2.  These tumors can undergo - spontaneous regression (Brodeur, 1991), - differentiate to benign neoplasms, - or exhibit extremely malignant behavior.
3.  Arise from cells of the neural crest that form the adrenal medulla and sympathetic ganglia.  Tumors may occur anywhere along the sympathetic chain within the neck, thorax, retroperitoneum, or pelvis, or in the adrenal gland.  Seventy-five percent arise in the retroperitoneum, 50% in the adrenal, and 25% in the paravertebral ganglia.
5.  Amplification of the N-MYC oncogene (seen in 20% of primary tumors) (Look et al, 1991; Muraji et al, 1993).  Deletion of the short arm of chromosome 1 (1p) (25% to 35% of neuroblastomas ) Brodeur et al, 1992; Caron et al, 1996).  Gain of one to three copies of 17q….more aggressive tumors (Bown et al, 1999).
9. Poorly differentiated neuroblastoma with a minimal-to- moderate amount of neuropil.
11.  Age-linked histopathologic classification.  Stroma poor or stroma rich.  Stroma poor - very poor prognosis (less than 10% survival)  Stroma-rich tumors can nodular, intermixed, and well differentiated.  The stroma-poor tumors can be favorable or unfavorable subgroups based on the patient's age at diagnosis, the degree of histologic maturation, and the mitotic rate.
12.  Most children present with abdominal pain or a palpable mass.  Manifestations of their metastatic disease -Bone or joint pain and periorbital ecchymosis. - Respiratory symptoms of cough or dyspnea. - Neurologic deficits as a result of cord compression.
16.  70% of patients with neuroblastoma present with metastases at diagnosis  This is responsible for a variety of the clinical signs and symptoms at presentation.
17.  Mimic pheochromocytoma: (paroxysmal hypertension, palpitations, flushing, and headache.)  severe watery diarrhea and hypokalemia (due to Secretion of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) by the tumor)  Acute myoclonicencephalopathy myoclonus, rapid multidirectional eye movements (opsoclonus), and ataxia.
20.  Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy (Neuroblastoma often spreads to the bone marrow If blood or urine levels of catecholamines are increased, then finding cancer cells in a bone marrow sample is enough to diagnose neuroblastoma (without getting a biopsy of the main tumor).
22. International Neuroblastoma Staging System Stage definition 1 Localized tumor with complete gross excision, with or without microscopic residual disease; representative ipsilateral lymph nodes negative for tumor microscopically (nodes attached to and removed with the primary tumor may be positive). 2A Localized tumor with incomplete gross excision; representative ipsilateral nonadherent lymph nodes negative for tumor microscopically 2B Localized tumor with or without complete gross excision, with ipsilateral nonadherent lymph nodes positive for tumor; enlarged contralateral lymph nodes must be negative microscopically 3 Unresectable unilateral tumor infiltrating across the midline,* with or without regional lymph node involvement; or localized unilateral tumor with contralateral regional lymph node involvement; or midline tumor with bilateral extension by infiltration (unresectable) or by lymph node involvement. 4 Any primary tumor with dissemination to distant lymph nodes, bone, bone marrow, liver, skin, and/ or other organs. 4S Localized primary tumor (as defined for stage 1, 2A, or 2B), with dissemination limited to skin, liver, and/or bone marrow (less than 10% tumor) in infants less than 1 year of age.
28.  The goals of surgery are to establish the diagnosis, stage the tumor, excise the tumor (if localized), and provide tissue for biologic studies.  Resectability of the primary tumor should take into consideration tumor location, mobility, relationship to major vessels, and overall prognosis of the patient.  Neoadjuvant chemotherapy, given the efficacy of modern agents, is very successful in reducing the size of primary tumors.
29.  Stage I neuroblastoma have a disease-free survival rate of greater than 90% with surgical excision alone.  Chemotherapy indicated in recurrence child has N-MYC amplification unfavorable histology.  N-MYC amplification, unfavorable histology, age > 2 years, and positive lymph nodes --- lower overall survival.
34.  A monoclonal antibody called ch14.18 attaches to GD2, a substance found on the surface of  many neuroblastoma cells. This antibody can be given together with cytokines (immune  system hormones) such as GM-CSF and interleukin-2 (IL-2) to help the child's immune  system recognize and destroy neuroblastoma cells.
35.  For local control in neuroblastoma  Doses of external beam irradiation used have ranged between 15 and 30 Gy. (depending on the patient's age, location, and extent of residual disease)  Intraoperative radiation therapy - patients with unresectable disease.


That's absolutely the last thing that concerned me about my seventh pregnancy, but now the only thing I seem to ever remember coming from my OB-GYN's mouth. After five miscarriages and one ectopic pregnancy that resulted in tube removal, my biggest concern was being able to carry my child – not necessarily washing my vegetables. After battling through IVF because of the tube removal, I became pregnant with a little girl.
In the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are 1600 cases of listeriosis each year. About 200 of those cases occur in pregnant women, out of about four million pregnancies a year.
I am one of those 200.
My daughter was born at 1 pound, 12 inches long, at an early 23 weeks. Her chances of survival were thin.
Immediately I questioned every single thing I ate. Did I wash all fruits? Wait, oh no, not the grapes. Or was it that ham sandwich that I quickly made on my way out the door? I'll never know what it was. What I do know is that I should have never thought I couldn't be one of 200.
My daughter is 2 now. Her favorite thing to do: wash veggies.
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Erin, you know how I feel about you and your precious girl. Thank you for sharing a snippet of your amazing story. I look forward to reading more from you my friend!
Oh. I could write for days! Thank you Renee!!!!
Thank you for sharing your story with us, Erin Elam ! Welcome to our community of writers.
I'm beyond excited!!! Thank you!!!
Oh my goodness, thank you for sharing this. Such important information for expectant moms. Your daughter is beautiful and what a strong little girl. Truly amazing, Erin Elam . I'm so glad you've joined our 30Seconds community of writers. I can't wait to read more from you!


Our over the top one of a kind baby birthday hats are just gorgeous!! .This hat is an X & O birthday hat. This is covered all the way around in pink flowers with pink pearl centers. Then there is pink Swarovski crystals on the hat with tiny pink pearls.


It's amazing how versatile potato salad is. You can have it as a side dish, quick lunch, brunch option, etc. By the end of this post, this writer wants to accomplish two things. One, I want to show you how easy it is to make potato salad. Two, I want to get my readers tastebuds tingling so hard that they have no choice but to rush to the kitchen to make their own potato salad.
Cut your potatoes into small portions and toss them into boiling water. Once they're ready, take them out and place them in a plate.
Drizzle some olive oil over the potatoes while they're still hot. Season the potatoes with black pepper, salt, rosemary leaves, garlic, oregano leaves and lemon juice. Toss the ingredients together.
Chop your coriander and spread the pieces over the potatoes. Add the mayonnaise and toss the ingredients again then leave the salad to sit in the fridge.
Potato salad is really easy to put together. My prep time was about 30 minutes only. The potatoes took around 15 minutes to boil.
I enjoyed every bite of this salad. The flavors combine so beautifully, each ingredient adding a delicious aroma and taste. I don't remember the last time potatoes tasted this good.
-When you flavor things when they're cold the juiciness sits on the outside, but when you do it when they're still hot the flavors seep in. Delicious.
I got a lot of great compliments when I served this at home. You can pair this salad with meats, brunch, have it as a picnic snack, at barbeques, etc. Go on and give your friends or family a delicious surprise tonight with this delicious potato salad recipe.


I've been using Camstudio a long time to record all my desktop videos and screencasts. I only just discovered today that it will do picture-in-picture recording with a web cam. It's a cool feature to this free software, although as evidenced by the lag, I likely need to tweak some settings or close more programs.


The future wrestler went to St. Cronan's School.
Finn Baylor is a well-recognized man in the wrestling industry. His real name is Fergal Devitt. Having now a deal with WWE, Finn used to fight on an independent circuit for a long period of time. He started earning his reputation of a talented wrestler when being educated in the New Japan Pro-Wrestling promotion. At that period, his ring nickname was Prince Devitt.
Father: His father's name is Fintan.
Mother: His mom is named Leonie. The parents always supported and encouraged their boy on his way to a wrestling stardom even at school when teachers inspired them to persuade Finn not to follow this dangerous kind of sports.
Siblings: He grew up together with his three brothers and one sister.
Husbands and kids: The man has not been married yet and has no children so far.
According to some rumors, Finn now dates charming Cathy Kelley. The lady serves as a ring announcer. Nothing is known of his previous relationships.
His net worth corresponds to $2 million.
Place of living: The man settled down in Orlando, Florida after signing the deal with WWE.
Cars: His car collection is more than just amazing. The brightest car in the range is Lamborghini Gallardo.
He is regarded as the quickest champion in the whole history of the WWE promotion. His record amounts to 27 days. For nearly a month after his main roster debut, he became a champion.
His closest friend is also a wrestler named Dru Onyx.
At school, he played soccer. His beloved football squad is Tottenham Hotspur.
Finn loves reading comic books.
What were his accolades when cooperating with NJPW?
The profitable cooperation with NJPW brought several prestigious accolades to him, including three Junior Heavyweight Championships and six tag team championships in the same weight category.
What independent promotions has a wrestler cooperated with?
The young man represented also such promotions as CMLL, RPW, NWA, and ICW. Everywhere Finn became a champion hero.
Did he succeed when entering WWE?
The deal with WWE surely took the sportsman to another higher level. There he obtained his present ring name. At first, he performed in the developmental NXT division. Soon after, he moved to the major roster.
He always shouted for the British Bulldogs, Mr. Perfect, and Rick Rude.


16 February 2017 – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is in Bonn today to engage with G20 Foreign Ministers on the issues of Africa and sustainability. It is the new UN chief's first visit to Bonn since taking office this year. Click below button to "READ THE COMPLETE NEWS".


