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My heart returns to you, O Lord,
When those fail who are around me.
I learn that you were always there
with a love that will astound me.
When trials seem to flow my way,
in waves that seem scattered, random.
I always close my eyes and drown,
and ignore your power in them.
Sinking souls with eternal needs
remain unfilled with mortal love.
Instead of God, I seek for friends,
while looking down and not above.
A heart with clouds of circumstance,
will never learn to be set free.
In truth I cling to heavy weights,
while my soul's washed out to sea.
Then in the ocean, I forget,
the earth, the sky, the warmth of land.
And sinking down, currents embrace,
passed down to weed's entangled hands.
There I dwell,
wanting death,
steals my breath.
Perish there,
sinful stench,
snuffed right out,
love's strong clench.
Then all the things that seemed as pain
are then revealed as chastening.
I rush to sky, to sun, to air,
lungs bursting, always hastening.
Swirling up through the murky depths,
stronger now for what'ere he brings.
Purified by almighty hands,
and bursting forth, my soul now sings,
"My heart returns to you, O Lord,
When those fail who are around me.
I learn that you were always there
with a love that will astound me."
January 21, 2004
My Heart Returns To You, O Lord!
This Harmless Thought brought to you by Matt Harmless
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As an UI Developer Intern, you'll work in a professional grade development environment together with seniors and leads in order to help our customers increase their capabilities to deliver quality products. The role will be challenging and a fantastic opportunity for a graduate to get their career to a flying start.
You will:
- Ensure that client software continues to meet the needs of its enterprise customers on a wide variety of deployment platforms;
- Work closely with the Support and QA teams to ensure that technical issues reported by customers are resolved in a timely manner gaining a sense of reward from helping others;
- Encompass all aspects of customer satisfaction, including refactoring problematic code components, tuning performance, devising diagnostic tools, delivering patches, etc.;
- Be exposed to almost all of the diverse technologies that make up the product, and when necessary, will work alongside other technical experts in these areas;
- Provide feedback and ideas for improving the product and organization;
- Grow your skills and have fun while working.
You have:
- Good practical or theoretical knowledge of Object Oriented Programming/Functional Programming;
- Basic knowledge of JavaScript language and its core features;
- A plus if you worked with Model View frameworks / libraries like AngularJS, ReactJS, Backbone, jQuery, etc.;
- A plus if you understand what a REST API is;
- CSS (SASS /Less) and HTML5 skills;
- Troubleshooting and debugging skills;
- Tenacity, problem solving skills, and you're keen to learn new and awesome technologies;
- Motivation and you can be a team player;
- Good English skills, both verbal and written;
- Good written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
Why participate?
Because you'll work with people who are smart, passionate and energetic, just like you.
You will interact with Ness experts and get to work hand-in-hand with experienced mentors.
You will be part of Ness Digital Engineering Iasi Center and get to be involved in projects that serve key vertical markets that include Software and High-End Technology, Education, Media and Publishing, Financial Services and Transportation.
Stagiu disponibil pentru studenții de la următoarele facultăți
- Iași
- Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza
- Universitatea Tehnică Gh. Asachi
- Automatică și Calculatoare
- Electronică Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației
- Arhitectura G.M. Cantacuzino
- Construcții și Instalații
- Construcții de Mașini și Management Industrial
- Hidrotehnică Geodezie și Ingineria Mediului
- Inginerie Chimica și Protectia Mediului
- Inginerie Electrică Energetica și Informatică Aplicată
- Mecanică
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- Textile Pielarie și Management Industrial
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The Giant's Causeway, Ireland
We had an incredible trip to Ireland recently - me, my Mummy, one of my godfathers, David Taylor, and Electra. We stayed in Belfast but one day we drove to the Giant's Causeway. I had seen some pictures of it online but there was no way I could imagine how amazing it actually was! We drove for about an hour and a half through really green countrysi...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
No One Ever Told Me This!
Recently when I took Kenan for a walk around my apartment, I bumped into a friend who is a first-time mom with a two-month old baby. I asked her how has mommyhood been and she talked about how she is coping. Then she blurted out why is it no one ever told her it's going to be THIS TIRING - the exact words I said to a friend months back! I even lamented about that on my Facebook account.
So how come no mommies tell us first-time moms just how tiring and busy it can be? Why wouldn't someone give us the details and prepare us mentally for the onslaught of challenges, never-ending tasks and not forgetting the emotional rollercoasters?
I pondered over it and came up with this conclusion: Because no words can ever suffice in describing all that we ever go through as a mom.
And more importantly, I believe mommyhood for each of us is about as unique as our thumb prints can get. While no doubt all mommies will share similar experiences, yet the actual journey will never be the same for each one of us, given our different combinations of psychological, physical, social and financial factors that end up determining how we cope with parenthood.
But that said, would I dish out the details to my friends who are expecting?
While I don't wanna bore them with the mundane, the truth is, I don't remember the initial days of my mommyhood with much details! It was as if everything had gone by like a whirlwind and I'm only left with somewhat of a hazy recollection. Thankfully, I've got this blog to help me remember the more significant details.
But really, I think mommyhood is a journey to be experienced rather than described. After all, how can you ever adequately describe something that is exhausting, scary, frustrating, exhilarating, wonderful, rewarding, awesome all rolled into one? And even if I could ever put all that succinctly into words, I shan't spoil the fun for the first-time moms or moms-to-be... shhhh....!
No One Ever Told Me This!
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- https://nps01.sharepoint.com/sites/tpo2019/username/SitePages/Home.aspx (putting the academic calendar year of your graduation where indicated and your NPS user name where it says "username").
If you are an extension student and will finish your thesis soon, please email email@example.com to confirm your site is still up to date.
Sites have been issued to all students scheduled to graduate in September 2023 or earlier. If you have not received the email announcing your site, but need a site now, fill in your thesis title and thesis advisor information in your Python thesis dashboard and then send a request for the site to be created to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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See also the "SharePoint / Software" section below.
You've probably noticed these certificates taped to the hallways on your way to class, many with handwritten thank-yous from students to their advisors or admin staff. The "green card," as it used to be called because it was printed on green paper, was required of each student to present to various campus entities while checking out of NPS. But in 2013, thesis completion began being recorded in Python, eliminating the need for a hard-copy certificate, and thus the green card faded into existence.
Or so we thought.
In the years since, students and staff never stopped asking for the green cards, so we've brought them back!
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Hard copy acceptance letters (formerly called the thesis "green card") were discontinued in 2013.
When uploading your thesis to your file-sharing site for review by the TPO, always use the same file name. The file name will start with two digits representing the year of your graduation ceremony and three letters representing the month of your graduation ceremony.
For a single-author thesis, the graduation year and month are followed by an underscore, then your last name, another underscore, and then your first name.
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For a multi-author thesis, the graduation year and month are followed by an underscore, then the first author's last name, another underscore, then the second author's last name, and so on.
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* Note: Use the last name of the first author that appears in the "Author(s)" field in your Python thesis dashboard.
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The Thesis Proposal Form and the Thesis Release and Approval Form. These are filled in and routed electronically via your thesis dashboard in Python.
You will also need to upload your "First 8 Pages of Thesis" file to your thesis SharePoint site for both your Initial Review with Thesis Processing and your Final Review.
More details are available here.
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If you have further questions, please contact your military service representative and your department's ed tech and program officer.
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Use your NPS user name and password to log into your site.
Please contact the SharePoint group at firstname.lastname@example.com if you are unable to log in.
Ask your student if he or she granted you access. Instructions have been provided to students.
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Please see our Thesis Module Help page.
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For a single-author thesis, the graduation year and month are followed by an underscore, then your last name, another underscore, and then your first name.
Single author: YYMon_Last_First
For a multi-author thesis, the graduation year and month are followed by an underscore, then the first author's last name, another underscore, then the second author's last name, and so on.
* Note: The order of the authors in your file name should match the order they appear in the "Author(s)" field in your Python thesis dashboard.
Multi-author: YYMon_Last_Last_Last
For a systems engineering capstone, the graduation year and month are followed by an underscore, then the first author's last name, another underscore, then et al.
* Note: Use the last name of the first author that appears in the "Author(s)" field in your Python thesis dashboard.
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Cleveland Ohio Wedding Photography- Stefanie and Justin
by pazza
In May I took a short break from magazine assignments and photographed Stefanie and Justin's wedding day. It was so great to be there! Besides the fact that Stefanie is totally a Natalie Portman look-alike and you catch yourself thinking – Wait a minute, am I covering a celebrity wedding? – it is such a pleasure to photograph the story of people that are so much in love. These two have a really deep connection, I saw it when we first met and I could not wait for their wedding day. On top of that, they are total goofballs and were really up for anything during our shoot. Congratulations, you guys! Many happy years together!
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This was a brand-new family for me to photograph, and I arrived on a busy weekend amidst the chaos of recently moving into a new home (and getting reorganized and unpacked), with four active children who all had to be somewhere different later in the day. It reminded me of what life used to be like for me! I wished at that moment that there was some way to let them know that, sooner than they could ever believe, in the blink of an eye, those days of chaos were going to be gone. The children were so wonderfully attentive to what we were doing, and so easy to photograph, that we were able to get much, much more than a handful of good images – we were able to capture a day of priceless memories of their family!
On location photography is a perfect fit for busy families who have full weekends, and you will NEVER regret making time for capturing your relationships forever!


