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|By James Carlini
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|June 27, 2015 01:00 PM EDT
Global Net Superiority: Intelligent Infrastructure Defined
"In order to move forward in applying and maximizing new technologies, everyone involved in real estate, infrastructure, technology, and regional economic development needs to get on the same page in defining basic concepts like infrastructure." - James Carlini
Today, more organizations are looking at new technologies and applications for their operations. There is a convergence of industries that were thought to be independent which are now interdependent. What is missing is the ability to find common ground in definitions of infrastructure and other terminologies.
From the US Army Corps of Engineers' "Infrastructure and the Operational Art" Handbook:
The word infrastructure has many definitions, each tailored to the particular perspective of the author. Each is correct for the needs of the author, but in a broader, conceptual sense, multiple definitions taken together are necessary for a complete understanding. The U.S. Army states that infra-structure "is composed of the basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society" (U.S. Army 2012a)
The US Army Corps of Engineers' Handbook goes further and states that the Department of Homeland Security in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan uses a broader definition:
The framework of interdependent networks and systems comprising identifiable industries, institutions (including people and procedures), and distribution capabilities that provide a reliable flow of products and services essential to the defense and economic security of the United States, the smooth functioning of government at all levels, and society as a whole. Consistent with the definition in the Homeland Security Act, infrastructure includes physical, cyber, and/or human elements" (Department of Homeland Security 2009). James Carlini, taking a business-focused approach, defines infrastructure as "a platform for commerce and economic growth" (Carlini 2009)
Source: http://www.academia.edu/9221521/Infrastructure_and_the_Operational_Art
A Platform for Commerce
Yes, the US Army of Engineers has referenced my definition of infrastructure as it pertains to understanding the "Platform for Commerce" and its impact on regional economic viability.
As further defined in my book, LOCATION LOCATION CONNECTIVITY, the framework first developed for my white paper, "Intelligent Infrastructure: Securing Regional Sustainability", for the US Department of Homeland Security (2009) defines all the layers of infrastructure built up in the last 5,000 years with the latest layer focusing on Broadband Connectivity. It is important to understand.
It is critical to adopt a standard definition in order to move forward to build more critical elements of intelligent infrastructure and be able to communicate with those in different disciplines to move the whole economy forward.
Cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G Networks, and other buzzwords will not materialize successfully if the supporting infrastructure is not solid.
Visualizing Intelligent Infrastructure
When we take a look at new components of infrastructure from a real estate perspective, we need to understand "Intelligent Amenities." (See Chart 1)
Chart 1: Sample Menu of Intelligent Amenities
Power & Telecom
Elimination of single failure points.
Becoming more of a given and not a "hoped for" amenity.
Broadband Connectivity
High bandwidth (1Gbps or more, today 10Gbps, tomorrow 40Gbps), multiple carriers, multiple access points
More and more want this. For technology campuses besides speed, diversity in carriers, and connectivity into NLR via Starlight
Pre-planned layouts and capabilities, multiple providers and power grids
This is becoming part of the upfront Master Planning process instead of an afterthought.
Alternative Energy Source
Besides power from another substation or grid, a third-party provider or an on-campus alternative. Peaker Plant or Windmills (Wind turbines generating power)
Diversity of Power source has become a critical issue from several standpoints: Security as well as Compliance issue. Also from a Green Building perspective for renewable energy capabilities.
Services & Support
(Master Planning)
Upfront Coordination
Quick development process .that includes coordination of all municipal planning issues, adherence to building codes, etc.
New concept but effective in selling to tenants wanting a rapid development process not hindered by municipal issues.
(Master Planning)
"Network Tailor" Instead Of A "Network Jailor"
Custom-tailored network infrastructure. Not an "off-the-rack solution" or a "one-size-fits-all" approach.
A new concept of tailoring bandwidth and broadening choices of carrier services to the demands of tenants.
(Continual Support)
Common Campus Response Team Services
Group of diverse service providers including power and network carriers as well as companies like AT&T, CISCO and other support services
A new concept gaining ground as well as popularity. The concept of "one-stop shopping" being morphed into "one-stop supporting" after the tenant is in place and is part of the campus.
Source: LOCATION LOCATION CONNECTIVITY - James Carlini. All Rights Reserved.
You must understand the changes, additions to, and new priorities of infrastructure in order to plan, design, and implement the complex intelligent infrastructure framework supporting the Internet of Things (IoT) as well as private and public clouds.
The "Platform for Commerce" is what the future is built upon.
Carlini's visionary book, LOCATION LOCATION CONNECTIVITY is available on AMAZON.
Follow daily Carlini-isms at www.TWITTER.com/JAMESCARLINI
Copyright 2015 - James Carlini
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When we ask the overall question: How is your safety culture? 80% will answer: Above average; crew use PPE and our LTIF is OK. So 'above average' is justified from these two parameters, but they hardly explain the truth about what is going on on board the vessels. Measuring real safety performance can only be done if you also consider the what really goes on on board the vessels.Read more >


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WACO, Texas – The American Football Coaches Association released its week nine top-25 poll on Monday afternoon and Salisbury University football moved up three spots to No. 21 in the nation.
Salisbury moved up after posting a convincing 45-7 victory over Rowan University on Saturday afternoon. Kadarrius Campbell and Jack Navitsky aided in a Sea Gull rushing attack that racked up 496 yards against the Profs' defense, rushing for 149 and 113 yards, respectively, and combining for four touchdowns.
The top five, which is a combined 40-0, saw no new changes, as the University of Mount Union held strong at No. 1 in the country, garnering 41 first-place votes and accumulating 1,289 points. University of Mary Hardin-Baylor stayed at No. 2, receiving 11 first-place votes and totaling 1,259 points. The final three spots were rounded out by No. 3 College at Brockport (1,154), No. 4 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (1,118), and No. 5 St. John's University (1,109).
Salisbury was joined by fellow New Jersey Athletic Conference opponent Frostburg State University, which held its spot from last week at No. 6 in the country.
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IBM, LIbelium and the Internet of Things
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Libelium, a wireless sensor network hardware provider, today released an Internet of Things Starter Kit to enable dozens of sensor applications ranging from monitoring parking spaces or air pollution to providing assistance for the elderly.
Created by IBM scientists and Libelium engineers to ease application development, testing, and scalability of wireless sensor networks (WSN), the new Internet of Things Starter Kit integrates Libelium's Waspmote wireless sensor platform with IBM's Mote Runner software and 6LoWPAN, which allows every single sensor and device to connect directly to the Internet using the new IPv6 protocol.
The development environment of Mote Runner consists a complete tool chain (i.e., converter, assembler, optimizer, shell) to develop mote applications in high-level object-oriented languages such as Java. It comes with its own IDE based on Eclipse as well as a mote and network simulation environment to ease application development and testing. A web-based deployment and monitoring framework in concert with an edge server finally allows the integration and visualization of Mote Runner sensor networks.
Agam Shah på IDG writes about the announcement:
IBM's do-it-yourself kit makes Internet of things accessible
The companies on Monday introduced the Waspmote Mote Runner, a computer that can collect and share data with other devices within wireless range. IBM is providing the software tools while Libelium is making the hardware, which will include sensors to collect weather, server temperature and other information.
The hardware is a motherboard with sensors for gases, oxygen, carbon dioxide, temperature, motion, light, soil temperature, GPS and others. The board comes with standard interfaces including Ethernet and serial interfaces, so it can be plugged into existing hardware like smart meters or installations like solar energy plants.
More from IBM about the Internet of Things


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You probably should be reading the Pacemaker site clusterlabs.org
This site conserves Heartbeat specific stuff. See Site news for details.
