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An Artificial Heart to Beat
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by Michael MacRae ASME.org
Two pioneers in the quest for the holy grail of cardiovascular engineering – a practical, permanent artificial heart – are pumped about a new prototype heart now in preclinical testing. The experimental device, if successful, could be the first artificial heart sufficiently compact, durable, biocompatible, and inexpensive enough to serve as a permanent replacement for failing hearts.
The prototype is the latest creation of Richard Wampler, M.D., the brains behind groundbreaking blood pumps used in the ventricular assist devices (VADs) currently used to boost heart function. Wampler is the resident innovator at OregonHeart, a spin-off of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Portland, OR, where he also holds a faculty position. Decades after completing a surgical residency at OHSU, the physician-engineer reconnected with a former mentor there, Albert Starr, M.D., who serves as a medical advisor to OHSU-owned OregonHeart. In the 1960s, Starr co-invented and successfully implanted the world's first successful artificial human heart valve.
With inspiration from these long-time leaders, the engineers of OregonHeart are working to adapt Wampler's patented shuttling pump design into a practical, versatile, and most of all permanent total artificial heart system (TAHS). Wampler's concept would effectively enable one relatively small and lightweight pump to do the work of the two larger pumps current artificial hearts use to control circulation of blood between the heart, the lungs, and the rest of the body. The reduction in bulk and complexity would mean artificial hearts could be used in more types of patients with a wider range of conditions. The prototype is now in proof-of-concept testing in animals, and the company hopes to begin testing it in human patients within 10 years.
Anatomical connections. Image: Oregon Health & Science University.
A total artificial heart is not a new idea. Engineers and physicians have been pursuing the idea in earnest since the 1940s, creating critical technologies like the heart-lung machine and the artificial heart valve along the way. In 1982, the Robert Jarvik-designed Jarvik 7 artificial heart was implanted in patient Barney Clark, who survived for nearly four months. Since then, artificial hearts have primarily been used for humanitarian purposes for the most severely ill patients or as a temporary treatment to keep a patient alive until a donor heart is found. Devices for long-term partial heart support such as pacemakers and left- or right-ventricular assist devices (LVADs and RVADs) are used as a bridge to transplantation.
The most widely used artificial heart system today is the SynCardia TAH-t temporary artificial heart from SynCardia Systems, Tucson, AZ, which has been implanted in more than 500 patients since 2012. The SynCardia device uses two separate positive displacement pumps to replace the patient's right and left ventricles, with two valves on each pump maintaining the unidirectional flow of blood. Wampler's design takes a different approach: it incorporates a rotary pump such as those commonly used in LVADs, which work with the patient's heart to boost the function of the left ventricle.
With a track record for safety and durability, rotary blood pumps offer several advantages as a platform for a total artificial heart system. Wampler demonstrated these advantages in a landmark 1988 invention, the Hemopump, a device about the size of a pencil eraser that could be placed in the patient's heart with a catheter in a 20-minute procedure. The Hemopump led to his co-development of today's most widely used rotary LVAD system, the HeartMate II by Thoratec, Pleasanton, CA,a device used most famously to keep former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney alive during his 20-month wait for a heart transplant. His current vision is to adapt the rotary pump approach in a smaller, simpler TAH system without the need for artificial valves, venting or volume compensation.
The prototype is intended to be implanted after the patient's native heart has been removed. The pump housing's four inflow/outflow ports are surgically connected with atrial cuffs and prosthetic arterial grafts to the patient's left atrium, aorta, right atrium, and pulmonary artery. When in place, the heart produces blood circulation by means of a single rotary impeller mounted on a hollow shaft surrounded by electrical coils. These coils interact with motor rotor drivers within the shaft walls to produce both rotary and axial motion. As the impeller rotates it also shuttles along the shaft between the four arterial connectors in sequence, alternately drawing in or pumping out blood as required to create both pulmonary and systemic circulation. Flow and pressure measurements control the rotor's duty cycle and dwell time to balance the flow between the two sides. This axial shuttling movement essentially enables a single blood pump to perform the work of two, eliminating much of the bulk and complexity of current two-pump TAH systems.
A diagram of the OregonHeart. Image: Oregon Health & Science University.
Heartwrenching Trends
Wampler saystotal artificial heart technology has progressed much more slowly than the pace of advances in LVADS and other devices. But changes in U.S. health trends are lending renewed the urgency of need for an alternative to heart transplants for the long-term treatment of severe heart diseases like congestive heart failure.
Heart failure is lethally successful. It kills nearly 300,000 Americans a year and is on the rise as our population ages and obesity rates increase. Heart failure occurs when the heart is no longer able to pump enough blood to meet the body's normal requirements. It can result from birth defects or from any other form of damage to the heart muscle. Cardiologists base treatments on the underlying cause as well as the patient's age and overall physical condition. A half century of advances in biomedical engineering have led to a range of treatments for heart failure, from medication to VADS to transplantation.
For patients with severe bi-ventricular end-stage heart failure, a transplant is the treatment of last resort but there are never enough suitable hearts to meet the growing need. About 4,000 patients are currently on the United Network for Organ Sharing's transplant waiting list, yet only about 2,000 donor hearts become available in a typical year. The perpetual scarcity of organs in the face of a growing demand adds urgency to the effort to develop a total, practical, and permanent artificial heart as an alternative destination therapy, said the company's CEO Clyde Taylor. "This technology could be quite significant, especially with what's gone on with the population and the negative trajectory on heart health."
Michael MacRae is an independent writer.
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With Samsung's release of OS9 for their mobile devices, a problem has been identified with Crane Mobile.
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We are currently working on a fix that will resolve this issue and will post an update as soon as it is available.
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I've only read a handful of novels more than once. "Under the Volcano" is one of them. Colin Dayan discusses why it is such a difficult novel to teach and what it says about our discomfort, at times, with language. (From the LA Review of Books).
Exceprts from Dayan's essay: "How far can one expect students to dive or sink into a textual world that is adamantly unreasonable and, to a great extent, indecent? What is the real, if somewhat vague, role of the academy, particularly its requirement of detachment?
"Teaching Under the Volcano has been a sinking experience. How difficult it is to get students to follow Dr. Vigil's call, "Throw away your mind." In the face of the casual slaughter and commonplace cruelty that define our contemporary moment, how do we, through Lowry, move beyond the human, all-too-human frames of knowledge (political, intellectual, academic, theological)?
"Responding passionately to the unspeakable — with feeling, not sentiment — might renew our sense of the political, and guard against our too easy disavowal of evils committed in our name. To become sensitive to the affliction that demands our concern is to dare to read against the grain, against the self-serving humanism that inoculates the privileged against whatever is too powerless or insignificant to count."


Several people said they faced hostility when telling people not to dig through their trash for recyclables. One woman said she'd had a bottle thrown at her truck by someone who brought recyclables to the center.
Representatives from nearby businesses like Diamond Dental of Sacramento and Emigh Ace Hardware complained about abandoned shopping carts and trash strewn through their parking lots after bags are divested of their recyclables.
Joel Alvarado, a representative of the recycling industry who spoke for the recycling center operator during the meeting, said shutting down the center will not solve the community's problems. The center is providing a service for the community, he said.
The county said the turnout was unusual. A meeting of the South Sacramento CPAC where three recycling centers' certificates were under review was attended by half a dozen community members and Arden Arcade meetings are typically attended by fewer than 20 residents.
