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The synchronization scripts for the Customer table illustrate timestamp-based synchronization and partitioning rows. Both of these techniques minimize the amount of data that is transferred during synchronization while maintaining consistent table data.
Periodically, customers may be reassigned among sales representatives. This process is commonly called territory realignment.
Each remote database contains only the customers they are assigned to.
download_cursor The following download_cursor script downloads only active customers for whom information has changed since the last successful download. It also filters customers by sales representative.
download_delete_cursor The following download_delete_cursor script downloads only customers for whom information has changed since the last successful download. It deletes all customers marked as inactive or who are not assigned to the sales representative.
If rows are deleted from the Customer table at the consolidated database, they do not appear in this result set and so are not deleted from remote databases. Instead, customers are marked as inactive.
When territories are realigned, this script deletes those customers no longer assigned to the sales representative. It also deletes customers who are transferred to other sales representatives. Such additional deletes are flagged with a SQLCODE of 100 but do not interfere with synchronization. A more complex script could be developed to identify only those customers transferred away from the current sales representative.
The MobiLink client performs cascading deletes at the remote database, so this script also deletes all contacts who work for customers assigned to some other sales representative.
upload_update The following upload_update script modifies the customer information at the consolidated database. Conflict detection is not done on this table.
SET name = ?, rep_id = ?
upload_delete The following upload_delete script marks the customer as inactive at the consolidated database. It does not delete a row.
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Operates equipment and performs various mammography related procedures. Prepares and positions patients and selects anatomic and technical parameters accurately.
Explains procedures and educates patients about the role of regular mammography in preventive breast health.
Develops and evaluates the film for technical quality such as density contrast, definition, and distortion.
Follows radiation safety procedures and guidelines.
Ensures equipment is properly functioning. Reports potential problems or equipment malfunction to appropriate personnel.
Certified BLS Provider obtained within 6 Months (180 days) of hire date or job transfer date.
Cardiographic Tech credentialed from the Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI) obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.
Radiologic Technologist credentialed from the Indiana Medical Radiology Services Program obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.
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WASHINGTON, DC, December 16, 2010 (ENS) – The Obama administration today proposed guidelines for solar development on public lands in the West, to accelerate projects in six western states – Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.
“We think it provides a common sense and flexible framework through which to grow our nation’s renewable energy economy,” Salazar told reporters on a teleconference.
“Our early, Smart from the Start, planning will help us site solar projects in the right places, and reduce conflicts and delays at later stages of the development process,” Salazar said.
The public is encouraged to provide comment on the draft plan during the next 90 days. The Notice of Availability for the Draft Solar PEIS will be published in the Federal Register on Friday, December 17 and is available today in the Reading Room. The 90-day public comment period will include 14 open meetings, beginning in Washington, DC on February 2, 2011.
“Today’s announcement is part of an integrated strategy to cultivate the entire innovation chain to create the jobs of the 21st century economy and to put America on a sustainable energy path,” said Chu.
“This proposal lays out the next phase of President Obama’s strategy for rapid and responsible development of renewable energy on America’s public lands,” Salazar said.
Under the proposal, the Bureau of Land Management would establish Solar Energy Zones within the lands available for solar development right of way applications. These are areas that have been identified as most appropriate for development, containing the highest solar energy potential and fewest environmental and resource conflicts.
The Solar Energy Zones would provide directed, landscape-scale planning for future solar projects and allow for a more efficient permitting and siting process.
The initiative stems from Salazar’s June 2009 announcement that tracts of BLM land in the six western states, known as Solar Energy Study Areas, would be fully evaluated for their environmental and resource suitability for large-scale solar energy production.
Also today, Energy Secretary Chu announced the Department of Energy’s intent to fund up to $50 million to test and demonstrate innovative technologies that will lead to cost-competitive solar energy technologies.
The demonstration program will be a critical link between the Department of Energy’s advanced technology development programs and full-scale commercialization efforts.
The Nevada National Security Site, previously the Nevada Nuclear Test Site, will serve as a proving ground for cutting-edge solar technologies, such as concentrating solar thermal power and concentrating photovoltaic energy. These technologies can be used for utility applications in the Southwest where there is an abundance of solar energy.
“This funding will allow the Department to further test advanced and innovative solar energy technologies in real-world conditions, providing critical data for companies and communities looking to invest in large-scale solar projects,” said Chu.
“The Solar Demonstration Zone in Nevada is part of an integrated effort to expand the solar energy industry, helping to put America on a path to a sustainable energy future and create the jobs of the 21st century economy,” he said.
Potential technology applications include concentrated solar power systems that use mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight on a heat absorbing fluid, convert it to steam, and ultimately generate electricity, as well as concentrated photovoltaic power that uses lenses to concentrate sunlight to improve the efficiency of conventional photovoltaics.
The demonstration projects as part of the Solar Demonstration Zone will be deployed at a large enough scale to provide useful operating and economic data for the eventual deployment of solar energy projects at utility-scale, which are typically grid-connected projects larger than 20 megawatts.
The Solar Demonstration Zone at the Nevada National Security Site will complement the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management’s 24 Solar Energy Study Areas on public lands across the Southwest by providing essential data about the commercial viability of the most advanced solar technologies.
As part of DOE and the Department of Interior’s continuing collaboration, the departments are working together to implement this project, including conducting environmental reviews and coordinating necessary infrastructure planning for the site.
The DOE’s Funding Opportunity Announcement is slated for early next year, but funding for the project is dependent upon congressional appropriations.
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Like Lara, I like to eat too. I love getting to know a new country or city really well and finding out about all of its hidden treats. I’ve been in Colombia for almost five months now, getting to know every food choice in panaderias (bakery), fast food stalls, and typical restaurants across this nation. Even though I’m a vegetarian, I don’t always eat healthy. I love street food, and Colombia is full of bready, cheesy, fatty delights at every turn. On the other end of the spectrum, a unique, mind-boggling selection of exotic fruits and vegetables to experiment with are also readily available.
The following recipe is a lovely balance of the two. It’s fried, but it’s made from plantain, or green banana, so it’s healthy too. Patacones are often served along with beans, rice, and a salad in a set lunch meal. If serving them as a snack, you can cut up tomatoes and onions, add a bit of oil and salt, and serve it on top to add to the taste.
First, peel the plantain and chop it up into small slices about 2 centimeter’s width.
Next, heat up a generous amount of oil in the frying pan.
Add the plantains and fry the pieces on both sides.
Remove them from the frying pan.
Next, smush two or three pieces together to form one.
Refry them on both sides until they have a toasted appearance.
The patacones can be as small or as large as you want. You can smush tiny pieces together, or you can smush them all together to make one large piece.
Any type of flavored topping goes great with these: guacamole, the tomato and onion mix that I mentioned above, a bit of sour cream, or whatever else you’d like to try.
Jasmine Stephenson is a guest blogger for An Apple a Day and a writer on the subject of medical transcription training for the Guide to Health Education.
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The old hometown is buzzing with excitement and preparations for the week's festivities. We are observing the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Hemp Bales aka the Battle of Lexington.
I cannot begin to describe all the events but, in addition to the re-enactment and occasional skirmishes, there will be an author's forum, a film festival, a Parade with four marching bands, old-time Base Ball in the Goosepond, a Social (read: Beer) Garden, lots of entertainment and vendors, plus a Chautauqua Tent.
And if you cannot make it to Lexington this week (events begin on Wednesday and go through Sunday), our annual Apples, Arts & Antiques Festival will take place in just two weeks, Oct 1 and 2.
This is a brief message to remind you of these happenings and to direct your attention to the web pages for this issue of TLC.
Webmaster Bob Ball '58 is in the process of posting many items of interest.
Snaps Hulver was busy recording history via his camera, and there will be photos by him of our recent Community Fair Parade and the amazing Patriot Walk which occurred on Friday. Estimated crowd was over 600 people! You'll see some familiar faces.
But that's not all! Just before the last issue, we had a bad storm. There are photos from several sources showing the damage. No one was hurt, but we lost quite a few trees, and there was some structure damage.
In addition, we are featuring the photo which was supposed to be embedded, but was not, in the last issue. (Technology is not my friend.) Jim O'Malley shared a photo of a Bathing Beauty contest from 1937 at the community swimming pool which was behind the old high school. Actually, saying "old high school" could refer to the site on Southwest Blvd, or Central School (where the "new" post office is), the Jr-Sr High School at Main & 16th...or even the current high school, which has had the "new" rubbed off it. In this case, it was located behind the Jr-Sr High School, on the 16th St. side. It was removed in order to build a tennis court, which when weather warranted, also served as a skating rink. How about that, Youngsters?
Thought you'd find this interesting. Lexington has many old coal mines and I wonder if there's any record or map of them?
Again I enjoyed TLC but am saddened to learn of the deaths of so many fine people who contributed so much to the Lexington I remember. There's just one teensy, eensy fact I'd like to correct: I graduated from LHS in 1959, not 1958. You must have been thinking of my older cousin, Diane O'Malley, who was born four months before moi.
Jim (O'Malley), I really enjoyed the website you passed on; in fact I was so engrossed I didn't get to bed until no o'clock in the morning. I'd been told that, as children, my father and his older sister, Aunt Ann, were put in a boat during the flood of 1903. They had to have been with others (family?), but no one else was ever mentioned. So as you can imagine, I spent a lot of time researching Missouri River floods. I also learned more than I'd ever known, or wanted to know, about the Missouri River, floods, height and depth of the river from the 1800s on and numerous technical data about channels, the measuring of height and depth year by year.
If you get to town for the upcoming festivities, stop by to say Hey. I'll be at the Live in Lexington Concert Series booth, passing out (hopefully correct) information at the kiosks, trying to keep the Temperance Ladies out of the Social Garden, and generally enjoying the scene. You'll recognize me - I'll be in period costume....along with several hundred others.
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In their recent In the Mix interview Bay Area duo Zion I said that their new music would be driven by a looser, rawer energy than some of their past work, and those qualities are instantly evident on Polarity, a stand out record from their new album Atomic Clock. Amp Live, the production half of Zion, blends together a smoothie of a beat, not only bringing together live sounding percussion, jazz horns, distorted sound effects and what just might be a xylophone on the back end, but making them all go down smoothly. On the mic side of the equation, Zion frontman Zumbi introduces the song’s polarized concept with a deep verse, followed by a strong showing from fellow Yay Area representative Locksmith (shouts to Richmond) and a spitfire flow from Macklemore (of Otherside fame). The world may indeed be made up of opposites, but this one is pretty one-sided – it’s just dope. If you’re digging Polarity, I promise you’ll be pleased with Zion I’s new, extremely precise album Atomic Clock, available everywhere good music can be found right now.
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A programme or project management office is a single, central support structure, designed to provide assistance to change and delivery initiatives within an organisation.
What is a Programme (or Project) Management Office?
A programme or project management office can provide a variety of support to a single programme or project or it can have a wider support remit to programmes and projects across the organisation.
This applies particularly in an organisation where there is a lot of ongoing programme and project activity. Without such a PMO, an organisation is forced to replicate support arrangements over and over again as programmes and projects come and go.
A corporate PMO may eventually adopt a portfolio management role, looking across all programme, project and other related activity in the organisation. This enables organisation-wide standards and processes and provides senior managers with important information on progress, costs and resources which helps with key decisions.
How a Programme Management Office might fit into a typical programme management organisation structure.
How a Project Management Office might fit into a typical project management structure.
Guidance on portfolio, programme, project office (P3O) and the proposals for foundation and practitioner level accredited qualifications means the P3O model is likely to become more prevalent.
A PMO should act as an information hub for the programmes and projects it supports. Ideally a PMO will add value to these programmes and projects through the knowledge, experience and skills of its staff. The PMO has a key role to play in coordinating programme and project assurance activities including the scheduling of Gateway reviews, if appropriate.
The portfolio, programme, project office (P3O) methodology sets out best practice for programme and project management offices. The Centre of Expertise for Programme and Project Management has established a PMO community of interest for Northern Ireland public sector practitioners. The Association for Project Management has a Specific Interest Group for PMO professionals.
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HI-FIVE (Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment) Training is an approximately 10-hour online course designed by Columbia University in 2016, with sponsorship from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). The training is role-based and uses case scenarios. No additional hardware or software are required for this course. Our nation’s healthcare system is changing at a rapid pace. Transformative health care delivery programs depend heavily on health information technology to improve and coordinate care, maintain patient registries, support patient engagement, develop and sustain data infrastructure necessary for multi-payer value-based payment, and enable analytical capacities to inform decision making and streamline reporting. The accelerated pace of change from new and expanding technology will continue to be a challenge for preparing a skilled workforce so taking this training will help you to stay current in the dynamic landscape of health care. This course is one of three related courses in the HI-FIVE training program, which has topics on population health, care coordination and interoperability, value-based care, healthcare data analytics, and patient-centered care. Each of the three courses is designed from a different perspective based on various healthcare roles. This third course is from an administrative or IT perspective, geared towards executives, managers, analysts, and staff that work in administration, business, finance, operations, data or IT. However, we encourage anyone working in healthcare, health IT, public health, and population health to participate in any of the three trainings. If you would like to obtain continuing medical education (CME) or continuing nursing education (CNE) credits, you will need to have eligible credentials, complete the entire course, and complete the evaluation survey at the end. The HI-FIVE team verifies after each month that these requirements have been met and then a separate certificate (fee may apply) is distributed to you from our accreditation office. Please allow time for processing. If you have any further questions about continuing education, please see our website at www.hi-fivetraining.org. Accreditation Statement The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. AMA Credit Designation Statement The College of Physcians and Surgeons designates this enduring material for 10.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. The planning committee members are: Rita Kukafka, DrPH, MA, FACMI; Bruce Forman, MD; Gil Kuperman, MD, PhD; Virginia Lorenzi, MS, CPHIMS, FHL7, and Victoria Tiase, MSN, BN. None of the members of the committee, who planned this CME Activity, have any relevant financial relationships to disclose. The release date is 3/27/17 and the expiration date is 3/26/18. This activity is eligible for 10 continuing nursing education (CNE) credits. Columbia University School of Nursing, Continuing Nursing Education Program is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Welcome to the component Health Care Data Analytics.
Data Analytics in Clinical Settings, this is Lecture c.
operations strategies in analytics in clinical settings.
the role of data analytics in achieving their potential.
And, analyze data used in population management and value-based care systems.
This lecture will focus on two main topics.
hospitalization, or preventable medical complications.
why they're important to health care.
A payment model simply refers to how you pay for some good or service.
the quality of service or any non-quantity features of the service.
we may look at the cost of the room per day in the hospital.
In this case, the quantity could be the number of days in the hospital.
Unfortunately, measuring quantity is difficult in health care.
What about reviewing a panel of patients who need an immunization?
Similarly, quality is difficult to measure in health care.
Are all surgeries of the same quality?
If not, how do you measure the differences?
