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The coastal pirate population grew by leaps and bounds over the weekend, during a visit by the Pirate ship �Renegade� to New Bern and the waters of the Trent River.
The coastal pirate population grew by leaps and bounds over the weekend, during a visit by the Pirate ship �Renegade� to New Bern and the waters of the Trent River.
The ship came from its home port in Beaufort, a sleek, 65-foot vessel, guided by Capt. Spike, who goes under the alias of George Aswad Jr.
His mission is to seek treasure and recruit new crew, such as the 50 members of the Twin Rivers YMCA camp that boarded the ship for an hour and a half of dangerous adventure Friday morning.
The youngster, ranging through the first grade, got an education on sailing, safety and most importantly, pirating.
As Capt. Spike guided the ship out of the New Bern Grand Marina, through the gates of the Civil War-era railroad trestle, underneath the Freedom Bridge and into the open waters of the Trent near Old Towne, his commanding captain�s voice took the young buccaneers through drills.
They donned pirate bandanas, had their faces painted in intimidating pirate colors and learned to use (rubber) swords for hand-to-hand combat. Most importantly, after they were sworn in as pirates, they learned the skills of manning the cannons � with ammunition of high-powered water.
It came in handy later, when from the side waters, evil pirate Billy Bonez appeared in a small craft, taunting the mother ship because he had stolen its treasure.
After several up-close battles, the campers forced Billy to surrender the treasure, which he reluctantly tossed to the deck of the �Rengegade.�
It was retrieved by Pirate Brandy, alias Brianna Brix and Pirate Fettuccini, alias Lauriel LeBeau. To reward the campers, the lady pirates gave each camper three gold pieces for their work.
It was the first of more than a half dozen ventures Friday and Saturday, with new pirates coming aboard each time.
The �Regegade� later left the local waters and returned to Beaufort. But, it will return, for more adventures during October�s annual Mumfest.


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Washington, D.C. (March 31, 2011) — Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Assistant General Counsel Jeffrey K. Francer issued the following statement today on the FDA's anticipated social media guidance:
"PhRMA has engaged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in public discussion of how our member companies can appropriately communicate with healthcare providers and patients online, using the same tools as the FDA and the White House, including Twitter, Facebook and blogs.
"There are incredible potential public health benefits to using electronic media in healthcare, including allowing innovative companies to provide truthful, scientifically accurate FDA-regulated information.
"PhRMA has proposed responsible means to provide safety information in space-restricted media, including a universal symbol that could help lead patients to web sites that feature FDA-regulated benefit and risk information about new medicines.
"As PhRMA eagerly awaits the FDA's guidance on this important issue, we note that FDA itself is making almost daily use of Twitter, Facebook and other social media. Clearly, social media can be used to discuss new medical advances in appropriate ways that benefit patients and healthcare professionals, and improve the public health."
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to inventing medicines that allow patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. PhRMA companies are leading the way in the search for new cures. PhRMA members alone invested an estimated $49.4 billion in 2010 in discovering and developing new medicines. Industry-wide research and investment reached a record $67.4 billion in 2010.
Find PhRMA Online:
Website – http://www.phrma.org
Facebook – www.facebook.com/PhRMA
Blog – www.phrma.org/catalyst
Twitter – www.Twitter.com/PhRMA and www.Twitter.com/PhRMApress
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I was chatting recently with Robert Glensor the founder and owner of Paraoa Bakehouse.
Robert's bakery became New Zealand's first Bio-Gro certified organic bread, earning product and bakehouse certification in August of 1996.
Robert sells his products online and through a number of outlets around the country.
Now I had never tried Robert's products when we first chatted.
So Robert kindly sent me some samples of his breads and other products to try.
I was pleasantly surprised at how delicious they were.
I then went on to become a paying customer based on my positive experience with these samples.
Marketing with samples is something that can work well for many businesses.
I received an email a few days ago from Giles Scott the sales manager of a graphic design and printing firm in New Plymouth called Graphix Explosion.
Giles was telling me about his firm markets their services by giving away free samples of personalised A6 note pads.
Over to Giles for his comments...
"Regarding the pads, they are our most successful marketing product. We give away hundreds of Graphix pads every year; in fact I give away more pads than business cards these days. Because they're so useful people keep them and always have our contact details at hand. As they work so well for us we decided to let our customers test them at our risk. We print 25 note pads at our expense for selected businesses to try. They get to prove they work to their own satisfaction by giving away the 25 free pads. So far we've given away over 150 sets of free pads and the promotional has already paid for itself because we've had so many paid orders. It is also leading to further business as customers are starting to order other printed items from us."
Giles has discovered that if a business tries using their promotional note pads (and gets a positive response) it is easy to get that business to buy more note pads.
You can also market with samples when you offer a service.
Here's a good example...
Jamie Tulloch runs an accounting firm called E3 Business Accountants.
Jamie has found that the best way to get potential clients to get a sample of what they offer is to share some of the valuable knowledge that they have.
Jamie does this two ways.
First of all he puts out an excellent Ezine each month that has valuable tips to increase business results. It also has tax tips and some fun trivia as well.
I've spoken to a number of business owners around the country who tell me they get this Ezine from Jamie and find it excellent. (And it's something I personally find very helpful to read as well.)
Jamie is also happy to answer general business enquiries or queries that might come through via email. If he can answer something off the cuff he will answer that the same day to anyone who actually sends him a query. And you don't even have to be a client to take advantage of this service.
These two things allow potential clients to get a sample of what E3 Accountants can potentially offer.
And it is responsible for their business getting brand new clients on a regular basis.
There are many ways to use samples in your marketing.
1: Could you share a sample of what you do with a key centre of influence? In other words someone who if they like what you offer could potentially give you a positive recommendation to a good number of people they know?
2: Could you donate a sample of what you have to a good cause and get some positive publicity as a result?
Marketing with samples does work and it could be worth testing in your business as well.
"You will get more word of mouth from making people happy than anything else you could possibly do." - Andy Sernovitz
Action Exercise:
How could you use samples in your marketing?


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How could Keith have anticipated that Al Gore would turn out to be a big old fraud?!
Here's the PDF of the complaint. Paragraph 31:
Current completely and utterly failed to run a professional news enterprise... Olberman deeply regrets his decision to put his trust in Hyatt and Gore.... Olbermann did not join Current to ruin his hard-won reputation and appear on a show that was an embarrassment.


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Just how complex is bringing video surveillance onto the network?
Ed Christmas understands the potential complexities that bringing high-definition video onto the network can entail.
As the managing principal of Sology Solutions, one of our Premier Certified safety and security integrators, he's worked for the last couple of years to define a video strategy for his customer Dallas County. The plan involved recommending the newly re-architected Cisco Video Surveillance Manager 7.0 as the cornerstone of a business transformation project that goes far beyond just simply improving safety and security for citizens and employees. It aims to help improve the way that services are delivered to citizens.
A key factor in Sology's choice as a partner lies in the ease of deploying this new video surveillance solution, which was completely rebuilt from the ground up for very large scale video deployments. In this video Ed describes how he was able to go into the customer at 10am in the morning, deploy the software in a virtualised Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) environment, set up the IP video surveillance cameras and have the whole system up and running and providing operational HD video feeds back to Dallas County's Tax Assessor office within hours. His team were on their way back to the office by 2pm that afternoon.
By taking advantage of another key Cisco innovation, the Cisco medianet proxy service, Ed's engineers were able to automate the configuration of cameras on the network. MSP is a function of the Cisco switching infrastructure that builds on innovations such as SmartPorts. Using MSP, the network automatically recognizes the new device plugged into the switch port as a video surveillance camera, allocates it an IP address, places it into the correct VLAN, reserves the right amount of bandwidth for delivering video streams to operators and prioritizes the video traffic automatically.
Sounds obvious? Well previously the kind of operation could have taken up to 45 minutes per camera involving a phone call between the guy hanging the camera on the wall and a lot of manual coding from the network operations team. Not any more with MSP. A template-driven approach allows all cameras to be recognized and automatically provisioned with the same set of attributes once the installer plugs them into the Ethernet port.
That means the cameras can be up and running within seconds, without that lengthy back and forth discussion.
In fact at the ASIS 2012 showin Philadelphia this week, we've gone one stage further and opened this capability up to the industry with an open invitation to camera manufacturers to bring their own video surveillance camera along to the our Plugfest at the Cisco booth (#213), plug into our Catalyst 4500 and watch it auto-configure. We even have a natty t-shirt for you…
Couple this with new medianet-based remote video monitoring services and this adds up to a compelling proposition for our partners that enables them to focus their resources on adding real business transformational value to their customers. This service offering helps partners use medianet tools to provide their customers' IT and security teams with the peace of mind that any degradation in video quality can be quickly isolated and tracked down to the root cause.
Nice job Ed and team at Dallas County and we look forward to supporting your future success with video!
Watch John Ames and Norman Casale of Dallas County's Tax Office discuss the business value they are deriving from Cisco's new Video Surveillance Manager 7.0 and the value of their collaboration with Sology.
Learn more about what's new in Cisco Video Surveillance Manager 7.0
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John O'Donnell
Hi Rob, you are correct with your statement about the importance of security on the network. Cisco provides a comprehensive security framework that can be used by the network architect to secure the network for an end-to-end video surveillance system. Architecture principles have also been developed for both the traditional data center as well as the multi-tennant environments.
The following main security principles are implemented in this architecture:
Isolation: logical separation of network, compute, and storage resources. This can be achieved by using firewalls, access lists, VLANs, compute virtualization, storage virtulaisation, and physical separation.
Further information can be found at the following places:
Virtualised Multi-Tennant Data Center link:
Virtualized Multi-Service Data Center link
Thank You Marc for the reply. I will be waiting for the discussion to start. Appreciated!!
Thank You Marc, I think the major point of concern is the security over the network as it can damage things up, if not been given serious attention.


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Yes, there is another gourmet coffee bean roaster in town and they have the good stuff people 🙂 We were fortunate enough to get some of the yummy beans just before the Holiday (2011). You might have seen references to the wonderful bean on our Top 10 gift list for anyone. We want to tell you right now… this coffee is fresh and tasty!
Right now there are four blends available to order. In addition, you can actually get full 1 pound bags!!! Most companies are doing 12oz bags, hoping you don't miss that extra 4 ounces (cough Starbucks) so it was nice to see the option there. They have 10 oz bags as well.
The four flavors are Sole (The Sun – a Bold Coffee), Vento (The Wind – Espresso), Cielo (The Sky – Medium Roast), and Nuvola (Cloud – Decaf).
Price is obviously pretty important right now for quite a number of people and that's one of the reasons we think Sogno is a great choice. You get fresh beans, delivery to your door, and the price point is outstanding. $6.50 for the 10oz bags and $10.99 for the 16oz bags.
The Sogno folks say their coffee is special because they roast only the finest Arabica beans in their one of a kind, custom-built coffee roaster. I've never seen the roaster, but I have seen the beans, and the taste is undeniably great. Sogno Coffee is definitely worth checking out. 5 out of 5 stars and I've nominated them for a Reviewboard Award.


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This museum was built so as to document everything related with local culture, history and arts in North Sulawesi Province. Therefore, this museum has a complete collection of 10 categories e.g., geology, biology, ethnography, archeology, history, numismatics, philology, ceramology, arts and technology.
This state-own museum was officially opened on 9 January 1991 and up to now, it has collected 2,810 artifacts. From this figure, about 500 of them are displayed in the Exhibition Hall and can be seen every workday. These collections are collected from districts and municipalities in North Sulawesi such as Manado, Minahasa, Sangihe Talaud, Bolaang Mongondow and Gorontalo.


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"UK experts call for universal HIV testing in a bid to reduce infections," BBC News has said. This widely reported news is based on recommendations in the Health Protection Agency's (HPA) annual report on HIV in the UK. The HPA says that the number of people living with HIV has reached an estimated 91,500, but more than 21,000 of these people may not know that they have the infection. It wants everyone who attends a sexual health clinic to be tested to reduce the number of people who are unaware that they have HIV.
In areas where rates of HIV infection are high, the HPA also wants tests for everyone who registers with a new GP or is admitted to hospital. The HPA recommends that people most at risk of HIV infection (such as men who have sex with men; black Africans; and people who inject drugs) should have an annual HIV test.
What did the news reports say?
The media focused on different aspects of the annual figures published by the HPA ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1. The Daily Telegraph and BBC News highlighted that one in five people who attends a sexual health clinic declines an HIV test. The Guardian focussd instead on the rate of new infections, which may still be rising in the UK, despite a fall globally. The Daily Mirror reported that half of people diagnosed with HIV are identified later and may have benefited from earlier treatment.
The news reports cited fear of getting tested as a reason for the low rate of detection. However, drug treatment for people diagnosed with HIV early can offer a similar-to-normal life expectancy. HIV tests are very straightforward, and some newspapers quoted a spokesperson for the National AIDS Trust, who said that it was time to eradicate people's fear about getting tested for HIV.
How common is HIV in the UK?
Around 91,500 people are estimated to be living with HIV, with a quarter of these unaware of their infection. Estimates for 2010 suggest that:
- Around 40,100 people living with HIV were men who have sex with men.
- 47,000 people living with HIV in the UK were heterosexual, of whom 19,300 were African-born women and 9,900 were African-born men.
- One in three heterosexuals living with HIV in the UK was thought to have been born in the UK or countries outside Africa.
- More than 2,000 people living with HIV were estimated to be people who inject drugs.
These estimates included people who were living with HIV but had not been diagnosed. The estimates for people with undiagnosed HIV were:
- men who have sex with men: 26%
- heterosexual men: 28%
- heterosexual women: 21% (all pregnant women receive antenatal HIV screening)
- people who inject drugs: 21%
Are infections increasing?
The national UK prevalence of HIV in 2010 was around 1.5 cases per 1,000 people (2 cases per 1,000 men and 0.9 cases per 1,000 women). This is similar to European countries such as Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany, and is lower than some eastern and southern European countries, where higher prevalence is thought to be driven particularly by injecting drugs.
In 2010, 4,510 men and 2,150 women were newly diagnosed with HIV in the UK, a new diagnosis rate of 0.15 per 1,000 men and 0.07 per 1,000 women. Of these new cases of HIV, 45% were thought to have been acquired abroad, whereas 55% were acquired in the UK. The number of new infections acquired in the UK doubled from 1,950 in 2001 to 3,640 in 2010.
There had been a year-on-year decline in the number of new diagnoses since 2005, driven largely by fewer people acquiring the infections abroad through heterosexual sex. However, this trend appears to have stopped.
The HPA report highlights that the number of new HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men has reached an all-time high. Of new diagnoses of HIV among these men, 81% were likely to have been acquired in the UK, 83% of the men were white and 67% were born in the UK. An estimate of the incidence of new diagnosis in men who have sex with men aged 15-44 living in UK has risen from 0.5% per year in 2002 to 0.9% in 2007.
What does the HPA recommend to tackle HIV?
The HPA has called for more extensive testing to detect people who are living with HIV. Strategies may include routinely offering HIV tests to new patients at GP practices and people who are admitted to hospital in areas of the country where rates of HIV infection are high.
It also suggests that sexual health clinics should ensure that HIV testing is offered as part of a universal sexual health screen for every person who attends.
The HPA recommends that people most at risk of HIV infection (such as men who have sex with men; black Africans; and people who inject drugs) should have an annual HIV test, and men who have sex with men should consider more frequent testing.
It was reported that access to HIV care in the UK is excellent, as is the standard of care. However, for people living with HIV with a CD4 count (a type of immune cell) of less than 350 cells per mm3 of blood who are currently not receiving antiretroviral therapy (around one in 10 people), doctors should prioritise reviewing these patients' care. The HPA also recommends that all people with HIV should receive a newly available vaccination against the bacterium that can cause invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), called PCV13, as the incidence of IPD in adults living with HIV is almost 50 times higher than in the general population (aged 15-44).
Where can I get tested?
You can go for an HIV test and sexual health screening at:
- your GP or private clinic
- a sexual health clinic, also known as a genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic
- a fastest clinic run by the Terrence Higgins Trust, which also tests for other sexually transmitted infections
- some contraception and young people's clinics
- an antenatal clinic, if you are pregnant
- local drugs agencies, if you are an injecting drug user
If you go to your GP, the test results will be confidential but will go on your medical record. GUM clinics are free and open to everyone. All information is confidential and will not be passed on to your GP without your permission.
Find sexual health services near you
The most effective way to prevent transmission of HIV through sex is to use condoms with every new partner. Taking antiretroviral HIV medications lowers the amount of HIV virus in the blood which, when also using condoms, can further lower the risk of infecting a partner.
What options are there for treating HIV?
Antiretroviral therapy is widely available and has transformed HIV infection from a fatal illness to a chronic but manageable condition. The HPA report said that people with HIV infection can expect a near-normal lifespan, and that there are far fewer side effects with newer HIV therapies than with earlier drugs for HIV.
The HPA report highlights that the drugs are more effective if started promptly, again emphasising the need for testing. The 2008 British HIV Association guidelines (PDF, 384Kb) suggest that treatment discussions should start when a patient's CD4 count falls below 350 cells per mm3 of blood. The HPA report found that in 2010, 82% of HIV-diagnosed people in care received antiretroviral therapy regardless of CD4 count, compared with 69% in 2000.
Analysis by Bazian
Edited by NHS Website
Further reading
HIV in the United Kingdom: 2011 report (PDF, 2.46Mb)
Health Protection Agency, 2011.


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Banana Rice Krispie Treats
I'm often asked where my ideas come from. To be honest, food is on my mind pretty much all day.
Most of the time, as I sit and drink my morning coffee an idea will hit me and I begin baking immediately. If I can't bake immediately, I jot down the idea, somewhere.
I'm not like those other food bloggers who take the time to write out a recipe first, I grab a pencil and paper WHILE I am creating a recipe.
Banana Rice Krispie Treats
- 5 cup Rice Krispies
- 1/4 cup margarine
- 10 1/2 oz bag mini marshmallows
- 1 box (3.4oz) banana cream instant pudding mix
- Butter a 9inch square baking dish. Set aside.
- In large pot, melt margarine on medium heat. Add in marshmallows and stir constantly until completely melted. Remove from heat. Fold in pudding mix until fully combined. Fold in cereal.
- Immediately pour cereal into prepared baking dish. Using buttered fingers, press treats into (don't over press or they get hard and dry tasting). Allow to set 20 minutes or more before cutting and eating. Enjoy!
**There may be affiliate links in this post! By clicking on them, or purchasing recommended items I may receive a small compensation. However, I only recommend products I love! Thank you for supporting Shugary Sweets! See my disclosure policy for more info**


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In 47 Ronin we get the embellished legend of a true Japanese tale about 47 disgraced and disenfranchised samurai who went on an unthinkable suicide mission to avenge their slain lord. Of course, in the Hollywood version of things, the story centers on Kai (Keanu Reeves) a half-breed samurai warrior sold into slavery, who becomes the 'chosen one' hope for the disgraced samurai - who are now battling an evil sorceress (Pacific Rim star Rinko Kikuchi) and her demonic hordes.
Along with the new UK trailer above we have a new domestic trailer fro the film, which you can view below:
We put the UK trailer up top because in all honestly it was the better of the two, laying out the film's story in much more epic scope and detail than the random montage style of the domestic trailer, which runs too long and shows off too much. In fact, between these two trailers - and the many trailers that preceded them - it seems like we've already caught glimpses of all the major action set pieces included in the film (Keanu vs. the Troll, Ronin storming the fortress, Keanu vs. Dragon Lady, etc.).
What we don't see much of, is the camaraderie (or lack thereof) between Keanu and the collection of Japanese actors playing the Ronin. There is clearly a character story at the heart of this film, but there has been little of it hinted at in these trailers; what we ARE being sold on, however, is the visual design of first time feature-film director (and Ridley Scott protege) Carl Rinsch. And, while that visual design looks pretty inspired (especially for the 3D format), it's also a tech-heavy style that seems somewhat at odds with the period piece setting - rather than creating a samurai version of 300 like Universal was no doubt hoping for.
Still, a Christmas Day release date practically ensures that this action flick will turn at least a moderate profit.
47 Ronin will be in theaters on December 25th.


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Progress shows that stunting in children can be defeated – UNICEF
Globally one in four of all children under 5 is stuntedDUBLIN, 15 April 2013 – A new UNICEF report issued today offers evidence that real progress is being made in the fight against stunted growth – the hidden face of poverty for 165 million children under the age of five. The report shows that accelerated progress is both possible and necessary.
Improving Child Nutrition: The achievable imperative for global progress confirms that a key to success against stunting is focusing attention on pregnancy and the first two years of a child's life. Stunting in a child is not only about being too short for his or her age. It can also mean suffering from stunted development of the brain and cognitive capacity.
"Stunting can kill opportunities in life for a child and kill opportunities for development of a nation," said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake. "Our evidence of the progress that is being achieved shows that now is the time to accelerate it."
One in four of all under-5 children globally is stunted because of chronic undernutrition in crucial periods of growth. An estimated 80 per cent of the world's stunted children live in just 14 countries.
The UNICEF report highlights successes in scaling up nutrition and improving policies, programmes and behaviour change in 11 countries: Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Nepal, Peru, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sri Lanka, Kyrgyzstan, the United Republic of Tanzania and Viet Nam.
The damage done to a child's body and brain by stunting is irreversible. It drags down performance at school and future earnings. It is an injustice often passed from generation to generation that cuts away at national development. Stunted children are also at a higher risk of dying from infectious diseases than other children.
But in parts of India – home to 61 million stunted children – progress is still being made. In Maharashtra, the country's wealthiest state and second most populous, 39 per cent of children under two were stunted in 2005-2006. That however dropped to 23 per cent by 2012, according to a state-wide nutritional survey, largely by supporting frontline workers improving child nutrition.
In Peru, stunting fell by a third between 2006 and 2011 following a Child Malnutrition Initiative that lobbied political candidates to sign a '5 by 5 by 5' commitment to reduce stunting in children under 5 by 5 per cent in 5 years and to lessen inequities between urban and rural areas. Peru drew on its experience of successful smaller projects and integrated nutrition with other programmes. It also focused on the most disadvantaged children and women and decentralized government structures.
Ethiopia cut stunting from 57 per cent to 44 per cent and under-5 mortality from 139 deaths per 1,000 live births to 77 per 1,000 between 2000 and 2011. Key steps included a national nutrition programme, providing a safety net in the poorest areas and boosting nutrition assistance through communities.
Stunting and other forms of undernutrition are reduced through a series of simple and proven steps such as improving women's nutrition, early and exclusive breastfeeding, providing additional vitamins and minerals as well as appropriate food – especially in pregnancy and the first two years of a child's life.
The report says that existing solutions and the work of new partnerships, including the Scaling Up Nutrition movement, create an unprecedented opportunity to address child undernutrition through countries accelerating progress through coordinated projects with donor support and measurable targets.
For further information, please contact:
Peter Smerdon, UNICEF New York, Tel + 1 212 303 7984, email@example.com


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OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Jan. 30, 2013) - The Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA) has released its new report on the Value Case for Accessible Transit in Canada. The study, which highlights the economic and social benefits of accessible transit in Canada, has been developed with the underlying key themes of universal accessibility, inclusion, strong vibrant communities, and health.
"This study provides the first value case account of accessible transit in Canada and is an important first step in continuing to evaluate the benefits of such services in our society," says Lorna Stewart, Director of Edmonton Transit Disabled Adult Transit Services (DATS).
This report shows that the case for providing accessible transit is supported by a broad spectrum of annual monetary benefits to the national economy. "The most significant benefit identified in the report was on the income that can be generated by increased labour force participation, and its resulting potential to generate millions in GDP output and in additional tax base," says CUTA President and CEO Michael Roschlau. This economic activity represents an important contributor to the vitality of communities across the country.
The report shows that the number of seniors in Canada is forecast to more than double from 4.0 million to 9.9 million between 2006 and 2036. From an aging population point of view, investments in accessible transit will be crucial, particularly when looking at health policy linkages. "It will be important for decision makers across the country to view these linkages as a whole and draw insights from them to ensure proper investments are in place to support age friendly cities and communities," says Lorna Stewart.
CUTA is the collective and influential voice of public transportation in Canada, dedicated to being at the centre of urban mobility issues with all orders of government, and delivering the highest value to its members and the communities they serve. CUTA is the national association representing public transit systems, suppliers to the industry, government agencies, individuals and related organizations in Canada.
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LocationSouth Austin - Buda
Buda, TX 78610
Used 2018 Jayco Jay Flight SLX 8 264BH
This Jay Flight SLX 8 travel trailer by Jayco is perfect for any weekend get-a-way. With a rear set of double size bunk beds you can easily bring along a few friends!
As you enter model 264BH notice the dinette to your immediate left. Across from the dinette you will see a refrigerator, a three burner range with overhead microwave oven, and a double kitchen sink. There is also a nice sofa in the main living area.
In the front bedroom, to the right of the door, you will find a queen bed with bedside wardrobes for your things, and a shelf over the head of the bed for more storage space. You can even pull the curtain over for more privacy.
In the rear of this unit you will find a set of double size bunk beds on the left side. You can easily sleep four people in this space, and there is a curtain that can be pulled for more privacy at night!
The bathroom is located in the rear right corner and features a private tub/shower and toilet. Just outside of the bathroom door you will find a separate sink.
On the outside you will find a front pass-through storage compartment, and more storage beneath the rear bunks. A 16' awning is great for creating a little outdoor living area protected from the elements which makes it easy to spend even more time outdoors!
Stock# B2648
Interior Color: HAVANA
|29 ft 3 in
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|39 gals
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With encouragement from his wife Bertha, Lloyd started Jayco on their farm--in two chicken houses and a barn! He developed his own prototype camping trailer and a unique lifter system for fold-down campers, the basic design of which is patented and still in use today. By the end of 1968, his fledging company of 15 employees had sold 132 fold-down camping trailers.
Today, Jayco's "family" of employees has grown to nearly 1,500 people, while more than 25,000 people join our "extended family" of customers each year.
At Jayco, our mission statement is: Committed to being the most respected name in recreation vehicles. We will consistently build a high quality, high value, competitively priced product at acceptable margins, treat every situation with the highest level of integrity in a timely manner, and continually work to reduce total cost to achieve acceptable returns.


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Hello Everyone, Blood here. Above is a few songs (that sound GREAT) of The Band in Pittsburgh 11.1.70. What can be said that hasnt already been? RIP Levon. Up On Cripple Creek is my sh*t, I love to play it and have never done it the great injustice of singing it publicly (though I butcher it in private frequently).
Remember back a million years ago when I was talking about Brahs amazing comp to benefit Japan? Guess what!! ITS HERE! And its awesome.
Koozies, Woodies and Beer: An Ocropolis Benefit for Japan is officially available on Tuesday, April 24th! And that could be today . Sometimes theres a disconnect between my prattling and the actual posting, largely because I still dont really know how to use computers in 2012. But enough about me .
The comp features exclusive tracks by Akron Family, Noveller, Liturgy, DubKnowDub, Oakley Hall, Notekillers, Christy + Emily, Zombi and SO MANY MORE! Its kind of insane. No, it totally is.
Its available in digital format only (but we also made up a sweet booklet to go along with it!! you cant hold it but you can look at it!!) and all proceeds are going to 2 Japan Earthquake relief charities recommended to us by Brah Records recording artist and maniacal automobile driver Shinji Masuko. Please go to the Jagjaguwar site today to pick up the comp and support our friends in Japan while acknowledging the donated time and effort so many people put forth to make this project happen. We love it and hope that you do too.
For those of you in Brooklyn: Be advised that theres a comp release party at Secret Project Robot on Tues April 24th. $8, doors @ 8pm
Kid Millions/Jim Sauter Duo 11pm
Not the Wind, Not the Flag (Toronto improv duo extraordinaire) 10pm
Den Svarta Fanan 9pm
(feat. Ron Anderson, Joe Merolla, Weasel Walter, Nonoko Yoshida, Thomas Heberer!!!!)
Come by and say Hi and tell us how much you love everything that we do here at Brah Records. Well laugh with and/or at you and then buy you a drink.
xo Blood
Matter Waves w/Rhys Chatham #1 live at SPR 1/27/12 from david first on Vimeo.
Hi! Its Blood, remember me? The above-posted tune popped into my head when I began to work on this post (dont hate). Yeah, its been pretty quiet around here, and I certainly haven't been up to much. But its good to be back, and so far I can say that some things dont change I really hate the opening paragraph. So lets skip it and get right to the important stuff, shall we?
This week, multi-talented Shinji Masuko of Boredoms/DMBQ has a record dropping on Brah! What were first created as backing tracks for Boredoms performances have been reworked by Shinji for release as his first solo album, Woven Music. Tuesday, April 26 is the release date and heads should click the link because there are only 700 copies available and thus it would behoove you to snap up a copy promptly to avoid missing any boats. It sounds great and it wants to go home with you, seriously, what more could you want from us? And well have more from Shinji in the near future so check back for that!
(From Brahject 7: Audrey Chen Photo by Z. Lehrhoff)
The JagBrah team is also working on a Brahject to support recovery efforts in Japan and HELLO, some of you have not gotten back to me yet!!! You know who you are, dont make me come back here to publicly shame you. Then again, two posts in one week!?!? My editor-in-chief would think Ive sustained a brain injury, if he doesnt already.
Also, please be advised that Brah now has a twitter. The only people Ive ever followed, and not literally because I dont actually have an account, are Shaq and the guy who played Bill on Freaks & Geeks. Ive also learned not to follow football players. What Im saying is, if youre the type who tweets, lets follow each other.
And in non-Brah related news, I think anyone who enjoys this blog (should I say read instead of enjoy and not press my luck?) should go to see Blank City, a documentary about the DIY filmmaking scene in the LES during the late 70s/early 80s. Its at IFC Center until Thursday and its already been extended a few times so this may be your last chance to get there before it closes and if you miss it youll know that youve failed at life. Just kidding. But you will have failed at seeing Blank City and that would be uncool.
Order Shinjis record! Go see Blank City!! Email me suggestions for future posts, or your Derby picks or an essay on why you think I should not be given a forum on the internet. That last one I wont respond to, but Ill respect your opinion.


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Traveling pants: Norway curling team wearing out opponents
The curling venue, oddly enough, is replacing the figure skating rink as the Olympic center of haute couture. OK, maybe that's a bit of a stretch. Nobody at the Ice Cube Curling Center has shown up in feathers yet this week.
But there has been more buzz about the Norwegian curling team's wacky pants than about anything any of the other 2,996 athletes are wearing.
They created quite a stir Saturday when they showed up at their first practice wearing floral-print knickers not even all grandmas would wear, Norwegian soccer team socks, and "sixpence" flat caps. It was a throwback, they said, to the start of the sport in Scotland 400 years ago.
Even by Norwegian curling standards, it was a bold statement. And they were just getting started. They have nine outrageous pants to unveil over the course of these Games, thanks to their Sonoma County, Calif., clothing supplier, Loudmouth Golf, founded by Scott "Woody" Woodworth, a graphic artist who has injected fun into golf attire.
In their first-round game against the United States on Monday night, the Norwegians' trousers looked like they had just come off the walls of a modern art museum with giant squares in primary colors, reminiscent of an abstract Mondrian painting. The Americans, by contrast, wore black slacks and navy team shirts with white sleeves.
Final score: Pants 7, USA 4.
"It's absolutely good for the sport," U.S. skipper John Shuster said of Norway's unique garb. "Anytime people are going to talk about curling in USA Today or the New York Times due to wardrobe, it helps bring curling to the forefront, and that's good. Honestly, when you're out there, you do not notice them. Not at all."
Would he ever consider wearing similar pants to raise his team's profile?
"No," Shuster said, smiling.
Haavard Vad Petersson, one of Norway's curlers, admitted he was skeptical when teammate Christoffer Svae introduced the idea four years ago, but he is happy to bring recognition to the sport. A Facebook page dedicated to the team's pants has 545,000 followers.
"For a small sport like curling, all the attention we can get is probably a good thing," he said. "They're really comfortable, that's the great thing. Probably the most comfortable pants I ever wore. We have about 80 pairs, so a very colorful closet."
Does he ever wear them out of the street, away from the rink?
"Very seldom," Petersson said. "Maybe for bad-taste parties, or something like this."
Sartorial expression
The Scandinavian stone throwers became international sensations four years ago, when they won the silver medal in Vancouver wearing red, white, and blue diamond-print pants the likes of which this sport had never seen. Curling — part shuffleboard, part bowling, part chess on ice — is typically played in nondescript black pants.
Svae was looking for new team pants a few months before the Vancouver Olympics because their supplier had shipped the wrong style. He went online and found the red, white and blue golf pants on the Loudmouth website. Bingo!
In recent years, curling has developed a growing cult following in the United States. A Simpsons episode and the Colbert Report four years ago helped, as does the fact that the U.S. curlers are miked up by NBC. But it still remains one of the more obscure sports on the Olympic menu.
Curlers don't have rock-star status like figure skaters, skiers and hockey players. Team USA is made up of four regular guys from Minnesota. There is a middle-school science teacher (Jeff Isaacson), a civil engineer (John Landsteiner), a student at Bemidji State University (Jared Zezel), and Shuster, the manager of The Pickwick Restaurant and Pub, a landmark in Duluth, Minn., since 1914.
"You can go to Duluth and find me on the street any day, and nobody treats me any different," Shuster said. "I'm a member of my curling club and my community, and most of the time people don't make a big deal about seeing me."
Petersson said the same is true in Norway, unless he and his teammates go out in public wearing their trademark loud trousers.
"We are recognized mostly by the pants," he said. "Curling is big every fourth year, but in between we can get away with walking around in jeans and T-shirt, but of course, when you wear the pants, people recognize us, for sure. We've seen other curlers starting to buy them, young curlers, other curlers. It's crazy."
The Russian Olympic team, perhaps in an attempt to upstage the Norwegians, showed up this week in red and white paisley pants.
Seeking respect
No matter the nationality, world-class curlers would like their sport to get more respect. Curling was a medal sport at the 1924 Olympics, but discontinued until 1998. It may look easy, but anybody who has tried, and landed face down on the ice, realizes there is more to it than meets the eye.
The object is to slide a 44-pound granite stone across a 150-foot sheet of ice to the target (aka "house"), and get it as close to the bull's-eye ("button") as possible. Like bowling, a match consists of 10 "ends" — or frames. Each team consists of a skip (think quarterback), a vice-skip, a lead and a second. They wear a Teflon-soled sliding shoe on one foot and a rougher sole on the other foot for traction.
One team member pushes off from the "hack" (like a starter's block in track and field), and two others hunch over with brooms and aggressively sweep the ice to create a straighter path for the stone. The harder they scrub, the more the ice melts, thus reducing the friction of the stone on the surface. There is strategy akin to golf and chess that goes into every move.
Elite-level stones, like the ones used at the Olympics, cost $1,500 and are made of Ailsite granite, which comes from the Ailsa Craig quarry off the Scottish coast.
To a man, U.S. curlers said the biggest misconception about their sport is that anybody can do it.
"We just had an interview the other day where they said, 'Oh, anybody can start in this sport if you want to go to the Olympics, this is the sport,' " Shuster said. "Well, you see the same people here over and over and over again, so that's probably not the case. We work extremely hard to get to this level to earn spots in the Olympics and people have misconceptions about how much training goes into it."
Landsteiner agreed: "Everyone thinks it's easy, but then they try it and fall flat on their face. Most people have no idea."


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An environmental advocacy organization plans to collect data on possible mountain lion sightings in the Adirondacks.
Protect the Adirondacks announced last week that it has started a new Cougar Watch project to record public sightings of the large cats. Sightings can be reported on the organization's website. For sightings that seem legitimate, the group plans to follow up and gather more information, especially if there are clusters of reports in one geographical area.
"We were just trying to formalize a public reporting process for sightings in the Adirondacks to try and build a database of current sightings," Protect Executive Director Peter Bauer said. "Hopefully we can build this database in the years ahead, just to get some data behind all of these sightings that are continuous in the Park."
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Protect the Adirondacks has started a new Cougar Watch program set up to gather information from public sightings of mountain lions.
Sightings of mountain lions have occurred for years. Some people believe that cougars live here; others believe they live outside the region but travel through the Adirondacks.
Despite the speculation, there has been no hard data presented publicly that substantiate claims that cougars have a breeding population in the Adirondacks.
However, there have been some legitimate sightings. In December of 2010, Cindy Eggleston, the wife of a retired state Department of Environmental Conservation Col. David Eggleston, spotted a cougar in her backyard in Lake George. The DEC later confirmed tracks and fur from the animal to be from a cougar.
The cougar was found dead in Connecticut in June 2011. Scientists later said the mountain lion likely traveled east from South Dakota.
Populations of the cougars in the Midwest and north of the Adirondacks in Canada have been reportedly growing in recent years. That's one of the reasons Protect is keeping the database. It wants to find out if some of those animals are leaving their home ranges and wandering into the Adirondacks.
"(In recent years) there were reports in North Carolina; there were reports in Virginia; there were reports in Massachusetts," Bauer said. "So cougars are clearly moving from places where they have had viable populations. Out west, they have expanded significantly in the past couple of decades."
Protect's Cougar Watch follows the work by board member Peter O'Shea, a naturalist who lives in St. Lawrence County. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, O'Shea recorded hundreds of sightings of cougars from hundreds of people and several times he even claimed to track cougars in the Adirondacks.


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After being ignored for most of the evening, "Days of Our Lives" won the drama series prize at the 40th Daytime Emmy Awards — the first time it had been honored in that category since 1975.
The NBC soap opera won only one other award Sunday in the ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, with Chandler Massey picking up the Emmy for younger actor.
CBS' "The Bold and the Beautiful" won the writing and directing Emmys, and the show's Heather Tom won for the second year in a row as lead actress. Doug Davidson of CBS' "The Young and the Restless" was named lead actor.
Other awards went to "CBS Sunday Morning" for morning program, Ricki Lake for talk show host, "The Price Is Right" for game show, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" for entertainment talk show and "The Dr. Oz Show" for informative talk show.
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Los Banos man killed in head-on collision
A 25-year-old Los Banos man was killed early Saturday in a head-on collision on Highway 59, south of Canton Road, the California Highway Patrol reported.
The victim's name is withheld pending notification of his family.
Two Dos Palos residents suffered minor injuries in the crash, the CHP said in a news release.
Julia Garnica, 22, and a 16-year-old boy were taken to Mercy Medical Center Merced for treatment, the CHP said.
Investigators said the Los Banos man was driving a 2006 Nissan north on Highway 59 at an unknown speed around 12:20 a.m. and collided head-on with a 2003 Mazda, driven by the teenager in the opposite direction, the CHP said.
It was still unclear on Saturday which vehicle crossed over the center line, the CHP said.
The Los Banos man was not wearing a seat belt, Officer Jason Schoonhoven said.
The cause of the collision remains under investigation and the CHP is asking anyone with information to contact investigators at (209) 356-2900.


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32 wrote:rockyBeli wrote:I'd like to see his pass-to-assist stats if that even exists. His D is avg at worst. He can create and create for others. That's not 1 dimensional.
His assist ratio (percentage of possessions that result in assists) is 49th among qualified shooting guards.
11.9 isn't exactly "creating for others". Ginobli's assist ratio is 26.1, Wade's is 18.4, Iggy's at 23.4... Even Kobe's is over 17 and he's an acclaimed ball hog. Thompson is in the same ballpark as Jamal Crawford, Jason Richardson, and JR Smith. Would you say they were above-average distributors?
Kobe is a ball hog, but he is good at passing. You can be both.