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A titular see in Crete, suffragan of Gortyna, was probably a colony of Tarrha. It was taken by storm and almost entirely destroyed by the Romans. Augustus restored it and in consideration of the aid rendered him in his struggle with M. Antonius, he bestowed on the citizens their freedom, and with it the right of coinage. It has been identified with the modern small village of Polis. The episcopal see is mentioned in the "Notitiae episcopatuum" as late as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It was re-established by the Greeks about the end of the nineteenth century; the bishop resides in the monastery of Preveli. Lequien (Oriens Christianus, II, 268) mentions Petrus, who attended the Council of Ephesus, 431; Deneltius, at Chalcedon, 451; Prosdocius, in 458; John, who appealed to Rome against his metropolitan Paul, and attended the Council of Constantinople, 667; Epiphanius at Nicaea, 786.
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Those rules earlier are pretty good, but I would add another few...
Are we in a sale season? If yes, think twice. With so many different companies offering different things, and gamer gate being with a bunch of drunks for programmers, think two, three times. If you won't play it NOW, you will probably be better off waiting unless you feel that's it, you're done. Anything after that point, even free, will be a case of "oh well, this is where I was happy and don't regret supporting the devs at this price point."
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With the increasing awareness of the importance of breast screening for early detection of cancer, breast imaging has found a place in today--s diagnostic armamentarium.
The common imaging modalities are mammography, ultrasound and MRI. Mammography is the investigation of choice and is an essential part of screening programmes in the West.
Mammography and ultrasound are corroborative and are generally done together. MRI finds a place in the evaluation of dense breasts and in multi-centric cancer, said Dr Padmaja Canumalla, Specialist Radiologist, Zulekha Hospital, Dubai.
The high risk factors in breast cancer are patients with mother/sister having cancer breast or cancer ovary, patients on HRT, patients over 60 years, late motherhood and short lactation.
Screening mammography has been proved to have a place in the early detection of breast cancer. The American Cancer Society Recommendations are:
--Physical exam regularly after 20 years age --Base line exam -- between 35 and 39 years --Annual/biannual exam -- between 40 and 49 years --Yearly after 50 years
Breast reporting has been standardised by the American College of Radiologist so that there is good understanding between the reporting radiologist and the treating clinician. Reporting is done based on the breast lexicon and every report is given a category of the BIRADS (Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System). This allows a uniform standard interpretation of the report.
According to the RCR guidelines, mammography is not recommended for generalised lumpiness, long standing nipple retraction and cyclical breast pain associated with periods.
The factors which protect from breast cancer are:
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On his blog at The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg poses this thought experiment:
Imagine — and it doesn’t take much imagining — but imagine Dick Cheney showed up at a party for Ahmed Chalabi, and made a videotaped toast? Don’t you think the L.A. Times would try like hell to get that video posted on its website? Of course it would, and it would be performing a valuable service for its readers.
This follows up on an earlier post, in which he (rightly) refers to the Times as a “pro-censorship organization.” He uses this sobriquet because the Times has refused to release a videotape it obtained of a 2003 banquet, at which then-state Senator Barack Obama spoke of his friendship with Rashid Khalidi, a leading Palestinian activist.
The Times first reported on this videotape in an April 2008 story, which included a detailed description of the tape’s contents. The explanation offered by the Times is that it did not release the tape itself “because it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it.” So said the newspaper’s editor, Russ Stanton (who added that “The Times keeps its promises to sources”). But Goldberg points out the obvious: the tape has been described in detail in a Times story already, it quite obviously contains no state secrets, and it could be posted in such a way as to obscure its origins. So why the restraint?
This whole episode is quite extraordinary. But it’s just one more example of the remarkable one-sidedness of the media in this presidential campaign. The political and ideological biases of the press have been a constant as long as I’ve been alive. But I don’t think they have ever been this pronounced.
Many members of the media have not only an ideological but also an emotional investment in an Obama presidency. They desperately want an Obama victory. Some journalists, as we are discovering in the case of the Times, will violate the most basic professional standards to ensure that outcome. The journalistic landscape is scattered with people like (to take just one example) Richard Wolffe of Newsweek, who speaks and writes about Obama in reverential, even worshipful, tones. What is far more widespread, though, is a slant in how the two campaigns are covered–which issues the press deems legitimate and illegitimate; how topics are framed; the tone and manner in which the two candidates are described. It is clear, for example, that many members of the press corps have decided that raising the issue of Obama’s past associations with radicals like Bill Ayers (to name just one of a number) is crude, unrefined, and off limits. When McCain brought it up, they portrayed him in the worst possible light. Raising the issue of Obama’s association with a domestic terrorist became worse than that association itself.
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Analysis & Projections
Assumptions to AEO2013
Release Date: May 14, 2013 | Next Release Date: May 2014 | full report
This report presents the major assumptions of the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) used to generate the projections in the Annual Energy Outlook 2013 (AEO2013), including general features of the model structure, assumptions concerning energy markets, and the key input data and parameters that are the most significant in formulating the model results. Detailed documentation of the modeling system is available in a series of documentation reports .
The National Energy Modeling System
Projections in the AEO2013 are generated using the NEMS, developed and maintained by the Office of Energy Analysis of the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). In addition to its use in developing the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) projections, NEMS is also used to complete analytical studies for the U.S. Congress, the Executive Office of the President, other offices within the U.S. Department of Energy, and other Federal agencies. NEMS is also used by other nongovernment groups, such as the Electric Power Research Institute, Duke University, and Georgia Institute of Technology. In addition, the AEO projections are used by analysts and planners in other government agencies and nongovernment organizations.
The projections in NEMS are developed with the use of a market-based approach, subject to regulations and standards. For each fuel and consuming sector, NEMS balances energy supply and demand, accounting for economic competition among the various energy fuels and sources. The time horizon of NEMS extends to 2040. To represent regional differences in energy markets, the component modules of NEMS function at the regional level: the 9 Census divisions for the end-use demand modules; production regions specific to oil, natural gas, and coal supply and distribution; 22 regions and subregions of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation for electricity; and 8 refining regions that are a subset of the 5 Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts (PADDs). Maps illustrating the regional formats used in each module are included in this report. Only selected regional results are presented in AEO2013, which predominantly focus on the national results. Complete regional and detailed results are available on the EIA Analyses and Projections Home Page (www.eia.gov/analysis/).
NEMS is organized and implemented as a modular system (Figure 1). The modules represent each of the fuel supply markets, conversion sectors, and end-use consumption sectors of the energy system. The modular design also permits the use of the methodology and level of detail most appropriate for each energy sector. NEMS executes each of the component modules to solve for prices of energy delivered to end users and the quantities consumed, by product, region, and sector. The delivered fuel prices encompass all the activities necessary to produce, import, and transport fuels to end users. The information flows also include other data on such areas as economic activity, domestic production, and international petroleum supply. NEMS calls each supply, conversion, and end-use demand module in sequence until the delivered prices of energy and the quantities demanded have converged within tolerance, thus achieving an economic equilibrium of supply and demand in the consuming sectors. A solution is reached for each year from 2012 through 2040. Other variables, such as petroleum product imports, crude oil imports, and several macroeconomic indicators, also are evaluated for convergence. Each NEMS component represents the impacts and costs of legislation and environmental regulations that affect that sector. NEMS accounts for all combustion-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, as well as emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and mercury from the electricity generation sector.
The integrating module of NEMS controls the execution of each of the component modules. To facilitate modularity, the components do not pass information to each other directly but communicate through a central data storage location. This modular design provides the capability to execute modules individually, thus allowing decentralized development of the system and independent analysis and testing of individual modules. This modularity allows use of the methodology and level of detail most appropriate for each energy sector. NEMS solves by calling each supply, conversion, and end-use demand module in sequence until the delivered prices of energy and the quantities demanded have converged within tolerance, thus achieving an economic equilibrium of supply and demand in the consuming sectors. Solution is reached annually through the projection horizon. Other variables are also evaluated for convergence such as petroleum product imports, crude oil imports, and several macroeconomic indicators. The version of NEMS used for AEO2013 generally represents current legislation and environmental regulations, including recent government actions for which implementing regulations were available as of September 30, 2012, such as: the new light-duty vehicle (LDV) greenhouse gas (GHG) and corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards for model years 2017 to 2025 released in October 2012; the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), which was reinstated as binding legislation after the Cross- State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) was vacated on August 21, 2012; updated handling of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for industrial boilers and process heaters based on regulations released in March 2011; the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards issued by the EPA in December 2011; California's cap-and-trade program authorized by Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32), the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 , issued in September 2006; and the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) finalized in January 2010.
The potential impacts of proposed federal and state legislation, regulations, or standards—or of sections of legislation that have been enacted but require funds or implementing regulations that have not been provided or specified—are not reflected in NEMS. Many of the pending provisions, however, are examined in alternative cases included in AEO2013 or in other analysis completed by EIA. A list of the specific federal and selected state legislation and regulations included in the AEO, including how they are incorporated, is provided in Appendix A.
Footnotes Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2013 (AEO2013), DOE/EIA-0383(2013), (Washington, DC, April 2013).
NEMS documentation reports are available on the EIA Homepage (www.eia.gov/analysis/model-documentation.cfm).
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, "2017 and Later Model Year Light- Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards," Federal Register, Vol. 77, No. 199, 40 CFR Parts 85, 86, and 600, and 49 CFR Parts 523, 531, 533, et al. (Washington, DC: October 15, 2012), website www. gpo. gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-10-15/html/2012-21972.htm.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR)" (Washington, DC: January 14, 2013), website http://epa.gov/airtransport. CSAPR was scheduled to begin on January 1, 2012; however, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a stay delaying implementation while it addresses legal challenges to the rule that have been raised by several power companies and States. CSAPR is included in AEO2013 despite the stay, because the Court of Appeals had not made a final ruling at the time AEO2013 was published.
U.S. Congress, "Clean Air Act: Chapter 85—Air Pollution Prevention and Control," 42 U.S.C. 7412 (2011), website www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title42/pdf/USCODE-2011-title42-chap85.pdf.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS)" (Washington, DC: March 27, 2012),website www.epa.gov/mats.
California Environmental Protection Agency, Air Resources Board, "Assembly Bill No. 32: Global Warming Solutions Act" (Sacramento, CA: September 27, 2006), website www.arb.ca.gov/cc/ab32/ab32.htm.
California Environmental Protection Agency, Air Resources Board, "Low Carbon Fuel Standard Program" (Sacramento, CA: January 11, 2013), website www.arb.ca.gov/fuels/lcfs/lcfs.htm. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Mercury and Air Toxics Standards," website www.epa.gov/mats.
Sections by Module
Macroeconomic Activity Module
International Energy Module
Residential Demand Module
Commercial Demand Module
Industrial Demand Module
Transportation Demand Module
Electricity Market Module
Oil and Gas Supply Module
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Liquid Fuels Market Module
Coal Market Module
Renewable Fuels Module
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Coursework & Related Details
Water Resources Engineering (WRE)
Environmental and Resource Engineering M.S. & Ph.D.
Pre- or Co-Requisite Courses
Most of these courses are typically not granted graduate credit. These courses are typically taken prior to enrolling in the graduate program, but
there are cases when some are taken concurrently with your graduate degree.
Prerequisite courses include biologic science, calculus, chemistry,
computer science [1
| 3 ],
probability and statistics ,
fluid mechanics ,
and engineering hydrology. | [Fluids at may be with ERE571 Fluid Mechanics fall, MAE 341 Fluid Mechanics fall, BEN333 Fluid Transport fall]
Number of Graduate Course Credits
Students must complete the following number of course credits, depending on the degree.
- M.S. candidates
- Departmental policy: at least 24 credits of graduate courses and at least 6 credits of thesis.
At least 9 credits of courses within the department.
At least 3 credits of courses from outside the department.
- Ph.D. candidates
- Departmental policy: at least 30 credits of graduate courses and a maximum of 30 credits for dissertation.
At least 12 credits of courses within the department.
At least 6 credits of courses from outside the department.
Areas of Competence:
Students are expected to take at least one course in the first 4 areas of competence listed below, or demonstrate equivalent depth of knowledge.
Some illustrative courses are listed in parenthesis. These areas of competence form the basis for your graduate coursework. Seminars are also required.
- environmental hydraulics (e.g., ERE540, ERE548, CIE673, GEO757)
- water resources modeling (e.g., ERE645, ERE665, EAR665, MAE771)
- hydrologic zones and fluxes (e.g., ERE596HM, ERE596PR, ERE612, EFB624, EAR541)
- water quality (e.g., ERE643, EFB640, FCH510, EFB600, CIE671)
- seminar in research methods and current topics (ERE797 Research Methods, ERE797 Hydrology & Biogeochemistry)
- Ph.D candidates must demonstrate competence in two of the three following areas: computer science, statistics, advanced mathematics
List of Supporting Courses
Students are encouraged to take a course in each of the following areas:
Depending on interest and consultation with their advisor and committee, students will select from an array of environmental,
mathematical, and computing courses. A list of ESF courses is available from the
Registrar for the Fall and Spring
semesters. A list of example courses is provided below:
Core ERE Water Resources Engineering Courses
- Hydrologic Modeling (ERE 645) Fall
- Systems Engineering (ERE 665) Fall
- Engineering Hydrology & Hydraulics (ERE 540) Spring
- River Form & Process (ERE 612) Fall
- Environmental Hydraulics | Open Channel Hydraulics(ERE 548) Spring
- HydroMeteorology (ERE644) Spring
- Vadose Zone Hydrology (ERE596PR) Fall
Some Commonly Taken Other ERE Courses
- Numerical and Computing Methods (ERE 596) Fall
- Water Pollution Engineering (ERE 643) Spring
- GIS for Engineers (ERE 551) Fall
- GIS based Modeling (ERE 596) Fall
- Principles of Remote Sensing (ERE 565) Spring
- Stormwater Management (ERE 596) Fall
- Air Pollution Engineering (ERE 691) Fall
Some Commonly Taken Ecology and Chemistry Courses
- Introduction to Soils (FOR 545) Fall
- Ecological Biogeochemistry (EFB 640) Fall
- Watershed Hydrology (FOR 540) Fall
- Watershed Ecology & Management (FOR 642) Fall
- Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration (EFB 681) Fall
- Toxic Health Hazards (EFB 600) Fall
- Limnology: Study of Inland Waters (EFB 624) Fall
- Environmental Chemistry (aquatic) (FCH 510) Spring
Some Commonly Taken Statistics Courses
- Analysis of Variance (APM 620) Spring
- Sampling Techniques (APM 625) Fall
- Regression Analysis (APM 630) Spring
- Multivariate Statistical Methods (APM 635) Fall
Some Commonly Taken SU Courses
- Environmental Sediment Transport (GEO 757) Spring
- Hydrogeology (EAR 541) Fall
- Environmental Aqueous Geochemistry (EAR 619) Spring
- Contaminant Hydrogeology (EAR 620) Spring
- Advanced Hydrologic Field Methods (EAR 660) Spring
- Groundwater Modeling (EAR 665) Spring
- Environmental Chemistry and Analysis (CIE 671) Fall
- Applied Environmental Microbiology (CIE 672) Fall
- Transport Processes in Environmental Engineering (CIE 673) Spring
- Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics (MAE 571) Spring
- Finite Element Computational Dynamics (MAE 771) Spring
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Isn’t it great when a producer looks exactly like their music?
Capracara makes trendy disco, releasing and remixing on labels like DFA, Grizzly and now the Hot City-affiliated Unknown to the Unknown. He’s also very good, as his new single for Unknown to the Unknown, ‘Silvia Solar’ proves. It’s out today, backed with a remix by Hot City, a low-res version of which we’re giving away right here. If you like it, buy it and stop the music industry crumbling (and so forth).
In more Unknown to the Unknown news, their YouTube channel has been kicking right off lately with a ton of footwork and Shangaan Electro uploads (for those who, you know, like their dance music fast) and the 100th subscriber to the channel wins a free glow-in-the-dark UTTU t-shirt. What are you waiting for?
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WINSTON SALEM, N.C., Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Wake Forest University and Ameritox, Ltd. today announced that Ameritox is supporting research at Wake Forest that could break new ground in developing technologies for medication monitoring and toxicology testing.
"Ameritox, the nation's leader in medication monitoring with a state-of-the-art laboratory in Greensboro, and Wake Forest University are just 25 miles apart, facilitating this cutting edge exploration," said Jay Zimmerman, chief operating officer of Ameritox.
Ameritox pioneered the field of pain medication monitoring, offering physicians tools that give them crucial information to help keep their patients and the communities they live in safe. Wake Forest University is among the nation's top universities, ranked 27(th) in the most recent U.S. News and World Report "Best Colleges" guide.
The Wake Forest-Ameritox partnership aims to build on the foundation of the science behind the mapping of the human genome to create a new standard in toxicology testing.
"Ameritox is excited to support work with Wake Forest University towards new discoveries for everyday use in commercial toxicology testing and analysis," Zimmerman said. "The researchers and the chemistry department at Wake Forest are recognized nationally for expertise in the science and methods that are advancing the work done in laboratories like those run by Ameritox."
"Wake Forest University has been active in the development of new technologies and analytical methods that have the potential to improve toxicology testing," said Dr. Christa Colyer, chairperson of the Chemistry Department at Wake Forest University. "Being located close to Ameritox's Greensboro laboratories will make it that much easier to collaborate and exchange ideas to realize testing breakthroughs. I am confident that, working with Ameritox, Wake Forest's chemistry department can help to provide even greater overall laboratory performance and success to industry leaders like Ameritox."
Ameritox is the nation's leader in Pain Medication Monitoring Solutions(®), offering specialized laboratory testing and reporting services. Ameritox's expertise and innovative science provide physicians with insights and support to enhance and optimize the care of chronic pain patients. Ameritox offers the most thorough pain medication monitoring lab process - Rx Guardian(SM) - with Rx Guardian CD(SM), the only pain medication monitoring process with a proprietary normalization algorithm and a reference database of pain patients clinically assessed for adherence. Patient results are compared against this database, helping physicians assess whether patients are taking their pain medications correctly. Monitoring through prescription drug testing helps physicians make more informed clinical decisions and manage the risks and complexities associated with prescribing pain medications. Ameritox is headquartered in Baltimore, Md. with laboratory facilities in Midland, Texas and Greensboro, N.C. Ameritox can be found online at www.ameritox.com, on Twitter @Ameritox, on Facebook at facebook.com/ameritox, and on YouTube at www.youtube.com/ameritox.
© 2012 Ameritox Ltd. All rights reserved. Ameritox, Ameritox-Medication Monitoring Solutions, Rx Guardian, Rx Guardian INSIGHT and Rx Guardian CD are trademarks of Ameritox. Other trademarks are the property of their owners.
About Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University, founded in 1834 and located in Winston-Salem, N.C., is the nation's premier collegiate university. The Wake Forest community embodies the University's motto, Pro Humanitate, or "for humanity," and blends the personal experience of a liberal arts college with the resources of a top research university. The Chemistry Department has a strong tradition of intensive teaching and wide-ranging research in the fundamentals of the field, including analytical chemistry. More information about Chemistry at WFU is available at http://college.wfu.edu/chemistry/ . | <urn:uuid:a37fee49-4160-4c2c-9cf5-6eb15fdf1e7d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.freshnews.com/news/734955/ameritox-and-wake-forest-university-form-research-partnership | 2013-05-20T11:46:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916901 | 794 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
When I meet with potential clients, I sometimes hear the question “why do I need a lawyer? I have paid into the Social Security system for years – why should I have to pay a lawyer to get my money back out?”
This is a perfectly reasonable question and I do not take offense at it. No one likes to pay legal fees, especially when it comes to recovering government benefits based on a disability. You have enough problems when you cannot work, including paying bills, coordinating medical appointments, helping your family adjust, planning for an uncertain future – dealing with lawyers and a lot of confusing paperwork is the last thing that you need in your life.
I wish I could report to you that the Social Security system works efficiently. In a few cases it does work well – about 10% of claims filed are approved quickly and with a minimum of fuss. But for the rest of us, the Social Security disability process will be a fight and a hassle because you have to prove to Social Security that you are “disabled,” and because you will face months or sometimes years of delay as your case winds its way through the system.
