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August just refuses to quit! If it wasn’t for knowing how many days there are in a calendar month, I’d be convinced that August isn’t ever going to end. Luckily, there’s a few interesting movies out this week, worthy of a trip to the theaters, unless the impending eclipse has you convinced the end is nigh.

The Hitman’s Bodyguard

For those of you who just can’t get enough Ryan Reynolds since he fantastic Deadpool movie, you’re in luck! In this rated R comedy he’s going to fight and shoot guns and curse and make all sorts of jokes that you just know weren’t in the original script. Wait a second…

Logan Lucky

If you’ve been on the internet anytime during this horrendous month, you’ve likely seen ads for this movie a thought to yourself: what is Star Wars man doing with James Bond? And why is he naked but refuses to pronounce that word correctly? Is this a Talladega Nights spin-off?

Patti Cake$

This movie has received a lot of buzz for it’s interesting take on the up and coming rapper story. Think Hustle and Flow but somehow almost the exact opposite, which has some folks frustrated by the perceived appropriation. Honestly though, the only person with a right to be mad about this movie is Ke$ha.

I hope the name of this film doesn’t scare people away from what is becoming an ever more necessary subject to delve into. Gook is a movie that takes a look at a Korean run store during the Rodney King riots. No jokes on this one, folks.

With a name like Lemon, you’d hope this movie and my description of it would be a nice pick-me-up after the previous movie but, alas, this movie is about a dude whose life falls apart after his girlfriend of a decade leaves him. Maybe just… don’t see this one if you’re in a bad spot.

Marjorie Prime

Alright here we go, a movie a creating holographic recreations of… deceased loved ones, COME ON! This one has a good cast though, unless you don’t like Jon Hamm, then maybe skip this chance to see him play the exact same guy he is in everything.

Sidemen: Long Road to Glory

This documentary takes a look at the lives and careers of three of Blues legend Muddy Waters’ band members and their stories about traveling with Muddy, being just outside of the spotlight and building their own lives outside of music. You can bet there will be a lot of really cool interview cameos.

6 Days

The latest in an interesting subcategory of Historic Drama, 6 Days will chronicle the siege and raid of the Iranian Embassy in London during April 1980. Director Toa Fraser is probably best know for his AMC show, Into the Badlands, so at the very least, he knows how to shoot action.

The Adventurers

This movie has Jean Reno in it. It’s probably going to be absolute garbage, maybe not even worthy of background noise on Netflix while you do chores kind of garbage but still… Jean Reno.


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Husky Energy said Aug. 26 it has started production at its Dee Valley thermal project in Saskatchewan, Canada.

The project is the second of six 10,000-barrel-per-day thermal bitumen projects to be brought onstream from 2018 to 2022, the company said in a news release.

“Dee Valley is the latest in our deep portfolio of repeatable, small-scale Lloyd developments that provide low-cost, reliable feedstock for our upgrader, asphalt refinery and U.S. refineries,” CEO Rob Peabody said in the release. “These projects have direct access to our refining hub in Lloydminster and can be transported via committed export pipeline capacity to our refineries and other U.S. markets.”

Production at Dee Valley, which Peabody said is not subject to government-mandated production quotas, will ramp up through year-end, boosting Husky’s thermal production in Saskatchewan to 90,000 barrels per day (bbl/d).

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Husky’s Rush Lake 2 Lloyd thermal project began production in October 2018.

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Prenatal Care

Holistic prenatal care is vital in pregnancy, not only for the physical health of mom and baby, but also for the mental and emotional health and support. To us, prenatal care is not simply a clinical process, it's a deeply relational one. All prenatal appointments will take place in your home. They typically last for at about and hour in order to allow ample space for not only the medical checkups on mom and baby, but also to talk, educate, answer any questions, and address any thoughts, feelings, concerns, or anxieties that you may be experiencing.  During the course of prenatal care, you will be offered all of the same tests and lab work that you would be offered in a hospital setting; this will include education and discussions regarding these options, to ensure that you feel comfortable, informed, and confident choosing which screenings and tests are right for you.

Beautiful Births, LLC follows the standard schedule regarding the frequency of prenatal visits:

From 12-28 weeks we will meet once a month

From 28-36 weeks we will meet twice a month

From 36-birth we will meet weekly

Birth and Immediate Postpartum

A midwife will be on-call for whenever labor might begin. They will come to your house when needed and will begin by setting up everything necessary for the birth. Having been trained in land or water birth, as well as a variety of other birth options, we will happily cater to your preferences and desires. Throughout the labor, we will be regularly listening to baby’s heart tones and checking on mom’s vital signs, in order to ensure the health and safety of everyone. We are big believers in the power and importance of skin-to-skin contact between mom and baby, so immediately following the delivery, baby will go straight to mom’s chest. As you are bonding with baby, the birth team will be cleaning up the birthing area, putting away supplies, preparing a clean bed with fresh linens, and making sure you can enjoy a clean house with your growing family! The midwife will then stay at your house until both mom and baby have proven stable and are ready for us to go.

Transferral of Care

There is always a possibility for a transfer-of-care at anytime throughout the pregnancy and birthing process. With your safety as our top priority, if at anytime we believe that the safest place for you is the hospital we will transfer to the wonderful providers at a local hospital. During labor, most of the transfers are non-emergent, if this is the case, we will travel together by personal car. While transfers are uncommon, they do occur, and we find it helpful for our clients to remember that a transfer is always a possibility. Should you have any questions concerning the transferral of care, we can discuss this in greater depth during an initial consult or prenatal visit.

Postpartum and Newborn Care

The level of postpartum care women receive from midwives is quite unique. You will receive at-home visits and care for 6 weeks; this is invaluable for a family adjusting to new life with a newborn. During that time, in the privacy and personal comfort of your own home, we will support the recovery process by answering any questions, offering support and coaching with breastfeeding, ensuring that everything with the mom is healing properly, and that baby is growing and developing at a healthy rate.  During the 6 weeks of postpartum care, we will come for a minimum of 6 visits: at 1 day, 3 days, 7 days, 2 weeks, 4 weeks, and 6 weeks. However, if circumstances necessitate, we will come more frequently.

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For all of the care just described, the cost in $5,000.  We work with a billing service that can run your insurance, free of charge, before care is established. This way, you will know exactly what the cost will be to you.  Payment plans are available, as well as a sliding scale.

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Monthly Payments 12 Minute Affiliate System

Monthly Payments 12 Minute Affiliate System

You can utilize Study Monkey to develop your survey, however you have to provide something in return. Will you provide a free cheatsheet? Perhaps a downloadable how-to ebook? Identify the very best thing to provide and be sure to get clear on what they need to do and what you’ll give them in exchange.

Some of the larger affiliate networks consist of ClickBank, CommissionJunction, Rakuten’s LinkShare, Effect Radius and countless others. Sometimes, like with the case of Fiverr for instance, they run their own affiliate networks so you would use directly to the business. However, understand that you need to send an application to the majority of these networks to be accepted.

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So there are two layers or gates that you need to bypass. That’s also why it is necessary to develop your platform and create that emotional bridge in between yourself and your audience prior to trying to promote anything to them. There are many mediums that you can provide valuable content to your audience.

If you do not have a blog (which is a big mistake by the way), you can utilize social networks, content marketing, video tutorials, infographics and so on etc. But your main channel to deliver long-form value is going to be your blog site. Start constructing a blog early and remain constant with it.

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People require to stick around and read your material, connecting with it and sharing it. That’s when you understand you have something excellent. And that’s what it requires to make online search engine like Google to really stand up and see you. Every single network or merchant will supply you with particular links that you can use to promote whatever it is you’re aiming to sell.

Then, build out your affiliate links and guarantee that the sales and clicks are registering your to your account. You can use URL shorteners like Bitly or Google’s own shortener to make the links more manageable in terms of length.

Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which an organisation rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or client brought by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts. The industry has 4 core players: [] The market has grown in complexity, leading to the development of a secondary tier of gamers, consisting of affiliate management agencies, super-affiliates, and specialized third party vendors. [] Affiliate marketing overlaps with other Web marketing methods to some degree because affiliates frequently use routine marketing approaches.

On the other hand, affiliates often use less orthodox strategies, such as publishing evaluations of product and services used by a partner. [] Affiliate marketing is typically puzzled with recommendation marketing, as both kinds of marketing use 3rd parties to drive sales to the retailer. The two types of marketing are separated, however, in how they drive sales, where affiliate marketing relies purely on monetary inspirations, while recommendation marketing relies more on trust and individual relationships. [] Affiliate marketing is regularly overlooked by advertisers.

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Still, affiliates continue to play a substantial function in e-retailers’ marketing strategies. [] The concept of income sharingpaying commission for referred businesspredates affiliate marketing and the Internet. The translation of the revenue share principles to mainstream e-commerce happened in November 1994, nearly 4 years after the origination of the Web – Monthly Payments 12 Minute Affiliate System.

Tobin, the creator of PC Flowers & Gifts. Introduced on the Prodigy Network in 1989, PC Flowers & Present stayed on the service till 1996. By 1993, PC Flowers & Gifts produced sales in excess of $6 million per year on the Prodigy service. In 1998, PC Flowers and Gifts developed the business design of paying a commission on sales to the Prodigy Network.

By 1995 PC Flowers & Gifts had released a business version of the site and had 2,600 affiliate marketing partners on the Web. Tobin used for a patent on tracking and affiliate marketing on January 22, 1996, and was issued U.S. Patent number 6,141,666 on Oct 31, 2000.

Patent number 7,505,913 on Mar 17, 2009, for affiliate marketing and tracking. In July 1998 PC Flowers and Present merged with Fingerhut and Federated Department Stores. In November 1994, CDNow launched its BuyWeb program. CDNow had the concept that music-oriented websites could evaluate or list albums on their pages that their visitors might be interested in buying.

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The idea for remote buying initially developed from conversations with music label Geffen Records in the fall of 1994. The management at Geffen wished to sell its artists’ CD’s straight from its website but did not desire to implement this ability itself. Geffen asked CDNow if it might develop a program where CDNow would deal with the order fulfillment. (Amazon) introduced its associate program in July 1996: Amazon associates might position banner or text links on their site for private books, or link straight to the Amazon home page. When visitors clicked the partner’s website to go to Amazon and buy a book, the associate got a commission.

In February 2000, Amazon revealed that it had actually been granted a patent on components of an affiliate program. The patent application was sent in June 1997, which predates most affiliate programs, but not PC Flowers & (October 1994), (October 1995), (January 1996), EPage (April 1996), and a number of others.

The e-commerce website, considered as a marketing toy in the early days of the Internet, ended up being an integrated part of the total service plan and sometimes grew to a bigger business than the existing offline business. According to one report, the total sales amount created through affiliate networks in 2006 was 2.16 billion in the United Kingdom alone.

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MarketingSherpa’s research study group estimated that, in 2006, affiliates worldwide made US$ 6.5 billion in bounty and commissions from a range of sources in retail, individual finance, gaming and betting, take a trip, telecom, education, releasing, and forms of list building other than contextual marketing programs. In 2006, the most active sectors for affiliate marketing were the adult gaming, retail markets and file-sharing services.:149150 The 3 sectors anticipated to experience the best development are the mobile phone, financing, and travel sectors.

Likewise several of the affiliate service companies anticipate to see increased interest from business-to-business marketers and marketers in utilizing affiliate marketing as part of their mix.:149150 Websites and services based upon Web 2.0 principlesblogging and interactive online communities, for examplehave affected the affiliate marketing world too. These platforms permit enhanced communication between merchants and affiliates.

Contextual advertisements allow publishers with lower levels of web traffic to put affiliate ads on websites. [] Types of brand-new media have actually likewise diversified how business, brand names, and advertisement networks serve ads to visitors. For example, YouTube enables video-makers to embed advertisements through Google’s affiliate network. New developments have actually made it more difficult for deceitful affiliates to generate income.

Within more fully grown markets, less than one percent of conventional affiliate marketing programs today utilize expense per click and expense per mille. However, these settlement methods are utilized greatly in screen marketing and paid search. Cost per mille needs only that the publisher make the advertising offered on his/her website and display it to the page visitors in order to receive a commission.

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Expense per click was more common in the early days of affiliate marketing however has reduced in usage in time due to click fraud concerns very comparable to the click scams problems modern online search engine are dealing with today. Contextual advertising programs are ruled out in the fact relating to the reduced use of cost per click, as it doubts if contextual marketing can be considered affiliate marketing.

China is one example where Affiliate Marketing does not overtly look like the same design in the West. With many affiliates being paid a flat “Expense Each day” with some networks offering Expense Per Click or CPM. In the case of cost per mille/ click, the publisher is not concerned about whether a visitor is a member of the audience that the advertiser tries to draw in and is able to transform because at this moment the publisher has actually already earned his commission – Monthly Payments 12 Minute Affiliate System.

Expense per action/ sale approaches require that referred visitors do more than go to the marketer’s website prior to the affiliate gets a commission. The advertiser should convert that visitor initially. It is in the very best interest of the affiliate to send the most carefully targeted traffic to the advertiser as possible to increase the opportunity of a conversion.

Affiliate marketing is also called “performance marketing”, in recommendation to how sales workers are generally being compensated (Monthly Payments 12 Minute Affiliate System). Such staff members are generally paid a commission for each sale they close, and in some cases are paid performance incentives for going beyond goals. Affiliates are not utilized by the marketer whose product and services they promote, however the payment models used to affiliate marketing are very similar to the ones used for people in the marketers’ internal sales department.

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The primary distinction in between the two is that affiliate online marketers provide little if any influence on a possible prospect in the conversion procedure when that possibility is directed to the marketer’s website. The sales group of the marketer, however, does have the control and influence as much as the point where the possibility either a) indications the agreement, or b) completes the purchase.

In useful terms, publisher “A” signs up to the program with a marketer and gets rewarded for the agreed activity performed by a referred visitor. If publisher “A” attracts publishers “B” and “C” to sign up for the very same program using his sign-up code, all future activities performed by publishers “B” and “C” will result in additional commission (at a lower rate) for publisher “A”.

Recommendation programs beyond two-tier resemble multi-level marketing (MLM) or network marketing but are different: Multi-level marketing (MLM) or internet marketing associations tend to have more complicated commission requirements/qualifications than standard affiliate programs. [] Merchants prefer affiliate marketing since in many cases it uses a “pay for efficiency” model, indicating that the merchant does not incur a marketing expenditure unless outcomes are accrued (excluding any preliminary setup cost). Monthly Payments 12 Minute Affiliate System.

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There are two various kinds of affiliate management approaches utilized by merchants: standalone software application or hosted services, typically called affiliate networks. Payments to affiliates or publishers can be made by the networks on behalf of the merchant, by the network, combined across all merchants where the publisher has a relationship with and earned commissions or directly by the merchant itself (Monthly Payments 12 Minute Affiliate System).

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Some merchants are utilizing outsourced (affiliate) program management (OPM) companies, which are themselves often run by affiliate managers and network program supervisors. OPM business carry out affiliate program management for the merchants as a service, comparable to the role an advertising companies serves in offline marketing. Affiliate sites are often categorized by merchants (marketers) and affiliate networks.

