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Cochlear Implants
by Editorial Staff and Contributors
A cochlear implant is an electronic device that is implanted during surgery. It helps provide hearing to people who have a certain type of hearing loss. This type of hearing loss is usually caused by damage or a defect in the inner ear. The implants can directly stimulate the auditory nerve to send information to the brain.
Cochlear implants have 3 parts:
Reasons for Procedure
Cochlear implants provide a heightened sense of sound for adults and children with profound hearing loss. They are designed for people whose hearing does not improve with surgical correction or the use of a hearing aid. Cochlear implants will not restore or create normal hearing.
Possible Complications
Problems from the procedure are rare, but all procedures have some risk. Complications may include:
Some factors that may increase the risk of complications include:
What to Expect
Prior to Procedure
Your doctor may do some or all of the following.
Your doctor will examine you, paying particular attention to your ears. This can be done with:
Evaluate internal structures with imaging tests, such as:
You should be up-to-date on immunizations. Pneumococcal, meningococcal, and haemophilus vaccines are especially important. There has been a link between cochlear implants and bacterial meningitis.
Leading up to your procedure:
General anesthesia is used for this procedure. You will be asleep.
Description of Procedure
There are 2 parts to the procedure:
How Long Will It Take?
About 1½-2 hours for adults and up to 5 hours for children
How Much Will It Hurt?
Anesthesia will prevent pain during surgery. Pain and discomfort after the procedure can be managed with medications.
Average Hospital Stay
The length of stay depends on the reasons why you are having the implant. Speak to your doctor about how long your stay may be.
Post-procedure Care
At Home
After your procedure, be sure to follow your doctor's instructions.
You will have frequent follow-up visits for the following:
In addition, you will have cochlear implant training. This will help improve your ability to:
Call Your Doctor
It is important to monitor your recovery. Alert your doctor to any problems. If any of the following occur, call your doctor:
If you think you have an emergency, call for medical help right away.
American Academy of Audiology
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
About Kids Health—The Hospital for Sick Children
Cochlear Implant Awareness Foundation
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President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico will visit President Obama at the White House on Tuesday, Nov. 27, the White House announced Monday.
They plan to discuss a broad range of bilateral, regional and global issues during their Oval Office meeting, according to the White House announcement.
"The United States remains committed to work in partnership with Mexico to increase economic competitiveness in both countries, promote regional development, advance bilateral efforts to develop a secure and efficient 21st Century Border, and address our common security challenges,'' the U.S. announcement said.
Last week, Peña Nieto wrote on his Twitter page that he was looking forward to working with Obama:
Hablé con el Presidente @barackobama para felicitarlo por su reciente triunfo electoral. — Enrique Peña Nieto (@EPN) November 14, 2012
"I spoke with the President @BarackObama to congratulate him on his recent election victory."
Coincidimos en la importancia de construir una estrecha relación, tanto institucional como personal, en favor de ambos países. — Enrique Peña Nieto (@EPN) November 14, 2012
"We agree on the importance of building a close relationship, both institutional and personal, for both countries."
Acordamos trabajar para ampliar la agenda bilateral y tratarla durante mi próxima visita a los Estados Unidos de América. — Enrique Peña Nieto (@EPN) November 14, 2012
"We agreed to work to expand the bilateral agenda and treat it during my next visit to the United States of America."
The two leaders will likely discuss the implications for the Mexican battle against drug cartels of the voter-approved measures in Colorado and Washington that would decriminalize marijuana use.
Shortly after the U.S. election on Nov. 6, Peña Nieto's top adviser Luis Videgaray told the Washington Post that legalizing pot "changes the rules of the game in the relationship with the United States."
Videgaray expressed concerns over controlling a product that had different legal statuses between the two countries.
Peña Nieto will replace Mexico's outgoing president, Felipe Calderon Hinojosa. Peña Nieto's ascent to presidency marks the resurgence of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) after 12 years under the National Action Party. When he takes office Dec. 1, Peña Nieto will succeed Mexico's outgoing president, Felipe Calderon Hinojosa.
Peña Nieto and the PRI have already begun proposing reforms, including a proposal to reduce the number of ministries in the Mexican government. He has also proposed the creation of a new anti-corruption agency to replce the Public Function Ministry and a new ministry for urban and agricultural development.

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After a long time of heard studies at school I´m finally finding time to start with a little blogging again 🙂 Also I have worked on changing the image to fit both my main page and my blog, and I feel very happy with my changes.
Today I choose to post this image that I took by an old cleanery near an old village in Crete, Greece. Its one of my favourite places on earth, this used to function as a cleanery and meeting place for the women of the village in the old days. Whenever I walk here I feel such a strangely good feeling, and it makes me wonder what this place could have been used for other then functioning as a cleanery for these women… maybe like some kind of free haven for them that the men would never enter, and they would feel free to speak their mind and be there for each other… I dont know.. all i know is that is amazing to be there and at least feels like a haven to me…
Lady Of The Forest
Inspiration: William Blake
William Blake is also a big inspiration to me, he's art and writing are beautiful both in looks and content. He's engravings, drawings and paintings are free and full of expression. This poem is one of my favorites and I would like to share it with you, so that who knows…. maybe one of you will find inspiration in Blakes work as well.
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Dysnomia..my world in drawings
As I feel quite inspired these days, I will now start to add my drawings to this page as well. And perhaps even some written words of poetry. I really feel like I want this blog to also show me, and the many ways I like to express my creativity. Why not? I guess I will finally take the chance to lay it all out there, and have this blog as my true channel of expression. It makes me happy, feeling like my blog is finally part of me in the way I always wanted it to. So… I welcome you to Dysnomia….
After reading Tracie Louises blog yesterday, it gave me the inspiration to take a good look back into what used to really inspire me in the past. And I decided I will add this page as a tribute to all that inspire me. Being everything from a bird to an artist, a river or a melody… everything.
Today, as my first post in this new part of my blog, i will dedicate it to one of the first big inspirations I can remember. A painting by Salvador Dalí. This painting, or more precisely, this part of the painting made me get back into drawing again when I was around 14 years old. This little creature opened up a whole new door to my inner imagination, and gave me a way to for the first time really express the world inside me just waiting to get out. If you see the little angel like creature down between the elephants long legs, slightly to the right…? There it is… my little muse….


