Color Changes in Dogs
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 Color changes in dogs skin and coat can occur on occasion where they become either lighter or darker in color, and in some cases, this may just a normal aging process that your dog is going through. However, it may also be the result of something very serious that is affecting your dogs health and this may be the first sign that you have that something is terribly wrong.
 If your dogs skin or coat color is anything other than white, it is referred to a pigmented. The normal colors of all dogs that are not white include brown, yellow, black, red, as well a slightly purple. If for some reason you dogs skin color is a darker color because of an underlying cause, it is than referred to as hyper-pigmented. There are several diseases as well as conditions that can cause color changes in dogs, and for this reason if their coat or skin color does start to change, you should take it very serious and have them examined.
 Color Dilution Alopecia:
 The first potential cause of color changes in dogs is from a condition referred to as color dilution or mutant alopecia. This is believed to be an inherited condition that affects dogs with blue or diluted black skin and coats, or with fawn coat colorations. The breeds that are commonly affected by this condition include Greyhounds, Dobermans, Great Danes, Yorkshire Terriers, Dachshunds, as well as Whippets. You can easily recognize this condition if you have one of these breeds when the hair that is located in their blue and fawn colored areas starts to thin.
 This will generally occur when a puppy reaches six to eight months old. There is no specific treatment for this condition, but there are some things that you can do to rapidly slow it down. The first is to avoid excessive grooming, as this is usually the first thing an owner will do thinking it will be helpful. You will also need to totally avoid harsh shampoos, and instead use very gentle and mild shampoos. This condition by itself is not considered to be dangerous, but it can lead to folliculitis as well as other bacterial infections.
 Cushings disease:
 This potential cause of color changes in dogs is extremely dangerous and can very easily lead to glandular tumors. This disease is caused by an increase in the corticosteroid levels in your dog either by an increased production of corticosteroids by their immune system, or by a side effect. This side effect is the result of high dosages of corticosteroids that have been used in treatments of another condition. It will cause hair loss as well as hyper-pigmentation, and can also cause your dog to bruise very easily. If your dog starts to change colors and at the same time develops a pot-belly, they have Cushings disease.
 Dudley nose:
 This potential cause of a color change in your dogs skin is also referred to as nasal depigmentation, and is a condition where a previous black nose turns colors. It can turn either chocolate brown to light pink, as well as most any shade in between these colors. It is most common in Yellow Labs, Dobermans, Golden Retrievers, as well as Poodles. As this condition increases, your dogs nose will progressively start to change in color. Although it can look very alarming, it is rarely the result of any type of disease.
 Acanthosis nigricans:
 This cause of color changes in dogs is genetic and generally only affects Dachshunds. It can cause a darkening of their skin and is held to be a secondary condition. It is believed to be the result of friction, a hormonal imbalance or abnormality, or the result of hypersensitivity. Although it is not fully documented, it is believed that Vitamin E supplements can help slow this condition down in most cases.
 Castration response dermatosis:
 This potential cause is very common in young unneutered dogs as well as certain breeds. These breeds include Pomeranians, Miniature Poodles, Alaskan Malamutes, Chows, Samoyeds, as well as Keeshonden. It will cause a symmetrical hair loss at first that will be located in your dogs genital area as well as their neck. If it is severe enough, it can affect their entire trunk. However, in either case, your dogs hair color will suddenly begin to fade back to their puppy coat stage. It can be quite alarming, but is not considered to be dangerous. It is quickly remedied by castration and your dogs color will gradually return to normal.
 Basal cell tumors:
 This is extremely dangerous, as it results in a slow growing, but cancerous tumor. It is considered to be quite common in any breed and affects older dogs. It will produce nodules that are fluid filled on your dogs neck, head and their chest, and all three areas can show very dramatic hyper-pigmentation of both the skin and coat. There is only one way to correct this cause of color changes in dogs; surgically have the tumors removed. However, because it affects older dogs, they may never recover their full pigmentation.
 Estrogen response dermatosis:
 This potential cause of color changes is also referred to as ovarian imbalance type II. It is most common in young spayed dogs as well as Boxers and Dachshunds. In addition to hair loss, it will also cause a dramatic fading of your dogs coat that also resembles their original puppy coat. It can be corrected with Estrogen replacement therapy; however, this is something that you should weigh very carefully. Estrogen therapy can have some very severe side effects that may far outweigh your dogs hair coat changing colors.
 Cyclic alopecia:
 This potential cause of color changes in dogs is also referred to as seasonal flank alopecia. To this date, it has absolutely no type of treatment, but it is not considered to be dangerous to your dog. However, it can still be quite traumatic as your dogs hair will flat out stop growing at certain times during the year, and as a result, their skin will become much darker. Once the hair starts to grow again in a normal pattern, your dogs skin color will return back to normal.
 Growth hormone response alopecia:
 This leads to a very sudden darkening of your dogs skin and is still not fully understood by the medical community. It is believed to be the result of an enzyme deficiency or a decrease of adrenal hormones. Whey your dogs adrenal hormones are decreased, it allows for other hormones to accumulate in the body which in turn causes the skin to be much darker than normal. It is most common in Pomeranians, Chow chows, Poodles, Samoyeds, as well as Keeshonden breeds. It generally attacks dogs at two years old or younger, but it is not a real threat to their overall health. In can be corrected by neutering or with hormonal supplements.
 This disease can not only cause hair loss and dry and brittle hair, in can also cause skin pigmentation in
 most all cases. This is a very serious condition and can also cause obesity, a slow heart rate, as well as severe color changes. The only way to correct hypothyroidism is by placing your dog on thyroid supplements for the rest of their life. The color changes that you see may be the first signs that your dog has this condition.
 This is by no means all of the reasons for color changes in dogs, but they are considered to be the major causes. If your dog does start to change colors in their skin or their hair coat, it may be aging, something very simple, or it may be something extremely dangerous. Whatever the reason is, it should not be ignored and you should have your dog examined just to be on the safe side.
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CRCNA Receives $1 Million Lilly Endowment Grant
The Christian Reformed Church in North America has received a five-year, $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to establish a new course for lay leadership development and provide new opportunities for churches to gather and learn from each other.
The program is funded through Lilly Endowment's Thriving Congregations Initiative. The aim of the national initiative is to strengthen Christian congregations so they can help people deepen their relationships with God, build strong relationships with each other and contribute to the flourishing of local communities and the world.
The CRCNA's project, entitled Thrive, includes two parts - Thriving Essentials and Thriving Practices - through which congregations will have the chance to renew their sense of identity, deepen awareness of their neighborhood contexts, and explore specific dimensions of their local outreach and hospitality.
"Churches have been asking for resources to train their elders, deacons, and volunteer ministry leaders, and to equip us all as we adapt to rapidly-changing ministry contexts," said Tim Postuma, co-director of the CRCNA's Ministry Support Services and coordinator of the project.
"Although there are many workshops out there on specific topics," he explained, "we hope the first part of the project - Thriving Essentials - can serve as core training to help get all the ministry leaders and staff within a congregation on the same page, and cultivate a leadership mindset."
Thriving Essentials will be a six-part course covering topics such as community and ministry context, Reformed essentials, faith practices, characteristics of thriving congregations, and church leadership.
Each of the sessions will be available in a variety of formats including online webinars, video recordings, in-person workshops, and downloadable materials that churches can use to host their own training event.
The course will be available for individual use, said Postuma, "but of course it will be most effective if all the staff, council, and volunteer leaders within a congregation have experienced it together." It is slated to launch in fall 2021.
The second part of the project - Thriving Practices - will bring churches together as communities of learning (cohorts) for a two-year-period to focus on particular hospitality practices.
Some of these might include:
- engaging one's immediate neighborhood
- growing as an intergenerational church
- becoming more multi-ethnic/multi-racial
- rethinking conflict
- engaging restorative practices.
"And we expect that as the project unfolds other areas of emphasis will arise that will be added," said Syd Hielema, who helped develop the proposal. "We have discovered that when hospitality is understood as making oneself available to 'the other' as both host and guest, it builds capacity for reciprocal blessings to be shared in many areas of church ministry."
In its request for proposals, Lilly Endowment noted that congregations learn best when they are part of a larger community of learning and asked for proposals that establish cohorts of churches engaged in similar endeavors.
"There's tremendous value in bringing churches together to learn from each other as they walk a similar path," says Hielema. "Each congregation will participate in the cohorts through a leadership team consisting of both pastoral and lay leaders."
Whereas the Thriving Essentials course will be widely available to any and all Christian Reformed congregations, the Thriving Practices cohorts will need to be more limited, said Postuma.
"Each cohort requires a facilitator to guide the learning process. But the research shows cohorts work, so we're hoping to create as many as the budget allows."
Through both parts of the Thrive project, the stated goal is that each participating congregation will have opportunity to become more attuned to its local context; refresh its understanding of the riches of the Reformed theology as it refines its unique purpose; and to cultivate faith practices that will free it to both be a blessing in, and be blessed by, its context.
"We are eager to strengthen our churches through this project, and grateful to Lilly Endowment for making it possible," said Postuma.
Today, Christian congregations face a wide array of challenges and opportunities, including those created and accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. These range from using new technologies for worship and keeping members connected, to understanding and responding to demographic shifts and welcoming new neighbors in their communities.
"In the midst of a rapidly changing world, Christian congregations are grappling with how they can best carry forward their ministries," said Christopher Coble, Lilly Endowment's vice president for religion. "These grants will help congregations assess their ministries and draw on practices in their theological traditions to address new challenges and better nurture the spiritual vitality of the people they serve."
The 92 organizations receiving Thriving Congregations Initiative grants from Lilly Endowment include colleges and universities, theological schools, denominational agencies, individual congregations and other faith-based organizations. They represent and serve churches in a broad spectrum of Christian traditions.
The CRCNA's Thrive project will draw upon the expertise in several CRCNA ministries: Resonate Global Mission, Faith Formation Ministries, Office of Race Relations, Centre for Public Dialogue, Office of Social Justice, Diversity Ministry, Pastor Church Resources, Disability Concerns, Safe Church Ministry, and The Colossian Forum (a non-denominational ministry with deep ties to the CRC). In addition, the project will dovetail closely and help to enhance the CRCNA-wide ministry plan, Our Journey 2025.
"The CRCNA has come to place a high value on collaboration, and these ministries will work together to support the initiatives," said Colin Watson, Executive Director of the CRCNA.
"We are not creating new ministries or permanent staff positions. Rather, this grant will allow us to accelerate the trajectory we've already been on to serve our congregations and their leaders. We're grateful to Lilly Endowment for not only their funding, but also the significant research and insight they offer into how we can help congregations thrive."
Lilly Endowment Inc. is an Indianapolis-based private philanthropic foundation created in 1937 by J.K. Lilly, Sr. and his sons Eli and J.K. Jr. through gifts of stock in their pharmaceutical business, Eli Lilly and Company. Although the gifts of stock remain and financial bedrock of the Endowment, it is a separate entity from the company, with a distinct governing board, staff and location. In keeping with the founders' wishes, the Endowment supports the causes of community development, education and religion and maintains a special commitment to its hometown, Indianapolis, and home state, Indiana.

