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FENTANYL (FEN ta nil) is a pain reliever. It is used to treat breakthrough cancer pain that your long acting pain medicine does not control. Do not use this medicine for a pain that will go away in a few days like pain from surgery, doctor or dentist visits. The medicine is used only by people who have been taking an opioid or narcotic pain medicine for at least a week.
This medicine is only for use in the mouth. Follow the directions on the prescription label. Open package with scissors right before use. Each unit contains enough medicine for one spray. Spray the medicine into the mouth underneath the tongue. Ask your doctor or health care provider if you have any questions. Do not take your medicine more often than directed.
A special MedGuide will be given to you by the pharmacist with each prescription and refill. Be sure to read this information carefully each time.
Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible:
allergic reactions like skin rash, itching or hives, swelling of the face, lips, or tongue
breathing problems
signs and symptoms of low blood pressure like dizziness; feeling faint or lightheaded, falls; unusually weak or tired
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dry mouth
nausea, vomiting
Do not take this medication with any of the following medicines:
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antiviral medicines for HIV or AIDS
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certain medicines for anxiety or sleep
certain medicines for bladder problems like oxybutynin, tolterodine
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MAOIs like Carbex, Eldepryl, Marplan, Nardil, and Parnate
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Do not suddenly stop taking your medicine because you may develop a severe reaction. Your body becomes used to the medicine. This does NOT mean you are addicted. Addiction is a behavior related to getting and using a drug for a non-medical reason. If you have pain, you have a medical reason to take pain medicine. Your doctor will tell you how much medicine to take. If your doctor wants you to stop the medicine, the dose will be slowly lowered over time to avoid any side effects.
There are different types of narcotic medicines (opiates). If you take more than one type at the same time or you are taking another medicine that also causes drowsiness, you may have more side effects. Give your health care provider a list of all medicines you use. Your doctor will tell you how much medicine to take. Do not take more medicine than directed. Call emergency for help if you have problems breathing or unusual sleepiness.
You may get drowsy or dizzy. Do not drive, use machinery, or do anything that needs mental alertness until you know how this medicine affects you. Do not stand or sit up quickly, especially if you are an older patient. This reduces the risk of dizzy or fainting spells. Alcohol may interfere with the effect of this medicine. Avoid alcoholic drinks.
This medicine will cause constipation. Try to have a bowel movement at least every 2 to 3 days. If you do not have a bowel movement for 3 days, call your doctor or health care professional.
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Pat Riley has future of Miami Heat in his hands again
MIAMI — Pat Riley stood behind a lectern on Monday afternoon to introduce new Miami guard Shabazz Napier, the lone player that the Heat picked up in last week's draft.
The Napier event lasted for 20 minutes. Riley was gone after about three.
"I'm going back upstairs with Andy and crunch some numbers," Riley said before heading upstairs to the executive offices with Miami senior vice-president and general manager Andy Elisburg.
The Heat president meant no disrespect and none was likely taken. Free agency awaits and whatever he and Elisburg gleaned from their number-crunching session on the eve of the NBA's shopping season might end up shaping the course of the Heat for years to come.
Starting at midnight Tuesday, when free agency begins across the league, Riley gets back into action. The mastermind of Miami's 2010 free agency coup that landed LeBron James and Chris Bosh while retaining Dwyane Wade will look to one-up himself this time around — as he and the Heat brass will set out to not only keep those three, but surround them with whatever they need to make what would be a fifth straight trip to the NBA Finals next season.
"Challenge is what it's all about," Riley said. "Challenge is nothing more than playing for higher stakes and raising the ante."
Riley made that comment late last year, when he spoke at the University of Miami's December commencement. It still rings true; Riley isn't shy about using phrases he likes many times over, such as saying that by working in basketball he works "in the toy department of human affairs."
But whatever he said to James, Wade and Bosh in 2010 might not be needed this time. He wasn't even planning to travel for 12:01 a.m. meetings on Tuesday, a change from his tactics of four years ago right off the start. Wade and Bosh did not yet have meetings with the Heat scheduled and James is heading to Brazil to take in some World Cup action.
With James, Wade and Bosh opting out, and Udonis Haslem not opting in on a $4.6 million deal, Miami should have somewhere around $55 million in salary cap room to play with over the next couple weeks. It could be enough to keep the "Big 3" together and get them the pieces they need to contend for another title next year. If not, even the doomsday scenario isn't that bad for Miami.
"It's not always the players who have the advantage because in the worst-case scenario we could have the most room than anybody in the NBA or in the history of the NBA if everybody decided to opt out and go somewhere else," Riley said. "I'm not planning on that."
At 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, Norris Cole will be Miami's best player, since everyone else is a free agent.
Still, it's true — Cole and his $2 million contract is the only fully guaranteed deal the Heat have for next season.
"It's a unique situation," Cole said Monday while working with hundreds of South Florida kids at two basketball camps he's hosting simultaneously this week. "But I've had a unique start to my career. … I know that Pat's going to do what he has to do to build a great team. That's what he does. I believe in that. I believe in the front office."
The three opt-outs are considered positive signs for the Heat and drafting Napier made James happy. It also figures to not hurt Miami's chances of luring Ray Allen back next season since he, like Napier, is a former Connecticut star.
"I'm looking forward to competing with the best," Napier said.
Behind closed doors, the Heat have basically been preparing for this summer for four years. They anticipated the opt-outs when they were worked into the contracts of James, Wade and Bosh in 2010. And it's also why, just as was the case four years ago, the Heat have very little money committed to anyone for next season.
And now it's Riley's turn to see what he can do this time.
"A person's greatest fear is their fear of extinction," Riley said. "But what they should fear more than that is to one day become extinct with insignificance. You don't want that. There's nothing wrong with separating yourself from the pack. There's nothing wrong with leaving footprints. There's nothing wrong with being great."

