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Scientists at San Diego State University have found a virus in the gut that is believed to exist in over 50 percent of the world's population, and could play a major role in the beginning of conditions such as diabetes and obesity. The virus was discovered after the researchers studied samples from previous research reports on gut dwelling viruses.
When the researchers scrutinized sections of DNA fecal matter from 12 different individuals, they took note of a certain group of biological DNA. They discovered that certain collection of DNA did not match any of the already known viruses. In each sample, there were at least 97,000 base pairs that were found to be common. When the virus was screened inside the United States National Institute of Health's database, and also the Argonne National Lab's MG-RAST database, in both they again found the virus was in great quantity in human feces derived sections.
In order to verify that the biological DNA virus was actually present in environment, the scientists used a technique called DNA amplification, which aided them in finding the virus in the original samples. They stated that it is not unusual to go in search of a new virus and find it but it is extremely unusual to find one that so many individuals have. The very fact that it has gotten under the radar for such a long time is very strange indeed. In fact it is believed that this virus could be in some amount in every single human body.
Now the researchers are attempting to produce the virus in a lab and their next target is to learn exactly how the virus affects the bacteria of the human gut. The virus has been named CrAssphage, and it infects Bacteroidetes. These are a highly common gut bacterium, and are also widely rampant throughout the environment. The virus exists in soil, sediments, and sea water along with being inside the guts of human beings and animals.
It Is possible that the virus might be influencing the behavior of some of the most common bacteria in humans guts. Such viruses, known as bacteriophages, have been discovered to play a role in various chronic diseases. This virus has the genetic identification of a bacteriophage, so it could infect bacteria. The scientists believe that CrAssphage is infecting one of the most commonly found types of microorganisms in the human gut.
Dr. Martha Clokie, who works at the University of Leicester, but who was not involved with the study told the media that what was exciting with the research, was that the investigators had created brand new procedures and powerful tools to help identify previously unknown viruses. She added that by thinking in the long term, in studying chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity, if it was possible to pin down such viral bacterial switches, it might be possible to one day modify them to less damaging bacteria, therefore making them less potent.
Scientists at San Diego State University found the new virus in the gut and they believe it could exist in over 50 percent of the world's population. They also think it could play a major role in the beginning of conditions such as diabetes and obesity. The virus was discovered after the researchers studied samples from previous research reports on gut dwelling viruses.
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Hey, let's start the buzz. Who's going and where you coming from? I'll be there, from Michigan. Can't wait.
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Been practicing up on Quackovienne, Tim?
I'm traveling from Rotterdam, NY.
Looking forward to it.
Happily retired recently, so have actually had time to practice a few tunes ;o}
Chiming in late to say that Scooter and I will be there. Wouldn't miss it for the world!
hi Andy,
I take it Scooter is your fuzzy faced companion and not your son ?
I'm just curious, where does Scooter stay while you're at the barn ?
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Chiming in late to say that Scooter and I will be there. Wouldn't miss it for the world!
Well, "fuzzy faced companion" seems fairly accurate.
I have noticed that Scooter pretty much just roams around wherever he pleases.
Just about everyone there is fuzzy faced.
Scooter also likes to sleep here.
Looks cozy...
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Scooter also likes to sleep here.
I'll most likely be there, coming from Texas via North Carolina as usual.
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Subject: [ticket #58954] Netwk mod not in install dialog
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[http://www.redhat.com/hardware/]in 5.2 installation guide
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ICD-10-CM Code D47.2
Monoclonal gammopathy
Billable CodeBillable codes are sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis.
D47.2 is a billable ICD code used to specify a diagnosis of monoclonal gammopathy. A 'billable code' is detailed enough to be used to specify a medical diagnosis.
The ICD code D472 is used to code Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance
Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS, unknown or uncertain may be substituted for undetermined), formerly benign monoclonal gammopathy, is a condition in which a paraprotein is found in the blood during standard laboratory blood tests. It resembles multiple myeloma and similar diseases, but the levels of antibody are lower, the number of plasma cells (white blood cells that secrete antibodies) in the bone marrow is lower, it has no symptoms or problems, and no treatment is indicated. However, multiple myeloma develops at the rate of about 1.5% a year, so doctors recommend monitoring it yearly. In rare cases, it may also be related with a slowly progressive symmetric distal sensorimotor neuropathy.
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Schematic representation of a normal protein electrophoresis gel. A small spike would be present in the gamma (γ) band in MGUS
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Inclusion TermsInclusion Terms are a list of concepts for which a specific code is used. The list of Inclusion Terms is useful for determining the correct code in some cases, but the list is not necessarily exhaustive.
- Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance [MGUS]
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- DRG Group #814-816 - Reticuloendothelial and immunity disorders with MCC.
- DRG Group #814-816 - Reticuloendothelial and immunity disorders with CC.
- DRG Group #814-816 - Reticuloendothelial and immunity disorders without CC or MCC.
ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index References for 'D47.2 - Monoclonal gammopathy'
The ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index links the below-listed medical terms to the ICD code D47.2. Click on any term below to browse the alphabetical index.
Equivalent ICD-9 Code GENERAL EQUIVALENCE MAPPINGS (GEM)
This is the official approximate match mapping between ICD9 and ICD10, as provided by the General Equivalency mapping crosswalk. This means that while there is no exact mapping between this ICD10 code D47.2 and a single ICD9 code, 273.1 is an approximate match for comparison and conversion purposes.
Parent Code: D47 - Other neoplasms of uncertain behavior of lymphoid, hematopoietic and related tissue


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A study of the central problem of scarcity and of the ways in which the U.S. economic system allocates scarce resources among competing ends and apportions the goods produced among people.
Requisite for all other courses in economics.
One lecture and three hours of discussion per week. Each section is limited to 25 Amherst College students. Fall semester: Professors Alpanda, Honig, Rivkin (Course Chair), Sims, and Woglom.
Professor Sims' section is designed for students interested in environmental studies. See Environmental Studies 23 for more information.
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A rock 'n' roll holler to reinforce their growing reputation as one energy rousing proposition, UK stompers Voodoo Vegas release the Hypnotise EP offering four songs that bellow and tenaciously stomp through ears from start to finish. Instantly it is a thickly enjoyable encounter which just hits the spot time and time again to give body and satisfaction a very healthy workout.
The successor to their well-received 2013 debut album The Rise Of Jimmy Silver, the Hypnotise EP is a potent build on its success and introduction to those new to the Voodoo Vegas roar. There are no major surprises unearthed by band and encounter but with the accomplished craft and open imagination of the band coursing songwriting and sound, the EP is more than just a solid proposition to support their rich live stature earned over the past couple of years or so. 2014 saw the quintet play a special guest slot for Status Quo in Holland, share the stage with Y&T on their UK/European Tour, and play a host of their own shows across the UK and Europe, as well as play a host of festivals. This year Voodoo Vegas played an acclaimed performance at the Camden Rocks Festival 2015 amongst many shows and with producer Will Maya (The Answer, Breed 77) record Hypnotise. It has been a busy time for the band east to expect being matched as their EP does the rounds tempting fans and newcomers alike.