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No, I don't have a recipe for these. Yes, I wish that I did. Wow. That is all I really have to say. Are these cookies good b/c they are chocolate? Maybe. Chocolate is one of my favorite foods (okay, you caught me, it is my favorite). Are they good b/c they are chewy? Maybe. Maybe it is the combination of the chocolate, crunchy outside and chewy inside that does it. It is like heaven on your tongue. So comforting and soothing. I picked up these babies at Whole Paycheck, oh, I mean Whole Foods, yesterday. I saw them last time I was there, but already had some cookies/cake at home to work on. Then someone on the Yahoo Silly Yaks group mentioned them and I remembered that I really, really wanted to give them a try. I made a point to stop in and grab some the next time I was in the area. They are $4.99/pound and totally worth every. single. penny. The ingredients are simple: powdered sugar, chocolate chips, egg whites, cocoa powder and sea salt.
Here is a picture of the yummy goodness:
So, if any cooking wizards know how to make these, please, share. 🙂 Not that I can't keep buying them, b/c I will, but I like to bake, so it would be nice to make them at home too.
I have found a recipe online for Chocolate Chewies, actually called Carlton's Chocolate Chewies. This looks like it very well could be the recipe. This one calls for pecans, but you could leave those out as noted at the end and just use the chocolate chips. It also has vanilla, which couldnt' hurt. I hope to try to make these this weekend or early next week. Here is the recipe:
Carlton's Chocolate Chewies
{ Yield: About 4 dozen cookies }
2 cups whole pecans
3 large egg whites
2-1⁄4 cups powdered sugar
6 tablespoons good-quality unsweetened cocoa powder
Pinch of kosher salt
1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Arrange the pecans on a rimmed baking sheet in a single layer and toast them for 7 to 9 minutes, until darker in color and aromatic. Remove from the oven, transfer to a bowl, let cool, and coarsely chop.
Reduce the oven temperature to 300°F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone mats.
In a large bowl, briskly whisk the egg whites until foamy, about 30 seconds. Stir in the powdered sugar, cocoa, salt, vanilla, and pecans. Using a 1-inch-diameter scoop, drop spoonfuls of dough 11⁄2 inches apart on the prepared pans. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, until set and shiny, with zigzag cracks on top. Remove from the oven and let cool on the pans for 5 to 10 minutes. Using a metal spatula, transfer the cookies to wire racks to cool completely. The cookies will keep for up to 1 week in an airtight container or 3 weeks tightly wrapped and frozen.
Rather sweet variation
This cookie is amazingly adaptable and can handle up to two additional ingredients. I have tried numerous add-ins. My favorites are 1 cup quartered dried cherries, 1 cup sweetened shredded coconut, and 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips. Nut haters can leave out the pecans, substitute one or two of the add-ins, and make the cookies as directed above.
tip: To skip the hassle of separating egg whites from yolks, especially if you have no plans to use the leftover yolks, look in the dairy case of your local natural foods store for small containers of pure egg whites. One egg white equals about 1⁄8 cup. Do not use egg substitute, which is formulated with added fat to simulate an egg without cholesterol.
I will share my results once I have baked them. 🙂
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Andrew Way, the chief executive of the Royal Free Hospital, said the move to electronic records had cost the hospital £10m, increased waiting times for patients and required an extra 40 admin staff.
Way told the BBC he had personally apologised to staff for taking the decision to go ahead with the project. Way said it cost £10m to implement the technology and fix it. He estimates it cost the hospital another £6m because it treated less patients and because the system failed to properly bill other parts of the NHS for work done.
Way said: "I think it is very disappointing that the work we had to do as a trust has caused our staff so much heart-ache and hard work.
"I have personally apologised for the decision to implement the system before we were really clear about what we were going to receive.
"I had been led to believe it would all work."
The Royal Free is one of the early adopters for the increasingly beleagured project. Last month the Public Accounts Committee suggested giving the scheme another six months to show some improvement or put it out of its misery.
The National Programme for IT is one of the world's largest public technology projects. It is expected to cost at least £12.7bn and is currently about four years behind schedule. Some parts of it, like digital X-rays, appear to be working but the central patient record scheme has suffered from a series of problems.
In the north of England patient records rely on Lorenzo software from iSoft - the government was forced to bail the firm out.
In the south of England the project was meant to benefit from competition between two suppliers - BT and Fujitsu - but then Fujitsu decided to end all involvement. Accenture also decided to end all involvement with the scheme.
This month BT said it was putting a number of contracts under review after announcing a big write down at its services arm. The NHS contract is thought to be high on the review list.®


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said on Monday they would provide a break for borrowers facing foreclosure to ensure those having problems making monthly mortgage payments will remain in their homes during the holidays.
Fannie Mae said its eviction moratorium would apply to single-family homes and two- to four-unit properties from December 19 through January 2, 2013. Freddie Mac said it would offer the suspension from December 17 through January 2, 2013.
The aid allows families to avoid eviction during that time, but doesn't mean the foreclosure process will be put on hold.
The inventory of foreclosed homes remains a problem for the nascent U.S. housing market recovery, and has been weighing on property values. More than 3.5 million homes have been foreclosed on in the last four years, and about 10.8 million borrowers owe more than their properties are worth.
"We're taking this step in support of families who have faced financial challenges," said Terry Edwards, executive vice president of credit portfolio management at Fannie Mae. "The holidays are a chance to be with loved ones and we want to relieve some stress at this time of year."
The government-backed mortgage lenders encouraged homeowners to promptly reach out for help and also promoted resources for those at risk of losing their home, including mortgage help centers, hotlines and websites with more details on foreclosure alternatives.
Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have already provided foreclosure-aid to borrowers with government-owned loans that are dealing with disaster-related damage in the wake of superstorm Sandy. The two companies have had moratoria to relieve burdens for borrowers around the holidays for the past couple of years.
Fannie and Freddie, the two largest sources of U.S. housing money, were taken over by the government in September 2008 at the height the financial crisis.
The companies do not directly make loans. To provide a steady stream of funds, they buy mortgages from lenders and either hold them or repackage them as securities, which they sell to investors with a guarantee.
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I am developing a website , under which online test facility is to be provided.
I had developed the test interface in Applet and swing.
I am planning to do this:
1) Fetch questions from the database.
2) Create xml of those question
3) bind that sml into the jar along with applet
4) then that applet is to run test.
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Today, analytic and evidence suggest that the nine per cent pre-crisis performance may have been the aberration. In the comparison across countries, and even allowing for some initial advantage, India's growth performance was inexplicable. By any measure of market-based reform –trade opening, privatization, liberalization of the financial sector – and whether reform is measured in terms of levels or changes, India has lagged most developing countries in Africa, Latin America, and perhaps also China. Yet its growth was nearly twice the average for developing countries outside Asia. This cross-country comparison also ruled out benign international conditions in the years before the global crisis – which, after all, benefited all countries –as an explanation for India's unusually strong performance.
Moreover, the case could be made that each of the factors of production that contribute towards India's supply potential is becoming scarce. Skilled labour, which has become a source of India's comparative advantage, has been remunerated in double digits for nearly two decades in part because higher education is in too sorry a state to rise to the demands of an economy that is hungry for skills.
In 2004, before India's growth surge towards Chinese levels became evident, Dani Rodrik of Harvard University and I wrote in the Economic and Political Weekly that India's potential growth was "at least 7 per cent". The outcome over the next few years was a pleasant surprise, but also a mild rebuke of our analysis. Not only did actual growth surpass our projection, it was achieved much sooner than our "medium-term" horizon — which was evasive econo-speak for "not immediately, but sometime in the future".
Now, as economic growth declines from its giddy pre-crisis levels, two questions arise. First, what is India's true growth potential: today's rate of close to seven per cent, as we had suggested, or the pre-global crisis rate of nine per cent? Second, has this government contributed to a decline in this potential? Consider each.
Social capital (or governance) has been depleted because of corruption and weak state capacity. Deteriorating governance has, in turn, meant that infrastructure, especially power, has not kept pace with the demands of high growth. It has also meant that as the locus of corruption shifted to land, prices started skyrocketing, rendering it an increasingly scarce factor of production. And India's abundant unskilled labour is essentially not part of the equation because a panoply of regulations leads to its chronic underutilisation.
The most telling macroeconomic manifestation of these constraints has been persistently high inflation, the highest amongst emerging markets. The longer it has persisted, the less convincing micro explanations –food shortages, rising minimum support prices, employment guarantee schemes –sound, and the more the finger points at the simpler explanation that, in the aggregate, supply is failing to keep up with rising demand.
The conclusion is that India may, in the absence of significant supply-enhancing reform, have to get used to lower rates of growth –of six or seven per cent –as the norm. To put it more starkly, the puzzle is not why growth is slowing today, but why growth was high in the first place in the years before the crisis.
This government's fearlessness in keeping the pedal on demand, by increasing social expenditures, maintaining subsidies, and reducing taxes (until the most recent Budget), is well known. But what role has it played in determining India's supply potential? One weak compliment that might be paid to this government is that while it may have been unable to resist fiscal populism, it has not reversed the fundamental course of market-based reforms: protectionist trade barriers have not been erected; the state has not taken over more of economic activity (as is alleged in China); the domestic financial sector has not been re-regulated in a way that thwarts efficiency; and, if anything, the economy has been further opened towards foreign capital (in response to the recent decline of the rupee, the Reserve Bank of India has had to re-impose restrictions that hark back to the 1970s, but these are relatively minor).
What, then, is the complaint? In the last few years, the Indian economy has become increasingly afflicted by the curse of rents. There have been terrestrial rents (from the allocation of land), subterranean rents (from the allocation of rights to coal mining and oil and gas exploration) and ethereal rents (from the allocation of spectrum). The curse has not just been the unfair sharing of the rents between the government and private sector at the expense of the consumer. It has really been the resulting efficiency cost, whereby corruption has impaired the supply capacity of the economy. Rent-seeking in land has affected the provision of infrastructure. Rent-seeking in coal has affected power generation capacity. Rent-seeking in spectrum nearly paralysed the process of government itself. The private sector is far from blameless for the surge in rent-seeking, but this government is its root cause because it decides and controls the allocation of scarce resources.
More recently, though, policy-making has taken anew twist. For reasons still unclear, the government wants to address the epic corruption and venality that it has presided over. From being cosy with the private sector, policies are issuing forth from the government that smack of hostility to some or large parts of it. Whether this near volte-face will reduce rent-seeking is unclear, but they seem to be taking a toll on the environment for private investment and risk-taking. The government seems to be correcting one wrong by committing another. Each of these actions – whether the retroactive amendment on taxes or the new guidelines for the telecommunications sector –may have some extenuating rationale, but the overall effect, actual and perceived, is negative. The plunging rupee is, above all, an expression of deep concern about the impact of these actions on, and hence a downgrading of, India's medium-term growth prospects.
Can this government summon the will to change course? If current trends continue, this government may well have to go to the polls at a time of decelerating growth and high inflation. And the likely consequence will be electoral humiliation as long as the Opposition is not in total disarray. Avoiding political extinction should be the spur for action for this government.


