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TJ Atoms Reps Ol' Dirty Bastard In "Wu-Tang: An American Saga" & Follows His Dreams To Success!
(AllHipHop Features) Ol Dirty Bastard was an artist of the most unique sort. The Brooklyn-born frenetic rapper embodied so many conflicting virtues in a single being and shook up the world multiple times before his death on November 15, 2004. He is also one of the highlights, despite being a supporting character, in "Wu-Tang: An American Saga" Those that bore witness to his character on the groundbreaking Hulu series saw TJ Atoms magically evoke the spirit of ODB on the small screen. Atoms, a relative newcomer, is an actor and rapper reared on the streets of Philly. He has been instantly propelled to acclaim for his portrayal of the Wu-Tang member. Chuck "Jigsaw" Creekmur talked to TJ to give him heavy heapings of praise and also get his story as well.
AllHipHop: For those that don't know, TJ plays Ol Dirty Bastard on "Wu-Tang: An American Saga. I was like, yo in that first screening, this dude nailed it.
TJ Atoms: Real rap, that's a lot to live up to. Old Dirty?
AllHipHop: So tell me how, how did they receive the performance.
TJ Atoms: Everybody loved it. I'm not even going to lie. it's crazy because he's a huge icon, you feel me? ODB is such a legend man. And nobody's ever played him. The people's reaction for me is crazy. My manager knew his ex-manager and that's how I linked up with his mom, so he introduced me to his mom. And that's how it worked out man. Then there's his daughter, she's really cool. His son's really cool too.
AllHipHop: His son is the one I thought would be the natural fit. I don't know if he can act, but he looks like him.
TJ Atoms: He got an independent, 11-minute miniseries on YouTube. I don't know if it's still up because I've been talking about it for a minute. That's how I learned how to get in a little bit of the character through watching his son a lot. His son got a lot of body language of ODB.
AllHipHop: Did you do anything special to prepare for it? I mean, other than watching it. Because for example, like the Joker, like the Joker that's a crazy performance. Maybe on a little lower scale, but you really nailed it.
TJ Atoms: I just felt honestly, I just studied my ass off, man. I had to really learn, I had something to prove, so I went extra hard and the energy on set, people like really telling me I'm doing a good job. Like Sean C and Mathematics helping me with the dialect and rapping. I just feel like I went extra hard and me ODB are like kindred spirits, you feel me? Like the energy's there.
AllHipHop: I had the blessing of actually interviewing him, Right before he passed. I'm going to show it to you. It's very short, but I'm going to show you what I got, it's classic. Soon as he got out. Mariah Carey was there, everybody was there. I asked him about George Bush who was the president at the time. For me, he embodied everything you want to be as an artist. You know. Not only was he dope musically, but he was a personality. There was a lot of drama but he captivated people a lot. Do you have any favorite aspects of him that you hone in on after studying him?
TJ Atoms: I feel like his overall character man. I love his personality. Like how funny he was. I really liked the outgoingness, the "I don't give a f##k about this s##t." You feel me? Like you got to say that s##t sometimes.
AllHipHop: Has there been any talk of you having your own spinoff yet?
TJ Atoms: No, I haven't heard that.
AllHipHop: It's going to happen. There's no question it's gotta happen. How was it working with all the other greats, you know, Erica Alexander. I had the biggest crush on her. I was like "uhhhh please take this picture."
TJ Atoms: She's amazing. I feel like everybody in the cast is like a new legend. Shameik Moore, Ashton Sanders, Siddiq Saunderson, yo, these cats are legends. So all of them, the energy is amazing. I felt like we low key became a little family. It is only season one.
AllHipHop: I could tell he was like a family atmosphere from the party. I know everybody was nice and everything. But yall had that genuine, camaraderie.
TJ Atoms: I feel like everybody loves each other on set. That's why it's a special TV show.
AllHipHop: Did you talk to any of the Wu-Tang members?
TJ Atoms: I talked to Method Man, spoke with RZA of course Mathematics, the DJ, Ghostface Killah. That's pretty much it. That's who I really got the honor to meet so far. Method Man was on set a few times and he encouraged me. So I'm like, yo, the people who was there were really feeling it and that gave me more confidence to just really go all out.
AllHipHop: I never thought anyone could nail it the way you did. Now, do you have a favorite Wu-Tang song?
TJ Atoms: "Can It Be So Simple." I love that beat... that jawn goes hard.
AllHipHop: Well I just got to say, you know, for people like myself that came up in that era that really look at it with a skeptical eye, you know what I'm saying? Cause yo older Gods or whatever you want to call it, you know, they really protect the people like Old Dirty and it's real.
TJ Atoms: You can't play with that. That's why I'm like so blown away by the response of everybody. I don't think I seen no hate. These days people could be so critical. Like people can't wait to make me a meme "he f##king sucks." But they're really showing love and that's amazing.
AllHipHop: Now you're a relatively new actor.
TJ Atoms: I just literally stumbled into acting, you know? I know how it found me, but I don't know how it found me. I thought I was going to be a rapper.
AllHipHop: I know a little bit about your story, but first of all before talk about the rap part, talk about that stumbling moment in Philly.
TJ Atoms: So I was in the park, it was a random day, a random park and some lady came up to me liking my aesthetics and the way I dressed. And she was like, yo, "you're want to be in this, you want to be in this music video?" I'm like, "not really." What's up with the money, I need some cash or I ain't doing nothing for free. But she was like, "you know what? Yeah, we paying you like whatever." So I showed up and It wound up being a real movie set, but it was a music video. We lit this car on fire. We beat it with a bat and it was for this metal band. I fell in love with that whole thing. I'm like, "damn, this s##t was fun. And I got paid for it." So I was asking people "how you found out about this?" I got on backstage.com and found my manager. And its been history ever since.
I ain't gonna lie though. I was setting up my energy for situations like that. I was reading books, I was training my mind to opened up to energy like that. So it just happened she was onto it.
AllHipHop: Well that might be just whatever you call it, the universe, God, whatever. How long have you been acting?
TJ Atoms: Like three years. My first jawn was like in 2016 "Blue Bloods." But I was doing little commercials and modeling gigs before that with my manager. My manager just rocked out with me. That's why I love him so much. Cause like I didn't have no classes. All I had was personality. And he just believed in me, kept putting me on auditions and I was like "I suck man." I ain't going to lie. If it wasn't for him, I probably wouldn't even be acting bro. Cause I, he gave me the opportunity to go on those auditions. I would have been gave it up. That's a true blessing.
AllHipHop: What do you have in the acting wheelhouse moving forward with anything, any new opportunities?
TJ Atoms: I got this independent film with Lena Waithe coming out where I play a high school kid. I'm just working on a lot of music though right now. Working on a vibe, curating some new music for early 2020.
AllHipHop: You know, that's the one thing I love about the artists now...you guys like stay unboxed.
TJ Atoms: You've got to, I feel like in this day and age you gotta have multiple sources of just creativity, art, and income. Like I can't just do this and do that. If I would've just did rap, probably wouldn't be here on AllHipHop.com.
AllHipHop: It's funny because people want to ignore...like this is not a Jab at Tupac where he used to do ballet. That's art.
TJ Atoms: Tupac heavily inspired me to be the rapper. He did it both simultaneously and made it look good. He wasn't some a cornball doing acting. He was still a cool ass dude. Like "Juice?" That's a classic. And you still respect his music. A lot of people can't really pull it off like that where it's like really respectable.
AllHipHop: So let's talk about you and hip hop. Now you have a single called "Stay Down." Can you talk about that song?
TJ Atoms: So "Stay Down." It's basically a song I made like three years ago and it's talking about how you just, they stay down until you come up. It's a saying we always say in the hood, "You gotta stay put, you gotta stay solid. You gotta stay humble. But I made that joint like three years ago. But I ain't even where I want to be at. I ain't up right now. I just, you know me in a position where I can be like, go take that to the world.
AllHipHop: So you dropped it now to more or less inspire.
TJ Atoms: Inspire people to be like "damn yo, he made that s##t. He talked that s##t into existence." So I just wanted to inspire people and it slaps.
AllHipHop: Talk about your style as a rapper.
TJ Atoms: I don't got no style. I feel like atoms is everything. I got so many flows. I got so much s##t to talk about that I can't even describe it. Like I can do reggae, I can go to hip hop. I'm hip hop so I know how to rap. But I can go anywhere with it. I got a pop song that's about to come out soon... It's not even a pop song it's hip hop, but you know it's different.
AllHipHop: I come from the lyrical era, so I make no apologies for my judgment sometimes. And you are from Philly so I was like, "okay, what's he going to bring.?" Talk about Philly a little bit. Cause you know, I'm from Delaware originally and Philly is like my second home. I used to love the rappers from Philly so much.
TJ Atoms: I love Philly man. It's such a dope city. Such a vintage feel about Philly, but it's grimy too when it gets dark. It's not a terrible environment to come up from, cause it teaches you how to be a certain way. It teaches you how to be a hustler. It teaches you how to work any crowd with your confidence. I love it, man.
AllHipHop: I did an interview and they asked me how was it moving from Delaware to Brooklyn? It was nothing. And then I thought about it. Maybe it was Philly,
TJ Atoms: Philly might've adjusted you, bro. I love Delaware too.
AllHipHop: Who influenced you on the rap side?
TJ Atoms: I'm heavily influenced by Nas, Wu-Tang of course. Coming up, I was in a group and we rapped over Wu-Tang beats. We thought we was Wu-Tang. I like Jay Z. I'm inspired by real hip hop. The modern s##t like would be like Tame Impala. Kendrick. I love all music as well, man. I ain't gonna lie. Music is music. If it's good, music is good music.
AllHipHop: So goal-wise you got the rapping and the acting. I was talking to some people and they want to be superstars. We know those lights are bright. Sometimes we've seen the consequences of that too. So how far do you want to take it?
TJ Atoms: As far as my soul is meant to go. I see myself just being as big as I want to be man. Cause I'ma design stuff. I'ma direct stuff. I'm gonna do all types of things. But it's not even like on no superstar s##t. I'm just creative. I gotta outlet. I feel like people put too much behind being a superstar and s##t man. I'm a regular-ass n##ga from the hood. I got an outlet and I can do some cool s##t.
AllHipHop: Style-wise I peeped you a little bit and I'm like, "yo, this dude got a little style with him." You didn't look like this last time I saw you.
TJ Atoms: I be switching it up man. It depends on how I feel. I just like expressing myself through different s##t. If I see some cool stuff, I'm gonna get that and I might not wear it. I didn't wear this ever. I just had it in my closet. I'm like, "man, I got to wear it for AllHipHop." But it matched the hat though.
AllHipHop: On the set. You had a mixture cast wise of rappers and actors and people, that rap and act. How did that work? you had Dave East, Joey Bada$$ and then got classically trained actors.
TJ Atoms: It was perfect cause I think you need that balance. You need some dudes who really know how to rap and you need some dudes really know how to act. We both bring it back together.
It's crazy. Siddiq he killed it. Ashton killed it with the bars. They might drop a little tape. Salute the whole cast salute. Salute to the people behind the camera. Salute to the makeup ladies, the writers, Rodney Barnes, it's a team effort. "Wu-Tang: American Saga" out now. Go binge that.


