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Nepal Medical Association (NMA) is a non-profit national professional organization of Medical and Dental Doctors in Nepal. Established on 20th Falgun, 2007 BS (4th March, 1951) with a few as 20 members, it has evolved into a large organization with more than ten thousand members under it's umbrella. The Founder President of the NMA was Dr. Siddhi Mani A. Dixit. It has the honour of being the first professional organization of the nation. NMA has been playing an important role in the development of medical science and is acting as a linkage between the government and the medical professionals. The current 28th NMA Executive was elected in 2020 February 28 with Dr. LochanKarki and Dr. BadriRijal as President and General Secretary respectively. It has its central office in Kathmandu and 16 branches around the country.
NMA has been regularly publishing a medical journal on monthly basis and organizing scientific sessions to make the medical professionals fully up-to-date with the advances in medical science. It has been striving with great zeal for the common interests of the medical profession and has thus contributed significantly towards the overall improvement of the health situation in the country. The lifelong dedication, commitment and devotion of many of our senior colleagues and friends has enabled this organization to come to this present status. It is mutually affiliated with Indian Medical Association and is a founder member of the South Asian Medical Association (SAMA). NMA is member of World Medical Association (WMA) and Confederation of Medical Associations in Asia and Oceania (CMAAO).
NMA has been publishing PubMed indexed scientific publication, Journal of Nepal Medical Association since 1963. The current JNMA Chief Editor is Dr. Angel Magar since 2013. The Chief Editor is nominated executive member to the Nepal Medical Association. Dr Angel Magar has been working in the field of journology since 2004. He helped index three journals from Nepal - Kathmandu University Medical Journal in 2004, Journal of Nepal Medical Association in 2005 and Journal of Nepal Health Research Council in 2010. He has helped establish many journals in Nepal and also first medical journal in Bhutan - Bhutan Health Journal in 2015.


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I promised big news in my last blog post, so here goes: my middle grade novel, Through the Shimmer of Time, will be released in exactly one month!
Present Day: Jim has a talent for getting into trouble. Grounded from his model rockets, he goes exploring where he shouldn't and gets zapped back in time. Can he find the way back home again or is he marooned in the past?
Together, Jim and Hannah struggle to unmask a thief and solve a murder while they search for the key to unlock time. It will take courage and wits, plus the rocket motors in Jim's pocket, just to stay alive.
I'm currently formatting the manuscript for a Kindle version, working with a cover designer (the awesome Melinda VanLone), and finding out all about ISBNs for the print edition. Plus calculating costs, contacting bloggers, breaking pots (yes, you read that right!), and more you probably don't want to know about.
But that's not all! I'll be hosting an online book release party on August 1st, complete with book give-aways, trivia contests, and who knows what else, so mark your calendars! For those who prefer to hold the actual book while they read, Through the Shimmer of Time will be available in print later in August, with a real-life book release party locally.
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You do have a Kindle or something over there, don't you?
Well this was a big announcement! Congratulations Jennifer! Way to go!
Yes, I am jumping up and down with you. How exciting is this?
Thanks, Karen! I'm going back and forth between jumping up and down and staring at a HUGE list of things still to do . . . most of which need research on how to do them. But hey, we get by with a little help from our (WANA) friends!
Thanks, Coleen! And I spent some time catching up on your blog – love the Snail post, and your photo format is inspiring some of my own to come!
Soooooooo exciting. Sounds like a wonderful time travel tale. Looking forward to reading it!


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Q: Code editor with multiple categories of opened tabbed files? Hi can anyone recommend a good, and ideally free editor that will allow me to group opened files based on a module or component I'm working on?
I'm learning joomla so I need one with php,JavaScript,HTML.
I'm currently using dreamweaver. It's great but I hate having to traverse through the file tabs which are usually hidden because I have so many files opened at once. I would ideally want something that will allow me to group these opened files almost like a folder structure where I can create a category for grouping the opened files together so as keep things that are related to one another close by.
Failing this please recommend what is the best approach when dealing with lots and lots of opened files.
I like how browser works because it allows me to open multiple instances and let me group the sites I want via tabs to each browser instance. Dreamweaver won't allow more than one instance. Is there anything out there that can do this?

A: UltraEdit gives tab a different color depending on the filetype - CSS are green, Javascript are orange, etc. I find this very useful. It also allows the tabs to spill over to several rows, instead of forcing them to one line like Dreamweaver.
If you do have to use Dreamweaver, you can use the file directory panel to traverse the folders on your hard disk. Double-click on a file in a subdirectory to open it, or switch to its tab if it is already open. The file directory panel is on the top-right by default, I think.

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The 1996 Atlanta Braves baseball team secured a regular season record of 96-66 and reached the World Series, where it lost to the New York Yankees in six games, failing to defend its championship in 1995. Despite taking a 2-0 lead the Braves unexpectedly lost the next 4 games. This World Series appearance was their fourth appearance in the last 5 years as a franchise. Atlanta won its seventh division title (second in the National League East, the other five in the NL West) and its fifth in six years. In the previous round, Atlanta completed a miraculous comeback. After trailing in the NLCS to St. Louis three games to one, Atlanta outscored St. Louis 32-1 in games five through seven to complete the comeback. The collapse was remembered as one of the largest in North American sports history.
January 3, 1996: Jerome Walton was signed as a Free Agent by the Braves.
January 9, 1996: Mike Kelly was traded by the Braves to the Cincinnati Reds for a player to be named later and Chad Fox. The Reds sent Ray King (June 11, 1996) to the Braves to complete the trade.
March 31, 1996: Mike Bielecki was signed as a Free Agent with the Braves.
June 4, 1996: Marcus Giles was drafted by the Braves in the 53rd round of the 1996 amateur draft. Player signed May 26, 1997.
June 24, 1996: Mark Whiten signed as a Free Agent with the Braves.
August 13, 1996: Terry Pendleton was traded by the Florida Marlins to the Braves for Roosevelt Brown.
August 14, 1996: Mark Whiten was traded by the Braves to the Seattle Mariners for Roger Blanco (minors).
August 17, 1996: Luis Polonia was signed as a Free Agent with the Braves.
August 30, 1996: Jason Schmidt was sent by the Braves to the Pittsburgh Pirates to complete an earlier deal made on August 28, 1996. The Braves sent a player to be named later, Ron Wright, and Corey Pointer (minors) to the Pirates for Denny Neagle. The Braves sent Jason Schmidt (August 30, 1996) to the Pirates to complete the trade.
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Q: Android In-App Purchase User Identification I am adding in-app purchase to my app. What details do I have to send to billing service in order to do the purchase process. I mean do we need to send any user mail id (market id) or something? Can anyone help me?

A: No you don't have to anything In-App Billing process automatically connects the app. All you need to send to is productId of the item to be purchased and that product should already exist on your app page. More info can be found on http://developer.android.com/guide/market/billing/billing_admin.html

A: Users are identified by the Google account they used to sign in to the Android Market app. Managed products they buy are tied to this account, so that they can be restored even if the user resets their phone (or uses the same account on another device). It is send automatically by the Android Market when you call the billing APIs. You don't have to do anything special, it just works (when it's not broken).

A: It only sends product id but BillingService sends some information internally to the Android Market which includes the package name of your app. This package name is enough to identify your app. See the source code of BillingService at the following link (particularly line no 164);
http://code.google.com/p/marketbilling/source/browse/src/com/example/dungeons/BillingService.java


