text: Share: Comments Print December 9, 2013 at 6:25 AM The U.S. should adopt Canada's single-payer health-care system Posted by Letters Coordinator It works and people like it Initially Republicans killed the Affordable Care Act's public option that might have led to a national single-payer health-care system. Throughout they've relentlessly pursued their self-fulfilling prophecy that all of the ACA shall fail. Perhaps we should reconsider the single-payer system, even though the ACA still contains very significant improvements over the present system, at somewhat lower costs. Canadian single-payer universal health-care costs total only 60 percent of the present U.S. system, with better results (life expectancy, infant mortality, etc.). Despite misleading ads by U.S. insurance companies, the Canadian system is also very popular. The evidence? When May 2011 elections gave conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper a conservative parliamentary majority, guaranteeing passage of any conservative legislation, he quickly assured Canadians of no change in their single-payer system. University of Toronto researchers said the U.S. could save $27.6 billion yearly by adopting Canada's single-payer system. A 2008 survey showed U.S. doctors supported a single-payer system by almost 2-to-1: 59 to 32 percent. — Norm Luther, Spokane Comments | More in Health care | Topics: health care


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United rout Fire and jump back into 2nd place in the Eastern Conference
Washington, D.C., October 18, 2015 – Just in the nick of time. Better now than never. Saving the best for last. D.C. United have regained their form and any of the aforementioned cliches would be more than appropriate.
Chris Pontius's goal late in the first half got United on their way to an eventual 4-0 win over the hapless Chicago Fire and the result pushed United from fifth place to second place in the East with only next weeks game at Columbus left in the regular season. A win in Columbus locks up the 2nd seed (New York Red Bull clinched the top spot by virtue of their 4-1 win over Philadelphia this afternoon) for the Black-and Red. A draw would also work but it also would allow Toronto FC an opportunity to squeak into the second spot if they were to win their matchup against their Eastern Canadian rivals in Montreal next weekend.
All Eastern Conference games will start at 5pm next weekend so no team will know their destiny until their matches are played to the full 90 minutes.
As for today's critical game, it was the first time this season that United had put forth a full 90-minute performance. Part of that had to do with the apathy on display from the visiting Fire who became the sixth team in MLS history to go an entire season without a win on the road (0-12-5). Most of it however had to do with the improved confidence of United as they were coming off their stoppage-time win over NYCFC over two weeks ago.
United pushed the pace from the opening whistle and for the first time in over three months United did not concede a first half goal, a certain bugaboo that has plagued the team seemingly all season long, particularly at RFK Stadium. After an enterprising but fruitless first 20 minutes for United, the visitors started to get into the match. However it was United that got on the board first thanks in part to great hustle from Chris Rolfe and eventually Chris Pontius.
Rolfe wiggled his way through a trio of Fire defenders about 40 yards from goal and was set to unleash Pontius on goal. Fire midfielder Razvan Cocis intervened and actually pushed the ball into the path of Pontius. Pontius, who has struggle all year to get back to full fitness from nagging injuries, burst through and rounded startled Fire goalkeeper Jon Busch and finished very well from an acute angle for his third goal of the season.
United were not off the hook just yet as Bill Hamid made a save in stoppage time to keep the game at 1-0. Hamid saved brilliantly from a Jeff Larentowicz free kick and then held his breath as the ensuing corner kick was volleyed inches wide by Cocis.
After the break it was only one team on the field United finally rewarded themselves after a season of one-goal wins and matches that seemed to drag on for eternity. Rolfe nearly doubled the advantage just minutes after the restart when Busch did well to parry his free kick away. The ensuing rebound eventually found its way to Markus Halsti but his goal bound shot was blocked by teammate Kofi Opare.
United finally did get the breathing room they desired in the 67 minute. After having success early in the season on corner kicks, it had been quite a while since United had scored from one and Bobby Boswell was the beneficiary of great service from Fabian Espindola as he flicked his corner to the far post where it easily nestled into the goal for his second goal of the season.
Espindola got on the scoreboard just four minutes later when his mostly intended cross redirected off of Fire defender Lovel Palmer and caught Busch out of position at the far post to make it 3-0 to United. The goal was Fabian's fifth of the season.
United wrapped up their scoring in the 80th minute when substitute Alvaro Saborio redirected a deflected Sean Franklin shot into the goal for his seventh goal of the season and fourth with United. Saborio has scored in back-to-back games as a substitute and may have carved out an important role for United moving forward as a late-game difference maker.
Next up for United is the season-ending match in Columbus next Sunday at 5pm. Columbus will be without their top two star players as both Kei Kamara and Federico Higuan are both yellow card suspended for the match as they both picked up senseless yellows in their surprising 2-0 win in Toronto on Saturday afternoon.