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The X1D: A Truly Modern Camera
American photographer Stephen Shore was born and raised in New York City and since his first interaction with photography at the age of six, he has feverishly pursued creative image making ever since. His two most recognizable projects, "American Surfaces" and "Uncommon Places," set forward the discovery of beauty in what was once seen as banal and uninteresting, forever changing the definition of photographic art.
Shore's documentation of the new American landscape would redefine photography as art, including a 1971 solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the museum's second only solo showing of its type after Alfred Stieglitz. In the years following, he has held solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle, Art Institute of Chicago, George Eastman House, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. His solo retrospective is currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art until May 28th in New York City.
In the recent era, his latest work includes a documentation of objects encountered during his day-to-day exploration of the world around him, often looking down. Initially as an exercise for posts to his Instagram (@stephen.shore), this grew into his latest body of work, "Details," shot entirely on the Hasselblad X1D. The advanced design of the X1D allowed for Shore to capture imagery at ease without sacrificing the quality or detail. Earlier in 2018, this came to fruition at the opening of "Details" at the 303 Gallery in New York City. Printed to gallery quality at 48x60 inches, Shore found that the image quality exceeded results from 8x10 view cameras. In using the X1D, Shore remarked, "What I found with the X1D was that it struck me as the first, real, 21st century camera; it seemed like a really modern camera."
© Stephen Shore. Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York.
Madison River, Norris, Montana, August 24, 2017
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v3.1.5 Android App to Google Play
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The Smoky Mountain homes for sale we are designated here is technically surrounding the Smoky Mountain National Park. This region is definitely a more rural area. Adventure options such as hiking, camping, fishing and snowboarding and skiing are all over the place. Cataloochee ski area is on the boarder of the park. Fontana lake is on the south end of the park. Here a couple of communities located in the region.
Smoky Mountain Retreat
Rustic yet luxury log homes are available in this development. The is a new club with dining and social events. This development is only 5 minutes from downtown Maggie Valley. Vacation rental program available.
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Your children will go insane about the Marble Ball Track Building Set . Part# 1136. The color of these Marble Run sets is wood finish. The feature attributes include construction blocks, 42 piece set and includes 6 glass marbles. It's dimensions are 13.66"H x 10.08"L x 10.08"W. It weighs approximately 10.31 lbs. The warranty information from the manufacturer is against mfg defects. Selecting a Marble Ball Track Building Set , visit the weblink below.
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2020-07-04T03:11:00Z http://jkmu.kmu.ac.ir/?_action=export&rf=summon&issue=3763 2016-09-01 Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences jkmu 1023-9510 1023-9510 2016 23 5 Epidemiology and Early Complications of Lung and Liver Hydatid Cyst Surgery among Patients Referred to Afzalipour Hospital, Kerman University of Medical Sciences During 2003-2013 Fatemeh Arabnejad Mohammad Reza Lashkarizadeh Mina Mohseni Mohseni Elaheh Lashkarizadeh Mitra Smareh Fekri Mehdi Ahmadinejad Background and Aims: Hydatid cyst disease is one of the most common parasitic zoonotic diseases in Iran and the most common involved sites, are lungs and liver. The best treatment of this disease is surgery. The aim of this study was to evaluate the epidemiology and early complications of surgery of hydatid cyst of lung and liver in patients referred to Afzalipour Hospital afiliated to Kerman University of Medical Sciences during 2003-2013.

Method: In this cross-sectional study, 85 patients with lung or liver hydatid cyst who were referred to Afzalipour hospital during 2003-2013 were evaluated retrospectively. Data related to epidemiologic variables and surgery complications were obtained from patient's documents.