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Caught on camera: The Greenland tunnels that could speed ice melt
Video footage taken hundreds of metres inside Greenland's ice sheet has revealed a complex subglacial network of tunnels that carry water from the surface
Unique video footage taken 100m inside the ice has revealed a complex subglacial network of interconnecting tunnels that carry water from the surface to deep inside the ice sheet.
Konrad Steffen, an ice expert at the University of Colorado, told a global warming conference in Copenhagen that the discovery could explain sudden and severe increases in ice movement seen during peak summer. Water channelled from the surface to the base of the ice sheet could speed up the way it slides across the bedrock. On a large scale, this could cause the ice sheet to break up much faster than expected.
Steffen worked with experts from Nasa to design a special camera that his team dangled inside the Greenland ice in summer 2007. They sent it down a "moulin" — a hole at the surface that carries away fast-flowing streams of surface water produced from melted ice. "I have lots of graduate students working on this project, but we couldn't find any volunteers who were willing to go down there to take a look," he joked.
Experts suspect such moulins carry melt water from the surface to the bedrock, but until now it had been impossible to track the flow to check where water went.
Combined with images from a ground-penetrating radar dragged across the ice surface, Steffen's results showed that the moulin quickly widened beneath the surface. Several side channels carried water away to other parts of the ice sheet and fed the moulin from other holes on the surface. "The whole ice sheet is connected with these open channels," he said.


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Sacred Music. (Level 3). By David Carr Glover. For Piano. Method/Instruction; Piano - Glover Christian Library. David Carr Glover Piano Library. Piece for the Hymn Playing event with the National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC) Festivals Bulletin 2008-2009-2010. Sacred. Early Intermediate. Book. 24 pages. Published by Belwin Music (AP.FDL00982).
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David Carr Glover has selected, arranged, and correlated these well-known hymns. They represent part of our heritage of sacred music. Students enjoy playing familiar melodies, and this book provides them with such material. Like the REPERTOIRE Books of this library, this book will also stimulate interest and enjoyment in playing. Chord symbols have been included in all hymn arrangements. This will enable the student to use this book as a keyboard harmony aide.

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If you open (not save) a Word attachment in Windows Mail, then it will open the document up in Microsoft Word. This is saved somewhere, and you can edit the file and save it (i.e. no "save as" dialog appears). If you then close Word without explicitly saving the file somewhere, how do you then find the edited file? (Assuming that it can be found, and isn't automatically deleted).
Windows Search does not find the file (presumably because it's in the folders that are excluded from search).
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It's probably either in the Windows temporary directory, which is by default in "C:\Windows\Temp", or in the user's temporary directory which is in "C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Local Settings\Temp\".
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If it can help someone, it was in temporary internet files. (I wonder why no answer has been picked by the author.) – Etiennebr Dec 15 '11 at 19:02
First, whenever you discover you edited and saved an email attachment, try not to open it from your mail application again. Doing so, might overwrite the edited file with the version from the email message, which will discard your edits. Fortunately, most often a newly opened file will get stored in a different temporary folder, so this might be your lucky day.
Windows Explorer will not show the true contents of the Temporary Internet Files folder. Hence, if you know part of the file name, you need to use the command prompt:
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UW researcher links storytelling and mathematical ability
Two years later, the children were brought back to the laboratory and were given a number of tests of academic achievement that included a test of mathematical achievement. What O'Neill found was that those children who scored highly on the mathematics test had also scored highly on certain measures of their storytelling ability two years earlier.
"It was only certain aspects of storytelling that were related to later mathematical ability. Most strongly predictive of children's mathematical performance was their ability to relate all the different events in the story, to shift clearly from the actions of one character to another, and to adopt the perspective of different characters and talk about what they were feeling or thinking," explained O'Neill.
UW researcher links storytelling and mathematical ability (Eureka Alert (press release))
My English-major brain is reeling with puns on "perspective" and "story problems." While I've only read the press release, and not the full academic article, I wonder whether there will be anything in it to shed light on the narratology vs. ludology debate in computer games studies.