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You remember how in February I said that I'm useless at crafting and then showed you how to make a Valentines wreath as part of the Bostik Family Craft Bloggers Network? Well, it's still true. Now, I understand what a good craft selection is all about, as do most people. We've all wandered round a craft selection and seen materials that inspired those of us who wish they were better at crafting. Look at this selection we were sent to make something with this Spring.
Amazing right?
Well, after opening the box of craft items it dawned on me that I also know that good materials do not a good crafter make. I've realised this last couple of months that, I'm Emmett from The Lego Movie. I need instructions, but the rest of the world seems to be filled with Master Builders or as we know them crafty people who know how to make something without instructions and make the rest of us feel bad. I'm now of the opinion that if you don't have the imagination, then it's okay to copy someone else... which is what Top Ender and I did, one Saturday morning on a at home Mummy/Daughter date.
Top Ender made this brilliant Daffodil, using a pipe cleaner, a bit of card and a cupcake case. That was inspired all by Top Ender, I have no idea where she gets her imagination from, as it's certainly not me!
I started making a little Spring/Easter bunny bunting thing, which I guess is inspired by the Peeps you can get in the USA and are filling my Pinterest timeline. I was actually quite pleased with the little bunnies and have plans to make a HUGE one, I just need to actually sit down and do it.
Where do you get inspiration for things you craft at home? Are you like me and copy things that you've seen on the internet (thank you Pinterest and Google Image Search) or can you look at a selection of craft items and know immediately how to create something fab?
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The Apicultural Cooperative of Chania was founded in Voukolies Kissamou at 1981 by beekeepers of Chania's area, aiming to promote the delicious Cretan honey, a product of Crete's unique natural environment and rich beekeeping tradition. Today, the beekeeping cooperative is located in a modern building at the Industrial Park of Chania (BIO.PA.). The products of the cooperative are recognizable and have gained the trust of the consumers due to their quality, covering a significant part of the market and distributed not only in Crete but also to the rest of Greece and abroad.
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Wow, what a November.
After a hurricane, an election, and an amazing hackathon, it's hard to believe it's already Thanksgiving.
Before we make a quick trip down memory lane, we'd like to give an ENORMOUS THANK YOU to everyone—Jacks, Jills, volunteers, sponsors, partners, judges, mentors, guests and more—who made Hacksgiving a smashing success.
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If you attended Hacksgiving, we'd really appreciate if you filled out our quick Hacksgiving survey. Enter your email at the end to participate in our drawing for a $25 Amazon Gift Card. Your feedback is infinitely valuable and lets us continue to learn and iterate giant water slide. Thank you!
51% Female
We're thrilled to announce that Hacksgiving was 51% female.
You know what else is 51% female? The United States. Coincidence? Probably not.
Here at Hack'n Jill, we believe equal representation is the first step in building better products. We've set a new standard for the hackathon community, and are extremely grateful for everyone's help in getting us to this point. We're looking forward to helping other communities and events achieve the same ratio.
The Winners
We hosted Hacksgiving at Etsy Labs in Dumbo, and we told lots of jokes, took funny pictures in their free photo booth, spent the night at NYU Poly, and ate amazing ice cream and donuts the size of our faces.
We also hacked. Check. Out. These. Projects. It was a tough decision for the judges, and for all of us, but here are the winners. To see all 18 submitted projects, check out our Hackerleage page.
Overall Winners
1st Place: Disaster Remote Response by Haris Amin and Raquel Hernandez
2nd Place: Reply for All by Courteney Ervin, Alec Turnbull, and Matthew Hamilton
People's Choice: Tranquility by Grant Kot, Gene Demo, Bilal Quadri, Sharon Li, and Josh Greenman (check out the poetry they inspired on HN)
API Winners
Microsoft: Win Flip by Amit Jotwani
Twilio: Disaster Remote Response
Sendgrid: StormSurge by Hannah Chen, Patrick Cushing, Nicole Dominguez, and Kevin Galligan
Mashery: RoomMatch by Alex Bisker, Alex P, and Lynda Wellhausen
Pearson: Voluntarily by Evie Borthwick, Ana Becker, Lauri Apple, and Alexandra Schieren
Behance: StormSurge
Spotify: Woof by Eric Ho and Stanley Wong
What We're Thankful For
Thank you again to all our sponsors: Etsy, Microsoft, Pearson, Behance, Yodle, Twilio, SendGrid, Redhat, StackOverflow, Spotify, Mashery, 10gen, and Thoughtworks.
Thank you again to all our partners: Control Group, Girl Develop It, and New York Tech Meetup.
Thank you again to NYU Poly for the overnight space.
Thank you again to all our volunteers and mentors.
Thank you again of course to all our fantastic Jacks and Jills!
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Traffic accidents can be strong enough to inflict serious injury or death. For this reason, many survivors of devastating crashes experience emotional and psychological stress. This can be considered more tragic if the incident has been triggered by somebody else, like a drunk driver or a speeding vehicle.
Victims have legal options to pursue, such as compensation. But at the end of the day, even compensations are not enough to offset the damages of post-traumatic stress.
How Post-Traumatic Stress is Diagnosed
To be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, a patient needs to pass certain criteria, such as the following:
Other Signs of Post-Traumatic Stress
Aside from the general criteria above, victims may have other symptoms and reactions associated with post-traumatic stress disorder. These symptoms and reactions include the following:
In order to treat post-traumatic stress disorder from car accident victims, it is important for the health professional to enlighten the victims regarding the disorder, its symptoms, and its possible effects to life. This gives the victims the impression that the disorder can be common on such traumatic events and their cases are not isolated. Once acceptance of the disorder has been established, it will be much easier to treat.
Below are some of the treatments that can reduce or cure post-traumatic stress disorder:
Post-traumatic stress disorder can be classified as a disability, according to long-term disability lawyers. It may be possible to seek disability benefits if your PTSD makes you unable to work.


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The following group types are not accepted by this hostel: Holiday with Friends, Junior / Primary School, High / Secondary School, College / University, Business Trip, Stag/Hen/Bachelor Party, Sports Group, Cultural Group If you have misrepresented the type of group you are booking for, your booking may be cancelled by the hostel."
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The colorful trees, howler and titi mokeys, a variety of birds and butterflies passing through out the green areas, make this place a unique oasis full of wild life. The spacious social area we offer to our guests has pool tables, hammocks, couches, 20MB WiFi and walking distance green areas where mostly people relax and enjoy nature.
Property Que Tuanis is located 5 minutes away by car (by bus is 10 minutes) from Manuel Antonio public beach and the National Park. We are located 5 minutes away by car or by bus from Quepos town. We are in front of the main street that connects Quepos and Manuel Antonio(route 618).
Our rooms are spacious were designed to offer comfort and security, we have private parking place with 24 hour security, floor and ceiling fans and a/c.
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I bet your mind went South!
I'm not going there – well not yet anyway. I'm heading True North to unearth the essence of the word 'Friend' because I want you to realise the qualities of a true friend are the very same, intrinsic characteristics you have and need to apply to yourself.
A friend is someone who you feel free to just be you with. Someone you can trust and confide in. Someone you can have fun with and someone who is frank enough to force you to focus on the good shit and the future you want to create.
I bet though, you're more inclined to go South with your best Foe – the fool who takes delight in reminding you of your failures and keeping you in a constant state of frustration and fear.
If you're feeling anything less than enough you need to tell your closest friend to Fuck Off – the relationship is just not working! Tell them you're looking for someone to give you unconditional, non-judgemental, enthusiastic support. Tell them you want that person to listen – not to tell you what you should or shouldn't do, but to just to be there – to walk alongside you and keep you focused as you find your own way back to the essence of your true self.
You will never find another human who has more allegiance to you, than you. If you're struggling to re-establish the relationship with yourself, for fucks sake reach out for support – it's frickin hard on your own – trust me I've tried!
I offer the same qualities you're looking for in a friend with a 'no frills' mentoring service guaranteed to help you rediscover your fantabulousness.
Enthusiasm is my forte. Let me provide the enthusiastic support you need to become your own BFF.
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Canada's Access to Information Act stipulates that a government institution should disclose information 30 days after a request is received.
It also allows government institutions to extend this time limit to a "reasonable" length of time, if searching through records would interfere with the work of the government department in question, or if "consultations" are necessary that cannot be completed within the original time limit.
The Act's application is fairly narrowly defined. It does not apply to "confidences of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada," and thereby shelters from scrutiny much pertaining to Cabinet and committees of Cabinet.
In practice, my experience is that requests are rarely completed within 30 days. Just what constitutes a "reasonable" extension is debatable. I've just received a disclosure from the Canada Border Services Agency for a request I made in 2010. I've similarly had to wait three years for a response from the Canadian International Development Agency.
That the Act does not apply to Council confidences also allows for significant wiggle room when it comes to disclosure. (The relevant section is 69 should anyone want to have a look.)
I write all this as context as I'm currently waiting for a response to an access request from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. I made my request in August. The Department gave itself a 150-day extension, which came up yesterday. DFAIT tells me a partial disclosure is available, but they're waiting for the Privy Council to decide whether they can release the rest of it because of Cabinet confidentiality.
There is no word when this process will be completed. It seems to me that six months should be enough time to sort that out. I will update in this space as appropriate.


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Beth Yoe is a non-traditional Jewelry Designer. She travels to isolated places in the Eastern Oregon desert where she finds rocks and twigs and bits of trains and ranches… remnants of a disappearing time.
Her aesthetic involves a vision of the beauty of things overlooked and things about to be lost. Her work is strongly influenced by a career in architecture and graphic design …and by her love for the high desert of Oregon.
Beth is interested in looking beyond the literal to where things meet or don't meet…to the edges…and shape. To where things get out of their skins and become form, like the tenuous connection between sky and earth.
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Well over 300 of you voted for the new cover for my book, Sleep, Interrupted. The clear winner by far was choice #4, with 35% of the vote. The three other options were split evenly around 20 to 21%. Personally, I had a preference for #4 as well. We should be uploading this new cover within a few weeks. Thanks for helping me make this important decision.
Stay tuned for your chance to help me choose the cover for my forthcoming book, The Sleep Apnea Solution: Dr. Park's Complete Guide to Getting the Sleep You Need and the Life You Want.


