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Published: Monday, 12 September 2011 16:21
Written by Phil Ford
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 (aka Me 109) was a German World War II fighter aircraft designed by Willy Messerschmitt and Robert Lusser during the early to mid 1930s. It was one of the first true modern fighters of the era, including such features as an all-metal monocoque construction, a closed canopy, a retractable landing gear, and was powered by liquid-cooled, inverted-V12 aero engines.
The 109 first saw operational service during the Spanish Civil War and was still in service at the dawn of the jet age at the end of World War II, during which time it was the backbone of the Luftwaffe's fighter force. From the end of 1941 the Bf 109 was supplemented by the Focke-Wulf Fw 190. Early models had Jumo engines but later the more powerful Daimler engine was used.
There are not many scale models on the market but Cermark in conjunction with Top Gun produced this 60 size Me109. The fuselage is grp reinforced with ply formers and coated in matt grey finish allowing modellers more options regarding which theatre of the war they wish to emulate. The wings are fully sheeted and pre-filmed and the model even comes with air retracts. These are air up/spring down which in itself becomes fail safe. The cowling is beautifully finshed using grp and the exhaust ports are pre-fixed for you. Albiet the cowling is not true to scale or the lovely matching yellow spinner but this is usually normal in rc models.
The large cowling meant that I could hide quite a few types of engine within it, a 120 four stroke or even a 108 2T glow. I have opted for the Jen 90 two stroke which is no bigger than a 60 size. This engine came recommended so I went along with it. The model should weigh in at around 8lbs or so, so a 60 motor would've been adequate but this model may become the chase plane at our club so I needed an edge on 'em. (Dastardly Smile)
It came in a rather large box and was very well packed. Initially I had no instruction manual so for the first few steps I just used common sense. However, managed to find a pdf version on the "net". The box contained the fuselage, the wings each bagged and supported by poly-foam. The rudder and stabiliser were bagged and laid flat on the bottom of the box. Two big plastic bags contained the fuel tank, lines, wheels, air-intakes, supercharger inlet and other scale items plus screw and bolts etc. Hinges are CA types and were pre-slotted in the wing surfaces except for the rudder hinges which are in the bags. The other bag contained the air-retracts, and the air kit and reservoir
First job is to glue the ailerons. I marked where each hinge's centre was and marked with a light pencil line. Ensuring that all the hinges slid in fully and easily I then bored some 1.5mm holes at the centre point of each hinge slot. This is enable the CA to fully soak in to the contact surfaces. Using "T" pins pushed through the centre of each hinge I slotted them in to the ailerons and then into the wings. The pins stop the hinges sliding in any further and also act as spacers. After removing the pins, flexing the ailerons each way added a few drops of thin CA to each hinge on one side and ensuring the gap is constant flipped the wings over and did the same to the other side.
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The Fuselage
The Fuselage in the wing mount area is enormous. The servo tray is pre-fiitted with cut-outs for the four servos and air reservoir. The servo slots needed no modifying to insert two JR digital for elevator and rudder. I used two standard Futaba S148's for throttle and air retract valve. The receiver can sit on the servo tray above the air tank keeping cabling to a minimum.
As you can see from the photos the space between the servo tray and fuel tank bulkhead is enormous. However, the servo tray is mounted in such a position that 5mm holes needed to be drilled through the fuselage above the servos to access the rear rudder, elevator, throttle servo mounting screws. Why they could'nt have moved the tray further forward by 15mm I do not know.
Fitting the stabilsier was a little trying. It is a sliding fit through a slot in the fuselage. After marking the centre line of the stabiliser and trial fitting a pencil line was drawn top and bottom where the fuselage sides meet it. Then carefully cut away the film covering 5 mm inside these lines. Now here is the tricky bit! A light coating of 30 min epoxy is coated on to this uncovered area. Then slide the stabiliser through the slot till the pencil lines align up again. Now measuring from the tips of the stab equal distance must be achieved using the forward wing mounting recess centre and a centre point. I found this wasn't as easy as you think. The slightest movement/adjustment on one side tended to throw out the other side enormously. Once happy with the alignment a thread of epoxy is then applied along the point where the fusleage sides meet the stabiliser. Wiping off any excess adhesive carefully. Then recheck alignment. Allowed to fully cure.
The elevators now can be fitted. Drilling a 1.5mm hole in the centre of each CA slot ensures that the glue soaks all the way down. Aligning the elevators with the stabiliser is simple enough ensuring that they have adequate clearance on the outer ends where the stab curves round.
With the stabiliser fitted it was time to fit the control rods for the rudder and elevator. These are dowel rods with pre-drilled holes for the threaded wire connectors. Once the length of wire required was ascertained for the horn ends the wires were CA'd and then the supplied shrink wrap was shrunk over the area to secure. Placing the control rods through the pre-cut slots in the fuselage it was time to mark where the control horns would be located on the control surfaces. Once this was done the horns where fitted and with the clevis's wound on to the threaded end these were dry-fitted so as to ascertain where the straight wires would cross the servo arms. Marking these points, pulled out the rods again and at the mark positions made 90 degree bends. Measuring about 10mm from bend cut off excess. Refitting the rods and now dropping the bent ends into the servo arms which were drilled out to 2mm. Fitting the supplied plastic "keep" clips. Using a spare receiver and battery tested the servo travel and direction, etc of the rudder and elevator.
In the servo tray is a pre-cut power switch slot which I used with a suitable sized switch/charge line component and connected all the servo leads to the AR6200 receiver. To oprate the switch from the outside I drilled a 2m hole in the switch lug and a 2mm hole through the fuslage in line. Using a short piece of scrap 2mm wire with a threaded end and 90 bend in the other end fitted this to the switch. The threaded end gives you something to grip when operating the switch!
THe air retract valve comes from the bag of air kit bits. A laser cut piece of ply is suppplied which you break out and assemble into a valve mounting. With this screwed in to place next to the servo a small piece of 2mm wire connects the two together. The servo only needs to travel 7mm to operate the valve.
The throttle control is operated via a snake, supplied and some spare 2mm wires in the kit. Once happy with its position I epoxied the outer into place plus adding a support block on the side of the fuselage and secured by a cable tie (See Photos)
The air reservoir slides into it's location under the servo tray and I secured it with a small blob of epoxy. Made up the airlines to the valve and to the quick-connect. The air fill valve was located into the side of the fuselage and connected up.
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Mid-Michigan RWA Celebrates Thirty-Five Years
Romance Writers Report (RWR), September 2019 Issue
Members of the Mid-Michigan RWA chapter share how they've survived— and thrived—over thirty-five years.
This year marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Mid-Michigan Romance Writers of America chapter (MMRWA). The traditional symbol for this anniversary is coral, a hard, stony substance typically forming large reefs in warm seas. Exactly what MMRWA represents. Not that the members, its substance, are hard and stony—more like purveyors of tenacity and grit growing in a supportive, compassionate environment.
Mid-Michigan Romance Writers of America, the twelfth local chapter of the national organization, was founded in 1984. MMRWA is an offshoot from the Greater Detroit Chapter (GDRWA), established in 1982. Ruth Ryan Langan and Marianne Willman, founders of GDRWA, helped launch MMRWA, serving as panel members at our first official meeting.
My thanks to my good friend, the late Barbara K. Johnson, for her initial discovery of RWA.
Back then, another area organization for writers required applicants be published and submit said published work for consideration of its worthiness prior to membership approval. RWA required none of that, taking all comers into membership, both published and not. Desire to write was the only mandate. However, driving to Detroit for meetings from around the state was prohibitive for many. A second, more centrally located chapter was needed. RWA had names of potential members who were far from Detroit but still wanted to join. In response to the initial announcement about a new MMRWA chapter, those potential members virtually came out of the woodwork.
Maintaining Relevance for Thirty-Five Years
As a founding mother of MMRWA, first Chapter Advisor and President more than once, I'm often asked how MMRWA manages to stay alive, thriving, and relevant to an ever-changing and diverse membership in an ever-changing and diverse world of publishing.
Programs held monthly, presenting carefully chosen topics and speakers, sometimes member critique sessions are one reason. Meetings run the circuit to different cities around Michigan, so all members from all areas can attend. Other MMRWA-sponsored activities play into this survivorship question as well. Our Retreat From Harsh Reality, a weekend getaway in its thirty-fourth year, is a prime example. It's the original brainchild of another founding member, Leila Davis, who once said, "We should have a pajama party because there is never enough time to talk at a meeting." The first retreat took place one summer in rented college dorm rooms, complete with bring-your-own bedding and towels and find-your-own food, and was attended by a group of published and aspiring authors with a love of the written word and the desire to share their work. Those meager roots evolved into a full-blown celebration of writing, complete with actual hotel rooms and meals provided, with noted speakers including one of RWA's founders, Rita Clay Estrada. In addition, gift baskets contributed by members are sold, as are other goodies through a silent auction, with partial proceeds going to a local women's shelter.
Contests are another way to reach out, support, and mentor fellow writers, as well as attract new members. Over the years, MMRWA has sponsored two unique contests: The Happily Ever After, which judged the last pages of a manuscript, and the current Best Banter, which judges approximately 1,500 words of conversation (aka banter) between two or more characters.
MMRWA also has an Angel Award, given annually to a member who has gone above and beyond in contributions and service to MMRWA in particular, and the writing population in general.
In addition to the writing connection MMRWA offers, long-term friendships, some spanning the entire thirty-five years, have evolved. We share and commiserate in the ups and downs, joys and tragedies of life.
But back to the main question …
How exactly has MMRWA survived and thrived for so many years? Those answers lie with the members themselves.
My own story is bittersweet. Life events dictated I give up writing for publication for a while. I also gave up my MMRWA membership to "go corporate," taking a day job as CEO of a non-profit, which evolved into a fair amount of writing and marketing, but for others, not for me. When life shifted to allow the precious time to again devote to writing—my writing—I was thrilled MMRWA and RWA were still there for me. Naturally, I came to my senses and rejoined. Going on fifteen years ago now.
Current MMRWA President Anne Stone (aka Annie O'Rourke) describes the MMRWA longevity this way. "I think one of the reasons MMRWA continues to thrive when some chapters are struggling, besides the fact that we are a very friendly and supportive group of writers, is that we rotate our meeting locations. Utilizing four cities around mid-Michigan has allowed us to attract members from a larger geographical area. But what keeps members coming back year after year is the other members. We have become an extended family for each other. We are very fortunate to currently have sixty members, one of the largest roster years since I joined in 2009."
Lucy Kubash, a former MMRWA president, agrees. "In 1984, I joined RWA and attended my first ever writers conference, which was held in Detroit, with my friend Alison Hart (Jennifer Green). We were both pretty new to publishing and excited about the conference and meeting other writers. Maris Soule and Leila Davis introduced us to Margo Hoornstra, who hoped to start another RWA chapter, one that would encompass the middle and western part of Michigan. As soon as I received information about the new chapter, I joined and have been a member ever since. Over the years, the chapter has had its share of growing pains, but we have survived and thrived and continue to grow. I will always appreciate the support and camaraderie I found with my fellow writers here and am very proud to be a member of Mid-Michigan RWA, #12."
Diana Stout, a member, provides a similar take. "In late summer of 1985, I was writing my first romance book and saw an ad announcing a new chapter of RWA that was in the early formation stage. A year later, I finally attended a meeting and joined MMRWA for the first of four times. Yes, you read that correctly. Four times. MMRWA is a group of devoted writers, unlike any other writing group I've encountered. I always stayed connected to the group and, more importantly, to several of the members. During those in-between years, I would visit the group, sometimes presenting upon an invitation. We help each other brainstorm and plot, are beta readers, coach, cheer, or comfort when we're sharing good news or bad. We're a strong group of writers who survive and keep moving forward word by word, page by page, plot by plot, and book by book."
That last sentence says it all. Validation. Support. Knowledge for craft and advice for a career. When it comes to what MMRWA and RWA provide members, the list goes on and on.
While it's great to celebrate the MMRWA milestone of surviving and thriving for thirty-five years, even more, rewarding is the growth and promise of enthusiastic and involved members. Past, present, and future.
By Margo Hoornstra

