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Stand Up Paddling, Foil, SUP Foiling, Foil Surfing, Wing Surf, Wing Surfing, Wing Foiling. This is your forum!
Hey Admin, I have a 611 Jimmy Lewis Flying V and a Neil Pryde Glide Surf large foil . To be honest I am not sure where I have been putting my feet in reference to where the foil is as most of the time I am watching the wing and looking out for the random fishing boat or rogue swell. I will try and get a reference next time. When I learned behind the jet ski I was riding a JL Flying V and Go Foil (not sure what model). It. Seemed effortless to get up and ride the foil. Its such a difficult set up here from the rigging on a rocky beach to riding and a little intimidating especially when trade winds and swells are running. I am sure I will improve in Florida when I get back and then feel a lot more comfortable here. I appreciate the advice.
.....I have a 611 Jimmy Lewis Flying V and a Neil Pryde Glide Surf large foil .
When I learned behind the jet ski I was riding a JL Flying V and Go Foil (not sure what model). It. Seemed effortless to get up and ride the foil.
However, can you expand on: "to just stand on the board like a lump of coal" why would you not want a bigass board, (parallel thinking to SUP surfing) for initial stability?
Morning - hope you dont mind me jumping in here - putting some gear together after trying winging last month. I bought a 2019 naish thrust surf xl foil which is coming in at 1572cms - will that be enough to get me sup foiling? Ive read some on the forum of 2000 cms foils being used.
Cannot answer without your weight, wing ding sizes, wind speeds. Live at the Gorge, its fine. Bigger is easier when learning. Frustration tolerance are all factors.Im running at just under 170 lbs, buying a 5m Swing for my Lake Ontario to start. My local beach can be sub 10 to 20 mph n then some. Trying to keep the sup foil board fairly small to do away with dead weight once flying. My current small surf sup is 710 @ 84 litres. Ok with the frustration factor of going smaller. The naish website had the xl for rider weighing up to 210 lbs but I now see from their 2020 foil lineup that my 19 xl is coming in middle of the pack size wise in their roster. When I tried it it was on a 120 litre board with a 4.2m sling wing.
Quote from: Caribsurf on January 25, 2020, 06:07:01 PM.....I have a 611 Jimmy Lewis Flying V and a Neil Pryde Glide Surf large foil . Board is too big and foil too small to make it easy. QuoteWhen I learned behind the jet ski I was riding a JL Flying V and Go Foil (not sure what model). It. Seemed effortless to get up and ride the foil. That school teaches with the Maliko 200. The biggest, fattest, slowest, instant lift foil ever made.Dwight at Good Breeze I also rode my Fanatic 2000 Aero foil foil on the SkY SUp..much taller mast and longer fuselage and was able to ride that no problem. I think a lot of my problems have to do with current conditions and nerves...once I get back to Fl and get some days on the flat river with good winds, I think I will have success, Then I can come back here in late February and have some fun.Thats funny that the NP Glide Surf L foil is too small because I had a hell of a time finding a bag big enough to bring down here I cant imagine needing a bigger foil. By the way what do you charge for lessons? .You need the Neil Pryde XL to have a fighting chance. Unfortunately the NP company has been sold. US distribution has been sold. So the XL wings promised to the US market in September never came. Thats why I, and all my friends, switched to Axis. I suspect the recent dumping of NP foils at $699, was due to the change in ownership/distribution. Australia is having a better time at getting them. If you switch to Axis...the 1020 is your easiest path to learning to fly. Here is the deal with winging that trips up lots of newbies to the sport. Even guys with prior foiling experience, but not the best naturally skilled.Foiling is super efficient. Once airborne, you power up very quickly. To the point of having almost too much power and speed for limited skills. So, for people like this, you ideally want to pop onto foil without needing lots of power from the wing ding. But this takes pumping skill and technique. Not easy to learn. So the less experienced/skilled need enough wing ding power to just stand on the board like a lump of coal, and let the wind power bring you up to foiling speed. Then you go airborne and freak over the speed boost from the loss of drag. This is why the HUGE foils really help when learning. They help lift the lump of coal. ...yet dont go so fast you freak out. Once you get dialed to this sport, you will want to go fast and you will pump onto foil in a gnat fart.


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Senator Ted Stevens takes the stand in his own defense at his trial in Washington, DC. Plus, the city of Sand Point searches for a missing diver. And seemingly random murders by Fairbanks man shock a quiet Colorado town. Those stories and more tonight on Alaska News Nightly, broadcast statewide on APRN stations.
Individual news stories are posted in the Alaska News category and you can subscribe to APRN's news feeds via e-mail, podcast and RSS.
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Candidates for US House raking in campaign contributions
Dave Donaldson, APRN – Juneau
The campaigns for the two congressional seats on next month's ballot are drawing a lot of money for the candidates. And according to Federal Election Commission reports, they have plenty of money left.
Team of scientists publish assessment of arctic climate change
Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks
An international team of scientists is out with a yearly assessment of climate change in the arctic. The report shows wide spread and in some cases dramatic affects of warming across the northernmost tier of the globe.
Forum looks at coal to liquids technology
Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks
A public forum at the University of Alaska Fairbanks last night focused on the local potential for coal to liquids technology. Fairbanks Mayor Jim Whitaker and Department of Energy representative Brent Sheets participated in the discussion put on by the Alaska Center for Energy and Power, which recently completed a local green house gas inventory. Center director Gwen Holdman says emissions from a coal to liquids plant are a key issue.
Ted Stevens takes the stand in his own defense
Libby Casey, APRN – Washington, DC
Senator Ted Stevens took the stand this afternoon in his trial in Washington, DC. His wife, Katherine testified this morning.
Gasline construction truck traffic a worry in the interior
Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks
A committee is out with a draft list of area infrastructure projects needed to handle the influx of heavy truck traffic gas pipeline construction would bring. The Fairbanks Metropolitan Area Transportation System or "F-MATS" committee of city, borough and state representatives has identified 23 potential projects. Committee coordinator Donna Gradino says they're aimed at facilitating the movement of freight through the area.
Learning about survival in Juneau
John Ryan, KTOO – Juneau
With presidential politics in high gear, and the stock market in turmoil, about 100 people showed up at Juneau's centennial hall last week to learn about a much more fundamental concern- survival.
The state updates Southeast's transportation plan
Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska – Juneau
The state is updating its transportation plan for Southeast Alaska. That's the document listing priorities for new roads, ferries and other major projects.
Sand Point searches for missing diver
Tony Gorman, KSDP – Sand Point
Local authorities in Sand Point have launched a city-wide search for a Trident diver who disappeared Tuesday night.
Murders by Fairbanks man shock local Colorado town
Dan Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks
The murders and seemingly random violence committed by a Fairbanks man in Grand Junction, Colorado has shaken the community. Local police spokeswoman Kate Porras says the killing last weekend of two Grand Junction residents by Stephan Martin Urban of Fairbanks was a shock for the small Colorado city.
Fast Ferry Fairweather to add Angoon to its route by the end of 2010
Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska – Juneau
The Alaska Marine Highway System plans to start sailing the fast ferry Fairweather into Angoon by the end of the decade.

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Report on Economic Challenges in Black Community is "Our Call to Action," says Congresswoman Lee
Congresswoman Barbara Lee released the following on the newly released Joint Economic Committee report on the Persistent Economic Challenges in Black Community:
"Today's Joint Economic Committee (JEC) report paints a bleak picture of the economic state of the African American community and reminds us that more action is needed to ensure our economic recovery reaches everyone.
With today's report, I am reminded of an April 14th, 1967 speech that Dr. King gave entitled "Two Americas." He said: 'there are literally two Americas. One America…is overflowing with the milk of prosperity and the honey of opportunity…tragically and unfortunately, there is another America. This other America has a daily ugliness about it that constantly transforms the ebulliency of hope into the fatigue of despair.'
Sadly, today's report shows that these two Americas still exist nearly five decades later.
Today's report finds that more than one-in-four African Americans lives in poverty; that's more than three times the rate for white Americans.
African American unemployment is more than double the rate of white Americans and median income is nearly $24,000 less than the median income of white households.
It's past time for Congress to act to ensure the American dream is open to all.
As a co-chair of the CBC Task Force on Poverty and the Economy as well as Chair of the Democratic Whip's Task Force on Poverty, Income Inequality, and Opportunity, I am proud to be working with my colleagues to advance policies that lift all Americans out of poverty and into the middle class.
I have introduced the Half in Ten Act (H.R. 258) to develop a national strategy to halve poverty in the next decade and lift more than 22 million Americans out of poverty and into the middle class. I hope my colleagues will join me in working to pass this important legislation.
Fundamentally, this report is our call to action – as Dr. King reminded us in his "Two Americas" speech, we must act boldly.
He said: 'We must come to see that social progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals.'
