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Team Ortho Polar Dash 10K
After running my first Team Ortho race last year, which was the Polar Dash 10K, I just had to come back for another Polar Dash. It really is a 'cool' race. Try cold-downright brittle frigid cold.
Last year I arrived an hour before the start and had to walk 2 miles to the start. With -20F windchill this morning I left earlier for a closer jog to the start. I still had to register so that meant an out and back before the race began.
Our thermometer at home showed -6, windchill of -28F. Minneapolis/St Paul 2F, -17 windchill. I decided to wear two pair of pants, two long sleeved thin tops, jacket, heavy turtlefur hat and neck gaiter, thermal gloves and wind mitts, smartwool socks, inov 8 gortex shoes.
I arrived to race start in plenty of time for close parking. I brought my heavy hooded coat to wear over my running clothes to the registration. I was toasty! Registered for the event, on a lap top, no writing on an entry form here, and entered the Monster Series. I noticed that there were shuttle buses for today's race but I didn't want to get cold waiting around for a bus. Although, the buses were prompt after the race and the organizers had gear drop. Amazing. So well organized and really, Team Ortho thinks of everything. I am very impressed with this organization.
I trotted back to my car, surfed the net, read a bit, undressed..dressed and finally went back to the start with 10 minutes to spare. The Shriners Hospital was headquarters. We were able to seek shelter in the lower level of the parking ramp-there were even heating torches to huddle under.
A fuzzy penguin announced that the race began in 4 minutes to I shivered out to the start line. I couldn't help but laugh all the way to the start line. Here are 2000 people, Minnesota hardy, ready to run a 10K when it is -17 some windchill, just for fun. What a great way to kick of 2011! I loved it.
I had no goal time really except with a hope to finish under an hour and a second faster than last year. I didn't believe this to be possible as I ran one of my highest mileage weeks this year plus skied for a day. It is only Saturday I have tomorrow to add to the weekly mileage. I'm at 72 so of course I'll run 8 to make an even 80.
I did't hear the start but pretty soon we began to shuffle-I wasn't cold but every once in a while a gust would find my eyes. The rest of me was totally covered. I crossed the start line, heard my chip buzz and started my watch. Off we went!
The course was pretty clear of ice, there was a bit of clumpy snow here and there but it was much better than what I've been running on lately. I didn't bring along my iPod, I was just going to listen to conversations around me.
We ran along the Mississippi River, up a few hills and down, a nice portion of the Twin Cities Marathon course. I had to pull down my turtlefur neck gaitor, I was getting warm. I removed my gloves as I ran up a hill, stuffed them into a pocket. I would retrieve them as I ran against the wind later.
There were course Marshall's along the course, cheering and ringing bells, taking pictures. Poor people! They were bundled up but were not running. They had to be freezing. Every one I ran past I yelled Happy New Year and they would comment on my big smile. I was having a blast. I felt great, so awesome to be running in the New Year.
At the turn around I looked at my watch and read :28. Good deal. Keep it up. Wow, made the corner and holy wind. The gusts were right at us. I pulled my gloves and mittens back on, pulled my hat down over my eyebrows and my neck gaitor up over my nose. It is quite a feeling to be running downhill but not gaining any momentum because the 35 mph wind is adding so much resistance. Crazy! I was still very comfortable, running within myself, enjoying the course.
Mile 5 and I heard a woman say "Bald Eagle" and point straight above us. There is was, gliding through the wind, effortlessly. So cool.
My eyes were watering from the wind, eyelashes freezing together. No snow today, just wind.
I crossed the finish line in 55 minutes, a few minutes faster than last year. Woohoo!
I stopped my watch and heard comments on the big smile I was wearing. It was awesome fun, everyone should be smiling! I collected another fabulous medal and was handed a Whole Foods bag-filled with banana, muscle milk, salted nut roll and other assorted goodies. Hot drinks were served, water, whatever you needed. What a class act.
I walked to my car a whole half a block away, stripped out of my wet clothes and into dry fuzzy fleece. Ahhhh...a fantastic way to start the New Year :)
5 comments:
- Julie said...
Hi Julie,
I wish I knew you were going to be running! I would of looked for you. I thought when I registered that I signed up for the 10K...my hubby picked up my race packet and my bib said 5K. I am not sure what happened. I ended up doing the 5K...it was a blessing:) I have not run in over a month! It was ugly for me...sucking air big time:)
Happy New Year to you!
- Julie B said...
Hi Julie, the 5K packet must have been your Christmas gift from Team Ortho! I signed up for the Monster Series. Maybe you'll be at Winter Carnival 1/2 or Lucky 7?
- cheap flights said...
yeah, its nice trip. I arrived to race start in plenty of time for close parking. I brought my heavy hooded coat to wear over my running clothes to the registration. I was toasty! Registered for the event, on a lap top, no writing on an entry form here, and entered the Monster Series.
i liked this part of it
- julie said...
Hi Julie,
Great job in the 10k! I was one of the Course Marshals. It was so fun to see everyone out there running. It made me want to be running too. It was chilly standing out there but they gave us hand warmers. It is amazing how well those little things work!
- Julie B said...
Julie, thank you for serving as one of the course marshals! I sure appreciate it. I just received a few packages of handwarmers in the mail, with a pair of Yaktrax to test. I haven't yet used the handwarmers. I'll have to try them out on another cold day!


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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Justin Hawkins had 15 points, including a pair of 3-pointers in a second-half rally that put No. 21 UNLV in front, and the Runnin' Rebels defeated tenacious Portland 68-60 on Tuesday night.
Playing their first game on the road this season, the Runnin' Rebels (6-1) were without top rebounder Mike Moser, who sat out with a hip injury. Anthony Bennett had 18 points and Anthony Marshall added 16 for UNLV.
Ryan Nicholas had 15 points and 19 rebounds for the Pilots (3-5), who led 28-22 at halftime and extended the lead to nine points early in the second half.
Hawkins' 3-pointer evened it a 42 and Quintrell Thomas' dunk gave the Runnin' Rebels the lead with 13:45 left. But David Carr answered with a 3-pointer for Portland.
UNLV took charge with a 12-0 run that included a jumper, a free throw and consecutive 3-pointers from Hawkins for a 56-47 lead.