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Colonization and Emigration
The Colonization of Sierra Leone
The Colonization of Liberia
Migration to Haiti
Migrations to Other Lands
The Debate over Emigration and Colonization
Marcus Garvey's Back-to-Africa Movement
Consequences of Colonization and Emigration
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Colonization and Emigration
Nemata Blyden, George Washington University
"The Relations and Duties of Free Colored Men in America to Africa"
The Future of Africa; Being Addresses, Sermons etc.,etc., Delivered in the Republic of Liberia
Alexander Crummell
Scribner (New York, 1862)
Colonization of Free People of Colour
(Washington D.C., 1827)
The Providence African Society's Sierra Leone Emigration Scheme, 1794-1795: Prologue to the African Colonization Movement
from The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 7, no. 2 (1974)
George E. Brooks, Jr.
Chapter 1 - "Beloved Africans (1787-1830)"
Speak Out in Thunder Tones: Letters and Other Writings by Black Northerners, 1787-1865
Dorothy Sterling
Doubleday (Garden City, N.Y., 1973)
Memoir of Captain Paul Cuffee, A Man of Colour: To Which is Subjoined The Epistle of the Society of Sierra Leone in Africa, &c.
Paul Cuffee
C. Peacock for W. Alexander and sold by Him; London: sold also by Darton, Harvey and Co. and W. Phillips (York, 1811)
Journal of Daniel Coker: A Descendant of Africa, from the Time of Leaving New York, in the Ship Elizabeth, Capt. Sebor, on a Voyage from Sherbro, in Africa, in Company with Three Agents, and About Nin
Daniel Coker
Published by Edward J. Coale, in aid of the funds of the Maryland Auxiliary Colonization Society (Baltimore, 1820)
Abstract of a Journal Kept by E. Bacon, Assistant Agent of the United States, to Africa: With an Appendix, Containing Extracts from the North American Review, on the Subject of Africa, Containing Cuts...
Ephraim Bacon
Clark & Raser, Printers (Philadelphia, 1824)
Report of the Secretary of State, communicating the report of the Rev. R. R. Gurley, who was recently sent out by the government to obtain information in respect to Liberia. September 14, 1850. Read. ...
United States Department of State (Washington D.C., September 14, 1850)
An Address to the Free People of Color of the State of Maryland By James Hall, General Agent of the Maryland State Colonization Society
James Hall
Printed by John D. Toy (Baltimore, 1859)
Election of Slaves to go to Liberia, Dec. 16, 1847
Liberian Letters: Samson Ceasar to Henry F. Westfall 1835 August 3 and Saunders A. Campion for George Walker, et al, to Dr. James H. Minor 1857 March 5
Samson Ceasar and Saunders A. Campion
Interview with Anna Jones
Florida Narratives, Volume 3
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project (Washington D.C.)
Interview with Tom Windham
Arkansas Narratives, Volume 2, Part 7
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project (Washington D.C.)
Interview with Will Ann Rogers
Arkansas Narratives
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project (Washington D.C.)
Chief Sam's African Movement and Race Consciousness in West Africa
from Phylon, vol. 32, no. 2 (Second quarter, 1971)
J. Ayo Langley
Correspondence Relative to the Emigration to Hayti, of the Free People of Colour in the United States. Together with the Instructions to the Agent Sent Out by President Boyer.
Loring Daniel Dewey
Printed by M. Day (New York, 1824)
Report from Hayti
from African Repository and Colonial Journal, Vol. 5 (April 1829)
Marriage License and Naturalization Documents of American Migrants to Haiti
Williamson Papers
A Merging of Two Cultures: The Afro-Hispanic Immigrants of Samana, Dominican Republic
from Afro-Hispanic Review, vol. 8, nos. 1 & 2 (January and May 1989)
E. Valerie Smith
A Guide to Hayti
Thayer & Eldridge (Boston, 1860)
Thoughts on Hayti
from The Anglo-African Magazine, vol.1, no.10 (October 1859) and vol.1, no.11 (November 1859)
Holly, Theodore
Some Plans for Colonizing Liberated Negro Slaves in Hispanic America
from The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 11, no. 1 (January 1926)
N. Cleven and N. Andrew
The Origins of the Merikens, the African Americans Who Settled Trinidad's Company Villages in 1816
John McNish Weiss
Report of Messers. Peck and Price, Who Were Appointed at a Meeting of The Free Colored People of Baltimore
Nathaniel Peck
Printed by Woods & Crane; Reprinted by C. Richards (Baltimore, London, 1840)
"A Negro Colonization Project in Mexico, 1895
from The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 6, no. 1 (January 1921)
J. Fred Rippy
Memoirs of Boston King
from The Methodist Magazine
Boston King
Leeds, England
Chapter 7 - "The Ongoing Struggle"
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R. Bruce Shepard
Umbrella Press (Toronto, 1997)
Chapter 11 - "Source of Strength? - The Church"
The Blacks in Canada: A History
Robin W. Winks
MCGill-Queen's University Press (Montreal, 1971)
Henry Highland Garnet
from Journal of Negro History, vol. 13, no. 1 (January 1928)
William M. Brewer
The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of The United States, Politically Considered
Martin Robison Delany
The Author (Philadelphia, 1852)
The Liberian Exodus. An Account of Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia—Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects
Williams, Alfred Brockenbrough, 1856-1930
The News and Courier Book Presses (Charleston, S. C., 1878)
Part III - " The Republic of Liberia and The Universal Negro Improvement Association"
Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, vol. 2
Marcus Garvey and Amy Jacques-Garvey, editor
The Universal Publishing House
Two Marcus Garvey Letters
Marcus Garvey
Liberia and the Universal Negro Improvement Association: The Background to the Abortion of Garvey's Scheme for African Colonization
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The Colonization of Liberia
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SARATOGA SPRINGS -- The Giving Circle, an all-volunteer city-based nonprofit, is partnering with GlobalFoundries and the Saratoga County Economic Opportunity Council to gather donations for Superstorm Sandy victims who need help getting back on their feet. A team of volunteers will travel to Staten Island Nov. 18 to deliver necessary supplies and help families. Saratoga County EOC, located at 40 New St. in Saratoga Springs next to the YMCA entrance, will accept donations from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today through Nov. 16. GlobalFoundries employees are also holding a donation drive this week to gather needed items for the Staten Island trip. "The Giving Circle has a long history of helping communities after natural disasters," said Ron Deutsch, president of the nonprofit. "Superstorm Sandy hit close to home and has devastated many areas in New York and New Jersey. We feel compelled to help since this is right in our backyard." The nonprofit is also recruiting more volunteers interested in going down to help families in need and working in a relief shelter set up by Project Hospitality on Staten Island. To volunteer or get more involved, sign up on the group's website atwww.thegivingcircle.org
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. Items needed for Superstorm Sandy victims New items only -- no used items. General list: AmEx/Visa gift cards Home Depot gift cards Lowes gift cards Target gift cards Tarps Air mattresses Sleeping bags Plastic tubs/watertight storage containers Garbage pails Flashlights Batteries -- triple A batteries and D batteries are most in demand Baby supplies: Formula Diapers Baby wipes Cribs/Pack and Plays Cleaning supplies: Shovels Brooms Dustpans Cleaning solutions Contractor garbage bags Hygiene items: Hand/body soap Shampoo/conditioner Deodorant Toothpaste/toothbrushes New hairbrushes/combs Paper products: Toilet paper Paper towels Paper plates/cups/plastic ware Nonperishable food items: Powdered milk Evaporated milk Soy milk Baby formula Baby food Canned meat Peanut butter Canned vegetables Canned fruit Pasta Rice Protein bars Cookies Clothing: New winter clothing--underwear, new socks, new warm and waterproof boots for adults and children, new hats, new gloves Children's school supplies: Backpacks, notebooks, pencils, crayons, markers, etc.


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Welcome to the West Vancouver Memorial Library
If you're new to West Vancouver, allow us to help you get settled and feel at home.
To help you learn how you can use the Library, and the many services we offer, we have created Welcome to the Library, a five minute video. It is available in English, French, Farsi, Korean, Chinese, Tagalog and Japanese.
How do I join?
Membership is free and easy. Show us some identification that includes your photo, name and current address—a driver's license, or a telephone bill and passport, for example—and we'll give you a free card! With a library card you can take material home and use our online resources.
What does the Library have to offer?
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- English Corner - an enjoyable way to practise your English conversation skills. This intermediate-level program runs from September through June.
- English Conversation Circle - improve your English skills by reading and discussing stories.
- Let's Talk - improve your listening and speaking skills at this weekly discussion group.
- Children's Storytimes - bring your baby, two-year-old or toddler for a half-hour session of stories, songs, and puppets.
- Library Champions - if you are new to Canada and enthusiastic about libraries, volunteer to introduce other newcomers to public libraries.
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TAMPA, Fla., March 2 (UPI) -- Ryan Malone scored 1:58 into overtime Friday, lifting the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 4-3 victory over the New York Rangers.
The Rangers let a two-goal lead get away and missed a chance to tie Vancouver for the largest point total in the NHL.
Vancouver has 90 and the one point the Rangers earned Friday left them with 89, tied for second place with Detroit.
After falling behind 2-0 early in the second period, Tampa Bay got consecutive goals from Tom Pyatt, Teddy Purcell and Steven Stamkos. It was the NHL-leading 45th of the season for Stamkos, but Brandon Dubinsky tied it for the Rangers with 3:27 left in regulation.
Mathieu Garon made 16 saves in the victory. The four Tampa Bay goals came against Henrik Lundqvist, who stopped 27 shots.


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America has pledged $50 million (yes… million… not billion) in aid to Ukraine. And now we know why the White House sent Joe Biden: There's no-one better to deliver a joke than the current VP of the United States.
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Whether you want slick athletic shoes that allow you to effectively manage your diabetic foot pain at the gym or are looking for diabetic socks and shoes that are perfect for your casual dress work environment, you can find them at Drew Shoe. We offer the widest variety of fashionable diabetic shoes in the largest array of sizes on the market, ensuring no matter what your needs, you will find the products to manage your diabetic foot pain on Drewshoe.com.
Among our most popular varieties of diabetic socks and shoes are definitely our casual dress line, for this seems to be the most common workplace dress code these days and folks just don't want to spend 40 hours a week dealing with excruciating diabetic foot pain. That simple fact has made our full line of casually-oriented fashionable diabetic shoes, for both men and women, the most popular products in our catalog.
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The deaths of endangered blue whales off Newfoundland are a tragic loss but also a rare chance to study the world's largest animal, says the head of the Royal Ontario Museum team that will handle their two carcasses.
"We wish it hadn't happened," Mark Engstrom, deputy director of collections and research for the museum, said Thursday from Toronto. "But this is an incredible opportunity to see one and to work with one."
Engstrom is not, incidentally, worried that the massive corpses that washed ashore on Newfoundland's west coast will explode.
"I think the concerns about that have been overblown — no pun intended," he said. "It will simply deflate."
Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea announced Thursday that the museum researchers will preserve the two skeletons and collect tissue samples.
It's believed nine of the giant whales, which can reach lengths of 30 metres and weigh up to 180 tonnes, were crushed in thick sea ice last month. Two of the massive bodies beached in the small west coast communities of Trout River and Rocky Harbour near Gros Morne National Park.
Town officials appealed for help with the huge and costly job of removing the carcasses. They raised concerns that the rotting whales pose health hazards and could drive away tourists if left to decompose.
Engstrom said a team of at least 10 assembled by the museum will head to Newfoundland next week. He said they'll use flensing knives to cut through the skin, blubber and skeletal muscles of the two carcasses before dismantling the skeletons.
Flesh and blubber will be disposed of in local dumps, Engstrom said. The bones will be packed into large containers and driven back to Ontario using at least 18-wheel trucks, he added.
The operation is being funded by the museum and will cost tens of thousands of dollars, Engstrom said. He figures it will take at least two weeks once work begins.
Engstrom in the past has helped salvage the remains of a right whale, a fin whale, a sperm whale, a humpback and a killer whale.
"It's a lot of very smelly work. There's nothing that smells worse than a dead whale. They don't smell good to begin with and these have been dead awhile."
Engstrom said tissue samples will be preserved for DNA study and the skeletons will be available to scientists from around the world.
One of the skeletons could ultimately be displayed at the museum if funds are available, he added.
Northwestern Atlantic blue whales are listed as endangered with a population estimated at just 250 before the nine known deaths.
Walter Nicolle, mayor of Rocky Harbour, is relieved to see someone step up. The federal Fisheries Department had said earlier in the week that the carcasses are above the high water mark and therefore provincial responsibility.
"We're only a small town," Nicolle said in an interview. "We don't have a budget large enough to take care of that whale."
Nicolle said a steady stream of visitors has arrived for photos with the carcass as concerns about potential eruptions due to internal methane gas buildup made international headlines.
"If it were to stay there for much longer it would stink up the whole community, I would say."