Why do you need a lawyer? My simple answer:
- to make sure that you recover all the benefits for which you are eligible
- to make sure that the medical and vocational records needed by Social Security to make a decision are updated
- to have an advocate by your side who speaks Social Security’s language and who understands the terms and “buzz words” that Social Security personnel use
- to gain the benefit of a representative who knows the likes and dislikes of the judges and expert witnesses that you will face
How to Pay for an Experienced Disability Lawyer
The next question I get – “I would like to hire an experienced lawyer like you, but I don’t have the money to pay for an attorney. What am I supposed to do?”
Here, too, there is a simple answer:
I accept Social Security disability cases under a contingency fee contract. My fee contract provides that there is no fee unless we recover past due benefits for you. The fee for my representation is 25% of past due benefits with a cap of $6,000. Since many of the cases I win for clients involve past due benefits in excess of $24,000, my fee often ends up totaling less than 25%.
I’d like to think that you are getting a pretty good deal if you become one of my clients. You will gain the advice and counsel of a lawyer with over 20 years’ worth of experience and lots of satisfied clients, a lawyer who has written two books about Social Security Disability, the publisher of a Social Security disability blog, the host of a Social Security disability podcast, the Social Security disability instructor at Solo Practice University, and my mom’s favorite son (full disclosure: I am an only child).
Still not convinced? Here are some specifics about what I can do to help my clients:
Recover All Available Benefits
I can make sure that you have applied for all disability programs for which you are eligible. For example, I have seen claimants whose Disability applications were not processed by Social Security, or whose applications were lost. In several cases, I have been able to argue that the mere evidence of a communication with Social Security is enough to prove that an application was filed, thereby preserving my client’s rights.
Rebuild Your Claim File if it is Lost by SSA
If Social Security loses your claims file, I can preserve your filing dates and help rebuild the file with the documents in my file. My staff and I are aware of what should be happening with your case, so we can often spot a problem before Social Security recognizes that something is amiss.
Reopen Old Applications to Recover Extra Months of Past Due Benefits
As your lawyer, I can determine if you are eligible to “reopen” old applications. In some cases, a prior application, even one filed three or four years earlier, can be reopened, thereby making you eligible for years of back benefits. If you ever filed an old application, or even if you simply called Social Security to inquire about benefits, you could lose thousands of dollars if you fail to look into reopening an old application. There are specific rules that govern reopening an old case and you have to request this action if your want to maximize your financial recovery.
Develop a Winning Strategy Specific to Your Case
I can also evaluate your case and suggest a strategy to win your case. After handling hundreds of cases, I have a fairly good perspective as to what cases are winnable and what cases are not, and what it takes to win a case. While my opinion is not a determination of how your case will end up, I can offer you the benefit of my experience. More importantly, if you decide to hire me, I will make sure that your case file is up-to-date with all medical records. In addition, I will work with your doctors to “translate” your medical problems into work limitations so that Social Security can evaluate your claim properly.
Present Your Case Effectively to the Judge Assigned to Your Case
If your case ends up before a judge, I will present a well-reasoned, solid argument on your behalf. I will also make sure that your claims file is up to date. My experience has been that claimants appearing before a judge without representation usually have a difficult time presenting their case – if you are end up waiting two or more years for your day in court, you may want to strongly consider the idea of proceeding with representation.
Further, because I appear before Social Security judges in the various local hearing offices, I have experience with almost all of them, even the judges that appear by video from the national video hearing center. The Social Security disability judges I see in the various Georgia hearing offices I visit all have different hearing styles. Your judge may be friendly, or he may be impersonal and businesslike. Your judge may ask a lot of questions or he may direct me to ask most of the questions. Your judge may want an opening statement or a pre-hearing brief, or he may not. Your judge may be very unlikely to approve your case without specific evidence or he may be very liberal in his interpretation of the law. Preparing your for the judge who will be hearing your case may be the most beneficial aspect of what I do for my clients. | <urn:uuid:2a2b587d-088f-4852-93f4-99b924d9587a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.georgiasocialsecuritydisabilityattorney.com/applying-for-social-security-disability/should-i-hire-a-lawyer-and-if-so-when/ | 2013-05-20T12:10:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968764 | 1,326 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
ArticlesCulture, Sustainability and a Beautiful Smile – California Dreaming!
Why Hire a Green Stager?
Go Green in 2009!
Sustainable Living, the Marriage of Green Build and CoHousing
Sustainable Living – as a California transplant from the Midwest, Joanne has embraced that California sensibility in her business and her life. Like many of her neighbors, she is constantly learning new ways we can add to the greening of the planet, stop waste and maintain awareness of how to apply that old adage “if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem” to living green. Joanne has taken her affinity for green and created a new green consulting and training arm to her design and training company, EcoChic Partners.
As a real estate staging professional and trainer, Joanne is proud to join the Live Green Live Smart™ and Certified Staging Professionals™ partnership to bring this unique and comprehensive training to the real estate industry.
Joanne O’Donnell began teaching adults as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Illinois in 1974 and continued training throughout her 25 year career as a manager in human resource departments and executive search companies. Since 2002 she has been training real estate professionals and home stagers to successfully market properties using home staging. In addition to the Live Green Live Smart Certified Professional™, the Green Home Build Sciences™ certificate program, and the Earth in the Balance™ programs, Joanne is a Trainer for the CSP™ program and trains stagers and realtors in staging throughout the USA and Canada. She is also an Instructor for the Dewey Color Consultant course and was an integral part of the Color Consultant course development as part of the Dewey color Advisory Board. Joanne’s training credits include real estate continuing education classes, accredited and certified programs.
In addition to her extensive training background, Joanne is the founder and principal of Chic Home Interiors, a premier real estate staging company in the San Francisco Bay Area – the most sophisticated real estate staging market on the planet, as well as one of the most intently green marketplaces. Chic Home Interiors practices ECOStaging™, helping our clients to prepare their homes and market them in an eco-friendly environment. She brings all of these experiences and sensibilities to her classes – join Joanne in one of our green courses, check the list for upcoming dates and locations.
Servicing Areas: California
Peter C. Lytle, President of BDG Partners, Inc. and the Executive Director and Founder of Live Green, Live Smart, LLC.
Mr. Lytle founded BDG Partners in 1992 after leaving a successful career as a senior executive with several Fortune100 Companies. He has proven to be a most effective entrepreneur and businessperson by taking companies he has invested in from bankruptcy and under one million in revenues to over $600 million in revenues in less than two years. He is a successful business coach, with clients across the country, a well-known business stabilization specialist and strategic planner and is considered the foremost authority today in the area of Predictive Modeling (an update on Deming's House of Quality.) Mr. Lytle often acts as the Chairman or CEO of companies in transition and works with Boards of Directors on organizational and strategic planning.
Mr. Lytle is the founder and Executive Director of Live Green, Live Smart, an International organization, focused on environmental initiatives to design low impact, green, sustainable and environmentally friendly housing. Live Green, Live Smart created under Mr. Lytle's leadership one of the world's greenest homes, which was awarded by the US Green Building Council its first LEED for Homes™ Platinum Certification in December of 2007.
Mr. Lytle has served as Chairman and CEO of his own firms and the firms of others: Humanetics Corporation (pharmaceuticals), Primo Piatto, Inc. (the 2nd largest pasta company in the U.S.), Velocity Express (largest same-day shipping company in the U.S., NASDAQ), St. Croix Computing (postal mail management and security firm), Oak Ridge Sports, Inc., Agrotec Inc., AbleNet, Inc., Marchese & Associates, Inc., North American Heritage Brands, Inc., and The Franchise Development Group, a firm focused on socially responsible franchise development, which includes College Nannies (largest nanny provider in the country), College Tutors (one of the country's top tutoring firms) and POCP, LLC.
He has served on numerous Boards of Directors for public and private corporations and nonprofit organizations. He served as Vice President & General Manager of Business Development and Advanced Food Sciences and founded Results Technology, the largest contract research firm in the country, for Land O' Lakes. He was a senior executive with Beatrice Companies in marketing and a co-founder of the Wilderness Recreation Association.
Mr. Lytle is a frequent contributor of articles and research papers to the media and is also a frequent speaker, and guest lecturer at colleges, organizations and business seminars. He attended the University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa and began his career as a teacher.
Christine’s experience and expertise in home staging is highly respected. In 2001, after twenty years in executive business management and sales, Christine decided the time was right to pursue her passion for interior decorating. Training with pre-eminent interior designer, Lauri Ward, who has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, and Inside Edition, she went on to train with Barb Schwarz of Stagedhomes.com and held the position of Regional Director for that company for three years in Canada, North East United States and the UK. During her career she expanded and honed her skills by studying with JoAnne Lenart-Weary, the ‘One-day Decorating Queen’ and Co-Founder of the Society of Decorating Professionals, and with Ann Maurice,“TV House Doctor” and original staging guru, author of six books and host of four TV programs which millions of viewers watch worldwide.
The CSP™ program was developed and released in September 2005, in response to demand for a staging training program with ”meat”. Having personally taught more than 1400 people how to start a staging business, Christine has quickly become known as an expert in the field and is one of the most certified trainers in North America. Within the first year of its existence, CSP certified 450 staging consultants across Canada and in August 2006 CSP™ launched its program in the U.S. Christine has co-authored an e-book titled Home Staging Business Guide and is currently working on another book to be published in 2007, which will be in a unique, thought provoking format to provide the public with staging information.
Recently, Christine studied with Dewey Sadka, pre-eminent colour expert. Christine is the only Dewey Colour Consultant and Instructor in Canada and sits on the Dewey Colour System advisory council. Dewey created a multi-patented system that is now the world's first scientifically valid, color-based personality test. He has been featured on HGTV.COM, Discovery Channel, CNN, and written about in over 40 national magazines.
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Photo by Ian Cox. Artwork by Sickboy.
Michael Rushmore ’14 Shares Street Art Expertise at Norwegian Festival
He may only be a Haverford junior, but in the world of international street art, Michael Rushmore ’14 is already a major player. While many of his classmates were prepping for midterms in late September, he was flying to the town of Stavanger on the west coast of Norway with an invitation to speak at Nuart 2012, an 11-year-old art festival that has focused on street art since 2005.
Street art is, simply put, art that appears in public spaces, but the term often refers to unsanctioned or “illegal” art such as graffiti, stencils, pasted posters and guerilla sculptures. It is an artform that Rushmore has feverishly chronicled via vandalog.com, the online street art blog he founded in October 2008, when he was still in high school.
“Martyn Reed, the organizer of Nuart, explained that I was there to represent the digital street art press,” says Rushmore, who has also produced a coffee table book, The Thousands: Painting Outside, Breaking In, and curated his own street art shows in London and New York.
During his three days in Norway, Rushmore led a tour of street art and public advertising in Stavanger with artist Jordan Seiler, debated the influence and experience of street art online with PAPER magazine’s Carlo McCormick and Juxtapoz editor-in-chief Evan Pricco, and gave a panel presentation about street art that only exists digitally, such as virtual performance art that happens inside videogames. He also attended as many of the other panels and talks as he could and enjoyed big communal dinners with the international cast of artists and other writers at the fest.
“The debate with Evan and Carlo was definitely a highlight,” says Rushmore. “It was a casual and honest discussion of a lot of the issues facing street art today, and it helped me to appreciate the transition that art is undergoing right now for the entire arts community as a new generation of digital natives begins making and appreciating art.”
Rushmore, who is majoring in political science and minoring in the history of art, has previously shared his love of street art with the Haverford community by bringing artists Troy Lovegates, Labrona and Gaia to campus to create murals on James House, the student art building. Additionally, at the end of his first year at Haverford, he organized a John B. Hurford ’60 Center For Arts and Humanities-sponsored panel discussion, “Street Communications,” which brought artists and chroniclers of the scene to campus to debate ideas about art and advertising in public space. This recent, memorable trip to Nuart is sure to impact Rushmore’s life at Haverford as well.
“I'm hoping to use some of my experiences at Nuart in my thesis next year, if I decide to write about how people in different cities have developed very different mural programs,” he says. “Nuart is more on the rebellious side of things, since the festival is sponsored in part by the Norwegian Government, but the festival organizers encourage the creation of both legal and illegal street art.” | <urn:uuid:00de3aa2-14d3-44c3-9b4c-3b598f9f1427> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.haverford.edu/news/stories/64241/51 | 2013-05-20T11:47:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97391 | 697 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
KDA announces photo contest winners
The winners have been announced in the first-ever Kansas Department of Agriculture photo contest.
The agency received almost 900 photos from 126 youth, adult, employee and professional photographers in the contest, which concluded July 18. KDA invited individuals to submit photos that displayed all aspects of Kansas agriculture.
The agency allowed the public to vote for their favorite photos by hosting the contest on its Facebook page. A first place winner was selected in each category by the amount of "likes" a photo received. The four category winners advanced to a finals round.
Kate Hagans, a 17-year-old student from Utica, won the top prize with her photo titled "Kansas the Beautiful." It received 573 votes in the finals round to take the top prize.
The winners in each category will receive $100 gift cards and the runner-up participants will receive $50 gift cards. The winning photograph will be featured on KDA's Facebook page.
The winner and runner-up in each category were as follows: Youth, Kate Hagans of Utica (winner) and Dawson Miller of Fulton (runner-up); Adult, Kay Smith of Wetmore (winner) and Lindsay Bowman of Greens Fork, Indiana (runner-up); KDA Employee, Samantha Ramskill of Overbrook (winner) and Annie Patterson of Holton (runner-up); and Professional, Vance Frick of Durham (winner and runner-up).
"A picture is worth a thousand words when it comes time to tell the story of Kansas agriculture. I thank all of the individuals who participated in the contest and shared a piece of agriculture with us," said Kansas Secretary of Agriculture Dale Rodman.
Although the contest is over, Rodman said the photographs would continue to be used to promote Kansas agriculture. The photographs will be used on international trips to show agricultural partners about the various aspects of agriculture in the state. The photos will also be used on KDA's website, in department publications and on social media sites and will be shared with other Kansas agricultural organizations.
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The Insight uses a Macpherson Strut type front suspension withstabilizer bars (0.66 inch). The front suspension geometry has been optimized to exhibit minimal changes in toe and camber throughout its travel, giving the Insight responsive handling, excellent stability and a smooth ride.
This differs from the typical Honda double wishbone design. In this design, the damper body is used as a suspension member, performing the function of an upper control arm. The top of the strut mounts to the body using a bearing so it can turn with the steering knuckle. The elimination of the upper control arm saves weight and also reduces intrusion into the engine compartment.
The system is also very compact-both of the lower arm's inner pickup points are connected to the same reinforced, cast-aluminum mounting.
At the lower end, the strut mounts solidly to the steering knuckle, locating it vertically. The lower end of the knuckle mounts to a lower control arm. On the Insight, the knuckle and lower control arm are aluminum forgings, providing maximum strength but minimizing unsprung weight. Weight is also saved by using a hollow front-struct damper rod. | <urn:uuid:d67aaf71-2d67-4991-a45f-55fd86da8524> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.insightcentral.net/encyclopedia/enfrontsuspension.html | 2013-05-20T11:47:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.892968 | 266 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The African Regent is an integral part of Accra's most prestigious residential community and features exclusive accommodations that offer more than just a good night’s sleep. It is boldly contemporary, yet inspired by elements of traditional African design. The stunning African-themed décor and professional staff make The African Regent as much a place to stay and relax as a prime destination to entertain and socialise. The African Regent is the only first-class hotel close to Accra’s International Airport, major highway and shopping mall. The 111 rooms are designed to inspire, while connecting you with the surrounding environment and ensuring your comfort and convenience.
The African Regent stands right in the pulse of Airport West, Accra’s most luxurious location, with streets weaving closely into other exceptional Accra neighborhoods.
111 guest rooms, including an Executive Club Suite, Penthouse, Presidential Suite, Junior Suites, Executive Rooms, Club Rooms and Standard Rooms. ( private outdoor terraces available with some room types).
The Lounge Bar offers sophisticated cocktails and light bites in a relaxed yet stylish setting. The lounge boasts plush African furniture, paintings and artifacts that depict African symbols. Even the most jaded traveler cannot miss the modern, but African design and style of fixtures, subtly-hued lighting and natural tones that create warmth and intimacy. The mirror adorned Mukyia Restaurant reflects a new and fine city surprise while offering the live kitchen concept, an imaginative continental and African buffet as well as a la carte cuisine. The experience does not stop there. Alfresco dining around the pool during the cooler evenings will also appeal to our guests.
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A local attorney will run in his 980th lifetime marathon next week, which also coincides with his 68th birthday.
Larry Macon currently holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for most marathons run in one year by a man, which, by New Year’s Eve, is 157 for the year.
“(A) marathon maniac is what I am,” said Macon. “The personal achievement. Accomplishing something. Going from beginning to end and actually doing something. Few things in life can you really do that.”
Macon says he began running marathons at the age of 55, and has been pounding the pavement ever since.
“I've never done this many before,” said Macon. “I can do one more, I can do 10 more, I can do 50 more. If you want to do anything badly enough, you can do it.”
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Portland police Sgt. Pete Simpson says the unidentified woman was taken to a hospital Monday for treatment of numerous non-life-threatening injuries.
The police spokesman says 32-year-old Caleb Grotberg was arrested for investigation of several domestic violence felony crimes, including strangulation, fourth-degree assault and second-degree kidnapping. He's due in court Tuesday.
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The Week in iPad Cases: The Ides of July
Welcome to another installment of our weekly iPad-case roundup, where we scour the deepest recesses of the Internet for the latest in the world of protective accessories for the Magical Tablet. As we approach the middle of summer, the iPad 2 has been out in the open for several months, giving case manufacturers the opportunity to stretch their legs and come up with even more unique and innovative designs. It's also let them tweak existing designs to adapt old favorites to the shape and size of Apple’s latest iPad.
Without further ado, then, let’s dive right into this week’s selection,which includes a few specimens from the “entirely new category” alongside some oldies re-imagined for the iPad 2.
Caze: The Zero 8 (iPad 2; $30) is a clear, case for the iPad's backside with the claim to fame that its maximum thickness does not exceed 0.8 millimeters—making it one of the thinnest protective accessories on the market. The Zero 8 comes in a package that also contains a “3M Edge Sticker,” designed to cover the metal edge on cellular data-enabled iPads, a clear protector for the front screen, and a microfiber cleaning cloth.
ClamCase: If you’ve ever yearned to make your iPad look more like a traditional laptop, the ClamCase (iPad 2; $149) was made for you. This updated version of the ClamCase for the original iPad is a hardshell case with a full-size Bluetooth keyboard that sports a rechargeable battery and iPad-optimized function keys. The case's hinge is designed to swivel around by 360 degrees, making it possible for the case to function in four unique viewing modes. The ClamCase is currently available in a matte-black or matte-white finish, with a Star Wars-inspired “Trooper Edition” coming later this summer.
GermanMade: There's little doubt as to where this manufacturer makes its cases—entirely by hand, using environmentally-friendly materials and a socially-conscious business model. The company’s Web-based configuration engine allows you to choose from among a variety of models for iPad and iPad 2, ranging in price from €70 to €130, that feature additional compartments and a a variety of exterior colors.
iSkin: Billed as the “Smart Cover Companion,” the Solo Smart (iPad 2; $50) is a hardshell case that fits on the back of Apple’s tablet and is designed to work with the Apple Smart Cover, going so far as to provide a special locking mechanism that keeps the latter in place more securely than the iPad’s built-in magnets. The case, which is available in a clear-and-color design, also features Microban antimicrobial technology embedded in the case material, helping to prevent the growth of bacteria that cause stains and odors.
The quirkier-looking Vu (iPad 2; $60) is a shell designed to fit around the back of the iPad and is available in black, Bondi blue, and purple. It features a flap on the back that can be pulled out to transform the case into a viewing stand with multiple angles for both landscape and portrait orientation.
Kensington: The KeyFolio Pro (iPad 2; $100) combines a Bluetooth keyboard with a black-polyurethane, folio-style case that doubles as a landscape and portrait viewing stand. According to the company, the keyboard is designed specifically for touch typists (which means no squishy rubber keys) and features a simple, single-button setup. Kensington claims ninety hours of working time and forty-five days of standby, although it's not clear if the keyboard uses standard or rechargeable batteries.
The Protective Folio & Stand (iPad 2; $50) is a combination of a hardshell cover that protects the back of your tablet from dents and scratches, and a slip-on front cover that can protect the iPad's screen or act as a landscape-orientation stand with four different viewing angles. The black Folio & Stand provides full access to the iPad 2’s cameras, buttons, and ports.
