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Unlike a software development agreement, your Software as a Service ("SaaS") agreement will not have detailed responsibilities for maintenance and support. However, most SaaS subscriptions these days can be easily updated to allow users to use the most up to date subscription. Users may be required to update their iPhone or Android application for the latest version or may update this software online. That being said, it is still important to outline how these updates will be undertaken and the availability of the site, appreciating that all websites do require maintenance. Other issues may cause the site or software not to function from time to time.
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You should outline in the agreement how you will be updating the software. Will the update be available via the Internet or is the user required to check for available updates to the software? You should outline in the agreement that by using and downloading the software that the user has agreed to update the software to the most up-to-date version, as this will allow full functionality. You should also outline that any updates will also be subject to the same terms as the most up to date version of your SaaS agreement.
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Although your business may not provide maintenance or troubleshooting, you should provide basic support to your users, for example assistance in changing account details. You should also provide contact details so that you can be notified of any technical difficulties that may be affecting your software.
You should also outline the availability of your website, app and software, as well as indemnify yourself against any issues that may arise if your site, software or app is not available or not working due to issues outside of your control. You should also state the time and days that the software should be available and that outside of these hours it is possible that the website, app or software will be unavailable due to maintenance or other development activity.
Notice requirements
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#12. Dona Naty's Taco
1813 W. Chicago
Torta de Milanesa
$3.49 (no extras)
Defeated #5 Taqueria Super Burrito in Round 1 [review]
Defeated #12b Carniceria Leon in Eat-in Match [review]
On its best days, Dona Naty's Taco can remind me of De Pasada. Both restaurants take their time, and put some extra care and forethought into how their food is prepared. In Dona Naty's case, that meant the spicy ground chicken mixture that made an extraordinary meal out of an ordinary chicken burrito, and the grilled onions that provided a little extra flair to its tacos al Pastor. It's those little things that had made Dona Naty's the lowest remaining seed to survive in the bracket. Unfortunately, this was not one of Dona Naty's best days.
The Food: In a word? Meh. There were no signs of Dona Naty's subtle knack for innovation in this torta. In fact, it was one of the most ordinary dishes that we've tried so far. In contrast to De Pasada, which cut its steak into individual slices and breaded each one individually, Dona Naty's reverted to the standard route of providing one big "wafer" of meat. Although the breading was reasonably good, the meat was smashed so thin that you could barely even taste the animal product. Likewise, the toppings were a little lackluster. Whereas De Pasada's torta featured fresh guacamole, Naty's had ordinary avocado. And for some reason, the combination of the avocado plus the grated cheese, both of which were at refrigerator temperature, made the torta a little cold; the idea of the hot staying hot and the cool staying cool has been a dicey proposition ever since the McDLT was launched.
The Experience: Speaking of which, Dona Naty's service can run hot-and-cold. If you'll recall from Dona Naty's eat-in match two months ago, we encountered a waitress who was a little anglophobic. Maybe that's too strong a term, but considering that she didn't even try to take my order, instead having the counter guy do her dirty work for her, I don't know how else to characterize it. That pattern completely reversed itself in our Round 1 visit, when we had a pleasant, English-speaking waitress that made us feel right at home. This time around? Back to Mrs. No Habla Inglés, and her running point with the counter guy to have him take my order. To make clear: I'm not even asking for the courtesy of a waitress who tries to speak English. Rather, I'm asking for the courtesy of a waitress who lets me try and speak Spanish. If I'm completely embarrassing myself, then you can call the counter guy over to serve as an interpreter. Again, all of this was in stark contrast to De Pasada, which has perhaps the most welcoming service of any taqueria in Chicago.
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Primordial Play
Posted by Roc in Earth Curriculum, Environment, John Dewey, Play, Primal Play, Primordial Play on January 30, 2008
The more I spend my days around five, six, and seven, year olds, the more I take notice of their great perception for "primordial play." All of those impulses, idiosyncrasies, and randomness that constitute their play are a much deeper anthropology connection then just behavior we can easily be chalked up as just imaginative play, or status quo – "aggressive play." When we stop to consider all these childlike fantasies that become the core of their ancient stories that allow their play to unfold, one may find the primordial side to play that very well has origin and shape throughout the span of history, as well… two legged beings.
The sticks and stones kids use to construct bows, arrows, spears, and daggers, on these ancient subtenant tools that go back thousands of years, become important instruments of play. And the gathering of loose straw, collecting balls in the play yard as eggs, or picking and collecting herbs to heal wombs, the erecting of forts, and collecting of flowers – and finding ways to organize the hunt and gather, become the roots of play. There interests lie in organizing, forming whimsical social gathering, all revolving around human nature. John Dewey makes implications to this primordial connection among young people in The School and Society:
Many anthropologists have told us there are certain identities in the child interests with those of primitive life. There is a sort of natural reoccurrence of the child mind to the typical activities of primitive people peoples; witness the hut which they boy likes to build in the yard, playing hunt, with bows, arrows, spears, and so on. Again the questions come: What are we to do with this interest – are we to ignore it, or just excite and draw it out? Or shall we get a hold of it and direct it to something ahead, something better?
Dewey proposes important questions for educators and parents involved in the lives of kids. This degree of play does hold meaning and value to the ones acting out these primordial like roles and it would be a crime to squelch it or make it a forbidden act, because lives inquiries, questions, and answers provide a way for kids to demystify the complexities around life.
This behavior is definitely not easy to simply ignore because the intensity may cause certain conflict to arise. Or the opposite cause and effect from primordial play is that relationships grow stronger, new understandings can be met, physical challenges can be overcome, and abstract concepts of about life in general have an area for experimentation and figuring out. Most of this type of play can clearly be observed outside in more natural setting, however it normally goes on unfettered is there is a place for it. And this sort of play does not call for a play yard in a forest as a strip of rural or urban cultivated patch of green can provide the grounds for invoking this degree of play. But over all kids willingly can transform any environment as long as patches of plants and grass exist for them to stop, sniff, dig, pick, or other wise interact with their environment, no matter the size of the outdoor space. But surely, the more space, the merrier and greater the adventures.
Tapping into kids primordial play and where those interests lie provide a wondrous position for steering further exploration into academics. For example if they are imbued with the power dynamic of winning or my be quite partial to the "battle scene" as it even sub-surfaces through their drawings, then let these primordial fascinations fuel their interests into reading and writing. If they draw a battle scene in their journal or onto a piece of people then invite them to write the word "battle" or other words that captures their interest in that present moment, while phonetically sounding out the "b" sound in "battle." Just as if another kid may be drawing bunnies or fairies, you would also encourage them to write titles or stories to compliment their images. If we can ease our tendencies towards projecting, prejudging, or stereotyping kids we can replace those initial anxieties with further opportunities for connecting with young people and assisting them with providing the means to thrive. Setting up policies at home or at school that forbid primordial play that stems from a place of "battle or hunt," only demonizes the play and entices kids to wait until adults backs may be turned before reaching for a stick or speaking in battle tongues to their buddy.
Kids have innate curiosities for the biological world and all the living components that make it up. Often their vivid imaginations turn them into fierce cats, a coyote on the run, a baby wolf puppy, a hunter, or a gatherer of plants. They want to explore the school around them, find critters in the backyard, turn over rocks, pick food from the garden, care for animals, read and look at books featuring animals, go to the zoo, visit the beach, play at the park, etc. As if innately they have a deep connection with the outside world that goes back as far as humans can rightfully project their interconnection and reliance on the natural world.
There is this inner wildness among kids this age in particular that is worthy of being preserved and recognized as an innately valuable part of identifying and experimenting with their immediate environment.
Indigenous tribes internationally have a long history of being closely related or connected with the natural world. Young people shape and construct their relationship to the natural world through the act of scaling hills, treading through mud, standing in puddles, digging in the earth, gathering stones and plants, picking plants, finding insects, pretending to be an eagle, jumping off of stumps, painting faces with clay or mud, etc. Intuitively free of any adult dispositions or anxieties they simple dive right into life.
Take for example the our connection to the horse, "a gift from the great spirit," by native Americans, carrying us great distances, used for transportation, in celebration, and for protection. For some youth the animistic sentient symbolism of the horse will ensnare their imagination, quite possible for years to come. And as the adults take notice of this, reassuring that they find all the materials or opportunities to support this interest, either by promoting horseback riding, visiting horse farms, reading about horses, sewing a horse from fabric, drawing horses, learning to spell or write a story about horses, etc. – much can blossom from a primordial connection. The child will begin to think about how the horse has helped groups of people us to fight battles, find and hunt food, and transport families over vast distances while carrying all their belongings, and a uncover a whole way of life before the rise of the automobile.
Often words pronounced or written identifying or describing animals, besides "mom, dad, ma, or pa" celebrate those intrinsic connections to animals. Animals and people tend to be also often some of the fist pictures kids draw. Many books pertaining to young are full of illustrations depicting animals or revolve around animal characters, because kids have always been able to identify closely to animalistic behaviors. Corporations such as Disney and others honed in on pitching the market at kids cashed in on this innate connection young people have to the animal world. The iconic mouse the brought millions across the country to meet Mickey and Minnie and the rest of the world of fantasia is just one pervasive example of how a young persons inner primordial fascination for the world can be exploited for profitable gain.
Not many generations ago people relied on the domestication of animals for sustenance. Today, millions of families have pets. Kids who have the responsibility of caring for pets in the home tend be nurturing and quite connected to the animal that lives in their home, often mimicking the behaviors. During play kids gravitate towards imaginative role-play where they take on animal characteristics. There is the infamous lion, the game of cat and dog, playing puppies or being coyote cubs, the dramatizing of animals is a well regarded mode of play where much is learned of the natural world and much is gained socially as they learn how to live cooperatively. The more kids gravitate towards primordial play – the more we can embrace, provide the space for it, and the resources to support their explorations of the fascination of the world around us. After all this way of play as a youngster, has been going on for countless generations.
Organized Curriculum = Classroom Management
Posted by Roc in Class Environment, Rad Stuff on July 25, 2007
Offer a whirlpool of ideas and materials that spark the continual ingenuity of young minds, and more focus and organization will ensue. Kids in a healthy, supportive environment certainly do not move at a snails pace and as educators or parents we're constantly challenged to conjure up interesting and engaging projects for them to channel their intentions and energy.
Classroom management in early childhood education begins with organized curriculum. A classroom that has a myriad of materials for young hands to help themselves, complimented by teachers that consciously follow their various needs and emerging interests, will optimize greater opportunities for learning.
One of the main aims of managing a successful classroom, comes with how well materials are presented – are accessible to teachers and students – can be quickly found with the deep layers of a teachers closet – appeal to the interests of the kids – and are developmentally appropriate, however still challenging and fun.
For example, my cohort and I in the classroom have noticed children who are partial to animal figures and are generally attracted by this fantasy play. Aware of this we decided to introduce a whole herd of animals, play trees, artificial greenery and set them up on our loft area, like a pseudo safari.
More recently, several boys and girls have taken more of an interest to playing with dolls, dressing them and carrying them in a warm sun in the play yard. Again, as teachers we decided to include stethoscopes and other medical equipment they may be entice further nurturing through socio-dramatic play.
Our jobs as educators are to pay attention to how materials are being used and to decide at one point to swap out or to present something different. Materials should always be within kid reach along shelves for practicing self-help skills, while projects themes can be presented and set-up at various tables through out the day, and later tucked away for another day. Setting up and displaying supplies for a specific project in an orderly, yet fashionable way will also tempt many little hands. A good rule of thumb is to be creative and think about how you your self would first like to be introduced to a new project.
Materials are to be used interchangeable. Preschoolers are absolutely content and thrive on diversification of materials, however they do have their favorites. And this is the simplicity of applying what educators commonly refer to as an emergent-based curriculum. There is no right or wrong way, this approach to curricula is provided on the individual and group related interests of the classroom, as each day is different.
Another good rule of thumb is to keep track of what activities or curriculum is being provided, how it is being used, who generally uses what, and at times demonstrate some appropriate ways materials can be used, while being careful not encourage any modeling, which may limit their own exploration into the project.
Our classroom layout by subject theme (i.e. art, kitchen center, dress-up, science, writing, math, etc.) is constantly changing, our shelves full of materials and stationary supplies are also weekly being recycled or restocked.
Curriculum emerges from self-directed and cooperative experiences in the classroom – a young person may short objects by color, shape, or texture, stamp alphabet letters onto paper, count beads while threading a necklace, or finding ways to balance a tower of blocks, all of these are organized acts. It was John Dewey, who advocated learning as a deeply rooted function; it is not an activity representative of a standard presented in a closed system of school. Play is then a fact of life; it is crucial to the full development. Dewey would argue for "the continuum of experience," not for instruction, but where the educator is an intricate part of providing the resource for these diverse experiences to unfold. And the most effective way for continuum of diverse experiences to unravel is through a series of proactive steps towards an organized classroom. This is how we can best manage the classroom, while we entrust the kids take full control over their own learning.
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My first contact with Scott was in July, 2014 at an arts festival. We had recently built a new house and were looking to furnish it. Seeing Scott's woodwork and his outstanding furniture on display, we opted for a new dining room table that is now the piece de resistance of our main floor. He was open and easy to work with in getting this project done.
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As you may know the carnivore and I are trying our hands at gardening for the first time this year. We have been very successful with our herb garden, but we are still waiting on our tomatoes to turn red. In the meantime, I have enjoyed a few green tomatoes. And while, like all good southerners, I do think everything is better fried. I must admit a green tomato can be great on its own. After I made a batch of fried green tomatoes the other day I had one little lonely green tomato left. This is what I did with it:
I began with some crisp romaine lettuce. I tossed about 1 1/2 cups with 1 tblsp. of horseradish mustard in a small bowl until it was well coated. I then sliced half of a small red tomato and 1/2 of a medium green tomato. I tossed these in a separate bowl with salt and pepper. The carnivore grilled some fresh corn and once it was ready I removed the corn from the cob and tossed it with the tomatoes. I grabbed a large bowl and placed the lettuce on the bottom and then topped it with the veggie mixture.
This salad was delicious. The mustard gives it a kick, but the corn keeps it sweet. The tart green tomatoes are just the right finishing touch too. Not only did it give me a filling dinner salad on a hot summer night, it also packed in a lot of vitamin C and lycopene.
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While I had this salad as my main course for dinner, the carnivore had his nearly naked chicken drummies. He kept his corn on the cob, and we both had campfire potatoes. By the way, this is a great grilling menu for when you don't want to heat up your kitchen! Of course, it can also be a nice lunch too.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
you say tomayto, i say tamahto
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Making Their Case
2/25 • We took a tour of the Spokane police evidence building today. Situated on a quiet road near the courthouse, the cinder-block building is roughly 60 years old, and in need of updating. Mayor Mary Verner and Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick are trying to drum up public support to build a new one at a cost of $11.8 million. Verner is concerned the existing premises, which are owned and maintained by Spokane County, are so dilapidated that police and sheriff's evidence could be compromised by water damage, or lost entirely. Verner said she also worries about the safety of the seven city employees who work there.
One of those employees is facilities evidence manager Shannon Hallam. Hallam says the 17,000 square-foot warehouse stores more than 140,000 pieces of evidence, much of it contained in 4,000 brown cardboard boxes that constitute the facility's general storage. "Everything from paper, clothing, pot pipes and car stereos," she says.
Entering the warehouse from the street, the aroma of pot is potent. "By the end of the day, I'm a little 'woooo,'" Hallam says of the way she feels working in an enclosed area with burlap bags of weed drying inside. Verner acknowledges the ventilation system could be better. "These are not good working conditions," she says.
Ron Oscarson, Spokane County facilities director, agrees that the building could use some work. "It's a beat-up old warehouse," he says. "On the other hand, there's certainly a lot of opportunity in terms of space and less expensive improvements to that building that could be done as well."
In the east end of the warehouse that stores bicycles and other bulky items, the ceiling and support beams are showing signs of stress, which Hallam says was exacerbated by the record snowfall this winter. And in an older part of the structure, significant water damage is visible near the ceiling and running much of the length of the building's south wall. At one point, a black tarp dangles from high above to protect evidence boxes from leaks.
Oscarson says the roof has been replaced in the last 10 years, and that a structural engineer determined that snow had not caused damage to the post-and-beam addition on the building's east end. "The east end of that building is pretty old and ugly," he says. "We've talked about it that the wooden end should be replaced."
Although the warehouse is equipped with smoke sensors and alarms, there is no sprinkler system. Looking around at all the cardboard boxes, manila storage envelopes, guns, ammo and drugs, it's easy to imagine what a fire would do to the place.
Hallam notes that the warehouse area affords only one exit—a double dead-bolted door at the end of a long corridor lined floor-to-ceiling with boxes, suitcases and countless manila envelopes.
"For a warehouse, it meets code," Oscarson says, adding the nature of the facility necessitates a limited number of entry and exit points for security purposes. He says the county offered adjacent space that would add up to 5,000 square feet to the existing floorplan and another exit option. But it's a far cry from the 35,000 square feet the city says is needed to keep up with the growing inventory of evidence.
The walk-in cooler that stores DNA and other evidence , much of it acquired through rape kits, is almost full. Some of that evidence dates to the early 1970s, which means the statute of limitations for prosecuting such decades-old rapes has long expired. Hallam says city prosecutors and detectives have asked that it be stored, hoping that new technologies and scientific advances will lead to a break in some cases. "It's my job to hang onto it," she says.
But the most troubling space issue, Hallam says, involves homicide evidence, which can require storage of hundreds of items in multiple boxes. The city recently amended its storage policy for all homicide evidence, requiring it to be warehoused until the suspect or defendant is deceased.
The proposed new facility, which city of Spokane residents must vote to fund through a property tax increase, would include 35,000 square feet of warehouse space in a new location on Normandie Street. The new building would allow detectives to pull their cars into a secure location inside the facility to offload evidence. Currently, they pull up curbside to the warehouse and enter from the street.
Hallam says the new facility would be large enough to contain existing and new inventory for the next 15 to 20 years. Approximately 1,000 combined square-feet of energy-efficient freezer and cooler space would store the rape kits and other DNA evidence, and a 500 square-foot drug vault would provide ample room for the $2 million in controlled substances the existing facility now stores in a space half that size. Verner acknowledges the proposed $11.8 million facility is the most expensive piece of the $18.5 million public safety facilities bond. "But it's important, even in these economic times, so we're asking voters to move forward," she says.


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Role of the Department of Environmental Affairs
All of us need to be healthy as far as our physique is concerned. However, we see many people suffering from one type of disease or the other that sometimes leaves them bedridden and also leads to the sad demise too in certain cases. Ailments are caused due to many reasons including the atmosphere that is polluted badly due to the carelessness of the citizens, industrialists and other particular reasons. That's where the Department of Environmental Affairs comes to the rescue of the citizens by laying down the policies to save the environment from pollution. Different steps taken by this governmental wing are mentioned below that help to keep the environment free from pollution.
Educate people – The Department of Environmental Affairs hires the services of prominent educationists and professionals to educate the people about the benefits of clean environment. Equipped with the expert knowledge about environment, these wise people guide the people about the dangers of environmental-pollution to human physique. Different programs through audio and visual programs are conducted by this department to inform the society about cleanliness in all respects. Special events and schemes are chalked out for the benefit of the people who carry with them the exclusive knowledge about environmental cleanliness.
Identification/prioritization– The Department of Environmental Affairs identifies the particular areas that are prone to pollution. It may be air pollution or water pollution. Few traders may be creating pollution while the Skip Hire Service providers including the Skip hire Kingston could also be the solid reason for pollution. After doing so, this authority takes on priority the issues related with the possible polluted areas that need to be addressed.
Action plan – This is followed by the suitable action plans for relieving the polluted areas from the ill effects of pollution of different types, i.e. water or air pollution etc.
Apt strategies – The Department of Environmental Affairs formulates the suitable strategies for all concerned that have to follow the same for the sake of the masses that must be saved from pollution. It asks the industries and other related entrepreneurs to initiate preventive measures to safeguard the environment from any type of pollution. Same way, the shipping / airline companies are also subject to the guidelines set by this department.
Anti-pollution devices: Installation of standard anti-pollution devices is a must for all companies and manufacturing units as per the guidelines of the Department of Environmental Affairs. This authority ensures that no unit lags behind in doing so and takes legal actions against the defaulters many of whom have to face fines and jails too.
File cases – If this government department finds that some person or the industry is creating pollution, it files cases against them and calls the concerned persons to its office. They are issued show cause notices followed by strict actions with the motive to advise them to take precautionary steps to keep away the pollution.
God has blessed this beautiful world with different types of living creatures and human beings are considered as the superlative. This particular wing of the government saves them from environmental-pollution that is dangerous for them.
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Sunday, February 17
Contact Paper Snowflakes (and indoor play photos)
Did you know that clear contact paper looks frosted on a window? I didn't until I read it on a home decorating blog. I had some clear contact paper left over from a long time ago and used it to cut some snowflakes to stick on our playroom door.
Cutting the folded contact paper was too difficult for my children to do, but they do enjoy seeing them on the glass.
One afternoon my daughters spent a long time building with legos and blocks. They were so happily engaged. My daughters love the Friends Legos and for Christmas got a few sets. Legos are one of the few plastic toys I don't mind in the house.
They still use the duplo legos as well. They are great for starting lego play because the pieces are so big and easier to put together and take apart.
Good Old Block Building "Roads"
Bridges, roads and houses.
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What the world is that gorgeous ramp thingy? Did they make it from blocks? It looks like something that has a grown up use!
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Lovely! We have made plenty of snowflakes out of paper and taped them to the windows but I like the idea of contact paper :)
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The ramps come from Community Playthings company. They are called"Hollow Blocks" and they come in preschool or toddler (smaller) size. I have seen that some people make their own hollow blocks too. They are giant and heavy and make for some big fun.
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Since mid-May the number of MERS cases reported by Saudi Arabia has fallen sharply, mostly due to a lack of any recent hospital-related outbreaks.
Sporadic community acquired cases continue to appear however, with two new ones reported today.
The case today in Madinah is attributed to indirect camel contact, and we'll have to wait for clarification on that - but as happens with so many other primary cases - the source of infection for the Riyadh case is unknown.
One of the big unanswered questions about the MERS coronavirus is what role – if any – do asymptomatically infected individuals play in the spread of the virus? While unproven, we've seen some evidence suggest they could be a factor (see Study: Possible Transmission From Asymptomatic MERS-CoV Case).
Last November's EID Journal: Risk Factors For Primary MERS-CoV Infection, Saudi Arabia found camel exposure a significant factor for infection, but that many community cases had no obvious exposure risk. They wrote:
Other potential explanations of MERS-CoV illness in primary case-patients who did not have direct contact with dromedaries include unrecognized community exposure to patients with mild or subclinical MERS-CoV infection or exposure to other sources of primary MERS-CoV infection not ascertained in our study.
But for a large proportion of community acquired cases, the source of infection remains a mystery.


text: Main Content House Bill 4155 (2013) rss? friendly link printer friendly Friendly Link: http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?2013-HB-4155 Public Act 204 of 2014 (Effective: 12/21/2014) Find this PA in the MCL Sponsors Aric Nesbitt (district 66)Bob Genetski, Peter Pettalia, Ben Glardon, Tom Leonard, Martin Howrylak, Greg MacMaster, Mike Shirkey, Bruce R. Rendon, Joel Johnson, Frank Foster, Bill Rogers (click name to see bills sponsored by that person) Categories Weapons: licensing; Civil rights: public records; Weapons: concealed; Weapons: firearms; Weapons; licensing; certain firearm licensing information; require certain procedures for access and disclosure. Amends sec. 5e of 1927 PA 372 (MCL 28.425e). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5325'14, HB 5328'14, SB 0049'13, SB 0834'14, SB 0881'14 Bill Documents Bill Document Formatting Information [x] The following bill formatting applies to the 2013-2014 session:- New language in an amendatory bill will be shown in BOLD AND UPPERCASE.- Language to be removed will be stricken.- Amendments made by the House will be blue with square brackets, such as: [House amended text].- Amendments made by the Senate will be red with double greater/lesser than symbols, such as: <<Senate amended text>>. (gray icons indicate that the action did not occur or that the document is not available) Documents House Introduced Bill Introduced bills appear as they were introduced and reflect no subsequent amendments or changes. As Passed by the House As Passed by the House is the bill, as introduced, that includes any adopted House amendments. As Passed by the Senate As Passed by the Senate is the bill, as received from the House, that includes any adopted Senate amendments. House Concurred Bill Concurred bill is the version passed in identical form by both houses of the Legislature, issued prior to availability of the Enrolled bill. Public Act Public Act is a bill that has become law. Bill Analysis House Fiscal Agency Analysis House Committee Summary (02-19-14)This document analyzes: HB4155, HB5324, HB5325, HB5326, HB5327, HB5328, HB5329 Analysis as Reported From Committee (03-12-14)This document analyzes: HB4155, HB5324, HB5325, HB5326, HB5327, HB5328, HB5329 Analysis as Enacted (10-24-14)This document analyzes: HB4155, HB5325, HB5328, SB0049, SB0834, SB0881 Senate Fiscal Analysis SUMMARY OF INTRODUCED BILL IN COMMITTEE (Date Completed: 3-25-14)This document analyzes: SB0834, SB0881, HB4155, HB5325, HB5327, HB5328 SUMMARY OF BILL REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE (Date Completed: 4-23-14)This document analyzes: SB0834, SB0881, HB4155, HB5325, HB5327, HB5328 ANALYSIS AS ENACTED (Date Completed: 7-30-14)This document analyzes: SB0049, SB0834, SB0881, HB4155, HB5325, HB5328 History (House actions in lowercase, Senate actions in UPPERCASE) Date JournalAction 1/31/2013HJ 8 Pg. 105introduced by Representative Aric Nesbitt 1/31/2013HJ 8 Pg. 105read a first time 1/31/2013HJ 8 Pg. 105referred to Committee on Judiciary 2/5/2013HJ 9 Pg. 111printed bill filed 02/01/2013 2/27/2014HJ 23 Pg. 269reported with recommendation with substitute H-3 2/27/2014HJ 23 Pg. 269referred to second reading 3/12/2014HJ 28 Pg. 382read a second time 3/12/2014HJ 28 Pg. 382substitute H-3 adopted 3/12/2014HJ 28 Pg. 382placed on third reading 3/13/2014HJ 29 Pg. 399read a third time 3/13/2014HJ 29 Pg. 399passed; given immediate effect Roll Call # 105 Yeas 81 Nays 28 3/13/2014HJ 29 Pg. 399title amended 3/13/2014HJ 29 Pg. 399transmitted 3/18/2014SJ 28 Pg. 387REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY 4/23/2014SJ 35 Pg. 572REPORTED FAVORABLY WITH SUBSTITUTE S-2 4/23/2014SJ 35 Pg. 572COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED IMMEDIATE EFFECT 4/23/2014SJ 35 Pg. 572REFERRED TO COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE WITH SUBSTITUTE S-2 6/4/2014SJ 53 Pg. 930REPORTED BY COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE FAVORABLY WITH SUBSTITUTE S-2 6/4/2014SJ 53 Pg. 930SUBSTITUTE S-2 CONCURRED IN 6/4/2014SJ 53 Pg. 930PLACED ON ORDER OF THIRD READING WITH SUBSTITUTE S-2 6/4/2014SJ 53 Pg. 946RULES SUSPENDED 6/4/2014SJ 53 Pg. 946PLACED ON IMMEDIATE PASSAGE 6/4/2014SJ 53 Pg. 948PASSED; GIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT ROLL CALL # 367 YEAS 29 NAYS 8 EXCUSED 1 NOT VOTING 0 6/4/2014HJ 54 Pg. 1071returned from Senate with substitute S-2 with immediate effect 6/4/2014HJ 54 Pg. 1071laid over one day under the rules 6/10/2014HJ 56 Pg. 1117Senate substitute S-2 concurred in 6/10/2014HJ 56 Pg. 1117 Roll Call # 368 Yeas 81 Nays 28 6/10/2014HJ 56 Pg. 1117bill ordered enrolled 7/16/2014HJ 59 Pg. 1589presented to the Governor 6/13/2014 @ 2:34 PM 7/16/2014HJ 59 Pg. 1600approved by the Governor 6/24/2014 @ 4:16 PM 7/16/2014HJ 59 Pg. 1600filed with Secretary of State 6/24/2014 @ 5:04 PM 7/16/2014HJ 59 Pg. 1600assigned PA 204'14 with immediate effect


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Back seat passenger seat belt requirement sent to governor
Posted by Todd Wilson at 8:05 p.m.
SPRINGFIELD --- Back seat passengers would be required to wear seat belts under a measure the Illinois Senate sent to the governor Friday.
If it becomes law, police will be able to stop vehicles if they notice any passenger isn't wearing a seat belt. Anyone not wearing one would face a $25 fine.
Exempted from the bill: Passengers in the back seat of taxis or emergency vehicles, such as police cars and ambulances.
If Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn signs the proposal, Illinois will join 11 other states, including Indiana, Minnesota and California, that require all passengers in a car to wear seat belts.
Senate President John Cullerton, who sponsored the bill, told lawmakers that by voting for the measure they would be "saving lives."
Cullerton, D-Chicago, has long pushed traffic safety measures. A spokesman said Cullerton authored the state's first mandatory seat belt law during the 1980s. He also pushed legislation requiring young children to ride in car seats.
Sen. Kirk Dillard, R-Hinsdale, voted against the seat-belt-in-the-back-seat measure, saying he felt it was another example of "Big Brother" government telling people what to do. Dillard said he always tries to wear a seat belt when he rides in the back seat, but it's not always possible.
"Sometimes people hop in the back seat for a short ride, and yes that can be dangerous, but the seat belt might be jammed under the seat and there are practical problems," Dillard said. "Everybody should buckle up in the backseat, but they should do it of their own free will and when it's practical."
See how your state senator voted today HERE.
See how your state representative voted on May 5 HERE.


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A Diagnosis Depends on Subjective Report
The diagnosis of depression or bipolar disorder will be made largely upon the subjective report of the individual when they go to see a mental health professional for the first session. Often referred to as an "intake interview" or the "initial evaluation," this session is first and foremost an information-gathering session for the clinician. Gathering information about you, your history and your symptoms helps the clinician make a more reliable diagnosis.
For instance, if a person is depressed and goes to the first session complaining of depression, the clinician will ask questions to see if they've ever experienced anything that might be considered a manic or hypomanic episode. If they do not find such an episode in the individual's history, they are likely to diagnose the individual with a type of depression or depressive disorder (the exact diagnosis will depend on the individual's history).
If, on the other hand, the individual reports they have experienced manic (or hypomanic) episodes in the past, a bipolar diagnosis is more likely. There may be other factors that affect the diagnosis beyond the simple lists of symptoms above. The clinician, however, is trained to ask you the right questions to ensure they arrive at the most accurate diagnosis.
Great, I've Been Diagnosed. Now What?
Once properly diagnosed with bipolar disorder or depression, an individual will be prescribed a course of treatment consistent with their own unique needs, background, and severity of the disorder. In both cases, a course of medications and psychotherapy is likely to be recommended, as the combination of the two seems to be the most effective in helping most people feel better more quickly.
While some bipolar medications may begin working within a few weeks, medications that work on depressive feelings generally take longer for most people to feel their full therapeutic effects. Research has shown that this period of time can be anywhere from 6 to 8 weeks for most people who take antidepressant medications. In the meantime, a person is generally prescribed a course of psychotherapy to help deal with the depression with other methods (such as cognitive-behavioral therapy and techniques).
Most people diagnosed with either bipolar disorder or depression generally feel better within a few months and many people can safely discontinue treatment with their doctor's recommendation within a year. The actual length of treatment varies widely, however, based upon the severity of the disorder, the effectiveness of the treatment for that individual, and other factors.


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Townie Go! could be the e-bike for the rest of us
Take the easy-riding Townie Balloon bicycle. Add an electric pedal-assist 'jet pack'. Voila. You have a city cycle made to take hills with ease and provide a little extra power at intersections.
Will this be the bike that kick-starts a needed city e-bike revolution in the United States?
Since the advent of New York's bike share, of course, the aura around city biking is changing, and that's great.
But it seems that few people, and fewer women, have yet realized how much an electric assist bike can overcome some of the obstacles that stop them from biking in the first place.
That little bit of extra power that pedal-assist in a bicycle provides can be experience changing. For example, the hills of San Francisco no longer seem like a huge drag. While as a rider you continue to get the benefits of being in motion, you don't break into a terrible sweat - literally or figuratively - even though your daily ride might have a big incline or two.
In addition, electric assist gives city bikers a little extra oomph where they need it most - at intersections. Having the ability to go as fast as a stopped car after a stop sign is a big boost for self-confidence in riding.
Last but not least, an electric-assist bicycle makes it less tiring to accomplish all of the tasks that multi-tasking mamas and papas do in the course of a day, and helps you move stuff, including the kids, around with ease.
The Electra Townie Go! isn't transformative in terms of basic pedal-assist technology. It's got a rear-wheel hub motor, and a boxy battery that slides under the back rack (it is cool that the back light rotates in order to let a cyclist easily remove the battery box). The bikes look a lot like Pedego electric assist cycles, which have been around for awhile. The price: $2,200. The range: Around 30 miles.
Electra says the Go! has a much more integrated and streamlined design:
" it's an integrated system from top to bottom. The bike was designed from the ground up around the patented Townie Flat Foot Technology - a design that allows rider to sit up, see where they're going AND when it's time to stop the rider can put at least one foot flat on the ground for safety. The SRAM E-matic drivetrain and battery are purpose designed and built for the Townie Go!, there aren't any aftermarket parts that are bolted on, like the majority of "electric" bikes. A further example of the "integration" is an internally wired lighting system that turns itself on as soon as the bike begins to roll and turns itself off a few moments after the bike stops rolling. In addition, there's no need for a throttle or LCD gear /power display because the system is so simple and smart that it monitors itself." – Jackson Lynch, marketing and communications, Electra Bikes
And there is a way that Electra's Townie Go! will help hasten the uptake of e-bikes, and that's in bike shop distribution. One of the main drawbacks for an interested e-bike purchaser is that regular bike shops haven't been too successful, or really too interested, in selling e-bikes. Many cycling enthusiasts think of e-bikes as 'cheaters' and because of their higher price tag and unique servicing needs, haven't been eager to have e-bikes in their stores.
If Electra is successful in getting its distributors to take on and really sell the Townie Go! that will be a significant leap forward in getting e-bike technology out to more city cyclists.
After all, the pundits say that millions more of us in North American will be riding e-bikes by 2020.


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CS 193P: iPhone and iPad Application Programming
Tools and APIs required to build applications for the iPhone and iPad platforms using the iOS SDK. User interface design for mobile devices and unique user interactions using multi-touch technologies. Object-oriented design using model-view-controller paradigm, memory management, Objective-C programming language. Other topics include: object-oriented database API, animation, mobile device power management, multi-threading, networking and performance considerations. Prerequisites: C language and object-oriented programming experience exceeding 106B or X level. Previous completion of any one of the following is required: CS 107, 108 (preferred) or 110. Recommended: UNIX, graphics, databases.
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Join us on Monday, March 14th, from 5:00pm-7:00pm for a fun night at the Nature Center… for adults! Grab a friend or date and join us for wine, snowshoeing and yoga. Enjoy the outdoors with a guided snowshoe hike, and then head inside for a short yoga class hosted by Youthwise Yoga instructors Abby Joy Havill and Aven Purcell.
Local wine will be served. Feel free to bring your own snowshoes and yoga mat. We will have snow shoes on hand (a limited quantity). Drop-ins are welcome, but registration is encouraged. Register here today!


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Dvořák, the Moldau, and the Cubists
The Czech capital Prague – with its hundred spires, its music, and its beer – is a magical city waiting for one more tourist
The only time you can see Prague's Charles Bridge is at dawn. At all other times of day it is hidden by a mighty stream of tourists, as well as trinket vendors, buskers and reputedly, the occasional pickpocket. But at daybreak, the beauty of the mediaeval bridge, built in the second half of the 14th century, is breath-taking. It is empty and quiet, cloaked in the mist rising from the Vltava River below. The expanse of paving stones seems a mystical link between the two sides of the sleeping city; the rows of saintly, silent statues on either side seem to watch and wait.
As the river moves slowly below, the undulating melody of The Moldau floats through my head, Czech composer Bedřich Smetana's symphonic tribute to the Vltava, often better known by its German name, Moldau.
But a mere two hours later, the world has arrived. The Vltava continues its graceful curve through the city, with the castle and St. Vitus' Cathedral high above the left bank, the city's spires – claimed to number a hundred – on the right. But the diesel engines of sight-seeing boats have smothered the river's melody. And the bridge's 600-year-old stones have surrendered themselves to the onslaught of thousands per hour.
Prague has become a tourist trap. Its best-known sights – the Old Town, the Jewish quarter, the castle hill – are all burdened with souvenir shops, fast food joints, and huge numbers of camera-wielding culture vultures. On some streets, the currency changers, "authentic" Czech restaurants, and stores of gaudy glassware seem never-ending.
Antonín Dvořák – a Czech native son
Each September, though, the scene changes slightly, with the Dvořák International Music Festival, this year from 8 – 22 September, with a total of 20 concerts. As the festival's name implies, works by Antonín Dvořák predominate. The traditional opening is his ninth symphony, performed this year by the Orchestre Philharmonique Luxembourg. Also guesting will be Zubin Mehta with the Staatskapelle Dresden, and the Youth Orchestra of Caracas.
The orchestra "in residence" is the splendid Czech Philharmonic, performing core concerts from 14 – 16 September and the final evening on the 22nd. Tickets are reasonable, from €6 to €65. Young listeners (under 26) pay only €4 (Kč99) for the entire festival.
Prague's main concert venue, the Rudolfinum, after Austria's (and Bohemia's) Crown Prince Rudolph, contains Dvořák Hall, where Dvořák himself conducted the inaugural concert of the Czech Phil in 1896. The hall, with its lovely Neo-Renaissance gold and floral ceiling and slightly fan-shaped seating, has excellent acoustics and good proximity to the performers.
But of course there are other reasons to go to Prague. For example, the sidewalks. Here they reveal centuries of geometric inspiration: small white, black and red cobblestones forming continual variations of checkerboards, zigzags, and diamonds.
You also might go to shop along the Na Příkopě, Prague's Graben. In Friedrich Torberg's Tante Jolesch, a wonderful collection of anecdotes about the (bourgeois Jewish) world between the wars in Vienna and Prague, it is described as a place to promenade, with a highly refined codex of whom to greet or not to greet. Today the pedestrian street has been taken over by tiresomely familiar names (H&M, Zara, Benetton) and is thronged with tourists. So look up: Ignore the masses and admire the architecture.
Buildings and beer
Prague is an urban collage of magnificent buildings. Particularly striking are the examples of Czech Cubism, a style prickling with points and crystalline shapes that had a meteoric rise and fall in the 1910s. In Old Town there is a small Cubism museum (Ovocný 19) in the handsome House of the Black Madonna, designed by Czech architect Josef Gočár as a department store. The magnificent Grand Café Orient on the bel étage reopened after eight decades in 2005, and is Cubist down to the coat hooks and the vase of (angular) magenta lilies. In the same building is the store Kubista where you can buy a map leading you to all of Cubist Prague.
And then there is the beer: The Czechs are famous for their pivo. While there are plenty of chic restaurants and bars, it's best to go to a traditional Czech pub, a pivnice. Beer in Prague often costs less than a Coke, and most has merely 3 per cent to 4 per cent alcohol, like cider. Which means a normal glass, half a litre, can leave you refreshingly tipsy, but far from sloshed.
I have three favourite pubs, full of locals, and mostly men. But despite being a single woman, I received a friendly welcome and generally fell into a comfortable conversation. The tables are long, the benches crowded, and there's not much in the way of food (there are no English menus anyway). But the beer is delicious and cheap (0.5 litre about Kč28, or €1.10).
U Černého vola ("At the Black Ox") is up by the castle (Loretánské nám. 107/1). The sign is simple and there are no sidewalk tables outside, so it's easy to miss. It nearly closed last year, but luckily a petition made the owner change his mind. "At the Hippo", U Hrocha (Thunovská 184/20), is a hole in the wall directly under the castle, on a quiet side street near the parliament. It seems full of regulars, but when you come twice, the guy serving beer smiles: He already knows you. The third is U Zlatého Tygra ("At the Golden Tiger") in Old Town (Husova 17). If you arrive when they open at 15:00, you might get a seat. Learn how to say "hello" (dobrý den) and "thank you" (děkuji) and you should have a great time.
Enough beer? Right across the street from the Tiger is (according to locals) the best zmrzlina in town. Don't worry, that's ice cream (Cremeria Milano, Husova 12). And a café scene also exists – not quite as pervasive as in Vienna, but nice all the same. Indeed, at the turn of the last century, Vienna and Prague were close sisters: A third of Prague's population spoke German, and up to a quarter of Vienna spoke Czech.
Café Slavia, on Národní Třída, is across from the golden-roofed National Theatre at the river. Its Art Deco interior, with massive amounts of wood veneer, is gorgeous. Across the river is Café Savoy (Vítězná 5). Its beautiful ceilings were thankfully protected by a dropped ceiling for over eighty years. They were re-found and renovated only in the last decade.
Tourist-free history
There are a couple of traditional scenic viewpoints: the two fortified hills, Pražský hrad (Prague Castle) and Vyšehrad (the seat of the earliest Czech kings). But go to the National Monument on Vitkov Hill. Built between 1925 and 1932, it is guarded by a colossal equestrian statue of a 15th-century Czech hero; inside is the museum of modern Czech history. Despite English labels and an original of the Charter 77, the exhibit can be confusing. But the roof has a 360° viewing platform and a terrace café. Empty, breezy and pleasant, and no tourists!
Yes, please, prosím, that's just what I'm looking for.
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Curcumin is the main component of the spice plant turmeric, which is used in curry and also for medicinal purposes. It is a water soluble orange-yellow colored powder. Up until 2009, curcumin was extracted from the dried roots of turmeric plants by a process called liquid solid extraction. But in a study reported in 2009 in "National Product Communications," researchers found that a better method, one that uses ultrasound in the extraction process, had been discovered.
Liquid Solid Extraction
In liquid solid extraction, a solvent is added to a solid, such as a turmeric root. As the website DSB science explains, insoluble material is separated by gravity or vacuum filtration, and soluble material, in this case curcumin, is "extracted" in the solvent. A sequence of solvents can be used to separate complex mixtures into separate groups. The filtered solution can then be used as a liquid or the solvent can be evaporated to recover the extracted material in powder or crystalline form.
Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction
In 2009, the U.S. National Library of Medicine website, PubMed, published an abstract from a study conducted at Jadavpur University in India. The abstract discussed an effective alternative to the liquid solid extraction of curcumin. Researchers discovered that the ulitilization of ultrasound in extracting curcumin was not only much quicker--70 minutes as opposed to many hours--the extraction could be done with greater recovery of curcumin on a more consistent basis. "This study clearly shows that this method can be effectively utilized for cutting down long extraction times of botanicals to just a few minutes without the aid of heat," the study authors reported.
Quicker and better extraction methods of curcumin will aid research into the medicinal uses of curcumin and turmeric. According to Medline Plus, curcumin has already demonstrated antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral and antifungal properties. To take one example, curcumin has been found to inhibit the growth of the Helicobacter pylori bacteria, which has been linked to gastric ulcers and gastric cancer.
Medical Uses
In October, 2010, it was reported that curcumin, when combined with the drug cisplatin, "enhances chemotherapy's suppression of head and neck cancer cell growth." The study, conducted by researchers Eric Srivatsan and Marilene Wong, who have investigated curcumin's anti-cancer properties for six years, builds on previous research demonstrating curcumin's ability to suppress growth of other cancers.
Curcumin and turmeric are being studied for their effectiveness against a wide range of other conditions, ranging from arthritis to Alzheimer's disease, according to Medline Plus.
Curcumin is used as a coloring agent in many foods, including mustard, margarine, processed cheese, curry powder, soft drinks, cakes and candy. Women in India have long used turmeric as an anti-aging lotion, for cramps and as an additive in cosmetics.
Turmeric is likely safe when used in food. It is possibly safe when used in medicinal amounts, although side effects can include nausea or diarrhea. Pregnant women should not take curcumin, because it could cause a miscarriage.


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Friday, April 20, 2018
Today, small steps instead of an "easier, softer way" – giant leaps toward the goal of recovery. Alcoholism and its physical, emotional and spiritual diseases developed over time, and their solution is likely to take as much if not more time. But impatience is a characteristic of most alcoholics, and it cannot be allowed to tempt us to take the short route through the steps toward sobriety. Failing to give full and complete attention to each step may set us up for frustration and disappointment – and together they put us at risk for a slip or relapse. Today, wisdom of patience in taking the steps one by one and understanding that it is through working them that we earn what we pursue. And our common journey continues. Step by step. – Chris M., 2018


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Admitted Health Insurance?
By Alex Routh
Almost all insurance policies are admitted. That means companies are licensed and registered in the place where they sell policies. For example, if you buy car insurance for a Mexican car, you would have to buy it from a Mexican car insurer. You couldn't buy it from an American provider.
Almost all health insurance policies are admitted as well. In Mexico you could buy one from a local broker. If you were living in the USA, insurers are admitted in every State, which is why Blue Cross for example, is separately incorporated in almost all States. Every State has laws prohibiting non-admitted outside insurers, selling to their residents. Indeed, the USA for insurance purposes is like 50 separate countries. US medical insurers, in order to prevent other State regulators from fining them, have rules limiting your cover if you are not resident in that home State for 6 months per year. If they limit cover in this way, then they can make the argument to other State regulators that they are not insuring people in other States, and thus avoid million dollar fines and regulatory scrutiny.
So between countries and US States, there are barriers to portability of insurance policies caused by regulation and sovereignty. This can be avoided in the case of a car since you can import the car, and license it in the new country, or sell the one car and buy a new one if you move. For health insurance, when you live in two jurisdictions like Mexico and the USA, or live in one and want to return for medical treatment to the other, things become difficult. A Mexican policy would not let you return to the USA for treatment and force you to buy travel insurance when on a trip home. The catch is you generally can't buy travel insurance to travel in your home country! US domestic policies restrict your time in other jurisdictions, have residency requirements, or limit the benefits abroad and are expensive! What can you do?
You can consider an international non-admitted health insurance policy. There are about 30 products, mostly British, but about 5 specialty American providers. The big names Blue Cross and Aetna, are generally only interested in group plans for American employee groups abroad. The US industry for individuals got its start insuring tens of thousands of missionaries. Every church sponsors 2 or 3 missionaries which makes a lot of bodies needing international medical insurance. On the back of this missionary business there are good inexpensive solutions allowing you full cover in Mexico (or anywhere you want) and return access for treatment to US hospitals. For the American providers the catch is you must have a residential address outside if the USA and you must live outside of the USA for 6 months per year cumulatively. So you can have international portable health insurance and the best of both worlds.
Cabo residents should consider one of these policies not only because they are cheaper than a domestic US policy, but because they are really international and allow you to live outside the USA. If you have any questions e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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East Cambridge Savings Bank in Massachusetts is offering a $ 100 business checking account bonus for new business customers.
East Cambridge Savings Bank has branches in Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, Medford, Somerville, and Waltham in Massachusetts.
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Get this ECSB $ 100 Business Checking Offer when you open a No Hidden Fees Business Checking Account.
This No Hidden Fees Business Checking offer applies to Massachusetts businesses only that do not currently have an existing East Cambridge Savings Bank businesss checking account.
The minimum deposit to open the account is $ 10.
To receive the $ 100 American Express Gift Card bonus:
1. The account must be opened with a Business Debit Mastercard and Business Online Banking.
2. The account must not have a negative balance and must be active for 90 days with a minimum of 3 transactions per month.
Transactions include checks paid, ACH debits, ATM withdrawals, debit card/point-of-sale transactions, and deposited items.
Within 14 days of meeting the requirements, you will be notified by phone where to pick up the gift card.
There is a limit of 1 bonus per business entity.
There is a limit of 1 account per business.
This offer is not valid on Trust accounts.
Massachusetts residents may also be interested in this Watertown Savings Bank Checking Promotion to earn additional new account bonuses.
Open a business checking account with East Cambridge Savings Bank to earn $ 100 in bonus rewards.


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Lawyer for Ex-SEAL Responds to Defense Department
Mark Owen and his lawyer, Robert Luskin, have responded to the Defense Department letter claiming the ex-SEAL author had breached a non-disclosure agreement he signed while on active duty in 2007.
In the response letter, Luskin argues that the non-disclosure "by no means requires Mr. Owen to submit materials for pre-publication review." He also states that the subject of the book could not "conceivably be encompassed" by that agreement.
Owen is the pseudonym of an ex-Navy SEAL who penned the book detailing the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden titled, "No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy Seal."
The Defense Department sent the letter Thursday. It stated that the non-disclosure stood in effect "even after you left the active duty Navy."
Read Luskin's response the the Defense Department after the jump.


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The 5th graders recently finished their Doodle 4 Google entries. Each year we participate in this national competition (more information can be found at the official site), submit our entries and even have our own little competition!
For the "in-house" contest, the finished doodles are put on display outside of the art room. And for a week or so, the members of the church and school are called upon to vote for their favorite entry! The winner is announced in front of the school and receives a $20 gift card to Micheal's.
This year's theme was: "If I Could Invent One Thing to Make the World a Better Place…"
Below are some of the entries, including this year's winner: "A Closet of Clothes for Those in Need" (first image)
Didn't they do a great job?


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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
A Collector Collects- -Peanuts Halloween
My biggest collection outside of sports cards is of all kinds of Peanuts items. Here are a bunch of them with the Halloween theme.
PVC Figures
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Blow Out the Candles October 31
Orioles great
Dave Mcnally
was born on this date in 1942.
1971 Topps #320
Dave was part of the great starting rotation for the Baltimore in the 60's and early 70's. He was 4-2 with a 2.34 ERA in 4 World Series. Lifetime, in 14 seasons he was 184-119 with a 3.24 ERA.
"Dave (McNally) was an unbelievable competitor. He did it with cunning and intelligence. He loved to set you up with a change, fool you with that tremendous curve and then throw the fastball by you. Plus, he was 100% gentleman. He was the kind of guy you wanted your son to be." - Hall of Famer Earl Weaver
McNally and Palmer in their classic Orioles uniforms.
Eric Nesterenko turns 79 today. He played 16 seasons for the Blackhawks and was a member of the Stanley Cup Championship team in 1961.
2006/07 Parkhurst #81
Eric getting a stick in the head courtesy of one Maurice "Rocket" Richard
Black eyed Nesterenko and the always excited Golden Jet.
Phil Goyette
also turns 79 . He played 16 years in the NHL and was lucky enough to be on Stanley Cup winners with Montreal his first four.
1969-70 Topps #21
One of the more unflattering cards you'll see. This being Halloween, add a few scars to his face and a couple of bolts to his neck and --- you get the picture.
Michael Collins
turns 82 today. Mr. Collins was the command module captain on the Apollo 11 mission which landed the first men on the moon. He's one of only 24 humans who have flown to the moon and back.
Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin
Brian-Doyle Murray
is celebrating his 67th birthday today.
Brian is the older brother of Bill Murray.
Of his many roles I remember him best as the bubble boy's father on Seinfeld, and the Mayor of Punxsutawney in
Groundhog Day
Lastly, folk singer/songwriter,
Tom Paxton
turns 75 today.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Blow Out the Candles October 30
Phillies HOFer
Big Ed Delehanty
was born in Cleveland, Ohio on this date in 1867.
Ed's career batting average of .346 is 5th all-time.
"When you pitch to (Ed) Delahanty, you just want to shut your eyes, say a prayer and chuck the ball. The Lord only knows what'll happen after that." - Crazy Schmit in Autumn Glory (Louis P. Masur, 2003)
Ed batted .346 lifetime. In a game against the White Sox on July 13, 1896 he hit 4 home runs. The Phillies still lost 9-8. It seems a little unfair since there were five Delahanty's , but only three brother combos have had more combined hits. Ed died on July 2, 1903 when he fell (?) off the International Bridge near Niagra Falls.Here's his obituary from the New York Times.
Another member of the Hall of Fame,
Bill Terry
of the New York Giants, was born in Atlanta, Georgia on this date in 1898.
2004 Fleer Greats #12
Bill was the last NL player to hit over .400 in a season, .401 in 1930. Terry finished his 14 year career with 2193 hits and a.341 batting average. He was on three pennant winners and won one World Series.
Braves great
Joe Adcock
was born in Coushatta, Louisiana on this date in 1927.
2005 UD Classics #50
OK, what are the odds of this? Only fifteen players in major league history have hit 4 home runs in one game and two of them were born on October 30. Joe accomplished the rare feat on July 31, 1954.
Jim Perry
is celebrating his 77th birthday today
2001 Topps Archives #542
While not a HOFer like his younger brother Gaylord, Jim had a great career. He won a Cy Young and was a three time All-Star. His lifetime record was 215-174. Their combined 529 wins is just 10 behind the record held by Phil and Joe Niekro.
English impressionist artist
Alfred Sisley
was born on this date in 1839.
Portrait of Alfred Sisley by Renoir
Here are a few of his works:
This painting,
Regatta at Molesey
so impressed fellow artist Gustave Caillebotte that he purchased it for his personal collection. Caillebotte is famous for his "Rainy Day Paris" (below)
If you live in or near Chicago or plan to visit you can see this great painting (a print of which hangs above our fireplace) as well as the Sisley below.
Today is also
Henry Winkler's
birthday. "The Fonz"is celebrating bis 67th birthday today. "Aaay"
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As soon as the snow melts and the warm summer months are amongst us, grilling starts taking priority when it comes to cooking. A barbecue can be enjoyed by a single individual, the whole family, or as a party with friends and family, but without the perfect grill, none of this is possible. With a few easy tips, you can be on your way to purchasing the best grill that suits your needs.
Decide On The Fuel You Wish To UseWhen it comes to buying a grill, one of the first things that you will come across is there are many different types. There are so many different types of grills available you actually can not even begin to count them on your fingers and toes combined. There are grills that use wood chips, grills that use gas, grills that use charcoal and grills that use electricity. Each kind of fuel has its own benefits, so it is up to the consumer to decide which would be best.
Grills that use wood chips as fuel to cook food are one of the most complex grills on the market. These types of grills have digital thermostat temperature control and can be used for a wide array of different types of cooking. Wood chips are amazing for smoking; however, wood chips leave a smokey flavor in every piece of food that is cooked on them. These types of grills are also not great when it comes to seared steaks because the temperature simply does not get hot enough.
Grills that use gas to cook food are one of the more simple types of grills. It takes little effort for getting the grill to temperature, and it takes even less effort for clean up once the food is cooked. Gas grills need a specialized sear burner to be able to cook steaks to a proper temperature though.
Charcoal fueled grills take the longest to prepare for cooking with due to the length of time it takes to heat up, but they can get very hot and leave a favorable taste in the food.
Electric grills are a grill for beginners. These types of grills do not give food a barbecued taste, and can not properly cook a steak to temperature. If the steak gets brown on the outside, all to often the inside of the steak is overcooked.
Decide On The Size You Need
When it comes to barbecuing, size does matter. The size of a grill is also directly correlated to the price of the grill. When deciding on what size grill you wish to invest in you should look to see the size of the total cooking area. The total cooking area of a grill includes the warming rack, so you should take that into consideration because you will not actually be readily preparing steaks up there every time you grill. You should focus on the main grate of the grill and decide how large of a surface you need. Grills should never be overcrowded due to the fact the foods will not cook evenly throughout as if they would with open space.
Decide On Your Price RangeOnce you have decided what type of grill you are interested in and decided what size you will be buying, you need to decide on your price range. Very reliable charcoal grills can be purchased for around $200, and very reliable gas grills can be purchased for around $400. Gas grills can easily go up to between $800-$1,000, but a mid-range grill will function for you if you do not wish to invest that much.
Look Into Insurance OptionsGrills greatly vary in prices. Prices of electric grills can be as low as $20 while prices of gas grills can require a payment plan and insurance. If you are investing in a top of the line grill that will last you many seasons of barbecuing, you should look into appliance insurance for your purchase. Very expensive grills should have the option of insurance to protect your purchase and ensure that you will have many years worth of use with the product.
Buying a grill to barbecue on can seem like a daunting task, but when you do research before you go to make your purchase, you can readily find the best grill to suit your needs.
David Glenn is a home improvement expert. He occasionally freelance writes about real estate tips, home maintenance and DIY home repair.


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EEV offers a number of services for schools:
- EEV acts as the lead agency for ResourceSmart AuSSI Vic in the Western Metropolitan Region
- Professional development sessions for teachers and other school staff
- Subject association for VCE Environmental Science
- Produces textbooks and practice exams
- Provides teacher PD and student revision lectures
- School as a Catchment Resource Kit
- OMG! "Oh My Garbage" litter reduction resource
- OMG! Waste-Wise School Event Kit
- Great Grasslands Resource
- CALD resources "A Great Place to Live" and "Our Sustainable Home"
'Getting Started with Sustainability in Schools' www.sustainabilityinschools.edu.au is a learning resource portal that has been designed to help teachers confidently integrate the cross-curriculum priorities of sustainability into their teaching and, when they gain momentum, into their school's activities.
- Sustainable Schools
- Sustainable Communities
- VCE Environmental Science teachers
- ResourceSmart AuSSI Vic Facilitators and Assessors
- EEV advocates for Environmental Science and Education for Sustainability with organisations such as the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) and the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD)


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If you think that fish can't sing, then you've probably never come into contact with a midshipman fish. When it's time to breed, male midshipman hum repetitively at night as they attempt to woo females into their nests for spawning. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on September 22 have new evidence to explain what keeps those fish quiet through the day and singing all night.
The keys are the fishes' light-driven internal clock and melatonin, a hormone best known for controlling sleep and wake cycles.
"For some observers, the midshipman's courtship 'song'--the hum--is reminiscent of the sound of a foghorn, but more enticingly it reminds us of the droning sounds made by Mongolian throat singers," says Andrew Bass of Cornell University.
A single hum can last for minutes up to almost two hours. When neighboring males hum together in a chorus, slight differences in hum frequencies make the sound even more otherworldly.
"In the early 1980s, a mysterious sound caused concern for houseboat residents of Sausalito Bay, California, who suspected the source might be the pumps of a nearby sewage plant, an underwater power line, some secret experiment by the Navy, or maybe even extraterrestrials!" Bass says. "It turned out their houseboats were merely resonating with the 'love songs' of male midshipman fish."
Bass and Ni Y. Feng, a former graduate student in the Bass lab, knew that the midshipman fish kept the rocky intertidal zone humming during the breeding season. To find out why the fish only sing at night, they first needed to get them to hum in the lab, where they could control the lighting and other factors.
The researchers' studies now show that the fish continue to hum on schedule when kept in conditions of constant darkness. But their humming is suppressed when the lights are kept on, a condition known to reduce the production of melatonin. Indeed, when a group of fish kept in the light were given melatonin, their humming stayed at normal levels and even increased.
"While our brain studies predicted melatonin would increase humming, it was still striking to see the robust melatonin effect that rescued the suppression of singing induced by exposing the fish to constant light," Feng says.
The researchers went on to show evidence that melatonin acts directly on the vocal circuitry in the midshipman's brain.
The findings show the remarkable versatility of melatonin as a timing signal, the researchers say. Melatonin keeps birds quiet at night, but in the midshipman fish melatonin has just the opposite effect.
Despite that difference in melatonin's effect on vocal activity between diurnal birds and nocturnal midshipman fish, there are similarities, too. In both species, constant light and reduced melatonin action shortens the duration of individual vocal elements.
The researchers say that they'd like to continue to explore the molecular-level events in the brain that lead melatonin to act in opposing ways in diurnal versus nocturnal species. They also hope that their findings will inspire others to find out whether melatonin plays a role in the late-night calls of other animals, such as nightingales and many species of frogs and mammals.
This research was funded by the National Science Foundation, a Cornell Neurobiology and Behavior Animal Behavior Grant, and a Sigma Xi Research Grant.
Current Biology, Feng and Bass: "'Singing' Fish Rely on Circadian Rhythm and Melatonin for the Timing of Nocturnal Courtship Vocalization" http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30873-9
Current Biology (@CurrentBiology), published by Cell Press, is a bimonthly journal that features papers across all areas of biology. Current Biology strives to foster communication across fields of biology, both by publishing important findings of general interest and through highly accessible front matter for non-specialists. Visit: http://www.


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On April 3, 2009, Governor C. L. "Butch" Otter signed into law Senate Bill 1017, abolishing the ambiguous requirement that homeschooled children be instructed "comparably" to public school children. The new law takes effect July 1, 2009. Senate Bill 1017 passed both the House and the Senate unanimously.
This is a significant victory for homeschool freedom in Idaho. These changes to Idaho's compulsory school attendance law to protect homeschooling will enable the state to avoid the danger experienced by California last year. In California, the Court of Appeals ruled that homeschooled students could only be taught by parents who were certified teachers—the primary basis for the Court's decision was that California law did not contain a specific provision allowing parents to individually teach children.
For several months, the right to homeschool hung in the balance. By God's grace, and a lot of hard work, the Court of Appeals granted a rehearing and accepted our arguments. The judges totally reversed themselves, so that homeschool freedoms now continue in California.
In Idaho, with these new amendments enacted into law, we will avoid the California situation entirely.
Senate Bill 1017:
- Specifically adds private home instruction to the compulsory school attendance law;
- Removes the requirement that this private instruction be "comparable" to the public school curriculum;
- Clarifies that homeschoolers do not have to teach a specified number of hours or days per year; and
- Allows friends or relatives to provide the instruction (i.e., does not restrict instruction responsibilities solely to the parents). This flexibility is important for times of crisis where parents want to continue homeschooling but need to have the support of someone outside the home to provide the instruction for a time.
We are thankful to have contributed to the joint endeavor with ICHE (Idaho Coalition of Home Educators) and CHOIS (Christian Homeschoolers of Idaho State) to make this change a reality. Special thanks goes to S.B. 1017's two sponsors, Sen. Russell Fulcher and Rep. Bob Nonini, whose hard work helped this bill to pass in both the House and Senate.
God opened the door for this to happen by having the Governor's Task Force on Children at Risk add language to a bill. A few months ago, the task force asked Barry Peters of ICHE to review its bill, which was drafted to clarify Idaho's Child Protection Act as it relates to educational neglect. After ICHE and Chris Klicka of HSLDA reviewed the changes, we concurred that the task force simply wished to modify Idaho's existing statutes to clarify that educational neglect that will be determined by Idaho's existing requirement that all children be educated. Essentially, that is what the current law means, but the new language will clarify it. The task force then invited ICHE and CHOIS to offer its changes. Barry Peters and Chris Klicka then drafted the now new law.


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The impact of the explosion sent Muhammad Safdar flying backwards. He looked up from where he had landed and saw that the windows of his parked ambulance had shattered. As he tried to pick himself back up, fellow volunteer drivers working for the Edhi ambulance service gathered around him; it looked as if Safdar was bleeding. But he had not suffered any external injuries. "Human flesh got stuck to me," he recalls now, as we sit in the ambulance control centre in downtown Karachi. "My friends were checking me for injuries, but it was pieces of other people. I was trembling hard and I couldn't hear my own voice when I spoke. It sounded juddering. I could only hear whistles."
It was 5 February 2010 and Safdar had already dealt with the fallout of one explosion that day: an hour before, a motorbike laden with explosives had slammed into a bus carrying Shia Muslims to a religious procession. Safdar had raced to the scene to load the dead and injured into his ambulance and take them to the nearby Jinnah hospital. With more than people 30 injured and 12 dead, the emergency room was in a state of chaos, filled with crying and screaming as doctors struggled to cope. He was still inside the hospital when the second bomb exploded just outside the entrance.
Safdar did not realise until later that he had suffered head injuries. At the time, he followed his first instinct, which was to get up and continue to help. A further 13 people were dead, with scores more injured. "Everything was a mess, there was blood everywhere," he remembers.
The hospital entrance was badly damaged and there were fears of a third bomb. Ambulance drivers took those with the worst wounds to other nearby hospitals for treatment. Three ambulances were destroyed in the explosion, so they worked with what they had.
Across the crowds of casualties, Safdar kept his eyes on his boss, Abdul Sattar Edhi, the founder of the service, who was sitting inside one of his own ambulances. As the head of a huge charitable organisation offering services to the poor, Edhi made a point of remaining at the frontline of rescue work. He had been collecting the dead and injured alongside his staff. Safdar ran over to him. "I came to pick him up in case of a third blast, but he said, 'I am not going. Wherever I am, there isn't a blast, so I am not moving.'" Safdar continued to haul bodies to ambulances parked outside. Amid the dirt and blood, he spotted something suspicious: a very clean-looking motorbike in the car park with a TV set strapped to the back. Safdar ran back to Edhi to tell him what he had seen. Edhi alerted police and stayed put as experts defused what turned out to be a third bomb.
In 13 years as an Edhi ambulance driver, Safdar has lost count of the rescue jobs he has done. He has entered burning buildings, dived into water after shipwrecks, retrieved survivors after terror attacks and industrial accidents, and navigated running gun battles.
Sporting red T-shirts emblazoned with bold white letters reading "EDHI", these workers are a familiar sight at Pakistan's all-too-common disaster scenes. Here in Karachi, a megalopolis of around 20 million people, there is no state ambulance service.
Karachi has suffered through decades of violence. Ethnic tensions have been simmering since the 1950s, ramping up as conflict and natural disasters elsewhere in Pakistan pushed more and more people into the city. For years, gang war raged in the slum of Lyari, and as terrorism increased in Pakistan in 2001 following the 9/11 attacks and the declaration of the war on terror, Karachi became a key militant operating ground. Since 2014, a crackdown led by the army has brought a semblance of calm, but violence still simmers below the surface.
Safdar, in his rudimentary ambulance, has been at the frontline of the shifting conflicts consuming his city, placing himself at huge personal risk for very little money.
Safdar first stumbled into the Edhi Foundation's main office in 2003, shouting that his brother had waited too long for an ambulance. Safdar was around 22 years old (it is common in Pakistan for people to be unsure of their exact birth date), and his brother Adil was roughly 20. The ambulance driver on duty, Muhammad Liaqat, remembers, "Our reaction was not to reply in any aggressive way. He has a very good heart, but he is hot-headed."
Adil had contracted polio as an infant, and the disease – still endemic in Pakistan – left him disabled. He needed a series of painful leg operations. With no car and limited funds, the family relied on the Edhi ambulances.
Despite Safdar's anger, he was impressed by the operation. "I saw other people waiting at the hospital for hours for transportation," he recalls. "Edhi Sahib [a term of respect] alone was trying to help." Safdar had dreamed of joining the army, but needed to stay at home because of Adil's illness. So, he got a driving licence and joined the ambulance service. "Now he creates trouble for us every day," says Liaqat.
On his first day, Safdar went with another driver to collect one of the unclaimed bodies frequently found on the streets of Karachi. He couldn't look. The other driver slapped him in the face. "What do you think this is?" he said. "It's a human being. What are you? A human being. Why are you behaving like this?" Safdar picked up the corpse.
"It takes time to get used to this work," he says. "A lot of people leave after a week or so as they can't take it. They have fear in them."
Safdar is a thin man with a meticulously stylish haircut, equally quick to laugh as to fly into a rage. His boss, Anwar Kazmi, ironically introduces him to newcomers as "our most polite driver". Safdar constantly chews a betel nut derivative, which has a stimulant effect – a common habit among drivers in Pakistan. He is outspoken and talks a million miles a minute, his rapid hand movements expressing a range of emotions. He refuses to enter a government hospital where the boss was once rude to him. But he cannot stand to see suffering, sometimes getting in trouble for using his siren for non-emergency call-outs, and stopping to help if he spots anyone injured or lost on the road.
His usual base is the Edhi ambulance service's main control centre in Kharadar in Karachi's bustling old town. The office is open to the street, with a kiosk at the front for donatio