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ASTORIA — When Tiffany Butler started Whole Brain Creative she worked at nights and on weekends, fitting in clients around her full-time job. Now she's grown the strategic marketing business enough that she rents office space and an apartment in not one city, but two.
Butler divides her time between Astoria and Portland. After three years of making the multi-hour commute, it's become just another part of the job. This job is communications strategy, content and design — from presentations and speeches to print design, web design and article writing.
"I like having the two places, it gives me a footprint in both places and I like being able to go back and forth and maintain those relationships in both cities. It's manageable," she said.
Maintaining client relationships was the main drive behind having multiple business locations, she said. Her business originated in Hillsboro, just outside Portland but, when she moved to Astoria, she stopped seeing her Portland clients regularly and business from them started dropping off.
"What I realized is they would essentially forget about me if I wasn't in front of them on a regular basis," she said. "They would feel guilty, I think, to ask me for a meeting because they knew I was driving two hours to get to them."
That was around 2011, which was the year the recession started to catch up with her business, she said. Before then, work had been going well. When things started slowing down, she realized she needed to facilitate the face-to-face time her clients were looking for, she said.
So she rented a co-work space in Portland and made it part of her schedule to be in the city two days a week. When that proved successful, after six months she rented a Portland apartment and, for the last three years has made the commute regularly.
Paying for two offices and two apartments comes with a price tag, though, and Butler needed to be sure she would have the revenue to support having both locations. She's done that by securing clients on retainer, guaranteeing at least half her time in the month will be filled, she said.
"My goal was to get half of [the necessary income] secured in retainers and I've been able to do that," she said. "I'm happy right there — if I had any more I'd have to start turning things away and I'd hate to do that."
Splitting her time between two locales, however, doesn't mean she approaches clients differently. In both Astoria and Portland she finds clients in large corporations and mom-and-pop businesses, she said. For Butler, it's less about the size of the business and more about the people running it.
Butler works with clients according to their needs. For smaller business she acts as a one-woman marketing department. For larger ones she takes on projects that the existing marketing team doesn't have time for. That means everything from designing wine labels to writing newsletters to developing a website for a client.
Within a few interactions with a client she has an idea of whether or not they're going to work well together, and she's learned to trust her gut for the most part she said.
"I've been doing this full time for almost 14 years. I've learned, to me, it doesn't matter how big the company is, it doesn't matter what business they're in," she said. "It's 'Do we have trust,' 'Do they value the expertise I bring to the table,' 'Can I understand what they're explaining when I ask questions about their business?'"
Understanding those issues is key, she said, because without that understanding, she can't do her job properly.
Business may be going well, but she's not planning to expand any time soon. That would mean hiring employees and, while she's managed people in the past, it's not what she wants to do, she said.
"I'm OK with where I am on revenue and so why do I want to mess with that?" she said. "It's working, I don't want to break it."


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Do experiments, test various myths in your industry. Probably the best thing about case studies is that they are always unique and bring new information for readers. Check this survey on the benefits of publishing original research by Buzzsumo :. Everyone likes them! However, authors frequently use them as a text substitution. Infographics then end up as complicated images with a bunch of copy, so they lost the potential.
Creating infographics is about making information nice and easy to read.
Queue is a list of posts that go live on a predefined timetable. These locations are defined by your WordPress theme. Links placed in the main articles or sections are better than links in footers and sidebars. Find out more about the most popular search engines and their history. And, wee all know the search engines love quality content.
Many times, guides are published as a part of blogs. You can write guides or how-tos, but keep in mind that there are already thousands of them. Another popular form of written content. There are thousands of top lists out there so think wisely about the topic. Writing lists is an opportunity to include downloadable items to collect leads, to earn valuable comments and to create a buzz thanks to social shares and backlinks. Getting unique information and opinions from an industry guru is excellent!
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Ebooks are usually used for lead generation. Maybe more in the B2B industry but there are still many B2C websites that require an email address to download an ebook. No one gives you the contact details just like that. You need to give readers a good reason. Ebooks usually come in PDF and contain a long piece of content.
A few years ago, long posts stuffed with keywords ranked on the top positions easily. Somehow, it got to the point, where it looks like there are hundreds of almost identical articles with the same keywords. It starts with the title, first paragraph, content type and most importantly the overall content structure. When it comes to time, posts with a 7-minute reading time are ideal according to Medium.
When it comes to SEO, there are many studies. Most of them prove that longer posts rank slightly better. The graph with the correlation between the content length and organic positions, based on the study by Can I Rank. Sooner or later, we all get to the point where we need to repeat a few words we have written somewhere else on our website.
You can find out more on Google Search Console help pages. Google algorithm differentiates whether you do it on purpose or as a natural part of your new content. The risks, not to mention the costs, of being a copycat are excessive. Google will penalize and skip your website from the search results. A popular tool to detect the plagiarism is Copyscape.
All you need to do is to enter the URL of the post. Creating great content starts with proper research. Think of the topic, do keyword research, ask your friends, conduct polls on Facebook or anywhere else.
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It automatically generates hundreds of Google autocomplete suggestions. Of course, free tools are very limited in their features. They offer many keyword suggestions, but what to do with keyword ideas? The professional paid keyword tools offer other useful SEO metrics and insights to evaluate the keywords and pick the best ones. Besides, they save you a lot of time a give you a competitive advantage.
Besides keyword suggestions, it calculates the difficulty of ranking for the keywords as well as SERP for each keyword to help you estimate your chances and analyze the competitors.
