Hot flashes remedies are not needed for every woman.
This is not only because not all women going through menopause will experience symptoms but also because these symptoms may not be severe enough to warrant specific medical treatment.
In this article, I will present the available treatment for hot flashes, including medical,lifestyle measures and alternative medicine.
The most effective hot flashes treatment is estrogen because it simply supplies what is the primary deficient substance responsible for the flashes in the first place. Due to concerns about the risks associated with estrogen therapy especially longterm treatment, not every women will be suitable for this treatment. Other medical therapies which have been shown to offer some benefit for hot flashes include some medications used for treating depression, gabapentine and clonidine. All these are prescription medications that would be provided after your doctor evaluates your suitability.
mixture of estrogen and progesterone is usually given in the lowest possible doses when indicated. Progesterone is added because when estrogen is given alone in a woman with a uterus,there a risk of causing uterine cancer. HRT can also help with other symptoms of menopause such as vaginal dryness and bone loss, but they are not given primarily to treat these symptoms.
The problem with HRT is its possible association with heart disease, hypertension, blot clotting,breast cancer, and gallbladder disease This is the reason why your doctor will have to evaluate your health condition before starting HRT. If you are not suitable, the other options listed below will be considered.
These are usually used for treatment of depression. They offer some benefit for hot flashes though not as effective as HRT. They are however good alternative hot flashes remedies when HRT is not suitable. They include Venlafaxine (Effexor,Pristiq), Paroxetine (Paxil, Pexeva) andFluoxetine (Prozac, Sarafem). The possible side effects includenausea, dizziness, weight gain or sexual dysfunction.
This is a drug used for treating seizures and can be helpful in treating nighttime hot flashes and sweats. It may cause headache and drowsiness.
This is normally used for treating hypertension. It may cause dry mouth, constipation and drowsiness.
Others such as raloxifene and even birth control pills have been used in some cases.
There are lifestyle changes and non-prescription drugs that could be effective home remedies for hot flashes. They do not require a doctor's prescription and the lifestyle changes will have little side effects!
Alternative therapies(natural hot flash relief) are gaining popularity amongst many women as one of the major hot flashes remedies. Perhaps they think these have less side effects which might not be true in many of the cases. A small number also believe alternative therapies are more effective than conventional hot flashes remedies. When it gets to individual level with each woman,I usually realize things get a little complicated, especially when she seems satisfied and relieved with the natural treatment. I often advice women to do just the minimum and let their doctor know what they are taking and learn the possible side effects. Also, standard medical studies evaluating efficacy of some of them is lacking.
All I really want for my patient is that they get well, with no major damage resulting form their treatments! If a natural therapy works for you, you may want to continue it and just discuss it with your doctor. Most women feel discouraged to discuss these issues with their doctors because they think he/she will simply advice them to stop. Not necessarily! If there is no major side effects and it does not interact with your medical treatment for other conditions, your doctor will likely not stop it you if it is working for you.That is what he wants too, like me, to have you well with no major side effects! You may also be asking this question I was asked "are you people fighting over to gain patients to your side as doctors????" Of course not! It is not a "who is winning war" with natural therapists!! The physicians are just being careful to make sure you are not harmed and at the most not taking something not helping you. By the way if there is any complication, it is your physician that would bear the headache. He/she does not want this either!
However, it seems some of these therapies are really helping some women, based on their self-reporting of major relief of their symptoms.For alternative therapies women are using today, you can read the article natural hot flash relief.


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Ratan Tata gets honorary doctorate from Canada's York University
Posted on 23 June, 2014 by yazdi	One comment
Canada's world-famous York University has conferred an honorary doctor of laws degree on former Tata group chairman Ratan Tata for his quest for innovation and role in promoting corporate social responsibility.
Tata flew into Toronto to receive the honour bestowed on him at the 2014 spring convocation of York University's Schulich School of Business at the weekend.
A citation read by Professor Dirk Matten said the most inspiring feature of Tata's life and career has been that he has always gone beyond conventional wisdom, trusting his judgement, and worked very hard to turn his own vision into reality. Matten quoted Tata as saying, "I don't believe in taking right decisions; I take decisions and then make them right."
Accepting the honour, Tata told the august gathering, I just want to tell you how deeply indebted and deeply moved I am to receive this honour that you have bestowed."
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ratan-tata-gets-honorary-doctorate-from-canadas-york-university/1/368023.html
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272: Dr. Kate McGrath: Synthesizing Chemistry and Physics in Her Studies of Soft Matter and Self-Assembly
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Dr. Kate McGrath is the Vice-Provost of Research at Victoria University of Wellington and the Director of The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, a New Zealand Government funded Centre of Research Excellence. Kate is also the Chair of the Board of VicLink and also a member of the Boards of two startup companies: WETOX and iPredict. Kate received her PhD in Applied Mathematics from Australian National University in Canberra and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris and at Princeton University. Afterward, she served on the faculty of the University of Otago before joining the faculty at Victoria where she is today. Kate has been recognized for her exceptional research with the Easterfield Medal from the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry and Royal Society of Chemistry, the Research Medal from the New Zealand Association of Scientists, and the Wellington Gold Award, Wellington City Council Inspire Wellington Award. Kate is with us today to tell us all about her journey through life and science.
Life Outside of Science
For Kate, science is her career and her passion. When she's not happily doing science, Kate likes to spend her time reading a good book or whipping up something delicious in the kitchen. She has also gotten into archery and has recently taken up yoga to stay active.
The Scientific Side
Kate studies soft matter and self assembly. Her work in soft matter combines chemistry and physics to understand how animals grow their hard tissues (bones, teeth, shells, etc.) to potentially develop new materials to use in bone grafts instead of metal implants. On the self assembly side, Kate examines how molecules interact and structure themselves in a variety of biological applications.
A Dose of Motivation
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure […] And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." by Marianne Williamson
What Got You Hooked on Science?
Science wasn't Kate's career plan from the beginning. She had strong math skills and took economics and accounting classes to leverage these skills. As a teenager, Kate struggled with the decision of whether she should become an accountant or an airplane pilot. When Kate was 17, her plans shifted dramatically when she learned more about world hunger and decided to pursue engineering to work on issues such as transforming unusable soil into usable soil for crops. While in college for engineering, she found out she really enjoyed chemistry.
The Low Points: Failures and Challenges
There was one instance where Kate got scooped in science. She had done a lot of work and was so excited to publish her results. Then the unfortunate news came that the exact project she was working on had been recently published by another group. It was a tough time, and Kate was angry and disappointed. Ultimately though, these things happen in science and you can't let them keep you down.
A Shining Success!
When Kate was at Princeton, she was working on a very difficult project that she had been putting a lot of hours into. One day, in the very early hours of the morning, Kate finally worked out the problem that she had been struggling with. She was thrilled and ready to celebrate her victory, but she was all alone in the lab at that point. Sharing the exciting news with her colleagues had to wait until a more reasonable hour.
Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Most Treasured Travel
One scientific conference Kate will never forget was in Italy, just outside of Florence. She flew in and out of Florence for the trip, and she absolutely adored the city. It was amazing that every corner seemed to have a beautiful building or statue with an interesting history. The city was beautiful, culturally diverse, and overflowing with art and history.
Quirky Traditions and Funny Memories
Every time someone in Kate's lab goes on a trip, they are expected to bring back a little touristy souvenir for the lab to represent the place they visited. For example, she brought back a dancing hula girl from Hawaii, there is a big, hanging pineapple from a student's trip to the Philippines, a life-sized postcard of Queen Elizabeth's head from a trip to England, and many more. The lab is completely decorated with tacky memorabilia of their travels.
Advice For Us All
Do what you want with the people you want to do it with.
Kate's formal qualifications include a BSc(Hons) degree in Chemistry, a PhD and a PGDipCom in Finance. In 2013 she completed the Advanced Management Programme at the Henley Business School, The University of Reading, UK. In her role as Vice-Provost (Research) Kate is responsible for developing the strategic research direction of the University, supporting the university's scholars to enhance the quality, quantity and impact of their research endeavors, to grow the University's external research income and to develop the university's research distinctiveness themes. Supporting and developing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship and the realization or commercial outcomes from University research are also major areas of focus. Kate, a chemist by training, continues to lead an active research program. She specializes in the development of advanced materials for use as new bone graft materials, including utilization of 3D printing to generate final materials, and the use of nanoemulsions as drug delivery agents.