We must, each of us, be those dedicated individuals working persistently for the social progress that is so greatly needed."
Congresswoman Lee is a member of the Appropriations and Budget Committees, the Steering and Policy Committee, is a Senior Democratic Whip, former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and co-chair of the Progressive Caucus. She serves as chair of the Whip's Task Force on Poverty and Opportunity.
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There is something to be said about a mother and her children. You do not mess with babies unless you want a full blown mama bear, right? What you don't usually hear about is papa bear!
One father took matters into his own when his children were placed into immediate danger at a Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen in San Antonio, Texas.
A robber pointed his gun at the children and demanded property be handed over. That's when the father presented his own firearm and shot the thug dead.
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Officers told Fox San Antonio that 19-year-old Andrews Herrera was killed after he approached Carlos Molina, 32, just before 9 p.m. Wednesday. Molina was eating at the fried chicken chain with his family when Herrera demanded that he hand over his property and threatened his children with a gun, police say.
According to the news site, Molina told Herrera that he had no money and asked whether his family could leave. Most of the family left the restaurant, but Herrera then pointed the gun at two of Molina's children as they walked out of a restroom. In response, Molina drew his licensed handgun and shot Herrera several times, fatally wounding him, police said.
BREAKING: A licensed handgun owner shoots and kills a man who police say attempted to rob a Popeyes on SE Military Dr pic.twitter.com/ekAxeQgKfg
— Ashlei King (@AshleiKing) December 7, 2017
According to officers, they believe Herrera was shot by Molina "in defense of a third person," which would be the children.
Reasons like this are exactly why I never leave home without my EDC (every day carry) and I am always cautious of my surroundings. Criminals are growing more bold and we must be able to protect our own lives as well as those around us.
Guns save lives.
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Background Briefing has a new home at BackgroundBriefing.org.
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We begin with the tectonic shifts underway in the U.S. political landscape that are also occurring in Europe where both the far left and the far right are peeling away from the traditional socialist and conservative parties in the form of more radical left parties like Podemos and Syriza and more radical right parties like the National Front in France gaining ground. Michael Lind, a co-founder of the New America Foundation whose latest book is "Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States" joins us to discuss how the same dynamic is underway in the United States with the traditional Republican moderates all but extinct as the GOP, which now has Ronald Reagan at its center, moves further to the right with a populist demagogue Donald Trump competing against a far-right ideologue, Ted Cruz, for leadership. While on the Democratic side Hillary Clinton is barely holding the center as a Democratic Socialist moves the party to the left.
Then we look into Michael Bloomberg's possible entry into the presidential race which means that not only do we have billionaires in the backrooms deciding who will be president, we have them up front, with another billionaire considering joining Donald Trump in the race. Jeffrey Winters, a professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and author of "Oligarchy" joins us to discuss the brazen nature of America's oligarchs who have not only captured the economy but are now moving not just to buy our politician, but to buy the White House itself.
The finally, on the fifth anniversary of the Egyptian revolution in Tahrir Square that ousted the Mubarak dictatorship, we discuss the fate of the pro-democracy activists now that euphoria has turned to despair with Egypt firmly in control of an even more repressive military regime under General Sisi, while those who led the revolution are either in jail or in exile. Nancy Okail, the Executive Director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy joins us to discuss how and why the revolution failed and what the nature of the next revolution will be.
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Vivienne Crow charts a route in the little-visited hills of Black Combe
Way down in the far south-west corner of Lakeland is a small group of rounded, generally grassy fells with a character all of their own. Lacking the harsh outlines of the Borrowdale volcanics found in the high fells of the central Lake District, these hills have more in common with the Northern Fells group. Composed of Skiddaw slates, they are among the oldest mountains in the region, laid down by sedimentary processes almost 500 million years ago. Standing alone though, isolated from their northern brethren and with the waters of Morecambe Bay and the Irish Sea encroaching on three sides, they have an air of distinctiveness, exclusivity even, about them.
Over the years, writers have picked up on this uniqueness, singling out the highest point, Black Combe, for particular attention. Branwell Brontë, brother to the famous literary sisters, said the fell was formed "to fight 1,000 years of struggles with a storm". From its summit, said Wordsworth, "the amplest range of unobstructed prospect may be seen that British ground commands". And, more recently, local poet Norman Nicholson famously observed: "When you can see Black Combe, we say in Millom, it's going to rain, when you can't see it, it's raining already."
Despite them being Cumbria's first line of defence against the prevailing south-westerlies, I've never yet experienced bad weather on these hills. On previous visits, I'd approached Black Combe via the path rising north, directly from Whicham. It's a reasonably popular route, used by many as a there-and-back way on to the fell. On my last visit, however, I decided it was about time I explored a little more of this neglected group.
From St Anne's Church at Hallthwaites, we crossed farmland and rough grazing before we could step up on to the southern flanks of Gray Stones, a 396m hill on the eastern edge of the huddle. Behind, the River Duddon snaked its way out into the calm waters of Morecambe Bay, while standing out on the horizon was Blackpool Tower. From the top of Stoupdale Crags, we negotiated a route through boggy Whitecombe Moss. The west coast had appeared now, with the hills of Dumfries and Galloway visible in the distance. The seascape dominated the outlook from the 600m summit of Black Combe too, but, on turning round and retracing our steps to Whitecombe Head, it was the impressive panorama of mountains to the north-east that demanded all the attention. Spread out immediately ahead of us were, among others, the Coniston mountains, Crinkle Crags, Bow Fell and the Scafell group.
Rather surprisingly, I discovered there was some remarkable scenery to be enjoyed at much closer quarters too: just to the north-east of the trig pillar are the Blackcombe Screes. After placid, grassy slopes all day, these fearsome, jagged rocks below came as a shock. I spied what looked like a potentially interesting ridge at the northern end of this spectacle: Horse Back.
From Whitecombe Head, we followed a zigzagging route into the valley of Whitecombe Beck. This excellent path with its gorgeous views out to sea provided another glimpse into the craggy heart of the Big Daddy of this range – and back up to Blackcombe Screes. Horse Back looked relatively straightforward from this angle, and I added it to my mental list. Another reason, as if I needed one, to return to this far-flung corner of Cumbria.
Route description
Start/Finish: St Anne's Church, Hallthwaites, about 5.6km southwest of Broughton in Furness on the A595
- Cross A595 and go through gate opposite. Follow field paths over Baystone Bank and down to farm. Enter yard, swing left and go through furthest of two metal gates. Follow lane for 300m, turn R through k-gate. Turn L beside wall and go through gate at base of open fell.
- Follow Stoupdale Beck upstream, joining clearer path from R. After subsidiary beck, bear R at faint fork.
- Path joins from R and heads NW, swinging W around top of Stoupdale Crags and over Whitecombe Moss. When it then swings S at Whitecombe Head, take faint trail on R (WNW, quickly veering SW).
- From top of Black Combe, retrace steps towards Whitecombe Head.
- At bottom of slope, bear R and then R again to descend into valley.
- About 80m back from a gate, cross bridge to L of track. Climb beside wall on right. Follow intake wall to Stoupdale Beck. Carefully ford and then go through second of a pair of gates on R.
- Retrace steps to Hallthwaites.
- Distance: 14km/9 miles
- Time: 5 hours
- Ascent: 814m/2670ft
- Start/Finish: St Anne's Church, Hallthwaites, about 5.6km southwest of Broughton in Furness on the A595
- Maps: OS 1:25,000 Explorer sheet OL6 (English Lakes, SW); Harvey Superwalker 1:25,000 (Lakeland Southwest)
- Transport: Bus 7/7B and, in the summer, the X33 (traveline, 0871 200 2233)
- Information: Ulverston Tourist Information Centre, 01229 587120


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10 April 2017
AS the Grand National brings the country to a halt, developers in Harrogate are approaching their own finishing line - as they transform an historic yet derelict pub into a collection of 14 stylish apartments.
The end of this month (April) will signal the start of a new era for the landmark site of the former Little Wonder Hotel - a feature of the junction between Ripon Road and Skipton Road for more than a century - when the first buyers pick up their keys and move into their new homes.
The development is to be known as Epsom Court so that the historic sporting links of the pub one of two in the UK named after the racehorse which galloped home first at 50-1 in the 1840 Derby remain part of the community.
It is the latest Harrogate project undertaken by Yorkshire-based Ashtree Fine Developments, which acquired the empty building after the pub closed and attempts to revive it as a restaurant failed.
Just two of the two-bedroomed apartments remain for sale, with asking prices of £170,000 and £180,000 respectively.
David Waddington, Head of New Homes for the Harrogate selling agents Linley & Simpson, said: "Across the Harrogate and Ripon district, we are witnessing a resurgence of interest in new-build property as developers return to the market in increasing numbers. And Epsom Court is a good illustration as to why.