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As a professional psychic medium for over 30 years focusing on love. I will work with you in giving you an intimate and emotional look into your soul mate's deepest thoughts, feelings and intentions towards you and if you have a future together. I will work with you as a Certified Gateway Dream Practitioner and Co oach in helping you to open the door to love. We all have more then one soul mate; so if one door closes, we can manifest a new soul mate through affirmations and through our dreams. First and foremost, we have to work on ourselves and heal the past like I am doing through my dreams. My dreams fascinate me, and I program my dreams every night.
Dear God, Archangel Raphael and Archangel Chamuel. While I am sleeping and dreaming tonight & in my waking hours, please bring me into the vibrational vortex where the sexy juicy soul mate of my dreams is waiting for me (whoever he may be), and where we are a vibrational match for each other for a long lasting relationship. Also in my dreams tonight, please help our souls to connect in the most sexy juicy profound ways that I will recognize and clearly remember, so when we meet in the physical world, we will already "know" and love each other. If there is any healing to be done in order for me to be with my sexy juicy soul mate of my dreams (whoever he may be), please help us both to experience that healing in the vortex while I am dreaming and while I am awake.
Please also help me to wake up in the vortex, and help me to stay in the Vortex.
Dream Segment 1 – I live on the ground floor, and my sliding glass door faces the street. I don't feel safe. Anyone can walk in. Some kind of delivery guy attempted to walk in. I said "Oh no!". I then quickly closed the sliding glass door and locked it. I did not want him to walk through the house to his destination.
Dream Segment 2 – I am staying in a hotel, and a young girl removed the door to my hotel room. She was giggling. I found my way to the front desk to complain. There were a lot of people in line with numbers lower then me, so I had to wait. I gave up.
Dream Segment 1
Living on the Ground Floor to me means that I am connected to the street, the cars, the people. Perhaps I don't feel safe leaving the door open to new love and soul mate when I am still not ready to release in my mind the recent soul mate that I was involved with. Perhaps the delivery man was going to deliver my new soul mate, but I shut the door on him. Perhaps, the delivery man was my soul mate. This leads to Dream Segment #2.
Dream Segment 2
I was in a hotel room in my dreams the night before. The man down the hall had no door on his room. I could see everything – good and bad. Perhaps he is my new soul mate, and he is waiting for me to be ready.
Staying in a hotel room last night in my dreams, for me, symbolizes that I am in transition from one lover/soul mate to another, and that it is time to change my way of thinking. The young girl not only opened the door, she removed the door. I think this is pretty powerful. The young girl I feel is me trying to get me to open up more to a new lover/soul mate. She was giggling. and showing me that I can once again experience and express my playful, sexy, fun side when I am in an intimate and emotional relationship with someone. I was upset (and I still am), because I don't think I am ready to move on to someone new (in my mind) even though it feels over with my recent lover/soul mate. I am standing in line at the desk, and all these people had lower numbers then me. I can't remember my number, but I know my number is higher. This tells me that I am at a higher vibration, and that I should not be waiting in that line. I know that even though I am not ready to let go of him, I am impatient for a new soul mate to enter into my dreams. I don't think I ever got to the front of the line to ask them to put the door back on. I gave up being in line. It is a strong reminder for me not to look backwards, and always to look forward.
What is it going to take for me to get into the receiving mode and to stay in the vortex?
I have been listening to a lot of Abraham Hicks youtube videos about being in the vibrational vortex. With the dreams that I had last night, I wonder if I was in the vibrational vortex while dreaming; otherwise, I would have been in the receiving mode. Another way to look at it is that they are helping me to heal while I am in the vibrational vortex.
I can't wait to go on the Abraham Hicks Vortex Greek Cruise in October, 2018.
I will ask God, Archangel Raphael and Archangel Chamuel to help me to be in the receiving mode and to help me to enter the vibrational vortex while I am asleep and while I am awake. I will also concentrate on being in the Vortex during the day.


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100% Grass-fed Beef
Grass-fed, grass-finished Colorado beef
Living Conditions
Larga Vista Ranch cattle are rotated through grass-alfalfa pastures to fatten them, producing flavorful marbled "low-choice" grade beef. The meat is lean but still marbled with enough fat to be good-tasting. Our cattle are never on prairie pastures and thus have no gamey taste.
100% grass-fed beef has less total fat than grain-fed as well as the proper amount and ratio of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. Omega-6 fatty acids are much higher in grain-fed beef, and excess omega-6 intake has been linked to chronic inflammation, a contributing factor to many deadly diseases.
The fat of pasture-fed beef contains conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), which has strong anti-cancer properties. CLA also encourages lean muscle build-up and helps prevent weight gain. CLA disappears from beef when cattle are fed even small amounts of grain, as does the proper ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids. That's why we never feed grain to our cattle. Feeding corn to cows also causes their rumens to become more acidic, which is a problem when consuming meat from such animals. Almost all of the microbes that reside in the gut of a cow that might get into the meat are usually killed off by the acidic environment in the human stomach. Not so with E. coli 0157:H7, which has evolved in the acidic rumen of corn-fed cattle. This new acid-resistant strain of E. coli (never seen prior to 1980) is deadly to humans. Cattle finished (fattened) on grass, as opposed to grain in a feedlot, do not pose this problem.
Beef fat is a good source of palmitoleic acid which has antimicrobial properties.