From Linux-HA
Configuring authkeys
The authkeys configuration file contains information for Heartbeat to use when authenticating cluster members. It cannot be readable or writable by anyone other than root.
Two lines are required in the authkeys file:
A line which says which key to use in signing outgoing packets. One or more lines defining how incoming packets might be being signed.
auth 1 1 sha1 PutYourSuperSecretKeyHere
In this sample file, the auth 1 directive says to use key number 1 for signing outgoing packets. The 1 sha1... line describes how to sign the packets. The fields in this line are as follows:
- 1 - the key number associated with this line.
- sha1 - the key signature method.
- PutYourSuperSecretKeyHere - shared secret key[1] to use in signing packets. This key must be the same on all nodes except as noted below.
Normally, the key number would be 1, and the first line would say auth 1.
We do not recommend that you use the crc method unless all your communication is across serial lines and crossover cables.
List of supported signature methods
We currently support these signature methods:
- sha1 - SHA1 hash method (requires a key)
- md5 - MD5 hash method (requires a key)
- crc - CRC hash method - insecure - does not require a key
To get an absolutely up-to-date list of authentication methods supported, run this command
ls /usr/lib*/heartbeat/plugins/HBauth/*.so
Changing Keys in the Cluster
To change keys without restarting heartbeat, the following procedure must be followed:
- Choose a new authentication method. I'll refer to the chosen authentication method as authmethod.
- Append a new number authmethod line to the authkeys file. The number on this line is fairly arbitrary, but it must be unique in the file and between 1 and 15 inclusive.
- Copy this authkeys file to each node in the cluster.
- On each node, issue a /etc/init.d/heartbeat reload command.
- Change the first line to say auth number to match the new number added in step 2 above.
- Copy this authkeys file to each node in the cluster.
- On each node, issue a /etc/init.d/heartbeat reload command.
- Wait for 500 heartbeat intervals.
- Remove the original authnumber authmethod line from the file (not the one added to the file in step 2 above).
- Copy this authkeys file to each node in the cluster.
- On each node, issue a /etc/init.d/heartbeat reload command.
This is a little odd, but it works...
Generating authkeys Automatically
Since the key in /etc/ha.d/authkeys file never has to be typed by a human being, it is not necessary for it to be in any way mnemonic or memorable. As a result a long, randomly generated key is a good choice.
The following line of shell script will generate such a key:
cat <<-!AUTH >/etc/ha.d/authkeys # Automatically generated authkeys file auth 1 1 sha1 `dd if=/dev/urandom count=4 2>/dev/null | md5sum | cut -c1-32` !AUTH
Or for SHA1:
dd if=/dev/urandom count=4 2>/dev/null | openssl dgst -sha1


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I have been in ministry for almost 20 years. My call has taken me to 3 different continents, where I have learned, worked and preached in 4 different languages. From camp counselor to children, youth and family ministry, from missionary to pastoral intern, my work has been centered on sharing God's love with God's people.
But sometimes I struggle in this work, especially of late. It seems like wherever I go, whether it is to a conference with colleagues or to a class with students, I encounter the buzzword of "church decline." It's a real "debbie downer" comment for someone who is studying to be a pastor.
Yes, it's true that statistically giving and attendance is down. But, guess what? There is good news. God is not dead, which means we are not dead. God is alive, which means we are alive. And if we are alive, God is in us, with us and for us, the church. Our attitude then needs to shift from church death to church change.
To respond to this shift, I decided to start a blog for my internship project entitled, "Storyboard: Moving Forward in God's Story." My post to do two things: One, I share some of my own material and stories related to church change or resources. Two, I interview church workers, pastors, and congregations who are doing new things to reach new people with the Good News of Jesus Christ.
In my interview process, I ask three things:
What I have learned in this process is that there are churches across the USA that are doing amazing things by embracing change. They are collaborating with schools, churches, food banks, police, and non-profits. They are using their buildings differently by reconfiguring the space to work with the homeless. One church even started a laundromat! Some are starting after school programs for latchkey kids, free community meals, or even a food truck ministry. Others are providing English classes for local immigrants. And the list goes on!
The shift here is that these churches are not waiting for people to walk through the church doors. But, instead, these churches are opening the doors, getting out into their neighborhoods, and encountering God in new places. Within 5 months of starting this blog, I had over 25,000 hits. This tells me that congregations are looking for ways to be encouraged, new ideas to try, and what it means to be the church today.
Why does this ministry or blog matter? It matters because of what the prophet Isaiah told God's people many years ago. He said this about God, "I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. (Isaiah 43:19).
This is what God does best – to create things anew. God never stops creating a new thing within us, the church. Our role is to embrace the change and to help others step out of their comfort zone and into this new thing that God is doing. With that, we need use better language. To move away from saying that "the church is not dying" but to what is really happening that "the church is just changing." Change is what has happened to the church for the last 2,000 years.
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10th December 1935 The building on the left is a new block of shops, some finished and occupied and some still under construction as can be seen by the tools around the small shed. In the top and right distance are parts of a housing estate. There is a woman and a small boy standing at the shops and a man further away. A car is parked near several large, mature trees.
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10th December 1935. Beyond the row of mature trees there is a block of brick built shops, some are completed and occupied and some are still under construction. There is a concrete mixer and other building paraphernalia, including a tool shed. A pile of railway sleepers stand in the foreground. On the left are more trees and a road sign. Three cars are parked at the junction.
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8th February 1936 This view along a frosty Dib Lane shows, on the right, part of a housing estate. The houses are brick built with wooden paling fences and hedges. On the left a stone wall separates the road from the land beyond. A large number of mature trees stand behind the wall.
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8th February 1936 This view along a frosty Dib lane shows on the left part of a housing estate. To the right a low cottage with a long stone wall seperates the pavement from meadow land. Behind the wall can be seen several large and mature trees. A street lamp stands on the pavement and some telegraph poles are visible.
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20th July 1936. Shops on the south side of Dib Lane. Elaine, ladies hairdresser, Atkinson, greengrocer, Ward and Son confectioners with goods in the window.
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Here's a recipe that my household loves. Add chocolate mixture; beat until clean. The primary time I made this I had lumps from the cocoa powder paste. Our cake baked at exactly forty five minutes, and the toothpick was a little dirty when it came out. And that's coming from someone who shouldn't be significantly fond of cake due to some very disgusting-tasting desserts I was pressured to eat as a baby (dry and with frosting that tasted like uber-candy CHALK).
Though I am the biggest butter fan in the world, oil simply works best in chocolate desserts (in my humble opinion). Planning to bake cake and cream cheese frosting the day before consumption and having hassle storing in fridge as I must get a box that may fit.
To begin the Chocolate Cocoa Frosting beat powdered sugar and butter till blended. Butter and sugar all the time get whipped together first till light and fluffy, adopted by the additions of the eggs, one after the other. I made this cake and the batter was very fluffy after I was finished mixing it. After I baked it in the thirteen" x 9″ glass pan the perimeters of the batter curled up along the sides of the pan and it took an additional 20 minutes to bake.
The cake was then frosted with chocolate buttercream (my own recipe. Place the truffles on a cooling rack and go away to cool for about 10-15 minutes, until the skin of the pan is cool sufficient to the touch. In a large bowl, combine confectioners' sugar, bitter cream and vanilla.
Darkish chocolate frostings are laborious for me as a result of I have a tendency to like sour cream or cream cheese, I find that this lightens the frosting, I would really like the recipe for the frosting on the cake or a recipe for a extremely dark and good frosting.


