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{"text": "PANHELLENIC COUNCIL\nJOIN THE EXECUTIVE BOARD\nIf you are interested in joining the Panhellenic Council Executive Board for 2020-2021 please complete the following steps. The women selected for the next board will be leaders for the entire sorority community and Greek Life.\nEligibility\nStep 1: Complete the Application\nStep 2: Sign up for an Interview\nApplication Timeline\nEligibility\n- 2.7 cumulative grade point average\n- Full time student for term (12 credits/semester)\n- Initiated into an PHC sorority Fall 2019 or earlier\n- Is in good standing with your own PHC organization\n- If applying for President or VP Recruitment, have previous experience working with PHC\nStep 1: Complete the Application\n- Copy and paste this application into your own document.\n- Please fill out these questions to the best of your ability.\n- You apply for two positions.\n- Email completed applications to Sophia Johnson, joh13073@d.umn.edu by Sunday, November, 22 at 11:59 PM.\nStep 2: Sign up for an Interview\n- Interviews will be taking place Monday, November 16 - Wednesday, November 25 from 5:00 PM-9:00 PM.\n- Interviews are expected to take 30 minutes over zoom.\n- Sign up for one interview time before the application deadline.\nApplication Timeline\n- Applicants will be notified the evening of Wednesday, November 25 (after all interviews have concluded) on if they have been offered a position on the slate or not.\n- If offered a position, application will have 24 hours to accept or decline the role.\n- The slated for the 2020-2021 PHC Executive Board will be announced after all positions offered have accepted/declined.\n- Chapter delegates will vote on behalf of their organization to pass or decline the slate.\n- Voting will take place electronically.\n- If the slate does not pass chapter delegates will vote on each individual position (yes/no). Positions that receive a majority vote will be elected into those roles. If any position does not receive a majority vote then all applications for that position will be available to chapters to review and all eligible applicants are open to be elected.\n- Newly elected officers to plan to attend the Officer Transition Retreat on December 5-6."}
{"text": "Here are some of the blog entries and articles on the repeal of the federal estate tax that were published on January 1, 2010:\n- As Midnight Fell Last Night Across the USA, States and the IRS Were Keeping Close Watch of Time. Why?, Die Broke Blog.\n- As estate tax drops to zero, Congress should take action, Boston Globe (editorial).\n- Joseph Brownstein, Lack of Estate Tax in 2010: Now Cheaper to Die?, ABC News.\n- Kelly Phillips Erb, \"Death Tax\" takes on new meaning, Wallet Pop.\n- Greg Mankiw, Goodbye, Estate Tax (for now), Greg Mankiw's Blog.\n- Lewis Grossberger, Hey, rich people: Drop dead. And I do mean now., True/Slant.\nRecent Comments"}
{"text": "Sunday April 22, 2018 (Sun-Day/ Day of Sun)\nWonderful day to be at home with family or close friends. Make your home beautiful and enjoy the pleasures of your environment. Special attention to women in particular. There is nurturing good food, love, and emotional security in the spaces where these women reside. This is a comfortable feeling for home.\nMoon 22 degrees Cancer- Spending your energy on beautiful moments. Emotions and deep cultivation today.\nFor Personal Readings click on the link for scheduling."}
{"text": "Can I change the name of my Facebook Fan Page?\ngo to setting up to right hand when u open ur facebook account u will see it. u can change ur n and ur b and pic all of these in a minut..\nHow to Change the Facebook Home Page?\noriginal homepageHey there, would you like to use your own image for your Facebook home page? if you do read along and see how to get your own Facebook backgroundÂ !\nHow do you edit the name of your fan page on facebook?\nItâ€™s not currently possible to edit the name of a Page. If you would like to change your Page name, you will need to delete your Page and recreate it. The Facebook team isn't able to change Page ...\nRead More »\nWhat should I name my facebook page?\nAccessories store\nFacebook Page Admin Name Ideas?\nThe key of sun and deathYO MAMAorI WILL ******* MURDER YOU"}
{"text": "To get to this point, hard work, hours of practice and full time dedication is required but when it all clicks and it comes together there is no better feeling.\nDenmark's Jonas Hogh-Christensen put a robust campaign together for London 2012, with clearly defined processes and goals. Days before the competition started the great Dane had hit each target and minutes before the first race his coach, Kristian Kjaergaard said, \"ain't nothing to it, but to do it.\"\n\"That sort of became the motto of our campaign,\" explained Hogh-Christensen, \"because it was just go out and do what we had practiced.\n\"We had a long checklist going into the Games of things we had to achieve and reach and two days before the Olympics, we looked at the list and it was all green knocks. And therefore I felt as prepared as I could.\n\"There was nothing I could really do to be more prepared so it was just to go out and do whatever we had practised."}
{"text": "10/01/2018\nChanges to some bus services in South Yorkshire will take place from 28 January to improve reliability and access to employment and education, following customer requests.Passengers are advised to check if their service has been affected on the Travel South Yorkshire website travelsouthyorkshire.com/servicechanges, at bus stops and in interchanges, on buses, or by calling Traveline 01709 51 51 51.The changes include:Sheffield: time adjustments on services SL1 and SL1a – from Middlewood to Stocksbridge - to tie in with the frequency change on Sheffield Supertram services. To improve punctuality, tram services will run every 12 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime and every 10 minutes in the morning and evening peaks.Barnsley: Stagecoach services 6, 11 and 32 will operate every 12 minutes, instead of every 10 minutes, on Monday to Friday, due to reduced patronage. There will also be changes to the Barnsley – Grimethorpe corridor on Stagecoach services 26, 27, 27a, 27b, 28 and 29, to improve sustainability.\nDoncaster: First services 76 and 76a will be replaced by extended services 15 and 15a to provide better cross-town links; First services 86 and 86a will start running 15 minutes earlier following a Doncaster Council request.\nRotherham: some journeys on TM Travel service 31 will be renumbered 31a and operate direct from Rotherham, Canklow and Brinsworth to Sheffield Business Park and the Advanced Manufacturing Park, due to a request from local businesses to improve access to employment and education.Apart from the above mentioned, there will also be minor timetable and route changes on the following services:\nSheffield: Stagecoach services 2, 25, 52, 57, 70, 70a, 71, 72, 86, 88, 120, 201, 737, X17 and X65; First Services 3, 3a, 24, 36, 52a, 72, 73, 74, 74a, 95, 97, 120, 751, 779, 780, 781, 782, 785, X1, X5, X54, X55 and x78; and Yorkshire Tiger service 23a, TM Travel 31 and 31a services and Sheffield Community Transport service H1.\nBarnsley: Stagecoach services 2, 23, 23a, 67, 93, 95, 208, 218, 221, 449, 540, X10, X20, X65; Yorkshire Tiger service 24; Waterson's services 36, 36a, 36b, 193; Arriva service 412 and Powell's Bus services 449, 540.Doncaster: First Services 14, 19, 41a, 57, 58, 64, 81, 82, 84, 87, 204, 441, 482, X78; Stagecoach services 21, 70, 98, 208, 216, 226, 407, 540, 595, 737, X20; Arriva service 496 and Powell's Bus service 540.Rotherham: Stagecoach services 2, 8, 8a, 9, 67, 208, 216, 218, 737, X20 and First services 23, 36, 52a, 72, 73, 73a, 74, 74a, X1, X5, X54, X55, X78.Customers can also keep up to date by registering for the free timetable alert service on the Travel South Yorkshire website, which automatically sends an email when there is a service change due."}
{"text": "New Blood\nCasey Kotchman hit the first of what will hopefully be many many homeruns for the Angels. Cabfare and Bengie got into it too. Longballs made the difference as we beat the Devil Rays 5-4.\nThe benching of Steve Finley paid dividends as it got Jeff DaVanon a little plate time and he made noise with the stick and feet. I missed a lot of the game going out to dinner, but the results were sweet.\n\|"}
{"text": "Book Review: Prejudice & Pride\nBy: Lynn Messina\nPublished By: Potatoworks Press\nPublication Date: December 15, 2015\nPage Count: 238\nSource: ARC Kindly Provided by Publisher\nAudience: Adult - Chick Lit\nI love classic literature and it’s cool when people want to put a modern spin on them, especially Austen’s work. Austenland (by Shannon Hale) had me laughing out loud. I adore the movies Clueless and the Bollywood film Bride and Prejudice. So when I got the opportunity to review Lynn Messina’s gender-bending modern version of Pride and Prejudice, I totally went for it.\nLynn has created new, but still related, names for the gender-swapped characters. Elizabeth Bennett is now Bennett Bethle. Fitzwilliam Darcy is now Darcy Fitzwilliam. (I think she lucked out a bit with characters whose names were cooperative.) Instead of Lydia visiting Brighton, England, we have Lydon visiting Brighton Beach in New York. Lynn also dispensed with the Charlotte Lucas subplot, though honestly I’m not sure why—it would have fit in just fine.\nEvery aspect of the original is carefully translated into 21st century New York City. Characters, who in the original might remark on the food, are now Instagramming their dinners. Where the original Darcy might have written letters, now she is emailing. Mr. Collins, the parson of the original story, is now Collin Parsons the gay nephew of Catherine deBourgh. Mrs. Bennett who was obsessed with suitors who had considerable money becomes Mr. Meryton who is constantly trying to find wealthy heiresses to donate funding for the Longbourn museum.\nAs far as the gender-bending went in Prejudice & Pride, I was impressed. I’ve read a couple of other gender-bent adaptations of novels with far less successful results. Lynn was able to change the genders of most of the characters and still stay true to the sentiments of the original novel. But she wasn’t a slave to the gender swapping; she tweaked things enough for it to make sense without emasculating the male characters or making the now-powerful women too mannish.\nThe only thing that I didn’t care for was the narration. The style of narration throughout the novel was more telling what was happening than showing it, and it had a very 18th century vibe, which felt a bit disjointed. I’m curious why Lynn made this choice after so carefully updating everything else.\nPrejudice & Pride is a clever update of the beloved classic that deserves your time. Lynn’s retelling will have you laughing with the Bethle brothers, cringing at Mr. Meryton, and marveling at the author’s creativity in transforming an early 19th century story into a modern novel.\nSummary:.\nWe love your comments!"}
{"text": "Domain names explained.\nWhen building extremely easy to comprehend. just what a domain name is, and also the chances are that you have actually known that for a long time, even if you really did not understand that it was called a “domain”. Name Dominicano\nDomains are commonly called “web address” too. I like that, since I like the word address. That’s exactly what your domain is. It’s an address. Much like your residence has an address, so does your site. Think of your domain name as the address of your website. Consider your hosting as the actual home that is at the address. Once people come to your web address, your web site is there ready to invite them in.\nIt truly is that straightforward. And the bright side is, acquiring a domain name is just as easy.\nDomains made simple.\nThere are a couple of aspects to comprehend when selecting a domain for your web site. I’m going to break them down for you.\nThe first element is length. For now, I’m just dealing with the actual name. I’m not talking about the “.” component or the “. com”, “. net”, “. info” etc.. I’m merely discussing the unique part between “www.” and “. com”. The shorter the domain, the better. This is for several reasons. Psychologically, it’s a whole lot easier to keep in mind a straightforward”. Choose “btlawn.com” or “btservice.com”. Remember, this is just your address. You want it to be as recognizable and memorable as possible to people. Once they come to your address, then you can invite them into your home and also inform them all about your business. Name Dominicano\nThe second element is catchy and memorable. This piggybacks off of the first one, however I simply wish to motivate you to think of not only keeping it succinct, but being as catchy as feasible. remember. It’s very easy for somebody to keep in mind “I should look this up on “productguide””. Keep that in mind too, as well as allow the imaginative juices flow!\nThe 3rd aspect is branded. Choose, let the domain name define just what the core of the website has to do with.\nThe next element is the TLDS, which is simply what follows your domain, such as “. com”, “. net”, or “. info”. Although several new ones have actually been added over the last couple of years, honestly, it’s ideal to choose “. com” as often as possible. Considering that the internet has actually been around, “. com” is just what people associate with an internet site the most. If you are going for a longterm site where you hope to build a business, you will eventually intend to obtain your hands on a good “. com”, even if you have to get it from somebody and pay even more for it. It is important for a site that you intend to be prolific and construct a business around. For a blog, it’s much easier to consider various other alternatives, nevertheless, “. com” is constantly an advantage if you could get the name you desire. I absolutely advise sticking to “. com”, “. net”, and also “. org”.\nFinally, do not copyright infringe! If you aim to make your domain name very near to a big brand name, it is really feasible that as soon as your site begins indexing and also ranking you could get a “cease and desist” letter from the brand. There are lots of laws and regulations about copyright violation, and if you are aiming to piggyback off of a huge brands name in hopes that more web traffic will come to your internet site believing it could be related to the big brand, you will at some point get in trouble! You don’t want to be forced to start again from scratch. You can relocate your site to a new domain, but you will have to start fresh with the internet search engine as far as your page getting indexed and ranked for its content once more. Don’t do it! It will only injure you in the long run! Name Dominicano\nHow do I get a domain name?\nGreat news! That part is easy also. Namecheap is the best place to go. They’ve been around for years, they’ve got great customer service and customer support, and also they have actually got numerous happy customers all over the world. Several domains can be purchased for under $10/year. Use these pointers to get started today! And do not stress! As your website grows, as your business expands, and as your brand expands, it’s simple to get a new domain that much better reflects you as well as switch everything over. For those of you that wish to begin, check out Namecheap today and start constructing your website!"}
{"text": "Public Records Requests\nNorth Carolina’s public records law provides a broad right of access to records of public agencies. The main statutes that define the scope of the law are contained in Chapter 132 of the North Carolina General Statutes. Many exceptions and other laws that deal with public records can be found in other chapters.\nIf there are existing public records that contain requested information, NHCS will provide the documents to the requester. However, NHCS will not compile information or create records that do not already exist.\nNew Hanover County Schools will accept requests in any format, including phone or in person, but has provided a form below for easily sending requests. Make sure to include the specific records you are requesting. Please allow a reasonable amount of time for the request to be fully processed. NHCS strives to fulfill all requests as promptly as possible, but response time is dependent upon the extent and nature of the request. Generally, requests are fully processed within 30 days but can take longer if it is an extensive request. You are welcome to contact Brandon Shope at any time to check on the status of your request.\nFor more information\nBrandon Shope\nMedia Relations Coordinator\nbrandon.shope@nhcs.net\nbrandon.shope@nhcs.net\nHow to Make a Data Request\nThis form is for public records only and does not include personal student records.\nOnline Records Request\nTo request copies of records that New Hanover County Schools keeps, please fill out this form:\nWritten Records Request\nYou may also make your request in writing via email or U.S. mail to\nBrandon Shope\nbrandon.shope@nhcs.net\n(910) 726-3469\n6410 Carolina Beach Road, Wilmington, NC 28412"}
{"text": "CEOP Newsfeed CEOP External Newsfeed Missing paedophile back in prison 2009-07-03T13:25:50+00:00 A convicted child sex offender is back in prison after being tracked down in Mexico through a \"Most Wanted\"... BBC News Educational Edition BBC News Educational Edition <img src=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/> Fugitive sex beast back in jail 2009-07-03T13:21:33+00:00 A CONVICTED paedo who went on the run to Mexico was back behind bars today after he was spotted on a most wanted... Online Sun Online Sun <img src=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/> Paedophile arrested in Mexico back in UK prison 2009-07-03T12:50:33+00:00 A paedophile who went on the run to Mexico was back behind bars today after being tracked down through a \"most wanted\" website. Andrew Eden, 50, of Littleborough, Rochdale, appeared flanked by a prison guard in the dock at Manchester Magistrates' Court, as he was remanded into custody after being extradited. The Independent The Independent <img src=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/> Five held over abusive images of children 2009-07-03T11:16:28+00:00 Five men have been arrested on suspicion of making and possessing indecent abusive images of children, Northamptonshire Police... Blackpool Gazette Blackpool Gazette <img src=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/> Large-scale online child abuse ring smashed 2009-07-02T11:09:59+00:00 Police in Switzerland have uncovered an Internet child abuse images network described as “the biggest concern of its kind”. Spanning 78 countries and involving at least 2,000 Internet protocol (IP) addresses, investigators launched the operation following intelligence from Interpol about a... Police Professional Police Professional <img src=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/> Paedophile Matthew Jenkins jailed 2009-07-02T07:20:05+00:00 A PAEDOPHILE hid in the woods for two weeks as he faced charges for downloading \"awful\" child abuse images. IT expert Matthew Jenkins, 35, accessed 3,184 images and 51 movies of boys and girls, some of whom were... This is Gloucestershire This is Gloucestershire <img src=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/> Man, 45, accused of grooming 15-year-old schoolgirl to have sex 2009-07-02T06:58:37+00:00 A 45-YEAR-OLD man has appeared at Exeter Crown Court accused of grooming and sexual activity with a 15-year-old East Devon schoolgirl. Paul Cox has pleaded not guilty to seven charges, including encouraging the girl to make and send indecent photographs of... This is Plymouth This is Plymouth <img src=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/> Young Survivors of Sex Trafficking Inspire Beyonce, Halle Berry and More to Join \\'Girls Are Not for Sale\\' Campaign 2009-07-01T01:16:59+00:00 Young Survivors of Sex Trafficking Inspire Beyonce, Halle Berry and More to Join 'Girls Are Not for Sale' Campaign Inspired by the Showtime documentary 'Very Young Girls', about American girls fighting to overcome the trauma of child trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, artists help... News Guide News Guide <img src=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/> The murder nobody wants to help solve 2009-06-30T23:10:56+00:00 It was a brutal crime that police expected to crack quickly. But they hadn't accounted for the victim's murky... The Independent The Independent <img src=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/> Child abuse ring involving more than 2,000 people uncovered 2009-06-28T19:51:37+00:00 Police in Switzerland have said they have uncovered a child pornography ring involving more than 2,000 people in 78 countries. Published: 6:44PM BST 28 Jun 2009 A spokeswoman for federal police said authorities were monitoring a website with a provider in the Swiss canton Vaud, acting on a tip from... Telegraph.co.uk Telegraph.co.uk <img src=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"/>"}
{"text": "- areola\n- Area between branchiocardiac grooves and posterior to cervical groove on dorsal surface of carapace (Astacidea and Austroastacidea) [McLaughlin, 1980].Dorsomedial area (usually hourglass-shaped) of thoracic region of carapace of crayfishes, bounded laterally by paired arched (branchiocardiac) grooves delineating dorsomedial limits of gill chamber (see Fig. 14) [Hobbs and Jass, 1988].See \"Cardiac region\" [Chace and Hobbs, 1969].The dorsomedian area of the thoracic part of the carapace of crayfishes, bound laterally by paired arched (branchiocardiac) grooves [Hobbs, Hobbs, and Daniel 1977].(Order Decapoda):On dorsal surface of carapace, area between two longitudinal branchiocardiac grooves and posterior to transverse cervical groove [Stachowitsch, 1992].\nCrustacea glossary. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 2011."}
{"text": "I told my husband the other day about how journalists who had “beats” get all the stories.\nFor instance, when I was a junior journalist for general news, I had to give off my story if it related to someone else’s beat.\nWHAT IS A ‘BEAT’?\nA ‘beat’ is when you specialise in writing about a certain industry. For instance, you get a sports beat, an education one, finance, politics and crime. So if you get an education story and it’s not your beat, chances are good that you have to hand that story over. Sad hey.\nSometimes the editor would allow me to work on that story I pitched – but then I had to work with whoever’s beat it is. It’s simply because that person with the beat, has a lot of contacts in that industry. This person has also done a lot of stories and research for this beat, so he or she will know how to juice up the story. He will also tell you if a certain angle has been done already.\nBloggers would refer to a beat as niche [in the blogging world].\nYour blog has a certain niche, meaning you write about something specific. For instance, you get mommy bloggers who will write mostly about motherhood things, a fashion blogger writes and showcases fashion on his or her blog. Other popular niches include sport and fitness, travel, gaming and lifestyle.\nIT WORKS TO HAVE A BEAT/ NICHE\nAs a junior journalist I realised why a beat was important. It’s great to write general news, but the big or breaking stories mostly falls in a beat. Here’s why I think a beat is important:\n– You build contacts within that industry. You then regularly chat to these contacts to do follow up stories and to find out new trends or any news relating to the beat. People within the industry, like a spokesperson for an organisation within your beat’s industry will know to send press releases and invites to events.\n– It’s easier to come up with story ideas if you have a beat. When you have a beat, almost anything can turn into a story for your beat. The experts you know within your beat can often help you by commenting on the story.\n– You become a trusted expert in your beat (niche) and people come to you for advice. Even readers or people within the industry will call you, because they know you handle the stories in this beat. This is also how your contacts (sources) and audience start to trust you for your content, because they know what they are getting. You get your inside scoops this way too.\n– You can compete with others within your beat. [Note: Journalism is a competitive industry. It’s all about breaking the news first].\n– You can also get advertisement from brands or companies or individuals based on your beat or niche.\nMY NICHE WAS GHOSTS\nI was working for Die Son daily newspaper in Port Elizabeth when most of the interesting beats were taken. For those of you who don’t know, Die Son is a tabloid newspaper.\nAnyway, I tried my hand at the following as beats: court reporting, ghosts and any paranormal activity reporting, and reporting on cultural issues of groups like the Khoi-people.\nAlthough my colleagues didn’t ever want to do the ghost and paranormal activity reporting, this was one of the popular sections for our readers. Our newspaper always got a lot of comments on these stories.\nMy aim as a writer is to inspire, to educate and to make people laugh. So I didn’t really care much about ghost and paranormal activity reporting not being seen as real journalism. For me it was simple – it was what most our readers wanted to read.\nI remember someone calling me one day about his car that broke down alongside the road. The man and his family were on their way to church when this occurred. I can’t remember exactly what happened, because this was years ago, but here is the story:\nWhile driving on their way to church on a highway, the car started to overheat. Shortly thereafter smoke came from the bonnet and a fire started from there. The man and his family had to rush to get out of the car.\nI had asked the man if he thought the devil caused the fire – meaning, the devil didn’t want him and his family to get to church. The man’s answer was yes. That story got a popular poster. Had I not asked him that, the story probably wouldn’t have made the paper, or it might have only been a small story in the paper.\nSee what I mean: I made a general news story fit into my [then] beat.\nThe same concept can work for bloggers. You get a story, but you have to report on it based on your niche for your audience. If I worked for the entertainment industry, I cannot write about sport. Unless, I could find an entertainment or lifestyle element to the sport event I covered.\nRelated story: How to start blogging for business or yourself\nFor instance, if you interview a sports star for your entertainment beat, talk to him or her about other hobbies or things in his life that your audience can relate to.\nI was once on a plane from Johannesburg to Port Elizabeth next to cricket player, Morne Morkel. This awfully tall looking man was sitting next to me and said “hi”. It was on Christmas Day or something. Both of us had to work in Port Elizabeth.\nI didn’t know who he was. I was so embarrassed when he told me his name, because it sounded familiar. I didn’t take a photo with him, because I was embarrassed – a journalist that didn’t know her sports stars. Ask me about rugby stars – I can answer you when you ask about rugby.\nAnyway, I told my colleague, a sports reporter, and he wrote a lifestyle sport column about my experience. My experience did not make it as a sport news story, but my colleague thought it could still make his sport section pages.\nYes, I am still embarrassed that I didn’t take a photo with Morne Morkel, because I didn’t realise who he was.\nRelated stories: Ideas to help you start blogging + My reversed bucket list\nTHE TROUBLE WITH A NICHE\nAs a blogger, it was (and still is) tough to identify my niche. I don’t want to be a mommy blogger, I once said. I later found out that mommy bloggers do not only write about their children.\nI realised that a niche could also be something that people remember you for. For instance, if I want any advice or information on child adoption, I would go to Sharon of The Blessed Barrenness. I also know she has close connections with local authors – she sometimes reviews books of local authors.\nFor any information on travelling or living in Dubai, Karin of Desert Missus is the go-to person. To learn about homeschooling, I can go to Shaveh of The life of 5 Feders‘ blog. Shaveh is also the wife of a pastor who travels a lot. I can identify with her, because my husband often works away too.\nCarly of Mom of Two Little Girls shares her adventures as a soccer mom and why (sport) competition in schools is important. She also recently gave tips on how to keep your child busy if you want to do your own thing.\nAnd me? I write about entrepreneurs- and authors’ journeys. I also share what I have learned on storytelling.\nMy advice to you if you are struggling to identify your own niche: just keep writing; you’ll find something that people will remember you for.\nYou and your experiences are unique. Don’t take for granted what you already know, because there are people who know a little less on a topic than you do.\nGood luck!\nDo you have a niche as a blogger? How do you decide on your niche?\n11 thoughts on “5 ultimate reasons why a niche or beat can work for you”\nHow did you figure out what niche you wanted to specialise in and how do I grow into a niche (if one does that)?\nInteresting that your beat was ghosts. You must have interesting stories to tell and I’m curious to hear them. Almost 15 years ago when I worked as a journalist, my beat was court room news and local court news I can say damaged me mentally lol.\nI really enjoyed your post. I’ve battled and still battle with a niche, mainly because I’m a spur of the moment / I’ve just found something inspirational to write about, kind of person. Perhaps my main reason for derailing from blogging in general was because my words were often used against me by my ex.\nTo just keep going seems like the perfect recommendation.\nMy unofficial journalism beat us agriculture. As for my blog, it’s focusing on Christian womanhood in all stages of life\nSuch good insight about creating a niche. I’m working on expanding my niche (travel AND health!) and definitely working on trying to make sure it all fits together seamlessly. Thanks for the tips!\nJuliette \|\nI can’t believe your beat was ghosts!!! You pointed out some great insights that I didn’t know. I’m still trying to find my niche, so for now I’ll take your advice and just write. I know I’ll need to narrow it down and I’m excited to see how my niche unfolds!\nI can’t believe it either Molly! It was fun though. Thank you all for stopping by to read about my adventures.\nI am so happy I found your post! My niche is Baking (baking blog) but I try to write about other issues and relate the post theme to what ever recipe the post has. I was wondering if what I am doing makes any sense. 🙂 Thank you!\nWow i love hearing what others are doing. Thanks for sharing Dee."}
