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1928 Edison 2022
Edison Powers
April 6, 1928 — October 22, 2022
Calvin Edison Powers, 94, of Bennett, passed away on Saturday, October 22, 2022 at Autumn Care in Biscoe. The funeral will be held on Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. at Beulah Baptist Church with Dr. Neal Jackson presiding. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends prior to the service from 1:00 p.m.-2:45 p.m. They will return to the fellowship hall after the interment. Joyce-Brady Chapel will be open from 1:00 pm-5:00 pm on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 for friends to sign the register.
Mr. Powers was born in Moore County on April 6, 1928 to Benjamin and Lula Gilliland Powers. He lived in upper Moore County all of his life, until he moved to Autumn Care. His church and education were very important to him. He served in several positions as a member of Beulah Baptist Church. He was a teacher at Bennett School, a principal at High Falls School, a counselor for Moore County Schools and an Associate Superintendent for 23 years. Mr. Powers retired after 37 years in education. After retirement, he enjoyed farming and raising beef cattle. He was known for having large gardens and sharing the vegetables with friends in the community. He treasured spending time with his family.
In addition to his parents, Mr. Powers was preceded in death by his wives, Faye Hayes Powers and Peggy Bailey Powers and one brother, Paul Powers.
He is survived by two sons, Darrell Powers (Kendall) and Doyle Powers (Tanna); grandchildren, Darren Powers (Maria), Justin Powers (Jodi), Christina Powers (Nathan Hifko), Clark Powers and Derek Powers; step-grandchild, Jared Cranford (Stephanie); great-grandchildren, Owen Powers, Harper Hifko, Cayden Powers, Darby Powers, Hudson Hifko, Kendrick Powers, Emerson Cranford, Sawyer Cranford, Quinn Cranford and a host of family and friends.
Flowers are accepted or donations may be made to Beulah Baptist Church Building Fund, 8454 Howard Mill Rd., Bennett, NC 27208.
Condolences may be offered online at www.joycebradychapel.com.
Joyce-Brady Chapel is honored to serve the Powers Family.
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Joyce-Brady Chapel open for friends to sign the register
Joyce-Brady Chapel
3833 Chatham St, Bennett, NC 27208
Beulah Baptist Church
8454 Howard Mill Rd, Bennett, NC 27208
Interment following funeral service


Alchemix EP 5242 Low Colour, High UV Resistant Epoxy Resin System.
this month we have been doing a few tests with a clear casting Epoxy Resin from Alchemie – one of many different resins they do but the one most recommended for deep fill and big pour River Tables and the like by their friendly rep Nigel – Alchemix EP 5242 Low Colour, High UV Resistant Epoxy Resin System.
The results were very good and with a bit more tweaking for the next few projects in the workshop we will have it pretty well perfect; already, though, it is far superior to the other epoxies I have used over the years and have decided to start stocking this Epoxy (and maybe a few others plus ancillaries) from Alchemie.
Epoxy Resin is available to callers to the premises store only – we currently make zero profit off the sales of Epoxy so we hope you will browse and buy some wood while you are in for your epoxy! I (Patrick) can advise on the best techniques for use of this epoxy and no doubt most customers will be able to share some of their knowledge and experience too.
Smallest size is 1.45kg as shown, £30 inc vat for the set – 1kg plus 450 g of hardener; next size up is 7.25kg @ £120 inc vat for the set – 5kg plus 2.25kg of hardener. It is mixed very accurately by weight in that 1 : 0.45 ratio but very approximately 1kg of this = 1 litre, if it helps to visualise the quantities, so it is approx a 1 litre then a 5 litre, plus hardeners at nearly half the volume.


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HERE IS A SNEAK PEEK OF ELIZABETH GILFILEN'S SHOW NIGHTCRAWLER
Beth Gilfilen's show Nightcrawler opens Friday, March 4, 2016, 7–9 p.m.
The location is Majestic Theatre, 222 Montgomery Street
, Jersey City, NJ.
Willow Would, 2015, oil on canvas, 70 x 64 in. Photo credit: Bill Orcutt. Courtesy of artist.
Front of the Back, 2015, oil on canvas, 76 x 65.5 in. Photo credit: Bill Orcutt. Courtesy of artist.
Backside, 2015, oil on canvas, 76 x 70 in. Photo credit: Bill Orcutt. Courtesy of artist.
Recast, 2015, oil on canvas, 70 x 64 in. Photo credit: Bill Orcutt. Courtesy of artist.
Beth Gilfilen at Majestic Theatre
Directions from Lower Manhattan to the Majestic Theatre.
Directions from Brooklyn to the Majestic Theatre.
Jersey City Art & Studio Tour 2015
Be sure to check out Kati Vilim: Radius of Action and Candy Le Sueur: Where Dreams Land exhibitions during the Jersey City Art & Studio Tour 2015. Viewing is from 12 to 6 p.m., on Saturday and Sunday.
Radius of Action is located at The Majestic Theatre Condominiums at 222 Montgomery Street, between Grove and Barrow Street. Vilim's exhibition features seven hard-edge color paintings that were made between 2007 and 2012. Each painting is oil on canvas mounted on wood panel.
Where Dreams Land is located at Hamilton Square Condominiums at 232 Pavonia Avenue, between Erie and McWilliams Place. Le Sueur's exhibition features nine large abstract landscape paintings that were created between 2012 and 2015. Each painting is oil on canvas. The exhibition also includes a series of small-scale prints and encaustics.
Kati Vilim: Radius of Action
Kati Vilim, 36 Squares, 2011, oil canvas on wood, 48 x 48inches
Installation of Kati Vilim's Radius of Action. Courtesy of the artist.
Candy Le Sueur: Where Dreams Land
Candy Le Sueur, Landed, 2013, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
Installation of Candy Le Sueur's Where Dreams Land
Opening Reception: September 11, 2015, 7–9 p.m.
Exhibition on view in the lobby from September 11, 2015 — January 2, 2016.
"Sea, sky, and land colliding are completely ingrained in my visual language. This just pours out of me. This is what I love to paint." – Candy Le Sueur
SILVERMAN AND THE HAMILTON SQUARE CONDOMINIUMS ASSOCIATION present "Candy Le Sueur: Where Dreams Land," curated by Brendan Carroll. This exhibition features nine large abstract landscape paintings that were created between 2012 and 2015. Each painting is oil on canvas. The exhibition also includes a series of small-scale prints and encaustics.
Candy Le Sueur's evocative paintings suggest the natural world. The landscapes she depicts are rarely, if ever, still or recognizable. Light, atmosphere, and bravura paint-handling pervade. Paint alternates between viscous blasts and transparent washes, as each work seeks to strike a balance between solidity and effervescence. Part of the appeal of Le Sueur's paintings is the threat that one of these forces may undo or overpower the other.
Although Le Sueur's paintings give the impression of having been executed with great speed, in actuality, Le Sueur constructs her paintings over time, in a deliberate fashion. "I start with a wash of a solid color—usually a pale gray-blue—and let this dry for a day or more depending on the season. Then I apply a further layer of lighter and darker tones, which gives me some structure," she explains. "Next, I build up the surface using a wet-to-wet technique, addressing one area of the canvas at a time. . . . This way of painting allows me to blend the color and soften where one area meets another. I push the paint around a lot.
Le Sueur paints as soon as she gets going in the morning, usually around 8:30 a.m. "I find my energy is best at that time," says the artist. She paints for roughly six hours and then takes a break to eat and read. She returns to her studio in the early evening to paint from 4 to 6:30 p.m. She prefers silence to music when she paints. That said, if she needs some creative sparks, she listens to Van Morrison or Rodríguez, a folk musician from Detroit who was famous in South Africa.
When Le Sueur began her career, she concentrated her attention on the landscape of her native South Africa, but soon afterward, the images she constructed could not be identified by a specific region. One of the joys of viewing Le Sueur's works is the myriad places they evoke: a windswept crag at the end of the world, a jagged coastline deluged by rain, a sunbaked plain enveloped by azure skies. Today, Le Sueur paints her landscapes from her studio in Jersey City. "I don't need to be in the physical locale to paint my work," says the artist. "My paintings are landscapes as I imagine them, relying on memory, intuition, and emotion." Although Le Sueur's style may recall, at first glance, the gestural brushwork of Abstract Expressionism, what emerges on repeat viewings is the artist's strong affinity to Romanticism, the early-nineteenth-century artistic movement that turned to nature and the sublime as its primary sources of inspiration. Objectivity is eschewed in favor of poetic interpretation. Indeed, Le Sueur does not so much portray landscapes as she conjures them in the act of painting.
Le Sueur is an internationally recognized artist that has exhibited her work in South Africa, Switzerland, Germany, and United States. National Academy Museum, Jersey City Museum, and Drawing Rooms, among other venues, have exhibited her paintings, prints, and encaustics. Her work is included in several private collections both home and abroad. She received her Fine Arts Degree from University of Johannesburg in South Africa. She continued her studies at National Academy School in New York City. She was born in Kroonstad, South Africa, a small town in the center of the country, about 120 miles south of Johannesburg. She lives and works in Jersey City.
The exhibition will be on view at Hamilton Square Condominium Association from September 11, 2015 through January 2, 2016. For further information, please visit us at SILVERMAN or call 201-435-8000.
"Candy Le Sueur: Where Dreams Land" is the twenty-seventh exhibition that Brendan Carroll will organize for SILVERMAN. For additional information on the artist, go here: candylesueur.com.
SILVERMAN has presented the works of Kirk Bray, Anna Mogilevsky, Edward Fausty, Ali Harrington, Sara Wolfe, Anne Percoco, Shauna Finn, Melanie Vote, Paul Lempa, Fanny Allié, Michael Meadors, John A. Patterson, Charlotte Becket, Roger Sayre, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Tom McGlynn, Margaret Murphy, Valeri Larko, Tenesh Webber, Glenn Garver, Jennifer Krause Chapeau, Michelle Doll, Tim Heins, Megan Maloy, Laurie Riccadonna, Thomas John Carlson, Tim Daly, Ann Flaherty, Scott Taylor, Jason Seder, Sara Wolfe, Beth Gilfilen, Andrzej Lech, Hiroshi Kumagai, Victoria Calabro, Asha Ganpat, Darren Jones, Ryan Roa,Laura Napier, Risa Puno, Nyugen E. Smith, Amanda Thackray, and Kai Vierstra.
Transportation directions from Lower Manhattan to downtown Jersey City.

