Normally, each team plays teams in the other conference twice each. The number of games between conferences was affected as was the case in the 1999 lockout, when each team played only five or six interconference games in a 50-game schedule. In October, the league allowed arenas in Los Angeles and Chicago to reassign NBA dates for other events. The league built a new schedule from scratch based on available arena dates. On December 8, 2011, the lockout ended when the owners and players ratified a new CBA agreement.Ī revised 66-game regular season began on December 25, 2011, with five Christmas Day games, two more than the original schedule. Owners allowed players to have voluntary workouts at team sites starting December 1. On November 26, 2011, after 15 hours of talks, a tentative deal was reached once officially ratified, the NBA started a revised 2011–12 season. ![]() Some players signed contracts to play in other countries, and most had the option to return to the NBA as soon as the lockout ended. All preseason games (scheduled to begin October 9) and the first six weeks of the regular season (scheduled to begin November 1, through December 15) were canceled. During the lockout, teams could not trade, sign or contact players and players couldn't access NBA team facilities, trainers, or staff members. The main issues dividing the owners and the players were revenue sharing and the structure of the salary cap. It began at UTC (12:01 am EDT) on July 1, 2011. The lockout was the fourth work stoppage in the history of the NBA. The NBA regular season would not begin again in December until the 2020–21 NBA season. LeBron James was named both the season MVP and the NBA Finals MVP. The playoffs started on April 28 and ended on June 21 when the Miami Heat defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 5 of their series, 121–106, winning the Finals, 4–1 and to capture the franchise's second NBA title. The season began on December 25, 2011, and ended on April 26, 2012. ![]() A 4-time champion, O'Neal played 19 years for the Orlando Magic, Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat, Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Boston Celtics. ![]() This was the league's first season since 1991–92 without Shaquille O'Neal, who announced his retirement on Jvia social media. With the new deal in place, the regular season was shortened from the normal 82 games per team to 66, because of nearly two months of inactivity. The previous CBA, which was ratified in 2005, expired at 12:01 AM EDT on July 1, 2011, resulting in a lockout. The 2011–12 NBA season was the 66th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA), which began with the signing of a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the owners of the 30 NBA teams and the NBA's players.
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![]() So they spend their remaining time irritating your favorite horse. The insects in your horse’s barn are aware that the fall season is coming and their time is coming to an end. In the fall season, the humidity is on the high side leaving your horse dehydrated and the temperature reduced at night. The term refers to the extent of local infiltration and extension NOT the size of the sarcoid itself.Now it’s that period of the year where we hold on to the last days of summer before we are ushered into the crisp days of fall. Large sarcoids of other types are sometimes incorrectly called malignant sarcoids. Spread to internal organs has never been recorded with sarcoid and so the term “Malevolent Sarcoid” was used to try to differentiate it from the metastatic tumour (spreading tumours or cancers) usually thought of as ‘malignant’. The skin may remain intact and there may be no superficial ulceration, especially in the elbow and flank fold regions.Īffected horses usually have multiple sarcoids at other sites but isolated malignant sarcoids can develop, particularly at the point of the elbow, the medial thigh and the side of the face. There is often some overlying verrucous and occult changes in the skin. The tumours spread extensively through the skin with cords of tumour tissue interspersed with nodules and ulcerating fibroblastic lesions. ![]() Malignant sarcoids are the most aggressive type. Malignant sarcoids have extensive local or wider spread through the skin and the underlying tissues. These sarcoids can mean more risk of spread between horses or spread to other sites on the same horse as the flies feed at the sarcoid and move to other areas with a risk of sarcoid development. Treating Fibroblastic Sarcoids early is critical to get the sarcoid more manageable and less ulcerated before the fly season starts. They commonly develop at the site of skin injuries on the limbs. This makes them particularly attractive to flies causing further ulceration and infection.