{"text": "Americans understand that fundamental changes must be made to the U.S. educational system if the country is to remain competitive in the 21st century, a report released July 26 by Cisco Systems finds. Americans especially realize the importance of adopting information technology to upgrade schools, connect communities, and improve educational content, the report suggests–but they’re often conflicted about how to implement these changes.\nZogby International conducted the survey of more than 7,000 Americans, titled \"Education Attitudes 2007,\" back in May. The majority of respondents said technology is an important factor in connecting schools to their communities, as well as in leveling the playing field among more and less affluent schools by providing equal access to educational content. But respondents disagreed on how schools should impart key 21st-century skills to their students.\n\"How to best educate students so that they have the skills needed to succeed in the 21st century workforce is a critical issue facing every country,\" said Bill Fowler, executive director of Cisco’s 21st Century Schools Initiative. Yet technology into the learning process.\nAmericans also recognize that understanding science and technology is important to success in the 21st-century workforce, the poll suggests: 69 percent of Americans believe that science and math courses should be made mandatory for grades 7 through 12.\nCompetitiveness in a global marketplace is a key issue facing U.S. graduates. And by a slim majority, Americans also believe that the U.S. education system should take a more global approach to its curriculum, the poll suggests. Fifty-four percent of Americans said schools should place a greater emphasis on teaching a global perspective.\nYet, despite the growing need for problem-solving skills in an innovation-based economy, Americans are not prepared to base students’ grades on collaboration skills by shifting coursework away from individual achievement..\nAlong the same lines, the poll also asked if \"standardized testing is contrary to our education objectives, by placing too much emphasis on individualized testing and incentives to achieve test results that may not reflect knowledge.\" While 45 percent of respondents said \"yes,\" 46 percent said \"no.\"\nThe need for a cohesive vision for teaching students 21st-century skills was the subject of a panel discussion held in conjunction with the survey’s release. Hosted by Cisco at the National Press Club on July 25, the forum invited ed-tech leaders to discuss the survey’s results. Participants agreed that while there is a consensus about what students should be able to know and do for the U.S. to remain competitive in the global marketplace, the methods for reaching these educational goals are still the subject of intense debate.\n\"What we need is a unified vision,\" said Keith Krueger, chief executive of the Consortium for School Networking. \"Everyone seems to have the same opinions in the room, then they leave and they all have different opinions.\"\nEven among the panel, there seemed to be a range of opinions. Jennifer Cutler, a teacher at McLean High School in Fairfax County, Va., said she supports group learning. She said she believes the U.S. needs to \"get away from tracking at such an early age … and should pool everyone’s individual strengths together\" to achieve better student performance.\nDon Knezek, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education, agreed with Cutler, saying schools need to look \"beyond rote practices and forward into innovative learning,\" by encouraging \"collaborative work … [and] project-based work in team environments.\"\nThough collaborative learning is important, Krueger said—especially because most companies today value the ability of employees to work within a team structure—true education reform should be based on a healthy balance of collaborative and individualized instruction.\nAs a model, he cited the theory behind Amazon.com—a company that has achieved success by personalizing the delivery of services, using predictive software to suggest options that the individual might like.\n\"We need to ask how we can make the learning environment so that it pushes individual students to their next level,\" Krueger said. \"We need new assessments based on individual student data.\"\nOne point the panelists did agree on: Educational technology should be uniformly integrated across all schools and districts–and more funding is needed to achieve this goal.\n\"It doesn’t make sense that Title II, Part D [the Enhancing Education Through Technology federal block-grant program] is getting cut, when Americans uniformly agree that our country needs to invest in ed tech,\" Krueger noted.\nLinks:\nVideo of panel discussion\nCisco Education\nConsortium for School Networking\nInternational Society for Technology in Education"}
{"text": "GIS in Hawaii\nA digital version of the state\n“Past is prologue.”\n– William Shakespeare\nDarrell Hamamura punches his code into a keypad, pulls open the door to the vault and steps back into the past.\nAs the land information systems manager for Kamehameha Schools, he tracks the endowment’s vast real estate holdings, more than 365,000 acres of industrial land, retail property, farmland and extensive conservation lands. In the past, that meant poring over some of the thousands of historic documents stored in cabinets along both sides of the vault: titles, deeds and easements; leases and permits; maps and surveys; old photographs and correspondence – the oldest dating back more than 100 years.\nNowadays, Hamamura spends less time in the vault. His work, and the work of many other land planners, developers, architects and others in Hawaii, has become more dependent on a technology called geographic information systems, or GIS. Traditionally, if you wanted to know who owned neighboring parcels, the exact location of underground utilities, or the boundaries of zoning districts, it meant finding the information on a paper map or document in the Kamehameha Schools vault, at the Bureau of Conveyances or in a similar storage room. It was a slow, laborious process. Now, almost all these documents are available from a computer. Not only that, they can be combined with some of the thousands of publicly available maps and databases to help answer complex questions: Is this building in the flood plane? How many people of Hawaiian ancestry live within a 15-minute drive? How much acreage was burned in a recent wildfire? GIS makes all that possible.\nIt’s not just that GIS speeds up the work of planners, engineers and architects, although it certainly does that. And it’s not simply having more information available, although GIS does that, too. It’s that GIS provides users with a deeper, more intuitive insight into the world around them. To borrow a phrase from the industry, GIS helps decision makers make better decisions.\n“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”\n– Arthur C. Clark\nGIS systems are a way to store, manipulate and display geospatial information on a computer. That sounds arcane, but if you’ve ever used a service like Google Maps, you’ve worked with a simple GIS. More complicated systems, like ESRI’s ArcDesktop and ArcServer programs, which are used by KSBE, include more data and more sophisticated analytical tools. (Several companies produce GIS software, but the industry is dominated by ESRI.) Indeed, “geospatial information” really just means any data that can be tied to a particular location on a map. This includes obvious things, like addresses and regions, but it also means anything related to that address or region: demographics of the residents, types of land use, elevation, vegetation and much more. In fact, almost all data has some geographic component.\nTypically, GIS data is grouped in “layers,” maps of related information that can be laid on top of one another so the user can visualize the relationship between different datasets. This is the real power of GIS. Maps are a powerfully intuitive way to explain and analyze information. Perhaps the best and most useful local example is the City and County of Honolulu’s GIS service at gis.HiCentral.com, which is hosted on the web by the Honolulu Board of Realtors.\nAmong municipalities, Honolulu is actually in the vanguard of this new technology and much of the credit goes to Ken Schmidt, GIS coordinator for Honolulu’s Department of Planning. For his part, Schmidt attributes the quality of the city’s program to decisions made by his predecessors.\n“Honolulu is really one of the earliest adopters of GIS technology at a local-government level,” he says, “especially for a municipality of this size. When you purchase ESRI’s ArcGIS software product, you get assigned a customer number. Honolulu is customer No. 279. Now they’re up to five or six digits in terms of customer numbers.”\nSchmidt also credits the city’s decision in 1996 to integrate all departments. “They recognized the importance of having it as an enterprise system. It wasn’t being developed for one particular program or department; it was intended to support all the different services that the city government provides. That was pretty cutting edge back then.” It also ended up saving money and eliminating duplicated efforts.\nLike most municipal GIS systems, Honolulu’s is largely about land use. “For a lot of what we put out,” Schmidt says, “our primary focus was parcel and zoning information, along with other base-map information. Common base-map information includes streets, parcels, building outlines, topography and anything that may have a regulatory influence on a particular property, such as flood zones and zoning designations like special management areas.” All these databases are available directly from the county’s TMK maps. It’s also possible to link to outside sources, like Bing Maps or Google Street View.\nWith so many flashy programs on the Internet, it’s easy to underestimate an information-rich resource like gis.HiCentral.com. “The big difference between Bing Maps or Google and what the city is producing is the data,” says John Higuchi, program manager for BEI Consulting, which developed Honolulu’s system. The advanced map on gis.HiCentral.com has more than 70 map layers. “The city is the holder of the data. They know where the manholes are; they have the data behind all the parcels and properties; they know the permit information; they know the utilities that are underground. All that information is given to them. Bing and Google don’t have that information, so they’re more directional – how do I get from one address to another.”\nThe state’s GIS program is more primitive than the City and County’s. The state Office of Planning is the official coordinator of GIS, but it’s never had the funding or support that the city gives Schmidt. Individual departments – especially landowners such as the Department of Transportation and the Department of Land and Natural Resources – are heavy users of GIS, but there’s little coordination in their programs. That may change, because GIS is a major priority of state planning director Jesse Souki. Perhaps more important, Sonny Bhagowalia, the state’s new CIO, has identified a more enterprise-based GIS system as a key way to improve state services. For now, though, state ambitions are constrained by budget woes.\nHowever, the state Office of Planning hosts an astonishing library of free databases and map layers at hawaii.gov/dbedt/gis/. GIS users can visit the site to download hundreds of datasets and maps, including layers that show:\n• physical features, like coast lines, rivers and streams, and roads;\n• political boundaries, like census blocks, council districts and zoning boundaries;\n• natural resources, like agricultural lands, soil maps and wetlands;\n• hazard information, like tsunami evacuation zones, emergency shelters and wildfire-risk maps; and\n• marine layers, like anchorage areas, bottomfish-restricted areas and explosive dumping areas.\nFor the neophyte who wants to know why GIS is important, scanning this list of free layers can be an epiphany.\n“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anyone can talk meaningfully about one without talking about the other.”\n– Bill Gates\nGIS is already a widely used tool for big businesses in Hawaii and elsewhere. Companies like UPS and FedEx use GIS for routing and scheduling their fleets. GIS, combined with inventory-management tools, allows service providers like Sears to keep track of their rolling inventory, making sure to dispatch a truck that has the right parts on board. Power companies like Hawaiian Electric use GIS to compare the existing electric grid with potential alternative-energy sources to plan infrastructure improvements. In other words, GIS isn’t simply maps, it’s also a powerful analytical and planning tool.\nA good example is ESRI’s Business Analyst extension. This add-on to ESRI’s other GIS programs allows companies to take demographic and income data from census blocks and compare that with geographic factors such as available real estate, drive times and zoning maps. Major franchises and big-box stores use this kind of analysis to help locate new stores and coordinate marketing campaigns. That’s because GIS allows businesses to see these kinds of relationships quickly and easily.\nGIS’s impact on large local landowners like Kamehameha Schools or A&B Properties may be even more profound. Back in his KS office, Darrell Hamamura uses software called ArcGIS Desktop to pull up the parcel map for Punaluu on Oahu’s Windward coast, where KS owns a lot of land. With a click of his mouse, Hamamura shows how he can retrieve detailed information for any parcel on the map. He can view the property using a topographical map, a roadmap or an aerial image as a basemap. He can zoom in to look at details, or zoom out for a wider perspective. He can use built-in ArcGIS tools to measure distances or calculate acreages on a map. He can also tunnel into different layers that link to a wide assortment of databases, both private and public.\n“Here, I’ll bring up an agricultural layer,” Hamamura says. Then, with a click of his mouse, he selects a parcel from a patchwork of greens and reds and blues. “Here are all the different agricultural fields. These are shape files created using GPS – global positioning system – that identify the boundaries of actual crops and leases. Within this area, we can calculate acreage, give it names, do an inventory of what types of crops are actually being grown. We have a TMK layer, so we can see ownership information on all the neighboring lots.” Perhaps more impressive, from the same map, Hamamura can drill down to another database – Kamehameha Schools’ lease-management system.\n“Now we can look at the lease in detail,” he says, zooming in on a small plot in the back of Punaluu. “The system gives you land-asset value; the name of who’s leasing the property; which asset manager manages it; when the lease begins and when it ends; and what it’s leased for – in this case, aquaculture. And it gives you all the other lease information: base rent, any other rent, contact information. For all this information, we’re just using our GIS portal to get to the parcel layer. From there, we’re able to get to all the other systems. That way, the user only has to enter the TMK once.” Or, in this case, simply click on a map.\nThe point of this demonstration is that a custom GIS program, like KSBE’s, can be modified to include more features than a public portal like\ngis.HiCentral.com. For emphasis, Hamamura plunges deeper into the system’s library of databases. “Now, we’re looking at our property-inspection-management system,” he says, pulling up a table of data. “So, for this TMK, we’ve conducted all these inspections. Using GIS, we can look at who the inspector was, what dates he was there, and see the latest inspection report. On this report, for example, the inspector found two problems. Scrolling down on the inspection system, we can see this is from the inspector writing back to the asset manager who works with that lessee.”\nOf course, GIS is famously about maps, and the KSBE system is no exception. Hamamura clicks the maps tab to show what that means for asset managers or planners. “We’ve scanned in almost all our Kamehameha Schools maps database,” he says, referring to the collection of maps and surveys in the vault. “So, this is a list of all the maps that are available for this Punaluu area. What you can do is click on an individual map and see all the metadata on it: what it is, who surveyed it and when it was surveyed. In this case, it was in 1885 – and we do have an image.” He clicks on the link, and the 117-year-old map of Punaluu emerges, as clear as if it were spread out on the office table.\n“ [(Maps + Data) x Analysis]Web ”\n– Royce Jones, providing an equation that explains the power of GIS\nAccording to Royce Jones, ESRI’s Hawaii/Pacific regional manager, the future of GIS is going to be increasingly on the cloud. Part of the reason has to do with the growing influence of web-based map services like those offered by state and federal agencies such as USGS and NOAA. In addition, developers like ESRI are offering new tools – often for free – that make it easier for GIS users to create their own “focused web applications.” Using ESRI’s new, free program at ArcGIS.com, for example, even non-GIS experts can easily create, publish and share simple maps. The program includes high-quality base maps, basic GIS navigation and tools, and the ability to add layers either from your own files or hundreds of web sources. For now, most examples in the Hawaii Ohana section of the website are simple demonstrations. But, Jones points out, it’s also possible to create highly sophisticated and useful focused web applications.\nA case in point is the use of editable layers that allow people to add or subtract information from an existing map, and share the new version with the public. Jones gives a couple of examples: The city of Honolulu is experimenting with a service called City Source, through which citizens can alert city officials about problems, like potholes or graffiti, by posting them on a public map. Also, during the recent public hearings about redistricting for the state Senate, the state created a focused web application that allowed citizens to redraw their district boundaries, moving census blocks back and forth between districts to create their own redistricting plans. The program allowed them to see instantly what effects these changes would have on district populations and whether their plans met legal guidelines. In the end, they could save their changes and submit their plans as official testimony to the commission.\n“Part of ‘to the power of the web,’ ” Jones says, “goes the other direction. We tend to think of GIS as pushing information out to the public by the City and County, but what about getting information back?” That, too, is the future of GIS in Hawaii.\nMaybe the most important effect of the Web is that it’s making GIS affordable to smaller companies. Until now, software like ESRI’s ArcGIS Server cost as much as $7,000 per user and there was the even bigger cost of maintaining a server. “Smaller businesses, and even some smaller government agencies, don’t really have an IT shop that could run a server that could handle public requests and so forth,” Jones says.\nBut GIS, like everything else, is going to the cloud. Organizations no longer need to marshal a full IT department to offer maps or focused web applications to the public. “People go to redistricting.hawaii.gov,” Jones says, “but it’s actually hosted on Amazon. You can now have your own server, but you don’t have to administer it.”\nIn the end, GIS is ubiquitous. The growth of the Internet and the proliferation of web-based map services like Google Maps serve both to accelerate that ubiquity and to make it invisible. “Does that mean the GIS professional is going away?” Jones asks. “No. But it’s opened up GIS to the point that it’s just another tool. Now, the end user going through the Web doesn’t even know they’re using GIS.”\nThere’s one more effect of Jones’ exponential equation using “to the power of the Web.” It’s the inexorable movement toward transparent and publicly available data. Nowadays, almost every government agency tells at least part of its story in a public layer or a database accessible through GIS. This has given rise to an unprecedented cascade of government information into private hands. Private data isn’t far behind. That means GIS will only become a more powerful tool for everyone. The doors to the vault are open."}
{"text": "Armor Mayhem\nDescription\n**Update v.13b - Support for User Made Levels**\nHumanity is at a turning point. Infinite energy crystals have been found on another planet and you have to fight to take control of it.\nUnlock weapons and maps as you progress to expand the game as you play.\nCurrent Version: v1.3b\nIf you do not see the version 1.3b in the top right corner of the screen, please clear your browser cache or push refresh.\n• For support and bug report, use this forum thread:\n• If you are having trouble seeing the buttons to start the game, your Flash Player may be outdated. Download the latest version here!\n[Update v1.3b]\n- Several bug fixes\n[Update v1.2]\n- Removed the AGI saving, you might lose your save data if you didn't play v1.1 but you won't have save game crash anymore\n- Fixed a small collision bug that would block you in the map snowy death on the middle platform\n- Fixed some achievements bug with the number of kills. Go in the achievements screen to get your achievement if you have enough kills.\n[Update v1.1]\n- Made the collisions more stable (you should not fall through the map anymore)\n- Made the loading more stable when loading from your account\n- Playing while logged on will also save locally\n- Changed a part on the mother ship (space ship in green levels) where it was hard to get in a door because you were getting blocked.\n- Enemies holding your flag will move a bit slower (makes it easier to take it back)\nControls\nYou can change the controls in the main menu.\nDefault Controls:\nW: Jump\nA,D: Move\nS: Pick up things\nE: Give orders\nR: View Scoreboard\nQ: Switch weapons\nSPACE: Use adrenaline\nEsc: Pause the game\nLog in to view comments"}
{"text": "Welcome to our smallscale log for sculpting and casting a range of evil dwarf ships! The aim of us volunteer enthusiasts is to create a fantasy steamship fleet of both escorts, cruisers and capital ships, and maybe even a fabled oceanic ziggurat fortress down the road.\nSo far we have on board the following members: Admiral (sculpting), Grimstonefire (sculpting), Fuggit Khan (sculpting), Red Skullz (sculpting), and Jackswift (building frameworks).\nAt present and if everything goes well, we expect to release the range in three waves, with one wave consisting of the smallest escort vessels, and the other waves containing larger ships and submersibles. Each of these three waves will consist of a bundle of several individual ship classes, so collectors wanting squadrons of some type or another will have to purchase several bundles. That will help repay the moulds. Picking just one or two ship classes from a bundle won't be an option given the limited market (which we intend to reach as well as possible with forum advertising and so on).\nEtsy shop\nThis post was last modified: 09-11-2017 04:40 AM by Admiral.\nLooking good! I've been looking forwards to seeing what you've come up with.\nI've got a pretty firm idea of two ships I'm certainly going to make, hopefully by end of week.\nThe hammer ship already described and a mining ship.\nThe mining ship is based on a gold dredge, though with the addition of a spike on each bucket.\nIts basically going to be a ship with a chainsaw out the front!!\nMy third one will be a regular gunship, multi purpose ship and land targets. A destroyer\nThe forth one if I get that far would be another gunship, but primarily for land targets and daemonic.\nI did have another crazy idea, this time a wide slave ship that would be stacked high with decks of cages (think a container ship) two big boarding ramps on the front and maybe smaller on the sides. Harpoon things as weapons to pull ships in.\nCan I check, we are saying around 1- 1.5mm as cd height?\nOne idea for this - anyone thinking of making matching scenery? Eg docks/piers, seaforts/towers, etc?\n@Grimstonefire: Thanks! Very good ideas, they're certainly inventive. I hope the triple-catamaran will be in there among them, and a slave container ship is a lovely idea!\nYes, about 1-1.5mm. It's not too strict, but let's all keep the imaginary crew small. Of course, cages can be much higher than that to accomodate large beasts, and quite wide to take hordes of slaves. In the end, what looks good is what works, so sculpt cages and so on in whatever size you like the look of.\nLooking forward to see your weekend's work.\n@Dînadan: That would be great to have, but ships first. This is a limited venture given the limited market. The costs for ship moulds will have to covered, and then we'll see if we embark on large ziggurats, dockyard terrain or enemy ships such as Orc rafts or Elven dolphin/swan ships, depending on interest from both customers and sculptors.\nI've by the way ordered some Uncharted Seas terrain to go with my collection. Recommend everyone wanting terrain to do the same.\nThis post was last modified: 11-02-2015 03:38 PM by Admiral.\nI'm en-route to making some for Man O War, as I was inspired by Admirals \"Tale of three ships\".\nThey won't be green stuff though. I will see how they go.\nAwesome!\nCool!\nWow! I wasn`t in this genre until now but the finished demoltion ship looks really fun.\n@Abecedar: Really looking forward to see how yours turn out!\n@Bloodbeard: Thanks!\n@tjub: Tackar! Let's see if you'll be hooked.\n@TheHoodedMan: Thank you very much! Perhaps these ships of ours could persuade you to try out this genre? The hope is to do just that with many who didn't know they wanted ship miniatures.\nThis post was last modified: 03-10-2018 06:53 AM by Admiral.\nHmm, maybe it could be some sort of close assault support platform? It Rams an enemy ship and either it disgorges a boarding party or an allied ship initiates a boarding action while blunderbusses, swivel guns and flame throwers on the top deck provide support/cover fire?\nPerhaps a corvus assault bridge would do the trick? The double-decker boarding galley would be able to reach up to the railings of vastly larger ships by sacrificing agility and sea worthiness. If a bunch of slave warrior scum drown when the clumsy and ungainly galley goes under in a storm, then who cares? Ruleswise it'd probably only sport some puny flaming arrows or harpoon gun for shooting, or not even that.\nWith a sixth ship in the escort mould, we'd have:\n4 evil dwarf steamships (demolition, fire cannon, shackled demon, logistics)\n2 slave galleys (ramming & weak ballista, boarding & weak archery).\nDo this look sufficient to cover the smallest vessels in the range? Bear in mind that missiles and larger cannons will feature on the big boats.\nNote that mere slave ships built on the cheap in shipyards aren't likely to show up among the larger vessels. As such, the escort kit would cover the rickety slave vessels with two different classes of galley, and that'd be it. The slave galleys are only there to provide dispensable numbers, a skirmish screen to soak up enemy fire and disrupt the hostile fleet, and some capability to wage naval war in tight archipelagos.\nThis post was last modified: 11-09-2015 08:09 AM by Admiral.\nWould it be better to have one set of escorts that are Dwarf ships and a second set that are slave ships? The slave ships being cheap fodder means that really they should outnumber the dwarf ships I think. And I'd say that the slave ship set should have duplicates in it role wise, but with the minis being slightly different visually, eg it'd be a six ship set, three would be the rammer variety and three the boarding variety, but it'd be six distinct sculpts rather than duplicate sculpts.\nOne idea re: moulds - would it be possible to have a fleet/battlegroup/taskforce/etc mould? I'm thinking something like a mould that'll produce say one battleship, two cruisers and three escorts as a set. If so maybe that'd be the best to use as the first set cast/sold as it'd give people a good core/starter fleet and the all escort set, all cruiser set, etc come later as expansions.\nMaybe, but the slave ships will be limited in classes. As low-priority ragtag reserves, they'd be outnumbered by the mainstay evil dwarf ships, and in any case each galley binds up a lot of slave rowers and all the dwarf ships use slave labour to keep them running, so even with relatively few dedicated slave ships around the whole navy will be crawling with thralls.\nWe'll have to hear with whichever caster gets the job first, but I suspect that the most sensible way to make this, is by releasing one escort kit (both slave and evil dwarf vessels) and two cruiser/capital ship sets. The market is so limited, that we want to make as few sets/expansions as possible for the fleet to minimize amount of moulds, but we could probably cook up a battlegroup deal where collectors can buy all three bundles together slightly cheaper. Still, having two or three mixed battlegroup moulds (no further expansions, except for possible sea ziggurat in case the moulds well repay themselves) with both escorts, cruisers and a battleship plus submersible could perhaps work. It's clunky with no room for picking favourite classes, but might be better for the investor/s (me, and everyone else who potentially would chip in on production costs and get proportional returns on sales).\nWe'll have to look into this, discuss and think it over.\nAn initial sketch idea for a battleship type model. Steam paddlewheel driven, although a steam galley idea would work as well (the top bit o sketch was originally going to be galley style). The smokestacks would have to either be more upright, or the model would have to be cast from the side. The side cannon would probably be fewer and larger. Bear in mind this is an initial sketch only. I've started on a top down, but haven't finished it, but let me know your thoughts.\nKinda been thinking Monitor and Merrimac (Kansas) style.\nCheers, JR\nThis post was last modified: 11-09-2015 02:14 PM by Jackswift.\nNeat! I like it a lot and look forward to top down view. Paddlewheel is better than galley style for a capital ship without a doubt.\nWould it be possible to have the top section's smoke stacks and large gun made as one or two separate pieces from the main hull? It could perhaps allow us to make it a multi-part model, with the option of a large cannon or a large rocket included on the sprue.\nIf it is not to be cast from the side (as the escorts will be), but from the top/bottom, how will the paddlewheels, main gun and side cannons do in the mould with their undercuts? The side cannons should perhaps work well if the hull is as sloping as it looks on the sketch, and the paddlewheels could work if the paddles don't protrude much. It's something we'll have to bear in mind when building and sculpting the vessel.\nWonderful silhouette on the battleship. Keep it up and keep us updated.\nThis post was last modified: 11-09-2015 02:45 PM by Admiral.\nAlso, Grimstonefire has some words of caution regarding plasticard build-ups of vessels in the other thread. When you're about to build the plastic frames for the vessels, please use a spine of plastic sprue or similar into which one can drill and pin. It'll help greatly when sculpting.\nAdmiral: great work on the slave galley, the idea of a tall tower deck design sculpted as a looming Chaos dwarf overseer is brilliant. Always good to remind those slaves who they work for, and that their Chaos Dwarf masters are keeping an eye on them.\nJackswift: that is a really nice sketch! I love the forward prow of the ship designed as a Chaos Dwarf face. An awesome idea...and bonus points for the idea of the Monitor and Merrimac (Virginia)\nUnderstood. I usually work with .06 thickness card (1.5 mm) for most builds using thinner stuff or rod only for the detail work. At that thickness the styrene itself is strong enough to drill through without loosing integrity (granted I usually work at a larger 28mm scale as well, so we'll see how well this works, or if I have to move to thinner material). A frame is a good idea either way. I may need to build up my green stuff skills. I have used it with some success in the past, but the stickiness drives me crazy when trying to sculpt. I picked up some pro-create and milliput to play with and may find I like those materials better.\nI believe we would still want to create a resin master from the final styrene and green stuff model before preparing the final mold.\nDefinitely. Sounds like a great idea to me. Frankly, I have no specific preference on side versus top or bottom casting. The latter can be a little simpler to do with good result. If the slant is enough the side details may not be undercut, however there will still be a little undercut with the nose above the ram, and potentially in a few other places which might make side on casting more realistic. My casting/mold making experience is extremely limited, many years in the past, and almost nil with these materials, so I will leave the specifics to those with more knowledge. Tell me the preference and I will design accordingly.\nThis post was last modified: 11-09-2015 03:57 PM by Jackswift.\n@Fuggit Khan: Thanks! Nothing like having a colossal statue of your boss breathing down your neck.\n@Jackswift: Should it vex you, I can always fill in the hollows with grey stuff so long as one can reach them. Good point about the resin master, it will be handier for the caster in several ways. We'll see when we get there to the cruisers and battleships, but first the escorts will get cast as one-piece miniatures and maybe even without resin masters if I can have the caster pull off the mould relatively cheap. That'll serve as some learning experience for the later ships.\nGrimstonefire is the one with the most casting experience on our team, and we could possibly ask Bloodbeard and Baggronor about some issues as well. My knowledge and experience is also limited to say the least, but I hope to remedy that with these ships and the dwarf sculpts.\nIf the ship is to be wide rather than narrow, then the mould's thickness (and mouldmaking cost) will increase. This is true for all the large ships. Casting it standing (top-casting) could alleviate that somewhat, though the face's nose, the high structures on top deck and similar tricky areas might have to become separate pieces. Let's decide on top or side-casting once we've got the top-down sketch to work with.\nThis post was last modified: 11-09-2015 04:43 PM by Admiral.\n@Fuggit Khan: Thank you sir... and nice catch. Frankly, I'm not really sure where \"Kansas\" came from.\nThis post was last modified: 11-09-2015 05:21 PM by Jackswift."}