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You could be forgiven for believing that the only birds worth seeing in Gwent at the moment are waxwings. Nice though they maybe its now time to move on so this afternoons excursion was Magor Pill and Magor Marsh.
Encouraged by Chris Packham's Exe Estuary jaunt on Autumnwatch last week the first stop was Magor Pill and the Severn Estuary in all its glory. But my word it was cold, and it didn't help to find my walking boots, that had been left in the car overnight, were frozen. However the threat of frost bite wasn't going to stop me and on a falling tide the usual assortment of coastal waders and wildfowl were on show. The most noteworthy counts were c150 wigeon, c50 linnet and several skylark.
On to Magor Marsh and collected on the remaining small amount of unfrozen lake was, 2 gadwall, 2 shoveler, 14 teal, and 3 little grebe. A single reed bunting was noted on the way back to the car along with 14 mute swan in a nearby field.


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It started in 1994, I was 12 and lost Ed who was like a grandfather to me. Exactly 2 years later I lost my grandfather (my moms dad) in the very house I grew up in. Two years later I lost my grandmother (my dads mom) suddenly.
Being so young I really didn't know what grieving was. I didn't know someone could be so upset over losing someone plus I had school and basketball to keep me distracted. I didn't know there could be "good grievings"
18 months after my grandmother died my world was totally flipped up side down. I learned that my beautiful, caring, and compassionate mother had passed away. (More on this in a bit) I had a few friends/family/acquaintances pass away after my mom passed. The years I really can't remember exactly.
Years passed and in June 2009 I lost my little sister Katie at the age of 25. A few years later I lost my father in law Ed. Most recently about a year ago I lost my courageous godsister Amanda at the age of 30. In May of last year Uncle Bob passed away unexpectedly.
Through all of this I have learned a lot and have lived my life to the fullest. I have learned that there are "good grievings"


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Three people have died in Sicily, Italy this week due to mudslides. While Thailand finally saw some relief, Australia has had a bout of devastating flooding. The most recent one left over 2000 people stranded and has killed a three-year-old boy. There was yet more flooding in Scotland, where trains had to be shut down.
The drought in Texas continues to wreak havoc on their economy. Farmers in those two states lost thousands of Christmas trees. Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi all received snow this week, which is highly unusual.
Heavy winds, gusting up to 150km/h (90mph) ( in Calgary, Alberta nearly caused the crash of a Lufthansa flight, pushing it far to the left while just feet above the runway. The same windstorm also forced the closure of the entire downtown core. Police were called in to block traffic and pedestrians from entering, as it was deemed to be too dangerous.
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Gosnell trial revealed horrors of abortion, media silence
Mengele. Kevorkian. Now Gosnell can be added to that awful list. Men who perverted the idea that medicine should indeed "first do no harm."
Dr. Kermit Gosnell was on trial for his life for the first degree murder of four babies born as a result of a failed late-term abortion. The American media that had resisted covering the gruesome case were also on trial.
Both were found guilty.
Followers of the Philadelphia case weren't surprised with either result.
Gosnell is a monster. He was initially charged "with killing seven babies born alive," along with Karnamaya Mongar a newly-arrived, 41-year-old refugee from Bhutan.
Prosecutors say Gosnell's staff gave the 90-pound woman a lethal dose of anesthesia and painkillers during a 2009 abortion," according to the Associated Press. Some charges were dropped and he was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and one count of third-degree murder, as well as "211 counts of failing to comply with a state law that requires a 24-hour waiting period before an abortion is performed."
The facts read more like a demon's resume than a description of a man sworn to heal. One former worker testified that she saw "a late-term baby who survived an abortion 'swimming' in a toilet and 'trying to get out.'"
Another child reportedly was big enough "that Gosnell joked it could have walked to the bus." Child after child had life ended as scissors snipped spinal cords, decapitating them.
Yet this "house of horrors" would never have seen the light of day if the American media had their way.
Major outlets ignored the story until conservative anger called them out. The Media Research Center (where I work), Kirsten Powers, Fox News Channel, some in Congress and an army of conservatives on Twitter provided part of the pressure.
Even then, news coverage was paltry – far less than outlets would devote to any story du jour from Manti Te'o and his invisible girlfriend to endless accounts of the Jodi Arias trial.
ABC was the worst. It took that network a couple years after the arrest and 56 straight days of trial to acknowledge Gosnell existed. ABC found more than three hours of air time for other court cases during that time, but waited until Gosnell was convicted before it ever admitted he was even on trial.
"Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran inadvertently admitted the network's failure during the May 13 "World News with Diane Sawyer" segment. "For two months, jurors heard often shocking, grisly testimony." Yes, two months of "shocking, grisly testimony" and only one minute and 51 seconds of news coverage at the very end.
In short, if you rely on ABC for your news coverage, you are out of luck. It's that kind of timely newsgathering that would have viewers expecting to see reports on the end of WWII or the sinking of the Titanic later this week.
The other two members of the Big Three didn't impress either. NBC was bad and CBS only a little better. NBC's Savannah Guthrie asked Obama a question about Gosnell but didn't even bother to follow it up. And when NBC finally gave an actual report on the case on May 1, it hid the awful nature of the case. The network that had reported on the smell of a decomposing body in the Casey Anthony trial called Gosnell's crimes "too gruesome" to tell viewers.
Other outlets were just as averse to reporting the awful story of baby murder. The Washington Post committed to the story after health reporter Sarah Kliff defended her own failure to cover Gosnell because it was a "local crime" story.
But it wasn't a local crime story. It was part of a national belief in infanticide coming directly from the pro-abortion movement. Just in the time of the Gosnell trial, we've seen a Planned Parenthood lobbyist and an abortion doctor both show support for baby murder after the child is born.
Abortion lobbyist Alisa LaPolt Snow told an astonished hearing that the life of a baby born after a botched abortion should be "left up to the woman, her family, and the physician."
The pro-life group Live Action caught a D.C. abortion doctor in an embarrassing admission of, you know, supporting baby murder. "One video features a D.C. doctor, Cesare Santangelo, who said that in the unlikely event that an abortion resulted in a live birth, 'we would not help it,'" reported the Post. For that reveal, he said he considers the heroes of Live Action to be "terrorists."
That is the world that Kermit Gosnell introduced to America. It's a world where the liberal fantasies of "safe, available and rare" abortions have been twisted into a convenient rationale for taxpayer-funded baby murder, even after a child is born. It's an image the abortion community won't be able to erase.


