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In hindsight, calling ourselves “Hardcore Gamer” pigeonholed what we could cover. Many sleepless nights go by with our writers tossing and turning because they can’t write about the latest Farmville update. It’s for that reason and that reason only — and because somebody registered the Casual Gamer domain before we had a chance too — that every month we present to you a quick look at a mobile game that deserves your attention regardless of its place on the gaming spectrum.

Are you tired of the run-of-the-mill mobile games? Puzzle games and endless runners that are all seemingly the same just reskinned to look slightly different. If you need a break from the monotony we may just have something for you in Will it Crush? by Voodoo.

Will it Crush? is a mobile game where you operate two rollers crushing blocks. Squares, or “minerals” as they like to call them, will fall seemingly from the sky and will be destroyed by the rollers that will then give you money to buy upgrades for the rollers. These upgrades will allow you to destroy more minerals and collect more money to do the same thing over and over and over again. You may be asking how is this fun? Well, it’s mindless, but the best sort of mindless. You just sort of lose track of time as you tap this screen for nothing and get rewarded. It’s just like the other games, but there isn’t any sort of intellectual or emotional attachment.

To play Will it Crush? you literally have to do nothing. Yes, nothing. If you just install the game, boot the app and stare at the screen, it will do everything for you. The rollers automatically roll and the minerals fall from the heavens. Now, the right roller can be tapped for it to go slightly faster, but that just allows money to be collected a little faster. The real goal, similar to that of life, is to make money while doing absolutely nothing because you have a well-oiled machine doing it for you.

So you’ve got these rollers and this money. Is that it? No, my friend. Now you get to spend that money. Every dime you collect can go towards upgrades for your rollers. You upgrade options are Speed, Power, Reducer, Gravity, Tooths, Tooth Size and Marketing. Speed is how quickly the rollers spin, Power is how strong they are when it comes to breaking the blocks, Reducer cuts the speed in half but doubles the power and price of each mineral, Gravity is how quickly they fall, Tooths are how many teeth are on each roller, Tooth Size is the size of each tooth and Marketing is the price at which the mineral sell.

All of these things contribute to money being made quicker, which in turn allows more upgrades to be purchased. The best part is that even if you aren’t playing the game you’ll still collect money because it runs in the background. So all you literally have to do is start up the game and just watch it do its thing. There is one major downside and it’s the same one repeated across all free games.

It’s ads. They’re here and they’re here in abundance. Occasionally one of the minerals you collect will be sold for a bonus. A big yellow square will be flashing in the top right corner and if clicked in time a random dollar amount is collected. Marketing increases this by a good margin. Once you click on this or level up you’ll be treated to an ad and per usual you have to watch it until the glorious X appears to make it go away. There is a workaround, however, and that’s to disable the app using cellular data and then you’ll be home free.

If you’re in the mood for a game where you can kind of mellow out, Will it Crush? could be right up your alley. If you’re interested you can download it here for Android and here for iOS.

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Start with the right shampoo. If you want natural texture, the secret is to prep your hair before stepping out of the shower. Try Oribe Moisture & Control Shampoo ($43) to minimize volume while strands are wet, then shape your curls by tilting your head forward and scrunching upward. Apply Dove Nourishing Curls Mousse ($6), then use DevaCurl's microfiber DevaTowel ($12) to soak up excess water without roughing up the cuticle. Then don't touch! "The more you play with it, the more it frizzes, and you look like a Chia Pet," says stylist David Babaii. Avoid steam sabotage. A cool, dry room is crucial when diffusing curls prone to poufing. "Fighting humidity in a muggy bathroom is like trying to dry your car while you're still inside the car wash," says Babaii. Crack a window or relocate to speed up drying time. Perfect with an iron. If you prefer to let your coils air-dry but want a polished finish, use the T3 Whirl Trio ($270) to touch up your crown, suggests T3 lead stylist David Lopez. Twist and wrap one-inch sections around the barrel for a loose finish.

Blow-dry like a pro. Dry your hair starting at your roots with the nozzle facing downward, says Cricket stylist Melissa Peverini. "Once your crown air-dries, you lose the chance the add volume or smooth frizz." Boost body. "Many women with straight hair complain about a lack of volume," explains stylist Paul Norton. "The trick is to use dry shampoo immediately after a blow-dry," adds Peverini. Spray it on your roots, let dry for two minutes, then blast with a dryer. Smooth your crown. "In the first 20 minutes after you finish blow-drying your hair, the root area can become frizzy," cautions Babaii. Try his trick: Clip a gauze pad on either side of your part to absorb the moisture and heat that leads to fuzz.

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Why things are looking up for Hartlepool United in 2017, according to goal hero Padraig Amond

Padraig Amond blasts home a superb volley for Hartlepool's opener
Padraig Amond blasts home a superb volley for Hartlepool's opener

Goalscoring hero Padraig Amond believes it could be new year, new Hartlepool United in 2017.

The Irishman netted a remarkable volley in the 3-2 home win over Morecambe which saw 2016 come to a close with victory for Pools at the Northern Gas & Power Stadium.

And Amond believes the win, in which Pools played some remarkable stuff going forward, is a sign of things to come.

He reckons that the opening weeks of the new year could define the club’s season, hopefully in a positive sense.

“If we win out next few games it can put a totally different look on the league,” said Amond.

“We have a really good chance to push on from the position we are in.

“We need to be looking up in the league this year, rather than down.”

While, at times Pools were brilliant going forward, there were still moments where things got a bit ropey at the other end.

One look at the result does not tell the full story. Pools were easily the better side on the day.

But they scraped through to win by just the solitary goal, despite being three to the good at the break.

“The most important thing was getting the win,” he said.

“Everyone is disappointed with the manner of the second half performance – but we won. That is all we needed.

“The way the last month has been it is no surprise at all that we were a bit nervous.

“We stepped back a bit and invited the pressure, but we just wanted to win the game. By doing that we invited them on.

“But we finish the year on a high.

“A win is a win, no matter how we got there.”

Few goals will be scored this weekend better than Amond’s 10th-minute opener last night, no matter what level.

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Psoriasis: More than skin deep

The first accurate medical discussion of psoriasis dates back to 1801, but the disease itself is much older. In fact, its very name is borrowed from an ancient Greek word meaning an itchy or scaly condition. About 7 million Americans are plagued by this itching and scaling, and many of them have serious complications involving other organs. Although psoriasis is classified as a dermatologic disease, it doesn't start in the skin, and its damage may be more than skin deep.

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At a basic level, psoriasis is a disorder of the immune system. White blood cells called T-helper lymphocytes become overactive, producing excess amounts of cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor, interleukin-2, and interferon-gamma. In turn, these chemicals trigger inflammation in the skin and other organs. In the skin, the inflammation produces three characteristic findings: widened blood vessels, accumulation of white blood cells, and abnormally rapid multiplication of keratinocytes, the main cells in the outer layer of the skin. In healthy skin, keratinocytes take about a month to divide, mature, migrate to the skin surface, and slough off to make way for younger cells. But in psoriasis, the entire process is speeded up to as little as three to five days. The result is thickened, red skin that sheds silvery scales of keratinocytes that have matured before their time (see Figure 1).

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Columbia University uses technological innovation to study bone structure

The Columbia team was led by X. Edward Guo, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, and, from Columbia University Medical Center, John P. Bilezikian, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Marcella Walker, Assistant Professor of Medicine, and X. Sherry Liu, Associate Research Scientist.

