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The wall space over the sofa in our den/office has been empty for a while now…
Here are some ideas I came up with in Paint:
Option 1: Mirror (which we have and I just painted white) – will reflect the window
Option 2: Four framed photos
Option 3: Shelf (which we have from Ikea) with kniknaks and framed wedding pic
I'm afraid the 3rd option might look too cluttered since we already have that ladder shelf on one side of the couch. Comments or any other ideas you have? We'd love to hear 'em!

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Yeah they ain't gonna be nerfing everyone in sight or who people ask for.
Season 1 hero's have costumes now that's there added bonus.
Yeah they ain't gonna be nerfing everyone in sight or who people ask for.
This makes no sense?
We are free to share ideas)) And costumes is behind paywall, we need something to make FTP competitive (with more effort than P2W, but still)
If costumes were not behind paywall (at least we can change 5* hero to his costume, losing a hero in the process), it will be way better)))
Yeah ideas is cool but you want to add buffs to heros on s1 this why we have costumes.
Well costume keys are available from complete the quest no idea how many you get from clearing it.
But I got 10 keys from the last event from chests so 2 pulls.
Check the odds of pulling Vivica, please.
2-3 pulls per month, in average you will have Vivica after 200 pulls, so, 100 months. It is way too long.
I can get 2 heroes per day from TC20, and with same probability I will got Vivica. It is 60! pulls per month.
Still a chance not saying its great but there is that chance this what game is about luck.
If you don't realise that then that's your problem.
Think some dude spent like a grand to get finley n didn't ended up quitting, it's floating on here somewhere.
You kinda knoe what your signing up for
Chance is unrealistic)) I think we need more chances to use costumes. At least 30 pulls per month.
It won't change its about luck I pulled Athena areil jabberwok zeline poseidon from one pull. Got 2 hof due to a 10 pull and a guin along the way. Took me 10 months to get a wilbur luck.
Luck is OK, but it should not be so luck-bound.
I know Gacha. But TC20 is not Gacha, and for costumes (which are balance changes) there should also be a non-Gacha way.
Tc20 gives you a chance at 5 4 3 hero's that is best your gonna get.
Coins for valla or keys from chests
Coins from atlantis if you haven't cleared or from valla can get pulls.
They still give a option for f2p not great but a option
I think there should be more options for F2P (I am C2P, but even with 10-30 pulls in month I still do not have many heroes).
@rilian I went back in a old topic to find this post with more ideas:
People just sit down and get shafted by the game and support their decisions to shaft everyone. I like the idea to make S1 5 stars more useful. Even just reshaping their special can greatly help the games appeal. Yes they already released costume paywall but why can't the costumes be stupid good like some are and the reg hero also be more usable and competitive. Is the game going to shaft us either way? Of course. At least speak up and let them know you hate being shafted. I would have rather tried and tell them things sucks. It's all opinion though and that's mine. I think if they are "rebalancing" hero's S1 definitely needs it too. I like how they are nerfing the HOTM that won't get them as much money as people instead having to keep trying for BK, Guin and so on. "Telluria is too good and needs to be nerfed". Well let me tell you "Season 1 hero's suck and need to be buffed".
I think a lot of people consider costumes to be the buff vanilla heroes needed. But costumes are not vanilla heroes. They're barely related.
If I drew a costume Azlar, it does not make my base Azlar more valuable (except as a head start in experience). The costume comes with a copy of the original already, so the base Azlar I already drew will still feel worthless, yes? And drawing a vanilla Azlar alone does not give me any progress to having the costume. My base Azlar would only be a glorified trainer hero for my costume, right?
I think Azlar's costume should be considered an entirely separate hero from the original one, with no relation. It's not a buff for Azlar; it's an entirely separate hero and does nothing to make vanilla Azlar more useful. That's my standpoint. Costumes don't fix vanillas in even the slightest degree; it's simply another summon portal.
Have I missed something?
Yes. Because if you pulled one Azlar, you can make all your Azlars costumed. So, pull one costume, then just use TC for get more heroes.
So, costumes is a buff and a hero too.
You're missing the fact that maxing the costume also increases the vanilla version's stats (+5% atk/def, +10% hp and a whopping 5% mana gen).
For a lot of cases, it pushes the vanilla hero from mediocre to good and from good to great.
Yeah, we can consider costumes as cheap to level premium mana troop's extenders under this scenario.
Too much. Average mana is a non-starter.
Leo is OK. Giving him like 400% damage seems fair.
Seems OK.
I think this undermines riposte a bit too much, which has already taken a beating.
I'd make her fast but the costume would be OP then.
Reasonable, but she doesn't really need balance.
I think she's OK as is, maybe an attack boost.
I'd just up his attack a bit.
I like this one, would make him a viable green tank for C2P without Telluria.
Too much. Elena is OK as is.
Same, Azlar is fine.
Marjana is good as is.
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Rockets from Lebanon hit Israel -emergency services
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Three rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel on Wednesday, causing no casualties, emergency services said, in the second such attack since Israeli forces launched their Gaza offensive, according to Reuters.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Israel responded with artillery fire into south Lebanon, witnesses said.
"Three rockets fired into Israel landed outside the city of Kiryat Shmona," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
A fire brigade spokesman in northern Israel said the rockets landed in fields and no one was hurt.
Security sources in Lebanon said five rockets were fired but two fell short of the Israeli border.
Last Thursday, three rockets that Israeli officials said were launched by Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip slammed into northern Israel, wounding two people.
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FAFCE welcomes today's rejection by the European Parliament of a proposal for a report on surrogacy, which could legitimise this practice.
In fact, the Legal Affairs Committee had demanded authorisation to start a report about this issue, from a point of view that could threaten human dignity, accepting a practice that is illegal in most EU Member States.
Earlier, in October 2016, another European institution, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, rejected a similar resolution, presented by the Belgian senator Petra De Sutter. Also, last month, the European Court of Human Rights confirmed that states have the right not to recognise parental links in the absence of biological ties, in the context of surrogacy contracts (Paradiso Campanelli vs. Italy).
On its turn, the European Parliament expressed clearly its position on this topic on its resolution about the Annual Report on human rights and democracy in the world 2014 and the European Union's policy on the matter where it "considers that the practice of gestational surrogacy which involves reproductive exploitation and use of the human body for financial or other gain, in particular in the case of vulnerable women in developing countries, shall be prohibited and treated as a matter of urgency in human rights instruments".
Today's decision of the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament is coherent with the opinion of other European institutions. In the framework of the international alliance to abolish surrogacy, FAFCE continues working so that this is the object of an international agreement aiming at fighting human trafficking by banning this practice.