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They'll Destroy Our Churches if We Let Them
Late last night I posed the following question on Facebook: Should tiny but militant activist groups get to dictate what the rest of us are allowed to think, what we're allowed to watch, what we eat, and what our churches teach?
If we're a free country, the answer should obviously be "No." All of that is at stake in the Duck Dynasty argument, as in the previous argument over Chick-fil-A.
Recall that in that earlier fight, Chick-fil-A owner Dan Cathy told a radio show his personal beliefs, which were based on the Bible. For that, he was torn apart by the Human Rights Campaign and GLAAD, and several Democrat politicians openly attempted to ban his company from their cities. Those politicians have neither the power nor the right to do that. That didn't stop them from trying. President Obama's own former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, led the anti-Chick-fil-A pitchfork brigade in Chicago, the murder capital over which he presides as mayor. So this was not a fringe of the left. It was a major and influential segment on the left.
The coordinated assault on Cathy generated a massive response, even from people who disagreed with what Cathy said, because he has the right to his opinion and to voicing it. Chick-fil-A enjoyed its strongest business weeks in its history, thanks to millions of Americans who are fed up with the PC police.
That brings us to Phil Robertson. The full GQ story quotes him saying a number of things, some of them harmless, some of them uplifting, some of them controversial, and some of them appalling. But he has the right to say them. A&E has the right to decide whether he appears on Duck Dynasty or not. The Robertsons have the right to decide what to do about their relationship with A&E. Everyone else has the right to decide for ourselves what to do with Phil Robertson and A&E and their show. I happen to watch the show because it's funny and it's family-friendly. Some people don't like it. To each their own. We have hundreds of channels plus the rest of the universe to choose our entertainment from. Most of that entertainment conforms with what the left wants. They certainly don't protest against any of it.
However, two of the groups who have decided that Robertson must be shunned from the public have taken it upon themselves to take the fight directly into Christian churches. They don't believe in "to each their own," at all.
GLAAD led the way, using A&E's decision to tell Christians what to think.
"A&E has sent a strong message that discrimination is neither a Christian nor an American value." http://t.co/tEjfxfL5J7 #LGBT
— GLAAD (@glaad) December 19, 2013
Do a quick search -- GLAAD pretty much owns the media. They partner up with networks, fashion companies, universities, the works. But this one show must be destroyed, and Christians much adopt GLAAD's values, right now, or else.
PETA followed suit Thursday, again, using the fight over a TV show to dictate what churches should do. PETA -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (when they're not killing animals themselves) -- told Christians that we should call for Duck Dynasty's cancellation. Because the Robertsons hunt on the show.


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The margin was seven wickets in all three Bradford League games involving Calderdale clubs yesterday with Lightcliffe losing to Premier Division leaders New Farnley but Brighouse and Northowram Fields notching wins in Championship Two.
Lightcliffe were unable to post a competitive total at Wakefield Road, being dismissed for 122 with Suleman Khan's 37 the top contribution.
The home batsmen struggled to cope with the spin of Luke Jarvis (5-22) while Dave McCallum (3-43) also gave them problems.
A couple of wickets from Yassar Abbas and one from Khan left New Farnley 39-3 but that was the limit of the home attack's success as wicketkeeper Steve Bullen (48no) and skipper Lee Goddard (41no) completed victory in the 31st over.
Brighouse were successful on the lengthy trip to Wakefield St Michael's and Northowram Fields at home to Spen Victoria.
Brighouse bounced back from a setback against Birstall with a seven-wicket win over the second-placed club. The success puts them in the promotion picture approaching the half-way point of the season.
Opening bowlers Abid Awain and Quadratullah Azizi took seven wickets between them as Saints were dismissed for 211 with two deliveries of their 50 overs unused.
Brighouse were 30-2 in reply before a decisive stand of 170 between overseas player Deron Greaves and Sohail Hussain.
Greaves made 129 not out off 89 balls and Hussain provided excellent support with 58 off 62 before departing with victory in sight.
At Westercroft Lane, player-coach Ajantha Weerappuli made a successful return from injury for Northowram.
With three regulars missing, the Sri Lankan-born player was hurried back into action after a broken finger, and hit 93 not out from 80 balls as Spen Victoria's 234-9 was comfortably overhauled.
"AJ" shared stands of 95 for the second wicket with youngster Jacob Slater (40) and then 125 with Dru Patel, who lashed 80 off 50 balls, as the Rams climbed to eighth.
Earlier, Jason Smith had returned the best figures (3-60) with Ollie Davison (63) showing the way for Spen.
A century from Jamie Summerscales at Skelmanthorpe yesterday helped strengthen Barkisland's bid for a return to the Huddersfield League's top flight.
Summerscales hit 116 off 135 balls, with Luke Bridges (46) the other main contributor in a Barkisland total of 253-7 and the hosts made 194 in reply.
Also in the Championship, Rastrick lost their top-four clash at Clayton West by 39 runs in spite of a typically strong contribution from pro Asif Afridi.
The Pakistani took five for 36 off his 15 over allowance but opener David Swann (56) spearheaded a solid batting effort from the home side, who posted 238-7.
Rastrick were soon 4-2 in reply but Afridi hit 62 off 51 balls to revive their hopes. Skipper Jacob Waterson made 60 off 69 but the loss of Wasim Javed for 27 triggered the loss of the Round Hill men's last four wickets for the addition of only eight runs. They were all out for 199.
Mid-table Elland were easy 103 home winners over next-to-bottom Lepton Highlanders.
Their top three batsmen all scored heavily as they piled up 299-4 at Hullen Edge with Paul Winrow making 95 and Kiwis Alec Hodgson and Ciaran O'Malley 93 not out and 58 respectively.
Jack Hendy (4-38) inflicted early damage in Lepton's reply but No 5 Qaiser Rashid helped the visitors to 196.
Walsden continued their bid to win the Lancashire League title at the first attempt with a an easy seven-wicket home win over East Lancs.
Home grown opening bowler Jamie Shackleton came up trumps again with 6-34 and Umesh Karunaratne took 2-1 off his two overs as the visitors folded from 51-1 to 76 all out.
James Rawlinson's 38 not out completed an 11th straight win for the reigning Pennine League champions in the 20th over.
Todmorden lost by 36 runs at Church and face a battle to finish in the top half of the table ahead of next season's split into two divisions.
Matt Collins dismissed Sam Holt with the score on one and it was slow going for the home side in the first 25 overs. However, Tod had to wait until the total had reached 156 before claiming their next success, Josh Scully departing for 51.
Home pro Johnny Riekert went on to complete a maiden century, finishing on 105, but it was skipper Levi Wolfenden's 58 not out off 33 balls which really hurt Tod, who had a depleted bowling attack. Church finished on 235-2 with 57 coming off the last four overs.
Tod had Ryan Canning, like Riekert a South African, deputising for broken finger victim Chris Schofield as pro. He made 62 and there were other decent contributions from skipper Andrew Sutcliffe (43), Ben Pearson (31) and Ben Sutcliffe (22) but Josh Dentith's 5-40 gave Church the edge after the visitors had been 143-2.


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Capping what many regard as among the strongest recent years in motion pictures, ''American Beauty'' took home five Oscars tonight, including best picture. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences could hardly restrain itself from tossing rose petals at the bayonet-edged comedy about a pair of the most dysfunctional suburban households in movie history.