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His daughter Amy Mills Tunnicliffe, the co-author of his book Peace, Love, & Barbecue, reminded us that you don't have to make a trip to Illinois or Vegas for her dad's legendary 'cue—they also ship the meat.
Thanks to Amy and the 17th Street team, three lucky Serious Eats winners (and their seriously lucky friends) will win a delicious barbecue spread just in time for Super Bowl feasting.
The package includes two racks of Mike's famous baby back ribs (12 bones each), two pounds of pulled pork (makes 8 to 10 sandwiches), a half-gallon of the Tangy 17th Street Pit Beans (feeds 10 to 12) and, of course, a bottle of barbecue sauce (original or spicy) and Magic Dust®.
What exactly is in that Magic Dust? Who knows (well they do) but that dust is part of what makes Mike's ribs so seriously good. He seasons every piece of meat with that special dust, then cooks it low and slow in the pit over apple and cherry woods.
In addition to the game-watching party food, the three winners will also score a signed copy of Peace Love and Barbecue, which SE overlord Ed will tell you is one of the best books about barbecue ever written.
To enter to win one of the three Super Bowl feast packages, just tell us your favorite barbecue experience in the comments below.
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I am proud to have been accepted as a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance. One of the perks (and requirements) of this membership is voting in the Alliance's yearly Hall of Fame poll. This year the BBA has recommended Jeff Bagwell and Barry Larkin for inclusion into the Hall of Fame. My own ballot read as thus:
Jeff Bagwell
Barry Larkin
Mark McGwire
Tim Raines
Edgar Martinez
Larry Walker
Alan Trammell
I went back and forth on Walker and Trammell a bit but they compare well with the other candidates according to this graph from Fangraphs:
The BBWAA will announce the official Hall of Fame voting results today at 3pm.
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Our party of weary and wounded companions travel westward to return to Wickersham. Their mission to free the people of Harkbone has been won. The town of Wickersham is buzzing with excitement as the heroes return. The celebration is dampened by the death of two men-at-arms and Sep, the villager.
What is next for the company?
Do they regroup and return to exact vengeance upon the rogue Lord Dunsley?
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Jun 30, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – A spokesman for Roche, the maker of oseltamivir (Tamiflu), said yesterday that Denmark's report of resistance to the drug in a patient with novel H1N1 (swine) influenza, the first reported finding of its kind, wasn't surprising and that the news underscores the importance of monitoring for any viral changes.
David Reddy, who leads Roche's influenza task force, told Bloomberg News that experts know that during seasonal influenza outbreaks, patients can develop resistance. "We fully expect that this can also occur during treatment with a new flu strain," he said.
He characterized what occurred in the Danish patient as "drug-induced resistance" that developed when a low dose of medication was used, as opposed to the more widespread resistance that occurs when a flu virus acquires new characteristics, which has happened over the past 2 years with the seasonal H1N1 strain.
World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Dick Thompson said today that the Danish case is isolated and has no public health implications, Reuters reported. "But we must remain alert as the virus can change at any time and we must not be complacent," he added.
The antiviral resistance finding will not prompt any changes in the WHO antiviral recommendations, Thompson told Reuters.
Roche said it is monitoring drug resistance in several countries, and health officials in several nations, including the United States, are also watching for changes in the virus. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in its most recent surveillance report, released Jun 24, that of 191 novel H1N1 isolates that have been tested for resistance to neuraminidase inhibitors, none showed resistance.
The CDC recommends treatment with oseltamivir or zanamivir for all patients who have confirmed, probable, or suspected novel H1N1 infections who are hospitalized or are at high risk for complications.
Carolyn Bridges, MD, associate director of epidemiologic science in the CDC's influenza division, told National Public Radio that though the United States hasn't detected any antiviral resistance in the new virus, it will likely occur here eventually. She said the novel flu virus has an "N1" gene that is very different than the "N1" of the seasonal H1N1 virus, so perhaps the pandemic virus isn't as susceptible to the antiviral resistance mutation seen with the seasonal H1N1 strain.
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"Earth Science Resource Day" at the National NSTA Conference on Science Education is a perfect professional development day(s) for an Earth Science educator. Events include Professional Pevelopment workshops, Share-a-thons, speakers, our famous Rock and Mineral Raffle, and our annual NESTA Membership Meeting.
This year at NSTA in Chicago, we will spread events over three days, beginning with a NESTA breakfast get-together at 6:30 am in the Hyatt Regency.
Over the course of Friday and Saturday, we will provide 5 workshops on a variety of topics of interest to ES educators, There is usually a 4 Share-a-Thons where you could walk away with approximately 25 new and ready-to-use exemplary lessons, labs, and activities. See the description on this page for more details and to learn how you can be a Share-a-Thon presenter.
During the day listen to talks by Earth scientists who share their cutting-edge research. These talks are followed by our famous Rock and Mineral Raffle where valuable specimens are yours if you have the lucky ticket! See the description on this page for more details and to learn how to donate specimens to this event.
Following the Rock Raffle, NESTA members may participate in the Annual NESTA Membership Meeting where they will hear first hand the latest news from the NESTA Executive Board, and join in the discussion about the future of NESTA. Check back closer to the date of the conference to learn about the details of the next NESTA Earth Science Resource Day.