Portland pulled to 63-60 on Korey Thieleke's jumper with 3:58 left but it was as close as the Pilots would come.
The game was expected to be something of a homecoming for Moser, who was a star at Portland's Grant High School. But he aggravated his hip injury in the Rebels' 77-63 victory over Hawaii on Saturday.
Moser is averaging 12.3 points and 9.2 rebounds. Shortly before the game he went to Twitter to announce he couldn't play, adding he ``really wanted to show out in my city.'' He watched from the bench on Tuesday night wearing jeans and a sweater.
The Rebels opened the season with a six-game homestand, with their lone loss coming against Oregon.
UNLV is on the road while the National Finals Rodeo is staged at the Thomas and Mack Center. After Portland, UNLV visits Cal before returning to Las Vegas for a game against La Verne at the Orleans Arena.
The Pilots (3-4) were coming off a 72-60 loss at Washington State on Saturday, but they hadn't dropped a home game.
The Rebels were plagued by sloppy play at the start, shooting just 8 for 33 from the floor in the first half.
Thomas van der Mars hit a jumper that put the Pilots up 9-5 early. They extended the lead to 15-7 on Nicholas' jumper, capping an 11-2 run.
Marshall left the game briefly after tumbling beneath UNLV's basket early in the first half, but his dunk with just under six minutes left narrowed it to 20-16 for the Rebels. The Pilots wouldn't let UNLV any closer and Nicholas' 3-pointer made it 25-18 with 4:10 left in the first half. Portland went on to take its six-point lead at the break.
The Rebels closed to 28-25 on Marshall's layup early in the second, but David Carr had a 3-pointer on the other end for the Pilots.
Portland extended the lead to 37-28 on Oskars Reinfelds' layup, but UNLV answered with Hawkins' 3-pointer. The Pilots extended the margin again on Thieleke's jumper and free throw.
Marshall hit a 3-pointer that closed the Rebels to 40-37, then added a pair of free throws to cut the margin to a point with 4:47 left.
Portland hadn't hosted a ranked team since a 79-48 loss to then-No. 12 Kentucky in 2010. The Pilots have lost eight straight to ranked opponents, dating back to a 61-56 victory over then-No. 22 Minnesota in 2009.
The Rebels and the Pilots played a pair of back-to-back games in Portland back in 1967, with UNLV winning both.


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(AP) -- The party of Cameroon's entrenched ruler Paul Biya won 56 of the 70 contested seats in the nation's first-ever senatorial election, the Supreme Court announced.
Supreme Court President Alexis Dipanda Mouelle said Monday that Biya's Cameroon Peoples' Democratic Party scored 73 percent of the vote, winning seats in eight of the country's 10 administrative regions. The opposition Social Democratic Front received 17 percent, with 14 seats in just two regions. The opposition claimed vote-rigging but international observers said instances of vote-buying and intimidation were too few to change the overall outcome of the ballot.
According to the constitution, the 80-year-old Biya, in power since 1982, gets to appoint the remaining 30 members of the legislative body, ensuring total control of the newly-created 100-seat Senate.
Its creation was mandated by the 1996 constitution but was put off for 17 years, with the ruling party citing lack of funding and other reasons. The constitution stipulates that in the event of a vacancy at the helm of the state, the leader of the Senate will run the nation for a period of 40 days before new elections. The head of the Senate will be elected by majority vote during their first plenary session next month.
In recent years, Biya changed the constitution to allow himself to run for life. He most recently won re-election in a poll that was widely criticized in 2011, and has indicated that he plans to run again in 2018, when he'll be 86. It's raised fears of instability among the international investors who have flocked to Cameroon to get a piece of the country's petroleum riches. Neighboring nations where longtime rulers died in office have spiraled into violence, including in Guinea where the death of dictator Lansana Conte in 2008 was immediately followed by a military coup.
Critics say the new Senate simply perpetuates Biya's grip on power: His party already accounts for 153 of the 180 members in the National Assembly.
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Observers from the African Union acknowledged that vote-buying had occurred, though they said that the instances did not impact the outcome of the April 14 poll.
"We think that on the whole, the elections unfolded hitch-free. Of course there were cases of vote-buying and intimidation, but these were too isolated to have an impact on the overall results," Edem Kodjo, head of an African Union observation mission, said soon after the poll.
Despite the limited representation by the opposition, the creation of the Senate was applauded as a step forward.
"We should be happy after 17 years of grumbling by the opposition, that the Senate is finally in place. It may be good or bad, but it is there and it is now left for us to work towards changing its make-up," said Jean De Dieu Momo, leader of the opposition Party for Democracy and Development of Cameroon.
Ni John Fru Ndi, leader of the Social Democratic Front and Biya's most significant rival, issued a statement saying: "Though the elections were choked with fraud ... setting up the Senate is a sign of progress for Cameroon's democracy."
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The internal market's billing system is not only costly and bureaucratic, the theory that underpins it is absurd. Why should a bill for the treatment of a patient go out to Oldham or
Oxford, when it is not Oldham or that pays the bill — there is only one person that picks up the tab: the taxpayer, you and me.
…….Instead let them help the NHS do what it does best — treat patients, and do so efficiently and economically without the crucifying expense and ridiculous parody of competition.
Prof Waxman in an earlier post.
There is little doubt in my mind that it is unwise to upset Bevan: The
Curse of Nye Bevan usually strikes down anyone who badmouths the NHS.
Attempts to badmouth our Hospitals
and their A & E department did not seem to put people off and attendances
continue to climb.
But whoever is doing it better watch
out. Bevan's Curse is for real.
This is not on when you have an
internal market system. Through A & E, Hospitals can admit patients without
a referral and believe you me, whatever anyone might say the CEOs of FT
Hospitals are quite pleased with that.
For CCGs, it is becoming uncontrollable.
All Hospital Avoidance tactics will not work. Funding will flow uncontrolled to
FT Hospitals.
I have written about this earlier and
I will simply reprint them. It is more true now than ever.
There is little doubt in my mind that it is unwise to upset Bevan: The Curse of Nye Bevan usually strikes down anyone who badmouths the NHS.
