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Dynamic In-basket Filtering
A common use case for IBM Case Manager solutions is to have a manager assign a user from a role to handle a specific work item. Moving the item into the user's personal inbox is often undesirable due to the loss of easy access to the item once it goes there. By adding a "handler" property to the work item and displaying it in the In-basket allows both assignment and visibility. The trick then becomes "How do I easily display just the current user's assigned items from a shared In-basket queue?".
The IBM Case Manager In-basket widget can be configured to include user settable filter values where the user can enter a value for a column that will cause only work items with that value to be displayed. By default, the user must manually enter the filter value every time.
Dynamic in-basket filtering events to the rescue!
The IBM Case Manager 5.1 in-basket added a new inbound event that allows the user filter values to be set pro grammatically. Let's explore how that works.
Here's what the event payload looks like to set a couple filter values:
{"queueName":"WID_ClaimUnderwriter","inbasketName":"Admin Tasks","hideFilterUI":false,"filters":[{"name":"Filter1","value":"p8admin"},{"name":"Filter2","value":"high"}]}
One really important thing to note in the event above is that the filter name is specified by its internal name, not its display label.
You can't see what internal name is created for you in the Case Builder UI, but there are two ways to find out what they are - look at the in-basket in Process Designer/PCC or send the In-basket selected event to the Script Adapter and look at its payload. The In-basket selected event is fired when the in-basket fire loads and also when the user clicks to another in-basket tab. Here's a snippet of what that event look like.
{"inbasketCount":2,"currentInbasket":"Admin Tasks","queueName":"WID_ClaimUnderwriter","appSpaceName":"Claims Processing","currentRoleName":"Admin","filters":[{"operator":0,"attributes":"queues/WID_ClaimUnderwriter/workbaskets/Claims/filters/Filter1/attributes","customAttributes":{},"type":2,"name":"Filter1","description":"","_key":"Filter1","displayName":"Assign To User"},...
You can see in the payload above that the internal name for the filter is actually Filter1. Passing an incorrect value will cause the event to simply be ignored.
Add a Script Adapter to the hidden widgets area of your page and wire it as shown below.
Configure the Script Adapter widget with code like the following. It uses the Get Current User tip we showed you previously to only show the items assigned to the currently logged on user.
var PEConnectionPt = ecmwdgt.getBean("spaceConfig").getPEConnectionPoint(); var serverBase = window.location.protocol + "\/\/" + window.location.host; var getUserURL =serverBase + "/CaseManager/P8BPMREST/p8/bpm/v1/currentuser?cp=" + PEConnectionPt; var xmlhttp= null; xmlhttp= new XMLHttpRequest(); xmlhttp.open('GET' , getUserURL , false); xmlhttp.send(); myResObj = eval('(' + xmlhttp.responseText + ')'); var myUser = myResObj.name; var filter= { "queueName":payload.queueName, "inbasketName":payload.currentInbasket, "hideFilterUI":true, "filters":[ { "name": "Filter1", "value":myUser } ] }; return filter;


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1. Of a boxer, to be disoriented from a particularly heavy punch or too many blows to the head. That boxer was punch-drunk after being knocked out in the ring—he couldn't even remember his name!
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"John Carter" has been a bit of a roller coaster thus far. First there was the rush of excitement at the prospect of Edgar Rice Burroughs' epic being brought to the big screen by as renowned a storyteller as Andrew Stanton, the man who wrote much of the "Toy Story " trilogy and directed "Finding Nemo" and "Wall-E." But it's been mostly downhill since then.
There was the poster with the giant "JCM" monogram, which was boring, but whatever. Then they changed the name of film to "John Carter," a title that couldn't be much more generic and gave no hint as to what it's about. Adding insult to injury, even after they dropped "Mars" from the title, they continue to use the "JCM" monogram. Check out the new poster below--how much more would that baby sing with the words "of Mars"?
Throw in the reshoots, the release date (March 9), the palpable desperation in the New Yorker profile of Stanton, and this trailer, and well, we're nervous...
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Peter J. Smith's article in the May 24 issue describes how parishes can incorporate children with disabilities into their celebrations of the liturgy and the sacraments. In 2008 America awarded its "Case for God" essay prize to Lyn Burr Brignoli for her powerful account of teaching religious education to a young boy with Down Syndrome named Dragen:
I had come to faith as an adult in a time of intense emotional pain. My childhood was also intensely painful. And I began to see that a lifetime of spiritual and emotional suffering had prepared me for this encounter with Dragen. From my own childhood I knew how "otherness" felt. Somehow I knew what it was like to be a child with Down syndrome in a culture that all too often regards people like Dragen with withering glances, that tosses out careless, unkind remarks, which are not lost on someone as sensitive as he is.
My own pain, transformed, was now a gift. It enabled me to see something in the core of Dragen's being that was so magnificent I wanted to shout it out to a mostly deaf and blind world. My own pain had enabled me to draw closer to Dragen, to transcend the boundaries of doctrine and enter into the heart of God, where I had had to let go of the question of suffering and simply live out the tough day-to-day reality of it.
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by Charlene Burgi
The old saying "Haste makes waste" sadly couldn't hold truer for yours truly. A full house and more on the way had Jack and I scrambling to get the bunkhouse bathroom ready for the overflow of unexpected visitors.
This meant that the vanity and toilet would be temporarily set on subflooring instead of on the ceramic tile still in the boxes. It also meant running down to the hardware store and picking up a new toilet without knowing very much about the model selected.
The toilet was installed just as company arrived. As far as I knew, all was well on the western front. Whoa, was I wrong—on many levels. After the company left, I went out to try the new porcelain product only to find it didn't perform as expected. If only I had done my homework!
Homework you might ask? Yes, there is a phenomenal amount of information and test results readily available to those wishing to know which toilets are the best performers. The test is called "Maximum Performance"—or MaP—testing and clearly this consumer, who knows better, did not take the time to review the results of toilet performance prior to purchase. In other words, to really save water, I should have stayed true to the era of the bunkhouse days and installed an outhouse!
What exactly is MaP testing? The MaP test scores the maximum performance by rating the amount of "bulk waste" (i.e., grams of soybean paste and toilet paper) a toilet can remove from the bowl in a single flush. The above link provides detailed pictures of this process.
Prior to the development of this test, the manufacturers were doing their own analyses. But they often weren't testing how well toilets performed in "real world" situations and sometimes used golf balls or potatoes to show how well their products flushed (which is fine if you have the need to flush golf balls or potatoes down your toilet!). Water districts and utilities recognized that the poor flushing performances of many 1990s-era 1.6-gallon-per-flush toilets were giving these new "ultra-low-flush" toilets a bad rap. So they put their heads (no pun intended) together and in 2002-03 developed a new, more accurate test to help the public make wise purchases. Over the past 10 years, the MaP tests have inspired manufacturers to focus their efforts on "real world" flushing performance and to develop better-performing products that also save water.
In addition to the MaP tests, consumers have another great tool to help them choose a high-performing toilet that is also high-efficiency: the EPA WaterSense label. WaterSense labeled toilets are independently certified to meet rigorous requirements, which include meeting specific MaP standards, while only using 1.28 gallons per flush or less. And besides saving water, WaterSense toilets can help you save money, too: MMWD offers rebates up to $100 toward new high-efficiency toilets (HETs) that carry the WaterSense label. Remember, all WaterSense labeled toilets are HETs, but not all HETs are WaterSense labeled, so be sure to look for the label.
If you are in the market for eliminating that water-wasting toilet from your home, please take the time to do research first (MMWD's toilet FAQ page is a good place to start). Buy an HET with a WaterSense label and a high MaP-test rating and avoid the disappointment of installing a poor performer!


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When worlds collide: Wakefield, ethics, & where I live
January 6, 2011 1 Comment
The News of the Day is that the British Medical Journal has called Andrew Wakefield's notorious and notoriously retracted vaccine-MMR study "fraud." That's something a lot of people had already figured out, but with the imprimatur of BMJ, I guess this makes it official.
Ah, it takes me back, though. To the time I dined with Andrew Wakefield. To that day that the Lancet issued its full retraction of that horrific, fraudulent trash heap of a paper. To that satisfying few hours of schadenfreude when the GMC handed down its decision to strip him of his license. To my various other Andy sightings about town. To the real horrors of what he wrought when he did what he did to those children in that study.
