is the author of the novel The Gentle Bomber's Melody, in which a nutty woman, bearing a stolen baby, lands on the doorstep of a fugitive bomber hiding from the FBI. The result: irresistible insanity.
From the happily unusual of A Year of Sundays to the cruelly perverse in Soul of Toledo, Webster shines a light on offbeat aspects of human nature. Webster lives in Southern California with his divine wife and two amazing cats.
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Reviewed by Rabia Tanveer for Readers' Favorite Soul of Toledo by Edward Webster is set in Toledo almost 30 years before the Spanish Inquisition. The story recounts little known facts about the time when Toledo was almost destroyed by a madman and his minions. The plot centers around Viçente Pérez, a converted Christian whose parents are still Jews. He is a man of great power and he may be the only person who can stop the current tension and help people find peace in these troubled times. The Jews are being persecuted, but Viçente has to keep the peace, help the king, and, at the same time, make the Old Christians believe him somehow. Power-hungry lawyer Marcos García de Mora wants to purge Toledo of Jews and their presence. And when Vicente and Marcos cross paths, only one of them can come out of this as victorious; the other has to perish. Soul of Toledo has been sitting on my bookshelf for a long time, but I finally found time to read it. I always love novels that have a strongly researched material and Soul of Toledo is one of them. It is fascinating to learn about Toledo and its history. I loved, loved, loved Edward Webster's descriptions and how he explained the imagery around Viçente. Viçente is such a strong human character. That is right, he is not an epic hero, but a human who falls in love and makes mistakes. A well-researched and well-developed novel. This is definitely one that I will read again.


Democrat Debra Call is running for lieutenant governor in Tuesday’s election. On Monday, she made a campaign stop in Ketchikan. She came by KRBD to introduce herself.
Call recently retired. She was born in Palmer, attended school Down South and returned with a Master of Business Administration. She worked as a business analyst with tribes in rural Alaska, promoting economic development.
Here is an edited version of her conversation with KRBD’s Leila Kheiry.
That was Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor Debra Call, talking with KRBD’s Leila Kheiry on Monday. Below is a recording of the full conversation.
Election Day is Tuesday. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.


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Shanghai cracks down on unauthorised weather forecasts as heatwave continues
China's sweltering heatwave not expected to rise above 40 degrees, despite the claims of faulty forecasts
As China’s scorching heat wave continues and temperatures soar, the government has started cracking down on false weather reports.
The Shanghai Meteorological Bureau told the Shanghai Evening Post that unauthorised and exaggerated weather reports, which have increasingly been created and shared online by netizens, were generally faulty, especially when they predicted that temperatures would rise far beyond 40 degrees.
These unauthorised reports were largely based only on numerical models and calculated dates, and rarely took into account important factors that might influence a day’s heat, including clouds and wind direction, Shanghai Meteorological Bureau chief service officer Man Liping said.
The creation and distribution of unauthorised weather forecasts is punishable with a warning or fines of up to 50,000 yuan, (HK$ 63,253) the Bureau reportedly confirmed.
A chief forecaster for the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau, Liang Bo, said that while current weather forecasts by the Bureau were far from perfect, there was little chance that temperatures would rise far beyond 41 degrees within the next four to six days.
The heatwave has proven to be one of China’s hottest since 1873. Shanghai’s temperatures hit a record 40.6 degrees on July 26, and the intense weather has already claimed the lives of ten Shanghai residents who died from heat stroke. Most recently, droughts resulting from the heat have wrecked counties and cities in Hunan, as rainfall levels fell 30 per cent below their normal levels.


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Sweet Tanya at Froufroubritches gave me an award.
So, here are the rules.
1. Put the logo on your blog within your post.
2. Pass the award onto 12 bloggers.
3. Link the nominees within your post.
4. Let them know they have received the award by commenting on their blog.
5. Share the love and the link to the person from whom you have received this award. ( Don't feel obligated to do this part.)
We Three Kings because, well, she's my daughter and she's wonderful.
Kssnikel because she is a lot like me.
The Silver Lining because she is my daughter's BFF and adorable.
H Squared because she is a personal friend and a sweetheart.
Outlandish Observations because I love all things Outlandish.
Making the World Cuter because she's really cute!
My Outlander Purgatory because again, all things outlandish, and she is hilarious.
Living Life Creatively because she inspires me.
Jaybird Quilts because I'm just beginning to quilt and she has so many beautiful ideas.
Write it Down because she is versatile and intersting.
k.f.d. designs because I wish I could do what she does.
Bugaboos Creations because she does a little bit of everything.
