Regional water managers have shut down discharges out of Lake… (Tom Benitez, Orlando Sentinel )
The water level of Lake Apopka has dropped too low, prompting regional water managers to stop any water from flowing out to the Harris Chain of Lakes.
TheSt. Johns River Water Management Districtstopped water discharges on April 27 through two dams in the series of lakes, and will not allow any water to flow through until June 12.
Levels in lakes Dora, Eustis, Harris, Griffin and Yale will continue to fall and fishing may suffer, officials said. However, allowing Lake Apopka levels to fall further will damage lake restoration efforts there.
"We would like to have more water to manage. We would like to have a lot of water to move around so there is plenty of water for Lake Apopka," district spokesman Hank Largin said. "The drought has put us in a position that there isn't enough water for any of the lakes."
District officials will hold a public meeting to discuss lake levels in the Harris Chain on 6 p.m. May 31 at the Paul P. Williams Fine Arts Center on the Leesburg campus of Lake Sumter Community College.
Lack of rainfall has caused lake levels to drop, causing problems with the habitat in Lake Apopka and water access in other lakes. The National Weather Service said the rainfall since November for Lake is about 10 to 12 inches below normal.
Clermont received 5.61 inches of rainfall from November through April but normally would receive about 16.84 inches of rain. Leesburg got about 6.69 inches of rain since the beginning of the year, an amount that is well below normal.
Lack of rain was already a concern to the water-management district when it proposed closing the dams in the Harris Chain and preventing water from flowing downstream last year.
The Apopka-Beauclair dam controls water flow between Apopka and Lake Dora, and the other lakes of the "Superpond," including Eustis, Harris, Beauclair, Carlton and Little Lake Harris. A second dam, the Burrell Lock and Dam, controls water between Lake Eustis and Lake Griffin. A third dam, the Moss Bluff Lock and Dam, controls water flowing out of Griffin up to the Ocklawaha River.
Public outcry about diminishing lake levels prompted the district to allow low levels of water to flow through the Apopka-Beauclair and Burrell dams. In January, the district allowed flow rates of 23 cubic feet, or 172 gallons, per second. The Moss Bluff dam remained closed. Since then, Lake Apopka's water level has dropped 11 inches, while lakes in the middle of the chain have only dropped 6 inches, Largin said.
Shelly Hayes, an avid angler, said access is starting to become a problem. Most of the boat ramps at Hickory Point Recreational Facility in Tavares are closed and canals are drying up.
"We have been fishing here for 38 years and this is what I would consider the worst we've seen," Hayes said. "These water levels are dropping drastically."


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Figures from the UK Cards Association reveal that the number of card transactions made on the internet has increased by 20 per cent in the past year with consumers spending £11.5 billion online in August. There were 130 million card payments online in August – up from 108 million in the same period last year.
Just as contactless technology is driving the use of cards instead of cash for smaller purchases, consumers are also using cards for smaller purchases online too. Overall, more than a fifth of all card spending is now online. Almost half of all card spending on financial services is online – the highest proportion for any sector.
In total, all card spending increased by 0.5 per cent during August to reach £51.1 billion. There were 1.1 billion card transactions in the month.