The team used a groundbreaking analytical technique developed at Columbia Engineering— Individual Trabeculae Segmentation (ITS) — to analyze the microstructure and strength of the trabecular, or spongy bone, one of the two types of tissue that form bone (the other is cortical, or compact bone). Trabecular bone is the most important site of osteoporosis-related fractures. Critical to the research was the use of ITS, an advanced 3-D imaging analysis technique that was conceived and developed in Dr. Guo’s Bone Bioengineering Laboratory, and has a unique ability – using high-resolution computed tomography images – to quantify the plate and rod microstructure crucial to bone strength and osteoporotic fracture of bone.

The Columbia group is the first to apply ITS to clinical studies; this is the first time they have applied ITS to ethnic studies of bone health. A total of 95 women were included in the study—49 Caucasian and 46 Chinese-American. There were no significant age differences between the two groups (36±7 vs. 35±4).

“We found in this research that Chinese-American women do not have the same risk of fracture as Caucasian women due to the plate-like structure of their bone, which offers mechanical advantages over the rod-like structure found in the bones of Caucasian women,” Dr. Guo explained. “If you look at a building made of walls, you can see that it is much stronger than a building made only of columns. Columbia Engineering’s ITS is the only established technique that can distinguish plate vs. rod and it clearly revealed in this study the striking magnitude of the differences between the bone structure of the Chinese-American and Caucasian women.”

Drs. Bilezikian and Marcella Walker led the clinical aspect of the study and quantified the microstructures in the distal radius and the tibia. “These are the two areas that the instrument can measure,” Dr. Bilezikian said. “But we believe the data that come from these sites can be applied to other sites such as the hip.”

Dr. Liu, who earned her PhD on ITS development in Dr. Guo’s Bone Bioengineering Laboratory, noted that the most important factor when determining bone strength is the ratio of plate to rod in trabecular bone. “We found the plate to rod ratio of trabecular bone in Chinese-American women was twice that of Caucasian women (0.62 vs. 0.30). We also found the number of trabecular plates was significantly higher in Chinese-American women when compared to Caucasian women, indicating that Chinese-American women have much stronger trabecular bone than Caucasian women.” Liu is currently an associate research scientist with Dr. Bilezikian in Columbia University Medical Center’s Endocrinology Division.

Dr. Liu continued, “The size of the individual trabecular plates was significantly larger in the Chinese-American women versus the Caucasian women. Trabecular plates were 9% and 4% greater in thickness and 11% greater in surface area at the distal radius and tibia.” The researchers also found that Chinese-American women had better cortical bone quality than Caucasian women. The study has not yet explored potential explanations for these differences.

“The advanced ITS morphological analysis developed at Columbia Engineering showcases a paradigm-shift technology in measuring bone micro-architecture,” said Dr. Guo. “ITS is a must-have technology for both basic science and clinical studies of osteoporosis and we are very excited about continuing our research.”

Drs. Guo and Bilezikian traveled to China this past November and are planning to return in early 2011 to work on creating Columbia-associated research centers there with the goal of extending their research to Chinese women living in both urban and rural areas of China. “The major differences between Chinese-American women and Caucasian women elucidated in this paper may eventually help us understand the mechanisms by which hormones and other factors control skeletal microstructure,” Dr. Bilezikian said. “The essence of what we found here helps to account for the markedly reduced risk of a hip fracture in Chinese-American woman compared to Caucasian women.”

This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Osteoporosis Foundation, the Thomas L. Kempner and Katheryn C. Patterson Foundation, the Mary and David Hoar Fellowship Program of the New York Academy of Medicine, and Dr. Clyde Wu.

Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, founded in 1864, offers programs in nine departments to both undergraduate and graduate students. With facilities specifically designed and equipped to meet the laboratory and research needs of faculty and students, Columbia Engineering is home to NSF-NIH funded centers in genomic science, molecular nanostructures, materials science, and energy, as well as one of the world’s leading programs in financial engineering. These interdisciplinary centers are leading the way in their respective fields while individual groups of engineers and scientists collaborate to solve some of society’s more vexing challenges. http://www.engineering.columbia.edu/

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Membrane molecule keeps nerve impulses hopping

Membrane molecule keeps nerve impulses hopping

Mouse sciatic nerve myelinated axons immunostained against three proteins: Neurofascin 186 at the node of Ranvier (green), Contactin-associated protein at the paranodes (blue) and potassium channels at the juxtaparanodes (red). Image source: Bhat lab.

CHAPEL HILL, NC — New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine describes a key molecular mechanism in nerve fibers that ensures the rapid conductance of nervous system impulses. The findings appear online Jan. 27, 2011 in the journal Neuron.

Our hard-wired nerve fibers or axons rely on an insulating membrane sheath, the myelin, made up of fatty white matter to accelerate the rate of transmission of electrical impulses from the brain to other parts of the body.

Myelin thus acts to prevent electrical current from leaking or prematurely leaving the axon. However, the myelin surrounding the axon isn’t continuous; there are regularly spaced unmyelinated gaps about 1 micrometer wide along the axon. These unmyelinated regions named as nodes of Ranvier are where electrical impulses hop from one node to the next along the axon, at rates as fast as 160 meters per second (360 mph).

Determining exactly how the nodes of Ranvier function and how they are assembled, has fired the interest of neuroscientists for more than a century,” said UNC neuroscientist Manzoor Bhat, PhD, Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology in the UNC Neuroscience Research Center. “The answers may also provide important clues to the development of targeted treatments for multiple sclerosis and other disorders involving demyelination and/or disorganization of nodes of Ranvier.”

Bhat and colleagues focused on a protein called Neurofascin 186, which accumulates in the membranes of axons at the nodes of Ranvier. Together with proteins Ankyrin-G and sodium channels, these molecules form a complex that facilitates passage of sodium ions through the channels in axons, thus making them paramount for the propagation of nerve impulses along myelinated nerve fibers.

Bhat’s team had previously identified a homolog of Neurofascin in laboratory studies of Drosophila nerve fibers, and because its in vivo function had not been clearly defined in a mammalian system, they decided to study the function of this protein in laboratory mice.

Using targeted gene deletion methods, the UNC scientists genetically engineered mice lacking Neurofascin 186 in their neurons. “This caused the failure of sodium channels and Ankyrin-G to accumulate at the nodes of Ranvier. The result was paralysis, as there was no nerve impulse conductance,” Bhat said.

According to Bhat, Neurofascin is an adhesion molecule that serves as the nodal organizer. “Its job is to cluster at the nodes of Ranvier. In doing so, it brings together sodium channels and Ankyrin-G where they interact to form the nodal complex.  And if you don’t have this protein, the node is compromised and there is no impulse propagation along the axon.”

In further analysis, the researchers identified another important function of the nodes of Ranvier in myelinated nerve cells: to act as barriers to prevent the invasion of the nodal gap by neighboring paranodal molecular complexes. “So this tells us that sodium channels, Neurofascin 186, and Ankyrin-G must always remain in the node to have functional organization. If they don’t, the flanking paranodes will move in and occupy the nodal gap and block nerve conduction,” Bhat said.