The Protective Cover & Stand (iPad 2; $40) is clearly inspired by Apple’s Smart Cover, providing a segmented front that can be used to prop up the iPad for viewing or typing. Unlike its Fruit Company counterpart, however, the Cover & Stand also provides thin but capable protection for the back of the iPad by covering it with a polyurethane shell.
For simpler protection needs, you may want to take a look at the Protective Cover (iPad 2; $20), which, as its name implies, protects the back of your iPad with a thin shell and is available in black, white, or clear. Alternatively, you could consider the BlackBelt (iPad 2; $30). Arguably Kensington's most original case, this rubber bumper wraps around the sides of your tablet to offer protection from minor drops as well as to keep the back or screen of the iPad from touching your desk or other flat surface when you set it down. The BlackBelt is available in a variety of colors, including black, grey, white, blue, pink, purple, red, navy, orange, or green.
ModulR: The ModulR (iPad 2; $40) is, as its name subtly suggests, a modular system. The base of the system is a Smart Cover-compatible back case—available in transparent, tech white, or classic black—that comes with a hand strap. You can then add any of a series of accessories that extends the case's functionality. These include a shoulder strap, a car-headrest strap, a wall mount, a utility mount (perfect for the fridge), and a quick stand. The accessories can be purchased separately for $15 to $30 each, or as part of one of several combination packs.
Rivet: The Leather Folio Case (iPad 2; $80) is handcrafted from high-quality black leather and features a stylish and slim design. The cover is compatible with the iPad 2’s magnetic sleep/wake feature, and the case can be used as a typing platform or a landscape-orientation viewing stand.
Speck: The CandyShell Wrap (iPad 2; $55) has finally been upgraded to be compatible with Apple’s newest tablet. It offers all the convenience of a Smart Cover along with the added protection of a wraparound case. It’s available in a black polycarbonate finish.
Vogel’s: The RingO (iPad 2; $70–$100) is a universal system that can be used to mount your iPad onto or in a variety of surfaces, including walls, kitchen cabinets, and cars—you can even mount it in your bathroom. In addition to various mounts, the system also includes a set of stands for reading or for resting your tablet on a table. As a bonus, the mounting system is also compatible with the original iPad, although a different case is required. | <urn:uuid:4d48ac54-aa3f-44e7-9efb-4b69903abfc9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.macworld.com/article/1161015/ipad_case_roundup_23.html | 2013-05-20T11:55:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929649 | 1,508 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Now, he's 84—and in a ceremony in Paris on Tuesday, the American was finally given back a piece of his late grandfather's memory: France has returned six of his stolen family masterpieces.
The restitution of the works—including paintings by Alessandro Longhi and Sebastiano Ricci —is part of France's ongoing effort to return hundreds of looted artworks that Jewish owners lost during the war that still hang in the Louvre and other museums. The move ends years of struggle for Selldorff, whose claims were validated by the French government last year after years of researching the fates of the works.
"I'm extremely grateful and very moved," said Selldorff, who flew in from Boston for the event at France's Culture Ministry, where the oil paintings were on temporary display. "These paintings were in this fog of war. The restitution... was not easy. It took a long time."
The artworks were stolen or sold under duress some seven decades ago as Jewish industrialist and art collector Richard Neumann—Selldorff's grandfather—and his family fled Nazi-occupied Europe. The collection—whose original size is unknown—was his ticket out, though he sold it for a fraction of its value. The route the artworks took to show up in French museums is unclear, making their way to
"After losing most of his family assets and a good part of his collection to the Nazis in Austria in 1938, he came to Paris for several years and then had to flee again, this time with my grandmother at one point on foot over the Pyrenees, to Spain, and then eventually to Cuba," Selldorff said.
The paintings, meanwhile, stayed behind—all six destined for display in the art gallery Adolf Hitler wanted to build in his hometown of Linz, Austria, according to a catalog for the planned museum.
"I only wish my grandfather was here to be able to be a part of all this, but I am sure he is watching from somewhere upstairs, so that's fine," Selldorff said.
At the end of the war, with Hitler dead and European cities rebuilding, artworks were left "unclaimed" and many thousands that were thought to have been French-owned found their ways into the country's top museums. Many of the 100,000 possessions looted, stolen or appropriated between 1940 and 1944 in France have been returned to Jewish families, but France says that some 2,000 artworks still lie in state institutions.
With a twinkle in his eye and a youthful smile, Selldorff remembered wandering around his grandfather's collection.
"I remember the house (in Vienna) very well. I remember the existence of these dark rooms with these paintings hanging," he said, recalling that his grandfather also opened up the collection to the Austrian public. A remaining link with the art was a catalog left behind by his late mother—a sort of scrapbook with pictures of the paintings.
"So I knew there were some very beautiful paintings in the house," Selldorff said.
"I ,too, hope that some of the art will go on loan to museums and be exhibited so that other people besides our family can appreciate them," he said, adding that he has spoken to some U.S. museums about the possibility of showing the art to the American public.
Overall, Selldorff said it's about being able to pass to his three children and five grandchildren a piece of his grandfather's stolen history.
"His love of art is what I want to pass on," he said. "It's what makes us human."
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Jack Taylor scores 138 points in a single game.
Grinnell College Student Breaks NCAA Record
Jack Taylor of Division III Grinnell College scored 138 points to shatter the all-time college record last night. So how'd he do it? It basically comes down to system. Grinnell, a liberal arts school in Iowa, has an offensive strategy where they try to shoot as many three pointers in a game as possible, while substituting on five players at a time in "hockey lines" to press the opposition and run. Here's how Sports Illustrated described it in 2005: For the past 12 years, the Pioneers have been running a frantic, one-of-a-kind system that's been described as "hockey on hardwood," like "five mice being let out of a shoebox." An invention that's been alternately labeled "one of the finest innovations ever in college basketball" and "a mockery of the game." Taylor scored 138 points on 52-108 shooting (48%), and 27-71 (38%) from three-point range. He didn't have a particularly good shooting game, and he wasn't even all that efficient. He reached 138 points by his sheer volume of shots. He missed more shots than some college teams take in a game..
Kobe's reaction was priceless. From Kevin Ding of the OC Register: "Really? That's crazy. He must've been wearing Mambas, because only Mambas have no conscience to shoot that much."
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Battling strong, gusty winds on Prescott's Antelope Hills Golf Course, where greens were recently plugged and sanded, members of the Payson Men's Golf Association struggled in an interclub meet held Wednesday.
Handicapped by the adverse conditions and an unfamiliarity with the course, the Payson contingent was shut out in its bid to win closest-to-the-pin prize money on the four par-three holes.
Top PMGA honors in flight one low gross competition was taken by John Pauley, who carded an 81. In flight one low action, Frank Szakal (74) edged Troy Neal for first place by a single stroke.
In flight two, Frank Karnes took the low gross crown with an 88. Tom Harris and Ed Flores carded identical scores of 75 and tied for low net honors.
Jack Gibbs' 94 was good enough to win the flight three low gross crown. With a 70, Dean Bulkey took the low net title. T.G. Neely (78) was second.
One week prior to traveling to Antelope Hills, the PMGA had an interclub meet at Verde Santa Fe canceled due to the rain and snow that blanketed northern Arizona. That tournament was rescheduled for Monday. Results were not available at press time.
In an individual low net by flight tournament played April 14 at Payson Golf Course, Ted Walls won the A flight championship with a 66. Trailing in the closely knit field were Harvey Baker (67), Lee Kirtley (68) and Skip Herring (69).
In B flight, Jack Inman outdueled Ed West and Don Back for the title. Inman carded a 64, while West and Back each had 67s. West was declared the runner-up on a score card play.
In another playoff, Ross Robertson took the bronze in C flight over fourth-place finisher Don Nicholas. Both turned in 74s. Steve Piller (72) was second and Richard Hauser (70) first.
The closest-to-the-pin competition saw Jack Gibbs pocket $10 in prize money after finishing only 1 foot, 5 inches away on hole eight. On hole five, Bob Drummond was closest with an effort that left him only 2 feet, 9 inches short.
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View Full Version : Fear the Open Desert
08-07-2008, 05:59 PM
Any ideas to make a group of adventurers fear the open desert in a Dark Sun campaign, without just killing them outright?
I'm not sure if there are rules out there for heatstroke or sandstorm damage... but any ideas to make them really think twice before heading into the open desert would be awesome.
08-07-2008, 06:28 PM
Make heat exhaustion and exposure do CON ability damage. Not a lot. Not permanent once they have cool water and a chance to escape the heat. But even a little will terrify them. And if they get to fight "an easy battle" with everyone being down somewhere between 4 and 8 points of constitution, all the better.
08-08-2008, 09:42 AM
I don't know if you have access to any of the Dark Sun campaign materials, but there was a lot of stuff written about what happens to characters in the wastes.
First off, in high temperatures, armor becomes a real burden and characters wearing armor fatigue (aka take ability damage, etc) much more quickly than unarmored characters, not only because of the extra weight but because the material traps heat and dehydrates the wearer faster. Such characters have two choices: 1) continue to wear the armor at increased risk which might end up making them useless when they are attacked anyway, or 2) ditch the armor and be more vulnerable to nasties that want to make a meal out of you.
Then you've got heat stroke, sun burn, dehydration, sink holes, bad footing, sand storms with no shelter to seek, wind burn. There's a real danger of getting lost as you have no kinds of consistent landmarks (except the sun or stars) by which to judge your location, and the winds will keep you from locating your own tracks to retrace you steps. Not to mention, you can't keep things clean as sand gets everywhere and is nearly impossible to be rid of.
One thing that most people forget about is that open desert isn't just hot. At night, after the heat dissipates, the desert can get extremely cold as well. Characters who don't have proper bedding to keep them warm will probably get poor quality sleep (and thus may recover fewer hit points or perhaps none at all).
There's also the issue of eating. Except for what materials you bring with you, you generally have no wood to burn to build fires or torches which means that any food you acquire will have to be consumed raw (uncooked Thri-kreen meat...yuck). This can cause a host of its own problems (digestive and otherwise). You can't boil water to purify it and you can't cauterize wounds to prevent infection.
Just some basic thoughts to keep in mind. I think the 3.X DMG goes into temperature extremes and dehydration, but most of the rest requires a little more research to get mechanics. Slow ability damage is a good one though, especially Dex and Con as those are really important to any character, regardless of class.
08-08-2008, 09:53 AM
Crack open Sandstorm (the accessory).
Failing that - the desert has lots of possibilities. If you want to generate fear, toss out some rumors of water-sucking sand (dust) devils, or fey that lure weary travelers with mirages. Throw in a sandstorm while the PCs are still in a safe place, and let them watch as the locals go running for cover.
Water's a big issue in any deset, but a hot desert makes it that much more important. Make sure the PCs are keenly aware of how hard it is to carry lots of water. Also, during the daylight, hourly subdual damage is a good way to simulate the impact of heat. They might be able to recover during the day if they stop moving, drink water, and find shade. Otherwise, there's no respite until darkness falls (which is when the other creatures of the desert come lurking).
In flat desert, getting lost can be an issue. This is scarier when the PCs know exactly how long their provisions will last, and watch that number slowly come up.
08-08-2008, 10:53 AM
Al-Qadim also had some recommendations, players will get penalties depending on which Armor they are using. In a "Dune" type also movement will be hindered.
How about their "Mounts", I assume being native to Dark-Sun they will be somehow addapted. But the PCs may have to kill them and drink their blood if they plan to stay alive.
All this assumes they get lost.
08-08-2008, 12:25 PM
I still have my books for Al-Qadim/Arabian Adventures and Emirates of Ylaruam, so I'll have to take a look and see what they have to say on desert environs. I wish I still had my Dark Sun stuff, or I'd look it up from there too.
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Defense expenditures are a significant cost for most large countries around the world. In 2011, the U.S. defense budget is estimated to be a whopping $895 billion. Some nations have spent much less on defense than other industrialized countries, relatively speaking. Japan, for instance, spent $51.81 billion in 2009. This low defense spending has historically served them well, as more money was available to fund productive projects enabling the Japanese to prosper since World War II. However, the risk of decreased defense spending cannot be overstated. Freedom, liberty, democracy and human rights are protected by military might.
Defense spending is not productive economically. Money spent on fighter jets and bullets is not available for housing and food for the needy. So, aside from the diplomatic and moral issues surrounding an act of war, leaders should consider how much they could afford to spend in an actual military operation before jumping into it.
During the past 10 years, U.S. defense expenditures coupled with separate appropriations for two wars have contributed greatly to the national deficit, as well as to cutbacks in social programs and infrastructure projects. While the generals spend our tax dollars, people are starving and our bridges crumble from neglect.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are petrified about being labeled “weak on defense” and continue to vote for new defense appropriations. Unfortunately, the oversight of these expenditures is such that overruns and padded invoices have become a serious drain. Defense, without a doubt, is an area of the budget that needs to be carefully reassessed. Eliminating waste, not important weapons systems, could contribute greatly to reducing deficits down the road.
The U.S. is at a crossroads. Our government must decide whether it will continue to intervene with human and monetary assets in every new conflict even if it stretches our financial capabilities. Other large military nations know that America always responds, and so it is not necessary for them to contribute to military actions. Ironically, these same countries often make it very difficult for us to obtain global support as we try to keep the peace. To make matters worse, intervention too often morphs into a nation building that can easily span a decade or longer and involve vastly greater resources.
And yet, should Americans turn a blind eye towards genocide and human rights violations as we did during WW II, in the Balkans and in a number of places in Asia and Africa over the years? It is a gargantuan moral dilemma. Apparently, other members of the global community have a much higher tolerance for egregious social behavior than America.
How should the U.S. move forward in Iraq and Afghanistan? These situations are very much alike in some regards and different in other ways. In both situations, the U.S. is mistakenly committed to building de novo democracies. It does not take a foreign relations expert to see that neither country will ever become a true democracy. Neither country has an electorate or an electoral system that is capable of selecting leaders fairly. Both countries are plagued by age-old internal strife, be it religious and/or tribal in nature.
Former Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq for many years and maintained order and a semblance of peace with an iron hand and by brutalizing his adversaries. It is doubtful that order will prevail in this country without the emergence of another strong despotic leader. Afghanistan consists of numerous tribes and the fanatically religious Taliban; both are major impediments to centralized democratic rule.
The main reason why neither of these countries has fallen into total civil chaos to this point is the presence of U.S. forces. If we stay and spend more money and lives, the violence can be controlled. However, the moment we withdraw, anarchy will prevail. Two presidents have been sucked into these lose-lose imbroglios. They are follies that will be derided by historians for decades to come. The lives and money spent have reached criminal proportions.
President Barack Obama should immediately cease all hostilities and bring our brave soldiers home. It is unacceptable that one more American dies in the region. Our presence is a ruse and the expectations foisted upon us are fraudulent. There will be no peace in these violent places, ever. National security excuses for continued occupation no longer have any basis.
The two million soldiers and reservists who are sacrificing for the rest of America are all volunteers, generally from poor backgrounds. Being in combat for so long is ruining their lives while the rest of us go about our daily routines. Additionally, we continue to treat veterans just as horribly as we always have in this country. Unemployment and suicide are rampant among veterans.
Please, Mr. President, end these terrible conflicts now.
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FilmOn.com, Inc. Issues Response Regarding New York Southern District Court's Ruling on CBS Broadcasting, Inc., et al v. FilmOn.com, Inc., Temporary Restraining Order
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- FilmOn.com Inc. CEO and Chairman, Alki David today issued the following statement regarding the ruling made by the New York Southern District Court, which issued a temporary restraining order, in effect pending the court's decision on if it will issue a preliminary injunction.
"We respect the Court's decision in this matter and have temporarily ceased retransmission of free network television on FilmOn. In the few weeks FilmOn provided free access to basic television on consumers' mobile devices, it received more than 30 million individual users. We also garnered dozens of positive reviews about our free service's quality and ease of use. We have, in essence, shown full proof of concept of the FilmOn delivery system—proving that millions of viewers will watch our superior television service online, all with commercials, adding millions of extra impressions that enhance network's value to its viewers and advertisers."
"FilmOn has succeeded in securing partnerships with several independent broadcast channels to be able to keep a compelling live offering online in the near future. Coupled with our own library of content and that of our partners, FilmOn will remain open for business."
We do expect to bring the major networks back to our lineup in the near future, all in a legitimate and collaborative business model. We have already begun very positive discussions with TV networks affiliates and other content owners to provide our delivery service and measurement analytics to stream their live content online.
Scott Zarin , Zarin & Associates P.C., legal counsel for FilmOn added:
"In addressing FilmOn's argument that it is exempt from copyright infringement liability as a cable system, the court indicated that it was not convinced -- on the facts currently known to it -- which this is the case. Although the court issued a Temporary Restraining Order, it is providing FilmOn with an opportunity to elaborate upon its 'cable system' argument more thoroughly in a hearing on the Networks' request for a preliminary injunction.
"FilmOn will be drafting papers in opposition to the Networks' motion for a preliminary injunction in the coming weeks, with which it expects to submit to the court the opinion of an expert on FilmOn's technology in order to demonstrate that FilmOn is indeed a cable system. If FilmOn successfully opposes the Networks' motion for a preliminary injunction, the court's Temporary Restraining Order -- which by law can only remain in effect for a short duration -- will be dissolved."
ABOUT FilmOn.com Inc.
FilmOn.com Inc was founded in March 2009 by FilmOn.com Plc, a Berlin-listed company (2F0A-BER) and is operated independently by a dedicated U.S. management team with offices in Los Angeles and London. Battlecam.com (http://www.Battlecam.com),is the 24 x 7 live reality community TV channel of FilmOn.com
ABOUT Alki David
Having starred in several films and television series, such as THE BANK JOB and THE GRID, Alki David is also listed as the 45th richest man in the United Kingdom by Times Magazine's " Rich List ." He is a serial internet entrepreneur and shipping magnate.
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let's go on a little further into how the bookmaker operate
and a point or two about them.
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you know that the world's largest online bookmaker is a
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years following this quest to find betting websites that
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This sites may have
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They know about all these facts.
tipsters either make small profits or go on a long losing
streaks where you can go bankrupt down to your pants before they go back on
short winning streak.
PROBLEM #2 - Paid betting
services either have tipsters that they got from free
betting forums mentioned above...
...which is again no guarantee to
make you profit just because last season they made a yield
services are just scam sites owned by some amateur
punters trying to get easy money from naive people that
trust such services to really have fixed games info.
sites are all CRAP!
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Just like Konstantin said....download the game and start playing already!!!!
We can use some new players for pvp and coop sieges. This game rocks
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Interesting topic. It got derailed, but it’s still an interesting topic.
The term “universe from nothing” is true. It is also misleading.
The underlying cause(s) that gave rise to our universe were there before our universe came into existence, and they are still there (otherwise our universe would cease to exist).
The thing is, the underlying causes are not our universe, at least not as we understand it. They are something so alien and tenuous as to still have the power to be referred to as “mysterious”.
Space itself is one mysterious aspect of our universe. The universe as we understand it could not exist without it, whatever it is.
Matter is bubbling into existence in space as space continues to expand. This too is wholly mysterious at the present time.
Where things get confusing is in the language. Yes, there is something out there and all around us that has some causal relationship to our universe, but that something is something other. It is not of our universe. It’s all around us. It is connected to our universe. It is the underlying cause, of which we are the effect. But it is not us. It is other, with laws and properties that just plain don’t work the same as in our neck of the woods.
Let’s say that our universe is the foam you get from aerating water, and that aerated foam-water existed only here. THAT is the type of thing scientists are referring to when they say “something from nothing”. The sentient foam-water (us) doesn’t realise that it doesn’t really exist, that it is the temporary byproduct of turbulence. The foam-creatures living in the foam have their own little universe-within-a-universe, but that universe is not simply the air or the water. It is a made thing, from combining the two, and as it is neither air nor water, but the combination of the two under special circumstances, it is therefore a condition rather than a thing, and that condition, which is us, is something other in terms of water and air. | <urn:uuid:890581a1-f397-4702-b4c4-14b944e92e57> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8982/viewthread/16469/P120 | 2013-05-20T12:01:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97621 | 454 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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I'm interested in coding an image gallery. The features I haven't really decided yet, if you should be able to have like a calendar and put in pictures on dates(and ppl can register on your site and have their own "imagediary"), or have albums you put pictures in(either ppl can register and do the same, or.. it's an imagegallery just for the admin, for instance to display their artwork, or w.e).
