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It's that time of year again, where we count down our top and bottom films of the year! As always, we begin with the lowest stinkers that Hollywood has concocted from its nether-regions and unleashed onto the public over the past twelve months.
We should point out, however, that the reviewer did not get a chance to see every bad film out there, so those expecting to see the likes of Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie, Blended or Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey? on here may end up being disappointed. This is just a list based on what they actually DID see, and what they felt was lesser entertainment.
So, the countdown of the Worst Movies of 2014 begins with…
A lot of people will probably want to see this at a higher (or lower) position on this list, but in our opinion – please be prepared for a shock – Seth MacFarlane's Western comedy might not be AS bad as everyone makes it out to be.
Now don't get us wrong: by no accounts is it a good movie. The jokes are very hit-and-miss, there's little to no solid plot, MacFarlane tends to put himself more in the centre than other starry performers like Liam Neeson and Neil Patrick Harris, and so on. That being said, however, it all depends on whether you find MacFarlane's type of humour funny to begin with; if you're the type who absolutely despises Family Guy, Ted et al then you are certainly not going to like this movie. If you do, then you won't hate it but you won't like it either (or at least, not as much as his past work). We happen to be in the latter category.
So, although we admit upfront that it is not a particularly strong entry from an otherwise talented individual – say what you want about his comedy, but the guy can definitely sing – we can't say that A Million Ways To Die In The West is ENTIRELY deserving of its universal hatred. Besides, there were far worse offerings this year, like…
It's not been a particularly good year for Christopher Nolan – with him still shaking off the divided Internet backlash of last year's Man of Steel, which he produced, only to then receive a whole new wave of divided Internet backlash for his latest film Interstellar (spoiler: that movie appears on neither of our top 10 lists), it appears the Nolan bandwagon is getting lighter with every project he attaches himself to. Perhaps the biggest offender of this is Transcendence, directed by long-time Nolan cinematographer Wally Pfister and produced by Nolan himself.
Desperately trying to replicate his mentor's dour filmmaking style, Pfister shows signs of directorial naivety from its opening moments (a flash-forward to the film's end that destroys all tension and mystery) and doesn't let up from there. Asking us to side with murderous anti-technology terrorists (who still use laptops and other advanced machinery to carry out their tasks… like an ANTI-TECHNOLOGY organisation should!) and diving too much into sci-fi bollocks rather than establish any sort of character (aside from the moronic and unlikable saps we get), it becomes ever clearer that Pfister just doesn't have the grasp of filmmaking he thinks he may have, and it becomes yet another disappointing dud in headliner Johnny Depp's recent choices in film.
Ctrl+Alt+Del, if you'll please.
The original RoboCop, directed by Paul Verhoeven in the mid-to-late 80s, is a cult classic for a number of reasons; piles of gore and violence, enough swearing to fill a swear jar within a week, and a great deal of entertainment within a storyline that isn't taken too seriously. Such a shame, then, that we had to have an unneeded upgrade – or downgrade – to make it more bland and unemotional for a modern audience.
Sucking all the fun out of the original's batty and campy nature, this sterner and "gritty" version is so dull and lifeless you could easily mistake it for something robotic in origin. Not helping matters is the fact that it's fronted by a completely charisma-less Joel Kinnaman in the title role, whose bland personality and even duller character make on pine for the days of Peter Weller. Not even Michael Keaton, as the film's villain, appears to be enjoying himself – but then again, he did also feature in another film on this list (but more on that later…).
All in all, it's a lifeless exercise in pointless remakes and a reminder that if it ain't broke, don't make it a PG-13 CG-unfun-fest.
We almost feel bad about putting this one on the list, because we don't hate Melissa McCarthy, or even dislike her. She can be a very funny comedienne and competent actress, as past roles in The Heat, this year's St. Vincent and of course Bridesmaids have proven. However, in a film where she headlines a script co-written by her and husband Ben Falcone (who also directs), the spark doesn't fly and it's one giant mess of a movie.
McCarthy's titular character is crass, repugnant and overall unappealing… so why should we care when she suddenly decides to leave everything behind after one bad day (complete with one fake-looking CG deer)? It all becomes a laugh-free, directionless and boring tale of a person we don't particularly care for, and her equally-loathsome Susan Sarandon-shaped grandmother. Falcone, another first-timer in the director's chair, cannot seem to hold a scene together with any form of pacing, tension or even comedy, and it sadly hurts the film and its central figure badly.
As a vanity project, it fails to do much for the ego. As a straightforward star vehicle, it undermines McCarthy's true talents when they could be used much better elsewhere.
Outnumbered creators Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin make their directional debut (beginning to sense a pattern on this list?) so unbalanced with an uncomfortable tonal shift to end all uncomfortable tonal shifts that the end results are far worse and more horrifying than anyone could have predicted.
The first half lazily rehashes the formula for their popular and far superior sitcom, except with far more unrealistic characters and scenarios with a bitter after-taste, and some of the worst back-and-forth editing you'll see all year. In short, it doesn't set itself up for anything that great to begin with.
By the time a particular event happens around the midway point, things start to get REALLY screwed up; and making things even more disturbing is how the film treats the actions of certain characters as charming and whimsical when by all accounts they should be reprehended or at the very least strongly punished. The film never recovers from this moment, though there wasn't much to recover anyway.
Not even the children, always the highlight of any Outnumbered episode, can save this dreary and downright (unintentionally) frightening "comedy". Leave this off your "to do" list.


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Good Lord, the next election cycle has begun, this time for mayor.
Thus far, Minneapolis residents have a choice of whether they will be led from the lectern, or with a bullhorn. It will get much, much more complicated.
Nekima Levy-Pounds officially announced her intention to run for mayor of Minneapolis Tuesday, a move that seemed inevitable when she resigned from her teaching position at the St. Thomas School of Law and as the head of the Minneapolis NAACP.
It was fitting that Levy-Pounds made the announcement in front of the Fourth Precinct station, where she was a forceful presence during the occupation following the shooting death of Jamar Clark.
Mayor Betsy Hodges already has said she would run again, but if she were to choose a matching mise-en-scène to announce, she might have chosen the bunker-gymnasium a few blocks away where she conducted her news conferences during that time.
The optics of the two opponents are stark. Hodges is the unobtrusive wonk, prone to policy tomes adorned with poetry or motivational quotes. Levy-Pounds is the eloquent and charismatic leader who can turn on her avid followers with a tweet, and turn off everybody else with a reckless or confrontational quip. Ideologically, however, they occupy a space not that far apart on the political continuum.
In the time of Trump, it's the far left vs. the farther left.
Tuesday, surrounded by supporters, Levy-Pounds said about what you'd expect, that she wants to pull everybody together. I wish her my sincere good luck.
I spoke with several people close to the ground in Minneapolis politics about what Levy-Pounds brings to the race, and they had more questions than answers. All were cautious because the Trump victory proved that we all live in our own bubbles now, often oblivious to those who are not like us. Could Levy-Pounds be seen as the antidote to the fever that pushed Trump voters to the polls? Are there enough angry lefties in the core city who view her as an answer? Or is the far left, the protesters and advocacy groups, in its own protective bubble, unaware of a large segment of the city that is happy with its direction and distrustful of those who occupied the precinct?
Most are skeptical that a largely one-issue candidate can become mayor across a wide swath of the city, particularly in areas that turn out the most voters. With ranked choice and more candidates, however, the possibilities are mind-boggling. One political insider wondered whether Levy-Pounds' candidacy might make progressives who are not particularly fervent about Hodges take another look at her as a potentially palatable, and much safer, choice.
Some insiders, both those who favor Hodges and those who don't, saw her as a potential one-term pony simply because she followed R.T. Rybak. Even Chris Rock doesn't want to follow Dave Chappelle.
