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Since 2 of my female D tityus have passed away, I wanted to try to use them as practice for pinning or maybe resin encapsulation. Neither are particularly great specimens, with missing tarsi from constant burrowing during egg laying, but they're my first rhinos, so there is some sentimental value. Both died on their backs (I had leaves in their containers to help against this, but guess you can't win 'em all), and had the very dark elytra D tityus get when in high humidity. I let them dry out in my garage for a couple of weeks, and the color has come back a bit, but their elytra are still very dull and dark. I'm hoping it's just residual sub left on their elytra. What is the best method for cleaning specimens for pinning? Or is there any decent safe way to bring out their color? I'd rather not damage them.


Included below are homes for sale in Richmond, a neighborhood in Calgary's City Centre.
Located in Southwest Calgary, the neighbourhood of Richmond is bordered in the north by 17th Avenue SW, in the east by 19th and 20th Street, in the south by 33rd Avenue and in the west by Richmond Road and 25A Street SW. While the area was established in 1950 and serves primarily as a residential community, its proximity to the retail stretch of 17th Avenue and the popular area of Marda Loop make it a great place to settle in the city of Calgary.
There are few green spaces and parks within Richmond, but Riverdale, Shaganappi and Sandy Beach Park are located nearby. The area is also perfect for the avid golfer with the Shaganappi Golf Course just a short distance away, which offers beautiful views of the Bow River. The Westbrook Mall is located along Bow Trail and has a number of popular stores, as well as the stretch of boutiques and restaurants along 33rd Avenue in Marda Loop, including Merchants Restaurant, Mazaya Lounge and the Belmont Diner.
The main hub of Crowchild Trail SW runs through the neighbourhood of Richmond and provides access in the north to Brentwood and the University of Calgary, and access in the south to Blackfoot Trail and the community of Lakeview. Bow Trail SW is also located nearby and provides access to the downtown core in the east and to the communities of Rosscarrock and Strathcona Park in the west. The Calgary International Airport is approximately 30 minutes by vehicle and offers flights to domestic and international locations.
With a location that is close to all of the amenities of Downtown Calgary, Richmond is an ideal neighbourhood to enjoy city life in suburban style. If you would like to learn more about real estate options in Richmond, please contact one of our knowledgeable agents at Liv Real Estate Team.
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Le Truc Blanc est un sommet des Alpes italiennes culminant à  d'altitude en Vallée d'Aoste, dans le massif des Alpes grées.

Il se trouve sur la ligne de crête séparant le Val de Rhêmes du Valgrisenche, non loin de la Grande Traversière.

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'If There's Sugar, Ants Will Be Attracted,' SP Leader Abu Azmi's Bizarre Logic For Bengaluru Mass Molestation
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Bobins AbrahamUpdated on Jan 03, 2017, 17:13 IST
Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi, who has a dubious misogynistic track record, is at it yet again. Commenting on the shocking mass molestation that happened in Bengaluru on New Year's eve, Azmi has blamed the victims for the assault.
"In these modern times, the more skin women show, the more they are considered fashionable. If my sister or daughter stays out beyond sunset celebrating December 31 with a man who isn't their husband or brother, that's not right," said Azmi.
His bizarre logic didn't stop there. The SP leader went on to imply that women attracted men to them.
"If there's gasoline, there will be fire. If there's spilt sugar, ants will gravitate towards it for sure," he added.
Later speaking to Times Now he had some expert opinion on how to stop sexual assault on women.
"If you go to Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, where the law is very strict, such things don't happen there. And there, women don't roam around alone at night"
"Women should not go out with a man who is not their father, brother or her husband. If you follow the system of boyfriend and girlfriend, these things are happening many times"
"If a girl agrees to it, then there is no crime, there will not be a case, and if the same girl disagrees, then it becomes a rape case".
Azmi had earlier courted controversy by saying that women should be punished for being raped.

