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- What is potassium citrate-oral tablet, and how does it work (mechanism of action)?
- What brand names are available for potassium citrate-oral tablet?
- Is potassium citrate-oral tablet available as a generic drug?
- Do I need a prescription for potassium citrate-oral tablet?
- What are the side effects of potassium citrate-oral tablet?
- What is the dosage for potassium citrate-oral tablet?
- Which drugs or supplements interact with potassium citrate-oral tablet?
- Is potassium citrate-oral tablet safe to take if I'm pregnant or breastfeeding?
- What else should I know about potassium citrate-oral tablet?
What is potassium citrate-oral tablet, and how does it work (mechanism of action)?
Potassium citrate is a urinary alkalinizing medication. It makes urine less acidic. Potassium citrate works by crystallizing stone-forming salts such as calcium oxalate, calcium phosphate, and uric acid within the urinary bladder by increasing the urinary pH and urine citrate levels. Urocit-k was approved in August 1985.
What are the side effects of potassium citrate-oral tablet?
Side effects of potassium citrate are:
- abdominal discomfort,
- nausea,
- vomiting,
- diarrhea,
- increased potassium levels, and
- rarely cardiac arrest.
Potassium supplements can cause bleeding or perforation of the stomach or small intestine from ulcers, and narrowing (stricture) of the small intestine from healed ulcers.
What is the dosage for potassium citrate-oral tablet?
Dosing of potassium citrate is based on urinary citrate levels.
Mild to moderate hypocitraturia (Urinary citrate greater than 150 mg/day):
- Take 10 mEq potassium citrate orally three times a day
- Severe hypocitraturia (Urinary citrate less than 150 mg/day):
- Take 30 mEq potassium citrate orally 2 times a day or 20 mEq 3 times a day; with meals or within 30 minutes after meals.
- Maintenance:
- To achieve urinary citrate 320 to 640 mg/day and urinary pH 6.0-7.0: Titrate dose to maximum of 100 mEq/day
Which drugs or supplements interact with potassium citrate-oral tablet?
Potassium citrate should be used with caution with potassium-sparring diuretics, which can increase potassium levels in body and potentially lead to cardiac arrest.
Drugs that slow transit of food through the intestine may delay passage of potassium tablets through the digestive system and result in increased irritation, ulceration or narrowing of the small intestine. Examples of such drugs include atropine, loperamide (Imodium), liraglutide (Saxzenda, Victoza) and similar drugs.
Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors (for example, enalapril [Vasotec]), angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) drugs (for example, valsartan [Diovan]) and certain diuretics (for example, spironolactone [Aldactone] and triamterene [Dyrenium]) increase potassium levels, causing high potassium levels in the blood when combined with potassium supplements. Potassium blood levels should be measured regularly in these patients.
Salt substitutes (for example, Mrs. Dash) often contain potassium. Therefore, patients using salt substitutes while taking potassium supplements may develop high levels of potassium in the blood.
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Is potassium citrate-oral tablet safe to take if I'm pregnant or breastfeeding?
There are no adequate studies done on potassium citrate to determine safe and effective use in pregnant women.
Normally, potassium ions are present in breast milk. It is not known whether administering potassium citrate can further increase potassium levels. Therefore, potassium citrate should only be given if needed.
What else should I know about potassium citrate-oral tablet?
What preparations of potassium citrate-oral tablet are available?
Potassium citrate is available in extended-release tablets. They are available in 5 mEq (540 mg), 10 mEq (1080 mg), and 15 mEq (1620 mg) strengths. The packets for oral solution were discontinued in the U.S.
How should I keep potassium citrate-oral tablet stored?
Store potassium citrate tablets at room temperature in a tightly closed container.
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Nexus 6 concept from a few days ago? It was created by Sirkdow and it was incredibly thin… Well, now we know Sirkdow's full and real name and that's Fabrizio D'Onofrio apparently. He redesigned the Nexus 6 and even specced it with some interesting features.Remember the
After many hours of work he came up with a model that's not too thin or too thick and with some realistic specs. The handset packs a Snapdragon 801 or 805 CPU clocked at 2.5 GHz, an Adreno 340 GPU and 3 GB of RAM. It relies on a 5000 mAh battery and has a 5 inch IPS LCD screen with 2K resolution. This Nexus 6 uses a 12 megapixel camera with optical stabilization and 4K video recording and also it has a dual stereo speaker system.
It's still pretty thin, at 5.5 mm in waistline and its design somehow makes me think of a futuristic skateboard seen from above. By the way, this Nexus concept is still LG material, according to the designer. I have to admit I like the white model with the Nexus pattern at the back. Would be cool if it would light up that way! What do you think of these specs?
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Glee Gets Early Season 3 Pick-Up
Good news, Gleeks: Fox already has ordered a third season of Glee, according to Entertainment Weekly.
The freshman series — starring Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele — is the No. 1 new scripted series among 18-to-49-year-olds and has averaged 9.4 million total viewers.
Fall TV Scorecard: Which shows are returning? Which aren't?
"In just one year, Glee has transcended the television landscape and emerged as a global pop-culture phenomenon," Peter Rice, Fox networks' entertainment chairman, said in a statement.
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Series creator Ryan Murphy also released statement about the musical dramedy's success: "It's been a whirlwind year — from shooting the pilot to performing at the White House to the concert tour that began last week — and yet we all feel like we've just begun this amazing musical journey. We think our Gleeks worldwide are going to love what we'll have in store for them in seasons two and three."
Glee, which wraps up its first season June 8, will resume on Tuesday nights next fall.
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It Must Be Maine: RealTerm Energy is proud to be leading the way in Vacationland
Many towns and cities in Maine are buying back their streetlights from the state's two major Investor-Owned Utilities (IOU) Central Maine Power and Emera, to reduce costs and gain control over the way their communities are lit. RealTerm Energy is proud to have been selected to assist with this process and to provide a complete LED streetlight conversion by 22 such communities to date.
The Main State Legislature passed a bill in 2013, Lowering Costs to Municipalities & Reducing Energy Consumption through Competition in the Municipal Street Light Market, that allowed local municipalities the option of controlling and managing their streetlights. The bill granted the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) the authority to determine the final rules on how the process would work. The new law gives municipalities three options: do nothing and continue to lease the lights from the utility companies, purchase the lights and have the utility companies continue maintenance, or take over both the control and maintenance of lights. The bill also states how a municipality may be charged for the utility infrastructure services provided, how the location of street and area lighting will be provided, and the methods for determining the electricity delivery charges.
