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As you may have heard, news was released last night that Senator John McCain has brain cancer, more specifically a glioblastoma. Dr. Singh Sahni, medical director of neuroscience at the Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at Johnston-Willis Hospital, an affiliate of HCA Healthcare, addresses key questions about this diagnosis here and on Fox News below.
What is a glioblastoma?
It is a malignant primary brain tumor, originating from cells in the brain called astrocytes. Glioblastoma is abbreviated as GBM – also may be called glioma, glioblastoma multiforme, and grade IV astrocytoma.
It has been reported that Sen. McCain has a primary tumor, what does that mean?
A "primary" brain tumor means that the tumor originated in the brain. Metastatic brain tumors develop from cancer cells that originated in other organs, such as the lungs, and then metastasized to the brain.
How common is a glioblastoma?
Approximately 2 to 3 per 100,000 people in United States are diagnosed with this type of cancer. This tumor may be seen at any age but incidence is higher for people between the ages of 45-75, and also for men. Glioblastomas account for almost 15 percent of all intracranial tumors in adults.
What are the symptoms?
Symptoms depend on the location of the tumor. If it sits in the portion of the brain responsible for the arm and leg strength called the "motor strip," then the patient may notice weakness in the arm or the leg on the opposite side from the location of the tumor in the brain. Left temporal lobe tumors in right-handed people may cause speech deficits. The onset of seizures can also indicate a tumor in the brain. Speech and cognitive impediments may also be a manifestation of swelling which happens as a result of glioblastoma tumors.
How is it diagnosed?
Glioblastoma can be diagnosed through imaging of the brain. A definitive diagnosis is typically made through a needle biopsy or open surgery called craniotomy.
Are there any known risk factors?
There is no specific cause or risk factors known.
How do you treat a glioblastoma?
Standard therapy for glioblastomas may include surgical resection followed by radiation. Standard therapy also includes Temodar (temozolomide) in combination with radiation.
Glioblastoma tumors have a high recurrence rate, and often a second surgery and/or stereotactic radiosurgery such as what we do with Gamma Knife – a tool that provides extremely precise radiation beams that target and destroy brain tumors and other diseased tissue – may be part of the treatment plan.
There are advancements in the treatment of brain cancers being made – molecular profiling, which analyzes biomarkers that may contribute to the diagnosis of the tumor and response to therapy, new targeted therapies and immunotherapies all play a role in the approach Sarah Cannon, the cancer institute at HCA Healthcare, takes to treat these tumors.
HCA internal audience can watch Dr. Sahni on Fox News here.
Watch Dr. Sahni address Senator McCain's brain tumor and cancer diagnosis on Fox News – America's News HQ – below.
Dr. Singh Sahni is the chairman of neuroscience and medical director of the Neuroscience and Gamma Knife Center at HCA Healthcare's Johnston-Willis Hospital – the only certified brain tumor center in the United States. Dr. Sahni is also a member of the Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute Cancer Governance Board, where he and other committee members provide guidance to oncology programs in the HCA Virginia division.
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Congratulations to Dr. Singh Sahni on this national exposure!
To this day, I regard Dr. Sahni as one of the most admirable physicians with whom I've had the pleasure to work.
His pleasant demeanor, the thoughtful and engaged discussions he makes time to have, the respectful way he treats staff at all levels, and his willingness to partner with teams outside of his own to solve challenges are amongst the many reasons why I (and I am certain many others) feel this way.
A true gem in the HCA family!
Dr. Sahni is a world class surgeon. But not only that, he is a world class human. He has a wonderful bedside manner, remembers all of his patients, takes time to explain things to them. It is great to see him getting national recognition – well deserved!


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The healer behind Emotional Detox had reached the limits to deliver training services offline and was seeking alternative options to scale the business and increase availability to a wider audience. We took the client through our discovery process to identify digital ways to deliver training online and without the presence of the healer. After a few months of consulting with the client, the client produced training courses to host online behind a paywall. This would increase revenue and create a more scalable learning offering.
To create alternative revenue streams, build an online store with a learning management system (LMS) and develop CPD compliant online course programs.
A complete Digital Transformation incorporating tech stack alignment to achieve an online evergreen learning portal.
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Tech stacking was a key factor in creating the CPD accredited course structure to ensure compliance and a full learning experience.
The existing website was integrated with a secondary website which housed the learning functionality. We used Infusionsoft by Keap, Memberium, and Learndash to create a fully automated customer journey.
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McLaren Racing has announced that it will make a full-time return to the IndyCar motor racing series next year, in partnership with with IndyCar team Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports and US carmaker Chevrolet.
The move will mark McLaren's first full-time involvement in the championship in 41 years, having last regularly competed in the 1979 season. It has periodically entered cars into single races since, most recently with Fernando Alonso's two attempts to win the Indianapolis 500 in 2017 and 2019.
The team will be known as Arrow McLaren Racing SP, adding McLaren's "technical expertise, commercial experience and marketing strength" to the existing collaboration between Arrow SPM and Chevrolet, according to the company's press release.
Earlier this year, McLaren F1 signed a major technical partnership with Arrow Electronics, the Colorado-based electronics company which is the title sponsor of the Arrow SPM IndyCar team. Arrow will continue to supply electronics infrastructure, with Chevrolet remaining in place as the engine supplier.
Gil de Ferran, sporting director of McLaren Racing, will head up the McLaren IndyCar programme, overseeing a dedicated group of staff who will work independently from the Formal One team. Arrow SPM co-founders Sam Schmidt and Ric Peterson continue in their current roles.
Zak Brown, McLaren chief executive, said that the move would help to provide a "commercial platform to continue to grow our brand in North America" as well as "competition with some of the best teams in international motorsport."
Brown added: "I'm absolutely delighted that we will expand our relationship with Arrow Electronics across both F1 and IndyCar, while renewing our long affinity with Chevrolet as our engine partner. McLaren and Chevrolet have a special history together in North America and it is fitting they are part of our full-time return to IndyCar."


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Thermal, Calif. – March 20, 2017 – Dynamite equestrian Mandy Porter, of Encinitas, California, rose to the occasion against a top-notch field of fifty-four riders, in the most popular AIG $1 Million Grand Prix class to date. Porter rode Milano, owned by Abigail Weese, to a thrilling finish as the second-to-last rider in a six-horse jump-off. The starting order included several prior victors of the AIG $1 Million Grand Prix at HITS Desert Horse Park including 2016, 2015 and 2014 winners: McLain Ward, Charlie Jayne and Ashlee Bond.
"It's an honor to win this class, coming into this I always hoped that this result would happen," said Porter after her blue-ribbon victory. "I always try to go into an event like this hoping to do the best that I can—I think it's great that the 'West Coast' won this one."
New for the 2017 class was a 1.50-meter course height and the Top 20 qualified riders had the opportunity to enter two horses into the class for a second shot at the money. Of the top three, two West Coast riders walked away with the top portions of the prize purse: Porter and second-place rider, Tamie Phillips, who rode Cristar, owned by Merle Gardner.
"I want to say thank you to Tom and the HITS staff—I was very pleased with the new [1.50m] course height, it gave me a lot of confidence coming into this class," said Tamie Phillips in the post-Million press conference. "My horse was just absolutely on fire today, I put down the best round that I could, and almost hung in there, but Mandy just got it in the end. It was a really fun class, I loved it."
