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Friends start organization to help families this holiday season
Two best friends started a new organization to make sure that dozens of families have a good holiday season this year.
By: Ally Kraemer
CINCINNATI — Two best friends started a new organization to make sure that dozens of families have a good holiday season this year.
Make a Kid Merry was started by Jordynn Jenkins and Skylar Beavers as a way to give back to children who might not otherwise receive gifts this holiday season. Their desire to brighten the holidays for others comes from their own childhood holidays.
"We both come from single-mother households, so we both had to be sponsored for Christmases before," Jenkins said. "We just wanted to be able to create a way to give back to our community."
Through their organization, people could either donate $50 to support a family or they could buy and donate gifts from a family's wishlist. According to Jenkins, people were generous this year and were able to give things like bikes and tablets.
"It's about just giving back to a cause that is bigger than you, and we're both really big believers in that," Beavers said.
If you would like to donate or learn more about Make a Kid Merry, click here.


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The Fight Fix
UFC 137: Diaz Vs. Penn Preview On The Fight Fix
Luke Thomas and Dustin Green of CSN Washington's The Fight Fix talk losing Georges St. Pierre at UFC 137, what the UFC can do to avoid disasters like this and much more.
By Luke Thomas@lthomasnews Oct 24, 2011, 8:46am PDT
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Dustin Green and Luke Thomas
This week on CSN Washington's The Fight Fix, I join host Dustin Green for a preview of this weekend's UFC 137 event. Green and I discuss what the loss of St. Pierre does to the pay-per-view buyrate, our picks for the major fights on the card and what the UFC can reasonably do to prevent major losses like this.
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Luke Thomas:
29 secs, how the loss of GSP will hurt UFC 137 financially: "Well, I think most of the tickets are already sold. I dunno if they woulda had a sellout or not. I think at the gate they'll probably be okay, but that's not where they make the most amount of their money. Where they make most of their money of course is on pay-per-view, and I shouldn't mince words, it's a devastating loss to lose Georges St. Pierre. If you believe Dana White, St. Pierre is the #1 pay-per-view draw in the company. That's arguable - I think Brock Lesnar might have him beat, but either way he's a gigantic draw. The reality is BJ Penn at one time, and probably still is, the most marketable, pay-per-view, sellable lightweight fighter. But after 2 losses to Edgar and fighting in Australia, I won't say he lost power, but he's certainly not at his peak. The rule is this: you can substitute great fights on a card - UFC 136 was a great fight card top to bottom and sold only 250,000 pay-per-view buys. There is no substitute for star power. Losing St. Pierre it's absolutely devastating. I think honestly at the high end, 450k would be a success for this card and that's a shame because St. Pierre at 129 had 850,000. He's capable of doing a lot. Last thing I'd say about it, it could well be that this is the 1st year in a long time that the UFC has not had a single pay-per-view event go over a million pay-per-view buys. It's a little disconcerting."
1:55, on losing fighters to injury before big fights: "At some point, there's just nothing you can do, right? I mean mixed martial arts training it's difficult, it's long, it's arduous. You're dealing with so many different kinds of training that can put so many different kinds of stresses on the body. Wrestling training is not the same as striking training. It's not the same as jiu jitsu training. All of them are kind of differently geared towards the body and affect the body in different ways, so I that sense nothing. The other part of it I would say though is, you know you look back and you lost Georges St. Pierre on this card and, again, two weeks until the fight there's nothing you can do. Except, early in the year they passed up on an opportunity to do Rashad Evans vs Jon Jones. Jon Jones fought in September, Rashad Evans fought in August. A month a part and they couldn't make that work? That fight would have been an EASY million dollar pay-per-view event. They could've done maybe, I dunno what the camps would've said, but maybe they could've done St. Pierre vs Silva - a megafight. I think UFC fans, MMA fans, and really combat sports fans are thirsting for a superfight. Now listen, I'm not here to tell Dana White how to run his business. He knows better than I do. They're gonna put on 34 cards next year. All I would say is, and Dana White would not disagree with me when I say the following, you have to put on the fights that people wanna pay money to see. People don't wanna pay as much money to see Ortiz vs Evans as they do Jones vs Evans. When you get the opportunity, you strike while the iron is hot. That I think is the lesson going forward."
3:23, UFC 137 picks: "Main event: BJ Penn should not lose this fight to Nick Diaz. He;s better than Nick Diaz at everything, except cardio. Unless the fight moves to 5 rounds, that is not a fight BJ should lose. In the co-main event, it's Matt Mitrione taking on Cheick Kongo. Matt Mitrione should probably win this fight. I think Cheick Kongo at one point was a bit of a better striker, he may still be a cleaner striker, but I think Mitritone might be a little bit more durable. He's not as shop worn at this point as Cheick Kongo. I think the fight to look out for, the one I'm certainly interested in: Hatsu Hioki taking on George Roop. Hatsu Hioki is probably the last Japanese import or guy who fought on the Japanese scene who is highly ranked. That's a ranking I believe is grossly undeserved, which isn't to say he's not a talented fighter. He's an exceptional talent particularly on the ground, but I believe the upbringing in that market is slightly fraudulent. I believe George Ropp is a guy who is extraordinarily talented and has just the right kind of skill set to maybe, maybe give Hioki some problems - not so much on the ground, but keeping it standing. I think if Roop can beat Hioki, I think it says a lot about the degradation of that scene."
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I don't intend to do this for the Phonology, the Lexicon, or the "Other" groups of features.
I also intend to do it for "Simple Clauses" and for "Nominal Categories".
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Yes, those were the cumulative percents. I'm going to post with the percents instead.
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London: Capital of Wealth
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A recent report states that London is now the home of highest number of CEO millionaires, with about 300,000 London residents in that fit within that wealth category. This surpasses other cities such as Los Angeles, New York and Singapore. The highest proportion of these CEO millionaires work in the tech sector.
For the rest of the world almost half of worlds CEO millionaires are in the United States with San Francisco's high tech community millionaires coming in second behind London and Wall Street CEO's placing New York in third place.
So for London millionaires where are the best new landmark residential towers to live and enjoy the capital?
The Nova Building in the SW1 area of Belgravia and Westminster has completed phase one, a 727,000 sq. ft. tower in 2016 and gives residents the opportunity to enjoy Michelin star restaurants, upscale shopping and theatres. There is 480,000 sq. ft. of office space along with the 170 luxury apartments. The building also features 24-hour concierge along with a resident's private lounge.
Because of its close proximity to Victoria Station, transport to the rest of the city adds to the appeal of this location. In one direction residents can stroll over to Buckingham Palace or in another to Westminster Abbey.
My LondonHome.com reports that units available include a 2 bedroom and 2 bathroom with 977 sq. ft. of space priced at £2,250,000 and a 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom 602 sq.ft.unit going for £1,050,000.
The area is expecting more residential developments with an additional 72 apartments being constructed by property developer Northacre in a Grade II-listed property opposite Buckingham Palace and the Queens Gallery.
This new development at No. 1 Palace Street, St. James's Park is designed by Squire and Partners and will feature concierge, leisure facilities and restaurants along with an all new restoration of the building with Italian, French Renaissance, Beaux Arts and Queen Ann style facades. The building development is expected to be completed by 2019.
Also nearby with expected completion by 2021 is The Broadway Westminster SW1. This triangular designed property will feature six residential buildings from 14 to 20 storeys with 272 apartments designed again by Squire and Partners. The location will have a new street with retail outlets, office space, 25 metre swimming pool and spa facilities.
The One Blackfriars In Southbank and in what many consider is the cultural heart of London is, The One Blackfriars. Designed by award-winning Ian Simpson Architects. The property features 274 residential apartments over 50 storeys. Residents can choose from 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedroom homes, with interior design by Tara Bernard and Partners. Local attractions include Tate Modern, National Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe. Transport includes Blackfriars tube station with direct routes to Gatwick and Luton airports. Also nearby is the Southwark tube station which makes for easy transit to Canary Wharf and Bond Street.
Amenities include 24-hour concierge by Harrods Estate, Executive Lounge on the 32nd floor, Yoga terrace, cinema room, gymnasium and wine cellar.
CBRE has listings for residences at One Blackfriars with a 562 sq. ft. Studio for £1,150,000 and a 2 bedroom 959 sq. ft. unit with an asking price of £2,330,000. A larger 2 bedroom residence is available for £2,880,000 with 1407 sq. ft. of space. A 3 bedroom unit with 1803 sq. ft. is asking for £4,640,000.