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I joined the Department of Life Health and Chemical Sciences at the Open University in April 2007.
I did my BPS accredited undergraduate Psychology degree at the University of Strathclyde and went on to study for a Behavioural Neuroscience PhD with Professor Philip Winn at the University of St Andrews. The research I was involved in aimed to understand the role of the brainstem pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus in higher order (or executive) cognitive processes. I then moved on to the University of Aberdeen to work with Dr John Ross on a large multidisciplinary HSE funded research project to investigate the long term health effects of occupational diving. My role on this project was to set-up and conduct neuropsychological testing and to organise MRI scanning of the brain. After this postdoctoral post I returned to work with Professor Winn investigating attentional functions of the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus before moving to the University of Abertay to gain some teaching experience. Here I taught 2nd year undergraduate Biological Psychology and honours year Neuropsychopharamcology.
My research interests lie primarily in Behavioural Neuroscience/Biological Psychology. I am interested in understanding the brain mechanisms supporting cognition, particularly attention during goal directed behaviour whereby salient cues in our environment that predict reward come to capture attention and automatically drive behaviour. My research work has included investigating goal directed behaviour in a model of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and I am now moving these interests towards investigating the motivation of food choices in type 2 diabetes. I have also conducted some research in the field of Sports Psychology Education as PhD supervisor to Open University colleague Caroline Heaney.
Health Sciences, Mental Health, Biological Psychology, Neuroscience, Neuropsychology
My teaching roles have included Qualification Director for the Health Sciences curriculum, and I have been extensively involved in the production of new modules during my years with the university. Many of the modules that I have produced have been cross disciplinary and incorporated into a number of accredited practice based profession degrees including paramedic practice, mental health nursing and counselling.
I have worked as an Academic Conduct Officer within STEM upholding the university's plagiarism policy.
I have worked on SDK100 Science and Health: An Evidence Based Approach producing module material online for Topic 3 Pain and Topic 6 Alcohol and I am now the SDK100 (J) presentation module team chair and module result panel chair.
I have been involved with S350 'Evaluating contemporary science', which develops professional scientist skills in readiness for the capstone project module at level 3 (SXL390). I was involved in planning the digital student science conference section of this module and also wrote a project topic on antibiotic resistance.
I was production module team chair for SDK228/SKYN228, The science of the mind: investigating mental health and continued into presentation as module team chair and award board chair. I then worked as a Topic author for the replacement module SK298 Brain, Mind and Mental Health and continue to work on the presentation module team.
I have written a project guide on Aging and overseen a project guide on Autism for SXL390 our Health Sciences and Biology capstone dissertation project module.
I have also worked as production team chair for SXL288 Attention and the Brain which converted my research interests directly into a practical science teaching topic. I continued to work as a topic specialist during presentation of this module supporting students and tutors.
I have worked as production module team member for SD329 Signals and Perception, with lead responsibility for updating the Somatosensation material. I have also worked as a production team member for SDK100 Science and health, an evidence based approach where I authored material on 'Pain' and 'Alcohol'.
I have been a presentation module team member for (now redundant) modules SD226 Biological Psychology and SD805 Issues In Brain & Behaviour (Addiction and Neural Ageing).
In addition to this I currently hold 2 Associate Lecturer posts one each for: SK298 and SDK100. In the past I have held AL posts for SDK228, SDK125, SD226 and SD329 and have worked regularly as a scriptmarker across these modules.
Finally, I have been involved in producing supporting OpenLearn material for modules SK298, SDK228 and SDK100, as well as supporting content related to the BBC programme 'Count Down to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You' that aired in September 2015, and recently 'The Human Body: Secrets of your Life Revealed' which aired in September 2017.
I have worked as a distance learning Psychology education consultant for RDI (Resource Development International) and for Altura Learining (Anxiety for Health Professionals).
I have worked as a consultant to the BBC for the programme 'Countdown to life: The extraordinary making of you', and am currently working on 'The Human Body: Secrets of your Life Revealed'.
I am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and hold Associate Fellow and Chartered Psychologist status with the British Psychological Society.
I am a member of several editorial boards for academic journals.
I have worked as a STEM ambassador for Northants region.
I have been an external examiner for Bath Spa University MSc Principles of Applied Neuropsychology, and London Metropolitan University Undergraduate and Postgraduate Psychology and am currently starting appointments as EE for Cardiff Metropolitan and Leicester DeMontfort University (both Psychology).
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£10k for consumables from King's College London, collaboration with Dr Ellie Dommett. For Morgane Colom's studentship.
Instrumental conditioning for food reinforcement in the spontaneously hypertensive rat model of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (2017-10-30)
Rostron, Claire L.; Gaeta, Victoria; Brace, Louise R. and Dommett, Eleanor J.
BMC Research Notes, 10, Article 525
Thalamic inputs to dorsomedial striatum are involved in inhibitory control: evidence from the five-choice serial reaction time task in rats (2017-08-31)
Saund, Jasjot; Dautan, Daniel; Rostron, Claire; Urcelay, Gonzalo P. and Gerdjikov, Todor V.
Psychopharmacology, 234(16) (pp. 2399-2407)
Is there a link between previous exposure to sport injury psychology education and UK sport injury rehabilitation professionals' attitudes and behaviour towards sport psychology? (2017-01-31)
Heaney, Caroline A.; Rostron, Claire L.; Walker, Natalie C. and Green, Alison J.K.
Physical Therapy in Sport, 23 (pp. 99-104)
The impact of a sport psychology education intervention on physiotherapists (2017)
Heaney, Caroline A.; Walker, Natalie C.; Green, Alison J.K. and Rostron, Claire L.
European Journal of Physiotherapy, 19(2) (pp. 97-103)
Auditory responses in a rodent model of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (2015-12)
Brace, Louise R.; Kraev, Igor; Rostron, Claire L.; Stewart, Michael G.; Overton, Paul G. and Dommett, Eleanor J.
Brain Research, 1629 (pp. 10-25)
Altered visual processing in a rodent model of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (2015-09-10)
Brace, L. R.; Kraev, I.; Rostron, C. L.; Stewart, M. G.; Overton, P. G. and Dommett, E. J.
Neuroscience, 303 (pp. 364-377)
Sport psychology education for sport injury rehabilitation professionals: a systematic review (2015-02)
Heaney, Caroline A.; Walker, Natalie C.; Green, Alison J. K. and Rostron, Claire L.
Physical Therapy in Sport, 16(1) (pp. 72-79)
Searching for inhibition of return in the rat using the covert orienting of attention task (2014-09)
Wagner, Ulf; Baker, Lucy and Rostron, Claire
Animal Cognition, 17(5) (pp. 1121-1135)
The effects of methylphenidate on cognitive performance of healthy male rats (2013-06-13)
Rostron, Claire; Kaplan, Elise; Gaeta, Victoria; Nigriello, Rachel and Dommett, Ellie
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7(97)
Appetitive and consummative responding for liquid sucrose in the spontaneously hypertensive rat model of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (2013-02-01)
Dommett, Eleanor J. and Rostron, Claire L.
Behavioural Brain Research, 238 (pp. 232-242)
Psychological and physical correlates of musculoskeletal symptoms in male professional divers and offshore workers (2013)
Ross, John. A. S.; Macdiarmid, Jennifer. I.; Rostron, Claire L.; Watt, Stephen. J. and Crawford, John. R.
Extreme Physiology and Medicine, 2, Article 5
A qualitative and quantitative investigation of the psychology content of UK physiotherapy education (2012-10)
Heaney, Caroline; Green, Alison; Rostron, Claire and Walker, Natalie
Journal of Physical Therapy Education, 26(3)
Abnormal air righting behaviour in the spontaneously hypertensive rat model of ADHD (2011-11)
Dommett, Eleanor J. and Rostron, Claire L.
Experimental Brain Research, 215(1) (pp. 45-52)
The pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus and the nucleus basalis magnocellularis: Do both have a role in sustained attention? (2008-01-30)
Rostron, Claire L.; Farquhar, Morag J.; Latimer, Mary P. and Winn, Philip
BMC Neuroscience, 9(16) (pp. 1-17)
Objective neuropsychological test performance of professional divers reporting a subjective complaint of 'forgetfulness or loss of concentration' (2006-08)
Taylor, C.L.; Macdiarmid, J.I.; Ross, J.A.S.; Osman, L.M.; Watt, S.J.; Adie, W.; Crawford, J.R. and Lawson, A.
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, 32(4) (pp. 310-317)
Excitotoxic lesions of the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus in rats impair performance on a test of sustained attention (2005-04)
Kozak, Rouba; Bowman, Eric M.; Latimer, Mary P.; Rostron, Claire L. and Winn, Philip
Experimental Brain Research, 162(2) (pp. 257-264)
Safety culture and accident risk control: Perceptions of professional divers and offshore workers (2005-02)
Adie, Wendy; Cairns, John; Macdiarmid, Jennie; Ross, John; Watt, Stephen; Taylor, Claire L. and Osman, Liesl M.
Safety Science, 43(2) (pp. 131-145)
Effects of changing reward on performance of the delayed spatial win-shift radial maze task in pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus lesioned rats (2004-08-31)
Taylor, Claire L.; Kozak, Rouba; Latimer, Mary P. and Winn, Philip
Behavioural Brain Research, 153(2) (pp. 431-438)
Impaired delayed spatial win-shift behaviour on the eight arm radial maze following excitotoxic lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex in the rat (2003-12-17)
Taylor, Claire L.; Latimer, Mary P. and Winn, Philip
Behavioural Brain Research, 147(1-2) (pp. 107-114)
Bringing Sport Psychology into Physiotherapy (2016-11)
Heaney, Caroline; Walker, Natalie; Green, Alison and Rostron, Claire
In : British Association of Sport & Exercises Sciences (BASES) Conferences 2016 (29-30 Nov 2016, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham)
RR230 - Co-ordinated investigation into the possible long term health effects of diving at work (2004-06-01)
Macdiarmid, Jennie I.; Ross, John A.S.; Taylor, Claire L.; Watt, Stephen J.; Adie, Wendy; Osman, Liesl M.; Godden, David; Murray, Alison D.; Crawford, John R. and Lawson, Andrew
Health and Safety Executive, UK.


