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The Duomo Of Florence: Everything You Need To Know
April 13th, 2020 by Prontopia
No trip to Florence, Italy, is complete without a visit to the signature monument of the Renaissance city. The Duomo's majestic cream, green, and pink facade is topped off with the awe-inspiring cupola, which was once thought impossible to construct. The breathtaking piazza includes the city's cathedral, a bell tower, baptistry, museum, and crypt. It all stands out in a city that's full of wonderful attractions. Let us tell you about the great history and stories behind the Duomo.
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Think it takes a long time for building projects to get completed in your town? At least you didn't have to wait centuries. Work on the Florence Cathedral, called Santa Maria Del Fiore, was started in the 13th century by Arnofolo di Cambio. However, it wasn't until the 19th century that it was completed.
The spot where it's located is steeped in even more history. Florence's original cathedral, Santa Reparata, was here first.
The 15th century brought a major development for the church, as it's when another architect, Filippo Brunelleschi, added his famous dome. This is the cathedral's most striking feature. Consecration happened after the dome was installed.
There was still one big item left unchecked for centuries: getting the facade completed. So much time had passed by then that they had to make sure they were staying as modern as possible with the design.
Today, the Florence Cathedral is a completed church and a complete wonder. To show appreciation for the people who helped it become what it is, there are statues of both Cambrio and Brunelleschi. You'd swear their presences could be felt all around this sacred space.
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Visiting the Cathedral
If you're really pressed for time, you might just be able to see the Duomo's exterior. That's totally fine! You can still see Brunelleschi's dome and the structure's amazing multi-colored marble facade. But if you're able to come inside, you won't regret it.
Look down at your feet or gaze up at the sky inside the Duomo. Either way, you'll be seeing something beautiful. On the floor are mosaic designs. These are stunning patterns that are practically hypnotizing in their intricacy.
Above, there are frescoes galore. The most major of these are Last Judgment, as envisioned by Giorgio Vasari. Other great ones here are by Domenico di Michelino, Paolo Uccello, and Andrea del Castagno.
Don't try to make money an excuse for not visiting this cathedral. Admission is free, which definitely helps to draw in the large crowds. If you want to go to the top of the dome and see some other parts of Piazza del Duomo, you'll have to pay up and climb the 463 stairs to do so. But the spectacular panaroma that awaits you at the top is worth the workout.
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The Bell Tower
The Bell Tower is another great part of the Duomo. Known as Giotto's Bell Tower, it is a remarkable 84.7 meters tall. Though named for architect and painter Giotto, he died before it was completed. Others, like Andrea Pisano, Alberto Arnaldi, and Francesco Talenti, helped Giotto achieve his dream, posthumously. It was Talenti's finishing touches of the massive windows on the tower that marked its completion in 1359.
The Baptistery
The Florence Baptistery - or - the Baptistry of St. John, is a minor basilica but not a minor part of the city's religious focus. Its origins go back centuries before the Cathedral and Bell Tower, if you want to get a better idea of how historic Florence really is. Many later architects, including ones who worked on the Cathedral, took cues from the Baptistery for its influence on Florence designs. This structure has long been revered, especially for its doors. Michelangelo called these bronze doors "Gates of Paradise" and who are we to question his judgement?
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The Opera del Duomo Museum is one of the best museums in all of Florence. Its building was first made to help keep the construction of the Bell Tower and Cathedral in check. Since then, it's been about preservation, not just of these buildings but also of great artworks. It has been an art museum since the 1890s. The pieces here are ones that were previously in the Bell Tower and Cathedral. You can see works by Michelangelo, Donatello, and della Robbia, among others.
The most-recently-known part of the Duomo wasn't discovered until the latter half of last century. During an excavation, lasting from 1965 until 1973, archaeologists found what was left of the basilica of Santa Reparata. This was an incredible find for many reasons, but the biggest was that they had the earliest proof of Christians in Florence. Despite its name, you shouldn't feel creeped out by the Crypt of Santa Reparta. You'll hopefully be moved by how far back peoples' devotion goes.
We hope you get a chance to see at least one part of the Duomo when you're in Florence. We definitely wouldn't blame you for trying to see them all!
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Musicvein Interviews Iron Islands
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"The Avengers" Director and Cast Assemble on Twitter For Global Chat!
Do you have some burning questions that you would like answered about Marvel's The Avengers? If so you're in luck! On Tuesday, Marvel Studios will sponsor a global chat with writer/director Joss Whedon and cast members Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddleston and Clark Gregg. Hit the jump to find out how you can participate!
The chat will take place this Tuesday, January 31st from 11 AM PST to 11:30 AM PST on Twitter. Fans should follow the Avengers movie Twitter account (@Avengers) and use the #Avengers hashtag to join in. Those participating will get to see a 10-second tease of the 30-second Avengers Super Bowl XLVI TV Spot. They will also be able to answer Avengers trivia to win "Avengers" prize packs!
"Marvel's The Avengers" is the super hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel super heroes Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.
Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Tom Hiddleston, with Stellan Skarsgård and Samuel L. Jackson, and written and directed by Joss Whedon, "Marvel's The Avengers" is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series "The Avengers," first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since.
Marvel's The Avengers assemble in theaters (in 3D) May 4th!
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Multiple Ideas are easier than a single idea, because you can show the expected return on a portfolio of ideas. It is undertaken in a tasteful manner, in line with. To carry out these strategies, executives set a number of broad-based goals that essentially committed the firm to lowering costs, improving quality, and regaining lost market share. Motorola must also measure the products of other companies against its own standards to verify that whether its own products rank as best in their class. It wants to take quality to the point where defects will be counted in relation to billions rather than millions. In reality, these techniques bring the company more attraction and therefore more earnings. I mean, think about it.
The key initiatives are: Six Sigma Quality Six sigma was pioneered by Bill Smith at Motorola in 1986; originally used as a metric for measuring defects for improving quality; a methodology to reduce defect levels ; 3. Founders Paul Galvin and Joseph Galvin came up with the name Motorola when the company started manufacturing car radios in 1930. Reproduced by permission of Addison Wesley Longman. It provides the framework to prioritize resources for projects that will improve the metrics, and it leverages leaders who will manage the efforts for rapid, sustainable, and improved business results. This strategy also supported by six sigma approach which is six sigma help to diminish unimportant variables in operations. This is therefore where the efforts are focused to ensure that the process is improved in the precise areas and in the specific ways that will have the greatest impact on the outcomes.
The other three are standard techniques used by entrepreneurs to garner resources and scale up. Shakil is based in Chicago. In essence, what they are saying is to give innovation a business purpose, whether it is closing an emerging growth gap that cannot be closed by the current strategy or by acquisitions, or a specific problem that requires entirely new and differentiated solutions. Look at how the Wii ate Playstation for lunch. It provides feedback around both the internal business processes and external outcomes in order to continuously improve strategic performance and results.
They fail to achieve their goals, Leaders not only play a role in strategy formulation, but more importantly, play a crucial role in implementation of organizations strategies Mills, 2005. This fight involved two main strategies: First learn from the Japanese, and then compete with them. Motorola also do the training as critical to increasing quality and productivity. Then, they said something about joining the Android group, leaving all their partners of the other mobility Linux groups in peril. Senior management must be able to buy into the project with the understanding that the investment in money, time and resources will lead to an impact greater than other proposals that are vying for the same resources.
But, like many other firms at the time, was a bit complacent and not aggressively focused on competing with the Japanese. Six Sigma started as a defect reduction effort in manufacturing and was then applied to other business processes for the same purpose. A successful business model can give a company competitive advantage over rivals. The first part looks at what is meant by strategy and planning in a business context. At first, managers at Motorola were unsure how they should respond. The observed variation in the process mean was ± 1.
Without leadership, organizations start to stagnate and become lethargic. The firm then needs to concentrate on how to do its business abroad and what kind of strategies should be taken to achieve its goal. There needs to be a way to transition promising work to the fast track. Managers were sent on missions worldwide, but especially to Japan, to learn how to compete better. Ideally the company will find the best there is to study and learn from. By using this strategy, Motorola try to achieve a perfection rate of 99. If managers take strategies to increase the efficiency to reduce cost or increase the quality of reliability, it means that the company is pursuing a business model based on low cost.
Its global market share has been on the decline; from 18. There are so many variables that could affect resource allocation for innovation — size of company, growth goals, category, and leadership chutzpah! The manager went on to note somewhat dejectedly that it looked as if only a 160% increase would be achieved. Warren Buffet once said that when a manager with a great turnaround reputation encounters a company with a reputation for dysfunction, it is the company that will keep its reputation. In closing, Ron Jonash reminds us about the need to have sustained innovation results right from the start to develop and maintain momentum for innovation. This year, our venture capital team is hitting the ground running with a portfolio of 20 start-ups and 10 venture funds and expects to invest in an additional five to six companies. But I feel somehow badly that the firm that invented cellular is now the walking wounded.
These phones are not packed with heavy multimedia features like N-Series but they still are selling like hot chocolate cakes. In the face of withering competition from the Japanese, however, these firms began to fall by the wayside. What Telematics does is use wireless voice and data to provide locations, directions, information, and entertainment services to drivers. Some managers studied Motorola's own Japanese operation to learn more fully how it functioned; others focused on learning about other successful Japanese firms. Besides, the company always invested in innovations that benefits customers and make their satisfaction much higher. Motorola divided six sigma into three levels, as a metric, as a methodology, and as a management system.