Switching over to locally controlled lights saves energy, creates options for proper fixture selection and design, and offers greater flexibility regarding placement and removal. First out of the gates were the communities of Biddeford, Falmouth, Rockland and South Portland. In fact, Falmouth Town Manager, Nathan Poore, has been involved in helping push forward the legislation and the PUC process since 2002! RealTerm was excited to be named the winner of the Biddeford group RFP in 2016 and has been working with this pioneering group since then. Falmouth has published all of the details of the RFP selection process on their website, which has resulted in an informal procurement piggy-back structure making it easier for other municipalities to engage with RTE without having to launch their own formal RFP. Lastly, the Biddeford group's commercial terms was RTE's first foray into an Open Book Cost Plus contractual structure. RTE has since replicated and modified this transparent pricing structure to facilitate direct procurement opportunities with other municipalities outside of Maine.
As a first mover in this market, RTE has had the opportunity to shape the way municipalities will be interfacing with the states/primary utilities, CMP and Emera during the conversion process. RTE's first mover status has also made it easier to secure a leading position in this small but lucrative market.
RealTerm's innovative Investment Grade Audit (IGA) process has proven invaluable to both the municipalities and the utilities navigating this process. The IGA includes extensive field investigations, infrastructure analysis, comprehensive lighting designs, and detailed engineering calculations to project accurate and reliable energy and maintenance savings. The results help clarify who owns what, and what the costs of ownership transfer will be, and the exact scope of the conversion to LED.
Since the Biddeford RFP was released, many other communities have followed suit as they want to benefit from cost reductions, improved lighting, and more local autonomy. Like RealTerm, these communities are committed to excellent lighting design and to maximizing the lifecycle value of their assets. We are extremely pleased to have been selected by the communities of: Biddeford, Falmouth, South Portland, Rockland, Wells, York, Dover-Foxcroft, Mt. Desert, Caribou, Houlton, Madawaska, Fort Kent, Fort Fairfield, Frenchville, Washburn, Limestone, Mars Hill, Island Falls, Grans Isle, Presque Isle, Agatha, Mapleton.
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme for bloggers who like books and lists. It's awesome and is graciously hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic is.....
Ten Books To Read If You Are In The Mood For XMy X this week will be "laughing". If there is one thing I really love and most appreciate in a book, it is humor. I love a book that makes me laugh/chortle/grin foolishly while reading and for some genres (romance) I find it an essential ingredient. Even better is a book that can make me laugh AND cry (it was better than Cats!) - I think a good word for that is bittersweet? *shrugs* That doesn't completely fit but I like it better than tragicomic which is the other word the internet is suggesting. Anyway, the point is, who among us doesn't admire (or want to be) people that can face the hard things in life with a sense of humor.
Below I will list ten somewhat recently (last 3 years or so) read books that really made me laugh. I've split it down the middle, listing half books that were just flat out delightful and half books that delivered both the funny and the sad. I tried to have a good distribution among genres in each list as well. Ummm... I also went way over the allotted 10. Please forgive me.
1. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place Series by Maryrose Wood
This is an utterly charming and hilarious middle-grade series about a young governess name Penelope and her three charges who were raised by wolves in Victorian England. It is peppered with the pithy, hilarious and often wise sayings of the founder of Penelope's alma mater, The Swanburne Academy for Poor, Bright females.
"As Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions."
2. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
This is classic title so I don't need to explain further about how hilarious this book is. My favorite character may be Marvin the depressed robot.
"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons."
3. Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean
As I mentioned, I just can't deal with a romance which is too earnest and dire so naturally my new best friend is Sarah MacLean. Her books are swoonily romantic and are also bursting with witty banter. I love them.
"What do you think of this" he asked, indicating the painting nearby.
She gave him an odd look. "I think it's an enormous painting of a dog."
He made a show of considering the picture and nodded seriously. "An astute observation."
4. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach/Anything by Mary Roach
Runner up: Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson
Mary Roach is a brilliant non-fiction writer about all kinds of science-y type subjects and she handles her topics in a way that is both informational and hilarious. She's my all time favorite non-fiction writer and Gulp is her most recent book.
"Where do you find a stomach on a Thursday afternoon in Reno? "Chinatown?" suggests someone. "Costco?" "Butcher Boys." Tracy pulls his phone from a pocket. "Hello, I'm from the university" - the catchall preamble for unorthodox inquiries."
I actually read Dr. Tatiana's many years ago but I thought I'd mention it if your looking for entertaining science writing. It addresses the evolution of sex in the format of a sex advice column for all sorts of critters.
5. The Thousand Dollar Tan Line and Mr. Kiss and Tell by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham
If you watched Veronica Mars on TV you'll remember its trademark clever wit. The books based on the show carry on the tradition. If your familiar with the show you'll also know that it skirted the bittersweet line as well but because my dominant feeling coming out of these books was delight, I'm putting them here. The books are really great mysteries to boot. I hope they continue to do more....
"I'm beginning to view democracy as the Siri of political systems. So much better in theory." -Mr. Kiss and Tell
6. The Martian by Andy Weir
Mark Watney is my fictional boyfriend. A scientist, and astronaut and totally and dreamily funny. He's an adorable smart ass, even while trapped on Mars.
"Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped."
7. The Peter Grant Series by Ben Aaronovitch
This was the series that won me over to Urban Fantasy which hadn't been a favorite genre. The stories are a lot of fun and Peter is an incredibly engaging main character particularly because he's got a fantastic sense of humor.
"Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?"
8. The Rook by Daniel O'Malley
This is a unique book focusing on an administrator in a government spy agency that protects Great Britain from supernatural threats. Problem is this administrator has total amnesia and the only way she knows anything is from the notes she left herself before she lost her memory. It's totally fun and has a lovely dry sense of humor.
"Yes, Minister, it turns out that there was a mysterious force that caused that plane to crash. We call it gravity."
9. An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde is legendary for his wit and An Ideal Husband is one of his best plays with all the droll lines by Lord Goring.
"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself."
10. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
This book. It is one of the funniest and saddest and best I've ever read.
"It's like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight, he added"
11. Let's Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Jenny Lawson examines her somewhat unconventional childhood with some appreciation and a lot of hilarity.
"A friend is someone who knows where all your bodies are buried. Because they're the ones who helped you put them there."And sometimes, if you're really lucky, they help you dig them back up."