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The city of Limbe on Saturday the 28th of March 2015 welcomed the debut of the Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC).
The cultural festival started partially on Saturday with several activities such as modelling in order to choose Miss FESTAC and cultural dances at the Limbe Council Hall. This is just the partial start-up and it will be properly launched on the 5th of April 2015. This festival is actually an opportunity to exhibit several handmade items by participants. This cultural display draws participants from different parts of the country such as the rest of Fako Division, Yaounde, Douala, Kribi and Bamenda and also internationally.
All in all the inhabitants of Limbe are excited about hosting this festival again and waits for the proper launching of the festival.


I am starting this topic for discussion on connecting LoPy over LoPy NanoGateway to an open source server network https://github.com/brocaar/loraserver. I have noticed a lot of posts about connecting to TTN with the same setup. I am facing a common problem that nodes are not accepting the join approvals (stuck at 'Not joined yet') while the the network server is accepting and sending back the approval. Has anyone tried to work with this open-source server?
No. I was merely suggesting that this could have problems specific to the server too. Other than the issues on Lopy, which the developers acknowledge, I now think that both TTN and the open source server are fine themselves.
How could the open source server solve this?
Do you think the join approval problem is a TTN issue and not a LoPy issue?


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When a client approaches us about a potential project, we are able to quickly assess if we have the capacity to deliver in the timeframe requested. A proposal with specified timelines and budget would be typically be generated within 48 hours. Since you would be dealing with the leadership of the company, these executive decisions can be made quickly.
Upon commitment with a contract, our team of PharmD writers are mobilized. One individual is assigned with the primary writing responsibility, while another is designated to perform the quality check. Before you receive any draft of the deliverable, the project lead also reviews the material to assure it is in alignment with the client specifications.
Each person on our team of PharmDs were hand-picked, based not only on the experience noted on their curriculum vitae but also their performance on specific assessments that we ask of them. Upon joining our team, they undergo advanced training to build upon basic software skills (eg, MicroSoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat) to raise the bar. With certain team projects, we use webconferences as a tool to assure that everyone is on the same page with regards to the expectations and responsibilities for the final product.
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Heat milk and honey in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat. Cut vanilla bean in half lengthwise. Use the tip of the knife to scrape the seeds into the milk and add the pod. As soon as bubbles cover the surface of the milk, turn off the heat and let the vanilla steep for 10 minutes. Discard the pod.
Meanwhile, heat butter and oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add corn, onion, salt and pepper; cook, stirring frequently, until the onion is translucent, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from the heat. Carefully pour the vanilla milk into the skillet with the vegetables and whisk until well blended.
Whisk eggs in a large bowl. Sprinkle flour and cornmeal over the eggs and whisk to combine. Whisk 2 tablespoons of the corn-milk mixture into the egg mixture. Then whisk the rest of the corn-milk mixture into the egg mixture until combined. Pour into the prepared baking dish.
Bake the corn pudding until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean and the top is golden brown, 45 to 50 minutes. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving. Serve warm.
Delicious comfort food I've made this twice now, and it's great. The vanilla enhances the corn taste (the second time I didn't have a bean, so used a little dash of extract, and it was fine). It bakes up beautifully, slices well, makes good leftovers. I made 1/2 recipe in a pie pan, worked well.
Very tasty I made this for a Thanksgiving Pot Luck and people were scraping the crumbs. Will make this often.