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identical hearts and since its not identical mathematically it must mean the theory behind heart disease is wrong because EVERY heart is not identical.
To disprove a theory such as this you cannot disprove it as you have. That's not how science works. You have to attempt to prove it and find what breaks it so completely that is disproven. Please site an example that none of them matched (not just a majority). You seem to have made many test but refuse to examine the averages that fall almost exactly on the ratio.
No ones ratio will be exactly 1.6... But the more times you test it the closer to 1.6 it becomes. The golden ratio is not an exact answer. But put your results through calculus graphing. You'll find like limits, the more samples you take the closer to the limit 1.6 your graph will get.
Examining individual samples and not as a whole is not how you do math or science.
You have not disproven or even dented the golden ratio argument. You have only argued variable facts that supporters of the golden ratio theories have already successfully explained the apparent discrepancies of.
If you simply ignore the fact that math is the measurement of patterns in nature and that the golden ratio is the continuously occuring pattern in life... You did not disprove the golden ratio, you disproved math and science.
When math disproves itself it typically means the person was wrong as math cannot disprove itself by its nature. I believe that your mis-printing of the ratio fraction is the primary cause. Your equation is basically converting pi to 3.14 before calculations. That kind of early conversion of a fixed number causes massive discrepancies in your math. By not converting my ratios, my equations always had a smaller +- variable than my professor in calculus. I assume you expecting exacting answers in a soft science, refusing to view all of your result objectively (via scatter plot or averages) led to this extreme inconsistencies in your attempted disprovable of this theory.
The nature of life is its an approximation, a rounding of a universal equation we have not unlocked. But the golden ratio is ultimately part of it as the golden ratio is the closest number we can get to infinite.
Just a quick reminder: you absolutly can calculate the ratio by 1 + sqrt(2) / 5 just as well as with your "feed back loop". Two methods for the same results.
Here your "feed back loop" formula is shown under the section "continued form" and the square root formula is shown under the "algebraic form" section.
BTW, fun fact: How much decimals of PI does NASA use for their highest precision orbital calculations? 10,000? 5,000? 1,000?
Just 15! For the Voyager spacecraft this imprecision equates with an error of its position of only 1.5 inches after travelling more than 12.5 billion miles.
PatronDemon, having read the Wikipedia article on the Golden Ratio, I do require now some proof of your horror. The Wikipedia article derives the Golden Ratio from the quadratic solution for x^2 - x -1 = 0 per the definition of self-similarity of line segment ratios. That is also the definition and derivation quoted by the author. The Wikipedia article also lists your continued fraction as an alternate formulation for the same number. Where's the horror?
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I agree with some of your points at a high level, but at the very least they do have the equation correct. It's not an approximation -- the irrationality is derived from the square root of 5. I was caught off guard myself when I first saw such a simply-defined expression being equated to phi.
But the math works out to the same expression you provided.
Let x = (1 + sqrt(5)) / 2
x = 1 + 1 / x
= 1 / ((1 + sqrt(5)) / 2)
= 2 / (1 + sqrt(5)) : [1/(a/b) = b/a]
= 2*(1 - sqrt(5)) / (1 - 5) : [multiply by (1 - sqrt(5))/(1 - sqrt(5))]
= 2*(1 - sqrt(5)) / (-4) : [simplify denominator by addition]
= (1 - sqrt(5)) / (-2) : [cancel out factor of 2]
= (sqrt(5) - 1) / 2 : [bring negative sign up to the numerator]
That's 1/x, so now add 1 to get (1 + 1/x):
= 2/2 + (sqrt(5) - 1) / 2 : [2/2 = 1 and 1/x = (sqrt(5) - 1) / 2]
= (2 + sqrt(5) - 1) / 2 : [combine fractions with same denominator]
= (1 + sqrt(5)) / 2 : [combine terms in numerator, 2 - 1 = 1]
Thus, x = 1 + 1/x if x = (1+sqrt(5))/2
Personally, the significance of the square root of 5 reminds me of the dodecahedron (made of pentagons) which Plato thought to represent the cosmos.
Wow, thank you so much. Somehow you manage to help me understanding a lot more about statistic and how math should be applied in soft science. I'm not an expert on the field though, so I can only give you this message as appreciation for taking time to explain this throughly. I also understand more why calculus is so important in finding the limit, something which evade me for 2 years of watching youtube video on the subject.
1.- 820/261 = 3.14176 (numérica)
2.- (1+ 1/5) * (Phi)^2 = 3.141641 (geométrica)
Chris, I was doing my due diligence for a project I wanted to do concerning the golden ratio and wanted to provide an example of the golden ratio (or golden spiral) in nature and web page after page gave me "examples" of what I thought I was looking for. Upon closer inspection, it seemed wild conjecture that the spiral used was a golden spiral and was in reality, I thought, just a logarithmic spiral of which there can be many types. I also saw many works of art with golden rectangles all over them showing positions of features. Seeing these, I thought I could take any photo or work of art and go golden rectangle hunting to find these relationships among the features. I thought the whole thing a scam or I was missing some point until I saw your article that expressed my state of mind perfectly.
I do like your inclusive of the fact that the golden ratio does not need any embellishment. I do think the ratio to be pleasing and have included in some furniture designs I have done but understand that this choice might not be the most appealing to all. When faced with design choices on placement, considering golden ratio relationships is not a bad place to start.
+1 Well put.
As an architecture student in the 70's-80's I desperately wanted to find proof that modernism
was not simply a "stylistic expression of a particular philosophy"
Studying Corbu's Modulor on my own, I realized that, while a great architect, logical argument was not his forte... I still have the metal stencils of his alphabet someplace.
I believe that your article is based on Dr. Murkowsky's 1992 article, "Misconceptions about the Golden Ratio", which like your article, is dismissive of applications of the Golden Ratio to art in architecture in western culture starting with Classical Greece. Devlin, who often quotes Murkowsky's article, seems to attribute the "popularization" of the Golden Ratio to the minor character Adolf Zeising.
I believe this dismissive arguments are in error. First, artists and architects are not usually in the habit of explicitly documenting their reasoning behind their creative decisions and leaving behind such written evidence for historians. Secondly, during the European Renaissance, Euclid's Elements was the foundational textbook on geometry and mathematics. This textbook has no less than ten references to the "Extreme and Mean Ratio", and any student of geometry learning from this text would have had to work through the several propositions that required the Golden Ratio.
Euclid's Elements was required study in European universities up until the mid 20th century, and it would be hard to explain why the "Extreme and Mean Ratio" would not have an undue influence on western art and architecture, since I imagine these learned artists and architects of the past all having a copy of this textbook on their bookshelves.
The Parthenon, built only two centuries before Euclid of Alexandria summarized ancient Greek knowledge of geometry in Elements, does have elements of the Golden Ratio in its design, the most obvious are within inscribed artwork within the upper facade, where many golden rectangles are found. Murkowsky's dismissal of the front of the Parthenon having Golden Ratio proportions have to do with the convenient subtraction of the stylobate (the base foundation and the series of steps of that lead to the level where the columns are placed), and he makes no further investigation into application of the Golden Ratio in the Parthenon's architecture. This dismissal has been repeated by Devlin and Livio and others, and is unfortunate, as it is reaching mythical proportions.
The Golden Ratio has been found throughout Renaissance art and architecture and beyond. For instance, consider the


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In this demo I will be showing how to put PlaceHolder text on textbox control on Powershell WPF (Windows presentation framework) GUI. here I have 3 textboxes. When I launches GUI, all the textboxes shows some default darkgray color watermark text information. When I click on them text will automatically disappear and you can start typing your own text without removing or deleting default text. If there is no text on the box or empty and when you move on to another box, It will show the default help message automatically.
I have created default XAML form with visual studio. Textbox color is Darkgray, I have found 2 events on .NET API Reference documentation by Microsoft. I have given 2 url below, It shows how to achieve watermark textbox.
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There are two main events gotfocus and lostfocus. This defines if there is no text what will happened when I click textbox or click another textbox. Here in the first event gotfocus, When I click on the text box, if it finds text is 'Type valid First Name', Textbox becomes empty and font color is changed to black.
$FirstName.Add_GotFocus({
 if ($FirstName.Text -eq 'Type valid First Name') {
 $FirstName.Foreground = 'Black'
 $FirstName.Text = ''
 }
})
In the next when I click somewhere else on any other control, and if textbox is empty it will change the text to 'Type valid First Name' and color will change to default one Darkgray.
$FirstName.Add_LostFocus({
 if ($FirstName.Text -eq '') {
 $FirstName.Text = 'Type valid First Name'
 $FirstName.Foreground = 'Darkgray'
 }
})
You can download this script here, it is also available on github.com.
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#Load required libraries
Add-Type -AssemblyName PresentationFramework, PresentationCore, WindowsBase, System.Windows.Forms, System.Drawing
[xml]$xaml = @"
<Window
 xmlns="_URL_
 xmlns:x="_URL_
 xmlns:d="_URL_
 xmlns:mc="_URL_
 xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WpfApplication2"
 Title="PlaceHolder Text Demo" Height="141" Width="300" Topmost="True">
 <Grid>
 <TextBox x:Name="FirstName" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="23" Margin="10,10,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="Type valid First Name" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="200" Foreground="DarkGray" />
 <TextBox x:Name="LastName" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="23" Margin="10,38,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="Type valid Last Name" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="200" Foreground="DarkGray"/>
 <TextBox x:Name="Contry" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="23" Margin="10,66,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="Type valid contry" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="200" Foreground="DarkGray"/>
 </Grid>
</Window>
"@
#Read the form
$Reader = (New-Object System.Xml.XmlNodeReader $xaml)
$Form = [Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load($reader)
#AutoFind all controls
$xaml.SelectNodes("//*[@*[contains(translate(name(.),'n','N'),'Name')]]") | ForEach-Object {
 New-Variable -Name $_.Name -Value $Form.FindName($_.Name) -Force
}
#Textbox placeholder remove default text when textbox clicked
$FirstName.Add_GotFocus({

 if ($FirstName.Text -eq 'Type valid First Name') {
 $FirstName.Foreground = 'Black'
 $FirstName.Text = ''
 }
})
#Textbox placeholder grayed out text when textbox clicked
$FirstName.Add_LostFocus({
 if ($FirstName.Text -eq '') {
 $FirstName.Text = 'Type valid First Name'
 $FirstName.Foreground = 'Darkgray'
 }
})
#Textbox placeholder remove default text when textbox clicked
$LastName.Add_GotFocus({

 if ($LastName.Text -eq 'Type valid Last Name') {
 $LastName.Foreground = 'Black'
 $LastName.Text = ''
 }
})
#Textbox placeholder grayed out text when textbox clicked
$LastName.Add_LostFocus({
 if ($LastName.Text -eq '') {
 $LastName.Text = 'Type valid Last Name'
 $LastName.Foreground = 'Darkgray'
 }
})
#Textbox placeholder remove default text when textbox clicked
$Contry.Add_GotFocus({

 if ($Contry.Text -eq 'Type valid contry') {
 $Contry.Foreground = 'Black'
 $Contry.Text = ''
 }
})
#Textbox placeholder grayed out text when textbox clicked
$Contry.Add_LostFocus({
 if ($Contry.Text -eq '') {
 $Contry.Text = 'Type valid contry'
 $Contry.Foreground = 'Darkgray'
 }
})
#Mandetory last line of every script to load form
$Form.ShowDialog()
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The grand Livadia Palace was created as a summer palace for Tsar Nikolas II. It was designed in the Italian Renaissance style by architect N. Krasnov (1864 - 1939).
Livadia was built on the site of the old palace and took seventeen months to build (from April 1910 - September 1911). Modern technologies were used to build the palace. No expenses were spared and besides Inkerman stone, the architect used all kinds of expensive material to create this beautiful White Palace. Its main entrance was designed in the form of a protruded portico and decorated with Carrera marble. The other portico was built in Arabian style and both are in their original form.
The Livadia Palace is of course known for a significant and historic event of the Second World War which took place here - the Yalta Conference.
This gallery holds pictures of the ground floor rooms where the Yalta Conference was held, as well as the first floor rooms with portraits of Tsar Nikolas II and his family, the Palace grounds and the Romanov family chapel.
Read more on Livadia (White) Palace HERE.