I don't read a whole bunch of blogs, but these are ones I check daily. And sometimes more than once a day.
I knew Tanya when she was a toddler, and was thrilled to connect with her again after all these years. (Don't ask how many) Thanks girl. You rock!


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It’s 9:32 PM, and your dumbest friend is explaining how candyflipping for a Rufus du Sol set last summer changed his perspective on community to the girl sitting next to him in a metallic Nissan rogue. Your buddy up front is desperately failing to remember facts from a Netflix documentary about the country your driver immigrated from, the girl sitting diagonally from you is zooming in on the crevice of her enemy’s arm fat, and the kid your sharing the back with isn’t understanding that no matter how loud he screams into the phone, his buddy already inside the bar isn’t going to hear him. This Uber ride a fucking nightmare ride, but you have two shooters mixed into something carbonated and loaded with high fructose corn syrup, so it’s tolerable. When you guys arrive at the bar you’re surprised by the line. You think to yourself, I’ve been to this place so many times, and it’s never that great. Look at these fucking pathetic losers waiting in line for this, and then you, yourself, enter the back of the line. Your plan for the night is very simple. You want to spend less than sixty dollars while ending the night saying the same thing Deion Sanders said to the Boulder football team (I’m coming). Have you done this before? Yes. Do you fail more than you succeed? Also yes. Will you most likely end up passing out on the couch to a Joe Rogan clip while dreaming that you’re the mayor of Roku City because you’re greened out. Absolutely. When you get stamped and walk through the door, the girls you’re with find their friends, and you start hunting down a drink. But before you go, in an effort to support the women in STEM movement while also making sure her friends see what you’re doing, you ask the girl you’re most platonic with if she wants something.
This is a smart, strategic move that you’ve mastered for years now. It’s early in the night, and she will remember how nice of a gesture this was, but you’ve also opened up a potential opportunity for her to mention to her friends that you’re a decent enough guy. When you finally get to the front of the bar, you rip a shot of something white and grab two rum and cokes. No amount of holding an egg on a spoon as a kid prepares a young adult to navigate his way out of a crowded drink rail with two full Bacardi cokes. One wrong move and two dollars of liquid could spill on a stranger’s arm, so you do what Matt Ryan has failed to do all season and protect the football. While dropping off the drink, you overhear the ladies talking about Taylor Swift. You don’t exactly know the facts of the situation, but you do know that your cousin in her early thirties was talking about Taylor Swift over Thanksgiving, and she was upset. You wait for the right moment and then go for it by saying fuck Taylor Swift. I mean, I used to like a lot of her old stuff, but she canceled her concert on my cousin or something and now I hate her. Before you even finish what you are saying, you look up at six faces staring at you like you’re George Zimmerman walking through an HBCU campus. This ship is going down faster than FTX, so you tap the closest friend on the shoulder and refuel on drinks.
This is the beginning of Moneyball. It’s time to rebuild. Once you’ve had enough drinks where you feel comfortable dancing to a song you’ve never heard before and humming the lyrics incorrectly, it’s time to try your luck elsewhere. You and your friend go over to a different group of girls, and honestly, at first, it’s going well. Your destiny with a girl friend group is single-handedly determined by how much the girl who dressed funny for Halloween likes you. Ten minutes into the conversation, you’re impressed with yourself. You went from a disaster to this girl showing you the cheese board she made in Jackson Hole a few weeks ago. All signs point to taking her home until she gets a text.
Oh my god, Katie, Barney died!
Who the fuck is Barney?
Her childhood dog, you asshole.
Life in the big city.


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With the polls opening weeks in advance of election day, and there being absolutely no restrictions on what can be communicated then, it appears incongruous that the very last day should remain sacrosanct.
It is an artefact from an age past.
An electoral law expert says election day restrictions on people using social media should be eased after tweets by rugby stars Israel Dagg and Jonah Lomu and rower Eric Murray got them into hot water last year.
Dagg, Lomu and Murray were among 26 cases referred to the police by the Electoral Commission because of tweets or social media posts on election day.
Nobody is allowed on election day to publish or distribute on social media, or in traditional advertising forms and the media, any statement that may influence how people vote.
Graeme Edgeler told Parliament’s justice and electoral select committee only political parties and groups which campaigned on election issues in the campaign should have to abide by the advertising black-out rules.
