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A Dhaka court on Monday placed three persons on five-day remand each in two cases filed over the trafficking of 26 Bangladeshis killed in Libya on 28 May.
The accused were Zahangir Hossain, Badsha Fakir and Liakat Sheikh.
Metropolitan magistrate Md Baki Billah passed the order.
Earlier, the investigation officers sought 10-day remand for Zahangir and Badsha and seven-day remand of Liakat.
The cases were filed at Paltan police station on charge of trafficking some of the 26 Bangladeshis who were killed in Libya in a gun attack on 28 May.
On 1 June, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested the ‘ringleader’ of a human trafficking gang Kamal Hossain alias Hazi Kamal, 55, from Khilbarirtek of Shahadatpur in Madaripur city.
Human traffickers killed 30 migrant workers, including 26 Bangladeshi nationals, in Libya in a smuggling warehouse in Mezda, near the city of Gharyan, southwest of Tripoli.
Militiaman Khaled Al-Mishai, who was allegedly responsible for murder of 26 Bangladeshis and for African migrants, was killed in a drone strike by the Libyan Air Force.
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New Haven deputy city town clerk has a new office with a view
NEW HAVEN >> Sally Brown has a new office with a new view.
“The change is good,” Brown said at her desk on the third floor of City Hall close to Chief Administrative Officer Michael Carter’s office.
The deputy city town clerk, who was in a battle with City Town Clerk Michael Smart for more than a year, has been assigned temporarily to help Carter with some special projects.
Smart had accused Brown of multiple election violations, but the allegations were dismissed by the State Elections Enforcement Office and the case was closed in February.
The two clashed after Smart, first elected to the part-time city town clerk position in 2013 — unlike previous persons who occupied that office — took on more of a full-time role, which was the function of the civil-service tested deputy.
The SEEC found that the charges against Brown were either not based in fact; did not violate election laws, or Brown was carrying out “what she reasonably believed to be her duties and responsibilities.”
Smart had also charged Brown with being insubordinate, among other workplace issues, and a hearing on that was supposed to take place in March.
It was put off so Local 3144, of which Brown is a member, could come up to speed on the case, and it now has been dropped.
“We are just going to move ahead. Just kind of keep positive,” Smart said in his office Tuesday.
At one point, the corporation counsel’s office, after reviewing the charges against Brown, recommended that Smart bring her back from paid administrative leave. It also opposed Smart’s request for a $15,000 transfer in anticipation of a lawsuit. He got the transfer but no lawsuit materialized.
Mayor Toni Harp on May 2, citing her power under the charter to transfer an employee to a special assignment, asked Brown to report to Carter’s office, effective May 11. Smart said he had no objection.
Carter’s deputy, Jennifer Pugh, has been out on medical leave and Carter said they needed help.
Maggie Targove, deputy director for administration in the Office of Emergency Management, is temporarily taking Pugh’s place, but Carter said she is already busy with the police body camera project, plus she continues to oversee grants and helps with the police and fire working committees.
Carter said Brown has been assigned to “coordinate among agencies and nonprofits and volunteer groups to have more of a focus strategy.” He said she is basically working with the Department of Public Works, the Livable City Initiative and the Parks Department.
Brown was elected to the city town clerk, a part-time position, in 1986, but was then hired for the full-time deputy position in 1995, an office she has held since then.
Brown said even before Smart put her on paid administrative leave in April 2016, he was taking away her responsibilities and assigning them to others in the office.
“I had a job title, but no job,” Brown said after she returned in March.
“That’s news to me,” Smart said on Tuesday.
Brown said she first helped the alder’s legislative offices with a survey it was conducting before going to work with Carter.
Instead of sitting in the middle of the city town clerk’s office, Brown now has view of the Green.
“I just want to keep busy,” Brown said.
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Could you tell us a little about your background in lifting?
Started lifting weights in 2008. Discovered grippers in 2010, but didn't start training grip seriously until 2012..
How did you get into grip training?
When I became a police officer I almost had a suspect slip out of my hands, I knew at that point I needed to strengthen my grip.
You are now a GripBoard Mash Monster, what would you recommend to those aspiring to close this gripper?
Train consistantly. Don't just focus on grippers, strengthen your whole hand and your whole body.
What does your current grip routine look like?
I do gripper, 2HP, Axle and Blobs all on different days once a week and after a regular workout. I never train grip just on it's own, I always do it after a workout, I feel like the body is really ready for it after that.
How has your grip routine changed since you first started training your grip?
When I started I think I was just focused on grippers, now I'm more balanced.
There seems to be a significant variation in the frequency of grip workouts among trainees. Have you experimented with workout frequency and it’s affect on your training?
I think grip can be worked quite frequencly, but I wouldn't work the same aspect of grip back to back.
What are your favorite grip exercises?
thick bar and 2 hand pinch.
What kind of starting routine would you recommend for a trainee new to grip training?
The one David Horne and Chris Rice recommend; finger curls with a barbell, pinching plate with gloves, some sort of thick bar work and strengthen your wrists.
Who do you most admire in gripdom?
I started to list all of the grip people I admire and the list became too big.
If you were to start over again with your grip training, what would you do differently?
Just work with blobs or 2hp device and do finger curls with a barbell for about six months before touching a gripper.
What do you believe is the most difficult grip exercise?
Lifting the inch, you have to have not only a strong wrist and forearm but a powerful thumb to stop the rotation.
What are some of your personal bests in grip exercises?
Closing the MM1
What do you believe is the most common mistake made by new grip trainees?
Overtraining, not resting and starting to things to fast.
What do you consider to be the greatest grip feats of all time?
Mike Burke Axle lifts, Brian Shaw lifting blobzilla backwards.
Do you have any parting advice for readers?
Be consistent in your training, don't give up on your goals, take small steps towards your goal everytime you train.
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Branch hours extended and some locations reopening this week
We're extending our hours of operation beginning Monday, May 25. FirstOntario locations will now be open to serve you from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday. This includes Ancaster and James Street branches in Hamilton and Brant Street in Burlington. All branches will remain closed on Saturdays.
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This is the Rooms, Bedrooms and Central Heating table (KS403) from the 2011 Census. The table provides data on the number of households without central heating, the average household size, number of rooms and bedrooms and the occupancy rating.
Data is for Parishes in Milton Keynes. Some Parishes have been added together by the Office for National Statistics due to their size. These are: Calverton, Fairfields and Whitehouse Emberton and Chicheley Lavendon and Warrington Newton Blossomville, Clifton Reynes and Cold Brayfield
Please note that this is the revised version of the table released on the 17/01/2014 by ONS. ONS state that: ‘A change has been made to the calculation of occupancy rating (bedrooms). This affects the original version of this table that was first published 30 January 2013. In the original versions all households who reported having no bedrooms were reported as over-occupied (i.e. they had fewer bedrooms than required), but this is not necessarily correct as these are usually one-room households and should have been recorded as having one bedroom. The updated versions of these tables has recalculated the occupancy rating, treating these households as if they have one bedroom. Also the calculation of the average number of bedrooms per household has been similarly changed to be consistent and treat households that recorded zero bedrooms as if they have one bedroom.’
The questions were:
How many rooms are available for use only by this household?
[Do NOT count: bathrooms toilets halls or landings rooms that can only be used for storage such as cupboards Count all other rooms, for example: kitchens living rooms utility rooms bedrooms studies conservatories If two rooms have been converted into one, count them as one room]
How many of these rooms are bedrooms?
[Include all rooms built or converted for use as bedrooms, even if they are not currently used as bedrooms]
What type of central heating does this accommodation have? Tick all that apply, whether or not you use it.
[Central heating is a central system that generates heat for multiple rooms]
- No central heating Gas Electric (including storage heaters)
- Oil Solid fuel (for example wood, coal)
- Other central heating
The 2011 census in England and Wales took place on 27th March 2011. It provides a snapshot of the population and its characteristics on that day.
Further information about the census estimates, including details about the methodology is available here: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/census/2011/index.html
Identification Number: KS403-Parishes
Authoring Entity: Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Producer: Milton Keynes Council
Copyright: © Crown Copyright 2013
Date of Production: 2014-01-31
Average household size – The average household size for an area is equal to the total number of usual residents living in households in that area divided by the total number of households in the area that have at least one usual resident. Visitors staying at an address do not contribute to that household’s size because they are counted in the household of their place of usual residence.
Average number of bedrooms per household – The average number of bedrooms per household for any area is equal to the total number of bedrooms in households in the area divided by the number of households in the area.
Average number of rooms per household – The average number of rooms per household for any area is equal to the total number of rooms in households in the area divided by the number of households in the area.
Bedrooms – The number of bedrooms in a household’s accommodation. A bedroom is defined as any room that was intended to be used as a bedroom when the property was built, or any room that has been permanently converted for use as a bedroom. It also includes all rooms intended for use as a bedroom even if not being used as a bedroom at the time of the Census. Bedsits and studio flats are counted as having one bedroom.
Central heating – A household’s accommodation is classified as having central heating if it is present in some or all rooms (whether used or not). Central heating is classified by type, for example one or more of the types – gas, electric (including storage heaters), oil, solid fuel (for example wood or coal) or other types (including solar, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) or other bottled gas).
Household – A household is defined as one person living alone, or a group of people (not necessarily related) living at the same address who share cooking facilities and share a living room or sitting room or dining area. A household must contain at least one person whose place of usual residence is at the address. A group of short-term residents living together is not classified as a household, and neither is a group of people at an address where only visitors are staying.
Household size – The size of a household is equal to the number of usual residents in the household. Visitors staying at an address do not contribute to that household’s size because they are counted in the household of their place of usual residence. Household size is only applicable to household spaces with at least one usual resident.
Occupancy rating – Occupancy rating provides a measure of whether a household’s accommodation is overcrowded or under occupied. There are two measures of occupancy rating, one based on the number of rooms in a household’s accommodation, and one based on the number of bedrooms. The ages of the household members and their relationships to each other are used to derive the number of rooms/bedrooms they require, based on a standard formula. The number of rooms/bedrooms required is subtracted from the number of rooms/bedrooms in the household’s accommodation to obtain the occupancy rating. An occupancy rating of -1 implies that a household has one fewer room/bedroom than required, whereas +1 implies that they have one more room/bedroom than the standard requirement. Rooms The number of rooms in a household’s accommodation. The definition of a room does not include bathrooms, toilets, halls or landings, or rooms that can only be used for storage. All other rooms, for example, kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, utility rooms, studies and conservatories are counted. If two rooms have been converted into one they are counted as one room. Rooms shared between a number of households, for example a shared kitchen, are not counted.
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“Sing Unto the Lord a New Song: Meditations From the Book of Psalms” Message Magazine’s Online Devotional for Monday, July 9, 2018
“Why do the heathen rage, And the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, And cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: The Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, And vex them in his sore displeasure.
Yet have I set my king Upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: The Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; This day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, And I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: Be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, And rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, And ye perish from the way, When his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him” (Psalm 2).
Human Arrogance At its Peak
Why do nations who have no desire to trust God create commotion and plot against liberty and justice in vain? Can they be self-deceived into believing they can prevail against Jesus and His eternal kingdom? Why do they think pride, wickedness, lust, racism, misogyny, and greed will continue forever? Even God is amazed by human arrogance and disregard for His holiness.
Be that as it may, if you are one of God’s people, you can rejoice in the fact that God has exalted Jesus to His rightful position. He sits upon the throne of the universe. At just the right time, after all nations have attempted, with futility, to rule the world, compel the population to live according to unholy paradigms, seek to erect false systems of worship to overcorrect the mess they have made, Jesus will return.
Praise and Trust That Name!
After the first two phases of God’s judgment are complete, every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord. For this we have all been waiting. God our Father will get all the praise due His holy name for giving us such a valuable gift, in the Person and work of Jesus Christ!
Sing unto the Lord a new song. Celebrate the blessedness of putting all your trust in the Son of God!
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May is a big month for women; we’ve got Mother’s Day, National Nurses Day and National Teachers Day all in the first couple of weeks. Since these last two reflect fields mostly dominated by women, we can safely say that this is really a time to appreciate and honor the strongest women in our lives. Peoples Flower Shops thinks these super ladies should be feted and thanked all year long, but this is definitely the moment to make your gratitude concrete. We’ve come up with two ideal gifts for the women who educate, nurture, protect and otherwise empower the rest of us.
Both nurse’s and teacher’s deserve a little TLC in the form of a little snacktime indulgence at the end of the day. That’s why we Gourmet Food and Fruit Basket recommend our as a thank-you gift. This is the perfect balance of healthy foods and sweet treats, with several items lending themselves to grab-on-the-go and the rest meant for later, after the long day is over. Deliver with a bottle of wine and your appreciation will get more in return.
If you want to go the green route (an excellent choice, considering the health benefits of having a plant around, especially in the notoriously germy spaces of classrooms and hospitals), get a Succulent Garden. This lush mix of greens is easy to maintain, hardy, visually appealing and not likely to stir up anyone’s allergies. Succulent’s are fascinating to look at and a pleasure to watch grow. They also endure, remaining a constant reminder of your gratitude.
Remember to honor the super ladies in your life this May with thoughtful gifts that will thoroughly express your thanks.
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Have you had your windows open this week? We have and are enjoying the weather. Well, it has gotten rather warm upstairs in the afternoons, but mornings are wonderful! And it's fun to wake up listening to the birds singing and twittering in the trees. Did you know that our mockingbird likes to get up at 3:00 to start singing? Do you get up that early? I don't.
I've enjoyed staying home all week and getting things done. Though there have been times when I've felt like I've remembered more things to do than I've gotten done. Maybe that's because I started a long list of all the things I needed to do or wanted to do. :) And I keep thinking of more things to add.
You are probably wondering how my writing is coming along. Well, it's slow. I did finish part 4 of TCR-4 and am over half way done with part 5. But then I got an idea for a new short story and started writing it. I haven't gotten too far yet, but since I've been wanting to write a new short story, it's rather fun. But don't worry, I'll keep working on TCR-4.
Speaking of which, my illustrator sent me a sketch of the first illustration of book 3. Very nice! I wonder how many of my readers have actually gotten to read TCR-1 or 1 & 2.
This story was written last year when I had the idea to write a story for each month and have a calendar to go with it. I got five stories written but only three of them had pictures and then I got really busy with a certain series and "Project 12" was set aside. Perhaps for good. If not, at least for quite a while, and so, instead of just having these stories sitting around, I thought you all should be able to enjoy them. So here is the first part of one of them. This story was supposed to be for the month of May. Enjoy!
Even the Beasts
Mr. Manning opened the front door and stepped out onto the porch. Leaning against one of the pillars which supported the roof, he gazed about him at the green grass; the trees, their leaves growing larger with each passing spring day, and buds bursting forth creating lovely dresses; the early flowers blooming around the base of the porch; at the deep, blue sky overhead dotted here and there with filmy wisps of clouds; the gentle breeze, warm and suggestive of life softly caressed his face, and he smiled. It was a perfect May morning. The kind of morning that makes one feel as though life must just be beginning and nothing could go wrong anywhere.
Turning, Harold called into the house, “Valerie, come see what a glorious morning it is.”
A moment later Mrs. Manning joined her husband. Drawing a deep breath of the spring air, she leaned against his shoulder and sighed. “Oh, it is lovely. You should have a good drive into town.”
“I should at that, but I wish you could come along too.”
“On a day like today, I wish I could, but—” She looked up into Harold’s strong, tanned face with a wistful look.
Unable to resist, Harold dropped a kiss on the upturned face before he replied, “ I know, Val. When I go again in a few months, after the baby comes and all, then the three of us will go together. We’ll make a vacation of it and stay two or three days.”
“I would like that, Harold. It does get a trifle lonely out here, especially when you are away. How long will you be gone?”
Filling his lungs with the fresh morning air, Mr. Manning let it out slowly before he replied, “One day to get there, one or two days in town. I hope it will just take one, and then one day coming home. And let me tell you, Valerie Manning, I’ll be starting mighty early coming home and I’ll be wanting a good supper!”
Valerie laughed. Even though she knew she would miss her husband terribly while he was gone, it was pleasant to know that he would be missing her just as much.
During the breakfast which soon followed, the couple tried to keep things cheery and light because it was always hard to part even for a few days, for their closest neighbor was a good hour’s ride away and they didn’t get many visitors past their place.
“Now, Val,” Harold cautioned, “don’t work too hard. You will only have to milk Gwendolyn, feed the chickens and gather the eggs. Don’t start plowing the fields until I return.”
“Harold,” Valerie laughed, “how could I start plowing when you’ll have the team?”
“And,” he went on, ignoring her question, “don’t go finding any wild baby animals to bring in. We’ll soon have a baby of our own.”
Together the couple shared a laugh, for Valerie’s love and pity for anything small, helpless and in need was now a standing joke between them. In the years they had lived on their homestead she had discovered many babies whose mothers had abandoned them, for whatever reason, which she had fed, raised and, to a certain degree, tamed including a deer, a raccoon and, most unusual of all, a mountain lion. All were gone now, back to their native habitat.
“I’ll pack your lunch, Harold,” Valerie said quietly, picking up the lunch bag to take with her and blinking quickly.
Harold saw the unshed tears and for a moment hesitated about leaving. Perhaps he could wait for a few days, he thought. But no, the longer he put it off, the closer it would be till the baby was due and he didn’t want to be gone then. If only they didn’t need the things he had to pick up. However, one can’t plant a crop without seed, so, with reluctance, Harold took his hat from the peg in the wall. “I’ll pick up the lunch after I hitch up the team, Val.”
Trudging out to the barn, Harold frowned. “I wish I didn’t have to leave her here alone. But there’s no one else to come stay with her. At least she can shoot straight.” He decided then to take his six-shooter with him and leave the rifle at home. “Val knows the rifle and a six-gun is easier to pack in town.”
Upon reaching the barn, he noticed the horses were acting rather strange. Both were uttering nervous nickers and frightened whinnies as they moved restlessly about in their stalls. “Now what’s wrong with you?” Harold asked gently, going into the first stall and trying to quiet the horse. “You didn’t seem bothered when I fed you this morning. Easy now, Duchess. That’s a good girl. Let’s just go out and soon we’ll be on our way. Whoa, steady, Duke!” The second horse had suddenly reared and given a sharp whinny. Stopping quite suddenly, Duchess planted her feet and refused to move from under the shelter of the barn loft; in terrified alarm, she backed persistently into her stall again refusing all coaxing to come out.
Harold looked at his two horses, usually so gentle and easy going, and frowned in bewilderment. What was wrong? It was then that his ear caught the sound of something moving about in the loft up above. “Now what could that be?” he mused. “I wonder if it’s what’s causing the horses to be so frightened.”
Silently he stepped over to the ladder wishing he had thought to grab his gun. “But who would have thought I’d need a gun to hitch up the team to the wagon,” he thought grimly.
With great caution, Harold climbed up towards the loft, carefully putting each foot on the next rung as silently as possible. At last his head was level with the loft floor. The next step would let him see what was in the loft, it would also allow whatever was up there to see him. For a moment he hesitated, then rapidly, he climbed the last two rungs and looked quickly about. At first glance he saw nothing unusual.
Stepping all the way into the loft he heard a sound. It sounded like the meow of a cat, a large one. Turning, Harold beheld a large, nearly full grown mountain lion!
“Scat!” Mr. Manning exclaimed as the mountain cat stretched and yawned. “What are you doing here?”
For answer the cat came over and batted a paw at Harold’s legs.
“Oh no,” Harold shook his head and stepped away. “I don’t have time to play this morning. Go on, Scat, scat!”
But Scat, the mountain lion, who had been raised by the Mannings, didn’t want to leave. He wanted to frolic. Leaping playfully, he struck Harold on the shoulder with all his one hundred ninety pounds. With difficulty, Harold remained on his feet and managed to push the lion down.
“Go on, Scat!” he ordered. “I don’t have time to play. Now get!” He had stepped towards the loft window, the only conceivable place the lion could have entered, hoping that Scat would decide it was time to leave. Suddenly, without warning, the large cat slammed full into Harold’s back with such a force that he lost his balance and found himself falling through the open window. Somehow he managed to grab the rope which hung from a pulley overhead. A burning sensation stung his hands, tough and hardened though they were, as they slid down the rough rope, then the rope ended and he fell with a thud.
To be continued next week.
Will you be back?
What do you think happens?
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"Bless my soul--you don't say so! But of course I've no acquaintance
whatever with American ships, not I so I couldn't go against your
knowledge. It's horrible enough for me. . . . But the queerest part is
that those fellows seemed to have some idea the man was hidden aboard
here. They had really. Did you ever hear of such a thing?"
We were walking to and fro athwart the quarter-deck. No one of the crew
forward could be seen (the day was Sunday), and the mate pursued:
"There was some little dispute about it. Our chaps took offense. 'As
if we would harbor a thing like that,' they said. 'Wouldn't you like to
look for him in our coal-hole?' Quite a tiff. But they made it up in the
end. I suppose he did drown himself. Don't you, sir?"
"I don't suppose anything."
"You have no doubt in the matter, sir?"
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By Jason Rantanen
Earlier this month, I posed a question relating to the patent eligibility of the following claim:
- A method for guiding the selection of a therapeutic treatment regimen for a patient with a known disease or medical condition, said method comprising:
(a) providing patient information to a computing device comprising:
a first knowledge base comprising a plurality of different therapeutic treatment regimens for said disease or medical condition;
a second knowledge base comprising a plurality of expert rules for evaluating and selecting a therapeutic treatment regimen for said disease or medical condition;
a third knowledge base comprising advisory information useful for the treatment of a patient with different constituents of said different therapeutic treatment regimens; and
(b) generating in said computing device a ranked listing of available therapeutic treatment regimens for said patient; and
(c) generating in said computing device advisory information for one or more therapeutic treatment regimens in said ranked listing based on said patient information and said expert rules.
This claim was a real one, from a real case. It’s Claim 1 from U.S. Patent No. 6,081,786, and in a January 2014 nonprecedential opinion the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s ruling that it and claims from related patent No. 6,188,988 were ineligible for patent protection under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Here’s the core of the court’s reasoning:
The district court correctly held that the claim 1 method falls outside the eligibility standards of section 101 as that provision has been construed. This conclusion follows from CyberSource Corp. v. Retail Decisions, Inc., where, based on earlier precedents, this court held that section 101 did not embrace a process defined simply as using a computer to perform a series of mental steps that people, aware of each step, can and regularly do perform in their heads. 654 F.3d 1366, 1373 (Fed. Cir. 2011); see also In re Grams, 888 F.2d 835, 840-41 (Fed. Cir. 1989); In re Meyer, 688 F.2d 789, 794-95 (C.C.P.A. 1982). As CyberSource explains, those precedents rest on Supreme Court decisions indicating that section 101 covers neither “mental processes”—associated with or as part of a category of “abstract ideas”—nor processes that merely invoke a computer and its basic functionality for implementing such mental processes, without specifying even arguably new physical components or specifying processes defined other than by the mentally performable steps. See Gottschalk v. Benson, 409 U.S. 63, 67-68 (1972); Parker v. Flook, 437 U.S. 584, 589 (1978).
The Supreme Court’s post-CyberSource decision in Mayo Collaborative Servs. v. Prometheus Labs., Inc., 132 S. Ct. 1289 (2012), reinforces the application of Cyber-Source to decide the present case. The Supreme Court in Mayo, though addressing a case involving the “law of nature” exclusion from section 101, recognized that “mental processes” and “abstract ideas” (whatever may be the precise definition and relation of those concepts) are excluded from section 101. See 132 S. Ct. at 1289, 1293, 1297-98 (quotation marks omitted). Whatever the boundaries of the “abstract ideas” category, the claim at issue here involves a mental process excluded from section 101: the mental steps of comparing new and stored information and using rules to identify medical options. Mayo demanded that, when a claim involves an abstract idea (or, in Mayo itself, a law of nature), eligibility under section 101 requires that the claim involve “enough” else—applying the idea in the realm of tangible physical objects (for product claims) or physical actions (for process claims)—that is beyond “well-understood, routine, conventional activity.” 132 S. Ct. at 1294, 1298, 1299. The claim here does not do so. It calls on a computer to do nothing that is even arguably an advance in physical implementations of routine mental information comparison and rule-application processes. In this context, the concern about preempting public use of certain kinds of knowledge, emphasized in Mayo, is a grave one. See id. at 1301-02.
Our decisions since Mayo do not undermine Cyber-Source or its application here…..
You can read the entire opinion here: SmartGene v ABL.
ABL has since filed a petition for certiorari, as well as an amicus brief in Alice v. CLS. Its position is that SmartGene should be GVR’d regardless of the outcome in Alice v. CLS (which might issue as soon as tomorrow). From the introduction:
Judge Pauline Newman recently characterized the Federal Circuit as being in a state of jurisprudential “deadlock,” making patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 a question “whose result will depend on the random selection of the panel.” CLS Bank Int’l v. Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd., 717 F.3d 1269, 1280 (Fed. Cir. 2013) (hereinafter CLS Bank) (en banc) (Newman, J., dissenting), cert granted, Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l, 134 S.Ct. 734 (2013) (hereinafter Alice). No better case illustrates the panel-dependent crapshoot that Section 101 jurisprudence has become than this one. Although it is impossible to predict the Court’s forthcoming opinion in Alice, there is little doubt that it will significantly impact the law in this area and break the deadlock in the Federal Circuit.