Kevin Spacey won best actor as the film's narrator, a lovesick 40-something man going through his painful second adolescence. ''This is the highlight of my day,'' Mr. Spacey said. Sam Mendes, an acclaimed stage director who brought the most recent revival of ''Cabaret'' to Broadway, won the director's prize for his first film, while veteran television writer Alan Ball won the original screenplay award for his first produced film. Conrad L. Hall, one of the most respected cinematographers in Hollywood, won his second Oscar. (His first, 31 years ago, was for ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.'')
''I guess we're all part of a wonderful, wonderful dysfunctional family called the human race,'' Mr. Hall said.
Not a bad evening for DreamWorks, the mini-studio formed by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen that made ''American Beauty'' and was having its best Oscar night ever. And quite a difference from last year, when the studio lost the best picture award for its ''Saving Private Ryan'' to ''Shakespeare in Love.''
Hilary Swank, 25, in her first significant movie role, won best actress for playing a young woman who pretended to be a man in the independent film ''Boys Don't Cry,'' providing ''American Beauty'' with its main disappointment of the evening when the actress honors did not go to Annette Bening as Mr. Spacey's adulterous wife.
''The Cider House Rules,'' an adaptation by the director Lasse Hallstrom of John Irving's novel about the residents of a Maine orphanage, won awards for Michael Caine's supporting performance (his second Oscar) as the orphanage's kindly doctor and for Mr. Irving's adapted screenplay.
The evening's biggest loser was ''The Insider,'' Michael Mann's thriller about the collision between the worlds of big tobacco and big media that came into the night nominated for seven Oscars and went home with none.
The academy handed out its 72nd annual Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium here, with a pregnant nominee about to give birth in the audience, a series of recent Oscar mishaps to be chewed over by the host, Billy Crystal, and an unusually large number of major categories with no clear front-runner.
American bought more than $7.5 billion worth of movie tickets in 1999, an eight percent increase over the previous year, and a record number of films earning more than $100 million, including three of the nominees for the best picture Oscar: the pre-awards favorite, ''American Beauty,'' ''The Sixth Sense'' and ''The Green Mile.''
In the early going, the awards were a bit of a mix, with no clear trend developing except that ''The Matrix,'' a science-fiction thriller about a machine-dominated future with some of the jazziest effects of the year, was extremely popular in some of the less heralded categories, winning for best film editing, best sound, best sound effects editing and best visual effects.
When he wons his award, Mr. Caine said: ''I wasn't here the last time, so it's very different when you're here than being told over the phone. That is very nerve-wracking out there.'' His previous Oscar was for Woody Allen's ''Hannah and her Sisters'' in 1986. Mr. Caine hefted his Oscar as he spoke to journalists backstage after winning. ''It's heavy,'' Mr. Caine said. ''But it fits kinda nice.''
Angelina Jolie, a first-time nominee who played an ostentatiously rebellious mental patient in ''Girl, Interrupted,'' won the award for best supporting actress.
Among others, she thanked her father, Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight. ''I've never actually held an Oscar before,'' Ms. Jolie said backstage just after accepting the award. ''It's quite amazing. My dad's mother had his in a goldfish bowl way up on a mantlepiece, and I've never held it.''
Warren Beatty was awarded the Irving G. Thablerg Award for a lifetime of achievement in the movie business and was introduced by his friend, Jack Nicholson, while his wife, an extremely pregnant and about-to-deliver Annette Bening, sat beside him.
''Because of the dignity of the occasion, Miss Bening's delicate condition and the recipient's advanced age, there will be no sex jokes,'' Mr. Nicholson said. ''And I'm very sorry for that.''
Mr. Beatty paid tribute to his fellow actors, to the friends who led him through his wilder single years and to his wife, and made reference to his recent flirtation with a campaign for president. ''If you had your choice and, say, could have the Thalberg Award or, oh, the White House, I'd stick with this,'' Mr. Beatty said.
Pedro Almodovar won the award for the best foreign language film for ''All About My Mother,'' and had to be dragged from the stage by a co-presenter, Antonio Banderas, when his acceptance speech rambled on.
The documentary filmmaker Arthur Cohn won his third Oscar, this one for ''One Day in September,'' a film he made with Kevin Macdonald, about the attack on Israeli athletes during the Munich Olympics. What was noteworthy was that this was the first awards ceremony since the academy reformed its procedures for nominating documentaries, in part to make it likelier that popular box-office hits would be nominated. Yet ''One Day in September'' is a film that has not yet even been released and was up against such box-office successes as ''The Buena Vista Social Club.''
Phil Collins won the best original song award for ''You'll be in My Heart'' from the animated Disney film, 'Tarzan.'' John Corigliano scored a surprise by winning an Oscar for ''The Red Violin's'' musical score, beating out more heavily favored composers for ''American Beauty'' and ''The Cider House Rules.''
The costume design Oscar went to Lindy Hemming for Mike Leigh's ''Topsy Turvy,'' a sumptuous recreation of Gilbert and Sullivan's collaboration on ''The Mikado.'' The film also won for best makeup.
A bright red banner was strung across the front of the Shrine Auditorium as though announcing some kind of Stalinist reunion, mirroring the red-carpet gantlet of television cameras and jostling, screaming journalists.
It had been a rocky road to this year's ceremonies. First, 4,200 Oscar nominating ballots disappeared and new ballots had to be rushed out and the voting deadline extended by two days. (The ballots had mistakenly been put into a third-class mail storage area at a postal warehouse.) Then a shipment of 55 Oscar statuettes were stolen off a loading dock operated by Roadway Express, which was driving them from their factory in Chicago. A Roadway Express employee was charged with stealing the statuettes, which were discovered beside a trash container in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles by a self-employed repairman and scavenger, who was later invited to join tonight's ceremony.
The first-time producers of this year's awards telecast, Richard and Lili Zanuck, were promising a break from previous shows, with nods to the new digital and music technologies, and a complete absence of the widely reviled dance sequences from previous ceremonies.
''American Beauty'' opened in only a handful of theaters in September to generally thunderously positive reviews. But over the next few months the scabrous comedy about a strangely blissful suburban father recounting the last year of his life, a kind of second adolescence spurred by his lustful attraction to a high-school cheerleader, opened in gradually more and more theaters. It was a classic platform release, the kind that studio movies rarely receive in these days of 3,000-screen opening weekend blockbusters. And it worked.
Academy Award Winners
Best Picture
''American Beauty''
Leading Actor
Kevin Spacey
Supporting Actor
Michael Caine
Leading Actress
Hilary Swank
Supporting Actress
Angelina Jolie
Sam Mendes
Art Direction
''Sleepy Hollow''
''American Beauty''
Foreign Language Film
''All About My Mother''
Original Score
''The Red Violin''
''You'll Be in My Heart,'' from ''Tarzan''
Animated Short Film
''The Old Man and the Sea''
Live-Action Short Film
''My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York''
''The Matrix''
Sound-Effects Editing
''The Matrix''
Adapted Screenplay
''The Cider House Rules''
Original Screenplay
''American Beauty''
Short Documentary
''King Gimp''
Feature Documentary
''One Day in September''
Visual Effects
''The Matrix''
Film Editing
''The Matrix''
Oscar winners previously announced this year:
Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Roderick T. Ryan
Irving Thalberg Memorial Award
Warren Beatty
Honorary Award
Andrzej Wajda


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This is Roxane Gay's honest depiction of her weight, body image, and her relationship with food.
This was such an raw honest look into the author life. She talked about so many tough subjects from eating disorders, sexual assault, and her relationships.
Could I relate to her story? No.
But I could relate to certain aspects of her story and my heart ache with and for her.
I give this book an A.
Alif The Unseen - G. Willow Wilson
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This is an 1001 Nights retelling with a modern setting. We follow Alif a skilled hacker who comes across a powerful book while he is on the run.
