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John Oxley Restoration
The success of the restoration is now very visible in the progress of the hull plating. It is a tribute to all that have participated in the process through providing their volunteer efforts and those that have contributed with funds and materials. We thank them sincerely for their ongoing support and encourage others to do the same. You are participating in the restoration of one of a few coastal steamers in the world, and preserving a type of ship that once was plentiful in Australia and many other countries.
Supporting the project
The restoration is a community based project. Our workforce is a mix of a couple of paid staff who work alongside our many volunteers. We are grateful for the financial support from sponsors and we also are fortunate to obtain donations of materials from business and industry. The project is always looking for additional funds. They are the lifeline of projects like the John Oxley restoration. So, if you wish to become part of this restoration project please contact us on (02) 9298 3888
Also see the Wish List at the end of this restoration update.
At this stage, we have identified the need to expand project leadership, particularly in the areas of marketing and promotion. Anyone who can help with ideas in fund raising or for further information also please contact us on (02) 9298 3888.
Mid 2008, the team was working on the bow plating and stem. Riveting the stem and keel structures requires two riveters working on each 1 inch rivet from both sides simultaneously. After working up the stem, the team then concentrated on the keel, working aft from the forefoot.
Completing the structural A-strake was a major milestone. All the 1 inch rivets that fix the A-strake plates to the bar-keel and floors have now been riveted.
This task has been accomplished by to the hard work and dedication of the restoration team. Part of this team was our fourth year apprentice, Daniel, who was due to finish his time and leave in December 2008. Special thanks to the fabrication team who were able to complete the keel riveting phase of the project on the day before Daniel left.
D-strake port side plate to be lifted in place
And, special thanks to Daniel who put so much into this project, and other Heritage Fleet projects.
The weight of the 600 ton ship has now been largely transferred back off B-strake onto the keel blocks by means of steel shoes and wedges.
The restoration of all of the structural floors and frames, and with most of the hull plating in place, has given the ship the stiffness of its original construction in 1927.
With the weight transferred to the keel blocks, work is progressing with the re-plating of the C and D-strakes that were obstructed by the bilge docking blocks. Each of the bilge docking blocks is carefully removed to give access to the plate for removal, plate duplication and riveting. The supports under the B-strake frames will stay in place to distribute the weight while this work is in progress.
The top quarter of the rudder plate was rusted and considered below the required 0.900″ (22 mm.) thickness. This section has been removed, replaced and butt welded to the lower section. Riveting the new blade to the arm will take place early in 2009.
With most of the rudder components having been restored,independently inspected and approved, it is ready to be installed back into the ship. Installation will take place after the aft deck and rudder trunk have been restored.
John Oxley's propeller is original and consists of a cast iron hub onto which are bolted four bronze blades. This type of propeller, while unusual to-day, was common for the time. The blades themselves were cast in Stones metal, a patent alloy, which is as strong as steel but is also corrosion resistant. Blades in this alloy are stronger, and can be produced in much thinner sections, resulting in higher efficiencies.
It was usual to cover the fastenings for the blades in a heavy coating of cement, which was fashioned by hand into a roughly spherical shape to minimise drag.
Textbook example of builtup propeller - only one blade shown
The cement linings must be chiseled away to fully survey the blade fastenings. This difficult and dusty task is being undertaken, appropriately, by volunteer Dusty Miller. The fastenings will be inspected and verified using ultrasonic techniques when completed.
The engine room is our next major challenge. Most of the engines and pumps have been restored in our shore workshop and need to be returned to the engine room before plating closes in this compartment.
Many of the auxiliary engine seats were removed to gain access for riveting the new hull plates. These seats and engines are to be returned to the engine room before it can be sealed off with new hull plating.
Sisson auxiliary engibe restored - awaiting re-installatio
Access for riveting is made worse with the congestion of all this machinery crowding the space. Planning is critical to ensure it is done in a workable manner. It will be necessary to place the auxiliary engines, pumps and seats inside the engine room in temporary locations. They can finally be installed in their correct positions after the riveting.
Three of the more sizable components that need shore-side repair are the condenser ends. Repairs will include shot blasting and rebuilding with epoxy compounds, after which, these heavy components will be stored back inside the engine room. They are of a size that will require two complete strakes removed to manoeuvre them back into the hull.
All plates and structural parts are painted with a rust preventative coat and a sealant coat. The hull plates are zinc coated and have withstood the ravages of the weather well over the last few years. Hence the only painting visible externally are the rivet heads, giving a very clear outline of the rivet lines. Sealing the steel parts of the ship from the elements will have a major bearing on the life of the restoration process we are undertaking.
The workload reduction of the structural elements and plating allows for more of its time to be spent on supporting the engineering effort.
The unusual image shows the engine room tread plate platform components. The entire structure was removed to the workshop, repaired piece by piece and prime coated. As storage space is limited, they are stored under the bow. When the hull riveting in the engine room is complete, this jigsaw puzzle will be reinstalled.
Repair and restoration of the rudder components, bilge pumping system, stokehold and engine room flooring has been undertaken.
The next few months will see the fabrication of two major hull valve boxes to replace those that cannot be repaired.
John Oxley was originally fitted with electric light in 1927. The system comprised a Sisson enclosed high-speed steam engine and Crompton 110 volt DC dynamo that supplied electricity to lighting, searchlight and to radio batteries. Over time, various power outlets, cabin fans and even a domestic fridge were added. Consequently, there were many complaints concerning serious overloads of the original generator set.
A group has been formed to undertake the design stage of a new electrical installation for John Oxley. A replicated 100 volt DC system will not satisfy to-days codes. Modern safety rules require provision of 415 and 240 volt AC, with many safety provisions, to power lighting, fire & bilge pumps, radios, fire detection systems, emergency systems and many other needs.
Under the leadership of David Logie, the group has commenced planning and will soon be active in recruiting labour and sourcing sponsorships and assistance from industry.
The project has a need for the following items…
• Horizontal borer – not too large…
• 3MT drill press
• Radial arm saw (for the chippies)
• Any blacksmithing tools
• Any riveting tools
• Air tools, power chisels, needle guns…
• Ditto for electrical tools…drills, grinders…
• Chain blocks – industrial rated
• Any oxy acetylene equipment
• A plasma cutter
• Nuts and bolts, especially the larger sizes
• Used or new sheet roofing material
AND – are you retired? Seeking something to do? Seeking useful work? Want to preserve our heritage?
The project is looking for extra volunteers…
• Sheetmetal workers
• Carpenters and shipwrights
• Fitters / machinists / engineers
• Fabricators and potential riveters
• Ironworkers
• Painters
• Machinery restorers
We are always seeking people with practical skills to work with our existing workforce. New volunteers are surprised at how fast they can learn and become valued members of the team.


Mysterious Stitching: Tattadadaa! It's a FO!
Here I sit again, talking about my needlepoint projects as usual. You never guess how the LRR's situation is.
Oh yes. It's a FO! I am so excited about this! Now I can grab another project. I just wonder, if I should stitch The Dark Lilac next or grab one UFO that I haven't touched for a while.


I have three friends and family codes (25% off) that I won't be able to use so I thought I would spread the holiday cheer and give them away to people on the forums. If you would like a code just send me a PM and I will pick three people to give them to.
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I believe expiry date is end of December.
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Rumor Mill: Uhh… Kaworu and Mari are twins?
Yesterday, at the Eva Emergency News Blog, a link to 2ch was posted that was part of an Evangelion Pachinko related thread, that appears to indicate at a certain point in the game (Challenge Bonus?) where Kaworu and Mari are twins. From the beginning, since the name "Mari" first appeared in the Nintendo Puchi Eva DS game, nothing official has been released about her except some images, a figure, and some other random merchandise.
Normally, stuff like this would immediately raise the Red BS Flag, but since the new character Mari has been so hyped yet so little is known about her, I figured a mention is at least warranted. Keep in mind this is posted by some random person, on 2ch, about a pachinko game, so don't put too much stock into this bit of "news". Also, as of today, the newest Eva Pachinko magazine has no mention of Mari.