The decision below is a prime example of the
current dysfunctional state of the law in the Federal Circuit.
You can read the petition here: ABL v. SmartGene petition for writ of certiorari.
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[kwlug-disc] Anyone interesting in going a GPG key signing?
Andrew Sullivan Cant
acant at alumni.uwaterloo.ca
Sun Oct 6 16:55:22 EDT 2013
All right, slow on following up to keep this thread alive. :)
So I was figuring on either doing a key signing at a KWLUG event
periodically, or even just doing it as part of the regular night.
Say make an announcement at the end of each meeting, and see when we
I was also thinking about a presentation on more things do to with PGP
keys than just email.
I know for myself, I have created and signed 2 keys that I have
eventually stopped using when I switch computers at some point. They
we easy to just not bother getting running again. But if I had more
things that I actually used the keys for, I'd have more motivation to
actually keep them working.
* package signing would be and example for developers.
* Obnam <http://liw.fi/obnam/> is a backup system that uses GPG keys
* git-annex <http://git-annex.branchable.com/encryption/> is using GPG
keys in a similar way
* monkeysphere <http://web.monkeysphere.info/> is trying to a website
certificate system based on the PGP web of trust
If anyone has other uses for their GPG keys, I'd be interested to hear
Does anyone want to start signing tomorrow night?
I can probably either dig up my old one or generate a new key by then.
On Sun Jul 14 23:59:36 2013, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> Would this be part of a regular KWLUG night, or a separate Cryptoparty?
> For those interested, there are still unused vestiges of tools from
> Jonathan Lamothe's Cryptoparty of last year: http://sobac.com/kwcrypto
> Bob's Public Key:
> On 13-07-14 04:44 PM, Andrew Sullivan Cant wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> I have been thinking about trying to start using GPG again. At least to
>> sign my out going messages.
>> Is anyone interested in doing a key signing?
>> It seems like it has been a while since we last had one. And it fits
>> nicely with the recent Tor presentation.
>> How about a short tutorial about how to generate keys and use them?
>> If people can bring laptops, we could also do something workshop style
>> to generate new keys and sign them.
>> kwlug-disc mailing list
>> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> kwlug-disc mailing list
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
More information about the kwlug-disc
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NFL safeties Husain and Hamza Abdullah did not play football in 2012, choosing instead to make a pilgrimage to Mecca as part of their observance of their Islamic faith.
The brothers made their choice knowing that it might impact their ability to return to the NFL, but one of them has lined up a shot at a job for the coming season. Aaron Wilson of the Baltimore Sun reports that Husain Abdullah will work out for the Chiefs later this week as the first step toward a comeback to the football field.
Husain Abdullah played 54 games for the Vikings over four years after making the team as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He started the final 24 of those games, including all nine that he played in 2011 before a concussion ended his season. The Vikings offered Abdullah a contract extension last offseason that he turned down in order to make his pilgrimage.
His brother Hamza played 16 games with the Cardinals in 2011, the seventh year of a career that has also featured stops in Denver and Cleveland after he was a seventh-round pick of the Bucs in 2005.
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This is the Under Armour™ training T-shirt that started the "performance" revolution. It's your go-to SSA gear in and out of the gym.
- Under ArmourTech™ fabric is quick-drying, ultra-soft & has a more natural feel
- Moisture Transport System wicks sweat & dries fast
- Anti-odor technology prevents the growth of odor causing microbes
- Printed with white and gold
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Dorushe, under the auspices of Beth Mardutho: the Syriac Institute, is an international group of students of Syriac Studies. Founded in 2004, it seeks to bring young scholars and graduate students together for the exchange of ideas and research interests.
Since its founding, Dorushe has hosted annual Graduate Student Conferences at Catholic University of America, the University of Notre Dame, Princeton University, and Yale University.
Copyright © 2011- by Beth Mardutho The Syriac Institute All Rights Reserved. Designed by OpenwireSolutions Inc
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Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams is in line to take on the lead role in Sam Raimi's post-apocalyptic film The Last Of Us.
The actress, made famous for her portrayal of Arya Stark in the hit HBO drama, has not yet officially signed up for the role though writer Neil Druckmann and producer Raimi have met with the 17-year-old, according to rte.ie
The upcoming movie is an adaptation of a popular video game.
- 'Sin City 3' under consideration. (deadline.com)
- Mary-Louise Parker to guest on 'Blacklist.' (ew.com)
- First photo of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman. (eonline.com)
- 'Doctor Who' Series 8 premiere to hit select theaters. (hollywoodreporter.com)
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HomeNewsBobi Wine: You shouldn’t have asked why I didn’t cut the cake, you should have asked why I didn’t speak!
“You shouldn’t have asked why I didn’t cut the cake, you should have asked why I didn’t speak!”
The freshly installed young parliamentarian of Uganda gets angry over an article written by a popular news paper of Uganda – ‘The new vision’ which Bobi Wine consider their article as an insult to his personality and his followers as he published on his facebook account.
I quote “I write in response to your article of today entitled “Bobi Wine declines to cut cake with Mayiga” which seemed intended to portray me as an indisciplined and disrespectful leader WHICH YOU KNOW IS NOT TRUE.”
To put some light on the matter, Bobi Wine was invited to attend the Gayaza Junior School’s Day to celebrate the it’s 106 years. He affirms the occasion went on well and Charles Peter Mayiga was honour with whom he had a cordial chat with according to him.
He concider the newspaper biased in their judgment saying he just left the occasion without cutting the cake as if he was given the opportunity to.
Note should be taken that Bobi Wine is the youngest in the Ugandan parliament and he knows what all the youths of the country are going through since has once been there. He has been massively supported by his fans and family. His humility has opened the doors of a Leader and Fighter.
There is no virtue I treasure as much as humility. I have always respected my tradition and its leadership,I still do. I thank you.
Hon. Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert- Bobi Wine M.P. Kyadondo East Constituency
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The ventral tegmental area (VTA) contributes to reward and motivation signaling. In addition to the well established populations of dopamine (DA) or GABA VTA neurons, glutamatergic neurons were recently discovered in the VTA. These glutamatergic neurons express the vesicular glutamate transporter 2, VGluT2. To investigate whether VTA glutamatergic neurons establish local synapses, we tagged axon terminals from resident VTA neurons by intra-VTA injection of Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin (PHA-L) or an adeno-associated virus encoding wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and by immunoelectron microscopy determined the presence of VGluT2 in PHA-L- or WGA-positive terminals. We found that PHA-L- or WGA-positive terminals from tagged VTA cells made asymmetric or symmetric synapses within the VTA. VGluT2 immunoreactivity was detected in the vast majority of PHA-L- or WGA-positive terminals forming asymmetric synapses. These results indicate that both VTA glutamatergic and nonglutamatergic (likely GABAergic) neurons establish local synapses. To examine the possible DAergic nature of postsynaptic targets of VTA glutamatergic neurons, we did triple immunolabeling with antibodies against VGluT2, tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), and PHA-L. From triple-labeled tissue, we found that double-labeled PHA-L (+)/VGluT2 (+) axon terminals formed synaptic contacts on dendrites of both TH-positive and TH-negative cells. Consistent with these anatomical observations, in whole-cell slice recordings of VTA neurons we observed that blocking action potential activity significantly decreased the frequency of synaptic glutamatergic events in DAergic and non-DAergic neurons. These observations indicate that resident VTA glutamatergic neurons are likely to affect both DAergic and non-DAergic neurotransmission arising from the VTA.
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Citation: Monsen, K. A., Handler, H. E., Le, S. & Riemer, J. G.(2014). Feasibility of using the Omaha System for self-report of symptoms by adults with diabetes. Available in the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), 18 (3),
Diabetes self-management in collaboration with the healthcare team is an important strategy to improve population health and decrease healthcare costs. Purposes of this study were two-fold: 1) to evaluate the feasibility of using a standardized terminology for self-report of symptoms by adults with diabetes, and 2) to examine self-reported symptoms relative to the symptoms listed in a publicly-available clinical assessment form for diabetes clinic visits. Respondents with diabetes self-identified 180 symptoms, and 20% of respondents identified 49 symptoms, compared to 13 symptoms on the clinical assessment form. An additional symptom of excessive thirst was suggested to enhance the Omaha System. The Omaha System should be further explored as a communication tool between individuals and their health care providers in personal health records, surveys, and other assessment tools, and reading level concerns should be addressed. The Omaha System has potential to be used internationally in surveys of diverse problems and populations to help identify symptoms of diabetes for improving communication between patients and the healthcare team.
Diabetes is an international crisis with considerable human and economic costs. In terms of human suffering, patients with diabetes are more likely to become blind, suffer from kidney failure and die before their time (c3 Health, 2011). In economic terms, diabetes cost the global economy nearly $50 billion in 2010, and this figure is projected to increase substantially. (Bloom, Cafiero, Jané-Llopis et al., 2012; Bergman, Buysschaert, Schwarz, et al., 2012; c3 Health, 2011; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2011). These costs are intolerable from a human perspective, and not sustainable from an economic perspective. Innovative methods are needed to better address the critical needs of patients and populations affected by the diabetes epidemic (AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange, 2012).
Self-management is a key strategy for optimizing health and reducing the cost of diabetes care (c3 Health, 2011; CDC, 2011; Shrivastava, Shrivastava, & Ramasamy, 2013). Patients with diabetes may experience symptoms that are important cues for treatment (Rosa, Lapides, Hayden & Santangelo, 2014). It is essential for healthcare teams to be aware of relevant symptoms to optimally assist patients in understanding and managing diabetes. Improving patient-provider communication regarding symptoms is an important step toward improving self-management skills of adults with diabetes.
Informatics methods are emerging to manage patient information in ways that can be standardized and shared across settings and populations (Institute of Medicine, 2010; 2011; 2012). Personal health records (PHRs) are becoming increasingly important for patient empowerment and communication with health care teams (AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange, 2012; Carrión, Fernandez Aleman & Toval, 2012; Glasgow, Kaplan, Ockene, Fisher, & Emmons, 2012; Schnipper, Gandhi, Wald, et al., 2012). For interoperability and exchange of information, standardized terminologies should be used to document symptoms within electronic platforms such as personal health records (PHRs) (Institute of Medicine, 2010; 2011; 2012). However, use of standardized terminologies within PHRs and other patient self-report surveys and communication tools is in its infancy. There is a critical need to enhance patient communication with the healthcare team and to develop patient focused care plans and communication tools. Research evaluating information communicated by community dwelling older adults suggests that the Omaha System (Martin, 2005) may be a standardized terminology that is suitable for use in PHRs (Monsen, Westra, Paitich et al., 2012).
The Omaha System exists in the public domain, and provides a recognizable, structured, defined problem list that enables capture of multidisciplinary healthcare data (Martin, 2005; Omaha System, 2014). The Omaha System problem list includes 42 problems, and each problem has a definition and a unique list of symptoms. The problems are arranged in four domains that reflect a holistic approach to patient assessment: Environmental, Psychosocial, Physiological, and Health-related behaviors (Martin, 2005, Omaha System, 2014). The Omaha System is further described in the methods section.
Previous studies examined use of Omaha System symptoms related to diabetes to create an interview data collection tool (Monsen, de la Luz, Pérez Garcés et al, 2012; Handler, Le, Balfour et al., 2012). Nursing students from Canada and the United States together with faculty from Mexico and the United States interviewed adults with diabetes in Mexico using the data collection tool. De-identified data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Twenty-eight symptoms from 13 Omaha System problems, including Income, Neighborhood/workplace safety, Spirituality, Grief, Mental Health, Communicable/Infectious Condition, Circulation, Vision, Skin, Neuro-musculo-skeletal function, Nutrition, Health care supervision, and Medication regimen were included in the interview data collection tool. The adults with diabetes had a mean of 15.6 symptoms each. All but two symptoms had at least one occurrence (Monsen, de la Luz, Pérez Garcés et al, 2012). A second study used the same instrument in interviews replicated these results, with all 28 symptoms represented in the data (Handler et al., 2012). These preliminary studies were limited to a few rural Mexican adults and therefore results should not be generalized. However, the consistent findings across both studies suggest that the Omaha System may be useful in describing the symptoms of adults with diabetes.
Other forms of assessment are common in diabetes care. For example, the Medical History and Questionnaire for Diabetes Patients from Oregon Health & Science University diabetes assessment form that includes a comprehensive assessment is available to the public (Oregon Health & Science University, n.d.). Such assessments are increasingly incorporated within electronic platforms such as PHRs (Schnipper et al., 2012). However, no diabetes assessments based on standardized terminologies were identified in the literature other than the studies described above.
An assessment based on symptoms of a larger, more comprehensive subset of Omaha System problems may describe the prevalence of symptoms experienced by diabetics more fully than the previous survey or other existing healthcare assessments. Such an assessment could serve as a first step toward designing comprehensive, holistic, patient-focused diabetes prevention and management approaches suitable for patient communication with health care teams in platforms such as PHRs and EHRs (Martin, 2005; Omaha System, 2014). Purposes of this study were two-fold: 1) to evaluate the feasibility of using a standardized terminology for self-report of symptoms by adults with diabetes, and 2) to examine self-reported symptoms relative to the symptoms listed in a publicly-available clinical assessment form for diabetes clinic visits.
This descriptive survey study received exemption from review from the University of Minnesota Institutional Review Board. An anonymous survey was developed by the research team using the Omaha System as an online survey tool. A convenience sample of adults with diabetes was recruited through social media methods, and invitations to colleagues, friends and family over a three-month period. For example, messages were sent to the American Diabetic Association and the American Association of Diabetes Educators Facebook pages, a diabetic student Facebook group and e-mail lists, professional nursing research society section members, and e-mail subscription lists for the Omaha System and the Minnesota Omaha System Users Groups.
The posted message stated:
We are nursing students from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, who are working in collaboration with a School of Nursing researcher. We invite people 18 years of age or older who have diabetes to participate in a comprehensive and holistic survey providing information about the impact of diabetes on the whole person and family. The survey is anonymous and voluntary. The purposes of the study are to understand the symptoms that people with diabetes experience in everyday life; and to improve information systems that support the health care of diabetics using the Omaha System (a standardized terminology). People who volunteer to participate will not benefit personally or receive a response from researchers. This study was deemed exempt from review by the University of Minnesota Institutional Review Board, and is conducted through the Center for Nursing Informatics. Please help us by sharing this link with people who would like to join in our effort. Thank you very much!
The first survey question required an answer to this statement that describes study purposes and the inclusion and exclusion criteria:
I am 18 years old or over, and I understand that I am providing information anonymously and voluntarily. This information will be used to understand how the Omaha System symptoms terms describe the prevalence of diabetes symptoms. I will not be compensated for participating in this survey. I can choose to participate or not participate at any time. All responses are anonymous and will not be identifiable. The results of the survey will provide information regarding diabetes symptoms using the Omaha System in the general public for individuals ages 18 and over, and these survey results will be shared at Omaha System meetings and in publications. If you do not agree to the terms of participation, please do not respond to the survey.
Subsequent items were related to Omaha System symptoms by problem. An open-ended question at the end of the survey solicited additional symptoms of diabetes missing in this survey. The final item was a free text field that enabled respondents to provide narrative comments.
Instrument: the Omaha System
The Omaha System is a simple, knowable standardized terminology and ontology for population health consisting of three components, the Problem Classification Scheme, the Intervention Scheme, and the Problem Rating Scale for Outcomes. The Problem Classification Scheme is the component of interest for this study because it provides a structure for a standardized assessment of individuals, families, and communities. It helps collect, sort, document, classify, analyze, retrieve, and communicate health-related needs and strengths. It is a comprehensive, orderly, non-exhaustive, mutually exclusive taxonomy or hierarchy. The Problem Classification Scheme consists of four levels of abstraction. Four domains appear at the first or most general level. Forty-two client problems or areas of concern are at the second level. It is important to note that by definition, the term “problem” is neutral and does not necessarily describe a negative concept or condition. The third level consists of two sets of problem modifiers: health promotion, potential, and actual as well as individual, family, and community. Clusters of symptoms that describe actual problems are at the fourth or most specific level as illustrated in Table 1 (Martin, 2005; Omaha System, 2014).
Table 1. Symptoms from the Oregon Health & Science University Assessment Mapped to Omaha System by Problem and Symptom (Percent of Respondents)
View Table 1
A subset of the 42 Omaha System problems was included in the survey. Instead of selecting 28 symptoms from only 13 problems as in the original interview tool, this survey tool included all 231 symptoms from 26 problems. The problems for the survey were selected based on the questionnaire that was developed by faculty and students who participated in the earlier study (Monsen, de la Luz, Pérez Garcés et al, 2012; Handler, Le, Balfour et al., 2012). By interviewing individuals with diabetes in both rural and urban settings, recurrent symptoms associated with diabetes were identified. All the problems selected for the survey had previously been mentioned as a problem associated with diabetes or one that individuals experienced since being diagnosed with this illness during the interviews conducted in Mexico. These problems were: Sanitation, Residence, Communication with community resources, Social Contact, Interpersonal Relationship, Digestion-hydration, Bowel function, Urinary function, Oral health, Pain, Circulation, Reproductive function, Sleep and rest patterns, Physical activity, Personal care. In addition the following were included from the original interview tool: Income, Neighborhood/workplace safety, Spirituality, Mental health, Communicable/infectious condition, Vision, Skin, Neuro-musculo-skeletal function, Nutrition, Health care supervision, and Medication regimen.
The Medical History and Questionnaire for Diabetes Patients from Oregon Health & Science University diabetes assessment form was selected because it was publicly available and listed diabetes symptoms for patients (Oregon Health & Science University, n.d.). It included 16 symptoms in addition to demographic and health history items and diabetes management questions. The symptoms check list included foot numbness, tingling in feet, foot pain, foot sores (ulcers), problems with sexual dysfunction, frequent diarrhea, frequent nausea or vomiting, feeling full rapidly while eating, lightheaded when standing up, unusual sweating, leg cramping and fatigue, and chest pain. There was also a check box to signify ‘no exercise routine.’ There were blanks to complete for ‘consuming alcohol,’ and ‘smoking.’ There was also a blank for a numeric response to ‘How many times do you get up to urinate at night?’ Mapping these symptoms to the 231 symptoms in the survey was completed by the research team by an Omaha System expert and validated by the co-authors.
We examined frequencies of self-reported symptoms in the survey data. We chose a cut point of 20 percent of the sample since the analysis increased a likelihood of symptom relevance for many adults with diabetes and to reduce the likelihood of error in data interpretation. Finally, we summarized narrative comments from the responses to the two open-ended survey questions.
A total of 31 individuals with diabetes responded to the survey. All individuals agreed to the conditions of the study, and therefore all responses were included in the analysis. Most participants were from the United States. 86% had Type 2 diabetes (74.2%), and had been diagnosed with diabetes for more than 10 years (67.7%).
Of the 231 symptoms in the survey, 185 were self-identified by at least one respondent and 49 symptoms were self-identified by 20% or more of the respondents. Of these 49 symptoms, 28 (57.1%) symptoms were from the Physiological domain and 18 (36.7%) were from the Health-related behaviors domain. Only one symptom was self-identified from the Environmental and Psychosocial domains. Ten symptoms were identified by at least 50% of respondents. These ten symptoms were from four problems: Nutrition, Physical activity, Urinary function, and Sleep and rest patterns (see Figure 1).
Fifteen of 16 symptoms from the Oregon Health & Sciences University Assessment were mapped to Omaha System symptoms. Other than consuming alcohol and smoking, all symptoms were from the Physiological Domain. The symptom of unusual sweating was not mapped due to lack of a semantic match in the Omaha System. Frequencies of responses for 13 of 16 symptoms mapped to the Oregon Health and Science University form are noted in Table 2. Six of the 13 were reported by more than 20% of survey respondents. Responses for symptoms of Substance use including consuming alcohol and smoking were not present in the data because the study survey did not include the symptoms from the Omaha System problem Substance use.
Table 2. Number of Omaha System Symptoms by Domain and Problem in Previous Interview Tool, and Selected by Adults with Diabetes (N=31)
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Several respondents provided qualitative narrative regarding a) additional symptoms; b) further description of self-reported symptoms; c) use of the Omaha System as a terminology for the general public; and d) suggestions for survey improvement. Numerous respondents suggested excessive thirst should be included as a symptom of diabetes. A few respondents further described existing symptoms, including a lengthy description of generalized chronic pain, and a description of seizing up of hand muscles. Other respondents provided feedback on usability of the Omaha System as a terminology for non-health care professionals, noting that some terms were unfamiliar, and that the reading level of symptoms was above the 5th or 6th grade level. Some respondents gave suggestions for improvement in survey design to help other respondents interpret the symptoms as survey items.
The Omaha System was used as a survey instrument to describe the self-identified prevalence of symptoms in persons with diabetes. A total 180 of 231 possible symptoms were self-identified by patients and 49 symptoms were identified by 20% or more respondents. Narrative comments suggested excessive thirst should be included as an additional symptoms of diabetes. Results suggested that survey symptoms items captured relevant information from respondents regarding their personal health perceptions. Furthermore, the frequent suggestion of excessive thirst as a missing symptom should be considered in a future revision of the Omaha System.
To improve diabetes self-management, it is essential to understand the symptoms that patients with diabetes experience in everyday life, instead of limiting assessments to a few symptoms of disease. For example, respondents recognized their symptoms of problems from the Health-related Behaviors Domain: Sleep and rest patterns, Physical activity, and Nutrition. These problems can be addressed through self-management and have the potential to influence diabetes symptoms and overall health. Additionally, the symptom of foot pain in the OHSU questionnaire limits the pain assessment and may miss important information about the experience of generalized chronic pain by adults with diabetes. Overall, these findings suggest that a more comprehensive and holistic assessment of symptoms would be beneficial to improve communication between patients and the health care team. As well, future versions of the survey should include symptoms from the Substance use problem to capture tobacco and alcohol use.
A major challenge of this study was recruiting individuals with diabetes through social media to participate anonymously. Despite extensive efforts, only 31 responses were received. Due to the small sample size, the results should be interpreted with caution, and the study should be replicated broadly to validate findings. In future studies incentives for participation may be considered to improve sample size.
Implications of the study include the potential to use the Omaha System during patient encounters and in PHRs as a communication tool between adults with diabetes and the health care team. Use of a standardized terminology for such assessments would improve data interoperability and exchange. Respondent comments suggest that further research is needed to evaluate the reading level of Omaha System symptoms for use by the general public. This project is an example of student-led terminology-related research. This approach was a successful educational strategy for developing competencies in informatics and nursing research in a series of international projects that contributed new knowledge about the self-report of symptoms for adults with diabetes. There is potential to generalize this method for student learning internationally, expanding to other clinical conditions and patient populations. Several examples are available at the Omaha System Partnership for Knowledge Discovery and Health Care Quality organization, including a seven-country study of community-level symptoms (Flaten, Kerr & Monsen, 2012; University of Minnesota School of Nursing, 2014).
Future research opportunities include replication of this study, including research in other countries, and use of the Omaha System as a survey instrument for other diseases or conditions. Furthermore the findings suggest that usability studies should be conducted of the Omaha System symptoms as a communication tool in PHRs, including readability and use by general public and clinicians.
Individuals with diabetes self-identified 180 symptoms describing personal health concerns that may be amenable to health care intervention. Problems that are not usually associated with diabetes were prevalent in the data, including those related to Pain and Sleep and rest patterns, and should be included by health care teams when performing holistic assessments within the diabetic population. Compared to the Oregon Health & Sciences University Assessment, the survey captured more self-reported symptoms for more problems. The Omaha System is a standardized health care terminology that may be useful in communication between individuals and their healthcare providers in PHRs. It has potential for use internationally in surveys of diverse populations to help identify symptoms of diabetes.
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Karen A. Monsen, PhD, RN, FAAN is an associate professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing where she is specialty coordinator for the Doctor of Nursing Practice Informatics Specialty and co-director of the Center for Nursing Informatics.
Hillary E. Handler, RN, BSN graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing in May 2013 with a Bachelors of Science in Nursing and Minor in Spanish. She is a staff nurse at United Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Suzanne M. Le, RN, BSN graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing in May 2013 with a Bachelors of Science in Nursing. She is a staff nurse at Gillette Children’s Specialty Heatlhcare in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Judith G. Riemer, MS, RN, CNS is an independent health care consultant and a licensed Clinical Nurse Specialist in community health nursing in the state of California.
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Shot of the Day
Interesting shots taken while traveling in the US and around the world.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Red Gas Sign, Chicago
For some reason this sign was hanging at the Chicago Cultural Center. Must have been from an old gas station. Love to find gas for less but for now, I have just a picture of the sign.