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Dalmatian brunch as a tourist product? Absolutely, that is the tourism we must strive for
The key word is the Dalmatian way of life. This is what tourists want to experience.
Author Goran Rihelj
During the last two years, it has been constantly emphasized that now is the opportunity to redefine tourism and move away from excessive tourism, and as we know, UNWTO has had "Restart Tourism" as its official narrative for the last two years. But unfortunately in Croatia we have not yet seen that "some" new beginning, idea, vision and desire for change.
But in Split-Dalmatinska precisely through the prism "restart" they started a tourist story that is well worth sharing and everyone's support.
For the purposes of this article, take your time to watch this short video, which shows the way and culture of living in Dalmatia in the best possible way. Before that, imagine what you associate when you associate food or gastronomy with France or Italy?
I personally got goosebumps. Wow, I want to experience that. Local atmosphere, people, fresh local food, music, a glass of excellent wine... So spontaneous, powerful, natural. A real treat.
Dalmatian way of life that is so tempting and pulls me to be a part of this society that is presented in the video. Especially in today's modern life where we don't have time for ourselves, let alone for society. Enjoying life, at least during that half hour of lunch.
Let's go back to the roots, quality, not mass, sustainable, man in the middle of the story, experience, authentic - all this is part of the project of branding Dalmatian brunch as a new tourist product.
I constantly point out that authenticity is the very essence of tourism and that tourists travel to meet and experience a new way of life and culture. As in our offer, we must be who we are, not copies, and be part of the standard global offer.
That's it. It is precisely this experience that tourists want to experience, it must be one of our main tourist products.
Guided by the fact that quality tourism does not and must not come at the expense of the quality of life, Ivana Vladović the director of the Split-Dalmatia County Tourist Board is making a big step towards self-sustainable tourism, connecting restaurants and OPG, and above all, promoting the authentic offer. The way it should have always been, but in our tourism development we have lost ourselves.
If I say that one of the associations for the "Dalmatian way of life" is the Dalmatian brunch, I'm sure we'll all agree. It also affects the Dalmatian identity, the way and culture of living, which we should not be ashamed of. On the contrary, it should be at the heart of our tourist product.
"We are launching the project "Dalmatian Brunch". This is how we promote our way of life through what is most important to us, which is family, socializing and food. Brunch is all that." expires Ivana Vladovic, director of the TZ Split-Dalmatia County.
Simple, logical and natural. But also a big challenge. The question is whether the Dalmatian brunch culture is still alive among the local population? How to revive it and turn it into a tourist product? How to connect restaurants and OPGs in Split-Dalmatia County?
Big challenges, but everything starts with the first brave step forward. And that's why great support for this project. A project that should have long been an integral part of the tourist experience of every tourist, both domestic and foreign.
What is brunch anyway? Mostly a hot meal before lunch, eaten from 11 am to 12 pm, a meal that is not eaten alone, but with company.
We call it the first morning "brief" states Vladovic and adds that the point is to socialize, that you don't eat brunch alone, that you eat it in a good mood, that you have someone to share all your joys and dilemmas with. "It actually best represents our way of life and everything Dalmatia is." emphasizes Vladović.
The project also has a much wider dimension. There is also the issue of sustainable through the connection of OPG and restaurants, short supply chains and "returning" the Dalmatian identity that somehow got lost in modern development and lifestyle.
"Our goal is to popularize the whole story so that people, when they are in Dalmatia, would want to go for brunch. It is a simple and reasonably priced meal and is served between 11 and 12. Brunch is important because it unites Dalmatia. Brunch is also in Dalmatinska Zagori, on the island, as well as in the big and small mist. It is something that binds us.", says Vladović.
The project is in the process of development, according to the director, but it is important that people start talking about the whole project slowly, so that as many stakeholders as possible are included in it, that the local population accepts it and that the whole story slowly rolls out.
"We invite all restaurants and OPGs to get involved in this project, and a good number of them have already responded. The project is only in the initial phase of development and this year we will work on its implementation and promotion. We invite everyone to send us their recipes, your photos, to jointly create a cookbook "Dalmatian brunch", translate it into several languages and offer it to tourists", says the first woman of the Dalmatian TZ.
Vidović emphasizes that Dalmatians live like that, they just don't know how to show it. "We always want to give the tourists who come to us their home, instead of giving them our own home, our way of life. We have to return to our authenticity. Also, brunches are meals that are seasonal, because we cook dishes that just came to fruition at that time If it's cabbage time, cabbage dishes are made, if it's lamb time, then lamb is prepared. Lamb is not made in December, but in the spring when it's at its best. What's indigenous is prepared. It's a sustainable story." Vladović makes an excellent point.
It's not even breakfast, it's not even lunch, but pleasure and joy, the need to socialize, extra strength after hard work.
"Dalmatia lives well, we like to eat well, it's never too many meals, it's a meal that fits on one plate and is followed by a glass of soft drink, not a liter of wine. The theory of life in Dalmatia is always fine, good and homemade. We'd rather drink a glass of good wine, rather than a liter of bad wine", points out Vladović and explains the essence of the whole story in an excellent, simple way.
Finally, the most important thing is how to connect all this with restaurants, OPGs, short supply chains and present it as a tourist product. It is important to emphasize that the most important thing is that the brunch is "revitalized" by the local population. First, the story becomes sustainable, i.e., an integral part of the day of most Dalmatians, and then tourists will also adopt the local way of life and culture. We are ambassadors and key in the whole story. The story must be alive, to be received, and not a theatrical performance for tourists.
Finally, the fact that it is not just words and that TZ is thinking very well is evidenced by the fact that starting in the spring, Croatia Airlines planes will serve passengers a Dalmatian brunch as a well-rounded project. The first such project was introduced last year by Croatia Airlines through "Tastes of Slavonia", where passengers are served a Slavonian meal on all flights.
"Apart from cooperation with Croatia Airlines, we will present the whole story at foreign fairs. We want to brand the Dalmatian brunch through an integral part of b2b meetings. So we will invite partners to a Dalmatian brunch at our fair, because we talk about business at the table, and now we will do it and with brunch", pointed out Vladović.
As always, everything is up to us, including the success of this project. Pick it up, go to brunch, bring your guests, tell them the story of how "now" is brunch time, how it is part of your culture of living. Restaurants get involved, as well as OPGs. Cities and counties encourage.
This is the story we must strive for. Authentic - we are what we are, no one can take that from us, copy it, and that is exactly our differentiation on the market.
"Our way of life, our wine, our greenery, the smell of our land. This is exactly what we want to offer our guests," concludes Vladović.
Homemade food, company, wine, letters... It can't get any better. This is the tourism we must strive for.
Photo: Tom Dubravec/ Cropix/Cropix / Source: TZ SDŽ
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A record shop in Frome is proving it's still got what it takes to survive in the music industry despite the tough market conditions.
Raves from the Grave is marking its 20th anniversary of selling vinyl records and CDs.
The shop also hosts record signings and gigs and has a sister shop in nearby Warminster, in Wiltshire.


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Pauline Hopkins and Advocacy Journalism
Rhone Fraser
In the 1905 letter to William Monroe Trotter, Pauline Hopkins wrote that she lost the editorship of the Colored American Magazine because she "refused partisan lines" and "pursued an independent course." This book focuses on how her editorship promoted an advocacy journalism that sought to abolish Jim Crow. The work of the magazine under her editorship "pursued an independent course" because it included in-depth biographical sketches of those whose lives she, before many, deemed important to know, such as Toussaint L'Ouverture and Harriet Tubman. Hopkins "pursued an independent course" also as a novelist, particularly in her first novel Contending Forces, a work unique for a narrator that tried to, in Hopkins's words, "raise the stigma of degradation from my race." Her following three novels were serialized in the Colored American Magazine. Her 1901 novel Hagar's Daughter is about the attempt of two generations to assimilate within the Washingtonian elite, her 1902 novel Winona exposes the effect of Washington's 1850 Fugitive Slave Law on enslaved children, and her 1903 novel Of One Blood explores what it means for an individual socialized in the West to, in Hopkins's words, "curse the bond of the white race." In Dr. Rhone Fraser's, close reading of her fiction, he looks at how her protagonists in each novel pursue "an independent course" and in his final chapter he compares her essential work to Black journalists of the twenty first century who, like her, "refused partisan lines" and "pursued an independent course." Pauline Hopkins's work was not just the work of a typical journalist, but the work of an advocate.
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Janice J. Smith, 71, of Paris passed away on Sunday, January 20, 2019 at the Monroe Manor nursing home in Paris.
Janice was born on August 20, 1947 in Mexico, MO the daughter of Speedy and Joyce Runyon Watson. She was employed by Monroe Manor nursing home as a nurse aid for 20 plus years up until her health forced her into retirement. Janice was known for being a caretaker her whole life, not just for her family, but for everyone.
Janice is survived by two children; her daughter Cammie Anderson of Paris, MO; and her son Shannon Smith of Springfield; six grandchildren; also someone very close to her heart was Nicole Moffatt in which she welcomed into her home as one of her own. She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers and two sisters.
She was very active in her grandchildren's activities wherever that may take her. She was always traveling to make sure she was a part of their activities, it was very important to her.
Funeral services will be held at 3:00 p.m., Friday, January 25 at the Agnew Funeral home in Paris with Reverend Wesley Hammond officiating. Visitation will be from 2 until time of service on Friday at the Funeral Home. Burial will be in Walnut Grove cemetery in Paris.