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Focus on websites people in your niche use to ask questions, communicate and share ideas. In the past, content creators did keyword research only to find the keywords with high search volumes. They stuffed them into content to trick the search engine algorithms and ensure high rankings in organic search. This no longer helps because keyword research has become a lot more complex! It helps Google to understand the intent behind the search query and deliver the most relevant results thanks to the machine-learning system.
Relevant keywords with high search volumes and low keyword difficulty — an ideal combination of the three most important factors of keyword research. We call it The tripod rule of keyword research — these three factors represent the three legs.
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Wetting in Color: Colorimetric Differentiation of Organic Liquids with High Selectivity
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Every liquid has a surface tension. Likewise, every liquid will display a contact angle on an ideal flat surface with a given surface chemistry (where this contact angle could be 0). Simple diagnostics that differentiate liquids based on surface tension and wettability have the potential therefore to be useful in a broad range of scenarios. This paper presents a form of colorimetry based on wetting, where organic liquids induce the appearance of color patterns in an indicator material that are highly sensitive to the liquids' wetting properties.
Central to the operation of this device is the porous inverse-opal films (see B. Hatton et al, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 107, 10354-10359 (2010)) that serve as its structural basis. The highly regular porosity of this structure serves two purposes: i) it is responsible for the film's iridescent color (when the pores are air-filled) that disappears when the pores are filled with liquid (due to refractive-index matching); and ii) it facilitates the highly selective wetting that this device exploits.
The paper starts by discussing the correlation between the symmetry of the structure and the selectivity of wetting expected. The pore structure consists of a face-centered cubic lattice of spherical air pores in a silica monolith. Each pore is connected by roughly circular openings, called "necks" in the paper. Due to the discontinuous and re-entrant curvature at the necks, liquid fronts show a propensity to pin at these necks, preventing the wetting of the structure. Sufficiently wetting liquids (sufficiently low intrinsic contact angle) will be able to overcome pinning and penetrate the structure. As shown in Fig. 1, the smaller necks, the higher propensity for pinning. The size of a neck defines a critical intrinsic contact angle for fluid penetration. When an inverse opal has a distribution of neck sizes, the penetration of the structure will occur through the necks that are smaller than the critical value defined by the contact angle, but will get pinned at the others. The filling in this regime is well described by a bond percolation with a fixed connectivity. Using neck distributions derived from SEM images, it is estimated that the response should be sensitive to contact angle differences of less than 5 degrees.


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After saying I've not got plans to buy much after my No Buy, I have had a few successful shopping trips. Whoops. I did manage to get a few good steals!
MAC Brave
I've finally gotten around to repurchasing MAC Brave, which you may have seen on my instastories over the past weekend. A lot of you will already be familiar with the story behind this, and I'll be saving it for a MAC Brave vs MAC Brave post which I'm already working on. But I'm down to my last little nub of my favourite lipstick and wanted to compare a new version against an old one! That post is coming up very soon, hopefully next week if the light is good enough to get pictures!
Botanics Hibiscus Micellar Water and Face Scrub
I saw that the Boots Botanics range had been given a bit of a face-lift and I was inrigued enough to actually grab some bits. My Micellar water has gone AWOL (I'm sure it'll turn up now I've bought another) and I'm on my last little bit of face scrub before I've finished all mine up, so I took advantage of the buy one get one free offer they had running on the already affordable range.
Dose of Colours Liquid Lipstick in Berry Me 2
So far this month I've worn a different liquid lipstick every day, all in the name of my huge liquid lipstick comparison post, and there was one more brand and formula I wanted to add to the mix, and that was Dose of Colours Liquid Lipstick's. I know this brand and formula has a huge following for liquid lipsticks and I wanted to try one. I picked up the shade Berry Me 2 (and resisted getting a rose pink, which since getting out all my liquid lipsticks I've realised I have way too many of), and it's a gorgeous bright pink purple shade. I almost bought a Jouer Liquid Lipstick and Beauty Bakerie one but decided to draw the line at this one as I didn't want to spend £55 on three!
Too Faced Born This Way Concealer
The Born this Way foundation and concealer has it's fair share of admirers, I've heard mostly positive things about the line so when I saw the Concealer at TK Maxx I swiped it up. Reduced from it's RRP at £20 to £12.99 it was a great price to give it a try at, They only had the shade medium, which is a good shade for me as a spot concealer, but a bit too dark for under the eyes etc.
Nudestix Moisture & Clean Up Pencils
In the clearance section of TK Maxx I was surprised to see Nudestix featured seen as we can't get it in the UK, but there was tins and tins of this duo so there must have been a serious overflow of stock somewhere. This was reduced from £48.00 to £5. Crikey, inside there was a cleanup pencil and a moisturising pencil. To be honest I wasn't sure what exactly they were meant to do, but I've wanted to try Nudestix for a while and that was just at a price that was cheap enough to pique my curiosity!
Makeup Forever Radiance Primer
Picked up in TK Maxx this was an utter steal, I don't normally opt for radiance primers, but I love the two MUFE primers I've tried in the past so was keen to see as to whether that would work for me. It was reduced from £27.99 to £7.99, so even better than most drugstore prices!
Illamasqua OMG Highlighter
I bought this from a makeup artist on a Beauty Bloggers swap group on Facebook, I've sold a few bits in the past from there, and I've bought a few nail polishes, but I've never bought makeup from their before. This highlight was what was used on my wedding day and I loved it, it has a subtle duochrome peachy tone and found it lasted so well throughout the day. This had been swatched but nothing else, and was a steal at £16 – compared to the full price at £35!