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Our boxing program is all about fundamentals. In this class, students will be taught the sport of boxing with an emphasis on creating a strong base of conditioning and a strong base of technique.
With solid technique in mind, students will be taught at their own rate, never being introduced to a more complex skill until they have got the simpler skill under their belt.
The structure of a typical one hour class follow the following format:
Warm up: Jogging, Stretching.
Specific warm up: Shadow boxing, jump rope.
Technique: Demonstration of offensive technique, practice. Demonstration of defensive technique, practice.
Drilling: Combinations, controlled sparring, bag work.
Cool down: Jump rope, stretching.
For equipment, each student should have: a mouthpiece, 16 ounce gloves, and wrist wraps. We can loan you some gloves and wrist wraps for your first few classes but no (gross) we won't lend you a mouthpiece.
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How to pass the torch? Who gets a commit bit?
The Django community only has 14 people with a commit bit, and really low bus numbers on some aspects of the code.
A "bus number" is how many people getting hit by buses would result in zero people remaining to maintain, enhance, otherwise work on some feature, application or code. Django's object-relational mapper (ORM) for example: few people are conversant with it among the inner 14, ergo "low bus numbers".
James Bennett gave a great keynote yesterday on the need to open up the core to more committers. These sentiments were echoed in Eric Florenzano's keynote of this morning, which focused on weaknesses and downsides of Django and the community.
These kinds of rants are valuable and expected within any group that expects to thrive over the long haul I should think. One needs to handle criticisms that emerge from deep within the ranks, perhaps with more alacrity than those more casual criticisms coming from outside, from those with less of an investment. Eric is not a core committer, but he does spend many of his waking hours wrangling Django.
Andrew Godwin's talk focused on the non-relational databases out there, of which there there are many, and efforts to make Django work as a front end for some of them. Document stores may have some schema-like aspects, which means the concept of a "model" in Django may still be apropos.
Considering electronic medical records again, an underlying structure is the time-line, as each person's "life thread" (as Greek mythology viewed them) is a chronological sequence.
Medical devices committing data to an EMR need to authenticate patient identity and then find the appropriate point on the time-line to place the data, perhaps with clinician annotations.
Somehow, the URL to this data, being consulted at a later time, will trigger the right viewer to load, perhaps in its own window, thereby decoding the data and rendering a readily decipherable visualization, assuming a trained eye. Perhaps a cine will play; a short video clip of a beating heart, before and after angioplasty.
Hospitals currently store these cines on their own servers. To what extent will EMRs be independent of specific health care systems? Each person accumulates some gigabytes of medical data over the course of a lifetime.
Many bureaucrats have already thrown up their hands, saying the problem is too difficult, can't be done. Other say that, however it's done, their job will be to inter-connect the various implementations, not source any specific solution themselves.
However, given how under-served people are, in so many regions, opportunities for greenfield development are myriad. Doctors without borders aren't required to use HL7 or follow legislative guidelines specific to any one country.
Within a culture of open source, opportunities will develop and get shared. Closed off silos continually reinvent the same wheels whereas those who share more strongly encourage their peers to keep up to date.
Data migration services will evolve to transform one kind of EMR into another.
Yes, what I'm describing is the "messy scrap book" model at a high level (organized temporally), with specific fields being structured, as worked out among various specialists and vendors.
Might a SQL database serve as an outermost wrapper, perhaps with XML fields for less structured data, with patient identity and chronological sequence serving as primary relational keys?
I'm not looking for a single answer or solution.
Researchers will plow through EMRs seeking to generate clinical research records (CCRs), many of them scrubbed of any traceable identity information, yet still associated by case history. Having fragments of the genome decoded does not imply identifiability.
Additionally, those "donating their bodies to science" (a well-known idiom) might nowadays sign a release allowing unmasked identity information to become available to a wider circle of authorized personnel. Medical literature is already full of case histories of identifiable personae, mixed in with the more anonymous.
The data stays authentic, is not some arbitrary mix. Fictional identities may be synthesized by algorithm to mask the actual ones, but in ways that support valid correlations and therefore conclusions. Arbitrary changes to age, sex, weight, history of smoking, should not be messed with, as medically relevant data points.
Open source data sets, freely downloadable, give researchers shared access to common pools.
Intelligently designed viewers and data harvesters with built in anonymizers will facilitate extracting patient data minus patient identity. Data sets packed with thousands of true case histories will be gold to researchers, all the more so because loss or theft of this data will not represent a security breach in terms of patient confidentiality.