Results: From 85 patients with hydatid cyst of lung and liver, 48.23% were male and 51.76% were female. Among patients, 69.4 % had lung hydatid cyst, 24.7% had liver hydatid cyst and 5.8% had both simultaneously. Cough, dyspnea and fever were dominant symptoms and almost all the surgeries were done through cystectomy with open drainage or cystectomy with capitonage. In whole, 12 cases (14%) had been complicated. There was no significant relation between the method of surgery and complications.

Conclusion: in the present study, the results of epidemiologic variables such as age, sex, prevalence of pulmonary and hepatic involvement and clinical manifestations were similar to the studies that were done in other cities of Iran and also previous studies in Kerman. From 85 surgeries, 12 cases were complicated and there was no significant relation between the method of surgery and complications. Method of surgery, result and complications were similar to other parts of the world and surgery is recommended to prevent hydatid cyst complications such as abscess, opening to the pleural cavity and anaphylactic shock. Hydatid cyst Prevalence Cystectomy Lung Liver Echinococcosis 2016 09 01 543 553 http://jkmu.kmu.ac.ir/article_33529_96551c657ca0efcccef4eefb40c4aeb1.pdf 2016-09-01 Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences jkmu 1023-9510 1023-9510 2016 23 5 Evaluation of the Embryonic Pathological Lesions and Efficacy of Amantadine against H9N2 Influenza Virus Using Chicken Embryo Model Amin Derakhshanfar Hadi Tavakkoli Background & Aims: Various antiviral drugs such as amantadine are used to treat influenza. This drug is categorized in group C and few researches have been conducted about its toxic effects on human fetus. In the current study, the pathologic effects of the drug as well as drug efficacy in reducing influenza virus titer in the developing chicken embryo were assessed.

Method: The experiment was done on 48 fertilized eggs. Amantadine and allantoic fluid containing 105 EID50/ml of H9N2 virus were inoculated into the egg albumen, then, the pathologic effects of the drug on embryos were evaluated using macroscopic and histopathologic examinations. Drug efficacy in reducing influenza virus titer, was also assessed using the hemagglutination test.

Results: The study showed that amantadine has adverse effect on the survival, growth, weight and internal organs during embryonic development. Histopathological examinations of the internal organs showed that pathological effects of the drug occurred in the organs, including lungs, heart, liver, kidney and brain. Furthermore, it was found that amantadine can to reduce the replication of H9N2 virus and increases the viability of the embryo.

Conclusion: As regards to the endemic condition of the H9N2 virus in Iran and the possibility of virus transmission to human, the utilization of amantadine is inevitable, however, the hazard of the drug for human embryo must be taken seriously. Amantadine Influenza embryo Histopathologic H9N2 2016 09 01 554 571 http://jkmu.kmu.ac.ir/article_33628_f580c4f9c727b8e23850d4a21bdf1b91.pdf 2016-09-01 Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences jkmu 1023-9510 1023-9510 2016 23 5 The Association between Preeclampsia and Defined Polymorphisms in Prothrombin and Coagulation Factor V Genes Zohreh Salari Nasrollah Saleh-gohari Nushin Zainali Neda Salmani-Cheharfarsakhi Background & Aims: Preeclampsia is one of the complications of pregnancy and a major cause of maternal mortality. Since, hypercoagulation is one of the risk factors, defined polymorphisms of V and II coagulation factors (G1691A and G20210A) may increase the risk of the disease.

Methods: This investigation was performed on blood samples of 64 preeclamptic women and control group. DNA of white blood cells were extracted using salt satutation method. Then, G1691A and G20210A polymorphisms were investigated using ARMS-PCR technique.

Results: Significant difference was found between the mean age of case (28.734 yrs) and control (24.921 yrs) groups (P=0.000196). But, mean of gestational age did not show significant difference between the case and control groups (34.719 wks & 34.421 wks respectively).
 Among the preeclamptic patients, we found two heterozygotes (3.1%) for each factor II and factor V. No homozygote mutation (0%) was found in this study, while we found one heterozygote subject (1.6%) for factor V in the control group.

Conclusion: in comparison of preeclamptic and control group for single nucleotid polymorphisms (G1691A and G20210A), no significant difference was found. Therefore, these polymorphisms cannot be considered as prediagnostic risk factors for preeclampsy. We suggest more wide genetic and invironmental investigations for finding preeclampsia risk factors. preeclampsia Factor V Leiden Prothrombin 2016 09 01 572 584 http://jkmu.kmu.ac.ir/article_33629_9a8865478d91b98850b30541c37a7c68.pdf 2016-09-01 Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences jkmu 1023-9510 1023-9510 2016 23 5 Prevalence of TEM Beta-Lactamases and Determination of MIC of four Different Classes of Antibiotics in Klebsiella pneumonaia Clinical Isolates Mohsen Mirzaee Monir Balouchi Background & Aims: Organisms producing TEM-β-lactamase are emerging around the world as a source of resistance to β-lactam antibiotics such as three generation cephalosporins. In this study, we used a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to identify genes TEM for Extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBLs) producing clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumonia from hospitals of Boroujerd/ Iran.

Method: A total of 100 K. pneumoniae isolates were collected from different hospitals in Boroujerd. Phenotypic screening and confirmatory tests for ESBL detection were performed according to Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) guidelines. Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of azteronam, amikacin, ciprofloxacin and meropenem were determined by micro broth dilution method. All of the ESBL-producing isolates were examined for the presence of TEMgene by PCR method.

Results: Primary phenotypic tests revealed that 41% (n=31) of K. pneumonia isolates produced ESBLs. In confirmatory tests using clavulanic acid, ESBL production was confirmed in 100% of isolates with a primary positive test. Among the ESBL producing K. pneumoniae, 31 isolates were positive for TEM gene. The study showed excellent susceptibility among the strains to meropenem and amikacin. Low susceptibility to ciprofloxacin and the lowest susceptibility to azteronam were observed.

Conclusion: ESBLs producing isolates can be combined with resistance to other classes of antibiotics such as aminoglycosides. Also, meropenem can be a good treatment options to control infections caused by ESBLs producing organisms. Klebsiella pneumoniae beta-Lactamases TEM Microbial sensitivity tests Drug resistance 2016 09 01 585 595 http://jkmu.kmu.ac.ir/article_33630_20c5ed10eb6d01ee77f95e95ed676c0a.pdf 2016-09-01 Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences jkmu 1023-9510 1023-9510 2016 23 5 Histological Evaluation of the Fetus Lung in NMRI Mice after Exposure to Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: an in vitro Study Marjan Sadeghian Parvin khodarahmi Nasim Hayati Roodbari Kazem Parivar Background and Aim: Iron oxide nanoparticles are used in fields related to nanotechnology including ecology, magnetic storage, imaging and medicinal purposes. Iron nanoparticles produce reactive oxygen species (Ros). These materials are able to cross the placenta. The aim of this study was to investigate toxic effect of iron oxide nanoparticles on fetal lung in mice.

Methods: In this study, at day 14 of pregnancy, fetal lungs were removed and transferred to the Cell culture medium. The lungs were divided into 5 groups, including control, sham and experimental groups of 1, 2 and 3 (received respectively 10, 30 and 50 mg/kg nano iron oxide) and then they were incubated for 24 hours. For histopathological evaluation, lung tissues were stained with Hematoxylin-Eosin and the results were evaluated.