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Arrive at Narita Int'l Airport and after clearing government formalities, by bus to the hotel in Urayasu city . After hotel check-in, FREE TIME to meet your relatives, friends or just rest. Our hotel is connected to the train station and close to the Shopping Area where you can enjoy shopping.
Proceed to, Soka City, known for the "most famous brand of rice crackers in Japan", "Soka Senbei"! We will visit the Senbei (rice cracker) Factory to "try grilling your own senbei" and enjoy shopping also. Then to Kawagoe, which is often called "Koedo" (Small Edo). Pass through the area with "Old Style Architecture Warehouses" on both sides of the street. Then to the Matsuri Museum with it's display of huge floats and see a short movie of the Kawagoe Festival. Later get a chance to shop at a small alley, "Kashiya Yokocho (Candy Alley)", carrying snacks made from sweet potato, dried natto, etc. Our hotel is located in a National Park with natural forest. There are lots of Onsen (Baths) such as Jacuzzi, Zashiki (Tatami) Buro, etc. Enjoy your first ONSEN HOT SPRING of this tour!
Proceed to Karuizawa, which thrived as "Japan's Most Popular International Resort" and loved by John Lennon and Japan's Royal Family, etc. Enjoy strolling around Karuizawa Ginza at the center of town or the Outlet Shopping Mall, Souvenir Shop, Ice Cream Shop, Bakery, etc. which stand side-by-side. Later visit Shiraito Waterfall, a lovely waterfall 10 ft. high and 230ft. wide. The sight of water falling down in slender streaks looking like so many white threads is indeed magnificent. Then visit the Asama Bokujyo ranch, where an extensive grassland area you can enjoy the scenic beauty and enjoy fresh ice cream. Our hotel is located at the foot of Mt Asama, 3,707 ft high on the Kitakaruizawa plateau. You can see Mt. Asama and Mt. Shirane from your room (weather permitting) Enjoy hot spring & Roten buro (open air bath).
Enjoy "Apple Picking", in season. Nagano is called "Fruit Country". We are supposed to be able to see Cosmos blooming around this time of the season. Later enjoy driving on the Venus Line Scenic Road with panoramic mountain views along the way. If the timing is right Japanese Scabiosa blooms around this season. Then, go to Lake Shirakaba, the main sightseeing spot in the Venus Highland Area. We will visit the World Silhouette Museum, which features the fairytale-like works of Shadowgraph. The fantastic space made by light, mirrors and water is extremely beautiful. Our hotel is a Big Resort Hotel near the lake. There are various HOT SPRING BATHS such as a Cave Bath, Herbal Bath, etc.
Go to the Tateshina Cheese Cake Factory to see the popular factory that makes the cheese cake and sample its product. You will also be able to purchase local specialties such as Nozawana Zuke Pickles, etc. Next visit the Miso Factory, where you buy the local miso. Nagano Prefecture is "No. 1 in the production of Miso". Then, go to the Misora Hibari Uta no Sato Museum. It is a small museum pertaining to the Great Female Japanese Singer "Misora Hibari". The exhibition displays her stage costumes, pictures, records, etc., donated by her fans. You can also enjoy a walk in the park with lots of stone monuments concerning Misora Hibari. Later visit the Yomeishu Factory to see the process of making Medicine Sake. Yomeishu is a health tonic, which is taken for the improvement of poor appetite, poor blood circulation, fatigue, etc. Our hotel is a beautiful mountain resort located at the foot of a mountain. Enjoy the ONSEN HOT SPRING and walking around the hotel in the morning.
In the morning, ride the Komagane Ropeway, which will carry you 3,117 ft. high into the sky. From an altitude of 8,570 ft., you can enjoy the superb panoramic view of the Southern and Northern Alps and Mt Fuji (Weather Permitting). Later proceed to Kiso, one of the most beautiful wooded areas in Japan. Visit Tsumago-jyuku Old Town registered as "One of Japan's Most Important Traditional Building Conservation Areas". Stroll through the delightful main street containing a variety of wooden and plaster Edo-style Buildings with a surrounding of forested mountains as a backdrop. Next go to our hotel in Gero, renowned as "One of the Three Most Prized Spas in Japan". This Hot Spring is unique and specializes in cases of neuralgia, stomach disorder, high blood pressure and so on. Good chance to Soak and Relax in the famous "GERO HOT SPRING BATH and ROTEN-BURO".
Proceed to Takayama and visit the Matsuri no Mori Museum. Parade Floats, the World's Largest Drum and Decorated Screens with Gold Lacquer, are exhibited. Gorgeous and splendid, the Takayama Festival is "One of the Three Biggest Festivals in Japan". Also visit the World Heritage Site "Shirakawago", the remote and small mountain villages of Gasho-style Houses. The atmosphere of the villages with traditional houses still standing, looks like a Japanese fairy tale. Then proceed to the hotel in Kanazawa, located close to Kanazawa station and big shopping area. Enjoy shopping before dinner.
Go to Hakuza (Gold foil shop). Kanazawa produces 99% of the nation's gold leaf. The Golden Tea ceremony room used about 40,000 pieces of fist class Pure gold leaf is a pleasure to see. Then to visit (Omicho market?) or East teahouse district area, regarded to retain the most redolent of the spirit of Kanazawa. Enjoy strolling the streets lined with lattice doors and paving stones. Then visit Hideki Matsui baseball museum. New York Yankee's slugger Hideki Matsui was born very close to the museum. You can learn his history at this museum. Next visit a national monument Tojinbo cliff with spectacular scenery. One of the three rock pillars of its kind in existence in the world. Then to our hotel, located close to Lake Biwa, biggest lake in Japan. Enjoy soaking in the Onsen hot spring!
Nagahama is a castle town that dates back to the 16th century. In the morning walk to Nagahama castle, famous as first castle for Hideyoshi Hashiba (next Hideyoshi Toyotomi) to build. Also we will enjoy strolling popular shopping street KUROKABE (black wall)square in down town. Proceed to Lake Hamana. We will visit famous EEL Pie factory. Lake Hamana is famous for ell farming. The eel pie (cookie) is the most popular souvenir in this area. Our hotel is located by the lake. All you rooms face the lake, enjoy onsen with lake view!
In the morning visit Hamamatsu flower park. Huge flower park with beautiful flowers bloom all year round. Next visit Hamamatsu Fruit park too enjoy pear picking in season. Then to Numazu, one of Japan's leading fish markets. We will stop for shopping of seafood, local specialties etc., Enjoy you last Onsen hot spring!
Head to Yokohama 2ND BIGGEST CITY IN Japan. Hotel is located within easy walking distance of department stores, big electronics store, 100 yen shop and underground shopping area. After arrival, free time for shopping, meeting relatives, friends, or rest. Your rooms are paid for, but meals (LUNCH/DINNER) will be At Your Own Expense to let you eat your favorite dishes before returning home. We will give everyone a carton box to use for packing their gifts. (2 Pieces Per Person Baggage Allowance. The member will pay for any excess).
At check-out time our agents will come around to tape and tie-up the boxes and take the baggage's to be checked-in down. In the afternoon, proceed to NARITA Int'l Airport to catch a flight in the evening to Honolulu, arriving the same morning, SEPTEMBER 16, 2010 (THURSDAY). After clearing U.S. Customs proceed home. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR JOINING OUR 2010 TOHOKU TRAVEL'S MOUNTAIN RESORT "BOCHA-BOCHA" TOUR #14! Clients remaining back will be assisted in obtaining train, plane and hotel reservations. Members may return to Honolulu individually, but no later than 3 months from day of departure. Weekend returns will cost more per person.
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Statistics have shown that their are approximately 11 marijuana users and 4 people abusing prescription drugs that live in Burdett, Kansas.
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MASH (1970)
Comedy, Drama, War
Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, Roger Bowen, Gary Burghoff, Fred Williamson
Misbehaving Military Medics
"M*A*S*H" was one of those TV series which you could watch over and over again and never grow tired of seeing the same old episode. It always had great writing and comedy along with a touch of emotion which drew us into the lives of those doctor's and nurses serving in the Korean War. And the same can be said of "MASH" the movie which preceded the series as watching it now it feels like several episodes of the series pieced together and thanks to the writing, the comedy, emotion and characters it never once grows dull.
Now to be honest there is not really a storyline to "MASH" and as already pointed out it feels like several episodes of the series. Yes it starts with Hawkeye Pierce and Duke Forrest arriving at the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea but what follows on from there is chapters, very loosely connected events which happen during their stay. What that means is we get an episode about Hawkeye, Trapper John and Duke dealing with Major Frank Burns, their stiff and religious tent mate, then we get one about the Hospital's dentist wanting to commit suicide and so it goes on. The thing is that whilst there is no real storyline these episodes all work, they all have a wonderful pay off before shifting along to another episode and event.
Now what I find amusing is that some see "MASH" as an anti war movie, and maybe it does come across that way for some, especially those who grew up in that era. But from an outsiders point of view it's all about the amusement of Hawkeye, Duke and Trapper John McIntyre flirting with the nurses, drinking and basically disobeying their superiors whilst getting one over on them. And because you have the different episodes it never grows tried when Hawkeye annoys 'Hot Lips' O'Houlihan or gets one over on Col. Henry Blake. And talking of Blake, the comedy of his ever efficient right hand man Radar played by the brilliant Gary Burghoff still brings a smile to my face as he is always one step ahead of Blake.
Yet whilst there is a lot of merriment going on there is a deeper side to things and maybe that's where some see it as anti-war. But for me we have the friendships which form and the camaraderie which provides the depth whilst also showing how wrong war can be. It allows some of these episodes to have an emotional side which is finally balanced with the humour.
As for the casting well you have to say that Donald Sutherland is just brilliant as Hawkeye Pierce especially when it comes to delivering the laid back anti establishment side of his character. From the way he looks through to that devilish smile Sutherland is just magnificent as is Elliot Gould who is just as much fun as Trapper John McIntyre. In fact there is not a single bad performance in "MASH" and the likes of Tom Skerritt, Gary Burghoff, Robert Duvall and Sally Kellerman all deliver their characters brilliantly allowing us to like and laugh at them and with them.
What this all boils down to is that like the TV series "MASH" the movie worked and still does. It may not have a real storyline but the series of amusing episodes which happen to Hawkeye, Duke and Trapper John are still great fun. And like the series you can watch "MASH" the movie time and again and never grow tired thanks to both the brilliant writing and the equally brilliant acting.
Having impressed with his radio show in Crete, live wire Disc Jockey Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams - Man of the Year) is shipped to Saigon to help boost troop morale with a new radio show. With his madcap antics and love of modern ...
Forrest Gump (1994)
As Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks - Philadelphia) sits at a bus stop waiting for his bus to arrive he starts regaling those around him with the story of his life. Going back to his childhood where he wore leg braces, influenced Elvis and m ...
Air America (1990)
Having had his pilots licence suspended whilst flying dangerously in LA, Billy Covington (Robert Downey Jr. - Weird Science) is recruited to join a secret air force team in Laos whose motto is "Anything. Anywhere. Anytime". With a b ...
Wag the Dog (1997)
With just two weeks left to the elections, a scandal about the President and a young girl is about to break putting his re-election campaign in jeopardy. That's when the White House call in spin doctor Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro - ...
Bat 21 (1988)
During the Vietnam War the US army gets wind of a possible danger and in preparation to carpet bomb the whole area they send up a surveillance plane to check out the location. Except when it gets blown out of the air above an enemy ...