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Sometimes even troubled starlets need to unwind from their legal problems. And what better way to do that than bowling?
That's what actress Lindsay Lohan did yesterday afternoon when she checked into New York City's Bowlmor Lanes with her sister Ali and an entourage of 10, the Daily News reported. A handler told the newspaper that it was a family affair.
A police officer was present at the entrance to Lohan's off-limits section inside the venue.
The actress was seen wearing a blue blazer, black shirt and blue jeans, according to the News. She appeared to be in good spirits and thanked the staff as she was escorted out from her private room.
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Lohan high-tailed it out of there in her car away from the waiting photographers.
Earlier in the week, Lohan Tweeted about encountering the paparazzi upon arriving at JFK Airport with her family: "I love ny - but the paparazzi @ jfk just gave me an anxiety attack..... i was half asleep! They're such animals :( well- @ least im with my family in the end.... xo."
Lohan has until Friday to decide whether she will accept a plea deal in the case of the stolen $2,500 necklace.
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Stardust/Knowledge Base/Testing/How to test Stardust
Whatever your favorite framework for testing may be, JUnit or TestNG or anything similar, you should not have a problem unit testing your individual pieces of code that are invoked throughout your business process. That means that whatever you're using as 'applications' in a Stardust process, it can most likely be unit tested. This could be a Pojo that performs some calculations, a business rule, or a web service. Even UIs can be unit tested given the appropriate tools, e.g. Selenium.
This article discusses the usage of a testing framework to test the 'big picture' once all the above mentioned pieces have been integrated into an end-to-end business process.
Testing business processes
First of all the question arises how to perform tests against a complete Stardust runtime environment. Test suites generally should be self-contained: they should be able to set up their own environment reproducibly and clean up after themselves. But that is not always possible. In case you're running Stardust in EJB mode on a J2EE application server, the effort to control the environment through your test cases might be too great and when running tests, the answer might simply be to manually set up an environment for the tests by making sure that the server is started up and the Stardust runtime is deployed and configured correctly. With Stardust deployed in Spring mode it becomes easier to create your Stardust runtime environment specifically for the test runs. The downloadable Stardust Process Driver project contains this JUnit4 test case which demonstrates this approach. It performs the following steps:
- The global startup phase of the test is executed only once and it takes care of the following tasks:
- It checks for a Derby database instance to be used and it creates one automatically if needed.
- After booting the database it tries to query a table from the Stardust AuditTrail schema. If unsuccessful, the AuditTrail schema is created.
- It then boots a Spring-based Stardust runtime environment.
- Finally a process model is deployed into this environment.
- Then, all individual tests are executed.
Afterwards, the process model which was deployed during the startup is removed which results in all created processes being deleted as well, effectively leaving no traces of the test runs.
For the individual tests the question is 'What assumptions about your processes do you want to test'? Here are some typical examples:
If I run a XYZ process with an amount greater than $100,000 dollars, I need it to go through the review step.
When the initial automatic validation checks and message parsing of my process are completed, I expect to find a 'Select Contract' work item in the workbasket of role 'ABC'
After completing the AddressChange process, the client record in my database should be up-to-date with the new address.
In order to automate this testing, you sometimes need to 'drive' the process forward, e.g. to simulate a user completing a work item. Furthermore, the state of a process and its data needs to be queried to verify test assumptions. All of this can be accomplished using the Stardust API.
Completing an activity
When a process instance arrives at an activity that does not complete automatically, e.g. a manual activity, you can use the WorkflowService to simulate the user's interaction. The Map argument that is passed into the following method contains the IDs and data of the OUT-Data-Mappings for that activity as specified in the process model to pass data back to the process.
workflowService.activateAndComplete(long activityInstanceOID, String context, Map outData)
Manipulating process data
The following API calls can be used to read and write process data. The data you want to access this way must be declared as IN- or OUT-Data-Path in the properties of the process definition in the process model with IN corresponding to read access and OUT specifying write privileges.
workflowService.getInDataPath(long processInstanceOID, String id) workflowService.getInDataPaths(long processInstanceOID, Set ids) workflowService.setOutDataPath(long processInstanceOID, String id, Object object) workflowService.setOutDataPaths(long processInstanceOID, Map values)
Querying process and activity state
The Stardust Query Framework can be used to retrieve process instances as well as activity instances while applying a wide range of filter criteria. Following are merely a few examples. For the full depth of the Query Framework's functionalities please refer to the Stardust documentation.
ProcessInstanceQuery piQuery = ProcessInstanceQuery.findForProcess("AccountOpening"); piQuery.where( DataFilter.isEqual("Customer", "lastname", "Smith"); int resultCount = queryService.getProcessInstancesCount( piQuery );
The above code snippet queries for the number of instances of the Account Opening process for a customer with lastname 'Smith'. Here's another example using an ActivityInstanceQuery.
ActivityInstanceQuery aiQuery = ActivityInstanceQuery.findInState( ActivityInstanceState.Hibernated ); aiQuery.where( ActivityFilter.forProcess("AccountOpening", "WaitingForSignedContract") ); Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(); cal.add( Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, -1 ); cal.set( Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 8 ); aiQuery.where( ActivityInstanceQuery.START_TIME.lessThan(cal.getTimeInMillis()) ); ActivityInstances instances = queryService.getAllActivityInstances( aiQuery );
In this example the query would retrieve all instances of the WaitingForSignedContract activity belonging to the Account Opening process which are currently in a hibernated state. An additional filter is applied to find only those instances that were created before 8:00 AM yesterday. This kind of query could be interesting in a test scenario where you would not expect to find any instances, because an escalation timer had been created for this activity in the process model. This query returning any instances would then indicate that the escalation did not work.
General Discussion
Every business process is unique in a way and even though testing all of its aspects could be automated, the efforts needed to do so vary greatly and in practice it's not always worth it. Therefore, how to use the approaches and API calls presented in this article needs to be discussed differently from project to project. A lot of times it may even be cheaper to rely on a larger number of people to cover testing the fully integrated system than to invest into writing automated test cases.
Stardust Process Driver
The Stardust Process Driver is a project that is intended to provide tools and shortcuts for the tasks described in the section above. It was first created to be able to (re-) create a certain state in the AuditTrail database. In its current version it supports creating a configurable number of processes while manipulating their start time and the timestamps when their activities get completed. It therefore serves the purpose of a state similar to a 'daily snapshot' of an environment that has been used for quite some time. There are two approaches to feed the process driver with instructions. The first uses a combination of properties file and Spring while the second one uses a pure Spring-based configuration.
- Use Spring to define named sets of data which can be reused when starting processes. The example shows how to create a structured data type object (SDT) called 'Customer'. This can be passed into a starting process to fill some of its data objects.
<bean id="processData_Set1" class="com.infinity.bpm.util.KeyValueList"> <property name="keyValueList"> <list> <value>Customer#id;12345;long</value> <value>Customer#firstname;John;</value> <value>Customer#lastname;Smith;</value> </list> </property> </bean> <bean id="processData_Set2" class="com.infinity.bpm.util.KeyValueList"> <property name="keyValueList"> <list> <value>Customer#id;54321;long</value> <value>Customer#firstname;Jane;</value> <value>Customer#lastname;Doe;</value> </list> </property> </bean>
- Specify instructions about the number of processes and completed activities either in Spring or in a properties file. The following example accomplishes the following:
- Create 5 instances of the TestProcess which start on 02-May-2009 at 8 am.
- Complete the first two activities of this process.
- Wait 480 seconds between activating and completing the activity (simulated user's time spent working on the task).
- Wait 180 seconds before creating and activating a new activity (artificially adding age to the process).
- Use the data set with the name 'DataSet1' (in Spring a ref is used) when starting the processes.
- 1. As a line in a properties file:
- TestProcess, 5, 02.05.2009 08:00:00, 2, 480, 180, DataSet1
- 2. Inside the Spring context:
<bean id="driverInstructions1" class="com.infinity.bpm.tools.processdriver.ProcessDriverInstructionSet" > <property name="processId" value="TestProcess" /> <property name="numberOfProcesses" value="5" /> <property name="startTimeAsString" value="02.05.2009 08:00:00" /> <property name="completedActivities" value="2" /> <property name="activityCompletionDelay" value="480" /> <property name="activityActivationDelay" value="180" /> <property name="processData" ref="processData_Set1" /> </bean>
The artifacts referenced in this article may be downloaded from here. This includes the Java source code, JUnit testcase and the above example configuration as well as a matching process model.