{"text": "US-based Cameroon boxer, Tafon Ndi yesterday knocked out Mixed Martial Arts, (MMA) McCowin in a Cruiser-weight fight. The fight that took place in Maryland USA yesterday was the first of the night and lasted just two minutes.\nNotably present at the arena were Ambazonia sympathizers who could be seen waving flags throughout the match. The 25-year-old who hails from Njemba Mankon in the North West region won his first professional MMA fight in March this year.\nTafon started his amateur career five years ago before becoming a professional, during which he fought in many nations including Italy, Thailand and the USA which he has also represented USA in MauyThai organized by the World Kickboxing Association (WKA) in 2016."}
{"text": "Thank.\nIf you haven't already noticed, I LOVE this Press On Stamp Set. I love the line work, I love the images and we also think that Joyce Feraco is pretty special (this stamp set is inspired by Joyce in recognition of her million dollar sales achievement). Seriously, when our pre-order of products arrived, this was the set I immediately used (and used again and again)!\nHere is the project I created today;\nI started with a Early Espresso card base (did you know that is Bruno's favourite Stampin' Up! colour?). The patterned paper is from the Gilded Autumn DSP collection (available in the August-December Mini Catalogue). I adhered this to the card base.\nFor the stamping, I stamped the take-away coffee cup and the pattern above using memento black onto Very Vanilla card stock and coloured using Stampin' Blends. I stamped the sentiment onto the piece and adhered to the card base with another layer of Early Espresso in-between.\nI thought it looked a little flat so I decided to stamp the coffee cup again onto Very Vanilla and coloured it again using Stampin' Blends and cut this out. I then mounted this directly over the other cup using dimensionals. I LOVE how this turned out!\nThese amazing new products are not for sale in our online store right now! However if you join our team, you can add them to your starter kit right away. They will be available in our online store August 4, 2020.\nThank you so much for checking out our hop today! We know you are going to love all the other projects you will see in the hop today so don't forget to hop all the way around. You are currently at my blog - Kylie Bertucci. Check out the list below to make sure you see who is next.\nBLOG HOP LIST\n(to be added shortly)\n12 amazing tutorials to inspire you each month\n$20\nClick Below to see the Sneak Peeks\nor\nDarling card Kylie! Thanks for sponsoring the International Highlights and Top 10 Blog Hop. You're the best! :)\nYou're making me love this set more and more, Kylie! I love this card!!!\nLove it and the simplicity of it. Thanks again for everything that you do\nWonderful card, Kylie. I too am a coffee drinker - I need it daily - or I tell myself I do. Love how you always make the inside so pretty too.\nThank you and Bruno for all the support you give us. I am so honoured to be taking part in this hop with you and the other amazing winners. I love your card and it is inspiring me to ink up my set. Lx\nSorry if I have sent this to you Kylie, but I thought as you were person in charge of this blog. you might be able to answer my question or perhaps forward it on to Beth for me please as I couldn't find any contact for her, or what I did see didn't work, sorry to cause you any bother, and thankyou \" Beth, I like your card that was in the july blog, It was a black card and reminded me of a type of easel card. Could you please let me know the style of the card and if there is a tutorial for it please?"}
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{"text": "A boil-water order that had been in effect for about 24 hours in Cumberland because of a broken water main was lifted Thursday.\nThe Portland Water District lifted the order at 6:35 p.m., the district announced on its website.\nThe order was issued after the water main broke Wednesday afternoon in Cumberland Center. Schools were closed Wednesday afternoon and all day Thursday, and 600 customers in Cumberland Center were told to boil their tap water before using it. Water district officials said the break had the potential to contaminate drinking water.\n“Cumberland customers can now use tap water for all purposes,” the water district said Thursday evening. “Water tests indicate water is safe and the boil order has been lifted.”"}
{"text": "Auto-rickshaw services provided through e-commerce platforms would attract 5 per cent per cent effective January 1, 2022.\n\"This amendment shall have a direct impact in the case of e-commerce industry players who provide an online platform to a large number of auto rickshaw drivers for connecting with riders. E-commerce industry has established a very crucial place in the market when it comes to facilitating passenger transport services owing to its cheaper, convenient and flexible manner of booking rides.\n\"The newly inserted provision would render rides booked through e-commerce platform costlier thereby creating tax disparity for the same service when provided through offline vis--vis online mode,\" EY India Tax Partner Bipin Sap"}
{"text": "Magic Carpet Ride\nWe’re led to the shop by the owner of the hotel we’re staying at. He’s offered us a ride to the ruins outside of town and we can just wait here until the shuttle arrives. Uh-oh, we think.\nInside, Yilmaz (Marco to his friends…of which I now count myself as one) welcomes us warmly, offers us a seat and quickly motions to his nephew to get us some apple tea. We chit-chat about how long we’ve been in Turkey, where have we visited and what else we must see before we leave. He tells us he is Kurdish, from the Lake Van region in Eastern Turkey (where we, sadly, did not get to) and introduces us to his three ‘Van’ cats, characterized by their white, white fur and different colored eyes (one is blue and the other yellow). They are striking and we get carried away playing with them.\nNot long after we arrive, a Norwegian woman enters having also been offered a ride out of town. Tea is brought for her also and we settle into an easy conversation. She is well traveled, as is Marco (he travels to North America in the winter season to sell his carpets) and we talk mainly about travel and how easy it has been in Turkey.\nThe shuttle soon arrives and Marco bids us farewell giving each of us a nice guidebook to the ruins asking only that we return the book in the afternoon. Uh-oh, we think.\nWe enjoyed a nice day at the ruins, walked back to town and headed to Marco’s shop to return the guidebook. Although he was seemingly busy with a customer (carpets strewn everywhere), he greeted us as old friends and again we sat and drank tea while we listened to him discussing carpets and materials and weaving techniques with Michael from America.\nTurns out Michael wasn’t in the market for a carpet…he had already purchased his limit at another store in Istanbul. Marco knew this the whole time…their conversation was not about Michael buying a carpet but a conversation about carpets in general…Marco just likes to talk, and a conversation about carpets is just up his alley. Soon, Michaels wife came and whisked him away but, before he left he stood up and said “Well, I am certain that I bought my carpets from the wrong place. I should have got them from here”. Uh-oh, we think.\nOnce Michael leaves Marco, Jason and I start talking about carpets and kilims and the differences between them (carpets have pile, kilims do not), and about the stock that Marco keeps (primarily nomadic designs from eastern Turkey). He tells us the carpet shop is a family business, run alongside the fabric shop across the road and the knick knack shop up the road (and, it turns out, the hotel we’re staying at). We learn that he he left eastern Turkey for Istanbul but moved to Selcuk a while ago and prefers its small town community feel (Selcuk really is a nice town…the friendliest we have visited here in Turkey).\nWe ask if he could show us some kilims. Uh-oh, you’re thinking.\nHe asks if we’re interested in buying and what our budget might be. We tell him we might be interested but that we are woeful backpackers with a teeny tiny budget and an inability to take anything with us. He understands and explains that it is his job to help people a piece of Turkey to take home. We tell him our teeny tiny number…he manages to keep a straight face and does not snort at the teeny tinyess of it.\nHe calls out to his partner and, together, they pull out kilim after kilim unfolding them and laying them out one after another. Do we like this one…no, the color is too purple. How about this one….no, the pattern is too ‘chunky’. Here’s another…yes, that one is nice. And over here…no, too big/too small/too long. I know you’ll like this one…yes, you’re right it’s very nice. Until the floor is covered…and they’re all beautiful.\nJust then I heard a voice outside that I recognized. Briar, Debbie, Angela and Ella…who were all on the gulet cruise with us…were returning to the shop so that Angela could have one more look at the four kilims she was choosing among for herself. They had originally come to the shop on the recommendation from some friends from home who had purchased carpets from Marco the previous year on their trip to Turkey. It was the first time we have run into travelers that we’d met previously and we spent some time catching up and oohing and ahhing over Angela’s selections.\nIn no time there was tea in my hands again and the conversation had turned from carpets and kilims to travel and adventures to life in Turkey and Canada and all things in between. Two hours had easily passed as we all sat, like old friends, drinking tea, chatting and playing with the cats.\nOnce the girls left we got back to business and, now that Marco knew our style, he easily found 3 or 4 kilims that fit. How much, we asked. Triple our teeny tiny budget. Uh-oh, we think.\nI explained that, although they were beautiful, there was no possible way we could stretch our teeny tiny budget to that level. Could he please show us some pieces that are closer to our teeny tiny budget? He does, and we find one that matches both our style and our budget. It is not as beautiful as the bigger, more expensive one but it is nice.\nI ask again about the price for the larger one. Are you sure that is your lowest price? Could the price not possibly be closer to our teeny tiny budget? He moves a teeny tiny bit closer but explains that he paid more than that for the piece and could not possibly go any lower.\nI understand and ask that he save the smaller kilim in back while we go for dinner and decide if it is the one for us. He asks if he should also save the larger one…no, I say. it is not a possibility and I do not want to get my hopes up.\nAt dinner, Jason and I discussed the small kilim (which is well within our teeny tiny budget) and the larger one also. What would we pay at home for a nice piece like this? Wouldn’t it be something we would treasure forever? Could we afford it? In the end we decided to try for the larger kilim. We adjusted our budget and talked about bargaining strategy. In the end, if it didn’t work out, we would take the smaller carpet and be perfectly happy with it (and the story of how we got it).\nWe return to the shop after dinner and are, once again, welcomed warmly. The small kilim is brought out and we talk about how it really is a nice piece. I ask if I could just see the other piece one more time. Marco finds it, lays it out and I remark again on how beautiful it is and how wonderful it would be to take it home.\nI make the first move and soon Marco and I are waltzing through the steps of the bargaining process. It’s a dance\nthat he is well practiced at and I feel I am graduating from the sock hop to the prom in one fell swoop. He is kind and generous as he leads me around the dance floor, allowing me to step on his toes once or twice and encouraging me when I’ve done well. When the music stopped and we had sashayed our way to the finish, we shook hands as we agreed on a price.\nDid we, in the end, get a screaming deal on a kilim? No, but we did get a great piece of craftsmanship and a great experience at a great shop, for a good price. Marco and his shop (Eastern Anatolia Nomadic Art Gallery) can be found in Selcuk, near Ephesis, on the western coast of Turkey. I strongly recommend paying him a visit…tell him I said hello.\nG&J,\nlook forward to placing the carpet in front of our electric fireplace!!\nron\nahhh, it is soooo beautiful!!!! Are you having to pack it around with you?? I love the kitties…Great story!!!!\nJ\nI like the analogy of it being a dance, because that is what it really is. I’m glad that in the end you got the big kilim\nps – your title made me think of the movie Aladdin!\nYou should know that the cats had some kittens about 3 weeks ago. We accidentally walked into his shop today and recognized the cats and his name from your post. (We re-read your Turkey posts last week when we landed.) Tomorrow we’ll tell Marco you say hello :)\n@Danny&Jillian: Ahhh…the cats are so cute…kittens would be amazing! I’m glad you got to meet Marco and experience his hospitality.\nMerhaba Gillian ,\nWhat a nice Suprise !! olala l just check something on Google and My brother save this page and when we open and gues what we see :) our pretty cat’s Pamuk,miyav and Ramboo.How funny we didnt know this web side and showed other traveling people but now l have and l will show this year all Touristh come to my Shop and believe me it will be help full .because bussiness is so slow and Big carpet factory dont let the Tur busses came to selcuk and they take them direct to Ephesus and than to carpet ,Gold,Leather factory .how sad for small local shop but hope nice people like you travel around the selcuk and see nice Carpet shop here and two beautiful cat’s from Van and have drink Apple Tea and lovely chat with us ..\nthey are all welcome if you have any question you can find us on face book :(nomadicartgalleryselcuk)..\nThanks alot\nMarco\nSounds like you did well! Sometimes, if you really want it, it’s hard to get a killer deal. If you don’t, then it’s easier–but then, it’s not cool because you didn’t want it so much. :)\nLisa @chickybus recently posted..Random Travel Moment #5: Encounter with a Turkish Van Cat and a Carpet Casanova"}
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{"text": "DURATION\n1 hour\nGROUP SIZE\nMinimum of 6 stags\nAVAILABILITY\n7 days a week\nSEASONAL\nAll year round\nDRESS CODE\nCasual\nSave time, hassle & money\nJust a single £49 deposit needed to book\nEasy individual payments\nWe work with 1000s of suppliers across the UK & Europe so prices, availability, photos and specifics on our fake bride activity may vary depending on your preferred location and dates.\nFeel free to ask your Destination Specialist at the time of booking if you have any questions about this.\nAfter one strip show, what else can you do than have another one in a premier lap dancing club?\nIt happened to Ross in Friends, it happened to Homer (and Ned) in the Simpsons, and now it's going to (appear) to happen to your stag. Yes, we can make it seem like instead of just partying hard with his mates all night, the main man actually ended up tying the knot with a local lady - with wedding ring and wedding certificate to convince him! With all the evidence pointing to drunken nuptials, the stag will be set up for a classic 'The Hangover' scenario. The rest of the group will be in on the prank, so you'll all be in place to pull appropriately shocked faces and have vague recollections of the marriage.\nIt's not all bad though... She's a stunner!\nThis one can be organised for any part of your trip, but could be best for the last day, since the girl will turn up suitcase in hand, ready to embark for her new hubby's hometown. The stag won't be mad for long though - after the game is up, his brand new bride will put on some music and reveal herself to actually be a beautiful Budapest stripper, giving you and the boys a show you won't forget, and seeing the group off in style.\n\"It was an awesome weekend!\"\nNeed help? Call us now to start planning 01225-474200\nGet the stag to relive the true hangover nightmare with this hilarious prank."}
{"text": "New-look Timberwolves boast championship experience\nJUL 23, 2013 5:23p ET\nIt's June in the Twin Cities. You and your family kicked on the AC a few days ago. It's about time for the boat's annual tune-up. You can't go a few blocks downtown without passing an engagement photo shoot. More and more joggers and roller skaters can be seen circling Lake Calhoun.\nYou're stuck in late afternoon traffic. So is everyone else on Interstates 394, 94 and 35W.\nBut you're not headed away from the home of the Minnesota Timberwolves. That's your destination.\nStrange, right?\nThe sensation of NBA Finals basketball is about as foreign to Minneapolis as a snowstorm in July. The Timberwolves' revamped roster combined with the franchise's mighty struggles the past decade forge an equation where playoffs equals progress.\nBut a byproduct of new president of basketball operations Flip Saunders' offseason work is a locker room with several cases of championship experience.\nIt can't hurt.\n\"That's the stage when you find basketball is a game of detail, a game of dedication,\" said Turiaf, who played in the 2008 Finals with the Los Angeles Lakers and won a title with Miami four years later.\nFree-agent gets Turiaf and Brewer and returning reserve guard Barea have combined to play in 13 games spread across three separate NBA Finals appearances. Barea and Brewer played on the same 2011 Dallas team, though Brewer didn't see any action during the final series.\nAll three have championship rings. With those rings come invaluable lessons.\n\"It was a great experience, just to be around those guys, to have the opportunity to be on the team,\" Brewer said of his short stint in Dallas. \"It helped me a lot, seeing a lot of veteran guys. Now being in my seventh year, being around guys like Jason Kidd really taught me how to win.\"\nIt was a watch-and-learn course for Brewer, who'd been traded away by the Timberwolves earlier in the 2010-11 season, waived by the Knicks and signed as a free agent with the Mavericks.\nWhile witnessing his team's upset of Miami in six games, Brewer watched Barea emerge as a difference-making scorer in the series' final two episodes. In a Game 5 victory, he hit 4 of 5 3-pointers on the way to 17 points; in the clincher, he scored 15.\nTuriaf's role with Miami's crown claimer a year later was more observatory, too, though he did see time in one game of the Heat's 4-1 Finals victory over Oklahoma City. He played in all six games of the Lakers' 4-2 loss to Boston in 2008, too.\nIt's a task few athletes are ever charged with: roll out of bed knowing what's deemed a world championship is on the line that night while keeping emotions in check enough to carry out the normal gameday routine.\nBut if young stars Kevin Love, Ricky Rubio and Nikola Pekovic -- all of whom have yet to play in a playoff game -- have any questions regarding the path to that pinnacle, they've got three prime sources sharing a dressing room with them now.\n\"You have to play with team chemistry and the same tempo, like what Phil Jackson said back in the day,\" Turiaf said. \"Going through all those experiences and ups and downs, it showed me finally what I can bring to the table.\"\nFollow Phil Ervin on Twitter\n<!-this is to force the page jump to load comments-->\n+ SHOW COMMENTS +"}
{"text": "A case of Swedish Design\nOUR STORY\nOur company was founded in 1991 in Hindås outside of the city of Göteborg. Göteborg as we say in Swedish (Gothenburg is the English translation) is located on the west coast of Sweden. Being from this part of the world, this part of the Nordics and even this part of Sweden shows in our products.\nWhen our company started, mobile phones were analog and had a weight of 500 grams. A lot of technical evolution has passed since then on the hardware, but also on the accessories. One thing though hasn’t changed, the ambition to improve. To improve in our craftsmanship, in our level of innovation and in our functional and minimalistic design.\nOur team has become international over time, having our fully owned production in Sena Thailand, and sales offices in Europe, North America and Asia. Today we’re a wonderful blend of ambitious people who has an ambition to serve you with great products."}
{"text": " labour.\nThe meeting was chaired by Marzena Richter, BPCC Board Member and Partner at Staniszewski & Richter member company.\nPresentations included:\nInternships, trainings; refunds – how to optimise use of funds available through Fundusz Pracy (labour fund) and PFRON (disabled people's fund)– Piotr Kłosowski, Bartłomiej Nowak -Warsaw City Labour Office.\nSocial rehabilitation as key factor in returning to job market and keeping the job. Economy and motivation - Iwona Plater-Zyberk, communication advisor and Grzegorz Papis, trainer – Foundation for Active Rehabilitation.\nPractical aspects of employing disabled people – recruitment, adapting work place and team management” – Agata Spała, trainer and Julia Kluczyńska, corporate relations co-ordinator - Foundation for Aid Disabled Mathematicians and Software Designers (Fundacja Pomocy Matematykom i Informatykom Niepełnosprawnym Ruchowo).\n„Best practice in Poland and worldwide in supporting long-term unemployed to return to labour market.” – BPCC case study - Ania Mendrek, European Operations Manager, A4E\nPresentations (in Polish) are available on the BPCC Portal - Polish language site. Click here to download."}
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{"text": "10:00 PM ET - Key Arena, Seattle, WA.\nDespite the injury, Parker was the only consistent offensive presence for the Sparks. She finished with 13 points and seven rebounds to lead the way for Los Angeles..\nCamille Little scored 13 points and Swin Cash added 11 points and six rebounds for Seattle.\nLindsay Wisdom-Hylton and Thompson each finished with 10 points for the Sparks.\ninactive\ntechnical fouls\nscoring\narena stats"}
{"text": "(2017)\n“Lucid Memories” is a series of Pepper’s Ghost Projection installations that built as part of the Lifepatch projects that exhibited in two different cities on Belgium. The first project is a Lifepatch solo exhibition titled “IN SITU: Lifepatch – The Tale Of Tiger And Lion” in Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA) at 16 September 2017 until 7 January 2018, curated by Nav Haq and Alia Swastika. The second project is an exhibition titled “Tano Toba Saga” under the grand exhibition of “Europalia Art Festival Indonesia – 2017” with the main title called “Power and other things: Indonesia & Art (1835-now)” curated by Charles Esche and Riksa Afiaty in Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR) Brussels at 18 October 2017 until 21 January 2018.\nBoth projects focused on presenting the two key figures and their relations within a small fragment of the North Sumatra long histories during the colonial era, which are Sisingamangaraja XII as the last king of Toba People and the Swiss-Dutch soldier Hans Christoffel who represents the Dutch empire with their colonization policies. It begins with an opportunity for Lifepatch to make brief research through various well-preserved Indonesian historical artefacts, narrations, and documents that well-preserved in the Museum Aan De Stroom at Antwerp and Bronbeek Museum at Arnhem, likewise the exploration through various places on North Sumatra that local histories mostly delivered orally and culturally as storytelling, theatre, song or even dance. Driven by the tendencies that history often articulated into several versions motivated by the perspective of ideology, politics, and even personal identity, instead of intending to summarize the long history of colonialism in North Sumatra and comparing each version to find the most proper version, through both projects, Lifepatch tried to present all the scattered historical fragments and its contrast attributes to emphasize its complexity through incorporating historical artwork and archival material, together with a major narration linking all the installations.\nThose ideas brought me as part of Lifepatch have an interest in presenting a historical narration focused on Hans Christoffel’s figure whose existence is basically become an inseparable part of North Sumatra’s history during the colonial era. The tendencies of history that are strongly influenced by certain perspectives and identities brought the story of Hans Christoffel to have several slightly different version, not just the facts that he was a “Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger” (KNIL) officer who succeeded in leading many military operations during the pacification of East Indische as the Dutch colony territory, including the obliteration of Toba people guerrilla resistance in the Tapanoeli war by capturing their leader the Si Singamangaraja XII who eventually died on a battlefront. For some people, he would be defined as an evil person based on his bloodstained reputation who prefers to assault his prey and finish the kill without mercy. On the other side, some people would prefer to acknowledge him as a great soldier or a hero because of his achievements. Meanwhile, as we explore the archives during the research as part of a residency program fully supported by Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA), AIR Antwerpen, each well-preserved artefacts and documents such as military log-book, pictures, telegrams, letters, postcards, newspaper clippings within the museum archives seems to hide a particular story with a specific context, time periods and space that can be interpreted as scattered fragments of a bigger story. Eventually, the linkage of each material weaves a fairly long story that can be divided into four main chapters, which were the chapter about Christoffel’s military career during his services as an officer in Royal Dutch East Indische Army, the chapter about his iconic military missions in North Sumatra when obliterating the Toba People resistance and captures their leader Si Singamangaraja XII, the chapter about his military achievement during the pacification of Dutch East Indische that brought him became one of the highly decorated soldiers and ended with his daily life after retired story as the final chapter.\nHowever, while compiling Christoffel’s story, I met with a strange situation that sparked my curiosity. Although he was a person with a great military achievement, received a knight title, and awarded the Eresabel saber as one of the highest military awards for bravery in the Netherlands Kingdom, there are only a few artefacts or documents that could represent his story. Even in the Bronbeek Museum that prided itself as the central archive for preserving the Royal Dutch East Indische Army histories during the colonial era, its collection only presents Christoffel’s figure through several official military documents, old pictures, and his Eresabel.\nThrough the opportunities to have great discussions with Willy Durinx -Co-Curator “Collectie Christoffel” of Museum Aan De Stroom- who also allowed me to see some of his research, I learn many other interesting facts about Hans Christoffel based on information that preserved in a digital scan of several newspaper articles, few of Christoffel personal portrait picture, and buildings in around Antwerp and Kalmthout, Belgium.\nThe most interesting facts about Christoffel within his retirement days are well-preserved in an interview article within a newspaper called De Telegraaf that was published on 21 April 1940. It shows that he seems to try very hard changing his persona completely.\n“I have done my duty in Indië, but nothing else. And it’s all so terribly long ago…”\n…………\n“Thirty years ago, I dropped a curtain about everything that had happened. I shook off all my time in the jungle, started a new life, thought about the past as little as possible, searched for and found peace.\n(Christoffel, De Telegraaf, 21 April 1940)\n“With the history where everybody else would be happy to boast about, Christoffel has completely broken with it. He has burned all things from his Indischen time, reports, letters, pictures….”\n(Article Writer, De Telegraaf, 21 April 1940)\nIt appears that to cover his deeply rooted and emotionally related memories, he needs more effort than just alienating his past life by changing his daily activities with a totally different way of life. He also implants new thought that what he had done in the past was merely carrying out his duties as a soldier, no less and no more. Even though he has to complete the assignments using methods that considered to be vile and without mercy, he admits that “It was a messy job, but it has to be done”. Finally, to prevent his past life from being remembered, he burned all his personal notebooks, photographs, and various documents that could work as a powerful stimulus to reenact the feelings and experiences of the past.\nCompare to what Lifepatch learned from the Toba people in North Sumatra, they believe that memories of the past are very important things and must be always preserved as part of efforts to maintain their personal and community identities. Even though they no longer possess their own rightful heirloom and historical artefact because thousands of weapons, jewelry, textiles, and many other cultural objects had been taken from the battlefield, “donated under pressure” or just bought during the colonial era, the Toba people have their own way to preserve their history and delivering it to the next generations orally and culturally through storytelling, theatre, song or even dance.\nBoth of them appear to emphasize the fact that memory is an absolute necessity for the existence of history. At the same time, their memories manifested as a story that provides additional value to particular objects and makes them could be considered to be a treasure or a historical artefact. Even though memory constantly requires objects or maybe particular keywords to recalling it back in our mind, the past can still exist in people’s heads and nowhere else. Just like what I learn from Christoffel’s answers during the interview with De Telegraaf. His efforts to cover up the past and made it no longer able to be remembered might be considered successful. Can’t be denied, his action not only affecting him personally, but it also made his past very difficult to reunited and retold accurately by anyone else. At the same time, how the way he refused to answer the questions by changing the conversation subject into his current life story seems to have a tendency that actually Christoffel’s subconscious mind still stored some traces of his past even though it can’t be easy to remember. Those memories keep waiting as a non-figurative entity, haunting him with the possibility that it could reappear clearly in his mind when he encounters certain things or a particular object. It will be revealed in our mind as several major pieces of information in a form of illusory images, which are assembled sequentially by our thoughts into a story with its own reality as if a transparent ghostly figure.\nThe phantasmagoria values of memories brought me to have an interest in the idea of presenting Christoffel’s past story narrations in the form of a non-figurative entity instead of presenting various historical artefacts in their original physical form. All of the artefacts were scanned and processed digitally to generate a series of imaginary objects as materials to produce animated videos. Through those videos, I tried to anthropomorphize them as if they were alive and kept trying to tell Christoffel’s memories that still preserved until now.\nThe Hans Christoffel’s Historical Narration Videos on The Lucid Memories Installation\ncourtesy of Wisnu Wisdantio youtube.com channel\nIn the end, those animated videos will be presented with illusion techniques that were discovered around the 16th century and popularized by John Pepper around 1862 in the Phantasmagoria performances so-called “Pepper’s Ghost“ technique. It’s a version of visual effects using glass and light to produce a reflection of a person or an object to appear on-stage similar to a ghost or a hollow entity.\nBesides bringing back Christoffel’s past in a form of memory as non-figurative entities, the installation of Lucid Memories is also used as a medium to raise several questions about the existence of historic artefacts that are usually taken from its original place and then will be valued, preserved, even presented as physical evidence to verify the truth of certain historical or cultural narratives within museums or other facilities. It’s closely related to the existence of various heritages and historical artefacts belong to the Toba people. Instead of being stored, cared for, and culturally became part of its rightful owner’s daily lives, many of these artefacts are stored and well-preserved in various museums abroad. Ironically, it becomes part of exhibitions to tell or represent historical narratives, which are actually just a small fragment of a bigger story.\nRisen up by those questions, although many technological advances have been made in the field of visual technology, the Lucid Memories was built as a prototype of simple technology to convert a video became three-dimensional illusory images of particular artefacts to present historical or cultural narrations that can be shown in various places. Meanwhile, the artefacts in its physical form will always be protected and preserved in their original places.\nProduced as part of “Power And Other Things: Indonesia & Art (1835 – Now)” Europalia Art Festival Indonesia 2017. Exhibited at the Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels and Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA) in Antwerp, Belgium.\nReference Site:\n* Details of “Power And Other Things: Indonesia & Art (1835 – Now)” Europalia Art Festival Indonesia on Europalia Art Festival official website.\n* Details of IN SITU: Lifepatch – The Tale Of Tiger And Lion Exhibition on M HKA (Antwerp) official website.\n* Details of Tano Toba Saga Exhibition on Metropolism Magazine Online Feature official website.\nRelated Articles On Lifepatch Official Website:\n* Detail of the first residency program of Lifepacth within the Europalia Art Festival 2017\n* Detail of notes of Lifepatch research about Si Singamangaraja XII and other main figures that related to the Tapanoeli war 1907\n* Detail of the second residency program of Lifepacth within the Europalia Art Festival 2017\n* Detail of Lifepatch participation on the Europalia Art Festival 2017 Exhibition"}