If you can measure the differences, how do they affect health?
since you don't always know how much you'll get and what quality it will be.
quantity are hard to measure, various proxies are used for payment.
The most common proxy is the count of services.
A service is simply a billable item such as a pill, a visit, or a test.
This leads to many items that need to be listed.
An alternative method of payment is to pay for an episode of care.
For this approach to be implemented, an episode would need to be defined.
Such as 90 days from the beginning of a knee replacement procedure.
A single payment would be made, regardless of how many services were used.
which means payment per capita, or per person.
regardless of how many services or episodes they need.
It's also possible to capitate by type of service, called sub-capitation.
mental health care per month to handle any services that might be needed.
But that's beyond the scope of this lecture.
There are two payment buzzwords that are worth knowing about.
Shared Savings and Pay for Performance.
Various models of shared savings are common in healthcare.
proxy measures is split between the provider and payer.
An example is a Capitation-Services Shared Savings model.
the provider obtains some percentage of the difference.
And the remainder is savings to the payer.
Performance model, a measure of quality is used as part of the payment formula.
varies based on the readmission rate as a measure of quality.
another method such as service payments, episode or capitation.
There are various provider payment models that are relevant to data analytics.
to decrease costs compared to being paid per service.
provided is more than the payment amount, the provider can lose profits.
the provider can earn profits.
This chance for earning or losing profits is called risk.
so demand for information is increased.
However, it's not as simple to implement as it seems.
has over 5,000 unique prices according to Kongstvedt's Essentials of Managed Care.
such as an insure or government plan has a different discount.
Though it is typically proportional across items.
other decision makers trying to reduce cost and improve care.
When would providers or patients want to see this kind of information?
perhaps only when reviewing cases to see why they were expensive.
Another topic in payment models concerns the involvement of consumers.
the insurer, these models intend to have the consumer pay a portion of the cost.
expenses through deductibles, copays, and coinsurance.
price information and decrease unnecessary services.
price information would therefore be needed from the data analytic system.
of services when these types of plans have been implemented.
However, it's not clear if the information affects the services chosen.
traditional plan employees did not differ significantly.
providers to supply this price and quality information to attract patients.
rather than initiated by providers, so that effect is less likely.
quality information, it's still not easy to know how to proceed.
how could the data be made accessible?
How could a cost for an episode be created from these billable items?
It's tempting to think that healthcare is unique because the inputs vary.
However there are other services we purchase, where the specific inputs vary.
is fixed or recovered by the account size through interest.
is the demand for population health data analytics.
The first question is, what is population health?
The common definition is that it is health outcomes of a group of individuals.
The next question is, why is population health important?
This approach allows patterns based on population factors to be considered.
Including the physical and social environment.
What does population health entail for data analytics?
how they should be accessed.
article as having four characteristics.
physically, and socially, and having a sense of well-being.
the likelihood of achieving a state of health but are not health itself.
endpoints of the ideal health outcomes described previously.
indicators of positive or negative health outcomes.
diabetics or blood pressure and cholesterol for other types of patients.
These metrics are common to population health data analytics.
screenings for various conditions, such as colon abnormalities and depression.
Disease Control or CDC that concern population health.
community health assessments or population health improvements.
health determinant, and correlate metrics.
social environment, and the physical environment.
a well functioning population health data analytics system.
by managing the panel of patients the clinic is responsible for.
set of providers is managing the care.
more for less intensive types of primary care for largely healthy populations.
PCP, may have 2,400 patients attributed to her or him.
the physician is a primary point of contact for their health needs.
When managing a panel, the data analytics typically require two main features.
First, the providers will need access to recent or current encounters.
test results, emergency department visits, or hospital visits.
information about the patient's environment or socioeconomic status.
information about their panel of patients.
each patient is meeting relevant metrics and if various services are overdue.
that can be analyzed to see if population health is improving or declining.
This concludes Lecture c of Data Analytics in Clinical Settings.
the demands of data analytics.
In particular, the demand for quality and cost information.
how it affects the type of metrics we're interested in.
of patients, and the kind of dashboard they may find useful.
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You can serve this Gingerbread Chia Pudding for breakfast, or it’s the perfect vegan and paleo meal or snack with its balance of fat, protein, and carbs.
The holidays are upon us and I wanted to share an easy snack recipe for this busy week.
The next two weeks are actually going to be fairly quiet for me, but I have so many projects and recipes currently in development. So, in that sense, life is staying busy. Oh yeah, and Alan and I just booked a trip to Hawaii for the 2nd week in January. We were both feeling blue when our beloved kitty died unexpectedly two weeks ago, so we did some retail therapy in the form of purchasing this vacation package. The trip will get us away from home for a week and who can be sad in Hawaii?
Back to my Gingerbread Chia Pudding. When I was developing this recipe, I was kind of confused how gingerbread differs from pumpkin pie spice. Turns out, it’s all about the ginger (ummmm, duh). I’m not super motivated to make or buy more specialty spice blends, so I just used my leftover pumpkin pie spice from the Thanksgiving holiday and just added an extra pinch of ginger.
By the way, this recipe was inspired by the Overnight Pumpkin Chia Pudding recipe I saw in the latest Paleo Magazine issue. Do you subscribe to this magazine? It’s soooooo amazing for recipe inspiration; you can subscribe here (affiliate link)!
Combine coconut milk, water, puree, and maple syrup or molasses in a medium size bowl. Use a whisk to stir together. Add the pumpkin pie spice, ground ginger and chia seeds to the bowl and whisk until thoroughly combined.
Set aside and whisk again in 5 minutes, making sure that the chia seeds don’t clump together.
Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes before serving.
Serve with a dollop of your favorite dairy-free yogurt, if desired.
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Oh this is super fun! My girls would love this! I love that the squash is in there too! This would make a great breakfast or snack for my toddler!
Ohhhh, thanks Renee!!! I love sneaking in veggies whenever I can, mostly because I have the tastebuds of a toddler! 🙂 Happy holidays. XOXO.
This recipe is a winner, I’m sure. I’ll be making it very soon.
Hi Judy, thank you for the note and condolences. It’s been a rough two weeks. The grief comes and goes. I’m doing a lot of work to make sure the sadness doesn’t turn to depression, but I don’t think that is happening. I do miss my little Xena terribly. It’s so hard to go through the day without her watching my every move and seeing all the cute, funny stuff she did. Oh my goodness, -12 degrees sounds like cold beyond my comprehension. I feel like such a wimp living in California where I won’t even go outside when it’s below 50. Happy holidays, Judy. XOXOXOXO.
Wow, this looks delicious!!! I am off to the kitchen now to whip up a batch! So sorry to hear about your kitty passing. They are part of the family and I am sure your cat will be missed. I am glad you are getting away to refresh in January!
Thank you for such a sweet note, Halle. LMK how you like the chia pudding. Happy holidays to you. XOXO.
Love love chia pudding and this gingerbread chia adds another refreshing flavor to this everyday everything breakfast and snacks !
Thanks so much for the note!! XOXO.
I love chia pudding! And this recipe is perfect for winter! Thanks for sharing!
This is brilliant!!! I LOVE gingerbread and chia pudding is so much fun and so easy to make.
Anything gingerbread and I’m there! Must be my reddish hair, ha! Love your idea of just adding ginger to your pumpkin pie spice – I’m not usually one for buying specialty spice blends either, unless they’re on sale!
Awww, thanks Dana! I’m super excited to find you and your blog. Just subscribed to your new posts in my reader. Happy holidays! P.S. Your hair is sooooooo pretty. XOXO.
Chia puddings are the best for on the go breakfasts, and I love this festive gingerbread version! I hope you enjoy your time in Hawaii, sunshine and sand sounds pretty good right now!
Thanks, Kari!!! I hope it won’t seem too mean if I share pictures of Hawaii when I’m there. I’m already dreaming of palm trees and warm weather. It’s even cold in California right now. Happy holidays!
Hey Carrie – I’m SO sorry about your beloved kitty. I know how deeply it impacts an entire family when a family pet passes on. For these kinds of sad days, sweets are perfect and this pudding looks absolutely incredible. I hope you enjoy Hawaii!
Ohhhhh, thank you Kelly. I so appreciate the condolences and sweet words of support. You are so amazing, sending you lots of love and joy for the holidays and 2017. XOXO.
I’m so sad to hear about your kitty! Animals are definitely family members in my opinion, and it’s always hard to hear of one passing. But I’m sure she would want you to be happy, and Hawaii sounds like a perfect place to be happy!
This chia pudding makes ME happy 🙂 I want some right now!
Thank you, Michele, I appreciate such kind words and compassion. My previous kitty lived to be 18, so we had a much longer time to say good-bye as she got older. I so miss my little Xena who was only 12 when she passed, but notes like yours have helped me so much through the grief. Happy holidays! XOXO.
I love the many forms and flavors chia pudding can take on! I love this fun and festive twist for the holidays!
I’m newly obsessed with chia pudding, this recipe is perfect.
Love all the delicious, seasonal flavors here! Sounds so comforting.
I love all your pudding recipes!
I’m glad you shared another exciting one.
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Harley Davidson of Grand Cayman has moved location to a larger location just steps from the old store on South Church Street. We're just minutes from the cruise ship dock, so don't forget to stop by on your next port of call!
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Get the latest version of Adobe After Effects: http://bit.ly/2ekhRiF In this video I go over the basics of Adobe After Effects from opening the program, basic menu windows and tools layout, importing clips, creating compositions, adding effects, creating text and animations, and exporting and rendering saved projects. This is a complete rundown aimed at a beginner just getting starting in the program to help learn the layout and familiarize with the basic purpose and functions of the program. Check out these related videos for more helpful topics: After Effects Tutorial Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBrRXoTJAkZC84FE49_N1vXutAId3pn51 After Effects vs Premiere Pro: https://youtu.be/R3Y4iX0qfYA?list=PLBrRXoTJAkZC84FE49_N1vXutAId3pn51 -------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIBE on YouTube: http://bit.ly/Justinodisho Visit My Website: https://ift.tt/2bPWpUw Follow me Online: Instagram: https://ift.tt/29qQaQN Twitter: https://twitter.com/JustinOdisho Facebook: https://ift.tt/2bPW2ta ► Listen to my Podcast: https://ift.tt/2mjjukR Thanks for watching!
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The cut of this silhouette is incredibly flattering as this high-rise pair is woven with a hint of stretch for a second-skin fit. In a black blue portland wash, they are the perfect companion to all of your looks. Five-pockets and zipper button closure.
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A high-ranking female employee at Britain’s top secret government surveillance headquarters, GCHQ, has been arrested following leaks regarding the Bush administration’s spying operation against members of the United Nations Security Council.
On March 2 the Observer reported that the US National Security Agency (NSA) had been bugging members of the Security Council in advance of the UN vote on whether to go to war against Iraq. The surveillance operation was reportedly ordered by Condoleezza Rice, President Bush’s national security adviser, with the aim of finding information that could be used to help pressurise member countries into voting for the Anglo-American resolution authorising war. The operation included bugging home and office telephone lines, as well as intercepting emails.
The Observer detailed a January 31 memo from NSA official Frank Koza in Maryland to GCHQ in Cheltenham, England, asking the spy centre to participate in the US surveillance operation. The memo singled out Angola, Cameroon, Guinea, Bulgaria, Chile and Pakistan (the so-called waverers on the Security Council) for particular attention. It requested information on these countries’ “policies”, “negotiating positions” and “alliances”, that could “give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head off surprises”, but made plain the operation could also be extended to all UN delegations if necessary—“minus US and GBR of course”.
Whilst the leak was given only a cursory mention in the media, and was almost entirely passed over by the US press, the security services have gone into overdrive to try and establish its source.
Police confirmed at the weekend that a 28-year-old GCHQ employee had been arrested on suspicion of contravening the Official Secrets Act and released on bail pending further inquiries. Further arrests are expected, as the Observer reported that the largest “spy hunt” in Britain for some years is currently under way. The UN has also begun its own investigation into the US bugging operation, which was reportedly discussed at the organisation’s counterterrorism committee.
The Bush administration was reportedly furious that the memo had been leaked. US intelligence sources have confirmed to the Observer that US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld would have been involved in any decision to mount such an operation, which would also have been communicated to President George W. Bush.
Spying on members of the UN Security Council forms just one part of US campaign aimed at trying to ensure the body cooperates with its plans for the military subjugation and takeover of Iraq. The Bush administration is also attempting to bribe, cajole and threaten delegations—especially from poorer countries—into backing its war plans.
According to the newspaper, the memo was believed to have been distributed via Echelon, NSA’s international surveillance system which links the US, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and which France had previously denounced as a “privileged Anglo-Saxon” club.
Reports indicate that the reasons for the leak go far beyond individual matters of conscience and point to deep divisions within the intelligence services themselves over the US-led drive to war.
According to the newspaper, tensions between the intelligence service and the Blair administration have become palpable over the last months, reflecting sharp differences within sections of the British establishment as a whole over Blair’s course—especially as it appears that the prime minister’s willingness to act in defiance of international and domestic opinion has isolated it within Europe and at home.
In parliament on February 26, 199 MPs voted in favour of an amendment criticising the government’s rush to war. Some 121 Labour MPs supported the protest, making the vote the largest backbench rebellion in the history of the Labour Party.
The dissidents are by no means all pacifists, much less opponents of a resurgence of British imperialism. Their viewpoint was summarised by the former Conservative chancellor of the exchequer, Kenneth Clarke, who explained that whilst he supported Blair’s efforts to be a close ally of the US, and its bridge to Europe, the government’s efforts to justify its policy by resorting to outright falsification—such as alleging links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda—were an “insult to our intelligence” and threatened Britain’s strategic interests in the Middle East and globally.
Sections of the security services have accused the government of bringing the intelligence agencies into disrepute in its rush for short-term political gain, after it was caught out in a series of lies aimed at justifying its support for war against Iraq.
In September the government released a dossier purportedly outlining the extent of Iraq’s possession of “weapons of mass destruction”. Derided by much of the world as blatant propaganda aimed at justifying the drive to war, the dossier was reportedly the subject of bitter rows between Downing Street and the security services—the latter complaining that it was top-heavy with political point scoring.
In December, the government released a second dossier, this time from the Foreign Office outlining Iraq’s human rights abuses, which it explicitly linked with the possibility of war. Amnesty International criticised the reports timing, as “opportunistic and selective”, whilst in Europe the Frankfurter Rundschau summed up opinion on the document as leaving “a bitter aftertaste”.
Most notoriously, in January the government released another dossier, “Iraq—its infrastructure of concealment, deception and intimidation”. The document was singled out for praise by US Secretary of State Colin Powell as the latest in intelligence information during his February 5 address to the UN aimed at pushing the body into line. Within hours, however, the dossier was exposed as being extensively plagiarised from an American student’s PhD thesis.
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The Anti-imperialist Camp is a coalition of different anti-imperialist forces which converge in the main positions but may hold differing and even conflicting positions on secondary questions.