"Over and above its design and ultra-competitive asking prices, the development holds no shortage of appeal for homebuyers in particular its location within walking distance of the town centre."
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Behind The Artwork: Between The Lines - To The Wind (2018)
The Brit Tunesmiths BETWEEN THE LINES are prepared for the release of their debut mini-EP, To The Wind, out on Friday 6th July through all platforms. The UK newcomers have also just released a new lyric video for the EP's namesake To The Wind - https://youtu.be/cqtQhuQr1hA . Their Behind the Artwork is below:
1. Who designed the artwork?
- The art work was photographed and edited by Jason Peachy at JDP Photography (https://www.facebook.com/
2. What does the cover artwork represent (please give 50 words)?
The mini-EP lead track "To The Wind" is a song about losing a family member through Alzheimer's, the art work is a representation of the isolation and loneliness people feel during the time of dealing with the illness affecting their loved one - it's a pretty powerful meaning.


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At first take, it might sound like Chris Miller is still in the honeymoon phase when he says of the Beechcraft King Air F90 that he acquired in 2017, "It's currently our only airplane and it's going to be our only airplane. We absolutely love it."
It is, after all, his first King Air. But when you find out more about Miller's path to this point, it sounds like a level-headed statement. This is the airplane he knew he wanted before he even became a pilot, and while other aircraft better fit his needs until now, the King Air matches his family's current lifestyle – one that doesn't look like it will change anytime soon.
Miller and his wife Jennifer are raising five daughters between the ages of 4 and 12 in San Diego while running a family office that invests in commercial real estate and private equity. Until a few years ago, Miller was traveling frequently between homes and business interests in California and Florida. They still have homes in both states, but the trips are less often and the work schedule less demanding.
Miller grew his career and cap-ital beginning with multi-family apartments in Texas in the 1990s. The financial crisis in 2007-2008 was devastating to the housing industry and he came out of that storm with a single self-storage property in Jacksonville, Florida.
"We humbly made every mistake in the world and then we figured the business out," he said. "We were at a moment in time with the talent to scale that company from one property to one of the largest self-storage companies in the world."
iStorage was founded in 2008 and in 2016 sold its 66-facility portfolio in 24 markets across 12 states for $630 million.
"I've worked since I was 14 years old and after we sold that company, I've been able to spend a lot of time with my family," he said. "I can help raise these girls, be a good husband and I'm living a good, balanced life instead of working all the time."
The winding path to his dream airplane
Miller grew up in Fallbrook, an area north of San Diego known for its avocado groves that some say make it the "Avocado Capital of the World." He enjoyed watching airplanes take off and land from the local airport but it wasn't until he went to college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas that he got a chance to be around airplanes and meet people who could afford to own them.
He called moving from Fallbrook to Dallas to attend SMU, a private college, an eye-opening experience. It was at the Addison Airport just north of downtown Dallas that he says he fell in love with the King Air – for its rugged look and the comfort, speed and power that pilots boasted about.
The real push into aviation, though, came from an experience flying with his wife's cousin, Bill Borgsmiller, who founded the ACI Jet facility at San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport about midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
"Jen and I were just married and we had come to San Diego," Miller remembers. "Billy flew down to Carlsbad in a client's Citation II and he told us to come to the airport and go to dinner with him. He said, in the Citation we could either fly down to Cabo San Lucas in an hour or an hour and a half or we can fly up to San Francisco or over to Phoenix. Both of our mouths hit the floor. So, 20 years ago we went to Roy's restaurant in Pebble Beach. I got to sit in the front and as soon as I experienced that, I told my wife that I have to learn to fly. We immediately got our pilot's licenses back in Texas, then I got my instrument rating and we started flying from there."
They became pilots in 2003 and in 2005 they purchased their first aircraft, a 2005 Cirrus SR22. The Millers put nearly 500 hours on the airplane, including cross-country flights, before selling it in 2007.
"From that point, my wife and I had five little girls over the next 10 years, so I put my head down in business and started working really hard," Miller said. "Over those years, we leased a lot of different airplanes: a Beechcraft Baron, a Beechcraft Bonanza and a Turbo Commander. We started working our way up and bought our first turbine-engine aircraft when I was 40, which was five years ago.
"Our first true turbine was a Citation 501, and I'll never forget making that purchase. Then after we recapitalized one of our companies, we bought a Gulfstream 100. Next, we bought the Lear 60 and, finally, we bought the King Air, the airplane I always wanted."
Queen of Kings
At the height of expanding iStorage into 12 states, the jets fit Miller's travel needs, which included frequent trips between San Diego and Tampa. Now, when needed, he flies to Florida on commercial airlines. The King Air is ideal for most of their missions that take them throughout California, surrounding states and down to Mexico.
On the business side, the Millers use the King Air for meetings related to real estate acquisition and companies in which they invest. Personal use includes taking the family to outdoor destinations from Northern California down into Mexico and over to Arizona.
"We absolutely love the airplane because it has great power, it's the smaller fuselage but it has the big engines," Miller said. "For our lifestyle, we love to go down to Mexico and we love to go to the mountains. We go to the Sierras and Lake Tahoe, and we also go down to Gonzaga Bay in Mexico and land on a dirt strip. We really travel all around the region and we can throw all five kids in, fill it with bags, fill it with fuel and we can go and land anywhere we want."
Miller competes in the sport of desert racing, driving the No. 40 Trophy Truck in Southern California Off Road Enthusiasts (SCORE) events such as the San Felipe 250, Baja 500 and Baja 1000. He often uses the King Air to get to remote race locations.
"We blew a transmission and a third member on a truck we were racing down in Mexico, so we ran the King Air back up to San Diego and picked up a transmission and flew it back down really quick," he said. "That was very convenient."
Miller flies the King Air along with a second pilot, often his chief pilot Richard Hardoon. The two met eight years ago when Hardoon was managing several aircraft in Florida as well as flying. Miller leased the Twin Commander 690B-10 from him and "we flew it all over the U.S.," Hardoon said.
A former U.S. Navy and airline pilot, Hardoon is now based in California along with the King Air at Gillespie Field Airport, northeast of downtown San Diego. He flies and manages the King Air, which Miller uses about 150 hours annually. Hardoon has about 22,000 hours and first got to know the Beechcraft product line while working at Hangar One in Florida in the 1980s while attending Embry-Riddle.
"We found LL-163 with low time, and it had every available airframe mod completed already: engine inlets, strakes, exhaust stacks and wing lockers," Hardoon said. "Chris tasked me with the rest of the refurbishment job. We took it to Stevens Aviation in Nashville, who installed a new instrument panel with Dual Garmin G600s and Dual GTN-750s and a new interior. We then took it to Aerosmith Aviation in Longview, Texas, for a new paint scheme."
The Raisbeck wing lockers have provided plenty of room for hauling surfboards, mountain bikes and skis along with luggage, and the other Raisbeck modifications have delivered the projected performance efficiencies. Those mods along with upgraded avionics have made the 1981 King Air F90 an amazing platform, both pilots said.
"Just this week we were returning from Cabo San Lucas, and the weather at Brown Field in San Diego was low-IFR," Hardoon said. "We set up for the LPV approach to Runway 8L and the autopilot and Garmin 750s shot the LPV approach with ease. It's rare having to use the LPV feature in real world conditions for us in So Cal, but it worked great."
"Another valuable modification is Airtext," Miller said. "It's an affordable option for electronic messaging while onboard, and it has bridged the communication gap that would exist for an hour and a half to three hours depending on his mission."
He can't think of anything else he'd want to add to this King Air.
"I say this, impartially of course, but it's an absolutely stunning airplane," Miller said. "It's probably the queen of the fleet of F90s."
"God has blessed us very much with letting us enjoy such a wonderful piece of machinery. We're thankful to Beechcraft and all the vendors who support the King Air and make it such a great airplane."


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Captains, Coordinators, and Coach Talk About A Contentious Win Over Furman
Michigan State opened up their 2016 campaign with a win 28-13 over FCS opponent Furman. The game was not the blowout many expected it to be with some uncharacteristic penalties stalling drives and an offense that still seemed to be finding its rhythm.
Captains Tyler O'Connor and Riley Bullough were optimistic from what they saw with an eye to Notre Dame more than two weeks away.
Tight End Josiah Price talked about how penalties, specifically two of his own, halted drives and how they need to clean that up before Notre Dame.
Co-Offensive Coordinator Dave Warner sees many problem areas but noting that can't be fixed in practice. He also talked about the backfield situation heading into South Bend.
Coach Dantonio delivered a familiar message to start, and described the great challenge ahead of the team in South Bend.
LJ Scott was content with the win, but frustrated with all the rotating. Especially in the backfield, on offense.