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Great pizza and more. Friendly , casual atmosphere.shared a pizza and salad with friend, plenty to eat, will return.
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We don't drink, but the hand crafted root beer is outstanding. Pizza is great especially after a day of rafting or hiking. Service for our group of 18 has very good and quick.If you are in Salida on a buy day (any day of the...More
Every time we are in Salida we make a trip to Amicas! We love the new location and the pizza does not disappoint. We are also a fan of the hot oil. Love Amicas!
I love this pizza place. The food is AMAZING, the service friendly and if you do a little reading, this is a company that gives back to the community. My husband and I stop here every time we drive through.
We loved the food. It was absolutely top notch. If I were rating Amica's solely on the quality of the food, I'd give it a five. Alas, this was likely the absolute loudest restaurant experience I've ever had. It was so loud that my husband...More
Although this wasn't my favorite restaurant in Salida, Colorado, it was a clear choice for many. By the time we left, it was standing room only. The restaurant's specialty is wood-fired pizza with lots of options. In comparison with my only other experience with a...More
The pizza is excellent and the service was great despite it being a Saturday night. Thank you for the recommended, Captain Zip Line.

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Many of our Share-A-Pet dogs and cats live out their life on the Animal Haven Farm
and in Kitty City. While they may never have found a home of their own,
they have been loved by staff and very well cared for.
They will truly always be missed.
Mika was known to all as one of the sweetest cats in Kitty City. She was included on the program due to her mild handicap - her former owner had accidentally run over her front paws with the car, crushing them. She developed kidney problems, and not responsding to treatment efforts, was humanely euthanized. Mika is missed by all. January 2007
Hook was a loving and lovable tortoiseshell girl who became a Kitty City resident after several efforts at adoption failed. Once loved in a home, she was no longer wanted when the owner's newborn twins came home. Hook enjoyed many happy years with us and her sponsors until she recently went into kidney failure at the age of 16 years. She'll always be remembered. March 2007
Louise came to us in 1995 with her best buddy, Thelma. The starving pair was trying to eke out a meager life in Weequahic Park in Newark. Louise was pregnant, but no one seemed to care, least of all whoever had dumped them there. We rescued the two and after no one seemed interested in adopting the girls together, we brought them to the Animal Haven Farm where they were devoted friends for 12 years. Most recently, Louise was being treated for kidney disease, but when she began to fail the kindest thing was to help her leave peacefully, leaving her devoted friend, Thelma, and her caretaker behind. Louise will truly be missed. April 2007.
Smoky Jill had been saved from a house fire over 20 years ago and she waited, but her master or mistress never came to claim her. So she was added to the Share-A-Pet program where she waited for a home. Although Jill was never adopted, she never lacked for affection. She was very sweet and a real people kitty. She loved to be held, petted and brushed and she craved attention. Jill was dearly loved by staff and will truly be missed. November 2007
Ralph came to Kitty City in January 2003. He was 12 years old then, and no longer wanted at his home which was at the printer who does much work for AHS. New management came in and felt Ralph wasn't helping the professional image they wanted to convey. Staff reached out to us and of course, we took Ralph in and placed him on Share-A-Pet. Here he remained, enjoying Kitty City. Our vet was treating him for a tumor on his liver, but Ralph was not improving. The kindest thing for Ralph was, sadly, to put the old guy to sleep at 17. Lots of people who knew Ralph will miss him. - April 2008
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On Murdered British MPs
In the 19th century, despite the aloofness of the ruling class in Britain, politicians were often out among the people. They were public men, unguarded and they occasionally took part in demonstrations and riots. For all that, political murder was uncommon and shocking. In this century, their work has become increasingly dangerous.

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Miley Cyrus is allegedly getting hot and heavy with Theo Wenner, the photographer who shot her topless Rolling Stone cover. She’s already publicly said she’s the happiest she’s ever been — could he be the reason?
Miley, 20, has been talking to Theo, multiple times a day, a source close to the “We Can’t Stop” singer told RadarOnline.
“She’s definitely dating him,” the source said. “Miley talks about how hot Theo is and how nice he’s been to her. She’s definitely completely in lust with him.”
While Theo was not at Miley’s crazy Bangerz album release party Oct. 8, she reportedly left the party to go see him!
“He didn’t come to the release party, but she snuck out at one point and went and met him at The Plaza,” the insider said. “She said she’s never met anyone as sweet as Theo.”
Ouch — did you hear that Liam Hemsworth? Apparently, the 26-year-old even sent an arrangement of flowers to the party. That’s so romantic.
While the “Wrecking Ball” singer may be hooking up with Theo, she’s actually very happy living a single life.
“I haven’t gotten to see anyone right now. I’m letting that chapter close,” she told Ellen DeGeneres on Oct. 11. “When I say I’m the happiest I’ve ever been, it’s not a dig. I’m happy with myself. It’s separating from someone else to really be happy with who you are. I’m alone right now, and I’m obsessed with being alone.”
Well, you can still be single and get to know other people, right? It looks like she’s completely focusing on her music — but she can’t help it if she meets someone she’s really smitten with!