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How to Package Your Business Product to Convey Your Brand
How you package the product that your business offers can help you convey your brand. When designing a product package around your brand, remember that a package is a combination of form and function:
Form: Involves design and shape, and a look that captures consumer attention and conveys and reinforces your brand image and promise.
Function: Involves usability. In addition to looking good on a shelf, your packaging has to work. It has to be easy to pick up, read, study, use, and carry away.
Even if you don't have a consumer product, you still package your offering, perhaps in a shopping bag, a folder or envelope containing a cost estimate or proposal, or a take-home bag for diners to carry home leftovers.
Regardless of the form your packaging takes, make sure that it accurately reflects the promise and tone of your brand and that it makes an appropriately strong and consistent impression for your business.


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Dr. Ortigara Crego contributed several chapters in The Encyclopedia of Obesity, published by Sage Publishing. Her dissertation, The Spiritual Recovery from Food Addiction, explores the experience of living with food addiction and transcending to spiritual recovery. Dr. Lisa is currently writing a book on solutions to compulsive eating.
Dr. Lisa Ortigara Crego stays current by studying the latest information available in her field and reading and participating in the most current studies available in the field of eating issues. She has a very successful private practice in South East Florida and is a Visiting Professor at DeVry University teaching Psychology and Critical Thinking.


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Vintage Toronto Ads: Morning People
Kudos to the designer of today's featured ad, which successfully imitates the look and feel of one of the most successful new magazine launches of the 1970s to promote a longtime Toronto wake-up call, CBC Radio's Metro Morning.
Time Inc.'s attempt to package a personality-driven magazine with better research than existing scandal-focused publications resulted in People turning a profit within 18 months of its March 1974 debut. Managing editor Richard B. Stolley felt that the factors behind its success included an increased willingness by celebrities and the public to talk about themselves during the "Me Decade" and the fact that other American magazines "had gotten away from the personality story; they'd become more issue-oriented…We'd do issues, of course, but through personalities."
This focus on personalities made the magazine's cover design appropriate for CBC to borrow in a series of ads highlighting on-air talent throughout 1978. David Schatzky was the third host of Metro Morning since its debut in 1973, following Bruce Rogers and Harry Brown. After his 1976–79 run in the host's chair, Schatzky continued to work for CBC and later became a psychotherapist. No clips of Schatzky's Metro Morning tenure are currently available on the CBC Archives site, but you can listen to other shows he hosted during this period.
Source: Toronto Life, February 1978. Additional material from Magazines That Make History by Norberto Angeletti and Alberto Oliva (2004)


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Lewis & Clark Law School Animal Legal Defense Fund
5th Annual LC SALDF Networking Event
Date: 6:00pm - 8:00pm PST February 9, 2018 Location: Stoel Rives Law Firm
Stoel Rives Law Firm
Occurring Friday, February 9th from 6:00 - 8:00 pm, this is the perfect event to get insight into clerkship, job, and intern/externship opportunities, as well as mingle with attorneys and professionals practicing in animal, criminal, environmental, public interest, and related legal fields.
Last year around 25 professionals attended allowing for ample amounts of one-on-one time for you to get your name out there with individuals who are interested in seeing you succeed.
Please let us know you'll be joining us by sending in an RSVP via email to our Pro Bono Chair, Megan, at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Observations of the school authorities concerning the well-being of the children of the Twelve Tribes for the Years 2005 through 2006:
Excerpts from the school record
of the Private Supplementary
School of Klosterzimmern
The report in German, with page citations to the specific reports, may be found at this link: Beobachtung der Schulbehörden.
For the Year 2005:
Working Group of the Department of Interior on the enforcement of compulsory education in children of the "Twelve Tribes" in Klosterzimmern – meeting held on June 28th, 2005.
…4. concerning the possible measures the Ministry of Social Affairs can take:
Mr. Kanth reported: there is no indication for engaging the Youth Office, since the children are "happy and content" …therefore, an intervention may not be justified.
…Mrs. Rieser speaks about the deprivation of custody to be decided by the Family Court. According to Mr. Wittman this would be feared the most. However the Department of Justice doesn't see any chance and because of the judicial independence there would be no way to give directive.
Bavarian Ministry of Education and Culture
Meeting of ministers held on Nov. 29th, 2005
…criminality according to § 171 StBG (violation of the responsibility of care and education) not given.
Deprivation of custody (by Family Court) perhaps not possible, as no risk of child endangerment determined.
For the Year 2006:
Landrat Mr. Rößle to Mr. Ludwig Schmid, Government President on Feb. 13th, 2006 regarding:
Compulsory school attendance of the children of the Twelve Tribes Community of Believers
…that this proved to be the right way, we could see in the common solution, which we found by establishing a supplementary school through the Community of Believers in Klosterzimmern.
Here I am particularly pleased that it focuses on the children and additionally the school jurisdiction is guaranteed.
State Office of Education in the County of Donau-Ries (June 28th, 2006)
Schooling of the school-age children of the Community in Klosterzimmern
…educational concept
The educational concept (as revised on June 15th, 2006) cannot be considered as systematic but has to be seen in view of the background of the Communities basic understanding. It is constitutional…
Government of Schwaben
Expert Opinion concerning compliance with the compulsory vocational education at the Supplementary School of the association Gemeinschaftsschule in Klosterzimmern e.V. of July 26th, 2006.
At the Supplementary School in Klosterzimmern the youth who must meet the compulsory vocational education are being trained according to JoA ( vocational school-age youth without training course) just as they would be at public vocational school.
…the defined topics and lesson content of the didactic annual plans are comparable with the ones taught in public vocational school in JoA-classes.
Signed Rager
Government of Schwaben Dec. 15th, 2006 signed Huber, Government Director
Enclosed we send the comments of the State Office of Education Donau-Ries as well as the SG41 of the Government concerning raised questions regarding sector Primary school and vocational school. From this it can be seen, that the terms of KMS 2006.09.07 are being kept, that there are findings on the current educational performance of the students indicating that the instructional obligations are taken seriously and without objection that so far the school inspection was always given the opportunity to make findings on the performance.
Bavarian State Department of Education and Culture to the President of the Bavarian Parliament Mr. Alois Glück, MdL
Interim report on the agreement of the Department of Culture with the Community of Believers "Twelve Tribes" on January 15th, 2007:
…the sector vocational school has been checked two times by the Government of Schwaben, in the sector Primary and High School there were 9 school and lesson inspections carried out by the State Office of Education Donau-Ries respectively by a Counseling Rector.
…All previously performed inspections concerning performance level in the sector Primary and High School for the subjects Mathematics, German and English revealed that the students mainly had average to good results, in the subject English even very good performances.
…Altogether it can be noted that the school has so far met the requirements and conditions of the decision of the State Ministry of Education and Culture of Sept.7th, 2006 without any restrictions.
For the rest of these excerpts of the Klosterzimmern private school records, follow this link, "Let the Record Speak."


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Tiger Shroff is very keen to meet the widely known boys as Parkour boys who belong from Rampur. These boys have created immense noise around them for this unique skill that they keep performing in the city.
Tiger who is seen doing a lot of jaw dropping martial art stunts in the glimpses of Baaghi trailer has heard a lot about them and their stories have interested Tiger so much so that he wants to meet them in person and witness them perform this marvelous stunt. The boys come from a small town in Uttar Pradesh but have set the country on storm.
The actor has high regards for these boys and has even seen their videos on social media. The Rampur boys have even performed the stunt on international platforms and have participated in several competitions across world! Tiger who is known for his unique stunt skills knows the hardship and the accuracy that this particular stunt requires and to mater it is not an easy job!
Director Sabbir Khan confirms the news and adds, "Rampur boys are a terrific bunch of young kids. Tiger is fascinated with their Parkour skills and is looking forward to meet them."