One area of London that has been the centre for new property development is Shoreditch. One new development is the 37-storey tower, The Stage. This property by Galliard Homes features 412 luxury apartments, 400,000 sq. ft. of office space, retail and leisure space. It's described in its brochure as: 'A high profile mixed use scheme with retail, commercial and dedicated performing arts and heritage space.'
Unit prices vary but some listings start at £685,000 for a 418 sq. ft. Studio Suite, a 540 sq. ft. one bedroom at £812,000 and a three bedroom 1493 sq. ft. apartment unit for £2,570,000.
A majority of the upper level apartments have balconies, terraces and panoramic views of the London skyline. The area is referred to as Tech City because of the numerous well known and new tech startup businesses in the area. Close by is the Liverpool Street rail station and the headquarters for Amazon.
Living in Shoreditch is described as:
'Shoreditch is a lifestyle that both leads the way and sets the pace in cultural verve. Its streets are now as much about celebrity clientele as they are the satirical works of Banksy, Ben Eine or Stik.'
If any of these do not strike your interest there are plenty more high-rise luxury apartments on the development front throughout London.
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What to Watch This Weekend
Between VOD, Redbox, Netflix and the rest of the streaming platforms, a lot of content has been released this week. So I went through and found some of the best options you can watch this weekend.
World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
Use Code: MERCY at the Box for a free night rental of the film.
The story of a humiliating high school mishap from 1992 that sends the Impractical Jokers on the road competing in hidden-camera challenges for the chance to turn back the clock and redeem three of the four Jokers.
You Should Have Left – 06/19
A screenwriter travels to a remote house in Wales with his family so that he can write the sequel to his big hit film, but he begins to regret his decision after suffering from a severe case of writer's block.
Baby Teeth – 06/19
When seriously ill teenager Milla falls madly in love with smalltime drug dealer Moses, it's her parents' worst nightmare. But as Milla's first brush with love brings her a new lust for life, things get messy and traditional morals go out the window. Milla soon shows everyone in her orbit – her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a budding child violinist, and a disarmingly honest pregnant neighbour – how to live like you have nothing to lose. What might have been a disaster for the Finlay family instead leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life. Babyteeth joyously explores how good it is not to be dead yet and how far we will go for love.
The Politician Season 2 – 06/19
Payton Hobart, a student from Santa Barbara, has known since age seven that he's going to be President of the United States. But first he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape of all: Saint Sebastian High School.
Feel the Beat – 06/19
After failing to find success on Broadway, April returns to her hometown and reluctantly is recruited to train a misfit group of young dancers for a big competition.
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Adam Richard Bradfield
September 16, 1989 - June 14, 2011
After a decade of fighting cancer and participating in five experimental cures, 21-year-old Adam Bradfield of Medford passed away Tuesday with his family at his side, leaving a Facebook reminder to "live strong," adding that he "gave it one hell of a ride." A 2008 graduate of Phoenix High School and active in Future Farmers of America, Adam seemed victorious in an earlier, three-year bout with leukemia but in 2005 he was hit by an onslaught of bone cancer, with tumors growing around lungs, hips and sciatic nerve. The disease, called osteogenetic sarcoma, led to a full hip replacement, a femur transplant and the removal of part of a lung. In a Mail Tribune article last December, his mother, Robin Bradfield, told of raising funds to take part in experimental cancer-fighting tests at the University of Texas. So rapid was the growth of his 22 inoperable tumors that Adam couldn't make a trip that far away, she said, but kept going every weekend for treatments in Portland. "None of the experimental programs worked," she said. "Some might work at the beginning but would stop working. Three weeks ago, the doctors said they couldn't do any more for him. Adam said he wanted to come home and die." Adam was in a coma in the final days of his life, waking up for a large family gathering, his mother said. Twenty minutes after almost everyone left, he slipped away. In January, Adam married Kayla Roberts, who he met at FFA. His Facebook page is filled with the comments of many friends and family members, before and after his death, praising his positive attitude and calling him a beautiful and inspiring leader. In his final Facebook postings last week, Adam praised the fettuccine his dad prepared and said that when things get you down, "u got to look at all the good things that have happened and remember u gave it one hell of a ride! No regrets, no fear and most of all livestrong!!!" Robin Bradfield, a hairdresser with Salon Jane in Jacksonville, says she's missed a lot of work and faces considerable expenses for recent treatments, though insurance covered most of them. Adam was covered by Social Security Disability and the Oregon Health Plan. Funeral expenses exceed $7,000 and donations may be made to the Adam Bradfield Fund at local Sterling Savings Banks. A spaghetti feed at Phoenix High School last fall raised $3,000 and a fund drive last winter raised a similar amount for final attempts to rid him of the cancer, she said. Funeral services are at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Phoenix High School gym, with a reception following. In addition to his mother, Adam is survived by adult sisters Kelley Robertson and Erika Bradfield, brother Jacky Hawkins, 9, father Erik Bradford and grandparents Ed and Sharon Bradfield and Richard and Janet Pudder, all of Medford. "He'll really be missed," said his mother. "He was really amazing." Hillcrest Memorial Park & Mortuary, Medford, OR. are in care of arrangements. www.hillcrestmortuary.com
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Estate Planting
A Virginia garden carries on a horticultural legacy
By Steve Russell
photo: John M. Hall
A thatched roof complements the stone storage shed in Jean Perin's garden.
When Jean Perin aimed to buy a house on a forty-two-acre corner of the Mellon estate, the storied two-thousand-acre Upperville, Virginia, property owned by the billionaire art patrons Paul and Rachel "Bunny" Lambert Mellon, she was asked to write a personal letter to the notoriously private heiress. "It was just a matter of me passing her test," Perin says.
When it came to remaking the parcel's landscaping, however, Perin needed no such approval, even though her new neighbor was famous for her extensive gardens and horticultural acumen (she redesigned the White House Rose Garden for her close friend Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961). "I did my own thing and thought Bunny would approve," says Perin, an interior designer who consults on historic homes.
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The core of the house started off as a log cabin, used as a hunting box before Mrs. Mellon (who died last year at 103) relocated it about a quarter mile to its current location via flatbed truck in 1955. An addition was made for two of Mr. Mellon's secretaries, who resided there for decades.
"The ladies weren't into landscaping, so there was nothing here but a plain yard," says Perin, who since buying the property in 2004 has also added rooms to what she now describes as her clapboard cottage farmhouse. "It was a blank slate."
Weaving a Spell
Woven willow hurdles set off a raised bed for nepeta; the bench is modeled after an antique found on the Eastern Shore.
Not for long. The home's add-on footprint created a series of exterior pockets, and Perin transformed each one. "There are ten garden areas that all have their own design, but they also all flow one to the other," she says.
Within an overarching scheme of green and white, richly rendered in boxwoods, hellebores, Tiarella, Miss Jekyll vinca, viburnum, and hydrangea, there are plenty of eye-catching features. The pathway to the home is a mosaic created to resemble a tree, designed by Perin and installed by New Ravenna Mosaics, a handmade tile studio run by Sara Baldwin in Exmore, Virginia. Nearby sits a stone "storage shed" as beautiful as it is practical, complete with a thatched roof by Virginia-based master thatcher Colin McGhee. There's also a stunning outdoor shower with American hornbeam trained over a stainless-steel domed cage.
Although each spot has its own unique character, the combined effect conveys a sense of European orderliness that still exudes Southern grace and welcome. "I like an informal elegance," Perin says.
Other charming elements include the thigh-high raised bed for nepeta blooms, covered in woven willow hurdles, giving the impression that a fairy-tale giant dropped his flower basket. Oversize urns and animal
A metal fountain sits on a compass rose crafted from fieldstone.
statuary of whippets, swans, and squirrels populate every pocket of the garden, including a bulbous metal fountain on the south terrace (a favorite cocktail-party spot) that gurgles atop a compass rose patterned from long cut strips of fieldstone.
Out where the back gardens yield to grass and just beyond the fence next door, what is that very long, very straight strip of pavement? "Oh, that's the Mellons' private runway," Perin explains. It hasn't been quite as busy since Bunny Mellon died. "It's the most beautiful runway I've ever seen," Perin says of the airstrip flanked by rolling fields, with the lush backdrop of the Blue Ridge to the west. "They could land twenty jets a day and I wouldn't care."
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Q: How to trim columns with NaN while concatenating two series I am doing so:
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  yfinance.download('btc-usd',interval="1d")["Close"],
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],axis=1)