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The Importance of Nurses for Fatigue Risk Management
It is no secret that fatigue in healthcare professionals constitutes a safety risk both to the caregiver and the patient. Healthcare professionals with limited experience, such as medical residents, may be particularly prone to performance impairment under these circumstances. Inexperienced residents rely on guidance from attending physicians and also from experienced non-physician providers like nurses. Nurses are known to be the backbone of healthcare, so it was so cool when IBR's SAFTE-FAST software recently captured the impact of nurses on fatigue risk during an unrelated study of medical residents.
The IBR science team have been investigating fatigue risk mitigation strategies that could be applied to surgical resident scheduling practices to avoid periods of high fatigue risk over the past several years in collaboration with a consortium of D.C. area hospitals. We first analyzed the actual worked hours for rotating residents during the 2018-2019 academic year using IBR's fatigue modeling software SAFTE-FAST to estimate performance as a function of work schedules and sleep opportunities. Shift start times, average shift length, and average rotation length were consistently found to be related to fatigue risk across all service lines, such as trauma, pediatric, emergency, plastic, or general surgery. Next, we ranked the service lines as having minimal, low, medium, or high fatigue risk based on schedule features that SAFTE-FAST routinely picked out as fatiguing. Long hours, overnight work, and early start times were some of the features that regularly triggered a fatigue risk. After we developed the method of ranking with the schedules from 2018-19, we re-ran the analysis using actual worked data from academic year 2020-21 to see if the method would generalize to other years.
Fatigue ranking of service lines from the 2020 resident work schedules were largely similar to the results of the 2018 analysis with one notable exception—Trauma. Residents rotating in the Trauma Unit in a major D.C. area hospital had lower fatigue risk during the 2020 academic year compared to 2018. We were puzzled as to why this would be until our hospital collaborator told us that the Trauma Unit had a hiring push to increase the number of nurses, or advanced practice providers (APPs) on staff at the beginning of 2020. While we were looking at medical resident fatigue, it looks like we accidentally captured the impact of having more available nurses!
We checked the role of APPs by using the hire date of the APPs to estimate how many would be on staff during a given rotation month/year. In 2018 and 2019, there were 4 APPs on staff in the Trauma Unite during the rotation year. There were 6 APPs on staff from March 2020 until January 2021; 8 APPs on staff between January and April 2021, and 7 APPs for the remainder of the academic year. Resident working hours and variability in working hours were apparently shorter with the hiring of each additional APP, as shown below. Residents in 2020/21 worked less overtime than their counterparts in 2018/19, which had a protective effect on fatigue risk. There was not enough power to say that these differences are statistically significant, but these data provide a clear anecdotal picture of the importance of nurses to the healthcare ecosystem
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International Accreditation of Postgraduate Medical Education: Whither Its Role in Oman?
"You could not step twice into the same river..."
Several educators, particularly in developing countries, question the need for international accreditation. Why is that? Is change frightening and hard to accept? Is it the effort involved? Or is it simply pride under the umbrella of patriotism? The answer is not simple or clear. There are at least three types of people who question the need for international accreditation. Those who cannot accept change, however inevitable it is, and those with the pride/patriotism who question the wisdom of relying on developed countries as accreditors of developing countries. They ask why the developed countries themselves never seek international accreditation from each other. The third group is those who cannot see any obvious benefits to be accrued. However, despite these concerns, international accreditation has several benefits.
While these are major steps forward, there are still problems. For example, being accredited by ACGME-I does not entitle one to sit for the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) examination. However, we hope the situation will gradually improve. The ABMS has opened an international section (ABMS-I), and they are negotiating with a consortium of Gulf country educators to start a special overseas American Board examination for accredited programs. However, this would not be recognized as on par with the ABMS certification.
Preparation for international accreditation involves a lot of effort and sacrifice.6 Thankfully, for the Oman Medical Specialty Board (OMSB) these sacrifices were not as radical as they could have been since the training programs were based on the Canadian system of medical residency training for at least six years prior to the beginning of negotiations with the ACGME-I for the American accreditation. However, the switch from one international accreditor to another may still involve a significant change, including a change in the duration of training or individual rotations. Additionally, some rotation requirements of international accreditors may be inappropriate for particular countries. For example, the situation in Oman is such that pediatric medicine is geared for the care of children up to age 13 years; however, ACGME-I insists on pediatric residency training extending to those aged up to 18 years. While it may be a cultural interference to put a substantial emphasis on training for adolescent medicine (13–18 years old) in pediatrics residency, it may be of potential healthcare benefit as this age group gets minimal medical attention.
International accreditation is not only important in postgraduate medical education, but in the whole continuum of medical education. In Oman, undergraduate medical education has been seeking international accreditation long before postgraduate training. The most recent is the College of Medicine and Health Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, which has received international accreditation from the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) in association with the Association for Medical Education in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (AMEEMR).7 Furthermore, the WFME has standards for accreditation for all three sections of the continuum of medical education (undergraduate, graduate, and practicing physicians).8 Each of these three sections of the continuum is accredited using nine standards for each, therefore stressing the importance of accreditation throughout medical education and practice.
The accreditation process involves not only a review of the training center, but also of the facilities, number of cases, faculty qualifications, assessment process, curriculum, quality assurance processes, patient safety, and trainees working hours.10 It all mounts up to the ultimate goal of ensuring that trainees are thoroughly equipped to meet the needs of healthcare in their country.
What should the focus of international accreditation include? According to the recent changes in Canadian guidelines, accreditation should concentrate on the promotion of quality improvement and the sharing of ideas and best practices amongst and between the different programs, which can be enhanced through accreditation.12,13 Accreditation is a sign of quality and an important consideration in the decision making of consumers.14 The educated e-consumers clearly go for an accredited institution with a reputation of quality assurance for their healthcare delivery. A major benefit of international accreditation is the resultant creation of international standards of medical care which leads to improved patient care.
Achieving accreditation requires commitment to quality improvement and monitoring the results thereof. Perhaps the primary benefit to be accrued from the accreditation process is the internal check of the training programs that precedes. The institution, trainers, and residents all have to ensure that they can demonstrate conformance to the international accreditor's standards in their training program.15 This alone can lead to major improvement in the training of residents, even before the accreditor visits. Kennedy et al,12 explained that accreditation is highly effective in identifying problems in programs and successfully solving those problems.
More institutions worldwide are recognizing the importance of international accreditation and the standardization of training and similarity of the curriculum. In the Bologna Declaration, educators from various parts of Europe developed standardized medical training to allow easier movement of doctors between countries.16 Globalization of medical training would address the growing challenges of global healthcare delivery. Subsequently, international accreditation could result in uniform training and education standards for future physicians worldwide.
The Sponsoring Institution accreditation involves a commitment of the sponsoring institution (e.g., OMSB) to graduate medical education (GME) as set by the ACGME-I institutional requirements. Institutions sponsoring the residency programs are expected to adhere to these requirements, and compliance is measured through a periodic review of the institution.
The Sponsoring Institution accreditation must be achieved before moving to the other two levels, which must be achieved in sequence. The Foundational Program accreditation assesses compliance of the GME programs to the common requirements of the educational infrastructure needed for all specialty programs. This includes systematic evaluation of the program personnel, faculty and residents, adherence to established resident selection processes and duty hours policy, and the availability of appropriate resources, including the faculty:resident ratio and requirements for Program Directors.
The Advanced Specialty Program accreditation reviews the GME program's compliance with the specialty-specific requirements. These include educational infrastructure, specialty-specific curriculum, clinical and educational resources, and experiences that are essential in the discipline as outlined in the requirements.
Some of the current requirements of ACGME-I had already been implemented by OMSB in its training programs. Thus, the shift to ACGME-I accreditation was relatively less difficult. These requirements included: a) commitment to GME by OMSB and the Training Centers; b) CanMEDS competency-based curricula; c) Program Education Committee administrative structure; d) trainers' qualification; e) assessment and evaluation systems for residents, trainers, rotations, and the program; f) availability of educational resources such as training centers, libraries, simulation centers; and g) resident and faculty development programs. Also, OMSB has an established local Accreditation Committee that conducts periodic reviews of all OMSB Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) programs and takes the role of Internal Review Committee.20 Members of this committee were trained by the RCPSC.
OMSB also had a Quality Assurance for PGME Committee that developed Quality Program Training Standards (P Standards) for OMSB residency programs that were updated every two years. In 2014, Training Center Standards (T Standards) were added, and both P and T Standards were revised to align with the ACGME-I Institutional Requirements, Foundational Program Requirements, and ACGME core competencies. Furthermore, OMSB undertook the additional actions in its preparation for ACGME-I accreditation including having a Designated Institutional Official (DIO) with responsibility and authority to oversee and monitor all OMSB GME programs. To enhance liaison with the training centers, a PGME office and PGME Committee were also created at each training center, and Associate DIOs were appointed to assist the DIO. Finally, a Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC) was formed with membership from the leadership of the sponsoring institution, Training Centers, DIO, associate DIOs, GME programs, resident representatives, and appropriate subcommittees.
OMSB through the DIO conducted various steps to educate the staff, trainers, and residents. The DIO sent multiple memoranda to all trainers and residents with information regarding the ACGME-I accreditation process and the steps undertaken by OMSB. Additionally, the DIO had several meetings with individual program directors and Program Education Committees. An ACGME-I awareness campaign was also conducted in the Training Centers and at periodic retreats.
OMSB acquired a resident database management system, New Innovations, to record resident training and activities. Appropriate training was carried out to ensure its effective use.
The international accreditation of residency training programs helps to improve healthcare systems in meeting population needs by assessing and advancing the quality of resident physician education and addressing emerging healthcare issues.9 International accreditation provides reassurance to institutions that the training provided meets international standards, that graduates of the program are of international caliber and are prepared to serve the Omani society in their healthcare needs. Graduates of ACGME-I accredited training programs also have increased opportunity for further training abroad as fellows. International accreditation may also ultimately provide graduates the opportunity to take international certification examinations, such as ABMS-I, when available. It also strengthens the commitment of the sponsoring institution and the training centers to provide quality education to the future medical specialists.17 It is our hope that these specialists will serve our future generations with confidence and willingness to evolve with the changing healthcare needs of the Omani society as they have acquired life-long learning skills.
1. Albarwani S, Al-Saadoon M, Al-Rawas O, Al-Yaarubi S, Al-Abri R, Al-Lamki L, et al. Reflections on the academic accreditation of the MD programme of the college of medicine & health sciences, sultan qaboos university, oman. Sultan Qaboos Univ Med J 2014 Feb;14(1):e7–e11.
2. Burney IA, Al-Lamki N. Accreditation of Graduate Medical Education Programmes: One size fits all-or does it? Sultan Qaboos Univ Med J 2013 May;13(2):198–201.
3. Ibrahim H, Lindeman B, Matarelli SA, Chandrasekhar Nair S. International Residency Program Evaluation: Assessing the Reliability and Initial Validity of the ACGME-I Resident Survey in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. J Grad Med Educ 2014 Sep;6(3):517–520.
4. Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education International. From www.acgme-i.org. Accessed Dec 2015.
5. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. From http://www.royalcollege.ca/portal/page/portal/rc/public. Accessed Dec 2015.
6. Huggan PJ, Samarasekara DD, Archuleta S, Khoo SM, Sim JH, Sin CS, et al. The successful, rapid transition to a new model of graduate medical education in Singapore. Acad Med 2012 Sep;87(9):1268–1273.
7. Albarwani S, Al-Saadoon M, Al-Rawas O, Al-Yaarubi S, Al-Abri R, Al-Lamki L, et al. Accrediting the MD Programme in Sultan Qaboos University: Process, Earned Benefits, and Lessons Learned. Health Professions Education 2015;1:40–47.
8. Karle H. Global standards and accreditation in medical education: a view from the WFME. Acad Med 2006 Dec;81(12)(Suppl):S43–S48.
9. Nasca TJ, Philibert I, Brigham T, Flynn TC. The next GME accreditation system–rationale and benefits. N Engl J Med 2012 Mar;366(11):1051–1056.
10. Wong BM, Holmboe ES. Transforming the Academic Faculty Perspective in Graduate Medical Education to Better Align Educational and Clinical Outcomes. Acad Med 2015 Dec. Epub ahead of print.
11. Boelen C, Woollard B. Social accountability and accreditation: a new frontier for educational institutions. Med Educ 2009 Sep;43(9):887–894.
12. Kennedy M, Rainsberry P, Kennedy M, Abner E. Accreditation of Postgraduate Medical Education. Members of the FMEC PG consortium; 2011.
13. Busing N, Harris K, MacLellan AM, Moineau G, Oandasan I, Rourke J, et al. The Future of Postgraduate Medical Education in Canada. Acad Med 2015 Sep;90(9):1258–1263.
14. Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. CARF International. From http://www.carf.org/Accreditation/. Accessed Dec 2015.
15. Cerqueira M. A Literature Review on the Benefits, Challenges and trends In Accreditation as a Quality Assurance System. From https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/bitstream/handle/1828/1497/cerqueira_marcos.pdf?sequence = 1. Accessed Dec 2015.
16. Organization WH, Education WFfM. Accreditation of Medical Education Institutions: Report of a Technical Meeting. Copenhagen Denmark 2004 4–6 October 2004.
17. Holmboe ES, Batalden P. Achieving the Desired Transformation: Thoughts on Next Steps for Outcomes-Based Medical Education. Acad Med 2015 Sep;90(9):1215–1223.
18. Kohn LT, Corrigan JM, Donaldson MS, eds. To err is human: building a safer health system. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, Institute of Medicine; 1999. From http://www.qu.edu.qa/pharmacy/development/documents/14ay/To_Err_is_Human_1999__report_brief.pdf. Accessed Dec 2015.
19. Bagian JP. The Future of Graduate Medical Education: A Systems-Based Approach to Ensure Patient Safety. Acad Med 2015 Sep;90(9):1199–1202.
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Q: Wordnet (Word Sense Annotated) Corpus I've been utilizing lots of different corpora for natural language processing, and I've been looking for a corpus that has been annotated with Wordnet Word Senses.
I understand that there probably is not a big corpus with this information, since the corpus needs to be built up manually, but there has to be something to go off of.
Also if there isn't a corpus in existence, is there at least a sense annotated ngram database (with what percentage of the time a word is each of its definitions, or a numerical count of each wordnet definition depending on how common the word sense is)?

A: Three prominent corpora annotated for WordNet:

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*WordNet gloss

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A: Some of the SENSEVAL (now SEMEVAL) data is annotated with WordNet.