The platform of the Anti-imperialist Camp on Palestine is rock-solid: We fight for a democratic state in entire Palestine which will only be achieved by smashing Zionism. Israel as an exclusively Jewish state by definition it not only necessarily an racist Apartheid state is also inextricably linked to imperialism and must be dismantled in order to erect a democratic anti-imperialist state.
There are several possible interpretations about a democratic state and its titular nation(s) which can be accepted to the Anti-imperialist Camp. However, as Political Committee we hold the view that the Palestinian liberation movement should offer to the Hebrew-speaking Jewish people to become – beside the Arab nation – the second titular nation under the condition that they break with Zionism and renounce any exclusive claim to territory. This demand is a powerful political tool to weaken Zionism not only in Palestine but also as an element of global Americanism. However, such a bi-national democratic state will only be possible if a significant minority of the Jewish colonists break with Zionism and Israel. If this will not happen a democratic Arab state will nevertheless grant minority rights to all those Jewish people who oppose Zionism.
As the liberation of Palestine is linked to the liberation of the entire Middle East from imperialist dominance, Palestine will be part of a democratic and anti-imperialist Arab federation granting far-reaching rights to minorities under the condition that they do not let themselves use by imperialism.
There can be nobody who claims to be progressive and who at the same time accepts Israel that is to say colonialism, racist Apartheid and imperialism. But there can be anti-imperialist Jewish people within Israel who fight Zionism. We are happy to welcome them in the ranks of the Anti-imperialist Camp. Within Abnaa el Balad (Sons of the Country), the only genuine anti-imperialist Palestinian liberation organisation working within the green line and close friend and co-operator of the Anti-imperialist Camp, there are also Jewish people which is a prove of the fact that Zionism is also the enemy of democratic Jewish people. Our criteria whether to co-operate with individuals and organisations can only be political and never by birth.
The Anti-Globalization movement is becoming more and more an important "for-the people-player" in the years that followed the fall of the Soviet Union and the Socialist Block countries. Along with it, came the fall of the lie of the Capitalist "welfare", pseudo-democratic, pseudo-liberal state.
Since then, Capitalism has accelerated tremendously in its aggressive patterns, and have moved on to show, as you all know and experience everyday, that its only way to achieve its profit-driven objectives for the benefit of the "chosen few", is to crush by sheer force not only the materialized and organized resistance of the masses, but even the hopes and dreams of changing this world into a better one. The "new" doctrines of "pre-emptive" and "continuous" war, along with cultural interventionism of Imperialism after the September 11 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, are minor examples of what lies ahead.
Among other "hot spots" in the world, the Arab Homeland and its struggle against Imperialism has been very prominent and illustrating. Not only has Imperialism "confiscated" a part of it to create a multi-function front base called "Israel" in the heart of the land of civilization and oil, but it moved directly to occupy Iraq establishing the era of neo-Colonialism following the Afghanistan "affair".
Now, the US is discussing with its "partners" what Powell described earlier -before the occupation of Iraq- as the "re-shaping of the region" to comply with US interests. In the extra-ordinary session of the World Economic Forum (the Global Reconciliation Summit, 21-23 June) held in the Dead Sea-Jordan (1), and with the participation of Paul Bremer, a W. Bush thesis on the transformation of the Arab East into a "US-Middle East Free Trade Area" was being catalyzed by the Multinationals and the Imperialist and submissive states that make the WEF frame (2).
Needless to say that the Zionist entity will serve as the "Capitalist center" in this new formula, both by being a regional focal point for the accumulation of multinational/Zionist "investment", and becoming a "marketing" outlet and an exploitation labour-contractor for the Arab "social blocks".
Already, and as an example, Delta Galil, one of the biggest Zionist textile contractors in the Zionist entity, are manufacturing brands like Gap, Victoria`s Secret, Boss, Ralph Lauren among others (3), by exploiting Jordanian women labour for JD 80.- (= US$ 112.-) per month. These products are manufactured in Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZs) which are special free zones from which a company can export customs-free and quota-free into the US market on one condition: a minimum of 8-20% of raw material should be from an "Israeli" origin (4)!
That`s the deal in the Arab region, which will become the primary model for the mechanisms of Globalization after Argentina, especially if the US and Zionist succeeded in re-opening the Haifa-Kirkuk oil pipeline.
It is important at this particular moment to adopt a direct non-compromising position regarding Imperialism, and especially regarding the Zionist entity.
There is NO alternative but resisting Imperialism in an Internationalist approach, where real political/active solidarity is delivered rather than distributing humanitarian sympathy.
It is also important to formulate a position regarding the Imperialist/Zionist project in the Arab region. The resistance to eliminate the occupation in Iraq using all means should be supported, same applies to the fight against the Zionist entity until the defeat of the Zionist project and the elimination of the Zionist entity towards establishing a free, Arab Palestine as a preliminary stage towards the unification of the Arab Homeland and its transformation to independent development and Socialism. There are no other real solutions to the Arab questions besides these.
Our international comrades should understand that halfway solutions will strengthen the Imperialist/Zionist structures and mechanisms. The two-state solution, the bi-national state solution and even the "one-democratic-state" solution without the Arab dimension will not resolve the contradiction between the Arab masses and the Zionist/Imperialist project in the Arab region.
Another issue on which the movement should have a firm position: There are no "progressive Israelis". Those who are part of the Zionist/Imperialist project, even if they "oppose" the Zionist policies, are whether they like it or not, and whether they know it or not, part of "Israel`s" structure and mechanisms. One can not be progressive and at the same time be part of the Zionist entity/project. The only progressive "Israeli" is the one who, upon understanding the function and mechanisms of the Zionist entity/project, decides to cut all ties with this entity, resist it, and before all, leave the occupied area on which he resides in the place of an expelled people: The Arab Palestinians.
The movement should be well aware of this and should NOT fall in the NGO trap of "getting both sides to sit and talk" as if the main issue of "Israel`s existence" is settled. "Israel" is not a legitimate state, so as ALL the individuals/organizations that represent it or recognize it. Thus, and to emphasise this illegitimacy, all ties with "Israelis" should be deleted. i.e. Normalization with Zionists should be resisted globally, not only in the Arab Homeland.
It is time for the international Anti-Globalization movement to take up a more concrete analysis instead of clinging to stereo-typed "reasoning". There is no solution but to eliminate the Zionist/Imperialist project, otherwise, it`ll only be a slow process of self-consumption, while the enemy gets stronger. And it should be understood that to resist Globalization, you should resist "Israel", and the opposite applies: To resist Globalization, you must resist "Israel", not on the level of policies, but on the level of function and mechanisms, that is: existance.
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The Guardian Protection Ring was designed for everyday wear. It is available in all birthstones, including diamond! Angels are to believed to be messengers of god, and these wings are a symbol of his love and protection. Available in all Birthstones, This particular SKU# contains a 3mm GenuinePeridot (August)The Ring is sizable, and available in US Finger sizes 4 through 8. Choose from Sterling Silver, 10K, or 14K gold.
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Browsing Recipes similiar to Beef Salpicao (stir-fried Garlic Beef).
Something I made up with an interesting texture. The best thing is it has plenty of flavour without a long marinade time!
Calves' or Beef Liver in Mustard ..
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whoops. totally forgot to put this podcast up sooner. sorry! still working on the shirts and cds that i promised to give to the ppl that donated. hold tight! i played the Game of Life: the Pirates of the Caribbean version the other day. it was pretty awesome.
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Follow this link for more information at the Wiley site.
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Find an interactive unit from the text and more information about the approach at the Wiley showcase site.
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First Church offers various types of spiritual and emotional care.
Our ministry team visits First Church attendees, family and friends during their hospital stay when requested.
Volunteers visit with those who are in long-term health care or homebound due to health issues.
Our Congregational Care Pastor, Penny Mosher, offers to counsel First Church and Stepping Stones attendees and their families as well as women who utilize our non-food pantry.
Congregational Care receives weekend prayer requests and makes appropriate calls and or visits.
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Know first about Shay Bares, a dancer/choreographer and founder of Twiin Sister and No.1 of 13 presented artists during Volume V, Issue I. Shay uses his personal experiences to develop choreography that is full of emotion. Read more about Shay on our Artist Spotlight.
Twiin sister is a contemporary performance company founded by dancer/choreographer Shay Bares, creating original performance art works through collaboration with artists who are innovators in their respective fields, including the specific elements of fashion, sound, lighting design, visuals and set installations.
My creative process begins before I find myself in the studio, it's always happening. I document my personal experiences from day-to-day situations, noting the funny moments, the things that piss me off, and that make my heart hurt or feel good. During a rehearsal, I look for ways to physicalize these ideas into imagery, noticing the feelings that come up. With my dancers, I am very direct in the instruction of movement; I notice immediately if the task that is given to them evokes the emotions I’m looking for. This usually involves lots of laughter, as moments in the studio tend to get vulnerable.
I work in costume and fashion design, am a singer/songwriter, a visual artist and a pretty big know it all. :-) I'm also a black belt in Taekwondo.
The mouth, especially the teeth. I can't help but notice the articulation as focal to the eating experience. Also kissing is a blast.
Things aren’t that serious. Keep life in context and enjoy yourself!
Make sure to follow Shay on Facebook and Instagram.
See Shay's work for Volume V, Issue I., on Saturday, March 14th at 7:30pm + Sunday, March 15th at 3pm with Talkback.
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Tennis is also one of the popular sports at AIS. Practices are on Wednesday and Friday. The team is coached by Mr Jayendra Wijeyesekera.
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At Health Fair for Veterans events, free screening and support is provided for any local veteran.
Free children’s activities, medical screenings, tips for staying healthy and lunch.
14 vendors will provide health and wellness screenings.
The event will provide free health screenings and health information.
Services offered include complete eye exams, prescription glasses, dental services, hearing exams, hearing aids, chest x-rays, bone density scans, lab work, mammograms and pap smears, in addition to other medical exams by health care providers.
Free health screenings for blood pressure, cholesterol, body mass index, skin cancer, glucose testing and more.
Staff from Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital will conduct free glucose, cholesterol and blood pressure tests.
The event will also include free blood pressure checks, as well as tests of blood sugar, oxygen saturation, bio mechanical analysis and hearing loss.
Free vision, skin cancer, blood pressure and blood sugar screenings.
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Lango, M.N. et al., de Visser, M. et al., Taglia, L. et al., Roesler, R. et al., Glover, S.C. et al., et al.
The presence of two expressed copies of the GRPR gene in females may be a factor in the increased susceptibility of women to tobacco-induced lung cancer .
Thus, these findings suggest that expression of GRP/GRPR in cancer inhibits metastasis by enhancing cell attachment to the matrix, regulating motility in the context of remodeling, and decreasing deformability .
Additionally, we have detected transcripts for GRPR and NMBR in four of seven and seven of seven cases, respectively, of cultured non-small cell lung carcinomas (NSCLC) .
Importantly, GRPR mRNA is ubiquitously mutated in human colon cancer cell lines, with inactivating mutations detected in all cell lines not expressing functional receptor .
Of the 22 prostate cancer specimens analyzed by RT-PCR, 20 (91%) expressed GRPR mRNA, 3 (14%) showed NMBR mRNA, and 2 ( approximately 9%) revealed BRS-3 mRNA .
Furthermore, pretraining infusion of BB prevented beta-amyloid peptide (25-35)-induced memory impairment, supporting the view that the GRPR is a target for the development of cognitive enhancers for dementia .
Behaviors modulated by the GRPR in rodents include grooming, food intake, stereotypy, social behavior, and emotionally-motivated learning and memory .
Dysfunctions in GRPR-induced cellular calcium signaling have been reported in fibroblasts from patients with Alzheimer's disease .
The recent report of a translocation that disrupted the gene in an individual with mental retardation and autistic behavior prompted us to examine GRPR as a possible locus for RTT .
Gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRPR) gene is considered a candidate locus for infantile autism for several reasons .
We used neutralizing GRP monoclonal antibody 2A11 to block the GRP-GRPR interaction in SCCHN cell lines and xenografts and assessed the antibody's effect on proliferation by counting cultured cells or measuring xenograft tumor volume in vivo .
METHODS: We assessed GRPR messenger RNA (mRNA) expression in specimens from 25 patients with SCCHN, six control noncancer patients, and 14 SCCHN cell lines by use of quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction .
SCCHN cells expressed fivefold higher levels of GRPR mRNA than did cultured normal mucosal epithelial cells (P =.005) .
The levels of GRPR expression in the tumor and adjacent normal epithelium of individual patients with SCCHN were correlated (r =.652; P =.001), suggesting that increased GRPR expression is an early event in SCCHN formation .
Because expression of GRPR, however, has not been reported in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN), we investigated its expression and that of its ligand GRP in normal mucosa and SCCHN tissues and the involvement of these proteins in the proliferation of SCCHN cells .
Bone metastases of androgen-independent prostate cancers were GRP receptor-positive in 4 of 7 cases .
A retrovirus targeting the GRP receptor can deliver the thymidine kinase gene to human melanoma and breast cancer cells, which are killed by the subsequent addition of ganciclovir .
Effect of bombesin, gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP)(14-27) and bombesin/GRP receptor antagonist RC-3095 on growth of nitrosamine-induced pancreatic cancers in hamsters .
We therefore investigated the effect of bombesin (a homologue of gastrin-releasing peptide) on proliferation, migration and inositol phosphate production in the human colorectal carcinoma cell line DLD-1, and determined the ability of gastrin-releasing peptide receptor antagonists to inhibit these effects .
The GRPR gene is located on the X chromosome and escapes X-chromosome inactivation, which occurs in females .
A dosage effect of the GRPR and a position effect of the SDC2 gene may, however, contribute the phenotype observed in this patient since the orientation of these genes with respect to the translocation was incompatible with the formation of a fusion gene .
The GRPR gene was shown to escape X-inactivation .
Gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) and its receptor (GRPR) act as morphogens when expressed in colorectal cancer (CRC), promoting the assumption of a better differentiated phenotype by regulating cell motility in the context of remodeling and retarding tumor cell metastasis by enhancing cell-matrix attachment .
Since colon cancers are heterogeneously differentiated, we set out to determine if the GRPR gene was mutated as a function of tumor cell differentiation in archived human colon cancers .
Expression of GRPR mRNA in lung fibroblasts was elevated following exposure to nicotine .
To do this, we studied 293 cells, a non-malignant epithelial cell line that we show expresses GRP and GRPR .
In the present study, we examined interactions between the GRPR and cellular signaling pathways in influencing memory consolidation in the hippocampus .
Caco-2 and HT-29 cells variably express GRP/GRPR .
METHODS: Twenty six carcinoid tumours from the stomach, small intestine, appendix, and colorectum were investigated by immunohistochemistry for GRP and GRPR .
Combining a GRPR antagonist with the EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor, gefitinib, resulted in additive cytotoxic effects .