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Choosing a painting online for your home or workplace is a challenging and at the same time an exciting
job. There are many platforms online where you can buy affordable paintings online. It is always better
to consider few factors other than costs involved while buying a new painting. Let's discuss.
Discover your choice
Along with taking recommendations from artists, friends, and family, you should also discover your own
taste. You must be well aware of the types of art available online and one that attracts and connects
you. You should always find a theme that attracts your attention and something that blows your mind
in the first look. You can browse through a wide variety of amazing paintings online and easily pick the
one that matches your interest.
Make sure it fits right in the place
The second most important thing one should take in mind is for what purpose and place you are buying
the paintings. Sometimes we liked some pieces but that doesn't fit right in our house. The size and
layout of the painting should be appropriate for your location. So make sure the painting you are
purchasing is according to the size of the place.
Consider your budget
Budget is always an essential factor. You should pre-decide your budget so that you can look for the
paintings within that. Some additional costs of packaging, delivery, the installation also need to consider.
Eikowa– best website to buy paintings online is a budget-friendly website where you can buy a variety of
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Hi all,
I have just uploaded V4.1.16 to www.sheetcam.com. This version has the following changes:
Fixed: Cut estimate window layout wrong when using a display setting of 120DPI
Changed: Job filename defaults to first drawing loaded if it is currently 'untitled'
Fixed: In tool setup dialog if you change from tap to mill, ramp angle is displayed as 'underfeed'
Changed: The 100 tool limit is now removed. You can now have a virtually unlimited number of tools.
Changed: Tool and process lists now update as you drag the scroll bar
Changed: Plasma loop size slider now allows bigger loops
Note that removing the tool limit involved a lot of changes to SheetCam. If you spot any problems then please let me know.
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RR303 - Dynamic tensile properties of thin sheet materials
The European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS) has organised a cross European test programme involving ten laboratories to assess test techniques for dynamic tensile testing. The results of this work will be used to develop a European standard for dynamic tensile testing and data analysis. The Health and Safety Laboratory has been invited to contribute to this project. The production of dynamic properties of materials is particular important in the modelling of railway vehicles to improve their crashworthiness. Due to the implications to health and safety, the work was sponsored by Railway Inspectorate Technical Division and funded by the Health and Safety Executive. This report outlines the experimental work carried out to determine the dynamic tensile properties of six materials. Five of the materials were supplied by ESIS and the other was sourced from an extruded beam taken from a carriage involved in the Ladbroke Grove incident. Tests were carried out at pseudo static, 40 and 400 strain rates giving a reasonable spread of data. To enable the capture of data at these strain rates a high-speed data logger was used along with a linescan camera to measure specimen elongation. Test specimens were manufactured to a design developed by HSL, along with the test apparatus and technique used. This report and the work it describes were funded by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Its contents, including any opinions and/or conclusions expressed, are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect HSE policy.
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Channel Middle East's reader's best of awards open for online voting now
Online voting for the Readers' 'Best' Awards categories has opened...giving readers of Channel Middle East an opportunity to have their say on which vendor and distribution programmes have positively influenced the reseller community in the past year.
There are two reader-voted categories in the Channel Middle East Awards - Best Vendor Channel Programme of the Yearand Best Growth Initiative by a Distributor- and the winner of each will be announced at a gala dinner and awards ceremony on Wednesday 26th March.
Both categories are fiercely contested, with eight finalists in the Vendor Channel Programme segment and five finalists in the Distribution Initiative segment.
In alphabetical order, AMD, Cisco, EMC, HP, Intel, Motorola, Netgear and US Robotics are all staking their claim for the vendor prize, while Almasa, Al Yousuf, Aptec, Comstor and Online Distribution are challenging for the distribution equivalent.
The Readers' 'Best' Awards are extremely prestigious categories to win because they are decided solely by the readers of Channel Middle East - IT traders, resellers, VARs, solution providers, systems integrators and retailers. These companies understand what programmes and initiatives really make a difference to the way they work.
To vote in the Readers' 'Best' categories, click on the link below, read the summary of each finalist and then select the vendor programme and distribution initiative that you believe has most benefited the channel community.
Voting will close at 18.00 on Sunday 9th March. Please note that readers can only vote once, while any attempts by finalists to vote for themselves will not be counted.


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The former Celebrity Big Brother star, 26, showcased her ample assets and peachy derriere while posing in her bathroom. Chloe was also pictured in a series of raunchy photos posing in two different lace lingerie.
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|Posted by mja--inc--investigations on March 30, 2015 at 1:15 AM
Mja Inc Investigations
Miss Schulze became our 45th case in November 2002..
She hasnt been found..
Lynne Kathryn Schulze : 18 year old white female :
Went Missing on 12-10-1971 from Middlebury Vermont located in Addison County..
1:00 PM Miss Schulze did not take her final exam & wasnt in her Dorm Room..
12:30PM Miss Schulze was seen by the health food store...
2:15 PM Lynne is seen standing on Court Street by another fellow college student...
She was across from the bus station and the health food store..
This is the last time she is ever seen...
There is a suspect in the case..Middlebury police :
Durst linked to missing woman..
Investigators in Middlebury working a missing-student case from 1971 received a tip in 2012 that millionaire real estate heir Robert Durst, the suspect in several killings, had lived in town at the time...
Robert Durst The Real Estate Millionaire in 1971 owned & operated The All Good Things Health-Food Store in Middlebury during the early 1970s, police said..
Where Miss Schulze last seen standing outside across from the bus station & the health food store..
Now Mja has a direction to follow for Search Area's..
Photo's of the Case is in our Photo Gallary under : Mja Inc Investigations Case Photo's..
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Chunky Beef Chili
This chili is very good. Everyone liked this chili!
This is my version from Taste of Home's "Home-Style Cooking" Volume 4, 2002 issue.
1/2 c. all-purpose flour 1 1/2 tsp. crushed, dried thyme
1 1/2 lbs. beef stew meat 1 lb. ground beef
1 (14 1/2 oz) beef broth with no MSG 1 large onion, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped 1 (4 oz) chopped green chilies
1 (16 oz) can crushed tomatoes 1 can pinto beans
1 can pinto beans with jalapeno peppers 1 can light red kidney beans
1 can tomato paste 2 Tbsp. ground cumin
1 tsp. dried oregano 1/2 tsp. black pepper
(3 to 4 drops of hot pepper sauce if desired)
In a plastic bag, combine flour and thyme; add beef cubes and shake to coat. In a 4 qt. kettle or Dutch oven, brown ground beef and the beef cubes; drain. Add all of the remaining ingredients. Cover and simmer for 5 hours or place in 250 degrees F oven for 5 hours.