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The Good Place Season 1 TV Review
April 20, 2017 March 12, 2018 ~ Kristen Ankiewicz
The Good Place (American TV series, 2016) is hilarious.
The Good Place stars Kristen Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop, a woman who wakes up in the afterlife and is sent by Michael (played by Ted Danson) to "The Good Place", a utopian neighborhood he designed to reward a select group of people for the extraordinarily good lives they led on earth. Eleanor realizes she was sent there by mistake, and must earn her place in "The Good Place". Does she reveal her secret? Does she become a better person? Will she create a Category 55 Doomsday Crisis? Hilarity ensues.
Ted Danson is goofy and brilliant, and his quirky outbursts and slapstick as the fretful Architect are perfectly timed. Kristen Bell is good, but not great. Her "bad past" selves are a little predictable and overacted. Manny Jacinto's Jianyu Li was a little mean-spirited. D'Arcy Carden steals the show as Janet, an artificial helper being that chirpily appears the second someone utters her name. Her combination of robot-like affect and know-it-all-ism make the perfect deadpan to everyone else's antics. William Jackson Harper is also fantastic as Chidi, the uptight, indecisive ethics professor trying to help Eleanor become a better person. I particularly enjoyed the train sequences to "The Bad Place" and "The Medium Place". The unsavory characters from "The Bad Place" are also hilarious.
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The first season goes astray a bit in episodes 9 and 10. All the business about soulmates feels antithetical to the core of the story. It recovers brilliantly in episode 12, with the introduction of "The Medium Place," and the mediocre coke fiend who lives there. In the final episode we are treated to a straight-up reference to Sarte's Huis Clos (No Exit). L'enfer c'est les autres; hell is the others. It's revealed that the characters have been in "The Bad Place" the entire time; the whole thing was an elaborate ruse designed to have them torture each other endlessly by just being themselves.
Best scene in the series
The demon from "The Bad Place" clips his toenails in "The Good Plates" restaurant.
See it for the madcap hilarity and quirky depiction of the afterlife
Compare it to more somber depiction of the afterlife in The Bothersome Man.
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Q: Better way to loop through grabbing user details in Mongoose/MongoDB I have this code:
app.get('/notifications/:id', function(req, res) {
  Notification.find({
    userId: req.params.id
  }, '_id type initiatorId', function(err, notifications) {
    if (err) return;
    // grab all users by the `initiatorId`
  });
});

notifications will look like this:
[
{
    initiatorId: 1
},
{
    initiatorId: 2
},
{
    initiatorId: 3
}
]

However, I need to grab the user details from the /users collection for each of these initiatorIds. What would be the best way to do that to produce this structure:
[
{
    initiatorId: 1,
    user: {
        name: 'john'
    }
},
{
    initiatorId: 2,
    user: {
        name: 'larry'
    }
},
{
    initiatorId: 3,
    user: {
        name: 'moe'
    }
}
]

A: Use a reference in your Notification schema, and then populate it, as per the Mongoose Docs.
var mongoose = require('mongoose'),
    Schema   = mongoose.Schema,
    ObjectId = Schema.ObjectId,

var notificationSchema = new Schema({
  initiator: { type: ObjectId, ref: 'User' }
});

var Notification = mongoose.model('Notification', notificationSchema);

You can then use Mongoose's query populate method:
app.get('/notifications/:id', function(req, res) {
  Notification
    .find({ initiator: req.params.id })
    .select('_id type initiatorId')
    .populate('initiator')
    .exec(function(err, notifications) {
      if (err) return handleError(err);
      // do something with notifications
    });
});

However, I'm slightly confused why the id is a user id (and not a notification id) – if I were using this API that would confuse me.
This doesn't get you exactly the data structure you wanted, but I think it's more like the "right" way, if there is such a thing.