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{"text": "The 2015 Executive Invitational Golf Tournament was held at Hawaii Kai Golf Course on June 27, 2015. The Par 3 best ball tournament was attended by 72 players, including two CEO’s from local companies, a city councilman, and four PBN’s Forty Under 40 winners.\nThis year’s event successfully raised awareness of the great work done at Family Programs Hawaii. The tournament players, proud supporters of Family Programs Hawaii, generously donated $600 to the organization.\n“Great weather and a quality group of friends provided an absolutely spectacular day of golf at Hawaii Kai’s Executive Course this past weekend,” stated Family Programs Hawaii Board Member Peter Phillips. “A push to get the word out about Family Programs Hawaii and the amazing things that they do for foster kids and their families sparked 72 of my closest colleagues and peers to contribute wholeheartedly to such a wonderful organization.”"}
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{"text": "Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images\nUkraine says that it has destroyed multiple Iranian-made “kamikaze” drones that Russia has used in an effort to ramp up air attacks.\nThe Air Force Command of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said on Facebook that four Iranian “Shahed-136” drones had been “shot down at once” in the Mykolaiv region by mid-range anti-air missiles on Thursday. Ukraine’s Operational Command South (OCS) said that at least five of the Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which had been used in Russian attacks that caused damage but no human casualties on Thursday, had been destroyed in the region.\n“The enemy continues aerial reconnaissance using UAVs and also activates air attacks using Iranian kamikaze drones of the Shahed-136 type,” OCS said in a Facebook post. “It was in this way that the port infrastructure of Ochakov was once again struck. One of the two attacking drones was shot down by our units, the other hit a port tug. Firefighters promptly extinguished the fire. There are no casualties.”\n“Another kamikaze drone ‘Shahed-136’ attacked Kryvyi Rih,” the post continued. “As a result of hitting a two-story non-residential building, a fire broke out, which was promptly extinguished. There are no casualties.”\nUkraine said that a Russian reconnaissance drone was also destroyed in Mykolaiv. Multiple howitzers, tanks and armored vehicles were also reportedly destroyed, while Ukraine claimed to have killed at least 27 Russian troops. Newsweek has not independently verified any of Ukraine’s claims.\nIn addition to drone attacks, Thursday’s Russian offensives purportedly included a significant number of rocket and artillery attacks. Russia was said to have “terrorized” the Nikopol district with rocket attacks, killing one Ukrainian civilian and destroying schools, a museum and residential buildings.\nOCS warned Ukrainian residents to avoid “panic” while urging them to pay attention to government warnings and to remain vigilant in the face of potential new air attacks, including further kamikaze drone strikes.\n“Do not panic, but keep an eye on the situation,” OCS said. “The enemy may activate missile terror, increase shelling, and will continue to launch kamikaze drones. Do not ignore messages about air danger, monitor the situation and actions of suspicious persons, inform the competent authorities.”\nUkraine also reported the destruction of a Shahed-136 drone near the frontlines of the war in the Kharkiv region this month. The U.K.’s Defence Ministry said that Russia was being forced to use weapons sourced from countries like Iran and North Korea due its own supplies dwindling.\nThe Iranian-made drones are considered to be technologically superior to the Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 combat drones that Ukraine’s military is using, having the capability of flying almost 1,100 miles farther while carrying payloads weighing 500 pounds more.\nIran previously denied sending the Shahed-136 drones or any other weapons to Russia. However, the head of the country’s Revolutionary Guard later boasted about arming the world’s top powers, according to the Associated Press.\nWhite House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during an August 30 press conference that Iran had sent Russia both Shahed-136 and Mohajer-6 drones, with the UAVs having been transferred to Russia “over the course of several days in August.”\nNewsweek has reached out to the Russian government for comment."}
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{"text": "Blue Ocean Ventures and the Indian Angel Network in partnership with the Lankan Angel Network announced the launch of Venture Engine 2015 at an event held at the OZO Colombo.\nSince its inception in 2012, Venture Engine has been helping entrepreneurs to take their businesses to the next level and has proven to be both an invaluable resource for mentoring as well as a platform for the growth and expansion of start up and early stage businesses.\nTo date 15 companies have been funded by the program to the value of over Rs. 500 million, with companies such as Takas.lk, Trekurious, Ridgecrest, Saraii, Nithya, Glitteray and 24-7 Techies to name a few, being propelled into the fast lane through their exposure to the panel of Angel Investors and their participation in Venture Engine in the past. Several participant companies have also leveraged local success to expand to international markets.\nThe 2015 chapter; the competition’s fourth consecutive installation; aims to foster entrepreneurship further by not only acting as a springboard for the top businesses and garnering investment, but also by providing all participants with the insights and knowledge necessary to establish their businesses on more robust foundations. Venture Engine 2015, as in previous years, will open doors to financial backing in addition to providing access to a wealth of expertise in the form of workshops and mentoring sessions via the Lankan Angel Network (LAN) and the Indian Angel Network (IAN).\nThe launch event was hosted by top representatives from the collaboration including Mr. Prajeeth Balasubramaniam, Co-Founder of Blue Ocean Ventures, and Mr. Rajan Anandan from the Indian Angel Network and Co-Founder of Blue Ocean Ventures. Mr. Paddy Weerasekera, Head of Marketing, Corporate Communications & CSR, Expolanka Holdings, Mr. Jeevan Gnanam, CEO of Orion City and Mr. Jeremy Huxtable, Group Chief Officer, Dialog Enterprise and Shakya Lahiru Pathmalal, takas.lk also addressed the gathering.\nEntrepreneurs representing the funded companies from preceding installments were also in attendance representing the success of the program, its continued impact and potential for growth this year and in the future.\nEndorsing the event for the fourth consecutive year are platinum sponsors Expolanka and Orion City, with Dialog Axiata continuing as Silver sponsor. Venture Engine is run, mentored and filtered by Strategic Partner the Lankan Angel Network – Sri Lanka’s first alliance of angel investors.\nThe competition is open to owners of existing early stage businesses as well as aspiring entrepreneurs. An open call for business plans was officially launched on 24 March and the close of submissions is scheduled for 12 May.\nSpeaking on the program, Mr. Balasubramaniam explained how the process benefits applicants to make the case for their business, while furthering their prospects, “What sets Venture Engine apart is that entrepreneurs are granted the opportunity to interact directly with investors. They also benefit from mentoring by LAN and IAN as well as the fact that any start-up, regardless of industry or size has an equal opportunity to succeed and get the necessary investment and backing. Since its inception in 2012, the program has seen an impressive display of talent and drive, reinforcing the value of the program and motivating other entrepreneurs to take the leap and grow their business.”\n“IAN investors are excited about the Lankan startups! Early investments in Takas, House of Lonali etc. have proved that local mentoring from Lankan investors and large market access from IAN investors can create high growth companies. IAN is super excited to once again partner with BOV and Lankan Angel Network for yet another edition of Venture Engine. This is a perfect opportunity for Sri Lankan entrepreneurs to leverage the investor excitement for startups in India, and build valuable companies,” said Padmaja Ruparel, President, Indian Angel Network.\n“As a company which has a strong entrepreneurship DNA, Expolanka understands the challenges faced by budding entrepreneurs in the current climate and is keen to be a part of the process that enables them to grow. The Venture Engine program has over the last three years proven to support budding entrepreneurs and it makes us very proud to see companies who have gone through the competition and are now successfully operating both locally and internationally. We look forward to meeting this year’s pool of talent and wish them all the very best,” said Paddy Weerasekera, Head of Marketing, Corporate Communications & CSR, Expolanka Holdings.\nSpeaking on the success of the program, Jeevan Gnanam, CEO/Director of Orion City said, “”I am very happy to be a part of Venture Engine for the fourth year running, as it has become the gold standard for start-ups in the growing ecosystem in Sri Lanka.”\n“The Venture Engine program has had a significant impact on the start-up ecosystem in Sri Lanka. Today, it has become possible to raise tens of millions of rupees for promising entrepreneurs who have ability and talent, but lack the financial resources and contacts. Each year we are more impressed with the caliber of entrepreneurs and businesses entering the competition. The Venture Engine program offers promising entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka the ability to not only develop their business rapidly in the local market, but to also expand regionally and internationally through the significant investor expertise, knowledge, and contacts of the Lankan Angel Network, the Indian Angel Network, and other international angel networks that the Lankan Angel Network has access to,” said Eric Wikramanayake, Chairman of LAN.\n“Dialog was privileged to join hands with Venture Engine through our Ideamart platform last year, presenting young software-based entrepreneurs the opportunity to obtain guidance and funding from industry specialists. An Ideamart entrepreneur placed second in last year’s competition, through venture funding, guidance from LAN mentors and participating in the Venture Engine workshop grew his business to new heights. Ideamart is the recent winner of the Global Mobile Award for Best Technology Enabler, and together this eco-system serves as the benchmark to the global entrepreneur and developer community of the growth outcomes and empowerment we create via this progressive platform. The Ideamart creation community numbers over 2,000, and Dialog is committed to growing the number of Sri Lankan innovators and we value the commitment and support rendered by Venture Engine as we work together to empower propel Sri Lankan talent to take on the global stage,” avers Anthony Rodrigo, Group Chief Information Officer of Dialog Axiata PLC.\nInformation on the program, previous years’ events and past participants are available on the project website. Application process information and resources are also available on the website with entries accepted on submissions@ventureengine.lk. Further assistance will be provided on contacting inquiries@ventureengine.lk."}
{"text": ">> recent Congressional hearing, Senator Markey ardently questioned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the privacy rights of minors. Facebook continues to claim that its users are 13 years of age or older. We know that, in reality, this is not correct. There are millions of under 13 children and minors misclassified as adult millennial users on Facebook. Is this the causality for the over reporting of users in the 18- to 24-year-old demographics and beyond?\nWhen a young child signs up for an account at 10, 11 or 12 years old, what age do they select? Would they likely choose 13-year-old, 16-year-old or 18-year-old date of birth? It is probable that they selected an older DOB in their account creation. This is not a new issue, as was pointed out in the 2011 journal abstract, Why parents help their children lie to Facebook about age, by Danah Boyd, Eszter Hargittai, Jason Schultz and John Palfrey. But even if the age is off by two or three years, using Facebook as an age restriction or even as a different treatment of child privacy from that which is required under The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is an issue of the treatment of privacy for child data.\nWith the explosive growth of Facebook since 2004, this issue will continue to grow as millions of underage profiles “aged” into older demographics and new ones are made. While the journal seems to put the onus on the parent for these profiles, it fails to address the ubiquity of the platform as a way to connect with family members while not addressing the fact that Facebook offers no other option for parents to connect their children with family online.\nIn 2014, the Atlantic claimed that “one-quarter of the children in the U.S. study reported using Facebook even though it is a social network meant for teenagers and adults. These are the hidden users of social networks, the ones who aren’t supposed to be there — but are. I think of them as “the invisibles”. It wasn’t just 11-to-12-year-olds who were going there; 34 percent of the Facebook users in the study were 8-to-10-year-olds. In the E.U. study, one-quarter of the 9-to-10-year-olds and one-half of the 11-to-12-year-olds were using the site as well: Four out of ten gave a false age.”\nWhat does Facebook claim? Here is a transcript of Mr. Zuckerberg’s and Senator Markey’s back-and-forth on data privacy for minors:\nZUCKERBERG: Senator, yes. As a matter of fact, when you become 13, which is our legal limit — our limit — we don’t allow people under the age of 13 to use Facebook.\nSENATOR MARKEY:. So I have a separate piece of legislation to insure that kids.\nOne must ask if Facebook really cares about child privacy or would rather monetize them through misdirected adult advertisement. The time is now to address the privacy of minors.\nMichael Bolcerek\nSenior Vice President, Business Development, Aristotle International"}
{"text": "I am not really a ‘why me’ kind of girl. I am more of a ‘what can I learn from this’ or ‘how can someone else be helped by learning from my mis-judgements.’ It just seems more productive doesn’t it? Otherwise, what is the point? Having said the previous the downside to it is I am very much not a girl who is open to hearing complaining, repetitious whining and/or excuses.\nPart of my lack of tolerance was born out of a conversation in the hospital about seventeen years ago. It took place right before my Father died. I was in my twenties. I remember a friend of the family, a Pastor, being there while my Father was still in a coma. This Pastor had a son that died tragically while still young. And while in the hospital, I do not recall who, but someone asked this Pastor about his son’s death and ‘why his family?’ Pastor’s response was, “Why not? No one is exempt from life’s opportunities for growth and sharing; and sometimes it comes in a package that begins with pain.”\nThat Pastor’s comment was a pivot point for me. I signal to be kind and gentle with all who are facing challenges. However, for me it is also attached with the premise of ‘you must at least be trying.’ I don’t care if you are trying and struggling, trying and failing, trying and restructuring, doesn’t matter. Just try.\nTrying is movement, forward movement. Although Homer Simpson did say “Trying is the first step in failing,” trying beats whining and/or immobility every time. I guarantee this. Next time you are stuck, or overwhelmed or tempted to say ‘why me’ remember, ‘why not’ you. And remember the following when you are whiling away hours, days, weeks, etc. coming up with your laundry list of excuses and instead switch your game up and try:"}
{"text": "Blue Devils United endorses Sunder, opposes 40 Percent Plan\nAfter meeting with the candidates for Duke Student Government president, Blue Devils United is excited to endorse Lavanya Sunder.\nAs the only candidate with experience on DSG Senate, Sunder has demonstrated her ability to implement necessary changes. Sunder’s time as vice president of services has showcased her impressive proficiency in listening to and assertively addressing the developing needs of the student body. We highlight Sunder’s management of the Fix My Campus Facebook page as a perfect example of her dedicated service to the Duke population.\nWe are thrilled with Sunder’s equity and outreach platform that proposes the innovative policy of instituting LGBTQ ally trainings for resident assistants. This, along with her passionate support for BDU’s work with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, has assured us that Sunder is committed to the advancing the distinct requests of Duke’s queer community.\nWe would also like to indicate that we trust that a Rence Nemeh presidency would benefit the Duke community. Specifically, we were interested in his plans to increase governmental transparency via a digital interface.\nBDU also met with unopposed executive vice president candidate, Abhi Sanka. We enthusiastically support Sanka’s candidacy and are ecstatic that an outspoken ally of the LGBTQ community will be holding that office for the next year.\nFinally, after hearing from representatives in favor of and against The 40 Percent Plan, BDU is fervently against the Plan. If the Plan passes, our organization will greatly suffer given our small membership yet extensive funding needs. Additionally, although we are confident that BDU will be classified as “historically marginalized,” we are very worried that some of our organizational counterparts may fall victim to poorly executed enforcement of proposed protections.\nWe trust the allegiance of our constituents, but we worry that this change will place unwarranted pressure on members of Duke’s LGBTQ and ally community, who hold involvements in many pockets of Duke. Overall, the Plan would broaden the institutional dynamics that already oppress minority populations.\nDaniel Kort, Trinity ’16\nPresident, Blue Devils United"}
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{"text": "The Tunisian roll-on/roll-off ferry Ulysse has separated from the containership CSL Virginia after the two collided Sunday in the Mediterranean Sea off Corsica.\nFrench officials said Thursday the ships separated at about 9:30 p.m. due to the combination of wave action and previous attempts to release the vessels.\nBoth the Ulysse and CSL Virginia remain in the same area as responders wait until Friday day to further assess the situation.\n#CollisionEnCorse Breaking news : Sous effet combiné mouvements houle et précédentes tentatives désincarcération, Ulysse a bougé puis s’est libéré du Virginia vers 21h30. Ulysse reste sur place. Tous moyens sur zone mobilisés pour sécuriser navires et préserver environnement. pic.twitter.com/dRQY8xKdH9\n— Prémar Méditerranée (@Premarmed) October 11, 2018\nThe Ulysse was underway from Genoa, Italy to Tunisia early Sunday morning when it collided with the CSL Virginia, which was at anchor approximately 17 miles of the island of Corsica. As a result, the vessels became stuck together with the bow of the Ulysse penetrating deep into the hull of the containership.\nA major oil spill response has been underway involving French and Italian authorities. Officials on Thursday said boom remains in place around the CSL Virginia.\nNo injuries have been reported thus far.\nOur full coverage of the incident can be found here."}
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{"text": "2009 Nissan GT-R: Sounds Like A Plane, And Other Observations\nAugust 15, 2008\nFirst, a shameless plug. Over on our up-and-coming Strategies Blog, colloquially known as \"The Edmunds Blog,\" a rather provocative Weekly Top 3 list has been posted that involves the GT-R. Topic? The best all-around sports car for $70,000. Go check it out, and tell us what you think. (I totally vouch for the Weekly Top 3 guy, by the way. Cool dude.)\nAnd now, a few GT-R thoughts, based on one canyon run and one lunchtime cruise around LA.\n(1) It sounds like a plane. You know when you're rolling slowly toward the runway, and you hear that soft whistling noise from the jet engines? That's what the GT-R sounds like when you're trundling along in traffic. And you know how the whistle turns into a half-growl/half-shriek when the plane accelerates down the runway? That's what the GT-R sounds like when you floor it. Some have complained that this car doesn't have enough character in its exhaust note, but I say, who cares? The thing sounds like an airplane. That's just cool.\n(2) In automatic mode, the transmission just can't wait to get you into 6th gear. Under light acceleration, you'll be in 6th by like 30 mph. I did an experiment in our parking garage over a span of about 100 feet -- I went 0-18 mph, and I was in 4th gear by the end. Which is fine (fuel economy, emissions, what-have-you), but quite remarkable.\n(3) Three six-footers and one five-foot-two-incher can drive around town in reasonable comfort for an hour, including a few full-throttle blasts and some corner-hugging turns. Trust me; I was there. The (lovely and talented) smallest passenger was admittedly sitting behind me, so that I wouldn't have the steering wheel in my lap, but the two other six-footers sat one behind the other on the passenger side, and they weren't complaining. This may have been partially because they were getting a ride in the GT-R, but nonetheless -- try that in any other sub-4-second 0-60 car.\nJosh Sadlier, Associate Editor, Edmunds.com @ 4,419 miles\nP.S. A special shout-out goes to six-footer Ola for literally stopping traffic in downtown Santa Monica in order to make this picture possible."}
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{"text": "This – despite their beautiful leaves and fruit (see our feature picture) fig trees make sprawling, gangly trees, usually taking up too much space when planted out in the garden. But in pots they take on a much more satisfactory form that can be pruned into a thing of great beauty and actually produce more figs if their roots are constrained (they also tend to have bigger leaves if you need one in a hurry).\nTibouchina – flowering in autumn in opulent purple, you can keep T. urvilleana going from year to year if you can bring it under glass in the winter where it will keep flowering until Christmas but it will still give a great show if grown on from an overwintered cutting each spring if this is all you have room for.\nBlueberries – needing a properly acid soil, blueberries do really well if planted in pots of ericacious soil. They have pretty bell shaped flowers in spring, superfood berries in summer that you can pick each morning and have fresh on your muesli (that’s English for porridge, Caroline), and beautiful red tinted foliage in the autumn – honestly there is not a single reason why you should not grow blueberries in pots – try to have at least two, as like Love Island inhabitants, they prefer to cross pollinate.\nJust one tip, and probably the most romantic present a gardener could receive, is that which my own best beloved presented me with this year – a large heavy duty sack barrow to move all those blasted pots around on….\nYes I recall Laura got a trailer load of manure from her OH on Mother’s Day – Tim is truly a proper life partner.\nPersonally I use pots for one of three purposes – a/So I can bring slightly flaky plants into the shelter through a Scottish winter and b/To ‘fake’ the right conditions for plants that wouldn’t normally grow for me and c/Like Laura and her fig tree, to tame colonisers that would otherwise spread like the measles over my garden.\nOn the a/ issue, without the benefit of a sack trolley I lugged my fragile Lobelia tupa (devil’s tobacco) in and out of my greenhouse autumn and spring, while it relentlessly outgrew bigger and bigger pots. Eventually it became obese – too large to accommodate or move. I planted it out and it died the first winter. A tragic tale which might resonate with you. It turns out, according to the brilliant Jonathan at Glendoick Nurseries, if I’d collected its seeds, rather like Laura’s tibouchina tip, I could have simply left it out the first year and germinated hundreds more lobelias on my windowsill the next spring, easy as wink. So I need to gain more confidence in my germinating skills and obsess less about pot heaving.\nOn point b/ i.e. fake horticultural news, I give you my very odd looking Arisaema nepenthoides (Himalayan cobra lily) which in its humus rich compost, thinks it’s in a dappled woodland canopy, but actually lives in the old greenhouse beside the clothes pegs. Not exactly pretty, but strangely, growing something that looks like this does make me feel vaguely accomplished.\nAnd finally on c/, ‘control’ can’t be underestimated. I’ve come over all ‘Mrs Trunchbull’ with the Gunnera, and ours does look frustrated in a galvanised bucket but when you read, as I did this week, that the Western Isles now has an eradication programme for this generally adored Chilean rhubarb, I think finger-wagging at gunneras is totally justified (although yours might have entirely shrivelled up in the drought by now in any case!)\nWhile broadly delighted if anything chooses to grow enthusiastically here, the garden mint was also rampaging all over the place so it, too, has had to be ‘kettled’ in a pot by the back door. If only this policy could be applied to husbands and dogs.\nYou would think my sisters would have something better to do with their time than dither about with their potted prima-donnas, wouldn’t you? Ooh, shall I bring it in? Leave it out? Shake it all about? I will grant you that I am rather tempted by Laura’s blueberries (definitely not by Caroline’s Arisaema oojamaflip), but I have a different approach to containers.\nBecause of my half and half existence in East Sussex and Normandy, I don’t use pots for any permanent planting beyond a few stalwart ivies etc. which can stay in situ and provide a backdrop to a few summer dazzlers. And I really think that for many of us, this is the best way to use pots – put in a bright array of annuals, like Cosmos, Nicotiana, and the odd background perennial plant tolerant of a little neglect and there is no need to get your knickers in a twist about how they will cope when the neighbours forget to water them during your hols, or when the frosts start. Thus, my seed-grown zinnias, for instance, can strut their stuff on the terrace among a few easy pelargoniums, not giving two figs about the approaching winter. Literally as if there’s no tomorrow, because for them, there isn’t.\nOn the subject of figs, Laura is right about restricting their roots, but we got round that one by planting our friend’s cutting in a little bed between two walls. No pot-watering and lugging about, and dozens of figs to enjoy this year; my husband’s tart drew many gasps of admiration last night at the garden-association supper…….\nMy friend Jérôme was telling me about the exotic tree-ferns he’s growing in pots – probably right up Laura’s alley, far too complicated for Caroline, and way too much cosseting for me.\n- We have included Amazon ads for some suppliers of some things we mention in our blog. If anyone buys them we apparently get a few per cent. If so we’ll split it between our web fees and Hospice UK.\n3 replies on “Top tips for going potty”\nHi Laura, I visited Elaine’s open garden in spring and spotted a plant that we couldn’t identify. Sorry so long as elapsed before I’ve asked – many life distractions! Did you manage to find out what it was and can you remember?\nJackie\nHello Jackie, yes I remember our conversation well, and actually you asked me via the blog just after the open garden at Elaine’s and this was my reply ‘Evening….) Two months on I am not sure if it ever delivered on it’s potential, perhaps Elaine could report on its progress? Laura x\nElaine here. Well, I don’t know how it’s doing because I am in France, but my son says there’s is a huge thistly thing outside his window so I’m guessing that it got its skates on in this sweltering weather, and would finally meet Laura’s approval!"}