NHS A & E: Unpredictable, Unruly & Ungainly
As I wandered through the forests of Sibelius' Finland, I marveled at how well the different plants co-exist in an integrated fashion.
Why can't our NHS be integrated like this forest? With berries and mushroom growing in abundance! Looks like our A & E departments will be the first of the Hospital Services to be culled.
It must be hard to believe that with the number of highly paid management consultants working for the government that any apparent oversight is due to cock-up rather than conspiracy. Yet reading through the Select Committee reports one begins to wonder.
Could it be that for too long, accountants dominated the NHS reforms and somehow nobody took any notice of what the doctors are saying anymore?
On the other hand, could the need to pass health care provision to private providers before anybody could raise enough objections be the reason or was it simply a means to contain cost and let the patients blame their GPs?
Can politicians really blame us for not trusting them? They did in
, didn't they? Japan
A & E (ER to our
readers) is perhaps something accountants would like to get rid of. It is unpredictable, unruly (literally) and ungainly as there is a need for the specialist backups. In the era of PCTs and Hospital Trusts, serious battle is fought around A & E. The silly time limit set has caused more harm than the good it is suppose to achieve. That many major A & E departments are staffed by Trust staff and the new GP Commissioners will try their best to avoid paying for A & E attendance & any unplanned admission. US
All too messy.
Hospitals tried their best to make more money from A & E and admissions in order to survive. Where is the patient in this tug-of-war of primary care and Hospitals!
What happens when there is a major E. Coli disaster. Who is going to pay for all the dialysis?
There is no better illustration to the wasteful exercise then in all of this internal market and cross charging during recent years and one must be forgiven for concluding that the purpose was to allow private involvement in our National Health Service.
We must be forgiven for not believing that all these AQPs are not great philanthropists and are all there not for the profit but for the common good.
Christmas and New Year will be here soon. The count this year is that over 20 million patients would have attended A & E: A rise from 12 million around 10 years ago!
It is not difficult for anyone in the NHS to see how the internal market has continued to fragment and disintegrate our health service.
Look at major hospitals in
: Urgent Care Centres are set up and staffed by nurse practitioner, emergency nurse practitioners and GPs so that the charge by the Hospital Trusts (soon to be Foundation Trusts) for some people who tried to attend A & E could be avoided. It is often a time wasting exercise and many patients still need to be referred to the "real" A & E thus wasting much valuable time for the critically ill patients and provided fodder for the tabloid press. And payment still had to be made. Currently it is around £59.00-117.00 a go. But wait for this, over the New Year some of these Centres would employ off duty A & E Juniors to work there to save some money that Trusts could have charged. England
Urgent Care Centres are one of the most contentious parts of the NHS reforms. Both the College and the King's Fund have consistently questioned the evidence base and the clinical and cost effectiveness for this major policy change. Surprisingly many of the NHS pathway groups still recommend such units. The public will be very confused by the desire of some Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to re-name the ED as an "Urgent Care Centre" for ambulatory patients.
The perceived problem that PCTs are trying to solve
There is a perception that many patients attending the ED should be treated in primary care. The College's view is that a relatively small number are clearly non-urgent primary care problems that should have been seen by their general practitioner. A larger group of patients with urgent problems could be seen by primary care if there was timely access to the patient's GP or out-of-hours services - e.g. at weekends. The College believes that improving access to GPs is the best way of dealing with this issue. At most we think that 25% of ED patients might be treated by general practitioners in an ED setting. There is no evidence to support the contention that 50-60% of ED attendances can be treated in Urgent Care Centres.
The approach of setting up an urgent care centre in front of every ED is an example of demand management. This has already been shown to be unsafe when tried in the
Since April 2006, emergency departments have been paid according to the number and nature of the patients they treat. This seems perfectly reasonable, but many Primary Care Trusts are now paying more for their hospital emergency service than they used to, and as a result are looking at ways of "gate keeping"—that is, restricting the number of patients who enter emergency departments. This has lead to the concept of urgent care centres, where ambulant patients seeking emergency care are triaged by staff employed by the Primary Care Trust. Certain diagnostic groups are allowed through into the emergency departments, but many are seen by onsite general practitioners or nurse practitioners. In this way the PCTs can control expenditure, and many patients with minor trauma who would previously have been managed in emergency departments are no longer seen there. The result of this is that the case‐mix of emergency departments is being restricted, and this diminishes our specialty.
Loss of inpatient specialties
Traditionally, emergency departments in the
have received an undifferentiated case‐mix, and have either provided definitive care or have referred on to hospital specialties. We may have wished to mimic the Australian model of emergency care, but the truth is that very few emergency departments in the UK have the staff or facilities to provide continuing inpatient care. Emergency medicine in the UK has therefore remained dependent on inpatient specialties to help it provide a comprehensive service. UK
Unfortunately, the government clearly intends that in future many hospitals will not have the full range of core specialties, and this will radically affect the sort of service their emergency departments can offer. In particular, many emergency departments will not be able to receive patients with major trauma or paediatric emergencies.
This is certainly not how Kaiser Permanente would run things: all integrated and no such thing as "cross charging". In fact the doctors are not on a fee-for-service basis but like Mayo Clinic,
Cleveland Clinic and , doctors are paid a salary. Johns Hopkins Hospital
Q143 Chair: No. I am sorry. My point is that if, as a commissioner, you have to have A&E and you have the power to defend whatever is required to deliver A&E, why do you need a power to designate?
Dr Bennett: On the designation question, the issue there is what happens if the provider of the service is the only provider of that particular service that is available to its local community but the provider gets into difficulty. Designation is all about making sure that there is continuity of the provision of the service even if the provider themselves gets into difficulty where there is no alternative provider.
On the integrated care for A&E, yes, there are similarities. I think the critical issue is where you draw the boundaries. If you finish up in a situation where you define the boundaries around A&E as being the whole of the DGH, then you have somewhat frustrated the policy, but I don't think that should be necessary.
Dr David Bennett is head of Monitor and is NOT a medical doctor.