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Therapeutic cloning gets a boost with new research findings
San Antonio ... Germ cells, the cells which give rise to a mammal's sperm or eggs, exhibit a five to ten-fold lower rate of spontaneous point mutations than adult somatic cells, which give rise to the body's remaining cell types, tissues and organs. Despite their comparatively higher mutation rates, however, adult somatic cells are used as the donor cells in a cloning process called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). This made researchers wonder if cloning by SCNT leads to progeny with more mutations than their naturally conceived counterparts. Also, would cloned fetuses receive DNA programming predisposing them to develop mutations faster than natural fetuses of the same age?
Those scenarios are simply not likely, say researchers at The University of Texas at San Antonio, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and The University of Hawaii at Honolulu's John A. Burns School of Medicine. The team, which spent more than five years analyzing mutation rates and types in cloned Big Blue® mouse fetuses recently published its findings in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in a paper titled "Epigenetic regulation of genetic integrity is reprogrammed during cloning."
The paper offers the first direct demonstration that cloning does not lead to an increase in the frequency of point mutations.
John McCarrey, professor of cellular and molecular biology at UTSA and the study's principal investigator, suggests a "bottleneck effect" is partially responsible for the observations his team recorded. "To create a cloned fetus by somatic cell nuclear transfer, only one adult somatic cell -- one donor cell -- is needed," he explains. "Because a random cell population exhibits a low mutation rate overall and only one cell from that population is used for cloning, the likelihood is remote that the cell chosen to be cloned will transfer a genetic mutation to its cloned offspring. Therefore, the bottleneck effect limits the transfer of mutations from donor cells to cloned offspring."
Not only did the researchers find that SCNT does not lead to an increase in the frequency of point mutations in cloned mice, the team also found that naturally conceived fetuses and cloned fetuses that are the same age have similar rates of spontaneous mutation development. They attribute this finding to epigenetic reprogramming.
It is known in the scientific community that germ cells contain an epigenome, a programmed state of the genome, that keeps mutation rates low. They suggest this type of epigenome is found in germ cells because those cells are responsible for contributing genetic information to subsequent generations. Adult somatic cells (the donor cells in SCNT) have higher mutation rates and less stringent epigenetic programming to avoid mutations than germ cells, but offspring produced from somatic cells by cloning have mutation rates similar to those in offspring produced by natural reproduction, suggesting that the epigenome of an adult somatic cell is reprogrammed during cloning to maintain the genetic integrity of that cell's progeny.
To learn more about the collaborative study, funded by the National Institutes of Health's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and supported by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging, please contact UTSA professor John McCarrey at john.mccarrey@utsa.edu or (210) 458-4507.
The University of Texas at San Antonio is one of the fastest growing higher education institutions in Texas and the second largest of nine academic universities and six health institutions in the UT System. As a multicultural institution of access and excellence, UTSA aims to be a premier public research university providing access to educational excellence and preparing citizen leaders for the global environment.
UTSA serves more than 28,400 students in 64 bachelor's, 47 master's and 21 doctoral degree programs in the colleges of Architecture, Business, Education and Human Development, Engineering, Honors, Liberal and Fine Arts, Public Policy, Sciences and Graduate School. Founded in 1969, UTSA is an intellectual and creative resource center and a socioeconomic development catalyst for Texas and beyond.
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A study led by IDIBELL researchers and published this week in the American journal PNAS shows that, by depriving tumor cells of glucose, they release a large number of signaling molecules.
Germ-free lungs of newborn mice are partially protected against hyperoxia
Researchers have used a novel and first-of-its-kind newborn mouse model to study the effect of high oxygen concentrations, or hyperoxia, on lung development of newborn mice that are germ-free -- meaning no microbes colonizing their lungs.
Identification of all types of germ cells tumors
Germ cell tumors were considered very heterogeneous and diverse, until recently.
Unravelling the 3-dimensional genomic structure of male germ cells
A study led by the UAB and the CNAG-CRG reveals the three-dimensional genomic structure of male germ cells and how this structure determines their function.
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Conversion of breast cancer cells into fat cells impedes the formation of metastases
An innovative combination therapy can force malignant breast cancer cells to turn into fat cells.
Treatments for cancer and sickle cell disease deplete germ cells in young boys
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Are you as sick to death of stories like this one as I am where we hear about disenfranchised Somali youths who have to be saved from leaving the good life in America to join Jihadists somewhere in the world.
Think of the amount of resources (tax payer dollars) going into the FBI outreach to the "Somali community" in Colorado right now in hopes of thwarting the next wannabe ISIS member.
And, in addition we get one more public relations opportunity for the "Somali community" to put on their victimhood act.
I say, let them go, but revoke their passports and don't let them back into America to potentially hurt someone here.
What benefit will these angry (dumb!) Somali girls be to America?
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — The strange journey of three suburban Denver girls who authorities say tried to join Islamic State militants in Syria has many in their close-knit east African community worried about whether their own children will be the next to be lured to terror.
But while the girls' parents were working to give them a better life, being a Muslim teenager isn't easy in an American high school, said Ahmed Odowaay, a community advocate who works with youth. It's easy to feel like an outsider, even as a U.S. citizen.
***I hope some day to find out exactly how BIG MEAT works with the refugee contractors and the US State Department to get their immigrant (refugee) laborers. Is it an overt deal between the feds and the meat industry or more of a wink and a nod? In 2008, we did find direct evidence of the role played by the Clinton Administration in bringing in Bosnian (Muslim) 'refugee' labor for the Iowa meat packers, here, but I would like to find something more recent.
And, there are twenty, twenty! states including my Maryland that allow voters to show up (and vote!) at a polling place without any identification.
It is not just the illegals….
Remember also, we are not talking only about someone who recently sneaked across the border, but millions of legal immigrants who are here as refugees, temporary refugees in the Temporary Protected Status program (includes hundreds of thousands from Central America), the 'Dreamers,' and all sorts of others with permanent resident status who have not yet acquired citizenship. All are able to vote.
As a matter of fact, even in those states that do require ID, those LEGAL immigrants (non-citizens) with drivers licenses may well be voting too!
So who ended up using the Post's helpful graphic? The country's foremost pro-amnesty Hispanic immigrant organization.
Go here (Washington Post) to see the list of states and what sort of ID (or none at all) that is required.


