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EDITORIAL Liddell is the 'fly in the ointment' of the NEG
AFRICAN AFFAIRS African Continental Free Trade Area ... in the spirit of GATT
CANBERRA OBSERVED Bernardi foray looks to be fading out of view
ENVIRONMENT Is a prolonged freeze on the way for the earth?
MEDICINE NaProTechnology: an ethical alternative in reproductive health
MEDICAL ETHICS Grounds for objection: a declaration on freedom of conscience
OPINION What a republic would really mean for Australia
LAW AND FREEDOM 'Rule of law' does not support exemptions: a reply to Robin Speed
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Saudi Crown Prince challenges Wahhabists
HIGHER EDUCATION Undoing the dis-education of Millennials
GENDER POLITICS Why are patients being denied freedom of choice?
ASIAN HISTORY Jinmen: the forgotten crisis that brought the world to the brink
MUSIC Grammy salute to Elton John: Revealing revisit to the 1970s
CINEMA The Isle of Dogs: Man's best friend in exile
BOOK REVIEW Australia, we need to talk about China
BOOK REVIEW Novelised life a vivid drama of survival
NATIONAL AFFAIRS Committal hearing dismisses main charges against Cardinal Pell
Senator Cory Bernardi's grand dream of building a new grassroots party on the right of Australian politics to take on the major parties looks decidedly shaky based on the party's performance in recent elections.
The South Australian-based MP formed his party in February of last year, as a breakaway from the Liberals, with whom he had been periodically at war for many years.
Momentum at the start was strong, with Bernardi quickly gathering upwards of 10,000 paid-up members and merging with the socially conservative Family First party in South Australia.
With the slogan, "Common Sense Lives Here", Bernardi was also able to capitalise on a large number of disaffected Liberal supporters who found life problematic under Malcolm Turnbull. (Although it must be remembered that Senator Bernardi also had several run-ins with Tony Abbott when Mr Abbott was prime minister.)
However, the only real test of a political party is at the ballot box. Indeed, Canberra Observed, while cautiously optimistic about Bernardi's prospects at the start, warned as much last year.
"The rapid rise of the Australian Conservatives has been the result of it being a conduit for disaffected Coalition supporters, for conservatives who no longer feel they have a voice, and for Australian patriots who want to believe their country has a future in a globalised world," was the view taken back in July 2017.
"Bernardi himself is keen to cast himself and his movement as 'anti-politician', and this has helped garner support, but in the end only the ballot box will count, and getting more members elected will be the real test."
But so far, success at the ballot box has eluded the new party.
Competing against Pauline Hanson's One Nation, David Leyonhjelm's Liberal Democrats and other independents, the Australian Conservatives depends largely on Senator Bernardi's energy and ideas for success.
Mid last year the party had four members in Australian parliaments. Since then, its representation has dropped. One of the two former Family First MPs in the South Australian Parliament, Dennis Hood, defected to the Liberal Party shortly after the recent SA election, leaving only Bernardi himself and former Democratic Labour Party MLC in the Victorian Parliament, Rachel Carling-Jenkins.
Hood fired a parting shot at Senator Bernardi, predicting that the Australian Conservatives would have "no impact" on state politics.
"They received just over 3 per cent of the first-preference votes in the lower house, which is not going to get anyone anywhere," Hood said after the SA election result.
And the Australian Conservatives were dealt another blow when the Labor Party nudged out the party's sole remaining MP, Robert Brokenshire, for final spot in the South Australian upper house, which means that the party's representation has effectively been halved in its first real election campaign, and in the party's home state.
In the SA election, the Australian Conservatives fielded 33 candidates, but afterwards there were claims that many of these were phantom candidates put forward by the Liberal Party to garner conservative preferences.
Bernardi said he felt "white-anted" by the behaviour of Australian Conservatives colleagues.
News Ltd columnist Miranda Devine described as "less than impressive" the party's performance in both the South Australian election and the Batman and Bennelong by-elections.
Coalition Assistant Minister Michael Sukkar, a prominent Victorian Liberal, has called on Bernardi to deregister his party. Sukkar said the fledgling party should "call it a day" after its recent polling efforts.
In Batman, the Liberals did not run a candidate, yet the Australian Conservatives candidate Kevin Bailey managed just 6.37 per cent of the vote. At the 2016 federal election, the Liberals had managed 20 per cent of the vote in Batman.
In the Bennelong by-election, the Liberals obviously did run their sitting member John Alexander, who won 45 per cent of first preferences, but Australian Conservatives candidate Joram Richa secured only 4.29 per cent of first preferences.
Senator Bernardi is unique because he is a genuine social conservative, but also economically a dry.
Some would argue that this is ultimately an unworkable political philosophy in the sense that unfettered markets tend to consider individuals as economic units and overlook the contribution of families and communities to their great detriment.
In other words, no minimum wage, unregulated trading hours and labour markets, the outsourcing of child care from the family unit to the state and so on, all positions that work against the protection of the basic institutions of society that social conservatives aim to achieve.
Ironically, it is in the highly competitive political market that Senator Bernardi is aiming to compete in, that the Australian Conservatives look to be losing out.
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Hello there! I hope you all are as excited to see this post as I am to be finally writing it up! This Survey, as soon as all of the bumps were smoothed away, turned out to be a huge success in finding out exactly what we girls needed to know to grow in our blogging practices! As writers, managers, and creatives behind this blog, we definitely want to put up the best kind of content that will inspire, encourage, and uplift each one of you! Your contribution to this survey was vitally important to help us girls pin-point the greatest loves and needs you all have when you come to our site, and so we want to say: Thank you!
Now on to the survey results!…
The first two questions up above were really the questions that prompted us to put together a survey in the first place. In our work week, we like to stick to a very rigid blogging schedule–especially when it comes to publishing a post–as much as possible; but that was a schedule we set up on our own, not knowing when you all looked at our posts. So now that we know the majority of you look at our blog at night, or whenever we publish a post (a lot of you wrote that in for "Other"), we don't have to be so super strict about making sure a post gets published before "this certain hour", but rather just making sure that it gets published on the scheduled day. For us girls, putting unneeded tensions on your blogging life can end up being restricting sometimes, so this was a huge stress reliever to find out that, no, not everyone is sitting around looking at their devices at a particular hour waiting for your post to be published. But this doesn't mean we will begin to publish our posts at ten 'o clock at night on the set day! I prefer to write my posts up in the late morning, and so do the girls, so you will see us continue to publish around the middle of the day.
This was super intriguing to us. We had a suspicion that not a lot of our followers were using Twitter to follow us, so we are going to quit using that platform to promote our blog. But Pinterest! We had no idea Pinterest was still going as strong as it is! We will be sure to up our game on that platform from now on! And as for good ol' Youtube, we are very excited to begin a new chapter in this blogging journey, for as soon as Brigi has moved away after the wedding to begin her married life with Gabriel, Charlotte and I will begin to work on more videos, vlogs, and updates in general on Youtube. And thank you all for suggesting that we post more on Instagram! You are so right! You will definitely see more updates on our lives on that platform from now on!
Again, this poll mystified us greatly. We had no idea that so many of you use other means to follow our blog besides our favorite: Bloglovin'! And that's the beauty of a survey, we gain a better understanding of who our blog readers are, and what suits them best. But uh, out of curiosity, what's so bad about using Bloglovin'?
Thank you! We really weren't planning on changing much of anything with how often we write up a post on a certain topic, but we're glad to know that you all aren't wishing we would change to something different.