The 1-0 Spartans take on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish September 17th in South Bend. Catch all the action on Classic Rock 94.9 WMMQ and Lansing's Big Talker 1240 WJIM.


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brief, first
left, long
mere, open
opening, right
Hope this word list had the adjective used with parenthesis you were looking for. Additional describing words / adjectives that describe / adjectives of various nouns can be found in the other pages on this website.


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Pope St. John Paul II led the Church from 22 October 1978 till he died on 2 April 2005. The first Polish pope, and the first non-Italian to be named successor of St. Peter in 455 years, Cardinal Karol Wojtyła accepted his election with the words, "With obedience in faith to Christ, my Lord, and with trust in the Mother of Christ and the Church, in spite of great difficulties, I accept."
He took the name John Paul II, following his predecessor, who had combined the names of his two predecessors. He was only fifty-eight.
To save means to liberate from radical, ultimate evil. Death itself is no longer that kind of evil, if followed by the Resurrection.
— Crossing the Threshold of Hope
Dying to the Lord means experiencing one's death as the supreme act of obedience to the Father (cf. Phil 2:8), being ready to meet death at the "hour" willed and chosen by him (cf. Jn 13:1), which can only mean when one's earthly pilgrimage is completed.
Living to the Lord also means recognizing that suffering, while still an evil and a trial in itself, can always become a source of good. It becomes such if it is experienced for love and with love through sharing, by God's gracious gift and one's own personal and free choice, in the suffering of Christ Crucified. In this way, the person who lives his suffering in the Lord grows more fully conformed to him (cf. Phil 3:10; 1 Pet 2:21) and more closely associated with his redemptive work on behalf of the Church and humanity.
— Evangelium Vitae
The Church prays for the dead and this prayer says much about the reality of the Church itself. It says that the Church continues to live in the hope of the eternal life. Prayer for the dead is almost a battle with the reality of death and destruction that weights down upon the earthly existence of man.
This is and remains a particular revelation of the Resurrection. In this prayer Christ Himself bears witness to the life and immortality, to which God calls every human being.
— Crossing the Threshold of Hope
Our daily experience tells us that life is marked by sin and threatened by death, despite the desire for good which beats in all our hearts and the desire for life which courses through our veins. We discover that everything within us impels us to overcome the temptations of superficiality and despair. It is then that we are called to become disciples of the One who infinitely transcends all.
— World Youth Day message, 1993
Be not afraid.
— His inaugural homily as pope
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Middlesbrough FC are ready to get cracking with their summer transfer plans ahead of next season's Premier League return, according to chairman Steve Gibson.
But what areas of Aitor Karanka's squad need strengthening ahead of the top-flight? Which players are likely to keep their place in the Premier League, and who may leave the Riverside?
Boro writer Jonathon Taylor looks at every position and gives his verdict. Do you agree? Have your say in the comments section below.
One of the main priorities for Boro in the summer transfer window has to be between the posts, with Michael Agazzi having returned to AC Milan without getting his jersey muddy.
Dimi Konstantopoulos has had an excellent campaign, keeping 22 clean sheets and helping to smash a handful of club clean sheets record during the season.
I can recall a few matches in which Boro's Greek stopper produced match-winning moments, a string of superb saves and timely interventions to help the team edge over the line.
Away at Nottingham Forest in September, for example, when he saved Henri Lansbury's second-half penalty and made a sensational save to deny Eric Lichaj a late leveller.
At home to Fulham, he denied Ross McCormack a certain winner with a stunning one-hand save, and then at Wolves he made a critical, point-blank stop to deny James Henry. You can add Brentford and Leeds away to that list too.
But now aged 37, Konstantopoulos needs competition. Despite his cup heroics at Manchester City and Manchester United, Tomas Mejias doesn't seem to be the answer.
The Spaniard signed a new contract in February that keeps him at the Riverside until 2018, but he hasn't played a league match in 15 months.
Up-and-coming stopper Connor Ripley - who has thrived during his loan spell at SPL side Motherwell this season - has made noises about returning to Teesside and forcing his way into Aitor Karanka's thoughts.
There will be plenty of time to have a look at him over the summer, but as things stand, I'd still bring in a goalkeeper with Premier League experience. Someone who has proven they can do it on a cold, wet Tuesday night in Stoke.
They won't necessarily walk into the club as No 1, but Boro need to add competition in that department. At the moment, I'm not convinced that's the case.
Verdict: Experienced top-flight goalkeeper should be a priority.
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An area where Boro are blessed, with the club having boasted the best defensive record in all four leagues in England this season.
Daniel Ayala and Ben Gibson will surely start the season as centre-back chums, so long as the latter's hamstring behaves itself this summer.
But back-up will be needed in those central areas, with Jonathan Woodgate having missed most of the last 12 months through injury and a decision on his playing future yet to be made public.
Tomas Kalas has returned to Chelsea, but in my view would be a smart piece of business if the price is right.
Then young defender Dael Fry has enjoyed an excellent breakthrough season - but it remains to be seen whether a loan move is the next step in his development.
So another centre-back must be high on the agenda, on top of fit-again Alex Baptiste - who is keen to start his Boro career at the second attempt after a season of turmoil on the treatment table.
Verdict: At least one more to challenge Ayala/Gibson
After his successful comeback stint at Sheffield United, Baptiste can provide competition at right-back , Boro's previously-cursed position, which has been occupied by Emilio Nsue for the bulk of this season.
Nsue's development over the last 12 months is off the chart. He's been arguably Boro's most improved player of 2015/16 - and deserves his chance.
The Equatorial Guinea international is another who has a big pre-season ahead, and his ability to also play as an attacking winger should see him remain a key squad player for the upcoming campaign.
Ritchie De Laet has left for Leicester and, as yet, there have been few murmurs about any future permanent deal.
Verdict: Depends on Baptiste's recovery
George Friend is surely a guaranteed starter in the Premier League. He's been a virtual ever-present under Karanka, was named in the PFA Championship Team of the Year for a second consecutive campaign, and looks every inch a top-flight player.
But exactly where that leaves James Husband remains to be seen, with the 22-year-old deputy having enjoyed excellent loan stints at Fulham and Huddersfield this season.
He's perhaps been unfortunate since moving to Boro in the summer of 2014. He's widely seen as one of the best left-backs in the Championship, and would surely merit a starting place at most other clubs.
But Friend has been a colossus, and it's been almost impossible to build a case for dropping him. In that sense, Husband has been a victim of circumstance.
Should he be allowed to depart again - either on a permanent or a short-term basis - Boro would need to replace him.
Verdict: Friend should start the season as first-choice
Central Midfield
This is probably the position where Boro are best-equipped - the two midfield anchors in Karanka's tried and tested 4-2-3-1.
In Adam Clayton, Grant Leadbitter and Adam Forshaw, Boro have three good options - and there's a case for saying all three could make the step up to the top-flight.
Leadbitter is the orchestrator, Clayton is the midfield metronome , and Forshaw is the more attack-minded of the trio. All offer slightly different roles, and I'd expect all three to remain at the club.
We haven't seen a great deal of 21-year-old January recruit Julien de Sart, and it will be interesting to see whether the Belgian youngster will be kept on as cover, or loaned out to boost his development.
Karanka likes to have two players for each position, so if that's the case, you'd expect him to go into the top-flight with four central midfielders at his disposal.
Should de Sart depart on loan, you'd expect another - perhaps a more experienced head - to be introduced.
Verdict: An experienced head to provide cover
On the flanks, Mustapha Carayol will be odds-on to leave the club this summer - but the future of Adam Reach is slightly more unclear.
Karanka has always insisted the 22-year-old does have a Boro future, despite sanctioning his loan move to Preston this season.
At Deepdale, Reach has been a player reborn - but if he was not fancied by Karanka in the Championship, will he be fancied at the level above?
Albert Adomah has shown enough to be given a Premier League chance, so long as the hatchet is well and truly buried following last summer's transfer request bombshell. That seems to be the case.
Uruguay international Cristhian Stuani is another who could prove himself to be a handy top-flight player, and his vast experience in La Liga should make him a useful head in the dressing room.
Stewart Downing is a near-certainty to play some role, whether it will be on the left or in the No 10, and his Premier League know-how will be another vital weapon in the team's armoury.
Meanwhile there's the curious case of Carlos de Pena, who has made only six Championship appearances following his £2.6m transfer from Nacional. Quite where he fits into Boro's top-flight first-team squad is unclear.
It's a safe bet that Adomah, Stuani and Downing will all be involved - but the squad is looking bare in those areas, even if Reach is given a top-flight tilt.
Verdict: Two wingers needed in the summer
No 10
Stewart Downing played in that role for West Ham in the Premier League, and was one of the Hammers' most effective players in 2014/15.
He's one good option in that position, but arguably Boro's most important piece of summer business will be bringing in another No 10.