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Following last night's 4-2 loss to Czech Republic, U.S. national team head coach Bob Bradley announced the 23 players that he would be taking to South Africa.
As with any type of selection, the analysis of Bradley's roster is coming from all corners. General consensus believes the biggest snub to be Dynamo forward Brian Ching. Grant Wahl believes that Bradley went with speed, instead of experience, in his decision to select Robbie Findley in place of Ching. Herculez Gomez and his teammates will head to the White House tomorrow to be congratulated by President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton.
Although not from South Africa, Dominic Oduro, Sammy Appiah and Joseph Ngwenya are proud their native continent is hosting the World Cup and look forward to the coming festivities.
In a field goal kicking exhibition at Reliant Stadium this afternoon, Dynamo defender Craig Waibel converted seven of his 10 field goal attempts. As a result, Houston Texans' kicker Kris Brown will donate $700 and Waibel will donate $300 to the "Bald is Beautiful" campaign.
Dynamo forward Dominic Oduro was rewarded for his half-volley goal over the weekend with AT&T Goal of the Week honors.
The Dynamo moved up a spot, to sixth, in MLSsoccer.com's latest power rankings.


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We caught up today with Anna Critten Senior Spa Therapist to find out about the Well Spa Retreats Thermal Suite and discover some of the health benefits.
Anna explains "Firstly we recommend guests to use the Dry Salt Room to start with, this room is kept at room temperature to help prepare the body for the thermal experience. It is good for the respiratory system and for skin conditions such as eczema and dermatitis.
The brick sauna is heated between 60-65 degrees and there is an automatic water spray that wets the coals every 15 minutes. The temperature is very good for penetrating deep into the muscles and is beneficial to aid aches, pains and arthritis. Stay as long as you feel comfortable, ensuring you listen to your body. The heat induces relaxation and promotes sweating which helps cleanse the body.
Next we have the Marine Steam room which has marine extracts in the air helping to cleanse and detoxify the body.
Follow this with the herbal steam room, eucalyptus essences help to clear the airways and relieve any cold or flu like symptoms as well as helping to relax the muscles.
The Celtic Sauna is heated between 80-85 degrees which is our hottest treatment room. Again an automatic water spray functions every 15 minutes with essences of heather and bracken helping to remind us of the rural areas in Pembrokeshire.
Finally experience the Ice pod for a refreshing, toning and stimulating session. We recommend guests to use the ice room after the heat experience to help shock the body and stimulate the blood flow circulation process. Rubbing crushed ice straight onto the skin helps circulation as well as exfoliation.
The two other elements to the Thermal suite are the Experience Showers and Hydrotherapy pool. The showers provide pressure and massage helping to relieve muscular aches and pains where as the hydrotherapy pool is heated between 30-35 degrees and works in a cycle.
The cycle moves through a range of different jets starting with underwater jets, moving into a waterfall through to the volcano jet. We advise guest to follow the cycle to gather its full benefits."
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All told, heating Viking Star is not that efficient per square foot, but there are not too many square feet to heat!
- 579 Gallons of Diesel
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A somewhat popular set of posts is the Costs series where we answer the question: what does it cost to cruise? (at least for US). Special notice to a comparison of one year on land vs. one year on water: Is it really cheaper to live on a boat?
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o Building your own Kubota DC Generator,
o . . . and DIY Watermaker.
o Solar Panels,
o Magnum Inverter and Splendide Washer Incompatibility.
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List of Cancelled and Renewed Broadcast Scripted Shows From 2012-13 Season (Updated)
List of Renewed/Canceled Broadcast Scripted Shows From 2012-13 Season (So Far)
NBC: Final Predictions For 'Community,' 'Hannibal,' 'Go On,' 'Parks & Rec,' 'Whitney' & More
Bubble Watch: Will The Olympics Have NBC Back In Bed With 'Community' and 'Whitney?'
NBC: 'Hannibal' Tumbles To A "Toss Up" To Be Canceled Or Renewed
Bubble Watch: Too Soon to Downgrade 'Hannibal?'; ABC Needs Procedural Schedule Spackle Like 'Body of Proof'?
NBC: Guesses On Low Rated Sitcoms Can't Wait Much Longer!
Bubble Watch: Uncertainty for 'Hannibal'; 'Glee' for 2; 'The Neighbors' Likely to be Renewed + 'Body of Proof'
NBC: 'Hannibal' Is Certain To Be Renewed
Bubble Watch: 'Beauty and the Beast:' Will It Be Canceled or Will It Be Renewed?
NBC: 'Hannibal' Starts As Likely To Be Renewed
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Not since the oil shocks that first brought the world's superpowers together in 1974–back then they called themselves the "Library Group" because they met in the White House library–has the G8 had so much substantive business on a summit agenda. In recent years, world leaders have mostly just tried to to out-do one another with pledges of development assistance, leading to stories like this one from my colleague Massimo Calabresi, that questioned the usefulness of the annual summit. Even in 2009, less than six months after the U.S. was forced to bail out Wall Street and the economy lapsed into the worst recession since the Great Depression, the agenda focused on a $22 billion food aid pledge. But when G8 members meet this week at Camp David, they'll be hard pressed to re-up that sum. Helping poor farmers in Africa is tough when every extra cent may be needed to bail out Europe.
It's not that Europe isn't rich enough to save itself, but with 27 different parliaments involved, the European Union's reaction time in a crisis is excruciatingly slow. Thanks to politicians trying to save their own careers – leaders in France, Great Britain, Italy, Ireland, Denmark, Spain and Portugal have lost elections since Obama took office in 2009 – most of the solutions on the table are mid- to long-term fixes, not good news for politicians who are up for reelection in the short term. Obama's re-election prospects are at risk as Greece struggles to form a government and Europe stands at the brink.
(PHOTOS: Scenes from the 2009 G8 Summit)
All of that explains why this year's G8 summit, for once, is pretty important. It's Obama's chance to talk to European leaders about saving their continent. Good thing he moved the summit from Chicago to Camp David: He'll have a captive audience, unless German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a break for it through the Maryland wilderness. Here are five things to watch for at this weekend's G8 summit:
Welcome to the Funhouse, Francois Hollande. The newly elected French President is probably rethinking just what, exactly, he won last week. The U.S. has been pushing Hollande to consider some short-term stimulus, a tough order for a guy who inherited a budget deficit already at 4.4% of GDP, well above the Eurozone guideline of 3%. Hollande ran on a pledge to return France's deficit to 3% of GDP by next year. That doesn't bode well for advocates of government spending, even though France's economy grew 0% in the first quarter. On his first day in office, Hollande braved thunderstorms – his plane was, perhaps symbolically, struck by lightening, delaying the trip briefly – to travel to Germany to meet with Merkel and to push growth measures. He now goes to Camp David with the difficult task of building relationships with Obama and Merkel, who openly supported Hollande's predecessor, Nicholas Sarkozy.
Entschuldigen, Frau Merkel. Sure, Germany may have the only economy still growing in Europe – it grew at 0.5% rate in the first quarter – but Chancellor Merkel still has reason to worry. Her party performed poorly in last Sunday's state elections. In North Rhine-Westphalia, a state Merkel won with 45% of the vote when she was elected in 2005, her party received only 26% of the vote. Up until now, Merkel has been leery of moving too quickly on the European fiscal crisis. Her reticence has been criticized by market analysts: If Greece had been bailed out four years ago it'd have cost $100 billion and avoided the crisis that's now putting trillions at risk. She's up for reelection next year and loath to do anything that could jeopardize her chances. At the same time, if the Eurozone isn't rescued from the ledge, she could be the first to go down with it. The U.S. hopes to persuade her to take stronger stimulative measures, and to shore up the central bank and other big banks bracing for a Greek default.
(MORE: Election of French President François Hollande Heralds End to Austerity)
Not everything is the economy, stupid. Yes, the crisis in Europe is dire, but there is also war to consider. Hollande pledged to accelerate France's withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan when he took office. Obama will be asking–maybe begging–Hollande to hold off on that pledge. Obama needs not only troop commitments, but money from France and other G8 nations as well. It will take an estimated $4 billion a year after the bulk of NATO's forces withdraw at the end of 2014 to fund Afghanistan's security forces. The U.S. is on the hook for at least half that sum, but the other half remains unsecured. The funding situation has become so dire that there's talk that Afghanistan's security forces will peak at 350,000 in 2014 and slowly decrease to 230,000 over the next decade, a period in which they should be growing.
Bashing Bashar al Assad. Another topic of importance is the deteriorating situation in Syria. Assad's forces are now openly engaging opposition forces in front of United Nations' observers, abandoning the façade of a ceasefire. (Until last week, guns would go silent during observer visits to keep up the impression that everything is alright). With casualties piling up, pressure is mounting on the G8 nations to do something. But with Russia and China still blocking a stronger UN resolution, it's unlikely that NATO would move in to protect Syria's civilians. Still, Europe and the U.S. are coordinating their humanitarian responses and helping to organize Syrian oppositions groups. There is much to discuss.
From Russia, with love. Syria is just one of the issues that the U.S. wants to discuss with Russia at the G8. There's also a missile shield, Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea. But Russian President Vladimir Putin bailed on the summit at the last minute. Putin said he was having trouble forming a cabinet, and sent Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in his stead.
As with their last summit meeting in Seoul in March, Obama will probably give Medvedev a bunch of messages for his new boss, including more requests for "space" and "flexibility," and probably invitations to engage Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea. The U.S. badly needs Russia's cooperation.
This year's G8 summit promises to be the most interesting in a decade and the chemistry of the class only adds to the intrigue. From the new kid, Hollande, to the understudy, Medvedev, to those fighting for their political lives, Obama and Merkel, the politics at play are complex. But one thing's for sure: They've never needed one another as much as they do now.
MORE: More Trouble for Merkel as Pirate Party Raids Its Fourth State Parliament