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Hobby Lobby Funded the Duggars' Allegedly Sex-Abusing Cult Minister
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The founder of a homeschooling empire championed by reality TV's Duggar family and Sarah Palin, Bill Gothard resigned earlier this year amid accusations that he molested dozens of women. No one, he says, was more instrumental to his now-controversial ministry than the family behind Hobby Lobby.
Mother Jones' David Corn and Molly Redden published a detailed investigation this morning showing that long before the Green family—which owns Hobby Lobby—fought to avoid covering contraception for its insured employees, it gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and real estate to Gothard and his controversial theocratic fundamentalist Baptist movement.
Considered by many mainstream Christians to be a cult, Gothard's Institute in Basic Life Principles has for decades advocated a cloistered, rigid conservative approach to raising children in Christ—which interested parties can learn about by paying, Scientology-style, for successive lectures, videos, seminars, and isolated boot camp-style experiences. Gothard is also associated with Quiverfull, a fringe movement championed by Jim and Michelle Duggar (of 19 Kids and Counting fame) that advocates wifely submission and mandates plentiful procreation and sees all forms of birth control as sinful—a philosophy that is not shared by most mainline Protestants.
Gothard tells Mother Jones that his ties with Hobby Lobby's Green family have been indispensable to his work. "The secret of their success is their generosity," he said, adding: "They're friends. I see and talk to them periodically."
The basis of that friendship—forged when family members attended an IBLP seminar—has been massive giving:
In 2001, the Greens, through a family trust, sold Gothard's group a 2,250-acre campus in Big Sandy, Texas, for $10. The campus, which has a landing strip and aircraft hangar, now houses the Institute's International ALERT Academy, a boot camp where young men train in disaster response techniques. The academy also runs a program for girls 15 and older. The website for that program notes that "skirts are required to encourage the girls to remain feminine in an active lifestyle." The application—under the heading "mental health"—asks girls if they are struggling with "day dreaming," "fantasy," or "lustful thoughts."
In 2000, Hobby Lobby donated a 529,717-square-foot building in Little Rock, Arkansas, to Gothard's outfit. The company had purchased this property, a former Veterans Affairs building, two years earlier for $299,000. The Institute now runs a prison ministry out of this location, providing curriculum to a faith-based Arkansas Department of Corrections program known as Principles and Applications for Life. For about a decade, according to Gothard, the Institute leased the ground floor of the building for $1 per year to the Little Rock Police Department for use as its downtown station. Now, Gothard says, the police are paying a regular rental fee.
In Nashville, the Institute operates a training center in a former hospital that Gothard says Hobby Lobby purchased for his group. Public records show that in 2005 a corporation affiliated with Hobby Lobby sold the facility to the Institute for $10. The Nashville Business Journal reported that Hobby Lobby bought the building for $3.5 million. It currently houses theEmbassy Institute, where the Institute in Basic Life Principles hosts many seminars.
The Green family, according to Gothard, also "bought a training center in New Zealand and gave it to us." He says that by providing the institute with these facilities, the Greens and their company "really helps with the bottom line."
But the largesse of the Green family—which also famously bailed out Oral Roberts University after Roberts' son was accused of tax irregularities and misuse of donations—may have contributed to Gothard's cult of personality, which former members say led him to take whatever he wanted from his mostly young, mostly female assistants and disciples:
Gothard made national news in March when he resigned from the Institute after a website posted the accounts of more than 30 women who accused him of sexual harassment and inappropriate touching. One of his accusers said he molested her when she was 17. In a statement he issued in April, Gothard noted, "God has brought me to a place of greater brokenness than at any other time in my life…I have asked the Lord to reveal the underlying causes and He is doing this." Gothard further stated, "My actions of holding of hands, hugs, and touching of feet or hair with young ladies crossed the boundaries of discretion and were wrong." But he claimed, "I have never kissed a girl nor have I touched a girl immorally or with sexual intent." Testimonials of the accusers, which include tales of creepy and harrowing encounters with Gothard, suggest otherwise. (Here's an example submitted by a woman who alleged he fondled her.)
Gothard has continued his personal witnessing even after he was forced to leave his own ministry and the Duggars distanced themselves from him; his website says he's "dedicated to helping youth and families make wise decisions." He tells Mother Jones he's not guilty of anything, but he's apologized nonetheless. Survivors of the movement are not buying it.
For its part, the Green family hasn't commented on its relationship to Gothard, IBLP, or Quiverfull. But an Amazon listing for one of Gothard's books still includes a glowing endorsement from Hobby Lobby CEO David Green. "Through the example and teachings of Bill Gothard and the Institute in Basic Life Principles, we have benefited both as a family and in our business," Green writes. "It is as we take those lessons from God's Word that Bill clearly articulates that we live the full life that God intends."
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gini, a Hong Kong-based fintech that specializes in smart spending-tracking, announced on Thursday it raised $1.6 million through its seed funding round, which involved participation from Mountain Partners, Treuenburg Group, Global Technology Alliance (GTA), Dr. Cornelius Boersch, the European Investment Fund (backed by EIB), and Hong Kong-based Vectr Ventures.
"We are Hong Kong based, but the plan was never to launch an app only for the Hong Kongmarket. We live in a globalised world. Ultimately, our goal is to build a truly worldwide financial marketplace, to serve not just a user's home market but make managing money across markets accessible and easy for anyone to do. This new seed round allows us to start making that vision a reality, and we have strong new partners who share our passion and believe in our vision for what gini can do to disrupt the global personal finances industry more broadly, and make financial freedom accessible to everyone around the world.
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Gold Coast man spends 200 hours building model jet
November 28, 2014 3:05 pm in Gold Coast by myGC
GOLD COASTER Graham Wilson has spent the last six weeks building his biggest replica aircraft model to date.
The talented CareFClight volunteer combined his 60-year passion for model building with his love for RACQ CareFlight Rescue, building a to-scale model of the charity's Air Ambulance Learjet 45.
Wilson even worked closely with CareFlight engineer Dave Thomas to get the exact specifications and dimensions of the Learjet 45 VH-CXJ.
It's the first replica model of CareFlight's Learjet ever created and took six weeks of 'blood, sweat and tears', according to Wilson.
"The Learjet is by far the biggest model I've ever made and it took about 200 hours," he said.
The CareFlight Learjet model now sits proudly in the foyer of CareFlight's Gold Coast base, used as a visual aid during hangar tours to talk about the role the jets play in CareFlight's operations.
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Preeclampsia is a pregnancy complication that develops during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy. Symptoms are subtle so women are often unaware of the developing complication unless they attend regular prenatal care checkups. Preeclampsia is straightforward to manage, but left undiagnosed the complication becomes eclampsia, which involves organ failure and seizure activity resulting in serious or fatal health effects for both mother and unborn child.
Imagine Joan. Joan is a woman living Kotido, a district in Northern Uganda. She is carrying her first child and just returned home from the hospital where she had her first and only prenatal care visit. Several months pass by and Joan experiences rapid weight gain, abdominal pain, headaches and vomiting. The women in her family tell Joan that these are normal signs of pregnancy and not to worry. The closest clinic is hours away by bus and would require taking another day off of work, so Joan agrees that her symptoms are probably nothing to worry about and continues normally without seeing a doctor. One morning Joan's vision becomes blurred and begins having seizures. Her family rushes her to the nearest clinic where Joan is diagnosed with eclampsia. The doctors are forced to deliver Joan's baby prematurely to try and save Joan's life, and the baby fights for survival with underdeveloped lungs and no access to a neonatal mechanical ventilator.
In Uganda, the average woman attends one prenatal care visit when she first realizes she is pregnant and does not return to receive health care until it is time for her to give birth or she is experiencing severe health problems. Unfortunately, Joan's experience is not unique to her or to women in Uganda; this story is the reality for women across sub-Saharan Africa and in low-resource countries around the world. Without adequate prenatal care screenings, one of the most necessary and natural parts of life can turn into a traumatic and dangerous experience.
Preeclampsia is a pregnancy complication that develops during the last 20 weeks of their pregnancy, and can result in serious or fatal complications for both mother and unborn child. Irregular formation of blood vessels in the placenta leads to this condition, which is characterized by hypertension and damage to the organs of the mother.
The ongoing mortality from preeclampsia and eclampsia exemplify the health disparity between high-income countries where women have access to adequate prenatal care and low-income countries where women routinely die from preventable causes.