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Mixer developed the Industrial Design, created the unique toner refilling system and engineered production components of this revolutionary printer. Numerous internationally patent-able innovations were also created from our design explorations .
The thing that was the most impactful thing for me when I started out in industrial design was the Memphis design movement. This was a group of Italian architects who formed a design collective and started to create objects. I didn't know it at the time, but I've since learned that the name was inspired by a Bob Dylan song. When I was growing up, I loved making art. I really loved doing sculpture. But by the time I got to my junior year in high school, I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, but I knew I didn't want to suffer for my art.
The thing that eventually inspired me to get into industrial design was the space shuttle. I keep this toy version on my desk.
I grew up in the 80s and I saw space shuttles everywhere, but I didn't know what it was about them that made me think they were cool. I mean, yes, they went into space, but they also looked good. It was only years later that I understood that I was attracted to it because it looked the way it did because it had to.
Check out this article we prepared for a manufacturer of gasoline pumps to explore the place in the market for traditional fuels in the autonomus vehicle market.
I was always intrigued with portable music players. I was 8 years old or so when the first Sony Walkman came out. I followed them from then on. I always had to have the latest Walkman.


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Peter Molyneux is upgrading the star power of his next �Fable.�
The creative director of Microsoft Game Studios Europe has tapped Simon Pegg, Michael Fassbender, John Cleese and other actors to lend their accents to �Fable III,� the third chapter of Lionhead Studios� role-playing saga set in the fictional realm of Albion. Pegg, who played Scotty in �Star Trek,� will voice an attention-seeking soldier named Benn Finn.
�These people have really never come together before in any medium,� Molyneux said. �For a lot of them, this is their first computer game they�ve ever done. Heading the cast is John Cleese, one of the founding fathers of �Monty Python.� He�s made fantastic films like �Life of Brian� and the TV series �Fawlty Towers.� He�s just a brilliant and incredible actor.�
Cleese plays Jasper, a persnickety butler who guides the player along their journey to dethrone a tyrannical ruler named Logan, voiced by �Inglourious Basterds� actor Fassbender. Other voices will include Bernard Hill as the player�s faithful mentor, Nicholas Hoult as a potential love interest and Naomie Harris as the leader of a rebel movement.
Zoe Wanamaker and Stephen Fry will also reprise their �Fable II� roles.


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Kids' Health Matters CIC was founded in 2008 by Katie Barnes along with Diane Scott as a way to bring together the innovative professionals working in new roles and new ways to deliver care for children. These, of course, were the first Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioners or as we like to call them 'APNPs'. Over the years we have supported APNPs as they develop their role and their skills within the UK National Health Service.
APNPs still hold a special place in our heart, but the KHM family and mission has certainly grown. We are now leading the education and training for advanced clinical practice in paediatrics, neonates, and midwifery, collaborating in the development of UK child health policy and contributing to service redesign and improved models of children's health care across the UK. Meet our incredible team leading each of these professions development here.
We are proud to be a community interest company (CIC). A CIC is a special type of non-profit company which exists to benefit the community rather than private shareholders. Every day we strive to better the advanced practice community in order to make the world a healthier place for our children.
it's infectious and also helps soften the bumps and bruises of innovation and challenge
while you may not be there (yet), chances are you are closer than you were yesterday
'a person is a person, no matter how small' (Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who)
the smallest act of kindness is more valuable than the grandest of intentions; apply liberally and often
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- Luigi Porto
STUDIO NAUFRAGO featured in Jasna Popovic's "Around the Piano World"
My short piano piece Studio Naufrago was just chosen by Serbian pianist Jasna Popovic as a representative of Italy for her ambitious project called Around the Piano World , a collection of piano pieces written by living composers - one for every country on the planet - that she is developing with the help of the NY iconic pianist's producer Joe Patrych. Here we are at Joe's studio in Bronx.
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Completed the multiple layers of white paint on BB Senshi Exia did in Part 4. ^^ All the parts involved are panel-lined as well.
The hand units and GN Blades' mount racks.
Beam saber behind the shoulder armors.
The tiny "drain" beneath the beam sabers are painted with a little bit of gray.
The shield part of GN Sword and GN Shield.
GN Long and Short Blades completed, with the gray portion of the body painted as well.
The white chest ring for the GN Drive.
The blue portion of the GN Sword/Rifle is painted in blue, which didn't turn out as well as I hoped for. ^^;
Most of the parts are done now actually, but there are of course several other colors missing, which will be done in the next review. ^^


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Monitoring of heparins in antithrombin-deficient patients
Introduction: Heparins exert their anticoagulant effect through activation of antithrombin. Whether antithrombin deficiency leads to clinically relevantly reduced anti-Xa activity of heparins is unknown. We investigated the relation between antithrombin deficiency and anti-Xa activity measurements of plasma samples spiked with unfractionated heparin (UFH) or low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH).
Materials and methods: Plasma samples from 34 antithrombin-deficient subjects and 17 family controls were spiked with UFH and LMWH (nadroparin) aimed to correspond with an anti-Xa activity of 0.8 IU/mL. Antithrombin, β-antithrombin and anti-Xa activities were measured.
Results: Mean anti-Xa activity with LWMH was 0.55 IU/mL (0.30–0.74) (recovery 69%, 38–93%) in antithrombin-deficient subjects and 0.82 (0.71–0.89) IU/mL in controls (recovery 103%, 89–111%). Expected anti-Xa measurements after LMWH spiking were found in 17/17 non-deficient subjects and in 8/34 antithrombin-deficient subjects. Anti-Xa measurements in the expected range (0.6–1.0 IU/mL) after UFH spiking were found in17/17 non-deficient subjects and in 1/22 antithrombin-deficient subjects. Antithrombin activity correlated with anti-Xa activity of UFH (R= 0.77) and LMWH (R= 0.66). Mixing studies of pooled normal plasma and antithrombin-deficient plasma showed that anti-Xa recovery was linearly reduced with antithrombin activity de-creasing below 100%.
Conclusions: Reduced antithrombin activity causes significantly reduced anti-Xa levels. Standard LWMH- or UFH-doses are likely to lead to under treatment in antithrombin-deficient individuals.
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|Thrombosis Research: vascular obstruction, hemorrhage and hemostasis
Croles, F.N, Lukens, M.V, Mulder, R., de Maat, M.P.M, Mulder, A.B, & Meijer, K. (2019). Monitoring of heparins in antithrombin-deficient patients. Thrombosis Research: vascular obstruction, hemorrhage and hemostasis, 175, 8–12. doi:10.1016/j.thromres.2019.01.007