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors in October restricted where and when recycling centers can operate in the unincorporated county, rendering V. Lopez Recycling illegal. Among other requirements, recycling centers must be located in a shopping center with a minimum of 5 acres of land. In addition, they are prohibited from serving people who arrive with their recycling items in a shopping cart, flat bed with wheels, wagons or make-shift carts.
V. Lopez Recycling sits on about three-quarters of an acre. Residents and county officials said the recycling center can't stop people who abandon their carts in front of other businesses in the area and proceed to the center with bags of recyclables on their backs.
Recycling centers can apply by Nov. 27 for an exemption from the new rules, at a cost of $1,081.58. Seven convenience recycling centers have applied since the ordinance was modified, and the county is aware of two more that can still apply. The county has not shut down any recycling centers or issued exemptions yet. Recycling centers can remain open until the Nov. 27 deadline.
State law mandates that grocery stores and other businesses that sell recyclables either sit within a half-mile of a recycling center or accept the items themselves at retail check-out counters in lieu of paying a $100-a-day fine. In recent years, the number of centers around California has dropped from around 2,100 to under 1,800.
The county planning director makes the final decision on whether to issue a permit for the center, but residents can appeal the decision to the Planning Commission. The Arden Arcade CPAC voted unanimously against recommending a permit for V. Lopez Recycling and to appeal if the county approves one.
The North Highlands/Foothill Farms Community Planning Council will hear certificate applications for two other recycling centers Tuesday evening.
Hundreds of California recycling centers close – what now?


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MoneyTV to Air 13 Weeks of Coverage on MMRGlobal Beginning Friday, July 15, 2011
Weekly Broadcast to Feature MMRF in More Than 170 Million Homes in 75+ Countries Worldwide
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July 14, 2011 08:35 ET | Source: MMRGlobal, Inc.
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Jul 14, 2011) - Bob Lorsch, CEO of MMRGlobal, Inc. (OTCBB: MMRF), will appear on "MoneyTV with Donald Baillargeon" on Friday, July 15th to discuss the opportunity for investors in health IT. MMRGlobal offers a suite of health IT products and services, including the MyMedicalRecords.com Personal Health Record for consumers, healthcare professionals, employers, insurance companies, financial institutions, affinity groups and professional organizations, and MMRPro for physicians, small hospitals and surgery centers. Company spokesperson Kira Reed and MMRGlobal executives will also be featured in 12 two-minute weekly television and Internet follow-up segments.
"MoneyTV with Donald Baillargeon" is internationally syndicated in more than 170 million homes worldwide and is available in more than 70 million homes in the U.S. The television program is all about money and features informative interviews with company CEOs on trends affecting their business and outlooks for the future. The weekly television program first aired in 1996.
About Money TV:
MoneyTV is also broadcast on UPN-TV in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
MoneyTV airs eight times per week in the 21 Caribbean Territories on CaribVision Network.
MoneyTV is broadcast to 48 million TV homes in Western Europe on BEN TV Network and OBE-TV.
MoneyTV is also available in Asia on the Familyland TV Network.
A complete menu of TV listings is available at the MoneyTV web site, http://www.moneytv.net.
MoneyTV Executive Producer and Anchor Don Baillargeon is also the host of the radio program MoneyRap Radio, http://www.moneyrap.com and the television program Health This Week, http://www.healththisweek.com.
About MMRGlobal, Inc.
MMRGlobal, Inc., through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc. ("MMR"), provides secure and easy-to-use online Personal Health Records ("PHRs") and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions, serving consumers, healthcare professionals, employers, insurance companies, financial institutions, and professional organizations and affinity groups. The MyMedicalRecords PHR enables individuals and families to access their medical records and other important documents, such as birth certificates, passports, insurance policies and wills, anytime from anywhere using the Internet. MyMedicalRecords is built on proprietary, patented technologies to allow documents, images and voicemail messages to be transmitted and stored in the system using a variety of methods, including fax, phone, or file upload without relying on any specific electronic medical record platform to populate a user's account. The Company's professional offering, MMRPro is designed to give physicians' offices an easy and cost-effective solution to digitizing paper-based medical records and sharing them with patients in real time through an integrated patient portal. MMR is an Independent Software Vendor Partner with Kodak to deliver an integrated turnkey EMR solution for healthcare professionals. Through its merger with Favrille, Inc. in January 2009, the Company acquired intellectual property biotech assets that include anti-CD20 antibodies and data and samples from its FavId™/Specifid™ vaccine clinical trials for the treatment of B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. To learn more about MMR Global, Inc. and its products, visit http://www.mmrglobal.com/
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Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature, including future performance, management's expectations, beliefs, intentions, estimates or projections, constitute "forward-looking statements." Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company's actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some can be identified by the use of words (and their derivations) such as "need," "possibility," "offer," "development," "if," "negotiate," "when," "begun," "believe," "achieve," "will," "estimate," "expect," "maintain," "plan," and "continue," or the negative of these words. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the risk the Company's products are not adopted or viewed favorably by the healthcare community and consumer retail market; risks related to the current uncertainty and instability in financial and lending markets, including global economic uncertainties; media appearances, scheduling and coverage; product integration in physician practices and hospitals; timing and volume of sales and installations; length of sales cycles and the installation process; market acceptance of new product introductions; ability to establish and maintain strategic relationships; ability to identify and integrate acquisitions; relationships with licensees; competitive product offerings and promotions; changes in government laws and regulations and future changes in tax legislation and initiatives in the healthcare industry; undetected errors in our products; possibility of interruption at our data centers; risks related to third party vendors; risks related to obtaining and integrating third-party licensed technology; acceptance of the Company's marketing and promotional campaigns; risks related to a security breach by third parties; maintaining, developing and defending our intellectual property rights including those pertaining to our biotechnology assets; risks associated with recruitment and retention of key personnel; uncertainties associated with doing business internationally across borders and territories; and additional risks discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Additionally, we are a developing early-stage company and many variables can affect revenues and/or projections, including factors out of our control. The Company is providing this information as of the date of this release and, except as required by law, does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Although the World Bank ceased publication of the World Tables in 1996, most of the time series in the World Tables are still available in the World Bank World Development Indicators database.
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Currently the World Tables database contains about 21,000 annual time series beginning as early as 1960 for over 200 countries.
In the Topical Pages, tables cover per capita aggregates, GDP and growth, key aggregates as a percentage of GDP, and trade. In the individual country sections of the database, tables cover national accounts in current and constant prices, domestic prices and deflators, monetary indicators, central government finances, foreign trade, balance of payments, external debt, and social indicators.
EconData updates the World Tables database annually following the release of the World Development Indicators database.
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Your interview skills can alter your career path for life. How good are your interview skills - will they win you the job you want?
Whilst coaching people in job interview skills recently, it became clear to me that there are three big mistakes people make that could be avoided.
Improve your interview skills by avoiding the mistakes others make.
People don't say enough because it's on their CVs.
Just because you have given relevant examples and explained your valuable experiences in your job application letter, CV or resume do not avoid using this same information in your interview.
In developing your interview skills it is essential that you understand the role that your CV has and the role that the interview has.
Basically the CV gets people to the interview. What is then said in the interview contributes to them getting the job.
If you hold back on repeating the information in your CV you may miss out on the job. It's as simple as that!