Hypnotise opens with its title track, swiftly creating a blaze of tangy grooves around antagonistic riffs and spiky rhythms driven by the strong vocals of Lawrence Case. Almost as quickly the song slips into a less imposing but no less magnetic stroll around an early entering chorus, undulating its intensity and attitude thereon in with fluid and pleasing prowess. The guitars of Merylina Hamilton and Jon Dawson provide a constant web of enterprise throughout the song which keeps ears happily fed whilst the bass of Ash Moulton brings its own throatily seductive groove.
It is a potent start with numerous rewards for the appetite and imagination to get hold of but soon eclipsed by its successor, Tied Up. From its first breath as a blaze of guitar, the track strolls with a predatory nature and tone, entwining it with fiery and feisty endeavour from across the band whipped up into extra zeal by the rapier swings of drummer Jonno Smyth. Hard and glam rock 'n' roll but with plenty more essences boiling in its belly, the song is a perpetually magnetic captivation with a simultaneous snarl and creative glint in the eye.
From one highlight to another in the blues seeded shape of Round & Round, a swagger of a stomp that just gets stronger and more inventive with each passing minute and rewarding listen. The harmonica skills of Case bring new intoxication to the song around midway, though bass and guitars had already whipped up a greedy lick of the lips for their devilish imagination by that point anyway.
The two songs offer the peak of the release but closing track Killing Joke has plenty in sound and anthemic imagination within its more intimidating canter to leave ears and pleasure ripe. As throughout Hypnotise hooks and grooves are forcibly appealing, being perfectly backed by feisty riffs as vocals alongside rhythms expose the pungent heart in a fine end to the EP.
As suggested, the Hypnotise EP is open in its inspirations, most likely Aerosmith, Guns 'n' Roses, and AC/DC amongst them, and does not venture into the unknown but for thick invigorating rock 'n roll it, and Voodoo Vegas, leave no one wanting.
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Kelechi Iheanacho has finally replicated his fine form for Leicester City during pre-season where he scored in friendly games against Valencia, and French .
The 22-year-old has however been unable to find the net for the Foxes in their opening three Premier League games against Manchester United, Wolverhampon Wanderers and Southampton.
The Nigerian international however opened his account against the lower league side just as he did last season.
Leicester City took a first half lead through goals by Christian Fuchs and Vicente Iborra as they went for the break.
Upon resumption for the second half Iheanacho scored Leicester's third of the game when he converted a cross by Marc Albrighton.
The win was sealed by new recruit Rachid Ghezzal as the Foxes coasted to the next round of the competition.
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PZ Cussons Chemistry Challenge, Six School Reach Finale
Six candidates representing both public and private schools in Lagos state have scaled through to the finals of Nigeria's leading pure science competition, PZ Cussons Chemistry Challenge (PZCCC). After an impressive participation at the different stages of the 2018 edition of the competition, six students have now qualified for the finals to compete for the grand prize of N1,000,000 and a chance to be crowned the PZCCC Champion for 2018.
The competition which began in March saw over 3000 registered candidates seat for the first stage across eight locations in Lagos state viz Agege, Epe, Ikorodu, Ojota, Oshodi, Island, Agboju and Surulere. The 'jostling' at the first stage saw 97 students qualify to another round of written test to get the best 24 out of the 97. The top 24 at the third stage were further tested in Practical Chemistry at one of the best laboratories in the state.
Driven by its primary objective to promote Girl child education in Nigeria, the PZCCC continues to grow in leaps and bounds, as this years' edition saw a considerable increase in the number of females that registered for the competition. This shows a remarkable improvement in the awareness and acceptance of the competition among secondary school females.
An initiative of the PZ Cussons foundation supported by Premier and Nunu Milk; the PZCCC has built a reputation as the No. 1 platform for supporting the learning of Chemistry in Secondary Schools.
This year's overall top three winners will receive "N1,000,000; N750,000; and N500,000 respectively. The champion also goes home with a trophy. Additional prizes also include laboratory equipment for the schools and cash prizes for their respective teachers.
The PZ Cussons Chemistry Challenge Competition has tweaked the adage that says; "every teachers reward is in heaven", by creating a platform for rewarding teachers here on earth. On stage at the finals, our top 6 teachers from the online Teacher's Aptitude Test would have a chance to compete for a chance to be rewarded and crowned our PZCCC 2018 Teachers' Champion.
PZ Cussons Nigeria Foundation, custodians of this competition have a strong track record of helping Nigerian communities by supporting projects in the areas of education, potable water, health and empowerment. The PZ Cussons Chemistry Challenge Competition is now in its sixth edition


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Allianz Global Assistance winter car preparation tips:
1. Winter tires, a wise precaution
A basic rule of thumb: Make sure all tires are in perfect condition. But fitting a car with winter tires might prove to be a driver's best choice. This not only helps preserve your traditional tires, but also helps improve your vehicle's safety in cold weather and on slippery roads, both fixtures of winter driving.
At the very least, make sure you have a kit of "tire socks"—a textile tire cover designed to help vehicles get traction on snow and ice—at the ready to put on summer tires when the roads are covered in snow.
2. The "extreme cold" kit helps you face winter's obstacles
Every winter, drivers find themselves trapped for hours in their cars because of traffic jams caused by snowfall or a chain of accidents caused by icy rain. At the very minimum you should have a flashlight, an ice scraper, a shovel and a blanket stored in your car. Always make sure you have warm clothing, gloves, boots, bottled water, and snacks, even in you're only traveling a short distance, and especially if you're traveling with children.
3. Have a check-up before hitting the road
Cars today are safer than ever but winter puts them to the test, and dealing with even a minor breakdown when it's 0° or -10° outside is always complicated and stressful. As a preventative measure, here are a few simple things to check out:
- Periods of extreme cold can greatly tax and drain a car's battery. If the battery is easily accessible, make sure its wires are not damaged, and that it's completely charged. Have an extra pair of jumper cables in the trunk for a quick restart by any other driver in the vicinity.
- Check to make sure your vehicle lights, including fog lights, are clean and in good working order. It's also important to check that the windshield wipers leave no streaks on the windshield.
- Verify the oil, water and wiper fluid levels and fill them if necessary. And don't forget to add the appropriate anti-freeze.
- Have your cell phone completely charged and a charger for back-up.
4. Caution, caution, caution
Black ice on a bend in the road that you approach too quickly will most certainly send you and your car off the road, even with the best brakes in the world. Remember to slow down and leave a little extra room between you and the car in front of you. Remember to take along your assistance company's phone number and have it handy should you need help in any situation.
And of course before heading out during the winter, it's easy to check the weather on the route you plan to take. If you do get caught in an unexpected storm, don't try to be Superman—just pull off to the side of the road!