At least two other viable candidates are widely thought to be ready to run. Jacob Frey, a first-term City Council member, has recently made some unpopular votes, making sure to mention he is "showing leadership" by doing so. Developers and downtown business types like him, and he's got the patter and swagger of the city's most popular mayor, Rybak.
The money people also favor a likely candidate, Tom Hoch, president of the Hennepin Theatre Trust. A profile of him earlier this year was titled "The Mayor of Hennepin Avenue," and people who know him say he wants to expand his city's limits. The words "brilliant and visionary" seem to be mandatory when his friends talk about Hoch, but some wondered whether he could win with low name recognition. Hoch is a proponent of something that seems very Minneapolitan: "creative place-making," using the arts to drive urban renewal.
Hoch also is very concerned about downtown crime, which will appeal to those who live there and to the "creative class," but it will put him on the flip side of Levy-Pounds.
One longtime city politician believes a Levy-Pounds candidacy helps Frey and Hoch, with a caveat: The last "inspirational non-insider" to defy the odds and become mayor was a guy by the name of Rybak.
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"When is the last time you really impressed yourself?"
Let's hypothetically assume, if you're reading this blog, that you are among the substantial number of Americans who have lost their jobs at some point over the past year. When this happened, how long did you think it was going to take to find your next assignment? A week? A month? A year? Obviously, in these cases, it's impossible to know. You might end up finding a new opportunity almost immediately or you might discover, like many folks, that your search is going to take a bit longer than initially hoped or planned. One thing I can tell you for sure, however, it's that you can't afford to put your life completely "on hold" until you find new employment. You have to accept that the length of your search is a complete unknown and to make sure, consequently, that you build some enjoyable, interesting, and enlightening activities into your game plan along the way to keep your head on straight.
As part of this recommendation, I'd encourage you to set (and start working on) some ambitious personal development goals. Is this a time to finally lose that extra 10 pounds you've been carrying around? Or to train for and run that marathon you've always had your eye on, even if you come in dead last? Or to finally quit smoking, learn Portuguese, or rebuild that old Chevy sitting in your garage? These types of activities can make a huge difference in the success or failure of your job search, oddly enough, because they're the kinds of things that will keep your self-confidence high. Most motivational experts agree, after all, that the most authentic, sustainable source of self-esteem involves the process of overcoming difficult challenges and impressing the toughest critic of all: yourself.
So if you've been out of work for a while, ask yourself the "burning question" I've outlined above. Have you impressed yourself lately? Have you accomplished something in recent memory that really knocked your own socks off? If you're struggling to answer these questions in the affirmative, that's a sign that you might need to incorporate some new personal development goals or commitments into your life. It's the single best way to keep your confidence high, which is a critical trait employers pick up on and a quality that's extremely tough to fake in an interview, however much you might try.
Theoretically, I suppose, your stretch goals don't have to be personal ones — and they could relate, instead, to the manner in which you're conducting your job search. For example, some people could probably impress themselves by buckling down and taking the time to polish their elevator pitch to perfection, master the art of Boolean Internet searching, or make five cold calls a day, despite (or more accurately, due to) the fact that such things are WAY out of their comfort zone. In general, however, I think personal development goals are a more fertile area to explore if you need to give your confidence level a lift. Either way, though, don't lose sight of the main point here. Unless you believe in yourself, and remind yourself you're capable of achieving amazing things regardless of your employment status, you could easily spiral down emotionally and be much less effective in your job hunting efforts.
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The nonexistence of God is nothing more than a nonsense option. The categories of good and evil themselves require some sort of transcendent standard. What makes things good? What makes things evil? Atheists have, by and large, given up on the idea of an absolute standard of morality. After all, spiritual emptiness and the nonexistence of anything outside of the simple material universe is no way to come up with an ethical system. Morality is cultural preference (which cannot be said to be right or wrong) and fundamentally relative. It takes on (to be generous) the same authority as Wisconsin speed limits on a Nevada highway at night.
People are raped in this world, and rape is evil. Because evil exists, there must be no God. Because there is no God—no authoritative standard over creation—the badness of rape downgrades to a mere matter of societal taste. Ethnic cuisine, ethnic ethics. In God's absence rape is no longer fundamentally evil. In our country, you'll get confined to a cell (if caught and convicted), but that just means we enforce our taste, not that our taste has any real authority over anyone else. In other societies, girls have been passed around and traded like baseball cards. Is that right? Is that wrong? You like exploitation; I like apple pie. The two discussions exist on the same plane. There's no such thing as moral and immoral. In this country, we eat gyros. In this one, we eat pizza. And we'll give you a ticket for jaywalking. . . .
I've watched the Discovery Channel. I've enjoyed the Discovery Channel. But in that world, if I want to reproduce with you (or tear you limb from limb) I just need to be bigger and stronger than you are. You look pretty small and a little sickly. Shall I feed you to my young? Why not? Cannibalism might not be condoned in your culture, but it has a long and storied tradition in mine. Are you saying that your culture is superior, that it is somehow right while mine is wrong? You're being a racist, but likely you're still small, and even racists taste good in casserole. . . .


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Because they are not eligible for or enrolled in Medicaid, people in Group 1 will most likely receive health care and behavioral health services that will be less intense and less comprehensive than services that are available for people covered by Medicaid. In some cases, PSH service-providers use non-Medicaid funding to offer the same services to PSH tenants regardless of whether they are enrolled in Medicaid. Because they are uninsured, PSH tenants in this group often encounter significant barriers that limit access to prescription drugs and to health care or treatment services from other providers, making it difficult for PSH case managers to make referrals and facilitate connections to needed care and support. PSH service-providers cannot obtain Medicaid reimbursement for services they provide to this group of people. Instead supportive services for these PSH tenants may be funded through some or all of the following sources:
HUD grants that cover supportive services, usually through the SHP.
State and local tax revenues, through the budgets of state and/or local governments--some of these funds may be dedicated specifically to ending homelessness, while others are designated for serving people with particular health needs, some of whom will be homeless.
Grant funding to HCH programs and CHCs through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHSs) Health Resources and Services Administration.
Grant funding through HHSs Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grant funding--including competitive grants for services in supportive housing or treatment for homeless people, resources allocated through the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Block Grants, and grants for Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness.
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December 28, 1936
Autoworkers begin a sit-down strike at the General Motors Fisher Body plant in Cleveland. Two days later, the strike spread to the plant in Flint, Michigan, and continued until GM recognized the United Auto Workers as the bargaining agent for its employees in February 1937. [Image: Homer Martin, president of the United Auto Workers, speaks to autoworkers during the Fisher Body strike in Cleveland.]


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After Taking Her Daughter To The Toilet, This Mum Got A Nasty Shock When She Looked In The Bowl
This family got a very nasty shock when their 5-year-old daughter almost died whilst sitting on the toilet.
This story is so scary that we can guarantee you will never be able to go to the bathroom again without thinking of this…
Shock on the toilet
South African mother Juliette Roos is on a camping trip with her family in Brits (South Africa). She lifts her 5-year-old daughter on the toilet and is not expecting what happens next as the daughter does her business.
But as the mother lifts her daughter from the toilet, she's shocked and realises how in what danger her daughter was a second ago: "I was shivering and because I didn't want my daughter to panic, I told her not to turn around." She went wild and in the moment she tries to put herself together, she screams in panic. Her alarmed husband runs to help them and makes the same scary discovery: A poisonous spitting cobra is sitting in the toilet.
The bite of this poisonous snake is deadly if not treated straightaway. To avoid this, the husband tries to protect his family against the snake and tries to catch the cobra with a stick. He almost catches it but the snake escapes and hides in the sewers again. If you want to see this moment, watch the video.