"Whatever the benefits of the purchaser/provider split, it has led to an increase in transaction costs, notably management and administration costs. Research commissioned by the DH but not published by it estimated these to be as high as 14% of total NHS costs. We are dismayed that the Department has not provided us with clear and consistent data on transaction costs; the suspicion must remain that the DH does not want the full story to be revealed. We were appalled that four of the most senior civil servants in the Department of Health were unable to give us accurate figures for staffing levels and costs dedicated to commissioning and billing in PCTs and provider NHS trusts. We recommend that this deficiency be addressed immediately. The Department must agree definitions of staff, such as management and administrative overheads, and stick to them so that comparisons can be made over time."


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Obviously, the release, coming only 48 hrs before the start of the convention has had a major disruptive influence. As WikiLeaks leader and founder Julian Assange put it in an interview with Richard Engels of NBC News, this email dump is "now up-ending the DNC as we speak." He noted that because of what they call 'Hilary Leaks', "the very top of the Democratic party, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, is now being forced to resign." There is no question that the release of these documents after a long nominating process has been completed, but days before it is to be consummated, has disturbed the Democratic National Convention and given an advantage to Donald Trump.
So when did this hack take place and why is it being released only now? According to WikiLeaks, "The leaks come from the accounts of seven key figures in the DNC" and "cover the period from January last year until 25 May this year." An examination of the dump shows
that the last email from each of the seven accounts was dated May 24th or May 25th:
|Email ID#
|Communications Director Luis Miranda (10770 emails)
|2016-05-25 00:42:48
|National Finance Director Jordon Kaplan (3797 emails)
|2016-05-25 12:03:21
|Finance Chief of Staff Scott Comer (3095 emails)
|2016-05-25 12:48:34
|Finanace Director of Data Daniel Parrish (1472 emails)
|2016-05-25 12:10:00
|Finance Director Allen Zachary (1611 emails)
|2016-05-25 00:42:48
|Senior Advisor Andrew Wright (938 emails)
|2016-05-24 18:55:10
|N. CA Finance Dir. Robert (Erik) Stowe (751 emails)
|2016-05-24 14:02:51
So there is no question that this data was captured on or after May 25th, and since these are people who use these email accounts every day, it is hard not to conclude that this hack was done before emails on or after May 26th could be captured. It would appear that this data capture, whether by leak or hack, took place on or about May 25th. This raises the very troubling question of just where all these stolen emails have been for almost two months and why only now are they being made public so that they may now affect our body politic.
Imagine the difference it could have made had these hacked emails had been released within a week after the last ones stolen? That would have been before the primaries in California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota were held. Bernie Sanders won two of those and Hillary Clinton won four including California. Would she have done as well if these emails were public knowledge then? What if Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been dismissed as DNC chair at the beginning of June instead of now? We very likely would be experiencing a very different Democratic National Convention now. The very timing of the WikiLeaks release shows it was not done to defend democracy but only to further manipulate the process. This release certainly wasn't timed to help Bernie Sanders, it was timed to help Donald Trump.
Julian Assange hasn't just been silent as to the source of these emails. He also hasn't said when WikiLeaks got hold of them. I was one of the independent journalists WikiLeaks granted pre-publication access to for both the Stratfor GI Files and the Syria Files, so I do know that in the past WikiLeaks has held material for quite some time while they and selected 3rd parties vetted and researched the materials before making them public. From what Assange told Engels about this current dump, not that much has changed, "Wikileaks has been doing that for ten years. We're a publishing organization. We get good scoops, we analysis them and them we publish them." In vouching for the material, he said "We verify the material. It is completely accurate and authentic." This also takes time, indicating that WikiLeaks has had this material for some period before releasing it 2 days before the convention.
There is another aspect of the WikiLeaks DNC email dump that is very likely to have partisan results that favor Donald Trump. In the past WikiLeaks has been careful to redact identifying information about those not their targets. Not so in this case. This data dump contains not just the email addresses of its seven targets but the undisguised email addresses of everyone they corresponded with. So in addition to making public the inter-workings of the DNC, WikiLeaks has also made public the private email addresses of hundreds, if not thousands of DNC employees and supporters. This is an open invitation to mischief. The disruptive possibilities of this list of email addresses is enormous. Even if Russian hackers had nothing to do with this email dump, as Assange claims, they will have a lot of fun with this list.


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The CORRELATION function returns the correlation coefficients for the pairs of data values in two expressions. A correlation coefficient indicates the strength of relationship between the data values. The closer the correlation coefficient is to positive or negative
1, the stronger the relationship is between the data values in the expressions. A correlation coefficient of
0 (zero) means no correlation and a
+1 (plus one) or
-1 (minus one) means a perfect correlation. A positive correlation coefficient indicates that as the data values in one expression increase (or decrease), the data values in the other expression also increase (or decrease). A negative correlation coefficient indicates that as the data values in one expression increase, the data values in other expression decrease.
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CORRELATION(expression1 expression2 [PEARSON|SPEARMAN|KENDALL] -
[BASEDON dimension-list])
A dimensioned numeric expression with at least one dimension in common with expression2.
A dimensioned numeric expression with at least one dimension in common with expression1.
Calculates the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient. Use this method when the data is interval-level or ratios, such as units sold and price for each unit, and the data values in the expressions have a linear relationship and are distributed normally.
Calculates Spearman's rho correlation coefficient. Use this nonparametric method when the expressions do not have a linear relationship or a normal distribution. In computing the correlation coefficient, this method ranks the data values in expression1 and in expression2 and then compares the rank of each element in expression1 to the corresponding element in expression2. This method assumes that most of the values in the expressions are unique.
Calculates Kendall's tau correlation coefficient. This nonparametric method is similar to the SPEARMAN method in that it also first ranks the data values in expression1 and in expression2. The KENDALL method, however, compares the ranks of each pair to the successive pairs. Use this method when few of the data values in expression1 and in expression2 are unique.
An optional list of dimensions along which CORRELATION computes the correlation coefficient. Both expression1 and expression2 must be dimensioned by all of the dimension-list dimensions. CORRELATION correlates the data values of expression1 to those of expression2 along all of the dimension-list dimensions. CORRELATION returns an array that contains one correlation coefficient for each cell that is dimensioned by all of the dimensions of expression1 and expression2 except those in dimension-list.