Results: Mean number of bronchioles and the diameter of blood vessels in exprimental groups showed no significant difference compared with control and sham groups. Mean number of blood vessels in experimental groups 1 and 2 showed no significant difference compared to control and sham groups, while in the experimental group 3, mean number of blood vessels showed significant decrease compared to sham and control groups (p<0.05). Histopathological examination of lung after exposure to iron oxide nanoparticles showed signs of cytotoxicity including vacuole degeneration and necrosis.

Conclusion: The finding of this study showed that in in vitro, conditions, iron oxide nanoparticles reduce number of blood vessels and have cytotoxic effects such as vacuole degeneration and necrosis in the lung tissue of the fetus, in a dose- dependent way.These results can be grounds for in vivo studies. Nanoparticles Ferric oxide Fetus Lung Cytotoxicity 2016 09 01 596 606 http://jkmu.kmu.ac.ir/article_33631_0390df39b67c4b33293c6d047fb24d28.pdf 2016-09-01 Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences jkmu 1023-9510 1023-9510 2016 23 5 The Effect of Different Doses of N-acetyl Cysteine on Biochemical and Histopathological Parameters in Kidney of Formalin-treated Mice Shabnam Mohammadi Fatemeh Safari Zahra Seyedi Elaheh Seyed Hosseini Faezeh Karimi Maryam Mohammadi Mehdi Karimi Ali Delshad Hossein Abtahi Fatemeh Mohammadzadeh Background and Aims: Formaldehyde, a colorless aldehyde with pungent odor, has negative effects on systems of the body. Considering, there are a little data about protective substances against kidney damage induced by formaldehyde, the aim of the present study was to examine the effects of different doses of N-acetyl cysteine on biochemical and histopathological parameters in kidney of mice exposed to formaldehyde.

Methods: A total of 48 adult male mice were randomly divided into six groups. Control group did not receive any injection. Formaldehyde group received 10 mg/kg formaldehyde. Third to sixth groups received 10 mg/kg formaldehyde as well as respectivly 50, 100, 200 and 400 mg/kg N-acetyl cysteine, intraperitoneally. After 14 days, slides from kidney were prepared and kidney volume and glomeroules number were obtained by steriologic method. Besides, levels of serum urea and cranitine were measured. Data were analyzed through SPSS software and using ANOVA.

Results: Administration of formaldehyde has caused necrosis, cast and vacuolization in kidney tubules. Collapse and sclerosis were observed in the glomeruli. Effects of N-acetylcysteine were dose-dependent; that is, administration of high doses of N-acetylcysteine caused glomerular and tubular damage. In the group received 50 mg/kg N-acetylcysteine, glomeruli and interstitial tissue were normal. The glomerular volume and urea levels in the experimental group 3 and 6 were significantly different compared to the control group (P = 0.000). The number of glomeruli and the level of creatinine in the groups receiving N-acetylcysteine was significantly different compared to the control group (P = 0.000).

Conclusion: Administration of 50mg/kg N-acetyl cysteine for 14 days caused protective effect on kidney tissue of mice that had received formaldehyde. Formaldehyde Kidney damage Mouse N-acetyl cystein 2016 09 01 607 617 http://jkmu.kmu.ac.ir/article_33632_deb730a98269f5b0feff0314523dcb22.pdf 2016-09-01 Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences jkmu 1023-9510 1023-9510 2016 23 5 Preparation and Characterization of Agkistrodon Halys Venom Entrapped Chitosan Nanoparticles: Novel and Advanced Antigen Delivery and Adjuvant System Naser Mohammadpour Dounighi Mahshid Javadi Hossein Zolfagharian Mohammad Reza Awadi Background & Aims: In recent years, the feasibility of hydrophilic nanoparticles has been broadly investigated for use in drug delivery and therapeutic systems. Due to the problems of traditional adjuvants, in this study Agkistrodon halys (Ah) Snake venom was loaded in chitosan nanoparticles (CS NPs) in order to be used as an advanced adjuvant and antigen delivery system in antidote production industry.

Methods: CS NPs containing Ah venom were prepared using ionic gelation and crosslinker method. In this study, polymer concentration, cross-linker concentration, particles size, particle size distribution, zeta potential, particles shape and surface characteristics, loading efficiency, loading capacity, and particles structure were optimized.

Results: Optimum concentration achieved were chitosan 2mg/ml and cross-linker 1mg/ml and Agkistrodon Halys snake venum 500 mg/ml. Mean particle size, polydispersity index (PDI), and zeta potential of of venom-loaded CS NPs were respectively 129 nm, 0.418 and 41 mV. The loading capacity (LC) and loading efficiency (LE) were 82±1.9 and 88±2.1, respectively. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of nanoparticles showed between chitosan and crosslinker. An initial burst release and second slow release up to 96 hours was observed.

Conclusion: The obtained results suggested that venom-loaded CS NPs could be a suitable alternative to conventional adjuvant for manufacturing antivenom. Chitosan Nanoparticles Agkistrodon halys Venom Ionic gelation 2016 09 01 618 630 http://jkmu.kmu.ac.ir/article_33634_d93e0c69264bf2ef475566daf28359b8.pdf 2016-09-01 Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences jkmu 1023-9510 1023-9510 2016 23 5 Exploring the Factor Structure, Reliability and Validity of the Food Craving Questionnaire-Trait in Iranian adults Mohsen Kachooei Emad Ashrafi Background & Aims: Food Craving refers to an intense desire for eating specific foods. Food Craving Questionnaire-Trait (FCQ-T) is the most commonly used instrument to assess food craving as a multidimensional construct. Its 39 items have an underlying nine-factor structure for both the original English and Spanish versions; but subsequent studies yielded fewer factors. The present study aimed to explore the factor structure of the Persian version of FCQ-T.

Methods: A total of 340 Iranian adults participated in this study. Confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis was used to evaluate construct validity. Further, Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ) and The Restraint Scale (RS) were used for measuring concurrent and discriminant validity.

Results: Result revealed a five-factor structure for the Persian version of FCQ-T, which explained 60% of the variance.The five factors were: 1) lack of control under environmental cues, 2) thoughts or preoccupation with food, 3) hedonic hunger, 4) emotions before or during food craving, and 5) guilt from craving. Results showed satisfactory internal consistency for the Persian version of FCQ-T and its factors (Cronbach's alpha= 0.76 to 0.96), as well as good test-retest reliability (0.76 to 0.86). Strong correlations between FCQ-T and external eating, emotional eating and concern for dieting as well as weak correlation between FCQ-T and restrained eating indicated appropriate concurrent and discriminant validity.