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Keyue Shen to Lead Ongoing Research Initiative Into Cancer Metastasis
Greta Harrison | October 30, 2019
The new NIH-funded project will assemble a top research team to further our understanding of why and how cancer spreads throughout the body.
Breast cancer cells. Image/Wikimedia Commons
Cancer is the world's second leading cause of mortality. According to the World Health Organization, it was responsible for around 9.6 million deaths in 2018. Yet over 90 percent of cancer deaths are not caused by the original tumor or disease. They are instead caused by the processes of metastasis; the spread of cancer or tumors leading to secondary growths, often in other parts of the body away from the primary source.
The $2 million grant headed by Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Keyue Shen, funded by the Provocative Questions Initiative at the National Cancer Institute, will aim to increase our understanding of the way cancer behaves and how it spreads. The ultimate goal: to stop metastasis in its tracks and reduce the mortality rate of cancer.
"We're looking at a new perspective to treat the disease," Shen said. "The aim would be to prevent metastasis by regulating the cancer cells through the tumor microenvironment, with something that can suppress the cells' transition from dormant cells to malignant cells."
Shen said that medical research has barely scratched the surface of how metastasis occurs. He said that recent research in the field has focused on how the metastasis is related to the mitochondria, the power house of our cells, which can turn sugars, fats and proteins into energy.
"In recent years we have realized more and more that mitochondria plays a very important role in cancer cell behaviors," Shen said.
He said that for a long time, a prevailing thought was that there was a problem with mitochondria in cancer cells, leading to the excessive consumption of glucose outside the mitochondria for energy production.
"Now we are realizing that mitochondria in cancer cells are still functional and still participating in energy production as well as cell signaling and dictating cell behavior," Shen said. "One thing that people have noticed is that there is actually more production of new mitochondria in metastatic tumor cells circulating in the blood."
Shen said that mitochondria have multiple membranes that allow them to produce energy through "mitochondrial membrane potential" – a difference in electrical potential between the interior and exterior of the mitochondria, but that cancer cells have an elevated potential compared to normal cells.
"People don't know exactly what's causing this. People know that this is related to more aggressive behaviors in cancer cells but they have not really associated that with the ability of the cancer cell to metastasize," Shen said.
Assistant Professor Keyue Shen. Photo credit/Viterbi Staff
Shen and his research group recently created a model of tumors in a dish where the cancer cells were surrounded by genetically normal connective tissue cells (stromal cells) that commonly appear in tumors, so they could see how the cancer interacted with the surrounding tissue. They also created an environment deficient of oxygen, a key ingredient of mitochondrial respiration, to some regions of cells in the model.
"It was very much mimicking what's happening in the real tumors," Shen said.
"The cancer cells that were close to the stromal cells have higher respiration rate and mitochondrial membrane potential and also production of new mitochondria, while the ones that were further away have lower levels of these activities," he said.
"One of the research topics I have been looking at is studying this tissue interface between cancer cells and stromal cells and the oxygen environment to see what influence they have in terms of cancer progression."
Shen and his team will also collaborate with Min Yu, Assistant Professor of Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine from Keck School of Medicine of USC, and Changhan Lee, Assistant Professor at USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, to study the behavior and mitochondrial features of migratory cancer cells and those circulating tumor cells in the blood. These are cells that are shed from the primary tumors and are distributed elsewhere in the system where they metastasize. To achieve this, the team will use cancer cells from patients, to study the mitochondria of these cells both in the dish and implanted in mice.
"It's a five year grant that will really allow us to explore this question, and in the long run enable us to develop our research program here," Shen said.
The latest grant builds upon Shen's previous work funded through a Marni Levine Memorial Research Career Development Award from STOP CANCER, a research grant from the Phi Beta Psi Sorority, an Eli and Edythe Broad Innovation Award from the Broad Foundation, a Rose Hills Research Fellowship from the Rose Hills Foundation, and an NIH Trailblazer Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
National Cancer Institute Award to Support Research on Colorectal Cancer at USC
USC Viterbi's Stacey Finley and Shannon Mumenthaler from the Keck School of Medicine of USC lead new $3.1 million grant to advance search for new cancer treatments using computer simulations
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A trio of USC Viterbi researchers have unlocked secrets about an engineered protein receptor, known as CAR, that makes cancer-fighting T cells more effective.
Beating the Spread
Knowing how cancer cells interface with surrounding cells may be key to preventing metastasis.


Vera Zabotkina is Vice-Rector for International Cooperation, Director of the Centre for Cognitive Programs and Technologies, Professor of English at the Department of Translation Studies, Interpretation and Translation at the Russian State University for the Humanities, an alumna of University College London (English department). She is one of the founding figures of the Russian school of cognitive neology and the author of more than 250 publications on the problems of the English vocabulary growth, changes in the English conceptual worldview, pragmatics, conceptual semantics, and cognitive linguistics. 18 Ph.D. dissertations on cognitive aspects of new words in English have been defended under her supervision.
Prof., Dr. Vera Zabotkina has expertise in EU project management (Erasmus+, EMA2, Tempus, Council of Europe and UNICEF projects etc.). She is an Expert of the National Training Foundation, and a certified Higher Education Reform Expert (HERE) and Bologna promoter. She has experience in developing the university strategy of international cooperation with a focus on compatibility of degrees, and curricula development for 2 cycles based on the needs of the labour market. She has also expertise in setting up quality assurance system within dual degree programme within Joint European Tempus Project "Enhancement of Russian creative education: new Master program in Digital Arts in line with EU standards". Prof. Zabotkina is the editor and one of the authors of the Quality Handbook for Joint International MA Programs.
She is a member of the following international editorial boards: «Culture and Brain» Journal (Springer); Psychology in Russia: State of the Art (Moscow) - SCOPUS; International Journal of Higher Education and Democracy (USA); Voprosy Kognitivnoj Lingvistiki (Problems of Cognitive Linguistics) – SCOPUS; Tuning Journal for Higher Education (University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain).


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TECHNOLOGY CRUCIAL, SAYS KEMPER CEO
Deborah Shalowitz Cowans
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CHICAGO-Although the insurance industry may seem obsessed with merger mania, one executive maintains that bigger may not necessarily be better.
"I don't know that there's any specific advantage to size" in the insurance marketplace, said William Smith, president and chief executive officer of Kemper Insurance Cos.
Mr. Smith, speaking recently at an Assn. of Professional Insurance Women luncheon in Chicago, noted that "having an awful lot of people (in a company) is a cumbersome task."
While servicing customers is paramount to a company's success, maintaining personal contact with customers doesn't literally have to be face-to-face, he said.
Mr. Smith noted that technology will enable insurers to communicate with and service customers without meeting them in person all the time.
"The winners (in the future) are going to be those who have figured out how to put someone in front of each person,either in person or electronically," he said.
In addition to changing the nature of customer service, technology will change how people within a company work with each other, according to Mr. Smith. "This is going to lead to some redefinition of what is teamwork."
Ultimately, the winners in the insurance marketplace of the future will be "highly focused regional companies," Mr. Smith predicted.
Mr. Smith also noted that with the explosive growth in small companies started by entrepreneurs, many of them women, insurance companies are going to have to look for customers in non-traditional places.
Small, home-based businesses employ 14 million people, Mr. Smith noted. As a result, there has been a "profound change in where our customers really, really are."
Small companies represent "a significant market opportunity for" Long Grove, Ill.-based Kemper, Mr. Smith said.