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What a year for books! Team Novelicious have battled it out, and we're pleased to reveal our award winners for 2013.
The whole team went a bit nuts over this one when it was released into the world. With a gorgeous composition, great illustration and that beautiful silver embossed title, Billy and Me looked like a classic even before it was published. This is the perfect cover for the lovely story within.
Not only have the team at Sphere given us many wonderful, amazingly packaged books, plus super author content (from the likes of Fiona Walker, Ali McNamara and Carole Matthews), but they've also have really upped their game on social media too, with the introduction of The Little Book Cafe. It's been an absolute pleasure to work with the Sphere publishing team and authors this year and we can't wait to see what 2014 holds. Congrats, guys!
Miranda Dickinson has the most amazing connection with her readers on Twitter. She always responds, runs brilliant giveaways and even lets her followers choose character names! Miranda is a must-follow and we've thoroughly enjoyed tweeting with her this year.
This was a super tough category! We reckon Kev's enthusiasm for books is unmatched. He's a dedicated blogger, writes fantastic reviews (he even casts the characters in the books) and is an amazing supporter of authors both new and established. Well done, Kev!
This debut was broken down into a series, released over November and December. We were hugely impressed by Lisa's comedic storytelling talents and reckon she's a 'One to Watch' in 2014.
Romantic, mysterious and with descriptions so evocative that one of our team booked a holiday to Cornwall after reading it, A Cornish Affair was our top choice for Alternative Thursday Book of The Year.
We were utterly blown away by this novel. Vivid, heartbreaking and beautiful in equal measure. We can't recommend this highly enough. Congratulations to Emylia Hall.
Rowan is a very popular author in the women's fiction community and always has an encouraging word to say to new writers as well as having a great dynamic with her online readers. A few of the Novelicious team have met Rowan at various events this year, and she is so lovely and down to earth (we may have a bit of a crush).
This year also saw Rowan release her book Woman Walks Into A Bar and donate 100% of her royalties to the Refuge charity. We heart Rowan.
Huge congratulations to all of the nominees and winners. We've had a ball hanging out with you this year and cannot wait to see what next year brings.
This library in The Netherlands was designed to look like a bookstore. It's gorgeous.
We had lots of fun with the OED birthday word generator, which tells you what words were invented the year you were born.
Earlier this year, we brought you five of the best bookish necklaces for under £25. Since this is the party season, we thought it was time for some luxurious literary jewellery. These sparkly delights all cost over fifty quid (some quite a bit more), but they would make lovely family heirlooms to be passed down through generations of book-lovers.
1. This delightful storybook necklace is handcrafted from silver and has the words 'Once Upon A Time' engraved on the front and 'Happily Ever After' on the back. If you prefer, you can personalise the book with your own choice of lettering. The book measures 1.5cm by 1.2cm and you can choose from a variety of chain lengths. £58 from Not On The High Street.
2. This teapot necklace is inspired by Alice in Wonderland and is handmade by British designer, Emily Sidwell. It's artfully dented and used-looking, and the lid opens to reveal a tiny silver mouse hiding inside. The necklace is first sculpted in wax and then cast in bronze and silver and it hangs on an 81cm bronze chain. £195 from By Emily.
Earlier this week we interviewed the very funny Mhairi McFarlane. Today, we're giving away a copy of her latest novel Here's Looking At You.
Anna Walsh's glamorous career, beloved husband, Aiden, and exciting life in the bustling city of New York seem more than a world away as she lies on her mother's sofa in Dublin. Before she can return to reclaim her life as it was before, she needs time to recuperate. Her body and emotional wellbeing have taken an intense battering that Anna doubts she will ever come back from. One thing is sure; she has to find Aiden no matter what it takes. The fact that he has seemingly vanished may complicate matters, but it won't stop Anna from trying anything and everything to bring him back to her.
The Walsh family are, first of all, large! Anna has five very individual sisters, all with hilarious quirks. They are also grippingly entertaining. She has an overpowering mother too, who has a funny habit of misunderstanding clichés, but tries to use them regularly in emails anyway, and a rather hen-pecked father. The novel's premise, as is common in Keyes' writing, is serious but she manages to take a challenging topic and explore it with both compassion and humour. There were times throughout the story when I gripped my chest with empathy for Anna's heartbreaking bewilderment and intense pain, but just pages later I would find myself chortling at some wild escapade her sister Helen, an amateur detective, had managed to get herself tangled up in.
A number of distinctly unusual characters are introduced as the plot progresses, including a flamboyantly gay neighbour, who loves to sing loudly and seems to be drawn to men who will treat him terribly (even stealing his pan sets), and self-proclaimed psychic who believes she can channel the voices of those long gone.
People may be familiar with the story of Solomon Northup, as a film has been made from the man's memoir. The story itself, however, deserves to be read to get the man's own perspective on those twelve years and what they did to him.
Solomon Northup, a free man of colour, was drugged and sold into slavery only to finally be freed after twelve long years seeing and experiencing the world through the eyes of a slave. However, knowing he does eventually find freedom does nothing to lessen the impact of this incredible story.
Northup so eloquently and honestly describes his ordeal – both the good and bad parts – that it makes for one of the most shocking and compelling reads ever written. He has caring owners and vicious ones and comes close to death on many occasions. One of the most heartbreaking parts of his story though is what he witnesses around him. A female slave never fully recovers from having her children taken from her. Another's beauty proves to be her curse.
Though the story is no doubt horrific, Northup manages to find some moments of joy and beauty. His rare talent as a musician means he gets access to the world of his owners most slaves would never see. He is also an incredibly talented craftsman and occasionally manages to find joy and pride in his work. The people he meets along the way both break and mend his heart and he finds strength in their courage and the bond he shares with them all.
1. Get some words down – even if you suspect what you've written is terrible, you've got something on the page you can work with.
2. Read your sentences out loud; you can hear if the weight and the rhythm are working.
3. Be hungry for the feedback of new readers – it's such a relief to have someone playing in a manuscript with you when you've spent months in there battling on your own.
4. Try to leave a piece of writing at a point where you know what's going to happen the next time you sit down with it.
5. If you get truly stuck, give it 15 minutes of staring at your screen – or your page – and then take yourself out for a walk. If you're moving and in a different landscape, a solution quite often presents itself. Rebecca Solnit has this nice line about how we walk at the speed of thought – about four miles an hour – and I've always thought that made sense.
Hélène Hivert's childhood in shrouded in mystery and secrets and, in a determined effort to discover the truth of her family, she puts and advert in a newspaper detailing her quest and includes a photo. The photo is an old black and white of her mother and two men at a tennis tournament taken at Interlaken in 1971, and comes to the attention of Stéphane, a Swiss biologist currently working in Ashford, Kent. He has a clue to Hélène's past, one of the men is his father and the other is his father's best-friend. By responding to Hélène's request for information, Stéphane instigates a flurry of written correspondence, via letter, email and text between the two of them. Cataloguing their independent discoveries as they delve into their parents' history and sharing their quest to uncover the truths kept secret from them for their entire lives, they reveal painful memories and develop a bond that will last a lifetime.
The style of this novel is – in a word – beautiful. It works as a dual narrative as we follow the correspondence between Hélène and Stéphane. It's both the journey of discovery into their parents' past and the truth of their childhood, but also the progression of their friendship leading irreversibly to companionship. This style of narrative results in the reader getting caught up immediately in the lives of the character and creates a book that is unputdownable. Additionally, in amongst the pages of letters and emails, we are given the odd excerpt describing another photo or document from the time period; this enables you to form an even more detailed picture of the characters.
Liz Trenow's latest novel, The Forgotten Seamstress, came out earlier this month as an ebook and will be out in paperback on 16th January. Here are a few questions Liz recently answered for our Novelicious readers.
I write in the mornings when my mind is freshest – usually starting around 8.30ish and continuing till my stomach rumbles for lunch. I start by reviewing and editing the section I wrote yesterday, to get me back into the 'zone' and then I usually try to write between 1,000 – 1,500 words each day. I always write in my study, a small room at the front of the house, where there are not too many distractions. My imagination seems to close down after lunch so then I do research, admin, replying to emails, blogging and, when I've got to that stage, proofreading.
Because my novels are based on historical events, I read about the lives of people who were there at the time. I also look to friends, family and myself for inspiration, but no fictional character is precisely a real-life character; they are usually an amalgam of many. I usually trawl magazines, newspapers, the internet and old photo albums looking for people who physically look and/or dress like my characters, and pin these images up in my study, so that I can 'see' them as I write.
If you like to donate to worthy causes during the holidays or ask people to donate in your name in place of a gift, here are 10 literary options you might like to consider.
1. Book Aid International – Book Aid International provides books to libraries, hospitals, refugee camps and schools to support literacy, education and publishing in over 40 countries all over the world. As little as £6 could stock a community library with 36 books for children. You can also send reverse book tokens.
2. Give A Book – An easy premise. Simply donate a book and this charity will make sure it finds a needy recipient. Some donations go to cancer patients and children in deprived areas of England, while others go to book clubs for the elderly, which aim to promote reading while combating loneliness. Cost of one book? Just £5.
3. The Book Bus – One in six adults around the world have come through childhood unable to read and write, a situation mainly due to lack of books and opportunity to read. This charity's little book buses – each one a piece of stretched magic loaded with books, materials and a crew of enthusiastic volunteers – delivers books to needy areas in Zambia, Malawi, India and Ecuador. £10 could buy and ship a set of five children's books.
If you're looking to make some writerly New Year resolutions, entering competitions is a great way to boost your confidence while receiving constructive feedback from your peers. The Pinterest Prompt is an excellent place to start too.
If you're new here, this is how it works. We pick an image we like from Pinterest on the third Wednesday of every month at 2:30pm. You guys then use the image as inspiration for 200 - 400 words of fiction, which you post in the comments below. Each month, we'll pick our favourite and the author will win a £20 Amazon gift card as well as a spot in our monthly newsletter, where we publish the winning piece of fiction.
Last month you wooed us with tales of New York at Christmas. Seriously, you make it harder and harder to pick a winner, you talented lot. Vicky McMillan really caught our eye (and the eye of her hero, no doubt) with the possibility of a serendipitous, phone-throwing encounter leading to romance. Congratulations, Vicky. You'll receive your gift card via email and your fiction will be featured in our December newsletter (hitting an inbox near you tomorrow).
Without further ado, here is December's Pinterest Prompt.
It is early December and Lydia, a career-hungry junior barrister by day and serial romantic by night, was urgently looking for some black socks to wear. Not finding any in her own drawer, she turns to her boyfriend's and gets the shock of her life when she sees an engagement ring staring back at her.
A few weeks later Lydia and said boyfriend, Stephen, are travelling up to the Lake District to stay at her friend's boutique hotel for Christmas, which is owned by Katy and Jim. They're joined by Alex, David and Joanna who has her new man in tow. Then Lydia's ex walks over the hotel's threshold. Now that was completely unexpected. Thanks to a cranky boiler, the group are also joined by a handyman called Will.
This cracking cast of characters proceed to celebrate Christmas with lots of food and booze, a few tensions, some home truths and romance. Plus drama. Lots of drama. Especially where an aga and a pregnant lady are concerned.
I'm not going to give away the plot. Suffice it to say, Lydia's discovery of the ring earlier in the month consumes her thoughts. She has a packed and rather emotional few days. Luckily, the food is always plentiful to soak up the booze and the emotions. Mince pies, gingerbread croissants and a yule log are just some of the delights mentioned.