“But things like All Blacks sending tweets, and people discussing the weather on the news – what’s wrong with saying ‘I just voted for John Key, you should too?”‘ Read more »


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I like Gov. Rick Perry. Granted, he is part of the evil right wing establishment, but I can’t have everything I want in a politician it seems. On a scale of 1 to 10 in liking views held by a politician, I give Gov. Perry and 8. I can say this, I would love to have his hutzpah should I ever be having my mugshot taken:
If you cannot recognize political theater when it is presented, then I suggest you rethink how independent of a person you really are. Something is going on in Texas. Of course the Democrats want to turn the Red state into Blue state. They want to find dirt on any and every conservative in the state, and thus the on liberal county, Travis, that houses the corruption unit is investigating corruption of state workers… ie Republicans. Was the DA stirring up crap on people Perry wants to protect and therefore the cops were watching her 24/7 for the perfect opportunity to embarrass her via arrest and ruin her career? That’s all just speculation, but that’s how the big boys play their games. Don’t become an activist seeking public attention or get into political war if you can’t play with the big boys. So, they now have indicted the
ham sandwich Governor of Texas and every news story from now on involving Gov. Rick Perry will have in the first paragraph “indicted” to make sure he is tarred and feathered properly. This is about 2016. Do you really think stupid FOX news watching Republicans or Moderate Democrats would elect a criminally charged Republican politician? Oh, it’s ok if it’s a black democrat like Marion Berry or other liberal hacks, but not for a God and country Republican sort.
What’s Governor Perry have to say?
RickPAC “Setting the Record Straight”

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The holiday season is in full swing on Dec 1. Whether you've been working on your nonprofit's holiday campaign all year - or if you're just getting started - there are marketing strategies you can implement today to make your holiday campaign successful.
GivingTuesdayCA is a National Giving Day
Most people know about Black Friday and Cyber Monday... #GivingTuesday is returning to Canada on November 28, 2017.
It is a new Canadian movement for giving and volunteering, taking place each year after Cyber Monday. The “Opening day of the giving season,” it is a day where charities, companies and individuals join together to share commitments, rally for favourite causes and think about others.
Money is one thing most nonprofits don't have. The good news is there are many free or low-cost tools, apps and resources to help not for profit organizations raise money and increase awareness about their cause.
Social fundraising is a fast, easy and effective strategy for nonprofits to invite donations in small amounts from a large audience. Often called peer-to-peer fundraising, donors can influence their friends to donate when digital fundraising is linked to social media.
For nonprofits fundraising is year-round, and year-end fundraising campaigns can easily get lost in the mix. Here are last-minute fundraising ideas for your not for profit organization, from industry experts.
Do you have what it takes?
Sunday May 3, 2015, 500 firefighters from around the world will climb the stairs of Calgary's BOW Building, Western Canada's tallest building and the highest elevation in the world, in support of Wellspring Calgary.
Our firefighter heroes will be raising funds to support heroes who fight cancer every day at Wellspring. Hosted by the Calgary Firefighter Benevolent Fund, the brave ones who will ascend 775 vertical feet - 1204 steps - of the BOW Building in full firefighter duty gear. Starting at 3400 feet above sea level, this inaugural climb event is the highest elevation stairclimb in the world!
Help us raise funds and awareness for Wellspring Calgary: register here
Early adopters of new trends in nonprofit fundraising have rapidly seen fundraising innovations become mainstream. In 2012 social media was an exciting new opportunity for nonprofits to raise funds and gain supporters; but in less than two years social media has dramatically changed the ways in which nonprofit organizations communicate with and recruit donors and supporters.
Top 3 Fundraising Trends for NonProfits
Crowdfunding is extremely effective by emotionally impacting donors to donate money immediately and directly to a cause because they feel a personal connection. The trust and reach of new media appeals to donors who are searching for more transparency in nonprofit fundraising, and prefer the visibility of crowdfunding over more traditional nonprofit development campaigns.
Crowdfunding is particularly attractive to younger donors who are looking for a more direct connection to the causes and people they’re supporting.
~ Katherina M. Rosqueta, Center for High Impact Philanthropy
The reach, immediacy and popularity of technology continues to positively impact nonprofit fundraising. Technology has increased the success of nonprofit fundraising including:
- media and public response to crowdfunding campaigns via social networks
- viral campaign and crisis messaging via social media
- online donation payment software
4 out of 5 fundraisers feel that better technology leads to fundraising success.