The following types of sites are generic, yet are frequently comprehended and used by affiliate online marketers. Search affiliates that use pay per click online search engine to promote the marketers’ offers (i (Monthly Payments 12 Minute Affiliate System).e., search arbitrage) Cost comparison service sites and directories Loyalty websites, usually identified by offering a benefit or reward system for purchases by means of points, miles, money back Cause Related Marketing websites that offer charitable donations Coupon and refund websites that focus on sales promotions Material and specific niche market sites, including product review sites Weblogs and sites syndication feeds E-mail marketing list affiliates (i.e., owners of big opt-in -mail lists that normally use e-mail drip marketing) and newsletter list affiliates, which are typically more content-heavy Registration path or co-registration affiliates who include offers from other merchants throughout the registration procedure on their own website Shopping directory sites that list merchants by classifications without providing coupons, cost contrasts, or other features based upon information that changes frequently, hence requiring continuous updates Cost per action networks (i.e., top-tier affiliates) that expose deals from the advertiser with which they are affiliated with their own network of affiliates Sites utilizing adbars (e.g.


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The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) have jointly urged the government to withdraw the presidential reference against top court's Justice Qazi Faez Isa.
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August 16, 2012

Check your assumptions

We all make countless assumptions every day. We assume that in the morning the kettle and toaster will do their jobs, that the car will start or that our train will arrive at the station. We make assumptions about our partners, our family members, our colleagues and our friends, and about strangers. Our assumptions about our environment and the people around us are often based on nothing more than irrational notions, concepts, beliefs and attitudes which are very rarely based on fact.
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Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman Interviewed at HIMSS

I finally had a few moments to watch the Matthew Holt interview of Glen Tullman, Allscripts CEO at HIMSS. Allscripts is no doubt a large player in the EHR industry (like it or not). This is especially true after Allscripts acquisition of Misys. So, Glen Tullman will have a large effect on the EHR industry so it’s worth listening to hear what he has to say. I’ll include a few quick comments of my own below the video.

Overall a pretty low key video. There were a few things that are worth commenting on.

The first thing that hit me was that Glen Tullman thought that the controversy over CCHIT was that CCHIT certified over 300 EHR vendors. Glen makes the argument that government wants a smaller footprint of EHR vendors and that 300 was too many. I guess I can kind of see why government might not want to certify 300 EHR providers since doctors just don’t have time to look through that many. However, it was the first I’d heard of that CCHIT controversy.

What does make a lot of sense is why the CEO of one of the largest EHR vendors would want the certified EHR vendor list to be a really small list that includes them. So, it would make sense for him to lobby the government to keep the list small.

I’m glad that Matthew Holt brought up at least another reason that CCHIT as the EHR certification is a problem. How about you just start with the controversy that CCHIT certification doesn’t provide benefit to doctors. Solve that one and we can find a way to deal with any other CCHIT controversies.

Of course, at the end Glen Tullman also said “CCHIT has done it [EHR certification] very effectively.” Effectively? Seriously? Can he provide me some data on how effective it is? It might be effective for his organization’s interests. So, maybe that’s what he meant.

Glen Tullman did make a great comment about SAAS EHR versus client server EHR. He basically said that most users don’t know the technology behind SAAS EHR and client server EHR. Glen suggested that most users just know the financing model of the two EHR options. A very fine point. I’d just add that they know the financing part AND the IT support part of the equation (ie. SAAS EHR means you [the EHR vendor] do the IT. Great!) Glen does seem to understand how to sell an EHR product to his customers.

There you go, there’s my quick comments. What can I say? I type fast.

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  • Interesting analysis. As a proponent of SaaS EHR, I have to ask what you meant by “SAAS EHR means you do the IT.” SaaS customers have to take care of less IT than those who use traditional on-premises solutions. Am I missing something?

  • No, that’s the point of what I was saying. I probably should have said, “SAAS EHR means you [the EHR vendor] do the IT.” I’ll correct it on the post as well.

    Of course, an SAAS EHR doesn’t mean the clinic won’t have to do IT. They’ll have to do less IT over all, but will have to learn more about their internet connection than a clinic with a client server based EHR.

    All of that said, I personally feel that both models are workable and enjoy their own specific list of pros and cons.

  • It is interesting to note that Mr. Tullman:

    1. serves as HIS advisor to the Obama administration.
    2. is a member of CCHIT’s Board of Trustees
    3. CCHIT will serve as the determining organization for EHR winners/losers.

    Does something about this not sound right to anyone?

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It’s Just a Number:

We’ve all been there. Stepping on the scale and holding our breath. Closing our eyes to delay, just for a moment, the number that awaits us. If you’re like me, you’ve tried every trick to make that dastardly old scale behave a little more nicely. You’ve shed shoes, pants, earrings, headbands-you’d take out your fillings if you could!

And that does not even include all of the hard work that preceded this moment: the endless hours of exercise. The gallons upon gallons of water. The near starvation and the gagging down of all these pills, potions, and magic elixirs that promise instant and enduring results. By the time we reach the scale, we’re more likely to feel like crawling than walking-such is what we put ourselves through in the pursuit of the thin and perfect’ body.

But why are we so obsessed with a few measly numbers on a bathroom scale? Why does this one little household item have so much power over us, and how we feel about ourselves? The simple fact is that the number on the bathroom scale reflects very little on our overall physical health. And it says far less about our beauty. Our uniqueness. Our worth as human beings.

So instead of being taunted by the tyranny of the scale, let’s focus on the things that really mean something, the things that really matter. Let’s learn to treat our bodies right and recognize their beauty-at any weight.

Stopping the Scale Obsession:

Anyone who has ever dieted-and that means pretty much anyone who has ever lived in the US in the last 100 years-knows how quickly an obsession with the scale can develop. Those first few lost pounds are like a drug. They intoxicate. They infuse you with a sense of accomplishment. Of triumph.

But that victory is all too often short-lived. Soon the numbers start dropping gradually. Than they stop dropping at all and as the weight loss slows, the obsession with the scale grows. You may find yourself checking multiple times a day-maybe even multiple times an hour.

You will find that your mood and your self-image are increasingly tied to the numbers that greet you on the scale. If the drop has been sufficient, your day is made and your self-esteem grows. If the drop is not what you expected, than you are a failure. You have not worked hard enough. You did not want it enough. You are not good enough.

This is a vicious and tremendously unhealthy cycle, one that often leads not only to emotional overeating in the desperate attempt to gain some kind of solace, but one which also produces stress-and stress, as we know, causes chemicals such as cortisol to be released into the body. These stress chemicals also promote the development-and the retention-of fat, especially fat around the dreaded midsection.

When you become scale-obsessed, you’re basically setting yourself up for failure, for a self-destructive cycle of emotional highs and lows that will almost inevitably lead to weight gain. Scales Do Not Reflect Weight Loss Accurately An important issue to bear in mind is that the number on the scale does not actually reflect fat loss. In fact, most of the weight lost in the first stages of dieting is water loss. The reductions in salt and carbohydrate intake which often accompany dieting lead to very rapid loss of fluid retention. But the human body simply cannot shed fat that quickly.

So the scale gives you a false sense of accomplishment in the early days of dieting, which than makes you so desperate to duplicate that “success’ that you and up making demands of your body that it cannot possibly fulfill. After all, the body can only lose so much water before the organs begin to fail completely. And true weight loss, by which we mean true fat loss, can only be accomplished gradually. This is a weight loss I best measured in inches, not in pounds.

Metabolism Matters:

One of the most frustrating aspects of dieting is that what works like a charm for one person may not work at all for another. There are few things more upsetting than watching your fiends and loved ones achieve amazing results, when you are working so hard and getting little or nothing in return.

It’s all too easy in cases like this to forget that no two people have the exact same metabolism. Each person metabolizes calories, nutrients, and energy differently and a myriad of factors can shape how our metabolism functions. Everything from age to gender to lifestyle to overall health can have an impact on our body’s metabolism.

However, if all we are thinking about is the number on the scale, then we risk forgetting the vital role that metabolism plays in the success or failure of our diet regimen. Rather than obsessing on a number, it is far better to explore how our body is functioning and why. Metabolism is a key component in this.

If what is working for others in your age group isn’t working for you, than it may be worth while to visit your doctor. You may learn that you have a vitamin deficiency, or a problem with your thyroid function, or some other issue that is affecting your metabolism, causing weight gain through no fault of your own.