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The Reactivity of the Cellular Transcriptome to Xenobiotic Compound Perturbation
The New York Academy of Sciences
Presented by the Systems Biology Discussion Group
The steady state level of transcripts in a given cellular system is a function of multiple external input variables. Among these input signals are small molecules that potentially can affect the intracellular homeostasis. Cells are equipped with a series of reagents (e.g. cytochromes) that allow them to maintain cellular metabolites levels within their respective range. In the events when the perturbation is such that the cells are not readily able to cope with it, it must react by amending its metabolic networks. To do so requires regulating the amount of enzymes and regulatory agents. De novo transcription of components of the cellular system occurs. The measurement and analyses of the transcriptome of cellular systems' submitted to compounds' treatments provide the means to characterize the systemic biological effect of candidate therapies.
Next Generation Connectivity Map
Arvind Subramanian, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University
Dose-Dependent Transcriptome Response to Compound Perturbation: a New Paradigm to Characterize Drug Activity
Rui-Ru Ji, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Chemical Genomics in Cancer: Rebalancing the Unbalanced Equation Inherent in the Programming of the Disease
Duane C. Hassane, Weill Cornell Medical College
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Dr. Califano's doctoral thesis in physics, at the University of Florence, was on the behavior of high-dimensional dynamical systems. From 1986 to 1990, as a Research Staff Member in the Exploratory Computer Vision Group at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center he worked on several algorithms for machine learning, more specifically for the interpretation of 2D and 3D visual scenes. In 1990 Dr. Califano started his activities in Computational Biology and, in 1997, became the program director of the IBM Computational Biology Center, a worldwide organization active in several research areas related to bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, complex biological system modeling/simulation, microarray analysis, protein structure prediction, and molecular-dynamics. In 2000 he co-founded First Genetic Trust, Inc. to actively pursue translational genomics research and infrastructure related activities in the context of large-scale patient studies with a genetic components. Finally, in 2003, he joined Columbia University and is currently Professor of Systems Biology at Columbia University, Director of the Columbia Initiative in Systems Biology, Director of the JP Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center, and Associate Director for Bioinformatics of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Califano serves on numerous scientific advisory boards, including the Board of Scientific Advisors of the National Cancer Institute.
Dr. Califano's interests reside in dissecting and interrogating the cell-context specific gene regulatory networks that determine the cell pathophysiological behavior, using a combination of in silico reverse engineering methods and high-throughput experimental assays. His lab has pioneered a variety of algorithms for the dissection of transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and post-translational regulatory interactions in mammalian cells and for their interrogation to identify master regulators of aberrant transformation and physiological differentiation/maturation events. His lab has also pioneered regulatory network based methods to dissect the mechanisms of action of drugs and to identify genetic alterations that contribute to the aberrant activity of master regulators. In collaboration with a number of colleagues within the Columbia scientific community, the Califano lab has been the first to publish fully context-specific molecular interaction networks (referred to as Interactomes) for normal and tumor-related human cells including neoplastic malignancies of lymphoma and glioma subtypes. Ongoing projects in the lab aim to define the regulatory networks for various neoplasmic states of the breast, ovary, prostate, germ cell, colon, and lung, for the study of pluripotency and lineage differentiation in stem cells, and for the elucidation of mechanisms associated with the onset and progression of neurodegenerative diseases.
Manuel Duval, PhD
Network Therapeutics Inc.
Drug Discovery and Development is clearly one of the most rewarding human experiences. This is a collective endeavor aimed at providing healing and life saving solutions. How many human lives have been rescued thanks to antibiotics? How many premature deaths have been prevented thanks to beta-blockers and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors for the treatment of heart and kidney failure? How many individuals had the opportunity to seize the joy of a meaning full existence thanks to serotonin reuptake inhibitor? How many of us won't need to go through debilitating cardio-vascular surgeries thanks to statin? This aforementioned list is just a small excerpt of the medical breakthroughs achieved by the aggregate contributions of talents in wide areas of science and project management deployed in multicultural environments. I, Manuel Duval, am a French American Life Scientist, trained both in France (PhD in Biochemistry in 1996 at the University Joseph Fourier Grenoble, Fr) and in the US (Post-Doc at Texas A&M with computer science training), and with professional experiences in both continents (Rhône-Poulenc and Pfizer). Although I like to acknowledge the incredible benefit for the public health of the aforementioned achievements of medicinal chemistry, I also am frustrated by the lack of new treatments needed for addressing yet unmet critical medical needs. I have spent the last ten years as a computational biologist practitioner in an outstanding centenarian Drug R&D organization headquartered in the great metropolis of New York City, and funded by German entrepreneur chemists, Charles Erhardt and Charles Pfizer. As another European scientist immigrant to New England, I am following the footsteps of my glorious predecessors and co-founded a Drug Discovery 2.0 organization called Network Therapeutics. The scientific and entrepreneurial heritage of the medicinal chemists' pioneers deserves great respect. On the other hand, the advent of a new age of Drug Discovery is about to start: it will rely on the leadership of quantitative biologists and on the deployment of lean and decentralized organizations. In that context, the New York Academy of Science is instrumental in fostering scientific communication and progress for the great advantage of professional and amateur scientists around the world.
Aris Economides, PhD
Dr Aris N. Economides joined Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc in 1992 and he currently holds the position of Sr. Director, leading two groups: Genome Engineering Technologies, and Skeletal Diseases TFA. Dr. Economides is a co-inventor of the Cytokine Trap technology that led to the development of the IL-1 trap, a currently approved biologic drug (ARCALYST™). He is also a co-inventor of the VelociGene® technology, that has led to the development of VelocImmune®, a method for the generation of all-human antibodies in mice. More recently, he has been spearheading the development of new methods for the generation of transgenic mice using BAC as transgene vectors, and has also pioneered a new method for generating conditional alleles as well as a new method for the generation of multifunctional alleles
Gustavo Stolovitzky, PhD
IBM Research
Gustavo Stolovitzky received his M.Sc. in Physics, from the University of Buenos Aires (1987) and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University (1994) receiving the Henry Prentiss Becton Prize, for Excellence in Engineering and Applied Sciences. In 1998 he joined the IBM Computational Biology center at IBM Research.
His most recent interests are in the field of high-throughput biological-data analysis, reverse engineering biological circuits, the mathematical modeling of biological processes and new generation technologies for DNA sequencing.
Gustavo leads the DREAM project on assessment of systems biology models, has co-authored more than 90 scientific publications, 15 patents and edited 2 books. His work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Economist, Technology Review and Scientific American (where his DNA transistor project was chosen as one of the 10 world changing ideas of 2010) among other media. Gustavo is a Fellow of the NY Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University and the Manager of the IBM Functional Genomics and Systems Biology Group.
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Duane C. Hassane, PhD
Duane Hassane is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Institute for Computational Biomedicine of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. Dr Hassane received his BS in 1995 at the University of Rochester. In 2002, he received his PhD in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics at the University of Kentucky, subsequently returning to the University of Rochester where he trained as postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr Craig Jordan, focusing on leukemia stem cell targeting. Currently, at Weill Cornell Medical College, Dr Hassane's laboratory focuses on the use of chemical genomic strategies to accelerate the translation of pre-clinical discoveries to clinic through development of novel treatment modalities and therapeutic combinations.
Rui-Ru Ji, PhD
Rui-Ru Ji graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a BS in Biology. After college Rui-Ru came to the United States and obtained a PhD in Molecular Biology and a MS in Computer Science from the Purdue University. Rui-Ru joined Celera Genomics in 2000 and was part of the team decoding the human and mouse genomes. In 2002 Rui-Ru moved to New Jersey and has since been working in the pharmaceutical industry. Rui-Ru first worked at Purdue Pharma LP and led their bioinformatics effort to support target identification and validation. In 2005 Rui-Ru joined Bristol-Myers Squibb and has been working on various Oncology and Immunology discovery and development programs.
Arvind Subramanian, PhD
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University
Arvind Subramanian is a Research Scientist in the Cancer Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He leads a team of molecular biologists, computational biologists and software engineers whose focus is on developing new technologies and algorithms for large-scale mRNA profiling and analysis. As a graduate student in the Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research, Arvind helped develop Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA), a widely cited knowledge-based algorithm for the interpretation of high-dimensionality genomic datasets. In collaboration with colleagues in the RNAi platform at the Broad Institute, he developed computational methods to analyze genome-scale pooled shRNA screens for the identification of essential genes in cancer cells (RIGER). Arvind is currently collaborating with members of the Todd Golub laboratory to implement a high-throughput, medium-density, low-cost gene expression-profiling platform. The current focus of the group is to use this technology to massively scale-up the Connectivity Map database to include over 1M perturbational profiles.
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Aravind Subramanian, PhD, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University
Genome-wide expression arrays have proven to be useful tools in the definition and characterization of biological states. However, studies using commercial microarray solutions are frequently restricted to small sample sizes and narrow choices of experimental conditions due to the high cost of the arrays. We have developed a new approach to expression profiling based on a reduced representation of the human transcriptome. Namely, we have identified 1,000 transcripts from which the remainder of the transcriptome can be computationally inferred. We have implemented a platform to cost-effectively measure these 1,000 'Landmark' transcripts using a combination of ligation-mediated amplification with an optically addressed microsphere and flow cytometric detection system. With a low-cost, high-throughput expression-profiling method in hand, it is now possible to contemplate the generation of a dataset unprecedented in scope and scale. I will present our work on the 'Connectivity Map' that aims to provide a comprehensive functional characterization of the genome by capturing the consequences of small-molecule and genetic perturbations at library scale, and associating these disparate perturbagens with each other and external phenotypes to discover functional connections between drugs, genes and diseases.
Rui-Ru Ji, PhD, Bristol-Myers Squibb
The dose response curve is the gold standard for measuring the effect of a drug treatment, but is rarely used in genomic scale transcriptional profiling. Single-dose experiments will co-mingle effects that can occur with different potency (e.g., effects on the known target versus effects on additional undesired targets), and have little comparability to the dose-response bioassays, which are now used throughout the drug discovery processes. One reason for the disparity between experimental approaches is that existing analytical methods for dose-response bioassays can't cope with the dimensionality of microarray data. Conversely, existing methods for microarray data analysis can identify patterns, but provide no quantitative dose-response information. To overcome these problems, we developed novel algorithms and visualization methods that allow anyone to apply transcriptional profiling as a conventional dose-response assay. The approach greatly enriches the information that can be obtained from standard transcriptional profiling technology, yet is economical (typically 12 arrays/compound). With this new analytical framework, it is now possible to identify distinct transcriptional responses at distinct regions of the dose range, to link these impacts to biological pathways, and to make realistic connections to drug targets and to other bioassays.
Duane C. Hassane, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College
Cancer cells reside in state of imbalance, marked by unchecked regulation of numerous cellular processes resulting in their abnormal persistence and expansion. Adding to this complexity, some cancers such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML) consist of different cell types within a single patient, including leukemic stem cells. In analogy to normal stem cells that regenerate normal tissue, leukemic stem cells regenerate leukemia and resist chemotherapy. Thus, new drugs are needed to eliminate these cells and maintain durable remissions in patients. We have identified pre-clinical drugs that are promising. Massive screening for drugs that target leukemia stem cells is difficult since these cells are a rare component of the bulk tumor. Overall, the process of taking discoveries from bench to bedside process is slow. Therefore, to improve the speed of clinical translation, we have focused efforts on gaining an understanding of the molecular genetic programming inherent to leukemia and its response to therapeutic challenge. Our work in developing new therapeutic approaches and rationally combining compounds by searching for drugs that normalize aberrant cancer programs based on transcriptomic information will be discussed.
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You may have noticed that while I was in Tanzania for the last month, I posted either not at all, or very little. I had some things like author interviews and reviews set up ahead of time, but left off other things like the bookstore completely. Well, now I'm back. And I can't wait to tell you about what I did while I was gone.
I want to tell you about Sell Your Soul: How to Build Your Creative Career by Russell Nohelty. Yes, I know this isn't the week that I normally review a non-fiction book, but I couldn't wait on this one. I read this book three times while I was on vacation. Yes, three times. Every time I needed a palette cleanser between the Bad Boy/Billionaire/Biker/Boyfriend romances, I would re-read Russell's book. Why? Because, like most life changing books, it's all about thinking correctly.
Russell tackles many of the misconceptions that creative people have about selling their work. He teaches you how to make a business out of your art without feeling like you're selling out to commercialism or The Man or anyone else. He teaches how to maintain the purity of your art, while also making a living from it. Russell is a comic book artist who has gone on to write novels and sells all sorts of things. He makes a respectable living being the artist he wishes to be. And that's what this book is about: setting your thinking onto a path that's profitable.
In fact, I loved Russell's book so much, I contacted him and we began chatting. It turns out, he has courses available on Teachable to help authors and other artists succeed at business. I am happy to announce that I AM partnering with Russell and his school. You can save 10% off all of his courses with coupon ADRIEL10 until April 15th by signing up here.
I only post reviews for books I am not connected with. If I beta read or edited the book, or work as a virtual assistant for the author, I do not post a review. However, authors occasionally send me books to review.
*Due to LIFE being a factor in my life, this schedule might not actually happen.