Ibanez announce new Artist Series models – the AR325 is described as "classic, warm and versatile". To get that vintage tone, the Ibanez AR325 has a beautiful arched figured Bubinga top and Mahogany back. Super 58 custom pickups feature moderate output & vintage tone. The Tri-Sound switching system offers a vast range of tones – choose from series, parallel & coil-tap wirings for tonal varieties. Also features the famous Ibanez Sure-Grip control knobs.
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A Kaminsky catalyst is a catalytic system for alkene polymerization. Kaminsky catalysts are based on metallocenes of group 4 transition metals (Ti, Zr, Hf) activated with methylaluminoxane (MAO). These and other innovations have inspired development of new classes of catalysts that in turn led to commercialization of novel engineering polyolefins.

Catalyst development
Prior to Kaminsky, titanium chlorides supported on various materials were widely used (and still are) as heterogeneous catalysts for alkene polymerization. These halides are typically activated by treatment with trimethylaluminium. Kaminsky discovered that titanocene and related complexes emulated some aspects of these Ziegler–Natta catalysts but with low activity. He subsequently found that high activity could be achieved upon activation of these metallocenes with methylaluminoxane (MAO). The MAO serves two roles: (i) alkylation of the metallocene halide and (ii) abstraction of an anionic ligand (chloride or methyl) to give an electrophilic catalyst with a labile coordination site.

Ligand design
Kaminsky's discovery of well-defined, high activity homogeneous catalysts led to many innovations in the design of novel cyclopentadienyl ligands. These innovations include ansa-metallocenes, Cs-symmetric fluorenyl-Cp ligands, constrained geometry catalysts, Some Kaminsky-inspired catalysts use of chiral metallocenes that have bridged cyclopentadienyl rings. These innovations made possible highly stereoselective (or stereoregular) polymerization of α-olefins, some of which have been commercialized.

References

Homogeneous catalysis
Organometallic chemistry
Polymer chemistry
Catalysts

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Balliol and the Bodleian Library jointly established this scholarship to enable a suitable Balliol graduate student to work as an intern at the Bodleian. The Scholar is required to volunteer 48 hours (averaging six hours per week during term) of supervised work among the extraordinarily rich archives of the Bodleian. The primary aim in making the award will be closely to match the Bodleian's own resources to the Scholar's academic interests. The project normally takes place in Hilary Term.
1) For approximately six hours a week during Hilary Term (or an equivalent period), the Balliol-Bodley Scholar will be responsible for helping to sort, identify and arrange documents in the Bodleian Library, under the supervision of a permanent member of library staff. An introduction to the library and to the archival processes required will be given by one of the manuscript librarians.
2) On completing work, the Scholar will usually write a short account of the collection in question which would be circulated as part of the Bodleian's internal Special Collections Bulletin, and might also be submitted for possible publication in the Bodleian Library Record and the Balliol alumni magazine, Floreat Domus.
3) The Balliol-Bodley Scholar may organise a visit to the Bodleian Library for interested members of Balliol to view what has been achieved, as well as to see a selection of library treasures, usually on a Tuesday of Trinity Term, to be followed by a Tuesday Hall.
Any Balliol graduate student. Applicants will be asked to explain how the scholarship fits in with their research activities and plans.
£250, with an additional sum of £100 being available for activities related to the work undertaken.
The Scholarship is usually advertised by email to Balliol graduate students towards the end of Michaelmas Term. Applicants should submit a CV and covering letter, explaining how the scholarship fits in with their research activities and plans.
You can read about the projects of previous Balliol-Bodley Scholars here.
If you have any queries about the Balliol-Bodley Scholarship, please contact the Senior Tutor.
The funding for the Balliol-Bodley Scholarship comes from private benefaction as well as from Balliol and the Bodleian, and was initiated by Gillian Einhorn (Balliol 2007).


The change comes as Gov. Larry Hogan gets ready to start a second term. Schulz previously led the state's Department of Laboor, Licensing and Regulation.
Maryland Secretary of Commerce R. Michael Gill addresses economic development leaders, including Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh on a boat.
The Maryland Department of Commerce will be under new leadership in 2019.
State Secretary of Commerce Mike Gill is stepping down in the new year, and plans to return to his previous role as chairman of investment banking and corporate advisory firm Evergreen Advisors, according to Gov. Larry Hogan's office.
Effective Jan. 1, 2019, Hogan is appointing Kelly M. Schulz as secretary of the department providing business resources. Schulz currently serves as secretary of the 2,000-employee Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.
The appointment, which will require state senate confirmation, comes as Hogan is preparing to begin a second term after being re-elected in November. For Hogan, taking steps to ensure Maryland is "Open for Business" became a centerpiece of his administration.
Under Schulz, Hogan's office said the state's apprenticeship program grew to have more than 10,000 apprentices. The EARN Maryland workforce development program, which provides training and establishes partnerships with private companies, also saw participation rise as funding increased.
"Business leaders' number one concern is ensuring they have access to a talented workforce, and I am incredibly proud of the work we've been able to do thanks to Governor Hogan's leadership to prepare Maryland workers for 21st century jobs," Schulz said in a statement. "Having a leader at Commerce who understands workforce needs will help us grow our private sector and continue to foster an environment where businesses thrive and create even more jobs.
Prior to joining Hogan's administration, Schulz previously served as a state delegate representing Frederick County. James E. Rzepkowski, a former delegate and workforce development director at Constellation, will step up from assistant secretary to acting secretary at DLLR.
Bringing experience leading IT and wireless companies as well as investment firms, Gill served as chairman of Evergreen Advisors prior to being appointed by Hogan at the beginning of the Republican's first term in 2015.


Over P40 million was won by a lone Mega Lotto 6/45 bettor from Recto, Manila during Friday night's draw, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) said.
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PCSO reminded the public that a big portion of its revenues goes to charity, saying people should continue patronizing the agency's games.