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For more information on STS see STS Overview and Prep.
This next trio of Meso 3 workouts is very similar to the first Meso 3 trio. Here are the differences: for the upper body workouts you are lifting 85% of your 1RM and each set consists of 7 reps (rather than 8); for Plyo Legs, you have some new exercises but the structure is the same and you are still lifting 70% of your 1RM. I can see why Cathe recommends doing a 5.5 month rotation–Meso 3 workouts are so similar it could get boring if you did a 6.5 month rotation. You will also see that the commentary on these reviews will get shorter. Not much new to add when I am basically doing the same workouts every week, just lifting heavier. I am getting great results, but I will save that for the final review post in which I do a summary and wrap up of the entire program.
Disk 28 Chest & Back 65 minutes; 4 minute warm up, 60 minutes training time and 1 minute stretch. I really felt this one in my back, which is odd, because last week at 80% of my 1RM I was so sore through my chest. This time it feels like my back will be suffering with severe DOMS! As mentioned above, this workout is identical to Disk 25, with the exceptions that you are lifting 85% of your 1RM and only lifting 7 reps rather than 8.
Equipment needed: barbell, dumbbells, bench or step with 5 risers
Flat Bench Press (barbell) (warm up set–so lighter weight)
Flat Bench Press (barbell) (warm up set–so lighter weight)
1st Set (repeated 4 times)
Flat Bench Press (barbell)
Barbell Rows
2nd Set (repeated 4 times)
Chest Flys (Flat Bench) (dumbbell)
One Arm Row (dumbbell)
3rd Set (repeated 4 times)
Incline Bench Press (barbell)
Deadlifts (barbell)
4th Set (repeated 4 times)
One Arm Horizontal Row (dumbbell)
Incline Chest Flys (dumbbell)
Disk 29 Plyo Legs 50 minutes; 8 minute warm up, 40 minute training time and 2 minute cool down/stretch. These plyo legs workouts are brutal! Though I have to say, this one didn't seem as hard as last weeks (Disk 26)–but still, brutal nonetheless!
Equipment needed: step with 4 risers, chair, paper plates or Slide N Glide disks and dumbbells.
Squats (dumbbell)
Down- Up Jumps (step with 4 risers)
Step Up with Hand Weights (dumbbell and step with 4 risers)
Butt Kicks Over Step (step with 4 risers)
Close Stance One Leg Squats (dumbbell)
Rock Climbers on Floor
Drop Side Lunge onto Step (dumbbell and step with 1 riser)
Straddle Down jump Up with Knee Lift (step with 3 risers)
Back Lunge Alternating off Step (dumbbell and step with 3 risers)
Explosive Running Man (step with 4 risers)
Deadlifts Wide Stance (dumbbell)
Lateral Crossovers on Step with Weight (dumbbell and step with 4 risers)
Drop Side Lunge on Floor into Leg Abduction (dumbbell)
Squat thrust and Jump onto box and Step Off
Alternating Front Lunge (dumbbell)
Lunge taps on Step with Finger tips touching (step with 4 risers)
Static Lunge (dumbell)
Half Turn Jumps Right Side (dumbbell)
One Leg Sit N Slide with Paper Plate (dumbbell)
Plyo Jacks
Plie Squats Alternating Hand (dumbbell)
Tuck Jumps
One Leg Elevated Lunges (dumbbell and step with 3 risers)
Half Turn Jumps Left Side (dumbbell)
Sit N Stands (dumbbell and chair)
Power Scissors Alternating
Sequential Lunge Into Front Kick Combo (dumbbell)
Slow Air jacks
Disk 30 Shoulders, Biceps & Triceps 63:30 minutes; 4 minute warm up, 59 minute training period and 30 second stretch. As mentioned in the summary above, this workout is identical to Disk 27, with the exceptions that you are lifting 85% of your 1RM and only lifting 7 reps rather than 8.
Equipment needed: barbell, dumbbells, bench or step with 5 risers, stability ball and chair (or you can use the step to sit on)
Standing Barbell Front Press (warm up set with lighter weight)
Standing Barbell Front Press (warm up set with lighter weight)
Trio 1 (repeated 4 times)
Standing Barbell Front Press
Barbell Curl
Flat Bench Tricep Extensions (dumbbell)
Trio 2 (repeated 4 times)
Seated Lateral Raise (dumbbell)
Incline Curls on Stability Ball (dumbbell)
Seated Overhead Extensions One Arm (dumbbell)
Trio 3 (repeated 4 times)
Seated Rear Delts (dumbbell)
Seated Concentration Curls (dumbbell)
Cross Body Kickbacks (dumbbell)
Rotation for week 20
Day 1: 30/30 HIIT + Ab Circuits Weights & Plates
Doubles: ZCut Power Cardio workout #1
Day 2: Disk #30 Shoulders, Biceps & Triceps
Doubles: Xtrain: Tabatacise level 3
Day 3: Imax 2
Doubles: 4 Day Split: Kickbox (cardio only)
Day 4: Disk #29 Plyo Legs + Extended Stretch
Doubles: 4 Day Split: Bootcamp (cardio only)
Day 5: Kick Max + Ab Circuits Medicine Ball Abs
Day 6: Disk #28 Chest & Back
Day 7: Rest


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Cover Story: Leading IT
Cisco's leaders like to be first.
In 2008, Cisco officials were among the initial marketers saying their brands were customer-driven, having already reoriented their marketing with that fact in mind.
Next, it will become the No. 1 IT company, "measured by relevance to our customers," writes Cisco Chairman and CEO John T. Chambers in the 2014 annual report.
Now, the San Jose, Calif.-based computer networking products and services provider is among the first to admit most consumers have already made up their minds about paying for products and services, and they already know exactly which products and services they want to buy — before ever being in contact with the sales department. What's more is Cisco plans to have marketing continue to work with those consumers even after they become customers, becoming an "end-to-end" customer journey facilitator.
"So much of that journey is going to be done using digital and social platforms," says Karen Walker, Cisco's interim CMO and marketing SVP, "that we feel that marketing is in a prime position to help shape what that journey looks like."
Plus, so little of that digital and social journey is going to be a linear path to purchase.
As for the rest of Cisco's customers, Walker says there's a statistic Cisco CMO and SVP Blair Christie — now on a leave of absence — likes to share from CEB: "57 percent of the purchase decision is made before even reaching out to the company."
Walker says Cisco's similar experience is the result of a double-digit percentage increase in pre-decided consumers since just 2008. Cisco is immediately responding to this, despite the company being in the B-to-B space — which has the reputation of being generally less pioneering.
Cisco is meeting new customer journey needs through an integrated, customer-centric approach that makes sure channels and departments work together for the good of the buyers. Using "data-driven insights," including predictive modeling, Walker says Cisco can understand where consumers are in the buying journey, what they're interested in and how they're using content and information — whether or not the leads are starting and restarting the journey "many, many times" and in many different places.