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A discouraged worker is one without a job, who also has also stopped looking for one.
Once I stop my job search (i.e., stop looking for a job), I have become a discouraged worker and am no longer counted as unemployed.
Stopping the job search could happen due to the expense, emotional toll, time and energy expended in looking for a job.
It could also happen due to the choice of entering a retraining program / school to improve one's human capital.
The idea here is that once I am more marketable, I will restart the job search process.
The major problem with becoming a discouraged worker is that one immediately gets dropped out of the unemployment rolls.
This shows up as a reduction in unemployment.
This reduction in unemployment is an illusion, because it was not created by an increase in employment, but by people simply becoming discouraged workers, and hence being dropped out of the unemployment rolls.


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I wasn't quite expecting to hit Nissan Jam this year because of a packed schedule during the weekend, but I had to check it out. Plus it was "sort of" on the way home from service.
Nissan Jam, similar to TORC has sections dedicated to its own model. The event was located in La Palma Park, very close to the old Wheel Warehouse. 2017 marked the 5th year for Nissan Jam, from Hako's to Juke, the event had a Datsun and Nissan for everyone. Come cruise with us as we stroll through the event.
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Monument in France to Owain Lawgoch.
Owain Lawgoch (English: Owain of the Red Hand, French: Yvain de Galles - Owain of Wales), full name Owain ap Thomas ap Rhodri (c. 1330 – July 1378), was a Welsh soldier who served in Spain, France, Alsace, and Switzerland. He led a Free Company fighting for the French against the English in the Hundred Years' War.
As the last politically active descendant of Llywelyn the Great in the male line, he was a claimant to the title of Prince of Gwynedd and of Wales.
Welsh soldiery and longbowmen who had fought for Edward I in his campaigns in North Wales remained armed and sold their services to Norman kings in their battles in Scotland at Crecy and Poitiers. Ironically, the Norman attempt to conquer Wales set in train events which reignited Welsh identity and raised up new Welsh military leaders such as Owain Lawgoch, claiming descent from the ancient Princes of Wales. Owain returned from abroad to claim his patrimony in 1365.
By 1369 Owain was in French service and his lands in Wales and England were confiscated.
Owain's, Free Company consisted largely of Welshmen, many of whom remained in French service for many years. The second in command of this company was Ieuan Wyn, known to the French as le Poursuivant d'Amour (pursuer of love).
In May 1372 in Paris, Owain announced that he intended to claim the throne of Wales. He set sail from Harfleur with money borrowed from Charles V of France.
Owain first attacked the island of Guernsey, (where he is still remembered as Yvon de Galles) and was still there when a message arrived from Charles ordering him to abandon the expedition in order to go to Castile to seek ships to attack La Rochelle. Owain defeated an English and Gascon force at Soubise later that year, capturing Sir Thomas Percy and Jean de Grailly, the Captal de Buch.
Another invasion of Wales was planned in 1373 but had to be abandoned when John of Gaunt launched an offensive. In 1374 he fought at Mirebau and at Saintonge. In 1375 Owain was employed by Enguerrand de Coucy to help win Enguerrand's share of the Habsburg lands due to him as nephew of the former Duke of Austria.
In 1377 there were reports that Owain was planning another expedition to claim the throne of Wales, this time with help from Castile. The alarmed English government sent a spy, the Scot Jon Lamb, to assassinate Owain, who had been given the task of besieging Mortagne-sur-Gironde in Poitou. Lamb gained Owain's confidence and became his chamberlain which gave him the opportunity to stab Owain to death in July 1378, something Walker described as 'a sad end to a flamboyant career'. The Issue Roll of the Exchequer dated 4 December 1378 records "To John Lamb, an esquire from Scotland, because he lately killed Owynn de Gales, a rebel and enemy of the King ... £20".
With the assassination of Owain Lawgoch the direct line of the House of Cunedda / Gwynedd became extinct.
In August 2003, the assassination of Owain Lawgoch was commemorated by the unveiling of a memorial in Mortagne sur Gironde, 40 miles north of Bordeaux. Yvain de Galles (Owain of Wales) is still regarded as a military hero in France, for his role in challenging English control of Normandy and Aquitaine during the 100 Years War.


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Hikers Locate Missing Dog With A Little Help From The Stars Above
by Dina Fantegrossi | Jul 31, 2019 | News |
Kelly McDuffie and Danny Hartung were not looking for a lost pooch when they set out on their hike, but they recognized the Golden Retriever immediately. Missing dog posters bearing Max's photo were hung all over Shenandoah National Park.
When they stumbled upon him, Max had been lost in the wilderness for 11 days.
McDuffie told Good Morning America, "Everything just fell into place that day…the stars aligned."
Max's misadventure began on July 4 when he escaped from his family's vacation rental at a nearby resort. Employees and park guests had been searching for him ever since.
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H/T to Good Morning America
Featured Images via Facebook/Kelly McDuffie
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Q: Is it possible to transfer data from one TableViewCell to another TableViewCell by using different? segues [Transfering data from one TableViewCell to another TableViewCell][1]
I have CountriesViewController with tableView where is a list of different countries. When I choose a country I want to get PlacesViewController with tableView which shows different locations in this country. When I choose another country in CountriesViewController I want to get another list of locations related to this country.
Is it possible?
First ViewController
Second View Controller
If somebody had any suggestions and can show some code examples it would be really great!
Thank you guys in-advance!