And this gives me a dataframe with NaN values, like this:
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1980-12-12    0.128348           NaN
1980-12-12    0.128348           NaN
1980-12-16    0.112723           NaN
1980-12-17    0.115513           NaN
1980-12-18    0.118862           NaN
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2021-12-27  180.330002  50640.417969
2021-12-28  179.289993  47588.855469
2021-12-29  179.380005  46444.710938
2021-12-30  178.199997  47178.125000
2021-12-31         NaN  47804.882812

I need to remove all rows which contain NaN value.

A: If you data is stored in df, df.dropna(axis="index") will drop rows that have any NaNs in them.

A: There are many posts answering questions around that topic so this might be a duplicate. For instance this post answers a very similar question.
First, you need to assign the result of the concat() call to a variable, say df. Then, you can simply use dropna(). Make sure to set the parameter inplace to False or to reassign the result to a variable so that you can keep track of the rows you're interested in.
df = pandas.concat([
  yfinance.download('btc-usd',interval="1d")["Close"],
  yfinance.download('aapl',interval="1d")["Close"]
],axis=1)
df.dropna(inplace=True)
df
    Close         Close
Date
2021-12-27  180.330002  50640.417969
2021-12-28  179.289993  47588.855469
2021-12-29  179.380005  46444.710938
2021-12-30  178.199997  47178.125000

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The Alternate Tee has been created to reach your performance goals in style and comfort. It has firm fitting arms for those guys that like a firm fit around their biceps. This tee can also be worn as casual wear with jeans as it features our embroidered logo, scallop hem and has a neat look.


As soon as you get the chicken home, salt it inside and out, wrap it and keep it in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.
When you are ready to cook the chicken, first preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
Pat the outside of the chicken dry with paper towels. Liberally salt and pepper the inside of the chicken and stuff the cavity with the all the garlic and lemon. Tie the legs together with kitchen string and tuck the wing tips under the body of the chicken. Place it in a roasting pan just large enough to hold it and the vegetables. Scatter the onion slices, carrots and potatoes around the chicken. Brush the outside of the chicken with the butter and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Roast the chicken for 1 1/2 hours, or until the juices run clear when you cut between a leg and thigh. Remove the chicken to a platter and cover with aluminum foil. Place the vegetables back in the oven and continue cooking for an additional 15 minutes.
When the vegetables are cooked, carve the chicken and place the slices on the platter surrounded by the vegetables. Drizzle some pan juices over the chicken and vegetables.


The Comparative Advantage, Specialization and Exchange unit of this Macroeconomics Homeschool course is designed to help homeschooled students learn about theories related to these economics topics. Parents can use the short videos to introduce topics, break up lessons and keep students engaged.
Students who require an efficient, self-paced course of study to learn about absolute advantage as well as the 'gains from trade' process.
Homeschool parents who need an economics curriculum that appeals to multiple learning types (visual or auditory).
Short quizzes and a comparative advantage, specialization and exchange unit exam confirm understanding or identify any topics that require review.
Define comparative advantage and opportunity costs.
Discuss the reasons that nations trade goods, and find out why specialization is important.
Visit the AP Macroeconomics: Homeschool Curriculum page to learn more.


This is another product from the box of goodies that the K-Beauty Expo sent me to review as part of the Beauty Editor program for 2017.
Calendula helps to soothe skin irritations and has natural antiseptic and antimicrobial properties.
Rubber masks: The new Korean skincare trend.
... I decided to pick up the Vitamin and Calendula type but there are also other kinds such as tea tree, collagen, pearl, lavender, gold and charcoal.
This is a single use mask. The scoop that comes with it is double ended. One end has a scoop and one has an angled spatula for mixing.