I've posted a lot about Wakefield on my personal blog, and some of the posts have focused on my anger at his bastardization of science and my musings on how people might feel when they falsify data. They've included mapping what the enormity of the alleged conspiracy against him would have to be and breaking down with tongue firmly in cheek his plea to make his book of apologia a bestseller. There was the post that I swore would be My Last Word on Wakefield (it wasn't).
Finally, there is what I taught my son today. We're studying science–Science–and we were discussing the qualities that make one a good scientist. Sure, there's curiosity. Creativity. And…there's honesty. For that and that alone, I close with my defense of ethics in science, why ethics matter, and why I think someone who perpetrates this level of harm to public health ought to be somewhere away from his comfortable, ultra-expensive home just a stone's throw from where I live. Preferably a quiet place, perhaps with four bare walls, a place where he can ponder the damages he's wrought.


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This was originally posted over at Sutured for a Living on June 4, 2010.
Several years back, my mother gave me a stack of old scarves she had embroidered through the years. She thought I might be able to make a quilt of them. I actually made several – one for her and one for each sister. Here is the one I gave to my sister Susan.
I tried to look at the embroidered areas of each scarf, considering the size and shape of the area, as well as the condition after years of use.
As with many of my quilts, I failed to take photos along the way. This blog (and digital cameras) are helping me change that. I remind you (and myself) of that, as the photos here were sent by my sister. I would have loved to have some that show the details better, but beggars can't be choosey.
This one is 58 in X 78 in. It is machine pieced (not sure about the quilting). It uses four "hole in the barn door" blocks, two basket blocks, two hexagon blocks, and two six-pointed star "flowers."
*** Update June 8, 2010—email from my sister states "I finally found where you signed your quilt. The ink is so faint I did not see it. The quilt was pieced by you and quilted by mom and given to me Sept 7, 2000."
Here you can see some detail, though not as clear as I would like. Note the duck and marshes in the hexagon.


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Sorry these are a bit late - I completely forgot! Have a good week and enjoy your stories :)
AMC: Zach keeps Hannah's special request a secret from Kendall.
ATWT: Gwen invites Cleo to live with her and Will, a decision she most likely will come to regret.
B&B: Ridge wrestles with his conscience. Will he turn himself in before Nick is sentenced?
Days: A comatose John shows signs of life during Belle's visit.
GH: Carly finds herself a new female rival in Kate, Sonny's new neighbor.
GL: Natalia's son Rafe, the latest juvi inmate, comes to Daisy's rescue.
OLTL: Marty seeks help from a fellow counselor after having a disturbing memory.
Passions: This is the week Whitney learns the truth about Chad!
Y&R: Gloria's dreams -- and nightmares -- come true when Will makes a move.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
SPOILERS! Week of May 21st
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Kim Kardashian said she "married for love" and not for her TV show.
"It just didn't turn out to be the fairy tale I had so badly hoped for," the reality star wrote in a "Message to My Fans" on her website, one day after filing to divorce NBA baller Kris Humphries.
In her first extended comments since releasing a terse statement on Monday, Kardashian said reports she made millions off her marriage were "not true" and she planned to donate money from her gifts to charity. E! had broadcast a four-hour, two-part special of "Kim's Fairytale Wedding: A Kardashian Event."
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Kim Kardashian defended filing for divorce after just 72 days by saying "my dad always told me to follow my heart I believe now that I really am."
Here's her full statement:
"This is probably the hardest thing I've ever had to write. I see all of the support and I am so thankful for my fans, friends and family who are helping me through this difficult time.
I am trying not to read all the different media reports but it's hard not to see all the negative ones. First and foremost, I married for love. I can't believe I even have to defend this. I would not have spent so much time on something just for a TV show! I share so much of my life on a reality show, that contemplating whether to even film my wedding was a tough decision to make, and maybe it turned out to not be the smartest decision. But it's who I am! We filmed Kourtney giving birth, Khloe getting married, break ups, make ups, our best moments and our worst moments. These were all real moments. That's what makes us who we are. We share, we give, we love and we are open!
Everyone that knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic! I love with all of my heart and soul. I want a family and babies and a real life so badly that maybe I rushed in to something too soon. I believed in love and the dream of what I wanted so badly. I felt like I was on a fast roller coaster and couldn't get off when now I know I probably should have. I got caught up with the hoopla and the filming of the TV show that when I probably should have ended my relationship, I didn't know how to and didn't want to disappoint a lot of people.
I'm being honest here and I hope you respect my courage because this isn't easy to go through. But I do know that I have to follow my heart. I never had the intention of hurting anybody and I accept full responsibility for my actions and decisions, and for taking everyone on this journey with me. It just didn't turn out to be the fairy tale I had so badly hoped for.
There are also reports that I made millions of dollars off of the wedding. These reports are simply not true and it makes me so sad to have to even clarify this. I'm so grateful to everyone who took the time to come to my wedding and I'll be donating the money for all the gifts to the Dream Foundation.
I'm sorry if I have hurt anyone, but my dad always told me to follow my heart I believe now that I really am."
Hours earlier, Kardashian's mom Kris Jenner had said she couldn't "judge" Kim for giving up on her marriage and she wanted everyone else to follow her lead.
"People have to stop judging," Jenner said in a radio interview on the Johnjay and Rick show Tuesday, according to People.
One day after Kim called it quits with Humphries and promptly hopped a plane to Australia with her sister Khloe to promote their clothing line, Jenner said her daughter's decision was "based on whatever feelings she had."
The Kardashian matriarch and manager said she did not "interrogate" her 30-year-old and wasn't going to speculate on what went wrong either.
"She's not the first person in the world to get a divorce or to have something like this happen to, and she won't be the last," Jenner said.
Kim Kardashian's usually active Twitter account had been abnormally silent in the hours since she confirmed in a statement that, "after careful consideration, I have decided to end my marriage."
Instead family members had spoken out on her behalf, with sister Kourtney tweeting, "our sister is going through a difficult time but we're a close family and are sticking together like always."
Kim said in her first statement she hoped "everyone understands this was not an easy decision" and that she had hoped her marriage "was forever."
She's been hurt over reports that her marriage was a sham, Kardashian's friends reportedly told TMZ.
Khloe Kardashian also weighed in against negative chatter about her sister on Twitter.
"Reading some these comments r so hurtful. Im grateful 4our fans who understand & r being respectful. Hate is disgusting. Love is everything," she tweeted.
But it emerged Tuesday that Khloe Kardashian had once been among those scoffing over Kim's "Fairytale Wedding."
"'I give it six effing months,'" Kathie Lee Gifford of "Today" recalled Khloe telling her at Kim's wedding reception.
Selected Reading: USA Today, Kim Kardashian, TMZ, People


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On this episode of Open House, we're bringing you the best of the suburbs. Tune in!
Square Feet: Inside the Stunning Elrod House
Architect Susan Secoy Jensen walks us through a piece of architectural history in Palm Springs, the Elrod House. Designed by well-known architect John Lautner, it was built in 1969 and was commissioned for famous Los Angeles-based interior designer Arthur Elrod as the ultimate bachelor pad overlooking the desert. It was also featured in the James Bond movie "Diamonds are Forever." Watch the video here.
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Getting the Right People
By Dale Andrew
May 10, 2006
Dale serves as fitness director of a personal training department near Toronto, and also maintains a loyal base of personal training clients. In addition, he has recently launched his own online personal training and fitness coaching business, CANDOlife. You can e-mail sign up for a free newsletter on his Web site or e-mail him at [email protected]
For those in management positions, the task of attracting and hiring the right people is a task of great responsibility. Indeed, anyone you hire, regardless of position, is critical to the future growth of your business. If they aren't, why are you paying them money? For most people working in the fitness industry today, time is a precious commodity that must be approached as inventory. Investing time in someone who will not or does not help you realize your vision is the surest way to make certain that it never happens. The wisdom is in knowing how to surround yourself with people that will lift you up, rather than drag you down.
All too often, the road to such wisdom is paved with mistakes in judgment that literally cost you thousands. I know that I have made a few errors, especially with regard to hiring personal trainers. While it is unlikely that each person that you hire will meet your expectations, you must learn how to select the person that fits your vision, rather than hoping that the vision fits the person. We often hire people because of the skills that they possess, but we tend to fire them for who they are. Finding more out about your employees before you hire them is in your best interest, wouldn't you agree?