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Don't be surprised if you see strangers gathering around a blue table to socialize and play games together. That's because the Turquoise Table movement, a national project to create community among residents and visitors, is here in Hamilton County with the help of local art leaders.
The Turquoise Table movement began with a woman named Kristin Schell in Austin, Texas, and has reached as far as Uganda, according to the movement's website. The movement focuses on clustering a series of tables to become a meeting place – like the old village well used to be – where people can come together to hang out and "do life together."
In Hamilton County, the idea came about through Hamilton County Tourism's Creative Economies group, comprised of community art representatives from Carmel, Cicero, Fishers, Noblesville and Westfield. Several of them recently attended Americans for the Arts Conference in Minneapolis and discovered the idea.
The tables offer games like Jenga, chess and checkers and will be positioned around Hamilton County's five participating communities but will also be moved around in order to engage many different groups of people.
"The project is the first cross-community collaborative arts initiative in Hamilton County and is a reminder as to how important community and neighborhood conversations are," said Brenda Myers, CEO/President of Hamilton County Tourism, which sponsored the movement.
The project is part of HCT's Creative Economies initiative and is led by the organization's Destination Development Manager, Sarah Buckner.
Myers said when working with the county's three Indiana Arts Commission's Cultural Arts Districts (Carmel, Noblesville and Fishers) and others engaged in the arts to make Hamilton County a great place to both live and visit, it became apparent that more cross-community work would help support a broader arts conversation.
"HCT is committing additional funding to support arts development in the county and hopes to increase support annually for years to come using destination development funds from the county's lodging tax," Myers said.
The tables, which meet ADA standards, are located at Quaker Park in Westfield, Pocket Park in Cicero, Federal Hill Commons in Noblesville, Sophia Square in Carmel and the Nickel Plate District in Fishers. Eventually, they will be moved to include other areas of the county.
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Selling style-saturated NYC apartments is no cakewalk
by Paul Hagey Staff Writer
In New York City, where money and quirkiness sometimes meet to produce extravagant, peculiar living spaces, brokers brought in to sell the singular apartments often encourage renovation or price drops for the spaces to get their due.
Sometimes sellers don't want to compromise. Take the 3,800-square-foot Chelsea unit draped in black decor to resemble a "Shanghai nightclub" whose owner is now trying to sell for $6 million. The owner tells The New York Times that she's confident it will sell to a foreign buyer looking for something unusual.
It might have to follow other spaces like a one-bedroom loft, also in Chelsea, that was intricately done out in a "steampunk" theme complete with the master bedroom made out to look like a worn Zeppelin-like airship. The filmmaker-owner had to remodel the entire unit to get close to market value when he sold it.
"Buyers want to be able to see themselves in the property," Kathy Braddock, an owner of Rutenberg Realty, told the Times. "That's a very important thing. In two to five seconds, they either envision themselves living in the space or they don't."
If sellers don't want to renovate their homes that brokers typically tactfully market with phrases like "taste specific" and "design specific," then a price drop is often in order.
"There's definitely a discount when you're purchasing someone else's taste," Caroline Bass, an associate broker at Citi Habitats, told the Times. But it takes some skill to avoid offending the sellers, she said.
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Can Lead To Stroke, Sudden Death, NAFDAC Warns
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians to desist from using performance enhancing substances known as aphrodisiac in order to impress their female partner, According to NAFDAC, consumption of such substances could lead to stroke or sudden death.
The Director General Of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye gave the admonition in her Christmas and New Year goodwill message to Nigerians/
She decried the preponderance of performance enhancing drugs otherwise known as ''Manpower'' in the local parlance, in the Nigeria market.
According to Prof. Adeyeye, most of the performance enhancing drugs are not registered with NAFDAC. ''They are smuggled into the country. If they were registered, the producers and peddlers alike would not be doing what they are doing in the supermarkets, social media platforms and on the streets''.
In a statement issued by Sayo Akintola, NAFDAC's Resident Media Consultant on Sunday, Prof. Adeyeye lamented that many men have died using performance enhancing drugs and their relatives would blame their death on some imaginary witches in the village.
The NAFDAC boss also described as false the claim by the producers of the products that they have no side effects, insisting that majority of the products did not go through the approval process of the Agency.
She however, warned that the Agency would not relent in running after the peddlers of such dangerous drugs until they are brought to book for violating the regulations.
''Many people are ignorant of the possible damage that misuse of aphrodisiacs or use of unregistered drugs could cause'', said Prof Adeyeye, adding that there are manufacturing and quality guidelines, and mandated regulations that control the production, importation, exportation, advertisement, and the use of such products.
According to her, unbridled use of aphrodisiacs has a lot of implications in the entire body system, noting that the use of the products could potentially affect the blood pressure of the body. She stressed that ''when you have a disproportionate flow of blood to a particular part of the body and lasting longer than normal, they tend to disrupt the normal flow of the circulatory system''.
Prof Adeyeye further warned that aphrodisiacs could also interact with other drugs in the system, explaining that the liver is responsible for breakdown of drugs while the byproduct of all waste goes down through the kidneys. ''When these things are used especially with some herbal medicines that don't have dosage and professional prescription, it can lead to internal organ damage. It can hurt the liver and the kidneys, leading to untimely death'' she warned.
The way the body system works, she explained: ''everything should function the way God designed it. When they begin to disrupt those functions overtime it affects the imbalance and the ecosystem of how the body physiology works and can lead to unintended consequences.''.
''For those who have certain health risks, like people that are hypertensive, or people that have heart disease, there is more of anxiety that the drug could stimulate into the system, and with anxiety, that can lead to changes in the physiology of the body and can lead to stroke or sudden stoppage of the heart. These happen in cases when men suddenly slump during sexual intercourse as reported in Rivers and Cross Rivers States recently'', she said in a tone laden with grief.
''There are a lot of side effects. Every drug is a potential poison. Every drug has one side effect or the other. These are chemical products with side effects. In some cases there are associated Adverse Drug Reactions, which means it could lead to death or more serious organ damage depending on usage'', she said. She insisted that ''it's not all cases of sudden death that are caused by witches and wizards in the village; but in most cases they are caused by what we eat or drink carelessly''
In the spirit of Christmas and New Year festivities, she urged Nigerians to eat right and drink right to avoid health complications after the annual events.
Prof Adeyeye recalled that over N3b worth of falsified and banned drugs and unwholesome food products were seized by the Agency recently at the Lagos Trade fair complex where no fewer than 20 trailer loads of such banned and unwholesome products were carted away by officers of the Agency's Investigation and enforcement directorate led by Barrister Kingsley Ejiofor.
She disclosed that some of the drugs impounded at the trade fair complex were performance enhancing drugs. ''Worse still they are counterfeited. When something is counterfeited, the manufacturers don't care about quality. They add what they are not supposed to add or add more than what they are supposed to add. Invariably, the user is the loser'', she said.
Prof Adeyeye however, disclosed that the Agency has ordered 40 units of a detecting device, TRU SCAN, worth 70,000 dollar each for use on the field to spot check the medicines. She explained: ''The device will show you whether a drug is 5mg or 50mg. Before, it would only show you that it's X-drug, it will not show you the level. This device is both qualitative and quantitative!
According to the DG, NAFDAC is the first Agency in the world to use the Tru Scan which does quantitative spot check on the chemical content in the medicines. It will show the chemical level of the drug.
''This is part of the multifaceted approach we are adopting in fighting the preponderance of banned and falsified drugs in the country'', she said, blaming the menace on people that want to make quick money at the expense of the health and lives of undiscerning consumers.
''We will ensure we minimize falsification of drugs to the level that will give a lot of confidence to the consumers."
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Why Today's Crazy Demand for IT Workers Will Get Even Crazier
An article by NWTC blogger and graduate Joan Koehne
When I enrolled at NWTC in 2015 I was carrying a flip phone. You remember the ones--one tap to text A, two for B, three for C. That pretty much sums up my digital literacy at the time. To get ahead in today's workforce, it helps to be tech savvy. It's one of the reasons I returned to college as an adult. I wanted to be more comfortable with the technology most people take for granted. My NWTC classes opened up a new world of technology for me.
That's why I'm so in awe of people who do wonders with computers, and I'm not the only one who appreciates their talent. Employers are hiring Information Technology professionals like crazy! That's good news for adults thinking about changing careers.
The NWTC IT programs include:
· Software Developer
· Security Specialist
· Computer Support
· Web Development
· System Administrator
· Business Analyst
Graduates of NWTC's IT programs are in high demand, with 90% of them finding employment before they graduate.
"In the past, employers wanted a 4-year degree. That's just not true anymore," said Julie Ebben-Matzke, who left a career in IT to become an associate dean in NWTC's College of Business.
The jobs pay well, too, with starting salaries at $50,000/year, according to NWTC data. Average salaries are at $79,500. The highest demand is for software developers, although the demand is also strong for IT security specialists. NWTC offers these two programs, and many more. It's no coincidence that NWTC completed a state-of-the-art data center in Green Bay last fall. Technology is every-changing, and NWTC is rapidly developing the courses and systems to keep pace.
Julie said the IT career field is wide open, due to an aging workforce (I'm 52, so I can relate to that!) and an increasing demand for technology services (What industry doesn't use technology every day?).
"It's an environment where you can go anywhere with your skill set," she said. "I went from a trucking company, to financial services, to education. What interests you?"
In Northeast Wisconsin, employers are expecting 3,000 new IT positions will go unfilled by 2021, according to the Northeast Wisconsin IT Alliance, an organization working to address the shortage.
Enrolling in NWTC's IT classes sounds like a shrewd career move for people like me who are ready to return to college, gain new skills, and make a career change. (I graduated with a marketing degree in 2017, left the newspaper industry, and opened my own writing business.)
IT careers are ideal for individuals who are good at problem solving, analytical thinking, and communication. They're probably not the ones carrying around a flip phone! Every time I see a cool website, try out a new app, or pick up the phone to call support, I thank my lucky stars that IT specialists are out there doing wonders with technology.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joan Koehne, of Abrams, is a 2017 graduate of NWTC.
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People • Faculty
Derek Hoeferlin
Derek Hoeferlin, AIA, affiliate ASLA, is principal of [dhd] derek hoeferlin design, an award-winning architecture, landscape, and urban design practice based in St. Louis. He is an associate professor and chair of the landscape architecture and urban design programs at Washington University in St. Louis. He teaches undergraduate- and graduate-level multidisciplinary approaches to architecture, landscape, infrastructure, and urbanism, and for such was awarded a Sam Fox School Outstanding Teaching Award in 2010 along with teaching recognitions from the AIA, ACSA, and CELA. He collaboratively researches integrated water-based design strategies across the Mississippi, Mekong, and Rhine river basins through his design-research project Way Beyond Bigness: The Need for a Watershed Architecture, which is the focus of his forthcoming book (Applied Research + Design Publishers, 2022).
Deeply informing his current water-based research, Hoeferlin was co-principal investigator on the water-based design research projects MISI-ZIIBI: Living with the Great Rivers, Climate Adaptation Strategies in the Midwest River Basins (2013-2016, with John Hoal and Dale Morris) and Gutter to Gulf: Legible Water Infrastructure for New Orleans (2008-2012, with Jane Wolff and Elise Shelley). Hoeferlin lectures on his work internationally, and his designs, photography, teachings and writings have been published and exhibited widely, including in Chasing the City, New Orleans Under Reconstruction (VERSO), Designing Suburban Futures (Island Press), Landscape Architecture Magazine, Wallpaper, Metropolis and 'scape magazines, Scenario Journal, Journal of Architectural Education, The Anthropocene Review, Places Journal, Archinect, multiple conference papers, Exhibit Columbus, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Hoeferlin has led award-winning projects and jury recognized competitions, including Designing Resilience International Open Competition (first prize, 2017), Chouteau Greenway Competition (one of four finalists, 2018, and AIA New York Urban Design Honor Award, 2019, with TLS Landscape Architecture & OBJECT TERRITORIES), and with his colleague Ian Caine: Rising Tides Competition (first prize, 2009), Dry Futures Competition (honorable mention, 2016), and Build a Better Burb Competition (finalist, 2010).
Additionally, Hoeferlin has contributed core design roles in complex multidisciplinary projects in south Louisiana, including Changing Course: Navigating the Future of the Lower Mississippi River Delta Competition (one of three winners, 2015, with STUDIO MISI-ZIIBI), the Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan (American Planning Association National Planning Excellence Award, 2012, with Waggonner & Ball), and the Unified New Orleans Plan for post-Hurricane Katrina recovery and rebuilding (2007, with H3 Studio, Inc.). Hoeferlin holds BArch and MArch degrees from Tulane University and a post-professional MArch degree from Yale University, graduating both institutions with multiple honors.
Associate Professor and Chair, Landscape Architecture & Urban Design
hoeferlin@wustl.edu
Work by Derek Hoeferlin
+StL: Growing an Urban Mosaic, 2018
[dhd] with TLS Landscape Architecture and OBJECT TERRITORIES, one of four finalists, Chouteau Greenway Competition, St. Louis.
Weathering St(ee)L House, 2021
Forest Park Southeast neighborhood, St. Louis. Photo: Samuel Fentress.
from the THIRD POLE to the NINE DRAGONS: Keeping the Water, the Power, and the People in the Mekong River Basin, 2017
With Jess Vanecek and Rob Birch, First Place in Designing Resilience Open International Competition.
Tracing Our Mississippi, 2021
Exhibit Columbus University Design Research Fellow installation and public programming. Photo: Hadley Fruits.
Mississippi, Mekong & Rhine River Basin Atlas, 2021
2021 Living Earth Collaborative Seed Grants
Associate professor Derek Hoeferlin and Iván Jiménez of Missouri Botanical Garden received a seed grant for a project focused on páramo biodiversity farms.
Watershed Moments
The effects of climate change cannot be handled piecemeal, argues Derek Hoeferlin. Managing 21st-century waterways will require coordination on a continental scale.
Tracing Our Mississippi
As an Exhibit Columbus 2020-21 University Design Research Fellow associate professor Derek Hoeferlin is developing an interactive installation and public programming series at the site of the Columbus