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Duty Free Roadtrip Points (old)
Additional Savings - Points earned on regular priced merchandise amount to a 10% discount
Exclusive Member Promotions - Each month you may have access to exclusive promotions
Monthly e-Newsletter – Includes new products, promotions, event invitations, drink recipes etc.
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Rules & Regulations
- You must shop at the Duty Free 3+ times per year to keep your membership active
- Members will receive ongoing correspondence for the program and benefits
- All contact information is mandatory and you will periodically be required to confirm your membership status via email
- Members must present the loyalty club card prior to payment
- Members earn 1 point per $10 spent on regular priced items
- Points earned on sale items and tobacco may be variable (or nil) and may change without notice
- A $20 credit is issues for every 20 points accumulated
- Credit is valid the day after it is issued and can only be redeemed by the Member to whom it is issued
- Credit expires 1 year after date of issuance and is not replaceable if lost
- Changes may be made to the rules and regulations at any time without notice
- Inactive membership will result in loss of points and credit
The monthly newsletter will be sent to you and include the following value added information:
- Travel alerts and warnings e.g. anticiapted high traffic dates/times, weather, construction etc.
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Use of Information
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To obtain your loyalty card in-store please advise your Cashier you've signed up online.
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Rite Aid earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter of 2019 have RAD stock falling hard on Thursday.
Rite Aid (NYSE:RAD) reported losses per share of one penny for its fiscal fourth quarter of the year. This is the same as the company’s losses per share from its fiscal fourth quarter of 2018. It also comes in above Wall Street’s losses per share estimate of 2 cents for the period, but wasn’t saving RAD stock from dropping today.
Net loss reported in the Rite Aid earnings release for its fiscal fourth quarter of 2019 comes in at $272.98 million. This is worse off than the company’s net income of $767.07 million reported in the same period of the year prior.
Rite Aid earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter of 2019 also include revenue of $5.38 billion. This is a slight drop from the company’s revenue of $5.39 billion reported in its fiscal fourth quarter of the previous year. It was also bad news for RAD stock by missing analysts’ revenue estimate of $5.56 billion for the quarter.
The Rite Aid earnings report for its fiscal fourth quarter of the year also includes an update to its reverse stock split plan. The company says that this will have is consolidating stock on a one to 20 basis. This will take the total amount of outstanding shares of RAD stock down from 1.08 billion to 54 million. The change will go into effect on April 22, 2019.
RAD stock was down 10% as of Thursday afternoon.
As of this writing, William White did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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Free Swift Library to Download & Cache Images
Open source Swift API that allows software developers to work with remote images inside their web apps. It allows to download and cache images, apply image processors and filters.
Kingfisher is a lightweight pure Swift implementation that provided complete functionality for working with multiple image file formats using Swift code. The library helps developers to create applications that can remotely handle images with ease. The library asynchronously downloads as well as cache images inside their own applications. The library supports a multiple-layer cache for the downloaded images that immensely enhances the performance of the apps. That means images will be cached in memory as well as on disk so no need to download it again.
The library is easy to handle and provides a facility for cache management. Users can easily set the size as well as the duration of the cache. It will also provide an automatic cache cleaning facility that helps users to prevent the library from utilizing too many resources. One other great feature is included for task cancellation. Users can easily cancel the downloading or image retrieving process if it is not needed anymore.
The Kingfisher library facilitates developers to use image downloading and image caching components separately according to their needs. You can even create your own cache according to your own needs using Swift code. It Improves the disk cache performance by avoiding unnecessary disk operations. The library is open source and is available under the MIT License.
At A Glance
An overview of Kingfisher features.
- Multiple-layer cache
- View images
- Read image
- Download images
- Cache images
- Custom processor
- Round image corners
- downloads Resuming
- Apply filters
- HTTP Disk Cache
- Cancelable downloading
- Prefetching images
- image animation
- Memory management
Kingfisher supports image processing as well as can export data to common file formats.
Kingfisher only requires Swift to be installed.
Getting Started with Kingfisher
Clone the latest sources with using the following command
Install Kingfisher via GitHub.
$ git submodule add https://github.com/onevcat/Kingfisher.git
Download & Use Images using Swift
The open source Nuke API provides a well-organized and effective way for downloading and using images inside your Swift apps. To fetch the images you need to pass the URL of the required image and then call the resume method. It will download the requested image in the background and will inform the response closure when it’s done.
Preheat Image using Swift API
Preheating is a useful feature that enables users to download the image or other data ahead of time in anticipation of its use. The apps can download it and store it in the application’s network cache. Later when you need to view the image the response to your request will come back from the cache instead of the network. The open source API Nuke supports an exciting feature known as preheating images using Swift code. Please remember that preheating can takes up users' data and puts extra pressure on the CPU as well as memory. To reduce this pressure you can choose only the disk cache as the prefetching destination.
Load and Cash Images via Swift
Image caching is a useful method that improves application performance and end-user experience. The open source Nuke API enables software apps to automatically cache the downloaded images. Nuke relies on two built-in caching layers. The first one is used to store processed image, which is ready for display. It uses the LRU algorithm – the least recently used entries are removed first during the sweep. The 2nd one uses HTTP Disk Cache to store the unprocessed image data. It is also possible to check the existence of the requested image in the cache.
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Shelton Benjamin is Father to his Daughter but no sign of his Wife; Find out more about his Personal life, Wiki, Biography, and Net Worth
Becoming a father is one of the beautiful emotions a human feels. WWE star Shelton Benjamin has felt that emotion of becoming a father.
But the big question is, who is his wife? The pro athlete never revealed the information of his wife or girlfriend with whom he conceived his daughter.
Today in this section, let's try to find out.
Shelton Benjamin-Hiding his Wife or Girlfriend
It's a given fact that all the pro-wrestlers are tough athletes who give their absolute best in their pursuit of their excellence in the related field. But all these tough looking wrestlers tend to have a soft spot.
Shelton Benjamin is a proud father of one daughter, Kyana,
If someone wants to excel in sports, one must never get emotional as it makes them weak, but in the end, a family is a family. After all, everything will leave your side, your family still remains.
Maybe that's why Shelton opted to raise a family of his own. During the initial phase of his career, he enjoyed a lot of success. His personal life is just as delightful as his professional life.
Now many of you must be wondering he must be a great husband and a caring father to his children. Well, you are right about the latter but we can't be so sure about the former.
The professional actor is gushing about his daughter all over the social media. He is a proud father to one daughter named, Kyana.
He once congratulated his daughter when she graduated high school earlier this year. It was a proud moment for him as the child who grew up in front of his very eyes grown into a fine young lady.
Now you all must be wondering as to who is the mother of the apple of his eyes.Well, to be honest, it's still a big mystery. He hides information regarding his personal life so well, no one ever heard about his wife or girlfriend.
Quick facts about Shelton Benjamin
- Born on July 9, 1975 (age 42), in Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States.
- He started wrestling during his high school days.
- He went to Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School.
- He is a two time South Carolina state high school heavyweight wrestling champion.
- He also attended the University of Minnesota.
- He joined the WWE network in 2002.
- He worked in the WWE network for more 10-years.
- He joined the New Japan Pro Wrestling in 2012.
- He then returned to WWE in 2017.
- His net worth is estimated at $2.3 million.
For all the latest gossip from the celeb world, make sure to follow our website.
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Wilton homes slammed by early morning storm
Published 8:18 am, Thursday, January 31, 2013
WILTON — More than one thousand Connecticut Light & Power customers in Wilton are without power from Thursday’s early morning storm, according to CL&P’s outage map.
Of the town’s 7,321 CL&P customers, 1,012 or 13 percent are without power as of 1 p.m. Thursday.
By 10 a.m., 12 roadways were either partially or fully closed. The areas or roads included: 332 Deforest Road, 105 Skunk Lane, 60 Nod Hill Road, 52 Collinswood Road due to downed wires, Pine Ridge Road, 53 Shadow Lane, 25 Ambler Lane from downed wires, 249 Chestnut Hill Road, 162 Chestnut Hill Road, 60 Cheesespring road, St. Johns Road because of a fallen tree and Olmstead Hill Road/Saunders Drive.
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A Boxall, 28 Jul 2009I always give a phone at least two months test before commenting on it. I have had this phone ... morethe what cellphone do you think is good.write me back as soon as you can at firstname.lastname@example.org thanks
I have a major problem with signal on my BB. It cuts off whenever it feels like. I thought it will be an advantage to business but actually makes it very unprofessional.
Does anyone have the same problem particularly in the South African region.
wassup Guys ?
well , I wanna buy a BB device but I find myself between 2 choices ... I mean either I go for curve 8900 or storm 9500 . which one of them u guys think is better ?
The BBstorm Is a storm of frustration I have had my bb for
about six months and from day one to now I been try to install a bible and to download a youtude video and still failing
I have gone to the help site and have got no help.
However the browser works great but only get so far and no more
It also seems that the developers are asleep or they are out they need to go back to the drawing board to make the phone and apps user friendly.
which type of game file will support reply on my no 9920819131
hey guys common,bb storm is a business phone,i phone is a complete multimedia phone,so 2 diffrent worlds!!!
get the i phone and get funn(y)
i have sent my storm back for repair 2 time now as it keep restarting its self
why keep doing a software upgrade and i am sick of it
what the hell that was? its a cheating , its just like a nokia 3310. nothing else
i wanna know why theres no wi fi in storm even he s i new modeland the curve and bold has
lets us talking about bb pluto and magnum..will its available or canceled this last september ?
to my opinion the blackberry storm is not made for every one. I feel comfortable using it but others will say no. really for internet & Google maps is fantastic but for messaging it require a lot of practice
ok for all you people that are complaining about the lack of wi-fi heres the deal
the 9500 storm in the uk is only available on vodafone
and comes with unlimited interent and email usage so no need to worry about it eating into ur call time
with respects to people saying wi-fi is faster, well yes wi-fi is faster if you are using a laptop
mobile phones wi-fi is rather slow
i have compared internet browsing using my nokia n95 8gb runing on my home wi-fi against my BB9500 storm runing on vodafone 3G
its about the same reli
who needs wifi wen vodafone 3g is just as fast and i can use it anywhere, no need for wifi hot spots
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BAM last year, during a mini-fest devoted to the work of this interesting filmmaker, now's your chance. Rodrigues' longest and most-heralded film so far, 2009's To Die Like A Man, tells of the travails of Tonia, a transvestite on her way to full transgenderation. The film opens with a young man applying... make-up? Or is it war paint? Then we cut to the shot of a spider in her web and then to a pair of soldiers, one of whom is that young man again, in camouflage, on a mission or perhaps part of a military game. Strange, very bad things happen, but, as usual with Rodrigues (shown below), you are not always certain what is real.
That lover's a druggie, and so the two squabble, make up, and squabble some more. He's off drugs, then back on. And when s/he gives the kid a blow job, be breaks it off mid-suck.
L'avventura (with Tonia standing in for the missing Anna).
Meek's Cutoff, which has probably recevied the best reviews of any film to open this year (bettering even those of Uncle Boonmee!) and is a not-uninteresting but flat presentation in which everything, including the fact that the future is unknowable, is spelled out; and To Die Like A Man, which is consistently fluid and tantalizing, dreamlike and transgressive, but user-friendly only to those who simply give over many of their pre-conceived notions. Both should be seen, and will be. But only the first of the two, I suspect, will haul in the "mainstream art film" crowd. A shame.
Strand Releasing, opens in New York today at the IFC Center. It may be coming other theaters, though as of opening day, the company offered no information about the movie on its own web site -- other than the title.
Last year, I covered the Rodriguez' fest at BAM and had a short interview with the director. You can find that post -- and interview -- here.
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Crazy Sneaker Concepts by Flyfresh Customs
I recently stumbled across an Instagram user by the alias @flyfreshcustoms. Flyfresh does some pretty dope design concepts on a variety of runners. Check out these Ultra Boosts! Imagine if these were actually available to cop. I really like the incredibly dapper designs Flyfresh has come up with, especially the ‘Air Yeezy 2’ inspired colourways.
Apart from Ultra Boosts, Flyfresh also do some gnarly Flyknit Racer custom impressions. Matter of fact the two black Mercurial Flyknit Racers are going to come to life. I hope more of Flyfresh’s concepts become a reality soon, because they are some seriously funky designs.
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A number of organisations have been asking for an opportunity to hear about the overall strategy that the Local Authority and their partners have for supporting and raising the achievement of Somali Pupils in Bristol. Sue Rogers (who is the new Service Director for Education and Skills) is very keen to talk about her vision for the service and to answer any questions.
Invitation to Somali Parents
Come and hear about what schools and academies in Bristol are doing to support your children’s education and improve their academic outcomes
From 4 – 5.30 pm on Monday 21st May
At City Academy Bristol, Russell Town Avenue, Redfield, BS5 9JH
Sue Rogers, Service Director for Education and Skills and Chrysta Garnett, Head of School Partnerships will be the key speakers and there will be an opportunity to ask questions
Any queries contact: email@example.com (on behalf of Race Equality in Education Group)
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The Bouroullec Brothers, Ronan and Erwan, designed the “Corniches” range of storage objects for furniture manufacturer Vitra. Corniches will be on show at the Milan Design Week from 17 to 22 April 2012.
Corniches is an illustration of the idea that an impromptu storage area can be created. The brothers identified a need for small storage spaces that can be used to easily, or “spontaneously” store various items.
Individual protrusions allow for different aspects of Corniches to be freely organised. The glossy pedestals of Cornishes are made of ABS and come in three sizes and a variety of colours.
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Trying new things can be intimidating, thereâs no other way around it, we get that sinking feeling in our stomach and are suddenly transported to our first day at a new job. Where we donât know anyone, anything about the different surroundings, despite quick introductions and rushed tours. Exploring the world of French lingerie can feel overwhelming at first, new words entering your vocabulary, such as: baby doll, thigh highs, balcony, chemise and so on. No one is born an expert, which was our inspiration behind this article, the easy beginners guide to French lingerie. As learning to be body confident should be a language we all understand.
Comfort and Fit
There is a rather odd myth surrounding lingerie, which centres on idea that you will need to sacrifice your comfort. There is only style when it comes to feeling sexy and absolutely no structural support. Cute lingerie is just for people that have âmodelâ physiques and is not available to those of us with fuller figures. None of this is true; this rumour comes from a few bad experiences, or people going to the wrong type of lingerie stores. So what is the right type? Going to a lingerie store is the best way, as many of them have assistants that can measure you and find your correct size. If you arenât comfortable doing that, get a friend or your S.O to do it for you, online providers will have a size guide. Which means goodbye to red marks on your shoulders, loose fitting knickers/panties and ill fitting night wear.
Items and body confidenceLingerie is just a collective term, it covers a whole range or items and styles, from matching sets to nightwear. Donât feel rushed into making a purchase, look around and take time to browse. What do you want to try out? What would you be comfortable in? Also, one of the most important things to consider is, how does it make you feel? Lingerie is all about making you feel body confident. What makes you feel sexy, a boss and thrilled to be wearing. Lingerie is like an accessory, something that is designed to kick your confidence up a notch, no matter what you wear on top of it. Remember if you wonât try it, donât buy it, French lingerie is just about you.
The fun of lingerie
The wonderful things about lingerie is the amount of items available to you, it isnât just garter belts and corsets. There are many styles, fabrics and types of lingerie available. If you feeling a little risqué try something a little more revealing? Looking for something a little sexier maybe try a little lace? Try a different bra, what about: peep, balcony, plunge, push up, lace, silk and so many others.
The point of French Lingerie is about inner confidence and developing that into outer confidence. Feeling good about yourself should be fundamental and as easy as putting of a pair of French knickers. We hope you found this useful, happy shopping!
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handling slashes for time signatures where denominator >8 and numerator not divisible by 3
When adding slash notation to odd time signature charts where a measure has a time signature with denominator greater than 8 and a numerator not divisible by 3, then slash head notes are created with a beam but without a stem. Thus it is hard to determine the rhythm of those slashed measures (although it can be inferred from time signature). Also if beam properties are set for a time signature with beam properties that groups eighths notes or shorter individually, then when slashed, those eighth note slashes appear identical to quarter note slashes.
In example attached test, the 3/8 measure, 3/32 measure, 3/64 measure appears identically as a dotted slash (no beam and no stem). The first two 5/8's measures have beams according to time signature definition, but no stems. The third 5/8 measure has time signature definition that indiviually groups the eighth notes, which causes the slashes to appear identically to quarter slashes.
My suggestion (see attached suggested png) would be to always include a stem for all eighths or higher when filling with slashes. This removes all ambiguity as to what rhythm those slashes represent.
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FREE BOOTCAMP JAN 23rd-27th
The Jewelry Brand Makeover Bootcamp
Step into your role as a successful, independent jewelry maker with easy to implement marketing strategies to sell more jewelry…
…without spending countless hours on instagram, ignoring your kids, or another 25% off sale to make ends meet.
Join me for our legendary FREE bootcamp from January 23rd-27th with a bonus Q&A masterclass!
During this newely updated transformational
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How to deal with inflation and adjust your prices WITHOUT scaring away your dream clients
How to sell more on Instagram and Facebook – in just 15 minutes a day
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How to stand out in a saturated jewelry market with a timeless brand [bonus masterclass]
Plus, mentorship from our coaches & special guest appearances from successful makers
By participating, you’ll also get exclusive access to…
"I doubled my sales from the previous holiday season...and I more than doubled my income for the entire year!"
—ALYSSA MINER, JAMMINHAMMER.COM
"My social media following is up by at least 75%, it's been incredible. And I've had a 200% increase in sales!"
—PEGGY HOUCHIN, PEGGYHOUCHIN.COM
"I went from one online sale every couple of weeks to multiple $300-600 sales every day."
—ANA MARIA ANDRICAIN, JEWELOFHAVANA.COM
© 2023 Flourish & Thrive Academy.
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WALNUT GROVE CRUISE & TRAVEL is calling all passengers between 18 – 35 to experience the ultimate tour of ENGLAND & SCOTLAND!
We have June 25 – July 04 confirmed from London to Glasgow on a tour that will be an adventure, an opportunity to meet new friends, and a memory to last a lifetime.
This could be an excellent graduation gift, or simply an opportunity to see some of the world and imagine, being in Liverpool, Beatlemania abounds!
If you like to have fun and be active while seeing all the sights and sounds of new destinations please call us and secure your spot on this exciting tour.
Ask us how you can save 10%
- Explore The Worlds Most Amazing Destinations
- Saddle up for an Equestrian Adventure with National Geographic
- Six New Intrepid Trips for Solo Travelers
- Uniworld + Butterfield & Robinson Active Travel River Cruises
- Great Deals at Great Heights at North America's Top Mountain Resorts
- Cruise to Cuba? Yes You Can!
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Hastert Hospitalized With Kidney Stones
Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) was taken to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., this morning to “undergo a routine procedure to remove kidney stones,” according to a statement released by his office.
Ron Bonjean, a Hastert spokesman, said the Speaker is expected to be released from the hospital Thursday morning and then will return to Illinois on Friday. Hastert will take up his normal schedule next week, according to Bonjean.
Hastert’s hospitalization means that he will not be able to accompany an official Congressional delegation to Rome to attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Hastert was also unable to preside over this morning’s joint session of Congress to receive Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko.
The Speaker was replaced in the chair by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas).
Hastert has suffered from kidney stones at least once before, and was hospitalized for a similar procedure in 2001.
— Ben Pershing
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The City of Toronto is making improvements at Liberty Village Park!
This timeline is subject to change.
While we aim to provide fully accessible content, there is no text alternative available for some of the content on this site. If you require alternate formats or need assistance understanding our maps, drawings, or any other content, please contact Rachel Weston at 416-392-3357.
Construction is anticipated to start in early May. During construction, there will be no access to the playground. The closest playgrounds are:
The concept design for the park improvements is finalized. Construction is anticipated to begin in fall 2021.
Feedback on the two proposed concept designs for the park improvements was collected in an online survey from December 13 to December 31, 2019. The survey received a total of 113 responses.
An Open House event was held to present the two proposed concept designs and gather feedback from the community.
A design team led by landscape architectural consulting firm Cosburn Nauboris was hired and is developing concept design options for the park.
Based on community consultation, a need has been identified for improvements to be made at Liberty Village Park, primarily to enhance the play amenities that currently exist at the park.
The scope of improvements to the park include:
Feedback from the December 2019 open house was incorporated into the development of the final detailed design.
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Novelist, screenwriter, playwright and broadcaster, Joseph O’Connor is the author of nine novels including Star of the Sea, Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book novel 2011) and Shadowplay (June 2019). In 2014 he was appointed Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. Twice Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey has written, ‘There are few living writers who can take us back in time so assuredly, through such gorgeous sentences. Joseph O’Connor is a wonder, and Shadowplay is a triumph.’
Kevin Barry is the author of the novels City of Bohane, which won the won the 2013 International Impac Dublin Literary Award, and Beatlebone. He is also the author of two short story collections, Dark Lies the Island and There are Little Kingdoms. His new novel, Night Boat to Tangier, taking place between the west of Ireland and the port of Algeciras in Spain, has been longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize. A unique and compelling voice, he has already been described by Irvine Welsh as ‘the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years’.
These two literary greats will join Rick O’Shea, radio presenter and the man behind Ireland’s largest book club, to discuss the writing life and their new novels.
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As it stands, each attempt at this week's Mystery Game costs 20 Farm Cash, so even if you're lucky enough to earn different item on your first six tries, you'll still need to shell out 120 Farm Cash before laying claim to the Wine Horse. Add that to the fact that you may need to pop many more balloons than six to actually complete the game and you have a costly endeavor.
If you're interested in going for that impressive feat, or if you just want to purchase a single dart, here's what you can expect to find inside the game:
Vineyard Mini Horse
As you might expect, the Wine Horse, Mini Horse and Cow all produce offspring, just in case that sort of thing increases your desire to purchase a dart. In addition, if you happened to pick up a Vineyard Goat for 120,000 coins during its "bugged" release in the store, you should see that the item is now fully functional on your land, and is no longer invisible (as of this writing, I haven't had mine taken away, so it looks to be permanent). Unfortunately, the Mystery Game won't register that you have already "won" this prize, so you'll have to go for a second to complete the game, but hey - there's still nothing wrong with snagging a 20 Farm Cash item for just 120,000 coins.
Remember, this Vineyard animal Mystery Game will only be available to play for a single week, so act fast if you want a chance at winning all six items and at that elusive Wine Horse.
Did you finish last week's Mystery Game to earn a free French Unicorn? Will you try to complete this week's game for a free Wine Horse as well? How much Farm Cash would you be willing to spend on this week's game, just to earn the Wine Horse? Sound off in the comments.
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It happens more often than you might think: the loss of consumers’ personally identifiable data due to lost hardware.
Due to headline-grabbing cyber breaches, we often forget about the very real problem of lost data on devices. Whether stolen or just missing in action, these types of data breaches are a regular occurrence—and a serious risk.
For example, in January, Modern Healthcare reported that the health insurance company Centene Corp. was hunting for six computer hard drives containing the health records of nearly one million patients.
The company said the hard drives were being used in a data project analyzing lab test results to improve members’ health outcomes. The PHI (personal health information) on the missing drives included individuals’ names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, member ID numbers and unspecified “health information.”
Centene is not the only company facing the problem of lost devices. Several studies have reported on the issue. For example, eSecurity Planet found the leading cause of data breaches has been the theft or loss of unencrypted laptops and USB drives. “If there’s a difference between a laptop theft today and 10 years ago, it’s that it’s probably got saleable data on it,” stated Stephen Cobb, ESET senior security researcher.
Lock Down Devices with Encryption
The Centene security incident is yet another reminder of the critical importance of applying cybersecurity measures to any device containing PII or PHI data. In this case, if the health insurance company had encrypted the data it would not have to be so worried about the data on missing devices getting into the wrong hands.
Encryption is basically a way of scrambling data so that the only way to unscramble it is with a password. It is an effective cybersecurity step at all three states of data: at rest, in use and in transit:
- Data at rest. Refers to inactive data stored physically in any digital form, such as hard drives and mobile devices.
- Data in use. Refers to active data stored in a non-persistent digital state, typically in computer RAM, CPU caches or CPU registers.
- Data in transit. Divided into two categories, it includes information that flows over the public or untrusted network such as the Internet, and also data that flows in the confines of a private network such as a corporate or enterprise LAN.
The Power of Encryption
The FBI’s recent attempt to force Apple to access encrypted files on a terrorist’s iPhone has raised many questions about the balance between security and accessibility. However, experts agree that encryption is vital to the optimal security of networks and data. In fact, it’s impossible to operate the commercial Internet or other widely deployed global communication networks securely without the use of encryption.
It’s so vital that last year 15 security specialists and university professors collaborated on a 34-page document published by MIT expressing their concern for the government’s repeated requests for “exceptional access” to encrypted data. Interestingly, this document was published almost six months before the FBI vs. Apple case.