In all of the cases, the receptors corresponded to the GRP receptor subtype of bombesin receptors, having high affinity for GRP and bombesin and lower affinity for neuromedin B .
Androgen-dependent expression of the gastrin-releasing Peptide receptor in human prostate tumor xenografts .
GRP receptor mRNA was expressed predominantly in the luminal and basal epithelial cells in both histologically normal and cancerous glands within sections of normal (3 cases) and diseased (37 cases) tissue .
Bombesin (BN) is a tetradecapeptide that binds with high affinity to GRPR and can be radiolabeled with the positron-emitter, copper-64 ((64)Cu) for imaging with positron-emission tomography (PET) .
An increase in GRP binding capacity was confirmed in GRP-R overexpressing cells, which demonstrated an accelerated constitutive cell growth rate .
We demonstrated that the activity of MEK is important for maintaining elevated [Ca(2+)](i) levels induced by GRP-R activation, suggesting that MEK may affect receptor-regulated secretion by modulating the activity of Ca(2+)-sensitive PKC .
Yet GRP has not been shown to be expressed by colon cancers in humans nor has the effect of GRP and/or GRPR coexpression on tumor behavior been investigated .
This novel signaling mechanism might be of importance for regulation of CREB-dependent gene expression in human cancer expressing functional hGRP-R .
Further evaluation revealed that GRP-R in these cells tonically stimulated G alpha q/11, resulting in increased phospholipase C activation .
Previously, we demonstrated that the human gastric cancer SIIA possesses GRP-R and that BBS stimulates activator protein-1 (AP-1) gene expression .
We have also amplified message for NMBR in five of five fresh bronchial biopsies, but message for GRPR could not be detected .
These cells only express ICAM-1 when GRPR are present .
PTEN gene and protein expression was significantly decreased in GRP-R overexpressing cells when compared with controls .
Human gastrin-releasing peptide receptor mediates sustained CREB phosphorylation and transactivation in HuTu 80 duodenal cancer cells .
We found, in this study, bombesin specifically induced mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase activation as shown by increased extracellular regulated kinase (ERK) phosphorylation and epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor transactivation in prostate cancer cells, which express functional gastrin-releasing peptide receptor .
Expression of proGRP as well as GRPR mRNA in SCLC tumor tissues was investigated by reverse transcription-nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification .
Castration resulted in GRP receptor downregulation (11%-36% of initial values) in the 3 androgen-dependent tumors .
To address which cells in the prostate express the GRP receptor, we used in situ hybridization methods to stain selectively GRP receptor mRNA .
RESULTS: Autoradiography showed high-density GRP receptor expression in the androgen-dependent tumors (3/12 models), whereas only very low receptor expression was found in the androgen-responsive and -independent tumors (9/12 models) .
Co-valent cross-linking of 125I-Tyr4-BBS to the receptor demonstrated the presence of a single band corresponding to a molecular weight of 37 to 44 kDa on SDS-PAGE, similar to that of the cloned GRP receptor protein core .
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EXL170-5, D'Addario's best-selling bass set for five strings instruments and the standard for most electric basses, offers the ideal combination of bright, booming tone and comfortable feel. The most versatile and universally appealing set for all playing styles. Fits basses with a string scale length of up to 36 1/4 inches. D'Addario XL Nickel Wound Electric Bass strings are world-renowned as "The Player's Choice" amongst bass players of all genres and styles. All XL strings are precision wound on our exclusive digitally-controlled machines, ensuring each string has excellent intonation, clear fundamentals, and unparalleled consistency. Each string is wound with a nickelplated steel wrap wire known for distinctive bright tone with excellent magnetic output delivering a universally appealing and versatile tone for all playing styles.
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If you are looking for Ducati dealers in Iowa, you have come to the right place to do your research. Below is a list of Ducati Dealers in Iowa. PDL Certified Dealers in Iowa want to ensure their customers are happy with their experience in purchasing a new or used Ducati and with every service visit. PDL Certified Dealers constantly ask for customer feedback in the form of customer reviews so they can continually improve their customer interaction and satisfaction.
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A defensive plan is simply a plan that is designed to provide an investment return even if the stock market fails to rise, or in some circumstances goes down slightly. They are therefore an option for those who would like the opportunity for investment level returns, but who are not confident the market will rise significantly in the medium term. The main feature of the Defensive Growth Plan from Investec is that returns are achieved even if the market has fallen by as much as 50% at the end of the fixed term. Here we take a closer look at the plan in order to find out why it has proved so popular with our investors.
Apart from a handful of days in 2015 and earlier this year, the closing level of the FTSE has been above 6,000 points since the start of 2013, and we have also seen the highest closing level on record (7,104 points), achieved towards the end of April last year. Whilst the FTSE has remained at what are historically high levels, defensive investment plans that offer the potential for investment level returns even if the stock market fails to rise or, in some scenarios, even falls slightly, have been an increasingly popular choice with our new and existing investors.
Defensive investments attempt to offer investors the best of both worlds, by balancing less of the investment upside, with the opportunity to achieve these returns even if the market fails to rise. This means they are designed for investors who have a neutral or negative outlook of what could happen to the stock market in the coming years, and yet who would still like the opportunity to receive investment level returns. Based on the levels of the FTSE over the last few years, these arguably offer a compelling investment opportunity and Investec’s Defensive Growth Plan is one of our most popular.
One of the latest additions to Investec’s highly competitive range of structured investment plans, the FTSE 100 Defensive Growth Plan offers a fixed return of 34% at the end of the six year term, provided the value of the FTSE at that point is equal to or higher than 50% of its value at the start of the plan (subject to averaging). Therefore, the FTSE can fall up to 50% and investors would still receive a 34% growth return, along with a full return of their original capital.
If the Index has fallen by more than 50% at the end of the term, no growth will be achieved and your initial capital will be reduced by 1% for each 1% fall, so you could lose some or all of your initial investment.
This is a strong headline since investors will receive a positive return, even if the FTSE falls 50%. This means that even if you are not confident the FTSE will rise at all, you could still receive a fixed return of 34% unless the FTSE falls by more than 50%.
Since the fixed return on offer is dependent on the performance of the FTSE 100 Index, the defensive element of the plan is an important one to understand. Rather than the Index having to finish higher than its value at the start of the plan, the Index can fall up to 50% and the fixed return of 34% is still paid. Whilst the FTSE continues at historically high levels, this ‘defensive’ feature could be an appealing one.
Whether the plan pays the 34% fixed return is determined by comparing the value of the FTSE 100 Index at the start of the plan with its value at the end of the plan or the ‘Final Index Level’. When calculating the Final Index Level the plan takes the average of the closing levels of the Index on each business day during the last 6 months of the plan term. The use of averaging can reduce the adverse effects of a falling market or sudden market falls whilst it can also reduce the benefits of an increasing market or sudden increases in the market during the last six months of the plan.
Provided the FTSE 100 Index has not fallen by more than 50% at the end of the term, the 34% growth return is paid to you along with a full return of your initial capital. Should the Index have fallen by more than 50%, your initial investment is reduced by 1% for each 1% fall. It is important to note that in this scenario, you would lose at least 50% of your capital.
Since the market can fall up to and including 50% before your initial investment is at risk, the plan offers some capital protection against a falling market. This should be considered in conjunction with the potential return on offer when reviewing the plan’s overall risk versus reward.
Another feature of this plan is that, as with all structured investments, the potential returns are stated up front, prior to investing. This allows the investor to consider the potential upside in the context of the amount of risk they are taking, since you know at the outset exactly what needs to happen in order to receive the stated level of growth as well as a return of your initial investment.
Please note that this plan is only available as an ISA. The plan also accepts ISA transfers, from both Cash ISAs and Stocks & Shares ISAs.
This plan is a structured investment and so your initial capital is used to purchase securities issued by Investec Bank plc. These securities are structured in a way so that they provide the growth and return of capital as described above, which means that Investec Bank plc’s ability to meet their financial obligations becomes an important investment consideration. If the bank fails or becomes insolvent, this could affect both the payment of any growth return as well as the return of your original investment and you would not be covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme for default alone.
Fitch is one of the main global credit rating agencies and has rated Investec Bank plc with a credit rating of BBB with a stable outlook (awarded 27th October 2015). The ‘BBB’ rating denotes a good credit quality and indicates that expectations of default risk are currently low and that Investec Bank plc’s capacity for payment of its financial commitments is considered to be adequate but adverse business or economic conditions are more likely to impair this capacity. The stable outlook indicates that the rating is not expected to change in the short to medium term, i.e. in the next 6 months to 2 years.
Investec is an international specialist bank and asset manager with its main operations in the UK and South Africa. Established in 1974, they currently employ around 9,000 people and as at 31st March 2016, look after £121.7 billion of customer assets. They provide a range of financial products and services and specialise in a number of areas, particularly within the banking sector. Their banking operation looks after £24.0 billion of customer deposits and they are also a market leading provider of investment plans and structured deposits in the UK.
The plan is open for New ISA investments up to the £15,240 allowance for the current tax year (2016/17) as well as Cash ISA and Stocks & Shares ISA transfers. The minimum investment is £3,000.
Tax treatment of ISAs depends on your individual circumstances and is based on current law which may be subject to change in the future. Always remember to check whether any charges apply before transferring or switching an ISA.
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At last, the time-honored tradition of the pre-fiesta siesta is getting the recognition it deserves. Taking a cue from similar sleep centers in cities like Dubai and New York, Spain's first "nap bar" recently opened in Madrid. Appropriately named Siesta and Go, the business is the stuff of any exhausted college student's daydreams. For an hourly fee, you can rent one of the center's 19 beds to catch some Z's (or just rest your eyes) before heading back to face the day. At long last, the days of squashing yourself into the fetal position underneath your desk in a futile effort to take a power nap during your lunch break appear to be drawing to an end.
Siesta and Go is located in Azca, near the center of the city's financial district. The business's founder, Maria Estrella Jorro de Inza, noted to the Independent that many customers so far are businessmen and women looking for a place to relax during a hectic workday. Private and shared bedrooms are available, along with comforts like slippers, nightshirts, and an on-site bar. If you're put off by the idea of sharing beds with strangers, you should be happy to know that Siesta and Go is professionally cleaned every day, and the bedding and clothing is tossed after each use. Employees will also wake you up at a specific time, so you don't have to worry about setting an alarm.
Not much of a napper? The center also rents out quiet work spaces, or you can chill out and read in one of the armchairs scattered about. According to its website, Siesta and Go offers free WiFi and luggage storage for travelers. If you know you have a hard day ahead (or you just have a habit of falling asleep in public spaces like yours truly), you can reserve a spot in advance.
The siesta — essentially, a citywide disco nap observed in the middle of the workday — has a long history in Spanish culture, but recently, corporate culture has been working tirelessly to put it to sleep. Last year, the acting Prime Minister announced his intentions to establish a shorter work day, which would hopefully give the exhausted Spanish workforce more time to sleep, but by extension, that would entail the elimination (or at least curtailing) of the siesta.
In the meantime, worn out Madrileños and tourists can stop in Siesta and Go for a quick snooze and a glass of wine before moving on to more conscious endeavors. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a flight to book — if I leave now, maybe I'll make it to Madrid in time for the next siesta.
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— Tyler Anthony is a designer and illustrator living in the Dallas area.
© 2018 Tyler Anthony. All Rights Reserved.
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While the year ended with a flurry of high-profile acquisitions, 2017 turned out to be a rather ho-hum year for U.S. deal making. Mergermarket tracked some $1.3 trillion worth of announced deals last year, down 14.9% from 2016, even though the total number of transactions was roughly the same. As a share of global M&A, the U.S. represented 40.2%, according to Mergermarket, the country’s lowest share since 2012.
Deal makers are now on the clock, especially if you believe that the bull market is in its waning stages and the Federal Reserve is serious about interest-rate hikes.
Sure enough, it didn’t take long for 2018 merger speculation to kick off in a big way. Within the first two days of the year, there were headlines that Amazon.com (ticker: AMZN) could buy Target (TGT) and that Apple (AAPL) could acquire Netflix (NFLX). Both deals would be blockbusters, and the talk alone gets consumers, investors, and, yes, journalists giddy with excitement.
M&A captivates because, more than most business stories, it combines people, rivalries, backroom dramas, and lots of money. Most of all, M&A is about the appeal of transformation. But what often gets lost in the thrill of the big deal is the risk for nearly every party involved. It’s about careers and lives. And shareholders have learned the hard way that many transactions just don’t work.
And yet, M&A may also be necessary—to grow, even to survive. In the ordinary course of business, companies plot road maps that take years to play out. But a merger announces the possibility of instant change. When Amazon announced it was buying Whole Foods Market last June, I headlined my quick analysis of the deal “The Day That Changed Retail.” Looking back, that feels only slightly hyperbolic.
Amazon closed its big deal in just two months, though it’s been slow to make visible changes in the actual stores. It’s selling Alexa devices next to organic vegetables, and it’s cut prices on avocados and a few other items—moves that generated their own headlines. Otherwise it would be hard to know that the grocer has a new high-tech owner. The real changes are taking place behind the scenes, as Amazon leverages Whole Foods’ physical footprint for faster and wider deliveries.
AMAZON’S DISRUPTIVE QUALITIES are forcing everyone else to scramble. Elizabeth Lim, a senior analyst at Mergermarket, cites the “Amazon effect” as a key factor driving an anticipated wave of mergers in 2018. “Even with regulations, and even with interest rates projected to go up again, we’re still going to see consolidation in different industries forced by the threats from technology disruption,” she told me last week.
For now, the 2018 deal rumors aren’t rooted in fact as much as wishful thinking. With Apple-Netflix, news reports picked up on a mid-December note from Citi Research analyst Jim Suva, who reiterated his view that the probability of Apple buying Netflix was 40%. That forecast was contained in a short paragraph on page 19 of a 48-page research note. And the odds, predicated on tax reform, were calculated before the tax bill was actually signed into law. But no matter. Once the forecast reached the public domain, it became too juicy to ignore.
Amazon-Target, meanwhile, stemmed from a list of 2018 predictions published on New Year’s Day by Gene Munster, a longtime Wall Street tech analyst, who recently launched a research-driven venture-capital shop, Loup Ventures. Munster argues that even with more than 450 Whole Foods stores, Amazon is “not even close to where it needs to be” when it comes to a physical-store presence.
Munster is thinking about the bigger picture when it comes to M&A. He expects tech companies to broaden their appetites in the coming years.
More traditional companies may have no choice but to accept tech’s offers. Even as Target pushes its technology efforts, the company will be held back by legacy offerings and a shareholder base that expects a retailer to sell products, not technology.
Apple’s success could be the best argument against M&A. The world’s largest public company, after all, has always had faith it could transform itself. If Apple changes course, that might just be the biggest story of 2018.
Talk of big M&A deals always captivate. But there are risks as well.