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Dissidents and Officials Face Off at Frankfurt Book Fair's China Symposium
In Feature Articles by Hannah Johnson September 13, 2009
FRANKFURT: A crowd of journalists swarmed around two slightly overwhelmed people on Saturday morning, September 12th at the Instituto Cervantes (the Spanish Cultural Institute) in Frankfurt, Germany. Chinese dissidents Bei Ling (貝嶺), a poet and journal editor, and Dai Qing (戴晴), an investigative journalist, had come to attend the much anticipated symposium, "China and the World – Perceptions and Realities." The two writers gave public statements at the start of the symposium sessions. In her statement, Dai Qing addressed the violation of freedom of expression in China, but acknowledged that some progress had been made.
News of the China Organisation Committee's opposition to the dissidents' appearance provoked a strong reaction from the German media, which accused the Frankfurt Book Fair of compromising freedom of expression. Numerous headlines claimed that the two dissidents had been "uninvited" or "banned" from the symposium.
Juergen Boos, director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, tried to clarify the situation, telling Deutschlandfunk Radio on Saturday morning, "They were never uninvited…. I believe this week we had problems with communication and organization of this seminar."
The Frankfurt Book Fair and the P.E.N. Centre Germany jointly decided on Saturday morning to offer the podium to Bei Ling and Dai Qing and ask them to make public statements prior to the symposium's first session.
As the two writers took the stage, members of the official Chinese delegation walked out of the room in protest. Boos responded by announcing to the audience, "I am disappointed, really disappointed."
Apparently, the members present from the China Organising Committee had not been informed about the program change beforehand. After Boos apologized to the Committee for the oversight, the Chinese officials returned. In a written statement issued Saturday afternoon, Juergen Boos said, "It was important to me and to P.E.N. to give Bei Ling and Dai Qing the opportunity to make a statement at the start of the event. This led to a program change that could not be communicated to all of the event partners in a timely manner."
After this tumultuous start to the symposium, the first session began, appropriately with Chinese and German speakers stressing the importance of exchanging ideas and beginning a more open discussion to understand each other's differing perspectives. Bei Ling and Dai Qing gave dozens of interviews throughout the day and posed questions to the panelists at the various sessions.
During the last session on Sunday afternoon, a lively and controversial discussion started between audience and panelists, dissidents and Chinese officials. Called "Literature in Danger or Even More Necessary Than Ever," the session panelists included Mo Yan and Xu Xing, two of China's most successful and well-known authors.
Although the symposium was called "China and the World," Xu Xing pointed out that what had actually been discussed was "China and the West," and that Western culture often takes itself to be the measure of all things.
Also during this session, Mo Yan refuted last week's German media reports, which alleged that he did not want to be in the same room with Bei Ling and Dai Qing, and instead referred to the two authors as colleagues who have the right to express themselves.
Bei Ling added to this discussion that, as a poet, he should have been included on this panel. He said later that the symposium was "a very good opportunity" to talk about China, politics and literature.
In a closing statement on Sunday, Zhang Yuling, the Director of the Academic Division of the Chinese Academy of Social Science, said that China faces a multitude of problems, including corruption and environmental challenges. Echoing the sentiments of other panelists from the two-day symposium, Zhang said China needs to find its own way to solve these problems, and that the only way to proceed is through dialogue, by listening and taking the other perspective into account.
Contact Bei Ling, Chinese poet and journal editor
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkm5ShAQ1_w
Contact Dai Qing, Chinese investigative journalist
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwhFlCZyF3c
Images from the "China and the World" Symposium:
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Munich, Germany, 10 February 2010 – Defying the impact of a depressed economy on market movements, the Linde Gases Division of The Linde Group closed 2009 with more than 6GWp (Gigawatt peak) of production capacity across its global photovoltaic (PV) customer base. Linde demonstrated increased market traction securing multiple new contract wins and renewals with leading thin-film and crystalline manufacturers worldwide including GS Solar and Suntech in China, Euro Multivision, Indo Solar and Solar Semiconductor in India, and Bosch, Malibu and Masdar in Germany.
Winding down 2009 on an optimistic note, Linde is training its sights on a promising 2010-11 with an aggressive focus on innovation to help PV module manufacturers to drive down costs and reduce carbon footprint. The Company is collaborating with customers in Asia and Europe to achieve sub-USD 1 per Watt thin-film silicon costs, and is pushing the boundaries of innovation in on-site fluorine generation, silane production and turnkey installations of bulk and specialty gases supply systems.
With imminent reductions in feed-in tariffs, the industry will have to deliver technologies that reduce cost/watt.
Cost and technology leaders in PV manufacturing will continue to invest in capacity extension despite oversupply.
Government stimulus packages will be received with cautious optimism, unless viably disbursed and sustained in the medium term.
Dean O'Connor, Head of Market Development & Technology at Linde Gases Division, said: "In 2009, the tough got going. While the industry was suffering with over-capacity, Linde took a keen focus on bolstering customer relationships and investing in innovation to address the cost, efficiency and sustainable manufacturing of photovoltaic cells. Linde's breakthrough onsite fluorine (F2) generation technology has already established a new benchmark for green PV manufacturing.
While the Copenhagen discussions in December achieved a near global consensus on the need to reduce carbon emissions, Linde was already urging the thin-film PV industry to shift focus from Grid Parity to Green Parity – encouraging manufacturers to reduce the carbon footprint of PV module manufacturing to deliver truly green energy.
In 2009, the Company launched The Linde Technology Centre in Shanghai to drive R&D initiatives in China and the Asia-Pacific region to improve gases-related industrial processes and develop green technologies geared towards future and sustainable applications. Linde also has two existing R&D centres in the US and Europe to support those regions.
Over the past four years Linde has built a leading position in gases and chemical supply to both crystalline and thin-film silicon PV module manufacturers, in key markets including Germany, Spain, Italy, China, Taiwan and India. To date, Linde has partnered customers on projects with a production capacity of more than 6GWp.
For more information see The Linde Group web site at http://www.linde.com.


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import { CancellationToken, ConfigurationChangeEvent, Disposable, TextDocument, Uri, workspace } from 'vscode';
import { configuration, RuleDefinition, Ruleset } from './configuration';
import { Container } from './container';
import { Logger } from './logger';
import { DynamicRule, IRule, Rule } from './rule';
import { Arrays, FileSystem } from './system';

interface RegisteredRuleset {
	name: string;
	rules: (DynamicRule | RuleDefinition)[];
}

export class RulesProvider implements Disposable {
	private static _excludes: null | undefined;

	rules!: IRule[];
	rulesets: Ruleset[];

	private readonly _disposable: Disposable;
	private _registeredRulesets: RegisteredRuleset[] | undefined;

	constructor() {
		this.rulesets = FileSystem.loadJsonFromFileSync<Ruleset[]>(
			Container.context.asAbsolutePath('./rulesets.json')
		)!;

		this._disposable = Disposable.from(configuration.onDidChange(this.onConfigurationChanged, this));
		this.onConfigurationChanged(configuration.initializingChangeEvent);
	}

	dispose() {
		this._disposable && this._disposable.dispose();
	}

	private onConfigurationChanged(e: ConfigurationChangeEvent): void {
		const initializing = configuration.initializing(e);

		if (
			initializing ||
			configuration.changed(e, 'applyRulesets') ||
			configuration.changed(e, 'applyWorkspaceRulesets') ||
			configuration.changed(e, 'rulesets') ||
			configuration.changed(e, 'workspaceRulesets')
		) {
			this.compileRules();
		}

		if (initializing || configuration.changed(e, 'ignoreExcludes')) {
			RulesProvider._excludes = configuration.get('ignoreExcludes') ? null : undefined;
		}
	}

	provideRules(fileName: string): IRule[] {
		return this.rules.filter(r => r.match(fileName));
	}

	*resolveRules(
		rules: IRule[],
		fileName: string,
		document: TextDocument,
		rootPath: string
	): Iterable<Promise<Uri[]>> {
		for (const rule of rules) {
			yield* rule.provideRelated(fileName, document, rootPath);
		}
	}

	registerRuleset(name: string, rules: (DynamicRule | RuleDefinition)[]): Disposable {
		if (this._registeredRulesets === undefined) {
			this._registeredRulesets = [];
		}

		const ruleset: RegisteredRuleset = {
			name: name,
			rules: rules
		};
		this._registeredRulesets.push(ruleset);

		this.compileRules();

		return {
			dispose: () => {
				if (this._registeredRulesets !== undefined) {
					const index = this._registeredRulesets.indexOf(ruleset);
					this._registeredRulesets.splice(index, 1);
				}
				this.compileRules();
			}
		};
	}

	private compileRules(): void {
		const rules: IRule[] = [];

		const cfg = configuration.get();
		if (cfg !== undefined) {
			const applied = Arrays.union(cfg.applyRulesets, cfg.applyWorkspaceRulesets);

			if (applied.length) {
				const userDefinedRulesets = cfg.rulesets || [];
				const workspaceDefinedRulesets = cfg.workspaceRulesets || [];
				for (const name of applied) {
					const ruleset =
						workspaceDefinedRulesets.find(_ => _.name === name) ||
						userDefinedRulesets.find(_ => _.name === name) ||
						this.rulesets.find(_ => _.name === name);
					if (!ruleset) continue;

					rules.push(...ruleset.rules.map(r => new Rule(r, ruleset.name)));
				}
			}
		}

		if (this._registeredRulesets && this._registeredRulesets.length) {
			for (const ruleset of this._registeredRulesets) {
				rules.push(
					...ruleset.rules.map<IRule>(rule => {
						if (Rule.isDynamic(rule)) {
							return {
								match: rule.match,
								provideRelated: (fileName: string, document: TextDocument, rootPath: string) =>
									[rule.provideRelated(fileName, document, rootPath)] as Iterable<Promise<Uri[]>>
							};
						}

						return new Rule(rule, ruleset.name);
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				);
			}
		}

		if (!rules || !rules.length) {
			Logger.warn('No active rulesets found');
		}

		this.rules = rules;
	}

	static async findFiles(
		pattern: string,
		rootPath: string,
		maxResults?: number,
		token?: CancellationToken
	): Promise<Uri[]> {
		Logger.log(`RulesProvider.findFiles(${pattern}, ${maxResults})`);

		const files = await workspace.findFiles(
			{ base: rootPath, pattern: pattern },
			this._excludes,
			maxResults,
			token
		);
		return files;
	}