Urban Decay Moondust in Chem Trail
When I went shopping with Molly and Sophie in Spring, I spotted this in Urban Decay, went to ask them for it and discovered that they didn't have any in stock. Since then when ever I've been to an Urban Decay I've seeked out this colour and it's always out of stock. I really wanted to try the Moondust from Urban Decay to compare against my Stila Magnificent Metals to see if they lasted as well. The shade Chem Trail I really liked the look of as it was kind of transparent and could be layered over other colours. Again picked up from the same MUA, used once and applied with a brush so applicator is brand new!
ColourPop Yes Please Eyeshadow Palette
I just wanted to give a special mention to this technically I bought it back in June but I just grabbed it off Sophie last week and it's finally in my possession and I'm looking forward to putting it to the test!
Have you treated yourself to anything new this month? I've got a bit pile of palettes I'm hoping to declutter and sell myself that I'm just not reaching for at the moment.
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Affiliations: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria, Via Pietro Bucci, Rende (CS), Italy
Corresponding author: Mario Alviano, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria, Via Pietro Bucci 30/B, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy. E-mail: [email protected].
Note: [1] This research has been partially supported by the Italian Ministry for Economic Development (MISE) under project "PIUCultura – Paradigmi Innovativi per l'Utilizzo della Cultura" (n. F/020016/01-02/X27), and under project "Smarter Solutions in the Big Data World (S2BDW)" (n. F/050389/01-03/X32) funded within the call "HORIZON2020" PON I&C 2014-2020, and by Gruppo Nazionale per il Calcolo Scientifico (GNCS-INdAM). An extended abstract of this work was already published [2].
Abstract: Answer set programming (ASP) is a declarative language for nonmonotonic reasoning based on stable model semantics. A stable model is a classical model of the input program satisfying the following stability condition: only necessary information is included in the model under the assumptions provided by the model itself for the unknown knowledge in the program, where unknown knowledge is encoded by means of default negation. Rational agents acting in the real world often have to reason in presence of unknown knowledge. It is also common that real world agents cannot meet all their desiderata. For this reason, ASP programs may include weak constraints for representing numerical preferences over jointly incompatible conditions. Stable models are therefore associated with a cost given by the unsatisfied weak constraints, and stable models of minimum cost are preferred. This paper summarizes algorithms and strategies for computing optimal stable models, and hints on how these algorithms can be extended to handle some qualitative preferences that have a natural representation in circumscription, that is, those based on subset-minimality and superset-maximality.
Keywords: Answer set programming, boolean optimization, unsatisfiable core analysis, circumscription
Journal: Intelligenza Artificiale, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1-14, 2018
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"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason." Immanuel Kant
John heard the back door slam and with a Pavlovian response his body sighed tension. This set his upper buttocks free, returned his chest and neck from pyramid-brick-state to house-brick-state, allowed his muscles to let go of their prepared grip and embrace the small amount of release only solicited by the departure of his wife for the day. A thin easily pierced calm settled over him. A temporary relief, imbued with a childish longing to escape from a moment without actually having to do anything but wish for it – as if the wish were hard and strong enough, anything could happen.
He sank into his high back leather chair, its years of careful creasing engulfing him. With a resentment laced in unexplainable guilt, John carefully examined and rewrote the morning's scenario in his mind, tweaking and organising it into a cautious explanatory tale that displayed with a certain clarity the mornings drama, casting himself as its victim.
Illegal immigrants might or might not have thrown their children overboard to grab the attention of local authorities in an attempt to gain sympathy for their plight from the Australian people. Little did they know an act of this nature would never gain the sympathy of the Australian people, but it gained the sympathy of Johns' wife, a woman of the left, a red-under-the-bed for whom every person safe and happy in their comfortable home was wrong and every person living in unsafe, unhygienic or war torn conditions was an automatic hero. Janet was one of those women. Her observations on the human condition burst with savant clarity into a timeless ocean of lost souls. Whatever she 'felt' had the precision of years of scientific research. Whatever she 'knew' was not constructed from the mosaic of her life, but forged from fact.
"I can't believe they got away with it. That government is evil. It should be a war crime that they won the election – not once but twice – on that lie, and instead no inquiry can touch them."
Janet stood in front of Sunrise, a wooden ladle pointed threateningly at the television, her legs spread a little further than hip width apart as though she were ready to take on the pink-suited mannequin-makeuped announcer more interested in the forthcoming dumpling segment than the final findings of the Children Overboard incident. John, emerging from a halo of bathroom mist wearing his white terry robe, watched the end of the story then looked at the back of his rigid wife. He saw a small droplet of eggy grease fall from the ladle to the white shag carpet beneath her and felt his ire rise.
"How could winning an election be a war crime?"
Janet spun ready for a fight. She'd been ready since the fall of the Berlin wall, and was only getting readier each day that capitalism sucked at her heels, moving her further away from her utopian dream. If communism was meant to herald a burst of creativity, Janet saw the death of that creativity in every logged tree, in every fee paying university student and in every mad Muslim suicide bomber. Capitalism could be blamed for all the modern ills and third only to George Bush Jnr and Tony Blair came one John Winston Howard, internationally self-aggrandised keeper of the status quo, stalwart of fifties values, he-who-would-be-blamed for all the hope and vision stolen from Janet.
"You know what I mean. This is a disgrace. You know it is. Come on, agree with me. It won't kill you. Agree that this government should be held accountable and there is something wrong with a world that won't do it."