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Pop Culture Happy Hour: The 'Law & Order' Universe
By Linda Holmes
Published June 1, 2018 at 5:00 AM EDT
Jerry Orbach, Angie Harmon, Sam Waterston and Jesse L. Martin, from the 1999 cast of Law & Order.
The original Law & Orderlasted 20 seasons. Law & Order: SVUjust finished its 19th. That's not even the whole shebang. There was Criminal Intent, there was Conviction ... you'll just have to listen to the show.
Glen Weldon and Stephen Thompson have the day off while I sit down with Previously.TV editor (and Television Without Pity founder) Sarah D. Bunting and Pop Culture Happy Hour pal Margaret H. "Hulahoop" Willison to talk about the world of detectives and lawyers, weirdos and guest stars who will one day be famous. We talk about "Mothership," by which we mean the original show, where Lenny Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) is simply accepted as our leader, and about SVU, where Olivia Benson is someone who should spend less time talking to us about her personal life, because work is what Law & Orderis supposed to be all about. (Also, she might try to become a slightly better detective, even though she's a kind person, don't get us wrong.)
We also talk about what's making us happy this week, from the book I'm reading and the podcasts that have Margaret's ear to the songs Sarah is listening to. And both Sarah and Margaret have more where all that came from: Margaret's podcast Appointment Television is available for your listening pleasure, as is Sarah's podcast Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs.
Linda Holmes
Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour. She began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular culture, and the online universe eclipsed her legal ambitions. She shoved her law degree in the back of the closet, gave its living room space to DVD sets of The Wire, and never looked back.
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What is survivorship life insurance?
Survivorship life insurance is designed to cover two people on a single policy. These policies, also known as second-to-die joint life insurance, only pay out a death benefit once both policyholders have died. Survivorship life insurance is typically less expensive than two separate permanent policies. It can be helpful in estate planning if you want to leave a benefit for heirs, permanently dependent children, or even a favorite charity. Although married couples often purchase this coverage, the joint policyholders aren't required to be married.
How survivorship life insurance works
Survivorship life insurance insures two people and only pays out the death benefit after both have passed away. It's often purchased by a couple as a means of leaving money to their children, estate planning, leaving a sizeable legacy, or funding a support system for a dependent who may require lifetime care. Survivorship life insurance can also be called:
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In most cases, joint survivorship insurance is a permanent type of life insurance, such as a survivorship whole life insurance policy or a survivorship universal life insurance policy. Permanent policies last your entire life, and they contain an investment component that accrues cash value over time.
It may be possible to obtain a survivorship policy in the form of term life insurance, but it's not nearly as common as getting a permanent survivorship life policy. With a term life policy, for the death benefit to be paid out, both people on the policy would have to die during the policy term.
Learn more about term vs. permanent life insurance.
What's the difference between a joint life and a survivorship policy?
Technically, a survivorship policy is a type of joint life insurance. A joint life policy is one policy that covers multiple people, usually in the form of joint universal life insurance or joint whole life insurance. The death benefit for joint life policies can be paid out in one of two ways:
First to die: This is the most common type of joint life policy. A first-to-die policy pays out a death benefit to the surviving spouse (or other beneficiaries) after one policyowner dies. In most cases, the death benefit is meant to help the remaining individual cover living expenses or debts and replace any income lost from the other policyowner's death.
Survivorship: Also known as second-to-die, a survivorship policy only pays out a death benefit once both people covered by the policy have died. These policies often leave behind an inheritance to the insureds' heirs, permanent dependents, or charity.
Pros and cons of joint survivorship life insurance?
There are several advantages of a joint survivorship policy, including these pros:
Estate planning: A survivorship life insurance policy can help in estate planning as a means of leaving money and assets behind while potentially accessing some tax advantages. Consult a tax advisor to understand the tax implications of survivorship life insurance.
Creating an inheritance for heirs: A survivorship policy can be a way to leave a nest egg for your heirs to claim once you and your partner have passed away.
Providing care for permanent dependents: If you and your partner have a permanent dependent, a survivorship policy can be used to provide for them once you've both passed.
Two individual policies are too expensive: A survivorship policy can be more affordable than getting two individual permanent life insurance policies, potentially allowing you to purchase more coverage than you'd otherwise be able to.
Trouble getting a policy: If one of you is having trouble qualifying for life insurance due to your age or health, a survivorship policy can be a way to get coverage or to increase the coverage you're eligible for. That's because both policyowners will be factored into your eligibility rather than just one.
Partner can use cash value: While the death benefit can't be paid out until both people on the policy have died, the surviving partner can tap into the policy's cash value, if needed, via a life insurance loan.
Second-to-die joint survivorship policies aren't for everyone. The cons of survivorship life insurance include:
One death benefit: Survivorship policies might not be the choice for couples in good health who can afford the premium for two separate policies. Separate policies allow for the payment of two death benefits, one after each policyowner dies.
Partner can't be a beneficiary: If you'd like to use life insurance to provide for your partner when you die, you'll need to get separate life insurance policies or a first-to-die joint life policy since survivorship policies require both insureds to pass away before paying out.
Life changes over time: Survivorship policies can be difficult to update in cases of divorce or other significant life changes. When shopping for a survivorship policy, consider asking if it will be possible to split the policy in such instances.
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Based around the songwriting partnership of Natasha Shanks and James Rogers, the five-piece also features acclaimed alt-country and indie-pop singer-songwriters Belle Harvey and Michael Savage and rock drummer Alex Megaw, the band are closer to a country rock band. Smashing out unabashedly diverse sound - combining classic electric guitar riffery, immaculate four-part male/female harmonies, and thoughtful life-lived lyrics. It all makes for a raucous, electric live show – with a duelling, duetting lead singer dynamic reminiscent of classic Johnny Cash and June Carter punctuated by the occasional jaw-dropping emotionally resonant acoustic number; all backed by a brash, justifiably confident band comprising five of Perth's most respected players.
In their four years together, The Little Lord Street band have released three critically lauded EPs, toured Australia, won a WAM SOTY, played BIGSOUND, added to ABC Country, selected for APRA AMCOS Songhubs in QLD, garnering national airplay on Triple J a few times over and on Henry Wagons' 'Tower of Song' (Double J), in addition to extensive nationwide community radio support – racking up AMRAP Metro and Regional Top 10 singles and multiple additions toRTR FM's 'Sound Selection'.
The band recorded their second EP 'Walk With Me' (2016) at The Bomb Shelter in Nashville with help from Bex Chilcott(Ruby Boots), releasing it with a Victorian tour in 2017. Their third EP 'Waking Up Next To You', released April 2018, spawned three popular singles; the irresistibly catchy ode to love-hate long-term relationships 'Maybe I'm Just In Love' won The Little Lord Street Band the 2018 WAM Song of the Year (Country), and saw all five cram into a tour van for anepic nine-date east coast EP release tour, spanning three states and thousands of kilometres. Then the duo hitting up 10500 klms of red dust and open road, north to Kununurra in WA for 16 dates back in July – August 2018.
They're nothing if not a well-travelled band: James and Natasha first played together as a duo for a wedding request in New Zealand, before the duo became a band in a Mount Lawley bedroom nestled off Lord Street back in 2014. When asked at a gig what their name was, the spontaneous answer "'The Little Lord Street Band" became official.
On their travels, they've played festival stages including Fairbridge and Nannup Folk Festivals, Boyup Brook Country Music Festival, Harvey Dickson's Rodeo, Beauvine, State of The Art, Beaufort Street and WAM Festivals, the North Fremantle Pub Crawl, Port City Folk Festival, RTR Harbour Sessions and Hidden Treasures in Fremantle – and supported the likes of The Whitlams, Ruby Boots, Emily Barker, Mick Thomas (Weddings, Parties, Anything), Ed Kowalczyk (Live), Jack Carty (VIC), The Once (CAN) and This Way North (VIC).
Next, The Little Lord Street Band are destined for the more touring throughout VIC and NSW and WA in Oct –Dec 2018, landing back in Perth to record their debut album at Rada Studios. Rhythms Magazine declared The Little Lord Street Band "definitely a band to keep an eye on in 2018" – you'd do well on your travels to see that your path intersected with theirs.