When you do not specify a dimension-list argument, then CORRELATION computes the correlation coefficient over all of the common dimensions of expression1 and expression2. When all of the dimensions of the two expressions are the same, then CORRELATION returns a single correlation coefficient. When either expression contains dimensions that are not shared by the other expression, then CORRELATION returns an array that contains one correlation coefficient for each cell that is dimensioned by the dimensions of the expressions that are not shared.
Usage Notes
The Effect of NASKIP on CORRELATION
CORRELATION is affected by the NASKIP option. When NASKIP is set to
YES (the default), then CORRELATION ignores
NA values. When NASKIP is set to
NO, then an
NA value in the expressions results in a correlation coefficient of
Example 7-51 Correlating with the PEARSON Method
Assume that your analytic workspace contains two variables named
units and
price. The two dimensions of the
price variable,
month and
product, are shared by the
units variable, which has a third dimension,
The following CORRELATION statement does not specify a dimension-list argument. The output of the CORRELATION function in the statement is one correlation coefficient for each of the dimension values in the dimension that the variables do not have in common.
REPORT CORRELATION(units price pearson)
The preceding statement produces the following output.
CORRELATION (UNITS PRICE DISTRICT PEARSON) -------------- ----------- Boston -0.75 Atlanta -0.85 Chicago -0.83 Dallas -0.66 Denver -0.83 Seattle -0.69
The following statements limit the
month and
product dimensions.
LIMIT month to 'Jan96' TO 'Mar96' LIMIT product TO 'Tents' TO 'Racquets'
The following statement reports the correlation coefficient based on the
product dimension for the limited dimension values that are in status.
REPORT CORRELATION(units price pearson basedon product) CORRELATION(UNITS PRICE PEARSON- --------BASEDON PRODUCT)-------- -------------MONTH-------------- DISTRICT Jan96 Feb96 Mar96 -------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Boston -0.96 -0.90 -0.89 Atlanta -0.97 -0.97 -0.97 Chicago -0.96 -0.95 -0.95 Dallas -0.98 -0.98 -0.99 Denver -0.97 -0.97 -0.97 Seattle -0.89 -0.83 -0.83
The following statement reports the correlation coefficient based on the
month dimension for the limited dimension values.
REPORT CORRELATION(units price pearson basedon month) CORRELATION(UNITS PRICE PEARSON- ---------BASEDON MONTH)--------- ------------PRODUCT------------- DISTRICT Tents Canoes Racquets -------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Boston -0.59 -0.92 -0.55 Atlanta -0.73 -0.83 0.03 Chicago -0.91 -0.84 -0.68 Dallas -0.86 -0.92 0.31 Denver -0.98 -0.94 -0.67 Seattle -0.98 -0.89 -0.70


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- Coronavirus: Pubs, restaurants and hairdressers reopen in England
- White City: Police officers hurt breaking up illegal music event
- Coronavirus: UK government's quarantine-free list 'absurd'
- NHS anniversary: Landmarks to be lit up in weekend of celebration
- Coronavirus: 'Don't rush for a border beer,' police warn
- Citizens Advice sees surge in demand for redundancy advice
- St Albans Cathedral's black Jesus is a 'bold statement'
- Tesco demands supplier price cuts in discount battle
- Epsom Derby: English King, Kameko & Mogul lead runners; Aidan O'Brien seeks record
- Coronavirus: 'Right thing' to be part of plasma trial
- Dad horrified at £4,642 gaming app bill
- Coronavirus: Why disabled people are calling for a Covid-19 inquiry
- 'We cannot in good conscience open the pub'
- Coronavirus: Shielding 'terrified' of tourism influx
- Coronavirus: Where can I go on holiday? A guide to destinations
- Coronavirus: Money back for Ryanair and Sykes customers
- Coronavirus: When will schools reopen?
- Coronavirus: Leicester schoolchildren kept at home in local lockdown
- How mortgage holidays can affect your ability to borrow
- Public not asked for addresses for weeks during virus tests
- Coronavirus: Rowan Foods staff in Wrexham 'do not feel safe'
- Pubs in Wales to open outdoors from 13 July
- Visitors to Dorset beaches must act 'responsibly'
- Coronavirus: Why has Bedford got a high infection rate?
- Coronavirus: Many wait over 24 hours for test results
- Coronavirus: How will local lockdowns work?
- First pantomimes cancelled ahead of make-or-break Christmas for theatres
- How Jarvis Cocker made an isolation anthem by accident
- Cold Case Whithorn sheds new light on 'cradle of Christianity'
- Coronavirus: Inches from freedom on Leicester's lockdown frontier
- Leicester coronavirus outbreak timeline: Who knew what, and when?
- Coronavirus: 'Refunds unlikely' if travellers have to self-isolate
- Shirley Baker's street scenes of Manchester and Salford
- Coronavirus: 'We'll be cutting hair from midnight' post-lockdown
- F1 2020: Alex Albon's make or break year in a rollercoaster career?
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- Coronavirus in Scotland: 'Our village won't survive without tourists'
- Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked
- Coronavirus: Kate Silverton on her fear for children's mental health
- Coronavirus: New seating plans for cinemas and restaurants
- Pubs reopening: 'We're not out of the woods yet'
- The people who think coronavirus is caused by 5G
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- The Papers: 'Eat out to help out' and PM calls for restraint
- Coronavirus: Care home residents struggle with isolation
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The Walking Dead is gearing up to kick off Season 3 on AMC on October 14th, and Collider was invited to participate in the press day for the popular zombie drama series, to speak with the producers and all of the cast. While we will start to post those interviews a bit closer to the show's return, we did want to share what Michael Rooker (aka Merle) had to say about his hopes about getting a role in the upcoming Marvel feature Guardians of the Galaxy, a space adventure about a futuristic team of superheroes who protect the galaxy from danger, to be directed by James Gunn, with whom he's done Slither and Super. Check out what he had to say after the jump.
Question: As part of James Gunn's acting family, are you waiting for the phone call about doing a role in Guardians of the Galaxy?
MICHAEL ROOKER: You're not the first to ask that question.
Which character would you like to play?
