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Rotary is a worldwide organisation comprised of business and professional leaders who are working together to address various community and international service needs. Their aim is to promote peace and understanding throughout the world.
Terri Irwin is an active member of Glasshouse Mountains Rotary club, and through Australia Zoo has made various donations to the local community including:
- Being a partner in the annual Rotary calendar, and selling them in Australia Zoo retail outlets (all profits go back to Rotary and the local Cystic Fibrosis branch)
- Making donations for assistance received from Rotary members during Australia Zoo promotional days
- Conducting regular fundraising events for the local branch, through monthly Zoo promotional days, e.g. fundraising raffles
- Sending representatives to attend local branch meetings
- Holding free family day outings for families affected by Cystic Fibrosis
- Being the major sponsor for the Rotary Charity Golf Day, with teams participating from the Zoo, and donation of major prizes to give away.
The funds donated to Glasshouse Mountains Rotary are directed to the local Cystic Fibrosis chapter at the Sunshine Coast. Over 50 families in the area are affected by Cystic Fibrosis, and these funds go directly into helping them to cover medical bills, home assistance and equipment. All of the families affected are also treated to a well-deserved family day out at Australia Zoo, where they get to relax and enjoy themselves for the day while getting absorbed in wildlife and fun!
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you KNOW they'd be kicking and screaming (and probably suing) if the misfortune were their own.
Actually, one of my tests first semester had a similar page disorder to it. Guess what? Because I knew test-taking 101, it didn't impact me. I was nice enough to tell the proctor so that it didn't screw up other people either, for that matter.You keep saying "the school should make some kind of concession!" What concession would that be?