The Goal of Better Health:

Recognizing the role of metabolism in weight loss is the first step on the road to better health. The reason for this is simple, you’re now beginning to appreciate the complexity-and the true miracle-that your body is. Your body is far more sophisticated than three measly numbers on a scale. It deserves far greater respect than being distilled down to such a nothingness.

When you begin to disassociate your weight from your self-worth, than it makes it easier to invest in treating your body right, no matter what effect that new, healthier regime might have on your weight.

In fact, a number of components of a good health and fitness program can actually lead to an increase in weight, but that does not mean that your health is deteriorating or that fat loss is not occurring. The opposite could actually be true, you may be burning fat but gaining muscle, which is denser than adipose (fat) tissue and therefore weight more.

So What Do You Do Once You Ditch the Scale?

Eat Right, Once you stop worrying about the numbers on the scale, you can also start worrying less about the pesky issue of calories. Instead, you get to focus on more important matters when it comes to your food, such as its nutrient content.

If you are eating right, your principal concern should be that your food is whole, rich in the micro nutrients and macro nutrients your body needs to perform at its peak. This also means eating lots of healthy fats, proteins, and complex carbohydrates-things which calorie and weight-conscious dieters may shy away from but which are essential to building, and maintaining, a healthy body.

Find a Good Supplement:

It’s nearly impossible to consume all of the nutrients the body needs in a single day simply through food intake alone. This is where turning to a good nutrition supplement can be a great idea. There are a number of safe and affordable nutrition supplements on the market today which can help to provide you with the nutrients you need to build muscle and loss fat.

The important thing to remember when you begin using nutrition supplements is that you may not actually lose weight with some of these, but that does not mean you are failing in your health regimen. In fact, you are probably growing stronger, healthier, leaner, and more toned. This improved performance and increased sense of wellness are far better indicators of your body’s overall health than any number on the scale could ever be-and when you learn to value yourself, you will learn that health is a much greater gift than some arbitrary weight that the beauty industry claims you need to be.

Get Out and Exercise:

To be healthy, you not only have to eat right and take in the proper nutrients. You also have to be physically active. This doesn’t mean that you have to spend 10 hours a day in the gym, tortured by painful workouts that you hate from beginning to end.

No, it’s far better to find a physical activity that you love, one that you feel excited about, one you can’t wait to get out and do. Maybe it’s salsa dancing. Maybe it’s biking in the mountains. Maybe it’s martial arts.

The most important thing is to get moving. Find the thing that makes your heart pump not only while you’re doing it, but even just in thinking about it. You will be more energetic, more passionate, and more content-all while reaping the muscle-building, fat-burning benefits of exercise (but happy, healthy, fun exercise!)

Get Rest:

Yes, you have to be active, but you also have to take time everyday for stillness. Whether you prefer to meditate or to pray, or simply to sit quietly by your window or beneath your favorite shade tree, the health benefits of stillness are virtually limitless. Taking the time to be quiet-to do nothing, to let the mind and body rest-improves focus, boosts mood, builds energy, and reduces those stress hormones we talked about earlier. You know-the ones that lead to weight gain and fat retention?

Get Social:

OK We’re born alone and we usually die alone. But that doesn’t mean that we have to be alone in between. In fact, studies are increasingly showing that the more social you are, the healthier you are Loneliness leads to depression, stress, and anxiety: three big players not only in ill health in general, but in weight gain and obesity in particular. An active social life, with lots of time spent with friends and family, increases the likelihood that you will be more physically active. You will also likely have more support and more motivation in your efforts to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Get Involved:

It’s almost impossible to be weight and beauty obsessed when you get out of your own head and into helping others. Nothing feeds the soul like helping those in need. So volunteer Feed the homeless. Counsel abused women. Mentor at-risk children. When you see how many people are suffering-and when you recognize your own power to make a difference in this world-it really helps to put matters of weight and appearance into perspective.

You may even find yourself eating healthy and staying active not because it’s going to look great in the next selfie, but because it allows you to help more-because you have people around you who are depending on you. You have people in your life to stay healthy for, to live (and live well) for.

You are (NOT) What You Eat:

There’s no getting around it We live in a culture obsessed with youth and beauty. The explosion of social media and the 24/7 streaming of celebrity images has only magnified the pressure on women to live up to some false ideal of what is beautiful, of what is valuable, of what it is supposedly necessary for women to be. With the proliferation of mobile devices, we can’t even leave our homes to escape these images: we carry them around with us, day in and day out, on our cell phones and tablets.

It’s no wonder that we fall so easily into weight-loss obsession when we are inundated with wasp-waist teenagers bombarding us with beauty tips and informing us with the latest weight loss secrets. Of course, we all know that these images are not real. The photo editing tools available on every device now puts old school Photoshop to shame. Everyday women can readily subject their selfies to massive touch ups before releasing them to the world as their “true’ face, this does not even take into account the editing technologies used in the film and fashion industries.

We all know these images are false. We all know that Giselle and Gigi do not look like “Giselle” and “Gigi.” But that all too often does not decrease the power of these images over most women’s lives. The obsession with the scale all too readily becomes the one tangible thing by which we can measure how close-or how far-we are getting from this supposed “ideal” of female beauty.

Extreme Self(ie) Care:

We can break out of this cycle. We can move beyond the self-destructive pattern of trying to beat and badger our bodies into a mold that does not even exist in the real world. It is all a matter of what I like to call “extreme self(ie) care”. It means stepping away from the scale and into a way of living and thinking that recognizes and honors our bodies for the wonders of nature that they are, for the complex, powerful, irreplaceable temples in which we carry out the work of our heart and our souls.

By doing the work of good health-by eating right, by getting the proper nutrients, by being active and being still, by getting involved in the world-we can escape this modern media captivity. We can discover our true faces and bodies. We can make our next selfie the picture of a face born of self-love, self-care, and self-respect. The selfie of the true self.

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How to Make Southern Biscuits GF, NS,EF

Updated: Jul 31

Find the photos below with all steps to aid you in baking the biscuits the first time. Please note the recipe contains no eggs, gluten or added sugar. If you use the egg wash, you are adding eggs to the recipe. The main photo below the biscuit is shinny because of the egg wash, but the egg wash is optional.

Southern Biscuits Recipe

Makes 6 full 3" biscuits

Preheat the oven 425 F, Bake time 20 minutes.

Unsalted butter, cold 7 oz. (3/4 cup)

Buttermilk full fat 10.5 oz (1-1/4 cups), plus more due to room temperature and humidity.

Gluten free flour, 14 oz, (Bob's Red Mill 1 to 1 ratio),This is the only flour I have used for these biscuits.

Baking soda 1/2 teaspoon

Baking Powder 4 teaspoons

Salt 1-1/4 teaspoons

Sift all the dry ingredients inside a medium to large bowl. Add cold butter and cut it with the bench scraper. Next use the rubbing method to disperse the butter into the dry ingredients. Don't over work the dough it should look like a large chucks coarse meal. Next add the cold buttermilk all at once and folded into the dry ingredients. Form a square about 2" thick with a rolling pin and roll the dough until you have a smooth square.Next use a 3" round biscuit cutter and cut straight down 6 biscuits, but don't twist the cutter or you will not see the layering effects once the biscuits are baked. You will have a small bit of dough left enough to form a small biscuit. Place the 6 biscuits over parchment paper and bake for abut 20 to 25 minutes until they are golden brown. Take out of the oven an allow them to cool completely. Optional, you can brush the top of the biscuits before baking with an egg wash (one large egg and one tablespoon of buttermilk whisk all together) or you can brush the baked biscuits with extra butter and no egg wash.

Note: The egg wash makes the top of the biscuits shiny as the main picture above.

Serve with my homemade strawberry or cherry jam. Find recipe in this blog.