I really wanted to love this book but I could never get into this story. I thought it was a great premise but I didn't like any of the characters. I thought everyone came across as very self centered.
The plot was very long and took many twist and turns. I felt that the book was a bit too long at times.
This was just not the book for me. I gave it a D.
The Inquisition - Taran Matharu
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Fletcher's past has caught up to him and he must face the consequences.
This is the sequel to Novice.
It takes place a year after the events of the first book. It is just as actioned packed as the first book. We are introduced to new characters, new places, and we learn more about their magic system.
I can't really talk to much about this book without spoiling it. I am glad that we have more female characters, and that they Silva gets a lil more time on the pages.
I can't wait until I can get my hands on the third book. I love to see how the author wraps this series up.
I gave it a B.
And We're Off - Dana Schwartz
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Nora is on her way to tour a Europe for the summer before going off to a summer art school in Ireland. Just when Nora thinks she can spread her wings a little her mother announces that she is tagging along.
This was another book that I feel that the synopsis lied to me.
I came into this book thinking it was going to be about a mother daughter butting heads and trying to resolve their issues. I was also expecting a big focus on art.
Now there was a lot art talk, I will give you that. There was discussion of different art styles, becoming a working artist, and growing as an artist. I really did like that aspect of the book.
Other than that, I absolutely hated this book. I did not like our main character. I thought she was very whiny, self-centered. She was constantly comparing herself to other artist and writing those artist off because they had more opportunity that has had. I really hated that.
Overall, I didn't feel like this story went anywhere. I was just left so underwhelmed.
I gave this book a D.
The Novice - Taran Matharu
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Fletcher was left for dead as a baby. He was found naked in the snow before he was taken in by the blacksmith. When Fletcher has a horrible run in with some bullies he accidentally summons a demon. This grants him access to enter a military academy. There he will learn to control his demon, master some spells and possibly learn who his parents may have been.
A young adult fantasy with elves, dwarfs, goblins, and orcs!!!!
This book was such a pleasant surprise, I absolutely LOVED it!
I adore the world that Matharu created. The humanoids having been fighting with the dwarves and the elves but all three have the Orcs as a common enemy.
When Fletcher enrolls in the academy, it is also the first year when a dwarf and elf are permitted in. Fletcher is trying his best navigate this new world he finds himself in. As an outsider himself, he finds himself befriending Othello, the dwarf, and trying to connect to everyone in his class.
I really enjoyed this world, the magic system and the characters. I liked navigating through all the politics of this new world.
My only complaint is that I wished we got to see more of Sylva. She is the elf representative at this school and I wanted to spend more time with a badass female character.
I definitely give this book an A. I really liked it.
Replica - Lauren Oliver
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This is book is split in half. We follow two girls, one living at Haven Institute with other clones or replica and the other who has always lived a very sheltered life. They are two very different girls, with different experience but their stories intertwine to form a much larger whole.
I really really liked this book.
I love how this two separate stories that occasional intertwine. I like how the actual book is split in half and you can alternate how you read this story.
I really like our two main characters Lyra and Gemma. They aren't the typical ya main character. Lyra is a replica (clone) she grew up knowing that she isn't a person. Gemma is an overweight sickly girl. Both girls has actually been very sick.
I thought both stories were very well developed and had intriguing characters. I really like how this book is setting up the rest of the series. This definitely felt like a first book. This doesn't work as a standalone story because when I was done I knew there would be a sequel.
That is my only nitpick with this book otherwise I am gave this book a B.
Dear Killer - Katherine Ewell
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Kit has some rules in order to live up to her name "The Perfect Killer". She has a mailbox set up so that people can write who they think deserves to die. But the latest letter hits really close to home a girl in her school . . . it is the one request that might change it all.
Well I got about four or five chapters before I just went . . .
I thought this was going to be a book about a kick ass female taking down bad guys.
This was more of a coming of age story/crisis of faith. The main character was brought up to be a killer and she sort of replaced her retiring mom who was also a serial killer. She was taught martial arts and a handful of other skills to make her deadly.
I have a pretty big suspension of disbelief. I can roll with most books and movie and tall tales. But as the book progressed I was just constantly rolling my eyes and sighing.
I was not a fan of this story. I didn't like the writing style. I did not like the characters. I was expecting a dynamic character like Hit Girl and instead I got a weird contemporary with the occasional dash of murder.
I gave this book a D.
Shutter - Courtney Alameda
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Micheline Helsing fights undead with her team of hunters. During a mission gone wrong her and her entire team are become infected. They have less than a week to undo this curse and discover who has infected them.
Well that was disappointing.
This book was sold to me as a horror book, but I didn't find this book to be scary. It wasn't eerie or spooky, it was a book equivalent of bad horror movie filled with jump scares. I wasn't not a fan.
The characters were ok. I couldn't connect to our main character Micheline. I didn't find her engaging or memorable. Her team includes three other guys, but I can't remember any of their names.
I just found the action to be too few and far in between. Most of the book is someone explaining demons, weapons, or family lineage.
I found it to be very dull so I gave this book a D.
The Lightning Queen - Laura Resau
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Two very different children meet in 1950s. Teo is given the fortunate that this Lightning Queen will be his friend for life and that he will save her.
This book was filled with a beautiful friendship, different cultures, and different family dynamics. The story is told in two different timelines. We see Teo telling his grandson about his childhood growing up in a rural village in Mexico and we see the story through Teo's POV as a young boy.
Teo and Esme both come minority groups within Mexico. Teo is Mixtec Indan and Esme is Roma. Both groups are treated like terribly, they have their own languages, and they have their own cultures. They are able to relate to one another and that helps their bond depend.
My favorite aspect of this book was the deep friendship between Esme an Teo. They care so much about one another. They are challenging one another to become a better person.
While I really enjoyed the story, I am giving this a C.
I wasn't able to commit to reading. This took me more than two weeks to read which is extremely unusual for me. I loved the story and the characters but I found it a chore to read.
The Alienist - Caleb Carr
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This is a historical mystery novel set in 1896, New York. There have been a string of horrible murders on young male prostitutes. The police want to brush it aside. The city doesn't want to believe it. An alienist, physchologist, is putting a team together in hopes of capturing the killer.
Oh this was so good. It was such a complex and gruesome mystery.
I loved the world that the author created. This is a historical fiction but everything felt so grounded. This was such a well researched book, the author was able to talk about mental illness and how it was treated back then.
This is an adult thriller and a very gruesome one at that. The murders were very detailed and gory. The killer is described as New York's Jack the Ripper, he targets boys. This book was very difficult to read at times.
But the murders added to the mystery. There was a higher intensity for our characters to capture him. The characters in this book were really well written. Each character no matter if they are a protagonist or part of the supporting were vital to the story, they provided a lot of insight to the mystery.
I really enjoyed this book.
I gave it a B+.
Becca "Buho"
I devour worlds with each new book. I am making up for lost time as a late bloomer of the reading world.
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Lovelies, I am so excited to announce that over the next few weeks we will be having some amazing guest pieces by fascinating women and mama friends of mine. Each piece is so different, but they are all wonderful and will make you think! Today's guest post is from Jamie, you can see her blog over here, and follow her on Twitter, too. Take it away, Jamie...
Fat. Obese. Pudgy. Big-boned. I have heard it all.
