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4 Common Symptoms of Electric Shocks
By Emily E. | Updated: Jun 18, 2020
Electric shock sensations, one of the rarer and perhaps the least-understood of all menopause symptoms, affect a large number of women worldwide. Despite their mysterious characteristics, however, learning as much as possible about the circumstances surrounding each episode can put sufferers on the right path toward treatment. Read on to learn about four common symptoms of electric shocks, so that you're prepared if they happen to you.
Skin Sensation
Though women may experience the symptoms of electric shocks differently, it is often reported that many feel a zapping sensation on the skin, as if a rubber band were being snapped against it. This usually occurs on the head, chest, or the extremities, like the hands and feet; although it is possible to have the sensation anywhere. For most, these prickling feelings leave as quickly as they come, but their intensity varies between individuals.
Bodily Sensation
As another of the directly physical symptoms of electric shocks, some describe a surging impulse underneath the skin or between muscle tissues. Though more research is needed to fully understand the disorder, it is thought that this sensation could be caused the misfiring of neurons in the nervous system. This surge is similarly unpredictable in its occurrence, though commonly affected areas are the head and upper body.
Onset of Other Menopausal Symptoms
For women who are reaching menopausal age, the direct symptoms of electric shocks might come in conjunction with other symptoms that are typical of this stage of life, and that had not been previously present. Widely considered a symptom of menopause itself, the first signs of this condition are typical of perimenopause and can signal the onset of its side effects, such as hot flashes, night sweats, increased fatigue, weight gain, and more.
Because studies of these sensations are few and far between, precise causes and triggers of the symptoms of electric shocks remain unknown. What is known, however, is that many women who experience a regular recurrence of the problem have hot flashes directly after each episode. Electric shocks are, therefore, thought to be closely linked to this most common of menopausal complaints, and are thus a side effect of hormonal imbalance. Rebalancing estrogen levels in particular can have a positive effect on reducing both symptoms.
The symptoms of electric shocks are certainly unpleasant, but many women find them easy to manage and treat with simple lifestyle changes, such as sticking to a balanced diet and maintaining a regular aerobic exercise routine. Women going through menopause may also find it helpful to add one of many natural herbal supplements that can help balance hormonal levels and treat electric shock sensation at the source. Talk to your doctor at the first sign of symptoms so that relief is never far away.
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An Antique Bookstore for the 21st Century
By Susanna B. Freudenheim and Addea Gupta
The Brattle Book Shop in Boston, full of rare and antique books, is one of America's oldest and largest used bookstores.
"I Preach Acceptance": HMS Student Nathan Mallipeddi Redefines Stuttering
By Susanna B. Freudenheim and Sophia C. Scott
Today, the once-shy Nathan Mallipeddi is eager to get to know everyone he meets at Harvard Medical School. "I was quiet for so long, going through something that a lot of people weren't even aware of, and I had this battle raging inside me," he says.
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Six years after the release of her previous album, Adele released the lead single from her new album "30" with an accompanying music video.

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Iggy Azalea has been forced to reschedule her upcoming North American tour due to tour production delays.
Reports surfaced today, Tuesday, March 10, that Azalea's North American tour was to be cancelled due to lack of promotion and conflict between her and management. Def Jam Recordings say that "to accommodate for creative team availability and tour productions, it was determined that the tour will not be ready this spring."
"It's important to Iggy that she delivers the show she envisaged to share with her fans and that requites more time in development," they continue to say.
Nick Jonas and Tinashe will no longer be Azalea's opening acts. New opening acts for the rescheduled tour will be announced shortly.


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Daudebardia rufa is a species of air-breathing land snail or semi-slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae, which belongs to the limacoid clade.

Daudebardia rufa is the type species of the genus Daudebardia. This species is a predatory carnivore.

Description
The length of the body 16–20 mm. The color of the skin is blue-grey.

The shell is perforate, depressed, transversely dilated, slightly striate, very shining, and corneous or rufous in colour. The spire is moderate and sublateral. The shell has three whorls. The last whorl in adults is elongated and is not angulated. The aperture is large and has a rounded oval shape. The length of the shell is 5.5 mm.

Distribution
The distribution of this species is in central and southern Europe including Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Ukraine.

References

External links

 "Species summary for Daudebardia rufa". AnimalBase

Oxychilidae
Gastropods described in 1805

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The 2018 NFL season mercifully came to an end on Sunday and it's time to turn our attention to the future. Things are looking better for the Bears now than they did at the same time last year. And while the team doesn't have the type of heavy lifting ahead of it as they did in 2018, this is still an important offseason and could prove to be one that lifts the Bears to another level.
Here are the most important dates on the NFL calendar that Bears fans and the rest of the NFL should keep an eye on.
Feb. 4 – Waiver system opens up.
February 19 – First day for clubs to designate Franchise or Transition Players. (This could be an important date with regards to free agent kicker Robbie Gould's future in San Francisco).
February 26 to March 4 – NFL Scouting Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
March 11 to March 13 – Starting at 11 a.m. CT, teams can begin to contact and enter contract negotiations with certified player agents whose players will become unrestricted free agents upon their deals expiring on March 13. It's the "legal tampering" period! (Note: Contracts cannot be signed with a new club until 3 p.m. on March 14).
March 13 – Happy League New Year! Teams must submit qualifying offers to restricted free agents with expiring contracts, and to whom they want to retain compensation/right of first refusal by 3 p.m.
All teams must be under the 2019 salary cap prior to 3 p.m.
Teams must submit a minimum salary tender to retain exclusive negotiating rights to players with expiring 2018 contracts and who have accrued fewer than three seasons of free agency credit before 3 p.m.
The official NFL trading period begins at 3 p.m.
The Bears don't have much cap flexibility, but GM Ryan Pace has been known to be creative to get his guy..
March 24-27 – Annual League Meeting in Phoenix.
April 1 – Teams that hired a new head coach after the end of the 2018 regular season may begin offseason workout programs. That means the Packers, Cardinals, Browns, Broncos, Buccaneers, Dolphins, Jets, and Bengals will get a head start in 2019.
April 15 – The Bears and the other NFL teams with returning head coaches may begin offseason workout programs.
April 25 to April 27 – NFL Draft in Nashville. The Arizona Cardinals own the first overall selection and are on the clock. As for the Bears, they aren't scheduled to pick until Round 3.
May 3-5 – Bears host their three-day post-Draft rookie mini-camp.
May 7 – Deadline for teams to send "May 7 Tender" to its own unsigned unrestricted free agents. If that player hasn't a contract with the team by July 22 (or the first day of the first NFL training camp, whichever is later), the player can negotiate or sign the contract until the Tuesday after the Week 10 … but only with their prior club.
May 13 – Rookie Football Development Programs can begin.
May 16-19 – NFLPA Rookie Premiere. Rookies who are typically first and/or second-round picks must be permitted by their respective clubs to attend. These players are unavailable for offseason workouts, OTA days and mini-camps during this period.
May 20-22 – Spring League Meeting in Biscayne, Fla.
June 3 – Deadline for teams to send "June 1 Tender" to its unsigned restricted free agents who received a qualifying offer.
June 15 – Deadline for teams to withdraw qualifying offer to restricted free agents and retain exclusive negotiating rights.
June, TBA – Mandatory attendance for all rookies at individual teams Rookie Transition Program.
July 16 – Deadline for a franchise player to sign a multi-year contract or extension is set for 3 p.m. After this date, the player may only sign a one-year contract for 2019.
July, TBA – Teams can open preseason training camp for rookies and first-year players beginning seven days prior to the club's earliest permissible mandatory reporting date for veteran players.
Veteran players (other than quarterbacks or injured players) with at least one pension-credited season can report to a team's preseason training camp no earlier than 15 days prior to the club's first scheduled preseason game or July 15, whichever is later.
Veteran quarterbacks and injured players can be required to report to the club's preseason training camp no earlier than five days immediately before the mandatory reporting date for all other veteran players.
July 22 – Signing period for transition tagged players ends.
Signing period for unrestricted free agents who were offered "May 7 Tender" ends.
August 1 – Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio, which featured the Bears last year!
August 1-4 – Pro Football Hall of Fame Weekend in Canton, Ohio.
August 6 – If a drafted rookie hasn't been signed by his team, he can't be traded to another team in 2018.
August 31 – All teams must trim their active rosters to 53 by 3 p.m.
September 1 – The claiming period for players placed on waivers on August 31 expires at 11 a.m.
Teams may create a 10-player practice squad starting on this date.
September 5 – Regular season football begins again (and Bears-Packers could be the lid-lifter)!
You can see the full list of offseason dates and deadlines here.