A: you can use senseval2, for java there is a semcor format and (jSemcor API)
and also senseval3.
these two corpus are used for Word sense disambiguation.

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boona and i are preparing for our vibrational freedom circle on april 13th. i am humbled by how spirit gently helps me find the words to describe what is means to be vibrationally free. it makes me laugh because truthfully, there are words that point to the possibility, but none that describe it completely. vibrational freedom demands that it be experienced. some may be familiar with the opposite: vibrational slavery.
i had the privilege of performing a spoken word piece called three generations with my beautiful daughter and granddaughter on international women's day. i will share the whole performance later..watch for it.
time is most felt in the space between their first breath and the time they get as tall as you.


When you ask a cheese expert like Laura Werlin – a grilled cheese expert, no less – to share one of her favorite grilled cheese recipes, you gotta be ready for something pretty unbelievable. The James Beard award-winning author immediately suggested her Chips and Guacamole Grilled Cheese: smooth-melting Colby and Jack cheeses, dotted with tangy dabs of goat cheese, and layered with smoky bacon and fresh guacamole on tortilla chip-crusted sourdough bread. Un-be-lievable.
I met Laura a year ago when we both served as Executive Judges for the Grilled Cheese Invitational (if you're in the area, this year's event will be held this Saturday, April 28, 2012 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California). When she told me that her fifth book, Grilled Cheese, Please!, had just launched I knew she'd be a perfect guest to interview for Panini Happy. In our recent conversation, Laura shared her thoughts on the new wave of grilled cheese sandwiches, her tips for making the best grilled cheese and, of course, the recipe for that incredible chips and guac sandwich.
With April being National Grilled Cheese Month I've seen all kinds of grilled cheese sandwiches lately – on blogs, Pinterest and at eateries. There appears to be a wide range of how people interpret grilled cheese. I was curious to know how you personally define grilled cheese. Is it cheese only? Mostly cheese? Only a little cheese required?
Most of us have an image of a grilled cheese sandwich as just being oozy cheese, bread and butter. My definition of a grilled cheese sandwich is a sandwich where cheese is the star. It may have other ingredients that will prop the cheese up but won't obscure it. You have to have a good quantity of cheese for that to be the case. Likewise, you probably want to have less of the other ingredients so that the cheese is never placed second-fiddle.
Let's talk about trends in grilled cheese. The use of pasta – such as the Grilled Cheese Truck's Cheesy Mac and Rib – is one I've noticed. What other trends are you seeing?
I think what you're seeing is that anything goes. We've seen it at the Grilled Cheese Invitational and you're seeing it in mobile trucks and places that sell grilled cheese. It can be everything from including marshmallows to, as you said, pasta. There's also a lot of meat. That's where the definition of grilled cheese gets a little dicey. It might be short ribs and cheese but the question is, which gets top billing? And there's not necessarily an answer to that, it depends on how it's made.
You didn't see the more exotic cheeses being used on grilled cheese a few years ago. It was originally meant to be sort of cheap and comfort food, not gourmet. Now it's becoming kind of high-fallutin'. You might even find a variation on a grilled cheese in a higher end restaurant. It won't be the main course but it might be something that accompanies a soup or something like that. And it might be truffled cheese.
Would you share with us a few of your best grilled cheese-making tips?
It's essential to grate the cheese rather than slice it, and that's because it will melt quicker. Very often if you put a grilled cheese sandwich in the pan with cheese that's too thick the bread will burn before the cheese has a chance to melt. That is unless you have it at a very low heat, but then you're waiting twenty minutes for your sandwich and who wants to wait twenty minutes for a grilled cheese sandwich?
You also want to butter the bread, not the pan. That means you need to have your butter at room temperature. If you put the butter in the pan then the minute you put the sandwich in the pan the bread acts like a sponge and absorbs the butter. You end up having to add a lot more. Plus, by spreading butter on the bread it's an even coating of the butter rather than splotchy. Well, unless you're putting a half a stick of butter in the pan, in which case you're deep-frying. It's best to butter the bread.
Along those lines, I firmly believe in using salted rather than unsalted butter. Even though there's certainly salt in whatever is on the inside of the sandwich, including the cheese, I feel like you get more flavor overall by seasoning the bread, in effect. At the chain, The Melt, one of the interesting things they do is, after the sandwich is cooked, they sprinkle it with their house seasoning.
Finally, I really like to use a nonstick pan with a lid for grilled cheese. Or a really well seasoned cast iron pan, that works too. Otherwise I feel like the nonstick pans cook the most evenly and, of course, they allow you to scrape up those little bits of cheese that have inevitably oozed out. You can just scrape them up easily and eat them. I prefer a pan with a lid because you want to cover the sandwich for the first two-thirds of cooking it. By covering it, once again you're expediting the melting of the cheese before the bread has a chance to burn. People say, "Isn't the sandwich going to get steamed rather than crisped if you do that?" The answer is "no" because the contact between the sandwich and the pan is enough to crisp up the sides. What you do is cover it for the first two or three minutes of cooking, flip it and cover it again to get the cheese thoroughly melted and all of the ingredients on the inside heated through. Then you flip it again and keep the lid off for the last thirty seconds or so and give it a good firm press.
Lastly, what is your all-time favorite grilled cheese sandwich?
Oh my gosh, that would be like asking me to choose a favorite child. Double Cheddar and Tomato Jam and Chips and Guacamole Grilled Cheese (NOTE: you can find the recipe at the end of this post) are certainly some of my favorites. Honestly, I really do think that less is more in life – and that also includes with grilled cheese sandwiches. So I am very, very happy if I have the perfect ratio of bread to cheese and that bread and that cheese is good…really good. And it's made with really good butter – by the way, Kerrygold butter is my butter of choice, I love the stuff. Those three things, to me that's perfection. Grilled cheese, at its most basic, might also be its most satisfying.
Thanks so much to Laura for all of her fabulous insights AND for making us all insanely hungry for grilled cheese right about now! Her recipe for Chips and Guacamole Grilled Cheese is below. What a phenomenal sandwich. You get this amazing whiff of tortilla chips as you bite through the crunchy crust. The Jack and Colby cheeses are milder, but are really smooth melters. The goat cheese adds little tangy punches throughout. Guacamole on a grilled cheese sandwich could turn mushy, but the presence of the crispy bacon deftly combats that issue (and also adds wonderful smoky flavor).
Line a plate with paper towels. In a large nonstick skillet, cook the bacon over medium heat until very crisp. Drain the bacon on the paper towels. Remove the bacon fat from the pan and wipe the pan with a paper towel, but do not wash it. Set aside.
To make the tortilla chip butter, put the chips in the bowl of a food processor and process until the texture is very fine, similar to sand. Alternatively, place the chips in a sturdy plastic bag. Using a meat mallet or other heavy object, pound the chips until they are the texture of sand.
Put the butter in a medium bowl and add the ground chips. Using a fork, work the chip "sand" and butter together until well mixed. The mixture will be somewhat stiff.
To assemble: Spread the butter mixture on one side of each slice of bread. Place 4 slices, butter-chip mixture side down, on your work surface. Spread 2 tablespoons of the guacamole on each slice of bread. Sprinkle the tomato on top of the guacamole, if using. Follow with the Colby and Monterey Jack cheeses. Dot with small pieces of the goat cheese. Finish by placing two bacon pieces on each sandwich. Top with remaining bread slices, buttered side up.
For stovetop method: Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat for 2 minutes. Put the sandwiches into the pan, cover, and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, until the undersides are golden brown. Watch carefully because the chips in the butter can burn easily. Turn the sandwiches, pressing each one firmly with a spatula to compress the filling slightly. Cover and cook for 2 to 3 minutes or until the undersides are well browned. Turn the sandwiches once more, press firmly with the spatula again, cook for 1 minute, and remove from the pan. Let cool 5 minutes. Cut in half and serve.
For sandwich maker method: Use your sandwich maker for this sandwich only if you have variable heat settings. Otherwise, it will cook too hot and burn the chips on the bread without melting the cheese. To use your sandwich maker, follow directions for assembly above. Cook according to manufacturer's instructions.
These are such fabulous tips, Kathy. Thank you for sharing Laura! I am such a fan of grilled cheese and putting chips on this on is over-the-top brilliant. I love it!
I have that book and it's great! Fun post!
I was fine with the lunch I just ate until I read this. This sounds like everything wonderful in a sandwich. I think this is on the horizon with all these great avocado prices around right now!
I know what you mean – I got so hungry just talking to Laura! And you're so right about the avocado prices…I checked my receipt yesterday and saw I paid just 50 cents for a perfect avocado.
That sandwich looks incredible! And what a cool, informative post. I love it.
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Firestone Walker §ucaba is an American Barleywine, this annual release is available in bottles and limited kegs in February. The number of cases of the 2012 vintage was 3000. §ucaba is aged in a combination of barrels (some wine, American spirits and retired barrels from their own Firestone Union) for 11 months before bottling. This bottle was enjoyed at 1 year of additional aging. Getting flavors of Riesen candy, dark fruits, mild bourbon and oak, port wine with a lot of alcohol burn and a touch of coffee on the finish. This is an outstanding sipper that I think could use even more time. I received a bottle of the 2013 vintage recently as an extra in a trade and I think I will hold on to that for at least 2 years. Serious thanks to my friend Denver for sending me this bottle, I am already missing our retired beer exchange arrangement!