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Esurance Pay Per Mile is the latest entry into the pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) car insurance market, promising savings to those who log less than 10,000 miles a year.
To get the benefits of a PAYD discount, your car must be:
- A 1996 or later model equipped with an onboard diagnostics (OBDII) port that accepts a telematics device plug-in. You will find the port underneath the dashboard near your steering wheel. Plug-in devices typically gather information such as mileage, speed, time of day and braking events.
- Equipped with an onboard telematics systems such as OnStar or Sync, which typically report mileage only.
Let's take a brief look at what's currently offered if you're considering the PAYD route:
Progressive's Snapshot: The way Snapshot works is typical -- you plug in the OBDII device, which then tracks time of day and vehicle speed, how many miles you drive and how often you brake hard. Consumers should also be aware that Progressive is considering the controversial move of adding the routes that you drive to the mix of factors that determine car insurance discounts. The insurer says savings could reach 30 percent for the most conscientious motorists. Progressive adds that it's best if your car stays parked during peak accident hours (between midnight and 4 a.m.). The device must be installed for at least 30 days to generate a driving profile and can be "test driven" for 30 days without being a Progressive customer. Most states offer Snapshot; those that don't are Alaska, California, Hawaii, Indiana and North Carolina.
Allstate's Drive Wise: After a recent expansion push, the product is now available in 30 states, including Arizona, New York, Oregon, Washington and Pennsylvania. A plug-in device records the usual motoring statistics, which are used to determine if customers qualify for a 10 percent discount for the first policy term. If drivers maintain safe motoring habits and low mileage during subsequent terms, savings can reach 30 percent, according to the company.
State Farm's Drive Safe & Save and In-Drive: You need an OnStar or SYNC subscription for Drive Safe & Save. State Farm receives odometer readings from OnStar every 30 days after you enroll and, after six months, adjusts your premium to reflect the mileage. The company says discounts usually range from 10 to 50 percent depending on mileage. The insurer also offers In-Drive, which uses an OBDII plug-in to track time of day and vehicle speed, how many miles driven and how often you brake hard. State Farm says you immediately receive about a 5 percent discount on premiums through In-Drive. More discounts may be if you stay below 12,000 miles a year, the national average.
The Hartford's TrueLane: A plug-in device records relevant motoring information and transmits it to the insurer by its partner, Octo USA Inc., over that firm's cellular network. You get a 5 percent discount by enrolling. After driving for 75 days, your premium could drop by as much as 25 percent, depending on how safely you drive. TrueLane is now offered in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Travelers' IntelliDrive: You can receive an immediate discount of up to 5 percent by installing this telematics device. IntelliDrive -- which is so far available in Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, Maine, Ohio, Oregon and Virginia -- can reduce premiums by as much as 20 percent for the best drivers, according to Travelers.
Esurance's DriveSense: DriveSense, a plug-in device, transmits details through Sprint's wireless network to Esurance, which determines if drivers qualify for discounts up to 30 percent. Esurance has expanded the availability of DriveSense the past year; it's now available in Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Iowa, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Texas.
Esurance Pay Per Mile: Under this plan, a plug-in device monitors your mileage, and you pay a base rate and per-mile charge each month. It is currently only available in Oregon. The company says you will save money on your rate if you drive less than 10,000 miles a year.
Safeco's Rewind: The company, which is owned by Liberty Mutual, offers a PAYD for motorists who are paying higher insurance rates because of traffic tickets or accidents. A device monitors their driving and keeps a record of the usual details. After four months, the record is evaluated by Safeco, which may reduce or eliminate the premium increases that came because of the prior accidents or violations. There isn't a fee to use Rewind, but it's not available in every state. Safeco suggests contacting an agent to see if you qualify.
GMAC Insurance's Low Mileage Discount: GMAC, now known as National General Insurance, offers two paths to a discount. Its plug-in monitors much the same data as others do -- speed, braking, mileage and when a vehicle is driven. The company also offers the option of reporting mileage though OnStar. The rate cuts range from 13 percent for those who drive 15,000 miles a year to 50 percent for those who drive less than 2,500. The Low-Mileage Discount program is offered in 35 states.
American Family Insurance: The insurer recently completed its testing of a PAYD model based on a plug-in device. Spokesman Steve Witmer said the research is being evaluated, with the hope that a product will soon be available to customers.
Metromile: A plug-in device tracks just your mileage and you're billed a monthly base rate plus your per-mile charge. You can pay 40 to 50 percent less than you would using a traditional insurance plans, if you drive less than 5,000 miles a year, according to the company. Currently only available in California, Illinois, Oregon and Washington.
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|Up to 30%
|Speed, braking, mileage and time you drive
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|Up to 30%
|Speeding, braking, mileage and time you drive. mileage, speed, acceleration, time/date and location
|AK, AZ, ID, IA, IL, MA, NE, RI, SD and TX
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|Up to 50%
|Average yearly savings of $500
|CA, IL, OR and WA
|Progressive Snapshot
|Up to 30%
|Hard braking, mileage and time you drive
|Not available in AK, CA, HI, IN and NC
|Safeco Rewind
|Speed, braking and mileage
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|Up to 50%
|Braking, acceleration, turns, speeds over 80 mph and time you drive
|All states except MA and RI
|State Farm Drive Safe & Save: OnStar
|Up to 50%
|All states except MA and RI
|State Farm Drive Safe & Save: SYNC
|Up to 50%
|All states except MA and RI
|The Hartford TrueLane
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|Trip distance, duration, acceleration and braking
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What drivers think about pay-as-you-drive car insurance
Would you ever consider trying a pay-as-you-drive car insurance plan?
Among those who answered no: Why are you unwilling to try a pay-as-you-drive plan?
Does driving over the speed limit hurt your pay-as-you drive discount? (the correct answer is no)
Methodology: CarInsurance.com commissioned a survey of 2,000 U.S. adults; the survey was fielded in June 2014.
5 pay-as-you-drive-insurance myths
Myth 1: Speeding will hurt my car insurance discount.
Three quarters of survey respondents said that typically pay-as-you-drive programs track speed, and 86 percent said in almost all cases, exceeding the speed limit would cut the pay-as-you-drive discount.
But in reality some programs don't include speed as a factor in calculating the discount. Progressive's Snapshot program, for instance, uses three factors -- how often you hit the brakes hard, how many miles you drive and how frequently you drive between midnight and 4 a.m.
Even programs that track speed don't compare how fast you're driving to the posted speed limits. The devices don't know, for instance, when you're traveling 45 mph in a 15 mph zone.
Some programs, such as Allstate's Drivewise and State Farm's Drive Safe & Save In-Drive programs, do monitor speed, but your discount is hurt only when you drive at or above 80 mph. Like Progressive, Allstate also considers hard braking, time of day when driving and mileage. State Farm monitors those factors as well as turns and acceleration.
"We calculate a risk factor based on the percentage of miles that your vehicle logs at speeds at or above 80 mph," Allstate says. "We chose 80 mph as the threshold based on our risk models, which suggest that accidents are significantly more likely and more damaging at these speeds."
Myth 2:Insurance companies track my location and base my rates on where I drive.
Almost half of survey respondents -- 48 percent -- thought insurers typically monitor where customers drive.
But the PAYD devices give customers to plug into their cars generally don't monitor location, and today's programs don't base rates on where you drive.
State Farm says its Drive Safe & Save In-Drive device, for instance, only provides exact vehicle location information for safety and security reasons, such as for roadside assistance or locating a stolen vehicle.
Otherwise the company doesn't monitor your precise whereabouts.
"State Farm respects your privacy," the company says on its website. "We only receive information about the broad geographic areas in which your vehicle is driven. The size of these areas is approximately 40 square miles."
But that doesn't mean insurers have ruled out using location in the future.
Progressive said this year it planned to test GPS-enabled devices to see how highway versus street driving might predict losses. The company, which says it has collected more than 10 billion miles of driving data on more than 2 million vehicles since January 2008, is considered the leader in usage-based insurance in the U.S.
Myth 3: You get your full discount right away.
Forty-three percent of survey respondents said almost all pay-as-you-drive programs provide discounts immediately. In reality, the programs vary in how they apply the discount, but typically you don't get the discount until renewal time.
Some programs, however, do offer a small initial discount for signing up. With Intellidrive by Travelers Insurance, you can get up to a 10 percent discount for signing up and then up to a 30 percent discount at renewal time for low mileage.
Progressive lets you sign up for a 30-day trial of Snapshot. After logging 30 days of driving information, you can find out how much you might save and can apply the discount to your premium. In another five months, the ongoing discount is set for the policy renewal.
Myth 4:If the device shows I drive poorly, my rates will go up.
Of those unwilling to try pay-as-you-drive insurance, 12 percent said they thought the insurer might raise their rates, based on the data collected. Another 22 percent said they didn't think the discount would be worth it.
Typically, PAYD programs won't raise your rates if your driving isn't up to par.
"Rest assured, your rate will never increase based on your participation in the DriveSense program," Esurance says of its usage-based product.
However, State Farm says premiums could increase for customers in rare cases. That would happen only if you currently get a discount from State Farm for driving under 7,500 miles a year and then you enroll in the company's Drive Safe & Save program and log more than 7,500 miles annually.
Most customers who enroll in the program, though, will save money, the company says.
Recently, though, Progressive, which had said rates would never go up for bad drives enrolled in its Snapshot program, made headlines by announcing it plans to change that approach over time.
"In our latest model, introduced in one state in December of 2014, we are taking the significant step by affording more customers discounts for their good driving behavior, while offsetting with surcharges for a small segment of drivers whose driving behavior is clearly indicative of such rates," the company said in its 2014 annual report.
What does that mean for you? In states where the company uses the new approach, your premiums could up after you enroll in Snapshot if the data shows you're a highly risky driver. If the data shows you pose very little risk, than you could get a bigger discount than you would have with the old approach. For now the change is effective only in Missouri and affects only new participants, a Progressive spokes person told the Chicago Tribune.
The company said it is also offering higher enrollment discounts to preferred drivers who sign up for Snapshot than for higher-risk drivers who sign up.
"We are excited by the competitive and growth potential we foresee," the company said about the Snapshot program.
Myth 5: Car insurance companies will share the information.
Among survey respondents who said they wouldn't consider trying a pay-as-you-drive plan, 13 percent said they think the insurer would share their personal data.
Privacy concerns are among the biggest obstacles for consumers to accept pay-as-you-drive programs.
Insurers say they won't share the information unless they are legally obligated. Otherwise the only people who see the data are you and the insurance company.
"Travelers may become legally obligated to provide data to law enforcement investigating the cause of an accident, in response to a subpoena, or as otherwise required by law," Travelers Insurance says of its Intellidrive program. "If we are required to provide data to a third-party, we may use the data for claim purposes."


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Small angular contact thrust ball bearings for screw drives often require very small quantities of grease. When a very small grease quantity has to be applied, the bearing should be immersed in a grease solution (3 to 5% grease in a solvent) first. After the solvent has drained and evaporated, grease can be applied. Immersing the bearing in a grease solution ensures that all surfaces are covered with a thin layer of the lubricant.


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Does anyone have an autoconf recipe for detecting whether or not the export keyword works in your C++ compiler?
The autoconf archive has nothing (probably because gcc pre-3.x doesn't support export so it's hard to test), unfortunately. It's difficult because to test it properly, you need to compile two separate files (one with, say, exported template body, and another which instantiates the template) and see if linking correctly works.
I realise, of course, that there are varying degrees of "works" when it comes to export. :-)
Any suggestions would be gratefully received. I'll post a summary.