Third-place went to Cian O'Connor who has shown tremendous success at HITS Ocala this year in the FEI Nations Cup™ and the $100,000 City of Ocala Grand Prix. The Irish Olympian traveled west to try his luck in the desert for the first time, and his double-clear performance aboard Good Luck, owned by Adena Springs, did not disappoint.
"I'm delighted to be here, it's my first time to be here and I have to compliment the show organizers for setting the height at a 1.50m this year to really give people a chance to jump in a class like the Million," said O'Connor. "Everyone jumped very well as you can see from the line-up, and I'm very happy to be a part of it and to have jumped double clear."
Every few trips, the six riders that would eventually compete for a slice of the biggest prize purse in show jumping, would punch their ticket to the jump-off with a clear round.
A large spectator crowd filled the grandstand, complete with a sold-out VIP club and thousands viewing a livestream on HITS TV. Competitors brought the heart for their fans as the showdown for the 2017 AIG $1 Million Grand Prix title unfolded. An electric crowd looked on as the top six began their return to the Grand Prix Ring to challenge the jump-off course set by Alan Wade, of Tippery, Ireland.
"A lot of people were worried about dropping the height down to 1.50 meters, Tom [HITS President and CEO] told me there would be six in the jump-off, so I was just doing what I told," Wade joked. "I believe a lot of riders had some unlucky faults, and sometimes the money offered can be extra pressure, but I keep that out of my mind. I build the course for the people that are here and for the sport— we are lucky to have this amount of prize money in the sport though, so hats off to AIG for supporting that. This was an exciting class and I was very happy to be here."
"We are very thankful to AIG for their support, they're a super sponsor—we also have just fantastic clients," said HITS President and CEO, Tom Struzzieri. "The results, for those who organize events, couldn't have been better. We have Cian who is a good friend and great competitor, and then my friend McLain Ward, and other riders from the East who travel out to compete with HITS here, it's great to have that support. However, it's no coincidence that the West Coast riders, Mandy and Tamie are sitting up here with us. They rode with us here all winter, and did great. They came out here and had a chance to ride two in the AIG Million and that worked out beautifully, that's what we wanted to see happen."
First to return to contest the abbreviated course was O'Connor and Good Luck. They laid down a solid, clear trip right out of the gate, stopping the clock with all of the rails up in 43.986, a time that would hold up through the rest of the jump-off.
Following O'Connor was Germany's Andre Thieme, also a past HITS $1 Million Grand Prix winner. Thieme piloted Conthendrix through the technical, shortened course.
An unfortunate rail at A of the combination would earn them four faults as they passed the finish in 42.086, a round that would ultimately give them the fourth-place prize.
Calgary, Alberta equestrian, Tamie Phillips, has been a force to be reckoned with all season at HITS Coachella. This class was no exception to Phillip's dynamite skills, as she put down a thrilling ride to step into the temporary lead.
Phillips and her mount, Cristar, powered through the course, taking each fence by storm. The crowd cheered as they galloped home to stop the clock with a fault-free trip in 41.954.
The sun shined down on HITS Desert Horse Park and three riders still had to try their hand at the jump-off course. The anticipation was high in the stands to see if anyone could overcome Phillip's ride or if the victor had already been crowned.
Uma O'Neill and Clockwise of Greenhill Z were next to step into the ring. Their feet touched the earth with four faults, after also having a rail at the A element of the combination, in 45.664, still good enough to eventually settle them into sixth place.
Following O'Neill were the victors, Mandy Porter aboard Milano. They knew what they had to do to move into the top place on the leaderboard. They put the pedal to the metal and took every chance they could to shave the second off of the clock.
The crowd rose to their feet as they pushed ahead to their eventual winning round. They crossed the timers in 41.600, a few fractions ahead of Phillips to the sound of cheers from the spectators. Milano and Porter also showed success during the Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping Thermal CSI3* week with a win in the $36,400 Desert Classic win and a $25,000 FEI SmartPak Grand Prix win.
"This horse is just amazing," Porter said of Milano. "I have a feeling this is just the beginning for him. He definitely hasn't reached his peak and we are excited to see what the rest of his jumping career holds."
The last rider to enter the jump-off was France's Eric Navet, who consistently shows at HITS Coachella and stacks up the ribbons in the Grand Prix. Navet had the final shot at taking the leading round away from Porter. He rode Catypso, owned by Signe Ostby, through the course with skill until a heartbreaking rail at the final fence in the course thwarted their shot at the win. Their round in 43.391 would be good enough for the final spot in the top five.
The sun set over the mountain ridge on HITS Desert Horse Park as a West Coast victor walked away with her well-deserved slice of the Million-dollar pie.
Looking ahead, all industry eyes turn to the East Coast for the second jewel in the HITS Triple Crown of Show Jumping, the Great American $1 Million Grand Prix. Will Mandy Porter make it two in a row? Will Cian O'Connor get the luck back on his side for a Million-dollar win in the east? Will Beezie Madden return to claim her second $1 Million Grand Prix victory, or will a new winner be crowed? Only time will tell.
Place – Horse – Owner – Rider – Prize – R.1 Faults – J.O. Faults – J.O. Time
1 Milano Abigail Weese Mandy Porter $350,000 0 0 41.600
2 Cristar Merle Garnder Tamie Phillips $200,000 0 0 41.954
3 Good Luck Adena Springs Cian O'Connor $120,000 0 0 43.986
4 Conthendrix Andre Thieme Andre Thieme $100,000 0 4 42.086
5 Catypso Signe Ostbe Eric Navet $75,000 0 4 43.391
6 Clockwise of Greenhill Z Uma O'Neill Uma O'Neill $40,000 0 4 45.664
7 Lafiino 4 Katie Harris Katie Harris $30.000 2 – –
8 Saint Quentin Peter Petschenig Peter Petschenig $20,000 4 – –
9 Coral Reef Follow Me II Coral Reef Ranch Mandy Porter $15,000 4 – –
10 Shorapur Shorapur, LLC Kevin Babington $10,000 4 – –
11 The Dude Nicole Walker Will Simpson $7,500 4 – –
12 Super Sox Chansonette Farm, LLC Lillie Keenan $4,500 4 – –
General Admission tickets for the Great American Million on Sunday, March 26, are $10; Children 12 and under are free. Tickets can be purchased at HitsShows.com or at the gate the day of the event.
Day VIP Passes for the Great American Million are available by pre-order only. This exclusive offer includes reserved ringside seating, boxed lunch including sandwich and healthy sides, as well as complimentary beer and wine. To purchase, please visit http://www.hitsshows.com
Watch the Great American $1 Million Grand Prix LIVE from HITS Post Time Farm on March 26 on HITS TV.
Edited press release courtesy of: HITS, Inc.


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Eurip. Heracleidae 1020 Lines
Demosthenes Philippic I
Horad. Ep. Omnes, & Ars Poetica
St Lukes Gospel (Gk) with Bible Hist.
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Saving money starts at home. Here are some often overlooked ways to help reduce your utilities bill.
When money is tight, even small lifestyle changes can make a big difference in the long run, such as bringing a lunch instead of buying one or cycling to work instead of driving.
One way to cut costs, that is often overlooked, is reducing your home energy costs. By making small changes to your home, you not only save money on your hydro and heating / air conditioning bills, but you might make a positive impact on the environment too.
