You are not eating enough. Your body adjusts to how much you eat, so your body got used to 1200 calories a day, but it did so by slowing your metabolism. Your body can't slow its metabolism to completely prevent weight loss, but it can try to fight it. Your body needs food to repair your body after you workout, so you need to adequately eat.
Also, weight train more and lift heavy. Weight training burns fat better than cardio. Women don't build muscle very easily, so you don't have to worry about building so much muscle that you don't lose weight. It won't happen. Also, building a little muscle is good because you will be able to burn more fat.
You are starving. Your BMR is 1880, and you really shouldn't be eating less than that. Unfortunately, since you lost weight in an unhealthy manner, your metabolism is messed up. The thing you need to do is take a break and eat at maintenance for a while. That means eating 2250 + whatever extra you burn exercising, so maybe 2500.
You will gain weight, but it will repair your metabolism, and it will allow you to be healthy and make progress in the future. After you stop gaining weight, then introduce a reasonable deficit. You ought to eat at least 1800, even after you start trying to lose again.
Agreed...you have to eat more! No human should ever be eating 1200 calories, though almost almost woman does when they try to lose weight. It's not healthy, as to why your hair was falling out! Up the calories and continue on your journey. Add in more weight sessions. You won't bulk up. Too many women have negative thoughts about weight. Burn the fat, which more muscle mass will do. Good luck!
I agree with all of the above. You need to start eating more and not be afraid of weight training. I do weights 3 times a wk plus my cardio. More muscle = more burn. You will not bulk up or gain weight from weight training. You really need to focus on your food. You have done great so far, but you need to up the calories big time. If you can go to 2300 or more for at least a few wks till you stop gaining then you can start to work on losing again. You have no where to go from here you absolutely cannot reduce calories anymore. The fact you have hair falling out is not from working out it is from lack of nutrition, this is what happens to anorexics etc.
solid555, where are you getting your numbers? She is a 5'2" female (so am I). My maintenance calories with a sedentary lifestyle is 1440 calories. I must eat 1200 calories and add a 2-3 mile walk just to lose .5-1 pound a week according to the calculators.
They are all over the web. Here is one. Click on the "BMR and RMR calculator" link in the middle of the page, enter her stats: Female, 22, 5'2", 237 pounds; and you get a BMR of 1, 871 and a sedentary burn of 2, 245.
I dislike the traditional gym exercises because they're boring to do (such as treadmills, cycling, and the other cardio machines) for any length of time. I do my cardio using video exercise programs such as TurboFire and Insanity (from beach body). One of the things all the trainers talk about is that HIIT (high intensity interval training) is much better than traditional cardio, and that your body gets used to your exercises if you do the same thing every time, so it becomes less effective. Doing the same exercises over time is one of the big causes of the plateau, and the trainers from these videos all say that in order to get over the plateau you need to change up the type of exercises you're doing.
I noticed that you said that you have gotten used to your exercise routine, and that might be the problem. I think you might want to find another type of exercise for cardio and keep changing it up instead of doing the same thing every time. For example, if you do spin/cycling for cardio normally, try running on the elliptical or doing a rowing machine instead for a while, then switch back later on. You can also run on the elliptical backwards which is harder than running forward. Other cardio can also include skipping rope or climbing stairs (steps machine).
HIIT can be running as fast as you can for 15 seconds an then walking for 1 minute and repeat many times.
First of all let me say thanks for all of the replies. I definitely need some insight here.
Secondly, BMR calculators have drawbacks. One of them is that if a lot of your body weight is muscle, a BMR calculator will underestimate the amount of calories you need, and if a lot of your body weight is fat, it will overestimate it. I'm not sure what percentage of my body is fat at this point, but I guarantee you it's enough to throw a BMR calculator way off. I could believe that I might need a few hundred more calories per day, but not 1800+. All I'd be doing by eating 1800+ calories per day is getting fat. I should also add in that I have known thyroid problems which contribute to a slower metabolism. I don't have the kind of cash I'd need to spend in order to go get tested again and put on medicine for it, but I know it really messes with my numbers.
Thanks a ton for the information on weight training for females. I will definitely keep that in mind. I love my cardio workouts, but I know how essential it is to have strength workouts as well. I don't want to lose my weight so quickly that I end up with saggy, loose skin by the time I'm at my goal, and I've been told that overall fitness and muscle toning is the best thing to help that, along with losing the weight at a healthy rate. I'll be adding more strength training and seeing how it goes. I'll also add in a few hundred more calories per day and give my body a few weeks to see if I stop gaining weight and start losing it again.
Also, I should add that I'm not skeptical at all about why my hair was falling out. I know that by eating so few calories and going to the gym 6 days a week (and staying an hour or more each time on top of that), I was basically an acting anorexic. I don't intend to let that happen again.