12. Longmire Mystery Series by Craig Johnson
A dry humor juxtaposed with an austere landscape and the tragedy of murder. Focused on the sheriff of a rural Wyoming County.
"There are only three major vote getting days in Absoroka County, and I can't remember the other two. "Oh God, no. It's Pancake Day." I thought about shooting myself. I could see the headlines: Sheriff shoots self, unable to face pancakes."
13. Shine Shine Shine and How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky by Lydia Netzer
Lydia Netzer's style is a little quirky and weird and it's not for everyone but I love it. These books manage to be funny and achingly poignant at the same time often times highlighting the absurdities of life.
"This is the way it was in Yates County. Bald Girls. Wild boys formed from math. Geniuses all around, just waiting to be discovered, or waiting to rot in trailers behind their parents' barns, die penniless, mourned only by the Amish from whom they bought all those eggs."
14. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
This book is brutal but also so so funny. A highly recommended read!
"Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine."
15. Fables Series by Bill Willingham
This is probably my favorite graphic novel series and it can be equally delightful and truly devastating.
"Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do."
16. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
This is a truly lovely and entertaining historical fiction book. It's set in Spain and has a little bit of everything, mystery,history, romance, drama and a good bit of humor as well. It also has a lot of lovely passages about books and reading.
"Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it."
17. Flavia De Luce Series by Alan Bradley
This series and its 12 year old protagonist are totally delightful but the humor overlays what in reality is a very sad and dysfunctional family.
"It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called 'Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it."
18. The Gentleman Bastards series by Scott Lynch
Runner Up: The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie
Both of these series are brutal and violent but also have very fun (and somewhat filthy so beware) senses of humor which is what makes them so brilliant.
"I can't wait to have words with the Gray King when this shit is all finished," Locke whispered. "There's a few things I want to ask him. Philosophical questions. Like, 'How does it feel to be dangled out a window by a rope tied around your balls, motherfucker?" - The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
"We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged." - The Last Argument of Kings, Joe Abercrombie
That does it for me? What are your go to books when you just want to laugh? Or maybe laugh and then cry a little? I'd love some recommendations!


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The Touchy-Feely Future
When I heard that we might soon be able to feel textures through screens, I wanted to play. So I badgered my way into a demonstration with Dave Rice, spokesperson for Senseg, a leading company in the emerging field of haptic (from the Greek meaning "to touch") technology.
We met at a San Francisco coffee shop, where he pulled out a Toshiba tablet that Senseg's people had hacked with haptics. Engineers had opened up the tablet and embedded their custom electronics. Then they covered the screen's glass with a special coating that has particular electrical properties. They also developed software to control it all—a way for programmers to talk to it.
Good. Thanks. Can I try?
Rice had me hold the makeshift device by the corner and said, "On this first screen, all you do is move this ball around that circle."
I definitely felt something. Lines were appearing under the "ball" I was moving, and I could vaguely sense them under my fingers. The more I touched the screen, the more the sensation increased.
"It's actually that you're going through a very quick tactile learning curve," explained Rice. "You're not expecting to feel something on smooth glass that feels like ridges."
Next came a different image, a selection of four textures, which felt either coarser or finer to the touch. They had different degrees of friction, but all made my finger feel like there was something underneath stopping it from sliding around too much.
Cool. But what's it good for?
A fistful of startups around the world think the answer is: lots. Senseg, which is based in Finland, hopes to enable tablet and smart-phone users to feel virtual keyboards on their devices, which should boost typing ease and accuracy. Competitors including TeslaTouch, a Pittsburgh-based project of Disney's research arm, want to let users feel maps and characters in video games. And Immersion, which is based in San Jose but also has an office in Finland, is working on enabling surgeons to feel without touching.
Each company has its own method of simulating tactile sensation. Senseg's founder, Ville Mäkinen, worked out his firm's haptic effect in 2008, though it's based on a phenomenon that's been known since the 1950s. The electronics inside a Senseg-altered tablet generate a Coulomb force—an attraction between opposite charges that acts on the user's finger. "Just as magnets' positive and negative poles attract each other," Rice said, "we're doing the same thing. We're attracting your finger to the screen for very short periods of time—one or two milliseconds—in different ways, so you feel the perception of a gap."
I wondered whether haptic-empowered shoppers will be able to, say, compare the fabrics of shirts they're considering buying on Amazon. The short answer: Not anytime soon. That same far-off timeframe, in case you were curious, also applies for feelable porn (sorry, Playboy).
But professor Robert Williams, a haptics expert at Ohio University, predicts that basic uses for screen-generated haptics will be widely available in three to five years. "It's do-able right now," says Williams, "but the cost is not minimal. If the cost was very low, it would be there already."
Rice declined to speculate on when Senseg's product might hit the mass market, citing the many hurdles between a one-off hand-built unit and a production run of millions. "Those are the challenges we're working on with our partners," he said.
Partners like whom? Rice played coy here too, confirming only that he's talking about brands that already produce tablets on a mass scale. I called and emailed Apple, Google, Toshiba, Sony, Samsung, and Dell for comment. I got none. But the tech site TrustedReviews.com claims that Mäkinen has said, "We are currently working with a certain tablet maker based in Cupertino." There's only one of those, and its icon is a familiar bitten fruit.
After the Senseg demo, I went back to my usual devices. But their smooth screens now seem to lack something. My fingers glide along a uniformly smooth surface, feeling for something that's not yet there.


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What is the Church of the Force?
Back when everyone was in the rumour mill phase of The Force Awakens and when every little bit of information was placed under the magnifying glass of a thousand Star Wars fans, there was a piece of concept art that leaked that featured Max Von Sydow dressed in brown robes.
The art was called The Vicar and sent off many a wild rumour and speculation. Was he the new Obi-Wan Kenobi? At one point, we even wondered if he was Boba Fett or a cyborg robot kind of guy called Montrose!
It turns out the vicar was actually the priest known as Lor San Tekka, and he was a priest of the Church of the Force. So what is it? Is it a cult? Why does the Force need a church? Was its Jedi Council sanctioned?
The Church of the Force was an underground faith made up of loosely affiliated worshipers of the Jedi ideals. Members of the faith believed that the Jedi Order would not only one day return, but that its return was essential in bringing balance to the Force.
The Church of the Force existed as an underground movement during the Age of the Empire, when the Jedi Knights were hunted to near-extinction following the infamous Order 66 and worship in the supernatural was a violation of Imperial law.