I am a mother to two and a wife to a man who loves spicy food. My son is a year old and my daughter is three and a half. I have always carried extra weight, even through high school, but I seem to have held on to some extra weight after my son was born that had easily melted off while breastfeeding my daughter. I am a size 16 and have been for as long as I can remember. I have seen and heard of so many tears and struggles from other mothers who were in extreme distress because of their extra weight from pregnancy and the change in their body shape since birth. That was never a stressor for me because I had always carried more weight than I liked but I often worried that my children would inherit my body genes.
My daughter has started staring at herself in the mirror often, examining her smile, her hair, her new shoes and Spiderman shirt. I am enraptured watching her watch herself and love what she sees staring back at her. It is vital for her to have a healthy body image and I felt pride in seeing her confidence. I knew from the beginning that I wanted her to understand how beautiful she is – her brain, her spunk, her ideas, AND her outside. She was obviously having no problems believing it, and why should she?
Then, a few days later, the weight of a ton of bricks hit me with one tiny occurrence. We were in a dressing room together, my daughter standing next to me, telling me what to try on. I tried on a pair of pants that were a bit snug and I sighed, sucked in my belly, then released, and completed my belly dance in a slouched, defeated position. My daughter lifted up her shirt, looked at her belly, then looked at me with sad eyes and said, "What wrong, Mama?"
She didn't see the problem. That's when I did.
I can tell my daughter and my son, how amazing, wonderful, and beautiful they are but if I don't believe it about myself, and emulate it to them, they will wonder why they are so great and why Mom doesn't think she is. "If Mom isn't amazing, then why am I? I must not be."
I can't allow my children to let that doubt sneak in and invade their minds. I have wasted too much of my life allowing those doubts and lies to consume my life and I refuse to have any part in that happening to them.
The more I thought about it, the more I realized; I honestly, completely and wholly, believe I am beautiful. I am no one of importance to the world, but I have my own little world that needs to hear this and know that I believe it. It is a battle in my mind – waged with society, self-doubt, and expectations – and sometimes it is fought daily. I have realized that it is a battle worth fighting and that more women need to battle on the right side. Let me say it again, I AM BEAUTIFUL.
I don't just mean on the inside. I LOVE my body.
I love the way my toes are placed perfectly apart and how the birthmark on my knee will forever be a connection to my Gramma. I enjoy how my rear end fills out my jeans and the way my stomach shows proof of carrying the lives of those who changed mine so deeply. I am proud that after 12 months I am still able to produce milk for my son and that my arms are strong enough to carry both of my children. I appreciate the slight point in my chin, the fullness of my lips, the shape of my nose, the hue of my eyes, and the way I'm not afraid to change my hair. Really, I am in love with my body.
That is a hard confession to make in this society. I wanted to wait until I had lost a good 50 pounds to tell everyone that I love how I look, but I will not wait for my life to be over before I tell the world. At my age, there is so much pressure to be in constant fitness mode. I have tried to get my head in the game but there are many other areas in my life that I want to be my focal point. Health and fitness are extremely important and I admire and appreciate those who share their health and fitness journey with their world and beyond. I have been able to apply tips to my life that I believe will make a large impact in the future. However, I refuse to wait until I am of "acceptable" weight before I accept that I am beautiful.
There is too much at stake, ladies, especially for those who have daughters. I hope to never see my daughter look in a mirror with disgust. I hope the only belly dance she does is the one with cymbals and beaded skirts. I crave to see my son not berate a girl because of her size. I want to raise my children to love themselves from the inside out and to appreciate and respect those who surround them. I want to break the cycle of self-loathing and make it difficult for my daughter to understand what would make someone even consider beginning an eating disorder. I want my daughter to not only accept compliments but to give them freely. I want to give my children confidence in more than just their abilities, thoughts, and actions, but also the beauty of their bodies - no matter the size.
I can't just tell my kids to have confidence; They have to see it in action. I will be that model for them. The consequences are too great to let society win this one.
I will let my children know how I feel. I am beautiful. I am gorgeous, vivacious, wonderfully put together. I hope that is what you see when you look in the mirror. If it isn't, watch your children look in the mirror today. Ask yourself if you would want your children to speak to themselves the way you speak to yourself. Win the battle with the mirror, my friend. You can do this, not only for your children, but for yourself.
Jamie Vonalt is an amateur writer/blogger with a professional zeal for expressing life journeys in new ways. She works as a virtual assistant for various clients and loves to hear how people think and what they believe. She is married to a man who makes her laugh and keeps her grounded and who has given her two perfect blonde-haired children.


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In Washington, MIT debuts financial training program for government credit professionals
Last month, 50 credit professionals from 11 federal agencies spent two days in a free crash course on the principles of corporate finance with three MIT Sloan experts.
With $20 trillion in assets and insured obligations, including $3 trillion in outstanding loans, the U.S. government could be considered the world's largest financial institution. Yet the credit program managers, chief financial officers, and budget directors in agencies like the Department of Agriculture and the Small Business Administration must run credit programs without the resources, star talent, and financial training available to the country's major banks.
"In general, people take public policy jobs because they're idealistic and they want to be in the public service," said MIT Sloan finance professor and MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy director Deborah Lucas. "But the kind of training they get prior to taking those jobs doesn't mesh with the fact that once they get there they may end up managing hundreds of billions of dollars of credit."
"Mission and Metrics," the two-day program from the center, was designed to close that gap. Attendees worked with Lucas; Doug Criscitello, executive director of the center; and Charles Tansey, a former senior federal credit program manager and recent collaborator with the center. The event took place July 11 and 12 in Washington and was hosted by the IBM Center for the Business of Government. The program was supported by a gift to MIT by Mary and Warren Naphtal.
"Our aim is to get government staff to be focused on mission—what they're trying to accomplish as an organization along with the tools being used to get there—and metrics: how they measure whether those tools are effective," Criscitello said.
Instructors urged participants to focus on program designs that contribute to their agency's mission and make good use of taxpayer money. The training also focused on using the latest analytical tools for cost and benefit assessment and management, as well as risk management. It examined the Government Performance and Results Act Modernization Act of 2010, the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014, and the Obama Administration's Accountable Government Initiative as models of efforts to improve agency performance and accountability.
The course also covered an important distinction in valuation between the government and the private sector. To determine budgetary costs, government credit programs use a statutorily specified cost accounting approach that omits the cost of risk borne by taxpayers. The alternative of fair value accounting—used broadly outside Washington—provides a more comprehensive measure of the cost of credit. Increasingly, policymakers are requesting information on fair value costs, Lucas said.
Lucas and Criscitello said the response from program attendees was very positive and similar future trainings are being planned, including at least one working with a specific agency.
"The hope is in the long run the people who we reach will be instrumental in the design of future [federal credit] programs and that they'll take some of the ideas and insights they get from the class and apply them in a way that makes those programs more responsive to the needs of the recipients and more cost-effective for taxpayers," Lucas said.


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The fact is that several dependencies physicians as well as discomfort administration specialists in Olmito are acting upon the suggestions from their peers and also advisors. They are not told of the deaths due to recommended methadone use nor the troubles that occasionally occur when taking out from methadone usage.
The worry unfortunately exists with the consumer.
Vital: completely research medicines or medications on your own before you acquire or take them. The impacts could be terrible. They also may have hazardous interactive impacts when taken with other drugs.
Many otherwise all methadone results are caused by dietary deficiencies. Methadone usage develops dietary deficiency – specifically calcium and also magnesium depletion. An additional is B vitamin shortage. This is how these deficiencies appear.
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Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms
- Anxiety over sensations, pains and discomforts returning
- Sleeplessness
- Sneezing
- Cramping of legs and arms
- Bone aches
- Flu or dope sick
Methadone withdrawal will require a great deal of extra nutritional supplementation. That implies it's time to feed the body. Calcium and magnesium will certainly help with the constraining and so on. But there will certainly be some difficulty several will certainly have taking their nutrients – a poor intestine.