Please note the biscuits in the photos below were not glazed with an egg wash only butter was brushed over the tops after they were baked.

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 Jeannette Werle, Health Consultant

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Caprylic triglyceride is an ingredient used in soaps and cosmetics. It’s usually made from combining coconut oil with glycerin. This ingredient is sometimes called capric triglyceride. It’s also sometimes mistakenly called fractionated coconut oil.

Caprylic triglyceride has been widely used for more than 50 years. It helps smooth skin and works as an antioxidant. It also binds other ingredients together, and can work as a preservative of sorts to make the active ingredients in cosmetics last longer.

Caprylic triglyceride is valued as a more natural alternative to other synthetic chemicals found in topical skin products. Companies that claim that their products are “all natural” or “organic” often contain caprylic triglyceride.

While it’s technically made of natural components, the caprylic triglyceride used in products isn’t usually found in nature. A chemical process separates the oily liquid so that a “pure” version of it can be added to products.

Caprylic triglycerides are compounds made of naturally occurring fatty acids. They’re a clear liquid and slightly sweet to the taste. The high fat content in triglycerides, along with their texture and antioxidant qualities, make them of particular use for soap and skin care products.

Emollients are ingredients that soften your skin. Emollients work by trapping moisture in your skin and forming a protective layer so the moisture can’t escape. Caprylic triglyceride is an effective skin-softening ingredient.

Dispersing agent

Dispersing agents are the parts of any chemical or organic compound that hold the ingredients together and stabilize them.

Mixing other active ingredients, pigments, or scents in a good dispersing agent keeps the ingredients from clumping together or sinking to the bottom of the mixture. The waxy and thick consistency of caprylic triglycerides make them an excellent dispersing agent.

Solvents are ingredients that can dissolve, or break apart, certain ingredients or compounds. Ingredients are solvents based on how their molecules are structured and shaped, and how they interact with other substances.

Caprylic triglyceride can dissolve compounds that are designed to clump together. While some solvents have toxic ingredients, caprylic triglyceride doesn’t carry those risks.

Antioxidants work to neutralize toxins you’re exposed to every day in your environment. Antioxidants stop the chain reaction called oxidation, which can age your skin and take a toll on your body.

Caprylic triglyceride is full of antioxidants that help preserve your skin and help you feel younger.

Caprylic triglyceride can be found in topical skin care products that you use on and around your face. It’s used to:

  • boost the shelf life of these products
  • add a sheen to your skin that’s light and non-greasy
  • boost the antioxidants in the product

These products include:

  • moisturizing face creams
  • anti-aging serums
  • sunscreens
  • eye creams

Caprylic triglyceride is a popular ingredient in makeup and other cosmetics. The ingredient keeps pigments evenly distributed in a cosmetic formula without causing a sticky feeling on your skin. You’ll often see this ingredient listed in these cosmetics:

  • lipstick
  • lip balm
  • lip liner
  • cream-based and liquid foundations
  • eye liner

Caprylic triglyceride carries a very low, if any, toxicity for topical use. The FDA notes that it’s generally recognized as safe in low amounts as a food additive. That means it’s not toxic to consume the trace amounts that might be in your lipstick or lip balm.

Unless you have a severe allergy to coconut oil, you’re at very little risk for an allergic reaction triggered by using caprylic triglyceride.

There’s some environmental concern for the use of caprylic triglyceride. We don’t know enough about the way it’s broken down in nature and if it might eventually build up and pose a threat to wildlife. More research is needed to determine the safest ways to dispose of products that contain caprylic triglyceride.

Current research states that caprylic triglyceride is safe for most people to use. Consuming it in small amounts as a food additive, sweetener, or cosmetic product doesn’t pose a risk to your health.

Capric acid/caprylic triglyceride is one of the cleanest ingredients that you can find as a natural alternative to chemical ingredients.

Everyone’s skin reacts differently to different chemicals. Always proceed carefully when you’re using a new cosmetic product or face cream.


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Interstitial lung disease includes more than 200 different conditions that cause inflammation and scarring around the balloon-like air sacs in your lungs, called the alveoli. Oxygen travels through the alveoli into your bloodstream. When they’re scarred, these sacs can’t expand as much. As a result, less oxygen enters your blood.

Other parts of your lungs can be affected too, such as the airways, lung lining, and blood vessels.

Interstitial lung disease can vary from person to person and depending on what caused it. Sometimes it progresses slowly. In other cases, it worsens quickly. Your symptoms can range from mild to severe.

Some interstitial lung diseases have a better prognosis than others. One of the most common types, called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, can have a limited outlook. The average survival for people with this type is currently 3 to 5 years. It can be longer with certain medications and depending on its course. People with other types of interstitial lung disease, like sarcoidosis, can live much longer.

While getting a lung transplant can improve your survival, future medications will likely offer the best solutions for most people.

Interstitial lung disease comes in more than 200 different types. Some of these include:

  • asbestosis: inflammation and scarring in the lungs caused by breathing in asbestos fibers
  • bronchiolitis obliterans: a condition that causes blockages in the smallest airways of the lungs, called bronchioles
  • coal worker’s pneumoconiosis: a lung condition caused by exposure to coal dust (also called black lung disease)
  • chronic silicosis: a lung disease caused by breathing in the mineral silica
  • connective tissue-related pulmonary fibrosis: a lung disease that affects some people with connective tissue diseases such as scleroderma or Sjögren syndrome
  • desquamative interstitial pneumonitis: a condition that causes lung inflammation and that is more common in people who smoke
  • familial pulmonary fibrosis: a buildup of scar tissue in the lungs that affects two or more members of the same family
  • hypersensitivity pneumonitis: inflammation of the alveoli caused by breathing in allergic substances or other irritants
  • idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a disease of unknown cause in which scar tissue develops throughout the lung tissue
  • sarcoidosis: a disease that causes small clumps of inflammatory cells to form in organs such as the lungs and lymph glands

When you have interstitial lung disease, you can’t get enough oxygen into your blood. As a result, you feel short of breath, especially when you exercise or climb stairs. Eventually, you may find it hard to breathe, even at rest.

A dry cough is another symptom. Symptoms often get worse over time.

See your doctor if you have trouble breathing. After a diagnosis, you can start treatments to manage the inflammation and scarring.

Many times, doctors can’t find the cause of interstitial lung disease. In these cases, the condition is called idiopathic interstitial lung disease.

Other causes of interstitial lung disease include medical conditions, use of some drugs, or exposure to toxic substances that damage your lungs. These causes of interstitial lung disease fall into three main categories:

Autoimmune diseases

Your body’s immune system attacks and damages the lungs and other organs in these conditions:

  • dermatomyositis: an inflammatory disease that causes muscle weakness and skin rash
  • lupus: a condition in which the immune system attacks many types of tissue, including the skin, joints, and other organs
  • mixed connective tissue disease: a condition that has symptoms of several connective tissue diseases, including polymyositis, lupus, and scleroderma
  • polymyositis: a condition that causes inflammation of the muscles
  • vasculitis: inflammation and damage to blood vessels in the body
  • rheumatoid arthritis: a disease in which the immune system attacks the joints, lungs, and other organs
  • scleroderma: a group of diseases that cause the skin and connective tissue to thicken and tighten
  • Sjögren syndrome: a condition that causes joint pain, dry eyes, and dry mouth

Exposure to toxic substances

Exposure to the following substances at work or in the environment can cause lung scarring as well:

  • animal proteins, such as from birds
  • asbestos fibers
  • coal dust
  • grain dust
  • mold
  • silica dust
  • tobacco smoke

Medication and drugs

In people who are susceptible, all of these drugs can damage the lungs:

  • antibiotics such as nitrofurantoin (Macrobid, Macrodantin) and sulfasalazine (Azulfidine)
  • anti-inflammatories such as aspirin, etanercept (Enbrel), and infliximab (Remicade)
  • chemotherapy drugs such as azathioprine (Imuran), bleomycin, cyclophosphamide, methotrexate (Trexall), and vinblastine
  • heart medications such as amiodarone (Cordarone, Nexterone, Pacerone)
  • drugs such as heroin and its treatment, methadone

Treatments can’t reverse lung damage, but they can slow disease progression and help you breathe more easily. If exposure to a toxic material or drug caused your interstitial lung disease, avoid that substance.