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Aspen Socialite Nancy Pfister Died from a Head Injury with a Blunt Object: Coroner
First-degree murder charges have been filed against three people in the case
A socialite who was found dead in her home in this Colorado resort town was killed by a blunt force injury to her head, the Pitkin County coroner said Wednesday.
Nancy Pfister, 57, was hit with a hard object that had a small, curved shape, and she had been dead about 36 hours before her body was found on Feb. 26, coroner J. Steven Ayers said.
Prosecutors have filed first-degree murder charges against three people, including a couple who had rented Pfister's home while she was in Australia. William Styler III, 65, and his wife, Nancy Styler, 62, were arrested March 3 after moving out of the home on about Feb. 22.
Katherine Carpenter, 56, an assistant to Pfister and a bank employee, was arrested March 14. Authorities said she called 911 to report she found Pfister's body in a closet of the home.
Investigators have been tight-lipped about the case, and key court documents have been sealed.
Ayers said his office wasn't covered by the court order sealing the files. His report contains some of the only details about the case to be made public.
Prosecutors have filed a motion to unseal other documents, saying no more arrests are expected so there is no longer a reason to keep the files closed. Some media organizations have also asked the court to release the documents.
Defense attorneys have told the judge they oppose the release.
Pfister was the daughter of the late Betty and Art Pfister, longtime prominent Aspen residents who co-founded the Buttermilk ski area west of town. Buttermilk Mountain has hosted the Winter X Games multiple times.
Pfister's death was the first homicide case in Pitkin County in 12 years, not counting those classified as murder-suicides.
The Stylers and Carpenter are being held without bond. They are scheduled to return to court April 23.


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Awards for Fieldhead Hotel
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Star ratings, from one to five, show the standard of quality for hotels, guest accommodation and self catering.
Additional information on this classification scheme is available here.
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Self-assessed Accessibility Information provides a list of available facilities and services, highlighted as being of key importance by disabled people. Along with Access Statements, which provide a fuller written description of accessibility, it can help people with access needs make an informed choice as to whether accommodation, attractions, food & drink or shopping establishments meet their needs.


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MIAMI – Damage caused by your boat during a hurricane is your responsibility, so have a plan and to protect your boat.
Bridges are locked down BEFORE an evacuation is ordered -- generally 24 hours before a storm hits, so you need to secure your boat and move it to a safe harbor long before the warning and evacuation.
- Keep fuel and water tanks filled.
- Be sure batteries are charged and bilge pumps are operational.
- If you plan to trailer your boat to the mainland, you must do so before an evacuation order is issued.
- Owners of large crafts that must remain in the water must secure their vessels in a predetermined anchorage or mooring area (there are very few places in the Keys).
- Keep sufficient tie lines and chafing gear, anchors and anchor line, and any other equipment necessary to secure your boat in the water.
- Monitor NOAA Weather radio.
- Never stay aboard your boat in a hurricane.


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I'm very much a beginner to programming but was looking to create a simple two class project which I could use some help on.
At the moment it consists of "Factory" and "Employee" classes, and I've coded some simple methods where "money" is passed between the two. This simulates on the most basic level an employee working at a factory and later spending their money on the factory stock.
So far, using BlueJ, I can create the objects and manually have them initiate the methods which all works fine. But what I'm trying to do now is automate the process into a basic simulation, so for example I (the user) hit "Run" and the factory/employee objects choose when to start the methods methods themselves. And hopefully this is shown on some sort of visual representation (a table of figures for example).
After I've got this basic model set up I'm looking to add some complexity to it, but wanted to get the basics done first.
However...I have no idea how to start this!
Also I'm only on BlueJ as it's where I learnt the basics, but would it be better to transfer everything to eclipse (or any other platform)?
Any ideas/suggestions most welcome.


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If Hüsker Dü or Sugar were before your time, do yourself a favor and dig up their old catalogs. Both venerable bands were fronted by Bob Mould, and an all-star assortment of music luminaries assembled to celebrate the music and legacy of Mould's vast catalog at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Britt Daniel, Ryan Adams, Dave Grohl, No Age, Grant Lee Phillips, Margaret Cho, Craig Finn and Tad Kubler of The Hold Steady all paid tribute by running through classic Hüsker Dü and Sugar songs. Mould is touring in support of his book See A Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody and hinted he may tour next year to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Sugar's Copper Blue along with recording a new album. Check out the pictures above and a few videos below.
Ryan Adams – "Heartbreak A Stranger"
Britt Daniel – "The Act We Act" (Sugar Cover)
Bob Mould – "New Day Rising" (Feat. Dave Grohl on drums)
Bob Mould – "Celebrated Summer"
We'll add more videos as they pop up.


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Today we have 23 cliparts and vectors for this category.
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- Word 2013 - you would be surprised how many new fonts Word has today. There are over a 100 fonts and about 80% of these are those which were never used or were never implemented in an Office package before.
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Hasselblad And Imacon Merge
Shriro Sweden, the holding company of Victor Hasselblad AB, and part of the Hong Kong-headquartered Shriro Group, has announced the acquisition of leading international high-end scanner and digital camera back manufacturer, Imacon. The move will see Imacon and Hasselblad merge to accelerate Hasselblad's ambitions in the professional digital photographic sector, and creates the first single source supplier for digital photography at the top end of the professional photographic market.
Christian Poulsen, founder of Imacon, and CEO of the newly-enlarged Hasselblad says: "Hasselblad has long been synonymous with quality in the field of analogue photography and Imacon is recognised as leading the way in terms of innovative technologies in the high-end digital photographic sectors. "This new company presents us with tremendous opportunities moving forward and is the most exciting development in the field of professional digital photography for many years. It will significantly lower the barriers to entry and allow more photographers than ever before to realise the quality, versatility and performance of our high-end digital solutions."
Says Lars Pappila, managing director of Hasselblad's Swedish HQ: "The professional photographic market has truly entered the digital age and Hasselblad needed to further develop its digital offering to ensure it maintains its leading position in the photographic sector. We had been working closely with Imacon on developing professional digital solutions for the Ixpress digital camera back and the Hasselblad H1. During this process we discovered a number of natural synergies between the two companies.
"We both share a similar culture of passion for quality based on strong core Scandinavian business values and recognise the extraordinary benefits of combining our respective experience in these fields. Using a combination of leading edge technology and strong photographic heritage, the new organisation will enable us to increase the digitisation for Hasselblad customers, and introduce new customers to truly advanced professional digital solutions."
Mr Poulsen concludes: "Both
companies are committed to producing the highest quality products and
the integration of established technological expertise and vision will
ensure we maximise penetration for both new and existing products in
the marketplace. The newly enlarged Hasselblad is the only company in
the market today that can not only optimise the quality and value of
the captured image, but also dramatically increase the pleasure of capturing
the image itself -- the true essence of all photography."
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If you still use "dude" or "cool" in a sentence, you're yesterday's news. Time to update and grab a copy of the latest UCLA Slang Dictionary. It's off the hezzie.
With more than 1,000 entries, "U.C.L.A. Slang 6" has words that are a full-on eargasm. Produced every four years since 1989 in conjunction with an undergraduate linguistics course, the dictionary has become an UCLA institution.
Consider a few of these gems:
- Blaze: To smoke marijuana.
- Bromance: Extremely close platonic friendship between two males.
- Epic fail: What a mistake! What a failure! Oops!
- Fro-yo: Frozen yogurt.
- Man crush: Guy that a guy believes he'd have a crush on if he was a girl or gay.
- Biznatch: to meddle in your business
- Sister from another mister: Very close female friend who resembles a close sibling in feeling
- Skrilla: Money
- Schwa: Wow
- Destroy: Do well
- Obama: cool or rad
- Walk of shame: Walk back home after spending the night with a guy.
This year's book marks its 20th anniversary. The 160-page volume comes complete with terms, definitions, parts of speech, sample sentences, usage notes and the etymology of words. The reference provides a glimpse into how language evolves and aims to serve "as the latest word on slang used on the Westwood campus," according to the UC Newsroom.
U.S. & World
Thanks to the entertainment industry, slang spreads far beyond its roots.
"Slang seems to originate on the West Coast and move east because of Hollywood and the recording industry," said Pamela Munro, the dictionary's founding editor and a UCLA professor of linguistics.
"So 'U.C.L.A. Slang' tends to be a harbinger of slang that already is -- or soon will be -- spoken across the country," she said in a UC news article.
If you just can't bring yourself out of the 'rad' 1980's, don't QQ (cry). Munro assures us cool is still part of the dictionary.