įibroblastic sarcoids are common at all sites and may rapidly develop from a milder form of sarcoid following damage. Type 2 Fibroblastic sarcoids are also prone to bleeding easily. The roots are very broad, highly penetrating and can extend far beyond what is visible. Type 2 fibroblastic sarcoid is a very serious form of the disease and treatment is always problematic. Type 2 Fibroblastic sarcoids are also known as sessile or rooted sarcoids. Removal of the external mass of a type 1a fibroblastic sarcoid should result in a cure, but removal of the bulk external mass from a type 1b fibroblastic sarcoid would be a potential disaster! This differentiation is essential for deciding on the best treatment option. Type 1b Fibroblastic Sarcoids have a narrow pedicle or stem but a root that extends into the body beyond the pedicle. Type 1a Fibroblastic Sarcoids have no root extension beyond the pedicle or stem Type 1 Fibroblastic Sarcoids can be further divided depending on whether there is extension beyond the pedicle. Type 2 Fibroblastic Sarcoid with no pedicle Type 1 Fibroblastic Sarcoid with a narrow pedicle (a stem attaching the sarcoid to the body) Nodular Sarcoidįibroblastic sarcoids are fleshy and aggressive in appearance. Verrucous sarcoids can be mistaken for many other conditions such as: Ringworm, Alopecia Areata, Pemphingus Foliaceus, excessive scar formation (cheloids) at a wound site, or overgrowth of skin as a result of repeated trauma or rubbing. However verrucous sarcoids on the lower leg, especially around the coronary band are rare. Verrucous sarcoids can occur anywhere on the body. Some verrucous sracoids can develop localised ulceration, where the surface comes away exposing red, fleshy tissue underneath. Flakes and scale can easily be rubbed from the surface. Most verrucous sarcoids are scaly with a lot of flaking and dandruff like material. The skin also lacks normal flexibility and may crack easily. Sometimes small solid nodules that feel like a pea under the skin can be felt within the verrucous sarcoid. This is an area of hair loss (alopecia) or hair thinning around the sarcoid. Most early verrucous sarcoids have an “occult halo”. Verrucous sarcoids frequently coalesce into larger lesions and affect large areas. Verrucous sarcoids can be small wart or papilloma-like extensions from skin This is why some people used to call them equine warts (which is inapproriate given that they are actually a type of skin cancer!) Verrucous sarcoids usually have a grey, scaly or warty appearance. ![]() The graphics were not good however they were ok for that age. It's really hard for me to say the 'pros' of the game. I was very impressed that here I could really 'communicate' with the PC. all I knew about games was 'a little guy that jumps and shoots and gets the bonuses'. I was very little when I played this game. Game Engine: Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI).The game contains adult situations and semi-implicit depictions of sex. There are several ways to die in the game, most presented in a humorous fashion. Typical of Sierra games, progress is tracked through a set amount of points, awarded for advancement or minor actions. Paying for those trips, as well as procuring some of the items, requires the player to manage Larry's finance by gambling at the casino. Moving between some of the locations can only be done by cab. The game allows the player to access most of its locations (a bar, a casino, a convenience store, etc.) from the very beginning, with only a few key ones being barred due to the lack of a crucial item. Progress is achieved by collecting various items and figuring out which of those may be essential for conquering the hearts of the several female characters appearing in the game. The gameplay is similar to other third-person Sierra adventures: a text parser is used to input commands for interaction with a graphical environment. ![]() Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is the first game in Al Lowe's Leisure Suit Larry series, largely inspired by the text adventure Softporn Adventure, though with a greatly enhanced script containing more humorous descriptions and dialogue. Clad in a white polyester leisure suit, Larry finds himself outside of Lefty's Bar, determined to finally lose his virginity - or commit suicide if he is unable to achieve that goal before dawn. He used to be in the software business, but decided to leave everything behind as he moved to the city of Lost Wages in pursuit of sexual fulfillment. Larry Laffer is a short, tacky, balding, forty-year-old man who has been living with his mother until recently. ![]() The Groups are ordered such that the words in the first Group are the most frequent words and those in the last Group are the least frequent. The 570 words are divided into 10 Groups. The AWL was primarily made so that it could be used by teachers as