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A Bad Intestine
Methadone and also stress and anxiety meds tend to damage the intestine lining. A dripping gut provides discomforts when consuming or allergic reactions, vulnerable to illness and skin problems. An additional signs and symptom of a leaking digestive tract is irritability and a 'bad attitude'. The attitude could have physical reasons overlooked by the individual.
An excellent suggestion in ordering to help the digestive tract trouble is consuming great deals of top quality yogurt with real-time probiotics in it, like acidophilus and also bifidus. One can likewise supplement with large quantities of glutathione – an antioxidant to aid the detoxing process.
The quantity of nutrients needed throughout methadone withdrawal is taken too lightly so typically that I shake my head in marvel.
Drugs Like Methadone Are Contaminants
The problem with methadone is that it is harmful to the body. Your body recognizes it, but you might not. Taking methadone challenges your organs to cleanse the body and also shield the important organs prior to they are badly damaged.
Toxins offer the body a difficult time. If you've seen drug addict with dark circles under their eyes, grey skin, poor skin, hair falling out, reduced energy, weird conditions, and so on they're obtained dietary shortages. Those deficiencies are hard to recover from with food alone. Often that food isn't being properly absorbed = bad gut.
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Methadone Detoxification
Detoxing the body is more than simply stopping substance abuse. Substance abuse creates internal body damages you might not quickly identify. However, the body will try to detoxify right after drug use as well as recover itself making use of any nutrients offered. If the nutrients aren't offered, the body will borrow (swipe) them from the bones, nerves or other crucial functions.
Some will require medical detox from methadone – the problem is that most Olmito methadone detox centers don't use nutritional supplements as part of their program. They just give more medications, and often not the right ones. The lack of full understanding on Methadone detox creates a brutal scene to withdraw from.
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Extradition delay sought for suspect who blamed panhandler
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Olmito is a census-designated place (CDP) in Cameron County, Texas, United States. Olmito is Spanish for "little elm". The population was 1,210 at the 2010 census.[3] It is part of the Brownsville–Harlingen Metropolitan Statistical Area. Olmito is the self-described "mesquite capital of the world."
Olmito is located in south-central Cameron County at 26°1′11″N 97°32′5″W / 26.01972°N 97.53472°W / 26.01972; -97.53472 (26.019655, -97.534690).[4]Interstate 69E/U.S. Route 77/U.S. Route 83 runs along the eastern side of the community, leading northwest 10 miles (16 km) to San Benito and south 9 miles (14 km) to Brownsville.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.73 square miles (1.9 km2), of which 0.66 square miles (1.7 km2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km2), or 11.45%, is water.[3] Olmito Lake is in the northern part of the town, and the Resaca del Rancho Viejo, an ancient channel of the Rio Grande, forms the western edge of the community.
As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 1,198 people, 303 households, and 270 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,787.9 people per square mile (690.4/km²). There were 322 housing units at an average density of 480.6/sq mi (185.6/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 98.25% White, 1.34% from other races, and 0.42% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 96.49% of the population.


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Anyone interested in cattle rearing in Ekiti must register with State Government through traditional rulers, Governor Ayodele Fayose declared on Thursday.
The governor spoke this during the signing of an agreement between the state government and Miyyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria in Ado Ekiti.
At the peace parley meeting held in the presence of traditional rulers and leaders of Fulani communities, Fayose ordered the release of nine cows earlier seized by his government for illegal grazing.
Fayose had on August 29 signed a grazing law entitled, "Prohibition of Cattle and Other Ruminants Grazing in Ekiti, 2016."
Under the law, anyone found violating the bill, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to six months in prison without an option of fine.
The law also provides that any farm products destroyed by the activities of any caught herdsman shall be estimated by agricultural officer and the expenses of the estimate shall be borne by the culprit.
Despite threats from MACBAN to wage war against the state, the governor had inaugurated the Ekiti Grazing Enforcement Marshals with a warning that cattle found grazing after 6pm would be confiscated by the state government.
Speaking at the meeting on Thursday, the governor said he called for a broader meeting to carry all the stakeholders along in the implementation of the grazing law.
He added that those playing politics with the controversy that initially trailed the implementation of the law were only being mischievous.
He said, "You are all my brothers and there is no reason to trouble you. Many among you have been here for long and your families are here too. What we are doing today is to ensure peaceful relationship between you, your host communities and the state government.
"Those killed in Oke Ako are gone and can't be alive again and we should not allow a repeat of such terrible incident. We are not asking for much, just for you to obey our law.The law is not targeted at those who obey the law.You have to register with the traditional ruler of your host community.
"It is you who will inform the monarch of new faces coming to join you or pretending to be herdsmen. Going armed will not be tolerated. No form of weapon is allowed in Ekiti State for cattle rearing. A company will be monitoring your activities from the air. They have done air surveillance of Ijero Forest Reserve and we saw some buildings deep down the forest. We must all be security conscious," he noted.
Fayose gave a 14-day ultimatum for the registration of herdsmen and to be forwarded to the state government.
He ordered the immediate release of cows already seized by the Grazing Marshals, but warned that any further violation of the law would not be tolerated.


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I've actually already disabled all the Sony & Google apps that I wasn't using, like Lifelog, News Suite (?), Sheets, Slides etc.. and deselected the auto-update in the store. The lags persist. I've done other diagnostics & confirmed that Sony XZ is not useable with Android 7.1.1.
I've reached out to Sony on Facebook & they again replied with generic responses, asking me to do things I have done close to 10 times now in the past 2 months. They continue to insist that there's no way to downgrade, even though there are those like us who can't use the XZ properly on a regular basis. I'm guessing the staff that check/respond on Sony Facebook take turns, and don't read the previous thread. For instance, after I'd explained in detail how many resets/software repairs I'd done, I was told by a different service staff:
"However, I would strongly advise to attempt a software repair as this can help rectify the issue you are facing as it will do a fresh install of the operating system back onto your handset."
It seems impossible to get through to anyone who knows what their doing. And I really don't see what's the issue. As easy as it was to roll out 7.1.1 in May, shouldn't it be just as easy to set up a 7.0 download for each region? If XZ users are having trouble with their devices, they'll just need to get the firmware from through Xperia Companion, and install it, preferably through XC as well. Why is this so difficult?
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its my first bad experience with xperia , i am using xperia since xperia SL , then Z2 now unfortunately i am using Xperia XZ , its so laggy so slow Nougat 7 seems disgusting software , even i dont like the material of xz , color is started to be scratchy , so bad material and i am facing a lot of problems with my XZ 64 i did everything (factory Default ) now my phone has nothing ( no application , no data ) and also still laggy without any reasnable reason , Ram Usage is 2.7 from 3 without using anything what kind of software of that !!!!!!!! , it takes more Ram usage than windows of computers, please u must fix this, i am suffering using my phone , Marchamellow was much better than Nougat on xperia , you are repeating the same mistakes as( Jealy bean ) it was so bad software also , please tell me what to do i hate xz i am suffering while i am using it
Nougat 7.0 worked fine with the XZ - everything from Sony apps to third-party apps. It's only after the 7.1.1 update that things started falling apart. I brought up RAM usage with a Sony staff once when I just started having the lag problems, cuz sometimes my RAM would be 2.1 of 2.7, but they assured me that it was not the cause of the lag.