"Money talks" (meaning that money has influence) is an old financial saying, cited in print in various forms to before 1700. Bob Dylan's 1964 song, "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)," contains the lyrics "money doesn't talk, it swears." Dylan's lyric line has been included in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and in the Columbia Dictionary of Quotations.
"Money doesn't talk, it swears" means that money not only has influence, but it has great influence, even a perverse influence.
"Money doesn't talk, it screams" is sometimes mistaken for Dylan's "swears." The "screams" version predates the "swears" version.
"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and first released on his 1965 album, Bringing It All Back Home. It was written in the summer of 1964, first performed live on October 10, 1964, and recorded on January 15, 1965. Described by Dylan biographer Howard Sounes as a "grim masterpiece," the song features some of Dylan's most memorable lyrical images. Among the well-known lines sung in the song are "Money doesn't talk, it swears," "Although the masters make the rules, for the wisemen and the fools" and "But even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked." The lyrics express Dylan's anger at hypocrisy, commercialism, consumerism, warmongers and contemporary American culture, but unlike his earlier protest songs, "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" does not express optimism in the possibility of political solutions.
ANSWER: Money talks: meaning it has influence; makes things happen....Money doesn't talk, it swears! Meaning it not only has influence, it is loud and obscene and makes things happen faster. Money has more power than just talking. Hope that helps.
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Women take opioids for a number of different reasons. There are cases in which the woman is suffering from severe pain, and has been prescribed the drugs. Others may use illegal street drugs, such as heroin or opioids that were not prescribed to them. If these women find themselves pregnant, they often wonder whether or not it is safe to take opioids while pregnant. In most cases, particularly when there is an opioid dependency, it is not.
When opioids are taken during pregnancy, it increases the baby's risk of being born with birth defects. Spina bifida is one such birth defect and is a condition in which the spinal cord does not develop properly. A gap appears in the spinal cord, leaving the spine exposed. When this happens, a child's brain, spine, and spinal cord may not develop properly. This often results in the lower limbs being paralyzed and mental handicaps.
The heart of a fetus may also not develop properly if opioids are used during pregnancy. Congenital heart defects, such as hypoplastic left heart syndrome, are less common, but may still be present in a newborn that was exposed to opioids in utero. Hypoplastic left heart syndrome is a birth defect in which the left side of the heart does not develop properly. This affects the normal blood flow through the heart.
Taking opioids, or any other substances, while pregnant can also cause babies to be born with low birth weights. This may be due to the fact that they simply cannot fully develop in the womb or they may be born prematurely. Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) may also be a reason for low birth weights.
NAS is a condition children can experience at birth if they become addicted to substances in the womb. There is a good chance that if the mother is addicted to opioids and continues to use them throughout pregnancy, the baby will be born with NAS. When that is the case, they will need to go through the same withdrawal symptoms any person would after they stop taking opioids. In addition to contributing to a low birth weight, NAS can also cause breathing problems shortly after birth.
Naturally, many women want to stop taking opioids when they discover they are pregnant. This should only be done under the careful advice of a physician. Stopping the drug cold turkey, without using medication or slowly weaning off of it, could cause placental abruption. This is a condition in which the placenta fully or partially separates from the uterus. When this happens, the fetus could suffer from a lack of oxygen and nutrients.
There are a number of complications that could arise when opioids are taken during pregnancy. Women who are taking them and learn they are pregnant need to speak to a doctor as soon as possible.
Other forms of treatment for pain are available, and a doctor will likely want to switch the mother to medication that is safer than opioids for the unborn child. These may include alternatives to opioids such as methadone or Subutex. While these too may result in complications, they are likely to be less severe than those associated with opioid use.


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В представленні знань, об'єктно-орієнтованому програмуванні, is-a це тип відношень між деякими класами D та B, коли D є підкласом (нащадком) класу B (B, в свою чергу, є базовим класом або суперкласом класу D)

Іншими словами, коли говорять «D is-a B» зазвичай мають на увазі, що D — спеціалізація B, а B — узагальнення D. Наприклад, поняття «фрукт» є узагальненням для понять «яблуко», «апельсин» та інших. Можна говорити, що яблуко is-a фрукт.

В об'єктно-орієнтованому програмуванні відношення is-a застосовується у контексті наслідування. Можна сказати, що «яблуко» може наслідувати всі властивості, які є у всіх фруктів.

Відношення is-a протиставляється відношенню has-a, яке утворює дерево відношень — мерономію, або партономію.

У процесі конструювання моделі реального світу (наприклад, комп'ютерна програма) розповсюдженою помилкою є невірний вибір між відношеннями has-a та is-a.

Див. також
 Has-a
 Наслідування (програмування)
 Принцип підстановки Лісков

Об'єктно-орієнтоване програмування
Логічне програмування

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A beautiful painting from Cuzco, Peru that is bountiful in every way. It has fifteen cartouches illustrating the life of the Mother of Jesus Christ, beginning with the moment of Mother Mary's Annunciation, her Marriage to Joseph, Jesus's Birth (Nativity Scene), His Circumcision, His Crucifixion, and His Ascension, and Mother Mary's Assumption. With the Heavenly Father above, the Holy Spirit, and Saint Francis in the lower right, and Saint Benedict in the lower left recieving a rosary from the Blessed Virgin, this rich rendering is wrapped in the sweetest and most powerful of flowers "lilies and roses".