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As managing partner of Ulupono Initiative, Murray oversees and manages all aspects of investments and operations.
Prior to joining Ulupono, Clay served as deputy chief investment officer of SDS Management LLC in Connecticut. He has more than 15 years of experience in managing hedge fund and private equity portfolios, where he led due diligence, negotiated and structured direct investments in many industries including energy, natural resources and biotechnology.
Prior to his finance career, he served as an intelligence officer for U.S. Air Force special operations forces for five years. A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Clay holds a Bachelor of Science degree in International Affairs, with a minor in Japanese. He earned his Master of Business Administration with High Honors from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business (now Booth School of Business).
Clay serves on the board of directors for the Battleship Missouri Memorial and the Oahu Economic Development Board, and is an active member of his church. He and his wife Jodi have five children.

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A virtual dataroom tool that allows businesses to securely share confidential documents. This kind of tool is particularly useful in business transactions when external parties are required to review sensitive information. A VDR provides an alternative to sharing this information via email or physically delivering hard copies. It also allow organizations to track the activities of document users. It also comes with additional security features like timeouts, auto-expiration, reports on the activity of documents, and limitations on printing, viewing and saving documents.
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The UK Powerhouse report, produced for Irwin Mitchell by the Centre for Economic and Business Research, predicts that the value of goods and services produced in Leeds will grow by 0.6 per cent during 2017. Employment levels are expected to be 3,700 higher.
Although Leeds’ economy is set to grow in 2017, it will be at a much slower rate than in the 12 months to Q3 2016 when it posted growth of 2.4 per cent.
The study also revealed that not one of the top 10 fastest growing cities in 2017 will be in the ‘Northern Powerhouse’ region with places such as Greater Manchester and Sheffield expected to post gross value added growth of 0.7 per cent during 2017.
According to the report, Cambridge, Oxford and Milton Keynes will be the fastest growing economies in 2017, although their expansion rates will be significantly lower than they were in the three months immediately after the EU referendum vote. The economies of Swansea, Belfast and Middlesbrough are expected to expand at the slowest rate.
Andrew Walker, head of business legal services in Irwin Mitchell’s Leeds office, said: “Leeds performed strongly in the three months following the referendum result but we expect the continually unfolding political events to impact on growth over the next 12 months.
“Challenges do however bring opportunities and exporters in West Yorkshire are taking advantage of their hedged import costs compared to forex rates. Also, the Government’s pledge of £15m to support Northern Powerhouse trade missions and £7m to establish a Northern Powerhouse Investment Taskforce is a huge step in the right direction and will help ensure the economy is firing on all cylinders in a post-Brexit Britain.”

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Well before bearded hipsters there were punks, rockers, peacocks - the well-known Regency dandies - and before them the macaronis.
Who were the 18th century macaronis and what did they really wear? What happened in the streets of London when they began to appear? Why name a fashion trend after pasta?
We take a look at a range of astonishing macaroni dressers, from the scientist Joseph Banks to the freed slave Julius Soubise. We examine one of the most extreme moments of fashion history for men, and what it meant socially, politically and culturally.
PETER MCNEIL is an award-winning author, most recently of Pretty Gentlemen: Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World (Yale University Press, 2018). The book has had enthusiastic reviews in New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review and that holy grail, World of Interiors.
Figure group, porcelain; attributed to Ludwigsburg, Württemberg, German, circa 1770, collection of British Museum, London, 1923, 0314.102.CR. © The Trustees of The British Museum