No relaxed moment on the toilet again
The calm followed the storm and the danger is averted. But what remains is the shock of nearly seeing one's own daughter getting bitten by a snake. Juliette Roos is convinced: "I will never go to the toilet without checking it twice."
And she is probably not the only one…
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Model No.: KW-808
Product Description
TENS Acupuncture Needle Stimulator
Product Description:
The Acupuncture Stimulator is a professional level acupuncture apparatus designed for detection of acupuncture points, massage (TENS), and for applying acupuncture (electro-needle therapy) and magneto-therapy.
The Acupuncture Stimulator a built-in timer and can output 5 different kinds of waveforms, each indicated by a symbol which lights up when selected. However, unique features specific to only this model include 2 detection jacks, 6 outputs, and a design tailored chiefly for clinics and hospitals.
Adjustable frequency and intensity.
Adjustable sensitivity probe point Locator.
Five wave form selection buttons with illuminating wave form graphics
2 independent indicator lights for frequency and power.
Use with adaptor or 6 [C" batteries.
Operating output protection with error signal tone for incorrect use
6 outputs, plus 2 detection outputs.
Includes adhesive electrode pads and lead wires, acupoint detecting pen, and output wires.
Built-in timer.
1. Improve the sleep quality.
2. Eliminating physical fatigue caused by long-time work.
3. Cleaning meridian relaxing muscles and joints.
4. Pain relief enhance human immunity.
5. Stay away from the sub-health.
6. Enhancing circulation system of body.
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This acupuncture stimulator features five kinds of wave forms, all very safe, with low frequencies equal to that of the human body. The following five wave forms may be used at the same time or separately, and the output of each one may be regulated independently. For increased effect, two or more outputs can be used simultaneously.
Continuous Wave.
Pulse duration r = (0.5 +/- 0.15) ms; Repeated pulse frequency: f1=( 1+/- 0.5 ) Hz to ( 100 +/- 10) Hz. and FREQ1 can be regulated continuously, Max Output pulse amplitude: 40V +/- 10V (Load 500 O.)
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Respiration Wave.
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Acupuncture as a sole treatment method became very popular, especially during the early 1970`s when then President Nixon opened the doors to China. Many of his representatives were in awe when they toured different Chinese hospitals and observed first hand the wondrous results of acupuncture and oriental medicine techniques. By the middle and late 1970`s, acupuncture was being taught in oriental medicine universities in the United States and about the same time, different healing professions began teaching brief instruction courses on the subject.
What is acupuncture and how does it work?
These are two of the paramount questions people ask. Of course, the other significant questions are, Can it help me? How long will it take? Since every case is different in terms of length of treatment, and the possibility of helping varies according to the extent of the condition, the only thing that might be answered generically is, [What is acupuncture?"
What about the acupuncture meridians themselves?
Bear in mind that most have never heard of such an unusual concept. We are basically knowledgeable about nerves, blood vessels, muscles, etc., as one can visualize and actually demonstrate hard evidence of their existence. Suddenly, we are presented with a concept of invisible meridians that carry invisible qi energy. May have never encountered anything so mystical regarding the human body; suddenly, we`re are being asked to accept with blind faith a concept that goes beyond their general understanding of anatomy and physiology.
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With this debut CD, Jeff Griffith and company decided on a more guarded approach. They have come up with an effort that is bland and flawed by its predictability. Griffith takes us through songs, more than half of which can be attributed in part to either producer (and singer) Joe Stampley and his son, Tony.
Overall, there is a lack of oomph and palpability to the music in that many of the performances are uninspiring and trying to hard to be commercially viable. Even more disconcerting is the absence of a willingness to let the artist take the performing to a higher level as is evident on only three occasions with "Holed Up in Some Honky Tonk," "Fishin' Forever" and the feisty title cut which do showcase Griffith's depth and range.


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Tuesday May 20:
Sam and I shared a double bed and, although Ana gave us our own sheets to use, I was so incredibly hot at night I slept in basically just underwear on top of every sheet (Sam and I became real close J). I'm a naturally sweaty and hot person naturally so the Brazilian humidity took a toll on my sweat glands (sorry if that's too much information but we are all about openness here in Brazil). Ana made us breakfast EVERY morning. The first morning was this delicious cous-cous and egg dish, a fruit salad made of papaya/apple/mango/etc, breads and butter, fresh squeezed juice, and salami and cheese. And Ana's coffee is honestly the best coffee I have had this entire trip! She brews it with canela (cinnamon) so it is just delicious. I brought some home along with some Brazilian cinnamon that Ana picked for me so I can't wait to make it every morning. I woke up not even able to swallow, though, so unfortunately could only get the juice and some fruit salad down.
After popping a few ibuprofen and the painkillers I was prescribed we went to our first class at ACBEU which was a traditional Brazilian dance class with instructor Antonio Cozido. I have never sweat so much in my life due to 1. The humidity of San Salvador and 2. The African style dance and 3. My natural sweaty nature. It was a highlight of the trip because we were all disgusting but laughing and dancing together anyways and not caring. After Ana made us a huge lunch, we had our first Portuguese language class that day which was interesting because I could pick it up so much easier just from knowing Spanish. Later we went on a panoramic tour of the city with our lovely tour guide Simone. The city is interesting because you have these massive, modern sky-scrapers adjacent to the favelas (slums) of the Afro-Brasilians built along every hillside. Once slavery was abolished in Salvador the slaves took root in the only available land which was the tops of the hills, so when you enter Salvador you see just hills upon hills of these unfinished, rundown cubicles stacked on top of each other aiding as a back ground for the brand new, state of the art futbol stadium. We stopped to get ice cream at the oldest sorveteria in Salvador, which felt amazing on my throat after not being able to eat lunch.
I was dying of pain and missed most of the tour from simply passing out on the bus so I was going go see another doctor in the morning. At this point it was Brazil- 2 Cailin- 0.


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Domestic violence is the abuse of other partners in a relationship or marriage. It includes physical, sexual, and psychological attacks. Economic coercion is a part of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a widespread problem. However, most victims are women and children. In the film, What's Love Got to Do With It Tina, the main heroine, escapes from her husband because of domestic violence. She waits until Ike was asleep. She then puts on shades to disguise the bruises and escapes to Los Angeles, yet, she had only 36 cents in her pocket. This film and the book condemn domestic violence and give insights of this vice so that those who are facing this problem can stand up and do something to fight it. They challenge the society which turnes a blind eye on the domestic violence issue.
Plot Synopsis
What's Love Got to Do With It is a film that bases its story line on the life of Tina Turner, who is a famous musician. She is popular for her song "What's Love Got to Do With It". It was her first comeback song after a hiatus that followed an abusive marriage. Tina Turner was a victim of domestic violence. Ike Turner married her on the onset of her music career. Tina Turner initial birth name is Anna Mae Bullock. Tina is a stage name which was a creation of Ike Turner when he began managing Tina Turner's music work.
The movie starts with a picture of a naive girl, Tina (played by Angela Bassett) who moves to Knoxville with her family. In Knoxville Tina and her sister frequented night clubs. Tina knew she had a talent in singing and sometimes performed in those night clubs hoping to be discovered by "Kings of Rhythm" which was her favorite band. Ike was a member of that band. Eventually Tina got a chance to sing and impress Ike who asked her to perform regularly with the band. Initially Ike had named Tina little Ann. The relationship between Ike and Tina was that of a mentor and protege, but it became a romantic one eventually. They got married in 1958. Their son was born immediately after that. However, Ike never divorced his former wife. The couple continued to make music and toured. Their project was popular and they toured all over different continents while making millions of money. All along Tina was the subordinate, Ike made decisions about their music and family life. Tina suffered from physical, sexual and emotional abuse from Ike. The first time Ike hit her on the eye with a wooden shoe stretcher when Tina refused to be involved in the recording of a song. After hitting her, Ike would force Tina to have sex with him. That first time instilled fear in Tina, and she became an emotional prisoner to Ike. Later in the 1970s Tina started working without Ike recording her own songs.