Blogs are a great way to increase your digital presence, making you more visible and "findable" via Google, Bing and the like. They can also be a great way to generate leads. Your blog can function as a kind of triage for your sales team, fielding and answering questions organically via the content you produce there. However, it can perform that function only if you effectively create momentum with visitors who are likely to buy, turning them from mere passersby into something more.
8. Offer subscription services. Allow your visitors to subscribe to get regular updates to your blog via e-mail and RSS. Essentially, every time you publish a post, a subscriber is notified to check it out. Plug-ins to allow subscription options are likely available for your blogging platform of choice.
10. Remember one final thing. Fundamentally, a blog is an opportunity: It's a way to connect with customers in a real-time, accessible way. But your blog needs to be part of your business, and part of your lead-gen efforts. Talk it up in e-mail newsletters, in print collateral and on packaging materials. A blog won't magically drive business without active and ongoing promotion and participation.


Leicester City manager Claude Puel hopes his side can continue their impressive recent record against the Premier League's big teams.
Puel masterminded victories against Chelsea and Manchester City over the Christmas period and also saw his side draw with Pep Guardiola's men earlier in December in the League Cup, before losing in a penalty shoot-out.
Leicester face a difficult run of fixtures in the coming fortnight. First up is a trip to Anfield on Wednesday to face Premier League leaders Liverpool, before in-form Manchester United visit the King Power Stadium on Sunday and then the Foxes then play Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley on February 10.
Puel insists Leicester prefer to play against the big teams and he is confident his players will rise to the occasion once more.
"The three next games is a fantastic challenge for them," said the Frenchman.
"We have shown we can perform against good teams, we have won games also against good teams. I hope we can continue in this way.
"My players prefer to play against good teams like this and to show their level. It's less pressure, they can give their best with freedom. In this situation we can create an upset.
"We know the difficulty, and people outside think we can not have a chance to win a point, but we are confident because we showed a lot of qualities in the last games against big teams and great teams.
"I hope that we can have the possibility of winning against Liverpool, and then United at home. I hope we can create an upset. It is a fantastic challenge for the team. I am sure we will have a good game and I have confidence about our performances."
If Leicester are to get anything against Liverpool then halting their recent bad habit of conceding an early goal must be fundamental to their chances.
Leicester have found themselves a goal down before 11 minutes are on the clock in each of their last three matches and have gone on to lose every time, including in the embarrassing FA Cup exit at Newport County.
"We have some difficulties to start our games and after we have to chase the game against strong defensive units then it is always difficult, since the beginning of the season," Puel said.
"Sometimes we manage our game at the beginning and it is a good performance. The most important thing is to have the right intensity, focus and concentration for the beginning."
Harry Maguire is fit and available for the trip to Anfield. The central defender had to be substituted due to a leg injury early in the second half of the defeat at Wolves on January 19. The Foxes have not played since, as they are out of the FA Cup, and it has allowed Maguire the time he needed to make a full recovery.