In the report, they state their denouncement of exceptional access legislation. They emphasize that the stakes are much higher today than ever before, because “the scale and scope of systems dependent on strong encryption are far greater, and our society is far more reliant on far-flung digital networks that are under daily attack.”
While companies like iPhone, Facebook and Google are taking encryption seriously (to the point of pushing back on government agencies’ frequent data requests in the name of security), other companies are not. In fact, some of the biggest breaches in recent history were due to a lack of encryption, including the breaches at Target, Sony and the U.S. Office of Personal Management.
“Ninety-nine percent of organizations do not encrypt anything other than the occasional laptop,” stated Chris Gatford, director of penetration testing at Hacklabs, according to ZDNet. “Encrypted file systems, especially encrypting data at rest, it just doesn’t occur.”
Further, MIT Technology Review reported that: “Many technological security failures of today can be traced to failures of encryption. (For example,) In 2014 and 2015, unnamed hackers—probably the Chinese government—stole 21.5 million personal files of U.S. government employees and others. They wouldn’t have obtained this data if it had been encrypted.”
Add a Cybersecurity Framework
Not only should all organization take encryption seriously, but also they need to create an even stronger cyber defense to both ensure encryption is taking place as well as other security measures. They can achieve this by adopting a cybersecurity framework in their security strategy.
The combination of a solid cybersecurity framework and strong encryption creates the equivalent of a double-bolt lock that makes it harder than ever for malicious attackers to penetrate organizations’ security walls.
The most comprehensive cybersecurity framework was created by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). According to NIST, its cybersecurity framework “enables organizations to establish a roadmap for reducing cybersecurity risks that is well aligned with organizational and sector goals, considers legal/regulatory requirements and industry best practices, and reflects risk management priorities.”
The NIST Framework Core consists of five concurrent and continuous functions—identify, protect, detect, respond and recover. These functions provide a high-level, strategic view of the lifecycle of an organization’s management of cybersecurity risk. They lay out questions and guidelines for organizations to answer and execute including:
- Identify. What assets need protection?
- Protect. What safeguards are available?
- Detect. What techniques can identify incidents?
- Respond. What techniques can contain impacts of incidents?
- Recover. What techniques can restore capabilities?
This double-bolt approach of combining encryption with a cybersecurity framework will not only keep data on devices safer across the organization, but the entire network will be more secure—from both daily attacks by unrelenting aggressors and the ongoing, very real risk of losing devices.
Contact us today for more information about how we help organizations to identify, measure and respond to their information risks.
We have assisted more than 400 customers to operationalize and mature their information privacy, security, compliance and information risk management programs. And in the process, we are raising the bar for safeguarding PHI, protecting millions of Americans and driving real value for the organizations we support and the healthcare industry at large.
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It is unlikely, based on what you have related, that the car will be towed without notice to you. However, you can file a Motion for Entry of Not Guilty Judgment and set it for a hearing. That will get the case off of high center anyway. Most people prefer for the case to just sit there rather than push it, but if you want to move it forward that is the way to do so. You can also contact the clerk and ask what is happening, but to get a resolution file the motion described above. There is no form for it, you just title
it as set forth above, explain what happened and that you provided proof per the judge's request, and that you are no seeking a finding of not guilty.
Thank you for allowing me to assist you. As you know, we work on the honor system here and cannot always provide you answers that you like. I believe I have answered all of the questions you asked so I would request that you please click the ACCEPT button so I receive credit for my work and leave feedback if you have a chance. Please consider clicking "BONUS" as a nice way of saying "thanks" for a job well done, although this is neither required nor expected. I believe in giving information that is to the point, but please remember that I can only base our answers on the information you provide and sometimes a misunderstanding as to what you are looking for or already know occurs so feel free to ask additional questions or for clarifications. Please be aware that my answer is not legal advice, it is merely information. You should always contact a local attorney for legal advice.
Several customers have asked how they direct a question to me in particular. If you specifically want me to provide information for you just put “FOR JD 1992” in the subject line and I will pick up the next time I am online.
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Oil has climbed for a seventh straight session as a decrease in the US rig count and stronger demand data from China lifted depressed prices that still finished the first half with the biggest decline for that period since 1998.
US drillers decreased their number of rigs for the first time since January, according to energy services company Baker Hughes. The rig count had risen for the previous 23 weeks.
Earlier, Chinese data showed factories grew at the quickest pace in three months. Rob Haworth, senior investment strategist at US Bank Wealth Management, said the Chinese data "certainly gives you hope that demand is growing globally".
US crude futures settled up $US1.11, or around 2.5 per cent, to $US46.04 a barrel. Benchmark Brent crude futures settled up 50 cents at $US47.92 a barrel.
Both benchmarks ended the first half of 2017 with drops of more than 14 per cent since December 30, 2016, the largest drop since Brent and US crude fell about 19 per cent in the first half of 1998.
Oil prices have generally increased in first half of most years.
Trading volume was low ahead of the US Independence Day holiday weekend. Last week, crude hit a 10-month low as rises in output revived concerns about global oversupply.
The US dollar fell, making dollar-denominated crude oil less expensive for investors using other currencies.
The global crude glut has knocked 16 per cent off Brent crude so far this year, even though the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and other major producers have agreed to cut production about 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd).
"There's a longer term question of where are prices going to be when the market rebalances," said Haworth.
Money managers cut their net long US crude futures and options positions in the week to June 27 to the lowest since late September, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Friday.
The market has also seen traders building short positions to the highest levels since mid-August.
Reuters' monthly oil price poll showed analysts have reduced their price forecasts again, with 2017 average Brent and WTI prices lowered by more than $US2 since last month.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts cut their forecast for average 2017 Brent crude prices to $US50 a barrel from $US54 and WTI to $US47 from $US52. They cited rising output from Libya, Nigeria and US shale fields, coupled with weaker demand growth.
While US drillers cut two oil rigs in the week to June 30, the total rig count of 756 is still more than double the count the same week a year ago, Baker Hughes said on Friday.
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2020-09-30T04:21:13Z
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The 2018 Auckland Youth competition will be based at Unitec in Mt Albert after AFL New Zealand recently partnered with the Tertiary Institution to provide a new centrally based venue to cater for inclusion and growth of the competition.
The 8 week competition which begins at the end of October will take place at the Unitec facilities to provide increased accessibility for Auckland based participants who have in previous seasons travelled to QBE Stadium, a further 25 kilometres North of Central Auckland.
With the new venue located closer to central Auckland, AFL New Zealand expects big growth in all age groups, including the new U12 Boys and Girls 16 and over ages.
The locations proximity to AFL’s future home, Western Springs Stadium and the current redevelopment work currently underway is also a benefit as we work towards the future facility growth for AFL.
The venue will include two training fields and playing field dressing rooms as well as periodic access to the Unitec indoor facilities that also be utilised for the newly developed “Master Class” programme that will underpin the recruitment of female participants for Youth, Academy and the future AFL New Zealand Women’s Premiership.
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As more guidance is released related to the new tax law, we’re looking deeper into the implications for tax-exempt organizations. Effective for tax years beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2018, a 21 percent excise tax is imposed on certain tax-exempt organizations when compensation paid to “covered employees” either exceeds $1,000,000 or meets the requirements of an excess parachute payment.
The new excise tax is applicable to all Section 501(a) organizations, including Section 401(a) tax-exempt, tax-qualified plans and Section 115(1) state entities (i.e., entities the income of which is for the benefit of a state).
Compensation to covered employees
Individuals whose compensation might trigger an excise tax under this provision are “covered employees,” which means they’re one of the top five-highest compensated employees for the taxable year. Once employees are designated as covered employees, they remain covered employees for all future years. So, in future years, an organization could have more than five covered employees subject to the excise tax.
Once the covered employees are determined, the excise tax is assessed on the employer for any covered employee with compensation in excess of $1,000,000.
The compensation subject to the 21 percent excise tax includes wages subject to income tax withholding and amounts required to be included in income under Section 457(f). Benefits under a 457(f) plan are included in income at the time of vesting. Any non-taxable benefits aren’t considered compensation for this purpose. As a point of reference, compensation subject to the excise tax is the compensation typically reportable on Form 990 Part VII and on Schedule J.
Additionally, compensation includes amounts paid, not just by the tax-exempt organization, but also by related organizations. The criteria for determining which organizations are related is very similar to the criteria used in the Form 990 instructions for reporting compensation paid by a related organization.
For fiscal-year filers, there may be an opportunity to accelerate payments into the fiscal year beginning before Jan. 1, 2018, to avoid being subject to the excise tax.
Excess parachute payments
As mentioned above, an “excess parachute payment” is also subject to the 21 percent tax. In general, compensation paid in connection to a separation from employment is a parachute payment. The excise tax is triggered when the sum of the parachute payments to a covered employee exceeds three times the employee’s average W-2 pay for the five years preceding the date of the separation. The 21 percent excise tax is then assessed on the amount of parachute payments in excess of one times the covered employee’s five-year average W-2 pay.
Smaller tax-exempt organizations should take note that an employer has exposure to the excess parachute payment 21 percent excise tax for employees with compensation below $1,000,000. The excise tax will be assessed when one of the organization’s covered employees is entitled to be paid compensation in connection with a separation from employment exceeding three times his or her five-year average W-2 pay.
The new excise tax is effective for taxable years beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2018. For fiscal year tax filers, it’s unclear at this time if the tax will be based on the W-2 wages for the calendar year that falls within the fiscal year, or if organizations will need to determine wages based on payments made during the fiscal year.
Also, it’s important to note that amounts paid to a licensed medical professional, including a veterinarian, for medical services performed are excluded in determining compensation in excess of $1,000,000 and excess parachute payments. We expect further clarification from the IRS on this exclusion.
What’s next for tax-exempt organizations?
There’s been a lot of press about the excise tax applying to governmental organizations. The discussion predominately focuses on whether state universities and their athletic coaches are subject to the new excise tax, since historically, the IRS has viewed certain governmental entities as being tax-exempt under an implied doctrine of governmental immunity. We expect Congress to issue a technical correction to provide clarity.
For fiscal-year filers, there may be an opportunity to accelerate payments into the fiscal year beginning before Jan. 1, 2018, to avoid being subject to the excise tax. To take advantage of this opportunity, fiscal-year filers should review deferred compensation agreements to determine if it makes sense to vest portions of the deferred compensation now and consider paying any bonuses prior to the end of the fiscal year.
The new 21 percent excise tax could impose significant tax burdens on tax-exempt organizations. Plan now with tax professionals and your legal counsel to understand how it could affect you and how to mitigate this tax.
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Serena Moon - Piano, Vocals, Synthesiser
Roscoe James Irwin, Billy Joel
Unearthed artists we like
Since her first piano lesson at the age of four Serena has been in love with music. Now, writing and recording is a central part of her life, and the process of recording her first EP, Brighter than Silver has begun. She has recently performed live at one of Melbourne's premier live music venues, the Esplanade Hotel, and has enjoyed success at various music festivals across Victoria.
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Back to Basics
In Wisconsin, United States
How Geocaching Works
Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions in our disclaimer
Lets get back to basics here.
This cache is hidden in a secluded area that has public hunting and fishing. I have hidden all types of hides in my few years of caching. After talking to respected area cachers I have decided it is time for a basic cache. If you look up the first cache, you will see that it was a pail that was hidden in the remote area of a forest.
This cache is meant to be found. It is not a tricky go here and do this then go there and look for that. You will drive on a gravel road and park. There is some what of a path going down to the creek. You have to cross the creek to get to the cache. The day that I placed it the rain was coming down and the creek was up a bit. I found that if you walk up stream for a bit the creek does narrow up. The place that I crossed had a large rock that I was able to step on to get across.
After you cross the creek you should be at about 890 feet of elevation. Looking ahead you can see a large hill. I was able to climb up the hill in tennis shoes. Follow the arrow at this point as there are just a few deer trails that wonder about the hill side. As I got close to GZ I noticed a rock outcropping that I thought would be a good place to hide it. I climbed above that and found that there were several rocks that would make great hiding places. Once I reached 1050 feet of elevation I found the perfect spot. The cache is placed under a rock with another rock covering it up to help hide it from muggles. This is a ground hide and is a 30 cal ammo can so in the winter months it may be harder to find.
This cache page will not be all dressed up with lots of bells and pictures. My thought and concept is to step back and hide a ammo can that is meant to be found. You will be presented with some great views of the valley below. There is wild life in the area. Deer droppings were every where on the way up. The stream that you cross is a great trout fishing stream and is subject to WIDNR regulations. Please enjoy the cache and post photos of your find and views if you would like.
This cach is placed on land that is owned and mananged by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Any cache that is placed on lands owned and or managed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources requires that a notification for be files with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Here is a link to the web site to download the form http://dnr.wi.gov/files/PDF/forms/2500/2500-118.pdf
As with all Geocaches please rehide as found. Please respect the area that you are in.
Last Updated: on 2/3/2017 10:55:26 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (6:55 PM GMT)
Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum
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THE BAF PACK IS OUR FAMILY
Ally is the head fitness coach and nutrition ‘ninja’ at Back Alley Fitness. She started in the fitness industry as a receptionist at a gym while going to University to one day become a Disney Imagineer (yes, that’s a real job)…
That part time receptionist job introduced her to the strength training world and coaches who helped her recognize how significant strength training was, not just for her own 20 year martial arts athletic career, but for health and fitness in general
When she returned to Medicine Hat to run the first family business, Karate-Do Academy, Ally recognized that many of the parents of her martial arts students wanted to be healthy and active but didn’t necessarily want the contact that came with martial arts training. When another bay in their building opened, Ally jumped on the opportunity to start the gym we know as Back Alley Fitness.
Her educational credits are a million miles long and no one probably actually cares for the list. Suffice it to say, Ally never stops learning and is constantly enrolled in training and nutrition courses, mentorships, seminars, and is an avid reader of as much evidence based health and fitness material as she can get her hands on.
Her main love is for the group training classes. Cardio Kickboxing, Muscle Max, and MetCon are her babies that have grown and evolved over many years to best suit the members of our facilities and will continue to develop as we learn more about the human body and how best to deliver those services to our members. She loves the community atmosphere of bringing people together to work hard and improve alongside one another.
Ally’s passion is on helping women specifically understand how much resistance (strength) training can benefit how they look, how they feel, and they self confidence in everything else they do. She wants to empower women to be the best version of themselves and to stop living in a world where comparison to others steals their joy. And finally she wants women to embrace being STRONGER than they were the day before and love the skin they are in.
Ally has also developed a fantastic female focused online lifestyle coaching program that helps women to ditch the nonsense diets and find a fitness and nutrition system that gets them great results and fits their lifestyle. Between that and her podcast, the SheWolfe Den, she aims to bring quality fitness and nutrition information and education to women who feel lost and overwhelmed when it comes to learning about what keeps them healthy and getting the body and the life they want.
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After years of completely abandon… I’m back working on Library Hunter 😀 ! And the missing update is finally available. Both Mac and iOS versions are freely available on App Stores. The updated apps work on Mac os El Capitan and iOS 9. In 3 years a lot of things … Continue reading
Book, DVD and Game Hunter crashes on Mavericks. While on working on a fix, you can quickly avoid the problem by selecting the “Open in 32-bit mode” from the info window.
Hi Version 2.1 of Library Hunter is available of App Store: choose the style of the media’s lists: Covers icons or List with the more important details sort the lists by Title, Author, Date Acquired or Last time used various bug fixes and general optimizations
Hi, The first update of Mac version is available: New Cover layout A lot of improvement and bug-fixes I’ve not forgotten the iOS version of the App… The update will be published soon… Follow me on Facebook or Twitter to get news and preview of the updates If you’ve got … Continue reading
Hi, The updated version of Library Hunter for iOS is available on AppStore. In this version: fixed various crashes of App resolved performances issues inserted a crash reporting feature From now on, when there is a crash of Library Hunter, you’ll have the possibility to anonymously submit the report. Please … Continue reading
Hi, I’ve released a small update for Mac version of Library Hunter. There were some really annoying bug to fix: crash when importing data from the Hunter Suite drag and drop of medias (on list) works correctly You can download the updated version right here. Importing from Hunter Suite Importing … Continue reading
After months… mmm… years of silence and useless progress news. There is a great news! Library Hunter is available!!! for both Mac and iOS We’re not yet the 1st of April… So this can’t be an April fool’s day joke :p While planning and developing the software I’ve tried to … Continue reading
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Operational Ocean-Ice Forecasting
Why does Canada need Ocean Forecasting Services?
Ocean forecasting services are intended to provide Canadians with the best possible environmental forecasts, including improved short-term weather forecasts and more accurate ocean (temperature, currents, waves, tides and storm surge) and ice forecasts. Extreme variations in Canadian weather present decision-making challenges to the general public, industry and government operations. The continuous improvement of weather forecasting systems is essential to improve prediction information to ensure economic benefits, economic and environmental security, as well as human safety in a changing climate.
Experimental and Operational Ocean Forecasting Products
Our focus is in developing both experimental and operational products for ocean-ice forecasting by integrating observations of the atmosphere, oceans and sea ice. As a part of a Government of Canada interagency collaboration, these observations are integrated into computer models to deliver automated, real-time descriptions of ocean and ice conditions and behaviour. Enhanced knowledge of ocean conditions can also provide a better understanding and management of Canadian marine ecosystems, especially under a changing climate.
These new forecasting products provide high resolution predictive information on timescales from an hour to a week on surface ocean conditions as well as for the deep ocean. Products related to the reliability of forecasts are also available, based on the amount and accuracy of the ocean data used in the forecast system. The predictive information can be used by computer application developers in industry, government and marine services to improve the safety and outcomes of marine operations and coastal activities. Ocean forecasting products will provide information to further our understanding of the marine ecosystem and the integrated management of marine resources and activities. In addition ocean prediction products will provide a more effective response for both search and rescue and marine contaminant spill events. Opportunities for new applications exist for operations in marine transport, defence, and resource industries, among others. Applications are also possible for economic activities, such as planning for coastal communities, environmental assessments, insurance and others.
Web Access to Ocean Forecasting Products and other related services
Ocean forecasting products are accessible via web services as well as through real-time and archived data dissemination systems. This coordinated Government of Canada approach will replace previous project- based forecasting products (e.g. such as the Canadian East Coast Ocean Model (CECOM) forecast system for the East Coast). Additional information is available upon request. Other related web accessible services are listed here. Services such as the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) exist to provide weather forecasting systems generating information on weather (present and historical), marine forecasts, alerts and air quality. Information about ice in Canada’s navigational waters is provided by the Canadian Ice Service (CIS) which provides daily ice charts and ice thickness data to the general public. The Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) provides web-based services including modelled surface currents (MSC) for navigation and water level data (WLD).
Today's ice and ocean forecasts from global
and regional systems are available here.
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The boys came in for their morning cuddle, and as usual Thomas greeted me with, ‘good morning Mummy’. He then told me about his dream- he was in W5 and he was on the moving stairs and there were nasty trains and purple spiders and there were lots of girls and boys and the boys were saving the girls (eh?) and he was flying but he had no cloak. Whew!!
Duncan was wearing his favourite top today. It’s black with red sleeves, and a red and yellow logo on the front. He got me to draw a picture of himself wearing the top and his red wellies. He checked that I got all the details right. Then I had to roll it into a tube and tape it and he carried it around the rest of the day. When Gordon phoned home, Duncan was keen to tell him about the picture.
Duncan has usually been carrying some small object around with him ever since he could grip. When he was only about 9 months old, he wanted to take a bottle of Olbas Oil to bed with him. It comes in a small glass bottle with a pointed white plastic lid. I tried to get him to accept all sorts of substitutes but he was adamant that he wanted that bottle. I think I let him hold it; I just stayed near by and took it off him when he finally went to sleep.
They all had a ‘superbath’ this evening. They were in there for ages with a pile of toys. Duncan was playing with a pair of small baby dolls and I heard him have one say to the other ‘oh, you mus be ba-on-ess Sheider’. I had no idea what this was but Lady kindly translated, ‘he’s saying, ‘oh you must be Baroness Schneider’, it’s from the Sound of Music’. Well, that’s an unusual thing for a 5 year old boy to say, but, welcome to our world!
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Vancouver Island Sampler II
En Route on Vancouver Island
This route can be an extention to most Western Canada routes, or a short stand-alone get-away RV trip to Vancouver Island.
Itinerary reference: 11134 (ending in Vancouver) or 11234 (ending in Whistler)
For more information see Overview, Itinerary, Add-ons and Map below, or contact us.
Visit the white sandy beaches of Parksville
Drive the iconic Pacific Rim Highway
Explore the rainforests and beaches of Pacific Rim National Park, which falls along a migratory route for grey and humpback whales
Walk through laidback downtown Tofino, eat a Nanaimo bar in Nanaimo and discover Victoria’s inner harbour and Butchart Gardens.
All En Route Travel Canada itineraries include pre-booked campgrounds, one of our exclusive services that offer the peace of mind that everything is planned and booked for your unforgettable RV holiday.
Our commitment to you is that we will book the best campsites that are available at the moment that you book your itinerary with us!
Travelers booking an En Route Travel Canada Itinerary receive an individualized En Route Travel Book!
- It will be printed full colour, with a coil binding
- The Travel Book is available in English, German and Dutch
- There is a large section with tips on how to prepare for the trip, as well as Canadian traffic rules and other good-to-know topics
- The detailed itinerary section has daily information on all services we have booked. Think of amenities, supplier services, directions, phone numbers, etc
- The daily itinerary section also features the destination for that day, the directions, and Highlights along the Way with local tourist information
- Last but not least it also includes all vouchers for booked campgrounds, tours, activities, ferries are part of the Travel Book, on perforated paper
Travellers have instant itinerary access on their mobile devices while en route with offline maps and real-time itinerary updates in case something must be changed along the way.
- For IOS or Android
- Includes daily travel details, contact info, etc
- Available off-line once itinerary is downloaded onto device(s)
We provide personalized online itineraries for every booking, which can be accessed from anywhere, any time and can easily be shared with family and friends.
Emergency phone numbers
If an unforeseen problem arises in regards to reservations, we will assist travelers over the phone. We will provide them with a toll-free emergency number.
In case the travelers try calling us from their European mobile phone, the toll-free number likely won’t work. In that case they can call us on the local number we provide.
Vancouver – Victoria (121 km/75 mi, plus ferry)
Pick up your motorhome today and stock up on groceries. Explore Boundary Bay Regional Park in Tsawwassen, a popular bird watching area for nature enthusiasts with beautiful views of White Rock and Mount Baker.
Make sure to stop and marvel at the flowers and gardens at the Butchart Gardens, just a short drive from Victoria. Spend some time exploring Victoria’s inner harbour with the Empress Hotel and the Parliament Buildings. Check out the stores or go visit the Royal BC Museum or China Town.
Victoria - Tofino/Ucluelet (317 km / 197 mi)
Today you take the scenic Malahat Drive with panoramic ocean views to distant Mount Baker. Stop in Duncan, the “City of Totems”, and in Chemainus to see the world’s largest outdoor gallery of murals and sculptures. Try a Nanaimo Bar in Nanaimo, and visit Coombs, famous for its market with the goats grazing on the roof. Cross the island on Highway 4 and wind your way through the ancient Douglas fir trees of Cathedral Grove. Stroll a bit further along the beach, and you will have a close up view of the ancient petroplyphs.
There’s so much to do in the small village of ‘Ukee’. Will it be whale watching, bear watching, bird watching, fishing, surfing, hiking, biking, ocean kayaking, zip lining or Ukee dining and a sunset cruise? Visit nearby Tofino, explore the Pacific Rim and Long Beach.
Ucluelet/Tofino - Campbell River (245 km/152 mi)
Return along Highway 4 to head north on Highway 19A, and relax on the sandy beaches of Parksville and the stunning shoreline of Qualicum Beach. Continuing north, you end up at Campbell River, the Salmon Capital of the World.
Campbell River - Nanaimo (155 km / 96 mi)
Head south on Highway 19A and relax on the sandy beaches of Parksville and Miracle Beach and the stunning shoreline of Qualicum Beach. Learn more about the cave systems of Horne Lake Caves Provincial Park, and taste the Fanny Bay oysters, just South of Courtenay.
Nanaimo - Vancouver or Whistler
This morning a ferry ride brings you across the Strait of Georgia back to the Lower Mainland, where this tour comes to an end or where you continue the remainder of your itinerary
All our itineraries include campgrounds. But that is just the beginning of the services we offer. To make things easier we have created several categories that feature many activities, tours, attractions, etc. Anything to make your itinerary unique, going far beyond the traditional adventures. To complete, or start, the ideal itinerary we can also book your RVs, hotels, and ferries.
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49 CFR 1039.20 - Storage leases.
Storage leases for all equipment for all carriers are exempt from the provisions of 49 U.S.C. subtitle IV except for 49 U.S.C. 11123. Nothing in this exemption should be construed to affect our jurisdiction under section 10502 or our ability to enforce this decision or any subsequent decision made under authority of this exemption section. This exemption shall remain in effect, unless modified or revoked by a subsequent decision of this Board.
