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A First Chapter With Which I Still Am Pleased
(Offered as potential diversion from a grim summer; for sale on Amazon.)
The last decade of the Twentieth Century was less than half over when we had one of the wettest springs on record in Western Washington. That's saying something when you live between the Japanese Current and the peaks of the Cascade Mountains. It hadn't been all that long since the Berlin Wall was torn down, which I remember because a friend of mine who had been there brought me a chunk of concrete from the Wall to use as a paperweight.
It was late April. I had an appointment in the state capitol that afternoon, a family with a missing daughter. My VW hydroplaned most of the way down the interstate from Seattle, banging in and out of the unrepaired ruts and shoved around by the wheel-spray of speeding eighteen-wheelers that had dug those ruts.
West of Olympia, off Highway 8, my scribbled directions led to a rural neighborhood. The homes stood on small plots of acreage cross-fenced for horses. The few horses visible stood hip-shot, as if they suspected spring had been cancelled. I followed a bright new school bus, shiny in the rain, as it distributed a dozen or so grade-school kids in slickers or ski jackets. They trudged up different driveways like penitents on the way to confession. A whole winter of rain can dampen the spirits of even Western Washington kids.
The house I was looking for turned out to be a sprawling old rambler on the shore of Oyster Bay. Mature Douglas firs were spaced across the property. I parked under one. A woman opened the front door before I reached it. She was tall and big-boned, and it took a moment to notice she carried a lot more on her hips than was fashionable. Her pale face had good bones, but its relative gauntness didn't go with the hips; it didn't take a trained detective to suspect some kind of diet in progress. Her light hair appeared to be fading rather than turning grey. There were laugh lines around her wide mouth, but she wasn't laughing now. She wore jeans and a man's green silk shirt. No makeup, no jewelry.
"Mr. Hummel? I'm Mildred Filmore."
She offered a firm handshake and led me through a spacious foyer into a big living room with wide picture windows on the bay. Across the rain-speckled water, lights of other homes twinkled cozily through near-solid evergreens.
"A great view," I said.
"Yes. In the clear weather, you can just see Mount Rainier off in the distance. We bought this place when Ron passed his probation with the state. Of course we could never afford a place out here now."
It was a canned speech she must have given a hundred times, without thought or effort. She got me settled with coffee and took hers to an upright recliner across the room.
"I hope you will excuse me," she said formally. "I just feel awkward about this whole thing." She paused. "I don't really know what to say to you. Somehow it feels disloyal to Jennifer to talk about her to strangers. I'm sorry. I hope I haven't offended you."
I revised my opinion on her appearance from diet-in-progress to stress. "It's not that easy to get me to take offense. I am a stranger, and in the same circumstances, I wouldn't know what to say to me, either."
"Do you have children, Mr. Hummel?"
An old pain came and went. It was a predictable question. And none of her business. I didn't like to discuss my personal affairs with strangers, either.
"I'm not married," I said.
"Oh," she said. "I'm sorry."
"So am I, sometimes. On the other hand, sometimes I'm not sorry at all."
"I guess it's the same for married people, except in reverse." Then she put her hand to her mouth as if she had made a damning admission.
I smiled past her discomfort. "My Georgia grandmother was always quoting a piece of a poem: She's sure she missed some paradise, because she had to stick and grind — while he, on aching feet, is sure he left it somewhere far behind."
She really looked at me then, for the first time. "I've never heard that. I guess I thought private investigators who quote poetry were something on TV. Do you know what those lines are from?"
I shook my head. "My grandmother had what you might call eclectic tastes in poetry. I was raised on stuff like that. I never thought to ask her."
"Eclectic," she repeated. "Did my husband tell you I'm a librarian?"
"No, ma'am." I sipped some of my coffee.
"You must have had an interesting childhood, growing up with a grandmother like that."
"You could even say lucky, and I wouldn't disagree. The thing is, we're not here to interview me. We're here to interview you."
She didn't smile. "I guess I've always been good at putting off unpleasant things. This is so — well, melodramatic."
"But you share your husband's concern about your daughter's whereabouts?"
"Share?" She didn't like the taste of the word. "I've been nagging him for days to do something! It's just like him to put something off and off, and then take the drastic step."
"Have either of you been up to Auburn to check on her?"
"I was afraid to," she said simply. "She's so damned — independent. Acted as if I was trying to smother her, if I showed any interest in her affairs." Her voice trembled with something like righteous indignation. "She said I didn't want to turn loose the apron strings. Me!" She stopped abruptly, having found it too easy after all to talk about her daughter to a stranger.
"So you're afraid everything is just fine, and she will chew you up good for thinking she couldn't be alone for a month without your interference?"
She sighed. "She has the most cutting tongue I've ever heard. Ron says it's our own fault: heredity, you know. If we hadn't wanted bright, witty kids we shouldn't have" — she made a face — "spawned."
I couldn't help laughing. She smiled too, finally. It all seemed so ordinary and normal: Ozzie and Harriet in Olympia. Just a couple of doting parents, struggling with the fact that their bright, witty kids were growing up and away.
Perhaps too far away, in this instance.
A shadow crossed her face, as if she had caught my thought. She sat forward and carefully placed her coffee cup on the floor.
"I can stand anything as long as nothing bad has happened to her. The last time we spoke on the phone, she hurt my feelings. I can't even remember what she said now, that's how important it was. I hung up on her. Oh, God!" Tears began to leak silently from her eyes.
"I never even told her I loved her. I always tell her. I kept waiting for her to call back. So we could make up. When she didn't, I tried to call. There was no answer. I even tried to call at three in the morning! I just go through the motions of the day, waiting for a chance to call her. And she's never there." She got up slowly, as if her unspoken fears had rendered her infirm. "Pl-please excuse me, Mr. Hummel. Ron will be home soon."
She left me alone in the gathering gloom of the afternoon. A lone cormorant arrowed low across the bay, like something evil on the way back to hell. I drank my coffee and tried not to believe in premonitions.
Before I could get too morbid, tires crunched on gravel and her husband came home to his sad, chilly house on the bay.
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I Have a Dream (It Feels Like Home) by by The City Harmonic
Mixed Media, Music
Paul Delger
The Canadian Christian band The City Harmonic explores themes such as love, dependence on God, and the hope of heaven in its first full-length project I Have a Dream (It Feels Like Home). The song "Manifesto," a declaration of the Christian faith, helped the band land the 2011 "Modern Worship Song of the Year" and "Recorded Song of the Year" awards at the Gospel Music Awards Canada Covenant Awards. The entire project draws listeners in with challenging and comforting lyrics and an inviting pop sound. (Kingsway)
Paul Delger is a long time professional writer and inspirational speaker to young people and lives in Kanawha, Iowa.
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Here are the latest price data for Mueller home sales. I know it's not technically the end of 2017 yet, but it's near enough to call it (despite there being two more resale homes entering the Mueller market in the last week).
The median sold price for a Mueller home was lower at $584,900. The maximum list price was a shade over $1m, and the minimum was $215,000 (Affordable Program).
How Much Mueller Home Do You Get For Your 2017 Money?
The median list price per square foot was $282 and the average was $276 and the average and median sizes were right around 3 bedroom 2,200 square feet homes.
The above data was taken from Multiple Listing System sales for the last 365 days, and includes all housing styles within Mueller excluding the Greenway Lofts as the low rise condos there are a different kettle of fish. Given that the builders don't always enter new homes in the MLS, these statistics aren't exhaustive.
How About the Greenway Lofts in 2017?
These low rise condos sold with an average of 815 square feet for $431/square foot. There were only 9 sales, admittedly a turnover of nearly a quarter of the building, but stats on such a small number are subject to larger deviations.
Are Mueller Prices Still Rising?
They were rising steadily. There's a bit of a waver now in the charts.
Mueller is coming along to ten years old now and list prices were steadily rising. The chart on the right shows just detached housing but the picture for all housing styles is a very similar story.
I'm not overly concerned by the big dip in 2017 – that seems to be one of the builders selling several homes that were about 300 square foot over the average all at once and the price per square foot being lower for those models.
Are Buyers Paying Full Price for Mueller Homes?
If you get the right agent on your side, then of course not!
If you split the housing styles into condos (again not including the Greenway Lofts in this), town houses and detached houses, you can see the following.
Town Houses – for the most part in 2017 buyers were getting minor concessions of around 2%. Ish.
Condos fared pretty well – they mostly attracted full price sales. Which you might not expect for condos in the main. Condos at Mueller are a little different though – there aren't that many and they are larger and more house like in design.
Detached Houses remained strong, mostly attracting full price offers or better. Until the end of the year when things started to slow.
Are We Drowning in Mueller Inventory?
Eighteen homes on the market seems high at first – five resale homes and the rest new builds. And then there's the ones that are being built that the builders don't have on the MLS.
If you take a look at the chart below of all housing types, we don't have a huge surplus compared to typical levels of homes for sale. Sixteen sales have been recorded in the last 90 days at Mueller, so you might extrapolate and say we've got just over three months of inventory at Mueller. That's a very rough approximation at best. Nevertheless we're not inundated with homes for sale.
What we have been inundated with (in my opinion) is very, very optimistic list prices by some sellers. So there have been a few corrections.
How Much Should I Sell My Mueller Home for in 2018?
I'm glad you asked – get in touch and we'll give you an indication of pricing in the current market. Choosing a pricing strategy is one of the key decisions when marketing your home. Too much and you sit on the market looking unloved, and too low and your friends all tell you you've shot too low when you receive multiple offers without asking what the offers are.
Can I Negotiate With The Mueller Builders in 2018?
Negotiation is a subject very dear to our hearts, and the answer depends on the builder and how things are going. We've seen concessions and incentives with some of the builders. It costs nothing to give us a call, and it costs nothing for us to represent you in any purchase. If you get in touch we can shoot you straight.
how can I get information on the mueller development homes being planned by David Weekly and need to see information on those that are income dependent? thank you.
Hi Fran – we've sent you information over!