When you are preparing for a job interview what do you focus upon and imagine will happen?
Do you think you are going under the spotlight?
Do you feel as if you are about to be interrogated?
Do you imagine that you will go blank and make a fool of yourself?
If these are the kind of thoughts that you have you could be undermining your interview skills - badly.
Why? Because it is these kinds of thoughts that can make you really nervous. What you are doing is practising being nervous every time you think about the interview in this way. This means that you increase your chance of being nervous at the interview. Why do this to yourself? It will only limit your interview skills and your chances.
People with good interview skills don't think like this. They have a positive mindset. They focus on helping the panel.
Developing your interview skills involves developing a helpful attitude of mind, one that will help you win that job. How can you do this? By focusing on making it easy for the panel to pick you.
Work out how to make it obvious to the panel that you are clearly the best person for the job.
Work out how to stand out from the other applicants - find even tiny differences that could set you apart from the pack.
Work out how you can be of value to the organisation and practise saying this so you get used to explaining it and getting your tongue around it.
What do you talk about in your job interview? Do you cover all the experiences you've had? This is not sufficient. It ignores much of what interests the panel or the person interviewing you.
Imagine a CEO of an international engineering company or a Dean at a University interviewing candidates. What is the MAJOR question they want answered? Is it what the candidate has done for the previous company or university? No, they want to know what value the candidates will bring to their company or University.
What value will she or he bring to the company or university?
Will he or she fit in with our engineering culture and make a smooth transition into our organisation?
Will he or she bring international prestige to our University?
Demonstrate an understanding of and belief in their future.
Demonstrate an understanding of their problems and an enthusiasm to help overcome them.
For example, Australian universities have funding as a core need. If you can demonstrate convincingly how you can bring significant funding to the relevant university in the future, this will be even more useful than simply stating how much money you've managed to get in funding in the past. Of course, if you have achieved significant funding in the past you would also mention that, but add in the future too.
Link your answers to the specific organisation you are being interviewed for and explain the benefit to them of employing you. When you have developed your interview skills to do this you are making it easier for the interview panel to pick you.


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De Cessna 500 Citation I is een licht zakenvliegtuig, ontwikkeld door Cessna Aircraft Company en voortgedreven door twee Pratt & Whitney JT15D turbofans. Het model staat aan de basis van de Citation familie. Het Fanjet 500 prototype vloog voor het eerste op 15 september 1969. In 1971 werd de naam veranderd in 500 Citation en in 1976 in de Citation I. Er is ook een single pilot versie (geschikt voor één piloot), de 501 Citation I/SP. De Citation I werd opgevolgd door de Citation II en later de CitationJet.

Ontwikkeling

Cessna begon in de jaren 1960 met de ontwikkeling van een zakenvliegtuig dat het gat in de markt moest vullen tussen de Beechcraft King Air 90 en de Learjet. Het idee was dat de Citation I net zo eenvoudig te vliegen moest zijn als een King Air, maar met een aanzienlijk hogere kruissnelheid. Het vliegtuig moest ook betaalbaar zijn voor privévliegers en kunnen landen op kleinere vliegvelden met korte landingsbanen.

Mede door de toepassing van turbofan- in plaats van turbojet-motoren was de Citation I langzamer dan een Learjet 25 en vergelijkbare zakenjets uit de beginjaren 1970. Hoewel turbofans zuiniger en stiller zijn dan turbojets, bemoeilijkte het gegeven van de lagere snelheid de marketing van de Citation I enigszins en leverde het de bijnaam "Slowtation" op.

Zie ook
 Cessna Citation II

Externe links
 Cessna (officiële website)

Citation I
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The POE-Tester is the perfect tool for every technician's toolbox. Use it to make sure you know what type of PoE is being supplied to ensure your equipment is compatible.
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Location of the "Focused Enforcement Operation."
The Eugene Police Department (EPD) is planning a traffic "Focused Enforcement Operation" in downtown Eugene on March 30th and 31st. The location of the extra enforcement will be from 6th Ave. in the north to 18th Ave. in the south, and Lincoln St. in the west to Kincaid St. in the east. Click on the image to the right for a larger map of the area.
According to EPD sources the goal of the operation will be to uniformly enforce the law for all users, including pedestrians, cyclists, and car drivers. The reason I am giving this warning is to make sure that no one is given a citation due to lack of information and knowledge. Read on for details on what the police will be watching for, and how to avoid ending up on the wrong side of the law.
Please keep in mind that unless otherwise specified this is my interpretation of the law based on written guides and meetings which I have attended. I am not a lawyer or an expert, nor will my opinion save you from getting a ticket. Please post in the comments if any of you have an experience with the crackdown.
According to sources at the March 11th Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) meeting, it is fine to cross the street mid-block as long as you cross at a right angle (go directly across) and yield to all cars. If you cross in this manner it is not jaywalking. You'll get in trouble if you don't yield to cars, or if you cross in any fashion other than directly, such as diagonally.
In Oregon every intersection is legally a crosswalk, but you still need to walk directly across – and don't expect cars to stop at an unmarked crosswalk. This is not a well-known law, despite being well documented and being in the Oregon Drivers Manual (PDF: page 83.) Don't bet your life on a driver's knowledge of this law.
Crosswalks apply to cyclists as well, of course. Bikers, you have to yield to pedestrians, and you cannot enter a crosswalk if there is a pedestrian in it already. According to sources at the BPAC meeting, a cyclist in Portland recently received a $240 ticket for such a violation.
• In a school crosswalk where there is a traffic patrol member and the traffic patrol member signals you to stop.
You are not required to stop for a pedestrian in a crosswalk if you are traveling along the half of the roadway on the other side of a safety island from the pedestrian.
There are also rules that a pedestrian must follow in a crosswalk. According to BPAC sources, a driver does not have to yield to you until you step off the curb and put a foot in the crosswalk. That is how you assume your right-of-way. Once you have assumed your right-of-way, you have to use it. You cannot motion for the car to go ahead because you will be encouraging them to make a violation.
(1) No person may ride a bicycle on a sidewalk in that area bounded by the outer limits of Charnelton Street on the west, 6th Avenue on the north, Pearl Street on the east,and 11th Avenue on the south.
Also, in areas where it is is legal to ride on the sidewalk the cyclists must yield to pedestrians and give audible signals when passing. A cyclist also must travel at the speed of the slowest moving person when sharing a crosswalk with other pedestrians.
Of course, cycling on the sidewalk is incredibly dangerous and a great way to get hit by cars in intersections and driveways. Don't do it.
(a) In a lane for vehicular traffic or parking may ride only in the direction legally prescribed there for that traffic. Don't ride the wrong way in bike lanes.
(b) In a lane for vehicular traffic or parking shall ride as closely to the curb as is safe, but when approaching an intersection where a curb lane is designated "Left Turn" or "Right Turn" shall avoid that lane within 50 feet of the intersection if intending to ride through the intersection without turning. If it is safer to "take the lane" you may do it, but an officer might disagree.
(c) On a street or alley shall ride in single file with other bicyclists whenever a motor vehicle is approaching within 100 feet to the rear.
(d) On a bicycle path or a sidewalk shall keep as far to the right as is safe, except when overtaking and passing pedestrians and other vehicles, which shall be overtaken and passed only on the left.