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My blogger friend Jolene did this fun thing and challenged everyone to do 8 people. You use this site HERE . I chose this because Jolene seems so kind that she would welcome anyone into her home. Plus her home is so beautifully decorated.
Had to do my own LOL! This is what is on my license plate
So I know she loves flowers.
Izzy is our Fabulous TLC consultant from Canada
Jan is all about some books. She gave us me a fantastic book Real Women Scrap at convention.
I want you to know I am not a big book reader. I read this book in 2 days.
Thanks Jan I loved it!
I think we can all agree that KH needs her own star on the scrapbooking walk of fame
This is my blogger friend Missy, she has a heart of GOLD!!
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Stone Temple Pilots + Rival Sons Announce 2019 Co-Headline Tour
There are a lot of great tours this summer, but the rock just keeps on going as the calendar turns to fall. Stone Temple Pilots and Rivals Sons are making sure of that as the two bands have announced a co-headlining tour.
The trek will launch Sept. 13 in Baltimore, Maryland, weaving along the East Coast into the Midwest, heading south into Texas and venturing out west over just shy of a month, wrapping in San Diego, California on Oct. 9. Tickets for the run go on sale today at 12PM local time via Live Nation.
STP's Dean DeLeo says, "We are thrilled about this tour and grateful to share these upcoming shows with Rival Sons. A great band! They don't make them like this anymore. Looking forward to seeing all of you." Meanwhile, Rival Sons' Scott Holiday adds, "We're delighted to share the stage with the DeLeo brothers and STP. Not to mention performing together in some really great venues. These guys wrote some of the soundtrack to my childhood… and it'll be killer to watch and listen to 'em hit these gems every night."
Stone Temple Pilots are continuing to tour in support of their self-titled release, the band's first with singer Jeff Gutt. Rival Sons issued their latest album, Feral Roots, back in January. Get ticketing info on the tour here.
Stone Temple Pilots / Rival Sons 2019 Tour
Sep. 13 - Baltimore, Md. @ MECU Pavilion
Sep. 15 - Asbury Park, N.J. @ Stone Pony Summer Stage
Sep. 19 - Philadelphia, Pa. @ The Met Philadelphia
Sep. 22 - New York, N.Y. @ Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island Boardwalk
Sep. 25 - Chicago, Ill. @ Aragon Ballroom
Sep. 27 - Detroit, Mich. @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill*
Sep. 29 - New Orleans, La. @ The Fillmore New Orleans
Oct. 01 - Houston, Texas @ Revention Music Center
Oct. 03 - Irving, Texas @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
Oct. 06 - Las Vegas, Nev. @ The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
Oct. 08 - Phoenix, Ariz. @ Comerica Theatre
Oct. 09 - San Diego, Calif. @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at SDSU
See Stone Temple Pilots in the Top 90 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 1990s
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VocaTone has announced their Oliver “Olivideo” Video Competition, inviting fans to create a video for the song “Birds” by Daniel Castro the contest is to be held over the next two months and is slated to end on December 4th, 2012. Though not required for the video VocaTone has also released their long awaited Official Oliver MMD Models, both versions 1 & 2, available for download off the competitions page.
Usage of the MMD models are not required, videos can be made in any way, program or manner with the only restriction being that you must use the official competition song in an unaltered state. Winners will be chosen by the VocaTone staff and select outside judges. Grand prize for this even is a copy of the VocaTone’s very own Oliver Vocaloid. To submit a video simply upload it to YouTube with the tag ‘OlivideoComp’ for your chance to win.
Full rules, as well as downloads, and aditional details can be found here.
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This week’s article’s going to seem like a bit of a downer, but it’s something that’s been really relevant for me in my trading. I’m going to talk about what I do immediately after I have a really good day, and what steps I take to make sure that good day doesn't get erased because I was too worked up and over-aggressive in my trading for the days following that.
This is relevant because, if you follow my blog, you know that had a $15,000 day near the start of the week. I got to that amount that day from aggressively scaling a position in Yield10 Bioscience Inc (NASDAQ: YTEN), which just kept rising to new entry levels, so I just kept adding to my position. I kept up the pressure because it was on a run that day and finished in the five digits.
While I was happy to post such strong numbers, I know it was a dangerous way to make a profit. That’s why I thought I should focus this article on my approach to trading after a day like that, rather than my day trading strategy in general.
Particularly, I want to describe what I change in my setup and mentality so I don’t get in the habit of chasing prices that might not be as strong as YTEN was this week.
First thing I changed after that day was my max trade alerts on my brokerage platform. My broker lets me set alerts for whenever I put out an order exceeding a certain amount, just to make sure I really want to buy 50,000 shares or if I meant 5,000. It’s an essential tool that’s helped me catch myself from losing thousands on a basic mistake (or just an over aggressive play). I usually keep that alert set above 10,000 shares, but I moved it to 6,000 because, after a $15K day, I’m more likely to be looser with my orders.
In that same vein, I’m also likely to push myself to scale out of positions a bit faster than I normally might. This isn’t to say I’m getting out of positions more quickly than usual—it’s that I’m trying to avoid lingering longer than a smart trader should. This mostly takes the form of a slight adjustment in my price targets and a shift in the proportion of shares I’m selling at one time. I do this while telling myself that I can always get back in if the chart looks friendly or the stock breaks a particular level.
Probably the most important thing I do to reset after a $15K day is to I remind myself not to fight the market. It’s easy to forget that the market isn’t beholden to your preconceptions, especially when things have been going your way. But if you can’t beat a certain level on a single trade the next day, buying more shares and riding it out is almost never a sustainable solution.
These are, of course, my own approaches. The important thing in these changes in strategy is to place safeguards against your own bad habits. More often than not, on good days and bad, it’s not the market you’re going to be struggling against. It’ll be yourself.
Disclosure: Warrior Trading is an editorial partner of Benzinga.
The preceding article is from one of our external contributors. It does not represent the opinion of Benzinga and has not been edited.
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During the row over weaponry that thundered on during the G8 summit at Heiligendamm – drowning out the distant shouts of protesters and the platitudinous murmuring of soon-to-be-ex-world leaders about the need (again) to tackle climate change – Russia’s president took a leaf out of his own book. The book is called Judo: History, Theory, Practice, and Vladimir Putin wrote it with a couple of buddies during the euphoric period that followed his re-election in 2004 with 71 per cent of the vote. It has since been published in English by North Atlantic Books – no relation to the treaty organisation – and is frustratingly hard to get hold of. This may be deliberate. Not only does it lay bare the deep strategic thinking behind Putin’s remarkable art of martial diplomacy – teaching a lesson from which his sparring partners Bush and Blair could learn a thing or two – but it is also a brilliant judo manual.
If only it had been written earlier. If Putin had taken time off from his KGB foot-soldiering for a bit of hack work in the 1980s while I was at primary school, then I could have taken advantage of his no-holds-barred descriptions of all the moves of classical judo, which are clearly illustrated with line-drawings and handily grouped into sections: shoulder throws, body drops, major outer reaping, major inner reaping, circle throws; Seoi-Nage, Tai-Otoshi, O-Soto-Gari, O-Uchi-Gari, Tomoe-Nage. My problem was that, when faced with sweaty larger people, I just couldn’t trip anyone up. I didn’t understand judo’s first principle, which Putin succinctly explains: you have to unbalance the bastard before you can throw him. It was all an elaborate dance with rules I didn’t know. I didn’t even understand the difference between uke and tori. The large people all got coloured belts, and I nearly cried. So I quit. The only person I could successfully throw, with what I thought was a nifty hip move, was my sister.
The excellent thing about judo – in theory – is that you don’t have to be stronger than your opponent to beat him. The idea is that you use the momentum of his attack to keep him moving in the same direction, and then, with a little twist, you send him flying onto the mat. The bigger they are the harder they fall. This should be useful to Putin, since Russia is so heavily outgunned and outspent by the US military machine that it can’t win the arms race the old-fashioned way. Putin provides a striking metaphor to demonstrate the judo master’s technique. He calls it ‘give way in order to conquer’. Imagine you are a locked door. Your opponent wants to break you open with his shoulder. If he is ‘big and strong enough and rams through the door (that is, you) from a running start, he will achieve his aim’. But here’s the neat bit. If instead of ‘digging in your heels and resisting your opponent’s onslaught’, you unlock it at the last minute, then, ‘not meeting any resistance and unable to stop, your opponent bursts through the wide-open door, losing balance and falling.’ If you’re even more cunning, you can stop being a door and stick out a leg, causing him to trip as he sails through. ‘Minimum effort, maximum effect’, as Russia’s effortlessly effective president says.
The evident ingenuity of this technique made me wonder why Putin didn’t deploy it in the run-up to the G8 dojo. It was puzzling. On his way to Germany, Bush went on the offensive. He visited Poland and the Czech Republic to publicise his plan to install ‘exoatmospheric kill vehicles’ – little missiles designed to hit bigger missiles – on sites close to the Russian border. Putin’s counter-attack was very bold. He said that if America was going to play silly buggers with its Raytheon EKVs, then he would point his biggest ICBMs at Western European cities. ‘A new Cold War!’ the papers screamed. The leaders of the free world were righteously outraged, whereas Putin had merely closed the door. Any moment now he would flip the latch and stick out a leg.
But the analogy was troubling. When would the door open, and where was his leg? At first I wondered whether Putin was readying himself for the long game, hunkering down, raising the stakes to force the US to spend more and more money on more and more weapons until it bankrupted itself and went pop. Except, of course, that this would be playing into Bush’s hands, since American military spending is what the US economy depends on. The need for more weaponry would mean an even mightier America. So Putin wasn’t so clever after all: he’d forgotten all his old teaching and had taken up gunslinging in a fight he could only lose. Or so I thought.
On 7 June the full genius of Putin’s strategy was revealed. Earlier, Bush had said: ‘Vladimir – I call him Vladimir – you should not fear the missile defence system . . . Why don’t you co-operate with us on the missile defence?’ Ingeniously, Putin now called his bluff, and unbolted the new Iron Curtain. He quietly suggested that the US base its missile interception system on a Russian military installation in Azerbaijan, an unanswerable solution if – as the Americans claim – the EKVs really are intended to counter an Iranian nuclear threat. Bush’s people, wrong-footed, could only say that his proposal was ‘interesting’ and that the presidents would discuss it further in Kennebunkport, Maine at the beginning of July. But this is likely to be the end of the missile defence plan for Poland and the Czech Republic. Ippon!
Not everything in Putin’s book should be recommended to ten-year-olds. He includes a number of dodgy manoeuvres which, he explains, were developed by the Cheka and perfected by the KGB. He would know. There’s a table listing various parts of the body that, if struck with force, will lead to ‘serious injury, loss of consciousness, perhaps death’. And there’s a frightening technique called the ‘hand squeeze’: seize your opponent’s hand and press between the central finger-bones with the pad of your thumb. If you press hard enough, you will cause him to ‘fall on his back from the severe pain in his wrist’. Gentle pressure applied along these lines by Putin might explain the pained grimace Blair wears whenever the two shake hands.
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Main Items to Rent for a Wedding Occasion
The most significant number of individuals are holding their wedding ceremonies. The people conduct the wedding ceremonies since it begins their life where they can form a new family and start a new life. It is advisable for the people to make the right preparations for their weddings. The people are supposed to hire the best things to enhance effective handling of the wedding occasion. There exists a wide range of guests who attend the wedding ceremonies, and therefore all the needed products should be hired. There are websites which describe the best items to rent for the wedding. The report illustrates the essential products that should be hired for the wedding occasion.
Firstly, the people should rent the best photo booth for use during the wedding. The photos are beneficial since they help the people to keep various memories. The individuals can get good images in a fast way since they use the photo booths in the wedding occasions. The photo booths are easy for use and thus enable the people to operate by paying some coins so that the machine can produce their photos. The photo booths are generally available in most of the events since they produce high quality photographs for the people.
The wedding ceremonies should have enough chairs to help accommodate all the visitors who attend the ceremony. The venue for the wedding ceremony should have multiple chairs where the people can stay during the event. The chairs are beneficial since they help to make the people feel more comfortable.
The light fixtures are the main items that should be available in a wedding ceremony to ensure that it is more colorful. There exists a wide range of outdoor wedding occasions which are held by multiple individuals. People who are planning for the outdoor wedding ceremonies are encouraged to search for the right light fixtures which can produce maximum light which is more reliable. The light fixtures are beneficial since they assist in providing maximum brightness when the sun goes down. Light fixtures are used when the marriage occasions are conducted on the yards.
Individuals are encouraged to search for the right lounge furniture which helps to make a wedding ceremony more beautiful by offering comfort to the guests. The lounge furniture are designed in a good way and thus help to make the wedding ceremonies more colorful. There are many lounge seats which have the best designs for use in the wedding ceremonies. The lounge chairs are beneficial since they are made in a way that they can be used in the reception of the wedding occasion.
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Dear Abby: Goodnight kiss not enough
Dear Abby: “Roger” and I have been seeing each other for two years. (We are both 50.) He is very handsome. We go to movies, ride our bikes together, work out at the gym and attend other events. He calls me every night, sends emails during the day — even calls me when he’s on a break from work.
He never asks me to pay for anything and sends me flowers on special occasions. He will kiss me goodnight, but he has never held my hand or been affectionate in any other way. People we see think we’re married or seriously dating and have asked about it. He tells them we just “hang out” and that he’s just a friend.
Roger says he’s seeing only me, but he’s on a dating website every night instant messaging younger women and talking to them for hours. I know it because one of my girlfriends is on the same site and checked it out for me.
My friend says Roger is a good companion and I should stay with it. But I’m attractive and accomplished. I think I deserve a fuller relationship with someone who is less platonic. Abby, what do you think?
— Hanging Up on Hanging Out
Dear Hanging Up: Roger has made it no secret that he’s comfortable with the relationship as it is and doesn’t intend for it to progress. It appears the two of you are best friends. (Nowhere did you mention that you are in love with him.)
Ask him why the relationship hasn’t become sexual. The answer may be that Roger is impotent, asexual or he’s just not interested in you that way. If that’s OK with you, then continue what appears to be a pleasant relationship. However, if you need more — and I think you do — then it’s time for you to move on.
Dear Abby: My mother won’t stop nagging me about marriage. She insists that I “must” be married by the age of 22 and have kids by 25, which I think is inconceivable. Abby, I’m only 17. Marriage and boys are the last things on my mind.
I have told her that her “talks” make me uncomfortable and I don’t plan on getting married anytime soon (if ever), but she won’t let up.
She has been saying this a lot recently because I’m going off to college this year, and that’s where she thinks I’ll find a husband. How can I get through to her?
— Virgin Territory
Dear Virgin Territory: With her mindset, I don’t think you will “win” an argument with her over this. Be patient with her and point out that women of your generation are expected to complete their education and be able to support themselves financially before they marry in case the need arises later (i.e. divorce or widowhood). It’s a fact. Women in the United States — particularly college-educated women — are now marrying and having children later than they did a generation ago.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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Officers are investigating the burglary at an address on Malpas Road in Newport.
The burglary took place between 10:00am on Wednesday 29th March and 12:15pm on Friday 31st March 2017. The offenders gained entry to the property after forcing the ground floor kitchen window.
10 watches which were stored in a black wooden watch box were stolen.
• Men’s watch with brown leather strap and cream face
• Men’s Citizen eco drive stainless steel watch
• Two tone ladies Citizen eco drive watch
• Men’s Citizen eco drive two tone with diamonds watch
• Men’s Citizen eco drive gold plated with diamonds watch
• Men’s Citizen eco drive chronograph bracelet watch
• Men’s wrist watch with black leather strap.
• 2 mens watches - no description available at this time.
The combined value of these watches is in excess of £1,360. In addition, a yellow bow tie worth £40 was taken.
If anyone has any information about this burglary, please call 101 quoting log 193 31/03/17
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BRAZOS COUNTY, Texas - Three people, including two children, were hurt when a car slammed into an 18-wheeler along Highway 21.
Investigators said the car with three people inside was headed westbound on Highway 21 near Pleasant Hill Road, when an 18-wheeler belonging to the Knife River Asphalt Plant driving in the opposite direction, turned in front of it.
The driver of the car didn't have time to stop, and slammed into one of the 18-wheeler's front gas tanks. The car was knocked into a ditch, and the driver of the car was trapped inside.
Emergency crews were able to get the driver out. All three people inside the car were taken to St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan with minor injuries.
The driver of the 18-wheeler wasn't hurt, but was ticketed for failure to yield the right of way.
A spokesperson for the Knife River Company said it's too soon to say whether the driver of the 18-wheeler will face any disciplinary action.
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When you invite people to your Space by asking them to contribute to a mission, what you’re really doing is encouraging them to express thoughts, share observations, and otherwise open themselves up to you and others. For some, this can quickly stir up a potent feeling of anxiety, so what do you do?
It’s your job as a leader to relieve feelings of discomfort by doing what you can to create a positive environment that promotes creativity and free thinking?
Creativity is all about a large number of people that represent different things, working together to combine their knowledge in novel ways; but unleashing everyone’s creativity takes trust, and people must feel empowered to speak up, feel that their ideas have a voice, and that this voice matters.
Therefore, I invite you to create and share a positive story with your people. Let them know your intentions, and empower them to share by showing them their inputs are appreciated by giving plenty of positive feedback.
Counterintuitive to some, strong leadership often means giving up control. To get the best results, focus on creating an environment where people feel comfortable taking risks. Don’t punish mistakes, but treat them as opportunities to learn.
Criticism must always be constructive. Literally. As you or others test new concept or pull apart old ideas, your input must always aim to improve. There’s no point in taking something apart if doing so doesn’t give people a way of rebuilding it better than it was before.
Creativity is not some mysteries act best pursued alone, and it should never be reduced to a single idea. The power of creativity lies in the sum total of people’s efforts, and in the way their contributions are combined.
You never know where the next great idea will come from, so make good use of the tools available to you and invite everyone to participate. The more, the merrier!
Lean into the automated workflow provided by Ideanote, and unleash the power of the crowd one phase at a time.
Have questions? Or maybe an extra insight for the list? Reach out directly at firstname.lastname@example.org — I’d love to hear from you!
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Every college football fan gripes about consistency. Every team everywhere has off-weeks. Every team everywhere has a quarterback or offensive line or set of safeties that look fit to beat the world for a half, a week, a month, and then suddenly look like boiled crap at what is always the worst possible time. So Auburn fans are not alone.
But I’m starting to wonder if the Chizik era really is becoming the model of inconsistency, if we Auburn fans really do, in fact, have even more reason to complain than most. Last year we had one team for the first five games, a second one for three games, and then a third for the final five. This year so far we’ve played two games; in one, our offense racked up 600-plus yards and 52 points while the defense gave up yards in bunches, and in the other, the defense held a dynamic, well-coached offense to 14 points and fewer than 250 yards in their own stadium while the offense went an entire half without scoring and put up just 17 points themselves.
In a word: AAAAAARRRGGGGHHHH. Look, I can handle worrying over my football team. But at this point, I don’t even know what I’m supposed to be worried about. The sputtering, suddenly identity-challenged offense? The panic attack-inducing defense, which even when it plays well always seems on the verge of some catastrophe and hasn’t yet faced a serious threat from a well-executed downfield passing attack? Neither, since Auburn is–after all–2-0 with a solid SEC road win already under their belts? (Don’t forget that an awful lot of smart people expected Auburn to lose that game last night.) Both, since a win over Arkansas St. was mere formality and the one over State one dropped pass away from serious doubt?
Like I said: I don’t know. But regardless of what I’m supposed to worry about, what I do find myself worrying over is the inconsistency. We know what this offense is capable of; after last night, we know what the defense is capable of. The Arkansas St. game is why we’re so upset about the offense’s performance in Starkville; the defense’s performance in Starkville is an even greater indictment of the ASU game than anything we’ve said about it. If we get both the erratic, mistake-hampered, confused-looking offense from last night and the poor-tackling, coverage-shy defense from the opener at the same time, the results are not going to be pretty. And even getting one of the two will probably be enough to ensure doom against the Arkansas’s and South Carolina’s of the world, much less the Tide.
But there’s a flip side to that equation, to. It’s like a Punnett square–maybe neither you nor I have blonde hair, but if one of our parents did, we can still have a blonde kid. Just because we haven’t seen what happens when both the offense and defense are on their game–the lower right corner of the square, where we get “OD” as opposed to “Od” or “oD” or, horrors, “od”–doesn’t mean we’re not going to see it at some point. I’ve come back time and again to the wisest thing anything said about Auburn’s 2009 season, Dr. Jolley’s comments on the midseason swoon, and I come back to them again today:
Auburn fans need not to ask, What have you done for me lately? But rather, What have you shown me is possible?
Auburn has, unfortunately, shown that a very poor overall performance is possible. But they have also shown that a victory over any team on the schedule is possible. The defense from last night combined with the lethal attack we saw Week 1, at the beginning of last season, against Ole Miss last October? That is a team that, as the saying goes, can play with anyone. The potential is there. We’re not just idly hoping for it any more, the way we did all offseason. Now we’ve seen it. Now Auburn just has to turn that awesome potential into something kinetic. We’ll power the program to those 10 wins. We’ll power the program for years, maybe.
So, to sum, I don’t blame anyone for getting frustrated over the offense. We didn’t know they were capable of that. But that frustration has to be matched with at least as much enthusiasm for what the defense accomplished. The floor for this team might have sunk a bit. But the ceiling has also been raised, and I don’t have any doubt at all that this team’s best performances are still ahead of it.
Other assorted observations
— Like everyone else, I had steam coming out of my ears as Auburn walked up to the line and wound the clock down throughout the second half. We’ve been promised a Gus Malzahn offense, and whatever else it might have been, that was not a Gus Malzahn offense. However, two points:
1. If Auburn was going to throw the brakes on the offense, wasn’t that just about the perfect time to do it? It’s a Thursday game following a Saturday evening game where the defense faced 84 snaps; the D had been on the field for six possessions in the first half, including back-to-backers after the Carr muff; and then they started the second half giving up a 12-play, 6-minute touchdown drive, then going right back on the field after the onsides kick. No doubt they needed the breathers, and particularly since we know preserving those guys’ stamina isn’t just an in-game goal but a season-long one, doesn’t it make some sense to have taken preventative measures now?
2. Of course the offense’s second-half performance was a disappointment. To cross the State 40 four times (all four times) and come away with a grand total of jack squat is a terrible, terrible job of finishing drives. But it’s not like this was a Franklin-style festival of three-and-outs, either. The Tigers burned off 6:16 (!), 3:06, 2:18, and 4:11 on their four drives and ran 30 plays. The offense didn’t exactly do its job, but it’s also incorrect to say it didn’t make a solid contribution to the defense’s game-winning effort.
— I know this is going to sound crazy coming from an Auburn fan, but … shouldn’t Auburn throw the ball a bit more? Though I know sacks (MSU had two) and scrambles throw off the numbers a bit, Auburn passed only 21 times compared to 46 rushing attempts. More than once after the first-half pick, it felt like Malzahn just didn’t trust Newton to make the downfield throws he’d attempted (and largely succeeded on) Week 1. Some of that was also State playing deep–Mullen mentioned he didn’t want to give up that kind of huge play–but Auburn has to find some way to get the ball to Zachery and Adams. They’re too good to finish with a combined 70 receiving yards, and Newton’s arm is too strong for him to finish averaging just 7.5 an attempt (especially when his longest completion came courtesy of Emory Blake).
— I have to say that Luper’s 1,000-yard guarantee for Fannin is in some pretty serious trouble. I’m not one who wants Fannin to move back to H-back full-time–the run that got called back for Greene’s idiotic hold is proof that he can still make serious, positive contributions from the tailback spot, and of course that killer blitz pickup means he’s a must on passing downs–but Dyer’s just the more decisive back right now when it comes to carrying the ball.
— A shout-out to Jeff Grimes for having Brandon Mosley ready to play last night. Once again the line was more “good” than “dominant,” but it wasn’t Mosley (I don’t think) getting beaten for sacks or committing silly holding penalties. (Still: please come back soon, Lee.)
— The muffed punt, the blocked field goal, and the onsides failure are some pretty serious black marks, sure. But Auburn averaged more per punt return and about 10 yards more per kick return last night. Shoemaker’s 33-yard net is kind of lousy, but he also put two critical punts right at the 10-yard line for fair catches. Special teams ain’t there yet. But if Carr can make this a fluke rather than a trend, I still think they’re moving in the right direction.
— In the same vein, Auburn committed only four penalties, and one of those was an intentionally-drawn delay of game to give Shoemaker more room for a punt. Yes, the other three were all absolute killers–the illegal formation that canceled out a first-half first-and-goal, the Greene hold to negate a first down inside the 15, the pass interference on Thorpe to bail MSU out of 3rd-and-15 on their final drive–but still, three “real” penalties is a damn sight better than what we’ve usually seen from Chizik’s Tigers. All I ask for is improvement, and for a week, at least, we got it.