{"text": "More Greenway cash approved for statues at Lockport locks\nThe committee controlling Niagara River Greenway funding in Niagara County on Tuesday approved its second of three payments toward a set of 14 statues to be placed on the steps at the Erie Canal locks in Lockport. Four figures will be ready for installation next fall, Youngstown sculptor Susan Geissler said.\nIn all, the Greenway will cover $400,000 of the $1.2 million cost of life-size replicas of 13 canal lock tenders, based on an 1897 photo, plus a sculpture of the photographer who took the shot.\nState and foundation funding is being sought to cover the remaining cost. David R. Kinyon, president of the Locks Heritage District Corp., said that when completed in 2021, the work will be \"one of the largest pieces of public art in Western New York.\"\nShare this article"}
{"text": "* Shares slump, analysts question French debt reduction\n* H1 group EBIT 439 mln euros, up 10.3 pct l-f-l\n* French H1 retail EBIT 136 mln euros, up 17.3 pct l-f-l\n* To sell 15 pct of Mercialys unit, keeps all goals\n* Stock near lowest level since early 1997 (Adds details from CFO Call, shares, details)\nBy Dominique Vidalon\nPARIS, July 26 (Reuters) - Supermarket retailer Casino , which is facing investor concerns about its high debt levels, said it was making progress with its assets disposal plan, with the sale of a 15 percent stake in its Mercialys property unit.\nCasino also said it had received indicative offers for other assets representing 700 million euros, around half of its 1.5 billion euros ($1.8 billion) disposal plan unveiled in June.\nCasino, which reported a reduction in net debt and improvements in free cash flow and profits in its core French market in the first-half, also kept all its financial goals and its deleveraging targets.\nHowever, Casino’s shares fell 8 percent by mid-session trading, having initially risen at the open, as concerns remained over the company’s debt situation. The stock was hovering near its lowest level since early 1997.\n“We are well advanced in the disposal process. We are confident we will execute the disposal plan as announced,” Casino’s finance chief Antoine Giscard d’Estaing told analysts.\n“Interim figures gives us confidence on our goals trading profit, cash flow generation and net debt reduction,” he added.\nCasino said net debt in France was cut by 295 million euros to 4.019 billion euros while free cash flow improved thanks to better working capital and good management of inventory supply.\nHowever, Bernstein analyst Bruno Monteyne said Casino’s debt reduction did not necessarily reflect the full picture, while Invest Securities wrote that Casino’s reduction in its debt levels seemed a bit “limited in light of its annual targets.”\nAnalysts at investment bank Jefferies added that Casino’s shares were vulnerable to any signs of higher interest rates.\nCasino shares are down by nearly 40 percent since the start of 2018, partly on concerns over the debt position of Casino and of its parent group Rallye, and over disappointing free cash flow generation in France last year.\nCasino said it had agreed to sell 15 percent of Mercialys through an equity swap with a bank for 213 million euros.\nCasino, which controls Brazil’s top retailer Grupo Pao de Acucar, added that first-half operating profits reached 439 million euros, down 2.4 percent from a year-ago as adverse exchange rate movements impacted its earnings.\nThe group, whose credit rating was cut to junk by Standard & Poor’s in March 2016, is under pressure to show it can revive profits in France, where it competes with bigger rivals such as Carrefour, while conditions in Brazil stay tough.\nExcluding currency impacts, group operating profit rose 10.3 percent on an organic basis, while in France alone, operating profits from retail operations grew 17.3 percent.\nFor 2018, Casino has forecast organic growth of above 10 percent in consolidated profit, excluding tax credits, and for organic growth in French operating profit, excluding real estate activities, of also above 10 percent.\n$1 = 0.8523 euros Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta"}
{"text": "Benedict's Passion\nThis volume is a sequel to Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration, in which Pope Benedict covered the baptism of Jesus, the temptations, the kingdom of God, the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord’s Prayer, the disciples, the parables, images of Jesus in John’s Gospel, Peter’s confession and the transfiguration, and the titles of Jesus. He also made clear his principles of biblical interpretation: The portrait of Jesus in the Gospels is trustworthy, and so it (and not some modern historian’s reconstruction) is the proper object of study and devotion. Jesus is the key to the Scriptures, and so the Bible as a whole may and should be read from a Christological/canonical perspective. The historical-critical method is foundational and indispensable for this kind of study but is not completely adequate for understanding Jesus and the Scriptures.\nThe pope’s first volume (reviewed in America, 6/4/07 [5]) was favorably received by most exegetes and theologians. He was, however, criticized by some for his excessive reliance on John’s Gospel and some antiquated biblical scholarship, selective use of patristic material, a too-easy assumption of the hermeneutic of acceptance or generosity regarding the Gospels, and a somewhat narrow and conventional theological outlook. Whatever else it may have accomplished, the pope’s first volume illustrated both the positive value and the difficulties of doing theological exegesis.\nIn his second volume the pope continues his project to integrate the historical hermeneutic practiced in much biblical scholarship today and a properly developed faith or theological hermeneutic and thus to restore biblical study to its identity as a theological discipline. Focusing on the Gospel accounts of the events of Holy Week, he treats Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem and the cleansing of the temple, the eschatological discourse, the washing of the feet, Jesus’ high-priestly prayer, the Last Supper, Gethsemane, the trial of Jesus, Jesus’ crucifixion and burial, his resurrection from the dead and his ascension. To complete the project, the pope intends to write soon a small monograph on the infancy narratives.\nThis volume carries on the methodology, format, tone and style the pope developed in the first Jesus of Nazareth. However, he does seem to make even more (and very effective) use of Old Testament texts as a means of understanding Gospel passages. Thus he takes seriously the traditional method of interpreting Scripture by Scripture, known today as intertextuality. He also offers more explicit engagement with the works of contemporary biblical scholars. His exegetical dialogical partners are mainly German Catholic and Protestant professors, though he seems to have grown some in his positive appreciation for the work of the Rev. John P. Meier of the University of Notre Dame. And he does much more with the sacramental (especially eucharistic) and liturgical implications of his interpretations of biblical texts, which has long been one of his special interests. The theme of Jesus replacing or superseding worship at the Jerusalem temple runs through the book.\nThe genre of these volumes is best categorized as theological exegesis. This approach to biblical interpretation takes seriously the texts as not only the words of human authors but also (and especially) the word of God. The danger in relying only on the historical-critical method is that the Bible can be treated as merely another book about the past. Indeed, the pope wonders whether this approach, while fundamental and indispensable, may be becoming exhausted and thus no longer fruitful. However, his abundant and generally positive use of historical scholarship and his treatment of the critical questions it raises will have the ironic effect of introducing the general public to matters generally covered only in very technical works.\nIn carrying out his theological exegesis of the Gospels, the pope joins historical exegesis, patristic theological insights, more recent theological concerns, liturgical practice and contemporary experience. The dangers involved in theological exegesis include trying to do too many things at once, blurring the distance between the ancient text and life today and moving too quickly from textual study to homiletics. Following the lead of the Second Vatican Council’s “Dogmatic Constitutioin on Divine Revelation” (1965) and other official Catholic documents on biblical interpretation, the pope uses as his points of reference the unity of Scripture, the living tradition of the church and the analogy of faith—that is, coherence with the paschal mystery.\nJoseph Ratzinger long ago wrote an excellent commentary on the council’s revelation document and has maintained a lively interest in the relationship between the Bible and theology. He presided at the sessions of the Pontifical Biblical Commission that produced the 1993 document “The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church.” In response to the 2008 synod on the Bible in the life and mission of the church, he has recently issued an extensive summary of Catholic documentation on biblical interpretation under the title “Verbum Domini.” Clarifying and encouraging Catholic biblical interpretation is an important element in his legacy as both theologian and pope.\nIt is crucial to read the pope’s two Jesus books for what they are. They are not a biography of Jesus, an exegetical exposition of the Gospels or a systematic treatise on Christology. Rather, they are a form of biblical theology, a series of learned reflections on various aspects and episodes of the four Gospels. The pope is well known for his love of music, and his theological method has sometimes been compared to a symphony in which the different instruments blend together to form a pleasing and persuasive whole. My best advice is to read these books for what they are, and by all means to enjoy the symphony and learn from a great maestro. The second volume is obviously appropriate reading for Holy Week, since it breaks open the passion narratives and provides useful historical information about them, offers challenging and often fresh interpretations and makes connections with theology and liturgy."}
{"text": "Home > Arts > Movies > Titles > S > Somebody to Love - 1994\nThis area is for the listing of sites pertaining to the 1994 film directed by Alexandre Rockwell and starring Rosie Perez, Harvey Keitel, Anthony Quinn, and Michael DeLorenzo.\nCast, credits and production information.\nReview by Charles Cassady, Jr., rating and cast.\nHome > Arts > Movies > Titles > S > Somebody to Love - 1994\nThanks to DMOZ, which built a great web directory for nearly two decades and freely shared it with the web. About us"}
{"text": "Kimi Raikkonen was demoted from fifth to eighth place in the Russian GP results after being penalised for causing a collision with Valtteri Bottas.\nThe two Finns collided while battling for third on the last lap. Raikkonen managed to crawl across the line in fifth, but was subsequently given a 30 second penalty, and three points on his licence.\nHis demotion also meant that Ferrari was finally out of mathematical contention for the constructors’ title, leaving Mercedes confirmed as champions.\n“I went inside and I think he never realised that I was there,” said Raikkonen. “Obviously at the last point I knew that he was just turning in so I tried to go more inside and I had brake harder to try to avoid it, but I was next to him already, so obviously there was contact.\n“I don’t think it was something completely stupid. I want to try, for sure I would have made the corner, but obviously there were two cars. There are many ways of looking at the incident. I was there but obviously he didn’t know that I was there, and then you will have a contact. Unfortunate thing, not just for us for them also. You never want to have accidents, but things happen.”\n12 responses to “Kimi Raikkonen: “I don’t think it was something completely stupid…””\nOh Kimi, it was a desperate last lap move for a desperately needed podium. Just say it, confession is good for the soul.\nI do.\nClearly the stewards here and their colleagues at Monaco 2015 disagree on this kind of mistake. There Kimi was the victim but saw Ricciardo patted on the back for the same error.\nFact is that no Ferrari has been able to pass a Williams on the straight even with drs all season, such is the speed advantage.\nSo, a rare mistake from Kimi, born of frustration. He had both Seb and Bottas licked in the very first corners of the race. Why he felt he had to give back the place to Seb after defending hard I’m not sure. It meant an extra lap on shot tyres while Seb pitted first and that is what let Bottas back ahead.\nThat corner was last chance saloon for the podium. Might it have come off if Bottas had seen it coming? ……\nExcellent point on same move, different outcome with Monaco steward ruling.\nI am a life long fan of F1, but I am reluctantly coming to the conclusion that it is a contrived show: not quite akin to professional wrestling, but working its way in that direction.\nFormula One has lost its way, and badly. Between stewards penalizing drivers for racing, runoff areas the size of football fields that no longer force precise driving to contrived rules on the manufacturer side that don’t allow for advancements by competitors the sport is too controlled and a sad shade of its past glories.\nIt has sold its soul to Entertianment Gods.\nBottas need only to look at the Vettel-Kimi fight at the beginning to see how it’s done. You leave room. You have to look in the mirrors when fighting. He knew Kimi had tried there before. There was an opening and Kimi took it. If Bottas had left room like he should, everybody would be singing Kimis praises. Penalty was wildly unfair. Especially considering the Monaco incident with RIC that OffTrack mentioned here.\nIt was a wild lunge that was never going to come off – no space left as no driver should have been there.\nIf Bottas had seen him coming, he’d have simply turned in late and let Kimi sail (rightfully) into the scenery – Kimi was never making the corner without causing an avoidable accident.\nWell, maybe he should have used his mirrors then!!!!\nHe would have seen it coming: Kimi would have sailed into the scenery: Bottas would have carried on and got his podium. So therefore by your adnission it was an avoidable accident, not an unavoidable one.\nWrong MW. Kimi said that he would have made the corner without problem. He never makes such claims falsely.\nVettel and Kimi fight at the beginning? Do you mean the first pass attempt when Kimi tried the same move and had to cut the corner to avoid a collision and pass Vettel? Or the the way Kimi meekly allowed Seb by to avoid a penalty?\nKimi had no chance to make that stick, and Bottas had every right to take the apex as Kimi was so far back and never effectively braked.\nPersonally I was convinced the stewards would write it off as a racing incident. Glad he took a penalty.\nI’m sorry Soren, Kimi would have made the corner without a problem – had there been no Bottas there. With Bottas there, never going to work. Bottas said he had checked his mirrors but that Kimi was too far away…\nOK Kimi, it was just sort of stupid then…\nBottas is to blame for the accident. Kimi was already next to him as you can see from the following video and he didn’t even have too much speed when you compare the entry speed of the two. But i guess it’s always Kimi’s fault like in Monaco… m.youtube.com/watch?t=7&v=sDLpyZ1MjxU"}
{"text": "Professor Norgaard Urged obama To Ignore Democracy, Public Opinion…\nProfessor Norgaard Urged Obama To Ignore Democracy, Public Opinion\nBarack Obama delivers a speech at the University of Southern California (Video of the speech) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)\nClimate change alarmist who called for skeptics to be “treated” praised Obama for appointing John P. Holdren\nPaul Joseph Watson\nPrison Planet.com\nThursday, April 5, 2012\n.\nAs the Watts Up With That blog documents, the University of Oregon has attempted to re-write history Soviet-style by amending the controversial terms used in Norgaard’s paper without so much as an editor’s note.\nRelated articles\n- Prison Planet.com ” Alex Jones & Marc Morano On You Tube’s Censorship of Global Warming Skepticism (gunnyg.wordpress.com)\n- When is Global Warming Enough? (canadafreepress.com)\n- You Tube Now Banning Videos Critical of Global Warming Alarmism (wrc559.com)\n- Professor compares global warming skepticism to racism (fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com)\n- You Tube Now Banning Videos Critical of Global Warming Alarmism (tatoott1009.com)\n- Prefessor Proclaims Climate Change Skeptics A Disease (wrc559.com)\n- And your Marxist Moron of the Day is……….. (thedaleygator.wordpress.com)\n- Professor compares global warming skepticism to racism (genomega1.wordpress.com)\n- Infowars Report – Marc Morano On The Green Prof. Who Calls For Drugging of Climate Skeptics! (newsworldwide.wordpress.com)\n- Alert: Climate skepticism must be ‘treated’, says enviro-sociologist (canadafreepress.com)\nReblogged this on IF THE TRUTH BE KNOWN…BLOGGING BAD w/Gunny.G…."}
{"text": "December is here, and the holidays are officially upon us. If you didn’t knock out a chunk of your Christmas shopping on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, odds are it’s at the back of your mind. You might even be looking for a few ways to cut down on costs in order to make those final gift purchases, and one surefire, easy way to do it is at the gas pump.\nMore often than not, unnecessary auto repair and vehicle maintenance spending is usually cast to the wayside in December in order to free up the budget for holiday spending, but the truth is that you simply can’t expect to not need to drive anywhere.\nFirst things first. If you have a membership to Costco or Sam’s Club, the price is almost always going to be cheaper than a Chevron or QuikTrip. Make the most out of these pricy membership costs by filling up there, but do the math! If it’s far out of your way and the difference is a matter of pennies between somewhere else, you may spend more on the gas getting to a cheaper station that would effectively negate any savings you would get from getting cheaper gas from further away.\nAnother good option is to use spending rewards, whether from a credit card or rewards program such as Fry’s or Safeway’s that can knock off incremental amounts on your overall gas purchase — usually starting at 10-cents per 100 rewards points you attain from your grocery shopping.\nTechnology is also your friend. Don’t be afraid to just Google “gas prices Phoenix!” There are a couple good websites that can show you user-reported comparisons between stations, as well as how far they are from your location.\nAnd while not always the case, Circle K and ARCO are generally a little cheaper than some other stations, though QuikTrip is often right there when it comes to cheaper gas in Phoenix.\nAt The Auto Shop, not only do we help keep you on the road, we strive to take care of every vehicle maintenance job, every minor or major vehicle repair and overall automotive need like we’re working on our own cars. We believe it’s a part of what makes The Auto Shop not only the best mechanic in Phoenix, but one of the best around when you go looking for a “mechanic near me” in the greater Phoenix, AZ area.\nGive us a call today at (602) 256-6164 to learn how we can save you money!"}
{"text": "Microsoft.\nWho will get the Browser Choice update?\nIf you’re using Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7, and you have your regional settings set to one of the following countries or regions, you’ll get the Browser Choice update through the Windows Update service:\nWhat happens when I receive the update?\nAfter downloading the update and restarting your computer, the update will check to see if Internet Explorer is your default web browser. If it is, the following will happen:\n• A shortcut for the Browser Choice update will be put on your desktop.\n• On a computer running Windows 7, the Internet Explorer shortcut will be unpinned from the taskbar.\n• The Browser Choice information screen will open. Click OK to continue.\n• The Browser Choice screen will open for you to install or learn more about other browsers.\nDo I have to choose a browser right away?\nNo, you can click Select later to be prompted to choose a browser the next time you log on. You can open the Browser Choice screen anytime by double-clicking the shortcut on your desktop.\nWhat if I want to keep the default browser I have now?\nClose the Browser Choice screen by clicking the Close button in the top right corner. You won’t be prompted to choose again, though you can start the Browser Choice screen at any time by double-clicking the shortcut on your desktop.\nIs Internet Explorer removed by the Browser Choice update?\nThe Browser Choice update doesn’t add or remove any programs from your computer. Internet Explorer will still be available from the Start menu. If you’re using Windows 7, you can choose to pin it back on your taskbar. For more information about how to pin a program to your task bar, see Pin a program to the taskbar.\nHow do I select and install web browsers using the Browser Choice update?\nFollow these steps to use the Browser Choice update to install one or more browsers to your computer:\n1.Double-click the Browser Choice shortcut on the desktop.\n2.In the Welcome screen, click OK.\n3.In the Select your web browser(s) screen, for each browser you want to install, click Install. Click Tell me more for information about any of the browsers.\n4.Follow any on-screen instructions to install the browser you chose.\nI don’t see the Internet Explorer shortcut on my taskbar. What happened, and how do I put it back?\nIf you’re using Windows 7 and Internet Explorer is your default browser, the update will unpin the Internet Explorer icon from your taskbar. For information on how to pin programs to your taskbar, see Pin a program to the taskbar..\nI’m having trouble downloading or installing one of the web browsers offered via Browser Choice. What should I do?\nMicrosoft only provides technical support to customers who need assistance with Internet Explorer 8. Try contacting the other browser providers for assistance.\nWill the Browser Choice update be offered for any editions of Windows Server?\nThe Browser Choice update will only be offered to customers using Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7. Windows Server editions won’t receive the update. However, the Browser Choice update will be distributed to virtual workstations running on Windows Server."}
{"text": "RTHK On The Go\n《RTHK On The Go》 is created by the New Media Unit of RTHK. It supports smartphone with Android 2.1 or above. Android smartphone users may download the application from Android Market and install it in the Android smartphone free of charge - then enjoy live radio programmes, instant news and download our podcast highlights with Wi-Fi or mobile phone networks anytime, anywhere!While 《RTHK On The Go》 is a free service, data transmission fees may be incurred for receiving/transmitting data through mobile phones, and such function may be not applicable for your monthly plan. Please consult your mobile phone network on the actual fee arrangement before using the application.This app runs smoothly on Android 2.1 - 4.2Note: \"Radio Live\" function has been tested on the following models:1. HTC Sensation XL2. Samsung Galaxy S3. Samsung Galaxy S24. Samsung Galaxy S35. Samsung Galaxy S46. Samsung Galaxy Nexus7. Samsung Galaxy Note8. Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.79. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.110. Nexus S"}
{"text": "I finally came back to my blog only to declare that “Winter is Over” and then what happens? We get socked in again. Last week had me out shoveling a few times. (Tonight's forecast is for another 6-8 inches!) So far I have remained undaunted. I do not like the snow in April and I will comment about it like the rest of us. However, “winter is over” was a declaration of the end of my dark sadness of winter this year. That, I am thankful to say, has not returned. I do feel a little overwhelmed at my challenging circumstances right now, but I do not feel despair – I am grateful for that, as well.\nI'm grateful for prayers to get through this job hunt and be working in something that is both fulfilling and lucrative. Thank you."}
{"text": "wikipedia.org\n21.09.2017, Germany.\nSome new trends before the Bundestag elections in Germany have been revealed by SPON poll, German Spiegel reports on 20 September.\nAccording to the poll data, ruling party significantly weakens. It has lost 2.3% of voters (down to 35.9%) for the last week. Its positions have been especially weakened on the territories of Eastern Germany, where its popularity has fallen almost by 3%. Social democrats stagnate at 21%.\nRight-wing party Alternative for Germany was able to use the weakness of the ruling coalition best of all, getting additional 2,5% (up to 11,1%). It is beating the Left party and now ranks third by popularity. The Left keeps its 9,6%.\nGermany will hold parliamentary and chancellor elections on September 24. Angela Merkel, who has already held this post three times, is an indisputable leader of the future election race. Her major rival, a representative of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) Martin Shulz, had lost the TV debates with her.\nIt should be noted that the current SPD rating is the worst rating on the eve of elections for the whole postwar history of the party.\nSource: Rossa Primavera News Agency"}
{"text": "or Join Now!\nI’ve actually had this lamp done for a few months, but hadn’t ordered the hardware because I was too busy building other projects for Christmas. Finally got them in and installed today.\nThis is a style I’m sure most of you have seen. I tried to change it up a bit to make it more my own. The dimensions are a little different. I designed my own inserts for the panels in the base, styled after my Mom and Dad’s cabinets. I put a four position rotary switch in the base – top light on, bottom low watt light on, both on, both off. And added a few other details like the ridge at the top of lamp body. I also “winged it” and added the top on the shade. I think it gives it more of a complete look.\nThat third picture sure is a good shot of a light bulb isn’t it! Actually I just wanted to show that I finished the inside of the shade.\nMade with red oak, stained, three coats of Watco natural, and a few coats of spray lacquer, ( I’ll go with white oak for my next lamp, I really like the rays in the quarter sawn). The translucent shade and inserts in the lamp are amber mica. The hardware is antiqued brass.\nMy next will be a little more ambitious. Check out the lamps at ragsdalehomefurnishings.com. A real inspiration.\nThanks for looking and, being fairly new to all this, I really do appreciate any comments or suggestions. I will also try to be prompt in answering any questions.\n-- Andy, Waxahachie, Tx.\nDec 29, 2013\nbygrace\nhome \| projects \| blog\n108 posts in 467 days\nLumberJocks \|\nHTML \|\nURL/IMG\nPreview this project card\nfurniture\noak\nJustplaneJeff\n141 posts in 401 days\n#1 posted 108 days ago\nReally like the design, and craftsmanship. Look forward to seeing the one you make out of Quarter Sawn White Oak, that will really pop/\n-- JustplaneJeff\nHillbillyShooter\n3843 posts in 790 days\n#2 posted 108 days ago\nOutstanding! You really designed additions that make this lamp yours, and did an excellent job on both your designs and craftsmanship.\n-- John C. -- \"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.\" George Washington\naussiedave\n2745 posts in 322 days\n#3 posted 108 days ago\nVery nice lamp Andy…beautifully made and I really like the design. The whole build is exceptional…great job.\n-- Dave.......Keep calm and make more sawdust....\nclarkey\n432 posts in 1554 days\n#4 posted 108 days ago\nGreat looking lamp !\nAstroGuy\n57 posts in 2542 days\n#5 posted 108 days ago\nWonderful looking lamp. Great execution.\nI like the way you illuminate the base through the translucent sides. Is there another bulb inside the body of the lamp or is this just transmitted light from the outside?\n-- Richard\n489tad\n1949 posts in 1509 days\n#6 posted 108 days ago\nVery nice.\n-- Dan, Naperville IL, I.G.N.\nDoe\n700 posts in 1328 days\n#7 posted 107 days ago\nBeautiful lamp. Thanks for the link, I love that stuff.\n-- Mother Nature talks, I try to listen\nEdwardnorton\n58 posts in 425 days\n#8 posted 107 days ago\nVery well done! All I can add to that is get rid of that CFL bulb! HA..seriously or I should say personally I would never use them and it’s just the reason I purchased 1,000 – 100 watt incandescent light bulbs during the last sale our Menard’s home improvement store had on them a few months ago. Other than that you really stand out with this project!\n-- EdwardNorton\nPhilip\n1017 posts in 1037 days\n#9 posted 107 days ago\nThat is a nice looking lamp. Well done.\n-- If you can dream it, I can do it!\nDan Nolan\n42 posts in 222 days\n#10 posted 107 days ago\nTotally awesome – I’ve had this style of lamp on my “to do” list for years.\nHuckD\n203 posts in 212 days\n#11 posted 107 days ago\nI really like this. Favorited.\n-- Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.\n#12 posted 107 days ago\nThanks all for your kind words. In looking at the quality build of the projects you guys have posted, it really means a lot!Richard – There is a small night light bulb (7 watt?) in the base. It can be turned on separately from the upper s-cluster.\nMean_Dean\n945 posts in 1645 days\n#13 posted 107 days ago\nBeautiful Mission table lamp! You did a great job on it, and I’m looking forward to your next one!\n(By the way, I agree—the CFL’s gotta go…..!)\n-- Dean\nDanMelander\n6 posts in 116 days\n#14 posted 107 days ago\nGreat looking lamp!\nDouginVa\n483 posts in 771 days\n#15 posted 107 days ago\nOne of the nicest looking lamps I’ve seen here on LJ. Nice job!\n--"}
{"text": "I was sharing my excitement over making it to the next round in the Disney Moms Panel search with my best friend Trina. She witnessed my heartbreak last year when I didn’t quite make it. 🙁 I asked her to say a prayer for me…that I will be content with whatever the outcome is. Her prayer brought tears to my eyes, so I am posting it here to remember always. Love you, Trinie\n“Dear Lord,\nThank you Lord for this opportunity for Kayl to come again. We ask that you please help Kayl through this very exciting time. Please give her the words to put down as answers to these questions she has been given – help her to speak from the heart. Let the words come to her with ease. I pray that you help her to feel at peace and have comfort to know that the words she chooses are words from her heart. I pray the peace is strong so that she won’t second guess her answers or the words she chooses I pray that she will not analyze or doubt but know that you are there helping her through this.\nI pray that if it is your desire and will that she will receive this great opportunity to be a part of this Mom’s Club. Lord you know her heart is full of Love and care for those all around her – regardless of how much she knows someone she is always first to show care and compassion and Love. Lord this is such a gift that you have given to her. Please let the people reading her answers feel this through her words. Lord I pray that you will Bless Kaylene and her family as she has been such a blessing to so many. I pray that you help her to see how special she is and what a gift she has. Help her to bless others. I pray Lord that if it is not your will Lord for her to receive this that you will give her peace and comfort to know that you have a special plan for her. Help her emotionally each day through this time of waiting and also through out her life. Continue to help her to be strong as she has done through out her life. Lord I ask a special blessing on her and her family – please bless them spiritually, emotionally, physically, and financially.\nThank you Lord for all you have done.\nWe love and praise you.\nIN JESUS NAME, AMEN\nKayl – THANKS FOR SHARING…I’ve been wondering. I am dying to talk w/you. Miss you & Love you – Best of Luck. I know that you will do well. I have Faith that God is with you. Keep me posted. Hopefully we can connect soon. ”\nThanks, Trina. Love you so much…and I know whatever is meant to be, will be 🙂"}