I have wanted to be a mom for as long as I can remember. Not the way some girls want to be a mom. Maybe casually after they've traveled the world, conquered their fears, achieved dream job status…ya know, when the time is right. Nope. For me, I was ready to have a baby like 15 years ago. So after finally finding my loving, supportive and wonderful husband, Gabe (that too was a bumpy ride) and getting married, we wasted no time trying for a baby. That was more than 2 years ago.
Gabe and I on our honeymoon in Greece two years ago. We thought our family of 2 would turn into a family of 3 in no time. We were very wrong.
2 years, 2 miscarriages, 5 rounds of clomid, 1 insemination, 1 round of IVF, countless doctors visits, thousands of dollars, many, many tears and zero babies. That's just the cliff notes of this painful and emotional journey. And it's not like we just sat back and prayed for a baby, which of course we did…believe me, we've tried everything! I went to an acupuncturist, I juiced day and night, I became a vegetarian briefly, I ate lots of meat for a while, I gave up alcohol, I gave up coffee, I tried herbs and supplements, I stressed, I became zen, I cried, I prayed and a time or two I laughed. I even went to a Mayan Abdominal Therapist?! Have you ever even heard of Mayan Abdominal Therapy?!!? WTF, right? I pretty much did everything I had been told/read about…all that and still no baby.
A sad selfie before one of the many diagnostic tests I did to determine WTF is wrong?!
So what's the problem over here? Why can't we just get knocked up like the rest of the world? The doctors don't know. Doctors have run every single test humanly possible on me and I pass every one with flying colors. My body, and my husband's, for that matter, are perfectly primed for parenthood. I have what's called "Unexplained Infertility." Ugh, if I have to hear those words one more time. It basically means that they don't know what the problem is, therefore cannot fix it. Apparently it is common among couples having difficulty getting pregnant. So we've been living in a state of WTF for more than 2 years now and you can't imagine how difficult it's been.
It's so true, when you want to be pregnant it feels like the whole damn world is pregnant but you. All of my best friends, family, co-workers, girls who didn't want to get pregnant, girls who had been pregnant and were now pregnant a second time, celebs, dog, cats, fish. (Can fish even get pregnant?) Literally everyone is the world was pregnant. Gabe and I felt like we were living in "Babyland" because we couldn't take one step without seeing a cute little newborn in its mother's arms, or a toddler on his dad shoulders or a family happily pushing a stroller with triplets down the street. So obviously I am hyper-sensitive about pregnancy, but seriously, give me a break. WTF!? Is there anyone in the universe besides me that can't get pregnant?
Giving myself one of the many shots as a part of IVF. I've certainly conquered my fear of needles.
Side bar: Can I just say that anytime a friend told me they were pregnant during my fertility struggle, my first instinct was happiness and then relief. I assume most people thought I was bitter or resentful…why them and not me? But it was the opposite. Because I knew how difficult this journey has been on me, I would never wish it on anyone else. I was so thrilled that they wouldn't have to deal with the crazy clomid pills or inject themselves with a needle or feel the pain of losing something you never really had. But of course I felt disappointed. Disappointed that yet again I wasn't also pregnant and that we weren't going to be on the motherhood train at the same time.
This was 1 1/2 years ago when I told my parents they would be grandparents for the first time! They still have those little onsies ready for a grandbaby.
Also, the decision to share was difficult because what I'm revealing is obviously very personal. It's a journey that only my closest family and a few friends are privy to. It is painful and sad and almost in a way embarrassing. I mean isn't this the reason women are put on the earth…to create life and I can't even do it. What kind of woman am I? I hate that I feel that way though. There's a horrible stigma around fertility and IVF and I'd like to do my part to get rid of it. What is there to be ashamed of?
Pre-surgery 2 months ago. I remember feeling nervous and excited at the same time.
Above all, the reason I am sharing my story is because there are lots of women just like me who struggle with infertility. In fact, 6.7 million women between 15-44 have trouble getting pregnant or carrying a baby to full term. I do find it oddly comforting to know that I'm not alone in my pain, but it still hurts. If I could help even just a handful of the millions of women (and their husbands) going through the same thing, then my struggle will have been worth it. It perhaps could answer the WHY in this whole experience.
I have prayed on this for many months and I feel like it's time to let you in. The universe is pointing me in this direction and who am I to go against the universe. So I invite you to go along on this journey with me. Share in my joy and my pain; my fears and my heartbreak. I feel completely exposed, and to be honest, quite scared in revealing my "secret", but I've never been one to let fear be in charge.
Currently we are in the middle of round 2 of In Vitro Fertilization or IVF. This process is painful and difficult and scary, but also miraculous and beautiful and at times even funny. So here we goooooo. Eeeeee! (Deep breaths) Feel free to follow along as we continue our journey towards parenthood.
Thanks in advance for your love and support. It means the world to us.


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Q: Simplest function sufficient to categorize a square Background Let $p_i=(x_i,y_i)$ with $i\in \{1,2,3,4\}$ define four (possibly repeating) points in the plane. Let $f(a,b,c)$ be any function with the property that
$$f(a,b,c)=f(a,c,b)=f(b,a,c)=f(b,c,a)=f(c,a,b)=f(c,b,a)$$
That is, the output of $f$ is independent on any permutations of the inputs. Finally, define
$$S_1=f(d(p_1,p_2),d(p_1,p_3),d(p_1,p_4))$$
where $d(a,b)$ is the standard Euclidean distance (although this could really be any metric). In a similar manner, define $S_2,S_3,$ and $S_4$. We say that a function $f$ categorizes a square if
$$S_1=S_2=S_3=S_4\Leftrightarrow \text{The points }p_1,p_2,p_3,p_4\text{ define a square}$$
Obviously, the $\Leftarrow$ implication is self-evident (at least if one considers four identical points a square). This leaves the question of what functions $f$ imply that the points $p$ form a square?
Question: What is the simplest such function $f$ which categorizes a square? In this question, 'simple' can be taken to mean: cleanest, neatest, easiest to compute, etc.
Work so far: The obvious choice for $f$ is
$$f(a,b,c)=a+b+c$$
By almost any definition, this is probably the simplest function which could possibly categorize a square (this is opposed to constant $f$ which definitely does not categorize the square). However, I could not prove that this function works although I can show it for the following function:
$$f(a,b,c)=\left(\frac{\max\{a,b,c\}}{\sqrt{2}}-\min\{a,b,c\}\right)^2+\left(a+b+c-\max\{a,b,c\}-2\min\{a,b,c\}\right)^2+\min\{a,b,c\}$$
This function evaluates to $\min\{a,b,c\}$ if the two shorter distances are equal and the longest distance is equal to the shorter distances after being stretched by a factor of $\sqrt{2}$.
To prove this function categorizes a square, it is sufficient to prove cases depending on how many of the lengths amongst the four points equal the absolute minimum length (in a square, its four of the lengths). Since $\binom{4}{2}=6$, one simply has to check the cases:
$$\text{There is $1$ unique minimum distance among $6$ lengths}$$
$$\text{There are $2$ equal minimum distances among $6$ lengths}$$
$$\vdots$$
$$\text{There are $5$ equal minimum distances among $6$ lengths}$$
(the case where all the distance are equal is impossible). After going through the logic, one can show that in all cases but the case with $4$ equal minimum distances that $S_i\neq S_j$ for some $i,j\in\{1,2,3,4\}$. Then in this case, you can show that this corresponds to a square.

A: Fix $p_1,p_2,p_3,p_4\in\mathbb{R}^2$.

If $p_1,p_2,p_3,p_4$ are the vertices of a (possibly degenerate) rectangle, then
$$
S_1=S_2=S_3=S_4
$$
holds, regardless of the choice of the symmetric function $f(a,b,c)$.

In what follows, let $f(a,b,c)=a+b+c$.

Claim:$\;$If $S_1=S_2=S_3=S_4$, then $p_1,p_2,p_3,p_4$ are the vertices of a (possibly degenerate) rectangle.

Proof:

Assume $S_1=S_2=S_3=S_4=s$.

If $s=0$, then $p_1=p_2=p_3=p_4$, in which case, $p_1,p_2,p_3,p_4$ are the vertices of a degenerate rectangle.

Next assume $s > 0$.

Without loss of generality, we can assume $s=1$.

For $1\le i < j\le 4$, let $d_{ij}=d(p_i,p_j)$

After appropriate re-indexing we have $6$ cases, exactly one of which must hold . . .

Case $(1)$:$\;p_1=p_2=p_3,\,p_3\ne p_4$.

Then from $S_1=S_2=S_3=1$ we get $d_{14}=d_{24}=d_{34}=1$, but then $S_4=3$, contradiction.

Case $(2)$:$\;p_1=p_2,\,p_3=p_4,\,p_1\ne p_3$.

Then it's immediate that $p_1,p_2,p_3,p_4$ are the vertices of a degenerate rectangle.

Case $(3)$:$\;p_1=p_2,\,p_2\ne p_3,\,p_2\ne p_4,\,p_3\ne p_4$.

Then we get
$$
2
=
2S_1
=
2d_{13}+2d_{14}
 <
(2d_{13}+d_{34})+(2d_{14}+d_{34})
=
S_3+S_4
=
2
$$
contradiction.

Case $(4)$:$\;p_1,p_2,p_3,p_4$ are distinct, but collinear.

Without loss of generality, assume $p_1,p_2,p_3,p_4$ are consecutive points on the line segment with endpoints $p_1,p_4$.