In 1970s, their relationship had gone from terrible to worst. Tina had undergone all kinds of abuse; in fact she had converted to Buddhism to give her the strength she needed to cope with the relationship. Their music sales were falling down. Ike became addicted to cocaine and Tina had to carry the burden of appearing in shows alone. The worst thing though was the physical abuse she received despite putting so much effort in their music. Ike used to hit Tina everywhere with anything he found. He hit her on her face, ribs and back. The worst part was that Ike liked hitting her on the face on the place everyone could see. He would hit her before she went to stage to perform, and the band members did nothing because they feared Ike. The last episode of the violence was in Dallas in 1976; Ike beat her to pulp in their hotel room. Tina waited until Ike was asleep, and escaped to Los Angeles, yet she had only 36 cents in her pocket. Tina left all the money and assets with Ike; she had to survive by cleaning houses and food stamps. However, her music career took off. She released "What's Love Got to Do With It" which topped Billboard charts all over many nations and made her song an instant hit. Her story of domestic violence is evident in her music, which makes people identify it with her, particularly women facing domestic violence.
The domestic abuse had various effects on the victim. Tina had many injuries on her body as a result of beatings. After the marriage, Tina did plastic surgery to correct the injuries and marks that were all over her body. The emotional damage takes a longer time to heal as compared with the physical damage. Tina had lived a life of fear and lack of trust. Ike had threatened her so many times; even when she left he came looking for her with a gun ready to kill her. This time round though, Tina had been through a lot so that she did not fear dying. She has not remarried although she is living with her lover, probably because she cannot bear to be tied down again due to her past abusive marriage.
Once the marriage ended, Tina left Ike with everything they had. All she wanted was her freedom, and maybe she was afraid to fight for her property with her ex husband. She only retained her stage name. After leaving Ike, she was so poor that she had to depend on food stamps before her music career took off again.
Ike's violent behavior had a number of reasons behind it. Ike was a violent person. In fact, even before Tina got married, she knew Ike as a violent and angry person. His father had died after a mob of whites attacked him; probably this was the cause of anger in his life. After Ike marries, violence becomes the order of the day. He applies violence whenever he is angry, probably to relieve his anger. Ike abused drugs; his death was as a result of cocaine overdose. Violence is an effect of drugs. During the "Oprah Show" Tina said that her marriage to Ike was not out of love. However, she did not want to disappoint Ike. Before Ike married Tina, he had experienced many past failed marriages. All these reasons are enough to warn somebody about an impending danger, but Tina went ahead to marry him. When the husband first hit her, Tina chose to stay out because of the fear. Symptoms of domestic abuse include drug abuse, disregard, quarrels and the real physical abuse by a partner. Tina experienced all of that, but she ignored the symptoms. She was emotionally weak and did not want to disappoint her mentor. Tina learned that her mother got pregnant with her despite her will. It made her believe that her birth was the onset of suffering. She felt disillusioned and disappointed.
There are different theories that explain the domestic violence. The first theory is the patriarchal theory. Most societies are patriarchal, and they maintain the idea that men should dominate the other members of the society. The theory is based on the Biderman's scale of coercion which states that there are five ways of gaining control over somebody. The five ways are omnipotence, threats of violence and violent attacks, isolation, emotional abuse and kindness. The theory also uses the principles of power and control wheel. Such principles include coercion, intimidation, and emotional abuse, isolation, male privilege and economic abuse. This theory applies to Tina's case. Ike used almost all the principles of this theory.
The second theory is the exchange theory. This theory states that family members will resort to violence as long as the violence will help them achieve their goals. If a husband is likely to be jailed, he will not hit his wife because of the serious implications involved. If the husband badly wants to gain something, which belongs to his wife, he will use violence if that thing is worth it.
William Goode formulates the resource theory of domestic violence. It says that the decision making in a family lies on the person who provides for the family. Provision is related to financial, social and organization ensuring. The theorist says that women concentrate on taking care of their children hence they forget to empower themselves economically. This makes them depend solely on their husbands. Financial difficulty is a crucial problem to marriage. When one member provides for the family, he tends to have authority over others.
The ecological theory connects domestic violence with values and order. This theory links violence to culture, society and the family. There are some cultures where domestic violence is still high. The social learning theory of domestic violence asserts that violence is a behavior that people acquire. It says that there are factors that can cause development of violent behaviors such as drug abuse, stress and financial constraints and others. The theory says that people are not violent from birth. It is not an intrinsic vice. The environment and the things people associate with it can make them violent. The media are the ways in which people get to know about the violence other than their immediate environment.
Another theory that seeks to explain domestic violence is the feminist theory. It says that domestic violence is a result of patriarchal society that assigns various roles to men, particularly the management. The education system has not helped the situation. Women are lagging behind in education and they end up serving the male counterparts. The society has dictated roles on how men and women should behave (Pence & Paymar, 1993).
Intervention into the family suffering from the domestic violence should be carried out in a way that it guarantees the well being and stability of all parties involved. Intervention into the family is helping out victims of the domestic violence. Intervention can be done by an individual, an organization or the state. Intervention should start with the victim of the violence. The victim knows all the red flags of the violence in her case and should be able to escape when she/he experiences the symptoms. The victim should form a strong support system to help her in times of violence. Such a system can include the emergency numbers to dial in case of domestic violence, domestic violence workers that aim at helping victims get back on their feet. The domestic violence shelters offer a variety of services to victims of violence such as legal help, counseling, support group, employment, medical services and financial help. They ensure that people are safe and stable at the same time maintaining their confidentiality. Courts are also a part of the intervention program since perpetrators of domestic violence are criminals because they infringe on the rights of others.
Domestic violence victims need physical and mental treatment. Physical treatment is meant for the injuries they receive because of the violence. Mental treatment is meant for the psychological abuse the victims experienced. Therapy is necessary as it will help the victims to overcome the trauma caused by domestic violence. Therapy should be performed in stages and by a therapist who has a strong knowledge of the dynamics of the domestic violence.


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Beaded gifts from South Africa will soon be available at http://www.kendrickimports.com
Whilst in South Africa recently we met up with a talented craftsman from Zimbabwe called Owen. Owen was working in South Africa as he could not make a living in Zimbabwe at the moment.
We loved Owen's optimistic outlook on life and his determination to succeed despite his position. We brought back samples of his work and have shown them to lots of our suppliers who have all LOVED them.
This week we have placed an order with Owen for his ethically and fairly traded beaded gekkos and mobiles. They are all totally hand made by Owen and his team and are providing much needed work and therefore income to them all.
These African gifts will be available through the website when they arrive with us under our new iAfrika range. We envisage this range to be made up of products we find on our travels and promise you they will all be ethically and fairly traded as well as being hand-made.
Until these new African crafts arrive with us why not take a look at our current diverse range of gifts at http://www.kendrickimports.com/index.php/worx-of-africa
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Participation in the ensemble is open to all UCR undergraduate and graduate students who have played in their high school band programs for at least four years. Enrollment in this ensemble is not limited to music majors; students in this ensemble represent many diverse areas of study across the campus.
The Concert Band rehearses on Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6:10-7:30pm in ARTS 157 and performs one concert per quarter at the University Theatre or UCR Culver Center of the Arts, in addition to other select UCR and community events.
Concert Band students enroll for MUS 165 and chair placement auditions are held on the Sunday prior to the start of each new quarter.