Reaching the Unreached Tribes of Peru
by Peter Hocking
The apostle Paul had the strategy of taking the gospel 'where Christ was not known' (Rom. 15:20). Similarly in this article we will consider as 'unreached' any tribe that does not have an evangelical church of any kind.
The years _PHONE_ saw the first mission work in the jungles of Peru, which focused on evangelising Spanish-speaking people. Progress was slow, but the Lord blessed the work and a number of small churches were established. From 1940 mission workers arrived with a call to reach tribal people. They began the work among tribes that were open to engaging with outsiders. As more workers arrived, progress was made in establishing relationships with tribal groups that previously had been hostile to foreigners. By 2000, most of Peru's tribes had at least a few groups of believers and parts of God's Word in their own language. At this stage, some mission groups felt that their task had been completed and began to phase out their work among the tribes of Peru. However, from field research we realise that there is still much to be done and so our concern remains. We hope to see a healthy church, capable of reproducing itself, in every tribal group.
In Peru, tribes can be classified as follows:
- Tribes that have numerous churches - 19 tribes, including: the Machiguengas and the Shipibo Conibo in the Amazon Basin. Most of these have formed their own association of churches and several have Bible institutes, as well as the New Testament and some books of the Old Testament in their own language.
- Tribes that have a few weak churches - 22 tribes, including: the Amarakaeri, along the Madre de Dios and Colorado Rivers; the Kulina, in south-eastern Peru; and the Piro or Yine, living in the Cusco, Loreto and Ucayali Regions. These tribes have a few churches and some sections of the Bible, but are weak due to syncretism and a lack of spiritual leadership. Mission workers are needed to work with them, to encourage, teach and improve their understanding of how to apply the Scriptures to their lives.
- Unreached tribes who have no church - 16 tribes, including: the Maijuna, found in the north-eastern Peruvian Amazon; and the Yora, in the Madre de Dios and Ucayali Regions. As yet ten of these tribes have no gospel contact.1
From this third group, there are six unreached tribes that have had some outside contact and have formed small villages. Among these are the Maijunas, the Chitonahuas and the Yaminahuas. They plant crops, speak a little Spanish and trade farm produce with travelling merchants. The ten other tribes live as families scattered in the jungle and depend on hunting and gathering wild fruit. They are primitive, nomadic people, almost entirely naked and possess very few tools.
These tribes have a long history of being exploited and mistreated either by a powerful neighbouring tribe or the Mestizo, those from the Spanish-speaking culture. When the lumber industry invades their territory, the natives who protest at the cutting down of their trees are then killed.
Members of these tribes believe that everything is controlled by spirits, most of which are evil. However, they also believe that there are good spirits that protect and heal them. The shaman is the most important person in their community, as they believe he understands how to bring protection from evil spirits and how to engage good spirits. They think that all sickness is caused by a form of witchcraft and consequently are beholden to the shaman.
These tribes are animist, living in constant dread of the jungle's evil spirits. They fear death, believing that in the next life their spirits will spend their existence wandering around unable to find rest. Drunkenness and immorality are endemic in their culture. They have no concept of sin or the power of Christ, who defeated evil through His death on the cross.
Due to their negative experiences with the timber industry, the tribes fear strangers and attack mission workers who penetrate their territory uninvited. However, some of these nomads are beginning to emerge from the jungle of their own accord, cautiously seeking peaceful contact with neighbouring tribes. This gives hope for sharing the gospel with them.
When the Lord first led us, and our Peruvian co-workers, to evangelise the Yanesha tribe 30 years ago, we limited each visit to a duration of two weeks. Based in the Peruvian Amazon, the tribe had weak churches and had asked for our help in training local leadership. The Yanesha are bilingual so we taught in Spanish, sometimes requesting that one of the church leaders explain to others what we were teaching. However, it appeared that believers were not taking the teaching seriously and were failing to put it into practice in their lives. We prayed more and provided clearer teaching, but there was no significant change. Some of our co-workers decided to stay and live in one of their villages; this revealed that 'Christians' still went to the shaman with their health problems, would get drunk at village feasts and were unfaithful to their wives. Outwardly they seemed to be good Christians, but in their private lives they were no different from other tribal people. This was because of their animistic world view. They had embraced Christianity and had added it to their other beliefs but what really ruled their lives was animism. They had become syncretistic.
We changed our pattern of teaching and began to lay a solid foundation of Old Testament truth that would enable people to better understand the gospel. Previously, people believed in Christ as the 'Powerful One', but not as their Lord and Saviour. They did not understand the seriousness of sin, or the holiness and justice of God. They could not recognise that the spirits, whose help they sought, were demonic, bent on deceiving and destroying them.
From experience, it is necessary to teach the Old Testament chronologically, beginning with Genesis Chapter 1, explaining the nature of God, how He views sin and the need of a substitutionary sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins. Through providing a foundation, people begin to understand their lost condition, understand the person of Jesus Christ and have a genuine conversion experience. Several years ago, we began teaching in this way to the Christians we were working with in the Asháninka tribe, based in the rainforests of Peru. Encouraging changes are now evident in their lives. After a teacher-training seminar, one of the Christian leaders testified: "I have come to realise that I have been preaching about God without really knowing Him! With what I have learned now, I cannot continue doing some of the things that I have been doing!"
It is our prayer that the unreached tribes of Peru, and of the world, may receive and gain an understanding of the gospel, leading to their salvation and laying a firm foundation for church growth.
1. For more information on this ministry, see the Asosiación Segadores (Segadores Association) website:


Medical Devices
Software Design
From Verified Model
to Verified Code
Heart Modeling
for Closed-loop
Evaluation of Pacemakers
Let our heart catch the bugs
Before your heart does
Pacemaker Software
with heart models
Safety and efficacy performance
of the pacemaker
at model level
Low-cost platform
for pacemaker
Evaluation & research
From Verified Models to Verified Code
Our objective is to develop the scientific foundation for modeling, verification, synthesis, testing and optimization of safe software for Medical Cyber-Physical Systems. We focus on the safety of medical devices with the patient-in-the-loop and ensure the device will never drive the patient into an unsafe state while providing effective therapy. Our group's long term goal is to advance the theory and tools for model-driven development of medical devices and physiological control systems, so code generated from verified models is safe and efficient with closed-loop operation of the patient.
Heart Modeling for Closed-loop Evaluation of Pacemakers
The safety and efficacy of the device should be evaluated in the closed-loop state space of the heart and the pacemaker. A heart model is developed at both model level and implementation level to close the loop for pacemaker evaluation during the whole model-based design process.
Pacemaker Software Verification
The safety and efficacy of the model of pacemaker software are evaluated in closed-loop with heart models at different abstraction levels. Counter-Example-Guided Abstraction and Refinement (CEGAR) framework is used to choose the appropriate heart model which balances the coverage and the expressiveness.
Model-based Design Framework
A model-driven development toolchain automatically translates formally verified models, which represent over-approximations of the realistic models, into deterministic models which can interact with real controllers within realistic environments. The model translation process guarantees that the properties verified in the early stage were still satisfied, as the system model was refined. As the verified model is translated into executable code for physical implementation, it is validated using conformance testing procedures based on the initial system specification.
Physiological Control Systems
We focus on closed-loop safety analysis of physiological control systems which include networked sensors and actuators for drug delivery with complex patient-in-loop dynamics. These systems include Patient Controlled Analgesic infusion pumps where the controller is responsible for releasing the programmed dosage of the drug to the patient, while ensuring the patient is safe. Currently, patient safety can not be guaranteed due to an insufficient understanding of the body's response to treatment and the high degree of parametric uncertainty and variability between patients. For automated closed-loop control, we must thus use continuous monitoring of the patient's vitals to determine the safety state they are in, and based on a conservative over-approximation of the patient's dynamics, release the adequate dosage.


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Watch the 6ths online guitar lesson by Jeff McErlain from Blues Survival Guide: Rhythm Edition
Sliding 6ths always sounds good in a blues and is essential to blues survival! We can hear it on almost every blues tune and it always sounds sweet. The reason it always sounds great is that a 6th can be seen as an inverted 3rd and chords are made up of thirds. In this example I am playing the diatonic 6ths of G mixolydian (C major). We can see that some of these sound better than others this is because best sounding ones are the 6ths that contain the chord tones of the G7 chord. For example G to B is the 3rd and 7th of G7, but if we invert that interval so we get B to G we can see those two notes become a major 6th.