I'm sorry, but I just have to giggle at this one. 😉 We had suspicions that there were a few gentleman out there who read our blog, one of them we know for sure is Gabriel, but there are a couple more it seems. We knew from the beginning of our blogging journey that we would get all kinds of different people reading our blog, and we are perfectly okay with that. It is our hope that all of our readers continue to enjoy the posts we publish on our site.
All of these are so interesting, aren't they! You don't know what your fellow readers might say! They might just agree with you, or prefer something else! That's why it is so fun to review a survey: you get to see what others are saying, too! We aren't making any promises with this one, but it is our hope that we will be able to hook up with some awesome partners in the near future.
We couldn't be more happy with this response! We already knew that the heart of this blog doesn't beat on the blood of Reviews and Giveaways, and though we absolutely love our advertisers (you all are some of the best people we have worked with!), they are not the reason why you keep coming around to our blog. Thus, we will continue to keep our Reviews and Giveaways to once a month. Thank you all for giving us such a clear answer to this question.
"Wow!" Is the response we three let out when we saw how close this poll was! Its neck n' neck, people! Having only relied on guest bloggers to help us out during the times when we had to be absent from the blog, we aren't in the practice of contacting other bloggers to guest post on our site. That doesn't mean we don't like the idea–far from it. It will just take a bit of time to incorporate others into our blogging schedule if we chose to go that route.
Thank you all again so much for answering our survey questions! And thank you to those who took the time to write in their responses when our list didn't match up with what you wanted to say. I want you to know that we girls set aside a good hour to read through all of those comments, and we had a lot of fun! Everything you said has been documented, and is in safe keeping for us to go back and read. You all had some great ideas and tips, and we're so thankful for your honest critiques. If we didn't have critiques we would not be able to grow and change. Kudos to you all!
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Should we do more blog surveys?
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Bookstores are some of my favorite places in the whole world. And that's a very good thing since the Dear Carolina tour has left me visiting quite a few of them! I particularly love the independent ones, with the cozy rooms and cute corners for reading.
Over the past few weeks, I have visited some old loves and some new favorites. The Literary Bookpost in Salisbury, NC and McIntyre's in Pittsboro, NC have long been two of the tops on my list. But now I've added Scuppernong in Greensboro, NC, The Corner Bookstore in Winder, GA, Avid Books in Athens, GA and FoxTale Books in Woodstock, GA to that list, not only because their people are so friendly and charming but also because their stores are so cute! Anyone would want to spend an afternoon in any one of them!
The bookstores are great, sure. But the real bonus is picking out a favorite from the shelf, taking it home and curling up with it.
We love an adorable reading nook at home almost as much as a cozy corner of a favorite book shop!
And the best part of a cozy reading nook is that it's just right for family members of any age — and can make reading even more appealing for little ones!
A comfy chair surrounded by favorite artifacts,
A chic chaise with a killer view,
Or a cozy chair with just the right light are all perfect for spending an afternoon with a favorite book.
What's even better than taking a book from the library or a bookstore and bringing it home with you? Creating a library in your very own home! This spot looks like a dream!
There are so many reading spots in this fabulous room. But we know we'd be fighting over the chaise!
This perfect window lets in the right amount of light for drawing the curtains and hiding away with your favorite read.
Whether you have a grand home with an entire room dedicated to reading or a tiny chair in the corner, wishing you all a moment or two to sneak away with your favorite book.
And, if you're fresh out of reading material, we suggest Dear Carolina, of course! The Huffington Post described it as, "a touching lover letter between a little girl and the two mommas that love her, the one that gave birth to her and the one that will help her shape her life." The Turning Pages said, "Dear Carolina is by far one of the best women's fiction books I've ever read," and PopSugar included Dear Carolina as one of the May reads they couldn't put down! We love to support those local bookstores, so if you haven't picked a copy up yet, ask your favorite bookseller!
Also, don't forget to enter the giveaway for our $500 Shop Design Chic Giveaway. Six days left! With so many great entries already, we can't wait to see who wins!


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There are many weight loss tips for men. First, you must be committed. Only with the words that you want to lose is the weight of the 1st step.
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- Push-ups and sit-ups are usually to gain muscle while heart is calling your heart. The longer your heart is beating fast, the more calories you burn.
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Originally published in French, German and Italian in 2013, the Institute for Art Education of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) has recently published the English version of Time for Cultural Mediation.
This extensive and detailed manual aims to become a practical tool to enable cultural mediation practitioners, institutions and funding bodies to place cultural mediation activities in context and assess their quality. Cultural mediation may include activities related to education, audience development and outreach work, among others.
Whereas the guide covers cultural mediation activities in a wide range of settings, several examples and recommendations refer explicitly to museums and exhibition spaces, thus making this a particularly useful tool for museum professionals.
"Time for Cultural Mediation" was created as part of the Arts and Audiences Programme of Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council. This programme, which ran from 2009 to 2012, sought to strengthen the practice of cultural mediation in Switzerland and encourage the assignment of higher priority to cultural mediation in approaches to the promotion of the arts and culture. The programme was also intended to stimulate the creation and exchange of knowledge in the professional field of mediation and contribute towards improvements in the quality of cultural mediation practices.
In this context, Pro Helvetia asked the Institute for Art Education of the ZHdK to conduct research that would support the programme. Research was subsequently coordinated by Carmen Mörsch and Anna Chrusciel.
In her foreword, Carmen Mörsch stresses that the title of the publication, "Time for Cultural Mediation", may be understood in multiple ways: the increasing interest in cultural mediation in Switzerland and internationally; the need to devote time to reflecting and developing practices in cultural mediation; and an appeal for further investment in resources and time allocated to cultural mediation.
The format of the online publication permits the texts to be read in the order of their presentation or in a sequence or selection of the reader's choice. It is also possible to download the entire publication as a printable PDF file.
The publication is available at http://www.kultur-vermittlung.ch/zeit-fuer-vermittlung/index.html


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Cloudy Debate, Android Security Gaffe - BizTech Quick Take
What Do You See In That Cloud?
What's in a cloud? Cloud computing has become a major buzzword in technology circles, but even as enterprises ramp up the implementation of cloud infrastructures, usage of the term "cloud" remains, well, cloudy.
In short, cloud means different things to different people, and the lack of a consensus on the term leaves a lot of unanswered questions. Does using the cloud just mean utilizing an IT service, such as e-mail, over the Internet? What is the difference between a public cloud and a private cloud? Which cloud (public or private) is the real deal?
Earlier this month, The Wisdom of Clouds blogger James Urquhart participated in a panel discussion at Interop's Enterprise Cloud Summit called "The False Cloud Debate." In this session, Urquhart, who's also a market strategist for Cisco Systems, and other IT leaders tried to sort out the confusion over cloud computing's true definition. In Urquhart's view, the reason for the mix-up over what a "real" cloud comprises stems from the term's use as both a business model and an operations model.
Urquhart concluded that many enterprises will end up using a hybrid cloud model, taking advantage of cloud computing services and building their own "false" clouds for their specific business needs. He writes, in part:
While the panel disagreed to the degree in which private cloud makes sense to deploy, all agreed that a hybrid cloud model made sense for most large enterprises. One key reason for this? Data has mass, as my friend David McCrory analogized, and it is much more difficult to move large volumes of data to the cloud than it is to "bring the cloud" to where the data already sits.
Right or wrong, the enterprise is moving forward with projects that target on-demand, self-service elastic infrastructure with some form of cost "show-back" to regulate use; services that fulfill a cloud operations model. They are also consuming plenty of cloud-computing services online in a cloud business model.