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Dan Stevens and Emma Watson faithfully recreate almost shot-by-shot a much better cartoon
Cast: Emma Watson (Belle), Dan Stevens (The Beast), Luke Evans (Gaston), Kevin Kline (Maurice), Josh Gad (LeFou), Ewan McGregor (Lumiere), Stanley Tucci (Maestro Cadenza), Ian McKellen (Cogsworth), Audra McDonald (Madame de Garderobe), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Plumette), Hattie Morahan (Agathe)
Beauty and the Beast was released at the perfect time. The generation who grew up watching the original could now take their children – or revisit the fond memories with their parents. It was a chance for everyone to wallow in sentimental nostalgia. Disney knew its market would be people who wanted something as close as possible to what they remembered: they certainly delivered.
Surely you know the story by now? But in case you've been living under a rock for your entire life: Belle (Emma Watson) is the beautiful but bookish village girl who dreams of a something more than this provincial life. When her father Maurice (Kevin Kline) is imprisoned by a horrific Beast, Belle volunteers to take his place and stays in the castle. The Beast and all his servants are enchanted and only true love can break the spell – will Belle and the Beast fall in love?
I would ask why Disney feels the need to make what are effectively shot-by-shot remakes of their animated classics, but the fact this raked in almost a billion dollars at the box office kinda answers that question. But make no mistake, creatively this is karaoke: a few small flourishes have been thrown in, but effectively it's a faithful recreation of a film that was already pretty much perfect to begin with. In fact, watching it, the only real emotion I felt was a desire to watch the "real" thing again. Damningly, twice my wife and I stopped to look up the equivalent scenes from the original on YouTube: in every case they were better.
That's the big problem. Of all these remakes, only The Jungle Book was a genuine reimagining of the original. This one follows Cinderella and hews as close as possible to the film you've already seen. The plot is identical. The song and dance sequences are the same. The characterisations are the same. Hell, half the line readings are the same. It's a film that is so dependent on people's affection for the original that it's terrified of offering anything too different from it. In which case – why not just watch the original? Would you rather look at a poster or the actual Mona Lisa?
Condon has thrown in some new pieces here and there to get an extra 30 minutes of action. One decent invention does involve the spell also causing the villagers to forget the castle exists, which is neat. The others add less. Belle has been turned into as much of an inventor as her father and, in one particularly bizarre sequence, invents the washing machine. There is a rather confused sequence involving a magic book which allows the Beast to go anywhere in the world (the witch clearly left a plethora of magic devices behind to entertain the Beast) – raising the question of why he needs that enchanted mirror, since he can apparently physically travel through both space and time with his Tardis-book. LeFou is subtly reimagined as gay – but this is very quietly done so as not to damage the film's box-office potential in some markets.
There is a rather clumsily done storyline around Belle's mother dying of plague when she was a baby, which also adds nothing. The film may possibly be trying to construct some kind of clunky commonality between the Beast and Belle with their parental traumas, but a dead mother with a rose fetish shares little with the stereotypical Cold Abusive Aristocrat father the Beast has – and anyway, they're already giving them plenty of common ground through the good stuff they've lifted straight from the original film. Nothing else new really stands out.
In fact, the film is so studiously faithful, you get annoyed when it deviates from the original – particularly as it invariably does scenes less well. The final battle between Gaston and the Beast suffers horribly, with the emotional narrative of the fight thoroughly muddled, in contrast with the original's clear and efficient storytelling. In the original, the Beast despairs and refuses to save himself from Gaston's attack until he sees Belle. Here, he's sort of defending himself and sort of not, and Belle is given some action nonsense, and Gaston's death is turned from a clean narrative (one treacherous thrust hits home, then in sadistically going for the second he falls to his death) into a strange sequence where he stands and brutally shoots at the Beast repeatedly until the stonework beneath him randomly collapses and send him plummeting to his doom.
None of this, however, compares to the butchering of the moment when Belle discovers the library. In the original this is an endearingly sweet moment, with the Beast overcome with excitement at giving Belle a gift she really wants. The audience shares in his delight, and is charmed by his touching anxiety that she will like it, just as they share in her wonder at the discovery. It's a major moment in the growth of their relationship. Here it's thrown away – the Beast shows her the library in a fit of irritation at her pedestrian Shakespeare tastes. The film gives all the time and emotional weight to the tedious "magic book" sequence, where they travel to the "Paris of my childhood" and discover that, yup, Belle's mum died of plague. Well that was both depressing and uninteresting…
Anyway - take a look at those two library scenes...
The acting is pretty good. Emma Watson does a decent job, particularly considering the pressure on her. She performs the songs prettily, although they don't soar the way they did when performed by someone with the vocal power of Paige O'Hara. Her Belle is thoughtful but has a level of defiance and independence that's been stepped up from the original. Dan Steven's Beast is much more of a prince under a ghastly shell – unlike the original he's literate, can dance and is well spoken (which makes his moments of animalism and his soup eating failure stick out all the more). The rest of the cast are fine – Ewan McGregor is as flamboyant as you'd expect, Emma Thompson sings the song very well, Kevin Kline makes a lot of Maurice. However for each of them, there are moments when you remember fondly that the animators invested the originals with more emotion.
The one member of the cast who does stand out is Luke Evans. How is the guy not a star yet? Sure the swaggering braggart Gaston might be the best part in the whole film, but Evans nails it with all the energy and egotism you would expect. His scenes are the best in the film by far, and he's the only one who manages to do something a little different with his role.
Of course it looks fabulous, but it feels somehow a little bit empty. All the things that move you are done (mostly better) in the original – in fact, a major part of why they move you is the memory of the original. The acting is pretty good and it's well filmed and made – the design is terrific. But honestly, with the original out there what's the point? Why would you watch this rather than the other one? It's not as moving, it's not as exciting, it's not as funny, it's not as charming. All it does is to try and recreate the original as closely as possible. You can stage Hamlet thousands of times and each production would be different, but Disney can't stage Beauty and the Beast twice without replicating it.
If you want it to exactly match your memories, without being quite as good, it's the film for you. If you want a Disney live-action film that feels like something original, watch The Jungle Book.
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Last night (Tuesday 3rd September) saw the opening of 'Natural Resemblances' – an exhibition by Catalan born, Dublin based artist Jordi Forniés.
The exhibition was officially opened by arts commentator and strategist Ciarán MacGonigal.
The exhibition continues in Smock Alley Theatre (opening hours 10am – 6pm) until 7th September after which it leaves for Spain for a series of solo exhibitions in various museums starting with the Museum of Modern Art of Tarragona in October 2013, followed by the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia (Centro del Carmen) in January 2014.
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Pfizer hiring for more than 200 positions at Portage facility
Natasha Blakely
Pfizer has more than 200 job openings in their Portage facility.
The company, one of the world's largest in pharmaceutical makers, operates its largest manufacturing site in Portage, just south of the Kalamazoo Battle Creek International Airport.
The site produces more than 150 products, including active pharmaceutical ingredients and sterile injectable medications.
The open positions cover a range of jobs from production operators and engineers to project managers and scientists. The full list of available positions is online at Pfizer's website.
"Several factors prompted our current hiring," said Bob Betzig, the site leader for Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo, the Portage facility, in an email. "Global demand for our products is growing. In fact, we've invested more than $1 billion in our Portage facility over the past decade to expand capacity and meet that demand. Likewise, we need skilled employees."
Betzig also said the company needed to account for an aging workforce that could retire in significant numbers in the coming years and the need for trained people to match the constant evolution of the manufacturing processes.
"Also, we knew about the recent downsizings at Kellogg's," Betzig said, "and that's an opportunity to attract new, high-quality talent from nearby. We let Kellogg's know about our advertising, and they welcomed the effort."
Kellogg announced in August that it plans to cut 223 jobs at its ready-to-eat cereal plant on Porter Street in Battle Creek in 2018.
More:Kellogg plans to cut 223 jobs in Battle Creek
Kellogg's media relations team said the company is "committed to helping those impacted employees at the Battle Creek plant by engaging with the community on potential employment opportunities and providing information and support."
The Portage plant started out as The Upjohn Company in 1886, merged with Pharmacia AB in 1995 and then finally became part of Pfizer in 2003. Pfizer was founded in 1849.
Pfizer's plants in McPherson, Kansas, and Rocky Mount, North Carolina, are also doing significant hiring.
"As global demand grows for our products, Pfizer will always require highly skilled workers to help make sure every patient gets the medicines they need when they need them," Betzig said.
Natasha Blakely is a reporter for the Battle Creek Enquirer. She can be reached at (269) 223-0114 or nblakely@battlecreekenquirer.com. Follow her on Twitter at @blakelynat.
Those interested in jobs at Pfizer can get more information at www.pfizercareers.com.