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Why did I write a romantic fiction story . . .
Why do I write? This is a question all writers at one time or another are asked and have asked themselves. My answer is not complex or earth shaking. I’ve always come back to the same answer, played over and over in my head like one of those jingles you can’t shake. I write because it makes me happy—a simple answer for a complex journey.
BRi bri on Moving Forward, January 2018, Happy New Year!
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It will be 40 years this July since three stalwart members of the Mount Vernon Downtown Merchants Association stood in front of a newly installed sign, proudly, according to an article in the local paper, “designating where ‘downtowne Mount Vernon’ officially begins.” You can’t help but notice the nostalgic affectation achieved not only by adding the “e” at the end of “town”, but also by the sign’s overall design, which seems to hearken back to Mount Vernon’s pioneer past, when quite possibly gaslight rather than electricity might have illuminated it.
Pictured in the photo are three individuals credited with being “the main force behind the project.” From left to right, they are C.K. Ash, John Meyer, and Tom Henry. Those familiar with the history of Meyer Sign & Advertising need no introduction to the resolute looking man in the middle of the photo. He is, of course, the founder of our company — a proud Dutch immigrant to the Skagit Valley who had founded Meyer Sign some two decades prior to this photo. Knowing John, his “investment” in the sign he stands in front of was probably a reflection of his love and gratitude for the place that welcomed him and his young family following the trauma of the Second World War.
There is another connection between our company and an individual in this photo. It just so happens that our permit specialist, Stefanie Lindquist, is the granddaughter of C.K. Ash. The article cites Ash’s contribution as having “built the lathe for the 18-foot poles and turned them out with a chainsaw.” If this seems like a prodigious task, it’s certainly in keeping with how Stefanie remembers her Grandpa Keith.
Stefanie remains mystified when it comes to the subject of her how Grandpa Keith might have found the space to turn out 18-foot poles — with a chain saw, no less.
What Stefanie doesn’t wonder about is her Grandpa Keith’s inclination or ability when it came to promoting “downtowne” Mount Vernon. “He would have loved that project…he loved to do stuff like that,” she remembers, smiling.
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Condensate PumpsThere are 15 products.
Coolsense is proud to supply Condensate Pumps including Eckerle, Sanicondens, Sauermann, Charles Austen and Aspen Pumps for air conditioning and refrigeration applications in South Africa. We offer a wide range of mini split piston pumps, tank pumps and peristaltic pumps with float level switches, temperature differential sensors and cooling signal activated pumps.
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Amax Lighting LEDUC12NKL 12" nickel LED under cabinet light 3000K, 5watts, rated 40,000 hours, 300 lumens makes the 1" height ideal for shallow and hard to light spaces such as kitchens, garages and retail applications.
This versatile series of super bright LED under cabinet lighting fixture is only 1-inch in depth and designed for shallow spaces where higher levels of light is required.
Portable plug-in or hard wire option - NO external transformer or driver required!
Portable plug-in option includes 6ft. power cord for standard electrical wall outlet use.
Hardwire option can be directly connected by knockouts with included 1/4" Romex connector.
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You can jog almost everywhere — parks, streets and even in place. When nobody’s looking, I lightly jog at my own space at work. That and I perform some stretching exercises… it’s good for ergonomics and helps keep the energy up throughout the day.
Those who live in the city have everything at their fingertips. You don’t even have to have the requisite two cars a household to be mobile. Just by walking to wherever you need to go, you’re a healthier leg up over everyone else! Those who live in the country can find a trail or two and incorporate hikes in their schedule. And wherever you go, take the stairs.
Rent exercise videos….from the library.
The library is a treasure trove for a lot of cool stuff. With the variety it offers, you can borrow quite a few exercise videos and books to help you pin down your workout of choice.
Check out free television and internet exercises.
Even more encouraging are the free workouts you can get from various forms of media these days. There are internet sites that can provide you with step-by-step instructions and videos for routines you can regularly use. Television programs devoted to workouts have been around since time immemorial and cheesy or not, they do the job (if you’re shy about following along with the show, just watch it in private).
If you have your own kids, then you’ll probably agree that handling kids can help keep you fit. If you don’t, you can experience the wonderful world of toddlerhood by volunteering or signing up for a babysitting job. The best ages to babysit for the purpose of getting yourself moving are those toddler years (2 through 5) because you’re compelled to carry, lift, run, chase and follow these little people around all day. Here are also some suggestions for incorporating your baby into your exercise routine.
Be your own gardener. Work on your yard all year long and you’ll have more than your heart going — best exercise of all is to push that lawnmower around especially if you have a large lawn. Or even better, install your own drainage. All that digging should be great for upper body strength and endurance.
Clean out or organise your house.
Have you checked your attic, basement and closets lately? Well, from first-hand experience, I can say that hauling all the clutter from their previous storage areas and turning them into an organised system of boxes for sale, donation pick ups or just further storage will get your blood pumping. Even just pushing around a several pound vacuum cleaner instead of relying on a Roomba, or sweeping your garage floor should oil your joints. But make sure your back isn’t too vulnerable.
Use someone else’s sports or exercise equipment.
Have you checked under your bed lately? All around the nation, there is a glut of unused exercise equipment sitting around in garages and hiding in spare rooms and basements. You could have these things right under your very nose — if not at your own home, they could be sitting somewhere in a friend’s or relative’s home, sadly unused. It may be a good idea to resurrect these neglected items for active use once more.
Volunteer or get active work (full or part-time).
If you have a desk job, then doing some volunteer work for the community that may involve a little activity may not only be good for your conscience but also for your health. And if you’re able to, maybe that choice to apply a little bit of your own muscle into your work schedule by choosing a more active job could actually serve as the backbone (pun intended) of your healthy lifestyle.
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Widespread but localised, throughout many areas of the UK, Cuckoo Flower where found, often grows in abundance, preferring, wet or damp grassy meadows, and similar locations ranging from lowlands to mountains.
Cuckoo Flower or Lady’s Smock as it is also known, like other early wildflowers provides a nectar source for Butterflies, Bees and other insects in early spring, making it a great addition to a wild flower or wildlife garden. It is also an essential larval food plant for the strikingly coloured Orange-tip Butterfly.
Habitat: Found on –Damp grassy meadows.
When does it flower? April to June.
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Kitchens are a gathering area, a focal point, and a center of activity in many houses. Utilitarian at a basic level, you’re happy when it works and fed up when it doesn’t. Bethesda Home Design specializes in remodeling kitchens. Whether you just want to add a back splash of color or you want to gut the whole thing and start over, Jeff and Pam Sarris will help you design and build the Kitchen of your dreams.
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Joseph C. ROELL; Jerry Ballard; Petra Garibay; J. Reagan, M.D., Defendants-Appellees.
Jon Michael Withrow, Tennessee Colony, TX, pro se.
Charles Kenneth Eldred, Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.
This matter having been referred to a magistrate judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) (on referral and upon parties' consent, may try civil case and enter judgment), primarily at issue is whether, when all parties fail to consent pre-trial, but trial is held and judgment entered by the magistrate judge, post-judgment consent cures the pre-trial failure. Defendants contend: pre-trial, all parties consented; alternatively, their post-judgment consent confers jurisdiction on the magistrate judge. VACATED AND REMANDED.
In 1997, Jon Michael Withrow, pro se, filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, claiming members of his prison's medical staff (Joseph Roell, Jerry Ballard, Danny Knutson, Petra Garibay, and Dr. James Reagan) acted deliberately indifferently to his medical needs, in violation of, inter alia, his Eighth Amendment rights. Withrow gave written consent to trial and entry of judgment by a magistrate judge.
Therefore, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c), the district judge referred the action to a magistrate judge, but reminded that all defendants had to also consent to such participation by a magistrate judge (consent). Only Dr. Reagan did so (written).
In early 1998, the magistrate judge dismissed all claims except concerning the Eighth Amendment and dismissed Ballard. (Ballard's dismissal is reflected in the final judgment entered 16 May 2000, from which this appeal is taken.) In March 1999, the magistrate judge denied summary judgment for the remaining defendants. Pre-trial, Withrow settled with Knutson; he was dismissed.
The remaining parties proceeded to trial before the magistrate judge, with a jury finding for defendants. The magistrate judge entered final judgment in May 2000, and Withrow timely appealed.
But, sua sponte, our court questioned whether the requisite consent had been given by all parties and ordered a limited remand for "the district court [to] determine whether the parties consented ... and, if so, whether the consents were oral or written". Withrow v. Roell, No. 00-40627, at 2 (5th Cir. Nov. 21, 2000) (unpublished). Our court retained jurisdiction. Id. See, e.g., Wheeler v. City of Columbus, Miss., 686 F.2d 1144, 1154 (5th Cir.1982) (retaining jurisdiction pending district court compliance with remand).
On remand, the remaining defendants (Roell, Garibay, and Dr. Reagan (Defendants)) gave written consent. In a report and recommendation, the magistrate judge stated: pre-trial, Roell and Garibay never consented; and their post-judgment consent did not cure the jurisdictional defect. Withrow v. Roell, No. C-97-256, at 4 & n. 3 (S.D.Tex. Jan. 8, 2001) (unpublished). Over Defendants' objections, the district court adopted the report and recommendation. Withrow v. Roell, No. C-97-256 (S.D.Tex. Mar. 1, 2001) (unpublished). Defendants' motion to reconsider was denied.
"Upon the consent of the parties, a ... United States magistrate [judge] ... may conduct any or all proceedings in a jury or nonjury civil matter and order the entry of judgment ... when specially designated to exercise such jurisdiction by the district court." 28 U.S.C. § 636(c)(1) (emphasis added); see FED. R. CIV. P. 73 (procedures for consent and referral to a magistrate judge); FED. R. CIV. P. APPENDIX OF FORMS, Official Form 33 ("Notice of Availability of Magistrate Judge to Exercise Jurisdiction"); id., Official Form 34 ("Consent to Exercise of Jurisdiction by a United States Magistrate Judge"). At issue is whether, pre-trial, Defendants consented; and, if they did not, whether their post-judgment consent is effective.
When, pursuant to § 636(c)(1), the magistrate judge enters final judgment, lack of consent and defects in the order of reference are jurisdictional errors; as such, they cannot be waived. See Hill v. City of Seven Points, 230 F.3d 167, 168-69 (5th Cir.2000); Mendes Jr. Int'l Co. v. M/V Sokai Maru, 978 F.2d 920, 923-24 (5th Cir.1992); EEOC v. W. La. Health Servs., Inc., 959 F.2d 1277, 1281-82 & nn. 3 & 4 (5th Cir.1992). In keeping with this, § 636(c) consent must be express; it cannot be implied by the parties' conduct. W. La. Health Servs., 959 F.2d at 1281; Trufant v. Autocon, Inc., 729 F.2d 308, 309 (5th Cir.1984) ("consent must be explicit, and will not be casually inferred from the conduct of the parties").
Pre-trial, only Dr. Reagan filed written consent. Defendants contend Roell and Garibay, pre-trial, gave consent orally. Whether they did involves a finding of fact, reviewed only for clear error. E.g., Walker v. City of Mesquite, 169 F.3d 973, 982 (5th Cir.1999), cert. denied, 528 U.S. 1131, 120 S.Ct. 969, 145 L.Ed.2d 840 (2000).
To show Roell and Garibay's consent, Defendants point to an April 1999 teleconference, with appearances by Withrow and Defendants' counsel, at which the magistrate judge stated to the latter: "Also, if you talk to Mr. Knutson [defendant who settled pre-trial with Withrow], ... would you tell him ... that he needs to let us know whether he's going to consent to my jurisdiction as well, because all defendants need to consent...." Defendants' counsel responded: "Good point, yes, Your Honor". According to Defendants, the import of this colloquy is that the magistrate judge "thereby stated ... she thought Roell, Garibay, and Dr. Reagan had all consented" and Defendants' counsel confirmed that assumption.
As further evidence of Roell and Garibay's claimed pre-trial consent, Defendants cite another magistrate judge teleconference (July 1999). Withrow and Defendants' counsel appeared, together with Knutson's counsel. The magistrate judge stated to the latter: "[Y]our client [Knutson] has the right to not consent ... and I don't know what your position is on that.... [A]ll of the other parties have consented...." According to Defendants, these other-parties-had-consented comments were correct.
Finally, Defendants cite to the magistrate judge's statement to the jury: "In... any civil case in which [the] parties consent to my jurisdiction, I do have civil jurisdiction to hear civil jury trials...."
Obviously, through none of these relied upon statements did Roell and Garibay consent. At best, they represent only the magistrate judge's assumption that they had. On remand, the magistrate judge found she had been mistaken in her assumption that Roell and Garibay had executed consent forms. Withrow v. Roell, No. C-97-256, at 2 & n. 2 (S.D. Tex. Jan. 8, 2001) (unpublished). Accordingly, the basis of her assumption had been that written, not oral, consent had been given.
In short, there is no evidence in the record of pre-trial consent by all parties. The corresponding finding is not clearly erroneous.
Accordingly, we must determine whether, as the district court held, the post-judgment consent was not effective. We review this jurisdictional question de novo. E.g., United States v. Bustos-Useche, 273 F.3d 622, 626-27 (5th Cir. 2001).
Notwithstanding the plain language of § 636(c), discussed infra, Defendants note the Seventh and Eleventh Circuits have repeatedly held post-judgment consent effective. See Rembert v. Apfel, 213 F.3d 1331, 1335 n. 1 (11th Cir.2000) ("Parties can consent even after judgment."); Drake v. Minn. Mineral & Mfg. Co., 134 F.3d 878, 883 (7th Cir.1998) (consent post-appellate oral argument sufficient); Gen. Trading, Inc. v. Yale Materials Handling Corp., 119 F.3d 1485, 1496-97 (11th Cir. 1997) (post-judgment consent effected by parties' withdrawing their new-trial motion and thereby accepting magistrate judge's judgment; such consent effective), cert. denied, 523 U.S. 1055, 118 S.Ct. 1380, 140 L.Ed.2d 526 (1998); Smith v. Shawnee Library Sys., 60 F.3d 317, 320-21 (7th Cir.1995) (post-judgment consent unequivocal representation magistrate judge acting with parties' consent); King v. Ionization Int'l, Inc., 825 F.2d 1180, 1185 (7th Cir.1987) (post-judgment consent sufficient where parties executed consent several weeks after entry of order appealed).
The Ninth Circuit, however, has held otherwise. See Hajek v. Burlington N. R.R. Co., 186 F.3d 1105, 1108 (9th Cir. 1999) (consent not effective where made in appellate brief). The district court cited Hajek in holding the post-judgment consent did not "cure the jurisdictional defect". Withrow v. Roell, No. C-97-256 (S.D. Tex. Mar. 1, 2001) (unpublished).