One member of the faith was Lor San Tekka, an explorer who did not believe the Imperial description of the so-called Jedi betrayal of the Galactic Republic.
Tekka was was born in the waning years of the Galactic Republic. He became a believer in the ideals of the Jedi Order during the Clone Wars, despite not being Force-sensitive, and followed the underground faith of his church during the dark times of the Galactic Empire's rule over the galaxy
He spent years finding history of the Jedi that the Empire had tried to suppress, and eventually helped Luke Skywalker, in his own search for Jedi lore and the orginal Jedi Temple.
The Church of the Force first appeared in the The Force Awakens, not that viewers would have learned this. The Church of the Force was not official referenced until Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary was
|Illco Munica getting his last rites from Stormtroopers
His back story suggested that after the Battle of Endor (that occured in Return of the Jedi), San Tekka helped Luke Skywalker recover secret Jedi lore that the Empire had tried to erase.
It is implied in his conversation with Kylo Ren that he is well aquanited with Princess Leia.
Following decades of adventure San Tekka had retired to live simply on Jakku, where he followed the dictates of the Church of the Force.
While it's never explained how, Kylo Ren learned he had the map, found him and killing him and other fellow Church of the Force followers, including Ilco Munica, the terrified Abednedo that briefly featured on screen)


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'He was involved in Amarnath yatra attack on July 10'
Police today said that LeT Commander Abu Ismail and his associate, who were involved in the Amarnath yatra attack in July, were killed this evening at Aribagh, Nowgam in Srinagar outskirts.
According to the correspondent, addressing a press conference at PCR, IGP Munir Khan said that police had "specific information" about presence of the two militants hiding in a house in Nowgam.
"Two hiding terrorists were killed in very brief encounter without any collateral damage," Khan said, adding two AK 47 rifles, UBGLs and other ammunition was recovered from the slain militants.
The IGP said that the two militants were identified as Abu Ismail, who was LeT commander, and Abu Qasim aka Chotta Qasim.
The press conference was jointly addressed by IG CRPF Ravideep Sahai, and army commander.
8 yatries were killed and 20 others were injured in the attack on Amarnath yatries at Khanabal in Anantnag on July 10, which evoked wide condemnation.
The IGP said that the operation was carried out jointly by army, CRPF and police in a coordinated manner.
"We were after these killers of yatries after they carried out the attack on July 10," he said. (KNS)


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Horoscope: Astrological Style
Sagittarius: Nov. 22–Dec. 21
The world is yours for the taking, with plenty of opportunities for travel and education come summer; you're also due for a fresh romantic start around this time. It's tempting to coast on the job, but great success requires hard work. March and August will be key months.
Necklace, Mordekai by Ken Borochov. Shoes, $855, Barbara Bui.
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Whether you need a book-jacket blurb or a resume opening, these few words make the reader want more. Your capsule bio can be a sleek torpedo or bloated blimp. The best writers don't always know which they've launched, as Alice Romano discovered when compiling IWOSC's own directory. Follow the journalism creed of brevity and clarity to create your tasty intro.
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The timeline and keyvalues are at the core of working with Flow. In this guide, we'll go through the basics of working with the timeline, keyvalues and the different things you can do with them.
The easing window is covered in the Easing Curve Window guide.
In Flow, a
timeline contains tracks and keyvalues that let you craft your animations.
keyvalue indicates the value of a property at a point in time. Keyvalues are generally indicated by a circle on the timeline, but for more information see Keyvalues: basic controls.
track is a representation of changes in keyvalues for single property, and its visual style repesents the animations between those keyvalues.
The main things to keep in mind:
intro.flow file is a perfect example of this – it takes the same basic files and animates them in multiple ways.
Let's start with the basics. The timeline has the following controls:
Some tips:
Playhead's position indicates the animation's progress. When the timeline isn't playing, the playhead indicates where a keyvalue will be added, if you make any property changes.
2x, and
Scale Timeline slider is useful when working with quick (less than 1 second) animations where you need to add lots of keyvalues. Scale it up to 'zoom in' for more detail!
There are a couple ways to create a new timeline, but the easiest is to click the
+ button to add a new timeline.
The behavior of adding a new timeline changes based on whether you used a linked Sketch file to create your Flow file.
If you create a new timeline, you're presented with an empty stage and artboard.
You can add shapes, images and other layers as you might expect.
You can copy and paste assets (e.g. text / images) from outside of Flow as well.
Creating a new timeline presents the following:
You'll be asked to select a start and end artboard. Some artboards might be grayed out.
For more information, see Import and Animate Sketch Files.
You can export the current timeline as:
.gif (animated)
.apng (animated)
.png (single frame)
To export a timeline, select it and navigate to
File > Export.
For media files, the currently selected timeline is the one you export!
You can
Duplicate and
Reverse a timeline or one of its tracks by right-clicking:
You drag the ends of the Time Range bar to set a specific window of time within which playback will occur.
When the playhead is within this area it will stop at the end, and loop back to the start of the time range.
You can drag the playhead outside of this area, and the next time it plays through the timeline it will enter the range again and abide by its start/end points once more.
Keyvalues represent one property's value at a specific point in time.
When you animate more than one property in time like the position of a layer – i.e. the
x and
y coordinates – you create two
tracks. Each track has its own value one for
x movement, and one for
Keyvalues are represented with a circle on the timeline.
Some keyvalues have limited or no options for easing, and can represented with a
circle (easing on both sides),
half-square (step on one side) or
square icons (steps on both sides).
Creating a new keyvalue is automatic. All you need to do is place the playhead where you want it to be and then edit an object's properties.
As soon as you edit a property, Flow creates the keyvalue for you. You can then reposition the keyvalue if needed!
If you're making additional changes to a property you've already edited, Flow adds a new keyvalue to the existing track for that property. If you're animating a new property, Flow creates a new track for that property and adds a keyvalue to it.
Move keyvalues on the timeline by selecting them and dragging them.
You can also move a keyvalue by selecting it and editing the
Time property's value in the Properties pane.
You can't set the time to less than
0, but you can set it beyond the current duration of the timeline. It will adjust the length of the current timeline.
You can select a keyvalue by clicking the keyvalue symbol.
When you select a keyvalue, the
Properties panel shows the values assosciated with the keyvalue. In this case, it's the
X position of the circle.
You can use the mouse to select a group of keyvalues.
While pressing the
Shift key, selecting a keyvalue will also select ALL OTHER KEYVALUES prior to the selected one on its track.