{"text": "This review originally ran during the London Film Festival.Read More »\nThe population in Cameron Crowe's \"We Bought A Zoo\" just a got a little more crowded.Read More » \"Ma.. »"}
{"text": "What is the best clothing for portraits? The clothes your clients or portrait subjects are wearing in their portraits can be a touchy subject to discuss with them, especially if you are just doing a portrait for them as “a friend with a good camera.” Even as pros, we have a hard time getting people to listen; they frequently show up in clothes that make us cringe and that even hurt our eyes.\nThis article will help you understand what to suggest your subjects wear for their portrait photoshoots. You’ll also learn how to help clients understand why your suggestions really are in their best interests so they actually listen and get it right.\nClothes?\nI get asked for tips on clothing for portraits a lot in my portraiture classes. People hear funny things about what they should or shouldn’t wear for their portraits, and they show up in the damnedest things that sometimes make you shake your head and say, “What were they thinking?”\nBut people won’t know what is right (or what is best) unless you tell them. And you must help them understand why.\n(I added a few bonus pointers on hair and makeup, but they go right along with the clothing.)\nDid you notice how I did not use the word “Don’t” anywhere in the list above?\nThere’s a reason for that.\nPeople’s brains actually don’t register the words “Don’t,” “Not,” or “No.” So when you say them, the brain just disregards that part and registers what comes after. For example, if I say, “Do not think of a lemon,” what did you just do? Of course, you thought of a lemon. So when you are explaining clothing (or anything, for that matter) and giving suggestions on what to wear, take great care to always say what you do want.\nIf you tell people, “Okay, don’t wear stripes, flowers, or bright colors,” what will they remember? “I think my photographer said something about stripes and bright colors, so that’s what I’ll wear.”\nYour subjects also probably heard somewhere that, for photography, you need to put your makeup on extra dark and heavy. Even people that normally wear no makeup or very little makeup can show up to a photoshoot with black eyeliner and raccoon eyes.\n(I know because this has happened to me when I didn’t discuss makeup with my subjects ahead of time. And if it does happen, your subject will hate their photos because they won’t look like them. They likely won’t say anything; they just won’t pick any photos and you’ll think they didn’t like your work.)\nIt is your job as the photographer, even if you are just doing it for fun and for friends, to help people look their best in the portrait you take. So let’s look at the points above and how you should explain portrait clothing to your subjects so they get on board!\nI actually had a hard time coming up with examples of what not to wear for portraits. I’ve been doing this for so long that I don’t have any subjects that come unprepared. So I’ve found a couple of group images just so you can see the difference clothing makes.\nThe image below is from a wedding, so the subjects weren’t all planning on having this group portrait done. But it shows what happens when the clothes have not been planned. There are multiple colors, some dark and some light. We have a few bright patterns and a short skirt. We have a lot of short sleeves (it was a hot day) and some white shoes. Can you see how all of those things make an impact? Overall, the effect actually isn’t that bad, and I’ve seen a lot worse. But let’s see what a little refinement can do to help.\nExamples of clothing that is working\nThe family shown below chose all black and denim, and for the most part, it is working really well. I’d only suggest that the mother wear longer sleeves. Notice how much attention her arms get? For her, it’s fine, but for someone self-conscious about their arms or their weight, short sleeves will make their arms look larger..\nThe image below shows my sister’s family, so they’ve been well-trained on what to wear.\nOnce again, dark tones have been selected: grays, deep purple, and navy. Those all work well with jeans. Can you see the difference between me wearing long sleeves (left) and my sister wearing short sleeves (upper right)? What does it do to the bare arms? How do they look compared to mine?\nHow to get subjects to agree and follow your suggestions\nThe key to explaining all this and getting people to agree and go along with your suggestions is in how you tell them. If you just list off all this stuff, it can seem a bit pushy, like you’re telling them what to do. Most people assume they know how to dress; giving them a list could make them feel a tad insulted, so they get defensive rather than listen to your suggestions.\nPhotography is part technical stuff, part artistic stuff, and part psychology!\nLet’s look at my recommended list again, but this time add in the why. By stressing the benefits to your subjects, they will get it in a big way.\nAs I said:\nI’ve had very few subjects that I’ve photographed in the last ten years who showed up in poor clothing – simply because I’ve prepped them so well. They know that, if they want to look their best, they must follow these guidelines:\n-; men need it to grow out just a little. Allow some time to live with your new look before your portrait session.\nSee a common thread in my notes above? Most people have the same fears about being photographed – yes, fears! Being photographed is right up there on the fear list, next to public speaking and going to the dentist. I kid you not!\nPeople’s fears are about looking stupid, not knowing how to stand or pose, and looking fat or old. So if you can help them see that these clothing tips will allow them to eliminate at least one of their fears before you even start, then you just have to deal with all the rest later!\nMost of these clothing suggestions have to do with helping subjects look slimmer and not stand out. How to stand and pose to minimize weight issues is another question entirely.\nPutting it all together\nYou may notice that most of the “good” examples here are wearing dark colors.\nThat’s pretty common, as most people have heard that dark colors or black makes you look slimmer. To some degree, that’s true. But light colors can work, too.\nIn fact, if everyone in the group dresses similarly, then the one person in dark clothes would stand out. Little kids in denim and white tops with bare feet are super cute, as are little girls in white sundresses.\nSo don’t be afraid of other colors or tones. Just keep them similar. Some of my largest extended family groups that have done the best went so far as to put each family unit in their own color scheme (one in browns, one in greens, etc.), with the mother and father in another color scheme – all with dark jeans. I’ve also had some ladies buy everyone a matching shirt.\nThe thing is:\nOnce you get your subjects on board and understanding the logic behind portrait clothing choices – the “why” – they will go to great lengths to make it work, because they know it’s for their benefit!"}
{"text": "Launching the Academic Year\nDr. Marcia Finlayson\nVice Dean – Health Sciences\nDirector – School of Rehabilitation Therapy\nIt is hard to believe that is has already been two weeks since the incoming Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy students were in orientation, and nearly a month since our new Aging and Health program students were in Kingston for their on-site intensive. Students in our brand new Doctor of Science in Rehabilitation and Health Leadership have already wrapped up their first term in the program. Amazing. Where does the time go?\nAs everyone settles into the routines of the academic year, it is clear that we have an exciting and busy year ahead of us in the School of Rehabilitation Therapy. The faculty of the Physiotherapy program have launched a major curriculum review and renewal process, and the faculty from the Occupational Therapy program are putting the final touches on their accreditation self-study report. These activities are occurring while faculty prepare classes for our new and returning students, and work to develop recruitment approaches for next fall that will encourage students from diverse backgrounds to apply into our programs.\nThe number of staff in the International Centre for the Advancement of Community Based Rehabilitation has increased over the summer in order to support the growing work of the MasterCard Scholars program and our partnership with the University of Gondar in Ethiopia. Nine new students have come to Queen’s from Gondar this fall, and work has started on the needs assessment that will guide the development of the first Occupational Therapy program in Ethiopia. Over at the Canadian Institute of Military and Veteran Health Research, staff are in the final stages of preparing for the annual Forum, which is being co-sponsored with the University of Regina this year. The speakers and sessions show the depth and breadth of the work happening across the country in this field.\nMany research collaborations are emerging across faculty in the School, particularly around the theme of transitions in care settings. Over time, we have become increasingly aware that a lot of our individual research programs address the ways in which people affected by or at risk of disability navigate transitions back and forth between settings such as inpatient and outpatient care, hospital and community care, and primary and specialty care. As a group, we are working to learn more about each other’s work and find ways to establish our collective expertise in these areas so that we can build evidence that informs health system changes in our region and beyond. We are gaining momentum, and looking forward to increased collaboration and opportunities to create unique clinical and research experiences for our students and clinical partners.\nHere is to a great 2018-19 academic year!"}
{"text": "We landed in Yemen at 2 a.m. on Monday morning and since have had 9 meetings and a couple different tours. Aside from yesterday's powerful meeting with the Arab Sisters Forum, which was run by 2 female workers for SAF, today was the first day that a woman was present at one of our meetings in any official capacity. Jawhara Hamad Tabet was a top official with the Yemeni Socialist Party as well as chair of the Women's Committee and the Civil Society Committee. While she was quiet for quite a bit of the meeting, toward the end the gentleman leading it specifically called to her to answer a question and stated that we \"needed to hear her speak.\" It was the strongest support of a woman by a man I have seen up until this point. She then went on to explain a point about the Socialist party and their strategic alliance with Islah, a strong opposition party, as well as her own history as teacher, principal/director/union activist and social activist.\nThe refreshing part of this situation is that in at least 2 other situations unfortunately, where we had been in meetings with men professing to work on behalf of the advancement of Yemeni women, no women had been present. Furthermore, when pressed about this by Cathleen, another woman on this trip, or me, we received very evasive or downright disconcerting answers. In one case, when we asked about any women helping to lead we were told that there was one woman in a leadership position, but that she did not want to participate. In another meeting, when pressed, the Islah party pushed back using the struggle of American women to gain the freedoms we currently have and asked for us to have patience. It would take a great deal of time for Yemeni society to advance to a place that American women enjoy now.\nI suppose they thought that gave them cover to dodge the question, but it actually points to the larger truth and that is that they don't have the time. Much of the education debate is a fractal of the larger human rights debate going on around the world. It used to seem reasonable to take the time to see if women were up for the pressure of man's work, man's legislative power, or a man's wages; but the world is moving at the speed of a click now and no country can afford to wait for human rights to evolve. We are moving toward greater communciation, greater need for ideas, greater need for education, and a greater need for collaboration and connections if we are going to work together to find solutions to the world's most imposing problems.\nA country(theirs or mine) can't afford to write off half of its population. I am so inspired by the work of the Arab Sisters Forum, the leaders who have taken chances, and the verve and attitude I see in my daughter that I am determined to move from isolated conflict with people who don't know they have work to do, to work with the people who want to make a difference, because we don't have the time to do otherwise."}
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{"text": "I like to apply my style to sketches - this one is from Sketch N Stash...\nI like to use digi's and colour them with my Promarkers.\nThis image I am particularly fond of - it is Digi Darla's \"Birdhouse and Flower Pot\" -\nbecause I used it on one of my first cards that made a 'Top 3'!\nThis particular image was in my 'digis printed and waiting to be used' folder!\nAll the papers are from my scraps, the ribbon and pearls from my stash.\nI punched the bird using a SU punch that has not seen light of day for months!\nI am submitting this to\nHappy Crafting!!\na gorgeous card & image... love the dp's :)\nThanx for joining in with us over at Sketch N Stash... good luck :)\nlove n hugz Angie xXx\nSo cute. I love the sketch and fun die cuts. Thanks for joining us at Catch The Bug.\nNancy\ngreat card!\nThanks for joining us at Sketch N Stash Challenge Blog!\nxx"}
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{"text": "Note: A previous version of this article incorrectly identified 22 applicants in the recent round of funding as recipients.\nTwo municipalities in Berks County have been awarded a total of a little more than $220,000 in Act 13 grant funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development.\n• Lower Alsace Township was awarded $200,000 in flood mitigation funding for the rehabilitation of the Stony Creek streambank project.\nOver several years severe storms have damaged Antietam Creek, which now floods during heavy rains and threatens nearby Antietam School District facilities. The funding will go toward rebuilding the collapsed creek wall, dredging the creek to remove debris, removing dead vegetation and replacing sections of deteriorated sidewalks. Phase two will rebuild a pedestrian bridge that was damaged by storms and create a safe pathway to and from school buildings.\n• Laureldale was awarded $22,321 to install a walking path at Manzella Park.\nState Sen. Judy Schwank and state Rep. Mark Rozzi said in a joint press release that they are happy to see local projects included in this latest round of funding.\n“We’re fortunate to have outdoor spaces throughout Berks County that can be enjoyed by people of all ages,” Schwank said. “These projects improve accessibility to greenspaces and will address a public safety risk around the Antietam School District. I commend both local governments for taking action to preserve our natural resources.”\nRozzi added that well-maintained recreational areas are an important component of an active and healthy community.\n“I’m encouraged to see Lower Alsace and Laureldale take full advantage of these funding opportunities,” he said. “These projects will be of great benefit to nearby residents.”\nSource: Berkshire mont\nBe First to Comment"}
{"text": "The 2016/17 campaign is entering its eleventh week and Hoops Rumors is examining the fantasy basketball landscape in order to help you dominate the competition. Check back weekly for more fantasy basketball analysis.\nTyler Johnson’s Value\nThe Nets shocked the basketball community when they signed Tyler Johnson to an offer sheet worth $50MM over four years. The move was seen as an overpay, but that sometimes comes with the restricted free agency territory, as teams have to find ways to discourage the incumbent team from matching. Many thought the offer meant that Johnson, a player who only played 36 games last season, would find his way to Brooklyn, but the Heat decided to match and give the 24-year-old an increased role. So far this season, it appears the team made the right decision.\nThe Heat are struggling, but Johnson isn’t the reason why. He’s one of five shooting guards seeing at least 30 minutes per game to have a positive rating on both the offensive and defensive end, according ESPN’s Real Plus/Minus. He’s making 39.1% of his shots from behind the arc, though his increased role has led to a dip in his overall field goal percentage.\nJohnson missed tonight’s game against the Suns with a migraine, marking only the third time this season he’s been out of the lineup. The combo guard was playing well entering the contest. He averaged 17.1 points, 4.0 assists and 1.3 steals per game over his last seven. He also added two 3-pointers and nearly a block per contest.\nGoran Dragic was sidelined in three of those games and he was hindered in parts of others due to back pain. Dragic may be on the trade block and if the team deals the point guard, Johnson’s fantasy value could see a substantial boost.\nJohnson is available in over 43% of ESPN leagues and he’s worth adding for both his production now and his potential to take on an even bigger role of the offense later in the season.\nHere’s more fantasy analysis and notes from around the league:\n- The Bulls benched Rajon Rondo and he will reportedly seek a trade if he doesn’t see playing time. If he’s dealt, he could actually see a nice bump in value. His usage rate with the Bulls is his lowest since his rookie season and that’s due in part to the presence of Dwyane Wade and Jimmy Butler. A new team may give him an opportunity to regain his status as a fantasy starter. If you can afford to wait out the situation, leave Rondo on your bench rather than dropping him, though taking the latter approach is a defensible action.\n- Michael Carter-Williams is starting in place of Rondo, but he’s not necessarily a must-own commodity. MCW won’t provide much 3-point shooting and he will certainly hurt your team in the field goal percentage category. However, he will add value in several other categories, such as steals, blocks, assists and rebounds, and he’s a nice streaming option in the right match-up.\n- Ersan Ilyasova continues to be useful for the Sixers and for fantasy purposes. He scored 19 points while shooting 50% from the field in tonight’s game against the Wolves. On Friday, Philadelphia will take on Boston, a team that is allowing the most points and eighth best field goal percentage to opposing forwards over their last five games.\n3 thoughts on “Fantasy Hoops: Johnson, Rondo, Ilyasova”\nRondo will see a nice bump in value until he frustrates his coach and teammates again. Then he will regress back to his value today. It’s like Groundhog Day with this guy.\nA PG who can’t shoot has zero value as a starter.\nAnd people complain that the Sixers traded him. They got a lottery pick for him lol."}
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{"text": "Hello Blog world…Sorry I’ve been so quiet as of late. Between wedding planning / work / family / and an oyster shell through my foot over Labor Day weekend, my life has been even more hectic than usual! I did survive my encounter with the crusty little bastard after jumping off my fiancé’s boat in Crooked River, GA. Four stitches, a tetanus shot, and lots of pain meds later I have this little souvenir to share…\nYep that little beauty was all up inside my poor little foot. I’m thinking about making a necklace out of it. And then of course having an oyster roast!\nWell on to the real reason for this post. I’ve been meaning to show off the boutonnieres I created for our upcoming wedding. Why yes…it’s only 3 months away!! {{time to start freaking out!}}\nOk so I was inspired from some different styles I found on Etsy and here is what I came up with:\nSuper simple and I LOVE the way they turned out 🙂 All it took were some crafty goods from Michaels including:\n- Paper Gardenias (from Wedding section pack of 12 for like $5)\n- Speckled Feathers (bag of like 500 for $3)\n- 1 Roll of Ribbon (Apple Green from Michael’s 360 Brand $3)\n- Flower Tape (Dollar Store $1)\n- Pearl Tipped Pins (Pack of 50 at Dollar $1)\nGrand Total: 12 Boutonnieres for $13\nAnd I have tons of feathers left over I’m using with the invitations. Pretty genius thought I had speaking of those…what better way to embellish something you have to (pay) to mail! They are light as a feather…Brilliant!\nHope you are having a great TGIF!\nOne thought on “Boutonnieres”\nIt is sooooo pretty!! I love it!!"}
{"text": "'Tukde-tukde' gang's Umar Khalid video provoking people to hit on roads during Trump visit surfaces\nA video of former JNU student Umar Khalid, who was among those who raised 'tukde-tukde' slogans inside the university campus in 2016, has been heard making provocative statements saying they will be on the roads when President Trump will visit India to convey a message that the present government is dividing the nation.\nA video has surfaced showing ex-JNU student addressing an anti-CAA crowd where he is heard saying, \"don't be dishearten due to a 50-day protest (referring to the protest against CAA taking place in the country ever since the law was passed in the Parliament) that gave us momentum... will be on roads when Trump will come to convey a message that the government is dividing the nation.\"\nWhile Umar Khalid has been heard making provocative speeches on February 17, inciting people to come on roads and protests ahead of US President visit, who was in India on February 24 and 25, violence in some parts of northeast Delhi took place in which 46 people have died so far and over 200 are injured.\nIn his speech, Umar Khalid is further heard saying, \"when 370 was abrogated we did not protest, when Ayodhya verdict we did not protest, the government became so much over-confident thinking that we'll remain silent... CAA will go, NRC will go, NPR will go... then this govt will go.\"\n\"Delhi violence was planned in a big way... they misguided Mulsims... it's a part of a larger conspiracy...\" BJP's Amit Malviya said while reacting to Umar Khalid's statements.\nIn 2016, \"Bharat tere tukde honge\" slogans were raised by some JNU students (now expelled) including Umar Khalid, Kanhaiya Kumar on the campus during a programme. The slogans were raised when some students were protesting against the sentencing to death of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.\nALSO READ: Delhi violence: Supreme Court agrees to hear plea seeking FIRs against politicians, others\nALSO READ: Delhi violence death toll mounts to 46, over 200 injured\nFight against Coronavirus: Full coverage"}
{"text": "Any resemblance of him to the hero he was in the beginning of the play is gone. He immediately starts to wonder whether this means that their third prophecy that he will become king will also be true. In each case, ambition—helped, of course, by the malign prophecies of the witches—is what drives the couple to ever more terrible atrocities.\nThe consequences of ambition are tragic when you use any methods to achieve it. The first thing he does is have a conversation with Macduff, to see if he is loyal. Macbeth commits a version of suicide in the end, losing his will to fight when he realizes that everyone has turned against him.\nMacbeth shows this connection between the political and natural world: He is planning to take back his kingdom by raising an army to take out Macbeth.\nUltimately, the play does put forth a revised and less destructive definition of manhood. First, they refer to him by his current title. Macbeth is a play about ambition run amok..\nThe witches tell Macbeth three prophecies. Macbeth uses the fact that they flee to put suspicion on them. Though Macbeth is reluctant at first to commit the most evil of deeds, murder, he is wholly convinced by Lady Macbeth, a driving force of betrayal within the play.\nMacbeth kills Banquo, his friend and tries to kill his son out of ambition to maintain his throne now that he has it. First Witch All hail, Macbeth! Unlike Banquo, Macbeth acts: The first thing he does is have a conversation with Macduff, to see if he is loyal.\nUnchecked ambition, Macbeth suggests, can never be fulfilled, and therefore quickly grows into a monster that will destroy anyone who gives into it. When Duncan names his son, Malcolm, as king instead of Macbeth, he is not pleased.Slow down there, Macbeth, because these ladies haven't said a word about murder.\nThe fact that his first thought is about killing the king is mighty suspicious—almost as though they've just awoken a murderous ambition that's been there all along. Get an answer for 'What are good characters to use for the theme of ambition in Macbeth?\nI need 4 to answer this essay question \"Explain how the characters contribute to the central theme/s of. In William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, ambition is presented as a dangerous simplisticcharmlinenrental.come it is unchecked by any concept of morality, It causes the downfall of both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and triggers a series of deaths, making ambition the driving force of the play.\nAmbition in Macbeth: Theme & betrayal. Macbeth Quotes About Ambition Shakespeare's play is infused with the theme of ambition. Macbeth Quotes About Ambition Shakespeare's play is infused with the theme of ambition.\nShare Flipboard Email Print Robbie Jack/Corbis/Getty Images Literature. Shakespeare and it is actually Lady Macbeth who fans the flames of ambition within Macbeth as the play progresses.Download"}
{"text": "Depression more likely among men; anxiety more likely for women\nTUESDAY, Jan. 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Depression and anxiety rates remain elevated following the initial COVID-19 lockdown, according to a study published online Jan. 11 in the Journal of Public Health.\nJagdish Khubchandani, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, and colleagues conducted a survey to assess the prevalence of depression and anxiety in the adult U.S. population after initial COVID-19 lockdowns.\nThe researchers found that the prevalence of depression was 39 percent, anxiety was 42 percent, and psychological distress was 39 percent. Depression was more likely among men, while anxiety was more likely among women. Depression was significantly higher for Hispanics, while anxiety prevalence was high among African-Americans and Hispanics. The prevalence rates of all three conditions were high among married individuals, those with children at home, bachelor’s degree holders, those employed full time, health care workers, and those earning less than $60,000. Depression and anxiety prevalence were high among those ages 18 to 25 years, while the prevalence of moderate-to-severe psychological distress was high for those ages 18 to 40 years.\n“Our study results indicate that the rate of serious mental health issues such as depression and anxiety have more than doubled in the USA during the pandemic (i.e., compared to the rates before the pandemic in the year 2019),” the authors write."}
{"text": "December 19, 2008.\nDecember 19, 2008 in Obama administration, Physicians, Technology, The Industry, Web/Tech \| Permalink\nDr. Kibbe,\nemail access for patient communication is not helpful unless the provider can bill for using it, otherwise it sets up yet another patient expectation to interact with their provider in a fashion for which the provider will not get paid.\nThe counter-arguement is that email is more efficient than phone calls. Well, given the choice to work for free less efficiently or more efficiently, most have chosen not to work for free at all and do laser hair removal instead. Until the payment system is changed even simple IT augmentations will fail to maximize their potential.\nI have a better idea, use some of that IT money to liberalize the codes that allow me to bill for case management. You don't need some \"medical home\" program to do it, just tell Tom Daschle to make the requirements for submitting existing codes less onerous. It worked when they did it for nursing home codes two years ago. Who knows, some medical students might actually go into primary care.\nPosted by: anon \| Dec 14, 2008 7:53:40 PM\nand please, please President Obama---\ndo not forget our names when you pass out government contracts to push all this technology...\nfor while we believe the greedy doctors, the vicious insurance companies, the dysfunctional hospitals, and the incompetent private business sector should see health care delivery as a right for all, and really a 'calling' that should require the entire sector to be not-for-profit...\nthe consultants who provide wisdom and advice from on high (that is us, by the way, just in case you are very busy-- or even smoking while reading this) about the implementation of this fabulous technology just simply cannot do so without a significant margin of profit built in to our contracts.\nRemember Mr. President, you will get what you pay for-- and we're really good.\nPosted by: self server \| Dec 14, 2008 10:56:57 PM\nDear anon: I think you completely mis-read our words, anon. We're suggesting what you (presumably a busy doctor) want, namely fair compensation for patient care management that is not \"volume based\" but \"value and quality based.\" The idea here is not to make doctors do things for which they're not compensated: rather, it's to move the payment structure away from fee-for-service and towards reward for coordination, continuity, and communication -- that is what we all want. (It's also, to be fair, not our goal to make doctors rich, but rather to take better care of patients.) An incremental management fee for e-referrals or e-mail communications could be a win-win-win, with better more convenient care for patients, more time with better informed patients for the docs whose time is valued, and lower costs for whomever is paying the bills. And it would not require large up-front investments in complex IT software that doesn't deliver these benefits, or does so only very slowly.\nRegards, DCK\nPosted by: David C. Kibbe, MD MBA \| Dec 15, 2008 5:32:18 AM\nDear self server: I hope you'll take another read of our modest proposal. We agree with your point that spending tax payers dollars on health IT, especially expensive and complicated health IT systems, could be a boondoggle for consultants. (That is your point, right? Hard to tell through all the sarcasm.)\nBut you miss our point. Simple, incremental, and low cost health IT doesn't require consultants at all! Physicians and their staff can figure out how to use secure email, e-prescribing, and e-referral apps without or with very little training, and since they are all web based, without consultants to set anything up in their offices.\nAs to government contracts for consultants, the same argument is valid. If the government policies stick to promotion of wise business cases linked to better care and which call for appropriate uses of health IT, then there should be no need for consultants. On the other hand, by getting involved with the choosing of IT products and standards through bodies like CCHIT, the governments sets itself up to require consulting contracts left and right.\nSo, despite your sarcasm, I think we're on the same side of this position, yes?\nRegards, DCK\nPosted by: David C. Kibbe, MD MBA \| Dec 15, 2008 6:06:15 AM\nBabel can easily be a avoided with a standard format like XML. This would give us (the developers) a required set of fields to include in the EMR. XML would simply be the translator that sits between to applications that are speaking different languages.\nMy company provides simple, and super affordable web based applications as a service. I currently have completed a visit tracking system that will allow home health agencies to track which staff member visits which patient. It includes visit details and billing details. Since it is on the web, the patients, doctors, nurses, and just about any person you choose to authorize can see these details. This opens up communication between the doctors practice, the home health agency, and the patient's family.