The argument that private cloud is a "false cloud" is therefore irrelevant.
Read the full account at The Wisdom of Clouds.
Google Patches Far-Reaching Android OS Security Hole
Android users briefly had reason to panic when word of a security hole that would allow unauthorized users access to their mobile device's contacts and calendar began to spread.
According to a study conducted by German researchers, 99 percent of Android devices might have been vulnerable to a security hole that could allow unauthorized access to the device's Google Calendar and Contacts information.
But Google has now formally issued a fix to the vulnerability on the server side, which means users won't have to wait for their carrier to update to the latest version of Android OS to get the fix.
Read the full story at Naked Security.
Why Flash Is Becoming the New Disk
Back in 2008, many in the storage community were wary of the long-term viability of flash storage technology. But not EMC, as Chuck Hollis, the company's global marketing chief technology officer, recalls.
In his view, flash storage is not only going to expand and become more dominant, it will eventually replace many disk storage infrastructures:
The flash-as-disk-in-the-enterprise party got seriously started back in January 2008 when EMC became the first vendor to support the newest enterprise flash drives alongside traditional disk in the DMX.
Oh, the howls we heard from our competitors. It's too expensive. It's not reliable. No one will ever want it. Well, as we stand here today, almost all storage array vendors have gotten on board to a certain degree (with some notable exceptions!) realizing that — yes — flash is becoming the new disk.
Read the full story on Chuck's Blog.
Get a Sneak Peek at Mac OS X Lion
The newest version of Apple's Mac OS X operating system is slated for release sometime this summer, but developers already are working with the OS for bug reporting, testing and app development.
Six new videos from the developer version of Lion were posted on OSX Daily this week. They show off, among other things, the new login screen, Mission Control and Safari's new Download manager.
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Does the PCI DSS Really Reduce Risk?
Verizon released its 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report, which concludes that adherence to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) does help reduce organizations' risk of compromised or lost data. But it must be implemented as a continuous process to truly pay off.
TripWire's blog digs into PCI DSS and breaks out which organizations benefit the most from PCI DSS and whether compliance with PCI DSS is good enough.
Read the full story on the TripWire blog.
Let the Colored Ink Flow
In a recent survey, Xerox found that letting employees print in color more often could pay off in a good way.
Xerox has put together a nifty infograph that highlights some of its findings, including the fact that 43 percent of survey respondents were more likely to pay a bill on time if the due date was printed in color.
Read the full story on Xerox's Real Business blog.
Useful IPv6 Testing Sites and Tools
The last IPv4 addresses were given out three months ago, and its successor, IPv6, will run its 24-hour "test flight" on World IPv6 Day, to be held June 8, 2011. Are you ready for the transition?
If you aren't, Cisco has assembled a handy list of sites and tools that can help you get started.
Read the full story on Cisco's Borderless Networks blog.
Take Full Advantage of VLAN Technology
What networking technology gives your network increased bandwidth, availability and security? If you guessed VLANs, then you're absolutely right.
But as wonderful as VLANs are, they aren't able to do all the heavy lifting without the proper set up. Here are five considerations to keep in mind when deploying a VLAN.
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Many students with special needs encounter learning obstacles that can be eliminated or minimized through AT interventions. Proper selection and effective implementation of such technology requires knowledge, skills and resources. The SETC staff can provide consultation and guidance to school district personnel through our consultation process. A consultation can be focused on an individual student or a classroom.
School district personnel may request assistance from the SETC when they feel that a student's learning potential is hindered by a disability-related barrier. The barrier may obstruct a student's access to classroom activities or interfere with the student's ability to express what he/she has learned.
A consultation is not a technology evaluation or assessment; it is an opportunity for discussion and brainstorming that should lead to appropriate technology planning for a student. This process does not result in any definite prescription, nor does the process provide a letter of justification required for Medicaid funding. The school team is encouraged to take notes during the consultation and will be provided with the SETC team notes one week following the consultation. No formal report follows the consultation.
We offer three consultation formats:
- Telephone consultation with one SETC staff member (FREE)
- Webinar/video consultation with two SETC staff members ($300)
- Face to face consultation at school site or at a SETC Site ($600)
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How to apply for a collaborative AT consultation
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A request is made through a formal application that requires the school district to provide:
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- the student's present levels of functioning
- the student's physical access to technology
- the student's past exposure to and success with technology
- the student's communication capabilities
The district must also provide a 10 to 20 minute video showing the student in his/her typical educational setting(s) and complete a Parental Permission Form. A Video Planning Worksheet is available to help create the video. Specifically, the video should contain the following:
- the student using their typical communication methods
- the student accessing any available technology including switches, communication devices and computers
- educational concerns or adaptations that failed to work
- please email the video link to email@example.com
A SETC staff member will contact you to schedule the consultation.
Once the SETC has reviewed your application materials, you will be contacted by telephone or e-mail to set a date, format and location for the consultation.
Who should attend the consultation?
It is beneficial for the full school team to attend a consultation. If it is possible, we recommend that the following team members participate in the consultation:
- the student's parents and/or guardians
- the student, at the request of the SETC or, if the student is 14 years or older and capable of contributing to the collaboration process
- special education teacher and regular education teachers who have contact with the student
- therapists and therapist's aides
- classroom educational aide(s)
- administrators (special education director or coordinator, building principal)
- other professionals who deliver education related services to the student
The consultation process
The consultation process involves:
- examination of the educational goals and the barriers which the student and school personnel encounter in their efforts to pursue those goals
- exploration of possible technology solutions which may include hardware, software, implementation strategies, as well as low-tech or no-tech options
- discussion of the merits of each option presented and the development of a plan to trial options in the educational setting.
A consultation typically follows this routine:
- Introductions
- Roundtable discussion of how the school team members and parents/guardians envision the student in 5 years
- Discussion of student's current needs and abilities
- Presentation & discussion of technology solutions
- Presentation & discussion of strategies which can be used with the technology
- Prioritize the technology and strategies discussed
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Meet the staff of the Buffalo Bill Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Curator Jeremy Johnston.
Jeremy Johnston, PhD
Hal & Naoma Tate Endowed Chair and Curator of Western American History
Ernest J. Goppert Curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum
Managing Editor of The Papers of William F. Cody
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Jeremy M. Johnston is the Hal & Naoma Tate Endowed Chair and Curator Western American History; the Ernest J. Goppert Curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum, as well as the Managing Editor of the Papers of William F. Cody. He was born and raised in Powell, Wyoming, where he graduated from Powell High School. Johnston attended the University of Wyoming, from which he received his bachelor of arts in 1993, and his master of arts in 1995. He taught at Northwest College in Powell for more than fifteen years.
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Johnston is the recipient of the 2006 Coke Wood Award, sponsored by Westerners International, for his article "Progressivism Comes to Yellowstone: Theodore Roosevelt and Professional Land Management Agencies in the Yellowstone Ecosystem." He is a past president of the Wyoming State Historical Society, and has appeared on various Wyoming PBS documentaries, including Roy Barnes: Rocky Mountain Cowboy and Wyoming Voices.
Johnston has just earned his doctorate from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. His doctoral dissertation examines the connections between Theodore Roosevelt and William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. He co-edited, with Dr. Charles Preston of the Center's Draper Natural History Museum, an annotated version of Ernest Thompson-Seton's The Biography of a Grizzly, published by University of Oklahoma Press. His hobbies include boating, fly-fishing, big game and bird hunting, and reading. He enjoys spending time with his wife Amanda and his two sons, Jaxon and Samuel, and his daughter, Alexa.