To all my fellow survivor's, we all have reason to keep us moving forward. Many of us have family or friends who want to help us. Most of all we need to find the strength inside ourselves for us. There is life after abuse. I'm in no way saying it will be easy but it is a lot better than continuing to suffer in silence.
We should never own the shame of the abuse we went through. We did not let it happen, the choice to abuse did not belong to us. Therefore the stigma is not ours it is the abusers to own.
Allah has granted us the strength to get this far Alhamdulillah. You are not alone. Silence hides violence. We need to support each other to one by one free themselves from Domestic violence inshallah. We are all worthy of happiness inshallah.


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Vasalemma () är en småköping () i Lääne-Harju kommun i landskapet Harjumaa i nordvästra Estland. Orten ligger cirka 30 kilometer sydväst om huvudstaden Tallinn och utgjorde tidigare centralort i dåvarande Vasalemma kommun.

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Vasalemma ligger 28 meter över havet. Terrängen runt Vasalemma är mycket platt. Vattendraget Vasalemma jõgi rinner strax väster om orten i nordlig riktning och mynnar i Finska viken. Runt Vasalemma är det glesbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är staden Keila, 9 km nordost om Vasalemma. I omgivningarna runt Vasalemma växer i huvudsak blandskog.

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Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är januari, med  °C.

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Externa länkar

Lääne-Harju kommun
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Adam Sappington on Butchery
One of Portland's biggest proponents of whole-animal butchery tracks back the love affair.
Adam Sappington is the chef and co-owner of The Country Cat Dinnerhouse & Bar in Portland, Oregon. He's a rad, friendly dude with a solid handshake and a reputation for being one of the preeminent butchery chefs in the United States.
My first real experience with butchery was butchering a pig.
The restaurant was Wildwood. I started working there in '95, and then I took over the kitchen in '98 — that's when I realized I knew all of my produce providers by name, but I didn't know any of my ranchers.
I wasn't raised to hunt animals, none of that, but I was always really drawn to butchery. I loved working with my hands, and I just loved meat. There was a point in my career where every year, I would study a different aspect of cooking. One year I just studied vegetables. All I did was read about vegetables, try every vegetable that I could, cook as many as I could. I would cook chard for five days in a row in different ways. It was important for me to have a larger understanding of why certain vegetables behaved the way they did. It was the same for meat; I needed to know, so I could teach people, and get myself into a position where I could be an authority. If I'm not an authority on something, I'm just a bystander.
When I got out of culinary school, I wanted to be a butcher, but I didn't want to sit and cut fucking top round all day long. I wanted the romanticism of getting the animals from the ranch, butchering them in-house, and then being able to use all of those parts in the restaurant. That was my focus from the start.
I figured pig was probably the easiest to start with. It's a large animal, it has a lot of muscle groups, and I knew how to cook everything on the animal. I got in touch with Geoff Latham, who owns Nicky Game here, and said, "Hey man. I want to start buying whole animals and pigs." No one was doing that, I think it was like a $1.19 a pound at that point; it just didn't exist.
So he gets me the pig. They pull up. I remember the delivery driver was this big, old dude. He comes out to get me, because he needs help. Remember, I had just ordered "a pig," I didn't really specify. The fucking thing was like 250 pounds, man. Whole, like luau-style. Not sides.
I take this fucking pig inside, laying it out on cutting boards because I didn't have a butcher board. I had some idea of how the muscles laid into the animal, but not to the point where I was efficient. Standing there, I had my whole team of cooks going, "All right Adam, what're you going to do?"
We just started cutting. Took the head off, then the shoulders. As I got into it, it was the same thing that happens almost every time — it's like you're opening up a book and then you start to really realize where all the muscles lay. And that, to me, was the story that helped provide me with the skills to be a better cook. I realized why there was so much fat in the shoulder and the neck, why the leg was lean, how the shanks are different. It makes you approach flavor profiles differently.
Then I started looking at how French butchers butcher, and Italian butchers, and then Chinese butchers, because the palates of those cultures lend themselves to different cuts. You look at the breakdown of what an animal muscle structure is with an Italian diagram, a French diagram, and an Asian diagram and there's differences on all three, depending on what that culture values.
Americans just take the big fucking pieces and roast them. Everyone wants the trophy chop. They want the pork chop. We made a porchetta and people didn't even know what to do with it. They would eat it, but: "Oh, it's too fatty."
It was a great exercise for myself, but most importantly, for my cooks. It was like, this is the deal. This was a live living thing. It's not in a fucking box. It was a live, living thing. This is the best way to do it. We would use everything. The cooks walked away with a grander sense of accomplishment for what they learned that day at the restaurant. They also understood a new technique, because they were forced to think outside of the box. We would win because the price point was great. Nothing's wasted. It's peace through achievement, I think.
My advice? You're always going to be under the gun, so go slow. Understand where your knife is, what you're cutting into. Every cook wants to be fast and that's the stupidest mistake. Speed comes later. Do your research, find out what it is that you want to accomplish through the act of butchery. Find out the part of the animal that you want to learn the most about.
I would love to see more kitchens practice whole animal butchery. It's not that hard, you just have to balance the labor into it. It's not as cheap as it used to be, but being able to use every ounce of the animal provides a better learning environment for the kitchen, provides a better experience for the customer. It tells more of a story. I like the fact that people are being very precise about charcuterie, and bringing that into their world, because that's a huge piece of butchery. I think being able to support local ranchers on a level where the relationship is still involved in the purchasing is a really important piece.
I would love to see people buy more whole animals, and I would love to be able to have more cooks come out of kitchens understanding why animals exist and how to cook them correctly. Period.
A certain chef told me I was spending too much time on this, that it wasn't going to get me anywhere.
Then 10 years passed…and I was right on target.
As told to Cassandra Landry
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Harry Potter breaks eBook lockdown
From staff and wire reports
If J.K. Rowling's new web store proves a success, it could provide a model for other authors and publishers and undermine the clout of Amazon.com Inc.
When the Harry Potter books finally went on sale in electronic form on March 27, it was as if Harry himself had cast the "Alohomora" spell on them—the one that unlocks doors: In a break with industry practices, the books aren't locked down by encryption, which means consumers can move them between devices and read them anywhere they like.
If "Pottermore," J.K. Rowling's new web store, proves a success, it could provide a model for other authors and publishers and undermine the clout of Amazon.com Inc., which now dominates eBook sales.
"I think it's a very large crack in a dam that's going to collapse in the next nine to twelve months," says Matteo Berlucchi, the CEO of an independent British-based online bookstore, aNobii.
eBooks from major publishers are sold in encrypted form today. The text of a book is scrambled so that only authorized devices and software can read it. For instance, a book bought from Amazon can be read only on the company's Kindle eReaders and on its Kindle applications for smart phones, tablets, and PCs. It can't be read on Barnes & Noble's Nook eReaders.
Conversely, a book for the Nook can't be read on a Kindle. A book purchased from Apple Inc. can only be read on iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads.
Publishers insist on encryption in the form of "Digital Rights Management," or DRM, because they believe it stops piracy. It also helps eBook retailers like Amazon defend their business models, keeping non-Amazon books off Kindle eReaders.
But when Rowling fans buy a book from Pottermore, they can download it in a variety of formats, including one that is not protected by DRM. They can be read by a wide variety of applications and devices.
Self-destructing eBooks rile librarians
eBook restrictions vex users
These books can be purchased once and then passed around to friends or shared with children. Wider sharing is dissuaded by visible and invisible "watermarks" inserted by Pottermore before the download, which identify the buyer.
Charles Redmayne, CEO of Pottermore, says that "Harry Potter" books are probably the most pirated in the world already, even though—or rather, because—there have been no legal electronic versions until now. Fans have scanned or even retyped the printed books to make them available in electronic form.
"We believe that people should have the right, once they've bought the book, to read it on any device that they chose to," says Redmayne.
Of course, there's another reason Pottermore is going DRM-free. It wants to "own" the relationship with the customers—the Potter fans—rather than have them go to other retailers. And the only way to get onto all reading devices without dealing with the other retailers is to sell books without DRM.
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Club nights, and some matches, are played at the Brookfield Community School and Language College. Apart from using the schools facilities there is no link between the Badminton Club and the school.
To find Brookfield School, if you are travelling from the east, take Exit Junction 9 of M27 and follow directions to Park Gate - A3051 and then A27. Go through the centre of Park Gate, past Kam's Palace Chinese restaurant and turn left at the roundabout by the Esso garage into Brook Lane. At the next roundabout take the last exit – still in Brook Lane - and the school is a few hundred yards down on the right hand side. The sports hall may be found at the far end of the car park on the right.
If you are travelling from the west you may prefer to exit at Junction 8 and follow directions to Park Gate along the A27. When you approach the centre of Park Gate take a right at the roundabout by the Esso garage into Brook Lane.
Home matches played on a Saturday are played at the Lockswood Community Center Hall.
When travelling from the east exit the M27 at Junction 9 (along A3051) and follow directions to Park Gate (A27). When you reach the pedestrian crossing in Park Gate (Just after Kam's Palace Chinese restaurant) take a left into Locks Road. At the first small roundabout turn right into the Locks Heath Centre and follow the road round to the car parks near the Strawberry Field Tavern. The Lockswood Community Centre is on the same side of the car park opposite Waitrose.
From the west you may prefer to exit at Junction 8 and follow directions to Park Gate along the A27, however, from this direction it is not possible to turn into Locks Road so you will need to go up to the roundabout by Kam's Palace (couple of hundred yards) and come back on the A27 where you will be able to turn into Locks Road.