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Find out what being a Looper is all about!
We're participating in the Startup Open House once again and we want to meet you.
Over the past two years, we've met many amazing and talented professionals. Some of the past visitors have joined our Looper ranks!
When: Thursday, September 28th | 4pm – 8pm
Where: Toronto's coolest neighborhood – King West, 720 King St W, Suite 825, Toronto ON M5V 2T3
What to expect: At the Startup Open House, you will:
- Meet our friendly team and our co-founders
- See what it's like working at a high-growth startup
- Learn more about our open positions
- Get insider information from the team and our Operations Manager on what it takes to become a Looper
- Enjoy a game of foosball … or two
Our Startup Open House theme this year is 'Get Loopi: Thursday Edition!'
This year, we're stepping our game up and getting our theme on. You're invited to 'Get Loopi: Thursday Edition'.
What is 'Get Loopi'?
Every Friday, all of us get together to unwind and celebrate our accomplishments for the week. We take turns hosting, and every week one Looper organizes a Get Loopi with a theme of their choice. From Trivia Nights to Family Feud to Fancy Cheeses, there's never a dull Get Loopi.
'Get Loopi: Thursday Edition' will feature cupcake decorating stations. You'll be able to take your creations home!
Learn more about the Startup Open House (like how to register!)
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Biology Events
April 2020
- Apr 24: Seminar by Dean Cocking (JMU)
- Apr 17: Biosymposium Keynote by Linda Bruett (Novartis)
- Apr 10: Seminar by Nathan Anthony Smith (George Washington University)
- Apr 3: Seminar: First-Year Graduate Student Research Proposal Presentations
March 2020
- Mar 27: Seminar by Megan Ross (Lincoln Park Zoo)
- Mar 20: Seminar: First-Year Graduate Student Research Proposal Presentations
- Mar 6: Seminar: First-Year Graduate Student Research Proposal Presentations
February 2020
- Feb 28: Seminar: Ecology & Adaptation of Channel Islands Songbirds (T. Scott Sillett, Smithsonian)
- Feb 21: Seminar: Four Years and Five Thousand Students Later – Has it been a "CURE-all"? (Joseph Harsh, JMU)
- Feb 14: Seminar CANCELLED (Amanda Hoppers, New England Biolabs)
- Feb 7: Seminar by Liz Grogan (ETHOS Health Communications)
January 2020
- Jan 31: CSM Career Workshop
- Jan 31: Seminar: The Microcystis microbiome: A systems approach to understanding the freshwater bloom community (Morgan Steffen, JMU)
- Jan 24: Seminar: A bacterial quorum sensing signal arrests phytoplankton cell division and protects against virus-induced mortality
- Jan 17: Seminar: Demography and Life History Evolution in a wild Lemur population (Richard Lawler, JMU)
November 2019
- Nov 15: Seminar: Salamanders in the Mist: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation of Mountaintop Salamanders (David Marsh, Washington and Lee)
- Nov 8: Seminar: Mechanisms of glioma-induced seizures (Susan Campbell, VaTech)
- Nov 1: Seminar by David McLeod, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, JMU
October 2019
- Oct 26: Homecoming Brunch
- Oct 25: Seminar: "Some like it hot" and sweet! – A journey through the life of disease vector insects (Chloe Lahondere, VaTech)
- Oct 18: Seminar: Genetic diversity and disease: investigations of natural and agricultural populations (Amanda Gibson, UVa)
- Oct 11: Seminar: How environment shapes diversification and demography of parachuting frogs and woodland salamanders (Kyle O'Connell, Smithsonian)
- Oct 4: Seminar: The role of associated bacterial communities in health and conservation: from frogs to sloth bears (Andrew Loudon, Cleveland Zoo)
September 2019
- Sep 27: Seminar: Adaptation across seasonal time-scales in Drosophila and Daphnia (Alan Bergland, UVa)
- Sep 20: Seminar: Ecology of migratory birds: using behavior to inform conservation (Lesley Bulluck, VCU)
- Sep 13: Seminar: A tale of two snakes: Improving brown treesnake control methods and exploring rattlesnake den structure (S. Boback, Dickinson College)
- Sep 6: Seminar: Phylogenomics and genome size evolution: exploring the evolution of parasitism in copepods (James Bernot, GWU)
April 2019
- Apr 19: Seminar: BiodiversiTree: A 100-Year Forest Restoration Experiment
- Apr 12: Biosymposium Keynote Presentation by Nicholas Pullen
- Apr 5: Seminar: Understanding Diversification Using Population Genomics in North American Snakes
March 2019
- Mar 29: Seminar: Synaptic Aging: Driver or Byproduct of Neural and Muscle Dysfunction?
- Mar 22: Seminar: First-Year Graduate Student Proposal Presentations III
- Mar 15: Seminar: First-Year Graduate Student Proposal Presentations II
- Mar 1: Seminar: First-Year Graduate Student Proposal Presentations I
February 2019
- Feb 22: Seminar: Of Fins and Fingers: Ancient gene regulatory mechanisms that pattern vertebrate appendages
- Feb 15: Seminar: The role of creative narration and illustration in future teachers' understanding and communication of abstract biological concepts
- Feb 8: Seminar: Investigating Protein Structure, Function and Design with Robotics-inspired methods and Machine Learning
January 2019
- Jan 25: Seminar: Evolution of sexual dimorphism and species variation in damselflies
- Jan 18: Seminar: Machine learning and the practice of prediction in disease ecology
- Jan 11: Seminar: Drop it Like it's Hot: Regulation of thermal and mechanical nociception in Drosophila melanogaster larvae
November 2018
- Nov 30: Seminar: Human Pathogens on Plants: A Case Study of Salmonella in the Tomato Pre-harvest Environment
- Nov 16: Seminar: Community disassembly and reassembly in extreme environments
- Nov 9: Seminar: Transforming the study of ocean food webs: Atoms to Ecosystems
- Nov 2: Seminar: Stress hormones as multi-scale modulators of disease risk in a changing world
October 2018
- Oct 26: Seminar: Development and validation of a novel fluorescent biosensor to measure forces acting on the nuclei of living cells
- Oct 19: Seminar: Building the Human Brain: Cytoskeletal Regulation of Neurodevelopment
- Oct 12: Seminar: Synaptic aging: driver or byproduct of neural and muscle dysfunction
- Oct 5: Seminar: Melanopsin: from molecule to behavior
September 2018
- Sep 28: Seminar: Non-invasive brain stimulation to assess and improve sensorimotor function in individuals with spinal cord injury
- Sep 21: Seminar: Hormonally mediated gene expression and the evolution of sexual dimorphism
- Sep 14: Seminar CANCELLED: Drop it Like it's Hot: Regulation of thermal and mechanical nociception in Drosophila melanogaster larvae
- Sep 7: Seminar: Understanding the drivers of cooperation in a dynamic social network
April 2018
- Apr 20: Seminar: The resilient forest - From cows to monkeys in Panama
- Apr 13: Biosymposium Keynote Presentation
March 2018
- Mar 30: Seminar: Graduate Student Thesis Proposal Presentations IV
- Mar 23: Seminar: Graduate Student Thesis Proposal Presentations III
- Mar 9: Seminar: Graduate Student Thesis Proposal Presentations II
- Mar 2: Seminar: Graduate Student Thesis Proposal Presentations I
February 2018
- Feb 23: Seminar by Alison Buchan from the University of Tennessee
- Feb 16: Seminar: Millipede biodiversity and the evolution of bioluminescence
- Feb 9: Seminar: Living in a changing world: How the environment shapes reproductive strategies
- Feb 2: Seminar: Measurement of Mechanical Forces Across Cell-Cell Junctions and the Nuclear LINC Complex
January 2018
- Jan 31: Madison Scholar Lecture: Dr. Roshna Wunderlich
- Jan 29: Colloqium: Jim Collins, Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment at Arizona State University
- Jan 26: Seminar: Integrating animal reproduction: applications from evolution to conservation
- Jan 19: Seminar: Adaptation and mismatch in a coevolutionary arms race between toxic prey and their resistant predators
- Jan 12: The relevance of natural history museums to science and society in the 21st century
November 2017
- Nov 17: Seminar by Tim Bloss from JMU (Title TBA)
- Nov 10: Seminar: "Green plasticulture: Evaluating environmentally sustainable alternatives to agricultural plastics"
- Nov 3: Seminar: "Some like it hot: Diversity and evolution of the Nanoarchaeota"
October 2017