Proper insulation, low energy appliances and smart use of hydro are a great place start. Here are some tips for keeping home energy costs low:
Insulate Everything
It's believed that about half of every dollar you spend on your energy bill comes from either heating or cooling your home. This is why it's exceptionally important to check for drafts from all windows, doors and even walls. Proper insulation will not only make it easier for you to maintain a comfortable temperature in your home, but could also reduce your energy by bill by five to ten per cent!
Unplug Gadgets & Appliances
Have you ever heard of phantom power? It could be costing you money and you may not even notice. Many gadgets, devices and appliances drain energy even when they are not currently in use. Some of the biggest phantom power culprits commonly found around the home are televisions, desktop computers, video game consoles and stereo systems. Be sure to look for the Energy Star logo on larger appliances to make sure you're using the most energy-efficient products possible.
Switch to Energy Saving Light Bulbs
Switching to energy efficient light bulbs can save you up to $75 a year. The best options for energy efficient bulbs are usually LEDs of fluorescent bulbs. While these bulbs are generally a little more expensive than traditional halogens, they tend to last longer and the money saved long term more than makes up for it.
Control the Temperature
By adjusting the temperature in your home you can save quite a lot of money. With a programmable thermostat, you can save costs by setting your temperature to be comfortable when you are home and lowering the temperature when you are out of the house or sleeping. Even lowering the temperature in your house by a couple degrees can make a big difference – and if you get cold, put on an extra layer! Be sure to also adjust the temperature on your water heater to prevent it from constantly running.
Take Shorter Showers
Yes, there is nothing more relaxing than a nice, hot shower, but is it worth the high energy costs? Plain and simple, the shorter your shower, the more you can save. Also check for leaky taps and faucets, as their dripping can actually cost more than you think.
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Kali Linux 2018: Windows Penetration Testing - Second Edition
Microsoft Windows is one of the two most common OSes, and managing its security has spawned the discipline of IT security. Kali Linux is the premier platform for testing and maintaining Windows security. Kali is built on the Debian distribution of Linux and shares the legendary stability of that OS. This lets you focus on using the network penetration, password cracking, and forensics tools, and not the OS.
This book has the most advanced tools and techniques to reproduce the methods used by sophisticated hackers to make you an expert in Kali Linux penetration testing. You will start by learning about the various desktop environments that now come with Kali. The book covers network sniffers and analysis tools to uncover the Windows protocols in use on the network. You will see several tools designed to improve your average in password acquisition, from hash cracking, online attacks, offline attacks, and rainbow tables to social engineering. It also demonstrates several use cases for Kali Linux tools like Social Engineering Toolkit, and Metasploit, to exploit Windows vulnerabilities.
Finally, you will learn how to gain full system-level access to your compromised system and then maintain that access. By the end of this book, you will be able to quickly pen test your system and network using easy-to-follow instructions and support images.
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Our handcrafted rugs are meticulously hooked, woven and tufted by skilled artisans with the power to transform an ordinary space into something spectacular. Created in northeastern India by local weavers, these intricate rugs provide a livelihood to villagers, particularly women who have been traditionally excluded from opportunities in India's workforce. The elaborate process takes several artisans to complete, beginning with patterns that are hand traced and colored. Dependent on which highly detailed construction is chosen for a rug design, it can take anywhere from one week to over six months to complete one of these expertly crafted masterpieces.
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2015 Chevy Tahoe LTZ Cylinder Deactivation
One of the things that makes the 2015 Chevy Tahoe LTZ such a great vehicle for the whole familia – the perfect road-trip vehicle in my opinion – is the Cylinder Deactivation feature. It's part of the Active Fuel Management feature on some of Chevy's newer vehicles to date. While the Power Folding 2nd and 3rd row seats are a huge convenience and the BD/DVD player will keep the kiddos entertained, Cylinder Deactivation is the silent hero. It's there in the background day-in and day-out to save you money at the pump.
So what exactly is it? In a nutshell, under light loads Active Fuel Management with Cylinder Deactivation will "shut off" half the cylinders (or rather the air flow and fuel injection to them) to improve fuel economy. The system will quickly re-activate the cylinders when it detects a need to or when the driver pushes the accelerator to call for more power. Now, that's just a mile-high view of the system. For some of you, that may not be a satisfactory explanation. In fact, it's very difficult to find one page to direct you to get a more in-depth dive into this feature from a General Motors website. Thankfully, The Free Encyclopedia (Wikipedia) has a very detailed page to give you a much more technical dive into the technology behind this fuel saving technology.
However, if you don't need all that and would just like to see this feature in action you need only to reach out to our World Class Internet Department at (800) 680-0835 (or with this form if you'd prefer communication via email) and ask them to schedule you an appointment for a test drive and let them know you'd like to see the Cylinder Deactivation feature in-person. You can also check out our selection of Tahoes on our website, or you can see the reference video we shot if you just don't have time to make it in yourself right now.
Thanks for reading!
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The wonderful Daisy Banks hosted me this week where I share the first meeting between my hero and heroine…Check it out!
Welcome to this weeks Tuesday Treat. My guest today is the very talented
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Thanks so much for hosting me, Daisy!
For today's treat, I'm sharing a scene from my medieval romance Siege of the Heart, which released this year from Kensington and recently became available in paperback.
This is the point where my heroine Isabel, an English heiress, confronts Alexandre, a Norman knight who has unexpectedly arrived at her father's castle. This is the first time she's had a chance to speak to the man and she's none too happy to find him taking command of her home.
The servant made one last attempt to smooth Isabel's thick chestnut hair underneath her headrail. "We should go. This way, my lady."
"Wait." Isabel picked up her mother's brooches from the table. "I would wear these too."
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina angler Casey Ashley summed it best as he came across the stage late in the Day One weigh-in of the Carolina Clash presented by Evan Williams.
"Nobody's fishing alone," said Ashley, who sits in 34th place with 13 pounds, 5 ounces. "There's about 50 good points out here and we've got about 100 guys constantly running them."
Matt Sphar, who is in third with 18-4, was one of the last anglers to leave Thursday morning and, after his first four points were taken, he just waited around for one to open up."I watched them leave, and I just pulled in right behind them," he said.Sphar and leader Grant Goldbeck, who was the only angler to break 20 pounds on Day One (20-4), said they both tried doing something a little different to give the bass a new look.
Sphar said he was finesse fishing while everyone else was power fishing. He caught an early limit on one spot with a worm, but he's nervous the big fish will start reacting to the power baits on Day Two.
"But if they start biting like that, I'll just use a bigger worm," he said. "I think my pattern should hold up."Goldbeck wasn't interested in talking about his tweak to the chase, but he did admit — like everyone else — that he's keying in on Lake Murray's baitfish, the blueback herring.
Goldbeck said he lost two 5-pounders early on Friday, which would have given him more like 23 pounds, but he didn't let it shake him. He caught the majority of his fish on three different spots.
"I can't say I'm jumping points, but I'm definitely using the blueback," said Goldbeck, who had the Purolator big bass that weighed 8-7. "My best three or four spots, I didn't see anyone on all day. I'd just give them 20 or 30 minutes rest and usually, when I'd come back, I'd catch a fish — or at least lose one."
All the anglers that came off the 50,000-acre lake talked about the plethora of 4- and 5-pound fish they saw swimming around Lake Murray, but the trick is getting them to bite. With the majority of the anglers fishing similar spots, the fish get used to seeing the same types of bait.
"These are some of the smartest fish I've ever seen," said Edwin Evers (second, 19-5). "These same points get pounded by the same baits year round and they know the difference between bait and food."