Dolfin recently attended the Genesis London Conference on blockchain, where privacy, scaleability and regulation were three key themes.
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This time last year, I was beginning to accept the reality that my former roommate and I had likely made a big mistake in signing our apartment contract. The apartment itself was lovely, but the management was terrible.
Case in point: We were told that our utilities were paid for by the company. So I, wanting to take full advantage of that blessing, lived in a tropical climate for the month of January. If I was cold, I'd turn the thermostat up to 80. If I wanted, I took long, hot showers. It was great.
And then the utility bill came.
While I don't remember the exact amount, I can tell you it was astronomical. Apparently, my island milieu had come at a significant cost. So, I begrudgingly paid the bill, lowered the thermostat, and spent the rest of the winter wrapped in my electric blanket.
I was telling a friend about that situation earlier this week–reminiscing on the blissful 30 days of an 80 degree apartment in January. That month was so great because (I thought) the cost was taken care of. That allowed me to live in complete freedom. Which I did.
And friends, isn't that what grace is like?
Isn't it like an 80 degree winter day for our souls? This grace, given so freely, says that we don't have to work for our salvation; as children of God, we don't have to jump through hoops just to talk to our heavenly Father. We can rest in the assurance that we are His and the debt is paid.
But we don't usually do that. Instead, we live like February 2018 Hannah who tried to compensate for a luxurious January by using cold water and setting the thermostat to 62. We try to manage.
It's something I'm particularly struck by this week as I approach my twenty-fourth birthday and the internal and external pressure that comes with officially entering the mid-twenties. God has been faithful to grow and guide me thus far–and many of you who know my story know that's a vast understatement. Yet, my mind is gravitating to all the works that I haven't accomplished, all the ways I still fall short.
I am irritable when intruded upon and I lash out when I'm abandoned. I get clingy when I care and I look for faults when I feel insecure. On top of that, I'm not nearly as godly, selfless, beautiful, mentally-stable, outgoing, or worthy as I'd like to be by this point in life.
Do you resonate with that?
Are you, even now, trying to propel yourself into the arms of God by fixing all the things you've screwed up or reaching all the standards you haven't reached?
You don't have to live that way. Romans 3 says we are justified by the grace of Jesus Christ (v. 24). And in that grace, we are called to be "living sacrifices," not prisoners who live in chains to works. That means we live for Christ; and when we fall short, we grab grace, jump back up, and get back in the fight. We live as if our future sins have already been paid for, because they have. And that brings freedom from fear.
Maybe you've heard this before. I certainly have; and I've even written about it. But the value of grace bears repeating because, 1) our hearts are so apt to forget and, 2) proclaiming the good news of grace is how the lost are saved!
So yes, if you live in the Midwest, you'll likely have to make some value decisions this winter–cost vs. comfort. That's not how it is with Jesus, though. You're accepted as you are, and the deeper you soak in that warm raw of truth, the more radically you'll be transformed by its maker.
Thanks for sharing Hannah, it's a great reminder. Remember, we are to abide and bear fruit. When have we seen fruit working to grow? It's the tree/vine that feeds the nutrients to the fruit to cause it to grow. The True Vine will never let you down; never let you go. Let's join hearts & Spirit and stay on the course of Life together!