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I have to admit that I am slightly puzzled by Cox's decision to go the CDMA route for their wireless network in the 700MHz band. Apparently Huawei beat out both Alcatel-Lucent and Nortel to win the business. Cox spent more than US$304 million on 22 licenses during the 700MHz-spectrum auction that wrapped up in March. It is also part of the SpectrumCo consortium, which also includes cable operators Comcast, Time Warner and Bright House Networks and holds nearly US$2.4 billion worth of AWS spectrum.
Tag Archives: Comcast
Puzzled by Cox!
Filed under HSPA, LTE, mobile broadband


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Re: st: RE: Mean test in a Likert Scale
Nick Cox <email@example.com>
Re: st: RE: Mean test in a Likert Scale
Sat, 1 Sep 2012 02:16:09 +0100
But this objection is so strong that it rules out taking out means in
most circumstances, not just for ordinal scales.
It's clearly true that mean of transform is not transform of mean
unless that transform is a linear function. The same argument would
imply that means are invalid for measured variables (e.g. means of
miles per gallon, weight, price in the auto data) because they are not
equivariant under transformation. Both theory and practice tell us
that means, geometric means, harmonic means, etc. can all make some
sense for many measured variables. Poisson regression and generalised
linear models all hinge on this.
Similarly, you could object to any summary statistic that you can get
the same summary value for different distributions. OK, but that's
pretty much the _definition_ and also the main limitation of a summary
statistic, and not all intrinsic to ordinal scales.
There's also a big difference of viewpoint here. Measurement theory
loves these arguments about arbitrary order-preserving
transformations, but I don't think they make much sense to scientists
who actually do measurements.
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Ulrich Kohler <email@example.com> wrote:
> I'm sure that I don't know all the reasons why we should not take means
> over values from an ordinal scale, but _one_ reason is that conclusions
> taken from the mean are not robust against allowed transformations of
> the values.
> Generally, all transformations that preserve the numerical order of the
> scale are allowed for an ordinal scale. Thus we can transform the
> values
> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
> of an ordinal scale to
> 0, 11, 13, 19, 42
> because this would not change at all the order of the scale.
> Now, consider two students, A and B, with grades
> where 1 means "excellent" and 5 means "very bad". If we calculate the
> students' averages we obtain 1.8 for both of them. Our substantial
> conclusion from the comparison of means would therefore be that both
> students are equal.
> Now, let us do the "allowed" transformation proposed above:
> In this case we obtain an average of 9.2 for student A and 8.8 for
> student B. Hence, this time our substantial conclusion would be that "B
> is better than A".
> Clearly we should not use a statistic that tells us different truths for
> arbitrary "allowed" transformations of scales. For the ordinal scale the
> median is better suited because conclusions from the median do not
> change for allowed transformations of values of an ordinal scale (in the
> example, student A would be better than B in either case).
> So far for the theory. However, in practice we might concede that we
> have measured something on an ordinal scale, but we sort of _aggree_
> that we will never do any transformations of the values. In this case
> the theoretical discussion above does not really matter. Theoretically,
> we might get different results with some transformation but as we never
> transform in practice, it will just not happen. Basically we would get
> some sort of a "conventional" absolute scale, then. It would make quite
> some sense to to use means for such scales.
> The question then is whether the 5-point-scale used in the original
> question can be seen as kind of a conventional absolute scale. I tend to
> say that this is the case, but I would like to leave that up to the
> questioner himself.
> Uli
> Am Freitag, den 31.08.2012, 18:35 +0100 schrieb Nick Cox:
>> I bow to others' expertise and experience on the minutiae here, some
>> of which seem almost theological in character. For "likert" read
>> "Likert", passim.
>> My impression from the thread, however, is that some seem to think
>> that extreme views vs moderate views are the issue, and some seem to
>> think that agree vs disagree is the issue. I can't detect a consistent
>> position among posters about how intermediate points are to be handled
>> either.
>> This disagreement to me adds flavour to the wording "arbitrary".
>> Naturally, I am interested to learn that dichotomising a Likert scale
>> is something that researchers think is sometimes justifiable, but I
>> ever met it I would expect some discussion of quite how it was done
>> and why that made sense.
>> Nick
>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:32 PM, David Radwin <email@example.com> wrote:
>> > Rob,
>> >
>> > It may be the case that not labeling the middle points of a scale, as in
>> > your first example, justifies the assumption of equal spacing (deltas).
>> > But the literature suggests that verbally labeling all points on a scale,
>> > as in your second example, leads to more reliable measurement. See, for
>> > example:
>> >
>> > Alwin DF, Krosnick JA. 1991. The reliability of survey attitude
>> > measurement: The influence of question and respondent attributes. Sociol.
>> > Methods Res. 20:139-81.
>> > http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68969/2/10.1177_0049124191
>> > 020001005.pdf
>> >
>> Rob Ploutz-Snyder
>> >> My 2 cents...when designing these sorts of instruments...
>> >>
>> >> I was trained that a true likert scale doesn't label each of the
>> >> points in the 5-point (or other) scale, but instead has only TWO
>> >> labels at each extreme. For example:
>> >>
>> >> I like Statalist.............. Completely Disagree 1 2 3 4
>> >> 5 Completely Agree
>> >>
>> >> This is in CONTRAST to a scale that would label each and every point
>> >> (sometimes called "likert-type" or "modified-likert") for example:
>> >>
>> >> 1=completely disagree
>> >> 2=disagree
>> >> 3=neutral
>> >> 4=agree
>> >> 5=completely agree
>> >>
>> >> With true likert scales, while still not continuous in scale, the
>> >> distance between each category in a true likert scale is not
>> >> subjective. The delta between "1" and "2" is the same as the delta
>> >> between "2" and "3" etc. and it is assumed that survey respondents
>> >> can appreciate this. The same cannot be assumed about the difference
>> >> between "completely disagree" and "disagree" being equal to the delta
>> >> between "disagree" and "neutral."
>> >>
>> >> So in that way, a true-likert scale removes some of the subjectivity
>> >> on the deltas and seems to achieve a more proper ordinal scale as
>> >> opposed to purely categorical.
>> >>
>> >> Still doesn't justify using parametric statistical techniques...
>> >> However, most well-vetted Sociology or Psychological instruments are
>> >> designed to use multiple questions that, together, are used to measure
>> >> a particular construct. Social scientists don't usually intend to
>> >> compare responses on single questions, but instead ask many questions
>> >> that cluster together, often verified by exploratory or confirmatory
>> >> factor analysis, where "factor scores" are then created to capture the
>> >> overall construct of interest. These factor scores can be derived by
>> >> different methods, the simplest being a mean of the items that cluster
>> >> together, but usually by more sophisticated regression-based methods
>> >> that weigh each item according to how well it correlates with the
>> >> overall factor structure. These factor scores are continuously
>> >> scaled, unlike the individual items that were used to derive them, and
>> >> it is these factor scores that are often analyzed by various
>> >> parametric statistical techniques.
>> >>
>> >> Whether or not the factor scores are normally distributed in the
>> >> population (the real question) is dependent on the particulars of each
>> >> research study, but I don't categorically deny that the assumption is
>> >> invalid.
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Meetings on higher education in the Arab region
The Middle East and North Africa Program held a successful public session on January 6, 2011 in Amman, co-sponsored in collaboration with the Center for Strategic Studies, The University of Jordan. As part its project on University Governance and Autonomy in the Changing Landscape of Higher Education in the Arab World, the MENA Program aimed to share some of the work and progress of the project with a broader audience of researchers working on higher education in the Arab region, and also past and present university presidents, officials from the Ministry of Higher Education, and various high level officials involved in higher education reform. In a closed meeting on January 7 and 8, our four country case study research teams on Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Tunisia presented their work to date. Additional research topics were discussed, including looking at the university as a social institution and changing governance systems in Iraqi universities.