Rick Morris (8th, 18-0) said if you see the fish, it's too late. He suggested casting from as far away from the point as possible, and hope the fish are there.
"You've got to throw them something they haven't seen," he said. "I had 20 rods with different baits on my deck at one point today. I had to stop and put some of them up."
Two of the top 5, Mike McClelland (fifth 18-7) and Chris Lane (fourth, 18-10), said they are hitting points and then trying something new, and both are going to their strength.
Lane said he didn't spend much time in the back water on Thursday, but he shook a 9-pounder off on a frog in practice, and he hasn't forgotten it.
"If it gets sunny, I'll spend a lot of time back there," Lane said. According to weather.com, that sun should show up on Saturday. "I went back there for about 15 minutes today, and you could just tell it wasn't going to happen."
McClelland caught a limit early fishing points, and then moved out deep, trying to cull with a better quality fish. The post-spawn bass would usually all be moving into 10 to 20 feet of water at this stage, but the blueback, which are just now spawning, have kept the bass feeding in shallow water.
McClelland, who said he's always looking for structure no matter what lake he's on, caught two of his keepers deep on Day One, and he thinks he'll have to do that every day to have a chance to win.
"I fished 30 of those pretty humps in practice, but I only found two or three of them that were producing fish," he said. "I haven't seen anybody on the deep stuff all week, so if somebody shows up on it I'm going to have a fit.
"The shallow stuff, there's enough guys running that pattern, you're going to come across people, but the deep stuff — I'll be running somebody off if they show up out there."
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Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The health condition of the third president of Indonesia, BJ Habibie, was getting better after the installation of the mitraclip for handling natural heart problems.
According to the press release, the procedure was conducted on Wednesday at 08.00 a.m. local time.
Mitraclip is a small clip attached to the leaflets of the mitral valve to make two small holes in the leaking valve. The procedure is conducted without surgery, but through a catheter.
The team that performed the procedure included the best specialist physicians in Europe, who were successful in installing the mitraclip on Habibie.
The procedure was carried out after medical examination and procedures conducted since Tuesday (Feb 27) at Stanberg.
In the press release, the Habibie Center also expressed its gratitude for the support rendered by President Joko Widodo and all the people of Indonesia.
"Please pray for Habibie`s health to get better," the press release stated.
Earlier, Jokowi called Habibie, via telephone on March 4, 2018, for a moment, while praying for his quick recovery. He hoped Habibie would be able to get back to his activities as usual.
Habibie is currently undergoing treatment in Munich, Germany. He had reportedly experienced suffocation during his personal visit to Germany on Feb 27, 2018. He was then taken to a hospital in Munich.
A presidential physician had accompanied BJ Habibie`s health care team since March 4, 2018. Jokowi, at that time, had sent Prof. Dr. Lukman Hakim Makmun, SpPD, KKV (K), one of the specialists of heart and blood vessels in the presidential physicians? team, to Germany.
After conducting several health procedures, doctors diagnosed the presence of abnormal valves in Habibie?s heart. Through close communication and coordination with a team of doctors in Munich, it was concluded that heart valve abnormalities do not require invasive action.
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In just over a month's time, the 2018 edition of Slam Dunk Festival – this year headlined by both Good Charlotte and Jimmy Eat World – will finally be upon us. From the looks of the line-up, it's going to once again be one of the best festival weekenders that we're going to see all year.
We've teamed up with the organisers of this year's festival to give one lucky winner the chance to win two tickets to take themselves and a friend to one of any date of their choosing from this year's Slam Dunk, which will take place in Leeds, Hatfield, and Birmingham over the May bank holiday weekend.
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The "Haare" is the great event in autumn for all hairstylists, make-up artists and nail designers. In 2009 the trade show and host of the Bavarian Championships presented itself with even more exhibitors, more space, a new Live-Styling – Lounge, a new action stage – and even more visitors. More than 14,100 professional attendees streamed into the Nuremberg Fair halls on both Tradeshow and Championship days – signifying a growth of more than 12 percent compared to the comparable previous event in 2007.
When thousand of hairstylists come together on two days there has to be something going on. Otherwise the discriminating crowd specializing in fashion, trends and styling would not even show up. But they come. And they are enthusiastic. "The "Haare" is once again the standard for what hairstylists want to see and experience through a trade fair and a championship," says Andreas Popp, regional president of the guild. He puts emphasis on the high level of professionalism of the visitors and the excellent know-how of the presenters on the stages and the competitors of the championship. "We saw amazing skill and until the end there was full concentration. The Bavarian Championship has a reason to be the greatest of the German regional championships for hairstylists," highlights Popp.
Inspiring Mix – not just for Professional Visitors
"The unique mix of shows, competitions, workshops, exhibits and professional information has once again been tremendously received by the visitors," reports also Haare project manager Daniela Büttner.
She especially emphasizes the success of the new Live-Styling-Lounge, a salon exemplary outfitted, that sits right in the middle of the hustle and bustle of the fair. "Inspiration for the own business, that is what "Haare: offers masterfully," says Büttner.
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Cuba looks overseas to market biotech drugs
With national economy in tatters, island nation's
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HAVANA – Inside modern towers that are a pride of Fidel Castro, scientists peer through huge microscopes at tiny proteins they hope to tailor to treat such major killers as AIDS, heart disease and cancer.
More than 1,000 people work at Cuba's Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center to save lives, ease human suffering — and generate more cash for their socialist country's battered economy.
Cuba's biotech products and technology currently reach markets in more than 40 countries, generating about $100 million annually.
Havana thinks it can do a lot better.
It has ambitious plans to increase its drug profits by greatly expanding its overseas markets through the development of novel pharmaceuticals and the sale of other drugs.
For years as a Soviet bloc adherent, Cuba was among nations that refused to acknowledge Western intellectual property laws, manufacturing its own generic versions of popular drugs.
Now, Cuba is aiming to sell abroad the genetically engineered protein erythropoetin, or EPO, which is by far the best-selling biotechnology drug.
EPO is used by kidney dialysis and chemotherapy patients as well as illegally by athletes to boost oxygen-laden red cells in the body.
It accounted for $6 billion in sales last year for three corporate giants that own commercial rights throughout the industrialized world. But in developing nations, an increasing number of biotech drugs are being produced without any attempts to obtain licenses.
With 1.3 billion people, China is the largest of these markets — and its potential for EPO sales is huge.
Amgen Inc., which invented the drug, shares patent rights with Johnson & Johnson and Kirin Brewery of Japan in the most lucrative markets — the United States, Europe and Japan.
But they have little influence over Cuba, whose well-developed biotechnology program already offers EPO for sale in Argentina, Brazil, India and other countries that don't acknowledge most U.S. and European drug patents.
"We are very careful about intellectual property laws," said Blanca Tormo, a Cuban biotechnology executive. She said Cuba sells EPO only in countries where no entity has exclusive patent rights.
U.S. patent holders consider this boisterous trade in generic drugs a challenge to their intellectual property. But from Cuba's perspective, it's merely good business, and consumers in developing countries are grateful to pay the lower prices.
In joining the World Trade Organization last year, China agreed to abide by its intellectual property agreements. But those pacts contain mechanisms that can allow developing nations to circumvent patents — especially in pharmaceuticals — where concerns such as public health are deemed to override them.