- Oct 27: Seminar: "Value is in the eye of the beholder: visual attention and value signals in the primate orbitofrontal cortex"
- Oct 20: Seminar: Applications of protein biochemistry in HPV vaccine manufacturing
- Oct 13: Seminar -- Swimming in a sea of microbes and viruses: insights into hosts-phage interactions using a model system
September 2017
- Sep 29: Seminar: "Science communication, chemical communication and the study of ant societies"
- Sep 22: Seminar: Faculty & Student Reports on 2017 Biology Study Abroad Programs
- Sep 15: Seminar: A computational investigation of asymmetric emergent structures in actomyosin dynamics during chemotaxis
- Sep 8: Seminar: Exploiting plant pathogen genomes
April 2017
- Apr 21: Biosymposium Seminar: 'From the beginning: a brief history of an emerging forest disease'
- Apr 20: JMU Biosymposium
- Apr 14: Protecting the living dead: susceptibility of dormant zooplankton in the Anthropocene
- Apr 7: Genome-Wide RNA Profiling to Discover Mechanisms Regulating Nucleotide Metabolism in Arabidopsis
March 2017
- Mar 31: End of Lecture? Active learning increases student achievement across STEM disciplines
- Mar 17: Seminar - First Year Graduate Student Proposals
- Mar 17: Bioseminar: Bacillus phages variety pack: from matchsticks to giants
January 2017
- Jan 20: Seminar: A novel mechanism mediating cardiac conduction and the progression of heart failure


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For my web browser example (http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=611&start=40) I need a way to execute a Lua statement thats in a string variable AND return the result in a string. Even better, some kind of multiline string as input, and a multistring as output.
I had a look at loadstring ( http://www.gammon.com.au/scripts/doc.php?lua=assert). That executes my string nicely.
> s=assert (loadstring ("print 'hello, world' print(tmr.now())")) ()
hello, world
> =s
But….. the result is "just" printed, and not assigned to the variable s as I had hoped
I had a QUICK look to node.input, knowing that it would not return a result on the command line, I naively did anyway. Yep, no dice:
> node.input("print('test')")
> s=node.input("print('test')")
> =s
Just to be clear : if the Lua statement is executed OK, I want the result of the code returned into a variable. If the Lua statement contains an error I would like the error-line returned into a string variable (ref. the error line in the code below):
> s=assert (loadstring ("rint 'hello, world' print(tmr.now())")) ()
lua: [string "rint 'hello, world' print(tmr.now())"]:1: attempt to call global 'rint' (a nil value)
Put my nose in the right direction, please?


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WASHINGTON- At Tuesday night's Digital Patriots Dinner here, CEA president/CEO Gary Shapiro announced the next class of inductees to the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame- and among them was the one member of the class present for the dinner- Head Monster Noel Lee.
Lee will be joined in the Hall of Fame class by Bob Borchart of Recoton, Tom Campbell of Video & Audio Center, George Feldstein of Crestron, "Father of WiFi" Vic Hayes, Dr. Floyd Toole of Harman, Bernie Mitchell of Pioneer and Wilfred Schwartz of Federated, Inc.
The Hall of Fame ceremony is scheduled for Nov. 9 at New York's Gotham Hall.
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Pancake Day!
Tuesday 13th February was Pancake Day! Throughout nursery the children were given a huge range of activities to explore, including mixing pancake mix, play dough pancakes, pancake flipping competition and a survey to choose their favourite topping. At the end of the day we all sat down to enjoy some yummy pancakes together along with the topping of our choice.


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CorFlow Presents at the ACC.19 Conference in New Orleansadmin
CorFlow Presents ACC Poster on Hemodynamic Instability and the Impact on Microvascular Dysfunction
Baar, Switzerland, March 17th 2019
CorFlow Therapeutics AG today announced that the company will present further findings related to the diagnosis and treatment of coronary microvascular obstruction (MVO) during the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology (ACC.19) in New Orleans, LA, March 16-18, 2019.
CorFlow has since its foundation in June 2016 worked to document that the Controlled Flow Infusion (CoFITM) technology is able to measure the coronary microvascular status and provide therapy to the compromised coronary microcirculation at the same time. MVO affects more than half of acute heart attack patients and is an independent predictor for complications including acute and late heart failure which constitutes a high cost burden for the world-wide health care system. To address this large unmet medical need, CorFlow has developed an in-vivo model which reproducibly creates MVO in an occlusion-reperfusion model with very low complication rates. Using this in-vivo model, the CoFITM technology was used to measure real-time dynamic microvascular resistance (dMVR) in the coronary circulation and these dMVR values have been correlated to post-procedure contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI) and histology. A correlation between the procedural CoFITM dMVR values and post-procedural MRI will enable treatment of MVO before the patients leave the cathlab and potentially reduce the complication rates for severe heart attack patients.
In a comment, Dr. Robert S. Schwartz, the first author of the publication and co-Founder of CorFlow Therapeutics, stated: "We continue to discover how impactful the CoFITM diagnostic sequence is to characterise the coronary microcirculation. Our findings show the we can quantify the microvascular collapse which occurs in heart attack patients and that this collapse has direct implications on the hemodynamic instability seen in these patients. We believe that this understanding will have important implications on how we manage microvascular dysfunction in clinical syndromes such as STEMI/NSTEMI, cardiogenic shock, no-reflow, and stress cardiomyopathy."
CorFlow's development is supported in part through a public grant awarded by Innosuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency, and conducted in cooperation with the University of Bern (ARTORG), the University Hospital of Zürich (Dept. of Cardiology and Div. of Surgical Research), the University of Applied Science Buchs NTB, the University Hospital in Bern (Inselspital) and the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland.
The poster "Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction Is Induced by Hemodynamic Instability: Quantitation by Controlled Flow Infusion" describes the recent findings from the CorFlow in-vivo model. The poster will be presented on Monday March 18th (poster session 1304, Hall F).
Jon H. Hoem, CorFlow's CEO and co-Founder, commented: "We are very pleased that we continue to expand our understanding of the CoFI technology and look forward to convert this understanding to clinical value for all the patients needing improved coronary care."
The data from the CorFlow non-clinical trials have been used in the regulatory submissions for the upcoming CorFlow MOCA (MVO with CoFI™ System Assessment) First-in-Man clinical trial.
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) mission is to transform cardiovascular care and improve heart care. ACC seeks to reach this mission through its members so that they may dramatically reduce the incidence, severity, and complications of cardio-vascular disease through promoting prevention, reduction of disparities in health care and improve personal population-based cardiovascular health.
ACC publishes several well recognised peer-reviewed journals (JACC) with a wide distribution in the inter-ventional cardiology community.
These clinical trials have documented that around half of all acute heart attack patients have MVO as documented by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). This translates into around 200,000 patients per year and 25% of these patients will be in heart failure after four years. MVO is therefore a major contributor to the rising costs for taking care of heart failure patients.