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Abdali suggests revival of Amritsar-Kabul air corridor
Abdali suggests revival of Amritsar-Kabul air corridor
KABUL (Pajhwok) Afghanistan's Ambassador to India Shaida Mohammad Abdali met Indian Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and discussed the potential for promoting bilateral trade.
Indian media reported on Thursday Abdali proposed the revival of the Amritsar-Kabul air corridor and a pilot project for 1,500 tonnes of cargo trade to boost Afghanistan's traditionally close ties with Punjab.
Singh said the two shared historical relations and presented to the envoy a book 'Baba Ala Singh' by Kirpal Singh, founder of Patiala state. The book traces the Afghan connection with Punjab.
Amarinder showed keenness to strengthen further that connection through trade and other avenues.
Abdali suggested opening a trade corridor through a pilot cargo trade project with pharmaceutical goods, engineering products, woolens, dairy items, fresh and dry fruits, meat, processed food and milk powder.
He also suggested that Punjab should import meat products from Afghanistan.
The chief minister evinced interest in the proposal and directed officials to hold discussions with Afghanistan and work out modalities for the pilot project.
The envoy, who has already visited Amritsar and plans to go to Sirhind tomorrow, also saw huge potential for education for Afghan youth in Punjab.
At present, around 16,000 Afghan students were studying in India, the diplomat said, hailing the quality of university education in Punjab.
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If you used Time Machine to create a backup of your Mac, you can restore your files from that backup. You might want to do so after the original files are deleted from your Mac, or the hard disk (or SSD) in your Mac is erased or replaced, such as during a repair.
Restore from a Time Machine backup
When you restore from a Time Machine backup, you can choose to restore all your files, or restore both the Mac operating system (macOS) and all your files.
Restore all your files
- Make sure that your Time Machine backup disk is connected and turned on, then turn on your Mac.
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- If your Mac starts up to the Finder, open Migration Assistant, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. Click Continue in the first Migration Assistant window, then continue to step 2.
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|Why exactly does the female Founder have that smooth, Odo-looking face? We know she can imitate Humanoids perfectly if she wants to, after all. Maybe she does it to make Odo feel more comfortable, but in that case why are her hands perfect copies of a Human's complete with all the wrinkles, etc?
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|It's a small thing, but I love the scene where Sisko and Bashir are waiting on a tiny rock island in the middle of the great link. The way Bashir goes to skim a rock across the surface of the great link without thinking about what he's doing, with Sisko's shocked "Doctor!" and Bashir's abashed "Ohhhh." It just cracks me up every time.
|Factoid :
|In this episode we see the Founder's new homeworld, after their old one was largely destroyed in The Die is Cast.
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How do I know if I have proper aeration? Felipe – Moscow, ID
The bigger the better when it comes to aeration.
When purchasing your aeration system you were told it will promote a clean, healthy pond with less algae and clear water. With more and more customers installing aeration systems in their ponds now may be a good time to discuss some of the assumptions and mistakes made when choosing an aeration system.
An Airmax® Aeration System can make the difference when it comes to your pond's health, so selecting the right system can be very important. In the long-run there is no free lunch. If you try to "Make Do" with a smaller aeration system than what is recommend, it may come back to haunt you. When an aeration system is sized correctly it will eliminate any thermoclines (thermoclines are a separation of water based on temperature). Have you ever swam in your pond and felt very cold water at your feet? Most pond owners believe this is a spring, when in reality, it's caused by a thermocline. Proper aeration improves water quality, breaks down organic debris (muck) and improves the overall ecosystem in your pond. Aeration works by circulating the entire pond's water column from top to bottom. The tiny bubbles created by the diffuser forces cool oxygen deprived water from the bottom depths all the way to the pond's surface. This circulation drives oxygen to the bottom of the pond allowing "good" bacteria to digest muck, reducing nutrients and increase the overall dissolved oxygen in the pond. If the system is undersized it will not create uniform circulation and simply pump small amounts of the cool nutrient-rich water from the bottom of your pond to the top. This is the equivalent of adding fertilizer to your pond. This can result in additional algae growth, odors and even fish kills. This can all be especially true during the warmer months of the year.
If you currently have an aeration system running and you are not sure if it is sized correctly, there is an easy way to tell with a thermometer and long string. You will use the string to extend the reach of the thermometer taking temperature readings every 24 inches, letting the thermometer rest long enough to get the true temperature reading at your desired depth. Take readings every 24 inches until you reach the bottom of your pond. If there is more then a few degrees difference in any of your temperature readings you are more then likely under aerating your pond.
If you haven't purchased an aeration system yet take advantage of The Pond Guys and Gals, we offer free aeration mapping and technical support.
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Sunday night was the coldest so far in many Bay Area cities.
Clear skies were likely for the rest of Sunday evening, but lows were likely to be in the 30s in most parts of the Bay Area, with north winds up to 15 mph.
It has been so cold in the Bay Area that in Walnut Creek, man-made snow from an ice skating has not melted in hours. Temperatures are expected to reach as low as 25 degrees there Sunday night, according to The Weather Channel.
The cold, however, is not keeping everyone indoors.
Pankaj Sharma of Dublin said she is braving the cold weather at the Walnut Creek ice skating rink "because of the fun."
"This is the first time my son is ice skating," she said. "You've got to get out. You just can't stay home inside."
Sarah Carter works the cash register outside and was just finishing up her eight-hour shift before she spoke to NBC Bay Area.
"I've got lots of layers on--a sweater, long socks and mittens," Carter said.
But this recent cold snap is coming at a steep cost for the state's agriculture industry.
Citrus trees are freezing in the Central Valley where some farmers have lost 20 to 30 percent of their harvest.
"We're losing a lot of money on this deal, and we may end up removing the trees," citrus farmer Brent Doyle said.
In the Bay Area, most of the wineries have already finished their harvests for the season and are not threatened by the recent freeze.
At Wente Vineyards in Livermore, the grapes were picked a couple of weeks ago.
"The frost isn't going to give us any trouble out here," Matt Rice of Wente Vineyards said. "There may be a few wineries with some grapes out there, biting their nails about the frost, but out here in the Livermore Valley, we're harvested and ready for a nice winter."


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In linux everything is considered as file, Now if I want to find only folders/directories not the files then how can i do that?
I am getting all the modified files with the following command.
find /Users/ghanshyam -type f -mmin -5 -print
My goal is to generate the log file with all the modified/access folders. Here two options are available.
create a module and call every time when a folder is modified (this one is bit difficult
because I need to check particular event)
create a cron task that will run after every 5 minutes. cron task will execute shell
script and generate the log entries with the modified folders.
Do you have any other option to do this task ?