part of a programme preparing learners for tertiary level study or used by students working alone to learn the words most needed to study at colleges and universities. The list does not include words that are in the most frequent 2000 words of English (the General Service List), thus making it specific to academic contexts. The list contains 570 word families which were selected because they appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts. The Academic Word List (AWL) was developed by Averil Coxhead at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. There are over 100 built-in functions.In this section you can do practice tests for all groups of the academic word list. XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery 1.0, share the same functions library. If you want to study these subjects first, find the tutorials on ourĭescription of all the XSLT elements from the W3C Recommendation, and information about browser support. References DOM Node Types DOM Node DOM NodeList DOM NamedNodeMap DOM Document DOM Element DOM Attribute DOM Text DOM CDATA DOM Comment DOM XMLHttpRequest DOM Parser XSLT Elements XSLT/XPath FunctionsĬlick on the "Try it Yourself" button to see how it works.īefore you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following: Sequences of Transformations Practice and Problem Solving: Modified Complete each step in the sequence of transformations. ![]() Web Services XML Services XML WSDL XML SOAP XML RDF XML RSS XSD Data Types XSD String XSD Date/Time XSD Numeric XSD Misc XSD Reference XSD Schema XSD Introduction XSD How To XSD XSD Elements XSD Attributes XSD Restrictions XSD Complex Elements XSD Empty XSD Elements-only XSD Text-only XSD Mixed XSD Indicators XSD XSD XSD Substitution XSD Example ![]() ![]() XML DTD DTD Introduction DTD Building Blocks DTD Elements DTD Attributes DTD Elements vs Attr DTD Entities DTD Examples XQuery Tutorial XQuery Introduction XQuery Example XQuery FLWOR XQuery HTML XQuery Terms XQuery Syntax XQuery Add XQuery Select XQuery Functions It focuses on facilitating business transformations quickly and strategically, whether. XSLT Tutorial XSLT Introduction XSL Languages XSLT Transform XSLT XSLT XSLT XSLT XSLT XSLT XSLT Apply XSLT on the Client XSLT on the Server XSLT Edit XML XSLT Examples Critical chain project management addresses those issues by. You will learn how to perform the transformations, and how to map one figure into another using these transformations. XPath Tutorial XPath Introduction XPath Nodes XPath Syntax XPath Axes XPath Operators XPath Examples XML DOM DOM Introduction DOM Nodes DOM Accessing DOM Node Info DOM Node List DOM Traversing DOM Navigating DOM Get Values DOM Change Nodes DOM Remove Nodes DOM Replace Nodes DOM Create Nodes DOM Add Nodes DOM Clone Nodes DOM Examples The transformations are performed in a given order. We finish this section with the cleaned-up version of the Order of Transformations. For each pair, show that the two figures are similar by identifying a sequence of translations, rotations, reflections, and dilations that takes the smaller figure to the larger one. We have outlined the sequence of transformations in the above exposition all that remains is to plot the five intermediate stages. Each diagram has a pair of figures, one larger than the other. XML AJAX AJAX Introduction AJAX XMLHttp AJAX Request AJAX Response AJAX XML File AJAX PHP AJAX ASP AJAX Database AJAX Applications AJAX Examples A sequence of transformations is a set of translations, rotations, reflections, and dilations on a figure. 6 This order is actually flexible and, in practice, most people perform it from ( A ) to ( D ). XML Tutorial XML HOME XML Introduction XML How to use XML Tree XML Syntax XML Elements XML Attributes XML Namespaces XML Display XML HttpRequest XML Parser XML DOM XML XPath XML XSLT XML XQuery XML XLink XML Validator XML DTD XML Schema XML Server XML Examples XML Quiz XML Certificate ![]() Growing up in Los Angeles, Hilton attended the Buckley School and St. The family's social circle included figures such as Lionel Richie, Donald Trump, and Michael Jackson. She described it as "very proper, very prim, almost like a Stepford wife". Her mother enrolled her in etiquette classes with the idea of introducing her as a debutante, which Hilton was at first reluctant to do, as she did not find it to be "real" or "natural". Hilton was raised in a very "sheltered, conservative" atmosphere her parents were particularly strict and she was not allowed to date, wear make-up or certain types of clothes, or go to school dances. Her mother recalled her saving money to buy monkeys, snakes, and goats, and once leaving "the snake out the cage at the Waldorf". Her relatives have described her as "very much a tomboy" who dreamed about becoming a veterinarian. Hilton moved frequently in her youth, living in Beverly