Your doctor can prescribe a few different types of treatments to manage interstitial lung disease:

  • Supplemental oxygen is currently recommended in the international guidelines for treatment, although no studies have proven its benefit. Individuals report feeling less breathless with its use.
  • Pulmonary rehabilitation may help improve your activity levels and ability to exercise.
  • Anti-inflammatory drugs, such as the steroid prednisone, can reduce swelling in the lungs.
  • Immune-suppressing drugs, such as azathioprine (Imuran), cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan), and mycophenolate mofetil (CellCept), may help stop the immune system attacks that damage the lungs.
  • Antifibrotic drugs such as pirfenidone (Esbriet) and nintedanib (Ovef) may prevent further scarring in the lungs. These drugs are both approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

If your condition is severe and other treatments don’t help, the last resort is to have a lung transplant. However, a transplant is not a cure. Typically, this surgery is recommended if you’re younger than 65 years, but in some cases you can be older. You can’t have other major health conditions, such as cancer, HIV, hepatitis B or C, or heart, kidney, or liver failure.

While you’re undergoing treatment, here are a few things you can do to stay healthy:

  • Stop smoking. Smoking can damage your lungs even more.
  • Eat a well-balanced diet. Getting enough nutrients and calories is important, especially because this disease can make you lose weight.
  • Exercise. Using oxygen can help you stay active.
  • Get your vaccines for pneumonia, whooping cough, and flu. These infections can worsen your lung symptoms.

Scarring in your lungs can’t be reversed. Still, treatments can slow lung damage and help you breathe more easily. Lung transplant remains an option for those who don’t respond to other medical treatment.


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Budget provides for recruitment of 1,000 frontline staff

A total of €60 million to recruit 1,000 frontline staff into the community by the end of 2021, was provided for in Budget 2020.

The budget also provided €45 million to support family friendly measures, including the expansion of free GP care to children under eight, free dental care for children under six, an additional one million home help hours and the roll-out of a pilot statutory scheme.

Fifty-five new hospice beds are to be opened in counties Kildare, Mayo, Waterford and Wicklow and the new National Forensic Mental Health Hospital at Portrane, Dublin is to be opened.

Provision is made for the full roll-out of a HIV PrEP programme,  €25 million in disability funding, investment in the maternity, cancer, dementia strategies, and a new autism plan and €6 million for the Healthy Ireland Fund, up from €5 million in Budget 2019.

There will be an investment of €100 million to the NTPF to help reduce waiting lists, the monthly threshold of €124 for the Drug Payment Scheme will be reduced by €10 to €114 from September 2020, prescription charges will be reduced by 50c from July 2020 and the income limits for medical cards for over 70s are to be increased.

Health Minister, Simon Harris,  said that Budget 2020 was about bringing the Sláintecare health reform programme to life in communities across the country by delivering investment in key strategic supports.

“Today, Sláintecare takes a major step forward, building on the work of the past year. The long-term funding commitment in Budget 2020 will see the shift to community care begin to happen in earnest with 1,000 front line community health care staff to be recruited, including therapists, nurses and other professionals,” he said.

“One million additional home care hours will ensure that we support people to be cared for in their own homes for as long as possible, instead of in hospital or residential care. Alongside this ,we will begin to pilot a Statutory Home Care Scheme next year so that home care is regarded as a right in the same way as long-term residential care.

“In line with Sláintecare we are continuing to expand eligibility for primary care services and reduce the cost of medicines to families and older people.

“In Budget 2020, I have prioritised reform of the health service, investing in our staff and reducing the cost of healthcare for our patients.”

The Minister of State with Special Responsibility for Disabilities Finian McGrath TD said, with the additional monies secured, the overall Budget for disability services in 2020 was in excess of €2 billion.”

Funding for HSE Mental Health Services had increased from €711m in 2012 to €1bn in 2020, an increase of over 40%, according to Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People, Mr. Jim Daly.

Minister of State for Health Promotion and the National Drugs Strategy Catherine Byrne TD said she welcomed the enhanced funding for the National Drugs Strategy and Healthy Ireland.


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MCK - Motor Connection Kit

Heat-Shrink Motor Connection Kits for 1/C (2000 V)

• Qualified to ANSI-C119.1-1986 and rated to ICEA electrical withstand test for 1000 V
• For use as an in-line or stub splice between 1/C poly feeder cable and motor leads
• Excellent insulation sealing—and resistance to abrasion—in motor connections
Type V
The stub “Type V” kit is designed to splice the stub or butt configuration that is commonly used
where there is insufficient room to make in-line connections.
Type L
The In-Line “Type L” kit is used, where space permits, to splice in-line connections.

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Location: Los Ranchitos
(37.9930°N, 122.5425°W)
Time: 08:14:29

H-2A R/B - Pass Details

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Date: 21 September 2020
Orbit: 577 x 655 km, 98.5° (Epoch: 28 October)

EventTimeAltitudeAzimuthDistance (km)BrightnessSun altitude
Rises11:06:55133° (SE)2,8885.7-32.9°
Reaches altitude 10°11:09:2610°118° (ESE)2,0005.0-32.5°
Maximum altitude11:12:4923°67° (ENE)1,3724.4-31.9°
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HEFCW Circular

W13/03HE: Skills and Employability Action Plans (SEAPs) 2012/13 & 2013/14 and SEAP Funding

This circular invites institutions to submit a two year Skills and Employability Action Plan (SEAP) for 2012/13 and 2013/14. Plans should articulate activities and targets which will enhance the student experience and increase the employability of Welsh graduates. Additionally institutions are invited to submit a proposal for one-off SEAP initiative funding available across 2012/13 and 2013/14.

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Wearing parts

Lighting professional meets braking power

HELLA PAGID BRAKE SYSTEMS offers an extensive range of brake components – with excellent technology for the most challenging of requirements. Alongside disk brake linings, brake pads and drums, the product range is continuously expanded in line with customer requirements. HELLA PAGID BRAKE SYSTEMS is one of the leading providers of brake systems in the free aftermarket. We can look back on decades of experience as an OEM and offer the sales competence of one of the largest trading organisations in the world. HELLA also offers you a wide choice of wearing parts such as a comprehensive range of light bulbs, wiper blades, and more.

Brake systems

From small urban vehicles through to high-performance sports cars – HELLA PAGID BRAKE SYSTEMS brake linings offer a perfect mix of safety, durability and excellent braking convenience for any class of vehicle. This is evidenced by original equipment releases from major automobile manufacturers worldwide. To serve the needs of our customers as best as we can, we are continually expanding our product range. During the second quarter of 2013 we added "hydraulic brake" products along with a wide selection of workshop equipment to our portfolio for garages and wholesalers. Our experts provide garages with first-class technical service and sales support. We are a competent and reliable partner to the motor trade and garages, offering professional training courses as well as technical information from practitioners for practitioners. Targeted and professional sales support, and attractive garage solutions round off our service portfolio.

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When you are out on the road, everything depends on optimum visibility, so absolutely reliable lamps are a must. The right technology for every case - that is why HELLA brings a strong range on to the road:

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Standard: for more economy

At the same time, all our bulbs - from standard through to Xenon - provide completely reliable high performance at all times. If you are concerned about safety, at HELLA you can be sure of finding outstanding and tested quality for every vehicle. Which of our innovative developments do you want to choose for your customers? In every case HELLA will ensure their safety and absolute satisfaction.