Are you hiring credentials or a person? It's easy to fall in love with a prospective trainer's long list of credentials. Try to keep in mind that when you began the search for a personal trainer, you were looking to hire a person, and not the longest list of qualifications. Certainly, impressive certifications, education and technical knowledge are important skills for a personal trainer to possess, but they are in no way sufficient to deliver success. A person that contains all the knowledge in the world is of little use to your business if he or she cannot effectively communicate that knowledge to your customers. Yet, imparting knowledge and information to clients, while valuable, is only part of what a successful trainer must do.
The difficult task for a personal trainer is being able to "personally" motivate people to change their behaviors. This has a lot less to do with what a candidate knows, and a lot more to do with who they are. Attitude, passion, emotional intelligence and integrity cannot be taught; rather, they are part of an individual's innate character. Anyone with such qualities can always learn technical skills and acquire additional certifications. Personal trainers must have the mental and social agility to connect and communicate with a diverse membership on an emotional level. This is an important skill considering that most people buy for emotional reasons rather than logical ones.
We all know great trainers that are lousy salespeople. However, if sales are important to your business–-and they should be–-wouldn't you rather have those guys working for your competition? First you should recognize that the inability to sell is often rooted in the nature of these individuals, as well as their exposure and education leading up to their entry into the fitness industry. Many kinesiologists and physical education graduates are service-driven care providers who entered the training profession to help people and to avoid the pressure of asking people for money. Such individuals often have little passion or experience in the realm of sales and business. In order to grow your business, you require trainers that are just as passionate about business, productivity and profit as they are about service, education and fitness. The real question is, "How do you find them?"
Attracting the right person. I know you are probably saying, "That is what interviews are for, aren't they?" Well, I will agree with you there, but first you must create a clear job description that outlines your expectations for the position. This will not only help to deter the misinformed from applying and save you time, but it will also provide you with a valuable opportunity to reconnect with or affirm your particular vision. Before you place an ad or begin interviewing, you should know your management style, your company's existing culture, your expectations for the position and your expectations for the person who will fill the position.
If you do not know these four things, it is impossible to predict what kind of person will fit your vision, because it is not clearly defined. How will you know when the right person sits down in front of you if you have not taken the time to determine what qualities, values, behaviors and skills you are looking for? Once you have defined your vision, communicate this information to everyone involved inside and outside your company by incorporating those values and beliefs into all your written material and marketing efforts. Your hiring efforts should focus on individuals who share your beliefs and values in regard to customer service, integrity, responsibility, work ethic, and motivation.
The problem with the interview(er). The main purpose of an interview should be to determine if there is a match between the individual and the position. However, time and time again, we have seen personal trainers hired for sales jobs that do not like approaching people or asking them for money. There are customer service people who cannot look into your eyes and say, "Hello." Good employees are promoted into management positions with no clue as to how to effectively lead and manage others. It is apparent that interviewing techniques can be very unreliable, and there are several reasons why:
Lack of clearly defined job competencies. Prior to the interview process, identify the behaviors, knowledge, motivations and qualities that incumbents must have to be successful in the job. Decide what skills are needed and what skills are teachable. Remember, while technical skills can be taught, a good attitude almost never can.
Lack of preparation. Too often, most mistakes in hiring are the result of hurrying to fill a position rather than taking the time necessary to find the right person. Take the time to develop a simple outline that covers your expectations for the position. Screen the resumés and applications to gain information for the interview. Prepare a set of standardized questions that you will ask each applicant to help you determine individual differences between candidates.
Lack of structure. The best interview follows a structured process. This does not mean that the entire process is inflexible without spontaneity. It does mean that each applicant is asked the same questions and their answers are scored with a consistent rating process. A structured approach helps avoid personal biases and gives all applicants a fair chance. The process should include a combination of behavioral-based questions, role plays and situational questions.
Lack of opinions.Remember that the person you hire will work for you but they must also work with you and your current employees. If you trust your existing staff members and value their opinions, why not make them part of the hiring process? It has been my experience that this approach works very well, as all employees involved feel more invested in the new employees' success within the company. In addition, the new employee often feels a sense of kinship with those individuals involved in their hiring. If on the other hand, you feel uncomfortable with including your current employees in the hiring process, chances are that improving your business will likely depend more on you taking the time to look inwards rather than outwards.
Lack of experience. If you interview infrequently, or only when you need someone right away, you are unlikely to improve your ability to ascertain who is right for your business-–and more importantly, who is wrong for your business. If on the other hand, you are recruiting constantly, you should have a pool of candidates from which to choose.
In the fitness industry, there is more of a positive correlation between employee retention and member retention than most gym owners would care to admit. Recently, when asking a group of gym owners why they fired the last personal trainer, their responses included things such as "unreliability," "poor work ethic," "bad attitude," "selfish," and "couldn't work with the team." Not one of them gave technical skill as a reason for dismissal. Trainers are usually fired for who they are, rather than for what they don't know. Yet, when hiring, technical skill is almost always the first thing listed by employers in job descriptions and advertisements. If attitude is important to you, move it up in your job description. If customer service or sales skills are essential, say so.
First and foremost, the fitness industry is a service industry that is about creating lasting personal relationships that are built on trust. With this in mind, you want to hire relationship builders and not just customer service people. Since a bad employee can do more damage to your business and customers than leaving a position empty ever can, it is imperative that you do everything in your power to hire the right person. If you have selected a candidate based upon your stated expectations, communicated the company's philosophy and direction, put them in the right job, and empowered them with the appropriate responsibility, you will be infinitely closer to creating the type of environment where your employees, yourself and your business are allowed to grow and prosper.


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What we're about
This is a group for people who like to get out exploring with their dogs. Hikes and walks will mainly be scheduled for the Seattle area and north.
You do not need to own or bring a dog to join us, you just need to be willing and comfortable hiking with dogs.
I am not an experienced guide, but have done a number of hikes and am wanting to find others that are passionate about getting out as well.
Disclaimer: We are not professional guides and do not have certified training or insurance. Be aware, inherent hazards and risks are associated with walking, hiking and all other physical activity. We can not guarantee the condition of the trail, the length of the trail, or that the trail will be appropriate for a certain fitness level.You may join us on our hikes and/or walks at your own risk. Keep in mind that hiking and walking involves risks and weather changes quickly in the mountains. You are responsible for your own safety and health. The more prepared you are, the better the chance you will remain safe. Your preparedness not only affects your safety but the safety and enjoyment of the whole group.
I am not in charge of this hike/walk, I'm merely going on a hike/walk myself and inviting others to join me.
Please read the "Terms of Membership" agreement before joining:
I am open to suggestions about where to go and what to do.
Dogs make wonderful trail companions and it is a hobby you can do anywhere, at anytime of the year.
For dog owners it is important to realize that not all parks are open to our four-legged friends. it is sometimes hard for dog owners to believe but not everyone loves dogs. We are, in fact, in the minority when compared with our non-dog-owning neighbors. As such, rules can change rapidly to ban dogs from even more of our public parks. It doesn't take a referendum or a ballot count for "NO DOGS" signs to appear overnight.
So make sure your dog is a good citizen on the trail - don't bother other hikers and pick up after him - and you will be embarking on a passion that will last a lifetime.
Get fit - grab a leash and hit the trail!
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The King's Hall at the former Lorsch Abbey in Hessen is a late Carolingian construction, probably built in the middle of the 9th century under Louis the German. Together with the other buildings and archaeological remains of the medieval abbey complex, the building was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1991 as the last remaining section of the Carolingian abbey still visible from above ground.
The famous gate hall or 'king's hall' is one of Germany's most important pre-Romanesque architectural relics. With its arcades, pilasters and half-columns, it is lauded as a jewel of the Carolingian Renaissance. To this day, no one is sure about the original purpose of the building. Perhaps it was a library, a court, a banqueting hall or a reception hall – or all of these together. Whatever the case, the proud king's hall has retained its original appearance over the centuries and still represents the lost grandeur of what was once a mighty Benedictine abbey at Lorsch. Founded in around 764 during the reign of King Pippin, the father of Charlemagne, the abbey was a centre of power, spirituality and culture in the Holy Roman Empire until well into the High Middle Ages. It once housed one of the largest libraries of the Middle Ages; the Lorsch Pharmacopoeia dating from the late 8th century, which is seen as marking the beginnings of modern medicine, was designated part of UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2013. In the early Middle Ages, medicine was based on herbs and folk remedies. With its extensive herb garden, Lorsch Abbey was a renowned place of healing at this time.