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Two things are top of mind this week.
First, it’s important that all privacy pros in Canada pay attention to the proposed regulations issued by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, which are needed before the data breach regiment being proclaimed into force in Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. I suspect there will be a short ramp-up time once the regulations are passed. It’s also important to pay attention now because, if you want to add to the debate, your window of opportunity to provide comments is quickly closing. You only have until Oct. 2 to have your voice heard. So, when you think about it, as someone with responsibility for privacy within your organization, it is only a matter of time before you have to deal with breach notification. Now is the time to get informed, have a say, and start getting ready.
Second, I, along with others, appeared before the ETHI Parliamentary Committee this week to speak about privacy at the border and, in particular, what privacy rights Canadians have while traveling in the United States. If you recall, I mentioned this a few months ago in the Digest the first time these issues caught the attention of the politicians who sit on the committee. They took the summer off and then this week they approached the subject with some vigor. One of the panelists with me was Michael Geist, and he suggested that the Canadian government take the opportunity of the NAFTA negotiations to secure privacy rights of Canadians who cross into the States. I emphasized the need to get our own privacy regime into shape — starting with more meaningful oversight and real, substantive reforms to our privacy laws.
Plenty of other news this week, too: Hope you have the time to catch up and maybe notice that the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada won an award — jointly — on the international stage for their investigation into the Ashley Madison breach and that Ontario won an award on that same stage for their de-identification guidance. Our old friend Elizabeth Denham, now head of the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office, won the people's choice award.
I think this all makes clear that Canadian privacy pros rock.
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How Canadian composer Galt MacDermot unwittingly became rap royalty
He's one of the most sampled artists in hip hop, even earning the nickname King Galt
Even if you don't know who Galt MacDermot is, you know his music.
MacDermot was mostly known as a prolific composer, pianist and songwriter for Broadway musicals, notably 1967's Tony and Grammy Award-winning Hair.
He died in 2018, but in his lifetime, MacDermot also became one of the most sampled composers in hip hop, with artists such as Kanye West, the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, Run-DMC, Busta Rhymes, Jay Dilla, Pete Rock, DJ Premier and many more using his music over the decades.
On the website Who Sampled, a database of hip-hop songs and their sample sources, a search for MacDermot reveals 188 songs –– and those are just the ones we know about.
MF DOOM, who died in October of last year, was also a devoted MacDermot fan and sampled him often. For his Special Herbs series alone, DOOM used three songs from one MacDermot album, 1969's Woman is Sweeter.
"If you're sampling, there is just so much to cherry-pick from, so many rich parts," says Oakland-based hip-hop writer and podcaster David Ma, who interviewed MacDermot in 2016. "You can have some piano clinks here and some strings here and you can kind of pluck whatever you want."
From Montreal to Broadway
Born in Montreal, the son of a diplomat, MacDermot graduated from Bishops University and then went on to receive his bachelor of music from Cape Town University in South Africa. He relocated to New York when he was 36 years old and eventually became a Broadway darling with the release of Hair in 1967. Covers of songs from the musical, such as "Aquarius," "Let the Sunshine In" and "Good Morning Starshine," all became No. 1 chart hits in 1969, the same year MacDermot won a Grammy for the original score. To date, it is one of the most successful scores in Broadway history.
In a career that spanned over 50 years, he became known for an output that was vast, varied and virtuosic. Besides composing the music for over a dozen Broadway musicals, MacDermot recorded original soundtracks for film, including the hit Blaxploitation film Cotton Comes to Harlem. He also released more than 60 albums, ranging from chamber music and opera to funk, R&B and jazz.
One of his earliest compositions, "African Waltz," also won a Grammy when Cannonball Adderley recorded it in 1960.
"My father was a bit like a guy who found a mine," says MacDermot's son Vince from his home in Staten Island. "You know, you go into the mine and come out with rubies and emeralds and things like that, and those were the songs, and he would do them, but once he'd done them, he'd go back into the mine."
My father was a very, very disciplined guy. He was basically breakfast and then straight to the piano, all his life.- Vince MacDermot on his father Galt
Vince, who also manages his father's music and played with him in his touring outfit, the New Pulse Jazz Band, says that his father "just liked playing music and writing music, so he didn't see why it should be restricted. He wrote funk or he wrote string jigs, there's even a clarinet concerto. He just loved music."
Vince says that, in his father's lifetime, he released more than 3,000 catalogue works. "That's more than Mozart," he says. "My father was a very, very disciplined guy. He was basically breakfast and then straight to the piano, all his life."
A 'treasure chest' for sampling
While Galt continued recording and performing live well into his later years, his most acclaimed work was released in the '60s and '70s. In the 1990s, when sampling in hip-hop was booming, MacDermot's music was given a second life.
The first hit record to sample MacDermot was Run-DMC's 1993 song "Down with the King," produced by Pete Rock, who sampled the melody from "Where do I Go?" From the Hair soundtrack. (He had also previously sampled "Where Do I Go?" on "Can't Front On Me," from his album Mecca and the Soul Brother.)
Hair, MacDermot's most popular recording, is also the one that's been sampled and covered the most. The Beastie Boys also used a snippet of "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" for their 1992 song "Finger Lickin' Good," while Kanye West flipped the same song into Mos Def's "Sunshine," a standout track from his 2004 album, The New Danger.
Producers were coming over to my father's house and then they would go down to the basement. They'd come back up with a stack of records and pay cash.- Vince MacDermot
"What happened was, guys started to find out that my father's house in Staten Island was full of tapes and old records and things like that," says Vince. "So, in those days, these producers were coming over to my father's house and then they would go down to the basement. They'd come back up with a stack of records and pay cash, and my mother would sit them down and make tea.… In essence, I would say it was rhythm that they found, you know, a feel, which his music is heavy on. There were guys coming with bodyguards and, you know, it was kind of a trip."
As more producers heard about Galt's music and sought it out, he adopted a "say yes" approach, rarely turning down licensing requests.
"He appreciated anybody that liked music, whether it was his format or not, and these guys have skill and they had ears, and he recognized what they were after and he liked that," says Vince.
Taking into account the sheer breadth of MacDermot's work and the number of rap producers who have sampled him, Ma would put him in the same echelon of composers like Bob James, the most sampled jazz artist of all time, and Dr. Dre favourite, David Axelrod.
It also helped that, from early on, MacDermot played with some of the best musicians around, including drummers Bernard Purdie, renowned for his backbeats and precision, and Idris Muhammad, known for playing with Fats Domino, Sam Cooke and Curtis Mayfield.
"You can just see why, when people started discovering Galt Macdermot," says Ma. "It's like, look at this treasure chest to choose from."
Take a look at how a quirky bass line and melody from "Space," which MacDermot wrote for a 1969 film about the work of Yves Saint-Laurent, got transformed in Busta Rhyme's breakout hit "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check," in 1996.
Producer Rashad Smith had found the album in his mother's collection, and ended up looping the melody and bass to build the foundation of the song.
But perhaps one of MacDermot's best-known compositions is "Coffee Cold," from his 1966 album Shapes of Rhythm.
It's been sampled in at least 28 songs, by artists including Gang Starr and Nipsey Hussle, but it was the 1999 track, "The Truth," by Handsome Boy Modelling School, that really set it off.
"I think that's certainly a huge one that we would be remiss not to mention — the sort of cold yet emotive piano plaints are just amazing," says Ma. "Off the top of my head, I'm sure it's probably one of the most sampled piano portions ever.... It's one of those songs where, you're looking at a two-minute piece of music, but then once it gets repurposed, it just has a life of its own. It will live forever depending on how it gets repurposed and reused."
"It was like, oh my God, this is incredible," producer Prince Paul said in the 2012 documentary Lookin 4 Galt when asked about sampling "Coffee Cold." "Listening to that record and then going through the whole album, it just made me realize how dope he is.… Afterwards people just started sending me a lot of stuff with Galt MacDermot on it. I didn't realize his body of work was that incredible."
When MacDermot died in 2018, hip-hop producers took to social media to pay their respects. "King Galt," wrote Questlove, referring to the nickname MacDermot had gained in the hip-hop community. "The Broadway community is mourning his passing ... but best believe he was the hip-hop community's too."
Vince says that his father always embraced hip hop, and respected the artistry of sampling. Now, as a result, it has helped introduce Galt's work to a whole new generation of listeners.
"My father's music is a bit like grass reseeding itself," he says. "When I look at the profile of the people that listen on Spotify, the largest denominator is 28 to 34 year olds. And they must have known through rap or hip hop."
Watch the full video at the top of this post, edited by Andrew Alba and Krzysztof Pospieszynski, produced by Jesse Kinos-Goodin and hosted by Rich Terfry.


Prado Dam Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations Preliminary Viability Assessment
This Preliminary Viability Assessment (PVA) was initiated by the Prado Dam Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations (FIRO) multi-agency Steering Committee in 2017 and follows the workplan completed in 2019. The PVA provides an initial evaluation of the viability of FIRO as a strategy for improving water supply reliability for Orange County Water District (OCWD), while not impairing and possibly enhancing environmental conditions and flood risk management. Constructed and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Prado Dam was primarily designed for flood risk management. Stormwater capture for downstream groundwater recharge into OCWD’s water supply is a secondary purpose. The PVA demonstrated that FIRO is viable, and it lays the groundwork for a Final Viability Assessment (FVA) and recommendations for updating USACE’s Water Control Manual (WCM), which governs operation of Prado Dam.