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Wiper blades

Here quality has profile! Our wipers contain a great deal of high tech, enabling you to have a free view over a longer period. The high-quality coating made of nanographite particles considerably reduces the friction between wiper and windscreen. The result: even and smooth operation - with longer wiper durability. Clear visibility for everyone: we offer your customers a wide range of vehicle-specific and universal wipers for cars, vans, agricultural and construction machines, commercial vehicles and buses. Safety - for HELLA always a question of technology.

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Ignition coils

HELLA’s program of ignition coils already covers over 80 variants and is continually being extended. These are coils for static high-voltage ignition distribution systems, in which the control is entirely electronic - there are no longer any moving parts. All modern cars with gasoline-powered engines use this or similar equipment.

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Thursday, 29 October 2020

Feline luxury

CATS Whiskers Cattery Hotel has now been open for just over a year.

They have had a fantastic year with many old customers coming back from when owner Carole Gorvin ran previous catteries.

Carole has had a litter of three kittens born in the cattery in the last couple of weeks to a beautiful snowshoe cat, whose owner had planned a suitable match for her, only to discover that Katrina had other ideas and produced her beautiful kittens. Another guest, Missy, had fallen out of her owner’s window and broken her pelvis meaning her owner was very worried about her care and she needed very special treatment.

For any first time owners who are concerned about their cats, photos can be emailed to reassure them their pet is settled.

Log on to www.cats or call (01491) 577711 to arrange a visit. Please book early for Christmas.

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True Detective critics have not got a clue

 FINALE: Matthew McConaughey as Rust  Cohle in True Detective

FINALE: Matthew McConaughey as Rust Cohle in True Detective

FINALE: Matthew McConaughey as Rust Cohle in True Detective

'ONCE there was only dark. If you ask me, the light's winning," said Matthew McConaughey's Rust Cohle in the very last line of Saturday's True Detective finale on Sky Atlantic.

Whether the light is winning out over the dark, in terms of America's reaction to the end of True Detective's first season, is another matter. When the finale went out over there a couple of weeks ago, opinion was split down the middle between those who thought it was brilliant and those who considered it a letdown.

For what it's worth, I'm with the "brilliant" camp – although I'm not going to go into the details of why, in case you haven't yet watched the episode. True Detective demonstrated that the hardest thing to master in television drama is the art of the finale.

There's a reason it's hard: the perfect finale is the Holy Grail of TV drama and will forever remain elusive, because it doesn't actually exist. You might be able please some of the people or most of the people, but you'll never please all of the people.

One of the most famous (or infamous, depending on your view) finales in TV history, the sudden fade-to-black at the end of The Sopranos, enraged that part of the audience that wanted to know, beyond all doubt, whether Tony lived or died.

The Sopranos' creator David Chase insisted the answer was obvious. For some viewers, though, probably nothing short of a signed personal letter from Chase detailing what happened after the lights went out would have sufficed.

I imagine the feeble "they were dead all along" finale of Lost enraged most people – or at least most of those that bothered sticking with six seasons of increasingly bloated, up-its-own-bottom nonsense right to the bitter end.

Even the final episode of Breaking Bad, an hour of television so electrifyingly great it's impossible to see how it could have been improved, had its share of detractors. But the critical reaction to True Detective in the US has been something else again.

There were plenty of positive reviews and plenty of negative reviews, but the one that stands out from the pack is the utterly preposterous write-up from Emily Nussbaum, TV critic with The New Yorker magazine.

Nussbaum was actively angered by it. She seemed to take it as a personal affront that creator/writer Nic Pizzolatto didn't tie things up just the way she thought things should be tied up.

Nussbaum's review is a textbook example of the kind of journalistic narcissism and self-importance peculiar to a lot of big-city newspapers and magazines in America. Even more ridiculous was the reaction to the last ever episode of unfathomably popular comedy How I Met Your Mother, the final series of which has just begun on E4.

"Betrayal!" screamed American critics who really should know better. Meanwhile, fans of the series were so incensed by the way the writers wrapped it up that thousands of them took to change.org – a platform that used to be used for rather more important things than griping about TV shows – to demand CBS shoot a new ending. CBS politely told them to bog off, and rightly so.

The reason television is so much better than the movies right now is because not everything is screened in advance to a test audience, who then get to influence the shape of the finished product. The moment television starts letting that happen is the moment to switch off.


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Catalysing impact: how investors can fight climate change

Amid the dislocation of the coronavirus, it is easy to forget that just a few short months ago the debate about the climate crisis – and our collective response – was gaining momentum. In the first of two special climate-focused episodes of Fundamentals, we ask: is climate action taking a back seat to Covid-19? And what role can impact strategies play in tackling the most defining challenge of our time?

Has Covid-19 shifted the momentum of climate change?

In episode four of Fundamentals, Aoifinn Devitt, Head of Investment – Ireland, is joined by Will Pomroy, Lead Engager – SDG Engagement and Small & Mid Cap Equities, and Ingrid Kukuljan, Head of Impact Investing, as they discuss the climate crisis.

Despite the world’s ongoing fight against the coronavirus pandemic, for Pomroy, the climate crisis has not taken a back seat in the minds of long-term investors. He explains: “It is very much still front and centre of many of the conversations that we are having with companies.”

“It requires attention and change by companies, by investors and ultimately by governments in the immediacy to have any chance of us being able to make meaningful change.”

Kukuljan sees the pandemic as a “catalyst to accelerate the existing trends of increasing awareness of the risks around climate change.”

Making a meaningful contribution towards tackling climate change

Our impact strategies make a meaningful contribution towards tackling the climate crisis. For example, our Impact Opportunities team focus on megatrends – climate change is one of the key megatrends for them.  “We see renewable energy, electric vehicles and energy efficient housing as some of the main pillars in the fight against climate change,” Kukuljan says.

Meanwhile, our SDG Engagement Equity team engage companies on the topic of the climate crisis. Pomroy explains: “We think about where a company can make a meaningful contribution towards climate change through its supply chain, through its direct operations or through its product innovation and solution division.”

Kukuljan adds: “engagement is key to companies becoming more impactful and reaching their goals.”

To find out more about the role our impact strategies play in the fight against climate change, tune in to Fundamentals.

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Tour & Shadow - Herron High School
Herron High School has moved to a hybrid schedule. Masks are required of everyone on school grounds and campus is currently closed to visitors unless an appointment has been made.

Tour Herron High School

Given the current crisis, we are not open for in-person tours. However, we have linked our virtual tour below and hope it will give you a glimpse into some of the special things about Herron. Reach out to Shannon Hasper, Director of Enrollment with any questions: or 317-995-9925.

Virtual Tour

Schedule a Shadow Day

Due to the temporary school closing, all shadow dates are postponed until further notice.

We encourage prospective students to spend a day with a Herron High School scholar to learn more about our classes, culture and community. Sign up for a shadow date below. Please note shadow dates must be selected 48 hours in advance. If you have questions, please contact Shannon Hasper at or 317-231-0010, x1151


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Old Albanian trio get England Counties nod

PUBLISHED: 15:34 29 May 2015 | UPDATED: 15:34 29 May 2015

Brett McNamee, with the ball, against Hartpury

Brett McNamee, with the ball, against Hartpury

Spiers, Berry and McNamee to feature in two-game tour of Romania

A trio of Old Albanian players have been selected in a 27-strong England Counties squad for a two-match tour of Romania in June.

James Spiers, Andrew Berry and Hertfordshire skipper Brett McNamee are three of five Hertfordshire players in the squad. The others are Henry Robinson of Darlington Mowden Park and centre Sam Winter of Bishop’s Stortford.

Players were chosen for the tour on the back of impressive displays in the recent county championships. Working with representatives from all counties, the selection committee was hard pressed to squeeze the squad down to 27 due to such a high standard in this year’s competition.

The squad has 10 counties represented in all, and includes 15 debutants, who will hope to make an immediate impact next week.

England Counties play CSM Bucuresti on Friday, June 5 and Romania A on Tuesday, June 9.