Lorsch Museum Centre with temporary exhibitions: Tuesday to Sunday: 10am to 5pm
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Pioneer Navigation system - Part1
Maps, Apps, Tunes, and More
We really don't have to tell you how important music is. After all, it has tamed each one of us at one point or another, motivated us, got the party going, kept it going, and helped us stay awake on long hauls. Combine a high-end advanced sound system with cool apps and an accurate and easy-to-use GPS navigation that easily guides us to our destinations and you get what we think is the perfect in-cab mapping tool and entertainment system.
We just picked up Pioneer's new in-dash AVIC-X950BH navigation AV receiver and a complete sound system, which includes high-end speakers, an amp, and a subwoofer. We installed all this trick gear in our late-model '12 Ram 1500 truck. The 4x4 had what we thought was a good-sounding factory sound system until we started pumping tunes through six new Pioneer D-Series speakers. The realization of what we weren't hearing from the factory stereo components was amazing!
Pioneer Electronics has been around since 1938, and we've used the company's stereos and speakers in our 4x4s ever since we were youngsters. We've always had great luck with Pioneer components and like the fact that Pioneer offers a full line of equipment, which can be very reasonably priced for budget-minded truck builds and a high-end line of components for extravagant builds. None of the components are too terribly complicated to install or operate.
We're not sure how many of you folks are audiophiles, but we know you like music. We aren't fanatical nor experts in the field, but we can confidently operate and install a good sound system. Just like most people we can also tell the difference between crisp clear music with little distortion and just-OK sound. It is easy differentiate the highs, midtones, lows, and vocals of a sound system, especially when switching from the nonpremium factory sounds system.
The features of the AVIC-X950BH are just what we have been waiting for in an audiovisual navigation system. The receiver not only uses a very detailed GPS guidance and a mapping database, but it also features the latest entertainment technology, such as Pandora Internet Radio, HD Radio, Sirius XM Satellite Radio, App Radio, Bluetooth connectivity, and Aha web connectivity, which allows you to listen to Facebook and Tweets safely. The iPod and iPhone connectivity allows the viewing of the album, songs, and artists. The system works with iPhone 4, 4S, and 5 (iPhone 5 requires a special interface cable and firmware update). The NavTec navigation features Total Traffic real-time traffic updates, 12 million points of interest, and 2D and 3D mapping.
We can't think of anything Pioneer left out of this radio! The receiver has a number of other really trick features, such as rear audio and video outputs, meaning your kids can watch movies or listen to audio on separate monitors in the backseat while the adults listen to their own entertainment up front. If you truck doesn't have a rearview camera the AVIC-X950BH has an input for a backup camera. We have found it very handy while backing up trailers or negotiating tree lines backwards!
Before picking up the AVIC-X950BH we shopped around. At the time no other system had all the features this unit has and the factory receiver with audio/navigation was $1,900-$2,100 compared to this unit at $950. We are splitting this review into two parts since the system does so much. Part 2 of our story will cover the system's performance and a full review of all the features.
Obviously the high-tech components aren't as easy to install as the low-budget superstore radio that was bolted into that old '70s farm truck. The wiring in late-model trucks is complicated, but adapters are available for aftermarket audiovisual components that make installation less complicated and systems nearly a direct plug-in.
We contacted Crutchfield, and the guys there helped us out with the factory integration adapters and dash installation components. Without their help we might have spent days tracing wires, splicing, and crossing our fingers in the hope that we wouldn't short-circuit the truck's critical electrical components. Crutchfield carries just about everything needed for the proper and professional installation of an audio system, including adapters so a truck's steering wheel audio controls can still be used with an aftermarket system. Crutchfield's website is easy to navigate, so we found our parts quickly—we also called them a couple of times for technical advice and they were more than helpful.


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Earlier this week, Microsoft reported the successful takedown of what it calls the Kelihos botnet, a network of more than 40,000 infected computers capable of sending 3.8 billion spam e-mails per day. But while criminals no longer control the botnet, the work needed to contain it is not over. Botnet traffic is now being redirected to a "sinkhole," allowing the good guys to oversee traffic from infected machines and prevent further distribution of malware and scams.
Kaspersky Lab, which collaborated with Microsoft on the takedown, says 3,000 infected hosts are connecting to its sinkhole every minute. Kaspersky reverse-engineered the bot malware, cracked the botnet's communication protocol, and then developed tools to attack its peer-to-peer infrastructure, explains Kaspersky Lab expert Tillmann Werner in a blog post. That allowed Kaspersky to create a situation in which the bots are "talking to our machine, and to our machine only. Experts call such an action sinkholing—bots communicate with a sinkhole instead of its real controllers."
Trend Micro, which recently sinkholed a ZeuS botnet, explains in a technical paper that "[s]inkholing is a technique that researchers use to redirect the identification of the malicious command-and-control (C&C) server to their own analysis server. This way, the malicious traffic that comes from each client goes straight to the research box, ready to be analyzed."
In the case of Kelihos, or "Hlux" as Kaspersky prefers to call it, Microsoft obtained a restraining order allowing it to sever connections between the machines controlling the botnet and the zombie computers being controlled. Decapitating a botnet isn't as simple as flipping a switch, though. While Kelihos was not as sophisticated as the much larger Rustock botnet taken down in March, it still had methods to resist takedown attempts.
"The dynamic structure allows for fast reactions if irregularities are observed. When a bot wants to request jobs, it never connects directly to a controller, no matter if it is running in worker or router mode," Kaspersky explains. "A job request is always sent through another router node. So, even if all controller nodes go off-line, the peer-to-peer layer remains alive and provides a means to announce and propagate a new set of controllers."
To overcome these obstacles, "we started to propagate a special peer address," Kaspersky continues. "Very soon, this address became the most prevalent one in the botnet, resulting in the bots talking to our machine, and to our machine only. [...] At the same time, we distributed a specially crafted list of job servers to replace the original one with the addresses mentioned before and prevent the bots from requesting commands. From this point on, the botnet could not be commanded anymore."
The Rustock botnet's method to avoid takedown was more clever, says Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit Senior Attorney Richard Domingues Boscovich. In Rustock, bots that detected they were no longer being commanded used an algorithm to automatically generate new domains that could then be registered by the botnet controller. "One of our guys identified it just in time," Boscovich tells Ars. By analyzing the algorithm, Microsoft was able to identify the names of the domains the botnet would have generated and negotiated with registrars to take control of them before the botnet traffic could be redirected.
With 1.3 million infected computers, Rustock was much bigger and harder to take down. But both Rustock and Kelihos, and also a third botnet named Waledac, are now being controlled by sinkholes. The whole process requires collaboration among companies like Microsoft and Kaspersky, government agencies, and Internet Service Providers who can contact owners of infected computers and help them clean up their machines. In the case of Rustock, Boscovich said two years should be enough time to clean the vast majority of zombie computers. Boscovich said Kelihos shouldn't require that much time, but Kaspersky notes winding down the sinkhole will be difficult.
"The alternative infrastructure needs to be run as long as there are infected machines," Kaspersky Senior Researcher Roel Schouwenberg told Ars. "Unfortunately, many people still don't run security software and it can be very hard for ISPs to inform the affected customer." Maintaining the sinkhole is crucial because otherwise "it would be possible for the cyber criminals to regain control of the botnet."
While Kaspersky counted 49,000 IP addresses connected to the botnet, there are signs it is already shrinking. "We expect that the number of machines hitting our sinkhole will slowly lower over time as computers get cleaned and reinstalled," Kaspersky said in its blog post. "Microsoft said their Malware Protection Center has added the bot to their Malicious Software Removal Tool. Given the spread of their tool this should have an immediate impact on infection numbers. However, in the last 16 hours we have still observed 22,693 unique IP addresses. We hope that this number is going to be much lower soon."
Kelihos was tied to the cz.cc domain and a series of sub-domains, which previously delivered MacDefender scareware. In fact, CTO Aviv Raff of security company Seculert told Ars, "We tracked in the past few weeks over 250 different registered cz.cc domains being used by over 180 different botnets' Command & Control servers." Seculert determined that three of those servers together controlled more than 13,000 infected machines.