Don't let your poor car suffer this winter! My dad and grandfather will be proud of me for properly educating you all on car safety this winter.
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The delegation from ECOWAS met Guinea's ousted president Alpha Conde and members of the junta that overthrew him, hoping to steer the country back toward a civilian-led, constitutional regime.
Conde, who had been in power since 2010, has been detained by the junta, the National Rally and Development Committee (CNRD), since it staged the coup last Sunday.
"We met the members of the CNRD. We also met the former head of state," Jean-Claude Brou, the president of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) commission, told reporters in the capital Conakry.
"Because we are mandated by the other heads of state, we are going to make a report."
ECOWAS suspended Guinea's membership on Wednesday, but stopped short of imposing further sanctions, saying it was waiting for the results of the mission to Conakry.
The coup, the third putsch since April in West and Central Africa, has intensified fears of a slide back towards military rule in the region, which had until recently been starting to shed its "coup-belt" reputation.
The African Union backed ECOWAS up on Friday by suspending Guinea from all AU activities and decision-making bodies.
The ECOWAS delegation also included Ghanaian Foreign Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchway and Burkina Faso Foreign Minister Alpha Barry.
They planned to press the junta to appoint a credible civilian prime minister as soon as possible to help guide Guinea back towards constitutional order, a high-ranking regional official told Reuters on Thursday.
The junta is led by Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, a former officer in the French Foreign Legion.
It has appointed army officers to head regional administrations, and on Thursday ordered the central bank and other banks to freeze all government accounts, in order to secure state assets.
Doumbouya and the other special forces soldiers behind Sunday's coup said they had ousted Conde because of concerns about poverty and endemic corruption.
Meanwhile,following a video of U.S. soldiers in a crowd of jubilant Guineans as the coup unfolded on Sunday, the United States has denied involvement in the recent coup that ousted President Alpha Conde of Guinea.
The U.S. State Department said a small U.S. team had been involved in a joint military training exercise outside Conakry.
"Given the changing security situation, it was decided that the team would be relocated to the U.S. Embassy in Conakry.
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Treasurer John Chiang declines Senate run, Willie Brown backs Harris
A day after billionaire Tom Steyer announced he would not seek Barbara Boxer's U.S. Senate seat, the field of potential contenders shrank further as state Treasurer John Chiang decided that he, too, would stay out of the race.
Chiang, a Democrat who took office three weeks ago, was a potentially serious contender in the June 2016 primary. He was elected to two terms as state controller before winning the treasurer's job in November, and he has proved adept at raising campaign money.
For now, the sole major candidate in the race is state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris, also a Democrat. Boxer, 74, has announced she will not run for reelection.
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat, has been working behind the scenes to prepare for a Senate run but has not yet announced whether he will enter the race.
Former state Assembly Speaker Willie Brown told the Sacramento Bee on Friday that Villaraigosa should decline to run in deference to Harris.
"His loyalty and his relationship with her should be so valuable, and he should, in my opinion, see it as an opportunity to demonstrate that," said Brown, who dated Harris in the 1990s.
Villaraigosa spokesman Mike Trujillo declined to comment on Brown's suggestion.
Villaraigosa allies have portrayed Harris as the handpicked candidate of powerful San Francisco Democrats, saying the contest should include a Southern California Latino, such as the former Los Angeles mayor.
State Democratic Party Chairman John Burton told the Bee it was untrue that party leaders were trying to clear the field for Harris.
Reps. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove), Xavier Becerra (D-Los Angeles) and Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) are among a group of House members weighing a Senate run, along with former state Republican Party Chairmen Duf Sundheim and Tom Del Beccaro.
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The link between dental procedures and infective endocarditis is controversial. Not all dental procedures require the use of antibiotic prophylaxis. Dental procedures that have minimal potential to cause bleeding are considered low risk for infective endocarditis. Antibiotic prophylaxis may be indicated for invasive dental procedures that are likely to cause bleeding and release of oral bacteria in the bloodstream.
Also, the release of oral bacteria into the bloodstream appears to increase the risk of developing an infection around a prosthetic joint in people with a depressed immune system. Use of prophylaxis antibiotics is recommended for individuals with total joint replacements who have certain other health conditions.
Antibiotic prophylaxis also can be prescribed for circumstances other than prevention of infective endocarditis and prosthetic joint infections. Some other conditions or situations that may indicate antibiotic prophylaxis include in-dwelling catheters, hemodialysis patients with arteriovenous shunts, shunts for hydrocephalus, oral surgical or operative procedures (depending on the patient's immune system), insulin-dependent diabetes, or diabetics whose disease is poorly controlled.
By Denise J. Fedele, DMD, MS
Your dentist's biggest concern is your dental health. Teeth are a priceless possession. Maintaining them should never have to take a back seat to details like dental costs or insurance coverage.
Your dentist's patient financing policy is probably pretty basic: somehow, they'll find a way that lets them perform the work you need now, rather than put it off for money reasons. Simply put, they're there to help.
As a patient, you should receive a proposed treatment plan that's right for you. You should also receive a complete description of what's needed and a dental fees estimate - so you know what, when, and how much - right from the start.
If you're covered by dental insurance, your dentist's staff will work to obtain the maximum benefit your plan allows. They may even elect to spread your treatment over two "insurance years" to expand your coverage. Every plan and patient, of course, is different.
If you're not covered by insurance your dentist can still find a way to get you the dental work you need done. Credit cards, a dental loan, and monthly payments are all dental financing options you can explore in tailoring a program that fits your dental needs.
Your dentist realizes that dental costs will always play a part in the decisions you make together. But cost alone should never prevent you from seeking the dentistry you need early on, before the problem gets worse - and more expensive.


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Therapeutic Riding in Aiken
by Pam Gleason
Aiken's therapeutic riding program has a new home at Great Oak, a 20-acre farm just minutes from downtown Aiken. A registered 501c3 charity, Great Oak Aiken Therapeutic Riding Center was formerly known as STAR and has been serving the community for 20 years. It is an affiliate of PATH International (Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship), and its mission, according to its website, is "to provide equine assisted activities that promote the physical, emotional and psychological health of individuals with special needs."
Great Oak represents a new beginning for the organization, which had been facing some challenges in recent years. The chief challenge was that although the program had horses, instructors and students, it didn't have a permanent home, but operated out of various different facilities over the years. Because it didn't have an indoor ring, its classes were at the mercy of the weather.
"Things got canceled a lot," says Wendy O'Brien, who is the chairman of the board of directors. "Most of the students were children and they came after school, so there was only a limited time frame to begin with, and if it rained, you had to cancel."
Wendy says that the program was first started by Steve Groat, Ash Milner and Alan Corey. "Steve put me on the board of directors about five years ago," she continues. "Then he passed away almost three years ago. His wife Jeannie and I made a little promise to him and his good friend Alan Corey, who also passed away last year, that we wouldn't let it die. So we decided that the program needed its own home. We either had to build a facility, or close. So we pushed and pushed, and finally bought land, and here we are."