The UNC neuroscientists see clinical implications for human disease. “In MS, for example, the proteins that make up the nodal complex start diffusing out from their normal location once you start losing the myelin sheath. If we can restore the nodal complex in nerve fibers, we may be able to restore some nerve conduction and function in affected axons.”  Their future studies are aimed at understanding whether the nodal complex could be reorganized and nerve conduction restored in genetically modified mutant mice.

“The discovery of an essential gap protein is exciting because it opens up the possibility that tweaking the protein could restore normal gap function in people with multiple sclerosis and other diseases in which the myelin sheaths and gaps deteriorate over time,”  said Laurie Tompkins, PhD, who oversees Manzoor Bhat’s and other neurogenetics grants at the National Institutes of Health.

Support for the research came from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke of the National Institutes of Health and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

UNC co-authors are postdoctoral fellow Courtney Thaxton, PhD; research specialist, Anilkumar Pillai; and graduate student, Alaine Pribisco. Dr. Jeffrey Dupree, assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, collaborated in these studies.

Media contacts: Les Lang, (919) 966-9366, llang@med.unc.edu or Tom Hughes, (919) 966-6047, tahughes@unch.unc.edu

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Guest Article: Why Doctors Hate Electronic Medical Records

Most of us in the healthcare IT believe the ARRA (stimulus) bill is a Good Thing for the industry in general. Many existing companies will be able to sell more products and many new companies will be formed to create electronic medical records solutions. I was talking to Dr. Bill Cast last week about EMRs and what he and other physicians thought about them in general and I got some great feedback. Dr. Cast is a practicing Otolaryngologist, and is a past member of the AAO Board of Directors and AMA Delegate from Otolaryngology. He has been a lobbyist for the Indiana Malpractice Law and founding Chairman of Dupont Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a managing partner of his medical practice, and President of several multispecialty ambulatory surgical centers. He was editor of Medical Business Review, an economics newsletter for physicians. He is currently CEO of, a personal health records company. I invited him to share his thoughts about why physicians aren’t in love with EMRs which should form some good input for companies looking for ways of improving their own solutions. Here’s what he had to say.

You may ask what qualifies me to speak. First, I am a physician in a six doctor practice who for eight years has been digital, using a fully-featured EMR. Our old record room is now an employee lounge serving Peet’s Coffee. I live in an Indiana city in which 65% of physicians use some form of EMR in their offices and in which a regional health information exchange serves 95% of all providers. Our two hospital systems have EHRs. I’ve practiced in four states, served in the U.S. Army as a surgeon and have worked intermittently in a VA Hospital over a 6 year period. Lastly, I’m CEO of a personal health records company, a spin-off of an EMR company. And so, I’ve seen lots of software installations and talked to lots of unhappy doctors.

How do we know doctors hate EMRs? Look at anemic adoption rates. Big clinics and large physicians’ groups lead the way in buying them, but the most optimistic statistics say that fewer than 50% of even large groups have EMRs. Overall, perhaps 20% of physicians have EMR, but for small groups the best guess is 5%. And, when such features as e-prescribing, e-visit, and PHR integration are considered, it is likely than less than half of physicians use their EMR for little more than their own templates and a few favorite features. The majority of physicians have voted with their feet.

In the business community it is common to hear doctors referred to as computer-phobic and “in denial” about the benefits of computing. That is wonderfully ironic when heard alongside chronic complaints that doctors are overly eager to use expensive technology: lasers, cryro-probes, fiber optics, MRI and PET scanners, stents, and implants. The fact is that doctors love high-tech. They have reason to hate EMRs but not computers and iPhones. This was confirmed at a HealthVault meeting in Redmond when a physician panel member, representing a leading medical association, was asked: “Why are physicians so recalcitrant to use EMR?” He responded: “They are not recalcitrant; they are in open rebellion! Why? Because the software you give them is garbage.” (He actually used a mild expletive.) “It slows them down!” Thus, the problem is better defined: it is not so much that the software is too expensive, but that doctors can’t afford it.

Most physicians receive their first scars at the hands of hospital software. The truly unlucky have experienced a software installation with conversion from paper to EHR. The experience I will share is instructive and metaphoric. I’ll mention no brand names, because the story could be as true for any company. The disaster began on a Monday morning. Following that regrettable morning, I witnessed over two months of computer downtime at a six-hundred bed, general hospital, during which time hired messengers carried paper reports from floor to floor, from lab to ICU. The new system choked when millions of bytes of information were ported from the database to the new system the previous Sunday. Several ICU nurses quit after weeks of frustration and found new employment. And when the crash was fixed, the new product was a negligible improvement for phsicians. For off-site use, a Citrix interface made access to records agonizingly slow. Inside the hospital, computer locations, while no longer in dark hallways, became inconveniently distant from patients’ rooms, dictated by HIPAA privacy requirements. Paper charts remained near patient beds, awaiting eventual digital scanning, but lab and imaging results were often not on the chart but on a computer down the hall. The dollar cost was millions.

It should be a surprise to lay persons that physician participation in selection of hospital equipment and software is too often minimal. While much of the blame may lay with physicians themselves, doctors’ frame of mind is usually that “we were not consulted.” Actually, a few probably were consulted, but hospital-staff dynamics being what they are, tends to involve doctors who are the more technically aware, enthusiastic and amenable to becoming digital. To that disparity in physician cyber-skills, add the fact that software does not burden physicians equally. Even badly designed hospital software is OK for some practices and some specialties. But, if you are a renalogist or pulmonologist making rounds on numbers of very sick patients, the math is simple. Many ICU patients are on a dozen medications. With order-entry requiring serial drop-down menus, each 5 second addition of point and click may add 10 seconds to the entry of each medicine and treatment. An extra 2 minutes per patient costs an unproductive hour for each 30 patients. If patients need few medicines, enjoy short stays with few I.V. fluid orders and no changes in ventilator protocol, a physician may not object to the restrictions of a rigid algorithm. But for rounding-doctors who previously have enjoyed the ease and legibility of pre-printed order sheets, digital order entry has been disastrous to schedules.

Physicians know that better exists. They have experienced Google, Amazon and e-Bay. Game lovers know that Electronic Arts’ “Tiberium,” now 15 years old, exceeds the capabilities of their professional health care software. They know from Yahoo and MSN the value of configuring a home page suited to delivering niche-information of their own preference. They know from using Word and Word Perfect that they can create precision documents merely by tweaking a template. They know they can use voice commands to make a phone call on their Blackberry. They know that they can find drug information more easily on Google than proprietary software. They suspect that if their EHRs and EMRs had physician-specific home page functionality, that they could drop and drag orders, answer FAQs, dictate letters, and save time with templates with many fewer clicks. Ordering medications should be as safe and uncomplicated as using E*Trade.

Today most EHRs and EMRs are invasive both to workflow and finances. While high cost is a significant barrier to physician adoption, workflow disruption remains the killer deterrent. Most proprietary softwares offer a limited palate of practice options, mostly one does things their way. I recently went to the site of a web-based “Health-e-EMR” provider and watched the flash video demonstration. The demo patient, a return visit for an office visit, was typical enough: an obese, diabetic female smoker with a pulmonary problem. Everything was point and click: select, enter, click, read, post—again and again, over and over. The visit timed out at 30 minutes (their calculation, not mine) not including the time spent by a nurse’s clicks and front-office clicks. Allowing for physicians’ differing styles and based on difficulty, I’d expect this visit to take half that time. The record created was excellent. In private practice, at two patients per hour, and at this level of complexity—say 12 to 14 patients per day—one should expect bankruptcy. One would make a better living running a Dairy Queen. The moral may be that such software should be used only by physicians on salary. Also, many doctors do not want to sit in front of a patient looking into a laptop rather than the patients’ eyes. And they suspect that, if vendors respected service and product improvement as much as chasing new sales, their complaints would result in minimally invasive software.