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Why Does Silicon Valley Want to Get So Many Women Pregnant?
Investors hope fertility apps will help women deliver healthy babies, but what they also hope users will deliver is a lot of sensitive data.
by Sarah Emerson
Image: Flickr/José Carlos Cortizo Pérez
Silicon Valley wants to get women pregnant.
From period apps that predict a woman's most fertile days to startups that claim to fast-track in vitro fertilization (IVF), reproductive tech is booming, and investors are digging deeper into their coffers to make sure everyone who wants a biological child can have one.
Somehow, women's fertility apps have found a profitable niche in the predominantly-male tech scene, surging past all other mobile health apps in terms of funding revenue in 2014.
But while the tech industry has invested millions to ensure that future-mothers deliver happy and healthy babies, it also hopes they'll deliver a lot of valuable private information.
As more women turn to data-driven fertility products, will they be forced to choose between taking control of their health and ceding control of how their personal information is used
Quantified self apps are allowing women to learn more about their biology than ever before. Sexual health topics that are still sequestered to sex-ed class or a doctor's office are becoming less stigmatized, thanks in part to new platforms that encourage women to converse and share information about their bodies.
But just like a visit to the doctor, that feedback doesn't come for free. In exchange for the insights, users pay with personal data that could expose them to privacy risks they may have never considered.
Mobile health services have been storing and sharing your data with third parties for quite some time now, and often outside the bounds of strict regulatory guidelines that hospitals are compelled to follow. A 2013 study conducted for the Financial Times found that 20 of the most popular health apps shared data with approximately 70 analytics companies and advertisers who, in turn, used this information to target ads and build user profiles.
Unlike hospitals, which are rigorously governed by agencies and laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), many digital health startups don't have to comply with the data sharing guidelines that were put in place to protect patients from things like theft, fraud, and profiling.
According to a set of new documents released by the US Department of Health and Human Services in early 2016, any app that's sponsored or paid for by a cover entity—a healthcare provider, health plan, or healthcare clearinghouse—must be HIPAA compliant. However, if an app isn't built by a cover entity, its developers aren't compelled to follow HIPAA's mandates.
Of the most popular fertility and reproductive mobile health platforms—Glow, Ovuline, Celmatix, Kindara, Bellabeat, and Clue—only three of them, Ovuline, Celmatix, and Progyny were listed as HIPAA compliant, according to public information about the companies.
"In most cases, health apps are unregulated. There are currently no legal protections around the sale or disclosure of your data," Maranda Cigna, director of global services at cybersecurity firm Rapid7, told me.
The swiftness with which mobile health is advancing has vastly outpaced the evolution of healthcare laws like HIPAA, which was enacted by US Congress in 1996 to protect the privacy of healthcare policy holders when personal records existed solely as paper files. Sometimes healthcare data laws apply to apps, and sometimes they don't—even when they're sharing the same information that's regulated by HIPAA. And while the lack of parity between new technology and aging policies is the fault of no singular entity, it ultimately falls on the shoulders of mobile health companies to proactively ensure their products are built with users' privacy interests in mind.
"A lot of app developers think they're small enough to not get caught if they're not HIPAA compliant," Jason Wang, CEO of healthcare data security startup TrueVault, told me.
As of right now, there's little regulatory guidance for apps that venture into healthcare territory, and the current definition of what constitutes "personal health information" is notoriously murky.
As a consumer, it's not especially easy to make sense of an app's privacy policy to find out what measures they are taking to protect your data. While most fertility apps do offer privacy policies, many of them are filled with legal jargon, and not all of them state that permission will be asked before data is shared with third parties.
"Users incorrectly believe that the information they put into apps is private, but that's certainly not the case. That data is being pretty heavily shared," said Cigna.
Women no longer live in an age where their financial data is their most valuable asset. Your personal health information, just like your social security number, is you. According to the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, it's 100 times more valuable than a person's credit card number. Black market dealers can use a patient's data to create fake IDs, file false claims, and collect their dependents' personal information.
"There's a market for health insurance fraud and abuse because the data associated with your health information can be used for things like creating fake IDs, or even filing made-up claims using a patient's data and a fake provider number. Medical identity theft has become very valuable, and it's not often identified by patients or providers, as is the case with financial fraud," Cigna said.
A study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association this year investigated 211 diabetes mobile health apps and found those sharing data with third parties posed significant privacy risks because there are no federal legal protections in place to protect users, should their data become compromised.
One of the most highly celebrated fertility apps among the tech community is Glow, which was launched in 2013 by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin. In 2014, Levchin claimed the period tracker had helped 25,000 women get pregnant (a number that raised some eyebrows in the medical field).
For women facing infertility, Glow offers a feature called Glow First that allows users to pay $50 per month into a shared pool of money that's used to cover the financial burden women incur when fertility treatments prove unsuccessful.
In exchange for the insurance, the company announced that it would be offering up users' health data to participating fertility clinics. Levchin referred to this as "crowdfunding babies."
Glow, however, is one of those apps that straddles the regulatory dividing line. Despite the company's claim that it's "sitting on one of the largest datasets for women's reproductive health ever assembled," as of right now, Glow is neither HIPAA compliant nor under the oversight of the US Food and Drug Administration.
A spokesperson for the company assured the app neither sells data nor shares personally identifiable user information, but did not comment on Glow's process of sharing the actual health data collected from its users.
There's no denying that fertility apps are streamlining the regular things that many women already do to keep track of their reproductive health, even if they have no desire to get pregnant. Why would you track your period on a static calendar when you can log that same information into a dynamic system that's not only more efficient, but also spits out personalized insights about your body?
Whatever privacy fears that data-sharing health apps may or may not instill, one thing that women certainly can fear is how much the current healthcare system disproportionately profits off of them. Clinics and insurance companies are raking in billions of dollars from women who struggle to conceive, and it's possible that fertility apps can help users make informed decisions about whether or not a costly IVF procedure would be their best option.
The global market for in vitro fertilization (IVF), for example, is expected to hit $21.6 billion by 2020. Doctors working at the largest IVF clinics in the US reported performing 165,172 procedures in 2012 alone. But despite the astronomical market for IVF, the procedure's success rates for women of all ages are still less than 50 percent.
"Treatments like IVF are mostly out of pocket, and most women don't have great benefits. We're paying up to $25,000 for every IVF round, and chances aren't even 100 percent certain. You don't pay for a baby, you pay for a treatment. Paying for volume versus outcome is backwards," Halle Tecco, founder and managing director of digital health venture fund Rock Health, told me.
Some fertility apps are taking the mobile health industry one step further and entering the realm of traditional insurance and healthcare coverage.
Startups including Glow and Progyny now offer fertility services and benefit options to companies with female employees seeking to conceive through IVF, which invites employers into women's pregnancy-planning in ways they've never before been involved. For many women who can't afford IVF, employer-funded fertility treatments may be their only option.
In 2014, Glow debuted Glow for Enterprise, which allows employers to contribute $50 per month toward participating employees' fertility treatment funds, much like the way Glow First works. In exchange for opting in, employers enrolled in the program receive periodic reports of aggregated employee data.
Progyny offers an entire suite of fertility benefits to large, self-insured companies hoping to reduce risky maternity-related costs and "better manage the financial and emotional burden of infertility," according to a statement.
But the ethical and privacy risks of employers having some stake in their employees' pregnancies are more obvious than those associated with apps' other data-sharing tendencies. More and more women in the US are choosing to put kids on hold because of workplace gender discrimination that prevents mothers from being hired for jobs for which they're qualified, promoted by their managers, and paid as much as their male colleagues.
If a woman's bosses are able to infer from a report delivered to them by a fertility app that she's trying to get pregnant, what's to stop them from finding a cause for firing her?
The collection of large amounts of employee health information is surprisingly legal, mostly because regulations like HIPAA have little jurisdiction outside of the actual health industry. Furthermore, startups like Glow and Progyny insist that only aggregated employee data will be seen by companies, which allows them to circumvent HIPAA's ban on the sharing of confidential personal health information with employers.
Federal laws and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act are supposed to keep companies from discriminating against and terminating the employment of pregnant employees, but that hasn't stopped policymakers from introducing legislation that would unravel women's workplace protections, or managers from finding unrelated causes for which to fire them.
Silicon Valley's investment in fertility is a curious juxtaposition to the tech industry's self-imposed barriers that keep working mothers down and out.
As a whole, the tech ecosystem has shown it still lacks initiative when it comes to prioritizing women and their health. Currently, approximately 96 percent of all health startup CEOs are men, according to Rock Health. And only a quarter of women's health companies that received funding have women as CEOs.
But if more women were at the helms of mobile health companies, perhaps there would be greater potential for products like fertility apps to consider all of women's needs—not just the ones that deliver data.
Ultimately, a woman's choice regarding anything involving her body is hers alone. But just like deciding whether to pursue a career or start a family, women shouldn't have to pick between the lesser of two evils when given the option to either protect their privacy or bet on new technology to succeed where traditional healthcare has failed them.
If the tech industry truly believed mothers were as valuable as their data, it'd already know that.
Silicon Divide is a series about gender inequality in tech and science. Follow along here.
Correction: An earlier version of this story listed Progyny as a company that was not HIPAA compliant. Progyny is HIPAA compliant and that story has been updated to reflect that.
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The Macadamia Production team of Season 4 of the gripping Brazil-based Naufrágios diving TV documentary series have chosen three Delma dive watch lines to help them capture the action and keep them on track during their underwater filming operations.
According to the show's producer, Marcelo Guimaraes, "Delma watches gave us a highly reliable way to plan and monitor our team's numerous complex dives and intri-cate filming activities.
The show tells the story of three experienced divers who traveled the world in search of the best wrecks to explore. Soon to be released in the fall of 2018, Season 4 covers beautiful and intriguing diving spots between North Carolina and the Florida Keys.
Turning tragedy into meaningful sources of ecological preservation, downed vessels such as the Vandenberg, Spiegel Grove, Oriskany and a Russian freighter are now home to gorgeous underwater flora, fauna and sea life.
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The BLUE SHARK is Delma's ultimate divers' watch. With a helium valve that protects the watch against over-pressure and water resistance to 3000 meters (9900 ft.), this professional divers' watch goes where only the most adventurous have ever gone.
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Young Tiktoker, Rita Bernard Displays Her Fresh And Firm B00bs In new Video
Music-wap January 24th, 2023, 4:19 pm
A lot of people have been gushing over how gorgeous Rita Bernard is, especially after her figure made the rounds on social media.
While she flaunts her youthful-looking boobs in a number of posts that she has published on her many social media profiles, her detractors are calling her all sorts of childish things.
Her Instagram now has more than 100,000 followers, while her Facebook page has more than 30,000 fans. She has amassed a significant following on both platforms.
She also manages the video platform TikTok, on which she has generated the majority of her recordings.
A few of the videos that she has produced have received a lot of feedback from the audience members.
Watch this video below:


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The Telekom Austria Group meets the increasing need for mobile broadband internet that can be accessed world wide. From now, with 'abroadband' (www.abroadband.com), there is a product that makes easy, and above all fast, mobile surfing possible in more than 50 countries. And the price is a uniform 59 cents/MB – which is a saving of up to 80% on current roaming fees.
An important element of the technology used for this by Telekom Austria is m2connectionmanager, the multi-mode connection manager developed by mquadr.at, which ensures problem-free internet connection from the client's computer as well as simple management of the internet connection and all the required data (use, cost, etc.). As with all mquadr.at software, no special technical knowledge is required from the user. This is a plug and play application that functions both on laptops and netbooks. Roaming is – of course – permanently on, and for manual network selection only networks where the appropriate roaming agreement exists are shown.
Additionally, as soon as 'abroadband' connection manager is used for one Telekom Austria Group SIM card, it is also enabled for any other SIM cards (without restriction).
The customer can contact the customer side of 'abroadband' with queries at any time, via dedicated links.
With 'abroadband' we will in the future no longer be dependant on local Internet provision, we will be able to access familiar features and interfaces at any time and avoid unnecessary security risks. With people's increasing mobility, in both their private and business lives, comprehensive and customer-friendly roaming solutions like these are decisive.
With 'abroadband' connection manager mquadr.at provides decisive support for these needs.


He's no Karim Benzema, he's no Gareth Bale and he certainly is no Ronaldo… yet at least.
As the Man United-David de Gea war of words continues to roll on, an interesting target from Real Madrid – De Gea's prime destination – has emerged that could sway the Red Devils towards a trade.
According to ESPN FC, Man United are considering taking Real Madrid Under-19 striker Borja Mayoral as part of a swap for the disgruntled Spanish goalkeeper.
The reigning PFA Goalkeeper of the Year has made no bones about his desire to leave Old Trafford and his removal from the starting XI and the bench for the last three matches has reportedly only further angered him.
If Man United are targeting the 18-year-old Real Madrid striker for a swap they may be in for a treat. Borja Mayoral might be the best young striker in the Real Madrid lower categories, owning 8 goals in seven appearances for the Real Madrid U-19 in the Youth League and another 7 goals in eight appearances for Spain's U-19 team.
Mayoral scored 3 goals just last month in the UEFA European Under-19 Championship, including a score in Spain's 2-0 Final win over Russia.


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Beauty trends come and go, but according to Pinterest, there are ten that will stick around for 2018. Based on the 48 million beauty Pins from this year—which is a 75 percent increase from last year's number—there are ten hair, makeup, skincare, and nail trends everyone is searching for.
We have a feeling many of these will make their way into your engagement beauty regimen and even your wedding day beauty look!
Below, check out the ten beauty trends that you'll be seeing everywhere in the new year.
When it comes to eyes, brows have reigned supreme in the past. And while brow maintenance is key for every bride-to-be, search numbers for "lashes" are up 152%, which takes the term look-at-me eyes to new heights.
Hit the reset button on your skin and hair with a little bit of oil. The versatile skincare and hair elixir is being searched for 555 percent over the previous year, so needless to say: We see gorgeous skin and hair in your future.
On the heels of Rihanna's Fenty foundation launch in 2017, a wider range of foundation shades is trending in the makeup department. Searches for "complexion matching" were up by 378 percent on Pinterest, which means finding the one has never been easier.
The bob and lob may or may not be officially out of style, but those looking for a haircut are taking it to extremes because "long hair" and "pixie" saves are up 130 percent. Would you go for extensions or really go for it with a chic pixie chop?
One beauty trend we've yet to see slow down in recent years is nail art. Graphic manis are all the rage, with "geometric nails" up by 83 percent. You don't have to ask us twice—we love a wedding nail art moment.
This beauty trend has bachelorette weekend written all over it, if you ask us. Pins for "bright eyeshadow" are up an impressive 63 percent. Whether it's bold eyeliner or a full eye look, this is one serious statement-making trend.
Whether you're into jade and quartz or a DIY microneedling "derma roller," Pins were up a whopping 345 percent. ICYMI: Earlier in the year, we reported on microneedling's benefits, which include gorgeous, glowy skin.
Now, this is a trend we can get behind! "Lip tint" saves were up a staggering 414 percent, which means it's time to ditch the matte lipstick in favor of something much more comfortable, wearable, and wedding-day worthy.
Get ready to embrace beachy hair because "slicked back" and "wavy" Pins were up by 166 percent this year. Rock those waves at your bridal shower or go for the wet look on your bachelorette weekend. Either way, gorgeous!