While Microsoft itself didn't analyze the total number of botnets originating from cz.cc, Boscovich says the Seculert finding "doesn't surprise me." A civil suit filed by Microsoft names as a defendant Dominique Alexander Piatti, who allegedly was the registrant of the cz.cc domain and failed to stop it from being used for illicit activity. Microsoft is accusing Piatti of negligence, rather than actually controlling the botnet, but Boscovich notes that the cz.cc domain was temporarily blocked from Google search results in May because it was hosting malware.
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Killer Children
Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell
It happened, once upon a time, that the Marquis de Sade was in a good humor. He wrote a novel Aline and Valcour, in which he created a utopia. In Tamoë there was no capital punishment. If society had to take measures against a murderer, it put him in a boat with a month's supplies, and launched him on the tide to meet his fate: to become, perhaps, someone else's problem. At any rate, the people of Tamoë did not have to think about him again, and were able to return to their sun-soaked, caring-and-sharing South Pacific lives.
When children kill other children, we come close to wishing for a Sadean solution. They come near to the top of the list of what society would prefer not to think about. We cannot kill them, but how can we bear for them to live among us? Under what circumstances can they do so? Without the dark dungeon and the lock, how can we withstand the assault on our own shreds of innocence? We would, if we could, launch them on dark waters of forgetfulness; simply rub them out, as monstrous blots. But since they cannot be made to disappear, we unite in moral panic. Their acts, their persons, provoke a hysterical vigilante reaction. The bereaved family's desire for revenge is vented again and again through the national media. Their private suffering becomes a public spectacle.
Outrage is mixed with bewilderment. Something in our language itself seems violated. "Innocent" and "victim" make a pair. The words are close-coupled. "Innocent" and "child" also make a pair. We are half-accustomed to the idea of guilty victims; courts throughout the world have been trying women for years for the crime of being raped. But "innocent offender"? No system of justice can accommodate the idea, and no system of law or welfare is designed to deal with crimes that are so rare.
Gitta Sereny has been involved with the case of Mary Bell from its origin in 1968, when two young girls, aged eleven and thirteen, were tried for the killing of two small boys, three and four years old. The girls were Mary and Norma Bell—they were neighbors, but not related—and the dead children were Brian Howe and Martin Brown. Both the victims were known to the girls, and to most of the district. They were children who toddled from house to house and played in the streets, in their working-class area of the northeastern city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
When Martin's body was found in the rubble of a derelict house, it was unmarked, except for the blood and saliva that had run from the mouth. Poisoning was considered and rejected, and it was decided that the child had met with some strange accident. Nine weeks later the body of Brian Howe was found on waste ground. The pressure marks and scratches on his neck indicated that he had been killed, but so little force had been used that the suspicion was raised at once…
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Orthopedic Surgery Experts Serving Hawaii
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Experts in the surgical treatment of skeletal system and associated motor organs. Topics in this field may include ACL Repairs, Foot/Knee/Ankle, Joint Replacement, Scoliosis, Soft Tissue, Spine/cervical, Spine/lumbar, Total Knee Replacement, Shoulder and Wrist/Hand. Orthopedic Surgery experts serve as expert witnesses and forensic consultants in Hawaii legal matters, and provide expert reports and testimony for judges, attorneys, lawyers, law firms, insurance companies and government agencies in Federal and state court trials and arbitrations in Hawaii.
The listings below are of Orthopedic Surgery experts serving Hawaii.
Featured ListingsRichard H. Kaplan, MD, PC
Randall N Smith, MD & Benjamin E. Kaplan, M.D., M.S.
Philadelphia, PA
Randall N. Smith, MD is Board Certified in orthopedic surgery. He has over 40 years experience with 23 years as an orthopedic surgeon specializing in trauma. He has an ongoing full time practice. He was a medical director at a surgicenter for over 10 years. He is certified in pain management and performed various interventional procedures in the surgicenter.
Benjamin E. Kaplan, MD, MS, FAAPMR, CIME is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He specializes in musculoskeletal injuries, electrodiagnostic testing, and pain management. He is certified in impairment rating evaluations.
The practice includes: acupuncture, chiropractic, therapy, psychology, physiatry, and orthopedics.
Elite Medical Experts, LLC
Tucson, AZ
Elite Medical Experts specializes in surgical litigation. From Stanford to Yale, and from all places in between, Elite secures top-tier Orthopedic Surgery experts from the nation's leading universities. Each is Professor of Orthopedics with a busy surgical practice. Please call today for a case analysis by an in-house physician or nurse. Elite Medical Experts works directly with legal teams and does not accept inquiries from private parties.
Bill Mohlenbrock MD
Bill Mohlenbrock
Coronado, CA
Dr. Mohlenbrock is an expert in the following Clinical areas: - General orthopedic surgery and trauma care, including total joint and arthroscopy surgeries - Sports medicine and related injuries.
Expert ListingsDr. Joel Consolo, DPM
Tiffin, OH
Board Certified Podiatrist with expertise in Medicine & Surgery (Foot & Ankle), Reconstructive surgery, Trauma, Wound Care, Sports Injuries, Dermatology, Diabetes, Vascular, All pathology of Foot & Ankle.
Orthopaedic Consultants
Harlan Stratton, MD
Scottsdale, AZ
Orthopaedic surgeon experienced in providing the type and breadth of legal support that attorneys require for their cases involving the musculoskeletal system. Review of the material can usually be provided within 7-10 working days of receipt of the pertinent documents. All reports are based on being honest objective and professional.
Tyson Cobb, MD
Bettendorf, IA
Dr. Tyson Cobb, a board certified Orthopedic Surgeon is a pioneer and expert in the use of minimally invasive orthopedic surgery of the upper extremity including the hands, wrist, elbow and shoulder. Dr. Cobb obtained his Orthopedic Surgery training at the Mayo Clinic and has had over 50 abstracts accepted for presentation at national and international meetings, published over a dozen book chapters and has had approximately 50 research papers accepted for publication in peer reviewed journals. He is frequently invited to lecture at national and international meetings.
MRK Medical Consultants
Edward Younger, III
Carmichael, CA
Edward Younger, III, MD, orthopedic surgeon in private practice in Carmichael, California and medical director of MRK Medical Consultants. MRK Medical Consultants has over thirty consultants who provide expert evaluations and opinions.
Stephen Ringel M.D., P.A
Stephen Ringel M.D.
Wharton, TX
Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon licensed in Texas and Mississippi. Over 30 years of active practice experience.
Comprehensive Spine Center
Fred Naraghi, MD
San Francisco, CA
Orthopedic Expert Services LLC
Neal Small, MD
Dallas, TX
I am a board certified orthopedic surgeon with over thirty-five years of experience treating orthopedic injuries and spinal disorders. I have performed over 17,000 orthopedic and spine surgical procedures and, therefore, have the experience and knowledge to be a credible expert in virtually any orthopedic or spine case. I have extensive forensic experience as well. I have served as an expert on hundreds.of cases and have been deposed numerous times. I have never faced a Daubert challenge..
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Rhonda Grallnick, RN, BSN
Blue Bell, PA
Fully credentialed Scientific, Technical, Medical & Engineering experts in a full range of specialized fields. A support team of highly trained paralegals, strategists, nurses, and others are dedicated to your case. Experts nationwide. Free consultation.
Expert Orthopedic, Inc.
David Fetter MD
Waukegan, IL
David A. Fetter MD is a Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Fetter maintains an active private practice with 40 years experience. Has has a special interest in consulting regarding the topic of Causation involving Complex Orthopedic Surgery Cases.
Dr. Merrick Wetzler
Advocare South Jersey Orthopedic Associates
Voorhees, NJ
I am a Sports Medicine Fellowshipped Trained Orthopedic Surgeon who has been in practice since 1995. I am an Assistant Clinical Professor of a medical schools in Philadelphia, a former Associated Editor of a major orthopedic journal as well a Chairman of a committee of a orthopedic society. I have reviewed/testified for both the defense and plaintiff.
Omar Akhtar, MD
Austin, TX
Omar Akhtar MD is an expert in joint replacement surgery of the hip and knee. He has extensive experience treating infections painful and stiff joints fractures around the joint dislocations and failed replacements. He has been in independent practice for over 8 years and has performed thousands of hip and knee replacements.
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Eric Orenstein
Lafayette, IN
I am a board-certified fellowship-trained orthopedic surgery specializing in hip and knee replacement surgery. I am in my 29th year of active clinical practice and am a Clinical Assistant Professor in Orthopedic surgery at the IU School of Medicine.


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"Choose your battles boldly."