A sign at a dry-cleaner’s shop reads: Low Prices, High Quality, Fast Service: Pick One. The point of EMR design is not to “pick one.” And, I am not advocating modeling medical practice after that in a remote mission clinic where the only record is a toe-tag, although I should recognize that mission outcomes are remarkably good. In the real world you get what you measure. If the metric is the chart, and you are willing to sacrifice time, then have at it. Also, in the real world, physicians are not usually on salary with no increment of production payment. Physicians do not hate high-tech and they do not hate computers. They hate wasting time; they cannot afford it, and neither can our health care system.

Let me close by saying that the federal software stimulus will be good only if the government standards ultimately endorsed, properly guarantee interoperability and avoid paradoxically funding software that is not only too expensive but that also create silos of proprietary isolation. Properly begun, stimulus is likely to fully return government’s investment through efficiency—not immediately, but over several years. Our office covered EMR acquisition in about 5 years. We did not spend $44,000 per physician. As best stated by M. Lynn Marcus in the MIT, Sloan Management Review, “The Magic Bullet Theory in IT-enabled Transformation,” we confirmed that the key to physician satisfaction is flexible software that does not dictate workflow choices. New software is not the goal; the goal is an information system with a good measure of flexibility. To perfect this system, one will need to reserve a measure of their stimulus funds for training, equipment and employee re-tasking. The good news is that after a period of adjustment to accommodate differing practice styles, one creates a shrinking record room, no piled charts, and fewer employees or employee hours spent finding, pulling and re-filing records. And one finds many unexpected conveniences. One cannot put a price on taking call from one’s home with rapid web-based access to the patient’s office chart at 2 AM.

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Bathroom pod manufacturer, Offsite Solutions, has been awarded the contract to supply bathroom pods for the new £69 m East Lothian Community Hospital.

Morrison Construction, part of Galliford Try, is principal contractor for the 22,000 m2, purpose-built community hospital in Haddington, appointed by Hub South East Scotland on behalf of NHS Lothian. When completed, the new facility will increase inpatient beds by around 60 per cent to enhance the quality of care for the people of East Lothian.

Offsite Solutions will provide 134 factorybuilt bathroom pods, supplied without floors to allow for continuous level flooring throughout the wards, and avoid the need for thresholds to make the bathrooms fully accessible.

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    Heel Lifts, Ice, Orthotics, Physical Therapy, NSAIDs - Anti Inflammatory drugs
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6 August 2015, 10:24 | Updated: 6 August 2015, 10:27

Paramount Pictures have released pictures showing the filming of Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation at Royal Air Force Wittering in November 2014.

The story for RAF Wittering began several months beforehand with the reactivation of the airfield in April 2014. This meant that Royal Air Force Wittering was a Station with a functioning airfield, but no resident flying squadrons.

It was an unusual set of circumstances, but one that made the Cambridgeshire Station ideal for the production crew of Mission Impossible 5. In events more in keeping with RAF Wittering's Cold War past, a series of clandestine meetings followed to determine the suitability of the historic base.

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RAF Wittering was one of several air stations and airports in contention for the filming but the Station's long runway and wide taxiways, originally built for V-Bombers, made the airfield an ideal choice.

Weeks of intense work followed with personnel from Air Traffic Control, Operations Wing, Business Management and Support Wing furiously preparing the Station for the coming of Mission Impossible.

On 28th October 2014 the wagons and 300-strong crew arrived at RAF Wittering, joined soon after by a contingent from Airbus and the A400M transport aircraft which was the centrepiece of the filming.

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After years of little aircraft activity, the arrival of such a large aeroplane did not go unnoticed and soon the world's media buzzed with stories of breathtaking aerial stunts at Cambridgeshire's most famous Royal Air Force Station.
For Senior Aircraftwoman Emma-Jo Larney one particular evening proved very memorable. Emma-Jo was duty driver on the night Tom Cruise arrived by helicopter at RAF Wittering, she led a convoy of vehicles out to his helicopter.

Emma-Jo said; "I didn't think that I'd ever meet anyone famous when I came to RAF Wittering, so it was a real surprise when I met Tom Cruise. He was really friendly and introduced himself to me, which I didn't expect."

But the end of filming did not mean the end of the film industry's interest in Royal Air Force Wittering. Afterwards other filmmakers contacted the Station, interested in using the expansive airfield. Flying squadrons had moved in, however, and the window of opportunity had closed.
Group Captain Richard Pratley became the Commanding Officer of Royal Air Force Wittering in June 2015. He said; "Mission Impossible was a huge event in the life of this Station. The fact that the Station coped so well with a project of this size speaks volumes for the calibre of people we have here."

He continued; "Of course, it was great to have the movie here, but we have not lost sight of what we're here to do. No matter how famous this Station becomes, RAF Wittering is here to support deployed air operations and prepare future generations of RAF pilots."


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The Research Center is currently focusing on studying different types of interconnectivity between people and the earth’s magnetic fields. We are following up on a study that involved 1,600 Global Coherence Initiative members that found a number of significant effects of solar and geomagnetic activity on people’s mental functions and emotional states.

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Currently, we are writing the manuscripts for papers that present the results from three studies involving groups of participants who wore heart rate variability (HRV) recorders over long time periods. Our purpose was to determine how solar and Earth magnetic fields affect human nervous-system functioning.

The main theme of one of these studies is how different aspects of the magnetic field environment of the sun and earth causes different effects and how these effects can change over very different time periods.

The second study, which also examined how the magnetic field environment of the sun and earth affects our nervous system, resulted in a very surprising finding. The study showed that human heart rhythms of participants synchronized with other participants, even in some cases in which the participants were located hundreds of miles apart. This indicated that the participants were all synchronized to an external signal in Earth’s magnetic field environment.

The third study was conducted to confirm and expand on the findings of the study above that showed people’s heart rhythms could become synchronized to each other and with rhythms in Earth’s magnetic field environment. This study, titled the Global HRV Synchronization study, included groups of participants in five locations around the globe. Each group was situated near one of the Global Coherence Monitoring System sensor sites in Saudi Arabia, Lithuania, New Zealand, England or California in the United States. This study confirmed that the synchronization between participants and Earth is occurring globally, and it produced some additional surprises as well.

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Another part of our interconnectivity research is measuring the electrical activity of trees and, more generally, the ground. We have spent the past couple of years researching and developing reliable methods and equipment to measure tree potentials, and recently, we also began measuring ground potentials.

Trees have a surprisingly complex range of electrical activity and rhythms. They clearly have circadian rhythms and other slower rhythms as well as other activity that changes faster. They are coupled in part to electrical potentials that we see waxing and waning with the sun and moon’s gravitational pull on the earth.

We also will be conducting experiments to see if and how trees respond to human emotions, along the lines of what has been demonstrated with plants.

Another rather amazing observation has been that some of the longer-term trends in tree recordings seem to respond to the approach of earthquakes. NASA Ames scientist Friedemann Freund, with whom we are collaborating, has developed a theory that explains how rocks deep in the earth act as batteries when they are stressed by tectonic forces preceding earthquakes. The theory also explains how the electrical charge carriers that flow through the rocks appear to cause a response in the electrical activity of trees.