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If you have hay fever, your symptoms don't take long to show up after you inhale the smallest amount of pollen. It takes mere minutes for your nose to begin running and for the sneezing (and perhaps wheezing) to start.
Allergists call these "type I reactions" or "immediate hypersensitivity reactions." Allergic reactions to pollen, animal dander, mold spores, dust mites, and other common allergens are the result of a series of responses from your immune system.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System breaks this common type of allergic reaction into four stages.
The best way to prevent an allergic reaction is to identify the substance that causes it and avoid your "trigger" as best as possible.
Stage One: Sensitization
No one is born with allergies. Instead, the first step on the road to developing an allergy occurs when a person prone to allergies comes into contact with what is normally a harmless substance, such as plant pollen.
Often, such allergens first contact mucus membranes in the nose or another part of the respiratory system. Immune cells called plasma cells respond to the presence of the pollen or other allergen by making an antibody called Immunoglobulin E (IgE). The IgE molecule specifically recognizes the antigen.
Stage Two: Ready and Waiting
IgE antibodies latch onto immune system cells found in tissues of the respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, and skin. These tissue-bound immune cells are called mast cells. IgE antibodies also latch onto immune cells called basophils in the blood. Mast cells and basophils are equipped with IgE molecules that specifically recognize a particular antigen. These molecules do nothing until you inhale or ingest or come in contact with that particular antigen again.
So, in essence, your body receives the allergen and prepares for it to come in again. For people allergic to common allergens, this typically occurs within seconds of first contact.
Stage Three: The Battle
As soon as you are exposed to pollen again, the IgE antibodies attached to the immune cells bind to the allergen. This binding signals the mast cells and basophils to respond as if a dangerous intruder has invaded your body. The cells spew out over 30 chemicals, including histamine.
These chemicals produce inflammation, swelling, itching, redness, and other symptoms of common allergies.
Stage Four: Late Phase
Some people undergo a delayed response or a "late phase" of their allergic reaction, four to 24 hours after stage three. In these people, other types of immune system cells move to the tissues affected in stage three. These white blood cells seem to be attracted by some of the chemicals released by mast cells and basophils.
Unfortunately, the late visitors can release their own set of chemicals that can damage nearby tissues and perpetuate the reaction.
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The best way to prevent an allergic reaction is to identify the substance that causes it and avoid your "trigger" as best as possible.
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An 11,000-Row Calendar Table Spanning from 2000 to 2030:
Most of the Time This is Harmless Overkill
A 60x Speed Improvement From a Most Ordinary Place
I've been doing some work lately for a client who really pushes the DAX envelope. One of the top-three models I've ever worked on in terms of complexity, no doubt. And really, my role is just to help fine-tune it and add a few bells and whistles. They built this sucker themselves and I am way impressed.
Crazy stuff. Formulas that use outlier dates from one Data table ("fact" table) to then subsequently filter another Data table (via its related Calendar table), but then wrap that up inside a MAXX inside a SUMX… and it all makes perfect business sense. It's magic.
But speed ain't its strong suit. We tried all the usual tricks – "de-importing" unneeded columns, replacing calculated columns with imported versions, etc.
And it was still way too slow. Then we tried something even simpler, and things got 60x faster.
Oh The Nuances of FILTER()
In this model, we do a lot of FILTER(DateTable, <complex filter expression) in our measures.
And the FILTER function, when we have sufficiently complex filter expressions, has two particular characteristics worth noting:
- It picks up each row in the specified table, one at a time, to determine if the row should be kept or not. No bulk scans where it can examine blocks of rows at once. If that sounds slow to you, you're on the right track.
- It forces the calculation into single-threaded mode. What is single-threaded mode, you ask? It's geekspeak for "running your engine on one cylinder." It means that much of your computer's CPU horsepower is left on the sidelines, watching a single "Core" (a mini-CPU, essentially) maxing itself out to do all the work.
Divide The Number "1" By the Number of Cores on Your Computer. If Your CPU Usage
is Pegged Near that Percentage for a Long Time, You Are in Single-Threaded Land.
(Note in the picture above that all four cores show activity, which might make you think they are all being used at once. Don't be fooled! The operating system is just rotating the DAX engine's work around amongst the 4 cores, so as not to burn one core out. It rotates things around many times per second, so it LOOKS LIKE sharing. But at any given moment, trust me, a single core is working at 100% capacity).
In short, the FILTER function is often "at fault" when performance tanks. Used clumsily against large data sets and/or complex calculations, it can grab a single core (which is basically a CPU) and hold it hostage for long periods of time.
Punchline: 1,000 Row FILTER() is 11x Faster Than 11,000 Row FILTER()
You may have already guessed the answer here. We have less than 3 years worth of actual data, but our calendar/date tables had 30 years in them – about 11x as many days as we needed.
I trimmed those calendar tables down to "fit" the range of our actual data. And that 11x reduction in calendar rows made things 11x faster!
Our other tables with millions of rows? Untouched. The formulas themselves? Untouched. Just smaller calendar tables. That's it.
"Wait, You Said 60X!"
Yes. Without getting too deep into boring detail, I'll tell you that there are TWO calendar tables in this model. One of them was about 11x as big as it needed to be, but the other was only about 5x bigger.
Since they were both being FILTER'd in a single measure, in a manner that "nested" one FILTER inside another, the speed-up effects were multiplied, and things got about 60x faster overall as a result.
"What If I'm Not Using FILTER()?"
Great question. What if you're not using FILTER against your calendar table, but instead using the built-in time intelligence functions like DATEADD, DATESYTD, or DATESBETWEEN?
Um, I dunno for sure. I'd have to ask my buddies at Microsoft, or run some tests, or convince someone smarter to drop in and answer (Marco / Alberto / Chris). But my guess is that sometimes those functions will also be a lot faster on smaller calendar tables. Just maybe not all the time, and maybe not by as much.
Unlike FILTER, which has no choice but to look at every single row, I suspect the time intelligence functions may have shortcuts in them. DATEADD(…, –1, Year), for instance, doesn't really have to look at every row in the calendar – it could be smarter and "jump" straight to the rows it needs. I have no idea if it does, however, so maybe that's a post for another time.
As usual, it depends. CALCULATETABLE might be faster than FILTRE, but only if the cardinality within the filter argument is lower. I'm writing an article about that – I hope to publish it within a week on sqlbi.
You could always have a Calendar Table spanning 30 years, but a query that pulls data up to today or some times till the end of a period (month/year) – and the PowerPivot Model pulling data from that Query rather than the Table.
@marco, I tend to favor CALCULATETABLE over FILTER, so looking forward to your article to understand impact in different scenarios
@sam agreed and easy to maintain if you use a view as a decoupling layer over the table with a condition such as WHERE [Year] <= DATEPART(YEAR(GETDATE()) for facts up to the current date (a bit different for facts containing future periods or multi-fact models)
I published the article here: http://www.sqlbi.com/articles/filter-vs-calculatetable-optimization-using-cardinality-estimation
I would love to read more about calender tables, as of now I create them in Excel and import them into PowerPivot. But perhaps there are good reasons for creating them in PowerPivot from a single date columm?
My date tables are in a SQL database so that everyone (and SharePoint) can update the model without referencing a local table or loading the whole table into Excel. Using SQL to bring in just the columns and date ranges needed for the current model keeps everything lean and fast, not to mention keeping those extra years out of the slicers.
Is there a way that we could reduce the file size. My Data comes a database and i am creating measure to get a trend. The file size is more than the raw data size.
question not related; why the background is grey? I have this on one of my file, don't know why.