	// private static getFindFilesExcludes(): string| undefined {
	//     if (RulesProvider._excludes === undefined) {
	//         const fileExclude = workspace.getConfiguration('files').get<{ [key: string]: boolean } | undefined>('exclude', undefined);
	//         const searchExclude = workspace.getConfiguration('search').get<{ [key: string]: boolean } | undefined>('exclude', undefined);

	//         if (fileExclude !== undefined || searchExclude !== undefined) {
	//             const excludes: { [key: string]: boolean } = Object.create(null);
	//             if (fileExclude !== undefined) {
	//                 for (const [key, value] of Objects.entries(fileExclude)) {
	//                     if (!value) continue;

	//                     excludes[key] = true;
	//                 }
	//             }

	//             if (searchExclude !== undefined) {
	//                 for (const [key, value] of Objects.entries(searchExclude)) {
	//                     if (!value) continue;

	//                     excludes[key] = true;
	//                 }
	//             }

	//             const patterns = Object.keys(excludes);
	//             RulesProvider._excludes = (patterns.length > 0)
	//                 ? `{${patterns.join(',')}}`
	//                 : null;
	//         }
	//         else {
	//             RulesProvider._excludes = null;
	//         }

	//         Logger.log(`excludes=${RulesProvider._excludes}`);
	//     }

	//     return RulesProvider._excludes !== null
	//         ? RulesProvider._excludes
	//         : undefined;
	// }
}

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We do this study on every Thursday at 6 30 pm and on every Saturday at 6pm, and the study lasts no longer than 3 hours.
This study is organized and done in Sinchon(신촌)area.
What we do in the study is reading the latest articles followed by discussion and debate regarding the topics.
The articles are chosen and extracted from Bloomberg, BBC, World Street Journal, Economist, Korea Herald, Joongang Daily, and so forth.
The topics are also very diverse such as Politics, Economics, Health, Technology, Life Style, Business Tips.
In addition, we have a short individual presentation time so that you can have opportunities to practice making a speech in front of a few audience as well as listen to other people's presentation content and skills.
In this study, there is a very strict principle that we talk in English all the time even out of the cafe when we hang out together for drinking or eating. I and we value this culture much so new comers will be required to follow this rule as well.
Should it be specified of the least requirements of joining this study, those could be certain scores in English tests like TOEIC, TOEFL, IETLS or your foreign experience. 920 in TOEIC, 105 in TOEFL, 7 in IELTS may suffice the basic standard. I am not trying to be condescending but articles are not easy to understand. Sub-leaders and I have a perfect score in TOEIC, but we still find it difficult to grasp the content at times.
I could say that I am nearly bilingual (but not exactly) and there are several highly qualified sub-leaders who help to facilitate and smooth this study out.
Native speakers or foreigners can also join since this study is not only to keep up our fluency but also to have profound knowledge and discussion. But I am not asking a perfect English fluency or proficiency from all the applicants as I myself don't have it either.
And there are already a lot of very fluent and knowledgeable members (workers in foreign companies, students from abroad, foreigners). Thus you will be able to socialize with a lot of sociable and great people. But we divide into small number of groups during our session, so you don't worry about your chance to speak out – there are plenty.
I was president in Yonsei university before my graduation and managed many study groups so far. I'd appreciate your time being with us and give my words that the study will be managed very efficiently and joyfully.
Of course this study is not for profit and each will pay only 5,000 won for using the rooms and place.
As for the gender ratio, given that sub-leaders are male and topics tend to be heavy, there are a bit more guys than girls.
Rather than having inquiries, I just recommend you to come and try the study. You don't need to prepare anything when you come to the study, just yourself. And you can choose the day meaning it is not mandatory to join both days.
Pls contact me with your introduction (in English) – 1. Name 2. English proficiency (Foreign experience, English test score, etc.), 3. Reasons of applying for this study.


Serve, spike, and score in this colorful, 3-D beach volleyball challenge.
When it is your turn to serve in Over The Net 3D, tap the red button and swipe to spike. For defense, tap the blue button and swipe to spike again. The game offers leaderboards and achievements on Game Center and tournaments.
Defend and spike. Your team is talented too with bounces off the head and powerful spikes. Hit the blue button when the opposing team serves and to pass the ball between your teammates. You will be set up for a spike, so be sure to swipe at the right time.
Serve it up. When it is your turn to serve, tap the red button and prepare to swipe. The other team is usually pretty good so you need to be on your toes with each play. You can also pause the game or change the camera view with simple taps.
Pick your challenge. After you try out the controls and gameplay in practice mode, you can start a single game. Pick your team as well as the opposing team and then select the number of sets you would like to play. There is Game Center support with five leaderboards and 14 achievements.
If you cannot head to the beach for an exciting game of volleyball, then Over The Net 3D will give you that experience right on your device. With 3-D graphics, different camera views, and fun gameplay, you will be serving, spiking, and scoring your way to the top of the leaderboard.
Over The Net 3D does have nice graphics and animations. The controls are pretty easy with on-screen buttons for serving and defending and simple swipes that let you spike or lob the ball.
Designed by the developers of Amiga Over the Net and first iOS vintage version, Beach Volleyball Over the Net has been completely rewritten to provide maximum fun and simple controls. The 3D game visuals provide full immersion and involvement in a single action. Enjoy you to challenge all the teams in the tournament, getting stronger and competitive.


As much as I'd like to be sharing more spring-like outfits, I still have some with coats to show you. Roll on SS19…!
This week we're having a VERY pleasant spate of mild temperatures and wall-to-wall sunshine (it's been blazer weather at last! Hurrah!), but a week ago it was still a bit chilly. So this is what I wore when we went out for a birthday lunch last week: warm enough to go without socks, but chilly enough to still need a big(ish) coat.
What I loved about this outfit (albeit thrown together very quickly because I was running late for our reservation time) was that it was, effectively, only navy and shades of orange. Okay, I've taken a BIT of a liberty with the interpretation of orange and included brown, beige and tan, but they're still warm colours and muted shades of orange, right?!
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All the items I'm wearing are old/not brand new, and with the exception of the trousers (very comfy M&S bootcut leggings), no longer available unfortunately. But as always I've found some alternatives for you, including an almost-identical long tunic sweater (it may be maternity, but who cares?), a gorgeous tan leather tote with ring detail and a lightweight brown check coat that's perfect for transitional spring dressing.
So like my 'I've-cracked-it' approach to packing for a week away that I shared last week, the ease of this way of dressing is to 1. Pick a neutral (navy, brown, grey or camel work well), and 2. Pick your favourite colour colour, and find everything in shades of that colour to build your look.
I kept my base items (trousers and top, just seen) in the neutral navy, and added everything else in warm brown-orange shades. The coat* is mostly navy and orange, so I was already onto a winner in that regard.
I hope the weather is behaving itself wherever you are – roll on, new season!
HAVE YOU STARTED TO THINK SPRING IN YOUR WARDROBE YET? TELL ME IN THE COMMENTS…!
I love the colour tones, navy and orange look great together! I am seeing a lot of earth tones for Spring too which I kind of love as it's not something we see often. Your hair looks amazing with this palette too!
I love your check coat and it looks lovely on you. You also picked the perfect colors to go with your coat!
Thank you Lanae – I know I'm a bit of an orange addict but I do love it, especially with navy!
My experience was that the number of bloggers linking up decreased. However, they are going back up since now nearly all bloggers are forced to use the new system.
That choice of colour is the @Bees knees ' on you C … cant wait to see what you will find in your wardrobe next!!
This is a beautiful dress and you are looking gorgeous in this colorful coat.
This is such a stunning color combo on you! Love the coat and the addition of the snakeskin shoes! Thanks for hosting and enjoy the rest of your week!
Catherine, you are right to mix hues and shades of the orange and yes–this outfit works!! Love that coat. You have a lovely collection of coats–nothing boring going on there! lol!
Thanks Darlene – and yes I think it's safe to say I have quite a few coats…!
Your hair colour is simply wonderful Catherine. Your check coat is perfect for a cooler Spring day and so good with the sandals, a nod to Spring. Hope your Spring sunshine has returned, Autumn down here , my favourite season.
Many thanks for hosting, apologies for my image, I have really stuffed up big time, on my side and no head, not sure how I managed this.
Thank you Jill – it's a new (to me) colour and I'm really happy with how bright it is!
That's a fabulous coat, but I think I love your shoes even more—especially with that contrasting heel!
Thank you Cheryl – they're SO comfy and great for walking which is such a bonus!
Catherine, I love this coat so much! And those shoes and your sunnies! We still have so much cold weather left here that I will be sharing coats for at least a few more weeks. Many of my photos still have snow! And we are getting even more on Saturday. One day Spring will arrive!
I love this coat so much, always have, always will! It is so perfect on you, Catherine . I love how you've styled this with the cropped trousers, and also, while I am here fangirling, OMFG that hair is magnificent.
What a fabulous hair color! Thanks for hosting and have a great evening.
That coat's great with your hair. Love the plaid.
Your hair is making me happy!
Thank you lovely Samantha – bright, isn't it?!!!!! It's the same colour as last week but the different light really affects the brightness of the hair colour in photos…!
I loved reading how you made your packing easier, and I almost think that's the basis for our entire wardrobe….which is why this outfit pulled together so effortlessly, Catherine.
Of course the shoes just tickle my fancy!! How perfect they are!!