Amazingly, the tree potential changes occur well before the earthquakes actually happen. It may very well be that trees will end up playing the role of low-cost sensors that can help predict when larger earthquakes are about to occur.

With additional funding, we hope to be able to expand this line of research and set up a network of tree-monitoring sites and create a website that provides the public with live data from a grove of redwood tress with which they can try to interact energetically anytime they like.

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New Frontiers in Heart Rate Variability and Social Coherence Research: Techniques, Technologies, and Implications for Improving Group Dynamics and Outcomes

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    • Frontiers in Public Health, October 2017.
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Concepts embraced by the term coherence have been identified as central to fields such as quantum physics, physiology, and social science. There are different types of coherence, although the term always implies a harmonious relationship, correlations and connections between the various parts of a system. A specific measure derived from heart rate variability (HRV) provides a measure of physiological coherence. Another type of coherence, social coherence, relates to the harmonious alignment between couples or pairs, family units, small groups, or larger organizations in which a network of relationships exists among individuals who share common interests and objectives. A high degree of social coherence is reflected by stable and harmonious relationships, which allows for the efficient flow and utilization of energy and communication required for optimal collective cohesion and action. Social coherence requires that group members are attuned and are emotionally connected with each other, and that the group’s emotional energy is organized and regulated by the group as a whole. A number of studies are reviewed which have explored various types of synchronization in infants, pairs and groups, indicating that feelings of cooperation, trust, compassion and increased prosocial behaviors depends largely on the establishment of a spontaneous synchronization of various physiological rhythms between individuals. This article discusses a new application using HRV monitoring in social coherence research and the importance of physiological synchronization in group developmental processes and dynamics. Building on the extensive body of research showing that providing feedback of HRV coherence level at the individual level can improve self-regulation, we suggest the following hypotheses: (1) providing feedback of individual and collective HRV coherence and the degree of heart rhythm synchronization will increase group coherence, and heart rhythm synchronization among group members. (2) Training in techniques to increase group coherence and heart rhythm synchronization will correlate with increased prosocial behaviors, such as kindness and cooperation among individuals, improved communication, and decreases in social discord and adversarial interactions. (3) Biomagnetic fields produced by the heart may be a primary mechanism in mediating HRV synchronization among group members. Data supporting each of the hypothesis is discussed.


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Heidrick & Struggles was among a high-profile group of influential business and government leaders as a sponsor of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) Economic Summit 2014, which was held on March 14 at Stanford University. The one-day summit drew more than 450 CEOs, private equity and venture capital investors and senior policy investors.

This year’s conference includes a series of panel discussions on topics ranging from the U.S. government’s involvement in the mortgage market and the impact on housing to corporate governance and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. John Thompson, a member of the SIEPR advisory board, will introduce a Silicon Valley CEO Panel that includes the CEOs of VMware and Adobe Systems. In addition, Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State and a member of the SIEPR advisory board, Sal Khan, Founder of the Khan Academy and Leon Panetta, former U.S. Secretary of Defense also will lead sessions.

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No Copyright Infringement Intended, 1st – 23rd September

I’m happy to announce the second iteration of No Copyright Infringement Intended  will be taking place at Vivid Projects, Birmingham, from 1st – 23rd September.

Image: Still Not Sure if Art or Copyright Infringement by Emilie Gervais

No Copyright Infringement Intended is a group exhibition exploring the relationship between copyright and culture in the digital age, investigating how the concept of ownership and authorship is evolving and coming into conflict with outdated copyright and intellectual property laws.

Since the 1990s the internet has provided the opportunity for mass copying, redistribution and remixing of content – profoundly changing the way culture is produced and shared and sparking legal battles and debates that still rage on. Today, the increasing availability of technologies like 3D scanning and 3D printing have extended the ability to digitally copy and reproduce to the physical realm.

For many people now, mass sharing, copying and remixing seems like a natural form of self expression. Rather than embracing this change and using it to their advantage, rights holders and lawyers often resort to reinforcing outdated laws – penalising those who copy – and placing barriers on technology’s ability to share information and content freely.

Meanwhile, among artists there is widespread misunderstanding of copyright and how it affects their work. The phrase “No Copyright Infringement Intended” is often used as an attempt to avoid repercussions of copyright infringement. The phrase has no legal standing, but its widespread usage shows a lack of awareness of existing laws and the consequences of breaking them.

Featuring 10 national and international artists working across a range of creative practices, the exhibition highlights the ongoing tension between production and copyright, considers the new artistic, social and political possibilities created through this tension and suggests new ways forward for artists, rights holders and the wider creative community.

The exhibition features work by Nick Briz, Emilie Gervais, Nicolas Maigret, Christopher Meerdo, Jan Nikolai Nelles & Nora Al-Badri, Duncan Poulton, Fernando Sosa, Andrea Wallace & Ronan Deazley.

Like the first iteration of the exhibition, there will be a number of related events including:


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The following HHS girls basketball players were chosen to be part of the 2007 All-District Team. They are (from right to left): 1st Team All-District – Nadia Cox, 2nd Team All-District – Danielle Douglas and Kyla Thomas, Honorable Mention All-District – Cheney Hill, Latrice Samuel and Darah Scrubbs.

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Herodion’s Top Picks for the Christmas Holidays in Athens

Feeling the local vibe during the winter holidays in Athens is a unique travel experience. Here are our top picks of things to do, see and eat while on your city break.

Holidays in Athens: Shop, Eat and Be Merry

Athens is a wonderful city to explore during the winter season. The city center streets brighten up with decorations and festive lights as Christmas approaches. It’s the time to shop for creative gifts, decorate homes and businesses, and prepare for lots of traditional Greek feasting with friends and family. As for our guests, they just love to wander Athens. The ancient sights are accessible and free of crowds, there are many neighborhoods to explore and museums to visit.

While in town, there are many unique things to do and see. Plus, we offer a fantastic holiday menu that you can plan on enjoying.

Here are Herodion’s top picks for your Christmas or New Year’s holiday city break in the Greek capital.

Holidays in Athens: What to See in the City

“Van Gogh Alive – The Experience” – This temporary exhibition just opened up in November at the Athens Concert Hall and will run throughout the holidays. This interactive multimedia exhibition incorporates sound and image while showcasing more than 3,000 works of Vincent Van Gogh. (The Athens Concert Hall, Megaron; +30 210 728 2333)

The Greek National Opera is Greece’s acclaimed lyric state opera. Their opera venue itself brand new, now part of the impressive new Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. This year, be sure to see their performance of Sleeping Beauty or La Boheme. For more information, visit: We recommend that you book your tickets in advance.

The Russian Circus on Ice is performing in Athens for the first time this winter season with its rendition of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, “The Snow Queen.” More than 40 dancers and acrobats will be performing. (Tae Kwon Do Centre in Faliro)

The Grigorovich Ballet Theatre of Russia performs a holiday classic and one of the most magical ballet performances to see during the holidays: The Nutcracker. (The Athens Concert Hall, Megaron; +30 210 728 2333)

Go Out for a Festive Drink

One of the most popular bars in central Athens is none other than Noel. While it has a festive name, it happens to be Christmas here all year round. Stop in for some of the best cocktails in the Greek capital. For more information, visit

Little Kook is one of the most atmospheric cafes in the city. This charming, story book themed, two-floor café in the Psiri district is known for some of the most extravagant decorations – depending on the season. The winter holidays are no exception. While you admire the décor, you’ll also enjoy the café’s delicious cakes, tea and coffee.  (Karaiskaki 17, Psirri; +30 210 321 4144)

Eat a Delicious Holiday Meal in Athens

For a wonderful Christmas Eve meal, be sure to book a table at the Atrium Greek Bistrot restaurant at our hotel.