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Imagined Qatamon: Channels
Artist: Raffat Hattab
Curator: Debby Farber
Opening: 18/05/2017 - Closing: 20/05/2017
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The three exhibitions displayed in the Here in This No-Here project charts a multilayered journey along a continuum stretched across the past, present and future of Jerusalem's Qatamon neighborhood. This journey seeks to articulate a new conception of the space in Qatamon, one that not only includes the biographies of the urban Palestinian space relegated to oblivion since the Nakba of 1948, but also constitutes a space of potentialities, enabling us to imagine spatial, political and symbolic options for materializing the right of return.
Until 1948, the Arab House, that has recently become the object of Jewish architectural and real estate cravings devoid of all historical and cultural context, represented for the families in the neighborhood a space for creating a new life. Theirs was a cosmopolitan lifestyle, characterized by multiple language, and the house became a place to host guests at leisure, a venue for political and intellectual discussions and encounters from across the Arab world of that time. The fate of the neighborhood dwellers was tied with the fate of the house: those who spent their lives in it, planned it, dreamt or wrote about it, suffered a violent upheaval and turned from natives to refugees almost overnight. The three exhibitions are hosted in houses where absence and presence coexist most intensively, where untold history will be turned from absence to presence. This is an invitation to translocate the Arab House into a place, a history, with human stories and faces.
"Humans live not alone", claims the text arising from the mural in Imagined Qatamon: Channels", an exhibition by artist Raffat Hattab. Here, looking into an imagined future is a metaphor for a possible future of return and shared space. This imagining is also invoked by the structuring of the Quranic Surah of Sincerity as an infinite, universal object that disintegrates into abstract wooden particles that recast the mythical text in a new and secularized interpretive form.
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Sunderland-based Opsec appoint new CEO
Updated 08:37, 8 Jul 2014
By Coreena Ford
Opsec Security have attracted a top US businessman to the North East to become the firm's CEO
A Wearside anti-counterfeiting technology firm Opsec Security Group has welcomed a new chief executive onto the board.
The Sunderland business, which makes holographic products that help to combat counterfeiting and fraud, has announced that Richard S. Cremona, has been appointed as CEO of the company and, subject to the satisfactory completion of the necessary regulatory requirements, will be appointed to the board of directors.
The 57-year-old, known as Rich, Ohio State University graduate comes to the North East after a varied career in the US, where he has been chief operating officer of Westell Technologies Inc. since last June.
Cremona has held a wide variety of executive management positions with AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Sprint and Openwave Systems, and from 2008 to 2013 he was chief executive officer of Kentrox Inc, based in Illinois, US.
In 2013, Kentrox was acquired by NASDAQ listed Westell Technologies, when he joined the firm as its chief operating officer.
Mark Turnage, the former chief executive officer, will continue to serve on the board in his new role as vice chairman.
Turnage said: "Rich brings to OpSec a wealth of executive and technology expertise which will, we believe, be of major assistance in helping the company realise its growth potential."
Rich Cremona added: "I am very excited to join the OpSec team. The company is very well positioned to continue to be a market leader throughout the anti-counterfeiting industry."
Last month the firm reported an operating loss of £2.2m in the year to 31st March 2014, an improvement on the £2.5m loss posted the previous year.
The recent loss was attributed to lower than expected orders from key Government protection customers and several one-off costs, including legal expenses and professional fees relating to a corporate transaction and non-payments from a customer in South America.
Turnover rose by 7% to £55.5m due in part to revenues generated by JDSU, the US-based holographic business acquired by Opsec for £7.5m in 2012.
The business said it would continue to look for acquisitions that add value to its technology portfolio.
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When the Call the Midwife series became best sellers Jennifer Worth received mountains of letters - not only praising her books, but also from people who remembered the world her books described; life in the East End of London during the late 1940s and early '50s. Often her books touched her audience and they felt moved to write, or they wanted to share their own memories.A prolific letter writer herself, Jennifer always corresponded and this book includes some fascinating letters she received.
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Hiram Ulysses Grant
Keith Harris at Cosmic America discusses how General Grant got the nickname Unconditional Surrender Grant at Ft Donelson, and reminds us that U.S. were not Grant's actual first and middle initials. He is quite correct.
At birth, Grant was named Hiram Ulysses Grant. Why, then, do we know him as Ulysses S. Grant?
Grant's appointment to West Point involved a bit of indirection. The Congressman for his district, Thomas L Hamer, was a former friend of Grant's father, the two of whom had fallen out over politics years before. Grant's father was unwilling to write to Hamer requesting the appointment, so he wrote to Senator Thomas Morris, who evidently forwarded the request to Hamer (the appointment was Hamer's to dispose of after all.) Hamer did make the appointment — but he didn't remember Ulysses's full name. He knew his mother was a Simpson, so he put U. S. Grant on the paperwork. When Ulysses reported at West Point, that is what was on the register. And so he became Ulysses S Grant.
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Muscle Cars Make a Comeback
05GTO
In Effort to Lure Back Buyers, Detroit Turns to Retro Models Of Mustangs, GTOs, Chargers
By NEAL E. BOUDETTE
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
June 16, 2005
The American auto industry is trying to muscle its way out of the doldrums.
Three decades after the heyday of muscle cars -- raw, powerful vehicles such as the Ford Mustang and Pontiac GTO that helped define freedom-of-the-road independence for a generation -- some newly redesigned versions are emerging as strong sellers. Ford Motor Co. is selling about 18,000 Mustangs a month, as many as its factory can produce, and says demand is greater than expected.
In coming weeks it will face a new challenger, the Dodge Charger, from DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group, which is hitting showrooms this month and is a remake of a vehicle that last rolled off assembly lines more than 25 years ago. The Mustang and GTO have both been on the market since last year.
Price now: $29,995; Price in 1966: Base of $3,122;
the bigger engine added about $1,000. Coming out this month,
it has a sneering 'face' -- and a spacious rear seat.
The stakes are high for Detroit's Big Three auto makers, which are having trouble finding new designs that connect with buyers. At Ford, the Mustang is one of its few big hits among several new passenger cars that were supposed the help the company regain market share.
Despite a few successes like the Mustang and the top-selling new Chrysler 300 sedan, Detroit's auto makers have mostly had trouble getting buyers interested in their new designs. Ford already has started reworking the look of its Ford Five Hundred, a rival to the Chrysler 300, less than a year after its launch in hopes of boosting sales. GM's Buick division has piled up a big inventory of LaCrosse sedans, an all-new model that was supposed to turn around the brand's dowdy image.
In the first five months of this year, Ford's market share has fallen one percentage point to 19.1%. GM's is down to 25.7% from 27.2%
Even with the Mustang's strong sales, Ford's market share has continued to slip, although profit from the car is one of the factors putting Ford in slightly better financial condition than General Motors Corp. In the first quarter GM had a loss of $1.1 billion.
Price now: $25,815; Price in 1970: Base sticker price $2,721.
The biggest seller among muscle cars and particularly popular
among buyers for its retro look.
To meet current demand, Ford considered investing in additional capacity to build more Mustangs than the current maximum output of 192,000 a year. Executives decided against it to avoid getting stuck with too much capacity should demand slack off after a year or two, says Stephen G. Lyons, Ford North America group vice president for market, sales and service.
Part of the Mustang's appeal to buyers is its aggressive, retro look. As part of the redesign for the 2005 model year, Ford reverted to styling that hews closely to the look of the Mustangs of the mid-1960s. The most noticeable change is the car's front end, which features a large grille slanted backward toward the engine, giving it sort of a "shark nose" profile.
Despite the redesign, don't expect the kind of refined interior found in a BMW or Audi. There is plenty of hard plastic, and the rear seat is small: During a recent test drive, a three-year-old complained about a lack of leg room. Entry-level Mustangs go for $19,890, but the most powerful GT version starts at $25,815.
The remake of the GTO, which also started appearing in showrooms with the 2005 model year, followed a different strategy. Instead of evoking the car's 1970s heyday, it adopted a more modern, rounded look, which hasn't been a hit with buyers.
As a result, GM is on track to sell only about 13,000 this year: this year, they are averaging only about 1,000 a month. Evan Sobran, a 43-year-old real-estate executive in Duxbury, Mass., who has test-driven the car, says it drives well but doesn't turn heads like the Mustang and Charger. "It's $34,000 and looks like a Saturn, or some rounded bar of soap," he says.
Price now: $34,295; Price in 1964: $3,081 for the convertible.
Has V-8 with 400 horsepower, most of the three muscle cars,
but its power is overshadowed by dull design.
That is bad news for GM, which was hoping the GTO would help generate excitement for its other new passenger cars, particularly the Pontiac G6, a all-new replacement for Pontiac's aging Grand Am. The company was counting on a comeback in passenger cars to offset declines in sales of sport-utility vehicles, one of its biggest sources of profit.
Chrysler is launching the Charger while the company is on a roll, thanks to the success of the 300 sedan, which shares its underpinnings, as well as its powerful eight-cylinder engine, with the Charger. If the Charger turns into a hit along the lines of the 300, Chrysler could be on its way to its most profitable year in some time. A sedan with a big, bold front grille, the 300 is among the hottest cars right now. Chrysler sells about 12,000 a month.
The new Charger won't be an updated copy of the original, which is perhaps most widely known for its iconic role in "The Dukes of Hazzard" television show.
In a nod to the baby-boomer sensibilities of its current target market, the new Charger is a four-door -- the original had only two. The car does retain its scowling, angled headlights as well as other styling cues to remind consumers of its heritage.
Catering to consumers' concerns about fuel efficiency in an era of $2-a-gallon gas, the Charger also has a system that shuts off four of the engine's eight cylinders while cruising on the highway or sitting in traffic. In one day of heavy stop-and-go driving, the Charger managed 19 miles a gallon, which is roughly two or three miles a gallon better than the Mustang in similar driving. On the highway, the Charger got almost 24.
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djdub
05GTO said:
First of all, they're not producing 192,000 cars, they'll sell every one produced, which is the idea in the first place.
And second... now it looks like a Saturn? I thought looking like a Cavalier was bad enough.
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GTOJon