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My first thought was the NES, but also, the PS1 has to be up there. And if you count the arcade and/or PC, those have gotta be up there. But if were talking strictly console gaming, the NES has...
Final Fantasy
Dragon Warrior
Mega Man
Duck Tales
Tempted to count Metal Gear but credit goes to the MSX for that one even if it didnt come out in North America.
Megami Tensei was first released on Famicom so I dont know whether to count that as an NES release. Same with RBI Baseball and Fire Emblem.
Resident Evil
Twisted Metal
Crash Bandicoot
Gran Turismo
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Tomb Raider
Feel free to add to these lists. Im sure the arcade class as a whole would outnumber both PS1 and NES but Im not as familiar with those games, and same for PC.


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By DonalBane of Blakmers
Battlefield Reporter for the Pennsic Independent
Outlands 20th Anniversary Invitational Tournament
Their Majesties Bela and Claudia of The Outlands hosted a tournament celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Outlands' founding. The only weapon allowed in the list was a great axe, so used because a great axe is the oldest piece of regalia used by the Outlands. Eight gentles participated in a round-robin tournament where each bout was best two of three fights.
In the end, The Honorable Lord Griffith of Barrowhaven from the Outlands won the tournament with a 6-1 record. He and all the other fighters were offered prizes for participating by Their Majesties.


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The HTC Desire X is the company's latest smartphone and one that sits slightly below the recently launched One V but above the HTC Desire C. Pocket-lint was given a chance to have a play with the new device ahead of the official launch.
The phone is aimed at HTC Desire users coming to the end of their two-year contract in the UK and while this isn't pitched anywhere near the flagship status that the Desire had when it first launched, it should still offer those looking for something similar but better a nice upgrade path without having to splash out tonnes of cash - and in recession fuelled times when budgets can be tight, we all know that's important.
HTC presents the Desire X then, something with a little X factor, but nothing too dramatic or exciting - there is the One series for that, don't for get.
Corners have been clearly been cut. Gone is the unibody single-shell skeleton holding everything together for a more traditional non-HTC designed phone built with a removable back cover and, more useful for most, a removable battery.
That's not to say the Desire X is ugly. It carries the same design ethos as the One series of phones. Side by side you can see the designers are thinking the same here. But the materials aren't as "expensive" and that gives the Desire X a slightly cheaper feel and one that might not last as long. If you are hoping for metal and toughness we doubt you'll get it here even though the front bezel is silver and shiny.
Looking at the handset from the front, the proceedings are dominated by the 4-inch screen. The phone itself runs HTC's Sense 4 on top of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but HTC has still opted to include three dedicated touch-sensitive buttons to help users getting around the phone.
Likewise the HTC chin is still present. This is simple, elegant, but very much HTC. There is nothing groundbreaking in the design, nothing that breaks out from the HTC norm, and that for those that want a HTC phone is probably a good thing. This isn't a case of a phone that rudely sits in the new HTC family of devices.
Around the back the phone's shell is interrupted with a 5-megapixel camera. It doesn't protrude from the chassis, but HTC has made an effort to point it out. It harks back to the HTC Evo, but is merely decoration rather than something with a purpose.
Inside and the specs are perhaps what you would expect for a mid-range phone. There's a 1Ghz S4 Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, with 1GB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage expandable via microSD for for files and apps and users will get a 25GB dropbox account too. There is also Beats Audio support as the One Series.
That processor speed puts it below the One V, but didn't seem to have a hugely adverse affect on the performance of the phone when we played with it doing some basic and easy tasks.
It could be faster, but this is mid-range and trying to hit a budget, so expect that.
On the camera side of things corners have been cut here too over the One Series. There is no 720p video recording option, nor do yu get the slow-mo feature of the One series, but again you shouldn't be too worried about this, the people that the Desire X is aimed at probably won't care.
You still get the special effects to add to your images like Sepia or posterise, and it's still pretty quick to snap images.
So there you have it, a quick first impression of the new Desire X, a mid-range phone from HTC that like the Wildfire before it is likely to do well and please those who are looking for a nice easy-to-use phone that has a little bit of smart about it, but as HTC itself admits, nothing "super".
The HTC Desire X will be available in both black and white versions in mid September in the UK. HTC tells us that all the UK operators are very keen to stock it. Those looking for extra protection will also be able to get a range of colourful mesh covers for the phone similar to those announced for the HTC One series.


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Shwayze is bringing his Southern Cali culture and style fittingly back to Southern California with five concert dates kicking off the end of January. Best known for hitting 2 Billboard Hot 100 singles charts for "Corona and Lime" & "Buzzin," Shwayze will be performing tracks from the new EP, titled "Shwayzed & Confused."
Shwayze also had his own MTV series titled "Buzzin" which chronicled his misadventures with musical partner Cisco Adler.Shwayze has performed on Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Good Morning America, Fuse, and has toured all over the country for fans. His music has also been featured everywhere from Pontiac car commercials, to horror flicks Sorirty Row & Prianha 3D.
Now Shwayze is out of Malibu and based in NY, getting ready to drop his newest EP "Shwayzed and Confused" with Feel Good Entertainment, he is releasing the video for the single "Love Is Overrated" and gears up for a new full-length solo album.
Tour dates & venues listed below:
Jan. 26th- Berkeley, CA @ AshkenaJan.
27th- Santa Cruz, CA @ The CatalystJan.
30th- Santa Barbara, CA @ velvet JonesJan.
31st- Hermosa Beach, CA @ American Junkie
Feb. 1st- San Diego, CA @ Griffin
For more information on Shwayze and his tour, visit: http://www.moodswing360.com/shwayzedandconfused/