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July 17, 2020, 03:46:30 AM
How do they deal with transgender people? In the surgery, do their bodies get made to be their true gender? (For instance, a female to male trans person would be made physically male.) Or, would their brains be changed to match their physical sex? (For instance, a female to male trans person would have their brain turned female to match their sex.)I doubt this has been addressed in any of the books, but I just started the Pretties today, so what would I know?With that in mind, can we maybe avoid spoilers here?


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Poetry Friday -- Fallibility
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I love reading books, talking about books and sharing children's and young adult books with anyone who is willing to listen and chat. I have been a kindergarten teacher, a primary teacher, a teacher-librarian, a book reviewer and a workshop presenter for more than 30 years and have an endless, abiding passion for getting great books into the hands of children, young adults, teachers and parents. I hope you find something here that you will love; and then you can pass it on to someone you love!
|Red Ant
I am little, but very strong.
My claws grip the ground
as I race across the savanna.


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Import / Importing images
The Library Tool enables you to access files located on your local computer or on external drives and networks. The Library Tool is a filtered file explorer that displays catalogs, sessions, albums, projects, groups, folders and supported files.
The Library tool tab in Capture One is where all file navigation and organization takes place. Navigate via the hierarchical tree-view to a folder that contains the image files you wish to edit. Thumbnails of the images within your selected folder will be created and displayed in the Image Browser. You can also watch videos supported by your particular OS. Find out more here.
Capture One applies non-destructive editing because any image adjustments will not affect the actual raw file – only the Capture One settings file will change. Create a catalog or session to help organize your workflow.
Create and utilize a catalog in Capture One Pro 8
Find out how to import files into a catalog and session
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Illinois adds Juice Williams to staff
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Illinois has hired former Illini coach Juice Williams to take over as the team's director of alumni and former player relations.
Illinois coach Tim Beckman said in a news release Monday that he hopes Williams helps move the program forward. He also noted that the Chicago native still has strong connections in his home city.
Williams said he looks forward to helping Illinois with recruiting and building ties with former players.
Williams is second in career total yardage at Illinois with 10,594 yards. He helped lead the team to the 2008 Rose Bowl.
He takes on part of the role that Matt Sinclair filled until he resigned in February. Sinclair left after pleading not guilty to charges he pointed an unloaded handgun at a vehicle containing other Illini staff members.


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In 2007, Gary Hatle and Lee Wyman were among the first Snohomish County couples to register with the state as domestic partners. Five years later, a Washington law gave them the green light to marry.
On Dec. 11, 2012, five days after the state's same-sex marriage law took effect, they were married at Everett's Trinity Lutheran Church.
The Everett couple have no major decisions to make this month. That can't be said of many others in Washington who are registered as domestic partners.
Under the law approved by voters, domestic partnerships will automatically convert to marriages on June 30 — unless the partnership is dissolved, is in the process of being dissolved, or at least one partner is 62 or older.
"It was pretty widely discussed, and it was on the ballot. But it will still catch some people off guard," said David Ammons, communications director for the Washington Secretary of State's Office.
The Secretary of State's Corporations Division keeps a registry of domestic partnerships. With the deadline looming, the state updates the numbers of active and terminated partnerships throughout each day. By Tuesday afternoon, there were 6,654 active domestic partnership registrations, and 1,237 had been terminated.
Because Hatle is over 62 — he'll turn 70 next month — he and Wyman could have maintained their partnership if they hadn't married. The law included the provision for seniors, regardless of gender, because of their risk of losing pension and Social Security benefits if they married.
After June 30, there will be no legal domestic partnership for younger couples — regardless of gender. The intent of the law was marriage equality. "We're not going to have a special thing off to one side," Ammons said.
Although Hatle and Wyman obtained a legal marriage license in Snohomish County and were wed in church, their names remain on the registry of domestic partnerships. Hatle said he thought county records would make it to the state. When he and Wyman got their marriage license in 2012, they checked a box indicating their domestic partnership would end.
Like all other registered domestic partners in Washington, they recently received mail about the law, about dissolving a partnership, and how to get an updated marriage certificate. Hatle didn't bother to respond because he's already married.
That's not a problem for the Everett couple, said Pam Floyd, director of the Corporations Division for the Secretary of State. "A domestic partnership is null and void when they marry," she said. County marriage license information eventually shows up in the state's vital records, she said.
Under the domestic partnership law, Floyd said, a dissolution must go through the courts and includes a 90-day waiting period, just like a divorce. If a dissolution is pending, it won't be converted to a marriage June 30.
The Department of Health is handling conversions using the Secretary of State's data, Floyd said. Couples who will become newly married June 30 can request, for $20, a new Washington State Marriage Certificate.
Hatle may be surprised that his legal date of marriage isn't the day he and Wyman were wed in church. For couples who registered as domestic partners in Washington, Floyd said, the legal marriage date will be when they registered — for Hatle and Wyman, that's July 23, 2007. The marriage certificate will also include a place for the date and location of the ceremony.
Kokie Adams, a trust and estates lawyer with the Purcell &Adams law firm in Lynnwood, said the legal date of a marriage matters greatly if a couple decides to divorce. Issues could arise involving children, property, and even wages and retirement funds, she said. "Some same-sex couples may not be of that mindset yet — this is real," Adams said.
Hatle said he and Wyman knew the legalities when they registered as domestic partners. He recalls saying to Wyman — half kidding, but half serious — "Do we still want to go through with this? It's not one of those things you can just walk out of anymore."
In the eyes of the state, they will soon be married seven years. In their hearts, it's been a dozen years.
"That's how long ago we made a commitment to each other," Hatle said.
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Leave it to Dame Helen Mirren to wring laughs out what amounted to a PSA against drunk driving in an ad mounted by the folks at Budweiser, whose Super Bowl commercial stars have ranged over the years from prancing Clydesdales to talking frogs. "This is supposed to be fun!" she declared.
She meant downing a cold Bud. But intended or otherwise, the line, heard nearly 3.5 million times on YouTube before kickoff, set the tone for many of the ads sprinkled throughout Super Bowl 50 on Sunday. Following an off year, remembered most for Nationwide's depressing dead-kid spot, humor made a modest comeback in 2016.
Advertisers who went the comedic route served up, for the most part, the commercial equivalent of comfort food – the kind of fare that goes down well with a Bud. And Mirren proved far from the only recognizable face to show up during Super Bowl spots, many of which were already familiar from days of online exposure.
U.S. & World
With a price tag of $166,666.667 per second, it's hard to fault the many advertisers who played it safe, by combining celebrities, gentle laughs and pre-game publicity. Still, here are some spots worth another viewing:
Gotta Have Hart
Kevin Hart emerged as a literal helicopter parent, playing a dad keeping tabs on his teenage daughter, her date – and the family Hyundai. [[367558541,C]]
Fifty-Year Itch
Willem Dafoe channeled Marilyn Monroe by donning her iconic white dress from "The Seven Year Itch" to hawk Snickers. Stick around for the kicker with Eugene Levy. [[367844261,C]]
Chachi Loves Avocado
The Earth museum of the future features an emojis exhibit, a Rubik's Cube – and Scott Baio. Oh yeah, and Avocados from Mexico, whose appeal apparently spans galaxies. [[367251221,C]]
Mr. Universe
Steve Harvey makes fun of his Miss Universe flub – and of Verizon – on behalf of T-Mobile. [[367989711,C]]
Meme Game
T-Mobile also scored with another self-mocking celebrity pitchman: Drake, who gladly extends his meme friendly "Hotline Bling" to the cause of advertising. [[367396381,C]]
No "I" in Team, Part I
Key and Peele remind us how much we miss them already as they reunite for a Squarespace spot. [[367844141,C]]
No "I" in Team, Part II
Amy Schumer and Seth Rogen pair in an election-year-themed Bud Light ad that suggests we can all unite over beer. Look for a cameo by Paul Rudd. [[367566601,C]]
Mean Bruce Green
Speaking of Rudd, his Ant-Man tussled with the Hulk over a can of Coke. There's a Mean Joe Greene in-joke somewhere in there waiting to burst out. [[367990661,C]]
Counting Sheep
This Honda commercial, featuring a woolly choir, plays like a "Far Side" cartoon with a Queen soundtrack. [[367250271,C]]
Walken Tall
Christopher Walken's sock puppet antics and unique pronunciation of "Kia Optima" are worth the trip. [[367405871,C]]
Jeff Meets Jeffersons
Jeff Goldblum shows off his piano skills with an air-borne rendition of "Movin' on Up," the theme from "The Jeffersons." He's joined by George Washington and Lil Wayne in an Apartments.com commercial tailor-made for those of us old enough to get the George and Weezy reference. [[367561291,C]]
Chip Off the Old Block
Being in-utero is no deterrent to craving Doritos, the folks at PepsiCo would have us believe. [[367989581,C]]
Dews and Don'ts
Mountain Dew Kickstart managed to both tweak Super Bowl advertisers' penchant for commercials featuring cute animals and cuter kids – and creep us out with its puppy-monkey-baby mutant creation. [[367698031,C]]
Dream On
Skittles contributed to the creepy quotient with its rainbow portrait of Steven Tyler, which duets with the human version. [[367557901,C]]
Sharp Tongued
Creepy Part III: A scuzzy talking razor makes a good argument for Dollar Shave Club. [[367989521,C]]
Smart Alec
Alec Baldwin and some famous friends prove no match for Amazon Echo. [[367989441,C]]
Coffee Break
Death Wish Coffee's clever Viking-inspired spot provided a jolt of action-driven humor. The small java company made the most of its big break, which came via QuickBooks. [[367989341,C]]
Jere Hester is Director of News Products and Projects at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.