Our prix-fixe menu features delightful starters including scallops with a white mushroom truffle and Jerusalem artichoke sauce and a main dish of traditional stuffed turkey served with parsnip salad, topped with a morel mushroom sauce.

A chocolate cake with caramelized chestnuts will be the perfect sweet ending. You might also like to join us for Christmas Lunch and savor a traditional Greek chicken soup made with an egg-lemon sauce called avgolemono, for the main dish we will be serving rolled turkey with a flavorful Christmas stuffing. Top off your festive lunch with a sensational profiterole.

Our chefs also offer a tasteful New Year’s Eve menu including a velvet soup with parmesan cheese and black truffle, a carpaccio salad and a main dish of Beef Wellington served with cornelian cherry sauce and dofinuaz potatoes. Finish with a special chocolate cake with matcha green tea. New Year’s Lunch is another reason to celebrate enjoy sweet and savory bites like parmesan cheese and prosciutto platter with baked pear, for main course our chefs will prepare a delicious pork with potatoes confit and caramelized carrots. Be sure to leave some room for dessert — a light, refreshing and tangy lemon tart.

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Shop for Quality Greek Food Products

While you are sure to eat well during the holidays in Athens, you’ll want to take some fine Greek foodie products back home. Every region of Greece is proud of their local food products.

There are many shops in Athens specializing in selling the best of the rest in one convenient location. At Ellinka Kaloudia (you can browse and buy delicious delicacies from the Greek islands and the mainland including honey, chocolate, nuts, sweets, liqueurs and savories. (Chatzichristou 8, Koukaki; Tel: +30 210-922-4060)

For the Kids: Holidays in Athens

While kids always associate Christmas with toys, it is also fun for adults to think of their favorite toys too.

A great stop for a bit of that nostalgia is the new Benaki Toy Museum which just opened to the public this year. The collection is considered one of the most impressive in Europe. Admire the toys, books, clothing and other childhood items from Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. For more information and opening hours, visit the Benaki Museum

For local flair on the Christmas spirt check out the local Christmas fairs including the Christmas Factory. Gazi, one of the top event venues in Athens, is converted into a winter wonderland for kids and adults alike There are rides, games, skating and all kinds of activities with a Christmas theme. Check out the Christmas Factory website for more

That sums up some of the most unique things to do during the holidays in Athens. We look forward to celebrating this holiday season together. Herodion Hotel is all dressed up for the festive season, while the lobby's wood fireplace is kept burning bright. Make your season merry and bright by booking one of our Holiday Packages, today.

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  • Sides and back are stretch cotton with sewn-on elastic at top and bottom.
  • Straps have sewn-on elastic edges.
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A Fresh Start for Summer: 5 Ways to Clear Closet Clutter

Out with the old, in with the new.

A change of seasons marks the perfect time to re-evaluate your wardrobe and make room for new, seasonal pieces. Now that summer is officially here, do a closet cleanse to make sure your best, most lightweight, summery pieces are front and center. Let's get started.

1: Declutter

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Get tips for sorting through your clothing and streamlining your wardrobe.

First, separate clothes into category by type. Then, sort clothing into two piles — donate or keep. Once you're done, there should only be items left that fit, flatter and look super fresh. Organizer extraordinaire Melanie Charlton shared eight more tips for streamlining closets.

2: Organize

Framed Mesh Jewelry Organizer

Framed Mesh Jewelry Organizer

A bright yellow picture frame has had a mesh backing attached for use as a wall jewelry organizer.

After a decluttering spree, you'll need to create an organized system for all of the clothing and accessories leftover. Skip a trip to the dollar store and, instead, organize your closet with these household items. Tip: Unused picture frames or frames without glass serve as great jewelry holders!

3: Fold Efficiently

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See everything you own and make more room in your dresser drawers by folding your clothes the right way.

It's amazing how simple folding techniques can save SO much space in a wardrobe or closet. Plus, with these methods, you'll actually be able to see all of your clothes. Watch the video above to see how to properly fold everything, from pants to socks.

4: Use Storage Hacks

Shoe Rack With Gold Wallpaper Backing

Shoe Rack With Gold Wallpaper Backing

Dazzling shoes deserve a glitzy backdrop. Glam up your shoe storage by covering the back of a standard bookshelf with your favorite textured wallpaper.

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Mallory and Savannah; Classy Clutter

No matter where your shoe drop-off is — mudroom, entryway or bedroom — it's important to keep these areas neat. Tripping over loose shoes every day is actually quite hazardous. Use these eight hacks to get shoe storage under control.

5: Style It

Walk-In Closet With Space for Designer Clothes

Walk-In Closet With Space for Designer Clothes

The walk-in closet of TV personality Giuliana Rancic features lots of storage space for designer handbags, clothes and shoes.

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Lisa Adams

Now that you've decluttered and organized, make your closet look truly beautiful with some finishing touches. Hang mirrors to visually enlarge a small closet. Choose proper lighting to brighten a dark space, even if it's just rope lights along the door frame. Get 10 more genius styling tips from Lisa Adams, CEO of LA Closet Design Company.

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You won't believe how simple it is to turn a basic wooden tray into a hanging jewelry organizer.

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Chi cerca titoli vecchi e nuovi pubblicati negli anni dalla gloriosa Matchless Recordings di Eddie Prévost ne trova le versioni in digitale presso il negozio virtuale del Cafe Oto londinese, Otoroku. Per qualche esemplare, ormai raro, delle originali edizioni in cd o altro supporto fisico può provare a rivolgersi alla casa madre: http://www.matchlessrecordings.com/shop

Scrive Nicola Negri per Free Jazz Blog: "AMM – one of the first European ensembles entirely devoted to free improvised music – was founded in London in the early Sixties by percussionist Eddie Prévost, saxophone player Lou Gare and guitarist Keith Rowe, and was soon joined by bassist Lawrence Sheaff and especially composer, pianist and cellist Cornelius Cardew, whose rigorous ideas about music were essential in orienting the first developments of the ensemble. After their first record, AMMMusic, was released in 1966 by the major label Elektra, the group couldn’t find any other company willing to record and release their music, unable to recognize any potential in the radical approach and ideas put forward by the ensemble.
An episode recounted by Prévost is indicative of the attitude and difficulties they were confronted with: “I remember having a discussion with one who, frankly, gave me a going over. Speaking about The Crypt, he said, ‘why do you want to release this stuff? No one’s ever going to buy this - this is awful.’ We were taken aback, such a vehement response to the work you know. I said, ‘well, we didn't produce it for you to sell. We produced it because it was representative of our work and we thought it was an important part of it’.”
In the early Seventies Prévost then decided to create Matchless Recordings, at first as a mean to document AMM activities, taking a typical DIY approach: Rowe’s artwork adorned the cover of many of the releases, the musicians wrote the detailed liner notes themselves, and much of the production of the records happened in Prévost’s own house. After almost forty years of existence – and still active to this day – Matchless has become both an important catalogue of AMM performances (The Crypt, first excerpted in a split release with MEV on the Mainstream Records series curated by Earle Brown, was finally released in its entirety as a double LP by Matchless in 1981), and the opportunity for new improvisers to have their music released.
In late 2016 London’s Cafe Oto worked with Eddie Prévost to offer digital recordings of the Matchless catalogue, for the first time, through their own Otoroku label’s website, thus offering new possibilities for this musics to reach adventurous listeners anywhere."