While pressing the
Command key, you can select multiple individual keyvlaues at the same time.
When you select a keyvalue, then copy and paste it, the value is pasted a the current time of the playhead.
When you copy/paste keyvalue groups, the first keyvalue is pasted at the playhead's position, and the rest relative to the first keyvalue.
The playhead also moves to the time of the last keyvalue.
You can
option-drag a kevalue to duplicate it. When you have 2 equal keyvalues side by side in the timeline, there appears a gap. The gap indicates that there is no animation during that time.
You can also duplicate groups of keyvalues.
You can move groups of keyvalues in the same way was single values.
What's cool about groups is you can scale their relative positions to one another.
Pressing SHIFT while you move a keyvalue at either end of the group, will scale the entire selection.
When you select a group of keyvalues, a special property panel becomes avaialble. It looks like this:
Here are some notes about this panel:
Using the properties panel you can set the beginning or end points of that group.
A keyvalue group will scale if you set the
start or
end property. Or, you can lock the duration of the group, which will result in the whole group moving and keeping its duration.
This locks the relative positions of keyvalues to one another. This means their timing stays consistent when you edit the start or end values of the group.
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35-Year Rolling ReturnsPreviously I have published graphs of 5, 10, 20 and 50-year rolling returns. Thirty-five years may seem like a strange choice for an addition to the series. However, I chose 35 years because I thought the results might provide useful benchmarks for those planning for, for example, ages 30-65, 65-100, etc. As always, because we are looking at rolling returns, we will look at not only the best and worst 35-year returns, but at all 35-year returns.
Stock Market Rolling 35-Year Returns Graph
Above is a chart of the 35-year total return of the DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average) beginning around 1900. Each point on the graph represents the average annual return earned by an investor who bought the Dow at that year-end and sold 35 years later, reinvesting dividends in the interim. For example, the first point on the graph shows that an investor who bought at year-end 1901, reinvested dividends annually, and sold at year-end 1936 earned 8.7% per year. Note that the returns prior to 1929 are estimated (I have accurate closing prices, but have estimated the dividends based upon another market index).
The Best and Worst 35-Year Returns in Dow Jones History (Since 1900)The best 35-year periods began in:
- 1932: the return was about 12.9% per year for the next 35 years
- 1974: 12.1% annual return
- 1906: the return was about 6.1% for the next 35 years
- 1905: 6.4% annual return
ObservationsNot surprisingly, the best returns were earned by investors who had the fortitude to invest in the depths of a bear market, in 1932 and 1974.
The average 35-year return was 9.7% -- slightly less than the average 10 and 20-year returns. In addition, this graph is the only one of the series where returns don't appear to be clearly cyclical; in all of the others, returns cycle between low return periods and high return periods.
A more intriguing finding is the upward slope of the returns. Virtually all of the sub 8% returns are pre-1914, when lower returns seem to be the norm. From roughly 1920-1960 returns appear to cluster around 10% -- sometimes higher, sometimes lower. However, from that point on every single 35-year period sports a double-digit annual return; the vast majority of the greater than 11% returns come from this period. Thirty-five year periods beginning in 1960 and later have the advantage of ending in the years beginning 1995 -- for the most part a period of market euphoria. I think that explains the elevated returns toward the end. I expect those to abate as additional 35-year periods are completed.
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14 Wayne Barrett from Staffordshire: Loved the show when I was a schoolboy and beyond,just simply a great show. Now we can enjoy them all over again on dvd. Wish there were were extras though, such as on set interviews and behind the scenes-(I know these exist because They are on the extras on the "vampire motorcycle" dvd )and wish the prices were a bit cheaper! Best series are 4&5, being a Forest fan, it brings a warm nostalgic glow to remember those long hot summers of 89&90, my teenage years, and Forest winning at wembley in both those years Cloughie even appearing in the episode "Work, rest and play"! They sadly don't make shows like this anymore. R.I.P. Michael.
13 Mo from Kidderminster: Some shows of Boon were shot at Chaddesley. Corbett I remember well, but always love the show real down to ground no american rubbish. Thank you for showing it again could watch it forever, keep showing it my grandchildren love it.
12 BEE from ESSEX: started watching Boon on men&motors, it was brilliant to watch this series again - then it suddenly stopped, how come, it's totally got to come on again as brilliant acting from all in this series.
11 Richard Stephenson from Seaham: Boon was a legend alright, I especially liked the episode where Boon took out the Snuff Video ring when Rocky inadvertently got one in his copy of Police Academy 3 by accident from Sanjet Video Rental. Awesome, just awesome!
10 Chris Dwain Tomlin from Pegswood: Boon is a legend, this is my favourite show ever. Much better than the boon in lost, he is rubbish.
Michael Elphick is so cool, I wish I was like him.
9 Derek from Long Eaton: I was fairly young when this one, about 7. Dont know much of the show, but as a Speedway fan remember the show doing a scene at Long Eaton Speedway on Station Road. Can anybody advise what this episode and series was?
8 pavitter from birmingham: Well ive never seen the programme but my dad used to own a shop where they used to film the show. We had a brown volvo 240 Estate. Yes, thats right its the one they used in the programme. If you dont believe me the number plate was ONE 888W. Would it be possible to have some pictures of the car as i have never seen it but heard about it. Thank you. Feel free to email me any time.
7 victoria murphy from liverpool: I loved Lesley-Anne Sharpe, who played Debbie Yates in Boon. A feisty character that one, beautifully acted. Cheers!
6 Alan Williams from Hertfordshire: Hi Ho Silver....Here come the Lone Ranger.... He's riding on down.... to rescue meeeee.... wow, what a show Boon was/is.... best thing to ever hit british TV.... Or any TV for that matter.... bring it back to stay!!!! RIP Michael my friend
5 Peter Madeley from Wolverhampton: Hi Ho Silver, You could be Lone Ranger... Ho Ho, fantastic. Boon was without doubt the favourite programme of my formative years. Michael Elphick (RIP) was the best character actor this nation has produced and will be saddly missed by all. All I have now is my friend in Long Eaton who is Boon's double, I get him to dress in Leather trousers to keep the spirit of Boon alive. Tatty bogle xx
4 Bernard Betts from York: I don't know why, after all these years, I love watching so much. Maybe it's to do with friends sticking together and (usually) happy endings. I like the mouthorgan snippets for the intervals.