A: So I guess I have to implement this chunk of code
but it's just for transferring data from from ViewController with tableView to another ViewController without tableView.
    override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
    if segue.identifier == "detailSegue" {
        if let indexPath = tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow {
            let destinationController = segue.destinationViewController as!
PlacesViewController
            destinationController.placesImage =
countryImages1[indexPath.row]
        }
   }
}

A: First you have to make a array of all the data, then when a specific row is tapped, you send the name of that country to the second tableview and in there just filter the array based on the country.
The code beneath just shows you how to check which row is tapped and send that information to the second tableview:
var currentCountry : String!

    class View1 : UITableViewController {
        //tableview stuff

        override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
            let country = tableView.cellForRowAtIndexPath(indexPath)?.textLabel?.text //Here I use the title to define which country is clicked
            currentCountry = country
        }
    }

    class View2 : UITableViewController {
        var country = currentCountry
        //more tableview stuff
    }

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While it's a technical area, creating graphics and web design calls for artistic talents in the field of design, such as fonts, texture, and colour. An increasing number of businesses and freelancers are promoting themselves online. However, many don't have the skills or the time necessary to design their own graphics or create their own website. So instead, they seek out the help of a designer.
As this art form is related to the Internet, you can generate leads all over the globe. Many freelance sites and companies have projects and jobs accepting applications right now. When you've built up your own portfolio, you can choose to narrow your niche, such as building WordPress sites or working strictly for non-profit organisations.
If you have a keen sense of what makes a great photo, it could be that a photography business would suit you well. There are a number of ways with which you can earn more from photography. One is to take photos at weddings and other events. Another is to take portraits of people or pets. You could even choose to take photos of various objects and landscapes and sell your photos on the Web.
More and more people are looking to give their homes a makeover. This is in part down to the success of such home-centric shows as HGTV. The issue is, however, that many people don't possess the knowledge to choose the right texture and colour, or have an eye for decorating their own home.
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Voter turnout shatters recent records for Michigan primary elections
More than 2 million votes were cast, and based on still incomplete and unofficial election returns, it appears voter turnout neared 29 percent.
Voter turnout shatters recent records for Michigan primary elections More than 2 million votes were cast, and based on still incomplete and unofficial election returns, it appears voter turnout neared 29 percent. Check out this story on Freep.com: https://on.freep.com/2OTWLZx
Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press Published 7:42 a.m. ET Aug. 8, 2018 | Updated 7:22 p.m. ET Aug. 8, 2018
Tamara McManus, 27 of Waterford wanted to bring her son Luke Dusseau, 13, right, of Waterford into Precinct 11 in Waterford on Tuesday, August 7, 2018 to learn and understand the election process. (Photo: Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press)
LANSING – Voter turnout in Tuesday's primary election in Michigan broke records going back at least as far as 1978, a state elections official confirmed Wednesday.
More than 2.1 million votes were cast, and based on still incomplete and unofficial election returns, it appears voter turnout — measured by the percentage of registered voters who cast ballots — was close to 29 percent.
When turnout is measured based on the number of Michigan residents who are of voting age — the way the state tracks its historical data — Tuesday's figure was slightly lower, at 27 percent.
But both the total number of votes cast and the 27 percent turnout beat primary records of just more than 1.7 million votes cast in the 2002 gubernatorial primary and the previous high turnout percentage of 24.4 percent, set in 1982. Those numbers were the highest recorded in the state, going back at least as far as 1978, records show.
The record numbers likely help account for precincts running out of ballots Tuesday at numerous polling places in Oakland County and elsewhere.
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"It's great to see so many Michigan residents vote in the primary, which are too often the forgotten elections," said Fred Woodhams, a spokesman for the Michigan Secretary of State's Office.
"Contested primaries up and down the ticket and among the parties captured the attention of voters."
The results show Democratic voters, in particular, are more energized than they were the last time Michigan had a gubernatorial election with contested nominations in both parties.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, just over 2.1 million votes had been cast for governor, shattering recent turnout results for a midterm primary election.
Democratic candidates for governor had received more than 1.1 million votes, while Republican candidates for governor had received about 986,000 votes.
In the 2010 primary, the most recent comparable election, fewer than 1.7 million people voted, with just over 1 million votes cast for Republican candidates for governor and 529,000 votes cast for Democratic candidates. Turnout that year was pegged at 21.9 percent, based on a voting age population of 7.62 million.
Michigan gets out to vote in the primary election
Sam Benford, 46 of Mt. Clemens holds up his sticker after voting at the Wilson Gymnasium polling location in Mt. Clemens, Mich., Tuesday, August 7, 2018. Kathleen Galligan, Detroit Free Press
The Wilson Gymnasium polling location is ready for voters in Mt. Clemens, Mich., Tuesday, August 7, 2018. Kathleen Galligan, Detroit Free Press
Ray DiMeo, 67 of Mt. Clemens volunteers as an inspector at the Wilson Gymnasium polling location in Mt. Clemens, Mich., Tuesday, August 7, 2018. Kathleen Galligan, Detroit Free Press
Voters turn out to the Wilson Gymnasium polling location in Mt. Clemens, Mich., Tuesday, August 7, 2018. Kathleen Galligan, Detroit Free Press
Supporters listen to Gubernatorial Democratic Candidate Gretchen Whitmer speak at her campaign headquarters on the Livernois Avenue of Fashion on Michigan Primary day on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press
Josiah Elam, 13 of Pontiac carries a sign in support of a candidate while outside the Bowens Center in Pontiac on Tuesday, August 7, 2018. Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press
A woman casts her vote inside the gym of the Bowens Center in Pontiac on Tuesday, August 7, 2018. Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press
Aisha Soofi, 18, and Eli Kirshner, 19, both of Ann Arbor make phone calls to voters on Michigan Primary Day at the campaign headquarters for Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press
Organizers make phone calls to voters on Michigan Primary day at the campaign headquarters for Gubernatorial Democratic Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press
Detroit voters wait to cast their ballots in the Michigan primaries at Pasteur Elementary in Detroit on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press
Tamara McManus, 27 of Waterford wanted to bring her son Luke Dusseau, 13, right, of Waterford into Precinct 11 in Waterford on Tuesday, August 7, 2018 to learn and understand the election process. Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press
Carolyn Kirin of Waterford stands at the appropriate distance from Precinct 16 in Waterford on Tuesday, August 7, 2018 using her homemade sign to tell people coming in to vote no on the millage for Waterford police and fire departments. Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press
Political supporters attempt to stay cool in the hot sun while passing out pamphlets at the Bowens Center in Pontiac on Tuesday, August 7, 2018. Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press
Greg Terrell, 65, who lives in the historic Sherwood Forest neighborhood of Detroit, casts his vote in the Michigan primaries with assistance from poll worker Alvin Lee, 62, of Detroit at Pasteur Elementary on Tuesday, Aug, 7, 2018. Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press
Sandy Pensler, Michigan Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, casts his vote in the Michigan Primary election at Trombly School August 7, 2018 in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan. Pensler's opponent, Republican John James, has received President Donald Trump's endorsement. Bill Pugliano, Getty Images