The 68th annual meeting of ACC will this year be held in New Orleans (LA). Last year's event was attended by more than 16,600 attendees from 108 countries and hosted 273 exhibitors.


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Zenith's "The Quality Goes in Before the Name Goes On" is one of the most recognized, and well earned, corporate mottos in America. Founded by two Navy radiomen in 1919, luck and the infusion of capital from a wealthy adventurer and car salesman started the Zenith Radio Corporation on a journey that would propell it to the top of the United States electronics manufacturing industry. The rise was an interesting one, the cast of high profile.With access to the Zenith corporate archives and their discovery of the long sealed files of one of Zenith's founders, the authors present for the first time the documented story of Zenith radio and company from 1919 through 1935. Professors Cones and Bryant draw on their long experience as radio enthusiasts and writers for both the popular and scholarly press to tell the fascinating story of Zenith's impact on early radio history. They present a wealth of never before published photographs, documents, and information, as well as color portraits of many Zenith radios of the era. Complimenting the story is an illustrated catalog of nearly every Chicago Radio Laboratory and Zenith radio model produced between 1919 and 1935 and a database of valuable information which covers every radio produced by the company, along with a rarity and price guide.
Size: 11″ x 8 1/2″ | 420+ photos | Value Guide | 192 pp
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Elumen, Inc., named a Top Workplace by the Washington Post, is an equal opportunity employer headquartered in Arlington, VA. We provide a broad spectrum of information technology and ancillary services to government and commercial customers primarily within the healthcare delivery domain. We seek a telecommute Database Administrator to provide database upgrades, maintaining, evaluating, and improved transaction processing in support of Army software, including installation and sustainment of all test, training, and production and training environments, site installs, customer support, system and infrastructure maintenance at host sites, quality assurance.
This support also includes change and configuration management of current and future versions to ensure continuous support, and the configuration, implementation, and maintenance activities required to deploy new versions (future releases and/or upgrades of application software throughout the life of the sustainment contract) to include interfaces with other systems.
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- Assess and support database performance by monitoring evaluating and resolving processing and programming problems and addressing user concerns.
- Secure and support application by contributing expertise to applications, operations, and technical support teams as needed
- Collaborate with applicable SMEs to support troubleshooting the database
- Provide database support for the Microsoft SQL Server, Enterprise database management systems for ten (10) databases
- Provide the operation and management of the systems or system components or databases at operational sites, at Contractor sites, and at test sites which includes but is not limited to administration, data input, data manipulation, and data reporting
- Ensure that all user interface services (e.g., web services) are physically or logically separated from data storage and management services (e.g., database management systems)
- Develop and maintain database description documents such as the Database Design Description (DBDD) and the Database Design Description (DDD) with each build, software delivery, and major release to document the data entities in the system and the Computer Software Configuration Items (CSCIs), Hardware Configuration Items (HWCIs) and Processing Threads that interact with the data entities
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Egypt's military said in a statement on state television that it had carried out an air strike against Islamic State targets in Libya at dawn on Monday, a day after the group released a video appearing to show the beheading of 21 Egyptians there.
The attack focused on Islamic State camps, training sites and weapons storage areas across Egypt's border in Libya, where Islamist militants have thrived amid chaos.. called for the extermination of the Jews at Berlin's al-Nur mosque in July. (JPost)


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The MaSCa (Material Science Calculations) Module is an extension for the admaDIC Calculator and provides every day calculations for materials testing. It includes unit conversion for the input and result fields. Selecting another unit automatically adjusts the value of the field. Calculations include for instance Young\'s modulus from stress and strain, true strain from current and initial length or cross section from mass, density and specimen length. Since the MaSCa module runs within the admaDIC Calculator it is platform independent too.


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The trailing habit of this plant makes it suitable for baskets and borders, and its fern-like leaves and fine scented flowers stand up quite well, to wet and windy weather.
The flowering period is from mid-late July until the first frosts.
They can be grown anywhere so long as it's in a sunny spot.
For best results incorporate plenty of well rotted organic manure into the soil before sowing and / or planting.
Remove spent flowers regularly to prolong the flowering season.
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Sow seeds onto the surface of fine moist seed compost, and cover with a fine dusting of vermiculite.
Place into a heated propagator or simply cover with a sheet of glass or place in a plastic bag and maintain a temperature of 18°-20°C (65°-68°F)
Keep in a light place until the seeds germinate, usually about two weeks.
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Royal Enfield dealerships in India have begun accepting bookings for the Himalayan ABS version, CarAndBike can confirm. The adventure motorcycle will be the first model post the newly launched Classic Signals edition in the Royal Enfield line-up to get the safety feature and will sport the same dual-channel unit that debuted on the special edition model yesterday. Dealerships have conveyed a tentative price of ₹ 1.79 lakh (ex-showroom) for the Royal Enfield Himalayan ABS, which will make it about ₹ 10,000-12,000 more expensive than the standard version currently on sale. The Chennai-based bike maker announced the introduction of ABS on its 500 cc models and the Himalayan yesterday.
Also Read: Royal Enfield's 500 cc Range And Himalayan To Get ABS Next Month Onwards
Dealers have also confirmed to CarAndBike that deliveries for the Royal Enfield Himalayan ABS will commence by the first half of September this year. The ABS version will effectively replace the standard version in the manufacturer's line-up, including the other motorcycles that are soon to get the feature. On the sidelines of the Classic Signals launch yesterday, Royal Enfield President - Rudratej Singh confirmed that all bikes will be upgraded with ABS by the end of this year, much earlier than the deadline of April 2019, set by the government.
The Royal Enfield Himalayan's engine received fuel-injection in 2017 to comply with the BS-IV norms, along with a host of other upgrades to the overall quality, fit and finish of the components. Power comes from the 411 cc long-stroke, air-cooled motor tuned for 24 bhp at 6500 rpm and 32 Nm of peak torque at 4250 rpm. The engine is paired with a 5-speed transmission.
Also Read: Royal Enfield Classic Signals Edition Launched In India
Do not expect the Royal Enfield Himalayan ABS to get any other change, barring the ABS sign on the instrument console. It needs to be seen too if the Himalayan will get a switchable ABS unit, which is otherwise appreciated on ADV bikes. The Himalayan will continue to sport the same black, white and camouflage (Sleet) colour options. Suspension duties are performed by telescopic front forks and a monoshock unit at the rear. Braking performance comes from ByBre-sourced disc brakes at the front and rear.
With the introduction of ABS, the 2018 Himalayan's on-road pricing is expected to pass the ₹ 2 lakh mark, which still makes it a value for money for offering in the entry-level adventure motorcycle segment. The Himalayan's closest competition remain the Kawasaki Versys-X 300 and the newly launched BMW G 310 GS, both of which sport not only sport ABS but better performance too.
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As a member of an HMO, you need to choose a primary care physician who will provide most of your health care and can refer you to an HMO specialist when needed. Before enrolling in an HMO health plan, you may want to see if your favorite doctor is in the plan's HMO network.
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In 2012 Ramadan began on July 20 on the Gregorian calendar. During the 29 to 30 days of Ramadan, Muslims fast…that is, refrain from eating or drinking… each day from dawn to dusk. When the day's fast ends at dusk, Muslims then partake of food and drink, oftentimes as a communal feast as in the picture above. Needless to say, Ramadan is easier when it takes place in the winter rather than the summer months.
In this campaign, Unilever's Comfort Creations brand of fabric softeners set up a series of drop-off points for used clothing, which the Red Crescent Society then provided to the needy. The drop-off points were located in three malls in Dubai. In 2012, the campaign was extended to a mall in Kuwait. It's hard to overstate the popularity of indoor malls in the Middle East. Having grown up in the desert kingdom of Arizona, I can relate.