Formula E is probably the most innovative racing series in the world. Because here, nobody knows what the future has in store. That is why – as has so often been the case in our history – we are starting from scratch, and facing a new competitive environment with the first all-electric racing car in the company's history. With the latest technology and a real team spirit, we will celebrate our debut in the field of full electric street racing in December 2019.
If all teams use the same "Gen2" chassis, what's the difference? For us, it's the skill of the driver and the innovative spirit of our engineers, who have developed a power train, cooling system, and rear axle suspension specifically for Formula E.
Technical data Formula E car:
Nationality: Swiss
Date of Birth: December 8, 1983
Place of Birth: Rohrschach, Switzerland
Place of Residence: Bellmund, Switzerland
Family Status: married, 1 child
Height/Weight: 172 cm/62 kg
Hobbies: sports, cross-country skiing, hiking, cycling
Internet: www.neel-jani.com
Twitter: @neeljani
Instagram: @neeljani_official
Nationality: German
Date of Birth: November 19, 1981
Place of Residence: Monaco
Family Status: Single
Height/Weight: 184 cm/75 kg
Hobbies: cycling, photography, foodie, collecting classic cars, driving buggy
Twitter: @Andre_Lotterer
Instagram: @andre_lotterer
Nationality: Austrian
Date of Birth: July 21, 1998
Place of Residence: Linz, Austria
Family Status: single
Height/Weight: 180 cm/70 kg
Hobbies: Fitness, Friends, Karting
Twitter: @thomaspreining
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Nationality: Swiss
Date of Birth: September 01, 1988
Place of Residence: Zürich, Switzerland
Family Status: single
Height/Weight: 171 cm/70 kg
Hobbies: Tennis, Golf, Skiing, Music
Twitter: @simdesilvestro
Instagram: simonadesilvestro
The world's first all-electric racing series
The world's first all-electric racing series
As the most innovative series in motorsport, Formula E offers the perfect environment for
• 14 races, 12 cities in 4 continents
• Specially designed routes in city centers
• Top speeds up to 174 mph at 340 PS
• No pit stops
• Each race lasts 45 minutes plus one lap
• Practice, qualifying, and races take place on the same day
• Fans can use social media to give their favorite drivers advantages in the race
An extra you won't find in any other racing series.
An extra you won't find in any other racing series.
Only in Formula E can fans actively participate in the racing action. The Fanboost gives the community the opportunity to vote online for their favorite drivers in order to give them an additional performance boost during the actual race. Our LeMans winner Neel Jani @neeljani_official and the experienced Formula E pilot André Lotterer @andre_lotterer will be competing in the coming season for
If you don't attack, you lose.
If you don't attack, you lose.
Driving through selected zones off the ideal racing line for a total of 4 minutes during the race gives drivers an additional 25 kW of power (225 kW in total). Details of the "attack mode" are communicated to the teams only one hour before the race, so they only have 60 minutes to plan their race strategy. Each driver must use this advantage twice during the race, to avoid being penalized by the race directors.
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They wake up, and then they sing.
Team O'Neill — as Kentucky Derby winner Doug O'Neill and his group of assistants and grooms are called — rises early, like all horsemen. In Baltimore, where the crew is preparing I'll Have Another to run in the 137th Preakness Stakes on Saturday, the trainer and his team have been together almost every minute of every day. They rented a house in Canton, off Boston Street. O'Neill likes to tell you how lucky he is to work in a job that so excites him he "wakes up without an alarm." And so, with the dark of another Baltimore night dissipating over the harbor, he and his crew have prepared quietly before making the drive to Pimlico.
Once there, one of them breaks the silence with an improvised line.
"Lately, we've been singing a lot about the big horse," assistant trainer Jack Sisterson says, nodding toward I'll Have Another. "You just start with him, and we go. And that's why we've done what we've done. We have fun."
O'Neill, 43, has been saddling horses since the late 1980s out of his California base. His horses earned more than $10 million in 2006 and 2007, but his chase for the first Triple Crown since 1978 has delivered him, for the first time, to a national audience.
Witty and self-effacing, O'Neill wears canvas shoes, not Cowboy boots. On rainy days this week he donned a dark trench coat over his T-shirt, hunching his shoulders against the storms and waiving people under the protective roof of Barn D. Shortly after arriving, he asked Pimlico vice president Mike Gathagan about hospitals and rec centers he could visit. In a sport fighting to regain even a smidgen of the popularity it once knew, O'Neill appears to be the rare personality who could give fans a long-term rooting interest.
He could also become the symbol for what is wrong with horse racing.
O'Neill is facing a suspension of up to 180 days and a fine of $15,000 for an incident in which one of his horses tested positive for high levels of total carbon dioxide (the suspension would not affect any of the Triple Crown races). The common theory among horse racing regulators is that such a test indicates the horse had been given a "milkshake" — an illegal combination of bicarbonate of soda, sugar and electrolytes that reduces the build up of lactic acid in a horse's muscles, allowing it to run harder and longer.
O'Neill vigorously defends his record. He swore on his children's eyes one day and to God the next that he'd never milkshaked a horse. He says he's spent $250,000 fighting the latest charge — he had a hearing in the fall, and his case could be settled in an executive session of the California Horse Racing Board next week — after paying fines three other times. At that point in his career, he said, it would have been too costly to fight the battle.
His brother, Dennis, said O'Neill is convinced other factors — possibly the anti-bleeding drug Lasix — could lead to increased TCO2 levels, and O'Neill has repeatedly invited the media to a discussion of the incident once it has been fully adjudicated.
"Come on out to California once all this is over," he said early this week. "When I can, I will explain it all."
From gambler to trainer
Mark Verge, an entrepreneur and author and recently-named CEO of the Santa Anita race track, happened to befriend a young Doug O'Neill at football sign-ups in 1980 because they shared the same birthday. He remembers his first trip to the track with O'Neill.
The date was March 22, 1981. They went with a teacher and basketball coach, Mike Amodei, who only sheepishly admits to placing bets for the teenagers, who hit an exacta on the ninth race and were hooked, splitting less than $200 between them.
O'Neill and Verge would do this for the rest of their school-aged years. Often, they took buses and enticed friends to go along. One, in particular, placed outrageous $10 bets and began weeping on the ride home. He'd taken money meant for a fundraiser and blown it all.
When meets moved far away and tickets would have cost $24 to reach the track, O'Neill and Verge — who funded some of their bets by selling avocados — found men headed that way and asked them to place their bets. Then they waited for the return. Dennis, several years older than Doug and Mark, remembers helping them cut classes to get out to the races.
O'Neill's father was a gambler and had taken Dennis with him to tracks in Michigan. Patrick O'Neill retired from the phone company and moved his family to California, where jobs were available and tracks were plenty.
Doug O'Neill knew at a young age that he wanted to go into the horse game. He thought briefly about accounting.
"I'm glad that didn't work out," he said. He worked as an independent contractor for the family's phone company, but that lasted six months.
"He calls me," Dennis said, "And goes, 'I'm 18-feet in the air and 30 people around me have dead telephones and I have no idea what I'm doing.' "
Doug's oldest brother, Danny, fired him, sending him back to work with horses. Dennis had bought into syndicates by that time and was learning the game with his brother. They had a ranch where they bred and broke horses.
Amodei had helped O'Neill land work with trainer Jude Feld out of high school. O'Neill worked his way through a series of jobs at California tracks, surrounded by men and women who'd been around horses their whole lives.
"I didn't really have that experience, but I had a love of the horses and I just went and did what was asked," O'Neill said. "I hot-walked. I groomed. I just tried to sit back and watch and listen to the people who knew what they were doing."
Sisterson thinks O'Neill's humble beginnings in the sport shaped his approach.
"He just acts like he is thankful to be doing his work," said Sisterson, a 27-year-old from England who'd hoped to be a jockey but grew too tall. He instead came to the United States on a soccer scholarship, to Louisville, where he studied Equine Administration. He's worked with O'Neill for a year.
"The atmosphere he sets is what sets him apart," Sisterson said. "He treats everyone like an equal, with respect. And I think that's something that we've applied to the horses too. Every one is as important as another. You always put their care first, each and every one."
"Doug really worries"
Verge has one story he feels best describes his friend. They had watched Lava Man, the claimer who blossomed into a $5 million earner and now serves as stable pony, run a disappointing race. As they went to check on the horse, a woman charged toward them, waiving a worthless betting slip.