The going may not be easy for Pakistan's Prime Minister-designate Imran Khan – seen as the army's "puppet" – and with questions over the fairness and transparency of the polling process.
Cricketing legend turned politician Imran Khan is all set to take oath as Pakistan Prime Minister on August 11.
The July 25 election brought him to power but also left his party short of a clear parliamentary majority. Khan's party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) won 115 of the 272 seats. It has since enough partners – from smaller parties and independents – to form a government. The party will formally nominate Khan as prime minister in a meeting today (August 26). The parliamentary committee is also expected to decide the names of federal cabinet members in the meeting to be chaired by Khan.
Khan formed PTI in 1996 to bat for his vision of "naya (new) Pakistan" in this cricket-crazy subcontinent. Khan, whose popularity peaked after the World Cup win for Pakistan in 1992, has since successfully employed cricketing jargon in his campaigns.
However, political observers attribute his current success to pre-polling orchestration and support from Pakistan's supremely powerful military.
The going may not be easy for Khan – seen as the army's "puppet" – with questions over the fairness and transparency of the polling process. Leaders of the country's top political parties held a meeting on August 2 and have already announced to bring in their own prime minister and speaker.
The leaders of various political parties – including the two biggest Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of jailed former premier Nawaz Sharif's and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of assassinated prime minister Benazir Bhutto's now helmed by her son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari – attended the multi-party conference (MPC) and announced to approach Parliament to form the government with their chosen representatives.
PML-N's senior leader Ahsan Iqbal said that opposition parties will field Nawaz's brother Shehbaz Sharif, the three-time Punjab chief minister and current PML-N president, as their candidate against Khan.
Talking to reporters after the meeting, Senator Sherry Rehman, said the opposition parties have formed a joint working committee to chalk out the future strategy to give a tough time to the next government, Dawn reported. The PPP leader also said the parties would jointly release a white paper within a few days and that a working committee had already been formed for this.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), too, has directed the Cabinet Division to form an inquiry committee to investigate the causes of alleged failure of the Result Transmission System (RTS) during July 25 general elections.
She called Imran Khan an "ideal puppet" of the military establishment in Pakistan and that he had benefited from "rigged" elections.
Right after Khan's win, Reham who has been in the news since the publication of her memoir, told the Hindu newspaper that Khan would carry out foreign policy, including with India, according to the wishes of the military if he becomes prime minister. In her controversial book, she portrayed the former cricketer as a libertarian, unstable and power-hungry politician.
In his maiden speech after claiming victory, Khan vowed to tackle corruption that was eating Pakistan "like a cancer" and touched on promises to balance relations with the US that would be "beneficial" for both countries, Dawn reported.
Khan also said he was open to a sit-down with India to discuss the Kashmir issue. Pakistan has been facing pressure from the US and has been placed on the "grey list" of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an inter-governmental body aimed at combating money laundering and terrorist financing.
The country's army has increasingly sought to control Pakistan's foreign policy, especially its relationships with India, Afghanistan, the US, Iran and the Gulf States – and Khan is expected to very much toe the line.
Khan was congratulated by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after his win. There were reports that Modi would be invited for the swearing-in ceremony – raising hopes for peace in the subcontinent and also a chance for the much-loved India-Pakistan matches.
However, Modi or Khan's former cricketing friends from India Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Bollywood superstar Imran Khan – are not among the invitees anymore.
"It has been decided that no foreign personalities will be invited to the ceremony – it will be a completely national event. Only a few close friends of Imran Khan will be invited," he added, stated a report in Dawn.
India's ties with Pakistan have been at a diplomatic low since the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008, which Pakistan blamed on non-state actors, even though a bonafide Pakistani Ajmal Kasab was arrested and later hanged for carrying out the attacks along with others. India has long accused Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba of carrying out the attacks in Mumbai on 26 November, 2008, that left 166 people dead and many injured after 10 terrorists with backpacks, automatic weapons and grenades launched a three-day siege on India's financial capital targeting multiple locations.
"Militant organisations are active. Call them non-state actors, should we allow them to cross the border and kill 150 people in Mumbai? Explain it to me. Why can't we complete the trial?" Dawn reported Sharif as saying.
In India, most critics are cynical about a change in Indo-Pak relations – mostly because of Khan's changing persona to fulfil his ambition to be prime minister. With India's general elections due in less than a year, it will be interesting to see how Khan tackles the crucial Indo-Pak relations.
The China factor remains significant – with much at stake in one of China's largest overseas investments – the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Even though China refuses to label Pakistan's Masood Azhar as a global terrorist much to India's chagrin, it will have to work a way out given its changing relations with India post last year's Doklam crisis, which saw India-China relations at its lowest.
How Khan's relation with China pans out is important. The PTI was extremely critical of the CPEC, Khan even staged a sit-in against it a couple of years ago. However, he may have had a change of heart since – with China being the first country he chose to mention in his maiden speech after his election victory.
Most urgently what Khan will have to do is to bail out Pakistan's economy. And for this, he will need China on its side. Its foreign exchange reserves have dwindled from US$17.5 billion in April to US$9.66 billion in June. Economic growth has slowed, the rupee has been devalued and Pakistan is seeking a US$12 billion bailout package from the International Monetary Fund.


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Anke Kühn fait partie de l'équipe d'Allemagne de hockey sur gazon féminin sacrée championne olympique aux Jeux olympiques de 2004 à Athènes. Elle est aussi présente lors des Jeux olympiques de 2008 à Pékin, où l'Allemagne termine quatrième.

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Rigaku Innovative Technologies (RIT), formerly Osmic, is a supplier of the full range of Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) multilayers and coatings for optics with over 20 years' experience, and participates in the global research and infrastructure-development of the commercial EUVL (EUV Lithography) implementation to support the continued scaling of computer chip circuitry.
In the last five years, over $9M has been invested in major expansions for EUV research and development, deposition equipment and facility upgrades. RIT has proven expertise & capability to address any application or design requirement, with customized multilayer designs to meet the unique requirements of the optical system. RIT is a global provider of EUV Collectors, Illumination and Imaging optics with demonstrated world-class results in nearly every class of EUV optics.
Large production capability with load-locked deposition chambers, handling linear sizes up to 1.5m x 0.5m and diameters up to 750mm.
With 20+ years experience in multilayer coatings for EUV optics, Rigaku demonstrates success in every facet of EUV multilayers, coatings and designs. Rigaku, formerly Osmic Inc., was at the forefront of the history of EUVL development, developing the multilayers for some of the very first imaging optics and mask blanks, and has continued with world-class contributions ever since.
The timeline below shows Rigaku's history of EUV contributions, highlighting the various optics and various multi-optic systems.
In 2013, Rigaku completed a 5-optic illumination system, later linked to the 2016 delivery of a >400mm diameter collector. In addition to providing all multilayers, Rigaku was instrumental in the optical design analysis using such tools as Zemax, to optimize the optical scheme, optic shapes and multilayer designs.
The collector optic was a focusing ellipsoid of revolution, and had a surface grating that would reject unwanted infra-red (IR) radiation with minimal impact to the reflection of 13.5nm EUV source. *Example 1, courtesy of "The Recent Study of Resist Outgassing in the Hydrogen Environment," Eishi Shiobara et. al., 2016 International Symposium on Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography, International Sematech, Hiroshima, Japan, 2016.
The collector delivered the EUV light to a trio of paraboloid-shaped optics which created two separate beams of designed illumination, redirected via a pair of EUV 45° incidence flats.
In 2012, Rigaku completed a multi-optic system for high-precision imaging. The first two optics were precision ellipsoid surfaces, with Rigaku-designed kinematic mounting systems, that delivered light into a Schwarzschild imaging system, a pair of aspherical optics. These illumination optics required complex 2-dimensional multilayer gradients to efficiently deliver EUV photons.
The imaging optics were deposited ultra-precisely with radial symmetry to minimize distortions to the near-perfect surface of the optics. Multilayer contributions to figure error were below 200 picometers. *Example 2, courtesty of "Defect Review Capability Enhancement for Actinic Blank Inspection Tool," Kiwamu Takehisa et. al., 2016 International Symposium on Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography, International Sematech, Hiroshima, Japan, 2016.
In order for EUV multilayers to be of practical use, they must have ultra-low roughness on the nanometer scale, measurable only with the use of an atomic force microscope (AFM). A typical Molybdenum-Silicon (MoSi) multilayer will contain 80 individual thin layers of 2.5 nm – 4 nm thickness, where the roughness of each interface must be less than 0.2 nm. Putting this in perspective, the radius of an individual Mo atom is 0.14 nm!
Rigaku repeatedly demonstrates capability to produce world-class EUV multilayer performance. Some of our achievements and benchmarks are shown below.
With the use of optimized interfacial-stabilization layers, the champion performance for Rigaku with MoSi is 69.2% peak reflectivity for normal incidence. Compared to Rigaku's routine performance of 66.5% for 40-layer ML and 67.5% for 60-period ML, this champion performance would produce up to +60% more total power in a 12-optic lithography system.
With the use of interface-stabilization layers optimized for temperature stability, Rigaku produces EUV multilayers with excellent temperature stability, capable of retaining high reflectivity and minimal peak shift when subjected to vacuum annealing at high temperatures.
In addition to standard MoSi multilayers with ~4% bandpass, Rigaku developed multilayers for specialized applications requiring high-selectivity. The multilayer below narrows the bandpass to 1.1% using SiC and Si layers.
EUV mirrors consisting of multilayer structures deposited on silicon substrates were etched clean then another Mo/Si multilayer structure was deposited. Then the refurbishment process was repeated 5 times. The observed roughness increase was from ~0.19nm to 0.26nm and the EUV reflectivity loss was measured to be 1.2%.
Cu-Ka reflectivity curves from EUV mirror before and after RIE. Absence of reflectivity peaks and the critical angle position demonstrate a successful removal of a multilayer structure from a silicon substrate. EUV reflectivity of a re-coated multilayer structure is currently under testing.
Angular reflectivity of Cu-Ka (λ=0.154nm) radiation from EUV mirror before and after RIE.