Gaston Ramirez fit the bill perfectly in the Championship, and with the Uruguay international out of contract at Southampton, he would constitute a superb free acquisition.
Should Boro attempt to sign Gaston Ramirez on a permanent deal in the summer?
Karanka has already admitted he'd love to bring the 25-year-old back to the Riverside next season, and the player has made positive noises too.
But there'll be a long queue for his services, you would imagine. Can Boro muscle out their rivals and put together an enticing package for Ramirez? If not, the alternatives could be more costly.
Verdict: Ideally Ramirez - or if not, someone else.
Jordan Rhodes has scored goals at every level he's played at during his career. I've seen no reason why that won't be the case in the Premier League next season.
He ended the season with five goals in eight, and Boro fans have seen enough to suggest his best on Teesside is still to come.
Boro parted with £9m in January for the prolific Championship goal-getter, and that was due to their belief that he can also cut it in the top-flight.
He, like David Nugent, will both have a role to play next season - but you'd have to think the one attribute Boro are lacking in that final third is pace.
If Stuani is continued to be seen as a wide midfielder, then you'd think Boro will recruit a new front man this summer - with Kike Sola having returned to Spain following his unsuccessful loan stint.
Young forward Bradley Fewster has already gone public with his first-team hopes for next season . He could be given a pre-season audition, but expect Boro to move for another forward ahead of their first campaign back in the big time.
Verdict - Another needed to help Rhodes/Nugent


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Walter White joins the Trump cabinet on 'SNL,' and he has the perfect role
"It's almost like Mr. Trump appoints these people specifically to undermine the very agencies they head," said CNN's Jake Tapper, as played by Saturday Night Live's Beck Bennett.
By that logic, who did the show predict Trump would hire to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)? None other than former high school chemistry teacher and meth cook, Walter White.
Bryan Cranston reprised his Breaking Bad role as White in Saturday's cold open, appearing alongside Bennett and Kate McKinnon as Trump aide Kellyanne Conway.
There were plenty of jokes at the expense of Trump's cabinet and some great Breaking Bad call-backs.
Sounds about right. #CenaOnSNL pic.twitter.com/pGcE2LTniz
— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) December 11, 2016
In the sketch, it's clear Trump's administration had some trouble tracking White down. Even though opportunities keep knocking at his door, he has a rule about that:
"It's time to make America cook again," Cranston said as Walter White. "We want to fill this nation with red, white and a whole lotta blue."
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Prerequisites: none
Course dates and to book: June 20-22, 2020, Melbourne. Postponed due to COVID-19.
Course summary
This course has been developed from the original 5-day, 40hr program. We are excited to deliver a 3-day face-to-face course supported by additional pre- and post-course online learning activities. There will be short keynote lectures spaced between practical sessions, which will focus on practical, hands on technique and developing your palpation. The 4:1 student to tutor ratio enhances the opportunity to obtain the most from these practical sessions, this means one tutor to two pairs of students.
The Fundamentals program is supported by structured educational approach, with set learning outcomes and the goal of ensuring individually supported learning with time allowed for tutor discussion, goal setting and meeting personal learning needs.
Learning Outcomes
- Develop an understanding of the 5 phenomena of the Primary Respiratory Mechanism (PRM).
- Review the anatomy and physiology of the cranial bones and sacrum and their relationships to other anatomical structures.
- Further develop your approach to palpation of the body.
- Discuss the clinical application of the course content with tutors during table sessions.
- Identify and reflect on personal goals or desired learning outcomes of each participant for the course.
Recommended texts:
1. Teachings in the Science of Osteopathy – the book is edited by Ann Wales from Dr William Sutherland who came up with the concepts covered in this program. It is quite a readable book and includes some technique descriptions. For more and to purchase see here
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Driver and homeowner advocates who don't take transit in Scarborough make already bad plans for Scarborough even worse
By Shaun Cleaver, STA Ally
This past Friday, the TTC announced that it would further modify the design plans for the Scarborough One-Stop Subway Extension in the face of pressure from car drivers and homeowners.
Scarborough has an urgent need for more rapid transit. This rapid transit can be provided quickly with a Light Rail Transit (LRT) network. 2016 could have seen the opening of a full LRT on Sheppard Avenue East that would have freed transit from the congestion created by cars.
There could also be another LRT under construction to bring rapid transit to Centennial College and the edge of Malvern.
Instead, the one Scarborough-focused plan being taken seriously right now is for a big hole with one subway station. And this plan just got worse.
Whereas Scarborough's transit riders are starving for a comprehensive network and affordable travel around Scarborough, homeowners and drivers screamed, "Get your gigantic hole out of our neighbourhood." Ironically, these same homeowners and drivers claimed to support better transit for Scarborough.
Yet as soon as construction details for the One-Stop Extension were released, their tangibleconcernswere about how they'd be inconvenienced by closed roads, dust, and noise.
These people claim to speak for Scarborough, yet they do not speak for Scarborough transit riders.
What will be the fallout of the TTC buckling to this pressure from car drivers and single-family homeowners? Will the cost go up even further?
We know that Toronto needs to invest in rapid transit, but this subway extension is a bad investment of our valuable transit resources. Furthermore, the majority of councillors in City Council have repeatedly voted on this issue with inadequate and misleading information about costs.
Will the delay for rapid transit get even worse?
The subway extension was promised to only take a few more years than the original 7-Stop LRT plan. Instead, deadlines are being missed despite the official messaging that the project is on-schedule.
How many more years do we need endure the screech of the Scarborough RT? How many more winters do we need to wait for replacement buses because the RT has stopped running due to weather conditions? Construction could be happening now to replace the clunky RT with a modern LRT that extends into north-east Scarborough.
As if they knew that we would point out the obviousness of increased costs and delays from this homeowner/driver advocacy, the TTC has denied these are issues. To this we ask, "Hey TTC, is the One-Stop Subway Extension still on track to 'only' cost $3.2B and open in 2025?"
We await a credible answer. Given some recent issues with misleading memos and suppressed information to make service cuts seem like routine adjustments, our confidence in the TTC is a bit shaken.
Are you a Scarborough transit rider who is tired of progress being undermined by the needs of people trying to maintain the status quo? Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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SOLO: a Star Wars Story hits theaters on May 25th. Buy your tickets now because this is a movie you will not want to miss.
I had heard of the Mother of Dragons. I had heard of Khaleesi and Daenerys.
But I didn't make the connection that those same women were Qi'ra from Solo: A Star Wars Story
Until just before the Solo event, that is.
Emilia Clarke is a small, slight woman. She doesn't look like she could overpower a dragon, let alone a rugged, youthful Han Solo, and yet she does both of these things.
Emilia has only played strong women but wants us to take "strong" out of the equation. It's not that women can't be strong, she's just got some things to say about "strong women" that I think you should hear.
She also gabs about who she gives all her LEGO minifigures to, which MARVEL Avenger she'd be, and what it felt like to be the woman before Leia Organa.
Let's Go!
Emilia wasn't always a fan of Star Wars, though she did grow up with a big brother who was a fan.
She didn't fully understand or appreciate the gravity of the franchise until Episode 7 came out in 2015.
I became a fan when I went to see Episode 7 with my brother. I suddenly knew what everyone must have felt back in 77 when it first came out. I thought, this is how it's done, this is how everyone should be making movies. Then I watched all the movies and now I'm here!
On what she likes about Qi'ra and how they're similar
She is definitely a survivor. She does what she needs to do to keep being around. You see her and Han from kids and so you get to see them from when nothing was *too* serious, they were just Bonnie & Clyding their way out of there.
When you see her later on in life, she's lived a huge amount in a short time. I had to grow up really quickly. Game of Thrones was my first jo,b so we are related in that sense of you just have to hustle and grow up real quick.
How did Emilia Clarke feel about playing the role of 'The Woman who Came Before Leia Organa"?
I know that's a role I'd be intimidated to take on for sure! Knowing you're the woman who helped shape Han into the man he became sounds terrifying to me.
I just tried not to think about it! It's scary enough I'm standing in front of the Star Wars banner, I didn't need to think about that. Qi'ra is before her. I don't know what my next 10 years is going to look like, I'll let Alden take all that heat.
What does Emilia Clarke want young women to take away from her roles playing strong women?
What I would love is, we're just women. You can take strong out of the equation. We just ARE. Strength is within us as women. It would be great for the young girls who are watching me play these characters now to just see that as a part of being a woman instead of it being a choice. 'Am I going to be a woman or am I going to be a strong woman?" YOU ARE. We all are, you have it in you anyway so just go and get it.
I absolutely LOVED this sentiment from Emilia. I hate when people say, "I don't know how you do it all!" or "I look up to you so much because you do XYZ". Stop that! You can do the same things I can. We are inherently strong. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Or rather, take your strength back from those who have stolen it from you.