— I asked for Auburn to convert two-thirds of their third downs last night. They went 6-of-14 instead, including failures on two 3rd-and-1’s and one 3rd-and-3. Blecch.
Your bottom line
The defense is getting all the accolades today, and they deserve every freaking one of them. Did you know State averaged just 3.6 yards-per-play? That’s a tiny, tiny number, smaller than they averaged in any single game last year, even smaller than what they managed against the ’09 Tide. Obviously the Bulldog receivers’ hands of [pick your rock-like building material of choice] played a role in that, but that’s still phenomenal defense, especially on the road, especially against a team whose option/short-passing game I thought was a terrible matchup for Auburn.
Of course, it helped the defense, too, that the offense wasn’t doing its usual thing. This is the big question facing Auburn’s coaching staff going forward: if the Arkansas St. game is too far in one direction for the offense, and the MSU game is too far in the other, how do they find that balance? I know a lot of Auburn fans feel like it’s already time to jump off the big-season bandwagon, but the offense has played one bad half out of four and the defense one bad half out of four; is that so bad? The two colossal special teams blunders hurt, but overall, Auburn was the decisively better team last night: they outgained State by more than 100 total yards and a good-sized 1.6 yards a play. And hell, man, they won. On the road. Against a well-coached team. That wanted this one and wanted it very, very badly. There’s negatives, sure, but there’s a hell of a lot of positives. Last year the Mississippi State game was the best game Auburn would play all season; I’m more than fine knowing that’s not the case this year.
So: it’s my opinion that if–or when–they can cut down on the special teams gaffes, find the proper balance with the offensive tempo, and maintain some of the defensive improvement, everything we want for this team is still very much in play.
Photo by Van Emst.
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CINCINNATI -- No. 17 Georgetown isn't getting anywhere with its one-man offense.
Yancy Gates scored 10 of his 13 points from the free-throw line, where Cincinnati was nearly flawless, and the Bearcats completed a sweep of the injury-sapped Hoyas with a 69-47 victory on Saturday that left Georgetown with big worries at tournament time.
The fading Hoyas (21-9, 10-8 Big East) take a three-game losing streak into the conference tournament. Senior point guard Chris Wright has missed the last two with a broken left (non-shooting) hand that required surgery.
Georgetown hopes to get him back before the NCAA tournament. On Saturday, he sat on the bench in a suit and watched helplessly as an offense that now revolves around guard Austin Freeman struggled to find open shots.
"Is it hard to deal with?" coach John Thompson III said. "I can't sit here and say everything is peachy. But that's what athletics are about. There are injuries. You have to play the hand you're dealt."
The Bearcats (24-7, 11-7) took full advantage of Wright's absence and completed a breakthrough regular season, putting themselves in position for their first NCAA tournament appearance since Bob Huggins was coach. They won five of their last six, including a pair over the Hoyas.
"It shows progression from last year to this year," Gates said. "This is the perfect time to find what you do best to help you win. For us, it's defense."
And free throws. Cincinnati made 20 of them in a row while pulling away, finishing 24 of 30 from the line.
Cincinnati knew Georgetown would have to rely on Freeman, who missed eight of his first 10 shots. He finished 7 of 23 for the field for 21 points -- not nearly enough to keep up.
"We just tried to make it as hard as possible for them," said Rashad Bishop, who covered Freeman most of the time. "He was really the only person who could create shots for himself. If we eliminate him, it was going to be tough to beat us."
Freeman played 37 minutes and seemed to wear down. Georgetown leads the conference with a 48.5 percent field-goal percentage, but made only 32 percent against Cincinnati's full-court pressure.
"Knowing that Chris is out of the lineup, I have to be aggressive on both ends of the floor," Freeman said. "I tried to get some baskets, get fouls. I just tried to be aggressive and help as much as possible."
The Bearcats got a breakthrough win at Georgetown on Feb. 23, holding the Hoyas to four field goals in the second half of a 58-46 victory that snapped a streak of 20 straight road losses against ranked teams. Wright broke his hand during that game.
Cincinnati's strong finish put it in line for its first NCAA appearance since 2005, Huggins' last season as coach. The Bearcats hadn't even managed a winning conference record in their first five seasons as part of the Big East.
The Hoyas came out pushing the pace and got fast-break baskets during a 12-4 run. Cincinnati used its defensive pressure to get back into it. There were four lead changes and three ties in the first half, which ended with Cincinnati getting a technical foul and a bank shot to go in its favor.
After Freeman made a driving bank shot with 44 seconds to go, he got a technical for something he said. The Bearcats made both free throws, and Gates took an inbound pass and banked in a long 3 from the top of the key as the buzzer sounded for a 30-24 halftime lead.
Hoyas reserve center Henry Sims limped off the court with 5:50 left in the first half. A trainer checked his left knee, which already was covered in a brace. Two minutes later, forward Julian Vaughn picked up his third foul, leaving the Hoyas' front line temporarily short-handed. Sims returned for the second half and finished with three points and four rebounds in 16 minutes.
Neither team could put together much of a run because of poor shooting through the first 30 minutes. Both were shooting 33 percent from the field with 10:04 left and Cincinnati up 41-36.
A pair of free throws by Gates and Kilpatrick's 3 started the clinching run.
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The Unified Buddhist Church, commonly known as the Plum Village International Sangha and personified in Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, launched a social media presence approximately one year prior to a 2009 U.S. Teaching Tour. Led by Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh, the effort was launched using Twitter and Facebook in an effort to reach a broader, and younger, audience for people interested in mindfulness practice but may not frequent static web pages (see Plum Village photos here).
“The goal was not lofty, but simply to put the voice of Thich Nhat Hanh into the new social media environment,” said the online architect of the effort, Kenley Neufeld, who is a lay practitioner ordained in the Unified Buddhist Church. “I wanted to reach a new, younger, non-Buddhist audience. People who can practice mindfulness. Anyone.”
The effort launched on Facebook and Twitter in 2008. The social media efforts were integrated into our email distribution lists and on the traditional web pages.
The online audience for the Thich Nhat Hanh branded accounts grew in ways that were unexpected, and it grew fast. The initial demographics represented groups not typical of those who came to retreats. Many more young people and also a more equal balance of male and female followers.
“What’s really happened is that a conversation is taking place between audience members,” said Neufeld. “They talk to each other. Discuss. Explore concepts and ideas together. The ‘official’ page can really takes a back seat and allow for the conversation to take place on its own.”
The traditional community wasn’t too keen on the Twitter/Facebook stuff. However, monastics like Facebook because it connects them to their brothers and sisters in the different centers across the globe, so in many ways they are leading the way. This is why we see the online monastery concept happening. We definitely have both voices now – many new people and some longer term practitioners.
The biggest outcome for the Unified Bhuddhist Church and Neufeld was the ability to reach audiences. On the 2009 tour, the Colorado event was the largest retreat on the U.S. tour ever with 900 attendees (see photos from the retreat here), and the dynamic experience spawned a new book, “One Buddha Is Not Enough.” Today, the volunteer effort now has a significant Facebook community with more than 160,000 members.
As a result of these successes, there is a new movement to create an online monastery where people can hear and practice the dharma at a distance. Additional forms of online media are being incorporated into the Church’s efforts. Thich Nhat Hanh has encouraged this and provided the resources (monastics and money) to help make it happen. The group is purchasing computers, cloud servers, and other resources.
Two of the other centers in the Order of Interbeing tradition (Deer Park Monastery and European Institute of Applied Buddhism) have created Facebook pages where they are interacting with the audience. Deer Park, in particular, has started an Ask a Dharma Teacher effort though Facebook. For the most recent Southeast Asian Teaching Tour, the Church is livestreaming its efforts. In addition, it continues its Facebook and Twitter initiatives to share live dharma talks by including quotes and key concepts through the social media environment.
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“(Here are) the raw material of facts and thoughts, wood, as it were, so called from the multiplicity and variety of the matter contained therein.”From Ben Jonson’s Commonplace Book
I was enjoying a quiet moment alone on the back patio during Thanksgiving break with my family and came across a WIRED
The "work vs.
I'm thinking Google's monopoly on search could be ceded if they don't catch up in the war against search spammers (people who contaminate search results).
I am a devoted Flickr user. The problem is that long before Flickr ever came along I was a devoted SmugMug user.
I'm calling it. Bill for First Lady.
On September 28, I listened to a key note from Cammie Dunaway, CMO of Yahoo!, at the OMMA East conference.
There was some buzz recently after Raw Story exposed Virginia Governor's Mark Warner's campaign/PAC Website before it was completed.
About a month ago, my buddy Joshua wrote a blog post about the Think Cropp signs which had cropped up (no pun intended) across D.C., seemingly overnight.
Being as how when I get home, it's all I can do to cook dinner (and by "cook dinner" I mean "mix 2/3 cup of water with cheese powder and add to macaroni"), I'm always amazed at how much STUFF other Dittos manage to do in their spare time.
The online campaign surrounding Joss Whedon's Serenity has been fascinating to watch.
Hot on the heels of my personal blog getting picked up by the Washington Post Express paper, it turns out that I accidentally stumbled upon some info that shows that the Post uses the popular
I see you like to read printed material. You should check out Nicco's book The End of Big: http://endofbig.com
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UPDATE: Las Cruces Bank Robbery
Las Cruces – The FBI and Las Cruces Police are looking for man who robbed the Wells Fargo bank at 2400 N. Main St. on Wednesday morning.
The suspect is described as a white male in his mid-50s with a short white beard.
He wore a gray long-sleeve New Mexico State Aggies shirt, beige pants, a tan baseball-style cap with an oval decal on the front, and sunglasses.
The suspect has a slight to medium build, is about 5'6 to 5'7 tall and weighs about 125-130 pounds.
Witnesses say the robber entered the bank at about 9:07 a.m. and handed the teller a note that demanded money.
He left with an undisclosed amount of money and was last seen heading southbound on foot.
Nobody was injured.
Bank robbery is punishable by a 20-year prison sentence for each offense and the penalty increases if a dangerous weapon is used in the commission of the crime.
Anyone with information about this bank robbery is asked to call the Albuquerque FBI Office at (505) 889-1300 (24 hours) or Las Cruces Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or send a tip via text message to LCTIPS (528477).
The FBI may pay a reward of $1,000 for information leading to the suspect's arrest and conviction.
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NOAA at SUBMERGE Marine Science Fest 2017
New York City kids of all ages can explore marine science at this year's SUBMERGE Science Festival.
Celebrate NYC's coastal waters on Saturday, September 16 from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm, Hudson River Park's Pier 26. Rain Date: September 17.
NOAA staff from Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory and the Office of Response and Restoration will be there to provide a range of exciting opportunities.
NOAA Staff Recognized for Work in Hudson and Raritan Watersheds
Leaders of the New York-New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Hudson River Estuary Program gathered on May 23, 2017, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of both programs and to recognize key partners that have been instrumental in their success at the "State of the Estuary Conference." Included among the honorees were staff from NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration and National Marine Fisheries Service Restoration Center who were recognized with a conservation achievement award for their work in reconnecting tributaries in
NOAA Scientists Publish Paper Predicting Prolonged Contamination of Fish at the Hudson River Superfund Site
The Hudson River Superfund site has been contaminated with millions of pounds of toxic polychlorinated biphenyls; a class of chemicals previously used in manufacturing that remain in the environment for many decades, accumulate in living creatures, and pose health hazards to humans, wildlife, and fish. since the 1940s. At 200 miles long, it is one of NOAA's largest natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) c
Hudson River Trustees Determine Injury to Groundwater
The Hudson River Natural Resource Trustees released an injury determination report finding that the tested groundwater of three New York towns is sufficiently contaminated that it exceeds groundwater standards.
Quanta Resources Corporation
Hazardous Waste Site | Edgewater, NJ | 1930 to present
The Quanta Resources Corporation site in Edgewater, NJ, is a former oil and tar storage and recycling facility on approximately 8 acres. The site is adjacent to the lower Hudson River, approximately 9.9 miles upstream of Upper New York Bay.
Hazardous Waste Site | Cold Spring, NY | 1952 to Present
Hazardous Waste Site | Hudson Falls, NY | 1947 to Present
Beginning in 1947 and continuing for approximately 30 years, General Electric (GE) Company released more than a million pounds of PCBs into the upper Hudson River. These chemicals were a byproduct of GE’s industrial operations at Fort Edward and Hudson Falls, New York. Since then, ongoing discharges of PCBs have continued from sediments and underground sources.
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2019-02-16T23:56:54Z
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An interview with Jerry Sandusky, the disgraced former Penn State coach, will air on the Today Show on Monday. Sandusky is now serving a 30- to 60-year prison sentence, convicted of 45 counts of child sex abuse. His actions, and the coverup that resulted, rocked Penn State to its foundations and tarnished both the school and its legendary head coach, the late Joe Paterno.
“He’ll describe in his own words what he says happened on the Penn State campus,” Matt Lauer said of the interview.
Sandusky, 69, is expected to tell his side of the entire story, and will also speak of both Paterno and Mike McQueary, who initially aired concerns about Sandusky's actions.
The interview is actually a collection of phone conversations, letters and face-to-face discussions between Sandusky and filmmaker John Ziegler. Ziegler is in the midst of a project entitled "Framing Paterno," devoted to the way that the media distorted and misrepresented Paterno's role in the Sandusky scandal. There is no on-camera interview because recording devices are not permitted in state prison, but phone interviews may be recorded.
Sandusky did not speak in his own defense at trial, and his most recent public words on the subject of accusations against him were in the course of a disastrous interview with Bob Costas of NBC in late 2011.
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2016-08-27T08:46:01Z
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Network interface cards, which are also called NIC cards or fiber LAN cards. Nowadays, there are a variety of network interface cards in the market. Various network interface cards differ in transmission rate, prices, and other aspects. And using different network interface cards may get different network performance. So choosing different network interface cards is important. This post will give you some tips on choosing a network interface card, which is likely to help you to choose the most suitable one.
Types of Network Interface Card
The bus interface type of the network card can be generally divided into ISA interface network cards, PCI interface network cards, PCI-X bus interface network cards, and PCIe network cards. Based on a different interface, it can be grouped into Ethernet RJ-45 interface network cards, BNC interface network cards, AUI interface network cards, FDDI interface network cards, and ATM interface network cards. In terms of transmission speed, there are gigabit network cards, 10G fiber network cards, 25G fiber network cards, and 40G fiber network cards. As you can see, there are many types of network interface cards. So how can we choose different types of network interface cards? Some tips will be given in the following part.
Tips on Choosing a Suitable Network Interface Card
In the following part, some useful suggestions about selecting different types of network interface cards will be elaborated on in detail.
Checking Supported Connector Types
Due to different network transmission media, common network interface cards have three different connector types. some network interface cards provide two ports on one card at the same time, and some network interface cards also provide three ports on the card at the same time. These ports are the AUI port, BNC port, an RJ-45 port. The AUI connector is often used with the thick coaxial cable, the BNC connector IS often used with a thin coaxial cable and the RJ-45 port connector is often used with the unshielded twisted pair. Many small local area networks use a thin coaxial cable and a bus network with a BNC connector. The cost of this connector is low, but it is not easy to manage, especially for a large local area network. So you need to choose different types of network interfaces card according to different supported connectors.
Determine transfer rate
Taking Ethernet network cards as an example, there are 10Mbps, 10/100Mbps, 1000Mbps, and even 10Gbps network cards on the market. Generally speaking, people tend to think that a network card with a higher transfer rate is a better network card. but it is not the truth. For example, if your computer is plugged into a 1000Mbps network card and connected with a 100Mbps twisted pair cable, the maximum transfer rate can only reach 100Mbps, so using this type of network card is a waste. To avoid unnecessary waste, care should be taken when choosing network interfaces with different transmission rates.
Considering Prices and Brands
The prices of network interface cards in different brands are various. But there are some well-known brands, such as Intel, Netgear, Mellanox, FSand so on. Those brands are popular with customers because their products have good quality and perfect network performance, which is more likely to meet your requirements for network interface cards. Since the prices of different interface cards are affected by many factors, such as transmission rate, different ports, and so on. When you compare different network interface cards, you should not only consider the prices, but also you need to take each parameter of network cards in different companies into consideration, then make a wise choice.
Paying Attention to the Bus Type
PCI, PCI-X, or PCI-E bus intelligent cards are commonly used by servers and workstations. And the ISA connector no longer supports the PC. So when you purchase a network card for your PC, what you should choose is PCI-X and PCI-E or PCI card instead of the outdated ISA network card. And the PCIe network interface cards are now widely used by customers.
Compatibility of Operating System
If you want to buy a network interface card, you need to consider which network interface can support your operating system. In general, most network interface cards can support Microsoft® Windows®, but not every interface card will support Linux or Apple’s Mac OS X. So you need to make sure that the network interface is compatible with the operating system that you are using.
As is known to all, the performance of network card has a great impact on network performance and the data transmission rate of the entire network. With the tips mentioned above, we hope this article gives you some inspiration for choosing the right network interface card.
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2023-12-04T23:10:03Z
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Are you looking for some king layer images to download? If your answer is yes then you have found the perfect site, and we say that because today we will be sharing with you these king layer pictures
- These images of kings to download have been brought to you on today´s post because we always listen to all what you have to say about these posts in the respective section below these lines
- And guess what, we have listened to those suggestions, and that is why we have decided to share these king layer pictures to you all, we hope you like them all!
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Images of beautiful fairy to print
Today we want you to see some images of beautiful fairy to print, these printable fairies pictures, are here so you can get them right now as we speak and do with those pictures anything you want, it depends completely on you!
Do you remember those previous posts in which we brought to you some pictures of beautiful fairies, right? Well we decided to bring them back to you because we noticed they had a good reception the first time we brought them to you
- These fairies printable images, as their name state were designed to be printed, but if you would like to use them for any other reason, then you are completely free to do with them whatever you want, it depends completely on you!
- They can be used for wallpapers, or in example, if you would like to have a nice poster with a beautiful fairy on it, then stop looking elsewhere!
We will be sharing with you more nice content and images, and of course you can ask for anything you would like to see, thank you and we hope to see you soon!
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2018-07-18T14:43:19Z
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Porsche Boxster 2005-2019
In the decade and a half since the original WU above, there have been some very substantial changes to the Porsche Boxster including the introduction in 2006 of a hardtop variant called the Cayman. In the world of car enthusiasts, models are further refined by internal manufacturer's designations that allow you to pinpoint the exact variant with further precision. For example, BMW has a long running set of midsize sporty luxury sedans collectively called the five series. In order to pinpoint which five series you are talking about, you need to use the internal model/platform designation, like E39 for example, which narrows it to the model produced from 1995 to 2004. Porsche is no different so I will use the internal designations here as well.
The 987 was the first major refresh of the Boxster line and also saw the introduction of a hardtop version called the Cayman which is outside of the scope of this wu. Some of the changes were cosmetic, larger wheel arches to accommodate wheels up to 19", larger side engine intake vents to provide better airflow to larger engines, and most importantly, the redesign of the universally despised fried egg headlights. The interiors were also refreshed from the 986 with a more attractive race inspired instrument cluster, round air vents and generally higher quality materials in a more modern cockpit design. Some important mechanical updates also made this a much more refined including larger engine displacement to 2.9 liters for the base model and 3.2 liters for the S variant. The manual gearbox was changed to a six speed.
There were actually two distinct versions of the 987, designated 987.1 and 987.2. The 987.2 was introduced in 2009 and added direct fuel injection and more importantly dropped the lazy Tiptronic automanual transmission in favor of the excellent Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe (PDK) dual clutch gearbox, a technology Porsche developed for it's racecars in the early 80's that saw testing in the 956 and extensive race use in the following 962. The PDK as all other automated dual clutch transmissions pre-select the next gear making gear changes instantaneous without the need to match revs, hence cars with the PDK are actually faster than the equivalent manuals. The PDK is also shifted via flappy paddles or the gear stick itself while the Tiptronic used thumb buttons on the steering wheel which were extremely unsatisfying.
For many - including me this generation is the sweet spot between a very mechanical direct car and a more tractable car that can easily be daily driven.
The third generation Boxster changed several basic dimensions including a wider track and a longer wheelbase while shedding a little bit of weight (77 lbs)and a more modern design language derived from the 918 supercar. Some controversial features were also introduced like electric steering. This was ultimately though an evolutionary change from the 987 including interior refreshing to match the contemporary 911 and some changes to the displacement of the flat six boxer engines and better gas mileage (@ 15% more efficient)
Officially the 718 Boxster, borrowing the designation of the racecar that followed the 550 Spyder of James Dean death fame. This car is a bit polarizing. See, all Boxsters to date had used a six cylinder boxer engine - hence the Boxster portmanteau - the 718 switched to a four cylinder boxer and turbos giving a large portion of the Porsche purists the vapors. Yes, the engine does not sound the same but the car is by all reports an astonishing piece of kit. Exterior and interior changes are evolutionary but I think clean up a few of the minor design peccadilloes of the 981.
One thing that has not changed is that a Boxster base is still the sweet spot of the price/performance/fun equation when considering a pure sports car. The romantic notion of a car that you can comfortably drive long distances to the track, race, and then drive home is completely fulfilled by this little, beautiful car.
Since E2 is not Wikipedia, the reason for this wu is that I have recently, being at the portal of six decades on this good earth, and having completely gone over the edge of the What the fuck cliff, have added a 2011 Boxter Base in a very elegant and discrete Meteor Gray over Sand Beige interior to our motley car "collection". Because my wife has foot issues that hurt her when driving a stick in heavy traffic, the car has the PDK transmission. In use the PDK does not feel like an automatic at all, instead it feels like a ghostly, precise hand is doing the shifting of a manual. The previous owner took very good care of the car and added some very tasteful stealth upgrades including lowering the car a few millimeters, an aftermarket sports exhaust that is very quiet when driving the car sensibly but screams when you put your foot down, etc.
Having added close to 1,500 miles to the original 50,000 I am close to getting used to the car. It is a stiff and bumpy ride in town, especially in the winter ravaged New England streets, but it is a dream on twisty smooth roads as you would expect. This is the first true sports car that I have owned, my 1989 RX7 convertible being really a Grand Tourer and I look forward to many years of top down motoring in the spring sunshine and cool summer evenings
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2021-10-16T20:14:28Z
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By Eilis Flynn
At long last, it’s happened! Dancing up and down with joy, startling the kids and the cats (not to mention the neighbors and the meter man), you can’t stop rejoicing: YOU GOT THE CALL! FINALLY, FINALLY, YOU GOT THE CALL! Then you stop dancing. Is it . . . rude to be so happy? But how could you NOT? Will others not yet blessed with The Call think you’re the most obnoxious creature alive? Exulting with happiness is a normal reaction, any worthwhile counselor can tell you, but it’s also a normal reaction to feel guilty about your success. So what can you do? You can check out a few of these websites, that’s what.
In using academic success as a metaphor for The Sale, here’s an interesting blog to peruse, “31 Flavors of Guilt”:
What if you don’t even realize that you’re suffering from guilt and the fear of success? Understand what you’re doing to yourself and what to do about it.
There are various types of guilt that can pop up in relation to your career, ranging from feeling guilty because you think you’re being selfish, putting your own needs first, all the way to “I’m-not-good-enough” guilt. Guilt can interfere with your career goals if you’re not careful, so here’s how to manage your guilt so you can continue to be productive:
Guilt of this kind can also be viewed as fear of success – what if you get and do everything you want to, and you’re still not happy? Understand it, deal with it, and the steps toward achieving your emotional goal:
And finally, because it is the new year, here are “10 new attitudes for recreating your life this year.” Geared toward women but good for men too, mostly with a financial bent (it starts off with “a man is not a financial plan” – unless, of course, the man is the Hero of your latest work and he helps you in writing the best romance you’ve ever written), this list is a great way to start off a year of nonparalleled success. Good luck!
Copyright 2006 Eilis Flynn
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2017-09-19T20:34:41Z
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Tax controversies that go to trial may result in favorable precedents, possibly even impacting IRS procedures. In a recent example, commentators question whether a federal tax refund lawsuit brought by Wells Fargo & Co. may spur other refund claim filings and/or reforms. The dispute involved the application of underpayments and overpayments from a business unit that Wells Fargo had acquired by merger.
As background, corporations pay a variety of federal taxes, such as excise takes, employment and taxes on their earnings. Although the same corporate taxpayer is involved, each type of tax is treated separately. Consequently, an underpayment in one of those tax areas might result in the company owing the IRS additional money, plus interest. At the same time, the IRS is obligated to return any overpayments in any of those tax categories made by the company, also with interest. Ironically, a single corporation could both owe money to the IRS and be due an IRS refund for the same tax period, but for different types of taxes.
If that sounds inefficient, Congressional lawmakers agree. They passed legislation in 1998 that authorized a process called interest netting. The process allows a company to get a wash, or an effective interest rate of zero, if it has overpaid in one tax area but underpaid in another. Said another way, a company may be able to equalize the interest rates on each side of the fence.