I hate to say it folks, but the Idaho Stop Law didn't pass last session. It didn't even get out of committee. As a result cyclists still cannot legally roll through stop signs, nor can they treat red lights as stop signs. (The idea that red lights = stop signs was never part of the Oregon version of Idaho Stop, but works great in Idaho.) We can be sure that these laws will be well enforced during the "focused enforcement operation." You can expect a $200+ ticket if you get caught.
On an editorial note, remember that as cyclists we individually represent all other cyclists when on the road, like it or not. If one of us behaves badly, many drivers will attribute that bad behavior to our entire group. Unfortunately this does not work in reverse, and "well-behaved" riders generally go unnoticed.
Even when a "focused enforcement operation" isn't happening, it is a good idea not to run stop signs and stop lights. While the law certainly is wrong, and while Idaho Stop simply would have "decriminalized good behavior", it didn't pass. If you decide to break the law realize that many people are watching you and judging you for it. We need the hearts and minds of Eugene and Springfield citizens if we want to continue to advance cycling in the Eugene area. These people vote and write legislators just like we do. Don't let them label us as lawbreaking fools. We'll need their support to pass Idaho Stop in the next session.
That's not to say I don't run my fair share of stop signs. I ran about 20 in a row last Friday just biking across Springfield on D street, but there weren't any other cars around to judge me. I don't ride like that on 18th street during morning rush hour, for instance, even though it would be perfectly safe for me to do so.
Some laws make sense and some laws to do. Simply breaking the laws that don't make sense may be the easiest way around them, but it doesn't help the situation in the long run. It can also get rather expensive, and if you choose to break those laws on Tuesday or Wednesday you can't expect to pay heavily for it.
I'll leave you with a wonderful video created last year by Spencer Boomhower which explains the logic behind Idaho Stop.
At W24th Ave. and Polk, hardly any vehicles come to a complete stop unless another car is at the intersection. I suppose there are many intersections like that in the city, but it seems inconsistent for some vehicle drivers who insist that bikes come to a complete halt.
Hey, wanted to mention that this was a great review of our local cycling rules & regs. Knowing is half the battle!


"High School Graduation in New York City: Is Neighborhood Still Destiny?"
Since 2004, students in New York City have been allowed to choose where to attend high school. But freedom to leave their neighborhood schools hasn't led to higher graduation rates for students from low-income families, a new study finds.
While the city school system's overall four-year graduation rate reached 70 percent in January, the graduation rates for students who live in low-income neighborhoods lag behind those of their wealthier peers by as much as 34 percentage points, according to the study by Measure of America, which is a project of the Social Science Research Council.
Only 60.9 percent of the high school students who live in the beleaguered Mount Hope, Fordham South, and Morris Heights neighborhoods of the Bronx are graduating in four years, even though many chose to attend schools in other neighborhoods.
More than 95 percent of students who live in wealthy Manhattan neighborhoods like SoHo graduate from high school on time, the study found.
"After more than a decade of universal school choice, a child's community district is still highly associated with his or her likelihood of graduating high school in four years," the study says. Choice has "not fixed the problem it was designed in part to solve."
A cluster of factors likely accounts for the persistent low graduation rates among students who live in disadvantaged neighborhoods, it says, including the tremendous complexity of the school choice process.
The data-mapping project by researchers Kristen Lewis and Sarah Burd-Sharps provides the first look at New York City high school graduation rates based on where students live, rather than where they attend school.


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Corrections officer allegedly duped ex-Olympian into signing over will
A married Idaho corrections officer allegedly duped a former Olympic speed skater into a relationship in a twisted plot to become the beneficiary of his will — before contributing to his death, according to cops.
Marina Billings, 49, a corrections officer in Pocatello, Idaho, is accused of exploiting 68-year-old Boris Leikin in the financial scheme that also involved her husband, Robert Billings, 70, according to Fox 13 Now.
After meeting the former athlete online, Billings moved to Utah to live with him at his home in the Salt Lake City suburb of Cottonwood Heights, the news outlet reported. At least at first, Leikin was unaware she was married, cops told the station.
The seemingly healthy man's health then soon began to decline and he was hospitalized, ABC 4 reported.
Billings told Leikin's neighbors that she moved in to care for him and to control his finances during his hospitalization, according to the station.
Leikin is seen competing during the U.S. Long Track Championships in 2005.
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But after he was released, Leikin was isolated from others and was hospitalized again when his health deteriorated a second time, ABC 4 said.
At the hospital, Billings restricted visitors and claimed she was his fiancée, according to the outlet, citing court documents. Hospital staff said Leikin appeared severely neglected, the report said.
His neighbors told the outlet that Billings invited them over one day and told them she was adjusting Leikin's will, claiming he was suffering from a terminal case of mad cow disease, an incurable neurodegenerative disease of cattle.
The neighbors told ABC 4 that Billings' husband was present when they arrived.
Billings reportedly told Leikin's neighbors that she moved in to care for him and to control his finances during his hospitalization.
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They said Marina placed a pen in Leikin's shaking hand and forced him to sign the amended document while she spoke to him in a "peculiar" manner — "like a dog," the outlet reported.
Leikin died on July 6, 2021.
During a search of Billings' home, police found a secret basement where they recovered copies of Leikin's will, power of attorney and medical records, ABC 4 reported.
Billings, a booking deputy at the Bannock County Jail, and her husband have been charged with financial exploitation and aggravated abuse.
Jeff Hall, the chief deputy at the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office, explained why they weren't charged with murder.
At the hospital, Billings restricted visitors and claimed she was Leikin's fiancée, according to ABC 4.
"In a murder charge, we would accuse someone of directly causing the death of someone else and doing that unlawfully," Hall told Fox 13 Now. "In this instance, the allegation is that these people created circumstances that compromised a vulnerable adult's health, not necessarily that they directly caused a death."
Investigators are still trying to determine if the couple intentionally got Leikin sick, Fox 13 said.
The Bannock County Sheriff's Office said Billings has been placed on administrative leave while the county conducts an internal probe, the East Idaho News reported.
"The Bannock County Sheriff's Office expects the highest professional conduct of its employees both on-and off-duty, which includes conformance to laws," Bannock County Sheriff Tony Manu said in a statement.
"The Bannock County Sheriff's Office is cooperating fully with the Utah investigation," he added.
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By Sadie Andrew2021-12-30T03:10:00+00:00
A leading vaping industry expert is working with Oldham City Council in Manchester to help tackle counterfeit and non-compliant products on behalf of Geek Bar.
Billy Rahman is the managing director at vape manufacturer iBreathe and has been appointed to act as a consultant for Geek Bar. He hopes to help stop the flow of illegal vape products in a campaign which has already resulted in the seizure of thousands of pounds worth of items in the UK.
"I have operated in the vaping industry for 12 years and the issues facing Geek Bar with counterfeit and non-compliant products are the same as those my business faces," explains Rahman.
"These products originate almost exclusively from China and at least 11 large-scale manufacturers have been closed down there in recent months."
Billy Rahman is working with Oldham City Council to tackle illicit vaping products
He has established a primary authority arrangement with his local council, Oldham in Greater Manchester, in which trading standards officers there will co-ordinate operations with their counterparts around the country.
Rahman is also working alongside compliance company Arcus Compliance, which represents some of the largest brands in the vaping industry, to ensure that all CLP (classification, labelling and packaging) requirements for Geek Bar products being sold around the UK are met.