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Emergency Mapping Symbology, Phase 1
The Emergency Mapping Symbology Interoperability Program Initiative will be a testbed initiative focusing on maturing the Style Management Service (SMS) and the Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) with application to Emergency Mapping Symbology. The project will test by enabling the use of multiple symbol sets with one set of feature data. The symbology used will likely come from the following:
SMS is a service that was first described and demonstrated in the Open Web Services Phase 1.2 (OWS-1.2) test bed initiative. While SMS can be thought of as a type of service, it is in actuality a logical composition of design-patterns, service interfaces and encodings. As such, SMS defines architecture for enabling scalable and interoperable management of symbols and styles in support of cartographic portrayal processes.
Emergency Mapping Symbology (EMS) Request For Quotation and Call For Participation
This call seeks interested technology providers to make proposals in response to a defined set of requirements addressing interoperability needs for the use of symbology in emergency mapping. The EMS Initiative will mature OGC's specification framework for interoperable geographic symbolization while simultaneously testing emerging standard map symbol sets for emergency response developed by national-level agencies.
Participants will be addressing sponsor requirements including the development of a client for publishing, managing, and previewing particular symbolization configurations, testing the assignment of symbols to particular feature types from a feature level data store, testing and enhancement of the Style Layer Descriptor (SLD)Implementation Specification and its use in Web Mapping Service implementations to support the portrayal specified symbol sets, and testing and enhancing the Style Management Services Specification (SMS).
EMS is an opportunity for vendors, users, and other interested parties to mutually define services, interfaces and protocols in the context of a hands-on engineering experience, resulting in Interoperability Program Reports. This initiative is expected to help shape the future of interoperable technology to meet Emergency Management and Response requirements. Sponsors have provided cost-sharing funds to partially offset development costs associated with this initiative.
Proposals are due by December 16, 2003.
Click a link to download the .zip archive:
Emergency Mapping Symbology, Phase 1 RFQ (doc format).zip
Emergency Mapping Symbology, Phase 1 RFQ (pdf format).zip
In-kind and Cost share worksheet
Emergency Mapping Symbology (EMS) RFQ Clarifications
Question #1: Where is the Proposal Template?
Clarification #1: The above ZIP Packages have been updated to include the Proposal Template.
Question #2: Section 5.1 of the EMS-1 RFQ [Main Body] specifies a proposal page limit of 10 pages. Section 5.4 is at odds with that.
Clarification #2: There is a 10 page limit for proposals in response to the EMS-1 RFQ. Section 5.4 should read:
Question #3: Section 5.4 of the EMS-1 RFQ [Main Body] refers to Section 5.5, Past Performance, which is actually Section 5.6. It also contains editorial comments.
Clarification #3: Section 5.4 should refer to Section 5.6 for Past Performance, instead of Section 5.5. See clarification above for corrected text for Section 5.4.Question #4: This concerns the references in the EMS requirements to WOS for SMS Symbol and Style storage/retrieval. Is this a mandatory requirement?
Note that any ebRIM Registry can support (and most do) a local Repository that can store XML and other content. Since the styles and symbols are also metadata it makes more sense in our view to simply store these in the associated local repository rather than invoke an additional service. This approach is also much more secure.
Are we allowed to submit a WRS with local repository support (part of ebRIM anyways) to handle all symbology and symbol management or is provision of a separate WOS required?Clarification #4: As stated in the EMS-1 RFQ (Main body, Annex A, and Annex B), WOS is a mandatory interface of the SMS architecture as first developed and demonstrated in the OWS1.2 IP initiative and documented in OGC Discussion Paper 03-031. The WOS interface provides an OWS-compatible service interface for Web-accessible repositories of style (SLD) and symbol documents.
While it may be true that "ebRIM Registry can support a local repository that can store XML and other content" it is out of scope for EMS-1 to implement ebRIM Reg/Rep interfaces in lieu of the OWS CS-W (registry) and WOS (repository) interfaces. The ebRIM Registry/Repostory specifications are not elements of the SMS as defined in 03-031 nor are they part of the current OGC technical baseline. Like all OWS interfaces, however, the WOS interface may be backed in implementation by any suitable technology (ebRIM Reg/Rep being one example).
While submitters are encouraged to address security issues and solutions in their proposals, there are no security requirements stipulated in the RFQ.
Submitters may propose CS-W (aka WRS) implementations supporting local repository functions implementing WOS interface. Submitters are encouraged to explain the rationale for this or any other proposed approach.Question #5: The subject RFQ states: "Proposals must be received at OGC no later than 1200 EDT December 16, 2003."
Clarification #5: The RFQ incorrectly stated eastern daylight time. Proposals are due at 1200 (Noon) Eastern Standard Time on 16 December. The RFQ should have stated:
"Proposals must be received at OGC no later than 1200 (Noon) EST December 16, 2003."
Question #6: How would OGC like proposers to represent their cost share requests and in-kind contribution declarations?
Clarification #6: Using the In-kind and Cost share worksheet.
Question #7: "We understand that the prevision of a WOS for the storage of map styles and symbology is mandatory. Can we interpret the clarification to mean that the WRS can be provided with a WOS Connector that enables WRS client requests (insert, update etc.) for styles, symbology managed by an external WOS or does the architecture require that the WRS client request information about the style, symbology from the WRS and then separately request the instances from the WOS."
Clarification #7: The latter case was assumed. The former case may be acceptable. Keep in mind the disclaimer found in Section 1 (Overview) of Annex B:
"The architecture presented herein is intended to be a starting point. This document should be considered a draft and extensions and modifications to this architecture will be generated from lessons learned through the EMS-1 and other OGC initiatives."
To the degree that WRS (CSW) and WOS interfaces may be redundant (e.g., only one interface, not both, is needed to implement full SMS capabilities) or there are clear benefits in simplicity, efficiency or reuse to be gained in alternative approaches, then your response should elaborate the usage scenarios and describe preferred alternatives. Alternatives should not, however, depart from the set of technical baseline documents listed in Section 6 (Technology Viewpoint) of the EMS-1 RFQ.
Regardless of approach, if you are proposing to provide SMS capabilities, it remains a requirement (Annex A, 3.1.2) to provide a Web-accessible implementation of the WOS interface for style and symbol object repositories.


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The easiest way to understand the beauty WELDA Windows and Doors will add to your home is to see for yourself.
Our Photo Gallery highlights some of our vinyl windows, entry doors, patio doors and porch enclosures installations throughout Southern Ontario including Toronto, Brampton, Barrie, Oshawa, Mississauga, Oakville and Kitchener.
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07 Jan Mulch Sales Eltham | Garden & Tree Mulch Delivery
Mulch Sales & Delivery Eltham
Simpson's Tree Service provides mulch sales and delivery throughout Eltham and surrounding areas. Mulch is essential for water smart gardeners, helping to suppress weeds and conserve moisture while improving the look of our gardens.
Quite simply it is a layer of material spread on the ground around plants. Spread the mulch to a depth of 7 – 10 cm, the mulch has to be thick enough to suppress weeds but thin enough to still allow water to penetrate.
Mulch helps to conserve water by reducing evaporation from the soil surface. Good organic mulch will break down, and in the long term will improve the condition and fertility of the soil. Leaving the mulch to sit in a big pile steaming is the best way to prevent nitrogen draw down, if you have the space and the time leave the delivered mulch in its massive pile for 2 – 3 weeks by which time it will have used its own heat to speed up the decomposition process.
If you haven't got the space or the time then before spreading the mulch use a fertiliser rich in nitrogen such as a complete slow release product or manure pellets or aged – not fresh it will burn the plants. This will prevent the mulch sucking nitrogen out of the soil to aid the decomposition process.
The leafy mulch has more vitamins for the plants, but it will decompose quicker than woody mulch. However woody mulch is low in nutrients.
Delivery – ring up or email us and order a load, remember to give a spot where you'd like it dropped should the truck fill up whilst no one is home. Our truck holds 13 cubic metres of mulch – we have measured the bin's capacity. An invoice will be left with our banking details.
Generally it takes about a week from ordering to delivery – longer in springtime and pre-Christmas.
Species of trees for mulch – any mulch is good for the garden – all mulches will be freshly cut and will require fertiliser if spread within a week after delivery to prevent plants yellowing and slowing growth down.
Click for More info on mulch from Melissa King at the ABC'ss Gardening Australia
Call us on 9438 2238 or us the contact us page to send us a query.