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Spelt Oil has surprising beauty benefits and AEOS is currently the only provider of spelt cream available to the Australian market.
Spelt has been around for centuries, over 8,000 years in fact, but interestingly we have only recently recognised its nutritional benefits, let alone the amazing results spelt oil can have on our skin and body.
Samantha says 'Spelt is such an incredible gift from nature when it comes to our body and our skin, it helps regulate our internal health with its high protein and fibre content, but the oil also has great healing and regenerating benefits for our skin."
Spelt oil is naturally high in vitamins and minerals such as vitamin E, zinc, magnesium and copper, 'It's a little known fact that copper is an important ingredient to aid in collagen and elastin production. Spelt oil effectively assists in the treatment of skin irritations and wound repair and can minimise the appearance of scars and fine lines, but there's so much more that spelt oil contains, it's very exciting," says Samantha.
AEOS harvest spelt on their biodynamic farm (delivering to local bakers!), and in the process, spelt oil is produced. This harvesting and extraction process only produces very small amounts of oil.
Question: What is Spelt Oil?
Samantha Sargent: Spelt oil is a rich golden coloured oil that is extracted from spelt grain. Spelt is an ancient cousin of modern wheat and bursting with vitamins and proteins.
Question: What skin types will benefit best from Spelt Oil?
Samantha Sargent: All types of skin can benefit from spelt oil. Prematurely ageing skin, very dry skin, skin that has been subject to harsh environments or extreme changes in temperatures, eczema. Spelt is also beneficial for helping to minimise the appearance of pigmentation.
Question: What are the beauty benefits of Spelt Oil?
Samantha Sargent: The AEOS biodynamic spelt oil is extremely rich in vitamin E and essential fatty acids with excellent antioxidant, moisturising and regenerative properties. Spelt oil is absorbed by the skin effectively and quickly, and intensely smooths the skin and helps to reduce the appearance of any fine lines or pigmentation. I use the Enriching Spelt Hand Cream and on my body the Skin Replenisher Rich+ Cream, to help keep my skin supple and hydrated after spending so much of my day outdoors.
Question: How do we apply and use Spelt Oil?
Samantha Sargent: Spelt oil is extremely rich. A little goes a long way, and is best used sparingly. All AEOS skin care products contain spelt oil, and AEOS also have a Profound Nourishing Treatment product that is the 100% pure biodynamic spelt oil that can be used as an intensive skin treatment as often or sporadically as you wish.
Question: How will Spelt Oil change our entire skincare regime?
Samantha Sargent: Spelt oil is an effective natural alternative for common skin care concerns such as fine lines, dull skin, pigmentation, dry dehydrated skin.
Question: How much is Spelt Oil and where can we purchase it?
Samantha Sargent: The 100% pure biodynamic spelt oil is available as the AEOS Profound Nourishing Treatment. It contains 20 single use ampoules and is $135.80.
AEOS spelt products, including this unique treatment can be purchased here https://www.energisedorganics.com/shop
Question: Can you share with us the reasons why copper, magnesium, iron are vital for maintaining youthful skin?
Samantha Sargent: Minerals have a fundamental role in the development of healthy skin cells. For example, copper is an important mineral that aids in collagen and elastin production.
Question: In saying that, how is Spelt Oil our one stop shop?
Samantha Sargent: Spelt oil is one of the most impressive oils I've experienced that helps to dramatically improve the look and feel of the skin. There is a world of beautiful oils that can work in harmony to help bring about beautiful skin. Spelt oil on its own can deliver fantastic results. Spelt oil, when combined with other plant extracts, as AEOS have done, can also deliver fantastic results.
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When would an MPLS LSR have Untagged output label?
This is a nice MPLS question I've received from one of the readers:
I have understood the Penultimate Hop Popping (PHP) process, but I don't understand when a router would use UNTAGGED instead of POP TAG?
Instead of answering the question directly, let's walk through a series of simple Q&A pairs that will help you understand the whole process (remember: knowledge, not recipes!).
It's highly recommended you read the first few chapters of the MPLS and VPN Architectures book before the rest of this post.
Where does the Untagged keyword appear? It only appears as the output label in the LFIB (Label Forwarding Information Base) that you can inspect with the show mpls forwarding-table.
What does the Untagged keyword mean? This keyword means that the router has no output label associated with the forwarding equivalence class (FEC ... usually an IP prefix). Since there is no output label, the router cannot perform a label swap (or pop) but has to remove the whole MPLS shim header.
Where would a router get the output label? It's received from the next-hop router.
When would a router have no output label? When there is no next-hop router or when the next-hop router did not advertise a label for the IP prefix.
When would there be no next-hop router? If the IP prefix is a directly connected subnet (including a loopback interface) or a summary route advertised by the router itself.
When would the next-hop router not advertise a label? The reasons a next-hop router would not advertise a label for an IP prefix include:
- It's not running MPLS.
- It's running MPLS but not CEF (MPLS labels are assigned to IP prefixes in CEF table).
- It's not reachable across an MPLS-enabled interface (both routers could be running MPLS, but the transit interface does not have the mpls ip configuration).
- The LDP session has not been established yet.
- There is a mismatch in LDP protocol (one router is running Cisco's proprietary TDP, the other one standard LDP).
- The next-hop router uses an access-list to filter the IP prefixes for which the MPLS labels are advertised.
Summary: you would see the Untagged label in the LFIB when the IP prefix is a directly connected interface, a summary route or the next-hop router has not advertised the label.
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6 comments:
- Danail Petrov01 December, 2008 10:15
Another great article! You have a great explaining approach !!!ReplyDelete
Very good article to clarify my understanding!!ReplyDelete
By the way, what would the keyword "aggregate" mean, this is another keyword I dont quite understand while I am checking the mpls forwarding-table.
- Anonymous08 April, 2009 08:59
Dear Ivan, when a loopback network is advertised as let say 18.104.22.168/16, on the neighboring router its seen as pop tag, on local router i cant see it in sh mpls forwarding. If the loopback is not running mpls why router is advertising implicit null label for it ? why dont leave it untagged ?ReplyDelete
- MukarraM19 February, 2010 09:42
extract from above:
Summary: you would see the Untagged label in the LFIB when the IP prefix is a directly connected interface, a summary route or the next-hop router has not advertised the label.
interfaces directly connected are not shown in LFIB since the router has already requested a POP action for them. and therez no need to look into LFIB..
- Ivan Pepelnjak20 February, 2010 11:37
Not true on LC-ATM interfaces (luckily we don't see them too often :) ) or on VRF interfaces.ReplyDelete
- MukarraM20 February, 2010 13:03
summary routes are not untagged labels as well, summarized routes are tagged with imp-null.
kindly elaborate ur statement regarding VRF interfaces...
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Local businesses shortlisted for national tourism awards
Four tourism businesses from Leicester and Leicestershire have been announced as finalists in the VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2015. The Awards celebrate the best of English tourism and will be held on Monday 11 May 2015 at the Sage Gateshead.
The Leicester and Leicestershire finalists are nominated in the following categories:
• The Dandelion Hideaway, Market Bosworth - Self Catering Holiday Provider of the Year
• National Space Centre, Leicester - Business Tourism Award
• Hotel Maiyango, Leicester - Taste of England Award
• The Exchange, Leicester - Tourism Pub of the Year
The VisitEngland Awards attracted a total of 345 applications. All finalists are guaranteed to receive a Gold, Silver, Bronze or Highly Commended Award.
James Berresford, Chief Executive of VisitEngland said: "It's been another successful year for our Excellence Awards as we've received hundreds of applications of an extremely high standard. That's why all the finalists should be incredibly proud that they've been short-listed against such tough competition. I'd like to congratulate all the finalists who now represent the top five in their category in England and wish them all the very best of luck on Awards night at the Sage Centre in Gateshead - a spectacular venue to celebrate the industry's best."
All of the local finalists have been successfully re-judged after winning Gold in their respective categories in the Leicester and Leicestershire Excellence in Tourism Awards last year, hosted by Leicester Shire Promotions.
Martin Peters, Chief Executive of Leicester Shire Promotions added: "These four businesses have displayed unique strengths in their respective categories. We are delighted that they've made the national finals and their success shows the outstanding quality of the tourism industry in the city and county."
Images of the four Leicester and Leicestershire finalists can be downloaded from https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6zbh9gnp9clojv9/AAApEdYr4-EgxXr_XchyLP5ua?dl=0


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Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), the world's number one supplier of microcontrollers, is a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions including microcontrollers, SoC solutions and a broad range of analog and power devices. Business operations began as Renesas Electronics in April 2010 through the integration of NEC Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723) and Renesas Technology Corp., with operations spanning research, development, design and manufacturing for a wide range of applications. Headquartered in Japan, Renesas Electronics has subsidiaries in 20 countries worldwide.
More information can be found at https://www.renesas.com/.
Relevant links:
Renesas Electronics Announces R-Car H2, Offering Highest CPU and Graphics Performance for the Automotive Infotainment Market
Renesas Mobile Introduces First Integrated LTE Triple-Mode Platform Optimised for Full-Featured, High Volume Smartphones
Renesas Mobile Introduces Ground-Breaking Quad Core Communication Processor with Integrated LTE Cat-4 Modem
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That was you again?? Haha!! :pbestpike wrote:And I made the same mistake again earlier in the thread even. Thanks for the correction.loren wrote:If you're refering to the chorus of Prophecies, then, you mean it has the same riff with Control The Divine (not Road of No Release) and it has been stated quite a few times allready, here on the forum, on this thread. It was mentioned even when a trailer, that had this segment, went online.bestpike wrote:Prophecies has a small riff stolen from Road of No Release, which in turn had the ending stolen from Noldor. Easter egg? lol
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Mike Cliffe - Glen Thomas ProjectPosted: Monday, September 13, 2010 by •»¶hê ƒRëq»•-)•–––– in
Over the past few months local guitarist/ song writer Mike Cliffe and I have been working on music material that we are releasing at random for anyone who cares to listen to it. Mike and I have mutual friends but oddly have never met. Our music creations together happen purely through the internet. If Mike has an idea, he sends it to me and I add parts or if I have a suggestion, he retools the idea. It's been a fun experience. We use similar software that allows us to exchange sound files which we place in our own specific software. It sounds more complicated than it is. The result is the ability to create music with other people without ever leaving your own house or moving one tiny bit of gear. I LOVE IT. Mike and I have musical tastes that are what I'd like to call "out of the box". This simply means, it's not your normal sounding music. Mike and I have a common theme in our individual original music that requires a listener to be open minded as this "stuff" is not always like the warm fuzzy music you hear every day on the radio. It is what you might call "abstract art". We have done a few songs together with more in the works and we've also included another online artist "Karin Beckerus" for vocals and keyboards on a song called "Bad Regime". Karin has written tons of material and also enjoys collaborations with other musicians.
We hope you enjoy the music we create and we do understand if you don't "get" what we're doing. Creating this music is just a lot of "brain candy fun" for Mike and I and if it's not your cup of tea, that's totally fine. Most music in the progressive rock style has to find it's audience and it's not always easy. If you like what we're doing, let us know as there will be more music coming soon.
Here is the link to our 2 latest songs.
Dog's Breakfast - Mike Cliffe & Glen Thomas
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The images in the windows of the tower in MOLOCH! follow a simple hierarchy of tiers with the rich at the top, peasants at the bottom, and some of the companies and organisations tenuously holding everything together which I borrowed from George Cruikshank's The Worship of Bacchus.
I like the way he organised the picture with very specific examples of the effects of alcoholism at the bottom, then rising to a panorama of the whole society, and the massive profits, and costs to the public purse involved. The way he labelled everything gives a clear meaning, just like Irving Norman would later do. Of course this is the same period that Hogarth had his famous etchings including 'Gin Alley', in wide circulation. Such an ambitious work, with the industrial revolution in full swing.
I did the same thing, at the bottom are those incarcerated or without the hope of opportunity. Children videoing the burning of their schools. Occupy protesters held at Guantanamo Bay.
As we move up a tier we see the children of the elite, and their horror and fear at a glimpse of what they might become. The labeling of top public schools and the cynical Latin mottos are admittedly a pretty cheap shot.
So we rise to the exclusive clubs of higher education, and the conditioning is complete for a role in society! Here the Bullingdon Don! I had such fun dreaming up these creatures!
Then all the way to the top of the tower, the world is their oyster! So many career choices for hungry monsters! I enjoyed the development of the American elite as klansmen and bald eagles. And at the summit, the entire penthouse floor, Goldman Sachs! Yikes!