I wanted to share a lesson with you God taught me a while back (again). I'm so thankful He is the Master Teacher!
What is the greatest hurdle you face today? What is the one obstacle that you feel, if removed, would make life so much better for you?
I heard Joni Eareckson Tada speak a while back ( she was paralyzed in a ski accident years ago and is an awesome speaker) and she said,"I am so excited for heaven and new body with legs that work! The first thing I'll do when I'm at the feet of Jesus is take this damn wheelchair that I sit in and throw it as far as I can. The next thing I'll do is look into the eyes of Jesus and say thank you for the wheelchair, cause it's the device God used to bring me closer to Him".
I visited with Becca last year, who went through Doulos in 2008. She injured her ankle that year and was on crutches most of the time with surgeries, etc..It's pretty well healed now. I said to her,"sorry for the ankle problem last year". She said,"you know Joey, actually I'm glad for the ankle problem last year. It kept me humble and dependent on the Lord".
I'm wondering about my greatest obstacle. Maybe I need that obstacle. Maybe my prayer shouldn't be "take this away Lord", but "teach me through it". Maybe my attitude should be one of acceptance and not of bitterness. Maybe I need to allow the Lord to use it to soften my heart and not make it harder. Maybe I'm just selfish and want life to be easy, not significant.
Paul said in 2 Cor. 12," Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong".
Lord, be my strength. Help me to be "well content". I need you.


Inside Message: I love you a waffle lot.
Valentine's Day greeting card features two heart-shaped waffle attachments with prismatic foil accents.
The card was even nicer than I thought it would be and it was a big hit! Definitely recommend!


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Home Communities Healthy New Albany Abatements grow region, help schools and taxpayers
Abatements grow region, help schools and taxpayers
by Scott McAfee
It seems counterintuitive to think that property tax abatements are responsible for creating
Rendering of the exterior of the Tween Brands campus in the New Albany International Business Park. Rendering courtesy of the city of New Albany.
more than $47 million in new revenues to our schools. After all, aren't abatements tax giveaways? Well, yes and no.
Abatements are indeed tax breaks to companies used nationwide to attract businesses to communities. But look deeper, and the financial and land use benefits of abatements are undeniable.
Earlier this year, the city did a study in conjunction with the Franklin County Auditor's Office to determine the total school revenues resulting from business development in the New Albany International Business Park. The numbers were staggering. Since 1998, school property tax revenues from land in the New Albany International Business Park nearly tripled ($15.8 million, compared to $5.4 million if land had not been developed). This occurs because property tax abatements are only in effect on the building, not the land itself, and land values can exponentially increase when developed.
In addition to these increased property tax revenues, the New Albany-Plain Local School District received $37.2 million in shared income tax revenues because the city shares income taxes equally with the district whenever abatements are provided to companies.
Combined, our business park has generated $53 million for our schools since 1998, even with abatements in effect. As a comparison, had this land not been developed, our schools would have received roughly $5.4 million, or $47.6 million less.
Land Use Benefits
Generally, land can either go undeveloped or be developed commercially or residentially.
Rendering courtesy of the city of New Albany
Rendering of the interior of the Tween Brands campus in the New Albany International Business Park.Development in the New Albany International Business Park generates much-needed community revenues.
Without the use of abatements, the commercial viability of land is dramatically reduced, likely prompting residential development. While business development produces zero new students, residential development eventually creates the need for more teachers and school buildings, which can greatly increase homeowner taxes. Our community success at commercial development has created jobs for our region, financially benefited our schools and assisted New Albany taxpayers by reducing the number of potential students in our schools.
In addition to our business park, the Philip Heit Center for Healthy New Albany and Market & Main are developments in the heart of our town providing community benefits to residents of all ages. The Heit Center, our community health destination, is being paid for in large measure by long-term leases from our medical partners. Foot traffic from the Heit Center helped bring about the Market & Main development (with Mellow Mushroom, Hudson 29 Kitchen + Drink and other specialty retail shops), and our schools are receiving 100 percent of their portion of property taxes from this new development.
New Albany is a master planned community, and city leaders will continue to have the best interests of our schools in mind concerning commercial or residential development. Our schools are a vital component of our community. Aside from our economic development efforts to support our schools, the city also pays 100 percent of the costs of the school resource officer and D.A.R.E. programs on the school campus throughout the year.
Even with these efforts, both financially and through the reduction of potential students within our district, our schools will continue to be reliant on your financial support to help them obtain their mission of developing high-achieving, ethical, self-directed and intellectually curious citizens of the world.
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Community paths powered by business park
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Scott McAfee is a contributing writer and public information officer for the city of New Albany. Feedback welcome at ssole@cityscenemediagroup.com.
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Important Considerations When Looking for a Professional Industrial Company.
There are times in your business that you may need to consider various operation strategies and you would like to consider working with reputable individuals. After all many manufacturing services are in the process of making various products and in one way or another you will need to hire a metal manufacturing. If you need large-scale construction of various products, you may hire a metal manufacturing company to help you in carrying out various procedures in the right manner. Many companies will opt to hire certain services as the installation and experience required in the operation may cost the business too much. Find out some of the things that you need to consider when you are choosing to hire a metal manufacturing company. Be sure to consider the kind of company that you are working with so that you know if you are going to consider the various activities needed in the operation.
It is important that you look at the insurance of the company so that you know the right information that you need to run your business with ease. You know that when it comes to welding and general metal manufacturing services, it is very dangerous and when they are working on your projects, you would not like to be responsible for various damages.
Never buy any lies you hear from some metal firms about not assuring customers about professional work. Each time the providers are giving their services to the experts, then at least they need to give them hope about the best fabrication outcome. You cannot be offered with cut off services when you hire the provider, and that is why assurance is the best. Your requirements will only be met by the kind of fabrication you will be getting from the provider. After you the fabrication work which will be done by the provider for the first time at work, this is when you will know what your fate is holding. You can use so many evidence for the outcome you will start getting but at the end, seeing is the only best way to believe what the future will be bringing. The many year's welders should have fabricated several metals; they gain more experience day by day.
If the companies' welders are not skilled, then they will not be able to use some techniques on providing the services. The welders will always apply the information they have in the jobs they are always offering. To tell about the knowledge of the provider, it is best that you consider the provider's certificates. Some professionals you want to hire might end up being the wrong for your job maybe because their specialization does not match with your work. Hence, you will be certain he/she can do the job you have at hand.


So there are still some of us who don't follow the latest fad!
So who is going to be writing this blog next week, and where should I send the flowers?
If I'm still alive can I still get the flowers?
lol I can bargain my life with 3 seconds maybe.
On purpose??? That would make a good post; I'm sure we'd all like to hear about it.
Maybe the excitement of doing these adventurous things is the thrill of having NO control. That doesn't work for me either.
Thanks, Derick; it's not in my plan to try it.
That is hilarious, Bev. Since I had an MRI recently I can understand your reference!
What lion have you encountered recently? Reminds me of being swallowed by an MRI.