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Welcome to GISSV
The German International School of Silicon Valley is an independent, nonprofit preschool–grade 12 school with two locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Learning in German and English
Our high-quality dual-immersion education helps students reach their full potential in a stimulating environment that fosters critical and imaginative thinking, a passion for lifelong learning and an appreciation for cultural diversity.
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GISSV at a Glance
Working at GISSV
Meeting Students' Needs From Preschool Through High School
GISSV welcomes students of all cultural and ethnic backgrounds. We serve students from two to eighteen years old.
The enrollment period begins during the months of January and February of each year for the upcoming school year. We also accept new students throughout the school year based on availability. Knowledge of the German language is required for all children who enroll after 1st grade.
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Our well-balanced program provides rich project-based and differentiated learning experiences, fostering interests across all subject areas as well as social-emotional competency, critical thinking, artistic expression and physical motor skills.
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We provide highly qualified teachers, small class sizes and an excellent student-to-teacher ratio. Our engaging and ambitious curriculum is enhanced by comprehensive science and technology resources.
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At GISSV, we are instilling an appreciation of life, music, sports, culture and arts among our students. We take responsibility and action for ourselves, others and our planet.
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GISSV has a vibrant international school community thanks to our small class sizes, cohesive, dynamic preschool–12 structure and enriching events that involve all our students, teachers and parents.
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GISSV has campuses in Mountain View and San Francisco. We also connect our students to their local environment by exploring the cultural, natural, academic and entrepreneurial destinations the Bay Area has to offer.
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All GISSV programs are bilingual and based on the German curriculum of the state of Thuringia, which is known and respected for its well-rounded educational approach
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In January 2016, GISSV took a big step forward in fostering environmental consciousness and sustainability on campus: We adopted a plan to become an "Eco-School."
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The Eco-School program started in 1992 after the first and crucial United Nations conference on the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. The program was born in response to the needs identified at this conference. Since then, more than 48,000 schools in nearly 60 countries participate in this initiative, which encourages participation from everyone: students, teachers, school staff, parents and the local community. The program not only improves the school environment, but it also encourages environmental sustainability and stewardship on the school campus, in the local community and globally.
GISSV formally adopted the Eco-School program in January 2016 and will implement it in three stages. Completing each stage will earn GISSV a respective award: the Bronze Award, the Silver Award, and eventually, the Green Flag Award, the highest award in the Eco-Schools program.
At the end of our 2015/2016 school year, we reached our goal and got the award of the bronze flag. Many steps into the direction of the silver flag are already made. Our school community agreed on three pathways with regard to environment protection for the school years 2016/2017 and 2017/2018: "consumption and waste", "healthy school" and the mandatory topic "energy". The "GISSV Goes Green" project week, successful participation in the "Greenlight"- Festival, "Walk-/Bike-/Roll-to-School Day", ecological topics in our curriculum, field trips to environmental institutions nearby and numerous other activities are the living proof for the education of an environmental awareness and stewardship, linked to our curriculum. In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's words:
In the living nature nothing happens that is not in connection with the whole.
It is this connection that we want to establish at our school: "GISSV Goes Green."
ECO-school Awards
Once a school has registered as an Eco-School USA and implemented all necessary steps, they can apply for an Eco-Schools award for concentrating on one or more environmental focus areas, or pathways, that are most relevant to the school. There are three levels of the award system: Bronze, Silver and the prestigious Green Flag.
In school year 2015/ 2016 the GISSV joined the worldwide ECO-school movement, an ECO-Committee was formed that includes teacher representatives from all age-groups and campus locations, students, staff and parents, and our current Eco-Code "GISSV Goes Green" was created. We are currently concentrating on three pathways: "Consumption and Waste", "Energy" and "Healthy School".
The Bronze Award
In June 2016 we could already achieve the Bronze Award based on our work on the pathway "Consumption and Waste". Students, parents and teachers analyzed the school's waste during the 2015 GISSV Goes Green Project Days. They jointly developed an action plan and implemented compost, CRV and paper recycling at the Mountain View school campus during the 2015/2016 school year.
We are now preparing steps and actions for the application of the Silver Award by achieving even more significant progress on these three pathways and creating a new Eco-code. We are on a good way: Our Eco-Code will be renewed with the help of the ideas of all GISSV students, it shall state our school's environmental values in a memorable way for students and community. Furthermore we could achieve great successes also during this school year with regard to the pathways "Energy" and "Healthy School" - on the one hand we could switch conventional lights in major parts of the school to LED lights and on the other hand we could reduce triggers of asthma by switching our cleaning supplies over to the brand Green Label. Our aim is to be able to apply for the Silver Award by the end of the 2017/2018 school year.
Our school community will be informed of all the progress our ECO-Committee achieves via our "Friday Folder" and on this webpage.
(We are also working on a whole-school curriculum concept that shall link our environmental curriculum and school-wide projects and allow for the development of environmental stewardship in all of our GISSV students. )
Our ultimate aim is in educating our students to feel empowered, environmentally responsible, active members of our society with a wide knowledge base on environmental topics. And as a sign of this being awarded the Green Flag Award of the worldwide ECO-schools organization.
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We are dreaming of a GREEN Christmas
We've all heard the song "White Christmas", but what about a "Green Christmas"? This holiday season, we can all make an effort to reduce our carbon footprint and be environmentally conscious, without any less fun!
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Save the Trees - Spare the Paper Towels
As we all know, we use a lot of paper towels to dry our hands. This is a big waste because it's so easy to replace them with a fabric alternative!
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Spare the Plastic While Shopping - And Share Your Ideas
As we all know, plastic bags used for fruits and vegetables create a large pollution problem. Luckily, it's very easy to replace them! You can easily pack your fruits and vegetables in a healthy way - healthy for you and the environment with reusable bags made of fabrics.
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GISSV Goes Green Days 2021
This week we had our annual GISSV Green project days on both our campuses
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Green Project Days 2019
During our biennial "GISSV Goes Green" project days, students were deeply immersed in learning about our environment.
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How to Protect Marin Wildlife?
Shore Buddies founder Malte Niebelschuetz visited GISSV San Francisco to talk to the Kindergarten and Elementary students about Ocean Plastic Pollution.
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Bike-and-Walk-to-School Day - SF Campus
The San Francisco Eco-Committee organized a very successful event last week as part of the city-wide Bike to Work Day.
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At the beginning of the school year 2015/2016, GISSV started to offer the walk-/bike-/roll-to-school day once a month. Before that, it was only once a year. Shall we do it once a week?!
Why is Walk-/Bike-/Roll-to-School Day important to GISSV?
The first reason, but not the only one, is that it helps to maintain a cleaner environment. Less cars means less air pollution.
The community benefits, too. The parking lot and the streets close to the school are not so crowded, so for parents, students and neighbors who really need to park there, it is not as hard.
Walking or biking to school is a very healthy habit that makes you do some exercise while you get fresh air!
Also, a point to think about is that letting older children go alone to school makes them feel (and be) more independent.
Two more arguments in favor of not using the car is that you don't have to pay for gas and that some places are more accessible to you.
So be active and healthy and participate in the walk-/bike-/roll-to-school day!
A tip for all families who don't live close to the school: you can also participate by parking your car a couple of blocks away from the school and enjoy a nice walk.
The biennial "GISSV Goes Green" project days teaches preschool through 11th grade students about environmental issues and stewardship through hands-on projects.
Students select the project they would like to work on over a three-day period. At the end, the projects are explained and exhibited by the students to the entire GISSV community of students, teachers, staff and parents. For previous "GISSV Goes Green" days, the mixed-age project groups studied topics including:
From Farm to Table: Where food comes from and how it makes its way to your plate.
Making New Out of Old: Learn how to reuse and restore old furniture.
Everything About Paper: Learn how to avoid wasting paper and recycling paper to make new paper and other paper products.
Get the Monster Out of the Bin: Examine the path of GISSV's waste to the disposal site and figure out ways to reduce waste and encourage recycling.
Great and Green Volunteer Work: Learn about restoring and maintaining a state park, what are native and invasive plant species, and volunteer opportunities.
Bees Will Buzz: How is honey and beeswax made? What are the dynamics of the beehive? What is happening to the bee population?
From the years 2012 to 2015, students from GISSV elementary, middle and high school participated in the annual "Greenlight Film Festival."*
The Greenlight Film Festival was an annual Earth Day celebration with the purpose of raising awareness of the environment by letting students create short videos which will be shown to the public.
Our GISSV students were very motivated to showcase their own creativity and interest into a movie while making a statement about environment and and environmental changes.
The finalist videos were shown at the annual Greenlight Film Festival which was held at the Cubberley Theater in Palo Alto. During the last years we had several finalists among GISSV students (Please click on the titles to see the video clips):
Finalist I category middle school: "GISSV- Trash Challenge", Kimi J., Laura F., Mila K. (grade 6)
Finalist I open category: "California Catastrophie!" (starting at minute 46:30), Ane-Britt B., Anya V. (grade 5)
"California Drought", grade 5a & Mrs. Magiera
"The Banana's Journey", grade 5a & Mrs. Magiera
Finalist I open category: "Barbie Goes Green", Magdalena N. & Emily J. (grade 4)
Appearance in "Then and Now - Greenlight Film Festival Finalist 2014" (GISSV competition entry starting at minute 1.06)
Finalist I open category: "The Trash Cleaner for the Environment", Hendrik D., Gabriel M., Sebastian V. (grade 4) & Mrs. Magiera
Finalist I open category: "The T-Shirt Idea", grade 3 & Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Spreen
Finalist I open category: "We Want to Make a Difference", grade 1b & Mrs. Dillinger
Finalist I category middle school: "save.", Johannes N. & Eric R. (grade 7)
Winner I category middle school: "How to be green", Johannes N., Pavel T., Jannik M. (grade 6)
Winner I open category: "Greenlight Power", Karen R.-M., Clara F., Emetis A., Serena F. (grade 3)
Winner I special prize: "Living the Green Life", Maximilian R. and Emilia R. (grade 7)
*Unfortunately, this event has been discontinued.
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Nadine Epstein is a writer, artist, and teacher living in Washington, D.C., and founder of the Center for Creative Change. Rosita Arvigo is a naprapathic and holistic physician as well as founder of the Ix Chel Tropical Research Center and the Terra Nova medicinal plant preserve in Belize. Epstein and Arvigo are co-authors of two books on Maya healing practices. Their book is Spiritual Bathing: Healing Traditions and Rituals From Around the World, which was published in 2003. They would love to hear about your experiences of spiritual bathing at www.spiritualbathing.com.