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The QPS system requirements listed below are baseline requirements, but your number of users, number of assets, and number of asset revisions affect system performance. The requirements with an asterisk are affected by these variables. See "Suggested hardware configurations" for guidance considering these variables. RAM requirements do not include other third-party application requirements on the computer, so factor accordingly. Also, the requirements for QuarkXPress Server, QuarkXPress, and QuarkCopyDesk are not listed below. See the ReadMe files for these applications for system requirements (stored in the "Documents" folder at the root level of the application folder).
NOTE: The operating system requirements listed in this document include the most current patches and service packs.
NOTE: QPS is certified on VMWare ESXi. QuarkXPress Server is certified on VMWare ESXi only as part of QPS.
NOTE: QPS works with Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 and Citrix XenApp 5.0.
NOTE: Quark does not recommend using low-end desktop computers and laptops as server computers.
Supported Platforms*
NOTE: If you plan to use a Microsoft SQL Server database, you must first install Microsoft SQL Server. If you plan to use an Oracle database on Windows, you must first install Oracle. Then run the "QPS Server.exe" installer on Windows, click Install QPS Database, and follow instructions on the screen to create QPS schema in your Microsoft SQL Server database or Oracle database.
Hardware options
Supported platforms*
NOTE: You can use a separate computer as your QPS File Server, but Quark recommends installing and running your QPS Server on the same computer as your QPS File Server because it optimizes read/write operations. If you combine your QPS Server and QPS File Server on the same computer, add the 1GB estimate for QPS Server files to the 5GB-150GB required for your QPS File Server.
Quark does not recommend using low-end desktop computers and laptops as server computers.
Supported platforms*
Use the parameters below to help determine the hardware needs for your organization. Variables include your number of users, number of assets, kinds of assets (for example, small text files or large picture files), and your number of asset revisions. When you search for assets, QPS Server performance depends on the number of master files (that is, the current version of each asset). The number of revisions does not affect QPS Server performance, but the revision number variable affects the amount of disk space required for your QPS File Server. An increased number of search operations from multiple users can also affect QPS Server performance.
Contact your account manager to specify your organization's needs based on the suggested configurations below. The low-volume, medium volume, and high-volume configurations are approximations based on the number of logged-on users displayed in the User Activity screen of the QPS Connect Client window (also called "user sessions")
The configuration below can adequately serve a smaller QPS workflow (approximately 30 users and 5,000 assets). You can install the QPS Database, QPS Server, and QPS File Server on one computer, but Quark recommends using a second computer for QuarkXPress Server.
Computer 1: QPS Database (HSQL), QPS Server, QPS File Server
Computer 2: QuarkXPress Server (two subrenderers)
The configuration below can adequately serve a mid-sized QPS workflow (approximately 50 users and 20,000 assets). Although you can install the QPS Database, QPS Server, and QPS File Server on one computer, you will need to allocate more RAM for the QuarkXPress Server computer. This option suggests two server computers.
Computer 2: QuarkXPress Server (four subrenderers)
The configuration below can adequately serve a mid-sized QPS workflow (approximately 50 users and 20,000 assets). A redundant array of independent drives (RAID) for your QPS Database can improve performance for accessing assets. This option suggests three server computers.
Computer 1: QPS Database (Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle)
Computer 2: QPS Server, QPS File Server
Computer 3: QuarkXPress Server (four subrenderers)
The configuration below can adequately serve a large QPS workflow (more than 150 users and 60,000 assets). For requirements beyond this size, contact email@example.com.
Computer 3: QuarkXPress Server (eight subrenderers)
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Marc Faber: No Fiscal Cliff Just Some Cosmetic Tax Increases
Marc Faber: I do not believe there will be a fiscal cliff. What will happen is that there will be some cosmetic spending cuts which will amount to no spending cuts in reality. There will be some cosmetic tax increases that will touch really a minority and the irrelevance on a fiscal deficit that officially is running around $1.3 trillion, but if you added the unfunded liabilities that accrue every year, the fiscal deficit will be more likely above $5 trillion. So even minor tax increases on the super rich will bring in annually a maximum of $5200 billion. So the total deficit, whatever they will agree upon, will have a meaningless impact and spending cuts will come back dated in 10 years time. So they will be quite irrelevant. - in ET Now
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We arrived into Wellington early evening and the bus dropped us in town, so charlie and I jumped in a cab and headed up to Nathan's house.
The taxi driver was lovely and gave us some great tips about what to do while in Wellington. After a quick but steep drive, we arrived at Nathan's beautiful uni house. The house is sat on top of a hill that looks out over the whole of Wellington, the view was incredible! Once we had dumped our millions of bags we sat down and had a good old catch up.
A couple of hours later Nathan gave us the option of him cooking or going out for some food, but we decided to have a quite on and spend some time with Nathan rather than going out, so he began dinner, following his house mates strict instructions! Not long after Nathan had started his house mate arrived home to discover his blender smoking and so quickly took over!!
Dinner was amazing and we were all so full we couldn't move! So we set up camp in front of the tv and had a chilled night in. It was actually really nice to have a break from drinking every night and be staying in a home rather than a hostel!
The next morning, despite being able to lie in charlie woke up bright and early as we had decided to try and see if we could get tickets to the cricket as we weren't able to go to the rugby. After we had spoken to everyone else we made our way down around lunch time to see what the situation was. We managed to get tickets fairly cheep so we headed in to watch the match. We were really lucky with the weather as it was a beautiful day and England were winning too so we couldn't have asked for much more!
Towards the end of the match we decided that as it was our only full day in Wellington we should also go to the famous interactive museum. We headed down there and managed to get 2 hours in before it shut. It was really cool and very interesting.
Once we were all done we went to meet Nathan and his house mate for a quick drink before dinner. Charlie and I said we would treat them both to dinner to say thank you for having us, so Nathan's house mate suggested a great little Italian place. We head a great meal and once we were done we headed out to a couple of really cools bars for a few drinks. We had also arranged to try and meet our other friends that live in Wellington but unfortunately we couldn't. After a while we headed back to Nathan's, after charlie got himself an ice cream as we had to be up early again to catch the bus down to the ferry port to head south.
It was so lovely being able to spend time with Nathan though, and thanks again for having us, you guys are the best!!