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Reach For It - The Genius Of George Duke
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Entry Requirements: Under 18s to be accompanied by an appropriate adult
A celebration of the master musician, all-round genius and great guy. Tracing his work from the Zappa years though a glittering, multi-album solo career, the heavyweight collaborations, (Billy Cobham, Stanley Clarke) and Montreux triumphs, Dukey's music provides the melodic canvas for these outstanding players to express themselves. Expect impeccable ensemble musicianship combined with some friendly funk and very groovy jazz - and solos to take the breath away! Carl Hudson - keyboards (Sister Sledge, Average White Band, Culture Club, Jocelyn Brown), Tim Cansfield – guitar (Bee Gees, Stevie Winwood, Seal), from Colombia Diego Rodriguez (Dionne Warwick, Michael Bublé, Beverley Knight, Rumer), Geoff Dunn - drums (Van Morrison, Incognito, Joe Cocker, Donna Summer), and from Lisbon Oli Savill (Basement Jaxx, Jamiroquai, Roy Ayres, Pet Shop Boys). Expect musical fireworks! 8.30pm Tickets £12 in advance & £14 on the door
The Genius Of George Duke: A celebration of the master musician, all-round genius and great guy - George Duke. Racing his work from the Zappa years though a glittering, multi-album solo career, the heavyweight collaborations, (Billy Cobham, Dianne Reeves, Stanley Clarke) and Montreux triumphs, Dukey's music provides the melodic canvas for these outstanding players to express themselves. Lots more Dukey links to great material for them to explore in the likes of Al Jarreau, Deniece Williams, Jill Scott, Teena Marie – even Michael Jackson! Expect impeccable ensemble musicianship combined with great soul vocals, some friendly funk and very groovy jazz - plus solos and vocals to take the breath away. Reach For It claim direct links to George Duke and his key musical partner Billy Cobham through its' own personnel; vocalist Gina Foster, (George Duke, Eric Clapton, Sinead O'Connor) sang alongside Chanté Moore (another Duke protégé) and the great Phil Perry in Dukey's band at Montreux Jazz Festival.Derek Green - vocals (Pet Shop Boys, Stevie Wonder, Deniece Williams, Robbie Williams) Gina Foster - vocals (George Duke Band, Eric Clapton, Sinead O'Connor, Squeeze) Carl Hudson - keyboards (PB Underground, Sister Sledge, Average White Band, Jocelyn Brown) Kim Murray – guitar (Joyce Sims, Leroy Burgess, Carmen Rodgers) John McKenzie - bass (David Bowie, Everything But The Girl, Lionel Richie, Dr. John) Karl Van den Bossche – percussion (Robert Palmer, Incognito, Brand New Heavies, Joss Stone, Sade) Geoff Dunn - drums (Van Morrison, Incognito, Joe Cocker, Donna Summer)
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This spring, Chicago has had a damp and cooler than normal period. Our office has had several calls related to moisture penetration. The cause for moisture penetrating the walls of our masonry structures may lie in the flashing and weeps.
End Dams – Do you really need them?
Recently an architect called me for masonry advice on a flashing end dam and how effective these are. He asked "do we really need them for this project"? The purpose of the end dam is to divert the water that is collected by the flashing to where the flashing ends, and the end dam diverts the water out of the wall via a weep.
What's New from Mortar Net Solutions?
Mortar-Net-Solutions-Quick-Tips-Videos – July 2016 – Mortar Net Solutions™, the leading supplier of moisture management solutions for masonry walls, introduced "Quick Tips," a series of instructional videos to help masons and craftsmen be more productive.
TotalFlash-Flashing-System – June 2016 – Mortar Net Solutions, the leading supplier of innovative moisture management solutions for masonry walls, provides customers with a total flashing system for masonry cavity walls.
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Les Heptathelidae sont une famille d'araignées mésothèles.

Distribution
Les espèces de cette famille se rencontrent en Asie de l'Est et en Asie du Sud-Est.

Description
Elles portent encore des traces de métamérisation au niveau de l'abdomen. Leurs filières sont placées au milieu de leur abdomen.

Elles possèdent des tergites sur tous les segments abdominaux.

Paléontologie
Cette famille n'est pas connue à l'état fossile.

Liste des genres
Selon  :
 Ganthela Xu & Kuntner, 2015
 Heptathela Kishida, 1923
 Luthela Xu & Li, 2022
 Qiongthela Xu & Kuntner, 2015
 Ryuthela Haupt, 1983
 Songthela Ono, 2000
 Vinathela Ono, 2000

Systématique et taxinomie
Cette famille a été décrite par Kishida en 1923 comme une tribus des Liphistiidae. Elle est élevée au rang de famille par Petrunkevitch en 1939, placées en synonymie avec les Liphistiidae par Raven en 1985, ont été relevées de synonymie par Li en 2022.

Elle rassemble  espèces dans sept genres.

Sinothela Haupt, 2003 a été déclaré nomen dubium par Xu, Yu, Liu et Li en 2022.

Publication originale
 Kishida, 1923 : « Heptathela, a new genus of liphistiid spiders. » Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, , .

Liens externes

Notes et références

Heptathelidae
Famille d'araignées (nom scientifique)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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Dark-Eyed Army
One of the Demon Realm's four most powerful military factions before the disappearance of the Demon King. Lead by Dark-Eyed King Berngart.
Demon King's Rule
In the Demon Realm, the Dark-Eyed Army under the command of Berngart was one of the Demon World's most powerful factions. Berngart and his army were one of the four factions deemed worthy to work under the new Demon King.
Collapse of Power
After the Demon King disappeared, a power vacuum soon consumed the demon world. The four major factions who once ruled under the Demon King now turned on each other and a lot of infighting began within the factions in a desperate attempted to claim the throne for themselves, the Dark-Eyed Army being one of those factions.
Joining the Legion
At an unknown point in time, Scar and his two subordinates Jin & In defected from the army to join forces with the most powerful faction that came into existence after the power struggle, the Demon Army.
Berngart Unknown
Scar Deceased
Jin Active
In Active
South Korea 흑안군단 Dark-Eyed Army
China (Simplified Chinese) 黑眼军团 Dark-Eyed Army
France Armée aux yeux noirs Dark-Eyed Army
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Pampered Chef: Sales How far will you go to get your name out?
You didn't go too far. My son and my husband carry my business card in their wallets and DS use my pens when he works as a waiter; DH uses them at work and gives them to waiters when he goes to lunch. They have given my info out but stop short of getting their info for me. Your family can help you a lot.
If you are passionate about what you do, you will find ways of telling everyone about it. My friends and family know that I love what I do. They either ask me questions or I tell them about PC in our conversations. I always have business cards, recipe cards and catalogs with me wherever I go.
No one thinks I am over the top, pushy or annoying. I always have a big smile and use positive statements.
OR he's in that stage where it's just embarrassing to admit he has a Mother!
My DS, at 4, is a walking advertisement for me. We were at the Dr's a few weeks ago, and I set my little cranberry quilted purse (a gift from my drector for being #1 in her cluster!) on the desk to write a check. DS says to the receptionist: "See my Mommy's purse - she earned that from Pamper Chef. Do you like Pamper Chef? My Mommy has a catalog, if you want to see it."
The receptionist laughed and said that he was a great marketing tool!
Too cute! It reminds me of what my son did at church a couple weeks ago. He had a joint lesson with all the children between 7-11 in a room full of adult teachers for each age group. The woman teaching the lesson talked about different roles people have in families and responsibilities, etc. She did this one part about the hats women wear (nurse, taxi, police officer, teacher, etc.) She had a picture of a woman and then these little pictures of the different hats. She called on my 7 yr. old son to go up and pick a hat and then she'd talk about that role. His face lit up as he picked one and said "This is definitely my mom!" It was a chef's hat. Then he proudly told the group "She sells Pampered Chef!" He looked at me like he was just so proud! Melted my heart, it was really cute.
as far as your daughter becoming a consultant someday...I grew up with my mom being in direct sales (she sold dorling kindersly books) and now here I am, 10 years later, doing PC!
My daughter or her husband (the cook) said they would try the PC business as soon as they see me making money at it. I'm not setting a very good example so far only working this like a hobby.
My husband has played a huge role in my buisness from handing out books, collecting orders from the office staff (he's in construction and makes sure to leave catalogs/their orders or pick up money/checks first thing in the morning) all the way to getting me shows booked (my first wedding shower show was at the home of the owner of the company!) When he has appointments down town he's always sure to take catalogs and drop them off to any doctor's offices he sees on his way. Once the office manager told him he couldn't leave them b/c the cleaning people will just throw them away so he said "Well, here, then you take it."
I think it's SUPER for you to involve your family. They want us to succeed just like we want them to.
Well my DD came home with an empty cake container and said it was awesome. Her mates couldn't believe how moist the cake was and it was gobbled all up. They were surprised that it was cooked in the microwave. Did I get any leads, well, I'm hoping maybe one of these kids goes home to tell their mom about a cake the was made in the micro. She had fun, that's all that matters.
My twin grandsons are almost 5 and love PC. We went to the doctor's to get my blood drawn the other day and one of them found one of my mini catalogs with the other catalogs and came up to me beaming -- LOOK GRANDMA, PAMPERED CHEF.
I always tell everyone that my husband is my "PR" person..he has my cards in his car and anytime he goes anywhere w/ my dd, he will hand out my cards to all the moms or anyone else around. He gave blood a few weeks ago, and when he came home he said that he should have taken some catalogs w/ him because when he asked them if they liked PC they fell all over themselves about it. I sent him back up there w/one and they are doing a book party right now!
Funny story, when I was teaching my dd last year our names, her addresses, phone number, etc, I kept asking her what my name was and she kept saying "Stephanie Pampered Chef"!
My husband and kids are walking billboards for me. My son told his 2nd grade teacher that she needed to buy Pampered Chef from his mom so he could go to Disney!
I sent DD to school today with 2 rice cooker cakes for her 2 teachers. We had parent/teacher conferences last week, and the discussion came up about the cake she took last week. They were both saying how much they LOVE cake, so we offered to make and have her bring in today. Again I sent her w/ the PC bag and 2 catalogs, with explicit directions that the catalogs must accompany the cakes. Cross you fingers. I'd really love some school business. They all know I'm PC, but I'm not pushy enough with it.