I am thankful for family: The people who have always loved me, who taught me right from wrong, and who inspired in me the confidence to pursue my dreams.
I am thankful for a home: A place to lay my bones and be sheltered from the elements of life. A space in which to celebrate, commiserate, and simply exist. A place with a kitchen!
I am thankful for friends: New and old, near and far, virtual and in the flesh. From the soul mates who weathered storms with me to the friendly acquaintances who have brightened my days with a smile, a text, or a Tweet.
I am thankful for food: Whole foods and wholesome treats born from a creative spark and a labor of love. Food that fills the belly, nourishes the body, and delights the senses!
I am thankful for Paleo Pecan Pie. So thankful!
Yes, I made pie pictured in the photos. No, you do not have to painstakingly place the pecans atop the filling in overlapping concentric rings, cursing the day you spotted the glamorous Southern Living magazine photo that inspired your decorating scheme! Coarsely chopped pecans sprinkled atop the pie would also look lovely.
With half the sugar and a gluten-free almond meal crust, this nourishing pecan pie will be pleasing to both primal eaters and junk food junkies. The sweet, slightly gooey filling has a caramel flavor due to the addition of browned butter.
To make this pie paleo, use coconut palm sugar in place of the erythritol listed. I found the brand I use (Madhava) in the baking aisle at Wal-Mart.
If you'd like to make this pie totally sugar-free, you can use Swerve . It's a sweetener that has risen in popularity over the past couple of years, and it performs much more like sugar than any another sugar-free sweetener on the market. Swerve is made from a natural soluble fiber and erythritol, so it contains virtually zero grams of carbohydrates.
You can certainly make a great pecan pie using 100% "natural" sweeteners like dates, honey, coconut sugar, and maple syrup. Please bear in mind that these sweeteners contain nearly the same amount of carbohydrates and calories as white sugar.
In my experience, the aforementioned natural sweeteners can also trigger cravings for more sugary foods.
You can use any crust recipe you like for this pie. The grain-free pie crust recipe below is neutral in taste, reminiscent of a traditional pie shell. It can be rolled out and easily shaped due to the presence of xanthan gum. If you are avoiding starches, check out my almond flour Key Lime Pie crust recipe.
This pecan pie contains a secret ingredient in the filling: Mashed sweet potato! Just 1/3 of a cup is blended into the filling to replace the bulk of some of the missing sugar. I pinky promise that you cannot detect the taste of sweet potato in the finished pie.
If you are unfamiliar with the process of browning butter, check out Jessica's tutorial over at How Sweet Eats. It's worth taking the time to complete this extra step, as it greatly enhances the flavor of the pie. Browning butter will also fill your kitchen with the most delicious aroma!
You can replace the erythritol with an equal amount of coconut sugar if you wish. If you make this change, please consider that the pie will not be particularly low in carbohydrates. For information concerning the carbohydrate content of coconut sugar, check out Laura Dolson's informative article over at the About.com Low Carb Diets section.
A gluten-free pecan pie with half the sugar and all of the taste of the classic corn syrup-filled version. This pie contains half the carbohydrates of a typical pecan pie when made with erythritol, a non caloric natural sweetener.
Brown the butter**. Set aside to cool.
Chop 3/4 cup pecans, and scatter them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.Toast for 6 minutes (or until fragrant) in your fully heated oven. Set aside to cool.
Turn oven up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
In a food processor or blender, add browned butter, sweet potato puree, sea salt, arrowroot starch, coconut sugar, blackstrap molasses, stevia powder, vanilla, and water. Process until smooth.
Pulse in eggs, one at a time, until incorporated.
Stir in 3/4 cup toasted chopped pecans.
Arrange remaining 1 and 1/4 cup pecans on top of pie in overlapping, concentric circles. For an easier method, chop the pecans and sprinkle them over the top of the filling. Press pecans down gently until filling seeps up around the edges.
Bake for 10 minutes. Turn the heat down to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. Bake 20 minutes, or until filling has just set and no longer jiggles on to the top.
*You can substitute GMO-free cornstarch or tapioca starch for the arrowroot.
**Follow this wonderful tutorial over at How Sweet It Is if you're unfamiliar with the process of browning butter. Don't be afraid to try something new. It makes a big difference in the flavor of this pie!
A grain-free crust made from almond meal that you can easily roll out. The key ingredient in xanthan gum, a natural thickener that binds the dough together, imitating the presence of gluten. This pie crust is even suitable for lattice work!
Whisk together almond flour, sea salt, baking powder, arrowroot starch, and xanthan gum, if using.
Use a fork to cut chunks of butter into the dry mixture until pea-sized grains of dough appear.
In a small bowl or measuring dish, whisk egg white until frothy.
Add egg white to dough mixure, 1 teaspoon at a time, until you can press the dough into a ball that holds together. With homemade almond flour, I needed 2-3 teaspoons of egg white. Storebought almond flour required 4-5 teaspoons. Add just enough to form a dough that doesn't crumble. Too much egg white will make the dough too sticky to roll out. In that case, just press the dough into your pie plate instead.
If you used xanthan gum, you should be able to roll out the dough between two pieces of parchment paper. Start by making a parchment-dough-parchment sandwich. Roll the dough a couple of strokes, peel off the top sheet, replace it on the dough, and flip over the sandwich. Peel off the new top sheet, and replace it. Then, a few more strokes. Roll, peel, flip, peel, roll… repeat the process until the dough is wide enough to cover your pie plate. The idea is to keep unsticking the parchment paper from the dough so that you can cleanly lift it off the parchment and onto your pie plate.
When dough has been rolled out to the right size, transfer it gently to a 9-inch glass pie dish. Set aside.
If you're looking find a starch-free recipe, here's my Easy Nut Crust.
Craving more low carb, gluten-free Thanksgiving sides and desserts? Check out the dishes my blogger friends have brought over my virtual Potluck.
Your pecan pie is a thing of beauty. I'll have to TRY it!
Thank you for the nice comment! It tastes as good as it looks. Let me know how it goes for you!
we made this tonight. it was a) relatively easy, b) delicious. and the crust was just amazing. it behaved like a "regular" crust. THANK YOU!
Diana, I'm so glad that the pie worked out well for you. Thanks for sharing your feedback with us. What sweeteners did you use in it?
hi Lauren, i used brown sugar, swerve, molasses and pure stevia powder. the only change i made was using Mexican corn starch instead of arrowroot in both the filling and the crust (on the assumption that, at least for now, GMO corn is illegal in Mexico).
Thanks so much for taking the time to figure out different substitutions, so helpful! I assume I can substitute coconut oil for the browned butter.
And your pie is a showpiece!!
Ashley, thanks for the kind words about the pie!
You most certainly can. Sub 5 Tablespoons + 1 teaspoons of coconut oil for the butter. Coconut oil contains a little bit more fat than butter.
Must definitely try this one out. Looks incredibly delicious and healthy =) Thanks for sharing.
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hi Lauren, for this specific recipe I just wanted to let people know that I have successfully substituted canned Pumpkin pie filling (non sweetened) and even mashed frozen cubed butternut squash – both came out beautifully.
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Lettuce 'Parris Island'
Romaine or Cos
Heritage (USA 1950)
Packet Size: 2.5 grams
Average Seed Count: 2,250 Seeds
The words lettuce and salad are practically interchangeable since most salads are made predominantly with the green crispy leaves of lettuce. However, not all lettuce is created equal. Packed with tender, deep green leaves 'Parris Island' is more nutritious than other lettuce and a gourmet favorite.
Determined chefs go out of their way to find the freshest, most tender heads available, unfortunately grocery shoppers are often limited to big heads with tough, strong-tasting leaves. Luckily, it is one of the easiest crops to grow. Seeds germinate quickly and plants grow with little fuss. In most areas, you can grow successive crops in spring and autumn and in mild coastal areas, it can be grown year-round.
'Parris Island' was developed around 1949 by USDA & Clemson University, Charleston, South Carolina and released in 1951 by the Ferry-Morse Seed Company. It is named for the South Carolina island, not for the city in France, hence the spelling.
It is a widely adapted Romaine type lettuce that produces an upright head of strong leaves, with a distinctive crisp white midrib. Known as a favorite of both market growers and home gardeners, it is heat tolerant with fair bolt resistance. They are usually grown out to full size to harvest, although they are becoming more popular for baby or young leaf use.
Lettuce Parris Island has been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM).
Prepare the site:
A rich soil is excellent for lettuce, but the crop will also do well in average garden soil. The best crops are grown in soil that is deeply enriched with well-rotted manure and is well-fertilized before planting, especially with high nitrogen--leaf-stimulating--fertilizers such as 10-8-4, cottonseed meal, or blood meal. Lettuce doesn't do well in very acidic soils, and some say the pH shouldn't be lower than 6.5.
Lettuce is about 95 percent water. It develops rapidly if the growing season is cool and moist. It can grow from seed to salad in about 1 month in many regions, and only a little longer in others. Lettuce is a cool-season vegetable, with an ideal temperature of 10-16°C (50-60°C); it does poorly in hot weather, and is tolerant to some frost and light freezes. Cos is more heat tolerant than most. The secret of having salad leaves in spring is to sow them in late summer and the New Year, the first to overwinter and the second to provide an in-between harvest before the spring sowings become big enough to pick.
Sowing:
Sow indoors under protection: Feb to Mar (Plant out April) or sow directly outdoors: Mar to Aug
Lettuce germinate at surprisingly low temperatures The perfect temperature for germination is 4 to 16°C (40-60°F) rates decline above 20°C (68°F). The perfect temperature for growth is 16-18°C (60-65°F)
Sow at a seed depth of 6 to 12mm (¼-½in) Seed will germinate in 7 to 14 days.
Sow seeds in short rows about 30cm (12in) apart. To do this, make a shallow trench with a cane about 1.5cm (½in) deep. Space the rows 20cm (8in) apart.
If you are sowing directly into the soil, (if you do not have a problem with slugs!), water the drill before sowing to cool the soil down. A shaded part of the garden is ideal. If birds are a problem in your garden, spread netting to prevent them eating the seed.
Tip a small amount of seed into your hand, take a pinch and spread thinly along the trench. Cover with soil, label and water. When the seedlings are about 2cm (1in) tall, thin them out to give them space to grow, 15-20cm (6-8in). Replant or eat the seedlings. Make successional sowings at 14 day intervals.
In summer, a mulch of grass clippings, salt hay, clean straw, or the like, will keep the weeds out and the growing soil moist and cool. The plants need almost constantly moist ground, watering is essential if rainfall is scant. This is particularly important when the lettuces are one or two weeks away from harvesting, as dry soil now will cause the plants to put their energy into producing flowers.
The key to tender and tasty lettuce is rapid growth, however lettuce has a relatively shallow and compact root system that doesn't absorb nutrients and moisture from the soil very efficiently, which can slow the growth. To encourage fast growth, add plenty of finished compost before planting and again as a side-dressing a week or so after seedlings appear or transplants are planted. Give supplemental feedings of compost tea every few weeks until harvest.
Pests:
Aphids – Wash off minor infestations before the plants are eaten. If there is a heavy population grow nasturtiums near the lettuce, or use an organic solution.
Harvesting:
60 days to maturity. Harvest all lettuce in early morning for the maximum carotene and best taste and refrigerate immediately. Harvest as soon as they are big enough for the salad bowl. The harvest is over when a central stem starts to form. This is the signal that the plant is getting ready to bolt and the leaves start to get bitter.
Rotation considerations:
Avoid following radicchio, endive, escarole or artichoke.
Good Companions:
All brassicas (except broccoli, but especially radishes), beat, carrot, cucumber, onion family, pole lima bean, strawberry
Bad Companions:
'Parris Island' is a widely adapted Romaine type lettuce, developed around 1949 by USDA & Clemson University, Charleston, South Carolina and released in 1951 by the Ferry-Morse Seed Company. It is named for the South Carolina island, not for the city in France, hence the spelling.
Native to Western Europe and the eastern Mediterranean area, it is called cos or cos lettuce (mainly with British-speaking peoples) because it is said to have originated on the Greek island of Cos (Kos), off the coast of Turkey in the Aegean Sea.
It has been cultivated and eaten cooked or raw for almost 5,000 years and may very well be the oldest form of cultivated lettuce. Egyptian tombs reveal paintings of lettuce with long, pointed leaves, resembling romaine. It was known to the Romans, who usually ate lettuce cooked, as Cappadocian lettuce, and was called Roman lettuce due to the Romans belief in its healthful and healing properties.
It is said that in the 14th century when the Popes of the Roman Catholic Church temporarily moved from Rome to Avignon, they brought this variety of lettuce with them, calling it Avignon lettuce. The earliest English name for it was Roman lettuce, around the 17th century. The source of the English romaine is from the French laitue romaine, Italians call it lattuga romana.
A white latex oozes from its leaf base and the thicker ribs of older, larger leaves and is reflected in its Latin name 'Lactuca', which means milk. Lettuce juice was used as a medicine by many ancient herbalists.
According to Pliny, the emperor Augustus Caesar is said to have put up a statue to honour its healing abilities after being cured of a serious illness. See recipes for Caesar Salad for the ultimate use of this popular lettuce.
2,250 Seeds
900 seeds per gram
Lactuca
sativa var. longifolia
Parris Island
Neutral or alkaline.
Time to Harvest
6 - 8 weeks May-October
Lettuce Collection


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Risa Shigetomo; (jap. , Shigetomo Risa; * 29. August 1987 in Bizen) ist eine japanische Marathonläuferin.

Bei den 10 km von San'yō wurde sie 2006 Fünfte, 2008 Zweite und 2010 Fünfte.

2011 plante sie beim Nagoya-Marathon ihr Debüt auf der 42,195-km-Distanz; nachdem dieser wegen des Tōhoku-Erdbebens abgesagt wurde, startete sie beim London-Marathon, kam dort aber nur auf den 24. Platz. im Herbst wurde sie Fünfte beim Virginia-Beach-Halbmarathon.

2012 siegte sie beim Osaka Women's Marathon und wurde daraufhin für die Olympischen Spiele in London nominiert.

Am. 30. August 2015 lief sie den Marathon bei den Leichtathletik-Weltmeisterschaften in Peking. Sie benötigte für den Lauf 2:31:40 h und erreichte Platz 14.

Risa Shigetomo ist 1,68 m groß, wiegt 53 kg und startet für das Firmenteam des Warenhauses Tenmaya.