In the connected age we now live and work in it's not about creating digital work in isolation, it's about using digital to enhance every part of your brand and business.
That's why we're digital through and through, but you wont find us using technology for the sake of it. It has to create a relevant human connection. Digital and technology changes at a rapid pace, human nature does not.
It's still about identifying that human truth and using digital to get to people in a smarter, faster and often cost effective manner.
Everything is now digital, from your phone to your TV set. Everything has an interface, so what does that mean for your brand and how you market to your consumers? We believe that brands are defined by the interactions you have with them. So every single one should be great. After all, that's what brands are, the sum of all those experiences.
Strategic thinking in a world-gone digital has to be inherently flexible. Evolution is a daily reality, which is why establishing a strong vision and direction for your brand is more important than ever.
We work with all our clients to establish why their brands exist and what they believe, we then develop a digital strategy that is true to that. Starting with a strong consumer insight means understanding how people really want to interact with your brand across the full spectrum of media channels.
A great digital strategy should enhance all parts of your business rather than stand-alone in a silo.
Great digital creative is a seamless blend of creativity, humanity and technology. One cannot exist without the other. Our digital creatives focus on the actions of real people always remembering that at the other end of a screen, mobile or tablet is a person. Digital creative thinking is no longer limited to the online world, teaching old technology new tricks can result in some amazingly disruptive results.
UI, UX, Interface Design, Web Design, or App Design whatever you call it the principals of great design do not change. People ignore design that ignores people. When creating designed experiences in digital we focus on end user and the experience we want them to have, the story we are trying to tell and the action we want them to take. This thinking has resulted in many highly awarded Websites, Applications and Social design work.
Creating and curating Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Vine, Allo, Linked In, Pinterest, and Tumblr audiences can sound like a daunting task. And it is, that's why identifying where your customers are and where your brands services is likely to be most relevant is the first step in developing a successful social strategy. We identify which social networks are most relevant and why as part of a wider digital strategy, developing tangible business results that can be gained by developing social customer retention management.


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In what is undoubtedly the surprise of the young MLB offseason, Tigers first baseman Prince Fielder and his $214 million contract have been shipped to Texas.
With extensions needed for back-to-back AL MVP Miguel Cabrera and 2013 AL Cy Young winner Max Scherzer in the next two years, the Tigers are given some financial flexibility with the deal.
They're also given a pretty good player in return.
Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler, still just 31 and a three-time All-Star, will be welcomed with open arms in Detroit, as he fills a massive hole in the middle infield.
Kinsler's contract is sizable, as he is owed $57 million over the next four years with a team option for a fifth season, but it's nowhere close to what Fielder will make – $168 million over the next seven years.
This could be considered good news for the Twins, as Fielder hit 55 combined home runs in his first two years with Detroit, though Kinsler brings a big bat to the division as well.
Also, it could not even be on the Twins' radar, considering they finished 27 games back of the AL Central champs last year. So there's that.


You've heard of Google Places right?
If not, and you are a local business, then you need to contact us ASAP!
Seriously though, Google Places pages are the primary search results showing up in local searches on Google, both on regular desktop and laptop searches, and also in mobile searches.
So let me just assume here that yes, you've heard of Google Places and that if you are a local business owner, you already have your Google Places page built and launched (again, if not, stop what you are doing and contact me).
Now that you have your Google Places page built, verified, and live on Google, it's now time to find out exactly what you need to do to get your Places page to show up at the very top of the search results for your most profitable keyword search phrases.
This means – if I own a tire shop in Athens, Georgia, then what are the main areas for me to focus on to ensure that my tire shop appears at the top of Google search results.
This is all about what's called Local SEO. You've heard of the long standing practice of SEO for standard Google search results. But when it comes to local businesses, Google Places rules the day and there are things to focus on that will directly impact your rankings in the search results.
The number one most relevant signal that will drive top rankings in Google search results for your Google Places page is ensuring that you have a physical address in the city from which the search is being conducted.
Let me put it to you this way – if you own a business in Roswell, Georgia (a suburb of Altanta), then ensure that your website and your Google Places page references your actual city location (Roswell, Georgia) and not something like Atlanta. I realize that being so close to a huge city like Atlanta could be tempting, but having the accurate physical address (street, city, state, zip code) will dramatically improve the search results for your Google Places page.
As it is with Google Places pages, any business can have a "Places Page" for their business name and / or location. After all, people add business listings all the time in an effort to leave a review, make a comment, or in simple passing or searching.
But the big difference here is that with Google Places listings, a business owner can physically verify their Google Places listing.
This is done by simply creating or updating the Google Places page for your business, and the following through the process until your get to the point where you see that Google now needs you to verify your local business. This is typically handled by Google mailing your a post card with verification code on it. Once you get the card, simply head back into your Google Places listing and enter that number.
Once you've entered the correct number and your Google Places page is now verified, you just completed one of the biggest steps you can take in optimizing your Google Places listing.
You could have done everything perfectly while setting up your Google Places page, but if you screwed this one thing up, then you'll continually struggle with getting top search rankings.
You must, must, must ensure that you select the proper category for your business. In other words, ensure proper category association!
When you are filling out your Google Places page, you'll come to a section that is all about selecting the proper categories for your business. These are mostly handled through the pre formatted category titles that Google provides. However, these are not always 100% accurate.
So what I do is define the top level category of my business as a category, but also the drilled down category for my business as well.
Let's say I'm a veterinarian. But in my practice, I specialize in treating and caring for cats. I can, of course, see other animals, but cats are really my primary area of focus and practice.
So in my Google Places page under the category section, I'm going to put "Veterinarian" as a one of my categories. But along with the top level category name as "Veterinary", there are certainly other categories I can use to now tighten up my keyword categories.
In the deeper category levels, I need to ensure that "cat veterinarian" and "cat doctor" are annotated in the additional category levels.
These are three factors that I see having a tremendous impact on your rankings in Google's local search results (aka, Google Places).
What are some other strategies you've seen work in achieving top search results for your Google Places page?