The land that they bought is a parcel on Route 19, just three miles from Route 20 and about seven minutes from the Aiken YMCA. The Y has an active adaptive program and will be offering therapeutic riding through Great Oak. "Between Aiken and Augusta, there are 1,600 people in their adaptive program, and they can't wait to send us students," says Wendy. Adaptive sports, like therapeutic riding, are modified (or adapted) to be accessible to individuals with special needs.
It took a little while to select the right piece of land, but Wendy says she is thrilled with the new property. "We didn't want a place that was too far out of town. David Stinson, who was the realtor we were working, with showed me this place, even though it was a little beyond my budget. We drove in, and I realized it was perfect. David showed me lots of other places, but I kept coming back to this one."
Eventually she decided to buy it, whether it was in the budget or not. "We're really paying for the location she says. "And it couldn't be much better. There is so much traffic that goes past us, we've been generating a lot of interest."
The purchase was made in December, and contractors and architects have been working assiduously ever since. There was already a small house on the property, which is being renovated ("It even came with a board room!" says Wendy with a laugh.) The land itself was very overgrown with weeds and bushes, which have been cleared ("It was a jungle!") In the process of clearing, they discovered an outbuilding that they didn't know was there, as well as an allée of giant oaks that probably once lined the drive leading to the main house on the farm. ("That tree is where the name came from," says Wendy pointing to an oak with a gigantic trunk and a broad canopy.)
Wendy worked with various architects and contractors to identify the best place to build the barn and attached indoor arena. Arena plans call for many sliding windows so that it can be open to the outdoors on pleasant days, but closed up if it is nasty. There are many other factors to consider when building a stable for a therapeutic riding program. "It's not like building a barn for yourself at all. We're very fortunate in Aiken that we have so many qualified people that are knowledgeable about therapeutic riding and they have been very generous with their advice."
While construction is getting underway, the organization is working on recruiting the best and most qualified staff. They are conducting a nationwide search for a PATH certified instructor, as well as for a volunteer coordinator. "The head instructor is the most important thing, because he or she will be our face. And then the program can't run without volunteers," says Wendy. People with physical disabilities often need three volunteers apiece for a lesson: one to lead the horse, and one side walker on each side to steady the rider. Volunteers are also needed for many other duties, including keeping the horses fresh. "They need to be ridden outside of the therapeutic program. They can't just do one thing."
Great Oak is currently in the process of selecting horses for the program, hoping to start with six, and eventually build up to 12.
"They do have to be special horses," says Wendy.
"They have to be unflappable. They have to be sound. Horses that are used to a lot of commotion can be good candidates – some driving horses are good, so are some retired polo ponies. A horse like a Fjord or a Haflinger, about 15 hands and very calm, can be ideal. It just depends on the individual."
Since the new programs will also be dealing with adults rather than strictly with children, there will be a need for some larger horses as well. Great Oak already has one: a 16.3 hand Thoroughbred.
Wendy says her motivation for devoting all this time and effort to Great Oak is to ensure that there is a successful therapeutic riding program in Aiken: "We want to serve this huge community that could benefit from riding, which has so many health benefits," she says.
Doug Rabold, who is working as a consultant to Great Oak, says he is especially impressed by therapeutic riding because the atmosphere surrounding horses is so different from that in a clinic.
"What's so special to me is that if you have a problem and you go to a doctor, you're in a medical setting. When you come here, you get to ride a horse; you get to be outdoors, connecting with a physical being that is nonjudgmental. It's so different from being in a clinic; it's like you're getting therapy without realizing it. There's warmth and fun, learning and laughing. That, to me, is what makes it so inspiring."
- Three Runs Plantation Equestrian Blog. Re-published article from The Aiken Horse.
This article is copyrighted and first appeared in The Aiken Horse. It is reprinted here by permission.


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The main focus of the group is to observe, identify and record plants, usually with a particular purpose in mind. This is primarily carried out by means of an annual programme of field meetings. Our current priority is the BSBI Atlas 2020 project. In addition we usually hold 2 or 3 joint meetings with the Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society, one of which is also joint with the Lowestoft Field Club. These are arranged with beginners and improvers in mind, however, all abilities are very welcome to attend any of the meetings. Several identification workshops are usually included in the programme.
The yellow composites workshop at the Wheatfen Study Centre (click/tap the image to jump to the Workshops page)
A field meeting at Scarning (click/tap the image to jump to the Field Meetings page)


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Integrating Ecommerce and Shopping Carts with QuickBooks… How Hard Could it Be?
Jul. 27, 2012
Is it too much for me to ask for a well-integrated shopping cart for our QuickBooks clients?
I'm on a mission to find a well-integrated shopping cart solution for our QuickBooks clients. In The Sleeter Group's blog (www.sleeter.com/blog/2012/01), Jim Savage, our ecommerce expert, recently posted about "Ecommerce, Shopping Carts and QuickBooks." In that post, he discusses several shopping cart solutions and he gave great tips on how to choose a shopping cart. Check out the article if you want to look through the available solutions in the market.
But as you search for the best solution, consider the big picture of how your ecommerce store needs to integrate into your entire business operation. In my opinion, a shopping cart is pretty useless – no matter how good it is with building web pages – if it fails to provide a completely streamlined way of bringing customer orders into the business operation. This includes integration with inventory, pick/pack/ship, sales tax reporting, and of course accounting. Many of the solutions out there come close on some of these integrations, but let's look closely at the things I have yet to find solutions for.
Note that while some shopping carts have direct QuickBooks integration, others use some type of "middleware" solution to download orders and populate them into QuickBooks or other back-end systems. Each of these two approaches has trade-offs, but our goal is to find a web shopping cart application that can connect directly (in real time) to the back end, whether that's QuickBooks desktop, or any other desktop or online accounting product. At The Sleeter Group, we have very specific criteria for evaluating integration features in shopping carts. While the criteria we discuss here are focused on QuickBooks, keep these criteria in mind no matter which back end accounting system you're trying to connect to. Here are the things we look for:
What connection method does the solution use to sync data with QuickBooks? There are many software packages out there that claim to integrate with QuickBooks, but their "integration" methodology is via the IIF file import. Any solution that uses IIF will disqualify it from receiving our recommendations. See Charlie Russell's Practical QuickBooks blog article for more details about IIF. Does it use the QuickBooks SDK (Software Development Kit) or the Intuit Web Connector? The Web Connector has been plagued with issues and is not widely supported by Intuit. Does it use the IPP platform, and therefore the sync manager to sync data with QuickBooks? Although the IPP platform has had struggles to provide developer with the functions they need, it is finally getting to the point where all developers should be using IPP and Intuit Anywhere to connect to QuickBooks desktop or QuickBooks Online.