Suspended in the moment, John did know. He knew he should choose between fight and flight. He knew he could be his own god, bestow his own gift upon the moment, upon Janet, her stupid self, and upon the world. He knew he could, if he so desired, transcend this foolishness, acknowledge that this history, about to duplicate itself between the two of them was nothing more than the repetitious outlay of some secretly witnessed moment between his parents, or the emotional residue from the first removal of a cherished toy, or his first awkward glance at himself in a mirror. Briefly he had hope. Hope that a human can rise above their animal nature despite his passionate belief in the opposite. Hope that the world could be a different place from the one he saw so clearly played out like a David Attenborough film. A world where nurture could overcome nature and a human animal could rise above and choose to be more than the sum of its collective parts.
Faithfully, John chose no.
"I'm simply saying if you're going to make these grandiose statements, you should at least get your facts straight. A government lying to its people in peace time is not a war crime."
"We're not in peace time, remember? There's a 'War against Terror' going on."
"Whatever. Even in WAR time, a government lying to its people isn't a war crime in the true sense of the word. Now if you wanted this funny little idea to be a metaphor, you should have said 'like a war crime' or 'as if it were a war crime'…" John thought for a moment as if it were terribly important that he get this right. "At least I think so. Your metaphor may be so bad it doesn't even apply properly to the rules of metaphor."
"Jesus Christ John, what are you on? I am just venting, in my own home, and expressing displeasure in something neither of us approves of. Why aren't you on my side?"
Without waiting for an answer Janet turned toward the kitchen a final globule of now cooled grease making its way toward the carpet as she hunched her shoulders in an expression of mock disbelief. A sense of peace-free calm descended upon John; the same feeling he had as a child when he'd resuscitate dissected frogs in school surrounded by the horrified squeals of adoring girls, or when he won his promotion from a colleague who didn't have his talent for networking although his qualities for the job far outshone his own. This was the survival of the fittest, the swift out running the steady, the 'mind' defeating the romantic notion of 'soul'. He moved toward the kitchen with a predators stride, determined to win this most important of all conflicts. With battle savvy skill, he went for the jugular.
"It's just that you get so emotional, and I wanted to add some rationalism to calm you down and help you see facts."
Janet, worked up already, clinging to the very precipice of sanity, searching for a language that could not be found, was too far gone to come back with strength. Her already reddened face turned a deeper purple and John caught tears welling up in her eyes. "I'm not emotional, I'm being perfectly rational. You only say things like that because you know it gets me going."
"So don't get going when I say it and I will stop, if that's the truth. Could it be possible that I am genuinely trying to help you? You never seem to be able to accept my generosity, and I know that is because your father withheld affection from you, but I wish you would see that when you get this angry it isn't with me, it's with him."
Janet looked confused.
"I'm angry about the Howard government being completely let off over the children overboard incident, even though the independent enquiry found them to be guilty. They just ignored the findings."
John shrugged. "I don't see why you couldn't see this coming; more emotion getting in the way. If you saw it rationally you'd be better prepared."
He turned away from her, walking toward the bedroom, thinking of what to wear that day. She followed him of course.
"Maybe I don't want to be prepared. Maybe I don't want to be complacent like you. Maybe I want to be outraged when outrages occur. Huh? Did that ever occur to you? That I might LIKE the way I am?"
John looked through his shirts and chose a vertical stripe. Clean, linear, direct, and neat – like his thinking. He held the shirt in front of him, hand on hanger at the top, pulling it tight at the base, admiring the way the parallel lines never crossed, never left their course and bumped into each other. He stared at them, the muffled background nose of Janet's hysteria easily and comfortably fading out despite the inevitable rise in volume, as he floated further and further away. Soon he noticed she'd left the room taking none of the stress with her, setting to stone his muscles, teasing the very start of a tension headache from behind his eyes. He'd never understand what was wrong with the woman, but she was like all the others. Something in their genes. Some rogue throwback defence mechanism now mistakenly fired at husbands and lovers in an age where such defences were no longer useful.
Carefully he buttoned up at the front, noticing the faint trembling in his left hand was a little stronger after these kinds of incidents. The woman was bad for him and bad for his health and that was another reason to flush fifteen years of marriage if he ever got the courage. Staring at the stripe in the shirt in the mirror, John suddenly got the impression life was a huge indecipherable text that scholars worked on, linguists interpreted and scientists analysed and still no one came up with definitive answers. If the world of academics couldn't give him a straight answer, what were they worth? Surely, now we have the courage to declare god dead, we have enough to decipher life? Why was it taking so long?
John listened for sounds of his wife thumping through the house, slamming a cupboard shut in the kitchen, pounding feet moving toward the bathroom, door closing and lock being turned, not once but twice, as if John, who his wife always claimed got sexual at the oddest times, may attempt to enter the sanctuary and try something on her. John shudderd at the thought, grateful for the lock and its message. He slunk undetected to his study, and closed the door, hoping the unwelcome image would repel rather than entice his wife. Sometime she was up for more trouble, but John had to confess that happened less and less these days. He slumped in his chair, rubbed the back of his neck and twisted it gently in small circular motions, feeling the muscle pull all the way to the base of his spine.
At the slam of the door and the sound of the car in the drive, he had a moment of almost surreal calm.
John glanced with muted eyes at the days schedule in his diary. A lecture at the university, lunch with his friend Daniel, and a frighteningly free evening that looked like it might have to be spent at home. Now in his early seventies, time was running out to make the oceanic splash he'd promised himself for as long as he could remember. The talisman swung before his mind, his memory crystal clear on the subject; that fated night almost twenty years earlier when Professor Rupert Pratt, visiting academic and Philosopher in Residence, Cambridge University gave his response to John's fervently whispered confession of his most closely held dreams and hopes.