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A few weeks ago, on November 6th, 2017, The Boston Red Sox Introduced their 47th manager (and former player) who helped the team win a World Series Title in 2007, Alex Cora. He just wrapped up winning a world series title the Houston Astro's just a few days before this induction ceremony, so there was quite a bit of excitement and enthusiasm brewing here in Boston about what's to come.
As it is, Boston is a huge baseball city (always has been, really) and many fans were stoked to see him come back. Not that the team is bad right now and they need a ton of help, but sometimes a change at the helm can be a good thing. Especially when fans get impatient about a lack of living up to the their potential. But we digress…
Everyone here in Boston knows the Sox have a great group of young players, but having choked twice in a row in the playoffs, unfortunately getting swept TWICE, a change had to be made. And that always falls on the coach.
Some people chalked it up to the former manager, John Farrell, not being able to connect with the players, making the right decisions, while others have blamed the players for not being able to handle the pressure that comes with the playoffs. Some people even believe the lack of a clutch, heavy-hitting veteran in the mix like, David Ortiz, is the culprit. Hell, some people blame the front office for having unrealistic expectations and forcing pressure on everyone from the coaches, to the players and ultimately causing them not to perform.
Either way, the introduction of Alex Cora on November 6th, marked our calendars and sent a strong message to the fans of the team.
Out with the old, in with the new.
And when it comes to sports marketing, it was also a time to readjust. It's always a tough job selling a losing team, but at Inphantry, we began to wonder…..how will they make us fall in love with the Red Sox all over again?
The past several years have all been about getting fans excited for the young, raw talent the Red Sox have brought up from their farm system, but here in Boston, it's really a, 'World Series or Bust,' type environment. And year after year, our hopes and dreams live and die with the Red Sox winning and losing, so how would they get our hopes up this time?
Will it be the signing of free agents like Chris Sale, Giancarlo Stanton, or Carlos Santana? Maybe. But the real answer lays in the hands of those in charge of sports marketing. And it always has. Let's dive in.
Most people think sports marketing can be summed up relatively simply. If the team's good, the fans are interested and buy tickets, and while that's true, there's more to it than that.
Plain and simple, sports marketing is about providing unique experiences you can't get anywhere else, and the 21st century is ensuring that can happen wherever you are.
We all know billboards, TV ads, radio spots, and in-person fan experiences bring sports spectacles to our eyes and ears, but it's the fan moments that truly matter.
Whether it was watching David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez hit back-to-back home runs in Game 1 of the 2004 World Series, or seeing Tom Brady drive home a 4th Quarter game-winning touchdown drive with under two minutes to go in the playoffs, it's defining moments in sports that turn us into fans of the game for life.
But, how do you create fan interest if your team doesn't have those defining moments, yet? How do you create fans for life?
It all has to do with the fan experience. Inside, and outside the game.
The rise of technology has enabled some teams to do just that. Create moments that matter. Even if it's just a regular season game, or even if your team is losing, or not too relevant in the standings. And with the rise of technology such as virtual reality (VR) everyday games can become defining moments that matter for every fan. Recent releases and advances in technology such as 360 video cameras, and software implementation by companies such as NextVR and more, has been able to bring fan experiences to a whole new level of immersion.
From broadcasters experimenting with virtual reality in the 2016 Olympic Games, to the NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS rolling out special games being livestreamed in 360 VR, there's no doubt about how this hot technology can easily drive fan engagement and interest to an all-time high, all from the comfort of their own home.
And if you haven't heard of 360-VR yet, it is a technology that allows fans to see their favorite teams up close and personal, as if they were in the front row, or in some cases, even on the field itself, and look around them, in a 360 degree panoramic view.
All you need to do is download an app, strap your headset on, and get in the game. And with items like the Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard, Oculus Rift, and Google's Daydream, the options are truly limited when it comes to next-level fan immersion in, and outside of the game. No wonder why marketers are using it inside and outside the stadium.
But is that enough?
Every marketer knows that fans, customers, clients, and consumers crave authentic 'insider' deals & experiences they can't get elsewhere, so will sports marketing follow suit and offer such tangible events outside of the fan's home as well?
It's kind of dependent on it, really. Fans need to be engaged by what they like IN and OUTSIDE of their home environment. And with most people getting blasted by an average of 300 ads a day (phone, mobile, TV, radio, and outdoor) it's never been more important for brands, companies, and teams to 'capture' their audience, and there's truly no better technology than virtual reality to do so.
One of our favorite examples was the ' Virtual Reality Dugout' experience they launched a year ago, and then followed-up with a 'VR Batting Cage,' experience that anyone could try.
What was so impressive about it was it made complete and total sense. The Red Sox crafted an experiential marketing campaign based on engaging fans and getting them excited to be part of their history, moments, and gave them something to look forward to, and in terms of sports marketing, it was a top-notch move.
Now, we've seen other examples like this (I mean, Kevin Durant signed with the Warriors after a VR sales pitch) but when it comes to sports marketing, immersion, and giving fans of all ages an experience like none other, the answer is experiential marketing, and with the power of virtual reality, anything will be possible.
Now, will the Red Sox make us fall in love with them again this year just because of a few fan moments and VR headsets? Probably not, but with a tech oriented city who craves innovation and authentic experiences, storytelling is absolutely paramount and from our agency, we hope sports marketers continue using this amazing, emerging technology for the advancement of fan experiences everywhere.
Are you an interest client who's intrigued at the prospect of VR?
Get ahold of us to find out more of what we can do –→ cam@inphantry.com // As always, follow us on Twitter.
We're always looking to build something new and are humbled by who we get to do it with.
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Even though i changed the icon on android studio , and shows me the correct icon in the device preview, when i run the emulator an old icon appears.
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Choosing icon from resources.