I hope my daughter just knows she's strong without having to be told that, without having to look up to strong women. That is why I constantly give her the gift of personal choice and responsibility. I allow her to have her emotions because mine were taken away from me. I want her to know that she can scale a rock wall and do stunts then turn someone down for a date without having to explain and make each decision in her life with the confidence that it's the right one for her.
That answer was everything to me.
On keeping up with her craft of acting
It's really important to do both stage and screen as an actor because when you go back to the stage it's like going back to drama school. You kind of relearn everything.
I grew up in the theatre and there's magic there. It's unlike anything you can ever get when you're filming on screen. In the theatre, every, single night you're with your ensemble and you're working together to create something different.
To me it feels like actual magic. It's really exhausting and it sure doesn't pay the rent so you've got to mix that up. I do think it's important to keep going back and checking in on your craft in that way.
On Costuming for the role of Qi'ra and which costume she'd rather wear home
In the begninng, it was like kids on the run, sort of cool factor you could play into. When I put on the first costume, I was like 'Yes, this is good. I'm going to go home in this.'
Then later on it needed to have an impact. It also needed to give the impression that later on she had clothes that had been bought for her to appear a certain way to show that there's this property about her. I think that plays into Qi'ra as a character in terms of what she chooses to show and what she doesn't. I think that was reflected in the costumes.
What does Emilia Clarke say to lift herself up in hard times?
I quite like KOKO – Keep on Keepin' on.
Emilia had dreams of becoming a LEGO figure some day. If this isn't an illustration of "dreams come true", I don't know what is.
It's so good! It's amazing!
I told my godson, I'm sorry honey, but you're just going to have all the merchandise. Here play with this LEGO. 'Recognize her? DO YA?!'
What it was like working with Ron Howard
It was amazing. I kept being like 'You're joking. I don't believe you. You can't really expect to believe that Ron Howard has chosen to join this movie.'
Then I remembered it was a Star Wars movie and people want to be a part of that.
It was a dream come true. It couldn't have been better.
He held us in the most beautiful way and he allowed us to all be heard, which in a movie of this scale is so impressive.
On the Millennium Falcon
The amount of time you spent on the Millennium Falcon with a large amount of crew and cast in a very small space made you want to Febreeze quite often. It was like real life livin'.
Which MARVEL Avenger would you be if you could choose one?
I want to say "The Hulk". That'd be so cool! 'Yo Mark, watch out honey!'
He just seems like he's having the most fun out of anybody!
Yeah girl, I don't blame you. But seriously, just have some kids and I think you'll find that happens naturally. It just doesn't come with ripped clothes and green skin.


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Suddenly, it seems that everybody and their cousin is asking us if they have bipolar disorder. A few years ago, bipolar disorder was the ignored orphan diagnosis in psychiatry. However, now that various patented molecules have been proven effective, industry money is flying into efforts to publicize the diagnosis, and it's clearly working.
We are getting many more referrals from both therapists and primary care physicians for evaluations of possible bipolar disorder. Patients are often brandishing web-based diagnostic checklists during their initial visits.
Unfortunately, the impression in the psychiatric front-line is that many patients are labeled "bipolar" when they are not responding well to treatment, are having insomnia, are "hyper," or are simply too annoying for someone else (ie, a spouse, an internist) to tolerate.
Identifying possible bipolar suspects is no longer the issue; distinguishing true positives from false positives is the real challenge. Researchers in the field have made things confusing by becoming polarized into two camps: the "lumpers," who believe in a "bipolar spectrum" disorder that would end up encompassing about 10% of all humans, and the "splitters," who like the specificity of DSM-IV criteria and prefer the traditional 1% prevalence figure for bipolar disorder. As usual, the truth lies somewhere in between.
Here are TCR's top five diagnostic quandaries in bipolar disorder, with suggestions for how to approach them:
1. History of Mania in a Depressive Presentation. Unless you happen to be running a Bipolar Disorders Clinic at a tertiary care center, most bipolar patients will come to their first visit undiagnosed and appearing depressed or anxious. Epidemiological studies tell us that about 10-20% of depressed patients are actually bipolar, though they may not proclaim themselves diagnostically as such for several years. So your job is to probe relentlessly for a history of manic or hypomanic episodes in all depressed patients. Begin with an all-purpose question like, "Have you ever had a period of at least a week when you were manic that is, overtalkative, overactive, too energetic, and not needing any sleep, as though you drank too much coffee or took speed?" Once a candidate period is identified, refer to it as you ask the usual DIGFAST questions (see box).
This article originally appeared in The Carlat Psychiatry Report -- an unbiased monthly covering all things psychiatry.
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2. Irritable Mania vs. Depressive Irritability. Up to half of all bipolar patients are irritable rather than euphoric when manic. In case you haven't noticed, this fact makes our job much harder. The problem here is that irritability is also a common feature of unipolar depression, anxiety disorders, adjustment disorders, etc…. So what makes manic irritability special? A few things. It co-occurs with at least 4 of the DIGFAST criteria during a given week. It is vastly out of proportion to the provoking situation (obviously, this is a judgement call on your part). It is often directed toward strangers in addition to family members/spouses. For example, the patient who says he flew into a rage because the grocery store clerk used paper instead of plastic has graduated from a "bad mood" into something diagnostic. If in doubt, bring family members into the appointment; they will be more likely to give you the straight scoop.
3. Mixed Mania vs. Agitated Depression. Patients with mixed mania suffer both manic symptoms (either euphoric or irritable) and depressive symptoms, all in the same day. The diagnostic confusion is embodied in the following scenario: a depressed patient reports racing, ruminative thoughts, excessive, "nervous" energy, distractibility, and poor sleep. This patient meets criteria for both agitated depression and mixed mania. As a psychiatrist, you are definitely under the gun, since you have to decide whether to use an antidepressant or a mood stabilizer/atypical antipsychotic. There are no easy answers here. Ask about clues to bipolarity, such as a positive family history and prior poor response to antidepressants.
4. Hypomania vs. Normal Happiness. It is most unsatisfying to give someone a psychiatric diagnosis for simply being very happy. And this is essentially what hypomania is: exhuberant, energetic, productive happiness in the absence of social or occupational dysfunction, lasting at least 4 days. But patients with Bipolar II have recurrent depressions between such halcion days, and are generally pretty miserable by the time they land in your office. Some European researchers believe that almost half of patients we now label "depressed" actually meet criteria for bipolar II if you root around in their history long enough (1). But this view is controversial. To diagnose it, you start out with the same type of screening question as for Bipolar I, but you only have to document that the elevated or irritable mood and associated behaviors occurred for 4 days.
5. Cyclothymia vs. Borderline Personality Disorder. Think of cyclothymia as the "dysthymia" of bipolar disorder. The patient reports numerous periods of subsyndromal depression alternating with hypomanic episodes. It lasts at least 2 years, and if there is any full-blown depression or mania during the first two years of the disorder, the patient loses the cyclothymia tag and converts to some version of bipolar disorder. Cyclothymia can be confused with borderline personality disorder, because in both, there can be chronic mood lability, impulsivity, irritability, up and down relationships, etc….Treatment-wise, it's not clear how useful a diagnosis this is, since there are no clear treatment guidelines for cyclothymia, and many clinicians resort to treating it as they would bipolar disorder (see this month's Anecdotes from the Field).
TCR VERDICT:How to Diagnose Bipolar? Very Carefully!
1. Hantouche EG, Akiskal HS, Lancrenon S, et al. Systematic clinical methodology for validating bipolar-II disorder: data in mid-stream from a French national multi-site study (EDIDEP). J Affect. Disord. 1998;50:163-173.


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I wonder how the house is going to be divided up in future generations. When my maternal grandparents died they left the house to all three of their daughters to share. Because I am an only child I assume that my mother will pass my portion of the house to me so I will still have a third. My cousin Bobby is also an only child so he will get his mother's third. My cousin's Kate, Sarah, and Rebecca will also want a piece though and what will they get? One Ninth? Will they demand an equal share with me and Bobby leaving everyone with a fifth? Will one group buy another out? I know that I want to keep the house for the duration of my lifetime assuming it is passed down to me. I dunno, this arrangement obviously can't last that long generationally speaking because Bobby has 6 children and if they have children, well....one house is clearly not going to be enough.
I don't know why I am thinking about this kind of stuff right now except that I have started to really consider my future as a possibility over the last couple weeks.
*sigh* Hee-Ann just called me and told me that my presence would not be needed at the volunteer class tomorrow. I just basically got fired from volunteer teaching. I wonder if it's because he heard something bad about the job I did or just because he wants to finish what he started by himself. I feel like slamming my head into a wall until the stupid falls out.