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American Idol Winner's Album Out In August, But Will...
American Idol Winner's Album Out In August, But Will It Succeed?
By Joe DeAndrea in Music / Festivals on 15 July 2014
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American Idol winner Caleb Johnson is set to release his new album in August - the fastest turnaround in Idol history.
Caleb Johnson won't be following in the footsteps of previous American Idol winners. Johnson, who was crowned as the season 13 victor this past May, is beginning his post Idol career by doing something that a winner has never done before: releasing their debut record only three months after the show's conclusion. Usually, the album that an American Idol winner releases doesn't see the light of day until much longer than Johnson's three month timeframe. In fact, there hasn't been a winner's album that came out before October of the calendar that they won in. So, what makes Johnson the exception?
Caleb Johnson will release his debut album, Testify, in August
Since season 13's finale, Johnson has been in the studio writing and recording for the album, working with established song writers like Sam Hollander and James Michael. "Usually, they just give (the winners) demo songs. I want this to be an artistic statement on my part," Johnson told USA Today. On his upcoming album, Testify, out August 12, he has a co-writing credit on over half of the album's tracks. Meanwhile, Candice Glover, winner of last year's American Idol, only contributed to one of the songs on her album (ironically, one was even written by season three winner, Fantasia Barrino). Glover's album, Music Speaks, was originally set to release in July 2013 – that would have made it the first album that broke the mold of Idol album release schedules.
More: Check out our Caleb Johnson picture gallery
However, numerous delays kept it under wraps until February 2014. It didn't perform too hot either: it landed at number fourteen on the Billboard chart selling only 19,000 copies in its first week. Could Johnson's August release mean that American Idol is attempting to correct their wrongs with Glover? From a fan perspective, a release date that is closer to an Idol's win is ideal; you would want their music as soon as possible. While the typical November release makes sense and can coincide with some early Christmas shopping, the fact that an earlier release will fall during American Idol's nationwide tour could mean an album sale boost if it's available for purchase during the concert.
Is Caleb Johnson's new album bound for success?
Good first week numbers are most likely on the minds of RCA Records after the Glover flop. Recent winners like Phillip Phillips and Scotty McCreery had albums that both debuted in the top five and sold 169,000 and 197,000 copies, respectively. Overall, season two winner Ruben Studdard holds the record of most sold in a week with 417,000, and Carrie Underwood is right behind him with a debut that moved over 315,000 units. Glover's measly 19,000 soldeasily makes that the worst Idol debut in history. While Caleb Johnson probably isn't going to sell anything close to 400,000 in his record's first week, the decision to pump the gas on his release can do nothing but help it. For a show that's struggling in ratings like never before, an August date for their newest champion might be the best thing that American Idol can do that can help keep it alive.
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Awesome paint on the hood!!
Can you get some better pics of the hood? Would like a better look at the paint job. Maybe tell how you did it.
OK, Easy to do, I'll have to try that, Thanks for sharing.
That Rig has lots of Power!!! I wish 1 of my Junk Rigs could do these donuts!
well i got the chance last week to get the FXT racer out for a quick rip !! im very impressed on how it handles and my steering refab worked just like i thought it would , handles like its on rails !! i did get my catch can and tach hooked up , adjusted the breaks and found a temp battery box for testing . as you will see and hear it performs well so far and still have more things to work out but so far so good !!
this is the road i test my rigs on , as i was thinking the low oil sensor kept shutting down the engine . i did not delete it yet because i want to break in the engine and get some seat time in it . i will say this - im in love with this rig and cant wait until its time to race !!
haha that thing looks dangerous....nice work.


The true endgame – All about how to, and Taming in Bless Online! I'll refrain from making any Pokemon jokes.
"HOW TO TAME IN BLESS ONLINE!?!?!" – Yeah, the question of the ages.
Open inventory and right click the Taming Order, targeting the animal.
Taming mini-game begins! Press space on the green bars.
Watch the "straight to the point" video below.
How or when do I unlock taming? It says level 8, but Level 9 seems to be the practical point wherein everyone gets to tame. It's very near the beginning of the main story quests. Once you're L9 and in the first "settlement" away from your main city, you should DEFINITELY see the quest by then. Presumably you can do it anytime at L8+ if you have the taming order.
Default Key (L) opens the Compation menu, then go to the Pet tab.
The above is to save your sanity from watching another video that takes 10 minutes and 1 second to explain the very basics of the taming process.
Sorry for the missed presses, they actually serve as a great "answer" to people wondering what happens if you "miss" the green bar. I was alt-tabbing, forgive me. You just get "stunned" but you get to proceed until you succeed or fail. Not bad!
"I WANT TO TAME X Y Z! WHERE?" I don't think i'll be keeping track of that just yet… but maybe I should start a basic spreadsheet of this. You'll have to look elsewhere for now, but I'll share my sheet here "SOON".
What determines taming difficulty? We can presume that certain pets will be harder to tame than others, and will require more advanced Taming Orders. Who knows. I'll update this in a few.


The Greensand Railway Museum Trust needs to raise £10,000 in the next three months to ensure an iconic wartime locomotive is fully overhauled and back in action for crucial 100th anniversaries in 2016.
Baldwin 4-6-0T War Department Light Railway No.778, currently the only operational Class 10-12-D Baldwin in Britain, has to be withdrawn soon for overhaul – and it is imperative this work is completed in time for No.778 to return to operation for the main 2016 season.
Returned to steam in 2007 following restoration from near-derelict condition, it is based at Leighton Buzzard Railway and enthusiasts say it is a crucially important in telling the story of the contribution of narrow gauge railways during the First World War. The train is itself a war veteran having served in France on the War Department Light Railways battlefield lines.
No. 778's initial boiler ticket expired in March, hence a couple of 'last runs' were made during Leighton Buzzard Railway's Santa season.
Following discussion and a change of boiler insurance company an extension to its boiler ticket until October 2015 has enabled it to continue running for a few more months.
It has to be withdrawn around summer/autumn and sent to contractors for the necessary work to be undertaken with sufficient time to ensure No. 778 is back in action for the start of the 2016 season.
Thanks to steaming fees and other income earned since 2007 including a £1,000 donation by model railway manufacturer Bachmann Europe, the Trust has built up funds towards the forthcoming overhaul– but not sufficient to cover all required work.
Cash is available to send No.778 to be stripped, have the boiler lifted and sent to a specialist for overhaul, have the boiler refitted with a modified ashpan (essential to provide proper access for future boiler inspections), steam tested and returned to Page's Park.
However, there are insufficient funds in hand to cover mechanical works to the motion . To commission the required work the Trust needs an additional £10,000 on top of the cash already in hand.
"As things stand, we can finance the boiler works needed to secure a new ticket and return No.778 to operation, but that would simply be storing up a potential problem for a few years hence," said Trust chairman, Cliff Thomas.
If the mechanical work is not done while the boiler is receiving attention there is a real possibility this popular and high-profile locomotive could have to be withdrawn prematurely within a couple of years, wasting part of its new boiler ticket. This, in turn, would result in even greater costs involving transport and a further boiler lift, with questions as to whether such work could be afforded.
Donations can be sent to The Greensand Railway Museum Trust,c/o Page's Park Station, Billington Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire LU7 4TN. Gift Aid enabling tax to be reclaimed would boost the value of the donation by 25%.
For every donation of £100 or more the donor will be offered a footplate ride around the loop at Page's Park. For every donation of £500 or more donors can travel on the footplate over the length of the LBR line to Stonehenge Works!
NO.778 is representative of a design which was crucial to the 1914-1918 allied war effort and, post-war, a number of which were employed on British narrow gauge railways throughout the country. The last working example in Britain was scrapped in 1951 and the locomotive is considered an icon of British narrow gauge railway history.
Since restoration to steam in 2007, No.778 has run at its home base, the Leighton Buzzard Railway and been made available to be seen by as many people over a wide-ranging geographic area. Visits undertaken have included the Froissy-Cappy-Dompierre line on the Somme battlefield in France, Welsh Highland Heritage Railway, Apedale Valley Light Railway and the Golden Valley Light Railway – where it worked with an ex-Ashover Railway coach and wagon.