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Catch-up time: Scans_Daily was, until today, a Livejournal community where fans posted and discussed scanned excerpts of comic books. I'm pretty sure it began (in 2003, according to Google's cache of the userinfo) as a spinoff from some other community along the lines of Depp_Daily where fans posted and discussed photos of male hotties. In the time I followed it, S_D's volume grew to the point of dozens of posts per day, and I had to "de-friend" it to keep all my other friends' posts from getting choked out.
Today Livejournal suspended the community. It's unlikely to return in that form. Brian Cronin has a piece up on CSBG@CBR, suggesting that writer Peter David may or may not have had something to do with it. Peter David posts an account of his involvement. Johanna D-C's round-up includes a link to writer Gail Simone's thoughtful response. [Edited to add: Brigid Alverson has another interesting response].
A lot of fans are responding to the news with accounts of how S_D persuaded them to buy comics they otherwise wouldn't have. That's the case for me — I followed the community from something like 2004-2007, and I certainly wouldn't have shelled out $50 recently for the American Flagg! hardcover if not for a Scans_Daily post by Warren Ellis pointing out various formal innovations Chaykin used on a single page of the first issue (the "1996!!!!!!!!!!!!!" page). During that time I was also director of the Reed College Comic Book Reading Room, and a fair amount of our $4000 annual budget was influenced by the online chatter on S_D and the blogosphere.
When I started working for Top Shelf, I posted an excerpt of Alex Robinson's Lower Regions (a Top Shelf book) to the community. Since it didn't feature Green Lantern and Aquaman humping each other, it wasn't a wildly popular post, but it caught some attention from RPG gamers and Alex Robinson fans, and Alex himself showed up the comment thread to interact with them a little bit.
A friend (in a private post) grumbled today about the dismissive attitude of certain commenters ("oh well, it was full of bitching and slash anyway"), declaring that reaction to be part of a broader discomfort that many male fans have with the feminine form of fandom. In response, she more or less said "a man in S_D feels like a woman in a comic shop."
[Edited to add: I should clarify that the comments below use S_D as a jumping-off point for a broader discussion — I admit I haven't visited the community in at least a year, and I can't defend or attack whatever it may have become recently, or the reasons for its removal.]
I remember being pretty shocked at the culture of S_D when I first discovered it years ago. It was a thriving community of fans interacting with superhero comics in an entirely different manner than I was used to. But it didn't feel like "this is how they do it on the internet," it felt like "this is how they do it when women are in charge." I soon decided that superhero-comics-fandom (as represented by S_D) was a subset of fandom as a broader entity — that these folks were performing more or less the exact same practices (fanfiction, slash, icon design, roleplay, claiming) on Green Lantern that were being performed on Harry Potter and Stargate Atlantis and every other entertainment property in the world, to some degree.
And it felt weird. I recognized these characters and these images, but they were looking at them in ways that I had never imagined. It felt, now that I think about it, a lot like visiting a Sunday service at the black church across town (part of the annual swap that our churches held on MLK weekend, our token response to MLK's observation that "at 11:00 on Sunday morning when we stand and sing and 'Christ has no east or west,' we stand at the most segregated hour in this nation"). We were reading the same book, but in a vastly different manner.
It's remarkable to me how segregated superhero fandom is. There's "masculine" fandom (largely on message boards?) and "feminine" fandom (largely on Livejournal), and seldom do the twain meet.
I'm not very interested in superheroes these days one way or the other, but I appreciate what fans see in them — both kinds of fans. It seems to me that other sorts of fandom have been able to integrate themselves more successfully — despite the fact that anime and manga are explicitly categorized as "for girls" and "for boys," they seem to coexist peacefully at conventions and online, and there seems to be a great deal of overlap. Contrast that with your standard comic shop or convention.
I think there are valuable tools and insights to be had from both of these approaches to the material, and I do wish for a little more intercommunication.
Edited again to add: Lisa "Ragnell" Fortuner has some passionate but helpful thoughts up on Robot 6, summarized in a comment to her own post: "This is a matter of legal murkiness, not gender hostility. One you react to by decreasing your profile or just ceasing your activities, while the other you react to by increasing your profile and stubbornly continuing your activities. Surely, you can see the difference here and the disastrous potential."


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Child coping and parent coping assistance during the peritrauma period in injured children." Fam Syst Health. 2011;29(4):279-90."
Psychometric properties of the FACES-IV in a pediatric oncology population." J Pediatr Psychol. 2011;36(5):528-38."
Child and parent perceptions of monitoring in chronic illness management: a qualitative study." Child Care Health Dev. 2010;36(5):655-62."
Cultural translation: acceptability and efficacy of a US-based injury prevention intervention in China." Inj. Prev.. 2010;16(5):296-301."
Acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in parents of injured children." J Trauma Stress. 2009;22(4):294-302."
Identifying interventions that promote belt-positioning booster seat use for parents with low educational attainment." J Trauma. 2007;63(3 Suppl):S29-38."
Parent driver characteristics associated with sub-optimal restraint of child passengers." Traffic Inj Prev. 2006;7(4):373-80."
Parent involvement in novice teen driving: a review of the literature." Inj. Prev.. 2006;12 Suppl 1:i30-7."
Acute traumatic stress symptoms in child occupants and their parent drivers after crash involvement." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005;159(11):1074-9."
Assessment of pain after injury in the pediatric patient: child and parent perceptions." J. Pediatr. Surg.. 2004;39(6):979-83; discussion 979-83."
A randomized, clinical trial of a home safety intervention based in an emergency department setting." Pediatrics. 2004;113(6):1603-8."
Screening for risk of persistent posttraumatic stress in injured children and their parents." JAMA. 2003;290(5):643-9."
Barriers to booster seat use and strategies to increase their use." Pediatrics. 2002;110(4):729-36."
Child occupant protection: a summary of current safety recommendations." Prim. Care Update Ob Gyns. 2001;8(4):141-148."
Assessing child restraint misuse by parental survey." Inj. Prev.. 2000;6(2):145-7."
Development and validation of the injury severity assessment survey/parent report: a new injury severity assessment survey." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1999;153(4):404-8."