"John old chap, you'll never achieve anything brilliant in Australia! Let me tell you, it is now and always will be a colony. Why you're only a couple of generations off convict yourself, how can you compete with genes working for centuries on the worlds more complex questions?"
How indeed? Rupert had gone on to explain to John, to make clear, to reference his place for him and it ran along the lines:
Grass: Field
Gnat: Species
Ass-end: Earth
John got the picture. At least he got the picture Rupert painted. What he also got that night was a burn so deep and a fever so hot to prove Rupert wrong, that it obsessed John every day of the subsequent years in which he did virtually nothing about it. Volcanoes lay dead for many a year before they spew their world changing heat on the unsuspecting safe around them. John fancied himself a bit of a volcano, harbouring his ache for his genius to flow lava-like over the academic establishment, stop them in their tracks Pompeii style, and set in stone a new world order that will forever put Australia and John on the map.
But first, he had to do something about his wife.


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The liver is the largest internal organ in the body. It is also known as primary liver cancer or hepatoma and hepatocellular carcinoma is a cancer arising under the liver. The liver acts several vital functions. It processes and collects many of the nutrients assimilated from the bowel. It also compiles some of the clotting points needed to stop hemorrhaging from a slouse or gash. Hemangioma( he-man-ge-O-muh) is the most common type of benign liver tumor. It starts in blood vessels and Hepatic adenomas are benign tumors that start from the primary type of liver cadres( hepatocytes ). Women have a much higher chance of having one of these tumors if they take birth control pills, although this is rare. Stopping the pills can cause the tumor to shrivel. Hepatic adenomascancer begins in numerous places throughout the liver and is not confined to a single tumor. This is most often considered to be in beings with liver cirrhosis and is the most common blueprint seen in the United States.
Hepatic tumors also called Liver cancer. Hepatic tumors is are tumors or raises on or in the liver. There are many forms of liver tumors premary is Malignant. Malignant, primary liver cancer is hepatocellular carcinoma( likewise identified hepatoma, which is a misnomer ). These growings can be benign or malignant( cancerous ). They may be discovered on medical imaging( even for a different intellect than the cancer itself ). Most of the time when cancer is found in the liver, it did not getting started but spread to the liver from a cancer that began somewhere else in the body. These tumors are worded after the place where they began( primary area) and are farther was regarded as metastatic. Evidences can include a chunk or pain on the right side of your abdomen and yellowing of the surface. However, you are not able to have indications and the cancer may not be found until it is advanced.
Some investigates believe that cancer starts with damage caused to DNA the material that contains the instructions for every compound process in your form, including the rate of cellular expansion. DNA damage stimulates changes in these instructions. Liver cancer also follows as metastatic cancer, which happens when tumors from other parts of the body spread( metastasize) to the liver. In the liver cancer some cells begin to grow exceptionally. One solution is that cadres may begin to grow out of limit and eventually model a tumor a mass of malignant cadres. In the United States, most cancer found in the liver spread there after originating abroad. Rather than being announced liver cancer, this kind of cancer in the liver is called after the organ in which it began such as metastatic colon cancer in cancer that starts in the colon and spreads to the liver.
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Hepatitis B virus( HBV) illnes is the main causes of liver cancer. Liver cancer relates to( links with) the frequency of chronic hepatitis B virus infection. Considers in swine likewise have provided that hepatitis B virus can cause liver cancer. For precedent, liver cancer develops in other mammals that are naturally infected with hepatitis B virus-related viruses. Ultimately, by polluting transgenic mouse with some parts of the hepatitis B virus, scientists caused liver cancer to develop in mouse that do not frequently develop liver cancer.
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The treatment of liver cancer is overall problem of the patient. First treatment if liver cancer is Chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is a potent remedies to kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy is anot effective not some cases of liver cancer but type of chemotherapy is known as chemoembolization is an important part of management for HCC. chemoembolization causes many of the same side effects as other forms of chemotherapy, including abdominal suffering, nausea and upchuck. Second medication is surgery. Surgery is excellent care for localized resectable cancer is typically an operation known as surgical resection. In some actions, the area of the liver where the cancer is noticed can be completely removed. Alcohol injection has been shown to improve survival in beings with small-minded hepatocellular tumors. It may also be used to help reduce indications in cases of metastatic liver cancer. The most common side effect is seeping of alcohol onto the liver or into the abdominal cavity.
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Fuel Tank Progress April 29th, 2009
I've spent the last several weeks working on sealing and riveting the fuel tanks. The tank sealant gets on EVERYTHING, so I have not taken very many pictures. We took a few when we first started, and then the rest are after the tanks are mostly done…
Here is my usual setup — Respirator and safety glasses. The tank sealant is not too bad, but the MEK I was using to clean up is scary stuff. The label says it will give you a headache and as long as there is plenty of ventilation (notice open garage door) it is not dangerous, but one whiff of the stuff and you know it can't be good to be breathing it. Also, it will melt almost everything, including your gloves, your eyes, and probably your neurons if you breathe too much of it..
Here is me applying tank sealant to an internal rib.
Here here is Fabiola decked out in her respirator and glasses too..


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A collision downtown at Bryant and Harris tied up traffic during the noon lunch hour on Thursday.
Police say a driver in a white GMC pickup on Bryant slowed for a truck turning into a convenience store and was rear-ended by a driver in a red pickup.
Paramedics took two passengers from the red truck to Shannon Medical Center for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
Police cited the red pickup driver for failure to control speed and driving without a valid license.