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Klopp says Adrian is 'ready' after seeing out LFC's win over 'cheeky' Norwich
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was happy with what he saw as the Reds ran riot in the first half at Anfield against Norwich in the first day of the 2019/20 Premier League season.
The German was impressed by what he saw from the Canaries as well – going as far as to describe them as 'cheeky' for continuing to press us after conceding four goals.
The Premier League new-comers gave us a hard time in the second half, and managed to put on past Liverpool new-boy Adrian, as Alisson was taken off before half-time.
An injury to the best goalkeeper in the league is bound to worry Klopp, but the manager was happy with what he saw from the Spaniard.
"[Adrian] is a very confident guy," he told the club's official website. "I don't think he wanted to sit only on the bench for the next couple of years, he made himself ready.
"If you are in a situation like this you want to have somebody who played in the league, who is experienced, he is 32 and a calm guy. He is good with his feet, how we saw, that is really important for us.
"[There are] a lot of good things. You still don't want to have a situation where one goalie is fit, that's how it is but we have to see."
Klopp always speaks his mind, whether it's wanted or not – the boss often swears in interviews, if he feels it's warranted! But he's also quite humble as he doesn't mind paying the opposition compliments.
The German said that he has a lot of respect for what Norwich hope to achieve. "They were not really fussed about the [scoreline]," he said.
"They stayed cheeky, they stayed lively, they did what they wanted to do, they changed offensively. I have to say, biggest respect for what Daniel [Farke] is doing there with the boys.
"[It's] a very interesting and exciting team. That's how they scored the goal, because we lost a little bit of concentration."
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Q: Conditional Group By sql query I would like to sort database query by:
number value DESCENDING considering String property from another field
Something like:
ORDER BY money DESC,
currency = 'EUR'

Example:
money    |     currency
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200      |     EUR
300      |     USD
500      |     USD
100      |     EUR
400      |     EUR

I would like to sort money in descending fashion only when currency is equal to EUR. I don't want other currency to be considered in sorting such as:
money    |     currency
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400      |     EUR
200      |     EUR
100      |     EUR
300      |     USD
500      |     USD

I don't need the sorting after EUR. Could be totally random

A: You can use multiple keys in the order by:
order by (currency = 'EUR') desc,
         money desc

This orders the remaining currencies in descending order.  That is a by-product.  If you specifically want them to be random:
order by (currency = 'EUR') desc,
         (case when currency = 'EUR' then money end) desc,
         rand()

But that seems like overkill.

A: If you really want an order condition only on 'EUR' value you can do something like this :
 ORDER BY (currency = 'EUR') * money DESC

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History of the National Museum of Singapore
Grand Staircase,
History of the National Museum of Singapore, 2017
Yip Yew Chong (b. 1969)
Commissioned by the National Museum of Singapore
This mural was painted over four days in a style inspired by the 19th-century landscape paintings held by the National Museum of Singapore (NMS), and presents the Museum's rich history and collection.
The Museum's origins as the Raffles Library and Museum are depicted at the bottom – the Singapore Library that began on 22 January 1845 in the Singapore Institution (now Raffles Institution), the Temenggong of Johor's donation of two gold coins in 1849 which marked the start of the museum's collection, and the Library and Museum's move to the Town Hall (now Victoria Theatre) before insufficient space led them back to the Singapore Institution in 1876.
A selection of the Museum's collection is featured in the middle tier of the mural. The tiger is reminiscent of the Museum's zoological collection, which included a stuffed Malayan tiger that was displayed in the Museum's rotunda in the early 1900s. The landscape is a partial reproduction of Singapore from Mount Wallich (1856, painted by Percy Carpenter), which the Museum acquired in the 1950s when it incorporated an art gallery in its spaces. Animals from the Museum's prized William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings can also be found in this mural: the Malayan Tapir and Lesser Mousedeer are caught "trespassing" on Mount Wallich, while a scaly-breasted Munia and a pair of Blue-tailed Bee-eaters are perched on the tree branches above the Museum building.
Visit the Singapore History Gallery (Level 1) to see the actual painting by Percy Carpenter, and the A Voyage of Love and Longing exhibition in the Goh Seng Choo Gallery and Story of the Forest to learn more about the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings.