Yet what happens if a company merges with another, and the newly acquired unit had overpaid and is due money from the IRS? The instant lawsuit ruled that the post-merger company can be considered a single taxpayer, and hence utilize any overpayments involving the newly acquired unit. However, there may be a time limit regarding the acquired entity’s corporate tax history, limiting the post-merger company from going back to remote tax years.
Source: Bloomberg, “Wells Fargo’s Partial Tax Victory May Spur Billions in Refunds,” Lynnley Browning, July 6, 2016
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2021-06-15T13:35:34Z
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Move to music
You will need
You can also
- Use props such as dolls, ribbons or scarves
- Experiment with different types of music: fast or slow, quiet or loud, hard or soft, rap, rock, ballads, classical, music without words.
- Use music from your own culture like lullabies.
- Use set dance moves such as ‘ring-a-roses’, ‘row your boat’, the haka, or make up your own.
- Organise a dance party for your child, with friends or just with your child.
Did you know:
Moving to music is a great way to teach children about keeping fit and healthy.
What your child is learning:
- Balance, coordination and rhythm
- What their bodies can do as they move in space
- To express themselves through movement and dance
- To improvise, create and recreate
- That dance and movement to music can be fun, delightful, comforting and exciting
- That moving to music can be a shared experience
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i noticed in 0,19 (beta) that sandbags are no longer visible. i can still attack it. packim bagim are also sometimes invisible.
i am using android pie on essential phone.
Steps to Reproduce
place sandbag. you see shading but no sandbag
This issue has not been confirmed by a developer yet.
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2020-01-19T22:47:01Z
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This is the mail archive of the
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Minimum Install for Executable Distrubution
Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de> writes:
> But I'm curious (and this question is often asked). Do you think
> something from the base install could be omitted /and/ having a
> working Cygwin install?
What is a working Cygwin install? If you leave out a package, the
programs in that package won't be available, eg:
> [Base Packages]
> bash: The GNU Bourne Again SHell
leave out bash: you don't get bash.
> diffutils: A GNU collection of diff utilities
leave out diffutils: you don't get diff, patch.
> findutils: Utilities for finding files--find, xargs, and locate
leave out findutils: you don't get find.
Dependencies of a package are automatically selected/shown when you
[re]select to install that package.
I don't consider Cygwin without bash or find a 'working Cygwin
install', but YMMV.
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke at gnu dot org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
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Upon the arrival,there was fresh wheaten bread with,best homemade jam,butter,tea,coffee,milk.
The owners had lit the fire before we arrived,beautiful views from sunroom,very quiet and would be back again!!!
P.s. I have proposed my gf in the cottage and she said YES ;-)More
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“As scientists, we need to think about how our work impacts society. We need to be able to engage with society more,” said Prof. Avery August, immunology, chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the College of Veterinary Sciences.
A Belizean-born scientist, August immigrated to the United States and obtained a B.S. in medical technology from the California State University at Los Angeles. He then acquired his Ph.D. in immunology from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Outside of Cornell, August has also been a department director at Pennsylvania State University and a postdoctoral research fellow at Rockefeller University.
August’s research deals primarily with the immune system in vertebrates and the various biochemical compounds present in the immune system cells. He and his team have managed to halt the allergic response in mice using a small molecule called BTP, which was an abandoned project of a pharmaceutical company.
“The work that we’re doing in allergies — we started with a small molecule that a company had made that they weren’t interested in, and we tried to figure out how this small molecule works,” August said. “We discovered that this small molecule can block allergies and we discovered the target of the small molecule.”
The results that his lab has achieved with BTP in mice may also be applicable to humans, according to August.
“The research that we do is mostly on mice, [but] the thing about the immune system is that [it] works the same way in all vertebrates, in essence,” he said. “So now we’re trying to see if we can get more information about how [BTP’s] target works, and also if we can use derivatives of [BTP] to block allergies [in humans and other animals].”
Another major facet of August’s research is his work with Interleukin-2 Inducible T-cell Kinases, called ITKs, which he has devoted most of his professional life to.
“Each time we look in the immune system we look at a different cell,” August said. “The immune system is made up of all these cell types. People have heard of T-cells, and B-cells that make antibodies. But in each type of cell we look at, [ITK] has a different function. That’s really fascinating for us.”
According to August, gaining a better understanding of ITK can allow people to create drugs to target certain immune cell functions during certain diseases.
“In different types of … cells this protein has a different function. So that tells us something about how the immune system works, and it also tells us that we can balance out those functions if we want to target [those cells] pharmaceutically in the form of a drug,” he said. “And a lot of companies are actually very interested in this protein and they’re making compounds to try and manipulate those [cell] functions in certain types of diseases.”
As an undergraduate studying at CSULA, August said he developed an enthusiasm for research and scientific investigation.
“I started doing research as an undergrad, and for me, the first time I did the experiment, it worked. But the other ten times [I had to do it], it didn’t. But I kept coming back to that first time because that first time gave you that rush,” August said. “And that rush is that perhaps, you’re the first person in the world to see this thing, to discover this thing. And then from there, you can [share] it with other people.”
Though he acknowledges that sometimes his experiments do not go according to plan, August said failures are simply a byproduct of innovation.
“If you do experiments and they’re always working, then you’re not being innovative enough. You’re not challenging the dogma enough. I would say that most experiments don’t work, and then we have a few that work. Those are the ones that keep us going,” he said.
Outside of his research, August also puts a lot of effort into mentoring his students and recruiting students into the science field, especially students of minority heritage. He often attends many recruitment events and likes to work with students one-on-one.
“One of the things that I do … is training graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and undergraduates, and also trying to recruit students from a diverse population to go into science,” August said. “I talk with students, I serve on panels … I spend a lot of time thinking about this issue, the pipeline — how do we keep our pipeline going in [and make sure] that people are getting scientific training and going on to make the sort of discoveries they want to make?”
August said he believes that scientists should look for ways to use their knowledge to make a tangible impact on the world.
“A goal I’d like to [accomplish] is to try and take the expertise that I have and use it for broader societal issues,” he said. “One of the things I just finished is the ‘Op-Ed Project,’ [a series of] workshops that [allowed me] to use [my] expertise to step out of [my] academic role and affect the world.”
August also said a scientist’s success should not be measured by the success of his research alone.
“[Writing op-eds] has been a satisfying experience, because it allows you to get feedback — not from other scientists, but from the community who reads your pieces,” August said. “And [this] is the type of thing I’d like to do more of.”
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I have recently bought a T-Mobile G1 from a local auction site. The reason for doing so was to test my android apps on a real hardware and also to try to tap into the mind of the Android user.
Before committing to a particular device, I took the time to do some research.. however the results were most unsatisfying.. Whenever you search on something related to: Tmobile g1 android development there are so many reviews of the phone and so much buzz and clutter about the android phones that it is almost impossible to find good answers..So the whole reason for this post are the following Q&As:
1. Can I test my own android apps on the T-Mobile G1 (i am talking about the LOCKED device from T-Mobile) ?
Answer: YES YOU CAN
2. Can I DEBUG my own android applications with the T-Mobile G1 ?
Answer: YES YOU CAN
3. Do I need to update to a special version of the Android OS (ROOT my phone, then install a custom ROM) in order to test & debug apps on the T-Mobile G1 ?
Answer: No, you don’t need to. You can enable debugging via the “settings” menu of the phone.
And now finally a quick tip..This was the reason I almost rooted my phone and almost flashed it with a custom firmware. The setting to enable debugging was not in the menu where the google dev-page states it is supposed to be. (the google page does not say it should be under settings so I thought that on the google dev firmware (like in emulator) there will be special shortcuts for development functions)
On my G1 this setting was in Menu / [Settings] / Applications / Development / USB Debugging.
So it was a few menus off, and I just couldn’t find it….. Once that is enabled, whenever you plug in the phone via USB cable to your PC it will recognize it as an android development device. (remember to set your app as debuggable in the manifest file, and install google’s usb driver)
A short tutorial on how to get started:
1. Set USB debugging on your device
2. Plug in the USB cable and connect it to the PC (you don’t need to mount the SD card)
3. Install google’s driver: (you can find it in the Android SDK)
4. Make sure you restart ADB (if you have ADB running while installing the USB, your device may not be listed until you restart ADB)
5. (skip this if you like) After installing the driver restart ADB:
6. check to see if you device is listed
adb devices (your phone should be listed)
7. Start eclipse and edit the manifest file. Under application set “Debuggable” to true
8. When you run your application a menu will appear asking you if you want to send it to the device or not. (if it does not, you can force adb to use the physical device by typing: adb -d )
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28/2 Postcards from Barcelona, by Camila Falquez
Camilla Scott. We present Postcards from Barcelona, a video where Camila Falquez, collaborator in The Sartorialist, says to Scott Schuman: “Barcelona is the best city in the world” and he replies, “Convince me.
Here’s the proof. Enjoy this walk through the most charismatic places in the city, including the recommended restaurant Luzia to start the day, where you will be able to eat the “best breakfast in town” or the Bar Lobo, where you can try “amazing cocktails”.
The two restaurants by Grupo Tragaluz located right next to Las Ramblas and twenty minutes walking from our luxury hotel in Barcelona.
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Ever since I was little I wanted to work with animals, I am one of five children and I was always the one bringing home lost pets, housing caterpillars and owning a variety of animals such as our cat Tilly, guinea pigs, rabbits and budgies (what ever my parents would allow!). After leaving school I studied my Certificate 2 in Animal Studies through TAFE SA, which I really enjoyed. This then lead me to currently studying my Cert 4 in Veterinary Nursing through Open colleges. I was lucky to secure work placement at Hills Veterinary Centre in Blackwood in 2015.
After doing work placement for a few months, I was offered a casual position in the clinic. I feel so privileged and lucky to be a part of such an amazing team of Vets and Nurses and I always look forward to coming to work. The atmosphere is always positive and they are always happy to teach me new skills and answer any questions I might have.
I have really enjoyed getting to know all the clients and their pets at the clinic. I love being able to answer any questions they may have as I know how important their pets are to them, they are part of the family.
My partner Andy and I have recently bought a house in Eden hills as we love the area. Together we own a boxer called Ruby, she is five years old and brings so much entertainment and love to our lives. In my spare time, I love to go camping, go to the gym, hiking and spending time with my young nieces and nephews.
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Looking for ENGLEMAN/UTZ Families of Southern Indiana
I am searching for more information on Esther Mabel Engleman and Clarence Utz, I know Esther was born Apr 14 1896 in Floyd County, Indiana and died after 1979 she married Clarence Utz Jan 15 1916 in Floyd County, Indiana I am wanting to know if Clarence and Esther (Engleman) Utz had any children? I also know that Esther mother and father name was Henry Engleman and Ollie Garot. I have no information as to the parnts of Clarence Utz.
Thanks for any help
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USDJPY has been in a three-day selloff driven lower by risk aversion flows, but today the pair has managed to stage a comeback and is closing well above the 106.00 level. The markets appear to have stabilized after yet another wave of Trump rants on twitter and traders will now likely focus on the real business at hand as a series of key US economic reports are about to be released this week.
First on deck will be the ADP data due tomorrow at 8:15 EST and then the ISM Non- Manufacturing. Unless both reports widely miss their mark, they should prove positive for the pair confirming that US economy continues to grow steadily and that the Fed will maintain its rate hike policy for the foreseeable future.
Technically, USDJPY has made inverse head and shoulders bottom, which tends to be a very robust bottoming pattern and looks ready to make another run at the 107.00 figure.
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Suitable for caring and treatment of snoring, sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome. It especially designs for OSAS people. Spontaneous pressure control technology brings you more comfortable caring.
CPAP A25 could effectively improve the following symptom:
- Mouth breathing
- Suffocated awake at night
- Daytime lethargy
- Memory decline
- Endocrine disorders
- Hight blood pressure
- Low blood oxygen
CPAP A25 can automatically adjust the treatment pressure to provide patients with the appropriate level of pressure, the patient does not need to adjust the pressure repeatedly, the treatment process becomes simple and convenient. Not only effectively solve the problem of patient intolerance during treatment, but also improve the patient’s comfort.
- Automatically adjust the treatment pressure
- Enhance the comfort of using
Auto CPAP preserves treatment efficiency:
The ventilator will continue to provide a dynamically varying pressure airflow during operation. Breathing opportunity automatically adjusts the effective treatment pressure according to the type and severity of the user’s night-time breathing problems.
For example, when breathing in the supine position is more serious than in the lateral position, the ventilator will raise the pressure in the supine position and raise the lower pressure in the lateral position to increase user comfort and heal Compliance.
Simplified interface design:
3.5-inch color screen, more clear and bigger, combined more treatment data and overall treatment monitoring, which could offer you all-around health care.
Easy-operation and portable device:
Simple texture appearance and smooth lines, humanized design concept, perfectly embedded humidifier, and main unit are integrated into one, which will not take up space and is more suitable for home placement.
Quiet and thoughtful functional design:
LED backlit screen, sleep mode is automatically activated at night, the screen backlight automatically
dim, so you will not suffer from light interference. High-quality turbine makes the sound is lower than 28dB during operation, to create a comfortable quiet sleep environment for you.
- 28dB working noise
- Automatically turn on sleep mode
Intelligent humidification system;
Healthy heating and humidification system, releasing a larger amount of humidification. Maintain ideal humidity for 10ml/L in the flow rate of 60L/min, improve nasal dryness, respiratory discomfort, dry skin, and other conditions, to make you have comfortable breathing.
Independently research and develop 360°technology, which obtained national patent certification. Effectively prevent the movement and water back-flow to burn the internal motor to avoid the risks, improve the comfort of attendance.
The patented 360°anti-countercurrenttechnology prevents the water in the chamber from returning to the main machine.
Adjustable 5 temperature levels:
Adjustable 5 temperature levels humidifier to meet the needs of different treatment needs of users, multiple temperatures level for choosing, more user-friendly and more comfortable.
Strong and efficient blower:
Imported high-quality turbine with 43000bpm speed per minute, provides continuous respiratory power with more robust, efficient and precise pressure, and offers strong air leakage compensation. Quick Pressure level response, stable performance
- 43000 bpm Rotational speed per minute
- 500LPMMaximum air flow rate
- 5mg Dynamic balance accuracy
- Built-in wifi module could synchronously transmit real-time treatment data.
- The M+HealthCare platform could track the monitor treatment data in real time.
- It is an exclusive 7*24h after-sales service for you. Regardless of work, business trip, travel, you could still make real-time monitoring anytime, anywhere.
- It offers you and your family best personal guardian
- The M+HealthCare platform could integrate all the sleep data and automatically generate a professional treatment assessment report.
- Even when you stay at home, you could obtain the most professional and high efficient care program.
Four methods of report reading:
- M+HealthCare Platform
- Analysis Software
Scientific treatment algorithm Accurate recognition, safe guarantee
The advanced scientific algorithms are based on a large number of clinical trials.
It can automatically and accurately monitor the identification of a variety of respiratory
conditions. The ability to detect sleeping position and event response.
Fully guarantee your sleep quality and safety.
pressure release technology
Powerful pressure relief technology-COMF is our own patent. It could ensure the comfort level, high compliance, free from burdened breath nursing through the clinical test and demonstration.
- CPAP A25
- 360° anti-counter current water chamber/Humidifier upper cover
- Water chamber cover
- Power adapter
- User manual
- Micro SD card(4G)
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High rollers congregated on the grounds of a former abbey in Hautvillers, France, Tuesday to indulge a passion for vintage race cars, particularly the Ferrari 250 GTO, and — hopefully not at the same time — a taste for good Champagne.
The event, at which 23 owners of the legendary sportster gathered for its 50th anniversary rally, was a who’s who of top names in the industry — not surprising given the car’s hefty price tag. One model, of the 38 ever made, reportedly auctioned this year for more than $32 million.
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LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-owned Champagne brand Dom Pérignon welcomed Ferrari aficionados including fashion mogul and Michael Kors backer Lawrence Stroll; Samuel Robson Walton, Wal-Mart’s chairman and the son of its founder, and Jean Todt, president of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, the governing body of Formula One, with his wife, actress Michelle Yeoh, to celebrate the legendary 1962 sports car.
“This rally is a ritual,” said Stroll. “I’ve had this car 20 years, and this is my fourth reunion.” Indeed, the event did seem a little like a high-school reunion, albeit for the superrich.
“It’s phenomenal to see so many of the remaining GTOs in one place,” Moët Hennessy president Christophe Navarre commented. “You know they are worth as much as a painting by one of the great masters? Unfortunately, I am not an owner.”
“We’ve just driven down from Paris to be here, straight from the Armani Privé runway show,” said Yeoh, sporting a black and fluorescent green mesh cocktail dress from the Italian brand.
The event, on the grounds of the recently restored Hautvillers abbey, where Benedictine monk Dom Pierre Pérignon was cellarer in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, saw guests sipping vintages from 1988, 1964 and 1962 accompanied by a menu created by the brand’s house chef, Pascal Tingaud.
LVMH executives were out in force, with group managing director Toni Belloni; Moët & Chandon and Dom Pérignon president Stéphane Baschiera, and Moët & Chandon vice president of corporate communications Jean Berchon, a direct descendant of the Chandon family and the creator of the rally, as well as Navarre, among the hosts.
The next morning, the 23 cars and their owners were due to set off on a five-day rally and epicurean journey to Versailles through the French countryside.
As the sun set over the vineyards that stretch as far as the eye can see, guests admired Ferrari’s latest innovation, the F12. “I try to push them to buy new Ferraris,” Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo said of the GTO owners. “Sometimes it is difficult, but I will carry on trying.”
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However, there are not enough, which is why it's my pleasure to introduce The Goalden Lady.
The Goalden Lady is a website and blog geared toward the ongoing growth of women of any age.
The idea is to provide useful, practical and positive content that helps empower, motivate and inspire women to live the life they want no matter what their current situation.
This concept takes shape by encouraging site visitors to begin their 'goalden' journey from where ever they currently are with whatever resources are currently available. Read the site’s content, take action, join the email list and be a part of a larger group of women taking charge of their lives to live on their terms.
I encourage you to check out The Goalden Lady (TGL) website. Here are TGL guidelines to give you a preview of your future empowerment.
- No excuses
- Keep it moving
- No complaining
- Accept responsibility for everything you do
- Only compare yourself to who you were yesterday
- Avoid distractions
- Know your money
- No worrying – do something about it
- Think for yourself
- Help somebody
posted by: Nick Venturella
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Blasts from the past: 13-year record cracked by Jobodwana
Today in SA sports history: May 16
2001 — The West Indies beat a lacklustre SA by six wickets in the final ODI at Kingstown, but the visitors still win the series 5-2. It was the second Proteas tour there, and their first series victory. SA would beat the West Indies in their next 11 contests in the Caribbean, and would lose there again only in 2016.
2010 — Katlego Mphela scores twice in the space of three minutes as Bafana Bafana whallop Thailand 4-0 in a World Cup warm-up match at Mbombela stadium in Nelspruit. Siphiwe Tshabalala and Bernard Parker scored the other two goals. The margin of victory equalled the team’s biggest winning gap, against Chad from 2007. It would later emerge, however, that this was the first of five Bafana matches leading up to the World Cup that was influenced by convicted Singaporean match-fixer Wilson Raj Perumal.
2015 — Anaso Jobodwana breaks Morne Nagel’s long-standing 200m SA record when he clocks 20.06 at the Cayman Invitational in George Town. Nagel’s 20.11 had stood untouched for 13 years, but in 2015 it would be surpassed four times, three times by Jobodwana and once by Wayde van Niekerk.
You have reached the end of the Edition.
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Guus Hiddink will have Eden Hazard available for Saturday’s FA Cup quarter-final against Everton after the Chelsea manager admitted the playmaker is “desperate to play” despite his on-going struggles with a hip injury.
The Belgian international was substituted 13 minutes from time during Wednesday’s Champions League elimination to Paris Saint-Germain at Stamford Bridge, his departure prompting boos from a section of the home support. His father, Thierry, suggested earlier today that Hazard had been playing through the pain since suffering the hip problem in a clash with Jamie Vardy during December’s loss at Leicester City.
“Eden is not absent of injury, but what is an injury?” said Hiddink. “You can have an injury where you can’t play, or one where you can play but are not fully fit. And that can have an influence on freshness. The worries are a bit there, that’s true. He will be available for the weekend [at Everton]. He’s desperate to participate in the team’s performance.”
Hiddink, who lifted the trophy during his previous spell at the London club, will also include the captain, John Terry, in his travelling party after the centre-back returned to training following a hamstring injury. However, the veteran defender is not expected to feature having only played a peripheral part in training this week. Likewise, Diego Costa’s participation is in serious doubt after he suffered his own hip problem against PSG.
“Diego went off and had a few more problems, rested and had treatment on Thursday and, this morning, the same,” said Hiddink. “It’s in his hip as well. John has worked rather well in the past days, and he will be included in the squad that travels today.
“Of course, he has not practised a lot in recent weeks and days, but his training was intensified in the last two days and, today, I will see if he’s had a big reaction. I’d like him to travel to Liverpool, anyhow.”
Following the midweek exit to PSG, the FA Cup remains Chelsea’s last opportunity to salvage silverware from an indifferent season and Hiddink admits it is a competition he wants to claim for a second time. “It’s an important competition, but we won’t neglect the Premier League,” added the interim manager.
“There’s disappointment [after Wednesday night], and we’ve only had two days to recover physically, psychologically and mentally. It’s always a blow to be kicked out, even by a good team, so that was a setback. But the players are OK physically. Now they have to be resilient mentally as well.”
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For anyone who has ever identified with a character from fiction, been seduced by a first sentence or been profoundly moved by a story´s end, How to Write Like Tolstoy is a wonderful and illuminating journey into the minds and imaginations of the world´s greatest writers. What made Nabokov choose the name Lolita? Why did Fitzgerald tell The Great Gatsby in the first person? How did Kerouac, who raged against revision, finally come to revise On the Road? Why did Martin Amis give up on writing about sex? Veteran editor Richard Cohen draws on a vast and eclectic reservoir of knowledge to reveal what makes good prose soar. From plot and character development to dialogue and point of view, the motivations, obsessions, tricks and talents of a host of great novelists are brought to the fore, their published works mined and private beliefs unearthed. There´s the nature of originality as plagiarism is discussed, and a weighing of the odds when trying to write about physical intimacies. And how to begin...Or end? From first page to last, How to Write Like Tolstoy is a unique exploration of the act and art of writing, one which enriches our experience of reading both the classics and the best modern fiction, and provokes in us an overwhelming urge to read and to write.
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I wasn’t going to blog about this. I created a thread about this over on Wanderlust, a new message board. I just needed some kind of input, but I’ve not received much. Robin tweeted me that I could email her about it, and she brought up an excellent point:
Wow. I personally think you could do a lot of good by blogging about this, because (and I don’t mean to sound over-dramatic) you never know if someone will stumble across it and then, after reading, possibly understand why a PTSD-afflicted person in their life might not be able to just do normal things (such as driving). I think you worded everything very well here. But these are just my thoughts.
I blog about my PTSD and MDD and other forms of health, and my experiences, because it helps me and it spreads awareness. So why wouldn’t I blog about this? Because I don’t want to come off as whiny or lazy or unappreciative? Yes, that is exactly why I didn’t want to blog about it. However, I have certain things that interfere with me having a truck and driving. I have people offline who see my “decision”, or “choice”, to not drive as pure laziness, or quite simply me refusing to be responsible and having priorities. The whole point of me starting over on 6birds and blogging about my life the way I do is to share my experience with mental health with others.
Blogging helps me, so I do it.
I can’t drive. I’ve mentioned this so many times. To mention it offline to people would simply put me in a place of awkwardness, and possibly even make me feel as shitty as I felt last week. I have PTSD, which is the abbreviation for post-traumatic stress disorder. I have flashbacks and hallucinations, and I zone out for hours, only to snap out of it and be totally unaware of what I am doing, where I am, how I got there and/or clueless of what I did in that time period. I have a horrible memory; my reflexes are totally whack; I sleep for many hours unable to wake1; I fall asleep and have nightmares, or flashbacks, of past events; I am easily startled — even if you’re near, even if there is a lot of noise, even if I really shouldn’t be; everything triggers re-experiencing, even the least expected things.
I can’t drive. I refuse to drive. The last time I actually drove on my own, I wasn’t aware that I was about to literally drive straight off the bend rather than turning on it like usual. What stopped me? I didn’t, and still don’t, want to die lost. If something — anything — had happened to me, no one would have went looking for me until I’d been gone about a month or more. No one. No one would have noticed anything had happened, because that area was literally mostly trees, and I wouldn’t have been discovered for who knows how long. Aside from people not being able to find me, I don’t (and didn’t) want to die while PTSD and MDD made/make the decisions for me. They rule my life.
