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- Small aerobic Gram-negative coccobacillus found mainly in the respiratory tract.
- Fastidious organism, factors X (hemin, haemophilius from Latin "blood loving") and V (nicotinamide-adenine-dinucleotide) required for growth on chocolate agar, the preferred media
- Haemophilus influenzae: two categories causing human colonization or infection
- Typeable strains: six types generally recognized (Types a-f).
- Encapsulated, type B strain (Hib, with capsular antiphagocytosis and anticomplement virulence factors) historically accounts for most invasive infections and bacteremic pneumonia. Now rarely encountered due to childhood Hib vaccine success.
- H. influenzae serotype a (Hia) increasingly noted as a cause of severe, invasive infection. Emergence due to intrinsic capsular virulence factors of Hia was well as pressure from the success of Hib immunization.
- Predominantly noted in U.S. and Canada. Incidence in Europe, low.
- In one series, accounted for ~30% of invasive H. influenzae infection in Manitoba.
- Type f strain also increasingly recognized as a cause of severe infection, though less common than Hia.
- Non-typeable strains: less invasive and cause more otitis media, epiglottitis, acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis (AECB), sinusitis and nonbacteremic pneumonia.
- Increasingly recognized as a cause of URTIs, pneumonia and occasional bacteremia in all age groups.
- High colonization rates in children, up to 70%.
- Recent data suggest that non-typeable strains (along with Hia) are accounting for greater percentages of invasive Haemophilus disease[4].
- Typeable strains: six types generally recognized (Types a-f).
- Other species: all are part of normal flora of human oral and pharyngeal cavities but may also be causes of bacterial respiratory tract infections and endocarditis, similar to H. influenzae.
- H. parainfluenzae (most common)
- H. parahaemolyticus
- Taxonomy changes: reclassification from Haemophilus spp.[21]
- H. aphrophilus is now Aggregatibacter aphrophilus (see module)
- H. paraphrophilus is now Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus (see module)
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Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, discussed challenges and underlying benefits of irrationalities in our day-to-day life in his opening keynote Saturday afternoon. Punctuated with amusing examples and audience participation, Ariely illustrated the danger of myopic thinking influenced by our, often incorrect, biases.
[For Ariely's interview for the April 2010 issue of Investment Advisor's, click here.]
Beginning on a serious note, Ariely revealed that he was burned seriously some time ago and spent nearly three years recovering in the hospital. It was there he began his study of human behavior. Noting his nurses would quickly, but painfully, remove his bandages, he set about researching the question of how to best accentuate the positive and minimizing the negative over time. He concluded that his nurses, while believing to be acting in his best interest, we're wrong to quickly remove the bandages.
"In the trade-off between displeasure and duration, duration does not matter," he noted. "A high amount of pain that decreases over time in worse than a low amount of pain that increases over time. Why were the nurses so consistently wrong in their thinking? It doesn't matter what we know. Outside stimuli will influence us in a way that will cause us to do what is wrong."
When researching a particular topic, the manner in which the question is asked, the number of choices in the answer and the ease with which someone can engage all affect the outcome. For example, Ariely noted that organ donation varies widely in countries that have common characteristics. Scandinavian countries, in particular, have some population whose organ donation registration is close to 100%, while others barely break 20%. The discrepancy is attributed to something as simple as whether or not citizens can opt-in or opt-out of the program.
His examples, and this portion of his presentation, were meant to illustrate our lack of understanding of our own preferences.
He then applied this discussion to his research on the psychology of money. Specifically, he explained how it relates to choosing among different opportunity costs; how money is relative in terms how much money we spend in given situations, noting the amount is often the same, but the situation will affect how it is allocated; the "pain of paying" and how it differs when using a credit card versus cash; and mental accounting, which infers that money is non-fungible and allocated to different activities, but which Ariely illustrated is not always the case.
"If you went to the theater and realized you lost your $100 dollar ticket, how likely would you be to buy another?" he asked. "If you decided you wanted to buy another, you would naturally infer that performance cost you $200. But what if you lost $100 on the way to the theater? Would you be more or less likely to say the performance cost you $200. More likely, you would only attribute the price of the ticket, $100, to the performance."
The lessons form this, he concluded, is how to identify irrational biases if you don't know you have irrational biases?
"Run experiments," Ariely said. "Take different approaches to the same issue. Ask yourself what conclusions you base on intuition and what you base on research. Then doubt your intuition."


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's attorney general sued an online, for-profit university Wednesday, alleging officials made false promises to entice students and illegally tried to collect their overdue debt.
The suit filed by Attorney General Xavier Becerra against San Diego-based Ashford University alleges the school and its publicly traded parent company, Bridgepoint Education Inc., used illegal business practices to deceive and defraud students.
Ashford is one of the top enrollers of students with military ties, federal data show. The university enrolled more than 15,000 active-duty military students and nearly 8,000 veterans and other students using GI Bill benefits in fiscal 2016.
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The suit filed in Alameda County Superior Court says school representatives lied to prospective students over how much financial aid they could get, the costs of attending, how many academic credits from other schools would transfer to Ashford or from Ashford to other institutions, and about Ashford's ability to prepare students for careers including teaching, medical billing and social work.
It says many of the school's roughly 40,000 students had low incomes and were unable to pay their tuition and other debts, yet Ashford threatened students and imposed unlawful debt collection fees.
More than two-thirds received federal student aid, according to the lawsuit. Nearly three-quarters of its students never graduated. The suit asks a judge to reimburse students, impose civil penalties, and bar the school from similar practices in the future.
Anna Davison, the school's vice president of corporate communications and investor relations, said Bridgepoint institutions serve as a model for how online education can better the lives of people who did not, or who were unable to, pursue more traditional avenues to degrees.
She said Ashford has improved the lives of thousands of students "by providing a high-quality education that serves communities and gives families the opportunity to succeed."