3 Neil Lovelock from Oooohhh: Ooooooooohhhh I love tight leather trousers and Boon
2 margaret goodwin from australia: I watch boon on uk tv and enjoy it a lot, I am hope that they [uk tv] will reapet it soon.
1 Nicholas Cox from Redhill Surrey: My favourite one is the one featuring, the Barge Trip, and the Tortoises. Larry Lamb, could have taught Lennox Lewis, a thing or two.


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It's time for Debbies Six Word Saturday
"Do come and join us in our Saturday six-word musings.
I'll admit that many of us openly break the numeric rule and share far more words (all excellent of course!) so the key rule is to have a title of six words – and then create around that the post that you desire! Perhaps in bunches of 6 words if you're feeling inspired."


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Last week at Village Home Stores we held our second annual Staff Soup Cook-Off and almost immediately when we started posting photos from it to our social media we had messages coming in with requests for recipes. We had many entries this year and once again, each was different from the next! It was pretty much the best work potluck on a snowy February day EVER!
Before we get to all of the delicious recipes we have to of course give a proper shoutout to this year's winner of the coveted "Golden Ladle" ::: drumroll ::: congratulations to MaryBeth Farber for her winning Baked Potato Soup!!! Of course she was very excited to beat last year's winner Gregg Swanson (he looks thrilled doesn't he).
The winning recipe was MaryBeth's Baked Potato Soup! She also staged up her serving station with decorations and had a whole buffet of toppings for the soup. If you are looking to find a delicious winter soup to feed the masses this is your new favorite!
Print off a copy of MaryBeth's Baked Potato Soup recipe by clicking here.
And now for the other incredible entries! We kinda hope that the party planning committee decides to make this annual event quarterly because we had so many different and creative soups compete this year!
Print off a copy of Angela's recipe for Italian Wedding Soup by clicking here.
Print off a copy of Rachele's recipe for popcorn-topped Beer Cheese Soup by clicking here.
Print off a copy of Elizabeth's recipe for popcorn and bacon-topped Apple Bacon Pumpkin Bisque by clicking here.
Print off a copy of Gregg's sweet and spicy recipe for Mulligatawny Soup by clicking here.
What a fun time and who knew six crock-pots full of soup could feed a Village! Did you find this post because you were looking for a soup recipe? Well allow us to introduce ourselves. We are Village Home Stores and we are a small business located in downtown Geneseo, Illinois. We provide appliance sales, service, cabinetry, countertops, lighting, flooring, wall tile, and custom window treatments for the entire extended Quad Cities Region. Learn more about our store here at villagehomestores.com or stop by and see us sometime! You may even luck out and show up during a fun event like this soup cook-off!


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Domestic violence awareness
Staff Writer
The Sault News
Residents of Sault Ste. Marie recognized October as domestic violence awareness month and took part in a walk Thursday evening on Ashmun Street. Jami Moran, program manager at the Advocacy Resource Center, said the event was put on by the Sault Tribe, the Diane Peppler Resource Center and the United Three Fires Against Violence. After the walk, the crowd returned to the Sault Tribal Administration Building to listen to a speaker and eat. The first 100 people who registered also received a sweatshirt with a message against domestic violence.


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Brent Batten: American Dream — or nightmare — taking shape across Alligator Alley
When the biggest anything in the country is taking shape 90 minutes from where you live, it's noteworthy.
The biggest stadium, the biggest garbage dump, the biggest ball of twine, you name it.
It's worth mentioning then that the biggest mall in America is moving through the approval process in Miami-Dade County, across Alligator Alley from Naples.
More:Miami-Dade County approves megamall near Everglades that would be largest in US
The project, called American Dream Miami, cleared a major hurdle last week when Miami-Dade County commissioners voted 9-1 in favor of zoning changes to allow the development of the 6-million-square-foot complex.
The developers, the Triple Five Group of Canada, don't like to call the American Dream project a mall.
"We're not in the mall business," Don Ghermezian, Triple Five's president, told the commissioners at the May 17 zoning hearing.
That's debatable, given that the company's signature project is the 5.4-million-square-foot Mall of America near Minneapolis, now recognized as the biggest mall in the country. Another Triple Five venture, the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada, is even bigger and is the largest mall in North America.
Triple Five envisions American Dream Miami, like the Mall of America, as a combination of shopping, entertainment and theme park, a mix Ghermezian calls "retailtainment."
A similar, slightly smaller project, American Dream Meadowlands, is under construction in New Jersey with an anticipated opening date of March 2019.
Features promised at American Dream Miami include a water park, a performing arts center, a 14-screen movie theater, an indoor ski slope with manufactured snow, a lake with a submarine ride, an aquarium, a roller coaster and a Ferris wheel.
Construction of the center and surrounding infrastructure is projected to cost $4 billion.
At the nine-hour rezoning hearing, environmental groups objected to the project on several fronts. Its location where Interstate 75 meets the Florida Turnpike is too close to the Everglades, they said. Environmentalists were also dissatisfied with the water management plans offered by the developers.
Many in the standing-room crowd wore stickers with the word "Nightmare" and a thumbs-down symbol.
Residents of nearby Miami Lakes objected to traffic — an estimated 70,000 vehicle trips per day — to be generated by the development.
Representatives of other east coast malls asked commissioners not to approve taxpayer subsidies for the competing project.
American Dream still must go through a lengthy permitting process, but the May 17 hearing was the last approval needed from elected leaders unless the plans change significantly.
No construction or opening dates were set.
Those arguing in favor of the American Dream cited its potential economic impact.
It is anticipated to draw 30 million visitors a year. By comparison, the Mall of America gets 40 million visitors a year and, by some counts, is the most visited attraction in the U.S. Orlando's Disney World gets about 20 million visitors a year.
The addition of American Dream would bring Miami into the theme park game, allowing it to compete with Orlando for that segment of the tourism market, supporters say.
The 2,000 hotel rooms planned at American Dream Miami would generate millions in tourist taxes for the county.
About 14,000 full-time jobs would be created at the venue, after 20,000 temporary construction jobs created to build the place, supporters say.
Improvements to roads and mass transit would amount to about $200 million. Some of the improvements to I-75 already have been budgeted by the state. The developer will pay $60 million in impact fees, but skeptics aren't convinced some of the costs won't fall to taxpayers.
Situated between the more populated cities of Miami, Fort Myers/Cape Coral and Tampa — Collier County occasionally gets to be a spectator as major developments too big for us to support wind their way to completion. Two examples — Southwest Florida International Airport and Florida Gulf Coast University — come to mind.