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"Sen. Sanders' Medicare For All Bill is bad policy and bad politics and will help get Donald Trump re-elected"
FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS, MD – In light of new debates about the best form of universal health care, John Delaney highlights his health care plan that provides universal coverage but gives Americans a mix of government and private options. This year, Delaney has announced comprehensive plans to establish universal health care, expand mental health care coverage, and lower prescription drug prices.
Delaney releases the following statement:
"We can't afford to play politics with our health care system. Sen. Sanders' Medicare For All Bill is bad policy and bad politics and will help get Donald Trump re-elected. To beat Trump we must have an honest debate about the best way to ensure everyone has health care while also preserving options. Voters need to hear the truth, not more political slogans. My universal health care plan is the best path forward and would actually be the biggest and most progressive expansion of government health care coverage since the creation of Medicare.
"Americans want choices when it comes to health care, not a government-only-approach. My universal health care plan gives every American health care as a right, but still allows them to have private insurance if they so choose. I believe in the politics of addition, that we should be providing healthcare benefits to those who are uninsured or lack basic coverage, not telling 150 Million Americans that their health insurance is illegal, which the Medicare For All legislation explicitly does. That is the politics of subtraction. I don't believe that the American people will support a system where they have to give up their health insurance, where low reimbursement rates will lead to hospital closures, or where a single President (like President Trump) is in charge of our entire health care system. These are my opinions and I believe the Democratic Party should be tolerant to everyone's opinions if we want to chart the best path forward."
Delaney Health Care Plan
I believe that health care is a fundamental right. I am proposing a universal health care plan that will provide high-quality care to everyone and replace our outdated system of employer-sponsored insurance. As President, I would roll this plan out to the American people after we fix the damage that the GOP has done to the Affordable Care Act and improve upon it. This way, Americans would once again get the benefits of the ACA while the nation and Congress have the time it takes to reform health care. Tying access to health insurance to employment forces workers to stay in jobs they don't like, distracts entrepreneurs from their main focus of running their businesses, and prevents wages from increasing.
- Create a new public health care plan for all Americans under the age of 65 while preserving traditional Medicare. My new plan would protect the reforms delivered by the Affordable Care Act, including guaranteed coverage of preexisting conditions and essential health benefits, and would make access truly universal. At 65, people would transition into Medicare. Medicaid would be absorbed by the new plan. The highly trusted Medicare provider network could be used for the new plan.
- Guarantee universal coverage. Individuals would be automatically enrolled in the new public plan, with no complicated procedures to follow.
- Keep private insurance options. Individuals and employers will be able to purchase and negotiate supplemental coverage from private insurers to cover additional health needs. These supplementals could merge into the basic plan to make it easier for the user.
- Employers would be encouraged to negotiate group rate supplemental plans that would merge with the basic governmental plan so that employees would be able to keep their health care plans, many of which are very popular and important to American families.
In order to be sustainable, universal health care needs to be paid for. My plan will lower the overall cost of health care and put the government on a responsible fiscal path.
Pay-fors (numbers are based on a 10-year projection):
- The tax subsidy for employer-sponsored insurance costs the government more than $3.7 trillion and depresses wages for working Americans.
- Allowing the government to negotiate drug prices would stop the transfer of wealth from working families to corporate executives and shareholders of pharmaceutical companies. This would save the government nearly $850 billion.
- This plan would replace the ACA, and savings from ending the ACA's tax subsidies would total $760 billion.
- Current federal Medicaid spending is projected to be more than $4 trillion, which this plan would absorb.
- States are projected to contribute more than $3.7 trillion to Medicaid. States would continue to pay their share for the current Medicaid population and the federal government would cover the cost of expanded coverage.
- Implement a means-tested copay requirement for higher-income individuals to fund an increase in reimbursement rates for primary care providers.


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The Beatrice Area Chamber of Commerce advocates for our members and collaborates with other organizations to strengthen, sustain and grow our local culture and economy.
Your Chamber actively seeks ways through its program of work to improve the business climate in our community by providing information and services to both members and nonmembers. We have several working committees who meet regularly, including the Agri-Business Committee, Ambassadors, Government Affairs Committee, Holiday Lighted Parade Committee, Homestead Days Planning Committee, Leadership Beatrice Program & Advisory Committee, Southeast Community College Community Partnership, and Young Professionals Group.
We also coordinate Gage County Tourism through our partnership with Gage County. In addition to committees, the Beatrice Area Chamber of Commerce hosts networking opportunities to build relationships and recognize our members throughout the community, including Business After Hours, Lunch & Learns, Candidate & Legislative Forums, Homestead Days, Southeast Nebraska Ag Management Expo, Ag Appreciation BBQ, Member Awards Luncheon, Holiday Lighted Parade, golf outings, and much more!
Beatrice Area Chamber of Commerce coordinates the Leadership Beatrice program in an effort to develop and grow leaders within our community. Whether new to the area or lifelong residents of the community, participants take away a broader knowledge base of the Beatrice community, expand their network of professionals and improve leadership skills throughout this ten month endeavor! Over 150 people have graduated from Leadership Beatrice over the past 13 years! The thirteen classes have each completed a project to better our community as part of the program.
Each month features a different theme, including Art, Media & Culture, Class Project Development, Business & Industry, Non-Profit, Education, State Government, Health & Human Services, Local Government, and Agriculture. Class projects completed by past Leadership Beatrice groups include: Paint-a-thon, Backpack Program, LBAN - Leadership Beatrice Alumni Network, Census Promotion & Awareness, Chair-ries Jubilee, Don't Just Park It - Let's Move, Scholarships to Beatrice 8th Graders with Leadership Qualifications, Food Drive for Community Food Pantry, Shootings Stars Baseball Game, Beatrice Big Help (Painted at Skateboard Park), Little Libraries, Dog Park Improvements, and Beatrice Storywalk. No matter the scale, the projects have added value to our community in some fashion!
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How to Combat Nightmares
Your brain knows you better than anyone else, and if it wants to get you upset, it knows exactly what to say. The hard part with nightmares is that they can feel intensely real, and our physiology gets engaged – heart racing, feeling distressed.
The best method for managing nightmares is something called imagery rehearsal, where you actually practice a good resolution to the scary content of the dream.
It can also be good to recognize that our dream content tends to be reflective of the emotions we experienced over the past week or two, so we are more likely to have nightmares when we are very stressed.
Daytime stress management, like exercise and deep breathing exercises, can actually help to reduce our vulnerability to nightmares. I always like to be curious as to where the possible content may have originated, and try to question what the fear might mean about my own experience.
The biggest challenge is to really try hard to let yourself be calm, and not fear the images within your brain.
Watch other videos in our Psych in 60 series to learn more about sleep and leave your questions in the comments below!