Conclusion: Results indicated that Persian version of Food Craving Questionnaire-Trait has appropriate psychometric properties and could be a useful tool in clinical and research settings. Food cravings Food cravings Questionnaire-trait Factor analysis Reliability Validity 2016 09 01 631 648 http://jkmu.kmu.ac.ir/article_33635_66f4aed26ca9d5a298e1e20bf8a4789e.pdf 2016-09-01 Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences jkmu 1023-9510 1023-9510 2016 23 5 Developmental Changes of the Notochord and its Inductive Effects on the Adjacent Embryonic Germ Layers with Regard to the Role of Glycoconjugates Mohammad Mehdi Hassanzadeh Taheri Notochord is an axial structure derived of embryonic mesoderm and in addition to structural supporting role in inducing nearby germinal layers, it has a basic role in formation of organs such as vertebral column, axial vessels, neural tube and primitive gut. This organ undergoes essential changes during the development process. First, arises from the primitive node and terms notochordal process, while containing a central canal. Then, transforms to notochordal plate and thereafter, changes to a cord called definitive notochord. Finally, it degenerates in centra and remains in intervertebral discs and makes its nucleus pulposus.
 Glycoconjugates are macromolecules containing carbohydrates that interfere in some biological phenomena such as cell proliferation, differentiation, migration and apoptosis during the development of numerous organs. The terminal sugars of carbohydrate chains are mainly responsible for these duties. These sugars are identifiable by using some polypeptides derived from plants and animals sources termed lectins. Lectins are linked exclusively to these sugars and the applied technique is called lectin histochemistry.
 Investigation of the developmental changes of notochord using this technique has shown that different glycoconjugates with divers terminal sugars such as N-acetylgalactoseamine (GalNac), N-acetylclucoseamine (GlcNac), galactose (Gal), fucose (Fuc), mannose (Man) and neuraminic acid (NeuAc) and also Gal-GalNac and GalGlcNac disaccharides are expressed during morphogenesis period in this organ of different animal species.
 Review of extensive studies carried out on development of notochord and its inductive role on nearby tissues has revealed that it is a highly glycosylated tissue and diverse glycoconjugates with different terminal sugars are expressed in it. Some of these molecules are probably involved in morphological changes of notochord while, the others are present in secreted substances from it and play key roles in its inductive effects on the nearby tissues. Notochord Induction glycoconjugates Terminal sugars Embryonic germinal layers 2016 09 01 649 670 http://jkmu.kmu.ac.ir/article_33638_9e858656043260b33e42f11dae8e197b.pdf


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FASB Changes in Nonprofit Reporting Now a Reality
After years of speculation and debate, the largest scale change in not-for-profit financial reporting since 1993 was issued on August 18, 2016 by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016-14, Presentation of Financial Statements for Not-For-Profit Entities is the culmination of a six-year project designed to overhaul what many believe is an overly complex and limited not-for-profit reporting model. The ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017 with early adoption permitted.
The update aims to improve how a nonprofit organization classifies its net assets and provides information in its financial statements and notes about its financial performance, cash flow and liquidity. These changes are considered phase 1 of a 2 phase process. FASB will continue to work on phase 2 of the project, which may include requiring nonprofits to provide an operating measure of their financial performance.
Changes created by the ASU include the following:
- Net Asset Classification: The three classes of net assets: unrestricted, temporarily restricted, and permanently restricted, will be reduced to two classes: net assets with donor restriction and net assets without donor restrictions.
- Board-Designated Net Assets: The amounts and purposes of board designated net assets must be disclosed.
- Expenses: Expenses are required to be disclosed by both their natural classification and their function. This can be presented in the footnotes to the financial statements or in a statement of functional expenses.
- Statement of Cash Flows: If a direct method cash flow statement is presented, it will no longer be mandatory to present the indirect method reconciliation.
- Investment Return: Investment return is required to be presented net of external and internal investment expenses. Disclosure of the expenses netted against investment return will no longer be required.
- Liquidity Information: Additional disclosures providing qualitative and quantitative information on the availability of an organization's financial assets and how the organization will manage its liquid resources available to meet cash needs.
- Underwater Endowments: Underwater endowments will now be reported as a reduction to net assets with donor restrictions with mandatory disclosures of policies, fair value, original gift amounts, and the underwater status.
- Gifts of Long-Lived Assets: Organizations who receive gifts of cash or assets to be used to acquire or construct a long-lived asset will be required to release donor-imposed restrictions when the asset in placed-in-service absence of donor restrictions to the contrary.
This ASU will have a significant impact on nearly all nonprofit organizations and their financial statement users. These organizations should have a thorough understanding of the changes and how they will affect their financial reporting. We encourage organizations to begin preparing now.


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This book gathers all up-to-date information regarding the historical perspectives, clinical manifestations, pathomechanism, diagnostic methodology, and therapeutic strategies for a life-threatening, blistering skin disease called pemphigus vulgaris. The medical community has come a long way in discovering its disease mechanism down to the molecular level and found excellent treatment options for patients suffering from this horrific disease. Compared to the pre-corticosteroid era when the mortality rate was greater than 90% to present day mortality, which is extremely rare, we have indeed made great medical progress toward curing this disease.
The scientific and clinical advancements notwithstanding, patients affected by this disease still face a mortality rate two to three times higher than the general population, indicating that the research of this disease has not yet been completed. While this book is focused on pemphigus vulgaris, it also includes four clinical variants of pemphigus vulgaris: drug-induced pemphigus, paraneoplastic pemphigus, pemphigus vegetans, and IgA pemphigus. Accompanied with extensive reviews of scientific literature are clinical photos illustrating the various clinical presentations of the disease, as well as histological and immunohistological patterns of this disease that would serve as outstanding references for practical usage in emergency rooms, hospitals, and outpatient clinics.
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A new email exploit called ROPEMAKER can result in a malicious actor changing the content of an email already in your in-box says Matthew Gardiner, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Mimecast.
Most people live under the assumption that email is immutable once delivered, like a physical letter. But a new email exploit, dubbed ROPEMAKER by Mimecast's research team, turns that assumption on its head, undermining the security and non-repudiation of email; even for those that use SMIME or PGP for signing.
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The origin of ROPEMAKER lies at the intersection of email and Web technologies, more specifically Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) used with HTML. While the use of these Web technologies has made email more visually attractive and dynamic relative to its purely text-based predecessor, this has also introduced an exploitable attack vector for email.
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Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.
So goes the well-known English nursery rhyme, and the evidence of that last line being true grows ever more convincing. Dozens of wise and not-so-wise thinkers have expressed the idea that the dream world, the conjured world, the mediated world, the world we ourselves bring into existence though the power of mind and wishfulness, that any and all of these have more power and immediacy than any purported underlying bedrock reality, what some philosophers call the phenomenological world. For a few famous examples, consider Plato's Doctrine of Forms, Berkeley's Doctrine of Immaterialism, the Disney universe, Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, the Matrix from the movie of the same name, Bageant's hologram, Oprah's nonsense (recycled from Chopra) about creating your own reality, or even religious salvation in the afterlife. All of them point to something standing behind the appearances, a greater, more profound reality than the one we experience through our narrow apertures of perception. And yet, we're ironically fed the same decrepit, degraded story told repeatedly, nay continuously, and with only slight variation, that the material, consumer life is all that's left of what matters. So after a fashion, we are already aware of the mixed message and know that it's all bullshit, but it's shiny, glassy, super-appealing bullshit, and it comes with leather trim.
I've blogged before about how epistemology itself is now psychotic, which means that at this point in the Information Age — a reflection of the global culture in which we find ourselves — we're figuratively in a hall of mirrors, unable to discern the true image from among the many reflections, approximately half of which are reversed, all of which are facsimiles referring to an original. Because of the mirror effect, no perceptual difference exists between right and wrong, good or bad, smart or dumb, and no one exists who can clear away the fog of doublethink to which we've all grown habituated. Welcome to the dream.
Let me point further to just three newsbits coughed up quite recently that illustrate our disconnect.
In an article in The Chicago Reader, Ben Joravsky sheds further light (or is it that he calls bullshit?) on shenanigans from the Chicago Office of the Mayor (which mayor no longer matters), who awarded to the University of Chicago TIF funds intended to go toward restoring blighted neighborhoods. Joravsky has excellent observations about deals among the well connected to provide funds for a new hotel the U. of C. needs to house its visitors, including the line that an entity with an $8 billion endowment hardly needs to takes money from schoolchildren for capital projects it can certainly fund on its own. No matter, right is wrong in the hall of mirrors. It's especially rich that this same university spawned the upside-down universe of neoconservative economics:
At this point, I'd like to pause to appreciate the irony of a U. of C. governmental handout screwing up the dynamics of the marketplace. That's the university where acolytes of Milton Friedman worship at the shrine of free, unfettered economic markets.
Another recent article in The Los Angeles Times tells about a Tony Robbins seminar where people trying to firewalk ended up with burnt feet. This is somewhat predictable, despite numerous previous instances of those who successfully conjured a different reality. Does a better example exist of people ignoring what their brains are telling them about some stupid risk without gain other than the supposed value of lying to oneself more effectively, like a Stuart Smalley self-affirmation? It's not unlike the scene in The Matrix where Neo first jumps off the building but can't initially get his head around the altered physics of the Matrix universe. In good spin-doctoring fashion, though, Tony Robbins' seminar participants continue to parrot the doubletalk he peddles as motivation:
Participant Sahar Madani told Channel 2 KTVU that they were told walking on the coal could be dangerous but they needed to shift their mental focus. "Get your focus and attention away from that and look into the power within yourself and just focus on walking through the fire," Madani told the station.
Last, lots of ink and pixels are already wasted on the movie theater shooting in Colorado, so I can't add much except to observe what most won't: the guy was pretty obviously reenacting a scene from this movie trailer, which came out around the time he reportedly began buying guns and ammo:
In addition, from what I gather, he was costumed partially in military fatigues and partially as the main villain in the move being premiered that night. The media tell the same story about everyone who lives in such a state of unreality, the hall of mirrors, where fictitious elements mixed up in the mind of the perp manifest in the reality shared by everyone: he was a loner and a madman, an aberrant example not representative of us all. Maybe parts of that narrative are true, but it's really just another layer to the lies we tell ourselves to maintain a comforting distance from the mayhem and crazy-making reality that most certainly exists all around us, even if it only has the power to manifest randomly and at wide intervals.