Does it enter sales receipts and/or invoices or sales orders? Can you specify which transaction types are entered for certain transactions? For example, if the web store allows for a payment type of "Purchase Order," will it create an Invoice? Similarly, if the order is a completed sale (paid by credit card or PayPal), can you specify that it should enter a Sales Receipt in QuickBooks? Does it handle credit memos and refunds or order cancellations? How does it handle payments? Will it import merchant transactions and coordinate the batching of daily sales with Intuit Merchant Services or authorize.net?
What about sales tax? This is the most difficult part of integrating with QuickBooks for developers, and none so far has gotten it right. There are two parts to sales tax. The first part is charging the correct tax on each sale in the shopping cart. The second part is providing full sales tax tracking such that sales tax reports and sales tax returns can be created. Although we often recommend solutions such as Avalara, which provides both parts of the sales tax functions, there will be many clients who don't need or won't afford the extra costs of Avalara's AvaTax service. So in order to provide full integration in the sales tax area, the shopping cart needs to provide full sales tax data in QuickBooks. This means the solution needs to send correct sales tax items (tax rates) and codes (taxable status of customers and items) into QuickBooks to provide accurate sales tax liability balances and sales tax reporting required by the accountant who prepares the sales tax returns. And because of constraints in the QuickBooks APIs, the only way to send correct sales tax information to QuickBooks is by populating sales tax items on line items in the body of the sales receipt/invoice. If the integration lets QuickBooks calculate the sales tax at the bottom of the sales form, you'll run into round-off errors, and problems with bank reconciliations. Another big consideration is to consider how the integration assigns sales tax codes and items to a new customer who purchases on the store. As you can see, these are hard problems, and require lots of work for developers to get it right. 90% right just doesn't cut it.
Can it handle sub items? Are the items in the shopping cart able to be mapped to a QuickBooks sub item? How does it deal with product variants (i.e. size, color)?
Does it add new customers to QuickBooks? If so, how does it format the customer name? Can it be customized in how it creates the new customer record? For example, can I ask it to create a new customer with the customer name formatted with "Last, First, Company", or "email, Zip, City", or whatever I want? Does it handle orders from "Jobs" or just "Customers"? How does it avoid creating duplicate Customer records? Does it allow me to specify the fields it should use to match a new customer in the store with an existing customer in QuickBooks so it doesn't add duplicate customers? Does it have a way to merge customer records? How flexible is the customer maintenance section of the shopping cart? Ideally, it should have something similar to Add/Edit Multiple List entries, similar to how QuickBooks Accountant Edition does.
Does the product connect in real time, or does it post transactions on a schedule? Can you change the update frequency? How reliable is the Sync engine it uses to communicate between the shopping cart database and QuickBooks, or other back end systems?
How does it deal with transaction handling? Does it keep a transaction log of the data sync? Can it work if QuickBooks is in multiuser mode? How does it deal with errors in data (products that don't exist in QB, invalid sales tax codes, etc.)? Can you re-run transactions once data issues have been corrected?
Does the shopping cart have a read/write API for developers who want to create custom applications to pull and push data including customer lists, sales transactions, back order status, shipping information, package tracking information, etc.? This might be important for clients who have an outsourced shipping department who does the pick/pack/ship process, and then needs to send shipper tracking codes back to the shopping cart so customers can view their order history, including shipment tracking.
Jim Savage and I have not yet seen an integration that gets this right. We would love to be proven wrong, but after researching many products, and trading notes among other Sleeter Group associates, we have yet to find a system that we feel fully integrates QuickBooks and satisfies our criteria. But we sure will tell the world when we find a product that gets this right, so stay tuned.
Shopping carts are something you don't want to switch very often, so it will pay you big dividends if you think through the whole integration issue before you start. I hope these criteria will help you as you go about picking the best solution for your clients.


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Relocating to Houston in 2008 with Jamie was a blessing to Barb and her daughter, Emily, a graduate of Baylor University. Barb enjoys friends, family, her dog, "Milo the Magnificent" and being creative in the kitchen in her spare time. Barb is a legacy and active member of the Alpha Xi Theta chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority, an international service organization.
Barb is Jamie's office manager. Among her many roles, she assists Jamie's clients through the underwriting process by acting as the liaison between our clients and the underwriter. She also manages and oversees all client requests and questions regarding policy owner services, making sure they are handled with accuracy and expertise. Barb holds her 6 and 63 registrations, in addition to her insurance license.
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This is another app that in my opinion is 100% educational! It is part of our summer screen time strategy. My daughter has to earn screen time by spending time on one of 4 educational apps of my choice or by reading her chapter book. "No Mine Craft for you until you have edjamekated yerself kid!" Yes, I am just that mean!
So the Teach Me Apps are great! They offer Teach Me Toddler, and Teach Me's for K-3rd. They also have a new one called Teach Me Math Facts. This summer we are finishing up Teach Me 1st Grade and starting on (hopefully) 2nd Grade.
This app is bright and has loads of little animated graphics that help to keep the kids engaged. There are several play areas, where the kids can "spend" the coins they have earned answering questions. Coins can be spent on things for a fish tank in the Fish Store, or in the Art Shop. Coins are fairly easy to earn and the rewards are not too spread out so they work as great motivators.
I like that the kids have to write in their answers, for added printing practice. They don't just get to click on the correct answer, they have to write the numbers or spell the word on the lined writing space. I have seen an improvement in my daughters printing due mainly to this. She has been very lazy about taking her time and writing neatly, and this app demands just that. It is not a bad idea to pick up on of those stylus pen thingies (that is the technical term) for older kids. A finger will work either way.
I also like that it switches back and forth between math problems and sight words and spelling. I think it helps keep it interesting.
The curriculum looks like it covers the basics and appears to meet the major benchmarks for learning in each grade. My daughter likes it and really doesn't mind doing it, even though she knows this is, for us, the summer version of homework. She says that she wishes her homework during the school year were like this!
This app appears to be best for reviewing materials. It does give hints, but they don't really tell you how to get the answer, it just gives you the answer. This really isn't a problem though, but as we all know, practice makes perfect.


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Rating: PG-13 | Runtime: 119 minutes | Release Date: December 18th, 2013 (USA)
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director(s): Adam McKay
Writer(s): Will Ferrell & Adam McKay
"You knocked him back to the fifth grade"
When you couple my dislike of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy with my obvious indifference to the announcement of its long-awaited sequel, watching Harrison Ford on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" in August proved a hilariously spot-on validation of my sheer inability to understand what everyone sees in Adam McKay and Will Ferrell's comedy classic. Brought on to shoot a yet-unknown cameo despite never having seen the original, Ford said, "I got down there; I had no idea who those guys were. And I still don't know who they are or what they think they're doing—because it's clearly unreleasable." After finally watching Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, I can safely say he wasn't wrong. More bloated than the first, overflowing with superfluous characters, and seemingly phoned-in by all involved (Ford looks excruciatingly uncomfortable), it is a painful experience.