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Welcome to Canning Vale Business Builders - BNI Southern Stars!
We run a very friendly, but structured weekly breakfast meeting, every Wednesday morning at Gosnells Golf Club.
Last financial year we achieved over $2.25 Million in referral business, with over 2,000 referrals received!
At the meeting everyone takes a turn to speak to the group to ask for referrals and each week one of our members gives a 10 min expert presentation.
Informal networking is also available before and after the meeting, so remember to bring your business cards!
Our mission is "to help member increase their business through a structured, positive, and professional referral marketing program that enables them to develop long-term, meaningful relationships with quality business professionals."
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What you need:
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/8 teaspoons salt
3 cups sour cherries or dark sweet cherries, frozen
1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon almond extract
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
Pre-made pie crust
Directions: Stir together the sugar, cornstarch and salt in a saucepan. Add the cherries and lemon juice. Stir until the cherries are fully coated with the sugar and cornstarch mixture. Bring the mixture to a boil while stirring over medium-high heat, letting the mixture boil for at least two to three minutes. Add the almond extract and the butter and stir until melted. Pour into a 9 x13-inch pan and let cool completely.
Cut crust into heart shapes and spoon filling onto crust. Lightly egg wash the edges of the hearts with the filling then lay a pie crust heart on top to seal, crimping the edges with a fork. Pierce tops with the lines of a fork to create steam vents. Brush tops with egg wash and sprinkle with coarse sugar. Bake for 15 minutes, until golden.
Source: Kim Boos, co-owner of Boulder's Tee and Cakes
This Valentine's Day, surprise your sweetheart with some treats that will look and taste the part without breaking your budget.
After more than five years of owning a bakery and design shop with her husband, Tee and Cakes co-owner Kim Boos said she still surprises her husband with sweets on Valentine's Day.
"If you want to make it special, think of catering to whoever your honey is and what they like," Boos said. "My husband likes bourbon whiskey, so I'll add some bourbon to what I'm making."
There's no need to be aprofessional baker to make something that will impress your sweetie this week, Boos said even the novice cook can make something delicious with basic ingredients.
While Boos' team makes everything from scratch at the sweets shop, altering a box mix at home can be an easy way to create a tasty treat.
Brownies are one of the better box mixes, Boos said, but adding your own twist to them will show your Valentine that you care.
She recommended following the regular brownie mix directions, but then adding a teaspoon of pure vanilla extract or chocolate chunks to the mix to elevate the flavor.
Tip: Once the brownies are finished, cut them into heart-shaped pieces after they cool and add ice cream between two brownies for a personalized ice cream sandwich.
Boos said that adding some cayenne pepper, almond extract and cinnamon to the brownie mix can create a sweet and spicy Mexican-style brownie that will light a fire this Valentine's Day.
Cake box mixes can also be a great start to creating a personalized flavor, Boos said.
Yellow box cake and a tub of pre-made vanilla icing can be turned into a raspberry cake with rosewater icing, with just a few alterations.
Raspberry jam will personalize the bland mix, so adding jam and rose water to the vanilla frosting and with a fresh raspberry on top will create a delicious raspberry swirl cake with rose water frosting.
"Rose water is a fancier ingredient, so adding it to vanilla icing will really elevate the flavor of the entire dish," Boos said.
Using bakers tin, paper hearts and decorative paper bag packaging can give any treat a special appearance this Valentine's Day, making the look of your sweets even sweeter.
Boos said her favorite Valentine's treats are personal hand pies. Tee and Cakes will be serving sour cherry pies this Valentine's Day, but frozen cherries and pre-made crust can make a pie that's perfect for two.
Boos said preparing your own cherry filling can mask the taste of a pre-made crust and turn this Valentine's into a sweet day. Cut the crusts into heart-shaped pieces and add your favorite ice cream for a personal pie a-la-mode.
"Anything that can be shared makes for a sweet Valentine's Day treat," Boos said.
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Is there any difference between having a clustered index on an identity column
versus a non-clustered index?
AFAIK, the clustered index will physically order the data based on the values
in the index. A non-clustered index does not order the table hence the moniker
"heap table" for tables lacking clustered indexes.
BTW, does anyone know when does a clustered index reorders the data?
Is it on every insert, update or when DBCC DBREINDEX is run?
I would guess the latter but you never know.
Since I am on the subject, I would like to ask a few more questions on the
differences between the 2 indexes.
1. What's the general rule of thumb of using a clustered index over a non-clustered
I should mention that I just read a great article at www.sql-server-performance.com
on "heap tables" not releasing space after rebuilding the indexes whereas
clustered tables will release unused space. I tested and found that to
be the case.
2. Has anyone measured the performance difference between the 2 indexes?
I just changed a clustered index to a non-clustered one and joined against
12 million rows on the one column that the index is based on. The queries
took the exact same time to execute.
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Hi All,
I have a management Server with a private IP address and it sits behind a firewall and is NAT'ed to a static public IP.
It is then trying to establish SIC with a gateway(gateway has public IP) sitting on the internet.
I have read that the SIC certifcate uses IP address, which means the gateway on the internet is expecting the public IP address in the SIC cert, but instead there is a private IP. what is the work around for this issue ?
any suggestions would be welcome.
Happy New Year :-)


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BANGKOK -- Worries about Europe's debt crisis, signs of weak global growth and expectations of lower U.S. corporate earnings sent Asian stocks down on Wednesday.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index tumbled 1.7 percent to 8,625.26. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 0.4 percent to 20,850.25. South Korea's Kospi lost 1 percent at 1,958.41. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 shed 0.4 per cent to 4,488.30.
International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that Spain's economy _ already in double-dip recession _ will contract by 1.3 percent next year _ more than double its previous prediction.
Spain, with near 25 percent unemployment, has introduced a series of austerity and labor measures in a desperate bid to bring down its deficit and convince investors it can manage its finances without outside help.
Madrid is now pushing for the European Central Bank to intervene in the secondary market and bring down its borrowing costs, but the ECB insists the country must formally apply for aid first.
"Spain remains the major focal point and in this regard there is no progress in the country moving forward with a bailout request," analysts at Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong said in a market commentary. "The market tone will continue to remain cautious but we don't expect a major relapse in risk appetite."
The IMF also cut its estimates for global economic growth, warning that mature economies are at risk of recession.
Investors on Wall Street were discouraged by the IMF report as well as expectations of lower corporate earnings. Analysts expect earnings for Standard & Poor's 500 companies to be lower than a year ago _ the first time that has happened in almost three years.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 0.8 percent to 13,473.53. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 1 percent to 1,441.48. The Nasdaq composite index fell 1.5 percent to 3,065.02.
Benchmark oil fell 31 cents to $92.08 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The price of oil rose more than 3 percent Tuesday on concerns about supplies from the Middle East and the North Sea. The contract rose $3.06 to finish at $92.39 per barrel.
In currencies, the euro fell to $1.2861 from $1.2880 late Tuesday in New York. The dollar rose to 78.25 yen from 78.22 yen.