ROOKER: All of them. I'd play the racoon guy. I'd play the tree guy. They're all very cool characters! But, I don't know. Marvel and Gunn have their own thing going on. It's very secretive. Until they decide, it's very secretive. I don't know any inside scoop, or anything like that. But, we talk. We're still friends, so we hang out and talk. Whenever I'm in town, we get together. So, I know he's very busy and working real hard on the rewrite and getting everything set to go. It's always a pleasure to work with him, so whatever happens, happens.
Would you like to be a part of a film like that? Do you personally enjoy the big comic book movies?
ROOKER: I would. Oh, yeah, sure! I'd have a lot of fun with it. I did a little interview earlier and had a similar question, and now it's all over the internet that I'm campaigning for a role. All I said was, "Yeah, that would be cool!," but now I'm campaigning. Dammit, I want that role! The fans really like the idea. I've noticed that. I did the interview, they showed it on the internet and, before I knew it, all my people were Tweeting it and posting it on Facebook. They're interested in having me be a part of it, in some way.
At least being friends with James Gunn gets you a foot in the door that other people don't have, since he clearly likes to work with the same actors when he can.
ROOKER: Gunn is always thinking of his friends and the people that he's worked with. He's quite a loyal director, and he's a good friend, as well. He's always, "Well, maybe Rooker can do this one. I think he'd like to do this." I'm sure he's thought of me, so we'll see. Marvel has their agenda. Everyone has their own agenda, trying to get it cast and get it cast well. It's going to be cool. I'm glad he's involved with it. It's a great, fun project. He's a big fan! He's been a huge fan of Marvel stuff since he was 12 years old, and even younger than that, I'm sure.


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Aerospace Rivals Form Joint Design Team
How well will design engineers at Boeing mesh with those at McDonnell Douglas? For decades they have been fierce rivals. Now they are teaming up to compete against other firms for initial contracts to build a next-generation space shuttle. In announcing the plan in Washington, DC, officials from the two firms predicted the joint effort will be "seamless." From 50 to 100 designers will draw up concepts for the X-33, a prototype for a reusable rocket ship. The X-33 must exhibit low-cost maintenance and rapid turnaround between flights. McDonnell engineers will offer experience drawn from designing, building, and flying the Delta Clipper-Experimental, a re-usable demonstration rocket using advanced technology. Boeing engineers, the companies said, will offer special talents in efficient manufacture and service. "We resonate quite well," commented Livingston Holder, Jr., program manager of Reusable Launch Vehicle Programs at the Boeing Defense & Space Group. The biggest design challenge will be adding "aircraft-type" safety margins and maintenance requirements into rockets, McDonnell Douglas Program Manager William Gaubatz told Design News. "It's not the way we usually design rockets. But it's more of a cultural challenge than an engineering challenge."
Supercomputers Track Glowing Paint on Models
Aircraft designers seated at their computers soon may watch and control tests at far-off wind tunnels. Ames Research Center, of NASA, has been working on such a project for the past year. Researchers described the system at a recent supercomputer conference in Washington, DC. Technicians spray a pink fluorescent paint on a test model of an aircraft. The paint is sensitive to pressure. During a test, the pressure of the wind on the model causes the paint to fluoresce. Digital camera images translate the data into color maps of pressure. The technique allows much more data to emerge than with conventional techniques, say NASA engineers. Supercomputers enable engineers at home offices to integrate the wind-tunnel experiments in real time with simulations using computational fluid dynamics. Result: big savings in design time.
Missile Warning Network Getting New Look
The Pentagon has drawn up plans for a new missile warning system. Called Space-Based Infrared (SBIR), the program calls for layers of satellites from low orbits to geosynchronous positions 22,000 miles up. SBIR would replace satellites now in the Defense Support Program and sharply revise plans for an Alert, Locate and Report Missiles program. For this fiscal year, the defense budget earmarks $111 million for adapting the Heritage infrared sensor for missile alarms. Most of that money, however, cannot be spent until Congress ponders an independent study on the cost and technical feasibility of various warning systems. The study is due February 15.
Patent Awarded System for Vibration Detection
A system for measuring mechanical torsional vibrations on-line has won a U.S. patent. Called Rotational Vibration Monitoring (RVM), the system is a spinoff from advanvced technology in digital signal processing for antisubmarine warfare. RVM's creator is Monitoring Technology Corp., Fairfax, VA. The firm says its non-invasive RVM detects defects in the shafts, rotors, and vanes of turbines, pumps, and compressors that mechanics previously had to disassemble to inspect. RVM technology also can reveal the nature, size, and location of defects, claim engineers. For example, RVM's sensors can spot a hairline crack in a small blade in a half-million pound turbine while it is operating. Rick Vosburgh, the company's president and CEO, says RVM's sensitivity to a defect signal against background noise is one part in a trillion. He adds: "It's like comparing the diameter of a BB pellet to the distance from the earth to the sun."
Research Grants Back Auto Parts Research
The government is getting serious about encouraging automobile designers to use more composite materials. That was clear in a recent batch of contracts it issued under its Advanced Technology Program. The Commerce Department program shares costs with U.S. industry to develop commercially promising technologies. Several new projects propose to develop better methods for making automobile parts from composites, not steel. One intends to refine structural reaction injection molding to effectively produce large parts, such as the box of pickup trucks. Some contracts fund research into large automotive components that are easy to design and manufacture, require no painting, and are recyclable. One project aims to devise a better method for making strong, lightweight flywheels from composites such as graphite and glass-reinforced epoxy polymer.


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Poll Question
Which of the following do you think would most effectively support increasing hunting participation numbers?
- Improve hunter and target shooter involvement in regulatory and legislative processes. (9.90%)
- Enact or expand temporary hunter education deferral programs (apprentice license programs, multiyear options, programs for all first-time hunters regardless of age, and programs promoting hunting of multiple game species). (12.62%)
- Offer shooting sports and hunter education as school activities and recreation programs. (64.11%)
- Link existing programming into family-oriented organizations (such as churches and home-school groups) where participants will have the social support to continue. (13.37%)


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OTTAWA - The top Palestinian diplomat in Canada urged Hamas on Friday to stop shooting rockets into Israel while calling on Canada to leverage its friendship with the Israelis to persuade them to halt their ground offensive into Gaza.