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2018 NHL Draft Final Consensus Rankings
By Ryan Pike June 19th, 2018
Final 2018 Edition
The 2017-18 hockey season is complete in every corner of the hockey world. The playoffs are all over. More importantly, the major bodies that produce rankings for the 2018 National Hockey League Draft have completed their final tallies for the year. As a result, it's time for the final 2018 NHL Draft Consensus Final Rankings, averaging out the variation in the major rankings to produce a single semi-definitive ordering of prospects. Don't forget to check out our complete guide to the 2018 NHL Draft for a complete picture of the 2018 draft class.
Consensus first overall 2018 NHL Draft prospect Rasmus Dahlin. (Photo by Kevin Hoffman/Getty Images)
Here's the projected consensus first round (the top 31 ranked players) according to the major rankers.
Included Rankings
We've included six major rankings.
International Scouting Service's June ranking
Bob McKenzie's (of TSN) final ranking
Craig Button's (of TSN) final ranking
HockeyProspect's final ranking
Future Considerations' final ranking
The Hockey News' 2018 Draft Preview magazine rankings
Sportsnet didn't produce a final June ranking and are excluded.
Notes on the Top 31
The positional breakdown of the Top 31 is:
0 goaltenders
12 defensemen
19 forwards (11 centers, 8 wingers)
The league breakdown of the Top 31 is:
8 Ontario Hockey League (6 domestic, 2 imports)
6 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (5 domestic, 1 import)
4 United States Hockey League
2 Swedish Hockey League
2 NCAA
2 SuperElit
2 SM-Liiga
2 Western Hockey League (1 domestic, 1 import)
1 Minor Hockey League
1 Czech Extraliga
1 Kontinental Hockey League
It's a fairly European-heavy class at the high end: 13 consensus first round players hail from Europe, including four playing as imports in Canadian major-junior hockey. On the flip-side, it's a lean year for Canadian talent: the first Canadian is ranked seventh and there are just two in the consensus top 10.
There's a very well-defined top four: Rasmus Dahlin, Andrei Svechnikov, and then a coin-toss between Filip Zadina and Brady Tkachuk. After that? It's going to be a wild draft.
Mid-season consensus ranking in brackets. "NR" means not ranked in top 31.
[Mid]
Player Pos. Primary Team ISS McKenzie Button HP FC THN
1 [1] Rasmus Dahlin D Frolunda HC (SHL) 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 [2] Andrei Svechnikov RW Barrie (OHL) 2 2 2 2 2 2
3 [4] Filip Zadina LW Halifax (QMJHL) 3 4 3 4 3 4
4 [3] Brady Tkachuk C Boston University (NCAA) 4 3 4 3 4 3
5 [7] Quinn Hughes D U of Michigan (NCAA) 7 8 6 9 6 6
6 [6] Oliver Wahlstrom C U.S. National Dev. (USHL) 5 9 10 7 5 8
7 [9] Noah Dobson D Acadie-Bathurst (QMJHL) 8 6 8 5 10 9
8 [8] Evan Bouchard D London (OHL) 6 7 9 10 8 7
9 [5] Adam Boqvist D Brynas IF (SuperElit) 9 10 12 11 7 5
10 [19] Jesperi Kotkaniemi C Assat (SM-Liiga) 16 5 5 8 13 18
11 [15] Barrett Hayton C Sault Ste. Marie (OHL) 12 11 7 18 11 12
12 [13] Joel Farabee LW U.S. National Dev. (USHL) 11 17 11 12 15 13
13 [11] Ty Smith D Spokane (WHL) 19 13 22 17 9 10
14 [18] Grigori Denisenko LW Loko Yaroslavl (MHL) 18 15 13 15 18 22
15 [16] Joseph Veleno C Drummondville (QMJHL) 10 14 28 14 11
16 [14] Isac Lundestrom C Lulea HF (SHL) 20 21 19 22 21 14
17 [10] Bode Wilde D U.S. National Dev. (USHL) 23 25 16 31 12 15
18 [12] Rasmus Kupari C Karpat (SM-Liiga) 15 20 27 19 16 25
19 [NR] Vitali Kravtsov RW Traktor Chelyabinsk (KHL) — 12 23 6 28 24
20 [28] Serron Noel RW Oshawa (OHL) 14 19 14 21 29 29
21 [29] Rasmus Sandin D Sault Ste. Marie (OHL) — 27 15 30 19 17
22 [27] Akil Thomas C Niagara (OHL) 27 27 17 — 17 19
23 [31] Martin Kaut RW Dynamo Pardubice (Extraliga) 13 16 — — 22 27
24 [NR] Ty Dellandrea C Flint (OHL) — 23 18 29 30 16
25 [NR] Dominik Bokk RW Vaxjo Lakers (SuperElit) 28 18 30 13 — 28
26 [21] Ryan McLeod C Mississauga (OHL) 26 22 29 — 23 20
27 [30] K'Andre Miller D U.S. National Dev. (USHL) — 24 31 20 20 26
28 [17] Jared McIsaac D Halifax (QMJHL) 21 26 26 — 27 —
29 [NR] Nicolas Beaudin D Drummondville (QMJHL) — — 20 25 — —
30 [NR] Alexander Alexeyev D Red Deer (WHL) 24 30 — 23 — —
31 [24] Benoit-Olivier Groulx C Halifax (QMJHL) 22 — — — 24 —


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What You Need to Know about the COVID-19 Vaccine and Treatment
Are you ready to get the COVID-19 vaccine?
Intermountain Nevada is pleased to offer monoclonal antibody therapy to patients with mild or moderate COVID infection who are at high risk for developing severe disease.
Monoclonal Antibodies (MAB) treatment received FDA Emergency Use Authorization in November 2020, and now the infusions of Sotrovimab has overwhelming scientific evidence for early outpatient treatment of COVID- 19. When given within 10 days of onset of symptoms, monoclonal antibody therapy reduces hospitalization due to COVID or its complications by up to 70%.
The MAB has been purchased by the Federal Government and given to patients free of charge. The infusion takes 25 minutes and is followed by a standard one hour observation by nursing staff in a private room. Physicians are on site at all times. The most common side effect of the infusion is nausea.
If you have recently been diagnosed with COVID, ask your provider about this potentially life-saving treatment. Patients can receive monoclonal antibody therapy by appointment only. Your primary care provider will need to refer you for treatment. State allocations of monoclonal antibodies are limited. Transfusions will occur based on drug availability.
Access to the COVID-19 Vaccine
When will the COVID-19 vaccine be available to patients?
Intermountain currently carries the Moderna vaccine. Patients can call 702-852-9003 to get scheduled for a COVID vaccine or booster.
The COVID-19 vaccine may also be offered by other community partners based on state guidelines and appointment including:
Immunize Nevada
Southern Nevada Heath District
VA of Southern Nevada
City of Boulder City
City of North Las Vegas
Nye County
How much will the COVID-19 vaccine cost?
The COVID-19 vaccines and related supplies will be procured and distributed by the federal government at no cost to Intermountain, payers, or patients.
Do I have to continue to wear a mask and social distance upon receiving the vaccine?
Yes. While experts learn more about the protection that COVID-19 vaccines provide under real-life conditions, it will be important for everyone to continue using all best practices available to help stop the pandemic. Until we reach herd immunity and different health guidelines are provided, you must continue to wear a mask, social distance and wash your hands often.
Where and when can I get my second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine?
Depending on the type of vaccine you're receiving, the wait time between the first and second dose will be scheduled anywhere from 21 to 28 days apart. Patients must get their second COVID-19 vaccine at the same place they received their first vaccination. Both appointments must be scheduled at the same facility unless directed otherwise by an Intermountain Healthcare caregiver.
What about the COVID-19 vaccine boosters?
Although COVID-19 vaccines remain effective in preventing severe disease, recent data suggest their effectiveness at preventing infection or severe illness wanes over time, especially in people ages 65 years and older. Data from small clinical trials show that a Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna booster shot increased the immune response in trial participants who finished their initial series 6 months earlier. A similar clinical trial showed that a J&J/Janssen booster shot also increased the immune response in participants who completed their single-dose vaccine at least 2 months earlier. With an increased immune response, people should have improved protection against COVID-19. The recent emergence of the Omicron variant further emphasizes the importance of vaccination, boosters, and prevention efforts needed to protect against COVID-19.
Which vaccines are available at Intermountain?
Intermountain only carries the Moderna vaccine at this time. Please call 702-852-9003 to schedule your booster vaccine.
Who is eligible for a booster?
If you received the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine, you are eligible for a booster 6 months after your 2nd dose if you are 18 years or older.
If you received the Johnson & Johnson's Janssen vaccine, you are eligible if you are 18 years or older and have waited at least 2 months after your first vaccine.
Which booster should you get?
Any of the COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the United States are safe and effective options. You can find more information on the CDC's frequently asked questions page.
Who can get a Booster shot?
The CDC now recommends booster shots at 5 months after the completion of the primary series of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for those aged 12 and older. Click here for specific guidelines.
Will Intermountain Healthcare Nevada be offering the Pfizer COVID vaccine to patients age 12 and older?
No. We only offer the Moderna vaccine at this time. The Moderna vaccine was not part of the clinical trial evaluating effectiveness for children ages 12 and older. So, we're only vaccinating patients age 18 and older at this time.
Does Intermountain Healthcare providers recommend the Pfizer vaccine for patients age 12 and older?
Yes. The Pfizer vaccine is safe and effective and fully endorsed by the providers of Intermountain Healthcare. If parents have specific questions regarding their child's risks and benefits of vaccination, they should discuss them with their pediatric provider. Please note that we only carry the Moderna vaccine in our clinics at this time.
Which vaccines are recommended for children?
The Pfizer vaccine has received Emergency Use Authorization for ages 5 and older. The Moderna and Johnson& Johnson vaccines are approved for ages 18 and older.
Do children age 12 and older need two doses of the Pfizer vaccine?
Yes. The Pfizer vaccine is two doses given at least 21 days apart to be fully effective for all ages.
How much does the vaccine cost?
The vaccine is given at no cost to the patient.
Can the Pfizer vaccine be given with other vaccines?
Yes. The COVID-19 vaccine can be given before, at the same visit, or after other vaccines.
My child has had COVID-19, should they be vaccinated?
Yes. Once your child has recovered from their COVID infection and released from isolation, they should receive the Pfizer vaccine. In most cases, the vaccine is more protective than the infection.
Safety and Effectiveness
Are COVID-19 vaccines safe?
Safety is Intermountain's top priority. We will only implement vaccines that are FDA authorized or approved.
Do the vaccines have any side effects?
General vaccine side effects include mild symptoms (slight pain, swelling, or redness at the site of injection; mild fever; chills; feeling tired; headache; and muscle and joint aches). Listed on the CDC website are vaccines licensed in the United States and side effects that have been associated with each of them.
How long after the second dose will I be considered safe or immune?
Immunity is established two weeks after the second dose. Further studies are being conducted to better understand how long the vaccination offers immunity from COVID-19.
What if I get COVID-19 after my first dose before receiving the second?
If an individual tests positive for COVID-19 after receiving the first dose, they must be cleared from isolation. For an extra level of precaution at Intermountain, they must wait 90 days before receiving the second dose.
What if I am pregnant or nursing? Is it still safe for me to receive the vaccination?
The CDC has concluded "people who are pregnant and part of a group recommend to receive the coronavirus vaccine, such as health care personnel, may choose to be vaccinated. The CDC also states that "mRNA (Moderna) vaccines are not thought to be a risk to the breastfeeding infant."
How are vaccine manufacturers able to develop a safe vaccine in such a short timeframe when vaccines usually take years to develop?
The CDC, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other national organizations have partnered to form an Operation Warp Speed (OWS) initiative to accelerate the COVID-19 vaccine program safely. OWS is taking processes for vaccine development, evaluation, and approval that normally take years and compressing them into months, by running these processes at the same time rather than in sequential steps. OWS began manufacturing the vaccine while running the phase 3 trials, before knowing vaccine effectiveness. If the vaccine turns out to be effective and the FDA approves, vaccines will be ready to use immediately upon approval by the FDA. Vaccines not proven effective won't be approved or allowed to use.
How effective will the vaccine be?
Vaccines will need to be at least 50% effective (reduces the risk of infection by one half) for it to be granted an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). Another way to say this is: you are half as likely to become infected compared to those who are not vaccinated. Any level of effectiveness can help slow the spread. Because we don't yet know how effective the vaccines are and for how long, individuals will need to continue all other prevention methods including masking, social distancing, and hand hygiene. The Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines that have been granted EUAs are both around 95% effective.
How do COVID-19 vaccines work?
Vaccines help the body develop immunity by training the immune system to recognize and remember how to respond to the disease-causing part of a virus. Vaccines traditionally contain either weakened or inactivated (killed) viruses or purified, signature proteins of viruses. In the COVID-19 response, some manufacturers are making vaccines in new ways, using messenger RNA (mRNA).
mRNA is genetic material that encodes the signature proteins of the viruses. These genetic instructions are injected into the person rather than the viral protein itself. mRNA vaccines use only what is needed to guide immune system response and development of antibodies, so if and when the body is exposed to the actual virus, the immune system knows how to respond and protect the individual from getting sick or from getting very sick.
Should individuals who were COVID-19 positive and recovered, or who are currently COVID-19 positive, get a vaccine?
Individuals should not be vaccinated while they have any active illness. They should hold on vaccinating until they are recovered and feeling well. At Intermountain, we recommend 90 days post COVID-19 illness. We don't know how long immunity or antibodies to the COVID-19 virus will last, and recommend individuals vaccinate for COVID-19 even if they were previously infected.
Additional helpful resources
Southern Nevada Health District
Tips to stop the spread (pdf)
At home instructions if you received COVID testing at our facility (pdf)
Moderna vaccine fact sheet (pdf)
COVID-19 Vaccine Myths vs. Facts
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, our commitment to providing safe, reliable ways to access care is more important than ever. We have implemented best practices from around the world and have developed a plan for how we will provide care to you during this time including telemedicine for routine and urgent needs.
Now Offering Virtual Urgent Care for Established Patients
Established Intermountain Healthcare patients in Nevada can now see an InstaCare provider via smartphone, tablet, or computer for same-day virtual symptom evaluation and treatment instead of going into a clinic.