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David Ormond, D.V.M., the founder of Mobile Pet Medical Care, was a veterinarian at Boise's first emergency clinic. His son, Robert, also in practice with his dad, remembers an event long ago that inspired the mobile practice.
"One Friday a dog came in after being hit by a car, and even though my dad had the skills to fix the broken bone of the dog, he was forced to just keep it on pain meds until Monday when the clinic's primary doctor would do the surgery," recalls David's son, Robert Ormond, D.V.M. David quit that clinic and started a mobile practice modeled after one he discovered in Nebraska while training for the Air Force. In 1979, Ormond opened Mobile Pet Medical Care.
"I have wanted to be a veterinarian since I can remember," reflects Robert. "Between 4th and 5th grade, after a summer of being with my dad working with animals, I told him I wanted to be his apprentice. As a teenager I answered phones and scheduled appointments. I graduated veterinary school in February 2011 and have practiced alongside my dad ever since." Robert focuses on animal behavior, dermatology and dentistry.
"We do home visits to decrease the stress on pets and people," shares Robert. "Ninety-eight percent of our work is with dogs and cats."
"One of our patients, a cat, was kicked out of his last veterinarian due to his bad behavior," relates Robert. "As I walked in the front door, the cat greeted me, rubbed up on my legs and let me pet him. I examined him in the entry way and gave the vaccines. After getting poked by the needles, the cat turned around, looked at me as if to say 'That was strange' and sat in a chair about four feet away. The cat's owners truly saw the difference that a home visit makes. That's why I do what I do–to relieve the stress of the animal and also the stress of the people.
"We do treat some farm animals. Monday we were sewing up a sheep. We are the veterinarian for the Aquarium so we get our exotic fix that way. There is never a dull moment being a house call vet."
Their state-of-the-art, 26-foot clinic on wheels can do everything a regular clinic does, just at a patient's front door.
"We have x-ray, microscope, dental cleaning equipment, a surgery suite and full pharmacy," Robert says. "We have literally everything a 'fixed facility' has.""We give personal, focused care at a reasonable price through our wellness member plans," explains Robert Ormond, D.V.M. "For just $25 a month you can have exams, vaccines, a dental cleaning and other services or prescriptions at an up to 50 percent discount. All of this serviced through our mobile clinic. For $20 per month it can be serviced through our Meridian clinic, Linder Pet Medical Care."
Clients are surprised by their communication style.
"Many of my clients are surprised with the time I take explaining things," he says. "We make sure you know what the plan is to take care of your pet before we leave the patient."
Veterinary medicine is challenging.
"Everything that comes through the door is not only a different case but potentially a different species," Robert explains. "This also is what makes it so enjoyable. Healing pets and keeping them healthy has a huge impact on people's well being."
Robert has his own pet, too–a cat named Baxter–who he shares with his wife Katie and their five energetic children.


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The California Health and Human Services Agency is ending mammogram subsidies for low-income women under age 50. Under the old rules, women unable to pay could get a subsidy for annual breast-cancer screening beginning at age 40.
The decision by the State of California, which takes effect Jan. 1, follows a federal task force recommendation last month that mammograms before the age of 50 are not generally needed. As Carly Fiorina notes, the task force does not include any oncologists or radiologists, but simply a bunch of bureaucrats.
HHS Secretary Sibelius, noting the outcry, hastened to say that the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recommendations were not regulation, and they really didn't have any say.
California public health linked the change to the Task Force advisory and also to California's budget woes.
Breast cancer is a high-profile disease. Most women know someone who has died of breast cancer. The only appeal from a government decision is strong opposition. Congress takes note of opposition if it is loud enough. But many diseases and conditions are not high-profile, and cost a lot, and under ObamaCare the guidance will not come from your doctor, but from statistics gathered by bureaucrats to see what is cost-effective.
Democrats claim that they will increase preventive care to control costs. Studies show that preventive care will not control costs, but increase them. Democrats don't know anything whatsoever about controlling costs, or budgeting. The current health-care bill clearly demonstrates this.
American medicine has always been about saving lives. Democrat health-care reform is, first of all, about control. To get that control, they have divided the electorate into groups to whom they promise favors. Planned Parenthood and feminists demand paid abortions; members of the Democrat caucus opposed to abortion, demand no paid abortions or they will vote against the bill. Trial lawyers are second only to labor unions as Democrat donors. No tort reform, and extra goodies for the unions. Pleasing everyone means very high costs. Democrat health-care reform becomes about saving money, and saving money becomes about rationing, because the costs are going to be very high, and rationing is all that's left.
Republican health-care reform is about individuals, not groups. They look at where the real problems are in our current health care, and advocate solving the problems before attempting drastic reform. Doctors freely admit that they practice defensive medicine, ordering more tests than necessary just to be on the safe side for fear of lawsuits. and nobody really knows how much this costs, but it's a lot.
Insurance costs differ widely in different states because of requirements imposed by insurance commissioners and legislatures. Opening competition to insurance companies across state lines would bring costs down sharply. Competition always does. Bringing the cost of health insurance policies down will make health-care affordable for far more people. Republicans have all sorts of good ideas. Correcting the things that are wrong first seems far more sensible than trying to rearrange a big chunk of the economy, with no idea whether any part of it will work at all.
Filed under: Capitalism, Freedom, Health Care | Tags: Congress, Economy, Health Insurance, Huge Deficits
In 2006, the State of Massachusetts adopted a health care plan that required every resident to get health insurance and required every business to provide it. Otherwise, residents and employers would be fined. This was the nation's first state universal health insurance program. It was to be the test ground to see how universal health coverage by the government would work here in the United States. It was to be the model that could be replicated around the country.
Within weeks of the deadline to have everyone signed up, the state hadn't accurately budgeted for the program. 95 percent of doctors weren't accepting new patients. Many doctors were leaving the state. Rationing of services, reductions in benefits and growing waits for care began. To keep the program solvent, Massachusetts cut payments to doctors and hospitals, reduced choices for patients, and was looking at increasing out-of-pocket expenses for patients.
By February of 2008, the state was asking the Federal government for help. Only two years old, and already in trouble.
With the national health care debate now heating up, the obvious question is 'what can we learn from the Massachusetts experiment? The state treasurer says "Whatever you do, don't do what we did."
State treasurer Tim Cahill offered some startling statistics:
- The program has so far cost 30 percent more than anticipated. It already has a $9 billion shortfall projected over the nest two years.
- Costs have risen 41 percent since the program's inception, well outpacing the rise in healthcare costs nationwide, which stands at 18 percent.
- We thought the program would mean that fewer people would go to hospitals, the highest costs that insurance plans have to pay. That wasn't true.
- A Harvard study shows that 60 percent of residents are unhappy with the plan. The unhappiest are those making $25,000 to $50,000 –those whom it should be helping the most.
- To cut costs, the program has kicked out 30,000 legal immigrants.
Costs for Commonwealth Care (the subsidized program) soared from $158 million in the first year to $630 million in 2007, then doubled in 2009 to $1.3 billion. Enrollment is now at 181,000 up from 165,000 in the early spring, and is expected to reach 212,000 next year.
Government managed health care has consistently failed. The Indian Health Service — jokes say that if you get sick, do it before June, for that's when they run out of money. The VA has improved some, but much care is still substandard according to those who rely on it. Hawaii flirted briefly with universal children's insurance, and quickly dropped it as it was proving far too expensive. In 1994 Tennessee implemented managed care in its Medicaid program, with a system called TennCare. They thought they would use the anticipated savings from Medicaid to fund and expand coverage for children and the uninsured. It nearly bankrupted the state, reduced the quality of care and collapsed from it own deficiencies.