I would never call the 70s TV journalist chauvinism commentary subtle during the first chapter of Ron Burgundy's (Ferrell) saga, but boy does this one hit us over the head with an iron for two-hours to drive home that 24-hour news stations only care about ratings while corporate advertising dollars dictate content. The satire is sloppily written in its quest to provide a venue for a lame bet (pun intended), OJ Simpson and Lorena Bobbitt jokes, and a subplot turning civil rights issues into "jive talk" and a headstrong woman coveting sex and success (Meagan Good's Linda Jackson). Half the film doesn't even concern the news with a road trip reunion between Brian (Paul Rudd), Champ (David Koechner), and Brick (Steve Carell) and an epic miscalculation two-thirds in with a shark and blindness officially derailing any momentum it hoped it had.
It's not surprising Ferrell and McKay took the "bigger is better" approach nor that new studio Paramount Pictures green-lit their nonsense after already passing on their original sequel plans two years earlier. The story beats are the same: Ron disgusts new love interest (Good) until his confidence makes her swoon, his getting fired lands him on hard times emotionally, and he discovers the true meaning of whatever his bullheaded idiocy won't let him comprehend initially. This one also has a rise to impossible heights on the shoulders of a jingoistic, ADHD-riddled audience—complete with cut-scenes of lowest-common denominator men, women, and children blindly swearing allegiance to his shtick—followed by a hubristic fall courtesy of arch-nemesis Jack Lime (James Marsden). But that only leads to the worst sequence of over-the-top nonsense yet with the unfunny Oscar-hopeful song "Doby".
If you thought the news team's escapades were random in 2004, you need to forget Anchorman 2 was ever created because it takes that feeling to the nth degree. Champ and Brian have no business being in the plot besides the former giving his closeted homosexual undertones and the latter calling Ron a moron every time he opens his mouth; Burgundy's ex-wife Veronica (Christina Applegate) seems unimpressed and less than happy she's been relegated to the background with her obnoxious, cue-card reading son Walter (Judah Nelson); and newcomers Dylan Baker, Greg Kinnear, Josh Lawson, Good, and Marsden are nothing more than punchlines to awkward silences. Carell's Brick and Kristen Wiig's Chani Lastnamé are the sole source of laughter until the requisite climactic brawl because their romance is cutely eccentric and refreshingly quiet to contrast the nuclear bomb surrounding them.
Are we supposed to care about the Burgundy divorce and if they'll get back together? Is the main crux whether Good and Ferrell will cow-tow to boss Kench Allenby's (Lawson) demands? Or should we be paying attention to the war between local news and syndicate news that's introduced but left for dead halfway through? There's so much going on that when we do find ourselves stuck at a lighthouse for twenty minutes it should be a reprieve rather than its sad, pathetic attempt for broad humor. Maybe Ferrell, McKay, and company purposely hammed it up to see if the mindless drones would still buy tickets after opening night. Would initial viewers allow themselves the opinion that it sucked or would the peer pressure of being "hip" and "cool" prevail? Being a social experiment can be its only excuse.
I know I'm far from the target audience considering I hated Anchorman on first viewing and hated it a tad less my second, but that doesn't excuse the fact I was utterly bored until the news team no-holds-barred war I desperately hoped would arrive to save the train wreck came. The fight's cameos are even bigger than before with some nice A-list talent and a few of the main cast's buddies staging an elaborate CGI-assisted battle royale with explosions, wigs, and the Minotaur. Unfortunately, though, Paramount could have saved a lot of cash letting the troupe film just this scene for internet consumption rather than the inane strand of sketches and bits built around it. And now there are rumors a third could be in the pipeline? Really? Hopefully Bill Kurtis is still around to narrate it.
I question why it was made, why McKay would blatantly allow young Nelson to glance off-screen at lines while speaking in his shrill voice loudly and monotone, and whether the five or so audience members in my almost sold-out theatre laughing every time anyone opened their mouth were studio plants paid to do so. Three quarters of the jokes were rehashed from Anchorman, an eighth were callbacks, and the rest did genuinely hit their mark. That's simply not enough for any movie to be a success creatively. It's as though Burgundy and crew have willfully become parodies of their original parody—an idea that may have sounded good on paper but was executed poorly if truly the intent. And with the media saturation leading up to its release, this result just becomes a sad waste of everyone's time.
[1] Photo credit: Gemma LaMana. (Left to right) David Koechner is Champ Kind, Paul Rudd is Brian Fantana, Will Ferrell is Ron Burgundy and Steve Carell is Brick Tamland in ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES to be released by Paramount Pictures. (c) MMXIII Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
[2] Photo credit: Gemma LaMana. James Marsden (center) is Jack Lime in ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES to be released by Paramount Pictures. (c) MMXIII Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
[3] Photo credit: Gemma LaMana. (Left to right) Will Ferrell is Ron Burgundy and Christina Applegate is Veronica Corningstone in ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES to be released by Paramount Pictures. (c) MMXIII Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved.


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"My work is inspired by the minutiae of nature. I explore the detail, colour and form within the realm of plants and their environment. My wish is to share with the viewer my fascination with the beautiful and bizarre in a world which we all too easily take for granted."
Yanny Petters
Yanny is represented by The Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin.


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Singing in Choirs
My spouse and I were asked to join a small choir singing a French Christmas carol, and it was fun to spend the hours practicing together as a couple and with the choir. We performed at a Stake Christmas Concert, and we all wore red scarves to make it a bit more 'frenchy'. :) I also sang in a double quartet, which was a pleasure. All of the memebers were excellent musicians, which made it so much fun. I love feeling like a bit of a band-nerd again and 'getting' the corny music jokes and lingo.
One evening my honey came home from work and said he had a surprise for me, fishing something out of his pocket. Tickets... I looked closer... SYMPHONY tickets! He was going to take me to the Symphony! Ohh I was so excited about that! (That seemed like something only rich people do). (Maybe it is, we got them for free). It wasn't until a few days later that he told me the tickets were for Handel's Messiah. Oh man it just kept getting better! Handel's Messiah at the Symphony. I was in heaven.
When we arrived it was fun to people-watch and see how everyone treated it. It used to be that going to the Symphony was a very formal occasion, and some people still dressed up in formal attire, which was lovely to see. But there were a few jeans and turtlenecks, and much in between...
It took a little while to really get into the music for me, but by intermission I was floating on clouds- my soul singing along with them. It was beautiful. I missed there being a brass section, though, as it was only a wind-orchestra (plus one trumpet for the trumpet piece). When the trumpet began playing, I knew what had been missing for me during that first half. No brass! I guess I really am a brass-instrument kind of girl. I love the feeling of brass music. Thanks honey for taking me to the Symphony!
Work Party
Our first work-Christmas-party together was quite the do. It was a formal; cocktails and dancing. I went formal-dress hunting a few weeks earlier, and was able to score a beautiful red-sparkly mermaid style dress, with a white and gold-trimmed bolero to go with. Guess where I found this amazing outfit?? The local thrift store. I love finding amazing things like that at thrift stores.