Gotta love it. Instead of complimenting the beautiful and comfortable interior, the incredible performance, etc. all they can do is bash the looks. That article makes it seem the car has nothing.
That's ok, because when I cruise effortlessly (and comfortably) passed the wave of crapstangs (mostly V6's which is histerical), I just sit back, relax and watch them in the mirror :lol:
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Groucho
It still bothers me when the GTO is referred to as a "muscle car." That denotes straight-line tire destroyers, not a powerful GT car...
Oh well. GM brought it on themselves when they called it a "Pontiac GTO"...
GTO676
A Saturn, A bar of soap what's next a Yugo. Are these people high on crack when they write this stuff? Has any of these people really experienced the new GTO? This is one of the hotest car around right now, and I'm not just saying that because I own one. Gee maybe I need to trade it in on a new fugly Charger.......NOT.
FNTMGTO
While GM wanted to sell a lot of GTO's , I am glad that they will retain the WOW factor for years to come. Unlike the Mustang which I see 20 a day of here in L.A., a fellow GTO Owner is still something that is rare and exciting.
I agree with one of the posts above that the interior of the GTO is the best of these cars in the article and the fact that it doesnt even get a mention in the article is BS.
GaryBro
Gee, maybe I should get a Charger with "almost 24" on the highway because of the engine management shutting down cylinders????? Is this better than mine running on all 8 all the time, routinely pulling 26 on the highway? Granted, I can't be too friendly with the go pedal to get this, but setting the cruise at 72 for most of the tank gives me the 26mpg all the time (went from upstate NY to Maryland for the car show and got 26mpg on the trip down).
I agree that no mention of the interior of the GTO in the article is BS. It does have quite plain styling (not really a negative in my opinion) but the rest is very nice!
WS6GTO
GTO676 said:
You gotta understand most people aren't car people. If they are looking at these types of cars it's because they have a little too much money. Thier main car is probably a truck because that's what's "in". They are more concerned about how they look getting somewhere than who they can blow away and impress on their way.
That's why there are so many convertibles, automatics, and *shudder* v-6's. Heck there are a lot of people on here that have automatics and I imagine if there was a convertible available people would have those too. Now I'll admit automatics are beggining to be comparable to sticks, all the high power mercedes come in some variant of auto and rarely pure stick, but still I can't imagine not truely driving the car yourself and claiming to be into roasting others with "your" performance.
Anyways that is straying from the point, which is most people just don't have our distinctive taste for performance. They are posers.
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kannona
They killed me when they said that they did not get many head turns with the GTO. I have to say that when I drive my GTO around the town, I always get compliments on the incredible power, that is when fools try to race me, the style, and the looks of the car. Performance has always been a factor in my book, but those guys really need to take a ride in a GTO before they make pathetic comments like that. I would never buy a Mustang or one of the new Chargers. I think both of those cars have terrible styling.
TexasAggie
Groucho said:
:agree The biggest marketing mistake of all. Under a different name, sales would likely have been much higher.
bomber76
kannona said:
My wife is looking for a new vehicle and we were at a Chrysler dealership today and as we passed the 300c's (which she hates btw *sigh*) a salesman driving a car from the prep area to their used lot pulled up next to us and me thinking he was telling me I couldn't go farther rolled down my window to tell him I was turning around in time for him to say, "VERY nice car! Trading it in?" lol! Yeah, the GTO has no styling.
JMVorbeck
GaryBro said:
Isnt that a RIOT?!! Better fuel economy in a "full time" 6 litre, where they have to shut down half the engine to even come close. Does anyone remember Cadillac's 4-6-8 4100 engine? Wasnt that thing unreliable due to its complicated cylinder shut down features? Isnt that why they scrapped it? I wonder if these new designs are going to be as reliable as the LS2. As for the article, how do you go into how crappy the interior is on one car and skip over the interior (and how cadillac-like it is) on the other. I am telling you, every single magazine article I have EVER read on the GTO was negative, or had an overall negative overtone. The ONLY positive report on this car was the 1/2 hour speed channel comparo last week. Its sick and it smacks of some kind of vendetta against GM or the Pontiac division. In the real world where we all live I get stopped in parking lots, at red lights, gas stations, EVERYWHERE with people coming to me telling me how beautiful they think my car is. I get a **** eating grin on my face every time it happens and my wife thinks I am a dork. Are these rag editors the kind of people that Dodge is trying to cater to with these new designs. I think so. Well let these guys buy those cars, I will keep my GTO.
Braman'sGTO
I work at a BMW dealership alot and half the guy's that I talk to tell me that the GTO is the only reason they would buy a car with an american brand name on it
jontyrees
There's no accounting for taste, as they say. People are such sheep - minivans are in, there are millions being sold, then SUVs are in, there are millions being sold, nobody wants to be seen dead in a minivan, new Chrysler looks like a tank, invasions are in, they sell a boat load, (H2 anyone?). It's safety in numbers - nobody will criticize your purchase of a Mustang - look how popular they are! My own tendency is to buck the trend and buy what I like - GTO in this case.
Think that's why I keep getting stuck with cars I can't get rid of? Doh! Anyone want to buy a '96 SHO?
'04 Black/Red 6sp, no CAGS, K&N drop-in, Blaupunkt aftermarket speakers
Toebee
Article said:
Obviously, NEAL E. BOUDETTE interviewed a real "car enthusiast" when he interview that bozo from Duxbury, MA.
Unfortunately, he's protected by the First Amendment.
Quote from FirstAmendmentCenter.com
"In the United States, the government may not prevent the publication of a newspaper, even when there is reason to believe that it is about to reveal information that will endanger our national security. "
Too bad we couldn't make an exception in this case.!
diverdan
JMVorbeck said:
FYI, One significant change from the LS1 to the LS2 is a change in the internals to support a cylinder cut out system (in future models of the engine, I guess). I wonder what a GTO, already getting 25-26 mpg, would get with this system. I do know this new system (like the hemi one) is a lot more sophisticated that the old Cadi system, supposedly with out the problems it had.
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Average consumer is brain dead,if not the roads would not be clogged full of 6000lb behemoths passing themselves off as "Sport" utility vehicles...
They have sold over 5 MILLION Exploders,,Come on,,how many oversized,overpriced battlewagons do we need? And that doesnt include the other bazillion suv models on the road today.With this kind of "mine has to be bigger than yours" buying mentality its amazing any sports cars sell at all.
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I also think the car would have sold way better under its real name than as a GTO.. Too many backward thinking reporters/writers/testers that automatically dismiss the car because it doesnt look like it was designed 30 years ago.. If I want an old car Ill buy an old one..
Doesnt bother me though,,if they had done it right I probably couldnt afford one..
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In 2016, swing-state residents tried to "trade"…
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In 2016, swing-state residents tried to "trade" their votes to defeat Trump. Now Colorado lawmakers want to criminalize it.
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams last year pushed to ban vote trading, but the language was stripped out of the legislation in a House committee amid concerns about the provision's constitutionality.
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February 27, 2018 at 6:00 a.m.
Shrugging off questions about the measure's constitutionality, Colorado lawmakers are looking to criminalize so-called vote trading, saying the practice threatens the integrity of the state's elections.
For the uninitiated, vote trading is a somewhat obscure political maneuver in which a red- or blue-state voter "trades" their vote with someone in a swing state so that their ballot will have a better chance of affecting the outcome of the race.
It's a strategy with limited utility, in that it ostensibly requires a swing-state voter to voluntarily give up some of their political power. But in 2016, the "NeverTrump" movement spawned a number of websites and smartphone apps designed to facilitate such trades.
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Here's how it was supposed to play out:
Say there's a Gary Johnson supporter in Colorado who acknowledged the Libertarian candidate wouldn't win the state, but wanted to vote for Johnson regardless. That voter could be convinced to "trade" their vote to someone from a state like Texas or California, who would vote for Johnson, in exchange for the Colorado voter casting their ballot for Democrat Hillary Clinton, in an effort to prevent now-President Donald Trump from taking office.
The practice dates back to at least 2000, when Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader was siphoning off support from Democrat Al Gore.
It's not clear how prevalent vote trading has been in Colorado. But lawmakers believe they may have inadvertently facilitated it with last year's measure legalizing ballot selfies — self-photographs of a completed ballot, which some vote traders use as a receipt, of sorts, to prove that they kept their word.
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams last year pushed to have the ballot selfie measure to include a ban on vote trading, but the language was stripped out of the legislation in a House committee amid concerns about the provision's constitutionality. After the state of California tried to crack down on vote-trading websites following the 2000 election, the 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals in California ruled that the practice is protected by the First Amendment.
"Although California certainly has valid interests in preventing election fraud and corruption, and perhaps in avoiding the subversion of the Electoral College, these interests did not justify the complete disabling of the vote-swapping mechanisms," Judge Raymond Fisher wrote in the 2007 opinion.
This year's measure, Senate Bill 76, carries the same constitutional question mark — but lawmakers so far are shrugging off the legal concerns. The measure, which makes vote trading a misdemeanor offense, passed the state Senate with unanimous, bipartisan support and is now awaiting its first hearing in a House committee.
"We're trying to have a system (where) everybody's vote counts and it's your vote and not something you've contrived with others," said bill sponsor Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, in a recent committee hearing.
Suzanne Staiert, the deputy secretary of state, says a vote-trading law would give her office the ability to send cease-and-desist letters to websites that broker such trades. "If they want to sue and say they think it's legal, that would be a new lawsuit that we would defend in federal court in the 10th Circuit," she said in an interview.
Effectively, she said, vote trading means "someone in California is voting in a Colorado election. … We have ineligible voters playing in our election."
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es una película de terror japonesa dirigida por Tsutomu Hanabusa, escrita por Yoshinobu Fujioka, basada en la novela S de Kōji Suzuki. Se estrenó el 12 de mayo de 2012, la película es un spin off y secuela de Ringu y de Rasen, y sus acontecimientos tienen lugar trece años después de los hechos ocurridos en la primera película.