But Cuba is not alone in trying to enter China's seductive EPO market. Amgen, Kirin, the small Canadian biotech company Dragon Pharmaceuticals Inc. and at least four Chinese companies are already selling EPO there.
While Amgen charges upward of $36 a dose in the United States, the generic EPO sells for as low as $5 in China. U.S. patients each pay upward of $10,000 annually for Amgen's product, which it calls Epogen.
Cuba has plenty more to offer, of course, than generic EPO, including its novel biotech products: hepatitis B and meningitis B vaccines, a skin growth factor, interferons, thrombosis and heart attack medicines as well as AIDS treatments.
It is seeking more partnerships with foreign companies in research into vaccines for AIDS, eight different kinds of cancer and cholera.
Cuban officials, some of whom attended last month's annual BIO 2002 industry conference in Toronto, said negotiations for new biotech trade and production agreements were under way with Brazil and nine other countries: Malaysia, Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, Vietnam, Ukraine, Germany, and the United States. Cuba has or is negotiating technology transfer agreements with 14 countries — most of them developing nations including India, Algeria and South Africa.
Meanwhile, this island nation has produced more than 78 million doses of the hepatitis B vaccine.
It has also licensed its meningitis B vaccine to Britain's Glaxo SmithKline, which hopes to eventually sell it in the United States under an exemption to the Cuban trade embargo granted by the Clinton administration.
In another North American partnership, Cuba is working with the small Canadian company YM Biosciences on trials of a head and neck cancer treatment.
But not everyone is bullish on Cuban biotech.
"The U.S believes that Cuba has at least a limited offensive biological warfare research and development effort," John Bolton, the U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control, said in a May speech. "Cuba has provided dual-use biotechnology to other rogue states."
Bolton's accusation was widely dismissed as unfair by scientists, by Castro himself and by former President Jimmy Carter, whose visit to the island it directly preceded.
In fact, Cuban biotechnology officials said Bolton unintentionally gave their program an international publicity boost.
"That man did us a favor," Tormo said. "Now, everybody is taking a good look at our biotechnology programs."


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IDs confirmed in apparent murder-suicide of triplets' parents
Woman appeared 'afraid' in months before her death, says family friend
Friends and family offered an outpouring of grief Sunday after a troubled Houston couple with infant triplets died in an apparent murder-suicide.
The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences confirmed the deaths of Solomon Morrow and Kendra Moore, who police found dead Saturday in their home in the 4900 block of North Cancun in southwest Houston.
"This is so heartbreaking," said Jennifer Shilo, a close friend of Moore's. "I never thought it would go this far."
Moore and Morrow moved to Houston from Chicago a few years ago. Morrow, a lawyer, earned a law degree in 2013 from Texas Southern University.
Moore, who had a 9-year-old daughter, and Morrow, who had three sons, had recently become parents to triplets. Child Protective Services confirmed on Saturday that the agency was involved in a case at the home that involved placing a 9-year-old and three other children with a relative.
The Harris County medical examiner did not release the cause of death Sunday, making it uncertain who carried out the apparent murder-suicide.
Shilo, who met Moore about two years ago, said Moore's relationship with Morrow appeared to sour in the months after her pregnancy. Moore had always been naturally bubbly but became depressed as the relationship deteriorated and planned to move back to Chicago to live with her father, Shilo said.
"Kendra was a very, very sweet person," her friend added.
Andre Sanders heard of the tragedy online.
"I knew Mr. Morrow from high school, here in Chicago," he told the Chronicle. "At the time Solomon was a great young man. Full of energy and smarts. And that's what I'll remember him as."
A family member reached by phone Sunday declined to comment. "Right now, it's a really difficult time for us," she said.
As news spread, friends of both Morrow and Moore took to Facebook to mourn.
Moore "was a sweet person, known her since high school," wrote Nathina Williams.
"I'm trying so hard to wrap my mind around this horrible news," wrote Kathy Stewart Ezell.
Donieshia Wade told the Chronicle that she'd attended high school with the woman she described as a "caring, loving mother." A devout woman, Moore would pray with her friend over the phone, and they'd sometimes read the Bible together, Wade said.
Wade met Morrow during a class reunion in 2015. "He wasn't very social," she said. "And he would follow her around as she would interact with others."
She said that Moore was always optimistic but admitted the couple had faced some struggles regarding personal and financial issues.
About a month ago, Moore flagged down and exchanged phone numbers with her neighbor, Willanda Sykes. Sykes said it appeared Moore was "afraid of something."
"She looked like she was trying to reach out for help then, but I didn't pick up on it," Sykes said. "I said, 'How are you doing?' She said, 'I wish I could say things were better. They're not.'"
Sykes said Moore had made reference to Morrow, but said Moore quickly ended the conversation after Morrow opened the door to the house.
"She was like, 'Got to go.'" Sykes said. "She said, 'Text me.'"
Multiple TV stations reported the 9-year-old daughter was the one who found her mother and step-father dead.
"I think we probably could have saved her," Sykes said. "I feel so bad."


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Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Blog Changes, Art Books and Blog Friends
17 comments:
- Unknown said...
Oh yes! Books. So enchanting to hold, flip the pages, smell the uniqueness and savour the flavour. I have an extensive library of mixed media and quilting / patchwork books which I just adore and which keep me alive!
- May 22, 2018 at 3:51 PM
- A bird in the hand said...
Books, always books. I would be lost without them. I'm on Goodreads, too. xoxo
- May 22, 2018 at 6:13 PM
- Annie Coe said...
That looks like a beautiful book! I will enjoy looking through your list. xoxo
- May 22, 2018 at 8:57 PM
- Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...
I have at least six shelves filled with statistics, math (all the way to differential equations), and methodology. I have at least six shelves of engineering books. I have at least three shelves filled with art and artist books. I have ONE shelf filled with art process, mixed media, and technique related books. I was slow coming to this craft, but I also devour everything I read.
I only read books. No e-reader for me. There's something about the wonderful feel of the paper against my hands as I turn the pages.
Your beautiful holiday gift is the perfect way to introduce us to your redesigned blog. Those butterflies stole my heart. They are gorgeous.
Speaking of redesigned blog, I didn't notice Jo Murray's blog or the Cerulean blog.
- May 22, 2018 at 11:23 PM
- bcurl said...
Yes, books! I am an avid reader and am always interested in what others are reading so that addition is a plus for me.
- May 23, 2018 at 11:11 AM
- Tammy@T's Daily Treasures said...
That book looks wonderful! Your blog is looking very light and bright.
- May 24, 2018 at 4:45 AM
- Blue Sky Dreaming said...
Happy to be your blog friend!!!
I've become a streaming movie addict...series, movies...episodes that lead into more and more.
Also love the quiet reflection of a good book but for now its popcorn and the big chair.
- May 24, 2018 at 3:09 PM
- Sharmon Davidson said...
I like all your changes, Cat, especially the book list! Knowing how much we have in common, I know I'm going to discover some goodies!
- May 24, 2018 at 9:10 PM
- Sonia said...
I always enjoy reading your blog posts and watching your videos. Perhaps you would add me to your blog friend list. You might be particularly interested in the little book I made after your mini collage tutorial.
Do keep up the good work. Thank you. Sonia
- May 26, 2018 at 5:53 PM
- Caterina Giglio said...
Glad you enjoyed the post, Bonnie!!
- May 28, 2018 at 12:49 PM
- Caterina Giglio said...
Colette, I will look you up on Goodreads!! x
- May 28, 2018 at 12:50 PM
- Caterina Giglio said...