"But before she got to us, Doug cut her off," Verge said. "And he just says, 'Shhhh, we're telling Lava Man he won the race. We don't want him to feel bad. So try to keep it a secret.' He just doesn't take this all as life or death."
Yet both Verge and his brother Dennis say O'Neill has been hurt by talk of racing record. O'Neill has only jokingly given the "no comment" to reporters with drug questions, once telling the group that he'd prefer they be asking why he hadn't gone into male modeling.
"Behind all of that, in his private moments, it has really gotten to him," Dennis said. "He worked to get here and he cares so much about the sport. He finally decided to fight for his reputation and that has dragged out two years, to this point, when he wins the biggest race there is. He's not like me. I don't care about any of this because I know we do the right thing. But Doug really worries."
Verge, who sees his task as marketing horse racing, can't believe how serendipitous his first months on the job have been. His best friend is now his best hope for luring the common fan back to a track. And so Verge has worked tirelessly trying to decipher whether O'Neill's record deserves the questioning it has received.
"I can't get answers from anyone," he said. "No one in California will tell me how many other trainers have tested positive for this. I don't understand who the judges are."
Verge began owning horses not long after he graduated high school and had a stake in Argenta, the horse who tested for high level of TCO2 in 2010.
"That's my horse, and I can't get answers," he said. "And do you think I would allow that with my horse? You think Doug would do that to his best friend's horse?"
O'Neill said he wouldn't know how to administer a milkshake. Dennis O'Neill said the group had to Google the term after they were accused of it, only to find that it requires a tube being shoved up the horse's nose, into it's stomach.
"Who would even do that to a horse?" Dennis said.
O'Neill has also had trouble with breakdowns, with The New York Times finding that he averaged 12 per 1,000 starts. That's twice the national average.
"Early in my career, I was eager," he said. "And I wanted to do what I could to help the racing offices. And I wanted to prove myself. Those are terrible lessons I learned. I ran horses that weren't ready. You can't explain how that feels."
His stable is smaller now, and he runs fewer races (621 last year compared to 1,021 in 2007).
"No one cares more"
O'Neill has known off-the-track tragedy, as well.
Dennis O'Neill recently finished treatment for non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and must visit his oncologist every three months. "She's convinced me how tough this thing is," he said. Their older brother, Danny, died of melanoma 13 years ago. Verge can't shake the image of Doug carrying Danny, whittled by the disease, toward the end.
Verge said O'Neill quietly does charity work in California, raising money to fight cancer. In Baltimore, between eating steamed crabs and throwing out the first pitch at an Orioles game, O'Neill visited children at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
"You just gotta build 'em up," O'Neill said. "High energy. We'll give to them what we can. We're going to get a lot from them. Being there reminds you that what you're worried about just ain't that big a deal."
That same day, O'Neill had been telling a reporter that he wanted to go into detail about the TCO2 test but couldn't.
Larry "Thumper" Jones, the equine chiropractor who works with O'Neill's horses, charged into the discussion.
"No one cares more about his horses than this man," he nearly screamed. "I've been everywhere. Worked on thousands and thousands of horses. Seen everything. Nobody cares more. I'm telling you that. This guy, he did nothing. I'm telling you."
O'Neill interrupted him.
"Thanks, Thumper," he said. "I mean it. Thank you."
It's true that Jones makes a great deal of money thanks to O'Neill. It's true that others who vouch for him can remember O'Neill as a daring shooter on the sixth-grade basketball team who didn't play much defense. They are too close to the man who could help resuscitate or harm horse racing.
How he's remembered, he knows, will be determined later, by others.
"I just hope it gets a chance to come out," O'Neill said. "I hope we keep winning, and I hope we keep talking about this, and I hope you see it how I see it."
Meet Doug O'Neill, the man who could play the part of horse racing's fan-favorite or villain
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You know those creepy paintings of the little kids with the gigantic eyes that you often see in vintage stores? As hard as it may be to believe, those were actually done by humans. And now it's time for their story to be told.
Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds have landed the lead roles in "Big Eyes," about Margaret and Walter Keane, the couple that invented the signature look that swept the nation in the '50s and '60s, reported Deadline.
Walter was the marketing genius, doing the talk-show circuit and presenting himself as the artist, but it was Margaret, too shy for the spotlight, that was the artist of the two, doing all the painting herself. When the couple split, she took him to court to get hers, with the judge finally ordering that two easels be brought in so they could settle the matter with paintbrushes.
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Witherspoon can next be seen Feb. 14 having Chris Pine and Tom Hardy fight for her affections in "This Means War," while Reyonolds stars opposite Denzel Washington on Feb. 10 in "Safe House."


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My anime odyssey began May 2008. Friend of mine gave me a few eps of Elfen Lied. I din't know it back then, but now I know he was giving me a drug. So now I am hooked thanks to my friend. ^^ I love anime for beautiful stories, originality and emotions. Western movies and shows are a bit dull these days, but still I do enjoy some classics (mainly hong kong action movies - Jackie! , good sci-fi - Space Odyssey). Anime has replaced modern live action movies for me and I am glad it has.
I still consider books to be the best medium for telling a story. I am a bit sad about the young generation who generally doesn't know what a good book has to offer. SF & F is my genre of choice (Asimov, Sapkowski, Card, Herbert etc.), but I enjoy a book of any genre if it is good (Murakami etc.). I especially like classics written or translated to old English and Nordic sagas and poetry (viking mythology, yay!). Plus occasional haiku (Basho, Santoka, Issa).
I love music. There are quite a few anime OSTs I have in my collection, Yoko Kanno and Yuki Kajiura being my favourite composers. Sakamoto Ryuichi is my non-anime choice (Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence). I hate confining myself to one genre, but most of the bands I listen to play metal (to name a few : Blind Guardian, Sabaton, Amon Amarth...). I still think that a live performance of Bard's Song by Blind Guardian (check it on youtube) is the ultimate musical experience ^^.
As for the anime, I can watch pretty much anything, only ecchi isn't on the top of my list. I love philosophical stuff and good action shows. My rating system is a bit askew, 3 stars means a show I have enjoyed. I have done this in order to distinguish between the very best (4 and 5 stars). If you have any recs, I would love to hear them!
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Nice to hear you enjoyed Daughter of Twenty Faces! The show was... refreshing is the right word I think. Moving, awesome and exciting without being overdone.
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Well it's college football bowl time. This is the best time of the year, except for the NCAA basketball playoffs. So I decided to make a bowl pick 'em league on ESPN (No money involved) and I thought it would be fun to get all my buddies and some guys from the team to join so I could show them how to dominate in picks. So let's see, I invited Ryan Zimmerman, Austin Kearns, Aaron Boone, and Nick Johnson and the only one of those 4 that got in was Ryan. So Ryan's the man and the rest of you guys are bums. So anyway, on to the picks, I'll just say this starting out: I am doing horrible. I can't seem to make the right picks, or it's just that the teams I'm picking suck and lose when they are supposed to win. So right now I'm looking like an idiot but don't worry, I will pick it up and when I win this league then I will be writing a blog about it.


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Jonathan McLatchie (Jonathan M) is the latest creationist to attempt a defense of the home team. He concentrates on defending the Intelligent Design Creationist position on junk DNA [A Response to Paul McBride on Junk DNA].
On this topic (junk DNA), the IDiots make a lot of errors. One of them is to deliberately conflate "junk DNA" and "noncoding DNA" so that when they come up with evidence for function in noncoding DNA they can tout this as evidence against junk DNA. This error is so pervasive in the IDiot literature that Paul McBride even predicted that Casey Luskin would make this mistake in the book.
Here's how Jonathan McLatchie responds ..
In his review, McBride notes that he had predicted that Luskin would "conflate non-coding DNA and junk DNA, and that Luskin would exploit this erroneous conflation by pointing to known functions of non-coding DNA as evidence against junk DNA."Good for you, Jonathan McLatchie. You seem to be one of the few Intelligent Design Creationists who pay attention to the science. But now you need to go one step farther. You need to acknowledge that your colleagues are dead wrong. Casey Luskin, a lawyer, gets it wrong quite often but what about Jonathan Wells who wrote a whole book on the subject?
Of course, no one today (including the likes of Larry Moran, PZ Myers and T. Ryan Gregory) denies that at least some non-protein-coding DNA serves important functions. The term "junk DNA" was first coined in 1972 in a paper by Susumu Ohno. Although Ohno believed that the vast majority of the DNA that didn't code for proteins was "the remains of nature's experiments which failed," Ohno suggested that "these silent DNA base sequences may now be serving the useful but negative function of spacing [genes]."