The school will fight the lawsuit, Davison wrote.
Meanwhile, Ashford is also fighting to maintain its eligibility to educate GI Bill students in an ongoing clash with the Department of Veterans Affairs. The university has been unable to procure the appropriate state-level approval required for federal approval to receive VA funds, and earlier this month, VA officials gave Ashford 60 days to comply with the law. If they do not, veteran students will no longer be able to use GI Bill benefits to attend the school.
Becerra said in a statement about the lawsuit that Ashford had stolen the American Dream from its students.
"This for-profit college illegally misled students about their educational prospects and unfairly saddled them with debt," he wrote.
Students only later learned that their degrees would take months or years longer and cost much more than they had been promised, and might not advance their careers, the lawsuit says. Students owe billions of dollars in federal loans, and the school says it is owed hundreds of millions of dollars directly, the suit says.
A bachelor's degree at Ashford is currently expected to cost more than $60,000 including tuition and fees, books and supplies, the suit says, nearly double the cost at San Diego State University or California State University-East Bay, the suit says.
The lawsuit alleges the university used "admissions counselors" who were really salespeople working out of a call center under pressure to meet enrollment targets.
Ashford is also accused of misleading investors and the public in Securities and Exchange Commission filings by overstating the rate of graduates who said that their Ashford degree adequately prepared them for their current job.
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Johannesburg - Griquas earned their right to contest the SuperSport Rugby Challenge final when they beat the Free State XV 27-14 (half-time 24-0) in their semi-final fixture in Kimberley on Saturday.
Griquas were good value for their win and will now face the Pumas in the final at the Bridgton Sports Grounds, in Outdshoorn, on Sunday, July 15.
The Pumas defeated the Sharks XV 30-17 in Nelspruit on Friday night.
There had not been much to choose between the two central franchise teams as they had beaten each other in the round robin stages.
The Northern Cape side would have fancied their chances having managed a flowing win over the Boland Cavaliers in their quarter-final.
But the Free Staters will also have come into the match in confident mood after claiming a massive scalp in beating Western Province in Cape Town in their quarter-final encounter.
But it was the home team who would strike first when George Whitehead landed a fifth-minute penalty.
Lock Pieter van Vuuren then forced his way over for the opening try of the match in the 22nd minute and Whitehead kicked the conversion as Griquas took a 10-0 lead much to the delight of their home fans.
There was more celebration on the half hour mark as hooker Khwezi Mkhafu scored his team's second try and Whitehead again added the conversion.
It was all Griquas as left wing Kyle Steyn rounded off a superb half for the home team by scoring the third try on the stroke of half-time. Whitehead added the extras for a 24-0 scoreline.
Free State eventually got on the scoreboard after 50 minutes when No 8 Jasper Wiese crashed over for a try which was converted by flyhalf Ernst Stapelberg before Whitehead slotted another penalty for Griquas.
The visitors were starting to find some momentum and centre Carel-Jan Coetzee narrowed the deficit to 13 points with 19 minutes to play as he scored for Stapelberg to convert.
But Griquas had done enough in the first half and held out in the second to complete a superb win.
Tries: Pieter van Vuuren, Khwezi Mkhafu, Kyle Steyn
Conversions: George Whitehead (3)
Penalties: George Whitehead (2)
Free State XV
Tries: Jasper Wiese, Carel-Jan Coetzee
Conversions: Ernst Stapelberg (2)
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Can United Nations delegates spread the Y2K gospel in their countries soon enough? Up in the observer's gallery of the United Nations' Trusteeship Council, the prophet of the apocalypse looked relaxed. Unperturbed, even. "This is enormously reassuring to me, that delegates from 120 countries have come here to talk about Y2K," said Peter de Jager, the Canadian technology consultant who has been the world's foremost consciousness-raiser when it comes to the millennium bug. "I think we've averted the worst of the dangers facing us. It's good to see this many governments working on it." De Jager was at the United Nations Dec. 11, 1998, for the first-ever National Y2K Coordinators Meeting, organised by Ambassador Ahmad Kamal of Pakistan, chairman of the United Nations Working Group on Informatics. The one-day session brought together Y2K coordinators from countries as disparate as Azerbaijan, Iceland, Libya, St. Kitts, the United States and Uruguay. Almost two-thirds of the United Nations' 185 member nations were in attendance, a percentage that pleased Kamal, considering that he'd given the delegates only eight weeks' notice. (U.N. observers say it usually takes one or two years to put together such an inclusive conference.) Much of the content of the day's presentations was basic Y2K strategy, highlighting testing, contingency planning and crisis management and emphasising the critical interconnections between organisations and nations.
But several sessions, closed to the press, did single out countries lagging in their Y2K efforts. A representative of the International Civil Aviation Union, for example, rattled off a list of countries that had not yet responded to the organisation's surveys about air traffic control systems and might be targeted for official sanctions.
Perhaps the meeting's biggest accomplishment, though, was a social one: putting names with faces and distributing a directory of Y2K coordinators and their contact information. That way, coordinators will be able to form their own regional working groups. "One of the great goals of this meeting was to have people know each other and be able to communicate directly," said John Koskinen, chair of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion. "We don't have time for the normal diplomatic procedures." Y2K as a Global Virus Ambassador Kamal's informatics committee has been addressing Y2K issues relevant to the United Nations and its member nations since 1996. But it was only last year that he realised few member nations were talking with their neighbours and trading partners about Y2K.
"Y2K, like a virus, can jump across [borders] because of the interconnectedness of computers," Kamal said. "This meeting has a single-point agenda: Y2K. We need to explore all the nooks and crannies of this particular problem." Several countries, according to Kamal, had already started working with others in their region to confront issues like trade, telecommunications, banking transfers and power. For example, European nations like Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands are all connected to the same electrical grid and are working together to prevent dominolike failures.
While electrical power was a particularly charged topic at the conference, several other sectors were on the hot list because of their interwoven nature.