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Two winters ago, I wrote a series of blog posts all featuring ground venison, since I'd been given 6 pounds of it from my dad. According to my first post in the series, my plan was to write a different recipe for each of the 6 packages, but somehow I fell off after three. I can't recall what I did with the other 3 pounds, but I'm guessing it's pretty likely there was at least one batch of chili in there.
Chili is probably the most common dish made with ground venison- I suspect some people turn to it because the powerful seasonings can mask the venison's taste, but that hasn't been a problem for us since my dad's deer always taste great with no "off" or gamey flavors. We just make it because it's easy and we tend to have most of the ingredients on hand. However, I never really considered my usual chili (which consists primarily of chopping onions and garlic and opening a bunch of cans) to be worthy of writing down a recipe.
Folks, this batch is a different story. I did rely on a couple canned ingredients, and this is still squarely in the camp of weeknight fare (even with the experimentation factor and my own slow-pokiness, it only took me an hour and a half from start to finish) but the flavors are richer, deeper and, dare I say, more sophisticated than your run-of-the-mill chili. Marvin may have to make good on his mention of taking up hunting himself in order to keep us stocked with sufficient quantities of venison, because rather than quell my cravings, this just made me hungry for more.
When my venison supply was replenished a couple weeks ago, I knew that this was the first dish I wanted to try. My dad's wife Amy had told me about a pumpkin chili she had recently made for a cook-off (it took second place out of 20- not too shabby!) and I was intrigued. Amy hadn't used a recipe, but she told me what ingredients she used and I tweaked it to my tastes. For example, her version used chili powder, pumpkin pie spice and a little brown sugar, and included lots of beans, corn and tomatoes. I omitted the sugar, added toasted and soaked guajillo chiles instead of chili powder, and used cumin, allspice and cinnamon for a vaguely Middle Eastern feel. In fact, I can easily see substituting lamb for the venison in this recipe (or grass-fed beef if you're not a fan of lamb). I also left out the corn and cut back on the beans and tomatoes, wanting the pumpkin, chiles and meat to be the primary flavors.
For garnish, I stole Amy's idea of reserving a little pumpkin to mix with sour cream, and added cilantro and scallions to brighten things up. Chopped jalapenos would be nice too if you wanted a little more kick. One authoritarian note, though- although I am generally very flexible with my recipes, I have to strongly advise against any temptations to use shredded cheese as a garnish- the flavors wouldn't work with the cinnamon and allspice. I guarantee you won't miss it, though.
Pumpkin Chili with Venison
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Prep time: 30 minutes active, 30 minutes inactive
Serves: 8
5-7 dried guajillo chiles (see note)
2 cups boiling water
2 Tbs olive oil or neutral vegetable oil
1 large or 2 small white onions, diced
5 cloves garlic, minced
1 lb ground venison, lamb, grass-fed beef, or a combination
1 Tbs unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tsp cumin
1 1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground allspice
1 large (29-oz) can 100% pumpkin puree (check to make sure it has no sugar or other spices added)
1 small (14-oz) can whole peeled tomatoes with their juice
1 roasted red bell pepper, peeled, seeded and cut into bite-sized pieces
1 small (15-oz) can black beans, rinsed and drained
optional but recommended garnishes:
sour cream
chopped scallions
chopped cilantro
Note: 5 guajillo chiles will yield a chili that is "warm" but not spicy-hot; feel free to add more, but I wouldn't go too hot because you'll overpower the other spices. You could also substitute dried ancho chiles if guajillos are not to be found.
1. Heat a cast iron or other heavy skillet over medium heat. Toast the chiles in the dry skillet, turning frequently and taking care not to burn them. Remove the seeds and roughly tear the chiles into pieces; place in a blender. Pour over the 2 cups boiling water and replace the lid; allow to soak while you prep the vegetables.
2. Heat the oil in a Dutch oven or other heavy, lidded pot over medium heat. Add the onions and cook, stirring frequently, until they soften, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook a minute more.
3. Increase the heat slightly and add the meat, salt, and all of the spices except the cocoa. Cook until the meat is browned- this will vary depending on your choice of meat; venison is very wet so it takes longer, but keep going until the liquid has evaporated. Meanwhile, process the chiles and water for 30 seconds in the blender.
4. Add the tomatoes, crushing them with your hands as you add them to the pot, and all but 1/3 cup of the pumpkin puree; add the cocoa powder and stir to incorporate. Strain the chile water into the pot with a fine mesh strainer or cheesecloth, pressing to extract all the liquid (guajillo skins are very tough; if you use ancho chiles you don't need to strain them). Add more water to reach your desired consistency, allowing for some evaporation (I added about a cup).
5. Cover and reduce heat to a very low simmer; cook for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally and adding a splash of water if it looks too thick. About halfway through, add the black beans (canned beans often verge on overcooked, so I prefer to add them toward the end).
6. Taste the chili for salt and adjust as needed. Whisk the reserved pumpkin puree with a cup or so of sour cream. Serve the chili garnished with pumpkin sour cream, a generous sprinkling of cilantro and a few scallion slices.