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David Noller aka Scratch-D From Dynamix II: The Legendary Pioneer Speaks Out
Dave Noller is one of those names that truly needs no introduction, a household name to die-hard fans of Techno Bass music all around the world, and a pioneer in his own right. Having been behind influential records such as "Techno Bass" on Chaos Records, as well as "Just Give The DJ A Break", "Atomic Age", and "The Plastic Men"; not to mention his own solo works as Scratch-D on labels like Zero One Music, Rephlex, Frajile Recordings, or Dynamix II Music, the man behind the iconic Dynamix II has been on an unstopabble path delivering mega-low bass drops, and ingenious programming to the masses, gaining the artist a reputation of being a sort of "Mad Scientist" for our music. This month, Santino Fernandez had the honor of speaking to him, gaining some insight into his background and accomplishments throughout his career...so with that out of the way, let's get on with it!
Santino Fernandez: Welcome Dave! It's an honor to have you spend some time with us to do this Interview. For those who don't know, tell us a little bit about your beginnings, what was life like for you that inspired you to get into making music?
David Noller: When I was still a child, each Summer and Winter vacation I spent visiting my grandparents in New Jersey. It was there where I was exposed to the ground-breaking mix shows that were airing on New York's radio stations like 98.7 KISSFM, 92KTU, 107.5WBLS and WHBI 105.9FM. It was a very magical time back then. Hip Hop culture was exploding all over the air waves on late night radio, and due to the popularity, soon mix shows began making their way onto daytime radio.
There was a mix show on 92KTU called "Paco's Supermix" that featured custom edited mixes by "The Latin Rascals", Aldo Marin of Cutting Records & "The Dynamic Duo". I would record these mixes to cassette and listen to them over and over and over until I could predict where the next edit happened. Kiss FM was also airing their "KISS Mastermixes" in the daytime by Shep Pettibone. The best of the best remixers were on the air and I was paying close attention. They were laying down the musical blueprint that I would recall time and time again each time I was in my studio.
Interesting, I didn't know your roots in many ways started with the New York scene. So then what was the scene like in Miami back in the 80's as Electro Funk prior to Miami Bass started to take hold? Were the parties strong and positive, or were there a lot of turf wars and an overall rather competitive vibe going around?
In the 80's there weren't as many promoters as there are nowadays, Electro music was being played in teen clubs and skating rinks. It was there where it made its debut. There were events being thrown by Luke Campbell, who before joining forces with the 2 Live Crew was an event promoter. I remember going to a few of the larger events back then like "The NYC Fresh Fest", and Luke Campbell's (back then known as Luke Skywalker) "Luke Skywalker Def Fest" to name a few, to see the breakers do their thing. It was a different vibe than you would find going to an event today. Electro Music and breakdancing was a "brand-new" thing and everyone was trying to catch a glimpse and be a part of it; including me.
I bet it was amazing, such new and raw energy for a movement that would change the world. The only way I can relate was my first Rave, and getting in a circle and watching the kids breakin'....blew my mind, I knew I had to be part of this movement!
So now let's talk about your act "Dynamix II", which hasn't just been a tremendous force to be reckoned with for a few decades now, but also at the end of the day sort of a one man show in that you have had a few partners, but always continue at it alone…What has led to this decision if you can talk about that? Has there always been a sense that while there may have been compatibility, that in the end the vision for Dynamix II has always been too personal for anyone else to fit that mold?
There is a certain dynamic creative process that happens when you are working with a partner. Amazing things can sometimes happen, and the result is nothing less than magic. Over the past several years I had decided to team up with many talented individuals. Each one of them can, and do stand on their own merit. Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. I have always felt that in order to grow one has to be able to adapt to change. Dynamix II is no exception to this rule. In order for it to grow, it must and always will follow suit.
I can definitely agree, change is not something everyone likes, but truly the catalyst for evolution no matter what the reason. So going back a couple decades, we have "Just Give the DJ a Break", which was a Gold hit, and not something anyone in this scene has ever been able to accomplish. What were the effects of this on the scene in your region back then? How did it seem to evolve everything including Electro Funk music itself? Undoubtedly this must have helped the music spread like a wildfire.
The record was a great experience all those years ago. The records' beat had been sampled and layered over countless music by other artists ever since its release. It was instrumental in bringing a mastermixed style song with Electro Bass beats to the masses. After this, the flood gates were wide open for the sound of the underground.
Let's talk about the all mysterious label "Techno Bass" for Electro Bass music then. Some people believe it to only be a Detroit sound, while in reality Miami and the rest of South Florida had begun to adopt this years before, after the 1988 release of your hit classic "Techno Bass" on Chaos Records; gravitating away from Booty Bass and into the Intelligent Bass Music and Car Audio market. What inspired you to go in this direction from the beginning, as opposed to the more "hand played" and slower bpm sound of Electro Funk? Is it fair to assume Detroit Techno at this point was already a big influence on you?
I had always loved Electro Funk, but had a few records from Juan Atkins (Cybotron) in my crate like "Techno City", "Clear", "Model 500", "No UFO's", and "Time Space Transmat". I was influenced by the sound of Detroit but I felt that it lacked in the 808 Bass department. Being that I was based down here, it only made sense to give the sound a much needed upgrade to a warmer thicker 808 hum over top. It was the combination of the two [sounds] fused with the blueprint of Kraftwerk's single "Numbers", that laid the blueprint in its place. The term "Techno Bass" was coined with Dynamix II's 1988 release "Techno Bass" on Chaos Records.
Let's ellaborate on this a little for the sake of educating the masses some. It bothers me a lot when I tell people about the Techno Bass period of Miami Bass music; even often with people in your region, who don't seem to remember the era or even artists like Beat Dominator, Techno Bass Crew, Bass 305, etc. A simple Google search for the word "Techno Bass" brings up oodles of videos with tracks from back in the day, none of them Detroit, and all of them showing what a healthy scene that had become for quite some time before Detroit adapted to this.
There, it seems to have happened with your influence and this is admitted even by the guys from Aux 88, but as far as the term, I have never gotten the sense from speaking to anyone there that it had been adopted because of the Dynamix song "Techno Bass", or any of the artists from the time period I mentioned. Talk a little about this era and these artists....did you know any of them?
Techno Bass was the song that coined the term, period. Until that record's release there was no such thing as Techno Bass. It was a fusion of Miami Bass and the Techno sound of Detroit given to us from no other than Juan Atkins himself. It was a moment in time when car audio sound-off contests were in full swing. People would come from all over the US to compete for title of the loudest system. As necessity is the mother of invention, car audio bass CD's began popping up at that time geared towards making music with the lowest bass to meet the demand of the contestants who needed fuel to power those loud car systems. Everyone was hustling to cash in on the bass gold rush. I met a few car audio artists at trade shows such as Neil Case (Beat Dominator), Claudio (Debonaire) and Derrick (Afro Rican).
I remember that time period well, I am not sure if people realize that through your influence in taking Electro Funk in this direction; what a lot of people know as "Electro Bass" or Techno Bass in reality, you helped the sound continue forward, where it may otherwise not have survived perhaps given its general worldwide decline in popularity. Even Detroit may not have gone in the direction that it did with their version of Techno Bass music; which was a critical influence as well.
Anyway, so moving forward a little bit, you became a huge pillar of influence in the Florida Rave scene, which was another important moment in history. What was that like, was it a fairly lucrative experience for Dynamix II?
The scene was exploding and I noticed that a lot of earlier Dynamix II works were being sampled in a lot of Orlando Breakbeat music. I remember going to the edge to hear Icey in Orlando, and that night we heard at least 5 songs that had a beat or sample of a loop from a Dynamix II classic in them. So we were greeted with open arms into the rave scene due to the fact that the DJ's spinning the music were already familiar with the sound of Dynamix II. It was a great time to be in the music business for everyone involved.
How do you see the industry right now? Are you satisfied with the so-called Digital Revolution and what it has brought, or do you see some things that need to change?
The industry has changed completely in every way. The positive thing it has brought is: the artist is now in 100% full control of their own music. There are no longer major labels taking advantage of artists. The bad thing is there are no more music videos on MTV. Music is no longer making money, and it has become nothing more than a calling card for promoters to look up an artist and book them. Where is money being made? Event ticket sales, licensing and tangible items ie. t-shirts, hats and various swag.
What's your opinion on this thing called "The Loudness War"? Are you also in the belief that music is being over compressed, and Dynamics being lost for the sake of being louder than the next guy?
Well, back in the prehistoric days of recording, they just didn't have the luxury of the tools they have nowadays to make everything sound larger and fuller. Now everyone compresses and limits to bring out each sound to its maximum potential to make the overall track sound louder. The louder the track is, the more people will hear of it. We are making music that is to be played on loud speakers in a loud night club/ festival setting, so it would only make sense to crank everything to the max.
That's a worthy counter-argument to the current sentiment, Emmanuel Deruty from Sound on Sound made a similar point. So then tell us about the TAL Vocoder you helped create, and as a devoted user of Reaktor, do you see yourself gravitating away from plug-ins for music making and back into hardware as the trend reverts, or do see a specific value in using a software based approach to creating Electronic music?
The Tal Vocoder is a plugin vocoder which resembles my SCV350/SH101 rig that I had been using since the early 80's. It is available for free here. It was coded by the genius Patrick Kunz in Switzerland. He is truly an amazing software developer, take a look at his creations here. I use both software and hardware, but see a trend in everything going software as the modeling has been improving daily and sounds amazing.
How about this "hardware revolution" happening, do you still have much of your gear from back in the day like the Moogs? Are you being impressed by some of the releases like the Roland AIRA and Boutique lines?
After all of these years I still have all of my gear intact and in perfect working order. Virtual and hardware technology always impresses me. As a sound designer, your job is to explore sound and relay your findings to the world. Moog has always been one amazing company. Their synthesizers have a certain character that is nothing less than magic. Roland is great at emulation, they did one hell of a job in emulating their classic synths with the Boutique lines! It's a great moment in time for music. Today's sound creation tools are amazing and truly inspiring.
What do you see for the future with Dynamix II, the project and the label? Any new releases in the pipeline?
Dynamix II Music (the label) will be releasing music for Dynamix II and a select few artists. There is a new track that was just released on the label for the act "HydrashocK" called "INFILTR8" that is available on all digital retailers. There is also a new Dynamix II remix for Afrika Bambaataa on Cut it up Def records. New releases will always be coming, you can listen to us on Soundcloud.
Huge thanks for taking the time for this interview Dave, long live Dynamix II and its legacy. Thanks for all you have done for the scene over the years!
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Interviewed by: Santino Fernandez

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We support burn survivors of all ages and in all stages of recovery.
Our deep commitment to supporting burn survivors goes back to the inception of our organization after a 15-day period in 1987 when three fires took the lives of 17 children and three adults. Those events prompted the creation of The Wisconsin Alliance for Fire Safety (WAFS), which aimed to not only promote fire safety & prevention but also support burn survivors.
In 1989, partnering with the Wisconsin fire sprinkler industry and the National Fire Sprinkler Association, the first annual Burn Center Golf Invitational (BCGI) was held. Over more than 30 years this event has raised more than $2,500,000.
In those early years, the funds raised from BCGI helped to send eight young burn survivors from Wisconsin to the Illinois Fire Safety Alliance "Burn Camp." By 1995, based on the need here and the positive impact to those who had attended the Illinois camp, the first Wisconsin Burn Camp was held.
In 2015, the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation absorbed the Wisconsin Alliance for Fire Safety with the promise to continue the important work of supporting burn survivors through Burn Camp as well as through a variety of programs for survivors of all ages and in all stages of recovery.
Our 25th Annual Burn Camp will take place at Camp Timber-lee just outside of East Troy, Wisconsin, August 11-17, 2019. This free, weeklong summer camp provides remarkable continuation of care for kids with life-changing burn injuries by promoting healing and peer support and helping campers visualize life beyond their injuries.
Each year our Steering Committee works year-round to plan a new Burn Camp theme that makes each child's experience fresh, unique, and more impactful. In addition, the hard work and participation of more than 100 burn survivors and volunteers make this camp special for everyone who attends.
2019 Camper Application: Burn Camp Camper Applications Coming soon!
2019 New Staff Application (Staff orientation is 8/11/2019): Fill out here.
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Burn Camp Brochure: View here (PDF).
Our Winter Leadership Retreat for Young Adult Burn Survivors is held every February in the Wisconsin Dells area. More than 30 young adult burn survivors (ages 17-25) from across Wisconsin attend. The focus of this 3-day weekend is service leadership that provides young adult burn survivors with the tools and skills needed to overcome obstacles in their lives and thrive as leaders in their communities. Applications will be posted here when available.
Held in conjunction with Neenah-Menasha Firefighter's Local 275 Backdraft Bike Tour the first weekend in June this is an opportunity for burn survivors, families, and staff to connect each year.
The PFFWCF, along with our partners, provides support and collaboration with Wisconsin Burn Centers. Our goal is to ensure the best treatments and outcomes possible; as well as, improving continuity into our programming.
Pictured Below are members of the UW Burn Board at The Overture Center for the Arts in Madison during Burn Awareness Week. The Overture Center turned their lights red to help us create awareness about Burn Awareness Week.
Applications are program specific and will be posted here when available.
WBC is the world's largest gathering of the burn community, connecting attendees with support, resources, and each other. For many, it is the first chance to connect with others on the journey to recovery from a burn injury. Every year we send delegates from the Burn Survivor Community here in Wisconsin to attend this impactful event.
Every year one of our Summer Camp for Burn Injured Youth campers along with a camp counselor is selected to attend the International Association of Fire Fighters Burn Camp where they spend a week with other burn survivors from across the United States and Canada.
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A: Use this method hopes this works.
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A: As far as I know you can't do it, however you can make a little trick when trying to open gallery by package name.
Actually it not recomended, but when it is very important for you you can try. Look at this post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-developers/VYLJOAJZ6n0

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Businesses in Townsville and the North West are feeling the direct and indirect impact of the flooding event that spread across the region in recent months. Getting back on track can be a daunting task.
Through this workshop our business advisors will take attendees through the initial steps of recovery.
This is the first in a series of workshops that will be delivered over the coming months to support the businesses of the Townsville and North West region.
Townsville and North West Queensland business feeling the impacts of the flooding event.