But whatever. My question is, how can I start this project, to get a good core, and also how to create a nice permission system that allows me to let the admin decide first of all if users should be able to register and such. And then also have the users decide their permissions on their album/diary. For instance:
- Who can view your album
- Who can post comments on images
- Who can view your profile presentation / profile picture / contact information / etc...
- Who can post comments on your profile
- Who can send private message
How would I achieve this in the best way?
If it's any useful information, I'm planning on using this as a MySQL based gallery.
Thanks in advance
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Complacency Bites Back!
Weʼve been cloth diapering our son for the majority of his little life and itʼs hard to believe that his first birthday has come and gone! Over the past few months, one of the reasons that cloth diapering has become so easy for us it that my son has become as regular as clock work when it comes to number twos. I can be sure that “it” will happen when he wakes up from his naps and at no other time. Itʼs really very nice to know that! But it has made us very complacent. I can remember traveling with multiple extra diapers in his newborn days, because you were just never sure when the bomb might drop! But now, I rarely even bring one spare, unless weʼre going to be gone for longer periods of time. We just donʼt really change him when weʼre out, because he doesn't need it if he gets a clean diaper before we leave and weʼll be home in an hour or two.
However, this policy was our undoing recently! We had gone to a friendʼs house for dinner and had only been there maybe fifteen minutes when I saw THAT face. The little grimace. The red cheeks. And I knew we were in trouble! Of course there were no spare diapers! So whatʼs a mama to do?? I decided that desperate times call for desperate measures and I was just going to have to dump it out in the toilet and put the diaper back on him. It had been such a short time that heʼd been wearing it; surely it wasn't that wet yet! Well, the first part worked; the little gift plopped out neatly, leaving very little mark on the suede cloth (love those bumgenius 4.0s!). But to my dismay, it was completely soaked!
bumgenius 4.0! Yes!! The only downside, that was really unavoidable, was having to insert my forearm into the pocket to stuff it, which is quite a different experience from when it was clean and dry! But we made it through. Mama went out and had a glass of chardonnay and didn't resent anyone. Baby felt clean(ish) and played happily through dinner. Daddy admired Mamaʼs ingenuity, which made Mama happy. And when Baby pooped again a few hours later, we called it a night and went home. :)
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I did miss the delivery by an hour but I was able to go and pick it up almost immediately.
Concordextra - Brilliant. I've made quite a few purchases from them, both direct from their website and via their ebay store and have never been let down. My parcels have always arrived intact, carefully packaged and on time. They offer a wide range of items such as toiletries, household cleaners, pet food etc, to stationary and even such things as fishing accessories all at really good prices. I really can't praise this company enough. They get my complete 'seal of approval'. Give them a try, I really believe that you will not be disappointed.
Thank you. Received my order the next day!! Great service and extremely good value. The face cream is the best I have ever found. At 99p thats not bad!!!! First got it in Lidl and couldn't find it anywhere after they did it as a "one off". Other great offers too. Great company.
I was looking for Prestone Bugwash Windscreen wash which is spot on in the warmer months for getting rid of that fly splat on the windscreen! Normally retails for over £6.00 in a well known car parts store in the UK but Concord were selling it for a lot less and next day delivery too, so I saved a packet on this product, thanks for a easy transaction and a speedy turnaround on my order.
i usually call in local store but decided to order dog food online + collect from store to ensure availability of large quantity. everything arrived within few days all correct. only gripe is that i am unable to view order history etc online and as i paid with paypal i didn't receive an order ref number or confirmation of items ordered - something about it being classed as a fast track order rather than one by someone with an account i was told?? had to phone helpline to have my order ref to go + collect. improvements definitely to be made to the online account system i think!!
My order was reduced presumably due to lack of availability, but nobody bothered to inform me. The goods were received quickly and in good order, and a refund issued - so no complaints there. But you might have had the courtesy to tell me.
I have been a Concorde Extra user since moving to Wales 6 years ago, the staff in the local shop are very friendly and helpful. It's a pity the on-line ordering service isn't so good, because when I placed my order I heard nothing from them, no confirmation of my order. It just appears to go to a black hole and to top it the delivery to my local store for collection was painfully slow. I will continue to support my store but will think twice about on-line orders with them.
5 Days after placing my order 1/2 items ordered were refunded via paypal with no explanations after 10 days of no goods arriving I phoned to be told that the items had been lost.
So 10 days after original order I have had nothing
Firstly I had next day delivery on my order and it arrived 3-4 days later, when it did arrive the sweets I had ordered the tub they were in had split so everything was covered in sugar. But the worst part is I emailed customer support to inform then of this and 7 days later I am still waiting for a reply. Maybe 3 stars is too generous??
Have removed an extra star from my review just for the fact they are making me out to be a liar saying they responded to my complaint when they didn't. The fact that they respond to my review 4 months after I initially posted it says it all about their customer support or lack of!
I ordered Hydro 5 razor blades @£3.99, payment was accepted, emailed to confirm item dispatched. So far so good. then another email to say not enough stock so has to cancel order. Item now £4.99 but not in stock. Contacted customer service and told that there was was not enough stock but nothing about being informed that dispatch had been confirmed. To rub salt in the wounds they want a customer review, well they have got it.
I would recomend you avoid at all cost.
5 stars for delivery but only 2 overall
Bulk discount not taken off at checkout and paypal link at end of order comformation disconnected.
Prices of goods are competitive so may well use again.
Great value for the Brut Deodorants i buy. They sell all different Fragrances from brut at a good price. I buy these every month and recieve them 3 to 4 days laters depending on the day i order. I will always use this site to buy these products. I i could say a negative it would be the cost of the postage and packaging but this wont put me off from buying these products in the future
I love Vesta ready meals. I loved them when I was kid. I still love them 30 years on. Concordextra sold me loads of Vesta. Best price I could find amd fast free delivery. I love Coccordextra.And they're lovely friendly Welsh people in the town of my birth.
we have been looking for this prduct for months and months just seemed to have vanished into thin air. Then i saw it on your web site, ok i had to buy 16 bottles of it as i didnt nat to run ou ah! Thank you so much for the fast delivery too,i am so happy i can get the kicthen clean in a few minutes its bruilliant stuff.
i always use the loreal velvet perm but some major shops and super stores dont stock it any more i came across your web site and u had them in stock i orderd 2 they came with in 48hrs very pleased with the service will defo be using u again and will reccomend u to my friends to thank u very much
bought several items of which one was missing - no reason given - no refund given until i started chasing them up. And when I did chase them up they said the items out of stock - yet they were still selling them on their website?! So I ordered again and what do you know .... delivered 2 days later. Out of stock? I dont think so....non existent customer service? Sounds more like it!
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The New York Times publishes a piece that claims Apple has been a pioneer in developing ways to sidestep taxes.
The New York Times is once again putting Apple under the microscope, with a new, in-depth report about the tactics the company uses to cut its global tax bill by billions of dollars every year.
Almost every major corporation tries to minimize its taxes. Apple serves as a window on how technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age and ill-suited to today’s digital economy.
The report claims Apple has been a pioneer in developing ways to sidestep taxes and that companies seeking to do the same have used its methods as templates.
Apple, for instance, was among the first tech companies to designate overseas salespeople in high-tax countries in a manner that allowed them to sell on behalf of low-tax subsidiaries on other continents, sidestepping income taxes, according to former executives. Apple was a pioneer of an accounting technique known as the “Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich,” which reduces taxes by routing profits through Irish subsidiaries and the Netherlands and then to the Caribbean. Today, that tactic is used by hundreds of other corporations — some of which directly imitated Apple’s methods, say accountants at those companies.
Citing government and corporate data, is that tech companies — including Apple, Google, Yahoo, and Dell — are among the least taxed, paying worldwide cash taxes in the last two years that were a third less than those paid by other companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index.
Apple provided the Times with a statement that says, among other things, that the company “has conducted all of its business with the highest of ethical standards, complying with applicable laws and accounting rules,” that the company is “incredibly proud of all of Apple’s contributions,” and that Apple “pays an enormous amount of taxes, which help our local, state and federal governments.” | <urn:uuid:74c182b2-7a77-470c-8232-ffa8367f2366> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vadvert.co.uk/technology/22655-apple-has-been-pioneer-in-developing-ways-on-taxes.html | 2013-05-20T12:01:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970936 | 421 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Is ther a posting that explains how the new forums are supposed to work? When I go to the recent topics I see some things at the top that appear to be older than some farther down. I also see some that say 2 new posts or what ever number and I look and I have seen all of the posts. So what is that supposed to mean?
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Update: Coring Fire Chief John Tighe said one of the men killed in the Corning helicopter crash is an employee out of NYSEG's office in Horseheads. The pilot was a man from Eugene, Oregon, who was working for a contractor out of Gettysburg, Pa.
Citing nearly a half-dozen eye witness accounts, Tighe said the helicopter became entangled in power lines near the end of Corning Boulevard. When crews arrived on scene, the helicopter was fully engulfed in flames.
Corning, NY (WBNG Binghamton) A helicopter crash in Corning kills two passengers near a high school football field.
The crash happened earlier this afternoon near the East Corning High School football field.
According to our media partner WENY-TV, investigators have not yet released the names of the two men pending family notification.
In a statement, Clay Ellis of NSYSEG said the company was using the helicopter to inspect power lines. He added that NYSEG doesn't own the helicopter; it was being used through a contracted service.
"NYSEG is deeply saddened by this tragic accident. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families, friends and co-workers of the two men who were killed in today’s crash," said Ellis in a statement.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the crash.
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2012-08-08 by System Administrator
With it's diversity of beautiful scenery and enlightneing culture Thailand is rapidly becoming the world's most sought after holiday destination. Each year millions arrive in search of that piece of paradise that Thailand is renowned for. Every location in Thailand is very different with it's way of life, culture and food to name a few so even though some islands may look the same they all offer a completely diferent experience. Some spend as long as a year traveling round Thailand without ever seeing it all as they slowly fall in love with each destination along the way. Through our blog we have highlighted some of the main destinations in Thailand with what to expect and explore so you can plan your time in the land of smiles effectively.
An idyllic island with a booming tourist industry that caters to everyone’s budget and tastes, Koh Samui, is a top choice for holidaymakers looking for a real Thai island experience, with all modern conveniences. Boasting lush palm fringes coastlines with white sandy beaches and crystal clear waters
Koh Phi Phi is probably Thailand’s most famous island. The fusion of limestone cliffs, pristine beaches and engaging clear blue waters makes the island a joy to behold. The island certainly has had it’s highs and lows over the years and none lower than when the tragic Tsunami hit the island in 2004. Many lives and structural damage was inflicted on the island.
For many years Koh Lanta was Thailand’s best kept secret. Its unspoiled beaches were only visited by daring backpackers in search of paradise. Whilst Koh Lanta Thailand still remains largely unspoiled a rapid development of the island has seen a change from the once backpackers haven to a popular tourist destination.
If you are in the pursuit of Paradise then you should look no further than Koh Lipe Thailand. It’s pearl white beaches, topaz blue seas and rainforest jungle lie majestically in the south of Thailand. Koh Lipe comes with a tranquil ambience and a slow pace of life is guaranteed.
Thailand is renowned all over the world for it’s beautiful Islands and Koh Chang Thailand is certainly one of it’s best. Nestled away in the east of Thailand Lies the stunning island of Koh Chang. Expect spectacular white sand beaches and vivid blue water a plenty with tropical palm trees covering it’s coastline.
Phuket has long been admired as the pearl of the Andaman sea and with it’s crystal white sands and tropical palm trees draped around the islands stunning coastline it doesn't take a genius see why. Long gone are the days where this beautiful island relied on it’s rubber trade and tourism is growing at a frightening pace with a staggering number of visitors lining Phuket’s shores every year. | <urn:uuid:0bda1f01-a06e-4ca4-9b12-e7452781360b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.welovekohsamet.com/blog/view/other-destinations-in-thailand/ | 2013-05-20T12:01:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928608 | 580 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Dental disease is a problem for cats of all ages, especially older ones, and ven lead to much greater health problems than a cavity to fill here and there.More >>
Outfitting a house for a new cat isn't nearly as complicated as it may seem. Just a little advance thought will help make the newcomer feel at home and welcome in strange new surroundings.
Every cat household needs the following:
Litter box and litter. The litter box, or pan, should be shallow enough for the cat to jump into easily, but the sides should be high enough to contain scattered litter as the cat scratches in it. Commercially sold plastic litter boxes are excellent. Some have high-domed lids on them to keep flung litter from spreading throughout the house.
You probably won't have to worry about training your cat to use the litter box, but you will need to show your cat where to find it. Cats are fastidious and have a keen sense of smell. It is important to clean the pan daily.
Never place a litter box close to where the cat is fed, because cats believe these two duties are quite separate, and they will choose to do one or the other elsewhere. Many people put the litter box in the bathroom, away from high-traffic areas.
Cat dishes. Each cat should have his or her own food and water dishes. These must be shallow; cats like to keep their faces and whiskers clean while they eat.
Grooming tools. Although cats groom themselves, they generally love to be brushed and combed. Long-haired cats must be brushed daily to prevent their hair from matting. Even short-haired cats enjoy the attention and the stimulation of being personally attended to. Use a daily brushing ritual to keep an eye on your cat's overall health and on skin and coat conditions. Some rubber brushes have special teeth that dig down and remove loose dander and dead skin cells. Metal, fine-toothed combs are designed to extract fleas from the coat.
Nail clippers. You also can use human-nail clippers. Read our tips for trimming your cat's claws (see link below) and, if you have trouble convincing your companion to cooperate, ask your veterinarian or groomer for additional advice or a demonstration.
A scratching post. Cats can be easily trained to scratch on a scratching post instead of the sofa arm or mahogany table leg. The scratching post should be untippable and covered in sisal rope or the webbed reverse side of carpet (a fireplace log is also a good alternative). Do not cover the post with the same kind of fabric that you are trying to protect in your home—upholstery or carpeting. That will only confuse your cat.
An inviting bed. Cats will sleep where they want to, which is usually with you. If you do not want your cat in bed with you at night, you must provide a more appealing option, such as a soft pillow or an inviting old comforter. Anything soft and warm, especially if it has your scent on it, can attract your cat. But let your cat discover it; a cat who is forced to lie down on a restricted spot will summarily reject that spot. And consider rethinking your policy against animals in bed. A purring companion at your feet is a better sleeping aid than anything you can find in a drugstore.
Toys. Many common household items make great cat toys. Plastic rings from milk jugs and Ping-Pong balls are fun to chase. You can make a "mouse house" by cutting a hole in the bottom and the side of a paper bag; flick a wad of paper inside the bag and watch your cat ingeniously fish it out.
Avoid string, ribbon, or rolls of yarn. Cats' barbed tongues make it difficult for them to spit anything out once they begin to swallow it. Besides the potential for choking, string can cause serious problems if ingested.
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These games teach valuable skills and have a high fun and educational rating.
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Your child improves creative development by watching a video singing about the way plants grow.
Your child gains self-esteem and learns about the benefits of having self-confidence by listening to this song performed by will.i.am and the Sesame Street characters.
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The Woman Who Discovered Printing T.H. Barrett
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This beguiling book asks a set of unusual and fascinating questions - why is early Chinese printing so little acknowledged, despite anticipating Gutenberg by centuries? Why are the religious elements of all early printing overlooked? And why did printing in China not have the immediate obvious impact it did in Europe?T. H. Barrett, a leading scholar of medieval China, brings us the answers through the intriguing story of Empress Wu (AD 625-705) and the revolution in printing that occurred during her rule. Linking Asian and European history with substantial new research into Chinese sources, Barrett identifies methods of transmitting texts before printing and explains the historical context of seventh-century China. He explores the dynastic reasons behind Empress Wu's specific interest in printing and the motivating role of her private religious beliefs. He also deduces from eighth- and ninth-century Chinese records an explanation for the lesser impact of the introduction of printing in China than in Europe. As Renaissance Europe was later astonished to learn of China's achievement, so today's reader will be fascinated by this engaging perspective on the history of printing and the technological superiority of Empress Wu's China.
T. H. Barrett is professor of East Asian History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Among his books are Taoism Under the T'ang; Li Ao: Buddhist, Taoist or Neo-Confucian? and, with Peter Hobson, Poems of Hanshan. He lives in Cambridgeshire, England.
'... fascinating and makes us gasp at the early Chinese civilisation for both their progressive thinking and their cruelty. We in the West need to look with fresh eyes at the world social history and thankfully Yale University Press is at the forefront of this.' Bill Spence, Yorkshire Gazette and Herald
'The real thrust of his [Barrett's] beautifully compact but formidably well-researched book lies in its thoughtful investigation of Wu and her milieu. Indeed so literate is The Woman Who Discovered Printing that it belongs immediatley to that fine tradition of English writing about Chinese initiated by Arthur Waley.' Justin Wintle, The Independent | <urn:uuid:553b25dd-433f-405e-a276-6bb553b405c2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISBN13=0300127286 | 2013-05-20T12:24:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927184 | 483 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
PLATTSBURGH — In today's fast-paced, fast-food-dominated society, it's difficult to sit down and actually put some thought into healthy living.It's even more difficult to do it while walking around.That's what happened last week at the Plattsburgh High School Wellness Fair, held to raise students' awareness about all aspects of healthy living.Local organizations and businesses attended the event, which was open to all the High School's students, as well as School Board and Health Education Committee members."This is the first Wellness Fair we've had in 15 years," said Kim Quinn, health education coordinator and teacher for the district.Quinn, who was the main force behind organizing the event, said that before the event could take place, certain steps had to be taken through the Tobacco Policy Compliance Initiative."They sent out a survey, which helped gauge students' perceptions of smoking and also inspected the campus. They looked at things like how many cigarette butts were around, as well as anti-smoking signage."Quinn said the inspection was part of a process to ensure that the school was worthy of holding the fair. Once the agency gave the school a favorable report, planning for the event gained steam.More than 15 agencies had individual tables at the Wellness Fair, each with a representative on hand to offer help and answer questions.
One of the more popular stations was a quick kick-boxing lesson offered by Plattsburgh's Villari Studio of Self Defense."This is one of the best workouts you can get," said Leisa Boise, co-owner of the studio. "People sometimes come in very mild and meek and end up leaving with a lot of confidence. We get people ranging from experts to people who have never done this before."The PHS Martial Arts Program demonstration also got a lot of attention. The program was started in November 2006 by Plattsburgh State Health Educator Jeremy Blowers, who was able to retain six students in the program."The program has helped me learn a lot about respect and self-esteem," said Emily Burdo, PHS student and program member. "It's really helped me in my everyday life."Classmate Katrina Ducharme added that her involvement in the program helped dispel the mystique that martial arts is about fighting and hurting people."I think I'd like to pursue more martial-arts training," she said. "I came in with no real experience, aside from gymnastics, and I've really learned a lot, thanks to this program."Because of the professionalism of all the organizations involved and the interest of the students, Quinn felt the Wellness Fair was a success.Each student was provided with a gift bag containing healthy snacks and a mood pencil. The bag provided them with the chance to pick up and carry information from the display tables."I really hope the kids can take something away from this," Quinn said, adding that she hoped this was not a flash-in-the-pan experience.
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SARASOTA, Fla. -- As encouraging as the Pirates' spring pitching has been -- their allowance of 5.2 runs per exhibition is among the Grapefruit League's lowest -- club officials are also enthused by four arms on the back burner.
Jeff Karstens is not as far back as the other three, as he completes rehabbing from biceps tendinitis. He is due to throw a bullpen session on Monday, after which pitching coach Ray Searage will look for a spot for his preseason debut.
Charlie Morton is set to throw 20 pitches of batting practice on Monday, the first time he will have faced hitters since May 29, when he was shut down and given a June 10 appointment for Tommy John surgery.
Left-hander Francisco Liriano (fractured right arm) also continues to make gradual progress in his limited throwing program.
Then there is Jose Contreras, who is squirreled away for midseason bullpen help and is another Tommy John surgery patient whose recovery is actually ahead of Morton's.
"This will be good for Charlie," Pittsburgh GM Neal Huntington said of the righty's upcoming BP session. "He's anxious to compete with someone beyond himself.
"Liriano is about where we expected him to be. With that big heavy cast he had on for a long time, there was more atrophy in the right arm than we anticipated, but he remains on schedule, and is champing at the bit to begin competing."
Despite the fact Karstens will miss about three weeks of exhibition play, Huntington still considers him "on track" to be a part of the season-opening rotation.