3. Brand Ambassadors
The voices of donors, supporters and volunteers have become increasingly impactful for nonprofits as they voluntarily adopt or accept the role of online brand ambassador to help spread the word about their chosen causes on social media. The challenge for nonprofits is to recruit, train and manage paid and unpaid brand ambassadors to ensure a consistent message:
- please retweet is a successful strategy for an organization's fans or a celebrity on Twitter to spread the word about their cause to their own followers
- when an organization gets Likes on Facebook that Like is shared in the newsfeeds of their Facebook friends
- the speed and reach of a positive or negative message from a trusted source going viral requires a solid plan in place before a fundraising campaign launches
92% of people trust recommendations from friends and family
Nonprofit fundraising has increased opportunities and challenges as the public becomes increasingly involved in promoting fundraising campaigns. New generations of donors and supporters are changing the ways nonprofits interact with the public and the ways the public can demonstrate support for their causes.
For More Information on Trends in NonProfit Fundraising
New York Times: The Effect Crowdfunding has on Venerable Charities Raises Concerns
Online Marketing Hub: How to Train Brand Ambassadors for Your Non-profit
December 2, 2014 is #GivingTuesday
#GivingTuesday is a day when people around the world come together to give back. As the movement continues to grow, countries around the world are starting their own #GivingTuesday movements by creating initiatives to encourage giving in their communities. The international day of giving debuted in 2012 as a response the shopping days Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Since its US debut in 2012, #GivingTuesday has evolved from a simple giving day to a global movement.
In 2013, donors gave 90% more than they did in 2012. Over 2,500 organizations participated in 2012, and participation quadrupled to over 10,000 organizations in 2013, when the international community joined the #GivingTuesday movement.
#GivingTuesday Canada is a new Canadian movement for giving and volunteering, taking place each year after Cyber Monday. The “Opening day of the giving season,” it is a day where charities, companies and individuals join together to share commitments, rally for favourite causes and think about others. ~ #GivingTuesday.ca
Around the globe individuals, students, organizations and business can support #GivingTuesday by:
- making a financial contribution to organizations you support
- partnering with nonprofits and charities
- volunteering time
- spreading the word about #GivingTuesday
- helping a neighbor or your community
Watch this video from #GivingTuesdayCa for ideas on how Canada can give back:
- Twitter: @GivingTues
- Twitter: @GivingTuesdayCA
- Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GivingTuesday
- Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/givingtuesday
- YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/GivingTuesday
- G+: http://plus.google.com/+GivingtuesdayOrg
- Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/givingtuesday
Celebrities who support #GivingTuesday include: Ellen DeGeneres, Heidi Klum, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lopez, Charlize Theron, Josh Gorges, Carey Price, The Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Argos, Justin Trudeau, Calgary’s Naheed Nenshi, Bif Naked and Rick Howland.
Cancervive Foundation of Alberta (Cancervive) is a non-profit organization established to raise awareness and support for Canadian Cancer Survivors and their families.Completely volunteer based, 100% of all donated funds are directed to our partner Wellspring, a network of cancer support centres in Calgary and Edmonton, AB.
Case Study: Tour du Cancervive 2014
Tour du Cancervive is a bike ride to raise funds for Canadian cancer survivors and their families. 2014 is the 9th annual Cancervive; and Tour du Cancervive is the first bike ride entirely in Alberta, from Edmonton to Calgary. A late project launch created an additional challenge to recruit riders and community support, and an unexpected snowstorm challenged the kick-off of the bike ride.
Alchemy Communications created a public relations campaign to attract donors, riders and media for Tour du Cancervive:
- Facebook and Twitter social media campaign to attract supporters and raise awareness
- launched Facebook page
- 4 artwork designs with 10 variations to use for social media, advertisements and media
- press releases to key media contacts and outlets
- Thank You book for each of the Wellspring bikers
The Tour du Cancervive campaign successfully attracted riders, supporters and media attention, despite a snowstorm which impacted media efforts and the ride:
- 27 riders completed a 4-day, 450km ride from Edmonton to Calgary
- Tour du Cancervive raised more than $80,000 for Wellspring Calgary and Edmonton
- +50 volunteers supported the planning and actual bike ride
- generous donors and sponsors supported the Cancervive bikers with funding and ride support
- media coverage in 15 different outlets
Alchemy Communications created this graphic design to raise awareness for Tour du Cancervive:
A few photos from the Tour du Cancervive:
It's the web — where anyone, anywhere, can donate with the click of a mouse or tap of a smartphone screen — that really increases support on a grassroots level.
Technology has dramatically changed the ways in which nonprofit organizations connect with donors to increase support and visibility and for fundraising. The power of digital connections and sharing can turn your nonprofit's followers into your advocates and brand ambassadors: and into your fundraising team. It's easy to be inspired by some impressive results nonprofits have had using social media strategies for fundraising such as retweet to donate, online auction or crowdsourcing campaigns. To run a successful fundraising campaign using social media you have to get the basics right.