The work party was a lot of fun. I had already met a few of my spouse's co-workers at the summer BBQ, so it was fun to catch up and get to know them better. The dinner was wonderful, and the dessert table exciting (They had a Bouche-de-Noel!). We chatted with those at our table and then there was dancing!! We rocked the floor with some crazy cha-cha and lots of swing. It is so fun that both of us enjoy dancing.
We had friends over for fondue one evening, and we went all out on this dinner party. Bubbly 'champagne' in the Christmas goblets we've been using all month, shrimp and cocktail sauce, and lots of delicious veggies and meat for the fondue, which lasted about 2 hours. We played board games and generally enjoyed the evening.
Eggnog Party and others...
One of my love's friends has an Eggnog Party every year at Christmas time, and we were in town to go this year. This was my first occasion trying homemade eggnog. Not bad, though I can't say it is my favorite beverage. It's a fun tradition anyhow! We also went to another friend's Christmas party that was a big get together of soup, snacks, family, and my honey's old friends. I met some neat people with some really amazing stories (Escaping a massacred African village with 5 village children, the only survivors; meeting their love online and moving to New Zealand...). And the lovely hostess took our picture before we headed to the work Christmas party. Thanks!
Korean Chinese Dinner
The tutoring company I work for had a Christmas dinner too. The man running the company is Korean, and basically all the students are Korean, and basically all the tutors are...something else. We ate at a Chinese restaurant, which was delicious of course! Lets see if I can remember the ethnicities of the other tutors who attended: Guyanan, Philippino , White, White, Chinese, Franco-Albertan. It was an interesting group, most of us had traveled to various parts of the world and were sub-experts on various subjects such as subways in Asian countries, North Korea, Japan's non-immigration policies and honesty culture, Europe vs Asia, and getting ripped off in a foreign country (especially if you look like a native). It was a really enjoyable dinner conversation! Sometimes I have a hard time connecting to people, but this was a breeze. It helped to remind me that there isn't something wrong with me (I've been struggling to find/make friends, lol), I just need to find people with similar interests.
December is Awesome! It is super crazy, but that's because everyone is in a good mood and wants to spend time together. I think it is fantastic, and I reminded myself over and over again this month that it isn't stressful busy, it is enjoyable busy. Enjoy December madness. And besides everything goes more or less back to normal once January hits. (except for the looming tax-job...)
I hope everyone enjoys their own versions of December Delights, and feel the joy of the season in spite of the business. Merry Christmas!


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High-quality packaging
Optimum packaging is important to proper coffee enjoyment, because the flavour of coffee is very sensitive to oxygen, humidity, as well as light and heat. To protect the coffee against environmental influences on its journey from the roasting plant to the customer, it is packaged in aluminium-clad or aluminium-coated plastic film. Of course Tchibo guarantees that the packaging is harmless and will not affect the taste of the coffee. The right 'protective shield' thus ensures that the quality of Tchibo coffee is preserved as long as possible.
A matter of taste: tips for proper coffee preparation
You yourself can play a part in ensuring the perfect coffee moment at home. A few little tips will help maintain the quality of the coffee and enhance the taste of the finished 'brew':
Proper storage is the be-all and end-all of aromatic coffee enjoyment. The important point here is to protect the coffee from oxygen, moisture, light and heat. If possible, store your coffee in an air-tight, opaque container made of metal, glass or porcelain. Coffee stays especially fresh if stored in the refrigerator – in this way whole beans keep their full flavour for about four weeks and ground coffee for two weeks.
The right grind size depends on the particular blend how it is to be prepared. A useful rule of thumb is: the shorter the brewing time, the finer the grind. In our shops we will be happy to advise you and grind your coffee beans to the desired consistency.
Not all brews are created equal - the minerals and salts contained in the water used to brew the coffee contribute to the flavour and mean that the same coffee product can taste different from region to region, thereby always giving it its own special character. Our advice: don't use boiling water to brew your coffee because this quickly makes it taste bitter.
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Speaker: Dr. Eli Machtei
Abstract: While dental implants present a viable alternative to replace missing teeth, it is not without it shortcomings. One such problem is early and late implant failure. While the incidence rate for implants loss is low (less than 5% for early loss and ~1% annually thereafter), it is still a major therapeutic dilemma in the dental office. This presentation will deal with different scenarios of implants' loss, the alternatives to negotiate it and the viability of each of these modalities.
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1) To learn how to surgically negotiate sites of failed implants
2) To be able to select the best alternative to replace the lost implant
Tuition: $65/ 1 (one) ADA credit hour
Cancellation Policy: Cancellation 7 days before the course will be eligible for full refund. No refund will be made within 7 days of the course initiation date.
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Harvard School of Dental Medicine is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider
ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. The Harvard School of Dental Medicine designated this activity for 1 continuing education credit.
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text: I'm sure there are some people who aren't fans of assembling and disassembling furniture when it involves tools. Fortunately for them, Óli Jóhann Ásmundsson designed this collection including furnishings that don't require tools for putting them together and taking them apart for transport. As a result, there is less waste made during production.


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She Faints On Train, But Wakes Up To Find A Mysterious Note About What Happened To Her
Recently, 27-year-old Ellie Farnfield caught a London train by herself.
The acupuncture student was heading to teach a fitness class after leaving a family get-together. But suddenly, disaster struck…
But as the train approached the station, Ellie suffered a sudden fit without warning, which turned out to be an epileptic seizure.
With no companions to care for her, Ellie collapsed on the floor and blacked out.
Ellie woke up in the hospital with no recollection of what happened or how she got there. But when she looked down, she saw a handwritten note in her hand.
The note read:
I'm also sorry I can't stay with you now but here is a coffee to perk you up later and £10 to make sure you get a taxi home. Sorry I don't have anymore money so I hope you don't live far away.
I've contacted people from your phone and medical help is on its way and you're with train staff. Wishing you all the best and a quick recovery.
Love Tom"
Ellie couldn't believe that Tom not only brought her to safety, but went the extra mile by leaving her with a cup of coffee and £10 (USD $13).
Ellie had no idea who this mysterious "Tom" was. He left no other trace of his identity.
So, she posted the note and story on her Facebook page, hoping to track him down. She says his actions "restored her faith in humanity."
Ellie wanted everyone to share the note, and it quickly went viral.
"I have no idea who this man was or if he was sitting next to me but I wanted to show how grateful I am to him," Ellie said. "If Tom does come forward, first of all I would like to give him back his money and then thank him for what he did. He deserves a lot of praise."
People all over the world posted Tom's note, hoping someone out there would know him.
Ellie has yet to track down her guardian angel, but she is just as hopeful as ever.
"It was so nice of him, it's one thing helping people but doing additional things like what Tom did is something else."
What an incredible act of kindness. If it wasn't for Tom, who knows what could have happened to Ellie. Please SHARE this with your friends on Facebook, and let's track this hero down!