Stiff competition for three vacant bullpen spots
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Most Major League clubs began this Spring Training with the Classic concern that it would be too long.
For Pirates manager Clint Hurdle, it may not be long enough. He may need more time for some relievers to pitch themselves out of contention for the three vacant seats in the bullpen.
There was no give on Sunday, either here against the Orioles or in Fort Myers against the Twins. Ten relievers combined to pitch 12 innings in the two wins, allowing five hits and one earned run -- and striking out 14.
Four bullpen spots belong to closer Jason Grilli, Jared Hughes, lefty Tony Watson and Mark Melancon, who pitched a perfect inning in the 5-2 win over the Orioles and has allowed one run in five appearances.
Melancon wasn't alone in padding his resume:
• Ryan Reid, a 27-year-old non-roster righty, earned the save against the O's by striking out the side and has given up one hit in four outings.
• Hunter Strickland struck out two in an inning that stretched his scoreless spring to four appearances.
• Justin Wilson also pitched a scoreless inning to lower his ERA to 1.29 in seven innings.
• Mike Zagurski picked up two more strikeouts in a shutout inning against Minnesota and has fanned seven of the last eight men he faced.
Those last two are left-handers, vying with Kris Johnson for one of the open spots the Bucs would like for a southpaw to occupy.
"That would be the ideal," said Pirates general manager Neal Huntington, who said other teams have not called about the Bucs' apparent surplus of arms -- yet.
"Teams are still at the stage where they are trying to get a read on what they have," Huntington said. "Of course, you want to have a surplus, guys who can step in in case of injury or sub-performances."
• Hurdle and his coaches, with some front office input, will brainstorm following Monday's game against the Orioles in McKechnie Field about the initial camp cuts. The reassignments will not be announced, however, earlier than Wednesday -- the day Minor League exhibition games begin.
• Brandon Inge had a frustrating debut on the field against the Twins. He played third base, without handling a single chance in his five innings, and went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts.
"The question is Inge's bat. Can he do enough to help out offensively?" said Huntington, who is satisfied with the veteran's ability to handle the glove at numerous positions.
• Jose Tabata took the team lead by driving in his sixth run in the win over the Orioles. Spring Training or not, a significant step given that his lack of run production (a total of 72 RBIs in 1,072 Major League at-bats) has been a big concern.
"I called him a big chicken, because he threw a 3-and-0 slider to Adrian Gonzalez. Three-and-oh and you do that? Come on!" -- Gerrit Cole, on what he told Pirates teammate -- and Team Canada pitcher -- Chris Leroux following his triumphant start Saturday against Mexico in the World Baseball Classic
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Every Meal & WOD! What started as a diary of everything I ate has turned into a log of CrossFit and Tai Chi.
The CrossFit box I go to is called CrossFit London (The New Blackboard Gym).
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Karen Huff Klein is a 69-year-old widow who works as a bus monitor in a New York suburb called, Greece, for a yearly salary of $15,000. Karen can’t afford to retire, as a widowed senior citizen she relies on her paycheck.
Yesterday the interwebs went wild with a video that captured Karen’s daily struggle. The 10 minute horror show is like staring into the abyss of humanity. Why? Because a group of middle students bully, harass and insult the poor woman to tears. The little jerks called her: fat, stupid, poor, ugly and all the other typical cruel things adolescents say when they want to destroy someone’s confidence.
Here are just a few of the missives fired at Karen
- “What size bra are you? Triple sag?”
- “She’s gonna pick out which kid she’s gonna rape next.”
- “She probably eats deodorant because she can’t afford real food.”
If you haven’t seen it yet, I warn you…there’s rough language and will shatter your heart into a million pieces.
Karen took the abuse and finally broke down crying. The children thought this was hilarious and decided to share the video with friends on Facebook.
And here’s where the internet comes in to save the day. The clip made the rounds and a concerned individual decided to start an online fundraising campaign for Ms. Karen, the well-meaning goal was to send her on a dream vacation to get away from cruel day-to-day routine. The original goal was $5,000.00 and as of right now, it’s over $150k. Not only will Karen get a vacation, there’s a serious chance she will be able to retire.
Often the world is cynical and black-hearted, the jerks on the bus proved that. But the fact that the internets are coming not only to her rescue, essentially changing her life for the better? It warms my tiny shriveled heart.
For those of you who watched the entire video (I couldn’t last for the whole thing.) Click on this palate cleanser.
UPDATE: It’s over 175K now! NPR’s the two-way blog has jumped on the bus! If there’s one thing NPR is great at, it’s sharing heartbreaking stories with educated adults who love to give! There’s only ONE WAY the fundraising total for Karen is going now, and that’s UP!
Karen has since been interviewed, and while she doesn’t think all kids are bad, she does want an appology from the taunters. Specifically for the comment that hurt her the most “you’re so ugly your kid should kill themselves.” The cruel kid probably had no idea but…Her son took his life 10 years ago.
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from nytimes: Like any good psychic, Barbara Szafranski claims she foresaw the problems coming. Her prophecy came in 2007, as the City Council was easing its restrictions on the number of psychics allowed to practice in this seaside city, where self-proclaimed witches, angels, clairvoyants and healers still flock 319 years after the notorious Salem witch trials. Some hoped for added revenues from extra licenses and tourists. Others just wanted to bring underground psychics into the light.
Just as Ms. Szafranski predicted, the number of psychic licenses has drastically increased, to 75 today, up from a mere handful in 2007. And now Ms. Szafranski, some fellow psychics and city officials worry the city is on psychic overload. “It’s like little ants running all over the place, trying to get a buck,” grumbled Ms. Szafranski, 75, who quit her job as an accountant in 1991 to open Angelica of the Angels, a store that sells angel figurines and crystals and provides psychic readings. She says she has lost business since the licensing change. “Many of them are not trained,” she said of her rivals. “They don’t understand that when you do a reading you hold a person’s life in your hands.”
Christian Day, a warlock who calls himself the “Kathy Griffin of witchcraft,” thinks the competition is good for Salem. “I want Salem to be the Las Vegas of psychics,” said Mr. Day, who used to work in advertising and helped draft the 2007 regulations. Since they went into effect, he has opened two stores, Hex and Omen. | <urn:uuid:e77faba1-aaff-4d55-9300-1d40fa33c60e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://holyhexes.blogspot.com/2011/05/witchy-towns-worry-do-too-many-psychics.html | 2013-05-23T04:26:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952626 | 358 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Wow! This looks great, just like the drawings.... sort of!I guess this is an easier shape to sculpt than, say, Porknievitch the Irritating Arthropod. That moose looks like it would be a little top-heavy.These are awesome, John. Are you learning how to sculpt, too?- trevor.
Kaspar is awesome..
I love Kaspar.
Great character. Love the shaping.
The box design should have a characiture of the order of Lenin.
Those shoulderblades are incredible...
Does he enjoy honey and picAnic baskets, too?
John,I'm curious...Do you remember when Ren & Stimpy air freshners were produced and included within the comic books?Can you help me identify what fragrance that was? Because I work at a web design firm and I walk by an office everyday that smells distinctly like that air freshner.This confuses me inside.- Josh
Oh you should make an episode called "Borscht Bandits".
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Wow, that's great. That shoulder arch is fascinating. I have to draw it!
"The Children's Crusade" is freakin' beautiful.Stay on groovin' safari,Tor
That's great. I'd like to hear some story outlines for Kaspar. Does it take place in Russia?
"Borscht Bandits"! HA HA HA HA HA!!! That's a good one!- trevor.
He bears my name.. Awesome!
Wow...somehow I've never seen Kaspar before! But he and his pals look hilarious!
I love the design so much, and to see that lip come out in a sculpt is just fuckin awesome!
I love how the bear is just a lump.Mind you, an impeccaly well-designed lump, with discernible musculature and such. But still, what I'm looking at isn't bear-shaped. And that's AWESOME.
Trevor: Thanks !
Nice work on Kaspar.I didn't even know the bear's name was Kaspar until Colter, Kali, and my seeing the URL outisde John's pictures., Great stuff.
so great, oooooooo!
I can't wait to see these on the shelves! RIP Ollie Johnson
nice back and elbows! I love it when realistic anatomy sneaks into cartoony figures.
Please tell me he'll be up for adoption! I'd even shop online for him!
I LOVE THIS GUY!!!
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Smooth and Bumpy Laws
Adam J. Kolber
Brooklyn Law School
April 24, 2012
California Law Review, Vol. 102, 2014
Modest differences in conduct can lead to wildly different legal outcomes. A reasonably prudent driver who causes an accident owes nothing, but if the driver had been just a bit less cautious, he might have owed millions of dollars. A man who has sex with a woman reasonably believing she consents likely commits no crime, but if he had just a bit more reason to doubt that she consented, he might have committed rape. In both cases, small changes to a legal input (level of caution or level of reasonable belief) can lead to dramatically different outputs. While the law must draw difficult lines, it is puzzling why the lines have such startling effects. After all, we can fine-tune damage awards and the duration of prison sentences anywhere along a spectrum.
A legal input and output have a “smooth” relationship when a gradual change to the input leads to a gradual change in the output. The prior examples are not smooth but “bumpy”: gradual changes to an input sometimes have dramatic effects on the output and sometimes have no effect at all. The law is full of these bumpy relationships that create hard-to-justify discontinuities. In this essay, I discuss the relative advantages of smooth and bumpy legal relationships and how to choose between them.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 25
Keywords: jurisprudence, smooth, bumpy, continuous, discrete, categories, sentencing, negligence, abortion, deathAccepted Paper Series
Date posted: January 27, 2012 ; Last revised: March 22, 2013
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Whit Monday at the Joanneum Universal Museum
Enjoy the majestic landscape around Schloss Trautenfels, experience art and nature in the Austrian Sculpture Park!
Our sites are wonderful excuses for a day out, and will be open for you on Whit Monday.
Open at Whit Monday (28.05.2012):
Landeszeughaus, Museum im Palais, Joanneum Quarter (Multimedia Collections, Neue Galerie Graz), Schloss Eggenberg (Alte Galerie, Archaeology Museum, Coin Cabinett, Gardens and State Rooms), Austrian Sculpture Park, Folk Life Museum, Schloss Stainz (Hunting Museum, Agriculture Museum), Schloss Trautenfels
No current exhibition. Please visit our guided tours (not including admission): 2pm and 3:30pm. The exhibition Margherita Spiluttini und dann (reframing architecture) in Camera Austria will be open.
- Universalmuseum Joanneum
- Joanneumsviertel 5
- 8010 - Graz
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Pho Saigon is the Pioneer Valley's premier Vietnamese restaurant. We're a family-owned and operated business, dedicated to sharing our passion for the intricate flavors of Vietnamese cuisine in a warm and approachable setting. Since 1995, we've been serving our hearty pho beef noodle soups, along with other Vietnamese favorites like Hanoi-style meatballs, spicy lemongrass soup and sugarcane shrimp sticks.
Thank you to all our fans and regulars for voting us "Best Vietnamese Restaurant" in the Valley Advocate awards for over 10 years. We appreciate your support!
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Some Nice Things Folks Have Said About Us
"Every time we visit Pho Saigon in Springfield, we come away with one regret – we don’t often enough get to enjoy the sophistication of Vietnamese cookery as practiced there." --Springfield Republican
"At this Vietnamese restaurant, eating by number unveils flavors that are anything but rote...Of several outstanding dishes, the Cha Ca Thang Long (55) is a beautiful thing consisting of catfish marinated in a spicy, peppery sauce and crispy around the edges. It was superb, with tender boneless fish with piquant sauce drenching both noodles and a salad." --Valley Advocate | <urn:uuid:5827fb2e-fcf8-457a-91ce-cbf2bd26859f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://phosaigonspringfield.com/ | 2013-05-23T04:34:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924337 | 280 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
CAREER: Played for the Czech Rep. at the 2011 IIHF World Jr. Championships and named to the tournament's All-Star Team...Won the IIHF Top Goaltender Award at the 2011 World Jr Championships..Debuted with the Czech Rep. national team at the 2012 IIHF World Championships
2012-13: Won his NHL debut on 2/7 at STL turning aside 26 of the 27 shots he faced...Became the 2nd youngest DET G (Bill Beveridge) to win his DET debut...Has appeared in 25 games for Grand Rapids in his first pro season...Posted a 16-7-1 record, 2.26 GAA and .916 SV% at time of his recall...Named to the 2013 AHL Western Conf. All-Star Team...Recorded his first pro SO making 32 saves vs Abbotsford on Feb. 2...Named the AHL's Player of the Week for the period ending Feb. 3.
2011-12: Appeared in 50 games for Ottawa (OHL), posting a 30-13-6 record, 2.84 GAA and .917 SV%
PERSONAL: Hockey idols as a youth: Dominik Hasek and Marc-Andre Fleury...Favorite food: chicken alfredo...Favorite movies: The Italian Job and The Hangover
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NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are calling it quits after five years of marriage.
“This is a personal and private matter for Katie and her family,” Holmes’s attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday. “Katie’s primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter’s best interest.”
Cruise’s lawyer Bert Fields said Holmes filed for divorce on Thursday.
Cruise, 49, wed the 33-year-old Holmes in 2006 in an Italian castle after publicly declaring his love on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” emphatically jumping on her couch.
The couple has a 6-year-old daughter, Suri, who has herself become a staple of the tabloids and celebrity magazines.
Their plan to divorce was first reported by People magazine.
“Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children,” Cruise’s representative, Amanda Lundberg, told The Associated Press. “Please allow them their privacy to work this out.”
Cruise and Holmes had a whirlwind romance — the “Dawson’s Creek” actress confessed she had a childhood crush on the “Top Gun” star — and were engaged at the Eiffel Tower. An elaborate wedding followed before a Church of Scientology minister.
“I can’t be cool. I can’t be laid-back,” a starry-eyed Cruise said on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” “Something happened and I want to celebrate it.”
But the couple’s romance was instant fodder for the tabloids, who chattered about everything from the couple’s fights and Suri’s clothing to Holmes’ conversion to Scientology.
Cruise, currently starring in “Rock of Ages,” was previously married to Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman, with whom he has two children.
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Madden NFL 11 (PlayStation 3)
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- Madden NFL 11 redefines the way you experience the game of football. Simpler: from 350 plays down to 1, the GameFlow system puts you in the helmet of an NFL quarterback, to execute an authentic, situational game plan, one play at a time. Quicker: with 60-minute game times reduced to 30, spend more time on the field and less in ... Read more
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I want to cluster 10 different sites based upon different parameters like temperature, humidity, rain, etc. for monthly data collected over a period of 2 years.
Should I use means of all 24 data samples for each parameter or the whole data sets?
Moreover, these parameters are on different scale of measurement: Is standardization necessary in this case? If so, how would I do it?
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Tyrant’s Test by Michael P. Kube-McDowell (1996, Bantam)
The final book of The Black Fleet Crisis has a lot of loose ends to wrap up: Lando, Lobot, and the droids are trapped aboard an ancient and mysterious starship; Leia and the rest of the New Republic must contend with the threat of the genocidal Yevetha; Luke is engaged in a lengthy search for a woman who may be his mother; and Han Solo has been captured and imprisoned by the leader of the Yevetha, Viceroy Nil Spaar.
This dark and unpleasant state of affairs affords Han and Leia both a chance to shine. Han meets the torment of his captors with his signature style of defiant wisecracking, while Leia is forced to make the difficult decision to attack the Yevetha, weighing the lives of millions against that of her husband. Many folks who’ve written Star Wars books don’t write a great Leia, and McDowell’s characterization of her in these books is a little shaky at certain points, but here, he shows an acute understanding of her greatest strength: her absolutely unwavering commitment to her ideals.
The amount of good material that McDowell and other writers have managed to wring out of characters that originated in the Star Wars Holiday Special continues to surprise me. The mission to rescue Han becomes a rite of passage into adulthood for Chewbacca’s son, and some of the moments between the two of them are mildly touching.
Most effective here is the result of Luke’s quest for his mother, which turns out to have been a well-intentioned deception on the part of his guide, Akanah. One of Luke’s most admirable traits is his capacity for understanding and forgiveness, but the pain resulting from Akanah’s deception renders Luke unable, at least at present, to forgive her for what she’s done. McDowell manages to give the situation the degree of pathos it calls for.
The greatest failing of this book is the Lando plot. Told through a series of “interludes” in this novel, the story of the “Teljkon Vagabond” fails to connect very strongly to the primary story of the Yevethan crisis. McDowell writes Lando’s banter and conflicts with Lobot and the droids well, making it fun to read, but without a solid connection to the “A-plot” of The Black Fleet Crisis, I’m left with the feeling that Lando’s story could (and perhaps should) have been its own book.
Overall, though, The Black Fleet Crisis is a strong series, with an antagonist somewhat more unique than your standard-issue Imperial revivalist and a number of very interesting thematic elements. Tyrant’s Test is a decent conclusion to this trilogy, providing satisfactory resolutions to character (if not plot) arcs. | <urn:uuid:d8db671c-204a-4574-8dbd-661fcaac6b57> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stolendatatapes.tumblr.com/tagged/genocide | 2013-05-23T05:02:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948159 | 620 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Develop Your Personal Brand by Enhancing Your Leadership Skills
When most people think about marketing, the first thing that comes to mind is the Four P’s: product, price, place, and promotion. This is the method behind a company’s decision on strategically choosing a target audience for their product to gain a larger market share.
This same concept can be considered when you are looking to market yourself. Marketing yourself, or personal branding, is the most important marketing you can do to receive that new job or promotion. Understanding marketing concepts, as it relates to your personal brand, will provide you the ability to look at the direction of your career, and gain the outlook needed to enhance your professional development. This will allow you to market yourself by gaining the skills to obtain that new job or promotion.
Below is an example of what the thought process could look like when considering that new job or promotion in regards to the Four P’s of marketing:
- Product – Understanding the requirements of the new job or promotion, and what skill set you need to improve on for this position is essential. Enhancing your professional development in this area will provide you the background needed to be a qualified candidate.
- Price – It is essential to analyze the salary and benefits of the position or promotion being offered. This will allow you to weigh your options, and determine if this is the right fit for you.
- Place – What will you bring to the organization, and how will your skills enhance the organization’s existing team? This is an important concept to consider when evaluating the job or promotion, and determining if you have the skill set to support the position.
- Promotion – This coincides with the benefits that you will bring to the team, and how these benefits can be developed professionally to enhance the organizations strategic initiatives.
Along with the Four P’s of marketing, there are many other concepts you can utilize to enhance your personal brand. You can obtain key leadership qualities and skills to enhance your knowledge in areas such as leading with vision, leading with cultural intelligence, leading at Level 5, and more. All of these concepts will allow you to gain the perspective needed to inspire teamwork and skills needs to lead a successful team while showcasing yourself as the right person for the job. By investing in your professional development and enhancing your leadership skill set, you will be able to obtain the job of your dreams or earn that desired promotion.
Learn how you can enhance your personal brand with Thunderbird Online’s Executive Certificate in Global Leadership. This executive certificate is comprised of Understanding Global Leadership and Enhancing Your Leadership Strengths courses, and will empower you with the knowledge and skills to analyze and develop a global leadership plan to inspire teamwork, leadership, and effective collaboration.
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Friday, January 25, 2008
The Big Chill
It hasn't snowed for over a week and yet as we drive along, there in the shades it lingers. On the sides of steep hills, in tall piles, lurking beneath the tight branches of bushes, the snow remains. Despite the bright sun that beats down upon us, the temperature remains cold and the white crystals cling to their ephemeral life. In places that are hidden away and when all the small particles are lumped together they find the power to resist the changes in weather and attempts to warm the earth. I'm sure there's a metaphor in there somewhere. | <urn:uuid:5e093f11-10c0-4e71-9df2-505316c87ae1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://theclothes.blogspot.com/2008/01/big-chill.html?showComment=1201306020000 | 2013-05-23T04:46:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948985 | 128 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Would it be blasphemous to compare DevilDriver with the almighty Pantera? Sure, perhaps. But the only reference for the bludgeoning brutality of Beast is the latter days of the Texas-based metal militants and their pushing of the envelope into breakneck energy, aggression, and power. Former Coal Chamber singer Dez Fafara has used the double-D vehicle to indulge in his love of groove metal, but this takes it to the extreme (not the band). Speaking of Pantera: "Coldblooded" shamelessly rips off the breakdown of Pantera's "Hollow," and that's probably the most original moment here. First single and leadoff number "Dead to Rights" is the key accessible song - which in this particular context is like an ax to the face as opposed to a hatchet to the gut. Pinch harmonics abound, but the coolest moment might be the take on "Black Soul Choir," an alt-country track originally twanged out by 16 Horsepower. Which suggests that there might be something deeper rolling around here than "There's nothing that will change me/There's nothing sure as shit" ("Bring the Fight"). Probably not, but if you want to bang your head, this will do the trick.