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Kinross Lists 4Q Profit, Acquires Power Plants For Brazilian Mine
(Kitco News) - Kinross Gold Corp. (TSX: K, NYSE: KGC) reported late Wednesday that the company posted a profit in the fourth quarter and acquired two hydroelectric power plants in Brazil to provide electricity to its Paracatu mine.
Net earnings in the October-November period were pegged at $217.6 million, or 17 cents per share, a turnaround from a net loss of $116.5 million, or 9 cents, in the fourth quarter of 2016. Adjusted earnings came in at $16.3 million, or a penny, also a turnaround from an adjusted loss of $50.9 million, or 4 cents, a year ago.
Fourth-quarter production was 652,710 gold-equivalent ounces, down from 746,291. Against this backdrop, revenue fell to $810.3 million from $902.8 million in the year-ago period.
All-in sustaining costs were $1,019 per gold-equivalent ounce sold, compared with $1,012. The average realized gold price climbed to $1,276 from $1,217.
Meanwhile, for full-year 2017, Kinross listed earnings of $445.4 million, or 36 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $104.0 million, or 8 cents, in 2016. Adjusted net earnings were $178.7 million, or 14 cents, per share, compared adjusted earnings of $93 million, or 8 cents per share, for 2016.
Production for 2017 was 2.67 million gold-equivalent ounces, a dip from 2.79 million in 2016 but at the upper end of the company's guidance range. AISC fell to $954 from $984 in 2016.
"Our portfolio of mines performed well, notably Bald Mountain, which more than doubled its production in 2017 and Tasiast, which reduced cost of sales per ounce by approximately 30% year-over-year," said J. Paul Rollinson, president and chief executive officer.
"We are forecasting another year of solid production of approximately 2.5 million gold-equivalent ounces, and we expect to be at or slightly above this level of production over the next three years. All-in sustaining cost for 2018 is expected to be at approximately the same level as 2017."
For 2018, AISC are forecast to be $975 per gold-equivalent ounce.
The company's Brazilian subsidiary purchased two power plants from a subsidiary of Gerdau SA for $257 million. This would secure a long-term supply of power for the Paracatu mine and lower production cost by approximately $80 per ounce over the life of mine, Kinross said.
Meanwhile, Kinross reported the addition of some 4 million ounces to proven and probable mineral reserves in 2017 to offset depletion of 3.2 million ounces. Additions to estimated reserves are expected to extend mining at Round Mountain by five years, Fort Knox by one year, mill production at Kupol by one year and Paracatu mine life to 2032.
The mineral reserve estimate at the end of 2017 was 25.9 million ounces, compared with 31 million at the end of 2016, as the sale of Cerro Casale and depletion was partially offset by mineral reserve additions.
Kinross also reported progress on a number of projects, saying the Tasiast Phase One expansion was on schedule and on budget, with full commercial production expected by the by the end of June. Plant construction is now 93% complete. Construction on Tasiast Phase Two is scheduled to begin as Phase One nears completion. Phase Two is expected to begin commercial production in the third quarter of 2020.


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Sonnenborgh Museum & Observatory takes both children and adults on a journey of discovery of meteorology, astronomy and the history of the Sonnenborgh bastion. Located in the centre of Utrecht, Sonnenborgh is situated on one of Utrecht's bulwarks, built back in the middle of the 16th Century. Utrecht's observatory has five telescopes and organises evening events for viewing the stars.
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- The oldest telescope was built over 150 years ago.
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Location and telescopes of Sonnenborgh
Sonnenborgh Museum & Observatory was originally located on Smeetoren, one of the largest and oldest fortifications of Utrecht. It was there that Utrecht University's first observatory was established in 1642. By the middle of the 19th century, the building was in such a poor state of repair that physicist Buys Ballot proposed building a new observatory and meteorological office on top of the Sonnenborgh bastion.
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During a tour of Sonnenborgh, our guides will show you the museum and relate the most wonderful stories about the observatory, the old bastion and the meteorological office. Sonnenborgh Museum & Observatory is open from Tuesday to Friday from 11.00 am to 5.00 pm and Sunday from 1.00 pm to 5.00 pm. There are stargazing nights every Friday and Saturday from 20:00 to 21:30 from early October until the end of March.


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When making your reservation for your car rental in NYC, check out our deals and add-ons before finalizing your booking. Recommended features like GPS, additional drivers and enhanced coverage protections can make your car rental road trip in New York easier. We also have child seats suitable for babies, toddlers, and small children so you can travel lighter and with less hassle with your family. Below are some of the types of cars you can choose from when you rent a car in New York with Sixt.
After picking up your Sixt rental car there are some important things you should know. Traffic in the New York City area can be unpredictable and there are often disruptions during rush hours. We recommend adding a GPS device to your rental to find the fastest route to where you need to go. Paying attention to street and road signs is crucial as there are often parking and speed restrictions. Also, note that right turns on red are never allowed, and left turns are not allowed during certain hours on some streets.
Note that many roads in the NY area have tolls. Some accept cash, or you can purchase the use of an EZ Pass transponder for your rental. If you do not select either option you will automatically be enrolled in our pay-per-use program.
Paying with a major credit card is the preferred method of payment and Sixt accepts all major credit cards. Debit cards may be accepted at the discretion of select Sixt rent a car locations along with two forms of government-issued identification, the available funds and for non-luxury vehicles.
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A car rental in New York allows you to explore one of the most iconic destinations in the world. You can see the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, MoMA, the Met and so much more. There is an incredible wealth of cultural offerings year-round plus amazing shopping, dining and entertainment opportunities. A rental car allows you to venture outside of Manhattan and into other vibrant boroughs like Brooklyn and Queens. When you need a bit of a respite from the city, take a drive up the Hudson River to a quaint town, or head out to the natural areas and beaches of Long Island like Montauk.
Take advantage of your rental car to visit some unique art destinations. Drive from New York City to Storm King Art Center, an incredible sculpture park in the lower Hudson Valley. Closer to the city is The Met Cloisters, a museum dedicated to medieval Europe featuring a collection of more than 2,000 art and architectural elements. The beautiful grounds in upper Manhattan on the Hudson River alone are worth a visit. A drive out to Long Island gives you the chance to visit the Parrish Art Museum and its American art exhibits.
The New York area is the center of finance, media, culture and fashion in the US. When you find yourself in the city on business you may need to go from meeting to meeting, on your schedule. That is easy to do with a car rental, with the right planning ahead. As for parking, you will find many options including garages, lots, metered parking on the street, and free street parking. Just be sure to compare prices for parking garages and lots, as they can vary wildly.