Japan Pavillion's exhibition at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia curated by a team lead by Momoyo Kaijima, with Laurent Stalder and Yu Iseki will showcase over 40 exhibitors ranging from university design studios, architectural offices to contemporary artistic practices from all over the world from the last twenty years.
This exhibition is an extension of the project which Kaijima has been working on since the late 1990s. Through fieldwork and observations, Kaijima has been compiling people's life and the reality of cities in a form of guidebook using architectural drawings as references.
Capturing the realness of cities with keen and humorous point of view, the project questioned the nature of architecture from the perspective of its users and received a strong response in and outside of the country.
Since then, in the last twenty years when our society made a remarkable change with the advance of informatization and globalization, a similar projects that followed her approach arose spontaneously across the world.
By collecting, showcasing works and architectural drawings around the world, whether influenced by her project or naturally occurred, and looking over them as "Architectual Ethnography," the exhibition aims to develop and deepen the discussion about life and architecture, the role of architecture: our society in the future.
Life obviously exceeds architecture. What does this mean for architecture? How can the myriad situations that both feed into and result from the design of a building be effectively mapped? How does one address architectural drawings, not just as simple notational systems but as instruments to document, discuss, and evaluate architecture? How can they work to explore people's actual usages, needs, and aspirations, and moreover to give shape to individualized life forms in today's globalized society?
Momoyo Kaijima (b.1969, Tokyo) graduated from the Faculty of Domestic Science at Japan Women's University in 1991. She founded Atelier Bow-Wow with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto in 1992. In 1994 she received her post-graduate degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. During 1996-1997 she was a guest student with scholarship from Switzerland at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ). In 2000 she completed her post-graduate program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. She served as an assistant professor at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba during 2000-2009, and continued to teach there as an associate professor.
In 2012 she received the RIBA International Fellowship. From 2017 she has been serving as a Professor of Architectural Behaviorology at ETHZ. Taught as a visiting professor at the Department of Architecture at Harvard GSD (2003, 2016), guest professor at ETHZ (2005-07), as well as at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2011-12), Rice University (2014-15), Delft University of Technology (2015-16), and Columbia University (2017). While engaging in design projects for houses, public buildings and station plazas, she has conducted numerous investigations of the city through architecture such as Made in Tokyo and Pet Architecture.
Laurent Stalder (b. 1970, Lausanne) studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ), graduated in 1996. From 1996 to 1997 he undertook a scholarship with the Swiss Institute for Archaeology and Architectural Research in Cairo, and from 1997 to 2001 served as an assistant at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) of the Department of Architecture of the ETH, where he obtained his doctorate in 2002. In the same year he became an assistant professor of architectural history at the History Department of the Université Laval in Québec / Canada.
In 2006 he took up a post as an assistant professor of architectural theory at the Institute gta, where he has served as an associate professor since 2011. In 2009 he was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Institute gta.
Yu Iseki (b. 1978, Nagano) graduated from Chiba University. He has previously worked as a member of the Planning Division of the Akiyoshidai International Art Village, assistant curator of the 2005 Yokohama Triennale, curator at the Shiseido Gallery, coordinator at the 2014 Yokohama Triennale, and has served in a curator of Contemporary Art Center at Art Tower Mito since December 2014.
The Japan Foundation, the organizer and commissioner of the Japan Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, is Japan's only institution dedicated to carrying out comprehensive international cultural exchange programs throughout the world. It was established in 1972 as a special legal entity supervised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was reorganized as an independent administrative institution on October 1, 2003. The Foundation has 24 overseas offices in 23 countries and creates opportunities for people-to-people interactions through conducting various activities and information services to deepen mutual understanding between the people of Japan and other countries/regions with its mission statement: Cultivating friendship and ties between Japan and the World.
International Conference by architects and researchers will be held at The Japan Pavilion as follows. Reservation is not required, so feel free to join in. The conference will be conducted in English.


As temperatures rise and flowers bloom, we can feel the holiday of Shavuot approaching – perhaps our sweetest holiday – when the Book of Ruth is read in the synagogue. For a unique and even paradigm-shifting reading of Ruth, I highly recommend Rising Moon, by Rabbi Moshe Miller of Jerusalem. It is one of the most fascinating books of modern biblical interpretation I have come across. Rising Moon is structured like a drama in four acts, reflecting Ruth's four chapters. It weaves together Biblical, midrashic and Kabbalistic sources, along with a wide range of insights from outside Jewish tradition – Adam Smith, Charles Darwin and the novel Dune all make key appearances. This eclectic mix of sources is employed to make a provocative claim about about the Book of Ruth in particular and about the history and destiny of the Jewish nation more broadly.
Coronation of King David of Israel, as depicted in the Paris Psalter (10th century).
Malkhut in its essence is an emergent property. It must never be asked for. It must be a natural outgrowth of a development that has reached a stage that demands integration. It must grow out of a vast complex of interrelationships that insists upon it. Asking for malkhut guarantees its failure. You cannot arbitrarily organize a complex system successfully or effectively impose an idea over society.
Malkhut, in Miller's view, does not derive its authority from any single imperial presence "crowned and resplendent." Such a top-down conception of leadership might better be connected with the word "memshalah," or "dominion," which is also linguistically connected to the roots of Sha'ul or "asked for." Rather, malkhut emerges from a complex web of connections and relationships. The name of the king is synonymous with the society itself, as the Talmud writes in regard to the Queen/Kingdom of Sheba: "Whoever says Malkhat Sheva refers to a woman is mistaken. Rather it means the Kingdom of Sheba" (Bava Batra 15b).
According to Miller, malkhut emerges from a web of personal relationships between members of the nation. It is therefore fitting that some of the greatest love stories of the Bible all emerge alongside the first major instantiation of malkhut – eg, the stories of Ruth and Noami, Ruth and Boaz, Saul and David, Jonathan and David, David and Batsheva. Even the named David, or "Dawid," essentially means love, as we see in the famous statement from the Song of Songs "ani l'dodi v'dodi lee," or "I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine." Love, of course, cannot be forced, but emerges naturally and organically to ultimately produce a union that is greater than the sum of its parts. Love, argues, Miller, is the foundation for authentic Jewish kingship, more so than expressions of dominance and power.
I had this in mind this past Jerusalem Day, as we celebrated the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem's reunification during the War of 1967. Jerusalem Day, as with any civic expression of Jewish and Israeli pride, is not without its political detractors, even within the Israeli public and broader Jewish community. The name Jerusalem, or Yerushalayim, connotes "sheleimut," or "wholeness." When we consider what a fractious and complex place modern Jerusalem is, this wholeness may not always be immediately apparent. Still, "reunification" is a misnomer for the events of 1967. Jerusalem is an "emergent" entity, interrelated with the heart of the Jewish nation and greater than the sum of its pulsing and moving parts, and thus can never be divided by political means. The power of Jerusalem Day derives not solely from the 1967 conquest, but from the inherent significance of Jerusalem, as the City of David and the center of malkhut as it emerged and developed throughout history. This is not the sort of thing that is subject to the whims of outside monarchs or even internal political maneuverings, though these historical developments are the backdrop against with our love affair with Jerusalem plays out.
Perhaps the truest form of malkhut as imagined in the book of Ruth and in Miller's enchanting book remains as a Messianic ideal. There's a place for "memshallah," or "dominion," in our current day and age – it is preferable to the lawless individualism of the Book of Judges. Indeed, part of Eve's curse in Eden is "v'hu yimshal bach," "and he will rule over you." This "will to power" is in some deep sense an inextricable part of the world in which we live. Yet identifying and appreciating the nature of Biblical malkhut offers an antidote to contemporary efforts to sacralize the state as some kind of benevolent or meaningful entity. Readying ourselves for malkhut means looking within, strengthening our foundations, as well as our relationships and connections with others. It's through the fortifying of these bonds that our tradition suggests the Messiah will eventually arrive.