This is an fund-a-need display from a hospital foundation gala.
Many auction ideas can help you raise cash, but no other singular activity during your benefit auction will have more financial impact than the cash appeal. It can be such a cash cow that some of my clients have no live auction; they only conduct an appeal.
The appeal goes by various names: fund a need, gift from the heart, or any of these other cash appeal names. Whatever you call it, there is a strict protocol to follow if you want to be successful.
Here are seven pointers to executing a great fund a need.
1. Select a single item or cause to fund.
You will confuse your audience if you have a laundry list of activities or items. I saw an appeal flop at one school because they insisted on raising money for three items. Some members of the (tipsy) audience became confused and thought they could choose which item they got to fund. Ugh! Keep it simple by keeping it singular.
Just as you would advertise a silent or live auction item, you should advertise the appeal. Talk it up prior to the gala… put it in your catalog … highlight it in your program … ensure it has its own display table in the silent auction (see photo). Showcase it.
This can be conveyed in a heart-wrenching video, a heart-warming live testimonial, or via a short plea from someone close to the need who can succinctly describe its impact. Guests need to understand where the money is going, and how it will help the cause. As of late, I've been asked to convey the need on behalf of the charity. This approach can work, too, if you've got the right auctioneer.
4. Offer several different pledge levels so everyone can participate.
The appeal is the "group gift" of the gala, but not everyone is going to be able to give at the same level. By offering four to six different levels of pledges, you ensure everyone in your crowd can give and feels good about it.
5. Begin by asking for the most amount of money (your highest giving level), and end by asking for the least amount of money (your lowest giving level).
This is simple psychology. Asking a guest to pledge $100 seems a modest request after they have just witnessed other guests pledging $1000.
6. Ask auction guests to raise their bid card to make their pledge public.
With few exceptions, public pledging will raise more money than silent pledging.
7. Announce the total of what was raised.
Guests are always curious about the total, and my experience has been that even when the money raised hasn't been as spectacular as privately had been hoped, guests don't know it.
"Wow, we raised $25,000! " a guest will tell me (even though we hoped for $35,000…). Announcing the total inspires guests; they feel good about their participation. You'll likely even collect a few more donations as guests check-out.
And now that you've got "the basics"down, what about the rest?
What about examples of great videos that have been used as introductions prior to the Fund a Need? What about the sample scripts I've used in front of groups? What about the 3 types of Fund a Needs, and learning when to use which?
You can learn all of that (and much more) in Fabulous Fund a Need Secrets. Get the details and see a snippet from the content.


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Josiah Brown honors late mother on senior night
Panthers fall to Grandville
Dan D'Addona
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HOLLAND TWP. — It has been a difficult and emotional season for the West Ottawa football team, but even worse for senior Josiah Brown.
While the Panthers have struggled on the field, Brown's struggle has continued off the field, watching his mother slowly lose a battle with pancreatic cancer. She died last week.
Brown, who starts on the line on offense and defense, walked out for senior day with his father and purple balloons to honor his mother, Lynette, who died on Sept. 29.
"Football has been very helpful. My teammates have been around me in my loss," Brown said. "It was very emotional. We were very close. It has been a tough season."
The Panthers lost 64-26 to drop to 0-7.
West Ottawa coach Ryan Oshnock said watching Brown go through the loss of his mother has been extremely difficult.
"It has been a very trying year for Josiah. We just try to be there and keep him positive," Oshnock said. "Josiah has had to deal with some very adult and mature responsibilities at a very young age. It is difficult any time a young man has to take on those challenges."
Grandville improved to 6-1 to clinch a playoff spot.
The teams traded touchdowns to open the game, then six turnovers would provide the difference as West Ottawa struggled to hang on to the ball on a soaking-wet night.
Marcel Love scored on a 3-yard run to open the scoring with 7:22 to go in the first quarter. The conversion put the Bulldogs up 8-0.
Max Voet responded with a 60-yard TD run just 20 seconds later.
Grandville's AJ Harrold scored on a short punt return with 3:46 to go in the first quarter. Drew Betteridge caught the conversion and the Bulldogs led 16-6.
Jake Zimmer answered with a 29-yard TD pass to Blake Bosma on fourth-and-14 with 1:21 to go in the quarter.
But Cam Terry answered on a 68-yard TD on the first play of the second quarter. A Love conversion run made it 24-13. Love added a 45-yard TD run with 6:53 to go after a fumble. Love's conversion made it 32-13. After a West Ottawa fumble, Love scored again on a 3-yard run and it was 38-13.
Zimmer scored on a 1-yard run with 13 seconds to go in the half, cutting the deficit to 44-20 at the break. Voet opened the second-half scoring with a 16-yard touchdown and the Panthers trailed 44-26.
Harrold countered with a 19-yard touchdown run and Love added a 3-yard score for a 58-26 lead.
Voet had 14 carries for 108 yards. Zimmer carried 16 times for 82 yards. Bosma had three catches for 69 yards. Bosma and Devon Phetthongdy each had 8.5 tackles.
"Any time you turn the ball over that many times, it is hard to win," Oshnock said. "There were some bright spots, but they are a very good offense — a tough offense to stop on a regular basis. Credit to our guys because they have been very positive when fighting through this adversity."
— Contact Sports Editor Dan D'Addona at Dan.D'Addona@hollandsentinel.com or 616-546-4276. Follow him on Twitter @DanDAddona and Facebook @Holland Sentinel Sports.


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· Pelvic kidney - When one renal fossa is empty, a search for the kidneys in ectopic positions should be made. If the contralateral kidney is of normal size the obvious place to search for a kidney is the pelvis. Ectopic kidneys may be associated with other urinary tract anomalies.
· Renal agenesis- Bilateral renal agenesis is relatively common: 1:3000—4000.
· Hyoiplastic kidney- Renal hypoplasia may be unilateral or bilateral and the small kidney may be difficult to locate. The contralateral kidney may be hypertrophied but if it is also small then there may be OH. Renal hypoplasia may also be associated with other anomalies.
· Crossed renal ectopia- A kidney with a bibbed contour, with two areas of increased echogenicity representing the collecting systems, is seen in one renal fossa. A kidney in the contralateral renal fossa would not be seen. As expected the crossed ectopic kidney will be longer than a normal kidney.
· Horse shoe kidney- May be associated with Turner's syndrome. The kidney is more inferiorly placed and therefore the renal fossa may appear empty.
NB- A prominent adrenal gland or bowel loop in the renal fossa may mimic the kidney, making diagnosis difficult. The normal fetal kidney after 22 weeks gestation will show corticomedullary differentiation.


Ireland has lagged behind some European countries of similar size and population when it comes to hosting clinical trials for innovative new drugs. The figures have been improving and last year there were 200 active clinical trials in Ireland. Compare this, however, to the 450 trials in Finland and Denmark's total of 1000.
Cancer research is boosting the number of trials and about 7,000 people were participating in trials of new cancer drugs in Ireland last year. The group that represents the industry, Cancer Trials Ireland (CTI), has been speaking to the Irish Times about how Ireland can increase its profile in health research and clinical trials.
There has been less progress in other disease areas such as diabetes, stroke or heart disease. One of the reasons quoted is that the infrastructure required to support clinical trials is not in place in Ireland. There is no complacency about this and Clinical Research Coordination Ireland (CRCI) has a mandate to attract trials for a diverse range of illnesses. The criticisms about infrastructure are not entirely justified because Ireland does have a number of specialised medical centres staffed by suitably qualified clinicians and researchers.
What is needed is further coordination between the academic research system and innovative companies http://www.gandlscientific.com/clinical-trial-services that are willing to support the research process by providing clinical trial services which hard-pressed general hospitals may not be able to supply.
Another factor in Ireland's favour is a rigorous regulatory regime in which robust procedures are strictly enforced by the Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA). There have, of course, been unsuccessful trails. The trial of a schizophrenia drug caused several healthy volunteers to suffer seizures. A full investigation by the HPRA's predecessor said that the active ingredient had been given at an inappropriate dose. At the time, this was seen as a setback for the sector. However, from 2018, EU regulations will impose a standardised process for approving clinical trials and this is expected to be a positive development.