Then we get
$$
S_1
=
3d_{12}+2d_{23}+d_{34}
 >
d_{12}+2d_{23}+d_{34}
=
S_2
$$
contradiction.

Case $(5)$:$\;p_1,p_2,p_3,p_4$ are distinct, and $p_4\in T$, where $T$ is a non-degenerate closed triangular region with vertices $p_1,p_2,p_3$.

Without loss of generality, assume $d_{23}=\max(d_{12},d_{13},d_{23})$.

It follows that $d_{14} < d_{23}$.

Now we have
\begin{align*}
3
&=\,
S_1+S_2+S_3
\\[4pt]
&=\,
2(d_{12}+d_{13}+d_{23})+(d_{14}+d_{24}+d_{34})
\\[4pt]
&=\,
2(d_{12}+d_{13}+d_{23})+S_4
\\[4pt]
&=\,
2(d_{12}+d_{13}+d_{23})+1
\\[4pt]
\end{align*}
hence $d_{12}+d_{13}+d_{23}=1$.

But then we get
$$
1
=
S_1
=
d_{12}+d_{13}+d_{14}
 <
d_{12}+d_{13}+d_{23}
=
1
$$
contradiction.

Case $(6)$:$\;p_1,p_2,p_3,p_4$ are consecutive vertices of a convex quadrilateral, $Q$ say.

From $S_1=S_3$ we get
$$
d_{14}+d_{12}=d_{23}+d_{34}\qquad(\text{eq}1)
$$
and from $S_2=S_4$ we get
$$
d_{12}+d_{23}=d_{34}+d_{14}\qquad(\text{eq}2)
$$
Subtracting $(\text{eq}2)$ from $(\text{eq}1)$ yields
$$
d_{14}-d_{23}=d_{23}-d_{14}
$$
hence $d_{14}=d_{23}=x$, say.

Then $(\text{eq}1)$ becomes
$$
x+d_{12}=x+d_{34}
$$
hence $d_{12}=d_{34}=y$, say.

Thus the opposite sides of $Q$ have equal lengths, so $Q$ is a parallelogram.

Then from $S_1=S_2$ we get
$$
x+y+d_{13}=y+x+d_{24}
$$
hence $d_{13}=d_{24}$, so the diagonals of $Q$ have equal lengths.

It follows that $Q$ is a rectangle.

This completes the proof.


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Gelber Stern is a historic street in Hildesheim, a city in Lower Saxony in Germany.

Location and Length
Gelber Stern is a street with 135 m in length in the Southern part of the city center. Lappenberg, the middle of the former Jewish community, is close by.

History
In a document dating from 1650 the street was mentioned for the first time. Its name was then "Geiler Stert", but the meaning of this name remains unknown. The present name "Gelber Stern" has been used since the beginning of the 19th century. Literally translated it means "Yellow Star", but most probably this name does not refer to the Star of David as the street was not a part of the Jewish community.

In the Second World War, Gelber Stern and the streets and lanes around received comparatively little damage. Some houses were lightly damaged during air raids on 22 February 1945 and on 22 March 1945, but the damage could be repaired preserving the original style after the war.

Sights and Architecture
Gelber Stern is one of the most picturesque streets of Hildesheim as most of the buildings are half-timbered houses. Many of them were built on a sandstone base and in some houses the upper floor is larger than the ground floor. One of the most interesting is no. 21, called Waffenschmiedehaus (Armourer's House) dating from 1548 with colourful wood carvings in a renaissance style. Carved inscriptions can be seen in the façades of several houses, e.g. no. 14 - 16 which were built at the end of the 16th century. A complete prayer consisting of four sentences was carved into the façade of house no. 17.

The large building on the corner of Gelber Stern and Brühl is a former hospital which was built in a classicist style 1833–1840. Today it is used as a priests' seminary. The oldest half-timbered house of Hildesheim, which is used as a library today, can be visited in its inner court. It was built in a gothic style at the end of the 15th century.

References

History of Hildesheim
Buildings and structures in Hildesheim
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Home > Blog > eCommerce > Just How Important is Responsive Web Design for E-Commerce Websites?
In the last 2-3 years, as internet use has become increasingly dominated by mobile devices, we've seen a significant increase in the implementation of responsive web design. A recent report has suggested that, on a global level, 60% of internet users do so either 'mostly by mobile' or 'exclusively by mobile'. Just 11% of these surveyed browse the web 'only by desktop'.
These statistics raise a number of questions for us as web designers, not least just how important is responsive web design for e-commerce websites?
Successful e-commerce website design is both an art and a science, requiring a combination of beautiful design and carefully assembled pages that help users find and purchase products with the minimum of hassle.
Even 12 months ago the percentage of smartphone users in the UK had reached 72%. This certainly isn't limited to social media use either – over the Christmas period John Lewis experience peak transactions on Sunday evenings from tablet users. There is a sense in which successful e-commerce website design is simply a matter of effective user engagement: if your e-commerce website isn't responsive, it's going to be very difficult for you to engage users on mobile devices, and if you can't engage users, you're going to struggle to turn them into customers.
Anybody who has tried to use a desktop-orientated website using a smartphone will know just how frustrating it can be to try and find what you want. Just think how many pages users will have to navigate in order to find a product, add it to their basket and complete the transaction.
The conversion rate of your website – the percentage of site visitors who purchase your products – is dependent upon a number of factors. Whilst some of these apply to all e-commerce websites, such as your use of colour and the quality of your product photography, responsive web design can have a huge impact on your conversion rate.
The "responsive conditions" were typical mobile patterns. We made the site fluid. We collapsed the primary navigation menu, allowing visitors to expand it by tapping a Menu link. We increased the size of the font, the tap areas and detail photos. We reduced the number of columns. We spent a lot of time just "fixing Magento forms." Everything in a way that lets the O'Neill team continue to manage 100% of the content on the site.
One of the biggest changes that responsive web design brings to e-commerce websites is the use of product photography. Instead of giving users awkward, large images that are hard to view properly, optimised images ensure fast load times and make it much easier for mobile users to see what you're selling.
Responsive web design also allows you to make much more of a feature of your product photography. It allows you to effectively incorporate the photography into your design, showing visitors the quality of what you're selling and encouraging them to add products to your basket.
It's worth underlining the fact that responsive web design alone won't compensate for an otherwise ineffective e-commerce website. If you haven't invested in superb product photography, effective branding, search engine optimisation, social media marketing and of course the products themselves then responsive web design is simply papering over the cracks.
However, if you think that you've done everything else to improve the quality of your site and still aren't experiencing the results that you want then a responsive, mobile-friendly site might be the key to explosive growth and a significant increase in revenue.