Maritime shipping is one area that, according to Koskinen, has not yet received enough attention; he noted that about 95 percent of the goods imported into the United States enter by ship, and if ships and ports aren't compliant, that flow could be interrupted. Telecommunications and financial services were also discussed at length. So was national defence: What if the systems that watch for military incursions go haywire, launching missiles in error? A representative of the U.S. Department of Defence assured delegates during a closed session that missiles default to "off," not "on," if something goes wrong.
Emergency Readiness
Some delegates expressed concern that citizens, fearing records of their bank accounts would be wiped out because of the year 2000 problem, would withdraw their assets and essentially stash them under a mattress. During the closed session, a representative from the Federal Reserve suggested that all the countries present may want to consider printing more currency notes in advance. The possibility of runs on banks, he seemed to be saying, is a real one. "You don't want to have a situation [in your country] where you have no currency notes," said Kamal.
Some question that strategy, though. First, distributing extra currency can result in inflation. And second, it can signal to the citizenry that removing money from bank accounts is prudent, said another meeting attendee, Howard Rubin, CEO of Long Island, New York-based Rubin Systems Inc.
Others suggested that more comprehensive crisis management plans would be necessary on a national level. How might citizens react to power outages or interruptions in the food supply? "The spectre of public panic has been raised by several publications, and many stories in the press indicate that a number of countries may be developing plans to handle civil disorder or panic-from massive cash withdrawals from banks to looting," said Joseph Connor, the United Nations' under-secretary-general for management, in an address to the assembly.
Accordingly, government agencies responsible for aid in emergencies, such as the Federal Emergency Management Association, need to be prepared.
Private and Public Cooperation
At a press conference the day before the meeting, seven delegates gathered with Kamal and Koskinen to discuss how their countries had been handling Y2K.
One issue they raised was that, in most parts of the world, there has not yet been enough cooperation between the public and private sectors.
"They're not working as closely as they should," said Kamal. "The private sector is not even working with itself. There is a curtain of secrecy. It may be because of fear of lawsuits or loss of competitive edge. But the government sector must work with the civil sector and private sector to solve this problem." Don Cruickshank, head of Action 2000, the British government's Y2K campaign, said his committee includes executives from the private sector.
Carlos Jarque, chairman of Mexico's Year 2000 National Conversion Commission, said that in his country, universities offer Y2K training courses for executives of small- and medium-size businesses free of charge. In South Africa, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange requires companies to disclose their Y2K status-or else they will be delisted. Additionally, the country has a national operations room that aggregates information, sent electronically, on the private sector's Y2K progress.
The Plan for 1999
While Kamal left open the possibility of a follow-up national coordinators meeting, it's likely that much of the cooperation between countries in 1999 will take place on a regional level rather than at another international meeting at the United Nations.
Rubin suggested another kind of conclave. He would like to see a smaller-scale coordinators meeting take place in the United States. "I'd like to see Koskinen have a convocation of all the people working on Y2K at state and local government agencies," Rubin said. Rubin has also proposed a Y2K "Peace Corps" of consultants, experts and programmers who could volunteer assistance to countries around the world that are encountering difficulty in combating the millennium bug.
For most of the delegates, it was time to return noses to grindstones once the conference ended. Some delegates were fretting about the amount of work left to do in just more than a year. But others were noticing silver linings, especially as they related to weather conditions at the turn of the century.
"Remember, in January 2000 it will be winter in the northern hemisphere," said Rodrigo Moraga Guerrero, the Republic of Chile's coordinator for international cooperative issues on Y2K, smirking slightly. "But in our hemisphere, it will be summer." No one disputed, though, that there was still a daunting amount of work to do; for many of the delegates, attending the U.N. summit was their first duty as a Y2K national coordinator.
Back at his home base in Brampton, Ontario, de Jager was still adjusting to speaking about Y2K in a mellow tone. "My tense has changed," he says. "If we hadn't fixed this, we would've had catastrophic consequences. Yesterday most countries weren't doing anything. Today they're working on it, and a lot of work can get done in a year." Scott Kirsner, a Boston-based writer, is working on a series of articles for CIO on the Y2K problem. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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Holton in Jackson County, Kansas — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)
Jackson County Courthouse Horse Water Trough
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Location. 39° 27.884′ N, 95° 44.095′ W. Marker is in Holton, Kansas, in Jackson County. Marker is at the intersection of 5th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, on the left when traveling west on 5th Street. Marker is at the northeast corner of the county courthouse grounds. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Holton KS 66436, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 13 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Edward D. Holton (within shouting distance of this marker); Fort Jim Lane (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); Civil War Memorial (about 500 feet away); Company E, 137th Infantry Regt, 35th Infantry Div (approx. ¼ mile away); Livestock Water Trough (approx. ¼ mile away); Battle of the Spurs (approx. 7 miles away); The Wetmore Calaboose (approx. 12.3 miles away); Don Clarence Rising (approx. 12.7 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Holton.
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1. The Early History of Holton, Kansas.
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Dignity as a Way of Life – A Treatise on the Diversity of Human Dignity
Dignity is an essential measure of human life. But what do we actually mean when we talk about dignity? Peter Bieri's new book is an eloquent discussion of this central facet of our lives. Bieri approaches the subject of dignity through everyday examples from life and literature. In so doing he demonstrates how dignity is much more than an abstract concept and constitutes a particular way of being in the world: a pattern for how individuals think, experience things and act.
Bieri identifies three conceptually distinct yet interrelated dimensions of human dignity concerning the way in which an individual is dealt with by others, how an individual deals with others, and how an individual relates to themselves in terms of their sense of self-worth. The first two dimensions involve interpersonal relationships whereas the third addresses how the value we place upon ourselves influences how we see others, which in turn affects how others perceive our dignity. The book investigates these three dimensions of dignity in eight chapters which discuss how dignity has a bearing across the spectrum of our day to day experiences.