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Die nachfolgende Liste enthält alle Meistermannschaften des Club España in der mexikanischen Primera Fuerza (Nummern 1 bis 14) und Primera División (Nummer 15):

Einzelnachweise

Quellen
Die Spielerdaten entstammen folgenden Quellen:
 Buch von 1982 anlässlich des 70-jährigen Vereinsjubiläums des Real Club España (da dem Autor dieser Zeilen nur Kopien aus dem Buch vorliegen, ist ihm der genaue Buchtitel leider nicht bekannt)
 Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano – Tomo 1 (Mexiko Stadt: B. Costa Amica, 1960), S. 92ff (für den Zeitraum 1913/14 bis 1921/22)
 Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano – Tomo 2 (Mexiko Stadt: B. Costa Amica, 1961), S. 317ff (für den Zeitraum 1923/24 bis 1944/45)

Espana Meistermannschaften

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Le Cordon bleu est un film français réalisé en 1931 par Karl Anton, sorti en 1932

Synopsis

Fiche technique
 Réalisation : Karl Anton
 Superviseur de la réalisation : Saint-Granier
 Scénario : d'après la pièce de théâtre de Tristan Bernard créée en 1923.
 Décors : Henri Ménessier, Jacques-Laurent Atthalin
 Photographie : Willy Faktorovitch
 Musique : Francis Gromon
 Production  : Les Studios Paramount (France)
 Pays :
 Format :  Noir et blanc - 1,20:1 - 35 mm - son mono (Western Electric)
 Genre : Comédie
 Durée : inconnue
 Date de sortie :
 France -

Distribution
 Pierre Bertin : Oscar Ormont
 Jeanne Helbling : Irma
 Louis Baron fils : Bernereau
 Lucien Baroux : Lucien Dumorel
 Marguerite Moreno : Mme. Dumorel
 Marcel Vallée :  Dick, le détective
 Madeleine Guitty : Célestine
 Maurice Lagrenée : Arthur
 Edwige Feuillère : Régine
 Pedro Elviro : Achille
 Simone Héliard
 Jeanne Fusier-Gir

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Film français sorti en 1932
Comédie française
Film français en noir et blanc
Film réalisé par Karl Anton
Film de Paramount Pictures
Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre française au cinéma
Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tristan Bernard au cinéma


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The Basque Country and Scotland used the final day of the annual Ocean Energy Europe Conference & Exhibition to announce 'EuropeWave' - a new five-year collaborative programme that will channel €20m to the most promising wave energy concepts. The initiative is match-funded by the European Commission via its Horizon 2020 programme, and Ocean Energy Europe are on board as project partners.
Both the Basque Country and Scotland have long histories of industrial strength and today are centres of innovation. Both are committed to full decarbonisation and have developed long-term strategies to transition their energy systems.
EuropeWave will build on these strengths to ensure that the Basque Country and Scotland remain leading players in Europe's emerging ocean energy sector and the wider energy transition.
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EuropeWave will use an innovative 'pre-commercial procurement' approach to identify and fund the most promising wave energy devices from developers across Europe. Concepts will be assessed according to strict technical and economic performance metrics, and the best performers will be demonstrated in Basque and Scottish open waters at the end of the programme.
Scottish Minister for Energy, Connectivity and the Islands, Paul Wheelhouse, and Basque Minister for Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment, Arantxa Tapia announced the initiative during a joint interview at OEE2020.
Minister Wheelhouse said: "EuropeWave is a great example of how Scotland can continue to collaborate with European partners, like our great friends in the Basque Country, who have very similar aims and objectives to ourselves. We can work together to bring forward what can hopefully be a very important technology for the whole global community."
Minister Tapia said: "This project is an ideal platform for collaboration between two regions in Europe to promote a new sector that contributes to the energy transition, creating a new economy and employment for our citizens. It is a clear example of how things should be done."
Matthijs Soede, Research Programme Officer at the European Commission, added: "With EuropeWave we pool public resources for research and demonstration from national and EU level. By effective use of these resources, we hope that this will create more impact for the wave energy sector."
Rémi Gruet, CEO of Ocean Energy Europe, added: "We are delighted to be part of this initiative, which brings together some of the strongest supporters of ocean energy. The industry has long identified a pan-European 'pre-commercial procurement' as the right route to progress wave energy, so we can't wait to see this project get underway in 2021."
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Claim: E-mail describes religious symbols and references in U.S. capital buildings and the words of America's founders.
As you walk up the steps to the Capitol Building which houses the Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view — it is Moses and the Ten Commandments!
As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door. As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall right above where the Supreme Court judges sit a display of the Ten Commandments!
Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said, "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians…not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ".
Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher…whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.
Origins: Although the intent of this piece is to demonstrate a government endorsement of Judeo-Christian tradition through the symbols and words used in U.S. federal buildings and the writings of America's founding fathers, much of the information it presents is inaccurate.
The United States Capitol does not house the Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court has met in its own building since 1935.
Law as an element of civilization was normally and naturally derived or inherited in this country from former civilizations. The "Eastern Pediment" of the Supreme Court Building suggests therefore the treatment of such fundamental laws and precepts as are derived from the East. Moses, Confucius and Solon are chosen as representing three great civilizations and form the central group of this Pediment.
The two other lawgiver figures (Confucius and Solon) are not "facing [the] one in the middle" (i.e., Moses) as claimed above — all three of the lawgivers are depicted in full frontal views, facing forward. (The allegorical figures who flank the three lawgivers are indeed facing towards the middle, but they are looking in the direction of all three men, not just Moses.) The two tablets Moses holds in his arms are blank, without inscription.
The doors of the Supreme Court courtroom don't literally have the "Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion." The lower portions of the two doors are engraved with a symbolic depiction, two tablets bearing the Roman numerals I through V and VI through X. As discussed in the next item, these symbols can represent something other than the Ten Commandments.
As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall right above where the Supreme Court judges sit a display of the Ten Commandments!
Weinman's training emphasized a correlation between the sculptural subject and the function of the building and, because of this, [architect Cass] Gilbert relied on him to choose the subjects and figures that best reflected the function of the Supreme Court building. Faithful to classical sources, Weinman designed for the Courtroom friezes a procession of "great lawgivers of history," from many civilizations, to portray the development of secular law.
Actually, this statement appears nowhere in the writings or recorded utterances of James Madison and is completely contradictory to his character as a strong proponent of the separation of church and state.
Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said, "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians … not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ".
Another spurious quotation. These words appear nowhere in the writings or recorded utterances of Patrick Henry.
They attached to Henry via an April 1956 article that appeared in The Virginian (reprinted in September 1956 in The American Mercury) in which a snippet from his will was followed by comments penned by the article's author. Those comments included the "founded by Christians" statement now mistakenly attributed to Henry.
Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher … whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.
However, this issue really has nothing to do with the subject at hand (the endorsement of Judeo-Christian tradition by the federal government), other than in the tangential sense that some people feel one of the areas in which U.S. courts have overstepped their bounds is the body of decisions prohibiting the use or display of religious symbols and references in state-operated institutions.
1 Some critics contend that anything that is tablet-shaped cannot possibly be interpreted as representing the U.S. Constitution, because that document "was not written on tablets." But one could use that same argument to contend that anything bearing the common version of Roman numerals cannot possibly represent the Ten Commandments, because that numbering system was not yet in use at the time of the events described in Exodus.
2 Although the authenticity of the Weinman letter has been challenged because it does not bear the hallmarks of his other business correspondence, there are several prosaic reasons that might explain the differences, such as that the item is a draft of a letter (which may or may not have been formally prepared and sent) or an archival copy of a piece of correspondence whose original has since been lost.