3 Tips Before You Use Social Media for Fundraising
1. Establish social media fundraising policies
Social media is easy to use and it's free: but incorrectly used it can have serious implications for your nonprofit organization. Social media guidelines and a written fundraising campaign plan will clearly identify your strategy and goal to all stakeholders, identify responsibilities and timelines, and establish objectives and goals. Just because it's free and easy doesn't mean social media is cheap: an investment in time and effort is required to make your social media fundraising campaign a success.
2. Designate a fundraising social media project lead
Every staff member, board member and volunteer should not be allowed to post social media on behalf of your organization. Encourage your team and volunteers to share your posts: but one or two team members knowledgeable about both your organization and how social media works should be designated to plan and execute your fundraising social media strategy. Social media isn't difficult, but it is strategic: just because someone is on social media doesn't qualify them to manage a social media campaign. You don't want your campaign remembered as a #FAIL.
3. Be realistic
For your first fundraising campaign using social media set realistic fundraising goals, and a campaign strategy that is achievable. Your campaign does not need to be on every social media channel, and your first campaign doesn't have to set new fundraising records! Start with manageable goals and make your fundraising campaign a #SUCCESS.
Social media and fundraising are a natural fit. Social media is a powerful tool that has no limits: but also no boundaries. Your nonprofit organization controls what message they send out, but the internet doesn't limit who can receive your message or how they will perceive it. By following some basic social media guidelines and strategies your fundraising campaign can be a big success and help further your cause.
For More Information on Social Media for Fundraising
Socialbrite: 24 tools for fundraising with social media
Search Engine Journal: How to Use Social Media to Promote a Charity or Fundraising Event
care2frogloop: Infographic: Cracking the Crowdfunding Code for Your Nonprofit


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I was working at a craft show this weekend, the kind of show with a central checkout. Not only do these allow us vendors a break and save us from having to be on location the entire run of the show, they allow us to interact with far more customers than we would ordinarily see in an individual booth.
Anyway, I was working the register and a tall, elegant woman with gorgeous white hair, cut very stylishly, used a credit card. I always read the name on the card, and this one was rather unusual so rather than butcher it I asked her how to pronounce it. She looked a little peeved, but said, “Moh-rahg” – rolling the r in the most delicious way. Open a, like “bog”.
“That’s beautiful!” I exclaimed, for I truly thought so.
“It’s perfectly dreadful. A horrid name. My mother must have been drunk,” she replied.
I didn’t know how to respond, but neither did I know what it must have been like to grow up with a name like Morag. Admittedly, her pronunciation did wonders for the name, but even so it sounds faintly Renaissance. Or Greek mythology. On paper it lends itself to all kinds of awful rhymes and taunts.


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Cosplayer TATTO > Costume of Shauntal/Shikimi from Pokemon
About this Costume
- Construction Details:
- Her dress is kind of funky and I couldn't tell if they were pleats or just petal-like panels, so I kind of did a combination! Dress and neck poof were made from this almost-velvety cotton spandex stuff, the red gem is painted sculpey, and the shoes/book/pen were also painted~ her glasses are cut plastic/plexiglass cirlces attached to frames that I bought. the Drifblim plush was also made by me!
Next time I wear Shauntal I'll be sure to add a small petticoat or something to poof out the skirt since I lack her cute hips :<
- Personal Thoughts:
- "N struggled to put on deodorant, and Black giggled, 'Just take off your shirt, I'll rub it on for you~~'" That's part of a novel I wrote.

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Stanford Women’s Soccer Team Honors Former Captain Katie Meyer, Raising Mental Health Awareness
STANFORD, Calif. (KGO) — Friday marked a heartfelt and important night for the Stanford soccer community, which still mourns the loss of the women’s team goalie, Katie Meyer, to suicide in February.
A sold-out crowd swarmed Cagan Field for an evening of mental health awareness as the Stanford women’s soccer team took on UCLA.
“It’s been tough, for sure. We miss her every day, but we’re playing this season and we’re still playing for her,” said Andrea Kitahata, a sophomore with the team.
Kitahata wearing a jersey with Katie’s No. 19 – in her memory – butterfly stickers were distributed and stuck on everything from t-shirts to water bottles, signifying mental health awareness.
RELATED: Doctors say knowing the signs, starting conversations could help those with mental health issues
“We just want to raise awareness about mental health and make sure we get rid of the stigma and everyone knows they’re being supported mentally and physically as athletes,” Kitahata said.