Outcome

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Sing and Walk: The C.C.C.B.
This care for the broader Church is expressed in a particularly concrete way by the existence of national Episcopal conferences. Major countries with a sufficient numbers of bishops possess such national conferences, Canada being one of them. Smaller countries will join with others to form regional conferences.
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops grew out of the Canadian Catholic Conference, established in 1943 and officially recognized by the Holy See in 1948. Its name was changed to the present form in 1977 to better express its reality as an association of bishops. It has no power over its members and individual bishops do not account to it for their work. It is rather an association that allows bishops in a country to collaborate on common issues and to develop shard strategies in view of national realities.
Through the work of its members, the Conference is involved in matters of national and international scope in areas such as ecumenism and interfaith dialogue, theology, social justice, aid to developing countries, the protection of human life, liturgy, communications and Christian education. The Conference also provides the Bishops with a forum where they can share their experience and insights on the life of the Church and the major events that shape our society.
The Plenary Assembly, held once a year and gathering all the bishops of the country, holds supreme authority in the Conference. Every second year, it elects a dozen bishops to form the Permanent Council which governs the Conference between meetings of the Plenary. Four of those bishops form the Executive Committee which is entrusted with directing the ongoing work of the staff. I have been a member of this Executive Committee for the past four years as one of two co-treasurers, and will be presented to the Plenary this October as the nominee for the position of vice-president.
In the Ottawa offices of the CCCB, a staff of about 40 people – laypersons, priests and religious – is at the service of the bishops, while the "Office National de Liturgie de la CECC" is located in Montreal. The staff is supervised by Msgr. Patrick Powers, General Secretary of the CCCB.
In the coming weeks, I will use this space to present in greater detail the organization of the Conference, its concerns and its plans for the future. This will allow readers to have a better understanding of the active presence of the Catholic Church within Canada and the collaborative spirit with which its bishops lead the Church in our country.
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MDUDU BOY
Director: Ella Smith
England, 2016, 20 min
Shooting Format:2K
Cast:Bahati Baraka, Antonina Akinyi, Floria Atieno, Betty Mbuche, Modi Juma, Johansen Owino, Ronald Ngala, Cindy Mbae, Mohammed Mwangale Kazungu, Oliver Musembi, Victor Wanyama
Crew:Producers: Dominic Tighe - Screenwriters: Ella Smith - Cinematographer: Michael Lebor - Editor: Dylan Quirt - Composer: Alex Baranowski
Email:hello AT mduduboy.co.uk
Web:www.mduduboy.co.uk
Football is Mdudu Boy's world. But he isn't allowed to play with the big boys as he might get 'stepped on.' Asking why he's called MDUDU it's pointed out that to things smaller than him, he is a GIANT. The story follows our hero as he grows in confidence and realises his potential. Shot on location in Kenya, we bring together genuine people from the local community and from local charities to tell this heart-warming story.
Ella Smith is an award winning British actress who has worked on films such as The Voices (Sundance) , Cinderella (Disney) and Kill Your Friends (TIFF). She has worked with Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle a number of times and since his championing of her first script Mdudu Boy, she has begun writing many more including a full-length, female character-driven Kenyan feature based on the true events of one girl's journey into womanhood beginning on the streets of Mombassa and eventually changing the course of history for Kenyan women. Since completing MDUDU BOY which is her first film as a writer/director, Ella has directed & written several more short films in Los Angeles such as "Losing My Accent" and "Green Wedding" and is in development for her Parisian screenplay "The Seine" a bitter-sweet romantic comedy (co-written with Jessica Swale). She is also currently developing her original TV show "Bad Mona" a dark comedy about perspective.
Filmmaker's note
This film was always about learning the craft of making films. As first time film-makers, we were teaching ourselves as we went with open hearts, minds and a dose of fear. After most meetings with film-houses, Dominic Tighe (Producer) and I would huddle in the street in an effort to dissect the complicated language thrown at us; What's an ND filter and will the lenses withhold the dust and heat of Mombassa? Does production insurance cover us in an anti-terror travel zone? How will we work with the actors in Swahili? We talked through everything and researched what we could. But we always knew that the film and story was bigger than us, and that working with the local community in Kenya would teach us everything and more. We knew the universal power of football and childhood heroes. I wrote this film in 2014 after I was moved by a particular boy's story that echoed the independent strength & spirit of the Kenyans I had met there. But now, having delivered Mdudu Boy, I draw huge parallels with the fight of film-makers too.
Writer/Director Ella Smith will be available for Q&A following the June 12 screening at Wythe Hotel.


Twenty-five years after the events in A New Hope, the relentless assault by the alien invaders known as the Yuuzhan Vong has plunged the galaxy into war. But word has come of a possible intelligence coup for the New Republic!
Young Finn Galfridian joins Leia Organa and her children aboard the legendary Millennium Falcon for an undercover mission to a notorious refuge for pirates and smugglers. Meanwhile, Finn's sister Kaye, held prisoner aboard a Yuuzhan Vong starship, is about to show the invaders that the galaxy is not defenseless!
* A first look at Princess Leia twenty-five years after A New Hope!
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End of the World Tour: Avenged Sevenfold, Prophets of Rage & Three Days Grace at Jiffy Lube Live
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Avenged Sevenfold fans listen up!! Things are getting exciting at the Jiffy Lube Live in preparation for the End of the World Tour featuring Avenged Sevenfold, Prophets of Rage and Three Days Grace! It's all happening on Wednesday 1st August 2018! Get your tickets today!!
Avenged Sevenfold's most recent album, "The Stage," has shaken the metal world. The band's first concept album, with a focus on artificial intelligence, the album also features several songs that are six minutes or longer. "You know, we never felt that we had to write a radio song," said vocalist M. Shadows in an interview. "I think either we wanted to write songs that were shorter, and I think we're always one of those bands that reacts to our previous record. If you look at records, they bounce back and forth between one style, then they kind of jump to the next style because we're kind of sick of the style we played previously. I think Hail to the King was so stripped down that this record was more of us just kind of letting our hair down… we just really wanted to let our chops be shown, and just play a different type of metal."
Get ready to experience all the songs from The Stage – in addition to well-known fan favorites live on August 1st! Have you got your tickets yet??
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Brittany Kirk is Of Counsel to the firm and assists the Litigation Group.
Ms. Kirk handles an array of commercial matters, ranging from simple contract disputes to complex business litigation, in state and federal court. Ms. Kirk has significant experience defending financial services companies from claims brought under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Truth in Lending Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, and Telephone Consumer Protection Act, as well as state consumer protection statutes such as Illinois' Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Ms. Kirk strives to immediately identify the relevant facts and honestly assess liability enabling her clients to make informed decisions about litigation strategy and settlement without unnecessary expenditures.
Ms. Kirk also has considerable knowledge of close corporation disputes and the enforceability of restrictive covenants under Illinois law. She has successfully defended attempts to enforce non-solicitation and non-competition provisions and counseled clients on changes in Illinois law concerning restrictive covenants. Ms. Kirk has litigated numerous matters addressing corporate governance and valuation in the close corporation context and recognizes the difficulty of these matters for clients who made significant sacrifices to build their business.
Ms. Kirk's experience also includes defending companies facing personal injury and Federal Employers Liability Act claims, and representing clients in bankruptcy proceedings, both to assert claims, and defend adversary proceedings alleging fraudulent transfers, preferential transfers, and violations of the automatic stay or discharge injunction.
Ms. Kirk graduated from Northwestern University School of Law in 2007 and received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003. After working at Nisen & Elliott for the first five years of her legal career, Ms. Kirk was employed by two national law firms before returning to work with the excellent lawyers who helped start her career. Ms. Kirk serves on the Board of Directors of the Evanston Animal Shelter Association and enjoys volunteering at the shelter in her spare time.
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Beyond the Basics: Best Practices for Restrictive Covenants, August 18, 2016
Complimentary Webinar: Effective Use of Offers of Judgment, May 18, 2017
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John Komperda, Administrator of the Estate of Klara Komperda v. Bridgeview Bank Company,
Cook County Circuit Court; Case No. 2005-L-001346
Defended claim that bank's predecessor in interest violated the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act because its apparent agent sold a customer annuity contracts that were allegedly unsuitable based on the customer's age and financial circumstances. Following Plaintiff's case in chief, the matter was satisfactorily resolved by agreement after Defendant presented its first trial witness.
Serampore Industries Private (Ltd) Inc v. Cape Fear Industries USA, Inc.,
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas; Case No. 4:15 cv 989
Defended breach of contract and fraud claims based on allegation that materials sold to Plaintiff violated an implied warranty causing substantial damage when the materials were used in a municipal construction project. Defendant successfully moved for dismissal of the fraud claim then settled the remaining contract claim at mediation.
Shelia Curran and Eric Curran v. PNC Bank National Association,
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana; Case No. 17 cv 243
Defended claim that hundreds of phone calls over four years violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act when customer provided phone number for individual not obligated on the account. Following Defendant's Rule 30(b)(6) deposition and Plaintiffs' depositions, the matter was resolved with the assistance of the Judge at a pre-trial conference.
Chicago Meat Authority v. Koziol et al.,
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Successfully defended Plaintiff's Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction and later obtained order granting motion for summary determination of a major issue which declared the postemployment restrictive covenants were unenforceable for lack of adequate consideration.
Ross Klein, et al. v. Fifth Third Bank, et al.,
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Gótico (en inglés y originalmente Mexican Gothic) es una novela de terror gótico de 2020 de la autora canadiense mexicana Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Se centra en una joven que investiga las afirmaciones de su prima de que su marido está intentando asesinarla.