American Dream Miami is another instance in which the competing factions will wrestle over details large and small and, when the dust settles, the finished product will be just a quick trip across Alligator Alley away.


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East Hills is a village in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. It is considered part of the Greater Roslyn area, which is anchored by the Incorporated Village of Roslyn. The population was 6,955 at the 2010 census.
In 1643, John Carman and Robert Fordham sailed across the Long Island Sound from Stamford, Connecticut and purchased the land that is now occupied by the towns of Hempstead and North Hempstead from the Marsappeaque, Matinecock, Mericock, and Rockoway Native Americans. This land included what is now East Hills.
For a long time, much of what now is East Hills was home to a few wealthy families. In 1898, Clarence and Katherine Mackay settled in present-day East Hills and would eventually commission Stanford White to design their mansion, Harbor Hill. In 1924, the Prince of Wales, who later abdicated the throne of England to marry Mrs. Simpson, was entertained at the Mackay estate. Aviation pioneer Charles A. Lindbergh even rested at the Mackay estate in 1927 after returning to the United States following his historic solo flight to Paris, France.
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Howdy! In the past, I was never a huge animal print fan and I still wouldn't say that it's my favorite. However, I do love me a good snakeskin or cheetah print every now and again so I was so happy when my mom surprised me with another darling headband in cheetah print. I am especially pleased with this because my boyfriend has a fondness for the jungle style pattern and I know that he is going to love it! Check it out:
I used to think that cheetah print was too gaudy for me and I will always prefer the more rocker snakeskin. However, when done in small doses with accessories, I can sport a cheetah print with the best of them. This cloth headband with a top twist is just right to add a little sass to an OOTD or spice up a more laid back look. The warmer toned palette also goes nicely with my hair and my usual makeup and I am excited to pair it with chunky knit sweaters, boots, and a good pair of skinnies come fall.
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9.6.1 Visitors on Campus
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- Classes should not be interrupted by visitors except in cases of emergency or by permission of the instructor.
- To ensure all representatives of business and industry are given equal and adequate opportunity to supply goods and services to the College, all salespersons shall be referred to the Chief Financial Officer. Salespersons shall not be permitted to call on any employee during the workday for the purpose of soliciting the individual's personal contract.
- Visitors seeking permission to do any kind of solicitation are to be directed to the College's Event Coordinator and are subject to approval by the President, based on the criteria listed inPolicy 2.14 - College Facilities.
- Visitors coming to see students are to be directed to the Division of Student Services.
- The College encourages visitors to its campus, but due to certain hazards that may exist on campus, children must be supervised at all times by a responsible adult who shall be deemed responsible for the children's actions. Children who are unsupervised must be considered to be in a dangerous position. An administrator should be alerted immediately. Students are directed not to bring children with them to class. College staff should inform students of the College's policy. Faculty members should enforce this in their classrooms.
- College faculty and staff should not be discouraged from occasionally bringing family members to the College to broaden their exposure to the educational process. Such visitations, however, should be infrequent and of a short duration. Visitations should not cause disruption of normal College activities nor be a substitute for child care arrangements.
Animals are permitted on College grounds only under certain conditions. Refer toProcedure 2.14.7Animals on Campus.
- Any visitor who causes a disturbance may be asked to leave the campus immediately by any employee. If the visitor does not leave immediately, the employee should first notify the on-duty law enforcement or campus security officer and subsequently notify the most available Vice President.
Stalking, as defined in G.S. 14-277.3, is the following or being in the presence of someone without legal purpose, with the intent to cause emotional distress by placing that person in fear of death or bodily injury. Such activity is illegal and should be reported to the Director of Public Safety, Director of Human Resources, or Vice President for Student Services.


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LAKELAND – If your New Year's resolution is to finish the things you've started, you can probably appreciate the wish list of Revs. Leo and Cleivy Garcia.
The missionary couple from Cuba have been shepherding the United Methodist mission in Quéssua, East Angola, for more than two years. They are eager to finish restoration of a war-ravaged boarding house that would make room for more boys and girls who are orphaned or impoverished and in need of education and pastoral care.
|Rev. Cleivy Garcia, left, Icel Rodriguez, center, and Rev. Leo Garcia discuss the trials and rewards of mission work in East Angola during a presentation at the Florida United Methodist Center. Photo by Dave Walter.
This week, the Garcias, with the help of Icel Rodriguez, Global Missions director for the Florida Conference, discussed their ministry and its needs with staff at the Florida United Methodist Center. The couple will be itinerating at churches across the conference during early 2014, seeking prayers and financial support for the East Angola mission that has been supported by the Florida Conference for more than 10 years.
When the Florida Conference formed a partnership with the East Angola Conference in 2004, the African country was trying to recover from 40 years of devastating civil war, Rodriguez said. The Methodist mission at Quéssua, including a church, schools and residential buildings, was in ruins.
One by one, the buildings have been restored, starting with the church. Also restored so far are the School of Theology and the high school.
"Now 1,100 students come to study every day in the high school," Leo Garcia said in Spanish, with Rodriguez interpreting.
A boarding house and dining hall able to accommodate 25 boys also is open. Orphans and disadvantaged youths who could not get an education in their home communities are cared for there.
Substantially completed is a much larger dormitory, able to house up to 200. But it still requires windows and doors, paint, bunk beds and other finishing materials, estimated to cost about $46,000.
The Garcias are inviting local churches to chip in funds to pay for a window ($250) or a door ($300-$500) in order to hasten completion of the dormitory. Once the dorm is completed, the mission will be able to move the young men there and invite young women to stay and study in the existing boarding house.
Volunteers from Florida have worked side by side with students at the mission and local residents to restore buildings, cultivate crops and provide a clean water source.
|Mission teams and local residents of Quéssua have worked to rebuild this student dormitory, but it lacks windows, doors, beds and other finishing products. Photo from Leo and Cleivy Garcia.
Rodriguez and the Garcias said they were particularly touched when a Florida mission team trekked nearly 4 miles through African brush to connect Quéssua to a mountain spring via a pipeline.
"There are many cobras there," Cleivy Garcia said.
Rodriguez said having a host missionary presence is critical to making mission team visits possible. She and her husband, Rev. Armando Rodriguez, served in that role in 2010, but progress stalled in early 2011, when no replacements were forthcoming from Global Ministries.
"The Holy Spirit brought a thought to our minds and hearts: What about Cubans?" Rodriguez recalled.