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Fujifilm – 7 Years in…..and counting!
I am celebrating 7 great years as a Fujifilm X Series shooter. Before that I was a 40 year Nikon shooter. I still love Nikon and my friends that work there, or did, and lots and lots of clients. The short history of the change; I had shoulder surgery and was left with long two year recovery. During that two years I found that I couldn't carry the big full frame cameras and lenses anymore, comfortably. I picked up a Fuji X-10 because it was a high quality, compact pocket camera and fell in love. It was the perfect fit for a guy that couldn't even consider carrying a camera bag. I soon had the X-E1 and the race was off. I currently use the X-H1, X-T2 and a X-Pro2 and a ton of lenses though they are not all on my person at any particular time.
I wouldn't shoot anything else and here is why:
Fujifilm cameras have color like no other camera I've ever used or experienced. Often called " Fuji Color", it is just something special, I can't go back now!!!!
The lenses are among the very best glass I've ever used. Most manufacturers will have a handful of truly spectacular, legendarily sharp lenses, virtually all of Fuji's are!
My best friend shoots with them! Jack and I both really love the gear and being X-Photographers! ….and we're not really this serious! So does my other best friend, Jim Haverstock!
Even the 18-135 is superbly sharp, being a 28-200 supr zoomthat is really amazing!
I can now carry more gear in a smaller sapce and with about half the weight. But in a Think Tank rolling bag!
The fast portrait lenses make even a hack like me a decent portrait guy! 60mm Macro f 2.4, 50mm f 2, 56mm f 1.2.
The system features two of the very best telephoto zoom lenses available today, the 50-140 f 2.8 and the 100-400 f 4.5-5.6.
The system has two spectacular Macro lenses the 60mm Macro f 2.4 and the new 80mm Macro f 2,8. Wish they had a 120mm, but hey, "You can't always get what you want…."
The ACROS film simulation is incredible for Monochrome lovers!
The Fujifilm bodies play very nice with adapted lenses, (The Nikon 200mm Macro IF-ED.
Finally…it's just so much fun to shoot with!!
the pilgrim
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Seven years! Doesn't seem that long! Well said!!
I love your enthusiasm! You make photography exciting.
Surprisingly, the Fuji 100-400 is a bigger than my Canon 100-400!
Bill, you came to mind a lot this weekend. In one instance, I was in a Best Buy in Portland which had an "extensive" camera section — including Nikon gear from the D. d850 on down and 70-200 and 100-400 lenses and comparables from Canon, Fuji, Sony, etc. Not a complete line but quite a bit and yet no real knowledge behind their full pricing. But they did have the D850 in stock. There was a gentleman and his wife looking for a new camera and they really couldn't help them. I pitched in. And quietly I mentioned that the same prices and more complete service could be found at Pro Photo Supply. I'm sure Nikon is happy to have more places selling their gear but they also contribute in part, IMHO, to the death of local camera stores.