La novela llegó a varias listas de superventas y la escritura de Moreno-García ha recibido comparaciones con la de Daphne du Maurier y la de Guillermo del Toro.

Sinopsis
La prima de Noemí Taboada, Catalina, le ha escrito suplicando su ayuda, ya que cree firmemente que su marido inglés, Virgil Doyle, tiene la intención de asesinarla. Ante la sospecha de que Virgil también puede estar detrás del dinero de Catalina, el padre de Noemí, Leocadio, la envía a la casa de los Doyle, High Place, que se encuentra en las montañas a las afueras de un pequeño pueblo llamado "El Triunfo". Una vez allí, Catalina le ruega a su prima que busque a una curandera que vive en el pequeño pueblo cerca de la mansión llamada Marta Duval y que recoja un medicamento que pueda salvarla. Noemí lo hace, pero el medicamento en cambio le provoca una convulsión que le impide visitar libremente a Catalina con tanta frecuencia.

Como resultado de la disminución de visitas, Noemí pasa su tiempo aprendiendo sobre la familia Doyle, que también incluye a Francine Doyle y al patriarca de la familia, Howard. La familia tiene una historia de matrimonios incestuosos y experimenta sueños y visiones extrañas. Noemi también cultiva una amistad y una relación con uno de los Doyle, Francis, quien le advierte que no se puede confiar de ellos.

Cuando comienza a caminar dormida, Noemí decide que debe dejar la casa Doyle, solo para que le digan que no puede irse. Revelan que Howard descubrió una cepa de hongo micorriza que tiene una relación simbótica con los humanos. Los Doyle usan este hongo y permanecen en el lugar para curarse y prolongar sus vidas. De hecho, Howard tiene cientos de años. A medida que la potencia del hongo disminuye dependiendo de la genética del individuo, los Doyle se han casado entre sí para asegurarse de que su descendencia también pueda recibir de estos beneficios. Las esporas del hongo abundan en toda la casa y pueden invocar recuerdos, a los que la familia se refiere como el "Gloom" (la penumbra). Las esporas también pueden ayudar a los Doyle a controlar a las personas que las han inhalado, lo que asusta a Noemí.

Los Doyle han descubierto que la genética de Noemí es complementaria a la de ellos y puede ayudar a perpetuar su línea de sangre, ya que la endogamia les ha pasado factura, particularmente cuando se trata de producir descendencia viable. Howard le dice que se case con Francis y que después de la boda, él habitará el cuerpo de Francis. Ellos también desean tener acceso a su dinero, ya que la familia se ha empobrecido y ya no tienen la exitosa mina de plata de antes en la ciudad.

Al negarse a permitir que su familia lleve a cabo sus planes, Francis obtiene la medicina que Catalina buscó anteriormente, ya que interfiere con las habilidades del hongo. Juntos, los tres huyen de la casa y logran prender fuego al cuerpo de Agnes, presumiblemente matando al resto de los Doyle en el proceso y prendiendo fuego a toda la casa. Luego, a Francis, que resultó herido durante la fuga, le preocupa que el fuego no fue suficiente para eliminar por completo las esporas y que debería suicidarse para asegurarse de que la maldición familiar realmente termine. Noemí comparte sus preocupaciones, pero se muestra optimista de que juntos puedan superar cualquier problema potencial.

Lanzamiento y ventas
Mexican Gothic se lanzó en formato de tapa dura y de libro electrónico en los Estados Unidos y Canadá a través de Del Rey Books, así como en el Reino Unido a través de Jo Fletcher Books, el 30 de junio de 2020. Una adaptación de audiolibro narrada por Frankie Corzo fue lanzada el mismo día a través de Random House Audio. Moreno-García también ha lanzado un de club de lectura que incluye una muñeca de papel acompañada de cuatro atuendos inspirados en la protagonista de la novela, Noemí Taboada.
Las ventas de la novela han sido lo suficientemente altas como para que Mexican Gothic se coloque en las listas de libros más vendidos de tapa dura del Washington Post y New York Times.

Adaptación
En agosto de 2020 Milojo Producciones y ABC signature anunciaron que producirían una adaptación limitada de la serie Mexican Gothic , para la plataforma de streaming  Hulu. Moreno-Garcia sería productora ejecutiva. En una entrevista con Entertainment Weekly, la autora declaró que la serie constaría con "entre 8 y 10 episodios maximo".

Recepción
Mexican Gothic ha recibido elogios por su atmósfera y conceptos góticos, que Slate comparó con los estilos de Daphne du Maurier y Guillermo del Toro. NPR hizo comparaciones entre el libro y "Jane Eyre, Ann Radcliffe es Los Misterios de Udolpho, Drácula, Rebecca y la película clásica de 1958, La cosa", también alabando su sentido de pavor. The New York Times señaló comparaciones similares, citando a Mexican Gothic: hizo comparaciones similares, citando a la "valiente protagonista femenina de Mexican Gothic'' y una casa antigua llena de secretos inquietantes".