I love the combination of pecan and maple. It's like Fish & Chips, some things just work well together. I baked my shortbread in the gorgeous Nordicware snowflake tin but you can just use a regular 20x20 pan.
You will also need a 20cm x 20cm tin, greased and lined with baking parchment.
Preheat the oven to 160ºC/310ºC/gas mark 3.
Place all of the ingredients except for the pecans into the bowl of a food processor and pulse together until the mixture comes together to form a soft, clay-like dough. Now add the pecans. Press firmly into the lined tin in an even layer.
Bake on the middle shelf of the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes or until the shortbread is a pale golden colour.
Sprinkle with caster sugar, leave to cool for 10 minutes in the tin and mark out nine portions. Leave to cool completely before serving.


Maybe it's because I too have been bitten by the love bug this year, but I was just reflecting on what's happened since last SHOTShow and I've noticed that a LOT of Gun Girls got married. First, there was Natalie Foster of Girls Guide to Guns, who married her man Brandon in late August in an outdoor ceremony in Santa Margarita, CA. Right after Christmas, we were all shocked, including their guests, by a surprise wedding thrown by Shelley Rae, Managing Editor of GunUp the Magazine, and Caleb Giddings at the Wilde Rover Pub in Kirkland, WA. By uniting in holy matrimony, I'm convinced that these two will now form some sort of Brangelina of the gun writing world. To that end, they are asking that in lieu of gifts, donations can be made to NRA-ILA. Just under the wire (with SHOT only days away) my favorite Top Shot, Gabby Franco, married her hero-in-uniform and fellow crack shot, JD. Their romantic church ceremony occurred near the beach where they shared their first kiss.


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Q: Refresh pages in vue.js keep-alive section I have a Vue.js SPA that uses vue-router. because after logging in each page needs to keep state (like filters/pagination entered) This is done using keep-alive:
<keep-alive>
  <router-view/>
</keep-alive>

This works very well but when somebody logs out and logs in again I still see the same filter values due to the keep alive.
Can I refresh/purge the pages kept alive programatically somehow at logout?

A: I don't think there is an easy way to do this(programmatically) so you are left with 2 options.
Options 1 would be to reset the state which means you internally keep track of the initial state and listen for something like an emit on logout to reset the
component to its initial state.
Option 2 would be to simply swap out the keep-alive component using something like this:
<keep-alive v-if="loggedIn">
    <router-view></router-view>
</keep-alive>

<router-view v-else></router-view>

A: One way you can use Vue global event.
Vue.prototype.$loginState = new Vue();

In your component fire the event on click logout button.
function logout(){
    //your codes here to logout and then
    this.$loginState.$emit('logout');
}

In component which user sees when logged in just set all variables to their default values by listening event fired 'logout'.
<button @click="resetValues"> Logout </button>
methods: {
    resetValues(){
        this.yourValue = '';
        this.filters = [];
    }
}
created(){
    this.$loginState.$on('logout', this.resetValues)
}

A: The kept alive components are inside this.$children, so you can probably traverse those and modify the state.