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Saturday flight with my companion for the week, Freda Grealy, after many weeks of preparation. No sleep and almost missed the flight in Kuala Lumpur. Arrived Sunday evening in Hanoi. Oh but it had changed since my last visit in 1994: cars and Westerners abound. Dinner by the banks of the lake with Bruce Lasky of partner BABSEA-CLE, Sonya Donnelly (formerly IRLI Malawi, now with the Hong Kong Refugee Advice Centre) and crew.
Monday up at 6.00 am after a poor night's sleep in the BABSEA-CLE house. Bed was fine. Humidity hit me. Wearing an Irish suit in the tropics is not advised.
Early morning into Hanoi Foreign Trade University where we met approximately 40 lecturers and students. Air conditioning inside did the job but if you still smoke like me, you're in trouble nipping out into the wall of heat!
Bruce and Sonya were fantastic on the first day, as were Linh 'Bear' and Huong, our BABSEA-CLE translators. It was just amazing how the team came together given some of us had only met the night previous. Sonya's experience as a lecturer showed with the students and, as was the case in all the Vietnamese cities we visited, all were incredibly enthusiastic and eager to get involved.
Great help to have extra hands on deck for the first day's work. Lunch was a time to sit down with faculty Deans and lecturers to discuss future initiatives and collaborations. "Lunch", with a selection of 15 different dishes, is a far cry from the quick sandwich we get here.
That evening Freda and I met Ms. Nguyen Minh Phuong from the Ministry of Justice and ate in a fabulous Hanoi restaurant. Unfortunately, my choice of oysters and shrimp would come back to haunt me. Her stories of being in Ireland, having oysters and "that heavy black beer you drink" in the village where I grew up in Cooley, Carlingford instantly broke the ice. The world sure is a small place!
Tuesday morning up again bright and early and disaster struck – the dreaded Delhi Belly – the combination of lack of sleep on the way over, the heat, the stress of getting it right, the diet, and of course, last night's shrimps and oysters took their toll.
We went to our meeting with Laura Hartigan in the Irish Embassy where we were joined by Bernadette Fahy, an Irish lawyer, who talked us through the realities of practising in Vietnam. It was fantastic to make a connection with Ireland's largest Embassy in the region.
Then it was into a taxi and a 40 minute flight to Nha Trang, the site of the first United States military landings in Vietnam. A 2 ½ hour taxi journey to Hue – despite the fact the flight was advertised as to Hue, we learned the airport won't open there for a few years! It was great to see some of the countryside, this being the only time we saw anything outside the cities of Vietnam. We saw duck and fish farms, basically operated out of small ponds, inlets and puddles! We saw the hills and valleys of this area, the throngs of people going to and from school and work, the sheer mass of humanity that is Vietnam. It also rained in Hue, as they say it always does. It was the humid rain of South East Asia.
People in Hue are regarded as amongst the friendliest in Vietnam and, while I found people all over Vietnam very friendly, it is true of Hue especially.
Wednesday was probably the most daunting for Freda and I. Growing up as I did on a farm in Louth, the college seemed fine to me but something of this open-sided auditorium threw Freda slightly. It wasn't the 30 students and lecturers or indeed the 40 additional on-lookers, but perhaps the surreal presence of cattle wandering around the campus and outskirts of the hall. For me, the fact that the air conditioning went down during the workshops was hell. Quite literally beads of sweat were rolling down my face. Gone were Bruce and Sonya, although Huong and Linh Bear continued in the exemplary fashion in which they began, and the materials and role plays so long prepared worked a treat.
Again, the enthusiasm of the students and lecturers carried us through. We had a nice lunch with the lecturers and back to finish the workshop. We then had a dash to the legal advice clinic manned by the college students before yet another 2½ hour return taxi drive and 90 minute flight to Ho Chi Minh City. On arrival at the hotel I was gallantly bestowed the "finest room in the house": the street-view balcony room. Needless to say, a night devoid of sleep ensued due to the boisterous clatter of life outside.
Thursday 6.00 am rising. In Ho Chi Minh City Law University, whose facilities would put the facilities of most universities in Ireland to shame, we were greeted by 20 lecturers and 40 students. I have to say that all participated wonderfully in the workshops. The students were hugely enthusiastic, and indeed competed for attendance at the workshop by way of essay submission. The inclusive learning between lecturers and students also made for a richer experience for students. Another fabulous lunch which, due to my delicate state, I laboured through. And what a great shame as the takeaway food looked amazing, and again such variety.
By the time we finished that evening, Freda and I were simply sorry it was over and that there wasn't another university to visit. We'd really found our stride! That night I collapsed into bed, and even the next day I was so tired I slept through the street noise. Saturday night I visited a beautiful French restaurant with two HCMC lecturers, Nga and Thien, to discuss further the needs of students in Vietnam. They spoke of a Vietnam that would change in the long term but would remain Communist in the short to medium term.
A great country and a fabulous people who fought and defeated five major powers from 1945 – 1979.
All in all, if you get a chance to go on an IRLI training mission, you won't regret it!
By Sean T O'Reilly, Sean T O'Reilly and Co. Solicitors, Dundalk
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I was really looking forward to INFINITE's 인피니트 comeback, but as we know it is postponed, as SungGyu 성규 is injured.
Get well soon SungGyu 성규!
Meet our next K-Pop fan that got bitten by the INFINITE 인피니트 bug!
What is your name? Age and country of residence?
Mad Queen, 21, California, USA
When was the first time that you listened to K-Pop? And what keeps you so enthused about the music and/or culture?
I started listening to K-Pop when I was about 12 or 13. I still listen to it because it is a part of the culture and that is what I am interested in.
What are your favourite aspects of Korean culture?
The food is absolutely delicious.
Please explain your tattoo, for the people that may not be familiar with the design; what does it mean to you?
My tattoo is INFINITE's 인피니트 Destiny album logo. I honestly liked it the most out of all the INFINITE 인피니트 logos at that time.
What made you decide on getting it? Was it an easy decision, or something that required a long thinking period?
I have always wanted a tattoo but was afraid of it. I also thought it was way too expensive to do, and so when I was legal enough I went and got it done as a flash tattoo. I most likely should have gotten it done officially for a higher price but I don't entirely regret it as my first.
What do your friends (non-Kpop) and family think about your tattoo, and your general interest in K-Pop and Korean culture as a whole?
Everyone I know actually believes it's a different design of an infinity tattoo. Though they do know I have a huge interest in the Korean culture. My family would occasionally make jokes about that.
Who are your favourite artists/groups?
Right now my favourite group is BTS 방탄소년단 and K.A.R.D. My all-time favourite is HIGHLIGHT (previously known as B2ST), and B.A.P
Do you think that you'll get any more K-Pop/Korean themed tattoos?
I definitely will be adding possibly one or two more Korean/K-Pop themed tattoos. Possibly BTS Wing tour logo, and something B.A.P related.
Is there anything that you would like to add?
If you are into tattoos don't be afraid of getting one. At some point in time all you have to remember is that it is permanent and that your interest may change. Also, always do your research before you go in because every artist is different.
That's the end of our K-POP tattoo featurette!
I'd like to thank everyone who was so willing to take part!
Hearing from K-Pop fans is important, as of course without them there would be nothing!


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Tattered Lace > Range > Tattered Lace Deep Dish > Tattered Lace Deep Dish Universal Dies > Ric Rac Strips (QF133)
Ric Rac Strips (QF133)
Tattered Lace Deep Dish Universal dies are specially designed to be used with fabric as well as paper, with cutting edges nearly twice as deep as standard papercraft dies. This fold and cut die can be extended to create longer strips, or you can fold your fabric, align the die with the edge of the fold, and cut twice the length of the die.
These dies measure approx:
- Strip 1: 15.2cm x 1.2cm
- Strip 2: 15.2cm x 0.8cm
- Strip 3: 15.2cm x 0.6cm
- Strip 4: 15.2cm x 0.9cm