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Noah Compatible Management Systems

A Noah-compatible management system provides an alternative to HIMSA's own Noah System software.

A management system is based on the same core features as Noah System software. In addition, management systems often include a range of additional features, such as scheduling and billing functionality.

There are two types of Noah Management systems:

  • Business Systems: Integrate all Noah features directly into their Management System product.
  • WSI Systems: You still use the Noah System 4 software to work with your patients. Noah information is then automatically transferred to your practice management system.
For more information on these two types of management systems, see the link Noah Business System or WSI-based system? on the right-side of the page.
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Sep 22, 2018-Saturday
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Storm kills 81 in the Caribbean

Tropical storm Noel buffets south Florida with high surfs and winds, killing at least 81 people.

world Updated: Nov 01, 2007 12:54 IST

Tropical storm Noel buffeted south Florida with high surf and winds as it swirled slowly toward the Bahamas, after triggering mudslides and floods in the Caribbean that killed at least 81 people.

Forecasters warned of worsening storm conditions in the Bahamas on Thursday, and the government issued a hurricane watch for the northwestern parts of the archipelago. On Andros Island, the chain's largest, boat owners tied their vessels down ahead of the storm.

Noel was forecast to skirt southeastern Florida. The US National Hurricane Centre issued a tropical storm watch for a 225-kilometre stretch of the state's coast from just north of the Keys to Jupiter. Wind and waves were washing out beaches from Miami to the Georgia border.

Meanwhile, the deadly storm was still dumping rains on the Dominican Republic and Haiti last night, more than two days after it struck the island of Hispaniola, where rescuers were struggling to reach communities cut off by flooding.

As they did, they found a rising toll of death and damage - at least 56 dead in the Dominican Republic, 24 in neighbouring Haiti and one in Jamaica.

Two days after a swollen river swept away the hamlet of Piedra Blanca in central Dominican Republic; Charo Vidal described climbing into a tree and watching her neighbour struggle to do the same, clutching infant twins while the waters swept an older daughter away.

"She couldn't take care of all three," Vidal said. "That is something very profound, to have a child snatched from your hands and you cannot do anything for them.

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Future Brought A 'Major' Bag Into Studio To Work With DJ Khaled

By HHL Editors

DJ Khaled's next album will be called Grateful, and it will be executive produced by his infant son.

Of course there will be Future features on it, and Mr. Hendrix rolled into the studio yesterday to lay down some vocals for the project.

He brought about a million friends with him.

Real talk I walk in studio to work on #GRATEFUL ... @future said khaled I'm #GRATEFUL I want this #GRATEFUL session to be special . I said @future I'm wit u!! He pulled out so many bags s! It was a MAJOR BAG ALERT !! .... I'm give y'all the first few words on the verse it went like this !..... A MILLION DOLLAR CASH ON ME IN THE STUDIO WHEN I DID THIS VERSE @future voice ! ... I CANT EVEN LIE TO YOU! #GRATEFUL THE ALBUM COMING ! inspiration vibes alert ! ##GRATEFUL

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We can only hope that Khaled's waits a few hours before posting such photos. Just ask the oft-robbed Soulja Boy what happens when you flash cash on social media in real time.

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Designer Harriet Wilde

Brides looking for a vintage yet stylish wedding shoe to walk down the aisle in will love the designs from Harriet Wilde. The brand is headed up by London-based fashion designer Ruth Shaw who named the company after her great grandmother and prides herself on her personal approach to her designs.

Wedding shoes by Harriet Wilde are all about pairing luxurious elements, high levels of craftsmanship and great attention to detail. The wedding heels in this collection ooze elegance and have a really unique finish that’s synonymous to the Harriet Wilde brand.

Each design created by Harriet Wilde is lavish, made from the highest quality Italian satin and hand made in Europe. The designer’s ethos is to offer stylish designer wedding shoes and accessories, made to the highest of standards so that brides can feel incredible on their wedding day.

It’s not just the product that ensures excellence at Harriet Wilde. The company prides themselves on providing the most impeccable and personal customer service to ensure every bride’s experience of buying their wedding accessories from them is of the highest quality.

As well as having a showroom in London, brides can also shop the stunning collection from Harriet Wilde online where the company offers international shipping – meaning you can walk down the aisle in a Harriet Wilde design no matter where you are in the world.

If shoes aren’t your only weakness when it comes to wedding accessories, fear not as Harriet Wilde also offer a collection of bridal hair accessories, handbags, shoe clips and even shoe dye if you want to re-use your gorgeous wedding heels for another occasion after the special day.

The wedding shoe collection from Harriet Wilde has something for every bride including simple courts, embellished platform heels and even summer wedges for brides tying the knot on a gorgeous beach somewhere in the world.

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Assassination Classroom, Vol. 14, Paperback / softback Book

Assassination Classroom, Vol. 14 Paperback / softback

Part of the Assassination Classroom series

Ever caught yourself screaming, "I could just kill that teacher"?

What would it take to justify such antisocial behavior and weeks of detention?

Especially if he's the best teacher you've ever had?

Giving you an "F" on a quiz? Mispronouncing your name during roll call...again? How about blowing up the moon and threatening to do the same to Mother Earth-unless you take him out first?!

Plus a reward of a cool 100 million from the Ministry of Defense!

Okay, now that you're committed... How are you going to pull this off? What does your pathetic class of misfits have in their arsenal to combat Teach's alien technology, bizarre powers and...tentacles?

Lowly Class E and elite Class A compete for the most customers at their school festival booths.

So far, the students of Class E are holding their own, despite their location on the mountaintop.

Then a parade of familiar faces, some welcome and some...not so much...drop by with surprising consequences.

Will Principal Asano's son Gakushu be able to maintain his position as the illustrious leader of Class A?

Who could possibly replace him in hopes of leading the students to victory and subjugating the weak...?

  • Format: Paperback / softback
  • Pages: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
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Physics on the Edge of Sanity: From
Quantum
Mechanics
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Black Holes to
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April 5, 2018 Add to Calendar

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240 Platt Blvd.
Claremont, CA 91711

"First Principles"
In a few broad strokes, Vatche Sahakian, Harvey Mudd College professor of physics, will sketch out the basic axiomatic assumptions and outline a set of beliefs that guides the process of discovery in physics. He will talk about the three pillars of modern physics and the principles that unify the subject at a profound level.

This public lecture is aimed at a general audience on ideas at the forefront of modern theoretical physics. We will talk about the philosophical underpinnings of modern physics; the fuzzy world as described by quantum mechanics; black holes and the skewing of space and time by motion and energy; the latest perspectives on cosmology and our universe, and the puzzles they lead us to; and finally we will touch upon new ideas from string theory and the frontiers of physics. Visual interactive simulations will be used in lieu of equations and mathematics. The target audience includes anyone with a high school education.