Bieri's book could be read as a complete manifesto for a balanced and respectful way of life and yet its readable style and clear structure also make it possible for readers to dip in and out of the text in order to focus on how dignity relates to a particular sort of experience. In his discussion of how dignity is involved with the elementary human need for independence, Bieri explains the roles of work and money in determining dignity. In the chapter on honesty detailed examples are given to show how lies, whether simple or complex, affect the dignity of both the liar and the person being lied to. The chapter on encounters introduces dignity in relationships, covering its manifestation throughout the course of a relationship. It addresses topics such as commitment, stability, manipulation, deception and abuse. The discussion of intimacy is concerned with the dividing line between privacy and openness, which varies from culture to culture and from person to person. Finally, Bieri considers how our acceptance of our mortality shapes our dignity, which accordingly influences our conduct during times of illness or hardship.
While this title will certainly be of interest to an academic audience, Bieri's accessible and wide-ranging book is written in plain language which reinforces its considerable popular appeal.
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By Arthur Allen
POLITICO, March 8, 2018
President Donald Trump last year hailed a multibillion-dollar initiative to create a seamless digital health system for active duty military and the VA that he said would deliver "faster, better, and far better quality care."
But the military's $4.3 billion Cerner medical record system has utterly failed to achieve those goals at the first hospitals that went online. Instead, technical glitches and poor training have caused dangerous errors and reduced the number of patients who can be treated, according to interviews with more than 25 military and Veterans Affairs health IT specialists and doctors, including six who work at the four Pacific Northwest military medical facilities that rolled out the software over the past year.
Prescription requests came out wrong at the pharmacy. Physician referrals failed to go through to specialists. Physicians were unsure how to do basic things such as request lab reports. Doctors complained it could take 10 minutes to get into the system, which then frequently kicked them out.
"We took a broken system and just broke it completely," said one doctor, who like most of those interviewed requested anonymity because they lacked military authorization to speak about the project.
These and other problems, particularly concerns about the VA's ability to share records with civilian health systems, contributed to VA Secretary David Shulkin's decision in December to delay signing a $10 billion contract to install Cerner at the VA.
Despite the startup issues, which have been glossed over in public discussion of the project, the White House continues to make the overhaul of the military and VA medical records a centerpiece of its government reform efforts.
"This was a huge win for our service," Jared Kushner told a health IT conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, referring to Shulkin's decision last spring to use Cerner following consultations with Kushner's office. "The president wants to make interoperable health records available for all Americans."
But Kushner's comments gave the impression the military had already created an electronic record system, and was just waiting for the VA to connect to it. In fact, the military's MHS Genesis project, which started rolling out in February 2017, is still in the early stages, with completion scheduled for 2022.
And the tough experiences described by doctors and others suggest a thorny path ahead.
Efficiency promises notwithstanding, the new system has resulted in significant slowdowns so far, said physicians at the two hospitals that went live with MHS Genesis in September and October, respectively. At Bremerton, the system is so cumbersome and confusing that doctors who saw 18 to 20 patients a day now see 12 or 14, they said.
Shulkin's decision to delay the contract won widespread praise, but critics bemoan his decision last year to shutter an internal program to modernize the VA's existing digital record system, known as VistA. Many health IT experts left the agency after cancellation of the program, which involved hundreds of staff and contractors.
"We're doing a once-in-a-lifetime replacement of an … [existing electronic health record system] that's pretty functional — some of our physicians like it better than Epic or Cerner," said a recently retired VA official. "Why replace it with something that's basically the same?"
ONC chief Donald Rucker lays out his agency's very full plate
By Mike Miliard
Healthcare IT News, March 7, 2018
In an evening session at HIMSS18 on Tuesday, National Coordinator for Health IT Donald Rucker, MD, sat down for a candid talk about an array of issues related to federal healthcare policy.
On what makes interoperability so hard for healthcare:
What makes it hard is that you have to solve for multiple things at once. We have to solve simultaneously for just the physical wiring, the interoperability stack. We have to solve for the simple syntactic standards of data transmission. We have to come to some consensus for semantic interoperability: what was the meaning of what was transmitted. And then finally, we have to deal with the business case. And the business cases are hard to deal with because some of these cases are virtual things in the future, involving competitors, and business models that don't exist at the present. And if that weren't enough, we have to do it with privacy and security. That's what makes it hard.
By Don McCanne, M.D.
If we were to fulfill the dream of having immediate Internet access to any prior medical records throughout the nation, it was important that IT systems be interoperable. However, when David Brailer was appointed George W. Bush's first IT guru, he insisted that the systems be developed in the private sector, rejecting a proven system that we, the taxpayers, already owned – the VA's VistA system.
It was clear at the time that the private vendors did not want interoperability with any other systems than their own. Each wanted to become the dominant system, Microsoft-style, so that new purchasers of health IT systems would have to go with the dominant vendor to ensure interoperability. As it turns out, there are too many systems, and they are not interoperable. But the Trump administration is now claiming that they will bring interoperability to us, but through the private sector.
So what does the current IT guru, Donald Rucker, have to say about interoperability? He says, "we have to deal with the business case, and the business cases are hard to deal with because some of these cases are virtual things in the future, involving competitors, and business models that don't exist at the present." The business case.
In a speech at the same IT conference in Las Vegas this week, Jared Kushner is taking credit for the "huge win" for bringing in the private vendor Cerner to replace the VistA system, saying, "The president wants to make interoperable health records available for all Americans." Well the interoperability is intended to be between the military's health IT system and the VA system. He seems to assume that the military system being designed by Cerner is a given, but this report indicates that it has been a disaster and it has hardly even gotten off the ground. And that is going to be duplicated for the VA?
It's too bad because the VistA system was undergoing modernization when the new administration shut the process down (and lost hundreds of highly competent staff and contractors).