Portal designers can learn much from architects and builders. Well-designed buildings are easy to use and structurally sound. We can find what we want, components like doors and windows appear in logical places, and, most importantly, the building stands up over time. We cannot go into a building and find the structural integrity the same way we can find the heating and ventilation units or the corner office. Structural integrity is a property of the way the building was designed and constructed; it is not a single feature added at some point in the construction process. The structural integrity of a portal is similar to that of a building. It is a fundamental property of the portal design, reflected in turn in visible characteristics, such as ease of use, functionality, and reliability.
In this chapter, we look into structural integrity from a user's perspective. The core question we address is "How will portal users find what they need?" Actually, we break this question into a number of more specific questions to which we can provide general but concrete answers.
First, we discuss how to organize information on a page. This may sound insignificant compared to other challenges that await us in portal development, but poorly designed pages hamper the portal's adoption. Next, we look at design patterns for logically grouping related content and applications to provide a sense of context for our users. We can all appreciate the sense of being in a particular section of a department store and knowing in general how to find other sections. We should provide something analogous for portal users. Without contexts users can easily become lost in an apparent jumble of hyperlinked pages. Finally, we look at specialized techniques (such as taxonomies, faceted content models, and visualization) that can aid navigation, especially in large and diverse portals. A case study shows how visualization and logical restructuring techniques improved customer care services for one organization.
Much has been written about usability and Web design techniques, and this book does not try to add to these well-discussed areas. The main concern here tends more toward architectural issues, which sometimes abut or even overlap with usability issues. For questions about usability and design layout, I defer to any of the well-written books on the subject such as Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug and Roger Black  and Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen . I will address the types of structural elements required in well-designed portals but won't try to describe the finer details of their layout, formatting, and other visual elements.
When considering portal interface structure, it is useful to distinguish between the visible structures and the underlying structures. The visible structures provide the organization reflected in the designs of pages, groups of pages (known as subsites), and the entire portal itself. These structures are readily apparent to users.
The underlying structures are core services, such as authentication, access controls, and metadata management, as well as the policies and procedures that govern the evolution of the portal. These structures are not necessarily visible when they work well, but their absence is all too apparent. When users cannot work with essential applications because of access control problems or when navigation tools direct searchers to inappropriate content because of miscategorized metadata, users become all too aware of these underlying services.
Page-level structures include the distribution of content, applications, and navigation tools. Many pages use the basic three-panel structure shown in Figure 1.1. The top area contains global information about the site, the left side area contains navigation controls and links to commonly used objects, and the large central panel is home to the substantive content of the portal.
Figure 1.1. Many portal pages use a basic three-part layout.
The global area is consistent across the portal and often provides links to a home page, contact information, accessories, or other frequently used applications.
The navigation area provides a localized context for users. If you went to the human resources area of a portal you would expect to find navigation links to training, policies and procedures, benefits information, and related material; in a health and safety area of the portal you'd expect to find information on material safety, accident prevention, and reporting procedures. The role of the site navigation area is to provide an immediately visible and easily accessible path to related components in the portal while keeping the user from being overwhelmed by the full breadth of the portal.
There are several common approaches to organizing the navigation area. First, the area can be organized by subsite or neighborhood. The CNN Web site (http://www.cnn.com), for example, uses this approach by consistently listing subsites (such as Weather, Politics, Business, and Sports) in the navigation area. A variation on this model is to display subtopics when a topic is selected. A third approach focuses on tasks rather than content and is more appropriate for portals or subsites oriented toward content management. Yet another approach is a hybrid that combines content-oriented with task-oriented links. Care should be taken to clearly distinguish the two types of links, remembering that the purpose of the navigation section is to provide a sense of context. Intermixing content and task links could make it more difficult for users to perceive their location within the portal.
The main content area delivers the core information and application access that the users seek. By framing this information and the applications in navigational frameworks, you provide users immediate access to locally related topics as well as global landmarks, such as the portal home page.
An organizational model describes how entities are related. In the case of a portal, it describes how content, applications, and other resources are made accessible to users. The simplest model offers hyperlinking without restrictions. In this case, any page or resource can provide links to any others. This is the general model of the Web and the de facto organizational scheme for ungoverned intranets as well as the Internet. The advantage of this model is that decision making is completely decentralized so anyone can add content at any time to any part of the intranet. The disadvantage, so clear from the World Wide Web, is that this organizational scheme provides no point of reference for users. For example, if you find yourself at a page in such an intranet, there is no absolute reference point such as a home page or directory. All pages are equally important with regard to navigation, as depicted in Figure 1.2.
Figure 1.2. Simple hyperlinking schemes provide no point of reference.
Fortunately, most sites are no longer so freewheeling that we are left to navigate without some fixed references. Hierarchical organizational schemes provide an organizational structure with a top-level starting point and one or more levels of content. The simplest form of hierarchical organization is a tree with a root and links to lower-level pages. For practical purposes, most portals and Web sites also link across the hierarchy, as shown in Figure 1.3.
Figure 1.3. Even hierarchical patterns need to cross-reference nodes to support the way users navigate a site.
Each hierarchical categorization is reasonable; the most intuitive one depends on the context of the search. If the user is looking for a mobile phone service, the first categorization above appears logical; if he or she is interested in purchasing a wireless phone, the second makes the most sense; and if the user is looking for a wireless phone for home, the third categorization is the most likely to be followed. Clearly, a single hierarchical structure is not sufficient for even moderately complex portals. More importantly, there is no single correct answer about where to place a page in a hierarchy, so don't bother trying to find one.
Instead, use a more flexible approach to navigating between pages. Multifaceted organizational schemes avoid the problem of hierarchies by accounting for the fact that an entity such as a product, application, or Web page can be classified along multiple dimensions. For example, let's assume a user is searching for a wireless phone, for less than $150, in silver or black with multiline support. Ideally, the user could navigate to information about phones, find wireless phones as a subcategory, shift to navigating by price, select the $125–$175 category, and finally narrow the search by color and functionality. In this example we have four facets: product category, cost, color, and feature set. When designing an information model, it is best to consider several facets or dimensions along which content is organized.
Metadata about categorization and content classification constitute facets or dimensions for organizing content. For example, a document published by the Health, Environment, and Safety Department on the proper disposal of chemical waste may be an official policy, published on a particular date, constituting compliance with a government regulation and broadly categorized as a safety document. The document type (policy), publication date, category (safety), and regulation status are all facets or attributes useful for organization and retrieval. One way to think about facets is as dimensions in a multidimensional space. Figure 1.4, for example, depicts the location of documents in a multidimensional space.
Figure 1.4. When organizing documents by facets, documents can be considered points in multidimensional space where each dimension is a facet.
Facet-based information retrieval can help users target specific content more quickly than simple keyword searching or navigation through a directory. Facet-based searches should allow a combination of keyword searches and attribute searches, such as searching for all "policy" type documents that contain the phrase "toxic disposal" and were published between May 1, 2003, and July 1, 2003. This technique is especially powerful when working with product catalogs that list items described by several dimensions (e.g., cost, size, color, feature set).
Dimensions can use a list of values, a range of values, or hierarchical values and in this way is similar to many online analytic processing (OLAP) tools. Relational taxonomies can model hierarchical values, but continuous value attributes (e.g., cost, time) are best modeled with scalar variables such as strings, numbers, and Boolean values.
The main page provides links to citizen, business, and government audience channels. The target pages of those links then list options by service. The service page in turn organizes content by topic. FirstGov's organizational model uses multiple facets and mixes those facets within paths from the home page to the content pages. This approach works well when you have information about usage patterns and frequently accessed pages. Analyzing log files from Web servers can provide key information about the most frequently accessed pages. By analyzing and grouping those pages, you can develop a rough categorization scheme based on facets.
Understanding how users think about the content and other resources in a portal is essential to developing a logical organizational model. Neither free-form links across a site nor rigid adherence to a hierarchical structure will serve the user community. Multifaceted organizational models provide the organizing structure of hierarchical systems and some of the flexibility of free-form linking within a controlled framework. Later in this chapter, we examine how complex facets can be organized using taxonomies.
Another approach to organizing links is to use a hybrid of the hierarchical and free-form hyperlinking approaches. With this technique, we make a decision that some dimension is more important than others, such as the organizational structure of a company or the categories of products. The hierarchy is based on this dimension. Within each branch of the hierarchy pages can be linked as needed to other pages in the same branch. The advantage of this approach is that it allows users to quickly find high-level topic areas (such as the human resources section of a company portal or the camping equipment offerings of an online store) while still allowing the site designer to customize links between related pages. These relatively closed-off areas of related pages are called navigation sets. Figure 1.5 shows this common navigation pattern.
Figure 1.5. Navigation sets are groups of highly linked pages with relatively few links outside the neighborhood. Exceptions include links to home pages, contact information, and other global content.
A number of other patterns have evolved along with the development of the Web. These patterns provide a sense of well-defined location within a portal and provide rapid access to other well-defined places. Some of the most useful patterns (in addition to navigation sets) are listed below [Rossi et al.]. These patterns can be used independently but are often found together.
Landmarks: Landmarks are links to entry points, large subsections of portals, or frequently used applications. CNN.com, for example, displays links to weather, politics, business, sports, and so on in the left side menu.
Nodes in context: A variation on navigation sets are nodes in context. With this navigation pattern, the same content is repurposed for multiple uses. Depending on the use, the links associated with content vary. For example, an online retailer could list a new tent in both the camping equipment area and the new products area. In the former case, links from the tent display would lead to other camping equipment while the latter category would include links to other new products. Again, the point is to provide navigation links to logically related content to create a sense of context and intuitive navigation paths out of one navigation set and into another. Both navigation sets and nodes in context provide a fine-grained sense of context. Users also need a sense of context relative to the portal or site as a whole. That is the job of active references.
Active references: Active references are indicators of one's position relative to the site as a whole or relative to a landmark. Directories such as Yahoo! and Google Directory use a list of nodes traversed in the directory. For example, see http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/, which uses an active link: Computers > Internet > Web Design and Development.
Visual active references are excellent methods for depicting location within a larger context. This is especially applicable when content corresponds to a physical location, such as a room in a building or a street address. As the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art timeline of art history shows (http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm), two or more contexts, in this case time and location, can be depicted simultaneously.
News: Another common navigation pattern is the news section, which is used to prominently display important corporate information or new portal features. Many public news feeds are also available in XML formats, particularly the Rich Site Summary (RSS) scheme.
Together, these and other navigation patterns constitute an essential part of the overall information architecture of a portal. They provide a sense of context to the user and offer easily accessible links to significant or related sections of the portal. To ensure that the links are named logically and the user's experience is consistent across the portal, we must define labeling standards to identify the links that constitute these navigation patterns.
Not long after you begin work on labeling you realize there are many ways to describe an object. Choosing one term often pleases some users and leaves others disagreeing. Some objects, such as products, departments, and projects, have official names and so have an obvious label. Even in these cases, product names change over time and departments are reorganized; as a result, outdated terms can be found in older content. Nonetheless, standard terms should be used consistently throughout the portal. In many industries, controlled vocabularies or standard lists of terms have been developed by corporate librarians, information scientists, and others who have had to deal with information retrieval problems long before the advent of the Web. These industry standards can provide the basis for a labeling standard and minimize the time and effort required to develop your own.
When controlled vocabularies are not available, search log analysis can provide a starting point for labeling conventions. Search logs identify the terms used to query an intranet or portal and provide information about results as well. The frequency with which terms appear in the log can guide the selection of terms for the labeling standard.
Successful labeling schemes are built on two factors. First, the choice of labels should be based on either their use among the portal audience (as measured by search log analysis) or the terms used by other external sources (e.g., industry vocabularies). Second, the labels should be applied consistently through the portal. This also entails maintenance because labeling schemes change to reflect changes in the organization and general business environment.