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I have an aversion to conspiracy theories. It has little to do with whether they're true. Indeed, some things we now consider common knowledge were once conspiracy theories. It has everything to do with the obstacles they create and political reform they undermine.
The murky notion that President Obama is some sort of secret-Kenyan-Muslim-communist is a prevalent fantasy held among some elements on the Right, from the "Birther" movement spurred on by attention-whore Donald Trump to Dinesh D'Souza's movie "Obama 2016." Before the election, The American Conservative's Michael Tracey summarized D'Souza's sleeper hit: "The central theme of D'Souza's film is that deep-down, Obama harbors seething hatred for America, and thus his presidency has been designed to bring about its downfall by a host of surreptitious means. It's a revolting hour-and-a-half of cinema, targeted at the most angst-ridden and pliable Americans looking for answers…"
When I was boarding a plane leaving Tampa after the Republican convention in August, I sat near two men probably in their mid-to-late 50s. Said one man, and I'm paraphrasing: "You know what you need to see? That Obama 2016 movie." The other man replied, "Oh yeah, I heard that was really good. Gives us a good idea of what we're really up against."
It's no secret what conservatives are "up against" when it comes to Barack Obama. There's no mystery to it. From unemployment and staggering debt to ObamaCare—the president's record is as public as it is repugnant.
Pushing conspiracy theories to "explain" Obama's record undermines the actual awfulness of his record. What if Obama's policies really are part of some contrived, anti-American agenda—would the president's big government onslaught somehow be preferable if it were all-American in origin? Is the problem that the policies themselves are bad? They likely aren't very different from what a President Hillary Clinton—or let's face it, Mitt Romney—would have pursued. Must conservatives also prove there is some underlying, unpatriotic plot?
No secret motives are needed to explain obvious bad government.
Conservatives are usually on solid ground when they argue against Obama's damaging policies. They are on even better ground when they can offer attractive policies of their own. But they are on counterproductive and unwinnable ground when they insist that Obama is an anti-colonial, Kenyan, secretly Muslim communist. These arguments not only sound stupid—they aren't even arguments. The American Conservative's James Antle captures why such thinking is entirely beside the point: "Is there anything less interesting than the theorizing about why Obama governs as he does? Obama is a liberal, and a fairly banal one at that … Yet there remains a cottage industry of explanations for why a liberal president has compiled a record of generally liberal policy positions, something akin to a discovery process as to why a quarterback is so taken with throwing touchdown passes."
It's no surprise that Romney lost the election given that the core message of his campaign was that he is not Obama. It should also come as no surprise that a GOP void of any positive agenda would double down on the negative. Republicans as high profile as Newt Gingrich complained about Obama's "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior." When conservatives could no longer articulate what they stood for, this characteristic negativity veered deeper into conspiracy paranoia. Refusing to examine themselves, conservatives instead began subjecting their enemies to cartoonish levels of scrutiny.
Conspiracy theories are not ideas. They represent an absence of ideas. The subtext to most conspiracy theories is that there is no point in arguing over philosophies of better governance, because those who govern are beholden to secret agendas beyond the control of participatory politics. Why vote? We're all doomed.
While such theories are not always implausible, they are also generally more fun than fact. There will always be a large audience for this stuff for the same reason Americans are more interested in Tom Cruise's divorce or Kate Middleton's baby than foreign or monetary policy—it's titillating and easy.
It's also a major distraction. As the conservative movement tries to recover, are voters more likely to listen to Republican conspiracy theorists demanding to see the President's birth certificate and ranting about Obama's "anti-colonial rage"?
Or liberal Democrats who believe federal stimulus and healthcare is a godsend? Who sounds crazy? Who sounds reasonable?
Like many conservatives in this election, the two men I heard on the plane speaking glowingly about D'Souza's movie didn't have anything particularly praiseworthy to say about Romney or the GOP, so of course they were attracted to the idea that Obama was the bogeyman of their worst nightmares. It was all they had left.
Conspiracy theories can be fun. But they will also continue to cripple any serious conservative effort to promote limited government.
Jack Hunter is the co-author of The Tea Party Goes to Washington by Sen. Rand Paul and serves as New Media Director for Senator Paul. The views presented in this essay are the author's own and are independent of any campaign or other organization.