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Visualization companies leading the way
As part of the visualization community, I have always believed that it is not sufficient to develop new techniques and present/publish them at the Visualization conferences. The strength of the techniques has to reach out to the people with the data. Companies that polish those techniques and take the effort to showcase their abilities to a large audience are the true leaders who reveal the power of visualization to a common user.
Here a few companies that I have always been impressed with and have been following for some years:
Tableau software – With an exceptional group like theirs, what else could you expect? Tableau software came out of Stanford university, with the guidance of Pat Hanrahan and the vision of Chris Stolte, this software company was formed. They now have a phenomenal team of researchers, academics, managers and software developers who are doing some great work. It is particularly exciting to see Jock Mackinlay on their board. He has always been an ardent believer in the ability of visualization as a whole. [His blog and some of his papers]. I am sure you can find much more information on their website.
I was really happy to hear that they secured $10 million in series B funding from New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA). I read a few blogs to find more about Tableau, and came across this blog entry “Is Tableau the next Google?” I sure hope so
Stamen Design - The group at Stamen seem to come up with the most effective, visually appealing visual representations of data. They seem to just ‘get it’. Their projects page shows a small sampling of the talent that the company houses. Recently, I was excited to see that MSNBC was using their visualization to show the progressions of hurricanes through the Atlantic. Click here for MSNBC’s storm center developed by Stamen.
Spotfire/TIBCO – Spotfire was another great company that got acquired by TIBCO in Summer 2007. Spotfire has been developing some great software for business professionals and is putting in a lot of effort in getting their software into the hands of users. Their wide range of products fine-tuned based on industry or application make their products versatile and accessible. Their acquisition by TIBCO implies the need to incorporate data visualization into the toolbox of business professionals.
Kitware – How can one ever forget Kitware in a list of visualization companies leading the way. Under the excellent and brave leadership of Will Schroeder this company, which started out as a open-source visualization toolkit company, has grown in leaps and bounds into a huge scientific visualization (and now infovis) powerhouse. They have continued the development and support of the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), and Insight Toolkit (ITK) which many of us have used widely to get our feet wet in the field of visualization and image analysis. The notable and applaudable fact about the company is their commitment to the open-source community. They have been contributing, helping and supporting the endeavors of open source projects in fields as diverse as oil exploration, medical imaging, geographic data visualization and many more. They have a wide variety of products that are well supported and extremely useful. And in case, any of you are looking for a job, they are hiring too at the moment.
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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and senior White House aide Rob Nabors were to visit separately Thursday with the four leaders of the House and Senate to discuss how to avert a series of tax increases and spending cuts due to begin in January. Republicans complain that the White House is slow-walking the talks and has yet to provide specifics on how President Barack Obama would curb the rapid growth of benefit programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
Obama and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, the lead GOP negotiator, spoke on the phone Wednesday, their first conversation in five days. But there's been little evident progress in negotiations between the two sides.
Boehner's lieutenants say the White House has been slow to engage.
"We have not seen any good-faith effort on the part of this administration to talk about the real problem that we're trying to fix," said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.
Obama is mounting a public campaign to build support and leverage in the negotiations, appearing at the White House with middle-class taxpayers and launching a campaign on Twitter to bolster his position.
"Right now, as we speak, Congress can pass a law that would prevent a tax hike on the first $250,000 of everybody's income," Obama said. "And that means that 98 percent of Americans and 97 percent of small businesses wouldn't see their income taxes go up by a single dime."
Obama is insisting that tax rates go up on family income exceeding $250,000; Boehner is adamant that any new tax revenues come from overhauling the tax code, clearing out tax breaks and lowering rates for all.
Republicans are also demanding significant cuts to so-called entitlement programs like Medicare, such as an increase in the eligibility age for the program from 65 to perhaps 67.
"It's time for the president and Democrats to get serious about the spending problem that our country has," Boehner said at a news conference Wednesday in the Capitol. Boehner, like Obama, expressed optimism that a deal could be reached.
At issue are steep, across-the-board cuts to the Pentagon and domestic programs set to strike the economy in January as well as the expiration of Bush-era tax cuts on income, investments, married couples and families with children. That combination of tax increases and spending cuts would wring more than half a trillion dollars from the economy in the first nine months of next year, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
No one anticipates a stalemate lasting that long, but many experts worry that even allowing the spending cuts and tax increases for a relatively brief period could rattle financial markets.
From their public statements, Obama and Boehner appear at an impasse over raising the two top tax rates from 33 percent and 35 percent to 36 percent and 39.6 percent. Democrats seem confident that Boehner ultimately will have to crumble, but Obama has a lot at stake as well, including a clear agenda for priorities like an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.
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I am not going to talk about the trouble in CAR, you all heard what is going on there. The only thing you should know is that we were the only safari company working this year and it is really a...
Thanks for the report gillie, I love the pictures! North Fork bullets are excellent!
Congrats Hank2211, any pictures? I agree with Brickburn, taking a sitatunga was SUPER wise! Sounds like you will have a lot of memories from this hunt!
Thanks for the hunt report and pictures. Wow, what an adventure. I really love the double kudu shot, it should become a family photo!
Chris runs a great outfit. This is a good opportunity.
Welcome to AH With big Fort Mac money you should be able to shoot yourself senseless!!! have fun.
No gun purchase. I still may but as mentioned, the old pump still goes bang so I am not in any hurry. ;)
Well, I got my rifle into Cameroon without too much difficulty (only cost me 50 Euros to the customs man!), but Air France lost my ammo. Didn't get it until hunt was over and I returned to Douala. ... | <urn:uuid:798e6c86-e431-4c97-964d-7dbbec218125> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.africahunting.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=21743 | 2013-05-23T04:26:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96842 | 244 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Memories from the Barry & District News of 50 and 25 years ago
7:00am Thursday 17th January 2013 in Looking Back
EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of January 17, 1963:
* From time to time stories come to light of mean and petty acts, and people have become fairly accustomed to them – but some Barry people are still wondering about the mentality of the people who in recent weeks have been raiding the coal bunkers of the old age pensioners’ cottages in Dudley Place.
* Barry Town have played no match at Jenner Park since they lost at home to Ton Pentre on December 22. The snow covered pitch has been partially cleared, but subsequent heavy frosts have made its condition dangerous. A thaw is promised for today (Thursday), but it is still doubtful whether the pitch will be playable for Saturday’s Welsh League home against Pontllanfraith.
* Twenty-seven holders of allotments at Barry Island are to be given notice to quit because the land they rent is affected by Billy Butlin’s holiday camp proposals.
EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of January 14, 1988:
* A mystery oil spillage, which stained stretches of sand and rocks at Barry Island during the weekend caused only ‘limited pollution’ and was being treated as a ‘minor incident’ by the Vale council.
* More than £5,700 worth of Wales Gas stamps used for the payment of gas bills were stolen in a raid on the Barry showroom in Holton Road last week.
* The Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council have set their sights on a near 2p in the £ reduction in their rate. If the Vale counciil meet spending targets set by the Welsh Office their rate will be cut by 8.38 per cent from 22.79p to 20.88p in the £. | <urn:uuid:59412e69-f854-4c47-b322-11aa31ba714a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk/news/lookingback/10165445.Memories_from_the_Barry___District_News_of_50_and_25_years_ago/ | 2013-05-23T04:48:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973584 | 392 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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With five players suspended indefinitely, Missouri put up a fight against Nebraska and kept fans entertained, using just seven players in a 66-62 loss to the Cornhuskers.
The Missouri basketball has had a difficult week following the suspension of five players. After the Nebraska game coach Mike Anderson discussed the disciplinary actions.
The Mizzou basketball team, shorthanded after coach Mike Anderson suspended five players Tuesday, lost 66-62 to Nebraska.
With five players suspended, Missouri's basketball team will need to find new ways to contend with Cornhuskers.
Temple will test his worth in the NFL.
COLUMBIA — It turns out Tony Temple's career at Missouri is, in fact, over.
Temple announced Tuesday he will give up on any further appeals for an extra year of eligibility and focus on readying himself for the NFL draft.
"It's time to move on and focus on doing what I need to do to make a positive impression for the next level," Temple said in a statement released through the university.
Three days after a weekend brawl left his top scorer with a broken jaw, Missouri basketball coach Mike Anderson has suspended five players indefinitely.
Few details given about how the Tigers guard was injured Sunday morning at a Columbia night club.
Mr. Smith, who led the Missouri football team for seven seasons, died Monday, Jan. 28, 2008 in Tuscon, Ariz. He was 68.
The Missouri women's team has been one of the best in the Big 12 from the three-point line, but poor outside shooting in the last two games has caused the offense to struggle.
The incident is the latest in a series dating back to last summer and leading coach Mike Anderson to institute a "no tolerance" policy in July.
The host Colorado Buffaloes scored the first 11 points of the game. Slow starts have been common for MU when playing away from home. But instead of not being able to overcome the early deficit, MU rallied from as many as 14 points down to beat Colorado 66-62 on Saturday afternoon.
Texas constantly put pressure on MU by trapping on the perimeter and playing tough man-to-man defense to force 23 Tiger turnovers and MU’s worst offensive game of the season. Tigers coach Cindy Stein said the Longhorns’ defense wasn’t the problem. Instead it was a lack of production from supporting players who Stein said needed to want to score more.
While the Texas women’s basketball program isn’t at the level of elite programs like Tennessee, Connecticut, or Duke, it’s not like the Longhorns are trudging along in the mud. They have missed the NCAA Tournament two seasons in a row, but it is Texas’ first two-year hiatus from the tournament since its inception in 1982.
The Tigers had two of their toughest opponents, Texas and Kansas, at home, and three beatable opponents, Iowa State, Texas Tech and Colorado, on the road. So far, the only thing that’s gone right for MU is a win over then-No. 12 Texas. The Tigers then lost to Iowa State, Kansas and, on Wednesday, to Texas Tech.
Missouri lost another away game to fall to 0-5 on the road for the season. Keon Lawrence scored a season-high 24 points in the loss.
The Baylor Bears used suffocating defense to give Coach Kim Mulkey her 200th career win, but she downplayed the accomplishment.
Jessra Johnson’s 18 points weren’t enough to pull off an upset against No. 6 Baylor in a 72-57 loss to the Bears at Mizzou Arena.
The last time Baylor came to Columbia, the Bears were the defending national champions and had a 30-game winning streak. The Tigers upset Baylor and ended the streak with a 64-61 win. Now they will be looking to pull off another upset Wednesday as they face No. 6 Baylor at Mizzou Arena. | <urn:uuid:04c0d99f-f4ea-44f6-8995-a7e12c18f11a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/sports/mizzou-sports/?p=223 | 2013-05-23T04:27:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968728 | 815 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
An old year is fading and a new year is upon us again. Each year I go kicking and screaming into the New Year, and not because I am against change. My pants pocket is full of change.
I simply cannot remember to change the year on the checks I write until May. By the time, I remember the correct year I have forgotten to make deposits into my checking account. I need a reality check, which with any luck will not bounce as high as my checkbook.
That is not the only reason I hesitate going into a new year. The biggest reason has to do with the mistakes I made during the old year.
Looking back over the old year, I worry that my blunders were not as bad as they could have been. Did I make all the gaffes I possibly could? Did I fill my quota? What is my quota, anyway?
For many people, the New Year offers the opportunity to start over again. Actually, what happens is people simply make new mistakes curiously similar to the mistakes made during the old year.
If I have any resolution for the New Year it would be to perfect the mistakes I have already made. I do not see any sense in making new bloopers when I can easily requisition the old ones for duty during the New Year.
And what is wrong with my old mistakes? The only thing I can think of is that I did not work hard enough to make the most of them. It is one thing to make a mistake, but it is quite another thing to perfect the art of making a mistake so that you do not have to repeat it ever again. Too many amateurs have given mistake-making a bad name.
Most of my mistakes have been so poorly discharged that in the coming New Year I will have to re-do many of them. And, frankly, I am tired of it all. I am anxious to move on to new areas of mistake making.
I am convinced there are faux pas to make that I have not dreamed of at this point in my life. Believe me, I have been dreaming. Actually, the gracious mistress of the Parsonage things they are all nightmares. However, my horsing around is not limited to the nighttime.
With that in mind, my resolution for the New Year is to make sure all mistakes I make (and there will be plenty, I assure you) will be as thorough as possible. I refuse to execute any mistake before its time.
Some mistakes take lots of time to fully mature, but when its time comes, I want to make sure it is implemented as smoothly and as perfectly as possible.
If I am any judge of character, the majority of people will not make any new mistakes this coming New Year. Oh, they think they are making new mistakes but in reality, they are dusting off old ones and re-dating them for the current year. What a waste of time, in my opinion.
For those who take mistake-making seriously, allow me to offer some help to guide this pursuit in the coming New Year.
Look back over the old year and make a list of all of the mistakes you have made. If you are a husband, solicit help from your wife, who will be able to remember all of those mistakes you have forgotten. (Not to mention one or two you did not make.)
Go over each mistake on your list and determine if it needs repeated for the New Year. It does not make sense in doing new mistakes if you are not finished with the old ones. Nothing is more disheartening than a half-baked mistake.
For every mistake from the previous year not needing repeated, place a nice red star in front of it. That mistake can now go into your Hall of Blame, which you will never have to repeat again.
Of course, you will have some mistakes, even though they have been perfectly executed are well worth repeating. You know which ones they are. Don’t you?
Now look at all of those mistakes listed for repeating during the New Year. Prioritize them so you can begin the New Year with a good plan.
As you prioritize this list, think of ways in which you can improve on your mistakes over the past year. No satisfaction compares with doing something as good as you can. One man’s blunder is another man’s gaffe.
Everyone generates mistakes, which is healthy. What is unhealthy is thinking you have not made any mistakes, which is a mistake. Some people have the strange idea that they live a completely mistake free life.
A mistake well executed is a mistake never needing repeating. During the New Year, execute as many mistakes as your conscience will allow.
The Bible, an authority on mistakes, says this; “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” (1John 1:8-10KJV.)
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Can J.C. Penney Turn Things Around?
Mar 6th 2013 3:01PM
Updated Mar 6th 2013 3:06PM
I thought Ron Johnson was an excellent hire when he took over as CEO of J.C. Penney . I never bought into the idea that he was the savior of retail, but I didn't think the company needed one. J.C. Penney just needed a change. And since he was coming from Apple, I thought his winning persona was going to be one additional asset to the company. Unfortunately, one year later, investors are still waiting for that winning formula to take shape.
How much worse can things get?
Not much was expected from the fourth-quarter report. The Street was still hoping to give JCP the benefit of the doubt in some areas. However, in every aspect, the company managed to answer: "How much worse can things get?" Same-store sales, or comps, the most important retail metric that tracts sales performance of stores opened at least one year, dropped roughly 32% year over year. This was 6% worse than Street estimates.
By comparison, for the third, second, and first quarters, comps dropped 26.1%, 21.7%, and 19% respectively. Essentially, fourth-quarter comps were 10% worse than the average loss of the previous three quarters. Johnson has been unable to stop this bleeding. And the fourth-quarter loss widened to $552 million, or $2.51 per share, compared to a loss of $87 million, or $0.41 per share a year ago.
Full-year results weren't any better. Net loss reached just under $1 billion at $985 million, or $4.49 per share, compared with a loss of $152 million last year. But excluding charges and other items related to the company's transformation, the loss narrowed to $766 million. The company has been making significant investments to redesign its stores and increase foot traffic. It doesn't seem as if these investments have paid off, however, with revenue plummeting 25% year over year.
Were expectations too high?
It seems reasonable to think that perhaps the Street was expecting much better performance from J.C. Penney. And if so, what was the cause of such optimism? Granted, the retail sector has been performing much better lately, especially discounters like Wal-Mart and Target. But the Street has also seen struggles from the likes of Kohl's and Sears. And it's not as if J.C. Penney had shown a strong record of performance.
It's possible that the Street was looking at recent performances from Wal-Mart, which always attracts a lot of attention. It's true that Wal-Mart did well recently, but 4% year-over-year revenue growth arrived below consensus estimates. Earnings were better than expected, but boosted by a favorable tax rate, growing 11% year over year to $1.67 per share. Still, these results were solid, given the soft macro environment. But it also underscores some missed opportunities by J.C. Penney.
Plus, Wal-Mart has an identity, which is something that J. C. Penney lacks. Customers walk into a Wal-Mart store in pursuit of getting the best possible low prices every day. Same goes for Target. While it competes with Wal-Mart in the low-price category, Target is often considered more upscale and carries designer brands that Wal-Mart may not have. And customers are often willing to pay the difference. JCP does not have such a distinctive draw, especially since its products can be found at most rival stores like Kohl's.
Johnson did say during the conference call that the company would start offering sales every week inside its stores. But I'm not certain that this will work, especially since the prior attempts failed. I'd like to think positively. But why would anyone get excited about recycled decisions? Granted, the company has to do something. And to his credit, Johnson acknowledged making some mistakes. But why go back to the pool of failed ideas?
Investors are beginning to lose patience - and rightfully so. The company was a disaster when Johnson arrived, and a case can be made that (relative to expectations) JCP is worse off today. These shares are going to remain in limbo for the next several quarters. It's going to require a strong stomach to buy this stock, and it requires more than 20/20 vision to see the glass-half-full side of this story. If these shares can stay above $15 before the first-quarter report, it would be a small victory.
J.C. Penney has been a train wreck whose comeback always seems just around the next earnings corner, but investors are beginning to doubt that CEO Ron Johnson can weave the same magic that he did at Apple. If you're wondering whether J.C. Penney is a buy today, you're invited to claim a copy of The Motley Fool's must-read report on the company. Learn everything you need to know about JCP's turnaround -- or lack thereof -- and as a bonus, you'll receive a full year of expert guidance and updates as key news develops. Simply click here now for instant access.
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Equilibrium, a provider of rich-media servers for the enterprise, has announced that Saskia Ltd., an online cultural documentation company, has selected Equilibrium MediaRich Image Server to automate the transformations for digital images and deliver the requested iterations through a self-service online catalog. The end-results are to increase top line revenues and bottom line profits by streamlining the image ordering process, decreasing image preparation costs and leverage the Internet to deliver content to customers more efficiently. Equilibrium MediaRich is server-based software that is designed to automate image production and enable the dynamic delivery of visual assets to the Web, wireless, and print media. Prior to using MediaRich, Saskia prepared all images manually with Adobe Photoshop for editing and Equilibrium's desktop product, DeBabelizer, for batch processing. By integrating Equilibrium MediaRich Image Server with Microsoft VB.NET, SQL Server and their Windows IIS environment, Saskia intends to set up site templates to generate image transformations for all 16,000 of their original source images such as thumbnails, digital watermarking, and dynamic delivery in the requested format, resolution, and dimensions on the fly. | <urn:uuid:e91c2b25-b079-435d-ab36-7e0194dbce0c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/News/News-Item/Saskia-Limited-Implements-Equilibrium-MediaRich-Image-Server--4064.htm | 2013-05-23T04:55:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.833429 | 232 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Tips for entrepreneurs working with universities
One positive trend in life science entrepreneurship is that universities are increasingly partnering with entrepreneurs to help them bring new products to market.
“Universities are developing new models in how they work with individuals and government,” says Mike Beckloff, VP and general manager of Beckloff Associates, a scientific and regulatory consulting group owned by Cardinal Health. “Academic institutions are becoming more aware of the value of their R & D, and trying to find ways to capitalize on their investment to bring in more research dollars. We're on the verge of seeing some major changes in how drugs develop in university systems.”
Regis Kelly PhD, a former UCSF professor, agrees. “Increasingly, universities are deciding to come down from their ivory towers and deciding to do something about the problems of society,” says Kelly, director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3).
QB3 is a partnership between the state of California, private industry, venture capital, and the University of California campuses at Berkeley, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz. QB3 is one of four California Institutes for Science and Innovation established in 2000 to ensure the future of the state's economy by promoting research and innovation.