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European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA), headquartered in Paris, France, is "Europe's gateway to space." The ESA mission is "to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the people of Europe."
The "ESA's job is to draw up the European space plan and carry it through. The Agency's projects are designed to find out more about the Earth, its immediate space environment, the solar system and the Universe, as well as to develop satellite-based technologies and promote European industries. ESA also works closely with space organisations outside Europe to share the benefits of space with the whole of mankind."
The ESA has 15 Member States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. "In addition Canada and Hungary participate in some projects under cooperation agreements."
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In this second of our two-part series, we bring you a list of bars and restaurants which have designed various special menus for this festive season. However, do remember many restaurants ...
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Qantas, the national airline of Australia, created history on Sep 14 when QF 67 took off from Sydney’s Kingsford International Airport to touch Bengaluru, the southern Indian city famously known as ‘The Silicon Valley of The East’, completing the non-stop flight in less than twelve hours.
Bengaluru: Hong Kong’s home airline will start twice-a-week direct flights from Bengaluru to Hong Kong and beyond from Oct. 11.
New Delhi: Indian Hospitality enterprise OYO on Monday announced reduced prices on stays with tariffs which now begin at Rs 399 for the period between Aug. 8 and Aug. 21.


Song Joong Ki starrer ‘Reborn Rich’ unveils the important members of Lee Sung Min’s family
JTBC released new stills and charts that talks about ‘Reborn Rich’ family of Lee Sung Min like Yoon Je Moon, Kim Jung Nan, Jo Han Chul, Seo Jae Hee and more.
JTBC's Friday-Saturday drama 'Reborn Rich’, which will be broadcasted at 10:30 PM KST on November 18th, released exciting character stills on November 12th. Yoon Je Moon, Kim Jeong Nan, Cho Han Cheol, Seo Jae Hee, Kim Young Jae, Jung Hye Young, Kim Hyun, Kim Shin Rok, Kim Do Hyun, Kim Nam Hee, Park Ji Hyeon, Kang Gi Dung, and Jo Hye Joo’s character stills were released to captivate viewers with play. The intense aura of those who are tied together under the name of Sunyang Family stimulates expectations.
The characters' from Lee Sung Min's family:
The photos released on the day contained images of the people who participated in the succession battle beyond imagination. All of Korea's top chaebol families are related to Jin Yang Cheol (Lee Sung Min) by blood or through some kind of transaction. As much as Jin Yang Cheol's endless desire, the intense aura of those who look just like them robs the gaze. Yoon Je Moon plays Jin Young Ki, the eldest son who is not trustworthy and has the ability to run with overflowing enthusiasm, and Kim Jeong Nan plays Son Jeong Rae, his wife and the daughter of a rich man in Myeong Dong.
It stimulates curiosity about what movements these couples, who have a precarious position in the succession fight that has begun, will show. Jin Yang Cheol's second son, Jin Dong Gi, and his wife, Yoo Ji Na, from a prestigious family, are played by Jo Han Cheol and Seo Jae Hee, respectively. Eyes are drawn to the rebellion of these couples, who are ready to bring down the camp at any time, as much as the unusual eyes in the photo.
Outsiders of Sunyang family:
It is also interesting to see Kim Young Jae and Jung Hye Young, who create a different atmosphere from the previous two siblings. The characters 'Jin Yoon Gi' and 'Lee Hae In' are the family of Jin Do Joon, from whom Yoon Hyun Woo returned, and the outsiders of the Sunyang family. The relationship that Song Joong Ki will show brings another liveliness to the drama. Jin Yang Cheol's wife, 'Lee Pil Ok’, who has overflowing dignity, is played by Hyun Kim.
Jin Yang Cheol's daughter:
Beyond her soft smile, her charisma, called 'Sunyang's founding contributor', adds to the curiosity. On the other hand, Jin Yang Cheol's only daughter, 'Jin Hwa Yeong' and her husband, 'Choi Chang Je', catch the eye with their polar opposite atmosphere. Kim Shin Rok, who transformed into the arrogant Pyeonggang Princess Jinhwa Yeong, and Kim Do Hyun, who plays as the eldest son-in-law, are expected to bring about unexpected changes in perception as they struggle to escape the given frame.