Said Hamad, the chief representative of the Palestinian delegation to Canada, said that's the only way to end the suffering of innocent Palestinian civilians — children in particular — who are caught in the crossfire of the escalating 11-day-old hostilities.
"Hamas should end its rocket attacks into Israeli areas," Hamad told The Canadian Press in an interview Friday. "But we do appreciate Canada, as a good friend of Israel, and I think that a good friend in this situation would advise restraint."
Hamad spoke as Israel entered the second day of its first major offensive into Gaza in five years following 10 days of airstrikes aimed at stopping the militant group Hamas from firing rockets at Israeli cities.
"This ground offensive represents an irresponsible escalation that will only serve to compound civilians' harm and bring more suffering to the children of Gaza," Hamad said. "What's been developing in Gaza is a terrible humanitarian crisis."
As of Friday afternoon, the violence was estimated to have caused the deaths of more than 270 Palestinians — 20 per cent of them estimated to be children — and two Israelis, including a soldier.
Hamad lamented the deaths of four Palestinian boys killed in an Israeli strike on a Gaza beach on Wednesday and the deaths of three more children a separate rocket attack on Thursday.
"It takes an incredible act of moral contortion to believe that (the) Israeli pilot that fired the missile killed the four children on the beach on Wednesday or the tank that destroyed the room that killed three children, or the government that authorized these actions, did so in self-defence," he said.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird issued a statement supporting Israel's latest military move, and reiterated that Hamas is entirely to blame for any casualties.
"These operations could have been avoided if Hamas had not rejected the government of Egypt's ceasefire proposal — a proposal that was accepted by Israel and welcomed by the Palestinian Authority," Baird said.
"This proves that Hamas has no interest in peace and bears responsibility for the further tragic loss of life."
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called out Hamas for using Palestinian civilians as human shields against the current Israeli offensive.
Hamad said it is getting more difficult to hear news of innocent children being killed in recent days.
"I have the same feelings towards the Israeli civilians too. I am totally against firing rockets from inside the Gaza Strip into Israel, and ... I condemn firing these missiles from Israel into Gaza."
Hamad said he is calling on the Canadian government to "work hard and be actively engaged in bringing a ceasefire" to end the current violence and help work towards a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Baird also called on Egypt to resume its unsuccessful efforts to broker a ceasefire.
"Egypt is the best-placed country in the region to help end the current hostilities. It is a historic leader in regional peace efforts," he said.
The Israeli offensive continued Friday as troops moved further into Gaza, targeting tunnels and other infrastructure in an attempt to degrade the ability of Hamas to launch attacks.
"Canada stands by Israel's right to defend itself, by itself. Israel will be forced to continue defending itself as long as Hamas continues its rocket attacks against civilians," Baird said.
Baird and the Liberal foreign affairs critic, Marc Garneau, took part in a rally in Ottawa on Wednesday night at a Jewish community centre in support of Israel. The NDP was also invited to attend but did not send anyone to speak, an organizer of the event told the crowd.
In what was at times an emotional speech, Baird fiercely defended Israel's right to defend itself and live in peace in the region.
Garneau, for this part, largely agreed, and like Baird, he laid the blame for civilian deaths squarely at the feet of Hamas.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday he has spoken to many world leaders and suggested that Israel had more support than it has in the past for its latest Gaza offensive.
"Now I know that in such campaigns, global public opinion always receives a distorted picture of the campaign," he said prior to a cabinet meeting.
"But, unlike in the past, this time there are many in the international community who understand that it is Hamas — and Hamas alone — that is responsible for the victims."
Netanyahu called the Israel Defence Force "a moral military without peer" that does not target civilians and regrets "any inadvertent civilian casualties."
But Hamad said the onus remains squarely in Israeli military forces to avoid civilian casualities.
"When a shooter shoots into a crowd and kills somebody it is not the fault of the crowd, it is the fault of the shooters."
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Lezyne at RoadBikeFestival in Mallorca, Spain
If you happen to be floating around Mallorca this time of year, you should stop by the RoadBikeFestival in Mallorca and check out a lot of different goodies from a lot of different people.
Place: Mallorca / Spain @ Bierkönig, Playa del Palma
Date: Friday, 13 – Monday 16, April
LEZYNE booth in the exhibition area – we show all important roadbike products.
About 20.000 roadcyclissts are on Malloraca during that time of the year and enjoy the great weather and climate.
Many roadbike and triathlon pro's are part of the event to join the day rides or give technical tips in the mechanic workshops.
On Sunday, 17th they organise a amateurs race calles "Mallorca Classic by Max Hürzeler" which goes over 150 km.
During this week we run a special campaign on our Facebook page, where it's all about Mallorca and other great roadbike destinations.
More info and updated from the event later that week or here www.roadbike-festival.de.


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I had Lasik one month ago. Pre lasik I was -7 on both eyes with slight astigmatism which I have never even noticed. Post lasik, I am (and was from the start) 20/15 and perfectly clear and not very dry in my left eye, and 'almost' 20/20 and quity blurry and more dry in my right eye. Whatever halos I had are pretty much gone now and starbursts seem to be decreasing. No pain.
It is the right eye bluriness that bothers me and begins to concern me more and more as it has always been there post-op and is not improving with time. The bluriness affects smaller objects or details both in far out and close up objects , but overall distance vision is fine (probably due to the left eye strength). However, reading or computer work is quite straining as the letters are blurry. For somebody who loves to read and relies on computer work for living, I could see it being an issue if it does not improve.
My doctor claims there is nothing wrong going on and the eyes are healing well and all I need is time and constant eye lubrication.
My question is: what could be causing this blurriness and can it still improve? I know a lot of people who had lasik and none of them had any kinds of complications aside from dry eye (which didn't affect their vision all the time) and all were 20/20 - 20/15 from the start (or so they say), so i'm not getting much reassurance from them. I don't think what I have is ghosting as I don't see double, just blurry. And the vision in that eye does not improve neither in far nor short distance when I squint. It does not improve when I super lubricate my eyes or change during the day. Anyone had anything like that? Thanks.


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Occupy's Pledge to FIGHT BACK
We Didn't Start the Class War
Chris Young pledged on to fight back against the 1% by doing the following:
- Help promote #occupy news and actions via social media.