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KOZ Events Announces the Celebration of the 45th Anniversary of the Birth of Triathlon
July 16, 2019
XTERRA WETSUITS Mission Bay Triathlon
San Diego, Calif. – KOZ Events today announced the 32nd Annual 2019 XTERRA WETSUITS Mission Bay Triathlon on September 29, 2019 is celebrating the 45th anniversary of the birth of the sport of triathlon in the United States.
At 5:45 PM on September 25th, 1974, members of the San Diego Mission Bay Track Club completed a 5.3-mile run, a 5-mile bike ride, and a 600-yard swim in Mission Bay. A portion of the run was run barefoot over grass and sand. Improbably, this event sparked a sport that now has more than 2.5 million participants worldwide.
"We are beyond honored to continue the tradition of the first-ever triathlon with the XTERRA WETSUITS Mission Bay Triathlon," said Carrie Panek, co-owner of KOZ Events. "The sport had its organic origin in San Diego, and to be able to nurture Triathlon into its 45th year is a true gift. Even though the sport of triathlon has become incredibly sophisticated, we can tell you that if you sign up for the 2019 XTERRA WETSUITS Mission Bay Triathlon, you will connect with the pure joy the sport of triathlon is based on."
In its first ever event in 1974, 46 athletes attempted the distance. This year, Panek expects over 2,000 athletes to celebrate their sport by toeing the line on September 29th at Mission Bay. Ironman Hall of Fame inductee, USA Triathlon Hall of Fame inductee, historian, and founder of both Challenged Athletes Foundation and Competitor Magazine, Bob Babbitt has competed in the Mission Bay Triathlon year after year.
"The Mission Bay Triathlon is where it all began," said Babbitt. "What's great about this event is that it's still a classic. You swim in the bay, ride through one of the most scenic parts of San Diego, and finish under a roller coaster by the boardwalk. If you are going to do one triathlon this year, you want to do the race that started everything and that's the Mission Bay Triathlon."
Within a few years of its first-ever event in Mission Bay, triathlon became one of the fastest growing sports in the world. Fifteen years later, the International Triathlon Union (ITU) was formed in 1989. ITU now has over 140 affiliated National Federations on five continents and is the youngest International Federation in the Olympic Games. In 1995, triathlon was included in the Buenos Aires Pan American Games, and in 2000, triathlon made its Olympic debut in Sydney, Australia. Paratriathlon, featuring challenged athletes, was accepted into the Paralympic Games in 2016.
"USA Triathlon is proud to sanction the XTERRA Wetsuits Mission Bay Triathlon, an iconic race held at the birthplace of the sport," said Rocky Harris, USA Triathlon CEO. "This race has changed dramatically since 1974, but the spirit behind the original event — and the sport itself — is very much present. The Mission Bay Triathlon is a perfect example of how triathlon is evolving while staying true to its original intent, which is the pursuit of our own personal potential in swim, bike and run."
Voted "San Diego's Best Triathlon" in 2015, XTERRA WETSUITS Mission Bay Triathlon will feature a calm, 1000-meter swim in Bonita Cove, a 38K bike ride – including a loop around Fiesta Island – and a 9K run. The race will finish under the iconic Belmont Park Rollercoaster, just off the boardwalk.
The event will also include a Sprint Triathlon, a Sprint Duathlon, a Sprint Aquabike, a Mini Sprint Triathlon for kids 11 and older and an Itsy Bitsy Triathlon for kids 7-10. The XTERRA WETSUITS Mission Bay Triathlon is the final event of the Triple Crown, which includes the XTERRA WETSUITS Spring Sprint Triathlon, which took place in May, and the Chula Vista Challenge, which takes place on August 11th. All of the Triple Crown races are part of the San Diego Triathlon Points Series.
New XTERRA WETSUITS Mission Bay Triathlon Sponsor
This year, the XTERRA WETSUITS Mission Bay Triathlon is proud to announce a new, presenting sponsor. The Law Firm of Richard L. Duquette has been an advocate of bike safety and an enthusiastic supporter of endurance sports in the San Diego community for over three decades. Richard Duquette and his wife Kim are passionate about the sports of triathlon, road and mountain bicycling and representing triathletes who need legal support. Mr. Duquette also hosts one of the largest bicycle injury podcasts in the nation, entitled Bicycling and the Law and publishes illustrative self-help, legal articles.
"I feel it's my duty as a lawyer and an athlete to help protect others and give back to the sport," said Mr. Duquette, who raced in one of the most epic Ironman events of all time in 1989, when Mark Allen edged out Dave Scott, in what became known as the "Iron War." "As a longtime supporter of KOZ enterprises, it's a privilege to be involved with the XTERRA WETSUITS Mission Bay Triathlon in its 45th year. It's going to be a great race."
KOZ Events want everyone of all levels to come out and join the triathlon family. They offer free clinics for beginner and intermediate triathletes through the San Diego Tri Series. For training dates, check the San Diego Triathlon Series Meetup page.
Additional sponsors of the race include, XTERRA WETSUITS, NUUN Hydration, Pulse Endurance Sports, Rehab United, Brain J Lewis Realtor , Road Runner Sports, and Triathlon Club San Diego.
About KOZ Events
KOZ Events is San Diego's premier full-service special events company providing race management in San Diego County. Founded in 1981, KOZ Events specializes in multi-sport events including: triathlons, duathlons, aquabikes, runs, walks, and cycling events. In addition, KOZ provides expert operational, logistical, and event setup/breakdown assistance on a contract basis. Learn more at www.kozevents.com
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Richard L. Duquette has been fighting for his clients since 1983. Richard's methodical approach has allowed him to succeed at obtaining favorable results in various legal matters. To date, he has recovered millions of dollars in jury verdicts and settlements for his bicycle injury clients. Learn more at https://www.911law.com/personal-injury/bicycle-accidents/.