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Seniors warned about a scam to get cash
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SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois
Department on Aging Director John K. Holton, Ph.D., is warning
seniors about an attempt to scam seniors and steal their money. The
department is acting to alert Illinois seniors, based on a report by
Springfield police that two elderly females fell victim to the scam.
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Start the new year right with 'This Golden Age' at
the Atlanta
Community House
ATLANTA -- Let's get moving! The
Atlanta Public Library's popular "This Golden Age" series for folks
over 50 continues on Tuesday with a visit from Illinois Wesleyan
choreographer Jean Kerr. This event is the perfect antidote for the
post-holiday blahs and a great way to start the new year right --
for both mind and body.
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Social Security announces new online services available with a 'my
Social Security' account
SPRINGFIELD -- Michael J. Astrue,
commissioner of Social Security, announced Monday that the agency is
expanding the services available with a "my Social Security"
account, a personalized online account that people can use beginning
in their working years and continuing throughout the time they
receive Social Security benefits. More than 60 million Social
Security beneficiaries and Supplemental Security Income recipients
can now access their benefit verification letter, payment history
and earnings record instantly using their online account. Social
Security beneficiaries also can change their address and start or
change direct deposit information online.
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Financial wellness can be yours in 2013
By Judith
Bartels, Social Security district manager in
SPRINGFIELD -- January is
Financial Wellness Month -- a great time to think about your own
financial future. It also happens to be at this time that many
people make resolutions for the New Year. Why not combine the two
and make your own financial wellness a resolution for 2013?
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knows the dangers of texting or talking on a cellphone while
driving. But phones aren't the only distractions drivers should be
aware of. Experts say that anything that draws your attention away
from the road can be a potential cause of an accident. That includes
actions and situations as innocuous as snacking behind the wheel or
postponing a bathroom break.
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A 'raise' for people who get Social Security
SPRINGFIELD -- As we ring in a new
year, we can expect to see a number of changes. Social Security is
no exception. In 2013, people who receive Social Security or
Supplemental Security Income payments will see their benefits
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people provide care for a chronically ill, disabled or elderly
family member or friend, according to the National Alliance for
Caregiving. In addition to providing emotional and physical support,
caregivers are often entrusted to help their loved ones carry out
financial decisions.
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of the happiest and most enjoyable years of your life. But while we
all hope for the best outcome possible, it may be prudent for you to
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DaveKerr wrote:It's about time I get off my ass and learn how to use Eagle - I've been half-assing mods, like hanging voltage invertor vero boards off DC jacks and stuffing multiple leads into oversized holes for heat compensation diodes on Fuzz Face boards. Why not go from breadboard straight to something you're not embarrassed to take the cover off?
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This simple bowl reminded me of why I actually started this site in the first place. With the emails, sorta silly mismatched dish piles, multiple attempts at a palatable goji berry sauce (one day I'll get it) etc., this sort of reminder is a surprising ray of light. It's kind of soup-y, but also kind of not. It's also mostly just carrots and spice served with a bit of rice and sprouts. It's affordable as all get-out, quick to throw together and warming to the core. Most of these ingredients were pantry stock for me and I imagine if you've been here before, they might be for you too.
I may have overkilled it with turmeric-focused recipes here in the last while, so I hope you don't mind another. Didn't you know that all of the cool kids are staining their counters and wooden spoons with this stuff? I roast a couple carrots with thyme until they're sweet and while that's happening I make up this sharp miracle broth of sorts. It begins with minced shallot, garlic, ginger and turmeric. A little sparkle of lemon at the end keeps it from seeming flat. You could add a chili or something hot if you want too. It has all of the zing of turmeric tea, but in a more obviously savoury form. Once I had a taste of it all mingled around the sweet carrots and nutty rice, I kind of wondered where it had been all winter (and, news flash, this winter's been hella long). I like green things so there's a little tangle of sprouts/shoots (aaaaalways in season) on top of this as well.
When I was studying nutrition in culinary school, we had guest speakers from time to time. Some of them were reputable/interesting and some of them were clearly on the grind and grindin' hard. One of the good ones was this older man of about 75-ish who was enamoured with sprouts. His name was Tony and he sold sprout growers for home use. Oh, and he maintained a website with up to date information on various styles of dance lessons/dance related socials in the province of Ontario (but also Florida). He absolutely glowed. His business cards promoted "LIVE GREEN FOOD FOR HEALTHY DANCERS." He told us that he ate 3 tablespoons of sprouts every morning and dang if we didn't all buy one of those guaranteed-for-life devices by the end of the class.
I honestly have no idea where that thing got to, but I still make a habit of eating sprouts as often as I can. For the amount of nutrition bundled in their little shoots, they're cheap sustenance. If you think of a young child, all energy and potential, and then how that child grows into an adult, for better or for worse from a health standpoint… a sprout/small shoot is like the plant version of that youthful essence, all bouncing off the walls and full of possibility. I mostly like having them around because they add a bit of freshness to the non-stop roasted roots and lentil-y things that seem to be prevalent this time of year. I'm partial to sunflower + sweet pea shoots and Sarah even has some instructions on handling those all by yourself.
So we have roots, sprouts, brown rice, and healing spices. All the makings of some warming hippie health moments, or maybe just a quiet winter's lunch. Hope you're all getting some of those these days. xo
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NOTES: Any roasted root or tuber would be excellent in place of the carrots. This dish is mostly about the interaction of the caramelized, lightly sweet vegetables and the sharp broth.
2 medium carrots, scrubbed + cut into 1 inch pieces
fresh/dried thyme leaves (+ extra for the broth)
salt + pepper
sizeable knob of coconut oil/ghee
1/2 shallot, fine dice
1 clove of garlic, minced
1 thumb-sized piece of ginger, peeled + minced
1-2 tsp ground turmeric
1 cup filtered water
juice from 1/2 a lemon
cooked brown/wild/whatever rice for serving (or another grain you like)
sprouts/shoots/small greens of some kind (I like sunflower shoots)
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F. Line a small baking sheet with parchment.
Toss the carrots with some thyme, oil, salt + pepper. Scatter them in a single layer on the baking sheet and slide them into the oven. Roast for about 20 minutes or until the carrots are browned in spots and soft.
Meanwhile, heat the coconut oil in a small saucepan over medium-low heat. Add the shallots. Stir them about and sauté them until translucent and soft, about 4 minutes. Add the garlic, ginger, and a sprig of thyme if you like (or a sprinkle of dried thyme leaves). Stir this mix about until it's very fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the turmeric to the pot and stir to incorporate. Keep stirring until the mix seems paste-like. You're cooking the raw-ness out of the spice at this point, ideally for about 3 minutes (add more coconut oil if necessary). Slowly add the water and stir. Gently simmer the broth for 10 minutes or so. Add the lemon juice and stir at the end. Season the broth with salt and pepper.
Place the roasted carrots and rice in a bowl. Strain the turmeric broth if you like, then ladle it on top. Garnish the bowl with sprouts and sesame seeds if you like.