- Donate what they make in one hour to an Occupy-related project.
- Never go to work during a general strike.
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Every corner of Europe is seeing renewed economic struggles that are fomenting political strife and revolutionary reforms.
In the United Kingdom, a Conservative government that once promised a referendum on EU citizenship is scrambling to convince its own populace to vote to remain in the UK. Foreign leaders, such as U.S. President Barack Obama, and economists, such as MIT's Nobel-Prize-winner Paul Krugman, are urging Britain to vote to remain in the union, despite its flaws and weak economic growth.
British voters, however, are veering more towards leaving the union after frustrations about stagnant economic conditions, which the Vote Leave campaign asserts is a symptom of EU membership. Nonetheless, the UK government insists that tax burdens will rise and economic growth will fall if the UK leaves the union.
Those warnings fall on deaf ears, in part, due to British frustrations with skyrocketing housing costs. In London, average house prices rose to £552,000 ($795,000) in March, which is over 15 times the average annual salary in London. Most financial experts recommend homebuyers purchase a home that is no more than 3 times their annual salary.
That increase in housing costs is due to foreign investors snatching up properties in the capital, often to avoid taxes, hide capital, or launder money. That caused London house prices to rise by nearly £500 per day in January this year, far outstripping price growth elsewhere in the country.
Additionally, wages for most Britons are declining substantially. According to a new study by Oxfam, the poorest tenth of UK residents lost 20.3% income due to spending cuts, while earnings for cleaning staff fell 3.4% year-over-year in 2012 and 11.2% year-over-year for waiting staff.
Continental Struggles
Elsewhere in the EU, persistent economic struggles continue to plague the union's peripheral states.
The Bank of Portugal lowered its country's economic growth forecast for 2016 to just 1.5%, implying stagnant growth rates from last year. "The weakening of growth in 2018 reflects structural constraints to potential growth of the Portuguese economy, especially the high indebtedness of the private and public sectors," the Bank of Portugal said. Those cuts have largely been at the insistence of the European Central Bank (ECB).
The ECB has also enforced austerity on Greece, whose high-profile negotiations created financial tumult in Europe throughout 2014 and 2015. After the ruling Syriza party softened its hardline stance in negotiations, however, the International Monetary Fund and European Commission said that they have made "progress" in talks about providing assistance to Greece in exchange for continual austerity measures. Meanwhile, reports of homeless pensioners and children dying from a lack of access to public healthcare have come from Greece.
In the northeastern corner of Europe, xenophobic political tailwinds have compounded tensions between Finland's working populace and European Union leaders, which have been exacerbated by a decline in Finland's forestry industry, one of its major sectors. The industry has lost nearly 20,000 jobs in the last decade, which has cut 0.75% off Finland's GDP since 2007, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
With this backdrop, the Ministry of Finance said Finland's economy has returned to growth in 2015, having risen by 0.5%. The Ministry also thinks it will grow 0.9% in 2016, with further growth acceleration to be expected in the next two years.


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Quoizel Abigail Adams Collection
Quoizel got its start in 1930 by creating these hurricane style lamps. Today, Quoizel still makes this timeless design. This piece features a blown glass shade, as well as a lighted base. The white glass is embellished with a soft blue floral pattern, and the intricate metal base is finished in an antique brass patina. This is an heirloom piece to be passed down for generations.


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Yesterday I was scrolling through my email and realized I had received one from FANS RD. I assumed, incorrectly, that the email was from my friend, co RD, E Fisher Drew. E and I have run a number of races together and a few years ago E took over as Co RD of FANS.
As I was reading the email I realized it wasn't from E at all. It was from RD Paul Sackett. I was stunned. I was honored. I couldn't believe that he took the time to a) email me and b) had been thinking about Topaz and I all week as his email stated.
I don't 'know' Pat Sackett. I have never run with her, I have been congratulated by and have been cheered by her. I recognize her name, of course, as RD of FANS as it is listed in the booklet of instructions and is on the website. However, in the past, I wouldn't have been able to call Pat an acquaintance. This has now changed.
With Pats permission I am copying her email to me:
I've been thinking about you and Topaz a lot over the past week, and fervently hope that he's on the mend and doing much, much better. We were all very concerned about you when you left the race course, and hoped everything would work out well. Altogether probably not one of the best days of your life -- let's hope that's all behind you and the future holds far better prospects at this point. Having lived through severe illnesses over the years with a variety of cats, I know the agony involved and the uncaring few who might throw a "it's just a dog!" at you. Pity them, for they don't understand the depth of love an animal can give, and if their hearts are so cold that they can't appreciate warmth in others, their lives are miserable indeed.
Best wishes for you and your loving four-footed friend,
Pat Sackett
After I responded to Pat, he followed up with this, in part:
It's delightful to hear a happy ending, and I'm sure no dog is more deserving than lucky Topaz. Clearly he won the canine lottery when he invited you to be his live-in Food Guy and confidant. I am so happy for you both, and trust you'll make the most of his healthy years to come.
I think this is just amazing. How wonderful that Pat took the time out of her schedule to contact me, to check how Topaz and I are doing and most of all to have such a warm and kind heart. I feel absolutely honored.
Thank you, Pat.


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Be My Guide!
In an earlier post Creating Accurate Ruler Guides in Illustrator, I had shared some tips on creating ruler guides in Illustrator. In this post, I share some improvements around those experiences that have been in Illustrator CC for some time now. These changes make working with guides much easier, and almost similar to working with guides in InDesign.
1. To create a guide: Double-click the ruler.
2. To create a guide accurately at a marked ruler division: Shift + Double-click the ruler.
In the example below, I pressed Shift and double-clicked on the ruler at: x=105. The guide was created at x=108, because 108 is the closest marked division from the point of click.
3. To create horizontal and vertical guides simultaneously: Press Cmd (Mac) or Ctrl (Windows) and drag from the ruler's origin point.
Guides are like railings on a staircase. Distracting at times, but keep you safe from falling off (the visual grid).


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There are a number of situations in which Fludara should not be used, along with several warnings and precautions people should be aware of before using it. However, it is possible that not all of these issues were discussed in this article. Therefore, you should talk with your healthcare provider about the specific safety concerns that may apply to you.
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