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Virtual emergency rooms bridge gap between health-care professionals, patients amid pandemic
By Katherine Ward Global News
Posted October 14, 2020 9:06 pm
2:21 Virtual emergency rooms bridge patient care gap amid pandemic
WATCH ABOVE: Virtual emergency rooms are a recent innovation at hospitals across Canada since the start of the pandemic. Doctors say when COVID-19 hit, they realized some patients were afraid to go to the ER even if they felt they need to see a physician. Katherine Ward looks at how hospitals have been doing virtual consultations, and how some programs are looking to expand – Oct 14, 2020
Wait times in emergency rooms can be long and unpredictable.
Since the onset of COVID-19, doctors say they have been hearing how patients are more and more anxious about going to the hospital.
"The number one question I get from friends and family is, 'Do I need to go to emergency?" Dr. Greg Rutledge says.
Rutledge is the chief of emergency medicine at St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton.
When the pandemic hit, doctors across the province noticed a sharp decline in the number of people coming to their emergency departments.
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In some cases, doctors say emergency department waiting rooms were nearly empty, particularly when fears were at their peak about contracting COVID-19.
"There were some people who needed to access emergency (departments) but were choosing not to out of fear or concern or wanting to stay isolated and quarantined" Rutledge says.
In the summer, St. Joseph's Healthcare started offering virtual emergency room visits.
The process is simple. Prospective patients go to the hospital's website and click on a link to request an appointment, then enter some basic information.
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Within an hour or so, they get a response from the hospital with a time and a secure video link that allows them to connect with an emergency department physician.
Rutledge says doctors are able to discern quite a bit through video conferencing.
"We as physicians can see you, so we can get a sense of how sick or well you are just by talking to you on the phone," Rutledge says.
In Ottawa, CHEO has been offering virtual emergency department visits since May. They were the first hospital in Canada to do this for children.
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Doctors say patients can always go to the ER. A virtual visit is simply another tool to help families decide the best course of action.
Dr. Terry Varshney works as a pediatric emergency physician at CHEO.
4:11 A move to telemedicine in the age of COVID-19
She says when she saw the empty waiting rooms, she was worried.
She knew people were staying away, even though they needed emergency care.
Varshney says the virtual visit is a good way for families to get the help they need, and for doctors to explain how hospitals are still safe places to go, even during a pandemic.
"A lot of what we do in medicine is education and reassurance to the family," Varshney says. "So we are still able to do that virtually, which is really great for us to be able to give that type of care to kids in need."
At St. Joseph's Healthcare, doctors say they are currently seeing between three and four patients a day. They have the capacity to consult with up to 48 in one day.
Doctors there say between 80 and 90 per cent of their patients have not needed to go to the hospital. If a patient does need to go the emergency department, the medical team has access to the information gathered from the virtual consultation.
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Rutledge says doctors can start getting the proper orders ready, and have more insight as to why the virtual physician felt their patient needed to be seen in person.
Between Oct. 5 -12, 89 patients were seen at the virtual emergency department at CHEO.
A spokesperson for the hospital says 86 per cent were able to get the care they needed and remain at home.
Doctors in Hamilton say they looking at ways to expand their virtual services.
Soon, physicians will be working with community care paramedics, a group dedicated to checking up on patients who have left the hospital.
"If they go in on one day are realize that patient is a bit dehydrated, may need some fluids, may need some other things that they can't do without a physician order, they will connect with us," Rutledge says.
"We can have a conversation, and they can do those things without having to come into hospital."
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Paramedics say limiting contact with others, but maintaining care, will be a game changer for the fall. This new reality will be especially helpful for people at risk during the flu season.
Mike Sanderson, the chief of the Hamilton paramedic service, says he's excited about the partnership.
"If you don't have the flu and you don't have the coronavirus, keeping you out of the hospital probably particularly for senior citizens a good thing to do," Sanderson says.
Rutledge says this new way of thinking about medicine will lay the foundation for other possibilities. He says he hopes that his team will be able to offer more options to patients in long term care homes, or even in rural areas.
"COVID has taught us that there isn't one way to do this," Rutledge says. "It's somewhat of an exciting time… it's weird to say exciting time, but exciting to move medicine forward with fresh ideas."
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First Man coming to Home Video in January
RYAN GOSLING as Neil Armstrong in "First Man." On the heels of their six-time Academy Award-winning smash, "La La Land," Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle and Gosling reteam for Universal Pictures' riveting story of NASA's mission to land a man on the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the years 1961-1969.
Written by:Danielle SolzmanPosted on: December 10, 2018 August 11, 2020
Fresh off the heels of nine Critics' Choice Awards nominations this morning, Damien Chazelle's First Man will be arriving on home video in January.
First Man will be available on Digital and via the digital movie app MOVIES ANYWHERE on January 8, 2019 and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand on January 22, 2019 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
4K UHD, BLU-RAY, DVD & DIGITAL BONUS FEATURES:
Shooting for the Moon – Take an intimate look at the production of FIRST MAN and the collaborative relationship between Director Damien Chazelle and Ryan Gosling.
Preparing to Launch – It's difficult to believe that FIRST MAN is the first major feature film to tell the journey of Apollo 11. Hear from Director Damien Chazelle and his cast why now is the time to tell the story of this historic event.
Giant Leap in One Small Step – A heroic character study, FIRST MAN sheds light on all the hard working individuals that got us to the moon and back.
Mission Gone Wrong – Watch as Ryan Gosling reenacts a test piloting sequence gone terribly wrong. Go behind the scenes to see how he trained to nail the landing, performing the majority of his own stunts.
Putting You In the Seat – Through the use of innovative technology, most of FIRST MAN was shot in-camera. Take an in-depth look behind the lens of this epic film.
Recreating the Moon Landing – Filmed in IMAX to show the vastness of the moon, find out all that it took to recreate the most famous moment in NASA history.
Shooting at NASA – Hear from Ryan Gosling and Director Damien Chazelle on how shooting at NASA brought unparalleled authenticity to FIRST MAN.
Astronaut Training – Go behind the scenes of the three day boot camp each of the actors underwent prior to filming FIRST MAN.
Feature Commentary with Director Damien Chazelle, Screenwriter Josh Singer and Editor Tom Cross
FILMMAKERS:
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll, Christopher Abbot, Ciarán Hinds
Casting By: Francine Maisler CSA
Music By: Justin Hurwitz
Costume Design: Mary Zophres
Film Editor: Tom Cross ACE
Production Design: Nathan Crowley
Director of Photography: Linus Sandgren FSF
Executive Producers: Steven Spielberg, Adam Merims, Josh Singer
Produced By: Wyck Godfrey p.g.a, Marty Bowen p.g.a, Isaac Klausner, Damien Chazelle
Based on the Book By: James R. Hansen
Screenplay By: Josh Singer
Directed By: Damien Chazelle
TECHNICAL INFORMATION 4K ULTRA HD:
Street Date: January 22, 2019
Selection Number: 61201572 (US) / 61201574 (CDN)
Layers: BD-100
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen 16:9 2.40:1
Rating: PG -13 for some thematic content involving peril, and brief strong language
Video: 2160p UHD Dolby Vision/HDR 10
Languages/Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish and French Subtitles
Sound: English Dolby Atmos and Dolby Digital 2.0, French Dolby Digital Plus 7.1, Spanish Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
Run Time: 2 hours 20 minutes
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Alton Brown makes oatmeal in a coffee maker. But don't wait to go to a motel to try this, if you live in a dorm, cooking with your coffee maker is the perfect way to make breakfast.
A cute little animated video with a catchy song that you just can't get out of your head. by Parry Gripp & Nathan Mazur.
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Susan Perlman
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
DBBS - Neurosciences
Dr. Perlman's multi-model research program bridges the fields of social and cognitive development and social, cognitive, and affective neuroscience to form a field known as Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. She employs multiple methodological techniques including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), psychophysiological measures, eye tracking, and other behavioral and questionnaire measures to conduct cognitive and neural analyses of mechanisms underlying the development of emotion and its effects on social interactions. She is primarily interested in the preschool period where she uses neuroscience measurements to determine which kids are most likely to develop later psychiatric disorders based on temperament profiles. This research is designed to aid us in early intervention during a period of increased brain plasticity. Other branches of her laboratory include children who were exposed to opioids in utero and children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
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Child Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Emotions Medicine & Life Sciences 98%
Prefrontal Cortex Medicine & Life Sciences 78%
Bipolar Disorder Medicine & Life Sciences 68%
Emotional Regulation Medicine & Life Sciences 65%
emotion Social Sciences 62%
Amygdala Medicine & Life Sciences 60%
Frustration Medicine & Life Sciences 45%
Calibrating temper loss severity in the transition to toddlerhood: Implications for developmental science
Krogh-Jespersen, S., Kaat, A. J., Petitclerc, A., Perlman, S. B., Briggs-Gowan, M. J., Burns, J. L., Adam, H., Nili, A., Gray, L. & Wakschlag, L. S., 2022, In: Applied Developmental Science. 26, 4, p. 785-798 14 p.
health risk 100%
Reproducibility of Results 86%
preschool age 59%
Children show adult-like hippocampal pattern similarity for familiar but not novel events
Benear, S. L., Horwath, E. A., Cowan, E., Camacho, M. C., Ngo, C. T., Newcombe, N. S., Olson, I. R., Perlman, S. B. & Murty, V. P., Sep 15 2022, In: Brain Research. 1791, 147991.
Motion Pictures 100%
Temporal Lobe 42%
Surgical Instruments 29%
Hippocampus 24%
Correction to: Parent-to-Child Anxiety Transmission Through Dyadic Social Dynamics: A Dynamic Developmental Model (Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, (2022), 25, 1, (110-129), 10.1007/s10567-022-00391-7)
Perlman, S. B., Lunkenheimer, E., Panlilio, C. & Pérez-Edgar, K., Mar 2022, In: Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. 25, 1, p. 130 1 p.
Child Psychology 100%
child psychology 92%
Clinical Psychology 87%
Names 62%
Developmental differences in affective representation between prefrontal and subcortical structures
Mitchell, W. J., Tepfer, L. J., Henninger, N. M., Perlman, S. B., Murty, V. P. & Helion, C., Mar 1 2022, In: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 17, 3, p. 311-322 12 p.
Child 100%
Prefrontal Cortex 69%
Nucleus Accumbens 41%
Amygdala 38%
Getting in synch: Unpacking the role of parent-child synchrony in the development of internalizing and externalizing behaviors
Quiñones-Camacho, L. E., Hoyniak, C. P., Wakschlag, L. S. & Perlman, S. B., Dec 15 2022, In: Development and Psychopathology. 34, 5, p. 1901-1913 13 p.
dyad 54%
Behavior Observation Techniques 38%
Frustration 35%
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy 34%


In Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Enterprise, and Windows 10 Education, you can use a mobile device management (MDM) policy to deploy a customized Start and taskbar layout to users. No reimaging is required, and the layout can be updated simply by overwriting the .xml file that contains the layout. This enables you to customize Start layouts for different departments or organizations, with minimal management overhead.
Support for applying a customized taskbar using MDM is added in Windows 10, version 1703.
Before you begin: Customize and export Start layout for desktop editions.
When a full Start layout is applied with this method, the users cannot pin, unpin, or uninstall apps from Start. Users can view and open all apps in the All Apps view, but they cannot pin any apps to Start. When a partial Start layout is applied, the contents of the specified tile groups cannot be changed, but users can move those groups, and can also create and customize their own groups.
The Export-StartLayout cmdlet in Windows PowerShell exports a description of the current Start layout in .xml file format.
To import the layout of Start to a mounted Windows image, use the Import-StartLayout cmdlet.
In Microsoft Intune, you select the Start layout XML file and add it to a device configuration profile.
This example uses Microsoft Intune to configure an MDM policy that applies a customized Start layout. See the documentation for your MDM solution for help in applying the policy.
In the Microsoft Azure portal, search for Intune or go to More services > Intune.
Enter a friendly name for the profile.
Select Windows 10 and later for the platform.
Select **Device restrictions for the profile type.
In Start menu layout, browse to and select your Start layout XML File.
Select OK twice, and then select Create.
Assign the profile to a device group.
For other MDM solutions, you may need to use an OMA-URI setting for Start layout, based on the Policy configuration service provider (CSP). The OMA-URI setting is ./User/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/Start/StartLayout.