Sandy Pensler, Michigan Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, puts his election ballot into the ballot machine while his son Jonathon and daughter Natasha watch as he votes in the Michigan Primary election at Trombly School August 7, 2018 in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan. Pensler's opponent, Republican John James, has received President Donald Trump's endorsement. Bill Pugliano, Getty Images
Sandy Pensler (center), Michigan Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, greets a voter as he walks into his voting precinct accompanied by his son Jonathon and daughter Natasha to votes in the Michigan Primary election at Trombly School August 7, 2018 in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan. Pensler's opponent, Republican John James, has received President Donald Trump's endorsement. Bill Pugliano, Getty Images
John James, Michigan GOP Senate candidate, does an interview with a news media outlet before holding an election night event at his business, James Group International, August 7, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Bill Pugliano, Getty Images
Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate, Bill Schuette, speaks to members of the media ahead of his election day party at Dow Diamond in Midland, Mich., Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Nate Manley, AP
Michigan Lt. Gov. Brian Calley talks to the media during a news conference, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, at Barbat Holdings in West Bloomfield, Mich. Calley is a gubernatorial candidate in Tuesday's primary. Jose Juarez, AP
Michigan Lt. Gov. Brian Calley walks to a news conference held at Barbat Holdings, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018 in West Bloomfield, Mich. Calley is a gubernatorial candidate in Tuesday's primary. Jose Juarez, AP
Volunteers make phone calls to voters on Michigan Primary at the campaign headquarters for Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press
Camille Johnson, lead Detroit organizer, talks with other organizers at the campaign headquarters for Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press
Gubernatorial Democratic Candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed visits with Khadijah Shabazz, 24, and her daughter Elizah, 10 months, while making a stop at his campaign headquarters in Detroit on Michigan Primary Day, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed visits his campaign headquarters in Detroit on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Shri Thanedar casts his vote in the Michigan primary election at the Pittsfield Community Center in Pittsfield Township on Tuesday, August 7, 2018. Melanie Maxwell, Detroit Free Press
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Shri Thanedar, right, places an "I Voted" sticker on his son Samir Thanedar, of San Francisco, after casting his ballot in the Michigan primary election at the Pittsfield Community Center in Pittsfield Township on Tuesday, August 7, 2018. Melanie Maxwell, Detroit Free Press
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Shri Thanedar kisses his 18-month-old grandson Kai Thanedar, of San Fransisco, while in the parking lot after casting his ballot in the Michigan primary election at the Pittsfield Community Center in Pittsfield Township on Tuesday, August 7, 2018. Melanie Maxwell, Detroit Free Press
Gubernatorial Democratic Candidate Gretchen Whitmer talks with Chantrice Jones, 15, of Detroit with Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan about her internship at Good Cakes and Bakes through the Grow Detroit's Young Talent summer job program while talking to voters on Michigan Primary day on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press
Gubernatorial Democratic Candidate Gretchen Whitmer shakes hands with prospective voter Jordan Dagnogo, 25, of Detroit at Kuzzo's Chicken and Waffles on the Livernois Avenue of Fashion on Michigan Primary day on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan shakes hands with Marshall Bullock, who is running for District 4 State Senate, at Gretchen Whitmer's campaign headquarters on the Livernois Avenue of Fashion in Detroit on Michigan Primary day on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press
Gubernatorial Democratic Candidate Gretchen Whitmer takes photos with supporters outside her campaign headquarters on Livernois Avenue of Fashion on Michigan Primary day on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan speaks with Kai Bee and Monique David while campaigning on behalf of Gretchen Whitmer in Detroit on Aug. 8, 2018. Cameron Pollack, Detroit Free Press
Michigan Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer boards her campaign bus on Livernois Avenue in Detroit on Aug. 8, 2018. Cameron Pollack, Detroit Free Press
Flanked by daughters Sydney Shrewsbury, 14, left, and 11-year-old Sherry, Michigan democratic gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer fills out her ballot, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, at St. Paul Lutheran church in East Lansing. Matthew Dae Smith, AP
Evelyn Choske, 67, of Dearborn picnics with her husband Frank Choske, 70, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, outside Cass Tech. High School as they stump for their Son Tom Choske who is running for State Representative in 6th District. "It's a crowded field" said his mom "it's going to be tight." Mandi Wright, Detroit Free Press
Republican pollster Steve Mitchell attributed the strong turnout to "an enormous interest in politics" and many competitive statewide races with huge amounts spent on TV advertising.
The 2010 primary is not entirely comparable to the 2018 primary because while there was considerable money spent on the Republican side of the gubernatorial ballot that year, there wasn't much advertising in the Democratic race between former House Speaker Andy Dillon and then-Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, the eventual nominee, he said. There also was not a U.S. Senate primary that year, he added.
It remains to be seen how the results will translate to the general election on Nov. 6, Mitchell said.
"There is no doubt Democrats are as energized and as enthusiastic as I have seen them," he said. "That's because of the strong anti-Trump dislike in the Democratic Party."
He said "the question is, will Republicans vote in equal numbers in the general election?"
In Oakland County on Tuesday, about 181,000 ballots were cast for Democratic candidates for governor and about 131,000 for Republican candidates for governor, according to unofficial results on the county clerk's website.
Contact Paul Egan: 517-372-8660 or pegan@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @paulegan4.
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It's a pleasure to be sharing in this special blog share, The 25 Days of Christmas, started by the Parga's Junkyard Blog. I hope you check out the other blog posts sharing the holiday season with 24 bloggers who have joined forces to make this season a bit more magical..
Often the Holidays can be a difficult or lonely time for those who have no family or friends nearby, or are left behind because it is difficult to manage having one come to visit for a holiday visit-perhaps due to constraints of illness. Or sadder still, whether through ill family relations or neglectful family, the elderly or disabled family member is left behind.
It is usually difficult for an elderly or sick person in a nursing home, hospital, or assisted living facility, who receives few or no visits, to watch others receive visits or go out during the holiday season. I have seen this first hand, having worked in nursing homes, a rehab hospital and mental health facility for about 18 years. Even the smallest gesture is appreciated by these people and can mean a lot.
On the other hand, the warmth of a hug, for example, is nice when given by perhaps a staff person or visitor from a church, it is not always the same as when these people participate in interactions with animals. There is something about animals, that for most people will let them feel even more relaxed and free to enjoy the interaction than with people they aren't as familiar with. Often times the results are amazing!
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Melt the butterscotch morsels in a double boiler.
Let them get warm and start to melt, then stir.
Mound mix into small pieces like above.
over medium heat. Stir constantly.
Prepare your 8" or 9" pan with foil.
Spray the foil with pan spray.
Stir until melted. Add vanilla and stir.
place the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
In your mixing bowl add butter and both sugars.
On medium high, cream together the sugars and butter.
a time. Beat after each addition.
at a time. Mix just until it is incorporated.
Place small scoops on your baking sheet.
Top each cookie with mini M and M's.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10-13 minutes.
Break the pretzel sticks in half before adding them.
Melt the butter in a medium pot on low heat.
Stir until the marshmallows are completely melted.
Put butter or pan spray on your hands.
circles. Cow pies are not perfect.
rice krispie treats into chocolate.
Dip one part, then place in freezer until chocolate sets.
then put back in freezer.
Here are your cow pies!