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Argonaut Campaign for Athletics
It's time to enhance and expand our athletic facilities indoors and out, to match the caliber of our student athletes and support their dedication and competitive spirit.
Dellapietro Field
A new artificial surface for Dellapietro Field will provide a high performance platform for our student athletes, with shock absorbing materials, even footing, and easy maintenance.
A new pavilion will welcome visitors and provide storage for in-season teams. The addition of restrooms to our stadium will surely be appreciated by all. A walkway to the pavilion will be lined with tributes to the coaches and teams who have inspired teamwork, excellence and the belief that hard work brings true joy.
O'Connell Athletic Center
A Glass and steel atrium with entrances to both the lower and upper gyms will create a gathering place for spectators, convenient access to parking areas, and streamlined foot traffic flow throughout the O'Connell Athletic Center.
A modern upper lobby with glass doors and streaming sunlight will be the proper home to our Athletic Hall of Fame, and a welcoming entrance to the competitions hosted inside.
An annex to the Diggins Family Fitness Center will add flexibility for athletes from all sports to train appropriately. Open space will make room for team and wellness activities and updated equipment.
Project Details
Install state of the art artificial field turf surface, with Argonaut artwork
Construct pavilion with shelter, storage, and bathroom facilities adjacent to Dellapietro Field
Landscape paver path from street to pavilion, with tribute to coaches, players, fans, and teams
Expand and update lobby to the upper gym, with room for additional trophy cases
Add annex to the Diggins Family Fitness Center, with updated equipment and flexible space for training
Naming and Sponsorship Opportunities
Field House Pavilion ~
$200,000 (secured)
Athletic Center Atrium ~
$300,000 (secured)
Athletic Center Upper Lobby ~
$100,000 (secured)
Fitness Center Annex ~
$50,000 (secured)
Trophy Cases ~ $15,000 each
Available Locations:
Atrium Level 1 - Center
Atrium Level 1 - Front
Atrium Level 2 -
Upper Lobby Left (secured)
Atrium Level 2 - Upper Lobby Right
Fitness Center Equipment:
Rig System with Accessories ~
$10,500 (secured)
6' x 60' Turf Track ~
$6,300 (secured)
Treadmill ~ $4,600
Half Rack with Olympic Bar ~ $3,750
Spin Bike (2) ~
$2,150 each (secured)
Dumbbell Rack ~ $1,000
Kettlebell Rack and Bells ~ $1,000
Sled ~ $550
Adjustable Bench (2) ~ $490 each (1 secured)
Argonaut Legacy Path
Purchase a personalized paver for the Argonaut Legacy Path, and be forever connected to the athletic community at Rutgers Prep. The Path and Pavilion area will be a gathering place and welcoming entrance to the Dellapietro Field.
Our paver campaign provides a unique opportunity to support the enhancement and additions to Rutgers Prep athletic facilities while dedicating an inscription:
- Honor your favorite Argonaut athlete
- Memorialize a loved one
- Recognize a coach or team member
- Pay tribute to a special athletic event
- Celebrate a specific team
- Share an inspirational quote


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There are 2 important parts to making a financial agreement and 5 steps that you take to make it happen.
First, let's cover the 2 parts.
- Completing the Agreement (just $97 to get the ball rolling)
- Getting the Required Legal Advice (use our fixed price Document Review Service $1790)
We can show you how to complete your agreement and get the legal advice for just $1887 for both parties – without stress, fuss or engaging combative lawyers.
Now let's take a look at the 5 steps to make it happen.
#1 Purchase and Download the Agreement Kit
The agreement is the blueprint for documenting your arrangement.
Under the legislation, you can make a financial agreement at any phase of a relationship (before, during or after) or whether it's a marriage or de facto union.
To start with you just need to choose between two options –
And then once you purchase the agreement kit, you'll be able to answer a few easy questions so we can provide the correct kit for your personal circumstances.
For example – if you're separating, we need to know if you're married, divorced or de facto so we can provide the correct agreement that conforms to the relevant sections of the Family Law Act (or Family Court Act for de facto couples in WA).
#2 Complete the Draft Agreement
In the second step, you and your partner add the material facts to the agreement. These are the things you already know about your personal situation – what you own, what you owe and how it will be divided.
Completing the agreement is straightfoward process because you will use the resources included in the kit. Resources like:
- a dedicated Members Area;
- sample agreements;
- sample clauses;
- the essential user's guide;
- an expanding video library; and
- access to our friendly customer support.
#3 Send your Agreement to us for Assessment
In the third step, we're going to help you to caress those basic building blocks into a robust agreement, so that the lawyers will quickly understand your situation and be able to advise you efficiently.
This is a unique part of the process that opens the door to the Fixed Price Legal Advice. You won't find this anywhere else.
Without this assessment the lawyers wouldn't be confident of receiving high quality documents and could not possibly stick to a fixed fee service.
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In the fourth you'll purchase the Legal Advice for just $1790 for both parties (unless your situation is very complex). You and your partner will each speak with a separate and independent lawyer (all done via phone and email) and once that's done, you can finalise your agreement.
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Jour de la Terre is always on the hunt for creative projects to reduce environmental impacts. Its employees must frequently overcome novel challenges in communications, customer relations, logistics, and dispatching.
How does Jour de la Terre accomplish so much, with so many different collaborators? One key to the organization's success—explains Director General Pierre Lussier—is a longstanding practice of allowing all employees to keep projects moving forward by acquiring new applications, services, and other IT solutions as soon as they identify the need. At first, this practice provided flexibility and agility that outweighed the downside of implementing so many new services without IT oversight. But as the organization's patchwork of solutions continued to grow, Lussier became concerned.
"It got to the point where we didn't know all the services we had," Lussier says—a situation further complicated by the organization's high staff turnover. "So many different people were buying services and hosting project websites with various providers. Then, when those employees left, we didn't always know who had bought a certain service, much less where it was hosted or what the logon credentials were."
In addition, the organization's data security and backup processes were weak, workflows were inefficient, costs were complicated to analyze, and Jour de la Terre didn't have insight into the environmental footprint of its IT infrastructure. Lussier began looking for a way to clean up what he saw as a "big mess."
After researching options with trusted advisors who are familiar with the IT needs of small nonprofit organizations, Jour de la Terre chose to shift its IT infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve control and insight without sacrificing agility and flexibility—and without incurring the expense of staffing an IT department.
"Using AWS, we can centralize everything very economically," explains Lussier. "We can get our organization onto an infrastructure that is easy for all our employees to understand and use, and which gives us control over access and new services."
LinkByNet—an Advanced APN Consulting Partner—helped Jour de la Terre architect and execute its move to AWS and now provides ongoing managed services. Lussier says that LinkByNet is an ideal partner for an organization like Jour de la Terre. "The LinkByNet offering was a perfect fit for us. It's clear that LinkByNet really understands, values, and wants to work with nonprofits."
In the first phase of the transition, which lasted from September through November 2016, LinkByNet helped Jour de la Terre move its databases, web forms, and three websites from various providers' collocated data centers onto an AWS solution that uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) storage buckets and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. The organization is now running its mail and calendar applications on Amazon WorkMail. By using Amazon WorkDocs, Jour de la Terre employees can now store, share, and collaborate on files from any location and on any device.
By shifting its IT infrastructure onto the AWS Cloud, Jour de la Terre has significantly improved its backups, resiliency, and data security. "There is no comparison between AWS and our old solution when it comes to protecting our vital data," says Lussier. He goes on to explain that employees are also getting more done as a result of the expanded, better connected collaboration tools and centralized data repositories. "I estimate that the AWS solution has helped our staff become about 15 percent more efficient."
The organization's IT costs have also been reduced. "By shifting to the AWS Cloud, the cost of running our IT infrastructure has been reduced by probably 20 percent," says Lussier. "But frankly, this is tough to quantify. One reason we needed to shift was because our previous solution made it so difficult to understand our costs."
Costs aren't the only aspect of its IT infrastructure that the new solution is helping Jour de la Terre better understand. "As an environmental organization that makes heavy use of IT solutions, we want the impact of our IT infrastructure to be as small as possible, and the first step is simply measuring what that impact is," says Lussier. "Are we coding in a low-impact way? Are our servers using energy as efficiently as possible? AWS helps us answer questions about the environmental impact of our IT infrastructure that we never could have answered before."
Lussier explains that these answers matter to Jour de la Terre not only so the organization can reduce its own impact but also so it can lead its field in what he sees as an important new direction. "Because reliance on IT solutions is only going to continue to increase, it is important we all try to understand the real-world effects of our choices in this area," says Lussier. "We are proud to be associated with AWS not only because of its commitment to using sustainable energy, but also because its solutions provide an excellent starting point for a larger conversation about this vital environmental topic."
Learn more about how AWS can help host your business applications.