\nIs it affordable? $25 per month is affordable without government aid. I beleive the medical and educational sectors are light years behind in Internet technology that is why I started my company. $40,000 is insane. Most clinics do not need a huge application that's does more than they need. The medical needs simple solutions that require no training and are easily introduced to the workflow. The best web based solutions replace multiple tasks in your workflow while also sharing secure information.\nPosted by: roderick silva \| Dec 15, 2008 8:49:00 AM\nDr. Kibbee: I think it is reasonable to ask ourselves if we can to better as a nation. Its almost 2009, we are in the middle of an economic crisis, and a new President elect. Maybe we as a nation need to take a step back and “sharpen the saw” so to speak. I think you are on point when describing how\ne-prescribing being the closet thing to a working model. Is HIPAA really understood? Is it helping or hurting American healthcare? I don't know but, refactoring is usually a good thing.\nAnon: You make a very good point about liberating billing codes.\nPatients should be able to use online and other services and health care providers should be able to be paid for these services.\nMy point is we are all talking about the same problem. Unlike in e-prescribing, there are no “formularies”. We need a path for automatic claim adjudication for most all diagnosis, procedures, medical equipment, and more. This will help consumer adoption. If we are going to ask Mr. Dashel to open up the codes, then make sure all the codes are made available to every American.\nWe need to create open and shared set of exchange tables that define a set of rules to automatically process most claims. The key word is open. Can we imagine a way to create an open health marketplace where procedures/care and prices are known to everyone?\nI'd offer Tom Daschle and President Elect Barack Obama the following use case to achieve that would signify major progress.\n“\nJan Patient goes online. Jan can search, by procedure code, for doctors in her area. Prices for procedures are clearly seen and related services, if any, are also displayed. Jan's coverage information is immediately available because she supplied her payer and plan. Jan can even look over her coverage details based on procedure code(CPT), DRG codes, etc. Jan's physician has access to the same information and utilizes it to automatically adjudicate the claim and receive payment for services. Everyone can immediately see what is covered what is not. Everyone knows what the procedure costs are and how it cost and benefits change when a particular provider and payer intersect.\n“\nThis would mean real comparison shopping potential for consumers!In a brainstorming session a few months back I drew up a simple XML schema for such an exchange. (In case any fellow computer geeks are reading this)\nBottom line is we need open “formularies” everywhere. not just for drugs. I realize automatic claim adjudication can't happen in every instance but even an 80/20 split would make the whole system more efficient.\nPosted by: Alan Viars \| Dec 15, 2008 9:26:07 AM\nIt would also be a mistake the make EHR physician-centric. We need a broader system that is person-centric so people can manage all the information relevant to the events and behavior that affects their lives. Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0\nPosted by: David Collin \| Dec 15, 2008 10:18:25 AM\nIt would seem the government could further assist by establishing a set of standards for the EMR\\EHR systems that are minimums for acceptability. De facto they have already started this by pushing the web based (browser based) solution. Currently each vendor wants their piece of the health care dollar and is trying to bring us the tools we need\\want but still lock us into their solution. An open set of standards would help either force them to play well with other applications or to try to go it alone without necessarily requiring consulting contracts for us.\nPosted by: Frank Harty \| Dec 15, 2008 10:27:20 AM\nGreat comments, thank you for taking the time to write them. Lots to think about....As for XML, in speaking about health IT that is \"interoperable\" we're discussing a limited, but important, set of clinical, business, and technical issues around process improvements required for medical care management to become more effective and efficient in the 21st century. First, we’re going to deal with health information traveling over networks; all kinds of networks, not just those that are private or organizationally bound. What is of interest to us here are the emerging standards and best practices for inter-organizational as well as inter-personal transport of data using the Internet. Secondly, we want to consider sets of health data and information that are simultaneously both human- and machine-readable; that is, data structured in such a manner that common digital document formats can be applied -- so as to make them easy to render and read as web pages, pdf documents, or plain text -- and that are also structured for computability without human intervention. This involves the general purpose XML representation of clinical data. Thirdly, the content of the messages being transported will be clinically relevant and capable of being used to support many different kinds of decision support, including at the point of care as well as aggregation for retrospective analysis and research. Finally, we have to acknowledge that the business case for the technology that will enable, encourage, and support these productivity-enhancing informatics tools and methods are largely lacking in our current and broken health care system in the U.S. This entire area is a disruptive innovation to which there is significant pushback and resistance from incumbents.\nBut no question that XML is the most important standard here. Regards, DCK\nPosted by: David C. Kibbe, MD MBA \| Dec 15, 2008 10:46:56 AM\nDrs. Kibbe and Klepper raise many important and timely issues.\nI believe what they are saying is that although they agree with, as I do, that the December 6, 2008 goals of President-elect Obama, expressed in parentheses in their Open Letter, that our healthcare delivery and related processes be connected through the internet, they do not believe that simply providing every provider and facility with an EHR or EMR system as these products currently exist will solve the first priority need of integrating communication and data exchange between providers, patients and facilities.\nIndeed, President-elect Obama’s well respected pick to head the OMB, Peter Orszag, Director, Congressional Budget Office, in testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, July 18, 2008.\"\nI hope Mr. Orszag recites these words to President-elect Obama and takes heed.\nI know from first-hand experience that the installation of an EMR system is a several year commitment of dollars and time, mainly time away from patient care by provider and staff alike.\nNow if this sacrifice were to achieve the stated goals of inter-provider-patient-facility communication and data portability it is worth it, but, that is not the opportunity we have today with current systems.\nI believe most of the new money to be injected into healthcare IT should be spent on developing and supplying the broadband channel as the Drs. state as well as on a National Web-based Healthcare IT Network that provides the infra-structure to connect any smart EHR system or dumb desktop terminal together in a distributive network. Such an open network could also provide a host of down-loadable med- apps or med-lets for many simple care functions that Drs. Kibbe and Klepper suggest such as Referral Management, Patient Communications and E-prescribing. Think of the iphone and the open-source applets.\nSuch a system will open healthcare IT to commerce in general and provide thousands of IT jobs. More importantly, however, it would create a healthcare IT univers that is uniformly integrated and compatible, unlike the disparate collage of EHR systems currently offered for sale today to currently unwilling and broke providers.\nAn example of the problems non-integrated EHRs bring to healthcare delivery is in the area of managing chronic diseases, for example diabetes.\nMost manufacturers of EHR systems gloat over the fact that their systems have ‘templates’ for every chronic disease, or worse, that every provider-owner can create their own chronic disease template.\nCorrect me if I’m wrong, but in a world and at a time when there are well established standards of care for diabetes why do we want every doctor treating diabetes according to his or her own personal nuance?\nPerhaps, this care-chaos, driven in part by EHRs inherent capacity to endow doctors with care-creativity and in part to simple mal-care derived from the fact that most doctors have not even read the ADA or ACCE Standards of Care for Diabetes much less have the time or ability to implement them properly and completely is responsible for the $175 billion we spend on diabetes and the $90 billion of that wasted on the unnecessary complications of diabetes associated with poor care.\nHere again is where a National Web-based Healthcare IT Network could, through a diabetes med-let structure, organize, and deliver all of the complex subroutines necessary to manage even basic diabetes care.\nFinally, let us finally rid ourselves of our thinking that there is a healthcare delivery system-there is not, only a disparate patchwork of dueling entities, or that there is a medical profession-there is not, or when we think of healthcare delivery we think of some organized uniform set of providers-there is not, or there is a home for a medical home.\nAs for a medical home the only answer is a virtual medical home, another possible feature of the National Web-based Healthcare IT Network.\nAs for a healthcare delivery system, whether we get one remains up to what Obama’s Healthcare Team comes up with. A system is sorely needed; the answer most likely is a Universal one.\nAs for healthcare delivery, who do you think is serving up the care? Well, here is a partial list: medical doctors, alone or in groups, self-employed or employed, or as is mostly the case de-facto employed as in having no fee schedule, just getting whatever Medicare, Medicaid, insurers, and the HMOs decide, Concierge docs, mid-levels such as Pas and NPs, Doctors of Nursing “the nurse, oops, doctor will see you now”, Family Chiropractors-including both the Pediatric Chiropractor and the Doctor of Neurology Chiropractor, the pharmacist prescribing, or soon to be prescribing, ‘behind the counter drugs’ such as statins and antibiotics, the Minute Clinics of the world, and did I say, the Internet, to just name a few.\nDo we need an integrated IT-based system of care with this kind of care-diversity? I think so.\nFinally, any sarcasm from medical doctors is understandable, but lacks sympathy from me.\nMedical doctors, me included, have no one but ourselves to blame for our economic and professional dilemmas.\nWe were too lazy and apathetic to organize to prevent insurers from taking over our profession and seeing to it that it was dismantled. When we relinquished our right to bill for our services we broke our covenant with Hippocrates and abandoned our patients. For that we should be held accountable.\nLouis Siegel, M.D., December 15, 2008,\nPosted by: Louis Siegel, M.D. \| Dec 15, 2008 10:47:04 AM\nDavid- just wish that for once there would be some true intellectual honesty: health IT is good because the technology can make some people's life better (both patients and providers, including hospitals) but it will cost a TON-- and the early builders of the infrastructure, whether they be venture capitalists or the taxpayers, will almost NEVER see a return on the investments...\nmeanwhile, the people who make money on the process will do quite well.\nand, unless I am wrong, you fit into the last category.\nThis is neither accusation nor indictment--- simply facts.\nYou would do well to mention the main peer-reviewed paper from Pittsburgh that showed greater errors with an EMR. ()\nPosted by: self server \| Dec 15, 2008 11:55:16 AM\nThanks for this post.\nI'm far from an expert on Health IT,\nbut what you say makes sense.\nIt seems clear that we're not ready to\nroll out EHR on a national scale.\nThough I have\nto say, when I saw my new 50-something\neye surgeon the other day, I was very impressed\nby the EHR system he has. He as able to show\nme the results all of the test he had done so efficiently--photos of my optic nerve, print-outs\nof other tests, and he was so nimble with the\nsystem (as is everyone on his staff) He has\ntrained them all himself.\nI asked him if he had a hard time learning to\nuse the system, and he said he couldn't remember, it was so many years ago(more than a decade). He added that he developed the system himself and\nowns part of the company.\nBut clearly he's unusual, especially for his generation--and a genius in more than one way. Still his example did strengthen the argument that these systems should be designed by clinicians , not IT specialists. What do you think?\nMaybe I'm wrong, but eventually,\nit seems to me that the\ngovernment will need to set standards for\ninteroperability and cost rather than letting\nprivate contractors compete in the hope that\na solution will emerge from the competiton.\n(Such a messy and expensive way to do something\nlike this.)\nAlso, what can we learn from the integrated multi-specialty centers that are successfully using\nEHRS? (Geisinger, Mayo . .)\nPosted by: maggie mahar \| Dec 15, 2008 12:28:20 PM\nMaggie,\nJust a quick note on your comments:\n1) Some of the best EHR systems are self or internally developed and they meet a certain specialty or individual practice or institution very well, but they seldom scale in terms of functionality, configurability, or technically. Even if they do scale, the hurdle they need to climb to gain any market share is far too steep. The classic RFP has the criteria, 'How many installations do you have?' which is deadly. The sad thing that this is such a complex and slow moving market most but not all products with wide distribution are actually hopelessly antiquated.\n2) Yes, I'm biased, by I agree that clinician and work flow designed systems are best. Much of the cost, time consumption, complexity of implementation of EHR systems is that they are not only too complex themselves, they actually make the practice of clinical medicine less efficient than it was on paper. Advocates say this is the price you have to pay to get data in a computable form, but those advocates do not tend to be in the trenches. A good EHR improves efficiency, decreases tasks and redundancy, and simplifies rather than complicates workflow. Too much of our EHR efforts to date (and I take personal responsibility for my own role in foster that) have been focused on structured documentation. Bad idea, but that is an entire discussion on its own. It is ALL about work flow and improving provider and team efficiency and patient safety - sadly we missed that.\n3) Should the government set interoperability standards and is that more efficient than market competition? I believed in government intervention but three things have changed that. First, HIPAA - great idea for claims interchange but completely undermined by the EDI vendors and clearinghouses. Even the payors wanted it to work and we all watched it crash and burn. Second, unless government is willing to be completely open in its standards efforts and safeguard the process so it is not dominated by government itself or the dominant market players we will end up with HIPAA again - good intentions all around, but a complex standards set that is undermined by the established vendors who want to protect market share. Third, no other major industry uses government regulation or mandate to set interoperability standards. Reporting standards such as the SEC are another matter and are appropriate, but interoperability in this day and age is open source and driven by the market. Look at social networking - Google and Facebook have competing standards and vendors comply with both. Facebook or Google might want to 'win' but the rest of industry just needs to exchange profiles and messages. Both Google and FAcebook standards have opened up the social networking world - see Google's announcement about Twitter, et. al.\n4) What do we learn from the integrated multi-specialty centers that are successfully using EHRs? We learn a lot, but how applicable is it? First, they have more money than God and are spending way too much for what they are getting in my opinion. Second, the workflow and clinical efficiency data coming out from them is discouraging - provider and clinical efficiency has been negatively impacted, not improved. The large institutions can absorb this and make an assumption that the 'better' data they get will compensate in the long run. That might be true but smaller practices cannot take a 10 to 20% hit in practice productivity and expect to make it up some other way. You would be lucky to pick up 5% in improved charges and claims accuracy, but you are already underpaid 5-10% so you're screwed. Lastly, few if any of our large institutions are implementing state-of-the-art technology. Their criteria are that these systems have to be tested and proven. That is too bad, because the big players can afford to take the risk and work on the bleeding edge.\nKibbe and Klepper have a good perspective on this. EHRs still (and this is so painful for me to say) have a very, very long way to go before they are ready for prime time.\nPosted by: Rick Peters \| Dec 15, 2008 2:39:59 PM\nI agree with almost everything you say Rick, with the exception of the establishment of standards. There needs to be at least an industry arbiter of standards, some sort of quasi-governmental organization analogous to the IEEE.\nIt would be healthier for the medical informatics industry, if interoperability standards got sorted out sooner rather than later. This is a young industry that has repeatedly burned its early adopters. It's no wonder there is resistance to switching over to EMR/EHR. The current product is expensive and it sucks. Like Ford, GM, and Chrysler have discovered, it takes years to overcome a bad reputation.\nPosted by: J Bean \| Dec 15, 2008 7:59:56 PM\nAs a working nurse it seems to me that a big part of the problem with EHRs is that deals are made between vendors and hospitals without finding out the real-time processing needs of the care giver. Nurses are strongarm-educated to learn a system that is welded together from the vendors current offering. EHRs will succeed only when they are designed by the persons who do the work.\nI am suspicious of ideas that suggest that EHR development should be driven by absentee stakeholders.\nPosted by: Nancy Nurse \| Dec 16, 2008 2:32:43 AM\nThanks Rick, J Bean, and Nancy Nurse: I'm so glad to hear the voice of a nurse in this discussion, because in the real world of health care it is the nurses, along with other non-physician staff, who do most of the computing and software use. And she's right on: nurses bear the burden of customized software implementations that are almost unique to the hospital or practice that uses them. In my experience, this situation hasn't helped interoperability or data sharing progress at all.\nOn the standards issue, I have to agree with Rick. The government may be acting appropriately to set reporting and regulatory standards, as does the SEC for banking and the IRS does for taxes. But our society would scream in unison if the government stepped in to set standards for online display, music files, computer chips, or hairspray.\nThe problem isn't a standards problem: it's fundamentally a problem of unwillingness to use standards by important and powerful vendors. Provide their customers with a business incentive for greatly expanded data sharing and communication, of the kind we're discussing here, and those customers will quickly convince the vendors that standards are the way to go. Regards, DCK\nPosted by: David C. Kibbe, MD MBA \| Dec 16, 2008 5:12:32 AM\nRick--\nThank you very much for a very helpful response.\nIf it's okay, I plan to quote you (and Brian and David) in a post I'm writing for HealthBeat, linking to this post. How do you identify you? (You can e-mail me at mahar@tcf.org)\nThe only point where I'm not quite persuaded is with regard to standards-- all I can say is that in countries that have working EHR (Sweden, etc.) govt was key in setting standards.\nAlso, I can't help but think how messy the introduction of cellphones was in the U.S. All of the roaming fees. . . By contrast, in Europe, a top-down decision was made, and European could use ther cell phones in many countries. . .\nFinally healhtcare isn't music files, hairspray or computer chips (David's examples) or Facebook or Google.\nIt's a necessity--like electricty or water. This is why\nI tend to think that standards should be set by government and that, in order to make healthcare as affordable as possible, any vendors should be non-profit. . . .\nPosted by: maggie mahar \| Dec 16, 2008 7:28:45 AM\nMaggie: I think you're making a good point, but we need to dig deeper...both of us. What health IT standards are appropriate for the government to mandate, and which standards ought to be left up to the market and the industry to establish and use? I don't think this question should be approached from an ideological stand point. We should carefully consider this question from within some framework. We have to admit that we don't yet have the framework completed.\nAnd what do we mean by \"the government\" in this case? Are you suggesting that lobbyists and big corporations who have the most money and muscle to influence governmental agencies, task forces, or panels should be given carte blanche to set health IT standards? (Pretty much what has happened in the last 6 years.) I don't think you're saying this, right? On the other hand, Rick and I are not suggesting that market forces have complete sway over health IT, either. Where's the right balance? We criticize Microsoft for being monopolistic, but we are also danged thankful that they created a standard operating system, because it led to hugely less expensive personal computers. There are many such examples, and in general I don't think the government has done a very good job lately. Perhaps that will change. Many thanks for your comments. dCK\nPosted by: David C. Kibbe, MD MBA \| Dec 16, 2008 7:54:51 AM\nI think the Nancy the nurse’s comments might be the most realistic of all the comments posted here. I used to work in a neighborhood clinic in which they had installed an EHR system a year before I started working there. The thought was that it would increase flow and communication. Unfortunately it did the opposite and they had about $200,000 in unresolved bills because of some minor errors in the superbill execution. The EHR system they had chosen wasn’t the best system, but it was the cheapest (it was a low-income clinic). My point is that the system was far from intuitive and everyone working in the clinic was too busy to learn how to use it correctly. There was no one trained as the onsite “EHR Expert” and the only help the EHR company offered was expensive telephone help. Which, for the price of the system, is scandalous! I came in as a temp worker (with a Humanities degree!) and was able to figure out the system and the bugs and got the money flowing. BUT, it took me a good 3 months to figure it out and to communicate the problems to the physicians, nurses and physician assistants. There has GOT to be a more intuitive way of doing things. I hope you don’t mind my two cents, I just think it’s so important to listen to the EHR users. Although I did enjoy all the interesting perspective on EHR systems.\nPosted by: EHR user \| Dec 16, 2008 8:13:50 AM\nExcellent and very timely post Kibbie and Klepper! I hope that share this as part of the Community Health Care Forums that are occurring all across the US in the next two weeks for the new administration.\nMaggie and Rick - Many of the systems like Kaiser and the VA that were the first to implement large EMR's are also closed systems so that the \"savings\" in cost or increases in quality accrued right back into the system instead of going out the door to the insurance companies so the business model is different and there needs to be a shared investment model used to bring all of the stakeholders (including large employers and the government as a payer who are self insured and could drive this).\nThere is also a different need for information for different populations (healthy wealthy, chronic conditions, young moms) and therefore vastly different products that can meet those needs over someones lifetime and there isn't a one size fits all scenario.\nIf we focus our HIT investment on the 10% to 20% of the population with multiple chronic conditions that account for 70% of the health care spending we would have less impact on work-flows, increase outcomes and have a larger impact on cost control. This needs to be coupled with changes i work-flow at the same time (ie add case managers, medical home, change the reimbursement from medicare to compensate for care mgmt) otherwise all you are doing is giving people an electronic pencil that lets them document poor care electronically..\nWere any of you given incentives to use email to talk to your colleagues across the industy? This is a given for patients and once they have been in a system where they have it as well as real time online access to lab results (like Group Health where some practices 25% of visits are via email) patients will insist on it across the board. Those drivers will have far more impact on HIT adoption then government incentives alone but CMS is the largest purchaser and could move the process along.\nSherry Reynolds\nAllinace4Health\nPosted by: Sherry Reynolds \| Dec 16, 2008 9:48:21 AM\nSherry: I think your points are very well taken, and nicely described, too. \"Aligning business drivers with the technology\" is a good way to sum up what Brian and I are after in this piece, and it's also a wise observation that standards generally follow the adoption curve, not precede it (with a couple of exceptions that are noteworthy). Regards, DCK\nPosted by: David C. Kibbe, MD MBA \| Dec 16, 2008 11:23:22 AM\nOne commenter emailed this directly to me: \"I believe that your suggestion to move concretely along points of least resistance and).\"\nThis brings up an area that Brian and I did not discuss in adequate detail in the blog post above, namely health IT investments that could be made on the patient/consumer side, the Health 2.0 dimension. The Internet and Web have made consumer-directed wellness and health care a reality in the same way that they have spawned consumer-directed journalism and the blogosphere. Perhaps there are investments in Health 2.0 technologies -- online care and coaching software, to name a couple -- that the Obama administration could well consider along with monies spent to make the traditional health care providers more effective and efficient through IT innovation.\nRegards, DCK\nPosted by: David C. Kibbe, MD MBA \| Dec 16, 2008 11:41:24 AM\nSherry,\nYou nailed it!\n.\"\nWhen you extend your analysis to the fact that the large institutions and their vendors dominate the federal government sponsored standards selection efforts, it's crystal clear why we are nowhere after all this time, effort, and money on standards. Hospitals and institutions want to 'own' their data and their patients and vendors want to 'own' and protect their market share. It is the exact polar opposite of moving patient data to facilitate patient care and patient safety. It is also, from a technologist's perspective, criminal that a community like Palo Alto, the heart of technology innovation on the Internet and data exchange is frozen in the 1980s in health care IT implementations at its institutions. What a comment on where we are!\nThanks!\nPosted by: Rick Peters \| Dec 16, 2008 11:57:29 AM\nSelf server wrote:\n think he is right. I worked with both paper records and EMR in various hospitals since 1999. EMR can save money by preventing redundant testing/consultations, and more importantly, improve quality of care since all users have access to old tests (however, it can be time consuming esp. but not exclusively in the introduction phase, and I also urge EMR enthusiasts to consider the pediatrics article he mentions). It therefore does little good if a small practice has a little insular EMR. However, it works very well when systems are big enough like in my current 700+ physician MSG (or even better, if systems were connected). I cannot comment on maintenance being \"unbelievably expensive\" other than the fact that I am used to seeing a legion of very smart, likely high paid people do daytime service/trouble shooting and at times nightly (midnight no 2 am) maintenance ... so he may be right on that, too.\nFrom following the discussion and my own experience, I see that a nationwide EMR could be done two ways:\n1) quick, brutal and relatively affordable by just scanning and filing all documents (for instance, all medicare and medicaid notes) and lab test results on a secure server.\n2) complex, expensive and with a lot of potential, by making EMRs intraoperable.\nSolution 2 seems to be the one advocated by Dr. Kibbe. I wonder whether we would get much more bang for the buck with option 1.\nIn any case, I see some exaggerated EMR euphoria, a hope that clings no to the EMR as the messiah of the US health care mess, while other countries such as Canada, Germany, France etc. are doing much better without EMR (or with EMR in its infancy). I feel that EMR is a good investment that definitely would improve care and MIGHT save some costs even short- to midterm (by reducing avoidable duplicative testing), but it is not the savior of the dysfunctional US health care system.\nPosted by: rbar \| Dec 16, 2008 4:54:14 PM\nIt seems pretty clear that hospitals and institutions should not be allowed to \"own the data\".\nThis competition between hospitals is part of the problem with profit-driven, market-driven healthcare.\n(In most European countries, hospitals would never be able to get away with this. See Don Berwick on hospital's claiming that what they know about how to treat a particular disease is \"proprietary data.\"\nThis is an area where government regulation could be very helpful, forcing hosptials to collaborate, sharing EHRS for individual patients as well as databases that could be useful in\ndeveloping guidelines on comparative-effectiveness.\nHealthcare Reform should aim to create a healthcare\nsystem designed to benefit the Patient. Right now, we have a heatlhcare system designed to benefit those who profit from the system-- hospitals as well as IT vendors and drug-makers.\nDavid-- when I talk about government regulation, I'm not talking about regulation designed by corporate lobbyists. For the last 8 years--lobbyists have been running Congress in a very open way. We have forgotten what good government looks like.\nBut there are people in the Obama administration- Peter ORszag and Jared Bernstein come to mind--who understand what it would mean to have an SEC that actually regulates Wall Street, an FDA that puts safety and effectiveness first, and a Health IT czar who is insulated from lobbyists-- perhaps someone appointed by the Comptroller (as MedPac is), with a panel and staff that has no financial ties to the Health IT industry. (Perhaps composed of people who were involved in developing \"home-grown\" systems at places like Geisinger, Mayo and the VA.)\nMoney corrupts. And the more I read ad learn about healthcare, the more convinced I am that for-profit institutions will always put money--and the interest of their shareholders--first. This has no place in medicine.\nPosted by: Maggie Mahar \| Dec 17, 2008 9:33:28 AM\nMaggie: Hear, hear! Let's put the regulatory decision-making back into the hands of people who have no financial ties with the industry being regulated. What a revolutionary thought. ')\nSeriously, you and I agree. Now, how about also recruiting people who actually know what they're talking about? Actual domain experts with track records of success.