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DomCollapse creates accessible collapsible and expandable sections of your web sites. Users without JavaScript get one long document whereas others can expand and collapse what they want to read. Much like this site.
DomNews - a DHTML scroller that doesn't suck
DomNews is a DHTML newsticker / upscroller that is trying to be a bit cleaner than all the others. If you have a chance to avoid tickers, do it, if not, this may be an option.
EasyNav - keep navigation easy to maintain
EasyNav is a PHP script that takes a nested HTML list in a template file and automatically highlights the current page. Furthermore you can have different navigations dependent on the ID of the list's UL element.
DynGallery - a dynamic picture gallery via CSS and DOM
Dyngallery allows you to show your pictures without reloading the page. Users without JavaScript will get the images opening in the same window, but high end users get a better experience. This is an article explaining the ins and outs with code examples.
DomSlides - Yet another standards based presentation slide system
DOMSlides turns an HTML document into presentation slides via Unobtrusive JavaScript. Readers without JavaScript will see one HTML page with content split up into headings and content. Readers with JavaScript can navigate the slides either via previous and next links, the cursor up and cursor down keys or a table of contents
EasyCMS - A web site creation and maintenance tool
EasyCMS is a tool to help you or your clients create and maintain a web site. All you need to start your web site is an HTML template and a sitemap. Once these are defined, you can edit, save and generate pages directly on the server without any need to FTP.
YADM - Yet Another Dynamic Menu
YADM is an accessible DHTML dropdown/flyout/explorer solution with complete separation of CSS and Javascript
DomTableEnhance - create souped up striped rollover tables
DomTableEnhance turns data tables into striped data tables with rollover effects on the rows by adding and removing CSS classes dynamically.
Thumb-o-Matic - Display images without reloading the page
Thumb-O-Matic allows you to display pictures in a web page without leaving the page. The images are loaded into a newly generated element.
Dynamic thumbnails and preview images with DOM, CSS and PHP
This script allows users to preview images before loading them with a dynamically added preview link. If your PHP installation supports it, it also generates the thumbnails on the fly.
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It is manifestly clear that the idea that the EU equals security and Brexit equals isolation (splendid or otherwise) for Britain is complete bunkum. It should be perfectly possible for the major players to cooperate against ISIS as national governments, within or outwith the European Union, and to work together closely, without the need for an ever-expanding and self-serving EU superstructure.
But then the inability to see this is at root what is wrong with the EU more broadly, and the reason the UK is having its referendum at all. Even when Britain talked of leaving and tried to negotiate a distinct set of arrangements, and suggested that the federalist mantra of Jean-Claude Juncker and co is a dead end, it did not seem to produce much of a recognition of reality. Speaking as a European (who is nonetheless sceptical of the EU, which is not the same thing as Europe) my concern is that what has been constructed is transparently unfit for purpose. It is a botched bureaucracy, built on a notionally nice idea, being rendered inoperable by history. The EU open borders model and obsession with anti-democratic integration rather than trade and friendly cooperation is turning steadily into a catastrophe for European civilisation


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Saturday, September 25, 2010
The Rough Cut
Posted by Rot at 8:12 AM
Labels: flickr.com, gatr13, jack o'lanterns, pumpkins
2 comments:
- Aelwyn said...
I LOVE this! Is that just roughly cutting a jack-o-lantern, rather than being all neat and perfect?
- September 25, 2010 at 3:12 PM
- Rot said...
And it looks like they left some guts and seeds in too.
- September 25, 2010 at 5:00 PM
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Leave Your Mark, by Aliza Licht
Author: Aliza Licht
Publisher: Piatkus
Release date: May 2015
Genre: Non-fiction - Advice/Autobiography
Source: Bought
Description: LEAVE YOUR MARK isn't an advice book -- it's a mentorship in 288 pages.
Aliza Licht -- global fashion communications executive, AKA fashion's favorite 'PR girl' and Twitter phenomenon -- is here to tell her story, complete with The Devil Wears Prada-like moments and insider secrets.
Drawing invaluable lessons from her experience, Licht shares advice, inspiration, and a healthy dose of real talk in LEAVE YOUR MARK. She delivers personal and professional guidance for people just starting their careers and for people who are well on their way. With a particular emphasis on communicating and building your personal brand, something she knows a thing or two about, Aliza is your sassy, knowledgeable guide to the contemporary working world, where personal and professional lines are blurred and the most important thing you can have is a strong sense of self.
My thoughts: Although Leave Your Mark charts Aliza Licht's route into working at a fashion magazine, it provides excellent advice for starting careers in the media and in general. I read it just as I was starting to apply for publishing jobs and found all the advice very helpful. As that's the stage I was at, I was mostly interested in the early sections, which focus on getting your CV into shape, and how to get work experience. I read through the whole book once, then made particular notes based on those sections. Later, as I was invited to interviews, and got a longer work experience placement, I read on to the bits dealing with those. I found the section on making the most of a placement particularly helpful.
The book charts Aliza Licht's career so far, so there are definitely sections which I'll revisit as they become relevant - such as the etiquette for looking for internal and external jobs, or requesting a pay rise. Even though these sections weren't stuff I needed to hear, it's still an interesting account of Aliza's life and I enjoyed hearing about the trials and triumphs she experienced as she started out in the world of media. She became the voice of 'DKNY PR girl' when the account was started and shares the story of how the account was planned and how it became her running it.
That lead in to the other section which I really enjoyed, something you can appreciate and learn from even if you're not looking for careers advice: using social media as a marketing tool. I think a lot of bloggers would find some interesting things in this section as Licht writes about figuring out the defining features of your personal brand and how to harness social media to tie in to it.
Overall, I give Leave Your Mark by Aliza Licht 8 out of 10. It has excellent careers advice, particularly for anyone looking to work in media. I'm really glad I found the book when I did as it gave me some very helpful tips.
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In December, there'll be a soft, cuddly Portal turret available to buy. Those who like their Portal companions a little squarer (but just as cuddly), you get yours a month earlier.
In November, NECA will release its first piece of official Valve merchandise, in the form of a plush Companion Cube. No word on price yet, but it'll be 6″x 6″ (x 6″!). And soft.
And, for series purists, probably quite flammable, too.
Portal – Plush – Companion Cube [NECA]
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Waterfowl scientists are surveying waterfowl and observing their behavior to get an idea how birds are using the Emiquon Preserve, a 7,100-acre wetland restoration undertaken by The Nature Conservancy.
After all the plans are completed and computer models have been analyzed, it boils down to one thing: how wildlife � particularly waterfowl � respond to the redeveloping wetland at The Nature Conservancy�s Emiquon Preserve in Fulton County near Havana.
�Male, feeding; female, resting; female, feeding; male, feeding; male, locomotion,� says research scientist Randy Smith into a small voice recorder. Using a spotting scope, he scans a flock of ducks and makes note of what they are doing.
Smith counts waterfowl from several stations at the preserve each week and also spends about an hour recording their behavior. He�s trying to find out if the number of birds using the preserve correlates to the amount of food available. If the number of birds on the preserve is down and most ducks are resting instead of feeding, it may tell waterfowl biologists that earlier-arriving ducks and coots ate everything in sight.
Smith works at the Illinois Natural History Survey�s Forbes Biological Station across the Illinois River. The survey has agreed to conduct waterfowl studies for The Nature Conservancy to provide some idea of how the new wetland is being used. Other scientists with the survey are monitoring aquatic vegetation growing in the lake and former drainage ditches, while others are watching the emerging fishery.
Former wetlands like Emiquon can be unbelievably resilient.
Scientists have said all along that a �seed bank� of native wetland vegetation would respond if wet conditions returned. Even for the faithful, it�s hard to believe that anything would remain in the soil after more than eight decades of intensive agriculture.
�One of the things we said was, it�s been 83 years since there has been permanent water out there and it took about two months for some of that vegetation to come back,� says Jason Beverlin, Illinois River program deputy director for the conservancy.
Plants like arrowhead and submerged aquatic plants such as coontail have returned.
�It�s been phenomenal,� Beverlin says. �It�s hard to put in words. People have to see it. They have to get out there on the water.�
The 7,100-acre Emiquon Preserve was a large farming operation before the conservancy purchased it in 2000. Its two lakes, Thompson and Flag, were cut off from the Illinois River by levees, drained and farmed by the 1920s.
Today, where corn once stood, wetland plants such as smartweed, cattails, wild millet and various sedges are emerging. In one area, wetland plants can
be seen growing between corn stalks left over from a past harvest.
�It�s amazing to see a pretty good wetland coming right in amidst the corn,� Smith says as he drives an all-terrain vehicle between stations where his counts are conducted.
�It�s absolutely amazing for me to see that.�
Somehow, the Thompson and Flag lake bed contours remain, and Thompson Lake has reappeared. A natural ridge separating the two also remains despite years of tillage.
Tharran Hobson, restoration manager, says information gathered by Smith and others with the Illinois Natural History Survey may be used to drive management decisions at the preserve.
�They are one of our main partners,� he says. �They certainly have the expertise to conduct these surveys.�
Hobson says the conservancy will use the numbers to look for a correlation between the number of waterfowl using the preserve with the presence of submerged aquatic vegetation like coontail. Submerged plants require
exceptionally clear water so sunlight can penetrate.
The public finds the survey information useful as well, Hosbon says, especially on the mornings when waterfowl hunting positions are drawn at the preserve.
�We were sure ready for some results,� he says. �Thirty thousand coots were pretty impressed with the site. They liked what we�ve done with it so far.�
All those coots and tens of thousands of ducks cleaned out the coontail, Hobson says.
But Smith says it will take time before the numbers can be properly interpreted.
�Until we have monitored this for a couple of years in a row, I don�t think we will have a real good handle on this,� he says. �We don�t want to jump to any conclusions or give anyone the wrong idea before we are pretty certain what is going on.�
Still, strong numbers from early in the duck season have dwindled recently. Smith says he doesn�t know yet if it has to do with available food or the vagaries of migration patterns.
Six thousand ducks counted at one station recently dropped to 1,200, and 5,000 to 6,000 in another plummeted to 700.
�And we haven�t reached peak migration yet,� he says. �There certainly hasn�t been any weather to force them out.�
Smith says he plans to keep counting until freeze-up and then resume in the spring when birds return.
Dry weather has shrunk Thompson Lake, and wetland plants that sprout and set seed when moist areas dry out are waiting at the water�s edge with food for spring migrating ducks, if water levels rise. Those areas along the lakeshore are as yet untouched by hungry ducks, but higher water could flood the lowland where they grow and give ducks all the access they need.
Moist, soil-loving wetland plants produce untold numbers of nutritious seeds that help waterfowl make the grueling migration trip south and then north again in the spring.
Ducks and geese also love waste corn, but corn mostly is sugar and lacks essential nutrients provided by native vegetation.
�The 20,000-plus waterfowl out there earlier this fall shows us that the native vegetation is the best for waterfowl,� Beverlin says. �They will eat flooded corn, but they need the native vegetation, too.�
Smith says he has enjoyed the task of monitoring waterfowl at the preserve and another parcel of land near Dickson Mounds Museum also owned by the conservancy.
�When things are hectic, it�s great to say, �Hey, I have to go count Emiquon.��


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Tama Beer at Restaurant Beer Club Tama Hills Area
Hachioji, Tokyo
The area surrounding this small brewery restaurant affords quite a number of opportunities for family-oriented "un-extreme" activities. There's the Tama Zoo, Sanrio Puro Land, a number of parks and just a whole lot of golf courses.
The Tama Beer building is surprisingly compact, housing banks of fermentation tanks and other brewery equipment on the first floor and a restaurant on the second floor which adjoins a glassed-in room with three large copper brewing vessels which are only in use on some days.
There are generally five or six beers on tap here, three regular beers and three limited edition brews.
The regulars include a fairly understated Weizen (German wheat ale), a pleasant but unchallenging Red Ale (called "Super Ale") and the Tama-no-Kuronama, a dark brew with a thick tan head brewed, as the menu says, for those people who are a bit reluctant ("eeh, chotto…") to try a dark beer, obviously alluding to its light body and minimal bitterness.
(The bewitching bock bier is a seductive 7% alcohol)
Guinness it's not, but it's richer and roastier than mainstream Japanese dark beer.
The real treats, on my visit, were the Bock and the Rauch. The Bock is a heavy German lager, deep gold, with a clean, rich sweetness, while the Rauch is in the rare German smoked beer style of Bamberg, with a small amount of the amber malt roasted to give the dark lager a distinct smoky edge in aroma and flavor.
Both of these ranked quite highly. Prices are reasonable, with standard 365-ml. glasses at 500-550, and monstrous one-liter mugs at just 1,260 and 1.8-liter pitchers at 2,270. A tasting set of three 190-ml. glasses of their regular products is just 790.
(Gleaming copper brew kettles can be seen from the restaurant entrance)
The menu has a full range of appetizers (260-760), pasta (medium 950 / large 1,400), pizza (950) and entrees ranging from garlic chicken (1,050) to a monstrous eisbein (2,960).
The best way to arrive at Tama Beer is probably by bicycle, but if you choose to take public transportation, you're in for an interesting treat—the Tama Monorail which runs north-south through hill and dale between Kamikitadai in Higashi Yamato City, through Tachikawa, to Tama Center on the Odakyu Tama Line or the Keio Sagamihara Lines. The ride alone is worth a special trip.
Restaurant Beer Club / Tama Beer
564 Otsuka,
Hachioji-shi, Tokyo
Web: www.tama-beer.co.jp
Tel: (0426) 74-8111
Toll free: 0120-811-570
Hours: Open daily from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Public transportation: Five-minute walk from Otsuka Teikyo Daigaku Station on the Tama Monorail Line (Change from Takahata Fudo on the Keio Line, or from Tama Center Station on the Keio Sagamihara Line or Odakyu Tama Line).


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Canine vaccination records must be provided on all Canines receiving training from the Search and Rescue Training Center.
Due to the individualized nature of instruction courses must be restricted to 1 dog per handler.
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The Pennsylvania SPCA is a non-profit animal welfare organization founded in 1867. Our mission is to protect animals, prevent cruelty and improve the health and quality of life for animals in Pennsylvania.
SUMMARY: The Pennsylvania SPCA is seeking an experienced veterinary surgeon and shelter vet for their Danville location. Experience in a high volume setting a must. Applicant should be comfortable performing 20-30 surgical alterations daily. Opportunities to perform surgeries other than spays and neuters exist, and interest/ability in a variety of surgical procedures is desired. The position is also responsible for community medicine as offered to the public. Expect a fast paced, energetic environment, with a balance of routine procedures and new challenges.
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description
EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS: Veterinary licensure in the State of Pennsylvania or licensure in another state with the intent and ability to gain licensure in the State of Pennsylvania. Knowledge of, interest and passion in, or continuing education performed in the field of shelter medicine, high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter and high-volume, low-cost veterinary medicine.
IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR: Full time On Site Veterinarian
HOURS: FLSA STATUS: NON- EXEMPT PART TIME POSITION. Hours and days of the week may vary according to the needs of the department schedule. Includes weekends, night, holiday and on-call work.
INTRODUCTORY ASSESSMENT PERIOD: The introductory assessment period runs from the date of hire for ninety days thereafter. For employment in any position with the Pennsylvania SPCA, this introductory assessment period is the period during which the specifics of the job are learned.
EMPLOYMENT: There is no minimum period of employment guaranteed or implied by acceptance of an employment offer. It is the policy of Pennsylvania SPCA that even exempt positions are governed by the needs of the agency, which means that employment is for no specified term and either the Pennsylvania SPCA or the employee, may terminate that employment at any time. The Chief Executive Officer has final authority over these decisions and determinations.
The Pennsylvania SPCA is an equal opportunity employer