Persönliche Bestzeiten
 5000 m: 15:32,41 min, 9. Dezember 2006, Himeji
 10-km-Straßenlauf: 32:38 min, 23. Dezember 2010, Okayama
 Halbmarathon: 1:10:58 h, 29. Januar 2012, Osaka (Zwischenzeit)
 Marathon: 2:23:23 h, 29. Januar 2012, Osaka

Weblinks

 Athletenporträt auf der Website von Tenmaya

Einzelnachweise

Olympiateilnehmer (Japan)
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2012
Marathonläufer (Japan)
Frau
Geboren 1987
Japaner


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Women film technicians complain about lack of washrooms for women on shooting locations
Film technicians complain about lack of washroom for women on shooting locations. Bollywood celebrities like Akshay Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya Balan provide support to the cause of building more toilets in India.
No Washrooms for Women on Shooting Locations
For long, women in India have complained about access to toilets. Even in cities, where its easy for people to spend a few hours commuting, its difficult for women to access toilets (even if there are, they are were filthy and unusable).
Recently, film technicians met at the Film City complex in Mumbai to address the lack of basic hygiene facilities for women on shooting locations.
"Everyone thinks that ours a glamorous industry, but the working conditions are pathetic, especially for women, with no access to safe and clean washrooms. And its worse on outdoor locations, as there's no provision for toilets in many productions," said a woman costume designer.
Most women artists and crew rely on the washrooms in the vanity vans of actors (and most of them understand their plight).
Unhygienic bathrooms can cause urinary tract infections and several other health issues, among female technicians. At times, women even refrain from drinking water for the entire shift (8-10 hours), as they fear they may have to go to the loo.
Akshay Kumar's 'Toilet: Ek Prem Katha'
Actor Akshay Kumar's upcoming film 'Toilet: Ek Prem Katha' highlights the plight of women in India, especially in the rural areas, where they have to go to open fields to relieve themselves.
It puts women in grave danger; several women have been raped or attacked by animals (especially at night) because they have to go outdoors.
Bollywood's Support for Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
Bollywood celebrities had expressed their support to Indian prime minister Modi's call for 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' (Clean India Mission).
Watch: Amitabh Bachchan as 'Coolie' – Swachh Bharat Misssion
Watch: Vidya Balan says no to Open Defecation
Freida Pinto wrote: "Next 5 years, we should aim to breathe clean & erase that unsavory label of "filthy" and "smelly" that India is burdened with. This is every Indian citizen's responsibility. Not just those nominated. Let us all figure out a way to contribute — big or small. Have waited for an announcement like this for ages. It's now official."
Most celebs felt that this was an idea that was long overdue and with PM Modi backing it, its hosul get tremendous support in India, and hopefully result in a much cleaner India.
Homai Vyarawalla, India's first woman photojournalist
Noticed Google's doodle lately where it shows a woman with a camera? Wondering who she is? She is Homai Vyarawalla, India's first woman photojournalist! Vyarawalla was known for widely photographing India's transition from the British Raj to an independent country after its subsequent partition. Hailing from Navsari in Gujarat, Vyarawalla moved to Bombay to pursue […]
Top Bollywood War Movies You Must Watch (Kargil Vijay Diwas Special)
As the country celebrates Kargil war diwas, we take a look at the best Bollywood war movies that shows the true grit and winning spirit of our soldiers, and the supreme sacrifices they make for the nation. 'Uri: The Surgical Strike' (2019) Directed by Aditya Dhar, the 'Uri: The Surgical Strike' stars Vicky Kaushal, Yami […]
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When Sunil Grover made Salman Khan feel incompetent as an actor
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Bourne & Shepherd, World's Longest-Running Photographic Studio Shuts Down
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Bollywood in Ladakh, the Land of Endless Discoveries
If you live in the North of India, this place may not be new to you, but if you live in the central part of India or towards the south, chances are that you may not have visited this place even once, although its a dream destination for many. We are talking about Leh, Ladakh […]
This Bollywood Superstar urges you to take a break from work and spend time with family
This Bollywood superstar has a rocking career and a great family life. He does more films in a year, compared to his peers, and still manages to go on a vacation with his family every few months (and some of those holidays last for a month). While most find holidays to be rejuvenating, Akshay says […]
Rs.1500 to 5 BHK flat in Mumbai and mansion in Manali, Kangana Ranaut has it all today
Kangana Ranaut came to Mumbai with just Rs.1,500 (20 dollars) but today owns a 5 BHK flat in Mumbai and a bungalow in Manali. Hailing from a Surajpur, a small town in Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, Kangana Ranaut was born to a conservative family that wanted Kangana to become a doctor. However she had different […]
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Several Bollywood actors have urged their fans to take the risk of coronavirus seriously and to follow the government's call for observing social distancing. Bollywood celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt and Madhuri Dixit, among others, have shared messages and featured in videos to create awareness around […]


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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A United States man and a Mexican woman have wed between the doors of a steel border gate that is opened for only an hour or so every year.
Brian Houston, of Rancho San Diego, center left, and Evelia Reyes, right, of Tijuana, Mexico, look at each other in their wedding at the "Door of Hope," part of the border fence between the U.S. and Mexico on November 18, 2017.
A steel gate on the border of the US and Mexico, called the Door of Hope, is opened once a year, allowing friends and family to visit one another.
When the gate opened on the weekend, a US man and a Mexican woman held their wedding at the gate.
The wedding in San Diego was the one to occur at the gate.
Saturday's wedding at Border Field State Park in San Diego was a first for an opening of the gate known as the Door of Hope.
Evelia Reyes, wearing a white wedding dress with train and veil, embraced Brian Houston of San Diego after signing documents that made them husband and wife.
"It's a statement that love has no borders," Houston told the San Diego Union-Tribune. "Even though we are divided by a giant fence here, we can still love each other on both sides of the fence."
Houston, a U.S. citizen, said he couldn't go into Tijuana for reasons he declined to explain but spoke daily with his bride. The couple has an attorney who is trying to obtain a green card for Reyes to join Houston in the U.S., Houston said, although that could take more than a year.
Border Patrol agents opened the gate in the border wall at noon for an hour, allowing waiting family members from the U.S. to walk partly through and meet and embrace relatives in Mexico for a scant three minutes each before tearfully saying goodbye.
Evelia Reyes, along with her daughter, watches at the "Door of Hope", part of the for the border fence, for her fiance, Brian Houston, of San Diego, to walk up for their wedding in San Diego.
It was the sixth time that the gate has opened since 2013, allowing people from the U.S. and Mexico who cannot legally cross the border to visit without fear of deportation. At other times, families can talk but not touch through the steel fencing.
To arrange the wedding, the couple worked with Enrique Morones, executive director of the Border Angels group that organizes the gate openings.
The group takes meeting requests from families and forwards the names to the State Department, which conducts checks and makes the final decision on who will be allowed to briefly reunite, Morones said.
The gate opening took place about 15 miles west of where the eight prototypes for President Donald Trump's wall have been built.
"While some people want to build walls, we want to open doors," Morones said.