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|The Columbia Basin Wildlife Area includes about 192,000 acres across many different units within the "Big Bend" of the Columbia River in Grant and Adams counties. Although managed by WDFW, most of these lands are owned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) or other federal and state agencies. Many were acquired as mitigation for habitat inundation from Columbia River dams.
These units provide habitat for numerous wetland dependent wildlife species, such as migrating waterfowl and shorebirds, as well as upland game birds. Columbia spotted frogs, sagebrush lizards, Columbia River tiger beetles, burrowing owls, golden eagles, loggerhead shrikes, sage sparrows, sage thrashers, western grebes, black-tailed jack rabbits, striped whipsnakes, and Washington ground squirrels can be found on most of the units.


Collaborate vs. Corroborate – What's the Difference?
When you work together with people toward a shared goal, are you corroborating with them, or collaborating with them?
Likewise, what are you doing when you confirm someone else's telling of events with your own account of what happened?
If you cannot decide which word refers to which scenario, you are not alone. All writers misuse words, and collaborate and corroborate are easy words to confuse. They sound very similar, and they are not commonly used verbs.
Still, they refer to different activities, and cannot be freely substituted for each other. You should be careful to use words intentionally whenever you write—and especially so when writing for professional or academic situations. These are the instances where collaborate and corroborate are more likely to be used anyway.
What is the Difference Between Collaborate and Corroborate?
In this post, I will compare collaborate vs. corroborate. I will use each word in example sentences to illustrate its proper use and context.
Plus, I will outline a mnemonic that you can use to decide whether collaborate or corroborate is the word you actually mean to use in your sentence.
When to Use Collaborate
collaborate versus corroborate What does collaborate mean? Collaborate is a verb. It means to work together on a project or activity.
For example,
 - "I would love to collaborate with my favorite author on my new novel, but my favorite author is dead," said the writer.
 - "Collaboration begets innovation!" Sue reminded her coworkers.
 - The effort to collaborate with and interact with a wider segment of Americans beyond D.C. politicians and staffers is essential, both to bring new ideas into the Beltway and to encourage private efforts in lieu of or to supplement public initiatives. –The Washington Post
When to Use Corroborate
Definition of corroborate definition and definition of collaborate definition What does corroborate mean? Corroborate is a also verb that means to confirm or verify, as if by outside, confirming evidence. Corroborate often appears in legal and scientific contexts.
For example,
 - "Security footage from the casino corroborates the suspect's story," said the investigator.
 - "Our findings are corroborated by a wide body of existing literature," said the researcher.
 - My plea of innocence was corroborated by eyewitness accounts that the robbery was actually committed by a flying robot.
 - Sergey Betov, a Belarussian doubles specialist, was first found to bear no fault or negligence in April, after the low concentration of meldonium in his sample was shown to corroborate his account of having last taken meldonium in October. –The New York Times
Trick to Remember the Difference
Define corroborate and define collaborate Here is a helpful trick to remember corroborate vs. collaborate.
Collaborate and corroborate are both verbs, but they mean different things. If you notice that the word collaborate contains the word labor, it should be easy to remember that collaborate means to work together. This way, you will always know which verb to choose.
Is it collaborate or corroborate? Many English users confuse these words because they sound so similar. However, there are no contexts in which they are interchangeable, and you must be careful to use the correct one when you write.
 - Collaborate and corroborate are both verbs.
 - To collaborate is to work together on something.
 - To corroborate is to confirm or support something with evidence.
One easy way to keep these words straight in your mind is by noticing that the word collaborate contains the word labor. Since collaborate means to work together and labor is a synonym of work, remembering when to choose collaborate is as simple as looking at its spelling.
In summary,
 - Collaborate means to work together.
 - Corroborate means to confirm with supporting evidence.


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Climate change, REDD+, gender, safeguards.Master in Socio-Environmental Studies.
Saraswati Rodríguez has worked for over 12 years in international institutions and programs such as UN REDD, UN Women, the Initiative for Conservation of the Andean Amazon (ICAA), and in environmental NGOs of Ecuador. She has advised the Ministry of Environment of Ecuador on climate change, REDD+, gender, and safeguards. Her experience on safeguards has taken her to Peru and Colombia where she worked with environmental institutions. She is also an activist for women's rights.
Saraswati is a specialist in social and environmental safeguards for REDD+, climate change programs, GCF and GEF standards, gender mainstreaming, gender inequalities and gender policies. She has been involved in Ecuador's climate change related programs and had a leading role developing the social and environmental safeguards for REDD+ in this country.
Saraswati has a Master's degree in Socio Environmental Studies by FLACSO Ecuador, and a Bachelor's in Anthropology by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE).


Slime Twister (Click Here) and Slop-stacle Course (Click Here).
Back to Top Jello Belly Flop
In the winter, have a belly flop contest in a baby pool full of Jello. Lay a tarp over a big old mattress under the baby pool.
Idea by Young Life
Also see Jello Twister (Click Here).
Back to Top Joust : Sick & Twisted
Just like Joust (Click Here), only played outside over a baby pool filled with gross ingredients (oatmeal, instant potatoes, etc.). You can either use buckets or a 4x4 plank of sturdy wood long enough to reach across your pool. (Prop up the ends of your plank so the pool is not crushed).
Two contestants with Nerf joust sticks (or pool noodles) and helmets battle on the plank to knock each other off into the pool.
Lots of preparation required and safety consciousness on this one. Make sure the board doesn't get too slippery. You might even want gymnastic mats around the pool.
Play near a bathroom and have towels (or a hose) handy for clean-up.
Added by Young Life
Back to Top King of Goats
Outdoor or Indoor. Choose a "goat" from the group (or one from each team) and have it removed while the groups are given instructions. The crowd (one group) is instructed to stand on the sidelines and shout instructions to the goat, while the circle group (the other group) is told to form a circle holding hands. The goat is to be put in the center of the circle blindfolded.
At the signal, the goat is to start chasing the circle and the circle is to move as a whole to avoid being caught. When the goat is ready to start, the circle group is instructed in his presence to move silently and to make no sound. The goat is to listen to the sideline crowd for instructions where to go to catch the circle. As soon as the start signal is given, the crowd starts shouting instructions to the goat, such as, "Go to the right, the right, now go back, straight ahead."
The minute the game starts, the circle team, instructed before the goat arrived, immediately disbands and joins the crowd, leaving the goat in a an empty field. Let the goat run for a short time or until the goat guesses what is going on.
Added by Young Life
Back to Top Land Mines
Materials needed:
water balloons for outside
styrofoam cups for inside.
Set up a "mine field" by randomly placing the water balloons (or cups) in a marked section of ground. A concrete slab or basketball court works well for this. Grass also works, but you will need to set boundaries.
Divide students into teams of 4 or 5. Give each team a blindfold. Put the blindfolds on one member of each team. The point of the game is for the team to get across the mine field with the fewest casualties the fastest.
If a person touches a mine he/she is out (if it bursts water on them, it just makes it more fun). A quick twist can be that if a person is out, then the ref makes it known by pouring a glass of water on their head. The team members must be their eyes and tell them which way to go. The blindfolded people crossing the field must stay within the set boundaries, and only one person per team may be on the mine field at a time (so they can't lead them by touch). Team members help each other by shouting directions. Works best if mines are close together and if teams are close together. Sponsors may yell out random directions to try to throw them off.
The trick is (don't tell the kids this until after it's over) for the person in the mine field to pick out a certain voice and listen to that one voice.
The Point: Just like we need to listen to God's voice instead of all the voices that the world throws at us.
Added by Derek
Back to Top Line Tag
This works great in a gym with lots of lines or an AWANA circle.
-No one may step off the line.
-When you are tagged, you are "dazed and confused". Sit down!
-You may not go around anyone, including the dazed and confused, unless you are 'it'.
-You may not cut corners; hence, you must step on the intersection of the line.
'It' tends to get tired quick, so when this happens, tell 'it' to choose a "lovely assistant" to trap people easier. Make sure the lovely assistant walks, not runs.
You can also use the same concept for line basketball and line soccer, depending on your facility.
Added by Jon Talley
Back to Top Marshmallow Splat Ball
Outdoor or Indoor. Have students wear grubby clothes that can be thrown away. Divide into 4 or more teams and arm each person with a small Styrofoam plate and 4 marshmallows.
Give each team captain (adult) a different color dipping sauce (we used Mustard, Red, & Green Catsup, and Chocolate Syrup, but you can use your imagination). Then map out the boundaries, and send each team to a corner of the playing field as a designated area to load up. Fill each plate with the splat substance. Then tell them to dip and on your signal begin throwing them at the other teams. The team with the most hits wins, but once the slime pellets start to fly no one cares.
When they run out of marshmallows they can either pick one up from the ground, and re-dip, or run back to the supply station until the ammo runs out. When the fun was done we had a contest to see which team could pick up the most marshmallows. The prize was dumping a bottle of maple syrup over a leader's head (stolen from the 'Ten Bags of Doom'). We serve a fun God!
Added by Jon Nowlin
Also see Ten Bags of Doom! (Click Here).
Back to Top Melon Fest
Watermelon Helmet Contest
That's right, have each team carve a helmet (or helmets) out of watermelons. You can go for the gladiator look or more of the Darth Vador look. Team members must wear helmets throughout the event.
Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest
(Need I explain?)
Cantaloupe Bowling
Create a bowling alley in the parking lot and set up 2 liter bottles at the end. Leave the 2 liters full and give a bonus if you bust the 2 liter bottles open.
Melon Armor
Give each team a ball of string, a roll of duct tape, a knife, and about 5 of each melon. Have each team dress one of their team members in FULL MELON ARMOR. That's right, dress up this person in as much armor, made of melons, as humanly possible. (You might want to make the team member a guy!)
Watermelon Toss
You guessed it! Get your two strongest guys to do the age old egg toss (line up facing each other, toss to team mate, back up a step, toss back, and so on...) but with a much heavier item! CAN'T hit the ground. Last pair still tossing wins!
Seedless Watermelon Eating Contest
Bring 2 representatives from each team up front-- an eater and a cutter. At "Go" the cutter starts cutting watermelon for the eater to eat. Eater scarfs down as many watermelons down in a given period of time.
Ultimate Cantaloupe
This is just like Ultimate Frisbee... but with a cantaloupe! Divide into two teams, each trying to get to the opposite end zone. Instead of a kick-off, just have one team start on their side of the field. When a player catches the cantaloupe, they can take only 3 steps then they must throw/toss it. Team work their way down the field, passing to each other until a team scores. If the team's melon hits the ground, it's the other teams ball (frisbee actually).
 An added twist: if one team busts the cantaloupe, the other team automatically scores (have extra cantaloupes available). No knocking the melon down, like in ultimate frisbeein Ultimate Cantaloupe, it always goes to the opposite team of the last person to touch it before it hits the ground. Defensive players must give any person already holding a cantaloupe at least 3 feet clearance.
Bobbing for Melons
This game requires a pool or some other large body of water. You can play this many waysone way is to fill a pool with all kinds of melons, even a few vegetables of choice (cucumbers, squash, etc.) Then give a team a certain amount of time to retrieve the melons, vegetables, etc.
Increase the degree of difficulty by doing this at night with no lights, or putting Vasoline all over the watermelon.
Steal the Melon
That's right. Plain ol' "Steal the Bacon" with greased watermelon in the center. (Line up two teams facing each other, number them off, call a number and that person has to grab the watermelon and get it back to their side).
Also see Watermelon Polo (Click Here).
Back to Top Mess Mix
Get 30 cut-up pieces of paper. Have 10 blank and on the other 20 put different types of "Mess" (examples: Pie in face, Syrup on head, etc.). Be prepared for a big mess by telling kids