It's almost impossible for me to be altruistic without viewing it at least partially as a judgement of my own competence. Last night I was talking to someone who I've been in correspondance with for a couple weeks and I finally managed to broach the subject of a theory that I'd had for awhile but been a little bit trepidatios about presenting. Anyway the person said that they were too tired to talk about it and I feel like I was too pushy not because I neccesarily thought that it would be best for the other person to talk about it then but because I was eagre to fill in the gaps in the theory and go from generalities to specifics. That's wrong. I shouldn't do that but it's so easy to convince myself that that's not what I'm doing. A few small lies conceal the big one.
I feel like either cutting off my hand or signing up to build for Habitat for Humanity. The second is more constructive (I am nothing if not the source of a plethora of pathatic puns) but the first is less likely to harm another person. What if I don't nail in a roof beam properly and it falls on a child's head? Stuff like that rules me.
I wish life was simple and you only had to work hard to get what you want. I wish it was like a big rock that you had to push up a hill and once it got to the top you were happy. Instead life feels like a piece of sculpture where the angles don't quite match up and you keep moving from side to side looking for how the whole thing fits together so you can understand it but you loose the image of one side when you move to another and you just can't get a picture of it in your mind.
I know for some people life is just a simple path, school college fun work family work retirement fun family death. They go into whatever major or career seems most lucrative and they just live, knowing their goals knowing what they have to do etc. When life throws them curveballs they take, even if it's an 0-2 count with an offspeed pitcher on the mound. Sometimes things work out sometimes they don't but they don't hold THEMSELVES responsible. I am the opposite. I'll swing if it's 3-0 and I don't accept other people's advice as gospel or even good mythology. I want to carve out my own path and it's hard hard hard.
I wish that the glimmer of potential I see in the future could be spread out to include some of now in it. Otherwise I feel like I'm just on a wild goose chase, searching for a happy life that will always be just over the horizon. I feel okay these days, I feel alright, but that worries me. I'm not doing all that much better from a realist's perspective. Have my aspirations just dropped or am I actually healing? Do you need to FEEL better before you can DO better? I think so. But I don't know.
Reaching out and touching somebody can be hard when you've known so many porcupines. As I heal, or think I heal, I feel better in isolation but crave companionship more. Does that make sense? My overall sense of well being rises but I also begin to experience loneliness as worse than the inconveniences of company.
Can't I just have the last 19 years back to do over again. I swear I'll do better this time. I swear I'll try harder. I'll learn my ABCs and 123s and I won't disapoint my daddy by reading comic books and I won't be such an outsider.
Okay, then I'll deal with what I got.
I stopped in the middle of this entry and worked out a little. I'm starting to enjoy it more now that I'm doing it on a more regular basis. I closed my eyes on the exercise bike and listened to the music and just felt it. It was actually nice. Then I got to do weight lifting which I really enjoy and it definitly perked my mood up. For some reasons aerobic exercise doesn't give me any endorphin high but when I'm benching or whatever I definitly feel those sweet naturedrugs.
I am on the cusp of something. Manhood? Recovery? Another low? I'm not 100% sure. All I know is that I'm cusping. That's not a word. So what?
Charles said that I'd make a good wrestler. That meant a lot to me. Not that he knows shit about wrestling, but you take kind words where you can get them. Right?
This is one of my new posts. The ones that are intended for me and might be all broken up and boring and irritating to others. I am pretty surprised at how okay I am with giving up my need to entertain or appear interesting right now. I'm sure it will come back but for now it is held at bay, something that I used to be but am not anymore.
I am also okay with the fact that I haven't really gotten feedback for awhile. At first I thought that if I wrote a couple entries and nobody commented on them they were failures and I felt the need to put some kind of effort into the next one. To write an essay instead of an entry. That is no longer there so much. If people want to comment that's great, but if they don't that's also okay becuase I CAN'T focus this on the responses I recieve. That just wouldn't be true to the project that this journal represents.
God I sound so new age. I need to shower and put on some real pants cause I'm gonna have lunch with a friend in about half an hour. I am currently feeling...balanced.
I'm a loser, I'm a winner, things are gonna change, I can feel it.
And yes that is a Beck quote.


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On Saturday 14th September as part of the London Design Festival 2013 there will be a series of workshops at the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green exploring the theme of design for and inspired by children.
Put together with the assistance of Molly Meg Price from the fab webshop Molly Meg, this includes some great British kids fashion and toy designers including Corby Tindersticks, Donna Wilson, Qubis, IO bed, Miller Goodman, Sincerely Louise and Ketchup on Everything. All details and scheduled times etc on the Museum of Childhood website.
The workshops run between 12 midday and 16.00 and you sign up on the day, they are sure to be popular and there will also be a pop up market to browse while waiting.
Molly Meg is also involved in a Pop up Shop later in the week at Design Junction from 18th – 22nd September as part of the Mid Century Modern pop up and will have lots of vintage and modern designs for sale plus some new exciting product launches. More details about this on Molly Meg and also on Design Junction where there will be 5 floors of furniture, lighting and home accessories and a few preview pieces below.
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Business Interruption
The most relevant types of insurance for affected businesses will be material damage cover (which applies to physical damage to property) and business interruption cover (which applies to financial loss consequent on physical damage to property).
Business interruption insurance covers lost profit - ie - reduced turnover or an increase in expenses, caused by a business interruption. In most of these policies, the claim will be for the gross profits lost as a result of reduced turnover, or for the increased costs of continuing to operate through the interruption. It may also include items such as wages, professional costs and debts that need to be written-off. In some cases, there may also be cover for losses arising from damage suffered by specified third parties - for example, suppliers or subcontractors. As always with insurance, the terms of the policy determine what is covered.
Business interruption insurance is tied to physical damage. If there is no damage to insured property, or the loss of profit arises because of other reasons, there is no cover. The physical damage must be an effective cause of the business interruption - not just coincidental to it.
Your business interruption policy will include an indemnity period that is a fixed period (normally around 12 months but sometimes up to 24 months) running from the date of the physical damage - here the earthquake. Businesses might continue to suffer lost profits after the indemnity period has expired but this is not covered by insurance.
Understanding your rights and obligations and making decisions early to ensure the viability of your business is fundamental. Make sure you review your policy and contact your insurer or insurance broker. Clarify any areas of uncertainty with the scope or meaning of the policy, or what is required of you. Ask about a progress payment on your claim to ease cashflow. If you have any queries about your case, seek legal advice.
Landlord & Tenant Issues
Many landlords and tenants in Wellington will be currently taking stock of the damage caused to their premises following the recent earthquakes.
Under most commercial leases, the landlord will be responsible for repairs to the structure and exterior of leased premises. The tenant is generally responsible to repair glass breakages.
Landlords should take steps to repair any damage within a reasonable time to avoid being liable for loss suffered by a tenant as a result of the damage.
When a tenanted property has suffered damage, a fair proportion of the rent and outgoings should abate - but only until repairs or reinstatement have been completed. A tenant should not simply stop paying rent or withhold rent without explanation, nor unilaterally decide what proportion of rent it considers should cease to be payable. A sensible approach by a tenant would be to notify its landlord of the damage and the extent to which this affects its operations.
In assessing how much rent and outgoings should abate, the parties should consider not only the area of the premises which is damaged, but also the significance of the affected area to the tenant's business. For example, damage to a customer area of a retail tenanted property will have more impact on the tenant than damage to the same sized area of the premises used for storage. This may justify a higher proportion of the rent being abated.
There may also be instances of a tenant being unable to gain access to its premises because they are located within an area cordoned off, whether this is part of a general cordon or a limited area due to damage to a neighbouring property. Many provisions on rent abatement in older leases will not be relevant in this situation as the tenant's inability to access the property is not an issue between the tenant and its landlord. The current edition of the ADLS Deed of Lease does provide for this situation, and a fair proportion of the rent and outgoings will cease to be payable for the inaccessibility period. Landlords and tenants should check their lease documents to see if this applies.
Employers should be conscious that regular communication is even more important than usual.
A single point of contact is useful for centralising communication, place updates on a company website, use text message broadcasts, and, if necessary, set up an 0800 free calling number which employees can call for daily updated news and employment information.
Payment of Wages
Employers with business interruption insurance should have cover for payment of wages under this policy if they cannot operate due to damage.
Where there is no work available, there is no obligation on the employer to offer work. However, a general obligation exists for employers to pay employees who are 'ready, willing and able to work.
If employees are ready and willing to work but cannot work because their place of work is closed or damaged, then consider alternatives such as transferring them to other sites where possible or offering alternative work.
Check what is currently provided by the relevant employment agreement. For issues such as alternative duties and locations of work, it will depend on the circumstances and what is specifically agreed by the employer and employee in the terms and conditions of employment. A variation to duties and the employment agreement may be required to be negotiated and agreed.