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Body, Mind & Soul

Body, Mind & Soul

Rev. Gail Hudson

Reiki Master & Spiritual Teacher

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Reiki Long Distance Healing, $35 for 30 minutes. See the page for Reiki with Rev. Gail for more details.

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Is the energy in your home feeling off or are you experiencing events you can't explain? Rev. Gail can help.

Rev. Gail has an open heart and mind. With compassion she helps guide those seeking spiritual alignment for the purpose of healing.

Rev. Gail also officiates weddings, memorial/funeral services and house clearings/blessings.

Please visit pages for Reiki, House Clearing and Weddings for details.

Email Rev. Gail Hudson @ to officiate your dream wedding and/or other services.

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Pair of Large Iron Troughs

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A pair of large half round cast-iron troughs which have been recently cleaned and repainted black. These were originally farm troughs and are unusually large. They are now drilled through the base for drainage and make ideal troughs for flowers.

19th or early 20th century.

Priced as a pair.

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Godzilla Actor Hiroshi Koizumi Dies at 88

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Hiroshi Koizumi, 1926 -2015

The actor appeared in a number of Toho's classic monster films before becoming a TV quiz presenter.

Hiroshi Koizumi, who appeared in Toho Studio's early Godzilla films, died on May 31 from pneumonia. He was 88.

In 1955's Godzilla Raids Again, Koizumi appeared as a pilot who discovers Godzilla battling another monster on a remote island. The film was put into production by Toho to cash in on the box office success of the first Godzilla movie the year before.

Born into an old-money family in 1926, Koizumi graduated from Tokyo's Keio University, Japan's oldest, and joined public broadcaster NHK as an announcer. Shortly after, he signed for Toho: in those days actors were usually contracted to work for a single studio.

Read more Japan's Toho to Produce New 'Godzilla' for 2016, First in 12 Years

Making his film debut in 1951, he went on to appear in a string of monster films, including three in 1964 alone: Mothra vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster and Dogara, the Space Monster.

Koizumi also acted in numerous non-monster productions, including the 47 Samurai in 1962, alongside the legendary Toshiro Mifune. The film was one of the many versions of the true story that was the basis of the Keanu Reeves flop, 47 Ronin, in 2013.

Read more Godzilla Made Official Resident and Tourism Ambassador of Central Tokyo District

During the 1970s, Koizumi became the presenter of Fuji TV's popular Quiz Grand Prix, though that didn't stop him returning to the big screen for 1974's Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. He appeared twice more with Toho's iconic monster, in The Return of Godzilla in 1984 and Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. in 2003.

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Lupita Nyong'o's Must-Have Pink Lipstick Shade

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Lupita Nyong'o at the 'Queen of Katwe' premiere.

Says makeup pro Nick Barose, "It's a makeup artist's dream when you have a gorgeous head wrap — it's all face.

The Queen of Katwe actress' makeup pro Nick Barose opted for pink instead of classic red-carpet red lips. Here's how he chose just the right shade for the film's Los Angeles premiere to complement Nyong'o's lilac Elie Saab gown and traditional African head wrap (No. 4 on THR's Top 25 Beauty Moments of 2016).

How did you choose Lupita's pink lip shade?

I always knew that I wanted something in the pink, purple, fuchsia, magenta or lilac range, so I preselected four to five shades to try and see what we loved most. One option was Lancome's new Lance L'Absolu Rouge in a pink hue — I thought about going more purple-y, which looked good on but felt too funky and edgy. I wanted something more feminine, so we tried deep pinks. The winner was L'Absolu Rouge in Rose (shade 378) — it's bright, creamy and not too matte.

How did you apply it?

For a bold color such as this one, always apply product directly from the lipstick tube — you will get a much better pigment that way. I started from the center and swiped outward, toward the outer corners of Lupita’s lips, to keep it symmetrical since a bold color can look lopsided if you're not careful. Then, for extra precision, I used a lip brush to clean up around the edges and hard-to-reach places, like her Cupid's bow and inner corners. Lastly, I used Lancome Le Crayon in Cherub, a soft gel lip pencil in a similar shade, to draw along the edges and clean it up.

Why'd you choose pink instead of red?

Red can feel traditional and serious — sort of like wearing all black — so I prefer alternate bold colors, like fuchsia, that are still glamorous, but fresh.

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Chronic Town

Sundance Film Festival

PARK CITY -- Things go from bad to worse for the beleaguered characters in filmmaker Tom Hines' astute directorial debut. With biting humor and refreshing humanism, Hines takes a cold-eyed look at credible individuals struggling with addiction and dysfunction. "Chronic Town" visibly embodies the spirit of independent filmmaking that Sundance has championed for more than two decades, suggesting that a skillful distributor could creatively craft an appropriate arthouse niche for the film.

On a stinging subzero winter night in Fairbanks, Alaska, antisocial taxi driver Truman Korovin's (J.R. Bourne) girlfriend dumps him because he's habitually hostile and toxically self-absorbed, not to mention his addictive issues with alcohol, pot and just about any drug that enters his erratic orbit.

Conspiring with his best friend and partner in inebriation Faraday (Jeffrey Scott Jensen) to erase her affront, Truman swallows a dose of LSD at his favorite local bar, ending up half naked in a snow bank after slitting his wrists, a stunt that lands him in a mental facility later that night.

Managed care turns out to be kinder than expected to Truman, whose confrontational attitude gets somewhat blunted in group therapy, where he meets stripper Eleanor (Emily Wagner), a sexual abuse victim, along with several other emotionally damaged inpatients. As part of his therapy, Truman agrees to spend time visiting seniors at a nearby retirement home, befriending Elizabeth (Alice Drummond), a pleasant, slightly delusional woman with a buried past.

Once released, Truman and Eleanor begin dating -- against her better judgment -- and develop a sweetly dysfunctional relationship that seems to work on their own unique terms. But Eleanor's past is quickly catching up with them, threatening to ricochet Truman back to his chronically abusive behavior after a brief flirtation with passing normality.

Hines and screenwriter Michael Kamsky succeed against significant odds in creating realistic, sympathetic characters with rich, if traumatized, inner lives. To their credit, the filmmakers don't attempt to explain away Truman's profoundly troubled personality, instead leveraging his afflictions to create believably fraught personality conflicts.

J.R. Bourne delivers a bold, brave performance that progressively reveals Truman as a desperate, needy character whose inability to effectively communicate inexorably leads to self-delusion and substance abuse. Wagner's Eleanor is another convincingly rendered lost soul who finds marginal comfort in Truman's company. Supporting cast members adroitly keep developments focused on this unlikely pair while infusing the film with markedly restrained humor.

Hines and his production team took a significant gamble shooting in wintertime Fairbanks and their fearlessness particularly pays off with sharply delineated digital cinematography that enhances the stark, snowy exterior scenes, vividly lensed by cinematographer Yiannis Samaras.

Grey Jumper Prods.
Director: Tom Hines
Writer: Michael Kamsky
Producers: Lauri LaBeau, David Scharf
Executive producers: Michael Peterson, Tim Farley
Director of photography: Yiannis Samaras
Music: Ryan Raddatz
Costume designer: Wendy Willis
Editor: Clay Zimmerman
Truman: J.R. Bourne
Eleanor: Emily Wagner
Faraday: Jeffrey Scott Jensen
Elizabeth: Alice Drummond
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating
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