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If you're looking for childcare in the coming school holiday – Monday 18th February to Monday 25th February – then these Northampton Holiday Club details will be of interest.
Held at Ashbourne Day Nurseries at Upton Meadows (at Upton Meadows Junior School), the holiday club caters for children aged up to 11. There will be plenty to entertain them – and while activities will be led by the children, they will include Valentine's crafts, visits to the school fields for sports activities as well as a range of baking activities!
If you are an existing parent with children registered at either of these Ashbourne Day Nurseries, then just talk to us to secure a place.
If you like the sound of childcare and wrap-around care that covers school holidays, provided by experts, then find out more at our Upton Meadows or Millway pages – and get in touch!
Both these Northampton-based nurseries offer wrap-around care during term time as well as pre-school care, and both are rated Outstanding by OFSTED.


Baker Publishing Group is an Evangelical Christian book publisher based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It has six subdivisions: Bethany House, Revell, Baker Books, Baker Academic, Chosen and Brazos Press.
The company was founded in 1939, by Herman Baker. The company has published Christian books that discuss many issues, from family life to theology, within a broadly evangelical framework. Baker publishes books and ministry resources for pastors and church leaders, concentrating on topics such as preaching, worship, pastoral ministries, counseling and leadership. Baker also publishes for lay Christians on topics such as discipleship, spirituality, encouragement, relationships, marriage, parenting and the intersection of Christianity and culture.
Since 1990, Baker has been the North American distributor for Cambridge University Press Bibles.
In April 2014 Baker announced that it is acquiring Regal Books from Gospel Light.
Bethany House is a publisher of Christian fiction, nonfiction and children's books. It is located in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. The express mission of Bethany House is to help Christians apply biblical truth in all areas of life — whether through a well-told story, a challenging devotional, or the message of an illustrated children's book.
The Revell publishing business was established in 1870 by Christian Evangelist D.L. Moody and his brother-in-law, Fleming H. Revell. The two men identified a market for practical books that would help bring the Christian faith to everyday life. In 1992, the Fleming H. Revell Company of Grand Rapids, was absorbed by Baker. Published authors include Abraham Cressy Morrison.
Smith, Arthur Henderson (1901). China in a Convulsion, Volume 2. Fleming H. Revell Company. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
↑ Baker company history, Baker Book House web.
↑ Baker mission, Baker Book House web.
↑ Cambridge distributor, Baker Book House web.
↑ Johnson, Christine D. (11 April 2014). "Baker Publishing Group to acquire Regal Books". Christian Retailing. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
↑ Bethany company history, Baker Book House web.
↑ Revell company history, Baker Book House web.
↑ Chosen company history, Baker Book House web.
↑ Brazos mission, Baker Book House web.


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by Brent Burton May 21st, 2004 August 29th, 2020
The Streets' Mike Skinner makes music the same way Britain's best folkies and free-jazzers did back in the '60s: by more or less ignoring us American types. The 25-year-old Birmingham native's critically fêted, recorded-in-a-closet debut, 2002's Original Pirate Material, resembled traditional Yankee hiphop in architecture only: The ex–Burger King employee rapped inasmuch as he rhymed without singing, and though Pirate's electronic tracks were beat-focused, the album largely referenced U.K. garage, a skittery post–drum 'n' bass genre that never gained much traction over here. "I produced this using only my bare wit," Skinner mumble-bragged on opener "Turn the Page," and not without good reason: The Streets' whole aesthetic sounded as if it were pieced together from his overactive Brummy imagination, as if the guy had read an article on hiphop and immediately gotten to work.
Without even considering its title (yes, we have no bling-bling) or its descriptions of making tea, betting on soccer, and getting pissed at the pub, American heads will likely find Skinner's latest LP, A Grand Don't Come for Free, as unfamiliar-sounding as his first. For starters, Grand eighty-sixes Pirate's more impressionistic approach in favor of a picaresque, full-length narrative—a concept album, if you will. We're still talkin' day-in-the-life stuff, but this time Skinner goes for a cumulative effect. Over the disc's 50 minutes, Grand's protagonist misplaces £1,000, meets new girlfriend Simone, vacations in Ibiza, cheats on Simone, and gets his scrawny ass dumped. All of this, of course, is written by and about the same young man who once told The Sun, "I don't like there being drugs I've not tried." Skinner downs Kronenbourgs, smokes weed, pops E, and generally consumes anything he can get down his cakehole.
As a unified experience, Grand makes for a naturalistic and even kind of suspenseful listen. But the album often behaves more like Britpop than hiphop. The forniriffic first single, "Fit but You Know It," with its Bowie-rip guitar and oompah-punk beat, is too indie-rock by half. Skinner has lamented that anyone would compare "Fit" to Blur, but it sounds just like it anyway. And the Skinner-Simone courtship track, "Could Well Be In," traffics in the kind of earnest, three-chord mood-manipulation that Radiohead wannabes love so much. Speaking of which, the acoustic-guitar-dominated Skinner-gets-dumped ballad "Dry Your Eyes" sounds just like Apple's mom's favorite band—so much so that the original version allegedly featured Coldplay's Chris Martin crooning the chorus: "Dry your eyes, mate/I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts."
According to Skinner, Coldplay's label nixed the singer's contribution—and wisely so: At the song level, Grand works much better when Skinner gets down to hiphop basics. The guy's still got weird flow—his lines are sometimes overstuffed, sometimes too Spartan—but there's something undeniably charming about hearing him do the narration thing over the aggressive rhythms of "Not Addicted," "What Is He Thinking," and album-closer "Empty Cans." That's not to say Grand's best music sounds more American—actually, those tracks play like an homage to the hard Atari crunk of fellow Brit Dizzee Rascal. But the album's version of hiphop is definitely more orthodox than Pirate's.
Along with all the conventional pop, that's exactly why the new disc is a letdown: Pirate's appeal had everything to do with Skinner's otherness—and not just because no one was expecting an authentically British take on a genre that seemed consummately American. Skinner, no doubt, wanted to push the Streets forward, to move outside of his own head. But you have to wonder whether he really should have taken a route so well-traveled. In the end, A Grand Don't Come for Free amounts to little more than a side trip.
The music of red-state-raised sampler virtuoso RJD2 suggests nothing so much as the mid-'90s golden age of British indie Mo'Wax. Like that label's more intrepid producers, the man born RJ Krohn plundered all the instrumentation he needed for his 2002 debut, Deadringer, from his own vinyl collection, assembling drum breaks, horror-movie synths, and spectral voices into tracks that sound as old as electricity and as new as your iPod. More than one writer referred to the Philadelphia–by–way–of–Columbus, Ohio, producer and DJ's first album as "instrumental hiphop" despite the presence of its three MCs—an oversight that no doubt says more about the solidity of RJD2's skills than the quality of his friends' rhyming. But at least folks got the "hiphop" part right. And RJ was willing to concede as much, even if he also claimed to aspire beyond it.
Rap-free though still not instrumental, RJD2's second and latest full-length, Since We Last Spoke, is many things in its 46 minutes, but seldom does it evoke Deadringer's diamond-in-the-rough R&B. RJ, who actually plays some real instruments this time around, has said that he simply wants to make "good pop music." And it would appear that Deadringer wasn't nearly inclusive or buffed enough: Spoke encompasses Deep Purple–lite riffage (the title track), soft-focus ethnic forgeries ("Ring Finger" and "Since '76"), and get-WJZW's-programmer-on-the-phone smooth jazz ("To All of You" and "Iced Lightning")—just the thing for an evening at home with Sting.
And evidently, MCs are no longer pop enough, either. Of Spoke's scattering of nonsampled vocal tracks, none even remotely imply the funk. "Making Days Longer," for example, is more or less New Wave balladry: The Brit-accented vocalist sings ever so confessionally ("It's strange the way you make me feel") over stiff electronic beats and loopy keyboards. And "Through the Walls" is full-blown '80s pop-rock, its trebly, urgent guitar, stupid-simple drums, and breathy, lovesick vocals ("Girl, I know you won't come back/Got to get ahold of this") a reasonable approximation of a Cars–Rick Springfield supersession.
But there's nothing super about Spoke. Its core concept, that pop qua pop is some kind of advancement over hiphop, is flawed. The album is eclectic, sure, and more accessible than its predecessor, too. But whatever RJD2 gains in diversity, he loses in depth. Perhaps Deadringer is only a great genre record, not a great record, period. But Since We Last Spoke isn't even that: It tries to do too many things to be anything good at all. CP