"Working with Oldham as the primary authority, this partnership has already produced results, with the confiscation of numerous illegal products in North Lanarkshire. Meanwhile we have also identified several counterfeit re-sellers operating in Southall in west London, and in parts of Manchester," Rahman continued.
"The popularity of Geek Bar's products means that unfortunately, some people are willing to take illegal steps to get them to market. However, through this partnership we are working hard to ensure that counterfeit re-sellers are properly policed – and sending out the message that it is only a matter of time before these operators are identified, and that ultimately this kind of activity can lead to a prison sentence."
Trading standards officers recently carried out the biggest single raid so far in the UK, seizing non-compliant disposable vaping products – those which may meet standards in other countries but fail to do so in the UK – worth around £190,000 from a former takeaway premises in Newcastle.
Items have also been seized in raids in recent weeks in Aberdeen, North Lanarkshire, South Ayrshire, Stockton, Halton, Walsall, Cherwell in Oxfordshire, Cheltenham, Cirencester and Kent.
Geek Bar has created a list of approved distributors, published on the Geek Bar website. Retailers and distributors can also report suspected counterfeit and non-compliant products at legal@geekbar.com and the company is incentivising retailers to report counterfeits or products that do not comply with UK regulations.
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Who Sets The Agenda?
January 16, 2022 January 17, 2022 ~ lizmonster
Yesterday, I caught an article on Twitter:
Science Fiction Is Never Evenly Distributed https://t.co/Uoebs29Zlb
— Cora Buhlert (@CoraBuhlert) January 15, 2022
This is an interesting analysis of the state of the genre. I read the blog referenced, but did not listen to the podcasts; my reactions are entirely in response to Buhlert and Felapton's analyses.
I think there are a lot of good points here, and some fascinating observations (discussions about how and why writers write are always interesting to me), but two things (well, maybe three) stood out for me.
I'll get to that in a bit.
I'm not particularly involved in SFF fandom (which may, in a way, disqualify me from commenting here). I paid a lot more attention before I got published; I read widely in the thick of the Puppies melodrama, and in fact voted in the Hugos once (maybe twice?). For most of my life I thought of fandom as a home, of sorts, even though I was always the quiet kid in the back of the room. Things changed when I got published; I retreated to being an ordinary reader. Undoubtedly my reaction to this piece is heavily influenced by observing fandom from the outside, as well as interacting with a lot of writers who don't write SFF at all (and a lot of writers still working toward their first sale).
Speaking of other genres: Thing One (or perhaps Thing One-Half) is that none of this is unique to SFF fandom.
What SFF fandom does have that I think is lacking elsewhere is an intelligent, thoughtful set of fan writers–journalists, really–who observe and read and analyze what's being published right now. There are, though, enough people writing about issues in other genres that I recognize nearly all the SFF complaints compiled in these blogs. There are aspects unique to SFF, because like all genres there are things that set SFF apart from the others. But hopeful themes, "younger" voices, diversity (or lack thereof)–all of these issues are discussed (and complained about) across the literary spectrum.
(I'll speak briefly to one of these: the "younger", sometimes YA-ish voices people perceive in some fandom-popular books. I mean…a lot of these books were written by young people. One author Felapton mentions–probably more, but at least one I know–was in their early 20s when their debut sold. The acclaim for this author's work is entirely deserved, but observing that sometimes the characters seem young? Of course they do.
My Twitter stream is full of published authors saying "I was OVER 30 when I first sold a book! You're never too old! Don't give up!" Which, as my kid would say: LOL. Media is dominated by youth, and carping about that seems churlish.
My one and only complaint about John Scalzi's beautiful Old Man's War is that I disbelieve a critical mass older people would be willing to take a young body when the trade meant likely five years or less of bloody conflict and loss. But Scalzi wrote this book before he was 35 years old. I suspect he might tweak a phrase or two if he were writing it now.)
Thing Two that struck me was this idea that all of these themes were somehow deliberately chosen by the writer, that every book began with the writer thinking "I must write fiction about <socio-political issue>! What kind of story can I wrap around that?"
Which is an oversimplification of what was said. But I did have a pretty strong reaction of "Dude, I'm just writing stories."
Of course I shouldn't extrapolate my experience to everyone else's. I know more than one SFF writer who is indeed deliberately tackling major issues, and designing narratives to make some very particular points.
But I really think a lot of writers–maybe most–are just writing stories. As Buhlert points out, we're all influenced by the media around us, perhaps mostly by the media we grew up with. (I cheerfully cop to that.) And we're all influenced by the world we live in.
All art is political; if you think your art isn't, you're probably expressing a comfort with the status quo.
Stories come from people's lives. One small human brain can posit universes huge and wide and different and ugly and beautiful. All that imagination, all that synthesis is a product of an individual life lived. Radical social ideas, horrible tragedy, the perfidy and violence of humanity–and hope, and beauty, and love–all of these things appear in a story because of the author's experiences.
Do some authors write knowing they'll piss people off? Maybe they do. I don't. The story comes first; I often have no idea what it "means" until I'm done with it. Then I'm aware that some aspects of it might annoy folks; but then it's too late.
But all of this ruminating on process is mostly irrelevant, because of
Thing Three: Publishing.
The elephant in the room in all these discussions is publishing–or, more specifically, capitalism. Because all of these books that are lauded and complained about and snubbed and awarded exist because some corporation decided they could make money selling them.
Which isn't a bad thing, and I say that as an oligarchy-hating socialist. Trade publishing is a capitalistic industry that's been incredibly successful at getting artwork into the hands of readers who might otherwise never have had access to it. Books are produced with enthusiasm and affection and real attention to quality.
But the bottom line is publishers have to make money. They couldn't pay all the people who edit and market and design and print all those amazing books if they didn't. Which means what gets sold and what gets read are–predominantly–books publishers believe people will pay for. And they base those guesses (yes, they are guessing) on sales that have already happened.
It's a feedback loop, for sure. Organizations like Worldcon and the SFWA, with awards that have earned their prestige by singling out excellent work, absolutely influence what publishers will buy. But the big, gating organization here is the publishing industry, and because they are, by necessity, motivated by money, change is careful and slow. You can write the most brilliant, subversive, beautiful, literary thing, and if it's seen as too much of a financial risk, nobody is going to read it.*
*For large values of nobody. Self-publishing is a thing, and many self-published authors have readerships larger than those of trade-published authors. Additionally, many authors publish both ways. None of what I'm saying is cut-and-dried.
The success of a particular trade-published book depends, most of all, on how much marketing power a publisher puts behind it. (Not all marketing campaigns are created equal; viral books happen; YMMV; etc.) Publishers do sometimes take chances, but for the most part, those chances are little stretches in directions they believe might hold promise.
In short: if you buy what you like, more of what you like will appear.
As a writer who's seen it from both sides, it's always interesting to me when these kinds of conversations ignore the massive influence of the distribution engine. There's an implication that the books being sold are everything that's being produced, or at the very least the best and most varied representation of what's out there. I think that's maybe 80% true; but I think readers often abdicate their own influence on the pipeline. Even money-driven trade publishing doesn't produce a homogeneous set of stories (as Buhlert and Felapton both point out). In a genre as sweeping and popular as SFF, there is almost certainly something out there for everyone. If hopepunk is being published, it's because hopepunk is selling. (Personally I suspect this is because we could all use some hope right now, but WTFDIK?)