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Why The Actors From Taco Bell's Nacho Fries Commercial Look So Familiar
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If you're only halfway paying attention as the TV commercial starts, it looks like an ad for an upcoming horror flick. An actor you know you've seen before leaves his girlfriend because he needs to make peace with something, alone. He stops to fill up his tank at his destination: a godforsaken town called Bella Vista, "Where it's always golden hour."
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Home » news » Travel Fears Shouldnt Dissuade Nba From Reformatting Playoffs
Travel Fears Shouldn't Dissuade NBA From Reformatting Playoffs
If travel concerns are your reason for not supporting reformatting the NBA Playoffs, your argument is flawed.
Alan Draper
One of the major takeaways from the NBA's 2017-18 regular season—aside from the fact that Ben Simmons is really, really good—is that the Denver Nuggets will probably be a strong advocate for playoff reform.
By the skin of their teeth, the Nuggets missed out on qualifying for the playoffs. By losing to the Minnesota Timberwolves on the final night of the regular season, the 46-36 Nuggets now have a date with the draft lottery, although they would have much rather have had a date with the Houston Rockets.
The Nuggets now become the poster child for the renewed advocating of playoff reform. Denver, you see, was eliminated from the playoffs despite having a better record than three Eastern Conference teams that qualified—the Miami Heat, Milwaukee Bucks and Washington Wizards.
The Heat and Bucks each finished the season at 44-38, while the Wizards were 43-39.
With the regular season over and the playoffs set to begin, the first round matchups have now been set.
If we're lucky, though, this may be one of the final few times that we see the traditional playoff format in action.
During All-Star Weekend, Commissioner Adam Silver confirmed that the league was discussing playoff reform. Because of the relative imbalance of talent in the Eastern and Western Conference, the cries for a modified playoff system that would simply take the 16 best teams in the league have only grown louder over the years.
The two obvious issues with the 'Best 16 In' approach is the travel concerns and the imbalanced schedule. Teams such as the Trail Blazers, Heat and Celtics could find themselves in the 'nightmarish' scenario of having to play a team that's thousands of miles away. Particularly with the 2-2-1-1-1 format, the toll of traveling between Boston and Portland, for example, would probably catch up to a team.
In other words, the winner of a Game 7 between the Celtics and Blazers in the first round would probably be at a competitive disadvantage in the second. At least, that's the prevailing sentiment.
While the concern is valid, it's one that could only be addressed and resolved by doing a 2-3-2 format throughout the playoffs, or somehow figuring out a way to reduce the frequency of travel—not easy.
The other major issue—and it's one that's easier to fix—is the fact that teams only play 30 out of conference games. To make the system fair, each team would have to play at least 40.
Still, for want of allowing two teams from the same conference to play in the NBA Finals, the league is mulling its option.
I say: it's about time.
To somewhat address the scheduling imbalance and the want to preserve the Eastern Conference vs. Western Conference format, the league revealed that they are also considering a 'Modified Best 16 In' playoff system in which the top eight teams from each conference would qualify for the playoffs and then be re-seeded based on how they fared in the regular season. The concept would more or less mimic what was done for the All-Star game, whereby All-Stars were chosen based on their conference and then redistributed once selected.
Although the Modified Best 16 In system wouldn't necessarily get a team like the Nuggets into the playoffs, it would help preserve the distribution of TV markets, something that's important to the league. A world in which 10 of the 16 playoff teams are from one conference, after all, isn't ideal.
Again, this approach would also allow for two teams in the same conference to compete in the NBA Finals—something that's never been possible.
With all of that said, let's take a look at what this season's first round of the NBA Playoffs would look like if the league adopted either the Best 16 In or Modified Best 16 In format and compare it with what we're getting.
Here's what's actually going to happen this season…
In Western Conference Playoffs…
(1) Houston Rockets vs. (8) Minnesota Timberwolves
(4) Oklahoma City Thunder vs. (5) Utah Jazz
(3) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (4) New Orleans Pelicans
(2) Golden State Warriors vs. (7) San Antonio Spurs
In the Eastern Conference Playoffs…
(1) Toronto Raptors vs. (8) Washington Wizards
(4) Cleveland Cavaliers vs. (5) Indiana Pacers
(3) Philadelphia 76ers vs. (6) Miami HEAT
(2) Boston Celtics vs. (7) Milwaukee Bucks
Now, compare it to what would happen in with the Best 16 In playoff format, where five of the matchups would feature an Eastern Conference team battling a Western Conference team…
Best 16 In Playoff Format…
(1) Houston Rockets vs. (16) Milwaukee Bucks
(5) Philadelphia 76ers vs. (12) San Antonio Spurs
(4) Boston Celtics vs. (13) Minnesota Timberwolves
(6) Cleveland Cavaliers vs. (11) New Orlean Pelicans
(3) Golden State Warriors vs. (14) Denver Nuggets
(7) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (10) Indiana Pacers
(2) Toronto Raptors vs. (15) Miami Heat
For the most part, when people think about intercostal playoff battles, Los Angeles and Boston is usually considered to be the worst case scenario. The truth is, though, that Portland to Miami is the furthest possible distance between NBA cities. That route is the only one that features teams separated by over 3,200 miles. Los Angeles to Boston is just over 2,950.
Interestingly, Portland to New Orleans is over 2,500 miles, and Portland to any of the NBA's three Texas cities is over 2,000 miles. In other words, Portland can, and in this year's playoffs, actually will face a daunting travel schedule. They will actually play the Pelicans.
Game 1 is on Saturday.
Generally speaking, Eastern Conference cities are in closer proximity than Western. If you started out in Boston, you'd only need to travel 500 miles to pass through New York and Philadelphia on the way to Washington, D.C.
Quite similarly, the furthest distance between two Eastern Conference cities is less than 1,500 miles—that's about the distance from Miami to either Boston or Toronto.
The point here is that one could actually (and quite easily) make the argument that the playoffs would actually become more fair from a travel standpoint if Eastern Conference teams were subjected to the possibility of having the same daunting travel demands as as their Western Conference counterparts.
If, for example, the Knicks and Sixers played a playoff series, either team could opt to sleep in their own beds for the entire series.
By opening things up, Eastern teams would probably have to travel further distances more often, but in the majority of instances, their travel probably wouldn't be any worse than what Western Conference teams already have to endure.
Of the five inter-conference playoff matchups listed above, Houston to Milwaukee (1,151 miles), Philadelphia to San Antonio (1,742 miles), Boston to Minneapolis (1,391 miles), Portland to Indianapolis (2,264 miles) and Cleveland to New Orleans (1,055) are all less miles than the distance between Portland and New Orleans. And that series is actually going to happen.
Minneapolis, Los Angeles and Phoenix could also find themselves in unenviable situations requiring them to cover a lot of miles.
Sure, the Eastern Conference teams might, too, but the probability is much less and could only be addressed by mixing the playoffs.
If the league opted for the Modified Best 16 In format, where it still chose eight teams from each conference (rather than the top 16 overall) it's a very consistent story.
The result would be a minor shuffling of the teams at the bottom of the standings. The Nuggets would fall out, the Heat and Bucks would each move up one spot and the Wizards would get in as 16th.
As a result, the Rockets would play the Wizards instead of the Bucks, the Warriors would play the Heat instead of the Nuggets and the Raptors would play the Jazz instead of the Heat.
Houston would have to travel 1,408 miles to get to D.C. and the Raptors would have to travel 1,900 miles to get to Salt Lake City.
Neither of those distances is further than what the Blazers will have to travel to get to New Orleans, but they also aren't much further than how far Western Conference teams normally have to travel, anyway.
The Warriors, in this instance, are an exception. Under this scenario, they would have to travel 3,100 miles to Miami. Being on the West coast, any matchup featuring an Atlantic or Southeast Division team, for the Warriors, would be similarly painful. But do recall that they beat the Pelicans in the first round of the 2015 NBA Playoffs en route to winning the championship. And Miami isn't that much further from Oakland than New Orleans.
Look, there are pros and cons to everything, and no solution is going to please everybody—not all the time, at least.
But if one of the arguments against reformatting the NBA playoffs is a concern about the potential of increasing the frequency of cross country travel, it might not actually be as big of a deal as many of us believe. Western Conference teams already have to face more daunting travel than their Eastern Conference counterparts, and at least by mixing the playoffs, the league would subject all teams to the same opportunity of brutality.
It might not be ideal, but it probably is fair. Or, at the very least, more fair.
Plus, at the end of the day, who wants to see an anticlimactic NBA Finals?
Ensuring that the two best teams get to compete for the championship is the pro that should probably outweigh the minor cons.
The only way to ensure that is to make the change that's been a long time coming.
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Mons Joseph (born 30 May 1964) is an Indian politician and lawyer. He belongs to Kerala Congress led by P. J. Joseph. He had been the Minister for Public Works from 18 October 2007 till his resignation for his party chairman P. J. Joseph to become the minister. Elected from Kaduthuruthy constituency in 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2021.