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A distinctive Scottish surname of numerous spellings: Creighton,Crighton,Crichten, which is of territorial origin from the barony of Crichton in Midlothian. The earliest recorded witnessed a charter by King David c.1128
Sanquhar in Nithsdale,Dumfriesshire was home to the Crichtons remembered in the ballad The Lads of Wamphray for their feud with the Johnstones of Annandale.The title Lord Crichton of Sanquhar (1488) in later generations was elevated when 9th Lord Crichton was created Earl of Dumfries (1633). This title was inherited by the Crichton-Stuarts,Marquesses of Bute,whose heir apparent retains the title Earl of Dumfries. The current 7th Marquess was known as Johnny Dumfries when driving in F1 motor racing.
The Crichton,Viscounts of Frendraught in Banffshire acquired this land through marriage with the Dunbars. They were supporters of Montrose and Jacobite sympathisers eventually exiled to France.
Another branch settled in Ireland shortly after the Plantation of Ulster.Taking land about 1613 in Co.Fermanagh they became Earls of Erne and still live at Crum Castle.Accounts differ as to their origins.Some say they descend from the Crichton,Viscounts of Frendraught and others,from the Crichton,Lairds of Brunston near Edinburgh. In 1872 the Earl of Erne changed the spelling from Creighton to Crichton.
The current chief of clan Crichton,David Maitland Makgill Crichton of that Ilk lives at Monzie Castle in Perthshire and is a Member of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs.Their tartan is of recent origin, based on the colours of the family arms and the Makgill tartan.It was registered in 2009 for the last Clan Gathering in Edinburgh.
The Crichton name has disappeared from the roll of peerage and their once mighty castles are now no more. Crichton castle in the care of Historic Scotland is a magnificent ruin and testimony of their previous power,Sanquar castle is a much reduced ruin and of Frendraught tower not a vestige remains.


410 Angel Number – Meaning and Symbolism
No doubt, the Universe is sending you signs! And if you are a little receptive, you can use them to your advantage.
If the angel numbers interest you, discover the particular meaning of the hour 410, through the study of Angels, Numerology and Tarot!
410 is a leader, a personality you cannot forget. It marks our lives in profound degrees, in areas that are specific to it.
This number indicates a certain tendency to domination, but a brilliant destiny is reserved for it.
Number 410 – What Does It Mean?
You have no doubt already felt this strange feeling, linked to constantly falling on the same angel number.
They are called angel numbers and this phenomenon affects many people. So what importance should we give them?
It will depend on the beliefs and convictions of each individual. For some, these recurring figures are nothing more than a coincidence. Others will say that these phenomena of synchronicity have a very precise meaning.
The 410 is the ultimate representation of strength, mastery and courage. He has a very strong inspiration and a powerful intuition.
This strong number must follow its path, and it is not uncommon for this one to take it very far.
It is also endowed with power of action and destruction. He has great spiritual mastery, and he will have an important social role to play in society and on other higher planes.
The 410 is in direct connection with the spiritual world, the poetic impulses, the gifts of clairvoyance, mediumship, and the premonitory or prophetic visions. He can help and guide others.
The angel number 410, tells you that an angelic being enlightens you with its divine light, to guide you in the direction of your life mission. Discover the Angel's message that governs the 410 angel number!
The guardian angel corresponding to the 410 am angel number is called Lehahiah. It operates between 4:10 a.m. and 4:10 a.m. It symbolizes serenity and luck. This Angel warns you that you are currently in the necessary arrangements to complete your life plans.
If you are going through a difficult period, take a step back, calm down and focus on the positive attractions of your existence. It is important to stipulate that the 410, can mean the best as the worst. You must therefore learn to channel your energies and ill-mastered forces.
Through the 410 angel number, Lehahiah tells you that he is watching over you. Hear his divine guidance. It gives you the strength to act and invites you to refocus on yourself, to find your inner balance.
You are able to work for the human cause, in the broadest sense of the word. But beware of your tendency to want to dominate the other.
The accomplishment of your being, will pass by the force of will, the intelligence, the patience and the sense of the observation. Serenity will be the key to your success and a good psychological balance.
Under the influence of the master number master, you have inner mastery and the power of the mind over matter. You just need to learn to channel these powerful energies, to successfully achieve your goals and be in tune with your life mission.
The Force blade is represented by a woman who tames the lion effortlessly, making us understand that the power of intelligence, triumphs over the strength of the beast.
The arcane dressed in red and green is quietly busy taming the lion, a symbol of ardor, strength and intelligence. It does not seek to destroy the beast, but to transform it into higher and spiritual energy.
The Force Arcane represents the highest level of mastery. It pushes you to move forward. The Force warns you that the aspects and the energies are on your side.
You control your domain, don't be afraid anymore and act! Success is assured, provided you work for a just cause. You must succeed in mastering your primary instincts, in order to bring out only the qualities of your strength.
The Secret Meaning and Symbolism
The 410 angel number is revealed to you repeatedly. You see these double figures everywhere, at work, in the metro, on your watch, your computer, your phone … This phenomenon raises questions in you?
Know that it opens the way for spiritual connection. Do not ignore these digital duplicates, because they are heavy with meaning. Angel numbers are a way for the universe to get in touch with you, to deliver a divine message to you.
If you want to know more, discover through the study of Angels, Numerology and Tarot, the interpretation of the 410 angel number!
In Numerology, the reduced 410 brings us back to unity 3. The 3 symbolizes the principle of the divine trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. It refers us to all the trilogies past, present, future, or birth, life, death …
The 410 is a strong symbolic number, and it is in direct link with mysticism and spirituality.
In the number 410, the 1 is presented as the chief, the creator, the father. He has the will, the courage, he symbolizes the beginning, the renewal.
Unlike 4, which symbolizes uncertainty. The 2 swings between two poles, between two choices. It expresses the law of opposites. It is not surprising that 410 is represented by the Arcane of the Hanged Man in Tarology.
Your guides and spiritual beings are watching over you, no doubt. When you are at a crossroads, these light beings send you signals. Be attentive to these celestial manifestations, because they are intended to guide you towards the accomplishment of your mission of life!
The guardian angel who governs the 410 angel number is called Aniel. It works between 4:10h and 4:10. It promotes knowledge of the laws of creation.
The angel number 410 brings you divine protection and guidance. He tells you that your goals can be achieved, but that you are currently in a period where things are blocked. The only option before you is waiting.
Love and Angel Number 410
The 410 angel number tells you that you can get everything, using your quiet strength, one that speaks of love and compassion. You have the potential to lead or influence others.
But for that, you have to silence your inner demons. Be confident, you have the skills to build on solid.
In its positive aspects, the Force symbolizes the will, energy, magnetism, courage, recklessness, self-confidence, success.
Do not overlook the potential that is within you. The Force blade tells you that you are in full control of the situation. Use your intelligence, your internal power, and you will bring all your ideals to life.
In its negative aspects, force symbolizes breach of trust, the risk of physical injury, weakness, defeat, lack of initiative, violence, selfishness, pride, stubbornness…
The Reverse Force blade tells you to watch out for power struggles, indoctrination, mind manipulation, unsettling attitudes, and other techniques of domination. Do not crush your neighbor. Your success should not be at the expense of others.
The Force tells you to turn to the positive side of things. You can blindly believe in your power of intention and realization.
In all areas of your life, if you are having difficulty, activate your intelligence, patience and sense of observation. Don't move on without caring about others. Calm your nervousness, your excessiveness, and activate your lucidity.
You have full powers to achieve the goal you have set for yourself. Trust yourself, listen to your instincts, but beware of your duality.
Beware of indoctrination and manipulation, do not trust overly influential people. Take care never to crush your neighbor.
Interesting Facts about Number 410
Your angel also tells you that the skills of clairvoyance are very present in you, do not ignore them.
You are connected to the spiritual world, even if you are not aware of it. Aniel therefore invites you to develop your gifts, your listening skills and your sensitivity.
Use them wisely, they will guide you to the light throughout your life path.
The 410 angel number message tells you that your moral values are a strength. If you are going through a delicate period where everything seems frozen, know that only you have the power to make a difference.
You are simply in a limiting phase, which requires deep reflection. Tests are imposed on you, but they will allow you to bounce back.
You have to meditate on all aspects of your existence, to understand where it hurts. To do this, activate your inner knowledge (perceptions, actions and emotions), then reverse the way you apprehend or see things.
We always have lessons to learn from life, and even the most negative experiences allow us to grow. You are going through an ordeal or things are stalled.
Learn to see behind appearances, and you will see the light at the end of the path.
Seeing Angel Number 410
This number brings us back to choices, responsibilities and the search for emotional harmony.
The 410 is focused on union, love and marriage. With him, the notion of family is important.
However, he asks you not to make your love life a life of sacrifice. You can flourish, provided you are not dependent on the other.