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Are Brad Pitt & Charlize Theron Dating?
UPDATE: A source tells People that Brad and Charlize are not romantically involved.
Romance rumors are swirling around Brad Pitt and Charlize Theron!
Pitt and Theron have reportedly been dating since the holidays. A source told The Sun, "They have been casually seeing each other for nearly a month now."
They sparked rumors after they met up following two separate screenings in Los Angeles. Another insider claimed of one post-movie meeting, "Brad came over to Chateau [Marmont] afterwards, changed his outfit and joined Charlize in a corner of the bar. She was on a vodka cocktail while he stuck to mineral water. They were ridiculously touchy-feely and his arm was around her back. At one point, he winked at her."
"Brad seemed in a really good place — they both looked really happy," the source continued.
People magazine has shut down rumors that Pitt and Theron were introduced by her ex, Sean Penn. A source said, "That couldn't be more false. Not in the slightest."
The insider added, "About six months ago, they did a shoot together. So they have spent time together. But anything that may have happened beyond that remains to be seen."
Theron dated Penn for two years, but they called it quits in 2015.
Since his split with Angelina Jolie, Pitt has been linked to several women, including Sienna Miller and MIT professor Neri Oxman, but he has not been spotted on a date.
Brad Pitt Sparks Romance Rumors with Jewelry Designer — See the Pic That Has Everyone Talking!
Last year, Tiffany Haddish poked fun at the rumors after she was linked to Pitt. She told "Extra" in Austin, "He's got a lot of kids. I want to be number one, not number six or seven."
Jennifer Lawrence also shut down rumors, joking to Andy Cohen on "Watch What Happens Live" last year, "No, I've met him once in, like, 2013, so it was very random. But I also wasn't, like, in a huge hurry to debunk it!"
#BradPitt #CelebrityNews #CharlizeTheron #HookupsAndBreakups #HotNewHookups
Divorce War Amps Up as Brad Pitt Responds to Angelina Jolie's Latest Claims
Rumor Bust! Jennifer Aniston & Brad Pitt Are Not Engaged
Angelina Jolie Isn't Backing Down! The Latest on Her Ugly Divorce from Brad Pitt


Really, who DOESN'T want a tricorder?
Someone's made a working prototype.
"I'm also actively designing the next model, and keeping it inexpensive in the hopes that children and 'big kids' like me will have easy access to them sometime in the near future," he says.
I totally would have made this (maybe with Dad or Sister's help…) as a kid. Awesome way to learn about a bunch of different branches of science!


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HIV in 3D: Modeling the mesoscale
DOI: 10.1126/science.346.6215.1339-h
Structural biologists have one set of tools to visualize atomiclevel details of large structures and another that reveals the nuances of small ones. But detailed models of mediumsized viruses, synaptic vessels, plasma, and the like—objects at the so-called mesoscale, ranging from 10 to 100 nanometers—have largely remained in the dark. Now, Johnson et al. have developed cellPACK, freely available software that produces 3D images of biological systems at the mesoscale. As a demonstration of cellPACK's utility, the tool purports to resolve a longstanding debate about whether HIV surface proteins are randomly distributed on the virus's surface (spoiler alert: they are not).
cellPACK's HIV model shows protein distribution on the virus's surface.
CREIDT: GRAHAM JOHNSON AND LUDOVIC AUTIN/THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Nat. Methods, 10.1038/nmeth.3204 (2014)
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By Jon Cohen