Annie, you would absolutely LOVE this book!! xoxo
- May 28, 2018 at 1:15 PM
- Caterina Giglio said...
Wow, Dr. E, I started to glaze over with the word statistics! But then I recovered when I read about the art books. Like you, I love books!! And thank you so much for the tip, I have added both blogs to my list, and if you can think of anyone else, please let me know!! x
- May 29, 2018 at 2:12 PM
- Caterina Giglio said...
Hi bcurl, I am so glad you like the new addition!! Thanks for reading and commenting, I so appreciate it!!
- May 29, 2018 at 2:13 PM
- Caterina Giglio said...
Hey Tammy, thank you, I did a lot of spring cleaning!! x
- May 29, 2018 at 2:14 PM
- Caterina Giglio said...
Right? Sharmon, I imagine we devour the same books!! Hope I can turn you on to some fun reads!! xo
- May 29, 2018 at 2:15 PM
- Caterina Giglio said...
I love being blog friends, Mary Ann, and it has been quite a while, I might add!! Thanks for your continued support my friend!! x
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If you don't see the calendar after you installed it means you need to add an entry to the Site News first, after that it should appear.
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We are using template #211 as well, and when we used the above suggestion to change the logo/banner, we ended up with a corrupted banner. The image appeared twice, once above the banner and in the banner itself. Thinking that image height might be the problem, we tried a smaller image, but with no success either.
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"Now every state is coming up well in the agricultural sector, with many touching close to about 2.8 per cent. However, our annual agricultural growth rate target is about four per cent," the ICAR Director-General, Dr S. Ayyappan, told PTI.
These initiatives include gearing up to meet new challenges in climate change, public-private partnership projects and programmes to make more people take to agriculture as a livelihood.
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The PPP initiative will benefit both the sectors, besides the farmers. "More emphasis on innovation and interaction between the two sectors may result in more synergy among them," he said.
To lure more people to take up agriculture as livelihood, various initiatives like farmers' training and capacity building for more innovative agricultural practices have been chalked out. "We are also trying to bring them to higher stage by identifying innovators in each district and giving them awards at the national level", he said. – PTI


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I recently took a trip to visit some friends in Portland. My hosts were most gracious and I had lots of time to write poetry and read some books I had been meaning to get to for a long time. One of these books was Robert Pinsky's 'The Sounds of Poetry'. I really enjoyed Pinsky's brief guide to aspects of English prosody. It is written in a breezy, highly accessible style; in addition the author uses the first person so you feel like you are being taught by knowledgeable Uncle who feels passionately about the topic of prosody. At times Pinsky is opinionated. And at other times he can be dismissive. But on the whole I found the book thoroughly enjoyable.
I was particularly struck by a section in Chapter 3, 'Technical Terms and Vocal Realities' where Pinsky discusses the role and function of iambic interpretation of English 'vocal realities'. Such interpretation of English has been central to English formal verse for many centuries and remains so to this day for many English language poets.
What I found revealing, and applicable to a syllabic approach, was Pinsky's discussion of alternative ways of parsing English speech. Pinsky uses Robert Frost's poem 'To Earthward' as an example. Pinsky focuses on the line 'Love at the lips was touch' and parses the line in a standard way, as iambic trimeter, with the first grouping, 'love at', possibly a trochee (which I found a little odd; it seems to me 'love at' instantiates an iamb fairly easily). Here is what Pinsky writes about different ways of parsing this line:
"What reason is there not to divide each line differently, for instance by describing the first line,
'Love at the lips was touch,'
"as two feet: one thunketta ('Love at the') followed by a thunk-pa-thunk ('lips was touch')? Though I have invented somewhat silly-sounding terms, they make sense: they describe something all can hear.
"But still other descriptive terms for the same line – the same vocal reality – would also make sense. For instance, I could also describe the line
'Love at the lips was touch'
"as an initial monosyllable ("Love") followed by an anapest ("at the lips") and an iamb ("was touch")."
Pinsky offers a few other possible parsings of the line and then concludes:
"What is wrong with these terms? Nothing – in the sense that, though arbitrary, they do register something that is there in the sound of the words. Each set of terms does give a roughly accurate description of what one hears."
(Robert Pinsky, 'The Sounds of Poetry', pages 54 and 55)
Pinsky goes on to reject these alternatives on the basis that such an approach fails to distinguish between 'rhythm and meter'. Pinsky's view is that the iambic meter is central, and that the other types are a rhythmic reading that overlays the underlying iambic pulse.
The syllabic approach to English poetry has a different understanding. Let me illustrate by making an analogy to music. Let's start with twelve even pulses:
1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12
How will these twelve evenly spaced pulses be felt? One way is to have three measures of 4-4 time:
1 – 2 – 3 – 4 : 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 : 1 – 2 – 3 – 4
This will produce the kind of rhythm that is used in countless songs and compositions.
Another way of handling the twelve pulses is four measures of 3-4 time:
1 – 2 – 3 : 1 – 2 – 3 : 1 – 2 – 3 : 1 – 2 – 3
This is a common dance rhythm, the basis for the minuet and waltz.
One could have six groups of two pulses each:
1 – 2 : 1 – 2 : 1 – 2 : 1 – 2 : 1 – 2 : 1 – 2
Which is often heard in marches.
One could have two groups of six:
1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 : 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6
This is an alluring rhythm found in many compositions.
And one could divide the twelve pulses into one group of five followed by a group of seven:
1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 : 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7
Composers like Bartok and Brubeck might do something like this. It is also one of the basic structures for Japanese poetry.
Each of these arrangements articulates the twelve pulses differently. Underneath all of these arrangements lies the bedrock of the twelve pulses and their steady march forward.
What I want to suggest is that the flow of syllables resembles the flow of pulses in music. And the metrical arrangement of syllables into iambs, trochees, anapests, etc., is a way of arranging the syllables, just as different meters in music are different ways of arranging and combining the steady flow of the musical pulse.
From a syllabic perspective the English language isn't primarily iambic or primarily anapestic. Just as music allows for different meters so also the steady flow of syllables allows for different arrangements of metrical validity. The reason Pinsky was able to uncover numerous ways of parsing the rhythm of 'Love at the lips was touch' is the same reason that the steady pulse, or beat, of music can be arranged in different meters. An iambic interpretation of the line is legitimate (and knowing Frost was likely the poet's intention). But other rhythmic arrangements are also legitimate and equally valid.
Pinsky's view, and it has a lot of support from centuries of metrical verse, is that a particular meter underlies the English language; that particular meter is the iamb. From a syllabic perspective it is not a particular meter that underlies the English language, rather it is the flow of syllables. In other words, beneath the metrical feet of English language poetry one finds syllables. And syllables are congenial, are willing, to be shaped into various metrical arrangements; just as the pulse, or beat, of music is congenial, willing, to be shaped into various meters, or groupings. Both the flow of syllables and the pulse of music are fluid as to the possibilities of grouping them into metrical units.
I enjoy visiting coffee houses and listening to people talk. Similarly, I enjoy hearing people talk on the street, at the store where I work, and in other ordinary situations. What I hear is a flow of sound that has a basic, but fluid, pulse. This fluid pulse ebbs and flows, becomes slower or faster, but always seems to be there, even as the conversation moves from one person to the other. I think it is this pulse that allows us to distinguish particular words in an ordinary conversation. It is generally not appreciated that there are no spaces between words in ordinary speech; rather there is a continuous flow of sound, interrupted by breaths, emotional stressing, thought searching, and other considerations. It is the underlying fluid pulse which allows us to parse the flow of sound into units of words and it is the syllable which is the carrier of the pulse.