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Indigo Mad
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 100,720. Language: English. Published: February 25, 2011 by Transmedia Books. Category: Fiction » Science fiction » General
Indigo Mad is the first in a series of sci-fi novels centered on the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, introducing Delikat, a rapidly evolving alien cyborg who accelerates her growth at a faster fate than others around her, including her human brethren, Indigo and Jake.
The Ether Dispute: Revisiting Einstein's Argument That Space is a Physical Substance
This book is about an unresolved dispute over the physical nature of space. On one hand, space appears empty. This led biblical and modern cosmologists to conclude space is an empty vacuum. But when astrophysicists from Newton to Einstein studied space, they found it exhibits physical behaviors. This led astrophysicists to conclude space is a physical substance.
Conversations avec l'au-delà
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 58,100. Language: French. Published: August 22, 2011 by Le signe bleu. Category: Fiction » Science fiction » High tech
Que se passerait-il si vous rencontriez le personnage de roman de vos rêves; si vous pouviez dialoguer avec l'auteur, disparu depuis des siècles, qui a transformé votre vie; si vous pouviez savoir ce qu'aurait été votre vie si vous aviez fait d'autres choix? Notre réalité recèle de multiples niveaux. Nos idées y prennent vie et peuplent notre existence, tout comme les âmes des disparus.
NASA Astrophysics Missions: Reviews of Operating Missions - Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope, Kepler, Planck, Suzaku, Swift, Spitzer, XMM-Newton
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 35,580. Language: English. Published: April 8, 2012. Category: Nonfiction » Science and Nature » Astronomy
This is a compilation of the reports of the NASA Senior Review Committee (SRC) for 2012, 2010, and 2008 evaluating the scientific productivity of major astrophysics missions with recommendations for continued funding.
Expanded Maxwellian Geometry of Space
Series: Our Neocortex and Objective Physical Reality, Book 3. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 130,570. Language: English. Published: May 18, 2012. Category: Nonfiction » Science and Nature » Physics / Electromagnetism
Beyond Hubble's Shadows, the Daemon Darkness Lies
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 10,960. Language: English. Published: June 20, 2012 by Rapid-Dynamix Publishing. Category: Fiction » Science fiction » High tech
The twenty-second century, Perlmutter Transantarctic Array, Antarctica. Dr. Alexei Zotov peers into the eyepiece of the observatory, into the deepest abyss of the cosmos. What is really out there? What fate does the universe have in store for us? What cosmic horrors brood in that daemon darkness, staring back at us-- seething, ravenous, remorseless-- and who shall be their scribe?
Anomaly at Fortune Lake
Series: Science Fiction for Astronomers. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 39,230. Language: English. Published: September 30, 2012. Category: Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi
On a remote lake in Canada, Ashley and Justin seek an off-the-grid lifestyle, while two anomalies merge into one. A distant galaxy exhibits unusual characteristics in Justin's amateur telescope, and something under the lake is stirring. Soon military submarine chaser aircraft from two countries are involved, and so are astronomers from around the world. It's a race to understand the anomaly.
Seaton's War
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 82,960. Language: English (New Zealand dialect). Published: September 11, 2013. Category: Fiction » Romance » General
War comes to Seaton when a Japanese submarine beaches on its shore. When the prisoners are incarcerated Kitty sees her chance to do something for the war effort. She meets Dr. Robert Anderson who is engaged in secretive work and with whom she falls in love. But who's side is he on? Pacific war, secret liaisons, the spy game and the quest for liberation in Europe weave through Kitty's story.
Wormholes Young Adult Edition
Price: $3.95 USD. Words: 107,440. Language: English. Published: September 30, 2013. Category: Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi
Exotic "wormholes" threaten Earth! Can their secrets be discovered, their power even harnessed? Or will they spawn a cosmic monster that will annihilate the planet? (This edition has been edited to eliminate adult language and situations.)