TL;DR: If you don't like what's being published, read something else. And pay for it, if you can. (Get it out of the library if you can't.) Because when it comes down to it, what you'll see in the pipeline tomorrow will reflect what's generating income for publishers today.
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Come by the OYM at the Cardinal Rigali Center (3rd floor) on July 30th from 1-3pm to say good-bye to Liz!
It's been said that "one man's junk is another man's treasure." See for yourself at the OYM garage sale! Our much needed storage space is getting filled up with old computers, printers, vases, clothes, Papal visit posters, banners, sign holders, and other miscellaneous trinkets that we've collected over the years. All items must go! They will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.
Did you know that the OYM has moved locations? If not, now you do! We are located now at the Cardianl Rigali Center, 20 Archbishop May Dr. We would love to see you, so come by and say hi! We are on the third floor! Get off the elevator and turn right, then turn right before the double doors, and just keep walking 'till you find us! See you soon!
We just completed week 4 of our Eucharistic Love series here at the OYM. It has been a blessing for many youth ministers and young adults to come together for some faith sharing and adoration! We have talked about such topics as what it means to await the Lord in the Eucharist, suffering and authentic love. We have encountered the Lord personally through adoration.
There are 5 more weeks in the series and you are all invited to come! That is, if you are a young adult, a youth minister, volunteer, campus minister, or core member! Come let yourself be nourished by the Eucharist as we close out this Year of the Eucharist.
Our Holy Father just began the Synod on the Eucharist in Rome on October 2, 2005. You can support the pope, cardinals, bishops, and priests with your prayers by joining them in praying the [Prayer for the Synod].
>"Common life can be messy and the Eucharistic series has satisfied two aspects of my intention to continue searching for Christ this autumn. I enjoy the communion of reality with theYouth Ministry community and this encounter with them teaches me about that intimate place inside each of us that is struggling, creative, ecstatic, deeply engaged and there I find God through what is proclaimed, shared, and prayed. Secondly, to pray with those who have humbly shared themselves before Jesus present in the Eucharist helps to overcome the twists and turns of daily life and ministry. Thank you OYM for this opportunity to pray together for His Church, His Teens, and ourselves."
Check out the [Eucharistic Love] page of our web site for more information.
In keeping with the re-alignment of the Archdiocesan Curia, the Office of Youth Ministry and Catholic Youth Council will merge to form the Office of Catholic Youth Ministry. The merger, currently in process, should be completed no later than June 30, 2005.
Presently the two staffs are preparing to consolidate their offices at one site. After examining space at the current locations of the Blessed John XXIII Center and the Cardinal Rigali Center, as well as other locations in the immediate area, it was decided that the place that offered the greater space with the better amenities for both staffs would be the Cardinal Rigali Center. The move will mean a consolidation of all youth ministry work into one office. All the final pieces are still being worked out but, if all falls into place, the physical move could come as early as October 27th or 28th.
The move and approaching merger should not impede the services that are currently being offered by either agency. In the long run, with a combined staff and a combined budget, we are confident that we can improve upon some of those services as well as respond to additional needs for all youth groups, athletic teams, boy scout and girl scout troops, youth ministers, scout leaders and coaches.
We will keep you up to date as the merger continues.


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Today, 19 November 2003, AIRIA Ltd. demonstrated a live television news service direct to an aircraft cabin during flight. AIRIA delivered BBC World news to guests on board a Boeing Business Jet during a special flight from Newcastle International Airport, UK. This milestone is the culmination of almost two years of development by the company, working with technology partners Telenor of Norway and SPCI of Canada.
The AIRIA system is the first to offer live inflight news globally, including coverage over the oceans. It uses satellites to deliver TV signals to the aircraft - the same satellites and receiving antenna that are used by the existing Inmarsat satellite telephone system already fitted onto most long-haul aircraft in service today. A single decoder unit on board decodes and transmits the TV programmes to the on board TV system.
"We have spent a lot of time working with our partners and potential clients on how best to deliver a commercially sensible live television news service. Today's flight is not just about the achievements in technology, but also about showing that we can deliver the service without expensive new antennas or satellites," said Vardhan Rajkumar, Vice President, Marketing.
He adds: "This is a simple system - installation is easy, with just one avionics box needed. We have also managed to keep the cost down to a minimum."
Trials on board the BBJ commenced in the US in the summer, following the successful ground testing of its avionics, which have been built for AIRIA by SPCI. Critical environmental tests, including DO-160 EMI/EMC and vibration were also passed to ensure reliable airborne operations and the performance of the satellite receiver was also verified under the various conditions that might be encountered in-flight. The AIRIA system uses the Inmarsat satellite network and earth stations owned and operated by Telenor to provide a global service.
The AIRIA live television system will be rolled-out on passenger aircraft starting in 2004. The existing system can deliver two channels simultaneously, direct to the aircraft. AIRIA is hoping for a strong take up among airlines as 80% of long-haul aircraft flying in commercial service have the required infrastructure to implement the system.


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Indeed, vouchers do inadvertently raise private school tuition. That is one reason the movement is switching from vouchers to ESAs, which allow parents to buy education services without creating an artificial tuition floor for schools. It's also true that even ESAs raise economic demand for education services in general—but that's just another way of saying they empower parents to pay for those services!
McCloud's article provides a public service in one respect: It collects almost all the school choice myths in one place. Maybe I don't mind so much if the defenders of the status quo make my job easy after all.
As always, your thoughts are appreciated!
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The Confessions: Chapter XVI
Chapter XVI.—The Fear of Death and Judgment Called Him, Believing in the Immortality of the Soul, Back from His Wickedness, Him Who Aforetime Believed in the Opinions of Epicurus.
26. Unto Thee be praise, unto Thee be glory, O Fountain of mercies! I became more wretched, and Thou nearer. Thy right hand was ever ready to pluck me out of the mire, and to cleanse me, but I was ignorant of it. Nor did anything recall me from a yet deeper abyss of carnal pleasures, but the fear of death and of Thy future judgment, which, amid all my fluctuations of opinion, never left my breast. And in disputing with my friends, Alypius and Nebridius, concerning the nature of good and evil, I held that Epicurus had, in my judgment, won the palm, had I not believed that after death there remained a life for the soul, and places of recompense, which Epicurus would not believe. 479 And I demanded, "Supposing us to be immortal, and to be living in the enjoyment of perpetual bodily pleasure, and that without any fear of losing it, why, then, should we not be happy, or why should we search for anything else?"—not knowing that even this very thing was a part of my great misery, that, being thus sunk and blinded, I could not discern that light p. 101 of honour and beauty to be embraced for its own sake, 480 which cannot be seen by the eye of the flesh, it being visible only to the inner man. Nor did I, unhappy one, consider out of what vein it emanated, that even these things, loathsome as they were, I with pleasure discussed with my friends. Nor could I, even in accordance with my then notions of happiness, make myself happy without friends, amid no matter how great abundance of carnal pleasures. And these friends assuredly I loved for their own sakes, and I knew myself to be loved of them again for my own sake. O crooked ways! Woe to the audacious soul which hoped that, if it forsook Thee, it would find some better thing! It hath turned and returned, on hack, sides, and belly, and all was hard, 481 and Thou alone rest. And behold, Thou art near, and deliverest us from our wretched wanderings, and stablishest us in Thy way, and dost comfort us, and say, "Run; I will carry you, yea, I will lead you, and there also will I carry you."