With strict government rules about emigration out of Cuba, the challenges seemed overwhelming, she said, but she asked anyway. She found out about the Garcias, both trained physicians who heard the call to ministry and were originally assigned to Honduras. Those plans fell through, and then the couple began learning Portuguese – the language spoken in Angola – because they thought they would be going to Mozambique.
The bishop of the Methodist Church of Cuba agreed to send the couple to Angola, but Rodriguez feared the plan would fizzle in the face of government rules that physicians must have stopped practicing for 10 years before they would be granted permission to leave.
Even now, she marvels that the Garcias were able to take up the work where she and her husband left off.
"This is nothing that would ever happen if the Holy Spirit didn't intervene," she said.
Leo Garcia told the audience he and his wife had been married for 21 years when they heard the call to ministry. They remained childless – until they went to Quéssua and began teaching, ministering and caring for orphans.
"When we arrived in Angola, lo and behold, we got 50 children," he said. "We believe that God has called us … to serve the needs of these people."
Rodriguez said mission teams are forming to travel to East Angola this year. For information on the Angola mission, click here. To make a donation, click here. To learn about mission team participation, click here, or email Rodriguez at email@example.com.
-- Susan Green is the managing editor of Florida Conference Connection.


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WASHINGTON—Minutes after the biggest initiative of his presidency collapsed, Donald Trump began claiming that he "would have gotten" Obamacare repealed and replaced if …
He got distracted by a photographer he thought was standing too close to a soldier. He never finished his sentence.
The president's attention deficit was a major problem throughout the legislative process that all-but-officially ended in failure on Tuesday. It was far from the only problem.
Here are eight reasons why Trump and his party were unable to deliver on one of their most important promises:
They wrote a dreadful bill
Health reform is hard even when politicians are trying to increase coverage. Republicans were trying to pass a bill that would have left tens of millions more people without coverage. Almost no experts and almost no interest groups liked the thing.
Related:Trump suffers colossal failure as Obamacare repeal collapses
"It's a terrible plan. It doesn't fix any of the problems with Obamacare, it makes those problems worse, and it creates entirely new problems," said Jonathan Oberlander, a University of North Carolina professor who studies health policy and politics.
Resistance worked
When Republican Sen. Jerry Moran held a town hall in a tiny Kansas town in early July, he was met by a group of disability-rights activists who told him how the bill would hurt people like them.
Similar scenes greeted almost every other Republican member of Congress. Grassroots "resistance" groups made it impossible for Republicans to turn away from the potential human and political damage.
"Some of these Republicans voted for a repeal back in 2015 because they knew it would have no consequence. They knew that it wouldn't ever become law. And now they were faced with the prospect where, if they voted for this, it would harm their constituents — and then they were seeing those constituents, their faces, in their offices over the last two months," said Angel Padilla, co-founder of the anti-Trump Indivisible network.
Trump didn't sell
To get Obamacare passed, Barack Obama conducted a months-long parade of speeches, interviews, town halls and news conferences. Trump, renowned salesman, did almost nothing.
When he did speak about health-care, he spoke in unhelpful generalities — or, astonishingly, bashed the bill as "mean." As the initiative burned, he was using his Twitter platform to scold the media.
From the beginning of the process to the end, he did not answer a single question about the specifics of his plan.
"The president is the largest megaphone in the world. The bully pulpit is his greatest asset. And he just completely misused it to the point of malpractice," said Rick Tyler, a MSNBC analyst and former communications director for Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.
Trump has little influence on Congress
With an approval rating below 40 per cent — 36 per cent, according to the most recent Washington Post poll — Trump just didn't have the power to scare Congress into satisfying his whims. And his eagerness to pass any bill at all made it impossible for the White House to convince legislators that he cared about the policy specifics.
"The reason that Congress was excited about this was he'll sign whatever you'll send him. But if he's willing to sign whatever you'll send him, he doesn't have the credibility to message on what he's asking for," said Republican strategist and lobbyist Liam Donovan.
"It cuts both ways. You can't have him be an auto-pen if you expect him to lead the dance."
Republicans have irreconcilable differences
Party unity was easy when members of Congress knew their repeal votes amounted to mere veto-fodder symbolism. When it came time to make law under a Republican president, they had to find a way to placate Medicaid-conscious moderates and damn-the-consequences right-wingers at the same time — losing two senators maximum.
"You're handcuffed in what you can do with 52 votes. Which isn't an excuse, it's just a fact," said Donovan. "And to cobble together those 52 votes … you have to come up with something that Susan Collins and Ted Cruz can agree on. That's incredibly challenging."
Obamacare is good for a lot of people
Trump calls Obamacare a "disaster" and a "catastrophe." In reality, the law is flawed but functional.
Millions of people buying insurance through Obamacare's "individual markets" have experienced steep price hikes and limited choices. But millions have become insured for the first time, premiums have risen more slowly than they used to, and the number of health-related bankruptcies has plummeted.
In the absence of Obama himself, polling suggests more people support his Affordable Care Act than oppose it. It is hard to talk yourself into repealing a popular social benefit.
"When you're six years into a program, to change it when people are relying on it, there's a fear that it may affect their own policies or their own families," Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake told Politico.
McConnell messed up
During his years-long run of anti-Obama obstruction, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell enjoyed a reputation as a master tactician. It is probably toast now.
It's possible that nobody could have herded these cats into repeal-and-replace. But McConnell made a series of caucus-angering mistakes — writing the bill rapidly in secret, irritating hard-liners by attempting to privately promise moderates that the bill's cuts would never take effect, and excluding Republican female senators from his health-care working group.
Three female senators ended up killing the bill.
"What we're witnessing is an unprecedented, full-blown rebellion by Republican senators against their leader, McConnell," Adam Jentleson, former deputy chief of staff to former Democratic Senate majority leader Harry Reid. He added: "Boy howdy, what a thing to witness. From the saviour of the Senate, no less."
The conservative dogs didn't bark
Opposition to Obamacare galvanized the conservative grassroots into action in 2010 and the years following. But influential right-wing groups were so unenthused about the Republican bill that they did little or nothing to urge legislators to pass it.
The Koch brothers' network was critical; FreedomWorks, likewise, described the bill as "an amendment to Obamacare, not a repeal of it." The Trumpified party grassroots, meanwhile, has moved on to such concerns as "fake news."
Facing immense left-wing pressure and scant right-wing pressure, Republicans stopped fearing that saying no would cost them their careers.
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