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Listening to your gut
GI Logic developed a monitoring device for the intestinal tract
August 3-9, 2018 | Vol. 19.21
By Marissa Nall
The Tri-Counties could become the launching point for the first new vital sign in decades with the help of a device that listens to the gut.
Developed by GI Logic, the AbStats device monitors sub-audible vibrations in the intestinal tract to give doctors a readout with an "intestinal rate." For a patient recovering from surgery, a seven is good and a three not so good, giving doctors feedback on how the gut is functioning that can help prevent complications.
"It gives them their first quality control check to realize this patient is in trouble — let's act now," catching potential problems a day earlier, said Dennis Houghton, vice president of sales for GI Logic.
The device is the brainchild of a GI physician and a CalTech engineer, sitting at the intersection of biology, software and technology, said co-founder and co-CEO Gary Sterling. Regulatory approval in hand, the Pasadena-based company is looking to the Tri-Counties to grow its manufacturing and product development.
"It is the only wearable technology that can continuously monitor digestive function, and when you think about that, you almost think that's crazy. How can this have taken so long?" Sterling said.
The company also has a funding round underway but declined to state how much it is aiming to raise. In addition to the move, it plans to use the capital to build inventory and bring on new staff "to create the infrastructure we need not only to sell but to support our products, to train hospitals, physicians, health care staff on our products and get the products out there."
Though it hasn't landed on a location yet, the team is eyeing the cluster of biotech facilities in Thousand Oaks or manufacturing and production facilities in Camarillo or Oxnard. Close proximity to UC Santa Barbara is also an advantage, Sterling said, as it looks to add 10 to 15 new employees over the next year and grow to around 30 in later years.
The Small Business Development Center highlighted medical devices and biopharmaceuticals as an emerging area of growth in the region, where biotech has historically had a large footprint.
Density and an ability to find capital have driven inquiries from several companies looking to make a move to the region, said Executive Director Ray Bowman.
"Having the support of other companies, the community, the ecosystem, is all an important thing," he said. "Those types of companies are the ones that really support our economy … The multiplier effect on those types of businesses is pretty big. For those emerging sectors, it only takes sometimes a few companies to make a huge impact on what that cluster looks like."
In addition to a more traditional inpatient device for hospitals with sensors and a readout screen, the company has developed single-use wearable sensors for users with conditions that impact the gut such as Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome or ulcerative colitis. The sensors can provide information like when a patient's stomach is empty or when they should eat, impacting length of stay and potentially reducing costs for both patients and providers, Houghton said.
It can also show the impact of medications or factors like stress and sleep, he said.
"You'll be able to better understand how you eat, how your stomach reacts to exercise, stress, lifestyle issues and learn how to keep it in a sweet spot, because you'll be able to correlate that to the symptoms you're experiencing," Sterling said. "It will help give you the biofeedback that you need to make decisions on the right time to eat, which can help with complying with diets and changing habits."
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Health System helped develop the product, which got FDA clearance to be used by physicians in hospitals in 2016, after the company raised $2 million from Commonwealth Diagnostics International.
GI Logic has also agreed to support a large clinical research study with four Veterans Health Administration hospitals, Sterling said, providing GI monitoring for veterans being treated for GI disorders and procedures.
The technology also has applications in animal health and, most valuably, he said, in neonatal and pediatric care.
"They can't tell you where it hurts," he said. "We have a noninvasive, painless monitoring system that won't scare them, won't hurt them and will help physicians better understand how their digestive system is working."
As a result, the founders have split the business into GI Logic and an animal division with the help of strategic partners in the industry under the umbrella Alpha Logic.
"We're human health guys, that's our expertise, so we need to find expertise in the veterinary health, animal health area," Sterling said. "Big markets can do a lot of good, and certainly there's a lot of value in providing low-cost, efficient health care monitoring for both large animals and small animals."
And the research won't stop with bringing the product to market, he said.
"That's what's so exciting about this technology. We're always learning, because we're gathering signals and comparing them to symptoms … We will always be studying something, because there's so much out there with the intestinal tract to study."
• Contact Marissa Nall at [email protected]
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Case Study • Healthcare
DecisionPoint Health
By 2021, DPHS had reached an impasse: Growth was driving the need to deliver new features faster without compromising stability, and their reliance on a partially manual VM-based pipeline just no longer cut it. With Architect, they've been able to automate deployments, synchronize across functions, and cut deployment times by 80% or more.
"We went from thirty-minute deployments at fastest to about five minutes with Architect."
– Errol Markland, Product Development Team Lead
Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Boston, MA, DecisionPoint Health Solutions (DPHS) offers a smarter approach to patient and provider engagement. For years, health plans have relied on descriptive data and reactive engagement. DecisionPoint empowers clients to understand and predict the whole member journey, enabling sustained improvements in member health outcomes and plan performance. DecisionPoint combines the latest, most practical technologies and a deep understanding of healthcare, bringing innovative, pragmatic solutions to an industry that touches us all.
The cost of manual effort
By 2021, DPHS had reached an impasse: Growth was driving the need to deliver new features faster without compromising stability, and their reliance on a VM-based pipeline just no longer cut it. In the existing setup, Jenkins would monitor for code changes and take care of the deployment. But the process wasn't fully automated, meaning manual steps still had to be coordinated among engineering, data, and product teams. And this had led to variations in the process per application team, as well as differing VM specs per application. Consequently, releases that should have taken minutes took hours.
One command to rule them all
The first challenge the team chose to tackle was to address the issue of VM scalability by moving to the cloud, thus eliminating some manual steps while addressing some of the other cost constraints. This improved time and ease to deploy, though some manual steps remained. The team needed help getting the rest of the way to a fully automated pipeline. Enter Architect.io.
With Architect, the team could issue a single command to orchestrate provisioning of new cloud environments and deployment of code into them. Most critically, Architect's dependency management meant that any developer working on a component could simply declare what services and interfaces they needed, and those components would be pulled into the deployment automatically. The result of this level of automation was an 83% reduction in time to deploy.
Such dramatic improvements led the team to ask what impact they could have on pre-production if the same infrastructure, processes, and technologies supported every stage of the development pipeline. Today, Decision Point uses Architect to automate deployments at every stage of the development lifecycle, reducing cycle times, and increasing overall MTTD. Because the process is the same from end to end, deploying new code is faster, easier, and more reliable. And because the entire process is automated end to end, teams can deploy with confidence.
DecisionPoint utilizes two key features of Architect to increase site reliability and observability. Using the architect service configuration (architect.yaml) to reference the relevant health check endpoints, Architect can detect when an application is sick. Since Architect also maintains replica deployments of the service, Decision Point can automate pointing to the replica while Architect redeploys the sick service.
For data privacy reasons, DecisionPoint Health maintains customer data in single-tenant services. Architect makes it easy to create a new single-tenant API instance and alias it, making onboarding a new client much lower cost.
Architect supports path-based routing, which makes it easier to define routing to services within a single domain from within the architect.yaml.
Zero trust security and privacy
As an innovator in the Healthcare space, DecisionPoint doesn't compromise on security and data privacy. To ensure data privacy, sensitive services get deployed single tenant, in their own segregated infrastructure. Architect makes it easy to manage these data silos, as well as keep them highly available. DecisionPoint uses Architect's health check feature to notice a service isn't healthy, failover to a hot spare, and redeploy the unhealthy service, all without interruption and without needing human intervention.
DecisionPoint + Architect: A better future together
In the future, DecisionPoint is planning an initiative to implement one-click client provisioning all the way through the pipeline, so that new client services can be previewed, tested, and deployed to production in a fully automated fashion. And given the successes they've seen in their patient and provider-facing application, they are considering whether the same benefits could apply to their internal-facing applications as well.
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Michael Morgan (born August 20, 1957) is a former professional wrestler from New Zealand who competed in the National Wrestling Alliance, World Championship Wrestling and World Class Championship Wrestling best known as Rip Morgan. Best known as one half of the New Zealand Militia in WCW with Jack Victory. Morgan also wrestled in the NAWA/SAPW with Jack Victory as "The Royal Family". He was the last flag bearer for the original New Zealand Sheepherders. He was formerly the CEO of the now defunct Wellington-based professional wrestling promotion Kiwi Pro Wrestling.

Professional wrestling career
Mike Morgan made his professional wrestling debut in 1983 under the Ring name Rip Morgan working in his native New Zealand. On 8 September 1983 he won the NWA New Zealand Heavyweight Championship, but records are not clear on who he defeated to win the championship, nor who he later on lost the championship to. In 1984, he travelled to the United States of America where he was paired up with The Sheepherders (Luke Williams and Butch Miller), working as their "Flag Bearer", someone who would wave the New Zealand flag during their introductions and help them cheat during their matches. Morgan worked with the two to continue his wrestling training as Williams and Miller taught him aspects of professional wrestling outside of the actual wrestling moves. In 1985, Morgan wrestled as Bigfoot for the WWF appearing on TV.

The Sheepherders (1985–1986)
After his brief WWF run Morgan teamed up with Jonathan Boyd to form a new version of the Sheepherders, using the name "The Kiwi Sheepherders". Boyd and Morgan quickly made their name known in the Continental Wrestling Association, based out of Memphis, Tennessee by defeating CWA's most popular team The Fabulous Ones (Steve Keirn and Stan Lane) for AWA Southern Tag Team Championship on 17 June 1985. The team was soon stripped of the titles due to excessive cheating but had the titles returned to them when Boyd and Morgan threatened to sue CWA management. Instead of taking the titles from the Sheepherders by stripping them the Fabulous Ones took the Southern tag team titles from them the old fashioned way – 4 times in a row between 5 September and 12 October. After the series of violent matches with the Fabulous Ones came to an end the Sheepherders came face to face with another team that would turn out to be a constant thorn in their side The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers). Jonathan Boyd reunited with the Sheepherders in the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico. In the winter of 1985 the Kiwi Sheepherders and the Fantastics traded wins back and forth with no side gaining a clear advantage in their feud. In January 1986 the Kiwi Sheepherders defeated the teams of Koko Ware and Rick Casey and also the team of Tojo Yamamoto and Dirty Rhodes to reach the finals of a tournament to crown new Southern Tag Team Champions, but in the finals they fell to the Fantastics. The loss to the Fantastics only intensified the Sheepherders' anger bringing the feud to its high point as the two teams clashed in a "No DQ Loser Leaves Town" match on 20 January 1986. The Kiwi Sheepherders lost and left Memphis while the Fantastics rode a wave of popularity thanks to the feud.

The Thing, Rip Morgan (1987–1988)
Following the dissolution of the Sheepherders Morgan ended up worked for Fritz Von Erich's World Class Championship Wrestling in Texas under the ring name "The Thing" and later on "The Real Thing". In Texas he lost to Kerry Von Erich on WCCW's "Thanksgiving Star Wars" show in 1987. Later on Morgan joined Jim Crockett Promotions, later known as World Championship Wrestling (WCW). He worked the 1988 Great American Bash tour facing Bugsy McGraw on several stops of the tour. Later on Morgan and Jonathan Holliday teamed up to challenge for the NWA United States Tag Team Championship but lost to The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers. At Clash of the Champions V special event Rip Morgan lost to Rick Steiner. Two months later he challenged Sting for the NWA World Television Championship at Clash of the Champions VII but again was unsuccessful in his efforts.