Insisting on private sector solutions for interoperability has been a disaster, just as the private sector has been a disaster in financing of our health care system when a public single payer system would be vastly superior. Is Trump going to put Jared in charge of further privatizing our health care financing? Can hardly wait.
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Aussie band This Other Eden's debut EP: unique and musically tight
By Melanie Scrafton, Perth, Australia
REVIEW: This Other Eden – Six Seasons EP
What happens when you combine three musically talented brothers with accomplished bassist and an incredibly diverse vocalist – This Other Eden.
These boys have a plethora of previous experience in the Perth music scene having all been in other notable bands over the last few years.
Their debut EP Six Seasons was released at the end of January and has been well received by their growing legion of Perth fans. All five tracks are musically tight with instantly likable melodies that fuse the rock, punk & hardcore sounds into something quite unique and original. Lyrically they step beyond the generic writing that we are all bored of hearing, which makes the tracks more interesting. Vocalist John Kelly has strong vocal ability and performs live seemingly effortlessly. You can be confident that when you see the band live they are every bit as polished as the studio recording. The first single off the EP 'Shake This' has received great reviews from their fans, check it out by clicking on the link below. The EP is available on iTunes and I recommend you to listen, after that I have no doubt you will buy it.
Perth band This Other Eden formed in 2011 are John Kelly – Vocals, Grom Lofthouse – Guitar, Ando Lofthouse – Guitar, Benn Lofthouse – Drums & Luke York – Bass.
Described as Rock, Pop Punk
This Other Eden 'Shake This'
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This sentence gets banded around by both performers & consumers for as long as I can remember.
But what does that actually mean?
I can only speak for myself, so I will attempt to describe what that means to me. Music can change my headspace from negative to positive within minutes, it can improve my attitude, it stimulates and inspires me, it provides a sound track to important life events and memories, it unites me with like minded souls and saves me from despair when I am challenged by life circumstances. Music gives me hope.
To show my appreciation I work to promote the work of many creative artists, I buy their material, I purchase tickets to see them perform and I spend my money of their merchandise. By supporting and contributing to the international music industry, I play my part in securing its future.
You are welcome!
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definitely help when clearing up a misunderstanding. The quote(s) you send to your husband is loving, it shows them you care, and it tells them they are appreciated.
In the Book of Proverbs in the bible, it mentions that a husband who is wise is kind, compassionate, honest, hard working, truthful, generous, has a gentle tongue, is a man of integrity, is willing to admit when he is wrong, and a peacemaker. All things that Jesus himself, portrayed while being on earth.
Where would you be without your husband? How does he make you feel? Is he your peanut butter to your jelly? Does he put the happy in your happiness? If you answer yes, then here's are a few husband quotes to send his way.
- Whenever you're having a bad day, remember this...I LOVE YOU
- You text him, he doesn't text back. He was obviously so excited that you texted him that he fainted.
- If I had a flower for every time you made me smile and laugh I'd have a garden to walk in forever.
- You really shouldn't say I LOVE YOU unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.
- Looking at you takes my breath away.
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- You are beautiful.
- Dear Husband, I prize your love more than gold. Or all the riches that a bank account can hold. Your love is like a river, that can not be quench. I love you in such a way that I can not repay. I pray that the heavens reward us in such a way to enjoy one another each and every day.
- I prize your love more than gold or all the riches that a bank account can hold.
- Dear Husband, You are the crown and blessing of my life. You love me so much and this why I am a happy wife.
- Why I Love My Husband: Every breath he takes, every move he makes, every bit of his being, lives to make me happy.
- Love isn't always perfect. It isn't a fairytale or a storybook. And it doesn't always come easy. Love is overcoming obstacles, facing challenges, fighting to be together, holding on and never letting go. It is a short word, easy to spell, difficult to define and impossible to live without. Love is realizing that every hour, every minute, and every second was worth it, because you did it together.
- Home is where the heart is? NO home is where my HUSBAND is.
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- I'm not just his wife. I'm his fan
- My husband says he will leave me if I don't stop shopping. God, I am going to miss that man.
- Being married is like having a best who doesn't remember anything you say.
- Marriage does not guarantee you will be together forever, it's only paper. It takes love, respect, trust, understanding, friendship, and faith in your relationship to make it last.
- The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.
- A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
- Marriage lets you annoy one special person for the rest of your life.
- My husband thinks I'm crazy, but I'm not the one who married me.
- Happy the marriage where the husband is the head and the wife the heart.
- Don't every stop dating your wife. Don't every stop flirting with your husband.
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- God created the marriage relationship to be a blessing to everyone involved.
- A husband should cherish his wife. This means that she is to be treated with tenderness and affection.
- A man shall leave his father and mother and be joined unto wife and they two shall be one flesh.
- He that loves his wife, love himself. For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherish it.
- For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church.
- No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
- A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek him just to find her.
- It is truly universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in what of a wife.
- Her children arise up and call her blessed; her husband also and he praiseth her.
- He who finds a wife, finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord.
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The Oracle JD Edwards E1 Senior Finance Support Consultant will be responsible for supporting and maintaining JD Edwards EnterpriseOne systems for our global customer base, liaising with third party as well as internal resources to ensure optimum application performance is achieved & proposing added-value solutions.
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- Provide problem management to proactively reduce the frequency or impact of incidents on the customers' business.
- Mentor and support junior consultants with functional questions and issues.
- Demonstrate senior level business acumen.
- Initiate and manage effective relationships between Global Support teams and with the Redfaire group.
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- Ensure that application issues reported are being dealt with in a timely manner according to prioritisation and communicate effectively on the status of issues being dealt with.
- Provide an account manager role to our customers and attend service review meetings as and when required.