Sinopsis
La película empieza cuando un hombre misterioso echa a una chica de pelo largo en un pozo. El pozo está lleno de mujeres de pelo largo y negro, todas ellas vestidas de camisón.

Trece años después de lo acontecido en la primera película el detective Koiso y su compañero investigan dos suicidios ocurridos en misteriosas circunstancias. Los suicidas justo antes de atentar contra sus vidas han visto un vídeo, donde una voz dice «Tú no eres el elegido». El compañero de Koiso deduce que las muertes están relacionadas con el vídeo creado por la artista Seiji Kashiwada, siendo este un vídeo maldito; sin embargo el detective no se deja convencer.

Akane Ayukawa, profesora de la alumna que había muerto antes, descubre que Risa, la mejor amiga de la muchacha, también vio el vídeo. El vídeo es borrado, pero en error 404 provoca que el vídeo aun así se reproduzca cuando el espectador está solo. Cuando el vídeo termina Risa es atacada, Akane llega justo a tiempo y la salva. El fantasma dice a Akane que ella es «la elegida»; Akane grita y el ordenador se destruye.

Akane tiene poderes telekinéticos, los cuales ha desarrollado hace años cuando fue víctima de un ataque en su colegio. Takanori Andō, hijo de Mitsuo Andō (de la primera película), aprecia sus habilidades y más adelante llega a ser novio de Akane. Ella pronto se da cuenta de que es el objetivo del vídeo, cuando este se reproduce en su casa y aparece la mujer. La mujer los ataca (a Akane y Takanori), estos huyen a la calle. Cuando se creen estar a salvo, una gran pantalla de LCD empieza a reproducir el vídeo.

Koiso sigue sin creer en el vídeo maldito, incluso cuando su compañero se suicida delante de él.

Cosas raras siguen ocurriendo. Akane atenta contra su vida, aparece Sadako y el vídeo continúa reproduciéndose.

Reparto

Saga japonesa
 Ringu (1998)
 Rasen (1998)
 Ringu 2 (1999)
 Ringu 0: Bāsudei (2000)
 Sadako 3D (2012)
 Sadako 3D 2 (2014)
 Sadako vs. Kayako (2016)
 Sadako (2019)

Estreno en otros países

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Página oficial de Sadako 3D

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Kirk and Woody
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NorthKCHawk said:
Can you imagine how much he cries that day????
Him? I'm more worried about myself. I was damned near choked up leaving the game in Champaign because I was so worried that the wheels were coming off the bus and that he was going to have some disgraceful exit. I wasn't bullshitting when I sang Petras's praises. That kid worked an absolute miracle holding the team together and I wouldn't be surprised if he goes on to achieve coaching or other professional greatness.
Yes, Kurt has left me butthurt at times, but the fantastic games that I've been at and seen Iowa win with my own two eyes are too numerous to list. Yes, he gets schooled by Fitz too often. Yes, he has a bad record against MAC schools with a direction in their name. Yes, he has shit the bed in some key Iowa State games. Yes, I remember watching Adam Shada trying to cover James Hardy from Indiana.
But those of us a certain age remember a great program on television where Mrs. Garrett led Tootie, Blair, Natalie and Jo through the trials and tribulations of life. And we can never forget the first few lines of that theme song: "You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of life."
I can't recall the name of the show, but I'm sure you've seen it. The good so substantially outweighs the bad with Kurt and the potential for our program to enter purgatory when he leaves is very high. I can stomach 6-6 or even 4-8, but if 6-6 becomes the high water mark and then all of our good guys get poached in the portal every year I'm not sure how much I can take. Ferentz is potentially the end of an unprecedented era for Iowa football and I'll probably be reduced to a puddle when the guy hangs it up.
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Fryowa said:
Winning percentage is the right measure.
I disagree. Ferentz's win percentage is right where it belongs and trying to compare win percentages between Michigan or Ohio and Iowa is a joke because we have about 25% of the all-in resources of those schools. We don't have a big population. We don't have a giant alumni base. We don't have cops who will look the other way when a ballplayer gets into an indiscretion around town. We don't have a 100,000 seat stadium.
Iowa should beat Northwestern more and it should beat every directional MAC school. But each of those dismal losses has a corresponding miracle win that Iowa had absolutely no business pulling off. Ohio in 2017. Several Michigan games. Penn State 2008 and 2009. That LSU bowl game. The Georgia Tech bowl game. Even a forgotten gem in a forgettable season - the year we beat a stacked Illini team that made the Rose Bowl after beating Ohio State in 2007.
Ferentz has worked a miracle at Iowa. Dude is on par with a guy like Frank Beamer or Hayden Fry. An absolute legend who pulled a lot of rabbits out of a lot of hats. There are a lot of guys who could have matched what the big boys did at the big schools, but the number of guys who can do what someone like Ferentz or Alvarez did is very, very limited. If it was a widely held skillset then every school could duplicate it. But they can't because they ain't got Ferentz.
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Thank god for two of the best D coordinators with no aspirations of moving on.
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rschneider said:
can you imagine what a hot commodity Parker would be on the open market?
dahlhawk said:
My guess is that if he left he would go somewhere like Illinois where he knows the head guy and knows the situation will be chill. Of course Norm and Phil are awesome and they have helped Ferentz, but part of their longevity is the culture Kurt has created. My guess is that if Phil went somewhere like Oklahoma he'd last about five games before storming off in a rage.
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My kingdom for unqualified joy and admiration....
I don't need to qualify this accomplishment if it happens. It would be amazing and something KF grinded to get. And, he did it at Iowa. Not Michigan or OSU or Nebraska or PSU.
I'm not "qualifying" it...just stating the complete picture. The numbers are the numbers.
Yes, he did do it at Iowa. Highly unlikely he would have lasted anywhere close to 23 years at Michigan, tOSU or Penn St.
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Barry Alvarez' years as head coach didn't add up, so I had to Wiki him. He was actually head coach from 1990 to 2005 inclusive for 16 years. I didn't look up the rest of the stats to see if they were correct.
Barry Alvarez - Wikipedia
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KCHawkeye said:
The stats came from college football reference, reliable source more so than Wikipedia. The later dates was when he coached bowl games. 2012 and 2014
NorthKCHawk
Alvarez, Beamer, Bill Snyder, Hayden Fry, Kirk Ferentz.
All guys who consistently won at second tier football schools for a long period of time. I say second tier positively, meaning not a blue blood. 2nd on like a 5 tier system. The other four guys did it at schools that had absolutely no recent tradition of winning, but when KF took over at Iowa, the cupboard was pretty bare. Being mentioned with those names is a great compliment to all of them.
I agree with others that trying to compare guys like this with guys like Woody and Bo and Urban and Saban is probably like trying to compare a Royals manager with a Yankee's manager. They are just different.
I will not argue that if KF gets this record that he is the greatest coach in Big10 history, either statistically or otherwise. But, if he gets this record I think he is on the Mount Rushmore of Big10 coaches. You can disagree, but I can't find 4 guys I would put ahead of him. Pretty damn cool. Hope he gets there
From the University of Wisconsin Fact Book of 2022. There is a lot on the website, but I found this in the section for the list of past head coaches. I believe the asterisk identifies the additional wins and years.
Barry Alvarez 1990-05* 119-74-4 (.614) 67-32-3 (.672) 42-37-1 (.531) 10-5-0 (.667) 65-60-3 (.520) 9-4
Bret Bielema 2006-12 68-24-0 (.739) 44-5-0 (.898) 18-15-0 (.545) 6-4-0 (.600) 37-19-0 (.660) 2-4
Gary Andersen 2013-14 19-7-0 (.731) 13-1-0 (.929) 6-3-0 (.667) 0-3-0 (.000) 13-3-0 (.813) 0-1
* Served as interim head coach for 2013 Rose Bowl (L) and 2015 Outback Bowl (W)
2022 Wisconsin Football Fact Book (PDF) | Wisconsin Badgers
2022 Wisconsin Football Fact Book (PDF)
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Phil could get a DC job at any blue blood in the country. Norm probably could of as well at some point.
Not so much for the rest of the staff.
I think Phil is certainly marketable, but I don't know that he is so great he could just call his shot and go anywhere he wanted. Phil has some built in advantages that skew his statistics.
1. He plays in the Big 10 West, statistically one of worst offensive divisions in the entire Power 5.
2. He plays for KF, who consistently fields one of the least productive offenses in the Power 5. KF plays field position football.
Most teams approach the Iowa game thinking that if they can avoid turnovers and score 20 points, they are probably going to win. That leads to a conservative approach. If Iowa played in just about any other conference, Phil would face better quality offenses who need to score more points on a weekly basis. His numbers would not look the same in the Little 12 or SEC.
A lot of truth here.
Altho as Iowa St proved when Campbell arrived, when teams that are not used to seeing good defenses actually have to PLAY against good defenses, they often struggle....i.e. the Big12. However, what we've seen with Iowa St and the B12 again being a good example, is that those same teams usually adjust and adapt because they have excellent skill players and warm environments to play in. The BTen West Division: not so much.
That said, Phil would unquestionably be wanted by any team not annually in the Top 10 across all of college football -- the consistency of his record is elite.
Grady said:
Agreed. Phil would be an asset just about anywhere. If he went to a bigger, name-brand school, he would also have access to more talented recruits as well. He is a very good coach.
I question, however, whether the philosophy of the Parkers would translate if we were in the East or SEC. Take 3 star kids, train them up, have them sit in a base defense, give up some yards, tighten up in the red zone, and wait for the other team to make a mistake---would that consistently work against elite offensive teams?
Iowa has traditionally struggled against Purdue. Purdue is probably the closest thing to a dynamic offense in the West. How would Phil's approach work in the SEC or Big 12? Hard to say. He is a great coach, but you just cannot overstate how offensively challenged the Big Ten West has been for the last decade. It absolutely has aided Parker's job to consistently be facing guys like Tanner Morgan.....
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I will never argue that the Captain is the greatest coach in Big Ten football history. Hell, it could be Bernie Biermann at Minnesota (4 national championships, as I recall) or Fielding Yost of Michigan for all I know. Or maybe Schembechler, Hayes, or Paterno. Heck, what about Forest Evashevski, a great coach at Iowa, or Howard Jones. It is so subjective.
But, objectively, he should be the winningest coach in Big Ten football history in 2 or 3 years. That is achievable for him. The goal is there because the guys ahead of him won't be accumulating any more victories.
Phil did solve the Purdue puzzle this year. We pounded a very good Purdue team, on their field, 24-3.
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okeefe4prez said:
I agree with you that you can't judge based on winning percentage. The combination of kirk's non conference and conference schedules are a major point with me. That and longevity. He's simply the tom davis of Iowa football. Great moments to be sure, obvious stability. It really comes down to a fan's expectations
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Q: Is it ok to use one menu.xml layout file for all Activities? I am trying to build a menu navigation system throughout my Activities. I'll use a couple of Activities in my application as an example. I have a Maps Activity, Login and List Activity.
Maps Activity can navigate to these activities after pressing the physical menu button:
Login and List. A map icon/button will not appear in the menu because it is already in the Maps Activity.
Likewise, List can go to Login and Maps but not itself. The same with Login, it can go to Map and List but not itself.
Right now, I have a separate menu layout file for each and every activity which contains basically the same thing but for example, the Maps Activity will not contain the maps menu item.
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
  <item android:id="@+id/list" android:title="List" android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_list"/>
  <item android:id="@+id/login" android:title="Login" android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_login"/>
</menu>