Tara Campbell: “Why do you think it’s important that we talk about mental health?”
Shelby Everhart plays football for the Mill Valle team: “Because it’s good that they understand that others may be going through the same thing.”
Everhart says Katie’s death – is still being felt.
“I felt really sad that anyone could feel this and that even when they were on the Stanford football team – team captain and all that,” Everhart said.
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And for parents of next-gen players, like Wendy Verret, it’s a night full of meaning.
“I think it’s really special that they can be part of this understanding of what it means to be able to reach out and say ‘hey, I need help’ and be educated on awareness about mental health,” Verret said.
“These girls are all like our sisters and we were all very close to Katie – and that’s mental health awareness – there’s nowhere else we’d be,” said Arsenal player Carlo Agostinelli. men’s team, noting that this season is dedicated to Katie.
“We think of her every day and we just want to make her proud and make sure she’s looking down on her,” Agostinelli said.
“Katie was amazing,” Kitahata said. “I miss her so much and we always play for her and she is always in my heart.”
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Thompson, a 65-year-old retiree from Christiansburg, lamented how Rubio was morphing into Trump as she waited to get into the Roanoke College gymnasium in Salem.
“I liked him better when he wasn’t so …”
“Slanderous,” her husband, Ken, finished.
“I guess you have to play the game,” Minnie responded with a sigh.
Rubio is turning up the heat as he tries to block Trump from sweeping the 12 states that will vote on Super Tuesday.
Virginia is one of his best chances for a surprise victory. Rubio supporters interviewed at Roanoke College said he was long overdue to ramp up the negativity.
“Trump probably walks around thinking no one is going to take him down,” said Amanda Billips, an 18-year-old Roanoke freshman. “But now someone is finally putting him in his place."
“Who doesn’t want a good fight?” added her sophomore friend Becca Seay.
Addressing nearly 2,500 people in a hot and packed gymnasium, Rubio tore into Trump within minutes of taking the stage.
"You cannot have a policy debate with someone with no policies," Rubio said to loud applause. "We cannot turn over the conservative movement to a con artist."
He turned insults lobbed by Trump against the billionaire. He said the only reason Trump isn't as sweaty as him is because of pores clogged with spray tan. He said his rival, who has taken to calling him "Little Rubio," has tiny hands, referencing a common dig at Trump's fingers.
"You know what they say about men with small hands," Rubio said, pausing to let the audience laugh. "You can't trust 'em."
Some Rubio supporters feared his change in tone came too late to stop Trump's momentum.
“It would have been better to start sooner when you see the type of lead he had in the polls. You need to combat it,” said William Robinson, an insurance salesman who drove 100 miles from the small town of Marion to see Rubio with his wife and daughter, a freshman at Roanoke College.
Brenda Johnson, a 65-year-old longtime party activist, was among those pleading for civility.
"I don't want him to go overboard on that because it's just not presidential," said Johnson, accompanied by her husband, whom she met at a College Republicans victory party for Richard Nixon in 1968. "But if he wants to joke about his makeup and tan, ehhh, it's okay."
Thompson, the grandmother worried about Rubio's recent bout of negativity, was too euphoric after the rally and getting her cellphone signed to complain about the digs against Trump. She chuckled at the crack about Trump's hands.


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Protecting Probiotics Through The Stomach
Transporting probiotics safely through the stomach and into the intestines is a complex process. This live bacteria isn’t necessarily designed to survive in acidic (low pH) environments, so the gastric acid in our stomach is a big obstacle probiotics will face on their journey to the intestines.
Gastric acids play an essential role in digestion, specifically by breaking-down food and destroying harmful pathogens. Though the low pH environment of the stomach will deteriorate living probiotics before they can offer any benefit to the body.
This begs the question - how can we make probiotics survive in stomach acid?
As this acidity varies based on food exposure and the time of day, having a strict routine to ensure you consume probiotics at the ideal moment is not always viable. By coupling probiotics with a micro-shield encapsulation that provides feed and resists low pH levels, live beneficial bacteria stands a better chance of survival.
What Does pH Mean?
We use this term a lot. Essentially, pH refers to the ‘potential of hydrogen' and is a measurement used to identify the acidity or alkalinity of a specific environment. On this scale, ph 7 indicates a neutral reading, whereas lower recordings indicate acidic solutions and recordings above indicate alkaline solutions.
The Four Phases Of Digestion
Before discussing the pH levels within the stomach and the impact it can have on probiotics, it's important to understand the digestive process. This process can be broken down into 4 core phases, which have been detailed below.