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Three beautiful business models
Silicon Valley puts tremendous focus and attention around products and their interfaces, interactions, and form-factors. And with good reason because it's really hard to 1.) distill abstract human wants and needs into actionable insights, and then 2.) productize those insights into apps, websites, or devices. Within the last 5-10 years, the technology component in many classes of products have become more and more of a commodity. In conjunction, the target demographics have expanded from just geeky early adopters to virtually everyone in the world. As a result, companies today compete more and more on design and interface. In fact, the very best products have an essence of aesthetics ascribed to them. They're elegant and beautiful, and even sometimes get put into modern art museums.
But with one hand that gives, the other hand must take. Behind every product is a business, and in business, someone's got to pay for something. The aesthetics of product, something you can see or touch, are apparent. However, there's also something beautiful about business models that simply work. Often times, tried and true old-school business models work the best, and that makes sense because the point of a business (i.e. make more money than you lose, and the greater that difference, the better) hasn't changed over the course of human history. But modern technology has made certain classic business models much more compelling. Here are three categories of businesses I find especially interesting for today and tomorrow:
Addiction i.e. stable, recurring revenue with low churn and high virality #
The most base manifestation of this business model is narcotics. The drug trade is so compelling that even after over a trillion USD spent on the War on Drugs, countless people killed, and many more locked up, business is booming. Let me be clear here: I'm not saying that dealing drugs is beautiful. I'm simply noting from an academic perspective that the business model behind it has ruthlessly elegant characteristics: consistent and stable recurring revenue, low user churn, and built-in viral mechanism for user acquisition. As long as folks get hooked faster than they can get clean, the business grows.
Translating this into the technology industry, the closest parallel is gaming (especially those monetized through subscriptions or micro-transactions). World of Warcraft, a subscription-based PC game, at its peak was grossing an estimated 810MM to 1.7B a year from its 10MM subscriber base. With mobile taking off and the gaming demographic becoming more casual, the subscription twist has given way to a micro-transactional twist where players purchase small bonuses and special powers to boost their experience in game — sort of like taking a hit of your choice of drug. Some players, the whales, binge and drop thousands on these games. The games of choice today like Clash of Clans and Candy Crush (at peak, both estimated to gross over 2MM in revenue per day) have carried the companies behind them to billion and multi-billion dollar valuations. The economics are great: micro-transactions +advertisements offer consistent, stable recurring revenue; players get caught up and start investing into the game; and of course, the more the merrier, so folks hook in their friends.
Pre-selling i.e. no inventory risk / no account receivables #
There's a lot of overhead in running a traditional physical goods business. Between coming up with a product idea and delivering it into a consumer's hands are a bunch of costs. Some of the biggest risks are 1.) projecting out how much of the product to manufacture, 2.) storing the inventory in a warehouse or storefront, and 3.) often for manufacturers and wholesale distributors, collecting on account receivables (invoices).
These risks are mitigated if not eliminated by pre-selling. Only recently though has pre-selling become large-scale viable; the Internet has made it a lot easier to organize people across geography and timezone and bundle up disparate demand. A standout business built on this model is Teespring, a company that makes customized t-shirts, perfect for student groups and other small clubs or interest groups. Teespring knows exactly how many shirts to print, has no inventory risk and minimal storage costs because each t-shirt is already accounted for, and best of all, it's all pre-paid. The business is only a couple years old, and from what I hear about their annual revenue run rate, it's a money-printing machine.
Marketplace #
The market-maker middle-man is a classic service, connecting buyers and sellers. Before the Internet, marketplaces to find the right people to do business with were either non-existent or hard to access. For each specific vertical, you either had to be connected yourself, hire someone that could make the right intros, or in more organized verticals, look people up in specialized directories (Aside: Recently, I came across a massive, nicely bound hardcover book published in the 90's that literally just listed the contact information for the partners and staff of a bunch of venture capital firms. It looked like it cost a lot of money).
The Internet has made it possible to create open, global marketplaces that consolidate the discovery and matchmaking process. This has happened across a ton of different verticals, and the creators of these marketplaces accrue all the economic value that once was spread amongst localized, ad-hoc ones. EBay is a gigantic business around basically consolidating garage sales. Airbnb is another great example that basically consolidates couch surfing.
What's really exciting to me these days is the same approach applied to finance and lending. Lending is one of the oldest businesses in history, and 21st century iterations of this business like Lending Club are really interesting. The old school financial institutions have a giant spread between the rates they charge borrowers (especially those who're subprime) and the interest they pay out to lenders i.e. people who deposit money with them. Lending Club sees this disparity and sits nicely in the middle. By being smart and figuring out how to narrow the spread and match borrowers and investors, they make it cheaper to borrow money for borrowers and serve as a better investment for lenders. All the while, Lending Club is making money off fees from both the borrower and the lender and passing through the default risk. A win for everyone!
None of the business models I've discussed are really novel, but they're applied in novel ways using novel technologies. While there's nothing tangible to call beautiful, the end results are systems that not just work and self-sustain, but work beautifully and flourish. There's a sweet spot where Silicon Valley product aesthetics + know-how and old school business models collide. Some call it "software eating the world"; I call it beauty coming together.
Addendum: #
Luxury (i.e. Veblen goods) is an interesting business model, but I don't think it's future-proof. With signaling goods (e.g. designer clothes, luxury sports cars, art), the more expensive the product, the more desirable it is. Being in a position to taste-make and command premiums to do so is certainly a great place to be.
However, I think this market is in the wrong direction of technology. In pure software, marginal cost of a new unit is zero, while of course for each new Louis Vuitton bag or each new Rolex, there's costs for material and craftsmanship. But projecting forward into a world with ubiquitous, sophisticated 3D printing, the value of material and craftsmanship attenuate. In this scenario, luxury retailers will have to adapt their business model. And I believe they're starting to do so already, as they seem to be focusing more on experiential value of the in-shop experience and creating a lifestyle, and not purely focusing on the product themselves.
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Sunday, February 27, 2000
@ home 1950hrs
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Went to B&N again today. My usual Sunday evening haunt. Girls in the cafe recognized me; said, "Mocha?" Yep. "Whipped cream, right?" Right.