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And it was too cloudy most of the day to take any photos outside.
I do have a nice photo of three of the girls in their new Pyjamas, Imogene's were last to be finished (only yesterday!) and she hasn't worn them yet.
Charlotte and Jocie's are a different pattern for the pants, but both have a little flower that I machine stitched to the (bought) shirt, Laura and Imogene's pants are the same pattern just different sizes, Laura's shirt has a half moon that I stitched on (very badly!), and Imogene has a bright pink shirt with a balloon stitched on, it even has a string from the knot down to the hem.
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Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has confirmed that there will only be incomings at his club this summer, as he does not see any players leaving the club during the transfer window.
The Blues boss also admitted that one of the signings will be a striker as he is looking to replace Didier Drogba, who left the club at the end of the current campaign.
The Premier League champions suffered during the course of the season with injuries to their top marksman Diego Costa and the manager has made it his priority to get adequate cover in the attacking department.
"We will be better. I don't see our team losing players," Mourinho said, as quoted by Goal.
"We lost a striker who scored four goals in the Premier League, but three of these goals meant important points for us. So we have to buy a striker because we want to have three strikers of a good level," he Blues boss added.
The west London club have been linked to various forwards, and reports claim that the Blues are planning an approach for Napoli forward Gonzalo Higuain, who could be available this summer after the club failed to qualify for the Champions League and lost manager Rafael Benitez to Real Madrid.
Meanwhile, the former Real Madrid manager has criticised managers who suggest that they do not counter-attack and only believe in building play from the back.
He believes that the ultimate goal of playing football is to win and believes that the counter-attacking style is a brilliant tool to employ to achieve the final outcome.
"What it is, is people who got some idea, some philosophy, and want to create something like, 'we build very well from the back, we have a very good ball possession, we don't play counter-attack'," the Portuguese manager said.
"But if you don't play counter-attack then it's because you are stupid. Counter-attack is a fantastic item of football, an ammunition that you have, and when you find your opponent unbalanced you have a fantastic moment to score a goal," he explained.
"So I think people are creating (illusions) and it has influenced public opinion. But football will never change. Football is to win."


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Shown above is the cover art for Garbage's new record, 'Not Your Kind of People.' The LP is set for release on May 15 via the band's own label, Stunvolume. Head here for a look at the deluxe edition cover art.
Not Your Kind of People
01. Automatic Systematic Habit
02. Big Bright World
03. Blood for Poppies
04. Control
05. Not Your Kind of People
06. Felt
07. I Hate Love
08. Sugar
09. Battle in Me
10. Man on a Wire
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I am Nicole, an immigrant alien, originally from Québec, Canada. I moved to the US at the age of 12 and have lived in Huntsville, Alabama for 44 years. In fact, I've been in the South for so long I refer to myself as a Canajun! It was only in 2014 that I took out US citizenship. I was fortunate to have a green card so I wasn't in fear of being deported and being torn away from my US born children as we've seen in these recent days.
After many years of living in Alabama, I decided the Southeast US is home to me. I love the warm balmy breezed, gentle soft mountains (or hills if you're from the left coast), and waterfalls. I even LOVE tornado weather – the electrifying, exciting part. (No disrespect meant to all the people in Alabama who have lost loved ones or property.)
Here in Alabama, I am a little blue dot in a red state. But this blue dot is growing everyday. Indivisible Alabama now has over 900 members!
Thanks for visiting my website. I hope to get to know you better soon.


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François Grimaldi dressed as a monk went into the fortress of Monaco. From then on, the coat of arms had the image of two monks in arms.
The Grimaldi lost control over Mónaco.
Charles I regained the rock.
Louis XII, roi de France reconnaît l'indépendance de Monaco.
Monaco became under Spanish control.
Prince Honoré II became the Prince and Lord of Monaco.
The Spanish garrison is replaced by the French garrison.
The Prince renounced the cities of Menton and Roquebrune.
Direct taxes are abolished.
Monte Carlo Opera house was opened.
Albert I came to the throne.
The Oceanographic Institute is founded.
The principality became a constitutional monarchy.
1st Monaco Grand Prix F1.
Monte Carlo Radio station began broadcasting.
The Prince Rainier III married Grace Kelly.
The Monaco Circus Festival was created.
Monaco joined UN.
700th Anniversary of the Grimaldidynasty.
The official residence of the Prince of Monaco since 1297. It is located on top of a rock 60 m height, which overlooks the Mediterranean. It is the heart and soul of the Principality.
Is meant to promote and make available to the public the oceanography of the area by means of the historic collections of the founding Prince, the exhibitions and the living creatures of its aquariums.
Is a roman-bythant building, which houses some of the most remarkable artistic treasures such as the altarpiece of Saint Nicholas by Louis Bréa August, 1500. We find there also the tombs of the Princes among them Rainier III and his wife Princess Grace.