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So much for Scrabulous being an end-all diversion on Facebook. Try Morrent instead, a simple tie-in to the popular BitTorrent software uTorrent that runs right in Facebook (read: sans software) and lets you monitor your torrent downloads and uploads from wherever.
Aimed mainly at folks who want to check up on their downloads at work or away from their primary machines, Morrent is more than just a convenient status window--it doubles as a remote control. You can pause and re-prioritize downloads. You can also start downloading new torrents by uploading them back to your home machine.
While the same results could be had by accessing your home machine using a remote access service like LogMeIn, I dig the fact that Morrent makes whatever you've downloaded, or are in the progress of downloading, available for others to see (privacy nuts can turn this option off too). This can turn your Facebook network into a great way to see which files are hot without relying on a third-party torrent-tracking service.
Note: As always, we do not encourage illegal downloading of files transferred via BitTorrent technology.
(Via TorrentFreak and Lifehacker)


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Melbourne Pregnancy & Baby Expo FREE Bonus gift
Posted by Kristin on 21st Feb 2018
Only 3 more days to go!
Purchase any Radia Smart @radiasmart Shielding products this weekend via Melbourne Expo or on our website
from 23rd -25th Feb, you will get this 100% cotton muslin swaddle value at $30 for FREE. Limited stock to give away. Check it out Radia Smart products: http://radiasmart.com.au/shop-all/
Anyone who visited our stand and like our facebook page will receive a FREE gift bag filled with baby essentials.
See you soon Melbourne mamas.


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CIA multimedia production units are seeking creative user interface and user experience designers who can convey an analytic story visually through multimedia for the President of the United States, US policymakers, and other officials.
As part of a team you will partner with peers to produce of a wide variety of products, including complex intelligence analysis, training material, and other important pieces. Products are designed for conveyance via mobile devices, web, and print. All work is conducted in a team environment, with members focusing on one or more specialty, such as scripting, graphic design, cartography, 3D animation, motion graphics, illustration, and imagery. Applicants must work well in a team environment and be passionate about information design and technology (mobile and web). We are seeking junior and experienced designers and offer competitive pay.* Opportunities exist to participate in internal training as well as external workshops and conferences.
Our overarching unit, the Multimedia Production Group, has won awards externally and within the Intelligence Community for creating visually-engaging intelligence products. We have a very talented team of individuals who believe in collaboration and innovation and have a passion for design and technology.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Fine Art, Cartography, GIS, Computer Science or related discipline with a strong emphasis on graphic, information, or user experience design.
- Ability to shape and lead solutions to data visualization in an increasingly complex and changing technological environment.
- Experience with the Adobe creative suite, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, and version control applications.
- Applicants with a background in design must provide a strong creative portfolio demonstrating good use of typography, grid-based design, white space, and color theory.
- Applicants with a background in cartography/GIS should have experience with the ESRI GIS suite and familiarity with cartoCSS and Map tile presentation libraries such as Leaflet, OpenLayers, and/or Cesium.
- Excellent interpersonal skills are required to work and interface with customers, coworkers, management, and contractors.
- Knowledge of multimedia production tools and methodology and a strong technical aptitude to quickly learn new software and hardware.
- Experience with user experience concepts and an ethos based on user testing.
- Experience creating wireframes, storyboards, and prototypes for use in design review and user testing.
- Strong focus on continuous learning.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills are highly desired.
- A minimum of a 3.0 GPA out of a 4.0 scale.
The following items must be included/attached to your online application (PDF preferred):
- Your resume.
- A cover letter in which you specify your qualifications and what differentiates you from other applicants.
- Unofficial transcripts for all degrees.
- Portfolio: In the Preferences section under job objectives please include a link to your online portfolio (please note that we are unable to access Google Docs or Google Drive). Attach a PDF portfolio if you do not have an online portfolio.
All applicants must successfully complete a thorough medical and psychological exam, a polygraph interview and an extensive background investigation. US citizenship is required.
To be considered suitable for Agency employment, applicants must generally not have used illegal drugs within the last twelve months. The issue of illegal drug use prior to twelve months ago is carefully evaluated during the medical and security processing.
Important Notice: Friends, family, individuals, or organizations may be interested to learn that you are an applicant for or an employee of the CIA. Their interest, however, may not be benign or in your best interest. You cannot control whom they would tell. We therefore ask you to exercise discretion and good judgment in disclosing your interest in a position with the Agency. You will receive further guidance on this topic as you proceed through your CIA employment processing.
To apply for this job please visit the following URL: https://www.cia.gov/careers/opportunities/support-professional/multimedia-specialist-full-performance-cia-university.html →


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Hello angels!!!
This time I'm up with a short post featuring a lovely work by one of my sister's best friends – Jupitara Kashyap. She has worked her magic to create these gorgeous looking ribbon roses. Welcome to thecraftyangels Jupi :
When I decided to feature this work in my blog, I remembered making a similar flower for my daughter 'G's baptism. Although my ribbon roses does not come upto Jupi's ribbon roses , still here is a photo 🙂
While you enjoy the pics, lemme try to stock up my craft supplies to bring out a tutorial for these simple to make DIY ribbon roses.Subscribe to my blog or join me on facebook/twitter to get the latest posts in your inbox 🙂
Do you have similar craft works to share? Do email me at [email protected] 🙂
xoxo Angela
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We know. We know that having a good idea is far from completing award-winning work. It's like somewhere between 1% and 20% of the job, depending on who you read. But it's sure as hell a first step. And you can't get started without a first step now, can you?
So let's just stop for a moment and celebrate the fact that there are no new ideas out there. Because tens of us had the same idea as a Cannes winner.
But where does that leave us?
Well, we believe that for every idea that did get made - even if dozens had the same idea in the drawer - there are hundreds out there that didn't, that were unique and could have made this world better, more fun, or at least smelling more like bacon. And the Lion's Butts that you win will stand proudly on your desk to remind you that next time, you shouldn't let go when the first but comes in your face.
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Speaking of which...This award show has nothing to do with the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity except for feeding off its fame, but also maybe getting creatives across the industry to look at all the winners, not just the gold ones, so it's useful for you too, right? #pleasedontsueus


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Central New York's winters can be very harsh when it comes to a lot of things. Just getting up in the morning and looking at the driveway that has two foot of new snow is enough to want you to go back to bed but of course you have to go to work. When a storm is coming in my husband gets up two hours early so he can get out and plow the driveway before I have to leave for work. Friends of hours that live next door moved to Calgary. We visited them last winter. Halfway through our first night there it got very very cold.
My husband woke up his friend, they went downstairs and the furnace wasn't working. My husband checked it out and to find it had a cracked heat exchanger that could have killed us all from the fumes. Luckily, the sensors on the furnace shut itself down. The next day he called calgary furnace replacement. They were there the same day after calling early in the morning. That following Saturday I woke up to this hissing sound. Apparently, the temperatures were so cold in their crawl space that one of the feed pipes had cracked. After shutting the water off we had to call a calgary plumber to fix the system. It didn't take long and everything was all right once again.


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Just a random observation — I'm saddened when I encounter a management mentality that makes no effort to educate their junior devs so they can eventually become senior devs.
If you don't have a decent knowledge of the programming language, framework and tools you're working with, the way you "code" is like someone with a 3rd grade vocabulary trying to express a complex thought.
How do you educate junior devs?
- Code reviews by senior devs.
- Training sessions given by senior devs.
- Having time allocated to learn.
- Instilling an interest in learning!
Realistically though, nothing can overcome the "it's a job, not a passion" attitude in the junior dev him/herself. If the junior dev has a passion for software development, they'll most likely educate themselves on their own time, not just the company's time.
But then, when they have learned, they'll move on because the work environment suddenly becomes limited. An interesting dilemma for management, especially as they can now ask for a considerably higher salary than the company wants to pay for, which is why they hired junior devs to begin with.