Hills, the Hamptons, and a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. Hilton has Norwegian, German, Italian, English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Her paternal great-grandfather was Conrad Hilton, who founded Hilton Hotels, while her maternal aunts are television personalities Kim and Kyle Richards. The oldest of four children, she has one sister, Nicky Hilton (born 1983), and two brothers, Barron Hilton II (born 1989) and Conrad Hughes Hilton (born 1994). Hilton was born on February 17, 1981, in New York City, to Richard Hilton, a businessman, and Kathy Hilton, a socialite and former child actress. Early life The Waldorf Astoria New York, where Hilton lived her teenage years Her perfume line alone has brought in over US$2.5 billion in revenue to date. Under her company, she has produced content for broadcast media, launched a variety of product lines, and opened a chain of self-branded boutiques worldwide, as well as an urban beach club in the Philippines. Hilton has parlayed her media fame into numerous business endeavours. ![]() Forbes included her in its Celebrity 100 in 2004, 2005, and 2006, and ranked her as the most "overexposed" celebrity in 20. Critics indeed suggest that she exemplifies the celebutante -a household name not through talent or work, but through inherited wealth and lavish lifestyle. Ī polarizing and ubiquitous public figure, Hilton is said to have influenced the revival of the " famous for being famous" phenomenon throughout the 2000s. ![]() She has also recorded a line of standalone singles and performed as a disc jockey. Her media ventures have included the reality television series Paris Hilton's My New BFF (2008–2009), The World According to Paris (2011), Hollywood Love Story (2018), Cooking with Paris (2021), and Paris in Love (2021–present) the documentaries Paris, Not France (2008), The American Meme (2018), and This Is Paris (2020) the books Your Heiress Diary (2005) and Paris: The Memoir (2023) as well as the podcast, I am Paris (2021–present). Hilton published her debut book, Confessions of an Heiress (2004), which became a New York Times Best Seller, landed her first major film role in the horror remake House of Wax (2005), and released her eponymous debut studio album, Paris (2006), which reached number six on the Billboard 200 and respectively produced the successful single " Stars Are Blind". The reality television series The Simple Life (2003–2007), in which she co-starred with her friend Nicole Richie, and a leaked 2003 sex tape with her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon, later released as 1 Night in Paris (2004), catapulted her to global fame. ![]() After David LaChapelle photographed her and sister Nicky for the September 2000 issue of Vanity Fair, Hilton was proclaimed "New York's leading It Girl" in 2001. Hilton first attracted tabloid attention in the late 1990s, when she became a fixture in NYC's social scene, and ventured into modeling at age 19, signing with Donald Trump's agency Trump Model Management. Born in New York City, and raised there and in Los Angeles, she is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, the founder of Hilton Hotels. Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American media personality, businesswoman, socialite, model, actress, and singer. ![]() The location, one hour north of Cedar Rapids, is a challenge. So what went wrong at Lost Island? The park has no outside IP, but it does offer a creative original IP concept, being themed to five "realms," with four representing ancient elements - Fire, Water, Air, and Earth - plus the spirits that maintain them in balance. which isn't much of an attraction for many coaster fans, for whom the Vekoma SLC might be the most disliked coaster model on the market. Lost Island's next biggest draw is a relocated Vekoma SLC. The new Volkanu: Quest For The Golden Idol interactive dark ride from Sally has been a hit with riders, but one dark ride won't support an entire theme park. Bertch blamed supply chain delays keeping Lost Island from receiving a needed brake motor part on that coaster, according to The Gazette. ![]() Also, the park has not been able to open what should have been its top roller coaster, Matugani, the relocated Kanonen Intamin launch coaster from Liseberg. As a result, that ride will not be open this year. A fire in March destroyed the queue building for the park's Yuta Falls flume ride, which should have been one of the more popular attractions in the park. Lost Island has faced multiple challenges on the road to its debut. Bertch said that they had expected the new park to attract 2,500 to 3,000 guests a day. ![]() The attracted just 415 guests over the Fourth of July weekend, which typically is one of the biggest weekends of the year for amusement attractions. Yet owner Eric Bertch told The Gazette in Cedar Rapids