It seems like Sony jumped the gun with rolling out 7.1.1 since only in April, Nougat 7.1.2 came out to bad reviews, and the Nougat 7.0 was still being rolled out by device makers around the same time. My device actually came with the 7.0 and worked fine until the 7.1.1 update, which messed it up so bad I was restarting once, sometimes twice, daily, and couldn't use apps like Whatsapp & Facebook, because they were third-party apps. Of course, I was also told that third-party app developers have yet to upgrade their versions to be compatible with the latest Android version. So why launch an update when your customers can't use their phones for anything? And then, when they have problems, don't help them resolve it? Oh, and even making a phone call became impossible because that would crash mid-call, defeating the purpose of the phone entirely.
People, you need to install Marshmallow. It is a simple task.
Not only is Nougat rubbish but Sony's implementation makes it even more rubbish, and the 3GB of RAM makes it more so. 3GB is sufficient for Marshmallow but not for Nougat. Every phone released now has 4GB minimum, some have 6GB and some 8GB. Stop stressing and hoping that SONY will fix this. Just reinstall Marshmallow.
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People, you need to install Marshmallow. It is a simple task.
Not only is Nougat rubbish but Sony's implementation makes it even more rubbish, and the 3GB of RAM makes it more so. 3GB is sufficient for Marshmallow but not for Nougat. Every phone released now has 4GB minimum, some have 6GB and some 8GB. Stop stressing and hoping that SONY will fix this. Just reinstall Marshmallow.
okay how do we reinstall marshmallow without voiding warranty? There is no roll back options you know
Interesting! I use a Sony Xperia Z5 with android version 7.1.1 just updated and is working very smooth! I intend to buy a XZ Premium and i hope that it will be OK and smooth like this one...
Sony must be aware of the XZ issues with 7.1.1 which would explain why Japan and USA have not yet received it... Hopefully the delay means a fix is in the works. Hopefully.
In addition to all of these problems mentioned, when I try to switch between apps the system always reloads the apps no matter the app is. E.g. when I try to switch to the browser it always reload the page and I lose where I was etc. It happens almost all apps, I have only 3-4 third party app installed. Sony's flagship has disappointed me so bad. A patch should come urgently. We can not use this phone with these problems, even my 4 years old Android 4 phone is more stable and faster than XZ, which is very very annoying.
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I used sony xperia Z2 before and I impressed to use it even there's problem quite a bit but I can accept it. After Z2 was broken I decided to bought xperia XZ and at the first time it so fast and smooth to use. That was just for a month then after update to Android Nougat 7.1 It failed. Because My XZ was very slow and stuck a lot. In my opinion it's reason from RAM 3 GB that not enough for Android Nougat 7.1 because it take resource very much from RAM and left a bit of RAM to run other process or sony might have not a good process to manage application. However I hope sony company will find out to solve this problem or should have better software to process application. Definitely we expect a good quality because the phone price is not cheap. This is the first bad experience with sony.
As I attached pics of memory usage from my phone after restart. You will see that the phone take much resource from RAM and the phone didn't clear anything when we started such as Facebook app. If I use XZ for awhile it will take much more memory up to 2.5 GB and everything got stuck like I got a calling but I couldn't hang on because the screen will stop and no any respond or when I was sliding on home page screen it will stuck and stop.
I just need to tell you about my experience because I just bought it less than a year. I did factory reset for last week but It doesn't help anything. So hopefully the company will try to solve this problem other than try to develop the new series and let user buy the new one.
Thank you
First thing, i login here to tell Sony, i am facing the same issue after Android 7.1
Second, don't tell me to restore my phone. Because it was sent to Sony centre for warranty. The phone was updated and formatted. It was empty phone.
Third, the latest update helps a bit, but performance still lose to Android 7 and before.
Forth, one of the culprits, the google assistance. I turned it off, performance is back, but not good as before.
Fifth, i found system won't release memory after a long time. This probably the main reason of lagging. Please check with it.
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Sony must be aware of the XZ issues with 7.1.1 which would explain why Japan and USA have not yet received it... Hopefully the delay means a fix is in the works. Hopefully.
Interesting, thanks for this info. I'm angry we've still not heard an official notice from Sony yet.


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Knowing when you will die helps pension plans
Should people be given a forecast of when they are likely to die?
That's Pension Minister Steve Webb's latest proposal.
But far from being a ghoulish idea, it's an eminently sensible one.
If you have a rough idea of your life expectancy, you'll have a better chance of working out how much cash you'll need to last you in retirement.
And if you know that, you'll know how much you'll need to save now to ensure you have enough money to last you in your later years.
But a life expectancy calculator needs to be handled carefully, warns pension expert Ros Altmann.
"Telling people when they can expect to die is a turn-off – most would respond better to being told how long they are likely to live," she points out.
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"Of course, we want people to realise their pension money may have to last longer than they might expect.
"But to do that we need to engage them, rather than put them off the whole topic.
"Actuaries may find forecasts of date of death useful, but most people would relate better to a forecast of how long they are 'likely to live'."
The pension expert stresses this is not merely semantics.
"It is vital to help people want to think about later life financial planning," she said.
"Too often, the pensions industry puts people off, using terms which are not user-friendly.
"A life expectancy calculator can only help if it used in the right way."
Crucially it would need to be updated regularly.
Estimates of life expectancy are much more accurate when someone is 75, than when they were 65, as any health issues become clearer.
"Therefore, to be more meaningful for financial planning, any forecast needs to be updated at regular intervals," says Ms Altmann.
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MEBA Points to a US-crewed Cruise Ship
The Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association (MEBA) raises awareness of U.S. mariners in the cruise industry in light of recent media interest.
MEBA say it is proud to represent U.S. Merchant Mariners on the only U.S.-flagged and U.S. crewed cruise ship, the Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) Pride of America.
Recent media coverage concerning the cruise line industry has highlighted the lack of qualified ship's officers in this industry. However, the coverage has not addressed the skill and professionalism of the crew of this particular U.S- flagged cruise ship which has an outstanding safety and environmental record. In fact, according to MEBA, it is the best in the industry; exceeding all the requirements and regulations set in place by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the International Maritime Organization.
In addition to the Pride of America, there are M.E.B.A. members serving aboard other NCL vessels that are registered in the Bahamas. These mariners also hold USCG licenses and, therefore, are trained and tested to the same high standards as all US deep-sea mariners.
The M.E.B.A states that it welcomes all opportunities to expand current job positions for U.S. mariners in the cruise industry and they have experienced members who are ready and willing to crew these highly sophisticated vessels servicing the cruise industry.


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Eric brings a skill set in computer modeling of groundwater and contaminant transport to GeoEngineers, along with a background in CERCLA remedial investigation and feasibility studies. "Although computer models will never give us a perfect understanding of complex natural systems, they are increasingly an indispensable tool," Eric said.
Before coming to GeoEngineers, Eric worked in a project management role for several large engineering firms such as Lockheed Martin and CH2M Hill during his nearly 20 years with the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory. "During my time at the Idaho National Laboratory, I had the opportunity to work on world-class research in vadose zone transport of contaminants (those that travel through the earth between land surface and the water table). These experiences and education have been critical in my role at GeoEngineers," he said.
As a long-time fly fisherman, Eric has a personal interest in Yellowstone cutthroat trout habitat restoration in eastern Idaho. "I feel lucky to live a little more than a stone's throw from the south fork of the Snake River, considered by most to be one of the top three natural trout fisheries in the lower 48 states. I enjoy the surroundings and experience of fly fishing as much as actually catching a fish," he said. Outside of work and fly fishing, Eric is also an avid golfer and has passed his love of the sport down to his five children.


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