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Accountability of nonprofit organizations to be subject of lecture, March 28
Posted March 22, 2002; 01:42 p.m.
Cliff Landesman, founder of the Internet Nonprofit Center , will present a lecture titled "The Need for Nonprofit Transparency and Accountability" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
The Internet Nonprofit Center is a project of The Evergreen State Society , a Seattle-based nonprofit organization addressing policy issues and management questions in order to strengthen the nonprofit sector in Washington state and beyond. The center, a Web-based project, offers information for and about nonprofit organizations and maintains an extensive library and archive of information for leaders and observers of the nonprofit sector in the United States.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs .
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Publications - Faith & Health
Published On 12/07/2011
Below are selected publications from the Methodist Faith & Health team.
- Cutts, T., Rafalski, E., Grant, C., Marinescu, R. Utilization of Hot Spotting to Identify Community Needs and Coordinate Care for High-Cost Patients in Memphis, TN. Journal of Geographic Information System, 6, pp. 23-29, 2014.
- Protestant Congregations: Aligning and Leveraging Assets for Vulnerable Populations and Governmental Partners Who Care For Them. Prepared by Gary R. Gunderson and Teresa Cutts and edited by Urban Strategies under Contract Number HHSM-500-2010-00054C. Communications Strategy to Enhance and Reinforce the Faith-Based Partnerships, sponsored by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, Department of Health and Human Services. 2011.
- Gary R. Gunderson. Deeply Woven Roots: Improving the Quality of Life in Your Community, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997.
- Gary R. Gunderson, Boundary Leaders: Leadership Skills for People of Faith, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004.
- Gary R. Gunderson and Larry Pray. Leading Causes of Life, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006.
- Gary R. Gunderson and James R. Cochrane. Religion and Health of the Public: Transformative Practice. Accepted for publication.
- Cutts, T. F., Gunderson, G., Proeschold-Bell, R. J., Swift, R. (2010). The Life of Leaders: An intensive health program for clergy. Journal of Religion and Health, accepted for publication.
- Cutts, Teresa. The Memphis Congregational Health Network model: Grounding ARHAP theory. In When Religion and Health Align: Mobilizing Religious Health Assets for Transformation. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Cluster Publications, in press, 2011.
- Lazarus, S & Cutts, T. Building a partnership to address violence in three historically colonized contexts: Report on research meeting in Memphis, December 2008. African Safety Promotion Journal, pp. 89-98, 2009.
- Olivier, Jill. Center of Excellence. "The Memphis Model: Mapping Research Opportunities at the Intersection of Faith and Health in Memphis." Memphis: Center of Excellence in Faith and Health, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, 2010.

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What better way to spend the evening than against the beautiful backdrop of Charles Towne Landing, eating local oysters and listening to local music by The Blue Dogs and The Bluestone Ramblers? Between sets, check out Lowcountry artisans, who demonstrate their skills and talents during Art in Progress. Become a VIP and enter early and get a free swag bag. Funds from this event benefit Friends of MUSC Children's Hospital. Charles Towne Landing, Founders Hall, 1500 Old Towne Rd.


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Autopsy: Victim killed by edged weapon
Victim, estranged husband found dead in apparent murder-suicide
MADISON, Wis. - The Dane County Medical Examiner has confirmed that the death of a Madison woman was a result of injuries from an edged weapon.
Jennifer Boyce, 31, was found dead in her apartment in the 6800 block of Milwaukee Street around 10:35 a.m. Thursday after what police believe is a murder-suicide. According to a statement by the county's medical examiner, a forensic autopsy revealed that Boyce died from injuries from an edged weapon.
Additional tests are still under way, the statement said.
Boyce's estranged husband, Bernard Grosso, 34, died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Madison police.
Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said police believe Boyce was killed after midnight early Wednesday morning.
Friends and family say they didn't see it coming.
"The entire community is just in shock and I think we're still dealing with that shock, and it will take a long time for us to make sense of it," said Kyle Larson, owner of Endurance House, the east side athletic store where Boyce led evening runs.
Police entered and searched Grosso's home in the 3800 block of Atwood Avenue with a SWAT team after finding Boyce.
"We had gleaned information late yesterday that our suspect in this case was likely armed, so we did go in with the SWAT team with a search warrant last night," DeSpain said.
Police said a loaded assault rifle and another firearm were recovered from the home.
There is no record of disputes between the two, according to police. They said some neighbors heard noises from Boyce's apartment Wedneday morning but didn't call police.
The couple was due in court Friday to finalize a divorce.
Madison's forensic team continued collecting evidence from the victim's home Thursday evening.
Investigators have been focusing on a first-floor patio door that was shattered.
Boyce was working as an epidemiologist at the state Division of Public Health.
Her family spoke with WISC-TV by phone from their Ballwin, Mo., home, and said they learned about Boyce's death from local detectives around dinner time.
Her stepmother, Dixie Boyce, said she doesn't believe the homicide was a random act. She said Jennifer Boyce moved into the apartment six months ago.
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"She was very athletic and got real involved in sports and training for the Ironman, and she needed an outlet," Dixie Boyce said.
It's Madison's first homicide of 2013.
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The starred procedure designation was deleted in the Current Procedural Terminology 2004 coding manual. Revisions have been made within this policy that supports this change with guidelines that are in-line with the current CPT4. This policy is effective for claims processed on or after April 1, 2006, regardless of the service date.