A government cannot promise to insure everyone, offer free care, increase the quality of care and reduce costs. It cannot happen. It is a fantasy.
Fantasies work fine in the movies and in novels, but indulging in fantasy in real life can have real-life consequences.
Filed under: Democrat Corruption, Liberalism, Politics | Tags: Congress, Democrat Demagogues, Healthcare
Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) had a Town Hall meeting a few days ago. A citizen asked if he had read the health care bill. He responded that they didn't have time to read the whole thing so he divided it up with his aides and each read part of it. Mark Steyn posted a comment. An Arlen Specter supporter responded that:
"Every CEO in the country, including Ronald Reagan as President, reads executive summaries of important documents. The idea that any Senator has to read an entire bill in nonsense. He needs staff not only to read it but to relate how items on page 3 relate to provisions on page 1009…What is true is that without time there is no way staff could read it and draft the necessary critiques for Senatorial review but this 'he hasn't read the bill stuff' is stupidity not some great insight."
Mark Steyn responded (and this is the brilliant part):
Arlen Specter is not a CEO: — notwithstanding the vast Gulf Emir-sized retinue to which he has become accustomed. He doesn't run anything. He has no payroll to make, no contracts to fulfill, no deliveries to expedite. A legislator is elected to legislate — so, if he doesn't read the law before he makes it law, he's not doing the only job he has. When you go to see Barbra Streisand, she has an orchestra and a conductor and arrangers and lighting designers and hair stylists, but she's still expected to do the singing herself. If she stood up and said, "Okay, I've outsourced "People" to my intern Kevin and "You Don't Bring me Flowers' to the niece of a friend of mine who needed a summer job and the Yentl medley to some people Kevin met for a breakfast session and said seemed to know what they were talking about," you'd begin to wonder why anyone needs Barbra.
Why does anyone need Specter? Why can't we just eliminate the middle-man and have his "staffers" announce their collective vote like a U.N. Security "Council meeting? (emphasis mine)
Excellent exchange. Of course they have to read the bills. If they recognized that they are required to read every bill in its entirety, bills would be shorter, earmarks would be fewer, laws would be clearer and work better, and they would pass much less legislation — which would benefit the country immeasurably. Half of the problems in the country are caused by some little provision that someone sneaked into a bill that no one read. As far as that goes, a lot of staffers would no longer be needed if they didn't have to read the bills and summarize them for the very people who are supposed to be doing that job, and the budget would be smaller.
Don't miss the update from another correspondent to Mark Steyn. It's priceless.
Filed under: Economy, Energy, Science/Technology | Tags: Congress, Environment, Global Warming, Junk Science
A monopsony is a situation in which a product or service is only bought by one customer. Jo Nova has done a new study now available at The Science and Public Policy Institute that reveals that the U.S. Government has spent more than $79 billion of taxpayer money since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, administration, propaganda campaigns, foreign aid and tax breaks. Most of this spending was unnecessary and useless.
An informal movement of scientists around the world has sprung up to test the integrity of the "global warming" theory and to compete with this lavishly funded, very organized climate monopsony. Over and over, they have exposed major errors.
Worldwide, carbon trading reached $126 billion in 2008. Experts are predicting that the carbon market will reach $2-$10 trillion in the near future. The largest single commodity traded on global exchanges will be hot air.
Exxon-Mobil is continually attacked for funding climate skeptics for $23 million — less than one thousandth of what the U.S. Government spends on climate activists and alarmists.
This huge expenditure is designed to prove the non-existent connection between carbon dioxide and climate. Government bodies, big business rent-seekers and environmental NGOs recruit, control and reward their own scientists who use climate modeling to justify power, control, wealth and population reduction. Robert Ferguson, SPPIs president asks:
Are politicians paying out billions of our dollars for evidence-driven policy-making, or policy-driven evidence-making? The truth is more crucial than ever, because American lives, property and constitutional liberties are at risk.
If the Waxman-Markey climate bill passes, billions more will be expended to pay for environmentalists useless fantasies.
Filed under: Capitalism, Politics, Progressivism | Tags: Congress, Democrat Corruption, Economy, Nancy Pelosi, Obama
Count all those zeroes! That's not the National Debt, but the Deficit — what we owe on our national credit card. And of course, just like a credit card, the interest charges pile up. One trillion dollars. If you need a picture, go here.
The stimulus isn't working, and stimulus plans have a long history of not working. Only 17 percent of Americans think the stimulus has been very effective according to the latest IBD/TIPP Poll. 53 percent believe it has not been effective in getting the economy going in the right direction.
Since the start of the recession, 7.2 million people have lost their jobs. These are scary numbers, and many companies are asking people to reduce their hours.
Barack Obama has created quite a bunch of jobs with hefty salaries in his assortment of Czars, 28 domestic and 6 international. No one is quite sure what these Czars are supposed to be doing, since most activities which are of proper concern to the government are represented by a department with a Secretary, an Assistant Secretary, a Deputy Secretary, and an Assistant Deputy Secretary or something like that, with dozens to hundreds of other employees, all of whose generous wages are paid by taxpayers.
The normal way of dealing with a recession is to try to alleviate some of the taxes on business, so that business is more able to create jobs. And for government to reduce spending as much as they can after providing unemployment help for those who have lost their jobs.
This administration, however, has chosen to "not let a crisis go to waste", and determined to "act swiftly" to get through a bunch of programs that they would never be able to get through Congress if the people were paying attention.
Of course when the President just turns over stimulus creation to Congress with only the stipulation of getting a lot of money into the economy quickly — then congressmen get lots of goodies to take home to their constituents.
Nancy Pelosi, for example, gets a $30 million program for renovating the salt marshes in San Francisco Bay to save the salt marsh harvest mouse. A cute little fellow that may be endangered. There are probably jobs involved, but they may not be those most needed by unemployed San Franciscans.
The usual rule is to avoid raising taxes during a recession. Once you have done what can be done with unemployment benefits and food stamps, then you do everything you can to favor the small businesses that are always the source of new jobs. Instead, this time Democrats plan to raise taxes on small business. First, Obama has promised to let the Bush tax cuts expire. That will raise the top personal rate from 35% to 39.6%. If those taxes expire, so will various tax deductions and exemptions bringing the top marginal rate as high as 41%.
Chairman Rangel wants to impose a "surtax" on individuals with an adjusted gross income of more than $280,000 — "the rich." But more than six of every 10 who earn that much are small business owners, sole proprietors or subchapter S corporations who pay the individual rate. Then phasing out various deductions and exemptions would bring the tax rate up to around 46% — a level that hasn't been seen since 1986.
If that weren't enough to discourage businesses from hiring or expanding; government has shown a willingness to take over private business, tell business how much they may earn, change regulations and add new ones, and impose economy-destroying mandates like the Waxman-Markey climate bill which would raise costs throughout the economy.
"Capital," the late Walter Wriston said, "will go where it is wanted, and stay where it is well treated. It will flee from onerous regulation of its value or use and no government power can restrain it for long." Must be true. Steven Ballmer has threatened to move Microsoft overseas, and businesses are leaving California in droves.
The cartoon is by Michael Ramirez at IBD Editorials
Filed under: Democrat Corruption, National Security, Politics, Progressivism | Tags: Congress, Democrat Demagogues, Nancy Pelosi
Much in the news today is Congressional "shock" that they were not briefed by the CIA on a program that they originally authorized; but which never came close to becoming operational.