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February 12, 2010 * With Glowing Hearts* Vancouver Olympics
February 6, 2010 by acobb7·114 Comments
The winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver, Canada beginning February 12th until the 28th.
Please read the following information on the Olympics from TeacherVision:
Winter Olympic History
The move toward a winter version of the Olympics began in 1908 when figure skating made an appearance at the Summer Games in London. Ten-time world champion Ulrich Salchow of Sweden, who originated the backwards, one revolution jump that bears his name, and Madge Syers of Britain were the first singles champions. Germans Anna Hubler and Heinrich Berger won the pairs competition.
Organizers of the 1916 Summer Games in Berlin had planned to introduce a "Skiing Olympia," featuring Nordic events in the Black Forest, but the Games were cancelled after the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
The Games resumed in 1920 at Antwerp, Belgium, where figure skating returned and ice hockey was added as a medal event. Sweden's Gillis Grafstrom and Magda Julin took individual honors, while Ludovika and Walter Jakobsson were the top pair. In hockey, Canada won the gold medal with the United States second and Czechoslovakia third.
Despite the objections of the founder of the modern Olympics Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, and the resistance of the Scandinavian countries, which had staged their own Nordic championships every four or five years from 1901-26 in Sweden, the International Olympic Committee sanctioned an "International Winter Sports Week" at Chamonix, France, in 1924. The 11-day event, which included Nordic skiing, speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey, and bobsledding, was a huge success and was retroactively called the first Olympic Winter Games.
Seventy years after those first cold – weather Games, the 17th edition of the Winter Olympics took place in Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994. The event ended the four-year Olympic cycle of staging both Winter and Summer Games in the same year, and began a new schedule that calls for the two Games to alternate every two years.
Year No Location Dates Nations Most medals USA medals
1924 I Chamonix, FRA Jan. 25-Feb. 4 16 Norway (4-7-6–17) 1-2-1– 4 (3rd)
1928 II St. Moritz, SWI Feb. 11-19 25 Norway (6-4-5–15) 2-2-2– 6 (2nd)
1932 III Lake Placid, USA Feb. 4-15 17 USA (6-4-2–12) 6-4-2–12 (1st)
1936 IV Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER Feb. 6-16 28 Norway (7-5-3–15) 1-0-3– 4 (T-5th)
1940-a – Sapporo, JPN Cancelled (WWII)
1944 – Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA Cancelled (WWII)
1948 V St. Moritz, SWI Jan. 30-Feb. 8 28 Norway (4-3-3–10), 3-4-2– 9 (4th)
Sweden (4-3-3–10)
& Switzerland (3-4-3–10)
1952-b VI Oslo, NOR Feb. 14-25 30 Norway (7-3-6–16) 4-6-1–11 (2nd)
1956-c VII Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA Jan. 26-Feb. 5 32 USSR (7-3-6–16) 2-3-2– 7 (T-4th)
1960 VIII Squaw Valley, USA Feb. 18-28 30 USSR (7-5-9–21) 3-4-3–10 (2nd)
1964 IX Innsbruck, AUT Jan. 29-Feb. 9 36 USSR (11-8-6–25) 1-2-3– 6 (7th)
1968-d X Grenoble, FRA Feb. 6-18 37 Norway (6-6-2–14) 1-5-1– 7 (T-7th)
1972 XI Sapporo, JPN Feb. 3-13 35 USSR (8-5-3–16) 3-2-3– 8 (6th)
1976-e XII Innsbruck, AUT Feb. 4-15 37 USSR (13-6-8–27) 3-3-4–10 (T-3rd)
1980 XIII Lake Placid, USA Feb. 14-23 37 E. Germany (9-7-7-23) 6-4-2-12 (3rd)
1984 XIV Sarajevo, YUG Feb. 7-19 49 USSR (6-10-9-25) 4-4-0- 8 (T-5th)
1988 XV Calgary, CAN Feb. 13-28 57 USSR (11-9-9-29) 2-1-3- 6 (T-8th)
1992-f XVI Albertville, FRA Feb. 8-23 63 Germany (10-10-6-26) 5-4-2-11 (6th)
1994-g XVII Lillehammer, NOR Feb. 12-27 67 Norway (10-11-5-26) 6-5-2-13 (T-5th)
1998 XVIII Nagano, JPN Feb. 7-22 72 Germany (12-9-8-29) 6-3-4-13 (5th)
2002 XIX Salt Lake City, USA Feb. 8-24 77 Germany (12-16-7-35)	10-13-11-34 (2nd)
2006 XX Turin, ITA Feb. 10-26 85 Germany (11-12-6-29) 9-9-7-25 (2nd)
2010 XXI Vancouver, CAN Feb. 12-28
a-The 1940 Winter Games are originally scheduled for Sapporo, but Japan resigns as host in 1937 when the Sino-Japanese war breaks out. St. Moritz is the next choice, but the Swiss feel that ski instructors should not be considered professionals and the IOC withdraws its offer. Finally, Garmisch-Partenkirchen is asked to serve again as host, but the Germans invade Poland in 1939 and the Games are eventually cancelled.
b-Germany and Japan are allowed to rejoin the Olympic community for the first time since World War II. Though a divided country, the Germans send a joint East-West team through 1964.
c-The Soviet Union (USSR) participates in its first Winter Olympics and takes home the most medals, including the gold medal in ice hockey.
d-East Germany and West Germany officially send separate teams for the first time and will continue to do so through 1988.
e-The IOC grants the 1976 Winter Games to Denver in May 1970, but in 1972 Colorado voters reject a $5 million bond issue to finance the undertaking. Denver immediately withdraws as host and the IOC selects Innsbruck, the site of the 1964 Games, to take over.
f-Germany sends a single team after East and West German reunification in 1990, and the USSR competes as the Unified Team after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.
g-The IOC moves the Winter Games' four-year cycle ahead two years in order to separate them from the Summer Games and alternate Olympics every two years.
Olympics: Fun Facts
by Mike Morrison
1. American Myer Prinstein finished runner-up in the 1900 long jump in Paris, despite not even showing up for the finals. Prinstein, a Syracuse University student, was instructed not to participate in the finals on Sunday, the Christian Sabbath. Qualifying jumps counted back then, so he took second on the basis of those. As legend has it, he was so angry at eventual gold-medal winning jumper Alvin Kraenzlein for competing in the finals that he punched him in the face.
2. The 1912 Greco-Roman wrestling match in Stockholm between Finn Alfred Asikainen and Russian Martin Klein lasted more than 11 hours. Klein eventually won, but was too exhausted to participate in the championship match, so he settled for the silver.
3. Did you ever wonder why the official distance of a marathon is exactly 26 miles, 385 yards? In 1908, the marathon standard was set at exactly 26 miles. However, at the Olympic marathon in London, it was decided that the royal family needed a better view of the finish line. Organizers added an extra 385 yards to the race so the finish line would be in front of the royal box. And it's been that way ever since.
4. The five interlocking rings of the Olympic flag symbolize the five continents of the world (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas) "linked together in friendship." Olympics founder Pierre de Coubertin claimed that at least one of the rings' colors (blue, yellow, black, green, and red, along with the white background) was present in each country's national flag.
5. World record, but no gold medal: In 1924, American Robert LeGendre shattered the world long jump record with a leap of 25 feet, 4 inches. However, the jump was part of the pentathlon competition and LeGendre could muster only a third-place finish overall. The actual long jump competition was won with a jump of 24 feet, 5 inches.
6. Stella the Fella – Poland's Stella Walsh (Stanislawa Walasiewiczowna) – won the women's 100-meter race at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, becoming the first woman to break the 12-second barrier. When she was killed in 1980 as an innocent victim in a robbery attempt, an autopsy declared her to be a male.
7. Danish rider Lis Hartel won the silver medal in the 1952 equestrian dressage event in Helsinki. Hartel suffered from an inflammation of the spinal cord known as poliomyelitis, which required her to be lifted on and off her horse each time.
8. Before there was Kerri Strug, there was Japan's Shun Fujimoto. In the men's team gymnastics competition in 1976, he actually broke his kneecap while performing in the floor exercise. The following day, however, he needed a top-notch performance in the rings for Japan to secure the gold. With no painkillers, he performed a near flawless routine and stuck to the landing, putting a tremendous amount of pressure on his injured knee. He grimaced in pain as he held his position for the judges, then finally collapsed in agony. Japan won the team gold by just four – tenths of a point over the Soviet Union.
9. And you thought they just used a match. Did you know that traditionally the Olympic flame in Olympia, Greece is rekindled every two years using the sun's rays and a concave reflective mirror? Note: This year, cloudy skies prevented the "traditional" lighting.
10. In 1928, it was reported that six of the eight entrants in the women's 800-meter race collapsed at the finish line in an "exhausted state." Poor training methods and the brutal Amsterdam sun were the two major causes of distress. That event was subsequently cancelled until 1960.
Please tell me two facts from the above content that you found interesting and why.
Visit the official Vancouver Olympic website. This is an extensive website filled with photos, commentary, and video for you to explore. Please answer the following questions:
What events do you most like to watch and why?
If you could participate in the Olympics, which sport would you choose and why? Do you think you have what it takes to be an Olympic athlete? (Remember, it takes years of specialized training, self-discipline, and commitment to the sport to be a top athlete)
I have added two more music videos to the page at the top. These music videos are of Elvis Presley and The Beatles, and the song lyrics speak to the theme of forbidden love in The Outsiders. Be prepared to discuss how these lyrics apply to some of the characters and the storyline in the book.
The Best Of Us Challenge
November 7, 2009 by acobb7·191 Comments
Do you have a unique athletic ability? One that you feel you are the best at and would like to challenge an Olympian if given the opportunity? What is this ability? Can you spin an umbrella? Are you a champion baton twirler? Can you balance a stick at the end of your foot?
Please visit the above Olympic site to get an idea of what The Best Of Us Challenge is. I am not asking you to participate. The purpose of this blog is for you to recognize that we all have special physical abilities regardless of athletic prowess. Please watch the main video to get an idea of what The Best of Us Challenge is all about, and then click on the videos below to view some Olympians challenging you and being challenged to do some interesting feats.
Please answer the following prompt:
What unusual physical ability/unique skill do you have that you could challenge an Olympian at?
Is there a particular Olympian you know of that you would like to challenge? If you don't know an athlete's name, at least name the Olympic sport in which you would like to find someone to challenge.
Think outside the obvious, meaning, this challenge isn't about that you are a fast runner. Maybe your special ability is juggling for a certain amount of time, balancing a spoon on the end of your nose while turning in circles, or being able to do 500 sit ups without stopping.
As usual, please write in paragraph form and watch your spelling and punctuation.