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With the e-book market showing no signs of returning to robust growth, two of HarperCollins’s main priorities in fiscal 2018 are global expansion and broadening its distribution base in North America, HC’s CEO Brian Murray told PW after the release of the publisher’s financial results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2017. In the just-concluded year, EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) was $199 million, 7.5% higher than in fiscal 2016, despite a decline of $10 million in sales. Several factors impacted HC’s sales performance: there was one fewer week in the fiscal 2017 than in fiscal 2016, which cost $19 million, and the company suffered from the negative impact of currency fluctuations. Murray said he was “thrilled” with fiscal 2017 from both a publishing and financial standpoint and that the continued decline in e-books isn’t a major concern at the moment. He noted that, in the North American market, gains in print book sales and digital audio made up for the drop in e-book sales and that HC’s print frontlist and backlist sales were almost strong enough to match the revenue generated in fiscal 2016 by Go Set a Watchman. Among the company’s top-selling titles in the year were Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines, and Jesus Calling and Jesus Always by Sarah Young. Click Read More below for more of the story.
Grainger (NYSE: GWW) today reported results for the 2018 second quarter ended June 30, 2018. Sales of $2.9 billion increased 9.4 percent versus $2.6 billion in the second quarter of 2017. Operating earnings for the quarter of $344 million were up 50 percent versus $229 million in the 2017 second quarter. Earnings per share of $4.16 increased 149 percent versus $1.67 in the 2017 second quarter. Adjusted earnings per share of $4.37 increased 59 percent versus $2.74 in the 2017 second quarter. The improvement in earnings was driven mostly by higher sales, operating expense leverage, a lower tax rate and a lower share count.
“The second quarter exceeded our expectations, with strong growth from U.S. large and medium customers, gross profit that was better than anticipated and meaningful operating expense leverage. We continue to gain share across both large and medium customers and acquire medium customers amid a strong economy. In Canada, we are on schedule with the business turnaround. And the single channel and international businesses also improved operating performance,” said DG Macpherson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “Based on our performance and momentum, we are raising our sales and earnings per share guidance for the year.”
The company raised its 2018 sales and earnings per share guidance for the year and now expects sales growth of 5.5 to 8.5 percent and earnings per share of $15.05 to $16.05. The company’s previous 2018 guidance, communicated on April 19, 2018, was sales growth of 5 to 8 percent and earnings per share of $14.30 to $15.30.
Sales increased 9.4 percent in the 2018 second quarter versus the 2017 second quarter, driven by a 9 percentage point increase from volume and 1 percentage point from foreign exchange, partially offset by a 1 percentage point decline from the divestiture of a specialty business.
Reported gross profit margin for the quarter was 38.8 percent vs. 39.8 percent in the 2017 second quarter. Adjusted gross profit margin for the quarter was 38.9 percent vs. 39.9 percent in the prior year. The lower gross profit margin includes a 0.5 percentage point decline from implementation of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new revenue recognition standard that primarily reclassifies certain costs related to KeepStock services from operating expenses to cost of goods sold and a 0.2 percentage point decline from the timing of the company’s annual sales meeting. When normalized for the impact of the revenue recognition standard and the timing of the sales meeting, gross profit margin for the 2018 second quarter was 39.2 percent, a decline of 0.3 percentage points versus the 2017 second quarter.
Company operating earnings of $344 million for the 2018 second quarter increased 50 percent versus $229 million in the 2017 second quarter. Adjusted operating earnings of $359 million increased 23 percent versus $291 million in 2017. The improvement in earnings was driven by higher sales and strong operating expense leverage. Reported operating margin for the quarter was 12.0 percent, an increase of 3.2 percentage points versus the prior year. Adjusted operating margin was 12.6 percent, an increase of 1.5 percentage points versus the prior year.
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Now here’s a story, not unlike Killing Them Softly, but this one really happened and it was perpetrated by two kids from Queens, with nothing to loose. Directed by Raymond De Felitta (City Island) this is a true story…
about a crazy-in-love Queens couple (Michael Pitt and Nina Arianda) who rob a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it for awhile, but then they stumble upon a score bigger than they ever planned and become targets of both the mob and the FBI.
The trailer is quite good, at least I thought it looked good. I’m sure it’ll draw a lot of comparisons to other films of this nature, but for all intents and purposes, Hollywood built an empire on rehashing. At least we get to see some great acting and everyone looks appropriately casts. The film also stars Andy Garcia, Michael Rispoli (The Rum Diary), Samira Wiley (“Orange is the New Black”) and Ray Romano (“Everybody Loves Raymond”). Rob the Mob is being distributed by Millennium Entertainment and will hit theaters next spring on March 21st, 2014
- Ray Romano, Andy Garcia join crime drama ‘Rob the Mob’ (rss.feedsportal.com)
- ‘Rob The Mob’ Enlists Andy Garcia And Ray Romano (m.deadline.com)
- ‘Rob The Mob’ Enlists Andy Garcia And Ray Romano (deadline.com)
- Frank Whaley Joins ‘Rob the Mob’ (EXCLUSIVE) (variety.com)
- Andy Garcia, Ray Romano Join ‘Rob the Mob’ (variety.com)

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3 Lessons from the Fair Labor Standards Act
In 2014, President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum to update regulations setting standards on minimum wage and overtime. Two years later, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is now ready to become effective on December 1, 2016, setting the minimum pay for salaried federal employees at $47,476, more than doubling the current threshold of $23,600.
Millions of Americans, including owners and managers of companies and nonprofits, will be affected by these updated policies. Let’s review the three key lessons from the effects of the FLSA starting December 2016.
- Identify Effects of Changes in Real Time
Close to 60,000 employees in the state of Hawaii will be affected by the new FLSA standards starting December 2016. For example, Kamaaina Kids, a nonprofit in the education and childcare industry, employs 1,000 workers who will need to have an increase in their salaries to meet the new regulations. Bringing Kamaaina Kids up to standard would cost an estimated 10% of a half-million dollar payroll per pay period, according to Hawaii Business magazine.
How long would it take your enterprise to provide an accurate response of the effects of such an effect? Would you be able to have a snapshot of the number of contracts affected by a drastic price change in just a couple of minutes or would that take a couple of days? With a CLM software solution you have better chances of getting a fast and accurate response than with a paper-based contract management system.
- Prepare for Future and Automatic Updates
While it may appear to some business owners that these federal payment guidelines appeared out of nowhere, keep in mind that these policies have been about two years in the making. However, these increases on the salary and compensation levels needed for Executive, Administrative and Professional workers will continue to automatically take place every three years beginning on January 1, 2020.
These means that all the organizations that are scrambling right now to meet the requirements of the new regulations will have to do so again every three years. A better approach would be to customize the contract lifecycle of affected contracts and include a contract process that starts a review process three to six months prior to the upcoming deadlines.
Leveraging contract management software, a contract manager can not only customize the contract lifecycle but also set automated email alerts that will alert the appropriate team member when the time to start the review is required. Such a strategy would prevent a last-minute rush to meet future salary increases, reduce the chance of subpar solutions, and increase compliance across your enterprise.
- Increase Visibility and Provide Documentation of Alternative Solutions
To meet the new salary and overtime guidelines of the FLSA, organizations (companies receiving $500,000 or more in annual revenue and engaging in interstate commerce) have the option to increase the wages of affected workers to meet the new threshold ($913 per week or $47,476 per year) or provide overtime pay for hours worked in excess of 40 per week. A third option to consider for organization is to move all employees to hourly pay and hire additional staff to make sure that no overtime hours are incurred at all.
Therefore, it’s critical for organizations to increase the visibility of the process to arrive at a decision for each employee and keep detailed documentation for future reference. This documentation will be critical at the upcoming revisions every three years starting 2020 and compliance audits by internal units or federal agencies.
Trying to do this on a paper-based system is a very daunting process, easily leading to errors. A better approach is to use a centralized CLM solution that would store all documents digitally and allows to search them using text. By keeping detailed records of processes, the time needed to bring another contract manager up to speed on the activities for the last couple of years is much shorter. This increases the productivity of your team and reduces friction when assigning accounts to new contract managers.
The upcoming changes in December 2016 from the FLSA will affect many organizations across the nation. This event is a great example of how CLM software can empower your organization to identify effects in real time, prepare for future updates, increase visibility of processes addressing updates, and keep detailed documentation.