Called, 'Share a Touch of Love' the campaign resulted in more than 45,000 donated items in less than a month's time.
According to the press report I saw in The National, a UAE newspaper, "all charitable activities in Dubai have to be conducted in partnership with the associations or foundations approved by the Department of Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities under the Dubai Government, Unilever returned to Red Crescent for the third year."
Wikipedia says that charity is an important part of Ramadan. Muslims tithe a portion of their wealth throughout the year, which they call the Zakat. In Islam the Zakat is "obligatory as one of the pillars of Islam; a fixed percentage required to be given by those with savings. Sadaqa is voluntary charity in given above and beyond what is required from the obligation of zakat. In Islam all good deeds are more handsomely rewarded in Ramadan than in any other month of the year. Consequently, many will choose this time to give a larger portion, if not all, of the zakat for which they are obligated to give. In addition, many will also use this time to give a larger portion of sadaqa in order to maximize the reward that will await them on the Day of Judgment."
From what I read, I couldn't get a sense about whether the Muslims who donated the clothing during Ramadan considered their donation Zakat or Sadaqa.
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In recognition of the day, this post will be very brief.
It looks like we stand a chance of same rain/thundershowers come late Thursday through the first half of Friday. Other than that period, the weather across east Central Florida will remain benignly pleasant. Lows in the mid-upper 60s along the coast (lower 60s away from the coast)..and highs in the mid-upper 70s and approaching 80 along the coast...and low 80s inland. In essence, we'll be right where we should be.
As for the rain on Thursday and Friday. It won't be a "rain out", if indeed it even rains at all. We will be on the tail end of a storm system that could create some significantly severe weather from Missouri and Iowa and points east to the Atlantic Coast starting Monday. The front will go through here early Friday..and once it passes we'll be back to status quo until the next weekend..at least.
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Just a few quick updates.
First, thanks all for your name suggestions. I hated some of them, I loved some of them, and I've finally decided on the name. Its one that I had thought of beforehand, but a couple of people suggested it here too. I'm not revealing it yet though; Paul J. Beel of The AROS Show has sent me some questions for an interview and I've promised that I'll reveal the name there. Of course I'll post it here shortly after, but of course you all read his stuff so you won't need it :)
I've started porting the WebCore dependencies. First up is the easy one, SQLite, which I finished porting this morning. Its a horrendous port, with no file locking and hacked up path handling, but it was the cheapest and fastest I could do, and will suffice for what I want. I don't want to get bogged down on tangents; WebCore itself is going to take enough time and brain to do without being distracted.
I'm now publishing my work as I go. The repositories for WebKit and its dependencies will appear at http://cataclysm.cx/git/. Feel free to clone from them and do whatever you want with the code. I'll post some build instructions soon; its quite hairy. I've also put my AROS repository up, which is where I'll publish stuff that hasn't made it to AROS SVN yet (usually becaused its unfinished and/or broken).
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Vaccine-associated feline sarcoma: current perspectives
Authors Saba CF
Received 6 July 2016
Accepted for publication 28 September 2016
Published 12 January 2017 Volume 2017:8 Pages 13—20
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/VMRR.S116556
Checked for plagiarism Yes
Review by Single-blind
Peer reviewer comments 2
Editor who approved publication: Professor Young Lyoo
Corey F Saba
Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Abstract: Feline injection site sarcomas (FISS; also known as vaccine-associated sarcomas) have been recognized for >20 years. Although uncommon, these tumors are iatrogenic, and vaccination against rabies and feline leukemia virus is perhaps the most common inciting cause. The exact etiopathogenesis is unknown, but it is widely accepted that inflammation induced by vaccines or other injections likely plays a critical role in tumor development. Injection site sarcomas are extremely locally invasive. Multimodal therapy, incorporating combinations of surgery, radiation therapy, and sometimes chemotherapy or immunotherapy, is recommended. However, tumor recurrences are common even with aggressive treatment, and many cats with FISS ultimately succumb to this devastating disease. While vaccination protocols play an important role in the management and control of infectious disease, veterinarians must be diligent in following established vaccination guidelines to minimize individual patient risk of FISS development. Early tumor detection and client education are also vital in the successful treatment of FISS.
Keywords: injection site sarcoma, cat, cancer, oncology
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As per the data provided by the Major Chinese mining pool BTC.com, the Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty saw its second largest drop in history with a 15 per cent adjustment on Monday, Dec 3.
The hashing difficulty algorithm of Bitcoin is normally adjusted in every two weeks to maintain the 10 minute block time. Since the beginning of the so-called "crypto-winter" in the month of mid-November, the Bitcoin's hashing difficulty algorithm has been adjusted for the second time, after which there has been steady drop and difficulty in mining Bitcoin.
Bitcoin has seen its largest drop on Oct 31, 2011, with an adjustment of -18 percent. It had also seen its third largest such decrease in mid-October of 2011.
According to CoinMarketCap, Bitcoin lost more than a third of its price since Nov 14 after recent adjustment of Bitcoin's hashing difficulty due to massive market drop. Financial experts have stated that the market collapse is due to the regulatory pressure, the hash rate war after controversial Bitcoin Cash hard fork.
The decrease in difficulty has created a market panic. Also, the coin devaluations are forcing the miners to quit. In September, Shixing Mao, CEO of China-based crypto mining pool F2Pool had reported the data on mining profitability.
According to Mao, at that time depending on the make and model of equipment being used, the break-even point for Bitcoin was around $3,891 and $11,581. At that time, Bitcoin was trading around $6,400.
Chinese miners had started to sell their mining machines by weight as opposed to price per unit after Bitcoin's massive drop to $4300 in late November. The F2Poll post reported, that the miners are eager to sell the older models including the Antminer S7, Antminer T9, and Avalon A741.
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William Emerson "Will" Arnett is a Canadian actor, voice actor, comedian, and producer, who is best known for his distinctive husky voice. He is well known television roles as G.O.B. on the Fox/Netflix sitcom Arrested Development since 2003, and Chris Brinkley on the NBC sitcom Up All Night from 2011–2012. He is also well-known for voicing the Lone Gunslinger in Blue Sky's Ice Age: The Meltdown, the Missing Link in DreamWorks' Monsters vs. Aliens, and Surly, the protagonist of The Nut Job and its 2017 sequel. He even voiced the titular character in the Netflix adult animated black comedy-drama series, BoJack Horseman.
For Disney, he voiced Horst in the 2007 Disney/Pixar film, Ratatouille and Pod in the Studio Ghibli film, The Secret World of Arrietty. He also voiced Ryder in the season finale episode of Wander Over Yonder, entitled "The Rider". Additionally, he portrayed Kip Killian in the 2009 spy-fi comedy film, G-Force, as well as Antonio in the 2010 Touchstone Pictures film, When in Rome.
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Gonzo eats a rubber tire to the music of "The Flight of the Bumblebee" in episode 101 of The Muppet Show. But he only gets a few bites in before he is booed off the stage. A reproduction of the tire from this appearance, replete with bite marks, was included with Palisades Toys' Tuxedo Gonzo Action Figure.
Gonzo later plays the song on his bugle in episode 218, as Rowlf plays the piano and Animal chases a bumblebee.
In Muppet*Vision 3D, a penguin member of the orchestra begins playing the tune when Bean Bunny interrupts Miss Piggy's musical number with a bee puppet.
In episode 107 of Muppets Tonight, Bill the Bubble Guy blows bubbles while the song plays.
The piece was used briefly during the quiz portion of "Elmo's World: Bugs" during a question about bees.
In a 2010 Sesamstrasse segment, Ernie and Bert attend the sound check of a philharmonic orchestra rehearsing the song. Refusing to wear a beekeeper's hat, Bert has to suffer the consequences.
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