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Water on Lunar South Pole
On October 9th, the LCROSS collision, run by NASA Ames, crashed into the depths of a permanently shadowed crater on the south pole of the Moon. From a scientific point of view, the debris plume resulting from this impact has been analyzed by scientists during the past month, and the results show a significant quantity of water. We now know that the water can be found in the permanently shadowed caters of the Lunar South Pole. This water is probably the remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface. Likely there may be billions of tons of water, water that can be used to produce rocket fuel or to support future human outposts.
From an economic point of view, water on the Moon is the equivalent of finding "gold in the hills of California." Translation… there is the potential for a California gold rush to hit the space nations in the years ahead. It may be that governments and/or companies will seek to be first to the ice-fields of the Lunar South Pole and make a claim.
So what's so interesting about water on the Moon? After all it's in boundless supplies on Earth. The value of water is its actual physical location on the Moon, a place that is very expensive to travel to. The utility of the water is both as a propellant for rockets and for the maintenance of human life in space. With sufficient water on the Moon, solar energy can be used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is of course critical for humans to breath and the water important for us to drink. As it turns out, hydrogen (H2) & oxygen (O2) together are one of the most efficient propellants we know. The Space Shuttle Main Engines (some of the most powerful rocket engines in existence), for example, burn O2 and H2 to blast our astronauts off the Earth into orbit. You can think of water as the petroleum of spaceflight… rather than oil that powers our cars, H2 and O2 powers our rocketships.
Today's launch costs are unfortunately extremely expensive. On the average it costs something on the order of $20,000 per pound to get supplies into low-Earth orbit (where the Int'l Space Station is located) and, optimistically, 10x to 20x that cost, or approximately $400,000 per pound to land something on the Moon's surface.
So the cost of transporting water to the lunar surface, or oxygen, or hydrogen is about $400,000 per pound or $25,000 per ounce… about twenty-five times the price of gold today!
Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration. Who will set up the first water mining plants? Given low-cost availability of water, hydrogen and oxygen, what type of off-Earth economies and exploration will this enable? The question is not too dissimilar to those questions asked when oil was discovered buried deep under the Earth or under the oceans. We eventually designed the technology to mine and extract this precious resource. It's what we do as humans and entrepreneurs.
The south pole of the Moon has another very important attribute in addition to water, namely the existence of small mountain peaks that are constantly in sunlight, 28 days out of the Lunar cycle and referred to as the "peaks of eternal light." These peaks which are in the plane of the ecliptic (the plane that the Earth rotates around the sun) will allow for constant illumination of solar panels and heating of the spacecraft. The reason this is important is because the temperature on the Moon plummets from +100 degrees Centigrade to -150 degrees Centigrade as the Moon rotates into and out of direct sunlight.
The proximate location of newly discovered ice-fields, next to these "peaks of eternal light," will allow for the creation of fuel depots where water is mined and then solar energy is used to break it down to Hydrogen and Oxygen for rocket fuel (a process known as hydrolysis). Think of this location as the 'Saudi Oil fields' of the solar system. I could imagine that some governments or corporations will want to race to this real estate and stake their claim in the decade ahead.
I'm particularly excited for all of the teams building vehicles for the Google Lunar X PRIZE (www.googlelunarxprize.org/). This is a $30 million competition funded by Google and operated by the X PRIZE Foundation. We've offered up a large cash bounty for the first team to privately build and land a robot on the surface of the Moon that can travel, send back photos and video. Think of these vehicles as a low-cost 'prospector' looking for information and valuable data, as well as the companies constructing the shovels and picks on the bleeding edge of this potential boom.
Thus far, 21 teams from 11 nations have registered to compete. When they are successful they will demonstrate the ability to reliably travel to the lunar surface and explore for less than a tenth of the current costs envisioned by government programs. Everyone will benefit and these Google Lunar Teams will be on the cutting edge of a gold rush.
If you've been wondering where the next Gold Rush is going to take place, look up at the night sky to our closest celestial neighbor. The next economic boom might just be a mere 240,000 miles away on the bella luna.


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Remember when Shannen Doherty was a big star and left "Beverly Hills, 90210" because everyone on the show hated her? Well everything turned out pretty sweet for Shannen, because now she's getting her liberal arts degree online at EducationConnection.com. I bet she even gets free tuition for doing the commercial (below). So suck on THAT, Priestley. Your Canadian ass never even went to college.
(thanks for the tip, Burnsy)


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I wander halls with many doors
Of varied woods and endless cores
The choice I make will not be forced
On cosmic course. On cosmic course
I skip through one of oak that shines
Am in a place of flowered vines
Each bloom displays precise guidelines
There will be fines! There will be fines!
I walk back out into the hall
Do eyes deceive? Did it shrink small?
What's that? A big red bouncing ball.
I run and fall. I run and fall
Into a hole. White light portal.
Am I to die? Remain mortal?
I land abrupt. Hear a chortle
See a turtle. See a turtle
With beard of moss and eyes of brown
"I've come to show you all around.
You're wondering – you're still earthbound
In dreamland now." In dreamland now
We sprouted wings, took to the sky
Skimmed feet and crowns through Horus' Eye
I saw then we were butterflies
Absorbed the why. Absorbed the why.
Notes: The Eye of Horus, also known as wadjet, wedjat or udjat, is an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection, royal power, and good health.
The butterfly is a pivotal symbol in philosophical Daoism/Taoism. The big story is about Chuang Tzu/Zhuangzi and The Butterfly Dream.
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For this week's Lucky Dip, I have reached into my mystery bag and pulled out a Monotetra. The topic is up to you!
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MK says:
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Characterization of Isotropic Surface Texture in the Boundary Lubrication Regime and the Frictional Response
Date of Graduation
Document Type
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Degree Level
Mechanical Engineering
Malshe, Ajay P.
Committee Member/Reader
Spearot, Douglas E.
Committee Member/Second Reader
Couvillion, Rick J.
In the dynamic nature of today's engineering components the use of nanolubricants and the control of micron and sub-micron surface texture features can greatly aid in reducing frictional losses and thus reduce energy consumption. The primary purpose of this paper is to define texture and analyze the effects of an isotropic surface texture and lubrication on the frictional response of contacting surfaces in boundary lubrication. This experiment was carried out using a steel ball-on-disk tribometer set-up where the steel disk had a sandblasted surface texture using 40-60 grit glass beads to produce an average roughness, Sa, of 2.120 μm uniformly distributed as shown by an Str value of 0.9. The disks were tested in the tribometer using three different lubrications: without the presence of a lubricant, with PAO base oil, and with MoS2 nanoparticle lubricant. The MoS2 nanolubricant frictional response showed the lowest amount of observable and quantifiable wear based on the areal surface texture parameters measured using a profilometer.
Bird, E. H. (2014). Characterization of Isotropic Surface Texture in the Boundary Lubrication Regime and the Frictional Response. Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/meeguht/34