Health & Safety
It is an employer's responsibility to ensure the workplace is safe. An employee can refuse to perform work if they have reasonable grounds to consider that it may be dangerous. In such a situation, the employer should ensure that they have taken 'all practicable steps' to provide a safe workplace. If the workplace is safe and the employee can access the workplace, an employer can refuse to pay that person if they refuse to attend work. In some circumstances, this may even become a disciplinary matter due to unauthorised absence. But before reaching this step, try and discuss and agree a pragmatic approach to such issues.
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Use Technology for Social Development
Nandan Nilekani
Sunday, February 1, 2009
I have rubbed my shoulders with two or three companies in the past two decades of my career. While one has been that of co-founding and running Infosys, the other has centered on bringing about improvements in systems of governance, working on developmental issues like roads, healthcare, and essential services, and so on.
In the initial years of my tryst with community development and social change, I thought that technology did not have any role in it. One of the reasons for this was the fact that I did not want to be perceived as yet another geek who thought that technology was the panacea for all problems of the world.
Yet, after trying to address the issue of social development for 15 years, I came to realise, reluctantly, that technology can, and actually does, play a great enabling role in the process. This is true especially of developing countries like ours, where solutions to existing problems need to be implemented on a very large scale.
But, let me first underline that any solution in a country like India must be scalable, given the large number of people it must reach; it must be cost-effective, since a large number of people are not economically well off; it must also be possible to deploy the solution in a short time; and above all, the quality of the solution must be good.
All these aspects are relevant to our work in technology. This strengthens the call for technology's role in social development. Moreover, as you will see in the examples that follow, it has already happened.
Let me start with the elections; they are a humungous and, in more ways than one, an event unmatched in scale and scope by the elections that take place in any other country. Yet, the last general elections in 2004 were quite an achievement, since electronic voting machines were used across the length and breadth of the country despite the presence of largely illiterate communities in the vast rural areas. It made the process of voting hassle-free and counting was easy and fast. Incidentally, it took the Election Commission 27 years, by no means a short span, to implement the plan to use EVMs across the country, an endeavour in which technology played an enabling role.
The second area where technology has played a remarkably enabling role is mobile connectivity. 90 percent of the mobile phones in the country are prepaid, and 40 percent of those connections are recharged with average values of Rs. 10 or less. It points out how many poor have become connected, and how technology has played a role in terms of making devices and services cheap and easy to use.
Stock exchanges are also an area where technology has come to the aid of the people at large. Many will recall the colossal multi-crore share market scam involving Harshad Mehta in the early 1990s; that was when all transactions in the exchanges were paper-based nd therefore susceptible to frauds on a large scale. The developments in recent years have transformed the exchanges and all records pertaining to shares and transactions are now stored electronically. There are computer terminals across the country that are connected through the Internet, and share trading can be carried out from places as disparate as Agartala or Kanyakumari. This has ushered in equality and removed regional imbalance: earlier, over 80 percent of transactions were done in Mumbai, where the BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) is located. Today, the city accounts for only 40 percent of the transactions.
Technology has also played a role in digitizing land records in Karnataka. 2,000 kiosks across the state now dole out land record certificates to farmers for a meagre fee of Rs.15. Gone are the days when one was required to bribe the revenue officer to get the certificate and the possibility of the officer changing the record without the illiterate farmer realizing the same.
All these point out the fact that over the next decade or so, technology can play a highly significant role in social development of the country. To this end, let me suggest a few things. Firstly wireless connectivity should be widely available across the country within the next decade. I don't want to go into ideological issues as to which technology should be used to do that; what's important is that all people are brought into the loop. Secondly, there must be a practical convergence of devices. There will come a time when everyone will have a device; again I will not go into the ideological question as to what that will be, but will only harp on the fact that information, services, education, healthcare, et al can be delivered through this device. Now, what does this mean? Let us look at the possibilities.
The presence of green house gases (GHG) in the atmosphere is ever-increasing; it is 430 ppm today against 270 ppm in 1850.We need to stabilize the level of GHG at 500-550 ppm by 2050, when an estimated 9 billion people will populate the world. This means that carbon consumption cannot be more than 2.5 tonne per person per year. At present, the figure for the U.S. is around 20 tonne per person per year; for Europe, it is 12-14 tonne; for China, 4-6 tonne; and for India, 2 tonne.
Obama has said that the U.S. will reduce its GHG emission by 80 percent by 2050. That will bring the per-person per-year carbon consumption in the U.S. down to 4 tonne. Our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also has recently said that our emission will be less than that of the developed world at any given time. What does this mean?
History shows that there is a linear connection between increase in per capita income and energy consumption. Projections show that our GDP will grow to 16 times the present by 2050, but, if the PM's promise is to be realized, carbon consumption cannot grow more than 4 tonne per person per year (that's, at double the present level). Therefore, we need to take a hard look at our development model. The role of technology in this is huge.
Another area where technology can play a role is power. Presently, our power generation model is such that one plant produces 500 megawatt (mw) of power using conventional sources like coal. Instead of such mega power stations, by 2050, we will have 500 smaller plants producing 1 mw of power each using renewable sources like biomass, solar, and wind energy. Our power grids will have to be designed in such a way that they can handle varied sources of power that produce varied amounts of power at different times. The grid must be bi-directional, so as to regulate supply based on usage. They must have sensors and intelligence and enable variable pricing.
Subsidy is another area where technology must play a role. We need to move from indirect to direct subsidy. Take, for instance, subsidized power to farmers. In the present system, it is made free, thereby creating the need to enlarge the customer base that pays more for power to make up for the subsidy. Also, most of the time, the free power does not reach the poor farmers for whom it is intended.
We need to shift from this to a fresh model where we can identify the people who really need subsidy and direct it to them; this can be possible if all citizens have biometric identification cards. They can then go to kiosks and avail of subsidized power using, say a prepaid pool, which gets created based on the information in the identification card. This way, we will have no need to reduce the price of a commodity (say kerosene) as a whole, but only make it available to the needy at a lower price, while the rest of the market can pay the normal price.
While one can go on giving such examples, it is important that we, the people with the power to create new technologies and innovations, look at social development from the right perspective. We must then fruitfully contribute to realization of such development by changing the channels of delivery of services by making technology the enabler.
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Software Transforms Laptop into Supercomputer
Opportunity for Transformation
Ubicom Secures $7 Million in Series 5 Financing
Managing Change – Leveraging IP for Business Success
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Now that you finally made the decision of investing in one of the top-quality Melbourne roller garage doors, it's about time you picked the best type of that best suits your needs and home style.
Common Garage Door Styles
1. Classic Wooden Style
If you are looking for a garage door that's going to give your home a natural and warm feel, go for the classic wooden style. Wooden garage doors are popular for bringing sophisticated and vintage vibes to any home. However, wooden doors come with a number of costs for maintenance. These doors typically are not the most durable and long-lasting compared to the ones made of a sturdier material such as steel or vinyl.
2. Traditional Steel Doors
Tons of Melbourne roller garage doors are made of galvanized steel or aluminum sheets. These doors are highly economical as they are extremely durable. A number of steel doors are dent- and rust-proof which only require occasional maintenance.
3. Carriage Style
Carriage style garage doors are common in the countryside as they are usually installed in a barn. Even if you are not living in the countryside but want to have a rustic vibe in your garage, installing a carriage-style door is the way to go.
4. Contemporary
Contemporary garage doors are becoming popular nowadays due to its simple and neat-looking style. This type of garage doors promotes a minimalistic look which will definitely suit any type of modern home.
A contemporary roller garage door is usually made of glass panels and aluminum. The glass panels allow light to seep through your garage; thus, if you want a carport that will not block the daylight, go for this door style.
Insulation Options
1. Single Sheet
A garage door made up of single-sheets of aluminum or vinyl is ideal for areas where noise and heat are not issues. If you are installing a door only for the purpose of covering your garage, a single-skinned one is one to pick.
2. Double Sheets
Double-skinned garage doors are ideal for locations where noise and sweltering weather condition are prevalent. Due to the double layers of vinyl or aluminum, the insulation capacity of these doors is better than the single-layered ones.
1. Automatic
Tons of Melbourne roller garage doors can be motorized for an enhanced access. Automated garage doors are ideal for high doorways as they can be extremely difficult to manually open and close. If you want top-notch convenience in accessing your garage, go for automatic doors.
2. Manual
Manual doors are still highly popular these days; it is economical and a lot more affordable than the motorized door options. Manual doors are ideal for shorter doorways which are easy to open and close by hand.
The choices for garage doors on the market can be extremely overwhelming; but if you choose the style and features that best fit your garage needs, narrowing the best ones can be easier.
If you want to browse a wide selection of vinyl, steel, or timber garage doors, check out https://www.ecogaragedoors.com.au/melbourne/roller-garage-doors and choose from one of the finest-quality doors Melbourne has to offer.