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The "Art" in Artisan Distilling – My way to be myself
18 Agosto 2017 1 Comments
ARTISAN DISTILLING
The times, they are a-changin', when it comes to every aspect of life, and drinks production is no exception. If there's one thing we should be thanking hipsters for, it's ushering in and popularizing craft beers. The trend caught on quickly and has, in the meantime, spread to other drinks as well, such as wine and hard liquor. In a way, we are going back to the roots, with every small producer pouring all his knowledge and personal tastes into creating a well defined signature drink. Let's take a look at how exactly small, artisan distilleries have transformed the world of alcoholic drinks and turned drinks production into a subtle and sophisticated art form. Here's the art in artisan distilling.
ARTISAN DISTILLING, A GROWING FIELD
The last few years have seen a multifold rise in the number of private distilleries, but the trend doesn't seem to be dying down yet. In fact, the number of private producers opening each year seems to surpass the last, with a noticeable trend of growth. For instance, in the UK around 25 new distilleries are opened each year. The most popular drinks produced are gin, whiskey, vodka and fruit spirits. Distilleries are becoming so numerous that they are even starting to organize trade fairs where they show off the fruits of their labour, scope out new equipment and other innovations of the craft, and discuss trade secrets. Ireland, for example, was the world leader in whiskey production, until the mid last century when almost all the distilleries were shot down. Now you have a kind of a resurrection in reopening of Teeling, Tullamore and other distilleries.
ARTISAN DISTILLING, A FOCUS ON THE CONSUMER
What's in it for the average consumer, you might ask. First of all, there is the obvious advantage of a greater variety. Each distillery has its own delicate differences in flavor. Most of them offer year round varieties and special, seasonal drinks. If you are just starting to delve into the world of artisanal spirits, and feel overwhelmed by the choice, it might be worth it to make a visit to the distilleries for a taste. Most of these new distilleries take a serious approach to pleasing their customers and ensuring complete satisfaction. That is why they have their own pubs where you can sample their products. Some even organize tasting tours of the distillery itself. As interest grows and consumers' palates becomes more and more refined, the movement is gaining exposure, so much so that fine artisanal spirits are even being covered in Vogue magazine. This rising popularity will probably be beneficial and help bring even more quality drinks to the end customer, thus raising the bar further.
CRAFT SPIRITS DOWN UNDER, THE ART OF DISTILLING
Perhaps because of its particular position and the unavailability of certain brands, Australia's spirits production is having a moment right now. Some distilleries are growing their own ingredients. Others, like the Archie Rose distillery, take a unique approach and tailor their drinks specifically for their customers, for a one-of-a kind-experience. With many renowned international awards under their belt, and a global reputation as some of the best in the world, Australian distillers are now fighting to lower government excise duties. Together with stronger branding, this will enable them to place their products better and reach more customers, offering them far more sophisticated and better quality drinks than the mass-produced fair that can currently be found on the shelves of most stores, especially large chains. Pubs serving premium drinks are also trying to get exemption from the notorious Lock-out Laws which prohibit serving shots after midnight. Now it's up to them to differentiate themselves from cheap alcohol which is consumed to get drunk, and position themselves as a delicacy which is enjoyed for its exquisite quality.
It's no wonder that there is a big interest for craft drinks in Australia – after all, the country ranks among the top 20 in the world when it comes to alcohol consumption. Now it's just a matter of providing people with exceptional quality, and the mission is well under way.
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Contributes to the development of the jaw of your baby.
This beautiful Gem of teething with teething Ring of Difrax helps in the jaw development of your baby and takes care of her little mouth.
It consists of different removable elements.
The Flower takes care of the baby's mouth, the teething ring in the shape of a Dragonfly changes color when it is cold and alleviates pain related to the appearance of the first teeth, the Heart relieves the gums.
To cool the teething ring, place it half an hour in the refrigerator, not in the freezer.
Filled with sterilized water, which presents no hazard.


Question: I have some eggs in the refrigerator that I'd like to use, but the date on the carton was a week ago. Are they still safe to eat?
Answer: Yes, your eggs should be fine, provided you've been storing them properly.
As the American Egg Board notes, the dates you see on egg cartons are not food safety dates. They are most commonly used as a guide for stores to know how long they can sell the eggs.
Raw eggs will maintain their best quality for about 3 weeks after the "sell by", "use by", "best by", or "expiration" date on the carton, assuming continuous refrigeration.
Most cartons must also have a so-called Julian date stamped on the side, which indicates the date the eggs were packed. They will still be perfectly safe to use for at least 4 to 5 weeks after that date, provided they've been properly refrigerated and are not cracked or otherwise damaged.
If you want to store your eggs for longer than five weeks, your best bet is to freeze them, following the instructions outlined here.
Can You Freeze Raw Eggs for Later Use?
Expiration Dates: Should You Pay Attention?