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ProgressBlogs Meet Desislava Mihaylova, Senior Technical Writer at Progress
Meet Desislava Mihaylova, Senior Technical Writer at Progress
by Aneliya Stoyanova
We'd like to introduce you to some of the people from around the world who make us what we are. In this post, meet Desi, a skilled technical writer who has made a big impact in her community.
Desislava Mihaylova is not only one of the most experienced technical writers at Progress but also an active part of the local industry community. You can meet her at conferences and events throughout Bulgaria sharing her passion for technical writing with fellow colleagues and students. Read our interview with her to learn more about her job and the way Progress supports her to develop professionally and contribute to the technical writers' community.
Desi, you are known in the IT community in Bulgaria for your passion for technical writing. What makes the technical writer's profession so fascinating for you? What's the best part of it?
To a great extent, being a technical writer means to be a team player, to be adept at communicating with various roles within the company (support, designer, development, quality assurance, project management teams) so you are able to achieve your goal of "translating" and "adapting" the content to the needs and expectations of the user, which, ultimately, leads to a higher product quality and a greater user experience.
The thing I really love is that you always learn. Day by day, you pile up technical knowledge about new scenarios, approaches, features, products, tools, implementations. It's a never-ending story which makes me feel excited and content with what the team achieves.
Apart from the technical competencies that you build on with time and the soft skills you apply on a daily basis, technical writers are a shared resource within the company. Working on one or more suites with various teams opens you up to different mindsets and broadens your overall knowledge about the whole product life-cycle and internal company processes.
If you have to describe it with just three words, what would they be?
Inspiration, action, satisfaction.
Tell us more about your efforts promoting the profession. You are a co-organizer and a speaker at many industry events. What are you up to now?
For over a year now, I've been one out of four tekom Bulgaria Initiative Committee members. tekom Bulgaria, similar to tekom Europe, is the community of technical writers in Bulgaria. Last year we ventured on the so-called Roadshow initiative in the cities of Plovdiv, Vratsa, Veliko Tarnovo, and Ruse. The 4-hour seminar aimed at promoting the profession among students and young professionals and also sharing some hands-on experience.
We also held two seminars at Telerik Academy in Sofia to the same effect, which provoked great interest among the Academy's former and current students, as well as with a number of tech writers who already practice the profession.
Undoubtedly, our greatest success for 2017 was that the Bulgarian Ministry of Labor and Social Policy acknowledged us as professionals and, as of January 1, 2018, included the occupation in the National Classification of Occupations and Positions. We achieved this huge success with the support of all the big companies in the Bulgarian software market, which are otherwise competitors, such as VMware, Software AG, SAP, and, of course, Progress. Taking into consideration that there's no dedicated specialty at the Bulgarian universities yet while the want of technical writers in the country is getting bigger and bigger, I consider this inclusion a huge success because the way we shared efforts, contacts, and know-how proved that we are a real community standing for common values and a desire to improve and develop the community in Bulgaria.
In 2018, I plan to go on with the Roadshows in several cities in Bulgaria as well as to take part in the extended workshops we plan.
You have diverse professional experience and did not always work in technical writing. How did you decide to move to this field?
Yes, for eight years I had worked in the financial field as a lease and bank expert. The desire to make a complete shift matured over the years as a I got to realize that choosing one bank or another won't let me develop my potential nor make feel truly appreciated. It was a challenging time looking through job offers that sounded just as routine and brain-washing as the one I held at the time. Luckily for me, one day a friend of mine asked me: "Can you write from scratch, out of a blank sheet of paper?" "Just try me!", I said, and that's how I became a tech writer at Playtech Bulgaria and discovered a whole brave new world of possibilities.
How does Progress support your professional development and your personal commitment to the technical writing field?
As I mentioned, we don't have a dedicated university specialty for technical writers. More than 90% of the active community in the country have become technical writers by luck or coincidence and built up their skills out of practice. So, if you want to get certified, one way is to take the 7-month online course, organized by tekom Europe, which I did last year with the financial support of the company.
The company also provides annual support for my attending local and international conferences for technical communicators. Last year, for example, Progress made it possible for me to attend Write the Docs in Prague, Czech Republic.
Also, Progress is among the sponsors of the Evolution of Technical Communication conference, which is the biggest conference for technical communication in the South-Eastern Europe and is held every year in Sofia.
What does a typical day of yours look like?
Checking email and chats for any urgent actions
Following the ticket system for feedback concerning enhancements to documentation
Handling particular tasks for the release of specific features or product improvements
Going through the Kendo UI doc sites to review the latest commits and general doc revisions
Organizing or attending occasional meetings with the other tech writers at the company to improve current practices and reflect the changes in the style guide
What's the best part of working at Progress?
My team. They are a rare mixture of highly intelligent, hugely resourceful, and extremely helpful people whom I truly admire. It's always about thinking how something can be done, a new approach implemented, or a needed technology embraced, and this simply makes you feel the sky is the limit.
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The Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum in Titusville, Florida, will hold its 34th annual airshow March 11-13. This year's show will be dedicated to the memory of The Flying Tigers, and the 70th anniversary of their first combat mission in China.
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The show will also feature modern military jets flying and World War II re-enactors fighting mock battles, as well as vendors, exhibits and displays. The museum will offer rides in its vintage C-47 that flew in the Normandy invasion. There will be helicopter and bi-plane rides as well.
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Reshit Chochmah () è un importante libro della Cabala ebraica, nel campo del misticismo e dell'etica (Mussar), scritto nel XVI secolo dal rabbino Eliyahu de Vidas  (1518–1592). Si basa principalmente sullo Zohar. Il titolo ebraico si traduce letteralmente come "l'inizio della Sapienza", in allusione al versetto biblico "Il timore del Signore è il principio della sapienza" ().

Reshit Chochmah descrive un metodo di meditazione che combina la visualizzazione e permutazione delle lettere ebraiche, e intende ispirare il lettore con un senso di purezza e santità, se studiato su base regolare. Il libro presenta una combinazione di insegnamenti etici e morali nell'ambito della Cabala, mostrando un percorso al novizio che entra il mondo e la sapienza della Cabala. In stile semplice e di facile comprensione, l'opera spiega allo studente i modi di ottenere un livello più elevato di consapevolezza divina, "secondo la Volontà del Santo per il Suo benamato popolo, i Figli di Israele."

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Hyperledger will organise its BootCamp in Hong Kong at Cyberport in 7-8 March.
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Anyone can contribute which includes developers, designers, writers, organizers, artists, and project managers. They will also have both English and Chinese presentations.
It's Free of Charge and RSVP is required. Participants should arrange travel, accommodation and their own additional costs.
You should login with your Linux Foundation ID to check out the details on the following Hyperledger wiki.