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Greenway stays with Vikings on 1-year deal
EDEN PRAIRIE -- Chad Greenway's vacation to Mexico got even better Thursday. The linebacker reached a one-year deal to return to the Vikings for an 11th and final season. He announced the news on Twitter. "Nobody is more excited than me to help l...
By Chris Tomason / St. Paul Pioneer Press
EDEN PRAIRIE - Chad Greenway's vacation to Mexico got even better Thursday.
The linebacker reached a one-year deal to return to the Vikings for an 11th and final season. He announced the news on Twitter.
"Nobody is more excited than me to help lead this team one more time!" Greenway wrote. "Dream achieved, going out a Viking! #Skol."
Vikings defensive end Brian Robison said he spoke Thursday to Greenway from Mexico, where he is vacationing with his wife and children, and his longtime teammate was thrilled.
"He's super excited about it,'' said Robison, who came to Minnesota in 2007, the year after Greenway. "We're both very excited about the things that we can accomplish this year with Coach (Mike) Zimmer and the Vikings' football team. When you play with a guy for nine years, you always want to kind of get one more. So I'm very excited that he's coming back.''
Greenway made $4 million last season, and it was expected he would have to take a pay cut for a second straight year to return. Contract terms weren't immediately available, and Greenway did not return a message seeking comment.
Greenway said after last season he wanted to play one final year with the Vikings, and Zimmer and general manager Rick Spielman both talked about wanting him back.
"I think there'll be a role for Chad, very similar to his role last year,'' Zimmer said last week.
Greenway, Minnesota's longest-tenured player, had a reduced role last season for the first time in his career. He came out on passing downs, although he did get plenty of snaps in some games when another starting linebacker, either Anthony Barr or Eric Kendricks, was hurt.
Robison said Greenway never complained about his new role. He said he remained a team leader regardless of how much he was playing.
"He does a lot of great things on the field for us, but I think the one thing some people recognize and some people don't is his leadership, the things he does as far as taking a step back and helping the younger guys,'' Robison said. "He helped guys like Kendricks and Barr get better.
He does a lot of things behind the scenes that not a lot of people notice that make our team better.''
Greenway was taken in the first round of the 2006 draft by the Vikings, but missed his rookie season because of a knee injury. He moved into the starting lineup in 2007, and has remained there ever since.
Greenway has done plenty of work in the community. He was the Vikings' nominee last season for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award.
Robison would love to see Greenway stick around for more than just one more season, but he sees little chance of that happening.
"Knowing Chad, I think this will be one more and done,'' Robison said. "But I feel like we have an opportunity to do some special things, and hopefully bring a Super Bowl championship to Minnesota. But either way, I feel like this is (Greenway's) last run at it.''
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Willmar's early 2-0 lead doesn't hold up in 8-2 loss to Granite City
By Michael Lyne
PHOTOS: KMS vs. YME boys basketball Monday, Jan. 23, 2023
Junior Hockey: WarHawks tumble in overtime to Toros
Willmar surrenders a late lead to fall 4-3 at Mason City
Junior hockey: New Ulm Steel complete their sweep of Willmar WarHawks
New Ulm beats Willmar 5-1 in an NA3HL game Saturday in which 32 penalties were called


The famous King's Gambit is a romantic variation from an ancient time. This opening gave to the theory of chess incredibly beautiful games, full of tactics and material sacrifices. Concepts like material against time, fast development, attacking the king in the center at all cost started with openings like this. The King's Gambit was employed by some of the greatest players of all times, David Bronstein and Boris Spassky being among the most remarkable names.
They used it quite often in their tournament practice. Despite the big popularity of this opening back then, nowadays it's rarely seen at high level and we can say that it has completely disappeared from top events. Also, it doesn't look like it's coming back anytime soon. However, in rapid events, the top players of the world have not forgotten the glorious King's Gambit as it continues to be played, for example by Ivanchuk and even Magnus Carlsen.
It's also an opening that beginners are reluctant to play, and that the coaches nowadays (at least the ones we know) don't recommend to their pupils. We think the King's Gambit is just as playable as any other opening, more risky and double edged, but in no way there is a direct refutation and complicated positions with chances for both sides arise from almost every variation.
It's an opening that allows you to create chaos on the board, perfect for players with a strong sense for tactics. The non popularity of the King's Gambit is also another factor to consider in favor of white, as there is a big chance that the opponent is not well prepared or doesn't feel comfortable in such positions since it's rarely played.
The theory of this opening is vast, but there are many variations white can choose from against each of black's responses to 2.f4. In this article we will have a look at three games by Grandmasters who have played the King's Gambit. These first one is a victory by Ivanchuk over Karjakin which, although a rapid game, is worth analyzing. The second game we analyze is a fascinating draw between GM Richard Rapport against Michael Adams, and last one is a win of GM Emmanuel Berg over GM Nils Grandelius.
The King's Gambit 1: Ivanchuk-Karjakin Latvia, 2015.
Ivanchuk chose the line with 3.Bc4 against the Kings Gambit accepted. The battle soon drifted into a queenless middlegame in which white's strong pawns in the center gave him a nice edge.
As we mentioned before, this is a fascinated game that ended in a draw. Rapport's play was audacious and brave although he couldn't break Adams' accurate defense.
Berg is a very tactical player, not afraid to take risks. Here he surprised his opponent in the opening and soon got a pleasant advantage that he went on to convert into a full point.
As we can see from the games shown above, the King's Gambit is still a valid weapon. We wouldn't recommend it as a mainline since it can be risky if your opponent is well prepared and expecting it, but on the opposite scenario it can be very effective. Good luck if you dare!


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In MCF-7 breast tumor cells, ionizing radiation promoted autophagy that was cytoprotective; pharmacological or genetic interference with autophagy induced by radiation resulted in growth suppression and/or cell killing (primarily by apoptosis). The hormonally active form of vitamin D, 1,25D3, also promoted autophagy in irradiated MCF-7 cells, sensitized the cells to radiation and suppressed the proliferative recovery that occurs after radiation alone. 1,25D3 also enhanced radiosensitivity and promoted autophagy in MCF7 cells that overexpress Her-2/neu as well as in p53 mutant Hs578t breast tumor cells. In contrast, 1,25D3 failed to alter radiosensitivity or promote autophagy in the BT474 breast tumor cell line with low-level expression of the vitamin D receptor. Enhancement of MCF-7 cell sensitivity to radiation by 1,25D3 was not attenuated by either a pharmacological or genetic block to autophagy; this was due largely to the promotion of apoptosis via the suppression of protective autophagy that occurs in response to radiation alone. Moreover, pharmacological blockade of autophagy did not sensitize noncancerous MCF10a cells to radiation; conversely, 4T1 mouse mammary tumors were highly sensitive to pharmacological inhibition of autophagy, suggesting selective radiosensitization against cancer cell lines. The current studies are consistent with the premise that while autophagy mediates a cytoprotective function in irradiated breast tumor cells, promotion of autophagy can also confer radiosensitivity by vitamin D (1,25D3). In addition, this work highlights the technical challenge of establishing the potential cytotoxic function of autophagy in an experimental system where the cytoprotective function may be concurrently expressed.


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UK - Increase in Visa Applications for Exceptional IT Professionals
Owing to the surge in IT visa applications there are no Fears that migrants are discouraged from settling in the UK. In fact they are keen to master their work and are also agreeable for the contract based work in the IT sector. In the past few months there were concerns that political happenings could affect the access of the firms to get the overseas talent. Specifically, there is a 45% surge in the applications for accommodative Tech Nation Visas, for the present financial year, in comparison to the similar period in 2018.
Independent of specific employment
While observers point out that applications do not have a similarity to the confirmed placements, TN visas do not depend on employment or a specific role; but skilled individuals seek them. Such flexibility is indeed good.
A representative of Tech Nation that said the increase in 2018/19 was the fifth to happen in these the visas, which are not attached to a specific employment.
50% of the 650 applications this year won endorsements. The figures were 450 last year. Experts' rate these applicants are exceptional covering the digital technology, engineering, and other areas.
Applications failing to get the endorsement are such that fail to meet the necessary standard set by the eligibility criteria exclusively for the Exceptional Talents. The reason is their real experience, skill level or achievement not meeting the necessary standard. Another reason can be that the applicant was not successful in conveying this adequately in the application. The Data of the 2018/19 outlines that there was a domination of India, China, and the US in the applications. These are the nations with a high population and also have large IT industries.
Ambitious software engineers
India and the US produce top quality and determined software engineers as well as entrepreneurs. Moreover there is a historic link with the UK.
Additionally, there were no comments regarding how the visas will fare after Brexit. There is a commendation of these visas because they offer a freedom to work and to move in the United Kingdom.
Unfounded
The UK also has the top Level of innovation and investment apart from good connectivity as attracting factors in the scheme. Moreover there is an awareness which helps the applicants in a big way. The technology industry is very important for the economy of the UK. The Government is happy with the encouragement and increase in the visas issued to investors in the UK who start a business in it.
There must finally, be no concern that successful applicants will adversely affect the prospects of local IT contractors.
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Have you ever read Book of Exodus? The construction of tabernacle was elaborated in the biblical book. It was considered as the primary source. You can check Exodus, 25-31 and 35-40 that give the readers the account of tabernacle.
According to the book, tabernacle is defined as the Holy of Holies. The Ark of the Covenant was located in this inner shrine. It has an outer chamber. You have to see the picture of the tabernacle to find out the design and layout.
Do you know the maker or builder of tabernacle? He was the son of Uri son of Hur from Judah Tribe called Bezalel. Aholiab was the name of his assistant. When working on the tabernacle, they were also helped by some skilled artisans.
The Jewish should follow the strict rules related to the tabernacle. They were presented in the Hebrew Bible, which have guidance to the Jewish people when making and caring for the tabernacle.
One of the primary rules of tabernacle was the equipment and furnishing must be put on the tabernacle.
When the Jewish traveled, the tabernacle should never be left behind. They should take it with them during the travel. Moreover, they had to camp around the tabernacle and care for it.
A rule should be applied when moving a tabernacle. It should be taken down and set up again by the Levites when it was moved.
Execution will be conducted if a person went too near to the tabernacle. The entry to the tabernacle would not be given to the person with Tzaraat skin affliction.
The priest would burn the fragrant incense by standing at the front of golden prayer altar twice a day.
Ceremony of Ordination, Daily Meal-Offering, Dedication of Nazirites and Octave of Ordination were some rituals conducted in the tabernacle.
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One good whiff of your hamper or gym bag after a long week can send you reeling. Now imagine dealing with that smell every time your air conditioner comes on. Dirty-sock syndrome is what happens when your air conditioner produces foul, musty odors due to debris and bacteria buildup within the unit. It's also a problem that's commonly mistaken for a mold issue. The following are five ways to resolve the issue.
Most forms of dirty-sock syndrome are caused by an accumulation of debris and bacteria on the evaporator coil. This means you'll have to carefully clean the coil in order to tackle the odor. You can clean the coil using a soft bristle brush, some warm water, and mild detergent. However, you must be careful not to bend or otherwise damage the fragile fins lining the evaporator coil.
The best way to clean your coil, however, is by using a spray-on foaming cleaner. The self-rinsing action of the cleaner should carry away any debris that was stuck to the coil; plus, you won't have to come in direct physical contact with the coil. If you don't feel comfortable with cleaning your evaporator coil, you can always have a professional step in and clean it on your behalf.
The condensate tray located below the evaporator coil can also harbor a variety of odor-causing bacteria. You should thoroughly clean and disinfect the condensate tray after cleaning the evaporator coil. In addition, you should also check the condensate drain for any clogs that could cause drainage issues and leave behind standing water.
Ultraviolet light is well known for its disinfecting properties, so installing a UV system within your air conditioner can offer further relief from dirty-sock syndrome symptoms. UV systems work best when installed in close proximity to the evaporator coil, although additional lights can be mounted near supply-and-return air vents for added protection.
Changing your air filter is one of the simplest steps you can take to combat dirty-sock syndrome. Swapping out your old air filter for a fresh one eliminates captured bacteria and other airborne pollutants that could cause odors. If you're still using a fiberglass air filter, you may want to upgrade to one that uses pleated paper media. These filters usually offer better performance than their fiberglass counterparts.
Regularly scheduled maintenance can also help eliminate and ultimately prevent the causes behind dirty-sock syndrome. If it's been a while since your air conditioner was last checked by your HVAC technician, you should schedule an appointment as soon as possible. For more information, talk to local HVAC services.