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Q: 3d animation between fragments I have imported the library of nineoldsandroid to do 3D animation between fragments but i don´t know how, if I use for example this in anim folder I have errors because my app is to android 2.2, somebody knows how to use the library? Thank you so much.
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How I Came To Jesus On Global Warming
Photo Illustration: John Ritter for BuzzFeed News / Pope: Getty Images
On Thursday, the pope told his followers to accept the reality of global warming. But the papal encyclical won't immediately change skeptics' minds. Take it from me — I used to be one.
By Dan Vergano
Dan Vergano BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on June 18, 2015, at 8:45 a.m. ET
In the days long before the plane hit the Pentagon, I rode a little minibus every morning that let me off at the massive building's south entrance, flashed my badge at the door, and began a long navigation of bland hallways.
In the basement, a purple water fountain steered visitors to ballistic missile defense offices. A display case stuffed with cute model satellites led to an Air Force hallway, and the nearest men's room sported "I'm not Fonda Jane" urinal stickers.
It was 1992. I was a 23-year-old engineer working for a research firm at the Pentagon, where the air was thick with disdain for hippies like Fonda and anxiety about the end of the Cold War. I made lots of viewgraphs just the right shade of Air Force blue, ordered donuts for meetings, and wrote computer code.
And just like everyone else I worked with, I thought global warming was pure crap, a punchline to punctuate the occasional warm day in January.
I've been thinking a lot about those days, now that Pope Francis has unveiled his long letter, a "papal encyclical," calling on Catholics to deal with global warming. Scientists and science writers are wondering whether this can change the minds of the small but determined band of climate science naysayers.
I'm curious too, not so much because I'm now a science reporter and lapsed Catholic, but because my own conversion from climate denial more than two decades ago also began with a few words from an unexpected voice.
People tend to unconsciously absorb outlooks from a community, hewing to the views of their friends, neighbors, and customers, according to social scientists such as Yale's Dan Kahan. So it was in my case, where the echo chamber was a minibus full of retired military officers and engineers on their way to work. I was no better or smarter than anyone else.
The Air Force officers I worked for and the retired ones who ran my company were still sore about the "nuclear winter" debate of a decade earlier, when climatologists discovered that a global nuclear war would block sunlight and turn Earth into a snowball. That science, however sound, stirred up a political dustup between atmospheric researchers and defense scientists in the middle of a fight over the future of nukes in Europe.
On top of that, most of the engineers I knew thought of scientists as soft in the head (or else they would have become engineers). If scientists weren't making nukes, they weren't to be taken seriously.
But I should have known better. In fall 1992, the Air Force was paying for my night school classes in science policy, where we were supposed to smartly size up research results that included atmospheric science. Four years before, global warming hearings in Congress had started a national debate over climate change. And in June 1992 the U.S. had agreed to a United Nations climate convention, the one that enshrined a 2-degree Celsius increase in surface temperatures as the limit in treaty discussions ever since.
I managed to ignore all that, mostly because it didn't make any difference whatsoever to my flannel-shirt-wearing life, whose high points included going to Sonic Youth concerts and chasing girls at Renaissance fairs. Which again echoes more recent social science on how people think about ideas that challenge our beliefs: Mostly, we just don't. Kahan says people are "cognitive misers" who don't sweat anything that seems irrelevant, which is an entirely rational thing to do. I was extremely miserly, if not extremely rational.
It took a jolt from someone I trusted before my mind started to change. Jim, another aerospace engineer, had started working with the Energy Department, which funded climate scientists. He had quickly discovered that these researchers were not the addled souls of our imagination, but a crusty and sharp-minded breed (something that I can attest, after two decades of interviewing them, is still true).
So, when I casually voiced something sarcastic about global warming, Jim said: "Have you checked the data?" In engineering speak that translates as, "Dude, are you high?"
That stung. Not enough to actually engage seriously with the idea that I might be wrong. But enough to open the door to real thought.
In the years since, social scientists have looked closely at public opinion on climate and found that authorities breaking with conventional wisdom can indeed change minds.
Robert Brulle of Drexel University, for example, has suggested that opinions swing most heavily when high-profile political leaders put their weight behind previously untouchable ideas, giving people permission to embrace them. If Nixon goes to Communist China, then maybe the Chinese aren't so bad.
And if the pope calls for climate mitigation, then maybe climate scientists are not engaged in the greatest hoax in history. Since the climate denial choir is still largely filled with "Cool Dudes" — as sociologist Riley Dunlap of Oklahoma State University termed old, white, conservative, educated men — then a traditional authority figure calling a different tune on global warming might change their views.
Similarly, a Yale and George Mason University partnership has suggested that telling people that "97% of climate scientists have concluded that human-caused climate change is happening" can help change minds — another argument for the power of authority. And in South Florida, Kahan points out, the reality of sea level rise forced everyone to come up with a plan, including trusted local business leaders and Republican politicians.
Though they differ on the details, the one thing all of these experts agree on is that just telling folks the facts — temperatures are going up, seas are acidifying, and the most likely reason is people burning fossil fuels — doesn't move the needle on climate opinion. Instead, ears seem to open only when people they trust ask them to take a second look at something they thought disagreeable.
Which might explain why the facts alone didn't really work on me, either. After being chastised by Jim, I went back to the climate reports, especially the 1990 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments I had ignored at night school.
They weren't enough to convert me, but I did slowly become less and less dubious about climate science. Over the years, after I switched careers to science reporting, I interviewed more climate scientists and read more studies, including the 1995 IPCC assessments that made an even stronger case that climate change was real. But in the back of my mind, I still had my doubts.
This isn't all that surprising. Kahan and others have shown that people with more science knowledge actually take climate science even less seriously if their ideology starts out suspicious of environmentalism. Instead these "science literate" people just erect more elaborate rationalizations to justify their denial. An educated climate naysayer, for instance, might argue I didn't really come to a reasoned switch about climate change, I merely jumped ship from a conservative Pentagon to a liberal newsroom and changed my communal climate spots to fit in.
But that's not what happened. In fact, I worked at a newspaper filled with news editors who were borderline climate deniers themselves, or at least ones happy to see the science debunked. And I harbored plenty of unspoken worries that climate science could still somehow be wrong, because science does sometimes — I'm still unsure whether coffee is bad for you — overturn itself.
If a voice of authority and a few years of paid fact-checking didn't completely dish my doubts, what did?
Climate deniers themselves, it turns out. That and a simple trick one of my bosses at the Pentagon had taught me. He called it the nut test. I have tried it a dozen times or so in interviews, on scientists and skeptics of all sorts, and it quickly reveals whether you are getting a straight argument.
A decade after my first climate science epiphany, I was interviewing a chronic critic of global warming studies, particularly the 1998 "hockey stick" one that found temperatures in our century racing upward on a slope that mirrored a hockey blade pointed skyward. He argued vociferously that the study's math was all messed up, and that this meant all of climate science was a sham.
I listened, and at the end of the interview, I gave him the nut test.
"What are the odds that you are wrong?" I asked, or so I remember.
"I'd say zero," the critic replied. "No chance."
That's how you fail the nut test.
I had asked a climate scientist the same question on the phone an hour before.
"I could always be wrong," the scientist said. Statistically, he added, it could be about a 20% to 5% chance, depending on what he might be wrong about.
That's how you pass the nut test: by admitting you could be wrong.
And that's how a climate denier finally convinced me, once and for all, that climate science was on pretty safe ground. IPCC reports — signed even by countries with a lot of interest in pretending global warming is baloney — have only strengthened the case since I cracked the first one open.
So maybe the lesson here is that rather than coming to you like the voice of God, admitting you might be wrong is a long journey, one that takes you to the point where you can try applying a little skepticism to your fellow doubters.
For that reason, I suspect that Pope Francis' encyclical isn't likely to miraculously convert climate science naysayers. A June Social Science Quarterly experiment found that religious arguments don't change minds about climate change significantly, after all.
And, let's be honest, the most adamant skeptics are never going to change their minds. It's the quiet doubters who might be swayed, if only given enough time. As the pope surely knows, most conversions don't happen overnight.
Dan Vergano is a science reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, DC.
Contact Dan Vergano at dan.vergano@buzzfeed.com.