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Sarah Edson, Walker's Dean of Academic Technology and Innovation, joins the National Coalition of Girls' Schools (NCGS) as one of its newest Board members.
Edson has a unique skill set built on educational innovation specifically as it relates to technology. Her passion revolves around the potential for progress when schools and educators connect and collaborate. "Teaching has traditionally been a relatively isolated profession, but it need not be with the myriad ways we now have to connect. I believe that by nurturing relationships among girls' schools, sharing best practices and lessons learned, and supporting one another in fostering innovation, we will all advance in achieving our goal of preparing our students for college, career, and citizenship," Edson remarks on her appointment.
Edson's impressive accomplishments include leading the successful implementation of the Walker's iPad initiative, teaching a section of the collaborative 9th grade seminar in which she partners with three other faculty members to infuse 21st century skills into the curriculum, and frequently presenting at education conferences. She has been the keynote speaker at independent schools on the subject of technology and innovation and she also sits on the Advisory Council for the Online School for Girls. Additionally, Edson brings EdCamp, an "unconference" for educators, to The Ethel Walker School each summer. Now in its third year, public and private school educators flock to attend, eager to learn from and collaborate with each other over the course of the day.
And yet Edson is quick to point out that, while it's easy to jump on the technology bandwagon with all its bells and whistles, a balanced approach is critical for success. The focus needs to remain on effective learning for students, where knowledge is the foundation and from there, you build to increasingly higher-order thinking skills. Edson weaves this throughout the culture and curriculum at Walker's, and is eager to expand it to the NCGS.
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Wetouch Technology Inc. (WETH) Sees Increased Demand of Its Touchscreen Products for Medical ...
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Chengdu, China, Jan. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wetouch Technology Inc. (OTC: WETH) ("Wetouch" or "the Company"), a specialty manufacturer of medium to large sized projected capacitive touchscreens, today announced that it has seen an increase in demand for its products, particularly in the field of medical applications.
Although many global touchscreen manufacturers remain closed or operate at limited capacity, Wetouch has emerged as a reliable and high quality supplier to both its existing and new customers after it resumed operation in April 2020. Due to the increased demand and need by health organizations around the globe in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Wetouch has seen a significant increase in orders. Wetouch shipped approximately 180,000 touchscreen modules custom designed for use in respirators, which translated to approximately $4 million of sales during the second half of 2020.
In addition to stringent industry specific certifications and qualifications, new manufacturers of touchscreens face significant technology challenge and higher barrier of entry to manufacture touchscreens for medical applications. Touchscreens for medical use are subject to higher product and safety standards and specifications in terms of touch sensitivity and responsiveness, product life and durability. As early as 2017, Wetouch passed necessary certifications for medical applications, including Ingress Protection 67 ("IP67") certification for water and dustproofing/resistance, FCC for U.S market, and CE and RoHS for E.U. market. Wetouch's touchscreens are well recognized by customers for its industry leading product specifications. For instance, the sensitivity of Wetouch branded products for medical use is less than 3 millisecond versus an average of 5 millisecond in the marketplace, lifetime total single touches exceed 100 millions compared with 50 millions by most other brands. Wetouch has adopted IP67 with greater level of water and dust-proof and resistance instead of lower tiered rating IP65 by many competitors.
"We take pride in Wetouch brand being a trusted name by our Fortune 500 customers, such as Siemens, Omron and Canon as well as well respected electronic industry leaders such as Delta Electronics. said Guangde Cai, the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wetouch. "Encouraged by what we believe are sustainable growth opportunities, our management team is planning ahead to execute few key strategic initiatives to maximize shareholder value, including building out additional production capacity and developing new products by leveraging our proprietary technology to serve fast-growth and emerging industries.
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Living… in the Deadwood miner's camp, Dakota Territory. Joanie followed her business partner, Cy Tolliver, out West to the frontier in order to create a new business.
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The Superb SoHo DECTsys 2200 analogue 2 line digital cordless system for Small Office or Home Office use with Caller ID, speakerphone and music on hold. Forget engineers and extensive cabling. With the DECTsys 2200, simply plug the Base Station into 2 standard PSTN lines, charge up the handsets and it is ready to use.
The DECTsys 2200 provides businesses with a 2 line PABX system well within their budget. Incorporating high quality DECT technology, giving excellent sound quality, this feature rich system is ideal for small, expanding businesses and home office use. A 2 line system, making functionality affordable for small businesses. It gives access to two incoming / outgoing telephone lines on any of the wireless handsets. The system comes with all the standard PABX features, including an interactive menu for ease of use and free internal calls. New extensions can be added quickly, easily and without installation.
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In May, the sneak peeks section was filled with scenes from the upcoming Shrink Ray Island. And the Poptropica Creators continued to tease us with a few screenshots and sketches for Legendary Swords.
You won't have to grapple with this inventory item.
Things are getting crazy in the cafetorium.
Things here aren't entirely black and white.
Truly the most fantastic site yet in Poptropica.
Behold, the miracle of science!
But once you go in, you may never come out.
It's time to take out the trash.
One of these designs will be an item on an upcoming Island.
A Poptropican in a tub.
Finally, someone in Poptropica you can look up to.
What a wonderful new smell you've discovered.
All's fair in love and science.
Our programmers use outlines of white boxes to start building a scene.
You have to root for a mascot like that.
Poptropicans are going to see the light.
Only the finest minds come from Poptropica U.
Warning signs have never stopped you before.


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Robo-Motion: Robots That Move Like Animals
Linda Zajac | NONFICTION, Dec 03, 2021
The imaginations of young readers are sure to be engaged by this title, and will have them viewing flora and fauna through the lens of biomimicry.
Germy Science: The Sick Truth About Getting Sick (and Staying Healthy)
Edward Kay | NONFICTION, Nov 01, 2021
A great combination of scientific information, coupled with a bit of historical epidemiology, resulting in a highly entertaining and informative introduction to germs. Recommended for middle school libraries.
Understanding Coronaviruses: SARS, MERS, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Connie Goldsmith | NONFICTION, Nov 01, 2021
If your library needs a well-researched, thorough summary of the COVID-19 pandemic for middle and high school student research projects and papers, this is a solid choice.
Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today
| NONFICTION, Nov 01, 2021
With one out of every five people in the United States living with a disability, this is essential reading. The disability community is vibrant and varied; their voices need to be amplified. A recommended first purchase.
How to Vanquish a Virus: The Weird World of Viruses Explained!
Paul Ian Cross | NONFICTION, Nov 01, 2021
While it doesn't shy away from naming the dangers of viruses, in particular COVID-19, this work focuses on reassuring young readers that progress is being made in the efforts to combat the virus. A useful addition for middle school libraries.
Crashing In Love
Jennifer Richard Jacobson | FICTION, Oct 01, 2021
A heartwarming and remarkably poignant story of a girl navigating the sometimes painful process of growing up. A solid choice for middle grade readers.
We Want to Go to School!: The Fight for Disability Rights
Maryann Cocca-Leffler & Janine Leffler | NONFICTION, Oct 01, 2021
Recommended for all libraries. This will appeal to all children, providing them with an understanding of the history of disability rights while simultaneously empowering them to continue advocating for the rights of all individuals.
Sight: Glimmer, Glow, SPARK, FLASH!
Romana Romanyshyn & Andriy Lesiv | NONFICTION, Jul 01, 2021
This picture book will serve as a great jumping-off point when introducing the concept of sight. With entry points for both new readers and more advanced readers to engage with the content, it will appeal to a wide swath of students.
Running on Empty: Sleeplessness in American Teens
Connie Goldsmith | NONFICTION, Apr 01, 2021
Recommended for any young adult conducting research on the topic of sleep deprivation or simply curious about how to get a better night's sleep.


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Duncan Motors was the Duncan brothers: Louis, aka Sweet Lou, a lover of ladies and life ... and a man you did not want to cross; Lawrence, aka Larry, a screw-up as attracted to trouble as it was to him; and Lavernius, better known as LC, the soft-spoken college boy who simply wanted to sell cars. But the Duncan brothers weren't alone at the crossroads. There was also the mysterious and seductive Chippy, a woman who saw a way out of her circumstances and dared to take it. Witness what changed the course of their lives when ambitions intersected with opportunity that came calling one day in the form of a man named Alejandro Zuniga.