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Does a major airline ignore its own policies when it comes to handling the refund requests of passengers whose family members have died?
An NBC5 Investigates report last month prompted a flurry of complaints from our viewers that raise questions about American Airlines and how it treats the sensitive issues surrounding death and previously purchased airline tickets.
Sharon Parcell said American Airlines ignored her repeated attempts to get a refund after her father-in-law Donald Parcell died last fall. The Des Plaines family had planned to go to Puerto Rico later this month – a trip meticulously planned by "Grandpa" Donald Parcell. When he passed away, Sharon said she sent the required death certificate. Months later, she said American Airlines continued to disregard her repeated requests for the refund outlined in its guidelines.
"I've mailed it at least three times and faxed it once," Sharon Parcell said. "I think I've called probably nine or 10 times, and I even asked [if there was] someone else I can talk to."
It's a timeline that is familiar to Cliff Boggs.
"You can't talk to a live person when you need a refund," Boggs complained.
His dad, Walter, died last November, right before a trip Cliff Boggs had booked to go see him in Tennessee. It's a situation outlined on the American Airlines website as a permissible reason for a refund, but Boggs said he continues to wait for a refund months after submitting the death certificate.
"I can't believe that for the thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars that I've spent over the years flying American, that you know, the one time that I need sympathy, empathy and action, I can't get anything," Boggs said.
Parcell and Boggs are among the viewers who reached out to NBC 5 Investigates after a report about the Cantrell family of St. Charles.
The Cantrells contacted American Airlines and after the sudden death of 9-year-old "Scout." After submitting a copy of Scout's death certificate and obituary, the family was told it could not get a refund for her unused ticket. In a letter, American Airlines said it could not "offer a refund, issue a travel voucher or transfer the ticket to another person."
But after our report aired on television and was widely shared on the Internet, the airline acknowledged it should have handled the request with more sensitivity and reached out to the family via telephone to apologize and complete the refund.
Five months after first privately asking for the refund, the Cantrells said they are satisfied with the final outcome, but remain hopeful no other family has to endure the same treatment by American.
Is there a pattern here? By Monday evening, a spokesperson for American had not responded to a request for comment.
Boggs ultimately received an email indicating his long-awaited refund had been processed after NBC 5 Investigates posed questions. Parcell was still waiting for hers as of Monday evening.


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|Bel Canto Introduces Dac3 Audio Digital to Analog Converter
|Tuesday, 21 November 2006
audio manufacturer, Bel Canto Design, has just announced the release of
the new Dac3 digital to analog converter. According to Bel Canto the
Dac3 allows the user to access any digital music source and hear it
reproduced with the highest levels of fidelity. This includes computer
based music sources through the USB port or using wireless digital
links like the Apples Airport Express. The Dac3 allows a new generation
of iTunes users access to true HD sound quality. Key to this HD sound
quality is the new Ultra-Clock[TM] technology used in the Dac3.
Fundamental to its performance is the new Ultra-Clock, low noise
reference clock. The Ultra-Clock performance is comparable to the best
stand-alone clock generators. Bel Canto claims remarkable
specifications are achieved with 0.0001% initial accuracy, 1 picosecond
RMS and 5 picosecond peak-peak jitter, 100 times lower than typical
master clocks. The Ultra-Clock offers the type of low-noise clock
performance only available in expensive stand-alone master clock
Jitter rejection circuitry, combining analog and digital Phase Lock Loops, and synchronous 24/192 sample rate conversion with 170dB of digital dynamic range insure that the DAC circuitry benefits from the Ultra-Clock performance. Dual Differential multi-bit delta-sigma DAC technology and class A biased, balanced I/V and output circuitry achieve nearly 130dB of dynamic range. This dynamic range and 4.5Vrms balanced output allows the use of a digital volume control, eliminating the analog preamplifier and volume control from the signal path. This provides the most direct signal path possible for digital music sources.
5 isolated digital inputs are provided, AES/EBU, BNC-SPDIF, RCA-SPDIF, TOSLINKand USB. The MSRP for the Dac3 is $2495.00.


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This well-established, leading manufacturer, which supplies into the major retailers and independents, is now looking for an Engineering Administrator to join our team. Privately owned and BRC grade A accredited, we produce a wide range of traditional and bespoke chilled and frozen ready meals for well-known retail and foodservice brands.
The role
We are looking for a HR Administrator to join our team. You will work in their HR department which is high volume and very transactional.
You will:
– Provide excellent customer service and maintain ongoing communication with all employees around HR aspects
– Take ownership and apply knowledge to all queries and maintain accurate employee records within the HR system
– Confirm employee changes through use of appropriate communication channels i.e. paper or email Contribute to the continuous improvement of our processes and procedures
– Operate within our quality standards and controls
– Support other members of the HR team during times of high volume
– Exercise discretion when dealing with sensitive information
The role:
* To provide administrative support for the HR team
* Provide reception & visitor services including visitor induction & contractor controls
The person needed:
* Strong administration experience within an HR environment
* Competent will all Microsoft Packages
* Good knowledge of HR policy and processes
* User of SAP HR or other HR databases
* Strong attention to detail
* Confident dealing with suppliers, customers, employees via the phone and face to face
* Commutable to Bispham, Lancashire
The HR Administrator job is based in the North West region and is paying between £17,000 and £22,000 according to individual skills and previous experience.
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As a prerequisite for admission to The Art Institute of Pittsburgh — Online Division, college students have to be a highschool graduate with a minimum, cumulative, last high school CGPA of two.zero or greater, or maintain a General Education Development GED Certificate, or associate's diploma or higher. The on-line promoting is all about business edge ad solutions, that are devised by an Internet advertising company.