- Does it really need all those gradients and "waves inside waves inside waves"?
Much closer - great work! First I'd remove the gradients and the drop shadow. Then I'd make the outer circle blue like it is but the inner fill and the wave in two different colors. And I'd do it all in Adobe Animate so it's easier to be precise.
Your concept is rock solid and I think this logo has the potential of becoming one of the alltime greats.
I can try to have a go at it once I'm done with some other stuff.
That's a fresh new look right there. Maybe save for 2.0?
evilvibes wrote: That's a fresh new look right there. Maybe save for 2.0?
I think I'll leave it there for now, don't want to spend to much more time on it. I'll look to merge it soon into develop branch.
I like that design a lot. It looks pretty google material-esque.
My only comment would be that the "point" of the inner drop on the right hand side doesn't look quite right - hard to explain, but I guess the gradient of the inner curve isn't quite matching the outer one?


Fresh from selling Trip.com to Ctrip, Travis Katz joins the PundIT Show with two other luminaries to discuss various matters of state.
Joining Katz for the fifth outing of our new series of talk shows are Miriam Moscovici (BCD Travel) and Adam Gill (Vivid Travel).
The panel discuss the process of selling a company, how to integrate into big companies, and what new companies should do to try and stand out from the crowd.
This episode was recorded on Wednesday 8 November 2017.


Play Unknown Games online and free at Colouredgames.
pulled into an unknown world, must a young Wizard master magical spells, fighting dangerous enemies, gain powerful capabilities and search find a mystical land around his way home.
Eric is an experienced fighter, looking for a new job. He took the long way members argued him to an unknown village where he found an old clan, suffered attacks by a cruel legendary Monster. They asked Eric, the monster to kill for a decent amount. take a trip together with Eric and help him to fight the monster! Both images look closer and try, which difference within the time limit!
Lock and load and destination for the hordes of foreigners come just for you! You were abandoned on an unknown planet, try as long as possible to survive, so the rescue teams can get off! kill foreigners to gain ammo pickups and points. Use the points to upgrade your weapons! Survive how many waves can you?
Fred's brand new bicycle was stolen by an unknown bully. Help him put the clues together and find his bike...While in the game use your Mouse to open the menu by moving the mouse pointer to the top of the screen and the menu should appear. Once in the menu you may use either: SELECT, TOUCH, LOOK AND TALK. Which allows you to interact with the other characters and objects in the game. You can open the inventory by clicking on the inventory button in the menu. When you pick some item open the inventory and place it inside and close the inventory. Later if you need an item you can click and select from the inventory. This game is quiet challenging that requires you to spend some time and be patient. Collect various items and use them appropriately. But for those of you, who can't take a challenge! there is a walkthrough in the help section of the game!!!


Eric Walkingshaw is an assistant professor of computer science at Oregon State University. His research interests are in language design, domain-specific languages, type systems, functional programming, and visual languages. He has developed formal languages and domain-specific languages for representing and computing with variability, experimental game theory, causal modeling, and producing interactive explanations. His work has earned two best paper awards.
Walkingshaw has a BA in creative writing and a BS in computer science (with a minor in applied mathematics) from the University of Washington (2006), and an MS and PhD in computer science from Oregon State University (2013). Before joining the faculty at Oregon State, he spent one year as a visiting researcher at the University of Marburg in Germany. From 2005-2007 he worked as a software developer in Seattle.


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Everyone has the right to live well, living in a place that is safe and comfortable. As we move into the uncertainty of climate change the increase in weather extremes, especially heat in Melbourne, is expected to have significant negative impacts on comfort for existing apartments. For these homes to be able to stay comfortable, without significant cooling energy, will be a challenge. This means that people in homes that do not have cooling systems are facing potentially higher health risks. Further, if there are infrastructure failures and there is absence of energy for cooling even more people will be at risk.
This project analyses six apartment buildings and models their performance based on the extremes of the 2009 Victorian heatwave that began on the 27 January with daytime temperatures topping 43°C across 3 days, with night-time minimums of above 25°C (BoM 2009). The project specifically seeks to determine how the Melbourne apartment samples perform in the context of the international standards, and finally, looking at retrofit options to future proof apartments and make them more liveable.
The result of the six buildings that were tested against the international standards showed that none of the apartments would comply with the standards under these heat wave conditions. Additional modelling showed that even the worst performing building could be retrofitted using standard retrofit strategies to comply with two of the four international standards and protect their residents.
Key recommendations of this research are that the retrofits tested should be considered for all existing apartments, that new apartment regulations consider best practice international standards for summer comfort and finally that until retrofits are able to be implemented the residents of apartments have an action plan if heat wave conditions occur.


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Charles Francis Feeney (born April 23, 1931) is an American businessman and philanthropist who made his fortune as a co-founder of the Hong Kong based Duty Free Shoppers Group. He is the founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies, one of the largest private charitable foundations in the world. Feeney gave away his fortune in secret for many years, until a business dispute resulted in his identity being revealed in 1997. Feeney has given away more than $8 billion.

Early life and education
Feeney was born in New Jersey during the Great Depression and came from a modest background of blue collar Irish-American parents in Elizabeth, New Jersey. His mother was a hospital nurse, and his father was an insurance underwriter. His ancestry can be traced to County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. Feeney graduated from Elizabeth's St. Mary of the Assumption High School in 1949; he has credited his charitable spirit to his education at St. Mary. His 2016 donation of $250,000 was the largest in the school's history from a single contributor. He served as a U.S. Air Force radio operator during the Korean War, and began his career selling duty-free liquor to U.S. naval personnel at Mediterranean ports in the 1950s.

He graduated from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. He was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi, and an honorary member of the Sphinx Head Society.

Duty-Free Shoppers
The concept of "duty-free shopping"—offering high-end concessions to travelers, free of import taxes—was in its infancy when Feeney and his college classmate Robert Warren Miller started selling duty-free liquor to American servicemen in Asia in the 1950s. They later expanded to selling cars and tobacco, and founded the Duty Free Shoppers Group (DFS Group) on November 7, 1960. DFS began operations in Hong Kong, later expanding to Europe and other continents. DFS' first major breakthrough came in the early 1960s, when it secured the exclusive concession for duty-free sales in Hawaii, allowing it to market its products to Japanese travelers.

DFS eventually expanded to off-airport duty-free stores and large downtown Galleria stores and became the world's largest travel retailer. By the mid-1990s, DFS was distributing profits of up to $300 million a year to Feeney, Miller, and two smaller partners. "The rich returns came about in large part because DFS, like most other retailers in Asia, took a far higher markup on Western luxury items than was the case in Europe and the U.S. In New York, a retailer might price a designer handbag at 2.2 or 2.3 times the wholesale price. But in Asia, the retail price was a standard three times wholesale."

In 1996, Feeney and a partner sold their stakes in DFS to the French luxury conglomerate Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy. Miller opposed the sale, and before a presumptive lawsuit could reveal that Feeney's stake was owned not in fact by him but by The Atlantic Philanthropies, Feeney outed himself in a New York Times article written by Judith Miller. Atlantic made $1.63 billion from the sale.