Teaming with Jack Victory (1989–1993)
In 1989 the bookers of World Championship Wrestling decided to put Rip Morgan together with another former flagbearer of the Sheepherders, Jack Victory, creating a tag team known as the "New Zealand Militia", billing Jack Victory as a native of New Zealand despite being born in the United States. The two made their in-ring debut on 14 June 1989 where they took part in a tournament for the vacant NWA World Tag Team Championship. The team faced and lost to The Dynamic Dudes (Shane Douglas and Johnny Ace, also a former flag bearer for the Sheepherders). Following the tournament loss the Militia found themselves frequently facing off against the Dynamic Dudes over the summer and fall of 1989. In 1990 WCW gave Morgan and Victory a new image, re-introducing them as "The Royal Family", naming them Ripper Morgan and Jack O'Victory and adding the manager Lord Littlebrook to the group. The Royal Family were billed as descendants of British Royalty. The Royal Family family was one of eight teams entered in a tournament for the vacant WCW United States Tag Team Championship. The group lost in the first round to eventual tournament winners Flyin' Brian and "Z-Man" Tom Zenk. WCW held the "Pat O'Connor International Tag Team Tournament" as part of the 1990 Starrcade with eight teams representing various countries. The storyline was that the Royal Family had won a tournament in Australia to earn the rights to represent Australian and New Zealand, in reality none of the teams had won qualifying tournaments. Victory and Morgan lost to "Team Japan" (Masa Saito and The Great Muta) in the first round of the tournament. The Royal Family's last significant appearance with WCW was on 28 April 1991 where they teamed up with Black Bart as they unsuccessfully challenged the team of the Junkyard Dog, Ricky Morton and Tommy Rich for the WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Championship. In 1991 Victory and Morgan made their way to the Global Wrestling Federation in Dallas TX this time as The Maulers. The duo competed in the tournament for the first ever GWF Tag Team Championship. In the first round they defeated "Wet'n'Wild" (Steve Ray and Sunny Beach), followed by a victory over Chaz and Terry Garvin. In the third round, the semi-finals of the tournament the Maulers lost to eventual tournament winners Chris Walker and Steve Simpson. Wrestling as the Maulers, Victory and Morgan also wrestled a dark match at a WWF Superstars taping in Mobile, Alabama on March 9, 1992, defeating Jim Cooper and John Allen. The Maulers did not stay in the GWF after the tournament, instead moved on to Smokey Mountain Wrestling (SMW) in Tennessee. They competed in a tournament to determine the first ever SMW Tag Team Champion. In the first round the Maulers defeated the Rich Brothers (Davey Rich and Johnny Rich), but lost to The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton and Jackie Fulton) in the second round to be eliminated from the tournament. Their short lived run in SMW was the last time Morgan and Victory teamed together on a regular basis.

Retirement and Kiwi Pro Wrestling CEO
In the early 1990s, Morgan wrestled in Germany, known for performing a Maori Haka before each match. In the late 1990s Rip Morgan retired from full-time wrestling and returned to his native New Zealand and began promoting wrestling. He later became the CEO of the Wellington-based professional wrestling promotion Kiwi Pro Wrestling.

Championships and accomplishments
Continental Wrestling Association
AWA Southern Tag Team Championship (5 times) – with Jonathan Boyd

NWA New Zealand
NWA New Zealand Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI ranked him #229 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1992
Western Ohio Wrestling
WOW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jack Victory

References

1957 births
Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people
New Zealand male professional wrestlers
20th-century New Zealand people
21st-century New Zealand people
20th-century professional wrestlers


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Music|Review: A Singer's Strong Return in a Drab 'Don Giovanni'
Review: A Singer's Strong Return in a Drab 'Don Giovanni'
Simon Keenlyside, disappearing through a trap door, and Adam Plachetka, right, in "Don Giovanni," at the Metropolitan Opera.CreditCreditEmon Hassan for The New York Times
By James R. Oestreich
First the good news. The acclaimed English baritone Simon Keenlyside made a much-anticipated return to the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday evening, after health-related cancellations in recent years.
In 2014 Mr. Keenlyside, now 57, had to leave a Vienna staging of Verdi's "Rigoletto" in midperformance with the recurrence of a vocal cord injury he had had during rehearsals. Then his return to opera a year ago was cut short by thyroid surgery, with the doctors doing, in his words, "a bad job" of it.
He is now back in New York starring in a revival of Michael Grandage's production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni," and he seemed in fine shape, vocally and physically. His voice rang out cleanly and clearly, and he showed good stamina in a portrayal long on physical exertion.
You would like to call his reappearance triumphant, but the word seems singularly inappropriate to anything connected with this production. And Mr. Keenlyside fitted into it oddly.
When new, in 2011, Mr. Grandage's staging was evidently intended as a shining example of the Met general manager Peter Gelb's policy of recruiting well-established theatrical directors, not always much experienced in opera, to mount productions with the company. Instead, this "Giovanni" was critically savaged from the start.
Mr. Keenlyside and Serena Malfi sing an Act I duet from Mozart's comedy at the Metropolitan Opera.
The problem is not so much that the ideas are bad as that there are few ideas to begin with. The period look, designed by Christopher Oram, is somewhat drab and sleepy, as 18th-century Seville may well have been. The three-story set, with dozens of mostly shuttered doors, is blunt and uninviting.
Mr. Grandage may have been trying to explore the deeper recesses of the lecherous Don's makeup. But as the portrayal has come down over the past few years, with Louisa Muller now listed as stage director, it seems merely hyperactive and sleazy — hardly the thing, you would think, to make aristocratic ladies swoon.
Casts will shift throughout the run, but the lineup on Tuesday offered presumably inadvertent comedy, with the relatively short Mr. Keenlyside dwarfed by hulking giants: Adam Plachetka as Leporello, Giovanni's servant; and Matthew Rose as Masetto, the peasant groom. The exchange of costumes between Giovanni and Leporello in the second act, and the resulting mistaken identities, strained suspension of disbelief beyond the breaking point.
Still, as before, the production can serve as a platform for excellent singing, and that was supplied here by a strong group of women: the warm-toned Russian Hibla Gerzmava as Donna Anna, the lyrically flighty Swede Malin Bystrom as Donna Elvira, and the appealingly earthy Italian Serena Malfi as Zerlina.
Paul Appleby made the hapless role of Don Ottavio a thing of tenorial beauty, and Kwangchul Youn was a suitably stolid Commendatore.
Fabio Luisi often seemed a conductor in a hurry, sometimes too much so for the singers' comfort. In patter numbers especially, it was hard to tell who was pushing whom, but what resulted was typically sheer incomprehensibility.
Simon Keenlyside stars in "Don Giovanni" through Oct. 22 (and the opera runs through Nov. 10, and again from April 26 through May 11) at the Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center; 212-362-6000, metopera.org.
A version of this article appears in print on , Section C, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Back After Injuries, a Baritone Is Strong but a Production Less So. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe
After Setbacks, a Baritone Works His Way Back to the Met Opera


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- Help us meet this year's $10,000 fundraising goal through a race sponsorship! There are several sponsorship options available to fit the budget of any size business/organization. Download our 5K Sponsorship Packet to learn more or contact our sponsorship coordinator, MaGina New at mnew@kyumc.org or 1-800-530-7236. There are several sponsorship levels available and your contributions are tax-deductible. The deadline to become a sponsor is March 31, 2018.
-Ida Spence Mission of NKY is an urban mission located in the City Heights community of Covington, Kentucky. They focus on three areas of service to the children and youth in the community. Nutrition: With the help of UMC Foods, provides 4-6 meals a week for the children in the City Heights Community. Education: Provides Christian education through a children's church program, youth program and various bible studies. Mentoring: Maintains a regular presence in the community with support from volunteers, also working to provide employment opportunities to those that live within the community.
- The Run for the Children 5K features an out and back course that starts and ends at the Spirit of '76 Shelter at Lunken Airport Playfield. The course uses the Lunken Airport Bike Path, which sits atop the levee that protects the airport from flooding of the Little Miami River. The paved path is wide and affords many nice views of the airport for plane spotters. You also get nice views of the river in places. It is fully paved and relatively flat with a few hills. All pre-registered participants receive a free race t-shirt (race day participants receive a t-shirt as supplies last).
We are also excited to partner with the Kentucky Conference's Higher Ed Team this year who will be providing ice cream to all participants after the race!
Race Timing: This year's race will be chip timed - all times will be read electronically and posted online after the race.
- Awards will be presented to the top three overall men and women finishers. Age group awards will also be presented to the top finisher in each age group (excluding the overall winners).
Registration fees are non-refundable - no exceptions. Registration by check are payable to the Kentucky Annual Conference. Net proceeds donated to Ida Spence Mission.
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- You must complete and submit a race waiver to participate in the race. The race waiver is included with both the online and mail-in registration entry forms.
- If you or a group is interested in volunteering at this year's 5K, please contact Celeste Doll at cdoll@kyumc.org.
- Free parking is available in the lot across the street from the shelter. Indoor bathrooms are available for use in the Marian Ahlering building located next to the parking lot.


Our favorite looking item for this memorial day is the squadron spike cleats from Boombah.
Memorial day weekend isn't just the day to get deals on furniture. Baseball and softball equipment, especially the bats, go through an interesting shift on Memorial day. (See our buying guide for what to buy when).
What is Off MAP Pricing?
As most bats were released around September of the previous year, manufactures often remove MAP pricing around Memorial day. That means, it is often the first time you can buy bats from a legit company below the MSRP. in other words, discounts!
A lot of these deals end up on Amazon's sports deals page. However, most you'll need to go directly to the vendor/manufacturer site. We link and list those below.
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Boombah is crushing it with their memorial day apparel.
All of DeMarini's Fastpitch bats have come off of MAP pricing.
See Slugger's wood bat bundle deals.
More deals are coming this weekend, but they do have a commemorative baseball that will be used this weekend.