Goal: California KiDDS was thoughtfully designed with excitement and preventative medicine in mind! The goal was to create a space where kids want to come and look forward to visiting their friendly dentist. The colors are thrilling for children and the detail throughout the space was selected to make the environment functional and fun! The Confide waiting room seating is comfortable with charisma. The lighting is perfectly detailed through soffits and above all desired areas of interest. The artwork is engaging with a sense of whimsy. The space is technologically advanced with screens above all exam chairs and back lit consoles in the exam area. The playful pattern from the fabric mirrors itself in the 3Form Reception desk and the accent tile. The detail in this facility, down to the gumball machines, make this space an exciting treat for kids to enjoy caring for oral health!
Scope: We had the pleasure of specifying all interior finishes and furniture, as well as placing artwork.


Proper usage and maintenance of a sewer line is an essential task that requires a collective responsibility from both homeowners and the institutions responsible. However, only a few property holders are aware of this. Any interference in a sewer line can cause wastewater to back up to the source. This can cause severe property damage in the home and commercial centres. To prevent this kind of damage, proper cleaning and restoration of sewer lines is important. With modern technologies, this process has been made easier. Unlike in the past when plumbers were forced to dig down to the pipes to fix a leaking pipe, today inspection cameras are used.
Sewer inspection cameras have become a precious tool in plumbing works. This is made of fibre optic cameras that allow visual monitoring of sewer lines laid underground. This camera determines the internal conditions of the pipe and gives feedback to the external monitor.
An elastic bar is fixed with a high-resolution video camera on its end. This is then inserted into the pipe to carry out inspection. As this goes through the pipe, some video images are broadcasted to the operator. These videos are then saved in a videotape where they are recorded permanently. The radio transmitters in the camera make a recording of the physical location and the depth from the surface. Then after, the detected defect is corrected by an expert.
Also, there can be several leakages in a sewer line, and a thorough inspection may be needed. This can be achieved by using a camera tractor. The inspection can either start from the source of the pipe or the main system pipe. The truck can be parked above the point of access. A sewer push camera with a long flexible cable fastened on its back and is then lowered into the system. Then, the operator gets into the truck to carry out the inspection. He/she remotely operates the camera from the truck. When the process is over or when the cable is fully stretched, the camera tractor is reversed to wound up the cable. This process can be repeated until when all the defects have been identified.