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Mark Hunt Profile
Mark was always considered a troubled kid, and one day a brawl broke out in front of the tavern near his Auckland home. Hunt ended the brawl quickly by knocking more then a few people out cold, and that impressed the bouncer Sam Marsters who invited him to his Kick Boxing school for formal training. A few years passed and Mark became known for his raw strength, his knock out power, and his unbelievable chin in kick boxing circles. He began fighting all over the world, and currently holds a professional kick boxing record of 30 Wins (13 (T)KO's, 17 decisions), 13 Losses. He is a four time K-1 champion.
Hunt's name was firmly placed in the fight game, and in 2004 Hunt began fighting for the Pride organization in Japan. Hunt's glaring hole in his fight game was immediately exploited by his first opponent when Hidehiko Yoshida submitted via arm bar in hist first fight. Hunt would fight 3 more times in the remaining part of 2004 and 2005. He won all three fights, including decision wins over Brazilian muay thai fighter Wanderlei Silva and Croatian striker Mirko Crocop. After finishing Yosuke Nishijima by knock out, Hunt entered the Pride Open Weight Gran Prix. He would win in the first round, but lose in the second round to submission by Josh Barnett. Hunt then agreed to face Fedor Emilianenko for the Pride heavyweight championship, but was again defeated by the Kimura submission.
Hunt wouldn't fight again until 2008 when Alistair Overeem defeated him at Dream 5 by key lock. A few months later, Hunt was scheduled to fight Jerome LeBanner, but LeBanner had been replaced by Melvin Manhoef. Even though he had a tremendous weight advantage in the fight, Manhoef knocked him out in 18 seconds into the fight. Hunt then fought for the last time in Japan, and was defeated by Gregard Mousasi by amr bar.
When the UFC purchased Pride, Hunt's contract was part of the deal, and instead of taking a pay out he insisted on taking the remaining fight he was owed. The UFC obliged Hunt, and he faced Sean McCorkle at UFC 119 and again he was submitted by Kimura. Surprisingly, Hunt was offered another fight against Chris Tuchscherer at UFC 127, and Hunt rose to the occasion. In the second round he knocked Tuchscherer out cold, and not only won knock out of the night, but also snapped his 6 fight losing streak.
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Not the best deals this year. Black Friday was better. Is black Friday stealing all the good deals, or does it take competition with the USA to make the good deals happen?
Also Winnipeg transit having a holiday schedule for boxing day is completely inadequate. The need at least a bit more service than what they have going. Sunday hours are shit to begin with.
Well hopefully someone found a good deal cause I'm disappointed
And I hate that online stores start their boxing day deals on the 24th or 25th. That just goes totally against the ideals boxing day was founded upon... shame on you all, online merchants. Bring the true meaning of boxing day back to boxing day.


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New Year is possibly the best holiday in existence. There's something incredibly freeing about the idea of a year ticking over making us feel like we're ready to face anything. And of course, there are all the festivities which come with the occasion! Well, lucky for us Aucklanders, we can celebrate the occasion once more in March thanks to the Chinese Calendar and the annual Lantern Festival.
From March 1st to March 4th, the Domain will see itself adorned in all sorts of beautiful, handmade lanterns, shining bright against the evening sky. The grounds will house nearly 100 street stalls over the four-day festival, selling cool Asian crafts and of course, delicious Asian food. The festival will offer all sorts of neat activities for all ages as well as various forms of entertainment featuring music and dance performances, martial arts demonstrations and traditional Chinese art and crafts.
Possibly the best thing about the entire thing is the event is completely free to attend and absolutely everyone is invited. So come along, treat yourself to some tasty food, enjoy the performances and celebrate the Year of the Dog—it's gonna be awesome!
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PAST champion David Howell admitted simply putting four good rounds together would be enough for him after receiving an invite to play in this week's BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.
Howell revealed he had only missed out on qualifying for the flagship event by two ranking places and was playing at the famous Surrey course thanks to the generosity of Wentworth Golf Club.
Fitted with a new set of Titleist clubs, though, the two-time Ryder Cup winner was feeling suitably refreshed and ready to hit the course following a woeful opening round at the KLM Open that cost Howell a chance to play two more days last week.
Howell said: "The size of this tournament gets the juices flowing. It's bigger and better than just about anything else that we do on our tour, so it would be a great week to play well.
"But for me, it's about having a good week, and if something amazing happens then so be it, that's brilliant, but it's about putting four nice rounds together and seeing what happens.
"If I was to finish in the top 20 this week, I'd be absolutely delighted."
If Howell is to enjoy a successful week in Surrey, he will need to break a woeful trend of having only made the cut once in his previous seven appearances at the premier European Tour event.
The former Broome Manor pro has got good memories of the tournament – such as his win in 2006 – and believes Wentworth's heavy tactical aspect will aid him in his quest to make sure he does not set a new career low in relation to money earned in a European Tour season.
Howell said: "I won here in 2006. It's a long time ago now of course, and I've finished third here before, so I've had some great weeks on this course, but I've missed plenty of cuts in my 25 years.
"But it's a course I can see my way around and it's not a long course particularly, so having distance isn't a huge advantage around here.
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Four guys live the overland dream when they rebuild a 1969 Land Rover Forward Control and head north through Africa, taking the slow road to Rwanda. This is the first part of their amazing journey, related by Mitchell Sohn. The idea of an Africa trip was born between four friends from Knysna sometime after high school. All four worked abroad for several years, saving enough funds before coming together to make the trip happen. Jon-Jon Abelheim worked as an English teacher in Vietnam, Harry Maarsingh as an engineer in Saudi-Arabia, Mitchell Sohn on the superyachts in the USA and Mediterranean,
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Toyota lays on an action-packed few days in south-western Angola with a trio of Land Cruisers Story Angus Boswell Pictures Cornel van Heerden & Angus Boswell It's taken Angola a long time to emerge from the civil war which ended in 2002. Its effects have dragged on for more than two decades. When war broke out in 1974, tourism effectively stopped. That's changing. The old ruling elite are being sidelined, minefields have largely been cleared, and officialdom is letting go its cranky and slow Soviet practices when it comes to getting things done. One great aspect of the new spirit
Few people are aware that the mighty Namib Desert extends into southern Angola. This seldom-visited region lies in the very remote south-western corner of Angola, straddling the border with Namibia. My paper maps and GPS show virtually no roads, and not a single town for many hundreds of kilometres. I intend to take a route through some of the most remote, and least inhabited, terrain on the entire African continent. To increase my maximum petrol capacity, I strap a 20-litre container to the spare wheel. Together with the stock tank and my Titan Transfer Tank, I now carry a touch
Adventurer Peter Van Kets and photo-journalist Jacques Marais decided to ride their mountain bikes from Angola to Swakopmund. But before they could crank off on this incredible adventure, they first had to get to the Cunene River … This is one of those journeys that started quite some time ago. I've always been keen to get on board one of Peter Van Kets' amazing adventures, but when we started chatting about a possible adventure collaboration earlier this year, I never expected that we'd launch the first in a series of 'Beyond Expeditions' less than six months later. Somehow it all came together
Words & Images Andrew Middleton Last month, SA4x4 travelled through Angola for two weeks– and wow, what a trip! The terrain, people and history were enthralling. However, we often fail to realise that you can rustle up a similarly epic adventure just a few clicks from where you live in SA. This one, which (in the planning) involved five days of exploring the Karoo and Garden Route, and which ended off at the Jaguar Simola Hill Climb in Knysna, promised to be an absolute riot.Imagine five pimped out 4x4s and five adventure bikes, including me on a largely outpaced old
Don't get blown up by a land mine, Andrew," was my farewell from a friend as I heaved my laden bags from the boot of his car. What great mates I've got, eh? But, in all honesty, I had no idea what to expect. Angola would be my longest trip to date for SA4x4, and the first 'real African' country I'd be visiting. You'll see what I mean by that later. Tedious red tape snarled things earlier because I first lost, then found, the passports; got my visas at the last-minute, and then a dodgy contact in Namibia attempted to
Words and images by Paul Morris At first it is the red-tipped stakes I see rising about a metre from the white Angolan sand. A double row of them marks a narrow corridor of death snaking through the bush. Then I see the partially uncovered anti-tank mines that lie between the stakes. Twenty-eight years ago, I was a soldier on the frontline of battle. Now the frontline is still here and the mines fight on like a lost regiment, not knowing that the war is long over. It is the mine-clearing NGO, the HALO Trust, which forms today's opposing army;