This is a 19,300 foot strato-volcano south of Quito Ecuador and as with all of the mountains I climbed it was possible to drive a 4-wheel drive vehicle up to around 14,000 feet.
Cotopaxi – part 1: This was a hike with my wife Sue, and Graciela, one of the three exchange students we had hosted from Ecuador. After parking her father's land rover at the the Parqueadero we hiked to the Refugio (climber's hut) at approximately 15,800 feet. I got hooked on the climbing experience and so we started making plans for a return visit. Which Sue and I did the following year. By then I had met and hired a professional climbing Guide, Edison Ona. During that trip Edison and I climbed Volcan Ilnizi South to around 14,000 feet when I realized how unprepared I was, including dealing with a 'bad' knee – from my running days.
Cotopaxi – part 2: Second attempt was a few days after our son John flew to Quito. He and I with Francisco, a climbing partner of Edison's, made an attempt on Cotopaxi. We got as far as the Refugio where Sue and I had hiked the year before when my knee gave out. I think packing around 40 pounds may have had something to do with that. It was a great disappointment for John, my son, as he was really pumped for the climb.
Cotopaxi – part 3: Came a year later after much physical training and preparation. That trip involved 5 summit attempts within a 16 day period. Cotopaxi again defeated me however this time it was a combination to bad weather, hail, thunder and lightning, and especially due to altitude sickness from spending a few days on Volcan Chimborazo between 16-17,000 feet acclimating for the climb on Cotopaxi. Probably eating and drinking with water from a glacier contributed to getting sick. Want an experience? Try throwing up at that kind of altitude while trying to catch your breath! Wow!!


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Finalised my gear for my next trip.
Added a quick release type sternum strap to my National Geographic backpack along with the Op/Tech reporter camera straps. In fairness the backpack does have a sternum strap but it's not quick release and is pretty fiddly. The quick release strap also has a couple of D-rings, one can't have too many D-rings. 🙂 .
To prevent the strap from slipping down the shoulder straps I used a couple of heavy-duty cable ties and threaded them vertically through the sternum strap and loops in the material on the shoulder straps where the existing sternum straps attach. Also attached extra Uni-loops to the D-Rings.
Side pockets for my Nat. Geo. backpack rain cover and Manfrotto Pixie tripod. Not shown in the photo below but I have a couple of neoprene drawstring lens pouches with clips to attach to D-Rings which fit nicely in the pockets and the rain cover and tripod go inside these as the teeth on the zips are quite sharp and might possibly rip the rain cover. Also, if the rain cover is wet then it's nice to stuff it in the neoprene pouch.
ThinkTANK emergency camera rain cover (small size) in laptop compartment.
Camera compartment: OM-D E-M5 Mk II + M.Zuiko 12-40mm, Canon G10 (lurking in the shadows 🙂 ), M.Zuiko 9-18 mm and Lumix 12-32 mm plus spare camera batteries and Op/Tech neoprene case, wrist strap and Uni loop connectors.
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?Flexible? court plans unveiled
Thursday 11 October 2012 by Catherine Baksi
The creation of a regional virtual court is among plans revealed today by justice minister Damian Green to pilot dozens of 'flexible' court models.
Five schemes will be trialled in 48 areas. They will include regional virtual courts that will enable preliminary hearings in the magistrates' court held over videolink to be heard by another court in a different region. For example, a defendant arrested and detained in Lancashire will be able to appear by videolink in Chester.
The Ministry of Justice said the idea is currently being tested in the north-west and will be extended to other areas, including Cardiff, Manchester, Leeds, Essex and Bristol.
The operating hours of the current virtual court schemes, under which defendants make their first appearance in the magistrates' court via a videolink from the police station, will be extended.
The use of prison-to-court videolinks, removing the need for defendants to be transported and produced in court, will be increased to cover areas including Cardiff, Southampton, Manchester, Carlisle, Oxford and Reading.
The plans also include controversial proposals to extend the operating hours of magistrates' courts during the week to hear cases earlier and later in the day, to extend Saturday sittings and also introduce Sunday sittings.
Courts in Chelmsford, Llandudno, Sussex, Manchester and Salford, Liverpool and Knowsley, and Guildford will sit longer on Saturdays. Courts in North Tyneside, Cardiff and Birmingham will sit on Sundays.
The Law Society said the extended court sittings are unnecessary and will increase costs, and solicitors in some of the affected areas have indicated that they will not take part in them.
Green (pictured) made the announcement on a visit to Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan Magistrates' Court, which has been working extended hours since April and also uses videolinks so suspects can appear in court from prison.
He said: 'We want the justice system to respond further and more effectively to the needs of victims, witnesses and the local community. I am extremely pleased that thousands more people up and down the country will benefit from flexible courts in their communities.
'This is one part of our drive to create a swifter, surer and more flexible justice system for all.'
The government originally unveiled its plans in a white paper - Swift and Sure Justice - published in July. It was informed by the criminal justice system's response to the 2011 summer riots, which saw courts sit round the clock to deal with large number of people arrested.
The MoJ said that the 48 pilots 'are due to go live in the coming weeks'.
A full list of pilot areas can be found here.


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UAB defeats SMU 53-52 in Conference USA tournament opener
TULSA, Okla. – Jordan Swing scored 17 points, including a layup with 9 seconds to play, and UAB beat SMU 53-52 in the opener of the Conference USA tournament on Wednesday.
Swing had a team-high nine rebounds and was 7 of 13 from the field for the game. Rod Rucker had 11 points.
UAB was up 32-23 at halftime and led until Brian Bernardi hit two free throws to put the Mustangs up 52-51 with 29 seconds remaining. Swing's layup put the Blazers (16-16) back on top. No. 10 seed SMU missed a jumper with a second to play.
Jalen Jones led SMU (15-17) with 13 points and 10 rebounds. Cannen Cunningham had 11 points.
No. 7 seed UAB will play No. 2 seed Southern Mississippi on Thursday in the quarterfinals.
Head coach Larry Brown, who is the only coach to win an NCAA and NBA title, ends his first season at SMU.


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The immediate family of Kings, female monarchs, and Sultans is called a royal family. Sometimes, their extended family is also included in a royal family. A royal family generally includes the spouse of the current monarch, children, grandchildren, sisters, brothers, and cousins of the ruling monarch, and also their spouses. Surviving spouses of a deceased monarch is also part of a royal family. In some cases, the term royal family member is also used for great grandchildren and distant descendants of a monarch.
1 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Famous As: Prince
Nationality: Greek, British
2 Wallis Simpson
Famous As: Socialite
Wallis Simpson was an American socialite. She remains a controversial figure in the history of British politics as she played a major role in causing a constitutional crisis that eventually led to the abdication of British King Edward VIII. Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry Wallis as he could not marry Wallis, a divorcée, while remaining on the throne.
3 Prince Louis of Cambridge
Famous As: Member of the British Royal Family
Prince Louis of Cambridge is the second son of Catherine and Prince William. One of the members of the British royal family, Louis is behind his grandfather, father, brother, and sister in the line of succession to the throne; he is the first British prince to be ranked behind a sister after the enactment of the Perth Agreement.
4 Prince Louis of Battenberg
Famous As: Admiral
Died: September 11, 1921
5 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Famous As: Heir presumptive
Nationality: Austrian
6 Prince John of the United Kingdom
Died: January 18, 1919
7 Prince Michael of Kent
Famous As: Business person
Birthdate: July 4, 1942
A member of the British royal family, Prince Michael of Kent is a grandson of King George V and Queen Mary. He is currently 48th in the line of succession to the British throne. He is a businessman and runs his own consultancy business with operations across the world. He has a keen interest in sports and is a Freemason.
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Died: February 22, 1511
9 Betty Ford
Famous As: Former First Lady of the United States
Died: July 8, 2011
10 Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon
Famous As: Racing Manager
11 Fatimah bint Muhammad
Famous As: Daughter of Muḥammad
Birthdate: 0615 AD
Nationality: Saudi Arabian
Died: August 18, 0632
12 Charlene, Princess of Monaco
Famous As: Swimmer
Nationality: South African, Zimbabwean
13 Seretse Khama
Famous As: Politician
Nationality: Botswanan
Died: July 13, 1980
14 Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark
Famous As: Eldest Son of Queen of Denmark Margrethe II
Nationality: Danish
15 Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge
Famous As: Princess
16 John of Gaunt
Famous As: Nobleman
Nationality: Belgian, British
Died: February 3, 1399
17 Madame de Pompadour
Famous As: Noblewomen
Nationality: French
18 James Francis Edward Stuart
Died: January 1, 1766
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19 Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
Famous As: Military officer
20 Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
Famous As: Close Friend of Queen Anne
21 Charlotte Casiraghi
Famous As: Editor-at-large, Equestrian Sports Ambassador
Birthdate: August 3, 1986
Nationality: Monacan
22 Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Famous As: Former Emir of Qatar
Nationality: Qatari
23 Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Died: March 6, 1954
24 Sophia of Hanover
Famous As: Heiress of Great Britain
25 Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
26 Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon
Famous As: Louis XIV of France's Wife
27 Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia
Famous As: Daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia
Nationality: Canadian, Russian
28 Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom
Died: December 3, 1935
29 Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia
Famous As: Grand Duchess of Russia
30 Jasper Tudor
Famous As: Duke
Died: December 21, 1495
31 Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
32 Safiye Sultan
Famous As: Wife of Murad III
Nationality: Albanian
Died: 1619 AD
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Famous As: Mughal emperor
Nationality: Afghan
34 Julia the Elder
Famous As: Noblewoman
Nationality: Ancient Roman
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Famous As: Aristocrat
36 Caroline Matilda of Great Britain
Died: May 10, 1775
37 James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray
Famous As: Regent
Nationality: Scottish
38 Carlos, Prince of Asturias
39 Emanuele Filiberto, Prince of Venice and Piedmont
40 Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
Famous As: Military commander
41 Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence
Famous As: Soldier
Died: March 22, 1421
42 Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy
Famous As: Royal
43 Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe
Nationality: French, Italian
Died: September 3, 1792
44 Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland
Famous As: Royal Mistress
Died: October 9, 1709
45 Prince Maximilian of Baden
Died: November 6, 1929
46 William the Aetheling
Famous As: King
Nationality: French, British
47 Ptolemy Philadelphus
48 Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione
Famous As: Countess
49 Isabella Clara Eugenia
Famous As: Sovereign
50 Henri, Count of Paris
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Film review: Wajib
Ed Potton
Friday September 14 2018, 12.01am, The Times
Maria Zreik, Mohammad Bakri and Saleh Bakri
The title of Annemarie Jacir's formulaic, but wry Arabic-language drama translates as "duty" and refers, in one sense at least, to the Palestinian custom that one hand-delivers the invitations to one's daughter's wedding. On postman detail here is Abu Shadi (Mohammad Bakri), a divorced teacher, helped by his grown-up son Shadi (played by Bakri's real-life son Saleh), who lives in Italy, but has returned to Nazareth for the wedding.
Battle lines are drawn early. Stubborn father sniggers at son's man bun and scorns his decision to live in the West; smug son is baffled by father's stoic acceptance of Israeli repression. Their car-bound tour brings brawls, social comedy, dress fittings and brushes with old flames — and reopens the wounds of Abu Shadi's separation