The ethics of Epicurus were a modified Hedonism (Diog. Laërt. De Vitis, etc., x. 123). With him the earth was a congeries of atoms (ibid. 38, 40), which atoms existed from eternity, and formed themselves, uninfluenced by the gods. The soul he held to be material. It was diffused through the body, and was in its nature somewhat like air. At death it was resolved into its original atoms, when the being ceased to exist (ibid. 63, 64). Hence death was a matter of indifference to man [ὁ θάνατος οὐδὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ibid. 124, etc.]. In that great upheaval after the scholasticism of the Middle Ages, the various ancient philosophies were revived. This of Epicurus was disentombed and, as it were, vitalized by Gassendi, in the beginning of the seventeenth century; and it has a special importance from its bearing on the physical theories and investigations of modern times. Archer Butler, adverting to the inadequacy of the chief philosophical schools to satisfy the wants of the age in the early days of the planting of Christianity (Lectures on Ancient Philosophy, ii. 333), says of the Epicurean: "Its popularity was unquestioned; its adaptation to a luxurious age could not be doubted. But it was not formed to satisfy the wants of the time, however it might minister to its pleasures. It was, indeed, as it still continues to be, the tacit philosophy of the careless, and might thus number a larger army of disciples than any contemporary system. But its supremacy existed only when it estimated numbers, it ceased when tried by weight. The eminent men of Rome were often its avowed favourers; but they were for the most part men eminent in arms and statesmanship, rather than the influential directors of the world of speculation. Nor could the admirable poetic art of Lucretius, or the still more attractive ease of Horace, confer such strength or dignity upon the system as to enable it to compete with the new and mysterious elements now upon all sides gathering into conflict."
See viii. sec. 17, note, below.
See above, iv. cc. 1, 10, and 12.
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Realistic Games has been operating since 2002 and in that time have managed to carve out a decent reputation within the gambling industry. What's been refreshing to see from Realistic Games is their honest approach towards the world of online casino after openly admitting in the early days that their products weren't up to scratch. They admirably went back to the drawing board and started over – twice!
The company are based out of Berkshire, England and are actually one of only a few software developers to be based in the UK at all. The company offer up their games in a Java base, which means that they can be accessed via your desktop or even your mobile without any need to download.
Realistic offers a steady range of games to choose from within their increasing back catalogue. What's impressive to see is that they aren't afraid to pull games that are underperforming, and they also work alongside casinos to make sure that they are offering up the best possible types of games to suit their needs. Whilst we aren't aware of any games being specifically requested by a single casino, they do state that if a casino were to ask then they would accommodate, which a lot of companies simply would not.
What Realistic Games does really well is they work with companies to get the best mobile experience. They use different products for testing from tablets to smartphones, Apple to Android, and everything in between. There is no doubt that online casino is seeing a massive shift towards mobile play, so a feature like this is imperative to stay relevant in the marketplace.
The number of slots available is approaching 50 and are a mixture of 3-reel and 5-reel offerings. Each game has been individually designed to try and create a new theme or integrate a new feature, with no two games being the same. We did find that there was a fairly sizeable shift in quality between the 3-reel and 5-reel games though, with the latter having a much more modern feel to proceedings.
The games on the whole weren't all that appealing, but they did include one or two decent titles that came in the form of Wild on Safari, Snapshot and 6 Appeal. These offer a good mix of decent graphics, features, bonus rounds and jackpots between them, but once again, we would have to compare these sorts of games to the likes of Microgaming and NetEnt, two of the best in the business, and we aren't even sure that any of these would get into their catalogue at all.
So there is plenty of room for improvement although their attempts are respectable.
There are just three blackjack games on offer from Realistic Games; Classic, Hi Lo, and Perfect Pairs. The classic game does allow you to fire up quite a few customisations to the table and how it functions to make the game feel unique. For example, you are able to change things such as colour of the cloth, choice of cards, dealer voice, insurance options, and game command buttons.
The games are fully functional with mobile devices as well and will optimise as and when necessary. For example, on the desktop version you are going to be able to play 5 berths at the table, whereas on mobile this will slim down to just 3 to best use the limited real-estate.
Roulette follows a similar theme to blackjack in that there is the classic game on offer plus two other variants, and they become fully customisable once the game has loaded.
On top of the Classic version, players are also going to be able to access the American version of roulette, which includes double zero in case you were wondering.
On top of all this, Realistic Games also include game variations of Keno, Hi-Lo Gambler (Video Poker) and Scratchcards.
A Clean Slate For Realistic Games
As mentioned earlier in the article, Realistic Games have been about since 2002 and are based out of Berkshire, England. There have been several changes to the company to turn them into the one that you see today, and whilst they have been about for a good while now, they are still looking to change and progress in one of the most exciting sectors within the gambling industry.
Back in the early days between 2005 and 2009 the company only produced 6 games. They did strike deals with the likes of Ladbrokes and BetVictor at these times, but quickly realised that this was not the route they wanted to take, so closed the games down and started from scratch.
In 2008 the company launched ReGal, which was to be known as the Realistic Games Library for short. They spent the next couple of years designing new games and offering their services out as a casino platform, much like the one you see today. It took them a while to build up relations with already established brands, but by 2013 they had secured spots on numerous casinos.
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It's the weekend! I survived my Physics exam on Thursday and actually had fun while taking it (well, who wouldn't if your professor wrote all the questions featuring South Park characters?) It was remarkably the most un-stressful exam I've ever taken in college. The end of the week nicely balances out the bad luck and troubles I had earlier in the week. Neuroscience classes are getting harder and harder and I find myself wishing I had 48 hours in a day. I would settle for 24 if I knew how to manage my time wisely and not fall asleep randomly out of fatigue.
This outfit is a tribute to dressing fashionably during Exam week. I really wanted to grab sweatpants one day but I decided life's too short to look like a bum. Thus I pulled out some pieces and fashioned something presentable for Monday, a few days before my exam. My outfits descended into hideous laziness as the week progressed, but that's to be expected when all you can think to do is try to float a nerve to record from it or make sure you wrote all the moment of inertia equations on your 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper.
Without further ado, let's talk about this outfit. I wore this on Monday, when it was still just a bit chilly in the mornings and much hotter by early afternoon. My incremental attempts to coerce fall into happening happened a little too well on Saturday because it was definitely in the 60s Fahrenheit. St. Louis jumped from summer to winter faster than you can say SIBERIA. This is a continuation of attempting to build my layering skills while trying to stay fashionable, my major goal this fall/winter.
I really like building outfits, just like stacking random pieces from a Lego set together until I get some shape and working from there. That day I started off with a comfy Forever 21 skirt from summer, a bit too big at the waist but workable. I layered on sweater tights underneath to keep my legs warm and brought out my Oxford booties for a spin. I have been spending so much on shoes lately - my room is exploding with boxes D: I need to pull out the big guns and put in some hours in the Psych building to make up for it :( This pair from Forever 21 is a really dark brown (I had wanted Camel or an Oatmeal light brown but $90 is a little steep at UO or Aldo) and it's pretty comfortable until you walk all around campus all day. The heel is about 4 inches but the worst part is that this shoe SQUEAKS like some rabid mouse puppet or wet sneakers as I walk. If you heard "clip clop squeak clip clop squeak" on Monday, that was me tearing up the sidewalk with some weird noises coming out of my shoes haha. I have no idea how to fix this but hopefully it will disappear soon. I made sure to wear some ankle socks to prevent my feet from slipping when it gets hot.