On 19 March 2021, he and his colleague P. J. Joseph resigned from their respective MLA positions fearing disqualification due to issues relating to their newly formed party's symbol allocation. He had won the 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election from Kaduthuruthy by 4000 votes.

Early life
He was born at Kaduthuruthy on 30 May 1964. His parents are O. Joseph and Mariamma Joseph. Mons graduated to M.A., LL.B., Advocate and served as Social and Political Worker. He entered politics through K.S.C. while a student. He served as Chairman and General Secretary of K.S.C., Baselius College, Kottayam, President and General Secretary of Students Congress, President, Youth Front (J) State Committee and Kerala Congress Kottayam District Committee. He held position of President of the Post Graduate students' association and office bearer of various trade unions and served as member of the Kerala youth welfare committee, consumer protection committee, and Mahatma Gandhi University senate. He also held many students agitations.

Personal life
Mons is married to Sonia, who works as a high school teacher. The couple have a son and a daughter; his son died in an accident in 2013.

References

 Official website of Government of Kerala, Mons Joseph
 Official Government of Kerala website, key contacts
 Shri Mons Joseph sworn in as Minister for Works
 Mons Joseph to be sworn in on 18 October

 God's own country gets minister by lottery

Malayali politicians
Living people
1964 births
People from Kottayam district
Kerala Congress (M) politicians
Kerala MLAs 1996–2001
Kerala MLAs 2011–2016
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Internal control is a process which is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
Internal control is effected by people and not policy manuals and forms, but people at every level of an organization.
Accounting controls are designed to safeguard company's assets and ensure the accuracy of financial records.
Administrative controls are designed to promote operational efficiency and adherence to company's policies and procedures.
Control Environment: The core of any business is its people – their individual attributes, including integrity, ethical values and competence – and the environment in which they operate. They are the engine that drives the entity and the foundation on which everything rests.
Risk Assessment: The entity must be aware of and deal with the risks it faces. It must set objectives, integrated with revenues, production, marketing, financial and other activities so that the organization is operating in concert. It also must establish mechanisms to identify, analyze and manage the related risks.
Control Activities: Control policies and procedures must be established and executed to help ensure that the actions identified by management as necessary to address risks to achievements of the entity' s objectives are effectively carried out. The company's policies and procedures should be reviewed on a periodic basis.
Information and Communication: Surrounding these activities are information and communication systems. These enable the entity's people to capture and exchange the information needed to conduct, manage and control its operations.
Monitoring: The entire process must be monitored, and modifications made as necessary. In this way, the system can react dynamically, changing as conditions warrant.The entity must be aware of and deal with the risks it faces. It must set objectives, integrated with revenues, production, marketing, financial and other activities so that the organization is operating in concert. It also must establish mechanisms to identify, analyze and manage the related risks. Control policies and procedures must be established and executed to help ensure that the actions identified by management as necessary to address risks to achievements of the entity' s objectives are effectively carried out. The company's policies and procedures should be reviewed on a periodic basis. Surrounding these activities are information and communication systems. These enable the entity's people to capture and exchange the information needed to conduct, manage and control its operations.The entire process must be monitored, and modifications made as necessary. In this way, the system can react dynamically, changing as conditions warrant.


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Q: Python ssh to a server having a username and password to login using subprocess only There is text file called ip_addresses.txt containing 3 IP addresses:
192.x.x.x
192.x.x.x
192.x.x.x

I want to ssh to all of these servers and execute a shell command.
Here is code snippet:
ip = open("ip_addresses.txt", "r")
data = ip.readlines()
for ips in data:
    ips = ips.strip("\n")
    ssh = subProcess.Popen(["ssh", "%s" % ips], stdin = subprocerss.PIPE, stdout= subprocess.PIPE, stderr =subprocess.PIPE)
ssh.stdin.write("ls -ltr")
result = ssh.stdout.readlines()
if result == []:
    error = ssh.stderr.readlines()
    print >>sys.stderr, "ERROR: %s" %error
else:
    print result

But to ssh make a ssh connection to these servers, I have to provide a username and password too, which are root and sam@123. How can I provide these details as well and check a successful login to the servers.
Thanks

A: You have quite a few options. The two I can think of straight away:

*

*Setup a key-based authentication mechanism to avoid passwords (You'll have to put your public key on your server's authorized_keys file. Here's a howto.)

*Pexpect
If you do want to use Subprocess itself, have you tried ssh.stdin.write("password\n")?

A: use this :
def ssh(host, cmd, user, password, timeout=30, bg_run=False):
    """SSH'es to a host using the supplied credentials and executes a command.
    Throws an exception if the command doesn't return 0.
    bgrun: run command in the background"""

    fname = tempfile.mktemp()
    fout = open(fname, 'w')

    options = '-q -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -oUserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -oPubkeyAuthentication=no'
    if bg_run:
        options += ' -f'
    ssh_cmd = 'ssh %s@%s %s "%s"' % (user, host, options, cmd)
    child = pexpect.spawn(ssh_cmd, timeout=timeout)
    child.expect(['password: '])
    child.sendline(password)
    child.logfile = fout
    child.expect(pexpect.EOF)
    child.close()
    fout.close()

    fin = open(fname, 'r')
    stdout = fin.read()
    fin.close()

    if 0 != child.exitstatus:
        raise Exception(stdout)

    return stdout


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Q: Django: How to write a GET query, using values_list attribute? I want to query a model, for single instance (eg., id=1), but I only want to return the value of a single field ('title'). I can achieve this with the following query:
SomeModel.objects.filter(pk=1).values_list('title', flat=True)
But a get is more efficient than a filter. However, values_list and values don't work with get queries. Ideally, I would prefer to do this:
SomeModel.objects.get(pk=1).values_list('title', flat=True)
But I get the following error: AttributeError: SomeModel has no attribute 'title'
What is the best way write this query?

A:
But a get is more efficient than a filter.

This is simply not true. A .get(…) will generate exactly the same SQL as a .filter(…).
Using:
SomeModel.objects.filter(pk=1)[0:1].values_list('title', flat=True)

Will do what you want, and will have exactly the same performance characteristics as .get(…) (actually, it will be a bit faster, because .get(…) checks to see if more than one row would be returned…):

In [4]: import logging

In [5]: l = logging.getLogger("django.db")

In [6]: l.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

In [7]: User.objects.filter(id=1)[0:1].values_list()
DEBUG:django.db.backends:(0.006) SELECT "auth_user"."id", "auth_user"."username", "auth_user"."first_name", "auth_user"."last_name", "auth_user"."email", "auth_user"."password", "auth_user"."is_staff", "auth_user"."is_active", "auth_user"."is_superuser", "auth_user"."last_login", "auth_user"."date_joined" FROM "auth_user" WHERE "auth_user"."id" = 1  LIMIT 1; args=(1,)
Out[7]: [(1, u'admin', u'Admin', u'User', u'admin@example.com', u'sha1$bf3bc$daa1fb58a8a41e15c730ae86bc0faf4c01fdd3a1', True, True, True, datetime.datetime(2013, 1, 8, 21, 15, 51, 855527), datetime.datetime(2012, 1, 10, 15, 13, 55))]

In [8]: User.objects.get(id=1)
DEBUG:django.db.backends:(0.001) SELECT "auth_user"."id", "auth_user"."username", "auth_user"."first_name", "auth_user"."last_name", "auth_user"."email", "auth_user"."password", "auth_user"."is_staff", "auth_user"."is_active", "auth_user"."is_superuser", "auth_user"."last_login", "auth_user"."date_joined" FROM "auth_user" WHERE "auth_user"."id" = 1 ; args=(1,)
Out[8]: <User: admin>