The U.S. Congress is starting to make important, uniquely bipartisan progress in the effort to combat rising prescription drug prices by injecting greater competition into the marketplace. On April 4, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce approved a series of bills on drug pricing. Two address issues that the Washington Center for Equitable Growth has identified as contributing to prescription drug costs. The first, H.R. 965, known as the CREATES Act, would neutralize a strategy that prevents generic companies from obtaining regulatory approval to sell their products, and the second, H.R. 1499, addresses pay-for-delay patent settlements where the branded company pays the generic company to keep its product off the market.
The rapid and sometimes astronomical increases in prescription drug prices in recent years are a serious problem for our health care system, our economy, and the well-being of millions of Americans. The system of developing and marketing drugs is complex, and solving this challenge is hard. Restoring competition to the equation is part of the answer, but prescription manufacturers engage in a series of practices intended to delay competition without any real justification. These practices both increase drug costs and reduce companies' incentive to innovate.
Generic drugs—drugs that are essentially identical to the original branded product—are an important source of competition that lowers prescription drug costs. By smoothing the safe, timely entry of generics into the marketplace, the Hatch-Waxman Act, enacted in 1984, created a pathway for the approval of generic drugs. And generics save consumers a significant amount of money, whether in direct payments or in insurance premiums. The Government Accountability Office in 2018 cited comprehensive studies by IMS Health, a health care information services company, that estimated more than $1 trillion in total savings to the health system from the use of generics in the years 1999–2010.
Unfortunately, companies have devised artful strategies that undermine the intent of the law by delaying or preventing entirely the introduction of generics to compete with their products. I discussed several of them in testimony on March 7 before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law. The bills passed by the Energy and Commerce Committee would counter two of the tactics discussed in that testimony.
H.R. 965, the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples, or CREATES Act of 2019, introduced by Reps. David Cicilline (D-RI), Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Doug Collins (R-GA), Peter Welch (D-VT), and David McKinley (R-WV), would, according to the committee press release, "establish a process by which generic manufacturers could obtain sufficient quantities of brand drug samples for testing thereby deterring gaming of safety protocols that brand manufacturers use to delay or impede generic entry." The bill passed the committee unanimously.
H.R. 1499, the Protecting Consumer Access to Generic Drugs Act of 2019, introduced by Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL), would, the press release states, "make it illegal for brand-name and generic drug manufacturers to enter into agreements in which the brand-name drug manufacturer pays the generic manufacturer to keep a generic equivalent off the market." The committee approved this bill by voice vote.
The unanimous committee support for these two bills was the result of substantial bipartisan collaboration. H.R. 1499 is the first legislative proposal that Republicans and Democrats have agreed on to address pay-for-delay patent settlements. And H.R. 965 addresses concerns that Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans have expressed about previous versions of the CREATES Act.
There are a number of additional strategies for constraining prescription drug prices that need to be considered. But this is a unique opportunity for bipartisan achievement. If these two bills pass the House and continue to enjoy strong bipartisan support, it will be a clear signal that the time has arrived for serious action to restore the role of competition in controlling prescription drug prices.


Among the most intelligent decisions you can make is to get treatment from a rehab in San Antonio. They supply world class rehabilitation services that are imitated by a lot of the rehabilitation facilities worldwide. With an ingenious method to the 12 step program, you can be sure that you will get treatment that not only rapidly helps you break devoid of your dependency, however also offers the long term technique that you need to stay tidy.
But the issue is that dependency is not just an individual issue. It is a social problem because a person's addiction has an effect on his or her buddies, household, and those who cope with the person. And so, it often triggers a problem for them too. It must never be ignored, and the person must never be deciding alone. However, of course, above whatever else, it is essential that the individual realizes that there is a problem, and she or he must be mentally inspired to seek treatment.
While Charlie was perfecting his well-tempered abilities for fracas and mayhem, his show "Two and a Half Male" (the lead part he amassed in 2003) soared in popularity, in part since of its vital placement after "Everybody Loves Raymond" Monday nights.
Although there are many things we are unable to manage – cyclones, emerging volcanoes, the increase and set of the sun – dependency is not one of them. Parents and friends of addicts, and the addicts themselves, frequently feel hopeless. Specifically when they've done whatever they understand to do.
I've been a trustee of B.O.S., U.K., Borneo Orangutan Survival, for some years. I've understood Willy Smits for much longer, and what he has carried out in dealing with the concern in saving animals, in seizing animals, in stopping smuggling, and after that in establishing at Wanariset Nyeru Papa (sp?), a inpatient rehabilitation centers. I indicate, it's absolutely mind-blowing! And we have with us this night Wandeng Siriga (sp?), who was manager at the Wanariset Task, who did her Ph.D. study, submitted last Monday, at last (laughter), on the whole procedure of rehab and reintroduction. So, you know, there's an excellent, clinical basis to this and this has grown. Willy Smits helped oversee Nyaru Menteng and Parenggean, but there's one that's got 6, seven, eight hundred orangutans.
Throughout the teenage years, drug dependency is especially difficult for household to cope with. Your reaction are important to any possible development, however the most important thing to understand is that a teenage addict should be treated differently than a grownup who is struggling with the very same problems.
Possibly most crucial of all: Contact the parents of teenagers who have graduated from the facility. Invest a long time in speaking to them about how it went. There are some hard questions you have to ask, but it is worth it. For instance: did their child suffer a relapse after leaving the teen inpatient drug rehab center?
Then I invested a couple of years working in some large public corporations whose openly specified functions were otherwise to supply electrical power, to offer interaction services, or to provide security standards and inpatient rehab. Not only were my brand-new companies uninterested in discussing or setting goals and objectives, most of them were uneasy when I discussed those words. So I set my own goals and got on with it, however kept my ears and eyes open.
Finding a drug rehabilitation center that caters to your specific issue is something that you require to do to make sure that you are comfortable and capable enough to dedicate to getting your care there. If you are ready to do a little research, there are ways you can find great drug rehabilitation centers. Do not just resort to utilizing your yellow pages to find the facility you require. Visit your regional health department and speak with a social worker. Check out the medical facilities in your area and request for a recommendation to rehab centers in your area. One thing you will have to do every day is be relentless. No matter the number of times you need to request someone to offer you the details you need, do not quit.
Lastly, motivate a teenage drug user to check out a drug rehabilitation that deals particularly with teenage drug dependency. Teenage drug dependency is distinct and requires to be managed personally.