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Q: Retrieve query params with Flask-RESTful I have a flask-RESTful endpoint defined by:
class SearchEvents(Resource):
    def get(self, name, start_date, end_date):
         #do stuff

api.add_resource(endpoints.SearchEvents, '/events/<string:name>/<string:start_date>/<string:end_date>')

I'm testing it manually with Postman. I'd like to pass in null values for start_date and end_date. However:

I've tried modifying the url to:
http://127.0.0.1:5000/events/test/ /  #<--Spaces

and
http://127.0.0.1:5000/events/test/""/""

To no avail.

A: The values you are passing are not in the query string. You are using route parts as parameters so the route does not get matched unless you supply something of the form /events/some_name/2019-86-98/2100-9885-24515. The attempts you made are catched by flask as non matching routes and you get 404 not found.
To send those parameters as part of the query string would be to use something like
/events?name=some_name&start_date=2019-86-98&end_date=2100-9885-24515 and to get the values in your route handlers you should use name = request.args.get('name') and so on. Passing null values then means hitting the same url but without the query parameters.

A: Ended up solving this by using the flask-restful request object, which has an args property which retrieves query params from the request url:
from flask_restful import request #import request from flask restful

class SearchEvents(Resource):
    def get(self):
        args = request.args #retrieve args from query string

api.add_resource(endpoints.SearchEvents, '/events')

And then making the requests like: http://127.0.0.1:5000/events?param1=value1&param2=value2
Or to pass null values: http://127.0.0.1:5000/events?param=&param2=value1

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I began my venture into healthcare with an extensive background in dance. I took classical ballet lessons for 14 years and jazz, lyrical, & character dance for 6 years. Through competitions in dance, I had the opportunity to travel to the former Soviet Union, Denmark, Spain, & Great Britain. Knee pain at 16 years of age lead me to seek the services of a physical therapist. Inspired by my recovery, I set out to study physical therapy (PT). I attended University of Washington in Seattle from 1994-1999 and then returned to Spokane with a Bachelor's Degree in PT to begin my career.
After 4 years in the PT field (including specialties in lymphedema management and treatment of the performing artist/dancer/athlete), I became interested in Structural Integration (SI) and received a ten-session series from Ron McCombs, who had the distinct honor of being personally trained by Ida Rolf in the 1960s. Enthused by SI's philosophy and potential to elicit human evolution, I applied and was accepted to attend a certification program offered by the Guild for Structural Integration. I completed my training and became a Certified Practitioner of the Rolf Method of Structural Integration in November of 2003. I now offer these services through A Turning Pointe Physical Therapy.
I am also a trained and certified practitioner of SI for canines and horses. Having attended The Equine Natural Movement Series School in 2010 in Battle Ground, WA, I am also happy to give our four-legged friends the benefit of living without pain. The training for the animals has given me a greater appreciation for the human body and how it operates and heals.
Back in 1973, my pastor recommended that I learn deep tissue massage from Mr. Cromer, a licensed physical therapist. Mr. Cromer was grandfathered into the PT profession after working in his field since the 1930's. He told me I needed to get my physical therapy degree before he could consider mentoring me so six years later in 1979, I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in physical therapy from Loma Linda University and immediately began my apprenticeship. Mr. Cromer had had forty-three years of experience in his hands and for the next three months I tried to learn as much as I could from this masterful therapist.
Since that time, I sought to learn other highly effective therapies: Feldenkrais work, Orthobionomy, Myofascial Release, Soft Tissue Release, Integrative Manual Therapy, Visceral Manipulation and others. I have spent the last ten years studying and practicing Lowen Systems Manual Therapies.
Frank Lowen, LMT is the developer of this discipline. He taught Craniosacral Technique at the Upledger Institute and eventually directed the Visceral Manipulation program in North America. Frank studied for about fifteen years under his mentor, the developer of Visceral Manipulation, Jean-Pierre Barral, DO. Because of his highly developed tactile skills, he was able to detect biorhythms, patterns and motilities in the body heretofore undiscovered. He was able to bring about remarkable changes in the body by facilitating these inherent, self-corrective forces.
I have taken all the coursework available in the Lowen Systems and am currently involved in the Mentorship track. I feel that this work is the most effective manual therapy I have studied to date and am pleased to offer it through A Turning Pointe Physical Therapy.
Stacey is our our woman's health therapist at A Turning Pointe Physical Therapy. As a life-long resident of the west plains area, she worked for four years at our Medical Lake Physical Therapy office happily investing herself in the community's health and welfare.
Her favorite part of being a physical therapist is spending one-on-one time with her patients and teaching them the tools they need to improve and hasten their recovery. And she does have the tools, for sure.
Stacey's focus is on Orthopedics and Women's Health issues and, after she attained her Master of Physical Therapy degree from Eastern Washington University, she has focused her continuing education in the areas of pelvic floor function, pregnancy care, vestibular rehabilitation and orthopedic manual therapy to name just a few.
Because of her career long desire and ability to heal and mitigate pain, we watched Stacey become a leader for the Medical Lake health community. We are so excited to have her here at our Spokane office!!!
I grew up in Spokane and graduated with a Master's in Physical Therapy from the EWU Physical Therapy program in 2001. I work hard to provide thorough, effective, compassionate care to my physical therapy clients. Due to my extensive experience in a variety of settings treating a multitude of diagnoses coupled with hard work and determination I have enjoyed a high rate of success during my career and look forward to helping many more people.
I have a special interest in treating orthopedic diagnoses, balance, vestibular, dizziness and post stroke rehabilitation. I am fortunate to have worked in different clinical settings because it gave me experience in outpatient, acute care and extended care, which incorporates a wide range of diagnoses and ages.
While working in the hospital setting I was the lead physical therapist working with a local doctor doing Baclofen trials to determine efficacy of pump placement. I was often the lead physical therapist for exercise classes designed to help patients who had just undergone total knee and hip replacements. As part of my duties at the hospital I also treated people on every unit with differing diagnoses of stroke, heart attack, and general deconditioning do to pneumonia, just to name a few.
In the extended care facility the majority of the patient population was post surgical geriatric clients that required rehabilitation in order to return home at their highest functional level. I also have about 6½ years of experience in outpatient therapy, which has included orthopedic injuries, post surgical care, neurologically impaired patients, vertigo clients, and sports injuries.
I use several manual therapy techniques including strain counterstrain, joint mobilizations, muscle energy, and myofascial release. Vestibular rehabilitation includes techniques to provide relief for vertigo and dizziness through specific head positioning, eye exercises, and balance exercises to improve overall balance.
I really enjoy the challenge of finding the root cause of people's pain and functional limitations then providing therapy to relieve their discomfort, improve their function and quality of life. It is wonderful hearing different life experiences as they feel better and return to previous recreational activities. I also enjoy working with SFCC as a part of their PTA student selection committee.
Kathryn Matsubuchi, OTR/L, Occupational Therapist, Registered/Licensed, is a 1996 University of Washington OT program graduate with 20 years' combined practice settings' experience in providing occupational therapy including outpatient pediatrics, outpatient adult services, skilled nursing care and in-home pediatric care.
Kathryn offers 6+ years' Occupational Therapy practice experience using holistic, osteopathic-based treatment techniques while providing manual therapy OT in serving children, adolescents, adults, and seniors. Kathryn's treatments support reducing overly heightened SNS sympathetic "survival tone" throughout the whole body, through the application of manual therapies including Visceral Manipulation, Cranial Sacral Treatment, Lymphatic Drainage Treatment, MyoFascial Release including Strain-Counter-Strain, and Musculoskeletal Mobilizations. Once the body is not so intent on survival that is not vital to moment-to-moment state regulation, the parasympathetic, "restful" functions of the body begin to boost and support resting, digesting, eliminating, and more typical hormone function to support restoring balance of the body's integral systems. This is clearly a more hospitable place from which patients can be successful in their Activities of Daily Living, ADL.
Kathryn emphasizes use of her visceral manipulation skills as a road map to identifying an OT client's "layered restrictions". Our body's visceral layers are similar to the smooth, nesting fit of the layers of an onion. Each visceral layer needs to have a precise fit that allows for sliding and gliding motions AND stable attachment points that suspend and connect one visceral layer to an adjacent layer. A restriction in any one visceral layer can have far reaching impact on more distant areas of the body. In the onion analogy, think how a bruise on the outside of the onion can pull into the onions deeper layers , or how sometimes the blemish of the onion is internal, close to the core, but it's damaging impact radiates outwards into more superficial layers of the onion. This is how visceral restrictions present in the body, interrupting and interfering with typical healthy tissue and organ functions.
Assessment of visceral restrictions and corresponding visceral manipulation treatments begin with an "outside in" and sometimes and "inside out" approach. Ongoing OT treatments support re-instating better motion, glide and health within any one layer and/or between two adjacent layers of the 1.) body's viscera, or organs, and 2.) the surrounding ligamentous, fascial and myofascial attachments that suspend and connect viscera within the body regions. Relieving visceral restrictions positively impacts parasympathetic functions of the body whereby clients begin to experience a boost in resting, digesting, eliminating, and more typical hormone function to support restoring balance of the body's integral systems. Additionally, patients who present with and who receive treatment for visceral restrictions commonly remark at how gentle and calming their visceral manipulation treatments feel.
Additionally, Kathryn holds specialty certification training in NDT, Neuro Developmental Treatment, which helps her to apply a biomechanical/movement integration treatment approach, including detailed postural analysis, and principles of spasticity reduction. Treatments engage patients in weight bearing activities to promote normalization of muscle tone to further assist patients in achieving more normalized and effective movement strategies throughout their activities of daily living. Specific to children and adolescents, Kathryn's 19 years of pediatric experience also includes integrating more traditional developmental OT approaches such as social-emotional, play-based, and activity-based interventions alongside of sensory integration, and pediatric NDT principles while addressing a young patient's uncertainties and anxieties that can occur when making changes within the body and nervous system.
Kathryn's skill versatility is complimented by her dedication to providing individually tailored OT sessions that support patients in regaining, achieving and maintaining improved ease of motion so that clients can get back to living their lives and/or experience the gratification of new-found motion. OT treatments further help patients in re-developing midline postural alignment from which to engage core muscles in postural stabilization to allow them to begin building stamina through Upper Extremity activities within dynamic sitting and standing activities.
Kathryn truly enjoys making a positive difference in the quality of patients' lives, one OT session at a time!