McBride writes,
I'd like just once to see all these references where all these researchers are saying that if DNA does not code for a protein then it is junk.As stated above, no credible scientist claims that all non-coding DNA is "junk."
Jonathan Wells on his book, The Myth of Junk DNA – yes, it is a Darwinist myth and he nails it as such].
Denyse O'Leary: So, for those who dropped science after Grade Ten, what is junk/non-coding DNA?Oops! Jonathan Wells says that some biologists referred to all noncoding DNA as junk but McLatchie admits that this is not true.
Jonathan Wells: "Non-coding" in this context means "non-protein-coding." An important function of our DNA is to specific the sequences of subunits (amino acids) in the proteins that (along with other types of molecules) make up our bodies. When molecular biologists discovered in the 1970s that about 98% of our DNA does not code for proteins, some biologists called non-protein-coding DNA "junk."
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The September release of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Mass Layoff Report indicated a continued decline in large-scale layoffs with 1486 mass layoff events resulting in 133,379 initial unemployment claimants on a seasonally adjusted basis.–
The BLS considers a mass layoff event to be a condition where there are at least fifty initial claims for unemployment insurance originating from a single employer over a period of five consecutive weeks.
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Ride 'em, Obama.
The commander in chief, the First Family and other D.C. bigwigs were treated to a night of down-home cowboy entertainment in July that will air on national television Saturday evening, featuring some of the country music industry's biggest sellers -- and the spurs-jingling Obama himself.
Country superstar Brad Paisley joined fellow chart-toppers Alison Krauss and Charley Pride onstage at the White House July 21 to perform for the Obamas, who sat front-and-center at the star-studded country music fest that will air Saturday at 9 p.m. on the Great American Country channel.
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The Grammy-winning Paisley said as he performed his hit "Welcome to the Future" that he celebrated Obama's Election Day in New York's Times Square -- and that it was an "unbelievable" experience.
"Very few things have moved me the way I was moved on November 4th," Paisley said to the Obamas and the members of Congress in the audience.
"I stood there and watched the world turn on a time," Paisley said, according to People magazine. "I'm a two-time father...I thought about [my children]...you are the first president they will remember, which is something."
Before he performed, Paisley, 36, quipped to Obama that the then president-elect probably didn't have time to stop by Manhattan on his big day.
"I'm sure you were busy," he joked as the president laughed.
The show is the second event in a series created by First Lady Michelle Obama, intended to promote arts education for children.


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Early Mornings and Almond Anise Biscotti
by exercisebeforeknitting
For about four weeks, I've been getting up just before 5 a.m. to run. Most days I run with a group but sometimes I'm on my own or with a friend. I've always struggled with the morning runs. On one hand, I love both being up before the sun and the sense of accomplishment that comes from running hard long before most people get up. On the other hand, until Beatrix came along, I also loved the snooze button. When you intend to get up and run in the morning and don't, you bear two burdens: you start your day off with a failure and you have all day to
look forward to dread your evening run. Since I've been up in the morning, my overall mental health has improved dramatically. I know how crazy that sounds. My alarm is set for 4:40 a.m. So I can get up and RUN. Some days it's hard running too. I think I'm sleeping less. But I have more energy throughout the day. Where is the science, people???
If you had told me a few years ago that I would successfully run in the mornings for more than a week at a time, I would have died laughing. Now there seem to be so many more obstacles (e.g. a baby, a teething baby, a baby who doesn't sleep through the night anymore) but I find it easier. I'm sure it's because running time is so much more precious now than it was when I had my life to myself. The other part is that I prefer returning home to a smiley, awake baby rather than waking up to one. Mommy Duty no longer wakes me up, Running does. Somehow, that's better in my book.
I started this post about getting up early so that I could share with you my daily post-run breakfast: single shot cappuccino and homemade biscotti.
I've been making a new batch of biscotti every Sunday night and they've been so tasty that I decided to share my
experiments recipes with you. This week's batch was almond anise. The best part is that if you only eat one, they're not a lot of calories. You could take out the almonds to reduce the calories too.
Almond Anise Biscotti
2 c white flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
3 eggs
1 1/4 c sugar
1 tsp anise extract
1/4 tsp salt
2 tbsp anise seeds
1 c whole almonds
optional: sliced almonds
Pre-heat oven to 300 F. Combine flour and baking powder in one bowl. Set aside.
Combine sugar, eggs, anise extract and salt. Whip until thick. Stir in flour mixture.
Add anise seeds and almonds.
The dough will have the consistency of sticky cookie dough. Spread into a 4″ x 16″ log on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. OPTIONAL: Sprinkle sliced almonds over the top. Bake 1 hour. Reduce oven temperature to 275 F. Cool 10 minutes. Slice into 1/2″ wide slices. Place slices cut-side down on baking sheet. Toast biscotti 10 minutes on each side for a total of 20 minutes.
Makes about 2 dozen.*
*Be sure to make a kind that the other members of your household will eat. Otherwise, you'll be stuck with 58934854309859304859034 calories of biscotti. Not that that would necessarily be a bad thing…


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Marching in Search of a Cure while Finding MagicMonday, March 23rd, 2015
While the month of March is known for the luck of the Irish, I found this March to be the luck of a lifetime. On March 16, one of my best friends, Sandra, and I headed to Orlando, Florida, to visit my friends, who are now more like family, the Castellanos. Sandra and I enjoyed the scenic drive as I told her more about Talia Joy Castellano, the sweet little angel who touched my life as I was in search of make-up tutorials, to prepare me for a large stage event. Little did I know, I would click onto a video, connecting me to a then-little girl, who would forever have a place in my heart. When Talia and I first began communicating, it was strictly about eyeliner, eyeshadow brushes, drugstore make-up vs. high-end,and things of that nature. Over time, she taught me not only about make-up, but also about life itself. In fact, as it would turn out, some of the greatest spiritual and life lessons that I live by today, were first imparted to me by taliajoy18, a make-up guru, who was in fact a spiritual guru, whether she knew it or not. Over the course of two and a half years, she taught me how to blend make-up, but also how to be proud of yourself. one of the greatest lessons we all go through is self-acceptance, and while Talia'a self-acceptance grew from battling a horrible monster known as neuroblastoma, not only did she learn to accept herself, but she also used Youtube and social media to shine like a sparkly diamond, spreading her light like a prism, embracing all colors, ethnic backgrounds and spiritual beliefs, through make-up.


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Gemvara Raises $15 Million for "User-Generated" Jewelry Making
Gemvara, which sells jewelry online that's designed by the customer and shipped to their home, has closed a $15 million round of capital.
The third round of capital was led by Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investors Highland Capital Partners and Canaan Partners. Previously, Gemvara raised roughly $10 million in capital.
The company said it plans to use the cash to expand its merchandise selection and to provide better customer service.
In the release, Mark Evans, a partner at Balderton Capital, made the bold statement that he believes Gemvara can become the world's first billion-dollar user-generated product company.
Needless to say, the company declined to comment on its current revenues. Still, Gemvara's CEO and Founder Matt Lauzon said the company is growing at a fast rate.
Gemvara, which has 40 employees, launched a year ago in February. Headquartered in Lexington, MA, the company said its average order size is close to $1,000.
What's unusual is that the company has virtually no inventory of finished products because everything is custom made. The customer picks the metals and stones or gems of their choice, which is then illustrated in photo-like quality renderings. The jewelry is hand-made in the U.S., and shipped within three weeks of being ordered.


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Bob Byington's smart, subversive comedy skips through 35 years in the life of Max Youngman (Keith Poulson), his best (and only) friend Sal (Nick Offerman, "Parks and Recreation"), and the woman they both adore (Jess Weixler, Teeth). As they stumble in and out of hilariously misguided relationships — strung together with animated vignettes by Bob Sabiston (A Scanner Darkly) and an original score by Vampire Weekend's Chris Baio — Max never ages, holding on to a mysterious briefcase that may or may not contain the secret to life.
Film InformationYear: 2012
Length: 75 minutes
Language: English
Country: USA
Cast & CreditsDirector: Bob Byington
Primary Cast: Keith Poulson, Nick Offerman, Jess Weixler, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan, Kate Lyn Sheil, Stephanie Hunt, Jonathan Togo
Screenwriter: Bob Byington