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IT'S THE FINAL day of Lent, with tomorrow – Easter Sunday – marking the end of the 40-day fast.
A per Christian tradition, people take a break from something tempting each year by making a Lenten vow in the run up to Easter.
But it's not always easy to make it through, so today we're wondering: Did you manage to make it through Lent without breaking your vow?
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Logitech FreePulse Wireless Headphones
While millions of people walk around with portable digital music players, I'll bet no one likes the mess of tangled wires they usually come with. Logitech's FreePulse Wireless Headphones eliminate the unwieldy cordsand cost less than $100 to boot ($99.99 list). They're the polar opposites of the Etymotic Ety8; the FreePulse headphones are inexpensive and look great, but sound just average, whereas the Ety8 headphones produce beautifully detailed audio, but are expensive and look a little bizarre.
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Catherine Kovesi University of Melbourne
In reportage of Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace and the arrival of Meghan Markle and her fiancé Prince Harry, worldwide news focused on the item of jewellery worn by Princess Michael of Kent. Immediately branded as a 'racist' piece of jewellery in so-called 'blackamoor' style, many of these reports were also at pains to emphasise Princess Michael's father's association with the SS and to portray this fashion statement as a blatant affront to Harry's choice of bride, a woman of part African-American heritage. Princess Michael hastily apologized for wearing the piece and said she would not wear it again. But this explosion of journalistic outrage obscures a much more interesting story …… Whilst of course we cannot know what motivated Princess Michael to select this particular item from her jewellery collection, and what her views towards Meghan Markle might be, what was obvious to me at first glance was that the Princess was wearing an item of jewellery with deep significance made famous in the last century by one of Venice's premier jewellers, the Gioelleria Nardi. Though other prominent Venetian jewelers such as Codognato also began creating so-called Moretto jewels in the 1930s, it was the brooches made by Giulio Nardi, grandfather of the current proprietor Alberto Nardi, which became one of the most emblematic souvenirs purchased by the city's high-end resident and visiting consumers.
Though born in Florence, Giulio Nardi fell in love with Venice: "My love for this city of water and light is so intense", he declared, "that I hope my jewels are able to bring Venice to the world." And indeed they did. Princess Grace of Monaco, Queen Paola of Belgium, Ingrid Bergman, Peggy Guggenheim, and Elizabeth Taylor were some of the more prominent wearers of the moretto, a brooch which continues to be sold to clients of all races and religious persuasions from throughout the world who visit Nardi's famed store. A spectacular example of the brooch, made almost entirely of diamonds and entitled 'Albero della Vita', graces the cover of the substantial volume about this celebrated jewelery house, Nardi – Venetian Souvenirs written by Nicholas Foulkes, and published by Assouline in 2012.
The Telegraph's reportage correctly identified Princess Michael's jewel as being of Venetian heritage but mistakenly identified is as being a depiction of "exotic Africans" who supposedly inspired these jewels. Others have claimed with disgust that this jewelry is clearly born out of 'slave heritage'. Speaking to Alberto Nardi hours after the scandal broke, it became apparent that he feels increasingly cornered by the legacy of this piece of jewellery, and is both frustrated by, and acutely aware of, the often vocal views of a select few, especially in the post-colonial Anglo-Saxon world, towards his jewels. Above all, he told me, he is concerned simply with aesthetics and making things of beauty. He has never viewed his family business's moretto jewels with anything other than an aesthete's eye as beautiful pieces, with faces now crafted from sustainable water buffalo horn sourced from Borneo, and depicting an idealized Moor – not a person of African descent – which pays playful spirited homage to Venice's long association with its oriental trading partners from the middle eastern world. Such jewels in fact have nothing whatsoever to do with Africa but rather play both with a history of real Venetian experience with traders and ambassadors from the middle east over many centuries and with the imagined landscapes and inhabitants of the Orient.
The moretto pieces depict above all a princely figure – not one in slavish servitude – and often bear resemblance to depictions of the legendary Balthazar, one of the three Magi, or Wise Men, who bring the Christ child gifts from an unspecified Orient. In this respect, Princess Michael's choice of a Moretto as a jewel to wear to a Christmas lunch could be seen as quite apposite in the context of Christian iconography of the Magi. Moretti do, however, obviously profit from a depiction of an idealized middle eastern prince as the exoticised 'other' and in this vein form part of the long tradition of 'orientalism' in the west; a figure of no place and every place at one and the same time, fulfilling Western fantasies.
Such visions of the oriental 'other' might be more problematic in any country and city other than Venice, however, where the influence of the near orient is visible everywhere, from the architecture of the Ducal Palace and all of the city's palazzi, to the clothing once worn by its patrician class, and resulting from its trade empire based on carpets, spices, textiles, and dyes brought from the east for centuries, and traded further west to the city's great profit. Above all, this deeply embedded orientalism is visible in the city's art, in paintings by Carpaccio, Cima da Conegliano, Giovanni Mansueti, Giovanni Bellini, Veronese and others. In many of these images the Moor is depicted in honest professions in the city, as gondolieri, as servants at table, as traders in the campi of the city, as observers of city life, or as honoured guests at various State occasions. The moretto in such a context is arguably as Venetian as Marco Polo. And this emblematic Venetian jewel is held in great esteem and affection by Venetians.
To bring attention back to the beauty of his pieces rather than to the increasing refrain that the moretto might be offensively 'racist', Nardi has begun in recent years to produce moretti of the same design, but with faces crafted of other precious jewels and materials – faces of turquoise, of ruby, of soft pinks and greens. Nardi's emphasis is on the beauty of the object, not its supposed racial origins. But he worries that even this gesture plays further into views that the moretto, in and of itself, is a racist object that now needs to be sanitized and de-coloured. Nardi is a man of deep and educated sensibilities, crucially aware of the views of his clientele but also conscious of his city's long multi-cultural heritage.
Regardless of one's views of the Nardi moretto, why one of his brooches should cause such a stir when worn to a private lunch in December 2017 is a little puzzling. Gioelleria Nardi participated in the Venice Luxus Pavilion in this year's Venice Biennale, with examples of the moretto on prominent display as soon as visitors entered the pavilion. Yet, of the 615,000 visitors to the Venice Biennale this year, not one made a comment about the supposed racism of such a display. And indeed Alberto Nardi told me that not one person has ever entered his shop, in the many years in which he has been its proprietor, to say that his jewellery has caused them offence. Quite the contrary. Several years ago Whoopi Goldberg bought a Nardi moretto brooch as a sign of 'black pride'.
Whilst consumption and sartorial display always carry signs and codes, with the potency of these signs in direct proportion to the power and status of those displaying them, we need to be aware of the broader and more complex histories contained within a singular item of jewelery before jumping to conclusions about its signification. In the sartorial signs of recent days in Britain, more troubling perhaps is the vision of a woman wearing a Ralph & Russo dress costing a reputed 65,000 euros (£56,000) in her official engagement photos designed for wide dissemination – a price almost double that of average annual salaries in the UK. Instead the international press has rushed to condemn a small piece of jewelry with a complex, subtle, and indeed beautiful, history worn by an established royal individual to a private family event who now, rather sadly, feels she can never wear it again.


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Sales Consulting activates on the HR market since 1998, having a national coverage in several areas of expertise: recruiting and selection assessment center HR market mapping/due diligence projects, personnel leasing, payroll.
Sales Consulting has 2 fully operational branches: Cluj-Napoca (also the head-office) and Bucharest.
We are developing various projects (Recruitment, Training and Consultancy) in some of the most varied type of industries:
- AUTOMOTIVE/PRODUCTION/ENGINEERING (Specialists and Middle & Top Management positions)
- IT & C (C++, C#, .NET, Java, Linux etc)
- FMCG (sales & purchasing positions; all levels)
- PHARMA (all levels)
- graduate of Accounting, Finance or any Business related course or CPA
- at least 1 year of working experience, preferably Accounting related
- French and English language- advanced level
- preferably with cost accounting and reporting background
- with knowledge on basic taxation
- previous accounting experience/studies in particular GA
- must be a good team player
- responsibility and accuracy in the completion of received tasks
- ability to solve urgent matters and work under pressure
- flexibility, especially in the period of month/quarter/year-end closing;
- experience with accounting systems
- Microsoft Office skills
- perform period close tasks based on agreed closing schedule
- prepare journal entries for approval
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- assist in preparing account reconciliations of low to medium complexity
- performs regular standard tasks but with the opportunity to vary work sequencing
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- responsible for activities assigned by the General Accounting Lead
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
The final confrontation between the forces of good and evil fighting for control of the future of Middle-earth. Hobbits: Frodo and Sam reach Mordor in their quest to destroy the "one ring", while Aragorn leads the forces of good against Sauron's evil army at the stone city of Minas Tirith.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Hollywood Hindi Dubbed Movies
Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, John Rhys-Davies, Liv Tyler, Orlando Bloom, Sean Astin, Viggo Mortensen
Country: USA
Duration: 3h 21min
Quality: HD-HINDI
Release: 2003
IMDb: 8.9