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21st April 2020

High Court decides on leasehold case via video-link.

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A blow was struck to the owners of leasehold houses earlier this month in one of the first cases decided via video link-up. Having originally won their case at the property tribunal, the leaseholders were not able to convince the High Court that they had the right to buy the freehold of their homes.

The matter rested on a particular provision of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967, which in principle introduced the right for the owners of leasehold houses to call for their landlord to sell the freehold to them in exchange for payment of a compensatory premium (known as ‘enfranchisement’). Although the legislation is now quite old, it remains very much in active use and does crop up in Cambridge circles, particularly given the large amount of land that has historically been in University/College ownership.

Although they won their case in the property tribunal, the High Court accepted the landlord’s appeal that not all the houses were in fact single dwellings and therefore the leaseholders were not entitled to acquire the freeholds under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967.

In giving judgement in Freehold Properties 250 Ltd v Field and others [2020] EWHC 792 (Ch), Mr Justice Marcus Smith considered whether the right in the 1967 Act to enfranchise a long leasehold house applied to a lease where only part of the house was demised, and the court found that it did not. Essentially, the tenant must have a lease of the whole house (and not own what is in effect a flat within a larger building by virtue of the landlord having retained say the roof or foundations).

Not only did the leaseholders lose but they were also ordered to pay the landlord’s costs (which were considerable) within 14 days.

The take-home for all property lawyers is that if you suspect the LRA67 may be relevant to a particular property or transaction then it must be checked at an early stage whether the lease is of the whole house and that no structural parts were excluded. If not then it must be assumed the right to enfranchise will not be available.

Although presumably not relevant to the decision made in the case, it seems topical to note that the judgement itself made reference to the fact “the appeal was conducted remotely over the internet … during the COVID-19 “coronavirus” pandemic”.

For more information on the items raised in this article please contact Simon Cooper by clicking here.


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From One Machine To Another

Köppel AG - Switzerland

“The first time is always the hardest”. This phrase particularly rings true when you begin to use automated measuring technology. What you really need is a skilled partner and a measuring system that is easy to use. With Hexagon Metrology and the TIGO SF measuring machine, contract manufacturer Köppel AG, from Berneck, Switzerland, gets both.

For a company that has always performed measurements manually using height gauges, micrometers and so on, taking the step towards automated measuring technology is a pretty big deal. However, if you have a clearly formulated job profile (as was the case with Köppel AG), the acquisition process becomes far easier. “Our priorities were easy-to-use hardware and software, and being able to use the machine in production. As such, our approach was pretty much direct from (production) machine to (measuring) machine,” recalls managing director Marcel Köppel. Production should be able to continue during the measurement process and any necessary corrections be made once the measurement result becomes available. Additionally, the job shop was not interested in a “noname product” under any circumstances.

Comprehensive Benchmark

During the acquisition process, Köppel AG conducted intensive investigations into products from three leading providers of measuring machine. Each provider was given the job requirement, including the brief to be able to “push a button, take measurements, get results”, and a sample part for measurements. Ultimately, it was Hexagon Metrology that offered the most appealing overall package in the form of the TIGO SF: “Its design for use in a workshop, the flexibility of the machine, fast delivery, a great price-performance ratio and ease of operation clearly spoke in favour of the TIGO SF. Hexagon Metrology also organised a visit to one of its clients, where the measurement technicians told us about their experiences with the machine – this touch reinforced our decision,” says Köppel. The TIGO SF 3D coordinate measuring machine (CMM) is precise, compact – and specially developed for use in production. Its strengths are particularly evident over a wide range of small and medium workpieces from all kinds of industries where production requires the utmost accuracy. With a measurement range of 500 x 580 x 500 mm (X/Y/Z), it is the most precise production-environment CMM in its class. “But most of all, TIGO SF offers a new approach for using measuring machines in production: At the heart of this approach lies the operating concept of the PC-DMIS CAD software and the Operator Interface option. The graphical user interface is made up of easyto-understand graphical elements and commands, making it the ideal basis for intuitive measuring processes. The well-known PC-DMIS measuring software is also available for more challenging applications,” says Sandro Sorgon, Sales and Marketing Manager at Hexagon Metrology Switzerland.

Simple Operation

The TIGO SF was delivered to Köppel AG in September 2014. Since then, it has proven its worth to the job shop in its day-to-day use – thanks in part to the optional probe changer, which offers incredible flexibility when measuring diamond drill bits (DDBs). The PC-DMIS CAD software has also proven itself through its ease of use. The Operator Interface option enables ten production workers, who operate production machines the rest of the time, to carry out the measurements for the DDBs without any problems. It is the job shop’s two measurement technicians that create the programs.

Marcel Köppel takes us through the measurement process: “The user can secure the part to be measured to a magnetic fixture made in-house and select it on the touch screen, either from a list of photos or via the item number. He pushes the start button and the relevant points are measured automatically. The display then indicates if the measurement result is good or bad.” This is indicated in colour: red or green. In the event of a red result, a drawing shows the element that is outside tolerance. However, this is a rare occurrence as the software also maps how the measurement values develop. If a value is shifting towards the red area, the operator of the production machine can make adjustments so that the next parts move to clearly within the green area. This reduces the amount of waste considerably.

A Whole host of benefits

The Hexagon Metrology measuring machine also provides the job shop with other significant cost benefits – as it no longer requires the services of the nearby measurement service provider: “This meant that we made a return on investment on the TIGO SF within just nine months! What you mustn’t forget is the time taken to transport the part to the service provider and the downtime of the production machine while this is taking place,” explains Marcel Köppel. “Another consideration is that we operate a three-shift system from Sunday 10pm to Saturday 5am. Naturally, the measurement service provider is not available constantly during this time…”.

The measuring machine is a time saver because the workers can return to their workstation while the automated measurements take place, meaning that they can remain productive during this time. The scanning function also drastically cuts the measuring time. “The TIGO SF provides benefits in terms of gaining new business, as companies increasingly require measurement reports and documentation,” explains Sandro Sorgon. “This, in turn, not only increases customers’ trust in Köppel AG products, but also dispenses with the need for incoming goods inspection. That‘s a win-win for both sides!”

Positive Conclusion

For the DDBs, part measurement occurs after start-up of the production machine and then for every tenth part produced. However in future, the job shop envisages using the Hexagon Metrology machine to measure individual parts, and particularly being able to store the measurement reports and programs long term and recall them at any time. As the TIGO SF is “open” and can be loaded from three sides, there is also the option of measuring larger components in sections. Currently though, the main goal of Köppel AG is to gain greater expertise in using the measuring machine in order to apply its potential in an improved and more universal way.

Quick support in the event of questions and the measuring programs created together with Hexagon Metrology experts during training are key factors in the job shop rating the service as very good. The programs resulted in the TIGO SF in Berneck immediately being 100% ready for operation. This also led to a positive conclusion: “Our key objective to automate measurements for the majority of DDBs and thus make them more efficient has been achieved. This meant that we were able to significantly reduce the error quota compared with the previous manual measurements,” concludes Marcel Köppel. “To us, the TIGO SF represents added value for our employees, our customers and of course our company, Köppel AG, thanks to increased productivity, minimised waste and a quick return on investment. The measuring machine from Hexagon Metrology has definitely met our expectations in full.”

Köppel AG

Köppel AG is a metalworking company for industrial goods in single-part and series production. The company is headquartered in Berneck, Switzerland and employs 50 people, 40 of whom work at the main site. Also part of Köppel AG are Köppel Aufzüge, DEFAG and Köppel Manufacturing KFT in Hungary.

Köppel AG is comprised of three divisions: the production of diamond drill bits, mechanical production and tank inspection. Its customers primarily operate within the Swiss machinery industry. The Rhine Valley area around the company headquarters is referred to as Chancental (prospect valley), as a whole chain of companies upstream and downstream of the production process are located there. This network enables Köppel AG to offer customers a broad range of other services.

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