Wrote in my paper journal while starting on the mocha. Wrote questions to myself like, "Why am I here? What is my relation to other people?" Shit like that.
Spent some time in the political science section looking for something mildly stimulating that wouldn't stimulate my wallet to empty itself completely. Nothing. Thomas Friedman, Arianna Huffington, Jim Hightower. All good, I'm sure, but too expensive.
Did the travel section thing for a while. Nothing in travel essays. Still waiting for my order of On Mexican Time to come in from eZillion.com (an Austin business).
While sitting checking out Bukowski I haven't read, I heard a guy ask the info desk for John Knowles' A Separate Peace. While they all debated over how to spell Mr. Knowles' last name, I went over and picked the book up. Took it to the two guys who were inquiring and said, "John Knowles' A Separate Peace." Beautiful, short, red-headed girl behind the desk smiled and said, "Thank youuuuuu."
The rest of the weekend I spent with my family landscaping the backyard. Shoveled two truckloads of dirt and laid out one truckload of sod. Physical labor, yum. Gave me flashbacks of the Air Force.
Listening to Bob Marley. So much trouble in the world, doncha know.
Where are all our Bob Dylans and Bob Marleys and people like that? Are they extinct? Limited edition? We need a couple for this generation. Be largely ignored, probably.
I know this entry sucks as much as you do if not more.
Court date for my divorce is March 9. Yeah, baby.
Parents going out of town and taking the sis and bro for Spring Break. I work. Work sucks.
My supervisor at work sucks. I think his ass is still on the rag. I'll bring him some Mydol on my last day. Fucker.
"We refuse to be what you wanted us to be. We are what we are. That's the way it's going to be." Zaelit helped me pick out this CD at Keesler. He's a big Marley fan.


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TMSRRE part 7: Paulina
Paulina Nierodzik @ Mango (Poland), Next (NY) She walks and it walks. In French we use that idiomatic expression to say something is going well - ça marche, literally it walks. French words that brings back some good old memories from Paris, back to the day we met Paulina Nierodzik for the first time, backstage at Vivienne Westwood. The young lady, found and cherished by Next Paris went her own way little by little, step by step before arriving in New York. First season, hopes reloaded and better beware if you didn't believe... [Lire la suite]
Twit the Twins
Patrycja Marciniak @ Mango (Poland), Next (NY) After the selective boutique from Warsaw, it's time to focus on a Polish powerhouse. Same country, other atmosphere. We recently featured EML winner from Mango, Dominika Lukiewicz and are going to have a closer look at two more stunners from the same agencies. The Marciniak sisters, the strawberry-blond sensations. Both are currently adding a little bit of speed to their career through a trip in NYC, signing with Next Models over there. Redhead love crossing the ocean and gets... [Lire la suite]
Capture the magic...
We love Poland as the source of many inspiring new faces with among them probably the next Malgosia, Anja, Anna, Magdalena, Marcelina, Kasia... the list of polish models that have already earned their place in the spotlight is already quite long. And always ready to be longer. Think of Kinga Luk in particular, and lots of other promising young ones in general. There wouldn't be enough place to name them all here !Our focus is now moving on to one of the photographers behind the fantastic image we have from polish models. Lukasz... [Lire la suite]


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ISO/TS 16949 Piles on the Requirements This Year
In 2014 based on a statement made by the IATF, there was a general feeling that the Automotive Industry would not upgrade the ISO TS 16949 standard to the new ISO 9001. Hearing this news caused some general dismay in the Automotive Industry. In a survey conducted that year, the Tier One suppliers to the Automotive Industry related their desire to update their management systems to ISO 9001. Additionally, they were not happy with the Customer Specific Requirements or CSRs which are quite onerous in the Automotive Industry. Note, many years ago QS 9000, the predecessor to ISO TS 16949, was written to reduce the proliferation of standards in the Automotive Industry. The number of new requirements coming from both the OEMs and Tier Ones in the last few years definitely looks like a return to the pre QS 9000 days. (More...)
The Role of Leadership in ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 - by Chad Kymal
ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2015 have clear
expectations for top management. Not only is top management accountable for the "effectiveness" of the QMS and EMS, they
now have specific tasks ranging from establishing
objectives to supporting relevant managers
in their roles. Both standards require that
management integrate the requirements into the
"organization's business process", creating the
immediate need for an Integrated Management
System (IMS). In the QMS, they will need to work
on the planning process, to ensure that the QMS/
EMS meet the intended outcomes, as well as to
establish performance objectives.(More...)
Summary of Nine New Standards Including AS9100, ISO/TS 16949, ISO 13485 - by Dan Reid
There are a number of significant ISO management
system standards currently under revision. Some of these
standards that are being revised include: ISO/TS 16949,
AS9100:2016 (rev D), ISO 14001:2015, ISO 9001:2015, ISO
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AIAG will soon begin offering Lean Workshops. The format is simple. Up to five companies
sign up for workshops that include two days of training in Lean concepts at AIAG
for up to 5 participants from each of the five companies. This is then followed
by a 3-day workshop, at each company's facility. (More...)
Auditing the Process Focus - Taken from The Auditor, March/April 2007
An organization's processes must be measured, monitored and improved. Organizations
tend to draw artificial boundaries between what they do and don't want audited.
Be sure your organization hasn't just repackaged ISO 9001 or ISO/TS 16949 procedures.
Happy (Audit) Trails - by Chad Kymal (This article originally appeared in Quality
Digest Magazine, March 2007 (© 2007 QCI International))
Three basic audit trails are: business planning and management (BPM) review, new
product development (NPD), provision and production and service provision. Completing
these audit trails will allow the auditor to discover if the organization has a
process-driven system. (More...).