Coupling innovation centers and universities is “a new model that is working very well,” says Kelly, who has led QB3 since its founding in 2004. With more than 200 researchers, QB3 has grown to over 220 research labs with 40 members of the National Academies and two Nobel laureates; helped launch 65 companies that have raised over $230 million in capital; and formed three major industry partnerships.
QB3 provides a number of services for startups. They include the QB3 Garage system (which provides lab and office space), QB3 Startup in a Box (a package designed to take entrepreneurs from an idea to a well-structured company), the QB3 Accelerator (in the works — a membership program for startups to reduce costs of operation) and financing through Mission Bay Capital, its seed-stage venture fund.
QB3 has a screening facility to assess the efficacy and safety of new drugs, Kelly says. “We have tried to 'de-risk' companies as much as possible.”
Nicholas Franano, M.D., CEO of Kansas City-based Novita Therapeutics, can provide an entrepreneur's perspective on partnering with universities.
Franano discovered a method of rapidly and persistently dilating blood vessels while a research fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital. After leaving Hopkins, Franano formed Proteon Therapeutics with a co-founder in 2001 and licensed the rights to the intellectual property. Franano then set up Proteon to develop PRT-201, a recombinant human protein, for clinical use as a “biological stent” for patients with chronic kidney disease and peripheral vascular disease.
Franano says the technology transfer office at Hopkins helped him through the licensing and startup process, “knowing that PRT-201 could generate over a billion dollars a year in sales and create millions of dollars per year in license fees for the university, even with a modest royalty rate. If that occurs, the $40,000 investment in salary and lab support will have generated a very attractive return” said Franano.
“If I could give one piece of advice to university technology transfer officers it would be to focus on helping commercial partners get products to market successfully, rather than achieving certain deal terms.”
The process of securing the license agreement with his university was a learning process for Franano.
“What really helped me was educating myself about the process, and finding attorneys and advisors who were on a first-name basis with the technology transfer officers I was negotiating with,” he explains. “These consultants advised me on how the process worked at Hopkins. Hiring someone who was local and familiar with the university worked really well for me.”
Proteon, now headquartered in Waltham, Mass., negotiated a deal with Novartis AG in March that gives the Swiss company an option to buy Proteon for more than $550 million. The sale could go through in 2013, pending results from the phase 2 clinical trial of PRT-201.
Franano says he has one regret: “relinquishing my royalty as the inventor, which I did to get the most favorable terms for the license. I had venture capitalists advising the royalty was 'double-dipping', but if I had fought harder, I might have gotten to keep it.”
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If you can block the parts with the Ewoks, disregard the 20-minute Chucky Cheese-inspired animatronic jam session before Han Solo was rescued, and ignore the fact that the second Death Star plot was really just a rehash--and then on top of all that, if you can bury the voice in your head telling you rightly that Lucas had already started to slip in his own sacred original trilogy--then Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi is an amazing, amazing film.
But since I can’t bury it all, I just stop at The Empire Strikes Back.
Luckily, I can finish the story without watching the film. Designer/illustrator Wayne Dorrington has just finished Return of the Jedi in “Iconoscope,” which rounds out his project to retell the entire Star Wars trilogy with nothing more than a few charming sets of icons.
“The first Iconoscope was a single page of 32 line of icons,” Dorrington explains on his blog. “But then the story was actually quite simple, when you look at it. For Episode V, It took much longer to design and lay out, running double the length of the original--but there were many more costume changes, and plots that spanned multiple lines."
"And then I started on Episode VI.”
Following nearly a year of work, Episode VI spanned five pages, which is 155 panels. That’s almost five times the iconography needed to tell the original Star Wars story. “Each character has multiple costume changes. The plot runs into 3 separate lines and constantly jumps between them. Vehicles, scenery, sub characters… It was a huge list,” says Dorrington.
His final product is not just amusing to read through--and it really is--it’s visual proof of what we all suspected. The original Star Wars was brilliant as a classic good vs. evil parable. The series strayed from that simplicity. And I’m guessing, were Dorrington to attempt to make Iconoscopes of the new trilogy, he’d break 200 frames--and just as many hearts. | <urn:uuid:12d3847b-1ba3-4642-9ffa-70b586752ed4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669075/return-of-the-jedi-retold-in-icons | 2013-05-23T04:54:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965897 | 444 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Corinthians surprised compatriots Santos as they claimed a 1-0 away win in the first leg of their Copa Libertadores semi-final on Wednesday.
Emerson Sheik netted the only goal of the game, helping the Brazilian league winners take a slender advantage over the defending Libertadores champions.
Tite's Corinthians, who have made a disappointing start to their domestic campaign, will have a great chance to seal a place in the final in the second leg to be played in Sao Paulo next Wednesday.
They will have to do it without Emerson, though, as he was sent off late on.
Corinthians played as if they were the home team at the Estadio Vila Belmiro, as they managed to nullify the threat from Santos star Neymar almost completely.
It was Santos though who had the first chance in the seventh minute, when Elano fired a free-kick straight into the hands of keeper Cassio.
Corinthians opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Alex passed the ball to Paulinho, who sent the ball to Emerson and the attacker controlled the ball before driving it into the top left corner.
Corinthians controlled the game from there, even after Emerson was sent off in the 76th minute for a tough challenge on Neymar, an incident which sparked a melee among players from both sides.
The drama was still not over as, six minutes later, the lights went out and the match was stopped for almost 20 minutes. Santos could do nothing to alter the scoreline when play eventually resumed.
Corinthians will make it into the final with a draw next week to face either six-time Libertadores champions Boca Juniors or Universidad de Chile.
Corinthians midfielder Paulinho told O Globo TV: "It was not easy at all. This is what Corinthians are like. We won but we suffered a lot."
Defender Fabio Santos added: "We have to respect Santos. They are the reigning Libertadores champions and we just earned a good victory. There are 90 minutes left."
Paulo-Henrique Ganso, who returned to Santos line-up 18 days after he underwent an arthroscopic surgery on his knee, said: "We played well in defence but we lacked cutting edge."
He added that the loss of Emerson for the second leg could be crucial, saying: "Corinthians lost one of their best players and we have what it takes to get past them. We have to work hard." | <urn:uuid:50a7858f-50a0-496e-8240-e939b625b939> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fifa.com/clubworldcup/news/newsid=1649522/index.html?intcmp=newsreader_news_icon | 2013-05-23T04:27:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973278 | 523 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
A lovely and easy fish recipe, which I made as instructed with one small exception. For the hot chili paste condiment, which I felt would be far too spicy for my family's palate, I used a only teaspoon or two and mixed it with a couple of tablespoons of sweet chili sause (like you would use for spring rolls). I topped the finished dish with this, which provided a nice contrast to the salty marinade. BTW, I did not find the dish too salty but did take note not to salt the rice. The jasmine variety of rice is an important detail. Served this with a side of maple glazed baby carrots. Happy meals!
Made this for the 2nd time tonight. Again, it was a hit. This time I used snapper, fresh from the Gulf. The sauce isn't salty but I do cut way back, or even eliminate, the salt in the rice. Also, this is a very easy dish to make and cooks fast, making it great on hot southern summer evenings,
This recipe is absolutely phenomenal. I made it exactly according to the recipe, and couldn't be happier with the result. It wasn't too salty at all, and the fish was tender and flavorful. The scallions added a nice color and delicate onion flavor to the dish. This recipe is a keeper, and I'll most definitely be making it again soon.
This was excellent, though quite salty with both black bean garlic sauce and soy - be sure your fish is actual weighed amount, or hold back a bit of the marinade when you cook the fish (you can always add more). Addition of some red bell pepper strips along with the scallions gave it a little sweetness to offset the salt and pungent flavors, and the bright color was lovely too. Served along with seared baby bok choy with shiitakes, scallions, ginger and garlic. We'll definitely make this again; it was scrumptious! | <urn:uuid:7c4d51cd-62e5-470c-91f0-0421720043d3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.finecooking.com/recipes/tilapia-scallions-black-bean-sauce.aspx?nterms=50110 | 2013-05-23T04:47:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970753 | 409 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Coyotes had to go and make things interesting for the crowd at Jobing.com Arena tonight. However, in the end one period of solid play at both ends, a second period of good defense and a third where we tried to give the game away turned into a win.
The First was All Coyotes pretty much from the puck drop. Shane Doan powered through two Ranger defenders when he grabbed the lead pass out of the zone from Taylor Pyatt. He split the D and took a shot that even the Coyotes announce team thought Johnson had the save on, but it just squirted through the five hole putting the near-capacity crowd on their feet just six minutes into the game. It wouldn't take long for the Coyotes to strike again. Less than a minute later they turned a 3-on1 into aa goal as Practically the entire Lang-Boedker-Pyatt Line got behind the defense in a flash, I'm not sure how it happened, but the Rangers were just caught completely flat footed. Lang made an impressive pass to Mikkel Boedker who sped across the slot and put it past Johnson. Sami Lepisto got in on the scoring later in the period as he finally got one of his blasts to find the back of the net. It's Lepisto's first NHL goal and he's been trying really hard and had good chances. You could see how excited he was to have finally gotten one adding to the Coyotes impressive blueline offensive numbers.
The Second looked like a completely different game. The Coyotes were still playing defense, but the offense was completely gone. That despite having 8 minutes worth of power plays to try and score on. That's becoming a pretty big issue as if we want to be a serious contender in the post-season we're going to have to take advantage of our power play chances. Especially when we're just being handed them left and right. The Rangers though didn't fair much better as while they were able to generate some shots, Jason LaBarbera was able to make some clutch saves.
The wheels looked like they might have been coming off in the Third. Everything that the Coyotes had been doing right in the First was the exact opposite. They couldn't keep the puck in the zone, the passing got lazy, and guys were getting caught on their heels. Twice the Rangers were able to score thanks mostly to our own guys making simple errors that allowed odd-man chances. Marian Gaborik got on the board when the defensive unit tried to get off the ice on a dump in. The mistake though was that rather than being dumped in the Rangers blocked it and Ed Jovanovski tried to catch back up but Gaborik and Christianson got behind him and made a nice play to fake LaBarbera out. Avery later scored on a Jim Vandermeer turnover as he basically fell down on his own and the Rangers were off to the races again. The Rangers though hurt their own cause when Michael Rozival took a penalty late with a high stick on Petr Prucha. Gaborik would nail a post with the seconds winding down, but to no avail.
Chad Johnson was a little bit of a surprise as up until an hour or so before the game it looked like Henrik Lundqvist would be in goal. I'm not sure what would have really been different as his numbers haven't been great over the last stretch either, but with them having a back to back combined with the Ranger losing streak it was a convenient time to have him come down with the flu.
Let me also say that the pregame ceremony was nice and Teppo Numminen seemed like he was appreciative and he let a couple of tears go too. The fans should have been in their seats a lot earlier on a special night like this though. It was upsetting that the place was still filling up as the ceremony was going on. I don't know, it just seemed like the fans should have been aware of how important the guy was to this team and gotten there on time at least.
I was talking to a fellow fan after the game about Mikkel Boedker's ice time, or lack there of tonight, (He ended up with 7:44 despite scoring and being the fastest player out there) so I wanted to pass along this quote from Dave Tippett from the post game press conference.
"Pretty good first shift, right? You know, that's what he does, he's a fast player. Lots of penalties in the game, lots of power plays, and he probably didn't get as much ice time as we anticipated." | <urn:uuid:1328ae89-6821-4f98-97d3-044c333452dc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fiveforhowling.com/2010/1/31/1285394/coyotes-hold-on-with-some-post | 2013-05-23T04:27:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990681 | 941 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Stevia suppliers are gearing up for action in Canada after Health Canada gave industry the green light to use steviol glycosides as table top sweeteners and food additives in food and beverages on Friday (November 30).
Prior to this, stevia was only available as a Natural Health Product, but can now be used in a wide range of categories including beverages, breakfast cereals, gum, breath fresheners, bakery products, desserts, fruit and nut spreads and confectionery, Jason Hecker, VP global marketing and innovation at stevia supplier PureCircle told FoodNavigator-USA.
PureCircle: Stevia can help reduce calories and offset rising commodity costs
He added: “PureCircle and our customers have been preparing for some time in anticipation of Canadian approval. Our entire line of stevia ingredients, including Stevia 3.0 - our most recent innovative approach to formulation development - fully meets Canada specifications.”
Sidd Purkayastha, VP business development and regulatory affairs, said: “Stevia will play an important role in addressing consumer interest in lower calorie products and natural ingredients, as well as to help offset rising commodity costs for our customers.”
Sweet Green Fields: We have been very active with potential customers in Canada…
Fernando Gonzalez, VP, global business development at stevia maker Sweet Green Fields, said SGF had also been "active with potential customers in Canada".
He added: “We figured it would be a matter of time before the approval came so there was proactivity from SGF and customers alike.
“Having created the distribution system for SGF in the US, Europe, Mexico, South America and parts of Asia, we know there is a lag time between introduction and launch times. Anticipation will pay dividends in products launched.”
Shaun Richmond, director of sales at stevia supplier GLG Life Tech Corporation, which is based in Canada, said GLG had seen a "significant increase in projects" in Canada over the last several months.
He said: "Although numerous food and beverage companies have been proactively working with the ingredient prior to this notice, this forthcoming approval provides the confidence required for many of these organizations to invest further in the R&D and formulation work and expedite these projects. We have distributor partners in place to service the Canadian market and believe this substantial number of new food and beverage projects now formulating with GLG stevia will be met with much demand from Canadian consumers."
Although carbonated soft drinks are the biggest market for stevia (with notable recent launches including the reformulation of Fanta in China in February 2012 and Sprite in France in April 2012), there have also been new launches in confectionery, ketchups and dairy in recent months.
And while the USA still accounts for a large percentage of sales, sales to Europe, China, Mexico and Brazil are growing rapidly and regulatory approvals from India, Thailand and South Africa are expected in the coming months.
Stevia today is not what was on the market three years ago
Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA as part our October special edition on natural sweeteners, PureCircle’s Jason Hecker said the stevia products available on the market now are very different from what was available even a couple of years ago.
“Stevia today is not what was on the market three years ago; we’ve made dramatic leaps in terms of quality.
“Stevia 1.0 was stevia extract, which was uncharacterized and variable. Then you had stevia 2.0, or high-purity Reb-A [steviol glycoside Rebaudioside-A], which was consistent product. Now we have stevia 3.0, where we’re developing other ingredients from the leaf as well.”
Large-scale adoption will be apparent in 2013 and 2014
Encouraging growth in usage suggested “large scale adoption will be apparent during calendar years 2013 and 2014”, he predicted, citing Datamonitor figures.
“Up to August 2012 food and beverage product launches with high purity stevia are running at a rate of 1,000 new launches for calendar 2012, a 65% increase over 2011.
“Longer term we remain confident that stevia will emerge as a major global industry.”
Health Canada’s consultation document on the use of stevia as a food additive was published for a 75 day comment period ending on October 14.
Mark Brooks, global consumer products director for Cargill's Truvia stevia brand, said Cargill's data on the safety of steviol glycosides was "pivotal" for substantiating their safe use in food and beverages in Canada.
He added: "With the Canadian market opening, we can now fulfill consumer demand for Truvia sweetener in Canada and are expecting to be on shelf early 2013." | <urn:uuid:511fe8ff-befc-49de-9a43-ba053cc3cea5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Trends/Natural-sweeteners/Suppliers-gear-up-as-Health-Canada-gives-the-green-light-for-stevia-in-Canada | 2013-05-23T04:55:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955035 | 1,033 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
GlobalJax members have two ways to host international visitors in their homes: Home Hospitality and Global Cooking Nights. "At Home with the World" Home Hospitality meals offer a unique opportunity to learn about our world by personally getting to know Emerging World Leaders in a relaxed atmosphere - your own home. Hosting a delegation in your home simply means providing a meal and a couple hours of your time to enjoy an entirely different culture, while international visitors embrace the chance to see a real American home.
Who can Host Our Visitors
All GlobalJax members are invited to host Home Hospitality regardless of the size of your home, your ability to speak a foreign language or the makeup of your family. We want our visitors to experience the diversity of American family life and that we represent all kinds and economic levels. If you happen to have children, Home Hospitality can be a great opportunity to introduce them to new cultures and people - there is no better way to learn about the world. No matter what, your visitors will enjoy sharing stories about their families, their children, and what their life is like at home.
"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them." - Francis Bacon
How to Host At Home With the World
Check the monthly update for upcoming visitor groups and send an email to
email@example.com to volunteer for the night you are available.
Don't feel overwhelmed by a large group as they are normally split up so each host has just two or three visitors (plus their interpreter if one is needed).
You are welcome to invite whomever you wish who is interested and excited to meet the visitors.
The menu should be whatever your family would normally serve and does not need to be fancy (they're usually eager to try American food anyway - hamburgers, hot dogs, steaks, etc.). GlobalJax will inform you ahead of time of any dietary restrictions for the visitors, but outside of this, feel free to make whatever you wish.
Get excited and have fun!
To see more GlobalJax events visit our Calendar.
Host a Global Cooking Night
Global Cooking Nights offer our visitors the chance to share a little bit of their own culture in a way that everyone loves: authentic, delicious food. Our visitors teach our members and friends how to prepare their favorite dishes from home, which always results in full stomachs, good conversation, and memorable moments.
All GlobalJax members with sufficient kitchen space are welcome to host a Global Cooking Night. For more information or to sign up to host our next event, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Hammerfall Sunday night San Diego
It was a great show!! My voice was sore after the show, 'cause I was singing so loud. It was a small crowd but very boisterous. There was even a mosh pit for a couple of songs. I wish they would have had pyro though. I know they have pyro in Europe but they never have any here in the States. Joacim said he had laryngitis but his voice sounded great. I'll be seeing them again Wednesday night in Santa Ana. Whohoo!! | <urn:uuid:115b1f2c-f51c-4e57-9348-f3a2877e3099> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hammerfall.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1752&p=9838 | 2013-05-23T04:33:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993956 | 114 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Two twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood they each become mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's world.
Teddy Robin Kwan
In Ming Dynasty China, two pairs of siblings are destined for each other. But fate throws countless obstacles in the path of their happiness. One pair is high-born: the young Emperor and ... See full summary »
Is anyone who he says he is in this caper that moves from Hong Kong and Las Vegas to Tokyo? Ken doesn't show up in Vegas for his wedding; his disconsolate bride, Macy, heads home for Hong ... See full summary »
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A young Taiwanese girl finds a bottle which makes her go to Hong Kong to meet a guy named Albert. She finds out that Albert is gay and likes Chi Wu better. A mob hires a highly trained fighter to beat Chi Wu in a fist/ kick fight. Written by
Confusing movie. It's a love story action and comedy in one piece, in a very Jackie way. I was looking at it and thought to myself, wow It's rocky meets notting hill Jackie Style. The fights with Brad Allen are cool and the rest of the fights are funny. The girl that's on Jackie's to do list is very cute! Also a nice performance by that guy that plays a gay, he's really popular and famous I think, but I forgot his name. The fights with Brad Allen (together with the brilliant comedy of the Henchmen) highlighted this movie for me. It seems that they used wires and sped it up a bit, but it's awesome none the less. Keep your eyes on Brad Allen's feet. His footwork is awesome!
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Water is a precious resource and our everyday lives are immersed in consuming it. The average toilet uses excessive amounts of water. This hack allows you to minimize some of that water consumption.
I wanted this instructable to be simple enough that anyone could build it with basic tools and materials. I also tried to be material conscious with this project in that: many of the materials are recycled from other things (sheet wood and copper tubing) or second hand (metal bowl), and that it is put together using screws and friction fittings so when the sink has finished serving its purpose it can easily be taken apart and the parts can be recycled.
Step 1: Materials
9inchx20inch piece of sheet wood
Small plastic funnel
Copper tubing half inch outside diameter
Metal bowl approximately 8 inch diameter
4 feet of Vinyl tubing 1/8 inch inside diameter
4 "L" brackets and small wood screws
Silicone latex caulking glue
Steel binding wire
1/2inch spade drill bit
1/8inch drill bit
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9 On Your Side Investigates
Potentially dangerous dogs: do breed-specific bans actually work?
Several communities across the country are banning certain breeds, including pit bulls. Do such bans make communities safer?
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - Bring up the topic of pit bulls and public safety in our community, and you're sure to spark a passionate debate from all sides especially after 9 On Your Side's recent report on The Truth About Pit Bulls and whether they're dangerous. The intense debate prompted some KGUN 9 viewers to call for a pit bull ban, while others argued passionately in defense of their pets.