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Carel Pieter Brest van Kempen is a Utah native who grew up in Emigration Canyon, but his name invokes the Northern Renaissance: the great scientific and artistic era when Carel Fabritius painted "The Goldfinch," an ornithological study celebrated in a 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel; and Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," subject of one of the most influential modern poems, W.H. Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts." But it's also vital here to include Anton van Leeuwenhoek, whose microscope stands as an essential contribution to the history of science. For, in the paintings of Brest van Kempen, neither science nor art yields primacy to the other. Instead, they collaborate to show how much more each can accomplish in tandem, and how a holistic approach can exceed the limits imposed by narrow perspectives.
Brest van Kempen depicts individual examples or small populations from the almost infinite variety of living things, showing them within the environments that, as Darwin taught us to see, passively determine their limitlessly variable forms and structures. That he does this utilizing techniques that predate instantaneous photography should make him an anachronism of sorts. Why would anyone paint the way he does, and why should anyone go in search of a rare opportunity to see his work locally, like that currently being provided by Michael Berry Gallery and Frameshop?
A partial answer lies in the way the paintings of Brest van Kempen, which by rights ought to be superfluous, instead arrive at a historical moment when they couldn't be more relevant. This could be because in the 21st century, the mainstream having dried up, genres have begun to feed into and nourish culture. Think science fiction, romantic comedy . . . zombies. Think images of alienated and endangered nature. We may well ask what more important work there is for an artist than to elevate these genre subjects, mostly made to wallow in kitsch, and thereby take advantage of their recent, relatively sudden vogue. There is, in fact, a movement among artists to capture and celebrate not just nature, but the parts of it that escape that aesthetic equivalent of taming and gentrification. Not only do these artists record the threatened natural world, including species that are disappearing as quickly as paint dries, but they demonstrate the survival of the threatened human ability to convert three-dimensional reality into brilliant two-dimensional patterns of light, shade, and color. A rare appearance of these stunning originals by an almost necessarily self-taught artist is a chance not only to connect with previously unseen nature, but to reconnect with the still-real distinction between an image that shares its scale with the observer—some of his paintings span a literal 6 feet in the originals—and the dubious copy that could be any size, any resolution from thumbnail, to mall mural, to billboard with a pixel size larger than many of the plants and animals that fill these paintings.
Like his subjects in nature, Brest van Kempen's paintings defy enumeration. Two examples show what he contributes to the catalog of life's variety. "Harris Hawk and Common Chuckwalla" (2006) is dominated by the bird, its posture as accurately portrayed as its plumage and the meticulously realized desert environment that constitutes its biological niche. But that forcefulness becomes an analogy for the way the predator dominates the whole world of the potential meal it has cornered. In the thumbnail, the lizard is a patch of light in the crevice of stone, but in the painting, for those fortunate enough to see it at Michael Berry, the chuckwalla, with its gimlet eye staring back at those of its hunter, is an equal protagonist in this rare image that for once accurately acknowledges both participants in the drama.
And when his audience has caught on to the way he tells the truth—not his subjective opinion, but as close as he can come to objective truth—Brest van Kempen offers a challenge to eyes trying not to grow fat and lazy on the easy eye candy of CGI-based movies and TV. In "Riparian Rashomon" (2009), two perspectives on this essential drama share a frame. In one, the viewer has the aerial perspective of the heron, just as happens in both their lives. But in the other, the viewer's dry eye is transported into the aqueous world of the frog, where everything visible before is seen as if for the first time. It's just one example of many wherein the painter vividly opens up scientific knowledge and makes dramatic, lived experience from it. In spite of nature documentaries in every medium, there is still a role for human minds, and especially those allied with brilliantly talented hands, to intervene in the search to reach out and touch our actual home.
"Inspired by the Natural World: Paintings and Drawings by Carel Pieter Brest van Kempen," Michael Berry Gallery and Frameshop (163 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City), Oct. 21-Jan. 20, 2017. Gallery Stroll Reception on Oct. 21, 6-9 p.m.
Geoff Wichert has degrees in critical writing and creative nonfiction. He writes about art to settle the arguments going on in his head.
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Indian apex court, the Supreme Court of India, slammed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) over cryptocurrency ban in the country. The judges at the court asked that why it chose to ban bitcoin trading when it could regulate it. The judges compared the cryptocurrency trading market to that of stock-trading, wondering if one could be governed despite the inherent investment risks, then what stopped the central bank from not regulating the other.
Hearing ends here.
Arguments will resume tomorrow by RBI and the same will be followed by Rejoinder by the Petitioners.
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— Crypto Kanoon (@cryptokanoon) August 20, 2019
Crypto Kanoon, an India-based bitcoin advocacy group, reported live accounts on the Crypto vs. RBI case via its Twitter profile. The updates revealed that Ashim Sood, the counsel representing the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), presented bitcoin as a nascent industry which needed oversight.
The advocate discussed how other countries are developing new legal frameworks to make space for assets like bitcoin. But instead of taking cues from developed nations like Singapore and the US, RBI took an unpleasant stance and banned bitcoin trading altogether.
Advocate Shyam Diwan, the counsel representing the RBI, called bitcoin a private cryptocurrency which could have a direct impact on India's monetary and payment systems. He argued that RBI had issued notices to discourage people from investing in these assets. But when they did not stop, the central bank had to take extreme measures such as banning the banking access to exchanges altogether.
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The Supreme Court will now continue to hear the case tomorrow.
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We're definitely in the time of the element Water, which as a Fire person, I find… extinguishing. Even Fire needs Water, to keep it under control and to nurture its parent, Wood. But it is… extinguishing.
I'm writing a little more music, a little more text. Drinking a lot of pu-erh tea, which I can tell is good for me but as a member of the Cath Club, diuretic beverages have their… costs.
Among said costs are new kinds of false data. As a member of the Cath Club, I can be pretty danged sure when my bladder is darned-near absolutely empty. There are just too many "tells" that there is no fluid in there besides a random drop or two; that empty is, well, empty.
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This so encapsulates my entire MS experience… Bad data. Untrustworthy data. External observations confirm condition A, and yet whatever nerves are enthusiastically reporting condition B.
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You take what you can get in this life, you know?
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A fatal shooting at a high school north of Seattle, WA. A gunman opened fire Friday morning at Marysville-Pilchuck High School before turning the gun on himself, according to authorities. At least one other person was killed, in addition to the gunman, and several others were wounded.
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If you are a startup founder or being around the startup community, you must have heard of the term 'pain point'. But what exactly is a pain point and how do you go about identifying one? You've got an idea - either because you're trying to solve a problem for yourself or because you've heard other people and what they think they need or want fixed. When this happens, the important question to ask yourself is: "What is this pain point I am trying to solve?", and most importantly, "Is this really a pain point that I need solved right…
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Historical and simulated ecosystem carbon dynamics in Ghana: Land use, management, and climate
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We used the General Ensemble biogeochemical Modeling System (GEMS) to simulate responses of natural and managed ecosystems to changes in land use and land cover, management, and climate for a forest/savanna transitional zone in central Ghana. Model results show that deforestation for crop production during the 20th century resulted in a substantial reduction in ecosystem carbon (C) stock from 135.4 Mg C ha−1 in 1900 to 77.0 Mg C ha−1 in 2000, and in soil organic C stock within the top 20 cm of soil from 26.6 Mg C ha−1 to 21.2 Mg C ha−1. If no land use change takes place from 2000 through 2100, low and high climate change scenarios (increase in temperature and decrease in precipitation over time) will result in losses of soil organic C stock by 16% and 20%, respectively. A low nitrogen (N) fertilization rate is the principal constraint on current crop production. An increase in N fertilization under the low climate change scenario would lead to an increase in the average crop yield by 21% with 30 kg N ha−1 and by 42% with 60 kg N ha−1 (varying with crop species), accordingly, the average soil C stock would decrease by 2% and increase by 17%, in all cropping systems by 2100. The results suggest that a reasonable N fertilization rate is critical to achieve food security and agricultural sustainability in the study area through the 21st century. Adaptation strategies for climate change in this study area require national plans to support policies and practices that provide adequate N fertilizers to sustain soil C and crop yields and to consider high temperature tolerant crop species if these temperature projections are exceeded.
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