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"Why Does GO Stadium Rank Checker Suck Now?" And The Other Questions We've Been Asked
Recently the GO Stadium dev team released three new Rank Checker tools for battlers to use replacing the old website at gostadium.club/pvp/iv. We have been asked constantly why, about the speed of the new site & more. We have replied individually & through many different channels and would like to instead tell the story of the new rank checker here & answer some of the questions you may have.
The original Rank Checker was directly tied in with the PVPBot that is currently live on 1,933 Discord Servers & being used by 607,020 individual users. During Community Days at the beginning of the year we were noticing that the old site would crash once or twice, the bot needed to be restarted, etc., so we would ramp up cloud servers and capabilities for those peak days and would continue on, until Abra. Abra Community Day we had 3,000,000 checks between the site & bot before the event began in the Pacific Time Zone. We were at full capacity, everything was crashing multiple times an hour and no one was able to access anything. So we made the decision that it was time for an updated checker that could at least handle the load.
We took the last two months bringing on two wonderful Web Developers, beta testing, tweaking three new tools with features that we felt would improve the community: Best Buddy Rank Checking, Mega Rank Checking & Family Support. We also created tools with the ability to check in 3 leagues at one time & see a list of top 100 ranks instead of only top 25. The day before we went live loading was as fast as we could get it & believed that the site at minimum would not crash, we may see slowdown but the community would at least have a tool when they needed it. We threw the switch, and then...
GASTLY COMMUNITY DAY
We began the day with normal CD traffic and everything was going well for the most part. The tool was working as expected until Central Time Zone's Community Day & the site began to slow down. At this time in the past, the site, the bot & the 607,020 users accessing this information would have no way of rank checking with GOStadium, the new site however continued to provide information - admittedly a bit slowly. Our devs used their CD time to continue to push out improvements to problems you can't encounter during Beta Tests & have continued to do this in the days since.
Currently the load times are ~2 seconds on each tool during peak time, very close to that of the old site for most users, the service we use however doesn't work well if you have an Ad Blocker on & will cause your load time to go up a bit, so if you happen to have an ad blocker, add stadiumgaming.gg to the white list. We are working on fixes for this now.
Has the rollout been perfect? No, but there was no way for us to encounter these issues during beta and all seemed good before launch. We've taken the feedback that we've received & during the end & after CD we have seen massive improvement to load times & are constantly tweaking to get the best performance possible & hopefully soon there will be an even fresher experience for checking your ranks.
GO Stadium's goal is to provide the best experience possible and smoothest resources including articles, checkers, audio & video, and while this launch wasn't smooth the end goal will be the best online tool possible. More updates will continue to roll out that will only improve what we already have. Below are some of the top questions we've received so hopefully you understand where we're coming from & maybe how you can help.
Can access be restored to the old tool, it was better? The old tool was extremely unreliable & crashed way too often and is now permanently offline. The new site, while slow this past weekend has now been updated to similar performance for most users. With constant updates & the requested features we hope you'll grow to love the new one as you did the old.
I'm still having issues, how can I let you know? Head to the discord and post any issues in the #stadiumgaming-gg🌐 channel one of our members can take the report and work with you to get it working. Please tell us more than "this sucks'', explain your issue, how we can be better and we'll try to be. Remember that "this sucks" is the "this sucks" of feedback it tells us nothing. If you're still having loading issues, you may have cached some old code and we can help with that.
How did these tools make it out without testing? While you may think we rushed it, this tool was tested for 2 months with beta testers, staff & members of the community. If you'd like to join the beta program, head to the same #stadiumgaming-gg🌐 and post a screenshot of you logged into the site & request access to beta testing. Once approved you'll gain access to new features & fixes first and help us test them.
Why three different tools? Not everyone plays the game the same way and new tools allow more people to play as they want. The traditional Rank Checker is the same experience with a new coat of paint. The Full IVs will allow you to see a list of top 25, 50, 100 IVs of any Pokemon so that you can search for certain points/have a list for a hunt/etc.
Will the API for this be public? No, there are no plans for this at the moment.
Absolutely no one likes this design. Will you keep it? We've gotten both positive and critical feedback on the change and we are looking into a stripped down version, but it will match the theming of the site as a whole as this one does.
I have other questions not answered here, how can I ask? Send us a tweet or ask in the discord, one of our dev team or other staff members can likely help you out.
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As you see islam is not a religion of Simplicity. How many ppl could survive just with that Swarovski Crystal Schindler? For sure u can find another worship places in other religion also . Like churchs in 16 century with Michelangelo's masterpieces .
Je suis curieuse d'avoir vos avis, n'hésitez pas à venir me dire si ça vous plaît ou non !
Mon but premier était de me créer des souvenirs avec les photos et des notes que je pourrai lire et relire. Mais je veux aussi pouvoir partager avec vous beaucoup plus que ce que je partage ici ! Vos avis sont donc hyper important pour moi !
✴لَوْن بصرك بأجمل الصور/ وأجمل العبارات مع (أوريلاكس/صور).
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Feel free with riding bag .
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Today, I have made men/women that I can boast about their successes in the society.
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When club singer Deloris Van Cartier witnesses her gangster boyfriend Curtis Shank and his goons commit a murder, she is placed in witness protection in the most unlikely of places; a convent!
Shank vows to find her no matter what, and places a price on her head.
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Filipino Tribes Mark World's Indigenous Peoples Day
QUEZON CITY, Philippines - Filipino indigenous people on Tuesday called on the government to address major issues facing the country's tribes as they marked World's Indigenous Peoples Day, an epa journalist reports.
Jimboy Mandagit of the Tegwahanun tribe and supporters of the Filipino indigenous people rallied at the University of the Philippines library in Quezon City, northeast of Manila, where a photo exhibition on indigenous people is being held.
They held placards calling for the pulling out of military troops from indigenous communities; greater access to social services and education; and the resumption of peace talks between the President Rodrigo Duterte's administration and the National Democratic Front - a coalition of groups representing communist rebels and paramilitary forces.
Paramilitary groups hired by mining firms have been accused of persecuting and killing scores of indigenous people, with thousands of Lumad tribal people fleeing their homes in the southern island of Mindanao in the past two years, according to ABS-CBN broadcaster.
Other demands of the Filipino indigenous population include official recognition of their right to ancestral land and self-determination, and the cessation of the plunder of resources from their territories, according to the Philippine Star newspaper.
World's Indigenous Peoples Day was established by the United Nations in 1994 and seeks to promote and protect the rights of indigenous people across the world.