In Arizona, any dog breed is fair game and legal to own. But that is not true in many other places. An estimated 300 cities across the country have banned certain breeds, including the pit bull or any dog that resembles the pit. 9 On Your Side wants to know, do those bans work?
Don Bauermeister, Assistant City Attorney in Council Bluffs, Iowa was quick to speak with KGUN 9 about how their pit bull ban came about in 2004 and the affect that it has had on the community. He says that it's the most controversial law the city has ever passed.
"It seemed to be almost on a weekly basis and a few times a month, the pace of serious pit bull attacks in our community was out of control" said Bauermeister. After the ban was passed, no new pit bulls were allowed in Council Bluffs and by now they're nearly non existent.
He studied other bans, like the one in Denver passed in 1989. It reads, "The mere possession of pit bulls poses a significant threat to the health, welfare and safety of Denver citizens". One of the problems that comes up when proposing a ban on pit bulls is that it's less of a breed and more of a type of dog, with no specific widely accepted test to prove a dog's identity as a pit bull. Further, many dogs that look like pits really are pit mixes and crossbreeds. The Denver law gets around all that by defining a pit bull as any dog that is an American Pit bull Terrier, Staffordshire Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier or any dog displaying the majority of the physical traits of these breeds as established by American and United Kennel Club standards. Today, owning one of these dogs in Denver is illegal.
What happened in Denver was upsetting to Raymond Serrao. He now lives near Casa Grande but used to live near Denver with his dog, Ilio who was a Patterdale Terrier/Labrador mix. Serrao showed KGUN 9 photos of Ilio who resembled a pit bull.
"Do you think they would've taken your dog?" asked Reporter Tammy Vo.
"Possibly" said Serrao. His problem with banning breeds is misidentification. He believes, bad pit bulls shouldn't have to pay for bad owners and points to an article from the National Canine Research Council, a group against banning breeds. It writes, "Denver has not seen any appreciable difference in the number or severity of dog bite related injuries compared to cities without breed bans."
"Everywhere that bans have been done, it has either had no discernible difference or has made things worse as far a bites go" added Serrao. The group Pit n' Proud of Tucson agrees.
"As you know, Pit n' Proud is strongly opposed to Breed Specific Legislation and policies. Quite frankly, they're ineffective and punish innocent people and pets. BSL is usually enacted as a knee-jerk reaction to a highly publicized severe dog bite or fatality. BSL is an attempt to pacify the public, but does not address the real factors behind dog bites and attacks," said Rachel Molyneux of Pit n' Proud.
Those are some opinions. What are the actual facts?
To find out, KGUN 9 contacted five cities that banned pit bulls, at random, to find out whether the bans have increased public safety. Kansas City now requires pits to be spayed or neutered. The idea, says animal control, that "it would reduce pit bull aggression". Since the ordinance in 2004, dog bites and pit bull attacks went up then down.
Garfield Heights, Ohio banned pit bulls in 2007. Since the ban, dog bites, in general have gone up.
South Milwaukee banned pit bulls in 1989. Since then, dog attacks went down by a third and then went back up.
Denver city officials tell KGUN that they don't have statistics going back to 1989 when the ban began, but Doug Kelley from Denver's Environmental Health office said: "City Council passed the ban in 1989 to protect public safety and there hasn’t been a death or severe mauling by a Pit Bull since the ordinance was enacted. However, we recognize some other cities have since taken alternative approaches to implementing a breed ban that have also been effective at protecting public safety."
"Does this kind of legislation work?" Vo asked Bauermeister.
"There's no question it has worked," he answered, adding that overall dog bites have gone down in Council Bluffs since the ban and provided data indicating that pit attacks are nearly non existent. He insists, it isn't about which dogs bite, it's about which ones cause the most damage.
"Any dog can bite. Any dog can have a bad day. So, for 99 percent of this dogs life it's a good family dog but one day if it snaps, the damage is so severe. That is the justification," said Bauermeister.
Countries like the United Kingdom and parts of Canada have banned the pit bull but others like Italy and the Netherlands recently reversed their bans saying that they had no scientific basis and didn't really drop dog bites.
What about in Tucson? Plenty of pit owners have been vocal on KGUN 9's Facebook page, opposing these laws. But others are pushing for city council to ban the bulls here. Could it ever happen?
Not if it were totally up to Councilman Steve Kozachik. "I have a problem with breed specific legislation," Kozachik told KGUN9 News. "To take a broad brush and say this breed, we're going to get rid of it, is an overstretch." He believes that citations can force dog owners to be more responsible.
Tucson does have a law that says if a dog is declared vicious, its owner must take action. That action can include: confining or muzzling the dog, getting it spayed or neutered, posting signs and carrying liability insurance. But Kozachik says, this has never happened because the process is so tedious.
The landmark 2000 dog bite study by the Centers for Disease Control also pointed toward regulation of human behavior, not breed specific bans, as the appropriate answer. The authors wrote, "Because of difficulties inherent in determining a dog’s breed with certainty, enforcement of breed-specific ordinances raises constitutional and practical issues."
That study also found that pit bull type dogs, followed by Rottweilers, were responsible for more than half of fatal attacks on humans during the time period immediately preceding the study. But it also noted that the types of breeds responsible for such attacks tends to vary over time. For instance, in the mid to late seventies, German Shepherds, not pit bulls, were responsible for the largest number of fatal attacks on people.
But it's not just city governments that pit bull fans have to worry about. KGUN9 News discovered that an increasing number of apartments and home owners' associations in Tucson are are banning certain breeds, including the pit bull.
The debate no doubt will rage on, as it has been all week on KGUN9's Facebook page even before this story was published. But the bottom line so far seems to be that the evidence on whether breed specific legislation does what it's supposed to do -- reduce dog bites and increase public safety - is inconclusive at best, at least for now.
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Volkswagen has opened the way for 200 million euros worth of synergies in its heavy truck business after taking control of MAN.
The deal opens the way for closer cooperation between MAN and Scania, the Swedish truck maker in which VW already holds a controlling stake.
Volkswagen now holds a total of 55.9 per cent of the voting rights in MAN and 53.71 per cent of its share capital.
The companies involved anticipate that synergies amounting to at least 200 million euros a year can be achieved, mostly in the procurement sector.
In the long term, substantial additional potential lies in intensive cooperation in the production sphere, as well as in the field of research and development.
MAN chief executive Georg Pachta-Reyhofen said: "Today we are opening up a new chapter in the 253-year history of the company, which is set to continue. At the same time, we shall retain our special MAN identity marked by innovation, the art of engineering and international positioning.
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Much of Heade’s popularity derives from his paintings of salt flats on the East Coast of the United States . Like other works from this series, The Marshes at Rhode Island occupies a transitional position between the virgin landscapes of the Hudson River School and the pastoral views. The present scene is no longer an untamed wilderness and suggests man’s intervention. In contrast to artists such as Jules Breton and Jean-François Millet, however, human presence is a silent one. It consists of little more than a half-filled hay wagon, a rake and some abandoned pieces of clothing, all indicating that the working day is over. Heade counterbalances the arrangement of the hayricks that recede into depth with the horizontal flow of the water in the foreground. The most striking element of the work is, however, the luminosity of the sky, which Heade studied under all weather conditions.
Martin Johnson Heade was always closely identified with the salt marshes of Eastern United States. James Jackson Jarves, writing in 1864, saw the meadows as his speciality. Heade painted their "wearisome horizontal lines and perspective, with a profuse supply of the hay-ricks to vary the monotony of flatness, but flooded with rich sun-glow and sense of summer warmth"; three years later Henry T. Tuckerman echoed Jarves' words, as he praised how Heade "especially succeeds in representing marsh-lands, with hay-ricks, and the peculiar atmospheric effects thereof". Heade was aware of the delicate beauty of the salt marshes, with their display of changing light. In Harriet Spofford's description of Newburyport which appeared in Harper's Monthly Magazine in 1875, she wrote: "he who desires to see a meadow in perfection, full of emerald and golden tints and claret shadows, withdrawing into distance till lost in the sparkle of the sea, must seek it here, where Heade found material for his dainty marsh and meadow views ". The demand was so great for Heade's paintings of the marsh and he was so successful, that C. E. Clement and L. Hutton wrote in 1879, that "he has probably painted more of them than any of other class of subject". Over one hundred of Heade's marsh paintings survive today, the finest painted in the late 1860s
The. gathering of the salt hay, which grew naturally along the flooded coastal areas of the United States, required a community of labourers -mowers, rakers, stackers- during the time of its harvest. Although early in his career Heade painted genre and allegorical subjects, he chose to follow neither his European counterparts, Jules Breton and Jean-François Millet, nor such later Americans as Eastman Johnson or Winslow Homer in depicting the human activity during the gathering of the hay. Instead, Heade's paintings, for the most part, are scenes devoid of signs of active labour; like Claude Monet, who also chose to portray uninhabited landscapes displaying the labours of harvest in the 1890s, his haystacks are elegiac responses to the evanescent conditions of light, atmosphere and seasonal changes
The. Marshes at Rhode Island is larger than most of Heade's marsh scenes, and the haywagon, a motif he often used, is a more prominent part of the landscape. The wagon, partially loaded with hay, rests on the firm ground above the tidal marsh; before it protruding from a pile of rocks is the handle of a rake left by the departed harvesters. Stretching over the marshy ground to the horizon are haystacks. Hay was carried by horse and wagon or boated from the marsh during high tide at the time of harvest; but endless rows of haystacks were also left in the marshes until winter, when the ground was frozen and the hay could more easily be retrieved. The haycart, silhouetted against the twilight, suggests the transitory nature of man's labour, a poignancy underscored in Jersey Meadows, with Ruins of a Haycart (c. 1881, formerly New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) which shows the vestiges of a decrepit wagon abandoned among the stacks of hay
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I’m Sorry, Did You Say Hear or Here?
March 12, 2012
Now for another language interest of mine, pronunciation of words that sound the same though are spelled differently—homonyms! Whoot Whoot!
Here and hear, not so similar on the page, but when you're speaking, you don't get that nicety of seeing the word. They're written differently but said the same way, simple yet fascinating, right? Language is such a contextual beast. I hear you versus I am here does not equal I here you or I am hear. I couldn’t switch the words hear and here and rightfully still call myself an English Major (which now lets you in on the secret that I’m a word nerd, but a nerd in general; it makes life fun).
A similar occurrence appears in the German language with "schon," meaning already as in "I have already been to the store" and "schön" meaning beautiful as in "It’s a beautiful day. The difference is in the umlaut or the two little dots above the "o," which changes the pronunciation, but it’s almost the same word anyway—okay, not really, but to those unfamiliar with the language it seems really not much different—as it seemed when I first started to learn German. I remember thinking unenthusiastically, "Oh, joy." But happily to my unenthusiastic, erroneous assumption, it got easier after hearing the language for a while, and understanding the contexts in which it had to be one or the other.
Now, you say both of these words are the same except the one with the umlaut; you purse your lips together in front when saying the “ö” part. Now, how confusing is that? Very! And to a non-native speaker, it’s very tough to hear. So we have to rely on context when we speak. I would never (okay, probably not) say in German “Das wetter ist schon,” translated to “the weather is already.” So if that’s what I heard I can clearly assume I misheard and so can safely say it is “Das wetter ist schön.” That or I’m hearing someone else who is just learning the language too. It’s probably just my hearing that was off. Sadly, I’m only in my twenties.
Anyway, I honed my ear in class lecture for sure but also with Mango Languages, because using library databases is cool. The fact that I could use my own Bluetooth headset and computer at home to hear particular words in conversations more easily certainly helped improve the listening part of my test scores—and my teacher for that matter. That’s a neat feature I really liked about the database. It was really, truly helpful and now I can tell you that I know the difference between "schon" and "schön." | <urn:uuid:80d8adaa-9bb1-4f5e-a813-77511202c239> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mymcpl.org/blog/i%E2%80%99m-sorry-did-you-say-hear-or-here | 2013-05-23T04:34:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964544 | 625 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
[Laszlo-dev] [Laszlo-checkins] r13786 - openlaszlo/trunk/WEB-INF/lps/lfc/kernel/dhtml
P T Withington
ptw at pobox.com
Thu Apr 30 16:38:52 PDT 2009
Right, what I'm saying is the same div is going to be in the
_sziedomcache more than once, which could cause confusion.
Personally, I don't care if that makes IE not work, but some people
On 2009-04-30, at 19:16EDT, Max Carlson wrote:
> There won't be multiple entries because we only create a div per
> style - see:
> var mdiv = _sizecache[mdivKey];
> In any case, that hash is only used by IE to prevent memory leaks...
> P T Withington wrote:
>> This doesn't seem right to me:
>> On 2009-04-30, at 18:57EDT, max at openlaszlo.org wrote:
>>> + ltsp._sizedomcache['lzdiv~~~' + cacheFullKey] = mdiv;
>> Isn't it redundant with the _sizecache now? Won't the same mdiv
>> have multiple entries in the _sizedomcache?
> Max Carlson
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Evidence is growing that trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) is an effective treatment for sexually abused children, including those who have experienced multiple other traumatic events. This article reviews the research that has examined treatments for sexually abused children and suggests future research priorities in this regard.
Most of the studies that have evaluated TF-CBT have been well designed. This treatment model represents a synthesis of trauma-sensitive interventions and well-established CBT principles (Cohen et al., 2001; Deblinger and Heflin, 1996). Trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy was jointly developed by two groups of researchers who have recently worked together to conduct multisite, treatment-outcome studies for sexually abused and otherwise traumatized children. The therapy was developed to resolve posttraumatic stress disorder, and depressive and anxiety symptoms, as well as to address underlying distortions about self-blame, safety, the trustworthiness of others, and the world. The treatment also fits sexual abuse and other traumatic experiences into a broader context of children's lives so that their primary identity is not that of a victim.
Core components of TF-CBT are psychoeducation about child sexual abuse and PTSD; affective modulation skills; individualized stress-management skills; an introduction to the cognitive triad (relationships between thoughts, feeling and behaviors); creating a trauma narrative (a gradual exposure intervention wherein children describe increasingly distressing details of their sexual abuse); cognitive processing; safety skills and education about healthy sexuality; and a parental treatment component. Parents are seen separately from their children for most of the treatment and receive interventions that parallel those provided to the child, along with parenting skills. Several joint parent-child sessions are also included to enhance family communication about sexual abuse and other issues. Most of the TF-CBT treatment studies have consisted of 12 treatment sessions.
Cohen and Mannarino conducted two parallel, randomized, controlled trials for 67 sexually abused preschoolers (3 to 6 years old) and 82 children and young adolescents (7 to 14 years old), comparing TF-CBT to nondirective supportive therapy (NST) (Cohen and Mannarino, 2000, 1998a, 1998b, 1997, 1996a, 1996b; Cohen et al., in press). The nondirective supportive therapy consisted of play for younger children and child- or parent-directed supportive therapy for older children. The preschool study demonstrated the superiority of TF-CBT in improving PTSD symptoms (including sexualized behaviors) and externalizing and internalizing behaviors. These differences were maintained over a one-year follow-up (Cohen and Mannarino, 1997, 1996a).
The strongest mediator of treatment response other than type of treatment was parental emotional distress. At one-year follow-up, the strongest predictor of positive response was parental support of the child (Cohen and Mannarino, 1998a, 1996b). Among treatment completers in the young adolescent study, TF-CBT was superior to NST in improving depression and social competence at the end of treatment, and in improving PTSD and dissociation at one-year follow-up. (Cohen and Mannarino, 1998b; Cohen et al., in press). The strongest mediators of treatment response were parental support of the child and the child's sexual abuse-related attributions (Cohen and Mannarino, 2000).
Deblinger et al. (1996) randomly assigned 100 sexually abused children to standard community care or TF-CBT provided to the child only, the parent only or both. This study documented that TF-CBT provided directly to the child (in either the child-only or parent plus child condition) was superior in improving PTSD symptoms, while TF-CBT provided directly to the parent (in either the parent-only or the parent plus child condition) was superior in improving the child's depressive and behavior problems, as well as in improving positive parenting practices. This was the first study to directly demonstrate the benefit of including a parental treatment component for sexually abused children. These differences were maintained during a two-year follow-up (Deblinger et al., 1999).
Deblinger and colleagues (2001) conducted a group randomized, controlled trial for preschool children, comparing TF-CBT to supportive therapy. Each treatment was provided in parallel child and parent groups. Because of the group setting and the young age of these children, gradual exposure was not included. This study demonstrated that TF-CBT was superior to supportive therapy in improving children's body safety skills and parental distress related to their children's sexual abuse. | <urn:uuid:74476b75-1d2e-438b-9c34-b70bfba61a4a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/cognitive-behavioral-therapy/content/article/10168/54571 | 2013-05-23T04:48:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949815 | 932 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Subject: Re: Please help! Trying to install 80 gig drive....
Re: Please help! Trying to install 80 gig drive....
today i just swapped my hitachi 80 gig for a fujitsu
100 gig drive in my JBR20V1...thanks to who ever
suggested using swissnife it took just 20
minutes....excellent! & thanks again.
the fujitsu does rattle a little where as the hitachi
didn't but that's normal for these apperently.
& it's a little quieter than the hitachi travelstar
(altho that was much quieter than the stock hitachi 20
i think this could be the drive to go for. In uk it's
£120 plus £5 p&p.
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Hey guys, it's Dan from seventeen.com, I'm here at the world premier of the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2, checking out all the celebs on the red carpet, and there she is that costs a lot of it, though, so keep your eyes here. So, you're wearing a gorgeous dress last night, who made that dress?
You're looking very pretty on the carpet tonight-
I'm embarrassed now.
What was your favorite part of filming the movie?
Being with the girls, and then I- when we were in Greece, that was pretty amazing, we were having so much fun, the people was great-
Oh, particularly I enjoyed working along with this is girls here. I'm working with American talents, who's very easy to work with.
Tell me, what was the craziest thing that happened while filming this movie?
Probably taking off all of my clothes, and standing on a [unknown] in front of about 30 people.
I've been asking everyone that comes down the carpet, what is your favorite pair of jeans ever?
You know, I hate to sound regular folks, but I like Levi's, I've had one pair of Levi's since I was 16 that I should throw out because they're falling apart, but I just keep getting them repaired, and I-
So, it was your best jeans right?
Well, it's still the best, right.
Now, I actually have a pair of [unknown] jeans, I got all kinds of leathers on them, and stuff, and it's like really comfortable.
I sort of having a pair of jeans and they are one of my favorite, probably unwearable now, but I still wear them because they're comfortable and-
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City of North Liberty imposes holiday hours
NORTH LIBERTY– The North Liberty city offices will be closed on Thursday, Dec. 24 and Friday, Dec. 25, 2009, for the Christmas holiday. For the New Years holiday, the city offices will be closed on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009 and Friday, Jan. 1, 2010.
During the Holidays, garbage collection will be as regularly scheduled on Wednesdays.
At the North Liberty Recreation Center, holiday hours will be as follows: Closed Thursday, Dec. 24 and Friday, Dec. 25. On Saturday, Dec. 26 and Sunday, Dec. 27, the center will be open during regular hours of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
For the New Years holiday, the center will be open limited hours on Dec. 31, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and closed January 1, 2010.
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I believe RAI is the better option for toxic multinodular goiter. Can you comment on situations when 1) nodules become bigger year(s) post RAI, or minimal change if at all? 2) growth of new nodules post RAI. These patients are already on replacement doses of Lt4 for hypothyroidim(post ablation).I wonder if the kind of nodules affect treatment outcome? Does RAI affect solid nodules ,complex, or cystic nodules differently. Thanks very much for your sharing your expertise.
1) The 131I scan of patients with MNG almost invariably shows a mixed picture of hot, low-uptake and even cold area’s. These cold area’s often, but not always, begin to show uptake after the other nodules have disappeared or at least shrunken by previous dose(s) of 131I. In other words if patients still have remaining or even growing nodules after 131I treatment, it means either that insufficient attention has been given to the possibility that cold nodules may start to take–up 131I after irradication of initially active nodules, or that nodules remain cold indicating structurally absence of uptake capacity. Then surgical treatment is only necessary when serious compressive complaints remain. 2) RAI only affects nodules that show uptake capacity for 131I. Most non-malignant solid or mixed nodules do, but the latter to a lesser extent. A pure cystic nodule, does not. Georg Hennemann, MD Note added- Nodules growing after RAI treatment of TMNG must raise the question of malignancy, and deserve evaluation from that point of view.
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