1. Basal State
In this baseline state, there’s a minor basal secretion of gastric acid between meals.
2. Cephalic Phase
When humans smell, see, taste, or even think about food, gastric acid secretion is initiated. The more that food is desired, the more secretion will occur. This accounts for up to 20% of gastric secretion when eating.
3. Gastric Phase
In the gastric phase, the ingested foods and partly digested portions trigger gastric activity. This activity is activated by stretching the stomach and stimulating receptors to increase gastric acid production. About 50 - 60% of total gastric acid secretion occurs in this phase.
4. Intestinal Phase
Once the semi-digested food (chyme) reaches the duodenum (the end of the stomach), gastric acid secretion begins to slow down. This triggers the release of hormones and nervous reflexes to moderate gastric activity. Only 5-10% of gastric secretion occurs in the Intestinal Phase.
How Does Acidity Change In The Stomach?
Acidic by nature, the stomach has a varying pH typically between 1.5 to 3.5. This acidity is responsible for partial preliminary digestion and destroying any potentially pathogenic microorganisms entering the body.
The stomach’s acidity is controlled by the acid-producing cells in the stomach, which are triggered in response to the presence of food and drink. This means that stomach pH can fluctuate, depending on what it is exposed to.
For example, when the body is in a fasted state and it’s not exposed to food, pH levels remain around an average of 1.3 (not taking into account time of day). However, when food is ingested, the pH of the stomach rises, as high as 5.5 in some instances. The stomach then responds by releasing gastric acids which once again lowers the pH.
Effect Of Food And Liquid Type On Stomach pH
There's not one-size-fits-all approach to understanding the exact pH nature inside an active stomach. For example, studies show that high protein meals increase pH to a higher level than high carb meals. In turn, gastric pH takes a longer time to reach baseline when there is a high proportion of protein within the food consumed.
Up to 90% of liquids typically empty out of the stomach within the first 60 minutes. A clear exception to this however is milk, where only 77% of liquids are emptied within the first 60 minutes.
How Can Probiotics Survive In Stomach Acid?
Probiotics can hold great potential for our health and wellbeing. Strains such as Lactobacillus Casei and Bifidobacterium can help support the human immune system, bowel function and overall gut health. That being said, these strains are only as good as the living CFU count reaching the gut.
To reap the benefits of probiotics, they must first survive through the stomach and into the gut. Probiotics flourish in a setting with a neutral pH of 6 to 8, which is why they thrive in the intestines. However, it is also this reason why probiotics can deteriorate in the stomach’s low pH environment, overall reducing efficacy in the gut.
So, how do probiotics survive in stomach acid? Traditionally, there’s a ‘best time of day’ to take probiotics - though these rigid timeframes can be inconvenient and doesn't guarantee any passage through the stomach. Probiotics with micro-shield technology can help to cement success with probiotics and provide users with more flexibility when it comes to daily supplementation.
PERKii Micro-Shield Technology
Studies conclude 99% of living, non micro-shield probiotics are destroyed within 30 minutes of exposure to a pH 2 - leaving very few to physically reach the intestines intact.
PERKii Targeted Release Probiotics are different. The patented Micro-Shield Technology provides both feed for sustaining the life of the probiotic inside and protection against acidic pH environments. In the same simulated stomach trials, PERKii probiotics survived up to 10,000 times greater, allowing more probiotics to survive the journey through to the gut. This also offers greater flexibility of probiotic consumption, allowing you to consume your daily probiotic supplement throughout the day.
*The information in this article is opinion only, based on readily available information and studies. It is not intended to be a reflection of the specific benefits of consuming PERKii products. Before adjusting your diet, speak with your healthcare professional.

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Wine is a popular liquor generally produced from fermented grapes. Yeasts consume the sugar from the grapes and also transform it right into alcohol, co2 as well as water. Various types of yeast and also different pressures of yeasts are vital factors in creating various designs of wine from around the world. Some red wines are extremely sweet, dry and sweet.
Many years earlier, winemakers utilized a straightforward method to determine the taste of white wine: adding water to the a glass of wine and then evaluating it against a details referral wine sample. This technique proved hard because not all glass of wines share the exact same taste. After several years of study and also additional testing, wine makers began making use of sensory analysis in their white wine making process. This sort of test entailed the taster consuming alcohol the red wine and then score how acid, clean, bitter or fruity the white wine tasted based upon its overall fragrance, look, taste and also odor. Lots of people really feel that this approach is subjective, however white wine professionals globally concur that this technique provides an excellent procedure of just how a white wine will certainly taste when it is consumed. brand
Numerous white wines, called whites, have much less acid than merlots. As a matter of fact, the level of acidity level of most whites is close to that of butter. White wines usually have greater levels of alcohol material since they are created with various expanding conditions and have various yeasts. Most of white wines were made with naturally expanded grapes, which have high level of acidity and also high grape quantity. They are additionally matured in oak barrels, which have high level of acidity due to the fact that they provide the storage space temperature for the white wine.