and then List will be something like this:
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
  <item android:id="@+id/mapViewList" android:title="Map View" android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_map"/>
  <item android:id="@+id/loginList" android:title="Login" android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_login"/>
</menu>

Therefore, my question is, can I use one single menu layout file to contain every menu item, even if some activities do not use that item? Is it safe to have multiple activities pointing to the same menu file?
I.e. Is this ok? Bearing in mind that not all items will be used in an activity such as the refresh item, which is shown only in Maps.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:id="@+id/add" android:title="Add" android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_add"/>
    <item android:id="@+id/mapView" android:title="Map View" android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_map"/>
    <item android:id="@+id/list" android:title="List" android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_list"/>
    <item android:id="@+id/refresh" android:title="Refresh" android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_refresh"/>
    <item android:id="@+id/login" android:title="Login" android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_login"/>
    <item android:id="@+id/logout" android:title="Logout" android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_logout2"/>
</menu>

A: Yes, it is same to have multiple Activities use the same menu XML.
Keep in mind that all options will be shown to the user, even if you don't use some of them. You can make them do nothing when clicked, but they will still be visible.
You can override onPrepareOptionsMenu() to hide some of them though, for example the map one:
@Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
    menu.findItem(R.id.mapView).setVisible(false);
    return true;
}

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package test

import (
	"beam.apache.org/learning/katas/core_transforms/additional_outputs/additional_outputs/pkg/task"
	"github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam"
	"github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam/testing/passert"
	"github.com/apache/beam/sdks/go/pkg/beam/testing/ptest"
	"testing"
)

func TestApplyTransform(t *testing.T) {
	p, s := beam.NewPipelineWithRoot()

	tests := []struct{
		input beam.PCollection
		wantBelow100 []interface{}
		wantAbove100 []interface{}
	}{
		{
			input: beam.Create(s, 10, 50, 120, 20, 200, 0),
			wantBelow100: []interface{}{0, 10, 20, 50},
			wantAbove100: []interface{}{120, 200},
		},
	}
	for _, tt := range tests {
		gotBelow100, gotAbove100 := task.ApplyTransform(s, tt.input)

		passert.Equals(s, gotBelow100, tt.wantBelow100...)
		passert.Equals(s, gotAbove100, tt.wantAbove100...)

		if err := ptest.Run(p); err != nil {
			t.Error(err)
		}
	}
}

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Met Office issues ice warning for Hertfordshire as temperatures plunge
Rain falling overnight is expected to freeze
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The Met Office has issued a weather warning for Hertfordshire as temperatures are set to fall, causing widespread ice across the county.
Rain overnight and into Thursday warning is expected to freeze, causing icy surfaces to form on untreated roads and paths.
The yellow warning, which is the lowest the Met Office can issue, will stay in place from 6pm on Wednesday (January 31) until 10am tomorrow (February 1).
Ten top tips for driving safely as snow and ice blanket Hertfordshire
A Met Office spokeswoman said: "Following a spell of rain, sleet and snow, temperatures will fall quickly allowing ice to form on untreated surfaces.
"Further showers of rain, sleet and snow will follow in the west on Thursday morning, potentially diluting overnight treatments.
"Some roads and railways are likely to be affected with longer journey times by road, bus and train services. Some injuries from slips and falls on icy surfaces are possible."


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Le/la Guiel est une rivière normande, affluente de la Charentonne en rive gauche et donc sous-affluente de la Risle.

Géographie
Le ou la Guiel est une rivière, longue de 20 à 22 kilomètres, située en Normandie, dans les départements de l'Orne et de l'Eure. Elle traverse une partie de la région naturelle du Pays d'Ouche dans le sens sud-ouest/nord-est.

La rivière prend sa source dans l'Orne, sur le territoire de la commune de La Trinité-des-Laitiers au lieu-dit Noyer-Ménard (ancienne commune absorbée en 1821 par La Trinité-des-Laitiers), à environ 270 mètres d'altitude. Elle est d'abord orientée sud-est/nord-ouest avant de virer vers le nord-est à la sortie de La Trinité-des-Laitiers. Elle arrose les communes du Sap-André, La Ferté-en-Ouche, Saint-Laurent-du-Tencement, Verneusses, Saint-Denis-d'Augerons, Montreuil-l'Argillé et La Trinité-de-Réville.

Cette rivière, dite perchée, disparaît sur une distance d'environ  à La Ferté-en-Ouche. En effet, ses eaux s'infiltrent dans le sol au lieu-dit le moulin du Chesnay à Heugon pour ressortir beaucoup plus considérable au lieu-dit la Fontaine, à Ternant.

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