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Six New York City teens have been charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime in the brutal beating and stomping of an 18-year-old perceived to be gay. The 21-charge indictment includes manslaughter, assault and robbery as hate crimes, reports YourNabe.
Outside of a March 13 Woodhaven house party, the six boys allegedly used a pipe, cane and stick to bludgeon Anthony Collao so severely he died days later in a hospital. The suspects then allegedly stole the shoes off of Collao, and one was seen wearing the Bethpage teen's Atlanta Braves baseball cap immediately following the incident, the DA said. Another bragged about it on Facebook, according to city officials.
The accused are: Nolis Ogando, 18; Alex Velez, Christopher Lozada and Calvin Pietri, all 17; Luis Tabales and Jonathan Echevarria, 16. If convicted, the teenagers face a minimum of 20 years to life in prison.
"Hate crimes — whether they be motivated by sexual orientation, gender, religion or ethnicity — will not be tolerated in Queens County, which is proudly known as one of the most diverse areas in the country," [Queens District Attorney Richard] Brown said in a statement. "When they do, regrettably, occur, they will be condemned in the strongest possible terms and those responsible will be brought to justice to answer for their actions."
Collao was a recent high school graduate who attended the party held in an abandoned building and advertised on Facebook. Collao was not gay but the two young men who hosted the party were. Gang members tried to crash the party, began a melee and yelled anti-gay slurs. Collao was chased from the home and brutally attacked.
The Collao case has eerie similarities to the December 2008 fatal beating of Jose Sucuzhañay in Brooklyn. The Ecuadorean immigrant was mistakenly believed to be gay and beaten to a pulp with an aluminum baseball bat. Sucuzhanay's brother Diego, who was injured in that attack, spoke at the Collao vigil. Collao's family are also Ecuadorean immigrants.
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In the year 2014, one would expect that mindsets of anachronistic tendencies would have disappeared. Social upheaval; changes of customs, values and mores; alterations to traditional notions of what defines X; as each generation believes itself to be the wisest, so we have arrived at this period in modernity where questions of the validity of psychiatric conditions would still be an issue. That is rather astounding. Calls are still received where the query reflects a sense of trepidation as to the viability of a psychiatric condition. This, in the year 2014.
Postal employees, in particular, suffer great stresses in the workplace. It is simply a fact of life for the modern Postal Worker: Do more with less; don't expect a pay raise; consider yourself lucky in this economy to have a job. But what are the consequences of following such a mandate? Greater stresses at every tier of being occurs when employed at the U.S. Postal Service. The real "trickle-down" economic theory has to do with the employment impact of a worker's environment which finds its paradigmatic impetus in the U.S. Postal Service: the physical and psychological consequences of an organization (the U.S. Postal Service) which expects more of its workers, while demanding that the same work be accomplished with less help, less pay, and within the constraints of less time, because overtime pay is forbidden. Stress and the psychological impact upon one's health, are the conjoining issues which can never be quantified.
As a child, one recalls a representative of the Nuclear energy industry visiting our school and giving a talk, and citing a statistic that not a single individual had died as a result of an industry accident. At the time, the thought was: that is a pretty amazing statistical conclusion. As one grows older, of course, hopefully one increases in wisdom – or, put another way, in cynicism. Question: Does the statistical conclusion take into account a cancer-related death occurring decades later, where direct causality between an industry and the medical condition cannot be unequivocally established? And a similar question for the U.S. Postal Service: Do the pressures placed upon the Postal Worker, to do more with less, account for a rise is Psychiatric conditions?
It sounds so simple, in theory: This is a hard economy; competition is more intense than ever; UPS and FedEx are eating away at the competitive edge which the USPS once held; everyone is suffering, so it is only fair to force the U.S. Postal Service to be required of the same: Do more with less.
But as with all actions, there are consequences which – foreseen or unforeseen – take their toll. The short answer is that, in filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits, there is little difference as to the viability of a case between physical medical conditions and psychiatric conditions. The issue is no longer the conceptual distinction between physical medical conditions and psychiatric conditions; rather, the issue is one of establishing sufficient proof in filing for OPM Disability Retirement benefits. For, in the end, proving a Federal Disability Retirement case, filed with and reviewed by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, is not based upon a determination of the seriousness of a medical condition; rather, regardless of the medical condition, the extent of the impact to which the medical condition prevents one from performing one or more of the essential elements of the Postal Job which the Postal Worker must engage.
It is thus the "nexus", or the linguistic "bridge" established between a medical condition and the type of job which the Postal Worker must work, which is the important body of proof to establish in a Federal Disability Retirement application. How does one make that connection, or establish that proof? Since much of Postal work involves strenuous physical activities of a repetitive nature, where physical health and fitness is the primary focus, how does one then wrap the physical aspect around the psychological turmoil? If you can physically lift up to 70 lbs., bend and twist repetitively; stand and walk throughout the day; it matters not whether you suffer from Bipolar Disorder, Cognitive Dysfunctions, Severe Major Depression, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, suicidal ideations, etc. Or so one might assume, and therefore doubt that psychiatric conditions form a viable avenue for successfully filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits, for Postal employees who are under either FERS or CSRS.
The concurrent and parallel roads which converge to precipitate the large volume of cases comprised of psychiatric conditions, by Postal Workers alone, shows the state of working for the U.S. Postal Service. Yes, Postal Work is engaged in rigorous physical exertions, which often comprise a compendium of medical conditions which are valid bases for filing a Federal Disability Retirement application, including (but not limited to), Rotator Cuff tears; chronic knee pain; lumbar and cervical radiculopathy; Carpal Tunnel Syndrome; Shoulder Impingement Syndrome; Plantar Fasciitis; and multiple other physical conditions. Paralleling such physical conditions, however, are the stresses from such physical work which often manifest themselves in psychiatric terms, including those psychiatric conditions already mentioned above in the preceding paragraph: Major Depression; inability to focus or concentrate; Agoraphobia (which would obviously impact City or Rural Carriers); Generalized Anxiety Disorder; uncontrollable panic attacks; and similar psychiatric medical conditions.
How does one create the nexus between (A) a Psychiatric condition which impacts the cognitive capacity of a Postal Worker and (B) the inability to perform what essentially amounts to exertional physical labor? Quite simply: The ability to perform physical labor does not merely involve the physical act of labor; rather, it also entails sustained and consistent cognitive focus, concentration, and attention to detail. The intersecting and inseparable cooperation between the mind and the body in performing physical labor cannot be avoided. Sometimes, it is the physical medical conditions (e.g., chronic pain; multi-level degenerative disc disease; early onset of arthritis; subacromial bursitis; knee problems; ankle instability; and multiple other conditions) which are primary, with the psychiatric disabilities being secondary (i.e., Major Depression, Anxiety, panic attacks, etc., following upon the constant fight against the chronic pain, and thus deemed to be "second" in sequence with the physical conditions being primary). The point throughout, however, is that the attempted separation and bifurcation between physical disabilities and psychiatric disabilities, no longer hold any valid basis.
A decade or so ago, the question as to whether psychiatric medical conditions were more difficult to prove in a FERS or CSRS Federal Disability Retirement application, filed with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, may have deserved a momentary pause for reflection. In this day and age, the validity of such a question itself must be questioned. The mind/body distinction which first took root in our culture through the philosophical division created by a French Philosopher named Descartes, has resulted in centuries-old questions as to the bifurcation between the physical and the psychological. In this day and age, however, the Postal Worker need not fear or have any concerns about the viability of a Federal Disability Retirement application which involves primarily psychiatric-based claims. Psychiatric medical conditions, including (but not limited to) Major Depression, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Agoraphobia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders, etc., are all valid bases upon which to file for Federal Disability Retirement benefits; as well as all of the physical medical conditions which one may suffer from.
In the end, it is no longer a question of whether the medical condition involves physical or psychiatric medical conditions, when it comes to a valid basis for filing a OPM Federal Disability Retirement application. Rather, the question is how one formulates one's case such that proof can be established that the medical condition – whether physical or psychiatric – prevents one from performing one or more of the essential elements of one's Postal duties. It is the "how" which is important, and no longer the "whether".