Merlot, which is the leading type of wine, has higher levels of alcohol. As a result of this, some individuals believe that red wine has more calories. In fact, calories are not a factor in the taste of either gewurztraminer or red wine. In fact, the quantity of calories present in an alcohol drink is negligible contrasted to other liquids like water and also ice. So consuming a glass of wine is actually a healthy way to take pleasure in a revitalizing beverage. Merlot might include extra alcohol because of the fermentation procedure, however it includes less calories than a similar-sized glass of white wine.
Although red and gewurztraminer have basically the same quantity of calories, each kind of alcohol does have particular benefits as well as drawbacks. White wine is a better different for merlot enthusiasts because white wine does not have as many calories per serving. While merlot might not be a great alternative for diabetics or people that have hypertension, it is beneficial to those individuals who have actually reduced calorie diets. Despite the fact that the alcoholic content of a glass of wine amounts twenty ounces of water, the majority of people can consume a glass without any unfavorable impact. wine box holder
In general, both kinds of alcoholic beverages provide health and wellness advantages, although there may be some benefits to one type of beverage over the other. Red wine is a scrumptious drink to consume alcohol, but it is not the only one that supply health benefits. Lots of people enjoy red wine for its pleasurable preference. While many people appreciate wine, they ought to likewise know how much alcohol material is contained in the bottle and also how much calories are contained in it. This information will assist you make the most effective choice possible.
A glass of wine is an alcoholic beverage normally created by fermenting grapes with the help of a special germs called yeast. The yeast takes in the sugars in the grapes and also turns it into alcohol, carbon dioxide as well as power. Various selections of yeasts and grapes are important factors in creating different designs of a glass of wine. The procedure might be hand-operated or automated, yet the outcome is still the exact same: grape sugars are converted into alcohol, carbon dioxide as well as water. There are three types of red wine manufacturing.
First is the Chardonnay, which is a red wine grape types native to France. It is well-known for its crisp, fresh taste, which is why many individuals like to drink it when it is young. Nevertheless, as the grape develops and it is become white wine, a few of the crisp characteristics are shed. Winemakers include specific ingredients to improve the flavor of this a glass of wine.
Pinot noir is the gewurztraminer grape range grown in Southern France as well as Italy. It is just one of the most typically made use of grapes in the whole winemaking procedure, due to the fact that it grows conveniently and produces really wonderful white wines. A few of the most effective Pinot noir comes from Wine red, where the environment as well as dirt are excellent for expanding the grapes in wealth.
Cabernet Sauvignon is often referred to as one of the most preferred a glass of wine grape in the world. This medium-sized, black grape selection is commonly expanded in South America and also Australia. As a single varietal, Cabernet is prone to being full-bodied, with high acidity levels. Some wine makers add acid blockers to white wine prior to fermentation to prevent the development of too much acid during the growth procedure.
Malbec is thought about the “crowned winner” of the red wine world. Malbec is actually a range of pinot noir, yet Pinot noir grapes often tend to be extra tart than men. Malbec is one of the most commonly used red wine made from Red wine grapes in the entire globe. They do, nonetheless, have a lower level of acidity than pinot noir grapes, giving them a reduced chance of being overly sharp. Malbec is a great red wine made from Red wine grapes. It is also utilized to make sparkling wines! basketbag
Ultimately, we come to our last, as well as perhaps essential factor. A glass of wine tannins supply the “arkent” or “kick” in numerous merlots. The longer the grapes are kept as well as ferment, the a lot more tannins are launched. White wines with higher tannin material will constantly have an extra fragile flavor – they are not fit to blending with many strong red wines, for example.


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Hong Kong SAR Government signed Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with Norway and other five Nordic countries
On 22 August 2014, the Special Representative for Hong Kong Economic and Trade Affairs to the European Union, Ms. Linda Lai, signed agreements in Paris on behalf of the HKSAR Government with Ms. Inga M.W. Nyhamar, Chargé d'affaires a.i. of Norway to France and other five Nordic jurisdictions (namely, Denmark, the Faroes, Greenland, Iceland and Sweden) respectively, for exchange of information relating to taxes.
For details, see the Press Release by ISD.