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@poxeveryturn Not fond of Tabernacle vs Oath?
I find it useful to to prevent getting Oathed since you can dump any number of your tokens on your upkeep. It and a Wasteland are pretty good at keeping Oath off. Additionally, it can answer Oathed up creatures.
@poxeveryturn Not fond of Tabernacle vs Oath?
@emopizza I certainly agree that works and it has worked for me game one on multiple occasions. However the trick doesn't work once they learn to just make tokens after the trigger. For instance they just make the token EOT and then get the trigger anyway and are off to the races.
The tabernacle also has to be in play before your upkeep happens as well. Meaning you had to play a pre-emptive tabernacle into a possibly empty board which seems like a really awkward play a lot of the time just hoping for a spirit token to come along. And assuming it's post board your opponent knows the strategy so the jig is up that you have a million waste effects and are playing lands and will often work around those interactions until it's go time
It can certainly buy time which can be important but post board I want to just destroy the oath with an uncounterable spell and move on.
It can also backfire against the Titan oath builds because they can more easily hardcast creatures game two so if you stay on the tabernacle plan and can't find a kill quickly you have to face down 9 damage a turn or more off an inferno Titan while they present a lot of other restricted blue cards you can't interact with.
I've been there though for sure. I've also been on the fire my spirit token every turn which is even more clunky lol.
I think destroying the oath, wasting orchards and making a fast merit lage works a lot better post board.
Also glacial chasm is a great way to hide too if you have have any kind of engine online to recur it. And if they're on an all griselbrand build Karakas and Maze do so much heavy lifting. That's the way I approach it.
@poxeveryturn said in Another 2nd place finish on Lands and encouraging others to give it a try!:
@fsecco yes you could cut ghost quarter 4, or possibly null rod 4. Honestly, I just like the set up and the deck plays really well at 61 so I kept the set up and packed in everything. I usually run 61 in this list with varying setups.
I think it's one of the few decks that can remain consistent and get away with 61 due to the high volume of lands and the fact it's largely redundant in its effects. It's certainly not a necessity but I like it at 61.
Yes, you could cut the 4th null rod but at what cost? How many of our play test matches early on ended for me when null rod hit the board? Even if I didn't know it was over yet.
@khahan exactly. Which is why I like the set up where it is right now. 61 is certainly unconventional and may even be wrong but I don't really care, it has served me well and Null Rod has been a powerhouse for the deck in so many matchups. I think the card is really well positioned right now if you have a deck that can run it and this deck just loves it.
I've been testing against Landstill alot and I find this match very frustrating actually. If you cant find the Depths combo naturally they Waste your Bazaar very quickly, then use their near infinte counterspells to stop the Loam engine and plop down a Jace. Just giving some feedback. Also wondered if youd be willing to chat via other social media as I want to develop this deck further.
@rolko I like to mulligan pretty hard In the landstill match to try and find the natural combo. You know the match certainly isn't going anywhere fast so I think you have a lot more leeway to mull a little further and look for either the combo or a hand with multiple fastbond effects. That can be a great parody breaker sometimes if your engine can get online at all before a standstill comes down they run out of effective counters pretty fast.
Durdly blue matchups are why I like having the 4th Depths in the MD. Natural Depths is a strong plan against walls of counterspells.
@emopizza my paper meta just gives me so much dredge and shops to face I like the 3/3 count. If you see a lot of those slow blue matches I could def see where 4 would come in strong.
After more testing I believe that forcing the issue against Landstill is incorrect. By going slow and forcing them to interact late only after the Depths token is STP'D (and we've often drawn 3 off their Standstill), we can make them dump their hand. We also often get to Waste/Strip/GQ all their lands while we wait making their Standstill a one side Armeggedon. Jace is the biggest issue, Chasm/Tabernacle cleans up everything else with Grudge acting as an intermediate Factory removal tool. 2nd Bog main helps to keep alot of Delve spells offline also, which suprisingly matters quite often in the blue matches.
Ive cut x2 Mental Misstep main and the x1 Chalice of the Void for x1 Forest (x4 GQ makes it fetchable basically), x1 Exploration (the 4th), I always want this effect and 4th Manabond was clunky, x1 utility land that changes or 3rd Crop Rotation (I think this is meta dependent), some metas you want 2nd Karakas or x1 Maze of Ith main for Shops/Oath. The deck feels great in larger events where you can percentage the format out after a few early rounds.
@rolko I definitely agree with cutting the 2 missteps. Since the above decklist I cut both of mine for a second Bog and a third crop rotation to further sure up the dredge match and give me extra tech against storm and blue. Removing their graveyard can add a nice tempo boost. I also just hate misstep and every time I drew it I wanted to toss it across the room. Lol.
What is your reasoning behind removing chalice?
Chalice has been great for me and I feel really brings the tempo into the deck's favor. Many times I've gone null-rod chalice zero and it's just such a great defense to hide behind and set up.
It's also really good against stp decks where you can set it on one to turn off their swords, cantrips, and you are playing for a natural combo and don't need exploration effects as much. I feel like the card is indespensible to have around.
Why is Crucible considered, in your opinion, to be clunky? Does it not have synergy with this deck, naturally? Not to mention when you throw 4 Bazaar into the mix? It seems like it could do work even if your mind isnt on the Orb/Fastbond/Crucible combo
is there truly no slot in this deck for a crucible?