Philanthropy
In 1982, Feeney created The Atlantic Philanthropies, and in 1984, secretly transferred his entire 38.75% stake in DFS, then worth about $500 million, to the foundation. Not even his business partners knew that he no longer personally owned any part of DFS. For years, Atlantic gave away money in secret, requiring recipients to not reveal the sources of their donations. "Beyond Mr. Feeney's reticence about blowing his own horn, 'it was also a way to leverage more donations—some other individual might contribute to get the naming rights. The largest single beneficiary of Feeney's giving is his alma mater Cornell University, which has received nearly $1 billion in direct and Atlantic gifts, including a donation of $350 million enabling the creation of Cornell's New York City Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island. Through Atlantic, he has also donated around one billion dollars to education in Ireland, mostly to third-level institutions such as the University of Limerick and Dublin City University. Feeney has given substantial personal donations to Sinn Féin, a left-wing Irish nationalist party that is historically associated with the IRA. He has also supported the modernization of public-health structures in Vietnam.

In February 2011, Feeney became a signatory to The Giving Pledge. In his letter to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, the founders of The Giving Pledge, Feeney writes, "I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living—to personally devote oneself to meaningful efforts to improve the human condition. More importantly, today's needs are so great and varied that intelligent philanthropic support and positive interventions can have greater value and impact today than if they are delayed when the needs are greater." He gave away his last $7 million in late 2016, to the same recipient of his first charitable donations: Cornell. Over the course of his life, he has given away more than $8 billion. At its height, Atlantic had over 300 employees and 10 offices across the globe.

In July 2017, The Atlantic Philanthropies noted the existence of an advance-fee scam email claiming to distribute money to "randomly selected individuals" worldwide, and using a link to the Wikipedia article to falsely verify the scammer's identity as "Charles Feeney".

On September 14, 2020, Feeney closed down the Atlantic Philanthropies after the nonprofit accomplished its mission of giving away all of Feeney's money by 2020.

Accolades
Feeney has been called the "James Bond of Philanthropy" by Forbes magazine for the stealthy and successful manner in which he anonymously donated approximately $8 billion to various charities. In 1997, Time said that "Feeney's beneficence already ranks among the grandest of any living American." He has shunned publicity, although he cooperated in his 2007 biography, The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune Without Anyone Knowing. Feeney is also the subject of a documentary by RTÉ Factual, titled Secret Billionaire: The Chuck Feeney Story.

In 2010, he received the Cornell Icon of Industry Award. In 2012, all the universities of Ireland, North and South, jointly conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Laws on Feeney. During the year, he also received Ireland's "Presidential Distinguished Service Award" for Irish Abroad. In 2012, he also was awarded the UCSF Medal for outstanding personal contributions to the University of California, San Francisco's health science mission. In 2014, Warren Buffett said of Feeney, "[he's] my hero and Bill Gates' hero. He should be everybody's hero." On the 160th Anniversary of Queensland being created, June 6, 2019, Feeney was made an Honorary Queensland Great for his contribution to Queensland.

In December 2020, Cornell University announced that they would rename East Avenue, a road that goes through the center of campus and sits alongside his alma mater, Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, "Feeney Way," to honor Feeney for his contributions to the university.

Fordham University presented Feeney with an honorary doctorate of humane letters on March 8, 2022.

RMIT University presented Feeney with an honorary doctorate of Law on December 14, 2022.

Personal life
Feeney is known for his frugality. According to a New York Times article in 2017, "Until he was 75, he traveled only in coach, and carried reading materials in a plastic bag." He does not own a car or a house and wears a $10 Casio F-91W watch.

As of 2016, he lived in a rented apartment in San Francisco, with a remaining balance of $2 million.

First marriage
His first wife, Danielle, is French Algerian. At the time they first met, she was a student at Sorbonne. They were married in Paris in October 1959, first in a civil ceremony at the town hall, and the next day in church. They have four daughters: Caroleen A. Feeney, Diane V. Feeney, Juliette M. Feeney-Timsit, Leslie D. Feeney-Baily; and one son, Patrick A. Feeney. He divorced Danielle between 1990 and 1991.

Second marriage
His current wife, Helga, whom he married in 1995, is his former secretary.

References

External links

 "Secret Billionaire—The Chuck Feeney Story"biography published by Irish Independent.
 documentary originally broadcast by RTÉ Factual

1931 births
20th-century American businesspeople
American people of Irish descent
Philanthropists from New Jersey
Cornell University School of Hotel Administration alumni
Giving Pledgers
Honorary Companions of the Order of Australia
21st-century philanthropists
Living people
Businesspeople from Elizabeth, New Jersey
20th-century American philanthropists
American people of the Korean War
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EGFR mutant-specific immunohistochemistry has high specificity and sensitivity for detecting targeted activating EGFR mutations in lung adenocarcinoma
W A Cooper1,2,
B Yu3,4,
P Y Yip4,5,6,
C C Ng3,
T Lum1,
M Farzin7,
R J Trent3,4,
B Mercorella3,
A Clarkson7,
M R J Kohonen-Corish2,6,8,
L G Horvath4,5,6,
J G Kench1,4,6,
B McCaughan4,9,
A J Gill4,7,
S A O'Toole1,4,6
1Department of Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
2School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
3Department of Molecular and Clinical Genetics, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
4Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
5Department of Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
6Kinghorn Cancer Centre and Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
7Department of Anatomical Pathology and Northern Cancer Translational Research Unit, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
8St Vincent's Clinical School, University of NSW, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
9Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
Correspondence to Associate Professor Wendy Cooper, Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Pathology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Missenden Rd, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia; wendy.cooper{at}sswahs.nsw.gov.au
Aim We assessed the diagnostic accuracy of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutant-specific antibodies for detecting two common activating EGFR mutations.
Methods Immunohistochemical expression of mutation-specific antibodies against EGFR exon 19 deletion E746-A750 ((c.2235_2249del15 or c.2236_2250del15, p. Glu746_Ala750del) and exon 21 L858R point mutation (c.2573T>G, p.Leu858Arg) were assessed in a cohort of 204 resected early stage node negative lung adenocarcinomas, and protein expression was compared with DNA analysis results from mass spectrometry analysis.
Results Of seven cases with L858R point mutation, six were positive by immunohistochemistry (IHC). There were three false positive cases using L858R IHC (sensitivity 85.7%, specificity 98.5%, positive predictive value 66.7%, negative predictive value 99.5%). All seven E746-A750 exon 19 deletions identified by mutation analysis were positive by IHC. Four additional cases were positive for exon 19 IHC but negative by mutation analysis. The sensitivity of exon 19 IHC for E746-A750 was 100%, specificity 98.0%, positive predictive value 63.6% and negative predictive value 100%.
Conclusions Mutant-specific EGFR IHC has good specificity and sensitivity for identifying targeted activating EGFR mutations. Although inferior to molecular genetic analysis of the EGFR gene, IHC is highly specific and sensitive for the targeted EGFR mutations. The antibodies are likely to be of clinical value in cases where limited tumour material is available, or in situations where molecular genetic analysis is not readily available.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jclinpath-2013-201607


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Cloudera and Tech Data forge strategic partnership in Australia and New Zealand
By APSM on	 September 11, 2018 Big Data, Cloud Computing, Communication, Cyber Security, Data Centres, Information, Movers & Shakers, Security, Technology
Tech Data appointed as Cloudera's first Australian distributor to deliver integrated solution suite for big data analytics and machine learning
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