\nSeems we can do this! DCK\nPosted by: David C. Kibbe, MD MBA \| Dec 17, 2008 2:11:44 PM\nMiniCare is trying to assist with America's healthcare issue. We are a non-profit medical clinic designed to provide low cost, quality primary care to the uninsured and the underinsured. With the economy today, these numbers are growing by leaps and bounds. Please visit our website at for more information. We are in need of sponsors and donors in order to get this vision well off the ground. Dedicate a clinic to a loved one or a family's last name, or a group or organization.\nPosted by: Angela Harrison \| Dec 17, 2008 3:43:29 PM\nMaggie's trepidation about the corruptive effect of money (more accurately, profits) in health care is understandable, but the difficulty is that neither money nor profits is really the problem - economics is. And the stuff of economics - issues of allocating scarce effort/energy/initiative/resources - inevitably has a place in any human endeavor.\nPosted by: Inchoate but Earnest \| Dec 17, 2008 5:36:48 PM\nDavid, Brian,\nit takes a lot of \"huzpa\" to craft such letter but I deeply believe the two of you are doing this industry a very big favor. Its time someone stood up and advised washington that saying \"EMR\" 5 times a day isn't enough to modernize the system. Worse than that, it exempts our legilator from the need to map out what else technology can do outside the obvious. Specifically, we need to consider how information technology can be used to redistribute access to medical services, not only for moving medical information around. When heading into the biggest healthcare reform in decades, we need to survey the possibilities of the future, not only the mantras of the past.\nKudos, to both of you.\nPosted by: Roy Schoenberg MD MPH \| Dec 17, 2008 8:33:42 PM\nDear Roy: I think the problem for legislators and their staffs is that they feel they understand the idea of EHR. It's been well packaged, and the lobbyists for health IT are very smooth. They're good at what they do, and I respect them for that.\nWhat we need to do is make some of the alternatives to EHRs just as understandable, and to bring up the current limitations of a \"just EMR\" strategy in the context of a set of goals that includes care coordination, access, continuity, and good communications.\nMy closest friends in the EHR/EMR industry are quietly applauding this approach, because they know they will sell a lot more product if and when there is widespread demand for ALL kinds of health IT, not just EMRs. And they understand network effects: interoperability increases the value of every node, and the more nodes that can connect on the network, the greater the economic value of the network.\nThanks for your comment. Regards, DCK\nPosted by: David C. Kibbe, MD MBA \| Dec 18, 2008 5:42:35 AM\nWe are far from the goal that President Bush set to provide EMRs for most Americans by 2014. The overwhelming evidence is that not only is high cost a barrier, but also the disruption caused by implementation, the complexity of usage models, and the fear that systems become obsolete due to lack of interoperability. So at this tipping point in healthcare’s future, the incoming administration must be unfailingly realistic in how to truly progress the industry. To bring about tangible, achievable change in healthcare, we must:\n1. Utilize technologies that are practical, profitable and efficient for physicians to use in their daily workflow. This means solutions that:\no Are accessible and affordable for practices of any size to implement.\no Are adoptable by physicians and/or their staff without extensive training or practice redesign. Additional benefits may accrue to those who do use technology in exciting and disruptive ways, but basic benefits should be achievable for modest change.\no Enhance care services, improve efficiency and bring additional revenue back to the practice, even in the form of incentive payments or changes in reimbursement. We must align incentives with desired changes in behavior to create a sustainable economic model.\n2. Enable the mobility of data – between providers, between patients and providers, and across the healthcare eco-system. For too long the focus of HIT has been on the storage and manipulation of the data. The explosive power of technology that has reshaped other American industries (travel, financial services, consumerism, B2B commerce, journalism) has been in unleashing the power of available data by enabling access and mobility – via email, portals, transactions, search and so on. Each of the examples you cite (ePrescribing, eReferrals, eVisits) combine the existence of data with the mobility of data to create an improved outcome.\n3. Are truly interoperable, for continuity of care regardless of the technology platform within a physician office. While all initiatives to improve interoperability are applauded, we must not let the desire for what’s possible get in the way of what’s practical. We must move the entire industry forward by taking advantage of technologies that offer a basic level of interoperability, that work in a PM-based practice, or in one with an older or “light-weight” EMR, and don’t require dedicated and complex transport protocols for moving the data in and out of the practice. As your article suggests, let’s focus investments here on the basic infrastructure of DSL, Cable and Cellular connectivity and enable high-speed, high-availability email and internet services on which pragmatic solutions already run.\nThe technology to support these requirements for progress exists today. These everyday technologies allow for immediate collaboration, improve patient care, increase patient engagement and remove error and inefficiency in the process, moving the industry forward – without the sticker shock.\nWe encourage federal investments to focus on incentivizing the desired outcome, as is the case with the Medicare ePrescribing payment, to drive the right IT investments. The healthcare industry must learn to walk before it can run. Fortunately, the technology is already here to support healthcare every step of the way.\nPosted by: Malcolm Costello \| Dec 18, 2008 12:25:00 PM\nYour analysis of what’s wrong with EHRs is on the money but your solution—to ignore the problem and look elsewhere for ways to improve care and reduce costs—ducks the issue.\nThere is extensive evidence, both anecdotal and in studies, that a physician equipped with a patient’s complete medical record is more likely to avoid making a medical mistake and ordering unnecessary tests than if he/she doesn’t have it. Put another way, would you rather your physician have your complete medical record when he/she treats you? Physicians I’ve talked with tell me that if they had a patient’s complete medical record, they “could practice better medicine.” Thus, I consider it essential that we solve the problems surrounding personal health records—and we are doing just that.\nThe place to start is to ignore today’s “conventional wisdom” that all care providers must install EMR/EHR systems, that all patient records be stored on Web servers and accessible over the Internet, and that government agencies and non-profits should subsidize both the adoption of EHR/EMR systems and the construction of Internet networks such as RHIOs, HIEs and the NHIN. (I should add that we have no argument with physicians adopting EMR systems. I hope they do because it would make our life easier. I simply don’t want to get hung up on such a requirement because we can achieve our objective of creating a comprehensive personal health record—what we call a Lifetime Health Record™— even if physicians keep paper records.)\nOur company, Health Record Corporation, has developed a different approach to personal health records that meets the needs of both care providers and consumers. One leading authority describes it as “a consumer-driven medical record idea that makes sense.” It satisfies consumer concerns by storing a patient’s records on a portable device the consumer owns, controls and carries or wears, not on Web servers. It employs established technology and transcends the technical issues troubling EHR/EMR vendors. It is its own repository and makes a patient’s records immediately accessible to care providers when they treat the patient (the patient merely gives it to his/her care provider thereby fulfilling the function of a network: moving information from where it resides to where it is needed). It allows physicians to maintain either paper charts or electronic records as they wish. Physicians are paid to upload copies of a patient’s records to it; a typical PCP can increase his/her annual income by $25 thousand or more. Physicians can electronically sort and search its contents thereby accessing the records they need. It can be implemented in 12 months rather than years. It improves physician workflow. It is financially self-sustaining and doesn’t require subsidies. It is relatively cheap; it doesn’t cost hundreds of billions of dollars—but it can save billions. (If every Medicaid patient used the MedKaz™, we conservatively estimate the states would save more than $6 billion.)\nAnyone interested in learning more and/or working with us may wish to visit our corporate and product Web sites, healthrecordcorp.com and medkaz.com. I would love to hear from you.\nThe long and short of it is that there, indeed, is a simple solution to personal health records. All we have to do is take off the blinders and embrace it!\nPosted by: Merle Bushkin \| Dec 20, 2008 5:37:14 PM\nDear Merle: The idea of a health records software program that is shared between a person and his or her physician/medical home practice, and is also accessible for emergencies, referrals, and other uses consented to and controlled by the individual, is perhaps one whose time has come. It may become the cornerstone of Participatory Medicine by 2012 or so. I commend you for putting your version of this innovation into the marketplace, and I wish you well in your endeavors. You're going to have competition!\nPlease don't assume that Brian Klepper and I are \"ducking the issue\" of health data and information availability to doctors. What we're saying is that EMRs and EHRs that conform to administrative top-down criteria for certification ought not to be the ONLY solutions to creating, managing, and exchange of personal health information found worthy of federal subsidy under the new Obama administration. And our short list of alternatives was just that -- very short, not intended to be exclusive. I think the ideas that you represent in your post are innovative, and also deserve attention and study. Thank you for offering them.\nVery kind regards, DCK\nPosted by: David C. Kibbe, MD MBA \| Dec 21, 2008 5:51:20 AM\nDear David,\nThanks for your response. I understand that your suggested alternatives are presented as just that: alternatives beyond the scope of EHRs/EMRs that will improve care quality and reduce care costs, and that these types of options should be considered for government funding.\nThe point I am raising, however, is that if we take the blinders off, it becomes clear we don't need government funding to solve our patient record/information problems. Therefore, we should charge ahead, not delay.\nWith today's technology and know-how, we can create a system that aggregates a patient's lifetime health record in a single repository that, in turn, is available when and where a care provider needs it. At the same time, we can satisfy the desire of consumers to control their records. We can do all this without government subsidies and a lot faster and cheaper than \"conventional wisdom\" proponents think.\nOne of the distinctive aspects of our MedKaz™ System is its self-sustaining business model. We pay care providers to upload practice notes, test results, images, etc. to the patient's MedKaz™ so it always is up to date. (When was the last time you saw someone actually offer to pay physicians and hospitals to help them improve the care of their patients? This may be a first -- at least in recent years!) At the same time, we create considerable value for our shareholders and do not require government subsidies!\nOne last point. We need not wait until 2012 to put patients' Lifetime Health Records™ in their hands. We can do it in 2009 -- which is what we are striving to do.\nRegards, Merle\nPosted by: Merle Bushkin \| Dec 21, 2008 1:07:56 PM\nMerle: I applaud your spirit and sincerely hope that you are successful. It seems inevitable to me that the new administration will invest in health IT, and I'd like very much to see that good money isn't spent after bad. DCK\nPosted by: David C. Kibbe, MD MBA \| Dec 22, 2008 4:57:49 AM\nHi David,\nI share your opinion that the incoming Obama administration will spend enormous sums on healthcare IT. There is enormous momentum to do so and I suspect that right or wrong most of the $$$ will go to subsidizing physician adoptions of EHR/EMR systems. In addition, the states -- desperate to reduce Medicaid costs -- are doing the same and many have already started. Thus, I'm not optimistic that you will succeed in redirecting these \"investments\" unless you can tap directly into Obama's inner circle.\nIn the meantime, we will proceed to develop our MedKaz™ System which will co-exist with whatever improvements are introduced. I suspect you and I both can use all the help we can get!\nRegards, Merle.\nPosted by: Merle Bushkin \| Dec 22, 2008 7:16:22 AM\nIt will be companies like WifiMed (WIFM.ob) and Allscripts that will benefit from this administrations spending. They are poised to be clear winners when the administration puts money into healthcare.\nPosted by: Mike Bushardi \| Jan 2, 2009 8:45:19 AM\nDr. Kibbe, Please see the recently ratified and published American Medical Informatics Association Open Source Working Group White paper entitled Free and Open Source Software in Healthcare 1.0: It contains cost, deployment data and much more that may be of great interest to you and everyone else.\n-- Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS\nPosted by: Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS \| Jan 2, 2009 9:19:42 PM\nDavid Kibbe wrote: \"We criticize Microsoft for being monopolistic, but we are also danged thankful that they created a standard operating system, because it led to hugely less expensive personal computers.\"\nIBM creating a commodity-based open architecture PC hardware, Intel, and AMD had far more to do with making less expensive computers than Microsoft. -- IV\nPosted by: Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS \| Jan 2, 2009 9:39:35 PM\nDavid,\nI am appalled by your comments. Coastal Medical Inc has been paperless on eClincialWorks for the last 2 1/2 years, with a fully functional integrated pms/emr. Our initial investment was $1.8 million and our ROI calculation for the 90 providers in 16 locations is 2.9 years. We have admittedly worked hard to achieve this. However, our cost savings in fewer employees, recaptured transcription costs, improved documentation for coding, 100% charge capture, 100% chart and information availability at the patient visit, and med mal discounts have more than compensated. The VPN makes work from home, especially when on call, a dream. The ability to fax key documents and patient information to other providers, hospitals, and agencies streamlines data communication and improves continuity of care. Why advocate for anything less? Mark Jacobs MD, President and CEO, Coastal Medical Inc.\nPosted by: Mark Jacobs \| Jan 5, 2009 6:29:53 PM\nDid anyone see the patient in bed 5 yet?\nPosted by: MD as HELL \| Jan 6, 2009 4:25:58 AM\nDear Readers:\nI am not a medical professional nor an IT professional. As a person who has been on health insurance for 18 years out of 23 years in US, I find the healthcare system needs to be completely overhauled to provide more education on PREVENTION TO YOUNGER GENERATION.\nHow many methods of delivery of services and information are employed, will not reduce the demand on the available systems which is what keeping the cost so high.\nAs the world progresses with IT it will be used eventually by all or non users will die being not-competitive enough.\nHow do we provide PREVENTION is probably the key and it is a challenge to all of you to come up with a competitive solution.\nThe sick at the age 77 may use the system if that person can afford it but if can not why taxes have to pay for it?\nHow much can be spent just for our emotions.\nMedicare collects 2.9% of entire GDP as a tax and should be able to provide cost of educating the younger generation to stay out of trouble.\nSincerely\nKanayo\nPosted by: KANAYO LALA-P.E. \| Jan 7, 2009 8:59:20 PM\nFor a fresh take on electronic medical records, specifically for ophthalmology, check out IO Practiceware's customer service blog: . They post news and articles about ophthalmology EMR and practice management. Check it out!\nPosted by: Sarah \| Jan 9, 2009 10:08:52 PM\nThe open letter to the President Obama should include \" the wheel has already been invented\". Its called the VA Health System containing an electronic health record product that crosses state lines and manages the health of 25 million Americans. No commercial product comes close. This is another fine product that we the taxpayers have developed with the help of people from MIT and thousands of talented professionals. The product is here, its scalable, secure and efficient.\nPosted by: Rocky Ostrand \| Jan 22, 2009 10:25:13 PM\nThis will make everyone feel like something is being done. It will not help me with my $7500 deductible or medical bankruptcy. It will help the whole corporate substitution of anything deserving to be called \"care.\" This is not a solution, it is a distraction, a new profit center complete with its own new czar.\nPosted by: Patiently Waiting \| Jan 28, 2009 3:55:09 AM\nAs a healthcare consultant, I am increasingly concerned at the way that information can get buried in the current EMR systems. In order to get CCHIT certification, the vendor has to satisfy requirements and scenarios. However there is no workflow or usability standard. Also, if there is a problem in field matching, important data may not even reach the system. Current EMR systems are pricey and turn physicians into data entry clerks. Physician need to concentrate on patient care and not which click to make and which key to use. The US needs to go electronic but with the systems out there right now I believe medical errors could go up if the users cannot easily and quickly find the data they need.\nPosted by: Carol Goddard \| Jan 30, 2009 5:29:55 AM\nThis open letter makes two.\nAlso see my Dec. 7 \"Open Letter to President Barack Obama on Healthcare Information Technology\" at Healthcare Renewal ( ).\nAlong with the Joint Commission Sentinel Event Report on HIT ( ) and the National Research Council report \"Current Approaches to U.S. Health Care Information Technology are Insufficient\" ( ), I believe the medical informatics community has offered int due diligence towards this initiative.\nLet's hope we use this wisdom to avoid a repeat of what's going on in the UK (see ).\nPosted by: S Silverstein \| Jan 31, 2009 5:30:33 PM\nThe comments to this entry are closed."}
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{"text": "BEYOND THE ORDINARY\nBorn and raised in an orthodox family in Calicut, Fazeela Uppilathodi never in her wildest dreams thought that she would become a rally rider. It was her chance meeting with Kochi's popular biker crew CoG racing who motivated her to sharpen her biking skills. Now, this bike racer-cum-fitness trainer is planning to start a bike racing academy for women soon.\nThis 29 -year -old fitness trainer is on a mission to encourage more girls to take up bike racing. \"There are many women who ride bikes but only few venture into racing tracks. I am not concerned about being a woman bike rider but it's all about being true to the sport,\" said Fazeela who has also been subjected to stereotypical roles thrust upon women.\nShe is one of the first women from Kerala for competing at the Raid De Himalaya, the flagship rally of the country's premier motorsport club, a Shimla-based Himalayan Motorsport which was held last year. Fazeela not only participated in the mega event, but also won the race. Besides working as a fitness trainer she is also skilled in Yoga and meditation techniques. She has a five-year-old daughter.\nFazeela stands as an inspiring model for someone who broke the gender stereotypes with her grit, hard work and never-say-die attitude. She is a true inspiration for many women in India and worldwide, to come out of their self-imposed shells and show to the world their true mettle.\n- Anonymous"}
{"text": "Nature-defying tactics are a surefire way to get consumer attention, and the Tropicana Brighter Mornings campaign set during the early morning hours at Trafalgar square is proof. The fake sun shone just as brightly as the real thing, and proved to be a successful new marketing stunt for Tropicana.\nAt 6:51 a.m. the fake sun, made from over 60,000 light bulbs and can apparently be seen from outer space, was lit in Trafalgar Square to be admired and photographed by early risers during their morning routines. The golden glow offered by the Tropicana man-made sun was a marketing effort for the Tropicana Brighter Mornings campaign. Named the 'Trafalgar Sun,' the sphere weighs over 2,500 kilograms and took six months to build.\nNature-Defying Advertisements\nScore\nMore Stats +/-\n- 44 Interactive Advertising Campaigns\n- Fun Family Fashion Campaigns\n- Bathing Beauty Campaigns\n- Synchronizing Contraception Campaigns\n- Outdoor Regeneration Campaigns\nThe Tropicana Brighter Mornings Campaign Lights up the Night\n- By: Senduran BhakthakumaranJan 26, 2012\nReferences: adrants & creativecriminals\nReferences: adrants & creativecriminals"}
{"text": "Today is the last day of the JustRite Papercraft October Release. We have 2 beautiful sets to showcase, Sweet Posies Cling Stamps and Sweet Vine Cling Background Stamp.\nFor the card base I used Spellbinders Majestic Labels Twenty Five and Labels Twenty Five.\nI used Distress ink mini pads in several brown shades to apply ink to Sweet Vine Cling Background Stamp and then stamped on natural white cardstock. I die cut background with Labels Twenty Five and glued to card base.\nThe Posies from the set Sweet Posies Cling Stamps were stamped with Versamark and white embossing powder and then heat set. I used Distress inks to water color the Posies. I also stamped Crackle Cling Background Stamp with brown ink.\nI die cut the flowers with natural white cardstock with Spellbinders Pretty Petals C and Pretty Petals D. I colored the flowers with Distress inks, misted them with water, scrunched them to shape them and let them dry. Once they were dried I layered them on the card using a glue gun and added white pearls to the centers of flowers. For the leaves I used Spellbinders Sprigs.\nSupplies:\nJustRite Papercraft: Sweet Vine Cling Background Stamp, Sweet Posies Cling Stamps, Crackle Cling Background Stamp.\nSpellbinders Dies: Majestic Labels Twenty Five, Labels Twenty Five, Pretty Petals C, Pretty Petals D, Sprigs.\nOther Supplies: Neenah Paper Natural White Cardstock, Ranger Distress Ink Mini Pads, Versamark, White Embossing Powder, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad, Glue Gun, White Pearls.\nBe sure to go to the links below for more inspiration from the Design Team.\nMarisa Job (here)\nThanks for visiting! Hugs!\nWONDERFULLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...so beautiful, so colored and so Marisa style...kisses Ada\nAnother gorgeous card xx GailT xx\nHi Marisa\nBeautiful, beautiful, beautiful! The flowers are gorgeous as is that background stamp.\nLove it!\nBest wishes.\nAng x\nSo pretty! What beautiful flowers! I really like the colors!\nBeautiful stamps and a fabulous creation Marisa, love the colours of those lovely flowers, xxxxRuth\nThank you so much Ruth!! Hugs!\nOh my word, this is absolutely breathtaking!!!!!\nHi Marisa. This card is stunning. I love the colours and the way you designed it.\nJeanette\nNew Zealand\nHello Marisa\nWhat a beautiful card. So very elegant but yet very pretty in its composition. Thank you for sharing.\nCrafty Hugs\nHeather xx"}
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{"text": "I samarbete med NNU har vi glädjen att bjuda in till företagspresentation med Coca Cola Enterprises den 6. oktober. Presentationen äger rum på Solbjerg Plads, SPs10 klockan 17.00 med efterföljande middag och mingel.\nOm Coca-Cola\nFrom a secret recipe to a bold idea and very proud traditions we build the future. Coca-Cola Enterprises is one of the world’s largest Coca-Cola bottlers operating locally in eight territories in Western Europe, among others in Sweden and Norway..\nAt Coca-Cola Enterprises Sverige and Norge we employ around 1450 employees within Supply Chain, Commercial and support functions. Some of the brands you will find in our portfolio are, Coca-Cola®, Fanta®, Sprite®, Bonaqua®, MER®, Powerade®, Finley®, Monster®, Capri Sonne® and Burn®.\nAre you interested in hearing more about CCE and getting a unique insight in our business and culture? Come and visit us on the 6th of October at CBS. You will be given a presentation about the business and then be able to mingle and share a coke with us. You will meet representatives from HR, KAM, Marketing and also two graduates from our trainee program."}
{"text": "One, Two and Three the Formula for 2019 Silverstone Classic\nFor the first time in its 29-year history, next summer’s Silverstone Classic will feature dedicated races for Formula 1, Formula 2 and Formula 3 thus creating the festival’s first ever international single-seater showcase.\nThe Classic’s an era when F2 was the proving ground for young drivers intent on making the step into Grand Prix racing, and.\n“Every summer we aim to enhance the established crowd-favourites with some outstanding new additions and to have Historic Formula 2 and Classic Formula 3 on the 2019 race-card for the very first time will make next year’s festival really special,” enthused Nick Wigley, Silverstone Classic CEO.\n.”\nGrahame White, CEO of the HSCC is equally delighted..\n"}
{"text": " quarterly, quinoa bowl or organic salad bowl. Additionally, we cook our fries in a designated gluten-free fryer.\nWe offer a house-made veggie burger that is both vegetarian and vegan.\nA complete list of our products organized by what you should avoid based on your respective food allergy can be found below.\nDAIRY Anniversary Burger Grain Mustard Aioli, Brioche Bun, Buttermilk Herb Ranch, Cheese, Chipotle Aioli, Shakes & Soft Serve, Hollaback Bowl Parmesan Caesar Dressing NUT Hollaback Bowl Almonds, KBBQ Burger BBQ Sauce & Kimchi, Nutella Shake, Peanut Butter Shake SEAFOOD/SHELLFISH Hollaback Bowl Parmesan Caesar Dressing, KBBQ Burger BBQ Sauce & Kimchi Big Buns. One-hundred percent of all tips earned at the main ordering counter, in the dining room, or on the patio are shared equally with each team member regardless of whether or not they work in the front or back of house.\nDo you cater, deliver or accept large carryout orders?\nWe make everything to order and obsess over offering the the highest quality products every time you visit. Due to kitchen space and current volume, we don’t offer delivery, catering, or accept large group orders for groups of seven people or more.\nDo you accept carryout orders over the phone?\nOut of fairness to our guests waiting in line at the restaurant, and in order to ensure order accuracy, we offer online ordering for all carryout orders.\nWhy is your online ordering sometimes unavailable during peak hours??\nBig Buns is a casual, first-come, first-served restaurant where guests order at a counter and their food is brought to them. For this reason, we do not accept reservations and generally don’t recommend our restaurant for large groups of eight people or more because we cannot guarantee that we will have available seating.\nWHAT HOLIDAYS DO YOU OBSERVE?\nBig Buns is closed for the following Holidays: Christmas Day, Thanksgiving Day, July 4th, Labor Day\nHave another question? Give us a shout here."}
{"text": "The assistance available from the Roarke Center is done so in partnership with local churches and charities. The resources are limited in scope, such as the medical clinic is only open one day per week. However the Rensselaer County organization will try to help in a crisis.\nWhen it comes to financial aid, they can assist with housing issues such as heating bills or rent. The staff also advocate for the working poor and Troy New York and focus on self-sufficiency, such as Adult Literacy. There are even services available for ex-criminal offers, such as the Roarke Connection program.\nRoarke Center Emergency Basic Needs Program offers assistance with more everyday living expenses. The staff can assist clients with obtaining non-narcotic prescriptions, gasoline vouchers or bus tokens for work, clothing, or food. While more rare, there can be other support too. This may be financial help with rent and mortgage payments, natural gas or water bills, school supplies, and holiday food and toys.\nThrough collaborative efforts with local churches as well as interviews from volunteers, there are staff that assess each applicant's needs. They will then be referred to solutions such as public benefit in Rensselaer County or Roarke Center will match the client with appropriate programs and services available. In addition, a Community Specialist sponsored by Roarke Center is available one day each week in the Office to meet with clients about applying for those benefits, ranging from disability to food stamps/Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.\nRoarke Center affiliated clinics serve children from low-income families who are covered by Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), or private insurance. There is also basic dental or medical care arranged for adults and others who are uninsured and self-paying. The medical providers from Troy New York only offer this one day per day. However they will not only treat the child, but the whole family.\nThe Clinic provides a full range of quality services for patients and children from birth through age 18, ranging from preventative to acute care. The Rensselaer County regional clinic’s team consists of nurses, a medical assistant, a support staff, physicians and volunteers. All of these individuals work together to take into account the patient's overall health, nutrition, and home environment.\nA food pantry is available in both southern and downtown Troy. It can provide some people free food for a few days, and this is mostly for the low income elderly, single parents, children and families in need. Other people from the community can still use the pantry, but they may need to pay a discounted rate for their groceries. So this Roarke Center service is a combination of free and reduced priced groceries.\nRoarke Center Learning Center classes are open to all Troy residents. Seminars and workshops are held. They can assist with job searches, financial literacy, legal issues, and US Citizenship and Naturalization are available. Most of the support is provided for free or at a low cost.\nOther job skill development is arranged in Troy New York as well. There are classes on General Educational Development (GED) test preparation, English as a Second Language (ESL), computer literacy, and other IT skills. Staff and volunteers from Roarke Center as well as churches work with local school or WIA workforce centers too.\nThe Adult Literacy sessions can be held as a class or as a one on one session. They may cover ESL or basic skills, such as math or reading. It can even be combined with some of the other services around job skills, such as Sewing and Weaving and creating writing classes. All of this is arranged in an effort to help the client find a new or better job in Rensselaer County.\nSome of the other services from the center range from Roarke Connection, which helps women from Troy that are leaving jail. Or the staff will advocate for the less fortunate in applying for state of New York aid. For more details on these or many other services, the address is 107 4th Street, Troy, New York 12180, or dial (518)273-8351.\nBy Jon McNamara\n“Related Links” are listed below.\nForum"}
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