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Download three free MP3 versions of "The Tiny Mouse!" Just right click on one of the icons below and choose "Save to desktop" (or something similar, different browsers use different wording). Use the MP3s to create your own video and post it to YouTube!
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The Tiny Mouse
by Janis Ian
There was a tiny mouse
who lived in a tiny house
full of drafts and doubts, and incredible things
like a jack-in-the-box who popped
every Sunday at five o'clock
and a clown who wore a frown that was deafening
He ate off a silver spoon
in a golden room
but platinum plates and diamond goblets weren't enough
"I am bored," said he
"I think I will go to sea
"where I'll be drinking grog and sniffing occasional snuff"
So he stowed away
that very day
but the motion of the ocean made him sick
He went looking for a loo,
but the best that he could do
was the bathroom of the captain of the ship
Oh, the bathroom of the captain of the ship
There was a small still life
of the captains wife
and what he saw there nearly brought the mouse to tears
A calico coat and head
and the inscription read
"To the captain of my heart, from Kitty Dear"
The mouse began to cry
"Oh what a fool am I
"to come so far and then be served up on a plate
"What an awful meal I'll be!
"Most of all, to me!!
"So it's overboard I'll go and make my escape"
He caught a flounder for a sail
Made rudder of his tail
and he swam as hard as he could swim for land
where he dried his whiskers off
and coughed and coughed and coughed
and spat out seven oysters and a clam
Oh, he spat out seven oysters and a clam
He married a mouseketeer
Had children who loved to hear
about the adventures of the tiny stowaway
but it made their noses itch
and their whiskers twitch
to think how close he'd come to being the soup of the day
The moral of the tale
is think before you sail
and always keep your paws and whiskers neat
and if you're dining on a ship
just be sure the room's well lit
so you know what's in the bowl before you eat
Always know what's in the bowl before you eat!
©2012 Rude Girl Pub. All rights reserved; international copyright secured
Download a free copy of the sheet music transcription to "The Tiny Mouse" by Janis Ian. One version has the full song and the other is abridged. Click on either icon to download!
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Interview One
Interview Two
I had been trying to set up an interview with The Tiny Mouse for several months, but he was always too busy – feeding his numerous children, practising the oboe, working at his "day job" of repairing clocks and watches. When he finally made time for me, the first book about his adventures at sea was almost finished!
We met in a tiny cafe a few miles from his home. I had to sit outside, on the pavement, because the chairs were much too small for someone as tall as me. (I am 4' 10", or 147 centimeters.) As usual, Mr. Mouse was nattily dressed, sporting a very beautiful moustache and carrying a wooden cane with a pewter handle in the shape of a large hunk of Swiss cheese. We began almost immediately.
How is your family?
Most excellent, thank you. Larger every day.
How many children now?
Only eleventy-thirteen at home. The rest are in college.
I was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in The United States. We moved to The Netherlands when I was still in my teens.
What was that like? was there much culture shock?
Well, yes. In Nashville, we'd been living in a beautiful old wooden bread box, with a little window that overlooked a garden. It was safe and snug in the winter, and nice and cool in the summer. When we moved to Amsterdam, we didn't have any friends or family there to stay with, so those first few weeks we lived in hiding, anywhere we could find.
That must have been really frightening!
Oh, it was... but it also gave me a taste for adventure, you know. By the time we settled in, I'd already lived on several houseboats, in the tympani case at the Staadschouwburg, and behind Van Gogh's Potato Eaters at the Rijksmuseum. My parents always made sure we were exposed to culture when we travelled.
Where did you eventually wind up?
We were supposed to go to Castricum for the day and visit our friends Ineke and Sandra, but we accidentally wound up in Rotterdam. (Don't ever try to take the train in Holland if you're not Dutch; it's impossibly confusing!)
And were you immediately discovered by Lemniscaat Publishing?
Oh, no. Actually, I discovered them. I was passing by their offices, quite by accident, because I'd lost a shoe.
Well, it stand to reason that a lost shoe would try to find a picture book to live in, doesn't it? Picture books are just full of shoes!
Oh, of course... and then?
Then I smelled the most delicious thing, a combination of paints and Gouda cheese, and I had to investigate. Before I knew it, I was sitting on a sofa, nibbling away at some Gouda, looking forward to a page or two for dessert, when Jesse and JC discovered me.
That must have been quite a shock.
It was terrible! Just awful... but once they realized I was only intending to eat the pages they no longer needed, they calmed down and we had a lovely talk. I told them all about how I longed to go to sea... Well, actually, I exaggerated a bit and said I'd already been to sea.
So you were a story-teller even then?
Oh, yes. I'd always entertained my little brothers and sisters with stories. It's not easy, when there are dozens and dozens of them, all asking for their very own story! But I credit my parents with nurturing my creativity, and exposing me to great art.
Then what happened?
Jesse invited me to stay and tell my story to Dieter and Ingrid Schubert, who were coming to dinner that night. So I ran downstairs and told my family where I'd be, grabbed a change of clothes or two, and ran right back up the stairs to their office. Of course, my mother and father had to come and approve of my new living circumstances, and then later to sign the contract for our book.
That must have been very exciting!
Tremendously so!! How many mice from Nashville get to have their own book?! Not many, I can assure you. And with the little advance I received, I was able to buy a wonderful home for my parents, and another home nearby for myself now that I am old enough to live on my own.
What do you think of the book? Is it pretty accurate?
Almost. Almost completely accurate. Except that I am much better-looking than Dieter and Ingrid made me. But of course, I understand. They didn't want to take away from the actual story, or focus people's attention on my looks.
Has there been a lot of pressure on you, with the book coming out?
A bit. I've been doing interviews, and I'm going back to America soon to visit with all the librarians. It's very exciting, but it's also a lot of work, packing and unpacking all the time, keeping my toothbrushes clean, making sure my moustache is properly trimmed. It's awfully hard to find a good barber in a strange city.
Just how many toothbrushes do you have?
32, of course. One for each tooth.
Are you hoping to make another book?
(Blushing.) Well, I don't know. My family would like me to stay home, but I want to visit Hollywood. We have relatives living at the La Brea Tar Pits, I'm sure they'd put us up for a week or two. I come from a distinguished family, you know! My grandfather always said we could trace our line right back to the Jurassic Era. I think the children would enjoy it, too – there are an awful lot of coconut trees, and of course tremendous museums. Not to mention the ocean. Flying is difficult for us, the seats are always too big and the food is never really what you expect... but we could take a cruise, if the book does well, that is.
After your last adventure, I'm surprised you'd even consider going to sea!
Ah, well, so long as it wasn't the same boat, I think we'd be all right. How many Calico Captains can there be, after all!!!
The Tiny Mouse has lovely manners, and it was a pleasure to speak with him one hot summer's day. I had a lot of questions from children around the world, and he was patient and kind as he answered every single one.
You as well. Would you like some lemonade?
Yes, thank you. I have a lot of questions from children who loved the book about your adventures at sea.
<squeak!!>
First, were you frightened when you discovered the captain was a cat?
Oh, awfully scared. But as my wise grandma always said, "Laugh in the face of danger, then quickly run away!" So I jumped overboard.
Did you know how to swim?
I do now!!
You're always so well dressed – where do you get your clothes?
At the Drift Store.
Don't you mean the "Thrift Store"?
No, the Drift Store. Clothes that have drifted away from their owners end up there.
And what's your favorite food?
Cheese, of course! though I like a good radish once in a while.
How many children do you have?
Hard to tell. They come and go so fast.
Would you like to meet children from other countries?
Yes – I love to travel, as you know. I have relatives all over the world, even in Japan and China.
Who trims your handsome moustache, by the way?
Mrs. Mouse, of course. I don't let anyone else touch it!
I haven't met your wife.
Well, she's pretty busy with the children, you know. And of course, she takes care of my fan club.
You have a fan club?!
Yes. There are four members already!
Who would they be?
Well, myself of course. And my wife. And Dieter and Ingrid Schubert, who draw me.
Wow, what a success you've become! Are you very rich now?
(Blushing.) Not really, though we have invested in a cheese farm.
Now, last question – do you exercise, and if so, what do you do?
Oh, yes. Every single day. I ride a unicycle, and juggle.


The Andreas Method encourages self-healing and self-development by removing energetic blockages and strengthening the vital force within. It detoxifies the body, and increases overall well-being. Many experience meaningful emotional release. This gentle method draws on principles from Oriental Medicine, Theomedicine, Homeopathy, and Nutrition.


EIF 2018: The Next Three Years for the I.E.I.
Emerging Issues Forum 2018: Kidonomics brings education, business and non-profit leaders together to explore how early childhood education boosts NC's economy decades later.
Jeanette Betancourt of Sesame Workshop on fostering kids' well-being through nurturing.
An in-depth conversation on the importance of a child's educational first steps.
State & National healthcare leaders discuss child benefits of health & wellness programs.
N.C. political, health and education leaders offer insight on N.C. childhood education.
Business leaders discuss how 3rd grade reading ability can close job "skills gaps."
A discussion of how philanthropic support can boost early childhood education programs.


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import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.nio.file.Path;

/**
 * Provides preset appenders.
 */
public class Appenders {
	/**
	 * @param threshold initial appender threshold
	 * @return new appender which appends to {@code System.err}
	 */
	public static Appender err(int threshold) {
		return new Appender(threshold) {
			@Override
			public void append(String message) {
				System.err.println(message);
			}
		};
	}
	/**
	 * @param threshold initial appender threshold
	 * @return new appender which appends to {@code System.out}
	 */
	public static Appender out(int threshold) {
		return new Appender(threshold) {
			@Override
			public void append(String message) {
				System.out.println(message);
			}
		};
	}

	/**
	 * @param path path to file
	 * @param threshold initial appender threshold
	 * @return new appender which appends to the file at {@code path}
	 * @throws FileNotFoundException if the file at {@code path} does not exist or results in some other issue when opened
	 */
	public static Appender file(Path path, int threshold) throws FileNotFoundException {
		return new Appender(threshold) {
			PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(path.toFile());

			@Override
			public void append(String message) {
				writer.println(message);
				writer.flush();
			}
		};
	}
}