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AMANDA SONNEBORN ('99) was born into a "very political" Springfield family, and she interned in the General Assembly while still in high school.
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Swiss female wealth holders are not only challenging social norms in the battle for equality, they are overturning conventions in wealth management. James Beech reports
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Blogs > Charity of the Month > Getting disabled people back onto the horse in Norfolk
Getting disabled people back onto the horse in Norfolk
1st July 2018
They give over 100 people of all ages and disabilities the chance to ride horses and carriages every week.
Their big news is the Craft and Country Fair on the 19th August.
The highlights will include a flyover from a Lancaster Bomber and there's also going to be a range of vintage cars and motorbikes on display.
For more information - go to the charity's website.
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This research study entitled "The Effects and Implications of Environmental Disasters on the Family: Communicating, Coping, and Caring Among Families Impacted by the 2013 High River Alberta Floods", explores family members' struggles, difficulties, strengths, coping strategies, and needs resulting from the 2013 floods in the community of High River, Alberta. This study examines communication, coping, and caring in family life post-disaster in order to determine how family life is altered by the disaster context, how experiencing a disaster influences family interactions and relations both inside and outside of the family, and how families manage and function during and after a disaster. This study specifically examines the following:
- How do disasters impact couple/spousal relationships in the family. Specific attention is given to communication, decision-making, coping, marital support, and marital conflict and dispute resolution among couples/spouses post-disaster.
- How disasters impact parent-child relationships in the family. Specific attention is given to parental support of children, parental awareness of children's responses to disasters, parental communication with children, differences in parent-child relationships based on parental gender, the ways that mothers and fathers perceive their roles as parents, and parent-child conflict and dispute resolution post-disaster.
- How disasters impact the division of paid and unpaid labour in the family. Specific attention is given to decisions about who performs the paid and unpaid work in the family, ways of dealing with job loss, decisions about finding new employment, work performed inside and outside the home based on gender roles, and changing mothering and fathering roles in post-disaster situations.
- How disasters impact the family-school life, family-school dynamic, and family-school relationship? Specific attention is given to the post-disaster role and involvement of parents in their school-aged children's educational responsibilities at home, their children's academic performance, achievement, and success, and their involvement in their children's schools and activities.
- How disasters create/heighten/influence family issues and social problems. Specific attention is given to family trauma, family distress, and family difficulties post-floods including substance abuse, infidelity, domestic abuse, child abuse, and divorce.
- How immigrant families are impacted by disasters. Specific attention is given to the ways in which the floods have affected immigrant family members, their communications and interactions within their family as well as within the wider community, and their adaptation and integration within the community post-disaster.
- What the primary needs of the family are post-disaster, and how the family can best be supported and assisted post-disaster.
Overall, 151 participants were part of this study which utilized a qualitative research methodology. A total of 105 face-to-face interviews were conducted with parents who live in High River and who experienced the 2013 flood in order to understand family experiences and needs. In addition, a total of 8 focus group interviewers with 46 individuals were conducted with key community representatives from local non-profit organizations in High River, Alberta in order to understand the overall community experience and needs.


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12th August – salads & sweets & Italian delights & local flowers
The market this week has all the staples with fruit and veg from Sandy Lane, local meat and eggs from Willowbrook Farm, bread from Natural Bread Company, cheese from Crudges - this week including fresh goat cheese from Windrush Valley Goat Farm!!!! - salami from the Cotswold Curer, and we have Sotwell Manor Fruit Farm returning to the market this week with raspberries and redcurrants. Our delicious takeaways include salads, Italian, and sugar free sweet treats, and there's an Indian street food theme in the café.
Unfortunately, North Aston Dairy will not be attending the market this week - they do not have enough milk. They promise to be back next week!
Our stalls this week
Sandy Lane Farm - seasonal, fresh, local organic fruit & veg, lamb & pork
Willowbrook Organic Farm - organic chicken & lamb, eggs, free range beef & local honey
Sotwell Manor Fruit Farm - sumptuous soft fruits
Crudges Cheese - award-winning sustainable local cheeses made using goat, sheep & cows' milk
The Cotswold Curer - award winning British Free Range Charcuterie
Country Bunches - flowers grown in Toot Baldon
Jericho Coffee Traders - premium coffee roasted in Jericho & served from a vivid turquoise tuk-tuk
Tiddly Pommes - superb pressed apple juice from local fruit
SESI Food & Detergent Filling Station - refilling empty containers for fairtrade, organic dried foods; household detergents & hair-care products
Natural Bread Company - handcrafted speciality breads
Salad Daze - healthy salads to take away
Blissful Italian - freshly made Italian foods & sweet treats
Naturally Sweet - Refined sugar free treats
Jason's Book Box - second hand books
Oxford Poetry Library - Books, magazines, pamphlets written and/or produced by local writers
Market Café: Café Asia
Café Asia will be serving:
- Full breakfast
- Bunny Chow
- Somosa Chat
- Home made chicken biryani + vegetable biryani
- Roti Roll (Home made brown roti stuffed with Aubergine baji)
- Variety of somosas (Meat, vegetable, fresh coconut)
- Vegetable square
- Beetroot cake with chocolate cream
- Chocolate bar (made from Chocolate, walnut and coconut)
They will also sell tea and other drinks.
Market News
A message from Rina and the team as SESI Refill:
Dear supporters at SESI Refill. Sat 12th Aug is our last summer Pop Up Shop. We're back on Sat 9th September. Thank you!


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