that the new theme park has been welcoming just 100 to 300 customers per day, about one-tenth of the water park's attendance. That has limited the cross-over traffic between the two, which owners had been counting on to help drive attendance to the new park. It's a sister property to the established Lost Island water park, which is located a short distance away across the road, making it impractical to walk between the two gates. Lost Island opened June 18 near Waterloo, north of Cedar Rapids. ![]() We started with the ribs and then asked for a steak salad. This was explained to us by our server at the beginning. The food comes out in large portions – meant for sharing at the table. The food was amazing! They have a pretty decent menu. This is a trendy but cozy design throughout the inside. It was a bit of a drive from the big city (Rochester), lol – but SOOOOO WORTH IT! The restaurant was not quite crowded when we arrived at 700p, but the bar was packed and hopping. Spouse and I visited here on a Friday night recently. S.O.S.: Shorts or Suit, come down and enjoy!!! Our well trained staff will make your selection approachable and fun. Our menus will changes with the seasons, our wood fire selections are cooked with real wood, our wine and micro brew selections are large and extensive. Our hope is that you, our customer, will enjoy the combination of stunning modern architecture and old charm: simple, good food "meant to share" from farm to plate. Our food is high quality and labor intensive, the same as some of the top restaurants, in the country, without the big city over head, so we can keep our prices reasonable. Comfort from scratch cuisine using the best ingredients from sustainable sources, whenever possible: selections with no growth hormones, pesticides, pre-packaged, frozen or use of steam tables will be used in our kitchen. ![]() In an era dominated by chain restaurants and fast, pre-packaged food, our mission is to bring our patrons REAL food at reasonable prices. Definitely a wonderful experience, and I can't wait to come back and try some of the things we didn't get a chance to try this visit.Description: EMBER WOOD FIRE GRILL is a casual dining restaurant, occupying the old historic train station in the quaint village of Livonia in Livingston County, committed to a hospitality first attitude. Not so here!! Excellent chicken, fresh and fried to perfection!! And also.if the menu says, "creme brulee'", I'm ordering dessert!! It was wonderful!! It was nice to see families with children feeling comfortable to come here. You don't feel crowded and that is wonderful! Also.being a gal with southern roots, I adore good fried chicken! I am so tired of restaurants who advertise fried chicken and then pull something from the freezer that is already battered and throw it in their fryer. They have nice sized chairs that a person of size can be comfortable in and not worry about landing on the floor. Everything everyone has said about the wonderful food and "tapas style" dining is true and it makes it a really fun experience, but I would like to address something else. We always eat early, so we had no trouble getting seated, but I think this place fills up pretty good on a beautiful Friday night during the dining hour. My husband and I went here last night and were pleasantly surprised by the food and the service. Description: EMBER WOOD FIRE GRILL is a casual dining restaurant, occupying the old historic train station in the quaint village of Livonia in Livingston County, committed to a hospitality first attitude. ![]() However, regular reading could help slow this process, keeping your mind sharp. Memory declines with age, and brain functions begin to fade. Just like going for a run gives your heart and muscles some exercise, reading helps improve your memory function by giving your brain a proper workout. Reading will not only help you increase your knowledge base, but also expose you to new words constantly, which will keep your brain growing. Practices That Make You Better Every Day 1. Below is a clickable table of contents if you want to see all the daily self-improvement ideas in a single glance. You may already be taking action on many of these daily self improvement habits. ![]() Some of these ideas are probably familiar. This post will feature 23 self-improvement habits that feature those small incremental changes that will (in time) improve your life. Or to quote Shawshank Redemption (One of my favorite movies), it is the choice to, “ get busy living, or get busy dying“. It boils down the choice to either live the best life that you can or just to float by under the radar. Learn to forgive yourself and others.