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Would it be in Gavin Schilling's best interests to ASK for a redshirt in 2015-16. His best attribute is his feet for a big man, especially on D. To the extent that he has a pro future on this continent, it would seem that it rests on his ability to guard stretch fours--he has the physical tools to do so, maybe not the game yet. Spending a year on the scout team working on that aspect of his game (and maybe launching a few hundred three-point set shots a day hoping to get to the point where he can 1 of 3 wide open) could be his best path. Also, he's a year young for his class, so staying five years wouldn't exactly make him an old man by the time he graduates. Don't get me wrong, he'd still be an asset this year without the RS, but in the long run, it could help him.
by Arvid 4/30/2015 2:15:02 PM
I see your points here, I still have my doubts about Schilling guarding the 4 or playing the 4. Yes, he has good feet and is athletic, does a nice job on P&R defense. But I don't think he's built to guard 6-6 drivers, which is what you see at the 4 more often than not. I could see a RS season anyway, but I also could see him being an essential piece next season. I think you have to let all these players sort it out themselves during the offseason and fall. So many possible combos and scenarios at this point.
Who is most likely to play if Darrien Harris is injured? It looks to me like T.J. Harrell and Jayln Powell are too light to play linebacker on an every down basis. Does Shane Jones play that position? Is Powell back to safety now? The roster lists him as a safety.
This is a good question. MSU wants Powell and Harrell ready and wants to be able to play more of a coverage guy there at times. But you might see someone like Chris Frey, who worked at star last year, in there if Harris can't go.
Who do you see getting the backup QB role and how often do you expect to see him in the fall?
by Ryan 4/30/2015 2:17:10 PM
Right now I think it's Tyler O'Connor second and Damion Terry third. I realize O'Connor had a rough Saturday, but you also have to realize the OL situation (as in most spring games). How often? Late in blowouts unless Cook gets hurt.
Wouldn't it be awesome if MSU changed it's Spring game format to let the starting O play against the starting D… maybe for like 3 or 4 series, then split Green and White for four 10 min quarters? In some respects it would be like watching a national championship caliber game with Top 5 offense and defense going at each other. It was tough to watch our starting rotation D-line eat up the depleted, not-as-deep O-line. Thoughts?
by The Dude 4/30/2015 2:18:18 PM
John L. did that. Well, the first part. #BringBackJohnL
Re: Calhoun....some say he took a step back last season (or at least he didn't appear to improve)....IMO that has more to do with teams double teaming him than anything else. Is that your thoughts as well or is there more to it than that?
Eh, I actually thought Rush got more attention than Calhoun early in the season, he was dominating so much early. I thought Calhoun was thoroughly solid last season, probably moreso than his soph year. People may think step back because of all those TDs early his soph year, but I think he got better. Also think he did not play like a lock first-rounder and that's the next step for him as a senior.
I think McQuaid might be the best surprise of this incoming class with his ability to shoot. Agree?
I could see him carving out a role. Or redshirting. This team has shooters already. I could see Ahrens carving out a role. Or redshirting. The competition for minutes/roles will be wild.
satellite camps blah blah blah
are winston and bridges a package deal?
I've never heard that.
what has been the difference with this current class and the previous few when izzo had problems getting the big names? change in approach, or guys just buying in more?
Well, he lost Jabari Parker to Duke, a decision made months after K coached in the Olympics. He lost last year's guys to Duke, Kentucky, Kansas. Why did he win this year? I think two things helped. One, MSU got to the Final Four. Two, Draymond Green's surge to max contract guy after four years with Izzo has to matter some. I don't think it's a change in approach. You win some, you lose some.
Assuming no early departures, MSU hoops is left with three scholarships for the next recruiting cycle? Is that right?
Hey, Joe. Michigan State alums (and Freep readers) span the nation. For any Spartans near Jimmy Raye's hometown of Fayetteville, N.C., we're doing a "Raye of Light" book signing at 7 pm Friday, May 1 at the Fayetteville Barnes and Noble.
by Tom Shanahan 4/30/2015 2:23:13 PM
Thanks, Tom, and there you go, anyone in the area. Fantastic book and you need to buy it if you haven't already. If you have, buy another one.
When will MSU punch up there non-conference football schedule so they are not playing directional schools and Youngstown State till October, then diving into Indiana, Purdue and Illinois?
Like ... playing Oregon?
Not to mention Air Force. And traveling to Western Michigan. By today's standards, MSU is going barefoot on a bed of nails this fall.
I know, I know. #trolling
Do your satellite chats help recruit more readers?
by MCB 4/30/2015 2:24:30 PM
I am thinking about doing one of these at a coffee shop in Mississippi, just to see what happens.
I 2nd that recommendation of having Gibby an honory Capt. Can you even imagine the crowd response as he's announced?
Who is the best prospect out of these four QB's -- DeWeaver, Lewerke, Terry, O'Connor.
Why ask me? Just ask the recruiting experts who hand out stars. The answer is, whichever one works hardest AFTER he gets to campus.
The 2009 Spring Game, when Kirk and Keith each threw for 357 yards and 4 TD's, must have looked like an entirely different sort of exercise. Was the defense that bad? Did they run the goofy plays with OL's at running back? With BBall players at wideout? And I don't remember if it was televised.
by Minnesota Sparty 4/30/2015 2:25:37 PM
I assume it was on BTN but I don't know. Spring games usually see two units in particular suffer, the O-line and the secondary. The secondaries for both teams that day were shredded (and remember the 2009 season, when the full secondary put together was shredded all year? That was some foreshadowing). Also, Cousins and Nichol were darn good.
Ok I'll admit it. I watched a little bit of the spring game. The one thing I took away is how physically gifted MSU is now compared to even 4-5 years ago. The athleticism is very apparent. I was most impressed with Nicholson. I think that guy is going to be all over the place and has a potential future as a pro. Who impressed you the most Joe?
Blogging about that today, in fact. But agree on your overall point and on Nicholson. For two split-squad defensive lines to be that fearsome says something.
It's hard reading your "recruiting" articles when I know deep down you hate writing about it. It's like watching Titus Young play football, eventually you're gonna go crazy and I'm just waiting for the fireworks.
by Denver Sparty 4/30/2015 2:27:20 PM
Hey now! I don't hate writing about recruiting. It's important stuff. I just know that more than 50% of those articles will end up being about someone who does nothing in college. That's not a scientific number, by the way.
What round do you expect Lippett to be drafted? A guy as versatile as him should get a shot, I would take him in the 5th round for sure if I were the Lions.
by Spartisimo 4/30/2015 2:28:01 PM
That seems about right. And I agree, considering he could help at CB in a pinch.
Chris Frey is a beast. I think he becomes a big playmaker this year.
To play devil's advocate with all the recruiting hype going on right now---Besides age, how is recruiting that much different than the free agent signing periods of each respective league? I don't follow the kids from 16 on but I gotta admit the night before a big recruit is about to sign, it's fun reading about speculation. Don't you remember when the teel Pistons signed Laettner, Otis Thorpe, and Orlando Woolridge? Those were fun times and very exciting.
Both things get web clicks, I can tell you that. Player movement/pickups are internet gold.
Do you think the football team will go 11 and 1 and make the playoff
by Zach stein 4/30/2015 2:28:59 PM
I think 11-1 is very realistic. Will that be enough to make the playoff? I don't know.
Is MSU big enough up front to stop OSUs power rushing game? OSU is the only team in the past couple of years that I remember could run on MSU when MSU knew they were going to run. I hear a lot of talk about pass rush, but this defense has always been about stopping the run 1st.
Yeah, that'll be quite a battle. No doubt MSU wants to atone for the way it was pushed around that night in East Lansing. So, so much to happen before that Nov. 21 game.


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