Finally I threw on a Ralph Lauren Petite sweater I bought off a school clothing sale last year. I can't believe how wealthy some people are around here because they were donating J. Crew and Ralph Lauren for $2-$4 ... I totally nabbed this for $4 and it fits pretty well. The straight-across neckline is kind of strange and itches a little but the length is great for petites. Top it off with a beret I stumbled upon at a thrift store during high school for $0.50 and we have a deal of an outfit. I like the colour scheme and I felt quite collegiate and a hybrid of American and European styles, thus the title. My bag is a random cheap one from Claire's I bought a long time ago that I use instead of a backpack because the one I've been using since 7th grade is falling apart and kills my back. Also, when I stuff it to capacity I look like a sad unfashionable pack mule that a simple breeze can blow over.
Grey sweater leggings with ankle socks, brand?
Hopefully we can see the leaves changing colours soon in my usual photoshoot location. I ♥ chlorophyll!
I plan on collecting my backlog of outfits tomorrow. I'm challenging myself to a limit of 5 minutes per picture, so hopefully I can fit all my outfits into an hour or so, which includes running up 4 flights of stairs to change. I know I definitely have over 10 outfits to shoot eek. Besides that, I always have a load of work to catch up on but this weekend has been relatively breathe-easy. We celebrated a friend's birthday tonight and I had some yummy food at Moon Festival (thank goodness for the hot tea). I hope you guys enjoy the noodles out of your Sunday!
hi pretty! love your shoes, what's their brand? they look great with your leggings....!
I love the title of this post! :). You are looking lovely as always.
Perfect outfit for fall! I really like your oxfords girly!
angie-- i love those booties! i been looking for a pair too. they're a definite must have for this season.
cute outfit- you looks stunning in the pictures!
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LOVE this outfit, esp the lace up booties! wonderful way to stroll in for exams hehe, planning to do that too when the time comes ;). great inspiration fersure <3.
super cute outfit! I love the beanie and your shoes! can't wait to see more outfits!
I'm so glad your physics exams was un-stressful! :) I should really start making up tricks like these to help me during tests because I tend to freak out and my mind goes blank. I think it's so cool that people from your college are reading your blog- I only wish I had the courage to tell people about mine. Your outfits are amazing, as usual & I love those tights! Can't wait for your next post!
ahhh angie i love this outfit! you look so chic :) those boots are really great too!
Super cute outfit! The red looks great with the grey tights and the oxfords actually look like pretty good quality-- are they?
It is great that you are letting more people know about your blog. I've recently done that too, and although it is a little embarrassing and awkward at times, I think it is ultimately worth it because of the great support that you end up getting!
loving the shoes and beret!
I love ur posts angie and dang u have an awesome Physics tcher!!
Super cute look- love the complimentary stripes between your skirt and tights!
first of all - cute header!!
OOOoooo!! First thing I notice was your banner! I love it! It looks so professional!
LOVE THIS LOOK! It's perfect for school! I love the knit overload too :) And yes, I like the peekaboo socks!
ohh you look so cute! I like the beanie you are wearing. and $4 that is so cheap, yeah some people are so wealthy it is crazy!
cute!! this reminds me a bit of Blair in Gossip Girl!
Lovely blog! Im your new follower!
I love the new header! Those leopard wedges are nice. Also, I love your shoes, my friend has similar shoes to those :).
PS: You take SO MANY photos :P.
Girl you are so chic, even with a more studious outfit! omg nice banner :) I love your caption "the world is my runway," captures your fashion personality perfectly.
loving your shoes and white socks peeping out, I can't seem to find socks like those. Where did you get yours?


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Patio vs. Deck Throwdown
Two Fine Homebuilding editors face off on the pros and cons of these popular exterior spaces.
By Matthew Millham, Kiley Jacques Issue 282 - May 2019
Synopsis: Two FHB editors face off on which is better: a patio or a deck? Citing the need for continual upkeep and the possibility of human-caused disasters, Matthew Millham argues that patios are a safer bet. Kiley Jacques counters that decks have a much higher return on investment, and can have lower maintenance costs.
Decks are dangerous; plan for a patio
Both patios and decks serve the same general purpose: providing a surface on which to comfortably enjoy an outdoor space adjacent to a home. Both can be great places to hang out and grill. Both essentially extend the living space when the weather's right. Both require maintenance (sort of). Both can add value to a house.
But when you consider all the things we use these spaces for and the life of a home, one is inherently safer than the other (not just for people, but for the structure it sits next to): patios.
Most decks last 20 years on average, according to the National Association of Home Builders (other estimates are even lower). They're typically attached to the house and can do major damage when they fail. The average patio, meanwhile, lasts the lifetime of the home, according to NAHB. Built to code, a patio should never hurt a house.
This is not to say that I'm anti-deck; there's one on my house, and I use it plenty. A well-built deck can be a beautiful, useful thing. What I don't like is avoidable risk, and to me that's more or less the definition of a deck.
The fact that prescriptive building codes gave exterior decks their own section starting in 2015 seems a tacit acknowledgment of this risk. Why it took so long for decks to get more attention is anybody's guess, but I suspect the code council didn't want to highlight the myriad ways decks are known to fail and hurt people and buildings. Incidentally, that's exactly what recent code updates have done. Fire, frost heave, termites, rot, detachment, overturning, and water infiltration are just some of the things the code addresses.
Patios are persnickety; your best bet is a deck
I have a deck. And I have a patio. Both are modest affairs. The former requires a coat of weatherproofing stain in the spring and another in the fall—a total of maybe five hours. Easy peasy. The latter demands regular edging, weeding, and re-leveling. On my deck, I lie on a comfortably even, sand- and insect-free surface. On my patio, I watch ants work while the blood rushes to my head.
A few years ago, we published a story titled "Why Decks Fall Down." The author, David Grandpré, notes that prescriptive codes don't typically cover decks with hot tubs, large grills, multiple levels, and lots of curves. Instead, they provide guidelines for building decks that are basically rectangular in shape and that meet certain size requirements. He lists six common reasons decks collapse, noting that most failures occur when more than one problem exists. The average healthy lifespan of a deck is estimated to be between 10 and 15 years, though advances in hardware and engineering know-how continue to increase their longevity. A no-frills, code-compliant deck within the range of its predicted lifespan is unlikely to collapse. For proactive deck lovers like me, the North American Deck and Railing Association has a handy checklist of things to watch for and measures to take to head off the disasters Matt forecasts.
Wood decks are consistently rated as one of the top home updates that will pay off. According to a 2018 Cost vs. Value Report, a midrange deck costing $10,950 has a resale value of $9,065—that's an 82.8% return on investment. And a meaty selection of building materials allows for good control over the budget. Pressure-treated lumber is laudable for its affordability, availability, and the fact that it's easy to work with. Red cedar offers a natural, chemical-free alternative. And then there's the world of composites and recycled plastics, which are extremely weather- and stain-resistant; plus they don't splinter, warp, rot, or split. That is to say, decks are a flexible investment.
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