Breakaway Lean - 50/50/20 in six months by Chad Kymal, Chief Technical Officer -
Omnex's Lean approach is a highly structured results oriented process that guarantees
results in the relatively short time frame of six months. What does 50/50/20 mean?
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in inventory, a 50% increase in throughput and a 20% reduction in operational cost
in six months. (More...)
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skills and knowledge in applying them to the DMAIC Breakthrough Strategy. (More...)
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November 2006 issue of Quality Digest 2006 QCI International)
When viewed from the perspective of a production worker, the quality improvement
system at most factories could be, well, improved. One method for achieving this
would by a truly enterprise software that contains analysis for top management and
input from the production worker. Don Cherry and Greg Gruska examine the subject.
Enterprise Wide Integrated Management Systems - What Are They? (Originally printed
in the November 2006 issue of Quality Magazine 2006 BNP Media)
Having once correctly identified that quality software was going enterprise, quality
visionary Chad Kymal predicts the future of quality software. The enterprise must
be integrated, and quality systems must be integrated in a single software package.
Semiconductor Quality Initiatives (Originally printed in the April 2006 issue
of Quality Digest magazine 2006 QCI International)
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Started on Facebook via this post. Now I am bringing it here.
While I was at the back of the pack struggling with my own race in this year's Leadville Trail 100, there was something brewing up front. Rob Krar was the easy favorite in the race. Heck, our local RunColo.com even joked about the landslide prediction by making the contest about who would come in second place to him. The talk was Krar all week in town as well. Everybody loves a fresh story.
However, there are a bunch of runners in the next 4 spots that are friends of mine. They work hard. They train on course. They put the work in. So when I saw what unfolded up front by reviewing post race, I felt like somebody had to say something about this.
So what I noticed was that Rob's GPS route didn't match the course on Strava. Specifically around the Winfield turn around. That's odd.
Then I read Ian Sharman (3rd) mention Rob going off course in his blog.
Then I heard Rob on Ultrarunner Podcast and he admitted to this. He just kept his head down and cruised passed a turn. He ended up running the 2012 course that went to the campground at Winfield and then he came back into Winfield from the opposite direction. Ian speculated trail sabotage but nobody else reported as such.
Mike Aish talked about the situation on the Elevation Trail podcast. He is in a tough position. Who wants to win on a technicality? Mike works hard and I am sure he would have wanted to duel in the final miles. He knows Krar was the stronger runner that day. But that's not reasonable in racing. Shit happens. And that's why we run the race. You never know what might happen on any given day.
Talking with crews that were at Winfield during the leader's run through, they confirmed to me that Rob never came down on the road to Winfield inbound where they were crewing. Then he suddenly was going outbound on the road. Where did he come from? The wrong way.
Using Google Earth to roughly measure, Rob's path was 1.77 miles with ~500ft decline and 250ft incline, while the proper course is 0.7 miles 250ft decline and 35ft incline. So it was a harder and longer effort.
People that argue the other side give some reasons like:
1) He is a good guy. Whatever. That's not even a serious argument in competition.
2) He is an honest guy. Then he would have raised this issue prior to hoisting the trophy. If he did and it wasn't publicized, then let us know. But he did publish the Strava and had talked about it on the podcast. So he isn't exactly hiding it either.
3) He ran a longer harder course. So? You don't get to make up the course on your own. There are time and space considerations you avoid by not running the right course. You don't trip on the same rock that everybody else does. The other competitors do not see you and get to feed off your presence. Who knows what you did on the unsupervised trail? You changed the game.
What do the rules say? Leadville 100 Run Athlete Guide 2014, pg 17, Racer Code of Conduct Section:
Rule # 4: Do not cut switchbacks. You must follow the trail as it is has been marked. STAY ON THE TRAIL!
Rule # 15: Violation of any rule will be grounds for disqualification. Race Management reserves the right to bar any runners from competing in this and any future Leadville Trail 100 races
Rule #17: Decisions of the Race Director and Race Management are Final.
I argue that solid determined focus that Rob runs with and benefits him…actually did him in.
What I am calling for? Leadville Race Management needs to address this. You have a runner that went off course and did not return to the place they left. What say you? Its OK because it did not benefit him. Or its not OK under any circumstance. They rules are gray at best.
I am not calling on Rob to do anything.
Screw you if you think I am a spoil sport. This is a great topic as the sport gains credibility. But more importantly Leadville is my town and my race. People talked shit about the quality of the race last year. We came back with a better race this year. But now I feel like a real issue is being ignored. To be the reputable race that this series is and needs to be, issues need to be addressed publicly and openly. Leadville's survival depends on it.
The same day as this post went up, the Leadville Race Series issued a statement about this matter. Here it is. Basically they say the win stands. I commend them for addressing the matter directly. Per Rule 17 above, there is nothing more to see here.
However, I do hope we see some guidance show up in the future athlete handbook above leaving the course.
I will leave the post stand unedited as I still think this was a healthy debate to have. But I have edited the title and added the word NOT into it for clarity for that arrive in years to come.
Congrats to Rob and all the finishers. This was never about them. It was about understanding the rules and how they are enforced so we can have a better race next year.


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Little Cabin in the Woods
There is nothing like getting away from it all. Hubby and I did just that! We celebrated our 41rst Wedding Anniversary in a remote little cabin in the beautiful woods of Arkansas!
The narrow, winding road that led to the little cabin was a mile off the main road. It was a beautiful scenic drive to get to our destination. You can't get any more secluded than that!
Did I mention that the little cabin was located on beautiful Beaver Lake! Absolutely Gorgeous!!!
Sunrise over the lake!
Fisherman Hank
Hubby loves to fish. He did not have any luck the whole time we were at the cabin, but he had fun anyway.
I loved the cabin! I enjoyed relaxing with hubby and taking lots of pictures of the wildlife and scenery. The fall colors were popping!
A big thank you to Cheryl Rutledge owner of Little Cabin in the Woods for a wonderful experience!


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