Our court's primary precedent is found in Archie v. Christian, 808 F.2d 1132 (5th Cir.1987) (en banc), where a prisoner's civil rights action had been referred to a magistrate judge. Although trial was held without objection by plaintiff, id. at 1133-34, defendants did object. They ceased doing so, however, upon the jury's returning a favorable verdict. Id. at 1134.
By report and recommendation, the magistrate judge in Archie recommended that defendants' objection be overruled because the referral was proper under 28 U.S.C. § 636(b). Unlike § 636(c), which, as noted, allows a magistrate judge, upon a district judge's referral and the parties' consent, to enter final judgment in a civil action, § 636(b) only authorizes a magistrate judge, upon referral, to hear and determine certain pre-trial matters and to conduct an evidentiary hearing and then submit a recommendation to the district judge for disposition of an action. Accordingly, the magistrate judge recommended that the district court adopt the jury's findings. Id. The district court did so and entered final judgment. Id.
At issue before our en banc court was whether a trial before a magistrate judge without all parties' consent, followed by a district judge's entry of judgment, was a procedural error, subject to waiver, or was instead a jurisdictional error. Our court held that, although the parties had not consented, this did not deprive the district judge of jurisdiction to enter the judgment. Id. at 1135. But, our court noted: had the appeal challenged this defective, non-jurisdictional procedure, it would have been reversible error. Id. In other words, the failure to challenge it resulted in the issue's not being before the en banc court.
In considering the necessity for consent, our court recognized that § 636(b) does not authorize referral of prisoner litigation to a magistrate judge for a jury trial. Id.; see Ford v. Estelle, 740 F.2d 374, 380 (5th Cir.1984). Accordingly, our court observed that, because § 636(b) was unavailable, § 636(c) was the only means by which the action could be referred. Id.
[I]n our circuit, no jury trial of this kind can be conducted by a magistrate [judge] without the consent of all parties, given in writing and filed before trial commences.... [I]n the exercise of our supervisory powers, we direct that before commencing ... trial in any civil case in which a magistrate [judge] is to preside pursuant to ... § 636(c),... he shall inquire on the record of each party whether he has filed consent to [his] presiding and shall receive an affirmative answer from each on the record before proceeding further.
Id. at 1137 (emphasis added).
At first glance, Archie's requiring pre-trial consent appears to control the outcome in the case at hand; here, the consent was post-judgment. This directive, however, is dictum. Restated, and as discussed supra, our court determined that the error in Archie was non-jurisdictional and had been waived; therefore, our court's directive as to when and how consent must be given was not necessary to the holding.
Accordingly, whether, pursuant to § 636(c), post-judgment consent is effective is a question of first impression for our circuit. Statutory interpretation begins, of course, "with the plain language of the statute". Moosa v. INS, 171 F.3d 994, 1008 (5th Cir.1999). "When the language [of the statute itself] is plain we must abide by it; we may depart from its meaning only to avoid a result so bizarre that Congress could not have intended it." Id. (alteration in original; internal quotation marks omitted).
Our court's directive in Archie, that consent be pre-trial, adheres to the plain language of § 636(c)(1). The statute reads, in part: "Upon the consent of the parties, a... United States magistrate [judge] ... may conduct any or all proceedings in a nonjury civil matter and order the entry of judgment in the case...." 28 U.S.C. § 636(c)(1) (emphasis added). The use of "upon" and "may conduct" compels the conclusion that the statute requires consent being given before a magistrate judge can act pursuant to § 636(c). The timing of the consent equates with a condition precedent to the magistrate judge's acting. In other words, only after the parties give consent is a magistrate judge then vested with jurisdiction to act. Post-judgment consent is contrary to the scheme established by this plain language.
Because the statute's language is plain, and its application does not lead to absurd results, we need not look to its legislative history. In any event, that history supports this construction. When Congress amended § 636 in 1979 to allow magistrate judges, upon consent of the parties and referral by a district judge, to handle dispositive matters, "[t]he Bill clearly require[d] the voluntary consent of the parties as a prerequisite to a magistrate [judge's] exercise of the new jurisdiction". S. REP. No. 96-74, at 5 (1979), reprinted in 1979 U.S.C.C.A.N. 1469, 1473 (emphasis added). Consent being a "prerequisite to... [the] exercise of ... jurisdiction" compels the conclusion that it must come before, and not after, the magistrate judge conducts the proceedings and enters final judgment.
A common sense reason for this being required, as reflected in Archie's directive, is that, if consent is allowed post-judgment, or even post-trial but pre-judgment, a party can withhold consent, hope its lack is not noticed, and, once the verdict is known: (1) if it is favorable, consent; or (2) if it is not favorable, bring the lack of consent to the attention of either the district court or the appellate court, in which case that party will be entitled to a new trial. Obviously, the potential for such abuse must be removed.
Requiring pre-trial consent does so. The Seventh Circuit in Shawnee Library recognized these gamesmanship concerns, but, being bound by its circuit precedent, it stated: "Rather than write a treatise on game theory, however, we simply note that King [v. Ionization, Int'l, 825 F.2d 1180, 1185 (7th Cir.1987)] controls". 60 F.3d at 321.
King reasoned the belated consent is effective because there, the parties' post-judgment statement that the proceedings before the magistrate judge were with their consent was "an unequivocal representation that the magistrate was acting with the parties' consent". 825 F.2d at 1185. Such reasoning, however, necessarily infers from the parties' post-trial statement that there was pre-trial consent. In other words, because the parties, post-judgment, state the earlier proceedings were with their consent, that must mean the proceedings occurred with their consent. Again, this is simply an inference from the parties' post-trial conduct.
But, as stated, our court has held that consent may not be inferred from the parties' actions — in this instance, the post-judgment consent. See W. La. Health Servs., 959 F.2d at 1281. Accordingly, because the King reasoning is based upon an inference of consent, it is inconsistent with our court's § 636(c) precedent.
Our holding that consent must be pre-trial requires, unfortunately, that this matter be re-tried at the expense of the parties and the judicial system. But, even if we were to adopt the Seventh and Eleventh Circuit's approach, this outcome could not be avoided in all cases. For example, had the verdict been favorable to Withrow, we doubt Defendants would have given consent post-judgment. Under that scenario, we still would be required to remand for a new trial.
For these reasons, consent of all the parties must be given prior to a § 636(c) trial commencing. Our en banc court in Archie, with the opinion authored by the late Judge Thomas Gibbs Gee, noted that § 636 "requires the consent of all parties, incorporating explicit provisions safeguarding the voluntariness of that consent; and rules, both federal and local, are in place to insure that no dragooning takes place". 808 F.2d at 1136 (emphasis added). Certainly, there can be "no dragooning"; likewise, there can be no post-judgment consent.
In her report and recommendation on remand, the magistrate judge noted our court in Archie had "attempted to avoid problems such as the one which occurred here by ordering, in the court's supervisory capacity, that before a trial by a magistrate judge commences, the magistrate shall confirm the consent of all parties on the record". Withrow v. Roell, No. C-97-256, at 4 n. 3 (S.D. Tex. Jan. 8, 2001) (unpublished). To her credit, the magistrate judge sincerely regretted, and apologized for, not having done so. Id. at 4 n. 4.
[I]n our circuit, no jury trial of this kind can be conducted by a magistrate [judge] without the consent of all parties, given in writing and filed before trial commences.... [I]n the exercise of our supervisory powers, we direct that before commencing ... trial in any civil case in which a magistrate [judge] is to preside pursuant to ... § 636(c),... he shall inquire on the record of each party whether he has filed consent to the magistrate [judge's] presiding and shall receive an affirmative answer from each on the record before proceeding further.
For the foregoing reasons, the judgment is VACATED, and this matter is REMANDED for further proceedings, consistent with this opinion, against defendants Joseph C. Roell, Jerry Ballard, Petra Garibay, and Dr. James Reagan.
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The RO System which is used in Kent filters helps to purify water to a great extent These Kent water purifiers will have the capacity to handle extreme pH pressure without any risk of leakage or bursting. In water purifiers like Kent water purifier, technology is used to make it physically, organically and microbiologically free from pollution. There are various online stores where you can check the Kent ro price. By doing this it allows people to do more research on the Kent ro price list so that they can buy the product at the best possible price. Also take a look at the kent air purifier price along with specifications.
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Note: Please call us ahead of time to confirm a staff member will be available to accept your donation.
We do not accept any kind of monitors. Contact Fort Collins Recycling to find out the best method to dispose of your monitors.
What do you do with all of those computers?
We recycle the computers and equipment we receive with IT Liquidators. IT Liquidators values and respects our environment, has a strict zero landfill policy, and handles recycled equipment in a way that preserves the health and safety of those working with the equipment, the general public, and the environment as a whole.
Know that your non-remarketable technology has been ethically recycled. Your old equipment will be processed by recyclers who are regularly audited and certified by R2/SERI and e-Stewards, two of the most well-respected recycling certifying organizations in the industry.
Where can I recycle my computer and equipment?
If your computer is too old to donate and/or does not meet the minimum specifications, please consider recycling them at the City of Fort Collins Electronics Recycling Center.
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Bionime acquires the Innovation Award from Taiwan Ministry Economic Affair.
Got Taiwan "Certificate of Good Design Product" (Rightest Blood Glucose Monitoring System, Model GD500).
Got approval of initial public offering form Securities and Futures Bureau (Stock No.4737).
Introduce "GM110 Blood Glucose Monitoring System" to Asia market.
Got China SFDA Medical Device certificate (Rightest Blood Glucose Meter, Model GM300/GM210).
Got Taiwan Medical Device certificate (Rightest Blood Glucose Monitoring System, Model GM100).
Gradually phase in GD500 for worldwide distributors.
Launch GM101 No Coding Blood Glucose Monitoring System" with whole blood calibrated reading to Germany.
Launch GD500 brand new design lancing device with safety switch and lancet eject function to Germany.
Got USA FDA 510(k) clearance letter (K072054) (Rightest Blood Glucose Monitoring System, Model GM310 ).
Set up BIONIME USA branch office in San Diego.
Got TNO Certification: BIONIME's Rightest Blood Glucose Monitoring System got Europe TNO certification. The certification report number is CERTI 06.20578.
Got USA FDA 510(k) clearance letter (K062567) (Rightest Blood Glucose Monitoring System).
Got Taiwan Medical Device certificate (Rightest Blood Glucose Monitoring System, Model GM210).
Modify China's SFDA Certification: Modify the after-sales service organization to Chinese Subsidiary BIONIME (ShenZhen) CO., LTD. And the Registration Certifications for Medical Device (SFDA(I) 2005 2400046(C) / SFDA(I) 2005 2400058(C)) were issued. The certification's SFDA registration approval correspondences are provided as attached.
Global Strategic Investment Fund invests in our company : Due to the potential of BIONIME's excellent technology, development team and the market for blood sugar monitoring, the GSIF decided to invest in BIONIME on September 5 2005 . Apart from the financial investment, the GSIF's immense network of industrial contacts is also available to assist in the future growth of BIONIME.
Passed China 's SFDA Certification: BIONIME's Rightest Blood Sugar Sampling Strip passed China 's SFDA product certification on July 15 2005 , and the Registration Certificate for Medical Device (SFDA(I) 20052400046) was issued. This certification's SFDA registration approval correspondence is provided as attached.
Passed Taiwan 's GMP certification: On June 6 2005 BIONIME passed the certification of Taiwan 's GMP system. This certification's letter of approval from the Executive Yuan's Department of Health is provided as attached.
CDIB BioScience Venture Management invests in our company : Due to the potential of BIONIME's excellent technology, development team and the market for blood sugar monitoring, the CBVM decided to invest in BIONIME on January 31 2005. Apart from the financial investment, the CBVM's immense network of bioscience contacts overseas is also available to assist in the future growth of BIONIME.
Passed FDA 510(k) Certification: BIONIME's Rightest Blood Glucose Monitoring System on January 3 2005 passed the U.S. FDA 510(k) product certification. The certification number is #K042678, and this certification's FDA letter of approval is shown as attached.
Passed ISO 13485 and CE certification: BIONIME passed on November 2 2004 the European Union ISO 13485 system certification. The following products have all passed CE certification (CE 0537): Rightest Blood Glucose Monitoring System, Rightest Blood Glucose Sampling Strip , Rightest Quality Control Fluid . This certification was issued after an audit by the Notify Body VTT company, and the certificate is shown as attached.
Industrial Bank of Taiwan invests in our company : Due to the potential of BIONIME's excellent technology, development team and the market for blood sugar monitoring, the IDB decided to invest in BIONIME on October 20 2004 . Apart from the financial investment, the IDB immense network of banking and securities organization is also available to assist in the future growth of BIONIME.
Department of Health's Free Sales License Acquired - BIONIME's Rightest Blood Glucose Monitoring System acquired on August 2 2004 the Executive Yuan Department of Health's Free Sales License. This approval is shown as pictured.
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Richard is a diver with 30 years' experience and a specialist in aeromedical retrieval. He has previously participated in complex diving recoveries, appeared in National Geographic documentaries and, in 2015, was recognised for his outstanding contribution to cave exploration. In 2017 he was awarded The Australasian Technical Diver of the Year.
Craig has dived some of Australia's deepest wrecks and has set depth records in diving, including diving to 194m in the Pearse Resurgence, New Zealand in 2011. He was awarded Technical Diver of the Year 2009 at the Australian technical diving conference Oztek.
She has been involved in child abuse prevention through the National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect since its very early days and has treated babies and children suffering terrible trauma from child abuse and neglect.
In addition, Sue has championed the importance of early childhood environments for the developing brain, leading to recognition by education and government agencies. Sue was one of the driving forces behind the acknowledgement of the importance of creating child-friendly spaces in hospitals and the value of play in recovery.
Presenting papers at conferences internationally and still volunteering on a number of boards to improve health and well-being of children . She maintains an interest in the adult lives of children she has seen. Sue stands up for the rights of children at every opportunity and encourages others to do the same.
Working across rap, dance, acting and graffiti, Danzal Baker is a multi-talented, multi-lingual, Indigenous artist. Danzal, otherwise known as Baker Boy, is the first Indigenous artist to achieve mainstream success rapping in the Yolngu Matha language.
Raised in Milingimbi and Maningrida, Danzal rapped his way to national prominence when his single Marryuna was voted into 17th place in Triple J's Hottest 100 for 2017; a notable follow-up from his debut single Cloud 9, which won Triple J's Unearthed competition.
Danzal is also an award winner at the National Indigenous Music Awards. He has signed a record deal with Island Records Australia and was handpicked by English rapper Dizzee Rascal to be his Australian support act. In 2018, Danzal won the prestigious Charles Darwin University Art Award at the Northern Territory Young Achievers Awards.
Touring Australia extensively, Danzal is using his talent to inspire young people in remote Indigenous communities and encourage them to embrace their culture and take up leadership positions.
Dolly's Dream aims to raise awareness about bullying and its potentially devastating effects on children and families. It delivers community education on bullying issues and strategies for preventing and mitigating bullying, through cultural change and victim support.