Because we receive a significant number of claims with modifier -25 appended, excerpts from CPT4 are included in the policy to help provide coding criteria for correct usage of modifier -25.
Our claims editing system and our in-house policies and procedures are set-up to handle modifier -25 when the modifier is used appropriately. Misuse of this modifier causes delays in processing your claims and, in many instances, codes will be denied. In addition, there may be times when medical records are requested for claims submitted with modifier -25.
Modifier -25 should be used to indicate a significant, separately identifiable E/M service in the following circumstances:
Rationale: As mentioned above these procedure codes usually include preservice and postservice work. An E/M service is not routinely billed on the same day as these procedure codes. If a significant, separately identifiable E/M service is performed on the same day, modifier -25 should be appended to the E/M code.
Modifier -25 should not be used to indicate a significant, separately identifiable E/M service in the following circumstances:
Rationale: According to CPT coding guidelines, only the services that fall within the global surgical period are considered an integral part of performing the procedure. E/M services outside of a procedure's global surgical period are allowed on a service-by-service basis.
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Bandaging Fundamentals
There are right and wrong ways to bandage horses' limbs, no matter the wrap's purpose.
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Your horse is wounded, bleeding, or critically ill: What should you do? Get advice from our expert!
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In Disaster's Wake: Horses and the Devastation
After weathering a natural disaster, take steps to reduce your horses' chances of infection or injury.
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Bandaging Fundamentals
December 27, 2016
There are right and wrong ways to bandage horses' limbs, no matter the wrap's purpose.... Read More
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July 28, 2016
Your horse is wounded, bleeding, or critically ill: What should you do? Get advice from our expert!... Read More
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October 16, 2014
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January 26, 2014
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May 01, 2010
With increased activity all horses are at a higher risk of sustaining traumatic lacerations or other wound types. Some might appear more serious than others. Often the wound might be hours, days, or even weeks old before it is observed.... Read More
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April 15, 2010
An overview of wound care for horses, including a checklist for your first aid kit and when to call the vet. ... Read More
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April 01, 2010
Of all the emergencies requiring veterinary intervention, a fracture requires some of the most intensive medical attention--from first aid, to repair, and, finally, to rehabilitation and recovery. ... Read More
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August 05, 2009
Managing wounds on the lower limbs of horses can be expensive, frustrating, and wrought with complications. ... Read More
Bandaging Horses
June 01, 2007
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June 20, 2006
One of the most important facts regarding severe wounds is that the sooner they are noticed and repaired the better the patient's prognosis, both functionally and cosmetically. Another aspect of wounds is that they bleed, some significantly more than... Read More
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June 01, 2003
We have a horse with a bowed tendon now in training and doing well. Should we wrap his leg during exercise?... Read More
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November 02, 2001
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AAEP 1995 Convention Roundup
October 04, 2001
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June 01, 2001
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June 01, 2000
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Much work occurred with the blog site almost sorted (small boy coming up the stairs now, maximus interuptus) he is currently getting very much in the way of typing whilst Baby Bolo has her nappy changed next door.. Baby Bolo because she looks very much like the chinese Body building Kung Fu legend Bolo Yeung. The missus denies all allegations.. but then she would, Wouldn't she??
Last nights Chilli Chick Peas was an absolute triumph, Very hot indeed but very tasty.. Recipe and photo's to follow very soon I promise.
Tonight's nosh extravaganza to include what is left of the Chick Pea goodness, with some lovely griddled sardines and some cous cous. Healthy tasty and again cheap. Our Frugal life continues.
Plans for a new chicken coop arising following a conversation for free plywood from Freecycle chappie. Thanks Wayne. I will be collecting that shortly and a lot of double glazed glass units for the Eco Friendly conservatory. Not quite an earth ship but pretty darn cheap and hopefully very very useful.
Right best nip off and make tea before training.
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Last year, I didn't give anything up for Lent. My college didn't serve meat on Fridays, so I suppose that could be seen as a sacrifice, albeit one that had nothing to do with personal surrender. This year, however, I decided that I really needed to offer up some form of self-sacrifice. That is why I gave up late night fast food.
This might sound like a diminutive forfeiture, but I assure you it was not. I have come to find that online poker is a nine-to-five job, in that the worst players are playing from 9PM until 5AM. Think: Europeans. Think also: Drunk Americans. Because of this, it makes sense that my sleep schedule is somewhat askew. If I go especially deep in a tournament, or if I find myself sitting to the right of a complete donkey in a cash game, I am forced to continue playing, despite my tired eyes. Often, my head will hit the pillow at the same time that my parents' alarms force them to grumble their way around the house to start their long days at work.
I usually wake up somewhere between one and three in the afternoon, at which point I eat a breakfast of either a bowl of cereal, a pop tart, or a sandwich. My parents, walking in the door after a full day at work, say "Good morning, Sleepy," apparently in reference to one of the Seven Dwarfs. Around six o'clock, I join my parents for dinner. According to my stomach, however, that meal was called "lunch." My stomach (whose name, incidentally, is Grumpy) begins getting quite restless around midnight, and the snack food we have around the house is generally not to his liking. Can you blame him? I mean, it is dinnertime for him. So I take the little bugger out for a late night fast food run and that is that.
Fulfilling my Lenten vow by taking those late night expeditions out of the equation meant that for forty days the beast known as Grumpy was not tamed. In turn I, myself, was quite grumpy. It truly was not a small thing to let go, as it forced me to truly be aware of the sacrifice during many of the hours that I was up.
I also made another promise to myself during Lent. Instead of making a pilgrimage to the Golden Arches, I made more trips to church. I do attend mass every Sunday, but during Lent I went to church on all the biggies. Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday: if the day of the week has a capitalized word in front of it, I was there. In addition, I also persuaded myself into attending The Passion Play at my church.
In a nutshell, the Passion Play is the twelve Stations of the Cross acted out by seventh graders. The Passion of the Christ meets Sesame Street. The play itself required no acting skills whatsoever. The children simply went through the motions of the stations of the cross. Even the spoken words were taken care of, as they were bellowed out over the microphone by the male CCD teachers. As far as acting was concerned, all the little actors had to do was make hand gestures, always as if explaining something. It is a very well-organized and somber production. But at the same time, when some parents are clandestinely videotaping their little Mary Magdalene, it loses some of its solemnity. Some of the actors being scolded for giggling also has a similar effect. I can't blame them, though. After all, a decade ago I was one of them. Rather, the One.
That's right. I, Youngman Brown, was Jesus in the Passion Play.
On the day that roles were being handed out, I had my sights set on Pontius Pilate, but my wishes were swiftly brushed aside as our teacher nominated me for Jesus. I politely said "no thanks": the role had its obvious responsibilities, but it also involved a certain degree of nakedness. Back then, I was hesitant to take my shirt off at the beach, let alone the middle of a church. Nobody wanted to see my pale, seemingly malnourished body.
"I think that I would make a great Pontius Pilate," I tried.
"You are just being modest," our teacher said.
I thought of the marble Jesus hanging in our church. It revealed a relatively muscular man, equipped with pecs, abs, and even those oblique muscles that women seem to love. Jesus was a carpenter after all.
"I think David would make a better-"
"You are Jesus." Whatever that meant, it didn't make a difference. She had already washed her hands of the matter.
So there I hung, a thirteen year old, shirtless and scrawny rendition of our Savior. The church was silent as my body hung limp -- I had just offered up my spirit, and was trying desperately to appear as if I was not breathing. It was a very difficult task without a shirt. Making it even more difficult was the fact that I was clenching my abdominal muscles together, hoping that my weekly regimen of situps would be noticed by at least one of the onlookers. I fear that I did not make a convincing dead man, especially since I was so skinny that the audience could probably see my heart beating. Either way, all that was left to do was take me off the cross, lay me in Mary's arms, throw me into the tomb, and then, viola! I'd have risen from the dead, fully clothed once again. The falling, crucifying, and dying was over, and it wouldn't be hard from here on out.
Or so I thought.
Picked as the Virgin Mother was the only other CCD student in my class that also went to my high school. We shared this bond, but I also had had a crush on her for four years. Guard #1 took me down from the cross and laid me in her lap, at which point "Gentle Woman" was played and sung by the Children's Choir. It was the most somber moment of the Passion Play. Nay, a representation of the most somber moment in recorded history. She was the depiction of a mother, grieving at the death of her only child. I was the depiction of Jesus Christ who just died for mankind's sins. And all I was doing was praying.
Praying that I didn't get a boner.
It's not an erotic position, per se: my head in a girl's lap. That was not the reason for my fear of the firm. It was Jim Ruplee's fault. Jim played Guard #2, namely, the guard that strips Jesus of his clothes. During rehearsal the night before, as Jim guarded my dead body on the cross and Mrs. Pellis, the director, announced that I would now be carried to Mary's lap, Jim whispered, "Don't get a boner."
Like I said, it's not an erotic situation and I am also not a hornball. But, let me ask you, faithful reader: what do you do when someone tells you there is a spider in your hair. Do you freak out? Do you feel other spiders on your body for the next few minutes? It's exactly the same. Well, not exactly the same, but I hope you get the idea.
I listened over the choir and heard sobbing coming from the audience. People were praying, contemplating the significance of the sacrifice made by a man who died for their sins two thousand years ago. And I was wondering if Guard #1 plopped me down with my pelvis facing the congregation on purpose. Judas.
I couldn't adjust myself. I mean, I was dead. I couldn't take a peek. There was a spotlight on me for Christ sake.
The choir sung on and on. Gentle woman, quiet light…
I was wearing white mesh shorts. If given a list of things one should wear to disguise a hard-on, white mesh shorts would be down there with thong and cellophane. I could only hope that perhaps the congregation's eyes would be more attracted to the "Champion" logo than my other inconsistency.
As "Gentle Woman" finally finished its fourth and final verse, I thanked God. I didn't care how big it was (or how big it would ever get for the rest of my life, for that matter) so long as this moment was finally over.
But then the guards flipped me on my back onto a makeshift stretcher and put a white sheet over me in order to carry me to the "tomb." I realized that this probably made the situation even worse as I thought back to many a morning, waking up on my back, looking down and saying, "Oh hello there."
Whether or not my subconscious made me pitch a tent that night is not up for debate. The only thing debatable is how much was built up in my mind and how much was built up in my shorts. There are many factors to consider, such as lighting, angles of limbs, and people's general ignorance for such things. It wasn't something I could look down to check. Nor was it something I could ask my parents about afterwards. It is one of those things, I am guessing, that every young boy goes through. Sometimes, you simply can't control it.
Its name is Happy, after all.
One day, perhaps, it will be downgraded to Bashful.
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I'm assuming this has been brought up before, but I went back a few posts and so no mention of it. Did anyone else notice the sticker covering up whatever's on the back of Zam Wesell's 12" box! It shows Jango, Dooku, Zam, and Super battle droid and gives a description under each pic. Under Zam's pic a sticker has been applied stating,"Zam Wesell, with face reveal feature, blaster and rifle"
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One of the world's largest and most successful experimental fusion machines has been safely disassembled and cleared away.
In September, staff at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory completed the dismantling and removal of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor, which shut down in 1997 following 15 years of operation. During its experimental life, the reactor set records for fusion performance and made major contributions to the development of fusion as a long-term energy alternative. The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory team finished the removal of reactor on schedule and under budget.
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A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they'd be asked the "half empty or half full" question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: "How heavy is this glass of water?"
Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz.
She replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn't change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."
She continued, "The stresses and worries in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed incapable of doing anything."
Remember to put the glass down.
Very good analagy. That really seems to be true in most cases. Sounds like it was an interesting class.
I think I need to put the glass down been a long stressful weak
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Let me start off by saying that this is my second post on the forum and the first was just an introduction. I am not sure this thread is in the right place, and if it isn't please let me know where it should be.
I'm currently in college, taking courses for a certificate in game design. In the mean time, I've got a rule set and a number of settings for possible future games. Right now, I'd like to focus on the armour system in this rule set, and the penetration system that ties into it. I'm looking for feedback on this system, and more importantly things I could add to this system.
Basic overview:
This armour system includes three major parts: damage division (DD), damage reduction (DR) and resistance (RE). Each of these is specific to a single damage type. These three parts are all countered by a factor of the attack called "penetration." (P) There are other special factors for some damage types, such as "temperature" for thermal damage, "current" for electric damage (effectively the same thing as temperature) and "piercing" for some incisive weapons. This system is intended to not only determine how much damage (if any) an attack deals through armour, but also to determine if an attack will pass through a target to hit objects on the other side of them, as well as how much penetration and damage it will have if it does.
Damage Division:
DD is the primary defence against most attacks, and the only thing that actually reduces the penetration of an attack that defeats it. Damage division is a direct counter to penetration itself. Penetration is divided by DD to yield a number called "penetration factor" or "PF." PF is a number by which a weapon's damage is multiplied, with some restrictions. If penetration factor is at one, a weapon deals normal damage. Any less, it deals partial damage. (For instance, a PF of 0.55 means 55% damage before DR and RE.) Any more, and the weapon deals full damage and continues on to damage objects behind the target, with its penetration reduced by the perforated target's DD. For instance, a 9mm bullet from a pistol might have a penetration of 0.95, and a human adult male might have a DD of 0.6. Ignoring natural armour, (which would only be PDD 0.1, PDR 1 and PRE 1% anyway) the pistol would deal full puncture damage (160) and continue on to hit other targets with a penetration of 0.35. A #1 buckshot pellet from a 2.5" shell, on the other hand, usually only has a penetration of 0.33, and will deal 55% puncture damage (120*0.55=66) and fail to over-penetrate.
Damage Reduction:
DR is the secondary defence against most attacks, being both second in order and second in importance. It is a simple reduction effect, and is subtracted from the damage. It is also subtracted from the energy (see energy transfer below) of the attack, if it is of the same type. This loss is permanent, and does not apply only to the target the DR belongs to. So a bullet with 160 damage that comes up against a DR of 10 will deal 150 damage to the target, and will only have 150 damage against the next target.
Damage Reduction and Penetration:
Penetration may have a different effect on DR, depending on damage type. For kinetic and miscellaneous damage types, penetration divides DR. So a penetration of 2 means an attack gets half effect from DR, and a penetration of 0.5 means double effect. For energy and chemical damage types, penetration subtracts from DR by ten times value. So a penetration of 2 mean DR is 20 points lower, and a penetration of 0.5 means DR is 5 points lower. This cannot reduce DR below 0.
Resistance: RE is the tertiary defence against most attacks, last in order and least in importance. It is a simple resistance effect, a percentage removed from the damage. It is not subtracted from the energy (see energy transfer) of the attack, even if it is of the same type. It is also permanent, and will impact the amount of damage dealt to future targets.
Resistance and Penetration: Penetration may have a different effect on RE, depending on damage type. For kinetic and chemical damage types, penetration subtracts from RE for ten times value. This cannot reduce RE below 0. For energy and miscellaneous damage types, penetration divides RE.
Energy transfer:
All weapons have at least one form of non-penetrative damage, such as the concussive damage (K) dealt by all kinetic weapons, even if their primary damage type is a penetrative damage type. If this is their only damage type, it performs as normal. If it is not, it is dealt to every target the weapon hits, and is taken from a pool called "energy." (E) A fraction of the pool is dealt as damage equal to the square root of the fraction of the weapon's total penetration used on the target. So if, for instance, a bullet with a KE of 50 and a penetration of 0.95 hits a target with a DD of 0.6, it will deal 40 concussive damage, and will have a KE of 10 afterwards. 50*(0.6/0.95)0.5=~40. This damage acts as its own attack, and will continue onward to hit other targets independently. So, for instance, a bullet stopped by armour might still damage the target, as concussive damage conducts through it.
Body, natural armour and armour:
These values above are used for an object itself, but also for two layers in contact with it. These are natural armour and armour. These are treated as separate objects by the penetration system, although not by the engine, and must be penetrated by each damage type to damage the next. Armour comes first, if it is present (and armour may have multiple layers) followed by natural armour and finally the body of the object. After this usually comes natural armour again, followed by armour one last time before the projectile is free, as a target is usually armoured on both sides. On its way out, any energy transfer that goes through the current layer still damages the target, even though the weapon is heading the other direction.
If you want examples, feel free to ask.
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Events scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday, Nov. 16 and 18, will honor the work of Daniel Mesguich, one of France's leading theater directors and a teacher at the Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris.
Students from the Program in Theater and Dance and the L'Atelier French theater workshop will read excerpts from Mesguich's favorite plays in English and French at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Matthews Acting Studio, 185 Nassau St. The readings are co-sponsored by the Center for French Studies .
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I am writing to see what type of consensus I can get on using dog boots in the winter and which type has worked best for you. The boots will be used for waterfowl and or upland game. Thank you for your reply.
I am writing to see what type of consensus I can get on using dog boots in the winter and which type has worked best for you. The boots will be used for waterfowl and or upland game. Thank you for your reply.
Ishmael The Philosopher
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
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Best investment = DUCT-TAPE. All boots are a major pain, but the leather sack type are probably easier than the Kevlar paw shaped type that you have to place correctly on the foot/ Get the ones that go pretty far up the leg; whatever you do Tape those babies on and still expect to loose one every-time you're out .
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ON the rare occasions when needed, I like Lewis rubber boots. Tape the leg with athletic pre-wrap (so you do't pull the hair off when you remove them) and then tape them on. Make sure they're big enuf.
Ditto the above...the better and more sophisticated dog boots look the worse they perform. If it is a matter of keeping snow off then Musher's Secret is your best bet. I can't live without that paw wax.
RuffWear makes a boot that on paper look amazing. Really long boot. Comes right off.
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I have Avery boots!! and the neoprene coat! Very sturdy.
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Why would dog need boots? Ice and snow?
I don't use boots on my dogs. If I ever need to I guess I will just reach under the truck seat and grab a handful of Crown Royal bags.
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I've tried the neoprene and leather. Duct taped them. None of them stayed on my dog for any length of time. I used them only cause my dog has problems with losing chunks of the pad off her feet. Now I just don't train her till it heals.
I think they were all made to shoot because if they were not why did they give them that whirr of wings that moves you suddenly more than any love of country . . . I think that they were made to shoot and some of us were made to shoot them and if that is not so well, never say we did not tell you that we liked it.
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I guess if you take the Glasgow Gael trendy-west-endie-hangs-around-in-the-Lismore dialect of Gaelic where if you don't find a word that suits you just make up a translation that fits your etymological theory, then you can get away with it. This part of the world was never Gaelic-speaking, and Gaelic only came here with the Highland Diaspora.
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"It will be hilarious to them," said Tackett, 60. "They know I really just 'learned' to cook about 15 years ago. Before that, it was cornbread and peas and maybe a roast or pork chops thrown in occasionally. I never could fry chicken like my friend Brenda and she would laugh at me about it. I either cooked it too fast or too slow."
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"At the end of the day, I was tired and cooking was not a priority," she said. "Now that I'm retired from teaching at Itawamba Community College, I have much more time and energy to cook."
Plus, it's not like Tackett spent hours in the kitchen cooking when she was growing up.
"When I was about 10 years old, I went in the kitchen where my mother and grandmother were cooking, as they did every day," she said. "I told them I wanted to learn how to cook. They looked at me and said, 'Go read a book. This kitchen isn't big enough for all of us.' That was that. I loved to read and I never worried about it again."
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Even though Tackett doesn't cook every day, she still prepares meals at least three times a week in the two-story cabin she and her husband, Jimmy, built a few years ago on the Okolona Country Club's golf course. Sometimes it's just the two of them at the table, and sometimes they enjoy meals with their sons and grandchildren.
"We like to have people over," she said. "That's when we do most of our cooking. This is an ideal place to entertain, with the porches all around the house. We like to have fish frys – bream and crappie, slaw, french fries, fried corn on the cob, hushpuppies."
Tackett recalled a less than stellar hushpuppy-cooking experience that occurred six or seven years ago. It was her granddaughter's birthday party and they decided to have a cookout.
"I used fish fry mix to make the hushpuppies and it has no leavening in it," she said, clearly embarrassed at the memory. "They were as flat as flitters. They tasted good but they were ugly as everything."
But Tackett has persevered as the years have passed. She reads cookbooks like they were novels and collects recipes from magazines, newspapers, friends and family. When she attends a potluck event or a party, she's always eager to try new recipes.
"Every time there is a special event, I try to take something different that no one has ever tried before," said Tackett, an active Master Gardener. "When I take something to an event with people I don't know well, I'll take copies of the recipe. Invariably, several will ask and I will be able to give it to them. It's fun to share good things."
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While Obama runs around the country crying "the sky is falling," nothing is being done in the Whitehouse to develop a consensus.
Stand fast Boehner, this is you chance to make Obama blink first.
Don't fail us now!
The big fear of the Whitehouse is that Sequester will happen, the reduction on future spending (no "cuts" here) will have no effect at all.
If no one suffers as badly as Obama claims, his constant Obamageddon fear tactics will be DONE!!!!
He got his tax increase folks, remember?
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Identifying Catfish.
Hi, wondering if anyone can confirm or correct what these species are.
The ones swimming around like crazy were sold to me as Chocolate Talking Catfish. They usually hide under the driftwood during the day, but this was at feeding time and they were scouring the tank.
The really cool looking ones that just lay there were sold to me as Banjo Cats.
I don't know if that's what they really are, but I love both of these type of cats! Only had corys before. My LFS has buy 1 catfish, get the second for $1 tomorrow, so I may pick up a couple more of the "talking" cats.
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"Lucille" is my BanHammer!!!
I realize you know that you cant win the debate, and therefore only want one side to be able to present their evidence, but Id rather have both sides be able to present their evidence because it overwhelmingly supports a young earth. Censorship helps no one.
This is exactly what I am talking about; many people who believe the earth is old dont understand why scientists believe it is old but they look down on those of us who think it is young as if we are the ones who are ignorant about science. Radio-carbon dating can only be used to date matter that was once living, it cannot be used to date the earth and it cannot be used to date anything that is even close to millions of years old (measurable levels of C14 are long gone after about 150,000-200,000 years). The C14/C12 ratio is empirically measurable; however how that is used to date the material is not empirical at all. It assumes that the C14 atmospheric levels have been in equilibrium prior to the industrial revolution (which actually they have not been, which is compelling evidence the atmosphere is less than 10,000 years old). This one faulty assumption is enough to make the entire system give grossly inflated or erroneous dates (we see this often when it is used to date something of empirically verifiable age). Radio-metric dating is the method they use to date rocks and it has its own set of issues.
Nothing annoys me more than people who think radio-carbon dating is used to prove the Earth is billions of years old. There are 2.3 billion Christians in the world; I dont think were suffering in the popularity contest.
I am not sure if these pastors are cognizant of the lies and half truths they are spreading to their ministry, or if they truly believe what they are saying. Being that many of these pastors are rather intelligent in other facets of their life, I would have to believe they know the falsities of their claims, but keep spreading the misinformation to not diminish the validity of the Word.
Can you please be more specific? What are some of these lies and half-truths you speak of?
No, according to Statler
1. Radio-carbon dating cannot be used to date the Earth because it measures the ratio of C14/C12 in matter that was once living.
2. Age is not an empirically testable property of matter, it must be inferred from the observation of current rates and processes, of course this includes numerous and often untestable assumptions.
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You realize they can use different elements to date things? Other element isotopes have much longer half lives and can be used to date things much older than 200,00 years.
Also, coral reefs, canyons, and many other things can be used to come to a reasonable conclusion that the Earth is much older than a few thousand years.
Not interested in going down the rabbit hole with someone who believes that the Earth is younger than the Sumerians. This conversation only leads to immense, mind-numbing frustration.
Every creationist I have ever debated always consults the same logic-defying playbook from "Doctor" Hovind and his ilk. It's not worth the headache to get into this again...
Before I depart this thread, I just want to ask one question of Mr. Statler. Why should we only present 2 sides? If the "science" taught in schools is no longer limited to that which is testable using empirical data, but only required to be a "fact" written in popular books with large followings, what stops us from presenting other sides on the topic? Surely you would then agree that the Scientoligist's belief that life on Earth was seeded by extra-terrestrials should also get its due in the classroom? Where does it end?
Should we discuss how Hobbits and Elves went extinct following the events of the Fellowship of the Ring?
How about studying the biology of Humpty Dumpty? Surely that would make for scintillating material to engage young minds with the wonders of science!
and you realize that if you are using a different elements half-life to date something you are no longer using radio-carbon dating right? Radio-carbon dating cannot date the Earth, as I said.
Also, coral reefs, canyons, and many other things can be used to come to a reasonable conclusion that the Earth is much older than a few thousand years.
How so?
How sad! I was willing to have a discussion with you, even though you didnt know the difference between radio-carbon dating and radio-metric dating. This is always the tactic used by those who think the Earth is old when they are pushed around, I am not going to waste my time debating someone who believes , all too convenient. Reminds me of someone who doesnt want to waste his time wrestling grizzly bears because the bears never put up much of a challenge, riiight :-P
Every creationist I have ever debated always consults the same logic-defying playbook from "Doctor" Hovind and his ilk. It's not worth the headache to get into this again...
Youve actually debated creationists before? Paint me a bit skeptical. I am not a fan of Hovind, so maybe you can debate with me now? How is pointing out that radio-carbon dating can only be used to date once living matter logic defying? Its a simple fact.
Wait, are we debating now? The age of the earth is not empirically testable; I am not sure why I keep on having to point that out to you. Anyways, I was actually exposed to some ideas regarding panspermia in Evolutionary Biology in University, and I didnt jump up and cry foul then. I think even Dawkins is moving that direction a bit because of the baggage abiogenesis brings to the table. However, I dont have much of an issue with people being exposed to the idea of panspermia (although that is more of a life origins issue and not an age of the Earth issue), I think most people will find that the evidence to support it is rather lacking. As for the age of the Earth, there really is only two sides to that coin; its either a little over 6,000 years old or around 4.55 Billion (even though it was supposedly 4.3 Billion years old only about ten years ago). I am not opposed to anyone else arguing for a different age, I am just currently not aware of any such position out there.
Should we discuss how Hobbits and Elves went extinct following the events of the Fellowship of the Ring?
What does that have to do with the age of the Earth?
How about studying the biology of Humpty Dumpty? Surely that would make for scintillating material to engage young minds with the wonders of science!
What does that have to do with the age of the Earth? I am hardly the one guilty of dragging this debate down rabbit holes, thats for sure.
and I am sure you still think Blacks are more closely related to the great apes than they are to Whites, since thats what Darwin taught .right?
Why would a reformed Christian such as me care what the Catholic Church ever taught? You clearly dont know what you are talking about.
You can find some of my old debates on the topic of evolution with Dolfan7 from years ago on this forum by doing a search if you are so inclined.
Scientologists don't really believe in the traditional view of panspermia, they believe that an evil alien tyrant named Xenu came to Earth and threw his enslaved people into volcanoes and nuked them with H-Bombs. The "souls" of these advanced people then attached themselves to early proto-humans, giving them sentience, but also all the baggage that comes with being human. You want that taught as "science" along with Genesis and evolution?
The dating methods that we use today can verify without a shadow of a doubt that the Earth is older than 6,000 years old. That is all that needs to be said to refute your claims. I don't know why anyone latches onto this 6,000 year old thing anyway because the Bible doesn't give specific dates on any of this. All of this was simply surmised by adding up the ages of all the generations of men listed in the Bible. That is a rather UNSCIENTIFIC method to date the Earth.


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And I don't disagree with you at all that the best solution would be to remove incentives by working with the employers. Yet, I think I just read somewhere that because of the new "Dreamer" policy, the govt will not expand the e-Verify system that many employers already use.
While the total %-age of the population may be small, certain areas like AZ, TX, NM, FL carry most of the burden.
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On another note that is sort of on track but has nothing to do with JD's post here. If you lose your current doctor and you are on medicare try finding one who will take you ! It' like finding hens' teeth. Guess how busy the hospital emergency room is going to be with all us old people having to get medical care that way.
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Another unintended consequence: Cook Medical a medical device manufacturer in Indiana, as a result of the 2.3% tax on medical devices, says it will cancel plans for 5 new plants here in the U.S.
Everyone, including myself, figured the tax would simply be passed onto consumers as increased cost of the devices then increased cost from the doctors or hospitals using the devices (increase in cost of the procedures using the devices).
OTOH, as with Medicare, the govt determines what will be paid for certain procedures. Would have to imagine that Obamacare will have the same payment regulations ... so the doctors/hospitals might not be able to raise their prices to offset an increase in costs. That means that device mfr won't be able to recover the cost of the new tax without losing business to some company (outside of the US) that could make the device for 2.3% less.
Duh? I hadn't thought of that.
The net result in this case turns out to be that the mfr does not build new plants; does not create those new jobs. The $ they would have spent on expansion is used to pay the device tax instead.
If the Indiana company sells its devices outside the U.S., then those sales will not be subject to the tax. However, if there is a larger market for their devices in the U.S., then that won't really be offset by foreign sales. They may already be making sales to foreign countries anyhow. Maybe they'll simply try to sell more of the devices they make outside of the US, if that can be done?
If there is a shortage of Indiana devices in the US, will be have to import cheaper devices from somewhere else?
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Our local paper prints the arrests almost every day. For a while a large percentage were hispanic sounding names. Many of those hispanics had no car insurance and no driver's license. Some did not stop for stop signs. We had a lot of rapes reported where the perp had a hispanic sounding name. This changed some after that law got passed here in OK. We were getting the bad apples from other countries.
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These unintended consequences just keep piling up ...
Since the SCOTUS ruled that the Fed govt couldn't pull Medicaid funds from the states if the state decided not to expand its Medicaid program, that sort of messed things up for the low-income folks who would have gotten their health insurance that way.So the end result is that the low- and middle-income earners are worse off than they were before?The Action Forum estimates that there are potentially 1.2 million people who would be subject to the tax if only six states decide to opt out of the Medicaid expansion. This is in addition to the 3.9 million the CBO estimated in 2010.
"The CBO estimates that by 2016 about half of the roughly 55 million currently uninsured will gain insurance either through Medicaid or private insurance exchanges," writes McBride. "As such, ACA represents, in the main, a massive transfer of wealth from the uninsured, who are largely low- and middle-income earners, to insurance companies and the larger healthcare industry."
We know that legislators don't actually write these bills. They have "staff" that do that kind of thing. Obviously, the 2000 pages were too convoluted for even these people to figure out what they were creating.
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As more and more of the "unintended consequences" pop up, the Federal Government will look like the guy on the Ed Sullivan show that spun plates on sticks. A cluster waiting to happen.
Except the government won't make the recovery.
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The administration and Democrats in Congress call it a "drafting error" but Cato Institute calls it a deliberate choice. The ACA only authorizes tax credits and subsidies to be issued by government exchanges built by states. They are not authorized in the Federal Exchange.
Thus, state legislatures that do not establish a state exchange will protect their employers from $3,000 per-employee penalties that face employers if even one employee buys insurance on the exchange and gets a subsidy or tax credit.
Cato's Michael Cannon and Jonathan Adler have written a well-researched paper opposing the IRS regulation that the administration is using to attempt to authorize tax credits and subsidies through a Federal Exchange (FE) even though Congress did not allow it. Likewise, Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia's attorney general, is urging states to do nothing to establish state exchanges.ACO - The End of Insurance
The author of "Seeking Alpha" calls Obamacare's Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) an "insurmountable" risk to health insurance companies. The ACO is an organization created when hospitals and doctors join together to receive a lump sum ("bundled") payment from insurers for the care of patients.
The author notes that today insurers collect a payment based on your risk and pay doctors, hospitals and other clinicians for services provided. But Obamacare ended the need for risk-based premium adjustments (no pre-existing exclusions) and eliminated payment for services based on individual claims for care received.
The author notes, "The consensus in the hospital industry is that payment will be for period of one year to three years. The hospital or doctor will get a fixed sum of money for each patient per year from the insurance company out of which to meet all the medical needs of the patient. There'll be no need to submit a claim to an insurance company...The insurance company becomes merely a shell transferring the collected premium from insured to the ACO."
As the author writes, "The insurance company will no longer need actuaries, risk analysts, claims processing, sales people, even executives and management...And since they would just be collecting and handing over the premiums to the ACO without doing anything further of value, there would be no need for health insurance companies to exist at all, and I predict that health insurance companies will cease to exist by 2017-2018 as the ACO model becomes widespread.
The ACO model means local hospital will become the insurance company and care provider in one." In other words, a major conflict of interest. On July 9, HHS announced 89 new ACOs, bringing the total to 154 ACOs, with 400 more organizations planning to apply for ACO status in August.
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It just keeps getting more complicated ...CNSNews.com) - The Justice Department last week presented the Newland family of Colorado--who own Hercules Industries, a heating, ventilation and air-conditioning business--with what amounted to an ultimatum: Give up your religion or your business.
"Hercules Industries has 'made no showing of a religious belief which requires that [it] engage in the [HVAC] business," the Justice Department said in a formal filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.
In response to the Justice Department's argument that the Newlands can either give up practicing their religion or give up owning their business, the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing the family, said in a reply brief: "[T]o the extent the government is arguing that its mandate does not really burden the Newlands because they are free to abandon their jobs, their livelihoods, and their property so that others can take over Hercules and comply, this expulsion from business would be an extreme form of government burden."
The Newlands' attorney(s) reply:The Justice Department further argued that people owning for-profit secular businesses do not have a First Amendment right to the free exercise religion in the way they conduct their businesses—particularly if their business is incorporated.
"Here, plaintiffs have not sufficiently alleged that the preventive services coverage regulations substantially burden their religious exercise," the Justice Department told the court. "Hercules Industries, Inc., is not a religious employer; it is 'an HVAC manufacturer.'"The government argues that the Newlands forfeited their right to religious liberty as soon as they endeavored to earn their living by running a corporation," said the Newlands' brief.
"Nothing in the Constitution, the Supreme Court's decisions, or federal law requires—or even suggests—that families forfeit their religious liberty protection when they try to earn a living, such as by operating a corporate business," they argued.
If the Obama administration's understanding of the First Amendment were accepted, argued the Alliance Defending Freedom's brief, the media would have no rights either.
"The government's exclusionary attitude would push religion out of every sphere of life except the four wall of a church," they said in their brief. "If for-profit corporations have no First Amendment 'purpose,' newspapers and other media would have no rights.""Look at this fine mess you've gotten us into, Ollie."With 265 employees, a business like the Newlands' would need to pay the government $26,500 per day if they decided not to comply with Sebelius's regulation and insured their employees anyway. Over 365 days that would amount to $9,672,500.
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Collin Stoddard, a Craig native and Christian recording artist, spoke about his experiences touring with the band 33Miles, his family and involvement in the Christian charity Food for the Hungry in a performance Thursday at The Journey at First Baptist.
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Collin Stoddard, a Craig native and Christian singer/songwriter, began his performance Thursday night by asking for a show of hands of those in the audience. He wanted to know how many people had changed his diaper as an infant. "I bet there are less hands down that haven't than have," Stoddard joked. Stoddard performed a concert featuring songs from his new album, "Fight for Me," at The Journey at First Baptist Church for an audience of about 100 people.
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Work lacks an identity, a handle. Everytime I feel like I move towards a definite goal, it shifts.
In my way of thinking, the changelog is a list of things that you [or somebody else] has done.
Going though and changing history [for lack of a better way to express it] just doesnt seem ``right'' to me.
I understand your comment that it should be fine to only change the form - I'm not so mad about it to
advocate against changing a changelog from html->text [for example].. but [imo] the text of a changelog
shouldn't be altered - if you started altering the previous changelogs, then they can loose, or gain new,
meanings.. this is definatly not good, especially where you have a document that is published [loosely
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Here im surfing the net , hearing the symphony of war ;P
War is ticking ;-)
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Me and my wife went fishing . It was FUN :) I caught one fish , and she had 3 .
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The USC/Rancho Los Amigos ARCC was established in 1985 placement at a the grounds of Rancho Los Amigos in the city of Downey at the southeastern edge of Los Angeles County. Its placement at a university-affiliated rehabilitation center gave it an ealry thrust toward improving function, supporting families, preventing secondary conditions, and utilizing team work as mainstays of care. The program has been successful in attracting many additional resources: an Ischemic Vascular Disease Program Project, an Adult Day Services Center, the McCarron Alzheimer Center and Endowed Chair, and state-funded research on caregivers.
Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center also provides services to patients and their families who don't speak English. Currently, the staff is able to easily handle Spanish- Armenian and Chinese-speaking individuals, making communications among doctors, patients, staff members, and caregivers much easier for everyone concerned. This makes for better diagnosis, treatment and recommendations for patients and their family members.
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"Darfur's combatants, particularly the Sudanese government, have effectively neutered the U.N. peacekeeping mission, undermining its capacity to fulfill its primary duty to protect nearly 2 million civilians displaced by Sudan's genocide. During the past year alone, more than 500,000 terrified men, women, and children have poured into the region's already overcrowded refugee camps."
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