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1998 GMC Jimmy Repair and Maintenance
A guide to problems, costs, maintenance and repair for your 1998 GMC Jimmy
1998 GMC Jimmy Problems
The heater core under the right side of the dashboard may leak engine coolant which can puddle on the passenger front floor. The loss of coolant may cause an engine overheating condition. Our technicians tell us that removal of the dash board is necessary to replace the heater on these vehicles.
1998 GMC Jimmy Questions
My 98 engine overheated and I tried to save it. I have a 2000 jimmy 4x4 engine that looks almost the same but will it fit in my 98?
My car was knocking so i found a rocker arm loose on cylinder 6. The nut was tight to spec 18ft.lb, i tried tightening to 20ft.lb and did not change anything. I put a washer between rocker ball and rocker nut and tighten to 18ft.lb and it worked, i could still move rocker arm from side to side ...
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1998 GMC Jimmy Reviews
Bought a 98 Jimmy in 2007 and have not stopped repairing it since! Total lemon and the worst used car/truck I have ever owned in my 25 plus years of driving. In the first 3 months I had to replace the fuel pump, radiator, ball joints, idler arm, brake pads and as I type I am waiting for my mechanice to replace wires and plugs. Still need shocks, my a/c compressor leaks and I have not had a/c f...
When I bought mine used, dealer had to replace gas pump. I have issues with the steering being loose and the suspension being swaying and bouncing, yet when I took it to dealer, they tell me that it has a floating suspension. Ummm. no, I don't think so, I get whiplash when driving it. They eventually replaced the idler arm, and tightened the pitman arm, but I will be needing a new one soon. Th...


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Two fields "population" and "F06_popula" (both integers) were used in calculating a new field pct-diff. I asked that the new field be a decimal with a width of 10 and precision of 3. The result has no decimals. See the graphic. But the Layer Properties indicates that pct-diff is a real with 3 decimals. Why are the decimals not visible? Thanks -
I read a discussion http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5153 on the problem which no one seemed to agree on but a solution was found and far from obvious to me.
In the field calculator under conversions in the functions list, use toreal like this: toreal(field1)/field2
it's more like unreal huh?
The formula ("F06-popula"-"population")/"population" is made up of all integer variables. Apparently the field calculator therefore did integer divide. When I multiplied the numerator by 1.0 ( one with a decimal) the result appeared as a floating point number. This was a surprise to me because the statistical languages I use (SAS,R,STATA) always does floating point arithmetic. So do the commercial GIS I use, TransCad.

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By Tana Gotcher
I do have a lot of ups and downs. So I CHERISH my up days and get everything done that I can.
As I reflect on my journey with carcinoid I begin with 1984 when I started having a lot of stomach problems, which led to exploratory surgery and the removal of my gallbladder. For a year or so things did get better. Jumping ahead to 1999 I began having symptoms which I now realize signaled my later diagnosis of carcinoid - flushing, sweating, diarrhea, and nausea with bad pains in my right upper abdomen. Like so many other carcinoid patients, I saw all kinds of doctors before my diagnosis, with one even telling me maybe I needed a psychiatrist. It wasn't until 2001, when my cardiologist ordered a 24-hour urine test that came back high, that I first heard the word carcinoid.
In 2005, the doctors in Texas did a type of exploratory surgery making two incisions in my abdomen, one above the liver and one in the appendix area, and were supposed to get samples and clean out any tumors they could remove. After a 5-hour surgery and hours in recovery, I woke up to find out the surgeon had closed both incisions without doing one thing. He took no samples for biopsies and basically the surgery was a waste of time. He said it was such a big mess he didn't know what to do and since they were having trouble with my blood pressure bottoming out, he closed. This took a very big toll on me both physically and mentally. At this point I thought I had reached the end.
Now to the year 2007 and I thank God I am still here to see all the events. My granddaughter turned 8 and my grandson 5. Me, I turned the ripe age of 50 and you know I am proud of the age. Truthfully, I did not think I would be here to celebrate my 50th. I have not been able to travel to one of the carcinoid specialists but I have talked to a couple of really nice doctors that have helped me -- one in New Orleans and one at Mayo in Minnesota. They graciously helped me with advice and even looked over test results. My very good friends Ron and Myrna have helped my husband, Charles, and me with support and news of carcinoid. I have other friends through the carcinoid support group in Texas and the online support group ACOR that have helped me along the way, and I thank God for them all.
I found a new oncologist who put me on monthly injections and that made me feel a lot better. The doctor follows me regularly and recently told me I could now travel to Mayo or wherever I choose to go to see a specialist.
2018 marks 17 years since my carcinoid diagnosis and 18 years since my open-heart surgery. I thank God for every year, actually every single day I have. Another day to love my husband and another day to see my son, Ryan, grow into a man and a father. Another day to be with my grandkids.
I do have a lot of ups and downs. So I CHERISH my up days and get everything done that I can. I save my strength to go to a show with my grandkids or have them spend the day with me. This is so much better than where I was earlier that I do THANK GOD for every single day I have. Each day gets me closer to maybe a new treatment or maybe even the strength to one day go have that surgery. So some of my story may sound bleak but it is not, I am blessed and I know God carries me when I am weak and rejoices when I am strong.

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DetailsA water based rust converting etch primer for weathered galvanized metal and all rusted surfaces. Contains special additives to convert rust to harmless iron phosphates. Abrade with sandpaper. Can be applied to damp or dry rusted surfaces. Appearance: Low sheen. Spreading rate: 8sqm/l.
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Product Code Z18417135L Brand EXCELSIOR Specifications COLOUR Red oxide Size 5l Area of application steel and metal surfaces Features Contians anti corrosive pigments to prevent rust Can be overcoated with water based emulsion paints and decorative enamel paints Water based and easy to use Uses For use on mild steel surfaces and exceptional adhesion to properly weathered or degreased galvanized sheetingSPREADING RATEApplication 810sq m per l

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Examples of larvae are the tadpoles of frogs, the maggots of flies, and the caterpillars of butterflies. Many marine invertebrates, including echinoderms, molluscs, and annelids, have transparent, planktonic, ciliated larvae that are distinctly different from the sexually mature adult.
The possession of a larva usually enables a species to exploit a different food source from that used by the adult. Again, it may be important in dispersing individuals to new areas, or, in many parasites, as an infective phase.
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