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Ed Stefanski
No messing this one up
Go ahead and admit it—you know you want to. As soon as it turned out that the 76ers would get the No. 2 pick in next month's NBA Draft, your first thought was, "Great… how are they going to mess this up?"
Hey, I thought the same thing. I even asked around to some folks who are wise in the way of the NBA and the players headed into the draft. Needless to say the answers I received were uniform and succinct.
"They can't," was the response in how the Sixers could screw up the No. 2 pick.
But there is always an addendum tacked on at the end after that two-word answer.
"They can't… unless they draft Shawn Bradley."
Remember that one? Remember how the Sixers had the No. 2 pick in the 1993 draft and took a 7-foot-6 center with just one year at Brigham Young under his untested belt? Even with Anfernee Hardaway, Jamal Mashburn, Isaiah Rider, Vin Baker, Alan Houston and Sam Cassell sitting there on the board, the Sixers gobbled up the lean and lanky center that at his very best was labeled a project.
Two-and-a-half years later they finally traded away Bradley for Derrick Coleman… maybe the one instance where Coleman was the preferred alternative.
Here's how bad the pick for Bradley was… for five seasons after the Sixers used the No. 2 overall pick on him, they were still in the lottery for five straight seasons afterwards. That's how they were able to get Jerry Stackhouse, Allen Iverson, Larry Hughes, not to mention trading away the No. 2 pick in the '97 draft for Jim Jackson, Eric Montross, Anthony Parker and Tim Thomas.
Quite obviously, not many of those picks worked out too well, either.
This year there is no such worry, though, mostly because there is no Shawn Bradley-type available in the 2010 Draft. It's not a crop that is seen as particularly deep with the picks beyond the top three a guess. After Kentucky guard John Wall goes to Washington with the top pick, the Sixers are expected to take Ohio State guard Evan Turner. Essentially, Washington has the top pick while the Sixers have No. 1A.
It really is a can't miss. In fact, last night La Salle grad and former NBA player, Tim Legler, told viewers on ESPN that Turner was the true star of the draft. Legler declared that 10 years from now we will be talking about Turner as a Hall of Famer.
That's a pretty bold comment considering how uncertain the draft can be. For every Iverson, Charles Barkley and possibly Evan Turner, the Sixers have shown us Bradley, Sharone Wright, Charles Smith, Keith Van Horn, Marvin "Bad News" Barnes and whatever the hell that was in 1986.
Indeed, June hasn't been the kindest month for the Sixers.
Which is why we want to know if they can mess it up? Is there a Sam Bowie to take ahead of Michael Jordan? A Kwame Brown-type poised to turn heads at the draft workouts or an Adam Morrison set to be labeled the next Larry Bird?
Can it really be this easy?
"It gives us a lot of options which is what we really need," general manager Ed Stefanski said. "We are ecstatic. When you are at six and you move up to two it is phenomenal. We are happy campers. I just got a text from (Comcast-Spectacor COO) Peter Luukko and a text from (Comcast-Spectacor Chairman) Ed Snider; they are watching the hockey game but they were watching this too."
Yes, apparently this is a slam dunk. If the Sixers were to take Turner, a 6-foot-7 guard with a seven-footer's wingspan, a knack for making clutch plays, as well as what his draft media guide bio says is, "a student of the game who studies past greats and appears to have a great understanding [of the game]."
What it means for the Sixers is that Turner can pair with Jrue Holiday in the backcourt, while Andre Iguodala can move to a more natural forward spot where we won't have to watch him brick up three-pointers on a routine basis. Turner's addition could also make Thaddeus Young a potential draft-day trade bait, though not the type of deal that would free up cap space for a bigger move.
In other words, all the Sixers have to do is take Evan Turner. It really is that easy.
Posted at 06:15 PM in 76ers, Ed Stefanski, Evan Turner, NBA Draft, Shawn Bradley | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Primoz Brezec, we hardly knew ye
When one thinks back on the historical significance of some of the mega-deals that have gone down in the name of basketball in this town, it almost leaves a guy breathless. Ponder for a moment the fact that two teams with origins in Philadelphia traded away Wilt Chamberlain when he was in the prime of his career…
Not once, but twice!
Imagine that—arguably the greatest individual talent ever to play basketball was traded from the Warriors to the Sixers for Connie Dierking, Paul Neumann, Lee Shaffer and cash before going from the 76ers to the Lakers for Jerry Chambers, Archie Clark and Darrall Imhoff. The first trade came a season after Wilt led the league in scoring with nearly 35 points per game and 23 rebounds, while the second one came two seasons after the Sixers won their first NBA title (third for a Philly team) and the big man went for 24-24 and led the league in assists.
But just like that, he was gone. Poof!
Trading away Wilt Chamberlain was hardly the most dubious deal in the history of Philadelphia NBA teams. Nope, not even close. Ever hear the story about how Maurice Cheeks was traded in August of 1989 to the Spurs, only Mo didn't know about it until he arrived back at his house and found a reporter there waiting at his doorstep. Go ahead and ask Michael Barkann about that one sometime because he was the guy who broke the news to Cheeks.
No word if Michael B tracked down Christian Welp and David Wingate, too, to tell them they were packaged with Cheeks to get Johnny Dawkins and Jay Vincent.
Charles Barkley was traded simply because he had outgrown Philadelphia and probably would have been arrested for aggravated assault on Armen Gilliam if he had to stay another day longer. The Barkley deal returned the Sixers Jeff Hornacek, Andrew Lang and Tim Perry, which is the basketball equivalent to trading Curt Schilling for Travis Lee, Omar Daal, Vicente Padilla and Nelson Figueroa.
Sometimes trades have to be made for the sanity of everyone who remains. Barkley and Schilling had to go for just that very reason—we needed to stay sane and so did they. However, on the scale of trades that should have warranted the state to step in and send owner Harold Katz upstate to the nervous hospital for a little vaca, the deal on draft day of 1986 is an all-timer.
Whenever I think about the Deal of '86, I think of it two different ways. In one I look at it kind of like Robert E. Lee meeting Ulysses Grant in the courthouse at Appomattox in 1865 to sign the papers signaling the end of the Civil War. Then Lee slowly rode off on that white horse of his and wandered around in the wilderness until it was time to check out.
The other thing I think of is the Saturday Night Live sketch from the '90s when Kevin Nealon and Victoria Jackson play interviewers who ask dumb politicians deftly worded questions about just how far they can shove their heads into their derriere. Always gets a giggle, though in real life it's not so funny.
Think about it—in one day the Sixers traded Hall-of-Famer Moses Malone and solid frontcourt man Terry Catledge to Washington and then sent the No. 1 overall pick of the deep (yet cursed) 1986 draft to Cleveland. The pick turned out to be perennial All-Star Brad Daugherty. Maybe the Sixers somehow knew that Daugherty's Hall-of-Fame career would be cut short at age 28 because of back injuries? Or maybe they didn't want a guy who got 21-and-11 during the last four years of his career?
Either way, the Sixers turned away Moses Malone, Brad Daugherty and Terry Catledge, plus two first-round draft picks and got back Roy Hinson, Cliff Robinson and Jeff Ruland…
No, there's no punch line. That really happened!
I still can't believe the Spectrum wasn't overrun with an angry mob out of an old movie like It's a Wonderful Life with folks screaming for Harold Katz as if he were the miserly Old Man Potter. Why weren't there riots?
So it is above the din of discontent that we recall the inglorious days of yore when our NBA team out-smarted itself and ruined things for a while. In the aftermath of Wilt going to the Lakers, the Sixers set the record for the worst season in the history of the sport with just 9 wins in 1973. And, perhaps, maybe it's even reasonable to think that the Sixers have never really recovered from Draft Day of '86. Why not? In addition to losing two Hall-of-Fame quality players, they also gave up two first-round draft picks and picked up Jeff Ruland, who went on to play just 18 games over the course of five years. Current Sixers' GM Ed Stefanski knows that if he puts his hand over an open flame and keeps it there for a bit, it's not going to end well.
Smart right?
Maybe. But then again, maybe not. After all, at 20-33 these Sixers are going nowhere fast. They are too good to benefit from the draft and too bad to do anything of note in the playoffs. Moreover, two players—Elton brand and Andre Iguodala—have contracts that aren't very conducive to a team hoping to rebuild in the current salary-capped NBA. I think I called it NBA DMZ a few days ago. Basketball limbo might be a better term.
With the majority of fans hoping the team would unload a valuable player, but cap-unfriendly guy like Iguodala for any number of teams we heard about on the rumor mill (and confirmed by the GM) in order to acquire the coveted expiring contract so favored in these crazy times, it was funny to hear the reaction to an actual deal. No, funny is not the right word there because it implies that a good time was had by all. Let's just say it was fascinating to couch the reaction from the fans against the words from Stefanski. See, the GM thinks his team is underachieving and isn't as bad as the 20-33 record indicates.
However, if the GM makes a deal he doesn't want to give up Iguodala for Jeff Ruland. Sure-and-steady Eddie wants some talent back in a trade, too. Why wouldn't he? Good for him.
"For us to take back expiring contracts for talent didn't make much sense, and it would not have gotten us close to a lot of the team [much further under the cap]," Stefanski explained.
Fair enough. So when the only deal at the trade deadline is one which the Sixers sent Royal Ivey, Primoz Brezec and a second-round pick to the Milwaukee Bucks for guard Jodie Meeks and center Francisco Elson, well, let's just say it feels a bit underwhelming. In fact, it feels a bit disappointing, too. I mean, think of all those little kids out there talking about, "Roy-al with Cheese!" and sporting those Primoz jerseys with ol' number whatever he was on the back.
Nobody ever thinks about the kids.
In light of the mega-deal, I solicited opinions from the man on the street (via Twitter) for thoughts on the deadline blockbuster… this is what I got back:
A fellow named Robert from Philadelphia asked, "Who are the Sixers?"
Oh come on, we know… but do we really know them. They never let us get close enough.
A man who calls himself Kevin from Philadelphia seemed most distraught, writing: "Just when I got my Royal Ivey jersey..."
Isn't that how it always works?
A guy named Dan from Delaware astutely pointed out that Francisco Elson speaks five different language, including his native tongue, Dutch, says this fact will help him in Philly: "He can translate DNP-CD however he likes."
After that the responses just got weird and I kind of checked out after the one from a guy who describes himself as a "Philly Phanatic," who asked: "Is the real Ed Stefanski in a cave somewhere and actually Billy King has pulled a 'Face Off' switcheroo?"
When we start comparing the 2009-10 Sixers to a Travolta/Cage vehicle, it's time to stop.
Yes, the trading deadline can send us all off the deep end, but at least this time we didn't have to go for the torches and pitchforks to storm whatever it is to strom.
Posted at 12:15 AM in Andre Iguodala, Brad Daugherty, Charles Barkley, Curt Schilling, Ed Stefanski, Francisco Elson, Jeff Ruland, Moses Malone, Philadelphia 76ers, Primoz Brezec, Royal Ivey, Wilt Chamberlain | Permalink | Comments (0)
Getting Iggy with it
If there was one sequence that personified the season for Andre Iguodala—and maybe the Sixers, too, for that matter—it came in the final seconds of regulation in Wednesday night's game against the Chicago Bulls at the Wachovia Center. Trailing by one point, Iguodala got the ball at the third-point arc above the top of the key where he hesitated as if getting ready to shoot before streaking to the hoop.
More than just a good, basketball move, it also was the smart play because even if Iguodala could not convert the layup, the odds were strong that he would draw a foul.
And that's exactly what he did.
But that's also where the Sixers got that sinking feeling again. That's because after making his first foul shot to tie the game, the second one clunked off the back of the rim to give Chicago a chance to win the game with a final shot.
Eventually, the Sixers didn't suffer for Iguodala's missed freebie. In overtime Iguodala was the catalyst in helping the team to their second victory in a row. It was his three-pointer with 1:19 to go in overtime that finally gave the Sixers a lead they would never relinquish, just as it was his steal in the third quarter that started the second half run that culminated with his two foul shots with five seconds left in the fourth quarter.
Better yet, Iguodala was everywhere on Wednesday night, turning in one of his better all-around performances of the season with 25 points, eight assists and eight boards. It was an effort that was especially eye-popping when considering how the last three games went for the Sixers' forward. During that span he has scored just 31 points on 30 shots, including an especially anemic eight-point effort against the Lakers last Friday night.
Over the last six games heading into Wednesday's tilt against Chicago, Iguodala failed to score in double digits in four games and struggled to average 13 points on 40 percent shooting during the month of January.
For a guy wearing the label as the team's franchise player, those numbers aren't good enough.
Of course there are a lot of other things swirling around Iguodala that have nothing to do with his play, yet very well could influence it. One of those, of course, is the return of Allen Iverson to the Sixers, which may (or may not) have some influence on Iguodala's game. It's worth noting that Iverson did not play on Wednesday night.
It goes without saying that the trade rumors could have an effect on Iguodala's play over the past few weeks. With the Feb. 18 trade deadline quickly approaching, the hottest rumors have the Sixers making deals with Phoenix or Houston for Amare Stoudemire or Tracy McGrady and those coveted expiring contracts that NBA GMs love and covet. Then again, even the East's top team Cleveland has been mentioned as one of those landing spots.
Iguodala, however, does not have one of those contracts. Instead he has three years plus a player option remaining on his current deal, which doesn't give GM Ed Stefanski much wiggle room despite the fact that the Sixers rank 23rd out of 30 teams in player payroll. In some potential deals the Stefanski might go in already in a tough spot since Elton Brand still has three years remaining on his $80 million deal.
Nevertheless, Iguodala sounds as if he would welcome a trade anywhere Stefanski can put together a deal.
"I feel like I'm one of the top players in the league and I can give whatever team I'm on a whole different dimension," Iguodala said after Wednesday's game. "Thinking in that perspective alone gives me that added confidence. It shows a new team what I can bring to the table."
Still, Iguodala's play on Wednesday night was such that some folks watching wondered aloud, "Who's that guy wearing Iguodala's uniform?" Then again, maybe the Iguodala on display this season is the real act. After all, in six seasons he's appeared in just 17 playoffs games and never made an All-Star team. Clearly he's not a guy who can carry a team, but might be a nice complimentary piece in Phoenix, Houston or Cleveland.
Besides, durability is nothing to sneeze at in the NBA and in his six seasons Iguodala has missed a grand total of just six games—all during the 2006-07 season. No matter who Iguodala ends up playing for, he's dependable. His coaches and teammates can always expect him to be on the court.
Whether or not it's the guy who dropped 25 on the Bulls on Wednesday night is a different matter.
Posted at 12:34 AM in Andre Iguodala, Ed Stefanski, Philadelphia 76ers | Permalink | Comments (1)
Tuning in for the re-runs with A.I.
Every night on several channels on the dial, one can watch repeats of Seinfeld and The Simpsons or any other TV show that reached its glory in the 1990s. It's a wonderful thing, and it works for everyone involved.
For the broadcaster, the old standbys are not only ratings winners, but very attractive to the advertisers. The advertisers, of course, spend the money that makes the world go round and keeps those repeats of Everybody Loves Raymond coming. Meanwhile, the folks at home know that if they need a little chuckle or a chance to unwind with some mindless humor/background noise, just dial it up.
In fact, shows in syndication are so popular that sometimes even the start times of live events like baseball playoffs are pushed back a bit in order to air that one sold episode of Friends.
See, it's a win-win for everyone.
But according to the 76ers' general manager Ed Stefanski, his team is not airing this latest repeat for the money or the ratings. Oh sure, the show aspect of it is compelling enough, and when one looks at the attendance numbers for the Sixers this season—the team is next-to-last in average attendance—it's obvious that something is missing. Whether it's the bad economy and the holidays approaching or the hangover from back-to-back World Series trips by the Phillies and playoff runs by the Eagles and Flyers, folks haven't connected with the Sixers.
Of course the current seven-game losing streak and spate of key injuries don't help either.
So rather than dig up some old I Love Lucy episode to play on the Fan-a-vision above the arena, Stefanski and the Sixers opted to sign Allen Iverson to a non-guaranteed contract. That means if the team doesn't think it's working out with Iverson, they can just let him go. You know, kind of like what the Memphis Grizzlies did last week.
Buh-by, A.I.
And like any other re-run we all know how it's going to end with Iverson. We've all seen this show before. In 2006 when Iverson was still with the Sixers, we walked out on the team and coach Maurice Cheeks, failed to show up for practice (Practice?!), and was suspended until the team could find a place to trade him.
Iverson ended up first in Denver where he and Carmelo Anthony couldn't figure out a way to share the ball. When Detroit came calling with Chauncey Billups offered, it was a too good of a deal for Denver to pass up.
You know how it goes from here. Iverson was relegated to bench duty, a tantrum followed, and then he quit on Detroit and Memphis. No, as far as ungraceful exits go it's not quite Willie Mays tripping in the outfield with the New York Mets or Johnny Unitas wearing that gaudy San Diego Chargers uniform, but it was perfectly clichéd nonetheless.
If there is earth to be scorched or bridges to burn, Iverson is your man.
But that's not why the Sixers dialed up Iverson. That would be way too easy for even the most cynical of us to scoff at. No, this time the non-guaranteed contract and the relative bottom-basement $650,000 salary if the team chooses to keep Iverson for the rest of the season is way too convenient to pass up.
"We made a basketball decision here when we found out that Lou Williams will be out close to eight weeks, which is 30-plus games," Stefanski said.
"Allen was the best free agent out there for what we need right now."
In other words, chances are the Sixers wouldn't even give Iverson a second look had Williams not been hurt. Sure, Iverson still puts the fannies in the seats (in this town) and as far as soap operas go there has never been anything like him in the history of Philly sports. So when thinking about this move look no further than at the Phillies and their mid-season signing of Pedro Martinez last summer. In need of a dependable, No. 5 starter, the general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. took a flier on the three-time Cy Young Award winner and one of the best right-handed pitchers in a generation with the caveat that if it didn't work out, the team could waive him.
No fuss, no muss.
As it turned out, Pedro ended up pitching a couple of gems during the regular season and one in the NLCS before taking two starts in the World Series. Obviously, that move worked out.
Don't expect the Sixers to get to the NBA Finals (or even the playoffs) just because they signed Iverson. After all, he couldn't start for the lowly Memphis Grizzlies and even the New York Knicks didn't want any part of Iverson. But as a stop-gap, ahem answer, Iverson might just be good enough.
Nope, this is the perfect scenario for Iverson and the Sixers. This is a repeat with some DVD extras in that it can be sold as a farewell tour of sorts. It can be billed as the extended swan song of a career that, statistically-speaking, is more than Hall-of-Fame worthy.
So break out the old "Practice" video and the dizzying step-over on Tyronn Lue because Iverson is back. No, he's no longer the answer, but he sure is a lot more entertaining than anything else that's on.
Posted at 01:49 PM in 76ers, Allen Iverson, Ed Stefanski | Permalink | Comments (1)