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Swedish and Norwegian technical assistance will contribute to the implementation of Energoatom and Argonne National laboratory (USA) joint project
Within the framework of international technical assistance of Sweden and Norway SE "NNEGC "Energoatom" has concluded a contract with Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) and Lloyd's Register Consulting – Energy AB. The contract provides for granting to SE "NNEGC "Energoatom" the computer codes and licenses for RiskSpectrum/RiskWatcher software for SS "Zaporizhzhya NPP" (5 new pieces) and updating of the existing (used at SUNPP and KhNPP) codes and licenses as well as providing technical support and maintenance for these codes for three-year period. This software is an advanced tool for performing probabilistic safety analysis calculations and risk monitoring and is used at many nuclear power plants in Europe and the USA. According to the terms of the contract it is planned to conduct an introductory course on its use for Ukrainian specialists.
The contract was financed through free of charge assistance from the Government of Norway and Sweden. The total amount of the contract is 2 million 357 thousand Swedish kronor (which roughly corresponds to 250 thousand euros).
In the course of the meeting regarding the abovementioned software at Ukrainian NPPs, Mr. Volodymyr Pyshnyi, the Vice-President of Energoatom, expressed his gratitude to Swedish and Norwegian specialists for quick implementation of the preparatory part of the project. "Based on my experience, I would like to note that the work that proceeded the conclusion of the contract was carried out in a very short time. Today we are entering a qualitatively new level of cooperation in the area of nuclear energy technical assistance, I hope that the Royal Swedish Technical Institute, with which Energoatom representatives are already holding relevant talks, will joint it", - Mr. Pyshnyi emphasized.
The Vice-President of the Company separately noted that since October 2017 Energoatom together with Argonne National Laboratory (USA) and with the support of the United States Government is implementing the project "Maintenance Optimization Program Based on Risk-informed NPP Configuration Management". "RiskSpectrum/RiskWatcher software provided by Sweden and Norway will be used within this program. This software will allow us to ensure the implementation of the project together with Argonne National Laboratory on maintenance optimization of the equipment of Zaporizhzhya NPP power unit 2, which is assigned to be a pilot one, using risk-informed approaches. I am sure that through joint efforts we will be able to carry out this unique work at Ukrainian nuclear power plants", the Vice-President of the Company said.
In turn Zlatan Delalic, the representative of Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, also stressed the importance of qualitative preparation for the start of the direct application of the computer codes at Ukrainian NPPs. "If such work is done thoroughly, further implementation of the project will go smoothly. Also worth mentioning is the well-coordinated trilateral cooperation between Swedish, Norwegian and Ukrainian specialists. As a result, Energoatom has timely received an efficient tool to be used when performing works under the joint project with Argonne National Laboratory. Process of NPP power units maintenance optimization using risk-informed approaches includes the possibility of constructing a probabilistic model of risk analysis. Such analysis contributes to enhancement of power unit safe operation", Zlatan Delalic said.
He also said that in July this year the delegation of the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority is scheduled to visit Kiev office of Energoatom and Khmelnytsky NPP, during which the directions of further cooperation between Ukraine and SSM will be discussed and agreed. "I will be glad to hear your suggestions," Mr. Delalic added.
Reference. Cooperation with the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) within the framework of technical assistance of the Government of the Kingdom of Sweden is carried out according to the Agreement between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Government of the Kingdom of Sweden on the general terms of technical and financial cooperation of August 29, 2007.


Between school and work, it can seem difficult to get to the recommended 150 minutes of physical activity each week. For Ashley, one solution to this time crunch was to use her lunch time for physical activity.
While going to school and working full time last year, one of my biggest fears was a serious increase in sedentary behaviour and a decline in physical activity due to inactivity, tight schedules, and changing priorities. I decided to get my friends on board to make sure that I would still be physically active. Everyone knows how difficult it can seem to make physical activity a priority, especially when we have a lot of on the go that can't be put off, so I counted on my friends' support to make the most of the available moments. Remember, all it takes is 150 minutes of physical activity per week in bouts of 10 minutes or more, so the moments were there, I just had to find them.
My solution? Yoga and walks at lunch were a great start. I went to a yoga class with my girlfriends during my lunch hour which would otherwise be sedentary down time. In my case, I was lucky to be able to visit some gyms downtown, all of which offered great classes during the lunch hour that had me back at work within an hour. For me, yoga was a good lunch time activity because it cleared my head and got me moving without being as strenuous as other classes so I wasn't arriving back at work in a sweaty mess. Drawing on the name of one of the movements, my friends and I nicknamed our fitness lunches "fist to palm." I like to think of the lunch time activity breaks as transforming my frustrating work day (a fist) into a calming state of mind (a palm). Cheesy? Yes. Awesome? Also yes.
For Ashley, yoga and lunch time walks helped her to reach 150 minutes of physical activity each week. How will you get to 150 in 2015?
My second solution to the physical activity time crunch was lunch time walks. When my friends asked me what they could get me for my birthday, I responded by saying: "one day a week, walk with me at lunch time." I have enough stuff to last me a lifetime so what I really want from my friends is quality time and a healthy lifestyle for all of us. Luckily, I have some great friends who work close by. Going for a brisk 30-40 minute walk downtown or at one of Prince George's great downtown parks a couple times a week makes a huge difference – remember that as an adult, you only need 150 minutes of moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity each week to gain all sorts of health benefits! Besides, what else are you going to do at lunch? Eating takes about 10-15 minutes so that can leave lots of time for healthy, productive, and restorative walking (and gabbing) with good friends. Give it a try!


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module Twitter
  class BasicUser < Twitter::Identity
    attr_reader :following, :screen_name
    alias handle screen_name
    alias username screen_name
    alias user_name screen_name
  end
end

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I heard a young woman speak on the topic of feminism. Her content was valuable, thoughtful, and well-organized.
However, her voice caught me off completely off guard. She spoke in a high, squeaky, Betty Boop voice.
Initially, I assumed the speaker was adopting a cartoonish voice to illustrate something about her subject matter. Instead of listening to her actual words, I began waiting for her to use her natural voice to explain the point of her cartoon voice.
I was mistaken. The speaker used the squeaky voice throughout her entire presentation, without explanation.
I suspect that the speaker did not have a medical problem. She simply didn't know how to find or use a natural speaking voice.
Unfortunately, we don't seem to notice when we use a distracting voice. And it's not like our friends are going to tell us, either.
I recently overheard a middle-aged woman whine to her friend.
She asked this without a hint of irony!
Her friend didn't offer the obvious answer. Instead, she smiled and sympathized with her friend's complaint. I didn't jump in with the answer, either — my eavesdropping was already rude enough!
Whining, squealing, speaking in a montone, mumbling, talking too loudly — we've all used a distracting voice from time to time. But when was the last time someone actually called you on it?
If your friends, family, and colleagues won't tell you that your voice is distracting: how will you know? And how will you get help?


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