Kate and Tick advocate tenaciously on a voluntary basis while continuing to muster cattle, train horses and care for their other daughter, Megan, from their home in Katherine, Northern Territory.
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A divorce attorney in Skokie is a family law attorney. That means they practice representing cases that concern families, and personal relationships that pertain to families. When a relationship that you are involved in dissolves you need a family law attorney to make sure that the decisions you make regarding the division of property and assets is in your best interest.
Legal Separation or Divorce in Skokie?
Getting a good divorce attorney in Illinois to represent you in the dissolution of a marriage is not as easy as picking up a phone book and calling the first lawyer that you find listed in Skokie. To find a good qualified divorce lawyer you need look no further than our Nationwide network of divorce lawyers. But, we invite the competition. You’re going to have to do a little research, and a little interviewing to find the best divorce attorney for your situation.
3. Make a list of things you would like your divorce attorney to have. Include a compatible personality, time to work on your case, close proximity, affordable fees or easy payment plans. When you go to the initial consultations, rate the lawyers according to the list you made. When you have visited all of the family law firms in Skokie you were interested in, you can then evaluate which lawyers met the most of the things you wanted.
Get local city data on Skokie, Illinois.
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We are off in a couple of days so this will be the last post for a week or so. Mum says it is very warm there (hurrah!!) so we will hopefully be having our now traditional picnic on the beach on Xmas Day and barbecue. We are also having a big family meal on Christmas Eve at the local Chinese buffet which the children love. You chose your uncooked food and the chef cooks it for you and you can watch. The children are always most impressed at how he remembers which order belongs to them.
They have been doing quite a bit of cooking this week using the new raclette and the fajita grill. It is excellent for me as saves loads of time. I just prepare the meat and veg and we cook it at the table. Below is a pic of the raclette so that you can see it in action.
The small pan handles can be seen sticking out from under the grill and there is one on top warming oil ready to be filled with meat and veg. Jake is now very happy and plans to have raclette and fajitas once a week each at least! Note that is my plate there – healthy salad (the kids don’t do that sort of stuff!).
Have also been busy finishing off Xmas stitching – up till 1 am this morning but cannot post pics till have given the gift. This project was a bit of an experiment but I am very pleased with the result and will post pics when I return.
Will leave you with another pic of glamorous daughter – this was taken on a night out recently for a friend’s 18th birthday. Poor Ellen is not 18 till March and can’t wait. Neither can we – she is taking me and Uncle Ben for a drink!
Ellen, Maxine and Charlotte - Happy 18th Charlotte!
And of course the song goes – ‘so what have you done , another year over and a new one just begun’. I know it is not Christmas yet but here we have been celebrating early as we are off to Spain next weekend (hurrah) for some r and r in the warm. So this weekend we had our now traditional pre Xmas party and celebrated early with Xmas dinner and some of the pressies.
My brother Ben came to us today for pressies and dinner – sadly his partner Amanda had to work. They got the kids some fab Xmas pressies from them so big thanks. The first was a fajita cooker that you use on the table top – it’s a small griddle with pan included. Jake’s favourite food in the whole world is fajitas so he was thrilled.
They also bought them a raclette which is another table top grill which comes with little pans – you cut up meat, fish and veg, top with cheeses and grill your own food at the table – a very sociable way of eating. They have had one for years and the kids love it so so they are very pleased to have their own. We are going to try it out tomorrow then use it for New Year when my sister and her kids are here.
Below are some pics from the party and our xmas dinner.
Jake wearing all the cracker hats!!
So another year over and what have we done – well loads and loads as usual, holidays, work, the build, Nepal the new life stuff – been a very, very busy year. I have also had this blog for just over a year – forgot to check when the date was but sometime last Nov I think.
Am really looking forward to next year which is nice to be able to say as there have been some bits of this year that have been very stressful!! But that is all over now – still got a bit of decorating to finish but that will get done. Have been having such a good time just recently and am looking forward to lots more of the same wonderful stuff.
So I hope that you all have a lovely festive season wherever you are! My best wishes to you and yours.
A couple of weeks ago I had a reunion in Yorkshire with some old friends – we all were at college here (we met 25 years ago) and have met up at intervals ever since but the last time was about 6 years ago so it was wonderful to see them all.
We had a great time revisiting old haunts on the University campus, doing a tour of the new pubs in town and having a curry and were very pleased to see that we can still hack it – we started at 2pm and were still going at 1am which is not bad for a group of forty somethings!
Here is a pic of the guys – most of whom are called Dave bizzarely enough – and girls in one of the local hostelries.
25 years on the Class of 83 - not looking bad!
So a lovely few weekends – we are having a party here next week – my usual pre – Xmas event – an excellent time is being had!!
Apologies for the lack of posts recently. Have been back from Nepal for a while but returned to various technical issues including lack of PC and Internet and since those have been fixed have been trying to find time to put together a summary of my trip including whittling down the 800 odd pics I took to a selection for this blog. I have finally done it so please visit the page – it will take a couple of minutes to load as there are about 50 pics on it. Unfortunately I have had to change my site theme so that you can see the link to the new page – don’t like this one as much but will work on it.
What was it like? Very much as I imagined it to be – I have read so much about the country and seen so many pics that much was as I expected. Was not expecting such lovely hotels and restaurants – a lot of it was much more sophisticated and we had swimming pools and lovely food when we were in Kathmandu and Pokhara as well as the roughing it in the village.
The work was as hard as I had expected and it was very, very hot but we coped and I am very proud of myself for being able to do this project. Two years ago I had major health problems that meant I was walking with a stick and in considerable pain so the fact that I went at all makes me very pleased. I would also like to thank my Mum and lovely children who supported me so much in wanting to make the trip. You are all fab and I really, really missed you while I was away.
Life changing experience no – don’t want life to change any more have had enough changes for a while! Life affirming yes – very much so, have come back stronger, physically and mentally and knowing that I was able to do something really special.
I will leave you with a few recent pics – one from graduation this year with my students – my last as the Foundation Course leader as I have gone part-time for this year.
The next is my lovely kids again – this was taken on a recent night out. They are still so supportive and have been so wonderful this year.
We went to a friend’s wedding reception on Sunday – congratulations to Nick and Clare from the Team Falchion re-enactment group. We had a great time and this is me and my lovely kids in our medieval costumes as it was a fancy dress event.
Promise that there will be regular updates from now on – as long as my internet does not die again!
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California Focus Syndicated Column: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION FOR UTILITY REGULATORS?
Memo to United States Attorneys in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego: It’s high time you investigate the former president and some current members and officials of the California Public Utilities Commission for things like conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud.
Evidence against current commissioners and former commission President Michael Peevey has mounted steadily over the last six months, but there has been no action against anyone.
State rules forbid utility regulators from communicating individually with executives of the companies they regulate. Any letters, texts or emails must go to all five commissioners, as a means of preventing secret deals favoring the companies over their business and residential customers.
Yet, emails have shown that Peevey for years communicated privately and had understandings with executives of both Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and the Southern California Edison Co., of which he was formerly president. He even hosted at least one high PG&E official at his country home in Sea Ranch, north of San Francisco.
He also communicated privately with Edison execs, setting up a dinner in London with one, and in one case reported by the U-T San Diego newspaper agreeing to delay a PUC action that would limit the percentage of Edison’s executive bonuses it could bill to ratepayers until after that year’s bonuses had been paid under old rules.
Current Commissioner Mike Florio has recused himself from some votes affecting PG&E because of his role in a “judge-shopping” attempt. Emails showed Florio helped the utility choose a sympathetic commission administrative law judge to preside over a key case.
And there was the recently-disclosed 2012 phone call between Edison’s external relations director and the administrative law judge presiding over a case to determine how Edison and its customers would split the cost of retiring the disabled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Edison says that call covered only technicalities.
All this led Michael Picker, the new commission president, in a public meeting, to call the emails “troubling and very painful to read.” Yet, in the year he served on the commission with Peevey, Picker never voted against him in any major case.
One bottom line in all this is that customers of California’s big regulated utilities – PG&E, Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric – pay power rates averaging almost twice as much as consumers served by the municipal utilities in Los Angeles, Anaheim, Riverside and Sacramento. Power rates have consistently risen, while consumption has remained steady. Details are contained in this report about San Onofre generated by former San Diego City Attorney Mike Aguirre: http://www.amslawyers.com/Breaking-News/Storm-Warning-CPUC-1-7-14.pdf.
No, utility profits are not supposed to lead to doubly high energy bills. That, in fact, is what the PUC was set up to prevent.
This column has frequently documented PUC favoritism of the big companies over their rate payers, labeling Peevey a “fox guarding the chicken house” as early as 2005. But the emails released in recent months provide a smoking gun pointing toward possible criminal conspiracy. If so, it could be charged as mail fraud and/or wire fraud because excessively high rates set via conspiracy would have been billed by mail or email.
Aguirre suggests the U.S. attorneys convene special grand juries like the one that indicted PG&E for its conduct surrounding the fatal 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion.
Aguirre suggests investigating, for example, what happened to money collected by the big companies to ensure utility safety. “Edison was paid money for defective San Onofre steam generators. PG&E was paid money (since the 1950s) to fix (gas lines), but failed to do so,” his report said. Similarly, he said, defective SDG&E equipment caused a huge 2007 San Diego County fire.
“In each case, the PUC blocked its (staff’s) investigations into utility executive wrongdoing,” Aguirre charges. No one knows what happened to billions of maintenance dollars paid by customers.
Efforts to ask Picker about these charges and any plans to improve PUC practices were rebuffed.
The bottom line: The pattern of utility regulators’ favoritism of the companies they oversee, even possible collusion with them, has been plain for decades. But the email and telephone call evidence emerged only lately.
That evidence is so strong it would be dereliction of duty for prosecutors to ignore it.
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The Olives is a five star standard residential suite @ R#126, Gulshan-1, Dhaka with 53 suites (INCLUDING 04 PRESIDENTIAL DUPLEX), 01 EXECUTIVE MEETING ROOM, 01 BANQUET HALL, 01 RESTAURANT, 01 SPA & SALON, 01 GYM, Steam, Sauna & Jacuzzi, 01 SWIMMING POOL and 01 Basement floor for car parking facilities.
For your concern their lowest standard Deluxe suites is 1250sqf (Heavenly bed room with bath, living area, work desk, study room, separate bath for visitor & spacious balcony in each and every suites) with latest fittings & lake view facilities. The OLives is the most safe & secured five Star Standard Lavish Suites, besides of Gulshan Circle-1, Dhaka.
Address: H – 3, R – 126, Gulshan-1, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Note: Special discounted room rate available for the conference guest and use the code ‘sustaingarment’.
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Washington, D.C. (Sept. 24, 2018) — The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States, Canada (UA), as well as six local chapters throughout the United States, have made generous financial contributions to the International Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (IWSH) Foundation’s 2018 International Community Plumbing Challenge (CPC) in Northwestern New Mexico from Oct. 22-26.
The UA represents an estimated 340,000 plumbers, pipefitters, sprinkler fitters, service technicians and welders in local unions across North America.
The Navajo Nation CPC assembles a multi-disciplined team of skilled tradespeople to execute plumbing and construction projects that will improve living conditions in approximately 10 households nominated by U.S.-based nonprofit organization DigDeep. Inside homes, a range of bathroom and kitchen renovations will be carried out, including the installation of new basins, taps, toilets, water tanks, water pumps, and hot- and cold-water pipework. These renovations and repairs are required in order for these homes to be connected to water supply systems. Meanwhile, efforts outdoors will address the installation of, and connection to, new wastewater systems.
In addition to the national organization, donations were received from Plumbers Local Union No. 798 (Tulsa, Oklahoma); Plumbers Local Union No. 12 (Dorchester, Massachusetts); Plumbers Local Union No. 68 (Houston); Plumbers Local Union No. 78 (Los Angeles); Plumbers Local Union No. 412 (New Mexico and El Paso, Texas); and Plumbers Local Union No. 400 (Kaukauna, Wisconsin). In addition to their financial donations, Local 412 and Local 400 are also sponsoring the involvement of a number of their skilled members — providing expertise to the upcoming project from licensed plumbers, plus trainers and apprentices.
Thomas Bigley, Director of Plumbing Services for the UA, said this year’s project — which is being held in the United States for the first time — provides a special opportunity for some members.
“We have a lot of members who are Native American, so they absolutely wanted to participate and help out,” he said.
Bigley said that rather than coming from a national call to contribute from the UA, the donations resulted primarily from word of mouth.
The project is also garnering support, both financially and in products/materials, from other parts of the industry, including: LIXIL, the manufacturer of such brands as American Standard and GROHE, G.E. Appliances and the Piping Industry Progress & Education Trust Fund (P.I.P.E.).
IWSH is actively recruiting team members, sponsors, and partners for October’s Navajo Nation CPC. If you wish to be a sponsor, please direct your web browser to https://commplumbing.org/sponsor/.
If you would like to participate in the Navajo Nation CPC, go to https://commplumbing.org/contact/.
For more information about the event, visit the project website at www.commplumbing.org or email info@iwsh.org.
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Cricketers from the West Indies will come together to play in a charity event in the form of a Cricket Hurricane Relief Twenty20 at the Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017.
The teams led by former West Indies two-time Twenty20 World Cup winning captain Darren Sammy of St. Lucia and current West Indies Twenty20 and One-Day all-rounder Kieron Pollard are hoping to raise TT$1 million for the Eastern Caribbean countries, which have been hit by the passage of three hurricanes, Irma, Jose and Maria, which devastated Dominica.
The Sport Company of Trinidad and Tobago (SporTT), the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (T&TCB) and Queen’s Park Cricket Club (QPCC) have joined forces to stage the charity event to raise funds for the countries affected.
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Yey! Good to see you!
Was hoping you hadn't entirely disappeared.
Hopefully you had a good Year (and will for 2018, too).
Also get lots of the goodies you asked Santa for.
I'll also be around a lot more during 2018. Fingers crossed lol.
It's still a secret I won't tell anyone lol.
Merry Christmas everyone! hope you all have a fab day!
man trying to flip my schedule by 12 hours for the 4th time this week is wreckin me. seeing my family was fun and dinner thing today was nice.
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"url": "http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/c=AsQy2Qe7txA/forums.ws?14,15,770,65953105,goto,288",
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One of our favorites, Formentera is a delight to sink into each night and wake refreshed. Our super king size quilt cover comes in white with a double applique band detailing in ash grey that sits on the perimeter of the mattress giving numerous striking and stylish options to liven your bedroom. Also making the perfect gift, the 280 thread count 100% Egyptian cotton sateen arrives to you beautifully wrapped in tissue paper presented in our DEIA Living gift boxes so you can enjoy your purchase straight away.