Pursuing a healthy dialogue and stigmatizing rape culture
Pursuing a healthy dialogue and stigmatizing rape culture
KUNSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — Editor's note: This commentary focuses on the perpetuation of rape culture from one Airman's perspective and offers recommendations on how to improve upon this issue in the Air Force and society as a whole.
As service members, we receive a number of mandatory sexual harassment and assault awareness briefings each year. These briefings address an array of topics, but I would like service members to be given the opportunity to gain a better understanding of what constitutes rape culture.
We've learned about the effects of sexual harassment, sexual assault and abuse, and rape, but how often do we discuss the effects of rape culture? What value would defining, identifying, and stigmatizing rape culture hold for us as an Air Force? As a society?
According to the University of New Hampshire's Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program, rape culture is defined as stereotyped, false beliefs about rape that justify sexual aggression and trivialize the seriousness of sexual violence.
Tolerance of this culture alienates survivors and reinforces blame toward the victim, making it less likely for a victim of sexual assault or rape to come forward. The glamorization of sexual violence, objectification of both men and women's bodies and lack of support creates a toxic environment that disregards safety.
Rape culture is an environment in which rape is prevalent– but just because someone hasn't actively raped, sexually assaulted or harassed anyone doesn't mean they aren't contributing to rape culture.
Our society does not outwardly promote rape itself. Rape culture teaches rape prevention instead of teaching them not to rape. Rape culture tolerates friends who make rape jokes. Rape culture shifts blame to the victim. Rape culture normalizes sexual violence and excuses it in the media and popular culture. Rape culture allows victims to be doubted, shamed and harassed.
On social media, users see posts and memes that perpetuate rape culture through jokes, slut-shaming and victim-blaming remarks, and the objectification of strangers, friends and coworkers.
This enables the continuum of harm. Sexual harassment, even online, can eventually lead to sexual assault because some people don't think making objectifying comments on a social media post are a big deal. This is sustaining a rape culture by allowing perpetrators to get away with the "small stuff," making them feel more comfortable to keep pushing.
After all, sexual assault is not just about sex. It is about power, control and humiliation.
It's disappointing seeing social media posts and comments that encourage rape culture, and service members who openly support it. If some people believe rape jokes are funny and don't take allegations seriously, how could I ever go to one of them for help if I needed it?
My job as an alert photographer has required me to witness the evidence of sexual assault, harassment, violence and abuse. Reported statistics show women are more affected by sexual assault, harassment and rape culture than men. As a woman, it has been a challenge to stay entirely unbiased, because I have experienced and witnessed varying levels of rape culture in which women are the victim.
Discussing rape culture from a woman's perspective is bound to evoke anti-feminist views. I have come to realize there's a difference between feminism and toxic feminism, and people should understand discussing rape culture is not a part of some anti-male feminist agenda. We need to stop labeling every woman who discredits men as a feminist, because that is not the definition of feminism.
People intentionally reimagine feminism as simply wanting to be paid fairly and emptily supporting other women, painting the women who challenge them as irrational "man haters." Feminism is about equality, and being seen as more than an object. The objectification of both men and women contributes to rape culture, and it needs to stop.
Another important component to this culture is false accusations…they do exist. While false accusations are serious and should be punished, we cannot use the fear of being falsely accused to invalidate someone else's fears or encounters.
People of all backgrounds have experienced rape culture, regardless of factors such as gender, sexual orientation, physical size, age or race.
Sexual harassment and rape culture is not normal, nor will it ever be funny.
The more we educate each other and lift one another up through positive actions and reactions, the better our work environment, the Air Force, and society as a whole will be.
Education must start early. We should educate our children as well as ourselves about consent, how to properly express our emotions without violence, how to ask for help and accept responsibility for our wrongdoings.
We should teach our children coping skills and how to express their emotions in healthy ways, instead of bottling it up and hiding it to appear "tough." Teach them there are ways to solve problems other than with violence. Even as adults, we can learn to better regulate our emotions and work on improving mental health to create a better society that won't stand for something so damaging as rape culture.
We should check in on our friends and be more understanding of struggles that don't directly affect us. We should also advocate for those who don't have a voice, especially when they decide to speak up and trust others.
My hope is that continuing to pursue a healthy, honest dialogue about rape culture will foster greater understanding and encourage Airmen and others outside of the military to not only stand up against it, but stigmatize it.
As a quote I came across on Twitter says: "Just because you did something wrong in the past doesn't mean you can't advocate against it now. You aren't a hypocrite, you grew. Don't let anyone use your past to invalidate your current mindset."
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Question: Is Swan 70 isopropyl alcohol rubbing alcohol?
Description. Swan 70% Isopropyl Alcohol is a first aid antiseptic that aids in treatment of minor cuts and scrapes. … Swan Isopropyl Alcohol is a topical antimicrobial and is made for external use only. Available in 16oz and 32oz sizes.
Is rubbing alcohol the same as 70 isopropyl alcohol?
Is Isopropyl Alcohol the Same as Rubbing Alcohol? Rubbing alcohol is an antiseptic, which contains as not less than 68% and not more than 72% of isopropyl alcohol. … In documents cited by the CDC, "rubbing alcohol" is defined as 70% isopropyl alcohol and 30% water.
Can you use isopropyl alcohol as rubbing alcohol?
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It's made in the US and is specifically bottled in Texas. The Swan 70% Isopropyl Alcohol is another effective way to protect yourself from being infected by the coronavirus and other germs and viruses. This comes in three 16-ounce bottles, is tightly sealed and packed, and is assured to be maintained sterile.
What is isopropyl alcohol vs rubbing alcohol?
Rubbing alcohol is either isopropyl alcohol or ethyl alcohol that has been mixed with water. In Britain it's also known as surgical spirit, according to the British Pharmacopoeia. Rubbing alcohol which has been made from isopropyl alcohol is the most widely available, and is used mainly as an antiseptic in the home.
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One of the most economical and safe ways to disinfect is with hydrogen peroxide. It offers a natural way to sanitize your home without using dangerous and toxic chemicals. Hydrogen peroxide has antibacterial and antiviral qualities and works better than white vinegar, rubbing alcohol and acetic acid.
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Cumberland Swan 70% Isopropyl Alcohol, 32 oz, 2 ct | Costco.
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Denatured alcohol is ethanol that's been mixed with other ingredients. Ethanol — also known as grain alcohol — is alcohol at its most basic. However, ethanol is dangerous to drink in large quantities, so it's "denatured" with additional ingredients to discourage people from drinking it.
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Cumberland Swan 70% Isopropyl Alcohol.
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In 1811, the German officer Johann (John) Schiller planted eight hectares of vines near Toronto on the Credit River, which is considered the birth of Canadian viticulture. He experimented with wild v ines of the species Vitis labrusca found there. In 1866, winegrowers from Kentucky planted vineyards with the Isabella variety on Pelee Island in Lake Erie in the southern tip of the country. By the end of the 19th century, there were already about 50 wineries, most of them in the province of Ontario. From the 1930s onwards, many French and American hybrids were planted, with particular emphasis on frost resistance. One of the main protagonists was the Canadian winegrowing pioneer Adhémar de Chaunac (*1896), who founded the production of ice wines. The climate is extreme, with very cold winters averaging minus 5 °C and hot summers, but on the Niagara Peninsula to the south it is far more favourable and optimal for viticulture due to the moderating influence of the huge lakes Ontario and Erie.
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In 2013, Pierce County adopted the Rivers Flood Hazard Management Plan. A review and revision schedule was built into the plan. That time has come and the county is starting the process of a making minor revisions and updates.
In 2013, Pierce County adopted the Rivers Flood Hazard Management Plan after extensive public input and review by technical professionals. The Rivers Flood Hazard Management Plan guides how flooding and the associated hazards on major rivers, large tributaries, and associated floodplains are managed. The plan is a comprehensive approach to reduce damages and protect public safety from major river flooding and channel migration.
Community members that visited the open house were able to review the 2018 update to the Rivers Flood Hazard Management Plan. The open house provided snap shots of the updates and changes to the plan. People were able to leave comments.
Pierce County Council approved the Rivers Flood Hazard Management Plan in 2013. The 20-year plan outlines how the county will address flooding and channel migration along the rivers, large tributaries and associated floodplains.
JULY 2018 - Below are links to draft sections of the flood hazard plan updated based on comments from the community and stakeholders. Volume II of the plan is also posted here, however that document is still being updated.


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Urban Golden Treat Apple Tree - 12"
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Urban Apple is a NEW category of columnar trees that produce their fruit on spurs along the main stem. Each combines disease resistance, flavour and ease of growing in small spaces. Each has a narrow upright habit, ideally suited to grow in a container on a patio or as a small tree in the ground. Trees grow about 8' tall.
This is an apple tree for smaller landscapes and patios with a bottle brush shape. Grow full-sized apples in a small space! Sweet golden apples are normal sized apples that fruit in the first year of planting. This fast-growing tree will bear fruit just 1-2 years after planting. A choice of 2 varieties is needed for cross pollination.


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Protection of the Mother of God
The Protection of the Mother of God is one of the most beloved feast days on the Orthodox calendar, especially among the Slavic peoples, commemorated on October 1. It is also known as Virgin Mary's Cerement. In most Slavic languages the word "cerement" has a dual meaning of "veil" and "protection."
The feast day celebrates the appearance of the Mother of God at Blachernae (Vlaherna) in the tenth century. At the end of St. Andrei (Andrew of Constantinople) Yurodivyi's life (d. around 936; feast day: October 2), a group of people saw the Mother of God, St. John the Baptist, and several other saints during a vigil in the Church of Blachernae, nearby the city gates.
The Theotokos approached the center of the church, knelt down and remained in prayer for a long time. Her face was drowned in tears. Then she took her veil (cerement) off and spread it over the people as a sign of protection. During the time, the people in the city were threatened by a barbarian invasion. After the appearance of the Mother of God, the danger was averted and the city was spared from bloodshed and suffering.
The Protection is commemorated most fervently in Slavic churches, probably because St. Andrei was a Slav. The first celebration of the Theotokos's cerement in the Russian Orthodox Church dates back from the 12th century and today is celebrated throughout the Orthodox Church.
- The Miracle of the Virgin Mary at the Church of Blachernae in Constantinople in 911 A.D.
- News item: Bulgarian Orthodox Church Celebrates Virgin Mary's Cerement Today (1 October 2005)
- The Protection of our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary (OCA)
- The Most Holy Theotokos of All Protection
- The Church of Panagia of Blachernae


Wing For Business: How Wing Can Help Organize Your Business
In our previous post, 'How Wing Can Help Supply Your Business', we went over how Wing can save companies' valuable time. For example, tasks such as offloading sourcing office supplies, company swag, and food. Ultimately, this allows businesses to focus on their core operations because the jobs listed above are handed off to the AI virtual assistant – Wing. But, is there anything else Wing for Business can do? For example, maybe it could help perform research or help organize your business.
Organizing job applicants/candidates
Onboarding New Hires
Organizing lead generation in a spreadsheet
Beyond simple logistic tasks, Wing can also assist with sales functions. For instance, the beginning of the sales process usually involves hunting for potential customers. Also, you must organize these leads in a way that is easy to peruse and analyze.
Compiling Verification Letters
Lastly, you might run into a bureaucratic task that is low-impact, high priority. This means it brings no added value to your company whatsoever, yet it still necessary to do. For example, employees may have to verify their employment to third parties. This happens for all sorts of reasons, from visas to healthcare problems to signing a loan.
When that happens, you can offload this task to Wing.
Like the problem solved in 'How Wing Can Help Supply Your Business', offloading bureaucratic, and organizational tasks to Wing frees up time for businesses to focus on their core operations. Additionally, sometimes Wing can even help, such as with generating sales leads and entering them into a spreadsheet.
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