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Developed World Timber Demand Threatens to Undermine REDD Forest Protection Program
photo: iangbl via flickr.
It often seems like the answer (or at least part of it) to many environmental problems: Reduce consumption of natural resources. And when it comes to reducing deforestation the Environmental Investigation Agency says that reducing demand for forest products is a key component of a successful REDD forest protection program, but that it's not being addressed enough:In a new report, Putting the Breaks on Drivers of Forest Destruction [PDF], the EIA says that without addressing demand for timber in the developing world -- most demand for forests products coming from international markets not domestic ones -- there's a good chance REDD will fail to actually protect forests. The report blames "indiscriminate markets".
Indiscriminate Markets Create Race to Bottom
Very few policies exist that create incentives for buyers -- whether importers, retailers or end consumers -- to seek information about the legality or sustainability of the forest and agricultural products they buy. Price is the only real factor is determining demand at a global level, creating a race to the cheapest production techniques.
The enormous financial streams that flow from "no questions asked" timber and agricultural markets intersect with corruption and capacity limitations to producer countries to create a situation where illegality, lack of law enforcement, and impunity and the norm. This toxic blend stifles good forest governance creating a vicious cycle that fosters conditions conducive to additional deforestation and degradation.
Phew... a mouthful, if right on analytically. But how to address it? One way is to ensure that the REDD text currently being negotiated incorporates stronger language -- something with the US and several nations of the receiving end of REDD funds support, but the EU does not.
Policies Must Be Implemented to Support Producers' Good Governance
Mongabay has text that the Ecosystems Climate Alliance (of which EIA is a part) would like added:
All parties shall support REDD actions by undertaking policies and measures, that identify and address the diverse social and economic drivers of deforestation and forest degradation to relieve the pressures on forests and land that result in greenhouse gas emissions. [within the objectives and scope section]
All parties that consume forest products should implement policies and measures to support the laws and legal frameworks of other sovereign states, to further prevent the conversion or degradation of natural forests.[as safeguards section, to address illegal wood imports and exports]
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"Sometimes it's the really simple ideas that can make the biggest difference."
A second grader in York, Pennsylvania came up with an idea last year after his father showed him a photo of a bench placed by a German school on their playground specifically so that lonely or shy children could be offered friendship.
Christian Buck wanted to put such a bench at his school, Roundtown Elementary, and the principal agreed. In the year since that one bench was put outside to foster relationship-building, others like it have popped up at schools across the country.
This week, the latest pair of 'Buddy Benches' were dedicated outside two schools in Ashland, Wisconsin for children to sit on as a signal that they would like someone to play with or talk to.
The benches were funded by the Parent-Teacher Organization as a tool to teach kindness after counselors realized it would be great "for several kids who feel like they don't have friends," reported The Daily Press.
The students have "greeted the idea with enthusiasm" after being taught that the benches are a way for kids to reach out to their lonelier peers.
"It really builds their self-esteem to ask others to play with them," said Intermediate School Counselor Kelly Sundeen.
Resources are now online to help schools personalize their own kindness corner.
The simple idea has certainly made a difference in the life of Christian Buck, who has traveled to California and Connecticut to speak in front of groups about his inspiring project — while still only eight years old.
(READ the recent story from The Daily Press)
Photo (top) by Travis Powell, submitted to AshlandWi.com – Lake Superior Intermediate School students Margurite Ranta, Isaac Pearce, Dewey Zinnecker and Meghan Moffitt


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COUCH NOTE: THE COUCH is embarrassed to say that we must issue an apology today...we were duped...
PAUL VANCE the writer of "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" is not dead...correct...we said NOT dead....as we reported on September 27, 2006. That post can be found HERE.
It appears the gentleman who did die and IS named Paul van Valkenburgh has falsely claimed to have written the song under a "pen" name.
TSK TSK Mr. vanV ...
Reports say that Mr. Vance learned of his untimely demise while watching The O'Reilly Factor (though THE COUCH has heard rumors he actually learned about it by reading it right here folks!), and has called it "the most bizarre experience in my life."
Well...we would think so!
In addition, Mr. Vance, who is now an owner of thoroughbred horses had two of his horses scratched from Vernon Downs in New York.
Again, Mr. Vance, THE COUCH is sorry...but we weren't the only one who was tricked!
OK...I got permission to stay in a hotel until the 2nd...except I have to move to the corporate hotel, so it means ... NO MORE SUITE LIVING! Kind of sad, since the suite is actually less money per night, but this new hotel allows billing to go straight to the corporate account and that is better for me.
Turned in my application for my apartment...fingers crossed it is accepted...not totally guaranteed with my ... um ...credit history ... hehehe
Have to comment on this University of Miami/Florida International brawl that took place this past weekend during their football game.
UM has always had a reputation of being "Thug U"....
But what happened this past weekend was stomach turning.
Reddick was suspended indefinitely and in THE COUCH'S opinion should never walk on a football field again...college or Pro. Florida International seems to be taking this much more seriously, as they should.
crutches when he got to the melee...another one
needing assault charges filed and some jail time given.
Let them finish their community service and then throw them out of school too in our opinion.
Then, when you think it can't get any worse, news comes of the firing of Lamar Thomas, a former UM and NFL player. He was working the game for Comcast Sports SouthEast, and sounded just like someone who went to school at THUG U. Here is a transcript of what he said on-air. I understand if you do a search you can hear it for yourself...but I think this says it all:
"Now, that's what I'm talking about," Thomas said as the brawl raged out of control. "You come into our house, you should get your behind kicked. You don't come into the OB (Orange Bowl) playing that stuff. You're across the ocean over there. You're across the city. You can't come over to our place talking noise like that. You'll get your butt beat. I was about to go down the elevator to get in that thing."
Miami and Florida International have campuses nine miles apart in Miami-Dade County. It was the first meeting between the two programs, and the Hurricanes went on to win 35-0.
As the fight slowed, Thomas' comments continued.
"I say, why don't they just meet outside in the tunnel after the ball game and get it on some more? You don't come into the OB, baby," Thomas said. "We've had a down couple years but you don't come in here talking smack. Not in our house."Ummm Lamar...your mama shoulda smacked you more often and taught you respect and manners, you low-life.As a public service, THE COUCH now lists some scary places to get the bejeepers scared out of you for Halloween.
This just happens to be my favorite holiday and I am sad I will not have a place to set up my spookiness. I just lovvvvvve to scare the trick or treaters. I do have a rule that they must be about 9 or older to really scare though.
When we lived in Massachussetts in the apartment clomplex, I put on ratty old clothes..stuffed straw in the sleeves..gloves..one of my collection of horror masks and went and stood in a public area. Of course a group came alone (including Matt) and all stood around trying to figure out if it was a person or fake.
Finally, one brave soul came close enough and pushed on my chest. I fell straight backward onto the ground (YEAH IT HURT - but all great pranks involve some pain)...they all laughed saying .."oh man it is fake.." about 20 seconds later, I began to rise off the ground...
They scatter yelling and screaming like crazy and all I did was...
Ah...next year I guess...
I have more Halloween spooky stories I will share over the next two weeks...
Here are the sites, as listed on Yahoo's Buzz Log: (though their links just brought you to search pages...I did the work for you and have linked right to the sites home page or to a page to tell you more if they didn't have a site.)
- Knott's Scary Farm, (Anaheim, California) - COUCH NOTE..this appears totally sold out already!
- Haunted Hoochie (Columbus, Ohio)
- Cutting Edge Haunted House (Dallas Forth Worth, Texas)
- Catacombs (Kansas City, Missouri)
- Niles Haunted House Scream Park (Niles, Michigan)
- Statesville Haunted Prison (Crest Hill, Illinois)
- Mansfield Prison (Mansfield, Ohio)
- Rocky Point Haunted House (Salt Lake City, Utah)
- Erebus Haunted House (Pontiac, Michigan)
- Phobia Haunted House (Houston, Texas)
- 13 Stories Haunted House (Kennesaw, Georgia)
- Necropolis (Columbia, Missouri)
- The Beast (Kansas City, Missouri)
- Bloodview (Cleveland, Ohio) COUCH NOTE: This link did not work for us...but it may for you.
- Screamers House of Horrors (Niagara Falls, Canada)
- Jaycees Haunted House COUCH NOTE: This is the search link. Find the one near you.
- The Dungeon of Doom (Grayslake, Illinois)
- Slaughterhouse COUCH NOTE: This is the search link. Find the one near you.
- Hades Haunted House (Chicago, Illinois) COUCH NOTE: On your own with this one..no info found
- Monster Mountain (Hendersonville, Tennessee) COUCH NOTE: not a house a trail through the woods!
And for you in Illinois...I found this site by accident which lists all the Haunted Houses in IL. Find it HERE
Well...that is more then enough blatthering from me today...
Thanks for sitting on THE COUCH, hope you enjoyed your stay.
Keep that spark of insanity kids...It helps keep you an individual.