Discussion in 'Homework Help' started by juansta, Mar 25, 2005.
oh, and by the way, V1 is drawn incorrectly... the negative side should be at ground!
You have posed an interesting DC circuit analysis challenge.
It would be helpful if you could supply the resistor values used in the circuit along with the MOSFET part number.
Also you have accidently assigned two resistors the same reference designation of R4.
hehehe... interesting or not... Its driving me mad!!!
Now please understand that this is actually a uni assignment, and I do want to understand how this actually works... So it would be pretty pointless just posting an answer... Maybe a bit of working our or something?
I start by observing that due to the circuit configuration, the bipolar junction transistor is setting the Vgs to be -0.7 volts. That is because the base-emiiter voltage of the BJT is forward biased. Note that the input impedance looking into the gate of the MOPSFET is high enough to make any voltage drop across the resistor connectiing the emitter of the BJT to the gate of the MOSFET insignificant.
Armed with that fact and the mu = 0.067, I multiply 1/mu by 0.7 volts to get the resistance drain-to-source. That yields a value of 11.2 ohms. I then compute the voltage Vs by the formula Vs = (+V*4.7K)/(4.7K + 11.2 + 2.2K). +V is the power supply voltage. That would put Vg = Ve = (Vs - 0.7) at about 7.5 volts for a power supply voltage of +12V.
The Rds of 11.2 ohms seems to be too low. It seems like it should be between 1k and 2K. With a value of 2K the quiescent DC operating point would be close to halfway between the power supply and ground which would be the ideal place for it in order to give the input signal plenty of signal headroom as it passes through this circuit.
Also, juansta can you provide the power supply voltage that is being use to power this circuit? As you can see I used +12 volts but that is probably not correct.
The PSU is actually 10V DC.
Why dont I get these values when I run it throughPSpice?!?!
That sorts out most of the MOSFET stuff... what about the BJT?
I feel like kicking myself in the head for not seeing this earlier!!!
I look forward to your posting of the solution.
Now to draw the small signal equivalent!
Thanks for the pointers though, that really helped me look at the problem differently.
I looked at the diagram and all of the node voltages and branch currents look good.
After seeing your results, I see where my equation for Vs was in error. I missed the point that the mue = 6.7e-2 was in units of millimhos rather than mhos as I had assumed. Also I had assumed the power supply voltage at 12 volts when it turned out to be 10 Volts. That would have made my equation Vs = (4.7*10)/(2.2K+11.2K+4.7K). Solving for Vs would then have yielded 2.596 Volts. A value that is in close agreement with the value you obtained in the simulation of 2.568 Volts.
I don't know if you are familiar with Millman's Theorem but I recommend you take a close look at the technique since it helps simplify those nasty loop equation you have to deal with when using KVL. There is a pretty good introduction to the Theorem in the tutorials located on this website.
the suggestion of "hgmjr" about millman theorem would greatly help you in making nodal analysis.
let me throw in a monkey wrench, have seen the circuit and that can be used as a universal pre-amp or a low noise mike pre-amp. am not saying here that the values here are the correct values for an audio pre-amp. how would the circuit react at a full audio band (20hz - 20khz)? would the slew rate cope up at 15khz?


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Ashes series
Australia confident despite Headingley defeat, insists Khawaja
Ben Stokes' inspired display kept the five-Test series alive as hosts England amassed their highest ever fourth-innings run chase in Leeds, where the hosts prevailed by one wicket last week.
Australia, however, will be able to welcome talisman Steve Smith back to the fold for the Old Trafford Test after the star batsman missed the Headingley clash due to a concussion sustained at Lord's.
Smith will play a three-day tour match against Derbyshire, with Khawaja captaining an Australia side which also includes Marcus Harris, Cameron Bancroft and Marnus Labuschagne.
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Australia continues Ashes domination
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Smith struggled to contain his glee when the coin fell his way for the first time this series, guaranteeing the hosts first use of a flat pitch as they seek to further embarrass England after reclaiming the urn in Perth.
Warner pummelled England's beleaguered attack in the morning session, scoring 83 from 94 balls as Australia raced to 102-0 at lunch.
The hosts managed just 43 runs in the middle session, when Warner benefited from a no-ball reprieve on 99.
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Australia regain the urn
Seamer Josh Hazlewood finished with a five-wicket haul as England were bowled out for 218 before tea at the WACA, four years after Alastair Cook's side meekly handed back the urn at the same venue, and with the same humiliating 3-0 scoreline.
Play was delayed by three hours by damp patches on the pitch and rain squalls throughout the morning, but it was not enough to save England as they lost their last six wickets for 85 runs.
"So many different emotions are coming out right now, I'm that excited," Australia skipper Steve Smith said.
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