This seems at first glance to be an attempt to butter over Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claim that the CIA lied to Congress. (CIA Director Panetta briefed both the house and the Senate on the same day, but the Senate Intelligence Committee has had nothing to say).
Director Panetta has said that there was no indication of anything illegal or inappropriate about the effort. But Democrats on the House committee demanded that Panetta take back his claim that the CIA has never misled Congress. Now why would that make me think that they were trying to give political cover to Ms. Pelosi?
The program was a plan to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives, and never — according to a CIA senior intelligence officer — came close to becoming operational. Though I'm not sure what the fuss is about. Wasn't that what we wanted, to capture or kill al Qaeda?
Panetta said that according to his notes, Vice President Cheney directed the CIA not to tell Congress specifics of the secret program. Possibly because secret programs have a way of appearing on New York Times front page shortly after intelligence committees are briefed?
Never mind. It's just another case of politics as usual. Dragging out "Bush did it" is the favorite attention deflector in the Obama playbook.
Filed under: Freedom, History, Law, National Security, Terrorism | Tags: Congress, Democrat Demagogues, Homeland Security, War on Terror
Liz Cheney, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, and Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter, is here interviewed on MSNBC, on the interrogation memos and the question of "torture." Norah McDonald gives a wonderful example of media bias. She can't quite believe that anyone would have the gall to disagree with President Obama. For an example of disagreeing with a president, see "Afterburner", a video we posted earlier. Hilarious.


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Vasarely Victor
Beautiful silkscreen print Art work, ca, 1974 by Victor Vasarely.
This print is 05 from an edition of 190 and it is hand signed and numbered.
Measurements print : W.56 x H.63 cm
Measurement with frame : W.76 x H.83 cm
Euro 1.750
Artwork will be shipped abroad in a custom made wooden crate. Cost of transport to the US crate included is Euro 200.
Victor Vasarely was a French-Hungarian artist credited as the father of the Op Art movement. Utilizing geometric shapes and colorful graphics, the artist created compelling illusions of spatial depth, as seen in his work Vega-Nor (1969). Vasarely's method of painting borrowed from a range of influences, including Bauhaus design principles, Wassily Kandinsky, and Constructivism. Born Vásárhelyi Gyozo on April 9, 1906 in Pécs, Hungary, he briefly studied medicine at university, but after two years dedicated himself instead to painting. In the late 1920s, Vasarely enrolled at the Muhely Academy in Budapest, where the syllabus was largely based on Walter Gropius's Bauhaus school in Germany. After settling in Paris in 1930, Vasarely worked as a graphic artist while creating many proto-Op Art works including Zebra (1937). The artist experimented in a style based in Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism during the 1940s, before arriving at his hallmark checkerboard works. Op Art went on to have a number of practitioners, including Bridget Riley and Yaacov Agam. The artist died at age 90 on March 15, 1997 in Paris, France. His works are presently held in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.


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Rednecks Can Be Tree Huggers (And Vice Versa)
Redneck Yacht Club member. Image credit:Redneck Village, "These R My People."
Proper treehuggers follow Lloyd's admonition to keep living space down to just what you need to get by. The owner of the pictured "house boat," officially a member of the Redneck Yacht Club, gains easy entry to treehugger-dom - at least on vacation. I just hope the center of gravity is low enough to handle any bow waves that come along. Otherwise, second story passengers are going to spill their brewskis. Doing your part to combat invasive Asian carp also might qualify you as a double agent: a treehugger /redneck.
Original Red Neck Fishing Tournament, 6 August 2010, Bath Illinois. Video and print story credit:Central Illinois News Center
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Garritan Personal Orchestra 4
( www.garritan.com , $149.95 download)
Fig. 7. Garritan's Aria engine has an intuitive, friendly interface that belies the program's power.
GPO4 uses Garritan's Aria Player (Figure 7, VST/RTAS/AU/standalone); the sample library is just shy of 2GB. The key word here is value—there's a full range of orchestral instruments, with excellent recording quality and expressiveness, at a fraction of the cost of the "big guys."
So what do you give up? In terms of end result, not much. Granted, there are fewer samples, and the high notes on some instruments aren't quite as "sweet" as some other libraries. But you still have instruments with keyswitching options to add expressive flourishes, and there's intelligent use of the mod wheel to add "one-stop" expressiveness— proper mod wheel manipulation can add real magic, especially to solo instruments. Compared to previous versions of GPO (upgrades are $49), there are additional sounds (choir and stronger brass presets), an autolegato function that detects your phrasing, integrated ambience, and compatibility with Scala definition files for non-standard tunings.
GPO also does something that's a bit brave: The sounds are recorded dry, so they don't sound lush and symphonic "out of the box." Of course, you can add ambience with the internal options, but more importantly, if you have a favorite ambience plug-in you can use it without interference from existing ambience.
You also get some perhaps unexpected features: 64-bit support including Windows 7, compatibility with Steinberg's VST Expression functionality, light CPU footprint, optimization for Akai's EWI wind controllers, 16 stereo outs, EQ and instrument controls for each loaded sound, warm ambience, and integration with notation programs (e.g., Finale 2010 or Sibelius 6.1—you can install GPO4 as a standard version, a version for use with notation programs, or both).
GPO4 is an overachiever. It may not be impressive when you first start loading instruments, but that's misleading: Once you get the mod wheel, keyswitching, and ambience sorted out, the sounds truly come alive—just ask Terry Lawless (keyboards for U2), Wendy Carlos, or J. J. Abrams (Star Trek, Lost). And GPO4 doesn't exist in isolation; Garritan's website offers free, interactive orchestration and jazz arranging courses, a focused and friendly forum that's loaded with tips, and solid support. For orchestral sounds, GPO4 is a great deal—and a program that was obviously put together with both care and pride.


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Oct 20, 2015
BPO Version 3.1 Released
We are pleased to announce that version 3.1 of Best Practice - Optical has been released.
This version contains
- many design changes on the Exams screen providing the ability to track much more examination information,
- it includes the ability to obtain readings directly from your Auto Refractor and
- allows you to send SMS messages to your patients.
Please review the full ist of changes and view screen shots in this document.
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Fastbind machines are developed and manufactured in Finland by Maping Co, a family-run business that has grown from a small workshop into a leading company of the finishing sector in digital printing environment. Market leaders of digital printing, like Xerox, Fuji and Océ, have chosen Fastbind as their partner.
Today, Fastbind products are distributed through company owned sales offices and certified dealers in more than 90 countries all over the world.
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To be the leader in our field and to provide our worldwide customers with best binding machines for small and medium quantities, first of all orientated towards digital printing.
We treat our customers, employees, and business partners with respect, honesty, openness, tolerance and trust.
Maping Co is organized around a small nuclear team, working together with a committed and successful partner network around the world. The core of our values is building long-term profitable relationships, based on the win-win principle.
As the inventors and designers of revolutionary Fastbind finishing equipment, we dedicate our resources on product development, machine composition and marketing. Local sales, service and distribution is taken care of by our partners.
Maping relies on their long term specialized suppliers to manufacture the extremely precise parts needed in Fastbind equipments and supplies. Some of our suppliers have followed our journey to success since the very beginning of our company. Many years of close team work have allowed us to know each other very well, making communication easier and problem solving faster.
Maping has a strong network of dealers and distributors, spread in nearly one hundred countries, over the five continents. We offer them our binding and finishing expertise as well as a very strong selling and marketing support, including personalized brochures, mailing tips, web site assistance, Dealer Extranet, and many opportunities for commercial and technical training either in Finland or during exhibitions abroad.