It is for these, and other, reasons that I tend to think of syllabics as more fundamental, more primal, than meter. I realize that this runs counter to centuries of English language prosody; a point I take seriously. Yet, I don't think a syllabic view of English language poetry is in conflict with a metrical view. To continue with the musical analogy, arranging the twelve pulses into particular groupings doesn't conflict with music in 4-4 time, or in 3-4 time. Similarly, regarding the syllable as the basic unit of English language poetry allows for iambic constructions, but it also allows for other kinds of metrical constructions as equally valid and equally a part of the English language; a point that, I believe, Pinsky illustrates rather well. But it would be wrong to insist that 4-4 time is the primal reality of the musical pulse, thinking of 3-4 time as somehow a substitution. And, I think the same can be said for poetic meters; namely, that an iambic pulse does not exclude the possibility of other arrangements of the flow of English syllables. Looking beneath our feet at the syllabic stream of the English language and one finds a wide range of metrical possibilities. Some, such as odd-numbered lines, have only recently been used systematically. Others, I suspect, remain to be discovered.


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Giant Weaselby Jamie Baty
Large Animal
Hit Dice: 4d8+16 (34 hp)
Initiative: +3 (+3 Dex)
Speed: 50 ft. (10 squares), climb 20 ft. (4 squares)
Armour Class: 13 (-1 size, +3 Dex, +1 natural), touch 12, flat-footed 10
Base Attack/Grapple: +3/+9
Attack: Bite +5 melee (2d4 +2)
Full Attack: Bite +5 melee (2d4 +2)
Space/Reach: 10 ft. /5 ft.
Special Attacks: Attach
Special Qualities: Darkvision 30ft, low-light vision, scent
Saves: Fort +8, Ref +7, Will +2
Abilities: Str 15, Dex 17, Con 18, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 5
Skills: Balance +13, Climb +10, Escape Artist +5, Hide +2, Listen +5, Move Silently +7, Spot +5
Feats: Agile, Alertness, Track (B), Weapon Finesse (B)
Environment: Any forests, underground
Organisation: Solitary, Pair, or Crew (2-5)
Challenge Rating: 2
Treasure: None
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 5-8 HD (Large); 9-12 HD (Huge)
Level Adjustment: -
A giant weasel is 8'-9' long and covered with a richly coloured fur of white, gold or brown. These quick and vicious predators hunt alone or in small groups.
Giant weasels are excellent trackers and can track by scent. They pursue wounded prey in preference to all others.
Giant weasels typically live underground in tunnels, but may be found above ground at night.
Giant weasels are stubborn and ferocious hunters. They attack with a nasty bite and attach themselves to the victim, until the victim dead, or they are killed or forcibly removed. They do not fear anything their size or smaller.
Attach (Ex): If a giant weasel hits with a bite attack, it uses its powerful jaws to latch onto the opponent's body and automatically deals bite damage each round it remains attached. An attached weasel loses its Dexterity bonus to Armour Class and has an AC of 10. An attached weasel can be struck with a weapon or grappled itself. To remove an attached weasel through grappling, the opponent must achieve a pin against the creature.
Scent (Ex): This special quality allows a giant weasel to detect approaching enemies, sniff out hidden foes, and track by sense of smell.
Skills: Giant weasels have a +4 racial bonus on Move Silently checks and a +8 racial bonus on Balance and Climb checks. A weasel can always choose to take 10 on a Climb check, even if rushed or threatened.


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As you all know by now, we love going to the Norfolk Show. This year is going to be no different. We are very excited to have been able to secure a much larger stand than we have had previous years.
We have booked a corner plot at the junction of Second Drive and Avenue 9. It's not far from where we were last year, but closer to The Grand Ring. This will bring excellent footfall.
As usual, we will have a marquee with a selection of stand options inside. New for this year we are excited to also be able to offer some outside exhibition space for those of you with bigger requirements or products more suited to being outside.
We have standard spaces which we will list below. We are also happy to discuss any alternative requirements our members may need. If you would like a larger stand for yourself. Or, share a larger stand or outside space with other members feel free to get in touch with us and discuss your ideas!
A breakdown of our available space:
Inside the marquee:
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Doesn't quite suit your needs? Other sizes are available on request. Please e-mail [email protected]
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|Entry tickets included (both days)
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Please note: All bookings require a 20% deposit at time of booking. Full payment should be made by 15th June.
If you are interested in exhibiting with us at the Royal Norfolk Show, please fill in the form below. If you have any questions or queries, don't hesitate to send us an email, [email protected], or give us a call on 01362 860096.
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Dave Miller is one of the top kernel hackers. I had the pleasure of interviewing him for Rebel Code all those years ago (eek: how time flies). But something seems to have happened to him on the way to Australia:
I live for the warm nuts
Posted by Glyn Moody at 9:58 am
Labels: australia Rebel Code, dave miller, kernel, linux.conf.au, nuts
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When you are working hard to improve your online presence you want to see results.
Is your new strategy working? Are the times you tweet right? Did that marketing campaign reach enough people?
To do so you need tools to analyse what you did and what happened.
Today I will be talking about Crowdbooster, a tool I love to use for analysing Twitter and Facebook.
Using Crowdbooster
With Crowdbooster you can see your separate posts. How many people could have seen it (you can never know for sure), how much it got shared and replied to. It gives you an idea which posts did best and whether in general all is well.
How you ask?
Crowdbooster shows you your posts in a graphical way.
- The dots are posts, those with numbers in it represent multiple posts at once.
- The horizontal bar are the amount of retweets. The more to the right the post is, the more retweets it has.
- The higher the circle is placed the more people saw the post.
- Hold your mouse over a circle to see the post that goes with it.
You can also choose a list over the graphical representation but that is going to be harder to read than this.
On the top you can also see the amount of tweets you send in a certain amount of time, the amount of retweets you got, the amount of replies you got to your posts, how many times they were favorited and how much followers you gained in that period. It also shows how much you were mentioned.
All this information can help you see what works and what doesn't.
Extra features
But Crowdbooster will help you with posting and engaging too.
You can post right from Crowdbooster or schedule them for another time. Crowdbooster will even help you figure out the best times to post. You can add images and shorten links with Bit.ly
The 'Engage' module shows you your most influential followers and top retweeters. That way you can decide to send them something first if you want to give your top retweeters something extra. You can also decide to thank them or retweet more of their posts.
My 2 cents
Crowdbooster is a paid app. When I started using it you could get the lowest package for free but these days it costs around 85 dollars a year (Bronze). In this package you can add one Twitter and one Facebook account. The bigger accounts give you options for more Twitter and Facebook accounts.
I recommend this app to companies that are ready to take their social media to the next level. They have started implementing a strategy and want to see if it works, what works and how you can do better. I don't believe you should immediately start with Crowdbooster but only when it will really bring value to your strategy.
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When walking into an area, our attention is both diluted throughout the general decor or just drawn in a particular object or another. However, the identifying and captivating style of Venetian plaster might be exploited to create a feature wall that while still completing the design of the room, now dominates it.
A feature wall is a strong affirmation of design that made in the right way flaunts style and panache. Compared to drowning out the main options that come with the room like images and decorations it lifts them to another degree, exhibiting them in a brand new light.