@childe_roland My reasoning here is bi-fold. First, the way I approached building the list was trying to maximize the cards that can come out of the graveyard as a recursive spell thereby helping the deck move forward and also helping the deck protect against counterspells by making them worse to point at a recurring spell.
Second, if it wasn't a recursive spell or restricted (I.e. null rod, exploration, etc.) I wanted it to be a card I could run in multiples to have a better chance of drawing because the deck isn't great at searching cards, and also be able to play more than one if it got countered or a card that simply couldn't be countered. Furthermore I wanted all the spells in the deck to generally stay at a cost of 2 or lower (only card that costs three is Krosan grip which I want because it's guaranteed hate, I've cut beast within). That might sound crazy in a deck with 35 lands but a lot of the lands either don't produce mana or don't stay in play and if I can't land a fastbond effect saying play land go for three turns just feels awful to play a spell that costs three. I have had plenty of games where I have had a huge abundance of lands but it's not always the case.
In my eyes looking at crucible through this lens it had several drawbacks. 1) it was above my curve with no built in defense 2) it was a card that was almost guaranteed to get countered and it couldn't be recurred 3) it was a card I didn't want to run in multiples because it took spots away from other cards I really wanted in the build 4) it was a repetitive effect to the loams to some extent and I like loam a lot better with Bazaar 5) I didn't need it for my good matchups and it felt weak in my bad matchups. What I mean here is there was a good possibility I wasn't going to cast it against shops either due to spheres etc and would rather have loams and I never felt like I needed it there, and against dredge I just didn't need it. Against blue it was another card to counter that I had put extra resources into and couldn't protect meanwhile taking turns off of wastelanding them or playing a combo piece in order to get up to the requisite mana.
Yes, I will admit the card definitely has synergy with the deck and if you could land the card it is probably game over for the opponent. I will also admit that I have seen people including myself in prior builds try it and Ramunap excavator. In the end I just didn't like it for too many reasons and wanted to be on the loam plan and stick to my build parameters to make the deck as low and streamlined as possible.
I'm not saying this is correct it's just my opinion and I encourage you to try it if you'd like. Scary things can definitely occur with that card in play.
@poxeveryturn I personally avoid Crucible like the plague because I really don't want it Dack'd. Ramunap at least would eat a StP that would be at Larit Lage otherwise.
@emopizza very good point. Have to certainly agree with you on both accounts.
I actually won a game through a dack emblem once against a mentor opponent because they decked themself. That was a real barn burner of a game. Lol.
@poxeveryturn do you think this deck will be able to use the new damping sphere card in the sb or maindeck to shore up the storm matchup?
Chalice of the Void feels clunky. 1. We have no way to search it, 2. Its not a must counter for almost any deck (assuming the logic of placing it on 0 turn 1), 3. Placing it on 1 always burned me later. I think Id rather have a utility land or another enchantment, overloading on enchantments has been good. Right now for me its 3rd Crop Rotation to ensure we steal game one from Dredge. Post your most updated list, Id love to compare.
@stormanimagus it's possible but I can't say I'm a big fan of the card, it would definitely work against them in theory and would have to be in the sideboard, but the fact it's also an artifact I think is a drawback. I love null rod against them but after seeing you're on a null rod deck they are going to bring in Hurkyl's effects as hard as they can to defend against it. With the new sphere it's just a matter of the same hurkyls hitting even more artifacts on your side of the board and then they go off on their turn anyway and you still can't interact. If anything I think normal spheres out of the side are just better because they hit more decks in the meta and immediately tax the opponent on every spell, though in testing I haven't been a big fan of these either. It could certainly be a card worth trying, just my thoughts.
I've been a fan of trying to find non-artifact interaction against them because I kept getting burned so hard by the artifact hate and a lot of times they will sideboard not expecting enchantment and instant hate from the deck. So keeping in things like bogs to shut off dark petition and yawg will, bringing in chains out of the side and lately I've been running 2 mindbreak trap.
A lot of times they are lulled into a sense of calm by knowing you don't interact and the traps blow them out of the water while everything else slows them down.
@rolko Here is the most recent list I'm running. Giving serious thought to a second Chains in the sideboard. Trap has been really good too in testing
4 null rod
1 mox diamond
1mox emerald
1 mox ruby
1 chalice of the void
4 life from the loam
3 crop rotation
3 ancient grudge
1 fastbond
3 manabond
3 exploration
4 bazaar of bahgdad
4 mana confluence
4 grove of the burnwillows
4 ghost quarter
4 wasteland
3 riftstone portal
3 dark depths
3 thespian's stage
2 The tabernacle at pendrell vale
1 strip mine
1 glacial chasm
2 bojuka bog
1 karakas
4 abrupt decay
1 krosan grip
1 maze of ith
2 nature's claim
2 urborg, tomb of yawgmoth
2 punishing fire
2 mindbreak trap
1 chains of mephistopheles
Chains x2 has been great in the board. Emopizza also has been playing Mindbreak Trap x2 for awhile and it works well.
@rolko I've also been testing Abeyance and Angel's Grace for the really fast combo decks. Angel's Grace has been pretty busted in several test games.
I also think there's some merit to something like rule of law or arcane lab which I've done some testing with in the past. That affect helps a lot of matchups and this deck can easily get away with one spell a turn because it does so much without playing spells.
One of the reasons I keep the mana confluences in over fetches and duals is to have the ability to open the board to any colors I think will be helpful and not get chocked on any color. I know a lot of people disagree with this approach but it has served me well.


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|Subject: Re: [powderworks] Receipt of London's gig
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|Date: 4/05/2017, 7:04 pm
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Still haven't had my tickets for London yet, so you're definitely
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