Most of our dealers are small independent companies, strongly committed to the success of both Fastbind and their customers. Traditionally, most of our dealers are working in the field of print finishing, but, since the introduction of the FotoMount series, companies specializing in the photographic sector are also approaching us.
Maping collaborates with digital printer manufacturers. We have been partners with Xerox for over 10 years now. As a recommended finishing solution provider, we assist them in exhibitions and open houses or road–shows with machines and skilled personnel. Fastbind perfectly meet their customers' need for comprehensive printing and finishing solutions.
We also have partnership agreements with other large corporations such as Océ and Fuji.
After the introduction of Fastbind FotoMount photobook solutions, we gained the interest of photographic corporations as well. The Kodak Company was long known for its wide range of photographic film products, but is now re-focusing on two major markets: digital photography and digital printing. Fastbind ideally complements their new printing solutions to photographers and matches their criteria of quality, speed and ease of use. For the same reasons, other experts such as Rauch, OKI or Noritsu have approached us.
Originally Maping Co, manufacturer of the Fastbind brand, was producing table-top binding machines for offices and accountants.
The first binders were designed to bind continuous listings. This experience with small machines binding loose sheets of unique documents gave Maping a natural push to embrace the new trends of the industry. The 30-year-old company managed the shift towards digital and introduced several groundbreaking innovations in the last few years.
In the 1990's Maping introduced new compact machines for the needs of increasing laser printing in offices and copyshops. Most of the now discontinued 90's Handy™ and Micron™ models are still in use throughout Europe.
Launched in Ipex 2002, and already labelled for the "on-demand" market, Fastbind Secura™ was the very first model of Fastbind new generation. It was compact, table-top, easy to use and to fit in any setting, from an industrial workshop to an accounting office, from a printing house to a copy shop counter. Secura positioned the brand for the upcoming models.
After Secura, the Fastbind binding family grew with more and more sophisticated models: Fastbind Elite™ (now our top-seller) with the innovative twin roughener, Optima™, Ultra™ and the latest Elite XT™ for larger formats, up to A3+.
Maping development team was too ambitious to comfortably just keep upgrading existing products. They continued on the innovation path. In Drupa 2000, Maping proudly introduced their first case maker, the H530™. It was improved over time and converted to the current, very successful Casematic™ product line. Casematic machines allow anybody to produce a customized fully printed hard cover in minutes: any design, almost any size and any format. The only limit is your imagination!
What about photo books? That's the latest innovation of the firm: the Fastbind FotoMount™ product line. The first prototypes of the product line were displayed in 2007 at Graph Expo in Chicago, met with a wide and amazed audience. The complete line allows photographers as well as printers to create premium photobooks using almost any kind of prints – including real photographic paper. They can choose among a variety of equipment to create a package that best fits their need. The latest solution is the FotoMount™ F32w workstation: an all-in-one solution. It consists of the Fastbind FotoMount F32 PhotoBook maker, Ideal 4305 guillotine, Fastbind C33 Creaser and an ergonomic rack.
Industry feedback is overwhelmingly positive. Once again, Fastbind development team has sensed the market and anticipated its needs. Propelled by booming demand for photobooks, the FotoMount machines are marching forth to photo labs and retailers about as fast as the Helsinki-based manufacturer can produce them. Fastbind offers currently an affordable and profitable solution regardless of the type of book or photobook you need.
At DRUPA 2008, Fastbind machines were featured in the booths of Xerox, Fuji and Kodak among others – eloquent testimony to their industry-wide compatibility and appeal.


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Iran, the day before Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at the United Nations, claimed Tuesday it successfully fired four missiles at a mock sea target representing warships.
The timing of the missile tests is part of Iran's propaganda campaign to instill fear among Israel and American leaders, who have warned that the "military option" is on the table if Tehran does not stop its unsupervised nuclear development and enrichment of uranium that can be used to manufacture a nuclear warhead aimed at Israel.
The Ahmadinejad regime has claimed successful military tests at a dizzying rate, but several analysts have said that many of the claims are exaggerated. Earlier this year, Iran said it tested a "long-range" missile but evidence pointed to its being a shorter range weapon.
Tuesday's announcement of the anti-warship missile tests was made by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), through government controlled news agencies, such as Fars.
"The missiles were fired simultaneously at a sea target as large as a warship and sank it in 50 seconds, stated Commander of the IRGC Navy, Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi said.
He claimed that Iran's missile systems can reach the entire Persian Gulf coastline and beyond the location of U.S. bases.
Its capability to hit warships could be critical if the United States and its allies try to close the Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for more than 20 percent of the word's oil.
Showing off Iran's claimed military arsenal, Fars noted, "In July, the IRGC Aerospace Force test-fired a supersonic anti-ship ballistic missile in the last phase of the Payambar-e Azam 7 (The Great Prophet 7) massive missile war games.
"The IRGC also exercised bombing specified targets by fighter bombers and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
"In early 2011, Iran started the mass-production of the Persian Gulf anti-ship missile which is designed to destroy targets and hostile forces at sea. The supersonic projectile, which carries a 650-kilogram warhead, is immune to interception and features high-precision systems.
"Also on Monday, the IRGC successfully test-fired the home-made Ra'd air defense missile shield… The system has been built in a bid to confront US aircraft and can hit targets 50km in distance and 75,000 feet in altitude."


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Slidell Police are asking for the public's assistance with identifying a man who robbed Advance America (3971 Pontchartrain Drive) this morning (August 22, 2017) at around 10:30 am.
Witnesses say a black male entered the business, brandished a firearm, and demanded cash. The suspect got away with an undisclosed amount of money and fled the area. The suspect is described to be a middle aged black male, approximately 5'6" to 5'8" tall, average build, wearing a grey hoodie, dark colored pants (possibility blue Dickey's pants), and a hat with the Pittsburg Pirates logo.
If you have any information about this robbery, please call Detective Richard Walden 985-646-6173 or email@example.com. Tipsters may also call Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111. You can remain anonymous and may be eligible for a cash reward.


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Morgan Stanley Cuts Estimate of US Online Gambling Market in Half
Morgan Stanley has cut its estimate of the potential U.S. Internet gambling market by nearly half. The firm now estimates the nationwide online betting market at $2.7 billion by 2020, down from an initial estimate of $5 billion. In a report issue Tuesday, the firm predicts no additional states will approve Internet gambling this year. Three states […]Read More


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Helm (TTT, Pan, Alter) plus guest Declan Synnott (Box Emissions)
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Helm (TTT, Pan, Alter) plus guest Declan Synnott (Box Emissions)
Nov 17 2017 21:00 - Nov 18 2017 00:00
The Roundy Bar, 1 Castle St, T12 RX09 Cork
From his base in London, Helm (Luke Younger) has come to the fore as a crucial voice in experimental music today. With a palette that draws from electronic music in its broadest sense, Helm's work is marked by the thrilling unknowns of exploratory sound practices, and loaded with a tearaway's attitude. It's euphoric, narrative-driven music, but it has its despairing qualities. Helm operates the label ALTER, though much of his work has appeared on the highly revered PAN. This includes 2015's acclaimed album Olympic Mess, a crowded work of influences set in congested dub.
Declan Synnott
Declan Synnott works with a variety of methods based around tape and analogue synthesiser. Rooted in noise and experimental sound, Declan's live performances are focused on dense, immersive sound, intentionally loose from any strict structural boundary, building a wall of textured noise. Previous work can be heard at https://declansynnott.bandc