Formentera´s fine sateen weave is light yet warm and so soft against your skin it´s comfortable to sleep in during all weather throughout the Australian seasons. Designed in Australia and made in Portugal with the attention to detail and quality only European made products have, Formentera´s super king size quilt cover is long lasting and launders beautifully becoming softer with every wash.
Complete with look by adding the matching super king size sheet set to capture the collection’s Mediterranean style and easy living feel.
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"url": "https://deia-living.com/en/duvet-cover-super-king-size-navy-formentera.html",
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Located in the new Career Ready Space on Level 2 of Agora East at the Melbourne Campus and speak to one of our advisors on duty for general enquiries. For specific regional enquiries, drop in during one of the times below to speak to the relevant regional advisor. The Global Lounge is open from 11am - 3pm from Monday to Thursday.
Students at Mildura, Shepparton and Albury-Wodonga campuses can schedule a phone consultation (please email us with your phone number, questions and available times) or Skype if preferred.
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"url": "https://www.latrobe.edu.au/students/opportunities/exchange/global-exchange-lounge",
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Fuller Classic 6v 521 Open bar Rubber Battery CY521 from County Battery Services.
The Fuller Classic 6v 521 Open bar CY521 Hard Rubber Car Battery gives you an appearance and performance are of equal factors.
This classic vehicle battery is one of the best in the market and is hard rubber, matching the original manufacturers specification; it is supplied dry-charged with acid packs and instructions. This Fuller Classic vehicle 521 Hard Rubber Car Battery comes in two different models varying in capacities(Ah). The first is a 117Ah battery (Good) and the second is a 146Ah battery (Best). Have the ultimate Hard Rubber Car Battery, giving the correct period look to your pride and joy.
Supplied with acid pack and instructions.
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"timestamp": "2019-04-26T07:47:46",
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With Knightscope's K5, the robot security scene has a new contender. These pretty much human sized bots are designed to record and prevent crime, while intimidating criminals with their "commanding presence" and loud screeching.
What you're seeing above is the latest development in robot crime fighting, the K5 from Knightscope. The bots have already created quite a bit of interesting among robot enthusiasts and generel population alike, with media recently reporting that Microsoft had already employed a few robots to patrol their campus. Knightscope also reported that their first round of funding was a success with over $5 million gathered, and they're hoping to but their bots to work all around Silicon Valley in the near future.
The security robots or autonomous data machines, as they are officially labeled, are 1.5 meters (~5 feet) tall and weigh about 135 kilos (~300 pounds). The equipment they use in their crime-fighting include a laser scanner, a 360 degree camera and are capable of generating more than 90 terabytes of data every year. The bots wirelessly provide your security command center with their surveillance data which a security team can use real-time to catch criminals, something that sounds suspiciously similar to a regular security camera, albeit a mobile one. What a regular security camera does not provide is what Knightscope calls "a physical and commanding presence in public places where security is needed". Whether that is true is, from just looking at the thing, highly debatable.
The bots are designed to scoot around an area you've decided on, avoiding obstacles and people in their march while recording video and audio with the camera. If the bot should spot criminal activity it records and follows the culprit, recording license plates and other relevant data. As can probably be guessed judging from the bots appearance, they don't actually take action against the criminal, but allegedly it can defend itself by issuing a screech-like sound that gets progressively louder and louder, while notifying your regular human security staff.
Do you feel your company premises, mall or other fitting location is badly in need of some robot security? Well, the good news is that you can hire one of Knightscope's K5 bots for the mere cost of $6.25 per hour (minimum one-year lease), which according to them will "free humans to address strategic tasks while the machines handle monotonous or dangerous tasks".
Meanwhile, Knightscope is aggressively continuing their tech development, reinvigorated by the public and corporate interest shown in their products and the money invested. For those of you dreaming of real-life robocops roaming our streets, it looks like you will unfortunately have to wait a while longer though.
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As 2010 turned into 2011, one of the things I decided I wanted to do was to spend more time behind my camera so I could improve my photography. I wanted to be far more deliberate in what I shot, when I shot, and how I shot.
It was early July when I had a problem with my Canon 30D and had to send it in for repairs, and during that week without my camera I did a quick assesment of my performance toward this goal. I wasn’t too happy: I had taken fewer photos than by the same time the year before; the year before saw me take even fewer photos than the year before that; and aside from a few images of David, I didn’t feel like I had much to be proud of, photographically speaking.
When I got my camera back from repairs, I decided to change that. I started picking out where I wanted to go shooting instead of just grabbing the camera when opportunity arised. I started picking weeknights to go on quick, hour-long shoots after we put David to bed. I also started being less insecure about showing my images to random people on the internet – from posting to photography forums for critique, to frequent sharing on the new Google Plus.
After the past 6 months of efforts, I can honestly say that I’m finally comfortable with what I’m able to do with my camera and no longer feel self-conscious to mention the word photographer in the same sentence as my name. Perhaps even more importantly, I no longer feel silly (for lack of a better word) for telling my wife “I’m going to go out and shoot ______”.
This barn I shot 3 days ago is a great example of the results of these deliberate efforts. I was only a month earlier that I saw it and told Ana that I was going to make sure I shot it. This is the exact shot I was picturing before I even drove up to it on Friday, and I spent over an hour covering it – far more than I would have done in the past.
I also ended up with a few other images I really like and am proud to say are mine.
In a case of having connections and sheer dumb luck, this photo ended up on the cover of the area phonebook (quite a few prints I’m told). I took it on a family walk at the Lincoln Memorial Gardens on July 4th.
A quick word on Google Plus.
G+ is filled with very good, and very enthusiastic photographers. Many times it feels like there’s just no chance in keeping pace, both in quality and quantity of work, but they sure provide motivation and encouragement. Most of the photos I’ve posted so far don’t get any +1s, or when they do they’re from friends an family (thanks!), but I’m hopeful that will increase in the next year.
Great post! I like that you evaluated where you are, reflected on where you were, gained perspective and found direction.
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FORT MYERS, FL – September 27, 2017 – Attorney Derek P. Rooney, of GrayRobinson’s Fort Myers and Naples offices, moderated the City of Fort Myers Elections Forum on September 6, 2017. The panel discussion, hosted by Tiger Bay Club of Southwest Florida, brought together candidates running for Mayor and City Council for Wards 1, 3 and 5 to discuss topics and issues important to Southwest Florida and the City of Fort Myers. Read more about Tiger Bay Club of Southwest Florida.
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"timestamp": "2019-04-22T14:36:54",
"url": "http://www.gray-robinson.com/events/detail/1509/Derek-Rooney-Moderates-City-of-Fort-Myers-Elections-Forum",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
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The Olde Berry Inn Our records show that this inn is closed.
Alfred bed and breakfast travel guide for romantic, historic and adventure b&b's. Browse through the iLoveInns.com database of Alfred, Maine bed and breakfasts and country inns to find detailed listings that include room rates, special deals and area activities. You can click on the 'check rates and availability' button to contact the innkeeper.
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The distribution of quasinormal subgroups within a group is not particularly well understood. Maximal ones are clearly normal, but little is known about minimal ones or about maximal chains. The study of these subgroups in finite groups quickly reduces to p-groups. Also within an abelian quasinormal subgroup, others (quasinormal in the whole group) abound. But in non-abelian quasinormal subgroups, the existence of others can be dramatically rare.
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The information within this Thornbury real estate listing is derived from the Canadian Real Estate Association's Data Distribution Facility®. DDF® references real estate listings held by other brokerage firms and showcases them on collingwoodhomes.ca. The accuracy of information is not guaranteed and should be independently verified.
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"timestamp": "2019-04-18T14:46:59",
"url": "https://www.collingwoodhomes.ca/listings/thornbury/207-victoria-street-s-thornbury/20395661.html",
"language": "en",
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"...ideal for kitting out even the smallest pad with big-room sound. A smart way to get kick-arse audio for films and music!"
Minx X201’s ‘auto-on’ mode automatically powers on the unit when it detects an incoming signal. This means you don’t have to leave it on, keeping your electricity bills down.
The Minx X201 uses an Auxiliary Bass Radiator (ABR) in addition to it’s primary driver. This means the subwoofer doesn’t require a closed box or enormous cabinet to give great bass. Instead, X201 produces a rich, deep sound despite its miniscule size and does so extremely efficiently.
Minx X201 features a sophisticated Digital Signal Processor (DSP) to provide real-time control of equalisation and dynamic range. This results in a tighter bass and less distortion at high volumes.
Minx X201 is an active subwoofer with 200 watts of power. Enough to add a rich, deep bass to any set up.
Understated design ensures that no matter your interior decoration choices, Minx X201 is always right at home. Finished in high-gloss black or white, these tiny subwoofers are beautifully subtle and unobtrusive.
"With eyes closed, nobody would believe that loudspeakers are playing and are barely larger than a can of cola... after having lived with the Min21 and X300 I can report to you that the Min21’s sound even better than the already excellently performing Min20’s."
Minx makes it on T3's Greatest Gadgets Ever list! "It seems inconceivable that such small cubes, which are virtually invisible when dotted around, can fill a room as easily as they do."
"Jamo and Tannoy have already set the bar very high in the compact speaker system market, but Cambridge Audio’s Minx S315 sails right over it. The power on offer from such diminutive speakers defies physics, while the thrilling dynamics, clear detail and punchy, potent bass create the illusion that there are much larger speakers in the room."
"Clean, dynamic and exceptionally crisp sound that lacks any signs of aggressiveness or discoloration - many bigger speakers would like to have such qualities."
"Minx doesn't just fit into a room, it melts into it - you may need a magnifying glass to even find its cute cubular boxes."
"A system with great dynamics and depth that defy its small size. Perfect speakers for a discreet and efficient system."
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"url": "https://www.cambridgeaudio.com/usa/zh-hans/products/speakers/minx-x201",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
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Read more and see more photos in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Sounds just like the Force Touch trackpad in MacBooks!
If it’s completely flush with a ring that’s just painted on, there’s not going to be any way to know if your thumb is on the Home button without looking at it. I hope Apple keeps the silver ring. The shiny-ness of it looks nice, and it helps you orient your thumb to the reader without looking at it.
if they can make this flush with the surface, how about making the camera lens flush with the surface?!
Android devices like the HTC 10 or Nexus 6P use a touch sensitive fingerprint scanner that has no moving parts. The scanners are slightly recessed so you can feel the dip with your finger without having to look. They work just fine (fast and accurate). The HTC 10 implementation also allows the fingerprint scanner to operate as a home button; Apple may do something similar (as it’s hard to tell from the picture). Either way, no real need for that tactile push when a touch sensitive pad will also work.
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"timestamp": "2019-04-25T03:02:34",
"url": "https://macdailynews.com/2016/06/15/leaked-iphone-7-photo-shows-new-flush-touch-sensitive-hometouch-id-button/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
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As we celebrated 150 years since the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in the Gullah/Geechee Nation, it is an interesting time to reflect on the songs that were sung leading up to this day of Jubilee and shoutin cuz hunnuh free! Just as the sound of songs drifts over the land into the marsh and seem to travel in syncopation with the waves in the Gullah/Geechee Nation, so did my thoughts travel concerning our ancestors, the journey to freedom and the soul elation.
Can you imagine the shouts that day? Can you imagine those that stopped to pray? Can you imagine the songs that they chose to sing? Can you think of what they thought freedom would bring?
The celebration of June 19, 1865 continued on for many years so that the spirit of freedom would be kept alive. They named the celebration “Juneteenth” and it came to be celebrated all over Texas and then further away and it is celebrated in the Gullah/Geechee Nation even today. Anytime we celebrate freedom, it is a time to sing, shout, and dance. So, may we teach our children of freedom whenever we get the chance.
In honor of all of our ancestors we continue to have a jubilee. Tenk Gawd fa any a day win hunnuh yeddi hunnuh free!
There is a campaign to obtain and Juneteenth stamp. If you want to support the effort go to http://www.juneteenth.com/juneteenth_petition.htm.
← Do You Like Good Gullah/Geechee Soul Music?
My Love for The Gullah Geechee Nation and the hard efforts of Queen Quet cannot be overstated.
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"timestamp": "2019-04-19T17:30:06",
"url": "https://gullahgeecheenation.com/2013/06/27/juneteenth-jubilee-wid-de-gullahgeechee/",
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This graphic maps the performance of San Francisco Mayor London Breed, and candidates Mark Leno and Jane Kim in the 2018 special Mayor's race by precinct. No other candidate captured a plurality of the vote in any round or any precinct, but totals for the remaining candidates are available below.
This is a follow up to our previous reporting on the 2018 San Francisco Mayoral Election.
The San Francisco Department of Elections releases several detailed files of public data on ranked choice voting (RCV) contests. These files include a Summary Report, a Statement of Vote, Ranked Choice Voting Results Table, and well as a Ranked-Choice Voting Ballot Image file. This ballot image file contains an anonymized record of ballots cast, which many researchers use to study the effect of RCV as an electoral reform. The public has access to these files, and some have already audited the accuracy of the count.
However, many initial reports of the mayoral election only reported the first-choice accounting of the election, as reported in the Statement of Vote. Such reporting offers only a snapshot of how the candidates fared in the first round of the RCV contest. Here, using ballot image information, we dive deeper into the final round count by district and precinct.
Click here to access a google sheet document of final round district and precinct information.
In terms of districts, London Breed did win a majority of districts: Six.
Breed won in Districts 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, and 11. Leno won in Districts 1, 3, 5, 8, and 9.
District 10 offered Breed the largest margin of victory over Leno where she led Leno by 3,985 votes in the final round.
However, the biggest surprise is that Mark Leno narrowly won in District 5, which is Mayor London Breed's supervisorial district. Initially, Breed received 11,270 of first choice support in District 5, followed by Jane Kim who received 8,101 first choice votes. Mark Leno came in third with 6,908 first choice votes in the District. When Jane Kim was eliminated in the city-wide RCV count, Leno picked up 6,782 votes from supporters of Jane Kim and other defeated candidates. Leno then led with 13,690 votes to Breed's 13,454.
In District 8 delivered the biggest margin vote to Leno. Initially, Leno he led with 12,731 first choice votes, he then picked up 7,281 additional votes from supporters of other candidates, mainly Jane Kim. Of Jane Kim’s 8,232 votes in District 8, 84% of those ballots who indicated another preference went to Mark Leno in the final round. Leaving Leno with 20,012 votes in District 8.
Overall, London Breed won 320 out of 596 precincts, Mark Leno won 271, and five precincts were tied. Breed fared well across the city and gained deep support from west side, Western Addition, Marina, and Bay View/Hunters Point voters. Not suprising, in every single precinct where Jane Kim led, those precincts all favored Mark Leno in the final round.
Those who follow elections closely may note that there are 604 precincts in San Francisco. However, some of these precincts had no votes cast, and most of these no-vote precincts are public parks.
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"timestamp": "2019-04-23T12:16:57",
"url": "https://www.fairvoteca.org/sf_round_by_round_precinct_map",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
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