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This week, a lawyer for George Zimmerman said his client was ready to turn himself in for the February 26 killing of Trayvon Martin—if charged by law enforcement officials.
On Monday, attorney Craig Sonner told Reuters that 28-year-old George
Zimmerman would surrender to police if he was charged in the killing of
17-yar-old Trayvon Martin. "If he's charged, he will be arrested and he will turn himself in,"
Craig Sonner, the attorney, told Reuters of 28-year-old George
Zimmerman. "However it goes, he's not hiding from the authorities. If he
is asked, he will turn himself in. There's not going to be a manhunt or
anything like that."
However, a new question we must ask is: did State Attorney Norm Wolfinger tamper with the Sanford Police Department's investigation and encourage them to engage in a cover-up because of the influence of George Zimmerman's father who is a retired magistrate?
Zimmerman, who has been in hiding, killed Trayvon Martin on the night of February 26, after Martin was returning from a local convenience store. Martin, who had been visiting his father at a gated community in Sanford, died within a short distance of his father's girlfriend house. A bag of Skittles and a soda were found next to the dead teen's body.
The killing of Martin has sparked a national outcry into the case and many are now reexamining the controversial, NRA underwritten "Stand Your Ground" laws and conservative groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
The curious actions of State Attorney Norm Wolfinger are also coming under serious scrutiny. Reportedly, Wofinger rejected the lead investigator's recommendation to charge Zimmerman in the killing of Martin. Wolfinger oversees prosecutions in Seminole County. The city of Sanford is the county seat of Seminole County.
Martin's parents have sent a formal request to the Justice Department to look into the possibility that Wolfinger interfered with the Sanford Police Department's investigation. According to the letter, Wolfinger and Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee overruled lead homicide investigator Chris Serino's finding that Zimmerman should be charged with manslaughter. In fact, Florida Governor Rick Scott replaced Wolfinger and tapped another State Attorney Angela Corey—who is now heading the ongoing state investigation into the death of Trayvon Martin.
The letter—addressed to Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roy Austin of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division—reads in part: "we have obtained new information which is of paramount importance in considering whether or not a fair and impartial investigation was conducted by the Sanford Police Department. In particular, we learned that on the night of February 26, 2012, within hours of the shooting in which Trayvon Martin was killed, Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee met with State Attorney Norm Wolfinger. We also believe that family members of shooter George Zimmerman were present at the police department.
It was further revealed that State Attorney General Norm Wolfinger and Chief Bill Lee overruled the recommendation of the lead homicide investigator, Chris Serino, who recommended that George Michael Zimmerman be arrested for manslaughter for killing Trayvon Benjamin Martin. More poignantly, Mr. Serino filed an affidavit stating the he did not find Zimmerman's statements credible in light of the circumstances and facts surrounding the shooting. Therefore, we respectfully request that the United States Department of Justice investigate the circumstances surrounding this meeting between Chief Bill Lee and State Attorney Norm Wolfinger, in which they disregard the lead investigator's recommendation to arrest George Zimmerman for manslaughter. We look forward to your thorough and comprehensive review of the suspicious circumstances surrounding this meeting."
Wolfinger has denied the allegations saying he was "outraged by the outright lies contained in the letter..." and said he "encourages the Justice Department to investigate and document that no such meeting or communication occurred. I have been encouraging those spreading the irresponsible rhetoric to stop and allow State Attorney Angela Corey to complete her work," Wolfinger said. "Another falsehood distributed to the media does nothing to forward that process."
Just what is the truth here regarding why this killer of Martin wasn't arrested? Indeed, why was the advice of lead detective Serino ignored? What information, or, knowledge did State Attorney Wolfinger weigh in making this curious decision? Something here smells really foul.
Question: did George Zimmerman's father use his influence—as a retired court magistrate—to extricate his son from being arrested for Trayvon's murder?
We now know George Zimmerman has been arrested, and faced legal jeopardy, for assaults before. In 2005, he was charged with "battery of law enforcement officer" and "resisting officer with violence." In that case, he insisted an officer attacked him first; the charges were eventually reduced to resisting arrest without violence. Then, the charges were dropped—totally.
In that same year, his ex-fiance, Veronica Zuazo, file a restraining against him for domestic violence. Zimmerman then filed for restraining order claiming Zuazo was the one who assaulted him. Moreover, The New York Daily News has reported that Zimmerman was also fired from a security job for "being too aggressive"—and throwing a drunk woman across a room at a party.
A picture is emerging here, and, it's not of a conscientious citizen who cares about crime. The evidence is starting to tell us George Zimmerman is nothing more than a bigoted bully from an influential family. Zimmerman's father in a Fox News interview choose to attack President Obama and groups like the NAACP—instead of taking responsibility for the actions of his son. What's more how does this race-slanting square with the fact that several thousands of White folk have also been protesting the killing?
The senior Zimmerman was a judge. Judges frequently lecture young African Americans—who face them daily in the legal process— about taking responsibility for their actions. Isn't it ironic the perpetrator of Zimmerman, who has had encounters with the law and has now killed an unarmed young man comes from a family with roots in the so-called justice system that destroys the lives of legions of African-American males daily?
By what we now know, every brush George Zimmerman has had with the law must be thoroughly investigated—especially, by the Justice Department to see if he received preferential treatment because of his father's status as a retired magistrate. Isn't it possible that if George Zimmerman was punished properly for his past criminality Trayvon Martin would still be living today?
Professor Howard Jordan, of Hostos College,—who is also the host of the Jordan Journal on WBAI 99.5 in New York—held a press conference this week with other Latino activists and students denouncing the injustice in the Trayvon Martin case. Jordan also attacked the malicious attempt by conservatives to create friction between the African-American community and the Latino community because of the fact that George Zimmerman is a White Latino.
"Speaking Truth To Empower."
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Isabella Ilene Cook
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[May 21, 2014]
LINCOLN — Isabella Ilene Cook, infant
daughter of three days, died at 9:37 a.m. May 13, 2014 at St. John's
Hospital, Springfield.
A private family service will be held Wednesday.
Funeral home:
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, Lincoln
Isabella Ilene Cook, infant daughter of three days,
died at 9:37 a.m. May 13, 2014 at St. John's
Hospital, Springfield, IL.
Isabella was born May 10, 2014 in Springfield,
Illinois, the daughter of Luis "Bubba" and Kasey
Slack Cook.
Isabella is survived by her parents of Lincoln; two
sisters: Alexandria Cook her twin and Sophia Cook;
Maternal Grandparents: David and Sandy Slack of
Lincoln; Paternal Grandmother: Heidi Cook of
Lincoln; Maternal Aunts: Chelsie (Adam) Campbell of
Lincoln; Jessie (Kyle) Clark of Lincoln and Paternal
Aunts and Uncles: Leticia Cook of Lincoln; Alejandro
Cook of Norwalk, IA; Chaka (Harley) Utterback of
Lincoln; Allissa Martin of Lincoln and Cameron Cook
of Lincoln. She was preceded in death by her
Maternal Grandparents: Roy and Marjorie Slack; Don
and Ilene Southern; Paternal Grandparents: Pete and
Norma Moxley.
Private family services will be held Wednesday, May
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Do you remember this spring-y patchwork quilt top I first showed back in February? I love this quilt. Sometimes a simple patchwork quilt that lets the fabric and color do all the talking is all I need to make me happy. And I had a blast pulling all of the fabrics for this one and seeing it all come together.
So here's the thing. I finally finished the quilt top by making it even bigger (I think I ended up with a layout of 10 x 12 blocks of 8" squares). So yeah, it's pretty mammoth. And I have a lot of already-cut 8.5" squares in these fabrics left over. A LOT.
I'm not going to assume that anyone else loves my fabric combo as much as I do but, if you do, would you like all of my leftovers? There should be plenty to make a nice-sized bed quilt for yourself.
Edited: this giveaway is now closed. Thanks to all who entered! The winner will be drawn at random and announced soon. Don't forget -- the Fat Quarterly Fat Quarter bundle is still available at Wish Upon a Quilt!


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My CPU is 64 bit, I have a PS/2 keyboard and a PS/2 mouse and I have tried Live CDs of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Wubi installations, 32 and 64 bit (my CPU is 64 bit) and Puppy Linux. I am able to navigate between the menu options when there is one, but when I boot, the keyboard and mouse stop responding. Puppy Linux booted completely, but the keyboard and mouse didn't respond. Besides, pressing NumLock, CapsLock does nothing.
Note that Windows doesn't have this problem.
My keyboard and mouse work flawlessly in Puppy Linux 3.01, but don't in 4.x.
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Mr. Jerald A. Blumberg began his career at DuPont after earning a Chemical Engineering degree from Michigan Tech in 1960. He was named Director of the White Pigments and Mineral Products Division in 1983, was transferred to DuPont Japan Ltd. as President in 1985, and was named Vice President-International, responsible for all Asia Pacific Operations in 1987.
In 1990, he was named Senior Vice President-Employee Relations and later that year became Senior Vice President-DuPont Human Resources and DuPont Corporate Plans and a member of the Office of the Chairman. From 1992 to 1995 Mr. Blumberg was Senior Vice President Dupont Fibers; which included Nylon, "Lycra", "Dacron" and "Corian". In 1995 he was appointed Executive Vide President and member of the Office of Chief Executive. He was also Chairman of the Environmental Leadership Council.
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Couple arrested, accused of stealing from evicted families
Milwaukee police arrest a couple Tuesday night accused of stealing from those recently evicted from a mobile home park at 27th Street and Howard Avenue.
For many of the residents, just trying to move and find another place to live is difficult enough let alone worrying about being ripped off.
"They're evil. That's all I have to say on that one," Evergreen Court resident Jenny Fritsch said. "Just because everybody's getting kicked out they shouldn't take advantage of it."
The city recently seized the property after the owner failed to pay taxes.
After conducting inspections, several of the homes were found uninhabitable with no running water or electricity, so dozens have been forced to leave.
Notices started going out Friday.
James Andree, a field supervisor for TL Reese Corp., which handles these types of situations for the city, told WISN 12 News it's sad to see people being taken advantage of.
"It's very hard on them, on the situation and then to have two people come in here with a pick-up truck, stealing their bikes and their barbeques and aluminum siding off the trailer homes," Andree said.
Andree has a team of men that will oversee the mobile home park, making sure the correct homes are boarded up and prowlers stay away, but folks left behind are concerned about who else will rifle through their things.
"We're in the middle of this, real low down, and scrapping aluminum, that's real low," Evergreen Court resident Jose Vasquez said.
The man and woman arrested are currently in custody for prowling but could face additional charges as the investigation develops.
WISN 12 News was told everyone who moved out found a place to stay for the night.