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NRDC Never Stops Lying About Glyphosate, or Science in General
Institute for Responsible Technology Gives Deadly Cancer Advice
TIME Has A Science Article Based On A Yogic Flying Instructor: Here Are More Ideas They Can Use
Glyphosate: NYT's Danny Hakim Is Lying to You
Urine, Glyphosate and JAMA: Conflicts Of Interest Bordering On Fraud Should Be Retracted
Fake News Award for Science Goes to ... The New York Times!
By Alex Berezow — May 3, 2019
Credit: Public Domain/Wikipedia
Pop quiz: What do the New York Times, Jeffrey "the yogic flying instructor" Smith, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) have in common?
Answer: They all shamelessly lie about glyphosate to make money. (You get full credit if you answered, "They are all bad sources of science information.")
Danny Hakim, a journalist (I'm using that word rather loosely) who writes for the New York Times, promotes conspiracy theories about American agriculture. He once wrote an article comparing pesticides to "Nazi-made sarin gas." And he followed that up with another article accusing the U.S. government of knowing that glyphosate was killing people but covering it up. I eagerly await his next exposé on the aliens the government is hiding at Area 51.
The same sort of hysteria is repeated by Jeffrey Smith, a yogic flying instructor (yes, it's as weird as it sounds) who operates the deceptively named Institute for Responsible Technology. Like the New York Times, Smith perpetuates one lie after another about biotechnology. Now, he's spreading lies about medical treatments for cancer which are so egregious that, if cancer patients actually followed the advice, they would die. So much for responsible technology.
In our experience, birds of a feather flock together. It's an easy jump from being anti-GMO to being anti-vaccine or anti-technology in general.
NRDC: Cranks, Crackpots, and Conspiracy Theorists
Thus, joining this motley crew is the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a group of cranks, crackpots, and conspiracy theorists who knowingly spread misinformation about nuclear power, GMOs, and scary "chemicals."
While the NRDC is fond of calling everybody who disagrees with them a "shill" for industry, the reality is quite different. The NRDC rakes in a whopping $130 million every year telling people that the latest technological developments in energy and biotechnology are just too scary for Americans. It's good business. The President, Rhea Suh, made $541,000 in 2016. Not bad. That's more than half of ACSH's entire budget.
Well, NRDC is back, trying to cash in on the delirium surrounding glyphosate. What better time to cash in than when trial lawyers are duping juries into awarding multi-million-dollar verdicts to sympathetic cancer patients? It is within this milieu that NRDC's Jennifer Sass said:
"EPA's Pesticide office is out on a limb here—with Monsanto and Bayer and virtually nobody else. Health agencies and credible non-industry experts who've reviewed this question have all found a link between glyphosate and cancer."
That's not just a lie. That's a pants-on-fire, nose-is-longer-than-a-telephone-wire sort of whopper. The truth is literally the exact opposite.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) claim that there is no link between glyphosate and cancer. That is also the conclusion of regulatory agencies in Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea. (See this excellent infographic from the Genetic Literacy Project for more.)
To insist that glyphosate causes cancer, you would have to reject the scientific consensus established by regulators around the entire world. (Or, you'd have to believe that Monsanto has secretly bought off every major nation on the planet.) The only groups who reject the consensus are IARC and the environmental activists and their lawyers who rake in millions of dollars telling juries that biotechnology is killing them.
We can predict that the New York Times will cheer them on and uncritically parrot whatever the NRDC says, because needlessly scaring people is good business for them, too. And for the yogic flying instructor.
It's utterly infuriating to watch as modern medicine and science are mocked and exploited for personal profit by environmental activists and lawyers. What a stupid time to be alive.
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By Alex Berezow
Vice President of Scientific Affairs
Dr. Alex Berezow joined the American Council on Science and Health as Senior Fellow of Biomedical Science in May 2016. In December 2018, he became Vice President of Scientific Affairs.
Dr. Berezow is a featured speaker for The Insight Bureau, an international speakers' bureau. He also features twice weekly on the Kirby Wilbur Show, a Seattle area radio program, in a segment called "Real Science with Dr. B."
Dr. Berezow is a prolific science writer whose work has appeared in multiple outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC News, The Economist, Forbes, Scientific American, and USA Today, where he serves as a member of the Board of Contributors. He has authored or co-authored three books: The Next Plague and How Science Will Stop It (2018), Little Black Book of Junk Science (2017), and Science Left Behind (2012), which was an environmental policy bestseller.
Dr. Berezow has spoken to a wide variety of audiences about science, from graduate school seminars and church congregations to national TV and radio programs. Formerly, he was the founding editor of RealClearScience. He holds a Ph.D. in microbiology.
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De 32e topconferentie van de G8, de groep van de 7 grootste industrielanden en Rusland, vond plaats van 15 tot 17 juni 2006 nabij Sint-Petersburg in Rusland, in het Paleis van Constantijn in Strelna, een plaatsje bij de Finse Golf.

Thema's van de topconferentie waren onder andere de energievoorziening, onderwijs en de strijd tegen ziekten. Ook het conflict dat op het moment van de conferentie uitmondde in de oorlog tussen Libanon en Israël werd op de agenda geplaatst.

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Vertegenwoordigers van de G8-landen

Minister-president Stephen Harper

President Jacques Chirac

Bondskanselier Angela Merkel

Eerste minister Romano Prodi

Minister-president Junichiro Koizumi

President Vladimir Poetin

Eerste minister Tony Blair

President George W. Bush

Andere genodigden

Nationale regeringsleiders

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  India
Minister-president Manmohan Singh

President Vicente Fox

President Hu Jintao

President Thabo Mbeki

Leiders van internationale organisaties
 Afrikaanse unie
Voorzitter Denis Sassou Nguesso
 Gemenebest van Onafhankelijke Staten
 Voorzitter Nursultan Nazarbayev
  Europese Unie
Voorzitter van de Europese Commissie José Manuel Durão Barroso
Voorzitter van de Europese Raad Matti Vanhanen (Finland)
  International Atoomenergie Agentschap
Directeur-generaal Mohamed ElBaradei
 Internationaal Energie Agentschap
Gedelegeerd bestuurder Claude Mandil
 Verenigde Naties
Secretaris-generaal Kofi Annan
  UNESCO
Directeur-generaal Koichiro Matsuura
 Wereldbank
Voorzitter Paul Wolfowitz
  Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie
Directeur-generaal Anders Nordström
 Wereldhandelsorganisatie
Directeur-Generaal Pascal Lamy

Agenda
Op de agenda van de 32e G8-conferentie stonden traditiegetrouw veel economische thema's. Daarnaast werd ook onder invloed van de omstandigheden ook het conflict tussen Israël en Libanon, dat tijdens de conferentie escaleerde tot de Israëlisch-Libanese oorlog, aan de agenda toegevoegd.

Economisch
 Het thema van de vrije handel tussen Rusland en de Verenigde Staten en de discussies omtrent de toetreding van Rusland tot de Wereldhandelsorganisatie.
 De vrijmaking van de energiemarkten, in het bijzonder die van Rusland en de vroegere Sovjetrepublieken, alsook de oliegebieden in het Midden-Oosten. Hierbij speelden diverse andere vraagstukken op de achtergrond mee:
 Onder invloed van diverse politieke en technische kwesties, hadden verschillende landen, waaronder Nigeria, Venezuela en de landen in de Perzische Golf hun olie-export moeten beperken.
 De vraag naar exploitatierechten voor aardgasvoorraden in Rusland en in de Oostzee.
 De noodzaak van de ontwikkeling van alternatieve energiebronnen, de discussie over nucleaire energie en het onderzoek naar waterstof als rendabele energiebron voor de toekomst.
 Garanties opbouwen voor de energiebevoorrading naar de toekomst toe, zowel op militair als financieel vlak.
 Miljardencontracten in de luchtvaartindustrie, in het licht van de verandering van bedrijfstrategieën bij Airbus en de dalende economische prestaties binnen de luchtvaartsector.
 Discussies over de economische impact van instabiliteit binnen de wereldpolitiek, drugs en terrorisme.

Onderwijs en ontwikkeling
 Het vastleggen van prioriteiten op vlak van onderwijs voor ontwikkelingslanden en het aanmoedigen van de bedrijfswereld om de ontwikkeling van het onderwijs in de Derde wereld te ondersteunen.
 Het vestigen van een mondiaal systeem om de ontwikkeling van gevaarlijke, besmettelijke ziekten te volgen en in te dijken.

Israëlisch-Libanese crisis
De oorspronkelijke agenda die was opgesteld door de Russische president Vladimir Poetin, werd overschaduwd door de crisis tussen Israël en Libanon. Op 16 juli formuleerden de leiders een officieel standpunt over de kwestie. In deze mededeling werd gepleit voor een onmiddellijke beëindiging van de gevechten en de vrijlating van de gegijzelde Israëlische soldaten, die de aanleiding hadden gevormd voor het conflict. De leiders vroegen echter niet om een staakt-het-vuren.

Protest
In de aanloop naar de conferentie, tussen 7 en 11 juli, waren er felle protesten tegen de bijeenkomst. De politiediensten van Moskou, Sint-Petersburg en andere steden arresteerden een aantal van de demonstranten. Het aantal arrestaties wordt geschat tussen de enkele tientallen tot mogelijk enkele honderden. Velen onder hen werden veroordeeld tot tien dagen opsluiting, waardoor het hen onmogelijk werd gemaakt om nog deel te nemen aan de protestacties tijdens de officiële conferentie. Hierdoor werd er gesproken van schendingen van de mensenrechten. De Russische minister van binnenlandse zaken, Alexander Chekalin, ontkende deze beschuldigingen echter formeel en verdedigde de aanpak van de politiediensten.

Cherie Blair, de echtgenote van de Britse Eerste Minister en tevens mensenrechtenadvocaat, verliet de conferentie om leden van lokale mensenrechtengroeperingen te ontmoeten en hen gratis juridisch advies aan te bieden. Haar acties werden officieel ondersteund door de Britse regering, wat onenigheid veroorzaakte tussen het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Rusland.

Incident n.a.v. gesprek tussen Bush en Blair
Tijdens de conferentie werd per toeval een gesprek opgenomen dat plaatsvond tussen Amerikaans president George Bush en Brits Eerste Minister Tony Blair. Een transcriptie van dit gesprek verscheen de volgende dag op de voorpagina van de Britse krant The Independent. De media legden de nadruk op een kritische opmerking die Bush gaf als reactie op een voorstel van Blair met betrekking tot de Israëlisch-Libanese kwestie. In het V.K. werd hierdoor de indruk gewekt dat Blair onderhorig zou zijn aan de Amerikaanse president. In de V.S. was er eerder kritiek op de controversiële uitspraak van Bush, dat de situatie in Libanon niet zou geëscaleerd zijn, mocht Syrië aan Hezbollah hebben verzocht om hun activiteiten te staken ("stop doing this shit").

Externe link
 Website van de G8-conferentie in Sint-Petersburg

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Geschiedenis van Sint-Petersburg
Geschiedenis van Rusland
Politiek in 2006


Every other year, a select group of singers from the Concert and Chamber Choirs and Teen Men's and Women's Ensembles participate in the Vivace Tour Choir. This year, they will be on tour to Costa Rica from June 24, 2019 to July 2, 2019.
Please review the Tour Information Packet linked below and email the completed Sign-Up Form to Joshua at joshua@vivaceyouthchorus.org to register.
Rehearsals are the 1st Monday of each month beginning in February, and daily rehearsals run from June 17 to June 22, with concerts on Friday, June 21 and Saturday, June 22. Attendance is required at all pre-departure rehearsals and concerts.
Rehearsal details will be released later this fall.