Mobile web design might not be your cup of tea but it is the latest trend that is too powerful to ignore. Just look around you and you will be in for a surprise. People are now finding mobile surfing more comfortable, easy and convenient than carrying their hefty laptop or so-called slimy netbook as the later option is almost next to impossible when you are on the fly. This is what has propelled the popularity of mobile web design in every sphere of our lives. But there are innumerable varieties of mobile phones available on the market, so how can you design a mobile website that will appeal to universal audience. Now, there is no simple answer to this problem and to make it worse, there are different mobile web browsers and operating systems that can make your life a misery. Here in this article, we are going to include some of the best examples of mobile website design and some practices that can help you to design a minuscule version of your existing website for the mobile maniacs.
Try to give it a dynamic look and do not try to feature all the elements in it.
Give it space to breathe. Do not make it look like a visual garbage by incorporating all graphical elements.
Try not to use flash because most of the mobile operating systems do not offer support for viewing flash files.
Do not make it too heavy with glossy element since it will have detrimental impacts on your viewers.
Try not to use long content as mobile user do not have much time to wade through long and boring content.
Try to make your mobile website as user-friendly and search engine friendly as possible.
Remember the screen size. It is small and that means you have to squeeze all the elements within the given space as far as possible.
Do not toy with the concept of resolutions since it can mar your chances of seizing the attention of the viewers.
Do not forget about the different operating systems such as iPhone platform, Windows Mobile, Android, Palm OS, Mobile Linux, Symbian OS phew.. there are so many of them. So before you launch the mobile version of your website, do not forget to check it in different platforms.
The last commandment: Give your mobile website a smart look.
Video Mobile Website: Simple design that gives prominence to its call to action buttons. However, the design very much reflects the nature of this website. A truly vivid experience.
Mashable Mobile Web Design: A perfect example of how a social media major should look like in a smart phone. It truly tempts you to tweet the news. Go ahead and do it now.
McDonald Mobile Web Design: It has almost everything that you can expect from a McDonald outlet. A mouth-watering collection of fast-food. There is an option to look for nearest McDonald shop right from its mobile version.
CNN Mobile Website Design: CNN mobile website looks elegant and the focus is solely on the content.
Coosh Mobile Website Design: If you have a thing for graphics, this website will certainly make you say Wow.
Intel Mobile Web Design: With an oxymoronic tag line "Today Is So Yesterday", Intel's mobile website is certainly going to rock you. Its white background is something to take note of.
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Metastatic Melanoma
by Eileen Bailey Health Writer
Melanoma is a type of skin cancer. Although it is the least common form of skin cancer, it is considered the most aggressive and most dangerous form. It begins in the outermost layer of the skin, the epidermis. In men, melanomas usually occur on the chest and back; in women the most common location is on the legs, neck and face. Melanoma can appear anywhere, although it is less common.
When melanoma spreads to deeper layers of the skin or to other parts of the body, it is called metastatic melanoma, which occurs in stage III or IV melanoma. The cancer most often spreads to the lymph nodes, but can spread to many different areas of the body, including:
Other areas of the skin
When the cancer reaches the lymph node 5 year survival rates decrease. According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, approximately 98 percent of those with melanoma (before it has spread) can be cured if the cancer is detected and treated early. Once it reaches the lymph nodes, the 5 year survival rate decreases to 62 percent and when it spreads to other organs, it further decreases to 15 percent. [1]
Diagnosing Metastatic Melanoma
If your doctor believes that your melanoma has spread to other parts of your body, he will order any of a number of diagnostic tests, such as:
Blood test for lactate dehydrogenase, which increases when melanoma metastasizes
Imaging studies including: chest x-ray, CT scan, MRI, PET scan or ultrasound
Testing a sample of your lymph node
Fine needle biopsies of potentially affected areas such as breast, thyroid, lung, liver and other locations
You may not experience any symptoms indicating that the cancer is spreading, therefore, it is important to have regular check-ups with your doctor, especially if you have had melanoma in the past. You should also complete self-checks of both your skin and your lymph nodes and contact your doctor if you notice any changes. Catching melanoma early is the best chance to prevent it spreading and giving you the best chance of your treatment being successful.
"Diagnostic Accuracy of Fine Needle Biopsy for Metastatic Melanoma Implications for Patient Management," 2008, January, Anna Doubrovsky et al, Annals of Surgical Oncology
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"Melanoma Skin Cancer," Revised 2012, Sept 20, Staff Writer, American Cancer Society
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Brazilian steakhouse offers 'an experience, not just a meal' - Albuquerque Journal
Brazilian steakhouse offers 'an experience, not just a meal'
By Pilar Martinez / Journal Staff Writer
Friday, August 20th, 2021 at 4:55PM
The interior of the Fogo de Chão location at 6600 Menaul NE. (Fogo de Chão)
International Brazilian steakhouse Fogo de Chão opened the doors of its Albuquerque location last Tuesday.
Fogo de Chão is located on the east side of the Coronado Center shopping mall at 6600 Menaul NE.
"Fogo de Chão will bring an experience, not just a meal," said general manager Ronan Melo in an email.
He said the company chose Coronado Center as its first New Mexico location because they "liked the idea of being among the bustling crowd of shoppers, diners and professionals."
The restaurant menu prominently features churrasco, a style of cooking in which meat is roasted, then served tableside.
Fogo de Chão opened its Albuquerque location last week. (Courtesy of Fogo de Chão)
In addition to roasted meats, Fogo de Chão also offers a salad buffet, seafood, small plate options, a full bar and weekend brunch.
Melo said the restaurant has more than 50 salads, fruits and vegetables on its "market table."
For the first week of operations, the restaurant will be donating 10% of its sales to the Roadrunner Food Bank, according to a spokeswoman for the company.
"Albuquerque has been very welcoming as we prepare for our grand opening and we're excited to partner with Roadrunner Food Bank, who helps bring hunger relief to so many families throughout New Mexico," company CEO Barry McGowan wrote last week in a news release announcing the opening.
The restaurant has hired 100 people and plans to hire 120 people in total, Melo said.
Prices start at $36.95 for a lunch churrasco experience and $53.95 for dinner. The restaurant also has a $15 lunch salad bar and other entrees or specific cuts of meat available to order separately.
Fogo de Chão is open from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday.
Pilar Martinez covers retail and commercial real estate for the Journal. She can be reached at pmartinez@abqjournal.com.
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Ohio Transmission Corp. Acquires Laron, a Mechanical and Electric Motor Repair Service Provider
Ohio Transmission Corporation recently announced the acquisition of Laron Inc., a leading service provider of mechanical and electric motor repair and engineering in the southwestern United States.
Laron's headquarters in Kingman, Arizona, houses more than 140,000 square feet of shop space, with large-scale machining, fabrication and repair capabilities. Laron also has repair facilities in Phoenix, Arizona, and Salt Lake City, Utah, and it has a sales and field service office in Tucson, Arizona.
"Laron was founded in 1975 and has established a reputation over the past 45 years as a leader in its respective markets," said Philip Derrow, president and CEO of Ohio Transmission Corporation (OTC). "The company has built on its core values of innovation, responsiveness and quality service and has recognized that its associates are the company's greatest resources, a value that makes them a great addition to our OTC family. With this acquisition, we are humbled to provide a new home for Laron's 190 associates."
Since its founding, Laron has provided industrial support services, including heavy industrial automation, machining, motor repair, fabrication, field services, mechanical repair, predictive maintenance, storage and custom solutions. Its services support customers in the mining, manufacturing, power generation, gas transmission and construction industries.
"This acquisition is an important part of our rapidly evolving repair and engineering services capabilities," said Matt Piatt, chief operating officer of OTC. "Along with the recent acquisition of Keller Electrical, the addition of Laron further enhances our overall service offering and expands our regional footprint in the Southwest."
Laron will continue to operate under the Laron brand and with current local management, including Glenn Thoroughman,CEO; Larry Tree, president; John Hansen, COO; Gary Maclay, CFO; and a strong team of general managers already in place. Laron will operate as a division of OTP Industrial Solutions, providing Laron with access to OTP's vast product and service offerings and resources while expanding OTP's service offerings.
With this acquisition, Ohio Transmission Corporation now has 50 locations throughout the Southwest, South, Southeast, Midwest and Northeast regions, along with 25 service shops. The addition of Laron associates expands OTC's existing workforce to more than 1,200 employees.
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More than two decades have passed since then, but Seattle still draws me in as much as ever. And now that I've climbed its hills, skipped stones on its shores, and seen Mt. Rainier aglow in the setting sun, I'm beginning to understand why. It's the way the city feels old in all the right ways, and new and creative in so many others; how it can be gritty and raw at one turn, and impossibly pristine at the next.
So dig out that flannel or come as you are. We're decamping to the Emerald City for the next three days.
The air is thick with history on the streets of Pioneer Square, a district of shaded avenues, grand 19th century architecture, and Seattle's original downtown. Since its birth in 1852, this neighborhood has experienced ups and downs—rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1889, teeming with Alaska-bound "stampeders" during the Klondike Gold Rush, and left to become a notorious Skid Row for much of the 20th century.
In recent years, Pioneer Square has found its stride once more. Punctuate your morning with something caffeinated at Elm Coffee Roasters, something beautifully plated at The London Plane, and—if you stick around until lunchtime—something deliciously indulgent at Salumi or Il Corvo. The former's classic Italian sandwiches make the perfect picnic in Occidental Square; the latter's housemade pastas draw lines that wrap around the block.
In need of a post-meal stroll? Head north on First Avenue to find some retail therapy at Moorea Seal, a glass of wine in full French style at Le Pichet, and everything from flowers to flying fish at the iconic Pike Place Market.
Insider Tip: If you're serious about shopping at Pike Place, go early. By late morning, the interior halls are a human traffic jam.
If you've ever spent time in the Pacific Northwest, you'll know that Washington's ferries are both a regular part of coastal living and a beautiful thrill that never gets old. The same can be said for the 15-minute journey on the West Seattle Water Taxi, which glides between downtown and Seacrest Park with the skyline in rear view. Hop off the boat for a waterfront picnic at the Hawaiian-Korean Marination Ma Kai and a glorious late afternoon walk to Alki Beach, where Chief Seattle first greeted the region's white settlers in 1851.
It's a curious name, Capitol Hill, in a city that has never held Washington's state government. Whether the name arose from wishful planning or a nod to a district in Denver remains disputed; more certain is the colorful, urban energy that defines the neighborhood today.
Whether you're looking for live music, eclectic dining experiences, or a hub of LGBTQ life, it can all be found in a day on Capitol Hill. Begin with the most classic of Seattle breakfasts at Oddfellows Café + Bar (other favorites are the ever-stylish Sitka & Spruce and Tallulah's) and some morning shopping at Glasswing, Totokaelo, and Elliott Bay Book Company. Grab an afternoon pick-me-up in the form of custard-filled heaven at General Porpoise Doughnuts or plant-based ice cream at Frankie & Jo's, and walk it all off in the 48-acre Volunteer Park.
Come dinnertime, you can delight in the French-Vietnamese flavors at Stateside or sit down for a delicious lesson in steak at Bateau, where cuts are sourced daily and crossed off the board as they sell. Or maybe you're catching a show at the Paramount Theatre and just want a late-night burger at Li'l Woody's.
No matter what, my favorite ending to this day includes a scoop of Scout Mint from Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream, a quick ride to the hilltop hamlet of Queen Anne, and a seat atop Kerry Park with the best skyline view in the city.
With the Olympic Mountains and Puget Sound to the west, and the Cascade Range and Lake Washington to the east, Seattleites go to work, sit in traffic, and live their daily lives amidst wonders of nature. But few places excite the senses more than Discovery Park, where 534 acres of meadows, cliffs, and beaches are protected as Seattle's largest city park. For the perfect morning hike, leave your car in the south parking lot and follow a combination of the Loop and South Beach Trails. You'll soon come upon the West Point Lighthouse at the tip of South Beach, perfectly framed by snow-capped mountains.
Once its own independent city of mill workers, fishermen, and boat builders of Scandinavian heritage, the Ballard area was absorbed by Seattle in 1907. Today, this neighborhood north of Salmon Bay retains much of its town-like, maritime character, which you'll feel as you sit down for baked eggs at The Fat Hen, stroll the Sunday farmers market, and pop in and out of Prism and other darling shops.
This area is seemingly made for aimless Sundays, whether you continue a few miles north to the pebble beach at Carkeek Park or sidle a bit eastward to wander through Fremont on the shores of Lake Union. And you'd be wise to make a day of it, especially when dinner awaits in the form of wood-fired pizzas at Delancey, fresh oysters at The Walrus and the Carpenter, or the chef's selection of Lebanese-inspired plates at Café Munir.
Just be sure to end the evening and the weekend at Golden Gardens Park, whose name offers a lovely hint for the sunset that lies in store.
TITLE: The skyline view from Kerry Park | FRIDAY: Pike Place Market; flowers at Pike Place Market | SATURDAY: Oddfellows Cafe + Bar; Totokaelo; the sunset view from Kerry Park | SUNDAY: The Fishermen's Terminal; West Point Lighthouse at Discovery Park; the shores of Carkeek Park; Golden Gardens at sunset; Golden Gardens at sunset; Golden Gardens at sunset; Discovery Park at sunset; the view of Mt. Rainier from Discovery Park; West Point Lighthouse.