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text: I love detail. Lots and lots of detail. Sometimes I get lost in detail. So it was difficult for me to showcase these beauties without adding my usual dose. This little guy doesn't need any. But I did give him a wee little bit, just for my satisfaction. Colin, atrampinthewoods.wordpress.com, is the photographer of these Red Admirals and has so kindly shared them for anyone to use. I hope I did them justice!


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We are involved in a diverse range of projects coordinated by our distinguished partners. At the same time, we encourage people based in Cyprus to participate in a variety of national, European and international projects and to disseminate the knowledge they gain at the local and the European level.
In the period 2014- 2018, we have offered mobility opportunities to 110 youth workers and young people from Cyprus. The organisation is experienced in the implementation of international projects under the European Commission's Programme "Erasmus+: Youth in Action".
You can find more information on our Partnerships in the section PARTNERSHIPS.


text: This is a rare chance to see the best views in London at the top of BT tower! This space used to be Top of the Tower — a rotating restaurant on the 34th floor that would make one revolution every 23 minutes. This iconic landmark was opened in 1965 and was the place to be for the socialites of that swanky era, with famous diners including The Beatles and Muhammad Ali. The restaurant closed in 1980 and is still closed to the public today. At 581 feet, it was the tallest building in the United Kingdom until 1980 when the NatWest Tower was completed.


text: I'm seriously falling for this new Kate Spade Saturday collection. It is perfect for back to school, and it seems as if we are transitioning into the age of graphic print. What is interesting about KS Saturday is that the brand is selling an overall lifestyle, something I haven't personally seen done before. I feel more connected and inclined to buy from the pop-up shops in New York because the overall lifestyle they are selling is one that I identify with.


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Systematic revisions of global taxa are plagued by the difficulties of inspecting material from wide-ranging field sites and museum collections, coordinating efforts across continents and time zones, and rectifying regional and global taxonomic concepts. Yet revisions of global taxa provide essential information for understanding diversification patterns and providing a roadmap for biodiversity preservation . Providing a subgeneric revisionary framework for tackling cosmopolitan taxa demands a global integration of taxonomic training, specimen collection, data acquisition, and data analysis. Using this revisionary framework to enable future studies in the taxon demands creation of a robust collaborative framework that will grow with the data and the collaborative team.
In this project, we are launching an integrated set of global research and education activities that broaden taxonomic expertise across a wide range of skill levels and strengthen the global taxonomic community. We are leveraging decades of fieldwork and collaboration-building to undertake a global sectional revision of the sedge genus Carex and the embedded genera of tribe Cariceae (in Family Cyperaceae). Carex is among the four largest flowering plant genera worldwide [3, 4] and has not been revised globally since 1909 [5]. Sectional classification is the usual gateway into species identification in Carex, and researchers typically circumscribe Carex research projects according to sections. Despite this fact, sectional classification has evolved more or less independently in different regions of the world, with the result that many taxa are assigned to conflicting sections in different taxonomic treatments or to no section at all. A revised sectional classification would greatly facilitate both conservation of and research on the genus. Our specific themes / goals are:
1. Research Community and Tools: Create a virtual research environment for the Cyperaceae community. A key component of this project is enhancement of the functionality of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE; [6, 7]) that we have established for the Cyperaceae research community (http://cyperaceae.e-monocot.org/). In the proposed project, we will collaborate with ViBRANT / Scratchpads developers and eMonocot to expand the functionality of the Cyperaceae Scratchpad, creating new data structures and a framework for online collaboration in assembling DNA sequence data, snapshots of our growing phylogenetic work, and taxon descriptions at the species and sectional level. Our platform for collaborating on the revision of Carex will thus enhance the informatic toolset for the entire community.
2. Molecular Phylogeny: Create a phylogenetic framework for Carex. Our primary goal is to develop a species-level phylogeny for Carex and identify major lineages that we can use as a framework in revising the sectional classification. To date the most comprehensive published analysis of Cariceae taxa has been a single-gene analysis of ca. 550 species [8], which represents only approximately 25% of the genus. The senior personnel and PIs on this proposal currently have on hand more than 3,400 DNA extractions representing 930 accepted Cariceae taxa. Our sampling plans for this project include five coordinated field-collecting trips and will bring us to an estimated 1,360 species in a hierarchical sampling of 3-10 genes, including two angiosperm DNA barcoding regions already sequenced for hundreds of individuals in the group to provide a globally useful genetic resource.
3. Traits and Diversification: Assemble a database of traits to test diversification patterns and form the basis for predictive classification and monography. There has been very little work to date on the ecological, morphological, and biogeographic dimensions of broad-scale diversification in Carex (e.g., [1, 8-11]). In this study, we will be gathering estimates of climatic niche for all species for which specimen data are available, geographic distributions based on specimen data and published reports, and morphological data measured from herbarium specimens for three focal clades. These will allow us to investigate how rates of morphological and ecological diversification correlate with rates of lineage diversification, convergence and divergence in traits and climatic niche, and the effects of biogeography on lineage and trait diversification. These fundamental questions about the origins of biodiversity also provide insight into ecological and biogeographic relevance of the classification we are developing.
4. Taxonomic Synthesis: Revise the sectional classification of Carex. A robust phylogeny of the genus is only half of the sectional revision; the other half is identifying synapomorphies that define lineages, and assigning valid names to those lineages. We will be conducting two in-person synthesis meetings and several meetings via webconferencing to bring together late-career and junior sedge taxonomists from around the world to critically study the phylogeny and erect a novel classification. In addition, we are utilizing the "Taxon description" data type in the Cyperaceae Scratchpad as a species-level trait database, which we are populateing from floras and monographs to both publish species descriptions and summarize morphological traits of the clades we identify. This stage of the work will result in at least two synthesis papers—one on classification and higher-level nomenclature, one on phylogeny—that we will be publishing under the authorship of "Cariceae Working Group," as well as disseminating via the Cyperaceae Scratchpad.
In addition, we are increasing taxonomic capacity through our broader impacts: training the next generation of systematists, increasing taxonomic readiness in pre-college and undergraduate students, transferring sedge information to broad audiences, and strengthening informatic and genetic taxonomic resources. This training and research infrastructure at a global scale, in a genus of global significance, will overcome a major hurdle to our understanding of the biodiversity of global taxa: the difficulty of getting the cognizant researchers together with interested students on a regular basis and in a collaborative framework to both translate their lifelong knowledge of the taxonomy and make significant taxonomic strides as a research group.


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Centennial College is an independent College established by the University of Hong Kong, and the newest member of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) family. Our English name recognises the founding of the College in the University's centennial year (2011-2012) and pays tribute to its 100 years of academic standing and leadership. We have inherited the strengths and academic values of our parent institution but have adopted a new and innovative approach in our multifaceted, interdisciplinary degree programmes. We believe that our non-traditional liberal education curriculum will not only give students a broader range of knowledge and skills, but also a global view and understanding of the modern world which employers now seek.
The College integrates the philosophy of a liberal education with preparation for life as a global citizen, whether in Hong Kong or abroad. It provides undergraduate programmes on a self-funded basis in the arts, humanities, languages, social sciences and business studies with an emphasis on whole-person education and with special focus on the development of Hong Kong and China. The aim is to nurture a new breed of students who will be able to thrive and contribute to the vibrant economy of the region and beyond.
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