Normal day-to-day activities may include driving for some people. I can’t do normal things, because I’m not mentally stable. I’ll admit to it. Last year, I didn’t want to admit to it. Since my diagnosis, I’ve realized that I need to start understanding its existence and that it cannot just go *poof*! To not think about it would merely make it worse. I have to think about it, because it’s there. I can’t pretend it’s not there. I tried that, and I felt as if I wasn’t in my own body — I felt as though I was watching myself from the outside.
I realized I needed to quit my job that evening when I got home. I mean, I had tried to kill myself. I’m not driving — and I refuse to drive — because I don’t trust myself. Just under half a year ago I was self-harming. It hurts to know that your family finds you to be this weird, lazy, irresponsible person. It hurts like hell. No one offline is supportive. They say I need help, but I’ve no clue as to where to look. When I bring up wanting to get help2, it’s shrugged off. “But I think that if you get out more and maybe get yourself a little job, you’ll forget about it.” I did that in 2011, and I almost killed myself in 2012. My emotions repeat themselves each year based on the events that happened. I have a horrific flashback that has been haunting me since a certain doctor’s appointment that is so unnerving that I just need to SPILL to someone, but I don’t for the fear that it may be true.
I feel as if the only way people will realize that I’m not deliberately doing this to myself is for me to get so bad to the point that they’ve no other choice but to get me help. Maybe it’ll open their eyes.
I don’t want to do it, but I can’t afford the $400 insurance. My dad won’t pay it again since I haven’t driven it; I haven’t asked, but I doubt I’ll be shocked by his response. Toto’s my first-ever vehicle. However, no one offline understands the struggle. I have to give up something I love the most. It’s sentimental. Who knows how I’ll ever be able to get another vehicle? My dad saved up money for me to get a vehicle, and now I have this mental illness shit they find to be surreal, and I’m probably seen as ungrateful.
And I’m just crying. I’m crying because no matter how truly grateful for it I am, I’m still seen as the girl who wouldn’t get a job in high school because I couldn’t bear the stress and/or the girl with the forgetful memory and the tantrums. I cry because I had so many high hopes for myself, and things weren’t supposed to make me get here. I cry because this is not the life I wanted for myself.
So I have to sell it. I have to sell it, and even the person offline who has the most experience with trauma thinks I am purposely putting everything at the front of my head. You’re supposed to understand… how could you?
The time I had the most courage to explain to my dad what was going on with me, he knocked me down before I could even finish voicing the thought. Even if you don’t want to believe it happened, it happened. Shit happened to me, and it can never be annulled. It haunts me every minute of every day.
And because the people who need to the most don’t understand it, I’m just forced to stay lost.
If I knew I could sell ously.me for enough money to pay for it just to buy some time, I would. However, I seriously doubt the possibility.
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May's Massive Shift: 7 Years Of Big Changes Starting Now
Astrology tells why everything from money to animals and real estate to planet Earth will see massive changes over the next seven years
Uranus In Aries: Protest, Violence - And New Inventions
"Much of this period saw protest, liberation, and violence," said Astrologer Anne. "Aries brings hard driving energies, and Uranus insists on freedom. This can create highly volatile conditions, which we saw explode in the Arab Spring and increasing numbers of school shootings."
Aries also loves to start anything new, so this period has seen plenty of startups and new technology. It also governs identity: many people changed their lives dramatically, trying on new identities to see what fit them better.
Uranus In Taurus: Think Back To 1934 - 1942
Now Uranus is headed straight for astrology's most peaceful sign: Taurus.
"Change has been in the air," Astrologer Anne said. "So many people already are feeling it. For a sense of the scale of change we'll see, we can check back to the period from 1934 to 1942, which is the last time Uranus was in Taurus."
What could Uranus in Taurus bring?
"We'll see changes in anything related to Taurus," explained Astrologer Anne. "For example, Taurus governs just about anything having to do with money, so we're going to see shifts in banking as well as financial markets and even wallets. New technology already in place likely will expand how we shop and pay and borrow."
Taurus also is concerned with the Earth, so we're going to witness changes affecting our planet as well as farming, real estate, and soil.
"In addition, Taurus governs cattle as well as beauty, art, and culture, so all these are ripe for change and futuristic thinking," said Astrologer Anne.
Get Your Guide To Uranus In Taurus
No matter what happens, "we'll have many powerful opportunities to move forward and make positive changes," Anne said.
To help everyone make the most of Uranus in Taurus, she has written an in-depth, ultimate guide to the entire Uranus in Taurus era. It includes details for all 12 zodiac signs on how each is affected.
Get your Ultimate Guide To Uranus In Taurus now at https://astrologeranne.com/
Anne also writes highly detailed, free monthly horoscopes. See her website at https://astrologeranne.com/
Find out about love, money, career, relationships, and more.
Visit the Astrologer Anne website at https://astrologeranne.com/
About Astrologer Anne
Astrologer Anne is Anne Nordhaus-Bike, a longtime professional astrologer and award-winning astrology journalist.
She's also in demand as a speaker and is a frequent and popular guest on radio, where she takes calls from listeners and shares what's in the stars for every astrology sign. Her free monthly horoscopes cover every zodiac sign for devoted readers on her website. The National Women's Hall of Fame honored her accomplishments, adding her to its Wall Of Fame. She is a member of the American Federation of Astrologers.
For more information, go to https://astrologeranne.com/
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For the last two years, Rockland’s New York State senator has lived in the political no man’s land between Democrats and Republicans as a member of the NYS Senate’s Independent Democratic Conference. But David Carlucci and the other three members of the IDC are now playing the role of kingmakers to determine which party will have a majority when the next session of the state’s senate is sworn in next year. With neither Republicans nor Democrats having enough seats to gain control of the upper house, IDC Chairman Jeff Klein (D-Bronx) is trying to negotiate a power sharing agreement with Senate Republicans. Carlucci, Klein, Diane Savino (D-Staten Island), and David Valesky (D-Syracuse) formed the IDC in Jan 2010.
It portends the possibility of great change in the way business gets done in Albany. Or it could be more of “business as usual” in a state known for partisan gridlock and frequent corruption scandals. If the most important powerful politicians in New York State came to you on bended knee and pleaded for your support — and you could negotiate anything — what changes would you seek in the historically dysfunctional state government?
“New York needs an ironclad rule, possibly in the form of a constitutional amendment, that prohibits any variation in pay among legislators,” says Larry Elkin, president of Palisades Hudson Financial Group. “No premium is acceptable for committee assignments or chairmanships, for seniority or anything else.” Elkin, a former government, business and legal affairs reporter for The Associated Press, says that this change will remove the direct financial pressure that leaders exert to keep their members in line which subverts the relationship between the legislator and their constituents. “Stripped of this power, legislative leaders will be more responsive to their caucuses rather than vice-versa, and party discipline will weaken to the point that bipartisan coalitions can form to address specific issues,” he says.
If money is the root of all evil, there’s a case to be made that New York’s governmental roots are too rotted to be restored. ChiefExecutive.net ranks New York as next to last for the best state to do business, with high taxes and multiple layers of government. The Empire State also ranked 4th among all states for the most federal corruption convictions between 2000 and 2010. Last March, StateIntegrity.org gave the New York a D on its Corruption Risk Report Card Rankings, citing it’s 37th place finish among all states earning NY a failing grade for its state budget process.
“New York needs a constitutional convention. We need to change how government is run,” says Paul Feiner. The Greenburgh Town Supervisor questions the structure of New York’s government saying we have just too much of it. “Do we need two houses of the state legislature ‘€“ a senate and assembly? Some states, like Nebraska, have only one.” Feiner thinks that New Yorkers could save millions by adopting a new constitution with a unicameral (one house) legislature, eliminating much of the duplication that now exists in the NYS Assembly and Senate.
Feiner’s cost cutting ideas aren’t limited to Albany. “There are too many layers of government. Taxpayers should be given the right to petition for a referendum to force more sharing of personnel.” Feiner says the highest paid and the most specialized government employees should be shared across local and regional lines. He also questions the value of New York’s multi-layered government, where citizens can often be paying tax to their village which is situated in a town which sits inside a county which is part of New York State. “Do we need county government? Or, should counties be consolidated or eliminated? Connecticut has no county government. Massachusetts authorized the elimination of county governments lowering their taxes,” he says. Although some of Feiner’s ideas might be antithetical to current local office holders, there’s one theme where everyone outside of Albany is singing from the same hymnal. “New York should eliminate some of its mandates, starting with arbitration panels, which set salaries for police, fire and the awards are usually very high,” he says.
Nyack’s former mayor doesn’t think much of the IDC and isn’t impressed with their role helping to negotiate who will be in of the senate. “The Independent Democratic Caucus is a disgrace,” says Richard Kavesh, a former mayor of the village and a full-time teacher of history and government courses at the Bronx School of Law and Finance. “These candidates ran as Democrats. We activists gathered signatures for them as Democrats, and they were nominated as Democrats. The four of them won on the Democratic line — it’s the height of ingratitude for them to turn their backs on the supporters who put them where they are,” he says.
Kavesh thinks most of New York’s faults are in New York’s political stars, not in the members of the legislature. “If the New York State Senate remains as divided and dysfunctional as it is and has been, the fault will lie with Governor Cuomo for not insisting on a neutral and bi-partisan reapportionment process,” he says. Kavesh doesn’t understand how NYS Democrats, who out number Republicans 2-1, could not have control of the senate. “Somehow, depending on still-to-be-determined races and the shenanigans of the four Independents, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans can take control of a chamber that the Democrats should easily control by virtue of their overwhelming edge in voter registration.”
Whereas Kavesh blames Cuomo for all of New York’s current governmental faults, Clarkstown Supervisor Alex Gromack says Andrew Cuomo’s leadership is the single most important factor for Albany’s success in getting things done. “Albany is running better and the governor needs to be given a lot of credit,” says Gromack, citing accomplishments like pension reform, securing a 2% tax cap and passing gay marriage legislation in New York State. Gromack, who served 14 years in the NYS Assembly when Mario Cuomo and George Pataki were governors, says Albany is still a very tight-knit system. “We need to open up the process and improve transparency. Individual members need to have access and input about issues.” Although Gromack is more likely to credit the governor more than the IDC for improvements in how Albany works, he sees a place for the splinter group, too. “The Independent Democratic Conference gets to influence the best of both caucuses. Having Carlucci join the IDC has given him and the IDC the flexibility to work with Republicans and Democrats by not being typecast as part of either party.”
In the next few weeks, we will learn if the IDC will use that influence to help shape the new leadership of the NY State Senate.
- Flashback: Klein’s outline for a bipartisan Senate, Capitol Confidential, 11/29/2012
- New York is the 49th Best State for Business 2012, ChiefExecutive.net May 2012
- What’s Your State’s Grade? StateIntegrity.org Feb 2012
- Unicameral, Wikipedia
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I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once...
Lately I have been a little tense and stressed what's new? Like everyone else, sometimes things do not always go your way. We deal with it, we move on and try to make the most of rough times. Relaxing is all about getting your mind off of the stresses of life. Anything that will accomplish this can be helpful in making you feel calm and at peace. Here I just read this article on some easy ways to feel more relaxed in your daily life.
Meditation can be a great way to relax, especially if you are under a lot of stress. Research has shown that meditation can be helpful in lowering heart rate and blood pressure, and even improving cognitive performance.
And meditation is pretty simple to do: just find a comfortable place, close your eyes, relax your muscles, and focus on ONE thing, whether it's your breathing, an object (a flower, or a painting) — or even a picture in your mind — perhaps you are sitting on a beach in the Caribbean. You can do this for as little as 10 minutes to experience benefits. The key is staying focused and not letting any distractions or thoughts enter your mind — being mindful is key. If you have a bit more time, take a yoga or tai chi class — both incorporate mediation, along with physical movements.
2. DRINK GREEN TEA, AVOID CAFFEINATED BEVERAGES
Green tea is very soothing — it contains theanine, an amino acid that gives flavor to green tea and also promotes relaxation. It is also thought that theanine is a caffeine antagonist, meaning it counters the stimulating effects of caffeine. So, drink green tea, and avoid caffeinated beverages, since caffeine can worsen the stress response. Well batting zero here because I do indulge in lots of cafe lately.
3. CONSUME SEROTONIN-BOOSTING FOODS
Many of us crave indulgent carbohydrates like cookies, candy, ice cream, pretzels, and other sweet and starchy foods when we're stressed, anxious, or tense. These foods can have a soothing effect in some women, and it may have something to do with low serotonin levels during these mood states. Serotonin is a brain chemical responsible for feelings of calmness and relaxation. It's thought that consuming these carbohydrates helps boost serotonin levels, which results in feelings of contentedness and relaxation. So, enjoy these treats if they provide some instant satisfaction, but do watch your portion sizes! I recommend 100 calorie portions — 4 Hershey Kisses, or a small handful of pretzels. You may want to pre-portion out pretzels, for example, and take them with you as a snack when you leave the house. The 100 calorie packs work well too. My problem lies in I eat everything in sight and there is a lot in sight:(
Many spas have relaxation rooms to sit in before and after treatments, and it's a great thing to create at home too. A relaxation room doesn't have to be a "room" per se — it can be a space in your bedroom, for example, but the key is having an area or room at home, solely devoted to relaxing. You can have a really comfortable chair or daybed, with dim lights, or candles nearby — whatever it is that you enjoy and find relaxing. This will give you an opportunity to decompress, with very little stimulus — this is key. Forget the blackberry, cell phone and laptop — this is a time to kick back and relax. You might want to read a book or magazine, but the idea is to clear your mind of distractions and stressors. Mine is the bedroom playing with Brutus.
Listening to soothing music can be very relaxing — and slow tempos in particular can induce a calm state of mind. (It can also slow down breathing and heart rate, lower blood pressure, and relax tense muscles too). This can be particularly beneficial when you're getting ready for a tough day at work, or if you're in your car stuck in traffic, or, if you're lying in bed trying to free your mind of stressful thoughts. Interestingly, music therapy has been shown to be helpful in decreasing anxiety associated with medical procedures: one recent study found that heart rate and blood pressure decreased significantly among individuals who listened to music during a colonoscopy (the control group did not experience any changes). The music intervention group also required less sedation during the procedure. One of my best stress relievers. I love soft Spanish music when I am feeling "moody" Arvid and Brutus of course love the Blues.
Getting a massage is a great way to free yourself of tension and relax, and adding aromatherapy oils such as chamomile or lavender can be particularly beneficial: one recent study found that emergency room nurses experienced reduced stress levels with aromatherapy massage: The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Nursing, found that 54 percent of the emergency room staff in summer and 65 percent in winter suffered moderate to extreme anxiety. However, this fell to 8 percent, regardless of the season, once staff received 15-minute aromatherapy massages while listening to music. If you don't have a lot of spare time, you can get aromatherapy oils and massage tools to use at home. I know for sure Arvid loves it when I massage his feet. Even Brutus loves being "massaged."
Heat relaxes muscles — and taking a long bath can be soothing for the mind as well. Stock up on your favorite bath salts and soaps, get a bath pillow, and decorate the room with candles. You can even create an in-home spa, by incorporating spa treatments like facials. I don't actually indulge in this, but one of my sisters occasionally does and she says it relieves all her tensions of the day. Maybe will go to a spa with my girlfriend and have the day there .
There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
Exercise helps to boost endorphins and reduce stress — and research shows that 20 minutes each day is all that is needed to experience benefits. I am honestly trying to incorporate more exercise into my daily life. With our constant "on the go" lifestyle, I sometimes am a bit lazy to actually jump on that elliptical machine. Will try harder.
Give it a try. Anything to make our lives less stressful cannot be too bad. Sometimes we have to remember to slow down a bit, take some time out for ourselves and just do something just for us. It can save a lot of future "issues" that may someday become very big "issues." If there is anyone who can just let his mind "float" away and relax, that person is Arvid sitting with Brutus. I have come to realize that no matter what we do, where we go, when Brutus is around we are most calm and relaxed. He is our therapy.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering....
Give your stress wings and let it fly away...
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The 100th anniversary of master furniture designer Hans Wegner on April 2nd 2014 and the 50th anniversary of the USM Haller modular furniture system next year is more than enough reason to bring these masterpieces together!
Most of Wegner’s furniture classics are inspired by the wood he loved so much to mold in his organic functionalist way. By contrast cold steel has been converted to poetry by the constructive systematic functionalism that can be found in all of Fritz Haller’s work. Wood vs. Steel Denmark vs. Switzerland, Craftsmanship vs. High-Tech Industry. We also show a Galerie Fontana masterpiece. Photos by Jaro Rodycz
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Created by Barry Thompson © 2011-2017 Aston on Trent on Trent Local History Group, all rights reserved
The Fallen of Aston and Weston - Click an image to enlarge it
Private William Henry Riley of the Army Service Corps. He enlisted in September 1916 and was a member of the Mechanical Transport Section based at Grove Park,
South London. Whilst at this base camp he was taken ill and eventually transferred to the home of his wife’s parents Mr. and Mrs. James Bullock of Castle Hill,
Duffield, Derby. Despite being afforded the very best medical treatment he passed away on the 29th March 1917. He was 30 years of age. Before enlisting in
September 1916 he worked for the Crompton and Evans Bank in Matlock. His funeral took place at Aston parish church, where at one time he was a member of the
church choir, the mourners were led by his wife Ethel whom he had married in 1912. He also left a two year old son. The funeral was followed by interment in Moor Lane
Private Frederick Hackett of the Machine Gun Corps. He was killed in action at the age of 21 and is buried in the Monchy British Cemetery at Monchy-Le-Preux
near Arras. He had left his job as a gardener with Messrs Dickinson and Henshall of Shardlow to enlist in October 1915. He was killed by a bomb from a German
trench mortar during a heavy bombardment on July 28th. His officer wrote to his mother - “Your son had been with this company about a week and in this short
time had become very popular amongst his comrades. He was a good soldier, willing, and never grumbled at his task. He was buried behind the lines”.
Private Albert Edward Hackett of the 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) died on the 5th August and has no known grave. He is
remembered with honour on the Menin Gate at Ypres, Belgium. He was 18 years of age when he fell and had served in the army for only 6 months.
Lance Corporal James Simpson of the 10th battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment was killed in action on the 6th August at the age of 23. He joined the army in
September 1914 and was sent to France in June of the following year. He was struck in the chest by a shell and death was instantaneous. His parents, Thomas and
Elizabeth Simpson of Weston Road, Aston, received a letter from one of his comrades which said - “we shall miss the best non-commissioned officer and pal there
was in this company. He died the death of a soldier, standing beside his gun to the last”. His officer also wrote to his parents stating that - “he had a great respect for
him as one wholly devoted to his duty”.
Major Guy Winterbottom, of the Derbyshire Yeomanry. He was the son of Lieut. Colonel William Dickson Winterbottom of Aston Hall and the late Clara Craven
Winterbottom. He was killed in action on the Salonika front on the 9th August 1917. He had been on active service since the outbreak of war and only a week
before he met his death he had been slightly wounded, but continued with his duties. Whilst riding between outposts he was fired upon from long range and
mortally wounded. He was 27 years of age and is buried at the Struma Military Cemetery in Greece.
Guy Winterbottom was married in 1912 to Reva Morrison, daughter of a family of Faceby, Northallerton. Major Guy and Reva Winterbottom resided at The
Cottage, Rolleston on Dove where they owned a farm. There were no children.
Rifleman Charles William Hackett of the 11th Battalion Rifle Brigade was killed in action on the 10th August whilst serving with a trench mortar battery. He was 25
years of age and was buried at Bard Cottage Cemetery, north of the town of Ypres, Belgium. Before enlisting in September 1914 he had worked as a gardener’s
labourer for Messrs Z. Smith and Co., Shardlow. His parents received a letter from his commanding officer who wrote - “It has been a great blow to the officers
and men of the battery to lose him. He was a wonderful man; so brave, and always did his duty thoroughly well as a soldier should. He was recommended for the
meritorious service medal at the beginning of the year, but up to the present nothing more of this has been heard”.
Gunner Henry Hackett of the 115th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. He had worked as a gardener before enlisting in February 1915. After training at
Scarborough and Yarmouth he was sent to France in June 1916. He died from wounds on the 7th December at the age of 27 and his remains lie in the St. Julien
Dressing Station Cemetery near Ypres, Belgium.
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Spain has updated its entry requirements for travellers from the UK. From December 1st, travellers arriving from the United Kingdom in Spain will need to show a vaccination certificate.
The Jamaica Tourist Board has confirmed that Ving, operated by Sunclass Airlines, will be returning to the destination with direct flights from Stockholm, Sweden.
Passengers arriving in the destination can present a negative antigen test from the previous 24 hours. This is instead of the previous requirement of a negative PCR test from the previous 72 hours.
One out of five destinations continue to have their borders completely closed as new surges of Covid-19 impact the restart of international tourism.
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Well friends and neighbors, it’s that time again! Let’s see what GG could work out for us this week. I humbly present to you Stitch Pattern Week 8- The Daisy Stitch.
If you follow this blog, you’ll recognize the daisy stitch from the Hinagiku Hat that was posted a few days ago. I liked the pattern so much – and found it in GG’s patterns – that I went out and bought some ridiculously (for me) expensive pure eco cotton and made bath mitts! The green was so fresh and vibrant that is screamed spring at me, and knitting it was like going back to an old friend. Knitted in the round, the daisy stitch twisted and turned as if on its on accord. It was made to be big enough to fit comfortably over your hand so you can scrub till your heart’s content. I’m kinda in love…. 😉
Wanna see GG’s written Pattern? No worries, it will be anxiously waiting for you at the bottom of the page.
This week I opened an Etsy store, made a Facebook Fan Page, and barely managed to keep my head on my shoulders. It has always been a dream of mine to open a little shop full of handmade goodies. I never had dreams of making loads of money, not that it wouldn’t be a good thing, but of having things I created put to use in other people’s homes. These items are near and dear to my heart, everything made with love and care but also with the memories of generations of knitters behind it. My GG’s dish cloths are still in use today and she passed on almost 20 years ago, but every time I pull one of her dish cloths out I think of her. The wonder of turning a strand of yarn into something purposeful and beautiful is still remarkable to me. I always wanted to share that with people.
The downside to trying to bring your dreams into the light is that there is that looming sense of dread that you will be a complete and utter failure. Take for example the expensive Etsy kit I bought. I loved it when I saw it, the designer did an amazing job and did exactly what I asked for. But I don’t like it. It doesn’t resonate as something I thought my store was about and now there is that shadow of doubt hanging over my head.
The panic monster in my mind has been screaming at me the past two days, it has invaded every thought and every action with its annoying chatter.
Me: This is a good start.
Panic Monster: Not good enough.
Me: This is really well made, took a while but still something I would use or give as a present.
Panic Monster: Took too long, could be better. SHOULD be better.
Me: So the Blog following and Facebook pages will take a while to grow, that’s how it should be.
Panic Monster: Nobody is going to bother with your sill websites, they look like crap!
Me: So what if I haven’t gotten a blogging award, it’s only been eight weeks! Time and patience and keep working hard, it’s the way things are done when done correctly!
Panic Monster: Never gonna happen, duh! You suck, your writing since college has gone down the tube and nobody gives a crap for a sub-par arthritic knitter. Don’t quit your day job loser.
This is pretty much how it has been going in my overly anxious mind. My OCD and panic monster are chopping at the bit to remind me that, guess what? there are things you CANNOT DO! Oh well live and learn and then get a big bat to smash the panic monster to bits and pieces.
There are so many wonderful, award-winning blogs that have introduced me to the talent and creativity that is out there. How could I possibly compete with that? Some have views in the six digit category and some have hundreds (if not thousands) of followers. So yes, it is intimidating to put yourself out there. I am just going to have to remind myself (and my panic monster) that I love what I am doing. Worse comes to worst and I never sell a thing and no one ever reads my blog again, I will have gifts for the next ten years to give and I will always love writing.
GG, Papaw, my husband and Max would be proud.
GG’s Stitch Pattern vs. The Real Deal
-The Daisy Stitch-
(No cast on number…hmm….good start GG. Good start!)
odd k – Rows 1 and 3 (RS): K (Good, Good.)
r2 k1,p3together,ya,p3together –Row 2: K1 *p3 tog and don’t drop them off the needle, yo (wrapping yarn completely around needle), p same 3 together again and drop them, k1; rep from * (At first I really thought that I was going to end up with no stitches left on my needles until I visited my Hinagiku Hat pattern and figured this out. Thank goodness for the internet)
r4 kpk-p3together,ya,p3tog -Row 4: K1, p1, k1 *p3 tog and don’t drop them off the needle, yo (wrapping yarn completely around needle), p same 3 together again and drop them, k1; rep from *, end p1, k1 (Again, thank you ol’ in-tra-net (my grandfather loved to say this just to bug the living he!! out of me) you’ve saved me loads of frogging. As for you GG, I wish you were her so I could take you to town for this!)
Well my ramblings have gone on far too long, I hope you enjoyed what you’ve seen or read, and thank you for visiting. To pose a question; Where did you get the inspiration/ know-how to make all of your blogs look so lovely? so functional? so…inviting? You’re all inspirations to bloggers at any level!
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