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The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage is a collection of true stories about how we learn–and re-learn–to eat, and why family food matters in our lives, even beyond the table. From junk food to soul food, our writers bring you funny, thoughtful, and provocative stories that change the conversation. There are no mantras, no manifestos, no how-to's, and no step-by-step guides to better eating here–though there are 28 delicious, original recipes. These stories show what food means in real families, and they'll help you discover what it means in yours.
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Bethany Saltman is a Buddhist, a writer, and a parent. Her poetry and essays have been published in literary and popular journals (think Parents, Edible Hudson Valley, Nimrod), but I first found her writing through her popular column in Chronogram, Flowers Fall, which is one of my favorite columns about motherhood. Ever. It's not just the steady grace of her prose, or her humble, funny voice or her refreshingly honest point of view. It's that Bethany wrestles with issues surrounding parenting and spirituality with clarity, balance, and genuine insight. I always feel two things after reading her writing: 1) a little bit of envy that I can't be more like her and 2) refreshed. Quite simply, she illuminates things.
When we approached her about a piece on mothering and mindful eating she wrote back that for her, "learning to eat mindfully is not so much about tasting each grain of rice, but learning to love eating, to enjoy this crazy life at the table, with others….it's more a mindfulness of sensual, simple pleasure than what one might think of as "mindful." With that, we knew we'd found our writer. "Food of the Gods" is about the not always easy task of being her father's daughter, and how food—and time, and spirit—helped her come to terms with him.
After you've read "Food of the Gods" and followed her excellent notes for making Mystical Gravy, you can follow her on her blog, Is This My Chair?: Notes on Being. I know you'll want to.