On June 15, the 10th annual Independent Handbag Designer Awards took place at the School of Visual Arts Theater in New York City. Fashion Industry elite, professionals and handbag enthusiasts alike flocked to the awards show to view the designs of the next generation of handbag designers. This year they were in for a pure treat! Each designer was extremely unique and brought their own charm, style and sophistication to their well crafted bag.
Emily Blumenthal, founder of the IHDA created the ultimate platform for independent and bright eyed handbag designers. Her passion for wanting the world to be a more stylish place, one purse at a time is truly inspiring. This year's awards show was spectacular with designers ranging from the US and internationally.
You can catch more of the awards show as I take you on an exclusive tour in the video above.
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Your Pisces Spirit is spiritual, ethereal, compassionate and empathic. Your energy is intuitive, emotional, compelling and fluid.
Pisces, being true to yourself means learning your own self worth and seeing the viability of your inner resources.
Your purpose is to take us into new horizons that exist within ourselves and represent the universal principals, to teach us to dream and to nourish a subconscious and intuitive power within our beings.
…see the beauty and truth of your own dreams. Swim in your own current. Seek your answers within and only within. Support others by supporting yourself and your ideals. Helps others see the beauty that lies right before them and within them.
Create a poem of love and write it down. Believe in the impossible but accept what is possible. Nurture your intuition but simply listen to it…don't live in it. Honor the strength of your mind.
Make a solid decision using instincts and logic and then go for it without looking back. To find the beauty you feel possible….look inside your own being….that is its only home.
Adversity rocks you, Pisces, in ways it doesn't affect any other sign. it makes you question your own judgments and ideals since you are primarily an empathic and emotional being it is difficult for you to feel the true strength of your decisions, thoughts and actions.
Allow rough life periods to access your amazing spiritual powers of restoration and truth. Rather than allow issues to sweep you along sink within yourself and discover their roots.
Use events to test out and observe your powers of judgment, decisiveness and foresight. Use their literal actions to find faith in them rather than your perceptions of how wrong they might be.
Learn to believe in YOUR dream..and no one else's. Every answer to every question you have ever asked has always been inside….go there when you need an answer..and believe in what you find.


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Chamber to meet Wednesday, Dec. 13
The next monthly meeting of the Ozark County Chamber of Commerce will be held from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 13, in the Century Bank training room on the northeast corner of the square in Gainesville. All Chamber members or those interesting in becoming members are invited. For more...
Community blood drive to be held here Dec. 13
The next Gainesville-area community blood drive will be held from noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 13, in the First Baptist Church fellowship hall, 119 Second Street in Gainesville. Donors can just show up on the day of the drive or make an appointment by calling 1-800-RED-CROSS or visiting...
Christmas carol sing-along, holiday bake at BRMC
The Mruk Family Education Center on Aging, in Mountain Home, Arkansas, will host a Christmas carol sing-along from 2 to 3 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8, in the Baxter Regional Medical Center Lagerborg Dining Room. The event is being promoted as "a free, fun time of refreshments, fellowship and traditional...
FAA warns area residents about Christmas lasers
After two aircraft passing over Ozark County reported possible laser incidents to the Federal Aviation Administration's Kansas City Air Traffic Control Center, area residents are cautioned to make sure Christmas lights that use laswers are not pointed skyward. This week's Ozark County Sheriff's...
Town & Country parking lot stabbing case dismissed
A preliminary hearing for Kevin Robinson, 28, of Gainesville, was held Nov. 28 before Associate Judge Cynthia MacPherson in connection with an incident in which Robinson was alleged to have stabbed 24-year-old Robert Chambers in Gainesville's Town & Country Supermarket parking lot Oct. 21. At...
While being filmed for an upcoming episode of "Homestead Rescue" on the Discovery Channel, Misty Raney, left, and Wren Russenholt, discuss a cedar "aqueduct" system designed to provide Wren and partner Ini with a more accessible way to bring water to their gardens. Times photo/Jessi Dreckman.
Ozark County–filmed episode of 'Homestead Rescue' airs tonight on Discovery Channel
An episode of the Discovery Chanel's hit TV show "Homestead Rescue" that was filmed in Ozark County earlier this year will air at 8 p.m. central time tonight, Wednesday, Dec. 13. The episode features a Luna-area couple named Wren and Ini, who have elected to use the last name Russenholt in the...
Area Christmas events designed to bring joy to all
Gainesville's official celebration of the Christmas season will be from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday on the west side of the square. Vendors and crafters are invited to set up booths at noon (contact Pearl Schneider at 679-0388 for more information about booths). The Mr. and Miss Merry Christmas...
Area residents are invited to select an "ornament" from area Angel Trees, like this one shown by Deb Garcia at Deb & Lou's Cafe in Gainesville. The ornament adopter is then asked to fulfill some or all of the requests listed on each ornament as the child's needs and wishes. The gifts must to returned to the Angel Tree site by 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 20, to be collected by the project's organizers and distributed to the specified families. Times photo/Norene Prososki.
Residents 'adopt' Angel Tree ornaments and become secret Santa to area children
Ozark County Family Services, partnering with retired social worker Karla Smith and the Ozark County Sheriff's Department, are working to make sure Santa visits every child in the county this year. Family Services staff members organize the annual "Angel Trees" here to provide gifts for children...
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MSHP trooper reportedly injured in Gainesville incident with fugitive
Area law enforcement officers are investigating a case in which an unidentified Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper was apparently injured Saturday night in Gainesville in an incident involving Jordan Christian Haden, 25, of Mountain Home, Arkansas. The Times has been told that the unidentified...
Photo courtesy Doug Hawkins.
Rob Collins of Chaney Monument and D&D Signs assisted Gainesville city employees Monday in hanging holiday decorations around the Gainesville square in celebration of the Christmas season and to prepare for Saturday's "Wonders of Christmas" event to be held from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. See page 2...
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One of the hot new technology trends to come out of Silicon Valley recently is anonymous social networking, the act of posting nameless confessionals to strangers on apps like Whisper or Secret, a kind of backlash to the carefully curated things we say on Facebook. Secret is an app that lets you posts anonymous messages to people in your contacts list who also have Secret. It's only 15 days old, but has already been getting plenty of press attention and has engineers and venture capitalists in Silicon Valley hooked.
I've tried Secret and it's certainly addictive, thanks to the overarching awareness that you probably know the people who are posting these private snippets. While many of the short posts are tame (lots of complaints of being single on Valentines Day today, for instance) the odd few can sound salacious or gossipy enough to want to check the feed again.
The trouble with these networks is they can get so gossipy and negative that users are eventually put off. A raft of similar desktop-based networks like Formspring and AskFM, have been endlessly criticized for encouraging bullying, and Secret users have already been highlighting names of VCs or tech journalists they don't like. Whisper, a two-year old app that lets you post secret confessionals on stock photos to a network of strangers, has a team of more than 100 curators tasked with weeding out bullying posts.
Technologists from the world of privacy and anonymity are weary. Earlier this week Chris "moot" Poole, founder of the 10-year-old anonymous image board 4chan, wrote a post on his blog defending the creation of anonymous social networks. Poole has been worried for the last few years that anonymous networks like 4chan were going the way of the dinosaur amidst the explosion of carefully-cultivated profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn. Now he's heartened at the growth of new anonymous apps like Whisper and Secret and the kind of creativity and self-expression they could foster. But he warns such apps shouldn't slap on words like "anonymity" without taking all the right precautions.
Assuming Poole is right about a rush for more anonymous social networks, we may see an interesting split in the way they're used. Byttow says Secret is fundamentally different to an app like Whisper because Secret is a communication tool. As well as adding more privacy controls, his 4-person team, based in Google Ventures' offices in San Francisco, are also working on adding features later this year that will allow users to connect more directly with one another, similar to the way Tinder connects strangers who are geographically nearby.
It's a respectable goal and certainly one that people seem to eager to try in a world of constant digital curation. But as Poole points out, this new breed of anonymous networks will need to think carefully through issues like security and privacy, as Secret already seems to be doing.