Surely you have met an individual who has lost his or her eyesight to improper care. It is a great thing, isn't it? Without your sight, you will discover many things can be very hard, and that's why it's so important to take good care of your eyes.
For best results, see a highly qualified eye doctor for serious issues with your eyes to get the best care. To find a good doctor locally, ask around and/or do an online search. A little research can help you find the doctor that is right for you.
Wear sunglasses when out in the sun. Get a quality pair that has strong UV protection and wear them every time you go out. You can get a lot of damage done to your eyes by the sun's radiation. Do not go without eye protection on sunny days.
While many people know to wear sunglasses in summer, most don't know that it's equally important in winter. This is because snow reflects a great deal of light. UV rays from the sun can still hurt your eyes on cloudy days, even though it is not bright.
All sunglasses are not the same and some might not help protect the eyes very much. You want to make sure that you can block the UV rays completely. Regardless of whether you want to be stylish or not, sunglasses have a purpose, which is to protect your vision.
Some foods can prevent eye problems. Studies have proven that consuming foods high in Vitamins C and E, omega-3 fatty acids, and zinc can prevent cataracts and macular degeneration, amongst other eye conditions. Foods like beans, nuts, salmon, leafy green veggies, and salmon all contain these nutrients.
Should you still be a smoker, quit now. There are many associated health risks, and your eye health is one of them. Also, you can get eye diseases due to the corruption of your immune system from smoking. Quitting cuts down your risk for cataracts and other eye conditions.
Know your family's history of eye issues. It allows a doctor search for any hereditary conditions. Talk to older people in your family in order to get a clear picture about the situation.
You must be seeing your eye doctor for regular checkups. Obviously, if you think there is something wrong with your eyes, you should go in right away. However, even if you think you are fine, you need to be checked out. Some issues are not obvious, even to the sufferer. This is why checkups are great. Some of these eye conditions can be remedied if they are treated early enough.
Monitor the AC or heating in your house. Dry eyes are frequently caused by the HVAC system. Keep a humidifier running to moisturize the air. This is what can help your eyes to not get dry and irritated.
People have a tendency to overuse eye drops when their allergies are acting up. Even if they help you out, if you use them a lot you'll have problems you don't want to deal with. If eye drops do not soothe eyes enough, see an eye care specialist for better treatments.
In order to restore eye health, you should quit smoking right away. Smoking is unhealthy for your eyes and can cause optic nerve damage, cataracts and macular degeneration. If you have tried to stop before but have restarted, start again. You are more likely to succeed your second time at quitting than your first time.
Sunglasses look great, but they are also useful for protection. They will help deflect the sun's rays. You can get prescription sunglasses or have Transitions lenses put in your regular glasses.
If you have puffy eyelids, consider cucumber slices as a means of preventing water retention. Cut some cold cumbers into slices that are 1/4 inch thick. Place them on eyelids with eyes closed for around 10 minutes. You can use a soaked tea bag to help reduce any inflammation and eye puffiness.
Should you work full-time on a computer for multiple hours each day, always take breaks. Your eyes need a chance to rest and feel better. Get up and move around a bit to ease the strain associated with computer work.
Stop smoking, immediately. Practically everyone knows what smoking does to the lungs. It can also harm your vision. Research has proven a correlation between smoking and things like nerve damage, cataracts, and macular degeneration. These conditions can lead to partial or even full blindness.
Talk to people in your family to see if you likely inherited a particular eye condition. This can help identify any problems and help your optometrist with a possible diagnosis. Knowledge of your family medical history is always helpful in getting proper diagnosis and treatment.
To ensure proper eye health, you should be maintaining proper nutrition. Zinc, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin C, vitamin E, and Lutein are all good for eyes. These nutrients can help prevent cataracts and the irreversible damage of macular degeneration.
Sitting in front of a computer for too long can cause vision problems. This allows you to look downward at the screen. You won't have strained eyes so you can have the right eye and shoulder position.
It is important that you maintain good eye care to avoid any issues down the road. Conditions such as high cholesterol, diabetes and hypertension can all contribute to poor eyesight. Risking eye damage or vision loss increases when these are not kept under control. Diabetic retinopathy is one eye disease that damages the eyes' blood vessels, and it is affected by eye pressure, blood sugar, and blood cholesterol levels.
Your eyes can be damaged by smoking, just like the rest of your body. In fact, smokers are much more likely to suffer from macular degeneration, four times more likely, indeed. Smoking causes eye damage from the inside and the outside due to the constant exposure to toxic smoke. If you stop smoking, you can promote better eye health.
Follow the tips presented here to take proper care of your eyes. This information is important to your vision as you get older. It would be terrible for eye health to be reduced to the point where you are unable to get through your day. Proper care can help your eyes stay healthy for a long time.


Is it time to replace your HVAC System ?
Fall and winter is the best time of the year to replace your old air conditioning and heating system since the air conditioner isn't being used and the HVAC Company's summer rush is over. The last thing that you want to do is to have to replace it when it's 95 degrees outside because you will be in a rush and may not make the best choice in selecting the right product for your needs.
Besides water, electricity and a roof over your head, your air conditioning and heating system is a major part of your home's value and your families comfort and health. Most families spend 50% or more of their time in their home. A well designed air conditioning and heating system can make a huge difference in how you feel and your health. There also is a return on investment as the newer units can save you a lot of money on Utility/Oil bills compared to the older units.
Equipment that you will be considering is an efficient outdoor unit, a furnace, a cooling coil, thermostat control, air filtration, humidity control and the duct system. As homeowners, we usually don't think much about air filtration and the duct system, yet that is where many weaknesses are found by HVAC contractors who actually care about the total quality of your Comfort System. You might even want to look at other energy saving opportunities in the home including air sealing, insulation and duct improvements.
When selecting a replacement HVAC system, look for a top quality brand and a contractor who looks at every part of your current system so he can correct any deficiencies when installing the new equipment.


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Adam Partridge on the collectability of die-cast classics Dinky and Corgi
The thrill of model collecting comes in owning that which is otherwise unobtainable, that which, over time, has become the preserve of a select few…
Adam Partridge
The thrill of model collecting comes in owning that which is otherwise unobtainable, that which, over time, has become the preserve of a select few or a mechanical relic in the memory of a generation.
Every vehicle of every era has a DeLorean quality about it, a power to transport one back to a time and a place when our physical and cultural horizons shifted and expanded, be it taking that first, nervous journey in a second-hand Morris Minor or experiencing the imperial, laconic cool of Bond's Aston Martin DB5 through the cinema screen, as aloof, intangible and dangerous as the man himself. Such vehicles are not simply 'Back to the Future', they are 'Back to our Future', and that is why the model remains a potent and vital portal for the collector.
Corgi 261 'Special Agent 007 James Bond Aston Martin D.B.5' sold for £100
Dinky and Corgi were the most accomplished manufacturers of these models with production running in Great Britain from the 1930s through to the 1980s. During this time they excelled in manufacturing in miniature, replicating an incredible variety of vehicles to high standards of realism and quality. The competition between them (Corgi entered the market in 1956 after two decades of Dinky monopoly) led to much innovative back and forth with Corgi famously branding themselves as 'The Ones with Windows'; indeed, because they were the latecomer, Corgi arguably introduced the more impactful and lasting changes, including the now near-ubiquitous 'Window-Box' displaying the model behind a clear plastic 'window' – this surely caught the eye of many a child and lightened the pockets of their parents. We all know the feeling of ruefully admiring the latest models through the spotless glass of glitzy dealerships – this packaging innovation brilliantly captured that feeling and lowered the barrier to entry so that one
could go home with the car of their dreams and neither a bank loan nor a new garage were required.
However, this is not to say that Dinky and Corgi models were not exclusive in their own right – their exacting standards meant that they were not cheap, throwaway purchases, indeed quite the opposite. For most children in post-war Britain a Dinky or a Corgi were that special breed of toy that only appeared perhaps twice a year, at birthdays and Christmases. They were associated with those memories of crossing days off calendars, watching clocks and eager hands tearing wrapping paper, that exciting and excruciating ritual that every generation of children must go through.
Now, those children have grown up and, as every generation does, are returning to their youth and collecting those models that they always hoped they would unwrap but never did, that are a first or fondly remembered car, that were produced only in small numbers and as such were snapped up before reaching the ordinary consumer, the unusual colour scheme or variation, the factory prototype, the collector's club rarity.
The current market for these model vehicles is so buoyant because there are consumers at all levels as there are with their full-size counterparts for the same constraints of budget and availability apply – and, as with the car market today, the internet has proven a thriving marketplace for Dinky and Corgi vehicles. Therefore, as an auction house with one of the largest online client bases in the country, we find buyers for both the humdrum and the high-end, the job lot and the single item, the spares and repairs, and
welcome all enquiries and consignments to this effect.
A selection of early Dinky boxed vehicles sold for £190
We have an in-house toy specialist at our Preston valuation office call Steven on 01772 347380 to discuss your toy collection.
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High demand at Batemans Bay for new nursing program
The University of Wollongong is this year offering for the first time a three-year Bachelor of Nursing and a four-year Advanced Bachelor Program at its Batemans Bay Campus.
Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery in the Faculty of Science Medicine and Health, Associate Professor Angela Brown, said there had been extremely high interest in the overall program.
Thirty four students have been accepted into the program which originally expected an intake of about 25. It will be delivered at Batemans Bay in a new wing which includes simulated wards and video links to the main campus in Wollongong and other satellite campuses.
The new program means students who previously would have had to travel to the Shoalhaven Campus at Nowra or Bega can now remain in their local area.
Associate Professor Sharon Bourgeois said students really wanted to study locally as shown at the Bega campus.
The enrolment intake is overwhelmingly female, with just two men among the 34.
The Eurobodalla area has almost double the national average of people aged over 65 hence the new program is being welcomed by aged care facilities and other health care providers.