The feature wall can be a stark comparison to the rest of the room, perhaps a contradiction of color and texture. Or a more subtle, but none the less dramatic strategy, of using a darker shades of the same color or a deeper feel to one wall.
The extensive variety of colors and textures afforded by Venetian polished stucco will make for a generous articulation of originality and style. The smooth and lustrous polished plasters, resplendent with shiny reflection, comparison well with the matte pitted feels of the Intonachino Italian stucco.
These plasters exude pure beauty, although created to make distinct finishes they're born through the same marble and lime, and because of this complement one another absolutely.
The colors, taken from natural world oxides and pigments, can be mixed tailored to the application and by using give or take tint, a contrast can be attained while still utilizing the same color tint.


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Gage Park's Animaland
Location: Across from the Topeka Zoo in Gage Park, approx. 10th and Gage Cost: Free Web site: http://www.kansastravel.org/topeka/animaland.htm Generations of Topekans have happily played on the giant concrete creatures in Animaland. There's a shoe (we always said it was the … Continue reading
Gage Park Carousel
Location: Gage Park, near 10th & Gage. The Carousel is towards the middle of the park by the pool. Cost: At the time we visited, it was $1.50 per person per ride. Web site: http://ks-shawneecountyparksandrec.civicplus.com/Facilities/Facility/Details/109 The Carousel in the Park … Continue reading
Take a Ride on the Gage Park Mini Train!
Location: Gage Park, 6th & Gage Blvd, Topeka. Cost: $1.50 per passenger per ride Web site: https://ks-shawneecountyparksandrec.civicplus.com/Facilities/Facility/Details/108 Like generations of children before them, my kids love the Gage Park Mini Train. They perk up excitedly when they hear its whistle, and … Continue reading
Wanamaker Chick-Fil-A Play Place
Location: 1625 SW Wanamaker Rd , NWC 17th and Wanamaker , Topeka , KS 66604 Cost: Free, but you can always buy a sandwich Web site: https://www.chick-fil-a.com/Locations/KS/17th-and-Wanamaker This past Wednesday, Mom, Peanut, and I went to the newest and nicest … Continue reading
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Location: Kansas Children's Discovery Center, 4400 SW 10th Avenue, Topeka, KS 66604 Cost: Depends on when you register, ages of registrants, etc. In 2018, it cost $81 for me, Sprout, and Peanut, and we signed up early enough to get … Continue reading
Family Employment Awareness Training
Families Together and Kansas Secondary Connections are offering a two-day training conference in Topeka on October 18-19 of this year. The conference itself is free, but you do have to reserve your spot with a $20 deposit per day ($40 … Continue reading
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Topeka Zoo: Living Learning Center
During our most recent visit to the Topeka Zoo, we discovered the Living Learning Center. Let me tell you: it was amazing. The walls are covered with animal specimens and exhibits, there are live creatures everywhere, and there's something to explore … Continue reading
The World-Famous Topeka Zoo, Redux
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Lowe's Build and Grow Clinics
Location: Your local Lowe's. We attended a clinic at the Lowe's in Topeka, Kansas, but the clinics are available nationwide. Cost: Free! Web site: http://lowesbuildandgrow.com/pages/default.aspx Peanut loves Bob the Builder. Loves. He also loves tools, "building," and all sorts of … Continue reading


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Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
A Message from Senior Associate Dean Ann Paulins
Welcome to the Research and Graduate Studies website for The Gladys W. and David H. Patton College of Education. The Patton College has a strong history of graduate education and research that has built its foundation as a community of scholars. Our graduate students and faculty members are important elements of this continuing legacy. Helpful information is provided here; for the most timely news and resources, please follow me on Twitter @AnnPaulins.
The Patton College resides in McCracken Hall, a beautifully functional, recently renovated building located at the base of Jefferson Hill. One of the distinguishing features of this state-of-the-art building is a Thesis/Dissertation Room (room 126). This room is for the exclusive use of students who are defending thesis or dissertation proposals and final documents. The room is spacious and equipped to handle observers, who are encouraged to attend the final defense presentations. Please be aware of our system for reserving the room, and make use of the forms located on the Student Affairs website.
Whether you are a faculty member, graduate student, undergraduate honors student, or collaborator with someone from the aforementioned group, there are opportunities to engage with others in efforts to enhance your research foundation. Please make an effort to attend as many of our research forums (sponsored by the Research and Graduate Studies Committee from noon-1 on selected Fridays) food is always served; the events are open to the public. Our Patton College research forums, along with many other research-related events are announced on the Vice President for Research Calendar. Additionally, watch for event announcements on the E-Boards located throughout McCracken Hall.
Additionally, I am pleased to share with graduate students and faculty in The Patton College the opportunity to apply for funds to support your research activities. There are funds (up to $1000 per year, and dependent on availability) that can support thesis and dissertation research. Additionally, you can also apply for funds to support research before you have begun the thesis or dissertation. Instructions for applying are found by clicking on the heading Graduate Student & Faculty Research Fund, to the right. Mark your calendar for the two review cycle deadlines: October 15 and April 15.
The Patton College typically offers support to students who travel to present research. Students are eligible for $150 to $350 to support their conference and travel expenses (reimbursed upon return), depending on the scope of the research and the extent to which other funds are sought, and limited to availability. Complete details are provided in the Qualtrics Student Travel Application form, available in the Graduate Student Information page (to the right).
Finally, please mark your calendars for Thursday, April 9 -- the date of Ohio University's 2020 Research and Creative Activities Expo, held in the Convocation Center. All students who complete research - and especially those who have received funding and/or traveled to present their work - should participate.
You will see email and Twitter announcements from me about the aforementioned items and about other important deadlines, funding opportunities, and events as they happen.
Ann Paulins, Ph.D.


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Because children have more delicate immune systems than adults, water contaminants pose a more serious threat to the young. Drinking only the highest quality water is one way that parents can contribute to keeping their children healthy, even before they are born. Pregnant women need to be especially careful of the water they drink. Certain … Continued
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Staying hydrated is an essential part of every skin care regimen. Because skin dries as it ages, drinking water not only maintains healthy, younger-looking skin but also helps skin detoxify itself, reducing the effects of sunlight and everyday pollutants from smoking and smog. Luckily, drinking enough water is easy when it tastes great because the … Continued
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Water touches nearly every aspect of people's lives. Only one percent of the water that comes into a home is used for drinking. The other 99 percent is working water, proving that the benefits of high-quality water extend far beyond the kitchen faucet. When water quality is subpar, the effects reverberate throughout the home. The … Continued
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Water is a vital nutrient, essential to every single chemical process that occurs in our bodies. Water makes up two-thirds of the human body, and 75 percent of the human brain is water. Staying adequately hydrated allows our bodies to function as best they can, yet nearly 75 percent of Americans are chronically dehydrated without … Continued
March 14, 2019
The Water Quality Association rates water hardiness from "soft" to "very hard." But you may be asking yourself, how can water be hard? The hardness of water is produced by compounds of calcium, magnesium, and a variety of metals in the water. Almost 90% of U.S. homes have hard water and are dealing with their … Continued
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Book Nerd studying to become a Librarian.
Throne of Glass series, Any book by Cassandra Clare, The Catcher in the Rye
"You could rattle the stars. You could do anything, if only you dared""Books are the keeper of secrets, holder of souls""Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo."