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Take it back to 1999. The Jets were coming off an AFCCG appearance. First game of the year, Testaverde gets hurt and is out for the year. Parcells goes with Rick Mirer, and we start of 2-6. Parcells opts to go with Ray Lucas, and it sparks the Jets. They would go on to wins 6 of their last 8 games and finish 8-8, ultimately missing the playoffs. Parcells later admitted he should have gone with Lucas earlier.
Fast forward to 2012, the Jets are 3-5. Fans have turned on Sanchez. They want Tebow. Rex is sticking with Mark though. What if he later opts to go with Tebow though. If he starts Week 9 against Seattle, do you believe he could pull a Ray Lucas and jump start the teams? The again, we don't even know if Rex will even yank Mark.
No way.
Rex is too stubborn and will never bench Sanchez. This team a way less talented and so poorly coached that Brady would loose here.
There are definitely some issues with the talent around Sanchez. But he's been getting the experience, once we can upgrade the positions around him he's the one with the best chance to take us somewhere. He's won playoff games, he's beaten the Patriots. There's no block that prevents Sanchez from being a winner, but football is an 11-on-11 sport and he needs a supporting cast. What's Tebow going to do with this team? Nothing.
Parcells wasn't linked to Mirer.
Rex and Tanny are linked to Sanchez. Benching Sanchez could seal Rex and Tanny's fate. Hence the reason all we hear is "Mark is our best chance to win" "Mark is our guy", etc..... Replacing Sanchez is basically Rex and Tanny admitting failure.
So there is only one thing to do. Blow it the F$%^ up!! Rex and Tanny should both be gone if we don't show signs of life by seasons end.
wa did namath say ?? i guarentee it!!!
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That team had bill parcells as coach, this one has fat buffoon rex ryan.
That team had keyshawn and chrebet at wr, this one has stephen lam hill.
That team had a hall of famer in his prime at rb, we have a slug at rb.
That team had bill bellichek as def coordinator, we have a puppet as def coordinator.
Do i need to keep going?
Yes because posting a gif of a preseason play proves anything.
And Lucas wasn't much different than Tebow. Both are/were more known for their legs than their arms.
They're both terrible.
But I find it funny you think the interception is not as serious since it was in the preseason. Considering the quality of talent he would be facing in preseason and the vanilla coverage schemes, I think it being the preseason makes it even more hilariously terrible.
That team also had Al Groh, Dan Henning, and the big fat OC!
The only thing similar with this is that we will miss the playoffs!!
Uh....Lucas could THROW THE BALL. So he WAS *MUCH* Different than Teblow.
And anyway, the only way a "Ray Lucas" situation could POSSIBLY happen is if Greg McElroy gets a shot.
Teblow is NOT an NFL QB. He's basically a Tightend/Halfback-in-the-making trying to be a QB in the NFL(and failing).


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Before I tell you all about Secret Invasion again — the first issue arrives in stores tomorrow — I have just five words for you: Zombies Vs. Robots Vs. Amazons. Ignoring the potential sequel, "Zombies Vs. Robots Vs. Amazons Vs. Your Mother," how much more awesome can one comic sound? Find out about the war to end all wars, as well as invading aliens who look just like you and other four color funnies under the jump.
Okay, so back to those Amazon-fightin', zombie-hatin' robots. As you may be able to guess, Zombies Vs. Robots Vs. Amazons is a hardcover collection of the sequel to Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood's Zombies Vs. Robots, and just like its predecessor, it pretty much does what it promises in the title. As the solicitation for the book explains:
When last we visited the Zombies vs. Robots world, nuclear war had decimated the population of the entire globe, including zombies and robots alike. So who is left to fight? And how is an island of Amazon warrior-women involved this time around?
Try and resist. You won't be able to.
Also irresistible despite your better intentions is Marvel's Secret Invasion, which finally launches tomorrow. Years in the making, the publisher's "big summer blockbuster" (ignoring the actual summer blockbusters that its movie arm is putting out this year) plans to ramp up your paranoia, return some heroes to their original states, and shoot Mr. Fantastic in the head so that he turns into a pile of jelly. Carnage-a-go-go awaits you, for less than $4.
Elsewhere in the world of comics, one of Judge Dredd's most popular stories gets the deluxe treatment with the release of Judge Dredd: The Complete America, showing just why freedom and democracy are bad ideas in the 23rd century land of the free (Here's a clue: He is the law). Fans of dystopian British pulp SF may also want to pick up Warren Ellis' new series, Anna Mercury, which mixes Lara Croft, the Shadow and — apparently — Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon together to come up with five issues of potential good stuff.
(Also worth checking out in the same vein, but not necessarily SF: Holmes, an alternate-history take on Arthur Conan Doyle's favorite dick, which gets a collection courtesy of AiT-PlanetLar this week.)
For those who find all that dystopian crap too much to deal with, then DC Comics has you covered. You can follow the adventures of the original Last Boy on Earth in the Planet Of The Apes-inspired Countdown Special: Kamandi oneshot. Or you could go for the cute with Shazam - The Greatest Stories Ever Told, which collects more Captain Marvel magic than you could ever want to see.
Of course, it's possible that you would rather avoid old men inviting children into caves, but thankfully, there's a world of other wonders in this week's shipping list, and as for where to buy those beauties of amazement? You can track down your nearest store right here.


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Mobile Medical Applications
Mobile Medical Applications
- What are mobile medical apps?
- How will the FDA regulate mobile medical apps?
- Mobile medical apps that the FDA will regulate
- Mobile apps for which the FDA intends to exercise enforcement discretion
- Does the FDA regulate mobile devices and mobile app stores?
- Mobile Medical Applications - Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff (PDF - 1.3MB)
- Does the guidance apply to electronic health records?
The widespread adoption and use of mobile technologies is opening new and innovative ways to improve health and health care delivery.
Mobile applications (apps) can help people manage their own health and wellness, promote healthy living, and gain access to useful information when and where they need it. These tools are being adopted almost as quickly as they can be developed. According to industry estimates, 500 million smartphone users worldwide will be using a health care application by 2015, and by 2018, 50 percent of the more than 3.4 billion smartphone and tablet users will have downloaded mobile health applications (http://www.research2guidance.com/500m-people-will -be-using-healthcare-mobile-applications-in-2015/). These users include health care professionals, consumers, and patients.
The FDA encourages the development of mobile medical apps that improve health care and provide consumers and health care professionals with valuable health information. The FDA also has a public health responsibility to oversee the safety and effectiveness of medical devices – including mobile medical apps.
The FDA issued the Mobile Medical Applications Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff (PDF - 269KB) on September 25, 2013, which explains the agency's oversight of mobile medical apps as devices and our focus only on the apps that present a greater risk to patients if they don't work as intended and on apps that cause smartphones or other mobile platforms to impact the functionality or performance of traditional medical devices.
What are mobile medical apps?
Mobile apps are software programs that run on smartphones and other mobile communication devices. They can also be accessories that attach to a smartphone or other mobile communication devices, or a combination of accessories and software.
Mobile medical apps are medical devices that are mobile apps, meet the definition of a medical device and are an accessory to a regulated medical device or transform a mobile platform into a regulated medical device.
Consumers can use both mobile medical apps and mobile apps to manage their own health and wellness, such as to monitor their caloric intake for healthy weight maintenance. For example, the National Institutes of Health's LactMed app provides nursing mothers with information about the effects of medicines on breast milk and nursing infants.
Other apps aim to help health care professionals improve and facilitate patient care. The Radiation Emergency Medical Management (REMM) app gives health care providers guidance on diagnosing and treating radiation injuries. Some mobile medical apps can diagnose cancer or heart rhythm abnormalities, or function as the "central command" for a glucose meter used by an insulin-dependent diabetic patient.
How will the FDA regulate mobile medical apps?
The FDA will apply the same risk-based approach the agency uses to assure safety and effectiveness for other medical devices. The guidance document (PDF - 269KB) provides examples of how the FDA might regulate certain moderate-risk (Class II) and high-risk (Class III) mobile medical apps. The guidance also provides examples of mobile apps that are not medical devices, mobile apps that the FDA intends to exercise enforcement discretion and mobile medical apps that the FDA will regulate in Appendix A, Appendix B and Appendix C.
We encourage app developers to contact the FDA – as early as possible – if they have any questions about their mobile app, its level of risk, and whether a premarket application is required.
Mobile medical apps that the FDA will regulate
The FDA is taking a tailored, risk-based approach that focuses on the small subset of mobile apps that meet the regulatory definition of "device" and that:
- are intended to be used as an accessory to a regulated medical device, or
- transform a mobile platform into a regulated medical device.
Mobile apps span a wide range of health functions. While many mobile apps carry minimal risk, those that can pose a greater risk to patients will require FDA review.
Please visit the mobile medical apps example page for a list of examples of mobile medical apps that have been cleared or approved by the FDA. Visit the Examples of MMAs the FDA regulates webpage for a more detailed list of examples of mobile apps that would require FDA review.
For a list of what is considered a mobile medical application, manufacturers and developers of mobile applications can search FDA's database of existing classification by type of mobile medical application (for example diagnostic). Approved/cleared mobile medical applications will also be listed in FDA's 510(k) and PMA databases and on the FDA's Registration & Listing Database.
FDA's mobile medical apps policy does not require mobile medical app developers to seek Agency re-evaluation for minor, iterative product changes.
Mobile apps for which the FDA intends to exercise enforcement discretion
For many mobile apps that meet the regulatory definition of a "device" but pose minimal risk to patients and consumers, the FDA will exercise enforcement discretions and will not expect manufacturers to submit premarket review applications or to register and list their apps with the FDA. This includes mobile medical apps that:
- Help patients/users self-manage their disease or condition without providing specific treatment suggestions;
- Provide patients with simple tools to organize and track their health information;
- Provide easy access to information related to health conditions or treatments;
- Help patients document, show or communicate potential medical conditions to health care providers;
- Automate simple tasks for health care providers; or
- Enable patients or providers to interact with Personal Health Records (PHR) or Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems.
For a more detailed list of examples of these types of mobile medical apps that do not require FDA review, please visit the webpage Examples of Mobile Apps for which the FDA will exercise enforcement discretion.
Does the FDA regulate mobile devices and mobile app stores?
FDA's mobile medical apps policy does not regulate the sale or general consumer use of smartphones or tablets. FDA's mobile medical apps policy does not consider entities that exclusively distribute mobile apps, such as the owners and operators of the "iTunes App store" or the "Google Play store," to be medical device manufacturers. FDA's mobile medical apps policy does not consider mobile platform manufacturers to be medical device manufacturers just because their mobile platform could be used to run a mobile medical app regulated by FDA.
Does the guidance apply to electronic health records?
FDA's mobile medical app policy does not apply to mobile apps that function as an electronic health record (EHR) system or personal health record system.
- Mobile Medical Applications - Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff (PDF - 1.3MB)


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Patients in control
This lively ten-minute video is aimed at patients, but will also be useful to health professionals and others.
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All of the resources included in our person-centred care resource centre have been reviewed by the Health Foundation. We believe them to be of the highest possible standard but we do not take responsibility for the accuracy of information from third parties.
This lively ten-minute video is aimed at patients, but will also be useful to health professionals and others.
This extract from a longer paper, provides a helpful table of components of self-management support and examples of how these have been implemented.
This hour-long webinar, hosted by Adrian Sieff, Assistant Director at the Health Foundation, provides an excellent introduction to how to understand and implement shared decision making and self-management support into mainstream health care services. It includes presentations by Nahid Ahmad and Holly Krelle from ICF International.
In this blog, Anya de Iongh describes how her 92 year old grandmother, who subscribes to the 'doctor knows best' school of thought and would not describe herself as having long term conditions, is in fact a role model for self-management support.
Academic / research papers
This is the first review to examine the moderating effect of sex in self-management support interventions. A substantial sample frame of 1887 potentially relevant studies (identified via 116 Cochrane reviews) were screened for eligibility against the inclusion criteria.
This resource is a series of slides that were presented at the Health Foundation's 'Making self-management support a reality' event, held in May 2015. The slide sets share the learning from Whittington Health, Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundatiuon Trust on how best to put self-management support into practice.
Other tools and resources
In this brief article, Sara Riggare describes how her limited contact with health services (two appointments with her consultant a year) highlights the importance of being able to manage her own health and describes some of the skills and techniques she uses to manage her Parkinson's.
In this blog Dr David Paynton, who is a practising GP from Sounthampton and National Clinical Lead for the RCGP Centre for Commissioning, describes his own practice's experience of implementing care and support planning using the house of care model. He describes some of the challenges, and the need for not only local but whole system change.
This two-minute video aimed at patients briefly sets out what self-management means from a patient perspective.
This three-minute video, narrated by RCGP President Professor Mike Pringle, uses fast-moving, cartoon-style images to depict a typical 10-minute GP consultation with an elderly patient with multiple and complex illnesses called 'Rose'.


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Kari Ludy sure made the most of the final home game of her college career.
The Albright senior and Pottsgrove graduate came to play on Senior Day, with 16 points, eight rebounds and two steals in a 75-70 win over Stevenson.
Ludy helped the Lions improve to 7-9 (11-12 overall) and remain tied with Lycoming for the final Commonwealth playoff spot, setting up a must-win game at the Warriors on Tuesday evening.
Immaculata senior Chrissy Esbensen (St. Pius X) had 19 points and four assists in a 71-64 loss at Rosemont. Esbensen also had 19 points, three assists and two steals in a loss to Neumann.
In that game, Neumann sophomore Jess Schlesman (Boyertown) had six points, six rebounds and two assists for the Knights. Schlesman also had 12 points, three rebounds and two assists in a 10-point win over Centenary.
Kutztown senior Ashley Wood (Spring-Ford) had 19 points, five rebounds and two steals in a loss to Shippensburg.
Saint Vincent senior Melissa Mansur (St. Pius X) had seven points, four assists and four steals in a 77-64 win over Bethany.
MEN'S BASKETBALL Albright senior Dave Singleton (Hill School) fell one assist short of a triple-double, tallying 14 points, 12 rebounds and nine assists in an 82-81 loss to Stevenson. Singleton's potential game-winning 3-pointer glanced off the back rim as time expired. Fellow senior Zach Benjamin (Daniel Boone) had 15 points and nine rebounds in the loss for Albright. Earlier in the week Singleton had 20 points and eight rebounds in a 70-60 loss to Hood.
Kutztown junior Tyler Brooks (Daniel Boone) had 14 points and three steals in a 70-66 loss to Shippensburg.
Mansfield sophomore Joe Bell (Pottsgrove) had two 19-point games last week, once in a 74-66 win over Shippensburg and also in an 86-72 loss to West Chester.
ICE HOCKEY Chris McCarthy's Vermont Catamounts have had a bumpy season so far, especially in the always tough Hockey East, posting an 8-14-4 overall mark and a 5-10-4 record in the league.
On Saturday, the Collegeville native helped Vermont to one of its strongest showings of the season, as he played a part in all three Vermont goals in a 3-0 win over Maine.
McCarthy had a goal and two assists in one of the only sporting events to actually take place in New England this weekend due to the blizzard.
The goal was McCarthy's seventh, and the two assists bumped his season total to a team-high 14.
McCarthy leads the Catamounts in total points (21) and assists (14), and is tied for second on the team in goals. McCarthy ranks in the top 15 in Hockey East in points and is tied for 10th in assists.
Union sophomore Max Novak (Hill School) had an assist in a 4-2 loss to St. Lawrence.
MEN'S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD Bloomsburg senior Devin Barr (Pottsgrove) was part of the 4x400 relay team that set an NCAA provisional time at the Bucknell Winter Classic. The time ranks as the second best in the conference this year. Barr also finished second in the 200 meter dash(22.35).
WOMEN'S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD Elizabethtown junior Traci Tempone (Perkiomen Valley) clocked the top 5,000 meter time (17.29.85) at the Seamus McElligott Invitational at Haverford College. Tempone was four seconds ahead of the next finisher, and more than 12 seconds ahead of the third-place runner.
Elizabethtown freshman teammate Rachel Carr (Phoenixville) blew away the field in the 800 meters in just her third run of the season at the distance, clocking a 2:19.18, the best time of all 43 entries at the event. Carr also was part of a third-place time in the 4x400 (4:14.53).
WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS Ohio State junior Sarah Miller (Methacton) won the balance beam (9.875), was second on floor (9.900) and finished third on the vault (9.850) as the No. 20 Buckeyes posted a season-high score, but still fell to their biggest rival, No. 3 Michigan.
Bowling Green freshman Alyssa Nocella (Boyertown) won the floor exercise (9.850) in a 192.850-192.050 win over Lindenwood. Nocella also tied for the team best on balance beam with a 9.700.


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September 18, 2008
By Paul Feinberg
If you want to manufacture a Batman t-shirt in Britain or use the Roadrunner to sell a sports car in Germany ... or Egypt for that matter ... you'll have to check with Salvador Viramontes ('96) first.
Viramontes, whose career previously took him from Mexico City to Los Angeles, is now based in London as Warner Bros., Consumer Products' new vice-president, sales retail and marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). When interviewed in early September, he'd only been in England for about five weeks, after a six-year stint in Burbank handling a similar position for Warner Bros. in Latin America. He is responsible for monetizing the varied Warner Bros. brands -- which include the DC Comics characters (Batman, Superman, Flash) and Looney Tunes stars (Bugs Bunny, Roadrunner, Elmer Fudd) among many others -- by licensing the properties as advertising "spokes-characters," to manufacturers and to retailers such as Euro-giant Carrefour. Viramontes and Warner Bros. also do licensing and branding for third-party partners, like popular futbol teams Manchester United and Barcelona.
Much of Viramontes' work involves deciding which companies with which to do business. There's much more to it than just a profitable bottom line.
"Since we're selling an intangible, it's a very delicate thing," Viramontes said. "We have to think about what impact a deal will have on the brand. Our brands like DC Comics and Looney Tunes are evergreen, they've been with the company for decades and they should remain highly valuable for decades to come." As a result, you won't be seeing Batman cigarettes or Superman vodka any time soon, no matter how many packs or bottles the company could sell.
Viramontes explained what he looks for in a partner. "It's not a question of milking (our properties), on the contrary, we strive to find good partners with good manufacturing quality and ethical practices." He added that a company's ability to adapt products to a local market is important and it is also important to partner with companies that are financially sound. Companies lacking solid financials might not be able to properly launch a product, resulting not only in lost revenues, but also damage to a particular brand.
But Viramontes and his team are not only seeking big multi-national corporations to do business with. He says they are just as willing to work with small, family-owned companies. "One interesting thing about this business is that no two contracts are the same. There are tailor-made contracts and negotiations for each deal," Viramontes said. What this means is, an entrepreneur with a proven knowledge of a particular market and good financial backing and a solid business plan has a fair chance of licensing Bugs Bunny for their product just like a multi-national, but anyone lacking the right backing or track record has little or no shot.
Warner Bros. employs a combination of fully owned offices and agents across the EMEA region, including emerging and developing markets. Their task is to seek out potential deals and to service existing ones. Some deals are brought to the agents, others are the result of knocking on doors. They negotiate deals which are then presented to Viramontes and his team in the London regional headquarters where final approval and vetting commences.
Not all deals involve manufacturing. In some cases, potential partners simply seek to trade on the image of a Warner Bros. property. "At the end of the day, when you are licensing, you are borrowing equity. When you want to communicate an idea using one of our characters might be a clear way to do it," Viramontes said. "Speed for example. In that case, using Roadrunner or The Flash makes your point clearly and succinctly."
Viramontes journey to Warner Bros. began at UCLA Anderson. As he was graduating, he was offered an internship through the Parker Career Management Center at Warner Bros., an internship he turned down due to a desire to return to Mexico City (the internship was in Burbank). But, he says, the Parker CMC had trained him never to close any doors, so he was as diplomatic as possible in turning down the position. He must have made a good impression, because three and a half years later a licensing position with Warner Bros. opened up in Mexico City and the same Warners executive who had done the internship interview called and offered Viramontes a position he then accepted.
After six years in Los Angeles, he's now ready to expand the Warner Bros. brand across new territory. He's looking forward to the challenge.
"The importance of licensing or merchandising has definitely expanded (over the years), competition has increased all over the place," Viramontes said. "More and more, brands or intellectual properties are being used by companies to communicate (certain) lifestyles (and) many (more) companies are getting into the business."
On a personal level, Viramontes looks forward to a new set of challenges. "I find myself having to quickly adapt to several business cultures (at once). I am based in London, but my responsibilities cover a large number of countries with very different ways of doing business. But this is what makes the position exciting -- adapting to new cultures, learning new ways of doing business and in turn opening my horizons both professionally and personally."


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What are your favorite songs, albums, or musicians in general with anti-religious messages?
Some of my favorites include "Glory Hallelujah" by Frank Turner and the entire new Quiet Company album "We Are All Where We Belong."
If you disagree with me or if you have a contribution/suggestion, post below!
I'm really looking for some new music powered by freethought! Thanks!
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Judith, A Perfect Circle
Personal Jesus, Depeche Mode
Hand that Feeds, NIN
There's many more, but those come to mind.
Tool - 10,000 Days
"Imagine" - by John Lennon
"I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead" by "Weird Al" Yankovic
I'd have to go with "Judith" by A Perfect Circle. It's such a great song, and there is no subtlety to it;s anti-religious message.
Lennon's "Imagine," comes to mind immediately. Sorry it's not new, but it's still great. Cee-Lo, not so much.
"Dear God" by XTC and "No Heaven" by DJ Champion are also great songs.
love a couple mentioned already, Imagine and Dear God.
Not my favorite but a good song if you like bluesy guitar is No Faith Required by Snowy White and the White Flames.
Here are my recommendations, and just a song of each of them, though they have many more with anti-religious message, especially the first band:
Punk - Bad Religion (God Song)
Indusrial - Nine Inch Nails (Heresy)
Progressive Metal - Tool (Opiate), Karnivool (Set Fire To The Hive)
Progressive Rock - Dredg (I Don't Know), Porcupine Tree(Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled)
"Sure As Hell Not Jesus" - Cosmo Jarvis
Electric Six also occasionally has atheistic themes in their songs, I've noticed. ("All your rituals and superstitions -- don't you find them kind of odd? Might as well kneel before Zod!" in "Rip It!" for example)
The Humanist has a great interview with Taylor Muse about the new Quiet Company album and humanism, by the way!
No problem! Same here -- it's definitely one of my all time favorite albums. (And I've got PZ Meyers to thank for my being a QC fan, haha)
Dear God-XTC hands down favorite. It started me on my path to mental freedom.


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The City of Berkeley has guidelines for the design of off-street parking. These guidelines are presented in the following pdf documents: Basic Parking Requirements and Driveways, Residential Driveways, Residential Garage Dimensions. These guidelines represent minimum design standards. The one exception is when compact spaces are allowed they can be 16 ft. in length rather than 18 ft. No allowable percentage for compact spaces has been established, but because of the small minimums for regular spaces compared to many other cities they are only allowed where they can be justified. An additional exception exists for handicapped spaces, which must be nine feet wide and also have an appropriate aisle next to them.
Most development projects are reviewed by the Traffic Engineering Section at Public Works Transportation to make sure that minimum design standards are met, including the feasibility of standard vehicles to safely and efficiently enter and leave designated parking spaces. All required spaces must be designated on plans, even if they are not in a garage or carport.
During the review of a project, the City may require a traffic impact study and/or a parking survey of nearby on-street parking. The City has developed guidelines for these studies, and all applicants should contact Traffic Engineering staff in order to establish an appropriate scope of work when either of these studies is required by the Planning Department.
A Traffic Engineering fee (click here to see fee schedule) is paid by applicants at the time that a building permit is approved.
Transportation Engineering Division review will be per the Master Fee Schedule which currently is summarized as follows:
Plan Check review fees (when Traffic Engineering review is required) include up to eight (8) hours of review after which our continued review would be at $160/hour (charged at 15-minute increments). A Traffic Engineer is on call every weekday (except holidays and 2nd Fridays) from 9:00am-12:00pm or by appointment. Consultations are encouraged early in the project development process so that any significant changes in building design can be addressed as soon as possible. It is necessary for a consultation fee to be charged if the request occurs before a Use Permit is submitted to the Planning Department. The charge is $160.00/hour and is billed in 15-minute increments, with payment by credit card or check required at the conclusion of each consultation.


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Crocs, Inc. Increases Revolving Credit Agreement to $100 Million
Crocs, Inc. Increases Revolving Credit Agreement to $100 Million
NIWOT, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Crocs, Inc. (NAS: CROX) announced today that the Company entered into an amendment to its amended and restated credit agreement, expanding the existing $70M line of credit set to expire in December 2016 with a five year $100M revolving line of credit, which includes a 50 basis point reduction in interest rates over the existing line of credit.
The loan is provided by PNC Bank, N.A., a member of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYS: PNC) . JPMorgan Chase Bank and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. are also participants in the credit agreement.
"The amendment to our credit agreement allows us to take advantage of historically low interest rates and provides us with additional financial capability to execute our strategic and capital allocation plans," stated Jeff Lasher, Chief Financial Officer of Crocs, Inc. "This improved credit agreement broadens our financial flexibility, increases our ability to repurchase shares and further bolsters our solid capital position."
Borrowings under the revolving credit facility will bear interest at variable rates. Other changes to the credit agreement made by the amendment will be further described in the Company's Form 8-K, to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
About Crocs, Inc.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2012, Crocs, Inc. is a world leader in innovative casual footwear for men, women and children. Crocs offers several distinct shoe collections with more than 300 four-season footwear styles. All Crocs™ shoes feature Croslite™ material, a proprietary, revolutionary technology that gives each pair of shoes the soft, comfortable, lightweight, non-marking and odor-resistant qualities that Crocs fans know and love. Crocs fans "Get Crocs Inside" every pair of shoes, from the iconic clog to new sneakers, sandals, boots and heels. Since its inception in 2002, Crocs has sold more than 200 million pairs of shoes in more than 90 countries around the world. The brand celebrated reaching $1 billion in annual sales in 2011.
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama hailed the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act on Wednesday, declaring the court "has righted a wrong, and our country is better off for it."
Obama decided in 2011 to stop defending the 1996 law, concluding that it was legally indefensible.In a statement issued while he was flying on Air force One to Africa Wednesday, Obama said he had directed Attorney General Eric Holder to work with others in his administration to make sure federal law reflects the court's decision.
"This was discrimination enshrined in law," he said. "We are a people who declared that we are all created equal - and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well."
Acknowledging that many Americans object to gay marriage on religious grounds, he stressed that nothing in the decision changes how religious institutions define and consecrate marriage.
His statement came moments after he telephoned his congratulations to gay rights advocate Chad Griffin and plaintiffs in a California gay marriage case.
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Robotic Versus Open Prostatectomy
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I am deciding between regular prostatectomy and robotic version. What do you see as the pros and cons in making this decision?
Daniel Eun MD, Director of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Urologic Oncology and Reconstruction at PENN Urology at Pennsylvania Hospital, responds:
I always tell patients that regardless of what modality you choose, find a surgeon who is experienced and who does a lot of that procedure. This is such a technical operation that is often tied in with quality of life issues as well as cancer control issues, the surgeon's experience and technique is very important. Generally speaking, if you find a good surgeon, most people will have a good outcome. I think advantages of robotics will come down to less incision/pain, faster time to hospital discharge/recovery, faster time till catheter comes out. Advantages for open prostatectomy is that the surgeon has better tactile feel since their finger is literally on the prostate. The rest of the issues (continence, potency, margins, cancer control) are very surgeon and patient dependent and a continued point of debate amongst open and robotic surgeons.
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In our annual HealthLeaders 20, we profile individuals who are changing healthcare for the better. Some are longtime industry fixtures; others would clearly be considered outsiders. Some are revered; others would not win many popularity contests. All of them are playing a crucial role in making the healthcare industry better. This is the story of Lori Swanson.
This profile was published in the December, 2012 issue of HealthLeaders magazine.
"There is a time a place and a way for a hospital to collect money but the ER isn't it."
For Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson, the case against Accretive Health Inc. started out as a straight-forward HIPAA violation investigation.
An employee at the Chicago-based revenue cycle management and debt collection firm lost his company laptop in a smash-and-grab while his car was parked at a Minneapolis restaurant. The unencrypted computer contained health records for more than 23,500 people.
As prosecutors began investigating the theft they also began to hear troubling reports from patients and Accretive employees about the company's business practices at three hospitals it had contracted with in Minnesota.
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"Another woman, we call her Jane Doe No. 3 in the papers, she was having a miscarriage. Pregnant with her first child, she went to the ER and they demanded right there in the middle of the miscarriage that she pay on a credit card. She did lose her baby that night. That kind of conduct has no place in an American hospital," Swanson says.
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Facing NFL draft, Austin Seferian-Jenkins says his weight, not DUI, affected his last UW season
"I don't think I'm a character risk or a character issue at all,'' said Seferian-Jenkins at the NFL Combine on Thursday.
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Position: Tight end
Age: 21
Height, weight: 6-5, 262
High school: Gig Harbor
College career
Washington Huskies
2013: 36 catches, 450 yards, 8 TDs
2012: 69 catches, 852 yards, 7 TDs
2011: 41 catches, 538 yards, 6 TDs
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"There's some depth at that position,'' he said of a group that could yield two first-round picks for the first time since 2006. "I know there are also some guys that have some character issues at that position.''
A few hours later, former Washington Huskies star Austin Seferian-Jenkins stood at a nearby podium.
"I don't think I'm a character risk or a character issue at all,'' he said.
Even having to address that question, though, remains part of the penalty Seferian-Jenkins is paying for being arrested for DUI in Seattle in March 2013. He later pleaded guilty to the charge, spending one day in jail.
He followed with an underwhelming final season at UW, catching 36 passes for 450 yards. Each was the lowest in his three years with the Huskies, and far below the 69 receptions and 852 yards he had during a standout sophomore season in 2012.
Back then, it seemed a foregone conclusion Seferian-Jenkins would be a first-round pick.
Thursday, he addressed all the questions about him head-on during a 10-minute session at the podium and a few minutes with a small group of reporters.
The DUI, he said, was a one-time mistake that taught him a big lesson. And added that he will be happy to repeat that as many times as needed during interviews with NFL teams.
"Obviously they are going to do their due diligence in asking me about the situation with the DUI,'' Seferian-Jenkins said. "But I think when you get to know me and you get to talk to me, I think it's very clear that I'm not a character-issue guy. I made a mistake and I've moved past that.''
The statistical drop, he said, was due in part to UW's change in offense, going to a no-huddle, spread attack that called for him to block more.
It was also due, in part, because he gained weight to prepare for the shift in offense. He said he mistakenly believed he needed to be bigger to handle the greater blocking responsibilities. He eventually weighed more than 280 pounds. Seferian-Jenkins, who officially measured 6 feet 5½, weighed 262 pounds Thursday, having slimmed down during workouts with a training group in Phoenix.
"Little did I know it (blocking) had little to do with weight. It had to do with technique," Seferian-Jenkins said. "And I learned. And I'm happy that it happened then instead of happening now that I'm potentially in the NFL. I'm back in the shape that I was when I was a sophomore and a freshman. I feel great and feel ready to go.''
Seferian-Jenkins, who will work out with the rest of the tight ends Saturday, insisted the distraction from his DUI had nothing to do with his weight gain or drop in catches.
"Honestly, I could have done a better job,'' he said of his final season at UW. "I was a little heavy. ... But the DUI did not affect me (on the field).''
And while Seferian-Jenkins will have to answer tough questions, the expectation is that he will be one of the top two or three tight ends selected in the May 8-10 NFL draft. "I think he's a first-round pick,'' NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock said earlier this week. "… He should be a better blocker than he is given his size, but he's athletic enough to block. I think he's tough enough to block.''
Seferian-Jenkins doesn't doubt it. He announced his decision to leave UW with one year of eligibility left minutes after Washington's season-ending bowl win over Brigham Young. He simply felt the time was right to move on.
"Ever since I was growing up I knew I was going to play in the NFL,'' said Seferian-Jenkins, who played at Gig Harbor High School. "I never thought anything else. There was never a moment like 'I'm ready.' I just knew that there would be a time. And after my last game, I knew I was ready.''
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It may sound strange, but for those asking advice on writing a novel, "don't worry about plot too much" is one of the first lessons from a university professor of English and creative writing.
Michael Loyd Gray, who teaches at South University and has written seven novels in the past eight years, has created a primer of sorts for aspiring novelists.
1. Know something about the story you want to tell. Know who the main character is and where she or he lives, what she or he does for a living – and a conflict she or he has that can be explored. "I started writing my novel 'Well Deserved' once I knew the name of the first character, where he lived, how he lived, and what his circumstances were," says Gray. "Soon, I knew how he would react to strangers, for example, and soon another character comes along to interact with him."
2. Write characters arcs to get started. F. Scott Fitzgerald did this: map out in great detail who your characters are – where they went to school, who they loved, who they betrayed, their educations, etc.-
3. It's a marathon, not a sprint. A short story can take place in a very short time, but a novel can be about someone's entire life or even span 1,000 years. Accept that you are telling a very long story that will evolve in ways you didn't expect and settle into a routine. "Write every day," says Gray. "Seriously, I write every day and that way I keep the narrative thread fresh and easy to pick up. I read the previous day's work, make adjustments that are obvious, and then I push the story forward. But also be willing to be pulled forward when the story seems to be writing itself."
4. Trust your subconscious to help you. Gray says, "Hemingway said the subconscious was like a spring inside us that gets replenished overnight. After writing do something else – exercise, listen to music, clean the bathtub." Gray says to let what you wrote sink into the subconscious to ferment and be ready for what is served up the next morning.
5. Know when to delete what you wrote. Not everything that comes out will be sterling or even belong in your novel. "I cut the first 40 pages of my novel 'Not Famous Anymore' because novelist Monique Raphel High convinced me that while it was funny, it was not really how the book needed to open. What I replaced those pages with was a better, tighter opening that I could see was more connected to developing a sense of the main character. Challenge what you've written to belong on the page," explains Gray.
6. Avoid having your characters make grand speeches. Have them speak the way they really would, using the words they really would use. "If the character is profane, profanity would lace their speech," Gray says. "Readers come to know who a character is by what they say and what they do – and also by what they don't say and what they don't do." Faced with a chance to help someone, for example, a character not taking action conveys betrayal.
Not getting discouraged is Gray's seventh lesson.
"I wrote for a long time before I realized I'd gotten good," says Gray, who had been writing short stories while he earned his master's degree in English. Eventually, he realized the novel was a better form for telling his stories. "Ask yourself if your idea is valid enough to be a novel. If so, start writing. Establish a beachhead and go from there."


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Brenda Song Wears Controversial Tee
The former Disney star made quite a statement when she stepped out — but for all the wrong reasons. What was she thinking?
Brenda Song used to be a Disney darling, but from the looks of her latest fashion statement it seems like she's trying to shed any fragments that are left of her good girl image. The Suite Life on Deck star stepped out in LA on Oct. 1, wearing a ripped white tee with two 'F' letters in black, written in the middle of a white circle inside a red square. The symbol eerily resembled a swastika, the symbol on the Nazi flag. This offensive image certainly isn't what you would expect to see on a Disney star.
Above the image, the word 'offender' was printed. Short shorts and boots completed her look. While so many young stars seem to enjoy shocking the public with their rebellious ways, this shirt is just downright offensive on so many levels.
It has been a while since we've seen Brenda, who was briefly engaged to Miley Cyrus' half-brother, Trace Cyrus. Even though she has managed to steal the spotlight, I doubt this is the type of attention she was hoping for. It just comes off as immature and out of line.
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having 2 quantum physicists for parents, both of whom leaders in their field for long periods of time, i grew up with, and personally have massive respect for science and the scientific method for creating knowledge. but it is certainly NOT an absolutely neutral, objective sphere entirely divorced from, outside of, and untainted by human subjectivity. and as a human endeavor, especially the philosophical foundation it rests upon and the subsequent story it weaves, it is not beyond criticism (outside of its own celebrated revision process). i think the likes of Lyotard and other post-structuralists referenced in this article are dealing with Science in the wider sense, as an ideology, as a "master narrative", as an "episteme"; in it's implications, effects, as well as methodology. the "age of reason", an increased priviledging of rationality, and a simultaneous repression of what is deemed the "irrational", can certainly be construed as a product of dominant patriarchy.
the biases which constantly shape scientific thinking can be easily described, in ordinary situations. an obvious one is choice -- which area to focus a study on, out of thousands, perhaps tens or hundreds of thousands of possible areas? with limited funding, personel, and time, the choice is always informed by society, politics, and ideology - with the myriad of human emotions this entails. another obvious one is interpretation -- we can probably all think of examples of how the results of experiments or research programs can be seen in different lights, from different perspectives, thus arriving at sometimes drastically different conclusions.
what i am interested in is a critique of science as one of the central disciplines which informed Modernism and the progressive view of history; a critique which deals with a particular narrative which science has helped construct, which in the past few hundred years have tinted our lenses, put certain ideas into our heads, and influenced human behavior on the deepest levels.
below is an article i found the other day, by Steve Denning, which sums up some ideas i'm very much interested in at the moment. of course the kind of discourse cliff noted here has been going on since more or less the 60s, and involves a large body of work by many philosophers and theorists. i have read very little of the original texts, and my own understanding of them is admittedly shallow. until the day i will have time to explore these ideas in depth, this will have to do.
What is the intellectual foundation of science? What is the basis of the claim of scientists to have access to a higher form of knowledge? Often scientists simply assert the claim, without bothering to probe the philosophically murky foundation on which all knowledge ultimately rests. According to scientists, research is conducted in an objective spirit of scientific inquiry, that discoveries add to our ever-growing knowledge about the universe, and that it is self-evident that science will in due course improve the lot of humanity. Television reinforces such views with the use of laboratory technicians as a source of evidence about the germ-killing properties of a particular brand of bleach, or the clinically-proven ability of a mouth wash to fight bad breath.
In 1979, Jean-François Lyotard was asked by Quebec's Conseil des Universités to review the state of scientific knowledge and information in the late 20th century. He looked at how knowledge comes into being, who controls it, who has access to it, and how it becomes accepted as valid. He concluded that science's claim to possess a higher kind of knowledge was seriously flawed.
For Lyotard, scientists have no more direct access to the truth than philosophers or historians, or anybody else for that matter. For him, scientists are storytellers. Thus it is not possible to describe the result of an experiment except by telling a story. The narratives that scientists produce, such as research papers, hypotheses, histories, are always governed by the protocols of the field in which they work. Each discipline is like a game. It has a special terminology which only makes sense within its own boundaries. In practice, a theorist or researcher is not faced with infinite possibilities to explore, and can only play within the limits of a system of permissible moves. The scope of permissible moves is determined by the power structure of the particular branch of science in which the scientist is working, which is just as political and unscientific as any other human activity.
Thus, according to Lyotard, narrative is not a sub-branch of science. The truth is exactly the opposite: science actually comprises particular branch of narrative. In effect, science is a sub-set of storytelling. Science is made up of language games which generate particular forms of narrative. Lyotard's view goes against the common sense view of science as a superior form of knowledge. It also contradicts modern science's view of itself.
For science to maintain its privileged status, it has usually tried to deny its own involvement in storytelling, denigrating storytelling as the epitome of the unscientific, the very thing that science must fight against, and expel from civilized discourse and education systems.
Science thus pretends to be beyond narrative. How does science do this? Ironically, it appeals to a story, or what Lyotard calls grand meta-narratives. A meta-narrative is an over-arching story, which can supposedly account for, explain, or comment on, the validity of all other stories. It is implicitly a universal or absolute set of truths, which transcends social, institutional or human limitations. Thus, a small local narrative, such as the result of a scientific experiment, or an individual action, is usually granted significance only by its ability to reflect or support some broader narrative which people generally support, like the pursuit of truth, justice, or economic growth.
Lyotard argues that some time around the 18th century, science developed the view of itself as the source of enlightenment. Prior to this, appeals to religious narratives had often been used to guarantee truth. Now, building on its practical successes and on the theoretical work of Francis Bacon and others, science took over and put forward the claim that it alone was the source of truth. It suggested that being scientific or rational was the sign of credibility. Possessing scientific knowledge implied that you could get behind mystification and superstition, reveal the facts about world and lead all of humanity to a brighter day. The underlying assumptions were:
- science is progressive, moving towards a state of complete knowledge;
- science is unified, with many different areas, but all sharing the same goal;
- science is universal, working for the good of all of us, and
- science aims at total truth that will benefit all of human life.
Thereafter, science justified itself through the neat trick of claiming that science needed no further justification. Thus, it took advantage of the idea that its activities were pursued in the name of the timeless meta-narratives of progress, emancipation and knowledge. By appealing in this way to ideas whose meanings were quietly assumed to be self-evident and universally agreed, science was able to masquerade as a single project, objectively carried out for the good of the entire human race.
More recently, particularly in the last few decades, scientists have had growing difficulty in getting away with these claims, and cracks in the facade of science's grand meta-narrative have been appearing:
-- science's own contribution to ecological problems and the development of nuclear and chemical weapons has made obvious that science is not always directly beneficial to the human race;
- groups who perceived themselves as disadvantaged by the existing political and institutional arrangements (women, developing countries, the poor) have argued that the science's claims to benefit the entire human race have often turned out, on closer inspection, to be linked in practice to promoting the interests of privileged minorities.
-- the outcome of scence - technology - was supposed to save time and reduce stress, but few people today feel as though they are enjoying the fruits of that promise. Technology often seems to make life more complicated, more hectic, more stressful, with time feeling every day more scarce, and everyone's nerves more frazzled.
-- the unscientific politics of science has come under the scrutiny of writers like Thomas Kuhn, in his depicting of the social processes of science and the phenomenon of paradigm shifts;
complexity theory and quantum mechanics have highlighted the fundamental uncertainty in understanding the world;
-- private sector funding of science has given rise to suspicions that theories and discoveries are based on contributions to performance and efficiency and contributions to the bottom line as much as on truth or purpose.
-- public sector institutions are sometimes perceived as pursuing their own agendas, driven by the internal interests of the institutions themselves, independently of the genuine public purpose.
-- even scientists have largely abandoned the goal of penetrating truth or finding the answer, in favor of the pursuit and promotion of the perspective of their own particular sub-topic.
-- scientists themselves are sometimes perceived as interested in putting out work which will generate more research funding and add to their own power and prestige within the academic "market-place".
-- science has splintered off into a mass of specialized sub-topics, each with its own language, pre-occupations, priorities, agendas, and politics, and each seemingly disinterested in the work going on in other sub-topics. Some funding sources such as foundations encourage inter-disciplinary research, but the overall dynamic is that of knowledge silos.
-- the overall result of this mass of fragmented, and only partially-compatible, activity on separate sub-topics is not necessarily enlightenment and the betterment of the human race, but often noise and a degraded quality of life for all.
-- an underlying issue is that many of the elements excluded by definition from the purview of science, because not directly observable, turn out to be some of the things that make life most worth living. It is painful to think of the coming millennium being based on such a stunted vision of human life.
See Stephen Denning, The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations. Boston, London, Butterworth Heinemann, October 2000, chapters 7, 12.
Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, (1960)
Jean-François Lyotard, The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 1979.
Glen Ward, Postmodernism, London, Hodder & Stoughton, (1997)
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Filer's Corners School
Date: 1829
Origin: Morris, Otsego County, NY
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Original owner: Thomas A. Filer/ District No. 9, Town of Butternuts (now Morris
Info: Filer's Corners School originally served children in Butternuts and later Morris. It was built for Thomas Alvah Filer, a teacher who moved to the Butternut Valley to open a boarding school. In Filer's day, the attached dorm rooms for the boarding students gave the building a much different appearance. Today the schoolhouse interprets schooling in rural New York.
Provenance: The Farmers' Museum acquired the school from the School District No. 9, Town of Morris, Otsego County in 1945.
*Nathan Lull Jr., James Blackman and John Winton, Trustees of the School District No. 9, Town of Butternuts (now Morris) bought the school from Thomas Alvah Filer and Anna Eliza Filer, his wife on Jule 9, 1840 for $420.
*Thomas A. Filer bought several parcels of land in Butternuts from Andrew Cathcart and Sally [Sarah] (Fairman) Cathcart on September 15, 1836 for $1,250. Included in this purchase was a 'small piece of land' subject to two mortgages to the Commissioner of Common Schools of Otsego County amounting to $200.
*1825/1821 - 1811 Sarah Fairman owned the land.
*1811-1810 Amos Botsford Fairman and Sarah Fairman bought the land from Vine Botsford on August 1, 1810.


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My girls have always had separate rooms. This fall we're planning to combine their rooms into one. Lately, I've had fun dreaming about how to pull it all together.
Ellie (age 3) has always had a green and pink room. It's gone through many a transition as it was once the test subject of many of my do-it-yourself projects. Addie (age 1) has a color scheme of pink and yellow. Her room has never been put all the way together, so it's not really a big deal to take it all apart and make something new.
My favorite thing in Addie's room is this vintage armoire I picked up at a Goodwill in Seattle for $30:
I love the shape of it, but the decals are hideous. A year ago I had my mother-in-law make those little curtains out of a vintage sheet (and a matching crib skirt), but I'm kind of over the pattern. I plan to paint the armoire white and keep the original hardware. As for the curtains, I am thinking something along the lines of this print from scarletpoppe:
I'm on the hunt for a big white dresser they can share so the armoire can be dedicated to toys and puzzles.
Ellie has a duvet cover made out of a vintage sheet that I am still fond of:
Recently I was lucky enough to find the same flat sheet on Etsy and snatched it up to make another duvet. This print is serving as the base colors of the room: dark pink, light pink, green, yellow and a little pop of aqua (it's hard to see the aqua in the picture).
As for the walls, I'm not attached to anything they have now, except the occasional framed baby picture. I've been searching high and low for prints that make me think of carefree childhood days. This is what I'm thinking today (ask me tomorrow and it might change!):
I LOVE this ice cream print from magalerie
This "pink day" print for kikiandpolly is divine.
And for a pop of blue, I like this "lovely love my family" print from tuesdaymorning.
I hope to make some colorful pillows as well, and find some large white wooden "E" and "A" signs to hang.. We already have some yellow grommet-top curtains that would match perfectly and a little white metal rolling cart to serve as a nightstand.
I'm hoping that by posting this, I'll be more motivated to get the refinishing and sewing done! Decorating aside, I'm a little nervous to have them share a room. Will they ever sleep again? I used to share a room with my sister, so I know what it's all about.
Do your kids share a room? Please share your wisdom!


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Cub Scout Hiking worksheet
The PDF document referenced in this article is named "Cub Scout Hiking.pdf", but the text of the document contains Flag Football worksheet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Victorgress (talk • contribs) 17:21, March 16, 2010. (Please, sign and date your posts on talk pages.)
- I have e-mailed the author of the worksheet(s) and asked him for an update, if possible. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 18:46, March 17, 2010 (EDT)
- It's now the end of Feb of 2011, and the Workbook link is still going to Flag Football. Can we get it fixed? Should just be changing a link. Vulture in okc 09:59, February 25, 2011 (EST)
- Yes, I agree; this should have been done by now. There is still no Cub Scout Hiking worksheet here. (USScouts.org doesn't have one, either.) Admittedly, this promptly fell off my radar once I contacted Milominderbinder2, who has been our worksheets "guru".
- NOTE: Any user may create (or improve) any worksheet (in MS Word, OpenOffice, or any other editable format), send it to me and I'll convert it to PDF and upload it here. If you'd like to help out with this, please let me know.
- While I usually do not personally make worksheets, I did add this to my personal TO DO list a few days ago, when another user made note of another one still being a problem. —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 11:08, February 25, 2011 (EST)
- I found updated versions of this worksheet over on the usscouts.org site on the hiking page. They had both the word and pdf versions. I'll email them to you directly. slmingol 22:42, November 9, 2011 (EST)
- Ah, thanks for that... I'll post it, now. —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 14:41, November 10, 2011 (EST)
Pin requirements incorrect
Possible typo: According to the 2010 edition (2nd printing) of the Academics and Sports Program Guide, (I have the hard copy in front of me and have confirmed with BSA that it is the most recent release as of 1st quarter 2011), the Hiking pin requirements are 5 of 11, not 6 of 11. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Symphonitron (talk • contribs) May 4, 2011. (Please, sign and date your posts on talk pages.)
- This typo still hasn't been corrected. --Nicouds 22:47, July 24, 2012 (EDT)
- Oops! (Fixed.) —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 14:52, July 25, 2012 (EDT)
Hiking safety rules
What are the hiking safety rules that the Scout is supposed to explain to his den leader? -Howarthe 03:40, July 21, 2012 (EDT)
- Howarthe, that's another good advancement-related question. And, I'm not trying to put you off... seriously; but, again (see: Talk:National Summertime Award#Which pin?) I ask you, please, register at MeritBadge.net (our forums) and ask your advancement-related questions there. I assure you... you will not be disappointed. Thanks, —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 10:42, July 21, 2012 (EDT)
- P.S. I went ahead and added the hiking safety rules (from the Cub Scouts 'Academics & Sports Program Guide', Pub. No. 34299 (2010 Edition, 2nd Printing)).
- Thanks, Smith. I really just don't want to be a member of ANOTHER forum, but thanks for adding the safety rules. -Howarthe 17:23, July 23, 2012 (EDT)


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A Thibodaux councilwoman renewed her call Monday for further investigation into a tire-slashing incident at the Police Department and an alleged political conspiracy.
A Thibodaux councilwoman renewed her call Monday for further investigation into a tire-slashing incident at the Police Department and an alleged political conspiracy.
In a news conference attended by city, parish and state officials, Councilwoman Constance Johnson asked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to open an investigation into the 2011 tire slashing incident and conspiracy claims levied against Mayor Tommy Eschete and Police Chief Scott Silverii.
The claims are tied to a lawsuit filed by veteran police officer Calvin Cooks that alleges Silverii and other police officers concocted rumors implicating Cooks in two 2011 incidents that involved 56 tires slashed on police vehicles parked outside the agency's Canal Boulevard headquarters.
The suit claims Eschete wanted Cooks implicated in the tire slashings to punish him as a political favor for former City Councilman Varick Taylor Sr.
"We are faced with a situation that we cannot and will not allow to be suppressed over a period of time," Johnson said.
Johnson also asked Silverii and another officer named in Cooks's suit, Varick Taylor Jr., to be placed on administrative leave.
Varick Taylor Jr., Varick Taylor Sr.'s son, also tried to implicate Cooks in the tire slashings, Johnson and the lawsuit said.
"I have encountered criticism and resistance from some council members for requesting the council to look into matters that make a difference in this community involving many of the areas you live in and try to address," Johnson said.
Johnson previously made a similar request imploring the City Council to investigate the claims. That request was met with criticism from other council members who said Johnson wasn't specific enough in what she wanted investigated.
Neither Eschete nor Silverii attended the news conference, but representatives from the mayor's office and other members of the council were there.
"The city attorney has advised me and the chief of police to not comment on any pending lawsuit or the specific allegations being made within this petition filed," Eschete said in a prepared statement following the news conference. "We categorically deny that there is any truth to the allegations made against me, Chief Scott Silverii and many employees of the Thibodaux Police Department."
A spokeswoman with the FBI's New Orleans Division said the office had received no formal request and, as of Monday afternoon, was not investigating the matter.
The Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office carried out an investigation into the tire-slashing incident. Although Cooks was implicated, Sheriff Craig Webre said at the time there wasn't evidence to warrant a charge against him.
Glenn Watkins, 49, 219 N. 11th St, and Jonathan Watkins, 27, 1210-A Winder Road, were each booked in late August 2011 on multiple counts of simple criminal damage to property in connection with the tire slashing. Glenn Watkins is Jonathan Watkins' uncle, authorities said.
Jonathan Watkins pleaded guilty March 26 and was given two years in prison. Glenn has a pretrial date scheduled for February.
Shontelle Clark, a confidential informant who initially told police the men vandalized the cars, went on camera to tell a New Orleans television station Cooks paid the two men to damage the tires.
Clark is central to the lawsuit that claims Silverii pressured him into implicating Cooks.
Johnson claims Clark told her Silverii was pressuring him in a series of phone calls.
"This caller stated he was being harassed by our chief of police, Scott Silverii, to do something. This caller stated he was threatening to put him back in jail," Johnson said at the news conference.
Johnson also claimed Silverii was "attempting to intimidate officers" who would have been potential witnesses in a civil service complaint Cooks filed.
The claim was dismissed but not discredited. Civil Service Director Kelly Chighizola said the complaint didn't fall within the jurisdiction of civil service rules on employment-related issues.
Police Department spokesman David Melancon directed all questions about the lawsuit to the mayor's office.
State Sen. Troy Brown, D-Napoleonville, attended the conference and said he had heard various reports of harassment at the hands of Thibodaux Police Department.
"I have heard many citizens call in saying they were harassed and their civil rights violated or they have been arbitrarily stopped," Brown said.
He did not elaborate on specific incidents, and Melancon said there have been no such reports.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Energy stocks rose Tuesday, on a rebound from the previous session, with Chesapeake Energy Corp. ahead of most of its peers.
Natural-gas producer Chesapeake Energy CHK, -8.70% shares gained 3.4% on Tuesday.
Chesapeake on Monday announced the sale of Mississippi Lime acreage to China's Sinopec for $1.02 billion, a price several analysts felt was too low. Shares declined more than 5% following the announcement.
The two companies will form a joint venture in the so-called tight oil formation, which straddles Oklahoma and Kansas.
Shares of Chevron CVX, -2.17% advanced 1.3%, while Exxon Mobil XOM, -2.99% gained 0.9%. Shares of ConocoPhillips COP, -3.52% rose 1.5%.
U.S.-listed shares of Royal Dutch Shell PLC RDS.A, -1.36% added 0.6%.
Shell is close to reaching a deal to purchase Spain's Repsol SA REP, -1.84% liquefied-natural-gas assets in Peru and in Trinidad and Tobago, Dow Jones Newswires reported Tuesday.
The deal could be announced as soon as Tuesday. Repsol is scheduled to report fourth-quarter results on Thursday.
The transaction would exclude Canadian assets that were part of a package Repsol put up for sale last year as part of its 4 billion-euro asset-sale plan.
The exact structure and financial terms of the deal weren't available, but one person said Repsol would receive at least 1.5 billion euros ($1.98 billion) in cash for the assets, according to Dow Jones.
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Repsol is heavy on debt, and Moody's Investors Service has warned the company it could be downgraded to junk status.
U.S.-listed shares of BP PLC BP, -0.85% rose 0.5%. On the second day of the civil trial on the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident, a witness for the thousands of plaintiffs suing BP and others said BP's internal investigation of the accident did not look at the decisions made by management before the accident, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Robert Bea testified as an expert witness on the trial, which also involves rig operator Transocean Ltd. RIG, -6.39% and oilfield services company Halliburton Co. HAL, -5.09%, which did cement work in the well.
Shares of Transocean rose less than 0.1% while Halliburton shares gained 1.6%.
BP was scheduled to cross-examine Bea later Tuesday. Other witnesses expected for Tuesday include Lamar McKay, BP Americas chairman and president, and previously recorded depositions of former BP CEO Tony Hayward and Kevin Lacy, former head of BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling and completions operations.
Deepwater Horizon exploded in April 2010, killing 11 workers and triggering the worst offshore oil spill in the U.S. A second trial, expected this fall, will determine how much oil leaked into the Gulf.
Refiner PBF Energy Inc. PBF, -2.82% rose 1.7%. Analysts at Raymond James have initiated coverage of the stock, which debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in December, with a "outperform" rating.
"PBF Energy is well-positioned to benefit from growth in North American crude supply and the ongoing evolution of crude spreads," the analysts said.
Refiner Tesoro Corp. US:TSO shares advanced 3.2%. Tesoro on Tuesday reported a small fire at its Martinez, Calif. refinery, but said the fire did not have an impact on operations. There were no damages or injuries, Tesoro said.
Refiner HollyFrontier Corp. HFC, -4.36%, however, was among the day's decliners. Shares were off 0.6% after the company missed earnings expectations Monday.
HollyFrontier reported a fourth-quarter profit of $391.6 million, or $1.92 a share, up from $223.4 million, or $1.06 a share, a year ago. Revenue increased 3.5% to $5.15 billion. HollyFrontier fourth-quarter profits up.
Analysts projected earnings of $2.26 a share on revenue of $4.93 billion.
"Unplanned downtime and turnaround activity that extended longer than planned resulted in lower crude charges, lower margin capture and higher cash operating expenses," analysts at Simmons & Co. said in a note to clients.
The first quarter, however, is "off to a strong start" supported by wide discounts for the types of crudes HollyFrontier utilizes and better gasoline and diesel margins, the analysts added.


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TUCSON, March 6 (UPI) -- The shape of Antarctica, beneath miles of ice, could yield clues to how the continent's ice sheet affects global climate and sea-level rise, scientists say.
University of Arizona researchers have been studying what caused the topography to start shifting from a flat landscape to one with glaciers, fjords and mountains 34 million years ago.
Radar surveys have revealed a rugged alpine landscape under Antarctica's 2-mile-thick ice sheet, but just when those deep valleys formed has been a question, they said.
"People have speculated when the big fjords formed under the ice," researcher Stuart N. Thomson said. "But no one knows for sure until you sample the rocks or the sediments."
Since the landscape of Antarctica is inaccessible below its thick covering of ice, Thomson and his colleagues had to analyze Antarctica's rocks by examining the sediments that built up off-shore for millions of years as rocks and dirt eroded off the continent.
"We use the sediments to trace what was happening under the ice in the past," Thomson said.
Between 250 and 34 million years ago, the researchers said, erosion was slow, suggesting Antarctica was relatively flat and drained by slow-moving rivers.
About 34 million years ago, as climate shift began to cover the continent in ice, the rate of erosion more than doubled, Thomson said.
"The only way that could happen is from glaciers," he said. "They started grinding and forming deep valleys."
Knowing how the ice sheets changed in the past is important for predicting future changes in ice sheet growth, sea-level change and climate, Thomson said.


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(Reuters) - The deal between the Blue Jays and Miami Marlins, who unloaded some $160 million in payroll after moving into a new, publicly financed stadium, was approved by Major League Baseball on Monday despite protests from the Florida community.
The 12-player deal, which sent high-priced Miami players including shortstop Jose Reyes and pitchers Josh Johnson and Mark Buehrle to Toronto in exchange for promising young players, was agreed upon last Tuesday but had been under MLB review.
"We've finished in last place the past two years, and that is unacceptable to our fans, to us as an organization, and to me," said Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria, according to MLB website mlb.com
"We want to get back to our winning ways, and we want a winning baseball team for our fans. It's incumbent on us to make the changes necessary to make us a winner again."
In Miami, the deal set off controversy, upset the fan base and prompted Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado to write a letter to MLB Commissioner Bud Selig to closely examine the reasoning for the transaction.
"After a thorough examination of this information, it is my conclusion that this transaction, involving established major leaguers and highly regarded young players and prospects, represents the exercise of plausible baseball judgment on the part of both clubs," Selig said in a statement.
"(It) does not violate any express rule of Major League Baseball and does not otherwise warrant the exercise of any of my powers to prevent its completion."
(Reporting by Larry Fine, Editing by Julian Linden)


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Initializing a replica with fractional replication configured is transparent when using DSCC. Only the selected attributes will be sent to the consumer during the initialization.
If you have configured fractional replication, you should filter out any unused attributes before copying the exported LDIF file to the consumer servers. Directory Server provides the fildif tool for this purpose. This tool filters the given LDIF file to keep only the attributes that are allowed by the attribute set defined in your replication agreement.
This tool reads the server's configuration to determine the attribute set definition. To read the configuration file, the fildif tool must be run as root or as the user who owns the process and the files (specified by the nsslapd-localuser attribute). For example, the following command filters the file exported from the dc=example,dc=com suffix in the previous example:
$ fildif -i /local/ds1/ldif/example_master.ldif \ -o /local/ds1/ldif/filtered.ldif -b "cn=host2.example.com:1389, \ cn=replica,cn=\\"dc=example,dc=com\\",cn=mapping tree,cn=config" -p /local/ds1
For the location of the fildif command, see Command Locations.
The -i and -o options are the input and output files, respectively. The -b option is the DN of the replication agreement where fractional replication is defined. You can find this DN by using this command:
$ ldapsearch -h host -p port -D cn=admin,cn=Administrators,cn=config -w - \ -b "cn=config" "(&(objectclass=nsds5replicationagreement)\ (nsDS5ReplicaPort=replica-port) (nsDS5ReplicaHost=replica-host))" dn
For example:
$ ldapsearch -h host2 -p 1389 -D cn=admin,cn=Administrators,cn=config -w - \ -b "cn=config" "(&(objectclass=nsds5replicationagreement) \ (nsDS5ReplicaPort=2090)(nsDS5ReplicaHost=host2))" dn Enter bind password: version: 1 dn: cn=host2:1389,cn=replica,cn=dc\=example\,dc\=com,cn=mapping tree,cn=config
For the full command-line syntax for the fildif tool, see the fildif(1) man page.
You can then use the filtered.ldif file produced by fildif to initialize the consumer in this replication agreement. Transfer the file to the consumer server and import it as described in Importing Data From an LDIF File.


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MONDAY, Oct. 12, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- Breast tenderness in women taking estrogen/progestin hormone replacement therapy could signal increased chances of developing breast cancer, a new study says.
Women taking estrogen plus progestin who reported developing breast tenderness after starting the hormone therapy were 48 percent more likely to develop invasive breast cancer than women on hormone therapy who did not experience breast tenderness.
Researchers said more study is needed before they would recommend that women who experience this symptom discontinue taking the hormones. But women who develop breast tenderness might want to reassess if the hormones are really necessary to control their menopausal symptoms.
"It's too soon to tell women to quit their hormone therapy, but it is something for women to think about in balancing the risks versus the benefits," said the study's lead author, Dr. Carolyn J. Crandall, a clinical professor of general internal medicine and health services research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"Breast tenderness is a symptom that may be a risk marker for breast cancer," she said.
The study is in the Oct. 12 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Researchers used data from the Women's Health Initiative, a landmark federal study that was halted in 2002 after investigators determined that hormone replacement therapy increased the risk for heart attack, stroke and invasive breast cancer.
Since then, most women have been advised to use hormone replacement therapy -- which physicians now call menopausal hormone therapy -- either not at all or for the shortest duration possible to get them through their most uncomfortable menopausal symptoms, usually hot flashes, Crandall said. Women are strongly advised to avoid taking hormones for longer than five years, when the risk for breast cancer doubles.
In the new study, more than 8,500 women took estrogen plus progestin, and more than 8,100 took a placebo. Participants were given a mammogram and breast exam at the start of the trial and annually thereafter.
At the one-year mark, women on the combination therapy were three times more likely to report experiencing breast tenderness than women on the placebo. About 36 percent of women on the hormone therapy reported new breast tenderness, compared with nearly 12 percent of women on a placebo.
During 5.6 years of follow-up, 0.6 percent of women who reported new breast tenderness were diagnosed with breast cancer each year, compared with 0.36 percent of women taking hormones who did not experience new breast tenderness.
Researchers aren't certain why some women on hormone therapy develop breast cancer while others don't, though the breast tenderness may provide a clue, Crandall said. Tenderness could be a sign that the cells of the breast are multiplying rapidly. Cell proliferation is a risk factor for cancer.
Mary B. Daly, director of the Personalized Cancer Risk Assessment Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, said the findings of the study, which she described as well done, should prompt women and their doctors to reassess the need for hormone replacement if such tenderness develops.
Yet individual differences -- why this happens to some women and not others -- are still not well understood, Daly said.
"Some women who start taking hormone therapy may have cells that are much more receptive to it, or more sensitive to it, while other women must be more resistant," Daly said. "Something must be different about the breast tissue to make it more or less responsive to the hormones. If we could figure that out, that would be great."
Women in the study were taking daily doses of oral conjugated equine estrogens (0.625 milligrams) plus medroxyprogesterone acetate (2.5 milligrams).
The findings apply only to women taking the combination therapy, not women who've had hysterectomies and are taking estrogen alone, Crandall said.
In a statement, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, which makes the estrogen-progestin therapy Prempro, called the study "interesting" but added that, "breast tenderness is not an established risk factor for breast cancer." According to the company, up to a quarter of women who take combination hormone therapy will develop some tenderness in the breast, typically transient. The company also noted that the "small" increase in breast cancer risk for women on combo therapy and those on placebo, "has previously been reported and is included in the Prescribing Information (labeling) for Prempro."
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The U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has more on menopausal hormone therapy.