ĭaily self-improvement is all about your motivations and goals. Align your priorities with your goals and values. Practices That Make You Better Every Day.In this approach, you are never finished improving, and you are always looking for areas in your life where you could be better or more efficient. ![]() You can also practice Kaizen (continuous self-improvement) to build good habits that will help you in the long run. The small, everyday decisions that you make will either lead you to your ultimate goal or begin to take you in the wrong direction. Small changes turn into habits while trying to make a large change could lead to feelings of being overwhelmed, and ultimately failure.īooks like The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy and The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson both emphasize how significant of an impact your daily choices and actions have on your life. Making small improvements on a regular basis may actually be better and more effective than trying to make a lot of big changes at once. If you can work on yourself to the point where your personal growth just continues to increase, you will be hard-pressed to find anything that can do you any harm. Have you ever heard the African proverb that says, “ When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside can do you no harm”? ![]() USB devices can be backed up automatically when plugged in.A backup can be scheduled to run daily, weekly, monthly, or on daily intervals.Email notifications are supported, which means you can get backup status alerts when a backup has completed successfully and/or when it fails, which includes information about when the backup started and stopped, the path of the backup, and any error messages.Scheduling backups work with any backup method and source, even for the system partition.The AOMEI Centralized Backupper (ACB) tool is supported so that you can use one computer on a network to start, schedule, start, and monitor backup jobs on the computers that are running the program.AOMEI Backupper is able to restore certain files or an entire backup to any location, including the original folder.Backups can be restored with ease because you can clearly see the date and backup method used before starting a restore.It's easy to run a full, differential, or incremental backup on an existing job in just a couple clicks.When creating a partition or hard drive backup, you can choose to back up only the actual data or make an exact copy by including unused sectors as well.Managing backup jobs is simple because you can view jobs created today, this week, or any other custom date.You can quickly exclude hidden files, subfolders, and/or system files from being included in a backup.A backup can be encrypted and password protected.You can exclude custom subfolders and file types from a backup using wildcards.Can be installed on an unlimited number of computers in a commercial or home setting.It can be installed on 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. In some states, the DNR order also may be used in outpatient settings.ĭurable power of attorney for health careĪ written advance directive that assigns one person as a decision-making proxy should the user become incapacitated. ![]() Written or verbal documentation in which a person indicates health care preferences while he or she is cognitively and physically able to make decisions.Įach state has different regulations for the use of advance directives.Īn advanced directive that combines elements of a living will and durable power of attorney for health care into one document.Īn order that prohibits the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the event of cardiac arrest.Īdvanced directives do not need to include a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order, and the patient does not need an advanced directive to have a DNR order. 10, 11 Another type of advance directive, the durable power of attorney for health care, allows persons to designate a proxy (or surrogate) to make decisions for them if they become incapacitated. A living will may list medical interventions the patient would like withheld or withdrawn when he or she becomes unable to communicate. 8, 10, 11 The living will, a written advance directive, allows a competent person to indicate his or her health care preferences while cognitively and physically healthy. 9 Table 1 is a list of terms and definitions associated with advance directives. The PSDA requires hospitals, nursing homes, and health care programs to ask patients about advance directives and then incorporate the information into medical records. ![]() 8 The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) 9 was written in response to the case. This case affirmed a state’s right to require “clear and convincing evidence” for wishes concerning life-sustaining medical care. Supreme Court decision 7 drew attention to the issue of life-sustaining treatments for patients who are unable to make their own decisions. |
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